 Hindi ito yung basual, basual. What's up internet? Nakalipasulit ng isang taon, another year of hardware that we can't afford. Pero masayad lang din tumingin sa specs and mag-ipon, the longer the wait, the better the enjoyment. That's what she said. Hindi niligang nang busy. Pusna, hindi kailaw na windows. Pero san ko hukawan ng legit windows? Daming options, daming prices. Ah, kalito. Gudi nalang, may cdkeyoverst.com. Wadali lang ang order. Search for the software you need. Add to cart. Daan ka sa payment option nila. Wala pang 5 minutes finished. May legit, working cdk na para sa windows mo. Gamitan ng aming code para makakuhapan ng discounts. Kaya kung nagahalap ka ng legit, mura, at original software. Check out cdkeyoverst.com. Hindi ito yung usual best-off list. Best GPU, best SSD, best RAM, boring. So we'll start with the best of the Critics Award, but state of the end for our best brand of the year award. There are products that reviewers and critics dump on. Kung mahili ka sa PC, alam mayyan, sumusun ko kay Gamer Jesus or Kay Linus, may bang products talaga na pangit, magmobili nyan, but ka gagastos para dyan. But there are some items na kahit ganokapangit yung reviews, negative press, andami pa rin buwi beli. At yung champion dun, yung NZXT H510 Elite. Review say walang airflow slash auto overheat yan. Customer say that's gorgeous. Critics say overpriced siya. Customer say it's beautiful. PCMR guys say it's just RGB. Customer say I want it. The H510 Elite has been a popular seller in the shop and it's not hard to see why. Its front tempered glass doesn't let air in, but wow, it's a stunner. I think the H510 Elite is the classiest I've ever seen RGB in. You can see the RGB, it's not too much, and it just works. Those two AR2 fans in front are just spectacular. Kudo sa all of the customers at marami sila na sabi nila, wala hong paki sa sinabi ng mga critics, ito yung case na gusto ko. Because the critics are there to help you make up your mind, not to make up your mind for you. In many ways, the work of a critic is easy. We risk very little, yet enjoy a position over those who offer up their work and their selves to our judgment. Opin yun nila yun, pero kung gusto may isang bagay, edi dun ka sa gusto mo, deba. So if you fell in love with this case and bought it, congrats to you. Best of 2021. Actually, na-redeek siya nung 2019, pero maraming bumili nung elite sa amin nung 2021. So best monitors. We tried a lot of monitors this year. My primary monitor is a bank. Rafael uses an MSI. We've carried Samsung, Gigabyte, Asus. We've reviewed the Eve Spectrum. We've had UltraWide. But yung hindi ko talaga makalimutan, the monitors that I always come back to are the ASUS TUF series. Palagi ako malungkot when I have to return an ASUS TUF monitor, kasi ang ganda talaga nung screen quality nila. As I said in one of my reviews, the screens are almost aggressive at how bright and cheerful the colors look. Parang sinasabi nila, tingnan mo ako, tingnan mo ako. Look at what I can display. If there is one item that I wish I could have kept this year, it was the TUF VG27A QL1 Alpha. But really, all of the ASUS TUF monitors I tried perfection right out of the box. Best unexpected product. To be honest, medyo dubiyo sa ko nung nakuawa ko yung email asking us to review a hardware VPN. It works like a VPN, but since it's hardware that stays with you, you don't have to pay a monthly fee and you don't need to turn over any data to a third party. Mas naging dubiyos pa ako lalo nung dumating yung actual product, tapos ang nipis niya, tapos never heard of yung brand. All of these things were rolling around in my head when I actually tried out the deeper network Pico, but the thing works, and again, it works so well. It acts as a VPN. So nandito ako sa pinas, pero yung show na pinaparod ko, dapat pang US lang, nampatno ko no problems. It has built-in antivirus, built-in firewall protection. Installation was super easy and the software UI is easy enough to learn. And its value proposition is very clear. It replaces your VPN. It's cheaper than a VPN and it just works. Best product line. It's hard to maintain the quality of one product let alone a product spanning multiple generations, but AMD's Ryzen series did just that. Nagsimula siya sa 1000 series and dun pa lang parang napansin ang mga