so if you've been following the exploits of Linus Media Group for any extended
period of time there's a good chance you've come across this tour of our
previous headquarters as well as this series of videos chronicling our move
into a larger more modern office but
while we did make a video showing our editors upgrading their workstations for
the new editing Den we didn't aside from thanking NVIDIA for sending us Titan X's
for the new machines get into the specifics of all the other hardware and
everything that goes around them and we've received a lot of requests to take
a deeper dive into the hardware that our editors use to do their daily work so
without further ado here we go
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learn more okay visitors come with me what we have to
collect all of your peripherals yeah I call an MX master nope
can you guys just calm down about the MX
Masters okay so everybody gets a Silverstone
headphone stand
Silverstone headphone stand yay
Silverstone headphone stands for all yay
everybody gets a new keyboard 910 for
you makeup stack because I'm handing you
more stuff before we leave here 9 10 for you Dennis I don't know not a nine test
you've picked a g710 yes oh I actually did two seven oh you have yours everyone
has a keyboard rock on okay mice the only fair and
Equitable way the NX Masters okay so Ebbs out of the
running you want simple Hyperion or the
uh
um uh whose remains Brandon
oh okay well then you get an MX master
BS everyone else is out of the running you guys have already got your mouse
pads headphones uh who picks the momentums
no tearing them I picked the backless
although I like these ones oh look who didn't pick them you picked HCA DJs you
bet so you legitimately get one of those
so these are open back uh but badass
um who will take those Taryn once
editing room is so loud but I can hear
all of you guys talking all the time anymore unless you had said you liked
these right no you don't like it you want me yeah yeah okay I know okay I
still have an hd6 mix okay I'll try it
yeah no done deal all right next up everybody gets a siren Pro you know
really so you mean that thing that broke my monitor well you bro you broke your
monitor it's not the sirens fault Burkle
I think you're out of here okay cool I'm gonna go sell all this stuff
are we done and I think you're done yep you're ready okay I'm gonna put her on
out here is this our USB audio yep
meet me around the other side
one of these we are getting all the Stacks I already have stacks magni
and Modi twos well don't go away yet okay magni and Modi 2's for all uh okay
right and everyone okay back around to the other side
I have everything in the world okay is that it yeah you guys have done
it yeah Christmas Is Here
oh this is one forgetful Santa first of all
here's your desk organizer uh second of all
I called not that one okay I won display
Pro colorimeters for all you can calibrate your monitors so enjoy your
calorimeters everyone
ready to check everyone yeah already this is
so much value in all these Christmas presents
this is like the best Christmas ever best it's not even Christmas Even better
than that Christmas workouts
worth it
HD you on 650s sit on my lap a little
longer Ed
foreign so we're putting up this wall decal
that's great it's only slightly less crooked than Dennis's Iron Man face
mine's cooler we may have gone over budget yeah it's not the 90s what do you
need a calendar for so
fractal Josh got this done did you ask Kimberly Schultz if you could do an
unauthorized print I did not wow okay so
my order came in from uh dftbs
um I see Dennis has this weirdo it is
actually pretty cool but Linus said no desk ornaments okay all the stuff I
bought is all useless
no it's not literally no one has
listened to anything I said about this and your desk is a mess
if you check out this photograph
because honestly every time I do makes
me laugh someone someone else missed the memo about not having
what else is that wall going to be creative I got the most things for my
money I think actually you did too yeah
so the first big upgrade from Need for seat USA as well as updesk.com is in the
furniture department so everyone got office Comfort or Dominator chairs you
can see that everyone's equipped with if they were listening the orange and black
versions of the aforementioned chairs but some people went and ordered black
ones anyway it was supposed to all be orange and black for LTT and equipped
with a height adjustable desk so these are good for a couple of reasons number
one is that they allow you to change to a standing height throughout the day if
you just want to move around and get more comfortable you can see we've also
got these mats from Costco so that your your heels and the balls of your feet
don't get fatigued from standing and then the other thing that they do is
they allow you to sit at a height that's most comfortable for you so you can see
that Dennis and Edsel both prefer very
different heights even for their seating position so the other cool thing is that
you can actually program different heights so you just hold it down and as
long long as there's no obstacles under the desk yeah we're good then boom this
is birkel's sitting height which is obviously not very comfortable for me
but that's the whole point and everyone being a special case I guess leads us
pretty well into taryn's workstation where the first thing you'll notice is you remove the armrest from his chair I
also like to scoot up as close to my desk as possible so that I can rest my
arms on it rather than my ARM rest and the second thing you'll probably notice
is that he has three monitors unlike everyone else in the company who was
