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click the link in the video description for more details now I've been asked a
ton of times to show what I think is sort of a an ultimate Tech bag what do I
carry around with me what does slick carry around with him when working on
computers or just generally doing Tech things so we're going to do that episode
today and we're going to start with the big stuff I always carry a laptop these
days with such small laptops available I use an Ultrabook just because it's
really convenient and it doesn't take up much space in my bag which is otherwise
very very full I'm one of those hopeless obsessives who actually carries a mouse
pad around just because I can't stand using a mouse without one a tablet is
great to have just for looking up something next to you or sitting and
watching videos while you're otherwise working on something so do carry a
tablet with a nice durable case on it in this case I use my iPad for that all
right next pocket we've got a webcam
never know when one of those is going to come in handy we've got an SSD never
know when one of those is going to come in handy uh this I'll keep an OS on so
that gives me a nice fast platform in order to boot up to and sort of do any
Diagnostics if they have you know a slow virus who ridden hard drive that I
otherwise basically can't use I always carry a spare Mouse to go with my spare
mouse pad so in this case it's a Logitech g9x it's an older Mouse but I
really really like it so business cards no self-respecting Tech should go
anywhere without their business cards because you never know when there's going to be a PC in need copy of
antivirus these days it's less necessary so that's more of a figurative thing um
because you can download them anti-static bag somewhere safe to put
stuff that you take out of a system sometimes customers will go oh well I
don't really need that RAM anymore now that you put the new stuff in there you
can have it want somewhere safe want to be able to take that home with you
that's good stuff notepad little notepad
for sticky notes SATA cables never go
anywhere without those spare router
sometimes when you're diagnosing a network problem the problem is the
network so you can use your router either as a wireless access point and
router or you can just use it as a switch if you need to wire up a few
different computers spare cooling fan can be great
for diagnosing cooling related issues so you can take this strap it next to
something that's overheating and find out if that's what's actually causing
the problem multimeter this is great for
even just basic stuff like diagnosing power supplies is this is this extension
cable even working all right USB hub especially
when you're working on Modern computers if it's a laptop for example a lot of
them don't have more than a couple USB ports and it's great to be able to plug
in a keyboard mouse and a USB drive or
and any of the other things that you might need wire strippers these I carry
maybe not necessary for everyone but uh power adapter for my laptop as well zip
ties use those all the time notepad
bigger notepad this is great for doing things like overclocking let's face it
it's not always the most convenient and fastest thing in the world to have two
computers going and be documenting things in Excel and I personally find
myself jotting things down with pen and paper all the time even these days
isopropyl alcohol you don't have to carry around a whole bottle of it but I
still find it's very useful for removing thermal compound which is also in here
you can usually borrow toilet paper wherever you happen to be so I keep a
3/2 mm um extension cable just because I
find that comes in handy for me every very so rarely once in a while USB
cables um a to mini B so this is great
for digital cameras and stuff like that uh a to micro b so this is great for
cell phones charging up your phone whatever else and this one's attached to
something A2 or did I say a to mini B that was a to B A to B so that's for
printers and a to mini B so in this case it's pre-attached to my external optical
drive which I also carry around with me again because if you're working on a
laptop that doesn't have one and you happen to need to oh I actually need to
use a CD then you'll be pulling your
hair out if you don't have that a power bar is great to set up at your temporary
workstation so you can make sure you have all this stuff plugged in while you
work I recommend getting one that has a fairly long cord so that you can can run
it from somewhere inconvenient if you need to alternately you can carry an
extension cable as well electrician tape never know when that'll come in handy
keyar for mechanical keyboards this is a slick special I don't actually carry one
of these but he does uh Apple cable even
if you don't own any Apple products you know how many times I've been asked if
someone can borrow one of those it's just nice to have it on hand uh okay
apparently we had more than I thought for those USB cables that was a USB a
Tob uh little mini heat sink this is another one that's good for diagnosing
weird um just weird issues is it heat related is it not um and then carrying
around some double-sided thermal adhesive is another good one so you can
actually Stick it to stuff uh this is my iFix it
toolkit it contains a whole bunch of really cool stuff so number one is an
anti-static wrist strap right there uh number two is a bunch of cool like
tweezers and pry tools that I can use to take stuff apart or get stuff out of
hard to reach places huge set of uh
precision screwdrivers including some security bits and things that you can
use for taking apart stuff that's they don't want you to take apart so that's
uh that's really great and then last but not least some more pry tools and
measuring tools and all that kind of good stuff um not that impressed with
the build quality of the kit overall to be perfectly honest I I bought it a
little while ago and I I was trying to
remove a screw from my fs700 camera and now my one of my Philips heads looks
like this cuz I I'm apparently super
beast bent way too easily okay always carry a pen never
know when that'll come in handy my Windows 7 pen to go with my Windows Vista
backpack awesome uh side Cutters these
are great for cutting off cable ties that you're wire managing with or
cutting wires that are in your way for example I'll use these to cut off the
ac97 uh header block here my evidence
going off uh I'll use these to cut off the ac97 header block so that it's not
ugly and the way and it'll just plug in the HD audio needle noose pliers holy
crap you can use these for almost anything I used to carry vice grips with
me but I've stopped doing that now that I don't water cool as much because what
I'd do is I would use vice grips to tighten compression fittings with a
cloth or um or some you know paper towel
to keep them from getting damaged screwdriver multi-head
screwdriver the bits that I use are slot
um small Phillips so that's I think that's a number is that a zero I don't
remember what this is but it's a it's a little little tiny one and then a big
Phillips I think that's a number two can't remember for the life of me
I'm sorry guys I'm not really good at tools but big Phillips small Phillips
