I'm told this will be one of the easiest AMD ultimate $5,000 tech upgrades that
we have ever done. Cuz you see Robert here, one of our longest standing
editors, actually built a computer I mean a whole damn battle station for
himself last year. So, what he put on his wish list was a simple old NAS to
help store old projects that he no longer works on.
So, what's the deal? You getting ready to leave me like everyone leaves me?
You know, it it check in like 2 months or whatever, and I will see.
Wow, that was a far less reassuring answer than I expected.
Okay, so it's just a giant homework folder then. Pretty much, yeah. I I have
some I have some old actually have a lot of stuff that's just on like loose like
portable hard drives and that that's just like just sitting there and it's like I need a place for it, so. You're
so innocent. Do you even know what homework means?
It's been a while. What does that mean?
OH, WAIT. NEVER MIND. NEVER MIND.
IN ALL SERIOUSNESS, a NAS is an outstanding upgrade for someone like
Robert who does some freelance work on the side. I mean, there's certainly
worse things he could spend his money on. Our resident Funko expert Elijah
pointed out that as much plastic junk as he has, at least he never spent AMD's
hard-earned money on Who is this? Robin?
Arsenal, Green Arrow's sidekick. How much did this cost? Uh I think it was
450 US. $4.50?
450 US. >> You have got to be kidding me right now.
He's a uh he's a San Diego Comic-Con exclusive mini figure, so there's a a
limited of him. LEGO is only as expensive as you let it be. You know,
people will sell it by the pound on Facebook, right? Yeah, well, I didn't
buy it. AMD did, so you know, they made the bad financial decision.
Please tell me you spared some budget for tech stuff. Oh, yeah. There's we got
I mean, we got the NAS, we got some speakers, sound bar, camera gear, and uh
VCR.
Barely tech at this point. I mean, how are you even going to notice
this one in the army of other LEGO figures? Oh, that's that's just the the
the really expensive ones basically. There's a lot more scattered around here. Ah, yes.
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And then these ones are some of my favorites, so that's why they're in here. Right, so you can watch them while
you sleep. Or they can watch you while you don't sleep. I can say with certainty that
like LEGO is the thing I've chosen my like disposable income to go towards.
It's Yeah. I picked kids. Both are valid
choices. Disposable, you know?
No, the income not the income not the kids. The scenes are cool. Yeah, the
scenes are cool. This is cool.
You had collector's money for a piece of film strip from a film, and you chose
the Phantom Menace. It was a Christmas gift. From now your greatest enemy?
You have a bunch of VHS tapes already, but you didn't have a player yet. Yeah.
Yeah, I had a bunch of tapes from cuz I I moved out about a year and a half ago,
so I had still had access to a player. Uh but then when I moved, I didn't have
one, so. Right, so you needed to reacquire a
player so that you could watch classics like The Brave Little Toaster. Yeah. Do
you watch it as an adult, or is it more just about owning a piece of the nostalgia? Uh I actually I've watched it
in a while, but uh this was like when I could go to my grandma's for like sleepovers and that. This was like the
movie we would watch and that, so that that's yeah, pretty much for the
nostalgia. Are these VHS copies from your childhood, or are they ones you acquired as an adult? Basically all
childhood, uh but between my my grandma and my nana and that, I took a bunch of
the tapes that I Whenever I'd go over sleep for sleepovers, it was movie night
and that, so I took a bunch of the ones that we uh we used to watch and that, so that's
Legit. Want to talk us through your sound bar choice? I'm not a huge audio
person, so that's actually why there's a lot of audio gear here. It's cuz it's stuff I wouldn't normally buy myself.
Um but when I when I was looking, um ideally wanted wanted to get one with a
like a dedicated like subwoofer and that, so went on open box and was able
to find one for about the price of like just a sound bar. And did you know about
open box before Scrapyard Wars? Uh yeah, actually some people had told me about
it. >> Cuz I didn't, and >> Really? Dude,
they have some deals from time to time. Yeah, openbox.ca, shout-out. Not a
sponsor. Not a sponsor, but cuz how could they afford to sponsor anyone with
prices that low? You know what? Let's have David and
Reese throw this on the TV, and then you and I can build the NAS. Okay. Robert,
problem. Oh, uh yeah. Well, we got a
solution for that. Trick or treat, SMELL MY TV'S FEET.
