 Welcome to the live stream guys we've got an exciting show for you tonight in which we are going to give away sponsored by Western Digital for WD MyNet N900 routers but the ones that we're going to be giving away are actually going to be signed by Team Dignitas which I have been informed is a League of Legends team but I'm more on the hardware side guys so I can tell you all about how this router is going to enhance your League of Legends experience but Slick can be the one to cover what a League of Legends is. What a League of Legends? No I'm just kidding I know I know I know it's not a League of Legends so stay tuned guys we are going to get into that but we don't want to do it right at the beginning of the show because not everyone is tuned in right at the very beginning I also want to make sure that we're not running that in the background want to make sure that we're changing the name of the stream I see Slick keeps changing to the new Twitch channel design but that makes it so I don't actually know how to change our stream title so that's a bit of an issue there. It looks better though if you're not viewing in the new stream layout after LinusTech in the URL type slash new it looks quite a bit better the viewing area is larger actually so yeah. So you can see our faces in all of their even more HD glory. Which is not usually a good thing. LiveTechChat. Join us now. Update there we go. So you know what I'm gonna do something that I haven't actually done in a while or ever and I'm gonna give you guys an outline of the stuff that we are wait hold on turn the volume up it's quiet. You didn't apply extra voltage to the mic. Oh we have to do that? Yeah. Okay we're good? Yeah. Alright awesome. So I'm going to actually tell you guys what we're gonna cover on the livestream tonight which has been difficult in the past because we've kind of won it a lot with the with the Twitter chat and all that kind of good stuff and of course my favorite thing about this notebook is that the power button is right here on the side and it's more like a phone tablet style power button so when you touch it it's just like and then a laptop goes to sleep which is of course very helpful when I'm trying to tell you guys what we're gonna talk about. So we've got we're gonna have a little bit of chat about my Android experience so far so if you guys have been following me on Linus Tech Tips on YouTube which presumably most of you are otherwise I have no idea how you found this livestream but I'm going to be talking about my recent switch from iOS to Android some of the experiences I've been having some of the things that have been really cool I'm gonna let him gloat a little bit because he said he'd never ever do it multiple times like I'm never gonna enjoy it. The gloating comes later. I'm scheduling the gloating. But you have to spread it out to enjoy it fully. Crappy food versus really good food. With really good food you take your time and you enjoy it. Okay well we're gonna talk about the Tech Quickie channel which is a secondary channel not the Linus Tech Tips channel where we're gonna have videos that are more like more like sponsored videos so people are turn your speakers out. I don't know what to do for these people because our mic is on maximum so it really actually can be that quiet. It's at max with applied voltage so this is probably the loudest it's ever been on any livestream. Yeah okay anyway so we're gonna talk a little bit about how that channel works we're gonna talk about everyone stealing our idea where you buy things and it comes with like a free pizza because apparently Google is trying to do same day delivery to compete with guys like Amazon who are trying to do the same thing in certain markets. They avoided us being able to sue them for billions of dollars though by making it not like when you buy a product you get something. What they did make it so you can get food to your house. Yeah so so we're pretty miffed about that. AMD has showcased the 7990 reference design so there's been a power color like double 13 version but other than that it's been it's it's not there hasn't been an actual AMD reference card so that's coming which is exciting. Windows blue has been leaked and showcased so there's some video showing some of the new functionality so that's that's a good one. Was there ah yes was there any doubt that streaming games online is coming speaking of sort of routers and enhancing your online gaming experience. AMD has released details about their sky graphics card solutions that are going to be compute level cards to compete with something like Nvidia's grid technology where all the computing is done somewhere else and you just stream the game experience to yourself. Activision is showing off a prototype facial expression rendering thing for for one of their upcoming engines they're giving us like a really futuristic look into their lab and did you check out that video? Yeah. Un-freaking- believable. Like it's still eerie but the fact that it's being done in real time is extremely exciting. Something I found that was pretty funny was all the people that were like oh my god why doesn't it have a fan? What? The sky. Oh that's not what we're talking about anymore. Oh I was focused on this. I'm trying to work with people and figure out the audio problem. I actually okay you know what here fine here tell them what the other three things are gonna be while I lower the mic. Why isn't electronics why aren't electronics worth anything? So he brought up that Micron lost money last last year and Red Bull made an insane amount of money and he finds it interesting that Apple's net profits are about 25% but everyone rages at them for making so much money while other companies selling sugar water are making way more like way larger margins than that. Are sponsoring F1, oops I'm probably a little close. They sponsor everything. They sponsor F1 teams and sort of everything that they want and yeah and apparently no one's upset about this like they have the marketing budget of the entire PC industry combined as far as I can tell. Yes but that's kind of they will sponsor anything like they sponsor lands they sponsor everything and there's no way they are actually gaining from that so I think people are happy with what Red Bull does with their money while Apple does absolutely nothing. It was like yeah we'll make cooler commercials so more people buy our stuff. Red Bull does that too. Yes but Red Bull also sponsors stuff like jumping from almost space and flying all the way down which is pretty cool. Okay. Like they make really cool events. I want to talk about this at the end this is more of an after-party topic. Obviously we're going to do some discussion about Fast Track and Fast Track Plus which is WD's technology for making the......... Alright so I blamed Slick for that entirely. That was obviously his fault. He was setting up the camera. The camera is not plugged into the mic. I was setting up the mic. The other end of the cable is not plugged in there. Alright so hopefully that sounds great and you guys are you guys are you guys are enjoying the audio now. Okay so we're going to do all of our discussion about Fast Track Plus which is WD's network prioritization functionality in their routers and then we're going to give away those four routers. We're going to talk about stuttering in games and how that relates to frames per second which is not the same thing at all and actually we're going to have a special guest on the live stream next week. Ryan Shroud from PCPer, PC Perspective, is actually going to be joining us. He has an outstanding article about micro stuttering and stuttering in general on graphics cards and how you can detect it, how you can avoid it, and how graphics card benchmarking is going to change completely in the next in the next sort of year or two here. It's just gonna get a lot more sciencey. Right now it's just kind of general observation. Yes. This will come down to like actual like what we get from the experience performance benchmark. What hits the eyes of the gamers who are actually playing the games which is which is pretty pretty crazy. Apparently there's no video on YouTube about the live stream so we can go see if that actually matters. Sometimes YouTube delays publishing so it looks like yeah it's still publishing that to subscribers feeds so hopefully that'll be out soon. So there you go guys. Alright so let's get into our first topic which is going to be... Anticlimactic. Yeah it feels like I've covered all the topics now so why don't we do some Twitter Q&A. Okay. Where's my keyboard? Alright so let's see if I can remember my my keywords here. There we go. Twitter. Oh look at that. The first thing we see is Western Digital tweeting about how we're gonna be giving away some sweet routers on our live stream tonight so there's some... Oh and yes Team Dignitas is also saying that you can watch live and you can have a chance to win a router. How many followers do they have on Twitter I wonder? There you go. 31,000 followers. That's awesome. Wow they're very active too. Look at that. 12,500 tweets. You can tell the difference between like celebrities who have a Twitter account and actually have like someone tweeting for them. Like you can look at a couple tweets and you can look at how many tweets they actually send out and you can tell people who are just like follow me and I'll follow you horse because they'll be following like a bajillion people and then a bajillion and six people will be following them but wow it looks like they're really dialed into their community. That's cool. That's very cool. What is the major difference between PA and PB on ASUS monitors? PA is ProArt which is pre-calibrated and PB is basically the same monitor but without pre-calibration. And there's ever so slightly different feature sets. Yes so ProArt's have things like the the grid alignments for graphic design and stuff like that that you can overlay. Common PC building mistakes? Forgetting to plug in your graphics card power, screwing up and not quite plugging in entirely like a motherboard power connector because sometimes it can be at a bit of a weird angle. RAM slots. Forgetting to put thermal compound on things. Yeah that's a bad thing. That's not fun. I want to be the same height as you on the livestream because I like to keep up appearances. He sits very straight and his chair is very high and then I sit farther away from the camera, lean over and my chair is lower. He actually is farther away from the camera. Yeah it makes my little man complex feel a lot better. Does Canada not do daylight savings time? Yes we do but it's over so that's why we're back to standard time. Yes Taylor you're correct the audio was going through the camera and not the boom mic because quite frankly you guys I mean I know there's always an excuse although you know what we haven't had technical difficulties the last couple weeks I think. Two I think. Two weeks. Last two weeks in a row. So this week technically it's Good Friday which is technically a statutory holiday and technically I came back from a family event that I was like actually supposed to be at and I came back to do the livestream. I have no idea why you're here doing this but good work because I'm not paying you. Alright so yeah. Work on a holiday and instead of getting like bonus pay for working a holiday you just get nothing. You're technically a manager so I actually don't have to. I actually you know what Costco requires managers to work every stat holiday. Yeah. Yeah. Because managers are the only salary employees in the company and so they don't have to pay them time in a half because managerial employees you don't have to pay over time too. So that's why they do it. So they so every single manager in Costco if you ever want to talk to a manager at Costco go on a stat holiday because there's someone in every single department who's the manager of that department guaranteed. 100%. That's interesting. There's a tech tip for you. Go to Costco on holidays. That's right. It's a company-wide policy so do go there. Do check that out. Apparently prairies don't do daylight savings time. The prairies don't do daylight savings time? Why they are so backwards in every possible way. No I'm just kidding you guys. I love you guys. I drove across the prairies once. I can't remember it because there's nothing notable. Yes. You know what it wasn't that bad. People talk about how flat it is and as like a BC boy like I grew up here in British Columbia in Vancouver I was expecting to be just blown away by how flat it is. Oh Linus you'll be able to see as far as the you know it's not that flat. Like having actually having had the privilege in my life to stand on an ocean shore I know what flat looks like and the prairies didn't look like the ocean I'll tell you that much they don't have the cool breeze of the ocean they don't have an ocean at all oh I'm just piling it on here. I used to go to Edmonton for hockey trips. I'm sorry to hear that's not really prairies either though that's like. No I know but on the way and a little bit past is. But then I also would drive past that for family trips and stuff and I've been across the few times I slept most of it. Well yeah. Or played hockey but like. You know what I part of it might have been that I was so super stoked on getting my driver's license that I just didn't care because that was the I got my driver's license and my mom's hilarious because she's like okay that's it you're a driver now and all of a sudden I'm driving home from the licensing office driving standard never driven a car I'm like okay we're in I know Maple Ridge isn't exactly like a metropolis but we're in downtown we're in the core of Maple Ridge and she's like okay drive home I'm starting on a hill coming out of an underground parking lot with no visibility I'm like ma this makes no sense why are we doing this why are you doing this to me so then that night we pack up and drive across the country so I drove to to Halifax and back I learned to drive I learned to drive and we went all the way across the country and back in something like 12 days or 11 days you know they should do that for driver's ed courses it's just be like you know what take take a few days off work we're going all the way across and all the way back that would be amazing learn like everything you need to know and like as you go over make make the driver person go through city centers right oh that's what we did she made me drive in Montreal yeah like they're crazy I know make him do it though they're crazy that would be like the best drivers that ever like Montreal drivers man look let me tell you you know how LA drivers have like a terrible reputation yeah they got nothing on Montreal nothing I was I was I was coming into the city and I was I was like by then I'd been driving for three days driving experience under my belt so I was a pro right so I was going like yeah 15 20k over the speed limit and it's like a 90 road so I'm going like 110 kilometers an hour so it's about 65 70 miles an hour for you American folks and I'm like I'm worried and my mom's like okay keep up with the flow of traffic keep up with everyone's blowing past me I'm already going over the speed limit so I'm over in the very far right lane the slowest lane and I'm like sitting there all worried because I'm like speeding and like I'm not gonna keep up with people are going so fast and then all of a sudden this cop blows past me must have been doing like 30 40 kilometers an hour pass faster than me so for our American viewers about 25 miles an hour faster than me he was going and the guy he doesn't have his lights on doesn't have a siren on it's just a French cop drinking a coffee behind his wheel cruising to work and I'm like okay apparently it's just alright here so off we go so I hit the floor at the pedal and we kept up with the flow of traffic you know what they should do okay I'm gonna like advance on my theory from before where they should have drivers that do that yes everyone do that for one week in grade 12 and it can just be known as like a hell week that should be a credit like learning to drive should actually be like valid you know what I think it is no I did get credits for my drivers that actually so really bad suggestion okay but it should be in school they should make everyone for one week go across and back and that would just be like the most hellish ridiculous week everywhere and all the other people just