I wasn't actually going to go through your stuff that thoroughly because I was
like surely Nicole wouldn't take that many things from the office you haven't
even been with us that long how have you managed to abscond with a
fridge welcome it's Intel extreme Tech
upgrade Nicole Edition that's right Nicole is one of our quirkiest editors
and how do I describe the theme of this upgrade without being rude should we
just say it well yeah she wants to hide
from her family yeah I we're creating
Nicole's safe space today it's going to have gaming it's going to have movie
watching capabilities and you basically won't have to leave your room yes that's
the plan okay let's get
going it's weird because normally I have no problem invading the privacy of my
staff but um I haven't gone into a girl's bedroom other than the one I
share with my wife in probably 16 17
years so this is um yeah it's very uh
you got a definitely very girls bedroom Vibe here yeah I'm like I see uh I see
workout penguin has made his way back home off do you stream no I'm not much
of an in front of camera person oh why do you have a stream deck and like a
sick microphone and all this then hot keys right that makes sense H
yeah you haven't even been with us that long how have you managed to abscond
with a fridge well nobody said anything after I took it so I don't think I've
ever actually seen you wear glasses do you have a prescription um a little bit
oh wow not much no that's mostly just for computer stuff but I can see things
from far that's a really good Santa look I feel like this is like a Santa in the
making you've got a future let's talk through what you're
actually going to change in here I'm going to get an update upgrade change up
this stuff okay yes that is what we do
but more specifically um well when I
built this yeah I thought okay maybe in
the year or two I'll update the graphics card yeah oh and then a year or two
came yeah now do you use your GPU
for games or just video EDI
do you do a ton of video editing at home not anymore I try not to at all just so
that it's like I can come home and chill right so then the new setup will be
completely geared towards entertainment and gaming cool okay oh my God am I
doing it right yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah okay
ready I'm one of those people who actually finds massage very unpleasant
really I get like tingles but in a bad way oh then they just got to go harder
no I really don't think that's the solution
here by the way I love your pillow here LT store yeah yep for sure you know I
don't know what I don't know what it is Andy I had no problem sort of Leaping
onto your bed but this I just feel like I need oh yeah it would be great if it
didn't break yeah I learned my
lesson let's go have a look at some of the hardware okay o we found some
already yeah this is going to be a huge
upgrade so this is going like in your
bedroom yes your bedroom is going to be
like entertainment City yeah that's the
plan now I have to confess Nicole I've never taken you for much of a gamer and
it's not like a like a stereo type thing I don't think you've like you've never
shown up for the PC gaming like Lounge nights or anything like that is this a
relatively new thing for you or um I
used to game a lot before I started playing a lot more B Inon and now you're
injured yes how is your uh how are you doing oh I have like a nice little party
trick where it like pops out wait you're
not doing you're not just like doing that no no no it just falls out and then
I push it back in then it comes out I push it back yeah that's really creepy
actually but is okay yeah but the knee's like real
good now okay yeah so there you heard it here first folks the the best way to
recover from a knee injury is to hurt your shoulder so you can't play
yeah it just balances out yeah all right I couldn't help noticing
there is one key component missing oh
that I'll be reusing my old case okay cool did you build that machine yes so
then I actually don't have to do pretty much anything today oh okay cuz you're
going to build a computer right yeah we'll see about that well you built one
I watched your videos all right let's go get it oh could help notice ing that your
monitor has a an asset tag on it you
know I wasn't actually going to go through your stuff that thoroughly
because I was like innocent Nicole she's always so smiley and nice to everyone
surely Nicole wouldn't take that many
things from the office I don't think we ever had purple clouds so I think you're
probably off the hook on these I think it's time to dig a little bit deeper
here though okay wait a second yeah this
fridge isn't even on you're not even using it as a fridge Nicole yeah when
you guys said it was loud I didn't think it'd be that loud no no it's really loud
oh my goodness that's like keeps you awake at night loud why did you keep it
well as you can see there's not a ton of storage in here so then you thought you
should bring in a fridge that doesn't work yeah this is the fanciest nail
clipper I've ever seen in my life oh my God there's a great story behind that
uh-huh so I got one from Amazon and then they sent me
three that's the whole story isn't that
great those are that's the graveyard oh my god well you sure didn't steal this
from work this has existed since well before our company was a thing if you
want if you want gamer chops proof right all you have to do is look at someone's
keyboard confirm however I couldn't help noticing
you're an esdf kind of lady what's up with that oh I don't know I think maybe
I just hit real hard on that I'm when I type I've been told that I kind of like
oh wait so for games you're WD yes for sure oh but for some reason your W key
