 Let's do a quick sound check, shall we, for those of you who are watching already. We're like two minutes early today, so I thought we had a cat about to join us, but he's running off to go somewhere else. Do you want to leave them in here? There we go. So I'd just like to know if this is working. If someone on Twitter or someone on something can let me know. Actually, I'll check the Twitch chat. Here we go. And we're live. Yes, there we go. For those of you who have not seen my intro teaser video on YouTube, we are potentially going to have a live unboxing of the iPhone 5 tonight, which I know you guys are super, super excited about. No, no, I'm not. Echo? What do you mean, echo? Okay, let's see if the echo is gone. Echo gone? Echo gone? Here we go, here we go. I'm waiting for people to say the echo is gone. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, we know there's an echo. What? See, here you go, guys. Here you go. Okay, tell me something. When you see that 10 people have typed echo, do you feel the need to say echo? When you see that 10 people have typed echo, do you feel the need to say echo? When you see that 10 people have typed echo, do you feel the need to say echo? Not gone. Still gone. What? Please mute your stream. No, no, the stream is muted. Hold on, hold on. Still gone. Okay, we might have a problem here. Please mute your stream. No, no, the stream is muted. Hold on. Good thing we started early tonight. Okay, we might have a problem here. Please mute your stream. No, no, the stream is muted. Hold on. Good thing we started early. Browser page isn't even showing my stream. That's bizarre. All right, let's go to a different website. Okay, okay, let's see if that helped. See? See? It's great that we're having this— Okay, okay. Let's see if that helps. Great that we're having this time together, like 10 seconds apart. Let's see if that helps. Okay, hold on. It's great that we're having this time together, like 10 seconds apart. Okay, hold on. We cannot see the echo results until people say, I can't see your stream. My stream is closed. You cannot see the echo is closed. My stream is closed. You cannot see the echo is closed. There is no need to tell me to close the stream. Hold on. Let's see if this mics in my ear. My stream is closed. There's no need to tell me to close the stream. Hold on, let's see if this... Okay, how about now? Still echo? There we go, are we good? We good? All right, we're good. Apparently I have to mute XSplit because XSplit is... I don't know, I'll have to figure that out later. I have no idea what's going on, because I've only got one mic. Actually, I wanna know how is the audio quality tonight, because I am using something pretty sweet. This is an Asus Thunder FX external sound card that has an environmentally canceling, noise cancel thing, that red light that's on what would be the top to you guys and the right hand side of the unit to me, that audio is the same. It's a little worse than last time. Good, clear voice. See, yeah, you guys are giving me mixed messages here. So why don't we kick things off with a couple of Twitter questions. I've got my hotkeys working this time, so we'll actually be able to see what each other are talking about. Let's go, eight new interactions. Oh, okay, there are two audio... Aha, HKG, who is here, wants to know how do I feel about the Trinity APUs that are coming out? So I don't really have feelings about hardware per se, but I am definitely excited to see what AMD has done in terms of faster gaming performance on what would otherwise be a very entry-level processor. Now, it's no secret that AMD's APUs already destroy Intel's... Actually, here, I'm gonna find a... There we go. So youtube.com, and we're not gonna have sound here, guys. Sorry. So youtube.com, let's have a look at our IGP Showdown. There, that's me right there. See, very few people watch these videos, which is frustrating because they're pretty informative. See, look at that, lots of likes, very few dislikes, but no one wants to watch these more edumocational videos. So as I have apologized for numerous times in the past, and people think my voice quality is way worse than before, I mean, I can turn off the environmental... And you know what, I'm just not gonna play with it. So skip ad. I'm gonna try and skip the ad. That's their new strategy, is to not let you skip the ad. So this is me with a crazy hairdo that... And this is the video not playing, which is obviously really helpful to make it look less horrible. So basically we do graphs, and those green graphs there are the AMD graphs, and this is crisis right here. And those blue graphs are the Intel graphs. So this is Ivy Bridge versus Intel's, or AMD's first generation APU. So with their next generation APU, I am super excited to see what they come out with. I actually have about three of the new APUs on hand already will rather slick has them, and he's working on testing them as we speak, at least he's supposed to be working on that as we speak, but he actually may not be. So there's only one way to find out if he's actually working on it, and that would be to call him. Maybe we'll make that part of the live show at some point, like crank calling slick whenever we're doing a live show. You know what? Okay, okay, I want... Okay, we're gonna do this. So the first tweet, okay, of what I should prank text slick, I will take that tweet and I will text it to him. So we're gonna start watching the Twitter feed here, and I'm just gonna change, just so you guys can be pretty confident that I'm actually doing it. We're gonna go, because he was trolling me during one of my previous live streams. He actually phoned me in the middle of it and was asking me sort of smart art questions, any sort of smart arts remarks questions. All right, hold on. I'm gonna change his name in my phone. I'm gonna change it from his real name to his other more different real name, which is obviously slick. And I'm just gonna cover up his phone number here. Whoops, so you guys can see that this is the... Whatever, you can't see anything. Forget about it. So you'll just have to take my word for it. Okay, here we go. New interactions coming in. I'm gonna find the first one. I'm gonna find the first one. So I'm not... Okay, will you marry me? That's the first one. I think it's lame, but I'm gonna do it anyway, because that's what you guys have asked for here. Okay. As long as he's not watching the... As long as he's not watching the live stream, then here. Here we go, here we go. So that's slick. And that is my... I can't do this. I'm trying to look through the screen. There we go. There it goes. See? We just prank texted someone. Let's see if he replies right away. So I'm gonna leave this here for now, and then I'm gonna switch to my other view so that I can move over here. No, better yet, I'll put this over here. So we can keep an eye on that while we see if we have any other topics coming in. We'll see what he says. This is gonna be live, right, guys? So I have no idea. I have no idea what kind of a reaction we're gonna get out of him. All right. Tell him you broke the iPhone 5. Okay, no more suggestions. No more suggestions. And besides, I tell him he's fired, like, every other day, so he won't even be surprised by that. Christian wants to know, what's the difference between DDR2 and DDR3? You should definitely look that up on YouTube, Christian. If you search for DDR2 versus DDR3, I have a video all about that. Hmm. Thomas, Thomas Heckler. You know what, here, we'll put this away for now. Thomas Heckler wants to know, what is the best way to clean out CPU fans and case fans if I have filters in my case? So I would suggest checking out the dust PC. Let's try PC dust. Oh, oh, oh, dust resistance. Oh, oh, oh, oh, apparently that search term is not going to work for me. So we'll try something else. Computer cleaning. And there it is. 140,000 views. PC cleaning tips, removing dust bunnies. Maybe if I'd used better search terms for that, that would have been better. Oh, here we go, here we go. We've got Slick's message back. He wants to know if he's going to get a dowry of a 3960X. So it looks like he's actually down for the idea, and that's very exciting for me and, of course, all of my viewers who are very happy about my impending nuptials. We're not going to give him any more context for that. I'm just not going to reply to his text anymore, which will be for the walls, of course, as well. Let's move down. My Little Pony theme song. Okay. All right, 18 new interactions. Thoughts on DDR4? Good question. DDR4 is probably going to be lower power, higher frequency, and higher latency than DDR3. We honestly haven't seen any big, on the desktop anyway, we haven't seen any big performance improvements come from upgrading our memory technologies since pretty much dual channel DDR2. I mean, if you go back and look at the numbers back then, even especially on platforms with an integrated memory controller, so AMD's platforms at the time, not Intel then, but Intel now, we don't see that much of a difference in terms of performance because we don't need all that memory bandwidth these days. I mean, if you're buying like an X79 platform system, you know, for extreme Uber gaming or whatever else, you might as well get four memory sticks because they're so cheap these days, but the actual difference in performance running on an X79 platform between dual channel and quad channel is on the order of like single digit percentages. It's not actually that huge. All right. Hey, Linus, is it worth me waiting for any tablet with a keyboard dock on Windows 8 or just get one of the Android ones? Personally, I find with the Transformer series, the keyboard experience on Android is actually not that satisfactory. It doesn't feel that clean. I haven't used it with Jelly Bean though, and I haven't used it extensively with Ice Cream Sandwich, so this is based on the Honeycomb days. However, I think we can all assume that a Windows 8 experience with a keyboard and mouse is going to be pretty