As our manager of fashion design at Creator Warehouse, Bridget's job is to
make sure that I always look groovy, cool, on fleek. Oh god.
Unfortunately, she recently had a child
or well um unfortunately for my style
and while she was out, we had to come up with some ideas without her. Puffer fish
plushy RGB jacket. Literal butter. Let
me just put it this way, Bridget. We're glad you're back and we're glad to give
you this upgrade courtesy of AMD. And
this is going to be a great one, you guys. We've got toys for kids, toys for
dogs, toys for adults. Excuse me. Um, oh
god. The point is, thank you AMD for sponsoring this $5,000 ultimate tech
upgrade. Let's go.
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Tomahawk motherboard, 32 gigs of RAM, a Steam Deck OLED 1 TBTE portable gaming
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details for the giveaway at the link down below. Now, some of you noticed in
our last AMD Ultimate Tech upgrade that I didn't do my customary snooping around
the apartment to see what's been taken from the office. Well, I'm going to more
than make up for it today. I hadn't so much as made it through the door when I
spotted this LT hat, this 3D down
jacket, this embroidered hoodie. You
wore that. Wait a second. There's a second 3D down
jacket. How many of these can you wear? You have prototype. I have prototype.
Yes. Of course you do. Oh, you have the
cool blue workshop jacket. Yeah, I do. I
think I'm supposed to actually be disapproving of this. Really? I think
so. Why? We We give these things away. Do we? Yeah. I just get first crack at
them. Really, Bridget? Everything you took.
And you can't also steal an ABCs of gaming to validate my
work. All right. We haven't even been in the
computer room yet. This is where Bridget's lives. She lets him out
sometimes to play. We see him at the Christmas party every year. Wait. Hey,
there's a commuter backpack. Wow. So, you guys are pretty big into board
games. I actually did not know that about you. Yeah. We don't play as much
as we used to, for sure. But remember we were talking about kids earlier. Yeah.
But once upon a time, this can be a monument to when you had time. I like
your Nintendo collection. Thank you. That That is one of my favorite games,
too. Thought you might like that. Oh, did you Is that just for my benefit? No,
it's actually my favorite game, too. So nice. Not going to poke around in Wait,
what? Okay. I wasn't going to poke around in your bedroom, but you have a
projector in your bedroom. Yeah, that's part of the situation today. So it is.
So it is. If Ory is gaming out there, I
can watch whatever in here. Got it. Okay. Okay. There's no way this isn't
from the office. That's from the Christmas party. Yeah. Yeah, I know.
That Dbrand uh grip case is absolutely from the office. Yeah, it's funny cuz I
was like, I don't have anything from the office. Yeah, that's what everyone says.
I like your cable diaper. Oh, thanks. Yeah, that's actually kind of clever. It
was to keep the toddler hands out of it, but now he's found it. Sorry you're
talking about me. Given how nice your setup is overall, I
just don't see that much that we're going to improve. I haven't looked that closely at this. What is your most
looked forward to upgrade? Well, I got myself a
jacket, which is technical outerw wear.
Okay. And that's what I'm looking forward to. I was really hoping for
something tech specific, but um Sure. You want to tell us about it? It's a
very technical jacket. It's Arcteric ski jacket. Their fabric's really beautiful.
The fit's really nice. We don't really do women's outerw wear. We tried once.
We'll leave it there. Do we want to bring up how in an upgrade that includes
a cutie OLED? That's the most expensive item. Shut up. What? This was probably
like 1,500 bucks. No, it was less than that. But there's a cutie OLED. It was
around 900. Canadian or US? Canadian.
That's a good price on the cutie OLED.
Why don't we do a technical aspect of the upgrade? Okay. The Wim audio setup.
Okay. That we put together um has been
really awesome. I'm really excited about that. Wait, you already did it? Yeah.
Yeah. Dang it. I blame Alex. They're not
supposed to set things up ahead of time. So, it's this little center here. Yes.
