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i just built a new computer which is funny because

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i don't really remember doing that maybe i need to retrace my steps

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retrace my steps retrace my steps

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let's see here we've got a threadripper CPU

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yep aorus master motherboard

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okay fedora Linux

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hey wait a minute i'm the wrong Linus oh

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well as long as we've got all these parts together we might as well assemble them

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and see what it's like to compute as the

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one and only Linus

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or Linus okay there's two of us but

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funnily enough i've never actually made a video

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about the other Linus he's a finnish american immigrant with u.s citizenship

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Linux is his namesake and brainchild and

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he holds the Linux trademark but no longer contributes much code himself

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most of his personal contributions since 2012 have been in merging code written

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by others he still does retain the highest authority to decide which new

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code is incorporated into the official Linux kernel and he is famously

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opinionated saying exactly what is on his mind and says he is agnostic with no

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political affiliation Linus's law is that given enough eyeballs all bugs are

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shallow since we're on a bit of a fun facts role how about some fun facts

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about the Linux mascot tux through three

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logo competitions tux was submitted as an entry but actually won none of them

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as a result tux is not the logo but rather the brand character inspired by

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Linus's love of a picture of a penguin figure he found on an ftp site

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tux was coined as an acronym for torvald's eunuchs

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and the first and official drawing of tux was done on a 486

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dx250 running Linux and the first public

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release of a defeated contender was

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and i kid you not a furry with a

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keyboard thank goodness we ended up with the penguin

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who could very well be a furry but without a keyboard about tux Linus

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has said some people have told me they don't think a fat penguin really

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embodies the grace of Linux which just tells me they have never seen an angry

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penguin charging at them in excess of 100 miles per hour they'd be a lot more

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careful about what they say if they had all right

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fair enough sir enough chit chat let's get building now normally over the

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course of building a computer like this i would talk through my

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rationale behind the various parts as we install them but because i didn't pick

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any of these parts i am instead going to lean on zdnet's excellent interview of

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Linus torvalds explaining why he chose all the parts he did now we've settled

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on a 3970x 32 core AMD ryzen

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threadripper processor here and apparently that was because he had

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originally planned to go with the ryzen 9 3950x

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but determined that it would have been a small incremental upgrade over the 9900k

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that he was using previously now lynas normally goes for regular consumer cpus

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because they are typically the best bang for the buck and he actually likes the

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integrated gpus that Intel puts on their cpus because he doesn't like any more

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fans in a machine than absolutely necessary

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this might make a threadripper with its 250 watt plus power consumption seem

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like a bit of a weird choice because that does bring the potential for more

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or noisier fans but what's great about threadripper is

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that foreign hedt platform if you need

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the performance it's actually not a bad bang for the

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buck so i think this was a really great choice

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lioness's choice of the Gigabyte aorus tier x40 master is probably going to be

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pretty uncontroversial he looks specifically for motherboards

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that have good power delivery believing that there's little more basic than

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power delivery and this is apparently a result of him having systems that were

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unreliable due to brownouts so

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it's kind of a funny thing to look for a motherboard that specifically has

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features designed for like great overclocking and then

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never overclock them at all for my part i like the board's mix of

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good onboard features like five gigabit Ethernet and wi-fi six and expansion so

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it's got five pci express expansion slots four of them are 16x physical and

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one of them is one x physical meaning you can plug basically anything you want

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in it it's got support for the usb type-c internal connector as well as

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three m.2s all of which have little heat sinks on them which admittedly aren't

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going to increase their performance and probably won't increase their longevity

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but they can help to soak up some of the excess heat during short periods of

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intensive use but one thing to watch out for with this guy is case compatibility

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because not only is it slightly wider than standard atx it has a right pin 24

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pin connector so you got to make sure you have a bit more space available in your case for cooling Linus

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this was apparently because he's very sensitive to noise and wants something

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quiet and has had good experiences with Noctua in the past truly a man after my

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own heart about knocked to his fans lena says that even when the fans ramp up

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under load he doesn't find the noise particularly annoying and it's more of a

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soothing whoosh white noise sound without the whining or rattling that he

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associates with lower end fans apparently despite the noise advantage

