this was a huge mistake one of my favorite things about Intel extreme Tech
upgrade is that when you give someone a five thousand dollar shopping spree and
go into their home to help them install it it really tells you a lot about who
they are as a person and
how they live
what is the deal with this dude were you born in a freaking Barn no but you're
sure in one wow this place is amazing yeah he has been telling me about his
shop for like the entire time you've worked here which is like two plus years
now two and a half years now two and a half freaking years
and I had no idea that it was this big it's something
this is incredible well come on get under the hammock come on well I mean I
don't know or I mean try it out I mean it's hammocks the hammock's looking pretty inviting here boys it's insulated
you can nap in it you stay cozy there you go okay oh oh you're gonna poke a
hole in it with a screwdriver but that's kind of okay oh no no I got this I got
it I got the screwdrivers going in here
so like what do you do here I just make stuff
this is this is my place to come and be creative show me your three favorite
pieces of gear great uh I think we got to start behind Brandon I guess it's uh
my laser this is actually the same laser that we just put in the out the tea shop
uh just a little older but it's big it'll handle like a four by eight sheet
all the way through it another favorite tool of mine is my tapping ARM
this is a Pneumatic tapping ARM that when you bring it up to a part you can
send threads into it and what else do I got what's my other
favorite tool it's probably this table that we have all my parts on you want to come check out these parts oh I'm coming
okay
I'm coming the portrait of Grace I'm
good I'm good uh so we've got a core i7 11 700k for today for today for today
there's actually a 12 700k there which
is my actual CPU but the board didn't show up in time oh how'd you pull that
off uh I have my ways very nice okay so
you've got eight performance cores four efficiency cores 20 threads this boy is
gonna game are you gonna game in here you better believe it so I guess that's
what the RTX 3080 is for and uh I don't
think we'd blame you given how chilly it is in here without the wood stove going
if you just let it run nice hash while you're uh
you were gonna do that you were gonna do that I was absolutely going to do that
you've got to warm the shop somehow I don't even I don't even blame him you're
adding 20 terabyte sister which is what the devil you need 20 terabytes of
storage for well I just want to hold everything so I have a 10 terabyte drive
at home that is my CFL drive and it stores every game I own on Steam I have
all of them so these are going to be running in raid one and we'll have 10
terabytes here and then it'll be mirrored with C file at home and then I
have it on a bunch of other devices got it so he's actually practicing what we
preach a proper off-site redundant
backup this will be nice huge upgrade
for me when you're in the hammock and yes so there's even more that I didn't
get to do today but I really want to bring a poll down here with a dance on
with a monitor for dance well also why
not both so I want to have a monitor station here
that I can pivot so HTML that's why you
wanted to work on that how many Thunderbolt cables can we daisy chain
together so that there would be extra Optical Thunderbolt cables in the LMG
staff only samples store well I'm on to
this guy so he hasn't stolen anything yet what but he's biting his time
problem with this guy is I probably wouldn't recognize the kind of stuff
that he would take like for all I know this is our advice but I would no we
have never had one of those I would I would how would I know that that's fair
so I couldn't be lying right now for all I know this now actually this mouse did
come from work yeah I did buy it though I I see you've run out of emergency
liquor no no no there's an emergency Fireball up there is there more
emergency liquor yeah there's backup emergency liquor kept emergency liquor
when there's for when there's a real emergency for lunch mevu
slingshot one shot one shot where's your
target there's a there's a beer can up there that I used to hit with my pellet gun when I was really bored
to the left of the painting inside yeah what are you doing shooting a pelican
inside now the aiming is with the draw hand
whoa oh rip oh well that's unfortunate that's
the first thing you've broken okay so this is your lathe see I'm showing off
how I know what things are now congratulations when you started would I have correctly identified this no
he could he can be learned I love your
taste in water bottles though lttstore.com yeah that's I think that's
where I got that yeah so these walls are actually old uh movie Set walls so this
is a green screen wall oh cool yeah this is the the healing bench so when stuff
comes in it kind of just lands here yeah we've got power tool storage underneath
