whoa now I won't say that chase is a
gamer nerd who lives in his mother's basement cuz that's a a mean hurtful
stereotype but he's not really leaving me a lot of choice is he I mean look at
him is this your parents house Chase yeah it is I couldn't move out cuz of Co
so you know I'm stuck in here for a little bit longer all I hear is why and
like I'm not trying to pay rent
I got to say as far as basement man caves go it's looking pretty good we got
the mini fridge we got the TV with the PlayStation 4 I'm loving the decor in
here and of course Chase already has an
absolutely sick gaming setup which sort
of raises the question what are we going to do to transform this space we are
going to be upgrading the computer uh it's already pretty good but you know it can always be better we got some even
better Hardware than I currently have and we're going to be putting in some new furniture and rearranging it so it's
going to be kind of a big change but it's not just the computer it's a lot of
other little things as well let's check out the setup here so you're rocking the
2080 super wow you've got like Dominator
Platinum memory what the hell are we even upgrading about this thing I don't
know how to describe it every once in a while the graphics driver does like to crash in fact happened last night but I
have a feeling that had more to do with um Cold War being a little Jank
sometimes than the computer itself now something you guys might not know about
Chase is that while here at lineus Tech tips we're we're Gamers Chase is a gamer
unless your name is David or edzel or
Luke he's probably going to make you look stupid in pretty much any game so I
have two agendas here one is to help him reach his Peak gamer potential and
number two is to maybe find some way to
sabotage in a little bit for the next time we
play yeah how's he going to bunge you that that's my only Mouse at the moment
so don't break it that's okay you got lots of controllers rocking the
PlayStation 2 rocking the other more different PlayStation 2 you lied you do
have another mouse this is how we sabotage
him now let's have a look at what we're going to be doing in terms of
upgrades okay some things are going to be legit upgrades this is Intel extreme
Tech upgrade which is obviously brought to you by Intel and we're going to be
going full bore with a core I 9 11900 K
processor so we're going one of those an RTX 380 this is going to be among the
fastest gaming machines money can buy but we're also doing some stuff that's
more tailored to Chase's personal preference like this Sony Trinitron 20
in CRT TV yeah 20 in 20 in mhm wow
that's like some big donger CRT at least you know from the side
we're going to be upgrading some of the furniture I don't have a TV stand so
we're going to be changing out the coffee table for this TV stand here I
see some rugs yeah we're going to get some rugs unfortunately I don't have one
in the room at the moment the monitor is well that's like a 27in I think it's
like two 200 something Hertz so that's a bit of an upgrade it's going to be
really nice we're putting in some Nano Leaf light bulbs so that'll be sick and
we're doing a bit of a retro mod on the PS2 so we're going to be putting a hard
drive in it and then you can use this memory card to rip your games right to
the hard drive and play them off that so no more no more of a need for CDs that
is sick for those of you who are new to the series Intel is providing
$5,000 budgets for Tech makeovers for my
staff and Chase he's getting a lot of bang for the
buck here and we haven't even talked about the desk yet man we're going to have to haul a ton of stuff out of there
better get started I had considered going with a uh automatic adjusting desk
but they were just hella expensive so I didn't want to spend the money on that
if it doesn't give more FPS it's not making its way into this setup I'll set
up to build here then and what are we doing I noticed we have a new case but
you mentioned reusing that one the plan right now is we're going to take most of
the guts out of this computer put them in the new case take all the new parts
and put them back in this case we're going to leave in the storage and the AI
cuz it uh fits really nicely I don't want to touch it at the moment so basically you hate me and you want me to
have to build two computers instead of just one it's two for the price of one
so you know it's pretty pretty good at least I don't have to paint the wall
okay you just need the computer right so I guess
yeah oh God what just I didn't screw the side panel I see
that wow did dbr just send you a bunch of sticker bomm wrap yeah I had to cut
it myself if you don't look too closely it looks really good yeah about that do
