the last time we invaded the privacy of our staff entering their homes and
rifling through their belongings it was for the wall of shame showing you guys
the three worst computers out of everyone who
works at alliance at a lioness at Linus tech tips this time around we're gonna
find the three best machines out of everybody who works
here except there is one small challenge last time we took the very worst one and
gave them a free upgrade this time around this is already the people who
have the most ball in setup so we had to dig pretty deep to find anything that
would be an upgrade so Intel our sponsor for today's video has provided a core i9
9900k and ASUS chipped in one of their maximus
rog gaming motherboards as well so uh
let's head into uh our first contestant here i can tell you one thing they
definitely have a better gaming rig than a barbecue
wow i thought it was a propane one but it
actually it said that's actually look down there we have a natural gas
it's routed and there's another one here
so our first stop rather unsurprisingly is Jake's house or rather i should say
Jake's mom's house which might explain why Jake has so much budget to spend on
his gaming setup one thing he doesn't apparently have budget for is a
soldering iron although i gotta say Jake i really appreciate you helpfully taking
all the things that you've stolen from the office and putting them in one place
for me so that i don't have to go digging for them like i did at dennis's
house i also stole i guarantee you i
bought it i paid for this i actually was looking for this this is like our third
soldering iron and i borrowed it for like two days well i was looking for
this one what about the floss oh
are you flossing right now i actually have not seen Jake's setup there's some
unusual things like for example this ups that's definitely from the office yes um
why do you have so many wireless mice
i like to switch it up sometimes that's a g305 you've got a g pro wireless you
already have the king of gaming mice i i like the g305 and then the 403 is just
kind of nostalgia you know let's see if he has all of them plugged in
okay this one is indeed actually active
this one is also what the hell i also have another 403
2502s and i think there's a g900 somewhere oh oh god yeah the cables are
kind of short so what are you already running wow is this itx so this case is
actually for m-a-t-x but the board that i had was itx so and that graphics card
is so massive that i can't even put anything else in PCIe slots so whatever
i'm just trying to figure out how much of this stuff is from the office literally none of it literally none of
it you know that RAM has an inventory sticker okay well i bought i bought it
from work this is like pretty banging rig 2080 ti
16 gigs RAM what CPU is that in there it's a 7700k okay well at least that
would be an upgrade on the subject of mechanic i really like your decal that
you've got on your uh your rear panel here yeah so that's actually my old car
that some guy like hand drew he sent me a sticker and i stuck it inside my case
that volta cable i did not pay for oh that's fine
so i actually saw this trick online you use the volta cable and stick the little
one or two gram dongly bit in the mouse and then assuming that somebody isn't
holding it well it just goes like that and you just go bloop and it
hooks up charges the mouse what about this chair i think i bought that chair
from work for ten dollars no way it was broken on the bottom all the casters and
then i got a new uh base for it and it's like kind of wonky
but it's good enough it's better than the ikea chair i had before this is actually
a pretty sick setup you've got two acer predator x34s so these are 100 hertz i
see you've helpfully put the refrigerator up there right yeah okay
3440 by 1440 ultrawide monitors and then i'm guessing these are your old monitors
over here i actually bought those as side monitors off a guy for from
craigslist for really cheap so you seem to be kind of set up for streaming but
as far as i know you don't actually game stream so are you just like a poser
streamer i didn't stream for like eight months i used to do it quite a bit and
then recently i've done it you know once or twice a week just on the
not yet LTT minecraft servers so why
don't you tell us about your audio setup here because it seems to be a fair bit
better than wancho so overall it's actually pretty simple this is the same
preamp we use on wancho this is where i got the inspiration to buy it so i have
an audio technica at 2035 with a stupid
pop filter that's just there to protect it from food what i'm eating with the
rode psa one boom ARM so that goes right
into the preamp which is pre-amping our signal and then it goes over to this
little crappy behringer interface your webcam kind of it does kind of suck
but it's it's honestly good enough you unplug it when you're not using it
well see the thing with this stupid webcam is this is how long the cable is
it's like three feet but it's conveniently just long enough to plug in
right there so i might as well just unplug it and chuck it behind what i'm
not using right why do you need two 34-inch ultrawides worth of desktop real
estate ah pretty much just have everything you
need access to while you're streaming while you're gaming and then have your
game on the main screen and don't have to tab out like literally ever pretty
sick setup with that said i think you might end up giving up some style points
here this stand this is three two by eights this is pretty bad Jake i mean
okay also also i couldn't help noticing
that even if this hardware wasn't stolen from work it's not really being treated
with the proper respect down here under the bed we've got a hard drive those are
dead hard drives got another hard drive dead and what is this do your
laundry got a ps3 those okay so that's another more
different ps3 one of those ps3s this is fun is running Linux i bet this i o
shield is stolen from the office uh i want more monitors too yeah i don't know
if it's necessarily more efficient but it is convenient
so contender number two was sort of a surprise to me because he's more into