walk to work but it can be like the one week where everyone's like okay now everyone that is learning how to drive knows how to drive that would be very cool that'd be cost-prohibitive they'd have to get cars for everyone my school barely had money for construction paper for everyone by the time I was done with elementary school yeah we had some problems with that no seriously when um when I was in about grade 10 of high school they went from using white paper for like photocopies and handouts to using that brown paper that's like thin enough that you could decapitate a man like sharp paper cutters yeah no it was incredible I remember my teachers used to ask us like if we're doing art projects I remember she used to ask me and like a few of my friends that were I noticed later on the athletic kids who sucked at art to use less of like the colored paper I didn't figure it out until I got into like kind of high school stuff and I realized your special well the teachers would bring up like yeah okay this stuff actually costs a lot and be like oh she didn't want me to use it because I sucked okay so much more sense I'm going nowhere in art she knows this I know this it's not a big problem oh wow okay so let's let's do a little bit of Twitter talk here should I keep the cloth that came between my keyboard and screen with my laptop you know what good good idea yeah whenever you close it just put it in because we're on Slick's keyboard right here I can see marks from his from his key from here right here yeah from his from his keys touching the screen itself it's been more obvious than this before too yeah have you looked at my MSI yeah you can totally tell you can see the individual squares edge keys really good idea guys when you get a laptop either get something that goes with it or keep the one that came with it put that between the screen and the keyboard because it will scratch your screen with glass screens it's less of an issue because you know whatever crap I think coefficient of heart whatever the hardness rating yeah it starts with a T or something I'm for the life of me but Mo Mo's hardness yeah yeah so in theory a keyboard key cannot scratch a glass screen but plastic could scratch against plastic so if you have a plastic screen cover that's an issue apparently our twitch chat moderators are Nazis sorry to hear that they are the same moderators as our forum so some of them are some of them are apparently so direct all complaints to do it if you have problems at slick PC on Twitter if you have some kind of a moderation issue and he will personally take care of it within five minutes that one I never checked the messages there so that might be a problem contact me on the forum that's the best way contact me on either Twitter or the forum if you're having any problems with moderation don't contact me on the forum because slick broke my private message inbox so I didn't break it well it doesn't work I just don't know how to fix it Acer monitor videos cut off half actually it's not halfway it is at the end the only thing that's missing is the outro so it is a glass screen on the monitor the only thing that was missing was thank you for watching blah blah blah we had a little clip at the end that I can't find the footage for so uh minus tech to streams yes I do what's with the white play-doh behind me you know what funny story actually great great question we were using that for when you're doing sort of product glamour shots up close it's nice to be able to to have like a white background but you don't always want to just lay the product flat on a table so what I did was I took this I took this lazy Susan here for those of you who don't know what a lazy Susan is it's one of those tables that turns on its own there you go you turn it around like that you can't see it spinning but trust me it is and then I used play-doh to build up a thing that I could prop the thing on and then I could spin it and if we blew out the whites enough in post you actually couldn't see the play-doh or this it just looked like the product was spinning in the air you couldn't tell that there's a terrible paint job yeah you couldn't tell that well you know what that's actually not entirely my fault there were adverse weather conditions that affected my ability to paint correctly that's like blaming the map well often it is the maps fault I mean maybe if like we hadn't lost the coin toss and then being able to choose the map or will you get the 4k monitor I actually tweeted about this today I am I don't I don't know if I've told you this yet I am seriously considering selling my motorbike oh so awesome because you know how Twitter has the hundred and forty character limit right so I tweeted should I sell my bike and get a 4k monitor you wouldn't believe how many people thought I was talking about a bicycle and they were like a 4k monitor cost like a million times more than a than a bike so why are you even considering that no no no a motorcycle my motorcycles probably worth about three grand there are pedal bikes that are worth more than that motorcycle that is true but I think that's not what they assumed that I am do I look like an extreme BMX er it's not usually okay no it can be I'm sure it can be yeah yeah it can be but some bikes like the MX road bike stop bikes whatever some bikes they can all get insanely expensive yes that's true so my bike is actually a not particularly expensive motorbike but there's a 4k monitor available now from sharp that's a 32 inch and it's around 5,500 bucks and I have found a place that has stock in Canada what so they're like ready to rock in Canada they're ready to sell this to me crazy so I'm considering moving the bike and that's interesting I have no time to ride anymore no I know I know I was riding to work every day but I no longer work out of the NCIX office so I don't go I don't commute anywhere and that was part of the justification for getting the bike in the first place was I was gonna save money on insurance and gas six months out of the year when I didn't insure my car and I'm not insuring my car anymore anyway because I don't need it and go anywhere and then when I go somewhere on the weekend I have a baby what am I gonna do strap a baby to a motorcycle you could be that guy takes a picture about and puts online yeah that guy with a baby in a sidecar like a like a stroller like attached by a rope to the back of the like go around a corner yeah just like drift drifting a baby behind you yeah yeah not cool that could be I mean cool but I could be a movie I know like get a get the rock to be the guy that drives the motorcycle holy crap drifting baby and we could get like Hulk Hogan can be like the grandpa of the baby of course who also drifts with the baby 100% the grandpa is like the the guy who taught everyone he's the original the original drifter and then okay no he's actually the here like the hero of the movie he's actually the star yeah because it's it's when his son sort of you know picks up the family mantle and starts getting all the attention and then he has to like get back into the game and he's been out of it for so long and like like the the grandpa of the other drifting baby is like talking smack about it's like the at the hardcore one and yeah and then our drifting baby grandpa is like the good guy and he wears like a pink muscle shirt yeah Hollywood Hollywood if anyone from Hollywood is watching for for the low low price of $250,000 you can have that movie that's that's that's very conservative actually that's a very good value yeah everyone should just take us up on that you know what we should just stop making tech videos just start suggesting new business ideas yeah we should just that should be our entire live stream for the rest of the night is we're just gonna talk about things that videos that we could make instead of tech videos how about and all the viewers we could also try to come up with a business suggestion out of every Twitter question that we get that would be that would be just unwatchable okay so let's move on into some of our actual discussion topics so here we go 7990 how stoked are you on this it was probably smart of them to do it they've been working on it while this has been this has been rumored for a while so guys if you haven't seen it already it's on every news site everywhere is this picture of this guy holding up a 7990 graphics card it looks like a 12 13 inch long card that's a long graphics card I mean guys remember that Tahiti is a larger graphics core than gk104 so it it will consume more power it is a more complicated card to build it will output more heat than than a GTX 690 but they have managed to to get things going and their claim of it being whisper quiet I 100% believe it because look at that that looks like an Arctic cooling designed heatsink yeah those look like hundred millimeter fans at least those might be 110 anywhere from a hundred to 110 mil so those are gonna be quiet it's dual slot it looks like they've gone with a single DVI and four mini display ports so you can drive up to five displays off this guy without any kinds of splitters which is extremely exciting as well it'll obviously run ifinity because it's their flagship card the one thing that bothers me about the 7990 is the fact that and this is this is in line you know what maybe we're gonna tie in our stuttering conversation here did you read the full article on PC per I have skimmed it okay did you read the one on a nan tech I have skimmed you skimmed both of them great I'm not a good you are so okay between the two articles they released them almost the same time and Nantex is more in collaboration with AMD and PC perspectives is more in collaboration with Nvidia talking about this hot button topic which is frame times versus frame rates so how long did it take each frame to render versus how many frames in general were shown on the screen within a given second which is FPS frames per second and FPS general frames per second includes things like a little sliver of a line on one side that you don't actually even notice so an antac didn't really look at that much because okay so back to more history and we're gonna cover this in more depth next week but base that basically fraps covers how many frames that the game called for to be to be drawn whereas some of these new methods like what PC perspective is doing where they're using a capture card to pull the actual images off the DVI port are looking at how many frames actually got displayed to the user and there is a discrepancy there are dropped frames and there are tiny little frames that were barely even shown and those are counted and those are counted by a fraps measurement so what they discovered and PC per particularly look at this one thing just it okay he's saying fraps measurement this is all FPS calculations we use fraps we use fraps everyone uses fraps up till now yes but if you are looking at anything in your game that is telling you the FPS it's the same it's not just fraps fraps EVGA precision MSI afterburner all those tools are gonna tell you a frame rate that might not actually have anything to do with what your eye is actually seeing like mind-blown right because we all thought it was right or at least pretty darn close for so long so so that's that so okay going back to that what PC per discovered was that in crossfire the experience may appear smoother just because of the fact that there's so much more horsepower behind it that it's able to draw the frames faster and for for whatever reason enabling v-sync fixes the issue to a great degree so some people are encountering it some other ones aren't but generally speaking running crossfire actually may not be providing a performance benefit yeah a performance benefit in the not the fraps sense yes so you're gonna be drawing or you're gonna be calling for more frames per second and the horsepower is there but what actually makes it to your eye may just it may have all been dropped frames and and what they're calling should I forget the word for them runts or something like that right yeah so these these frames that actually didn't really mean anything like sliver frames that no one ever sees that not only do you not necessarily see but may actually make your gaming experience worse like you've all seen tearing before right where my hand okay so my hands on the screen like this and there's like a break in my wrist where the rest of my arm is kind of over on one side and my hands here and there's like this line so crossfire can actually cause more of those breaks in the frame making the overall experience look choppier and Nvidia isn't a hundred percent clean either but what both the anantac and PC per articles agreed on was that AMD's got it worse than Nvidia right now and that they're working on it very aggressively trying to get it fixed but in the meantime 7990 is 279 70s and relies on crossfire for any performance improvement over a single card at the same time though AMD has been very aggressive with their drivers ever since ever since the never settle drivers so I believe that they will fix and you want to hear something fascinating about the never settle drivers this wasn't called out specifically in either of those articles but it was alluded to somewhat around the time that AMD had frame times brought to their attention that they had this stuttering so where you might have a very high frame rate but you're moving around and there's like a hitch but the frame rate is still okay because there was one frame that had a long frame time and causes that stutter around the time that AMD had that brought to their attention was around the time they started developing the never settle drivers so what AMD had said about this whole conversation is not that they're upset that they had this that there's this expose on their driver optimizations the thing they said they're upset about is they've been leaving this performance on the table for years probably because you look at you look at AMD's cards a 7970 is a larger more complicated theoretically more powerful graphics card than GTX 680 or graphics core graphics chip than GTX 680 AMD spends more to deliver a 7970 to you than Nvidia spends to deliver you a 680 yeah hard fact their coolers cost about the same the PCB design is gonna cost more on a more power hungry larger more complicated partners more layers to the PCB all those things not only that they throw three gigs of RAM on you or on there for you no I don't throw three gigs of RAM on you so they throw three gigs of RAM at you versus two on us on a reference 680 it is a more expensive card there is no reason why for so long 680 was able to beat or be competitive with 7970 with the latest drivers every roundup we've done AMD at the same price point has been just well cleaning up yeah to be completely honest not to mention all the free games that they're throwing it there's a rumor games are insane there's a rumor that in addition to battlefield 4 there's another huge unreleased title that's gonna be part of the next Never Settle Never Settle is not ending holy so basically buying an AMD graphics card gives you two to three triple-a games isn't there like I read something on on the forum where someone was talking about our forum where someone was talking about how if you built a computer using like all these certain parts you could just get like an absurd amount of games yeah and it's like if you're building a computer for like say their parents are trying to give them like some crazy super awesome Christmas present and you're a family friend or something you're building the computer for them like you can deliver this computer to the kid with like six triple-a titles that's awesome holy crap right so much money and you know what AMD is taking that strategy and actually I don't know if this is public knowledge the deck wasn't marked confidential so I'm gonna go ahead and assume that it's that it's our fault but I heard a rumor from not an AMD source that AMD is gonna be taking this strategy to their CPUs as well awesome so smart so they're gonna be taking a high-end black edition FX chip and they're gonna be throwing a triple-a title or two at it and combine that with our discovery that on Windows 8 the 8350 is already very competitive with the 37 or 3570k and it's 20 bucks cheaper and the platform is anywhere from 20 to 50 dollars cheaper this could be the kick in the butt that AMD needs this could be the kick in the butt that they need getting like