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Sunday Entertainment Edition: The Best PC Hardware Videos of the Week + Esports Events You Can't Miss (Nov 1, 2026)

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Sunday Entertainment Edition: The Best PC Hardware Videos of the Week + Esports Events You Can't Miss (Nov 1, 2026)

Sunday Entertainment Edition: The Best PC Hardware Videos of the Week + Esports Events You Can't Miss (Nov 1, 2026)

It's Sunday. Your week's builds are benchmarked, your Thermals are balanced, and the only remaining performance metric that matters is "couch-to-remote latency." Today's the day we trade in benchmark runs for binge-watching — and honestly, this week served up an absolute buffet. A touchscreen MacBook, a GPU with doubled memory, a $3 million esports tournament starting literally today, and a case brand quietly winning the community's heart. Grab the popcorn; here's your watch order.

🎬 The Watch List: Six Channels, Zero Filler

1. Linus Tech Tips — "I Doubled My GPU's Memory…"

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My kind of video. The title alone is a silicon-lottery fever dream: taking a GPU and doubling its memory. Whether it's a mod, a hack, or some beautiful engineering crime, this is exactly the "what happens if we try this?" energy that makes tech YouTube worth watching. It dropped Oct 31, so consider it your Halloween treat.

Bonus pick:

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(Oct 30) — Linus tours the warehouse picking castaway tech. Pure comfort food for a lazy Sunday.

2. Gamers Nexus — HW News: OpenAI Says You Waste RAM, Jailbreak Everything, RIP RTX 5080

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Steve Burke's weekly news omnibus landed this morning (Nov 1), and it's a stacked one: Sam Altman claiming users waste RAM (the irony of that coming from AI companies is not lost on anyone), a jailbreak-everything segment, the "RIP RTX 5080" narrative, and the Anthropic IPO. If you only watch one video to stay smart this week, this is it — GN remains the industry's grumpiest, most valuable conscience.

3. JayzTwoCents — "HAVN is quickly becoming my favorite case brand…"

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Jay covered the HAVN HS 360 (Oct 30), a case he first saw at Computex that incorporates fixes suggested by the community. That's the good stuff — manufacturers actually listening. HAVN's cases have become the darling of the builder scene, and the deal corner below tells you why people are voting with their wallets.

Shorts round: Jay also dropped two gems —

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staring a massive 90nm 8800 GTX Ultra die (nostalgia hit straight to the 2007 cortex), and

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on AMD's upscaling now running on RX 6000 cards, Xbox, and handhelds. Free performance on old silicon? That's the best kind of update.

4. Hardware Unboxed — "Worse Than The 'Unlaunched' RTX 4080 12GB & Gamers DON'T CARE!"

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Steve Walton with the spiciest headline of the week (Oct 31): a monitor — the Gigabyte MO32U24 — that's apparently worse than the infamous unlaunched RTX 4080 12GB fiasco… and gamers are buying it anyway. HUB's data-driven takedowns are appointment viewing, and this one doubles as a "watch before you buy a monitor" PSA.

5. Dave2D — "The NEW MacBook Pro - First Impressions"

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Dave's calm, no-fluff first impressions of the new MacBook Pro (Oct 29) are the perfect counterweight to the loud takes. When Dave uploads a MacBook video, the laptop world pays attention — and this generation is a doozy (see below).

6. MKBHD — "Macbook PROLED XDR Impressions: They Said They Wouldn't!"

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Apple made a touchscreen MacBook. They said they wouldn't. Marques' impressions (Oct 29) cover the "PROLED XDR" — thinner, lighter, touch-first — with shorts coverage citing a $2,900 USD starting price. Fifteen-plus years after Steve Jobs called touchscreen laptops "ergonomically terrible," the red screen of doom meets the Touch Bar's ghost. LTT even got their own custom one (

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). Whether it's genius or heresy, it's the tech story of the week.

Community wildcard:

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(AFTRDARK, Oct 31) — the PS5 emulator race is genuinely wild, with that channel reporting roughly half of 300 tested PS5 titles at least launching. Linus' reaction: "That's Freaking Nuts." Correct.

