This BIZARRE Chinese Motherboard a Graphics card

 - This is an extremely unusual motherboard and it's gonna get a pretty quick and unceremonious unboxing because I wanna get straight down to it today. This came to us straightfrom a factory in China that it actually took usmonths to get in contact with and convince them to send us one of these. As soon as I saw this, I absolutely had to have one. On the one side, you've got acompletely normal motherboard, with an LJA 1151 socket, anda couple of memory slots, and some I/O and all that kind of thing. And on the other side is a graphics card. In fact, the manufacturer claims that that is a GTX 750 Ti. So we're not talking about your grandma's onboard graphics here, we're talking a fully, gaming capable graphics card, soldered right onto a motherboard. So the first question for us to answer is, why is this on here? Most industrial applications either don't need much GPU at alland can make do with onboard, or they need a lot, in which case, they wouldn't want it soldereddirectly to the motherboard. Then the second questionwe want to answer is, is this thing any good? So let's take it fora test-drive shall we? Looking for an affordableand reliable VPN? Private internet access,encrypt your internet traffic, and uses a safe protected IP. Check it out today at the link below. (upbeat music) That may actually be a personal best for one of these videos getting derailed. I was just about to pointout that instead of a 20, or a 24-pin connector from a, you know, more standard internal power supply, this motherboard actuallygets all of its power from this DC plug on theedge of the board right here. When I realized, uh-oh, that the plug they sent me from the office isn't gonna fit in there. Now I was able to determinefrom the manufacturers website that it requires 19 volt power, so, it's at least correct in that sense, and it's got enough amperageto run all the hardware that I intend to install on here, so that's all good. But unfortunately, what I didn't know was which pins were supposed to be which, and the only references that Icould find to this connector, didn't seem to indicate thatthere was an industry standard. Fortunately, we can determine which ones are supposed to be thegrounds fairly easily just by, grabbing a ground likethe housing on a USB port, and checking for which pinshave very little resistance, those are gonna be our grounds. So as I suspected, it'sthe ones closer here. And which pins are power, so that's gonna be these two right here with the much higher resistance. But then, I didn't end up having to pursue that route of like, ripping the connectoroff of the power adapter, and then jamming wires into those holes. Because, they actuallyfound one that would work that we borrowed from a different system that seems to have both the same pinout, and the same locking connector. So, progress, we're back at it. Let's talk about whatelse is unusual about this motherboard. So the form factor is something that I have actually never seen before. This is the size, approximately of a Micro ATX motherboard, but it doesn't have thesame mounting holes, it doesn't have any PCIExpress expansion slots, the I/O is all over the place. So we've got a bunchof it on the back here, we've got HDMI, gigabitethernet, USB 3, SATA, audio, like, why does SATA need to be on what is apparently the rearpanel of whatever device this is intended to be installed in, and then making matters even crazier is over on the other side of the board, we've got mostly internal connectors. USB 3, LVDS, so these are video outputs, another HDMI port, okay,and then more SATA. So wait, that's an external HDMI port, an internal SATA, and then that's internal SATA, and an external HDMI port. What is the front side ofwhatever case this goes in? I don't know, I don't understand. And then the last thingthat weirds me out, is just this mix of what feels like very low end design choices, like the fact that there'sno cooling on the VRMs for the GPU, or for theCPU for that matter. With things that aregenerally considered to be high end on gaming boards, like for example, thislittle button right here, is a nice convenientlittle CMOS clear switch. I don't really know whyI'm freaking out though, because none of this should surprise me. I mean, obviously you neverencounter something like this at the local Micro Center, but that doesn't mean that boards with unusual layouts, orfeatures, are something that I've never encountered before. Like if you've ever hung around on a trade floor likeComputex, for example, it's just full ofmotherboard manufacturers you've never heard of, withwalls covered in designs that you could neverimagine any purpose for. And, what likely happened,the reason that this exists, Zeal-All, made the ZA-SK1050-Embedded motherboard, is probably because some customer at some point requested this design, and they figured well, wemade it already anyway, if anyone else wants it, we might as well list it on Alibaba, and then if they buy it, then you know, we can sell these things. You probably noticedby now that this takes laptop sized memory modules,as opposed to desktop ones. That's pretty common in these types of embedded motherboards. Here's some Ripjaws 3200 CL 16, I really doubt that these are gonna work, but let's, go skip to the moonshot here. The CPU I installed is a Core i7, 7700 K, and in theory, it should be compatible, i3, i5, and i7, sixth and second gen, it's what it lists on the website. But one thing I'm alittle worried about is this seems to be one that weliquid metaled at some point, and it seems to be seepingout from under the IHS that can cause problems. Like, what is this is? Is that just like a random D Ram chip and like I don't evenknow what this chip does. I'm gonna use the 1500 watt power supply, again little bit overkill. I think we're close now. If I had to guess, I'd saythis HDMI is the GPU's HDMI and this one comes off the onboardvideo or something like that. Finding a power brick thatplugs into it was only like a third of the battle though. So, yes, right connector, but I also needed it to be19 volts, which this is, and have enough power for, asyou guys might have noticed, a not insignificant amount of hardware, so 7700 K is like 95 Watts or whatever, and then 1050 Ti is, whatever that is, probably somewhere inthe same neighborhood, somewhere in like 75, 85 range. So this is 19 volt 13.1 amps,so it's about 250 watts here. Kmode exception not handled. I hate it when my Kmodeexception doesn't get handled. Well, isn't that interesting? Here I thought I was just doinga quick off camera SSD swap so I could put a freshWindows install on this thing, and then I was still getting errors, so I tried a coupledifferent memory modules, and I was still getting errors just trying to installWindows, and lo and behold, remember that liquid metal that I pointed out and said, "Oh gee, "I hope this isn't a problem"? It might be a problem. That's the underside of the IHS, and you can see where it'skind of dripped down here. And here all over the CPU package, there's liquid metal. Hopefully, cleaning it upwill resolve the issue, but honestly, I have my doubts right now. Last idea, I've got a crazy hunch that Linux might behavea little bit better with this either weird or defective hardware, so I've loaded up a live, bootable version ofUbuntu on that USB drive, and I'm gonna go aheadand fire this puppy up. Whoa, whoa! Nvidia GPU 107, GeForce GTX 750 Ti. Okay, hold on a second, it's working! By the way, I never followedup on what happened with trying the other HDMI port, that's a debugging port,that is not an HDMI port, so that didn't work. Now it's working! No way! You gotta, oh no, Steamwon't install in the USB? You have got to be kidding me! Can I do a, hot swap-a-runi here? Hey, all right, we up. Basically, I tried to launchedout of the Tomb Raider, and the weird pre launcher thing says, "Your current activeCPU governor is not optimized. "You can still play the game, "but may experience performance issues." How do I change it? - [Anthony] There's... I think it was an app that I used to use. - Oh my god. - [Anthony] It's probably on demand, what they're probablyrecommending is performance, which is full throttle. - Wait, your computer's graphics card or driver is not supported by the game. What? Well, why not? I installed the Nvidia driver, I think. Oh, this is very good news. My graphics driver definitely installed, because I'm now running at 4K 60 hertz, which makes more sense for a 1050. HDMI 2.0 is working. No, it still doesn't likemy active CPU governor, whatever, I'm gonna continue anyway. Hey, no warning about thegraphics driver, good tip. All right, I'm gonna tryand give this a shot. I'm definitely notgonna try and run at 4k. App is not responding, okay. Let's try something else. You know, what I think it is? I think it's a dead graphics card. A lot of those errors that I got when I wastrying to install Windows, seemed to be related to hardware directly. I have now done CPU intensive things, and not had any crashes in Linux. Look at that linethrough the screen there. I think we do have a defectivegraphics card in this thing. It's gone now, but, that is a strong argument against a fully integrated solutionlike this isn't it? Not only does it cost more,but, if something goes wrong, you're left with no optionsto swap things in and out for diagnosis. And, once you've confirmed thatthere is in fact a problem, there is nothing you can doaside from just get a new one. 150 frames per second. That actually does soundprobably about right. That GPU working now? Oh, yeah. Definitely working. All right, give me that deagle. Okay, ooh wow, no that looked pretty good. Oh that is pretty nice. Well I don't know how much of that the editor's gonnause, but, long story short, it's working perfectly right now, with performance thatabout meets my expectations for this class of hardware. I'm getting a 130 to a 150frames per second in CSGO at 1080, with things, I wouldn't say cranked,but definitely high. And, it's running smoothly and fine, so I don't know what that waswith all the Windows errors, and I don't know what thatwas with the instability I initially experienced with Linux. But, what I can tell you isthat this is 100% not worth it for people like you and me because whether we dohave a dead graphics card, or whether we don't, it's clear that this solution makestroubleshooting more difficult, and even if you do determinewhat the problem is, replacing something impossible and it actually cost significantly more. Now as for why thisexists in the first place? I do have some ideas. One might be a DVR, like avideo surveillance system or something like that, that relies on a lightamount of GPU compute in order to perform betteror perform facial recognition or something like that. Another idea I had, wasmaybe it's a control board for some kind of pieceof industrial equipment, or a medical equipment. But with all the issues I had, I sure hope it doesn't endup in any medical equipment, that requires x86 compatibility, and maybe uses the GPUfor real-time rendering of something is working on, like I don't know maybeit's a CNC machine, and it shows a visualizationof what it's doing, or, one other weird idea I had, was maybe it's for like a budgetgame console or something. Whatever it's for, I'msure that the manufacturer had to work closely with the integrator to ensure that they had abetter experience than I did, because this certainly wasanything but plug-and-play. Drop.com is featuring the mass drop Sennheiser HD 6 XX headphones. These are one of theirall-time bestsellers with over 90,000 units sold, and why not? They've got an unchangeddriver and sound structure as the HD 650s, whichmeans balanced mid-range, and natural sounding bass, not to mention, they are extremely comfortable. They've got a detachable six foot cable, and and 1/8 inch plug that'sversatile for everyday use with a quarter inch adapter, and they come withSennheiser's long-term support. Check it out today at thelink in the video description. These are actually supersimilar to my daily drivers, they're just great headphones. If you guys enjoyed this video, maybe check out the one we did, it must've been over a year ago, but we checked out likefive weird graphics cards. Just super unusual graphics cards. Maybe not as weird as this motherboard, but definitely weird. We're gonna have thatlinked down below as well. It's so weird, I just don't know what all that instability was inWindows, and then even in Linux when I was running off the USB, I got a weird crash that, a couple times. And now it's just running flawlessly. So bizarre. Shut her down and never lookat this thing ever again 'cause I hate it. 

