You guys have nowhere to put it.
These are minor details, Elijah.
Minor details. That said, just because something's a minor detail
doesn't mean it's not important. I mean, the Epstein files was full of minor details.
All right.
I'm trying to not have a reaction for that. I'm trying to not have a reaction for that.
Listen, I know they leaked a while ago, but we shouldn't be over it.
That's all I'm saying on the subject. You know what this PC is?
Well, not all the parts, but like the case and the cooler and the motherboard specifically.
Well, here's the later. You'll never figure it out.
You've built this before. Not for me, but for a video.
Oh, so I'm either one who did the RGB wiring?
No. No, it's the all China PC.
Oh. I wanted at the Christmas party two years ago.
It's the first thing I ever want. Can you tell that I don't like build PCs
when people are around me? Yeah. Your hands are shaking like crazy.
I'm sorry. That's just normal. That's just me all the time.
They just shake. I'm having a bit of like a fanboy moment.
I've watched Linus Tech Tips since like 12 or 11 years old.
So this is like very strange for me to have you in my basement
build me a computer. It's really nice. It also just feels like strange at the same time.
Oh, okay. You've been working here for like three years.
Yeah, you've worked here for so long. Four years. We've had so many interactions.
Yeah, so. It's different when you're actually in someone's house.
Like at work, it's at work, but when you're in someone's house,
it's weird. Well, I didn't feel weird about it until now.
It's my whole MO is to make him feel awkward.
Good job.
Cool. I already made that joke.
You can't do it again. That's my whole job.
Writers make a joke and then I say it on camera.
You just regurgitate it. Wow, you really do just steal content, don't you?
Linus isn't the funny one, guys.
Every joke I'm cracking today was written by someone else.
Everything's actually 100% scripted. 100% scripted.
Even my line, sorry. He's just that good on a teleprompter.
For real. First time, too. Incredible, right?
This is great. How meta is it that we scripted this part in the video?
I mean, it's because there was a full dress rehearsal yesterday.
Everything you're seeing. Even my mom reacting like that.
I know you're busy with this, but is this another CPU power input?
No. What is it? You can tell that it's PCIe from the missing pixel here.
See the little notch there? Yeah, so it's PCIe.
Basically the idea here is that there's only, I forget, I think it's like one or two 12-volt
wires in the 24-pin connector because back when this connector was designed, 12-volt
was not like the primary voltage for your power hungry components like your CPU and your
GPU. So what can happen if you actually put a bi-16 card in each one of these slots?
Oh, do they run out of power? They will pull up to 75 watts from the slot.
Wow. So that would be 225 watts over that one wire.
So boards started getting these auxiliary PCIe connectors back in the SLI days.
Or if you were running multiple cards, so these will help supply the PCIe slots.
I don't think I've ever had a motherboard where they've had this on it.
Yeah, it's mostly not really a thing these days.
No, because SLI is dead. Yeah.
RIP. But now that people are putting multiple GPUs in for like AI crap, maybe it's coming
back, I'm not sure. I have a question.
If I'm swapping to a different brand of CPU, should I reinstall Windows?
It's never a terrible idea. These days, I have found that, yeah, Windows is pretty resilient about that sort of thing.
So you could maybe take your time on it. Okay.
But yeah, it's never a bad idea. Steam Deck 2?
Yeah. You have a Switch? A Switch 2?
And your Steam Deck is decorative.
It's not even charging. I realize, I don't travel enough, and I kind of realize that I like just sitting at my computer
or I have like a 30-foot HDMI going to the TV.
You have a Switch Lite too? I didn't even see that. That's my girlfriend's.
I don't know if that makes it any better or not.
What do you mean that's your girlfriend's? What do you mean?
I mean, you have three better consoles and you make her use that?
No, she uses the Switch 1.
So you have two better consoles and you make her use the Switch 1?
Yeah. She can play on the Switch 2 if she wants.
It's always hooked up to the TV. Another computer to put in a closet.
Or, hear me out.
Oh, well, yeah, that's an option. I mean, you've got like people's whole livelihood on your wrist right now with that RAM.
No, what I was going to say was, you know, or maybe actually, you know, have a setup for the girlfriend.
Yeah, there are computers in there. Okay, okay.
I don't want to, I feel like an asshole.
So I feel like an ass that I have to keep explaining myself.