It's connected to our record player. And you can either have speakers that have
it built in like this one right here for the kitchen. Or you can use these little
pucks and plug them into something like an AV receiver or amplifier or whatever
the case may be. And the idea, I guess, is what? So that you can hear we can
hear the record player from the kitchen while we're cooking with the fan on. We
can hear from our son's room if we're playing in there or our bedroom cuz this
speaker you can't hear from the kitchen. No, you really can't. That fan is very
loud. Right. Okay. So, do you want to show us how you change it from one zone
to another? It's currently playing everywhere. Yes. Okay. That explains why
it seemed a little kind of coming from all around me as opposed to just from
these two speakers. Okay. And then we could just like turn up the kitchen.
Mhm.
Or we could turn down the kitchen. We could turn up the living room. Yeah. Okay. So, very similar to the Sonos
interface, except you are missing one thing. the like 3 seconds of lag anytime
you do anything. Super cool so far. But for our sponsor AMD's sake, I was
thinking maybe we could do a computer thing next, not a jacket. Uh based on
the parts I'm looking at here, I think we're building a NAS. And what were you
planning to do with that? Just storage for all of our family stuff, media,
photos. Yeah. Why don't we sick Alex and Reese on working getting the projector
thing started and I'll have Bridget build a computer. Have you ever watched
one of our videos? Oh, yeah. I have. I saw some of the live stream when a bunch
of different people were building computers. Okay. Okay. If you had to
guess, where would you think you start? Um, here I can make it a little
Where would you like to start?
Um, with this this situation. Yeah,
actually. I see you boys are back. Neither of us have ever installed a
in-wall speaker, so not a clue. We'll see how it goes. Cool. Ori has tools. I
think I saw a drywall saw in there. Yeah, if you have a drill, that would be nice. And a plan. Yeah. Ideally, the
oils in our fingers. We don't want to touch the printed circuit board if we
can avoid it. Okay. But most motherboards have a metal back plate.
Okay. So, you can kind of That's what you hold. Yeah. Yeah. You can grab that.
I don't know. Some of this stuff has to go here.
This kind of thing is always funny to me, right? Because people online will be
like, "Oh, building computers is just like Lego. It's adult Lego. It's easy.
Whatever." It's like, "No, no, this is someone who literally will create a
garment from absolutely nothing. If you're not familiar with something, no,
it's actually not that obvious and it can be a little overwhelming." And it's
it's actually really fun for me doing builds with novices because it occurs to
me to explain things that I take for granted. Like Bridget will have to do
the same thing with me sometimes. She'll be talking about the flocking or the
whatever and I'll be like, Bridget, slow down. What are those words?
That's good. That makes her feel better. Yeah. No, no, it's great. So, this is
your next step. You're going to put the CPU in. It's sort of a cruel irony that
the hardest part of building a computer is the part that you would generally do
first because this is where there's the most risk of damage. Oh god. Okay. No,
no, you'll be fine. This is a nice efficient CPU. It's an 8700G built-in
graphics. But, uh, I see there's an inherited graphics card that we can
throw in in case we want to do any hardware accelerated video encoding or
anything like that. And then the next thing you want to do is take this arm
out and then lift up this side. But but if anything touches the pins under here,
it's like operation. Okay, we do a quick inspection to see if there's any bent
pins. I don't see anything obvious. And then we can go ahead and install the
CPU. It's keyed. What does that mean? It
means that there's a little notch on here. Okay. And there's a little notch
on there and those correspond. And then you bring the arm down and latch it
under the thing.
This style of cooler actually screws directly into that back
plate. This is a four pin fan connector. It's going to go into our CPU fan
header. Okay. And that's going to be right there. Okay. There you go.
Why don't we do the memory text? Sure. They're also notched. They only go one
way. Okay.
You're going to want to give her a little more force. Yeah.
Almost. God, it's so close to There we go. We are going to have so many extras
on Floatplane for this one. LMG.gg/flat plane because you have two
different lengths of SSDs. Mhm. These little standoffs are going to go in two
different positions in your M.2 slots. Okay. Oh, wait. Neither of them are
compatible with this one.
