okay why don't we jump right into our first topic that was so much fun shooting that video two weeks ago or whenever it was when I was over in Taiwan uh where where is our oh do we not is it not like in the dock the video itself yeah no oh no no I don't mean the video I mean oh yeah there we go okay Taiwanese media appears to have picked up in a big way the video that we recorded in guanga digital Plaza um super cool place we visited a if you haven't seen it
we visited just a random computer shop in the mall we made our decision based on who had the coolest PC in front of it it was pretty cool so it's a good choice and we asked them to build us a PC for $5,000 to see what they would come back with and how it compared to an equally priced system from main gear also with Hardline liquid cooling the system they gave us was absolutely sick like the Builder freaking nailed it in pretty much every way the only thing that I would say that they didn't quite
get right was the memory configuration and I'm very disappointed about this because Gary from the lab pointed out that in the video when I'm troubleshooting the uh the memory speed that it won't apply Expo we apparently cut out the part where I said hey AMD has trouble running four dims at maximum speed so I doubt Expo is going to work so a number of people thought that I didn't understand what the issue was um I did but it wasn't really the point of the video the point of the video was that the solution was to
pull out two sticks or I ideally the solution would have been to configure the system if you really want 64 gigs of memory with a 2X 32 gig kit in the first place so I stand by everything I said in the video I still dock some marks for that because I would not want to run a ryzen 7000 system at 3600 megat transfers per second but it's also it's it's not that it was broken it's it's just that there was a performance penalty to configuring it that way everything else about the system dude did you
watch the video by any chance I watched the whole thing actually it was great did you see how he packed the GPU original cooler he put every screw back in exactly the place it would need to be so that when it's time to reassemble that thing easy I'm ready to do it I have never seen that before in fact I'm trying to think back cuz we secret shopped some competitors like way back in the day when I was at NC uh and we got some water cooled systems in I don't even think they included the
original coolers like yeah I doubt it even even like all the accessories and manuals and stuff like that you can't take that for granted when you buy a fully integrated system necessarily but he included everything just like the system would have been if I was an Enthusiast custom builder and I built the system myself and I had all the pieces that came with it I was so so impressed by the build uh rather than trying to bring the PC back to Canada though which would have been a choice uh we decided to give it away
to the first person that recognized us on the street which wound up being a Taiwanese Junior High student at least one media Source did interview him and he said that in addition to gaming he wants to use the new computer to edit videos and experiment with lm's uh this wasn't in the video because we had wrapped by that point uh but we went to the bakery that we were headed to and then on our way back he was still on the corner and his mom was there and she made an offhand remark about how he
better use it for study which I thought was the funniest thing ever not just gaming you also better use it for time so good of course it's a classic mom comment one of the Shop's social media accounts posted about video saying it was around 2 a.m. so I got him back that's okay if you watch the video that's actually a fun close the loop right there he uh because there was such a high level of personalized service and I don't know what it is but like here in the Western in in in Western culture I
don't actually like giving my phone number to people when they ask for it cuz hotels will ask for your phone number and then they'll like text you incessantly and like I'm worried they'll send me off and stuff yeah whereas with this guy I didn't even mind he's like yeah I'll add you online which means he doesn't need to have my phone number it's just like a social social media you could just delete them yeah it's just it's just like a messaging app and the the conversation was so SM smooth and just I really like for
transaction yeah it didn't feel skey it just felt like it didn't feel like he was collecting my data he asked you if you opened it and set it up because he's probably curious like are you happy with it does it work those types of things that's where I was getting to because he had me on on an instant messaging app he messaged me at 2:30 in the morning the night that I took the night that I took delivery of the system being like hey like is it going great and I'm like brother it's 2:30 in
the morning 2 be fair and I think you pointed this out in the video as well if I bought that system on that day I would probably still be up at 230 and I did tell him I don't know if this made it into the cut but I did tell him I have had like a gaming event this weekend and that's why I like needed it this weekend like he put on the he put on the gas to get that system to me because I mean Ivon asked him I don't know if this made it
into the cut either but yeah he's building like three four five systems a day in there and that system is not the kind of system that you build four of them in a day I don't I don't care what kind of PC Building God you are like that that takes time you could build maybe a couple of those in a day if you're really good um any anyway so I got him back because uh this is this is from the shops post it was around 2: a.m. and suddenly I was bombarded with phone notifications I
