Natalie is our inventory coordinator for LTT Store, an A&B sponsor to her $5,000
ultimate tech upgrade so that we could bond over the things that we both love,
like bikes, a profound desire to make sure
everything gets to where it needs to go. I said 4,000 screwdriver shafts, not
400.
And of course, building aesthetically pleasing computers. Natalie has chosen
wisely, but I can tell you right now, you're paying a bit of a beauty tax for
a lot of these components, like this white Corsair memory kit, all these Lean
Lee Infinity mirror fans, not to mention the white Yamaha speakers, and matching
white monitors. Even your motherboard is
white. Now, AMD doesn't make the Ryzen 5
7600 processor in white, but what you can do is pay a white dude to install it
in the motherboard for you. Sure.
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keeping the fun going. I gotta say, when you don't buy a GPU, you can really
afford a lot more stuff these days. You've got a keyboard in here, new desk,
new chair, and what are these? That's
for Michael to figure out. So these are the daytime running lights for my bike.
And so we put custom like RGB lights
inside. That's not street legal, is it? No, it's only for when I'm parked, not
when I'm riding. lawbreaking inventory manager. Like it
wouldn't surprise me if there was contraband merch. How did you end up with these? They're limited edition with
the stop discount. Actually, I'm not lying. When you have to say, actually,
I'm not lying. You might be a liar. Well, you definitely didn't take your
Wi-Fi access point from work. Is this an
ant sonata? It is a Sonata. Believe it.
Wow. Archie comics. Not mine. It's his.
How many water bottles does one person need? Stay hydrated. That's Michael's um merch
request. This place is so weird. There's
just like a sonata box in the living room. There's a graphics card with the
backpack. Did you scatter merch around the house for me to find? Why the hell
is it here? That's Michael stuff. But I
didn't ask whose it was. I asked why is it here?
You have to ask Michael. Why do you need so many knives? Merch request. I have a
budget. I'm going to use it up. If I don't use it up at the end of the year, of course, I'm going to spend it on the
smaller stuff, right? What is this monstrosity?
Good gravy. O,
what a choice, huh? I honestly thought it was a custom build in a fridge when I
first mini fridge. That'd be cool. Oh my god, you have all
the expensive stuff. I took photos for that, so they gave it to me. Good lord,
do we ever give a lot of merch to staff. I'm picking up the vibe that this is a
Michael project for today. Absolutely. Cool. Thanks, Mikey. Are you miked?
Yeah, I'm miked. Well, of course you are. Also, I love your shirt. Oh, thank
you. I guess computer. Yeah, we could build a computer. Sure. Do you computer
build? I've helped Michael build my current one. Okay. But have you ever
gone start to finish? No. I'm not picking up an I want to vibe, but I'm
not picking up an I'm unwilling vibe. I'm down to get some assistance. Go for
it. Or aren't you not dipping it on your end? Oh, sorry. Yeah. No, I thought I
thought we I got it. Wow. Some things really are easier if you just do them
yourself. This is going to be a painful day. I thought you were an expert at
this. That's what we tell everybody. Uh before you do that, you might need this
part of the upgrade, which is a zenrol
stander basis. It's a bike stand. Nice. So, that's
pretty much all we wanted you for. All right. See you later. These are turn
signals that will go uh somewhere in
here. And then we have the DRLs. These
will replace uh what's in there. Uh just a completely new set. You can see
they're uh retrofitted, opened with the uh LEDs inside. And then here we have
our center stand because we're uh a little sick of paddock stands and it's
uh quite a bit cooler. There's always very different energy for these for the
people that I work with extremely regularly versus the people that I only
really know from badminton night. I feel bad for those people. Which ones? I'll
let you figure that one out. Are you doing okay over Ryzen 57600? Nice gaming
CPU esports. So, we don't really necessarily need like, you know, the
most powerful hardware. I know you play Valerant, but I saw you have a league
chair. So, like are those your two Riot? Yeah. I got my ass absolutely
handed to me by her at a work land not
that long ago. Yeah, can confirm. Yeah,
thank you. I really didn't need confirmation, right? That's fine. Right.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You're doing great.
