 And I think we're broadcasting and I hope that I figured out the audio tonight because if I haven't figured out the audio tonight That's gonna be a real problem for me. I'm gonna go ahead and here you guys can even watch me do this part Amazing I am setting the video to public to announce that the live stream is starting now. I don't need these anymore I'm just gonna check out the twitch chat really quick here and make sure that everything is hunky-dory on the audio side So a flicker of liveness Hopefully this is working I have actually I don't know if this is unwise or not, but I have actually turned up the the streaming bitrate for tonight, so Hopefully Everything is okay, but there's no real guarantees about that. So Here we go. I'm just gonna go ahead and Expand the twitch chat so that when we're looking at that or Twitter we can have a clear idea of what's going on There we go. All right. So good evening everyone. We've got a fantastic Show planned and by we I mean me because I'm the only one here and we're gonna start with I am on Facebook now Oh sound hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Apparently there's a problem Sound is quiet. Does anyone else have any complaints about the sound before we get started? Someone says video and sound is great tonight. Someone says sound is quiet Sound is fine. Sound is really quiet sound is good. Okay, those of you with the audio low I have a Linus tech tip for you You're gonna want to find that dial or that button on your computer or on your device and you're gonna want to turn that up Because if we've got some people saying it's good and some people saying it's not so good Then rather than rather than be obnoxious and you know turn the volume way up for those of you who it's already Fine for and like breaking your ears Let's go ahead and get the rest of you to turn it up No, I can't pan the camera But what I can do is I can move myself here and then the chat box will be here and then we can all see what's going on so let's start with a little bit of Q&A before we get too much further into this and Let's take some questions at Twitter. Oh, oh check this out. Check this out. I set this up Whoa on Twitter at Linus tech actually, you know what? I shouldn't have put that there I should have put that on the actual on the actual one that I'm using for Twitter So I'm gonna go ahead and add that I I know I'm I fail at graphic design and this is this is not very good But there you go. I'm gonna put that there that way there can be no confusion about how to ask me a question on Twitter I'm not taking questions on Facebook tonight. Although I am now on Facebook You can reach me up my aha my Linus tech page There it is with my epic How do I hide my admin control panel? There it goes finally You can see my epic picture of me and FPS Doug. That was about four years ago I think at this point at fraga Palooza and then Because you guys were trolling me so hard with the do you even lift bro meme? I decided to look it up at the end of last week's live stream. So now I have a picture of myself Flexing and it's captions now that I cleverly understand the internet meme and all that good stuff. So Here we go. Yeah, so basically my Facebook page is just a clone of everything that's on Twitter So if you don't follow on if you already are following on Twitter, you're probably not gonna see anything else there I mean the thing that I like about Facebook there Maybe the baby wants to visit us for a little bit tonight the thing I like about Facebook is that the posts are a little bit more persistent which is very convenient because the thing about Twitter is I can tweet something and if you guys are following like a billion and one different people on Twitter Then you're gonna miss a lot of a lot of the stuff and I get a lot of questions Like I'll say hey guys live stream starting in an hour and then I'll get like six people tweeting back at me When does the live stream start and it's because they don't really see it so if you follow on Facebook, then it'll be a lot easier to keep track and And and that should be less difficult for everybody So my baby has decided to join us again tonight. Although he's a little distracted He's getting started on his solid foods now. So tonight he had some peas which was very exciting for him He's staring at the screen. He doesn't know how to look at the camera yet, but don't worry. We'll get him trained up He'll figure out how to do this whole camera Presentation thing a little bit squirmy tonight But okay, let's take some Twitter questions because I didn't promise I'd do that. So 36 new interactions What happened to the cabling guide? What do you happen to? Okay, you know what? You might have to go sit with mom Okay, there you go Cabling guide nothing happened to the cabling guide. In fact, if we go on the YouTube's Then I'm sure we can find the cable guide MCIX Cable management guide featuring ultimate AMD system with 162,000 views So that is how you can find that one Devin needs help to overclock his toaster Devin. You are beyond help I'm sorry There's nothing I can do for you for a boot drive and some key games Is it worth paying $35 more for the Intel 520 series or get a vertex for 128? great question For a boot drive and some key games. I'm of the opinion that pretty much any modern SSD and by modern SSD I don't mean like failed super low-end modern SSDs like like an agility for for example But any modern SSD a performance oriented drive You probably won't notice the difference day to day between that and any other drive. So Would I pay $35 more for a 120 gig drive with the way that 120 gig drives are priced these days I probably wouldn't however. I don't know if I'd necessarily go with the vertex for 128 either I would probably lean towards a Samsung 830 if you can still find one or an 840 or something like a crucial m4 Just because I don't know if you've been paying any attention to sort of the stock market news with OCZ but You know, they're going through a bit of a rough patch right now And it's one of those things where if anything did happen to OCZ. Yeah, you got a five-year warranty on that vertex for how do you? Claim a warranty if they don't have any more vertex for us to provide to you So I don't know. I don't know. I would probably go a different route. Hey Linus Why does everyone say go Intel when you look at an AMD CPU and the gigahertz and cache is way higher for less money? Roman it's because gigahertz and cache is totally meaningless take everything you thought you knew about gigahertz and cache and Throw it out the window. You see that window right there. That's where I would throw it because it doesn't matter It doesn't mean anything. What matters is the actual real world performance of a product You can never ever compare one CPU to another one based on gigahertz and cache Unless they're using the same architecture. So a great example of this was back in the core two duo days You could find a shoot. I don't even remember what anything I think the e4 300 e6 300 He's 6600 and then I think there might have been a different there were four CPUs that were identical in terms of architecture and frequency Manufacturing process except for the cache That's the only time when you can kind of do some benchmarks and figure out how they perform compared to each other and truly Evaluate the value of cache in terms of performance and then when it comes to gigahertz Totally meaningless unless they're using exactly the same architecture with the same amount of cache. So don't worry about it Intel CPUs are higher performing particularly for gaming and That's just the way it is whatever the spec is I Don't have context for this but okay Greetings from Croatia. Hello Thank you for watching live. That is fantastic Jacob asks will there ever be a warehouse sale in Ontario? Actually there was one once I'm not sure if they're planning another one anytime soon, but there was one poachman asks What is the best sub $70 headset? I have a good receiver I can't really think of any headset that I'd probably recommend in the sub $70 range once you get up to around a hundred bucks You're looking at something like an ASUS Vulcan or a steel series 7h. Those are both excellent headsets, but anything sort of at that price range is gonna be Not that great Matias asked what's my favorite 680 custom cooler? Honestly, I don't have one I'm more of a water cooling guy. So I I buy water block Yeah Gen P Minguron asks. Do I know a good Canadian ISP that offers bandwidth reliability and speed personally? I'm using Shaw I like them a lot better than tell us although the options are completely different in the East So that might not be relevant for you at all My card keeps crashing when I unplug one of my displays asks or proclaims Bartek Bartek Why are you unplugging your displays? I guess what I'd recommend to you is keep your display plugged in It's possible. I mean, okay more serious more serious suggestion It's possible that something's shorting out when you're unplugging and plugging it in So you might want to try being really careful make sure your case is correctly grounded Yeah, it's possible there's something going on it's possible that it's a problem on the actual monitor side itself And that's what's causing the short and then that's what's shorting your card and causing your your computer to crash or whatever else So you want to try that monitor on a different PC? See if it still happens try that PC with a different monitor See if it still happens that'll help you diagnose the problem Linus I have a 6770 with an inch of extra plastic on the shroud. Can I lift it off so it fits in my Dell? Yeah, go for it I'm assuming you mean at the back of a card if you can just saw it off as long as there's no heat pipes But you're gonna cut actually yeah, I saw I'm gonna see I'm gonna see if I can find this because it's it's fantastic. Oh Yeah, we don't want that let's just go ahead and pause that we don't we don't need that at all So let me let me see if I can let me see if I can find a heat pipe cut off Images I Don't remember where I saw this but someone sent this to me where they'd taken something like a thermal right? 