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that a liquid cooler could provide Linus is not a fan he doesn't want to deal

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with a custom loop and doesn't trust the

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reliability or even the capabilities of aio coolers and especially doesn't want

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to deal with any unnecessary gurgling or

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pump noises for RAM Linus actually couldn't find

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exactly what he was looking for and ended up settling on some generic ddr4

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2666 memory saying that it was fine memory but i really wanted ecc the

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problem was that because of parts availability ecc is not currently priced

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sanely so he just decided you know what forget it this is good enough for now

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and should work fine he actually doesn't

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even need apparently 64 gigs of memory he just went with it because he wanted

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to populate all four of the memory channels and RAM is cheap right now

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anyhow for our part we chose these g skill rip jaws v sticks just because

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they are low profile enough to clear our cooler and they're the same speed that

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venus is is using for storage there was no question that Linus was going to

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choose solid state it has apparently been over a decade now since he's

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touched any spinning media and he even tries to avoid using cables which is

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possible thanks to m.2 anywho after

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experiencing some reliability issues early on in the SSD era Linux apparently

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found samsung to be quite reliable and is sticking with what works for him if

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puge's data has anything to go by i would say this seems like a pretty darn

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good choice so he settled on a one terabyte 970 evo plus as i mentioned

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before when it comes to cooling products Linus does prefer Noctua over other

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brands unfortunately Noctua doesn't make

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cases so he went with his second choice be quiet!

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this is the dark base 700 a quiet

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optimized case but with plenty of room for hardware and

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um well Linus did notice when looking at the

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front intake that it looked a little bit more restrictive compared to the rear

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exhaust so what he did was order an extra silent wings 3 fan to go in the

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front of the chassis

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one thing to watch out for if you were to replicate this build is you're going

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to want to remove the middle standoff in the top row because

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like many Threadripper boards this one

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doesn't actually have a screw hole there to make more room for

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power delivery very thoughtful preparation from the manufacturer here

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you can see even this fan cable up here has been carefully routed above the i o

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so that it doesn't get in your way when you're trying to install your motherboard one of the things lena said

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about this case is that with the right fan control setup in the BIOS and of

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course assuming that you connected your fans to the correct headers the paper

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manual for the motherboard apparently had horrible pictures and you got the

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CPU and system fan headers the opposite way around for the first build

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what you get is a machine that is basically silent when it's idling and

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then without any annoying wine although not silent under full load for power

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supply Linus settled for the gx 850

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and i do mean settled because parts availability due to the pandemic has

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made it difficult to find some specific parts in fact we even had to switch out

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to a gx 650 for our build because not

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even csonic could provide us with a gx 850 directly now as with the motherboard

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Linus cares a lot about power delivery basics he goes basically what's the top

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potential power use of this machine okay i'm going to pick a power supply

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with 2x that rating and then look for reviews and reputable brands this is a

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good strategy for a couple of reasons number one it means that you are

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basically guaranteed to not under buy your power supply which is an obvious

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problem and number two if you're a silence freak which we know that he is

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it means that your power supply may in many cases barely ramp up its fan if at

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all even under heavy load hey

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yeah it's clean it's clean boys that

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leanest knows how to build a computer for graphics Linus went with and i quote

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some random sapphire rx 580 graphics

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card thing is Linus isn't that interested in

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gaming and dislikes having to account for graphics in fact preferring to just

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have something modern built into the CPU and i can understand that how it's more

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important to have the correct feature set in the hardware than it is to

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actually have the performance if you're not a gamer this is another quote it's

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overkill for what i do fair enough sir

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as for why he might choose to go team red versus team green well it is no

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secret that lenas has publicly feuded with NVIDIA

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in fact even one time going as far as to say

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unvidia um in the middle of i think it was a

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conference or something wasn't it yeah it was it was pretty it was pretty

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public so um rx 580. we didn't find any pictures of

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the actual machine online so i can't verify this but given his choices i

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think it's fair to assume that Linus didn't spend many many hours on perfect

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meticulous cable management but did at least do a decent job so that's what

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we're going for here it seems like a pretty well thought out machine the kind

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of thing you wouldn't just throw all the cables in willy-nilly with the machine

