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    How does Linus make money? - 2020 Update - How does LMG make money too. Lttstore.com. It doesn't take a deep thinker to figure out that we spend a lot of money around here, on staff, our facility, filming sets, production equipment, computers, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. What's tougher is where it all comes from. I've seen speculation that was involved in everything from IT consulting to commercial film production to back-alley deals with industry giants to suppress their competition. All of which is pretty funny to me because I know that at least 2 million of you already got the answer to this question. We only make YouTube videos or at least back then we did.  In fairness to you guys, the last four years have seen a lot of change in the influencer industry as a whole. And our company has also changed. We've nearly tripled in size by our headcount. So I guess I felt like in the interest of maintaining the kind of transparency with our community that y'all ...

RTX 3090 SLI - We Tried so Hard to Love It Image from  Linus Tech Tip s  On September 17th, 2020 claimed yet another victim. NVIDIA's SLI technology, which allows you to use more than one graphics card to increase your FPS in games was already on life support with lackluster support from game developers and NVIDIA slowly pulling support from more and more of their cards. But the final nail in the coffin was of course this blog post on NVIDIA's website stating that they would no longer develop SLI profiles for future cards at all or for their past cards past January of 2021.  Curiously though, the RTX 3090 NVIDIA's latest and absolute greatest does have an NVLink connector which as of the last generation is the connector that we use for SLI, which hasn't been explicitly disabled. So theoretically, in the handful of games that do natively support it, we should be able to run SLI on this card. Raising the question of course, given how CPU bottlenecked this is on any kind o...

The Sneaky Thing About PCI Express!! Image from TechQuicke You wouldn't be able to connect high-speed components as graphics cards and name drives to your computer without the PCI Express bus that's been a fixture on our motherboards for over a decade now. If you're not familiar, you can connect your devices via PCI Express in a few ways. Most commonly, you insert an adapter card into one of these slots right here, or an M.2 SSD right over here.  But did you know that not all PCI Express connections are the same? You see, PCI Express can connect your devices either directly to your CPU or to the chipset, which sits between your CPU and some of your other components, like your Ethernet jack or some USB ports.  This might be a point of confusion, if you've seen a motherboard that supports, say, 40 PCI Express lanes, but the CPU can only run one graphics card at 16x speed or two cards at 8x speed each. I mean, shouldn't all those PCI Express lanes let you plug in more ...

The Fastest Gaming PC is now AMD!     Image from Linus tech tips Oh my God, this is heavy. This is it. Ladies and gentlemen, this is the first, Oh, wow. It's heavy. The first unironically, top of the line, AMD gaming system. In, what? 14 years or something like that. That's right. Today, I have the pleasure, nay the privilege of unboxing and gaming on an AMD Ryzen 59, 50 X Aventum X from Digital Storm, days before the official release. And I could not be more excited because it does not get any better than this. At least not until you'vegot Bitdefender installed. This video is brough tto you by Bitdefender. Bitdefender is a global cyber security leader protecting over 500 million systems in over 150 countries.   Just to give you guys someidea how heavy this box is. Like, I weigh 160 pounds, This is what it takes for me to tip it. Did I hear, did I hearsomething rattling in there? Oh, Oh my God. The bottom of this box fell apart. Like, no mortal box can contain its gr...

How do I choose? - PS5 vs Xbox Series X  It's Console Wars D-Day, ladies, and gentlemen. We've got both the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series here in the studio. We've got all the launch games you care about, and we are running HDMI 2.0into an 88-inch OLED TV. It's time to put these consoles side by side and see how they perform mano a mano. Well, they're not human, but you get it. Origin PC desktops can now be customized with Nvidia GeForce RTX30 series graphics cards. If you're in the market for a new PC powered by Nvidia's latest graphics cards and backed by a 24/7 support team, check out Origin PC systems at the link below. (electronic dance music) We've already heard a ton about the super-fast loading speeds on both next-gen consoles, thanks to their SSDs. The Xbox Series X's SSD has a raw throughput of2.4 gigabytes per second, while the PlayStation 5 more than doubles that to 5.5 gigabytes per second raw. So you might expect thePS5 to beat the Xbox...

I took apart Apple's new M1 Mac Mini  Image from Linus tech tips  Bold claims ladies and gentlemen. This is it. The Apple Mac mini with its new Apple Silicon M1 processor. That's right, my friends. Apple says CPU performance up to three times greater. GPU performance up to six times greater. And neural processor, machine learning performance up to 15 times greater. That's right. All of that and more can be yours for just, what is it? 699? 699 US? Is that right? Well, from the outside, it's a Mac mini all right. Wow. Yeah, not much to make it stand out from the previous Mac minis that we've been using here at the office as ingest stations for the better part of a year now, I guess. Black stand. Got a little cover over the IO. And this is of course where the disappointment starts. Now, it's nothing to do with the performance of the Apple Silicon M1, but for me, one of the big highlights of the latest generation Mac minis has been the ability to equip them with 10-...