120 extreme and then to make it fit within the side panel of their case They had cut off the entire top because they figured oh It's just the little knobbies at the end of the heat pipes that are causing the case to not close anymore And of course heat pipes don't work at all if they're not full of the fluid that gives them their heat pipe fluidness and Yeah, it sort of it sort of made me laugh. So there you go. That reminds me of that Just don't cut up any heat pipes on the laptop I was holding was an Acer s7 and I'm gonna talk more about it later in the live stream. It looks absolutely fantastic Federico don't do a secure race unless you have to the thing about secure erasing the drive is that it actually writes to the entire drive Which will wear out your drive period it will The hay asks what I think of the Nexus 4 Nexus 7 I am a resolution guy So the more resolution that you can throw at a problem the better and I'm super super stoked on something like a Nexus 10 Has a more powerful GPU than we've seen before in high resolution tablets The one thing I don't like about high resolution tablets right now Particularly the iPad is that it runs significantly hotter and has a way worse battery life compared to the previous generation products So I'm interested to see what Apple can do about that with the iPad 4 but as an iPad 2 user I have had Zero desire to upgrade to an iPad 3 like even if someone was like I will trade you an iPad 3 for your iPad 2 The way that the iPad apps are getting written It's not like there's a performance advantage or like there's certain apps I can run on a 3 versus a 2 So maybe it's a little smoother, but the chip in the iPad 2 is already pretty darn fast so I don't actually care about the performance Delta and then for the resolution side you don't use it as an e-reader and I Don't like how hot it runs, and I don't like how crap the battery life is so What do I think of the Corsair 200r good question Christian? Corsair 200r Let's see it. Let's see. Let's see how high up. I am on the list. I am the first hit So if you would like to know what I think of the 200r you can search for a Corsair 200r on the YouTube and You can find my video and you can watch it that pretty much covers everything. I think about the Corsair 200r It looks just outstanding now Christopher says well, I like it much better watching it here on Twitch. That's good. Someone's complaining about the echo You know what there's nothing I can do about it right now Just because my mic setup doesn't allow me to get it any closer to me which would help us reduce the echo Since you always talk about it, what's the best budget sound card the answer I always give is Whatever is the zonar card that is in your price range, so there's the D Whatever it is D something yeah the DG is the best if you're gonna use headphones because it has a headphone amp And then if I was gonna get something that I where I needed 7.1 and something like a DS is gonna be sort of So much better than on board that it just blows it away whereas if you actually have a decent pair of headphones Like a well like a really nice pair of headphones Then you're gonna want to step up to something like an ST or an STX or a Phoebus And then if you want to get a better experience running 5.1 or 7.1 speakers something like a DX would be a better choice greetings back to India of course I'm getting a new PC for editing and rendering console gaming videos how much RAM would you recommend? Honestly unless you're doing anything in after effects anything with complicated color correction like DaVinci resolve Anything where there's a particular need for a ton of memory There's no reason why you can't just use Vegas movie studio and render videos with 4 or 8 gigs of RAM so What I usually recommend for people who asks me about RAM is By whatever you're comfortable with so in this case these days It's probably better to go with like a 2 by 8 gig kit And then if it doesn't work for you add another 2 by 8 gig kit and thumbs up now you have enough RAM so You I mean Rams a commodity item it doesn't really go up in price except when it does But it hasn't done it in a very long time So buy what you think you need and then go from there and this goes for any application I mean people ask me this all the time. I want to play. I want to play modern games I want to play upcoming games. I want to do this. I want to do that How much RAM do I need RAM is one of those things that I think is really important I need RAM is one of those things where? Past a certain point is there an iPad 4 already. I don't know I haven't looked at any I'm sorry. I don't really pay that close attention to Apple anyway, so gaming wise People say oh, you know I want to play this game or that game or I want to do this RAM doesn't affect your performance Past a certain point in terms of the frequency with the exception being actually AMD's APU processors when you're using onboard graphics, so I have a video about that on the NCIX channel NCIX APU it's actually worth checking out Does faster RAM really matter this was a really cool video because what I found out is by upgrading from slower RAM to faster RAM we were able to get like deep double digits performance improvements like you know 20 30 percent performance improvements using the onboard graphics So that's one case where it matters But on most gaming machines it really doesn't make that much of a difference and then when it comes to the RAM Capacity so that's speed because that's all there is there's there's latency and speed which are kind of the same thing They're very related, and then there's capacity capacity will make literally zero difference unless you need the RAM So if you are able to take everything you're doing and store it within your RAM then the system the CPU Whatever it is has easy access to that data, and it's all going back and forth really fast and everything's good if You have a data set that's larger than your memory and it overflows to your page file That's where you see that choppiness and that crappiness and that slow performance or even crashes So you either have enough RAM or you don't have enough RAM and it's really easy to figure out what's the best It's really easy to figure out what you do is you open up task manager you look at your performance tab And if you have five gigs available like I do with this machine Obviously I could be running some more Camera angles or I could be running some more screen captures or whatever else I need to be doing in the background And then once I ran out of ramp And I would have a benefit or I would see a benefit from actually upgrading the RAM on this machine So good question, and I hope that that was helpful to someone All right, I don't have a sound card thinking of getting a Corsair 1500. Yes. It's a good headset for a non sound card setup It's better than on board, but it's nowhere near as good as an actual sound card No, I haven't really looked too closely at any of the k90 giveaway videos I had to look at a couple of them and honestly the ones I looked at were sort of terrible I even said right in the video don't just like you know Rage out and smash your keyboard because you're getting most of the judgment is going to be based on creativity For those of you who haven't already already checked this out actually should check this out Welcome to I'm doing a giveaway if you just go to my channel youtube.com slash Linus tech tips I'm giving away some Corsair k90 keyboards Five of them to the top five video entries video responses the theme is nerd rage And what I said right in the video is doing what I did is not creative And I'm judging you based on creativity so don't do what I did and then probably a good 3-quarters of the first kind of 20 or 30 responses which were what I looked at were people playing a game Raging out and breaking their keyboard, and I'm just like that's exactly what I did. What are you doing, but? Yeah, yeah my other PC keeps beeping three times in a long break I know it's a memory error, but how can I fix it David? It could be anything if you have an onboard if you have an integrated memory controller in your CPU could be dead CPU Could be a dead board could be dead memory So without sort of swapping those parts in and out and diagnosing it that way There's not really a whole lot that you can do Can you recommend the minimum requirement for PC for recording editing and rendering Andrew? it's really hard for me to do that unfortunately because It really depends on how you're going about it. I mean sorry. I'm gonna walk away for a second here for example If you're talking about recording You could be talking about recording with something like this in which case the spec I'd recommend would be very different because this has a built-in encoding engine that just doesn't really require any additional performance on the part of your PC in order to To stream videos online like on Twitch or whatever else the case may be so if you do that Then you spend an extra $200 on that But you might save some money on your CPU for example and then for editing and rendering it really depends what you're doing If you're doing more complicated stuff, then it's a completely different set of requirements if you're doing really simple stuff Then it's a completely different set of requirements The reality of it is though almost any new modern PC with you know an AMD FX processor An Intel Core i5 and up sort of a quad core is going to be pretty suitable for basic use and almost anything It's not like you know back in the Athlon days when You know you bought an Athlon single CPU CPU machine for sort of you know if you were browsing the internet Or you got an mp machine with dual processors when you were going to be doing serious work It's not really like that anymore because almost every computer has multiple cores in it now and so much RAM that it doesn't even matter David asks which keyboard do you use I use a meonix xybull 60 I really like it Although I'm seriously considering switching over to the g7 10 plus from Logitech because those brown switches are pretty good And I do like the additional features that are available on it compared to the xybull 60 Hello to Belgium What knife do I use for my unboxings and where did you get it? I got it at house of knives at Guildford mall, and it's a Spyderco bug Little little knife very handy not sharp at all anymore like yeah at all but But it's perfect for cutting packing tape which is exactly what I use it for I have not used this headset But I've heard fantastic things about it, so Based on how many recommendations I've had for this headset I'd say yeah It's probably pretty safe to to go for and check that out so I'm going to transition into one of my one of my topics here for the night and Let me just switch back to my to my general view so yes, right I am on Facebook now So I I know I might have mentioned this briefly before but yes, so officially I'm on Facebook now So you should like me on Facebook and tell your friends like me on Facebook and honestly it's not it's not an ego thing for me It's just a matter of if it's more convenient for you to follow on Facebook because you don't use Twitter I've had a lot of people complain Twitter Twitter's not as evil as you guys seem to think it is and I do like to answer questions on Twitter You'll see here on the Facebook page It says do not send me private messages here Twitter only and I have people message me on Twitter and say Linus 140 characters isn't enough I need to write you this novel so that you can answer all these questions for me And I kind of go yeah, man You know I'd love to do that, but let me show you something like that's pretty you know Let me show you a cool story, bro moment here because If you need to know why or if you like if you're having trouble figuring out why I can't answer Really the Twitter page is not gonna let oh here It is why I can't answer all of all of the questions that I get if they're all you know essay length all you got to do is do a search on Twitter for At Linus tech to give you some idea of the kind of volume of messages I receive and And reply to so I think sort of tweets all I don't know Yeah, I think there you go, so how many how many messages does Linus receive sort of? this many and If Linus tried to reply to all of these and they were all in essay this long as opposed to being 140 characters How quickly would he die the answer as you can plainly see is? Very quickly on top of that I have the messages that I get in my inbox on YouTube I Have the messages that I get in my email, and it's just not doable I I mean I have people send me a big here's my list of specs Linus what water cooling stuff Should I buy and I'm just like yeah? You know what it's part of the rite of passage of becoming a water cooler to just do the research and figure out what to Buy I had to do it you have to do it and the