Fake Chinese sd card scam

 The whole thing's a big scam! I *bleeping*(f**king) knew it all this time. We've been paying hundreds of dollars for "big" microSD cards, but the greedy corporations have been hiding the good stuff from us. They just pretend there's a difference between small ones and big ones So we'll pay more for this kind of cheap plastic Then they unlock the functionality. Well, you know what? Thank you eBay.. Thank you for helping me See the light with this one terabyte micro SD card for $32 and 99¢. By the way guys just so that you don't have any doubt to prove that these are real. I've actually been buying these things for all of our cameras. We are gonna save a fortune! Or maybe not... But you could save a fortune with Mack Weldon! Mack Weldon makes great underwear, T-shirts, socks, wallets and more and they last for a long time. They believed in simple shopping. If you use code TechTips, you'll get 20% off at the link below [Intro Music] In all seriousness though guys, I did actually buy a couple of these cards but only for the purpose of shedding some light on these... fake capacity scans and showing you how they work. So um... Let's rip this open and take a closer, look at what arrived in the mail? So our card in particular here looks like a verbatim card on the outside down to even the little... little "V" logo in the corner Let's get this this baby opened up or at least it would mostly look like it if it weren't for this like... weird "Serif" font here that you often find on cheap Chinese devices. What's actually sorry side note here, like if you think about it, it's so ridiculous! Like obviously they weren't gonna pay for an expensive font! But it's not like they paid verbatim to rip off their logo either. Why can't they pirate a decent-looking font? And then the weirdest thing is like if you look really close the letters are fine It's just the numbers, like they didn't have numbers in their font pack and while we're at it, why is the Year on here. Chinese pirates? It's like you're not even trying! So moving back to our packaging here for a second and there's some claims here high-speed high-performance, waterproof, shockproof. Those are pretty dubious claims and oh, this is interesting! Wow, that's funny. So it claims 2,000 songs in the mp3 format. That's actually a... Probably our first hint and then our second hint is gonna be this EAN code down here. So it's eight four three eight six oh, five, six three six zero one zero and if you put that into Google first hit here is OH... The plot thickens! A 32 GB micro SDHC That happens to look well similar. It's got the same outer packaging here... as the one that we got but then and our card has the rip-off verbatim markings and then actually, this looks the same - hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm Now there's also apparently a... Listing for like a SanDisk USB Drive or something like that But either way it's not looking good for this card, but you know what though? I'm gonna keep an open mind. So let's go ahead and give it a shot. All right, so... showed up and boom! Look at that! Check this capacity out - 976 GB And Anthony has actually already pre-loaded a couple files on here just to show that it does in fact work I might need my tinfoil hat back after all. It's a conspiracy the corporation's Look at this works it's just fine So far so let's go ahead and grab maybe a bigger file. Pop this on here! Oh Woof. Oh, that is, that is not an impressive speed what how fast is this thing supposed to be I - I believe it says class 10 - Class 10 That 10 plus or is that class 10 and a free adapter - That's class ten and a free adapter out there. and a free adaptor. All right *some strange noise from linus* Tight speed that's higher than high You know high height-height-height um actually no - class 10 is 10 megabytes per second sustained is the minimum 10 megabytes per second? Yes Okay Alright Alright Okay sure, in fairness to them this is indeed ish ten tenish, I mean not really but I'm gonna close up I've See in class 10 cards that are held up a lot faster *laughs* Yes, the minimum right speed. So like class 10 in.. 2006 I mean it must be legit, right? Like these guys have got 93 percent positive feedback Like they've actually got positive reviews here And more and they've got they've got reviews going back like a year Very good seller delivers what promises? Best new one terabyte micro SD. I'm happy with the end of my I was ordered. I can recommend this seller This seems that shopping cost too high Positive feedback... uuuuuuummmmmmmmmmmmm Okay, buy all your codes here who that sounds legit awesome price sell are very helpful would recommend and buy all your codes here counselor door instead of have to pay more for taxes That's the negative review Anthony thinks it's over writing existing data And what did I say? I thought it was Oh, yeah I thought it might just be like some weird like caching thing because we were copying off in the network drive that clearly Isn't it so okay. Yeah, you're probably right then. So oh crap and Naturally, the file that I copied is one that we're not going to be able to play back. It's an MOV I mean I didn't think Okay, so that works, oh wow when you copy from the oh it's even worse How? Because we can't check these VMs I-I Really I feel like I'm just watching paint dry right now I can watching files Transfer but like it's fascinating and I just I can't look away from it because I I don't know what wizardry, this is Is this like a lotto thing Some of them are fake every once in a while they ship for real ones. So they get a positive review. I Don't they don't exist what is going on here? Okay, so as we can see if you open up all the files we copy them originally there yeah cuz it's 47 points for gigs Yeah, and if we open up one of those files, yeah, go there so it didn't overwrite it. So that was that's my my theory out the window and obviously we still have uhhhhhhhh you know there 920 gigs so all looks good, right? Yeah. Yeah, but these copies that we made everything you can't transfer over after 32 gigs *sound effect by a human* Whoa, it's fake Its fake Okay, so then What what why? All right, so let's explain what's going on here the highest capacity Legit micro SD card at the time of writing actually, huh? That's convenient. I have one right here is this 512 Giga what are they called integral? That's right. And one of these is gonna run you a few hundred dollars, so Obviously those $30 SD cards that we bought off eBay are scams But here's the thing if the cards arrived and they were just completely non-functioning plastic dummies or if they showed up in people's computers as 32 gigs Well, they would immediately leave negative feedback and file for a return through eBay's buyer leading the scammers with No money for their effort. In fact, they would lose money because They would have had to send something like even a plastic, you know empty junk cost something So that is why they designed them to misreport. He pulled the capacity thing again, and it's like very convincing But how are they doing this? So this scam is as old as SD cards themselves be they full-sized ones or micro ones Inside every SD card as you might expect is flash memory along with a micro controller So there at least two chips? Even on one of these tiny little guys and that micro controller is really really small it manages Communication with a host device like a PC or camera and it has information like the total size the physical layout the vendor ID the Product ID the serial number the date of manufacture And all of this gets reported to the host device and the micro controller acts as a go-between to fetch / Store data from the flash memory on the SD card. It's not unlike an SSD controller in its overall Functionality, but it's much simpler in design and much lower in both power consumption and performance so then if you know how to program or that is Reprogram the micro controller you're able to modify what it reports to the host including the capacity and the Vendor ID making some well made fakes. These aren't particularly well made very difficult to identify or Discover the problem with before your return window is up So our ei encode investigation likely revealed the true nature of this beast Which raises the question then I mean now that we're out our $30.00 anyway Is there a way for us to at least restore it to a working 32 gig model so we can at least get some? Use out of it In a word no in more words Sort of actually so the card as it is will always report that it is one terabyte in size unless we had the Expertise and the time to reprogram its microcontroller again But what we can do is we can create a small partition on it that we can then use Normally though there are still some stumbling blocks that we could hit here so there are only a handful of Factories in the world that make NAND flash which means that there's a chance that this thing is slow but perfectly functional The issue is that we don't know where it came from so it could be from like a small Chinese fab It could be from a reject bin and a legitimate one or it's even possible that it was produced during a so-called third Shift when a legitimate factory that makes authorized Goods starts up again at night without the brand owners Authorization and produces more of the same goods to sell out the back door Often without the same degree of quality control. So to figure out Where exactly the flash is there are a couple of tools that we can use so there's age to test W by pice heise Heise Okay, probably that one is by far the most useful but F three is an open source Linux alternative and HDD low level format tool by HD guru is also a pretty good bet now any partition creation tool that allows you to specify Where the partition is placed on the card is gonna help you do this But first there's a couple things you got to do. You got to get anything important off of your fake SD card I mean, it's just in general get everything off it as fast as you can but this whole process is gonna wipe it anyway If you aren't sure how much useable space you have by the way H to test W is the way to go Takes a long time to run though. So naturally we didn't run it, but Anthony actually did some poking around and figuring out where It should be so we're just gonna kind of Yolo it and make a 32 gigabyte Partition on the end of the card since earlier testing revealed that the beginning was unusable So, how are we doing here? So well, actually here you've done in disc manager so Actually, it ended up being the beginning of the card I thought I was getting yeah, because as it turns out the higher sector counts that were giving me the Good rights. Yeah, we're actually the beginning of the drive. Oh, okay, so that's cool I guess we'll see if that works out And so this is just unallocated and it doesn't even show up in any way and this is now a 32 gig SD card, basically, I guess that leads us pretty tightly into our conclusion Should you buy an SD card that you think might be fake in a word? No in more words Hell no in still more words. Yes but only for people that you really really don't like so be on the lookout guys for deals that look too good to be true from vendors that you don't recognize because remember Even names that you know and trust like eBay Aliexpress or even Amazon mean nothing in cases where the brand that's actually shipping and selling the product is not affiliated with them and remember these guys allow pretty much anyone to sell their platforms and Not every scam may even be as obvious as the one we outlined today some of them for example might have half of their advertised capacity so you would have to write a lot of data to them before you would pick up on it or They might use slower flash. Meaning that your UHS two-class card wouldn't be able to record 4k video properly in some cases the capacity and the Performance might even be the same but then when you go and clean warranty service turns out it was a counterfeit or reject That's why we always recommend Linus brand flash memory products Why does brand flash memory products are upfront about being a complete and utter scam? You can learn more at the link in the video description We actually may or may not actually do something in collaboration with a real like flash memory vendor so I Don't know there might be They might not but what I do know for sure is that this video is brought to you by fresh books Fresh books is the small business accounting software Custom-built for how you want to work and it's a simple way to be more productive more organized and to get paid faster You can create and send professional-looking invoices in less than 30 seconds You can set up online payments with just a couple of clicks and get paid up to four days faster you can see when your client has seen your invoice to put an end to the guessing games and You can try it for free at FreshBooks dot-com slash tech tips. Just enter Linus tech tips into how you heard about us section So thanks for watching guys. 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This Is a Gaming pc???

