 So, I'm actually, I've actually been kicking around a new show idea. So we do have regular shows on the channel. I will be eating. So this may or may not become a regular thing. My concept for this show is that hardware sugar reacts to hardware sugar. I'll be watching the content that we've done over this month, over September, and then we're going to react to it. But it's more like also a behind the scenes. So like this particular video, and then like if anything interesting happened, you know, behind the scenes and stuff. So it's a bit like a behind the scenes for the stuff we did in September. So, before that, so that's the concept of hardware sugar reacts to hardware sugar. Let's see, might become a regular show, might not. But yeah, let's see how it goes. But before that, let's do the usual ad. Hanapin ang yung disversion na gusto mo, piliin ang preferred paper and pencil. Wala pang five minutes na sisi gika na para sa windows mo. Maraming na kaming na tulungan. Date, said in the picture ko. But now, I've found a love of my life. Date, igmles ang walang pertos 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. Kayakon naghanap ka ng legit, mura at original software. Check out cdkoffer.com Stop normal, stop me. So if you're just tuning in, what we're going to be doing today is like a behind the scenes of the content that we did for September. And let me start off. Okay, let's answer the question of me. Okay ba yung HP Pro Desk? Yeah, okay naman. This is sort of like your entry to gaming rig. We've done something similar. A couple of months ago, we did the best budget gaming PC we could do. Tapos yung twist dun. Hindi siya brand new part, second hand lahat. And then second hand, using a office computer, yung pangkaraniwan na build na ginagamit sa office. Like these kind of builds na ganin sa OEM or these big brands that have these sort of modified rigs so that the cases are a bit smaller. And yeah, you got a bunch of kind of slightly mid-level parts. So we took that build and then we put in a decent GPU. Which is basically what you're doing now. So like if you wanna, yeah, in i5, 10, 500, 16 gigabytes of RAM, 500 GB storage and then an RX6 to 400. I mean, so that's a good entry level PC for gaming. If you have a bit more in the budget, you could try to get a bit higher GPU. The problem there is the PC that you're using, the office PC might not have the PSU capacity for the higher GPU. So definitely there are limitations when doing, when using something like that. But overall as a starter, usually you can find these at a very good price because of second hand. And then marami kasing stock yung mga offices tas pinapalitan nila yung office computers nila. So basically, parang pinapamigay na lang nila yung mga computers of a certain generation. Yes, it's not bad. I'm flaky sa brevingan. Sa placey cable manager. The vigilante gaming that might not have been me, like the one answering chat, a lot of the chat yesterday was Russell. But I'll pass on your thanks. We're gonna be reacting today. PUBG. I might get into PUBG. So the concept for this show, for this afternoon, we're gonna be reacting to content that we did in September. The first thing I want to point out is that the last video we did yung ito-to, itong hindi ako scammer. Let's try to get it bigger. Yung hindi ako scammer. So this is our most recent video. It's also the best performing in September with over 5,000 views. As you guys pointed out in the comments, medyo klik beti siya. I'm not gonna lie. Hindi ako scammer and then the title is I can prove it. Those kind of titles na they don't tell you a lot about the video. Even if it's a video review, it will talk about something else or something very tangential. Linus does that a lot. We don't do that a lot on the channel but we do it occasionally. In this case, the title supports the thumbnail. I'm spending a lot of time explaining the groundwork with the thumbnail and the title. Because the whole idea for this video was that why don't we take another look at items in the past that we reviewed tapos maganda pa ba sila? Do we still say maganda sila even though tapos na yung sponsorship, even though hindi na nakatutok yung brand sa amin? These are things that we reviewed a year, two years ago parang ganun. So our opinions still the same even without the pressures of either it was a sponsored video or it's a new product which the brand sent over. So of course, the brands they track those things. Everything that gets sent to us, even if it's not sponsored in the sense that there's no money being exchanged hands, all of the brands we've dealt with will eventually follow up with yun na, ay nasa na ba yung video? Lagi in a nice way naman. So it's not like if we get something, we're really at least obligated on the very minimum to review it. Not to review it in a fake manner or not to review it with a rosy spectacle viewpoint. But at the very least, we're obligated to review it. So there is a pressure to come out with a video, but the whole concept of this video na hindi ako scammer yun nga has our opinion changed with the passage of time and with the fact na hindi na nakatutok yung brand. But it's very difficult to explain that video concept in a thumbnail. Like think about it, how do you want to express that to the audience? You can have the five products as far naka-cut up yung thumbnail and nankita mo sa thumbnail. But nobody's gonna click that, nobody's interested in a re-review of a mouse. Like I thought it was interesting kasi it establishes nga na we're honest in our reviews and that what we say is backed up by our experience. And a lot of the items that we review, the review doesn't end when the camera turns off. We constantly keep using them. Kaya magadaren yung parang two years later, kamusta na? So I thought it was a good video concept. I was the one who came up with this particular video. I like the concept but at the same time ang hirap i-explain through a thumbnail and through a title. And yun nga, if you know about YouTube, your video is really affected if your thumbnail is clickable. Like is there drama dun sa thumbnail palang? Is it something that the audience would want to know more about? And