NZXT PODCAST - #122 - Creator PC Series (Ft. Andy)

Episode Date: April 7, 2022

This week on the podcast, we introduce our new Creator PC Series! We also talk about how Ivan has a folder just filled with pictures of Andy... Maybe we should contact HR? Tune in live every Thursday at 10AM PT on twitch.tv/NZXT and send your questions to: [e-mail]

Hello, and welcome to episode 122 of the NZXT podcast, the official podcast of the NZXT community. This podcast is recorded live every Thursday at 10 a.m. Pacific Center time on the official NXT Twitch and is available to stream on demand on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, and SoundCloud. My name is Mike, and with me as always is Ivan. How are you doing, Ivan? I am doing great, Mike. I'm happy to be here another week with you. And even happier that we, We have our, what seems to be our recurring guest, Andy Johnson, our associate PR manager on here to hang out with us and talk about the new creator PC series. So welcome, Andy. How you doing, man?

I'm doing good. Today is opening day for baseball, even though Ivan and my team doesn't play today. But excited to talk with you guys, as always, and talk creator PC, then always sneak in the baseball talk somehow in the podcast. You mean talk creator PCs, plural. Yes. Yes. That's what I meant.

Well, welcome, Andy. You've been on the show several times now. I believe this is probably like, what, your 10th time? You definitely have the record for most appearances on here besides me and Mike. But for those that don't know, please introduce yourself, let people know what you do and whatnot. and give them a little background on yourself, please. So my name is Andy Johnston. I'm the Associate PR Manager here.

I've been here for almost four years. Wow, it's been wild four years. And basically, I handle launches, and most specifically with the launches, crafting media messaging and working with reviewers and tech YouTubers and tech TikTokers. and, you know, have them cover our products for better or for worse. Awesome. Well, we are here to discuss a very special thing. Do you want to explain what exactly is the Creator PC series that we just launched?

Of course. So the Creator PC series is a series of pre-builds that we designed to help people get into content creation. Initially for the first creator PC, it was just, you know, a maximalist PC with, you know, the latest and greatest graphics card processor and a ton of RAM and a ton of memory for it to help, you know, content creators because video files are large and they need a lot of RAM to help with rendering and all that stuff. So we designed it specifically for them. However, there was a gap in our pre-build lineup because between the streaming pro and the creator PCs, there was just, you know, it's a huge jump. It was like the creator or the streaming pro is probably in like the high 2000s. Then it just jumps to like $4,000. So there isn't space.

There wasn't space in the middle for that for people who don't necessarily need all that. but still want something in between. I guess that answers the first question I was going to ask you actually about the creator PC series, which is why did we expand from the original creator? I guess you answered it perfectly. It's just to offer some PCs between that $4,000 price mark because $4,000 is a lot of money to put on a PC.

Like I think the last time I spent that much money, on a PC was literally when my dad bought a PC for us in the 90s like $5,000 which in the 90s that's that was a lot of money but that's how much computers cost back then. Yeah. Nowadays with

this PC it's expensive for a different reason and it's because it's just packed with specs basically. Well to be honest like you can do less or more with less these days because computers are so powerful and you can make something

that looks professional, that doesn't look like you've filmed it on a, you know, a little camcorder, or like a bad cell phone camera from like the early 2000s and like, you know, make it look legit and not spend all your time rendering a video. Camcorder not to be confused with camcorder, which is a new blog series we're working on, right? Or a podcast. Cam Corner with... Commander. With Amanda,

York. Yeah. It seems like an advice column. Yeah. Yeah. And to kind of piggyback on that, so you talked about

how we have these different price ranges and everything like that, but, and being kind of expensive, who is this really for? Like, who are these creator PCs mainly for who wants to buy these?

I would say people who are getting into content creation or want to get into content creation because they use Nvidia processes or Nvidia graphics cards and Intel processors and those have benefits

for people who want to use Adobe and other content creations like what's the one, DaVinci Resolve. So you know it's It's for people who want to dip their toes into it,

or if you're fully in it, you can use the $4,000 PC and not even bat an eye and take full advantage of it. Well, since you mentioned the price, Andy, you mentioned the 4,000 PC a few times. What are the other prices? I need to look that up. It's $2,600? $2699 for the greater PC-based model.

Yes, then it goes up to, let me get it out or 3400 3499 yes for the creator plus PC and then the 4,000 for Creator Pro technically $3,89

for the creator pro yes yeah I'm showing them right now the pricing on the website right now so there's three different bases is the base model there's the plus and then the pro each you know, have their own specs and everything like that.

And it completes the quadrilogy, I believe, because the starter, base plus pro, streamer, base plus pro, H1 mini PC, base plus pro, then creator base plus pro. Yep. Right. I'm showing them right now. All right. Yeah, so do you want to kind of just actually,

do you actually just want to talk a little bit about the specs on the PCs itself? Yeah. So on the base model, we're going 12th gen Intel with the 12-700K and a 3070 TI. And then it comes with 32 gigabytes of RAM, and I believe that's DDR4 RAM, not DDR5 RAM, but we'll still do a lot.

And also, which is cool, we give you two M.2s. So the Western Digital Black and the Western Digital Blue, one terabyte each. So you can use one, the black drive for games and the blue drive for your content.

Yeah, I guess that also answers the next question was which storage is them. So they both come apparently with two M.D.2 NV. amies, right? Yes. 100%. Awesome. Then it gets bumped up to

a 12,900K in the... In the... Plus, sorry. There's so many names I have to remember. In the plus, and a 3080 TI. Then for the pro,

you get a 3090. The big boy. If you never seen a 3090 in person and the Founders Edition 3090, it's huge. It's like bigger than a brick. Yeah. And it's like, you pretty much have to plug that into your wall socket at that point. Yeah. It needs its own external power supply.

Yeah. Makes you wonder like how big the 4090 TI is going to be in the 5090 TI, right? It's getting bigger and bigger. I mean, you just need to harness the power of the sun just like get its own little solar panel and stick it outside your window. Yeah. That would be cool. Mike, are you having technical difficulties?

