NZXT PODCAST - #162 - Ask Us Anything... on Threads?!

Episode Date: July 7, 2023

On this week's episode of the NZXT Podcast... We have our first "Ask Us Anything" on the new "Twitter Killer", Threads! Think Threads can compete with Twitter? Who knows? Tune in live every Friday at 10AM PT on twitch.tv/nzxt

and welcome to episode 162 of the NCC podcast, the official podcast of the NCC community. This podcast is currently live every Friday at 10 a.m. Pacific Saturday at a time. It was actually a little earlier right now on the official NCC Twitch. It's available to stream on demand on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, and SoundCloud. My name is Mike. As me as always is Ivan.

How are you doing, Ivan? Hey now, Mike. I'm doing fantastic. Happy to be here for another podcast. This is actually going to be a, A different sort of podcast that we've done in the past. We've done AMAs in the past, but this is the first time we've ever done an AMA from Threads,

you know, the new Twitter killer, as they're calling it, which launched the other day. And we asked people on threads to ask us a question for a chance to win some NZXT goodies. So we're just going to open up threads. We're going to go down the list, and we're just going to, like, start at the top.

read questions and answer them and later today on threads I'll just randomly pick someone on there who asks us something and we'll send them some NZXT goodies and if you're curious what those goodies are I was thinking we'll send them some stickers a lanyard shirt and a hoodie yep so and there's still time to ask questions on thread so you can go on there threads.net slash at nzxte because you're always getting

harder and harder to remember man I know right now there's another one it's like oh god we have another like social media platform we get to pay attention to yeah I don't wait before we get into the questions like what do you think about threads

uh threads is okay um do I think it's gonna be a Twitter killer no I don't I don't think you'll kill Twitter I don't think Twitter's gonna die off anytime soon but I do potentially see it causing some issues I mean Twitter already sent a like a lawsuit form already right to them yeah I think a cease and desist because apparently

Meta hired a bunch of fired Twitter engineers who were hired specifically to work on threads and according to the lawsuit they're using a lot of insider information from Twitter which I don't know if it's true or not but it is interesting Like you said, I don't know if it's going to be the Twitter killer like everyone keeps saying. And I've been using it since it came out. And it's interesting. It's cool.

I still think Twitter has way more functionality that is like way more useful than what threads is. But maybe it's not supposed to be the same. Maybe it's supposed to be a little different. The one thing, though, I will say, you know, as someone who. works in social media, meta is definitely the worst when it comes to

working in the social. Anyone that has ever had to use the Facebook business manager knows what I'm talking about. It's just like super convoluted and complicated on the back end to use any sort of social media

app owned by meta. And I feel like a lot of people maybe they just use Facebook or Instagram or even WhatsApp. And you're only using the front end of the app. You're not dealing with all the shenanigans that go on on the back end when you have to work on stuff on there.

And it's really hard and complicated. And I know I'm not the only one who feels that way. Hopefully threads does not go down that route because if it does, I'm going to be really sad that we're going to have to work on three meta apps and it's going to just be really more annoying than anything

and I think Mari Chum here says said it at best, meta is unorganized and yeah it's like really all over the place. It really is. So I guess we'll go into it but first before I do it I have a little special

guest for those that are here. Who is it? Who is it? Here's my new puppy. Hello. Oh. This is Zelda. She is 8 weeks old. 10 weeks old now.

And then she is causing mayhem. So if I have to end up, like, if I have to end up stop talking, it's because this one likes to chew on wires. This one likes to chew on wires. So, yeah. Yesterday, I jokingly told Mike

to put his dog inside of a computer case shut the door and he actually did it and I was like, whoa, that that not fits. And he's like, he's smaller than your graphics card. Yeah, so you know how like people like put like funkel pops and stuff on like things? Sometimes I see like sometimes like a funkel pop would actually cause like the GP to sag. She doesn't cause it to sag. She's less than like four pounds. She's tiny.

Tiny but mighty. All right. Let's go on to the first one. Ivan, you want to start off with the first one? Sure. Let me open up my threads here. All right. The first question we got is from Robin Raps.

They ask, what's been your favorite build so far? I guess I'm going to answer this. The best build that I've ever seen from any, like using NXT products. I think it would be probably anything. by Mr. Matt Lee, to be honest. It's like, I don't know what it is about the way he builds computers. It might be like the way he actually takes photographs and films and films content and whatnot.

But man, like, he really does an amazing job just showcasing computers. And so far, I think my favorite one has been this, this Noctua and VXT one he did a while back. It was like no RGB. It was an H5 Flow and you know, I had some just really it's a very simple

basic build but it was just like really really clean and nice looking and yeah I think that's probably my favorite one that I heard recently. Yeah just murdered out

just like I love air coolers you know and to me like this build, like this is something that I would, I think I would build, to be honest, is just something that's no RGB, not flashy, just put in the biggest air cooler you can fit, and as many fans as you can fit, and turn it on and go play game. So, yeah, shout out to Mr. Matley. I guess mine is another shout out, but instead of Mr. Matley, it's PNW.

