 Alright guys, welcome to the Linus Tech Tips livestream with special guest Slick Well, you were a special guest at one point at the beginning yeah Like a long long time ago. Yeah, that was that was like Six months ago. No must have been more. It was it was December. It was before Linus media group split out on its own Yeah, it was either December or like late November. Yeah, cuz that was when my arm was messed up Yeah, like you were in school still. Oh No, that was a long time ago. Wow, that might have been before but you're still special. Oh Long setup that was that was a really long setup. Yeah, that was totally worthwhile So guys welcome to the Linus Tech Tips livestream the we're gonna get pretty much right into it with a Twitter Q&A blitz so get your Twitter Q&A in right now Well, we just give you a some special messaging special messaging from Intel So guys if you haven't checked it out Intel gaming promo.com is where you can check out their gaming promo right now So it's a Pax prime promo if you buy a Haswell CPU if you know anyone who bought a Haswell CPU If you're gonna buy a Haswell CPU, so any fourth generation processor guys It go sign up for this promo because you have a chance to win the ultimate trick to Pax prime Which basically amounts to tickets and spending money and there's a bunch of T's and C's on their website But yeah If you know anyone who bought one and they're willing to give you a copy of their receipt and they don't care about going to Pax prime Go do it now do it now Seriously, cuz Pax prime tickets are actually really expensive right now and really really hard to get unless like Yeah, yeah all of that stuff so Pax prime not paying for it EA Oh wow that's early this time There was no like actual reason to even do it just bam Well, I don't think we actually have any EA news this know that's that's what I mean So we're just just just taking a shot We also have some really exciting news about the after party this week So we didn't manage to 96 Super Mario World, but I think we kind of give up It's it's some ghost house somewhere We can't tell it because the color on the pad doesn't change or something and we basically we base Yeah, we basically give up so we're not gonna bother doing that But what we are gonna do this live stream is we are going to experiment with our system for having live callers call in So we're hoping to get that launched with a special partner next week so we can do live calling in Which I think is gonna be just really cool. We're basically gonna be caught up to radio at that point in terms of technology almost EA this bum every fist bump for something failed we should be Yeah Sponsor us EA, if you're watching we'll stop ripping on you quite quite so hard. Yeah, cuz we're still gonna rip All right, let's go to the let's go to the Twitter boards here Which is what they call the phone boards when you're on a radio show, which is what we'll do So we're directly comparing ourselves to radio now. Yeah, well, we're basically like radio but with video And I think the things little yeah If we didn't have video then we wouldn't have these technical difficulties Yeah, we should just do a radio show people have been asking for it to be converted into podcast for a while radio Last live stream there was a request for it to be podcasted. That was the top comment Okay, I'm putting you in charge of that, okay, oh that was easy Podcasts, okay. I like seriously heart podcasts. So I have no problem with doing that Okay, and I know like they don't get the craziest amount of listeners, but I love podcasts All right guys. What technology on computers do you think is behind the rest displays? Not good enough say to not fast enough, etc. You want to take this one SATA in my opinion really? Yeah, I cuz I don't think it's that at all I think that what's actually too slow if we're gonna talk storage alone is nan flash because right now an SSD can max out a SATA bus But not when it's doing anything random. Yeah, we're not even close Yeah, the drives are not close the controllers aren't fast enough The NAND isn't fast enough NAND is still wait like storage was so far behind and then SSD was like I mean you look at how many orders of magnitude faster a current CPU is compared to something ten years ago and Like how much fat even with SSD and say the three how fast storage is but it's not even close My angle on this is you're completely right My angle on this though is that the drive manufacturers are not Super incentivized to push harder because when people are looking at benchmarks, they see it get capped out and then they're like, oh So it's a difficult message. Yeah, it's hard to sell. Yes. So why bother so why bother? So if so if the cap on SATA gets removed, I think there'll be more incentive for the drive manufacturers to push harder Well the one that I still feel more strongly about than storage because as you know I'm a storage dork like you've seen the setup I have in my system eight SSDs They're awesome, which is by the way fast enough now I'm still gonna go with displays Because I see no reason like to me the thing that's most offensive about displays is that we have the technology For them to be there. It's it's stupid standards like HDMI holding back everything and for people who are like Oh HDMI is whatever. No HDMI is not anything good HDMI is inferior in every way other than size I don't use it for anything other than size It is inferior in every way to DVI DVI can carry a digital and an analog signal Super handy when you have to output to something analog DVI can carry twice the bandwidth of HDMI DVI has a locking connector DVI is much more difficult to break it can handle more insertions HDMI sucks there I said it and display port cannot come soon enough in terms of completely replacing HDMI But I still like the fact that DVI can carry an analog signal and if DVI Got the same kind of TLC that HDMI gets if it was getting the double bandwidth that HDMI is getting that Finally gets it caught up to DVI Finally if DVI was getting that we'd be able to do 4k 60 Hertz nothing compressed No, nothing with DVI. No problem. So yeah DVI for the win DVI forever like respect to DVI We can't do a fail fist bump. No, we can't because DVI is amazing Yeah, so so display interfaces are one of the things holding it back But that's still not an excuse because we have display port It is capable of it if they can build a 1080p screen this big then they can build a 4k screen That's four times this big and I don't care what the yields are because you look at the bomb cost for these phones that includes processor NAND RAM screen touch screen interface Chassis everything if you're gonna tell me you can't build a 4k monitor That's like 24 inch for less than you know, 500 600 bucks BS So displays are way behind and it's offensive because we have the tech We're just refusing to use it because we're putting everything into phones Okay, next one. Sorry that ended up going pretty long. Okay. Shout out to Dylan Shout out to Stefano who are both watching for the first time Did you sign any kind of a contract with knock to us? No, actually I didn't apparently the image is quite bad I don't think I think it is a bit blurry because I think we were sitting forward when we focused I Can I can try and fix it? Do you want me to try and fix it? Sure. Okay Sit where you're gonna sit. How's that? No, that's way worse. Just kidding. How's that? I think that's better. Maybe let's rock with that. Okay. Um No, we didn't sign anything with knock to I think it's gonna be a long-term thing Condone of taking my dad 780 from the build I built him with a 660 with my 660 Ti He's a newb and doesn't game the wrong thing you did was not necessarily swapping out a non gamers graphics card But making a non gamer by a $700 graphics card in the first place That wasn't cool man. Unless your plan all along was to do the swap No, that makes it worse because he's cuz cuz that's terrible. Yeah You wouldn't do that to your dad. No, I Hope your dad's watching I would get my dad to get a 780 but your dad games my dad games Yeah, my dad does boink. Yes, and my dad would use that It's not the same thing at that card would be at like at all and percent all the time Well, I got my mom a 660 Ti as well. Okay, well that's but she used it because she played Skyrim Okay, she wanted that computer to play Skyrim. Okay, is there no there is no major FPS and performance difference between those two things Go do you think Nvidia is limiting sales a shield by making it exclusive to GTX cards rather than including AMD? They're trying to Buff their product line. Yeah, they're making an ecosystem. Yeah, exactly They're trying to make it so that you are an Nvidia customer So all the things that you have that could be from Nvidia is from Nvidia that and remember that the way shield works is Via a proprietary Nvidia technology like it's the same kind of technology as we're gonna see an Nvidia's grid Where it's it's like centralizing the processing power of the GPU and then streaming it elsewhere It's like virtualizing GPUs. This is a proprietary. I'm willing to bet there's hardware in there for this Like I don't think this is as simple as why die that's not what we're doing and technically they could open it up But that would probably be a silly move. Yeah, why yeah, why should they I I think shields cool We didn't talk about this last week shield dropped to 299. That's That's really cool. That's actually awesome. And that brings it Go ahead that brings it into a way way bigger price point because the second you get under 300 bucks You're like at 300 bucks like if you spend half your paycheck and you save half your paycheck You can afford a shield with a paycheck is where I think