we are in the middle of the biggest GPU shortage of all time and yet somehow
these freaking tech reviewers Linus tech tips they've got an actual tower of rtx
3060s and 3070s what gives well don't
worry ladies and gentlemen because we will not be cryptocurrency mining and we
will not be scalping these today we are going to put these gpus into the hands
of verified actual gamers with a couple
of small catches let me set the stage for you guys it's coveted time so the
challenge has to take place outdoors but we will not
let that stop us from putting these cards in the hands of verified actual
gamers so here are two gaming stations separated by a plexi shield where you
will have the choice to play one of three games mortal kombat 11 super mario
bros 3 battle mode or halo combat evolved 1v1 against yours truly and
here's where it gets really interesting if you lose
hey as long as you're a gamer you get to buy a GPU at msrp but if you win
you get it 10 below msrp that's right i
will lose money and if you win you can
either take your 10 discount or double
down and get 25 off if you win in a
sudden death match or go all the way back to msrp if you lose
let's meet our gamers shall we after this message from our sponsor are you
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hi i'm jonathan i've been watching LTT for about seven or eight years now i'm
super happy to be able to be finally here to meet you guys here's the first
LTT challenger how will he fare against the tech tip king jonathan are you ready
i'm ready so you think you're a verified actual gamer absolutely well that's
because you're not verified yet i don't have a lot of experience in halo
so i think it's going to be a fun experience
better watch out you're gonna watch it you're gonna get needle boys looks like
Linus is gonna be in for a tough match
see you later seems like Linus put halo on the game list for a reason it's 1-1
oh oh whoa there's all this
grenade in here oh are you not done
how am i not getting you that was a victory for you so how
confident are you let's make it a little more spicy and double down you're gonna
double down absolutely all right let's do it no going easy on you this time place
your bets ladies and gentlemen next kill win no the needler let me down
don't let me down needler don't let me jump on the ground with my
who won okay the guy with the needler that's what i thought thank you
very much Linus is surprisingly better than i
expected so even though i lost the second round i'm still kind of happy i'm
gonna build my first pc and probably gonna do a lot of gaming
too so it's gonna be fun let's see if our next victim
contestant can win have a seat come on up come on down hi i'm mackenzie i hope
to beat Linus at the super mario brothers 3. i have two older siblings
who grew up in mario and all they want to play when we play games at family
events is mario so i have a lot a lot a lot of practice at every holiday i think
i have a uh a good sixty percent chance of winning
speeding lions today i am aware of the double down rules i will be going for
the double down if i win the first round i need some mushroom
yes i did not uh think he would be that
good hopefully i'm up to snuff to beat him
no oh it's another tiebreaker
in a best-of-three scenario does anyone have a chance at beating Linus in super
mario 3d battle ah well you know what
great challenge gg gamer better luck next time i guess yeah i know all right
i'll practice uh i did worse than i thought i would uh he was much better
than i thought and uh tried my best though so that's all i can
do i am gonna see if this thing fits in my current case and if it doesn't fit
then i will be shopping for a new case of course providing the gpus for the
challenge today was not enough for evga to show how much they love gamers they
sent over their z20 optical mechanical keyboard and they are offering a special
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percent cash back in evga bucks just use offer code LTT save 50 full details down
below uh i'm Jake two years ago um i bought my
first pre-built and i started upgrading it from there and just watching the videos hoping to also maybe do some ray
traced 3d animation because i took that in school and i'm hoping to learn how to
uh really get into that you really think you can beat me at halo yes i do you
don't even look young enough to have even played this game i played halo reach
okay well let's see how that works for you i've been watching LTT for about like
three years now i was watching since the old langley house let's hope being a
longtime LTT fan will bring you some luck against Linus all right that's one
down he's a lot better than i thought he was
come on looks like Jake's halo reach experience
is helping him out what did i get a melee kill and die Linus dropping those
grenades like he does best look out Jake oh
sorry buddy that's it that's three gg
hey maybe the next gamer is gonna actually freaking beat me here so i won
a rtx 3070 here i was um
looking for this card for so long now um especially actually this one that my
computer doesn't have much RGB in it right now it's sure gonna light up now
i was not expecting to be 3-0 bring in more gamers we need to stop this madman
my name is plato aka last one
um i am a game developer working at kabam currently i'm a front-end engineer
i will try to beat him at halo because he's an app oh first
are we playing with mouse and keyboard right your choice
okay so yes hey i'll try not to plow toe
you over typically i've been watching LMG since 2014-15
around that i gotcha i haven't played this game
any of those games that he gave me the option in the last 20 years at least see
you later plato come on plato you could have found some time in the past 20
years to brush up on those skills gigi plato thank you very much for coming out
i won a GPU uh i lost the matches but i
still a winner right well we'll sit on the shelf until i can get the rest the
other parts of the computer now it will it will be much easier yeah for sure all
right what's your name i'm uh i've i'm a game developer i'm
learning right now i have not played any of the games that are there so i'm good
with FPS so maybe halo i was going for halo but i saw you destroy him i'll try
halo i'm much fun you can try hello yeah all right let's do it i don't know if
that was a smart move or not i've been playing games like
as long as i can remember and again for all i know this guy could be just like a
total sandbagger oh i'm sure you i'm not
i just came in thinking i would be better because i've played a lot of FPS
in my life do you want to fight me or do you want to run uh-oh looks like Linus
has poked the lion oh get away from me
and they both bite the bullet i got a first kill on liner so i thought
it would be easier but no it was like a lot harder
oh see you later bud 2-2
another sudden death let's go arnoff show our boss who's boss
all right thank you so much gg man great game great game yeah uh i didn't beat
Linus but i got a chance to get to 30 60.
