 Okay, to be honest, wala sa plan ako go into the stream na to and as you can tell from the title, it's might be something shocking. No, it's actually, it's all just clickbait. I mean number one, yes, I did a live from the shop last week so usually I don't do two in a month pero nagahabot tayo para sa sponsor natin so I thought why not talk about something that seems to be on everybody's mind right now and that's the, may controversy kasi with a local tech channel na, they're on YouTube but they started out sa website for tech news and then a review of a cell phone, parang there was footage there na it seemed to imply that they didn't really do the review. Parang, you know, they were saying nice things about the product and then pinapakita na yung images and yung videos pero they didn't actually do the performance or you know, didn't actually try out the phone like they said they did Sa Moniker, sa Mon Timon so I thought I just want to address it a little bit and then give a sort of behind the scenes ano ba talaga binagawa na namin P2 hardware sugar because yes, we do get paid for reviews yeah, I'm going to admit it and I'll talk about it more after a word from someone else who pays us our sponsor stock agent sa Lumeda nagsig we know sa sponsor So waka na ba sa unactivated windows mo? Well, lucky you! Pinakabago mula sa CDKoffers.com Windows 10 and Windows 11 activation posts Legit, safe, and pinakamura Madali lo mo order Hanapin ang windows version na gusto mo Piliin ang preferred paper and felt Wala pang 5 minutes na CDK na para sa windows mo Barami na kaming na tulungan Dati? Sa CDKoffers ako? But now? I found a love of my life Dati? 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I'm a world class Zuba instructor So web developer ako and content creator for a YouTube channel and ngayon ganun pa rin ako pero activated na yung windows ko Kaya ako naghanap ka ng legit, mura at original software Check out CDKoffers.com Check out CDKoffers.com Check out CDKoffers.com When we are paid for the review, we do tell you and I think that's really the crux of the matter undaming disconnect between you have a lot of other channels na they review a product, they say nice things about it tapos hindi mali now, hindi up-front your relationship of the host of the channel to the particular brand and that's something that we always tried to be very careful about details hardware sugar because number one, we're a shop I mean we sell things so a daming possible conflicts of interest not just us standing in front of a camera making it public that oh I really like this AIO I really like this CPU and that's a potential conflict if the brand did pay us for it and we didn't disclose financial incentive kami to be nice about the product that's one possible pitfall and the second one is because we need you to trust us to when we recommend something na okay talaga yung part na yun that we think it's the best one for your build so even before the YouTube channel took off I mean we were less than 1,000 subs or something very early on or even very from the very get-go malina na malino kami that as to the motivation for saying something did we get this product and did we get compensation to highlight certain features of the product or if you've heard my phrase before sa mga reviews namin na the brand sent us this item for review but had no say in what we had to say about it but no financial compensation involved and wala silang editorial control I think that's where a lot of people get annoyed with tech YouTubers or yung nakita mo online na sobrang gushing sila about the product when hindi mo alam to naiba authentic ba talaga yun are their opinions is their positive opinion really just based on what they experienced or are there other considerations behind it because for us up front I don't mind I don't see anything wrong with it's a second advertisement we receive compensation to highlight certain features of the product and a good example of that is this guy whom you're a video of which you're going to see right after this livestream so BenQ got us to do a video on this Mobius EX3210U 4K monitor 32 inches I think it's 165 hertz or something and it's here it's FreeSync Premium Pro sorry I can't quite remember the hertz 165 bar or 144 I think it's 165 so this is the monitor box and there's the monitor over there the review of which you will see right after this livestream pero ito mali now and you'll notice in the livestream are very clear that this is sponsored video and we even included in the video description that we receive compensation to highlight certain features of the product on one hand it's advertisement but what I like about dealing with brands that you can trust is that they don't force you to say things na you don't really believe in so when I say highlight certain features later on in that review I'm going to talk about sobrang ganda nung 4K niya that's really me talking that's like my honest opinion that based on my experience with monitors 4K output of this BenQ EX3210U is really quite good I was received compensation to say to look into the 4K version but if I didn't like it I wouldn't say that I liked it on camera and that's a good thing about dealing with established brands like BenQ, like ASUS they don't force you to say things that you don't really mean they don't ask you to lie in front of the camera so if I'm not comfortable saying something I'll say so and will edit it I won't say it if they ask me for it I'll say no and then will kind of negotiate but it's never like a very one-sided thing na sabihin mayan or else and first of all, and second of all kung umabotay sa point na yun I don't mind that or else don't pay us the amount that you agreed we won't do the video quits na tayo that's perfectly okay with me because to be honest our bread and butter is the channel but more specifically our bread and butter is the trust you guys have in us when we talk about a product we really like it you're trusting us to tell you what we really feel about the product and you know X amount of money can't buy that because why would we throw away the reputation and I think you know di naman sa nagbubuhat ng sariling bangko but I think it is a good reputation that we have with the local community that like we do asuric census cards we reviewed them and I've seen people online say na may nagsusabi na pang ito may makakoment na din na review na yung ni hardware sugar and sabi nila okay naman so just that kind of thing that we're being cited as an authority when it comes to certain components I think establishes that we do have a good reputation with the community sub guys sir sub Anton sub Reven Jan so we wouldn't throw that away kasi yun nga even being cynical and being from a selfish kind of point of view the money is not in YouTube sponsorship okay like one brand will get us once every six months to do to do a campaign or something like that hindi ko hindi ko ibabubuhay doon like I won't be able to eat if I have to rely on YouTube sponsorship so even from a saglita hang on having technical difficulties I think the switch to the Z alright we should be back on sorry technical difficulties but you should be hearing me better now nubusan ng battery yung headset ko and yeah but now we're using the Godox move links and that seems to be okay na and yeah so even from a cynical business perspective it doesn't make financial sense for us to accept YouTube money to lie about the product and say it's good when it's really not kasi di ko talaga kami babubuhay doon our main source of revenue is the shop and we try we are very talagang we protect the reputation of the shop and of the YouTube channel we're not liars I mean our personality I would never go up in public or in private and say something I didn't believe in but if you don't believe me you can just also believe in my self interest that it's in my self interest to maintain your trust