it gets down to like that's just to the affordable Yeah like that to me is what the 300 like the $300 thing is like I could I could wait a paycheck or two and I could save up for a paycheck or two Yeah, but when you have to start waiting a month for something then it becomes tough becomes a problem Yeah Honestly, and I think I honestly I didn't really see the complaints about 349 in terms of the competition that's out there Because when you look at the spec and you look at the competing devices, I mean how much you pay for a phone What's it got on a shield still though a wireless antenna? still though logically The difference between 299 and 349 is not that much right but perception Perception is huge once you get under that exactly $300 mark If cable TV DVDs and blu-rays all broadcast at 60 Hertz is there a real advantage to a 120 Hertz TV? If you game with a PC on your TV then perhaps and if you want to do the whole 3d thing then yes And if you want to do that screen sharing thing where you can play dual player games Each wearing 3d glasses and seeing a different full full screen image, then it's really cool as well other than that no There is a few different things though Here's a question. Do you know the answer to this? Why would someone want to be able to digitally switch their power supply between one 12 volt rail and two plus 12 volt rails? Isn't it once you get to insanely high voltages? It's better to be on multiple rails once you're drawing a lot of current. Yeah, it can be safer to have multiple rails But honestly if you're able to switch between them then the reality of it is your power supply has multiple rails Yes, and they're just being like Combined yeah So I wouldn't worry about it too much these days the whole multi rail thing that was only relevant for like six months Yeah, and it was a while that was like that was back when an OCZ power stream was a big deal Yeah, this was quite a while ago. You're making me feel old wasn't that long ago? Okay? It was a while ago. What's a good power supply for 2A SLI GTX 780? What would you buy 2A SLI GTX 780? Brand aside depends on your chip remember how the brand what power supply would you buy? Power? Not one overclocked either. Hmm not one overclocked though. True Why don't I go with another answer while you think about that? What's a cheap ultrabook to get that's below 700 bucks that is good the words good and cheap and notebook rarely go together So you get whatever ultrabook is the quality you want and then you pay however much that costs anything other than an Asus Zenbook I I generally I think that's sort of where they start in terms of where I call it like a really good quality ultrabook However, the Acer Aspire s3 the new one looks outstanding Whatever you do though If you're gonna buy an ultrabook today get a Haswell based one because particularly on notebook has well as a big deal It's actually awesome lots more graphics performance and much better power consumption power consumption. There's huge for me Okay, power supply probably a 760i because if you're spending that much 760 okay, because I'm sure you could make it in that power range. Yeah. Oh, yeah, it'll be fine and If you're spending that much on graphics cards, you're probably spending that much on all the other parts in your system So I'm not too worried about fitting a 760i into your budget and you can buy a sleeving kit and those sleeving kits are sweet That's true. Okay And then you don't have to spend all that time Sleeving your power supply and that goes directly to the power supply for a sleeving kit because some sleeving kits are just extensions These ones go all the way to your power supply So it'll look awesome And if you're spending that much on a computer, you probably want it to look awesome So I don't know But there's like there's a whole bunch of other power supplies that I do like pretty much equally Okay, is gigabyte the way to go for Haswell motherboards? We actually haven't used any of these yet. These just arrived They're not even open. They're not even open. Will a 450 watt SFX power supply power a Haswell case series and a 780 Ooh, are you overclocking? Are you yeah, if you're not planning to overclock you're gonna be right on the wrong side You're gonna be really borderline. Yeah, you'll be on the line. If you are overclocking, I wouldn't do it Put one SSD in there maybe Maybe don't have an SSD Well, you'll need a storage device, but yeah, like I wouldn't plug too many like peripherals into the USB ports I wouldn't do that actually If he's buying not overclocked maybe yeah, but power supplies are so cheap, but it's SFX He wants an SFX power supply so I think 450 the max is that Silverstone one I think Silverstone has a 550 watt. Do they have a 550? No, it was Endermax 450 gold. Endermax has a 550. I think so. Okay. We'll see if you can find a better one There was something interesting at their booth that was the highest wattage I don't remember what it was though, so it might not be that specific for me. Best wireless hard drive? Good question Voyager Air has good battery life. Wireless Plus has a really really stable app and the Patriot Aero has good integration with third-party players. I mean none of them are bad to be perfectly honest Yeah, from our experience with them. None of them just like flake out so By the way, I just remembered it was a fanless. It wasn't uh, oh, okay. Yeah, it was something different Uh, okay. I'm glad you made it too Josh Maximus 6 formula estimated price and release well the price will probably look at a Maximus 5 formula probably around there and then thoughts I think the formula board out of all the ROG boards is the one that makes the most sense because it has that really high-end audio solution on it That makes me feel really good about buying the board because I'm not just getting like whoa more USB 3 ports I'm getting something that's really tangible and actually costs money to put on the board Like engineering that audio solution took time and money and building every single one of them is expensive Are you guys getting JJ as a guest? We don't have him scheduled by any stretch of the imagination, but he's certainly welcome to join us We've talked about this a fair bit in the past guys, so we're gonna leave that one for now What do you think about studio grade speakers? Do you think it is good for anyone's setup? I'll let you take this one Depends if you're an audiophile or not. I have what are they called again? Those Corsair speakers? SP2500s. They're awesome. They were realistically pretty cheap because I got them recertified at NCX so it was an awesome deal That was a good deal. I bought one too. Yeah and he already had it set Well I need another one for my wife. Don't worry about it. They're awesome speakers but personally I do appreciate my audio equipment but I care about headphones Speakers I got those because there's a great deal and I like it that they're loud. I can hear them in a room beside me and they sound really good But I'm not going for studio grade speakers. Yeah I mean honestly they're probably good. Yeah I'm sure they're great How is Topper compared to Cherry? Also what's your favorite keyboard? Go. They're really really really different. Topper is... I don't like them Yeah they're really different. They're really premium high quality very consistent feeling switches but they're not really Cherrys You can't really compare them directly to any switch. People ask me to do this all the time. No they feel nothing like Cherrys. At all. No. Not even close. My favorite keyboard depending on what variation of all the prototypes that they release probably a year of the snake because they're talking about releasing in aluminum now What blue switches and I think you're what brown? Me? I prefer brown switches but my favorite keyboard is actually the Xible 60 which has black switches so I broke my own rule Someone says the stream is laggy but that looks like the only one complaining about it so I don't know what to say Is 170 Canadian a steal for a second hand Dell 1920x1200 monitor? Yeah maybe. Depends what kind of condition it's in. If it's like a 24-05 FPW like I have it's starting to fade The backlight's not very even anymore. And make sure you see it. Make sure there's no dead pixels or anything going on Any thoughts on the Monoprice $58 blue switch mech keyboard? Monoprice is known for high quality and low price. I've heard it's made kind of like it's a low end blue keyboard but It's also a blue keyboard for $58. Got MX blues for $58. What do you want me to say? Yeah I haven't seen it but Maybe get some posters for the wall? Yeah we had that last week. We have posters. We have on order. Did you place the order? I haven't actually put it in yet Okay we're ordering a bunch of cool swag for the office from ThinkGeek so that's gonna be cool. My computer won't post. I sent the mobile for our main. Received the same one repaired. Still have the same issue Could be something else. Could be RAM. Could be power supply. If you can swap it. If you have other kids of RAM or friends with it try and swap out your RAM. It's always a big thing Okay so let's get into our first topic because I think we've done a pretty pretty good Twitter Q&A blitz there So here we go. Let me just make sure I have this. I think that I have this set up right so we should be able to Yes yes yes I do. And I think that marks on my monitor. Oh and I just did the thing. It's an arrow shake and everything went away Alright so Sony and Disney will begin streaming movies that are still in theaters in a bold move against piracy So let's just give you the quick summary. So this is on the verge. In a bid to limit movie piracy in Asia. So this is not happening in North