The Destruction of Home Computers | Disappointment PC Build 2025

Even Crisis works on here. There are no GeForce gamer in the room. [music] We

have to use every form of energy we can.

You may actually have a bunch of chips sitting in inventory that I can't plug in. In fact, that is my problem, right?

in. In fact, that is my problem, right?

It's not a supply issue of chips. And

who doesn't love easy money?

>> Over a trillion dollar um you know overall market as we get through 2030. I

said that that'll be eight bazillion trillion dollars. [laughter]

trillion dollars. [laughter] RTX79 at 549.

I expect some bad stuff to happen because of technology.

You should have the most memory you can, the most bandwidth you can, lots of memory, lots of everything into your business.

>> That's all. generating three additional frames. For every frame that we

frames. For every frame that we calculate, it could predict the future.

So this is one of the incredible capabilities of our [music] Jesus Christ.

You should have lots of lots and lots of memories and lots of memory and lots of everything waiting for it. Even prices

everything.

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January. Thanks for your support as we enter 2026. 2025 had some good news and

enter 2026. 2025 had some good news and some bad. But for the good news, the 9950X3D

bad. But for the good news, the 9950X3D launched early in the year. It was a normal CPU launch. There was nothing weird about it. It did what they said it would do, and that's pretty positive

these days. Intel launched the B570,

these days. Intel launched the B570, following up its B580 Battle Mage series cards from the end of 2024. And the B570 also did fine in [music] testing. And

when we revisited Intel's Arc drivers for the GPUs, we found that they had significantly improved in a way that really changed how we might recommend Intel Arc. That was great news for Intel

Intel Arc. That was great news for Intel for the GPU side. In our first ever Linux gaming benchmarks, we found that Bazite serves as an overall reliable platform that makes not Windows gaming

more viable than ever before for PC users. In other good news, Case has had

users. In other good news, Case has had an awesome year on our channel where collectively they've probably done the best they've ever done at not sucking.

Specifically, Corsair's Frame 4000D, for example, was one of the best cases we tested this year, $100. And now for the RS ARGB version at that price with the

fans included. That's a pretty solid

fans included. That's a pretty solid offering. The Fractal Meshifi 3 case was

offering. The Fractal Meshifi 3 case was another of the top performers and top recommendations for us. We're in our best cases roundup for this year. We

gave this the best overall case. Lean

Lee launched its 217 Infiniti, which we're still working on reviewing separately, but it does a great job to having a new approach for the front panel where they've embedded fans in the

glass. So finally you can have your

glass. So finally you can have your glass and eat it too. The the

Silverstone launched its FLP2 which is one of the coolest cases we've looked at in a long time. It manages [music] to execute really well on capturing the

retro theme but having modern compatibilities. Height launched its

compatibilities. Height launched its X50, another creative and unique [music] case this year with some advanced manufacturing capabilities that were applied to it. And this launched at

about the same time as the Haven BF360, which was another high performance focused case. Outside of cases, other

focused case. Outside of cases, other good news included learning from Intel's board partners that Intel allows them to do basically whatever they want for custom cards as long as they support the product. Seeing that freedom of design

product. Seeing that freedom of design for partners is a rarity these days. For

cooling, Thermalite lost its mind once again in a good way once again launching dozens of affordable competitive CPU coolers. Valve announced its Steam

coolers. Valve announced its Steam Machine, Steam frame, and new controller. Squeak it across the line

controller. Squeak it across the line with some really interesting hardware that we can't wait to test in 2026. Now,

we're almost to the stuff that this video is for, which is the disappointing stuff, but we've got to do the the pallet cleanser of things that didn't suck before we get back to the suck. And

as another example, just some of the educational content opportunities we had this year were excellent, where as part of the tariffs documentary, we got to visit Lewis Rossman and do a tour of his

shop. Well, [ __ ] you. I mean, seriously.

shop. Well, [ __ ] you. I mean, seriously.

[laughter] >> Oh, no. Cut that out of the video.

>> That has to be cut.

>> It's Texas.

>> I can't stay. We also published what might be the most educational and complete how thermal paste is made video on the entire internet. And that's not because of us. That's because of this

guy.

>> We are a German water quitting mafia.

>> And we got to learn how's video cards are made. That's right. We went to an

are made. That's right. We went to an actual waifu factory. They'll cut that >> tough guy soft graphics car. [laughter]

>> But that's not why we're here today.

