do you do when there's a big bald biker
guy who knows everything about your personal finances you make sure he gets
the best darn Intel extreme Tech upgrade possible guys we're gonna have some fun
today meet Clarence from our accounting department hey guys we are going to be
taking his living room which appears to already be adorned with electronics from
um work that's becoming a bit of a theme in these and we are going to turn it into a
surround sound home entertainment system then we're going to take his office
which I think I also recognize this triple monitor stand but that's okay
it's in need of an upgrade too and we are going to be turning it into a sick
battle station with three 32-inch 4K
monitors also there's a memory foam bed topper king
size um okay not Electronics but hey Intel
didn't specify what you have to spend your five thousand dollar Budget on so
uh let's have some fun and huge shout out to Intel for sponsoring Intel
extreme Tech upgrade here we go
now I have to confess this was the most surprising part of your upgrade to me
because you've actually got a pretty decent laptop it's got a Sixth Gen processor I hate that computer oh okay
then there's I've had nothing but problem with it since I bought it that's like the fifth chassis that it's been on
and oh I hate that thing okay but then
why did you go for such an OP Creator
spec laptop let's get this thing fired up because it's the MSI Creator Z16 this
thing is so over the top like you don't even gain
as far as I know don't but it's gonna last me the next five seven years I want
something that's going to be around for a long time you know what's really funny is even internally people do a lot of
their Tech shopping based on LTT videos and Clarence comes to me after we do the
sponsored video on this which was a while back he goes
give it to me straight is it actually good and I go yeah yeah it's really good
so here it is with the sponsorship well
behind us Creator Z16 core I9 11th gen RTX
Graphics amazing display but that you won't be using so was 327 or these are
24s I guess it was time for an upgrade yep so you're going with those are those
aren't even HDMI monitors oh okay not
that that matters DVI and HDMI have no signal quality not PBI PGA these are
these are VG oh wow okay yeah it was time okay never mind I take everything
back by the way I love your calculator please tell me this has a story oh yeah
this I got when I started working for the accounting firm in 2001 and it's
been with me ever since I'll cry if I ever lose this calculator I won't take
it it's still there's still some guys that I know from my PWC days and we talk
about this calculator right Casey
let's get this all sorted out for you here let's get these monitors going shall we now you're not expecting to
reuse this same monitor stand are you oh you're too small okay good I was hoping
that you knew that um the monitor stand that you took from the
office no no I was in the garbage I picked it out of the garbage trailer I
remember saying they could get rid of it yeah because we tried to we tried to
give it away we couldn't even give it away and then Clarence turns out we wanted it apparently it's just so heavy
no one no one wanted it this is so janky
you're using those old EVGA like what are these like USB to VGA adapter things
yep but for years those have worked fine they've done everything I need that's
fair but I would have I would have at least hoped that you would use the DVD I
don't put on them I didn't have DVI cables
we have an entire bin of them that we never touch at the office
my keyboard I've used that exact one for the last 10 years yeah that's the
keyboard that I use at Linus I brought it from home so I have the same keyboard Linus oh really yep is that what you
call work just Linus
sure
I've heard most people shorten it to LMG or Linus media how many of these you got
three I have three of them my fingers know exactly where every key is and
that's why I don't want to switch I hear you I mean I can understand why
you'd need this much monitor real estate at work and you have almost this much
monitored real estate at work but why do you need it at home I work some private
clients oh okay so it's for the same thing then
essentially got it we got them hooked on that monitor candy man oh I was hooked
long before I met you guys I used to work with a guy who had six
wow awesome because every monitor had a
purpose I totally have six now we need
to talk about this because the plugable
Hub that Clarence is using is actually not available yet this is the MK2
version 2 which we are the first people
outside of pluggable that actually have our hands on it so what's different
about the Mark II it has three
display ports the other one had two display ports and an HDMI oh I see so
it's just plus plus it does more power delivery there's a bunch more ports on
the front got it it's just a cool upgrade now you said you were sure all three of
them were gonna fire up yeah and I said I wasn't sure about that which side did
you plug into the other side you did plug into the other side let's try that
and see if it behaves a little bit differently oh now that there you go
interesting so the thing about USBC is
that USBC is just a connector so it
depends on how that USBC female port on
your device is wired up internally what its capabilities are
so what that means as far as I can tell is that this side
may have more DisplayPort lanes
available to it than this side potentially but let's try the other side
again and what I suspect is going to happen is it's going to say no again
here's my next question yes I have a 90 degree oh it's fine never mind okay good
but I I have a 90 degree elbow so the
cable doesn't stick that way it goes will that work I'm going to give you a
big probably nod on that one this is a very edge of the edge of the spec
configuration that you're running here yeah you could try it do you want to