you have the chocolate power supply from Tech
Showdown I have a receipt you got a receipt huh or I had
had the plan for the second computer is I'm probably going to put unrate on it
and I'm going to run some Game servers um and possibly a Windows VM and figure
out something else to do with it not uh your fault you already had a decent
computer I'm not going to water cool it uh I feel like I would not maintain it
very well knowing me I mean your machine's in far better condition than
David's was thankfully my dogs are malti
so they don't really shed that much I had to get a USB 3.0 uh header adapter
because the cable that comes with the case doesn't fit with the sleds for the
SSD there it's really tight I can't get it
off everything is totally under control your computer will be all in one piece
when we're done well we got two of them so as long as one of them Works we're
good there we go okay board's coming out
uh does the dope special edition RAM stay on this board no we got extra RAM
and I definitely have a receipt for that yeah I was going to say this looks like
it's from the office too do you have any specific rationale behind the choices
here like 11 900k that's pretty obvious you just wanted more FPS but what about
like the tough uh z590 motherboard for
example I didn't feel like spending any more money than what the tough was worth
even as part of the upgrade so that's why I went with that one and the 3080
because it's a 3080 and I didn't want to buy a 3090 okay fair enough and I guess
as far as ftw3 Ultra goes it was the one we could get uh it was the one we could
get that's typically the story with these Intel extreme Tech upgrades thanks
evj cuz at MSRP you know these will fit
in a $5,000 upgrade at scaler prices
this is the $5,000 upgrade Chase may not
care about them but a couple of really great features from my point of view are
the inclusion of 2.5 gig Ethernet that's going to be more relevant in the future
especially if he's going to be running an unraid NZ separately in the house and
he wants really quick access to those files and of course support for PCI
Express Gen 4 storage today your storage
doesn't make a huge difference to the gaming experience but give it a little
bit of time with Microsoft's direct storage and all of a sudden the GPU
could need high-speed access to your storage drive and that's going to enable
that now I got to scavenge the m.2 SSD from the old board I actually don't know
what he's running so we'll see if it's Gen 4 or not had a drill but this is
fine we got the old SSD out the good news is 660p 1 TB good drive solid Drive
the bad news is it's not PCI Express Gen 4 so what we're going to do is we're
going to install it in one of the two PCI Express gen 3 slots and we will
leave this open for a future Gen 4 upgrade how do you have so many
standoffs and none of them are the right one I don't know I could have been for
this cooler but I'm not sure no I don't think so I clearly gave someone the
wrong Hardware but it must have worked out cuz they never contacted me there's a little awkward Chase I know that you
spent probably a lot of money on this special edition Dominator platinum and
you had intended to keep using it in the gaming rig this vengeance lpx is
substantially faster this is 3600 cl14
throw that in there then you also don't need more than 16 gigs of RAM in your
gaming rig and this is like a 32 gig kit
so that goes in the server I think no problem Dominator Platinum Home Server
with unre I got a good deal on it I didn't actually spend that much on the
RAM well it's not that fast it's just fancy looking so it's fine yep you got
all flash you got no dash but now you got Dash too
that moment when you buy the fanciest most specialist RAM and then you uh swap
it out for some basic engine CPX I'm just installing the cable management
tray I think it's a little short so might have to drill holes might not
we'll see well we might not have any mounting hardware but at least we
can kind of jam the motherboard in here
just got to just got to kind of fin
angle it a little don't worry Chase it'll be fine he looks like the nervous
expectant father while his wife's delivering the baby I know for a fact
you're going to have a hard time plugging in the power uh cable that's
for the CPU specifically I promise you I will have that in in 30 seconds okay
timer go there's
half there's the other half I'm glad you're building the computer and I'm not
I did cheat a little the motherboard's not really screwed in so there's some
wiggle room man so far this is the easiest extreme Tech upgrade yet all
right we did it is good enough it's really just to hold some cables so it's
a little Jank but I don't care that much so one of the things that we're doing to