NW has a six setup, y'all, like, that's what I show you, like, the setup PNW has. Like, like, he's awesome. Like, look at this. this like look at the, like the whole setup in general. I got the IKEA dust, which I have, which I love,

the LEDs, the, like the PC itself. And then, hey, PNW's in chat. Hey, let's go.

Everyone should go follow PNW on social media because just like the aesthetics of, like the setup, the lights, everything, like, look at all this stuff.

They even changes like the mouse pad to fit the aesthetic. Like I'd even realize the mouth pat changes. Yeah. Which is amazing. At this point, We've honestly must have, we must have shared like a hundred reels of PNW techs on our Instagram stories.

That's how much we love them. It's like every time I see a PNW tech reel, I'm like, that's an instant share. That's just an awesome, awesome build, awesome setup. Awesome. Also similar to Matt Lee, like just awesome cinematography and does a really good job just showing off his PC and his setup and all his accessories. you know, like the keyboards and toys he has going on there. Really, really awesome. Keep up the good work, PNW.

Yeah. All righty. Let's go into the next one. Let's see. All right. Oh, I got a reader. You got it. I got you.

From Enzo Alder. Okay. But what you're saying is, is there a free, there is a free PC to be claimed. No, please do not reply with, can I get a free PC on the thread things? If you do, we're going to ignore it. And you won't win. Although, Mike, I was thinking. What if we were the first PC company to actually give away a free computer on threads?

That would be interesting. How many threads for a free PC? How many threads for a free PC? I don't know. I don't know people in the chat want free PCs anymore. I don't think they want it anymore. I think it's too easy for them to get free PCs now. It would be cool, right, to give away a free PC on threads?

Follow us, maybe. Maybe it'll see. I guess if you want a free PC on threads You can just follow us on threads Yeah bug us on threads Yeah Next question is from Logans are Forever

They ask Are there any plans for an open-air case So We get questions about Like what plans we got or whatever For product And unfortunately Mike and I cannot

Confirm or deny anything that we may or may not be working on. But I will say that we've never, ever, ever, ever done an open-air case. And I don't think... I personally don't think we ever will. But I don't know if that's true or not. But it would be cool to see.

What do you think about open-air cases, Mike? I think they're pretty cool. There's a guy on TikTok named My PCs, M-A-I-P-C's. He has an open-air one. It's awesome. I just think that, you know, for what I have, I think I don't need one. But for style, they're amazing. They do get a little dusty, but if you just clean it, that's not hard at all.

So yeah, I'm 100% down for it as well. Yeah, they're nice. All right, from mthi.com. AmD or Intel? Why not both? Amtel. Intel, CPU, AMD, GPU? because have both.

Yeah, there's nothing wrong with either. I mean, they're both good. They both have different products and different, with different specs and features at different price points. And they're both great, you know, and there was a time, not that, well, I guess it was a long time ago, maybe a dozen years ago, where it was very clear that Intel was, you know, much further ahead of AMD, in my opinion.

But, you know, in recent years, that hasn't been the case. You know, AMD has definitely caught up with Intel when it comes to CPUs. And I also feel like Intel has not necessarily caught up with AMD with GPUs, but they're definitely making some noise in the GPU market now with there. So I think it's cool.

It's always good to have competition, regardless of the industry. So I think both are good options. Great. Bush, Bushito Wolf. says or asks, I recommend NZXT pre-bilts to a lot of my friends for various price points. Are there any plans to also offer

flow case options with Player 2 builds? So you have the option of Airflow or aesthetics when getting a pre-build. So let me just pull up the Player 2 build. So right now the Player 2 is coming in an H5 elite, and the Player 2 Prime is also in an H5 Elite.

And I know, like, there's different builds and different options. Like the player three, that one actually does come with the H7 flow case. And the player one also comes in an H5 flow case. And the reason for having the player two being in the elite is, because it's supposed to do it like a little bit more.

It's supposed to be a little bit more flashy basically, you know, to show off your your RB fans and whatnot. But a few people have asked if that's going to happen. And we have shared that feedback with the team. So I hope they, they do offer, you know, more flow options in there. It's always good to have more options. But nothing planned exactly at this moment. All right.

That's the next one. From Javi-based. Do you guys plan on making new monitors or are the ones y'all release will be the only ones? Well, I can't say for sure because, you know, we don't work on product, but I will show off the monitors right here.

But these are the monitors. We have a 27Q, 32Q. We also have the FHD monitors, 25F at 27F. I don't think that these would be the end, but we don't know when it was. will come by or if it will come by since, you know, technically

work on product. But I would definitely love to see if, you know, as things get more powerful, especially, you know, back then, 60 Hertz was like the main monitor. Now it's kind of what 44 Hertz. Now it's kind of pushing to 240 Hertz. So I'm hoping in the future,

you know, as things go by, we'll be able to, you know, change up the monitors along with that. Yeah. Oh, I'm a blood fog. also says also will you guys have your monitors at retail locations? I hope so. That'd be awesome.

Yeah. I just love, I would just love for us to be everywhere. Like we're like our PCs are in Best Buy. We have all of our, you know, peripherals at like Target. You know,

I would love for everything to be everywhere. That'd be nice. And a lot of it also depends on like what part of the world you're in. Like I know for, for example, I know like in Japan, there's tons of stores that have literally every single NZXT product in there and like awesome displays and things like that. Also in Mexico, there's a lot of stores that have NZX2 products. In the U.S., you know, there's some stores that have NZXT products.