YOU SHOULD see the branding for this There is the tutorial for this on Amazon
is a guy dressed as Scorpion from Mortal Kombat.
Uh I love that I get to spend my days with my people.
I hate that these are my people.
All right, ROBERT, LET'S BUILD A NAS. OKAY.
You're a PC builder, if I recall correctly, right? Uh You've built a
couple computers before? I built one last year, uh and it's my first time
building it, so I followed a bunch of our tutorials. I started like 7:00, 7:30
on a Friday night. Uh I didn't get it to fully boot properly until about 2:00 in
the morning. Okay, well, today will be a big big improvement. Now, you went a bit
of an unconventional route here. You've actually gone with a last generation AM4
platform, specifically the Ryzen 7 5800XT.
Why did you choose that for your NAS? It was one that was suggested to me by
the writers. Okay, I will explain then. It's an
eight-core 16-thread processor that's going to give him ample performance for
high-speed copies to and from his network storage device, and having eight
of those cores, not to mention still decent efficiency even compared to
modern chips, means that if you wanted to run some virtualized applications
like say he wanted to move into this century with, you know, a Plex server
for instance, he could totally run that on his NAS. Now, it's up to you to get
that chip installed. The only time I've done this, it was the do not whoop yeah
yeah yeah yeah yeah. It was the do not mention brand. So, this will be my first
one of this of AMD. Do not mention brand? I assume we're not supposed to
name the other the competitor. I mean, I can see why AMD wouldn't want us to name
a competitor in the videos, but like Intel? Who cares?
I I mean, it's an honest question at this point. You're literally choosing
AMD's three generation ago product over their
competitor. That could change. It could change in the future, but uh
Okay, the corner in the corner. Make sure that it's
I For CPU cooling, Robert has gone with the cooler. It's the Peerless Assassin
120 SE Black from Thermalright. When I edited uh the writers build $1,000 PC
video, uh Plouffe and Adam picked this one, and they were like excited about
it. They're excited about the price-to-performance ratio. This thing
is unbelievable for the price. Thermalright is killing it. Uh okay,
you're going to need this, and you're going to need a screwdriver.
Uh mine's in my office. Ah, you Well, yeah, you always have one. lttstore.com,
baby. How scientific do you want to be? Not very. Let's just lift it and hope
that we get the right >> Just wing it. Just wing it.
Looks good to me. All right. Now, thermal compound.
And if I mess this up, the entire internet will roast me for it.
>> No, it doesn't matter anymore. People are over it at this point, I think.
Oh, well, not like that. No, I'm kidding. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. Uh this is
critical. Yeah, watch out. Didn't you do that in a recent video?
This is the problem with having video editors is they know everything. They
see everything. They see every flubbed line, every mistake, every bad hair day.
Stuff we're not supposed to see. I'm really hoping that we had the legs
high enough so we don't have to redo it.
Oh, it's more height than we need. Do we need to go down one? Uh no, I think
that's probably perfect. Yeah, Robert wants the extra space, right? And then there's any time when we're
editing footage and it's just like, "Oh, yeah, he's just got his pants off and he's changing in the back there."
Well,
Oh my god, you were rolling on that? Okay.
I feel like we're going to have a lot of stuff that doesn't make the YouTube cut for this one.
LMG.gg/Floatplane Hit them with the new mogart.
Did you do the new one? Yeah, actually I I I do a lot of the the mogart stuff
now. So, a lot of the new stuff that you've seen in that that's been all me.
Robert did the intro for Scrapyard Wars 10, which was freaking outstanding.
Uh we got 32 gigs of RAM. Keep track of that. 3600 CL18. I mean,
decent DDR4 kits are pretty affordable these days, although not as cheap as you
might think, you know, being outdated and all of that because production for
DDR4 hasn't been as high. So, it prices have kind of been a little bit all over
the place. I have a question. How is this going to help at all? It's going to
sit on top. OH. WHY NOT JUST wall mount? Basically just
like I guess it's like making more holes in the wall to have to deal with later. What kind of holes in your wall? Those
are hung with nails. Robert, where does the sound bar plug
in? Uh
There's no power. No, there there should be the power bar down there. >> I mean, yeah, but it's full. It is? It's
because your power bar is half AC and half USB ports. What kind of power bar
is that? So, the switch in that will get moved into the middle here and then the VCR will go on the end there.