 - Thanks to Grandma, youare finally one step closer to your dream of esports domination. (computer thuds) She just gave you her old computer. You know the one. She bought it sevenyears ago, on clearance. But, that's not important. All that matters is you'vegot your "Valorant" invite and you are ready totear up the battlefield. There's just one small problem. Your new computer is really, really slow. So, it's time for a quick and (puffing) dirty upgrade, (fingersclicking) on the cheap. Brought to you by GlassWire. Instantly see your currentand past network activity, detect malware and lock. (coughs) Excuse me. Oh, that's dusty And lock badly behaving appson your PC or Android device. Use offer code (coughs)to get 25% off GlassWire at the link below. Excuse me. (coughs) (upbeat music) It truly is a fantastictime to be a PC gamer. Pretty much all the biggestgames in the world right now can be enjoyed on relativelyattainable hardware. And, okay, your grandmamight not be at the type to bequeath you a PC. Mine sure isn't. But we specifically chose this machine because it is the kind of thing that, even if it wasn't given to them, a student could obtain for him or herself, without spending a lot of money. And we also saw a prettyreasonable upgrade path for it. So we went with the delightfully mediocre Dell OptiPlex 9010, a newerversion of the classic gray Dell tower of yesterdecade. Now we'll poke around the insides. We've got a Core i7-3770. Now that's not the unlocked Kvariant, but quite honestly, you're not gonna be doingit here overclocking on this Dell special motherboard anyway. Two four-gig sticks of SK hynix PC3 1600 megahertz memory, okay. Oh, woof, is that a Gt 640 graphics card? Oh, that is nasty. Oh wow, this might actuallyuse a standard power supply. Moment of truth, here we go. (computer fans whirring) Man, I do not miss harddrives, look at this. Even the images for theshortcuts on the desktop, take 18 minutes to load in. Let's start with somethingit should be able to handle. Let's play some "League of Legends", huh? Well, I finally got inand now that I did, dang, it's really just fine. Look at that. 150, 170 FPS. I always forget just howeasy it is to run this game. Hmm, we're getting dips though. I mean that is sort ofa function of this being barely up to spec hardware. I'm seeing some stutters as I'm panning the cameraaround a little bit. Certainly better than I would expect any other modern game to runon what was a bad video card seven, eight years ago. And it's definitely playable. You're probably gonnaget ganked at some point, if I'm getting my terminology right, because of a lag spikebut it is what it is. All right, so this game'srunning and aside from some chug, it's running pretty well. This is at 1080P, medium quality. Finishing loading. It needs a separate screenfor finishing loading. That's how you knowyou're using a hard drive. All right, let's go, boys. Wow, this is not as good an experience. Definitely running ata lower frame rate now. Not to the point where I'd sayit interferes with my ability to play the game though. This is still a solid, you know, 45 to 55, somewhere in that range, FPS. It's usable. One thing I haven't noticed is, ooh, nevermind, there it goes. Okay, it's chugging, it's struggling. Is that GPU's fan even spinning? Oh yeah, it's working, okay. Oh, there's a hero. Wait, I'm a hero. Are you a hero? Oh, what, there was anotherhero there, he was hiding. How was the easy AI so smart. Okay, well, anyway, that'senough of that game. Wow, it's really chugging, we're getting down as low as 30-plus FPS. But those frame times, youcan really see them spiking. So just 'cause you've got 30 FPS doesn't mean that you're actually getting reasonable frame times. And every time your frame times jump, that's when you feel like alag or a spike or a stutter. Okay. Hey partner, how we doing here, bud? Oh, we not doing so good. Neat. (mumbles) Yeah, and we're dead. Well, I was quick. What is this?(phone rings) A shotgun. Oh, is that? - [Colton] Hello? - Hey, Colty, buddy, pal. - [Colton] What's up man? - How does "Valorant" work? Oh, lordy, I died. How many rounds do I have to play? I joined a server so I couldbenchmark a graphics card, I'm tryna quit and it's like, "Hey, you're harming theexperience of the other players, "you shouldn't do that." How long do I have to play this for? - [Colton] It could beupwards of 24 rounds. - What? - [Colton] Yeah, so it'swhichever team gets to 13 first. - 13? - [Colton] Yeah, it'skind of crazy. (laughs) - I'm not playing 13 rounds! Who's got time for this? - [Colton] Yeah, you couldjust, I mean, you know, gamers. But you could just leave. - I think one of myteammates has already gone, 'cause they're just standing at the spawn. So could I guilt-freeleave, at that point? - [Colton] Yeah, you couldprobably go for a leave, yeah. - Okay, cool. I mean, they're probablygone because I'm terrible. So, it's still my fault. - [Colton] They gave up. Well you'll be fine, don't worry about. - All right, thanks. If anyone asked why bailed on the match, I'm gonna let them knowColton said it's okay. (Colton laughs) For fun, we're gonna trysomething a little more demanding. We've got "PUBG" running a 1080P, sort of, 'cause the render scale is 70% of 1080P and we've got everythingcranked to very low. There we go. Whoa, okay, that is not a lot of FPS. And this is not a goodlooking game at all low. I can barely even tellwhere the towns are. In fairness to the GT640, this looks terrible but is running relatively smoothly. Run, Forrest, run. Not there's a dated reference. Ow, ow, ow, ow. Why would you do that? What's wrong with you? (gentle upbeat music) Ow, ow. Okay, all right. Well, there you have it. Unsurprisingly, almostall the games we tried were at least functional ifwe were willing to sacrifice visual quality on our GT 640. So if all you wanna dois play these games, then go ahead and checkout the eBay links below and get outta here. Just go for it. However, if you were hoping toturn the details up too high, or get a smoother experience in the games, 'cause what we noticedwas that even the ones that were running at high FPS were stuttering andhitching a lot of the time, you're gonna wanna watch on. Step number one is definitely,for the sake of my sanity, to install, a bloody SSD in this tank. Let's get it shut down, here. Going from a spinning diskto a solid-state drive is a monumental improvement. Now one-terabyte SATA SSDfrom a well-known brand is gonna run you about $100 these days, but if you don't need that much capacity, which you might not, and you're willing to just take a gamble, there are some deals out there. Just make sure that you grabsomething with a DRAM cache. So for example theFattydove Racing 120 gig that we checked out recently, that did turn out to have a DRAM cache, only cost us 20 bucks. Now in terms of mounts, wellthis case is pretty old, it doesn't have 2.5-inchmounts but the good news is that SSDs don't have any moving parts, and we can just chuck it there. Now for system memory, eightgigs of RAM might be enough if all you're gonna do is play basic games with pretty much nothingrunning in the background, but a cheap brand name 16 gig kit, like this HyperX FURYset that we had on hand, will go a long way towardsrunning more demanding games and improving multitasking. eBay, Craigslist, andFacebook Marketplace, are all good places tofind fantastic deals on DDR3 from people who are upgrading. Whether it's to Ryzen orsomething from Intel, right now. Now we were lucky. Our cheapo Dell motherboard happens to have four memory slots, so if all we wanted was 16 gigs of RAM, we could just slot intwo more four gig sticks, and it's off to the races. But we don't have any matching memory, and we want the best chanceat compatibility here. So what we're gonna do is what a lot of people would have to do because they might endup with a motherboard that only has two slots on it. Is we're gonna take out what we've got, and we're gonna replaceit with our new RAM. As for the GT 640 graphics card in here. It's pretty tired. In fairness to it, it was born tired. As soon as you fire upsomething much more demanding then "League of Legends", youknow, it starts to struggle. The good news though, is thatthe Core i7-3770 CPU in here is still a very competentgaming processor, even to this day. So we can add a lot ofgraphics muscle to this machine before our CPU becomes the bottleneck. As long as we stay within reason. Our GPU upgrade ambitions aregoing to be somewhat limited by the 275-watt power supply that's included with our system. And while we could add a new power supply, especially with this systemthat does seem to use standard ATX, by the timewe add a power supply we're getting dangerously closeto new system kind of money. And besides, opening up that can of worms can cause more problems than it solves. Even some proprietarymotherboards that look standard might have different pin outs or specialty connectors, for example, that make them a hassle to deal with. Now, we did go secondhand for our memory, and that is totally anoption for graphics. Something like a GTX 960 isa great choice for under $70. But if we want to max out our machine, without having toupgrade our power supply, the two GPU options for themost FPS per power consumption, are the GTX 1650 SUPER. So this one right here is 100 watts and starts at about $170. And the GTX 1660 Ti. This is 120 watts andstarts around the $250 mark. Now since both of these graphics cards require external power,and this power supply doesn't have PCI Express power connectors, we're gonna use theseSATA to six-pin adapters. I know the saying, Molex toSATA to lose all your data, etc, etc, etc. But either of these cardsis gonna pull 75 watts from the PCI Express slot,leaving less than the 50 watts that the same connector can handle to be drawn over the PCI Express cable. So we should (computer thudding) be fine. Now I'm gonna install the 1660 Ti because the point of thisvideo is to show you guys, with some choice upgrades,what a machine like this can be capable of. But if you don't have thebudget for that right now, you can always get something else for now and then pick up one ofthese later on down the line once they fall in price. Another point, by the way, guys, if you don't have anyextra power available, or you were only able to find one of those half hight desktops, you do still have an option. The GTX 1650 has a low profile variant, this one's from ZOTAC, that does not require any external power, making it a simple dropping upgrade, and most of the time they'llinclude a low profile bracket so you can install it inone of those slim towers. Now here we are, half an hour later and depending on what kindof deals you can scrounge, the cost of the gameconsole, or even less, and we are ready to boot up our system, with that next-gentechnology of solid-state. Man, I can already tellhow much more responsive this thing is just fromopening up control panels. Like, resizing windows. Makes a big difference. Let's kick it off with"League of Legends" shall we? See how long this gametakes to load on our SSD. Wow. I bet I could even haveChrome open in the background. Lttstore.com. Get your water bottleshere and get your hoodies. The classic Stealth hoodie. Processor T-shirt. Wow, we are right upagainst our FPS cap here. How about no FPS cap? How about that? What do you think of that? All right. A 370 FPS! And you can see as I'mscrolling around here, we're not getting thosejutters and stutters. Can see that it's nice and smooth. Even though I'm recording at only 30 FPS you can still tell there'sa marked difference. Wow, those frame times! Three milliseconds! 