🏟️ The Events Calendar: Your Couch, But Competitive

HAVN HS 420 dual-chamber case — the community-approved builder favorite

November is stacked. Here's what to circle:

Event Dates Why It Matters
PUBG Mobile Global Championship 2026 Starts today, Nov 1 $3,000,000 USD prize pool. The biggest mobile esports event of the year kicks off now (escharts.com)
PGL Major Singapore 2026 (CS2) Nov 24 – Dec 13 The second CS2 Major of 2026. 32 teams, $1.25M USD. Stage 1: Nov 24–27, Stage 2: Nov 28–Dec 1, Stage 3: Dec 3–7, Playoffs: Dec 10–13 (pglesports.com)
DreamHack Stockholm 2026 Nov 27–29 The world's most famous BYOC LAN party + expo at Stockholmsmässan. Bring your rig, skip the sleep (dreamhack.com/stockholm)
Marvel Rivals Ignite 2026 Grand Finals November The official world championship for NetEase's hero shooter caps the Ignite circuit (escharts.com)
IEM Beijing + BLAST Rivals Season 2 November The CS2 calendar stays hot with Beijing and Hong Kong stops (hltv.org/events)
GodotCon Europe Nov 3–4, Munich For the dev-curious: the open-source game engine's community fest (eventsforgamers.com)

Correction corner: some calendars still list BlizzCon for November — BlizzCon 2026 actually ran Sept 12–13 in Anaheim. It's done, it was great, stop checking your flight prices.

LAN party tip: can't make Stockholm? DreamHack's formula scales down — local BYOC events and even living-room LANs are having a renaissance. All you need is a mATX build, a car, and friends who don't mind 3 AM fan noise.

🌟 Community Highlights

  • The HAVN fan club keeps growing. Between Jayz calling it his favorite case brand and the HS-series' community-driven revisions, HAVN is the case story of late 2026. r/pcbuilding energy in physical form.
  • Old GPUs are getting new life. AMD upscaling coming to RX 6000-series cards free of charge (per Jayz's Oct 29 short) is the kind of support older hardware owners dream about.
  • The PS5 emulation community is speedrunning history — a real console emulator hitting playable state this fast is a genuine community milestone.
  • Graphics card prices are trending up again — Hardware Unboxed data (cited in community shorts this week) pegs entry-level in-stock GPU prices at roughly 35% higher across ten countries in just three months. Watch your wallet this holiday season.

💰 Deal Corner: Build Like the Videos (USD + CAD)

Want the HAVN look without waiting for the HS 360? The lineup is live on Amazon right now:

Product Amazon US Amazon CA Rating
HAVN HS 420 VGPU Dual-Chamber (Black, PCIe 5.0 vertical GPU kit) $329.99 USD $399.99 CAD 4.6★ (US, 169) / 4.7★ (CA, 286)
HAVN HS 420 Dual-Chamber (Black) $249.99 USD — 4.7★ (263)
HAVN BF 360 Flow High-Airflow (Black) $229.99 USD ~$388.30 CAD (save 28%) 4.6★ (162)
HAVN BF360 (Black) $179.99 USD $323.55 CAD 4.7★ (33)

Budget alternative worth a look: the NZXT H5 Flow at $69.99 USD / $149.99 CAD — 1K+ bought in the past month at that US price. For the HS 420 VGPU, Prime gets it to US doors by Tue, Nov 3.

🏁 The Verdict: Your Sunday Watch Order

  1. GN's HW News — get informed (21 min of pure signal)
  2. LTT's doubled GPU memory — get entertained
  3. Jayz's HAVN HS 360 — plan your next build
  4. HUB's monitor takedown — protect your wallet
  5. Dave2D + MKBHD's MacBook takes — decide if you're a touchscreen-truther now
  6. Then flip on the PMGC streams — it's live today with $3M on the line

That's six channels, five upcoming events, one touchscreen Mac nobody asked for (but everybody's watching), and a case brand winning hearts one community suggestion at a time. See you next Sunday — same couch time, same couch channel.

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