reality of it is I used to try to reply to all those messages Even the ones that are like I don't want to do any research whatsoever I need you to tell me what PC to buy so I'll send them back a spec list and then they argue with me And they're like oh well my friend told me that this is better. I'm like yeah I you know what it was already all I could do to reply to this in the first place I'm not gonna argue with you back and forth about it by the extreme edition if you want It doesn't matter to me go for it. It's not my money So I just I got to the point where I just didn't really sort of care anymore Whereas with Twitter you ask a quick question. I send a quick answer. I might reply again I might not I try to I try to read most of them even if I can't reply to all of them So that's why I like Twitter most of the updates on Facebook will still be Because I just have the two apps tied together see I just have like Twitter integrated and so there's stuff like this So if I upload something to YouTube it Automatically ports to Twitter which then automatically points to Facebook So so that's pretty much all I'm using it for just just other ways to other ways to interact and other ways to Keep track of what's going on so Looks like a few of you liked me. Yeah, that's how I evaluate myself for thank you. I win internet So I appreciate that. Thanks guys. Oh Oh, right. You know what that actually helps me transition into what one of my other topics for the night is going to be So I don't know if you guys have seen this already, but Intel has a new extreme addition So the fastest is now faster again, and it's the i7 39 70 X so we're gonna go ahead and search for that on the YouTubes and We can see that there's a review of it or start selling or yeah You know what there's probably no reviews because they probably don't care I got a couple issues with this number one is that they've increased the TDP again, which 150 watts which I guess I don't really care it probably doesn't really matter probably doesn't run that much hotter because the reality of it Is it's the same CPU as the 39 60 X. It's been a little bit more. It's a Little faster it's 200 megahertz faster at stock speed But if you were buying a 39 60 X and you weren't overclocking it then you're probably on the bottle So in terms of the actual temperatures and the actual performance you're gonna get out of it It's not gonna make that much of a difference I would have loved to see a 39 70 X that was an actual eight core processor with 16 logical cores using Hyperthreading, but that's not what Intel opted to do here So I just wanted to take this as an opportunity to talk a little bit about the value proposition Composition of extreme edition processors because I get people asking me all the time whether it's on Twitter or the NCX forum or on My email or whatever else should I get a 39 30 K or should I get a 39 60 X and to me the answer is very Simple I mean the reason I'm using a 39 60 X in my machine is because I got you know the reviewers discount on it It's not like because I actually spent a thousand dollars on a CPU. I don't think that that's a very compelling value I mean if you're already spending five thousand dollars on a machine and you're getting three way SLI and you're getting 32 or 64 gigs of RAM or whatever whatever you want to do and you want to go for an extreme edition You know what if they've started the EP in factor is worth it to you. I say go for it, but Personally that's never really been how I rolled. I mean the CPUs that I've actually bought in my lifetime are gonna be 2500 plus I bought myself a 3500 plus I splurged and bought myself a 4400 plus X 2 back at launch that was the most expensive single CPI or single Computer component I ever bought it was 700 over dollars 700 or 800 dollars at launch because I really believed in dual core And then after that I got myself an e 6600 which was a much faster dual core then I picked myself up a q 6600 so these are that should give you some idea of where I was at I was always buying sort of that value That value but with the full unlocked features sort of skew So 39 30 K I think is a compelling value if you can actually leverage the additional threads whereas 39 70 X I'd say you're better off buying yourself A 39 30 K now if you must have six course buy yourself a 39 30 K now and then wait for the eight cores that are coming with with ivy bridge e Which is coming sort of not that long from now as far as I can tell I blow okay It's not soon, but it's not forever from now either so so yeah right so okay, right right right so people ask me sort of you know 3930 K what do those go for a 3930 K goes for around 600 bucks? Would you spend almost double for what basically amounts to here? We can extrapolate all the data. We need from something like an an tech review on the 3960 X Because there's always a review of the extreme edition Okay, so 3960 X so let's assume that a 3970 X is going to be I don't know 10% faster Let's say although. It's not no it's not even close to that. It's probably more like 5% faster, so 3960 X is Conveniently not on the same graph as a 3930 K well whatever let's compare it to a 2600 K So even if our new CPU so 2600 K is you know 5% or 10% faster than this we're talking about 3770 which is you know what it's probably better to look up to 3770 oh? That's a preview what There we go the review. They've probably got a 3960 X on here so blah blah blah blah really Okay, there we go, so let's look at gaming performance just for laws 3930 K there we go so 37 if you're gaming 3770 K Or 3570 K which actually performs almost the same is definitely your best bet is an extreme edition a good value the answer is always No, however it is exciting that Intel's at least you know pushing the envelope a little bit further in terms of performance and trying to Deliver more performance for gamers or for whoever needs an extreme edition except that for gamers Overclocking a 3570 K balls to the walls is going to be a cheaper platform for one thing because you get a z77 board instead Of an x79 board and you only have to buy you know two dims of memory in order to feel like you're getting the most out Of your system although x79 can run dual channel just fine And the performance is very similar to quad channel because of the reduced latency that counters the lost bandwidth So you get a cheaper platform you get a cheaper chip you get? the the benefit of like I've always found more frequent upgrades are better as a as As a gamer or someone who wants to get sort of the best bang for their buck Because if you buy that super expensive halo part, and then something new comes out There's always going to be like the way it always works There's always a replacement that costs half as much and performs the same as the last generation one Whereas if you bought that part that cost half as much but performed 85% 80% as well then obviously you're losing less of that value When the new parts launch so if you want to sort of recoup as much money as you can by selling that stuff And then buying the new good value proposition part With the next generation then you can actually take that budget you would have spent on a thousand dollar CPU and stretch it over Many generations where you go, okay. Let's say my budget for a CPU is a thousand dollars I'm gonna buy myself a $300 CPU today, and then in a year I'm going to sell that CPU for who knows okay. Let's say $150 Let's say it loses half of its value, which they don't 2,600 K's are still worth more than half of what you paid for it So I'm going to sell that for half what I paid so I've essentially spent only $150 so far I'm going to buy a new CPU for $300 I've spent $450 now, and it's a year later and that CPU performs better than that one I would have spent a thousand dollars on then let's say I'm going to sell that CPU Let's say I lose another 150 bucks. I buy a new CPU for 300 bucks now. We're two years down the line We're talking two generations better performance, and I've only spent $600 already so when people ask me How do I configure the most future-proof gaming ring? Sometimes the answer is spend a little more if they're saying oh, I have $600 to spend I need the best gaming ring I'll say look you are getting terrible value by spending $600 on a gaming rig because you're getting parts that are costing $100 But performing a quarter as well as something you could have spent $200 on and would last you longer And we'll have no resale value because nobody buys used crappy hardware like it's just Asinine like if you have a GT 440 or something and you're going to try and sell that a year or two later Oh, it's a gaming card. Oh, it's Kepler. No one's going to want that So so yeah There's that that sort of that middle of the road where you need to get to a certain point before you're even getting a decent value But then when people say oh, I you know if I spend twice as much of my future-proofing more the answer to me is no Because you could use this machine for two years put that money in like a I don't know GIC savings account and then spend that money again a year or two down the road and get way better performance And then you'll have two machines, and you can give the other one to your little brother or something So so there my take on the value proposition of an extreme edition And I am super excited however for when Ivy Bridge e comes and we actually get more cores on our extreme editions because as a video Guy, I actually care about more cores whereas for you gamers out there. It actually just doesn't really matter So let's do some more Twitter questions. Shall we? What do you recommend to use ramdisk for honestly? I've never really tinkered with ramdisk as Someone who uses eight SSDs in raid zero. I don't really think that my application loading times are that limited by ram yes It could be faster. It'd be cool to use a ramdisk for something like a scratch disk in In like a video editing or photo editing software however you need a lot of system ram for that It'd be cool to use a ramdisk for certain key applications. I'd love to load my OS on a ramdisk But it's just I just assumed throw more SSDs at the problem because they're not even that expensive and ramdisk is still cost per gigabyte very expensive I Bought an Asus STX and a Sennheiser HD 598 and the sound quality is not that different from my x79 rampage 4 extreme That is the first time I've heard that Hussain 95% of the people why okay? I'm making that number up, but I have a lot of people who Tweet me and tell me I bought a sound card. It's the best thing I ever did. I can't believe it Yeah, I have no idea how that sort of happened about but I'm very sorry if that was based on my recommendation What laptop are you running right now for the stream? I'm actually not running a laptop right now. This is a This is a monitor see So there The Samsung monitor it's a 3d monitor. It's compatible with AMD HD 3d Which I would never use because it's just not very good compared to 3d vision, but yeah Ryan seriously this was my topic like a month ago. He's talking about green light program with Nvidia, but thank you for your contribution Ryan What sdp is this? Thank you for your contribution Ryan What SSD would you recommend that cost between $50 and 150 Australian dollars? I have no idea man. I'm sorry no idea Guys just as I sort of just recommendation if you want to ask me for product recommendations within a given price range Do a little research on your own find a product that you think might be appropriate because