seamless compared to what you might see from its competitors. Nikhil, see, I always do this wrong. This guy right here wants to know, what are my opinion on Corsair's dominators? Dominators are RAM, available in DDR2 and DDR3 varieties. Well, rather that's 2 and 3. Oftentimes, they're faster than other RAM. It doesn't make a huge difference to your system performance, but they look outstanding. The new Dominator Platinums, especially with that silver bar along the top, makes your system look ballin' and they have interchangeable lighting effects and stuff that you can put in them, so that's pretty cool. Other than that, they have a lifetime warranty. They're hand tested. They're Corsair, so that's probably good stuff. That's about all, for my opinion on dominators, unless you meant some other kind of dominator. I'm assuming you meant Corsair dominators. I mean, you know, whatever you're into. I'm not here to judge on this livestream. That's not what this livestream is about. Phil, have you heard about any high pixel density monitors coming out soon? Actually, I have something very exciting to show you, Phil. I'm going to go ahead. I'm going to go into my folder where I archive all this stuff that I don't know might be interesting or might not. In my pending folder, you can see that we have a SUSE PB278Q showcase coming out on NCIX Tech Tips, so that is going to be pretty cool. I hope you guys are going to check that out. Don't forget to be subscribed to the NCIXCOM channel, as well as my Linus Tech Tips channel. Otherwise, you won't necessarily see all of my content, because I do upload completely different sets of videos to both of those channels. And that particular monitor is a 27-inch monitor with a 2560 by 1440 resolution. No, it's not quite up to the kind of pixel density that you see with a Retina display or with some of these newfangled Android tablets, such as the Transformer TS700, but it's still significantly higher than, well, what we're used to on the desktop and is therefore exciting. So I'm going to move that away. I actually have no idea how many people are watching the live stream tonight, so I'm kind of curious, but I guess I'll look a little bit later. Okay, scrolling down. Oh, okay, we're back to where we left off. Let's have a look at, oh, 75 new interactions. That means we're starting to see a bit of a ramp up here in terms of how many people are watching, and it's you again. You're my favorite. Let's see if we can get rid of you for good this time. And you are blocked. Bye-bye. Thank you for playing. Come again. Actually, probably don't come again. That would be best. All right, what's... What's better to use for 120-hertz gaming, DisplayPort or Dual Link EVI? I'm using a GTX 690 and the BenQ XL2420T. Simple answer. Totally doesn't matter. They're both completely digital connections. They're both more than capable of delivering the bandwidth that you need for 1920 by 1080, 120 hertz. DisplayPort is believed to... The rumor is that it has slightly higher latency compared to DVI, so if you don't, for whatever reason, need the smaller connector versus the DVI connector, then I guess you might as well go with whatever cable you have lying around. Cables make... Digital. So there's no difference between an expensive DVI cable and a cheap DVI cable. It just doesn't matter. The only time you really run into trouble with cables is when you're talking VGA cables. So with any analog cable, the actual quality of the cable, the quality of the connector makes a big difference. With digital cables, you'll know right away if there's anything wrong with the cable because it just flat-out won't work. And I think we have a visitor. Come here. You want to come visit Rocket? Here. You guys can see him, perhaps? Whoop, whoop, where'd he go? Rocket, there you are. There you are, sweetheart. Say hi to everyone. There he goes. Yeah. Yeah, saying hi to everyone. Hey. There you go. They can see you. Okay, well, that was fun. Rocket joined us for just a moment, and then he had to leave. Bye, Rocket. Okay, personal rig updates. No, no personal rig updates this week. I've been super busy this week. David wants to know if I have an NCIX discount. You bet I do. It's awesome, by the way. Kevin says, thank you for taking the time to livestream. To us, your loyal fans watching you right now, I'm watching you, Kevin. No, but seriously, thank you guys for watching because if nobody watched, then I'd be one of those sad people on the internet that actually like, oh, this was very sad. I came across this YouTube channel that's been around for about five years, like five years, and it had like hundreds of videos on it and like a hundred subscribers, which at that point is basically probably fakes. Like it's probably not even real people. And it just like all these hours of content that have been created and nobody ever watched them. I do feel truly lucky and truly blessed that you guys even want to watch me on the internet. So no, thank you, Kevin, even though I gave you the stare down earlier before and I'm very sorry about that. Hmm. Vincent wants to know if there's any news on the rumored Coursera H80i and H100i. I haven't heard anything, but I can tell you right now that that sounds pretty exciting because if it's an I, then it's probably like a new AXI power supply, which is awesome, and it probably goes with that somehow. So that would be my entire take on all of that. Oh, random, random, random. You just won the failed Tweet of the Night award because when is NCIX coming to Ontario? We are going to go on a little voyage of discovery here on the Contact Us page of NCIX. Ontario location, Mississauga, Markham, other Markham, Scarborough, and a warehouse. Bam. I'm sure you meant Toronto City, but, you know, whatever. The suburbs are basically the same. So you can still go to NCIX. You just have to, like, put some effort into it. Justin. I've heard using canned air is bad for cleaning your case because of chemicals or something. Is this true? You know, I probably wouldn't worry about it too much. I mean, I wouldn't just, like, turn it upside down and, like, spray the liquid directly onto everything. But, yeah, I just wouldn't. I wouldn't overthink that. JJ wants to know what I think of Chromebooks. JJ is, oh, see, I do that every time. JJ is right there. So, JJ, Chromebooks are, in my opinion, not there yet. Now, if the Chromebook had apps in much the same way that Android has apps, for example, then I might see some more utility to it because not everything runs in a browser yet. I mean, once we see some more consolidation in terms of web standards, like, if Flash just goes away, which is gonna take time, it's not gonna happen instantly, then there might be more possibility of writing apps that are completely universal and will work 100% of the time. And aside from the lack of that sort of unified structure to it, the other problem to me is the requirement for constant connectivity. I mean, for me here in the Canadian ghetto, it's still expensive for data for my device. And then if I have multiple devices, then I'm paying for multiple data connections, which, again, gets sort of more expensive. I mean, you can bundle things together, but the idea of having a device that only really functions the way it's supposed to if I have a connection is not that appealing to me personally, but in places like Japan or places where the population density and the IT infrastructure is much better, then it might be better. Justin wants to know, FX6200 or 8150 for gaming. Justin, I would suggest that you consider an alternate platform if gaming performance is your only consideration. I did do a review of the 8150 when it came out. Let's see if I actually... Here, let's see if I can dig it up. You know what? Let's just use our half panel here. Whoops, whoops, whoops. No, that's not what I meant to do. Okay, let's find another... Okay. Yeah, Slick sent me a follow-up message, you know, one of those big O, you know, period, small O things. He's like, I'm not going to reply, though, just for lulls. It'll be funny, right? Okay, let's search for FX8150. Whoa, it helps if you type... Oh, that changed right. Whoopsie-daisies. 8150. Let's try my other number pad. All right, hey, there we go. Unboxing in first look has really... That one has 240,000 views. Go figure. And there's the gaming benchmarks versus the 2500K, which is a pretty last-generation processor there, guys. So let's go ahead and... Yeah, my power line internet's really slow. I think in this one I just showed, like, an Excel chart. And since it's not in HD right now, that's going to be pretty hard to read. I can understand why you guys don't like the way I do these charts. In my defense, though, I usually read out a lot of it, like, during the process. Here we go, here we go, here we go. Okay, so pretty much, if we have a look at the data, which is to our right here, we can see that the 8150 gets... Hold on, Nmax average... Oh, it was actually very similar across the board to a 2500K. Well, okay, then. Okay, so that's the last-generation Intel CPU. Since games don't really take that much advantage of... Here, how many cores for gaming. Since they don't really take advantage of that many cores, you can assume that any modern Intel CPU is going to be slightly faster than that, although it should be noted... See, how many CPU cores is enough for gaming? There's another good video about this. It should be noted, however, though, that... Where was I going with this? Ah, yes, my legendary bottleneck video. Let's see how... Yeah, right there. You search for bottleneck, right there. Understanding hardware bottlenecks and how to avoid them. If you have your graphics details turned up, which you should if you're running a decent machine with a decent graphics card, you're going to discover that it almost pretty much doesn't matter what CPU you have to a point, as long as you've got something modern and something reasonably fast with a reasonable number of cores, because you're going to be GPU-limited anyway once you