NVIDIA gets Destroyed - WAN Show March 19, 2021

Sign up for Notion for free! http://bit.ly/wanshownotion Take control of your end-of-life upgrade strategy with Extended Lifecycle Support services from CloudLinux at https://hubs.ly/H0JpBnj0 Get the CORSAIR K65 RGB Mini  On CORSAIR: https://geni.us/8fAd1Y On Amazon (PAID LINK): https://geni.us/MB1aUMO On Newegg (PAID LINK): https://geni.us/o5Zz Check out Carpool Critics, our new movie podcast: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCt-oJR5teQIjOAxCmIQvcgA Timestamps (Courtesy of BlackWings) 0:11 Intro - discord acquisition, intel tick tok, semi conducter shortage at crisis point,  acer was hit with a 50 million dollar ransom 0:55 WAN Show intro 1:22 show brought to you by notion, corsair, cloud linux 1:30 Microsoft in talks to buy discord 10 BILLION USD        5:00 Tangent into  Linus and luke playing "escape from tarkov"  24:39 Intel returning to tik tok production cycle, team blue to catch up ? 33:16 Sponsors (Corsair, Notion, CloudLinux) 36:00 GPU MSRP disaster :(            37:43 Linus talks about LMG buying GPUs at scalper prices and selling for MSRP for an upcoming video           40:13 new partner for Verified Actual Gamer Programme [EVGA]           42:10 Linus talks about in-person event in which they verify games for the programme           43:25 Poll on whether they should user scalper GPUs or EVGA ones           44:20 Games in VAGP           45:09 Result of poll           51:00 Luke talks about the since fixed error message in VAGP checkout system that happened last tuesday 54:38 LTX pins on lttstore and sticker pack 56:55 Intel tech trivia (major tech youtubers crossover event) 1:00:54 Superchats 1:02:27 A little more on VAGP 1:04:45 Conclusion 1:04:52 Outro Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

29 Maalis 20211h 6min

Get a 15-day free trial for unlimited backup at https://backblaze.com/WAN Try FreshBooks free, for 30 days, no credit card required at https://www.freshbooks.com/wan Honey automatically applies the best coupon codes to save you money at different online checkouts, try it now at https://www.joinhoney.com/linus See the full details of the Channel Super Fun Writer/Producer role at https://linusmediagroup.com/jobs  Check out Carpool Critics, our new movie podcast: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCt-oJR5teQIjOAxCmIQvcgA Timestamps (Courtesy of BlackWings) 0:00 Intro, intel extreme tech upgrade 1:37 Broke sponsor  3:27 Stalling for time 4:37 New intro  5:42 Broke sponsor continuation 13:46 Clarification on Verified Actual Gamer Program 15:57 XBOX game pass exclusivity 30:39 Sponsor for WAN Show (Honey, BackBlaze, Freshbooks,) 33:55 Channel SuperFun job openings   34:19 Radeon overhead and performance variations 42:09 adata quietly swapping out XPGSX8200 SSD components to revise performance 45:53 OVH data center destroyed in a massive fire 52:04 Russia attempted to throttle twitter instead ended up throttling their entire internet 52:30 NFT discussion  56:33 GME stonks go brrr update 1:00:28 Is AMD joining the GPU mining craze more? 1:02:42 Superchats 1:03:08 No virtual LTX 2021 1:04:15 Major collab with tech youtubers, "Tech trivia answered in the form of a question" 1:12:34 WAN Show go bye bye Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

15 Maalis 20211h 14min

Visit https://www.squarespace.com/WAN and use offer code WAN for 10% off Save 10% at Ridge Wallet with offer code WAN at https://www.ridge.com/WAN Start your build today at https://www.buildredux.com/linus Check out Carpool Critics, our new movie podcast: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCt-oJR5teQIjOAxCmIQvcgA Timestamps (Courtesy of MMAPSFAWNMR) 00:00:09 ----- Synopsis of Topics (AnandTechs 11700K review, Verified Actual Gamer Program, Google is a privacy company now, Arizona House Bill). 00:01:45 ----- Intro. 00:02:17 ----- Luke feels robbed and asks Linus where the new WAN Show intro is. 00:02:40 ----- How AnandTech published their full review of the Intel Core i7-11700K nearly two weeks early and how NDAs work. 00:03:14 ----- Quick sponsor announcement: Redux, Ridge Wallet, and Square Space. 00:15:03 ----- Tech specs of the Intel Core i7-11700K. 00:23:32 ----- Nvidia is working with GPU miners. The 3060 ATH mining limiter rumored to be on the 3080 Ti as well. 00:32:26 ----- Big Reveal: Sometime next week, Linus Media Group will be launching the Verified Actual Gamer Program (not a giveaway). 00:44:59 ----- Sponsor spot: Redux. 00:45:54 ----- Sponsor spot: Ridge Wallet. 00:46:32 ----- Sponsor spot: Square Space. 00:48:53 ----- Questions about the Verified Actual Gamer Program. 00:49:40 ----- Google is now a privacy company. 00:55:01 ----- LTT Store new shirt. 00:56:53 ----- AMDs 6700XT paper launcher. 01:00:02 ----- 8-year-old Fortnite pro (Joseph Dean). 01:02:19 ----- LTT Store desk pad update. 01:02:51 ----- Arizona House Bill that would require an allowance for third party payment on app platforms. 01:09:58 ----- Super Chats. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