that'll give me context as well Rather than saying that costs between you know a hundred Great Britain pounds and 200 Great Britain pounds It's a lot easier for me if you say I'm looking at a corsair You know neutron GTX is there anything else you'd recommend because that already tells me what kind of a price range you're looking at And it means that I don't have to think about the currency conversion if you must give me a currency value Give me like Canadian dollars or US dollars which are the ones that I can that I can easily think in that I already know Sort of what things cost in? If I was building a workstation, I'd probably go quadro or or g-force But probably quadro for CAD and Autodesk just based on what diesel is telling me about how awesome CUDA is I've never Really experienced it myself because I don't really do any sort of That kind of stuff I let other people do that, but he says it's like a big deal, and it's like awesome I like your leather couch. It looks cool. Thank you Christian greetings back to Australia Hey Linus Do you recommend upgrading from an AMD 1100 t to an FX 8350 if you can get a good price for your 1100 t if you Can like get a few bucks back for it then actually that's not a bad upgrade that FX 8350 Unlike the 8150 is actually tangibly faster than the 1100 t so So it's not a bad upgrade however. You're not seeing much more than sort of a one generational Performance increase the 1100 t is six sort of full cores whereas the FX 8350 is four Piledriver modules which is sort of almost like four For like each module is kind of like one and a half core So it's almost like six cores which is sort of the same as what you have from before except the clock speeds different And the IPC is a little bit lower Somebody asks if I'm unboxing an EVGA SRX. I do not have any plans to unbox one of those They're very expensive, and I don't want to open one just for the sake of opening one And I don't have any CPUs for them anyway, so it's not like I'd be able to do a build in it It's not a very practical platform anyway. It's not overclocking friendly which means that yeah You can load it up with cores, but really it's a workstation board posing as a gaming board because if you can overclock a 3770k is going to absolutely destroy an EVGA SRX with the highest-end Xeon CPUs, so It just is one of those things where it's for bragging rights, but it's not really a practical platform for really much of anything If I was going to build a workstation like or like a server I'd use a proper workstation or server board that Doesn't even pretend to support overclocking that much My friend just built his first PC yesterday when he tried turning it on the monitor had no single signal What's wrong with it? I have a great video called no post diagnosis and Probably helps if I type whole thing there you go PC troubleshooting no post diagnosis Go ahead go through all those steps and see if you can't figure it out Build a hackintosh Yeah, I do want to build a hackintosh actually I even have my copy of OS 10 Whatever kind of cat we're on now on this drive. I am gonna deal with it, but I haven't done it yet Yeah the promo with the three free games on the 7900 series Alex. That's a very good point That's something we should bring up. I forget. It's a never settle never settle promo you get hitman Absolution you get bar cry 3 You get I Don't know one other game. We should look it up because it's a pretty cool promo promo never settle AMD I agree on 7,000 buyers something something something right so you get sleeping dogs far cry 3 hitman absolution and you get 20% off the new Medal of Honor game so that is a pretty sweet deal if you buy a 7800 series or a 7700 series you get far cry 3 So that is that is pretty sweet that actually reminds me I was thinking that I would give away a key For those three games on my livestream, so I would like you guys to stay tuned while I log into my email and Let me just sort of get that done add account Oh Whoops I might have typed my password wrong nope I got my password here we go Here we go here we go Whoever claims it first is gonna get it like that's all I have to say Whoever claims it first is gonna get it. I don't even know how to claim it I don't even know if this is a steam code so yeah, you guys are gonna have to sort of figure out how to do this and I am going to yeah, someone just someone just emailed me. They want the key good for you I just deleted that email You're gonna have to you're gonna have to fight over it on the livestream just like everyone else so I have decided That I will post it on On Facebook I am writing something right now on Facebook I am going to paste the key actually you know what I'm not gonna do this on the stream because You guys you guys have to go on Facebook minus tech Facebook aha see I'm totally being like a social media whore and Getting you guys to like play my little game in order to get my little giveaway. I have pasted it now. Are you ready? I am posting it ah It's up there whoever takes it gets it ah People who don't have Facebook. Oh, I'm sorry about that. Maybe next time You'll be cooler and have Facebook. No. I don't think there's anything particularly cool about Facebook I resisted getting Facebook until now as you guys can clearly see But the reality of it is it has practical applications for people like me who are Trying to reach people and for people who are wondering what I'm doing to my cat. I'm playing with him. He likes it I'm playing with his feet which makes him happy and I'm petting his face, which he likes so you guys can't really I I realize that it looks sort of like Censored over here, so okay. I think you guys get the point that I'm on Twitter see I'm just playing with his face and Giving him snuggles which he likes He's sitting on my lap. This is how he sits look at this And this is the most ridiculous cat you ever saw just like sitting on his back like that What kind of cat is that now? He's getting all vicious All right, let's do some more Q&A Anyway, yeah, it's a pretty cool promo, so I hope I hope someone got that that awesome that awesome Code and I hope you guys are gonna like me on Facebook because I'm gonna do more giveaways on Twitter on Facebook on Twitch eventually and So yeah, enjoy enjoy What have now sorry Mike I don't really have a $50 headphone recommendation What's better x-file or on board? Getting a new headset needs to know what's best. You know what I don't know what the sbo 790 x-file is although It's been a long time since I've recommended a creative much of anything get any suits zonar Shout out to Finland. Oh my goodness. It's 614 a.m. In Finland. I am sorry to hear that master Yoda Terry asks what is the worst injury I've ever received playing badminton? That's a great question The worst thing that ever happened playing badminton I landed funny when I was going back for a clear and I kind of landed on my foot sort of sort of bizarrely and Something in here one of the one of the ligaments or one of the tendons or something kind of deeper inside my foot Got sort of semi disconnected or semi horrible Anyway, I was probably limping for two months three months couldn't really play And then it was about six months before the pain actually went away, but it's a hundred percent now because I've hardly had any time to play Nikhil asks should I go with the 7h or the 1500 get the 7h as long as you have a decent sound card Hello from Princeton you had a blue quick connect in an earlier video who made it blue quick connect Sorry, I'm not sure what you're talking about Sorry Joseph Could I run a 78 7 from a 450 watt PSU as long as it's a good one yes You know what that segues us very nicely into my next topic Which is how to pick the perfect power supply for your system It seems like everyone these days wants to Overbuild and over spec their power supply thinking that it again that's that future proof mentality Thinking that it future proofs them thinking that it might benefit them in some way Whereas in reality power supplies do not benefit the user at all if they are over Overspect so I'm gonna give you guys a great example of this. I'm gonna put my cat down. Thank you sweetheart and I hope I can get this out from under the table over here and Got a bit of a setup issue going on Extracting this power supply, and I'm not trying to take on Corsair here or anything because great quality products great power supplies, but This one right here is overkill for almost anything This is actually the power supply that I threw out of the door The window of my car that that one time when I threw a power supply to my car So this is an ax 1200i this is an 80 plus platinum power supply Which is as close to 90 plus as we are these days very very efficient fully modular Capable of delivering. I think it's something like the entire yes the entire 1200 watts on the 12-volt rail and Just like ridonkulous and every possible Way what system requires something like this? not much You can easily power a 3770k with you know 16 gigs of ram and SSD drive and then a storage drive and You know a gtx 680 like very I'm talking a very high-end system with Something more along these lines Which is a 550 watt 80 plus gold power supply not I'm not pitting coarse-arrogate see sonic here or anything like that. It's nothing like that I'm just saying in terms of the the overall spec like what's necessary and what's not Parts are getting more power efficient not less power efficient There was a time when I bought a 430 watt ntech true power Thinking that that was the biggest power supply I could possibly ever need I was wrong at that time ct-3 was the biggest power supply at that time cpus gpus particularly I mean at the time I was buying a graphics card that was high end that had a fan this big on it and a heat sink Like this big on it whereas now we have graphics cards that are triple slot monstrosities with dual fans And they suck back like a hundred watts of power or more under load So at that time buying a higher wattage a higher capacity power supply made a lot of sense Whereas we hit sort of this plateau around the time intel stopped going with the whole net burst thing Where power for cpus has actually been reducing with every generation until they ramp up the core count And then it goes up a little bit, but it's generally the trend is down Finally on gpus the trend is level or down when you look at the 6600 series and the 7000 series So why are we over buying on power supply? This is something that's really important to understand guys. This is like super super important This right here Okay, I hope you guys can see this I kind of doubt it But this right here is the efficiency curve of this power supply This is at 100% load where you can see the efficiency is actually falling below 90% at 100% load At 10% load the efficiency of power supply is right down around 80% Around 87% Okay, so if we actually wanted to get the best efficiency possible out of this PSU We would want to be at around 50% load Okay, now think about that for a second. This is a 1200 watt power supply Under load under load like extreme load that 3770k machine with the 680 Probably sucks maybe 450 watts from the wall maybe 500 watts from the wall Which means that you're only actually using around 400 to 450 watts of the power supply Which will put you around that 30% range where the efficiency actually starts to drop off Okay, now consider the following This power supply will be running at idle Modern gaming machines idle around 100 watts Will be running at less than 