that's a win in my books i'll use this GPU for my school work i'm a game
developer so i'm needed for it challenger number six approaches so my
name is johnny i'm here to buy a graphic card to verify i'm an actual gamer gamer
you're going to beat Linus out today i played mario i'm feeling pretty good
i'ma go get me another coin oh oh all right these poor gamers have yet
to win any discounts on their gpus
yes i think i could uh could have done
better but to be honest i haven't played that game for 30 years thank you for
coming out two out of three that's it gg man good
game cooking it's a good battle uh i got a
3070. just gonna enjoy the graphic card and play games play my old games i
couldn't play that's the first thing come on up come on down
oh my name's pop hi follow me on twitch twitch.tv pop eats tadpoles or not you
know don't feel peer pressure i hope to beat Linus at memes because
honestly i'm not really sure that i'm that good of a gamer
lttstore.com but you know isn't the real winning
thing to just be in the presence of Linus
no the real winning is beating lattice yeah you're right
yeah getting a GPU at msrp is already a win
up until a couple of years ago i used to be really into competitive overwatch
okay all right you know what i
i'm confident enough but i'm willing to offer you 15 off if you can beat me
and if you get killed only once i'll do 20.
you want a piece of that action yes all right let's do it somebody stop this
madman he's changing the rules oh wait he's the ceo because you know how this
works right like if i have to sell these things for less than msrp you know i'm
losing money right that's okay you have money our gamers are showing line is a little
attitude see you later i assumed that he picked
all these games because he was good at them so i definitely didn't come in
hoping to win oh i'm sorry you know what though if you
can kill me three times in a row you can still have 10 off i was just gonna
choose halo because well it's a shooter i can at least you know aim the gun at
it and hope for the best i'm gonna need a little bit more than hope to beat
Linus did you jump blow yourself up you have minus one point
i was sure i didn't kill you i guess i blew myself
that's okay you put forward a valiant effort and the consolation prize is
still 30-70 at msrp there we go
70. time to sell it on ebay and kijiji let's go
nah this is mine you can't take it back sorry no take backsies oh my god i did
terribly against lioness he has that big boomer energy
you know don't forget to shop at lttstar.com i thought i was going to be
down so much money by this point in the day my name is steve i work in i.t
i get a lot of recycled computers my way so that's what i usually used to game on
and stuff yeah we're gonna beat last out today hopefully beat saber
uh these everyone option today
also there's no freaking way now that sounds like a challenge let's
do mortal kombat our first mortal kombat challenger will this finally be our
combo breaker i've been playing mortal kombat since i was like
elementary school back in the 80s 90s going down to the
7-eleven on my lunch breaks and stuff i do not know how to play this game only
evga was here to help me with this one the gamers have discovered his weakness
a challenge to best of three in mortal kombat oh wait what is fatal blow
uh extra damage oh round two all right
looks like our boy steve's got a strategy here all right so i just gotta get in there fine yeah well that's fine
i can wait oh nice
i just figured out a combo the timer Linus the timer what what just happened
timed out shut up i don't even know the rules there it is
our first discount winner do you go sudden death just one round for the
opportunity to win a 25 discount with you on this yeah all right like stealing
candy from a baby okay all right
because maybe i was faking it no i know when you're kidding
i've watched your shows long enough let's go steve the hopes and dreams of
GPU discounts lay in your hands
that's it ladies and gentlemen i just gave out my first 25
discount so i apparently am the first winner of the day i beat Linus and all
the challenges good game gamer 25 off i
was using a lenovo thinkpad notebook
with a external graphics card in a b stock
and uh 970 which i sold for 450 dollars
no questions asked but i do have uh 580
in my current desktop it's fun it's exciting in all this code times get out
of the house and do things i'm kevin i upgraded my whole system and
uh just after christmas but have been sort of lacking on the graphics card sex
department since then i've been playing call of duty cold war a lot lately i'm
hoping to beat him at halo but it's been a while so we'll see how that
goes i've been watching the channel since it was ncxtec
like whenever that was has the loss in mortal kombat
oh there we go one kill down okay this guy knows what
he's doing ladies and gentlemen oh looks like the halo king is back i
had a feeling that he would probably be pretty good at whichever games he picked
i think that's probably an advantage okay
got the melee kill my expectations weren't super high because i probably