turn the details up. And bottlenecks are not necessarily a bad thing. Every single system is bottlenecked. I have so many people ask me, will this part bottleneck this part? And it's not that simple. Watch the video, right there. Watch that video later. Bookmark it now. Just do it now. Watch that video later, and hopefully you'll understand it a little bit better. But any given hardware configuration, let's say CPU A and video card B, depending on the settings I'm running, the CPU is the bottleneck or the GPU is the bottleneck. It's not just as simple as, well, this thing bottlenecks this thing, and no, it doesn't work that way. So it comes down to how you're using the hardware more than anything else. Do you like cheese? What is this cheese meme? You know, actually, I just watched Gangnam Style or whatever that video is called. Yesterday was my first exposure to this. And honestly, these memes just pass me by a lot of the time. I mean, I'm working during the day, and then I get home, and it's baby time, and then I upload my videos, and then I sleep. So I haven't had much time for really anything else. But I got to say, that's very confusing. I mean, it's sort of like it's entertaining because he's like riding a horse. But I don't know that it's my favorite song, per se. So yeah, let's just sort of move right along. AJ wants to know if he should... One of these days I'll get this. AJ, right there, wants to know if he should, with his X6 1090T and 6970 upgrade now or wait for next gen stuff. My performance in games is average to low. I would really like to know why your performance in games is average to low. I'd say your video card is getting a little bit... I mean, it's not even bad. And your CPU, too. Like, the 1090T is actually not really slower than the current generation bulldozer stuff. As long as, I mean, that's a black edition, so you better be overclocking it. And the same with the 6970. It's a good overclocker. If you haven't already done so, maybe overclock your hardware and see if it lasts you a little bit longer because that's still pretty modern stuff. Can Tone Toe, what do you make of individually sleeved cables? I like individually sleeved cables. However, I think they can look a little bit busy. Cable sleeving Linus. So this is how I've decided to do my sleeved cables. So this is my personal rig update series of videos which I started, like, a bajillion years ago. This is part six, and it was in February 22nd. We're up to part nine now, and I'm still nowhere near finishing my system. But what I decided to do was take two wires and put one sleeve over them for a slightly... You know what? This one, actually, here. Let's try personal rig Linus. Let's find one where I can actually show you what the cables look like. So part two, three, four, five, seven, test fitting and sleeving progress. Yeah, there we go. Sleeving progress. So if you check this one out, part seven has some sleeving progress in it, and it shows you my idea for cable sleeving with two wires per sleeve. And then I think the end of this one actually... Nope, doesn't have anything else in it. There's one that has my baby in it. I think it's part eight. Lorenzo DK wants to know, what is the possibility of water cooling leaking? If you puncture it with something, it will leak. I mean, it's water. If you mean if you're diligent and careful and build water cooling as well as you can, the odds are actually very, very low. I mean, when we're talking custom water cooling, guys like SwiftHack EK, those guys, are pressure testing their components before they ship them to an end user. Every single one gets pressure tested up to however many PSI, which is many times more than you will ever encounter in a PC water-cooled system. So the odds of those parts leaking? Eh, not so much. And really, a leak on a live system should never happen because you should always have leak tested the entire loop with the system not powered on first. There's lots of guides on the internet for how to do that, so I'm not going to cover that there. Here, here, there. Do I have a computer-making video? Asks Jake Bob. Jake Bob, I would suggest that I have the best computer-making video. Here, PC build guide. Right there. Top hit under the advertised video. Number one. Above PCWizKid, who I also like. But that's only part one of his video. This is the entire video. Let's see if anyone else even shows up on the radar. Look at these guys. They got a million views for that. How to build a computer, choosing your components. That's outstanding. Here's part two. Here's part three of that. Ah, this is a good video. How to build a PC, the ultimate guide from TechSyndicate. That's good old Logan, the ex-Tiger guy, who's taking care of that channel now. So it's pretty good stuff over there. You should definitely subscribe to raise the world with a zero rather than an O. David wants to know what I think about hackintoshing. I still haven't done it yet. I keep telling myself I'm going to work on that next, and then I keep putting it off for something else. I think it's awesome. I think dual booting Windows and OS X environment is probably the best compromise. So if I was going to get a notebook tomorrow, I'd probably get some kind of a MacBook with a unibody frame. I mean, you guys can hate all you want on the MacBook and OS X, but it's a beautiful notebook. But for the desktop, yeah, it really doesn't make sense, because the price to performance and the component selection is just not there. It's not there on the Apple machine. So it would be great to be able to hackintosh it, to have a real computer, and then run a toy OS on it if you want to. You know, Final Cut. Although my understanding is the new Final Cut isn't that sort of fantastic. Ah-ha! iOS 6, did you download it? I have not. I am still using iOS 5.1.1. With all the horror stories about the maps, I'm a little bit terrified to try iOS. Um... Oh, so disappointing. It looks like Cameraman might not be able to join us tonight for our live iPhone 5 unboxing. Although if we end up doing it, then... You know what? If he arrives here tonight at some point, I promise you guys I will turn the livestream back on. However, I'm not going to do another YouTube video announcing this, so you guys are going to have to just subscribe to me here on Twitch if you want to make sure that you catch this, because it's going to be very exciting. I promise not to rip on it too hard, though. Francisco wants to know Windows 8 versus Windows 7. You know what? I haven't had enough time with Windows 8 to really make some kind of an intelligent decision about that, so I'm going to wait until I actually have a release copy in my hands. I'm going to install it on my personal machine and see how it goes. Alex Rupert wants to know 3820 or 2600K. I would love your input. I would suggest to you, Alex, that those are both last-generation processors, and given the parity in pricing between a 2600K and a 2700K, you probably shouldn't be looking at the 2600K in the first place, and with the fading availability of Sandy Bridge processors, you're probably going to want to look at a Naive Bridge, which is a 3770K and is definitely faster than that 3820. When will 1440P TVs and monitors be available as the standard resolution? Question from Nathan. Nathan, I would suggest that they will never be a standard resolution, much the same way that lots of resolutions were never really a standard resolution. We're going to move straight to 4K, would be my guess. I mean, you can see everyone's working on denser... See, I keep holding up the iPhone tonight, you know, because it's pixel-based, and I'm going to be using the iPhone. I'm going to be using the iPhone tonight, you know, because it's pixel density. Everyone's working on pixel density. Everyone wants higher resolution, but when it comes to broadcast standards, they don't like changing that often, and they don't like just sort of willy-nilly shifting things around. It's not like the PC where we can just have some resolution because we use, like, PowerStrip and deem it to be lastly. There's a lot of infrastructure that goes into a standardized resolution. So we're going to be moving to 4K, and asking me how much they cost... Come on, man. You just are the runner-up for... Whoops. There we go, more light. For bogus... How could I possibly know? They'll cost as much as... No! They'll cost 4K... dollars. I don't know, man. I know you can buy 4K cameras now for as little as 5, 6 grand. I've been looking into new cameras. I'm hoping to not be using this webcam in, like, I don't know, a couple weeks. I got a shopping list at B&H that I'm pretty much finalized. I think we're going to get a Sony FS100 with a lens and with a tripod and with some new lights, which are hopefully going to make me not look, like, washed out and blue and pale. I can't even figure out how to fix it. This webcam is not that great. I mean, all this stuff behind me looks about right. Maybe I'm just sitting too close. Hey! That might be the problem. It's fine now. But I kind of have to be here because I have to, like, read the screen and stuff. What can we do? George wants to know if there was a water block for the Xtreme 11. Would you use it? Because I know a guy that says he's talked to you. No, I wouldn't, because I'm done with the Xtreme 11. Honestly, the performance of the board isn't that great, especially for gaming, just because of the two PLX chips that are installed on it. More bandwidth will give you a higher number in terms of the bandwidth readout in GPU-Z, but it won't actually improve your performance. I know. I've just shattered your perception of reality. More bandwidth is not always better, especially if it adds latency. So the only reason I was considering the Xtreme 11 was because I hoped it wouldn't coil wine, and it looked outstanding. It's just, like, an awesome-looking board. I'm not going to invest a whole bunch of money into a custom water block for a board that really, for me, doesn't have any advantages over the X79 SUP5 that I ended up settling