I am having a little bit of technical difficulties, but it is okay. Do you want me to? Yeah, go for it. All right. So while Mike works on the technical difficulties, I'll continue with the questions here for Andy. So, Andy, can you talk a little bit about what the warranty is like on these systems because I know people are concerned a lot of times when they spend this much money on a PC and to be completely honest with you like people have even told me that they have spent their life savings on a computer from us so I always like to reassure them like you know we have more you talk a little bit about the warranties and what that covers Yeah, and I think that the warranties is an advantage of going with us

because if you were to buy these parts individually and let's say your graphics card, you know, just for whatever reason doesn't work anymore, you would have to go with the added board partner or Nvidia if it's a founder's card and like, you know, handle all that. But since you're under our work, which is a two-year warranty. We got you covered.

So if any part fails, you just contact NDXT customer service, and they'll hook you up and work through your issues. Customer service is the only service, like I like to say. Yeah. And the CS team, I work with them a lot. They're great people. They even helped me with my own personal PC problems. because I was having some issues

and I had no idea and they were like on it and I was like, dang I should have asked you months ago when I was having this issue but yeah it's good to know that

you know people have that peace of mind when they spend this much money on a computer even if it was like a cheap computer to be honest like just having that warranty there is a I think that adds value to the computer. Because you never know what can happen, right?

And especially if you're a content creator and relying on this for your job and, you know, something happens. It's good to know that you're covered. Like a good neighbor, MZXT is there. But we won't try to cause havoc. Like the Allstate. commercials? Is it Allstate? I think it's

Allstate. Cool. Well, let's go back to the specs a little bit. Andy, can you please explain to me why someone would ever want 5K HDR display support? Is this an Apple? Apple callout? Are you talking about the studio display? The studio display? I don't know, actually, because Mike worked this question, but I'm just asking it.

I believe the answer is if you're editing 4K video it would look better in a higher resolution display that makes sense that sounds like an Apple answer Andy I know you I know to be like 5K displays I believe aren't really

common in content creation it's more 4K I believe the 5K is an Apple thing because the iMac pro when it was a thing was 5k. I believe iMacs, no, they're not 5K, but the new Apple Studio display is 5K. Yeah, and the interesting thing about that display

is that you cannot remove the power cord from it. Did you know that? Yes, I know my Apple. I watch every Apple thing. So to me that's really weird because, like what if you need a shorter cable or a longer cable? Extension cord. Yeah, exactly.

Like, I don't want to use an extension cord, and I don't want to move my monitor around. Like, I just want to be able to swap that cable. And, well, also. And like, let's say you ever have a problem with that cable, right? Like, let's say your cat chews it up or something. Then you have to return the entire monitor so you can, like, get that cable fix. seems really weird.

Apple has great design, but there are times where they do stuff that scratches your head. Like with the mouse, I don't have an Apple mouse, but you can, to charge the mouse, you have to

turn it upside down and plug it in with a lightning cable of all things, which is the most polarizing cable there is. I'm showing a picture right now of it. you have the magic mouse no I'm just showing a picture on Google about how you have to turn it upside down to charge it

and this design has been with Apple for years like years and I hate that mouse because it doesn't have a scroll wheel it's a touch surface and it has multi-touch capabilities but it's just so uncomfortable

using it like I don't want to leak any products on this podcast, but our next case is going to have a non-removable side panel, so you do have to send it into us so we can take care of it up for you and open it. I mean, it's our goal to make... proprietary thumbs spruce. It's our goal is to make your job a lot harder, you know, just making sure there's every possible roadblock in front of you.

Especially, you know why this seems really weird to me too? because I think there's like this whole movement now with like the whole like right to repair things like that where people want to be able to tinker with their expensive electronics and yeah weird move

well and upgradeability that too because on the last Mac mini that I had I didn't upgrade it and the Apple upgrades for RAM are ridiculous to get like $300 or something crazy. But what was great about the last Intel Mac Mini was you could upgrade the RAM yourself. It wasn't easy because you had to like disassemble the thing, but it wasn't terribly hard.

And the thing that sucks now is because when they moved into the Apple Silicon M1 architecture, like the RAM is designed in a way that it works so closely with the CPU and GPU on the SOC that you can't just get RAM willy-nilly. And it's like it's not impossible to upgrade, but people who upgrade it said don't upgrade it. Like if you're going to do it, you're going to have to upgrade it when you purchase, which is annoying. and that defeats repairability. That's why with the Steam Deck, Valve, I think Valve has done a great job with it. Because you can upgrade the MD2 in there, I believe,

and you can repair stuff, and they're working with I-Fix it to sell replacement parts, especially for like the analog sticks, which we should do that with the NZXT hand. Yeah, he sells some replacement trackballs there and replacement keyboards. So many people like texting me and DM me asking like,

yo, is this atry real? How can I pre-order? And I've never just, I've never been so just like happy that a April Fool's joke actually worked really, really well. Yeah, I mean, if you. look at it, it, it's, I mean, granted, we worked on it, so it seems a bit obvious. Right. But like, like, you know, it's just, it's the, it's an ergonomic nightmare. Then, like, having that keyboard, like, imagine on the road just popping up a keyboard, then you can't even hold it correctly, because the mouse is on one side and like, the, the track balls, like,

right here. They also had, like, a crazy spec, like, it was, like, 32. thread, like APU. I was just like, Jesus. I don't, I don't believe they make a 32 core APU. I don't think so. MD, I think the Steam Deck is around four cores. And the APU and the PS5 is not even close to that. It's also like the power requirements for that too.

It just would be utterly insane. It's, well, what's funny to. What's funny to me is that not many people noticed that the buttons were in the left-hand side. That too. A few people did, but to me that was like a dead giveaway that could not possibly be real. Well, also, I think the other reason, because the mouse was on the right-hand side. So, like, that I think was because of the keyboard and mouse thing. It was very subtle, but I just found that funny.