That can't be good. Well, it's not great. Uh, oh boy.
But I didn't do it. No. Oh, heavens no. That is 100% on me.
Ori. How small of a drill bit you got.
Oh, we might be in luck.
You drilling out her motherboard. Don't worry about it. Don't put yourself in a
position to have to do what I'm doing. This is just totally normal computer
building. I know.
Oh, that's sick. There's enough friction
and it was loose enough that I was able to unscrew it with the drill bit. So, I
didn't actually have to drill it out. That means the threading's intact. So, I
owe you one motherboard M.2 standoff.
Wow. Great progress, guys. You've gotten as far as pulling down their existing We
got a hole. Yeah, we put a hole in the wall. Oh, you put a hole in the wall. Or
he wants to move this down. He wants to move the projector the whole projector
screen down. So, we put them if anybody's like, "Whoa, that's really
Those are really low speakers." That's why. Okay. Cuz he wants to move this
lower. Okay. And this is the old
projector screen or this is the new one? It's new. It's new. We used to just use
the wall. Okay. Well, this is a big upgrade over the wall. Is there anything
you guys didn't install before we got a chance to come and film this? Um, well,
yeah. What's happening here? Do you want to cut your wall a bit? No, I don't. I
really don't. Oh, yeah. You You got to You got to do it.
Good job. We can see enough that it looks like
that me and Reese aren't going to hit 120 volt what we saw through here. So,
that's fun. I would like you to get the motherboard installed. It's like a
sewing pattern. You got to line up the one side with the other side and put in
the pins. And the pins are the screws. I mean, that's a loose it's a loose
metaphor, but okay. You're going to want to make sure that those standoffs align
with the holes first without picking this up. Uh oh. Oh, yes. Yes, indeed.
Yep. No, no, that that is actually an excellent way to do that. You hold the
board and then check which holes and then you put the things in the Yep. You
don't have to worry about this right here. There's There's nothing there that I'm sawing beside.
We definitely know what that is. They all keep on falling
in. It's just that easy. We did bring some fish tape, but it wasn't really
working out. So, I just kind of played a bit of cow doctor here and reached down
in there and we have the wires. Cool. If anyone asks, we use
banana plugs. All right. There's magnets on just like that. Uh, this looks good.
You did give me one more screw. And I don't know if that was like a test or I
missed something. Oh, this case has one
of those little nubbin standoffs. Okay. Yep. No, no, that I wasn't intentionally
testing you, but No, you're That's great. Yeah. The more important part
that Bridget did nail is that there are no extra standoffs anywhere under the
motherboard. If you install an extra and it rubs up against the back of the
board, that will kill it. have her
install the power supply. I don't know. Your laugh makes me feel like no. These
cables in here, they're going to go here and here. Okay, just worry about those
two for now. This seems like the only cable that will fit here. So, I've
decided it's important. Everything else is unspoken
for currently. Working hard. Uh, it occurs
to me I was maybe supposed to install this cooler.
Huh? Why don't I do that while you work on the power supply? Okay, we'll
teamwork it. Okay. Mhm.
Okay. You've gone with a bottom intake, which is a perfectly valid choice. In
fact, the same choice I would make on this case cuz you got nice tall feet,
you've got a filtered intake down here, and you've got the right cables
connected. Totally flawless. Now, you can go ahead and run these cables
through the cable management holes in the back. while I finish getting this
other cooler installed. This is teamwork right here. This is like we're working
on a garment and I'm sewing the collar and you know, you're doing the hem at
the bottom and we got two sewing machines running. That's not how garments are made.
Well, everything I know about how garments are made, I learned from you. So, if I'm mistaken, we know who to
blame. Everything I know about building computers, I learned from you. And I
don't know where this is going. All these little connectors. Yeah. Yeah.
