maybe it's broken it should not make that noise
gurgles okay cool it actually turned on for a oh you've seen us build computers
costing anywhere from $69 all the way into the hundreds of thousand but just
because you appear on screen with some of the hottest Hardware on the planet
doesn't mean that's what you go home to so what does our team run at home solid
gaming rigs homebuilt servers AI Dev mules the hell is an AI Dev mule how
about all of the above but before we get to that I hope you enjoyed this cobbled
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won't have excuses hey I'm Dan I am the technical architect for lonus Media
Group today I brought you my AI development mule called brain Cube or
more affectionately known as the C box you can see it uses the a K Mystic white
opaque coolant I've been wanting to make that joke for about 10 years now and uh
yeah I'm I'm a child hello I'm Nicole and I am the talent and culture
coordinator today I brought to you a PC that I bought of someone on Facebook
Marketplace my name is Colton Potter I'm the head of Business Development I do
business development what is that it's a good question I brought to you guys the
most powerful 20123 handheld PC that my
money could buy the Asus Rog Ally 23
Edition as you can see I've got the dbrand kill switch case on it which I
got only a couple months ago my name is Emily S I am one of our post- production
supervisors former video editor and this is my PC I built it about 4 years ago I
think Co PC before I started at LMG I
built it not knowing how to build computers but it's been upgraded ever
since the only original stuff in it I think is the boot SSD and the hard drive
I'm Nicholas I work in the Labs I look after mark bench and most of the
automation that takes place with our testing I brought today my main daily
driver gaming rig I'm Natalie and I'm part of the creative Warehouse team I'm
the inventory coordinator so anything you see on LTT Store.com I'm somewhat
involved the kind of PC I brought today is my Corsair gaming PC that I run daily
at home there's a lot of Corsair stuff in it I'm Adam I'm a writer for Linus
Tech tips I brought in my Home Server uh
I've named it affectionately old man because that is what it is it's a big
box that I use to store backups Linux
isos and tons and tons of Il legally acquired media it is actually like a
server um it's a Lenovo think server and it has a Server Motherboard as well as a
Zeon CPU in it but that doesn't just mean it's good so today what I brought
in was my Nest box or Nas machine
running uh true Nest my Nas or network attached storage is where I stole all of
my data stole oh sorry what I say stole my name
is Justin and I am the fabricator here at LTT so today the PC I have brought in
for you is my gaming slcad rig that I
use at home primary gaming machine and then when I need to do all my design
work whether it is for stuff here or for the crazy crap I'm building at home this
is the machine I use for it have we turned it on and see it drip
gurgles woo oo pretty
colors there we go oo look at all that
RGB that I actually really hate these are not the colors I run at
home just so you
know okay cool it actually turned on for a oh so I've been building this over I
don't know the last 6 months or something like that it's gone through a few different iterations it started off
with a pair of 2080 TI and has now moved up to the triple 390 configuration you
see here I decided to buy it off someone because I didn't want to go through the
hassle of researching buying every single PC part by myself and at the time
I was in university I was pretty busy and so I paid someone on Facebook
Marketplace to do it for me this I built last year Midsummer this one I built two
two and a half years ago it's funny I bought this thing the day that our video
review came out on it I think it was the first day that was available in stores
and on that day before this I had a steam deck and I sold my steam deck on
Facebook Marketplace and the guy who came to buy it was like Hey you work for
LT I just saw you guys' video on the r Alli and I was like yeah that's what I'm
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
PC case so there's only two options when you win a PC case either you get rid of
the case or you build a computer in it I helped build this PC um back in 2020
before that I was just running off a laptop it's also probably the longest
computer I've ever owned I have not opened this in 2 years and it's it's
great this system is primarily developed as an
AI mule so learning how AI development Works learning how infrance Works
learning how training works all that sort of stuff running models at home and
also kind of acting as an internet server so you know not everybody has
access to play with AI so I wanted to be able to set this up in VMS and separate
out gpus so friends of mine or other people could actually have a GPU and
have a dedicated space to to play with it instead of having to pay for tokens
that sort of thing I decided to upgrade because I was lagging a lot on my
valerant games and I decided I've had enough I mainly use this for gaming at
home uh I've done a little bit of freelance on the side which is slowly