300 fps in the loading screen. Now that I shouldn't be that impressive but compared to what we saw last time is. Well that really is a lot better. We're ripping around on the map at, what? 250 frames per second. It really is amazing how much game these old third-gen Corei5s and i7s have in them, even in modern titles like this. What a difference. Not only is it running waysmoother, like you can just tell, but we've actually turnedthe details up to medium so the game looks a lot better as well. View distance, in particular, in this game makes a big difference toyour potential success. So the bottom line is youpair a machine like this up, with an inexpensive 120or 144-hertz display and a decent mouse, andyou're gonna be clicking heads all day long in games like"Valorant" and "CS:GO", and even getting a prettydarn good experience in heavier titles. Now, the thing is, this setup isn't gonna make you a bettergamer, only you can do that, but as we explored in our Does FPS Make You a Better Gamer series, it will make it easierfor you to get better. Now, even if you don'tgo for the GPU upgrade for Grandma's old rig, I would still recommend the SSD one, just because it will make theexperience that much better as you're rising through theranks in the later titles on a really tight budget. So if you guys like this video, maybe, hit that subscribe button to see us upcycle old laptop into apretty snazzy home theater PC. I don't remember actuallygreen-lighting that project, Nicholas, but apparentlywe're doing it now. And we're also doing thissegue to our sponsor, Blinkist. Thank you for sponsoring today's video. Blinkist is the app thattakes the best insights and info from thousandsof non-fiction books, and condenses them into just 15 minutes. It's basically like speedreading without the annoying, learning to speed read part. You can listen to audio summaries,or read them for yourself in a wide variety of categories, such as business, finance,parenting, psychology and self-help. Or, hey, if you're really brokenperson, maybe all of them. They've even got full audiobooks that their Premium subscribers can get 65% off the retail price on. And some of their mostpopular titles include "The AI Economy", which explains how the rise of artificialintelligence will affect society. So take a look at all of that. The first 100 people togo to blinkist.com/ltt are gonna get unlimited accessfor a week to try it out. So do that by clicking the link below. Thanks for watching guys. 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Building a pc using only wish .com

 - Now we know it's beendone already, but come on. In fairness, we thought aboutdoing this a long time ago. It just takes awhile forstuff to ship from wish.com. You guys loved our Amazon andMonoprice PC builds so much that we couldn't resistthe urge to do it again, but with a sketchier twist. So, strap on, guys, becauseI can pretty much guarantee that this is not gonnago according to plan. Speaking of unplanned, Ishould've planned a better segue to our sponsor, GlassWire. With GlassWire, you canmonitor the apps on your PC to see if any of them aresuspicious or behaving badly. Check it out at the linkbelow and use offer code linus to get 25% off GlassWire. (upbeat electronic music) All right, step one, put onmy LTT hoodie, lttstore.com. Step two, let's startunpacking this stuff. So first up is our case. You can tell that it's super-high quality because even with my weak sauce left arm, I am easily manhandling it here. Let's go ahead and do a nicelittle peel for you guys. (plastic crackling) Ah, yes. (plastic crackling) Oh, oh, that was not a good peel. You know what, the case, though, actually feels betterquality than the plastic. Ooh, oh, crap, I bent it. So I was holding it bythe IO cutout (laughs) and actually warped it a little bit. Think I'll pick it up theway you're intended to from now on. Features-wise, though, thisactually doesn't look that bad. We've got three front USBs, including a USB three, power, reset, front ports, we've got, wow, an easily removable magnetic fan filter with room for a couple of120 millimeter fans up here. It actually includes what appears to be a 120 millimeter RGB fan,although it may just be that the label is red, green, and blue. The side panel mounts in likethis tempered glass style, but this is, in fact,an acrylic side panel. And then check this out. It's got that punched-outstyle back panel. So you've actually gota little bit of room for cable management back here. I mean not a ton, but a littlebit is better than nothing. That is a weird fan. Like it's a 120 millimeterframe, but those blades are tiny. So this is what I'm talking about. Look how big the bladesare on that 120 millimeter versus the other one. It's like a 90 millimeter fanin a 120 millimeter frame. It's got this like thickframe on it, it's weird. Now this is a cool feature. You've actually got colorcoding on your switches and your LEDs here. And it seems to correspond to the colors that at least some manufacturers use. I'm pretty sure ASUSuses blue for a reset. How much did we pay for this thing? - [Man] 97 US dollars. - Nine what! So apparently cases are not actually a great deal on wish.com. At least it has a temperedglass front panel. All right, let's open up ournext mystery package here. Ah, a motherboard. (plastic crackling) What is with all the bubblewrap around this thing? I mean, (laughs) infairness, it still looks like it got dropkicked. So there's a couple of takeaways here. One, all the extra packagingseems to be justified. And, two, the way that they're applying their extra packaging isnot very effective. (laughs) Oh, so that's interesting. Yeah, this motherboard is not that at all. Full testing, okay. All right. So this is clearly a very used board. Was it clear from the listingthat it was gonna be used? Okay, how much did wepay for this bad boy? - [Man] 46 bucks. - $46 for an H61 board? That's not even a good deal. Why do people buy this stuff? And like, do you know howmuch these socket covers cost if you buy them in bulk? I know, pennies. They put a piece of paper in. Look at this. That's it, that's their socket cover. Now in fairness, it doesn't look like there are any bent pins, so that's good. But it's still not how Iwould've preferred it done. All right, we also apparently have a CPU. And it comes in what lookslike a compact flash card case, which I guess is kinda cute. It's an Intel Core i3-2130. I guess this was just what CPUthey had that was compatible with what board they had kind of thing. How much did we pay for this guy? - [Man] $49. - 50 bucks? Seriously? This is a rip-off. So already for the price ofthis CPU and motherboard, we probably could have gottenlike an old Dell business PC that would have includedcase, power supply, probably a drive, some RAM. Could've just like throwna graphics card in it, but what the heck. So I was informed before we started that I actually havetwo options for coolers. I have this Great Wall heatsink cooler. I am kinda likin' this. This is actually very similar to the old Zalman flowercoolers that used to be popular back in the socket 754 days. So that's candidate number one. And candidate number two isactually an AIO liquid cooler. I mean, it shouldn't surprise me, given that they're allbasically made in China anyway. But this looks very, very similar in materials and constructionto what you'd get from an AIO cooler that you purchased just normally off of Amazon or whatever. Tubing-wise, seems like the materials they're using are okay. It feels like an aluminumradiator, it's pretty light. But that should be fine, except that there's a copper block, except that some manufacturers do that. I don't know what they'redoing, it's a bit crazy. Okay, you know what? If the AIO fits, thenwe're gonna go with that. But it's no guaranteethat we're gonna be able to get it in here, becauseeven though this does have mounts for dual 120millimeter fans up here, that doesn't mean that there'sgonna be enough clearance once we install a power supply. And no, in fact, there isn't. So it looks like wecannot use our AIO cooler, and we are unfortunately going to be stuck with our regular heatsink. So how much were each of those? - [Man] So, the air cooler was $17 and the AIO was $80. - So our theme continues of our prices not necessarily beingoutlandishly bad on these ones. I'd say 80 bucks for like a, I don't know, a kinda decent-looking AIO is fine, but it's certainly not special. So it should just be a matterof throwin' our clips on here. And clip one and clip two,give it a little wiggle, and plug in. Did we also buy RAM off Wish? Oh, there it is. Oh, wow. That is some, hey, they, wait a second. Wait a second. I am pretty sure thatthey don't have the rights to use this image. So this is Vaseky High Performance DDR. And you can tell thatthey're really high budget and care a lot about their packaging when they use the samepackaging for everything from DDR3 1333 to DDR4 3200. Like, ah, it's some ofthis, somethin'

