even i'm tired of watching me upgrade the tv in my living room at this point
which is why today's video is very exciting this is the very first in what
i'm planning to be a very long running series sponsored by Intel i'm calling it
Intel extreme tech upgrade and the premise is simple
one by one each of my team members is going to get a 5 000 us dollar budget to
tech makeover their space first up
Anthony let's see how he spent it
now you might be thinking five thousand dollars with that you could buy the most
ball in gaming pc ever but the pc is only one part of a setup
upgrade so Anthony had to make some tough choices an obvious path would have
been to just build a top of the line gaming pc courtesy of Intel and call it
a day but i already have a pretty sweet gaming setup
and this is an opportunity to splurge on something i wouldn't normally buy for
myself now i've never been thin and while i lost a
fair amount of weight before moving to bc the early days of the move caused a
shift in my habits no pots and no pans
meant no cooking so the solution was often to eat out
but it became a habit and while my job isn't stressful in and
of itself my mind still finds ways to make it that way sometimes and when i'm
stressed the thing i've always turned to has been food so one of my plans was to
use the htc vive that Linus lent me so i could gamify exercise a little bit as
part of a plan that i had to be more active but the vive is still in the bin
not for a lack of trying i've been putting together a little itx rig piece
by piece just hasn't happened yet
i managed to lose some of what i gained even though i haven't been using the
vive but it's not happening fast enough and i
fear i've plateaued so my tech upgrade is going to revolve
around transforming my media setup i'm talking new tv new stand new sound bar
and of course finally installing a sick new vr gaming pc powered by Intel of
course the gaming pc is still at the heart of the setup here so
Anthony do you want to walk me through some of your parts choices here starting
of course with the CPU so you've gone with a core i5 10600k i chose the Intel
core i5 10600k for its high clock speeds which should help in vr
for RAM you've gone with 16 gigs of ddr4 3200 c16 i noticed there's no RGB not
only on the RAM but anywhere in this system
yeah if it's going to be a living room pc i don't especially need RGB and i
don't really want it either i don't really need lights distracting
me from you know the tv or anything else i might be doing in the living room that
makes sense and i can actually see those aesthetic choices throughout the build
here so if you want to unbox the case and maybe get the power supply installed
i'll take this over here then we don't have to wear these annoying masks the
fendex p400 is actually from what i can gather a really good case for noise to
performance ratio and the same can be said for the Noctua nhu 12 vest this is
a compact air cooler but still gives up very little in terms of performance i'm
expecting this CPU to be running at max turbo all the time with a cooler like
this one i really appreciate the understated look
of this case and the fact that the front mesh here
is extremely fine so what this allows me to do
is have the machine set up in the living
room with good airflow so the fans don't have to ramp up i'm just checking to see
if i've got enough fan headers to run these fans without using the internal
fan controller that could save me from running an additional cable from the
power supply one fan header here this one is for the aio pump i don't think
that could be used for a fan i'm a big fan
i'm sorry of having fan headers along this edge of the board but this is a
more value-oriented z490 so
you don't have anything unfortunately along this edge i think you missed one
though there's actually two at the bottom chassis fan two and three are
down here oh i did this one then you wouldn't have to
fool around with any of the profiling nonsense you could just go one two three
and use all chassis fan headers these fan cables are very short though only
one way to find out here you go boss so far everything you've chosen has been
purely practical it's amazing how the choices change once they're spending
their own money right uh the one exception is the all-black version of
the Noctua cooler that costs about an extra 10 bucks but i also noticed that
your power supply you went with a modular model instead of just a fixed
cabled one what would be the rationale behind that cable management
i mean to be fair a semi modular would be perfectly fine because everybody
needs the atx 24 pin at least until atx 12 volt becomes a thing
but you know we have one of those right oh i
got a board and power supply so uh guys get subscribed you're going to see a
video on the new motherboard power standard carry on the reason i went with
the rmx 2018 uh 650 watt actually is
because i don't need that much power and it's one of the better rated power
supplies on our forum thread the psu tier list actually considered one of the
best in class okay i think this is a job for your tiny fingers i did prove that i'm a faster pc
builder than Anthony oh yeah and better gamer
i don't know about that but the rtx 2080 super is basically
i think the best value for like high-end vr right now
since i'm going to be using it with a 5 it's uh
probably not actually even going to be used to its full potential so with it i
should be able to handle anything that i throw at it
oh yeah i'm gonna plug in this case RGB
i just gotta go yeah okay
that's it right yeah i guess so we don't necessarily need to cable