um it's also the sound control center now this is one of the things we're
upgrading today is it not it is but not this specifically yeah so we're adding a
new subwoofer so this is not going to take this one out God no we want more
but what do you need a computer in a place like this for I mean to be clear I
I understand you need a computer in a place like this but what do you do with it it's running my VMS essentially so it
runs C file my file server it runs octoprint which runs all my printers
cool um and then it also runs uh Windows but
it's not very powerful it's pretty slow so what is it it's a Intel q6600 called
oh my God it's a q6600 DDR3 okay all
right continuing the theme of equip and call and shop for free why don't you
give me a job why don't I give you a job well do you want to uh well we can shut
down my old server and start harvesting the parts out of it let's do that okay
let's get it I heard something rattling in there oh
this drive's just kicking around oh that's not bad
oh yeah there's where I put my power supply cables this wait what do you mean q6600 this is not a
q6600. it could be wrong I give you my
personal Linus Tech tips guarantee that it is not yeah I can't even remember
what it is so are we reusing this case at all what are we sell we're just
taking the power power supply and the SSD out of this got it so I see I've
been set to a job now then yes well I'm working on this why don't you show us
one of the more unusual things you're doing I see the giant sound panel over
there the sound panel I think is a two-man job so I'm gonna uh set up the
welder I am so excited about this part this is where the bulk of my money went
it is a Miller Synchro wave 210 AC DC TIG welder it is an absolute unit of a
welder and I get to set it up now it's been staring at it for months it's just been
sitting here can't use it wait a minute I thought you were just
rolling this in because you wanted to like no like show me more of your tools
oh we paid for this we paid for this this was like 3 600 Canadian dollars
kids can you say thanks Intel
it's blue just like Intel it's it's the missing link I've been able to to
subtractively manufacture things but I've never really additively like I have
a cutting torch or like a gas welder and a little Mig right but this is like fine
detailed TIG welding cool but we got to get all the gas lines run and run all
the cables and stuff so that's what we're gonna do now I'm gonna focus on
building computers this is another really cool thing that I
bought for it it's called the tig finger and it is a little pressure sensitive
button that you put on your TIG torch and then you don't have to use this foot
pedal to control your amperage it wasn't cheap but it's a really cool really cool
little product
what did you do nothing it's fine that's tempered glass Linus I know which
is good because it's now not broken
um I recognize this boy this is the PC oh something
pc05 this is from world's most comfortable gaming setup I did
eventually uh tear it down and turn it into a little Lego room for my kids so I
guess I'm building in this Tower again so I'm doing something a little
interesting with this setup I gotta go find the other part though but I'm
running two Regulators when you're TIG welding things in
particular like pipes or anything where you're welding like through something
the you need shielding gas on both sides
of the weld so if I'm welding in in a pipe or something I need to put
shielding gas in the back of the weld so it doesn't oxidize so we're going to run
a splitter and run two separate
um Regulators I just have to find them it's
kind of funny to me that the machine I'm building is not what's ultimately going
to stay here but most of the principles will stay the same we're just going to
swap out the board because going from 11th gen to 12th gen is the biggest leap
in performance that Intel has made in a
long really really really long time like we talk about it's got
eight performance cores and four efficiency cores but those efficiency
cores are like comparable to a performance core from
not that long ago so these things are flipping flipping fast the the board
will still be um what's it called ddr4 though because
that RAM is going to be a lot cheaper and I need more of it yes so at this
point with the difference in performance between ddr4 and ddr5 and more
importantly the difference in cost it totally makes sense to go with a nice
High Performance ddr4 Kit so Colin's got a 3200 c16 kit right here that's a great
mix between high capacity and solid speeds one of the coolest things about
these 12th gen chips and we've got some videos planned around this make sure
you're subscribed is that because they have performance and efficiency course
for an application like Collins where he's using proxmox or if you were using
unraid and creating virtual machines you could totally take your efficiency cores
