imagine the kind of PC this kid would build pretty awful now imagine he never
stopped that's right that kid was me is
that supposed to be a chalking twist today we're going to be roasting the
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oh man where do we start our tour at the
beginning I'm gonna have great context for all this stuff that was done when I
was two years old I can't wait till
this is how big this picture is it's a recovery from when I lost all of my
pictures and was only able to recover thumbnail sized images how old are you
here well that's not me yeah
thanks Jake I don't know but this is my setup my hand-me-down setup from my
uncle who was ditching his Pentium 166. holy
z985 sticker is legit is that a receiver
no no that's a tape deck
this is the 2002 baby I love the corded
phone too that was to talk to my girlfriend that you can't use at the
same time as a computer yeah when did MSN Messenger come out 2005. oh yeah I
was using MSN by this okay okay yeah yeah oh yeah when did him at 2005. I
chatted with my sweetheart 09. that was Yvonne's handle with all the like cringy
like x's and brackets and stuff and everything around it yeah this is my
bedroom yeah the green how did you get a match desk that was one of my parents
most proud Christmas gifts for me I asked for Warcraft 2 and what I got
was furniture yeah they were super pleased with their
way of supporting my computer hobby without actually getting me any computer
stuff or games ever I was fine with the desk I had before in fact this desk was
kind of awful how much uh mousing space Also that we got here 2002 first
computer I ever built for a client there's your MSN Messenger who's Tyson
uh my friend in high school wait so you built a computer for your client and
then installed MSN on it and talked to your friend don't ask me why I was doing that I mean
his computer was probably better than the one I had at the time so maybe I was
using it for a little bit before delivery I don't know burn-in period I
suspect Lyle is like an alter ego and he just got it for himself no no he's dead
oh oh my first gaming PC with a
dedicated GPU let's go wow that is it
like translucent plastic yeah it was meant to match that era of iMac which my
parents thought was super cool and got for me not realizing that my keyboard
was in fact about 40 percent wider than the Apple keyboard at the time and
therefore in order to use it this is the technique I developed yeah you figured
it out right you're actually using an ergo keyboard hey yeah well that really
that was what I was given ah somebody cared about you yep you're 16. you could
have got a job oh I had a job I had a job many years wait
no which is how I afford it look this is two years after he's 18. he should have
moved his ass out by then this is my first build with a dedicated GPU this is
still Athlon XP so same CPU as my original build but I've upgraded from a
motherboard with onboard Graphics to an ASUS motherboard that's pretty big I
feel like you guys aren't looking closely enough oh my God I saw that see
my problem was I was completely fine with that yeah see like I don't know if
he's the best person for this video have you seen some of the Jake he's done
beautiful see I yeah this works for me is that just cable management
electrical tape yeah but there's no window so who cares uh no this can this
case had a window oh it had a window oh yeah do you have unplugged headers in
the bottom right no back then your audio headers were either standard HD audio or
you had to do the old PC 97 audio where you had to do each one individually so
that was the extras hanging off did you plan on having more hard drives you just
put the fans there for looks I mean looks is a bit I think that's for the
GPS yeah it's for GPU cooling that's my all in Wonder 9600 Pro cable manage is
great all right I expected you guys to roast me for the cable management oh no
I just was no sarcasm I see all that fan
whoa was that something you could buy or you painted that I found some UV
reactive waterborne paint on an art supply store
I mean at this is 2004. you went to the
store no I had to order this online really no you can find this stuff in
store this was this was Niche you painted the blades too I did however Buy
AI also online this UV reactive IDE and
floppy cable set this UV green sleeving
and this Arctic Cooling
GPU shroud I was going to ask that's not a new GPU is it nope nice it's got its
own slot caption for this you merely adopted the three slot GPU I was born in
it molded by it I need like some tape to cover up the
top so you can't see that I mean tape in here
that's the old P6 connector I apparently
just cut it off so wait you said you got a cable kit no no it's leaving oh and
there's just that one IDE cable thing so yeah really good quality UV heat shrink
here those cables that he bought would have
come all pre-done oh well these ones yes
yes oh yeah I see the girls and then the the stuff that looks terrible would have
been what he did yeah I put some UV accents on the top of the
heatsink here is that on purpose or you just dropping
that's actually just Jank like that actually just looks terrible I'm I'm
like quite Pro like the like dude what
you can setups but just painting poorly
painting the tips of that heatsink half of them Wow Let's Go I mean is that how
you left them the heatsink still looks like trash that's what I'm saying the
rest of it the rest of it's like not that bad but the heatsink looks terrible
not that bad yeah okay those sleeves
