{"video_id":"aYAmMNWQj-k","title":"Extras - AMD Upgrade - Nathaniel Martin","channel":"FP Exclusives","show":"FP Exclusives","published_at":"2026-04-04T14:53:29Z","duration_s":455,"segments":[{"start_s":0.0,"end_s":8.0,"text":"Yeah. This was a present to my wife when I went down to Tesla for a girlfriend at the time for eight months to do an internship.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":9.0,"end_s":13.0,"text":"It was a present for my wife from a girlfriend at the time.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":13.0,"end_s":17.0,"text":"Oh God, no. That's why I call him Honest Nate.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":17.0,"end_s":21.0,"text":"This was a present for my wife, girlfriend at the time.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":21.0,"end_s":24.0,"text":"It's your wife's girlfriend. Oh my goodness.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":24.0,"end_s":29.0,"text":"Sorry. 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I'm getting flashbacks to watching my dad work in the shop and I'm just like observing, you know?","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":183.0,"end_s":186.0,"text":"Yeah. Just don't get in his light.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":186.0,"end_s":189.0,"text":"Hold the damn light string.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":189.0,"end_s":192.0,"text":"YOLO.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":192.0,"end_s":196.0,"text":"Now this is really sounding like my dad.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":196.0,"end_s":200.0,"text":"And your dad is alive still or?","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":200.0,"end_s":206.0,"text":"I love you, dad. He watches these sometimes.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":206.0,"end_s":210.0,"text":"Okay, that was just the thing falling. I actually thought something was happening.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":210.0,"end_s":218.0,"text":"All right. Sorry. 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I find a pair that fits me and I will buy like.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":293.0,"end_s":296.0,"text":"I know. We had them in the office for a little while. Right.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":296.0,"end_s":299.0,"text":"Right. Right. It's a team project as well.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":299.0,"end_s":302.0,"text":"I want it to be a thing. We're going to make the shoe dryer happen.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":302.0,"end_s":307.0,"text":"I have stinky feet. You have stinky feet. Let's go.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":307.0,"end_s":317.0,"text":"And yeah. The fan attachment for the battery bank spoilers is maybe going to double as a shoe dryer","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":317.0,"end_s":320.0,"text":"with a humidity sensor. No way.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":320.0,"end_s":323.0,"text":"Okay. I didn't know about that. Really?","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":323.0,"end_s":330.0,"text":"That's my dream. That's sick. Throw it in your gym bag and it just gets a little bit of air circulation there and then","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":330.0,"end_s":336.0,"text":"when it's dry. Turns off. Who says my ideas are stupid?","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":336.0,"end_s":339.0,"text":"Kyle. I joined the company for that idea.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":339.0,"end_s":344.0,"text":"No, you didn't. Why did you join the company?","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":344.0,"end_s":350.0,"text":"Cool place to work. Okay. The saving grace to this though, having that there, is it is a plastic case.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":350.0,"end_s":354.0,"text":"So there's literally no conductivity across areas.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":354.0,"end_s":357.0,"text":"It would just be a matter of. Well, it might trace.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":357.0,"end_s":360.0,"text":"Yes. Internal to the PCB that could get shorted.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":360.0,"end_s":364.0,"text":"Yes. That's where you get into trouble and boards can end up dying.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":364.0,"end_s":368.0,"text":"This is really cool, by the way, speaking of the design of this case.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":368.0,"end_s":373.0,"text":"I love this because this ensures that these fans are going to be drawing air over the hard","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":373.0,"end_s":376.0,"text":"drives before blowing across the internal hardware.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":376.0,"end_s":379.0,"text":"This is so cool. That was one modification that I made actually.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":379.0,"end_s":387.0,"text":"Oh. The original design. Their fan sliders only extended to here, and they had some really nice additional cable","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":387.0,"end_s":392.0,"text":"management stuff. But because this is a server computer, I was like, I don't really need cable management.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":392.0,"end_s":395.0,"text":"So I decided to opt for better airflow.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":395.0,"end_s":400.0,"text":"Okay. Over the CPUs. So it was a really simple change to make in CAD.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":400.0,"end_s":404.0,"text":"We're back to stroking Nate's eco. That's not how I intended it.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":404.0,"end_s":407.0,"text":"Because the case. That's how I intended it. Superb otherwise.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":407.0,"end_s":410.0,"text":"That's how I intended it. Good.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":410.0,"end_s":413.0,"text":"Oh, yeah. Let me get out of the way. Eye protection.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":413.0,"end_s":417.0,"text":"It's a vibratory saw. So eye protection is not necessary.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":417.0,"end_s":423.0,"text":"The one who was just lecturing us on the value. That was a $24,000 or 20.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":423.0,"end_s":426.0,"text":"That was a $24,000 cadaver.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":426.0,"end_s":430.0,"text":"Show some respect. $24,000 RPM spindle.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":430.0,"end_s":435.0,"text":"I think we've earned a little bit of, I told you so, because we are now two for two for","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":435.0,"end_s":440.0,"text":"making a video that's like, hey, buy now before prices go up.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":440.0,"end_s":443.0,"text":"Both times. Prices absolutely skyrocketed.