in the channel because that is what brings customers into the shop hindi kaman nabubuhay sa mga YouTube sponsorships and things like that so there is no financial incentive for me to talk nice about the product even though it's really not nice although you know it's not meant to be a serious stream it was just a clickbait kind of title but you know thinking about that's why a lot of people were mad with this particular channel kasi yung na feeling nila sponsored yung video in that they didn't care to do the time to actually use the product yung gusto lang nila maganda maganda tingnan yung product and I thought a lot of the trouble could have been avoided if they were just very clear was it a sponsored video it wasn't a sponsored video pinadala lang yung item for review but no editorial control yung brand and then I mean this is we did a podcast on this like a week ago it's like 45 minutes just kind of meandering through my thoughts on the matter so long story short yes we do get paid but I don't think it's an issue because you know when we get paid for example like nga itong si BenQ EX3210 new video coming up right after this live stream but more than that a vast majority of the products that we receive are not paid they're sent to us we're free to say whatever the heck we want about it and I thought for this stream I'd go through some of the products that we do have in store that we will be seeing soon oop it's got a better view wait ah this one yeah side by side like this ROG Ryu 360 ARGB and well the 4070TI rock in the programmer review this guy already and yeah that those were our honest thoughts on it we didn't get any compensation for reviewing it the way we did although we just got sent the item for review and the motherboard also in the background which is the tough gaming B760 plus wifi is it tough gaming yes B760 plus so Monika that's the reflection so like kasi yung yung parang other like my angle like that's the angle and then so I'm up to the side of the AIO so hindi talaga yeah reflection yun it's not like I have a image or oh like see like that brandy hirap sa chatte yeah all AIOs now that we sell will have my face dun sa cpu block I think I think sales will be good after that stop Revenjan stop Ren Ren may utang ka pa sakin abad lemme check my slack after this baka na padala na sub Jason Sambrano the DDR5 that was my fault like my fault my fault so napat itag-dag na yun sa armory grade so happy to give that upgrade that was really our fault the mobo actually to be honest it was a confluence of things we got the payment for the motherboard late so when we got back to the supplier wala na yung stock of the mobo that we initially agreed upon pero mayro naman pero mas matas ng konte so we decided yeah to heck with it we'll eat the cost so parang free upgrade na rin sa customer um sub opa anyong welcome from Davao City there's a question from lazy cable management about the topic for such reviews you have the option to get paid or just keep the item as payment instead usually kasi we do get to keep the item it's very uncommon that we have to ah sorry actually I spoke about this in another video like six months ago if it's a brand from abroad usually 100% of the time we get to keep the item if it's a local brand for example like ASOS mga 40% of the time we get to keep the item so just as an example the TI is going back to them but the RU3360 this guy with the anime anime matrix CPU block we get to keep this and actually spoiler alert you're going to be seeing this on the computer very very soon so for local brands sometimes you get to keep it deep cool actually we get to keep 100% of what they send I can't remember any time that deep cool has asked us to send back stuff although to be fair ASOS like sending expensive things like GPUs and things like that occasionally we get to keep the ASOS products we haven't gotten to keep a GPU yet but let's say the earphones ROG et cetera headphones we got to keep those and I do use them actually for myself the AIO we're going to get to keep the AIO also the LC2360 which we reviewed around four or five months ago that one we got to keep it's in the shop we use it for shop needs usually if it's paid they'll be upfront that will pay you see ASORIX let's us keep the GPUs they supposedly have editorial control but they have never used it they don't ask to preview the video and they've never asked us to change anything about the video and then just to share because we came out with an ASORIX video yesterday yung bago nilang RX 580 supposedly better cooling and they just messaged now right before I did the live stream they're offering us another card the 1660 or 1660 Superata and they even offered you can tear down our cards you can open them up and film the process and make a video out of it so you can really prove to your viewers na you know quality naman yung mga cards nila I appreciate that offer Revingyan saplay magnay e to be fair to me ok the AIO in my current rig is an old one second hand from a hardware sugar customer so I think it's in I think it's time that I got a nice di pangayon RGB X53 siya so the CPU block has a little RGB but that's it so I think it's time I got a nice AIO and I mean again I get to keep this AIO but my opinion is not influenced by that anyway I really like the animatric style parang 8 bit kind of blockiness of the animations here very different from the very crystal clear images or moving gifts that you have on the Kraken Z Z series but I I like it it's a different aesthetic because I don't really need to have I mean I'm surrounded by screens I don't really need my CPU block I'd much rather want something distinctive so yaya I was very clear with the shop na akinian Soap, raven, mayloom from the room beside us I didn't really I didn't know if you guys knew that we were I mean you're beside the shop I didn't know if you knew we were a YouTube channel but soap thanks for watching maybe we should do a co-lab like one time we can see what you guys are doing over there the eternal question although I grew up in the day when it was called GIF so I'm going to say GIF the inventor died recently and I think he says it GIF actually but I'm old and I can't can't change anymore Soap, Mark Lester Yes for me that's really the thing like you be upfront with the viewers and with everyone and because if you're hiding if you're not upfront parang tinatago mo parang kinakayam mo that you were paid to say something and kung kinakayam mo that you were paid to say something that's probably indicative na yun nga labag sa kolobad mo parang kinakayam mo yung sinasabi mo you don't believe in what you're saying so you're hiding the truth that you know receive compensation for it or something like that and to be honest I don't yun nga as a person and even from a monetary perspective there's no incentive for me to lie to the viewer if I like something I'm very upfront that I like something if I don't like something I'm also very upfront and actually that's what kind of irked me also because I did a deep dive on the yoga texting and I went to Reddit and things like that to see what what people were saying about it online and on Reddit a lot of the comments were like this is why I don't trust Filipino tech YouTubers mas magaling si Linus magaling si Steve this is why I don't trust local reviewers because they do stupid shit like this and I was annoyed not because they're wrong they're right that Linus and everybody else has resources that we in the local community don't have for sure and I do watch the reviews of Linus of Steve of Dimitri all of those guys but they're wrong in the sense that the local tech YouTubers don't have anything to contribute and actually I was so irked or annoyed na panang I was thinking of doing a video na all of the times that hardware sugar put itself on the line to have authentic genuine honest content we can talk about the Magcore