We're here for stuff like this, the disappointments of 2025. A lot of this comes back to everyone's favorite buzzword, AI, which we thought was bad

last year, but this year AI went from [ __ ] marketing to full-on grift as the tech industry's two favorite letters prop up the global economy. My sense is that we're probably, you know, a couple

of hundred billion, maybe a few hundred billion into a multi-trillion dollar [music] infrastructure buildout >> per year.

>> Yeah.

>> We see this massive opportunity um you know really uh over a trillion dollar um you know overall market as we get through 2030.

>> There's how much how many trillions of dollars of computing infrastructures in the world that has to be refreshed. The

thing we believe is that we can stay on a very steep growth curve of revenue for quite a while. [music] And everything we see

while. [music] And everything we see right now continues to indicate that we cannot do it if we don't have the compute.

>> And who doesn't love easy money?

>> That that that'll be 8 bazillion trillion dollars. Um [laughter]

trillion dollars. Um [laughter] >> not bad.

>> We have to use every form of energy we can. The the biggest issue we are now

can. The the biggest issue we are now having is not a compute glut, but it's a power and it's sort of the ability to get the builds done fast enough close to power. So if you can't do that, you may

power. So if you can't do that, you may actually have a bunch of chips sitting in inventory that I can't plug in. In

fact, that is my problem today, right?

It's not a supply issue of chips. It's

actually uh the fact that I don't have warm shells to plug into. And when

they're not busy buying more GPUs than they can even use while you struggle to find a stick of memory for less than $100, these companies are exploring the military-industrial complex for their next move.

>> We work with Palanteer to accelerate everything Palanteer does >> so that we can continue to be to be the mightiest technology industry in the world [music] so that we can fund the

tech the mightiest military in the world. And all of that I think goes hand

world. And all of that I think goes hand in hand. I'm happy that that uh our

in hand. I'm happy that that uh our military is going to use AI technology for defense.

>> You can thank all of these people, the tech executives, for the DRAM crisis contributing to upwards of 500% higher memory prices in some cases. And we can thank them for the brunt of the economic impact being borne by consumers, which

we don't think is an accident. Whether

that's through you buying components retail at insane prices where companies like Micron have increased their consumer margin while killing parts of their consumer business to more closely match B2B margin. Or whether it's from

something else like you subsidizing Micron's $5 billion of tax breaks, the US government's use of nearly 10 billion of taxpayer money to buy 10% of Intel, the company that just laid off tens of thousands of employees again, and that

has dragged its feet on taxpayer subsidized fabs again, or any number of other ways. One way or another, normal

other ways. One way or another, normal people are paying for this AI obsession.

Whether you're in the US or you're not, undoubtedly we are in a bubble. It's

just a question of who's holding the needle.

>> Let's start with are we in a bubble? And

I will say uh Lauren emphatically from my perspective, no.

>> We need to have energy growth very, very shortly.

>> I expect some really bad stuff to happen because of the technology. But the good news is AI does something that humans have never been able to figure out before.

>> I cannot imagine having gone through like figuring out how to raise a newborn without chat.

>> The AI bubble was just part of this year's disappointments though. A big

part, but part nonetheless. We had

plenty of other issues with GPUs, ASUS's router vulnerabilities, Bloomberg Bloomberging all over itself, and illegitimately copyright strike in our report on the AIG GPU black market and more. Let's get into all of that. Our

more. Let's get into all of that. Our

disappointment PC build for 2025 starts off with our disappointment PC build from 2024. Nvidia when we said this.

from 2024. Nvidia when we said this.

We'll start the recap with Nvidia, which hopefully won't disappoint us this January. Okay, look. I I couldn't have

January. Okay, look. I I couldn't have known to be fair. Nvidia started the year off with the strong announcement.

Do you like my jacket?

>> I thought I'd go the other way from Gary Shapiro.

I'm in Las Vegas after all. If this if this doesn't work out, if all of you object, well, just get used to it. I think I really think you have to let this sink

in.

In another hour or so, you're going to feel good about it.

>> That's right. Nvidia CEO and man single-handedly responsible for creating an entire micro industry of targeted Google advertisements for the phrase Jensen Juan leather jacket. Jensen Juan

had some announcements to share.