wondered what Earth shattering event had happened oh God it turns out that guy I met is a huge deal I even apologized to him and said I didn't recognize him oh did he send you another message online yeah yeah I'll bring it up I'll bring it up it's so funny uh I didn't know this part that's funny yeah know here's what uh here's what he said I mean I mean I don't I don't care man like it doesn't I I don't I don't I don't need the ego stroking well part of part of it is
that video wouldn't have worked if he did recognize you oh I'm so glad so it's actually great that he didn't recognize you yeah no I I and again that didn't make it into the cut but I I talked about that I talked about how important it was and how much fun it was being able to go in cognito again for a change like it is it ruins everything yeah when any of this type of content that we try to do is rough because if people are just like hey lonus well then you're not seeing what
the shopping experience is supposed to be you're seeing how that doesn't mean to hide it by the way yeah you're because often we can tell anyways yeah and it's it's the whole point is that it's supposed to be an authentic shopping experience yes and so it was it was really fun to be able to go Incognito man it was great um anyway hold on uh so so oh yeah so I I did message him after I took delivery and I said um uh the system's great I made a review video and I'm going to upload
it in a week or two but I didn't tell him who I was I didn't give him any context for it he goes oh really can you send it to me I want to post it on my Facebook for and the number of like conspiracy theories in the comments about how like oh fake fake fake fake your bull your your detector is not working so you need to recalibrate the think there that many of those comments there was there there's there's enough and I'm speaking to those people just chill you know just relax um so
I go okay I'll send it when I'm done he goes thanks dude I go my video's ready I send it to him he go he goes dude 100 people is telling me this sorry that I really didn't recognize you and I go no it's better that way thanks for the amazing system you made the young man who won it very happy everyone is saying WTF man you don't know him and he said thanks for your trust which I thought was really cool because he really did in good faith build me the best system for my
money K you know I didn't even compare to like what I could have gotten just buying the parts on new EG and assembling it myself because I don't even really feel like I have to knowing sort of approximate no that was a good value it was a good value and if they took a little bit of profit margin then they should I know a few people that live in Taiwan and I've heard that it's actually pretty common to have people like that build your system because they they warranty it really well right and he even
said in his video like yeah my warranty is a year or whatever but you have problems in two or three years just talk to me awesome super cool trust me bro guarantee and you know what I actually trust him yeah because I've said I've said a hundred times a warranty is only as good as the willingness to fulfill it that is just a fact and even though he seemed legitimately confused when I asked for an invoice I'm not even kidding he's like oh yeah I he literally pulled out a pen and paper and just like
wrote it to write me an invoice for the system like it wasn't even itemized or anything I'm like you obviously have no system for this and this is like not a thing you do very clearly um but frankly just based on the interaction my level of trust with him is extremely high and I believe that if that young man who won the system were to show up there and like say hey there's a problem with this I'm sure he would deal with it yeah 100% uh chewy by the way said that he did follow through
he posted on his Facebook nice and Budd he says okay yeah um okay I hope you get some really great business from this he goes thank so much I hope it isn't too late to subscribe to you now yeah of course not have a good night he goes keep in touch if you need me I'll be here trust me bro by the way can I cut part of your video I was thinking to post on Tik Tok so oh you guys have to go check out his Tik Tok I guess he's he's going to do
that I forgot about that yeah what is it I basically just said sure just add some of your own thoughts you know reaction video go for it um and then he goes yeah hey the news want wants to wants to put it in on TV is that okay and I'm like yeah sure so um anyway I apologize to him after watching the video I'm grateful he agreed with me on how particular I am about the product I did agree and man I don't think I I have built some good systems myself I've seen some really
nice showcase builds at trade shows and stuff like that I've hung out with he could absolutely do trade show quality builds I've hung out with very experienced waters you know like uh like B and Rob from uh BS mods and stuff like that did I say bod and Rob I don't know Bob and Rod from BS mods I think that his Bend Precision was on par or better than the best that I've ever seen and it was it's little details that end crazy was Peak probably the only person that I would say hands down could
probably do better would be Charles from murderbox um and Charles would probably take 4 days to do the one bit no offense Charles if you're watching this I love you man but you know that what I'm saying is true so I just I just have so much respect but yeah he goes the P the pipes must be neat and tidy uh Taiwanese media described to the video as an excellent representation of the country and its dedication to the world of technology and I mean honestly speaking I it's not like I've ever actually lived in Taiwan