Liquid 240 R Fiasco we do a lot of business with MSI imagine as a PC shop if you couldn't sell MSI products kung linak please ka ni MSI and yet we made a video the very first YouTube channel yes, Greg Salazar has done several videos about it but we were the first about the Magcore Liquid 240 R and that could have been very detrimental to us as a shop so what kung you guys appreciated it but if MSI blacklisted us can you imagine what kind of shop we would be if we couldn't sell MSI products I'm not saying they did I'm not saying they even threatened that but a more cautious prudent shop owner and perhaps YouTube channel again, the YouTube channels don't want to be blacklisted by the big brands and only the really big YouTube channels even abroad can get away with saying negative content but we do yun nga we were the first to call out the Core Liquid 240 R for its problems using data that only us as a shop appreciated because we saw na andaming bong abalik na RMA so just one example of how we put our ass on the line for content as genuine and honest when we talk about we've done two videos regarding warranty where we break down per brand we say things like yung Seasonic parang I wasn't so happy or naghulat ako na andaming mga returns ni Seasonic compared to my perception of the brand and we sell a lot of Seasonic what if Seasonic got upset that we said that and wouldn't sell it to us anymore so just seeing those comments on Reddit ay it's true there are resource issues and time issues we're a shop we're not a full time YouTube channel unlike Gamers Nexus unlike LTT unlike you guys also like the Australians ay, I noticed to Australian YouTubers generally pop up gear seekers is one and Techiest City is another those guys are all full time YouTubers they get a lot more money from YouTube alone because of the AdSense revenues for their markets the North America and Australia so definitely resource wise we can't compete with those guys but I still think there's content that we can do not just hardware sugar but other Filipino tech content creators can do that is unique and helpful to the public so a little annoyed with the Redditor saying that they don't trust any local tech YouTubers although to be fair there were some people that did say so they were like oh, sino ba okay so parang challenge sino may ma okay and hardware sugar does get mentioned occasionally and yun it's that's really my relationship with you guys with the viewers na if I like something I'm like a kid I'll really say na ako nga I think my I have a lot of failings as a reviewer and one of them is I'm not super critical on the tech specs like I don't get sorry I had to censor this in my head I don't get super excited like talking about specs like oh this RAM is 7,000 megahertz on XMP or something like that or this or this CPU if you OCA whatever 4.8 gigahertz from 4.5 base clock for me personally mas na excited ako sa user experience like if I plop this thing into my system would it look good will it perform well is it easy to use parang ganon it's a bit more subjective kind of experience which is against the grain of a lot of PC guys na it's all about the specs and the measurement even though you know numbers give you the comfort na it's an objective standard but a lot of the times it's not you get high RAM you get high speed RAM 4,000 megahertz for your Ryzen 5,000 series or Ryzen 3,000 series but your infinity fabric especially for the 3,000 series is only good up to around 3,600 megahertz so higher number in RAM isn't always better in fact detrimental pang asya the clock speeds na naguguluhan yung memory clock especially nung Ryzen 3,000 series with speeds higher than 3.6 so the sweet spot is really 3.6 or slightly higher than that so numbers claim to be objective they have that veneer of like higher number better always higher number better but with computers it also depends on on the build that you're doing and on the uses that you need it does it work for you and that's really for me personally like Rocky the programmer is more analytical with the numbers some of our other hosts here also focus more on the specs me personally I do look at the specs but I tend to gloss over it because I want to express to you guys the viewer I was really blown away actually as a reviewer maslugi pa ako because I see things I like and I can't get it out of my head and then I need to buy it again like the I promise myself I wouldn't mention it for this stream so if I see Luigi ata was counting last time ilang beses combination ng particular product na to so I won't say it for this one particular stream but just for that one product like sobrang lugi ako because after I reviewed it I had to give it back and then wala na wala na nandun na sa uta ko di ko maletgo kasi sobrang ganoon experience ko did but my review of that product was super genuine that I really really like that particular product so much so that I bought it for myself and I'm not going to say it but honestly already said it and I look at it every day and I think best purchase I ever made anyway, yeah thoughts on Starlink I haven't tried it we did actually I did a public post a couple of months ago then I tagged YouTube channel of SpaceX and said now when they bring it to the Philippines let us try it but nobody ever got back to us interesting technology but again I would have to try it out to see like how well does it do and yung quality of service dito sa atin with the local provider I think SM did they partner up with an SM affiliate or something to bring Starlink here will they have good customer service kasi yun yun number one for any ISP so what ko maganda yung speed but you know when it goes down wala kang mahagilap na repair guy or something sobrang sakit sa ulo that's why I up to now sinusumpako talaga yung PLDT again we made videos about it before na the worst for the record guys I did not mention the monitor by name okay let's just get that out there but yeah up to now I really am very annoyed with PLDT for what they did to me to Christmas S or three Christmas S ago CS super important for ISPs and that's something that yeah we would need to try we would need to see kung may ganon ba na service okay ba yung customer service in Starlink dito sa pinas dito sa atin annoyingly I want basically my stance on ISPs is anybody other than PLDT but annoyingly for the shop we're using PLDT now because the building the only connection in the building is PLDT so we have to go with them again but even in my rants about PLDT I try to be fair and I say that usually their product is good the speed that you get is good the problem is when it goes down super super hard to get it fixed I don't need that headache in my life yeah PLDT man Ren mag-side line ka na daw we can have like a stream and then you're leading the you're leading the yoga stuff and things like that sup sup hi russ hi russ thanks for joining the stream sup Rafael James and another way so since since we have Rafael James in the stream another way we do monetize the YouTube content is through our YouTube members and I'm super thankful to the 40 or so members who to be honest I would I've never become a member of any YouTube channel so it's really it blows my mind to be honest that there are people who would willingly pony up a monthly fee hard-earned money to support us and that really that really gets me I mean you know that really it helps us monetarily but it's also a reminder of the trust that everybody has in the channel you know that you're willing to put money that you earned on the line are you guys crazy I mean you know parang it always when I look at the YouTube members and when I I see the posts online where they talk about like I really view na any hardware sugar goods yan it's like yeah um it's humbling I mean to be honest that you guys put so much faith in us but I don't like it because now I can't screw up I mean you know I can't just