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  1. BrownCoat40
    Feenix makes some sexy stuff. Currently for my peripherals, I have a Chroma, basic mousepad from Steelseries...and then it goes downhill. I have a $20 keyboard from Dell, and no headphones. Yeah. the full peripherals kit would literally upgrade everything from somewhere between non-existent and good, to absolutely awesome.
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    Give me the display inputs!!! (but seriously, my monitor's good for a 1080p SDR, but it'd be nice to have a better monitor if I did win)
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    I've used Short Throw projectors in the classroom-ish setting before, and it worked really well. I'm excited to see it in a more portable form-factor. Honestly, I wish I had one of these in college. There would have been some midnight (or 3am) gaming sessions on the library wall. Just please tell me they include a transportation cover to protect the optics.
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    I want the keyboard; currently I have...the cheapest Amazon Basics keyboard. I got more than I paid for, but this keyboard would just be in a different class.
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    I really wonder about the different classes for air cooled CPU coolers. Will a cooler with four heat pipes to keep an i7-4790 from thermal throttling? What's necessary to keep it below 70degC? 4 heat pipes? 6 heat pipes? Will a low profile cooler with the same radiator size have the same cooling efficiency? I'd love to see a new "workshop" video where you take something like a i7-4790K (not overclocked to keep coolers as the only variable), and strap a couple different classes of coolers on them in order to see how different classes of coolers perform. For Cooler Master's lineup, you could compare the Hyper 612, Hyper 212 Evo, T2, T4, Vortex V400, GeminII S524 and M4. Or on Noctua's line, NH-D15, NH-U12S, NH-D9L, NH-C14S, NH-L12, and NH-L9A. Of course, the bigger ones will do better, but how much better are we talking? If a NH-D15 is only 2 degrees cooler than an NH-D9L, then I know which one I'd go for. And if I'm saving up for a water-cooling kit, will a 212 Evo throttle my i7-4790? Potentially, you could throw in the Intel stock cooler and something like an h80i an H100i. But you probably covered those comparisons sufficiently in "Is Aftermarket CPU Cooling Worth it?", where you compared stock, a T4, and 240mm rad.
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    I'd love for you to cover why most consumer machines don't have multiple cpu's (for example, it'd be cheaper per performance mark to go for say three Intel G3258's over a i7-4790k). Or how multiple cpu's actually interact, either on a two cpu system, or on a supercomputer level. On an unrelated note, I love how this is a "Temporary Thread" that's been going for almost two years.
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    http://pcpartpicker.com/p/7T4JjX I'd love to get the magnetic RGB ones, or the UV ones. I'm going to be doing a new black and white build in NZXT's Manta ITX case (case and mobo on the way, psu to be ordered, cooler may come later, everything else in my current PC). The mobo doesn't support RGB natively, but I'm pretty sure I'll either go solid UV or white, or I'll eventually pick up a third party controller like the Hue+ and have RGB. Four strips should be more than enough for this build, after all, this is only an ITX case, even if it is large for that class. Thank you!
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    I thought this was quite interesting, as I would completely agree with nearly everything. The cheap prebuilts suck, and the decent pre-builts cost as much as a computer. So why not get a computer? I own a WD MyCloud Ex2; one of the prebuilt 2-bay NAS units. It's as slow as a granny using a walker. For example, I needed to make a bootable usb from a 4gb .iso. I copy pasted from the NAS to my desktop, waited 30 seconds, went to the windows site and downloaded it, and the download finished 2 minutes before the NAS copy finished. You can literally download something faster than transferring it over the cheap NAS units. I regret that I spent $150 on that P.O.S. And if you're going to spend $600 on a NAS box (not including drives btw), why not get a full computer? Yes they aren't as power efficient, which Linus didn't mention in depth. But here's that depth: If you figure 4 drives at 10W each, and 15W for the prebuilt, thats 55W. Last time I checked, my rig's i3 and mobo only pull about 30 watts from the wall. If I re-purposed the system for a NAS, say adding 5W for the LSI card and 10W each for 4 drives, the system takes 75W. The difference is only 20W, and practically no difference in hardware price. So take your pick; do you want a prebuilt that has a 20W power saving, but limited ability to upgrade and no replaceable parts (minus drives of course), or do you want a full computer where every component is independently upgradable and replaceable? I assume that if you're on this forum, you'll understand that no ability to upgrade or replace components can easily cost more in the long run (as I was recently reminded of when my wife's Macbook Pro bit the dust).
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    I want one, honestly to give it to a friend or family member. I've got an SSD in all 5 of my computers, including the couple-year-old laptop, and I can honestly say I won't be going to a HHD for anything but bulk storage that doesn't need to be accessed frequently. I've already bought one as bday gift for a friend, and plan to give one as a bday gift to my mom. If I got one, it would go to a friend or family member that can't afford one, or one that doesn't know they need one.
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    I want the Kiro-I want to see how the modular aspect is implemented. I can't wait for a manufacturer to produce a fully modular series. I'd love to build a mouse with all my preferences, choosing size of the mouse, sensor, programmable buttons, bluetooth vs usb, etc.
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    My parents are at least tech savvy enough to open an app on their Iphone. Sonos makes it so easy that even with me halfway across the USA, they'll be able to get the Sonos system up and running and keep it running in the long haul...unlike when my brother tried to set up a wifi-network printer... http://www.amazon.com/SONOS-PLAY-Smart-Speaker-Streaming/dp/B005441AJC/
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    I'm really excited to see this form factor actually get some decent stuff in the consumer market; to actually get a decent PC in a small size.
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    I'd love to have that keyboard. Great hardware with an absolutely amazing minimalist look. PS, Linus, did you get sick, or did you have some kind of screaming session that destroyed your voice between filming the conference room setup and the giveaway?
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