look okay are they managed well no but this like he doesn't have the Shroud on
in this picture yet so I think this is an earlier picture I think this is actually where he's like testing the UV
it's like you know what this looks like to me when you when you see a horror movie and they have like props that were
designed by somebody that doesn't actually know what the like the thing is
supposed to look like they just computers they throw things in there
yeah that looks like a computer that's what Linus made is this where the lambo
RAM is that really just you left that
there you just were you actually having cooling problems with your RAM or you
just wanted pink the UV paint came in a kit oh my God you've painted it orange
that was a choice this was when I bought the UV pen I didn't think I had any
pictures of this I used it oh my God
I must have cleaned the GPU at some point because I think I had problems
with that makes sense
I think that was here I can't even give you those points I just like that the
CPU Cooler was two-tone he did green underneath and orange blades my first
surround sound speaker setup I like the height one of them is Linus height the
other one was hung by his dad still learning the alphabet there I see okay
this is the other oh so that's your Aid your next set yeah yep Logitech Zed 680s
this is post UV paint hey you got a new keyboard though yes and that Logitech MX
Duo big upgrade and a freebie mouse pad
you're not even using it well it was awful yeah it was truly awful ah no
that's cool wow no I'm I'm on board I would unironically use a power supply
like this today if I could why is your blanket on Twitter I don't know
insulation man what are you even really trying to take a picture of right now
what is that on the side of the desk that is a UV light I wasn't happy with
the amount of UV light that I could get from just the the little computer-sized
ones so that's why your side panel is always off because you had an external
UV light oh that might be it and external Powers that's a full that's
a full dick like black light from probably Spencer's Gifts or like San
Francisco or something that was a chain store here that had Novelties and sex
toys and stuff whoa this was an exciting upgrade Athlon 64
baby and one of the dumbest decisions I
ever made this heatsink from Swift Tech was
awful oh I'm sure and very expensive
these were helical coils I have no doubt they spent a ton of money building the
thing but the performance was dog crap and I bought it completely sight unseen
no reviews learned a valuable lesson yeah this is my test bench and literally
my mom's basement what is that spray yeah
lubricating spray fun fact I still own
this can it is at my house on a shelf I used it using it for it I used it to
lubricate the back door like a month ago
no but what we're using it for here I have no idea
nice see I I think that's cool it is cool okay this is I still don't
understand like what why did you take a picture right now though you're like 80
of the way to your cable management being done and you're like a picture was
that painters tape like on the power supply
yes that's funny hey that actually works
okay though yeah but you can see them all inside what difference does it make
it would be worse if it wasn't there uh I don't know can I you can see the cable
still go to the next photo like are we gonna get another angle where you can still totally see the the rainbow
spaghett yep nice okay
done a better job oh man Intel inside no
AMD AMD
did you do that yourself no I bought it from ADP I was gonna say that looks
actually pretty good so I doubt it oh yeah
yeah also I could play you got a desk only the finest games yeah yeah
big desk upgrade big desk energy he
finally got the mouse pad upgrade piece of A4 paper he cut it to size though
nope nope that's full size it's just taped down to the desk so it doesn't
move I was a speaker's boy I spent all my money on speakers and I was literally
in my parents basement hey is that a
tire that oh these are those ones this is threaded Rod just like some weird
bracket um piece of metal you had laying around and a tire that happened to thread into
the thing did you take it from like a wheelbarrow or you bought that at the
hardware store no no my dad helps me with this he bought this specifically
this is all new designed like this yes
by Design I mean it worked it was probably cheaper than buying I grew up
in shanty town you got to make stuff happen not everything needs to be
perfect I'm still I still can't uh let you go on the the paper Mouse you
clearly had the the funds to get a mouse pad I was buying more lights
UV paint all right it's 2005 baby oh
this is an iconic photo it's your village called the idiot is missing
what's on your screen what's going on are you pirating right now is that like
LimeWire this is probably pyrus that looks like some form of I remember the
icons at the bottom of like LimeWire and FrostWire I'm pretty sure that's
LimeWire I literally have five hundred dollars speakers and a broken three
dollar desk yeah you have two monitors now hey yep yeah was that one also a
hand-me-down no the black one is super expensive you bought that p95f plus did
you have a job at this time oh yeah what were you doing and I'm lifeguarding at
this point you can't tell because I wear shirts that are too big for me but I'm
actually like kind of jacked because I'm doing martial arts and lifeguarding
quick flex but okay yeah no this is the
best shape I was ever in in my life I look like a tool obviously but the
monitor's good I mean it doesn't compare to how far we've come but pure site
