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Discord
cited in 8 videos
“So, signing up, hitting doing the thing with either of those will give you access to our exclusive Discord server, monthly live streams, Q&A stuff, and behind the scenes content.”
View source at 25:47from September 2026+ 7 more sources
Cinebench
“After a 30 minute allcore stress test in Cinebench, the new version peaked at 94 1.5° while the old model hit 92.8° and that's a 1.7° variation, which could be down to thermal paste application.”
View source at 6:47from July 2026

Patreon
cited in 26 videos
“If you want to support the channel more directly, you have the join button or Patreon. Sign up to either one of those things will give you access to our exclusive Discord server, monthly live streams, Q&A stuff, and behind the scenes content.”
View source at 25:09from October 2026+ 25 more sources

AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D
$479.00cited in 3 videosfirst cited September 2026
“Now, in my first video, I noted that I was at the time testing a best case scenario by using the Ryzen 7 9800X 3D and then 32 GB of high-speed DDR5 memory, which likely isn't going to be a realworld configuration for this particular GPU given that it is an extreme entry-level product.”
View source at 1:18 + 2 more sources
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Ti
$749.00has reservations
“I'm going to look at 6K gaming, and I'm going to do so not just on the RTX 5090, but also on the relatively more affordable, but still very expensive RTX 570 Ti.”
View source at 5:38from August 2026
MSI NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 32G LIGHTNING Z
$1,999.99mixed views on it
“Jokes aside, the RTX 5090, it genuinely is not fast enough for the type of gaming I'll be exploring in this video, which is higher than 4K resolution gaming.”
View source at 0:40from August 2026
GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB
first cited October 2026
“The highest is the Ludicrous preset, but as Ludicrous is very taxing on the GPU, it reduced performance by around 40% versus ultra on my RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB at 1440p.”
View source at 2:42from October 2026

Samsung Odyssey G80HS
$1,299.99mixed views on it
“In fact, just a few weeks ago, I reviewed the world's first 6K gaming monitor on Monitors Unboxed, the Samsung Odyssey G80HS.”
View source at 4:07from August 2026
MSI MAG 321UPX
$799.00
“In the top left corner, we have the refresh rate of the display as reported by the MSI MAG 321 UPX that I'm using here.”
View source at 6:30from August 2026

Ryzen 7 9800X3D
$449.00cited in 5 videospositive about it
“Please note, for all of the testing, I'm using the Ryzen 7 9800X 3D because it really only makes sense to test a graphics card like the RTX 5090 with the fastest possible gaming CPU.”
View source at 6:04from September 2026+ 4 more sources
ASUS ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5090
$5,199.99cited in 2 videos
“I suppose the good news in all of this is that my 12vt high power connector on my ASUS Astral graphics card is perfectly fine. There is no damage at all on that.”
View source at 10:53from September 2026+ 1 more source
PresentMon
cited in 2 videoshas reservations
“The reason why I'm using a camera to capture this and not just looking at tools like presentmon with its displayed frame time metrics will become clear later in this testing.”
View source at 4:45from October 2026+ 1 more source
32GB DDR5-6000 memory
first cited October 2026
“As usual, I'm using my Ryzen 7 9800X 3D GPU test system armed with 32 GB of DDR56000 memory and the latest available display drivers at the time of testing.”
View source at 2:42from October 2026