actually enhancing the gaming experience by going yes you have this gaming machine you don't want to pirate games so here we'll give you the games you don't want to pirate games you don't want to pay for games and like a lot of the games I noticed that they're giving out will have they might still be single-player focus games but they'll have a multiplayer aspect right so this is a gift that keeps on giving yeah so speaking of multiplayer why don't we why don't we do a quick sponsor break with our with our Intel Intel video that we ask you guys to sit and watch for 20 seconds this video is brought to you by our trusted partner Intel for a limited time only with the purchase of any unlocked core i5 or core i7 Intel CPU get a free Intel beanie with a chance to win an Intel snowboard valid for Canadian and US customers only some restrictions apply for complete details visit Intel gaming promo calm and we're back thank you that was I think the smoothest we've ever ever executed the only smooth one we've ever executed no I think I had one that was okay oh did we okay I think we had one where we screwed up the first one within one live stream and then we tried it again later in the same okay and you fix it later on yes yes fixed it later on and then it was good but that one was perfect the first time I still want that snowboard so I think they got enough entries now that we are not gonna have a chance I have I have an entry you have an entry I have an entry I wish you luck you know what I've read the terms and conditions and I don't think you're eligible because you were for a company that worked with Intel on the promo but if you win it I won't tell anybody so none of you saw that no I don't I don't I don't have an entry someone's gonna track you down on a ski slope somewhere and they're gonna be like I'm gonna have to like carbon fiber wrap it or something I know wouldn't that be the worst thing ever like winning some balling like cannot has awesome swag and putting like like my little pony sticker over it it's make it unrecognizable yes it'll be horrible you'd be the only one who knows how cool you are which is basically how it works now that was pretty good that was a good burn oh oh okay anyway speaking of enhancing the game experience we want to have a quick conversation about the WD my net series of routers so this is a sponsored segment WD is helping us give away for routers to unsuspecting live stream viewers so it would only be appropriate if we tell you exactly why you should care about this particular router so I'm this is the one that we actually used for an episode of NCIX tech tips actually here do you mind being my Vanna white and holding that for me you're so hot that's why it works so well to have you be Vanna white for me because I'm touching it yeah it's part of the sensual massage of the router that really enhances the viewing experience for well for me anyway I heard the audience is pretty into you though it might be it might be all good I mean there should be a lot of girls watching this week oh at least 97% at least 97% you know what we appreciate our female viewers very much though because they keep us in line because there's been a couple times when I've said stuff that they didn't like and they're all over me they're like they're on that they're like Linus that was actually intensive and I'm like okay you know what you're actually right my dad so there 3% of you are completely correct they hold me accountable in a way that I think is actually valuable it's like the last thing I want to see because if they let me know right away then I'll already know what my wife's gonna be mad about when I go back inside the house if she's tuned into the livestream that's way more valid of a point that I thought it was gonna be because the funny part is I sometimes it'll be a jab at how there's no PC girl gamers but my wife is actually played like a butt ton of Left 4 Dead a ton of Team Fortress 2 she's played like we still gonna have our team fortress to land that's gonna be awesome actually we should totally do that but yeah like she's she's actually like not bad at video games and she's not like a stereotypical girl gamer or anything like you'd never you'd never pick her out as any kind of stereotype anything but but anyway okay so we used this very router that you see to make this video for NCIX so for those of you who aren't from Canada NCIX is a Canadian retailer so I'm just gonna skip to the part where we did our torture test and I'm gonna actually make you guys sit through this it's only a couple minutes long and it really does showcase the features of these routers in a very meaningful way here we go thank hell hole otherwise known as slicks house where we are gonna be doing our torture test on the Western Digital my net and 900 central router to see if it can handle anything we can throw at it pretty much his internet connection is 25 megabit down 2 megabit up and we are absolutely hammering it we have Diablo 3 as well as another game updating right now we have an FTP download going on this notebook over a wired connection that is downloading my cat videos at around 650 kilobytes per second we have a Skype call being made between us and slick right here slick say hi and the internet connection running on slicks PC is actually a separate one we are wirelessly using the neighbors connection which we of course have permission for we are streaming I guess we have one of his other roommates streaming on X split we have two you torrent clients running on separate PCs all running off the my net central here that are going both up and down and finally we are streaming an HD video on Netflix on this other iPad so through all this let's have a look at what we have done to slicks internet connection which remember guys used to be 25 megabit down 2 megabit up now the thing to remember is that fast track technology actually dynamically analyzes the kind of traffic going through your network and optimizes your connection thusly so for example you can see that in our speed test we got a ping of almost one second to the nearest server our upload speed has been decimated to 0.38 megabit per second in our download speed is more than half consumed and in spite of that when I take one of my higher priority applications such as face like hey see there we go such as Skype or my Netflix video stream and I want to navigate to a different part of the video we are not seeing slow down here but what we are seeing is we are seeing dynamic slow down on things like our video game updates and things like our FTP downloads and torrents so I hope this served as a very practical demonstration of what fast track technology does remember the key difference between fast track plus which is on the 900 routers and fast track is that fast track plus doesn't even require besides no user input no profiles even to be loaded into the router it analyzes the traffic and adjusts for what it means to be most important completely automatically thank you for joining us in slicks humble I think we're back here gave you that demonstration showing how that we're back matter how bad you hammer so we're not starting this case we were using the center of the router giveaways and we're gonna have the giveaways no matter how hard you hit it and we had in the past so I know a lot of the people tonight are new viewers and I know this because I call a team in spite of what everyone else is doing on the network and this was without so you might not be actually whatsoever we literally went click click click on Twitter and we have it be the first person to be back at us about correct answer but that's actually not going to be fair because a lot of you guys don't necessarily you could do a whole lot worse for yourself than picking up a WD my net and my bad you guys so anyway we're running the giveaway a little bit differently instead of having you tweet at us because you don't necessarily follow us yet hopefully you'll follow us soon we are going to have you send an email with the correct answer so this is going to be a pop quiz I'm going to cover the router again sort of very briefly because that was more of a showcase of fast track plus which is WD's intelligent technology that sorts through your networking traffic and automatically prioritizes so they're sending firmware updates that are going to allow it to continue to prioritize the 900s are the high or the higher end routers with fast track plus are the ones that do it automatically whereas fast track relies on profiles that are sent out with subsequent firmware so the my net and 750 and 600 are using fast track whereas this has fast track plus and the the central one which also has a hard drive inside it also has fast track plus so the benefits of this particular router I'm going to go through them very briefly and of course you guys are all paying very close attention so that you all have a chance to win that their signed router are the fact that it has seven gigabit ethernet ports compared to the industry standard which is about four it's great because then you don't have to add a switch to your network necessarily I don't know about you guys but I have a lot more than four network connected devices in my house how about you I fight with switches all the time actually my dad does a lot of what's called boink we have a boink in folding section on our forum go check it out if you're interested in that kind of stuff my dad does this boink thing like crazy so we've got multiple computers on there I did you just say your dad boinks like crazy and they all have to be connected to the internet so we fight with switches all the time because my router only has four plugs on it right so we've got like all the people's computers plus two more that we need for like home theater and etc right and then all the folding machines need their own so we've got a router and then two switches and remember guys that each switch that you run out means that every computer on the other end now has a single one gigabit backbone back to the main switching routing power that is that is powering your network so while they could transfer to each other at full gigabit if these guys had traffic going here and here and sort of here all over the place there's gonna be a bottleneck there so having more native ports on your router is ideal if you can get away with it also because it's Western Digital and they are a storage company it has two USB ports one of which is USB 3 so you can actually add additional storage to the router itself a lot of routers have that feature these days but I mean it's WD so I tend to trust them in terms of storage so you can easily add things like my book live to I think we have a my book live there nope that is a my book Thunderbolt duo so and we have a my passport back there so I'd love to show you guys a my book live but I actually can't so here you go guys pop quiz we're gonna do the first three now and we're gonna do the last one at the very end so I would like you to email Linus Tech Tips at gmail.com go ahead get your email client ready now Linus Tech Tips at gmail.com subject line if you do not submit it with this subject line I am NOT going to accept your entry I will be doing a filter only people in the US can win oh yeah only people in the US guys sorry unfortunately we are from Canada yeah WD doesn't count Western Digital US is sending out the prizes so they're the ones that are in charge of that okay thank you that was a good thing to call out you did well so question number one what is the difference in as much detail as possible given that you have to be the first one to reply between fast track and fast track plus can I sing that song like is that allowed or is that like I think singing it or humming it should be fine should it not as long as we don't actually down actually three of it play the song okay can we sing it together every time awful we'll probably lose like 80% of our stream 80% can you imagine someone tuning in during that what is this why is this on twitch okay next question guys we're not gonna announce the winners on the stream because we've had bad experiences with that in the past we will contact you by email we'll let you know if you won because we've had experiences with things arriving out of order and then later we find out that the person we thought one actually didn't win okay so what would you say are the main advantages compared to competitors of the my net and 900 compared to other high-end competitors bearing in mind it is an almost $200 router all right last question for our Q&A and this one is not related to Western Digital although the last one will be which team dignitas player has an s in his name this is one that you can Google pretty easily I guess but we're gonna be picking the best and first answer for each of them we'll contact you by email and without further ado we're gonna get further into our live stream here do you have any topics because I asked you at the beginning of the live stream if you had any topics and you were like yeah but I don't need to brief you on them do you actually not have any time well I had 7990 I took that okay oh yeah that's right that's what you get for emailing me your topic ideas earlier in the week I sent you a few of these actually yeah I know yeah I added them so you just took that's where my top well now they're mine they're on my live stream outline so therefore they're mine but you said this is the whole actually no yeah but I wrote it which I have manually added to at this point have you yes what did you add like a space at the bottom are you okay good work he added one link yeah okay you know what let's do some Twitter Q&A so let's see what let's see what the peeps on Twitter had to say about our awesome giveaway subject line okay I guess if you want to know by now you're probably too late yeah I give up on that but it would be nice if the subject line was the question sure yeah that's probably way too late for that don't worry guys we will sift through it we will find whoever answered the question first and you will be the winner of an awesome awesome router that has full full dual band and 450 so that's a total of and 900 transfer speeds for up to 900 megabit per second theoretical bear in mind there's a lot of overhead with wireless so you're not gonna see that in the real world but it'll be I mean there's the same overhead on all the other wireless so having your cap higher is a good thing yeah yeah see there that are you is that is that a short people joke it could be because you know I'm just gonna sit up straight for a second I'm still further away from the camera my chair is still lower and there's still height discrepancy actually I don't think your chairs that much lower today it's just that you are fatter than me so it weighed it down wow hey if you're gonna do it if you're gonna go after being short I'm going after you for way I'm also okay weighing more because I'm larger I'm not fat okay all right absolutely does oh oh line exception oh okay I think I think we did address that yeah we fixed that decimated means taken down by a tenth that is a very interesting thing it makes a lot of sense I did not actually totally make sense that's awesome that's really cool thanks for that little tip good work Richard you get a gold star for tweet of the night one internet one internet for you cocoa or fruity pet you know what being Canadian I have never had pebbles yeah they don't have pebbles in Canada do you know what pebbles are I think I've heard of them it's like a Flintstones themed cereal yeah I saw ads for it in like Archie comics but I'd never actually seen it in a store yeah yeah that's probably where I've heard of it then I used to read Archie oh there you go someone finally noticed your thing you get to talk about it yay no no we'll let it sit there I'll talk about in the after party okay all right okay so yes slick has a copy of Battletoads here for some reason is talking about how AMD could uh well our show is about technology Intel happens to be a sponsor of our show so it's like I like Intel's promotional items I think there's I think a lot of creativity goes into them they've had a Rubik's Cube a really sweet mouse pad that I think I might have one here by the way sorry guys I'm still sick yeah check this out they gave away these mouse pads a little while ago which is like a huge like you know how most promotional mouse pads are things that you actually would never consider using as an actual gamer like big