the PlayStation 2 I have is we're going to install um a hard drive now the problem
is the new hard drives that are SATA uh don't connect to the old network adapter
that you can get so we had to get a third little mini board and we got to
install it to this install that to the PS2 plug in the memory card and then
we're good to go I'm just waiting for Logistics to bring me the mounting
hardware that I need for the CPU and then I am good to throw the graphics
card in oh actually and one other thing Chase is going for a live gamer Duo
capture card which will presumably allow him Chase do you stream uh I do stream a
bit this has two HDMI inputs which allows you to have your camera as well
as an external device such as a game console plugged in so Nintendo switch
goes in here camera goes in here and Boom the PC can do all the streaming I
mean he talked about doing a dual PC streaming setup or something like that
but they can be a bit of a pain in the butt nice capture card has up to 240 FPS
uh 1080p input one supports 4K and the
other one does not at all and then it does pass through 4K 60 if you really
want to HDMI 1 is going to be yeah any of the Retro game consoles or like the
PS4 and then the second one will just be my camera input I'm currently using a
webcam um if you can see over there on the desk and I'm going to be upgrading
to a camera what's your Twitch user name then too much Contra no spaces no caps
can you really ever have too much Contra I finally got the cover off I had a
couple more screws that were really small um but after that it popped right
off not the ones on the back those are actually for screwing it into the PlayStation 2 um but now I got to remove
this little daughter board that they have I guess that's what you would call it so that'll take a couple more screws
and hopefully it pops right off oh okay oh that's super cool not cool is H this
380 I'm about to install though yeah it's pretty powerful Flex you just
unplug the mullock like that cuz we don't need it anymore this one board
will take over uh both functions cuz it uses the power and then I guess that's
for the data so it's a pretty cool mod I
just realized after taking this one out this board actually has a ribbon for us
so I have to take the ribbon out of the main board here so we're going to do
that in a moment seems fine that looks like that's
how you install it so we're going to go with that I don't think I'm supposed to
slide it into place so they pop out and then you push them into lock oh okay
yeah no problem so this needs to come off this is the old one no no it's good
that's we want to keep that oh okay this one stays yeah that's your free Tech tip
all right let's get this graphics
card I think it'll be okay though cuz uh these hard drive cages shouldn't
interfere there we go all right Chase
yeah how married to this case are you yeah I'm a little concerned about
cooling this is a solid front panel case this is an RTX 380 I don't know if it's
going to be up to the task if it's not it's not okay we'll find out soon enough
I do really like the case I'd uh really hope that we can use the computer in
there but if it's too powerful too much heat we'll have to swap it but you know
that's a risk I'm willing to take at the moment the board has been swapped I'm
just putting the metal plate back on uh I'm going to put in the rest of the
screws and we should be good to go now we can throw this puppy on here thermal
pce already on and I have confirmed these are correct which means we're
pretty much done that's on there pretty good I think this rig might actually be
ready to boot up the network adapter is installed and the hard drive is inside
so all we got to do is plug in this memory card and Boot It Up and we should
find out if it's going to work or not oh that is sweet PC gaming first all right
let's see if it fires up look at that RGB boys ridiculous hey there it is nice
okay we got the m.2 we got the two SATA
ssds we got the hard drive we got our 16 gigs of RAM everything looks like it is
behaving as we would expect let's try the PS2 next um it's actually good that
you plugged in the computer cuz we do need to power the Retro tank actually he
free Mc boot there wec boot we got to get a game to install it right sure all
right Disney Extreme skate Adventure well that's a top priority why don't we
just 100% a top priority why don't put this one on I heard that transferring
hard drive games can actually take a while if you do it directly on the PS2
so we could be we could just let it sit for a while so can you just pop the hard
drive throw it in a computer transfer everything and then put it back in there
yeah you can totally do that I think that's what most people do time left um
388,000 hourss I mean what even is that that's just an estimation don't worry
