But stuff happened. Actually, family trip on the first Friday and then my daughter just not being cooperative on the second Sunday, so we're doing it third Sunday, i.e. now. But while we wait for everybody to finish up with dinner, let us do the ad. 7. Activation Pose. Legit, safe, at pinakamura, madadila o Mordor. Hanapin ang widest version na gusto mo, piliin ang preferred play pen friend mo. Wala pang 5 minutes na si Zika na para sa windows mo. Marami na kaming na tulungan. 7. Depart ako. But now, I found a log of my life. Date, ing-resin walang pertas ang life ko. But now, I'm a world-class Zuba instructor. So, web developer ako and content creator for a YouTube channel, and ngayon ganun pa rin ako, pero activated na yung windows ko. Kaya ako nag-ahalap ka ng legit, mura, at original software. Check out cdkoffer.com Alright, thanks for joining me for another episode of Pwede Magtanong. So, this is our live tech show where anyone can shoot us a message in the comments and we'll try as much as possible to answer your tech questions. And we've been doing this since the pandemic, so noong 2020 or so. This is actually one of the first live shows. We didn't used to do live streams before. Stop, lazy cable manager. Before, we used to have a whole council. But there was an old group that there would be four of us doing Pwede Magtanong. But over the years, and it has been years already as well as it is to think about it. People dropped in, people got busy. So sometimes, it's just me na lang. Which is okay with me, to be honest. Parang nangang-stress kasi to think everybody's schedules. But although it's kind of a loss for the audience, because a lot of people are more technically sounded me, a lot more knowledgeable. So sayang yung panel datin who could chime in with their insights and different things. It also hasn't helped actually that the schedule that we chose Friday, datin yung pandemic maganda yun kasi everybody was still indoors. But now, we're basically back to normal. A lot of people have plans on a Friday night. So I think that's impacted the audience a little. That's also impacted the availability of the panel. We don't actually require the staff, like itong mga live streams. It's not a requirement on the staff to join. I mean, if anybody can and if anybody wants to, anybody can chime in. But we don't make it a requirement. So it's not like we have to have people in place in the shop or things like that to join me on pwede magtanong. So sometimes, it is a solo show. Like last month was almost a solo show. Then we got two capable guests host as it were. Sop, Anton. Great name as always. Tyrone, does your store offer future events? I'm not sure what that means. You're going to have to elaborate a little. Like, can you hold an event at the store, like a LAN event? Technically, you could, but you probably wouldn't want to because it may magulu sa shop. I don't know what you mean by future events. Sop, Deck. We are not hiring at the moment, but please send us your resume and we do actually keep everybody's resume on file so that when we do hire and turnover is a little brisk. Not because I think the employees don't like working for us, although of course, I'm biased. But, Deck, the most recent one got pirated. He got a better offer and I'm super actually happy for him that he gets to work in the same space a little bit. Magkatabing space, but a bit different, but he gets higher pay. Another one went abroad. The other one before that also went abroad. So our turnover is a bit brisk, but I am happy to see that it's because they are moving on to higher paying jobs. I wouldn't say better jobs, like in the sense of job satisfaction and overall stress level. I don't think it's stressful to work for hardware sugar. So we are constantly on to look out for people. In fact, one of our recent hires, not super recent, but one of our more, the guys who are at the shop now, we weren't looking for someone. Then he emailed his resume and we thought we could make it work so we hired him and he's still with us now. So please do send us your resume even though we are not actively hiring, we are always passively looking to be the best way to put it. Sub-ITX addict, I know, right? I was telling my friend na, like I'm having withdrawal symptoms from strange new worlds. Such a well done Star Trek series. I'm not a, I'm a Star Trek fan, so I'll watch Discovery, but I'm not a fan of the entire show really. I thought they had a good primary character, but they just didn't do well with her. It's really, well this isn't media diet, the show before where I used to talk about like the stuff I used to read, watch and play during the month. But suffice to say that I'm not a big Discovery fan, but I still watch it just because it's Star Trek. But Strange New Worlds does have that Star Trek flavor. But with a new cast, it's very good. Yeah, I really enjoy Strange New Worlds. And if you're a Star Trek fan, I would also recommend Lower Decks. You know, it's animated, and you know, you hear it's a comedy, it's supposed to be funny, it's animated, so you think na, it's not something a Serious Star Trek fan would like, but it's super, it's super faithful to the flavor of TNG of the next generation. So Lower Decks is like TNG 2.5 basically. I mean it's really very close to the flavor of, sometimes I'm watching it, I think that this feels like, it's like watching, you know, the next generation except that it's not Picard and things like that. Much closer actually to TNG than Picard was in its first two seasons. So if you're a Star Trek fan, I would recommend Lower Decks as well. Sub Abner, sorry, let me just, Sub Abner, Sub JC, Sub Luigi. All of the people in the chat are like people who, like, you know, our long-term viewers, long-time viewers and are pretty technically savvy because I probably talk with most of them offline or online. So there's not, oh, sub JJ Reyes, another very technical user. Much more technical than me actually and Jay just got a recent, Jay recently got a very nice ITX build. What what, what's on Disney Plus? That's done with season one. Asoka? Is Asoka finished na? I mean like season one of Asoka? Thanks Jeremy. To be honest, I'm, oh, is this your, wait, I do have the records. Di naman kita. You have the records here just to see what we did with Jeremy's computer. Yeah, to be honest, like I don't, the day-to-day stuff happening in the shop, like I tried to keep track but some computers I just, I just can't keep track that much anymore. Diagnostics and cloning. Oh, yeah, no, sorry. I think I do remember this purchase. That's a nice, that's a nice build. I hope it, I hope it keeps ticking. Subdances and waifus. I was actually near your place or near your village. I was in the mall near your village today doing errands. Was SuperMeta, Strange New Worlds. The Season Ender of Season 1. Yeah, I think we just finished Season 2 now. The Season Ender of Season 1. Ganda. To be honest, like I was also TOS fans. I actually grew up watching TOS, the original series on Betamax. So, I was born in the 80s so I wasn't born yet during TOS but my uncle had copies on Betamax and that's what I was watching growing up. So I was a big fan of TOS and then the way the Season 1, the Season Finale or Strange New Worlds or Season 1 referenced an episode from TOS was like really amazing, like the divergence. So good. Anyway, sorry. This is not a, this is not a, this is not a livestream about Star Trek. At umar Epspa. I am a big Star Wars fan also. I will watch Ahsoka except that the way I operate is usually I wait for the Season to End and then I watch it straight because one, I actually don't have the time to watch something, you know, continuously. And number two, I'm bad at waiting so I don't like to wait. So I figure like if I don't start watching then I can just, when I start watching at least I'm secure in the knowledge na pwede ko na siya tuloy-tuloy kasi tapos na yung Season. So that's usually how I watch TV. Right now I'm watching Picture Season 3. It's all right. I mean it's the last season with Henry Cavill. So far I'm like only on Episode 4 or something. It's it's there's some structure. Like the way they're tackling the overarching story is not so compelling for me. But yun, well, actually I'm not that much of a complainer. So you know, I'll probably watch it to the end. I'll probably even watch it when the other Hemsworth brother takes over. But it is sad that Henry Cavill is no longer Geralt of Rivia. I'll get to your comment, JC. But let's do I have heard about this. I have heard about it. Yeah, sige. I'll try that also. We're on Lazada and Shopee, but not everything is there. Actually a lot of our items are not on Lazada and Shopee just because we got scammed there in the past and Lazada and Shopee both have terrible merchant customer service. Just recently we sent out a PSU and then it came back to us. The customer claimed na kasi maling item pinadala. When we opened it there was nothing inside. Like in the our PSU didn't come back to us. And so of course the customer will complain that we'll say that oh nundumating sakin gano na yun the platform Shopee in this case will claim na diesel are responsible nung pagdating nila sa kanila gano na siya. All I know is when we shipped it out that was a PSU when it came back to us it was bubble wrap. So I really like I hate this a strong word and I don't like using it a lot but I will use it in this case.  