and thick rubber back good cloth pad nice tight weave for and personally I like that got a cool graphic on it so they had that they had the Rubik's Cubes they are doing those free those free toks or beanies Americans call them is there yeah to go all the way down and then you roll you fold up the bottom and beanies just go to okay then I learned another thing today another decimated I think is that I think that was way better than yours the difference between to some beanies just doesn't really matter no but but I learned it and that's the important part because knowledge is half the battle I mean is okay is it quite on the same level as giving gamers games I don't know it's still cool things so unlike the snowboard is pretty cool it's it's pretty it like I like swag yeah I do too some of my most like like one of the one of the you know what I think it's the only swag item that's actually on my desk my computer desk is my Intel bobblehead have you seen that thing yeah it is so cool that's pretty cool it's sorry I was just gonna say what it is it's a plaster bobble head it's about this big and it has like an Intel bunny suit guy and the head bobbles and then it has a he has his hand out here and it holds your pen yeah I'm just like that is like I love really cool unique swag so every year I go to packs sorry I thought you don't know I'm done every year you go to packs you get a lanyard with your badge on it and every single year that me and my group of friends go to packs I at least attach all the attachable swag I possibly can to that lanyard and then at the end of the year I hang it up on a hook in my room so I have all these lanyards like eight lanyards with just like all these random like pins and random other swag stuff all over them and I can remember like what booth give away what and it's kind of cool so DS Barlow gets mad internets for finishing rebuilding his PC during the stream however we're afraid to click the link because problems before yeah we've had problems with that with like things screaming through the speakers and then that gets to everybody else and it's just ugly I think Kevin wins the internets for being our most astute viewer ever asking if you happen to be a Firefox user and next and next tweet moving right along we have a viewer asking what is the main difference between the new DDR4 RAM as opposed to DDR3 you know what I haven't done too much looking into DDR4 but what I have done has led me to believe that it is higher frequency higher density lower power higher latency just like every single other iteration so pretty much what we're gonna what we're gonna be looking at is a bit of a change in terms of how how the memory controllers are gonna be optimized because with DDR one it was all about latency so if you guys aren't familiar with memory specs the main ones are your frequency which is the megahertz or gigahertz that it runs at or gigahertz if you prefer I pronounce it gigahertz is technically correct I know anyway so the gigahertz it runs at as well as the voltage that is required to run at those rated gigahertz and latency timings so so there's voltage gigahertz and latency timings so latency was everything with DDR one DDR one you wanted like cast to latency you wanted your like bh5s and tccds those were the most popular DDR I feel so old like who knows stuff like that only old people you're old I know like do you have you ever heard of bh5s I've heard of it never really cared because at that point time I was like I want high capacity RAM so that my game will run okay to give you some idea ghetto computer to give you some idea high-end bh5s were 256 meg dims and you'd pay like 700 bucks for a 512 kit of bh5s see at that point time I was like Kingston HyperX that's when I was at the mode where I'm like okay me my friends only gaming machines and we all have no money so we need okay we need this minimum spec we need this minimum spec let's buy it I never had bh5s I never had anything that cool I had cheapo Samsung no heat spreader memory for my first gaming machine so so whatever anyway so it was all about latency frequencies were quite low so DDR one frequencies according to Jade X specs were only 266 333 and 400 those were the only Jade X specs one but there were higher ones obviously there's always guys like Kingston Corsair OCC at the time overclocking memory way past spec and then selling it to gamers who then overclock their motherboards to match also memory like memory memory latencies and frequencies mattered so much more you wanted the latencies as tight as possible and the frequencies as high as possible because you could actually eek extra system performance out of them before dual channel memory just made it all totally irrelevant AMD processors 8350 particularly that as well I actually you know wait what the 80 what about the 80 50 can benefit from higher speeds okay that's true and AP use from AMD benefit again so there was a long period in the middle where they didn't really benefit starting with the Athlon 64 which decreased because every all the performance benefits that you could gain from memory were so dependent on latencies at the time AMD by taking the memory controller and moving it off the chipset onto the CPU made the latency so negligible and all of a sudden all the optimizing we were doing to get that latency AMD could just do it with the cheapest possible memory so okay along comes DDR 2 which Intel benefited from more than AMD because they needed more bandwidth so DDR 2 increased latencies so on DDR 2 a typical a typical memory latency would be kind of like a CAS oh crap I can't even remember like a CAS 5 I think was sort of typical cheap over here too and then frequencies got much higher so you could get to 533 667 800 1066 these were like DDR 2 frequencies so then DDR 3 did and lower voltages so this is not something that individual users necessarily care about we could all be still running DDR 1 if it could run fast enough in our desktop systems and it wouldn't matter but lower voltages are important for reducing power consumption which if you've got a ton of machines running say for example in blade racks in a large supercomputer then all of a sudden that extra watt that each of your you know million dims uses starts to add up pretty quickly so DDR 2 did that DDR 3 increased latencies again a typical DDR 3 latency is 9 or 10 megahertz and they run it sort of 1333 1600 1866 those are kind of the JDAC standards and so DDR 4 will be the same thing again I that actually took a really long time to talk about it was kind of boring sorry for that memory it's like hard to get excited about it but I can uh look at the new activation engine oh you know what activation Activision you know what why don't we check that out so I'm gonna I'm gonna make you guys sit through I'm showing you my whole live stream agenda they can only see one small yeah they can see one small part of it that I may not actually end up talking about so which would be kind of awesome that is a good topic though we should we should definitely talk about it so Activision is showing off some pretty freaking crazy stuff and we had this actually posted in the Linus Tech Tips news section of the forum so guys remember by posting in the Linus Tech Tips news section of the forum you can get I'll mention on the live stream which is worth one internet so chrome user posted the link to this YouTube video showing off some of the facial animations that are gonna be that are coming out of the Activision lab so I'm gonna turn the volume down and we're just gonna like show you guys some of this crazy stuff that's going on here because it's just freaking crazy look at this guy look at this guy he looks like a guy so they I think a little bit further on they have yeah there we go there he goes he smiles you look at the wrinkles next to his eyes and like the brow furrowing and surprised he has realistic facial expression okay he's not quite realistic but it's pretty close it's it it gets eerie sometimes you can notice very small things are off yeah but then sometimes like it's pretty damn like if he was moving fast and I wasn't studying him knowing that he's CGI that one right there when he kind of like pushes his upper lip up a little bit and goes hmm that one is pretty good the eye the eye movement I like yeah holy crap that's uh that's actually kind of insane property of Activision publishing yeah we didn't make this just to be like super clear so here's a little bit of more tech down well guys do check this out it's only got about a hundred and one thousand views guys as gamers we should be you should everyone should be so excited about this kind of technology because this is what it's gonna take to move the realism of gaming forward this more physics interaction with environments I mean we've gotten to the point where it's not about like remember when it used to be making the ball round yeah like that was the challenge that was a really big thing that was huge we're like you'd have like a bald dude and if you couldn't actually count the number of straight lines that it was like yeah now it's like if you if you can barely tell yeah the expression isn't 100% real like do you remember what cloud stripes hair looked like it's like you look at the concept art and you're like come on that has nothing to do with it doesn't look like that like not at all yeah like Kate Sith yeah right there's so much stuff I used to be so confused actually when I was a kid and I'd be researching a game that's coming up really soon and I'd be like this was the concept art yeah I know right this is what why do you even make concept art like it doesn't look anything similar now it's like those are pretty much the same thing like this one actually looks worse because it was hand-drawn like the manual for Final Fantasy 6 has portraits of all the characters in it yeah and you're just like well because it's it's um because okay there's the sprite which looks like nothing besides like hair color and like an outfit sort of and then there's the character portrait within the menu which looks nothing like the sprite and nothing like the portrait manual and then there's the manual we're just like she's supposed to have pale terrors supposed to have pale skin this is where suspension of disbelief met like it was so much more important though in older in moral school gaming is so much more important now it's becoming like you accept the world like this is I'm gonna misquote a few things here possibly but some water there was some poet that came up with suspension of disbelief then there was JRR Tolkien who came up with I can't remember what he actually called it but it's where you like something awesome it's yes probably sounded really cool but I can't remember it it's where you completely believe in a separate world so in JRR Tolkien's like world that he created if something happened that didn't make sense like there's there's the laws of physics and everything don't apply to Lord of the Rings but there is laws in that world that if are broken destroy your belief in that world right so it's not called suspension disbelief it's something that he coined you know what I thought was probably one of the best examples of this until things got a little bit crazy at the end was Harry Potter yeah where there was a set of rules and there was it was it was very believable like as a as a you know ten-year-old kid reading those books you could be like holy crap is my letter from Hogwarts coming and that's why a lot of people did start going like oh oh I'm turning I'm turning 11 where's my letter to Hogwarts like all that kind of stuff happened and you're right at the end it got a little bit at the end it's like oh yeah the rules of death don't apply to like Dumbledore and Harry for some friggin reasons like okay but up until then you know it obeyed some basic rules like and still like there's there's a apparently lore that you can go into and figure out why that kind of stuff happens but it's not but that looks like lore that was made up after the fact it's not the automatic belief yes ass-covering lore that's like oh oh we created midichlorians we better make an excuse for this like oh snap there's a perfect there is so much crap in the original three movies oh whoa yeah someone just brought up we might want to stop talking spoilers although if you haven't seen Harry Potter like come on man Harry Potter really after all those people were walking around with those shirts that go character X dies along page whatever yeah exactly and like the people that walk to the malls with mega I'm not gonna talk about spoiler alerts for Harry Potter you know what all the movies are out all the books are out there's if you haven't seen Harry Potter I still care about spoiler don't pick up a book I think we should try and be a little bit okay okay are you really gonna give me are you gonna talk spoiler alerts with like Star Wars can I talk about midichlorians I like that reference can I talk about how Darth Vader dies at the end of like episode six like is that okay oh can I talk about he turned how he turns good I wonder what the percentage is of viewers on our stream that have seen Star Wars I mean the wonder if it's the inverse of the female the guy's a freaking tragic hero so if you didn't know that he was going to do a reversal at the end then you haven't read any book ever seriously though I wonder if the amount of viewers no I've seen Star Wars is an inverse percentage I'm not having this conversation midichlorians are stupid and there's so much in the original set in the original three movies that just like would just prove that midichlorians never existed and no one ever knew anything about them like it's like when Obi-Wan describes the force he's like it's an energy field that that binds us and surrounds everything it's not critters in your bloodstream kidding me oh anyway realistic video gaming good thing we love it we derailed Twitter so hard we were doing Twitter questions were we okay I don't want to spend too much time talking about this one because I've talked about it a lot but AMD has showcased their sky series of cards which are going to be competitors for Nvidia's grid which is basically cloud-based gaming cloud-based rendering so there's a server somewhere in you know LA or some kind of a hub that does all the rendering and then it just your your your smart TV might as well have some Bluetooth connected controllers of your choice which that's gonna be cool having flexibility of controllers on your games yeah like it's like I don't like a six axis but I want to play some ps3 exclusive titles well here's the old you know ah screw you man that's an actual thing because I grew up never playing PlayStation I didn't have a PlayStation on my friends had PlayStation we all had Nintendo or Xbox right once Xbox came out like before then we all had Nintendo and then Xbox came out we got an Xbox we never went on the PlayStation side I don't know why it just kind of happened that way so now if I try and go and play PlayStation I'm like and why should I have to buy a custom controller that suits my liking more when I could just have one controller that I use for actually everything and I've had to buy mad cats controllers that I'm scared about breaking because they form factor to my hands but anyway um so I have no idea how to pronounce his name AT IT AT it's some like European thing IT okay ET phone home he he posted that in the Linus tech tips news section of the forum so thank you for doing that it's another hexes link so yay hexes you guys are you guys are awesome and apparently the link is not to the correct article though so that's a real shame okay you get one half of an internet point deducted for having a bad link but you'd still get half an internet point because I was able to find it so the sky series graphics cards check that out no fan because these are not intended to be installed in individual users computers so if there was ever any doubt to you guys that cloud-based gaming is coming both Nvidia and AMD are heavily invested in it now it's coming soon to what group of people like I said yeah we don't know so graphics core next frame grab VCE whatever all this stuff is so they're talking pushing to notebooks handhelds desktops I'm sure things like smart TVs things like consoles whatever else AMD and Nvidia are gonna be pushing this so hard so there's three skews there's one based on the same as the 7870 but it's got 40 far 40 gigs 4 gigs of RAM