>> [music] >> Wait for it.

Wait for it.

I thought I was worthy. Nope. But Nvidia

launched the 50 series and then it proceeded to fumble in every single conceivable way. Even though the

conceivable way. Even though the architecture looked promising on paper, Nvidia started with a paper launch, corresponded with fake prices, it had problems with missing rocks, and it had its most broken ass drivers in decades.

Intentionally, it broke VX 32-bit support, and we think it lied about the RTX 5070 >> 4090 performance at 549.

>> But let's start the recap with the rocks. Earlier this year, we bought a

rocks. Earlier this year, we bought a viewer's defective RTX 5080 to investigate Nvidia's raster output unit problem. Nvidia's missing rocks

problem. Nvidia's missing rocks sometimes cost around 10% of the total performance on defective products. When

we benchmarked an RTX 5080 that wasn't falsely advertised versus one that was missing the rocks, we found the complete card performed 11% better in Total War and 9% better in Dying Light 2. The best

part is that Nvidia told the Verge that the average performance impact would be 4%. Which is on the low side of what we

4%. Which is on the low side of what we found in some of these games. And also

it used misleading language we think to minimize the impact with its quote one fewer ROP end quote comment even though one full ROP unit which is what they were referring to because it's the

smallest number they could use contains eight ROPs and software with PhysX 32-bit. Nvidia abandoned hardware locked

32-bit. Nvidia abandoned hardware locked functionality of its prior GPU generations on the 50 series, leaving players of games with Nvidia proprietary Fizzx 32-bit features in a situation

where sometimes an RTX 5080 can perform worse than a GTX 580. Separate from

this, Nvidia also pushed its worst drivers possibly in its history. The

drivers had rampant issues with screen distortion and artifacting, crashes to desktop, hard system reboots, G-Sync issues, and general compatibility problems. Of course, looking back on it now, it all seems kind of obvious why

they had these problems. Jensen Juan himself kind of explained it.

>> We can't write software without without AI anymore.

>> But Nvidia wasn't alone. In the

beginning of the year, in February, we said this. AMD, don't [ __ ] this up,

said this. AMD, don't [ __ ] this up, okay? And by March, we ran this segment.

okay? And by March, we ran this segment.

We tracked sales and sentiment for launch of the 9070 XT and made this map.

In green, you can see areas of extreme customer satisfaction with AMD. major

cities in the US did pretty well, far better than Nvidia. Now, let's look at the dissatisfied air. Okay. Well, but um and so today we're back in the chamber

of anguish. You can't say that reviewers

of anguish. You can't say that reviewers live in an echo chamber because I'm literally standing in an anooic chamber.

So, checkmate viewers. That's right. AMD

marketing may not have all of its marbles, but it does have all of its robs. In spite of that though, and in

robs. In spite of that though, and in spite of the fact that their drivers were actually not the problem this time, they've been on a better trend than Nvidia lately, they still had some

significant issues for this launch. AMD

promised pricing that was seemingly made possible only by rebates to partners in the chain, resulting in 12 of 51 models actually at MSRP in the US over four retailers at launch. Of those we

cataloged, five models were an overwhelming 42% over MSRP. The vast

majority of models available were actually just over MSRP generally. It

took AMD until the last few months of the year to finally get these prices closer to their advertised launch price.

AMD also this year told everyone that the majority of gamers quote have no use for more than 8 GB of memory. End quote.

while then telling everyone that an 8 GB GPU as an alternative to a 16 GB GPU is quote no compromise end quote despite literally being precisely that they

compromise like a 50% capacity one. So

while Nvidia was in the corner huffing server exhaust and writing driver code AMD was doing its best to make sure that it gained not even a fraction of a percentage point of market share in

discrete GPU. So GPUs had the spotlight

discrete GPU. So GPUs had the spotlight for the first couple months of this year, but they did graciously make room for somebody else to share the spotlight with them, which is ASRock's murder

boards.

ASRock, of course, taking the heat off of Intel for its 2024 CPU instability issues.

>> Thanks, Steve.

>> This was a story we followed across the year and never came to firm conclusions, but we did have a ton of findings we shared. Our coverage started in March

shared. Our coverage started in March when we began collecting reports online about ASRock murder boards murdering AMD CPUs, but in particular X3D CPUs. We

eventually added ASRock to our face-to-face series of interviews to try and get answers. And we did get answers.