picking up a little bit more so it's used for editing um light editing
nothing crazy like what we do yeah but mostly gaming on the side I wanted a
handheld specifically this handheld for two reasons the first being that I'm a
parent so I don't get as much time to be able to game at my computer at my like
desktop PC as I use used to and then the second thing is I like this because it
has Windows I know you can configure the steam deck to have Windows on it but I
looked up a couple videos and I was just not down for that so that's why I got
this I was trying to just build the the best gaming uh experience I'm more of a
Gearhead and I just I I have this addiction of chasing the FPS even though
I play games like Heroes of the Storm but I need 400 frames because I know I
can have 400 frames my main goals when I picked up this server was that I wanted
something cheap but also that would have a lot of room for expansion this is a 8
Bay Storage uh server and it is filled
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
luckily I have unraid which means I have
a parody and also like I was have a spare backup anyways so some of the
projects I'm working on at home right now that I'm using this machine for is
both me and my father were heavily into doing RC cars and things like that my
dad's more so into the RC semi Sid of things so trucks that are a little bit
more scale looking so right now we're working on making a bunch of scale
accessories for the cars are for the trucks and we just finished a project
recently where we built a 14 scale lowboy trailer for one of his trucks
it's all 3D printed and I had to design everything in CAD for that I didn't
really have a budget when I built this originally it was just sort of cobbled
together from Parts either got from the company or other ones I had lying around
yeah it's got 3 390s in it but I bought the two that are water blocked here kind
of secondhand I believe they're crypto mining abused cards so I don't feel too
bad about it um the air cooled one here which I still haven't got a water block
for is actually my personal one that I used to have I've since upgraded to a
490 in my main rig so it gets a hand me- down GPU I remember 100% how much I paid
for it it is the biggest purchase I've made at the time I was really proud of
it it is $33,000 all-inclusive I had a budget around I think under 2,000 for
just the PC parts itself not including the peripherals so I think in total I
spent about 1,500 Canadian I got this
for like $150 not including the drives the that's
really where the the price the drives are much more expensive I have like some
regrets about this thing one is that since it's a literal server I have a
redundant power supply but it's it's a
server power supply there's no cheap ATX
power supply that is in this form factor
I would build it myself next time cuz then that would be like smaller upgrades
so like I know now for example the memory is pretty small later on I would
encounter probably a problem that I don't have enough memory so I can
probably do that myself my dream is that I just have a single cluster of compute
or computer in the corner and then everything in my house is just a thin
client so if I did anything I'd rather build just one big machine some of the
server rack stuff I'm not I don't have the room for at home but that would be
ideal one thing that's super freaking annoying about this server is that
Lenovo includes all of these little hard drive trays right you're like oh sweet
thank you they're not a hard drive tray they're just filler it doesn't do
anything it just takes space you have to buy other hard drive containers I had to
buy third party ones cuz they're $40 each I got these on eBay for like $20 a
pop um not the drive the hard drive I got for much more money that's a 20
terab drive there but I still have to pay so much for the caddies and I can't
get it back in and I'm mad I don't regret it but I would get something a
little bit more modern and a little bit less servery I've had a few issues since
I bought this thing in July of 2023 this thing's cooling system started making
these God awful noises to the point that I couldn't play any games my wife
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
then it went away it warms up my entire room I've turned off the heating in my
room for the past 2 years I'm hoping it saves me money but I don't know I've
recently lost the ability to put it to sleep the sleep button just disappeared
in Windows and I don't know how to get it back I looked it up for like a few
days um and my boyfriend and I were trying to figure it out and we couldn't
so it only I just lock it and let it kind of turn off on its own The Quirk
about this one is that this fan and
cooler combo I tried to fit into a Loki raw S1 like garbage can style cooler but
I had to like try and file down the sides cuz it was basically smush up
against against it like a child on a candy window so instead I just zip tied
it to this one and slapped it in here
sometimes the power button if I turn it on in a certain way it gets stuck so you
power it on and it just stays held so it just shuts itself off that's cool this
GPU has a fun little Quirk oh it's not really a quirk it's a safety feature
