ah we're good this is a
okay so it's usually Linus who shows up at somebody's house to do an extreme
tech upgrade sponsored by Intel but the problem is that he's usually
here to upgrade a pc
as far as i'm aware there's never actually been a pc in this house
so maybe we can get mark to let us in a little bit
on why it is he's never had a pc
hello there
all right well i think the last time i was in a house without a pc and it was in the 1990s so uh why don't you show me
what it looks like sure all right well everything is uh integrated with home
kit all right i have the eero device here which is uh the mesh network
one that works with home kit you don't want to like mount it somewhere like
that like with i'm working on it this is the kitchen so
these are like my knives and everything oh
before i was uh an editor uh i used to be a butcher yeah so before
i cut videos i cut meat i guess it's a natural evolution yeah so who's the very
good boy that's been following us around all the time oh this is ben
he's uh my dog he's got uh 2000
followers on instagram really yeah ben the terrier fun fact he's not actually a
terrier don't tell anyone is that a plasma tv
yes a 42-inch plasma tv i did not buy
this so it wasn't specifically for playing games oh oh definitely not um
i'm guessing the reason we're here though
is you're going to replace it absolutely what are you replacing it with a 55-inch
lg OLED tv and there's also a sound bar
over here i noticed you don't have a soundbar or any kind of speakers right now so i got this
i chose the sonos arc mainly because
it's a home kit integrated oh so i can
connect it very easily with uh airplay i know a lot of people in the comments are
going to say i shouldn't mount it over a fireplace
this is true talk about burn-in
the air purifier over there is also homekit enabled why do you need
an air purifier to be home kit enabled
so i can shut it off when i when we leave the house do you not have a remote
control the remote control is my iphone
so continuing with the home tour okay it's upstairs
so this is kind of my home office slash studio okay uh slash server room slash
server room everything well yeah here's my server huh you gotta have like an actual rack
yeah yeah is it just the drogo or dribble nope
is it the camera nope come over here
it's that what this that's my server and this is
my desktop editor which is a
vcr yeah that's that's about what i thought that was yeah oh yeah we got this when
the first imac came out came packaged with the uh computer i i don't get rid
of my mac so i just repurposed them for other uses so you don't get rid of your macs
where's your uh imac g3 i don't know
i was looking for it i actually have a g3 a g4 cube
uh i have a 6400 power mac also i have a apple two plus okay that that i actually
think my mom got rid of got rid of i moved out and then we moved back in so
this is your mom's place not exactly look she lives with me okay
okay whatever you say i see you also have a 3d printer yep
this is the one i got from uh from the office yeah yeah stolen from the uh
yeah that's that's the excuse we're using despite you know being an apple
guy uh i do play games it's not like i don't
have Windows installed on here it's uh through bootcamp bootcamp yeah bootcamp
that's illegal uh
i mean it is kinda now with m1 and that's part of the reason why i really
need a pc right right you can't upgrade
well i can't upgrade Windows anyway because i have an egpu
and uh that's what that is yeah in order to game with it i should be plugging
into the displayport or HDMI or whatever into the GPU
but this monitor here is Thunderbolt only
so i have to plug it into the macbook but let me show you how i have to boot
into Windows there's the real challenge so to do this properly i need to set the
startup disk to boot camp what i usually do is i press restart and then i unplug
everything i gotta hot plug it
right now into the left port okay cool
all right so now the fun part
so now what i have to do is i have to unplug
the egpu plug it into the other side unplug it
again wait what and then plug it in again
and now it's recognized now i can plug everything else back in
so tell me something yep where are you going to set up your actual build right
here do you have a display for it this is the
display so i got a
evga 3080 because uh they're the only
ones that had gpus for some reason um fair enough i got these uh leon lee fans
because i was recommended them and they just came out and they look pretty
that's what i'm going for clean and a red theme that's the other
thing a red thing yeah you know you do know that this is sponsored
i understand that and you know i've as a apple user i've always been team
blue and before i was team blue i was
team big blue uh so we got a core i7 yep
11 700k yep and then this is the was the
most important piece of the puzzle
because this is the z590 ace from MSI
and the reason i got it is because it has Thunderbolt 4 and that's what i need
to make it work with that monitor the big ticket item here is the case
please don't tell me that's an antec 900 nope
this is a tow 2.0
what you got that case yeah