I mean, they they weren't right.

Technically though, they were answers.

We published dozens of charts, tests, and data points from logic analyzers and just good old-fashioned use computer like normal testing. Ultimately, we

weren't able to figure out the root cause. Now, in the time since publishing

cause. Now, in the time since publishing our last deep dive into ASRock's motherboard or murder board problems, we did actually buy even more user boards that had been reported to have killed

CPUs. And this most recent time, we

CPUs. And this most recent time, we bought power supplies, memory, the CPUs themselves, basically everything we could buy from the users to test the whole computer as they built it, which

is really expensive, uh, to try and isolate for the variables. And we still couldn't reproduce the issues on those particular boards. And in fact, one of

particular boards. And in fact, one of the reported dead CPUs, I think, even came back to life after we wiped the contact pads on it. So, we haven't made that video yet. Uh, but there's probably

more to talk about still. Maybe it'll

find another spot on the 2026 disappointment tour t-shirt. Up next,

ASUS. I'm in the Chamber of Angus botnet can't read my brain. Asus this

year had a number of vulnerabilities added to its other general fuckups over the last couple years and one of them was called Ace Hush. ASH

us well there's a couple of them. So

this year ASUS's software and hardware were both impacted by attack vectors.

Its routers were found to be slowly getting morphed into a giant botnet. And

if this is the first time you're hearing about this and if you're using an affected and unupdated ASUS router, it's time to update immediately or at this point maybe just get a different router.

This vulnerability is called assh or as hush. At one point, census had tracked over 10,000 infected routers online. ASUS also had its armory crate

online. ASUS also had its armory crate vulnerability. Armory crate

vulnerability. Armory crate vulnerability. Oh no, who ever could

vulnerability. Oh no, who ever could have seen this coming? You also get Armory Crate. ASUS's malware like board

Armory Crate. ASUS's malware like board level functional root kit. They try to masquerade it as a useful driver installing feature, but in the future

it's just going to be a zero day exploit waiting to happen. And this year, ASUS' Armory Crate and DriverHub software were both exploited by security researchers.

The Armory Crate vulnerability was found by Cisco Talos with researcher Icewall determining that quote, "An unprivileged attacker can run a program from user mode to trigger this vulnerability." End

quote. But another vulnerability called a suspicious found by Mr. Bruh revealed that millions of users information had been exposed since 2022. Calling back

again to the warranty and RMA disasters, but this time in the form of databases.

As we titled the chapter in our ASUS dumpster fire video about this topic, this was an unbelievably stupid exploit.

ASUS had hard-coded credentials with administrator level unrestricted access into its software, which the researcher was able to find and deploy in successful security research. We look

forward to next time when ASUS bypasses this particular vulnerability by instead of hard- coding them into the software just making the password.

They could really switch it up and make it username and make the username password, but it might be a little too advanced. Anyway, that was kind of small

advanced. Anyway, that was kind of small stuff compared to the major backdrop that started in around March and persisted through most of the year, and that was tariffs. So, flying around

between California, Texas, and North Carolina, we went on our biggest journey this year, other than the black market one, and that was meeting with a ton of companies ranging from previously billion-dollar public ones like Corsair

to small independent repair shops like Lewis Rossman's. In that special 3-hour

Lewis Rossman's. In that special 3-hour long report, we learned about the impact of uncertainty caused by constant tariff changes for the PC industry, and we got one of my favorite Le Rossman quotes of

all time. Well, [ __ ] you. I mean,

all time. Well, [ __ ] you. I mean,

[laughter] seriously. I look, it's not like there's a scarcity of supply for Lewis Rossman saying, "Fuck you." But

it's still a good quote. This ended up setting an undercurrent of price increases and responses triggering layoffs and resulting in canceled projects or abandoned markets for some companies in the space. And we won't

recap that entire thing here. It was 3 hours, but we ran a two-part series on tariffs and got margin structure information from height, logistics information from Cooler Master, US-based

and Canadian-based manufacturing and factory details from Protocase, assembly factories like Cyber Power and Iowa Power, and more. The tariff's impact to the hardware industry wasn't necessarily even about the hard percentages for a

lot of these companies. It was about the uncertainty and the literally dayto-day changes at some points early in the year. So, tariffs was the big story, but

year. So, tariffs was the big story, but there were some other moderate disappointments after that, like Origins $8,400 pre-built PC disaster. But even

that pald in comparison to what we felt was Nvidia threatening our independent coverage in our next disappointment.

