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So last week I got COVID and I actually recovered from that quite quickly with very minor symptoms but unfortunately I got a bad cough I think also as a result of the COVID so now I'm negative already no more COVID but like I've lost my voice the cough is a real pain in the ass so this is gonna be a short episode and I do have to apologize for the poor sound quality last rather the very gravely deeper tone of my voice because I'm really struggling with it right now so last week I apologized for the poor audio quality because I was using my MH670 wireless headset instead of the usual Elgato Wave 1 so this week I'm back now at my place but my natural hardware my my vocal cords my larynx isn't up to snuff just yet but the big news for this week is for lack of a better word like stunning fall from grace and this mostly came about from the gamer's nexus video where it detailed just how bad the problem was with the AMD sorry with the ASUS boards basically overclocking 7000 series AMD CPUs and the overclock is just too much for the board it's so much so that you can fry both your board and your CPU so that was sort of the first stage of the problem where the BIOS or the internal operating system of the motherboard was sending these very well I would say faulty but I guess another word would be suicidal suicidal instructions trying to cram in more juice trying to cram in more voltage into the CPU to make it run faster beyond the safety tolerances of the hardware so that was sort of like the first problem and the second problem was when they tried to address the issue with updated BIOS the ASUS site was very clear that if you run this BIOS this is a beta experimental BIOS and you're not covered by warranty so I think that really ticked off a lot of customers when they were like well you're putting us between a rock and a hard place we bought your product we don't want you we don't want to burn up our CPU using your product and yet the instructions the new software the BIOS update which came from your company you won't even cover it under your warranty so ASUS really had to backtrack now the current stand is that yes you know all of these new BIOS updates are covered by our warranty if you run if you overclock your RAM if you use this BIOS all of that is still covered by warranty and I do have to I think a lot of credit goes to gamers nexus for really exploring in depth on the issue I mean I like ASUS as a company the local reps here have been always good to us and straightforward and no BS basically but the whoever came up with that decision that oh our beta BIOS won't be covered under the warranty I think that was a really terrible decision especially yeah we bought your hardware and yet and the fix we should come from you you won't even cover it so that was pretty bad and but I don't think they would have covered it if not for the pub public backlash against them which stemmed from the gamers nexus video so props to gm for that jfj's two cents has also weighed in and said that he would no longer accept sponsorships from ASUS although to be honest I felt that timing of his video just seemed to kind of jump on the bandwagon a little bit and of course I mean you know as a youtube channel ourselves we know how critically important sponsor sponsorships from big brands are but the you know the way the video discussed like oh I got a board from ASUS and the CPU socket was all you know ripped up or you know broken or stuff I mean it seemed like kind of small fry and petty things and then to be honest I'm not super I'm not a big fan of j's two cents I think he's always kind of grumpy well props to him for taking a stand and not taking any more money from ASUS just seems a little suspect though the overall timing of the decision actually we have done a build with the some of the ASUS motherboard in question we recently did a 7 950x3d build with a x670e rog crosshair extreme or something like that so definitely one of the boards that was being talked about but so far so good actually we updated the bios and the customer has been underclocking it actually to get better performance in warzone and actually the performance has been quite significant the performance boost so we also have a stake in the game I mean we recommended this motherboard to the customer we said that you know basically ROG is the best I even gushed about the motherboard on stream so definitely we're keeping abreast of the news but again even as mentioned by gamers nexus this only impacts a small minority of users as long as you're careful you should be okay update your bios make sure it's not pumping more voltage than it should and again not to blame any customers I mean most of this is really on the end of ASUS but also just good to keep in mind that the internet thrives on gotcha moments and scandal moments and oh my god I am so upset with you what kind of brand are you kind of moment so if you do want an ROG motherboard I don't know if they're on discount now but again you know we've done a build we've done at least one build with the hardware specifically that's being called into question now so far so good just a little bit on the gaming side in media apparently has discontinued production of the 3060 ti to make room for the upcoming 4060 and 4060 ti uh sad to see it go 3060 ti was pretty good value for money overall although we're still seeing a lot of 3060 ti's on the market so even though production has stopped I don't think it's going to be going away anytime soon and lastly also gaming news even though it's not pc gaming the zelda tears of the kingdom recently melt and it's supposed to be super super good I actually have not played a zelda game in a long long time although I am one of the og gamers who played zelda on the nest and a link to the past on the sness so I'm kind of curious now about picking up a copy although I would have to steal my brother's switch all right guys I think my voice you just can't handle anymore that's the latest news for this week um don't forget that hardware sugar has a sale the entire month of May super super cheap prices on CPUs GPUs and mobos like almost makadikit na sila dun sa dealer price so you've been waiting to pull the trigger on a new CPU GPU or mobile do check out our prices thanks for lending me your ear have a great day whenever you're listening to this and I hope my voice hasn't been too grating