like that. Let's go ahead and install this stuff. So this is a DDR3 1333. I'm super-glad we spent money on this. How much did we spend? - [Man] $40. $40 on eight gigs. You know what? I think that's actuallynot entirely unreasonable. The funny thing about memoryis when like a new memory spec, like DDR2 or DDR3 orwhatever, just comes out, it's really expensive. And then it gets cheap whenthe entire market adopts it. Then it gets expensive again when it becomes like oldtechnology and it's more niche. All right, so there we go, friends. I'm gonna plug our case fan into the bottom of the motherboard here. Wow, that's really curious. This case, you know,it actually looked okay at the start there, but itis pretty unexceptional. Like check this out. Our bottom fan here,which is preinstalled, and it seems to me that thereason it's preinstalled is that almost none ofthe other fan mounts are even gonna be accessible because of the tempered glass panel here and the power supplyhere, actually interferes with what would be the bottom slot if we had a full four-slotmATX motherboard. Like this thing is not verywell-thought-out at all. Now seems like a good opportunity to get back to our solid state drive. It's another Vaseky product. This is the V800 256G. At least this one is clearly labeled. But I do have to wonder ifthis is kind of an old box. Like didn't SandForce get acquired like 1,000 years ago by someone? I'd be surprised if it evenuses a SandForce controller. Wow, oh, it just comes apart. Now maybe we can see what it uses. This is nothing to dowith SandForce whatsoever. It's a Silicon Magic controller, but not the one that's listed online, which is actually good because at least this one'sSATA 3, unlike the SATA 2 one that it says this product uses. Unfortunately, this is, infact, a DRAM cashless SSD. There is no RAM on it whatsoever. And we did a video about that awhile back explaining why that is aterrible, terrible, terrible idea. And, in some cases, you mighteven get better performance out of a mechanical hard drivecompared to a cashless SSD. So, there you go. I mean, it's nothingwe didn't already know, but we wouldn't recommend this. Let's install it in our computer. How much did I pay for that? - [Man] You paid I believe $56. - $56? I mean capacity for capacity,that's not a terrible deal. But for like a piece ofcrap SSD like this one, that's not a good deal. Oh, boy. When your SLI still uses a lowercase i because you haven't updatedany of your materials since like 2010. (laughs) Oh, boy. Now let's have a lookat our connectors here. So, we've got two leads,each of which are a Molex and a SATA. Wow, this wiring, it's so cheap. Even the plastic for theconnectors feels cheap. On a positive note, I do think we have all the connectors we need. Four pin for the CPU, 24pin for the motherboard, six pin for, oh, right, graphics card. So, this one we'repretty sure is a rip-off. Actually, how much did,speaking of rip-offs, how much did I pay forthis piece of garbage? - [Man] $31. - 31 bucks? That's overpriced. Not that you should ever use even like a good $31 powersupply in like a decent machine. A power supply is one of those things, it's just not worth it to cheap out on. And wow, look at this thing. So if I had to guess, I wouldsay that this is a 460 Ti or a 560, what is it? - [Man] That is a 1060. - A 1060? It doesn't even have a sixpin power connector on it. 1060, my ass. Wait, Nvidia's 10 seriesdoesn't even have VGA support. Oh, you. How much did I pay for this? - [Man] $45. - 45 bucks. Well, at least the price was right. All right, let's go ahead and install this piece a hot garbage. Now, normally, your powersupply is supposed to be the one that comes withyour mounting screws, but either they fellout of the gaping hole in the bottom of the box orthey just weren't included. So, what we're gonna dois we're gonna salvage a couple of what appear to be power supply-compatible screws, but that seem to have beenintended for expansion cards. So, what's our total bill for the tower? - [Man] - With the air cooler, it's $380. - $380 with the air cooler option. That is brutal. That is so much more thanI would pay for this. Now our PC is done, butwhat we still don't know is how true any of themanufacturer's claims were about their products. To find that out, we're gonna have to actually install Windowson it and fire it up. But before we can do that, of course, we're gonna need some peripherals. Let's start with the ZiyouLang Wolf Rainbow Light K16 game keyboard. Wow. This may be the lightestkeyboard that I have ever felt. Then also from the same brand, I think, although this time it's inChinese instead of English, but it's the same logo here, we've got some kind ofgaming mouse, I guess. That is quite literallythe spongiest click that I have ever felt on anything. You can even see, a lot of that travel is being absorbed by the PCB underneath. See how much that port is moving? That is grody. Okay, this I've actually seen. This mouse pad is a pretty good deal. All right, how much didthe peripherals cost us? - [Man] The grand total is $56.33. - And that includes the mouse pad? - [Man] That includes the mouse pad. Well, at least the price isright for the peripherals, 'cause these are definitely like $10 worthy peripherals over here. All right, so this isit, ladies and gentlemen. Our epic gaming setup is nowready for a Windows install and a gaming test. We'll be right back. All right, so we're gettin'some games downloading. We're gonna get some drivers installed. But before we do that,I've got an update for you. This power supply was evenworse than we expected. Not only did it suck,it didn't work at all. So we had to pull in a TX750 in order to get thesystem powered up at all. The good news is that once we did that, we were at least able toget Windows installed. Yeah, it's clear by thispoint that this is not a build that you guys would want to emulate. But get subscribed if you're not already, because we're gonnahave a Ryzen Build Guide coming out pretty soon. It's gonna be more by the book. Now let's take some time toexplore what kind of hardware we've really ended up with here. So we'll fire up hardware info, fire up our device manager,and see what we're looking at. One thing I figured out already is this computer isnot very fast. (laughs) All right, so we're gonnastart with device manager here. You can see all of ourdrivers auto installed for like our chipset andall that kind of stuff. It's older hardware, so Windows just knows what to do with that. So, it turns out this is,in fact, a Core i3-2130. So, that's good, I guess. Okay, all right, gigabit,ethernet, blah, blah, everything here looks fine, but we don't have a GPU driver yet. So that's not showing up. So it says here we've got a GTX 1050 Ti. We've actually got the Nvidia drivers unpacking in the background here. But we fire up hardwareinfo and this is hilarious. Sandy Bridge processor, fakeNvidia GTX 1050 Ti fake. It's not, one fake is not enough for this. Two fakes. So this is a GF116, which, if I recall correctly, is Fermi. That is an old, old GPU. Unfortunately, because it'snot reporting anything here, we have no way of knowing atthis time which one it is. So, the only way tofind out is going to be to try and get some real drivers installed so that it can hopefullyidentify itself correctly. So, let's try the Nvidia installer here and see what happens. Oh, wow. It successfully installed the driver. It still reports as a1050 Ti, interesting. So I thought we were actuallygoing to have to install off the included driver disc with like these hacky drivers on it. See, that looks really legitimate. But it seems like thedriver did manage to install and they have even trickedNvidia control panel into thinking that this is a 1050 Ti. Now with that said, we haven'ttried to launch a game yet. All right, so we've runinto our first hiccup while attempting to press alt Z to see just a quick and dirtyframe counter in the game. I got into GeForce Experience here and went to configure my settings. And theoretically, we meetthe system requirements because we have a 600 series or higher, but in practice, the configurationbutton just doesn't work. And when you go to pressalt Z, nothing comes up because, no, this is notin fact a 600 series GPU. So, we're just gonna haveto eyeball it. (laughs) Yay, oh, no. So the good news is thisis running smoothly. The bad news is thatthis is Rocket League. It's not exactly known for being a particularly demanding title. And I'm dead. We found our problem. Fermi only had HDMI 1.3. So that was limited to2048 by 1536 at 75 hertz. That's a little bit, notquite enough for 2560 by 1440, 60 hertz, which is the nativeresolution of this monitor. So when we try to runit, confusion ensues. So I think the last thing for us to do is figure out exactly what graphics card we're dealing with here. So, we're gonna go ahead and run 3DMark. We're gonna use theDirectX 11 Fire Strike. And we're gonna have a lookat what kinds of systems perform similarly toours in GPU performance. And it crashed. What can you tell me about this error? The workload produced no results. So, this could be eitherof a couple things. It could be that 3DMark was expecting the GPU to support features that it, in fact, didn't andsome kind of error occurred, or it could be part of 3DMarks'anti-cheating procedures to doublecheck if somethingis misreporting itself as something else, so thatpeople couldn't, you know, flash RTX 2080 Ti's to GTX1050 Ti's, and then, you know, completely dominate the leaderboards. Either way, it looks likewe will not, in fact, be able to run 3DMark to validatewhat our graphics card is, which, at this point in thevideo, I think is fine anyway, because it really doesn'tchange the conclusion. Any time you're buyingsomething and what you get is not what it said itwas, that's a bad deal. And, frankly speaking,even most of the things that were what they saidthey were going to be, weren't amazing deals either. So, the old adagedefinitely holds true here. If something seems too goodto be true, it probably is. I think the cooler is aboutthe only thing in this computer that I think is evenremotely worth getting. It's got pretty cool RGB lighting effects and for what, 17 bucks? I guess it's all right. Speaking of all right, our sponsor. - [Man] Knock knock. - I don't want any. Ha, get it? I don't have to say who's there 'cause I've got a Ring Doorbell. Ring wants you to knowwho's at your front door without even getting up. And the Ring Doorbell camera kit includes their VideoDoorbell 2, spotlight cam and solar security sign. The Video Doorbell 2 hasa motion-sensing camera with 1080 HD resolutionand 160 degrees of vision. It features two-wayaudio and it's powered by either a battery or eight to24 volt AC doorbell wiring. The spotlight camera is 10 ADP as well and features two-way talk aswell as LED lights, battery, or solar-powered in this case. And it can also act as a siren. And their solar security sign is designed to act as a general deterrent, since they know thatthey're gonna be monitored if they're gonna beclose to your property. The entire kit is great, since you can use it toturn away unwelcome guests, and my personal favorite, of course, is letting the Amazon deliverydriver to know, to know, wait, wait, hold on a second, I'm coming. Don't leave, don't leave withmy package, I want it today. So get some peace of mind withthe Ring Doorbell camera kit. It's compatible with iOS,Android, Mac and Windows, and we've got it linkedin the video description. So, thanks for watching, guys. If you wannna buy a GPU that's not a scam, check out our recent GPU Buyer's Guide. It covers everything that'scurrent in the market at a bunch of different price points. See ya. (ball smacks) Ow, my toe. Ah, sandals, okay, it'sthe one disadvantage. There you go, guys. I think that's where I hit it. So whatever happened here, (laughs) someone was not happy aboutdelivering this package. 

