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[3092.94 --> 3093.98] This is what we do.
[3094.08 --> 3096.80] This is Synergy, which is another one of our sponsors.
[3098.02 --> 3099.62] Synergistic management solutions.
[3099.90 --> 3100.08] Yeah.
[3101.00 --> 3101.40] Synergy.
[3101.40 --> 3103.08] Why do we even make YouTube videos anymore?
[3103.16 --> 3103.76] We could do...
[3103.76 --> 3104.08] I don't know, man.
[3104.08 --> 3108.10] I've been saying we should be consultants for, like, since I started working here.
[3108.18 --> 3112.88] Because consultants, as far as I can tell, just make buttloads of money doing not a whole lot.
[3112.90 --> 3114.76] Just for telling people things that are obvious.
[3114.76 --> 3115.84] Yeah, you should do this.
[3117.20 --> 3118.28] $10,000, please.
[3118.62 --> 3119.64] It's like, what?
[3120.72 --> 3128.94] Speaking of things that you should do, you should care about the variety of AMD motherboards coming out.
[3129.06 --> 3130.26] So, there it is.
[3130.26 --> 3134.50] I believe that's Biostar with their racing brand.
[3135.50 --> 3136.28] Yeah, Biostar.
[3136.28 --> 3137.12] The racing brand.
[3137.16 --> 3137.86] Yeah, I know.
[3137.94 --> 3138.66] It's very racy.
[3140.12 --> 3142.22] It's, like, edgy, but like the old word for it.
[3142.44 --> 3142.96] I understand.
[3142.96 --> 3145.10] So, here it is.
[3145.10 --> 3149.30] The first AM4 motherboard pictured over on videocards.net.
[3149.64 --> 3152.98] There's a few things that we can tell about it just from looking at it.
[3152.98 --> 3158.84] Number one is that it appears to run off of only a four-pin connector.
[3158.84 --> 3165.98] So, it is my expectation that people would be encouraged to run, like, a 1700 or less on here.
[3166.06 --> 3167.18] It's like a 65-watt chip.
[3167.50 --> 3170.84] Although, there's no reason that you couldn't get away with an 1800X.
[3170.90 --> 3172.76] You just probably wouldn't be doing a ton of overclocking.
[3173.12 --> 3175.32] There's not much in the way of VRM cooling here.
[3175.32 --> 3183.20] So, this looks like not like a balls-to-the-wall, like an ROG competitor, but more like kind of a mainstream decent board.
[3184.22 --> 3186.70] You got four SATA ports right there.
[3187.78 --> 3190.06] No M.2 that I can see.
[3190.66 --> 3194.50] That's a little discouraging unless it's on the back, which I have seen in the past.
[3194.56 --> 3195.28] So, don't quote me on that.
[3195.28 --> 3198.92] USB 3, PCIe 16X, two RAM slots.
[3199.22 --> 3200.10] Looking pretty good.
[3200.22 --> 3202.78] I mean, to be fair, they don't have much room on that board to begin with.
[3203.00 --> 3203.40] Yes, that's true.
[3203.40 --> 3207.04] So, they may have just been prioritizing, like, okay, we're hitting this certain budget target.
[3207.52 --> 3210.82] We don't expect that people in this range are going to be buying M.2 cards yet.
[3211.08 --> 3211.32] Yeah.
[3211.46 --> 3212.08] You know what, though?
[3212.14 --> 3217.22] This is something I really wish that AMD had done differently with AM4 is this socket.
[3217.78 --> 3218.02] Yeah.
[3218.02 --> 3218.90] So, two things.
[3219.00 --> 3222.24] Number one is AMD has now done this.
[3225.28 --> 3226.70] Three times, okay?
[3227.32 --> 3232.04] So, they had their original socket 940, okay?
[3232.46 --> 3237.34] Then they had socket 754, so those used a particular mounting system.
[3237.44 --> 3244.10] So, it was a single screw on either side, and then it came out to, like, a plastic clip bracket thing like this.
[3244.38 --> 3248.66] And the problem with that was that third-party coolers only had two anchor points, and that was kind of crappy.
[3248.88 --> 3254.58] Then they fixed it with, uh, crap, I think 939 also still had this.
[3254.58 --> 3258.24] So, I think it was AM2 was what the first one was called.
[3258.30 --> 3258.94] Anyway, they fixed it.
[3258.98 --> 3259.86] They put four posts.
[3260.58 --> 3264.24] But, like, they still mount their own stock coolers with this stupid thing.
[3264.30 --> 3265.76] So, I kind of went, okay, fine.
[3266.06 --> 3268.16] I realize why you changed it this time.
[3268.24 --> 3268.82] I get it.
[3268.94 --> 3269.26] Fine.
[3269.98 --> 3272.50] This time, all they did was move the hole slightly.
[3272.50 --> 3283.50] So, all they've done for no apparent reason is kill backwards compatibility with old AM3, AM2, AM2 Plus coolers.
[3283.50 --> 3283.82] Mm-hmm.
[3283.82 --> 3288.00] And they've still got all this bulky plastic crap all over the socket.
[3288.00 --> 3291.72] Like, if they had gone and they had kind of, like, gone, okay, mounting holes here.
[3291.78 --> 3296.46] Like, done something LGA 2011 style where it's just got threaded holes around the socket.
[3296.84 --> 3298.16] That would have been super cool.
[3298.84 --> 3301.58] I really don't like the way they did this because it takes up a lot of space.
[3301.58 --> 3303.50] It moved the mounting holes.
[3303.90 --> 3313.78] And all of this, as far as I can tell, was done for no reason other than to decrease compatibility with older coolers so that cooler manufacturers can sell you a new AM4 bracket or cooler.
[3314.00 --> 3320.04] Like, that's the tinfoil hat guy in me kind of going, I really can't think of another reason they would have done that.
[3320.06 --> 3320.74] It's not that tinfoil.
[3321.44 --> 3322.52] Go back to it for a sec.
[3322.58 --> 3323.90] Someone says, Linus, it's on the back.
[3323.96 --> 3325.78] Look, next to audio, you can see screw holes.
[3325.78 --> 3333.60] Yeah, I can see screw holes.
[3334.12 --> 3334.46] Wow.
[3334.62 --> 3335.70] I would never miss a screw hole.
[3337.36 --> 3338.36] Next to audio.
[3338.56 --> 3339.52] Yeah, not necessarily.
[3340.10 --> 3350.02] So, I do see these, but those, okay, and those look like M.2 mounts, but they wouldn't actually go all the way through necessarily.
[3350.44 --> 3352.68] Like, that's not what they would look like on this side.
[3352.76 --> 3353.80] I don't know what that is.
[3355.78 --> 3360.98] Yeah, so I didn't want to say definitively that that's what that is if I wasn't sure.
[3360.98 --> 3364.18] There's a lot of people saying there is M.2 on this one, so maybe it's on the back.
[3364.26 --> 3364.44] Cool.
[3364.62 --> 3365.20] So, maybe it is.
[3365.30 --> 3365.40] Yeah.
[3366.84 --> 3367.48] That's boring.
[3368.20 --> 3369.04] Is this interesting?
[3369.18 --> 3371.76] Facebook streaming major league soccer matches?
[3371.92 --> 3372.86] Does anyone care about this?
[3373.22 --> 3374.64] I mean, people in the rest of the world probably do.
[3374.64 --> 3375.94] Apparently, James does.
[3376.62 --> 3379.32] People in, like, here's the thing.
[3379.40 --> 3384.98] In Canada, if you played soccer as a kid, like, 95% of your games were rained or snowed out.
[3384.98 --> 3387.68] So, like, that's why no one cares about it here.