That's right. We get to the Nvidia press manipulation topic on the shirt now.

Standing on a random bridge in the middle of Taipei in the middle of the year, we broke news about Nvidia staff pushing us constantly in the background for things like getting multiframe

generation benchmarks into charts in ways that we just did not agree with. We

thought it was misleading, bad for the consumer, and obviously just proc corporate kind of bootlicking [ __ ] stance. Uh, and so we made a big deal

stance. Uh, and so we made a big deal about that and talked about the ways we thought it would be damaging to both consumers and to uh, reality because that's not how those numbers work.

Nvidia sort of dragged in the engineers who we have had pretty good access to over the years to produce these extremely educational, really fun, interesting, good content pieces, uh,

interviewing engineers actually working on the products. Like it was pretty awesome. It's good content uh, and

awesome. It's good content uh, and everybody could learn from it. It wasn't

just [ __ ] selling you a product.

That's what we liked about it.

Unfortunately, Nvidia decided to tie that type of interview together with these background verbal expectations for what should appear in reviews and

basically start guiding the direction or shaping the narrative of reviews and editorial content. Uh, and effectively

editorial content. Uh, and effectively we felt threatening access to engineers if we didn't cover things a certain way.

We felt the company was attempting to exercise control over our choices and was doing so by threatening access to something that we and the audience liked, which was interviews with

engineers that were purely technical and not just marketing fluff. A good example is our MFG and our DLSS content we ran earlier in the year where we did that because we were interested in it. It was

technology Nvidia was talking about. We

wanted to test the marketing claims against the reality. Some of it we liked, not all of it. But the problem with this approach is that unfortunately Nvidia taints everything because now at

least for us at the time when this wasn't public yet, we're sitting there going, I don't know I trust any of these content pieces because I know what they're saying behind the scenes. Uh and

then now that it's out there, it's a problem of okay, but is anything truly independent if Nvidia kind of runs this interference approach to marketing and

PR? uh and unfortunately they have

PR? uh and unfortunately they have tainted the ability to trust even the content with actually trustworthy engineers who are good who only care about talking up the engineering and

teaching people and that's kind of what we had access to and what we decided you know what [ __ ] it if they're going to charge some kind of quid proquo for this then we don't want to be a part of it

but the loss is is unfortunate there uh and is a casualty of that decision from Nvidia now this isn't because the engineers can't be trusted it's because the marketing driving the media ings might be behind the scenes trying to

nudge an outlet's editorial direction in a particular way. And following this, Nvidia decided not to sample drivers to review media for the 5060, even if that media outlet obtained the card through

partners. However, it did decide to seed

partners. However, it did decide to seed preview coverage under strict guidelines for fluff publications, immediately proving our point. So, these were not reviews. These were previews under

reviews. These were previews under strict control with strict rules.

>> In fact, even Crisis works on here.

Okay? Okay, so anybody who's a GeForce gamer, there no GeForce gamer in the room.

>> Anyway, that was our experience with that in the middle of the year. And

following some other disappointments like the marketing [ __ ] of the 960 XT, we already went over an Alienware SSD that was bent like a banana, a fake 9800 XD, a 50/50 that was silently shoved out the door and Mangar's

underperformed pre-built. We eventually

underperformed pre-built. We eventually got to one of our videos about Intel following the huge mess of AMD and Nvidia GPU launches for the year pleading with Intel to please don't [ __ ]

this up. This is the best opportunity

this up. This is the best opportunity you're ever going to have. Help us

Intel, you're our only hope. In that

video, we laid out how Nvidia and AMD had botched just about every single launch thus far in the year, leaving Intel an opportunity to just keep chugging along and proving its drivers.