They don't care about you at all. They don't care na ang ganda nung history ng shop. They don't care na maganda yung reputation mo as a seller. They don't support you at all. And this is not stargraping because we weren't successful on the platform. We reached level basa we reached the highest seller level on Lazada. But then we pivoted away from that and from Shopee kasi yun nga you send out a 30,000 peso CPU or a GPU the customer will claim na wrong item pinadala or hindi talaga pinadala at all babalik sayo ba to? So sinay yung dehado at the end of the day it's not the customer who didn't pay anything because the COD it's not the shopping platform it is the shop. So f that I mean you know I'm really I'm so fed up with Lazada and Shopee so we still have them for cheap items but all of our items you can find on our site www.hwshugar.ph sorry hwshugar.ph and we ship nationwide the payment options are integrated into already into the site the shipping options already integrated into the site our our candy points which is our loyalty system where you can trade candy points for steam credit we're the only shop that allows you to get something valuable outside of the shop kasi everybody else wants discount you know has discount points para you keep shopping you keep spending your money with the shop pinigano yung hardware sugar we're the only shop whether computer or otherwise that I know of na you can use the points to get valuable things outside of our shop and if you're a gamer most likely if you're a hardware sugar customer you are that's why we offer redemption to steam credit but yeah it's really yung shop in Lazada I am so tired of those guys Taguro from YouTube I'm trying to remember if this was a question I answered over YouTube a couple of comments ago although you know I've been very bad I tried to reply to the YouTube comments but mga two weeks na that I haven't been able to sit down and go through and actually reply the 6600 is not I mean it's not a mid level GPU it's kind of like 16 is that too harsh I won't say 1660 but it's not I would still mid level 3060 there about low mid level with the 3050 6600 you know it's kind of like creeping up there to the 3050 but kind of like and it's an entry level GPU Ryzen 5 5500 R53600 I mean those are the yeah like budget CPU in hardware sugar we have the 55 Ryzen 5 5500 for let me check 6000 bill 5850 yeah so there about Ryzen 5 5500 oh hey Ralph Ople you don't want to read your question I thought you went should you change the screw like so yes you should change the screw but if you're looking at me to like convince you yes you should buy more stuff I was actually looking at the new NZXT AIOS they're very pretty I did have a new ASUS AIO on my PC recently but I had to give it back to the shop because we did a video on it very good performance although aesthetically I still prefer yung ay parang 8-bit nila nung it's either the Ryujin or the Ryu I think I like the Ryu better it kind of more stylized although the new Lee and Lee once are also supposed to be pretty good in terms of performance but I don't want to say that I tempted you if it's just you know rusting on the screw you could really replace just the screw subjip bong from YouTube okay well personally for me like my NVMe is drama less a lot of the drama less issue is one of the things that enthusiasts like to say to prove that they're enthusiastic so you know every component has a go-to kind of thing that your enthusiast you can point to and that demonstrates your deep knowledge about computer building so if it's GPUs usually you can complain about the VRAM if it's CPUs you can complain about overthrottling you know if it's motherboards sorry if it's GPUs you can complain about well yeah the video memory not the VRAM but the video memory on motherboards you can complain about the VRAM so these are the kind of little details that usually a mainstream consumer is not that aware of and for SSDs that's the thing with drama less drama drives with drama are supposed to be better more reliable but I think it's a bit overblown you can have very reputable drives that are drama less the drive I'm using now is drama less I don't have any problems with it so for me it's nice to have but I think it's been a little bit overblown because it's kind of like a badge that you can point to when you're referring to storage pag sinabi storage na SSD oh may drama by an or not and that automatically establishes your bona fides even though the value of the information you're communicating whether it has drama or not is less important than the effect that you have on your audience so for me it's nice to have it's not critical to have and also actually it's difficult to parse whether it has or not because the manufacturers are not up front about the models that have or not and it's like it's like chop suey for storage like the Kingston NV2 I don't like the Kingston NV2 is that Kingston is not consistent in the parts that they use for the NV2 that being said and the NV2 that we've encountered have been okay naman but just in terms of consistency it's hard when the brand itself can change things up and not only Kingston does that other brands do that as well and caught up in that entire thing is that they're not very clear it's not something that they stamp on the drive or on the packaging now with drama or without drama and models that have drama in the past suddenly don't have drama so it's a very technical thing that you really need to research it's nice to have but for me not super not super critical to have this one Jay it's like you can even see I minimize ko yung browser para makita yung wallpaper like you can even see this is an old like this is an old LG monitor like super old I wasn't married yet I've been married na more I hope my wife's not watching because I can't remember it's five or six years but we're celebrating this month I can't remember exactly how long we've been married but we've been married at a good length of time we have two kids so that goes to show and we didn't even have them right away but this monitor this TV is older than my marriage and you can really see na bui-bigay na yung panel like you can see all these white spots in a grid but I don't care it's useful as a secondary actually it's my fourth monitor already so I will not I'm not complaining that it's still holding on still useful to me this is my old bank bank 278Q I memorized it before but I can't and this is my primary monitor it's 2K 144Hz we still sell it in the shop pretty good but now it's just secondary because I do have my primary monitor here of camera which you can't see not sure if that's the one that Jay was referring to but but I really love this primary monitor it's become a running joke on the channel every time I mention it because I just gosh over it I love this monitor but it does have a downside and if you tune in next week on our video next week I will be talking about a little bit about the downside of my monitor which I love so much it's not yet up for members but it's already with Ren to edit the video in particular but members YouTube members will get to see it before anyone else no update yet let the no update yet lazy cable manager unfortunately still waiting for permits it's terrible if there's one thing I detest more than having to deal with Lazada and Shope it is ridiculous permits subtiler ha I have not I have not actually I know it's a classic but parang I just can't bring myself to watch it like happy life day what do they call it life day it's something like that this is a big thing for you Luigi I remember that you're a big Star Wars fan also I know I can't I don't want to say anything anymore but I'm sure you came in the asoka series somebody who we thought wouldn't come back suddenly came back and now I super want to watch that episode but I haven't started I haven't started the season yet so I can't just jump to that particular episode I have a crush on the girl who plays Sabine the Mandalorian parang so actually like parang you can she has like Asian features ang galing ng pagkakas like she really looks like the cartoon character like I was thinking I don't want to reveal too much like I had no feelings towards the cartoon character but when they made they're like in the flesh like wow this this girl is really cute at least at least what I've seen in the trailer is because I have not seen the series I am super waiting for Andor oh man that was such a good series I understand it was impacted by the ongoing strike I'm a little annoyed by that but yeah Andor Andor was such a good Star Wars series so good so good like so tense I was talking with my friend who is also a big Star Wars fan I was telling him na like I think that's the most tense I've ever been watching Star Wars it's grab it and then when the antihero kind of like his mentor gets his sililo kui gets his speech na you know why we do these things it's a bit of over it's a bit of dramatic you know you you don't want your character suddenly just erupting into speech this is no longer Shakespeare's time but it's such a well-earned speech na parang there's so much gravitas you see what is done the whole season kind of leads up to it and then parang that's just an emotional high point for the character ganda so Andor was pretty good I do agree with you Luigi na ang hirap ang hirap to avoid spoilers I am a little disappointed so far with the third season but I haven't finished it yet so I'll let it be you know I'm not that I'm not the kind of fan that like bitches about it too much siguro yung pinakmalapit na yung discovery hate that like god damn that series I mean it's like why did you have to make it star trek it's like you trampled over everything star trek oh my god god yeah okay like I just said I'm not that kind of fan but discovery really brings out the worst in me for witcher to be honest I only played witcher 3 I loved witcher 3 but I haven't read the novels I haven't played any of the previous witcher games I understand actually witcher the witcher series the games took a lot of liberties also with the source material but I loved love so good what a great game witcher 3 so you know for me the series so far has been alright one two the third season is kind of like but yeah this is a vornado sa vornado a long time viewers also know that I used to have a daison it was just not cooling me well enough so the vornado packs a lot of air power medya mahal siya to be honest I got it on installment 0% sa true value I don't even know why I'm plugging true value but I got two of them actually and they serve me well and they're kind of medya mataas sila they don't rotate though that's your thing but dunya if it's just the retro straight impact kind of thing it's pretty good yes at least Henry Cavill has moved on to another franchise that he really likes I mean nabigo siya sa Superman nabigo siya sa witcher but at least he's moved on to Warhammer like I saw a meme or I saw a joke na like the show can just be him playing with the figurines and people will watch and that's a joke but that's probably true but Henry Cavill that's really like the career of Henry the public image of Henry Cavill that's really improved like from his days at the two doors where he played Henry VIII where he's kind of like a jerk if I remember correctly his reputation was kind of like a lotario type na tipong chick boy he likes jumping around a lot and well if you look like Henry Cavill you know I'm sure the appeal is there right but recently but afterwards like he started getting like deep into the genre then it came out na he built his own computer he was super big into World of Warcraft which is what he was watching when he got the call that he was