Yeah. Mike, are you muted? No, sorry, I'm just trying to fix this up. Do you want to keep on going? Sure. I'm trying to find out how many cores. I do want to ask you, Mike, to pull up the creator PC specs again, because I want to go over the FPS numbers if possible.

Gotcha, gotcha, all right, let's go over to the base numbers. I know people, people, people are always, asking what the FPS is on these things right so if you're playing Fortnite like Andy does no build mode baby yes on the creator PC let's just go with Fortnite

you're going to get 184 FPS at 1080p which is pretty good at the settings yeah at at max settings yeah it's at max settings maxed settings maxed everything just everything is these are all

cranked them so obviously if you lower it down from max settings to high, medium, or low, you're going to get way more frames. And 119 FPS and GTA5, that's a lot. For GTA, yeah. I don't think I've ever had 60 on my computer. Your computer's old, man. It is, man.

What do you get at 1440? I know some people play out 1440. That's the best resolution. Yeah, it looks like you lose about 20 FPS, but I mean you're going from 1080p to 1440 so it kind of makes sense yeah cool let's look at the

creator plus PC what do those numbers look like let's take a look so same thing fortnight's run 185 for grant theft auto though you're going to get a huge boost to 145 FPS

and this is with the 3070 TI yes this is with oh sorry this is 38TTI for the plus or 3080TI sorry yep And then on, it looks like on the 1440, you're going to get a bigger boost, though. It looks like, oh, wow. Yeah, you're going to be above 100 frames, almost 120 frames with GTA and stuff like that.

I don't think I've ever played a game with 115 FPS, but that's when you get 1440 on Eagle Legends. I might have to play that game. No, don't. As someone that plays league, do not do it. It's, it's, you get sucked in, and once you're in, you can't leave. I've tried playing League of Legends and I have no idea what's going on on the screen I get up pretty quick

MoBuzz I don't like them I respect people that do but they're not fun to me and I suck at them and I would rather play like Valorant Rocket League or Harstone Battlegrounds

my most played game probably in the past two years what is the pro at PSC Oh yeah, the pro is crazy 213 FPS and 144 FPS for Grand Theft Auto and then when you're at 1440p

you're still above 200 frames at max settings at 1440P which is crazy I mean no matter what you get you're going to have a good time Yeah I mean if you're above in Rowdy If you're above 100 frames on most of these games You're going to be fine Well

I know these things come with G4s, RTFRTX, 30, 70, 30, 70, TI, and 3090 cards. But Andy, do you know which brand GPU come, including with these computers? They're founders cards. For all of them. They're all of them, I believe. We try. I think it depends on stock. We try to use all the founders cards, if possible.

But most of the time, we try to use founders cards. but it depends on stock just because the GPU market is still kind of a little weird. But also just as time progressives, if these skews aren't entirely set in stone. So like a year from now, the creator pro might not have a 3090. It might have a 3090 TI. Right. It just depends on the market in terms of availability and I guess availability.

I guess available in the part selection. And the part of the world that you're in too. I know for the people that live in Europe, we also ship to certain countries in Europe. But in Europe, you know, we have different specs on the creator PC. Like, for example, in Europe, we can get a crack in Z. And a lot of that has to do with just product availability. And it sucks that, you know, we can't just say, like,

this is what the computer is everywhere. and it's never going to change. But it's just the nature of the hardware industry. Things are constantly changing. Hopefully it doesn't go back to how it was before, like during the pandemic where it's like not only super hard to get parts, but also super expensive to get parts. And it sucks because, yeah,

that has to be reflected on the prices that we have to charge. But thankfully, GPU prices are going down. We have been lowering prices on a lot of stuff recently, which is awesome to see. Yeah, I agree. What was it say? I forgot what was it going to say. It wasn't that important. Well, then speaking of things that are not important, I think it's time we go into our rapid fire questions, Mike.

All right. My favorite. Yes. For those that don't know, this is a new segment. on the podcast where we're going to ask our guests, the 10 most random questions Mike could come up with. And this is the second time I've done it. Yes.

Oh, yes, it has been. Yes. I'm a veteran. Even in the chat has other questions. They want to ask Andy or Mike or myself about the creator PC series or Indyc in general. Just drop them in the chat and we'll answer them after Andy gets through these questions. Perfect.

All right, Andy, for the first one, What shows are you watching right now? Bob's Burgers with my girlfriend. We like watching it together. That's basically it. I love Seth Myers, and I watch his late-night show on YouTube. The Closer Look segments are really funny. And on Fridays, he has a segment called Corrections, which is very weird and very funny.

Yeah, I have to, like, kind of be watching it for a long time because there's a lot of, like, inside joke references to them, uh, to the show and to that segment in particular. And I love Stephen Colbert. You also dressed up as a character from, from Bob's Burger's, right, Andy? Multiple times, yeah. Tina was my go-to costume for years.

And be kind of hard now because I have a mustache, and I'm not really keen on shaving it. But, um, Yeah, Tina. Tina was my go-to cosplay, because I have glasses and dark hair, so I was like, I can pull this off. I actually have a picture of Andy dress up as Tina.

I'm looking for it right now. It was in the office. Give me a moment. The old warehouse. I know. I have a whole folder of Andy on my computer. The weird thing is my friends have folders of photos of me, too. which is kind of odd to me, but

I mean, I guess I should be flattered. Well, you give me some interesting pictures that I just have to save. Am I your muse? You send me a picture of yourself sticking a fist in your mouth. It was a Simpsons reference, sort of. Mike, I'm going to send you

this picture of Andy so you can pull it out. Oh, perfect. Yeah, Andy's Tina cosplay. here? I didn't have the converse or the yellow beret, but 90% there. On any of social medias or no?

I don't think so. And if it would, it would be like years ago. I guess that's you on this word. Oh, perfect. Let me see. Okay. As I'm going to pull up this picture, Andy, what is your guilty pleasure?

