Welcome back to another episode of Viewers Choice
We looked back at our Amazon affiliate data
To see what YOU
Yes YOU
Thomas
...uhh
Bullock
Actually bought since New Year's Eve and had a look at what kind of
PC that you could build out of the most popular parts and this time was REALLY interesting
Not only because of intel's coffee lake launch
that's six core cpus for the masses a
a mere seven years after AMD did it
but also because ram prices have been so stupid and
cryptocurrency broke the GPU market like
....
Bad..
I cannot BELIEVE how much some of you had to pay, for a graphics card.
It's like actually depressing
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Next week: NCIX sales data
So as much as people moaned and groaned when coffee lake was announced
I mean.. it had been less than a year since KB Lake Aaaand it had its own new chipset.
That was a requirement.
It looks like a LOT of you were ready for an upgrade because the Core i7 8700K
was far and away the most popular chip this quarter.
BUT given its big performance bump over previous products
that's not nearly as surprising as the way that the most popular chips previously the i7
7700K and i-5 7600K
have been knocked WAY back by a RED SEA
of Ryzen processors occupying HALF of the top spots
overall AMD has actually managed to
completely catch up to Intel in CPU market share at least as far as
OUR viewers and what they buy on Amazon is concerned so
WoW great job AMD
Onto motherboards silver metal went to AZ 370 board with support for all of those 8th
gen Intel chips that you guys are buying but when you look at the price you pay to go Intel an average of
$200 for that board
I guess it makes sense that the top-selling motherboard was actually for AMD's
socket am for the asus rog Strix b 350f
Gaming with a similar but more expensive variant this guy coming in third place
Also from a sous fun fact the first non AC sport doesn't appear until sixth
place in
Cooler land we've got the
The forever champ of coolers cooler master hyper 212 evo the cooler that
tripled the sales of the runner-up in our last episode has been
Beaten by none other. Whoops, then the course
h100 iv2
all-in-one liquid cooler
Could it be the RGB logo on the pump?
Yeah, it's probably
On two ran
Sadly our audience hasn't been spared the jacked up prices
Corsairs to buy eight gigs 3000 megahertz vengeance kit was the best selling this time and
Last june and if you guys are looking at this going well, there's a ram shortage because you guys have got all of it
Well what we've had all this stuff for a long time since it was way cheaper
This kit was an average of 75
dollars less last June
Of course, they're somehow managed to get us a hundred and twenty eight gigs of their vengeance RGB
It's not entirely possible that we are single-handedly causing the continuation of the global DRAM shortage, so sorry about that
Which I guess is a good segue into GPU prices
Which have also been inflated due to demand from?
cryptocurrency miners while we're used to seeing nvidia gtx
1070 and 1080 cards on the podium this time around people mostly bought 10 60's and
specifically from EVGA
But were the people buying them gamers?
Well the absence of an uptick in
1060 usage in the Steam Hardware survey over the same period would seem to indicate that no. No they were not
So does that mean that all of those cards were bought by miners not?
necessarily but consider that all but two of them were bought on the same day in January and that
One person bought four and that the 1060 doesn't support four-way SLI
And all right then so then did any gamers buy a new GPU and 2018
Well looks like they tried the third most popular card was actually a gtx 1070
Inside a gigabyte horas gaming box EG pee-yew for about 600 bucks. So those folks had to pay for and
Presumably discard a thunderbolt enclosure that they probably didn't want
but hey, I mean other people were paying anywhere from 500 to
900
dollars
For just the card
so
Yeah
Bt-dubs if you're wondering if AMD's vega made a big splash oops, there it is
well only
Seven of them actually sold this quarter at least in our Amazon data, so probably that's due to short supply
Now let's take a look at monitors
it appears that you guys either wanted to spend around 500 bucks for a high refresh rate gaming monitor like a
Really an
Ultra wide one. So it looks like it's the
144 Hertz LG 34 you see 79 G dash B
Which I guess kind of makes sense since it merges
Two of the features that you guys have indicated are the most important to you in a display
so anyway
you either spent a lot on a gaming monitor or
You think a monitor is a monitor as a monitor and you bought a 21 and a half inch HP
Pavilion the best-selling monitor on Amazon for a mere 85 bucks that actually looks like a good deal
Maybe we should take a closer. Look at this thing. Let us know in the comments below
Anyway, speaking of cheap stuff that seems to be your preference when it comes to peripherals to
Keyboards and mice from red dragon have been absolutely
Smashing the competition ever since we did those budget round ups, and now the same thing is happening to headsets
Everyone was buying the HyperX twos
forever and ever until we did our cheap headphone roundup and now they're in
15th place with a mere 7% of the sales volume of the be excellent GM ones
Now in case you were during the top-selling chassis, haha
Come on, come on, come back. I'm sorry. I know I've used that joke before
Just kidding. I'm not sorry. I'm gonna do it again. Anyway, the top seller was the fantex eclipse
P400s and I mean why not?
It's got a touch of RGB a splash of tempered glass and it comes in a bunch of different colors at a fair price
What's not to like?
The most popular fan was the Noctua NF f12 which half of you opted to get in black
completely reasonable and the other half went for this which I guess is also sort of reasonable and then an
Honorable mention goes to the Corsair light loupe 120s that just came out last year
They took the bronze medal with they're super modern not to mention incredibly
Expensive
dual RGB look
Over in storage land there was an upset
Nvme and dot two SSDs one for the first time ever with
250 and 500 gig samsung 960 Evo's topping the list even though they still cost
50% more than Samsung's two and a half inch runners-up
I'm attributing the wind to the price difference now being small enough
To make the speed gains and space savings appealing to mainstream people with notebook upgrades
Also seeming like a likely driver of this category
For spinning discs the WD 1 terabyte blue is still on top but interestingly
sales of 8 terabyte drives
tripled compared to last time and
while I might have initially assumed that this was to do with people using
Octane memory which is a good value way to accelerate an internal hard drive
It seems like this blip has more to do with one particular model going on sale because upon closer inspection
It's an external drive. Anyway, finally who could forget
The power supply here. You've got another first EVGA supernova
650 g3 80 plus gold
Fully modular PSU took the chicken dinner. So gold efficiency is finally going mainstream
so then
Can we actually make a compatible PC out of the winning parts?
this time the answer is
No, thanks to that pesky a.m. For motherboard or Intel CPU depending on how you look at it. But if it were compatible
The system would actually be almost exactly
the same price as last time and
Considerably faster in some tasks. Thanks to the extra couple of processing course, though
It should be noted that it would be quite a bit slower in games because of the massive video card
downgrade so
Hopefully by the next time we do one of these the market conditions will have improved somewhat
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The master op 67 key might old laser Ultima Kanaka board features a mechanical frame a cool retro look
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You can swap switches with no soldering required the keys are fully programmable via qmk firmware
it's got dual USB C connectors and
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