just putting there like five items, reviewed again or has our opinion changed parang nga yan? Hindi siya magpa 5,000 plus views in four days. So I came up with a hook na... Whenever we put something like Amaya Scammer. We had a previous video na parang people, there was someone who accused me of being a scammer. It's actually a supplier that we don't usually deal with. But that was a video that we did. Videos like that, thumbnails like that, generate a lot of views. They get a lot of clicks. So I thought na... For the intro of this particular video di ako scammer. Let's like lean into that. A lot of people think that YouTube reviews are basically scams because the host, the reviewer has an incentive to say nice things about the product. Whether it's a direct financial incentive, whether it's an affiliate link, whether it's just you want to get in good with the brand para they'll send you more stuff. So I wanted to lean into that. I don't know. If you don't know Hardware Sugar, you only watch us sometimes or you're coming to us for the first time and you see us reviewing, baka nga isipin mo na it's just another YouTube reviewer who wants to say nice things para they'll get nice. So that they will get nice things. So we kind of lean into that as an intro. My take on it was na you might think I'm a scammer but I'm not and here's my proof. And then the video goes on to the meat of the original concept which was that we're re-reviewing or sharing our thoughts about items that we initially looked at a long time ago. I am sorry for eating at my mouthful. To be honest, I was out. I didn't have a proper breakfast. I didn't have a proper lunch. I've been out since 9 o'clock because I had to go to Trinoma. There were a couple of monitors from View Sonic that I wanted to check out, Team Farm Pro View. So I was there and then I was with Globe for 2 hours unrelated to Hardware Sugar. And then I got back and I had to bring my kids out. So basically, I've had very little to eat but I am fond of cracklings. Sarpto. Yun. So in a way, it is very clickbait in the sense that what initially you clicked on isn't really the topic of the video. At the same time, the video was well received. We got a lot of interesting comments. Medyo na get sa manong audience yung relationship between the introduction na people think I'm a scammer, but I'm not and here we go, this is the proof. And the meat of the video which was the re-review of the five items. And then, dunya, I tried to give value to the audience where particularly in the last item where I talked about the monitor which I love dearly, the ROGPG48UQ which is my primary monitor which I only got because I got to review it for ASUS. I gave it back to them and then I liked it so much, I bought one for myself. Pero may problema dun, may problema dito sa unit ko na hindi lumabas dun sa review unit. So I thought it would be good and interesting to talk about that. So that is the story behind the entire setup to this like the thumbnail, like the black background and then me looking serious and then hindi ako scammer. Like you think right now, bakit, bakit yung ane yung nangyari? Bakit ako tinawag na scammer? And it is a little quick baity because even in the intro, it's a very general like, oh, YouTube tech reviewers in general are scammers kanito gan yan. But I thought I thought may connection naman so I was willing to go with it. Man, I thought we could zoom this in. Wait, is there no way to zoom this in? Dami, wait, ah. No, that's no good. Wait, ah, I'm gonna do something. That's not really better. So the text is a little hard to read. We did get a bunch of comments in that video saying there were some interesting ones. Right. Like I also take, I'm also thinking of taking this opportunity to react to the comments. Like this comment, I think the right word is bias not scammer since most of the product reviewers are legit but problem lang is na napakabayas yung iba lalo na pag-paid promotion. Hinahyp nila yung product kaya hindi naman dapat kasi underwhelming siya. That's a good point. And that's why we really try to avoid that with hardware sugar. We're very clear ko may affiliate link. Actually 95% of the reviews, 99%, wala kaming affiliate link. We're offered a lot to be honest to put affiliate links but I don't like doing it like that. So we're very clear when there is an affiliate link. And usually if ever it's like an affiliate link to a platform like a shopping platform like Amazon or yeah, Amazon. We don't really have a lot of affiliate links with Lazada and shopping anymore. So it's not like direct to the brand. Like you can still jump on the platform and check out the reviews of that item on that platform rather than like direct to the brand. But we will put product links from the brand itself but those aren't affiliate links. If you click there if you buy there we don't get anything from it. So we're actually very upfront with the if it's an affiliate link and like where is our opinion coming from which actually to be honest I don't think a lot of people appreciate. There's so many like we put so many things in our videos. Like we even have an for every item that we review we have an FYI how did we get this product? Did the brand lend it to us but they had editorial control? Did they send it to us and we get to keep it? And they don't have editorial control? Did they pay us to say nice things about this like a straight up sponsored video? All of the reviews that we do nandun yon sa ilalim FYI on how we got the product and kung local man or international that's the we're the only ones I think I've never seen weathering out international linos local whoever we're the only ones that have a very explicit thing in the text description on how we got the item. This one from the gaming pedro like these are like comments I haven't replied to I do want to reply to him soon he's basically saying the monitor panel might be overheating that's a problem with a lot of OLED I did think about that why the PG48UQ was going black all by itself but I touched the rear of the monitor when it did go black hindi naman ma-init and then the PG48UQ in particular is supposed to have a redesigned cooling system so