on. So it's a gigabyte board. Ian wants to know, is SAS just multi-plugged for SATA? Actually, SAS has different features than SATA. It does have...it's more RAID-friendly. I believe you can run longer cable runs. SATA supports breakouts as well, so it's not just SAS that supports breakouts. SAS tends to get better features earlier than SATA, so SAS had NCQ before SATA did. So there you go. No, they are different standards. Remember, guys, SAS controllers will work with SATA drives, but SATA controllers will not work with SAS drives. Okay? Emmanuel wants to know how old my cats are. They're going to be three years old this December 28th. Yep, they will be three years old. Let's see if any of them want to visit it. Yeah. Rumble! Rumble, come here! Kitty! Rumble! Usually he comes when I call. Hey! Cat! Oh, there he is. He's giving me the old stare down. See? There he is. Hey! Come here! Come on! So not interested. Nope, nope, we're not getting any special guests tonight. I know I promised special guests and then I did not deliver. I'm sorry for that. Brian wants to know, is it frustrating when people constantly ask you questions you've answered in your videos? Actually, no, it's okay, because for one thing, they're easy to answer because all I have to do is go click on the video where I explain for five or ten minutes the answer to a complicated question. Yeah, no, if anything, it's more convenient. Twoon wants to know, how is your massive RAID 6 with your Seagate 3TB? Any problems with dropping out since error recovery control is not supported? Actually, I haven't had any issues with them. Things are going good, things are going fine, and they're awesome. Things are good. I'm loving my massive RAID 6 with all my stuff stored on it. Adam B. right there wants to know, did you hear about more Thailand floods coming? Do you think this will affect hard drive prices again? If the manufacturing facilities flood, then yes. Prices will be affected again. However, my understanding is Thailand floods on a fairly regular basis, but that was just sort of very extreme and all the manufacturing facilities were on like one flood plain, so hopefully we won't see a repeat of that again. And we are all the way down to the end, I think, of the questions that are new. So let's go ahead and have a look at the 307 new interactions that I don't stand a freaking chance of getting to entirely here. I am curious, how many people are watching tonight? 1,400 people. And guess what? I did find where I had the Twitch stream open before, which might have been the problem with the Echo. So I'm going to try something here, and I'd like you guys to let me know if this works. Do we have an Echo again? Just tell me once. Do we have an Echo again? No. Excellent. How is the sound quality? Bad. Yes, no, no, pretty good. Okay, you know what? I'm done with the Twitch. You know what? We're turning that on to slow mode because I can't understand anything you guys are saying here. Okay, medium, fine, fair, okay. Someone wants to know if he can be a mod. Okay. Oh, back to Twitter. Do 344 new interactions. Oh, uh-oh, that'll be a problem. There we go. That's that Windows arrow shake feature that's amazing. Okay, Twitter, questions. Good quality. What's your opinion on jet skis? Jet skis are awesome, and anyone who doesn't think they're awesome doesn't know what they're talking about at all because jet skis are amazing. I've only actually really been on a jet ski myself a few times because here in Vancouver the water is pretty cold, so it's, yeah, not that great. Like, it's cold. So when I was down in Mexico a few years back, I spent a fair bit of time on the jet ski near the all-inclusive thing where we were staying, and yes, it was a blast, especially when the water is not cold. Okay, Paul wants to know full screen versus windowed. Benefits and what exactly is the difference from a processing standpoint and performance hit? I'll tell you right now it really depends on the individual application. Full screen will always be consistent, but windows might run fine with some things and might run totally rubbish with other things. So I personally have never really understood the appeal of running things in windowed mode because then you got frames around it. I find it detracts from the immersiveness. But hey, to each their own, if someone wants to do... Steve Jackson wants to know what can I... There we go. What can I do with my old LGA 775 processor and motherboard? Steve, I would suggest to you that you can do any number of things. You can build yourself a storage server using like a Windows home server. You can build yourself a router using PS fence, you know, and throw a couple of like network cards in there, and that would be pretty neat. You could give it away to charity, you know, lots of charitable organizations, getting donations of old computers. So there, a few suggestions for you. Wen wants to know why don't I use a 5D Mark III for the camera? I'm looking for a camcorder, not for a DSLR. Just I don't want to deal with the DSLR hassle-ness. I know the big sensor, it looks clean, etc., etc., etc., but we're going to be doing some pretty different stuff involving needing a clean HDMI feed out from the camera because we're going to be using some HDMI capture cards and stuff like that. And so it should be pretty good news bears as far as the quality of our overall operation here, but a DSLR really just isn't going to do it for us. DJ, I did it again. DJ wants to know what are the 2420T and the TX, the...oh, wait, and the 2410T. What are the major differences? Never ever type duh in the place of the...I'm not answering your question. You can retype it and maybe we'll get to it later. The differences. Does my baby play with the cats? He's still a little young. When do I think 3D monitors will decrease in price and become more popular? Over time, they will decrease in price, and over time they may or may not become more popular. It really depends on what people think of any of the advances that get made in the whole 3D technology thing. Oh, hold on. Okay. Having a little bit of trouble with the whole Twitch stream. Some people who are being inappropriate, and apparently the sound's cutting out now. Brilliant. Okay, hold on a second. I have one idea. Oh, someone says my...okay. And let's turn off the...let's turn off this feature here in the Thunder FX setting. So if you guys haven't used the Thunder FX card before, I'll show you how the control panel works. By hopefully putting this over here, which apparently...oh, look at that. That's bizarre. It doesn't work at all. It actually doesn't show you the Thunder FX window that I'm dragging over there. So I'm going to try turning off the environmental noise canceling. So you guys will have to let me know if that's a little bit better. And hopefully...hold on. I'm going to set a couple of moderators in the chat because this is pretty annoying. Okay, it says audio is cutting out. Well, that's massively improvement. Oh, okay. Apparently it's better now. You know, it's funny because when I did a test of this, the noise canceling feature was actually, I think, worlds better than when I didn't use it. And I guess for the live stream, it just doesn't work at all. Mr. J. Bacon wants to know what's my middle name, and that will forever be a mystery of tech tips. Am I excited for the new Haswells? I'm actually extremely excited for Intel's upcoming architecture. I hope that it's more of a difference over the previous generation than Sandy Bridge to Ivy Bridge was. I'm a little bit sort of...I'm a little bit nervous that we're going to have the same issues we had with Ivy Bridge where the tininess of the transistors means that they run hot again. But, you know, maybe in that time, Intel's made some big advancements, and it's going to be, you know, really exciting. It's going to overclock like stink. So, yes, I'm very excited to check it out. And right now I know absolutely nothing more about it than any of you do. Miles, I'm actually afraid I haven't heard of the new ICU-PE power line rumors. So maybe you can tell us all more about it. At some point in these live streams, people can actually call in, like kind of like a radio show. I think that'd be super exciting. But for now, I don't have the means to do that. I mean, I'd need to have like, you know, some kind of like TV here, and people would be able to like Skype in or something like that. And that would be actually really, really neat. And people say coming, cutting out, sounds like it's the headset, not the hardware. I don't know, guys. It shouldn't be the headset. We will figure this out at some point. Someone's asking how to find my Twitter. I'm at Linus Tech, and there's a cat on my counter. He needs to get down. Hey, get down. Thank you. All right. Let's go back to some Twitter questions here. Does the GTX 660 have better performance than the GTX 570? I don't know, actually. I haven't tested them head to head. Although your best bet would be to look at any GTX 660 review and just find one that has GTX 570 numbers in it as well, and then you'll know. Sites like Hardware Canucks and Antec, these are good ones. You can see performance of video cards and CPUs and various things like that. Nick, who has a fantastic picture of Mr. Bean for his avatar, asks, 3770K or 2600K for gaming? Both would be cool by NH100. They're pretty similar, especially if you're overclocking the 3770K, getting my personal pick, because I do a lot of video transcoding, and the onboard graphics is much better for that versus the 2600K. Sean, since you've decided on the Gigabyte board for your rig, what's the next thing you're looking for for the rig? The next thing I need to do is actually stressing me out a lot, because I have to cut up my Silverstone TJ07, which is eating me up inside. I have to carefully plan where I want to cut some cable management holes in the motherboard tray, as well as where I want to cut some other cable management holes throughout the rest of the case. I don't want to make any mistakes. I'm