grab it if I can find it yeah give it a shot this is really cool it specifies on
the back of that Hub that two of the ports are display link so those are the
ones being driven by the laptop's dedicated GPU and then one of them is
DisplayPort like alt mode over type c and that one has to be driven by the
onboard Graphics so that's what I was talking about before when I was saying
it depends on how everything is linked
up within your device how a USBC Port might behave so we've got a compatible
setup here which is great but one thing that's really important is if Clarence
or his kids or whatever ever wanted to actually play games this is totally
capable of it it's got RTX 3060 GPU in it but we want to make sure that our
middle monitor is one of the ones that's running in display link mode and
actually being driven by the proper GPU how without putting anything
confidential on the screen can you show us what your you know what you look like
when you're in your accounting Zone I tell you I'm sure yeah I've got
outlook on this screen so I can monitor my email uh Excel is usually running on
this screen okay and QuickBooks or whatever I need to do is my second
working screen second working screen got it you know the first one to go laptop
for your daily driver why did you choose a laptop over a desktop because I'm not
a gamer and I take my laptop around tons
of places I like the portability fair enough yeah I mean these days I'm not
even you're not even giving up that much in terms of performance it's what like
eight core CPU or something stupid like that it's it's going to be a long time
before I have to upgrade this laptop which is why I went the way that I did
yeah eight core 16 threads 32 gigs RAM
yeah you're right it'll be a while
and that's even accounting for the Clarence is one of those
is the word one of those freaks who uses Excel so hard that it can actually take
a while to process what he's doing I think my record is something like 12
million calculations in one sheet yeah I don't I don't that doesn't surprise me
yeah now come come on in to tell you got
to tell me about the plan here because obviously uh this guy's gonna go most of
this stuff is just here for looks these speakers are going these speakers are
going there from a totally different system uh these two black ones or these
two white ones are going to be the left and rights the other one's going to be
my Center Channel and I've got these little guys they're going Wireless to
back behind the chairs for my full surround cool okay
and I noticed that you um tried to pull one over on me here
by covering it up but it's still a sin to put your TV
above a fireplace let the record show not a working fireplace not a working
fire okay all right so at least you don't have the heat concerns but oh you
know what you didn't see there's a big ass sub behind that chair oh
well you can't have base without a big ass up
it doesn't matter
okay perfect so I guess what we're
trying to decide do you have any kind of any brilliant ideas for mounting like
these are supposed to be kind of like outdoor speakers I do it's gonna
eventually get mounted here like this oh and I just ran out of time oh so for
today we're just gonna stick it right here probably right there it'll look silly
but and what is this wood-ish stuff wood-ish
TM what else we got here Harry Potter
fan but not of actually reading the books oh hold on there's a story behind
that there's a story sorry I figured I figured there had to be I read to my
kids every night but not Harry Potter that's our next series okay so we read
through all of this is all the Chronicles of Narnia we read through you
ever heard of Atlanta stories uh best book series ever my kids cried when we
read through it really we are legitimate readers in this house I read my kids
every night that's good super important we're on Half Blood Prince with my son
I've been doing Harry Potter with him the girls were a little young we found
it a little scary which is really cute um all right what else can we poke
around at here now this I already know this is super cute the jar of awesome
contains ticket stubs for everything fun they've done for the year and then at
the end they smash it on the concrete and then get their fingers all cut up
digging through the stubs to see what fun stuff they did exactly you don't smash it do you no okay fair enough
Safety First all right what else we got here let's start digging through stuff
each these are definitely stolen from work because they have work cable Ties
on them everything I have have cable ties uh-huh yeah but these are LTT cable
ties and see Sonic cable ties wow a DVD
player that's uh good technology right there
Google homed up though play my favorite song it's gonna be something really
embarrassing not what I imagined yeah but I've got
two girls or eight and nine I just I was just expecting something like a little
more hardcore you know that's what I listened to at work hail storm yeah yeah
for sure without further Ado let's actually get this show on the road then
Shelby I see you've got a big roll of Rocketfish speaker wire here I guess
this is what's going to drive our front speakers but the surrounds Are Wireless
right yes okay perfect oh and we've got
more speaker wire why do we need this much speaker wire I've collected it over
the years and I've never used it all right okay now you said that you wanted
to remove this mantle piece here and get
the TV farther back so the idea is what
you want to take this off yeah see these see these two brackets there should be
just two screws are we going to gain that much more space though because this
looks like a brick it is again nothing okay let's not do it well
I mean it's I don't know it's it's a couple inches last time I heard that
counts or use this takes less than that hey look you work in the accounting
department you know the importance of lttstore.com all right there it is
lttstore.com
all right woodworking grade eight 10 out of 10.