it's supposed to be better at cooling the panel tas yung nga hindi siya ma-init e and if it were heat then you'd think that it would consistently like if you watch straight for two hours parang ganon but yung blackouts are kind of random they kind of happen every four hours but not on the dot every four hours so I don't think it's a heat issue although I did consider that thank you Neil Harper good reviews give up the good work hardware sugars the real deal full disclosure Neil is a regular viewer of the channel wala sa fokus nung cameraman legit scam joking to be fair that was a problem with the intro I shot it by myself and it's really difficult you put it to autofocus the problem is I like having a lot of stuff in the foreground computer cases builds that we're doing graphics cards yung medyo maguloy yung foreground I like shots like that especially in the shop because it emphasizes that we are a real shop that you know what we have for this video is different from the next video kasi everything keeps changing what we're building what's coming in for diagnostics and things like that so you'll notice a lot of the shots in the shop I talagang sinasad ako na maraming stuff in the foreground RGB computers whatever yung problema when you're doing it by yourself I don't know nago autofocus siya dun sa harap hindi sa akin so that's true the shots in the shop especially when I do them alone I run the and yung nga I like having stuff I like having a cluttered shot in the shop when I shoot at the shop it does run the risk of the focus being on the things in the foreground rather than me in the background and that is true I ay that's a legit sa pesto that's a legit criticism ito si the punisher no matter what happens I'll be a fan of yours thank you but at the same time nga maybe if you just saw the thumbnail and the title may you're like oh ano nangyari but it's not anything serious nga I like this comment from Kipo don't think it's about being a scammer it's more of the fact making money at discount codes et cetera et cetera but it's also motivated by your gains that's why people perceive these reviews as scams I will say though that your quotations to your customers are hella overpriced like many sellers like rig builders provide a better price for specs a lot of people think we're overpriced to be honest I don't think so because you can compare if I had one peso for every time somebody told us we were overpriced I wouldn't need to work anymore so you can sometimes we're overpriced sometimes we're cheaper there's a lot of overhead a lot of people don't appreciate like we gotta pay taxes we gotta pay our people and we do try to have a different kind of shop you know make pit sila sa warranty so they don't need to pay for the warranty unlike hardware sugar when one year if it's even within the one year shop warranty no questions asked you can look at our Facebook we've documented a lot of the things we've done because we don't like the warranty policies in the country and we have a set mark up so much so sometimes there's a custom order we set it at the custom mark up the customer pace but then when we pay the supplier the supplier is like oh you know the prices gone down already we could keep that money and like even ethically like we could be justified in keeping that money because we're gonna give you this item it's X amount you pay this to X amount if the item turns out to be cheaper then because that's between hardware sugar and the supplier but we don't do that we've literally given away thousands of pesos back in refund to our customers because it's documented you can go back to our Facebook page so I don't really like a lot of people seem to get upset that there's the perception we're overpriced like I would argue we're not and I would even yun nga and if the thing is now we're just trying to make money you have not seen like yung staff ko yung nagagalit sa akin but ako yung nagsasabi na refund natin ko kasi lang pas na sa standard mark up during GPU armageddon we could have made a killing from the GPUs we could have our mark ups could have been way higher but again we just did our standard mark ups so I think yeah I mean it's up to you that's the beauty of the free market you can go elsewhere but on a personal level I think that criticism is a bit misplaced misplaced also is the first statement don't think it's about being a scammer it's more of the fact making money with your discount codes et cetera et cetera parang that links the videos that we do for CDK with our reviews but if you notice 95% of our reviews are not CDK reviews in fact sa jayon the content that features the CDK ads are not reviews because one I want to give respect to the brand the brand whether it's sponsored or not you know sent us an item I'm not gonna lie if I don't think the product is any good then I will say so pero respecto man lang sa brand na we'll give them their two minutes of air time kung baga I mean figuratively the video should be about their item and not inserting another sponsor and again any other channel sobrang sa na yung mga tao na it's a review a product then it's sponsored by somebody else we don't do that you can check our review videos they are not CDK sponsored so itong statement na maybe people think that you're biased because you need to sell you need to have a video for the sponsor is completely false again and yung ya don't take my word for it you can look at the videos the review videos do not have CDK ads in them because we are smart enough I mean I come up with a lot of the video concepts we are hardworking enough and creative enough to come up with video ideas we don't need to rely on reviews for the to meet the quota for CDK puyera na lang kung hindi galing sa brand like if we honestly like like if we bought this item in our own money that's when I feel we're justified in inserting a CDK ad but if you look at the FYI the brand send us this item for review but they had no sign what we had to say about it very very rarely I can't even think of like a video because our policy is pag kaya the reviews are not CDK sponsored one to give value to the brand to give more focus on the brand that send us the item whether