and just be like blah blah blah you go run the hypervisor and then you're
giving up basically nothing in terms of let's say gaming performance if you pass
your performance course through to a VM super cool
we could weld at this point should we plug it in sorry what point can we weld
at I didn't think it was a spot welder
this is actually a very unusual case to build in to put the power supply in as
you can see now we've got access to the bracket here you actually have to pull
off this top unit that is a filtered
exhaust for whatever reason in its default configuration so what I'm kind
of thinking is especially in a shop environment like this one I'm probably
going to turn those fans all around and I'm going to have the whole top be a
filtered intake and hopefully that'll be
enough for our poor RTX 3080 over here
um I think we're going to skip grounding uh we will ground it yeah fine fine
you're right think of it this way you're
grounded either way because if you ground it you're grounded and if you
don't ground it you're grounded get it
that moment when you let your boss into your your home this was a huge mistake
knock to it does such a great job of their coolers man they've just kind of
got something for everything so basically the way it's going to work in
this case is I'm going to orient it
this way yeah yep I'm gonna go this way we're going to have our fans throwing
nice fresh air in here this fan is going to grab it it's a nice slim fan it's
going to push the air like this and then those fans are going to blow that hot air away onto the graphics card which is
why I told Colin I think we might have to redesign the cover here to make sure
that that graphics card has enough ventilation I might have a small problem
to report Colin uh-oh I've got a clearance issue with your RAM now
there's a couple different ways that we can potentially tackle this we can try flipping the fan over onto the other
side I think then we might have a clearance issue with the side panel or I
can pull this memory stick
and see if it goes in without it okay
just like run one less dim well that's
not an ideal solution but since you got these at the LMG store you could go get
something slightly more low profile and that would probably address it see the
mounting posts for the cooler they're too high profile to actually get the 80
millimeter fan in there like I can jam it in but oh I can jam it in well Noctua
doesn't like it then they can uh they can make a lower profile cooler
boom roasted they do well
this is my new sub box I did an entire build and I filmed it all and you can
watch that on floor plane if you're interested but this is going to more
than double the amount of bass that I get out of my sound system here and
we're going to be loading it with this this is a JL W3 it's about a it's a
500 watt RMS 12 inch sub now it's all
going to be powered Careful by this this is the sp1
-700 from speaker power it's a lovely
little plate amp that is more than capable of driving this it'll actually
overdrive this I have to turn on a low pass filter to keep the skirt Excursion
down it'll actually destroy itself if I just turn it up too high now there will
be a mesh Grille that goes over this but I haven't designed and built it yet
that's kind of fine I'll get to it another day which means probably never
our tough gaming RTX 3080 is in here we've got our nice triple fan cooler 10
gigs RAM super fast GPU but we've got
some problems ladies and gentlemen one is that I don't know if there's enough
clearance for our dual 8 Pin power connectors under our case switches here
at least not without kind of wrenching it over or maybe moving the
mount over number two is that this hard
drive cage is clearly not going in here
anymore VHB no we are not VH being it we
will put whole new holes in the case that's the correct way to do it and you
know it now surely you're not actually going to game here at the shop so what
do you need such a powerful GPU for so mostly for doing CAD work
um Fusion 360 which is my primary primary CAD software isn't particularly
GPU heavy but it'll be nice to have
anyway and then I can always allocate it to other things unless I pass it through
directly to Windows so I could parse that in and then use any device so I
could have a laptop and then have access to a full 3080 just sitting here
whirring away in the shop I feel I feel awful doing this to this
beautiful case
first time and it goes
um yeah it doesn't fit yet but uh no no
don't not you Colin I don't want you over here looking at it we're looking at
his workmanship and you're proud of that well I'd be
proud if it fit but it doesn't yet okay go away go away
oh yeah all this because he doesn't like VHB tape we're not VH being in hard
drives Colin okay thanks that worked really well now I just hold on hold on
hold on I need to turn it around okay wait for it here it comes though this is
my big moment my time to shine
it'll go it'll go it's good yes yes okay success what why does everybody throw me