America In the US theaters will still be getting their 90 day exclusive period. Sony and Disney have begun testing a bold new on demand service in South Korea Which offers movies to rent while they are still playing in theaters. So they've done this before. This isn't the first time And there's been a lot of push back from the theaters. They rely very heavily. Like very heavily on that exclusive period Because quite frankly I don't know about you but if I had the choice whether to pay $12 for watching the movie at the theater Actually I mean you can get as cheap as like $9. Cheap as $9 but then that's also per person So if I could pay $12 to go watch it in the theater or if I could sit at home and watch it on my 52 inch TV With my surround sound set up that quite frankly is pretty good. Why am I going to a theater? Why don't I make my own popcorn for 39 cents? Certain movies I think I would still go see. Batman. Big action movies. Superhero movies. Big action movies. I'm stoked for Avengers 2. I can't believe they got Robert Downey Jr. I'm like yes for two more! Anyway go ahead Stoked. Robert Downey Jr. is one of my favorite actors. He's awesome! He's so good. Who can be Iron Man and Sherlock Holmes? I know! It's so awesome. Anyways. Mind if he does them kind of the same? Doesn't matter. I know it doesn't matter. It's awesome. Okay so there's the theater experience with big action movies and stuff like that where you want the insane Yes you have pretty good surround sound but when you want the insane room shaking surround sound and the big freaking screen And all that kind of stuff that's cool and we'll still pull people with theaters a little bit but certain genres I think will get really hurt by that Right okay and I mean it's like I think for big blockbuster movies this is going to be less of a thing But one of the examples of when they tightened the window from 17 weeks to 12 weeks on Alice in Wonderland in the UK Ireland and Italy Alice in Wonderland was nearly not screened by theaters they were just like nope forget it. I mean it wasn't a good movie for one thing Okay I didn't see it. Oh it was terrible. It was terrible. It was like it was just like Johnny Depp in makeup which quite frankly is awesome So that's how bad the rest of the movie had to be. I was going to say like why is that bad? I know he's so hot Oh dear. This one's your topic so next one up is from Rooders Microsoft to bring Xbox and PC games to Apple and Android phones I didn't read into this too too specifically but there was yeah basically exactly what he already said I think this is an interesting move they've done stuff like this before where they support certain things But like they say right there Microsoft's Age of Empires will be available for an old game but free to play They're not releasing any of their like insane stuff but they're just opening the platforms a little bit That's a... I mean is that... okay couple things Number one is that an acknowledgement that Windows Phone 8 is done? Or is it an acknowledgement that they don't care because they're getting their licensing fees on Android devices at this point? Yeah and at the same time... like huge licensing fees And at the same time they're... what is it? They're getting an HTC One Windows Phone 8 version? Yeah I heard about that So I don't really think so because they're still pushing So I think this is just them going okay this isn't like our biggest title Let's just see what happens Let's open the floodgates because I don't think people are going to like switch a platform so they can play Age of Empires No Or maybe there's a few but like there isn't going to be a huge wave of people And if you would choose your smartphone based on which one can play Age of Empires then like... Power to you Power to you that's not an EA fist bump because you're hardcore Yes That's not an EA game because it's good But I don't like... I don't think it's going to... that is not going to be the tipping point for that many people buying phones So I don't think they think it really matters that much You know it's funny it almost seems at this point like Microsoft is giving more cares to like Apple platforms and Google platforms than to their own Windows platform Like it has been a serious thorn in my side to this day that Halo doesn't get the same support on PC that it does on Xbox It's like I'm sorry Microsoft what made you big exactly? Was it Xbox? That's so annoying because Xbox... or Xbox One? Halo One on PC was awesome And we got it like way later Yeah We didn't get co-op Nope Like... I still ended up playing Halo One on my... what do you even call it? Original Xbox Yeah I know right Xbox One Because it came out so much earlier I didn't even hear about the PC release. How I figured out about the PC release was I saw it like one of my friends had it And I was like what? Why was there not tons of news around this? I don't know I mean my whole thing is like one man boycotting If I don't like something I won't buy it So I wouldn't touch Halo for Xbox because it was so offensive to me that it was not available for PC Second it came out for PC I bought it Second Halo 2 came out for PC I bought it Not going to buy it for Xbox I'm not going to do it Same thing my local cable provider the reason I don't have a cable TV subscription is that they don't support cable card and I think it's BS That the Canadian telcos will not support cable card Well okay telecommunicators not really... well they're kind of all telcos at this point I don't know whatever anyway the content providers up here will not support cable card Every time they call me they call me like once every two months at least Hey we noticed you have internet with us do you want cable TV? No Please put a note on my file don't call me again until you have cable card because I refuse to pay for things where they're going to have anti consumer policies That just limit the way I can use my devices and are offensive to me as a customer so there When I was on my student plan with Shaw they called me to be like hey do you want like cable service? I was like can you give me a free TV? They were like what? I was like I don't own a TV if you won't make a cable service I need a TV I was like uh... Did they stop calling you? Yep You should have been like well Telus gives you a free computer with your internet sign up so like So you guys should give me a free TV Makes sense to me if I want to use your service I have to have a device to use your service on I was just trying to get a free TV I was just going to cancel the plan right after It was a student plan it didn't cost anything You're just a terrible person aren't you That's terrible I would have it for the minimum amount of time No we're not talking about this anymore Next one is an article from the Guardian which I'm having a little bit of trouble with my touchscreen here I want this to grow Grow! Really? Okay fine whatever Blackberry shares fall sharply after smart phone maker posts shock loss Traders slash 1.2 billion from the company's valuation did they have 1.2 billion left in their valuation? I think they still have 3.1 billion dollars of cushion Okay after revealing a 169 million dollar loss following poor sales of the new Z10 and Q10 phones Here's what I want to know Was this loss shocking? That's what I found so confusing was because they estimated 3 million units sold I was like why did you estimate 3 million units sold? I think it's 3 million units sold I don't remember exactly what it is This is the problem with forecasting When I started Linus Media Group my uncle was like do you have a business plan and a forecast? I'm like no I know approximately how much revenue we can make if we do all these things right And I know our viewers are going to support us and I know all these things and we're going to kind of go for it It's going to be an adventure I don't know how much of this I'm really supposed to go into but when we were at Omni You were like so what are all your numbers and he had a few and stuff but he's like yeah but I'm kick-starting it We're going to see what happens These are all my papers like it doesn't matter And the guy comes from a financial background Yeah So he understands He understands what a forecast is which should give you some idea why he thought it was just pointless to have one Like he had some idea You kind of put feelers out there and you're like okay well you know are people going to support me? This is how well semi-similar products there's nothing that similar to his but like semi-similar VR stuff is going on Well he was looking at pre-orders for Rift and he was kind of going okay well if I get this percentage If this number of people who want a Rift also want an Omni then okay Then it kind of works out yeah so he was thinking about it but like But at the end of the day like it's like oh you know analysts need to see a you know a forecast And when you're Intel and your business is predominantly run rate like Intel CPUs They can they could manufacture them a year out and they'd have a pretty good idea of how many they're going to need because It's just once the numbers get big enough there's kind of there's some variation but there's like there's a flow to it It evens out I remember showing you this when I was still working at NCIX And I'm like yeah I can predict how many CPUs are going to sell to within like 10 plus or minus 10 on a given week And you're like no I'm like yeah It's like if I drop the price this much it'll be this many plus or minus 10 boom There's a long weekend so it's going to be this many plus or minus 10 it just I don't get it Like your logic and I bet the logic of many of you out there is if there's like a product launch Then everyone buys it and then like