we like the item or not and number two so that we would have comments like this but apparently we still do have comments like this na oh it's not you might be biased because you need to sell CDK we're not selling CDK in the review videos sub jayce mas mura medyo mura pesto medyo mura yung 4060 yung Zotac Spiderman but you might want to check the colorful one as well medyo medyo nagtatalo lang sila price wise um yeah so yeah you can go back check the reviews yung ya we bust our butts off to come up with CDK content that is separate from the review videos that we do for the brands still apparently not appreciated this is a Casey click agad wahoo baited hookline and sinker I do have to admit that was particularly click baited where have all the GPUs so enough with the where have all the GPUs gone this was a price watch episode so every once a month we do we research on the prices of certain models of GPUs and CPUs from the four largest PC retailers in the country we don't use hardware sugar data um and again that's why yung ya I track the prices so I can I can say whether we are overpriced compared to other stores to be honest sometimes I don't know how the other stores do it they have really cheap stuff I don't know how they do it so this was a price watch video for this month where have all the GPUs gone kasi price wise wala naman surprising pero as I mentioned in the video yung nakakagula yung high end cards like the 4080 the 7900 XTX mahirap na makahanap medyo auto stock na lahat ng mga brands natin so my recommendation was if you want to buy the super high end now like the 7900 XTX you should get it if you can still find the shop that has it you should get it na now because you don't know aling mga 6 weeks 4 weeks pa ata until makakakastok ma 4080s rin medyo obus na ITX bill the former hardware sugar tech um this is a this is a one of our former tech guys but he still bought the parts from us he still did get our discount so our staff gets discounted prices basically they get it at the dealer price wala ng markup yung shop and so we extended those discounts to our tech and he built an ITX bill which looks pretty sweet actually I hope the chat's still working guys because I can't see it here on my end parang naglalod-lod lang siya but anyway like this one for example this item was sent this is the laptop dock from Mimi Soporu Mimi Soporu like the quality of this thing was insane so okay JJ is still in chat so the chat's still working so the quality of this one the laptop dock from Mimi Soporu was crazy um they sent us the item for review they had no editorial control in what we said about the item um and you'll notice that this is not a CD key video like I was talking about earlier a bit pricey to be honest but really like the quality was really really good way more than I was expecting um again behind the scenes I didn't really want to do this one because I don't do a lot of laptop work at home the point of this dock is so that you can make you can extend the functionality of your laptop you can hook it up to multiple monitors you can have so many USBs attached to it you can have a LAN cable attached to it in case your laptop i.e. Apple doesn't have a LAN port um but you know I didn't it's not like an exciting you know it's not an exciting item for me so I tried to say no to the brand but they were um persistent in a polite way because I said well you know this would really be better with an Apple laptop but I don't buy Apple I don't have an Apple laptop um they were like no no it'll work with any laptop it's fine with us and I'm like okay and to be honest the quality was really exceptional na gula ako sa quality mimi, suporu um laptop dum ma'v any idea how much na 40 60 ASUS is above 20K I think sorry I don't have the exact price with me it for sure probably above 20K um that's the ballpark mga one pink i have seen like the little spiciness. Yes, Pesto, it is the Oishi cracklings. This next video does thermal paste expire. I thought it was a super helpful video. I was able to find like a really old Noctua thermal paste from eight years for my old rig and I explained it in the video and we tried it out and the difference between the new thermal paste na Noctua din and then NTH1 din. Sobrang late lang noon difference. So I thought like from an enthusiast perspective, this was a very informative video. I thought relevant, useful and yet you know it hasn't even reached 2,000 views yet compared to hindi ako scammer which is also useful but the thermal paste expiry thing I thought would be more useful to more people and I'm pointing it out kasi yung ngayon, we're really the thumbnail and the title really matter. So when you get mad at YouTuber for being a little click baity, to be honest I also get mad at YouTubers for being click baity but at the same time kasi that's the game YouTube is forcing you to play and YouTube always tells you like it's the quality of the content and bringing value to the audience. I'm going to be straight up that's and then you know you get the big YouTubers also saying that yeah, yeah just keep producing quality content. You'll find your niche, people will, you'll find your audience, people eventually go to you but you know um the thumbnails in particular they really do help a lot. Like in terms of views, this thermal paste video I think should have way more views than hindi ako scammer. Like you don't even know what's going on with hindi ako scammer. You don't know the items, you don't know I'm going to talk about the ROG PG48UQ but this one everybody uses thermal paste, everybody knows Noctua and yet it only has 1800 views. So the platform forces you to play a game that is not the best for the viewer that it's also not the best for the one creating the video and yet it's the one best for the platform because the platform wants you to click. Yeah but so for me like this was a really informative video. I hope that in the long run it gets more views. I think it deserves more views. Just you know just it's a nice experiment plus original sya. I haven't seen any of that content from other creators abroad or locally and we always try to come up also with original content. We just don't copy