going to play Superman I think or something like that and then of course like a year or so ago yung pictures niya assemble his own computer with like his like his bicep is like larger na the GPU or something like that na do but he has really he has really his reputation very interesting to see how his reputation kind of rebounded when he positively when he leaned into his interest and to be fair they really sound like his interest it's not like I don't like I don't like pushing the narrative na you know there are true geeks na oh I was into sci-fi when I was like five when it wasn't cool yet or you know I was watching Star Trek Star Wars or Babylon 5 which is also an excellent series but I don't I don't like to think about it like there are true fans versus casual fans everybody's a fan I mean that's it for me so I don't like pushing the narrative and I try to consciously tell myself na when I see a streamer na are they playing a game because they're popular and that's the root of popularity rather than they really were gamers before so I try not to think about it or try not to stereotype some people that way but suffice to say that it seems that Henry Cavill's geekiness is super genuine it's not like something he tacked on because he found a niche that he could be popular in it seemed like that's super genuine like his love of the figurine his love of Witcher and you know all of those things yeah so props props to soups yes Shopee and Lazada are terrible terrible stop Adrian smash the omelette it is a tornado from you can get it in any of the hardware stores true value or ace hardware but not hardware sugar gananong gananong segue na yun na no no I think it's actually gray I think it's just the bounce back from the light above it that makes it kind of like knock to a colored we do not but I actually have been thinking about a little bit about experimenting with more merch someone recently proposed a cape which is not too crazy actually like I would want to bring capes back yeah the noise cancellation is pretty good no subfrids this is actually an Elgato wave one so it's not even the pinakalates ng Elgato but it's the wave one to be I found the noise cancelling to be pretty good and the tornado is like loud I mean it's not like to me it's it's not obnoxiously loud like it's not it's not jet engine jet engine jet engine turbine loud but it is quite loud but yeah the microphone filters it out well I don't think I'm running any software on this this isn't pipe through OBS so I don't have my usual filters in place so yeah it's pretty good sub Jade Shragdoll went to the store ng pabildo ko paid naman na pero may candy sequivalent kaya yun yes just register on our candy portal wait I'll get you the link here okay the programmer if you're watching we should have better like a better way to get to the candy portal it's not immediately clear here man just go to that link make an account and I put it in the comments and there you go and then yeah register an account we'll link your purchases to the account and then you'll get candy points and a lot of our customers like they buy a full build and then they redeem their candy points right away sa steam yep sub cobra g okay let me I will not comment I don't want to get in trouble I do not want to get in trouble okay we actually have some tech questions bottleneck ba yung R5 3400G at 1660 Super maybe a little but you should just go for it that particular CPU you really should slap on a GPU 1660 Super for that range is pretty good middle bottleneck maybe a little bit but your gaming performance will improve dramatically so go for it sub Revenjan apparently I am by myself tonight yes let me just actually message Rin no worries yeah you know as I mentioned at the start of the stream all of the stuff it was easy to get a panel when it was pandemic but now everybody on a Friday night is like oh they had they have other plans I'm the only nerd left who has no plans on a Friday night I will be playing Fortnite later with my friends but as I have finished my four game streams for this month it will not be live I will refer I will refer to you Luigi for the answer to that question no idea right now sorry laughing to myself because I'm like right now I play Fortnite every Friday with my friends and it's such an old guy thing Fortnite is so old it's almost criminal I'm a 3080 I'm a 4k monitor that can do 120 hertz I think or something beautiful OLED monitor and the only game I play with it on a regular basis is Fortnite but that said I do have oh shoot I forgot to post the poll the YouTube poll I guess I'll post it tomorrow because last week we did a poll on what games do you plan on buying on discount I do plan like right now that's all I play really but I do want to finish an adventure game I'm playing it's by the same guys who did Life is Strange love that game then I got one free another game by them free on Steam I forgot the name but I want to finish that but as we enter the Burr months and the inevitable autumn steam sale and the Christmas steam sale I will be getting the new Jedi Jedi survivor of course Starfield but maybe more discounted Phantom Liberty sounds so good I did actually enjoy Cyberpunk 2077 although check out early October because we might be streaming some Phantom Liberty I might be able to get a copy and I might stream it in early October but so those are the kind of 3 AAA games I'm thinking of playing in the near future Phantom Liberty Jedi survivor and Starfield although Armored Core 6 sounds really good I'm a big fan of mecha combat and I love Titanfall 2 when I played it about a year ago I just played it like a year ago like for the first time and there was a new patch recently and multiplayer is back on the table so I might get into that again but right now it that is the very sad answer of what I am gaming now for a lot of needs yes we had a brand they were actually super easy to work with they sent us a copy sorry they sent us they sent us a nas it was a 4 bay nas I do feel bad wait let me pull up the video so that I can I can give them a proper shout out so they sent it to us they sent it to us their 4 bay nas recently oh yeah the tera master f4 4 2 3 but as usual with everything nice that comes into the shop the guys like it and they stole it for the shop before I could steal it for myself so I haven't but yes it's useful for a lot of things I am looking forward to tera master is sending us a 2 bay drive which comes next month that one I will not let the boys in the shop steal I'm gonna steal it for myself ka agad then I'm gonna use it here because I'm gonna set it up as my wife is also a lawyer but she's actively practicing and she has a shit ton of files like I I don't say shit ton lightly she has a whole kaboodle of files and I'm a little affected by it kasi di siya marunong mag Microsoft OneDrive so lahat nung extra files niya yung backup files yung old files niya nakatambaksa akayin sa Google Drive ko so my Google Drive which I pay for like I've actually paid for extra storage but I'm about to run out not because of me but because of my wife's storage I'm looking forward to offloading all of that to the NAS which will come in next month and teacher how to use it how to backup to it of course and a lot of people use it as a media server and things like that so yes it is useful for a lot of things not just like for enterprise level even for like for personal things super useful to be honest I would wait like I would get the I would save up a bit more and I would get the OLED the new OLED coming out from Samsung it looks so good that you know just from the previews and stuff we if you want it we can get it for you like the new upcoming OLED monitor from Samsung it's like our supplier has it and they keep making me kulit na sir sir beli na kayo money does not fall from trees woman sorry I just saw the smashed omelette I have a 3080 and the game I play all the time is battle bit right? you have so much horsepower and like parang it's a crime not to not to use it but at the same time you like the games that you're playing so parang gigabyte gpu na may crack yung pcb this became a thing I think jay's 2 cents was the one who reported it but to be honest no we have not and we have sold a bunch of gigabyte gpus they are a little problematic in the sense na they break down more often than other brands but that particular issue we've never seen it yep I know right and I haven't even watched a single episode I've just seen her in the trailers can I still update the windows you promote on facebook right now if you're asking if you can get a cd key from cd key yes you can I just like today I bought a windows 11 key from them because all of the keys we offer keys if you're buying a rig from us we install the unactivated version for free but we let you know at your convenience we can also activate it and the keys we use to activate whether windows 10 or 11 we buy from cd key and we bought hundreds literally hundreds of keys from them I've said before sometimes the keys don't work but they're very fast in replacing the keys and even the not working like 95% of the time they work out of the gate so yes we have bought hundreds of keys from them we still buy from them that's what we use my windows now is activated like my personal computer now is activated from a key by them so yes they are still very much a thing they are our sponsor but it's nice I actually use them our relationship is not that they just pay me to say nice things about them it's true that they do but it's also true that I have experience with them outside of that relationship like I'm actually a customer and like when I buy from them I don't think they even know like like we have spent a good chunk of change on them literally hundreds of keys but yeah they're all good I am super happy actually that that relationship worked out they're a very good sponsor they pay on time we've had no problems with them and their products are legit because I wouldn't have them as a sponsor the sponsorship money is nice but I wouldn't have them as a sponsor if they weren't providing legitimate products well, legit products in the sense that they work but that's a tricky area and to be honest we've been offered more money in the past by similar services so not CDK but they also sell digital codes we've been offered more money in the past but I don't want to move anymore from CDK because yun nga sobrang sobrang we've used them so often that I can say with a straight face that yes, DCS are good and literally like literally just this morning I bought a windows 11 