Probably. Shopping, buying retro games. Like literally right next to my feet, I have a cool retro game collection. And also made the Kardashians. You watch Keyy over the Kardashians? I used to. It was something I would watch with my mom and sister. And you just get sucked into their drama, and it's ridiculous.

They're all ridiculous. They're all, they all do. crazy things and I guess that's the most guilty like TV show wise but now they're on Hulu I guess if you guys are watching live on Twitch you can see Andy's Tina

cosplay here in our old warehouse he's got the blue shirt the blue skirt the white stripes side is that you real here Andy no that was a wig. That was a wig.

Look at that face. We're that wig to Comic Con and like, it gets, it gets pretty grody after a day. Like, like, it, it, it's not, it's not fun. That wig has seen some stuff that. It's actually a really good cause,

but it's actually a really good out. Like, it actually really does look like you. I actually got retweeted at one point by the voice of Linda. while waiting in light at Comic-Con. And it got retweeted by the Bob's Berger's accounts. And a lot of, like, Tina fans were like, like, I'm just, like, her quote,

I'm just a charm bomb waiting to explode. I got, like, a lot of those and, like, Slay it, girl. I'm like, oh, thank you for being supportive. Can you do the Tina dance? Not here, because I'm sitting in my chair weird and I don't want to get up. and we don't want to save this photo like screen movie

says this is a powerful image if you do your Tina cosplay again are you going to shave that mustache that's that's the conundrum that keeps me up at night maybe you can be Bob because Bob has a mustache that's what I was thinking is the next evolution is and Bob is arguably an easier cosplay

just get a white t-shirt an apron and gray pants and I'm like there. We're gonna keep this mustache for a while or gonna shave it? I've had it for two years. I've had it for two years. Seems like an eternity.

I mean, a lot has happened in those two years. The thing is it's like, it's one of those things. It's relatively new in the grand scope of my life, but when I met my girlfriend, I had the mustache. So that's like her image of me. So all she knows of me is with a mustache.

So it's like kind of hard. You know, it's like I have to balance that. I mean, she would be supported and has expressed if I'm like, yeah, maybe I should save. She's like, I will support you in shaving it. But I don't know. It's just, like, it's somewhat comforting having it on there as well. because I can just play

like a fidget spinner. Is it okay to say your girlfriend's name on the podcast? I am okay with it, but I don't know if she's okay with it, so I don't want to do that. I won't say it, but I'll just say, let's just say her name is Tina. Okay. Okay.

So I have this funny story about Andy and Tina here. Like one day I was in Andy's car. we're going out to eat and there was this this like little gift box like in the Ashraway Center console of his car and I'm like oh that's nice

who gave you that Andy and he goes oh Tina gave it to me but at this time I had not known who Tina Tina was and Tina I associate with our boss because our boss's name is Tina so I was like that's weird

why is Tina like you could and then go and I were dating so like for like for like a split second I thought

uh Andy was dating her boss until he quickly corrected me and told me oh no no no my girlfriend makes too

different team are and thank you for clarifying and you well you met her too like shortly there after yeah she's really nice

went to a dodgy day and she's extremely she's cool anyone who likes the Dodgers is okay in my bookend. You have my blessing. Well, she's a Cubs fan.

Oh, never mind, man. I don't like her anymore. I have a story about this, actually. So, this is very cheesy. So we're going to a Dodger game. This is before we were official. And then I said, like, we should make a bet. And then I said, like, if the Dodgers win, will you be my girlfriend?

And she was just, like, kind of taken her back and then what's the yeah she weighed options like

which one do I want more she's like what's the money line give me the LA Times what's the money line on today's game

then she was like happily surprised I would how I perceived it then the Cubs were winning until the bottom of the ninth inning

then Cody Bellinger hit a walkoff home run to seal the deal. Wow. It was like his only home run really that year too, which is he pointed

to you in the stands after you hit it. That's for you, my man. Basically, I've made eye contact with him and I'm like, thanks, bro. You got me. Got me. Oh, that's awesome. Awesome story.

All right. Most interesting thing you've read this week, Andy. No. I read a lot of posts on what's going on in Ukraine, I guess.

It's not really happy, but yeah, I guess that's it. All right. What is your pet peeve? People being mean. Good pet peeve. That's a really good pet peeve, actually. Favorite game right now?

Battlegrounds, Harstone, probably. How much do you actually play that game? I can talk about it a lot. It's a good game because one of my boys, we play a lot of it. And it's a good game to just like talk. You don't have to think.

And it's fun building these like insane builds with cool synergies and I mean there's a lot of RNG in it but it's fun I play a lot of TFT like auto chess stuff as well and I love auto chess probably one of my favorite

game modes now it's just like you said it's just I can I don't I can focus but I can also like do other things listen music watch videos talk with friends it's just so nice and then it's so if you have a lot of friends it's you can play with four people or if you get more than four people you can

have up to eight and be in a private lobby. But it's... If you don't have a lot of friends. Then you can just play with Randos and pretend that they are. But the amount... Oh my God. I've played 341 hours

in the past two years. Wow. That's actually not actually for the past two years. That's not too bad. Not too bad. But still, 300 hours is still a good amount of time. Yeah, and I've won 126 games and been in the top five or four 101 and five times

will we get a a hearse stone stream from you Andy on the nz-xc church if the world wants to see it but I do what the people want I do what the people want I try to not give the people what they don't want

all right how is work right now work is good it's busy there's a lot going on but it keeps you on your toes and it keeps you honest i think that is what i will say there's a lot going on in it i like the challenge it's not much but it's an honest honest it's honest work there is a lot going on and i mean i got a cool team the comms team's pretty cool and you two are pretty cool. And I like working with you both.

So, yeah, there's that. What about the other people on the team? You don't like a friend of them, Andy? Nah, nah. Nah. No, they're great. They're great as well.