linos, we just don't copy gamers nexus. Although caveat we probably couldn't copy gamers nexus because they're super technical. We also couldn't copy linos because he has a huge ass budget. But tayo we're trying to provide our own value. What can we provide that other tech content creators haven't done yet? Particularly on the budget side a lot of us especially tayo mga Pilipino we never throw stuff away. Let's say yung mga bracket mo from like yung athlon days. I mean you know really old AMD CPUs. We still have them somewhere parang ganon. We are low to throw stuff away even though 99% of the time we will never need that extra stuff. So I thought it was really bagay para sa audience natin not just for a wider audience but specifically like for us na we like to keep our stuff and yung nga I'm no exception. Yung nga I found that eight year old thermal paste. Subtech Wolf Cave. So I thought this video should have gotten more views. Hopefully it's like a long tail video na over time it'll build up. That's been the case with our other with our other thermal paste videos in the past. Yung kind of diesel takes a long time for them to to chug along but once they're going medyo okay naman yung video performance. Chip Bong. Yes we do have a standard one year warranty but it's not standard because it's unlike the other shops. We don't ask you for BS things like the packaging and things like that. So but the period is one year for the shop warranty and yes however long the brand warranty is we will help you even if it's past the one year. All of that is on our hwsugar.ph page. Sub Marko Lim. I'm sorry for being rude that I'm talking with my mouth full. Marko Lim is if I might share behind the scenes of the shop not the channel has a very interesting proposal for the shop and I do hope na matuloy. It's a very exciting project. So after the thermal paste video we did the ASUS 4060 dual video um to be honest like na hiya ako ASUS they they sent us that card like such a long time ago and we only got the video out this month. Um there's a lot of stuff that goes into making especially the review videos um spoiler alert we are going to use the card for another video and it will be sponsored but it's not directly about the 4060 um but hopefully it will come out soon like maybe in the next two weeks um and hopefully I think it's the best kind of sponsored video because it's something that we would normally do pero bagay sa gusto ng brand. So the the brand I won't say which brand yet um came to us and they're like yes let's do a sponsored video um this is what we need from you. Ta sobrang bagay dun sa mga usual videos na ginagawa natin yung parang bibili ka series. So the next bibili ka series video is a sponsored video pero sakto dun sa gusto ng brand and they do they they have some good stuff but it's very technical um and so we try to break down in that video um uh like what's the big deal about these features. So I'm excited for that to drop although I actually should be working on that now. Lagin di pa siya tapos. The next one is also an uh ROG sorry ASUS video um between the Ryujin and the Ryu. I personally prefer the Ryu because I like the kind of stylized CPU block ni parang eight big and eight bit animatrix uh display nila. Sa up Luigi. So but I I suspect more customers would go for the Ryujin because that's the one with the LCD screen with uh with uh sorry with an LCD screen on the CPU block. So you can put gifts on it. It's kind of like what you're expecting from a high end um AIO. Cooling performance someone is good for both of them. They're basically the same because they use the same pump from Aztec fourth gen, eighth gen. I can't forget and I can't remember anymore which is the correct gen for the Aztec pumps. Um yeah. So cooling performance about the same about the same. It really boils down to aesthetics um like behind the scenes I was a little sad because I was using the Ryu here in my own personal computer um and yun. It's just kalaguhan like RGB. I don't usually do RGB um but I enjoyed it while I had it but now it's back at the shop. John Mark Kalustre. Yes, we do. We have a power color Hellhound 7800 XT on stock. I'm sorry. Next month I'm going to find out how to like make this bigger para ano but um this sort of like also behind the scenes you can see like how many likes each video got and how many dislikes uh a statistic which was publicly available before but YouTube nerf that. It's only available now like uh internally. Uh I've been lying about my monitors. The first full video that we did. Sorry, I'm trying to think of. Okay, yeah. So, this was a CDK video CDK CDK CDK CDK CDK CDK CDK. Yes, CDK and a dedicated video because actually, we owe CDK five videos for with the ad with jump to the ad and then the fifth one is we call the dedicated video um where the ad is kind of interspersed throughout the video. So, we actually do five videos with CDK and again, you know, we really put a lot of effort para hindi bumangga that we don't have to use the review videos that we do with the CDK even though that is industry standard. Lots of channels do that. They're reviewing something and it's sponsored by the video has that sponsored by somebody else. Hardware sugar tries as much as possible not to do that. Uh this was a dedicated video for this month. So, I've been lying about my monitors. Um so, I do have a four monitor setup here um and it's a real pain in the butt. Like, I keep telling people that oh four four monitors is the best and yeah, it's true and it's makes me super productive but at the same time uh it's like physically moving all of the windows and stuff. So, this particular video goes a little bit into that um um um two of the workarounds that I've used para it's easier to manage all of this screen space. Just bring it in Miguel. We'll be happy to take a look and change the case. Um to be fair, the gigabyte GPUs have kind of stabilized. Their return rate is not as bad. Um we haven't done an update on that video because I don't feel an update is required. Yeah, basically the information there is still accurate based on the experience we had in the intervening time from that video up to the present. So, I didn't