key from them ay don't know what this one looks like I have to watch a series I haven't watched a series yet so I can't I can't tell it's true it's true the Mandalorian actually the Mandalorian has the same potential to be kind of like that epic cinematic like you know parang Wild Wild West I mean basically like you're following a Wild Wild West type of character load gunman type but yeah andor did feel cinematic I attribute that to the showrunner although you know the Mandalorian showrunner is a favro so it's not like he doesn't have experience in Hollywood Iron Man director everything but I agree with you parang mas cinematic yung feel nung andor what I loved about Mandalorian especially when it came out was that it was classic Star Wars the first time you saw an X-wing again on screen I'm not even talking about like when you see Luke Skywalker but just yung the tech of that era the rebellion versus empire era with the X-wings and the blasters and things like that that is what I really loved about especially Mandalorian Season 1 like seeing that tech again on screen the droids Tatooine Fine, sige all of that all of that I was a little annoyed that they had to blow up Slave 1 because it's not politically correct anymore to have a ship called Slave 1 and then they gave the Mandalorian like a Naboo fighter and like okay sige but just seeing the X-wings again on screen information then that was so good I know I actually thought that initially when I was first watching and then you know Andy Serkis he started interacting with Andor with with Pedro Pascual isn't that Pedro Pascual? no shit sorry it's a Diego something ha! it's gonna be so bad it's like oh they kinda like the same so you mistake them sorry it's not it is not Last of Us Game of Thrones it's a Diego something sorry I forget but when he starts interacting with Andor I call him at first there would be a conflict like two people trying to be the leaders but then they kinda mesh well together and at the end we're like he can't swim pala I have always wanted to I have always wanted to pick up the Orville but I haven't yet it is not supposed to be very it's like a love letter to TNG is what I heard yeah ah yeah sorry Fritz oh no it was the razor crest yes what happened to slave one? oh no because that's Boba Fett's ship sorry sorry you are right Boba Fett's ship is slave one razor crest yung Kay Mandalorian but they got rid of the slave one also and they replaced it with some puny sounding name but Diego Luna you're right sorry JC Diego Luna is the guy in Andor and also the guy in Rogue One who initially played the character yes and it's the razor crest yung apala for the Mandalorian Sabotep wanted to say I'm enjoying the PC that you built for me oh yes yes and tomorrow my nephew will pick up his computer it is ready to go and thank you again for the referral happy to hear that your own PC is working well I think Samsung realized in general ah I think Samsung realized na medyo overpriced yung monitors nila for the Philippine market because Samsung is quality but you are really paying a price premium for buying Samsung monitors I have noticed nga a trend even before the new models were announced medyo may trend na napababay so even the newer models coming out are not as expensive as I thought they would be so it's not just like the older models are heavily discounted but even the newer ones coming out are not so bad ah we like Arctic we like Deep Cool recommended brand for 240 mmrad aio we like Arctic we like Deep Cool these are the brands na magadali performance pero hindi ganon kamahal but if you also like something that is very aesthetically flashy NZXT comes to mind liyan li fractal design had an interesting one with the lumen but they haven't really followed that up I'll actually love the single light thing of the lumen from fractal design but yeah we're like go-to very workman like aio so they're very good look good and they have very good price you know their prices are pretty good are Deep Cool and Arctic id cooling you know is on the cheaper and the spectrum I'm a little hesitant to recommend id cooling we actually carried them before and none of the ones we sold ever came back to us pero yung concern ko lang we've had a lot of aio's come in not from us but from other people complaining about CPU overheating and let me check it's because of the aio na id cooling so long term parang it's really not a good investment like yung nga in Deep Cool yung id cooling yung Deep Cool and Arctic kasi their prices are good but you know the performance is there in the last a long time let me play the ad again guys because I need to and then I will see you after the ad break windows 10 and windows 11 activation pose legit safe at pinakamura madadilo mo order hanapin ang windows version mo gusto mo piliin ang preferred paper and pencil wala pang 5 minutes na ciligit ka na para sa windows mo maraming na kaming na tulungan that's it 7 depart ako but now I found a log of my life dati yung lesson wala ang purpose ang life ko but now I'm a world class zumba instructor so web developer ako and content creator for a youtube channel and ngayon 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for a lot of things and different PC guys will tell you their usual like hula kung ane yung ane yung ugat ng probleman ng problema nato but for me my go to part to blame is always RAM no display like what I would do first I would reseep the RAM and then you can go from there general advice for something like this is to do a reseating reseep your GPU reseep your RAM um you mentioned the the cable or the GPU I it's not usually that just because those things don't usually break down out of the blue um yeah I would I would suggest trying to reseep your RAM or your GPU then maybe see most battery or sometimes it works you just you know unplug the PSU let the power drain and then plug in the PSU and then turn it back on and things like that so it's a very general problem for me I don't know in my experience the problem has always been RAM so that's the first thing I do when something like that happens I try to reseep the RAM not to say that not it could be a whole host of problems it could be a motherboard problem CPU problems things like that it's a very common system for a wide range of problems but you don't need to panic right away a good number of times you can reseep the RAM and you have no idea this is a computer that's been working fine for three years suddenly it wakes up one day and it's like I don't like how this RAM is stuck in my in my motherboard slot and it refuse to work I I don't know why it suddenly refuses to work but for me reseating the RAM more often than not will solve that as ITX addict yeah, RAM then GPU that one we might still be able to get it as a custom order please message us on Facebook if I pair 5600X to 3050 that's fine although I would pair it with something a bit higher 3060 or 4060 you can get the 4060 now cheaper than 3060 and it is faster than the 3060 pero okay naman siya I just feel that 5600X is a good like mid-range entry point for CPU parang tapat mo na rin with a true mid-range card in the 4060 good mobile B550M the usual one recommend is the MSI B550M Pro VDH Wi-Fi we did get a new Astrock B55M we're curious to try that one out I haven't listed it yet okay, that's my bad I have not listed it yet on the site but yeah I mean you don't need to go full with a 5600X you don't need to go full on X570 you can just go with a B550 and that'll be fine definitely AM4 is still viable even for a new build it really depends on the budget but we're still doing a lot of builds now that are AM4 based it's just really still good value for money there is even room for upgrade like you go in with a mid-range 5600X then later on two, three years down the line you wanna kick up performance a little bit you go a bit nuts with a 5800X3D I mean yes the manufacturer AMD has moved on to AM5 but there's still a lot of life left in AM4 so yes can you build still very viable even in November and December a no, right? I don't know Ivan nunag I cannot think of a budget monitor na 4K usually kasi when an exciting entry now into the budget market for monitors is very fast like ridiculously fast 180Hz fast monitors pero 1080p we have one on stock now from Viewsonic we have one on stock na mas mahal but still very cheap for 180Hz from ASUS so when you're saying budget now sorry budget monitors before like you could get one from Lazada last year for 6000 plus or so that was already 2K 166Hz I think we did a video on it like a year, a year and a half ago Prism Plus recently came on the market full disclosure we had a sponsored video from them but we really like the monitor I mean that's the honest long and short of it so there are budget monitors but usually they're focused on 1080p up to 2K and high resolution sorry, high refresh rate but not 4K I can't I can't think of the top of my head of a budget monitor at 10,000 pesos actually people might accuse me na hindi na yung budget but for a good monitor 180Hz and 1080p sub 10,000 would already be very good true budget monitors mga 6,000 you'll find people selling like 3,000 pesos of monitors but that's that's not worth it when I hear budget I think that yes money is a little limited but you still want to get the best value for money 3,000 pesos of monitor I don't care what the specs are those are just not worth it you'll find like office monitors like 70Hz or something 22 inches I mean that's not that's not a great game experience yung ya you double your budget around 6,000 7,000 or so you can find decent ones but you know there are limitations approaching the 10,000 mark is where you can feel safe na hindi siya masisiraka agad and you're getting very decent specs but yung ya for 4K hard to think of one na coming from 6700 XT and you can upgrade to 7800 XT should I go for it or save up a little more for force invisible I would wait to go with the 4070 Ti because prices will probably drop a little bit and the price different the performance also so we are expecting prices to go down a little bit as we approach the December months and 10 to 15 FPS difference is quite a lot for gaming well you know if it's between 100 and 115 FPS not so much right but if you're at 60 then maging 75 that is a big difference in terms of just how fluid everything is on screen so I would wait personally and most of all is if you're happy with your gaming experience now like hindi ka pa sa gaming experience mo I would wait that's all through the software of your motherboard so usually motherboards