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The WAN Show

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News Commentary, Tech News, News

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2021

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Timestamps (Courtesy of BlackWings)

0:00 Intro, intel extreme tech upgrade

1:37 Broke sponsor

3:27 Stalling for time

4:37 New intro

5:42 Broke sponsor continuation

13:46 Clarification on Verified Actual Gamer Program

15:57 XBOX game pass exclusivity

30:39 Sponsor for WAN Show (Honey, BackBlaze, Freshbooks,)

33:55 Channel SuperFun job openings

34:19 Radeon overhead and performance variations

42:09 adata quietly swapping out XPGSX8200 SSD components to revise performance

45:53 OVH data center destroyed in a massive fire

52:04 Russia attempted to throttle twitter instead ended up throttling their entire internet

52:30 NFT discussion

56:33 GME stonks go brrr update

1:00:28 Is AMD joining the GPU mining craze more?

1:02:42 Superchats

1:03:08 No virtual LTX 2021

1:04:15 Major collab with tech youtubers, "Tech trivia answered in the form of a question"

1:12:34 WAN Show go bye bye

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey, how are you all doing ladies and gentlemen? I hope you're having a wonderful Friday night or
0:06.6	Well, it could be Saturday morning by this point. We're a little late
0:09.4	But I assure you it was for a very good reason. We had the one and only David Gutierre, one of our camera operators
0:18.0	Who had a little problem, okay?
0:21.7	His problem was that he had
0:23.4	$5,000 to spend from our sponsor Intel and he decided to spend it in the most time-consuming way possible
0:31.6	He was not content to just you know get a gaming rig and a monitor and a new TV like Riley or to get a
0:39.9	Massager and an editing station and a desk like Dennis
0:45.3	No, no David
0:48.3	Needed to upgrade his water cooled rig with an RTX 3080
0:53.4	And then he needed to build a new rig a NAS a network-attached storage device with lots of hard drives and storage that was also
1:03.4	Water cooled
1:05.0	So today I performed maintenance on one water cooled computer involving installing a new GPU and adding a radiator and
1:13.5	Built an entirely scratch-built water cooled machine for his network-attached storage
1:20.2	He also changed out his desk got a TV that needed to be wall-mounted. It was an absolute nightmare and his
1:28.6	Is living room who looks like a bomb in it. I've got some stories that I'm gonna upload to YouTube stories. It is
1:35.9	Hilarious anyway, we have got a great show for you tonight ladies and gentlemen
1:40.3	We've actually got a lot of really good topics to talk about starting of course with one of our sponsors declaring bankruptcy shadow
1:49.6	The game streaming service has declared bankruptcy. They want to go through a little
1:55.8	Reorganization to free themselves from the debt that is holding them back
1:59.6	We've got a little transition period going on. We're gonna talk about that in other big news
2:05.0	OVH's data center was destroyed in a fire. This is
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