10% load which will put you at You can see how this curve is dropping off here So that'll put you probably somewhere in the neighborhood of 85% efficiency When you're not actually doing anything intensive when you're browsing the web Or watching videos or whatever else you're doing So problem buy a power supply that's well suited for your machine If you are planning triple GPUs if you are planning dual CPU If you're gonna go crazy or you want some specific feature of a very high-end power supply I'm using a 1000 watt power supply but I'm using it for a very specific reason Because it has a feature that's similar to this one Where the fan actually doesn't turn on until 50% load That's why I'm using it because I'm going for silence If you want a feature like that go ahead buy a high-end product But just know what you're getting yourself into If you don't want that buy a good quality but lower wattage power supply This 550 watt power supply Let's see if I can find the efficiency curve on it Really they don't put the efficiency curve on the outside of the package? Who does that? Well who doesn't do that? Okay well they're killing me here But if I have an efficiency curve to show you from a lower wattage power supply I would be able to show you that it will be at around 20% load at idle Which will be significantly more efficient Than that 1200 watt power supply running on the same system And then when it's actually under load It will be more efficient than this power supply would have been during idling So it'll still be at around 80% load Which is going to be that point where the curve starts to decline So there that is my lecture on the importance of picking an appropriate power supply If you're not really sure how much power something consumes It's as simple as checking reviews for the product Because someone like in an Nantech usually measures power consumption of the entire system And then you can sort of extrapolate things here and there And figure out approximately how much you need And then people will tell me too They'll be like not old minus I need a 1000 watt power supply Because I'm going to add like 10 fans and I'm going to add four hard drives I'm like yeah okay Hard drives are adding maybe 5 to 10 watts per Which means if you add four hard drives we're talking 40 watts here Fans? Oh man we're talking like maybe like two watts three watts per fan So if you're loading it up with fans you're loading up with hard drives maybe by a 650 watt Like don't sort of don't overthink it too much here So I hope you guys found that educational and interesting And if you didn't then I guess you can go tune into someone else's live stream But people are still watching so it seems like people are still enjoying Some people are asking for the cat to come back Cat? Rumble? Oh I hear him here he comes Rumble come here Come here sweetheart come here good boy good boy that's right Come on come on good boy See cat totally comes when I call him sometimes when he feels like it So uh yep he's he's oh look at that rocket came too Rocket doesn't always come when I call him Hey sweetheart come here oh oh yeah he's over there you can't see him Oh no I missed him okay Well I'm sorry rocket didn't manage to visit us But it looks like Rumble's come back to to settle and snuggle with us for a little bit here So let's go back to Twitter and let's uh let's take some more questions If you guys don't know already I'm at Linus Tech on Twitter I'm really really hard to find I'm totally I'm totally going to add that thing again I'm totally going to add that thing again wait for it wait for it Twitter yes on Twitter at Linus Tech it doesn't let me move it look at this It doesn't let me move it any lower than this which is where I actually want to put it And it doesn't let me move it any higher than this So I can either cut off my face or I should cut I can cut off Rumble's face So what would you guys prefer? I'm going to go to the Twitch chat for this guys Would you prefer I cut off my own face or cut off Rumble's face? I'm waiting for it There's a suggestion in Twitch that I should grow a stash for Movember But I can't because I don't have uh I don't have I don't have facial hair It's a very sad thing Okay people want me to cut off my face so I'm cutting off my face It can sit on my head like that And Linus Tech on Twitter All right Twitter questions Let's scroll up where we have 1 billion new interactions Tech this Buffalo okay you are officially shouted out Are you still using a UPS or any surge protector? Um yes I actually just acquired a new UPS So I'm super stoked on that and UPS's are amazing And everyone should use a UPS because it protects your components from dirty power Which even in you know first world developed countries is very much present And keeps your stuff from like dying Also if you're like flashing firmwares or whatever else Your power can't go out in the middle of it because the UPS will keep the power on What's the best PC headset to use with a sound card? 7H I would argue Oh no there's something really cool coming Someone someone messaged me about this I think on Facebook Let me just check let me check my messages This looks really cool This is the wrong this is the wrong thing This is my personal Facebook Okay so maybe now I can see Really okay how's this work? I don't really understand Facebook like I don't I don't really I don't really get it So yeah whatever it's like a it's like a mic that clips on to the side of your headphones Uh mic headphone clip no like glue thing I don't know I don't know how to google this Uh yeah there it is I found it it's the mod mic yes mod mic So if you get a mod mic then you can get like a sweet pair of headphones Like something like an HD555 which I used to use before I wanted a headset So I had a mic permanently attached I used to actually just wear another headset around my neck and then have the mic coming up here So the mod mic allows you to just basically put this little attachment piece And then it's a easily removable thing that you can put on the side of awesome headphones And turn it into a headset and then it like just goes up like this It's not done yet but I've asked them to send one so that I can check it out And let you guys know if it's any good But I'm super super excited about that because that'll give a ton more options For what PC gamers can use for their headset When actually they can use awesome headphones and then just throw a nice high quality mic on it Because I think desktop mics are kind of lame although slick swears by them so you know whatever I'm not judging if you use a desktop mic When are you doing the Silverstone F203 mini build? I'm sorry you guys I'll do it I'll do it I'll do it at some point I'm sorry I was wondering if you can tell me some cases that are able to house a Corsair H100 and push pull You know the best thing to do is just google it You know if you just kind of go I don't know 800D H100 push pull If you guys can see the auto complete it even auto completed that for me So you can see people who have it set up sorry excuse me That's the best thing to do figure out the cases you like and just check See if someone else has already done it because even the manufacturer sometimes think that You can do it and then it can't and so yeah Jordan asks what do I think about the 1500 US dollar murder box MK2 is it overkill? Jordan I think you know the answer to that however one thing that I can justify about Spending more on certain components I've always believed in spending more on Once you have already have a high performance computer like once you don't get any more benefit From spending more on the parts is I do believe in spending money on a case especially if you Have to look at it all the time I do believe in spending money on peripherals and displays And speakers and the reason for the case I mean I've probably spent a total of around A thousand dollars on my case at this point between painting and treatments that I've done with it And sort of modding and the fact that I bought a Dremel just so I could punch holes in my case So yeah is it outlandish well yeah but do it can I kind of understand it I guess if you're Going to keep it forever then maybe but yes I think it's overkill Watching your live stream from the iPad mini wow that's so amazing thank you for watching The live stream from the iPad mini I hope you're enjoying your iPad mini I actually Haven't had a chance to check it out yet what do I think of the new NZXT 280 millimeter radiator It seems like a little reward for case compatibility if little reward son son you don't know what you're Talking about okay 140 millimeter only sounds a little bit bigger than 120 millimeter but in terms Of the actual surface area available for cooling it is night and day and for these pre-filled liquid Cooling kits these days we are very much limited by the surface area that is available for cooling We are not limited by the efficiency of the blocks we're not limited by liquid flow we are limited by How much how much thin we can push air through I am super excited about this 280 millimeter radiator Because it will probably scale pretty much linearly in terms of adding more surface area getting Better performance at a lower fan noise than something like an h100 nope I am super stoked For that product flip palisie hey Linus it's flip I know um can you recommend a custom NAS box Custom NAS with uh wd red drives great question um ultimate windows home server Pretty much this this is my ultimate windows home server guide you're going to want to get sort of a Good value raid card you're going to actually with windows 8 you don't really need one anymore which Is pretty cool you're going to want to get something like a fractal design node 304 which is the Replacement for the array r2 which is the one I show in the video um you're going to want to get A little itx board and you can build yourself a pretty neat little machine in a very small form Factor these days with lots and lots of hard drives so uh yes daniel asks why are my cats bangles Well because bangles are beautiful and because they were born bangles and I liked them so I Got them um I just I like the markings I think the breed is very beautiful the the general person I Mean I did a ton of research before deciding to go with bred cats for one thing because It was always something I kind of objected to uh before it was time for me to get my own cats Um you know one for the price I think you know they asked for a lot of money but then I also Understand it's a lot of work raising cats um so one for that and then two for the fact that There's enough strays that uh you know why are we buying cats and then the flip side of that from From my side is that with the breeds you don't only get the looks but you also get certain Personality traits so um I wanted cats that were super high energy I wanted cats that were super Exciting to play with and I wanted them to be fast and athletic and just sort of you know really Yeah high energy um bangles are also extremely devoted to their owners they're very they get Very attached um they they're they're ex they're just very they're very they're such lovers like he'll Sleep on my chest in the middle of the night like I'll be laying on my back in bed and he'll just Come and he'll walk up and he'll just curl up on my chest which is just the cutest thing ever um And so the way that I justified it to myself as I kind of went well okay it's a thousand dollars per Cat um which is a lot of money but at the end of the day I'm