not a Dremel expert by any stretch of the imagination, so I'm a little bit worried about lining something up wrong or cutting a line that's supposed to be straight and level and kind of looks like this. I mean, I am going to be powder-coating it after I'm done, so... a little bit. But it's still making me very nervous, which leads us to Matthew's... Oh, man. Matthew's question, what is your favorite case? My favorite case is the Silverstone TJ07, with some of my other honorable mentions being the fractal design to find R3, the Corsair 650D, the 800D, Antec's P280 is also outstanding. So those are some of my favorite cases. The Corsair 300R is a great value, considering the price and how good it looks. Daniel is upset that he bought a Thunderbolt cable and didn't gain any superpowers. Daniel, you must have cheaped out. You must not have bought the $50 Thunderbolt cable. So that's probably the problem. Go buy yourself a more expensive Thunderbolt cable, and then you shouldn't really have any trouble with that. Do my cats swim? Not if they have a choice. Just like most cats don't swim, if they have a choice. Okay. Moving right along. Chris. Right there. Are there any NVIDIA 3D Vision 2 with light boost technology monitors that don't have TN panels? Great question, Chris, and the answer is no, for a couple of reasons. So monitor technology is kind of... is not advancing that fast in terms of the speed of the pixel changing, which is ultimately what is drawing us... what is holding us back, and people are still complaining about the mic. I don't know what to do about the mic, guys, so sorry. So that is still the bottleneck for us, is how fast we can switch the pixels. Now there's a lot of Tomfoolery that can go on to enable the panels to switch faster. So TN, for example, is a faster panel technology than IPS or MVA or PVA or PLS. It's the fastest one by far, but it compromises in terms of accuracy. So it's kind of like asking... it's kind of like, okay, so here, your PLS panel, which is my personal favorite, is kind of like a sniper rifle, where it's slow to reload, and it takes a while to aim, but it's very accurate. Whereas a TN panel is more like a machine gun or something. So speed versus accuracy. So the PLS panel or any of the other technologies are going to give you better color accuracy, better color depth, generally an overall better image. Whereas a TN panel is going to flip the pixel as fast as it can. It'll get kind of close, but not quite there every time. So that's why all of the 120 Hz panels that are validated for 3D are TN. So even those panels that people are buying from Korea, they're buying from overseas, those cheap 2560x1440 27 inch monitors, the cat leaps and the like that everyone's kind of into, right? Even though you can set it to 120 Hz, and it'll do 120 refreshes of the image per second, in terms of motion blur, which is when you're actually changing, for example, from a dark background to a light background, like with my finger and the window here, you will see the pixel having to change, even though with a static image, it might be sending a signal to itself 120 times a second. So I hope that makes sense to you guys. No other technology would validate a non-TN panel for 3D, because when the pixels are shifting so that they show you the right or the left eye, back and forth like that, the pixels won't be fast enough, even if the refresh rate is fast enough. So it would never get certified, at least not the way it is now. OLED, on the other hand, might be a different story once those get bigger and a little bit more mainstream. I mean, personally, I'm super disappointed that we never saw SED see the light of day. That was Canon's display technology they were working on, and it just disappeared. Another really good solution is a DLP projector, because DLP is, again, much faster for switching in terms of not the refresh rate, but the response times, than LCD is. Good question, Chris. Thank you for bringing that question to us. Ruben wants to know, OCC Vertex 3 or 4 versus Intel 330? I'd probably go with the Vertex 3 out of those choices. Vertex 4, also not a bad choice. Intel 330 is a lower-end product, but it's Intel, so it's fine, it's reliable. Sebastian, what is the model of your snap-on screwdriver? I don't know. It's their snap-on ratcheting screwdriver. Why don't we go on a voyage of discovery together, and we'll try searching for snap-on ratcheting screwdriver. See if it comes up based on the magic that is Google. There it is. There's one. Uh-huh, uh-huh. There's an orange one, just like mine. On the eBay's, there's a picture of one just like mine. Ooh, look at this. There's a whole, like, oh, wow, I need to collect them all. This is like Pokemon for, like, snap-on screwdrivers. I'm geeking out over here. Are these all different colors? No, they couldn't be. No, no, there's a handful of orange ones. There's some multiple black ones. That is awesome. So here's something you guys probably don't know. Each of those screwdrivers costs about 80 to 100 bucks. So that's actually, like, in terms of sheer dollar value, like, a sexier picture than, like, two GTX 690s next to each other. But you just don't know it because you're not into, like, snap-on tools, which some people might be, but... Mike A. What do you see as the next Battlefield 3 in terms of graphics card testing? Uh, Crysis 3? Probably. I mean, Sevat Yerli, or however, I don't know how you pronounce his name, but the Crytek guy basically came out and said, we are going to pwn PCs with our upcoming version of CryEngine, and I am personally very excited to see them try because every time we have a game dev actually properly utilize the PC hardware, we end up with a game that looks awesome and has... makes us feel a little bit better about the money and the time that we've invested into using this PC platform for gaming rather than, you know, popping a disc in the drive and, like, sitting slack-jawed on our couch like this with, like, a controller in our hands, which is not as satisfying for everyone, and, I mean, satisfying for some people, I'm sure. And I'm not judging at all. I mean, it's not like I have a... it's not like I have a totally unbiased and not at all, you know, PC glorifying, PC versus Xbox video about this kind of a topic. Oh, there we are, there we are, by NCIX. Although this guy right here is probably not me anyway, so I don't know what you're talking about. PC rules. Justin, I want an Asus TF700T. My girlfriend wants the new iPad. Which would you choose? We both already have iPhone 4s. Fascinating question, Justin. Hard to say. I actually don't really like the Gen 3 iPad for a couple of reasons. Number one is it is noticeably heavier than iPad 2. Anyone who tells you it's not is... doesn't know because they probably haven't used an iPad 2 extensively. I'm still using my iPad 2 on a daily basis. So it is heavier. The thing that really bothers me about it though is it runs warmer. So if you're using it without an insulating case, like kind of a thicker case, you will notice it gets warm in your hands to the point where your fingers will probably sweat and you won't be comfortable. TF700T doesn't run 100% super cool either, but it was cooler than iPad 3 for my time with it. However, the Android platform isn't for everyone. If you're used to iOS and you like iOS and you have all the apps that you want exactly where you want them, then you might find that you're better off going with the same ecosystem. But if I was really buying an iPad today, I'd be looking for one of the new generation iPads. Actually, Anantek did a fantastic article about this. One of the new generation iPads using the smaller process technology that enables it to have better battery life, like just way better battery life, than the iPad 3 and even the original iPad 2. So I've held on. iPad 2 and Anantek. I keep forgetting which keys I'm using for the switching. Ah, yes, this one. 32 nanometer brings better battery life. So let's check out their graph here. If you guys don't read Anantek, then you should definitely check out Anantek because it's like the best. I've been reading Anantek for years and years and years and years. I learned tons reading this site. So here we go. iPad 2.4 gets 11.7 hours of battery life. iPad 2, which is orange, gets 10.1. iPad 3rd generation is all the way down here to 9.25. So that means a difference of more than two hours of battery life between... So, okay, you got your high resolution screen. Good for you. I'll be using my device for two hours longer than you between charges. Comes down to personal preference, but I'm just not that sold on the iPad 3. When we get the high resolution screen in a slightly thinner form factor with longer battery life, then we're talking, and then I might be convinced to pull the trigger on that one. Shane wants to know, is the 660 Ti good graphics card or comparable AMD cards? YouTube is full of awesome information like this. GTX 660 Ti review. And there's me. And there's me. And there's me again. And there's everyone else. So go ahead and check it out and decide if you think it's good and what are the comparable AMD graphics cards because they're all in there. Austin says, I live in Vancouver too. I want to ask you, which high school... Okay, this. This kind of thing won't be tolerated. If you spell school like that and if you spell you like that, then I'm not answering your questions. Brian, when is the last time you went to a LAN party just for fun and not for work? Wow. I think the last time I went to a LAN was probably Kaplan a few years ago, maybe CTO in LAN a couple years ago. There was a time when I was going to Kaplan, I was going to CTO in LAN, I was going to whatever iteration of Vancouver, Lower Mainland, VanLand, whatever they were calling it at the time. It's just been a long time. I suck at video games, especially now, and so it's just been hard to justify. Okay, let's see if there's any new questions here. Ah, William. I am getting an SSD, but I'm not sure what one would be the best