just doesn't get the same kind of wear yeah I'm I'm I'm not like the most
aggressive player like a hang back as you can
see she's a retreater ladies and genten I run that is the funniest thing I have
ever seen ever my wkey doesn't get a lot of use oh
right we actually need to get the computer sorry I got totally
distracted oh okay that's just exciting grounding things it's speaking to
me now how long ago did you build this thing I it looks like a little while ago
that's a VGA connection oh yeah well when I got
Nicole you've got a tab sticking in your
Ethernet
Jack Naruto running won't get you away from this in Nicole's defense that was a
really really poor design back in the day of a lot of motherboard IO Shields
where they intentionally actually it's on purpose they had the tabs in such a
position that they would oh that didn't take long it's my
fault like should I be prepared to catch no
okay rude so they they intentionally had them
bent too much because the idea is that they serve a purpose right they're for
grounding but they they overdo it so a lot of the time it's really easy for
people to accidentally have the tabs sticking into their port which can actually short out that Port which can
obviously cause problems now you have got um some dust build up you know how
they say that dust is like you know whatever percentage dead skin cells oh I
Googled that it's not apparently it's a total myth yeah yeah um I can tell you
almost for certain that a lot of this is dead skin cells though oh no you managed
to get some hair in here too I like it God why is there so much hair in here
what happened that's basically what I
said word for word when I unclogged my wife's sink here's another one oh my
where did they come from can I can I can I propose a theory
okay wait why am I why am I doing this okay yeah okay you want to show yeah
yeah my special tool I'll be right back
that is oh I think I see where you're going with this I was going to be like
that's an adorable little Hammer but wait
what there's a screwdriver in there there's a screwdriver okay that's
actually pretty Co there's another one oh that's not what I actually
expected to happen I thought this was going to screw into the bottom of this one it was going to be like a longer
shaft and then it would be interchangeable bits yeah are you sure
it doesn't have interchangeable bits like what's in there I know
look at this you got two like nural things here it's got
a it's it's like one of oh my God is there one more it's a
baby wait how deep does this go
no it's so cute is that a tattoo yes oh
do you want how have I never noticed your tattoo before it's a paw print of
my pup and her name that is so cool
thank you that's her little right paw she's real cute like real fluffy
gorgeous little pup hates living things
got it yes so we're not going to meet her she might bark for the next like 8
hours until you leave maybe we'll meet her before I go oh more skin yay it's
snowing you know what let's change our story it's not all skin it doesn't look
like skin it's snow it's snow it's
festive like the sand festive dust your
timing is so good for extreme Tech upgrade because 12 gen just that so what
do you go with so I went with the i72 700k Y I had the
7700k Yep this is actually a really great choice for you because it's got
the same number of performance cores as the like top spec core I9 and you're
just giving up four of the E cores now if you were doing a ton of video editing
or like after effects work or something like that I might have said hey you kind
of want the core I9 you need the other cores but for like just gaming this is
as good as it gets any particular rationale on this one or um seemed good
I needed it for it and then it also has
USBC don't you feel bad for motherboard manufacturers sometimes like it's so
hard to Market your product when literally the main selling point is
works with this thing you need
one that doesn't feel great you're good don't worry okay quite a lot of force on
LG 1,700 to bring the ARM down there you go nice okay what's next RAM now it
seems to me that you went 64 gigs of RAM last time around because you were doing
more like video editing and stuff at home so did you go for Speed or did you
go for capacity this time I went for Speed 3200
3200 16 oh yeah okay this will be this will be fine just
fine and click sometimes you can get the
memory module all the way in but see that no matter how much force I put that
last little click isn't going don't worry about it you'll be able to it is
all the way in if you push it all the way in it's in all the way in it's okay
to just close it manually what's next m.2 chosen for any particular reason
other than bang for the buck that's it that's it yeah that's kind of what I
figured I don't think anyone chooses a wd blue for like the sex
appeal man board's loaded up now CPU RAM
m.2 SSD yes what are we doing next I have an aiio so it oh so what I need is
I need one of those fans M and then I'm just going to do a quick kind of like
sanity check here I love the color scheme by the way thank you it's
fantastic so we could get a fan in there
but we're not getting a fan and a rad in there okay option two is we put our
Radiator in the front and hope our graphics card is going to fit or we
could open up the graphics card and we could do a quick test let's do a test
fit okay oh man this is going to be such an upgrade going from a 1060 look on her
face she knows I'm not even sure if that's going to fit in your case at
all let alone with a radiator in the
front Nicole are you sure it looks good
it's so big I don't know if it's going
to fit Nicole oh
yikes everyone is supposed to get like a compatibility check at some point in