board games than computer games as far as i knew but
our next setup is actually none other than tyler's
our warehouse in inventory and logistics
manager yeah and i think the important thing to remember when you step into my
home is that at the office i am the organization and cleanliness guy and
this is my setup wow okay
so i've seen tyler working on this kind of stuff at the office oh i think i
actually saw you working on this guy yeah you did tyler actually paints his
own figurines would figurine be the correct term miniature miniature i knew
there was a proper term that i was missing here i think he does a spectacular job of them i'll let you
guys be the judge though why don't we make our way in towards the computer so
gotta get past the boxes of new
miniatures that you still haven't worked on oh some of them have some paint on
them though they got their white coats on and then they got their green trim
and then i have my collection of various romance books
and real human hair that i use for cosplay along with a list of real
letters to fictional people that you apparently need to write yeah so that's
that's a series of short stories that i'm working on to the other participants
of this mexican standoff to the poor bastards on the other side of the blast
door and to the anonymous man giving me constructive criticism that's just more
painting stuff yeah with uh something something got on there
yeah it's uh it's just all over i can only focus when something's this close
and i think that's how close it's supposed to be when you're working on it
i don't like it yeah i'm not a fan either
in terms of general setup here there's some highlights already and there's some
low lights we've got a g502 mouse like it we've got one of those free
mouse pads that they gave away in the early 90s this is a freaking lg ultra
wide monitor here 34 inches
you're connected via HDMI aren't you yes i am he's running at 49 hertz instead of
60 hertz on his ultra wide because of the bandwidth limitation of the HDMI
input on this model tyler this keyboard
is quite frankly disgusting needs to be swapped out yeah it is uh or run through
the dishwasher or something something please it has been with me for a long
time your computer might actually be the cleanest component of this entire rig
well it's the newest oh
what kind of specs are we looking at here so it's an i7 8700 GeForce 1080 ti
32 gigabytes of RAM RGB an SSD and a
hard drive so did someone at the office put this together for you oh yeah this
this was all ad i was going to do it on my own because i felt very confident my
abilities but then as soon as i started putting it together i realized that it
was quite out of my league so what inspired you to put together a rig like
this so first i wanted to play fallout 76
but then it became quickly apparent that it was a terrible game so then after
that i wanted to play the outer worlds when it comes out so i'm pretty eager
for that at the moment mostly i use it for civilization
which is this is a pretty overkill yeah it's a little over the kill for sieve
although i did see a lot of performance improvement in the later game when
normally the processing power starts to lag down just because there's so much
stuff on the map but it's still more of like a machine that i built for gaming
in the next two to three years as opposed to stuff that's just out right
now tyler do you have a screwdriver i think kristin has one just let me check
okay do we have a screwdriver so ifixit told us we had to get rid of all the
first gen kits so that they would stop appearing on camera and tyler helpfully
took one off of our hands for us yes right on that grenade i knew i was gonna
find something stolen it's not stolen if you give it to me did ed know when he
built you this machine that it was going to be subjected to this subjected to
what i mean it does sit in a fairly gloriously nerdy place i'm willing to
bet there is a backstory for literally everything in this nook what's the
backstory for this surprise container so this was brought to me from one of my
friends who i'm actually in a role-playing podcast with he went on a trip to japan and he brought back unique
gifts for each of us i believe it is a little spirit animal you don't know what
it is i thought it was a goat the kindle with the dead battery
yeah it's it's a kindle that's not plugged in you don't like e-ink i love
this kindle that's a cat toy obviously mycroft
batted it behind my computer station 17 months ago possibly
i enjoy coke oh my god oh the original vhs tapes of
star wars well sorry the last launch of
the original right before they digitally i had this and my parents threw it away
when they moved yeah i found those in a thrift shop for three dollars what do
they work though they do and you have a vhs player i do know this place has a
lot of character but i'll say this if you're ever doing like a clean up
saturday or something um call me i would be happy to help yeah
i'll call you when i need to paint my walls first dennis now brandon taryn was
like oh i didn't know you paint walls i would've had to come paint my walls it's like it's not actually a service i offer
so we've had some good ones so far but jonos promises to be the cutest of our
setup tours today not because jono is particularly cute sorry jonno but
because he has a new puppy oh my goodness you can pick her up yep
she's 52 pounds of love you were almost show pal it was a mail
doc i was going to call the subway from like community like
exactly you got it so i'm liking the setup here overall you've got the
whiteboard for the organization you got the dual shock controller over there do
you actually use that for pc gaming is that why it's there for ps4 i used to
have it over here but i don't play any consoles anymore so it's all about pc
gaming don't suck up why so basically enough uh just let's say for the
monitors i have the pg27 hayden's quit licking my hand
so cute and before i actually started working here i actually watched your
review on it i was like gotta get it now you're definitely getting some marks off
