A Low Profile AV1 Encoding Beast? Arc A380 Unbox and Quick Review

HUGE SHOUTOUT TO ‪@PerfectMachine‬! Without his help with the editing, benchmarks, and actual recommendation of the A380 in the first place, this little project would've never been made. By extension, shoutout to my other friends! They encouraged me to spend some time focusing on something else other than college for a change. I wouldn't expect any other projects to come out of the pipeline for another long while though. Anyway, let's get to it...

This is a bit of a weird video. At first, I wasn't really thrilled with the idea of making an unboxing video, but, after some thought, I realized that it didn't have to be! This is sort of a mix between what was originally going to be an unbox/review, which then morphed into the idea of a status update and PC showcase. I put this thing together last Christmas and streamed with it every once in a while, but the entire setup was incredibly janky because I had to include my laptop to stream my gameplay and use my phone to act as a webcam. Recently, I got a Razer Kiyo Pro, so that took care of the webcam problem. All that I needed to do after that was handle the streaming device situation, and, well, if you've watched, you'll know exactly how that has been solved.
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ONCE AGAIN: HUGE SHOUTOUT TO ‪@PerfectMachine‬! Media credits and timestamps assembled by him.
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External Media Credits:
(RTX 3070 vs RTX 4070 - Test in 10 Games) by Testing Games
(Super Mario Galaxy - Full OST) by Lynfinity Music
(Lud and Schlatt Crossing) by Lud and Schlatts Musical Emporium
(AV1 vs AVC | Intel's data center GPU) by Intel Graphics
(Intel Arc A-Series Limited Edition Graphics) by Intel Graphics
(Hyte Y60 Case Review & Benchmarks vs. O11 Dynamic) by Gamers Nexus
(Underwater Exploration) by Godmode
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Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
0:08 Unboxing & Setup
1:09 What is AV1?
1:31 General Benchmarks
2:00 The Dilemma
2:54 Adding an Extra GPU
3:20 Another Problem
4:38 How does it Perform? (Benchmarks)
8:05 Closing Thoughts
9:37 Outro