Alright everybody welcome back to the waveform podcast fun fact it's episode 24 of the year

we're your hosts I'm Marquez Brownlee and I'm Andrew Manganelli and today with us we actually have two more guests both from

main gear now we'll talk more about main gear in a second but we'll have our little introductions Ron and Wallace for main gear thanks for joining us and I don't know how do you how do you want to introduce

yourselves as the as the the two most influential people at main gear and what is main gear do you guess a little break down

and sure well first of all thanks for having us yeah it's a great pleasure and I'm Wallace CEO and founder for main gear we I started the

business when I was 18 years old I actually down the street from you yeah right here in north you're zero it's yeah yeah yeah but you know today we're

considered essentially it's one of the premier boutique system builders in the world actually so we're strategic partners with Nvidia AMD Intel pretty much all the

Silicon manufacturers in the world yeah and so Ron and I'm the marketing director here at main gear lifelong gamer right so

started gaming when I was in kindergarten and just it's been a passion my whole life and same thing with PCs I've been in the PC space for I think at this point over 15 years and I've been with main gear for over eight so

well it's been that long yeah it's been that long which is awesome and like honestly I just I'm passionate about everything surrounding this and so like it's

getting to do what you love is just amazing and so it's really really really awesome experience yeah

when he says we're passionate he means that we like have really in depth discussions about every single thing that we do it's perfect it's kind of like when when you're working in a video studio like we are here

we're in the background having all kinds of conversations about what are good videos and like what makes a good video so I imagine the conversations behind the scenes at main gear like you know I wish this card would do this right you know I you know be great if they had these CPUs that would actually fit with this ball ball ball and like that's that's a conversation we don't have as much but I think

it's really interesting yeah I think it comes up here once in a while when big new pieces of hardware come out that capture a lot of attention like the new Nvidia cards that we're seeing with this new generation now we just did a video on 8K gaming on the RTX 3090 and it was made possible by you guys because we had a main gear PC and we had the card and we had this whole build around it and then we had 8K gaming happen I think that's a lot of conversations happen in the studio like wow 8K gaming we can't really do that on these consoles

that are also coming out this year I'll ask you guys what do you think of this world of PC gaming with 8K gaming and ray tracing and high resolution high frame rate and all this fun stuff versus the new console generation we're seeing come out around the same time you guys talk about that yeah yeah so there's always that conversation that takes place when a new console gets announced that PC gaming is dead right and companies like AMD and Nvidia they always have a card in your pocket

just waiting to drop it right like the timing seemed really good like there's so much PS5 and Xbox like talk and then all of a sudden Nvidia just comes out with this and just just dominating the so you think they sort of help that in mind where the this big leap was nicely coincided with around when the consoles are starting to get info

you know I'm not going to say they purposely aligned it because I really don't know right but maybe just the stars aligned but but it's you know I doubt that a company like Nvidia would just sit in the sidelines and wait for consoles to just eat in

the studio technically their market share of PC gaming GPUs right so um you know that's the beauty of the PC architecture the platform right it's it's always ahead it's always up to date so consoles you have to you're basically getting the latest and greatest what it one is the new Xbox and PlayStation coming on November I think yeah like a month or two

very soon if you get one yeah I couldn't free water by the way yeah but like you'll get the latest and greatest then but you know the PC is going to be updated you know in three months in through six months or whatever whatever so what we'll always be ahead yeah I think the the modular part of it always spoke to me so I built PCs in the past and that was always the question as well if you if you get

something like a console that'll be the same for the next however many years until it's slowly starting to you know reach its limit in the next generation of games is around the corner then you have to upgrade everything at once versus a PC where you're like you know what I think my GPU needs have outgrown this machine I'm going to upgrade just the GPU and I'll get what I need from that

there's a bunch of advantages and disadvantages of cost and space and all that stuff but that that was that support I liked about it although let's be real every time you're ready to upgrade your GPU then you're like to get the full potential out of this I have to bring that and then you just got a whole nother computer usually you look at you look at like the marketing messages right behind the new console watches and it's 4k it's we're going to have ray tracing it's oh we have like SSDs now inside of them right

your PC gamer this is all old news you've been playing at 4k and high frame rates and experiencing ray tracing now for a long time right and so that's a big part of it is if gaming is your your passion and you want to experience it on the highest level like in reality like PC is the way to do that sooner and better right and I think that's a

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