about it 44 years so chase by the time
you're my age it might have ripped
nice ow ah I stabbed my finger may I ask
why you provided me with all of these perer Wings to 120 mm fans uh can you
put them in the top I can yes all right
I think I'm only going to be able to put two in the top but that's already going to be five fans in a meshify case I
don't know how effective this top exhaust is going to be it's right next
to an intake and I'm going to move these 140s down I think this plastic piece
right here just yep there we go pops out since this machine is going to be
running un raid it's obviously going to have some hard drives in it we're going to want to make sure they get some
cooling so we're just going to take this fan and give it a little one of those I
just need to make a little bit more room for myself over here so I can get the
desk ight and take it apart a little bit before we haul it out of here okay
perfect all right cool and I will disassemble some of it so yeah do you
remember when Ikea furniture was like this is a sick rig in its own rights
sheesh remind me to be your little
brother growing up cuz like your hand me downs man or the couch goes here now
it's no less ugly at least it's the first thing you see when you walk in the
room oh we lost one of the feet
oh uh whoops uh here hold on let me no
no no hold on hold on let me I can't game if I lose my fingers yeah don't
worry I got you fam wait you can't game if you lose your fingers oh here here we
go down it comes okay yeah has to come
up a bit but was going to say it looks a little Linus sized yeah it can go
higher perfect you know you got the TV get your main desk got other desk it's
freaking awesome I mean you might even be able to stream and like game on your
PlayStation or whatever on the main TV
wait why do all the consoles live over here how do these go connect to the
thing actually the switch might move you mean you might switch up its location
yeah you know you don't have to laugh at my jokes to give you credit I didn't laugh at any of the others so
far not sure if supposed to make me feel
better or look at that oh the system
works do you guys love to erase the table we're a little high yeah a little
high yeah actually I think that one's good which one the one that you're doing
right now yeah okay this is going to be a nightmare to
level right now I'm installing the back plates on the monitors cuz we have a two
like a dual monitor uh AR mounting ARM so I can put that on the back of the
desk I don't have to use traditional stands it was a fairly cheap one off
Amazon but it should do the job uh we made sure that was rated for the weight
of the monitor if we don't have the little slidey Mount things um one option
is to just 3D print them option number two we take this mesh Cable Management
thing down here and we just jam it in there how about we do
that hey I'm good we're good oh crap why
the cable Management's on this side yeah we'll spin the desk around later I just
realized that because uh we put the desk in wrong we can actually attach the
monitor ARM before we flip it around so we're we're actually good to go in this
aspect on the stair
Master try to slide on and it doesn't doesn't want to go this kind of juts out
just enough take this off put it on first put the monitor on then screw it
in how about you screw in the Monitor and I'll hold it in
place right got my own LT store not yet
coming soon scw driver who oh now we we
good hey rock on nice cool this is great
okay we got to get the peels off I'm sorry sorry Andy how much was this 50
bucks uh not even which could come back to haunt me in the future oh yeah for
sure at the end of the day it was under budget so that's what had to happen
Bring It Forward a bit scooch it in yeah that's fine okay I probably cuz you know
I'm gaming I'll bring it pretty far forward yeah you got to go all pro what
do you think my back posture is so bad now I'm all self-conscious about it too
okay I get his shoulders back right you like the thin mouse pad hey do you know
where that one came from the office I assume yes I had an exact same version
of that and the middle had started to worn out I just ended up getting the
exact same one but stolen from work uh no we were giving them away uh-huh it's
amazing how many things I give away without knowing about it this is sick
the desktop is way cleaner than it used to be oh yeah for sure where's the power
adapter for the Samsung wow that's a big power brick what the
well I got rid of two so I'll take it this is a 100 wat power adapter ah oh
that was really close to falling on my face oh it did no no it missed okay if
you're going to have the computer in the corner here we need this leveled all right give me one second okay yo dog I