now have pins for both RGB and ARGB so whether that's the 3 pin 5 volt and the 4 pin 12 volt the 3 pin is ARGB the 4 pin is RGB all of that can sink through your software being used sorry old card so all of that can sink through the software that you're using and as long as they can somehow all connect to your motherboard yan yung mahalaga na all of the RGB ARGB stuff that you have can somehow connect to your motherboard whether it's through an internal USB port whether it's through the RGB ARGB headers they gotta connect some out to the motherboard so that you can control them via software sometimes the software doesn't work depending on what kind of hardware you're sticking actually I've been wanting to do a video on third party software like signal RGB that can supposedly synchronize different hardware components from different brands so that's actually something I've actively been wanting to do for the channel yes very much so there is nothing illegal about unactivated windows Microsoft knows I mean Microsoft does not require to activate windows it's not it's not like in the past na you know you had an X amount of time to try it out and then you had to pay for it Windows now it's completely free and Microsoft does not charge you for its use it's not doing it out of the goodness of its heart it is establishing itself as the premiere OS for x86 or x86 back in the day Windows based PC now you call it Windows based because we've moved into the era where it's more lucrative to own the platform that software is on Android Google doesn't pay you doesn't ask you to pay for the use of Android because Google knows that it's advantageous to get Android on as many phones as possible the same with Microsoft they make windows free not because they suddenly become charitable it's because they realize that oh yes we do want more people using windows the more we can push Xbox Game Pass or we can push MS Office we can push OneDrive and all of those things that we've integrated into Windows that's why it goes back to the strategy of integrating Internet Explorer back in the late 90s which cost the initial antitrust suit of the US government against Microsoft we can go super into the details about corporate strategy and law and things like that but bottom line it is 100% legal to use free windows because windows is free now if you want to activate it you can sidestep the annoying watermark which Microsoft puts on free windows but yeah it is not illegal thank you Fritz I've always wanted to ask CDKID our sponsor like how many people I mean I guess people do buy their keys because because they've been exposed to us because they keep sponsoring us naman I'm just curious like what the numbers are and then to be like I've mentioned I've mentioned that we bought hundreds of keys from them but I don't use our own discount code because it's like I think it'll be cheating the sponsor in the sense that they thought like oh sobrang laki nung hot pack ng hardware sugar na somebody is using their key to buy hundreds of keys it's artificially inflating the sales numbers to be honest completely upfront I use discount codes that I find on their site but I don't use HS20 so that they can't link the sale back to us and also so that they can't it's harder for them to pinpoint na oh maybe we should give priority customer service to this guy because apparently we sponsor things like that so there are a variety of reasons so I think it's like so there are a variety of reasons why I don't use our own discount code um all of the reasons basically boiling down to I want to keep them honest that I want to get the experience that you would feel if you were a customer and not someone because like oh yeah this guy has bought hundreds of keys under HS20 he must be hard with sugar or something or something so I do not actually use our own I do not actually use our own code we can get it also we can get it also Liam Magnae we can also get the new Odyssey G9 OLED medyo pricey lang ha I've always loved VR I've been curious about the AR I'm not an Apple fan but I thought their their announcement of I forget what they called it but basically their AR headset was super exciting and yung na I'm not even an Apple fan damn Apple RX 7600 or 3060 4060 like I would say 4060 just because I I am more the target of NVIDIA in terms of I care about what the graphics look like I'm sorry not to say that AMD users don't care but like NVIDIA is better at implementing RTX is better at implementing upscaling technology all of which makes the game look prettier but if you just want the game to run faster that's not necessarily what you want to focus on so it really depends on the kind of gamer that you are me because I want to get immersed in the story even if it's just the shooter I care I do like my games to look pretty so NVIDIA does a better job of pushing its hardware to make its games look prettier the 7600 you know performance wise is not bad it's keeping NVIDIA honest but it's more like if you want raw FPS rather than the details of the scene in front of you so for me personally I would go with the 4060 but that's just because of the kind of gamer that I am yun yung context ko dun ako ng gagaling and so it depends on you POSAB if you just want to play super fast valorant 7600 would probably be a better price to performance or DOTA 2 to be honest I don't even need that big of a GPU to max out DOTA 2 but yung nga I do like story games and even like shooters I like to up up the settings and NVIDIA does better on that front 7900 XTX or gram light mag wheels sub kale and keel sub odchi that's a good point there's nothing illegal about using free windows but if you belong to a big organization like the big multinational companies like making sure that everything is activated just so that I don't know what it is to be honest I've never worked for like a very big company but it's sure that they do like to audit their their employees although to be strict about it that is not a law thing that is a company policy thing so legal wise there's you know free windows is legal it is free if you run a file of third party requirements like your employer things like that that is also a possibility that's true well we do have a happy in cooling the customer although yung nga it's hard hard to recommend it after um yung nga as a shop we see we see like the whole range of of products so even once we don't sell so I if you've had a good experience with a particular brand great for you but the advantage of having a shop is that we can see we have a large sample size to compare to and in cooling it doesn't isn't that consistent um in terms of its quality but if you have a good unit good for you I kill and kill if I remember correctly you were the one asking about bigamang supplier how did that go this works more often than you would think hey hey I had a youtube comment way back when na parang paggalit siya parang sinusuntok niya yung computer niya or something and I was like really you gotta get your angry issues in check man not from fritz I mean it was a comment some random comment I can't remember like way back when ah yes in back if I could bring the camera down now that's what I have I have um basically I have two extensions one for the internet and my unit and then the other one is the one down here for my speakers and my monitors and things like that um yeah so plugging it in within reason um to an extension is fine I tried to get the more durable ones hindi na naman yung parang wire lang but um yes Alec Velasco is it worth you to upgrade to 5600X3D I'm assuming you mean the 5800X3D from 5600X with 3080 yes 5600X3D one of the best CPUs you can get for gaming value for you know value for money um the best best would be the 7800X3D but that's a whole different socket so for the 5600X to is there ah sorry are you talking about like legit the 5600X3D the one they release in the states is that the one um I wouldn't like I agree sorry I just assumed that you meant the 5800X3D and I agree with the ITX addict I wouldn't get the like I don't know how you got one is that the one exclusive to exclusive to micro center but I would jump to the 5800X3D no that's not normal you should try to identify where the rattle's coming from is it just the fans like baka they're not mounted properly on the radiator what temps you know you know are they at 100% ang RPM ng fans a rattle is not normal 5800X3D is pretty good yes worth the upgrade alright guys I do have to go now basically I'm going to be irresponsible and I told my friends to outplay at 830 and it's 830 but I haven't even had dinner yet so in my list of priorities for my life it's the YouTube channel pwede magtanong and then gaming but as gamers I'm sure you sympathize and I'm sure you can relate so thank you so much for joining me for another episode of pwede magtanong I apologize that you were only left with me for this episode but I think we made the most out of it it's pretty good tomorrow we will drop our price watch for this month spoiler alert the prices are not that great but there is something on the horizon that you should consider especially if you're looking to buy high-end GPUs and the next week we do have a video coming out where in part I talk about the downside of this very beautiful monitor that's right in front of me right now so sorry I saw a question from Lea Magnaya best lens for the ZV-E10 I really love the Sony it was like 35mm but that's the one that broke god damn it it broke and I'm still trying to find somebody to fix it so this is the stock lens now I tried the Tamron I think which gets high marks for value for money but it really wasn't as good as the as the Sony one I saw somebody else I saw somebody else mention a oh lazy cable manager Sigma 18 2.8 I'd have to look into that I'm actually looking out to get a replacement so the Tamron one is in the shop now we've got that second hand I'm looking for one for myself here because I do a shoot a lot here at home and for the live streams the stock lens is just a bit wide for me maganda na saan na ang angle with the portrait kind of lens with the Sony and yeah it just broke broke on me okay last question is it okay to use Seagate Seahawk Lite HDD for main HDD for game so the Seahawk sorry the Skyhawk is meant for CCTV yun yung product line na yun and they don't really recommend that for mainstream applications because they're worried that the drive might break more it's meant for this kind of like low quality data so yung mga CCTV footage should get dumped there and it's all deleted after a certain amount of time