this process um who was supposed to look
at yours nobody nobody looked at it okay I'm
going to have to speak with the coordinators for this project cuz like
the first couple I checked just to make sure and then I thought it got delegated
but apparently it hasn't been okay cool let's go shopping I feel
awkward about this because the whole extreme Tech upgrade thing is that
you're supposed to like get a free upgrade but you used all your budget and
it really wouldn't be fair to other people if I was just like pulled out the
company card and just bought whatever case so you're buying a case
just so we're try to find something that's B to F yourn
GPU Dennis inspired me okay so it all
comes down to Dennis we want USBC yes
and then we need something that can accommodate a dual fan aiio yes okay
well there's real big boy is this too
big of a big boy uh no no that would
work really well that's a really good case uh one of my concerns is that it
might not actually be in stock black black black black white but this is the
one you have one yes okay so let's let's
just move along I mean hold on a second
this is on sale how can they not have stock of it maybe we could buy the demo
unit o cuz it's like 90 bucks for a 4,000
D yes yeah yeah here come here
considerably bigger ah that oh jeez okay
you know what I'm just going to put this here yeah this would be cool not a bad
haul we ended up with this tplink Powerline Wi-Fi kit cuz in addition to
not having a wired connection in her room um Nicole was saying that like
Wi-Fi sucks right yes and then we got the demo unit of the 4000d and this
worked out really well cuz they gave us 10% off so for it was $90 on sale
already so we paid 81 yes something like that $81 and
because it's Corsair we can take her existing case rip all those Corsair
accessories out throw them in here and we've actually wasted very little of our
budget even though you ended up with two cases okay little case byebye was nice
knowing you nothing can defeat us today
we've got a computer store down the road where conveniently we could get a 6900
XT for 2,300 Canadian dollars
wonderful I couldn't help noticing yet another of my team went with an 850 W
power supply for a 3080 o it should be
fine okay a quality 850 W power supply
should be fine but we've run into issues before with ones that might be quality
actually but weren't really designed with 30 series in mind that would just
kind of uh turn off when power would
spike like way above what the card is rated for which does happen so hopefully
it's fine interesting okay well I guess we'll see how that goes yeah I saw you
got speakers yes what made you choose those Alex has Mackie speakers too I
edited his upgrade oh then I have heard of them maybe I've just forgotten then
yeah cuz I was definitely there so what's the first game you're going to
play with the new upgrade um I really want to give Final Fantasy 14 a try oh
so you figured you know what I've got too much of a life right now I need to
take up an MMO yes relatable I haven't
looked at your side in a bit but this
side looks awesome wow like a it's a
stone cold stunner man that's amazing
okay well hold on you know it's not that
bad it's all
right I accidentally pinned one of your fan connectors um under the CPU back
plate at this point it's pretty inconvenient to get it out unless yeah
that's let's call that cable managed out
aide out of mind that's we call it it's time to put our GPU
in RTX 38 baby even in this case this
card looks ridiculously big yeah there you go let's go do a
quick power on test and see how we did R
well that's not a good sign especially cuz I'm the one who plugged in the front
panel connectors it's fine oh we never plugged in the 24 pin oh no okay
remember how I was all like oh yeah we'll plug it in at the end cuz that way
it's not in the way and now everything else is in the way now everything else
is in the way and that is why you never
close up your side panels before doing a quick post test any light oh No Light No
Light really oh now there's light
wow wow yeah that looks pretty cool I
actually didn't notice this before but you've got a new microphone you picked up the ever popular at20 oh yes 20 my
favorite feature of my go XLR which the
mini also has the swear button so you
press this expletive button right here and it just cuts your audio and then
bleeps it out people have been so impressed like every time I use it the
comment section is just like what does he have a producer who's like censoring
his language is this pre-recorded nope
nope just got the swear button if you got it you might as well use it right
you went super Balling on your monitor yes 170 HZ IPS
gsync 1440p and it's the Gundam
Edition what does that even mean um it looks pretty okay what's this monitor
worth like
$800 okay Final Fantasy 14 but what else is your genre we were talking off camera
you said FPS not so much not as much anymore what else I'd like to see like
more graphically intense games just cuz I never really had the opportunity to
before Nicole yeah you're going to have
so much monitor for the size of this desk I can't believe a desk wasn't in
your budget here then again once we put a 55 in TV on that tiny little TV stand
this entire wall is going to be monitoring TV or we can put it on a wall
where are you going to sit to watch TV then I'm going to lay in bed
wait no I can yeah like let's get the
desk done and then I'm going to grab the TV and I'm going to hold it there cuz
the mount also pulls out a little all right we'll have a look at it okay
here's your new Mouse oh you went super
light yes I would have I I was actually considering getting it myself yeah well
why buy it when you can have someone else buy it hey thanks Intel yay thanks