for your other monitor because the viewing angles on that are so bad i
thought you had a privacy filter yeah so this one is based enough was oh i don't
even know how old this is i think it's about like six seven years ago but i
keep keep it vertical because every time i do like any spreadsheets excel or when
i do my after before work kind of stock trading it's all nice and vertical for
my charts i am liking the desk pad here
not bad oh geez right pretty good i'm liking it
all right but we're gonna have to move it out of the way so we can admire the
setup here this is from the office isn't it yep so i got it at a super good price
how much did you end up paying for this 200. really for the liam lee desk i was
actually prepared to pay 500 bucks tyler and you've got a pretty sick rig in here
so that looks like an rtx 2080. yeah
2080 ti 2080 ti i was trying to play adam with you guys one time and it would
just not work so i had to upgrade and
then what are we looking at for CPU here so that's 8700k not overclocked because
i just don't feel like bothering with that so right now i have the h150i from
Corsair but i did change the fans from the stock ones to the ml 120s
just because RGB and i like the future tech of maglev
i got them on it was like i think i was on new egg for like 40 bucks or three oh
that's not too bad yeah that's actually pretty good i am eventually enough maybe
in two three months doing a full custom wallet cooling on it
that's the sound of a quality water bottle dropping on the floor it's super
good lttstore.com yeah why do you need it so quiet oh i
just want to do custom watercooling you're one of the only ones that has paid much attention to their sound setup
though i had to do that because my old logic
dizzystar.com but your gaming rig is only part of your overall computer setup
is that right yes it is yeah so this
is sort of the media and entertainment hub now are you unironically using an
xbox one connect if i find any dance games over here jono i don't think so
so even this one looks like a pretty
banging machine here so you got an nhd15
in here z370 so this is probably what like a 7700k or that's a 8600k an 8600k
and then you've got a 1080 ti in here yeah this is your secondary machine it's
for the wife we originally built this for fallout 76 but we all know how that
turned out that's the second time we've heard that today yeah
you played breath of the wild yeah and then didn't touch it again i haven't
finished it yet you haven't finished breath of the wild it's just it got so
good i didn't want it to end now why do you have two ps4s oh because jilly and i
could play like destiny and multiplayer games like watchdog as well but i got
those at a pawn shop so basically these are stolen goods i have no idea sounds
pretty stolen to me now i did find one thing that was a bit of a cause for
concern uh jono do you have something to um tell us so i travel at least once a
year okay the first step is admitting that you have a problem oh okay that
yeah so welcome to the rose ceremony everyone
except instead of roses we will be awarding a maximus 11 hero gaming
motherboard and a core i9
9900k this is basically the pinnacle
when it comes to gaming and when paired with the right hardware it'll basically
run anything under the sun at frame rates that will pretty much boggle your
mind and it can be yours if the judges that's me
select your setup as the famiest
there were some pros and cons to each of your setups Jake yours stood out as by
far the geekiest and i mean that in like a a
very functional sense nobody else would have thought to
strip down the housing of their webcam to make it so that it'll fit in between
the bezels of their vertically stacked ultra wide monitors massive credit for
that what held your setup back was quite frankly the fact that i had to touch one
of your socks that was the most disgusting experience under my bed that was the most
disgusting experience i had today and i touched tyler's keyboard i think it was
a clean sock too was it tyler the vibe i
got from your space was that you were more than just about you know computers
and gaming you know your nerdy
fringe unusual hobbies stretch far beyond just you know
tech i kind of feel like um you know that you know that club in high school
with like two or three members i feel like you were in
that club and then you were in the other club that was like that club and i was
probably leading both of those clubs with that said you lost some serious
brownie points for how brown my hands were after i touched anything in your
setup dude it was disgusting that's fair
jono you had the slickest setup so you've got the desk pc going you've got
the whiteboard next to it all your controllers and consoles have a place
you've got somewhere to actually keep all of your games and stuff i felt like
you were a little too focused on the dog you actually lost points for cadence
being a distraction but he's so cute exactly
honestly when it came time to determine a winner it was really really difficult
because what it ultimately had to come down to
was who needed it the most the one thing that one of you needed
more than anyone else was incentive
tyler you're taking home a core i9 9900k and
matching motherboard come claim your prize but stop
until such time as you take me up on my
very generous offer to come and help you clean up your space when i come over and
we take on that place and it is cleaned to my satisfaction i will hand you your
award guys stay tuned on twitter because it's happening soon right yep this is
really a prize for my fiance she actually kind of needs it more than you i can't talk about what she was working
on but like it was it was really cool it's nda but it's like
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help you decide the best path to start enjoying those delicious frames so guys
thanks for watching massive thank you to Intel for sponsoring this video and
providing this fantastic prize also ASUS for the accompanying motherboard if you
guys feel like i got it wrong though leave a comment and tell me whose epic
setup you think should have won maybe
there will be a runner-up prize