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fired up it's already what i would describe as

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quiet but it's definitely not silent

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fortunately Gigabyte has extensive fan

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tuning options in their BIOS and we're gonna go ahead and take some guesses as

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to what Linux might be using so first up

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we're gonna set both our CPU fan and our CPU fan opt so that's the

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optional secondary one to silent mode and we're going to use our CPU as the

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fan control temperature input the other thing that we're going to do

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is we're going to change both of them to enabled for the opt stop mode right here

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that allows the fans to actually turn off completely under very very light

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loads although there's no guarantee that with the 32 core processor anything

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qualifies as low enough thermal output to completely turn off sysfan6a this is

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the header that i'm using for my case fans so i'm going to go ahead and

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because his graphics card is clearly not going to see heavy use i'm going to tie

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this one to CPU as the temperature input as well and once again i'm going to

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enable stop mode our RAM has xmp i'm

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gonna go ahead and enable it just so we can lower the latencies a little bit i

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doubt his does but okay all right we deviated in one way

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after firing up the machine for the first time i wasn't actually happy with

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the level of silence so what i'm doing is i'm changing the threshold for the

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zero RPM operation to about

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50 degrees on the CPU and then i'll have the fan speed ramp up

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from there and that is one

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quiet system the only thing we could do now to make

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it quieter would be to put the panel

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on not only does it look nice it actually blocks a lot of sound

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that is not a shabby looking machine

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other than the fedora Linux installer that we've got sticking out of the front

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of it yes that is the daily driver flavor of Linux

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that Linus torvalds prefers so we're going to go ahead and

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just boot it live for now of course it's not enough for us to just build lena's

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system we have to benchmark it and we can't just use any old gaming benchmark

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so instead we're going to be compiling the Linux

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kernel and this is the kind of thing that he might actually have to do on a

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fairly regular basis taking some patch applying it booting it for testing

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purposes and what our hope is is that we'll be able to do it very quickly

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because otherwise i'm going to be standing here for a very long time you might have

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noticed we had a couple of arguments in the command line there so one of them

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was time that's going to tell us how long the test took after we're done and

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another was the number of threads so we're using 64 threads to take advantage

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of the 32 core smt CPU in our machine

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here even sounds high performance doesn't it

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strong you know like

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stop it we are done already that only took just over three and a half minutes

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this is one fast machine and yeah the fans ramped up a little bit we

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got some heat coming out of the back but that is very reasonable you know i think

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the thing that stands out to me most about this machine is just how

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carefully thought out everything about it is now you might assume that an

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average software developer really takes the time to get to know the pc hardware

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but many of them don't even bother to build their own computer because they

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can't be bothered they're busy writing software latest on the other hand has

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actually done us a huge favor you guys might have noticed that over the years

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we have actually never done a developer-focused build guide or even

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build log and part of it is that we don't really fully understand the needs

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of developers as much as a true developer would well thank you Linus

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other Linus for doing it for us because

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this is not only performant it looks great it's quiet and the only thing that

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i look at here and i go ah that's really not the way i would have done it is the

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memory which is something that he already acknowledged was not perfect i'd

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have gone with maybe 3 200 megahertz RAM just to get that

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little bit of extra snappiness so thank you Linus for helping us out hooking us

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up with this fantastic parts list here for development work and thank you to

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zdnet for the original interview that we obviously leaned on for making this

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video you're gonna find links to all these parts as well as that interview in

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the video description finally thank you to our sponsor

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massive library of high quality footage after effects templates music and more

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all the content is royalty free for personal or commercial use and speaking

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of commercial use we use them all the time commercially especially over on our

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tech wiki channel where the goal is to make videos as fast as possible so we

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don't always have time to go and get a pickup clip or shoot something when and

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why bother when you can just download it new clips are added regularly so you

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don't have to worry about using clips that are like 10 years old so go check

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them out at storyblocks.com Linus tech tips if you guys enjoyed this

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video maybe check out uh hey check out my video on the dell xps

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13 two and one it's a variant of the xps

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13 that Linus torvalds has also spoken

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very highly of he says he likes that machine so much for himself that he

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ended up buying one for his daughter when she went away to school so there

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you have it