there's one based on the 7970 which has 6 gigs of RAM and then there's one based on the 7990 which has 6 gigs total 3 per GPU so a lot of horsepower going on and if I got any of those direct skew to skew comparisons wrong I'm sorry but it's based on the same graphics cores as those chips just to jump back for one quick second Tolkien's reference was secondary belief which is based on an inner consistency of inner which is based on inner consistency and reality within that world you know what that was my problem with the Thomas Covenant books did you ever read those I don't think so no yeah there's like nine of them I actually made it all the way through them but it was one of those things where the issue was that things would get really bad and things were spiraling out of control to the point where they were almost you know breaking and then something miraculous happened like every time and it actually gets tiresome yeah because at some point you're just like okay they've been pushed to the brink and then to the brink again and then to the like where is the brink so you feel like the characters aren't ever in any real danger because the rules don't apply to them whereas if the rules apply if Harry can actually die like a real person and he doesn't just marry Jenny and have beautiful babies that go to Hogwarts like he should have died spoilers I come on if you don't know Harry Potter lives then like shame on you this is one of the reasons why I like the Wheel of Time series okay it makes sense Harry should have died I've had this conversation with you but I haven't had this conversation on our live stream before in order for the full impact in order for him to be a proper sacrificial hero he had to he had to die and I know that you know you can go oh well Aslan didn't die Aslan comes back to life you know what screw Aslan because Harry was a Harry was a human he was not a Jesus figure he did not have to be resurrected he should have died because it made it made like everything he did much more real if he died yeah much more sacri-fils like the impact when you kill one of the twins the impact and the feel and the climax and all that kind of stuff would have been way more impactful but I hate the ending I hate the ending but my least favorite part though is not the Harry Potter doesn't die part I think she could have swung that but like the like the matrix white room like Dumbledore still alive somewhere else come on that's not even it though it's it's the happy ever after everything's better now all of our kids are going to Hogwarts Ron and Hermione are married and their kids are the same age as that and everything lived happily ever after I hated that I thought she had the stones to not do it like to not go down that path but she was just a little bit too cheesy yeah it was kind of brutal I saw great though like I love the books I love me too love the universe so we're gonna do our last featured news item of the week oh actually our last featured news item the week was the Activision thing wait a minute oh no that's that that's it Windows blue leaked and showcased so I'm like installable level leaked yeah installable level like you can install Windows blue people were browsing our forum on Windows blue were they really yeah that's cool yeah so guys if you don't know what Windows blue is Windows blue is a new concept from Microsoft where they're moving away from the sort of monolithic releases of operating systems every two to three years I mean well you look at the XP cycle and that was a little bit on the long side you know you look back sort of at 95 98 me we all like to forget but 2000 XP was 2002 so they were on like a two-year cycle blue is gonna be I mean maybe Apple wouldn't feel so high and mighty about their way of doing things if everyone didn't freaking copy them oh weird angle how long has Apple been doing this years yeah OS 10 leopard OS 10 snow leopards slightly different sort of leopard you're gonna get so much flack for this it doesn't matter saying that saying that Apple should be buttered because people copy them when Apple copies everything what I said was like that's where their attitude comes from I don't like their attitude I think it's a bad attitude I think it's negative I think it hurts the industry so that so the attitude is that they're happy because they're they're unhappy because people copy no no their attitude is we're the best because people copy us so obviously that makes us the leader does that make everyone else that they copy the best no because they don't that's not their attitude I'm saying maybe that's where their attitude comes from major players like Microsoft are you have held out for years on no no we're gonna do we're gonna do large operating system releases we're gonna do them every couple years we won't sell you service we won't sell you service packs how many times have they said they're not gonna sell us service packs they're copying Apple they're doing Apple's approach Apple's call the service pack anymore but like come on blue that's like Pokemon releases is that was that the root Microsoft's gonna go down we're gonna do like if my windows red if you could play Pokemon on like the install screen Windows gold it's like a very very compact version of Pokemon where you should be able to beat the elite for before that's done Windows gold color Windows gold advanced Windows gold ah that's actually kind of hilarious Windows gold Windows releases like by Pokemon rules so it's actually the same operating system but it comes with like a slightly different set of color schemes the best was I think red and blue because it actually you could pick the starting Pokemon from the blue game in the red game it was just there was like a couple yeah I know but it was I was like that's great because it would have been one thing to me if you had to pick a game and then that was your but they're just like yeah no pick this game but you can actually play the other game don't worry about it yeah so anyway Windows blue is more of an iterative release of Windows and apparently it's still very much up in the air internally whether they're gonna how much they're gonna charge for it how often these are gonna come what changes exactly are gonna be there but some of the highlights that are in there are on the other page of my notes here so they've done a lot of UI tweaks so things like modern UI formerly known as Metro so the new Windows 8 UI now has it has more options for how you can size the windows you know what I'll let you did you have any of the like exceptional one is they're changing from I think it was 80 20 or 70 30 but you could have two applications on the screen but one of them was 70 or 80 percent the other one was 20 or 30 percent I don't remember the exact thing it was 80 20 maybe okay you can have like an I am chat window here and then in the browser and the browser that was the idea now they finally made it so that you can go 50 50 a lot of people were complaining about this I personally will often like Windows 7 and stuff you can yeah you can yeah you could just Windows arrow keys throw stuff all over place I do that all the time and sometimes you need a little bit more sometimes they go 80 20 but often it's 50 50 I actually use the mouse for it every time really yeah there's like there's awesome like repositories of Windows hotkeys that are like holy crap I can do all these things with my keyboard I never remember them no I know I forget a lot of it but Windows are fantastic I do that all the time because it'll bounce and like if you have multiple monitors it'll lock to the sides of your multiple monitors that's cool so you can like automatically just go like if it's on the far right side of the screen and you have multiple monitors and the second monitors on the left you can just go windows tap tap tap tap tap on the left arrow and it'll I didn't even know that app slowly all the way over and get all the way to left side so other changes they're adding a better movie maker I forget what it's called but Windows live movie maker is gonna get a overhaul with a modern UI which is important not only because they're overhauling movie maker which was due I mean it's not as new as paint was when Windows 7 came out and they finally overhauled it but it's due for a makeover and that means it's gonna be usable presumably in a tablet yeah and now that you have x86 tablets that have like dual core core i5 processors in them well you would be able to use that anyways you'll be able to take HD movies and actually edit them on your tablet yeah but it wouldn't matter if it was in modern UI because if it's an x86 base you can still be easy to use true yeah like if it actually is usable with touch that's awesome yeah you got anything else better sky drive integrations coming consolidating things like settings to modern UI so basically they're making it there because right now as a user of Windows 8 I find myself not actually using modern UI much at all no I find myself going back to the desktop where I know where things are and I know they're more easily accessible but they're trying to get that all consolidated back away to modern UI so that you don't have to leave it anymore because they if you want people to get used to something it has to be a one-stop-shop it has to be one-stop-shop it has to be easy to get used to how do you get used to shopping at Walmart everything's there you get in the habit you go there and you're like oh where could I get that oh I saw it at Walmart last time I was there buying my groceries I saw that fishing tackle that I need I didn't even realize Walmart had enormous stock of fishing supplies I was there today there's a fish okay yes they have fish too so what you're saying I guess is don't bother catching a fish just buy a fish a lot of fishing enthusiasts out there it's gonna gross how often you can find dead fish in their fish department have you ever walked through it no yeah like fish so I don't really shop for it wouldn't have it either but like there's there's pictures online of like entire tanks full of just dead fish it's like oh that's a sad that's no good so anyway Windows Blue is coming if you guys want to check it out anyway the user who submitted the user who submitted this was a good bites on the forum so thank you good bites for submitting that Wow yes 628 posts top contributor so there you go and he actually has a great summary of all of the new that's cool all the new stuff is coming so they've redone the calculator app oh yeah IE 11 IE 11 there you go lots of cool stuff and lots of it might change but but do check that out if you care you know what we should cover briefly Windows 8 turned out to be a more powerful gaming platform than Windows 7 that's something a lot of the viewers might care about if you guys haven't seen yet we are still releasing and there are still gonna be videos that we're developing later on that we haven't finished yet for testing and all kind of stuff 8350 versus 3570 K is a huge conversation we're trying to contribute as much as we can to it we will be continuing to contribute to that conversation videos that we've been releasing so far we just did Windows 8 versus Windows 7 we have not really both platforms yes for data sets we have not released the AA one no just just without anti aliasing so we we have without anti aliasing up and we're going to be releasing with anti aliasing one thing we found that was interesting is Windows 8 improves performance mainly minimums which are actually what you're gonna notice most so that's really really good yeah that makes a big difference it's not just a matter of like I mean it comes into that conversation we were talking about with stuttering earlier yeah cuz a lot of the stuttering is not caused by the graphics card guys it's caused by OS it's caused by the game engine itself a lot of that leg is not their fault so if Microsoft is fine tuning the OS to take better advantage of multi-core and to schedule better and make sure the GPU is getting the resources it needs awesome yeah that's great and like the difference between 60 and 55 FPS compared to the difference between like 20 and 15 is kind of ridiculous a difference so we'll really really notice the difference between 20 and 15 and you will only a little bit notice the difference between 60 and 55 and you'll notice a frame rate dip when you get to that car that explodes every time in that level yeah or when you get to that thing where all the guys rappel down from the ceiling and three guys bust into the doors glass smashes and the glass smashes and that's where more like a smoother minimum FPS is more important than that average frames per second so so that was really cool I mean you had to fight with it a little bit to get the games to run at all had a lot of problems actually had to make sure all my drivers were nice and updated which I do anyways but still had to install games windows live which is confusing because when you go to download it it's like oh I already have this program what and then you download it anyways and install it and it just installs like an advanced version of the program that you already have games for Windows Live is the worst thing ever I hate it if anyone from Microsoft is watching oh that was my biggest problem with Batman trying to play Batman was hard because Windows Live just stops you anyways it's like the worst DRM I've ever ran into yeah and the fact that it exists on games that are that you bought on Steam is just painful I don't mind Steam as DRM I love Steam so do I if Gabe's watching we love you man you are awesome come join us on live stream yeah that would be really cool that would be amazing can you imagine if we could get Gabe Newell on the live stream probably just wouldn't talk even for like even for five seconds what would you pay out of your own pocket for a five second cameo of Gabe Newell on the live stream because what do you do because what do you okay what do you think his hourly salary I give him my battle could we afford him for five seconds probably not I'd pay half of it I'd pay half of it we can barely afford to host our server five seconds well the servers up anyway we love Gabe Newell so we love the way DRM is implemented in Steam but when you stack something else on top of it like come on like like that stupid crisis 2 thing where am I copy of crisis 2 just because I'm a benchmarker I change my hardware all the time so like oh you have this installed on tons of computers yeah yeah because I changed my graphics card tons of times so they just make my game stop working it's like come on man on the on in EA's defense I did talk to them on the lives to chat and they supported us and they actually were like okay well we'll give you a whole whack load more activations like crazy amount I explained to I was I was like this is what I'm doing I'm gonna have to call you guys every two weeks to get you to reactivate my game they're like oh okay so they dealt with it which is cool so pretty much just to save work for themselves yeah they dealt with it but still at least they dealt with it at least they dealt with it are you gonna say the same thing about the SimCity fiasco at least they dealt with it come on I dare you say it say it no you can't say it can you okay I think it's funny that they discounted stuff like crisis really really really hardcore because people buying it is not a problem people buying SimCity is a problem so they're not discounting it at all anyways we'll try and leave EA alone for the first time in three weeks yeah we beat them up a lot lately you know what I was at I was at my cousin's place today and they were playing NHL like 2012 or something stupid it's the same game like it's well okay a lot of people bring that up what are they supposed to do I don't know honestly it's hockey we've been playing we've been making hockey games since forever you've been making how we've been making hockey games you and me can you believe that Gimla got traded oh you don't follow hockey no I love you but stop having stop having lockouts and I'll freaking follow hockey no you won't I will no you won't I used to before the first okay well whatever do you know who Jerome again lives okay they traded him to Pittsburgh really yeah really yes he's played his entire career in Calgary I know and he's traded to Pittsburgh that's actually like we know it's bizarre Pittsburgh's been bulking up big time oh they're going for they're going for the cup this year what the hell is