That's what overthinking. Nice.
She's She's wise to me now. She's wise to me now. This is like $200 worth of
fans. They look pretty. I mean, they did do that. They have the infinity mirror.
I know they do. They have the infinity money, too. Thanks, AMD. Let's get some
actual progress made here. What do you think? That wasn't progress. Oh, sorry.
Yes, this is great. How do we dig ourselves out of this hole? Start
digging up. We We should see how the
motorcycle crew is doing. How you guys doing? Uh, great. I've got part of the
stand out of the box. Nice. Yeah. The energy is just really awkward in there.
I needed a break. Okay. Hey, did you see all those? Oh, no.
You You're part of the problem. I am the
problem. Also, they're not even running. Had an interest in it. Uh-huh. And then
we got this place and I was like, "Oh, we have uh 240 volts. I'm going to get
one of these uh power bars that they're, you know." Yeah. PDU. Uh PDUs, right?
Yeah. Well, I don't know what I'm doing still, I guess. But yeah, never random.
Never. Uh, not here. Anyways,
you know what? The awkward energy is here, too. I'm going to go back inside.
Good news. I think the awkwardness is actually me. The energy came with me
when I went outside. Let's go ahead and get this SSD cover off. 2 TB WD Black.
Man, I said this before, but it's amazing how much stuff you can get when
you don't blow all of it on a GPU. There we go. Nice. Ah, solid statement. Solid.
That was solid. You can't save points. No, no, you can't. I mean, you can, but
then I'd be bringing the awkward energy with me again. You already did. Yeah, I
know. Is this one of those little like wireless Bluetooth? You have to turn it
on. Power on and
Oh, that's awful. Uh oh.
Okay, so I'm Alvin and the Chipmunks now. That's his normal voice, isn't it?
Watch out, cuz here we come. I swear I'm
not that off key. What? Say it. Go
ahead. Say it.
All right. Yeah, let's go. Heck yeah. So, there's our SSD. Oh my god, there's
Oh, there is an SSD stuck to the bottom. Oh, there is. Yeah. Is that Oh, yeah.
You'll need this one. It's crucial.
is where I put the other SSDs. Sure. Technically, you can put them wherever
you want, but they'll work best if you put them in there.
So, this is going this way there. Nope. All right,
let's do some tech tips. Kind of like when you're swimming, you know how you like cup your hands to like push the
water behind you? So, the direction that the blades cup Yeah. they push the air
that way. So, they're pushing this way. You better believe it. Ah, okay. Right.
Left. climbing anticlockwise. It's not a clockwise if we're not going in a
circle. This is going left and right. This may
be the worst AMD upgrade. No, this is going to be great. This is all Linus'
fault. Okay, that can be our theme. Let's get off of awkward and let's get
into everything is Linus' fault. Isn't that every video's theme?
Man, thermalite is like back, baby. They
were the goat back in the day and then they just kind of like faded into Yeah,
I think they still exist. And now, dude, they're dominant. Air coolers, water
coolers, they're killing it. Next, we're going to have like Anttech back from the
dead. Oh, wait. They are. We're going to buy an Anamax power supply. Freaking DFI
motherboard, baby, for my next build. Let's go. Natalie, are you sure you want
to replace these fans? Cuz they're like, they don't match. So nicely attached to
everything already. Yes, it is very nice. But then you can make it nicer
with other fans. I believe in you, Lenn.
I hate it when my own lines get used on me. Like people will tell me like, "Oh,
that's going to be pretty tough." And I'll be like, "I believe in you." And then I walk away. Feels bad, man. Is it
that annoying when I do that? No. I do it all the time to everybody. Yeah. I
mean it when I say it, though. I Well, I mean it. No. Um, what just happened? Did
I set it up like this? Yes. Are you sure? Yeah. You gave it to me and you're
like, "Here, put the band on there." Oh, okay. Cool. Now you can just do that.