to get, such as Brandon's size. Thanks for reading. Oh, he only wanted me to read it. Moving right along. No, I'm just kidding. So back to William's question. In terms of size, you should buy the size that you need and the size that you can afford. I mean, come on, I can't answer that question for you. If you're like, oh, well, it's going to be for a PFSense router box that I just want to use a solid state drive-in so that I can not listen to a whirring hard drive and worry about it failing, well, then get the smallest one you can. Or if it's like, I'm going to get gigantic 3D models of swimming pools or something, I don't know, then you better get a big one. So only you can decide how big of a size you need. And as for the best brand, I mean, there's lots of good brands. Intel, Samsung, OCZ. These are all good choices. They're all good drives. Here's the cold hard truth with the whole SSD performance thing. And there are people who would disagree with me, notably my favorite SSD reviewer, who's the guy over at Hardware Canucks. He does not agree with me at all about this. But I would argue that an SSD for 99% of users out there who are still using hard drives, any SSD is going to be such an enormous upgrade that it totally doesn't even matter what they choose. Pick any SSD, find a modern SSD, buy it and put it in your system, and who freaking cares because you won't be able to tell the difference. I mean, if you go back to SSD versus hard drive, which is a video I did a long time ago, this one right here with the legendary lizard hat, I show real world demos, like alt-tabbing. Now this is an episode of Tech Tips that I've wanted to do for a long time. I'm finally getting around to it. This is SSD versus hard drive. So without going any further, I'm going to go to SSD, I'm going to alt-tab out of the game, boom, you're at your desktop. I pressed alt-tab at exactly the same time on that hard drive machine, and I am still waiting for it to go to the desktop. Same thing when you want to go back in a game, or if you want to see a Supreme Commander 2 ad, when you want to go back in the game, the SSD is faster, just like that. So now let's hit build systems a little bit harder. Let's say you're searching for all of a particular file. Let's say you're looking for every JPEG on your computer or every TXT file on your computer. So you can enter a search that is asterisks, dots, extension, and let's say let's choose the extension i and i, because there will be tons of those on any Windows machine. So you can see that the SSD is populating my list way faster. You can tell by how much smaller the scroll wheel is versus on the hard drive. That's a really difficult demo to show though. And you can also tell that the search is completely done. There we go. And the hard drive is still working at it. This is the green progress bar that is showing how far the hard drive is. Yeah, we've got 451 items. We're still at 411, 412, 451. The hard drive is finally done. So that is how much longer it took for the hard drive to populate with 451 items here. And then let's not forget that one of the most stressful things you can do with your computer is dare to use it while you're running an antivirus scan. So let's open up the computer scanner in AVG and let's scan whole computer now. Now when you're scanning your computer, obviously anything that you try to do is going to be hampered by the fact that you're doing that. So why don't we go ahead and just do a simple thing like open up Microsoft Word. That, SSD is done. The hard drive is still waiting for the read head to recover from where it's scanning for antiviruses. And then open up the file that contains Microsoft Word. So in conclusion, I thought I'd open up our test machine here and let you know that there is no smoke and mirrors going on behind the scenes. Every test you saw was run on two identical machines, one with the Vertex LE, one with the West Digital 1TB Black, which is one of the most respected, fastest magnetic hard drives on the market today. But after the demo you saw today, why isn't everyone using an SSD? The answer to that is because right now they have significantly lower capacities and much higher prices. The SSD we're using today costs over $900 and it is a 200GB model. The hard drive we're using costs about $100 and it is a 1000GB model to a lot of people. He apparently was calling to tell me that the YouTube video playing in the background was causing problems, which I suppose if I'd been looking at the Twitch TV chat you guys were probably... Oh, whoa, there we go. Yep, yep, BGG286 says, Slick calling to tell you about the audio. Outstanding. Thank you, Slick. Say, 1 billion bleeding lambs all at the same time. So, there you go. See, guys, I'm still new to this, so whatever, man. Slick rules. Thank you, Slick. Slick, Slick, Slick. Thanks, Slick. Thank you. I love you, Slick. That's what everyone has to say about all of this. Praise, Slick. Okay, bye, Slick. So there you go, guys. If there was any doubt that I was sort of faking the address book entry when I texted him earlier, then let that be a lesson to you. Oh, I've got a message. Mute the YouTube audio. Thank you. So, yeah, whatever. You guys run your own livestream then. I'll watch your livestream and I'll troll you. Let's go back to Twitter. People respect me, unlike my phone where people call me and tell me that I'm livestreaming. Ahmed wants to know what would be a good water block for Galaxy's GTX 670s. Any water block that is compatible with GTX 670s. I don't know who else has a GTX 670 block here. Why don't we do research together? So I'm going to show you guys the process that I go through whenever someone asks me a question or whenever there's something I don't know. First I Google it. Did you mean GTX 670 water block? Sure. Okay. Then I go to some store. In this case, let's go with Frozen CPU, because they have lots of good stuff. And then I look at all the different GTX 670 water blocks and I find the one that looks pretty cool. Okay. Oh, the XSPC one is cheaper. XSPC makes good stuff. EK makes good stuff. Swift Tech makes good stuff. These are all good brands. I don't like their new circle design though, so we're going to go with the acrylic top. And there's your answer. Done. That's assuming you have a reference GTX 670. If you're using a Galaxy card with a non-reference PCB, you pretty much probably won't be able to find a water block. If you want to water cool your graphics card, you're probably better off to go with a reference card like 95% of the time. Every once in a while you'll see some special card like an NSI Lightning Edition that has a full cover block available, but it really doesn't happen that often. Okay. Sajar. Cigar? Cigar. Dear Linus, hi I'm from India and biggest fan of your reviews, please allow Indian for all giveaways. I have not done a North America only giveaway in like two years. Everyone needs to just get over it. I did it one time. Every other giveaway I've done has been worldwide, so I don't want to address this anymore. And thank you for writing into the show. Lucas, did Logan have any hand in helping Linus Tech Tips? I would be greatly interested in knowing the origins of your info. Linus Tech Tips is called Linus Tech Tips and not Logan Tech Tips because it comes from Yo. Me. Logan had a hand in helping TigerDirectBlog for many years, and he has a hand in doing his own thing with Raise the World, but we've never actually collaborated on anything. So, I mean, we've exchanged emails, you know, we've exchanged YouTube private messages a few times, but that's about it. Yep. Keith wants to know which GTX 660 would I choose that is non-reference? Most GTX 660s are non-reference if I recall correctly. This is one of those cards where Nvidia has made the reference design sort of very, very optional. So I would probably do something like this. I would go to my favorite computer retailer's store, and then I would look for a GTX 660, which I would find more easily if the page layout wasn't totally broken because I'm scrolled funny. I'd find one with like a sweet cooler or something, and then I'd buy it. Yeah, you know what? I don't really have a preference on the 660s. The only one I have any experience with is the MSI TwinFrozer 3 one. I had no problem with it. It's got a TwinFrozer 3 cooler. You know, I'd look for one with an aftermarket cooler. I usually prefer like a dual fan cooler versus a blower cooler just because they tend to be quieter and they tend to run cooler. But yeah. Phil wants to know... I'm never going to get this, am I? Phil wants to know is there a huge difference between surround and stereo headsets? I use cheap earbuds in game and can still pinpoint the directions of sounds. Great question, Phil. And I would suggest to you that it is a simple matter of mathematical calculation that you can kind of go, okay, if I have two audio inputs, which are my ears, and two audio outputs, which are my speakers, then as long as the software mixing is done correctly, okay, and this is complicated, this is the functionality of audio, then in theory, a stereo setup is as good as anything, in theory. For headphones, I would never really use ones with dedicated speakers because what you tend to end up with is lots of small, tinny sounding speakers instead of two larger, better sounding, deeper sounding speakers. However, when it comes to speakers, actual physical speakers set up around you, I would suggest if you want......speakers are actually better than two stereo speakers in front of you. So there you go. That is my answer to that question. Francisco wants to know if it is worth spending the money on water blocks for two HD 5770s. Francisco, these kinds of value analyses are actually quite simple. First, let's find out if anyone even made a GTX 5770 water block. Okay, apparently EK did. Okay, so let's go ahead, let's go to aqua tuning. Let's find out how much one of those is going to cost you. 5770...okay, we're in USA and Canada. Look at that, US flag for the USA and Canada region. We Canadians, getting a little love. Okay, yeah, let's proceed again. Okay, let's try this. 5770, go. So it looks like your water block is around 40 bucks. So for 40 bucks times two, plus whatever you can get for your 5770s, which is usually a quick thing. This is the way I always do this, guys. So we go on eBay. So so far we're spending 80 bucks. 