really feel the need to uh have an updated video. That video did really well. Um so much so na na pick up pa siya ni Tom's hardware. Like, there were international media publications that saw the video and reported on it because we were reporting about failure rates for specific PC brands. And then yung ting na na min since we're a PC shop, we have data. We have a large sample size. I mean, we're a one branch PC shop. So, you know, it's not that large a sample size, but definitely a larger sample size and what's available to the average consumer average consumer that, you know, can do, maybe gets four graphics cards every ten years and that's a lot already, diba. But I mean, you know, Samin, we're dealing like with hundreds of items over years. Um so we we get a general sense on what brands are kind of reliable or not. And as we pointed out in that video, it's important for us to keep track of that. Um yes, we want our customers to get good products, but also from a selfish point of view, kasi kami yung malalagot. Um we're very big about warranty. If we carry brands that have a high rate of RMA, kami yung mahahasil. And like oh, you might be, you know, watching and thinking well how much hassle can it be, right? Malaking hassle yung RMA guys. Um if you can find the shop like Hardware Sugar where you can just leave the item and then basically forget about it and then, you know, maybe follow up occasionally, but we'll do the heavy lifting. You don't need to keep making kulit. Um those shops really are putting a lot of effort. Um like like we do kasi hassle mag RMA kasi mga bagal din pang minsan yung ibang suppliers. Oh, monetization on. I don't think it's behind the scenes to say that yes, we do monetize our content and I am super thankful to all of our viewers because it really helps out the shop. Really helps us better production quality in the channel. Like I got a proper camera now, although the lens I like broke. So we got to fix that. Um but yeah, the channel and especially the YouTube members. Yeah, we can't do it without you guys. Super appreciate it. So, ah, sorry. Before we do the video, before we do the video, can I just say, just like as a behind the scenes, itong video na to, ah, sorry, here, here. I love the intro of this video. Like this is so cringy and over the top. I actually wanted to do it in a different more classy background, but I ran out of time. Tapos, you notice may may trapo pa, wait, may trapo pa sa likod ko yan, may trapo pa sa likod ko. Um this is not actually wine. This is prune juice that my son drinks usually when he's constipated. I don't write Luigi classy. So, again, I was the one who conceptualized this video and this intro. Um and it's, what I like about YouTube is that you can really be over the top cringy and like I know, but like I personally don't care. Like I'm okay laughing at myself and I think this is such a cringy intro, but you know what I really love about it is that clink that you hear with the wine glass. So, I put down the wine quote-un-quote, then I reach to the side and I pick up another wine glass where there's a thermal paste inside. Does Ren zoom in? Did I tell her to zoom in? Oh, she doesn't zoom in, Ren. Ren edited this video. So, let's just run it one time. One more time. That clink there is not a sound effect. That's a real clink. Ang ganda nung acoustics ng glass na yan. And then the thermal paste inside the tube got jostled around a little bit so that's actually just it hitting the side of the glass. But it's such a satisfying clink and when I was shooting the video again by myself I heard the clink, I'm like okay, that's good, but then I heard it in the video it seems so fake kasi parang sobrang sakto when I move and everything but that's actually, that's not something added in post. That clink is legit. I know, right? IDX, Adik. Like, coolan na lang. Like, I really wanted to go full-born na na kasut and tie and like you know, much classier background but again, I ran out of time so I had to modify it slightly. Ano tong ano? Like the video guys, 17 tayo ngayon. I have not seen that video. Posted in the chat pesto so I can take a look. Little bit hardware sugar reacts to like other things. I thought this video was super useful. I enjoyed making it. It's such a straight forward video but I think like the content super useful. I think for me, that was the most fun video to do this month. Like that's my personal favorite for this month. And I didn't even do most of the work because it was a guy at the shop that did the painstaking work of benchmarking it and everything. So basically I just wrote the script, I told them what the benchmark and this is the old one and the new one. Let's see what happens. But actually the guys at the shop and even this B-roll, the one where you see them applying thermal paste, that's them. So my favorite from the concept, from the clink in the beginning to ano, everything just kind of fell into place. Sorry, I saw a question like on the other video equipment that we use. As Jay pointed out, it is aperture but we do use Godox. Like there's a light behind me that is Godox because what I realized was yung aperture sobrang mahal sobrang quality niya, pero sobrang mahal niya. And you know you don't really need for our level production at this point, you don't need like that super high end. It's kind of like you're getting ROG but you just really need colorful. Both are good brands both have good performance um if you just need the colorful kind of then go with the colorful because it's a cheaper price. That's how I think, that's how I feel about the Godox. But yung Ulanzi, yun nga I had three of the small cubes these guys. I had three of the, I had bought three of these guys like less than a year ago. Only one of them works now so one out of three is a terrible failure rate. Sorry, two out of three failed so only one is still working. So I think Ulanzi is too cheap naman I don't know if like kong analogy baka parang generic price yun na yan. So parang I think Godox is a good point between the super high endness of aperture. Chakay medyo low end na Ulanzi which I mean I don't mind low end but it has to be reliable naman. Like we have a