But I guess the ultimate goal is, yeah, eventually it would be nice if you could just walk into any store and just get your hands. not just buy an easy product but actually see it up close and personal and see it for yourself versus just seeing a picture of it online and then making a purchase. I always think it's cool to see stuff with your own eyes but it's actually in front of you.

So the goal. All right, Mr. Stivo asked are there any plans for a new MATX case? So we've only ever made one MATX case. That was H-400. And the reason why we don't make that case anymore to be completely transparent with you guys,

and this is not a secret, is that the market for micro-ATX is actually not that big. Believe it or not, it's actually less than the mini-ATX market. I think it's, from last I heard, it was something like 7% of computers or something like that we're using micro ATX motherboards, which is super tiny. And I think that's actually very weird and somewhat ironic, because if you think about it, micro ATX is probably the most

like useful slash beneficial form factor that makes the most sense for people, because if you look at people's builds, like most people have an ATX motherboard, However, they only have one thing plugged into that motherboard, which is the graphics card. And that means there's like one or two or three PCI lanes beneath that that are just wasting space essentially. And with the micro ATX motherboard, you know, you only have, I think it's the map. Most you can have is two slots. So it's like you can still add like a capture card in there if you want for example And with mini ITX you're restricted to one slot

So you can only have a GPU So I feel like an MATX is probably the most You know underrated underappreciated form factor But yeah I don't know if we ever make it again just because the market is so small But I do think more people should probably You know Start using microaD X-X cases to get that market share number up a little bit.

So more companies start making those cases. Let's see. From Lindsay Kate, never heard of you guys. Could you tell me about more? Can you tell me more about what you do? Serious question, by the way. So I guess there's like the two things of like what NCXT does and what we do specifically. I guess you could say for us, we are the social media managers for NXT.

So anything on all socials you guys see. That is us. And then I guess for as what we do, for NXT, we do a bunch of things. We have cases, coolers, power supplies, monitors, keyboards, mice, mics, you know, we have a whole audio set up now for speakers, subwopers, headsets, which we're wearing right now. We have a whole bunch of things available. So if you guys want to take a look at it, you can check it at n60.com. That about a sums it up.

We used to just make, primarily we, I mean, we started as a case company, just making cases for a really long time. And then as time went on, we started branching out into other things, primarily cooling. So AIOs, also air coolers and fans. And then from there, we started making, I think it was power supplies, was the next one. And then RGB lights and lighting stuff. And then a couple years ago, we launched our build program, which is like our computer building service. And from there, it's just kind of, you know,

I don't want to say it spiraled out of control. But from there, that's when the company really took off and we just decided, you know, let's just make everything. And we started making, You know, motherboards, keyboards, mice, headsets now, speakers, you name it. Who knows what's next? We even have capture cards.

Oh, yeah, we have everything. We have pretty much almost a full PC setup at this point. Pimo Ren asks, what do you think the future of CPU cooling will look like? Will it be AIO, custom water, air Chungus blocks forever? I like that question. Yeah. I do I do think

AIOs and air coolers are probably just going to be the norm for a really long time. Not because you know, people can't think of anything else. Because I have seen other

ideas to cool CPU Like, people have just made, like, cooling plates or, you know, like, all sorts of, like, different contraptions for CPUs. But the reason why I think those two are going to be around for a really long time is just, number one, super effective, super easy to install. And also, super cool. like who doesn't want to have like this on their

their PC you know just have like grimace in there chilling on your AIO like it's like it's cool like it's fun like it's going to be hard hard to

come up with something that's that's cooler pun intended than that with custom water cooling like that I actually think is probably going to not be a

as popular in the future. I just feel like it's been getting less and less popular over time. And I think the primary reason is just because it's so hard, number one. Like, not everyone can just say, oh, I want a custom AIO or custom water cooling loop. Let me build that and put it inside my PC. Like, it's actually kind of, or not kind of, it is complicated. And then number two, it's also super expensive. You know, you're going to spend twice as much as,

as you would or more from an AIO, rather than an AIO. And then the other reason too is just like, it requires a lot of maintenance. It's not like an AIO or a water cooler where you just connect it and then walk away. And then six years later, it dies and you replace it. It's like every week, you gotta make sure

that the fluid levels are up to par. You have to monitor your temperatures pretty much every time you turn on the PC, you have to swap. fluids, if you're transporting the computer, you're going to have to drain it, and it's just like a whole ordeal, right? It's not as easy as the other two.

So, uh, I don't know what the future holds, but I do think AIOs and like air chunga's coolers as as the awesome are here to stay for a while, at least. I would love like the custom loops, but I agree. It's just a pain. And if something

breaks, oh God. Like, that's going to be, heck of a time to like repair and everything like that so yeah we would love that though yeah voltage for what do you think about threads Ivan well we kind of talked about this already in the beginning of the show but um it's only been a few days and like I said it like I to me comparing this if I'm just comparing this to Twitter I still think Twitter is better However, I do think thread is probably going to just start rolling out new features as time goes on. And, you know, it's always cool to have a way to connect with our community and wherever they are.