>> Right, right, right, right. >> Uh but yeah, as for the plug situation, didn't realize that. Uh I guess I'll
have to get a new uh power bar, but for now we can just plug in the sound bar
and just unplug one of these.
Oh, I haven't seen the N5 before.
This is from Jonsbo. They make some really cool little compact cases.
It can fit 12 hard drives and four SSDs. You're good.
Nice. Uh is it time to install the VCR?
Uh sure. Should we talk about what's special about it? I mean, Dan's dad sort
of I assume refurbished it for you cuz I know that he does that.
>> The only special thing I know about it is it's got a weird ass remote. That's
not that weird. Yeah, that's not that weird.
You also have the cheap RCA to HDMI adapter that I really hope I didn't
recommend, but it's fine for VCRs. Uh it
it the corner's mushed. Oh, wow. She got dinged. But, that doesn't affect the
assembly cuz this is just the final cover piece. So, There's something so
satisfying about plugging in RCAs. I don't know if it's just nostalgia or if
we've lost something with the HDMI standard, but feels so good. This one's
fine. So, as long as you can get a new cover piece, it'll be cosmetically
perfect. Wow, this is great. Man, I really like
Jonsbo's cases. Way to go, Jonsbo. Couple 120 mm fans
for pulling air through those 12 hard drives in the front, full-size ATX power
supply, full-size ATX motherboard support, which gives you lots of room
for PCI expansion cards, which funnily enough in a NAS can actually mean more
than in your desktop computer these days cuz you might want to have accelerator
cards for encoding movies or excuse me,
Linux ISOs, high-speed networking, HBAs for additional drives, and then the
front is just mesh for days.
Great for airflow. This is very used.
It's like discolored on the back from heat. Oh, that's probably okay. As long
as this isn't one of those counterfeit LSI cards.
Which, if it's really heavily used, maybe it isn't. Okay, well, this will do
another eight drives. So, that'll do the full complement of 16 that this case can
accommodate then with the onboard ones. Yeah, this is like a SAS 12 gig card.
This is Oh, this was this expensive? I don't think it was too expensive, but I
think that's why it's used is that they saved cost there. While they're finishing up the NAS, we're going to
work on the audio interface and the Yamaha HS5 speakers. Um
Robert, it seems like you've committed one of the common blunders. Uh where are
these speakers going to fit on your desk? It is a tight fit. Uh the plan is
for them to go on either end. Uh we can move the monitors a bit and I I think
the based on the measurements of like the boxes very big, but based on the measurements of the actual speakers,
they should fit in those spaces.
Any reason you picked the Focusrite Scarlett Solo? Uh just Google. Robert,
you don't really use this for stream, but you do do content creation. What do you use for a mic? Uh so, it's actually
it's this guy here. So, uh when I go to record in that, I just get this up to
standing height and then swivel this guy around
and now you're going to record. >> It's just like a USB powered mic. Yeah, it just plugs into the computer and then
I use like uh like Audacity or whatever to record on my desktop. Have I got some
great news for you. The XLR input on this, you can upgrade your mic to
anything that isn't that. >> Honestly, would you say what's more important, good video or good audio?
Good audio. Well, to a point. Yes. You need acceptable video or nobody's going
to watch it at all. >> is acceptable video. >> so these days, yeah. And then as long as
you have good audio, we've shot like Dude, we did that one recently where
David and I went shopping in the Best Buy and >> Oh, yeah. we just as long as we're
wearing like a professional quality pack and microphone, we shot a bunch of it on
like not just on a cell phone, but like
on the selfie camera of a cell phone cuz we're self filming.
I don't think I saw a single person say they cared about it. >> Nope, the audio matters so much more.
Yeah. You You just got to make sure it's extra good.
What do you think of these speakers' placements? You're kidding, right?
I didn't know how to tell Robert. >> Is it funny? I I don't know. No.