like like a bulak bulan review and like yeah that's fine parang ganun but now I'm thinking the back of my mind oh god and people are gonna see this and they they do base their buying decisions around stuff that that we say because you know we're genuine when I like something I really like something and I'll say so if I don't like something I mean the problems I had with the product or things like that so now that we're um that's my that's actually if you're gonna the podcast kasi I basically recorded every Thursday afternoon then it comes out Friday morning 6am we've done that unfailingly so we've done it every week like that since around October last year actually the podcast has been the gravity of magnet the podcast is not great now I mean it's great but you don't need to say I mean there's nothing like groundbreaking there anything but I'm actually quite proud of how the performance of that podcast is doing I mean small numbers relative to like what a YouTube video generates but if you look at the stats for podcasts we're already in the top 50% in the world that makes it sound like it's bigger than it is because the vast majority of podcasts have very little audience or downloads per week one common metric is after one week of the of the show having gone live if you have more than 29 downloads you are already in the top 50% of podcasts in the world and so we're there actually po mga palo na kami dun sa top 25 which is I don't want to give the number because it's small it's a lot smaller than what you would expect like you see our YouTube videos like 7000 views or something like that it's much smaller for podcasts but the numbers are doing well so I'm I'm encouraged by doing it and one of the things that we learned from YouTubers do things consistently so talagang every every week talagay on kaya pagod na pagod ako for my other things I will sit down Thursday afternoon Thursday night and I'll record the podcast one thing the topic for this week actually stem from last week's podcast so last week we talked about you got tech you can talk about it sub Christian Aeron Acerics worth buying Ariel yes short answer yes we've had three video cards from them they are what they claim to be I mean they are on the lower end so budget end but the cards themselves are pretty good the performance is what you would expect whether they will last long term and I'm very clear about this especially in our last video is something that remains to be seen because we've only had them like the oldest card that you had from them is around four months old but we still do use it continuously in the shop so long story short I would it is a risk buying from a relatively unknown brand but the last video in particular I think summarizes well the one that we dropped yesterday released yesterday so you might want to check that out the one that we dropped yesterday is very clear on the public on some of the things we've heard from the public about a Zurich as well as our own experience with the brand so parang okay naman Anton BPI wala pa rin pero ang POS our point of sale representative promised me that they would send someone over within this week it's already Wednesday right so they only have two days left Thursday Friday to check whether why we can't because on their end we should already have zero percent BPI but on our end wala pa rin so they're going to send somebody over to check that out so I'm going to jump to because this is what I was going to drive at actually Rafael James so this is probably what I'll talk about in this week's podcast because I did a deep dive nga on Yugotec that's trying to go through their old articles and their reviews and everything and I wasn't as somebody who does reviews also the thing about the B-roll being passed off as actual user use actual user experience it's it's not a good look but you know I can understand like they may be rushed for time or things like that not defending them yung nga I go into much greater detail in the podcast but basically I can kind of see where that's coming from but itong but then just last night I was going through their stuff again and they have an article as mentioned by Rafael James where it's a 45k budget para yung GPU na ginamit nila 1050ti and it's like one stick atta one stick of 8GB RAM tapos gang near yung case nothing wrong with the MSI gang near case we have sold it but for 55k you want to go with less expensive case and you want to put the savings into performance parts because your GPU is at 1050ti so 45,000 for 45,000 is a very decent budget and you should be getting a better GPU than 1050ti and I was going through the article and it kept mentioning to shop for a PC you use the SM app so all of the parts that they chose for that build was from SM and you can order it from the SM app and it's obviously sponsored because why the heck would you buy PC components from SM and B sorry why the heck would you buy sorry let me rephrase I felt it was obviously sponsored because A why the heck would you buy PC components from SM B why would you keep harping on like ilang beses tinatantad ka na use the SM app and C why would you buy those parts I mean it's a disaster it's like a garbage garbage fire of an article and dun ako to be honest nagalit it's just like dun ko naramdaman na linalo ko mo ako because to be honest cell phones you know it's like I only buy my I only buy a cell phone once every six years or something so I'm not that deep into it the b-roll thing yun nga I can kind of understand and kind of even maybe personally forgive but this article man and it didn't even tell you that it was sponsored dun ko naramdaman yung naramdaman siguro na iwan tao na ginoyo sila lino ko sila what they felt when they watched that cell phone review reading that article 45,000 you get a 1050T ay they keep bashing you over the head to use the SM app dun that's where I got annoyed and like god damn I mean yun nga they're not even upfront na sponsored to they didn't say anything so I'm just surmising it's sponsored because again why the heck would you buy PC components from SM plus through the app and deplorable specs ATX motherboard mag MATX ka na for that budget MATX is fine you get to save the money the money you save on an MATX motherboard you can put it at a better GPU better CPU the case also ATX case because ATX mobile get an MATX case get a deep cool case instead of an MSI case so many things wrong engine gameplay ulit then they'll review it I don't know to be honest liking I was annoyed so like it's dislike referencing them by name and then we can come up with a parody video but you know I don't want to I don't want to be that kind of channel that just thrives on negativity but at the same time sometimes and this is the thing with gamers next so Steve is very critical of items because yun na ting niya people spend hard-earned money to buy those products and then naloka sila ng brands and that's where Steve comes off-off na very technical and also very critical in fact sometimes personally I'm like krabik naman Steve let it go man let it go gamer Jesus you know Jesus should be about but forgiveness gotta let it go sometimes but yun na is very critical I'm not that critical to be honest as someone who gets to enjoy playing around with ROG, REU, 360, AIOs to be honest I'm not that critical to those guys to that level as those guys but when I see questionable articles like that and UgoTech is a more mainstream channel if you don't know anything about computers you're more likely to maybe end up with them reading something from them than seeing content from hardware sugar yeah that's when I get a little like this was not a good article content-wise honesty-wise I mean it's a garbage yes yes I'm going to save this rant for the podcast but that's probably what I'm going to be writing about for 45 minutes tomorrow afternoon when I record the podcast pero grabe talaga yun 1 plus 