All right. All right. So we got two fun ones real quick. Would you rather sleep wearing handcuffs or a bike helmet? Cups? I don't know, but I hate wearing helmets. so I actually

I told Mike that you already sleep with the bike helmet my hair or what you just seem like the kind of person that would probably say something like oh I sleep with the bike helmet because I fell off my bed once and you'll bat my head really hard or something nah

I hate wearing helmets for prolonged period of time or I can't I've gotten used to hats but like I like playing with my hair It's just my long, luxurious hair, I guess. I don't know. It's, yeah. So, like, that's why I hate having gel in my hair.

It's because I touch my hair a lot, and it gets gross at the end of the day. So it's like, nah. Yeah, same. I have, I used to, like, keep my hair super short, but now I'm growing it out. But now I'm, like, actually having the product in my hair. And I touch my hair, same, a lot. And I go, ugh, and it just feel weird. That's why I tried getting things so it's, like, easy.

especially in the summer, like, well, now Windows tells you the weather, and it says heat wave, and, you know, when it's 100 degrees outside, and you have, like, pomade in your hair, and it just gets gross, and, like, and if you're wearing, it, it's just, eh, no, no, thank you. So you didn't answer the question, Andy? That's it, handcuffs, handcuffs? I think I'll use handcuffs, too. I think it's easy. Like, I can, I can, I can deal with that, like, to reach for something. or, you know, water or something. Well, I mean, you just put them... I mean, I don't assume you're sleeping like this all day. Like, with your hands above your...

Oh, what if the handcuffs are behind your back? Ooh, if it's behind your back? Ooh, I don't... Like, you... I sleep on my stomach or on my side, so... I could not sleep like that. Ooh. Oh, actually, then a helmet, because I could use the helmet as a pillow.

Helmet. Are you flexible? Do you think you're flexible enough to, like, do the... the thing where you put your legs through. I'm not that flexible. Well, correction. Andy is the most flexible human being I've ever seen in my life. Mike, I'm going to slack you another picture here for you to show on Twitch to prove just how flexible Andy is.

It's another picket from our old office where he's to sit across from me. This is how you would sit at his desk. and I don't know how any grown man can sit Indian style on a gaming chair but Andy is flexible enough to do so yes I'm maybe flexible

like like side to side but vertically I guess I can't touch my toes like I've never been able to touch my toes and like when I do I just like look like I'm hanging over my body How long were you in this position for? It sits like that.

I'm sitting weird right now. That's why I didn't want to give up. Oh my God, hon. There's a picture on a... How do you... That looks so... It looks like a good stretch, but also looks kind of awful.

Yeah. That's how you would sit out of the desk every entire day. You know, I have pictures. multiple pictures of Andy sitting down. It fascinates me. I can't even touch my toes in since Indian style. This is some of you right now.

Some of you should fix your posture right now. My posture ain't the best. As I was scrolling through my Andy folder, I found this old picture that I made up Andy with a face app. Remember the face app? Oh, yeah. A photo of a picture and then it makes you old. I just like to see you

Mike you want to show you too but this is in the conference room no no different one but this is how Andy's gonna look when he when he's older why do you know it's older just of Andy I feel like I'm more concerned about that

it's not uncommon my friends there's this one website that you could get like a book printed of you and my friends had so many photos of me where they it was like 200 photos like it looked like a flip book and it was just all pictures of me

and it was like this is this is weird I legit I legit have at least 100 photos just random Andy moments in my life over the years

three years I guess it's good now I have one of you wearing sandals yeah I wear sandals a lot what's wrong with sandals I like sandals I pull a line and wear sandals all the time. Nothing wrong with it. It just caught me off guard. Did I wear sandals to the game?

No. I've done that before. I'll show the picture here so I can pull it up. You're wearing it at the pop-up. Oh, that's right. We're all working there. Andy shows up here in his sandals. Well, if it was like during the day,

because I was leaving for Hawaii the next day. You're going to stance. You get a stance on this man. God, it was forever ago. That was a pop-up. That was when I was an intern here. Yeah. Forever ago.

Andy Power stands, yeah. This is the stands right here. There's so many photos of Andy. It's so concerning. I have a lot. I'm not going to lie. I legit have at least 100 pictures of Andy moments. I don't have that.

many pictures of you. Because I don't... Because I'm just too busy being photographs, I guess. To notice. Well, you're also extremely quick because within Slack meetings,

like, you're not safe with Ivan, because like one second you're, like, putting your hand on your fists or like, just going like this. Or, like, like, two seconds you be created into emoji. Yeah, I will make your email on Slack

If you're in a meeting with me Yeah, it's kind of absurd How quick Ivan can be when he's trying to make An emoji or a moat of you for Slack You'll literally, you'll legit Just be like in the meeting And all of a sudden you get a ping

And you go what? And you check it ends literally A picture of you know Finally Photoshop You doing something weird And I just they just, he just throws it into the Slack You just go, what? Post- Post-Rive.

I have like eight emojis on Slack. I just realized one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven. It's like, oh my god. You're also on the, you can have

Andy emojis on the NZXT Discord server. Oh, that's true. Because I have Discord Nitro. I use them sometimes in like chats. It's like, oh, thanks. Thanks for doing the work for me. That's the best part of Nitro. All right, I'm going to move on to the last final question. I think both of you will like this one.

Are you guys excited for the new season or Dodger season? Hell yeah. I'm excited. I want to go to the... Do you think you guys want to playoffs? Oh, yeah. for sure. It's like it's, it's, it's not even a question.

Like if you, if I go on, let's go on 538, not 536, 539, 538 and look at their baseball predictions, I will guarantee you, the Dodgers. They have a 93% chance of making the playoffs, a 70% chance of winning the division, and the 19% chance of winning the World Series. and that's the highest. The next person are the Braves and they have a 10% chance

of winning the World Series. Wow. A lot of times, too, like the best baseball team does not win the World Series. Like last year, perfect example. Like the Braves were not the best baseball team. They lost their best player

and they still won the World Series. It's a crap shoot. It comes down to like who gets hot at the right moment. And that's what's cool about baseball is the season's super long and it's a marathon and like every game matters

like you can miss the playoffs by one game like the Blue Jays and the Mariners did last year I think the Mariners were the one game the Blue Jays were one game I think from winning the division or the Mariners

forget which one. I mean it was the Mariners because everyone was excited because the Mariners hadn't been in the playoffs in like 20 years and like you know it's just one game

out of 162 and they didn't you know make the playoffs and the Dodgers you know they won 100 and what six games and the Giants won 107 they won one more games so the Giants got this huge home field advantage over then so well the thing that was crazy because I remember it was it Albert Poolholz hit a fly ball oh yeah and and someone robbed him of a home run and that could have at least tied the the division like that one play was so concept for both team seasons.

