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StacticShock said:
video theme, play it with low volue so it remains a background noise to chink shit and it fits perfectly.

i did enjoy the chink mule saying the ngreedia card was hot and steve had to correct himself with the truths.
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Truly, the 12V plug has been a boon for the 5000 series of cards (and why I'm getting a 4080 instead).
 
He met the guys who make the waifu cards, nice, lol
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Gamers Nexus and Louis Rossmann are the only 2 tech channels on YouTube I watch now. LTT is basically just focusing on blowing tons of money on flashy tech so they can get views on their videos so they can shill products and get paid by their sponsors. MKBd or whatever is a nigger so...
 
Spooky Space Kook said:
Gamers Nexus and Louis Rossmann are the only 2 tech channels on YouTube I watch now. LTT is basically just focusing on blowing tons of money on flashy tech so they can get views on their videos so they can shill products and get paid by their sponsors. MKBd or whatever is a nigger so...
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Level1Techs has some really cool stuff too. I basically only watch those 3.
 
Honestly I really like this documentary. This has been the bane of customs officials and Export Controls practitioners everywhere since it got to the point that its practically their entire job now. You studied aircraft smuggling? Sorry GPU time! You studied gun smuggling and the arms trade? How would you like to hunt down GPUs! You are an expert in the drug trade? Oops all GPUs!

It gets really exhausting sometimes.
 
part timer said:
It's finally up
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I did not like this one. There weren't a lot of comments on the video pushing back either. I loved the tariff documentary (the 1st one). Even though it was 3 hours, it covered a lot of really important useful information.

This one is just badly edited. The university professor/grad student interview should have been cut way down, or spliced in throughout the video. It ate up way too much time. It was two hours before we even got to the shop with the modded 4090 video card, and even that could be been cut to flow together a lot more smoothly.

Also, there was no real information. The trailer made it look all dark an ominous, but almost everyone was chill and serving tea. No one was really doing anything illegal. There's no new information. When Deepseek-R1 came out, I read their paper and it said they used 2048 GPUs for a couple of days at a cost ~$5 million. At the time I thought they were just renting data center GPU time, but looking it up now, a lot of sites are reporting DeepSeek claims they have a 50,000 GPU data center. In any case, everyone has known China had been getting access to this chips despite any embargo. Hell, we know Russia and Iran must be buying Intel/AMD chips from somewhere. The majority of the wrold's software runs on x86 and no one else makes a decent alternative.

I think GN made this documentary out to be way more than what it was. It's long winded, and inaccessible at the length to most people (you can listen to a 3 hour podcast in your car. That's why the long podcast format works). I've still got an hour left, but so far it's a lot of interesting stuff that could have been their own smaller videos, but nothing that warrents this legnth or level of hype, or if there is, the lead is burried somewhere within the last hour of this messy boring fastfood meal.
 
REGENDarySumanai said:
Throw in derbauer to make it four.
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You know, I've seen him show up on GN videos or with Wendell on occasion but I can't say I've seen any of his videos. I'll be sure to take a crack at it and see if anything catches my interest.
 
asr said:
You know, I've seen him show up on GN videos or with Wendell on occasion but I can't say I've seen any of his videos. I'll be sure to take a crack at it and see if anything catches my interest.
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He does stuff with Thermal Grizzly and does a lot of overclocking related stuff.
 
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I've been watching Billet Labs (of the LTT monoblock fiasco) content lately. The main guy wears super obnoxious makeup (he also runs a makeup company where they make metallic nail polish and stuff) but the builds have been nice. It's been custom watercooled stuff mostly out of plumbing components, a lot of it has a steampunk vibe which is fun. And they make custom monoblocks for the cpus and gpus to really make the machines one of a kind

Basically if jayztwocents was a gay British machinist/engineer
 
HootersMcBoobies said:
I did not like this one. There weren't a lot of comments on the video pushing back either. I loved the tariff documentary (the 1st one). Even though it was 3 hours, it covered a lot of really important useful information.

This one is just badly edited. The university professor/grad student interview should have been cut way down, or spliced in throughout the video. It ate up way too much time. It was two hours before we even got to the shop with the modded 4090 video card, and even that could be been cut to flow together a lot more smoothly.

Also, there was no real information. The trailer made it look all dark an ominous, but almost everyone was chill and serving tea. No one was really doing anything illegal. There's no new information. When Deepseek-R1 came out, I read their paper and it said they used 2048 GPUs for a couple of days at a cost ~$5 million. At the time I thought they were just renting data center GPU time, but looking it up now, a lot of sites are reporting DeepSeek claims they have a 50,000 GPU data center. In any case, everyone has known China had been getting access to this chips despite any embargo. Hell, we know Russia and Iran must be buying Intel/AMD chips from somewhere. The majority of the wrold's software runs on x86 and no one else makes a decent alternative.