and medium Phillips and then I also carry a slot and that stand standard
size Roberts Robertson whatever it is like I said not a tool guy um that's
used for almost everything so those are the bits that I carry this is a Snap-On
ratcheting screwdriver so it's great for working extremely quickly electric
screwdrivers you they go as fast as they go um so especially when you're
threading in a screw and you need that fine touch it's nice to be able to do
this with your fingers it has a knurled portion here so you can do that and then
wrench it tight when you get to the end it's also great for going quickly cuz
you can move as fast as your fingers can move or you can wrench it like that so I
love this screwdriver I've had a lot of people ask me about my screwdriver so
there you go I've been using it for years now I've had that for about eight
nine years all right always carry headphones in fact those are a headset
those are the steel series flux inor pros and this is a weird one but I
actually carry two USB sound cards because you never know when some weird
issue like Premier was crashing the other day on Diesel's workstation
problem ended up being the Onboard video or the onboard sound on the motherboard
we were using this one didn't fix it but this one did so I have a steel series
one and I have a Zonar u3 from ASUS which has been very handy um video
adapters I'm missing my dv a VGA adapter that should be here but I also always
carry mini DisplayPort to full-size DisplayPort DisplayPort to DVI and
just in case I have an active powered
dis mini DisplayPort to dual link DVI
um that will only come up in very rare scenarios but you never know Molex TOA
you never know when you're going to have to install a hard drive in someone's computer and they don't have any spare
SATA connectors so I I carry a one to two one so that I can plug in my SSD
plug in the new hard drive do whatever it is that I need to do a wall wart for
your USB charging just in case you're sitting somewhere a while you need to charge up your phone while you're
waiting and then I personally carry a bunch of fan adapters so some Splitters
one to two so you can take only one available header and plug in two fans
lots of computers won't have extra headers and maybe they got a cheapo OEM
fan that doesn't come with an adapter and then I also carry a fan speed
controller this is more for my personal use or it's not a controller this is
just a Molex that splits out to 5V 7vt
and 12vt so this will give you a good idea of the startup voltage of a fan if
you're just curious and you want to know um ha this 32 mm to um RCA super handy
use it all the time uh 3 and 1 12 mm to
whatever that bigger one is and then the other way around the bigger one to 3 and
1/2 mm keep those together keep them with you at all times never know when
you're going to need those full set of Allen Keys super handy again I carry one water
cooling Barb with me cuz you never know when you're going to be one short
but that's kind of a a hold over from when I used to water cool a lot more
once again um external hard drive so USB
drives aren't always enough and this one right here has a modular USB R 3 to SATA
adapter that comes with it so I could plug this into some other drive and use
it like this as a USB drive if I needed
to this is one of seagate's goflex things awesome like that's a must have
for any Tech tool kit love it um battery
bank so USB charger this one charges out
of a little thing that comes out of the bottom this isn't a particularly big one but these are so
handy uh SD card reader and SD card
never know when you'll need one of those USB drives Galore so I usually carry a
USB drive in my back oh there it is USB drive in my back pocket that's my main
one it's a 64 gig Patriot um Supersonic
and then I always carry at least one or two backups so in this case we've got a
Survivor as well as a flash or these are I think a 64 and a 16 gig or 32 or
something like that more screwdrivers what's great about these screwdrivers
versus the ones that come in the iFixit toolkit is they're fantastic for putting
fans in radiators for example because they're just over uh 25 mm long so you
can get right in there and they're you know you can torque them enough in fact
you can use the vice grips that I used to carry around with me or even the needlenose pliers which now I can't find
anymore to grab onto the grip here and
tighten things even in really hard to reach places so I carry a full set of
small slots as well as a full set of
small Phillips and this is a special one this actually came with a lean Lee case
so this is a hex on the top here this is the size of motherboard standoffs highly
recommend carrying around one of these it allows you to tighten them in so that
when you go to remove the motherboard it doesn't undo the standoff from the back
plate rather than undoing the screw from the standoff which can be a real pain um
yet another screwdriver you can never have enough screwdrivers uh USB wireless
adapter always carry a USB wireless adapter just in case you're trying to
diagnose a networking issue and their Wireless dieses for example that's my
wife calling but it's okay we're almost done here extra Sano an Loops always
always always extra doublea batteries in handy in yeah comes in handy all the
time and what's great about anal Loops is you can leave them in your bag and they don't discharge that quickly micro
SD to SD adapter so that you can use the car card reader where's our card reader
ah yes our card reader uh in order to read them and then we've got aha uh car
power to USB never know when that'll come in handy and finally we've got a
couple of Ethernet cables so guys what
I'd like you to do if you made it all the way through this video is leave your
own suggestions for things that you feel like we missed in the comments under the
video or in the Forum thread Linked In the description I'm going to show you a
few more things that didn't make it into my bag but are things that could come in
handy carrying around one of these little uh one of these little battery
powered speakers can be useful um if you don't have a phone that you know has
great speakers built into it like mine does kimchi bow noodle never know when
you're going to be working for a long time this was Slick's suggestion he actually carries an extra kimchi bow
noodle and a fork in his bag at all times so there you go USB number pad
okay this is a useful one and I personally am oops I personally am more
of a mouse and mouse pad de but slick carries the number pad as well as a 10
keyless keyboard around with him in his bag when he feels like it'll come in
handy this is his limited edition one that I think he just wanted to show off
cuz it's limited edition but this is not the actual one he carries a smart guy um
but he does actually carry one I've seen him do
it uh also in here we've got the cable for that as well as a measuring tape and
this this one's me uh I actually carry a calculator in my bag at all times don't
like the touchcreen interface and I like being able to see I carry this instead
of the number pad so if I need to add something up or whatever else I use this
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