sales go like this and then they like go like this for the rest of the product Not at all Apparently not 8800 GTX had a boost and it sold like this and it was flat It sold exactly the same throughout pretty much its entire lifetime sometimes growing for seasonality And that card was current for over a year Yeah that card was freaking awesome by the way Over a year it was just solid and it's like why? And the answer is look at the Steam hardware survey The number of people who actually upgrade every generation is like super small If Nvidia didn't release a graphics card for three years there'd still be plenty of people to buy graphics cards Lots of people to buy graphics cards The fact that they move so fast is kind of baffling to me They don't have to Amdian and Nvidia are just keeping each other in check Yeah It's like They're trying to make sure that when you do go to the store that they have the fastest one Yes Even though they don't really need to have the fastest one They really need to But I appreciate that they have the fastest one or that they're trying So anyway so BlackBerry I mean you know what maybe this is a good opportunity to talk about your experience with the Z10 You spent over a month with it Yep I will talk about that One quick second I want to jump back to the article Sure A new big guy that's a part of BlackBerry stuff has been talking and saying okay guys Thorsten Hynes? I think that's it yeah I don't remember his name Sure okay some dude he's probably Some dude from BlackBerry that's really really high up Basically he's going like okay give us a little bit Because like honestly they didn't do that bad if you have realistic expectations of what they're supposed to do I mean the R&D involved in two new flagship smartphones alone is like not trivial And they have to hit a market that they weren't hitting for a while Yep And like they're trying to get into new markets and they're trying to do all this new stuff Like there needs to be some growing time Like people were like okay you're releasing a new smartphone You're not doing that well Kill you Well it's because everyone's used to Apple and Samsung results Yeah exactly But then again HTC I think has demonstrated that someone who's basically down for the count Can have a blockbuster smartphone Yes and maybe BlackBerry should have done an Android OS release but they didn't What if they oh that would have been a terrible message though Yes and no what if they did a BlackBerry version of Android OS They could have their switching between business and normal mode Would you buy a Z10 if it was an Android phone? I like buttons no Okay if it had buttons I don't like the screen See how do you differentiate an Android phone? I don't like the screen Other than spend a bloody fortune on something that's basically unmanufacturable by almost anyone else The back of the Z10 was very nice Like most of the things about it was nice Slip likes the back I didn't like the screen Bacon Because it was like impossible to clean Hams You remember that Oh yeah right it didn't have a very good like grease resistant It was weird I've never had a touchscreen like that before in my entire life And I mean what was your take of Okay having tried to switch to BlackBerry Would you could you possibly have switched from Android to BlackBerry knowing everything you know now? Personally I would not want to Like I say is the conclusion video out yet? It went out last night Okay like I say I forgot the annotations again Yay So many comments on the previous one are like you're doing this and there's nothing to click on Anyways I would not do it personally I would suggest that certain people do do it Specifically one of my friends dads Who's very into business And has to keep up on things like emails and text messages and all that kind of stuff very quickly It's good for that because he doesn't actually want to spend that much time on his phone Doesn't play games Doesn't play games doesn't do all that kind of stuff But needs to be able to answer emails and everything quickly and then put his phone back away But Android is so customizable That you can probably come up with some solution that's still really good but that's built in and ready to go immediately That's true you don't have to fight with it and I think if there's any I'll get it No it's okay I can get it because I think you're the next one as well White House petition something something So cover that one but I think the thing with the thing with BlackBerry is that it's ready done and not everyone's a phone board Right Oh my notebook Oh yeah you're gonna need that scene 3 shows them the screen Oh okay Sorry guys Yeah so basically for the right user the person that doesn't want to sit down and constantly be customizing their phone Awesome for the right user someone who wants to be able to do their social media and interactions very very quickly I just said very very oh man For someone who wants to do it extremely quickly It's it's great but for me I want to do more with my phone and it tries to be an Android phone with its side loading apps Which is cool if you're someone who already has one or bought it for a specific reason but then wants additional functionality But for me I would just want to buy an Android phone because it just makes more sense to me So moving on I'm gonna try and figure out how I'm supposed to do this on Linus's laptop Give me one quick second Oh That's exactly what we're just looking at Okay I'm gonna have troubles getting to it but I can start talking about it before I get to it Basically different states are not allowing car manufacturers to sell directly to individual personal clients So they want you to go to like they want you to I don't know what they're called car park they're not called a car park Wow I don't know what they're called Anyways where they sell cars they want you to go there and buy it in person instead of getting it directly from the manufacturer So Tesla only does their business that way So because there's certain states not allowing it anymore Someone has created a I think his name is Tim and he's not allowing his last name to be put out But someone has made a petition to the White House to make them stop this from happening because it will essentially kill Tesla's business It is not a person from Tesla it is someone who has investment in Tesla and plans on buying a Tesla He's a fan of Tesla but he's not actually an employee of Tesla Motors Come on I just gotta try and open this up So right now the petition has 300 not 300 36,500 signatures it needs a hundred thousand signatures In the article it says that they had about like 10k or something but since then it's gone up quite a bit I just gotta try and get the guy's name Here we go article finally open three what is this Oh we got something Hey It's not opening when I press three It's not opening oh that's because that's the Oh I have to press the D You need scene three You have to click on it? Okay Sorry about that We got our Vengeance Pearl memory Oh that's cool Yeah anyway go ahead I basically finished the article I just wanted to show people it once I finally got it on screen Oh that's from CNET Why can't I scroll There we go Here let me get this Oh that got oh micro HDMI Do hate it got caught on something there and oh it's borked now Oh no Oh micro HDMI Let's try that Wouldn't it be funny if that connector just hardcore broke There we go Both suck Hate micro USB hate micro HDMI Vengeance Pearl 2x8 gig there we go That's cool are we doing a video about it Yeah we're gonna do a video about it It's basically it's just got more overclocking headroom in it Compared to normal events? Yeah just compared to Does it have any lighting or anything? No it's just clean looking Overclock friendly simple memory black PCB This one right here is an 1866C9 kit 16 gigs Cool Okay Awesome Alright should we do a Twitter Q&A blitz Sure People seem to like so guys send in your Twitter questions And we are going to do one more article in the meantime So you came up with this one but I'm gonna go ahead and field it because it's an easy one Sure So there's a teen from Vancouver Island which happens to be very close to Vancouver not an island Which is where we live Specifically from Victoria on Vancouver Island From Victoria which happens to be the capital of BC although it shouldn't be Because it's on an island Which is stupid So this is Anne Makazinski Anne Makazinski I hope I said that right She has some kind of an accent that would indicate that that's an appropriate last name for her And she has done something pretty cool So this is a flashlight it has three LEDs There's actually a video on the article this is on Time's Columnist And so three LED flashlight that is powered using only the heat given off by your hand when you hold it So she demos it at the very end of the video just skip to the end because the whole beginning of it So she was she's one of the 15 finalists Of a list of 90 regional finalists from around all over the world for Google Science Fair Yeah so for Google's Global Science Fair and I just think it's really cool that she's local And she explains how she had to do a lot of analysis and testing for how much heat per square centimeter your heat gives off And then how much heat you can use It sounds like she's basically using the Peltier effect right To a certain I didn't listen too closely but it did sound like it So heating one side cooling another side using ambient air and then generating an electric current by doing that So she was able to determine that yes you could build us a flashlight and she built the flashlight And all she does is hold it and the LEDs go on it's not super bright or anything but But in some type of disaster kit or a