hey Clarence have you ever used the bathroom in 105 yeah okay do you know
that weird picture on the wall there's not much time in there there's a super
weird picture it's like a a bird lizard scorpion thing in the desert oh that
was so that's my grade 8 art project oh really I did not get 10 out of 10. that
looks better doesn't it I was about to say I can't tell the difference
I like it okay good if you're happy I'm happy now is there any reason we
couldn't just Mount that today what do
we need for that I'd want to put a 2x4 backing up there to make it a little
stronger do you have a 2x4 I do yeah you
seem like the kind of guy who would have a two by four I mean look at this Innovative strategy to keep the table up
here you know what I don't have I don't have the right length screws no
screws oh I've got screws but they'll
poke out the top of the table do you have bolt cutters I don't have
bolt cutters but I got an angle grinder angle grinder will do ready for some
power tool action yeah all right please tell me you have eye protection you're
at home but you're still technically at work
you can tell he wasn't gonna he wasn't gonna use this why I gotta be here to
supervise for all the Goodyear 32-inch monitors
are going to do you if you can't see anymore those are definitely not
protective glasses
um well that might go in start it with these ones uh sorry uh oh
yeah oh yeah yeah yeah yeah okay yeah yes okay so I'll keep I'll keep one good
one and then I need I need three more cut off I'll go outside and finish the
rest okay I believe
you know I thought I was a pretty janky boy then I went to clarences and David's
place
how much sentimental attachment do you have to this what is this called like a
side table or whatever if we poke a hole through the top I can patch it
okay I think that's in the right spot and as long as we can just have a mark
good okay
I'm in ah nope you know neither were you
did we no no no we're good okay
oh sure okay uh yeah fine okay yeah sure
okay okay great okay dude perfect getting toasty here
and all we've done is Mount the center channel it's kind of on there isn't it I
mean if you didn't know you wouldn't know nobody's gonna know everybody's
gonna know nobody's gonna know can I humbly request that we at least move
them to the outside of the of the tables
I'm worried about this chair actually interfering but if they fit absolutely I
just put them there because I didn't think they fit what I really want is to
get them two feet up I feel like it's a tall tall order I'll build two platforms
off each side two little wings and I can put it on top okay I mean here's an idea
decorative speaker speaker stand I have two of those you have two of these
now what I would like is just some like blue tack or something like that so that
we don't get vibration passing through to the the decorative subwoofer here
what color Plato do you think Linus is going to want uh I'll take acoustic
yellow uh what I'm imagining is you ever made a snake yep maybe Play-Doh snake so
I want two snakes one at the front one at the back and it'll just help us keep
the vibrations from passing from the speakers to the thing under it to be
clear this is not a perfect solution Clarence is going to build his wings and then that will be the proper solution
in 10 years
Okay so we've got our front actually I guess that's it then because the others
are Wireless so where's your transmitter for these guys that's
this that's part of the Intel extreme Tech upgrade yep got it that's for the
rears and that's the sub oh perfect okay did you
research this one or is this something that someone else advised you I've never
heard of this before yeah uh sorry which one oh no I did
research it oh okay cool this seems extremely straightforward you got your
power in you got your subwoofer and line in speakers in and you got your speakers
out subwoofer out uh volume knob yeah
not a whole lot to it hey Linus does that do both speakers and
sub yeah it looks like it because I got separate boxes for the sub oh well um
I don't think you need that oh cool where do you want the sub
there oh well I mean in that case why do you why are you going Wireless to the
sub it's right there you can go wired yeah do you have a do you have an RCA
cable yeah he's got an RCA cable
he'll find it I know why Linus I don't have one long
enough oh but wait then you bought a wireless
subwoofer kit instead of a cable yeah oh okay
yeah thanks until in that case we'll
probably need the separate box anyway then so maybe you had already thought of
that but just forgot did we talk about like why we choose this uh we didn't
really have a good reason other than that I have a very good reason well I
thought you just told