This looks great. And I got to say, reverse blade fans kind of nail a
perfect balance between ease of installation and ease of maintenance
because you get the best of both worlds. You can see the fans on the radiator so
you don't have to look at the fins. And when it's time to clean it, you just
brush the, you know, hair or whatever off of the back of the rad. It's
awesome. Oh my god. Cuz what what uh I
mean if it doesn't bother Natalie, it doesn't bother me. How does it look? No
one's bothered. Everything's good. Let's put the motherboard in. No. So what is
it? Oh, we haven't taken the peel off the front glass yet. I know that's not it. I know that's not it. What is it?
These are misaligned. Wow.
You're not going to see it when it's turned on. I swear to God. That's fine.
Think about it this way. My wife has one of her teeth removed. So, she actually
has a center tooth. And in 15 years of
being in a relationship with her, I actually never noticed until she told me. This is kind of like that except
that I've told you upfront. And you can move the teeth now if you
want. I will move the teeth. Okay. Ivonne, leave your teeth. They're
perfect the way they are. No, Michael's tooth is like that, too. But it wasn't removed. It was just misaligned. I'll go
get a B-roll, shall we? Just yeah, just give him no context. Go, go. Yeah, do
it. Do it. The hard part about putting stuff on the bike is there's very little
space in here over here. So, for for
example, this uh converter here um looks like there's a lot of space, but when
you move the bars, you'll see that actually most of the space was for uh
steering. But now the plan is to kind of be creative. Um we're going to have to
use up space that uh maybe we would have used otherwise for our hands. And
basically, I'm going to put this in. And if you need to get off a bolt, maybe you
got to cut this out. I think I'm going to put the motherboard in now. I I want
to take this out, but I think this is in the way cuz I'm trying to tilt it out
that way to take it out, but I think it's hitting those fans. No. Well, you
only put in four screws. No, I put them all in. No, you didn't. Yes, I did. I
know you didn't. I'm not. You're gas lighting. You're not You only put four.
Oh, you told them to put them all. You told me to put them all in. I was following
instructions. I didn't want to be blamed. I said I would take it off. I
think blame Lionus isn't going to work for this one. You put on the the That's
not on me. I didn't blame you yet. I
wasn't going to. Maybe on the next one. The theme could
be not awkward. Everyone could be cool
and smooth. That's up to you, though.
I like that you've taken like the engine hoist approach to putting
I'm liking this technique here. We're going to get this computer built. Dude,
there's so much to do today. I know.
Yeah. Just finding places for the cables for these modules. But the lights went
in pretty easily. Okay. Didn't need to take any of the fairings off. The original one was just an LED strip that
kind of reflected off that lens there. Essentially, these are inside this now,
so it doesn't look as jank.
And what are they doing upstairs? Do you know? They're taking apart my desk. Oh,
cool. My old desk to replace the new
desk. Why are they hammering? Has your desk always had a drinking problem? My
what? Cuz it's getting hammered. Oh my god.
This is back to back. No, this is back to back.
You almost hit me in the face. I thought we didn't order this. I don't know. It
wasn't on my list. I took it out cuz I was over budget. Oh, talk to
procurement. I don't know. This will be great. I feel like there's going to be a
lot of stuff that doesn't make the final cut for this video. lg.gg/flatplane
for the extras. It's a pill. I don't know. Ah, you know, someone in the
audience would be into it. Oh, are you calling this a horde? What I'm standing in right now? Ah, I sense tension. I
think I'm team Natalie on this. I think this is a hoorde. Could be worse,
though. Wow, that was some primo enablement. Michael, you can walk out of
frame if you if you you don't have to just keep standing there awkwardly. This
is moving on.
Okay, we're moving on the box. Yeah. Are
you sure you don't want one that's still good?
I thought we only ordered one of them. Oh my god. It's no wonder so many people
quit after we do these upgrades. I don't think we need that knife anymore. would
I would close it if I were you. No, if you were me, you would do exactly what I
would do. I would do this if I were you. No, because you would be exactly me with
my chemical composition and my lived experiences. So, you would be Well, I
mean, you closed it, so I was right.