probing the LED touch screen on this thing is 3K resolution so literally four
times as many pixels as that monitor a hundred percent coverage of the srgv DC
ip3 and Adobe RGB color space automatic switching and a Delta e of less than one
out of the box that thing by comparison actual garbage first Rattle can paint
job I thought it was just like dark lighting
yeah I feel like this has been like you and Bob spray painted a silver case
silver I feel like it's pretty similar no no
my compute no no no I reject no
heatsinks on your RAM I'm kind of disappointed wait this is this is later
this is my first water cooling setup I was gonna say thermaltake big water SC
baby hey there's my UV paint though have you bought like multiple kits at this
point nope remember it was hard to find special order it was oh my God it's baby
Yvonne fun fact
same did she just like wearing that or did
you take a picture set desktop backer and then take another picture truthfully I don't know this is when I moved into
Yvonne's parents house oh
man you had class back then moving into your girlfriend's house girlfriend's
parents house sorry sorry shout out Sophia and Albert
guys are awesome still got the speakers
they're actually in surround configuration now not rear right beside
your head I think the desk is an upgrade though because the the previous one was
uneven yeah and now he's got space for his UV paint yeah I will say despite all
of the changes he still doesn't have his speakers behind his monitor Athlon 64 X2
there it is still the single most expensive computer component I've ever
bought it was about 700 750 for a CPU
that's when things started getting like actually kind of sick though what 2005
2006 baby this is 2005 on the photo then
the metadata must be wrong this was uh yeah so late 2005. I don't know why this
picture exists well thanks for sharing it with us my first SLI setup yeah these
are 7 800 GTX did you paint those
heatsinks too yeah those look like
official those are from salmon those are just blue heat sinks oh you just put
them on aftermarket yeah my first custom water cooling setup a few big jumps are
you making more money now did you job switch at this point I'm at NCIX at this
point okay okay yeah because I'm like there's the iPhone X2 is a big jump
custom water cooling is a big jump in expense wait am I at NCIX yet no I'm not
at NCIX yet I'm painting houses now oh so now you got some money yeah I have a
little bit this uh that Swift Tech Block we still have that don't we we do up
into the left of the what what's that what a wonderful question that is a fan
I destructively clipped off of an Arctic cooling freezer something it was this
weird l-bracketed fan that they built
specifically for one of their Tower coolers and I was like you're useful and
I added all these heat sinks to my vrms and then clipped that fan there sick
maybe double-sided tape I enjoyed I enjoyed the like aftermarket heatsink
stuff when that was in Vogue for a little while that was the pump
got the classy Worm Drive clamps yeah well you don't want it to leak do you
flash photography oh you upgraded the tape the tape is better no it's not tape
that oh wait is it this is giant heat shrink it didn't shrink I just stretched
it on there by putting one of the cables in at a time and we're like reefing on
it yeah it looks worse than the tape really
worth level your level your shirts
look at how stupid I am was The Village Idiot now Evolution went
wrong oh my God this is a big step
forward I posted this on Extreme systems so I
had these little captions to explain what I was doing because it wasn't
evident from just the picture itself so this was a birthday present yes this was
a birthday present from Yvonne can you tell she's a keeper yeah I bought
windshield de-icer but I used water for the test run this seems like a good time
to point out how far we've come in terms of performance and cooling this has a
custom 13th gen Intel processor with a smaller package that allows the same
performance in a smaller chassis and up to a RTX 4070 laptop GPU with time
saving machine learning and media acceleration for industry-leading
Creative apps the pro 9i is also custom tuned with Lenovo X power to deliver the
best possible performance in all applications with high speed ddr5 and
mdme storage efficient Cooling and software that optimizes power
consumption based on the application you're running see I didn't have
so I needed Sub-Zero cooling I love that you bought like the windshield de-icer
and then used it to prop up the cooler and and then like to fill extra space
you didn't have to get as much water it's almost like you could have just
poured it in to do the same thing and it wouldn't have frozen over also did she
figure out all the stuff or did you like give her a list of parts we went
shopping together okay yeah we went shopping for my birthday okay that's
cool is she a sweetheart or not is this just glue that is silicone there we go
oh I was pretty sure it wasn't bad that ain't coming off oh my God I have not
learned about that yet and this was a brand new motherboard this is my Core 2
Duo upgrade even a 6600 baby even if you
like tried to peel that off you probably rip those caps oh yeah oh yeah yeah
you're destroying them yeah and it's oh and the CPU is in there too oh my God
this was a mistake believe it or not I actually attended
Lan parties with this system as it is
see I wanted trash on it but I'm so into it
I absolutely love this I've got real UV fans now oh yeah was this like you'd