Calgary doing oh well they give up as far as I can tell and guys Calgary you guys are my bros but yeah flames suck what was that guys yeah flames suck blue flames back to back to some you know what okay we're done the bulk of the lot holy crap it's 1030 yeah so let's do we're technically done the live yeah we're technically done the live stream but we're gonna do the after party for a little bit actually I have to upload some videos tonight and I'm like tired so I don't want to stay up too late but yeah I know I'm I'm such a wuss I'm sorry you guys but we have to do our well we want to do our last giveaway for a WD my net and 900 dual band 7 gigabit Ethernet port dual USB fast track plus automatic network prioritization make sure your games don't lag so you know when your sister is playing my little pony your sister is playing my little pony games online it doesn't slow down your League of Legends that you're actually playing oh yeah we have to do that we can do that in the after party we'll do that first thing in the after party build of the week from the Linus Tech Tips for I'm coming soon Wow record audience for the for the live stream thank you so much you guys everyone wants that router yeah everyone wants that route no everyone wants to look at your sexy mug yeah you're looking particularly sexy right now good news everyone yeah good news everyone we have a router to give it all right so I've come up with a question that is not actually related directly to this fine piece of routing equipment but actually is related to Western Digital's storage products now one of the things that I advocate a lot and I'm bringing this I'm gonna bring this full circle so it's somewhat related to networking is backups backup your freaking data it's important if you don't back up your data whether you're running an SSD in your system a hard dive in your system no matter what you're running in your system your storage can die it happens it's life it just happens sometimes both works like semi tech support level positions yes we have back up your data yeah back up your data like come on please listen it's not that expensive anymore so network attached storage I believe is the most elegant way to back up your data and there is a certain actually okay I'm probably giving too much too many hints at this point so anyway network attached storage is in a really important way to back up your data so you attach it to your network whether it's through USB to your router or whether it's in a dedicated network appliance such as as a NAS network attached storage device and what a network attached storage device can do compared to something that you plug in directly to your computer is it can back up all the computers on your network a lot of them come with software applications where you can have it do it automatically you can take snapshots so you can restore those systems so if a hard drive physically dies or an SSD dies outright you just pull it out put in the new one that you got back from army restore an image and you're back up and running the same way where you were before you ended if not it's an expensive thousands of dollars even process to recover the data if it can be recovered at all so backing up your data is extremely important you can use a router like this to run a network cable to an ass and you can your data can be safe so I would like you guys to email me Linus tech tips at gmail.com with the subject this time I'm gonna let's do the subject line thing subject line question four okay go ahead fire that up what is the optimal hard drive from Western Digital for use in a NAS in a network attached storage device all right so what drives are you gonna buy to go with this router right here to make sure that your data is gonna be safe I'm gonna give you guys some hints probably someone's answered it already anyway but hints for this particular line of drives is that they have enterprise grade features that prevent vibration from causing failures they use enterprise grade platters although they run at a slightly lower speed can you not it's giving away all the hints I'm trying to give hints that's the best hint no but that's not the point those they've got a limited amount of time if they're still listening to your subpar hints they're not gonna win they're gonna get mine so you're just trying to so you're trying to win favor with the viewers by letting them win the contest yeah as opposed to just being charismatic like me and which doesn't want us on their website anymore and WD is never working with us again and Intel's pretty displeased about that sponsorship deal that we are going to cut to a sponsor break this video is brought to you by our trusted partner Intel for a limited time only with the purchase of any unlocked core i5 or core i7 Intel CPU get a free Intel beanie with a chance to win an Intel snowboard valid for Canadian and US customers only some restrictions apply for complete details visit Intel gaming promo calm alright guys so there that's our that's our last sponsored message for the night it is now 1031 my time and is officially the after party so let's do our rig of the week yeah yeah you've got it's in the dock it's in the dock right that's exactly where it is not the dock menu we don't use Apple here this machine has like a billion pictures so we're gonna have to like hopefully crap I hope I'm logged in oh yeah guys pictures don't work on the Linus tech tips for them unless you're logged in which is a way to which is a way to have our server not hate itself when people flood a thread because as much as much good as it does us to to cache things in RAM it's still will hate itself pretty hardcore if we do the wrong thing so why don't you explain what the rig of the week is well I figured out how to copy paste this link it is in no no explain like what this concept is what the concept is okay so we have a section number form called build logs that is for you to go and while you're building your system or after you've built your system or whatever talk about the process of building your system you're gonna get on build of the week if you do awesome stuff like mods if you make very nice clean looking builds or if you just make awesome builds in general something unique something unique something that stands out but the idea of the build log section is to just show the process of you building your computer some things that people do if it's subtle people won't necessarily notice it and if it's really awesome you want to throw it out there so jump on build logs take pictures while you're building your computer take pictures of awesome little components that you've hand done or whatever take just take pictures of the build process talk about the build process everyone goes on there tons people comment everyone's really supportive and you know what the community is so friendly even if your system isn't something you know crazy and exceptional you know what you're still bound to be able to find someone who will talk to you about your rig and like you know tell you anything you could do to optimize it suggestions optimization suggestions look at that five fifty six hundred posts in the build log section that's uh oh that's new builds and planning oh crap one one sorry up one yeah I'm looking for build logs where is it jump up one build logs there it is okay well I'm not showing it in the in the window there there we go I was trying to line it up with this stupid window here that's why I'm having trouble okay bill blogs show off your rig so fifty three hundred posts in there and like name your build yeah makes the title way cooler name your build take some good pictures like post the different process like postings that were hard postings that you did that you think are awesome have fun with it treat your gaming PC like a PC not a console yeah yeah I mean you could mod your console actually I guess yeah that's doable there's even water blocks for them mm-hmm oh yeah cool coolant saw was the first one I think to do an Xbox 360 buck yeah and I'm having I'm having a Google Docs challenge here where it doesn't it's not gonna let me copy paste that yeah one second I hate our forum sometimes hey actually I love it you know what slick has worked an unbelievable amount on I got it has worked an unbelievable amount on making this forum just a great place and you know what he can't do it alone because it takes a really cool community to make a forum any different from any other forum and mr. wizards just a beast and actually the whole mod team is an exceptional team mr. wizard is my admin helper friends awesome person he if without him form wouldn't be up wow look at that part list yeah but yeah we love we love our forum staff you guys are amazing and it wouldn't run at all without you picks of the backplate and oh my goodness he called an SLI bridge cover okay minus one intranets but depending on how awesome this build is slick picked the rig of the week this week so and SLI bridge cover yeah but why would he have a radion logo there if he has an SLI bridge here he doesn't why would he have an SLI down there so that's ROG so so he has radion graphics cards why would you have it he probably has an ROG board uh-huh and he put an ROG cover on top of his SLI bridge what SLI bridge does he not have another graphics card he has three graphics oh I see what you're saying they run in crossfire geez you're fired you're trying to say it wasn't there you are so fired you're trying to say it wasn't there you're so fired look at these sexy graphics cards Wow that's that looks amazing so water cooled graphics cards always kind of get me excited and I love I love these these short connections that people have started putting in them in the last sort of few years here where people are like basically hard hard piping them yeah looks amazing compared to I mean I used to do these tiny little gaps with tubing let me tell you that is not a lot of fun Wow absolutely gorgeous I hope I've actually switched so that the live stream is looking I thought you just didn't see it no you just hardcore now so sad so he called it he called it an SLI bridge anyway it looks really good his crossfire bridge looks really good there we go we got fans look really course our SP fans look so good nice anti-vibration on this oh look at that hard pipe on the here check this out so the guys hard piped most of it you know what I like this because even though it's in the middle of what would otherwise be a long run what he's done is he's gone for a visual look where he doesn't want any tubing that's longer than a couple inches or about five centimeters in length and he wants like these compression fittings to break up that that look of that tubing giving it a very industrial feel to it and it works really well it looks really good yeah so he's got his RAM water-cooled his CPU water-cooled he doesn't have his motherboard water-cooled in spite of the fact that it's a maximus 5 from the look of is that a maximus 5 thanks yeah I think so that's that's an odd one because that motherboard has built-in water cooling but what he probably did is he probably left it out because it doesn't actually benefit the performance of the system in any meaningful way and it would have broken his aesthetic a little bit because you can't replace the fittings on the maximus 5 with with custom ones that's such a beast case oh my goodness and don't worry guys you don't have to have the most extreme rig in the world oh but this guy does to to be featured on build log of the week but if you do something sort of really really cool and unique then we'd love to check it out and even if we don't feature it on the live stream of course there's uh oh wow I believe that's a case labs m8 pretty cool case might ah look at those blocks I haven't seen these excess PC blocks these must be relatively new either that or what he's done has he put no yeah okay these must be fairly new yeah very nice lots of lots of great pictures of this look at those graphics cards holy smokes that looks good and that badge on the back goes really well I mean you know it's it's one thing if people are like yeah I'm gonna put branding all over my system yeah I don't really necessarily go for that but when it's done tastefully then it can look very nice yeah it can look really sharp amazing looking rig and just an absolute inspiration to guys who want to feel proud of their gaming rig and and don't really know where to start I mean I love it when people do build logs showing the process because it makes it so you know the real people can aspire to do something like that they can see the actual process yeah it's awesome apparently those are called crystal link okay I mean that's what the Internet's all about is sharing the process rather than you know proprietary knowledge yeah yeah I think build logs are just so much a part of that so guys we love it when you post in the news section as well as the build log section of the Linus Tech Tips forum and if you haven't signed up for the forum already you've got two more days to sign up and post for the 3960x giveaway yeah that ends on the 31st and that's a big giveaway yeah so you we have two 3960x extreme editions and the motherboard and two gigabyte x79 motherboards to give away to two lucky winners yeah that's a big giveaway big giveaway you're welcome another thing I paid for them but but I collaborated with Intel to bring that you made it happen though that's true there was some confusion about the giveaway because a lady at the Intel booth told Logan from tech syndicate I heard about that we had five CPUs to give away and I want to clarify that we had five CPUs that we advised Intel what to do with we didn't actually get five we didn't get five we got two so there you go three of them went to we kind of said hey here's some other guys that you might want to allocate them to and they can run their own things with them yeah so we don't we don't take no responsibility for what happened to those we have to we have to well we have two for this contest that we're giving away yeah we have we have lots of extreme editions they don't know yeah yeah one two three diesels workstation has an extreme edition we did a tour of diesels workstation in the video where we announced the contest so he's got like 32 gigs of RAM extreme edition quadro 4000 just like ridiculous computer he has a better computer than me so whatever man I think he actually does I think his video cards worth significantly more than mine yeah he has more RAM than me yeah that's kind of unfortunate screw that guy just crush you're not watching we love you diesel screw that guy that's mean that's not very nice okay you know what I'm not gonna take that any further oh okay okay continue my Android experience so far oh yeah so I'm gonna be filming hopefully this weekend day five or six or whatever it is of my Android I switched blog so I recently I was an iOS user for a few years and I have used Android in the past so to be clear when I said never Android I meant never Android as long as it's the way it was when I used it yeah so I used Android back in the gingerbread era yeah and you know I've used Android ice cream sandwich on tablets which is not the same experience is not the same experience and I still prefer my iPad to an Android tablet and I have nice Android tablets it's not about like oh you're using a crappy Android tablet nope I have all the Android tablets don't like them I mean all the end I don't have all of them but I do have a TF 700 from Asus which is one of the nicer Android tablets out there Tager 3 so anyway HTC I wanted to try Windows Phone 8 that was how this whole thing got started so HTC sent me a Windows Phone 8 HTC 8 X phone to try out and I went okay in exchange for you guys sending me this phone what I'll do is I'll blog my experience trying it for 30 days I will commit to take my sim out of my iPhone and not use it for 30 days so I used the 8X for 30 days ended up going back to iOS there were some complaints you guys can check it out if you YouTube search I switched with a little I I big S switched to Windows Phone all the blogs are there and it covers sort of some of the things that I felt like were problems turned out not being problems some of the things that I thought were problems that were problems I'm trying to document not what the most phone savvy guy thinks about this phone but what someone who actually hasn't touched a Windows Phone ever might experience trying to switch to this platform so now I'm