so the reason i got this case is it was featured in the first video i was on in
an LTT video if i'm gonna get a pc
i'm gonna go all out pc this case is weird it's literally made of Windows
so the core i7 11700k
is a 8 core 16 thread processor with a base
frequency of 3.6 gigahertz with a maximum turbo of 5.0
and thanks to this rather beefy cooler
we should be able to actually do that much more often than we normally would
be able to now mark's not here to defend himself but i don't see any RAM here
for now i'm going to move on to the NVMe SSD now
this is the severant rocket NVMe 4.0
these are actually quite good drives price to
performance wise it's kind of tough to
say no to them yeah i'll get you the RAM oh the RAM question it's finally being
answered where is it what is it
crucial ballistics okay so ddr4 3200 15 18 18 36 so
that's fine it's fine did you yeah this is
you took this from the office i was kicked out of the computer club
what yeah in high school i was kicked out of the computer club why because i
was a mac user
uh yeah no it's nothing nothing important i just kind of screwed one of
the drywall anchors into the wall
somehow i don't even know how that works so you're probably asking like okay this
this looks amazing um i'm holding basically a tetris block
how do we power it well we've got this it goes straight on
something like uh not like that hang on what so it goes
on like that i don't look like a fool at all so you just snap it on there and
you're good to go well i noticed that you don't have a whole lot of RGB these fans are
basically it i want to make it tasteful
you don't think unicorn vomit is tasteful unicorn vomit no
a case made of glass
yeah long story short i've got the fans in and i've got the fan controller and RGB
hub in maybe i still need to do cable management but there's not a whole lot
of cable management opportunities in this case unfortunately
so we'll have to see how that goes well to go with the red and black build we
got purple purple and blue brown brown brown
and purple okay so i've discovered a slight problem yeah okay so there are
two of these yeah there's only one of those on the board
yeah which would you prefer the type c or the
type a's maybe type c that's what it currently looks like
yeah everything should be good to go from
here all that's left to do is to throw the side panels on and power it up hey
let's see if this works is it this no
there you go holy crap hey
that's a lot of light sure is
that is some grade a rainbow barf
ben seems to like it yeah it looks like it's like 54
60 FPS wow a little dipping into the 40s but like
you've got it turned up to unreasonable in 5k
so i guess this is the part of the part where we're taking down the old tv and putting the
new one in pretty much all right you got a drill if not we're
just going to use our knife yeah we'll use your knives that'll work yeah
you can eat it we're good
all i did was let up off it a little bit yeah
i'm kind of glad it's you and not Linus right now
i can't see i think you need to go up a bit here we go how do we lock it in place it
is i think i don't know what this is for oh wait hold on to unlock the tv from
the wall plate pull down and hold yeah good thing i didn't pull down on those
yeah yeah because we get it right the first time
yeah wow that's like the first time in
any line of tech tips video well it's because we didn't just like oh what does
this do yank we're like what does this do
oh yeah don't do that yeah we read the
manual always read the manual you see i
kind of peeled a little bit already why would you do that oh it's actually
making a beautiful sound it's like a campfire yeah
oh yeah oh that looks pretty
so another reason i chose the ark was mainly because
sometimes i don't want to have the tv on especially it's an OLED and i do want to
play but i do want to play music or something and i can just you know from
the laptop down here or upstairs just airplay straight to this on the network
so what you're saying is it's a glorified homepod yeah no the the
homepod kind of sucks this is just it i'm not like a fanboy of every product
apple comes out with i don't have an apple watch and literally everybody at
the office has an apple watch yeah
so uh there's your there's your uh explanation
there press the ok button wheel on your remote okay i'm getting it god
whoa whoa what oh that's the legs right holy crap
that's a huge remote yeah
wow that revolt is big you press the wheel
yeah it looks pretty good to me that is sounds good to me
dang all right that's gonna just about do it i think we've got the tv mounted we've
got the pc built everything is good to go
so hopefully mark enjoys his newly
upgraded spaces hopefully you enjoyed this video and part of uh Intel's
extreme tech upgrade series mine was the first one but there's
plenty more that you can watch there's david's there's andes there's Colton's
there's riley's there's dennis's if we can twist enough arms at Intel we can
get everybody one of these so stay tuned for more of these and thanks again for
Intel sponsoring this series what is he
he's a he's a chihuahua poodle and a few other things