bug out kit or something like that where your batteries might run out and you might be left dry This is awesome because if you're using your cell phone for a flashlight if you're using a normal flashlight They both have potential to run out of batteries and die Oh and I think probably the most notable part of all of this is the fact that she's 15 Yeah So she's already a hundred times smarter than I'll ever be which is cool Yeah that's awesome Good work We need people like that Good work and Yay Flashlights Real fist bump Naughty yay Okay Twitter Q&A Boom Have you tried out Windows 8.1 preview? No I heard the start menu still isn't great Yeah And I mean honestly my issues with Windows 8 went a little deeper than just that anyway so yeah If I had a sound card and headset and SP2500s would you get better sound by plugging directly to the sound card or can you use the SP2500 in? Good question If you have a sound card with a headphone amp plug into it directly If you don't then it probably doesn't matter and the SP2500s amp can help you Sound about right? That's what I do I switch on the card instead of on the... it would be nice if I could but I don't want to If you ball it a little bit harder you could have an awesome sound card and an external headphone amp Yeah Yeah but And I barely use my computer I know That's the saddest part It's so nice though the... aww Oh I love the Essence 1 just even plugging like my in-ear pros into it They do sound better They do sound better It's just aww Yeah we're talking about the Zoner Essence 1 Yeah It's awesome I love it It's totally awesome Would you recommend a Razer Kraken Pro or a SteelSeries Siberia V2 as far as build quality and sound quality goes? Neither of those are really at the top of my list as far as sound quality goes Neither of them are poorly built though If I was looking for just kind of like your run of the mill kind of gaming headset Siberia V2 definitely gets a thumbs up Super lightweight, very comfortable and it has a good mic Those to me are the gaming requirements If you're someone who spends a huge amount of time on voice chat People will appreciate a good mic And I don't have any personal experience with the Kraken Pro Me neither But I have quite a few friends that have Siberia V2s because they're pretty cost effective And the mics on them will not give that super annoying snow effect Yeah To the entire chat room Yeah The whole time you're in it Generally speaking if you buy a SteelSeries headset you're getting a good mic Yeah That's, I've never encountered one of those that doesn't Have you seen the Ative Q? I have not yet, sorry That's a duplicate Guys please avoid sending messages multiple times If we see that we're not going to answer your message This is on here like four times Hey from the UK, hi UK Hello 430 watt power supply, enough for this config Yeah, should be fine But I don't know of too many 430 watt power supplies that aren't total like bollocks So if it's a good one then great And There we go Thank you That guy I think that's actually spelled wrong but that's okay Yo guys watching the live stream from the UK, hello Hi Hi to the UK again, should we really say hi to the same country twice? Yeah If they're really cool? Yeah The UK's pretty cool Yeah Oh my gosh, we have 4,000 live viewers? That's sweet That can't be right You guys rock It must be on, no it's not on there It's on here It used to be on there, that's cool though Yeah you guys are awesome That's really cool Apparently that's why two people from the UK are talking to us Is it normal for my 690 to not hit 100% usage on both GPUs? Do you want to handle this one? I do not SLI very much but yes 100% normal 100% normal because SLI is only in very rare circumstances such as synthetic benchmarks Going to be able to fully utilize both GPUs That is totally normal, don't worry about it Look at the cores on your CPU too Same thing Yeah Sing me happy birthday, we can't actually That's, yeah Yeah it's like a trademark copyright thing If we do that I don't even think it's that cheap No it's not, it's really expensive You're not allowed, actually go look it up You're not allowed to sing happy birthday That's why you've probably never heard it on TV or in a movie If you do hear it in movies it's like You change it It's usually a big thing or they change it Like Futurama it's like What day is today? It's Leela's birthday It's something something something So let's all have some cake Like you can't sing it, that's why nobody does it Will you be upgrading your rig any time soon? No, no I have a 590 and a 3970X I got 8 SSDs in raid 0 Not a lot of lacking there I have a dual rad, quad rad I have a Zonar Wow I don't even remember what it's called anymore Zonar Zents, that's the one I didn't know whether you were talking about the DAC or the I have the Nessence 1 Oh yes, yes actually I upgraded my rig today But I thought they weren't Well they're not here yet but Oh I thought you weren't getting it Oh no, I left the backorder in I'm gonna just wait until there's another one So today I bought myself, I treated myself to two PB278Qs That's gotta be my favourite monitor Very low input leg Beautiful IPS panel, or PLS panel rather Not calibrated out of the factory But I have a calibrator A good one too I have a good calibrator so I'll be able to get pretty much performance out of it, not quite And it's 27 inch, the only thing I don't like about it is that it's 16 by 9 And I really did think about going for PA246s Just because of all the colour depth But anyway, I'm going dual monitor which I've never done on my personal system Never done that Dual monitor? It's nice It's really nice Especially if you get, okay I would highly recommend DisplayFusion That's that thing I was talking about We should do an episode about that We should actually It's on Steam now too Is it? It's on Steam software So any computer you go to you can be like, bam, DisplayFusion Okay, tell them about it And don't point at that screen because they can't see it I don't know enough about it Like if we're going to do a video about it I'll research it more But these are the things that I care about and the reasons why I got it It can do a lot more than this but this is specifically why I wanted it When I went to Windows 8 my favourite thing was that it would bring Start menu and task bar on both your monitors and you could have independent background sorting on both your monitors That's cool Yeah, DisplayFusion can do that That was like the one reason you held out with Windows 8 for so long, wasn't it? I had so many things like weren't working and couldn't play certain games I had so many problems Which ended up being a combination of things but it was including Windows 8, whatever So I went back to Windows 7 and bought DisplayFusion That was my thing So DisplayFusion is great Whenever I go to use anyone else's computer that has dual monitors I feel like I have a handicap now Because I'm like, why can't I? Where's my start menu? It's so annoying DisplayFusion is amazing We'll do a video about it Yeah, so that's cool So someone asks, are SanDisk SSDs reliable? SanDisk is one of the few SSD manufacturers that actually owns fabs So like all the other guys who own fabs, Micron, Samsung They are keeping the best for themselves I would say yes, SanDisk SSDs are a good way to go You're awesome, thank you Isaac You're awesome too He probably means you're awesome too Yay Good job He said you're awesome too? No, I don't know Please make a video of the Gambius headphones Gambius is going to send us stuff once it's ready So it's going to happen Cool Paint the wall green so you can make it a green screen and have fun with it That would actually be kind of cool Xsplit supports it natively Remember the one time that we had my shirt? That was weird, I don't know what caused that Because I never changed the settings after that Yeah, I don't know, I'm just saying Imagine that happened to the whole wall Love the show, says Saleem, thank you Yay Bought a new keyboard, CM Storm Quickfire Rapid with Cherry MX Black, which switches do you prefer for gaming? Brown Blue Do you think unified memory is going to come to PCs by Broadwell? No No How much will it cost to watercool a CPU and GPU? Custom loop, probably a few hundred bucks A little more, MCP655, get a proper pump Proper pump Yeah, no I agree And you can do, the problem is you can go to like any extent So it depends what you're going to do with it You could go with a Swift Tech H220 Add a GPU block, that's 240 Then you probably still need another RAD, which you could probably get for 60 bucks No, for barb fittings that'll be really cheap CPU block will probably come with them Yeah, 300, using a Swift Tech H2O220 Get a GTX 760 or 7970 Between those two? I mean those aren't even in the same price range, man No, that's crazy Okay, thoughts on Windows 8.1, I need transparency I don't know if you're talking about Aeroglass, because I need Aeroglass too Or is he talking about reviewer transparency? Well I haven't tried 8.1 so I can't be transparent or opaque Yeah What do you think of Canadian service providers basically cheating the people with data? My provider's actually pretty good, they've never really boned me Service providers, is he talking about ISP or phone? Could be either, I use SHAW and I use Bell, and neither of them have ever really screwed me For ISP, we've gone way over our limit Yeah, I've done it Multiple times, and SHAW's just like, man I'm sure we're doing it here already Yeah, they don't really seem to care, SHAW at least doesn't seem to care, so that's awesome It depends on your area, it's just how consumer friendly they are And out here, for ISPs it's basically SHAW and TELUS And TELUS is so good, or bad, that