tao na oh, parang kakaibatawa. The price to performance is very good and it started taking on Intel. And as the generations went by nung Ryzen, it became harder and harder to recommend Intel kasi ang ganda talaga nung cost to performance ratio nung Ryzen. Yung mas amazing pa dun, hindi pa nagbago yung socket. Yung Intel binabago yung socket every generation, which is a pain in the ass for people who want to upgrade for CPU coolers that need a new bracket. And for beginners in PC in general, kasi kailan nila intindihin pa ano ba tung socket-socket na to? Amazingly, AMD kept the AM4 socket for five generations. Yes, there were some missteps like the 5000 series initially not being compatible with B450 motherboards, but that was walk back after some public outcry. But by and large, it's amazing that AMD was able to keep the same socket for so long. Next year, we'll see the continuation of the Ryzen line, pero hindi na siya AM4. So the 5000 series is really the last hurap of the initial AMD Ryzen series and what a run. Finally, best brand. The whole point of a brand is that maasahan mo yung quality. Kiyang mahal-mahal ng mga SSDs ni Samsung, kasi alam nila na alam mo, pagbilhin mo yan, hindi ka makakaproblema, sobrang quality ng mga SSDs ni Samsung. Asus also is in that category of brands which are a bit pricey, but you know that you'll be getting quality products. And there are some brands that we admire like Noctua. Noctua is quality all the way. Takpad mo matamoh, pili ka lang nung item, kahit anong Noctua na mabunot mo yan, quality yan. Plus, they really care about the customer which is why they offer free mounting kits. Most other brands would charge you and some have to get a replacement mounting kit if you're upgrading your CPU but Noctua gives it away for free. So quality plus customer satisfaction. Very, very hard to beat Noctua. But for me, my best brand experience of 2021 was a brand that has great products at a great price point and they have a wide variety of products. And that's Deep Cool. Deep Cool has basically everything that doesn't need a lot of chips in it. They have CPU coolers, they have mice, they have AIOs, they have cases, they have RGB converters, they have RGB fans, they have GPU brackets. I mean, you know, the product range of Deep Cool is pretty deep. However, most of those products, the quality is at least equal to the market leaders if not better. The AS500+, which I really had fun reviewing, actually has superior performance to Noctua's venerable NHD15. And the recent AK620 has even better performance than the AS500+. Plus, their stuff is always affordable. Yes, mas mura yung rack in cooling, techware, dark flash, and fan tech. But price to performance, the value that you get from what you're paying for, it's very hard to beat Deep Cool. At yung gusto ko rin sa kanila, a lot of their products are widely available sa atin. Yung focus nila, Asia, hindi U.S. or Europe. Nagkarong nga kami ng customer, gusto-ng-gusto lagin yung AS500+. Yung problema na sa state siya. So binilin niya yung AS500+, from hardware sugar, pinaship niya dun sa pinsa niya sa laguna, tapos yung pinsa niya bahala, magpadala sa states. That's how much he wanted the cooler, which he couldn't get in the states. He had to buy it from the Philippines, tapos ini-import to the states. We do have quality products available to us here in the Philippines. A lot of the times, there are comparable products. Hindi lang kasing sikat nung NZXT, nung Corsair. But a lot of the times, there are comparable products which are available here. And Deep Cool would be a good choice to look into. I don't agree with all of Deep Cool's decisions. Like their latest cases na CG540 and 560, we're just so-so for me. But I can always see the logic behind their decisions. Ano yung design rational bat nilaginawa yun? I can always see the logic and I can respect their decisions even if I don't agree with them. So quality products at good prices and products that are actually available make Deep Cool our 2021 brand of the year. Congrats guys, you deserve it. Bonus content, my best multiplayer moment of the year was in Star Wars Squadrons. People are drawn to Star Wars for different things. But I want my RGB. Stay on target. We can make it work. Stay on target. Some like the clear binary distinction between good