stuck with this thing this is this is A commitment that I'm making for you know 20 years or more um you know I want to make sure that I get The kind of cat that I want I want to make sure that I have a chance to to check out the cattery Which is sort of a cat breeder um I want to meet sort of his mom and dad and find out what kind of Temperament they have when when they're older I want to I mean none of these are guarantees but It's all things that sort of make me feel a little bit better if I'm making a commitment like that I mean the thing about adopting I would adopt a dog but I don't think I'd adopt a cat because cats Tend to be very emotionally scarred when something sort of terrible happens to them and you can adopt Kittens too I I know that too but again it's just sort of where my comfort level was at did I think It was a lot of money yes but if you amortize it over 20 years of the kind of companionship you get From someone like this character then uh yeah it doesn't seem that bad anymore so that's why my cats Are bangles they did a lot of research on the different breeds sort of what I what I thought I Wanted I mean they're very striking which is an obvious reason why why people like bangles they Have just these beautiful beautiful spots and coats and they look just sort of amazing um and It's it's one of those things where you know if you have sort of any desire for people to come over To your house and see your cats and be like holy crap you have such cool cats then you know I enjoy That it's kind of it's kind of neat you know everyone likes my cats even cat haters seem to sort of Like my cats so grant I own a pre-built pc that contains a 920 but I want to build my own pc around Black Friday is it worth keeping uh you know what you're probably getting to the point where you're Going to see some significant benefit from upgrading from a 920 on the other hand 920 is still a pretty Decent chip remember it's equivalent to Linfield a little bit slower than Sandy Bridge and then Which is a little bit slower than Ivy Bridge so especially if you overclock it's still a very Capable chip you might want to look at maybe a graphics card upgrade rather than a cpu upgrade If you want to get the best bang for your buck Alex asks how I like the surface I still love the Surface I still think it's the bee's knees however I could also be sold on a form factor like this Which leads me well into my next topic which is the Acer s7 this is like the sexiest little Ultrabook that doesn't seem to actually be an ultrabook branded thing if you want to know Exactly what an ultrabook is you can uh check out my video on it it's on the NCIX channel what is An ultrabook so it has like a sweet sort of brushed finish that I had a couple people in the office Sort of tell me they hated but I like it for a very specific reason well I hate the iPad 2 backing And the reason is because it's perfect which I'm going somewhere with this don't worry it's perfect Which means the first time you take it and put it down on a surface and someone walks along And pushes something on the counter and it scratches along there and you get a scratch on it You're gonna be like oh now it's not perfect now I need an iPad 3 um which I guess is part of the Strategy maybe whereas this has this kind of pattern of scratches on it that gives it a bit of um A bit of a sort of neat look but it'll also hide it if you get little scratches on it and it won't Be as noticeable and it won't look as ugly if you happen to scratch it in the future so I like that It is extremely thin and I'm totally going to do it I'm going to do the iPhone thickness comparison But check that out this notebook is so freaking thin I'm going to move this a little bit closer To you guys so you can truly enjoy the thinness of this notebook very very thin see there I finally Got it positioned right extremely thin extremely light like it's light enough you can almost kind Of cart it around like a tablet it's very small see here's the sort of linus arm size comparison Very small it has real I.O. and it has a real OS unlike something like a tablet so you've got USB 3 on this side you've got your micro sd you've got headphone jack um on this side nothing on this Side nothing there's your power which again is more like a tablet positioning for the power button More USB 3 power in and then ventilation at the back as well as that looks like a micro hdmi out So you've got all these real PC I.O. options you've got the flexibility of using it a number of Different ways it wakes from sleep extremely quickly like almost all windows 8 machines You have a full-size keyboard again the build quality isn't what I'd consider to be perfect I don't know if you guys can hear that but like when you when you mash on the touchpad like it's Oh oh it's oh it's a clicky touchpad that's why it does it like not a design choice that I'd Probably have made as the product manager but you know no one's perfect hinge feels okay hinge feels Good this is a metal this is a metal backing this is a metal surface here as well the bottom is Plastic so um this part of the screen is glass right up to the edge so it just feels really Really solid on the parts where you're actually touching it and then on the bottom it you don't You don't touch that part so I guess it's not as much of a concern it's got real speakers unlike Most tablets professionally tuned dolby home theater I don't know if I've called them home Theater speakers but I think I pressed the power button when I had it open last time So this this will give you some idea of how quickly it boots up it also gives you that That ability to use it as a touch screen as a touch screen notebook as as kind of a tablet because Like I said in my last live stream where I talked a lot about windows 8 and a lot about touch The problem with touch is that when the computer is this far away from me like a desktop this is Not comfortable whereas with a super small super slim notebook like this it's sitting on my lap It is just as convenient for me and I'm going to try and sort of I'm going to try and position Myself in such a way that this makes sense for you guys but it's going to be positioned on me like This for me to comfortably use it and if I'm using internet explorer what is actually faster from a Notebook usage perspective think about this if you're using windows 7 to come down to the touchpad Here figure out where the mouse cursor is and go to the button remember you're using a touchpad not A mouse touchpads are slow or from the home row because everything happens from the home row to Go like this what's actually faster touch screen makes so much sense to me from a notebook perspective With a tiny device like this where it becomes a very lifestyle like device that you can really Take with you anywhere because it's not much thicker than an iphone I think it's an 11 point Something inch screen for those of you who are just tuning in this is the asus by rs7 And I think I'm signed into the I think I'm logged into my right yeah there we go Oh this is a great thread on the ncix forum unboxings teach us nothing someone complained About my unboxing videos and there's a big long thread about it um something something anyway so Okay here how about this then so I'm browsing the site and I want to type something I want to type A reply again what's faster from the home row from how I'm using the computer hitting reply Okay maybe that's not faster because it's a tiny button and then going like this Or is it actually faster to use my touchpad like this um I would argue touch screen makes a lot of Sense I would argue this is a very freaking cool little device and if you guys want to check Something like this out it'll actually be at the windows 8 launch party at the Aberdeen mall in Richmond tomorrow so if you guys don't know about this if you are located in the lower mainland Which is where I live then I'm going to go ahead I'm going to go to the ncix site where there's Hopefully a thread in the forum about this windows 8 launch party and we are going to I'm well I'm Going to be there tomorrow um windows 8 launch party Aberdeen center atrium ground level richmond Bc there's prizes to be won there's going to be exclusive show deals and all kinds of cool stuff You can check out the event page on facebook I will be there from around 11 30 or 12 to around Three o'clock so you can feel free to come by and say hi and we're going to have all kinds of cool Devices like this and um I might bring my surface or I might not I'm not sure uh because ncix doesn't Really carry them anyway but um yeah yeah I hope to hope to see you guys there So that segue done you know what I'm actually gonna here I'll take my my whole this is my whole topic List for tonight so I've talked about this I have talked about this I have talked about this I have Talked about this oh I haven't talked about the pure onage movie so honestly guys I should preface This by saying I was never really into pure onage like really never really into pure onage but it's On uh indiegogo.com uh pure onage spelled with a p which makes it obviously very easy to google Check this out so these guys said they needed $75,000 to make a pure onage movie if you guys know You know FPS dog hey chad yeah you know the super enthusiastic guy um so I just thought you guys Should see this I again I watched some of their old stuff I was never really into it at the time I watched some of the old stuff it didn't make much sense to me but I figured you guys might care Because people seem to be pretty excited about this whole this whole thing so the uh the campaign Starts with him sniffing the bandana that he wore as his character and then they're discussing Whether they should make a pure onage movie and they've already raised about double of their goal And then there's FPS Doug who's apparently returning You know what I'm gonna check the twitch chat really quick I want to find out if the uh sound Is moving someone says mute it we can't hear you oh I don't know whatever sound is so loud the sound Worked put this something something the sound is loud it's loud okay sound is loud okay so what I Should probably do is turn the sound up on the camera and then or maybe down on my computer Or whatever else okay so there's that and then the other one that I'm actually genuinely really Excited about is um shoot what's it called youtube.com star citizen that's right star star citizen okay If you guys haven't seen this on twitter already I posted this on twitter if you haven't seen this On facebook already go to my facebook uh it's the post sort of it's not that far down the page I think I posted about it yesterday the day before star citizen okay I posted about it a while ago I think no this is the beginning I don't know it's on here somewhere oh my goodness if you guys ever Played wing commander if you ever played tie fighter if you ever played freelancer if you ever Played any space sim games or anything like that you guys are gonna be just so freaking stoked on This pc okay hold on hold on you have to you have to see this part because it's all it's all about This it's all about this I am a pc game this is not some console thing like this thing halo pc game Space sim dog fights and spacey stuff like this is real in-game footage they're pointing at it Pointing at it like this this is in-game footage guys this is rendered in the engine they're using Cry engine it is going to be amazing and there is a there is a there's a kickstarter thing for it And basically this is chris roberts this