8 Maalis 20211h 15min

Check out Seasonic's PRIME 850 W Titanium on Amazon at https://lmg.gg/seasonicprime Try FreshBooks free at https://freshbooks.com/wan Get Private Internet Access VPN at https://lmg.gg/piawan Check out Carpool Critics, our new movie podcast: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCt-oJR5teQIjOAxCmIQvcgA Timestamps (Courtesy of Asa) 0:00 - Topics Introduced 2:10 - Intro 2:20 - Linus wants new intros (kind of) 4:00 - some LMG history as told by Linus 6:24 - Linus meets a company intrested in buying LMG 10:10 - Linus looks for old emails about the potential merger 13:00 - Linus decides he doesn't want to take the offer 15:52 - Linus likes the Spiffing Brit 16:44 - Main Topic 1: Biden & Semiconductors 20:51 - Nvidia is not your friend (and LMG is a corporation) 23:44 - Linus does the funny crying thing (press 3 on the keyboard) 26:15 - Nvidia's 3080 nerfs aren't effective 28:25 - c:/chat_is_hacking 30:53 - Nvidia says the 3080 ''cannot be hacked' 35:04 - Luke talks about Hardware Unboxed email 37:48 - Valve nevermind, sponsors! 42:16 - Luke's bird, Scoop, makes an appearance 45:43 - Main Topic 2: Apple v. Epic feat. Valve 50:46 - New LTTStore Shirt! (designed by Sarah) & Linus is making a solid gold controller 55:22 - Bling vs. Functionality 59:10 - Main Topic 3: "Silver Sparrow" Apple Malware 1:01:08 - Main Topic 4: Fry's Electronics closed 1:05:07 - Main Topic 5: Apple forced to show a "repairability score" in France 1:06:13 - Luke talks about Willow Video & Linus talks about the Basil Leaf 1:12:25 - Linus discusses the Basil Leaf''s closing, opening, and closing again 1:14:00 - Conclusion & Superchats Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

1 Maalis 20211h 19min

Check out RemoteHQ at http://remotehq.co/wan and use code WAN Visit https://www.squarespace.com/WAN and use offer code WAN for 10% off Save 10% at Ridge Wallet with offer code LINUS at https://www.ridge.com/Linus Check out Carpool Critics, our new movie podcast: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCt-oJR5teQIjOAxCmIQvcgA Timestamps (Courtesy of AD) Topics: 0:06 Intro: 1:57 Sponsors: 2:20 Samsung calming 1st high bandwidth memory and AI processing: 2:30 Nvidia slows the mining performance of up coming 3060: 13:37 New floatplane video (Buying counterfeit LTT Merch): 19:35 Sponsors: 24:35 Reacting to xQc’s reaction to Linus’s reaction of xQc building his PC : 28:56 Linus drawing: 49:05 Linus confession: 1:09:38 Linus talks about his “bone-head move”: 1:11:08 Linus “overall response” to the reaction: 1:13:28 Linus talk about Twitch streaming and streamers: 1:14:17 Return to other topics : Facebook: 1:16:31 Xbox series x got an update: 1:21:56 SuperChats: 1:26:04 Outro: 1:28:46 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