they make SHAW look good no matter what SHAW did But SHAW seems to generally try to be pretty consumer friendly Which is nice Phones you get screwed, but everyone gets screwed everywhere with phones So like, it's not specifically bad here It's like, how would you like to be screwed? It's basically the conversation you get to have when you go into the store It's like, how exactly do you want to get screwed over today? You can choose diameters, and you can choose positions, and you can choose whatever you want But at the end of the day... You're still getting screwed It's gonna happen Jack Ellis asks, two 480s in SLI or one 760? And what happened to your Model M? So I'll take the first half? Sure I'd go 760 Way less heat output, way less power consumption More modern solutions, single card is generally better than dual, go Part of how we dried the camera when it got watered in was exhaust from a 480 That is not part of, that is how We dried up the camera So like, that should speak enough to that answer The Model M is still, it's like, it's pretty much rarer to go The problem is, the stabilizers on all the keys that need stabilizers are broken, all of them So what I need to do is, in general, the keyboard's in very good shape So I want to keep that one, and what I want to find is another Model M Who's maybe the PCB's broken or the connector's broken or something That is disabling it from being able to work entirely And I want to take the keys off of that and utilize the stabilizers on my current Model M Which would make it fully functional and in very good shape So, still in progress, but I still have These are supposed to be like blitzes But this is I have a 7970 GHz edition, I'm planning to upgrade my CPU on this year's Black Friday What CPU would you recommend gaming only? Murcia, I'm afraid we're going to have to let you know we need to know your current CPU That's really important So maybe Form it I want to post something on the Linus Tech Tips Forum In fact, everyone, go post something on the Linus Tech Tips Forum now Because the Linus Tech Tips Forum is awesome and everyone should be a member of it We had Actually, I want to take a moment here and be super proud of our forum real quick There was a conversation on the new legislation in the US that was to do with homosexual marriage And as we all know, this is an extremely touchy topic It is very polarizing, people get super upset The four page thread that had a back and forth exchange between some of our members And it did not get out of hand I was so impressed The mod team, I love my mod team, they're all amazing But we watch these kind of threads like hawks because we don't want them to go out of control But I've seen a theme lately where we can let a lot of these style topics just kind of go I mean on any other forum, that thread's a trainwreck It's a trainwreck and everyone hates each other by the end of it Generally speaking, our policy when we discussed it is we're not going to allow these controversial topics really To exist on our forum because We don't want it to become a hate fest Yes If you're having a civil discussion We want a respectful forum where people Leave that out of it, go argue about that somewhere else, but let's come here and let's all cooperate and let's talk about technology But if people can handle it That's fine That is so cool That's just really cool So yeah, we love that Alright, moving right along Is two or three monitors set up worth it for gaming? Personally, I prefer single monitor for gaming I have a two monitor set up When I'm gaming, my second monitor either is black or has like my voice comm chat windows on it If Apple upgraded their 27 inch thunderbolt display to 5K for the same price, would you buy it? Sure That would be awesome No idea, Gilbert, sorry Oh, what I'm putting in the... Okay, what's a good power supply? 750 is fine for that Tell us what it's called, a dealership? I'd forgotten what the name of the place was where you went to go buy cars Okay, dealerships, grocery stores Grocery store? No, just places where you buy things Oh yeah, okay Mall, okay Kiosk We're improving Slick's vocabulary one step at a time I mean, you'd be looking for a dealership You'd have to comb that town with a brick Asking people where the dealership is Where's that place where you go look at cars and stuff? Ethan asks if we'll sign a side panel if we pay for shipping Honestly dude, you don't want to pay for shipping to us It's so expensive A couple hundred bucks, don't do it Good mechanical keyboard for $180, anything you want Yeah, man Go for it And 7990 benchmarks, we're actually... You know what, here, I'm going to stop the Twitter blitz because I want to talk about this 7990 benchmarks, we can't really run them properly because we don't have a frame capture set up Sorry, keep going I mean, it's on the bench right there In fact, if I aim this at it, you might be able to see it Kind of There it is You can't really tell what it is, but that is it That's a 7990 on a test bench We can't do it yet And we need a $2,000 capture card So we've been having some discussions We're talking about maybe doing a Kickstarter to help us afford one We've been trying to find a sponsor to help us afford one It's hard as a sponsor to show that out To justify that I mean, we did have a sponsor step up and provide us with four SSDs that we could use for this Because you need that type of storage solution to be able to It's hard to properly test frame rating on graphics cards Because right now the numbers we'd get would be kind of useless But what we were thinking about doing in the meantime is benchmarking it And then doing a double blind test with him And then a double blind test with me To see if that difference between the reported FPS and the perceived FPS, which we can't measure, but we all know exists Is something that we can perceive So we were going to do a blind taste test, 7990 versus GTX Titan To see which one we think feels faster, or if we can even tell So I thought that might be a cool angle We were going to do dual 780s So that it's a similar price range and two cards It's not, of course, a combined card, but it's still two cards We still need another 780 for that We'll figure out something, two Titans We have to do it SLI versus... We have another 780 in the mail though Yeah, okay, so we'll do two 780s But we were thinking of doing that so that there's no investment Because we can't buy a $2,000 capture card But yeah, I don't know So yeah, anyway Whether we do Kickstarter or something We are trying to release benchmarks of this kind of stuff And we want to release higher end graphics card benchmarks Higher end as in not the graphics card, but as in the theory that goes into it Yeah, but we want to be more scientific You know what? We're going to have to blitz some topics here Sure Did you do the ISP in New Zealand? No Okay, let's do that Let's get it on Where did my livestream.co? There it is There we go So there's an ISP in New Zealand that is releasing a... I think it's called Global Mode It's somewhere in there I think it's called Global Mode Which hides your location and allows you to access services that are country bound Everyone's seen on YouTube... Well, not everyone, but people have seen on YouTube where it's like You can't watch this video in your region or anywhere else, really That's really annoying That place is like Comedy Central For the longest time, South Park was streamable in Canada Then it got next Then it got next, yeah So this will allow you to view it wherever, stuff like Netflix I know, I think Netflix US requires a United States credit card now or something Possibly Something's going on there, but like other services that just check for your region It's allowing you to get around it and it's at the ISP level I know there's other ways to do this It's not... The idea isn't completely revolutionary, but it's very streamlined, which is cool That's very cool So the way that they're marketing this is as a service that allows visitors to New Zealand To access the same online services that they would at home Yes Wow, that's sketches balls I don't think anyone believed that But that's very cool I mean, speaking of ISPs that are actually trying to do something to help their customers As opposed to just maintain the status quo, that's very cool And out of Australia and New Zealand of all places where typically internet policy-wise They've been in the dark ages For a while now Well, since the dark ages No offense to anyone from there, but I think you guys know better than us How horrible it is there We have 4,400 live viewers right now That's I think a record So I think so You guys are awesome That's awesome, yeah So let's move into our next topic, which is 21-year-old receives a $25 million funding This is from a bunch of different corporations, a bunch of different groups $25 million for a payment app They're not releasing a lot of information about it But basically his whole thing is that he's been frustrated having to carry around a wallet With credit cards and cash in it and he wants to be able to do it through your phone This type of thing has been kind of flopped around for a really long time I'm interested it's going to a 21-year-old and not something like Google Wallet or PayPal Yeah Because this I think is called Clinkle or Clinky or something like that Clinkle Clinkle So it's going to be a new app There isn't a ton of information about it yet It's not even out yet It's not even developed yet fully The Clinkle website says it is rebuilding the analog wallet from the ground up to bring you the future of payment And Duplin, Duplin, Lucas, whatever, okay, first name Lucas is keeping quiet about what it actually does So there's