So if they're on thread, so will we. And I'm optimistic about it. And I hope that Zuck doesn't turn this into like another Facebook type of thing. I don't like using Facebook. Saver Majora. So, do you guys like the Clone Wars animated series? And if so, who is your favorite character? My personal favorite is Captain Rex.

Rex. Rex is OG. He can't beat Rex. Yeah. I actually do like the Clone Wars animated series. My daughter loves it actually and for me my favorite is

Ashoka I have a couple questions from chat that I kind of want to go through real quick before we go back into threads for Twitchfan FR or for real will you be making laptops in the future? Well

like we said before too when it comes to questions about like products that we may or may not be working on, we cannot confirm or deny any of that stuff. What I can confirm is people have asked NCXT to make laptops, and, you know, we on the social media team have passed along that feedback to the product team. I just don't know if and when that would ever happen, but personally, I do, I do want to see that happen because I use a laptop all the time, and I don't hate my laptop.

I just wish, you know, it was NZXT-ified a little bit, you know? Like, I feel like if we were to design a laptop, we would probably make it look really sleek and aesthetically pleasing and, you know, probably perform better than a lot of other laptops that are out there. So hopefully that happens one day. And that kind of goes along was Judah 420. any answer or a question, will there be N16 RAMRSST?

Same thing. Can't confirm, can't deny, but if we do, we're going to make it good. We're going to try to make it as best as possible. The only thing, the only future product that we can't confirm is there is going to be an NZXT GPU coming out.

April 1st, 24. Yeah, keep an eye on April 1st. Pre-orders, pre-orders start then. And then the last. one, I'll say, is from Terrence. Are the NCC computers upgradable? Very much so. Our computers

are super easy and simple to upgrade. When we build a PC, we do think about you know, upgrade, not just building PCs, but like other products we make, right? Like our cases

are designed in a way that's supposed to be easy for you to not only build in them, but also upgrading them if you need to so if you were to buy an nzacc pre-built PC from us in a couple years from now you know you you want to upgrade the GPU or the RAM or swap the cooler or swap the fans or whatever it is like it's it's possible it's uh i don't want to say it's not complicated because everyone's skills level is different but it you know it's really not complicated um it is scary your first time not going to lie but once you

once you do it, it's just kind of like, you realize, oh, this is actually easy. Like, it's not that hard to build a PC or a creative PC. So, yeah, it's possible. Tim SEO asks, why are we moving away from SLI bridges? Well, the answer is very simple, and that's because it's useless. There's no reason in 2023 why anyone would ever in a million years need. to have an SLI bridge. Any video game

you play out there is not going to take advantage of having two graphics cards, even applications. You know, like everything's like so optimized nowadays that it's just pointless. However, people still build them and

I think the reason is because it just looks cool. You know, it's like, it has nothing to do with the performance. It's just something that It looks cool and you can do it. I'll share some actually pictures later on social since this people talk about this. But we've actually built computers.

I think the most GPUs I've ever seen in NZGCPC that we built was four. I'll have to find the pictures. Let me see I can find one now. Let me open up my Dropbox folder here. Gosh, you know what? I have them in my imager. Let's see what I got here. This is great radio, by the way.

Great, great radio. All right, I opened up my imager. I'm going to filter by ascending. She just ate food. Yeah, people... There was a time, man, where people were, like, really into... into SLI bridges, and here I found it. I'll send it to you right now.

Where's Mike? Here we are. So check this out. It's processing on Slack, Mike. But this is four graphics cards inside an NZECT PC with like 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. nine with ten hard drives. What the heck is this?

Okay, I'll pull this out for you guys. So 10 hard drives, four GPUs and then one, two, three, four, five, six, seven,

eight fans, it looks like. Jesus Christ. Yeah. Yeah. So, I mean, this looks amazing. but it's pointless.

It's like, other than looking cool, like there's really no reason to to ever not only build something like this, but spend this much money on a PC build. I think we just did it because it was something to do. You know, like, we can, so why not? Let's see what happens.

Just to see if it works. Yeah. I would, actually, I wouldn't mind having that PC on my desk. It would look pretty cool. That would be so great. Bro, got a whole server from Pixel. See, well, I got to, I'm going to scroll past someone to the ones that are like, you know,

we kind of already answered, like, products and stuff like that. But I feel like this is a great question for you. What's a core design philosophy for your design term, design team uses when creating a new component, aside from it has to just work? Well, I know, I know the product team, their mission is always

to make our products as simple as possible. And that includes how they look and how you use them. And that's like everything we make from our cases down to our recent, you know, switch mix. You know, like everything is well thought out and designed in a way that that it's just easy.

