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A video on 'what is a good powersupply' for each system type would be appreciated. Maybe low end, mid end, high end with a couple of good options for each. The problem is when power supply shopping its like a minefield. I know for instance the very CX500 in the background of this shot was recommended against by many 'experts' for quite a period of time due to cheap internal components. Picking a power supply on a budget for an entry level gaming, or office rig is especially difficult as cheap power supplies are often garbage.
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I could see a usecase. Maybe someone without a lot of space? This whole kit could be effectively packed away when not using it, so like a lot of people do you could just set the laptop up on the kitchen table or something. I think the idea is a good one. For $200 I'd say it would work very well, even if that meant cutting down on the bling.
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Its certainly a good bit of kit and I think this would be ideal for so many people who don't want two computers, but man at $499 + the GPU that is a lot of money for just the box. In fact, you could put together a very handy system (minus the GPU itself) for $499 and just get the benefit of having a gaming computer in addition to your laptop. Of course that doesn't have the benefits of portability or having your files on both systems, but it also doesn't have the potential problems of running a laptop under such load for extended periods. No doubt as time goes on the price will come down, until that point its an impressive engineering exercise with promise. Does anyone know if this will work on MacBook Pros with thunderbolt?
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Was this a sponsored review?
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Just on a tangent (as this wasn't 100% addressed) how much of the stuff you get to review is sent by the companies itself? Like I assume they're super keen to send you basically anything, even if most of it never gets air time because its awesome publicity for them and the component cost is relatively nothing compared to the potential advertisement exposure. But I have heard on multiple big channels of people buying stuff themselves to review that aren't directly sent by the manufacturer. Especially with a lot of the kickstarter reviews you guys do. A channel the size of LTT could afford to buy the hardware themselves even if you couldn't get a sample sent to you, but a lot of the smaller channels probably couldn't. I know LTT and the company as a whole with the multiple channels is pretty huge now, but I still think its crazy the size its grown to primarily from youtube and 'viewer' income, because ~ 3 million subscribers is a lot, but you see plenty of 'one man show' channels with that amount of subscribers and you somehow manage to support 10+ full time staff on that revenue. Maybe thats more a comment on how much the 1 person channels earn than anything else.
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Thanks for the direct answer Nick. Seemingly I watched the video but didn't comprehend it very well. So only things like build logs etc are sponsored but the direct reviews are never sponsored in of themselves. (You guys made a video directly explaining it and still there are comments like this ) Thats actually a very good policy. I know a lot of youtube reviewers (and I know because I've seen videos explaining as much) say they will review products that companies pay them to review, but that they retain the right to criticize that product. They say that despite this they maintain objectivity, but I find those claims very questionable, as at the very least we may be getting that review as opposed to a better product, even if they're being honest about the product itself.
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Thats stretching it a bit fine imo. But you could find a vg248qe + cheap 22-24 monitor for that price. Stands themselves are very expensive for good ones.
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Id still love to know what percent of reviews we get to see are sponsored by the companies and what percent are because you guys thought it was an interesting product that we'd like to see. Because although it doesn't directly affect the views on the products reviewed, if you only hear about the sponsored products themselves and not the non-sponsored, but still worth reviewing products then it still impacts what you buy quite heavily. But I've never for a second doubted the LTT was open and honest about what they review, even a negative review on a channel this size is worth it.
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I don't see upgrading from a high end 144hz monitor to another a worthy upgrade personally. The resolution will be slightly better, but those are expensive panels.
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Been looking at a new main display for a bit, these look like the best affordable option (well below other screens of the same resolution/refresh rate)
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Depends on what you want. Some people are perfectly happy with 1080P, 27 inch screens (which is effectively what a 34 inch ultrawide is at that resolution). The higher resolution models are definitely better for productivity, but they're starting to get a lot of pixels to push in games.
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le wrong generation in reverse
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For some reason this defaulted to 4k on my 760P Macbook Air.
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These are such attractive monitors. Why don't they do 24 and 27 inch versions with that metal style.
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I have a 960. I must say, it wasn't really my first choice in card, but my 660 died and I knew there was going to be a big GPU release around the corner (being the 1070). I got the Asus branded card and I think its pleasantly surprising. I don't really do high end gaming but it does more or less everything I need to play at full detail and 1080P. Its probably slightly slower than the Ati cards at that price point (the 380) but apart from that its a perfectly fine card.
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Should be fine. If you get a TN panel it will look bad off centre, but modern TN's have pretty good colours looking straight at the monitor.
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When it says "sponsored by Origin PC" I assume that means Origin PC has paid them to produce and upload this video. But what is the normal situation when they review a product? Say a laptop, a graphics card, a case etc. Has that company paid to have that video put up (be that in a monetary sense or also 'hey you can have 10 of these products for your office') or have they simply provided a review sample that must be returned (or not provided one at all)?
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You'll get used to it. It seems 24 inch is now the display norm, short of all companies cheaping out of super budget systems. I do wonder why that is. I remember when I was younger I got a 17 inch LG Flatron CRT and it felt huge at the time. I guess we've all just adjusted to big screens.
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That is a good idea. I'm sure I will find a use for the 3450 anyway, you can seemingly never have too many computers. I already have a secondary Macbook Pro workstation but I get impatient. You feel very boxed in for doing multi window workloads on a 13 inch monitor.
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It is true. I must admit, even with gaming I've never had any issue with an ivy bridge i5 until I got into video encoding. But having to wait for hours for medium length clips to cross encode to workable file sizes really is a pest. If you could cut the time in half it would save insane amounts of time, which is a shame why theyre not going 6 core. ahh yes hyperthreading. So 'effective' 8 cores on the quad core CPUs. Thats actually a very decent benefit. Maybe a 6600K with a good high end air cooler and mild overclock will be perfect. They're not even that expensive considering the drastic productivity benefits.
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Yeah that seems a bit excessive for home user. Its a shame they're not doing 6 core skylakes. What exactly is the huge benefit of the i7 over the i5 in that instance? They're both quad cores. I always assumed the i7 cpus primarily had more cores.
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A 5820K would be faster than a 4790K on multi core workloads, right? Their price seems very competitive even.
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Usually if you just call the retailer and ask for a replacement they'll do that for you.
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Currently rocking an Ivy Bridge i5. I however have been doing a lot of encoding work of late, particularly with h265 and the encoding times have been a bit too long for me, even with medium quality 1080P video you're looking at roughly 3x the video length in cross encoding. I've considered upgrading to a 6700K as I know the extra performance would drastically reduce the time, but are we likely to see any Skylake 6 core processors in the near future? It just seems quad core on the top end i7 isn't brilliant for processes that can utilize more.
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If the screen is new just return it, thats what warranties are for.
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