certainly it's not as durable as the iron wolf line of Seagate that being said I'm kind of in the same boat as you because I got a good deal around two years ago on the WD Purple yung Purple yung parang Skyhawk line ni WD pang CCTV and people were like no no you shouldn't use that for storage kasi yung yung madali siya masira since it's meant for this kind of low quality stuff it's meant for storing low quality files basically yung durability na yung if you're using it for mainstream storage don't listen to me now and then masisira lang yun I've been using it for two years I use it to store my video files and everything is good that said I don't use it as my primary storage I use an NVMe MP33 from team group as my primary storage I have a separate drive just for games na SSD so I strictly only use that as storage for video files they are important video files they are my files for the YouTube channel so all of my raw footage that I've shot and also the finished videos they are important to me I am keeping them on a CCTV drive so far walang problema but that being said even ay medyo kabahan ako to use it as a main drive like even for your OS like use it as a backup drive use it for your pictures your videos your files but I wouldn't use it for my main OS and for games it is pretty good liya magnaye like it served me well for a long time but as I kind of get into the groove more now of looking like what I need for the channel and things like that it has just really I'll grow like yeah I just really started ending up liking that Sony lens so much I do need like a closer crop kind of lens kind of thing yun thanks so much guys have a good weekend stay safe from the volcanic fog which apparently was not the fog that we experienced pag asa came out and said the fog that we experienced was just normal air pollution so there bye


influence of architecture of molybdenum disulphide and tungsten disulphide and similar materials they are known for their super lubricity. However, some additives like titanium chromium and similar materials could rest or improve these properties remarkably in that these types of coatings can be used not just in a very restricted atmosphere like a very high vacuum or a atmosphere having a very low value of relative humidity, but with such additives it is now possible to use this thing in a more pragmatic way that means, in the normal working condition and this type of coating has shown marked improvement in their performance. Now, following this idea and this logic there had been several attempts to improve the property of this molybdenum disulphide coating or tungsten disulphide coating along with some hard conventional hard coating material. Say for example, we can use titanium nitride along with molybdenum disulphide and these two combination can improve the performance of either of titanium nitride or that of MOS2. Now, it is in fact, it is no longer just molybdenum disulphide coating it is more or less a composite coating and the whole coating that means, the top functional layer that is built on a solid foundation of some hard coating. So, this is actually a built structure well built structure of this coating and this architecture when properly built is supposed to give one of the best properties in all mechanical tribological problem. Now, this architecture we can have say for example, at least we can have 6 architecture which is possible we can have a quick look to this. Say we know that MOS2 this is MOS2 with a sub layer of titanium and then it can be substrate this is one possibility this is one extremity super lubricity. However, we can have another extremity where just we have TIN that is well known for its hardness and wear resistance. So, this is just one adhesive layer and S means the substrate. So, these are the two combination. Now, what can be so, this is one architecture this is number 2 we can have the third one and third one is something like this first of all we have the substrate on that just a thin layer which is called adhesive layer over that we can have TIN and on the top of that we can have MOS2. So, this is also possible 3. Now, we can have fourth option here. Now, this is actually it is a now a combination it is no more a monoface this is top monoface this is also hard top monoface this is also top monoface, but it is a multi layer, but this is going to be a co-deposited coating that means, on this coating we have both here we have both MOS2 and titanium nitride and over this what we have here just T I and followed by this substrate. The fifth option what we can have this would be an architecture. So, this is MOS2 plus TIN followed by the foundation layer of TIN. So, this is TIN and then we have here just S. Similarly, we can have another option sixth. So, here we have say this is actually one of those development work MOS2 plus T I followed by one titanium hard layer and then we have here adhesive titanium and substrate here too we have adhesive titanium. So, we can examine all these three six and here we have to examine them for their performance and we can judge which one is the best architecture and then following this there can be some process variable of sputtering and just varying those we can find out which one is the best condition for this sputtering. Now, we know that for sputtering for say a pulse DC keeping that frequency constant what we can do we can change the cathode current that means, cathode current of titanium or cathode current of MOS2 that is on one side and then also the substrate bias that means, the bias voltage for the substrate that is also another process parameter. So, these two process parameters can be varied and we can look into all those responses in terms of the properties of the coating that means, when we see the influence of architecture that what we mean the influence of this architecture on the final mechanical properties of the coating. Now, here two thing we can look into that first of all the hardness of the coating now when we have such architecture we can find out here that means, first of all this is hardness this is H v and on this H v we can have a hardness something like this and then we can have this is number 1 and then number 2 will be very high for obvious reason because this is number 2 means here just we have titanium nitride and since titanium nitride is known for its hardness. So, we expect a higher hardness followed by number 3 and this number 3 is actually MOS2 and which is supported by this TIN. So, its hardness will fall, but we can see the bulk hardness of this 3 will be more than that of 1 because here we have a support of TIN. So, that will be somewhere little below this one and then we have number 4 in number 4 what we can see here that it is a composite coating, but with no support layer of TIN. So, it will give a bulk value which will be more than MOS2, but it will be less than of TIN. So, naturally when we see that this value of TIN then definitely this will be less than that one. So, we have something somewhere here and this is going to be 3 and that is going to be 4 and then we have number 5 and this number 5 we can have a quick look here that this number 5 distinguishes itself from rest of the thing because in this case we have a composite architecture at the top, but we have a supporting layer of TIN. So, this is one of the very hard coating and in this case we have TIN and at the same time at the top MOS2 plus TIN. So, with this we expect a hardness which will definitely exceed or more than that of 3 and 4, but it can be more than 2 because it is top TIN and it is just a composite. So, it has its own effect and as a result we have this hardness which will be somewhere here. So, this is 5. So, architecture 5 that will give a hardness more than 3 and 4, but less than 2 and then we have this MOS2 Ti plus TIN and this is going to be one which will give a hardness somewhere little more than this and so it will be 6. So, it will be here less than 5, but more than 4. So, it will be less than 5, but more than 4. So, this is the distribution of hardness. So, this is one way we can find the hardness distribution, but one thing of immediate interest next will be that this what we call adhesion. That means, this critical load, critical normal load which causes the first failure of the coating and in this scale it is also the observation that if we put the bar diagram we can find that for all this 1, 2, 3, 4 and this is actually here what we find this one. So, this is something like that this is 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and this coating that means, the coating with this architecture of MOS2 TIN at the top that one and with a coating inter layer of TIN and that gives a good adhesion and this is actually the value what we can see here. Now, comes very important thing. So, for 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. So, what we see here the adhesion of this one is not so good. Now, in this case what happens with this combination actually the resistance to fracture and resistance to crack of TIN which is rather micro grain which is coarse grain here and which becomes little bit micro grain. So, resistance to cracking and resistance to fracture that becomes more and because of this grain refinement and that is why we expect a better adhesion in this case. Now, come what is important that coefficient of friction. Coefficient of friction that means, this is actually the coefficient of friction one can find out in the ball wire test that means, it is a tribometer and with the pin on disc what is also our observation that means, these samples this C1, C2, C3, C4 and C5. Now, here obviously, since one is having just pure MOS2 obviously, from stands points of lubricity that is going to be the best one. However, that is short lived that means, life of this coating is very short it is a short lived coating. However, when it is mixed with when we when it is number 3 with a support of TIN the life is actually more compared to that of this one. So, it gives a greater support. So, what we find also compared to this 4, 5 is a better one and this is because of the support of TIN. So, what we can put in this case that this C1 that means, in here what we can show that C1 coefficient of friction that is less and then we have C3 that is the second lowest followed by C5 and then we have C5 and finally, C2. So, coefficient of friction in that scale C1 happens to be the one which gives the lowest value of coefficient of friction because of this MOS2 and TIN it is not that lubricating coating though it is one wear resistance