video I posted it in the short you can actually see it. I'm shooting something here in the home office and then I have one in the corner and then it suddenly dies. Man, moha pa kaming cheap so actually I do need lights here in the shop sorry in the home office I'm thinking Godox or I'm thinking light. And if you're interested there is a big photo convention like all the different brands are there in Trinoma. I was actually there this morning and you can also check out ViewSonic pro monitors. I looked at lenses but I really don't know how to pick it. But I do need another portrait lens because the Sony one that you were using that I really like broke. Then I got a Sigma I think or a Viltrox maybe it might be a Viltrox okay but it's really different at Sony. What I do lay magnaya is I can't turn it off because when I turn it off naguguluhan yung computer ko because I have multiple monitors so na sisi raying spacing ng other monitors when I turn it off so I can't turn it off. What I do is I set it to a different source so DP tung ROG PG48UQ ko I tell it to try looking for HDMI so the screen blanks out but it's still connected to my computer since it's still on so all of the other monitors don't get affected it seems like a small thing like a small work around but basically just do that all the time whenever like ako I'm so obsessed about not having unnecessary screen time on this monitor to save it from dead pixels or burn in or whatnot even if I just stand up to go to the bathroom I will switch it to HDMI so I will make the screen go blank to be fair to me it has worked out because so far there are no dead pixels on my lovely, beautiful I don't care if you crap out on me every 4 hours PG48UQ Sup pretty baby I would like to scroll down from chat but I can't see it I mean there's something wrong with the chat at my end like I can only see the latest one and I can't highlight any chat so yeah let's do about 10 more minutes about the lives because I still need to walk the dog so usually pwede magtanong is every first Friday so the next one is actually this week this upcoming Friday but this one was late because I it kept getting pushed back I am big in the fortnight now and can I just say sorry so we also do 4 gaming streams for CD key I hope I've been getting better at like the latest one apparently there was one like I have favorite kills oh here here here I'm capturing so that I can see who is in the area because if you're like the owner of you're able to capture a point you're able to see people and usually it's really a dumb move to capture in solo play plus medyo late game na to so you don't need the stuff that comes out but I wanted to get the information and so I capture it and right there you can see the red triangle on screen there's a guy and I only get this kill because I captured tactics sorry can I just say also so this guy I'm waiting for the crate to open and suddenly it's raining grenades down on me so it's like an ambush now there got hit oh my shields are basically down alright so I get ambushed but I get my revenge so I climb up to where he is he's not there but I know he's circled around he's coming back and then I and then we have it out wala ka pala kung di ka nag-ambush ya so that's pretty good there's one game like I don't usually play sniper but I had such excellent like so much fun ganda noon let's see that again sorry this is just really gratuitously like like just me like wow look at me play so I have like 4 kills at sniper ganda noon I don't know if you can hear the audio of the game oh there's another one I think the skill 5 nice really lead into that one ya so I'm having a good time playing Fortnite I think my friends are better at it so I gotta keep practicing level up but I know if you're still in the chat Revan Jan don't worry pubg's coming up soon so just last one about the lives we do also have another one crypto watch my trading like for the past month and a half like I've really stepped it up like I've tried to really get back into the game of trading and what I do for that is na I look at it na every day and things like that so I've gotten also kind of into shorting and long so like using collateral basically you're kind of borrowing money so it's a much riskier setup than just buying and selling but you know the profits are much higher but the risks are also much higher and it's crazy the futures like so I'm basically shorting futures and making long bets on futures wild you know it can be like you can be like six dollars up and then actually you know you're six dollars down it's only takes a minute changes in the price to really you know make or break your day so I'm trying to learn again how to be more dispassionate about crypto trading alright so we've come to the short so I think is the most the shorts are the content that we do the least and I am changing that kasi I wanted like the podcast if some of you noticed didn't come out yesterday I'm trying to move it to a Saturday schedule but I actually haven't done that yet so I need to do that now and in the shorts we're going to have one every Monday is my hope so kind of you know trying to find our groove in the shorts to be honest it's a bit difficult to distill a complicated topic in you know you know the shorts is less than a minute so it's it's I usually I don't have any problems coming up with video ideas for long form pero yung shorts medyo na iirapan pago but I'm hoping that if I have to keep keep doing them they will be easier for me to conceptualize and I wanted to I wanted to end I wanted to end this live stream with this comment so this is on our PC master class video this video is over an hour long like an hour 20 minutes and we discuss every component of a computer CPU motherboard GPU et cetera then we try to break it down if you're just starting out with computers kailang malaman para let's mo yung item like you understand what AIO does and you also understand maybe you don't need it like you can just go with an air cooling CPU so like the very basics of each item and how they interact with each other so it was really the creation of this video it's it was an updated version of yung bibili ka series where yung sa bibili