She likes the game, but she likes her desk just nice.
And this was her desk, nice and clean. Was her desk?
She's dead? Well, no, we just put stuff on it.
So it's not hers anymore? This is her desk. That's how you assert your dominance?
You just like, you just put your stuff on things? And then it's mine.
That's my table now. It's my screwdriver. This is my Linus now.
That escalated quickly. Thanks, Joe Biden.
Jeez. It gets funnier every time you say it.
But the best jokes always do. I couldn't help noticing that your HDMI cable is just kind of chilling here.
You know how Windows does its thing where you like have three monitors connected, but they're all different sizes.
Oh yeah. So I just leave that unplugged and plug it in whenever I want to use my TV.
That is such a cludgy, stupid solution.
Really annoying. To a problem that shouldn't be a problem.
And I found applications that, you know, you can use like a hotkey to go back to the, you know, just the TV as a primary monitor.
Yeah, yeah. There's a new one.
Did you try the new one? Monarch. Have you tried Monarch?
No, I've never heard of Monarch. Okay, yeah. It's a new one that supposedly like helps with multi-display management on Windows.
I remember in like my first year of working, we did that Aura video and we had to pull it down, right?
Yeah. And I came into work the next day and you were already in Colton's office and you're like, Sven, get in here.
I was so scared. I did? Yeah.
You were already talking to Colton and you're like, yeah, Sven, get in here.
I'm like, oh, I'm going to lose my job.
Then what happened? You're just like, yeah, just don't do that again.
Oh, okay.
The panic in his eyes because he's like, what did I do?
You're just being a good boss. Okay, you don't have to be that much of a brown nose.
Whoa. I love your new case.
This is, you missed the whole conversation.
He stole the RAM, which was better in his girlfriend's PC.
He's giving his girlfriend his old crappy RAM. What a dick.
No, no, no. Hear me out. Hear me out.
Okay, this was my PC, which has the exact same processor that this one did.
What I'm hearing is misogyny. Probably.
Everything that's hers is mine. My man's playing a lot.
The modern man. Disgusting. I got two of them right next to me.
All right, we deserve that. Okay, but hear me out.
So the question I asked while you were gone is I know AMD CPUs don't play well with four sticks of dual channel memory.
They don't love it necessarily. It's not a problem.
Yeah. It's not that they don't play well. It's that they don't play fast.
Yeah. If you want the best performance, then yes, running the memory with just two sticks at a faster speed is better.
However, if you watched Linus Tech Tips.
Who? Good YouTube channel. Check it out.
Never heard of them. You would know we did a video recently showing that X3D processors.
Yeah. Doesn't really matter too much. Actually don't care nearly as much as people thought.
Yeah. So you just stole someone's RAM for nothing.
It's okay. Not just someone. Not just anyone.
My girlfriend. It wasn't for nothing because the RAM we stole was faster.
52 versus 5600 back transfers.
All right. Well, anyway.
I'm not the morality police. You built in a similar one.
I think the 207 or 216. It has that neat thing where the power supply cables all face the back.
Yeah. Ooh.
The one weird thing is it has 180 millimeter fans.
That's a thing. Yeah. They're a little unusual, but that is a thing.
Oh. I'm going to put this here. Okay.
No, no. That can go. That's the old one.
Yeah. Oh man. I can't believe we actually broke something.
At least it wasn't his bed.
Then his wood might not go right back up.
I thought you did that with his mom. Sorry.
What? What the heck, Elijah? Okay.
That's the line. That's the line, Elijah.
You've crossed it. That's the line. Yeah.
Not the Epstein jokes, not the Trump Biden.
I feel like incest is way worse than every single one of them.
You made me. I wasn't going in. Really?
Yeah. I went over the line too.
Elijah, I thought you were going to build the chair.
He just kind of grabbed it and started doing it. Yeah.
It's kind of bored. Okay.
So what are you doing? I'm the writer. I'm supervising the shoot.
That's my job.
I'll just go home. Is that an option?
Wow. Hey, maybe you could do your call from there.
I hate working here. That's good.
We can tell because you're not working.
No, I'm not going to crash out on camera.
What working?
I'll have you know while you run vacation. I filmed 27 spots or spots.
Six. And Sven is very happy with this.
I'm very appreciative. Six short circuits. Four LTTs.
And I'm hosting four this week myself while still writing more.