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":443.0,"end_s":447.0,"text":"One time on GPUs and then the next time on RAM.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":447.0,"end_s":451.0,"text":"So, hey, maybe next time when we say now's a good time.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":451.0,"end_s":455.0,"text":"Watch out. You won't put off your upgrade.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0}],"full_text":"Yeah. This was a present to my wife when I went down to Tesla for a girlfriend at the time for eight months to do an internship. It was a present for my wife from a girlfriend at the time. Oh God, no. That's why I call him Honest Nate. This was a present for my wife, girlfriend at the time. It's your wife's girlfriend. Oh my goodness. Sorry. I wanted to ask you about what exactly you're doing with this. And then everywhere I look in here, I'm just like, what the heck, man? You just got a CPU. Just chillin' on the bench. So that I've asked Seb, because this isn't Intel CPU, but this is also my very first own CPU. Okay. My own. And I recently threw out my old computer case and made a little bit more room in places. Right. But I wanted to keep the CPU because we have fidget spinner casings, prototype ones for Intel. And I was thinking I would turn my first CPU into my own fidget spinner. Got it. So we ended up making the product AMD only because A, we wanted people to be more interested in buying it. And that seems like a good way to make people interested in buying a CPU these days. And B, we found it easier to balance them because AMD's competitor has IHSs that are not inherently balanced. Very lobular. Yes. One thing that needs to be done, we need to clear the print bed for the next print. Because I got to keep my one-third time going, you know? I mean, that is the theme of these upgrades is I'm here to help with whatever you need if you want me to clear your print bed. Actually, I hear you're pretty good at painting. We banned that. Have you? Yeah. After I spent the entire day painting Andy's basement. All right. We just got to wipe it. Paper towel. Because we've had our sweaty palms all over it. You're still filming, right? This is so funny because he's 100% going to put this paper towel on a holder and 100% going to grab this paper towel and put it on the bench and 100% use only this one. Because he already has one on a holder and he totally doesn't use it. He walked right next to it and picked up the one that was on the bench. That's not entirely true. Elijah was holding the one on the bench and I only just put that up yesterday so I'm still getting used to it. Also, I had two going at the same time prior because of other things. You don't have to justify it. I'm justifying it. 99% of the people watching would have done the exact same thing. We can observe a moment of silence. We're waiting for the capacitors to drain. In the datasheet it says to wait five minutes. But we have a screwdriver. Just kidding, just kidding. Sort of. No, we do have a screwdriver, lttstore.com. Nice. Solid. I'm getting flashbacks to watching my dad work in the shop and I'm just like observing, you know? Yeah. Just don't get in his light. Hold the damn light string. YOLO. Now this is really sounding like my dad. And your dad is alive still or? I love you, dad. He watches these sometimes. Okay, that was just the thing falling. I actually thought something was happening. All right. Sorry. Previous jobs I think the estimate for liability for a company was like $60,000 per employee for I stuff. Really? Yeah. It's probably more to be honest. I's are like one of the most expensive things. Right. Thankfully we live in Canada. Why the hell does he know things like this? I's are one of the most expensive body parts? Yeah. I thought Mitchell was the serial killer. According to the law that is. What law? The Canadian body part law? There's a value of a life. There's a value of, didn't you know? They always say, you know, you can't put a dollar value on a human life, but Nate can. Not me. The justice system. Damn it. I'm going to turn the breaker back on. No pokey. That's the goal and companion for other things down the road. But. All right. So you need this tower out of here, I guess. Yeah. It's currently in sleep. So I'll shut it down. Good taste. Yeah. Good taste. Those have been my headphone for years and years. I know. I can tell. I bought, yeah. They're a little crusty. I bought a couple more. I think they're upstairs. Wait. Are you one of my fellow find something I like and buy three of them's? That wasn't exactly the reason I got it, but kind of. Nice. I got it for Fiona because we liked it so much. I'm like that with badminton shoes. I find a pair that fits me and I will buy like. I know. We had them in the office for a little while. Right. Right. Right. It's a team project as well. I want it to be a thing. We're going to make the shoe dryer happen. I have stinky feet. You have stinky feet. Let's go. And yeah. The fan attachment for the battery bank spoilers is maybe going to double as a shoe dryer with a humidity sensor. No way. Okay. I didn't know about that. Really? That's my dream. That's sick. Throw it in your gym bag and it just gets a little bit of air circulation there and then when it's dry. Turns off. Who says my ideas are stupid? Kyle. I joined the company for that idea. No, you didn't. Why did you join the company? Cool place to work. Okay. The saving grace to this though, having that there, is it is a plastic case. So there's literally no conductivity across areas. It would just be a matter of. Well, it might trace. Yes. Internal to the PCB that could get shorted. Yes. That's where you get into trouble and boards can end up dying. This is really cool, by the way, speaking of the design of this case. I love this because this ensures that these fans are going to be drawing air over the hard drives before blowing across the internal hardware. This is so cool. That was one modification that I made actually. Oh. The original design. Their fan sliders only extended to here, and they had some really nice additional cable management stuff. But because this is a server computer, I was like, I don't really need cable management. So I decided to opt for better airflow. Okay. Over the CPUs. So it was a really simple change to make in CAD. We're back to stroking Nate's eco. That's not how I intended it. Because the case. That's how I intended it. Superb otherwise. That's how I intended it. Good. Oh, yeah. Let me get out of the way. Eye protection. It's a vibratory saw. So eye protection is not necessary. The one who was just lecturing us on the value. That was a $24,000 or 20. That was a $24,000 cadaver. Show some respect. $24,000 RPM spindle. I think we've earned a little bit of, I told you so, because we are now two for two for making a video that's like, hey, buy now before prices go up. Both times. Prices absolutely skyrocketed. One time on GPUs and then the next time on RAM. So, hey, maybe next time when we say now's a good time. Watch out. You won't put off your upgrade."}