doing the same thing with Android except I do have a little bit more Android experience and quite frankly Android is a lot more intuitive for an iOS user not that I'm gonna say that Google ripped off any of iOS is UI implementations these days yes I mean early on it might have been the other way around yeah but the point is as someone who's used iOS a great deal using Android is pretty darn intuitive I can say that much I'm really enjoying the customizability of Android in a big way like I I had you know what I think this probably summarizes my experience best so far I had an issue with HTC sense 5.0 where pulling down from the top menu didn't have quick toggles for things like auto rotate I had to go deep within the settings to enable and disable that and didn't have quick toggles for Bluetooth Wi-Fi all that kind of stuff and I went okay how do I fix this okay there's some app with 500,000 downloads that I can install and it'll do that so great I can customize Android and then sort of summary point number two is not all the toggles work on my phone that happens and that is the advantage and disadvantage of Android in a nutshell basically yeah it's actually pretty okay but the point is also that Android makes up for it in sheer breadth if you rooted your phone with those work do you know what the problem is I don't know what the problem is I have no idea but what I suspect is that if I found some other switching app of which there are many I could find one that'll work with my phone this is also pre-release hardware running pre-release software yeah so I'm not gonna run out and blame Android and I'm not gonna run it to blame the app dev yet and yeah another thing is there's often a lot of ways to fix it sometimes there isn't so my wife's phone the droid DNA I couldn't get cellular data working here in Canada Bell wanted some kind of stupid fee to help us because it was from somewhere it's a first Verizon specific phone but I'm not convinced there's because it worked for calls so I think it was just a setting and Bell was just sort of yanking me around but they wanted a fee in order to unlock that phone to use on their network but what ended up happening was all I had to do was root the phone install a custom ROM which was about a six hour process because the droid DNA is not simple to root and like the the why the antenna sort of chipset upgrade root option if you haven't used the over-the-air update blah blah blah all these things came out the day that I was rooting it and putting my custom ROM on it so I was like yeah before that there was nothing and if you applied the over-the-air update there's nothing you could do last time I checked which is about a week ago but I rooted it and now it works 100% except MMS messages still don't work but that's probably just a matter of dinking around with it yeah but there's probably a way to make it work that's what I like about Android I never did jailbreak my iPhone so I should be careful to condemn I because if I'm gonna run around and say oh well Android is customizable because I can root the phone you know what iOS can be up can be customizable if you jailbreak the device as well so okay let's talk about whatever you wanted to talk about I think you had a thing should we should we show them our awesome video if they haven't seen it yeah yeah yeah let's show them our awesome video that not everyone has necessarily seen you know what we can talk about the tech quickie channel in general so my main channel is Linus Tech Tips on YouTube but I have a couple of other channels Linus Cat Tips is just stupid videos of my cats you know including the most recent one I'm yeah where he's just licking his butt so troll yeah the title of the video is just lol you know what the probably one of the funniest comments I've ever seen on one of my YouTube videos and we're talking hundreds of thousands of comments some guy posted on the video it's a seven second clip of my cat licking his bum and the guy's like you have no idea how difficult this was to explain to my mom why are you watching a video on the internet of a cat licking his butt hole he's like yeah I got nothing here I got nothing that's awesome absolutely nothing so anyway my last channel is tech quickie so we're gonna head over there right now and tech quickie is meant so Linus Tech Tips we do reviews we do unboxings it's more like editorial style where we'll we give a lot more opinion whereas tech quickie is intended more for like videos that we produce for companies because there's honestly not that many guys out there who are IT tech video guys no I mean there's Elric there's Paul there's tiny Tom Logan there's Logan the other Logan from tech syndicate there's what's that that British trip at our trip at our trip I apologize for anyone I'm missing but those are those are most of the major guys and of course tasty PC TV but there's not that many guys who are into the tech of motherboards or like like gaming mice enough to really make a video that is going to address the the good things about the product in a meaningful way so tech quickie is meant as a channel where we can do that for manufacturers without destroying the the the credibility of our real channel which is Linus Tech Tips because this is like sponsored content yes like SteelSeries asked us to make this line is for them will have sponsored pre rolls and then what's in the video has nothing to do with that at all that's our content this is someone else's content and I'm the host pretty much yeah but we did one that we were really really proud of and we're gonna have you guys oh no way we want as many people to watch this as possible so this is this is not actually the final version of the video we created for the Corsair Vengeance 2000 headset this was this one was not approved by Corsair but we released it anyway because we really like it so yeah we're gonna go ahead and play this for you it's only about a minute and a half long Corsair added Dolby headphones surround sound to the Vengeance 2000 it's time for some gaming ah so tired these headphones are so light and comfortable just could almost Oh, I was asleep for so long. Even the 10-hour battery is dead. It's okay though. I'll just plug it in. Keep going. Maybe you think you don't need accurate positional audio, but how else will you know where threats are coming from? Hot potato! You won't. Thanks for checking out this Tech Quickie. On the Vengeance 2000, I'll see you guys again next time. It's awesome because we actually had at least one or two people comment, welcome to Tech Quickie. Where does the pin for the grenade go? It's all about the Samsung. Go away, go away. So where does the pin for the grenade go? Because I just pull the pin out with my mouth and then it's just... do I eat it? And why did Slick throw a grenade at me that still had the pin in it? The world's most handicapped soldier. You can't remove the pin from that grenade. It's not actually possible. It's not actually a grenade. It's actually MSI Swag that has a little pull cord on it and then you let it go in it. So it's like a vibrator grenade? Oh wow. Okay, we're not going to make YouTube videos anymore. We are going to manufacture vibrating grenades. And what people do with them is not actually our problem. Anyway, we had a lot of fun making that video. Okay, we sort of had fun. How many times did you climb up onto that fence? My legs legitimately were like in pain. Going up and down stairs after that video was actually like... you saw me. Oh, I saw you. That hurt. I didn't want to look. It was sort of painful to watch actually. It was... I mean, it's a six foot fence. And then with a little bit of a drop after it. Yeah, with a little bit of a drop. And you had to like kind of jump forward and you had to hold this sword, which is like not... it's not a play sword. It's sharp. And it was in the rain. So I'm like half slipping most of the time. So even balancing up there was difficult. I fell off that fence the other day. It's slippery. No, this was in like sun, sunlight. Yeah, I was... Yvonne wanted some branches from one of the trees up there for her sister's wedding. And apparently I have to go up there and cut them off. So I legit fell off the ladder and then landed with my hands on the fence. And so you know how those hedges are there, right? So I had the ladder leaning up like this and I fell off the ladder. So I'm horizontal by the time my hands hit the fence. If I hadn't hit the fence, I would have hit the ground from like six, eight feet up. And like that's kind of a big deal. Anyway, but anyway, Slick had to climb... How many times did you climb up? Quite a few actually. At least 10. Yeah, and the day before I had played like three hours of laser tag where I was sprinting the entire time, even though they're like, no running. Yeah, whatever. No one walks in laser tag. Who walks in laser tag? No one. Anyone who walks in laser tag, you can just tune out of the live stream now. And you just lost. Yeah, you just lost hard. Good job. Anyways. That said, anyone who takes laser tag seriously, it's kind of... It's another problem. It's designed for kids and I'm so big that hiding behind the walls was actually like a problem. Did you manage to put the vest on? Yeah, but it was like here. It's like a mid rift showing like vest. I had to hide behind the wall. So I'm like, instead of just like crouching behind a wall, I have to like sit and slouch behind the wall. So I'm like blocking the entire walkway. It's horrible. Whatever, real men play paintball. I play paintball. It was like 10 bucks for like three hours. You know what drives me crazy? Guys who like armor up to play paintball. Oh, whatever. So you have to wear a mask. Wear a mask. Wear gloves. Wear gloves. Important. You know what? Even wear a jock because I've heard stories that are just not good. But like guys who like wear armor. That's kind of nuts. Okay, so two reasons people wear armor. Number one is they fear the pain. And I'm just like, come on. I always played t-shirt and shorts. Always. Because real men play paintball with t-shirt and shorts. And the other reason people wear armor is to make the balls, like they'll wear armor with padding so that the balls are less likely to break. Oh, that's lame. And I'm just like, come on. The idea of a gun with a bullet is that the guy on the other end got hit. Yeah, that's lame. That's lame. People do it all the time. It drives me crazy. That's really lame. I wear, see I didn't play nearly as much as you did. I would just play with like sports teams and stuff that would have an event that brought us to a paintball field. That's all I really, and like bachelor parties or whatever. Like that's when I played paintball. I've never been invited to a bachelor party. I actually have no friends. When you get married, will you invite me to your bachelor party? Yes. Okay. Is that putting you in an awkward position because I'm your boss? Yes. I'll do it anyways. Yes. What was I going to say? Yeah, so I would wear the like overalls that they give you because I didn't have clothes that would be like, I play paintball in these clothes. Oh yeah, no, no. I did though. Yeah, so like that's why, but I wouldn't wear armor. I would just wear the overalls that they gave me. Yeah. Because it's just like, I mean, and like guys will wear like three sweaters under the overalls. So same thing for the padding. And I'm just like. I just wear a t-shirt and yeah, usually actually a t-shirt and shorts because I didn't want to get too hot in the overalls. It's not violating the letter of the law, but it's violating the spirit of the law, which is that if you hit the guy, he should die in theory. I'm like, you should feel it. That was my whole thing is like, I want to play paintball. And if I get hit, I want it to go like kunk. I want the rush. I'm out. Yeah, exactly. The actual fear of actually getting hit by something. I want to really not want to get hit. So that it's more fun that way. Exactly. It's actually more tactical and you care way more. Yes. And it's like that much more awesome when you like suicide run someone. A hundred percent. Cause you're like, Oh my God. I actually had it work once we cleared a bunker. There were probably about seven guys inside and I just like slid in and managed to take out about four of them before it was over. That's actually pretty. And in the commotion, three more of my guys were able to come in and take the bunker. Nice. And that was, it was like a flag bunker and blah, blah, blah. We ended up winning the match. So I was like, I got plastered, not drunk plastered, but paint plastered. You're basically a part of the floor. I got destroyed, but it was so worth it. It's so awesome. And it's like, it's like the, the, the battle scar is worth so much more if there was like a battle. Yeah. But see Linus played at a way ridiculously higher level than I played. I still played casual. I never played competitive. Right. Yeah. But it's still like you owned your own gun. Okay. I would go like once every year or two maybe. And still it's kind of at that level. My best story is my brother and I were playing at a bachelor party and he could see, he could kind of get out and shoot people, but was in a fairly vulnerable position. I was kind of too far away to shoot people, but could see better. So I would shout targets to him and he'd lean around the corner and pick them out and then lean back. And that was, that was cool. That's legit. When you've got someone that you can teamwork with that well, cause you like know each other really well and you're in really good situations, it's just really cool. So that was my best. I have no friends. So I always went to the field by myself, but man, this is like the most forever alone live stream ever. Because I'd run into people who are like, you know, also forever alone. So we'd team up. Oh, okay. And we'd like, every once in a while someone else who knew what they were doing would show up without a big group. So we'd like, we'd tandem hunt and it was just a ton of fun. Yeah. It's really cool to be able to like collaborate and team up with people. So let's talk about Red Bull. Why do we get so upset that electronics costs so much? Okay, I think stuff like RAM, there's a few, I see this on the form a lot. RAM prices are going up. Yeah. So what? Do you know how much money they lost last year? Everyone making RAMs losing money. Yeah. And like RAM is cheap. Stuff like a whole system. If you're buying a laptop and you're complaining that it's expensive, I understand because it's a big investment. Red Bull you don't really care about cause it's three bucks or two bucks or whatever. But the problem is that that whole system actually probably, okay, top of the supply chain to the bottom of the supply chain. If you buy a commodity level system, like a $500 desktop, there was maybe, maybe including software like a hundred bucks. Even that's probably optimistic. That's pretty optimistic. There was maybe like 75 bucks of actual profit. And that includes the actual factory that built the stupid thing, the engineering company that designed it. Sometimes they're separate, sometimes they're the same. So someone like Dell doesn't necessarily have a motherboard factory. They're going to outsource to Foxconn or whoever else, but they design their own boards. They actually have engineering staff. Okay. So there's the designer, the manufacturer, the retailer that you bought your Alienware laptop at. They're taking a cut and there's probably a distribution middleman somewhere in there. There's couriers that are carting the bit, the parts and the finished thing around. There was maybe 75 bucks of profit in the entire enterprise on like a $500 commodity notebook or desktop. It's pretty brutal. And this is from someone who actually was in there and actually knows there is not a lot of money in it. So while, I mean, I like working at NCIX for so many years, I'd see a lot of people making remarks like, oh, NCIX is so baller. They charge $700 for a video card. Yeah, I charged $700 for it. You know what was profit there, wasn't it? Not a lot. Five bucks. Let me tell you, double digits and not deep into them. And this isn't just... And it's not just BS. It's the truth. It's the truth and it's not just like computer parts. Consoles are the same kind of thing. A lot of retailers are taking, even if it's like five or 10 cents, they're taking a loss when they sell you a console. For the sake of having a hope that you're going to buy