know, easy to use. And like when you when you build in an NXT case, for example, you're going to notice there's like a lot of features in there that you don't necessarily see when you look at an NZXT PC. But when you're building in it, you're like, wow, like this is really cool. I can't believe they added this in here. Or like you might think, wow, that was easy. Like I can just route my cables through this, through these channels. then with this Velcro strap or whatever, like it just holds everything in place. So it's super easy. So I think that's honestly the number one thing the product team is thinking about when they're making the products. And then the other thing I know the product team

is really focused on is they wanna make everything look as aesthetic as possible. You know, so we don't wanna have you know, our PCs look like, or not just our PCs, but our products look like super, you know, flashy or anything like that. It's supposed to be very subtle and supposed to look very elegant and like something you would want to have on your desk versus something you would want to hide away. Yeah. So I think that's the number. the two biggest philosophies

or our product team thinks about when they're making products. And I think the third one obviously is, well, I don't know if it's obvious, but it is like the cost of things. So they always try to find a balance between, you know, how much how much should we charge for this

versus how much is it actually going to cost us to make it? Because a lot of the stuff we make, you know, some of it's relatively cheap to make, so we sell it cheaper, and some of it's really expensive to make, so we have to charge more. So, for example, I'll use our most recent product launch, right? Which is headset, speakers, subwoofer, and switch mixes. All products we have never done before.

So we had to spend a lot of money and a lot of time on research and development, and we had to work with, you know, different factories that, you know, we had to spend a lot of money and a lot of time on research and development, and we had to work with, you know, we've never worked with before and all this stuff. And it's all that money adds up. So like that money that we're spending has to go back into like what we end up charging for the product, right? And then you take look at another product like cases, which we've been doing since the very beginning. You know, we're able to make some cases very, very cheap. That's why, you know, you could get some of our cases for like 70 bucks, you know.

Like this case back here behind me is probably our best selling case ever. It's the S340. This was $69 when it first came out, and it's an all-steel case. You know, we wouldn't be able to do that without like knowing how to make cases and having been in the case industry for such a long time. You know, if we were to just start, like let's say, you know, we were starting a company today, like it's probably damn near impossible to say oh we're going to make a $69 all-steel case because we wouldn't number one we wouldn't know how to do it so we would have

to like spend a lot of money and a lot of time I'm figuring out how to make a case to start with and that would mean we would have to charge more so hopefully that answers the question uh one of the questions I see from here in the chat that I kind of want to go through it's from Gus the second will can be able to just audio such as that nzc headphones and microphone in the future you guys actually want to take a look at my desktop right here let me change it so that you guys can't read all the announcements for later you can actually change up a lot of the things here so i actually have this is my headset right now you can actually change the side tones on it so that you can obviously you need having side tone just makes your

headset smells better but there is also a DTS option here so that you can kind of change up your custom ways of changing your EQ so you can change it for like negative point seven five you can raise it from here to here you can do a bunch of different ones I just do the standard FPS one because I pay a lot of FPSs yeah and I don't know what any of those numbers mean personally so I always just use the presets yeah I looked I looked it up on Google and I'm like, this sounds great. Yeah, it sounded great.

So it's actually pretty interesting how much you can customize sound, you know. And it's also interesting to me like how everyone has a different preference for everything, you know, like, me, like, me personally, like, uh, like, I don't consider myself an audio file at all, but some people, do consider me an audio file because I hate listening to music on Bluetooth. I don't like streaming music. I'm still like super old school when it comes to listening to music. Like I primarily listen to music on a record player. And the reason I do is just because I do think it sounds much better than an MP3 or whatever. but I could not tell you

I cannot just sit there and tell you what the decibel levels are or whatever I don't know any of that stuff I just know my ears when I listen to a song it sounds much better and much different like on a vinyl record than it does if I'm streaming it on Spotify

I even hear instruments that I can't hear you know when I compare it to I'm just like wow like this song's totally different So yeah, like I said, I don't consider myself an audiophile, but some people tell me like, oh, you're such a audio snob or whatever. I'm like, I don't know, because the only reason I buy records is just because I think they sound better and I like music and I want to listen to music the way it sounds best to my ears. But I know some people, like, you know, they're fine just streaming Spotify. I still stream music on Spotify when I'm in the car.

Obviously, I'm not, I don't have a record player in my car, although that might be an interesting idea. But yeah, like when I started tinkering with these audio settings in cam, I was like, I have no idea what any of these numbers mean. Like, why would I, you know, what are the decibels on 31 versus 62 or whatever? I'm like, I don't know.

like, but there is, thankfully, all these presets where I don't have to worry about that and the headsets just tuned to that stuff. So thank you, Cam. And speaking to Cam, we are planning to have Amanda from the Cam team on here soon. So she can actually go into a little bit more detail about how the Cam audio settings work. Because we have been getting a lot of questions about that on social media. and also because all the relay stuff we've done so far on the podcast has been talking about the actual product, like the speakers, the headsets, the subwoofer, the switch mix, and how to use them and going over those features and specs. But we haven't dug deep into customizing that stuff with CAMP.

So we are going to have Amanda on here soon, talk about that stuff. Lat 4 inspired asked, what inspired you guys to create the H9 float case? I absolutely love the bezelis corner, full view of the internal components without interruptions. And I think that question actually answers itself because what inspired the product team to make that case was we saw that there was a lot of dual chamber cases out there. And we saw that, you know, dual chamber cases were getting more and more popular. And then we thought we can do it better. And we thought we could do it better by doing those things that they listed in this question, which is what they love. You know, we thought, well, we can make it better by making it bezelless.