heard you wanted a level so I got you a level wow you leveled My Level so I can
level while I level get on my level chase you know what it's not far off
actually it could be different from one side of the table to the other this one
has to come up for sure there's some weight on the top of it isn't there yeah
that's fine I can there there we go okay so is it level now still looks a little
off okay n it's all good I just knocks some
okay watch your feet this thing will break your foot muscle oh God I think
you broke the front you know what's funny they warned us about that when we picked it up they said the front can
break really easily oh I'm sorry this
thing is super old I'm really not that concerned I think that's the only thing
you've broken and it's not as bad as the bed so I'm
happy lonus did you just break my
bat so I almost forgot we have to remount a few things I have the camera
we're going to use as a webcam and then the thing you place it on that's the
Sony Alpha 5100 it's clean HDMI and I
can use a dummy battery uh that's that's all I need something about it being
mirrorless too but I'm not a camera guy so I found it in a closet somewhere and
I was like hey I could use this this Cable Management tray is doing wonders I
know right yeah so much stuff jammed in there it looks so clean under the desk
and you'll never accidentally kick anything and knock it over or whatever
oh is that for the monitor yeah it's a USB 3B but it's got this giant housing
on it thank you
Samsung wow we leave it like this forever I win our next gaming match hold
up hold up hold up every everyone's happy what's going on that's so much
better you can still see a little bit of Jello-O though you can still see this
one is attach faster at least one of the light bulbs is burnt out so I figured
I'd just get some smart bulbs and replace them and heck get some RGB going
if it's not in the computer it'll be the entire room we have Nano Leaf Essentials
here a19 or e26 they definitely fit in those sockets so no problem I think it
was 35 each or something 35 each this is
$100 in light bulbs per fixture you got
to go big for the upgrade so here we are oh I think I got it yep Oh how many LMG
employees does it take to screw in a light bulb yeah you had a Gamers Nexus
modm the whole time and we didn't use it for a build surface I like to live
dangerously another piece of equipment straight from Amazon super cheap not
sure if it's worth it basically it has four inputs and two outputs but the
outputs is duplicated so the idea is that one always goes to the CRT and then
one always goes to the capture card oh okay it's just kind of a handy way to do
that and you can have four consoles in it and we have no idea what the like AV
quality of this yeah thing is I didn't want to spend a lot on it I just wanted
to see if it would work is that working no that's just the TV oh you know what I
know why I didn't plug in the the audio to the back it's in the back of the TV
got you fam okay uh where is it at ow
well it's under the desk now yeah I see that I want this oh god oh wow that's
really loud kind of like an inverse color thing you got going in the bottom
right corner how much did I pay for this again like 150 the gamer Vibe is real
now this is looking pretty good we're getting like 70 FPS yeah considering
that you're running look like Ray tracing ultimate do we want to turn it
off and see what it goes to it's probably worthwhile yeah yeah all right
there we go yeah 120 that's pretty good considering this game really just seems
to cap out in like the low hundreds this cool you want to give it a shot this is
the part where we G gain a greater appreciation for how good Chase is cuz
we watch me try to do it where you boys at there weone oh no a
he was hiding all right that was pretty good Chase didn't even mention that part
of the plan here is to have space for VR
he's even got the headset already this is awesome this is way better and we
didn't put the dis plates on the wall these look awesome yeah not bad
not bad at all we might have gone a little late on the shoot today the uh
bless of the shot is not just from the RGB lighting it's also getting kind of
dark outside but I love this setup it's
gaming Essentials and anything goes you
love your console gaming you love your PC gaming your modern gaming your Retro
Gaming Chase has pretty much got you
freaking covered so thank you very much
Intel for sponsoring this $5,000 extreme
Tech upgrade thanks to you guys for watching if you're looking for another video to watch hey maybe check out one
of our previous Intel extreme Tech upgrades we alluded to that I had broken
furniture on one of the previous ones uh maybe check out Andy's extreme Tech
upgrade