something big coming If all these, it names a few players in there, I don't remember who But there's a bunch of big companies putting big money behind this Okay, so Intel, former Facebook COO Owen Van Natta, and wireless technology company Qualcomm Have all invested their money and faith in him So like, yeah This is going to be a big deal Like whether you want it to happen or not, this is going to be a big deal Huh, very cool So soon I think we will have the option to pay with things with our phone So get this, at the same time, like we're at such a crossroads At the same time, you will be able to pay with metal, you'll be able to pay with paper You'll be able to pay with plastic, you'll be able to pay with plastic electronically You'll be able to pay by writing on a piece of paper that you commit to pay it, I mean come on, checks still exist, really? And you'll be able to pay just by like whipping out your phone This is very interesting because when I was in Korea, they had this thing called T-Money I don't have it on me, but it's basically, it looks like a credit card Or you can get other forms of it, which are dongles Are you sure it wasn't like a US wrapper? Oh no, it's T-Pain I know, it's T-Money, right? It sounds so ridiculous T-Money T-Money So it's So I was paying for my stuff and then I got bored so I pulled out my wallet And then came the horde of people who were making me not able to pay So I thought I'd make an app called Crinkle, happy day! That's actually pretty good L-Money? L-Money L-Money, thank you There you go Okay, so basically what it was was you'd tap it on whatever you had to pay for You could get, certain stores supported this, taxis supported this Someone says worst freestyle ever, come on! That was pretty good! That was pretty good, okay You could pay for certain things for it at stores, you could pay for taxis with it You could pay for any form of transit And like, it's awesome, it was very cool And all you had to do was tap it on the thing I believe it was through NFC, like, so cool And it was so easy, it was so easy to load We're down to 1200 viewers, they all left Because you're raving No, I'm just kidding But yeah, something like, so that exists too It already exists, and I think it's done through NFC Right So if it's NFC off your phone, it basically already exists And Paypass already exists Which I don't know what it's branded as there But when you take your credit card and you just bzzz, wirelessly So we're already pretty much there, it's just moving it onto your phone Yeah, so we're heading in that direction, very cool stuff So, no, we did lose about 100 viewers though That's a shame, I guess I shouldn't rap anymore Next topic Is, here we go Connect for PC And connect for Xbox will be different Now, I think I'm gonna let you handle this Because I already knew this Because I talked to them when we were at Computex about it But go ahead and talk about this I didn't see anything in it about this The article that I read about it was fairly critical Yeah, well I would think so Yeah, but there could be something with different functionality There could be something else going on, I'm not really sure But it's not releasing for a while So connect for Xbox One, for those of you who didn't catch the headline Because we didn't say it yet Will not work on PCs Now we saw the connect SDK, the kit Which included a connect for PC at Computex But it was old connect, not connect for Xbox One I didn't see this So this is yet another example of Microsoft holding back the PC on purpose Why? And it's not releasing for a long time And the dev kit's gonna be 400 bucks Which is like Someone's gonna hack an Xbox One connect Before they spend $400 on a dev kit They're already hacking Oh, to get the new SDK on it? I don't, that would be weird No, I mean, to be able to do something with it, I would think I think someone will sooner hardware hack an adapter To be able to plug in the Xbox One connect into a computer Or something Or something Oh, of course hardware hackers may well develop their own Bam That's, uh, that I'd like, that's, people are gonna try, because that's crazy Yeah, I'm, I'm pretty frustrated with Microsoft's general behavior I mean, the kinds of things that something like connect Let's just call it connect one, I guess Sure, connect one, which is the second one Uh, connect one Like the kinds of things it would enable on the PC Things like online shopping, being able, virtual fitting room for clothing Things like Way better than the previous one I mean, things like, you know, even VR gaming from like a very basic rudimentary standpoint The Omni uses it to track your feet Yeah, Omni uses it, I mean, we're not gonna be able to use I mean, and it's a good thing, Omni's working on their own, or Virtue X is working on their own solution for motion tracking Because they need to move away from it now They can't use connects, the old connect anymore apparently Like, it's, that's ridiculous to me And like, and like the stuff people have hacked What do we even want to call it now, correct, connect original Um, to be able to do is very helpful for a lot of people A lot of disabled people have been using original connect to interface with their computers I mean, that's the thing that Microsoft was demoing at Computex Is what connect can be used for, in like medical applications Yeah Oh, but they don't need HD, I guys It's like, what are you thinking Yeah Like, okay, they are gonna release it That's It's just way in the future Really offensive So, uh, anyway Uh, moving right along to our next topic here Ahem, ahem Uh, Samsung releases their flawless curved 55 inch TV So let's go ahead and show you guys this So basically, they're making the same kinds of claims as LG So that is that a curved display will give a more natural viewing experience Because your eyes will be an equal distance from the screen Uh, regardless of which part of the screen you're looking at Um, I personally don't find for something like a 55 inch size At the distance that I sit from it that it becomes much of a factor But for something like a theater, obviously, it's a big deal Or if I was sitting much closer to the screen However, I mean, I think it's, you know, it's cool It'll be interesting to see how that works out for them And then the other thing about this monitor is they are claiming that it is, quote unquote, flawless So because of the way that they've designed it The potential for defective OLED pixels is, quote unquote, eliminated So we may be moving towards, and this is really cool We may be moving towards a future where you don't buy a tier one display that has a dead pixel on it Yeah, that's awesome That's cool That's really cool So, uh, so there you go It's gonna be priced at 15 million Korean won So about 1300 US, which is not that outlandish When you consider what guys were asking for 4K TVs not that long ago What did Sony want for there? Like 20 grand? 40 grand? I think it was 40. I could be wrong, but it was huge It was huge It was like way out of my price range To be a year early basically Yeah It's like, yeah Ouch No Thank you I'll wait a bit Yeah, I'm good Uh, okay Let's go, you know what? Let's do Razer Surround Or no, no, let's do that at the end Why don't you do the Torrent Freak article? Okay, so the Torrent Freak article? Yeah AT&T gets the patent to monitor and track file sharing traffic Oh, okay, I thought you were talking about the other Torrent article I can think of companies that I'd rather have the patent on that technology than AT&T And like they haven't talked about whether or not they've been using it already Because they just have the patent Okay They haven't been like, we are going to deploy it or we have already deployed it or whatever They're just signing up for the patent This could be already running Okay It could be running in the future Like no one really knows But yeah Whether the company is already using the system to track infringing content or has plans to do so is unknown And if they have been tracking infringing content, they could all have all that in logs So a lot of people could be getting in trouble So in the patent, AT&T notes that peer-to-peer traffic amounts for a large percentage of traffic generated on the internet Some of which results in a loss for copyright holders For example, some content may be legitimately purchased and downloaded by users via peer-to-peer However, some content may be pirated and illegally copied and distributed peer-to-peer Violating copyright laws, et cetera, et cetera AT&T system will be able to detect what is downloaded on peer-to-peer networks Suggesting that this information can be used to track and counter piracy Based on the verification, the list may be modified, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera The present disclosure may be used to, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera So guys, it is worth noting It's worth nothing that AT&T participates in the six strikes copyright alert system Where P2P users are also monitored The main difference is that under that program, the monitoring is carried out by the third party company Which only tracks a list of titles supplied by the MPAA and the RIAA Now they track everything Now they can just track everything and they can do it dynamically So they can actually generate a list of what is being pirated rather than relying on a list of things to monitor Yeah, so they can use this to enringe upon you however they would like And they can use this to throttle the crap out of your connection if they feel like it Yeah Which is... Do we have build logs of the week? I don't see them in the thing here We do, but the PowerPoint's not ready The PowerPoint's not ready Yeah, because I was doing it