recently i'm scrolling through twitter
and i'm seeing these notifications pop
up about amd announcing a bike
and that's right this is their response
to nvidia
is to just say hey guys just go outside
like stop stop playing on pc games all
together
we've got the solution for you with a
bicycle and uh that's our response to
nvidia
we also have the announcement of an
announcement they're going to talk about
these gpus
at the end of october and this still
links into that
end of november rumor that we've been
hearing about
so september 2020 could easily be
described as the month of
jensen so far and the announcement of
the rtx 3000 series the mp announcement
just rattled through
all of the internet and it has really
made waves to the point where i'm pretty
sure
everyone cannot wait to get these
results for rtx 3080. but after looking
around on twitter and on
youtube i see that no one's really
touching on this topic
of the bike it's almost like people just
in 2020
they don't want to touch on amd they're
like whoa amd we do not want
anything to do with those fanboys out
there they're
they are pretty relentless i'm going to
say that so besides the announcements if
you go to amd's
website where they've uh put on their
store a mountain bike
which looks like 26 inch and it's
retailing at 299
and you've got a few different colors
which uh they look
i gotta say like look they look pretty
cool but when we look closer because i
used to be into bmx's
and uh bikes pretty hardcore there is
something
quite a bit wrong with this 299 price
tag in my opinion
to the point where you can get something
which at least on the spec sheet
looks better at 177 bucks
so straight away looking at this bicycle
right here there's a few things that
strike out
as being not just like mediocre but
actually quite
cheap on this bicycle and that is v
brakes
so you can see them here the old school
v brakes these are very dated nowadays
most bikes use at least value bikes
we'll use
disc brakes on both front and rear and
so we can see here that they're using
the cheaper brakes
and also when we look up here on the
handle
we can see that they've got the quill
style stem
and most bikes nowadays will have a
threadless stem even at 299 bucks so
kind of surprising why they've done
these two options but if we go
through as well more on the bike we can
see that they've used twist
grip shifters these are very old school
as well
and then the component and the gearing
just looks like it's outdated as well
and then if we look closely at the frame
we see here if you've ever worked on
bikes before it's kind of got a nickname
at least where i am locally it's called
plumber's pipe
basically a cheaper grade of steel
that's hollow so this bicycle at 299
bucks is basically looking like to put
it quite simply
garbage so first of all why release
something to your fans so it is
this is the amd fanstore.com why release
something to your fans that
is really not worth 299 bucks i mean
should do a little bit better of a job
at least putting in some of the
more modern components on this bike
to sell to your fans like your fans of
all people right people who
it's like me um selling my subscribers
like not even doing like over charging
them for pcs that i'd regularly sell on
facebook i kind of don't get the message
there it's
something that i wouldn't do personally
so i mean why are you guys doing this to
your fans
and i mean look i love the message i
love the message don't get me wrong i
think
we definitely gotta focus on your health
and try and make a healthier lifestyle
but
it comes at a little bit of a weird time
when uh the competitor
is definitely making strides in terms of
what they've announced and the price
performance that their new cards are
going to be coming in at
and so that leads us to segway into rdna
2 and what is amd going to do here
because all we've got so far really
is a heap of rumors and we've also got
in fortnite
6000. that's like i saw some articles on
this and i'm
like watching it i'm like yeah obviously
their next generation of gpus is going
to have a higher number than the
previous generation
look i can read some numbers but i'm
really hanging out here for some kind of
performance
tease or something in how these cards
are going to perform
because all we've got so far is just
nvidia just completely wiping the floor
in the gpu market
where it looks like even intel which
were going to talk about their gpus have
suddenly
gone all quiet we've also got the
announcement where they're going to talk
about zen 3 cpus which is going to be
awesome in its own right
but today we're looking at the gpus
where we've got the radeon gpus being
talked about
at the end of october which does give
strong credibility towards the end of
november
launch of the new rdna 2 gpus but as a
pc gaming enthusiast
we need something we need a taste of
these new gpus
nvidia's just wiping the floor and so
i'm sitting here like thinking to myself
what is amd going to do about this and
from all's we know right now
is that rdna 2 is coming at the end of
november
that's what i've been told it's coming
in late november and
apparently board partners haven't even
got the cards to make custom coolers yet
so
with that said it looks like it's going
to be quite a rushed release
which i hope it isn't because rushed
releases mean that you can have
potential driver problems there could be
issues with coolers and if we remember
the r9 290 days those things were
getting extremely loud
and extremely hot so when it comes down
to it amd
sure there's the argument of amd is
behind in terms of r d versus nvidia
but at the end of the day it's still not
our problems as individuals we are just
the customers
who work hard make money and we want to
buy stuff to enjoy ourselves in our free
time
and if amd isn't pulling up
just like intel isn't pulling up in the
cbu market then they're going to fall
behind and it's not up to you guys as
consumers
to buy the underdogs part because they
can't get their shit together
for me personally i just buy whatever's
going to work best for me at the time
and i don't look back i make that
decision and i'm happy with it no
regrets
so with amd at the moment i think
they're in a tough spot like sure they
have the console market
but the console market is already
starting to
get overshadowed by the pc gaming market
big time and that's why i feel nvidia
did make this
big preemptive step with ampere i feel
like they wanted to take away from all
the thunder
that was going to come later in the year
with consoles i feel like they've
really hit two birds with one stone with
this earlier announcement
and so what is going to come through the
next year with amd
it remains to be seen but it's kind of
like nvidia always seemed to be
one step ahead of amd in terms of what
they're doing in the gpu market
and so i'd really like to see amd make a
comeback but
i just feel at this point in time their
retaliation and how they've responded to
nvidia
does say a lot more than what we're
talking about and that is
they haven't really got a response
because perhaps they don't really have a
counter
to the ampere and the rtx 3000 that's
just my thoughts and what i'm seeing at
the moment because if you had something
you would try and at least tease
something to
at least lure people away who are going
to be buying the upcoming rtx 3000
and lure them over to your camp saying
hey we've got this
and it's ready to go and it's going to
perform like this
instead we're just saying nothing so
that's what actually worries me is
what's not being said
as opposed to what's being said in
response to
ampere anyhow guys with all that aside
we've got the question of the day here
which comes from
neon genesis and they asked what would
happen if you put both
ddr3 and ddr4 in at the same time
and they're referring to uh the video we
did on the one and x99 board
and i'm looking at this question i'm
like i'm curious as well
let's go quickly do it so there's the
ddr3 there is the ddr4
let's hit the uh turn on button see what
happens
watching the postcode carefully
well um
okay so just an error message that was
like really uneventful
i was hoping for like either fireworks
or we get some kind of signal
nope hopefully that answers that
question
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the whole
nvidia versus amd thing right now i mean
i've said it in previous videos i just
think the gpu market is getting really
exciting now
hopefully amd has a big answer
for ampere but i mean i've just got to
call it as it is
at this point in time i'm just calling
it as it is so it doesn't look
too promising that's all i'm gonna say
anyhow i'll catch you in the next one
peace out for now bye
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