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gurgles okay cool it actually turned on for a oh you've seen us build computers

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costing anywhere from $69 all the way into the hundreds of thousand but just

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because you appear on screen with some of the hottest Hardware on the planet

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doesn't mean that's what you go home to so what does our team run at home solid

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gaming rigs homebuilt servers AI Dev mules the hell is an AI Dev mule how

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Group today I brought you my AI development mule called brain Cube or

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more affectionately known as the C box you can see it uses the a K Mystic white

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opaque coolant I've been wanting to make that joke for about 10 years now and uh

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yeah I'm I'm a child hello I'm Nicole and I am the talent and culture

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coordinator today I brought to you a PC that I bought of someone on Facebook

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Marketplace my name is Colton Potter I'm the head of Business Development I do

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business development what is that it's a good question I brought to you guys the

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most powerful 20123 handheld PC that my

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money could buy the Asus Rog Ally 23

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Edition as you can see I've got the dbrand kill switch case on it which I

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got only a couple months ago my name is Emily S I am one of our post- production

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supervisors former video editor and this is my PC I built it about 4 years ago I

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think Co PC before I started at LMG I

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built it not knowing how to build computers but it's been upgraded ever

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since the only original stuff in it I think is the boot SSD and the hard drive

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I'm Nicholas I work in the Labs I look after mark bench and most of the

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automation that takes place with our testing I brought today my main daily

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driver gaming rig I'm Natalie and I'm part of the creative Warehouse team I'm

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the inventory coordinator so anything you see on LTT Store.com I'm somewhat

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involved the kind of PC I brought today is my Corsair gaming PC that I run daily

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at home there's a lot of Corsair stuff in it I'm Adam I'm a writer for Linus

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Tech tips I brought in my Home Server uh

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I've named it affectionately old man because that is what it is it's a big

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box that I use to store backups Linux

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isos and tons and tons of Il legally acquired media it is actually like a

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server um it's a Lenovo think server and it has a Server Motherboard as well as a

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Zeon CPU in it but that doesn't just mean it's good so today what I brought

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in was my Nest box or Nas machine

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running uh true Nest my Nas or network attached storage is where I stole all of

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my data stole oh sorry what I say stole my name

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is Justin and I am the fabricator here at LTT so today the PC I have brought in

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for you is my gaming slcad rig that I

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use at home primary gaming machine and then when I need to do all my design

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work whether it is for stuff here or for the crazy crap I'm building at home this

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is the machine I use for it have we turned it on and see it drip

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gurgles woo oo pretty

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colors there we go oo look at all that

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RGB that I actually really hate these are not the colors I run at

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home just so you

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know okay cool it actually turned on for a oh so I've been building this over I

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don't know the last 6 months or something like that it's gone through a few different iterations it started off

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with a pair of 2080 TI and has now moved up to the triple 390 configuration you

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see here I decided to buy it off someone because I didn't want to go through the

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hassle of researching buying every single PC part by myself and at the time

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I was in university I was pretty busy and so I paid someone on Facebook

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Marketplace to do it for me this I built last year Midsummer this one I built two

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two and a half years ago it's funny I bought this thing the day that our video

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review came out on it I think it was the first day that was available in stores

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and on that day before this I had a steam deck and I sold my steam deck on

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Facebook Marketplace and the guy who came to buy it was like Hey you work for

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LT I just saw you guys' video on the r Alli and I was like yeah that's what I'm

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selling this to you for so I can go buy it it was pretty sick it was last year at the Christmas party and I had won a

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PC case so there's only two options when you win a PC case either you get rid of

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the case or you build a computer in it I helped build this PC um back in 2020

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before that I was just running off a laptop it's also probably the longest

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computer I've ever owned I have not opened this in 2 years and it's it's

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great this system is primarily developed as an

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AI mule so learning how AI development Works learning how infrance Works

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learning how training works all that sort of stuff running models at home and

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also kind of acting as an internet server so you know not everybody has

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access to play with AI so I wanted to be able to set this up in VMS and separate

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out gpus so friends of mine or other people could actually have a GPU and

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have a dedicated space to to play with it instead of having to pay for tokens

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that sort of thing I decided to upgrade because I was lagging a lot on my

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valerant games and I decided I've had enough I mainly use this for gaming at

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home uh I've done a little bit of freelance on the side which is slowly

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picking up a little bit more so it's used for editing um light editing