but I've definitely spent a not insignificant amount of time there like overall I've been there for probably like somewhere between a month and a couple of months uh and I just have nothing negative to say I I I just I I love the people I I I just I love Taiwan it's a it's a beautiful country um super super awesome and it was because of my past experiences in Taiwan do you remember the first year we went when we left a tip in that restaurant yeah and didn't didn't they try to give it back to
you because they thought you forgot it or something they didn't just try to give it back the lady in this just hole in the wall mom and po restaurant that we had no idea what it was and it was not a significant amount honestly if I'd realized how cuz this was my first year there and I we had a lot going on if ID realized how little I was leaving this was our first forign we weren't that used to currency conversion stuff and and and and like we know but like just weren't thinking about it
if ID realized how little I was leaving I would have left more like it was a it was an insignificant amount of money and like really just like keep the change kind of thing like it wasn't it wasn't a big tip or anything but we just left it and we were like okay thanks bye dude she ran I don't know if you remember this but she ran I think I do she ran a block out of her store to return it to us and would not keep it and you look you know you encounter one
nice person somewhere that doesn't tell you anything about about a culture right but it's just been so consistent and being in Taiwan I believed like I I I didn't want to make a video about getting ripped off by a little shop right like if I'm trying to if I'm trying to set a video up for success that's not the narrative people want that's not the outcome that I that I want of course I would report honestly on whatever outcome I got but I like to I like to stack the deck in my favor right like
if I have a pretty good idea that a mega corporation that has a history of skey behavior is going to rip me off then I know what the framing for my video is going to be and I know that people aren't going to be too upset about that whereas if I'm in the Mom and Pop shop and I think they're probably going to rip me off I don't I don't want to set that up yeah uh there's a chance it can happen I think Keith could have given me a better deal on some things anyway
there's a there's a chance that that can happen but that's not that's not the narrative that I would write for the video if if I could write it um so with all my experience in Taiwan before I had so much confidence that I was going to get an awesome system that I wrote that intro comparing it to main gear with a pretty good idea in my mind what the that they were going to cream them i' I've spent a little over three months in Taiwan I just did a quick little notepad math calculation um I
feel safer in Taiwan than here Taiwan is actually ranked the third safest country in the world it feels safe completely believe it anyone anyone old men young vulnerable lady I mean we've walked sometimes like an hour in a given Direction just like going out for noodles through Alleyways at 2 in the morning I never feel unsafe and it's not like they don't it's not like they don't have societal challenges like anywhere it's not like they don't have people with substance abuse or mental health problems or whatever the case may be but I never felt unsafe
there no everyone feels like they're on the same team and everyone's like and sorry to my point like old men young women they're out all times stay and night just just walking and if alone you go down an Alleyway and you end up just finding like cool coffee shops and stuff instead of getting sketched out like it's a totally different vibe that's the whole thing apparently they like work really hard to make it so that little shops uh make sense yeah yeah it's it's it results in a really cool Vibe because no part of the
city really feels the same and you don't have like oh this one store takes up like an entire city block it's it's like all these little ones and it I in my opinion it results in shops like the one that you're talking about where you have this really specialized expertise like I I remember going through that mall in I think it was 2013 and finding like a a store that just specialized in discs nice like CDs and DVDs and whatever else and like the heck and to be clear it's not like they don't have chains
I mean you can literally hakal Lugi from one Family Mart to the next Family Mart to the next Family Mart to the next one and you'll out of lugies before you ran out of family Mars same with 7-Elevens and then they have another one I don't remember the name of it that's more common in the South they're just everywhere oh which I don't remember the name it's like a red and blue got it logo whatever yeah basically the same thing uh anyway uh it was really cool to see the news media pick up on it
I had a ton of fun making that video I I would love to do more stuff like that I just I need to find a way those ideas you can't flow them every single day yeah I know be sick if you could I mean with that said I think we've had some videos lately that kind of deserved a little bit more attention but didn't necessarily get it I think we've had we've had some we've definitely had some challenges kind of breaking out recently but you know the way I see it is when everyone kind of
you know Clues back in and is like oh yeah let's like watch LT again there's going to be a ton of really great videos to watch so the my Wi-Fi is better than yours video maybe the title and the thumbnail could have been different or something I don't know but that video was really good yeah that one's actually doing pretty solid uh we just had some some ones before that that uh kind of struggled a little bit uh I think that factory tour in taipe deserves twice as many views that was freaking awesome the way
that they gave us access to everything GPU Factory like yeah you really saw how a GPU gets manufactured it is really cool um and they they held back nothing I I love that kind of stuff that's really cool yep yeah Power color tour
