@Slick@LinusTech@nicklmg@CPotter
For those of you that don't know, LTT recently put out this video:
Now, it's great that LTT is making another build guide, but I have MANY issues with this build. Here is a short list:
A 1600 would be a much better choice. It would cost only a little more, comes with a better stock cooler, and can be OCed, not to mention on average the minimums and averages are higher, and in any multi threaded workloads it will crush (though that's not completely relevant, since this is a gaming build guide)
You're using a B150 mobo with a Kaby Lake CPU. While most of the time there shouldn't be an issue, there are probably still some B150 mobos on shelves that have older bioses that don't support Kaby Lake on them.
You only got 8gb RAM in a $1000 build. WTF?
You bought an $80 cooler with a locked CPU and mobo. Wat.
You got a $100 case, instead of a $65 one like the S340. At the very least, get the Pure Base 600 no window instead for $20 cheaper.
You could've saved another $20 by getting something like an M12ii instead for the PSU.
All the money saved by doing that allows us to fit a 1070 in the build, a GPU that is at least 25% more powerful from here (probably more since it's a top of the line 580 vs a founders 1070)
Here is the PCPP list that evidences this:
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 1600 3.2GHz 6-Core Processor ($217.55 @ OutletPC) Motherboard: MSI B350 PC MATE ATX AM4 Motherboard ($81.99 @ B&H) Memory: Team Dark 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory ($99.99 @ Newegg) Storage: Kingston HyperX Fury 240GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($80.99 @ Amazon) Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 1070 8GB SC GAMING ACX 3.0 Black Edition Video Card ($379.99 @ Newegg) Case: be quiet! Pure Base 600 (Black/Silver) ATX Mid Tower Case ($79.99 @ SuperBiiz) Power Supply: SeaSonic 520W 80+ Bronze Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($56.99 @ SuperBiiz) Total: $997.49 Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-05-04 11:32 EDT-0400
A build that has a slightly better CPU, double the RAM, and at least around 30% faster GPU with the sacrifices only being the lack of a window and a worse CPU cooler (and maybe a slightly louder PSU, but it probably isn't by much).
You see what I'm saying?
Now I understand, LTT was sponsored by be quiet!. But that doesn't excuse recommending a build to possibly a MILLION people that could've been 30% faster for the EXACT SAME PRICE. Now yes, not a million people are going to lose out on that, but at least a few hundred people will PROBABLY use this as a base for their next pc. Instead, you could've used a $30 cooler from be quiet!. Or maybe could've used the same cooler, psu, and case in a $1500 build guide where you would be using a 7700k, where the parts would actually MAKE SENSE.
The Ryzen 5/3 "previewed" videos were also a fail in a similar way, but those didn't cost people performance/money and you guys truly learned your lesson from those.
But this? This is just misleading/hurting your OWN VIEWERS by costing them performance because of sponsorships. This is just bad, honestly. It's a new low, and I hope you guys will fix this, possibly by doing a followup video with a BETTER parts list using a 1600+1070.
I wasn't really bothered by the thumbnails, and the Ryzen 5/3 previewed video seemed to teach you guys a lesson, but this is just flat out bad. I don't have words for how low you guys have gone in this video, to recommend people to spend money on useless things (like the CPU cooler) because of sponsorships.
Again, I don't have anything against sponsorships, I know this is how quite a bit of your money is made, but when sponsorships mean you are HURTING your viewers, that's just flat out bad.
I hope someone at LMG sees this, since you guys really need to reverse your mistake.
EDIT: And for Ryzen, you can't make the argument that this was filmed before Ryzen 5 was launched, since you had a disclaimer in the video about the rx 580 which was launched a few weeks after Ryzen.
This G3 is not the G3. Its the "G3 s" (you can tell by the 722 number, and also the 8gb internal storage. The big G3 has either 16 or 32gb.
Its a "mini" version of the G3, with a 720p Screen on 5". And also, Mid-class hardware.
The Nexus has a stronger Hardware, and a sharper 1080p Screen.
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