just fine with two 31 inch 4K monitors
so LG kindly provided one extra monitor
for Taran to put scripts or whatever else on but most people are equipped
with two 31 mu-97 monitors these are
true 4K monitors so they're 4096 by 2160
not Ultra HD they feature 10-bit panels
they've got height adjust the actually the full range of ergonomic adjustments
that we need and what's really cool about them is they actually have support
for not only srgb color space which frankly is all we're using for
publishing to the web anyway but also 99.5 coverage of adobe RGB and even
support for DCI so if we were ever to you know do something where it's like
yeah we need to do this as if it's going to be shown in a movie theater then we
would actually have the capability to do that neat little accessory that goes
with it is actually these little x-rite i1 display Pros so these allow us to
calibrate the monitors as well as monitor ambient light so that they can
adapt to different ambient light in the room although it doesn't really change
much so that you're always getting the best color accuracy possible
foreign next up we've got our
peripherals so everyone was using just a mishmash of random stuff back at the old
office Logitech stepped up and offered to provide us with whatever keyboards we
wanted so you'll find a healthy mix of g710 pluses for those who prefer the
Cherry MX experience and Orion spark G9
TENS for those who prefer the Roamer G experience and mice now a lot of people
wanted MX Masters Brandon's the only one who got one of those unfortunately but
the good news is that logitech's gaming mice whether it's the g402 or the g502
which is what most of the others opted for offer great tracking and of course
very good performance and ergonomics as well they're just not wireless although
Brandon doesn't seem to be using the wireless functionality of the MX Master
anyway for the rest of the peripherals we actually love these desk mats from
steelseries these are great because it means you can have as much or as little
actual mouse pad as you want you can also throw them in the washing machine
something this one probably needs if you ever need to clean them and these were a
nice addition as well so in the past no one really had microphones at their
desks but Razer sent us siren Elites for everyone's workstations and we use them
for all kinds of stuff whether it's recording those clever voiceovers at the
end of next time on scrapyard Wars or even creating sound effects at our desk
something that happens more often than you'd probably think
thank you that's too much finally everyone got
their audio upgraded as well most people were using some mix of different gaming
headsets that we had left over from reviews now everyone's using something
from Sennheiser whether it's an hd6 mix hd8 DJ or even some people opted for
their audiophile series HD 600s or HD
650s and of course for some of those headphones we had to go ahead and
upgrade our audio source so audio
yes that is actually the name of the company if you haven't heard of them before sent us stack twos so magni
2 and Modi 2 DAC and amps for every one
of our editors to power their new headphones
which leads us to the towers now we didn't change that much we did add those
aforementioned Titan X graphics cards but we're still using the same 4960x
extreme Edition 6 cores uh 32 gigs of
Kingston memory unless you're Ed he's got a 12 core Xeon and 64 gigs of hyperx
memory but you know whatever he's just a boss apparently a couple people have
quadros for doing color work uh everyone's got Kingston KC series ssds
Cooler Master v750 power supplies no the only things we really changed were the
coolers where we went with their new gemin 2 coolers as well as the cases so
we switched over to silencio series cases because what we discovered is that
while the intention with whole room water cooling was actually to overclock
the workstations um now that we don't render on the
workstations anyway quiet and consistent long-term reliable
operation is more of a focus so we went back to air cooling which has fewer
points of failure and we went with cases that had noise dampening material built
into the inside so that the office environment except when people are
talking or filming in it is really really quiet
which leads us to our last demo if I
could get the camera focusing its attention on Brandon's system
Boop what's all this then ah yes General
Electric kitted us out with 2 000 volt
amp UPS units for every single workstation meaning that even in the
event of a power outage not only our server room but also the individual
workstations of our editors are protected and will continue to run on
battery power for quite some time like in excess of 20 minutes giving us time
to save our work correctly you know even if Premiere is being a bit of a butt
head or whatever else back up all the data to where it needs to go and shut
down the systems correctly a very very
important thing to be able to do so that's pretty much it while I think we
can all agree that uh my team and I
struggled during the move and shortly after the move to maintain our usual
standard of quality with the content I
really feel like we've finally found our stride and the content that you guys are
looking at now reflects not only the outer space that we have to work in but
also the better equipment that we have in order to create our videos
so all that's left now is to thank our sponsor Dollar Shave Club who actually
this it was not planned but incidentally
was the sponsor of our last office tour
back when we were at the old place the one I referred to at the beginning so if you're not sure what Dollar Shave Club
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