11 phone because of the subject matter that it's cell phones I like of course I use a cell phone I enjoy using one but I'm not super into it and also the particular controversy na B-roll ended up they ended up showing for their B-roll they ended up showing a YouTube video instead of actual actual user using it but yun nga a lot of yun na the saying that you don't want to know how a sausage is made kasi sausage masarap pero yun sausage actually combination lang yun anong taba and carne yun mga naiwan tapos binabalot lang yun kaya siya sausage so the saying is you don't want to know how the sausage is made because the sausage is good tasty but you don't want to know the kind of shenanigans that went on to make that sausage YouTube channels I kind of like that there's a lot of goings on behind the scenes na you think it's easy to benchmark something no sometimes the darn thing won't cooperate and I'm going to be honest I don't even do most of the benchmarks for the shop it's these guys who I trust but I trust them because if I I trust them to do the things needed for the PC store I can definitely trust them to run benchmarks so I'm I'm fortunate that I'm able to offload some of the work hosting wise and of the other technical back end stuff na the viewer doesn't see that the viewer only sees the final product where we report about the measurements so there's a lot of things go on having to create these videos and when you view the final product it's a testament to how much hard work was done that it looks so simple bang when I edit pangit pangayin pag edits na cuts are super abrupt kaiso if you're watching I know you've commented on that before Ren does a much cleaner cut the much cleaner edit than me but in spite of that it's a lot of sleepless nights even on my end because we're juggling so many things if you're a YouTube member you saw our posts regarding our scheduling for the next three weeks and it's crazy it's bonkers flat out sometimes back to back like today you're going to see the video of the BenQ EX3210U because for a variety of reasons you're going to be seeing a lot of content from us in the next two weeks so yunga the effort that goes into the videos can be a lot so I can kind of sympathize a little bit on that mistake but I have no sympathy for that article 45K 1050 TI 1050 come on man come on I mean yunga and there's no indication that it was a sponsored post or article or anything and it just really beats you on the head na hey bumili ka na computer na galing sa SM and use the SM app that's that's not right but actually at Liam Magnai I have very good memories of my my first for backstory for the longest time like we started the channel I was doing live streams on it it was a really old plunker the 4690K Intel 4690K so I have fun memories actually for 4690K and like the thing it was a no-clock cooler I didn't repaste it for like 3-4 years still going still fine hats off but I did cheat a little bit kasi during middle of the pandemic I upgraded it to a 3080 so yes bottleneck yes bottleneck but to be honest I didn't care I was able to play top of the line games at the reasonable frame rate so bottleneck nga siya dun sa 4690K but livable livable bottleneck and again see that's how I was a reviewer practical usability it's not the best that there's a bottleneck but if that's what I'm living with it's it's very livable like di ang mag-iraklamo sorry lemme just go through the messages a little bit and then see Ochi one of our other YouTube members has an interesting take on this he says na it was just a joke but I don't know where that comment came I mean so there was a comment because screenshot of it that you got that commented so they had that OnePlus 11 video and there was a comment there that someone's going to get fired and then dun sa reply they replied the channel replied to that comment someone's going to get fired and then you got that comment underneath we have suspended our editor and then they even like that comment that somebody's going to get fired but one of our YouTube members mentioned that they were just joking you got that was just joking but I don't know where that information came from because again you got that has not said anything about it they haven't said anything whether that was a joke at least that I've discovered and I really tried to do a deep dive because I tried to be fair I'm going to talk about something that happened to you I want to know the whole story I just don't want to know like all of the bashers online because believe me we've been there we've had some videos that didn't get stuff quite right and I take the blame for that I was the one hosting that video and we were very upfront now yes the information that we said was not correct so yeah believe me we have we have been there with mistakes but with us we are very upfront from the get go now you're right we're sorry we made a mistake we're going to be work triple time that it never something that won't happen again and to our credit there might have been more mistakes after that different mistakes but nothing as egregious as that one so I tried to be fair to all sides but yeah it's been radio silence from Yugotec I don't know if that's the way riding out the controversy perhaps that's one way to ride it out but you're just left wondering as a viewer as a reader like ano ba talaga were you paid for that video was it just rushed content did you not really believe in what you were saying maganda siya for gaming performance wise yeah but that article on a 45k build hitting you over the head to use SM app to buy PC products do not know why ano like can you imagine a parody video like we'll do we'll get a 10-50 ti then konwarin pero baka masupa kami so never mind but actually don't talaga ako na inis na that's just so wrong I mean there's no redeeming I usually try to find something redeeming or like there's a lot of things wrong in a product or in whatever thing is being presented but at least this one thing I like this one thing we can grasp on and say that I appreciate the effort that went into this product because I can see it in this one thing but that article 45k 10-50 ti ATX case na medyo mahal pa ang Gungnir na MSI and you know you have to get an ATX mobile which is B450 it was a B450 mobile which is okay sana but you get a B450 if you're trying to cut back but in this case parang it didn't do the budget I forget how much they were charging for a B450 but I thought na you could get a B550 and ATX with that price that they were charging it's terrible there's nothing nothing redeeming about that about that article terrible anyway I'll mention I'll talk about that more probably in the podcast hahaha victory queue well baka na pero sana kung clear yung inventory dapat budget din diba dapat mura na binebenta kung maglalagay ka ng 45k kung 45k built as mag-10-50 ti ay ka you better have a really good CPU to go with that or something I mean where did the money go nakamura ka sa GPU and why but if you're getting 45k that's a gaming build midrange gaming build why would you get a 10-50 ti good card in its time don't get me wrong but now hard to say why you would pay that price for that again I didn't mention it is really nice Rafael James have you seen that video it's a Rafael James is a member so he has seen it or he does have access to it again back to back to back videos but we've had a lot of people asking for the longest time gawa naman kayo ng budget build kasing hardware sugar medyo we like to play with the high end I won't sugar coat it a lot of our stock is for high end the customers that we try to attract yung medyo galit sa pera mahiling parang we just had a if you're watching customer you know who you are and you know I appreciate your business but I was in the shop and then we spoke in his build two builds 3900KF pareho tawas 4090 yung isa tawas 4080 yung isa sobrang saya kawusap but I can say without