haven't played that game in like 10 years i only gotta get one more kill no
problem unless kevin here is sandbagging me
sandbagging run kevin he's a madman he
lines beat me i was uh three nothing oh
gg kevin thank you very much for playing i won
the evga 3070 for the win three i've had my name on a waitlist at memory express
since probably january i just like to thank Linus media group and evga for
having this program and making cards more accessible to uh gamers i memory
after i moved to vancouver or canada youtube just like stopped like started
stuffing your stuff in and i started watching it and i was like okay like i
like this i'm gonna pick halo because to be honest like i never
played the mario battle something i i don't even
remember the name and for the mortal kombat i didn't play that for so long so
i'm guessing my best chance with like halo i
know you play a lot of halo so i hope i had a chance but no i don't i just
played it when i was young and the demo was free i don't want to encourage the
scalpers because as long as people are buying them like people gonna just do it
again so i will say like okay like i will wait okay
ah that's all right
gotta reload
oh see you later
ah crap it's two to one
let's see if emery can clutch two kills real quick
oh there it is oh i was expecting this
all right emery good game yeah it was a little
humiliating but at least i'm in this little guy called rtx 3070 thanks to
Linus finally i got one thank you evj next
challenger approaches what's your name gamer my name is clarence i've been a
fan of the channel for a couple years now maybe three or four years currently i'm only able to
play valorente or cs some games i'd like to play are maybe apex legends or call of
duty today i think i'm going to beat Linus at halo i think
shooters was my best option here i'm not good at fighting games or platformers so
clarence just threw a grenade at a gun what what did you just
did you just fall and die i sure hope he
doesn't play valerian like this oh my secret's out i'm not actually that good
at FPS games 1-1
oh no it's 2-2 got that nate kill
we've got a tiebreaker situation ladies and gentlemen next kill wins come on
melee finish clarence slips out of Linus's mail
oh no yeah
tie breaker baby here we go uh i'm not very confident at beating Linus at halo
because it's my first time playing oh you went and you got that again
didn't you again with the grenades Linus doing what
he does best dropping everything he has
good game man that was tight take the 10
discount you earned it i stole that from you with that nade killed just take it
take it and go uh Linus what happened to those rules you laid out at the start i
just won an rtx 3070. we tied but lioness did decide to give me a 10 off
so i'm really thankful for that so last christmas i bought uh all my pc parts
but the uh graphics card and CPU so now i can
finally build it and i'm really happy step right up step right up my name is
mike i've actually been watching Linus since uh he was for ncix so it's been a
hot minute i'm upgrading from a really old laptop i had a gtx 960 mobile card
and now i'm going with a full desktop setup hoping to uh beat Linus in mortal
kombat today okay i am going to come clean with you
i have basically never played this game before
you have chosen wisely oh boy he's not letting me move
that's very cheap judging by the look on his face Linus is
getting a taste of utter defeat and he even knows the finish him combos and
everything look at that do you want to go sudden death one more round to go
from 10 to 25 discount i don't think
it'd be very uh exciting if i didn't i've been playing mortal kombat for a
while so yeah i'm fairly confident no he brought me over there the puppeteer mike
what a move i didn't want to go over there
oh all right
gg gamer and thank you very much uh so
today i won an rtx 3060. i have been waiting to put
a new graphic card in my system for a very long time the parts have been
sitting in my bedroom annoying my wife i i couldn't justify the scalpers if it
came down to it i probably would have sold the parts i had at home and bought
a laptop i used to work on the deeper speed franchise and so i've driven some
like crazy cars and stuff and after finishing that i had the same sort of
like handshake that you do getting out of like a proper sports car so it was
fun next gamer come on up hello what's your name gamer my name is
alexa i'm hoping to beat him at super mario
bros we'll see how that goes because it'll be my first time playing but i
feel like that's the game i have the best shot at to give a percentage i want
to say like maybe 77 no that's really
high like maybe 70 chance of beating him but we'll see
hi alexa right i've never heard that one i'm so sorry i'm sure that never comes
up i haven't played a platformer or a fighting game or an FPS in a very long
time so i thought that this was the one i had the best shot at what games do you play
no FPS no platformers no fighting we thought we had the spectrum covered