lt's time to break

 - I hate cable management so much. (sound of a driller) Oh dear wires, thick or thin, you've been with me since the beginning. I watched you grow fromkilobits to megabits then finally into gigabits,sweet sweet gigabits, but the world is changing andI feel it's time to admit, I've been seeing someone else. Logitech the sponsor of this video wishes to remove my copper bindings freeing me forever from tangled feet, knocking over my drinks and.. Wait, who am I kidding? I have always hated you wires. I've just been too lazy to dump your ass. That is until now (mumbles). No, no, I actually dostill have to do this. (upbeat music) The first rule of cablemanagement is of course, to clean everything up. We've got about an hour until WAN Show. So you're gonna see thespeed version of that. We're gonna be unpluggingeverything, moving stuff around. So now is a great time todeclutter the workspace and clean my desk and peripherals. If I was a lazy boy, Icould just toss my keyboard into the dishwasher, like we did. You guys can go check that video out. I don't think anyone'sgonna warranty your keyboard after it's been through such an ordeal but they all did work. So, right. Of course, though for me, since part of the video isthe Logitech sponsorship. I am actually going to bereplacing, not just my keyboard but also my mouse pad and even my headphones. We're starting of coursewith the G915 TKL. I've been enamored with this one ever since my unboxingover on Short Circuit. It uses Logitech Lightspeed technology. That means that it performsas well as a wired device or better. It uses their GL Switchesthat are available in two different configurations. There's a clicky one andthere's a tactile one. Personally, I prefer thetactile one, just 'cause I don't want anything to getpicked up in my microphone, but both of them share the characteristics that they're both fast andaccurate at half of the height of normal key switches,making the entire keyboard as Logitech puts it impossibly thin. There's perky RGB mediabuttons, a scroll wheel and it gets 40 hours of battery life. And unlike my old keyboard, look how much more space I'm gonna have. I'm finally going 10 keyless. I'm ready to give up my numberpad because quite honestly I almost never do work at home anymore. Now my mouse, I have notactually intended to upgrade. It's already a G Pro Wireless but hey, the G Pro WirelessSuperlight is here and.. Actually hold on a second. Does this feel likethere's anything in here? - [David] Its superlight! - Does it actually feel likean empty box too though? - [David] Yeah, its a real box. - No, they told me it's in here. They told me its in,it's definitely in here. Okay, wow. Have you felt this thing yet? - [David] Yeah I dida Short Circuit on it. - Oh really, It is super light. It weighs in at just 63 grams,which is roughly the weight of two rechargeable AA batteries. It has much larger Slippy pads compared to the regular G Pro Wireless. You get 70 hours on a single charge and all it costs you isgiving up your RGB which, I don't know man, G Prois already pretty light. All right, you know what? I'm gonna give it a try. I guess I should sort ofexplain what PowerPlay is for the uninitiated. If you get one of these littlewireless charging module (mumbles) jigs from Logitech,you pop that in your mouse. It comes as a kit and then you get one ofthese PowerPlay mats. It actually comes with either a cloth or a hard surface that goes on top of it. The idea is that yourmouse charges continuously while you're using it. And you never have toremember to charge it which is pretty flipping sick. I came up with the brilliant idea of putting a differentmouse pad over top of it. Ah, I have revealed my secrets to you. I've been using thatmouse pad for a long time. It was time to change it though. Oh, that actually lines up pretty nicely. You know what? I might go for the 30 milLTT Northern lights desk pad for this. - [David] Where'd you get it from? - Lttstore.com. One of my worst offenders though isn't even the mouse and keyboard. It's my HD600 headphones. They come with this super crazy long wire. Like it actually goes all the way wrapping around the tablein the back and stuff. And there's this much left and I have never bothered to replace it and I constantly get tangled on it. And actually it gets stuck in my chair. Super annoying. Now I might end up still needing these for monitoring my streambecause to my knowledge there's no way to plug a USBheadphone into the GoXLR. But at least for gaming it would be nice to nothave to deal with them. So that's where the Pro XWireless Headset comes in. It uses Logitech, samelightspeed wireless interface. It's got 50 millimeterdrivers rated for 20 hours of use at a time, 15 meters of range which given that I willnever be going any further than here for my deskshould be fine, just fine. And perhaps most importantly for me, they have completely redesigned the fit compared to otherLogitech gaming headsets. And it's like, man, these arecushy and comfortable now. And they've got blue voice mic filters so you can reduce noise, add compression cool stuff like that. That's new since Logitech's acquisition of blue a little while back. Of course you might'venoticed in all of this that my desk has not gottensignificantly tidier. The cold hard truth is thatthere are still a lot of things that just can't go without cables. You got your monitor, yougot your streaming gear, you got your audio gear, thunderbolt. So what about those wires? Time to manage them in one hour. All right, let's go. My biggest worry is not that in my hurry I will do a bad job, but in myhurry, I will make horrible, horrible mistakes 'cause Iam planning to go, you know, one step above, like I wannadrill holes on the table and run like my PowerPlaycable into the table and then under the table. If I put it in the wrongspot then the ergonomics of this desk are gonna be bad forever. When's the last time I even used speakers but then I rest my feet on my subwoofer. Really get rid of them?- [David] Yeah, it sucks. - This thing has served me sowell for so many years though. I'm getting sentimental about a subwoofer. Do you know how muchcomfort my feet have gotten from sitting on this? I'm just noticing thatthere are one, two, three, power cables down here thatare not plugged into anything. What is this? I never ran the display portcable that my wife needs for her station back to the server roomfrom the back of this. So I just have like a randolong display port running here. Shit, I hate cable management so much. Why am I even doing this? Oh, I'm gonna be so dirty. There's blown cellulose everywhere David. It's everywhere. It's the first time Ihad to go out into it. Look how they massacred my boy. Look at that. We finally got the plate on the wall. The way it's supposed tobe, like it's supposed to. Wait, I knocked over allmy cable management stuff. I should just call this video Linus falling apart for 15 minutes. Should I just startdrilling holes in the desk? - [David] Yeah, drill away! - No time like the present, right? - [David] Yup. (sound of a driller) - Fortunately, this is acrappy particle board table - [David] Nice.- That worked out. Okay. Sweet. Now I just got to dothat a bunch more times. Let's get the monitor back on the desk. 'Cause I can't even like.. I can't even visualizewhere everything needs to go until I got the monitor. Let's go another hole right there and we'll run everything through that. (sound of a driller) I actually cannot believe that I am drilling holes in my desk. How does this track work? What do you do with all the bricks? (chuckles) (mumbles) So we'll do like that length. This is a dull saw, and that's how the dinosaurs died out. All their backs broke. The point of these is thecables can kind of enter and exit anywhere you want atthese little like (mumbles). This stuff honestly seems pretty useful. Just kinda taking some of my cables and stuffing them up in here. One of the little lifehacks that I've tried to use a number of times over the years, but not with much successis hot gluing power bricks to the bottom side of your table. I've found that, even if you use like theindustrial strength hot glue it just doesn't hold. So having some kind of like (mumbles) or bracket or somethingon the bottom of the table and then cable tyingthe power brick to it. That's the only way that I've had success. Ah, this cable tie ripped. Should've got it from lttstore.com. Just dropped a power brick on the face. There we go, okay. That is strapped nice and tight. No.- [David] What did you do? - Oh, I started drilling and that's right where my stupid power bar that I just locked in place is I think only one way to find out. - [David] Oh no, don't do that! (sound of a driller) - Shit! Think I hit it. Oh, I drilled into it a bit. This is fine, because I havea slightly larger spade bit. - [David] Great. - The problem is that whenyou've already drilled a hole with a different spade bitusing another spade bit to enlarge it, not a great experience. Oh wow, I just.. I can't hold it steady. Okay, you know what? Am I better off going fromthe bottom or from the top? From the bottom there'sgonna be like an exit wound but from the top, this thingcould walk all over the place. Okay, I'm going topdown, I'm going top down. Here we go. (sound of a driller) Okay, maybe I could-- - [David] Oooh, watch your fingers. (sound of a driller) - Okay. (sound of a driller) What did i just hit? Okay, well it clears it? We're calling that good forthe mount for my USB hub and I get to put all ofmy wireless accessory, dongles in it. What am I rolling over? You know what, It doesn't matter. Now where do I want it the GoXLR. 'Cause I'm about to drilla big old hole here. (sound of a driller) Oh. Metal. Shit! Oh no, oh it's so close. We're going in at an angle. (sound of a driller) Oh, I thought I cracked the display. Oh- [David] Stop it! - I thought I had a grip on it. - [David] Oh.- No, wow. The display was stronger than the plastic from the drill came off. Okay, please tell me it's not cracked. I won't be able to tell themtill I actually have an image. (David laughing) This thick boy XLR cable, here we go. Oh, it's so tight. Where's my drill, I'm widening it. We're going wider. Ouch. Okay. Come on. (laughing) I think that's funny, do you little one. This is what madness looks like. All the cable management, allthe cable management (mumbles) I mean, it feels crazy tosay it but are we there? Can you see any of thesecables from the back there? - [David] From here no.- Hey, well that is the goal. Isn't it? No offense Dyson, but this isa job for a real man's vacuum with leopard print. Now we find out if Icracked my monitor panel or at least we should. I never actually turnedthe computer off, did I? Oh, I did. Oh, okay, I thought it wassupposed to be working right now. This is working now. - [David] Hey.- Hey. This thing is really light. Wow. Holy crap. That is crazy. Okay. Man, It's almost like unnerving. Hold on, I haven't tried these yet. Are these just gonna likestraight up work for me here? How cool would that be? Pro X Wireless Gaming Headset. Just flipping works. Man, wireless technology hascome a long freaking way. All right, discord. It involved drillingmany holes in my desk. 'Cause like some things.. Yeah some things need wire's look. Some things need wires, even wireless. It's all a lie becauseit has to charge somehow. Okay good you got my webcam feed now. All right, sick. Let's do WAN Show realquick styles here, shall we? Okay, but first, big thankyou to you guys for watching. Big thank you to Logitechfor sponsoring this video. I think that the before and after kind of tells the whole story here that looks so much better. It needs a little bit vacuuming but I think you guys get the point. I'm gonna do that. We're gonna get WAN Show started and you guys can check out the links to where to get all of thisgood Logitech wireless goodness down in the video description. Oh yeah. If you didn't get it for Christmas Now's the time. I need water, lttstore.com. 

I need toupgrade already??