Yeah. And I'm excited for baseball because I think this is going to be the first season where I'm going to be able to take my daughter and not have to leave on like the first inning or two because she starts freaking out. Uh-oh. Any crash? Camera issues. It's okay.

That's okay. All right. Let's get into the community. any questions here. We have a handful of them from the chat. I'm just going to quickly answer some things you guys want to know. So first question is from Johnny. He says, or they say, my PC fell over and my H700 eyeglass store is shattered and broke. NZXC is currently out of stock. Does the XXL sell replacement parts? So the answer is no, we do not sell replacement parts. But we will give it to you for free. It's just a

matter of getting it back in stock. And I know some parts are currently back ordered with glass side panels being one of them, especially if you're talking about the H-700-I, because that case is actually discontinued. It's an older case. It's like four or five years old at this point. So it's, you know, that's part of the reason why we don't have a lot of those glasses have been stocked. But we will get more and you know, hopefully you'll stick your hand in the fans

in the meantime tell them. So be careful, please. Oh, he says 8-710. Yeah, yeah, we should have some. Just send a ticket over to nzxte.com slash support. And we'll pretty much, if they're out of stock, which if you've seen like the ports

near like Santa Monica and stuff, there's like carriers still like in the water. and stuff like that. Just send a ticket over. We may be back. We may be back. We may not have in stock. But if we do, just send over a ticket just to see if you can.

All right. Next question is from Virtuoso. They ask, I want to work for NZXT in Germany. There is a gap for a PC builder job, but the city is too far from me. Would it be possible to make it also in my city of Hamburg? We're probably not going to build a new warehouse just because you can't make it. to where we're located, unfortunately. But it would be cool to have multiple offices in Germany one day.

So maybe, you never know. Yeah, we're expanding pretty quickly, like a lot quicker than I expected. So it's not out of the realm, but may not be viable. Chrissy kills you. Ask, what is your favorite NZXT product? Mike, what's your favorite NZXD product? I'm going to be a little bit, you know, Pretty, pretty basic.

I like the Cracken, the Crackin Zs. I have one in my thing right now. And it's just, it's just fun to put random gifs slash gifs into it. It's been really fun. Andy, what about yours? H-1, baby, H-1. And the correct answer was Manta. A Manta.

Yeah. Nautica asked, will you ever make a five-series case that can handle a 240-millimeter radiator on top, Love the 5-10 by the way. So the answer to that is maybe, you know, we can't really confirm what we will or will not be doing. But I know that the case team is constantly listening to feedback. And that's definitely one of the things people frequently ask is like,

can we get more fan support or radiator support on this case? And part of the reason why that case doesn't have that is because the case is designed to be a compact ATX Mid-Tower. It's not designed to be a mid-tower case that supports a lot of fans including. That's what the

H-7-10 is for. I always tell people, if you want more fan support, more radar support, you're going to need a bigger case because the H-5-10 is not meant to be you know, to have all that stuff, basically. But you never know. Maybe one day we will add more. scrub ruler asks what are the chances of a lGA 1700 socket motherboard for 12th gen intel um well i can't confirm

what we are can't be doing i could say you know the odds are pretty good i guess because we've made motherboards now for three three years now and we've done our best to keep up with the latest socket it since then. So hopefully one day we can make a board that supports that. Chrissy Kills You has another great question here, guys. What is your favorite classic game?

Oh, sorry. What is it, Mike? Classic game? I like Castlevania. I played a lot of the... Sadly, I had to emulate it because I wasn't born in that time, but a lot of Castlevania.

I love that game. Classic side-sroller. About you, Andy? Earthbound, then Mega Man. Mega Man, a lot of, like, when I grew up that was in, like, the N64 era, PS1 era, a lot of those games don't age well. But a lot of 16-bit and 8-bit games do age well. And Mega-Man, I think, has aged perfectly fine.

Like, you could have made this game today, and it still be pretty great. one of the hardest games I've ever played in my life. Yeah, I've beaten one, two, and I'm getting there on three. Well, you guys have some good answers, but the correct answer was Super Mario Brothers 3. I thought you're going to say Super Mega Baseball 1. No, that's not that classic. Ooh, I see Echo the Dolphin from Chrissy, and then also, ooh, Knights of the Round is also

a really good one as well. That's a, ooh, that's a good one. Good music. I bought Echo the Dolphin recently so I could play it on the OG cartridge, not like a... Abdar Haim,

I think I'm pronouncing it correctly, asked, can we make an Andy subreddit? And the answer is, yes, you can. Go ahead. There's actually a subreddit for me that someone made a one of... Really? Really? Yeah, someone made a subreddit of

random things. I say, I think it was called Poppy Fots. I don't think it's active or anything, but someone made it. I made a subreddit back in the day. Not for me. I have a friend, his name is Ilnij. He's a YouTuber. He used to do reviews back in the day.

And on like nostalgia e-thing. So a lot of like Nickelodeon and Disney-esque movies back in the day. and I wanted him to review the movie Snow Day with Josh Peck, this old Nickelodeon movie, and he's like, I'm not going to review Freaking Snow Day. So I created a whole subreddit, like a fan club for the movie Snow Day. And just to get him to like prove to him, quote unquote, that there was an audience for it. And it was just like nine of my friends. we all had the subreddit and we just made these like really bizarre posts.