pretty well here i normally play like really open wide like large story based
rpgs like anything where your decisions matter i think my favorite right now is
dragon age origins that's the game i have the most time on and it's a game i
love the most all right unfortunately we don't have competitive dragon age
origins dragon age won't help you on the bloody battlefield oh mario ralph
okay now are you messing with me here how'd you stay alive down there so long
i don't know wait what are those little fly guys i don't believe that you have no idea
what's going on here are you sure i'm pretty sure okay i'm starting to
believe it a bit more it's one one i might have watched a couple of youtube
videos all right about it will Linus see his first loss in mario
battle today
good game alexa i got the 30-70 and i'm very excited you
know i i think if i got a second chance i could beat him i probably could i'd
say i'd say i'm almost where he's at maybe i'm really looking
forward to baldur's gate three i've been kind of avoiding playing the beta just
because i don't want to spoil it for myself before it's fully released
definitely would not have been able to afford a new graphics card without this
program so i'm very very very excited
my name is eric i hope to beat Linus at mortal kombat i've actually never played
i just thought it'd be a game to pick up like really on the spot
so maybe i'll change to like halo or something maybe i guess we'll go with
halo halo all right i've been watching LTT
since the ncx days back when lioness was still doing unboxing videos should have
stuck with your first choice eric Linus has been practicing all day
got that name too watch out he's right behind you
did i just get you yeah yes sir oh bummer i'm sorry you hear that
possibly i would have done better in mortal kombat i switched because i was
more comfortable with first-person shooters oh no
it's 2-1 oh wow that was a favorable spawn oh
what the see you later bud oh
gg uh i won a 30 70 um from evga
i actually got destroyed i've been waiting for a card i guess beginning of
the year um so yeah it's been a few months
i'm looking to put together like a new rig so last piece of the puzzle and i
finally got it i don't want to i guess influence the scalper market
so yeah i would have waited i guess forever
maybe 40 80 would be out by that night thank you LMG for putting this all
together and getting the cards to gamers
let's meet our next gamer my name is jonathan i've been watching lct since
2014-2015 so a few years i do play a few
first-person shooters um uh the most recent i've been playing
d-pro galactic i'd like to think i'm decently good at FPS's uh
well where i measure up against Linus we'll see yeah i have zero experience
with halo so yeah that i don't know how that's gonna go
oh god you're this way oh no
wow okay if you win here he goes again you can have a 20
discount 20 but you gotta not get one more death
that's a great deal on a GPU i basically got a new computer apart from the
graphics card in uh october i'm running the entirely new system right now just
with an rx570 oh how are you not dead yet jonathan's
already got one kill can he keep his lead or you're not dead yet
can you die please oh there goes 20 off oh that's such a shame
i mean i wasn't gonna pick super mario because i'm not great at platformers and
you know or mortal kombat i've never even seen mortal kombat before so
he just had to pick games he was actually good at
if you don't die again you can have 15 points quit teasing the contestant's
life where you at boy as a gamer he's uh he
trash talks a lot
oh there he is got the foot shot Linus has completely turned the game back in
his favor wow
oh man all right
good game yeah i won an rtx 3070 uga
yeah i got smoked i'm just glad i actually got the opportunity right um otherwise i would
have been paying two times three times the price with scalper prices and that's
just ridiculous so very happy i got this i'm ready for my next gamer come on in
my name is brandon probably been watching for about three
or four years i watch all the main channels i've missed some you know
Channel Super Fun videos but i try to stick to as much as i can i have a 9900k
with 32 gigs of RAM uh 970 evo
and a 750 watt power supply but i don't have a video card because i sold it so
you know it's that's a problem i sold my card back in the summer and you know
thinking i was going to be able to get no problem little did i know
everyone on the planet wants one if i don't get a single kill
20 off what GPU you're buying 30 70. that's a
lot of money it's a lot of money it's a lot of money on the line so act like it
you going let's go all right all right these deals seem more like a mind game
than anything at this point man if i lose
i think i have a shot at it uh you know just playing wars and a lot but tink
Linus is pretty familiar with it and you know maybe uh after a whole day of
gaming he'll be all tired out and i might have a chance watch out folks he's
been warming up all day and these hands are hot
see you later bud oh i'ma give it to you for 20 off if you