without being scared nabakamagalit siya na yun yun yung example nagalit sa pera take mamari just give me a 4090 kasi yung datin yung build 11900 tapos top of the line rin na gpu noon maybe 2090 so I think 2000 series ata noon then two years later he comes back and says na I want more so hardware sugar at hardware sugar we're always willing to give you more una mas por favor but so for the longest time people have been saying budget end, budget end daman we've been wanting to do it but we don't want to half ass it we don't want to just throw random parts together maybe like somebody who does 45K build with a 1050TiGPU we don't want to half ass it so we've really taken our time to think about what would anong pinaka practical na budget build kasi 15,000 is not a lot of money you see tiktokers you see people online hawking 15,000 peso gaming builds tapos may monitor pa na kasama hindi yung hindi yung masaya hindi masaya ma game on that so we really thought long and hard when we say it's a gaming build tutuot ang gaming build so that's why we really took our time to come out with something like this and I'm actually very proud of the evolution of what became of that 15K budget build but the first installment because we did a very big bubu so actually dun sa first installment sa first video na yung na lalabas bukas hindi pa namin magamit yung 15,000 peso budget build but keep the 1050TiGPU budget build but yeah we don't want to half-assit because we know when we produce a video and we say that this is the best example of a 15,000 budget gaming build ito talaga yung the best na possible I mean this is the best what you can get for your money value for money this we think is the best that you can do and so we really took our time with it and we spent a lot of effort on it especially our newest staff member who is very knowledgeable about secondhand parts but yung nga again it'll drop it'll drop tomorrow and spoiler alert we did not use a 1050TiGPU in a 15,000 peso budget build compared to 45,000 thank you lazy cable manager yes yung secret not so secret na kinakainisan ko I mean a lot of people say that we're expensive kung nakikita lang yung kumakana pa talaga yung prices that we get them from our dealers yung nga we have a standard markup and we just do that standard markup nung GPU or magedon ng pandemic na left and right sobrang daming scalpers di namin tinatas yung preso dun pa rin sa standard markup namin may mga scalpers na nga na buwabili sa amin kasi alam nila na kain nilang if flip yun alam nila alam namin na sorry did I say scammers sabi ko o scammers scalpers sorry just wanted to make sure alam namin na scalpers nila pero hinayan lang namin kasi yung sig namin first come first serve we don't police the market basta sa amin lang may standard markup if you're willing to pay the standard markup well and good here's your card hardware sugar has gained that reputation na medyo mahal also because a lot of the parts we sell are not budget I mean really don't cater to that that level of the market kong baga amin so we have NGXT we have ROG I mean things like that not because we look down on the budget market but just because there are so many other shops that already cater to that market pero yung medyo high end na medyo it's like a suit you can go to H&M you can go to unique low but when you want a suit and you want it tailored and you want it customized you want a little bit more customer service you don't want to be hassled that's where we felt na medyo cool lang pa yung market and that's what we targeted the shop to yung guys who want to come in who are not in a rush who want to take their time who want to learn more about PC building who want to appreciate the parts that we have but not to say that you need to spend yung ya bonkers amounts on us yung ya we've done our cheapest is around 28K 30K maha ganun we can do 45K so really that range around 25K patas that's what we'll do but again to be upfront there are so many other shops that will give you a 10,000 peso gaming build with monitor with keyboard with mouse and everything and that's not our market ya so it just it doesn't hurt me a little bit when I see comments online actually one of the comments for the YouTube thing was na how come you hard so they're like so siya nabay mga local tech channels that you trust as ba nagsabi na hardware sugar as ba nagsabi na oh makaday ang PC building series nila yung parang tips basic computer knowledge na they make videos to kinda educate to impart more knowledge to the viewer but then the comment was like I think kasi medyo hindi pa sila ganun karaming subscribers kasi medyo I forget I told my wife I forget the term that they used but parang basically masyadong high end yung host or parang yung target even the way we talk is hindi targeted towards the it's sort of a more high end market that we're targeting which it's not necessarily true especially for the videos we would want the videos especially like the tutorial videos or like the we explain computer parts in a basic way we want that to get to as wide an audience as possible and that's why if you know me in real life especially if you knew me like when you were going to school together you know that I would speak English 98% of the time but for the YouTube channel I really consciously started using tagalog just as a side note I'm now teaching in my home university so I I used to teach there so I graduated I went to law school and then my university where I graduated from asked me can you come back to teach English because you were an English major to college to literature composition so I said yes I was teaching there for three years after became a lawyer I just didn't have the time anymore so I stopped just this semester I'm teaching again in the same university I had to do a demo class so you think demo class no problem right so because you know I am a little experienced with public speaking I already taught for three years at the same institution you can see I'm a little annoyed that I had to do that I had to do the demo class parts like taught you know and okay lang naman everybody goes to the demo class but at the demo class because I was so used to talking in Taglish I started switching like I do in the YouTube videos na English Tagalog and one comment that I got from a PhD was na when you teach here speak in English all the time because when you switch to the vernacular I found it very off-putting which is almost an exact quote and again I found it kind of funny just internally because you know I grew up with me akong pinaka number one na parang Englishero na Conyoboy so I find it very funny na people online there are some comments like how I speak English like kuno may accent like why do I speak Tagalog I should just speak English all the time or just so many other things and even that comment I was so amused because if that had been me 20 years ago right out of college I would have just been English all the goddamn time man but because I have tried to be more as a presenter as a host as somebody who does videos that I want to have a more mainstream appeal I have very consciously adopted a more down to earth shall we say conversation style especially when doing videos and my friends find it funny especially during the pandemic where we didn't really get to see each other people have known me for a long time the YouTube channel just popped up and they're like parang hindi ikaw and yung ya they would tease me na when they needed a laugh they would watch my videos because it was so foreign to them to see me talking in Tagalog so I've really done I've really tried as much as possible to make the videos as accessible as possible and sometimes that backfires because you have foreigners complaining that I want to follow your videos but I can't understand you when you speak Hindi and then I comment like goddamn it that is not Hindi that is Tagalog and why don't