SeekerAfterTruth

Is anyone else getting the chrome alert for malware when they visit PCPer? And does the team know? or can they be notified so they can fix it?

I really like this kind of video. If I had any suggestions, it would be to emulate the British television series Top Gear, and by that I mean have things like "cheap car challengers" except replace car with PC.
 
For instance, have Linus and Luke both build PCs with a small budget exactly like this, except have the tests/challenges be hidden from them. For instance, they won't know if they're supposed to play WoW at 4k, Tomb Raider reboot, quickest time to unzip a 10GB compressed file, etc. It would be really funny and interesting in my opinion.

This was honestly my favourite LTT video since, idk, a long time... Some very funny parts and very interesting topic matter. Well done team!
 
And for everyone wondering I do believe the part 1a thing was also a joke given how much flak their previous multi-part videos have been... you know their humour.

So basically you're a coward, willing to giving up all your freedoms and reconsider your every move and every word to avoid upsetting a bunch of fanatics.

I wish saying something was "too hard" was a legitimate excuse in my job too.

I would highly recommended reading the Audio FAQ sticky http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/18617-the-audio-boards-frequently-asked-questions-pre-answered/ and following up the links in that post.

I might as well weigh in on this since I tweeted this as a discussion topic:
 
Mantle:
- Unproven
- Requires no new hardware if you already have a GCN (7000+) card
- Requires developer support (but we know that at least some is coming)
- Unknown performance improvement over non-Mantle
- Takes time to implement, limited compatibility with existing hardware and fragments market, which will be a major barrier
- No support for existing titles unless ported in after the fact
- Potentially makes Linux gaming more feasible
 
G-Sync:
- Requires Kepler GPU (600 series or better)
- Requires new hardware on monitor side of things (but not that expensive to implement compared to existing scaler hardware)
- Does not require developer support & supports pretty much your entire existing library of games.
- Proven performance. Holy crap does it ever make a big difference. I'd rather play 50FPS with G-Sync than 80FPS with tearing from what I saw. Seriously..
- Requires hardware manufacturer support (at least some is coming, but not from A+ players like Samsung. I saw Philips, ASUS, BenQ, and Viewsonic on the list...)-
 
I'll discuss this more on the WAN Show this week, but let me put it this way. To all of the folks saying any of the following about G-Sync:
- a useless features
- can't convince me that lower framerates can look better
- snake oil
 
You just don't understand the technology here fully. This is ABSOLUTELY game-changing. It makes a HUGE difference. Enormous. Earth-shattering. Not open for debate. End of discussion. Unless you've tried it, (I have, you haven't at this point unless you're another journalist that was at the event) then it's best to say nothing before you make yourself look like a fool.
 
The challenges for G-Sync have to do with adoption by monitor makers, NOT to do with whether it's a GREAT technology that ideally EVERY gamer would have. For me a key factor here is going to be the availability of monitors with G-Sync that don't suck. If you can't buy an IPS panel with G-Sync, you're going to have a hard time selling someone like me who games very little compared to doing real work on his PC on it.
 
Mantle has the capability to dramatically improve performance in the traditional sense, but doesn't address the same issues that every card has the way the G-Sync does. Mantle's success rides on the implementations we see from devs like DICE with BF4. If it's awesome, then it will drive more developers to embrace it. If it sucks and it turns out to be really hard to work with, it won't.
 
So here's the summary in my mind. They're both potentially incredible. The only difference is right now we KNOW that G-Sync is incredible, and Mantle has the POTENTIAL to be incredible. We still need more information about BOTH of them before I'd be willing to drop real money on either of them, though.

Fraps is terrible for anything other than monitoring FPS.

Beta unoptimized? What an outrage! I've never heard such nonsense.

its beta..

The main problem with Nuclear energy is not really the potential for nuclear disaster. It's the amount of useless waste as a result of the power generation. Storing/eliminating that waste is a huge problem, and so far, the only "solution" isn't a sustainable one. 

I picked up Medieval 2: Total War a few years back for 10 bucks. Must have played many hundreds of hours. Also, the huge range of mods makes it very replayable, one of my favourites.

The problem with your question is that science, by its very nature, is never capable of proving the non-existence of anything.  Science can only draw conclusions on what it finds, not on what it can't find.  Science and theology are like parallel lines that will never intersect, you can't describe one with the other.  You can say that science can't prove the non-existence of flying fire breathing dragons.  At the same time you can't use theology to describe the nuances of string theory.

I would get a mid-range one and just save the rest of the money

As long as you don't use the skimwords feature of skimlinks, I don't see the harm.