And we can make it better by showing off the internals better. And we can make it better by giving more airflow. So, yeah, that was on. Honestly, that was it. We just thought they were getting more and more popular and we saw all the cases that were out there and we just thought we could do our take on it. And I do think that our H9 is a lot better than a lot of dual chamber cases out there. But, you know, I don't want to say who's the best or whatever. I do think I always like to say computer parts are like pizza toppings. They're all good.

just eat your slice and let everyone enjoy theirs because they're all they're all delicious you can't go wrong with any sort of pizza like all pizza's good so oh i got one uh from bushi-bo box actually uh what's your favorite case to build in so far i have an h1 v2 and it's the only small four factor case that i love building in so far my favorite case that i've ever built in built in probably mantah And I think Manta, for those that don't know, actually we just shared some pictures on social about Manta. For some reason, there's been an uptick in questions from people telling us, you guys ever going to bring back Manta or you guys should bring back the Manta. And it's my personal favorite NZAC case, not just because it looks really, really cool, but because it's also super easy to build it.

You know, it's like it's the only mini ITX case that has ever existed that will allow you to have a push-pull configuration in the front and the top in 280-millimeter. You can fit the biggest air cooler no new man inside the Manta and it will fit because of the curved panels. So yeah, it's just, it was, I built like three or four Manta computers in my life. And I've had fun each, each and every time. So I hope you do bring that case back one day, because I love it. Mm-hmm. From Ultraspects gamers. This is actually one of my...

Ultraspect Games asks, this is actually a fun question. What would be the pineapple equivalent of a PC part then? I know. I always like, well, I always tell people, NZXT is the pineapples of... Oh. Yeah, because I think we're different, you know? and it goes back to the question we got a little while ago I think from Ultraspect games when he was asking

you know like what is our philosophy when we make products you know and I think without naming names I think not just in the computer industry but in a lot of industries the philosophy for making a product is to make money you know like it's just like we're going to flood the market with 50 headsets or we're going to flood the market with 50 keyboards or we're going to make

100 different types of mice because you know you make enough of them you're going to sell enough of them and that's really never been our like our goal has always been to make less and do less so it's like that's why when you go on the NXT website

and you know look at a product category like let's say cases you know you just see like small medium large you know and you don't see you know a bunch of different options or when you're looking at our pre-built lineup it's like player one player two player three and you want them a little bit better well we got prime options for them it's not like you know a hundred different pre-built PCs to choose from we are our you know and that's why I think we are the pineapple pizzas because not many I don't really see that being done to be honest in a lot of different companies so yeah NZXT He is the pineapple. I love pineapple and pizza, by the way. Controversial opinion. My wife hates it.

But yeah, Mike, let's do a couple more questions and wrap it up. Does it do it. Do you like threads so far from Stephen Sir Wilson? I think this is the third one. Third time we've answered this. But so far, so far it's been fun. But I still think Twitter is better.

And I'm just hopeful that Mark Zuckerberg doesn't turn this into Facebook part two. Because like I said, when you work in social media and you have to deal with all this meta nonsense that goes on behind the scenes,

it's like, it's not fun. So I just hope that they keep threads simple and easy to use and just, you know, don't make a Twitter clone, but at the same time, Don't make this into like another, you know, Facebook, please. I'm asking you.

Oh, I actually have a pretty good question. Sniper Adriel. As an everyday worker of N60, what does your typical day look like and what has been the best moments of working for the company so far? Okay. So you want to go first? You want me to go first? Go for it.

Go for it. So a typical day is, you know, then creating content that we post on social. So that could be memes, it could be posts about our products, it can just be coming up with ways to get people to engage, or maybe we just, you know, need to put a PSA out there, whatever it is, you know, that takes up like pretty significant chunk of the day and then for me I think another chunk of the day is also spent just answering people's questions directing them to the right resources that they need so we do pride ourselves on answering just about every damn question we get on social media whether it's a mention or a DM like we spend a lot of time helping people and I always like to say customer service is the only service because, you know, like without our customers, we'd be nothing, right?

So on social media, like, we do, we do like to, you know, answer people's questions and things like that. And I think another, another thing we do on a typical day is, you know, start planning for, or do planning for, like, things we have coming down the pipeline. So that can be, you know, it could be like, oh, it's, we're launching a product in a couple months. Like, what are we going to do on social to support that? Or we're going to have a sale in a couple weeks. Like, what are we going to do to support that? Or a new social media app just dropped? Like, what are we going to do on there?

Things like that. Another part of the day is spent just, I don't want to say just scrolling through social, but, you know, scrolling through social to see, like, what trends are popping? Like, what are people talking about? You know, do we need to make a grimace shake meme? Do we need to, you know, hop on a hashtag that's trending? Or is there, like, something bad that people are saying about NZXT that needs to be addressed, you know, things like that. So I would say, like, those are the four main chunks of the day.

And then, you know, we also have meetings, which Mike and I love. Mike and I love meetings. Great part of day. Yeah, but honestly, like, I feel like we used to have a lot more meetings when the pandemic first started, because I think it was kind of like, you know, like, I don't want to say like a, like pressure to just, you know, have, you know, have meetings. meetings, but I don't think anyone knew, not just us, but I don't think anyone knew how to work remotely. It was like, oh, like, we're all working from home. So I guess that means we'll all have to be on Zoom like every couple of hours or every couple, whatever, to just check in and talk or whatever.