I think GN made this documentary out to be way more than what it was. It's long winded, and inaccessible at the length to most people (you can listen to a 3 hour podcast in your car. That's why the long podcast format works). I've still got an hour left, but so far it's a lot of interesting stuff that could have been their own smaller videos, but nothing that warrents this legnth or level of hype, or if there is, the lead is burried somewhere within the last hour of this messy boring fastfood meal.
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Agree with pretty much everything here. I'm left wondering what exactly was their purpose in making this video, because it doesn't really present us with anything we couldn't easily guess for ourselves. I caught myself wondering partway through if they just wanted to show off the kinds of chinky connections they had access to. Maybe it'll end up redpilling a few people who were apathetic or ignorant before, and move the needle in that way. Showcasing the absurdity of the AI obsession in this way is good for a few wry laughs, but ultimately I guess I'm not really impressed.
 
I was expecting more of a narrative or theme like what you would see in an arthouse documentary. But the video is structured more like a typical Gamers Nexus video. I was expecting a film, not a podcast.
 
Bob's Fuckass Head said:
Agree with pretty much everything here. I'm left wondering what exactly was their purpose in making this video, because it doesn't really present us with anything we couldn't easily guess for ourselves.
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I'm guessing they knew about the smuggling, though it would make a good story, and decided to investigate. None of it really went anywhere, but they had just spent a shitload of money. I don't think it was a case of, "well this turned into a giant sunk cost, let's hype up a documentary of what we have anyway."

I'd guess Steve and the crew just weren't self aware and genuinely thought they had something good and ran with it. It's a bloated documentary, but his audience are use to bloat in his videos. The only really important interesting part of the story would have been the smugglers, and they only got two: one on the American side at the end. The other who had the big server units they weren't allowed to video. So really the two big smoking guns are a small lone gunman and a "trust me bro" source. I guess people will now be more aware of why the person buying their 4090 off FB/Craigslist/eBay is Chinese, but only if they somehow made it to, or skipped to, the end of the video.
 
HootersMcBoobies said:
I'm guessing they knew about the smuggling, though it would make a good story, and decided to investigate. None of it really went anywhere, but they had just spent a shitload of money. I don't think it was a case of, "well this turned into a giant sunk cost, let's hype up a documentary of what we have anyway."

I'd guess Steve and the crew just weren't self aware and genuinely thought they had something good and ran with it. It's a bloated documentary, but his audience are use to bloat in his videos. The only really important interesting part of the story would have been the smugglers, and they only got two: one on the American side at the end. The other who had the big server units they weren't allowed to video. So really the two big smoking guns are a small lone gunman and a "trust me bro" source. I guess people will now be more aware of why the person buying their 4090 off FB/Craigslist/eBay is Chinese, but only if they somehow made it to, or skipped to, the end of the video.
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GN does some great stuff. On the nuts and bolts of pc tech, reviews of pc tech products and even investigative work re pc tech products. The Artisian coverage was great and poking the inexplicably popular gay Canadian control freak never gets old. I have no interest in overpriced fashion accessory cases (just someone please make a range of decent cases where the MB is fitted horizontally so you don't have monstrous graphics card and cpu coolers exerting leveraged force trying to break their sockets and the MBs they're attached to - rant over) but I can accept that a decent number of people do. Even batshit crazy liquid nitrogen overclocking can have its place. The "Tech Jesus" thing is funny but judging by youtube comments and the level of fanboying, too many people seem to be taking it too literally.

But.... I don't buy that GN has, or has acquired, the knowledge and understanding to credibly cover areas they are now dealing with. It's all very well to interview someone who is trying to sell a product that has just been subjected to a 20% additional cost. (Surprise surprise - they think it's a bad thing!) But where was the analysis of how we got to that point; the unfair trade distorting practices (inc tariffs) that led to tariffs as, let's call them what they are, coercive retaliation. Despite the rhetoric about beautiful tariffs, even Trump doesn't believe they are intrinsically good. If he did he wouldn't drop them when he gets the removal of tariffs/market access impediments at the other end that he sought. GN does not address the (ongoing) damage done by the market manipulation of the Chinese amongst others. They don't understand it and, to be fair, addressing it in any meaningful way would probably be very boring to their typical audience.

They aren't alone in this. They and other techtubers will make off the cuff comments about the GPU market and competition, or for the real classic - capitalism, being too ignorant to realise just how ignorant (and wrong) they are. It's a failing of the general human condition. Pim Toole is a classic. Any subject that arises is one on which he will have his words of wisdom regardless of whether he know anything about the subject matter. How often have you been in a business meeting (or just a general conversation) and when someone is asked a question they don't know the answer to, they just have to say what they think the answer is or worse, what they think the answer should be. "I don't know" and "I don't know but I'll find out and get back to you" are great and sadly underused phrases.

TLDR - Despite the source, Shut up and dribble is really good advice.
 
I grabbed the entire thing, but it's 3.5 hours of 4K 60fps footage that weighs 22.7GB. In case someone wants the full quality version.
 
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