these like weird challenging builds with parts that are not strictly speaking
compatible for these Intel extreme Tech upgrades because we're building it from
the schmorgasbord of stuff that's in the LTD store
it's extremely tight
the hard drives are literally right up
against the GPU perfect in with screws properly mounted
ish on their anti-vibration rubber
grommet things we good to go this isn't
even the thing that's going to make this whole setup sound good we're replacing
my existing audio source which is just a Chromecast where I strip out the audio
from an HDMI signal and we're putting in this a node 2i from Blue sound it's
about 650 dollars if I remember correctly damn yeah I found it used on
Craigslist like brand new for 500 Canadian dollars and uh picked it up and
it does Super High Fidelity output like
it's actually producing a source that's good but still from a streaming service
so I've switched over to title now from Spotify because it does have Flac audio
essentially and uh this is just going to make
everything sound better just more data
better in general this I think will live
right there big moment I do think there's a solid chance that I won't get
an output here because I haven't gone in and changed the PCI Express
configuration to gen 3 but who knows maybe we'll get lucky oh my goodness oh
hey we did look at that um question for you Colin how many watts
is this fanless power supply that you're planning to run a 3080 off of I think
it's like five or six hundred
700 maybe all my rent wait 32 gigs of
RAM is that right yep yes okay all my rounds showing up all my drives are
showing up yeah I think it's into the BIOS I think it's either 750 watts or a thousand
there's no way it's a thousand so if it is at 750 damn
oh my God yeah I can hear the vibration I can feel my clothes vibrating good
good this pleases me greatly
um so I did find the drives I rated them together and mirrored them so it's raid
one and they're showing up as just empty storage enough so now I can apply that
to anything I got 10 gigs of storage for
10 terabytes of storage way more than 10 gigs so my next job now is I'm going to
take the new 3080 I have and pass it through to my Windows VM so it can
harness all of it now that means that I won't be able to use it for anything
else it's dedicated Hardware just for that VM I have my brother on
speakerphone he set this all up for me because as tech savvy as I am
server-side things I just tossed to the server side guy
and it turns out that bad boy here and
apparently his brother told him this already has two DNS servers on his
Network he doesn't have his router modem switch AP combo unit from the ISP in
bridge mode so that one spitting out
192.168.0. whatever IPS if you plug directly into that and then his tp-link
octopus arachnid spider thing over there is going
192.168.1. whatever and now no matter which of them you plug the computer into
we're not getting an internet connection here because
smart Linux is like nope this is too stupid I quit Meanwhile my phone is
actually able to get an internet connection I turned off my mobile data
and it's like oh you want to browse lttstore.com no problem okay all right
we're ripping out the Debian I just I
don't understand why it won't connect everything looks completely fine except
that it is not fine realistically it's not worth it for us
to spend all the time that would be involved in fixing this problem because
we believe the problem was caught by changing up the motherboard which
changed the network device ID and we're going to do that again anyway once Colin
gets his uh 12th gen CPU and matching motherboard
so our plan for now is to button this up and then do a magic
and we're back the 12th gen upgrade is
done Jake very graciously helps me pass through the GPU because I wasn't cutting
it when it came to configuring proxmox and it runs great we've got eight CPU
cores attached to my Windows instance and four CPU cores attached to the Linux
instance which was running C file and everything works just great we can pop
right into Fusion 360.
having that direct GPU pass-through is
awesome everything is Flawless I've used it remotely from home with parsec and
all together it took a lot of work I don't know if I would do it again I
would probably just run a separate server for file server stuff and just
run a separate PC but it's pretty cool to have this and now I can set up
approxbox instance at home and have duplicated files across the internet and
redundant storage so thanks Intel I guess and we'll pass it back on to Linus
thank you
all right it might impress the ladies
but probably not who I know is impressed is me for all of you guys watching and
big shout out for that also big shout out to Intel for sponsoring Intel Xtreme
Tech upgrade stay tuned guys because upcoming we've got I think Brandon's
coming soon aren't you yeah that's going to be a very interesting one