I know why they say not to use a knife, cuz you don't want to scratch the table.
I didn't I didn't use a knife. What do you mean? Beautiful. When we check the case compatibility for the GPU she had,
it fits. It's It's compatible. The problem is when you mount the radiator
and fans here, they come up just a little too tall and they stop our GPU
uh from clicking down all the way. And
so we're going to have to move the radiator
to the top. That's okay. That's okay. That's okay. Yo, Natalie, I figured it
out. Guess what? What? Do you want to undo and redo all the screws on this
again? No. Okay. So, the way it works have to There's a You're supposed to
sandwich it. This thing came preassembled with all the fans on it.
So, I kind of got ahead of myself and was like, "Oh, it's so convenient." And
put it on, but the rad goes on the other
side and the fans go on this side. Oh, that's kind of cool. It is. And then the
GPU will sit right. Yeah. So, if you guys were watching and you're like,
"They're installing it wrong." We are. You're right. Nice.
Yeah. What'd you get? Um, I got something that was within my budget that
was white still. Let's go, Natalie. What you should do, we will try to get it
centered. Yeah. But what you can do, especially with a second set of hands to
help, is just loosen it a little bit and then you move the whole thing. Yeah. So,
even if we don't get it perfect right now, it is really easy to adjust. You're just going to need a second set of
hands. I've done it myself before. It's
not easy to do alone when there's two monitors. Okay, now we got to put the
monitors on. Natalie, what did you buy? White monitors. Hell yeah. Yeah, these
are pretty good. Fast IPS, 170 Hz, 1440p, what? 27 in 1 millisecond.
They'll do you just fine. And they're going to match your entire setup. That's
the real point of these, right? There's they're nice white monitors. So, yeah.
Let's get these onto the onto the arm. Cool. I'm coming and on. Look at that.
I'mma bring in a computer. You can let it go. That's okay. Feels kind of sus.
Can I put a pooter on your desker? Just
going to put this computer right here. All right. Everything's in. Yep. To a
standard of quality that as far as you know is excellent.
Did I get it? Yeah, you did. Okay. Hold it, though. Okay, that was pretty good.
It's not tensioned. So, just wait. I'm grabbing the other bolt. So, this is
supposed to go there. I don't know if it's going to fit. It's going to go on
an angle. What? What? because I didn't have enough
budget for that dresser that got delivered. It's downstairs. That'll fit
on there. What are you talking about? It'll go on an like Oh, that's fine. See, I thought she meant this. I know.
And that But she meant this, which is totally fine. It is still technically on
an angle. I mean, anything is technically an angle. True. A straight
line is an angle. This will do left and right. So, it'll stop wobbling left and
right. So, actually, I'll tighten this a little bit right now cuz it's going to
or hear me out. You could just do a quality job of the install in the first
place. I don't know where she's going to sit and where she's going to want to put
the monitors on her chair. Maybe she's going to want to move them around and,
you know, she'll want to adjust them after. You know what? That's very well
thought out. I would expect nothing less from a man who owns a display. Dude,
that looks clean. You also have a arm.
Oh, yes, I do have an arm. We're going to have to have that lower third every time she appears on camera. Now, what
owns an arm?
Actually, three.
Yamaha. The only company I can think of
that makes pianos and motorcycles. I got both of them now. Well, the piano is not
Yamaha. Quality contribution, Natalie. Thank you. Why' you choose these? Cuz
they're white and they're Yamaha.
Okay, that was just one monitor. Wait, did you only buy one monitor, Natalie? I
put two. I thought there was two in a box, so I didn't question it. I mean,
mono sound is a vibe, right? She's melty, you know? Got that drip like no
ice. No ice. It's cuz there's no ice.
Looks good. You know what? I'll go. Let's see. The headlights are in. Uh,
tested it. And the rear thing needs to still go on. We're looking good to
finish before the end of the day, aren't we? Uh, yes.