What do you do here?
Well, you get to do the scrub, you know, not tool this one now.
Yeah, I know. I think which one I want to put in. Got him.
Okay. You're going to be lazy and do the one that already has the standoff in it.
Sure. Oh, wait. I came with you.
You unscrewed the lock tight. What do you mean?
I mean, that lock tight.
What is this lock tight you speak of?
Never heard of such a thing. Man, that's on there.
Do you have a pliers? Yeah, we have those channel locks.
Oh, those are maybe not going to work for this. What?
Do you have some needle noses? I have needle noses.
Here, catch.
The magnetism is too strong.
lttstore.com
It's kind of a fire bar. They almost wreck rhymed there.
The magnetism is too strong? Yeah.
lttstore.com That's pretty good. That doesn't rhyme.
It's a like rhyme. Like rhyme.
Ew. Oh, no. That's literally modern rap.
What are you talking about? Actually, modern rap is lame or they rhyme.
They don't rhyme anything. You can get me out of this. No, no, no.
Oh, no, it's fine. No, it's not. It's not going in the video.
It's not even going in the video. It'll go in the video. Nope.
No, rhymes that don't actually rhyme are lame.
Have you ever written a rap? Yes.
You have the storms? Not the Star Wars one. You fucking asked me a question.
I fucking answered it. Have I ever?
Yes. I can't argue with it.
Did I say it was good? No. That's right.
But did it rhyme? Yes.
Unfortunately. Yeah, you better believe it.
I do believe that's why I said it.
Can you do a Floatplane blog? I don't know.
That seems a little outside of the kind of thing that we would make for LTD store.
What? Like a Floatplane branded.
Oh my god. That's the next April Fool's I thought.
That one was a stretch, dude. I mean it will stretch.
It depends how big it is. Yeah, I was going to say, damn it.
That's not even on the thing. See you later, buddy.
You still didn't even do the plug. I'll do it later.
I'll never forget the April Fool's where you're like, or the writer's meeting, you're like,
hey, I want to make a water cool butt plug, but I need to actually use it.
It was like, the line is, nobody's forcing you to use it.
You're like, no, I want to. Well, no, that's not what I said.
What I said was that if we were to human water cool,
It has to be tested. Then we have to test it.
That's all I said. Man, this is going to be a good looking little machine.
I know. I'm excited. I've had before this all China PC, I was ITX for a few years because my PC used to sit
on top of my desk, but I kind of miss ATX just for air flow and noise.
ITX is one of those things where it's great in theory and then you live with it for a
while and you either still have the passion for it or you lose the passion for it.
I think it is really cool how far it's come though and how much stuff you can cram into
like a 10 or 11 liter case.
Especially with how much flipping power modern GPUs consume.
Even just when you think about how small like 1000 watt power supplies have gotten as well.
Crazy. What don't you know about?
Well, astrophysics, gardening.
About this specific situation. The history of dance.
You know the history of dance? You know my dad used to be a wonderful dancer.
He did like ballroom championship dancing. Really?
Yeah. I do not have like any of those jeans in my blood whatsoever.
I'm a terrible dancer. Well, you know why you don't have those jeans in your blood?
It's because he took his pants off when you were conceived. This is true.
You don't know that. So there's no jeans in your blood at all?
Yeah, he could have been wearing jeans. I've never asked my mom.
Because she'd yell at us.
I told you, Sven! Don't ask me that!
Hear me out. Linus company town. Honestly?
I need a f**k up. I'm in. $200 a month rent?
Yeah. Or no rent. Or no rent.
We can keep out no rent. Or this OLED. Yeah, or that OLED.
Or the small OLED. Or the small OLED. Which is also bigger than the CRT.
The CRT. Yeah. And so I had a 2X Pro from RetroTink that I used for the longest time.
I used to speed around Mario 64 and Super Mario World.
And then I was learning Super Metroid last year. I kind of fell out of it, hobby thing again.
So this will just kind of be used for obviously gaming on there.
And then I like to stream retro games to my friends on Discord.
So we still got to plug in HD15 and HDMI into this thing.
Oh yeah. Well, don't let me get in the way. Okay.
You can just sit there and pretend to play like my little brother always would.
Did you ever pull that trick? No, I was a little brother.
Oh. Nice. Or it's a single player game and you tell them they're playing along and helping, but you're just playing?