unplug all the cables and then you could like card it or did you undo a lot of
this in order to get like you take the the block off I imagine I think I just
got help carrying it just I think I had to carry it as one piece I
don't even think I drained it and you didn't like Dolly it or anything no I
just carried it I didn't have a dolly like what are you talking about death
change again Logitech g15 baby massive
keyboard upgrade that most was so cool because it had it had these batteries so
it was Wireless and it had rechargeable batteries and you can see the base just
to the top right of his mousepad oh yeah you'd flip the Mills over press a button
and it would like fire the battery out you'd press a button on that base it
would fire that battery out and you slot it back in it's like reloading like
magazine changes yeah battery it was actually so for the time it was amazing
you were he wore deodorant that's good um why is there any bond sticker because
this is Yvonne's bedroom oh right so you're just using her desk
now so we we had the same keyboard in the same Mouse yeah I had a better
monitor than you though that's probably my second biggest ever personal
investment because it was like six seven hundred dollars on a monitor which
seemed crazy to me at the time oh is that the really big one it's the 2004
fpw which isn't big more it's a 24 inch
monitor but it was 16 by 10. yeah I was just gonna say just like the Lenovo yogo
Pro Yogo that extra vertical space makes
such a big difference for everything 16x9 was a mistake especially on a
laptop yeah we've undone that mistake so happy what was the wait what was the
name of that last file hold on go back why do I keep my computer in my
girlfriend's bedroom this is not my personal rig but this is
the first water cooled PC I ever built for an NCIX customer there's the okay
you can see the inverter box that like weird like off light blue they were all
like that I actually delivered this to a client which is embarrassing to me now
uh we fast forward a little bit my girlfriend bought me a Silverstone tj07
so this is never side panel on
uh no this is mid working on stuff
because well the tube goes out of the case that side panel is flush that's my
t-line um when we're done that will wrap up
here and hide away that is nail polish
ah so that's what you used no it was something else before I don't
know just anything that can fit in the end he just needed the coolant to go
down so we could take the block off pretty clever right we have a bunch
because every time I saw them I grabbed
them and took them home so you started the trend
it's really just company culture at this point
oh why is actually starting to have some
like Swagger with his building I like this a lot I was never a fan of that
SATA cable wrap you did it a bunch of times yeah I know it was never enough
yeah but other than that this is like actually sick well what else would you
do I guess just zip tie it behind us oh was this after you got it painted too
yes or sandblasted yes this is after I got it powder coated by Mountain mods so
he had to ship the whole case to some guy like this wasn't local
wow oh I'm doing maintenance on the CPU
and the GPU so it's empty no Jake pointed out what'd you do to your rat he
did that on purpose no no that was a deal Thermo chilt was based in the UK
couldn't figure out how to package their products and a solid like quarter of one
of our shipments was bashed in so I negotiated
a little discount on this radiator that
I checked to make sure was in fact still
working can I just buy this as is he did
it with a lot of things hey just coil stuff around
why cut when you can manage well even the light this is pretty dope
yeah this is sick like it was it was bad before but we're getting there can we
bring back UV man I love it you're
missing some some cables no 24 pin isn't it there that wait what is this
isn't that dual monitors
oh I didn't even see it the the Casual couch monitor yeah it's
just sitting on the couch is this isn't in her bedroom anymore you've upgraded
to the living room oh yeah I'm in the family room wow the parents must really
liked you no they are just extremely
supportive of their daughter oh really
supportive they weren't a big fan of me in the early days I was gonna say have
you met him man very supportive holy so you like
trashed their family room oh my God
sure what did you take this photo with like what happened took a test bench
home from work uh oh yeah yeah that's
what the couch monitor is for that's a test bench I'm probably benchmarking FX
this is that story that I've told so many times about how AMD promised me
this thing was great so I like pulled an all-nighter to get great performance
from it because clearly I was doing something wrong and then in the next
morning I found out it was a piece of when all the other reviews came out
not so were you just benching it because of being a PM or being interested or was
this actually like for an article NCIX had launched Hardware Canucks by this
point which they didn't disclose belonged to them but definitely
definitely belonged to them if they ever disclosed that well it doesn't belong to
them anymore so I guess if it has anyone ever brought that up before online uh I
don't think they ever publicly acknowledged it that's fine Avon
probably studying yeah oh yeah Yvonne's studying to pay for you know me to just
do nothing but this all day okay 2008. so this must be the night before a
launch of something how's that keyboard oh that's a good question really nice