5770. We go on eBay and we can find out about how much a 5770 is worth. So buy it now, six bids. So let's assume it's worth around 65 bucks. So if you sold your two 5770s, that would give you 65 times to $130 plus $80. It would give you $200 to spend. Okay, so if you had $200 to spend, you could go to NCIX and search for GTX 660. And you would find that a new graphics card, oh, okay, 660, the non-TIs, is around a little over 200 bucks for an EVGA 660 superclocked. Then you go and look at a review of a GTX 660. Okay, so see, are you guys following me so far? This is the calculation. So we've got 200 bucks to spend. We spent about 10 percent over our budget, which is unfortunate. Okay, here we go, here we go, here we go. Here's our review. We're going to go, let's just pick some arbitrary game, like one that scales pretty well sort of across the board. Like say, for example, really they're using Crisis Warhead? Sure. Okay, Crisis Warhead. Let's find out how Crisis Warhead performs. And then we go, okay, so the 660 destroys pretty much anything below a 7850. Then we can go back and we can look at a 7850 review. Okay, and we can find out, do-do-do-do-do, oh, Guru 3D. See, these are all credible sites, Guru 3D, Hardware Canucks, and NTTAC, Tom's Hardware. Okay, we're only looking for approximates. We're just doing a rough calculation here. So, it doesn't really matter. We're looking for approximates. And they do not have a lot of, oh, there we go, there we go. 7770, a 7850 gets absolutely rocked by almost double, which means that even if your 7770s scale pretty well in Crossfire, your new GTX 660 is going to be more than 10% faster than the 7770, which means that it is a safer feature set, longer term driver support, probably more worthwhile to get a new card, as opposed to spending a bunch of money on your old cards. That, folks, is the way we do it. That is how we figure out what's a better value. You compare things across multiple reviews. You figure out how much it's going to cost, how much your hardware is worth, and then you just flip your 70, or whatever they're called, 5770s. Wait, 5770s, was that even the one I was looking at? I was looking at 7770s. Oh, the 5770 is terrible. Yeah, no, it's a terrible value. Now, get a new card. There, now we know. Now we know the answer. Oh, look who visited us. It's Rumble the cat. Say hello, everybody. Can you say hello? Here, let's give him a headset. He's not going to feel like he's part of the show unless he has a headset. Rumble, can you say hi? Can you say hi? Oh, he's not impressed at all. The cat is not impressed at all with our setup here. Anyway, we are going to sit together now, and I'm going to answer some more Twitter questions. Hmm. TwitchTV is only for gaming. Too bad. That's this guy right here. Too bad. TwitchTV knows I'm here. They can kick me off if they want. That's fine. Oh, he's getting down. Okay, let's go back up to the top here, because all these tweets are from about half an hour ago. Who knows? These guys might not even still be watching anymore. Let's have a look at some new tweets. We're probably going to wrap things up in about 10 minutes here, guys. I will hopefully... Yes, MK... I know. Fix my audio. It's cutting in and out and dying and something. Check Twitch randomly, at least. Oh, he wants me to check the Twitch chat. All right, let's have a look at the Twitch chat. Hmm, that cat is so cute. Yes, it's a cat. Guys, if you want questions answered, go post it on Twitter. Yes, guys, if you want questions answered, please do post them on Twitter. I'm on Twitter at LinusTech. And I'm mostly ignoring the Twitch chat tonight because I haven't got a better system for arranging the windows here. I'll figure out something for next week, I hope. And by then, I really hope the audio will be fixed, but I really don't know what else to say about it at this point because I've tried everything. I've tried this external sound card. I've tried this external sound card. I've tried freaking this external sound card, which is supposed to be bouse and, like, balling out. And none of them are working for me here, so I've tried multiple headsets. And cameraman wants my address. Apparently he wants to, like, hardcore creep me. Actually, no, no, I already told you. That won't work because I already told you guys that he was planning to come here with an iPhone 5 so that we can get an unboxing done, which is very exciting. Gary wants to know, Linus, what is the most silent pump? Thanks very much. Get an MCP655 or a D5. They're the same thing. Turn the dial all the way down to 1. Very, very, very quiet. KMR wants to know, Linus, how do you know how to learn to string a badminton racket? I have a friend who works at a badminton shop, and he showed me. It's actually not that hard. Once you get the hang of it, you've got to do, like, the over, under, over, under, over, under. You have to look up the stringing patterns on the manufacturer website. Make sure you put everything through the right holes. Who knows? Maybe I'll do a video about it at some point, but I'm not very good at it. It takes me about an hour to string a racket. And to put that in perspective, he can do it in, I think, about 20 minutes, maybe a little less. So I'm incredibly slow, and my way of doing it is actually not that efficient. Paul Tiberius Nicola. That is a fantastic name, Paul Tiberius. How much does a PCI Express high-performance SSD affect video cards using up PCIe lanes? Lose the entire electrical lane. Okay, Paul. First, I'd like to clarify a little bit how the PCI Express lane allocations work. So as long as you install that PCI Express card into a slot that isn't in the same slot as your graphics card, they're not really fighting over it. So, for example, in an x79 board, you've got two 16x slots or you've got 1688. If you install that PCIe card down here, then it'll switch to 1688, which really won't affect your performance much. So I know that's what you meant. I was just messing with you before. But yes, it will change the configuration of your PCIe slots, but you can sacrifice as little or as much as you want. I mean, lots of boards, especially z77 boards, have PCIe 4x slots, usually down at the bottom, that are hooked up through the chipset. And running off a completely different set of PCIe lanes versus the two 8x slots. So you just have to look at the layout for your board and see what makes sense for you. Fazil says, from Iraq. And I say, hi, Iraq. KPKTDS, how many years will last an i5-3570K for gaming? Please answer. I would love to answer you with a video. YouTube.com, let's see what comes up. Oh, oh, special daily rewards. Oh, I've been selected to take part in an annual visitor survey. To YouTube.com. What a scam. Don't go to YouTube.com, it's probably a scam. Although when you guys are gone, I'm going to go back and find out if I won anything. I just didn't want you to get my activation code so that I'd have to share my prize with you. Alright, futureproofing. Let's see. Oh, it's me! Holy crap, look at me, I'm right there. Despelling some myths. This was one of the simplest NCIX Tech Tips episodes we ever filmed. And this time I'm going to remember about the YouTube audio, so I'm not going to wreck it. But I basically talked for ten minutes about how futureproof... Welcome to NCIX Tech Tips. Today's format is going to be a little bit different....when you get your next paycheck, or like a month later. Then it makes sense. But if you intend to actually... Basically I say, don't worry about it. Doesn't work that way. No one has a crystal ball. Anyone who tells you you're futureproofing your PC is trying to sell you something. I mean, yeah, don't believe that. Joe wants to know, GTX 660 2G or 3G? Joe, the answer's quite simple. If you're going to be running at very high res, go ahead, grab the 3G cards. If you are not running at high res, if you're going to be running at sort of a more normal, like 1080 resolution, go with the 2G cards because it won't make any difference whatsoever. Edward Dworkin, would you recommend an AMD APU for a very low budget rig? Absolutely, Edward, I would. Especially if you want to play entry-level games on it. Because compared to Intel's integrated GPUs, the APU, or integrated graphics that's included, is really good. It's way better than even Intel's Ivy Bridge GPUs. So let's see if the cat wants to come back and visit us again. Looks like he's thinking about it. Yep. Here he comes. Alright, more Twitter questions. Zach, do you ever use Linux for anything? No, I don't. I get that question a lot, though. Daniel wants to know, where do you think a college student should start looking for a job related to what I do? What I do is product management. So if you took, I don't know, product management program, then you might learn a thing or two about managing products. I mean, product management is pretty simple. Basically, you find stuff you think people would want. You try and find it at a price where you think your company can make money. And then you try and sell it at a price where the company does make money, but people are still happy with the price and they want to buy it. So as long as you can handle those basic ideas, then you should be fine. It's not rocket science by any stretch of the imagination. As for the YouTube thing, the best way to get started looking for a job related to YouTube is to, well, upload videos to YouTube. Because that's probably how someone will see your YouTube video and watch it and like it. Speaking of which, you guys should like this video. Wait, no, it won't work that way. Well, I'm going to upload this video to YouTube after. So if anyone's actually still watching an hour and 18 minutes into