you know Tagalog but that has been a recurring theme in the channel we do get a lot more international a large chunk of our viewership is international compared to other channels we get around 30% of our traffic from abroad which is much higher for most local channels it's like 98% Philippines 2% foreign so 30% is a significant minority but it is significant just all of that there's so much effort that goes into the YouTube channel and that's why it's all to earn your trust to show you guys that yes really try to reach out and show you na you can trust us when we talk about a product that's our genuine opinion about it when we recommend something to you in the shop this is really what we think is the best for you and it can be very difficult it's on a personal level it can be difficult sometimes to maintain that because yung ha may person na before yung ha hindi naman ako nagtatagalog usually hindi naman kasi elitista ako I would like to think but because that's how I was brought up yung ako mga ginikanan bisaya so sa among balay either English or Bisaya white Tagalog because yung ha my background I grew up in Metro Manila no question but at home it was either Bisaya which I can understand and speak a little and English so Filipino for me was pang silid aralan lang yun my girlfriend used to laugh at me na some of my Tagalog terms were very academic niya parang silid aralan aklatan I think for library and so you know the Filipino I knew was the thing I learned in class rather than having to actually converse so it's been like talagang code switching sometimes like the early video sasakit talagang ulo ko after taping them kasi sobrang effort in my head to translate like what I want to say in my head into pasable Tagalog but I think it's gotten better naman over the years I don't get a headache anymore making the videos but yaw when I did my demo class to teach this semester and I got that feedback na you should just speak in English all the time as if I felt challenged a little like I didn't know if the impression was like he was implying that I couldn't because don't be I mean I can if it's needed but I just thought it would bring it closer to a particular audience to make it more easily accessible to a particular audience because it's not an English class I'm no longer teaching English literature English composition drama poetry it's a different subject so I thought maybe they were less trick about using English as a medium of instruction that said my classroom my rules so I actually still do last spin to I wouldn't say laps laps implies na there's a connotation there that it's lower than English so I don't want to say laps into Tagalog but in my class I find myself actually switching like probably 80% English 20% Tagalog they're just some things that are better said sometimes kung gusto may made that thing in Tagalog is a little bit better and also because these kids I come from that background I graduated from the same university it's good for them to have some Tagalog in their lives because they're not going to spend their entire lives cloistered in the university forever bute masanay sila ngayon kaisa sa lumaki sila as parang ako biglang kila ako na Tagalog sa masakit paulo ko to translate before but not anymore ah alright so actually I wanted to talk about products but oh shoot the only reason I'm doing this live stream is for the sponsor which I forgot you wanted honesty there's the brutal honesty catch you after the break Dati 7th Deport ako but now I'm from the love of my life Dati I'm less and walaang purpose ang life ko but now I'm a world class Zumba instructor so web developer ako and content creator for a YouTube channel and ngayon ganun pa rin ako pero activated na yung windows ko kaya kaya ako nagahahanap ka nang legit mura at original software check out CDKoffer.co check out CDKoffer.com check out CDKoffer.co yon we owe the sponsor four live streams this is our third so we still need one I think we're gonna do it on Friday so to be upfront that's really the only reason why I live stream I was actually telling a customer like I like to game but it's very alien to me to do it in public na you need to do pattern and you need kind of conscious that people are watching you but we owe the sponsor also four game streams that's why I've been doing the game streams because my brother Raphael is my brother Raphael is away he usually does game streams but I did them this time but the streams the live streams public person when it comes to those things so it does take a little bit of an effort for me to to hype up to start doing the streams when I check out recently reported issue with some users radio driver 23.2.1 no boot no thoughts to be honest the first I've heard about it although we did have a customer very recently with a 6000 series card also driver issues but he updated the drivers and then also updated his bios and that solved the problem this particular one I haven't heard but to be honest we've been kind of traumatized already by AMD GPUs yung 5000 series nila sobrang rocky kasi nung that was a pun because rocky the programmer is the number one critic of the 5000 series AMD GPUs but those products are so rocky in terms of software support so ever since then we actually haven't carried them a lot yung AMD puwede as a custom order but sakit talaga sa ulo dealing with the driver issues of AMD I thought they already kind of polished them or ironed them out in the 6000 series but I guess I'll take a look later maybe I'll I'll mention it in the podcast if it's not subsumed under the entire I can't understand why you go tech did an article recommending a 1050Ti something build almost at 100 subs yep almost and to be honest it's been a long road getting from there to here it's a song getting from there to here it's been a long time sorry it's the theme song to Star Trek Enterprise that's a theme song it's been a long road getting from here there to here it's been a long time but my time is finally here that's kind of like how I feel about the 100k not so much that my time is here but more like it's been a long road man getting from there to here it took a pandemic it took a global pandemic for people to be so bored to stop to start watching the channel because you know we had the channel a year and a half maybe before we really exploded around June I think 2020 it was the height of lockdown to be honest no false modesty aside if the lockdown COVID didn't happen I don't think the channel would be anywhere near where we are now I think it took an audience that was really just desperate for anything to distract them and then that one video came around our top five things wrong with Filipino builds that was really the video na the YouTube algorithm couldn't get enough of that like it just actually it wasn't even a new video we released it the performance at least for that time for what we were used to was good but not spectacular and then around one month later the YouTube algorithm just blessed it like okay let's do this let's show this to everybody and that's when the channel really started taking off so I don't think that I don't think the potential audience of very bored people would have been there without which was needed because YouTube basically was desperate for content you have a lot of people at home sayang naman they've already gone through their usual channels what more can I show them the algo looked at this video and said wala na ako ibang mabigay what the heck ito na lang without the pandemic without people being bored at home I don't think the channel would be where it is now so it's really again very humbling experience I never of course it was just free marketing yunya it's not altruistic like I just wanted to talk about computers I love talking about computers but like in private this whole video thing yunya a lot of it's messy making the sausage but I never expected like 100k anywhere