keyboard quiet one and a half millimeters of travel concave keycaps
really comfortable nice large track pad and machine learning enhancement on the
5 megapixel webcam with physical privacy shutter no it was it was it was Phenom I
call it Phenom because it was part of their their spider platform so like
venom venom and that's what they that's what they sold to me everyone else calls
it Phenom but that's why I do it AMD's fault our side-by-side gaming setups
like you're renting a whole house or uh this is the house I grew up in I
borrowed a house from my dad who was traveling abroad and didn't have a
tenant at the time and Yvonne was doing her practicum in tuwassen so it was
actually really close so he just let you live there for free so we were just living there for free the desk is so
much worse than yours um they're both awful yeah they look
pretty bad this one you see these supports oh I didn't that's rough yeah
this thing just Falls over because these don't lock at all oh no so when these
would pop out it would just
oh yeah racing wheel in the customary
spot in its box because whoever uses those damn things hey hey recognize the
Samsung true direct DVD drive that I definitely didn't steal from work you
still have that too I know most pad upgrade pretty massive finally cares
still seriously steel series I was starting to get free stuff by this point
that akari and that mouse pad definitely made their way to me from steel through
store handsomething Mike Yvonne's first custom gaming PC oh my God this is the
first wifey PC that's a bunch of cop okay so this is a lot of this is reused
stuff from your old builds not not a bad thing yes not a bad thing yes did you
have to talk her into this or she was just like whatever I don't care no she
was she was down the game with me okay well I mean like to make her computer
like this yeah she's like she's she's all about just like doing whatever I do
I mean look at this company yeah this is true this is true it's come a long way
thank you hon this is is my desk at work
yeah I can explain this
isn't that yours my work PC somehow got requisitioned
with a really good power supply do as I say not as I do all of you don't
you guys like my monitor stands I want to zoom in on the screen so let's see
what kind of work Linus was doing oh that's steel series I see you're talking to someone at steelseries hey can I get
another free mouse pad I'm ordering I'm ordering OCC ssds I'm gonna go over to
the right here's our prices hold on hold on these are this is interesting oh I
can't really read it that's got to be a 250 gig no no there's no way that's
that's probably 60 gig at 180 bucks I am
skewing up some stuff this is the mcix internal sales report uh and then MSN
all the chat rooms open I see a bunch of pink texts because Linus used to do that
pink Comic Sans bold italics this is work we actually used this for internal
messaging at work and he ran pink Comic Sans boldly towel we still do now teams
fun fact I called my office the box office not because I was a video
celebrity but because it was literally made of these Banker boxes in the
background that's a wall that you made there was no wall oh my God I my entire
office was made of Banker boxes um I was just in a hallway
a reappearance now we're back at Yvonne's parents house
taking inventory maybe oh that's funny
those boxes I was using as monitor stands did were those the boxes for
these hmm were they at your house
oh my god when you see it which part the
water bottle is that we're talking about the reservoir yeah yeah yeah that's
great yeah oh so sick are those Gunners those are
polarized 3D glasses oh for the ized 3D
gaming monitor that I took home for testing it was awful I was doing work
here that is not me getting free stuff that is work that monitor was a piece of
can I ask like okay throughout all
of these years of photos there's always Tums on your that is the same bottle
what in every single one because I always intended to take calcium
supplements oh you never remembered to do it and so I would just always have it
on my desk because I'm like I'm totally gonna start taking these this time you were taking Tums as a calcium supplement
well that's intended to but never did I mean I apparently never did well I just
okay if people go back in in archeology
it yeah it might be a slightly different bottle I guarantee you I never bought
more than like two bottles of them oh my
God 3D Vision surround wow
where did you post this probably on the Forum or something I was testing
something for something this is in the Linus Tech tips era so this might have
even been in a video this became the nursery for my kids but until it was the
nursery it was my benchmarking room oh yeah Rockin and Rumble they they
deserve they deserve to be in the video okay this isn't my computer I don't
think this ever saw the light of day but I found this oh my God that's really
Korean judge yeah so I used to like mushkin so that sucks no this is not
munchkin I did this oh
I'm pretty sure they rejected this campaign yeah that's good yeah it's
pretty bad what a goof I learned a lot I was the PM for mushkin we had some MDF
to spend and I was like this must have been Tom I was like we should do like
this and I'm pretty sure this never went out but if you ever saw it I'm sorry he
still took photos you know like pretty sure he also still stole that chair from
work no that's from work isn't it
oh yeah or go direct moving on you're
gonna make it Luke you're gonna have to run
that'll be his boss oh nice
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