is the wing commander guy got out of the gaming scene for A while here but he is back and if he the more money he raises the better a game he's going to Build he's actually got a chart um star citizen here we go here we go if you google it you can See the the money that's been raised the money that's that they need and then they've got this Whole chart of how much money they need to raise in order to make the game whatever um he's done a Lot of work on it already there's a couple trailers available and it just looks absolutely fantastic I think and the other thing that's nice about it a lot of the concepts upgrades and moves there'll be Like there'll be like a single player mission based thing kind of like throttle my hands and then there Will also be like an open world type thing and it's fully rendered in 3d so if you issue a command You'll actually see a character do it but it's all for the immersion But I think immersion is really important for me because I think that you have to really visualize And create a very believable world and so that's one of the reasons why I always sort of really push The visual fidelity is because I think that I'm not saying you have to contribute or anything Nothing like that but just be aware of this because if you haven't enjoyed those types of games Or if you haven't heard of this you should be aware of it and it's awesome Alright that is that topic that I wanted to cover let's do a little bit more Q&A and then I'm probably going to sign off in about 15 minutes here First time watching live from Venice Wayville thank you for watching live Do you know if Intel chips have still had that SSD caching feature? Yes they do Z68 and Z77 boards have SRT I'm going to turn this down because it's too pixelated I'm really excited about the physics and they're going to be a strong part of the gameplay So let me demonstrate some of the features of how the physics interacts with how you control The ship itself is built and designed and simulated like a real ship So there's four thrusters on the bottom and there's four thrusters on the top And then of course there's obviously the engine and most of the ships in this universe Are going to fly very much like an F-35 would do They fly by wire so they take your input as a pilot and crunch it into trajectories and vectors Because yes you need a sound card for any headset it makes a big difference Should I buy an Intel CPU and buy an motherboard? No So if I want to pitch into the now and New York and then roll It actually polls the thrusters themselves and says how quickly can you rotate to the position I need to deliver thrust And how much thrust can you deliver So the thrusters talk back to the flight computer and says okay I can get you there in 0.1 of a millisecond And I give you this much thrust The whole system is dynamically doing that every single frame and flying that way It's really cool because what happens is a lot of unexpected or dynamic behavior happens by it And for instance we're flying around in a dogfight one of our thrusters gets damaged It will affect our maneuverability and it's not a matter of changing the script or data It's actually all dynamically simulated in the system FX8150 actually not an actress I'm here finally It's 5.08am thank you for tuning in So I get a second 480 Or a 680 and get a 680 The carrier that's in the prototype level is about a kilometer in size It's full of activity, space ships and people So one of the things that I'm the most excited by The technology we're working on is the ability to scale So we have detail for scale at a human level So I'll characterise that in 180 is in size Then the same level of detail for a fighter craft that will fly Or a bigger craft which this fighter craft is 27 millimeters in size I'm building a game in a universe that's essentially the universe in the game I would like to play So it's for gamers like myself so I wouldn't say that I'm a social, casual gamer that plays farmfarm I like sophisticated experience Well I'm picking PC over console because PC was what I always used to do in the past But more importantly it's because PC is an open platform PC is always constantly innovating I really care about the PC and I really want to push the PC I think it's a great game platform I'm really actually quite sad and angry about the situation now Where it feels like PC games and PC gamers don't get any respect It's the medium that is the coolest and the most powerful And that's really why I'm excited We're going to allow users to design some spaceships and build them and submit them And if it passes the standards then it can get sold in the ship dealers on certain planets And maybe the person that built that spaceship will be earning money from other players That think that spaceship is cool and want to pay them for it So one of the things that I like about crowdfunding is cutting out the politics and the noise of the publisher And dealing directly with the people that want to experience the game you're making So one of my main goals whenever I make a game is to really immerse you in the world of the universe And I think you've seen that on what we've been trying on the website today And this visual prototype is a demonstration of the direction that I want to take And it's not going to work, something like a drop to their original series fans I can't remember what they were called, the number P series, the rotor, the S series They're S series fans with the rotor that has so much space around the outside That it's absolutely worthless if you put it on a heatsink or on a radiator But if you put it in an open air environment it's one of the most efficient and quiet One of the best CFM features in the world So it's all about using the right fan I actually did a video about this Corsair fan NCIX or something, I don't know I did a video about it Yeah, there we go, this one right here Where I explained all of the different, the importance of static pressure and NCFM And I show some graphs and I show a big Oh, I'm not even showing you guys this I show a big fancy machine that's used to measure static pressure and NCFM And I test a bunch of fans on it Here I'm explaining about how static pressure means there's resistance Which is sort of exactly the example I just gave now So there you go And yeah, that video is definitely worth checking out If you want to learn a little bit more about picking the right fans for your case Unboxing videos give you more info about the products itself Yes, they do if they're decent Can you recommend a USB sound card for 5.1 surround? Not really Forgot that you live in Canada? When is the next time you're in Silicon Valley? Probably no time soon, to be honest How many streams do Can I Do? Not the same stream split, by the way You'll need gigabit ethernet As long as you have a powerful storage subsystem on the other side You might want to check out my server NCIX Tech Tips I did a video where I did like a quad gigabit, like, ridonkulous Hold on, where is it? Ultimate Home NAS Setup with a 4 gigabit network connection I think I was running 7 or 8 drives in RAID 0 or something stupid like that And then what I do is I run 1080p streams to like 5 computers at the same time As long as you have the storage horsepower on the other side for it, it can be done, no problem Planning out my loop in a C70 I want dual 240, is it inefficient? No, not at all Last time EGPU I meant external GPU, do you have any experience by any chance? Unfortunately not yet, I will check it out as soon as I do get a chance though Is it worth paying 10% more for a 3 gigabit gigahertz vapor x edition over a gigabyte 7970? Performance difference won't be that much, especially once you're overclocking them Touchscreen notebooks are awesome, yes, I agree, and thank you for watching my unboxings However, my feelings wouldn't be hurt if you watched someone else's Let me just see if I have any more Ah, yes, I wanted to talk about storage spaces a little bit more So, storage spaces, some of the challenges that I've had with it So if you guys aren't familiar with storage spaces already, it's a Windows 8 feature That's going to allow you to just kind of, it's kind of like the drive pool in Windows home server Where you just kind of chuck in drives willy-nilly, they can be any capacity, they can be any brand You don't need a RAID card, as long as you have a SATA connection Plugging into it, you can add it to, actually even if you don't have a SATA connection If you have a USB 3 connection or a Thunderbolt connection I used Thunderbolt to add drives to a storage space today, just to see if it worked, because I was curious So you can add things willy-nilly and you can get data redundancy Which means that it doesn't protect you from something like a virus that attacked all your files Or from something like someone formatting your entire computer or whatever But it does protect you from physical drive failures as long as you don't have sort of too many at the same time So you can run it in a number of different modes, you can run it in sort of a RAID one So, single redundancy, so as long as you have at least two drives of the same capacity It'll fill both of them equally with the same data and there's really no performance benefit or problem You can have dual redundancy, which means you need at least three drives Or no, at least five drives, three drives, I think at least five or something I forget what the limit is, but that way it makes sure that any data you write Is backed up on at least three drives at any given time, which is kind of neat It's like a super RAID one And then the other one is parity, which is a RAID five, like a fake RAID five that uses a CPU instead of a dedicated RAID card And the RAID five parity is the one that I was really excited about because It calculates a parity bit, which means that if you have at least three drives You'll get two drives worth of capacity and then one for parity And then if you have five drives, you get four drives worth of capacity and then one for parity No matter almost how much you scale it So that's cool And then what I thought was that we were going to get really great performance out of it Even in writes because it was going to take advantage of your CPU Which is so fast these days that you could, you know, hammer it with RAID parity calculations And it wouldn't even care But unfortunately it looks like with my four drive WD-RED setup And this is pretty common I am limited to about 30 megabytes per second writes Reads are still fine, but writes are slow Now writes are the challenging part of a RAID five because it has to actually calculate That parity, that data redundancy part while it is writing the data It has to do it in real time But I was really expecting a lot better than that Another one of the challenges that I ran into is that Rearranging things about the drive pool, the storage space, is not that easy You can't actually reduce the capacity of a storage space once you've committed it And it looks like there's some rules in terms of removing drives from the storage space Without just pulling them out and rebuilding it Which is challenging to me I don't really like that because rebuilding an array can be one of the most stressful things You do to an array Which if you have one drive that failed and there's another one on the brink That can be the thing that pushes that other drive over the edge And you will lose all your data So I would have liked if there was a graceful way to manually remove a drive Without just kind of pulling it out And