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nothing crazy like what we do yeah but mostly gaming on the side I wanted a

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handheld specifically this handheld for two reasons the first being that I'm a

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parent so I don't get as much time to be able to game at my computer at my like

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desktop PC as I use used to and then the second thing is I like this because it

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has Windows I know you can configure the steam deck to have Windows on it but I

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looked up a couple videos and I was just not down for that so that's why I got

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this I was trying to just build the the best gaming uh experience I'm more of a

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Gearhead and I just I I have this addiction of chasing the FPS even though

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I play games like Heroes of the Storm but I need 400 frames because I know I

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can have 400 frames my main goals when I picked up this server was that I wanted

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something cheap but also that would have a lot of room for expansion this is a 8

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Bay Storage uh server and it is filled

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with almost all of the hard drives there was a hard drive in here and when I moved it it fell out uh this morning um

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luckily I have unraid which means I have

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a parody and also like I was have a spare backup anyways so some of the

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projects I'm working on at home right now that I'm using this machine for is

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both me and my father were heavily into doing RC cars and things like that my

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dad's more so into the RC semi Sid of things so trucks that are a little bit

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more scale looking so right now we're working on making a bunch of scale

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accessories for the cars are for the trucks and we just finished a project

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recently where we built a 14 scale lowboy trailer for one of his trucks

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it's all 3D printed and I had to design everything in CAD for that I didn't

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really have a budget when I built this originally it was just sort of cobbled

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together from Parts either got from the company or other ones I had lying around

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yeah it's got 3 390s in it but I bought the two that are water blocked here kind

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of secondhand I believe they're crypto mining abused cards so I don't feel too

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bad about it um the air cooled one here which I still haven't got a water block

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for is actually my personal one that I used to have I've since upgraded to a

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490 in my main rig so it gets a hand me- down GPU I remember 100% how much I paid

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for it it is the biggest purchase I've made at the time I was really proud of

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it it is $33,000 all-inclusive I had a budget around I think under 2,000 for

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just the PC parts itself not including the peripherals so I think in total I

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spent about 1,500 Canadian I got this

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for like $150 not including the drives the that's

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really where the the price the drives are much more expensive I have like some

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regrets about this thing one is that since it's a literal server I have a

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redundant power supply but it's it's a

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server power supply there's no cheap ATX

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power supply that is in this form factor

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I would build it myself next time cuz then that would be like smaller upgrades

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so like I know now for example the memory is pretty small later on I would

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encounter probably a problem that I don't have enough memory so I can

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probably do that myself my dream is that I just have a single cluster of compute

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or computer in the corner and then everything in my house is just a thin

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client so if I did anything I'd rather build just one big machine some of the

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server rack stuff I'm not I don't have the room for at home but that would be

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ideal one thing that's super freaking annoying about this server is that

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Lenovo includes all of these little hard drive trays right you're like oh sweet

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thank you they're not a hard drive tray they're just filler it doesn't do

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anything it just takes space you have to buy other hard drive containers I had to

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buy third party ones cuz they're $40 each I got these on eBay for like $20 a

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pop um not the drive the hard drive I got for much more money that's a 20

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terab drive there but I still have to pay so much for the caddies and I can't

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get it back in and I'm mad I don't regret it but I would get something a

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little bit more modern and a little bit less servery I've had a few issues since

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I bought this thing in July of 2023 this thing's cooling system started making

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these God awful noises to the point that I couldn't play any games my wife

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wouldn't even sit next to me cuz she thought the thing was going to like blow up I just factory reset the thing and

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then it went away it warms up my entire room I've turned off the heating in my

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room for the past 2 years I'm hoping it saves me money but I don't know I've

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recently lost the ability to put it to sleep the sleep button just disappeared

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in Windows and I don't know how to get it back I looked it up for like a few

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days um and my boyfriend and I were trying to figure it out and we couldn't

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so it only I just lock it and let it kind of turn off on its own The Quirk

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about this one is that this fan and

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cooler combo I tried to fit into a Loki raw S1 like garbage can style cooler but

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I had to like try and file down the sides cuz it was basically smush up

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against against it like a child on a candy window so instead I just zip tied

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it to this one and slapped it in here

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sometimes the power button if I turn it on in a certain way it gets stuck so you

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power it on and it just stays held so it just shuts itself off that's cool this

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GPU has a fun little Quirk oh it's not really a quirk it's a safety feature