But then this one dude years later posted this like elaborate post about Snowday and how he had some fan theory. And it was like the greatest moment of my life. And he just just randomly came in our subreddit and just wrote this amazing post. And yeah. The answer is yes. You can make another Andy subreddit thing. Bram 420 wants to know, does NZXT sell merch? The answer is we do not sell merch, but we do give a lot of it away for free.

If you want to get some free stickers, some free lanyards, some free t-shirts, some free hoodies, or even a free poochie plush doll, just join the NXT Discord server at discord.g.g. go into the NCXT Club channel for all the details. And the way it works is pretty simple. Just the more active you are, the more points you accumulate. And you start ranking up in the server. You start getting free stuff from us. But maybe one day we will so merge on.

But for now, we don't. Just get it with the free. The Tura Nightshade asks, what GPU would the foundation APU be equivalent to? It's a good question. let me look up the foundation PC Because an APUs is both the CPU and a GPU

so there's probably no well at least in like a GPU of this generation I don't think there's going to be anything like that maybe like a 1060 not even 1060 I don't think right you get 60 FPS on GTA 5

This is on medium settings, right? At a max setting, isn't it? No, I think for a foundation, it is medium settings, if I'm correct. 7.50. Well, I have a GTX 970, and I get 60 FPS on GTA. So maybe it's that. What was that? According to this post, based on a YouTuber video, the Toesy Bros, they're pretty cool.

Shout out to them. They said 750 TI. Also, you need to play with the settings, too. Make sure they're on low 1080p. Or maybe go down to 720p if you need absolutely more frames. Good to know. Why Red Panda asked, have you thought of doing a Canadian division

or is it better to focus on building the company in the states? The answer is we have thought about it, actually, and we are expanding. When I first started working here, we had offices just here in L.A. and in Taiwan, and now we have locations in Germany, in Australia, we have employees all over the world now,

so hopefully one day we can open up shop in Canada and hire NZXT's Long Loss Sun to run the warehouse there. What was it say? We do ship builds to Canada, though. So you're not out of luck if you want to get a BLD PC. Obviously, since it's shipped over the border, there's custom fees you have to deal with. But you can still get parts from us or a build, or sorry, build, not parts, a build from us.

Yes. King Uphan Feneres, great username. Are you all updating the pre-built H-1s with the new case? They're still shipping with the old. I bought an H1 a month ago, and it still has still has. has the old case. The answer is, yes, we're still using the Gen 1 case on the H1 mini PCs. They're all currently sold out though. And I'm not sure when the new case will replace it, but the plan is to eventually do that. I just don't know when that's

going to happen. But for now, it's still Gen 1 case from 2019. with the reworked PCIE riser. That guy who plays one asked, do you have any offices on the east coast of the United States? The answer is no. Only in the United States, we only have one location, and it's in beautiful city of industry, California,

which is where I'm at right now. A lot of us are remote, so don't be afraid to apply if it at least has a remote option. we have people all over the U.S., Texas, East Coast. Yeah, depending on the job you're applying for, you don't have to come to an office.

I choose to come to the office because I have a toddler and a pregnant wife at home, and it's hard to get work done, so I like to come in the office as much as they can. But I don't have to. But there's other people that have jobs, like building computers. Yeah, you can't do that remotely.

Yeah, so we can't have people building computers from home Although it would be cool to just imagine you just get computer parts shipped to your house and just bolt from your bedroom. That'd be kind of kind of cool. Okay. Poison XO asks, do you think your company would offer any kind of payment plans in the future? The answer is yes, because we do that right now. We offer financing already on our website. You can select a firm at checkout.

I think it's a different company in Europe. I forget the name I did it. Or it might be a firm. I'm not too sure, but we do offer financing and you can select payment plans to purchase our computers. Destiny 2 Drang asked, could you make a destiny edition of your cases? The answer is we can, but it might not be legal.

But we do have a craft division here who works on getting licenses for different games. And we've made products for PubG, for CSGO, for CISGO, for Rainbow Six Sege, Overwatch, Fallout, World of Warcraft, cyberpunk, Mass Effect, Assassin's Street. God, there's a lot. It's a lot, yeah.

and these products, they're always sold out for a reason. That's because we don't make that many of them. We make these in very limited quantities. Part of the reason is because it's not cheat to make something so custom, but the other reason is because we do want to make them special. If you're able to get your hand on one of these craft products, then you're one of the chosen few. One thing I will say is licensing is a very long and arduous process.

It took us forever to license the Pokemon song for this podcast, but Mike was able to do it. Exactly. There's a lot of moving parts involved in that. So, and also even beyond the licensing, manufacturing isn't a quick and easy thing. And especially due to the era we live in right now, it makes it even harder. But, yeah. Well, that wraps it up for the community questions. Thank you, everyone who asked them.

Hopefully I answered correctly and gave you the information you needed. But I also wanted to thank Andy for joining us in the podcast for the umpteenth time. for allowing us to show his cosplay and his sitting stance and all that stuff. Andy, before we get into the announcements here and wrap things up, do you have any parting words for the community? Don't be me. And you won't make my pet peeve. Solid advice.

Go for a mic. All right. Let's get over to the announcements. Oh, Randomize on Air, is there any program sponsorship for creators on YouTube? And to kind of go along with that, we do have our partner program going on right now. It's super amazing, just getting started. I saw a question earlier when you should be getting, or how long it takes to get an email. Basically, no matter what, you'll get an acceptance or denial email, so you haven't received one.

just please be patient we have literally like one person really working on a lot of these things so it's going to take time but you will either get an acceptance or denial letter so go ahead and apply um next announcement like we talked about we just released the creator series so please check out our website nzxte.com to learn more about the base plus and pro versions of these PCs uh next we just launched some peripherals you know no big deal with just you know a keyboard a mouse mouse pads, a bunch of other stuff.