 - On paper today's project is pretty much the simplest thing ever. After many hours of troubleshooting I've identified the problemwith my VR gaming PC. The onboard USB ports are not compatible with the Vive Trackersthat I'm using to enable full body tracking when I'm streaming VR. Now the solution to this on the surface is very straightforward. You need to just installa PCI Express USB card that uses a different chipset and run the Trackers off that. Unfortunately because it needs to fit inside my tiny home theater console, my VR gaming rig uses an ITX motherboard. So, I went out on the prowl for the smallest Mini ATXcase that I could find. And this is it, the Sliger Cerberus. Now on the surface this projectis super straighforward. Take a basically working computer and transplant it fromone case into another with a different motherboard. But with how much has gone wrong with all of this so far. What the (beep) (beep)why are they drifting? I think it's pretty safe tosay that I should probably have a camera rolling for it. So, why don't you come along for the ride? Brought to to you buy GlassWire. With GlassWire you can keeptrack of the weird stuff that's connecting to your PCeven when you aren't using it. You can see if a strangedevice joins your Wifi and block it instantly. Get 25% off by using code LINUS at the link in the video description. (upbeat music) Okay I misrepresented the ease of this project a little bit. I am also going to be addingwater cooling to the rig, and the reason is that this right here is the RTX 2080 Ti thatwas used for the, ah yes, Hydro dipping a graphics card project. In the process of hydro dipping it what happened was the PCBthat handles fan control was actually damaged, or one of the connectorswas loosed in some way that makes the fan ramp upand then ramp down constantly. It's super annoying. That is literally the only reason that I'm going water cooling. To quiet down this now defective card. This case is not really built as a water cooling focused product, but I've seen enough builds from other users online thathave water cooling in them to suggest that it shouldn'tbe too challenging. Front I/O is already a bitof a hassle for my setup just because these are coming out the top and I think this is basically exactly the height of my media cabinet. The cold hard truth isthere's no way around it because you can see here, the motherboard is gonnabe basically the entire height of the case. All they've added that mightbe considered extraneous is this fifth PCI Express slot which actually could comein handy for me big time in the future if a motherboard arrives that has a PCI Express16x slot on the bottom. Because then I could put my graphics card right down at the bottom of the case and that would give methree more expansion slots. That's a bigger factor forme then you might think, because one of the otherthings that I might want to add to the system in thefuture is a wireless card for wireless VR. So, that's already two right there just for USB and wireless. Crap. This is my first timehands-on with this case. It's reasonably solid feeling but the construction is very basic, like pretty much every piece of it is some kind of table cut steel. That's about it. Really easy to get it opened up so you can start working in it though. I opted for a few accessories, there's a handle kit in here. We've got a handle bracket, SFX power supply adapter. Oh no! Did Jake screw me over already? He didn't send me an SFX-L power supply. I'm gonna give him thebenefit of the doubt, maybe I don't need it. Anyway first order of business is to get all the oldhardware stripped out of my VR gaming rig. This two terabyte harddrive has gotta go for sure, I'm gonna replace thatwith a high capacity Solid State Drive. You probably assumed I havea lot of this stuff, I don't. I actually love bottom mounted SSD. Kind of wish I had another matching industrial fan for this system. Jake sent over a FF12 so I'm just not sure of they'regonna have enough gusto. 2080 Ti and a Radeon 3900X. This project is frustratingfor a couple of reasons, One is that it feels pretty stupid to have to upgrade a motherboard because the onboard has a compatibility problem. But that's what you lock yourself into when you buy a system with no expansion, whether it's a compact ITX orother DTX based one like this. Or whether it's a laptop with all the stuff soldered onto it. But that's the trap thatyou stick yourself in. And another is the timing. We are a month away fromB550 boards being available and here I am picking up a B450 board. B550 is gonna be way better. PCIe Gen 4 bifurcation support, I mean probably better supportfor upcoming processors. Just it's a bad time tobuy a budget motherboard 'cause it will probably beat a kind of a similar price. If I'm stuck with it, the B450M Steel Legend fromASRock looks pretty good. Couple of M.2 slots, the two expansion slots I need and it's reasonably priced. I know people get triggeredmy reusing thermal paste but it's well established that it doesn't make aperformance difference at this point so. For memory I'm reusing this3200CL16 kit from TEAMGROUP. It's nothing particularly special but I'm also not going for bleeding edge performancehere necessarily. If I miss a frame or twothen it is what it is. Normally I wouldn't go straight for putting the motherboard in the case but in this instance I'm gonnakinda need to put it in there to visualize what's going on and how everything else is gonna fit. The Cerberus is also extremely open so I'm not expecting thatputting the motherboard in is gonna limit my optionstoo badly as we go forward. And I remember how hardwe all used to cringe at the camo colored schemes onmotherboards back in the day. Who's laughing now? Motherboard manufacturersselling motherboards to kids that's who. Oh that's cool. I don't know what thisis but it's cool so. Interestingly it lookslike I've got a fair number of options for radiator mounting, like can I even put one on the side if I really wanted to? It just comes down to finding the best way to tetris your own components in. So, let's keep putting stuff in and then see we what we end up with. So, we came up with theidea of salvaging parts from an all-in-one sothat we could just get a CPU block with a pump built into it, and putting that on there. But I'm actually worried that this is going to interfere witha full ATX power supply. Oh man if this fits it is goingto be absolutely borderline. Holy smokes. Hold on. Wow, that might actually fit. Okay. Jake took one of the fittingsoff this for me already just to make sure thatthey were barb fittings that we could adapt to customwater cooling equipment, but he left the other one for me to do and it's like really hard to remove. Now if there was ever a time I was likely to slice my hand open this would be it. All right we chewed it up a little bit. Not too bad. So, it goes on this way, which is gonna have these tubes come up right away from the power supply here. That's lucky, and I know for a fact we didn't plan that because I know that Jakedid not open this case before he sent it over to me so. There we go. Let's go ahead and throw this on the CPU. Do you wanna go get mea power supply actually? I bet you could be back bythe time I need to install it. - [Yvonne] You want me to go to the office to get a power supply? - What are the odds thatyou feel like doing that? Slim, got it. Dang it, we're gonnatry and build this thing without a power supply. While normally I wouldn'tput the graphics card into a machine untilat or close to the end. In this case it makes sense because I need to be able tosee how we're gonna plumb up the loop before I can decidewhere to mount the radiator. It's a shame though becausethe front of it was actually the more successful part of the hyrdo dip. Now for the special sauce, this is a really cool USB card. It has not one but fourindependent controllers so each of these fivegigabit per second ports is actually a full fivegigabit per second port, without being shared betweenany of the other ports. That's why it actually requires the PCI Express 4x interface. There we go, the solution to my problem, now I got all the USB. Oh you know what's crazy? I didn't even think of this, this board's got two M.2sand an extra PCI slot. So, even if I don't put agraphics card in the very bottom I could actually still squeeze another PCI Express slot out of it. Wait is this even gonna fit? Oh, right there. Three millimeters maybe? Nice. For ease of plumbing Iwould actually prefer to have my barbs on the bottom, but to make it easierto bleed the air bubbles out of this loop, 'cause I'm gonna have kindof an underpowered pump. I actually think I'm gonnaput them on the top up here. Now that is a color schemeand a half. (laughing) It doesn't seem like much but I actually really like this cutout in theback here where the SSDs go, that is a really nicetouch because it means that you'll have accessto plug or unplug it, even if you've got aradiator installed there just by reaching around from the back. That is awesome. The SATA data cables are crampedbehind the radiator here, you can easily access them like that. And then they plug into the motherboard right under the graphics card. You can barely even see them. The madman did it, just got back from the office with an SFX-L power supply. Among the Silverstone's SX800-LTI it's an extremely efficient and really cool power supply. It's 800 watts and it's justthis teeny tiny little thing, like I would have to be actively gaming for that fan to even spin upwhich is pretty freakin' cool. Silverstone doesn't getenough credit sometimes and we're at the point nowwhere if you've got an 800 watt 80 PLUS Titanium unitavailable in this size. It kind of raises the questionwhy we need a bigger ones. Another advantage to going this route is I now have tons ofroom around my CPU cooler, so that's good. That gives me room to run the tubing and all that kind ofstuff as well, very nice. Tha fact that all thepanels in this case pop off makes it a lot easierto work with than I was letting myself believe there. Look at that, all right. No problem. This really is such aningenious way to handle these. I've talked about it alreadybut I can't get over it. I really like it. I'm using a tubing standardI don't normally use for this partly because Jake sent it over and partly because it makes sense for such a compact build. But these are 10millimeter inner diameter, 13 millimeter outer diameters. Just helps it take upa little bit less space which is gonna be at a bit of a premium once all this is in there. These are CORSAIR fittings and if I recall correctlythey partnered with Bitspower on them which was a good move 'cause these are super nice. Putting a little of sparetubing over the fitting and then using that to get a better grip while you're tightening it isa pretty good little trick. My loop is gonna be really simple, first I'm gonna go straight down there then I'm gonna go out out from here, to this guy over here. And then out from here over to this one back here. It's not gonna look like anything special but it should work pretty well. Now the keen-eyed amongyou might've noticed I cut that a little short. That is because I have apretty clever trick planned. I had wanted to use a proper T fitting but not being able to findthat I'll settle for this. This is just a nice littleEK multi-fitting block here. So, I'm gonna open up the top of this and then I'm gonna open up the other side, both of them up at the top of the loop. And I'm gonna use that toallow the air to come out while I'm filling theother side with water, and then to allow me to topit up once the air settles up in the top there. It's funny some of the thingsI'm doing here feel wrong. Like this a pretty uglyway to implement this considering how nice thehardware I'm putting in it is, but like it or not this iswater cooling done practical. Another not pretty but practical thing, using zip ties to secure tubing on barbs. This is what peak performancelooks like all right? My brilliant theory is that if I just pour water into this, it will fill. Okay we're dripping a bit. Fortunately that is what paper towels and GPU backplates are for. Oh you spilled your water cooling? Surprise Pikachu face. I was a fool, Our water bottle is forhydrating humans not computers, lttstore.com. All right. These tubes are full of water now, so I'm just gonna tip this back. Ooh okay. Here we go, and we're gonna see the waterrun down the other tubes. Hey there we go. My theory was that fillingit this way would make it so I won't have to power on the system in order to bleed the air bubbles. So, let's see how well that'sworking out for me here. Actually it looks likethere's still some air bubbles in the graphics card but not too bad. Really wish I had a couple more fittings, 'cause if I could justrun tubes over to the sink and then into the faucet and just kind of fill it and flush it. I wonder if I do have them. Test time. That's pretty good. Now I now masking tape'snot ideal for this but I need the wife not to wake up and be like, "Hey why isthere a bunch of tape residue all over our faucet?" Here goes. Ooh, ooh it's splashing. Oh wow, there were definitelylot's of bubbles in there. Oh sweet. Okay this is officially how I'm bleeding every loop from now on. I ended up having to wigglethe case around a fair bit to get it all out butI'm pretty sure this loop is completely bled of air bubbles now. That is a full water cooling loop. And the system doesn't boot. Already tried a new power supply, already tried different RAM. That leads me to believe that I probably need to swap out the CPU for an older one and update the BIOS. So, it's daytime now andI'm back from the office with another CPU. If you wanna help come on over here kiddo. So, you wanna do a CPU swap do ya? - Yeah, please. - All right. Step one, remove this power supply 'cause we need to get at the CPU socket. Oh that's gonna take the fan off we don't wanna do that. - Oh. - Good try though, back here. Four screws. Okay careful don't touchthe pins on the bottom, those are very fragile and if we break that Ihave to drive all the way back to the office to get another one. This is a pretty tight buildand there's not a lot of slack. - Three cable thingy, some radar sensors. - Radar sensors whatware you talking about? - I'm talking about radar sensor cables. Okay let's go test this, see if it works. Think it's gonna work? - [Boy With Black Hair] Oh it's-- - [Man] Hey it's workin' nice! - [Girl With Brown Hair]Daddy what are these things? - Those are packing foam for the case. Hey you can't stand right inthe front there sweetheart. - [Girl With Brown Hair] Daddy how can-- - And this is why I wantedto stay up late last night to get this finished. I think there might bea ghost under my table. - [Girl With Brown Hair]What's it gonna do? Bad ghost things presumably. (screaming) Does anyone wanna put on a panel for me? - [Girl With Brown Hair]Me please, me please! - [Man] You gotta push so hard. Go for it. Okay good job. Yeah you're gonna go last. You don't have to punch it you can just push on it. You just push on it, you gotta use your weight you gotta push. No you don't have to punch it. (giggles) All right little man youwanna give it a shot? - [Boy With Black Hair] I'mnot a little man anymore. - You sure are you're my little man. Now that I'm closing it up, what's more impressive thanhow much stuff I have in here is how much stuff Icould still fit in here. I could put a 120 or 140mil rad on the bottom with some 90 degree fittings without too much trouble. If this isn't enough cooling that's what I'm gonna do. I could put another fan here blowing down on the system memory. That could also be a good idea, I didn't even explore the handle kit just because I found theclearance was so tight in my media console that I wasn't going to be able to add that. But I think there's a fanmount that's part of it. Just a really thoughtfulcase with a ton of options, I actually really like it. And simple construction but top notch. That's it, that's a lot ofpower in a tiny container. In comparing the size tothe old case I realized that height shouldn'thave been my only concern. It's actually quite a bit deeper as well. Now for the big conclusion, the system performs admirably. Temps are around 75, 76 degrees on the GPU very nice. Not great for watercooling but remember guys this is only a 201-20radiator in a tiny case, and our CPU tops out ataround 79, 80 degrees. Remember though that'swith both components heating up the loop tothe max at the same time, for about an hour and a half. So, this is an absoluteworst case scenario. That means it's finallytime for us to play some video games. You guys wanna play Takelings? - [Children] Yeah please! - I'm goin' for it, I'm goin' for it boys. Get wrecked. - Mine, no! Yours nothin'. Get wrecked my literal son. (laughing) Well that was a lot of fun, this video is brought toyou guys by Manscaped. Manscaped makes manscaping safe and easy with their Perfect Package 3.0 kit. It includes everything you need to take your groomingroutine to the next level. Including most importantlytheir Lawn Mower 3.0 trimmer. It's got skin safetechnology with replaceable soft ceramic blades thatcut course hair at 7000 RPM. It's got a rechargeable 600 milliamp power lithium ion battery for cord free use. It's waterproof so youcan use it in the shower and it's low vibrationso she won't steel it. Excuse me, so that it operates quietly. Grab this or their Perfect Package 3.0 that includes the trimmer and more, using code TECH to get 20% off and free shipping at the link down below. Get it the link's down below, for the product, you know you guys get it. You get it. If you guys enjoyed this video maybe check out, I don't know check out myreview of the Valve Index. I really like this headset, my only complaint isthat it's not wireless. I guess that's sort of the review. But I promise I get intomore detail in the other one. I'll link that down below too. - Daddy are you right? 