manage the back i can do that later that looks about as cable managed as i would
make it yeah about as cable managers you would make it yeah now my basement apartment
isn't exactly in great shape and it's pretty cramped too so that informed a
lot of my decision making because i don't have much space for high-end audio
a good sound bar is what i was after while i wanted to use the sonos arc as a
standalone bar i just couldn't get one in time so i went for the samsung hw
q90r which comes with a subwoofer and satellites reviews place it among the
best sound bars that can handle dolby atmos right now and while i'm not sure
if it's strictly an upgrade in terms of sound quality over my audio engine a5
plus bookshelf speakers in terms of sound stage it should be a huge step up
the tv is rather special i originally was looking at the lg nano 90 but it
lacked some features that i really wanted like multiple HDMI 2.1 ports and
more than 32 dimming zones and then vizio launched their 2021
lineup and their new p series quantum x ticked all the boxes four HDMI 2.1 ports
e-arc 480 local dimming zones auto game
mode with quick response time 120 hertz native panel speed with variable refresh
rate from 48 to 120 hertz i mean basically for my use case of
mixed gaming and content streaming it's perfect the only problem is it's not for
sale yet so we managed to get a pre-production model straight from vizio themselves all
right buddy got your delivery where you want it oh uh well that's rude um
oh that's a very good question this is uh kind of a lot of stuff here
like is this tv even gonna fit
uh no tell you what why don't we build the
stand and see where that gets us okay this is going faster than it was that's
for sure uh i still have my doubts about whether
anyone's gonna be able to get past this stand if it's installed here so
we may have no choice but to go with our backup tv location plan there Anthony
why don't we leave the vr space here then okay what i might do though is take
off that mount and do it this corner to that corner
though because that way you could actually go all the way from here all
the way over to here if you wanted to play like a a
bigger game like gorn is a ton of fun to play with a little bit of room to move
around so you can you know what punch guys it's like a physics based arena brawler my location
here is actually really good to watch this whole space here
there we go while matthias finishes up the tv stand
i think what you and i need to do is clear some space
apparently we're taking it one step further and we are disassembling the
desk now i'm really glad i don't have to be
part of that conversation even if we're gonna make it better after
we temporarily destroy this home office setup it's worth pointing out by the way
Intel's not just giving us special treatment they've been helping their staff transition to working from home
with budget for tools equipment and resources so that they can keep working
through these tough times as well and where the crap am i supposed to put this
exactly wherever it fits okay
and that's where it goes
yeah we'll figure out the cleanup afterwards yeah that's not my problem i guess
not my problem
the good news is we're making progress matthias are we ready for me to unbox
the tv so we can put it on this mount how close are you
looking pretty good
um oh
oh did i catch it
all good everything's fine i stomped on the back
of the packaging and that bought enough time for Anthony and david to get over and stop it from whacking on the counter
cool now all we need to do is actually mount the tv to it this
whole assembly is going to weigh like 150 pounds by the time we're done
should we center it a bit yeah that would be better
that is massive
um yeah wow
okay well not bad yeah there's a lot of range
of motion on that mount actually i do
oh yeah gaming rig time
a ups isn't the most glamorous piece of hardware ever you know leave it to
Anthony to pick smart things to spend his budget on
it's a great idea when you have unstable power and apparently they get frequent
brown outs here so this is just a wonderful way to protect the gear
that's attached to it so how heavy is this puppy it's pretty heavy i don't
think you're gonna lift it it's in three pieces uh probably best to like kind of
point yeah we can yeah sure okay here we go
oh boy it's plugged in in it yep you know you must be at Anthony's house
when under the couch you might find normal things like popcorn debris but
also a keycap puller
we can run power for the couch off the island now which means all we gotta do
is kind of shove these bad boys under here
and cable managed
that's a free tech tip for you if you can't see them they're managed
that's right that's management for a sound bar this thing is pretty crazy
town it's all atmosi and all that so it's 7.1.4
and basically that means you've got like four
uh channels up top one subwoofer and then seven either
virtual or true channels the sound bar itself which Anthony has over there the
subwoofer and then this right here is a couple of rear satellites that we're
planning to put on these speaker stands i've got three things that i just
brought over here that need to plug into the wall both of the rear satellites and
then i've also got that vive lighthouse so unfortunately i think that means this
shelf has got to kind of shovel up a little bit
away from the wall so uh here we go oh
boy here we here we go again
oh boy okay
try not to break your ps3 that's the first model too it's got ps2 oh
and the card reader and stuff yeah i really got to be careful not to break that one man i prepared it myself and