I sort of didn't really like that about it either I'm still pretty excited about the feature Because it still gives people access to RAID 5 in a way that's easier and less fussy Than running it even off your motherboard And certainly off of an add-in RAID card But I'm just a little bit less excited about it than I was before So let's do a little bit more Q&A on Twitter Looks like people are tuning out So apparently they're bored of my storage spaces talk Oh no, last thing, last thing, last topic that you guys may or may not care about I have a new Tech Tips Studio So you can check this out Oh my goodness, I have a green screen now So I can do all kinds of cool stuff on my green screen And then I will be using my other walls So you can see here's the green wall, here's the blue walls As potentially a blue screen over here if I'm wearing green And I don't want to do fancy masking and whatnot in After Effects or in whatever video suite And then this will also be the background for NCIX Tech Tips So we moved NCIX Tech Tips This room I no longer have any access to This room is dead And we are going back to the old look I just decided because there were some problems with the new Tech Tips room Reflections off the glossy paint and things weren't perfect I'd like to get a new TV as well that has Actually here I can move this down, the cat's not here I'd like to get a new TV as well that doesn't have a reflective bezel around it Because that's just obnoxious But there was something to be said for the classic older style Tech Tips room With just the blue background So we're going to go back to that And I am super super excited about the new Tech Tips room And some of the neat stuff I can do with chroma keys And maybe I can put something else behind me or something cool like that So we're going back to more like this style And should be good, should be good, very excited So there Now we are going back to Q&A So Q&A will be on Twitter Please respond, I accidentally formatted my hard drive And I want to recover the file that lost, is it possible? Yes, there are software applications that you can use As long as you didn't do like a full overwriting format It's been a long time since I've looked into it Most of them are pay applications But a lot of them have previews that you can use And what they'll do is they'll bring up a directory list And tell you this is all the stuff we can recover If you give us feedback If you give us 50 bucks or whatever else it is So yes, it can be possible I have a $2,200 budget for a gaming editing bill I've been looking at a 3930K and a GTX 680 I would probably recommend a 660Ti or a 670 They're a much better value right now Or a 7950 or 7970 The 680 is probably on the high end The worst value GPU out there right now Just because 7970 is faster with the latest drivers from AMD And even 660Ti is really not that much slower I just built my first PC and I want to overclock What's a good load temp to stay at? On AMD, probably around 80 degrees is your max And actually on Intel, probably 80, 85 is your maximum When you're doing an artificial stress test How often should I replace my storage hard drive? What you should do is you should do regular backups And then you can replace it whenever it dies Because you'll have regular backups So it doesn't really matter What sound card would you recommend for a media PC? I would recommend optical or coaxial out to a receiver That would probably be the best thing Because you're going to need a pretty decent amp In order to get the kind of sound you want From a 5.1 surround system on a TV Is Zelma a good manufacturer? Sure, not my favorite power supply brand by any stretch I'd go probably Antec, Corsair I've never tried Unraid, good question Not something that I've done Adrian, I'm not really an engineer It's probably not really the right question for me Hard to say, depends how much you can get for those 550Ti's Because a 660Ti, you know what, it's probably Yeah, it's probably a good value I'd probably consider that And no, I don't understand what that means I'll probably have to look it up later We lost 10 minutes of live I forgot the other video in the background We go, oh, okay, that's bad How can I get a TPM chip? You have to buy a motherboard with a TPM chip on it Is it possible to use RAM as video RAM? If you have onboard video, then yes, otherwise no Can you use a USB as RAM? No, it's way too slow Okay, you have to mute the sound Yeah, we couldn't, oh, that's probably why people were tuning out Oh, my bad, I'm sorry, guys Yeah, oops I just smashed my keyboard when I saw your Halo 4 copy I'm going to the Midnight Launched, so stoked Really, Alex? Should I unbox the... Should I unbox the whatever this is, the limited edition? On camera? You know what? I'm going to let the Twitch chat decide Because I never let them say anything What should we do? What should we do? Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes Whoa, it's going way too fast for me to do anything Okay, it looks like the bulk of them are saying yes So we are going to do this We're going to do this thing We're going to unbox a Halo 4 limited edition live Wow And that will cover the last sort of three minutes of the live stream here So if you don't care about this, I guess you can too now And I'm having a lot of trouble here So this might be worth watching Okay, the plastic is off And actually, I get a lot of questions about whether... What happens to the products I unbox In this case, one of my co-workers will actually be buying this copy That I have already unboxed So he's putting off buying his copy of Halo 4 until he gets the unboxed one So it's kind of tricky how this actually opens here It seems to... Ah, yes, it slides out here So there's the limited edition casing We can check out the system specs, which is... Have an Xbox Okay Okay Shipwrecked on a mysterious world Faced with new enemies And deadly technology The Master Chief returns to battle An ancient evil bent on vengeance and annihilation Enlist as a Spartan IV aboard the UNSC Infinity And blah, blah, blah, blah, blah Digital content, something, something So you get three war game Macpaps Nine Macs total Nine Macs total Nine Macs total Ha We're talking about console games and Macs on my stream Can you believe that? Okay Nine Macs total Forward Unto Dawn Special Edition Live Action Series Launch Day Access to six specializations Unique in-game skins and emblem Avatar Cryo 2 Prop And Avatar Spartan Armor Cool And then there's some cool stuff inside here Macpaps will release after launch Four gigs of storage required Okay Co-op 2-4, players 1-4 Linus, never become a voice actor Thank you for that Okay So this, we're putting aside And now In a world where this is copy 231,177 I don't feel like it's that limited at that point We got some like shiny text here We got a box that's kind of folded in the corner In a very epic looking way And we're opening it up Oh, there's a magnet You can tell that like something is epic in limited edition When it's shiny and has a magnet So let's take this out Here we go Oh, oh, wait for it, wait for it Okay The first thing we find inside is I don't know what this is Infinity and it has like a metal thing binding it here And it has like a plastic hard cover It's supposed to be like a clipboard or something I guess Small though Okay So this is kind of translucent Very high tech Okay Property of Spartan gear Okay, property of Spartan Gabriel Thorne That's my middle name actually Gabriel In case you couldn't tell The letter on the next page was written by a UNSC committee That still thinks of the Spartans as a navy project And not their own branch Well, they wrote it and my bosses in a fit of play nice with the rest of them Made me sign it But what the committee and my bosses didn't do was ship the thing out Leaving me the opportunity to add my own something Something? Something, I don't know One piece can do it again I don't know what else Spartan, welcome aboard the UNSC Infinity And welcome to the next phase of your stellar career Blah blah blah You choose a list and something something Infinity mass deployment There's like specs of like some ship or something There's It's a gun Aha an assault rifle If it's anything like the assault rifle from Halo 1 Which is the last Halo game I played Then it probably sucks and you should just use the pistol Although maybe they changed that Sticky detonator Aha Something something Care for your armor Aha all Spartan IV class operatives will consume a meals aboard the something something So there's a diet thing Exercise regimen Ha for gamers I lulled Did you lull? Okay moving right along Ship R&R opportunity schedule If you're feeling like a real show off You can apply for multiple specialist rankings Something something So you can read through all this if you really want to I guess There's another thing in here Which is Is a folded piece of paper that I actually cannot unfold Aha Wargame session summary Okay See I don't understand Halo so I don't really know what any of this says Lauren is still looking for more but found this on the network If she did put the engines in this thing Then this has to be a letter to her Yeah Oh yeah Redacted civilian So okay you know what we're done with that Let's move right along then Next we have oh some kind of sealed Sealed briefing thing I'm gonna open this because I don't care Because it's just my co-worker's copy of Halo 4 Attention Aha this has your mission briefing Do not remove from SDEC Read and destroy Your mission briefing is Kill all the aliens in all likelihood Fireteam majestic will advance on Covenant cultist help list With the goal of eradicating all resistance on location Request something something free from worry Okay I better destroy it now Actually I'm gonna put it away nicely so that my co-worker can have it Alright we got more stuff Gabriel Thorne Mjolnir Mjolnir requisition Really Mjolnir Okay Hey Linus stop Everyone everyone hates my xbox You know what you don't have to watch But you guys are all still watching So here's your Spartan Gabriel Thorne sort of specs and stuff Okay here we go Let's put that away And then we've got another thing here Which is like a ziplock baggy Okay here we go Halo 4 something something Aha access code You guys don't get to see this This is for this is for my co-worker And then there's marketplace download Okay so this is all the all the stuff that all the extra stuff And then finally the game box itself Which has kind of a nice actual feel to it Is this metal? Oh cool it's metal Contains disk one and disk two Although apparently disk swapping is not an issue Because you install sort of one of them or something The inside is all blue and stuff Okay there's a thing Okay guys okay okay here here here here Do you dare me to lick the disk before I give it to him? I'm gonna I'm gonna let I'm gonna let twitch contribute to this I'm totally I'm totally gonna do it I'm totally gonna what do you guys think? Should I just do it? Should I do it? One of my co-workers has to use this Okay I'm doing it Okay I'm gonna put that back in there like that If his if his if his xbox doesn't read it Then then he'll he'll have to watch the live stream To figure out why why that happened So we're gonna go ahead and sort of tuck this back away And I thank you guys for tuning in to my live stream tonight Don't forget to subscribe to Linus Tech Tips Although if you guys are really watching my live stream You're already subscribed to Linus Tech Tips anyway And thank you for watching and good night