Rememder this bay amd

 - It's with a heavy heartthat we now pay respects to a friend who hastouched all of our lives and our wallets. A friend who stuck by our side,whether we wanted it or not and never really changed. (sad music) The devastating loss ofIntel's performance leadership in gaming leaves a voidthat for many of us, won't be easy to fill. But, friends, don't be blue, 'cause there's always team red. (upbeat bright music) SmartDeploy allows IT departments to re-image any computer modelfrom a single golden image. Search the library for your model and grab your exclusive free licenses worth over $800 at smartdeploy.com/linus. (upbeat electronic music) Four CPUs are launching today. The Ryzen 5950X, Ryzen 9 5900X, and the Ryzen 7 5800X. And wait, where's our 5600X? Well, there's one of those too. Curiously, no non-X CPUs haveeven been announced just yet but these all coincide withtheir 3000 Series namesakes in terms of core countand market position. AMD did make one tweakto the lineup though, every skew but the Ryzen 5 5600X has received a $50 price bump, placing it firmly aboveIntel, commanding a premium. This threw lot of folks for aloop after the announcement. And now, we can finallyanswer the question. Can they, can they do that? Our test setup is a bitmore extensive than usual because we're packingin all four new CPUs, four of their predecessorsand three team blue CPUs to mark this potentiallymomentous occasion. Getting right to business. When compared against ourRyzen 3000 Series chips, it's clear that in games, there is a major performance advantage with the 5000 Series. In fact, that advantagetends to hover around 20%, extremely close to AMD'sclaimed 19% instructions per clock performance uplift. And this is especially truein notoriously CPU bound games like Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020. Same goes for GTA V, CS:GO. Heck, even Civilization VI has turn times that are roughly five seconds faster. Doesn't matter what game it is, the Ryzen 5000 Seriesis significantly faster compared to the last gen. But none of this is a surprise. I mean, obviously AMDwouldn't release a new product if it was worse than their old one. Hey, hey, sh, we don't talk about that. Usually that doesn't happen. So then, how does Ryzen 5000stack up against team blue? Ladies and gentlemen, they got 'em. (crowd cheers) Even the Ryzen 5 5600X, a CPU that costs 300 U.S. dollars beat every single one of Intel's CPUs, more often than it lost. And where it did lose, it was within a few percentage points. These are all games thatare traditionally CPU bound and holy (beep) would you look at thatperformance in CS:GO? That is over 200 more frames per second. Dr. Su, please, they're already dead! Stop kicking them! Kick over to lttstore.com for a sweet CPU Pins t-shirt instead, it's Ryzen inspired,designed, stylish and nerdy at the same time. For the love of allthat's good, lttstore.com. Moving on. Productivity is Ryzen'straditional stomping ground. And well, what can I say? This guy stomps. Look at these single-threadedCinebench scores. Only the 5600X, thelowest in the new lineup, falls below 600 points. And for reference, a Corei9-10900K scores a measly 535. AMD continues to flex all over not only their previous generation but team blue's entire lineup, with the Ryzen 7 5800X meeting or beating Intel's Core i9, even in multi-threadedworkloads like POV-Ray, our Mozilla Firefoxcompile test and Blender. Only V-Ray and Corona Rendererwere any kinder to Intel. And even that lead quickly evaporated when we introduced the cost competitor Ryzen 9 5900X to the mix, to say nothing of the 16-core 5950X. Intel just cannot catch a break here. And if you were wondering whether their upcoming Rocket LakeCPUs are going to help. Well, after doing somerough napkin math here, if we assume Rocket Lake's performance will be between 10 and20% higher than 10th Gen, that basically bringsus back to status quo. So assuming that Intelcan keep core clocks as high as they are now,the best case scenario is that Intel will get backtheir gaming performance throne but because they are losingtwo cores on the top end skew, that means that anywhere thatthread count is a factor, Intel's claimed IPC uplift is unlikely to make up the difference. So at a minimum then,AMD has the gaming crown for a couple of months and will continue to absolutely pulverizeIntel in productivity, even after the 11th Gen launch. I mean, this is somethingthat we haven't seen in well over a decade now. Clearly then, surely this comesat some sort of major cost in power consumption orthermal output, right? Right? Wrong. Check this out. Under the same Blender workload, we are bang on between all ofour 3000 and 5000 Series CPUs, with none of the pairsappreciably hotter than the other. Not only that, the 5000Series CPUs maintained roughly the same oreven higher core clocks throughout the test. That means the improvements in performance mostly came straight fromimprovements in core architecture. Power consumption bizarrelyseems to be actually down a bit for Ryzen 5000, with each CPUdrawing at worst, the same, or at best, a little bit less juice from the socket than 3000 Series. And that means we cancorroborate AMD's claims that they are literallynot drawing so much as a single watt more. This really is an incredible achievement. As for how they got here, AMD claims that all of this was done through pure engineering. And there's a lot to talk about here, starting with the demiseof the compute complex as we know it. Now they still call them CCXs, but they're not partitioned into groups of four cores anymore. And every eight-core dieis now able to access its full level three cachewithout having to deal with the extra latencyinvolved in splitting it up. This is a big part of what gives AMD such a massive boost in performance, because as we're well aware by now, Zen loves fast memory and Zen 3 is no exception. So having a unified pool of cache memory means that Ryzen 5000can more effectively feed all the cores all the time. And that's not all. AMD tweaked their branch predictor and their operation queue. And the TLDR of that is thatthe CPU can do more per clock and there's less of a penalty for it having to back up and redo work if it mis-predicts something. and beyond just Ryzen 5000 itself. AMD's upcoming Radeon 6000 Series GPUs, will be able to work with these CPUs with a feature that they'recalling Smart Access Memory, which will allow a RyzenCPU to access all 16 gigs of a Radeon 6000 Series GPU's memory. In some cases providing a major speed up. Now we are eager to testthis out for ourselves once those cards launch. So make sure that you getsubscribed so you don't miss it. As for compatibility, AMD says that Ryzen 5000CPUs will be compatible with motherboards using400 Series chipsets as well as the recommended500 Series chipsets. You'll need to waitthough for a BIOS update in order to use one ofthese new Zen 3 CPUs in an older board. And unfortunately for earlyadopters and thrift seekers, 300 Series motherboardsare officially unsupported. Makes sense, I guess. I mean, early 1st Gen Ryzenboards had some issues and they can't guaranteeanything at this point. And frankly, AMD hasstill done pretty okay with intergenerationalcompatibility for the most part, especially compared toIntel's hard and fast two generations of CPU,two generations of boards, and then you're done. Bottom line then, if Ryzen3000 was Ryzen matured, Ryzen 5000 is a continuation of that. I mean, we experiencedno weird stability issues even right at launch. And it also marks AMD'sreturned to the upper echelon of desktop CPU performance. Intel by contrast, outright missed the holiday season this year. And if AMD is able to further refine the next big Ryzen CPU, for TSMC's shiny newfive nanometer process, Intel's holiday next year,isn't gonna look much better. Like, to be clear, it'snot all about nanometers. Nvidia famously squeezed a full generation of extra performance withoutchanging process nodes when they released Maxwell in 2014. And doi, AMD, just did it todayon TSMC's seven nanometer. But Rocket Lake isgonna be pushing Intel's geriatric 14 nanometernode to its freaking limit unless something reallysurprising happens. So... it's a big win, here's the podium. The only reason that I would advise you not to pull the trigger is if you get mondo buyer'sremorse when you buy new stuff and it gets replacedby something way better a short time later, becauseIntel and AMD's leapfrog game looks to be heating up, not slowing down. 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If you're looking for something else, maybe go check out our announcement video for the Ryzen 6000 Series. It's got all the juicydetails about the GPUs that are supposed to go handin hand with these CPUs. Did you notice AMD didn'tlaunch a new chipset with these? That is so cool. They're not even trying to force you to go buy a new motherboard. Motherboard guys must notlike it that much though.