And I think that's time went on, though, we started realizing, like, you know, we don't need to have, you know, this many meetings. So let's just cut back. And we cut back a lot, I think, so, which is good. And I think another part, you know, is having fun, like, you know, like, that could be playing video games. So there's definitely nothing wrong with playing video games like during work hours. You know, if I ever feel like I need a break or whatever, I'm just like, let me just load up Super Mega Baseball for 30 minutes and see what happens. I love that Ultra Spex games and Ashito Wolf here are saying they love our shit post

on Instagram. Thank you. We appreciate that. Yes. What about you, Mike? What's the normal day for you? Yours is actually a little bit different than mine. Yeah, mine is I usually work out in the morning,

come back, go through like the daily stuff. So like DMs. I try to scroll through TikTok. and Twitter just to see what's going on, if there's any fun trends. I usually handle a lot of the video posts, so TikTok posts every day. That's our goal.

Then after that, it's coming up with new videos for the rest of the week. Because sometimes you have to post stuff like immediately. Like you have to post some things like immediately because it's like a viral trend. But then there's some that can like, you know,

take a, you know, that can, they're called Evergreen so they can kind of be posted any time. And yeah, that's pretty much most of the day for me. Not too hard. Yeah, I do a lot. Video, video editing takes a lot. I didn't realize how long video editing takes until I started like really doing it. And then like a video, you know what?

I think it's like, oh, this will take like five minutes to make. It takes like an hour. And then a video that like when the unboxing videos be done for like the relay audio setup. it took like two to three weeks to do because I had to wait for it I got it but I didn't have time to like unbox it yet because we're still kind of like doing stuff I recorded myself unboxing it all

then I also spent a day trying to set it up make it look pretty then I edited it put all the clips together me unboxing it and after I would make each sound effect because the sound effect in my apartment is very loud because you have an AC and dishwasher going all time.

So I had to maybe record me like doing a bunch of stuff. That took like a couple days and then edit that. And, you know, that took like two weeks to do. So it just depends on the video itself. Sometimes things can literally just be like five minutes. And sometimes and that actually tends to be our most popular videos is the ones that take five minutes versus the ones that take like three days or weeks to do. Yeah.

Our most watched TikTok video of all time. How many of uses that at now? Oh, God, it's like 22 million or something like that. It's our most viewed thing, like, of all time, like on all socials. And Mike did that in, like, less than five minutes on his day off. Yeah, I'm, uh, June teens. He posted on Juneteenth. Just, uh, you know, I was like, oh, I just need to get a post out.

Uh, I had this video like in the, in my backlogs, posted it and bam, it just blew up. It's at 22.3 million. Yeah. So yeah. Yeah. What's a day in life? Although, Mike, you're trying to show me up because you said, well, I start my day by working out.

Yeah, so do I, Mike. I didn't. I don't need to flex, man. I try. Health is, health is my number one priority. So that's definitely. We should probably say, like, what do we, what's our day like when we're not working? Oh, the five to nine after a nine to five.

Yeah. What's yours, Ivan? So I actually do wake up at five. From five to nine, I always start my day the same. I walk into the kitchen and I make myself a quad shot of espresso. Jesus Christ. I chug that thing. And then I start working out.

You know, I exercise. I do my kettlebell swings and my push-ups and then get on my bike and work up a sweat. I have to start my day like that because if I don't, for some reason, And it's like, it just throws me off. And I think it's because I'm sitting down all day where I just feel like I'm less energized if I don't start my day by working out. So I start like that. And then when I'm done working out, that's when my kids and wife wake up. And then my wife works out while I'm watching the kids and, you know, making them breakfast.

And when they're in school, getting them ready for school, when they're on break, like they're, like they are right now. It's just keep them from fighting with each other and trying to just keep them happy, basically. And then once my wife is done working out, then my turn to shower and get ready for work. And then I work from 9 to 5. And then from 5 to 9, just, you know, dad mode again. Just, you know, I'm a family man. And so whatever it is that my family is doing, you know, going to the park, teaching my daughter to write a bike, whatever.

And then when they go to sleep, you know, I like to either watch baseball or listen to music or read a good book. You know, pretty simple, pretty simple, man. And then I just go to, by like 9 o'clock, 9.30, I'm like, I'm already falling to sleep, so go to sleep. Wow. And that's literally like every single day of my life. So Ultraspex game says quad shot at 5am. Ivan, are you okay?

I have, so I have two quad shots every day. I have my quad shot right when I wake up. And then I have my second dose right before I start work. And I think I'm okay. I looked at, remember Mike? I was talking about my coffee and my coffee habit.

And I looked up the amount of caffeine I should be drinking. And I think I'm only over. like two shots or the recommended over two shots. Yeah, but I used to drink a lot more coffee, so I think I think I'm fine.