coating and in this respect what we find that in between C3 and C5 that means, this one with MOS2 with a TIN support that gives thus that is the second best and then we have this MOS2 with TIN and with a TIN support that is the third one in that ranking. Now, apart from that what is also important for us also to know that is called wear coefficient wear coefficient is actually the wear on the track that means, on the disc which is coated on the disc we have a wear channel and the depth of that channel from that we can determine wear coefficient we have already discussed that means, the volume of the wear on that circular wear channel wear track divided by the normal load which is in which is applied into the distance travelled by this normal load. So, from that point of view what we can find here we can just show this thing this is wear coefficient. So, here what we define this wear coefficient of this coating number 1 that means, this is not that wear resisting though friction value is quite low, but that is only for a small period of time and then we have here 2 3 4 1 2 3 and then we have here 4 this is the number 4 that is a composite coating without any support and finally, what we have we have here this 5 and this 5 means it is composite coating with a support of titanium nitride and that give also quite low value of this coating. So, from this point of view what we find that this 5th one that means, a architecture with this value with this architecture with m o s 2 plus T i n with a support of T i n that gives one of the best value in consideration of hardness number 1, number 2 that means, this adhesion with the substrate this is number 2 and number 3 that is the coefficient of friction and number 4 that is the wear coefficient that means, the how much is the wear. So, with all this consideration what we find this number 4 this particular architecture that means, the architecture which consist of this architecture this is the substrate here we have a T i coating this is T i and on that top it is T i n and finally, the functional coating this one is actually it is m o s 2 plus T i n. So, this is architecture so, out of this what has been found that this particular architecture this particular architecture with a support of T i n that is found to be on overall performance of this architecture is found to be the best considering the overall performance. Now, here one thing we also should look in now during sputtering of m o s 2 what happens that it is also the cathode current or say cathode power, cathode power of m o s 2 and also the process pressure these two and the stand of distance S o d that means, the stand of distance between the cathode and the substrate from this there is a relation and if the cathode power and process pressure considering S o d if they are not properly chosen then instead of this two we may end up with something S x where S x is not equal to 2 in most likeness that is less than 2. However, it is also our observation that with even less value of 2 we can get a good coating with the desired basal plane which is parallel to the substrate surface and also a tribological coating which can give offer a low value of a coefficient of friction. So, it is actually instead of m o s 2 most more reasonable would be to write m o s x where this x value depend upon this cathode power process pressure and S o d under a given set of condition. So, this is m o s x coating that presenting this in the general form m o s x. Now, this m o s x and with T i n most important thing here is that what will be this proportion atomic percentage that means, m o s x plus T i n. So, one would be interested to know what will be this m o plus s within this T i n. So, T i n is on one side and this m o plus s. So, this is something quite important and interesting to know and for that what can be done in this case there is some restriction in the operational restriction with this cathode power of m o s 2 target say about 1 watt first centimeter square and with this it may not be that easy to vary this cathode current for m o s 2 target that means, monibidinum disulphide cathode current cannot be that conveniently varied. On the other hand what can be handled rather easily that titanium target titanium cathode current and that has been done that means, in this process in fact, what has been done if we consider it is actually a dual cathode machine in this dual cathode machine this is the rotary table and here we have this titanium cathode and m o s 2 cathode. So, what can be done in this dual cathode system that titanium cathode current that could have been varied say from 5 ampere 3.5 ampere this is just by way of illustration any other combination is also possible and with that we can also see the effect of this thing on the overall performance. Now with this what we can find that this percentage of m o s 2 that means, this is actually. So, what we get it is something like this. So, it is titanium cathode current. So, percentage of m o s. So, when we have higher value of titanium naturally we have higher percentage of titanium nitride in the coating. So, this is actually a reactive sputtering. So, where titanium and nitrogen admission that means, titanium nitride and then m o s 2 as a whole that is deposited. So, it is a reactive sputtering of titanium nitride and direct sputtering of m o s 2 using a pulse DC system and we have another observation in this case that is actually s by m o ratio. So, what we have seen so far the effect of coating architecture that we have just discussed with this coating architecture we found that this m o s x plus titanium nitride coating architecture that gives the best overall performance and then this adhesion, hardness, frictional characteristic wear coefficient. So, considering all this we saw that this is the overall performance that is the best one. Now what we can find here that this is now T i n m o s x coating. So, influence of m o s a m o and s content. So, that what we have seen here also it is T i cathode current. So, what we can see here that grain size that is also one thing now with this formation of this variation of cathode current say from 5 3.5 2 and 1 those in ampere what we can see the grain size that is the grain size and this may be cathode current or m o plus s content. So, what we find here it is something like this it is falling and here it is about 2 atomic percent, here it is about 4 atomic percent and this is about 12.75 and this is about 16.75. So, this is a condition of deposition where the process pressure was 1.5 milli tor m o s 2 cathode current that was restricted to 0.5 ampere and then the cathode current of this titanium that actually that was varied. So, with this we can get a grain size of this order and then comes very important thing that is actually the surface that means that adhesion. So, with this what we can see here that this is just l c critical normal load and this critical normal load what we can found that this is actually a it is just like a rising and a falling curve. So, this is actually a zone that means where we have a good result that means the good result it is somewhere around 4 to 12.75 atomic percent atomic percent of m o s m o plus s where we can get a good value of l c that means the adhesion, but when it is below that it was drooping sharply and here also it has a very sharp fall. So, this can be considered a zone where it is expected to give a good result. However, hardness wise it is continuously falling. So, it is a continuously falling the reason is as follows that higher the percentage of m o s naturally this is going to be a soft phase and with this soft phase what we have seen that this compound hardness or say the average hardness of this composite structure because this is going to be a composite structure here what we have this is going to be the structure. So, that this is actually m o plus s and this is titanium nitride. So, when we measure this hardness the influence of the substrate definitely this coating comes in picture and here we have m o s plus also. So, here we have m o plus s which is in the form of m o s x plus T i n. So, higher the percentage of this one naturally when we measure the hardness it has its own influence that is why it has a drooping curve. Now, when it is a coefficient of friction so if we put this way the coating with the highest value that is going to give the I mean that means, here this coating this coating that means, a coating with m o s 16.5 percent and then we have 1 with 12.75 and then we have 1 with 4 percent and then this one with around 2 percent and this is corresponding to 1 ampere cathode current this is 2 this is a 3.5 and this is 5 of titanium cathode current titanium cathode current. So, with this what we see that the friction coefficient for this one that is going to be the lowest followed by this composition. So, lower the value of m o s higher will be the coefficient of friction. However, what is very important here to know that in this case we have also another term what we called wear coefficient wear coefficient. So, when we consider the wear coefficient definitely we found out that this wear coefficient of this 2 that means, this percentage wise this is much better compared to that with higher value of percentage of m o plus s that means, this is a zone this is a zone where we can have a low value of wear coefficient though we can have a higher value of wear coefficient with higher percentage of m o s that means, a range within this 12.75 percent to 4 percent that is going to be a good condition for deposition of this composite coating and in this case we can get a good value of wear coefficient and this is just a balance between titanium nitride content and that of m o s content and at the same time the coefficient of friction that can be also obtained with a rather favourable value. So, this is actually on one side the coefficient of friction and at the say on the other side this is also the wear coefficient. Now, considering this 2 what we find that this value in fact, wear coefficient will be quite high on this side. Now, in this case this is actually the percentage of this 16.5, 12.5 or 4. However, what we can find considering the coefficient of friction and wear coefficient we can find that this zone this is not to be compared to this one. So, this is actually a zone where we can find one of the good performing coating considering this value of this critical adhesion load critical adhesion normal load and also the coefficient of friction which has been also explained and at the same time the wear