the system cut is good but I picked Wireless because I hate wires do you
have any flexibility on the positioning of the subwoofers there any reason not
to have it in this corner Wireless move it
all right my main concern and the reason for doing this is just that I don't want
any more wireless devices in the room than we absolutely have to have because
yes Wireless has the benefit of your wires but it also has the drawback of
potential interference so if we can have just one system I would prefer that I
think you've stolen more cable ties than anyone else so far lttstore.com yeah but
I'm the cable management Master well I don't know if cable management Master is
necessarily the term I would use it's not even plugged in Clarence it's never
been used it's their Cable Management it's easy to Cable manage when you don't
have to plug anything into the wall I was waiting for you to come install it
well at least you didn't wait for me to come paint your wall that was that was
the worst one yeah that's right Andy you're welcome where'd you get this
thing from Craigslist Craigslist okay perfect
simple for out okay you wanna power on the back unit and
we'll see what happens here
it did not grab our rear speakers but it
grabbed the subwoofer I'm gonna have a look at the front right wiring here it
seems fine on this hey Linus this has a volume switch it was almost off
oh well that could be it you know what
okay these are loose here's what I think happened this is the this is one of
those speakers I forget the term for it right now but where you can
drive the Tweeter and the woofer
separately and it's not set up that way right now
okay see the inputs are just bridged but
these were loose so I think what was happening was we were just driving the
Tweeter
oh watch it there there was a seventh speaker run it again
it's running these as subwoofer Maybe
that thing can't run a sub stop stop
stop stop stop stop stop stop stop mute nope ah I figured it out
I felt these were more rear channels
because of their positioning so I plugged them into rear and
it comes up on the report oh no rear detected but it never actually tries the
test tone so let's get them into the surround
the regular surround not surround back ports and then I think that'll address
it
yay yay story really starts whoa oh yeah
four months ago on my team's first mission the sub Works yes the sub is
working oh yeah oh yeah a little bit
compared to how bad the time is shaking
yeah looks so much better too looks good
doesn't it yeah it's way better you know what I think
I'm gonna do get some black cloth and cover that speaker with black cloth heck
yeah while I disapprove of the height of your TV I absolutely approve of the fact
that you don't have any motion smoothing or any of that nonsense turned on we've
taught you well either that or it was already set up and you didn't touch the
settings when you wanted the Christmas party I said it the way he said now the only
thing left is the weirdest part of this upgrade the mattress topper I'm
experiencing some regret about our strategy of taking everything that was
in our way and dumping it here um
oh oh well we'll move it okay here we go
we're basically just playing the the one
free space game because I don't want to end up buying you a new bed
I'm gonna let you do the actual crawling
around before you open it let's rip all the bed sheets and everything off oh for
sure okay you'll see if it breaks it's not because I touched it I'm trying to
get a donut it's it's trying to expand as I as I try
and Slide the slip off of it is this the right size
I think so it looks a little short well is it going
to expand uh give mattress topper time to rise to intended size so yeah I think
it actually just needs to sit here for a while oh I learned something the other
day do you want to know how to put the sheet on right first try every time yep
the tag is in the bottom right corner it's one
of those USB port type things where I would try it this way then this way then
this way again until finally settling see
lifehack I was today years old when I learned that this guy with them with the
memes with the young people slang well
you gotta try it you gotta tell us how it feels all right I mean it's probably
not reached its final state yet but oh okay dude lie down okay
okay yeah I could get used to that
that's nice all right good night
hey thanks Intel for sponsoring until extreme Tech thanks Intel this was
Clarence from accounting we've got uh upcoming man we've got Brandon coming up
we've got Kaufman coming up and if you guys are looking for something else to
watch you can check out the whole series some of my favorites include Dennis uh
Riley's was amazing Andes was awesome that's the one where I broke the bed not
entirely my fault
bye guys