They need to go on there. Okay. Yeah. In
a particular order. Oh, okay. When she's done, Bridget, unlike a lot of the
people that I make build a computer, will actually be able to say she built a
computer because she will have actually done everything. For the receiver, they
have gone with the Denin AVR
S570BT, which is probably quite overkill
for this, but very nice receiver either
way. One thing that I really appreciate is it comes with a bunch of stickers so
that you can label the wires like front right, front left, center, and so on.
So, if you unplug this, you still know where all of your stuff goes in the
walls. Very nice.
Beautiful. Yeah. I like a glove. I found
this pack of fans and it has fan screws in it. So, we can put in as many fans as
we want. There's five fans in here. Look at them all. Okay. So, the way to tell
which way they blow air is there should
Okay. Is normally there would be an arrow indicating the direction of the
air flow. Oh, well, there isn't. Great. So, they blow toward the hub. Blow.
Okay. Yeah. Well, this is also the hub, but the not moving part of the hub. The
sticker. Well, there's a sticker here, too.
Yep. Nice. Nailed it.
Screw actually. I can't say screwed it.
Wow, that looks great. Yeah. Yeah, it's
actually like pretty clean.
Oo, Stealthy. Did we talk at all about
why we chose these speakers? Because we got a good deal from the local
distributor of KEF. Cool. And they're
good speakers. I couldn't help noticing that that projector is like totally at
an angle and like Yeah. Okay. I assume
that they had figured that out. Okay. So, that projector is not our problem.
That was already there. They've had that for a long time. Nice. But the AV
receiver is our problem. Yeah. Okay. Where's that going to go? Where'd
it go? It's right up there. No way. What's the deal with the like premium AV
receiver for the bedroom TV projector? Uh, it was just what made sense. Uh-huh.
Okay. You guys don't even have a super nice receiver like that out here,
though. No, we don't. Okay. Well, that's the theater now. That's the theater.
That's the theater. Okay. We go all in on like the jacket and the receiver.
It didn't make sense, but it works. Hey, but how's that monitor treating you? I
love it. Let's go have a look. So, how are you finding the switch to a single
ultrawide? I think a lot better cuz pay attention. I think the problem with the
two was that it was I it's so much screen real estate
that like half of it I wasn't using and then I would be like turned to one side
the whole time. And I'm a single big monitor guy, too. Okay. But people
people at work give me a hard time about it. I noticed you got another upgrade, a
printer. Yes. Who buys a printer in the
year 2025? Well, you got to return something. You got to print a label or
something like that. It's handy. It works.
What is this spacing for the holes on the drive? These holes are not spaced
the same. We can only put a maximum of two screws in per drive.
Alex and Reese. Yes, sir. Are you guys
done? Like movie night. Cool. I guess we need a new assignment for you
here. This seems about your speed. A
I mean, I wish they had that toy when I was a kid.
I knew you'd have fun with it. Meanwhile, Alex, do you want to try out
the Wicked Ball SE enhanced rubber?
Uh, okay. So, those are on there. And this panel might close. Okay.
Oh, buddy. Yeah, look at that. She bulges.
She bulges a little. But that's actually good because if you recall, we only put
two screws in each of those hard drives. So, by having the panel tight on there,
it'll actually push down the drives onto the other vibration mounts, making it so
that they might stay in place. Like, it was all on purpose. Oh, no. I figured
out everything that I need to do for the ball. Okay. Want to show it to me? Uh, I
plugged it in and now we wait. Oh, okay.