Yes. I got to confess something. Okay. When
we were at Disneyland, it took me quite a while to figure out
that he was a plus one cuz I don't actually like some of the
new people at the company. I don't want to pay for it. I'm glad I didn't say anything stupid. That's fine. You can
say stupid stuff all the time. Is there Do you remember on the list if I put two
when I picked up the box? I thought there was two in there for some reason. Oh, no. Those are Those are only one in
a box. Yeah. Oh, did you? I'm pretty sure I did, too. I'll check the
spreadsheet. Is there a cover for it? You just going to leave the cover off? That's sexy. It looks nice. It's melty.
You know, melty. Yeah, cuz it's it's nice. Like no ice. All right. Melty.
It's got the drip. We had to hear that twice. You know how I know this is the
number one instrument? Cuz it's
Cuz it's the piano. Not.
Okay, that one was I'll give you that one.
That was pretty good actually. I really like that one. The next time I see a
piano is I never get better cuz they they
enable me. They laugh. Do you play? Yes.
Are you going to play for us? Yes. I haven't played in a long time and
that's why I'm getting one because I don't have access. You should at least at least try and do something something
basic. Something. Okay. What's What grade are you in? I went up to 12
like like there's 12. I remember my book
saying 12. Oh, I thought it was grade 10 was like as high as it maybe. I don't
know. It's It's been a long time. And I could ask an AI, but that would be
Feeding the Beast. Just remain ignorant.
That'll teach him. Got it. Oh yeah. Don't drop it. Yep.
Stop. So, wow. There's a lot of holes on the
bottom of this. I would have
I don't know, dude. I got it. Oh, I got it. I got it first. She got it first. I
don't know. I think 600 tabs. This is
600 bucks. Yeah. Is it cheap? I don't
know what instruments cost. There's no like fancy features to this
and it's fully weighted. Meaning it feels like a real like a key. It's not
just pressed and it's like digital. That's what I wanted to. Yeah. Okay. No.
No. That makes way more sense cuz I thought this was just like the keyboard
my kids have that we got on Amazon for like $600. Yeah.
This is something that's to hold the
sheet music. No. No.
Oh, there's little peels on the little feet. Adorable. You just thought they
were blue feet.
You are getting jabs pretty hard today. This is easy.
We're not going left. Oh, you're going left. Nice. Okay. So, how does it feel?
Does it feel piano like? It does. All right. So, we're kind of
feeling like right around here. Yeah. I'm gonna be like wearing shoes. That's
not how a piano works.
Well, do you know anymore? No, I told you. I don't remember how to play. You
didn't believe me? I mean, it sounded really good up until you stopped. Yeah, cuz I don't remember the rest.
And cut. Sorry. What do you need? Uh, I I need consent from me right in front of
her. Let's go look. Yeah. Well, there's your
problem right there. Right there. Right there. Yep. Right there. You don't have
the alignment of the blinker fluid.
I think if you go right here. Okay. It will make a room for the head right
behind the Okay. Okay. I think that'll work. And then you can get it flush cuz it's just the one that interferes,
right? I think you're right. Hey, I was
right about something today. You would think that they advertised this as the
turn signals for this bike. Yeah, dude. And look, it would fit. It's like
perfectly contoured for the thing, but they didn't account for this. Is this
part on the on the OEM one, too? Oh.
Oh, I don't know if the OEM one does have this or not. No, there's no way it
would.
When you don't have a metal desk, it's a bit of a hassle to put all the plates in
in the first place. But once you're done, check this out. Boom. Network
switch. Just like that. And it's like it's on
there, man. Does anyone want to plug this cable in? It looks really good,
Natalie. Especially with the like white mic arm. The all white theme. I got to
say, it's very pretty. Okay, check this out. Check this out.
There you go. See you later. Out of sight, out of mind. That's right. Let's
go. Oh, wait. Did anyone plug in the RGB? It's cursed, Natalie. It's cursed.
Oh, yes. Let's go. Wow. Okay. Not going to lie,
those were expensive fans, but that looks pretty good. That's really pretty.
