Today we’re giving our viewers the best Christmas gift of all… A brand new series – Tech Showdown! In this competition, PCs are judged solely by their covers, not by the parts inside…

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Intro Screen Music Credit:
Title: Laszlo – Supernova
Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKfxmFU3lWY
iTunes Download Link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/supernova/id936805712
Artist Link: https://soundcloud.com/laszlomusic

Outro Screen Music Credit: Approaching Nirvana – Sugar High http://www.youtube.com/approachingnirvana

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Backups are important. We realize that now more than ever, as we experienced a RAID failure on one of our servers very recently…

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Intro Screen Music Credit:
Title: Laszlo – Supernova
Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKfxmFU3lWY
iTunes Download Link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/supernova/id936805712
Artist Link: https://soundcloud.com/laszlomusic

Outro Screen Music Credit: Approaching Nirvana – Sugar High http://www.youtube.com/approachingnirvana

Sound effects provided by http://www.freesfx.co.uk/sfx/

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We know that super powerful hardware has no issues editing 4K video… But what about super slim “ultrabook” style laptops?

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Intro Screen Music Credit:
Title: Laszlo – Supernova
Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKfxmFU3lWY
iTunes Download Link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/supernova/id936805712
Artist Link: https://soundcloud.com/laszlomusic

Outro Screen Music Credit: Approaching Nirvana – Sugar High http://www.youtube.com/approachingnirvana

Sound effects provided by http://www.freesfx.co.uk/sfx/

I finally completed our first ever live build on Twitch yesterday. This is one badass rig…

Thanks to LG for hosting the Ultrawide Festival and this Dream Setup contest!

Congratulations to our winner, Ryland. Enjoy the build!

Pricing & discussion: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/510835-10000-dream-setup-live-build/

When I reached out to Protocase about creating a custom, rackmountable case for my personal PC, I DID not think I would be this blown away with the final product…

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Intro Screen Music Credit:
Title: Laszlo – Supernova
Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKfxmFU3lWY
iTunes Download Link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/supernova/id936805712
Artist Link: https://soundcloud.com/laszlomusic

Outro Screen Music Credit: Approaching Nirvana – Sugar High http://www.youtube.com/approachingnirvana

Sound effects provided by http://www.freesfx.co.uk/sfx/

Razer brought back a couple classic designs with the Mamba Wireless and Diamondback… But should you seriously consider buying them?

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Pricing & discussion: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/509718-razer-mamba-diamondback-2015/

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Intro Screen Music Credit:
Title: Laszlo – Supernova
Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKfxmFU3lWY
iTunes Download Link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/supernova/id936805712
Artist Link: https://soundcloud.com/laszlomusic

Outro Screen Music Credit: Approaching Nirvana – Sugar High http://www.youtube.com/approachingnirvana

Sound effects provided by http://www.freesfx.co.uk/sfx/

It started as a joke by Makarov_9mm on the forum.

And it turned into.. well, it’s still kind of a joke..

But if you really want to, you CAN legitimately buy this album for a few bucks on the forum (and possibly on iTunes at some point)

Where to buy: http://linustechtips.com/main/files/category/1-music/

It should be noted that the album is FREE for existing forum contributors

Thanks to Sennheiser for providing the audio gear used to create this album. Check them out at http://sennheiser.com

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Timestamps courtesy of Sam Tilling (IPickle), Ghost, JJMC89 & Brandon Axtmann

00:04:47 Star Wars Chat.
00:12:01 Drone owners must register with FAA (USA)
00:18:30 EU Countries will be able to stop kids under 16 from using social media without permission
00:26:35 Weaponized AI? Pentagon wanting $15 billion to help fund in 2017
00:29:58 Germany attempting to end hate speech on the internet
00:32:20 George Hotz managed to build a Self-Driving car within the confines of his own garage
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00:44:25 Gillette sues Dollar Shave Club for patent infringement
00:51:28 Now you can overclock even a ‘locked’ Intel Skylake processor
00:54:20 You can break into a Linux system (Grub2) by pressing BackSpace 28 times – Patched
00:56:08 HDD to stay relevant for the next 15-20 years, Seagate CFO said

Sony has REALLY touted the Z5 Premium’s 4K screen… but is that really the most important aspect of this device?

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Intro Screen Music Credit:
Title: Laszlo – Supernova
Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKfxmFU3lWY
iTunes Download Link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/supernova/id936805712
Artist Link: https://soundcloud.com/laszlomusic

Outro Screen Music Credit: Approaching Nirvana – Sugar High http://www.youtube.com/approachingnirvana

Sound effects provided by http://www.freesfx.co.uk/sfx/