Fix it. I I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU GUYS CALLED ME
over to look at this. I was over here being perfectly
productive, shocking hard drives, getting them ready for installation before me over there to look at that.
Let's talk about hard drives instead. Sure, they're boring. But, these are
boring IronWolf Pros, 12 terabytes each, and they come with data recovery service
as part of their I believe it's a 5-year warranty, so pretty great choice. Oh,
you're back. Feel free to throw those drives in.
Can you bring that a little bit closer? The cable's too short. No.
Oh. I guess we're just going to run the
cable across. Robert, you're going to have to buy longer cables.
I mean, it obviously the angles are weird, but it's it's so much better than
the speaker or the the monitor speakers.
The only way to know for sure is to do crap rave. I'm not even in what is
supposed to be the sweet spot, and I can already tell that it's awful. Also, what
is this? Yeah.
Yeah, originally I thought the cable on this was going to be longer and be able to be more in the center, then those
would have reached. No, no, no, no, no. My concern was that you don't have
proper acoustic isolators holding the cable up.
No, I'm kidding. I'm kidding. The micro vibrations of the cable.
Woah. I mean, the speaker clarity is outstanding, which I really get to
appreciate having my ear right next to it.
Yeah, actually not bad at all. For not having a subwoofer, that's like
great. I'm going to leave you a spot to put a GPU Okay. because I believe that
that is actually more important. Like if you ever wanted to use it for Plex or
something like that. Are you ever going to run a Plex server?
At the moment, not that I can think of. My My Plex server is my DVD case.
This is an odd choice. You put in a 2.5 gig PCIe network card.
These days, it's usually cheaper to get 2.5 gig networking just integrated onto
the motherboard, but I guess that was less true in the AM4 days.
Uh let's throw in the power supply. We chose the RM750 because it's a perfectly
suitably adequate quiet power supply from Corsair. Thanks, Corsair. We're
kind of at the end of the pile of stuff, and there's just this FX30. Why do you
have this, Robert? Uh this is for basically my own content creation, maybe
some freelance work, and that's my first proper cinema camera cuz prior to that,
all I had was phone camera, which did the job, but definitely better. You also
have a Sigma Contemporary lens, which is a pretty solid choice. Some SD cards.
Dummy battery. What the heck is this Stream Deck pedal for? This is something
that to be honest, I thought I would never own. Uh I bought uh the Elgato
Prompter off of David when he was selling a whole bunch of his stuff, and
unfortunately, as far as I could find uh any like small Bluetooth remotes don't
work with the Prompter. You need an actual Elgato uh product in that, and
because my setup is a standing uh setup, I can put this down at my feet, control
the Prompter, and keep my hands free. It's just three buttons, and that's
basically all I need. It'll be scroll up, scroll down, play, pause on the Prompter, and we'll be good to go. This
is nice. The back of this case is just unlimited cable stuffing space. So, you
can just chuck everything back there and then not worry about the fact that the bottom is just a complete rat's nest.
And that's it. This is ready to go.
I mean, okay, it doesn't look like much right now, but I'm thinking let's make
sure it all works and then we can button it up.
Robert, is this your new chair? Yeah. >> to the last one?
Uh here's my previous uh chair. And
here's the other part. Oh. Oh, wow. Wow. I was leaning back in my
chair getting ready to watch some YouTube, and it just snapped.
Uh okay, everyone wandered away, but I have bad news for them. No. I had this
kind of like subconscious like, "Oh, you really need a GPU. You should have a
GPU. I'll leave room for a GPU." This doesn't have onboard graphics.
Hey, I know something that you could that you could sell to raise some money
for a GPU. I mean, can we pull the one out of here or something? It doesn't need to be a
powerful GPU, just anything. To be clear, in the longer term, there would
be nothing that would prevent him from running this without a GPU in it at all.
Um it's just that while we're configuring it right now, it's going to
be a bit of a pain. Jeez.
My god, man. Clean your things. I think I've opened that computer once.
I went and I put in the SSD cuz we forgot about that before we went with
the P3 Plus cuz it's fine for a boot SSD.