around where the fittings go in here there is these little like brass copper
rings that if any little bit of liquid gets on there it'll throw the GPU into a
uh liquid detection mode so that way it doesn't fry your GPU or anything however
the problem is the fitting I used on this side here it's a little bit too big
so it's actually coming into contact with the ring on occasion so if I just
bump my computer too hard it will cause
it to freak out it'll shut the whole entire computer down and yeah it's a
it's a fun time that's the SATA cable for the DVD drive I haven't even opened
it I don't know there could be a DVD in it what's in the
drive and maybe it's broken it's busted
so as much as I love this case the GPU
is mounted so that you have to plug in underneath and in um the uh video where
lonus roasts all of our setups you can see this propped up on the two CPU boxes
in the corner of my desk so it gives it enough clearance let's get this uh DVD
out of here with our look at that that's our bit and our Precision screen
screwdriver with storage from LTT Store.com all right that was the Moment
of Truth damn empty so I've got a couple
other computers at home I've got my main rig which is now, 1400k with a 490 I
have one that my cat sleeps on which is
a Threadripper system that was a waste of money I'll tell you that and then
I've also got a little jbow Nas I built basically the exact same one that we did
in a previous video awesome little Nas I think it's got about 50 t bites or
something on that so I've also got a 24 Bay Storage server too that's just kind
of sitting in the middle of my living room right now it's still very loud even
though I changed all of the fans and the power supplies over to noctua so I think
that's probably about it most of them are just sitting on the floor I just got
a Nas I just put together a Nas for like home photos and stuff which is great I'm
using the U green one I'm slowly transitioning to Mac cuz I get older I
just like it to work and it's working okay no we have a
few more computers at home so obviously my fiance has his own Tower and then we
also recently he recently just built another one for the TV downstairs in the
living room so we can like easily um cast like Chrome YouTube Anything games
if we wanted to as for the other computers that I own you can watch my
AMD upgrade uh cuz that's where I got that though now it has been moved into a
beautiful fractal Tera enclosure it's a great system so I guess next up for this
system is probably going to be a water blocked a100 I've still got to be able
to put in the two 2080 TI I'm think I'm
running out of PCI slots this board has seven this is the sage I think 621 W
something like that it's already got a 1500 wat power supply so I need to do
some more custom cabling and things like that but again it's supposed to have
cards pulled in and out of it which is why it's got all the EK quick
disconnects on basically every single fitting on this uh rig do you have any
upgrades planned for any of your computers right now uh no I'm broke so
if I were to upgrade my PC in the future um I don't think I'm going to stick on
am4 um I think we're kind of at the last legs of where am4 is going to be good so
we probably got another good three four years out of it I love this case this is
one of my favorite cases but I could go for something a little bit newer the new
uh lean Le without the bezel would be really cool or you know the board Cube
PC case that David has is kind of what I
wanted and then he took it I'm aware that the Lix came out early this year I
didn't want to upgrade because it didn't have a more powerful processor I know
there was a few different kind of power things they unlocked with the bigger
battery and stuff like that but if I can find a handheld within the sameish price
point that can run games at a high FPS or just better I will absolutely upgrade
I'm just waiting for that thing that has the biggest leap to justify me spending
my money to kind of buy it if a makes sense Dennis what are you doing what is
this lonus are you renting out Linus's Porsche I run a secret business with a
sponsor o do this is my office don't use that's why this bathroom has been
occupied I used old dudes to have this website it's called live is UN long LOL
every hour H wa I make 20 bucks so every
day I make $160 extra can you calate how much a month you know what ODU is it's
the only one platform for business Sol I know what ODU is Dennis are you doing
this on company time not much time okay
let's be honest cuz ODU saved me so much time but that's is beside the point ODU
has over 50 apps to help me run the business I'm just using the ruman app to
create a job post do you want to apply I'll pay you more let's not talk about
it right now they have a Time app app so he can track your employees attendance
so they actually work not doing what I'm doing you're lucky that lonus hasn't
found out about this lonus thanks for watching if you enjoyed this why not
take a trip down memory lane and look at the previous time we did this it was
quite a while ago and things have changed quite a bit ploof still has way
too expensive of a computer though he's just that man can't be helped