and evil. Some like the mysticism of the Jedi. For me, it's the space battles. The things that go pew pew pew and blow stuff up. Nung bat ako, I would watch the trench run from F4, the original Star Wars over and over and over again. And I played all of these before in other versions. I played X-Wing on DOS, Tie Fighter on DOS, X-Wing versus Tie Fighter, X-Wing Alliance, so all of the space sim Star Wars games I played. But this is really the first time I tried multiplayer. Kasi the way it usually works is you're on a team, you have to destroy the capital ship of the other team and then the other team has to do that vice versa. The other people of my team, I'd never met them before, di rin ako makakcommunicate kasi di ko sot yung headset ko noon. But everybody else was communicating, they were using phrases from the movies. Yung yan, they were all strangers online and just came together. It's really something else when you're playing a Star Wars game with real people and you can hear like I'm going in for my attack run or I'm already on my way out. They would go in on the cap ship and one of them would say I have a bad feeling about this and then you can see the Tie Fighters diving in and you have the support guy backing up the Y-Wing and then we had an interceptor on A-Wing who was trying to get the Tie Fighters off the back of our Y-Wing. And even just the role specification like Star Wars fans know the A-Wing is for interception, Y-Wings are the bombers, X-Wings are the kind of all around space superiority fighter and it sounds corny pero ang saya lang when you're playing a Star Wars game and people are really into it in a non-ironic way in a way na we're all fans this is to have a good time and you know we would get beaten back a little bit but everybody was just having a good time and this is one of the few times that I really regret not having voice where I could tell the team good job daming toxic online if you've played online games you know that but there are some golden moments like this na complete strangers get together they can bond over a franchise that they all have love for and the force was with us that time and we beat the enemy team we blew up the Star Destroyer so one of the best moments it came out actually 2020 but I was playing that in 2021 so one of my best multiplayer moments of 2021 and the last best of the year are the best fans of the year I wanna say a big thank you to all of our YouTube members sana past and present pero YouTube won't show me the past ones but regardless if you stayed with us for one month or you stayed with us since the beginning I wanna say super thank you and the current members are Ralph Ople Tag GMC Lag Peniel Red Yambagon Jenny Abasto Dondon D5 Tim Fernandez Marcus Ray Ignacio Minor GPU David Go Rafael Claude Ismael Zen M ITX Addict The Monkey Butt Rafael James Ian Meru Ted Magalona Adonis Aventano Steel Book 07 At JV JV Colado BJ David Leah Magnae Marvin Del Mundo Nico Ivan Medina Cat Shark Yves Deo Campo Andren Nicomides Bench Ibanez John Ruben Ocha and Christian Espinosa Times are hard now guys and I super appreciate that you set aside some money to send it to us to help us upgrade production quality and just generally support our mission of having cool PC parts for cool people Merry Christmas Let's hope 2022 will be easier on our wallets lighter on our hearts and more optimistic than the past two years have been Cheers What's up internet Mahirap pa rin mga guha ng PC parts ngayon but that doesn't mean you can't get this shirt to remind you of what you still need Jokes aside na totoo naman we made our very first merch to not only reflect our passion for PC building but to help you teach your friends what you know through the hardware sugar PC anatomy shirt To order, go to our site or click on the link in the video description Hover over products and select T-shirts. We have three designs and they come in sizes ranging from small to XL. Press add to cart select your delivery option and your payment terms. We deliver anywhere in the Philippines but you can save one delivery fee by paying and picking up in our store in Makati and if you wear it long enough baka masertehan ka and you'll finally get the go signal from your significant other or your parents to finally get that EIO or RTX 3080 that you've been dying for