coefficient. So, this is a percentage atomic percentage of molybdenum plus sulphur inside the top functional layer which can give a favourable value of wear coefficient considering other 2 properties that means, the coefficient of friction and also the critical load of adhesion. Now comes the effect of substrate bias. Now, we understand that this effect of substrate bias is to improve the hardness of the coating to improve the density of the coating to reneutralize any stress which can build because of temperature high temperature and a wide difference in coefficient of thermal expansion and also the modulus of elasticity. So, the role of bias is well understood. However, what is the best value of this substrate bias that also one has to look because of the simple reason that too much of substrate bias can also cause risk partering of the coating and then the growth rate will also can fall. Not only that in addition to that too much of energy of impingement that means, this impinging ion can also cause too much of interaction at the interface promoting a diffusion across the interface and as a result of that a formation of thick diffusion layer may not be ruled out and this can also be counter productive in that that the adhesion strength that means, the critical value may also be affected and hardness value may also be affected that means, with a low with a high value of substrate bias, hardness value also even fall. So, these are the two things one can immediately look in apart from this coefficient of friction and also the wear coefficient. So, we can look into this effect of substrate bias. Now, with this increase of substrate bias what we can see that this S M contained that means, what we are interested in sulphur plus molybdenum in the coating and with this increase of bias voltage what we can see we can also have a falling curve and this is because of the sputtering risk sputtering of molybdenum MOasex. So, MOasex actually gets risk sputtered from this coating that means, the coating is somewhere here this is titanium nitride this is going to be the substrate and on the top of that we have to have we are supposed to have MOasex plus tin. So, when we have this high value of this V S which is the substrate bias now this energy incoming ion that will impinge that will bombard the surface and it will lead to risk sputtering of this preferentially in comparison to titanium nitride. So, as a result of that what would be the outcome in this coating we can have less amount of MOasex and relatively more amount of tin. So, this is one point should be also taken in consideration then another thing this is S MO ratio this is also very important issue if we consider the tribological property of this coating. So, it is actually S MO ratio with this V S. So, this is also not only S plus M keep on falling, but within this S plus M which remains inside the coating in that also the ratio of S and M that is also falling. That means, in clear term if we increase V S then in this MOasex the value of S x will keep on falling and with that fall we may arrive at a situation in that case this MOase that combination that means, molybdenum and sulphur that combination in certain sulphide form substoichiometric sulphide that will not be in a position to give any tribological property and the whole purpose will be just lost or defeated. So, this has to be also taken into consideration. So, normally say bias voltage if one consider to increase bias starting from 0 say it is minus 30, minus 40, minus 60 and minus 90 this is a range. So, if one try to examine the effect of the substrate bias voltage. So, one should have such kind of variation with increase of bias voltage. Now, comes grain size. Now, this grain size this is also important considering the refinement of the coating surface roughness of the coating. So, grain size. So, here what we can find that grain size is having such a variation and it is around say with that condition around minus 40 volt we got one of the this is actually sorry this is actually it should be like this grain size. So, it is actually somewhere like this. So, it is the grain size here. So, this is around minus 40. So, this is the grain size and that can be also looked into from X R D. Now, when we have this X R D diagram it is typically of the shape. So, and this is actually angle which gives a 2 theta value corresponding to 0 0 2 plane and this one from the shape of this X R D diagram one can also have fair assessment about the grain fineness. So, this is one. So, what we call full width at half maximum full width at half maximum that means, if we consider this full width at half maximum of this X R D then we can find out a graph this is one graph we can also have a graph which is quite wider compared to this one. So, when we see from the same 2 theta the same place a wider X R D then this one actually gives a finer grain size. So, this may be a graph with minus 40 volt and this may be a graph with 9 minus 90 volt or minus 60 volt or 0 volt without any bias. So, from this X R D X ray diffraction diagram one would be able to also locate the condition where or around which grain has the finest size or the smallest size. So, this grain size refinement that is also the result of this substrate biasing. Similarly, what we can do? Addition of the coating. Now, addition of the coating that is also important that is the most important property one should look for. So, this is LC and this is also bias. So, here also we see that this is going to be a graph of this nature and this may be a zone which will be of immediate interest and it is around minus 40 volt this is actually a 0 volt. So, this is about 0 volt where we have one of the lowest LC value that means the critical adhesion strength and this is may be around 30, but on this side it is actually minus 60 and this is going to be minus 90. So, what happens in this case too much of stressing and at the interface and also if we have because of very high energy availability too much of diffusion or a diffusion layer and on this side there is no diffusion. So, no diffusion or too much of diffusion both are counter productive. So, a value in between that could give one of the very best result so far as addition is concerned hardness. Now, this hardness this also can have a curve like this with substrate bias and here also a zone we may come across around minus 40 and this is where we have densification of the coating that closing all the pores voids. However, if we go further to this then what is happening that too much of compressive stress will be frozen inside the coating and the material becomes too brittle on this side and when that indenter comes on this coating and try to penetrate instead of having any plastic deformation very localized plastic deformation this penetration this loading of the indenter that actually leads to crack propagation because the material cannot undergo even the smallest possible plastic deformation and as a result the material shows crack propagation and that means it has a lower surface hardness. Frictional characteristics now with this also what is what we have seen coefficient of friction coefficient of friction that has been also seen in between here. So, this is actually given by a particular morphology of the coating and which we could get around this value and on the two sides the coefficient of friction is rather high and this will also lead to another graph which is called wire coefficient. So, this is a measure of wire on the ball or also on the disc. So, here also we find that with this we have high value with low bias, but somewhere around intermediate value of minus 40 we get one of the lowest wire amount of wire which is the lowest around this value and that is because of the hardness of the coating low value of the friction and with this the coating can give one of the best possible performance in actual practice. So, what we find as a summary what we can summarize that we have examined various types of coating architecture one may be just molybdenum disulphide. However, it is known that this molybdenum disulphide alone cannot work so effectively in all for all practical purpose in normal atmosphere and that is why this molybdenum disulphide always come with material like titanium, chromium and similar material of transition group to improve its property that means, protecting against moisture, oxidation and holding that basal plane that means, this 002 plane parallel to the substrate surface. So, these are the major role of this type of elements which are added in small quantity and their atomic percentage hardly exceeds 10 15 percent and with that this coating capability capability or performance of the coating could have been raised remarkably. However, it has been found that this coating performance of this coating can be augmented further just by putting a hard surface layer beneath this top functional tribological coating to have a better and much improved bearing surface that means, the load bearing capability of this top functional coating can be also improved and that is why there has been lot of attempts to put some transitional element metal nitrides and one of those is titanium nitride. So, with this titanium nitride as the intermediate supporting layer and the top titanium layer with MOS 2 that results shows a much promise. However, the most remarkable thing is that this TIN which is just beneath MOS 2 that can be also brought on the top surface and it can also play as one of the contributor in the top functional coating that means, the top functional coating is just not MOS 2 or MOS 2 with small addition of titanium. However, this is going to be rather major part will be this hard material like titanium nitride and with this titanium nitride and with addition of MOS 2 we can see that this properties of structure properties of titanium nitride could have been improved a lot and with that MOS 2 addition with right amount which has been controlled by controlling the cathode current of titanium and then also by holding so substrate suitable substrate bias value we can find out one of the best condition which not only holds the hardness high adhesion strength and then low very low coefficient of friction, but at the same time grain refinement and a low wear coefficient that can be also achieved. So, what we can see that this titanium nitride plus MOSX type coating which can be termed like a hard loop coating that can have a very balanced property in terms of wear resistance and lubrication.


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