I should probably get my heart checked out, but I don't know. I don't feel like I'm in any danger, to be honest. I feel perfectly fine. Four shots, man. Jesus. And then another after. Like that's, I don't even drink

coffee. So just like, if you give me one shot, I'm like wired. I don't think eight. Oh, God. I don't think people that don't drink coffee can't be trusted. I mean, you're right. I shouldn't be trusted. Yeah.

Like, I really honestly don't know how people function without just drinking coffee. I try not to because my dad was like one of those people that would be like, I need a cup of coffee before like anything happens. so I'm like I just didn't want to end up like needing coffee I never thought that so I did my hardest not to drink coffee at all Just do it man

It's the most it's the most abused drug in the world Oh gosh That's good that There's a reason why it's because it's good for you But mine is pretty simple Wake up, work out Go to work after work Dinner

and then hang out either with my girlfriend and my dog or I play video games and a lot of video games right now. Playing Fun Showdowns, the big one. Battlebit remastered, for those that are playing Battlebit, super fun game, 50 bucks. Funniest game I ever played. I want to get that game. Dude, play it.

It's so funny. I was going to make a post about it today or tomorrow about things I've heard in Battlebit. And these are things that I physically have heard. It's the funniest thing. People literally, like, you think it's like for kids. It's like Roblox Battlebit. or battle uh battlefield um no you hear grown men when they die they're like at like the top of their lungs and there's a meme going on that uh people that play battle bit

are voice actors when they uh get hit because they'll be like my legs my legs you know they'll do something funny so that's you yeah it is a well bit get well built game and it's actually really fun i have never had more fun in the past i think let me check how many hours i have on it i think i have like 12 hours on it. I got it like three days ago. I love that I haven't seen a single complaint about it like Yeah. Not being finished or it has too many

buds or it's too expensive or anything. Like all all the comments I've seen about that game are Like it's just super fun to play. Yeah. I'm probably gonna check it out soon. Yeah, that's actually a really good thing is that yeah, I have 10 hours in the game and I got it literally like three days ago. but it's it is one of the most fun games I ever played

and it's 15 bucks so it's pretty worth it yeah it no yeah that's also something it is a passion product so it's the people from monom warfare too I think it's one of the call the duties they went in and made this game so and it's awesome but I think that's it Ivan do you have any last questions before we go to the announcements no questions just want to thank everyone for tuning in and for asking us questions and you are not doing so already. Follow us on threads. Yeah.

Freds.net slash at NXT. Threads. Interesting. I'm very curious. I think Threads is going to get a second lawsuit. For what? Because not from Twitter, but from Slack. Because Slack has them there.

They have a slap. They have an app called Threads. Did you know that? I didn't know they had a third. I know there's in Slack. called threads but i don't think they had a thing called threads yeah oh there's another threads application oh it's not it's not a slack app i don't think it is but there's another there's an app called threads oh brez dot com i think it might be like a slack oh yeah vnor says

that he he signed up for it by accident oh yeah i wonder you're probably not the first one to be on this. That's going to be interesting. So I'm going to keep out on the news for what happens to threads. So I'm very curious. But I guess I'll go straight into the announcements. For those that don't know, we actually just released our new audio line. Audio, yeah, crazy.

So we have the relay audio ecosystem. It's the relay speakers, a subwoofer, a headset, and a switch mix. I actually have the headset. And the switch mix, for those that don't know, it's a headset stand. but if for those that don't have switch between speakers and headsets, it's kind of annoying to have to switch to it, especially if you're like Bluetooth headsets or something like that or sometimes the audio channel changes and then you don't know which one's on.

The switch mix actually, if you put your headset on it, it automatically switches to the speakers. If you take your headset off, it automatically switches back to your headset. It's amazing. It's such a cool thing. I never thought about it. And it's awesome.

By the way, Mike, It's pronounced suss woofer. Sus woofer. Thank you. Thank you. And also, I just thought of a good social media post. You should write this down before we forget. We should put your dog on top of the subwifor.

And come up with a funny caption for that because it's a woofer. Get it? Oh. A woofer. I will do that. I will exploit my child for content anytime. Yes, we should. But check it out at NCC.

It's a double woofer. I like that. I like that a lot. It's a double woofer. Also go along with the audio train. We have our new capsule mini and boomar mini. It's our new mini mic and our boom arm mini. It's awesome.

It would be, it's honestly, I actually really like the boomar mini. I didn't think I would love it that much, but honestly, it's one of the best things because, for those I don't know, I have a monitor to my right side.

And my boomar would be like right here, blocking half of the screen. So I kind of like maneuver around it. The boom armate is just straight and tiny and it fits perfectly. So take a look at that at nzacc.com as well. And we have a bunch of new things coming out. We got new audio stuff. We have keyboards, mice, crackens, cases, fans, monitors, thermal paste. We have everything available nccc.com and if it's unavailable, check nccc.com such retailers or sign up for a newsletter on the website and you'll get email whenever they're back in stock. I think that's it. I mean,

Do you have any last minute things to say? Just have a nice weekend, everyone. Yeah, all right. Thank you guys for joining us. We're going to tune in live every Friday at 10 at Pacific Center time on the official NCC Twitch. And don't forget to listen to previous episodes on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, and SoundCloud. Please lose a Piazza review if you like what you hear or if you didn't.

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