Within a month or so of that post, Intel was in complete freefall. Its fab

rollouts were slowing down or being paused. The company had another round of

paused. The company had another round of mass layoffs. It was killing projects

mass layoffs. It was killing projects and CEO Lip Boutan even managed to land in Trump's crosshairs with calls for resignation. A few days later though,

resignation. A few days later though, the two met and became BFFs to the tune of the United States buying about 10% of Intel. And then we hit my most memorable

Intel. And then we hit my most memorable moment of the year personally, which was when we got Bloomberg. So, we normally try to keep the build focused on or the lack of a build this year focused on the hardware industry. Uh but there's a

hardware industry. Uh but there's a there's a little bit of an accessory here this time which is after we got on the ground in China and we spent three weeks in Asia traveling for the story

about the AIGP black market and proving its existence and learning how it works and illustrating the nuance that in China this isn't a black market it's

just the market. it's only illegal from the US government's perspective for companies to send things there, but it's not illegal for them to transact within the country. And so, it's a really

the country. And so, it's a really interesting story. And so, we traveled

interesting story. And so, we traveled all over the place in Asia and covered this. And then we got back and we

this. And then we got back and we published it. And then Bloomberg filed a

published it. And then Bloomberg filed a copyright strike and took down our video. We successfully fought it. We got

video. We successfully fought it. We got

reinstated. Bloomberg basically, you know, they they happen to be a major recipient of Nvidia sponsor money and they also happened to have published their own unsuccessful failed attempt at

a report on a similar topic where they filmed sand in a Chinese desert and then they copyright struck ours. Now, we did get reinstated. If you haven't seen the

get reinstated. If you haven't seen the video, check it out. It's on the channel. It's the AIGP black market.

channel. It's the AIGP black market.

After this, the year closed out with simpler things like Nvidia becoming more of a monopoly and abusing the fact that the US government probably won't do anything about it when they invested

into Intel, who should be a competitor of theirs and just kind of continued to consolidate resources uh taking a small share of Intel. Our concern with that was just the general antitrust

behaviors. We talked about in that

behaviors. We talked about in that piece. Uh but the thing that happened

piece. Uh but the thing that happened after that was probably the biggest one for the year and that was the RAM issue where it's not just a shortage. It's

open AAI decides to basically reserve 40% of the memory supply memory wafer supply through 2028 to 2029 or so. And

uh that in addition to the AI companies going crazy buying everything. Data

centers are being built recklessly we think where they're just dropping them everywhere. They can't even power some

everywhere. They can't even power some of them on because the grid isn't ready for them in those locations yet. Things

like that. And they're sucking up all the memory where RAM prices now have included uh effects from Micron's exit on the consumerf facing crucial memory business which reduce supply availability to consumers in pursuit of

more data center inventory. It also

includes just the actual price where if you go to PC part picker right now, you can see DRAM pricing trends landing kits of DDR5 64 GB at over $800 now.

Previously it was like 190 bucks $200 just three to four months ago. NAND

flash storage prices are following with price hikes inbound for this supply as well. And actually hard drives are

well. And actually hard drives are increasing in cost due to data center demand too. We talked about this in two

demand too. We talked about this in two main pieces at the end of the year which was the Nvidia what the [ __ ] piece and the what the [ __ ] just happened piece which apparently is becoming a series for now. And uh in those the thing we

for now. And uh in those the thing we talked about was this is a factor of the companies outbidding consumers and uh the companies that sell these things like Micron even increase their margin

so they take more profit from the consumers who buy the stuff and it's still not enough. they still favor B2B instead because they're just going to

keep hiking the price and the margin until the point where the consumers completely fall out of the market and go [ __ ] all this and uh and it ends up just being they sell to each other. The

companies sell to the companies and that's the [snorts] end of that. So we

talked that in separate pieces. We'll

link those below. You should check them out if you haven't. As for what is up for us in the next few months at least for 2026, the big one is our content piece on data centers where we are

traveling different parts of mostly the US to look at some data center buildouts where hundreds of you in our audience have told us about things that you think

are just wrong where it's maybe kind of steamrolling through processes, abusing outdated zoning regulations, ignoring environmental factors or human health

risk factors. such as things like

risk factors. such as things like dumping more uh fumes into local communities where in some situations like near one of the XAI data centers there have been claims of increases in diagnoses of certain breathing diseases

things like that. We're looking into some of that stuff next. Uh that'll come up on probably this channel and then GNCA has a few big pieces as well like uh probably more with Palanteer because

they responded to us on Twitter. So that

was interesting. Anyway, that's it for the disappointment build. We have some good news coming up too. A lot of benchmarks and reviews coming up as always. Check back for all that.

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