i'm very proud of that yep there we go oh yep
if it's back here and we can't see it then it's good okay there bud
it's tv af you ever seen a tv as tv is this tv
i've got the subwoofer packed back here behind the couch i know
that's not ideal for acoustics but Anthony preferred it in
terms of looks so we're going to at least give it a shot the sound bar itself i haven't actually
plugged into the e-arc port on the tv yet but i'll do that in just a moment
and i was just about to plug in power to the ups i did move a network switch over
here though so we should be good to go for networking for all the gear that
Anthony is about to cart over
if you have electronics that take 5 volts
get one of these things usb to barrel plug
plug it into a usb port somewhere and you can power these things so you
don't have as many wall boards and it's a lot more efficient
i'm accepting all the terms and conditions your life is now signed away
to physio sounds good i'm gonna use literally none
of its smart functions i'm pretty sure Anthony why do you have three super
nintendo's i don't
those are lukes why do you have three blue super
nintendos i don't i have four
one of them is in pieces in a bag and uh
yeah basically he wanted me to fix them up but i haven't ever really gotten
around to setting up my soldering station i was surprised to see those too i thought you were a sega loser
well i was a sega kid that doesn't mean i
can't appreciate other things unlike nintendo fans
oh yeah okay so i need a keyboard and mouse if
you don't mind sir well uh one moment
getting all the foxes together to cover up those patched holes in the wall hey
wait a minute hey that's not a fox
no you're done it's out all right this one's ugly
oh okay hey what the get out of here red panda
deceiving me polar bear
oh oh look red pandas are called firefoxes nope they're out
look at all my friends this is the closest thing i have to them
where'd that red panda go i don't know you drop kicked it i take it back the
red panda can return and the pokemon can come back
i need a solution for the the patches on the walls but like hey look at that this
is something very special that i've been waiting for a long time to get my hands
on it's the open source scan converter and it's not something we've like
had a need to cover on the channel basically what it does is it takes
component video or european scart which can either carry a component or a
composite signal and converts it
into HDMI you can also take uh vga here
and it can line double it so basically if it's uh an old game that runs at 240p
for example newer tvs don't know what to do with that so this will line double that output at
480p and the tv will basically just accept it happily
uh it also i think can upscale further than that and it has open source
firmware as well so it can actually apply other things like filters uh
different kinds of scan lines that kind of thing so i'm looking forward to
adding this and kind of making it the center piece
of my retro game collection as i expand upon it most of it's still in
newfoundland but that's a small detail this HDMI switch
what i'm going to use that with is this end cable gaming on the output end what
that lets it do is any of these four inputs can then be
pushed through the m cable without having to you know
unplug and replug and all that kind of stuff and uh yeah so i'll just plug the ps4 or
wii u or ps3 or anything like that into this
and it'll be upscaled for me no need to worry about the internal upscaler in the
tv the only problem with this thing is that it's a little bit like loud color
wise i guess i could like plasti-dip it or something i've already put some capped on tape on the front of this to
kind of take the edge off of these lights they get really bright so we've
got the uh quantum x p series tv from vizio 75 inch
2021 edition or whatever they're calling it now we've got the samsung atmos
soundbar we've got all of Anthony's console set up here he's probably going
to add more but you know how it is and most importantly we've got the wireless
vr setup that theoretically i should be able to pair now so do you want to hold
on to that have you ever done this before nope okay cool so basically how
it works is no you don't put that on yet i know i know it's exciting but you
can't yet you can't so you just walk around the room and just draw where
there's no obstructions so where the safe space will be
achievement unlocked you're ready cool
give it a shot Anthony boy's a gamer
ah but it's harder than it looks
oh how's the experience though how's the wireless it's good
like i'm not impeded whatsoever you can tell he's got music in his ears a little
loud we've got the vr working do you want to
also experience the sound bar maybe throw like uh some kind of content up on
the apple tv before we go sure okay
not bad yeah
all right well i'm gonna go ahead and turn it down a
little bit we're definitely not gonna have it that high yeah i think the upstairs probably
wouldn't appreciate that too much but hey at least it's got the capability
so thanks for uh letting us destroy and also upgrade your
house and thanks to Intel for uh sponsoring
this episode guys you can always find out more about the latest Intel 10th gen
processors and all their other great technology at the link down below stay
tuned make sure you're subscribed because we're going to have more of these coming and i already know that at
least the next four or five are gonna have utterly unique spins because every
person at Linus media group is uh let me just put it this way they're all
a little special