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around where the fittings go in here there is these little like brass copper

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rings that if any little bit of liquid gets on there it'll throw the GPU into a

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uh liquid detection mode so that way it doesn't fry your GPU or anything however

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the problem is the fitting I used on this side here it's a little bit too big

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so it's actually coming into contact with the ring on occasion so if I just

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bump my computer too hard it will cause

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it to freak out it'll shut the whole entire computer down and yeah it's a

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it's a fun time that's the SATA cable for the DVD drive I haven't even opened

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it I don't know there could be a DVD in it what's in the

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drive and maybe it's broken it's busted

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so as much as I love this case the GPU

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is mounted so that you have to plug in underneath and in um the uh video where

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lonus roasts all of our setups you can see this propped up on the two CPU boxes

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in the corner of my desk so it gives it enough clearance let's get this uh DVD

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out of here with our look at that that's our bit and our Precision screen

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screwdriver with storage from LTT Store.com all right that was the Moment

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of Truth damn empty so I've got a couple

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other computers at home I've got my main rig which is now, 1400k with a 490 I

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have one that my cat sleeps on which is

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a Threadripper system that was a waste of money I'll tell you that and then

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I've also got a little jbow Nas I built basically the exact same one that we did

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in a previous video awesome little Nas I think it's got about 50 t bites or

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something on that so I've also got a 24 Bay Storage server too that's just kind

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of sitting in the middle of my living room right now it's still very loud even

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though I changed all of the fans and the power supplies over to noctua so I think

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that's probably about it most of them are just sitting on the floor I just got

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a Nas I just put together a Nas for like home photos and stuff which is great I'm

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using the U green one I'm slowly transitioning to Mac cuz I get older I

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just like it to work and it's working okay no we have a

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few more computers at home so obviously my fiance has his own Tower and then we

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also recently he recently just built another one for the TV downstairs in the

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living room so we can like easily um cast like Chrome YouTube Anything games

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if we wanted to as for the other computers that I own you can watch my

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AMD upgrade uh cuz that's where I got that though now it has been moved into a

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beautiful fractal Tera enclosure it's a great system so I guess next up for this

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system is probably going to be a water blocked a100 I've still got to be able

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to put in the two 2080 TI I'm think I'm

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running out of PCI slots this board has seven this is the sage I think 621 W

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something like that it's already got a 1500 wat power supply so I need to do

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some more custom cabling and things like that but again it's supposed to have

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cards pulled in and out of it which is why it's got all the EK quick

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disconnects on basically every single fitting on this uh rig do you have any

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upgrades planned for any of your computers right now uh no I'm broke so

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if I were to upgrade my PC in the future um I don't think I'm going to stick on

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am4 um I think we're kind of at the last legs of where am4 is going to be good so

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we probably got another good three four years out of it I love this case this is

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one of my favorite cases but I could go for something a little bit newer the new

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uh lean Le without the bezel would be really cool or you know the board Cube

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PC case that David has is kind of what I

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wanted and then he took it I'm aware that the Lix came out early this year I

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didn't want to upgrade because it didn't have a more powerful processor I know

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there was a few different kind of power things they unlocked with the bigger

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battery and stuff like that but if I can find a handheld within the sameish price

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point that can run games at a high FPS or just better I will absolutely upgrade

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I'm just waiting for that thing that has the biggest leap to justify me spending

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my money to kind of buy it if a makes sense Dennis what are you doing what is

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this lonus are you renting out Linus's Porsche I run a secret business with a

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sponsor o do this is my office don't use that's why this bathroom has been

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occupied I used old dudes to have this website it's called live is UN long LOL

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every hour H wa I make 20 bucks so every

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day I make $160 extra can you calate how much a month you know what ODU is it's

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the only one platform for business Sol I know what ODU is Dennis are you doing

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this on company time not much time okay

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let's be honest cuz ODU saved me so much time but that's is beside the point ODU

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has over 50 apps to help me run the business I'm just using the ruman app to

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create a job post do you want to apply I'll pay you more let's not talk about

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it right now they have a Time app app so he can track your employees attendance

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so they actually work not doing what I'm doing you're lucky that lonus hasn't

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found out about this lonus thanks for watching if you enjoyed this why not

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take a trip down memory lane and look at the previous time we did this it was

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quite a while ago and things have changed quite a bit ploof still has way

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too expensive of a computer though he's just that man can't be helped