Intel so you got a power play um which
is a mouse pad that continuously charges brother's smell so
cool uh but you have a a desk pad were
you planning to put the mouse pad on top of the desk pad yes I like hard Mouse
surfaces but I like having a soft cushion for my keyboard that is a way
more logical perfect explanation than I could have possibly expected where's the
computer going to end up is it going to be on the floor again it's going to be on this guy it'll be oh is this Ikea
thing part of the upgrade yes this is the thing that I built with the
miniature screwdriver yeah yeah yeah yeah Alex's are so popular yeah I have a
couple I know we have we have two of them right yeah we've got Alex P we've
got Alex c yeah all the Alex's are sold out that's cuz we have them mod beep
beep beep backing it up oh yeah gorgeous
okay I'm going to try and make this a little bit nicer do you happen to have any more velcro ties we have some extra
ones from the PC case yeah that might do
the trick yeah don't mind me I'll just sit here okay I'll be right back
I can't believe you're going straight from 720p to 4K yeah and to OLED at the
same time and one two three don't worry
it's fine okay the air cushions it uh-huh show me your plan yeah yes so how
are you going to watch from there like
demo and that's comfortable yeah cuz then it's going to tilt a little you
sure I'm not trying to be a hater or anything but um um are you sure cuz it
ends up being really low on the TV stand it ends up being low yeah real low real
low cuz I want to be able to watch while
I am fully fully reclined yeah I see
it's your Intel extreme Tech upgrade so we're going to do it your way all right
cool at least it's not on top of a fireplace that's true oh boy okay
there's one that's somewhat promising actually
oh that's freaking awesome okay do you have a pencil by any chance I have an
apple pencil h no no that that simply
won't do okay let me grab a pencil whoa
hold on a second what is that thing in your right hand I never want to see it
again we're not barking the wall with that I don't have a
pencil but I have pens and something I
found called a fill stick how can I not make the joke okay
your fill stick cannot appear in the video you cannot set me up like that and have
me not knock it down what it says they're for hardwood
flooring we do not want to put it on the
wall we're going to use a pen okay that's good and then keep
spinning and pull it out wow power of tools I know right you
got to apply lots of pressure so that it doesn't slip okay slip is bad here let me see
um okay yeah we're good okay oh that's terrifying I'll just support
the weight you move the TV however you want okay we're in both of them are in
yep and you're stuck back there it's fine how you doing Nicole I'm good okay
there you go wonderful she's free yay
you want to do the honors
yeah big peel big peel the biggest peel
of my
life I am inspired right now I know what the title for this video is what is this
is like the Ultimate Gamer bedroom you got your gaming PC you got
your TV you got your snack drawer you basically never have to leave yes that's
the plan right that was that was literally what you said when I walked in
the door okay now there's one more thing that remains yeah Nicole's really smart
so she like looked at the Box a little bit and figured out exactly what power
line networking is but for the rest of you I'm going to explain what it is
essentially what you do is you take these media adapters and you put one of
them over by your router and then you plug in with an Ethernet cable into that
then you take the other one and you plug it in up next to your device so we're
going to plug it into this power outlet right here and then you plug in Ethernet
cable from that into that and what you're doing is you're turning your
house wiring into a network cable so
that's going to go right there and then this guy goes holy crap do you guys not
have any additional Ethernet ports the one plugged into the TV is not lit and
what is this over here it's plugged into the karaoke machine which obviously
needs internet that's priority number one yeah so the TV can go it has
Wi-Fi and its reception would be great yes and then if anyone gets mad at you
about the TV Wi-Fi then you blame me okay be like oh sorry L said it has to
be this way and you just like make this face wow it's really good in something
like a game which is extremely oh see
that 132 103 that sucks and anytime
someone else is on your Wi-Fi doing something or anytime one something in
the background goes in updates it is going to trash your game latency now
watch this screw this and let's flip on
our power line we got a spike but it was much smaller so every time it's loading
a chunk we're still getting a spike latency but not like on Wi-Fi where we
were getting upwards of 100 milliseconds wow cool right that's amazing the
unintuitive part is that you guys probably noticed Wi-Fi has lower lows
but it's just when you get those awful spikes that's when you get head shot
without even getting a chance to retaliate Cuz 100 plus milliseconds that
is a lot we are done Nicole's setup it's freaking awesome she's got the Ultimate
Gamer bedroom now with the gaming rig in the corner everything from voice
recording to gaming to Media consumption it can do it all and the TV that while I
may not agree with the mounting location
is going to look absolutely flipp and amazing from in bed and there's
basically no reason to leave her room so thanks for watching Intel extreme Tech
upgrade thank you Intel for sponsoring if you guys are looking for something
else to watch which one's been your favorite so far Dennis's okay go watch
Dennis yeah pretty good yeah