So if you guys want to take a look at those, we're dropping the leaks in chat. But check out the peripheral tab on our websites if you are listening. Let's see. Oh, yes. Our copywriter, Kendall, just built their first PC

and wrote about the experience on the blog. So if you guys have any sort of pretty much questions or you're nervous about building your first PC, take a look at Kendall blog, she kind of goes through a lot of stuff and actually goes through it pretty well, so congrats to her. Oh, a lot of you are here because of one special reasons, because Greg Salazar just released

a creator PC review, and if you want to enter a giveaway to win one of these awesome creator PCs, highly recommend doing it. Take a look at the YouTube video. It's the one that he showed in the video. Is that very unit? Perfect. It was touched by Salazar. There you go.

Oh, yeah. That, dude, that probably tripled its price right there. Oh, very fun one. That's already a last announcement. We made a custom Manchester City PC for Face Clan to give away this weekend at the Face City pop-up. If you want to take a look at the PC or the case itself, take a look at the Face City. Klan Twitter. It is awesome.

I'm a man you fan, so it's kind of painful to be to say, but it is a very, very nice case. Like, it looks really nice. Hopefully, maybe Manchester United wants to do one, because that'd be great.

And then hopefully the Dodgers want to do one. Oh, my God. If there's a Dodgers one, I think everyone in the office would freak out if we're able to do a PC with Dodgers. There's a lot of Dodger fans

at the offense. There are a lot of Dodgers fans. It was like Dodgers than like Yankees. And there's like a giant, one giant fan. Well, there's a few because of the SF people, but yeah. I think there is, I forgot who. I remember someone wearing a Red Sox one, and I go, ooh, okay, welcome. I saw one.

I used to like the Red Sox until they defeated the Dodgers in the World Series. I'm not bitter about that. All right. I think that wraps up the, announcements. You guys have anything else to add? I just want to thank Andy once again for joining us talking about the creator PC series. I think everyone who tuned in. The only other thing I want to plug is our newest social media channel, TikTok.

You guys want to see Mike do some dancing, you know, follow at NZXT on TikTok because he's hilarious and I love watching him on there. please follow nzxti tic-t TikTok because TikTok is where it's at let me see oh yeah yep we are

hopefully going to be hitting 150,000 soon so please give us a follow nice yeah all right I think that is it I'll go ahead and go to the outro I just want to make sure people follow at NZXT not

at the real NZXT because we have an imposter out there the uh at the real nzxte i got my eye on you i got my eye on you oh that dude on ticot right yep yep when i when i scroll like around like and i see i see him and it's a little jarring at first and like wait a minute i'm expecting to see mike but yeah we uh did uh we gave a pc over to carter PCs, awesome guy on TikTok, you guys should also follow him. And the real NCC followed, or the real NCC comments

and saying, like, you're welcome for the PC. And I was just like, all right, what do I got to do? What, how do I do this? And I was like, we're contacting our lawyers. He's an awesome guy, though. He's awesome. You know, it was funny, too, because I don't think Andy knows the whole backstory with this.

I didn't know the backstory. I don't think you knew either. This is just random. So I randomly, I randomly came across this account because their name was the real Leanne Lee. And I thought it was the real Leanne Lee. And, you know, we follow a lot of computer brands. And I followed, I followed his account thinking it was the real Leanne Lee account. Then I started watching the videos.

I was like, wait a minute. This person was lost to Leanne Lee. And then I just commented one day on, on. his video, he made some sort of video like about being the real Vandee and I commented, what would happen if you change your name to the real NZXT? And then he made a follow-up video saying, let's find out. And he did it. And then Andy, like the very next day on Slack goes, I think we should keep an eye on

this guy. I was like, oh, no, that's the homie. Real Vianleer, though. That makes more sense. We actually reached out to him, though. send him a little giddy bag. Yeah. Hopefully he'll make a little video about it.

So, uh, my valour name is NZXT and a tag is six seven to nine. So shout out to the real NZXT. Yeah, okay, that's, that's funny.

Yeah. I didn't know the backstory. He just kept DMing me and we kept following. I see a bunch of like posts of him pretending to be us. And I'm like, what happened? And I haven't told me the story.

I'm like, so you were the reason why this all happened? That's one of the, the funny things too about having two people manage the same social media accounts because sometimes I'll do something really dumb and then Mike will have to deal with it. He's just like, what would you do? It's like, oh, I told this person something and now this happened. Or sometimes Mike will do something.

And then I open up Twitter. I'm like, what the heck is going on? Why are people talking about this? And it's just, oh, Mike said something. We cleaned up each other's messes. That's fun. Is it illegal? though to do that.

Not necessarily. I mean, he's doing it for fun, but if he started like selling things or like promoting things using our brand, then yeah, that we'll get into a little bit of a legal territory. But he's just posting some fun TikToks.

It's funny. He's awesome. We send him some stuff. So hopefully he can continue that charade. Did he have an NZXT case or? I'm not sure. Well, I mean, he says now.

I think that, needs to be fixed. Yes, we'll put you in touch with him, Andy. He needs, and he needs a crackin. At least a crackin. So I guess the moral of this whole story is if you change your name to NCXT, you will get free stuff from Andy. Right?

Is that how works? Is that how works? I think I normally don't get this, but yesterday I got two messages on Twitter asking for free PCs. and I think is because in Carter's Carter he calls me Andy XT Andy

and then I think there was two very industrious people that found me out and messaged me I wish I only got two DMs a day asking me for free computers we only got two

that'd be great God that'd be the dream I think one time one time I got like a whole bunch like I think I don't

know, I don't know where it happened, but it was like 10 in a day about people wanting a free PC. You hooked them all up, right? Yeah, from your budget. If you, if you, if you, if you ask for well, you know, we'll give you these free PCs, you know, we're definitely aren't a business. Just give everything, every, all free PCs every single time. We're a 504C, a charity that gives PCs away. No, no money. Just no business, just three pieces. Okay. All right.

I think that is it. Anyone else? Hi, everyone. All right, let's go to outro. Thank you for joining us. And remember to tune in every Thursday at 10 a.m. Pacific Standard Time on the official N60 Twitch. And don't forget to listen to previous episodes on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, and SoundCloud. Also, please leave us a positive review if you like what you hear.

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