Oh, it's like a smart dog ball. Yeah, it rolls around on its own. Oh, wow. Look
at that. So, is it just computer gets finished and a couple of toys? Uh, yes
and no. There's also whatever these are. I think these are mattresses. Oh,
they're from Casper. What is a mini adventure jacket? Okay, that's just a
cover that goes on the Yodo, which is like a little um music or story playing
device for kids. Oh, you got AirPods. I
guess I did. Oh, nice. I had old ones
that um had that defect, but then I
didn't get them replaced in time. I didn't know. What is this? Um okay, so
these are This is gel LED UV. Yeah. So,
this light here, I bought an LED nail
lamp because I do gel nails myself. You
do gel nails? Yes. Is are those gel nails? Yes. What's a gel nail? Um, it's
cured with an LED lamp instead of like a
normal polish, which just dries. It's cured so it lasts longer. So, this is
like a really heavyduty nail lamp, which means it cures your nails faster and
it's supposed to actually be better for you cuz if they're not properly cured,
it can be bad. Oh, and then these are the polishes. These are polishes that go
with it. And like these look expensive. They're not cheap. Yeah. Okay. Like base
coat? What's the color even? What am I What am I This isn't color. This is just
base and then you put color and then you put top, which is this one. So you have
like a primer and like a shellac and a
like Okay. So that's right. So what is one of these worth? One of these? Yeah,
one of these. $25. What the heck is this? So this is like a
little children's It plays music and stories with these little cards, but it
doesn't have a screen, which is it's nice for a small kid. Um it's like a
little portable player. So then they have these cards that go into it. What's
the the curer worth? Uh, that one was
like around 2.90 Canadian. Now, Bridget, yep, I know
you thought I forgot and that would have been so disappointing for you, but I
didn't. Uh, we still need to install the GPU. Great. Uh, more instruction,
please. Uh, okay. So, see these happy
little slots here? So, the right ones of these covers have to be out. And these
screws have to come out and go into here. Okay. Yeah, it's easier if you lay
it flat. Slide it. Lay the computer
flat.
Thank you. I think this is the last of the
stuff that you have here. Yeah. Got a carry-on. Mhm. What makes it fancy? I'm
assuming it's fancy. It's just it's like a nice standard carry-on. They call it
carry-on pro because it has um this front pocket that you can put your
laptop in, which is nice. Then you don't have to carry it on your shoulder.
Cool. And it's got padding and some like pockets for accessories. The dog's ball
also has turned green.
You want to play? Do you want do the honors? Yeah.
just anything.
Back to the carpet. Yeah. Do you think you built it correctly?
Uh, there's probably 90% correct in here based on what I was
doing. Oh, that was pretty good.
Oh. Huh? That doesn't sound the best.
Doesn't sound great.
So, 32 GB of RAM. Is that what you're expecting? I think that's right. Yeah.
We'll turn on expo here. Make her a bit faster. I would normally use the
keyboard for something like that.
I need to hit F10. Oh, no storage was detected.
Huh. We're trying to figure out why neither of these hard drives are showing
up in the BIOS. One's from 2020 and one's from 2018. These are five and
seveny old hard drives. I guess we got them from Oh, they're serverdeals.com.
The good news is Server Parts Deals offers a warranty, so we're going to
need that and uh we'll have to get these replaced.
Hexos works though. Yeah, that worked great. It's just that there was no
drives. So, what exactly is in this?
Like a mattress topper or something? No, it's like a big um pillow to go on the
back of the headrest so we can like sit up and watch movies. Oh.
Oh, that feels nice. Yeah.
Okay. So, what's your what's your show right now? Um, we've been watching White Lotus.
That's not bad. That looks really good. Yeah, it looks great. This is sweet. Is
this HDR? No. No. No. That's Wow, that's
really bright, though. And we don't even have full light control in here. That
door's open. This is great. What a
setup. Hi there. Am I invited? Sure.
What a setup, right? I don't think there's a room that we left untouched.
We've got audio absolutely everywhere, be it vinyl, streaming, or homemade.
We've got a sick NAS upgrade powered by an AMD processor. Thanks again AMD for
being the best sponsor we could hope for for the ultimate tech upgrade series.
Ory is going to be enjoying the heck out of his new monitor. And even the baby
got a treat. And I mean, the human baby and the fur baby. If you guys enjoyed
this video, hey, why not check out one from another great member of the Creator
Warehouse team, Sebastian. Thanks again, AMD, for sponsoring this $5,000 ultimate
tech upgrade. I will see you guys at the next