some other stuff. You know, a silicone, you know, condom for your remote or... Or another controller or a game. $2 or something like that. Like he worked at Best Buy, so he has some idea how much money they actually make on stuff. If you didn't sell service plans, how much money was Best Buy making? Usually pretty much nothing, to be completely honest. There was like, I remember most laptops were about four or five bucks margin. So we were making four or five dollars. Question number two, how much do you think... I mean, of course there's vendor kickbacks on things like notebooks. There's vendor kickbacks if you buy a certain amount, so they're making money that way. They're making some money that way, but it's not that much. And how much you think it costs to build a Best Buy? So much. And you can't even just... And how much you think it costs to staff a Best Buy? I mean, their business model is dead and I don't feel bad for them. Nope. But it doesn't change the fact that when... They have to build a building, they have to staff the building, they have to build warehouses, they have to have distribution channels of their own to go in between their own warehouses and their stores. They have to... So you hear customers complaining. So why do we tolerate paying $60 for pants at Lulu Emin? How much do you think those actually cost compared to... At least PC parts have actual freaking gold in them. There was actually something inside there that cost money. I mean, here, back to Western Digital, who sponsored our router giveaway tonight. How much you think it costs them in engineering to design the next hard drive? How many millions upon millions of dollars do you think they spend on engineering, on technology that they build because maybe they will be able to use it 10 years from now? The amount of investment that actually goes into this. Whereas if you're Coca-Cola, your biggest investment is designing a new bottle. Or who was it who did the new bottle recently? Was it Pepsi? Pepsi. Pepsi did a new bottle. It's like... And everyone freaks out and thinks it's amazing. Everyone freaks out and thinks... No matter how much Pepsi spent on that bottle, it's not as much as Intel spent on developing the upcoming Haswell CPUs. Let me tell you that much. And I can tell you right now, Pepsi makes more for every bottle of Pepsi you buy, percentage wise, than Intel makes on a CPU. Yeah. It's kind of brutal. And I just got a message, apparently Best Buy sold six stores. I don't know... Got rid of six stores, closed six stores. Again. Wow. Yeah. I don't know if that was JustinBC or Justin Canada. That was the last one. Not again. That was the last one. And if you guys don't believe me about this, the proof is there. These are publicly traded companies. They're not allowed to lie and say, we lost money if actually they made a butt ton of money because then they'd lose all the money. Sorry, go ahead. Massive household names, if you're a techie, companies are losing money every year. That's nuts. AMD. AMD, Micron. I mean, AMD. I want AMD to pull through. I do not want them to die. That would be bad. I'm like Intel fanboys that are like, AMD sucks. You do not want AMD to die. Come on. You need competition. It is good for the industry to have as many companies innovating. I mean, to an extent. I've had this conversation before where... You don't want 10 billion different companies. You don't need like a hundred different guys making a gaming keyboard. But 20 is nice. It's good for competition if you have a certain amount. More than one is nice. And just having innovation. Having innovation is good. I mean, yeah. There. As consumers, why do we tolerate this? My pants cost $16 at Costco. Why should I pay more than $16 for a pair of blue jeans? Why does that exist? Why do we allow this to happen? Why do we tolerate? I mean, you can go, oh, it's only $4 or $3 or whatever for the can of Red Bull. But that's... I'm saying that's how people view it. I know, but why do we... When they go to the store, it's easy to drop out for bucks. Because we buy it. That's the thing. They make sugar water with taurine in it and they sponsor an F1 team. All you need to know about a company should be how much money they have to blow on random stupid stuff. But this is the same problem where nothing will change until the consumer decides it needs to change and they're not going to decide it needs to change. We're not going to decide it. But if someone's tired and they want to be still awake, even if it doesn't work for them, they're going to go buy an energy drink. If they're going to go buy an energy drink, they're very possibly going to buy a Red Bull. So anyway, I guess that's the thing. I don't want to hear people... I mean, look at LCDs. LCD monitors have gone from being a $600, $700 item to being... You can get a nice IPS monitor for $165 now. I know exactly what you're talking about. That's a really nice monitor. It's an LG. LG IPS 23-inch 1080p monitor. How much money do you imagine there is in that for LG to make? They must not be making money. Not a lot. Because that's honestly a high tech, nice monitor. So anyway, there. That's my lecture for you guys to close out the live stream unless you guys have any other topics is stop putting up with this BS. I mean, you know what? As a consumer, you have the right to get the best deal that you can. But why are we complaining about the wrong things? Why are we complaining about companies that invest in the future of their products versus why aren't we complaining about... You know what? There's a million examples. Shoes. Why aren't we complaining about running shoes? Oh my goodness. Why do we pay $100 for running shoes? What's the actual bomb cost on a running shoe? What did it cost them to design that? In their factory in China. In their factory in China. I mean, you could go say, oh, well, the tech industry outsources everything to China. Yeah, everyone outsources everything to China. If there was an economical way to manufacture Red Bull in China, they would do it. In fact, they probably do. They probably do. Google Glass is being manufactured in the States. That's interesting. That's actually kind of awesome. So Google, but again, I mean, it's Google. They ball so hard, I guess they just don't even care. Don't even care. It costs more to make it. I wonder where they produce the Chromebooks. Got to be China. There's no notebook manufacturing facility in North America, I can tell you that much. That's a good point. Yeah, because you need the circuit. It doesn't have to be like Han He or Asus or someone like that who's actually building it for the main. Look at the Nexus 7, built by Asus. It's got Asus right on the branding of it. So yeah, it should be no surprise that someone like that is building it. But yeah, let's be resentful of the correct things. I was at Michael's craft store. Oh my goodness. And they had, yeah, it's just criminal, hey? It's brutal. They had some modeling clay. And I was like, oh, that's cool. Maybe I'll get one for, I don't know, someone who likes to model things with modeling clay. And I looked at it and it was like $5 for a packet that was like this and like skinny. And I was like, okay, so you actually have to spend like $100 on this to get all the different colors so you can actually make something. And then they're all going to blend together and be brown at the end of it. So this is like not reusable in any way. It's a total waste of money. And the actual cost of this thing is pennies. Why do I put up with this? Why do I tolerate this? Why do I buy this? When I was doing my fish tank, I had to buy, at the beginning, I don't think you ever saw it in the stage, but at the beginning, you know how I had the plant? Yeah. I also had a complete layer. So you had an oil-cooled machine for those of you who don't know. Yeah, there's a video on it on the Live Tech Tips channel. Slicks oil-cooled PC or oil-cooled rig. You can search for that on YouTube. Yeah. At the beginning, I also had a pretty thick layer of blue fish rocks. Did you see this? I don't think it was in the video. No, I don't think I ever saw the fish rocks. Okay, so those became a problem whenever I had to work on anything because how I had everything strapped to that plexiglass mount on the back, the power supply hung. So when I'm putting it in, the power supply would sit on top of the rocks. So you would say your computer was hung? And if I tried to move the rocks out of the way, they would just sift back in the oil. So every single time I tried to put it in, the power supply would sit too high and push my ram up. Oh. So it was really hard. And that's a plexiglass shield on the top. So I can't just reach my hand in while I'm putting it down because I have to move my hand out of the way to put it in. Right. So it became really difficult to deal with. And like I could get it done. But honestly, to just put my computer back inside the fish tank would take like an hour or an hour and a half. So eventually I took them out. But I had a layer of blue fish rocks at the bottom at one point in time. And it looked really good. But the bag that I bought for it was like 25 bucks. Yeah, that sort of kills me. I'm like, these are blue rocks. Come on. This is why I love sites like DHgate, Monoprice, where they're just like, no, no, we're actually going to sort of charge for things what we actually paid for them or at least some sort of proportion. Costco is the same way. Did you know that Costco actually, I'm a huge Costco advocate. I love Costco. Costco is awesome. They pay their employees well. And stuff is cheap. They pay their employees well. They don't waste money on dumb stuff. You go into a Costco and look for the waste. You won't find any. No. Anyway, so Costco has a maximum margin per category that they will charge. That is why Costco can't get approved for certain product lines because the manufacturer doesn't want them to degrade the pricing in the market. I knew they couldn't sell certain stuff, but I never knew that that's really what you're doing. That's why Costco, actually, there was a big public spat with Apple. Yeah, because- That's why Costco couldn't carry iPods because they refused to sell at MSRP. They said, no, our maximum markup for that category is this, and that's what we're going to sell it at. If you want access to our enormous customer base- Oh, massive. I mean, Costco is one of the few companies that actually gave the old to Apple. So- That's awesome. I love Costco. They're great. All my grocery shopping, if I can swing it, goes there. Those of you not in North America, I wish you guys had Costco. They're only in North America? I believe they're in North America. I have no idea. I could be wrong. I could actually be wrong about that. Anyway, thank you guys for tuning into the live stream. I hope you enjoyed it. Did you have anything else? Other than Battletoads. Oh yeah, let's do Battletoads. So I was out with Mr. Wizard and some friends of ours, and we were going around the Vancouver area to- Why do you have to rub in your friends all the time? And how you have them. That's awkward. So we were going around the Vancouver area to game shops that carried old school games, because I like collecting and playing old school games. If I'm not playing on a computer, I'm playing old consoles. Can I be your Vanna White? You can. I think this is the first time that you've Vanna White-ed. Are you good? You have to- come on. There you go. So we're going around old school game shops, and we found Battletoads. This is not the super insanely iconic Ness Battletoads. This is Ness Battletoads, so you can actually beat this one. But it's still new in box. Be careful with the box, please. It's new in box? It's not new in box. Like new in box. It's like new in box. No, no, this is the one that was already creased. I checked. I am a professional unboxer. I thought you just creased that. Nope. Professional unboxer here. It's like new in box. It still has the dust cover on the bottom. It has the original poster, which has never been unfolded. Okay, I won't unfold the poster. There's the manual. There's the manual. That's the poster. Like it's in really, really good condition, so I couldn't pass it up. And it's probably one of my favorite things in my old school gaming collection now. Other than Descent 2. Descent 2 will never be dethroned. Because that's just- because that has like awesome sentimental value. I've never actually played Ness Battletoads before. One of the few sort of gaming- because I'm not much of a- I mean, you've seen my house. Do I have much sentimental stuff in there? No. I actually have a bin in my attic. Yeah, I know about that. That's like hidden away in your attic. All of my sentimental crap is in there. It's like one Rubbermaid bin. That's it. The only gaming-related thing I think I have in there is the manual for my copy of Final Fantasy III. And it is so dog-eared. So it has zero resale value. The cover is gone. So it's just like the page two to page second to last. And the only reason I kept it is because that was my favorite game growing up. And I have actually legitimately read the manual so many times, you know, when I wasn't allowed to have video game time or whatever else. That that's why it's dog-eared like that. I remember doing that. Reading like a manual, reading through key bindings that you've memorized for years just because you can't play a game. It's like reading through all the spells. And like the thing about a Final Fantasy manual is it's never going to have all the information in it anyway. So like they'd have a spell in the manual that was just question marks. So I have to find this spell. And it doesn't say question marks for what it does. And they'd have relics for question marks for what they do. And I'm just like, okay. But I'd read through and I'd be like, how many times more powerful is Fire III than Fire II? My favorite piece of not an actual game sentimental stuff is my game guide to Morrowind. The like textbook that they give you so that you can play Morrowind. Because I've said the story before about how I never even started the main quest and all that kind of stuff. But my dad and I would play and I read through this manual so much that like all the corners and everything are like hardcore bent up. The cover is completely ripped off. Like all the pages are like slightly like you can see if I was like, oh, we were doing that quest and I was eating Cheetos. Love that. Cheetos. All about the Cheetos. I actually kind of hate Cheetos. Not to offend anyone. But like that's what I meant. Like there's, it is used. It is like the most piece of like the most used thing that I probably even own. And I bought a new one eventually because the expansions came out and stuff, but I still have my original. So if anyone knows anyone at Bethesda, that is how devoted the person who did not get a single beta invite. So depressed. Oh, I'm sorry for bringing this up. I shouldn't have even done it. Oh, no. Okay. So they sent up the thing saying like, hey, we're doing our first wave of beta invites. And I spent that entire day with my phone. Like I had the screen on pretty much the entire day, which is insane because the battery life on this phone is dead now. And I had it like plugged into USB chargers so that if my phone got the email first, then I would know faster than if my computer got it first. And I had my browser open in Opera because Opera has an auto-refreshing feature on Gmail. Being like, come on. I want my beta code. And I did not get in the Elder Scrolls Online beta. And I am pretty much the saddest panda that ever existed. So on that sobering note, good night, everyone. And thank you for tuning in to the Linus Tech Tips live stream. We do these every Friday night at 9 p.m. Pacific time. So that's Vancouver time. So I have a lot of people ask me what time is that in my time zone. Holy crap. Go find a world clock. Because they like saving time and stuff. We don't know. OK. 2100 hours. Vancouver, B.C. time. For that matter, Vancouver, Washington time is fine too. No, wait. Yes, yes. Vancouver, Washington time is fine too. Washington state, not Washington, D.C. There's no suburb of Washington, D.C. called Vancouver. I don't think. I think Vancouver landed on the West Coast. So anything named after him should theoretically be here. Thanks for tuning in. Yeah. Good night, everybody. Or good morning. Good afternoon. Yeah, follow us on Twitter. Especially me and Slick. Wait, that's both of us.