All right, we got a GPU now. Here we go. Yay! We'll be using Hex OS for his NAS
software because I don't know. The fact that I invested
in something makes everyone comfortable using alpha software. I I I I'm not at
the point where I'd recommend it yet, but here it is.
I didn't pick it.
You guys installed the VCR. Um D- does it have like head alignment
issues or >> It certainly seems like it does. It doesn't advertise that it has like the
four heads. Sound bar. Big improvement.
As long as you're watching relatively modern content.
Anything I say is just going to get I'm going to get I'm going to get
I'm going to get teased about it. So >> to say you can't tell the difference,
weren't you? Uh, no, I'm out.
Oh boy, what's this? So on my family's last trip to Disneyland Uh, my brother
and I both got some of these. And at the time it was very expensive to ship both
these and the blades home. So we never got any blades, but uh
>> now we do. And this video is going to come out right
before my brother's birthday. So surprise. What about it? Ah, there we
go. Kill him.
Okay, put some passion in it. Taking it back to you, baby boy.
Why did they never go FOR THE LEGS? MIND YOU, I DIED THERE, SO
WE GOT THE Stream Deck pedal hooked up to the prompter.
Um, so middle button should be play pause Oh, it paused. Okay. And then
should be scroll down. I'll I'll speed it up a little bit in that.
And then scroll up. HexOS is installed. Now what you got to
do is go to deck.hexos.com. Here, just click that link.
Boop boop boop boop boop boop. Sweet. Oops. Turn away. Turn away.
Personal information, yada yada. Don't hackster
his main frame. What do you want your server name to be?
Oh, uh Big PP.
Arkham Asylum. From Batman. I I know
what Arkham Asylum is from. Now hopefully we won't need the TrueNAS
interface again, but it's there in case you want it. That's one of the cool
things about HexOS is it's kind of a layer on top of TrueNAS to make it more
user-friendly. So if you're the kind of person that finds TrueNAS very easy to
use, good for you.
You can stop typing that comment. We're impressed, but you just don't need
to tell everybody about it. And if you're the kind of person who finds this
a little bit challenging and obtuse, HexOS is there for you. 94 98 megabytes
a second. Brilliant. Perfect. We are maxing out
our gigabit connection right now. They're hard drives, so they're not going to be super fast.
And I think you've only got gigabit to your system here. You're going to probably want to rectify that. Do you
have a 2 and 1/2 gig switch? Uh, no, I do not. So that's some stuff I'll have
to look into. So that'll be something for your next tech upgrade.
Which I wouldn't mind doing.
It's nice hanging out. And you know what? It's nice implementing a tech
upgrade that is other than a couple of egregious
wastes of money, pretty practical. We ended up with a NAS
for archival storage. We ended up upgrading the TV setup in the living
room with a nice little sound bar setup. We ended up upgrading his audio. Which
will be fixed later. >> fixed later.
Uh, and we got a bunch of sick streaming
and freelancing gear. Did I miss anything? I mean there is the stuff that
we haven't actually shot yet. We're going to shoot that afterwards or Oh,
let's go look. There's a few things. Oh, you mean this? Yeah. I covered this.
This was the egregious waste of money. So thank you very much AMD for
sponsoring this ultimate $5,000 tech upgrade. I will see you at the next one.
No, no, no. You have to UNBOX THAT. >> WHY? >> TOO COOL. Just the Ghost Rider.
Everything else I don't care about. >> Who cares? >> I care. No, I want to see this. How do
you not care about a demon skeleton on a bike? If you enjoyed this video, why
don't you go check out Dennis's AMD ultimate tech upgrade. It had honestly
more practical stuff in it than this one did.
This was the single most expensive item in the upgrade. So >> How much was this? Uh, before tax was
900 Canadian.
Why would you be opening it? This is like this has been like a holy
grail like I wanted to get one of their statues for a long time, so I mean he's
heavy. I can definitely appreciate the craftsmanship of it.
$600 US. And this one is a lot more than a lot
more expensive. Right, cuz this is like no-name ass
hero. Shut up. I've never even heard of Ghost
>> heard of Ghost Rider? Nick Nick Cage played him in a movie. Twice.
I have never heard of Ghost Rider. I'm so sorry.
>> Johnny Blaze?
And we're done.