near 100k ng 2030 I was like wow this is like a lot and the people then brands started like sending us items asking us oh can we sponsor this or that I'm like it's really it's really wild and even up to now it's really something that I don't take for granted which again is just what I find annoying with channels that do take it for granted that try to trick their viewers take their supporters on a ride and they're not very clear kung supported about to buy ads and things like that because yunya I've been there I've never I've been in the shoes of a small channel and looking at the big channels and thinking wow you guys must it's such a great job to be able to get this and that's one thing like I hope we never lose it's just the excitement of getting to play around with cool stuff like this I mean again not paid to say this but who wouldn't want to play around with a 4070ti or a B760 MOBO that looks like a skyscraper or the ROG R-O-G R-U yeah not the R-I-O-G in the R-U 3360ti a lot of people become jaded when they get access to this level of stuff whether it's because you own a shop whether it's because you're a YouTuber and you get access to tech like this but that's one thing like I hope never kind you know I don't I do care actually now we're reaching 100 I'm thinking for the tech for for explaining to people na oh oh maganda computer na tog because you know it can do this if you put this it can do that yung bang sobrang exciting that's that's one of the things I'm really thankful to the shop and to the channel na I get to experience stuff like that the new hardware hardware that isn't new but when you get to it's like where has this been my entire life I need this in my life like the last December and I reviewed it last month super useful but then a victim of my child my daughter but anyway neither here nor there like to read you right parang I still get you know I have a more colorful way I would express it in a more colorful way but let's keep it PG pero I mean it's still super exciting and also learning about new things like this camera the zv10 god damn hirap it's hard for me like the lighting and the sound and the editing and stuff but at the and so many terms iso I don't know any other I don't know any other camera terms na but adami I mean depth of field f stop the hell f stop so it's been very exciting for me also to learn things outside of my space because I also like I like learning things in general big reader even outside of the tech space super super itong ano this monitor love using this monitor when na when when I when I got to review it for asos the vg27a ql1a so beautiful that monitor so good yeah so actually my plan for this stream was just to like bait you a little bit with the title and the transition to talk about the parts but it's been like an hour hour 10 I do need to get home and walk Logan the dog yes so so thanks so much ko namin ang rock in the programmer para wala ka na excuse get the monitor para you're back online and then give me my website rock in the programmer give me my website so please take the monitor it's here anyway mukha may available naman sa supplier natin eh well siyempre iba yung current monitor ko and that's the last I'm gonna say about it this matter for on that matter for for this stream have you considered collaborating with other Filipino YouTube PC builders I have actually I have um and we actually have collaborated with international tech YouTubers from Singapore from Thailand uh from Malaysia um and actually um super it was super interesting but it's really hard to do a collab um but we've like Sir Bermor Sir Tom popped up in our livestreams occasionally although it's been two months since he posted a new video so a lot of people have been wondering what's up with him I don't know um so yes Sir Tom of Bermor tech zone we see a lot actually of an uh XGNC uh XGNC is usually at the same events that we are um but I I have not personally gone up to introduce myself because I'm shy um he does a lot of builds and things like that so yeah we would be interested to do one even like um we have uh WMD tech uh see Warly is uh you know pops in on the streams occasionally and he corresponds to me personally we're friends on Facebook so we have touched base uh Alvin Pacheco from Pinoy Rig Enthusiasts I think is a tech YouTube channel with the name of the channel so we are sort of um plugged in a little bit uh and of course uh Boss Mac uh Boss Mac we see Boss Mac in a lot of the events but again I'm shy to go up and say hi of uh back to gaming but yun very sikat na local tech content creator um so we do see them um and we would be open but uh for me lang I just don't want to produce the same content that other people do yun nga yung 15k budget build so abarang pinagirapan namin yun because we just didn't want to throw random parts together and say ito na yung the best build so any collab we're definitely open uh but it'd be something na either yun nga mas yung exciting um then everybody can benefit like all of the tech YouTubers participating can benefit as well as the audience do we if it's a pc build contest do we um give the pcs away after or things like that I mean um yun yun things to think about but definitely long story short yes we would uh we're definitely open actually even to uh I'd I'd love to do collabs with creators in other spaces in other niches um I'm a big uh fan of Nicole Alba for financial planning um who other local guys that I follow um um crush ko si Biam cakes I don't know if I'm supposed to say that on air my wife no so it's not a secret um so definitely would do a collab with her um there's some other actually local creators that I won't mention because we know them personally because they're customers of the shop so I'll respect their privacy but if they wanted to do a collab set for sure um we'd be game for that um yeah so yes long story short yes um you can see what my students have to go through like I have a class with them for three hours it's like I can just keep going on and on I feel kind of bad sometimes for the students but yon thanks so much for yeah thanks so much for watching guys don't go anywhere because right after this I'm just going to log on to YouTube and then make public the BenQ EX the BenQ Mobius BenQ Mobius EX3210 review and I got used to saying that it's such a mouthful because BenQ asked me to say the entire name over and over again so yeah that's uh that's uh I haven't talked about like brands never ask me to do things na labag sulob ko usually I shorten the the names especially for monitors like usually before I would just say EX3210 new but BenQ kindly asked that it was uh you know BenQ Mobius EX3210 new so okay I mean that's not too much to ask so I oblige the the sponsor yeah yeah if you guys have a way in uh actually it would be just more to annoy my wife but yeah I'd be down for a collab actually I have a friend good friend who's uh crushesie alods but she recently got married so parang that friend hasn't been messaging us lately so I don't know if he's very sad pero I'm I'm up front kung crush ko si alods I would say so but um I really do have a friend who who had a big crush on alodia although if we I ever do get to see alodia I would probably ask for a picture just because I already have the perfect caption um but I'm not going to share the caption just so that you know there's a surprising because I've already thought about this and it's ridiculous that I have these kind of thoughts in my head I would never get to have a picture with with alodia gosing fyao on what the caption will be but yun now we know more about you and maybe things that you didn't want to know about me let's keep it PG and let's keep it about the tech but yun please please stay on I will be making public the EX3210 video right after this so thanks so much for watching stay safe stay tuned to back to back to back na crazy times see ya