22 Helmi 20211h 30min

Check out Seasonic's PRIME 850 W Titanium on Amazon at https://lmg.gg/seasonicprime Get Private Internet Access VPN at https://lmg.gg/piawan Get a 15-day free trial for unlimited backup at https://backblaze.com/WAN Check out Carpool Critics, our new movie podcast: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCt-oJR5teQIjOAxCmIQvcgA Timestamps (Courtesy of MattDog_222) 0:22 Why the show is late (Painting) 1:42 Andy, an employee, wanted Linus to paint during Intel Extreme Tech Upgrade 3:16 Andy's setup and how Linus broke the bed 6:16 Further explanation/reactions to the bed story 7:31 Topic Previews 9:22 Roll that intro! 9:41 Linus getting Rick-rolled 10:51 Headline: NVIDIA (supposedly) Restarting production of 1050TIs 12:29 Explaining GPU 'wafers' during production 13:58 The reason they are remaking it 16:25 Digression to RTX not being popular 18:09 Valve's user hardware related data 19:17 Intel caught 'fudging' benchmarks: 21:29 The "Fun part" (Luke).  23:07 Watching the video together with Linus 24:51 Pausing and discussing Intel Evo Branding 26:32 Evo: What is it? 28:06 Jon (Rettinger) should not be the the spokesperson (Linus) 30:47 You don't market your product by crapping on the other (Linus) 33:22 Evo standard doesn't even include USB Type A ports (Luke) 35:02 Linus's AMD story about product marketing issues 37:10 LTT responsible for canning an agency 38:51 The nature of the industry with marketing agencies 41:07 Luke's favorite marketing people to work with 41:58 Asking Jon about the video 43:48 Sponsor: Backblaze 44:42 Sponsor: Private Internet Access (PIA) 45:25 Sponsor: Seasonic 46:37 Plugging Jon's channel 47:31 CD Projekt Red Source Code Leaks 49:59 Related cyber threats 51:49 Linus suspects someone actually bought it 52:50 Twitter explores payed subscriptions 53:05 Facebook's ad implementation by comparison 55:09 Twitter's homefeed (and ads) 56:58 Twitter subscription model discussion 58:19 What you get from it (Including editing tweets) 59:55 Ability to tip users 1:01:12 Art 1:02:05 Affordable Intel CPUs 1:03:37 Interesting how this + 1050TI is happening at the the same time (Luke) 1:04:50 Replying to chats 1:07:41 Linus upgrading Luke's PC + the catch 1:09:09 Conclusion + LTT Store 1:09:54 Outro Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

16 Helmi 20211h 11min

Start your build today at https://www.buildredux.com/linus Save 10% at Ridge Wallet with offer code LINUS at https://www.ridge.com/Linus Honey automatically applies the best coupon codes to save you money at different online checkouts, try it now at https://www.joinhoney.com/linus Check out Carpool Critics, our new movie podcast: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCt-oJR5teQIjOAxCmIQvcgA Timestamps (Courtesy of MattDog_222) 0:00 Intro with Google Stadia changing  1:49 Luke's take about Stadia 3:34 Linus's problem with what Google was doing 4:56 Talking about acquisition opportunities 6:38 Linus: The bigger problem with Stadia 8:24 One of the holy grail's of gaming: Fully destructible environments 9:50 Linus's prison escape simulator game idea 11:02 Game called "Teardown" discussion 11:53 The core idea of cloud gaming + Google lacking patience 13:26 Google's confusing mindset hypothetical example 14:22 Everyone knows games take a long time to develop (except Google) 16:05 GeForce Now has reached 6 Million members 16:48 Luke: Nvidia & Microsoft have good approaches 17:45 Xbox Series X example 18:40 Comparing to Nintendo Wii/Switch controller/accessory costs 19:59 Luke singing the song again + Linus trying to censor it live 20:26 Nvidia requiring companies to be transparent about RTX3000 specifications 21:57 Linus calling one of the writers about RTX3000 spec requirement 23:02 TDP not making much difference, but boost clocks are 25:01 Currently don't know much about the 80W vs. 150W (price, power usage, performance) 26:40 Luke enjoys Nvidia shooting themselves in the foot 27:44 What Linus thinks Nvidia needs (Intel like naming approach) 28:32 Is Linus still holding GME (Gamestop) stocks? (skip to 42:24) 29:05 Sponsor: Build Redux 30:28 Sponsor: Ridge Wallet 31:13 Sponsor: Honey 31:57 Luke tells us a story from his mom 34:18 Comparing old and current YouTube comments 36:23 Other people responding to comments for you 37:33 (Rumor) Apple VR Headset could cost $3,000 39:22 Linus worried about Apple's approach + How it might impact VR market 40:27 The Valve Index's VR problems comparison 42:24 Linus GME (Gamestop) stock update 44:34 (Floatplane chat) GPD video question 44:57 How Yvonne (wife) handled the GME stocks 47:28 Not LTT Store 48:14 LTTStore.com (New scarves) 49:54 Valve fined $4,000,000 on Steam controller 52:10 Linus: Gaming patents shouldn't last as long 54:18 NZXT Apologizes for safety issue on H1 case 56:30 Superchats 59:46 Linus's lifetime investments summary 1:02:17 Conclusion 1:02:41 Outro Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

8 Helmi 20211h 3min