I am really liking this setup. You got one computer, one desk, one mouse, one
speaker. At least I have two monitors. Oh,
see, I thought you meant two monitors, not two monitors. We're on the VGA post
code. Would you say this GPU has been under undue strain during its lifetime?
Maybe uh involved in any cryptocurrency mining possibly. Also, it's not screwed
in. Damn it, Ree. We're just going to run off of the onboard graphics this
time. It's a really nice feature to have even if you're not going to use the
onboard GPU to, you know, game or whatever, right? For troubleshooting. Is
my graphics card pooched? It's really useful. She's up. All right.
So, let's try receing the GPU. And maybe
we'll get lucky here. And if not, you'll have to find a new GPU. Where will she
find one? Where would she get another GPU? A white one specifically. Oh, well,
that'll be harder. Yeah. I thought we were just joking about how there's a closet full of GPUs. Let's check out her
Valerant skills. Now, it's downloading slowly. What do you mean it's
downloading? You don't have the game. Oh, wow. That's actually Okay, hold on.
This is a problem. That's like It's like starting and then stopping and then
starting and then stopping. So, I think it's like dropping out. Oh, wait. So, you're on a Wi-Fi bridge, I think. So,
yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That should have been part of your upgrade. Big moment. Big
moment. I did the cutting and it works. Nice.
It's a little dusty though. Did you uh blow me off?
I feel like I just witnessed something I wasn't supposed to. Okay, dude. That
totally worked. Don't look that close. Don't look that close. Oh, and here you
got a little thing for your Insta 360, which we haven't unboxed yet, but you'll
unbox it. And here's some footage of it. You know, Natalie riding around on her
motorbike with an Insta 360. Probably some like stuff's happening or whatever.
It's not shot yet, so I'm trying to narrate footage I've never seen before.
That's the best I can do. Uh, should we try out the signals? All right, let's
try them out. Damn.
Hey, big moment. Big moment. Big moment. You have to have your face in the shot.
Wa. Oh, it's even got the showy flash. Okay,
that's the brightness. Less white. That's color. Wo. There's some color.
Oh, dang. Wow. Just don't put red and
blue on it. So, how does this work? This goes in here. I just push down. Yep.
Oh my goodness. Come on, Ally. Yeah.
Hey. All right. Okay.
This is so scary. You know what the problem probably is? Is just how many
access points there are here. Uh we can like blur this so you can't actually
read any of them, but oh my god, there's like 50 plus APS that are within range.
When you're close to that many APS, it doesn't even matter if they're
transmitting anything. Just the the constant pinging back, hey, are you
there? Hey, are you there? Hey, what's up? takes up so much of the available
spectrum. Like that's why we're transmitting and then we're waiting and
then we're transmitting then we're waiting. Has this ever been a problem before? Slow internet. Yes. How is this
not part of your upgrade? I don't have enough budget.
You bought a shiny chair. More important.
Michael can buy the internet. Technically, you're not supposed to have
wireless equipment on a metal shelf like this. Do you have a long Ethernet cable?
We have multiple.
Oh my god, we're so close. We're at 3.4 out of 3.6. I just need it to just just
two more little little bursts of speed, buddy. Come on. At long agonizingly long
last, we're finally in game. And you're sitting in the shooting range. You want
me to connect to a game? I mean, that's fair enough. Oh, you missed. High
average. Yeah. Okay, but what about the FPS? That's good. Okay. How's it
compared to your old setup? I can't really tell the difference. Fair enough.
But my monitor is like, "If you're happy, I'm happy." Yeah. With a couple
of notable exceptions, namely the Wi-Fi, which I cannot believe you didn't
upgrade. This was an incredible upgrade. Nice
fast gaming processor, excellent for esports, some really choice upgrades on
the bike, and of course, piano.
Did I miss anything? Some cameras. Oh, yeah. Yeah, those too. If you guys
enjoyed this video, you might enjoyed the last one we did where I ended up becoming the assistant of our team's
executive assistant. He didn't lift a finger, not even to make coffee.