ka series we did it per item so one video on the CPU one video on the motherboard ito just one video na lahat ng items and we really made an effort na like in the GPU I shot outside kasi I referenced it's like a baton when we're talking about bottlenecking that you want them to be able to pass on the data quite quickly or seamlessly and if you're still waiting for one component either the GPU or CPU then that's bottleneck and we shot it outside so I could kind of point in the distance to a track and field for the analogy of the relay or the baton race for the PSU if you notice when we talk about the PSU we jump to a meralco substation because visually meralco substation you think electricity and the PSU is the one that provides energy to your computer the CPU we shot it in a library because basically the CPU is the brain of your computer so even like the settings where you try to make them fit there's a lot of effort to edit this video and it was very well received it's just that sometimes I get these comments and I'm like man so this comment I don't know if you can read it kasi dito sa on screen it says Dios ko, ang tagal sobrang daming talk and then yung parang annoyed face you know I did an hour plus video Ren had to edit this thing because it was a lot longer than an hour 20 or something when she got it I had to conceptualize you know there's a lot of work by me and the team to come up with this video it's a little annoying when Dios ko ang daming talk how do you want us to explain computers to you sa sayaw kami magaabstrak painting talking is the only way I know how to communicate computer knowledge if there's some other way interpretative dance stop dancing choreograph swimming I mean yung Dios ko ang daming talk we're explaining an entire computer everything about a computer in very simple language so that hopefully everybody understands and we've used it's not like I'm just sitting in front of the camera at graphics in specific places to try to highlight the part that we're talking about so we use the visual element along with yes me talking a lot pero Dios ko ang daming talk I mean if there's a more effective way to communicate I'm sorry I don't know it hanggang talk lang talaga ako I mean that's the only way I know to effectively communicate what I know and I tried to come up with a lot of analogies Ren and I are frequently brainstorming about yung nga what can we flash on screen para makonek yung the concepts that we're talking about so it's not to say and again I apologize for talking with my mouth full I mentioned before like I don't mind getting negative comments I even don't mind getting hateful comments I find them kind of funny but san tayo po punta from here Dios ko ang daming talk say what yung nga what do you want me to do so I can explain computers ang daming talk sometimes their comments they can be mean but they could have a kernel of truth they can be short-sighted but maybe they stumble upon inside that might not be fully expressed but you can still draw something but Dios ko ang daming talk ay nga kakantabako I don't know to be honest it doesn't really get I find them amusing but it's kind of assasperating particularly for this comment I think assasperating is the most specific emotion I felt after reading this comment kasi yung nga what do you want me to do song and dance poetry choreograph swimming flash cards yung nga I am at a loss of how yung nga I can't concede yung nga let's just leave it there just ko ang daming talk I actually do think okay, okay fine their comments might be half-baked but they still have some insight I do acknowledge that a lot of our videos are very talky videos it's the nature of tech but at the same time yes, we could do a lot better and we really do try to have very quick cuts and not dwell on a scene too much cut cut cut yung yung yung shorter sentences and things like that personally, like me I don't think I'm as natural a host as some other YouTubers because you just want to watch ang ganilang panoorin I don't think I'm like that especially for tech you should just see me gush about books although I thought I had that effect but not that I'm old and I tried doing it with my class parang di sila na impress masyado I just don't know what I'm talking about like to be honest talking about tech doesn't come naturally to me because I'm not usually of that frame of mind na o ilang gigahertz ba to ako yung more like yung customer experience yung user experience I love this monitor, the colors are so vibrant it's so sharp, I love this GPU I smacked it in, I put it into my PC nakatukey gaming ako, okay na dun a lot of people are focused more on the benchmarks, the technicals that's not me tech doesn't roll off my tongue so I mean yes, that's true I can improve more sa host and maybe less talking but you know ITX adic will have like a musical na parang tech jargon that was a good episode though, strange new worlds man, I'm in strange new worlds I was talking to my friend like I'm having withdrawal symptoms but I'm gonna finish with your first mga 3 episodes na lang but yes, so on that note well we've been able to draw a little bit of inside from just ko ang daming talk but yun, so thanks so much for watching guys have a good weekend we will have a short on Monday we do have a video already in edit about fake cryonaut thermal paste like I bought a bunch of fake cryonaut thermal paste um and we have two original ones I won't spoil why we have two but again, you know I thought that was an interesting video to make because it's very apt for the Filipino consumer kasi kahit ako eh, na tempt ako metyo mahal yung cryonaut na TP na original mga 450 pesos but on Lazada you can get it 150-120 are those any good malay mo orig sila di ba so that video is definitely dropping next week along with the short on Monday I hope I get it done by today this tonight but if not it will probably drop tomorrow um yeah so thank you so much for watching the inaugural episode of Hardware Sugar Reacts or Hardware Sugar please leave me in the comments if you like this particular show concept or not um so it's basically behind the scenes of the stuff we did this month um yeah and have a good night