it, then they can definitely like my video. Because if they've watched that much of it, they probably like it. Jesse just sent me a link to Newegg. How dare you, Jesse? How could you do this to me? Some heat sink. I don't know, it's a heat sink. Did you know Newegg has a site just for Canadian shoppers? All prices in Canadian currency. Oh, Newegg, Newegg, Newegg. Yeah, you have a Canadian site, but I don't know if anyone cares. Bam! Take that, Paul. And the other guy. Shoot, I even tried to get everyone to follow him. I can't even remember. My brain's kind of fried. It's actually been a very long day. And I've been live streaming for almost an hour and a half. And in answer to your question, Jesse, go with the better heat sink, which is the one you linked, not the Cooler Master 212. Matt wants to know, what is going on with the Piledriver CPU and when will AMD make a new CPU without integrated graphics coming very soon? There's lots of information all over the interwebs. If you were to search for 50, you might come across something kind of interesting. I can't tell you anything, but the rumor sites for all the flak they take about being wrong about this or that are right so often that it's definitely worthwhile reading them if you really want to know what's coming in the future. Steven, I'm trying to decide between a short answer and a long answer. Is it worth investing in the Intel? Short answer is fine. It's a bit of a longer answer than that, unfortunately. Low end gaming machine, entry level gaming, just basic productivity. Go with the AMD machine because it honestly doesn't make that much of a difference anymore. Any CPU is fast enough for word processing these days. If you want a higher performance machine, then Intel will perform better. So do you want to spend more and get more performance? OK, go Intel. Do you not want to spend more? Do you not want more performance? Go with AMD. I mean, there are certain applications, however, even perform pretty well. Something like an FX8150 where all those cores are being leveraged can perform pretty well. Especially given the price points. I think an 8150 is around 200 bucks now and the motherboards are cheaper. Katzoo, Linus, what do you think of two 120 millimeter rads compared to a single 240 millimeter rad? I'm planning to water cool my 550D and I want my sound damp pads. Two 120 millimeter rads are almost identically the only difference is you are going to hamper your flow rate a little bit, which doesn't make that much of a difference to the performance of your loop. So if it's more convenient for you to use two 120s, go for it, do it. It really won't matter that much, especially if you have a decent pump. Don't use like a craptastic pump with it or anything like that. They'll get an MCP655 or a 350 or 355 for that matter. Michael, can you still overclock Intel CPUs without a K on the end? You can, but only a little bit. If you really want the benefit of that CPU and you want to really crank it up, get one with a K on the end. Jan says, Linus, show us your cat. Bam! That's my kitty. Okay, Phil's question we already answered. Simran wants to know why don't I ever review Asus video cards? To which I would reply, I don't know, let's see. Asus Linus. Okay, let's try Asus Linus video. Okay, we got a GTX580 Mars 2. We've got an Ares 5870 X2, although that was just a giveaway. There's the unboxing of it. Here's the testing of it. Here's an unboxing of a 560 Ti DirectCU2. Okay, so I see your point. Alright, alright. Okay, so some of this is older stuff. Honestly, I don't have them. So it's harder for me to look at them, investigate them, check for imperfections in the finish. Yeah, it's really that simple. Whatever crosses my path, and usually for Asus it's things like sound cards, motherboards, and notebooks. Whatever crosses my path, I will make videos about, and I just really don't get my hands on Asus video cards. Kalil, I missed you when you were at CES. Will you ever be near Northern Nevada or Sacramento again? I don't know. I might be at CES again next year. I might not. It really depends what happens. Yep, and we got our favorite troller. Ha ha ha, you're so cool. Aw, it's adorable. And, have you updated your iPhone to iOS 6? I have not. We're going to scroll down. Linus, turn off the YouTube video. Ah, we've gotten down to that. Felix says, fail night Linus, videos louder than you and getting longer mic breaks. I know. I don't know what to do. Well, I do know what to do. I need to get better equipment and it's coming, but for now I don't know what to do to address it. Alright, let's go look at some of the newer tweets. 122 new interactions. Thank you to those of you who are still watching because there are still 1500 of you watching the stream, which is just outstanding, especially given the technical challenges we've had tonight. I'm sure at least a few people are probably getting sort of frustrated with all the technical difficulties, and I'm sorry for that, but I really do appreciate your guys' support and the fact that you're watching the show. Joe wants to know, should I upgrade to Ivy Bridge from my Q6600? I would say that is an excellent upgrade. You've waited a few generations. You deserve it, man. Go ahead and upgrade to Ivy Bridge. Haswell is going to be faster, but you can always end up waiting for the next thing and you're going to get a definite performance increase from that upgrade. Merit, how difficult is it to watercool GPUs if you are already custom cooling a CPU? Not that difficult. Actually, the hardest thing about watercooling a GPU is installing the graphics card waterblock, but if you're very careful and you pay special attention to the instructions, you shouldn't have too much trouble. So let's go GPU waterblock guide. Let's see what comes up. There's one from Singularity Computers. There's one from Trubitar. There's one from Dazmode. Hey, it's Dazmode. He's Canadian too. And there's me. So I show you how to install a full cover waterblock on a GPU. As long as you watch that video and figure that you can handle that, then go for it. Have fun. It's good. Oh, Rubaiyat. Can you recommend a cheap gaming laptop? That's like asking me if I can recommend a delicious bottle of urine. Or wait, no, it's more like a bottle of, I don't know, apple juice. I like apple juice. Orange Tropicana. It's like, yes, it's like asking me for, I don't know, it's contradicting. Gaming laptops aren't cheap because the CPUs, the GPUs, the displays, everything about them is expensive. So, no, maybe buy one used. I don't know. Darian, can you build a computer for me? I will tell you all the parts I want and pay you for the assembling fee. Please tweet me back. You know what, let's tweet back, Darian. I wonder if he's still watching the stream. Let's tweet him back. Let's say $1000. Oh, oh, oh, zero dollars is $1000. What do you think he's going to say? You think he'll do it? I'll tell you what, if he does it, then I will spend $500 of the assembly fee that was collected buying some high-end graphics card and I will give it away on Twitter. Let's see if he does it. Okay, moving down. Shelby, I just wanted to say thanks for making videos and educating me. I ordered my first order from NCIX yesterday. Way to go, Shelby. You did good. Alright, we've got only three minutes left, guys. I promised to test for the XFX-WD cooling system but never did one. You know what, I had totally forgotten about it. So, in all likelihood, it's probably not coming because there's enough new video cards coming out and everything that I'm pretty busy. But, yeah, I'm going to leave that for now. RhinoRager wants to know, why is it that when I record and I watch it, it's so choppy? Are you talking about recording games? I'm going to need some clarification. Maybe resend that question next week. If you're talking about recording games, if you're talking about recording videos, or whatever else the case may be. If you're talking about recording this livestream, then maybe just watch it on YouTube after. I don't know. Moving right along. Ah, Dali wants to know if I can speak some French. I told him I couldn't in French, basically. It's too difficult. It's been a long time since I've really spoken any French. My vocab is... I can't remember anything anymore. Joseph wants to know, do I personally like NCIX's site design? Answer truthfully. I will answer truthfully, but partially. I liked it eight years ago. CJ, sorry to repost this, but I want an expert opinion. I just bought two EVGA 480s. Is this still relevant or should I upgrade? As long as you're okay with the heat they kick out, then they're fine. I mean, you probably only paid a couple hundred bucks each, which is still a very valid price for those cards. 200 bucks for something that's essentially equivalent to a GTX 570, except kicks out more heat. And scales pretty well in SLI, Fermi card. It's actually more powerful for CUDA than a 570, so yeah, totally fine. And I think we're pretty much done here, guys. One more tweet. Let's take the top tweet once I reload this, and then we are pretty much going to wrap it up here. Let's switch back to here. All right. Alexi's, no that's not really a question. Sorry, Alexi. Rumble Muffin wants to know, why is it that my CPU is only clocked to 4 GHz in my benchmark videos? Because that was a quick and easy overclock. It's something I know that anyone with that CPU will be able to obtain, attain, obtain, attain. So as long as I use a setting that I know other people can replicate, then my testing is therefore easily replicable. I've clearly had enough of this, so I'm eagerly awaiting cameraman to show up with the iPhone 5, and maybe we'll stream that. Don't forget, guys, if you aren't already, make sure you are subscribed on YouTube, Linus Tech Tips, subscribed on YouTube, NCIXCOM, following me on Twitter, at Linus Tech, and subscribed on Twitch, because all those different places get all kinds of different content that I work every day on producing just for you. So thank you for watching, and don't forget to subscribe.