win all right all right so you get another do-over he
has some tricks up his sleeves and he's a he's a pretty tricky guy what is this
some game you play or whatever where there's no grenades apparently all right
see you later buddy do you not use grenades do you know do
you know what they do they you pull the thing and then you
throw them yeah they're so overpowered in there
wait oh yeah it's over it's over did i just melee you four
times i think you might have i was too busy pressing f i'm spamming after the
grenades yeah well i'm gonna press f pay respects to your chances there at a
discount but that's okay you still get a 30 70 at msrp which is basically like
getting it for half price these days yeah you think i'm gonna complain
this is 50 off basically at least someone is enjoying the savagery that is
halo against Linus yeah so i got an evga
uh 3070 right here and it looks great i'm really happy with that um
i didn't get the discount but unfortunately but you know what it's
msrp and i really can't complain about that i definitely feel a little bit less
of a gamer by being beaten by Linus
considering he i don't he plays as many video games as i do so that hurts a
little bit it stings but uh i just need to double down i
think now so that if i do ever get this chance again i'll be ready
welcome actual gamer uh my name is james
i'm a gamer i've been with Linus since the beginning
basically i could say that i was hoping to play some FPS but i think i'm gonna
go with otherwise i'm gonna go with mortal kombat what do you think your
chances are yeah
maybe now a little lower my chances are probably a little lower after hearing
that but you know i'm not warmed up yet so we'll see
hey he grabbed a mouse to play mortal kombat this is a good sign i mean evga
all right they're they hooked us up they hooked you up
everyone's getting gpus at msrp everyone's getting discounts if they can
beat me so go ahead here sure one round with
no he's locked into the keyboard and mouse now what do you think this is it's not some kind of chair i made a mistake
james has chosen the right game but has he chosen the wrong weapon previous
experience with fighting games would mostly be smash bros a lot of smash bros
ever since smash 4 a little bit of mk
x not 11. i'm hoping they're pretty similar i should have went with the
controller i'm being stunned yes yes he's unlocked
he's unlocked ladies and gentlemen here we go here we go here we go here we go
oh this is the cheapest thing i've ever seen in my life
come on james you gotta mash those buttons strategically
oh crap wow that's how it's gonna be all right
no i don't even i don't even care what is this has Linus finally learned how to
play did i just win it mortal kombat hold on a second here without mortal
kombat as his weakness how will he ever be defeated oh not quite Linus please
have some mercy on the poor boy no yes unbelievable i got destroyed over
a comeback all day you get a 10 discount
anyway i don't even care
no oh
my ego my ego feels so much better after
how hard i lost at this game my mouse and keyboard
i feel terrible i should have used a controller let's give you the
opportunity i gave you the 10 discount do you want
to go double or nothing but you get to use a controller
so if you lose you get no discount if you
win though you get a 25 discount we have to you got to reduce i came all this
away and i was late like all right for the contract
i think the true trademark of a gamer is to uh never tilt and never give up
he's got a second chance but Linus is just about to put him down one last time
no wait there's no way
could james turn this around i don't know if it's quite enough is it
enough i think it's enough
strollers are better i pulled it off at the very end
25 discount new GPU 30 70 with 25 percent off
sponsored by Linus himself uh was a
quite a roller coaster to get there though i pulled it off with uh whatever
left left and right trigger do together it really
got my heart going and uh but yeah i'm really Linus i i shouldn't see lioness
was very generous to still give me the double or nothing despite my failure in
front so yeah i appreciate Linus for that well
that was a ton of fun and i didn't even have to lose quite as much money as i
thought so that's a definite plus i just want to thank evga though not only for
providing the gpus for the in-person event but also the ones for the online
drop that went along with this video and
for sending over their z20 and x17 gaming peripherals for all of our
verified gamers to use i also want to thank everyone who came out and
participated one way or another however the result went and of course MSI's mpg
z590 gaming force motherboard supports 10th and 11th gen Intel core cpus is
compatible with up to 53 33 megahertz overclocked ddr4 memory supports pci
express 4.0 with an enhanced cooling system and of course MSI's mystic light
RGB it's got a pre-installed i o shield which is always nice to have for an easy
build and you can learn more today at the link in the video description if you
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