as we were leaving NCA Okay, why don't I talk about Razor Surround and then we'll wrap up with build logs of the week Okay Yeah, we had a pretty good day at NCIX today We got a lot of cool stuff done Yep So guys, check this out If you've ever wondered about sort of whether you should buy a stereo headset or a surround headset The answer for me has always been If anyone can sort of fill in the blank for me here Let's see, anyone on Twitch? Something, something, something Anyone on Twitch? Blah, blah, blah Nope, nope, nope Nope, nope, nope If anyone can... Okay, I always say guys, you got two ears That's how many speakers you need when the speakers are right next to them However, software surround is a thing So if you check out the virtual barbershop tour or whatever it's called on YouTube And you're wearing headphones, it's a very cool experience It really does feel like you're in an environment and that can be done in software I mean, that one wasn't done in software if I recall correctly It was done using a microphone array But that can be simulated in software Up until now, we've relied on individual headphone manufacturers to provide that software to us So for example, Corsair with the Vengeance 2000 headset has Dolby headphone technology that was not in it And then added later as a software upgrade So they haven't changed the headset in any way What Razer has decided to do is just sort of go Okay, well, we're not going to worry about any of that anymore We're just going to do software surround for every headset So I haven't tried it yet I just heard about it the other day And I'm pretty excited to try it Razer Surround for Child's Play Charity has apparently raised $15,000 to date That's kind of cool That's awesome, Child's Play is great Speaking of charity, Linus Tech Tips for Charity has been down for a couple months We haven't done a donation, but we should probably do something soon And then I think we're probably going to close out that program because it doesn't seem to be making any kind of a difference A few people are pretty hardcore about it, other than that, no one seems to really Yep, so I mean it's one of those things where, you know, yeah We thought we were going to kind of do something that was going to kind of make some kind of a difference But it was a bit of a failure in terms of the effect that we were hoping that it would have And how excited people were going to get about it So anyway, Razer Surround gives gamers the best virtual 7.1 channel surround sound experience with any stereo headphones And I'm reading this off their site, so I don't actually know that it's the best, I haven't tried it yet Using state-of-the-art technology, the surround sound algorithms powering Razer Surround creates an unbelievably accurate surround sound environment and allows gamers to calibrate positional sound to match their own unique preferences I've seen these in software surround solutions before where you can actually move around the speakers and decide exactly where you want the sounds coming from I think that a lot of hardcore gamers will still prefer to have no processing delay on the sound whatsoever and have this just stereo sound out of two speakers or even earbuds because that actually gives you very strong positional audio as well But for gamers that are looking for more like the experience like if you're playing games like Skyrim as opposed to Counter-Strike Something like this can improve immersion I mean when we're talking surround sound plus Omni plus Oculus for experience type games, this is just very very cool and I think it's really neat that they don't lock it down to Razer headphones So if you want to use Beyer Dynamics or Sennheiser or even direct Razer competitors like guys like SteelSeries or Logitech, Razer's kind of going, okay, go for it We don't care, you don't have to buy any Razer hardware at all But we've got Razer comms now, Razer surround I mean synapse I think relies on their hardware But other than that they've got comms and surround and comms is quite excellent comms is actually the software we'll be using to test our call-in feature in the after party So guys stick around if you want to try, if you want to see how it works because I don't think we're going to allow general public to call in just yet You done with that yet? I have to find it You have to find it I got it, I got it Usually I save it, I know it's weird but usually I save it to my downloads folder What's it called? June 28th? Build logs Friday June 28th It should be in the live stream agendas folder Live stream agendas folder, that's okay, I got this I got this Boom, okay We are on this So it never really looks that great when we open it this way but this is the fastest way No, no, we're going to open it properly because it never looks that great when we open it this way Wait, you said that right? Good work I won't have to fire you today I haven't fired you in a long time So this is a wall-mounted home server Can they see me touching things? They can see you changing the slide This is a wall-mounted home server Which is freaking amazing, all of these by the way So this is by user comp LX His computer name is vx-24 42 Dyslexia for the win Yeah Yay That was awesome You should go check out all of these ones actually this week especially You should go check out the actual build because I tried to get photos that you could see the whole thing in But there is way better photos to see specific parts of the build and to see specific features and to get way closer That is cool, so he actually took the stickers off the drives just to make it look more clean and space-age and futuristic Sleeved cables which again you can't see that great in this but there is zoomed in shots that look way way better That is cool, looks like it's built into like a Wii balance board or something I think he custom made it Fan control there, all the cables bundled together nicely at the bottom here Yeah and I believe that the lights around the outside can change Like it's awesome, this build is very cool We have a whole bunch of builds that are currently in progress that are on the way and these are a few of them that just got completed Which are great This is another one where you have to see the other angles of the system because I picked this one so that you could see that there is another side Because with a two-sided when you're supposed to look at it from two different sides you kind of need to see different angles Look at those sleeved cables on that video card Wow! Like this build is amazing Okay someone's got to PM him and tell him to remove those cheesy SLI covers I didn't even notice that That's okay, I mean I'm not trying to be critical man but Beautiful build, you got to see the other side as well, there's a big radiator on the back That tubing and that accent blue right there, that blue water, I love this This is fantastic, is this metal construction? I should have checked that, I do not know but it looks like it It's got to be, wow! And there's no way it's wood What a cool build Okay guys so go check out ZD Mods' build And we see a lot of R4s but you'll know exactly what happened with this immediately Holy cow Look at the back So he pulled out the entire back of the case to put a triple alpha cool radiator in there Doesn't need a graphics card apparently Because this is a server build, there you go And what I couldn't include in this is the back panel of the computer because you can see up at the top there That he has nicely sleeved cables Now if you see the back, he has amazing runs going to his hard drives You have to see the picture, I can't describe it Look at this 24 pin, that's beautiful, the way that it curves away like that And he did lacing, lacing that looks amazing You got to check out the build, you got to see the back and you got to see his little lacing guide that he's got Wow, that's very awesome So this week was crazy, we don't usually do 3 builds, this week was nuts Okay, so guys I think that pretty much wraps it up Thank you for watching the live stream And guys, stay tuned for the after party if you want to watch us play video games And sort of, yeah, if that's basically all you want to do right now We're going to play video games, we're going to test the call in feature Oh, we're going to test the call in feature But you'll basically just be seeing how it's going to work for next week Which might be a leg up If they know how it works, maybe they'll have a chance to call in Maybe I still, yeah, I still am going to be interested to see how this works But, yeah It might just totally not work It did work in our test It did work in our test So thank you guys for being awesome and all tuning in And if you do prefer, we won't be upset if you go and watch the tech Which to my understanding releases around this time, Logan's awesome And we also won't be upset if you go watch the Star Citizen 24 hour stream Which is on right now They're doing a big website overhaul and a 24 hour stream Where they're giving some big updates which we've been missing because we're here But yeah, so that's another option as well I'm so stoked on Star Citizen Did you see the 300i cinematic? No Holy crap I haven't actually watched or looked at anything You have to see this cinematic Anyone who's interested in Star Citizen, recent update just came out, 300i Holy cow Is that the ship I'm getting? No, I don't think so I think it's the ship I'm getting Constellation 300i I thought Or maybe it is I'm pretty sure that's my ship 300i, I might be quoting the wrong name as well Oh But I think, a few of the names are super similar 300i cinematic I mean we could do this on the after party, we should probably We should do this on Bye everyone Bye, thanks for watching