1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,860 Then maybe it's broken? It should not make that noise. 2 00:00:04,860 --> 00:00:07,860 Gurgles. Okay, cool. It actually turned on for- 3 00:00:07,860 --> 00:00:13,460 Ah! Oh. You've seen us build computers costing anywhere from $69 all the way into the hundreds of 4 00:00:13,460 --> 00:00:17,740 thousands. But just because you appear on screen with some of the hottest hardware on the planet- 5 00:00:17,740 --> 00:00:21,740 Doesn't mean that's what you go home to. So what does our team run at home? 6 00:00:21,740 --> 00:00:24,900 Solid gaming rigs. Home-built servers. AI Dev Mules? 7 00:00:24,900 --> 00:00:28,780 The hell's an AI Dev Mule? How about all of the above? But before we get to that- 8 00:00:28,780 --> 00:00:32,220 I hope you enjoyed this- Jankly cobbled together, cycling tour sponsor. 9 00:00:32,220 --> 00:00:36,060 Hey, I'm Dan. I am the technical architect for Linus Media Group. 10 00:00:36,060 --> 00:00:41,260 Today, I brought you my AI development mule called BrainCube, or more affectionately known 11 00:00:41,260 --> 00:00:48,140 as the COMPBOX. You can see it uses the AK Mystic White opaque coolant. 12 00:00:48,140 --> 00:00:53,260 I've been wanting to make that joke for about 10 years now, and yeah, I'm a child. 13 00:00:53,260 --> 00:00:56,420 Hello, I'm Nicole, and I am the talent and culture coordinator. 14 00:00:56,420 --> 00:01:01,060 Today, I brought to you a PC that I bought off someone on Facebook Marketplace. 15 00:01:01,060 --> 00:01:04,860 My name is Colton Potter. I'm the head of business development. I do business development. 16 00:01:04,860 --> 00:01:12,220 What is that? It's a good question. I brought to you guys the most powerful 2023 handheld PC that my money could buy. 17 00:01:12,220 --> 00:01:15,660 The ASUS ROG Ally 2023 edition. 18 00:01:15,660 --> 00:01:18,960 As you can see, I've got the D-Brain kill switch case on it, which I got only a couple 19 00:01:18,960 --> 00:01:27,580 months ago. My name is Emily Seddon. I am one of our post-production supervisors, former video editor, and this is my PC. 20 00:01:27,580 --> 00:01:32,380 I built it about four years ago, I think, COVID PC. 21 00:01:32,380 --> 00:01:37,380 Before I started at LMG, I built it not knowing how to build computers, but it's been upgraded 22 00:01:37,380 --> 00:01:42,700 ever since. The only original stuff in it, I think, is the boot SSD and the hard drive. 23 00:01:42,700 --> 00:01:49,940 I'm Nicholas. I work in the Labs. I look after Mark Bench and most of the automation that takes place with our testing. 24 00:01:49,940 --> 00:01:54,140 I brought today my main daily driver gaming rig. 25 00:01:54,140 --> 00:02:01,820 I'm Natalie, and I'm part of the Creator Warehouse team. I'm the inventory coordinator, so anything you see on lttstore.com, I'm somewhat involved. 26 00:02:01,820 --> 00:02:06,340 The kind of PC I brought today is my Corsair gaming PC that I run daily at home. 27 00:02:06,340 --> 00:02:11,100 There's a lot of Corsair stuff in it. I'm Adam. I'm a writer for Linus Tech Tips. 28 00:02:11,100 --> 00:02:18,020 I brought in my home server. I've named it affectionately Old Man, because that is what it is. 29 00:02:18,020 --> 00:02:24,860 It's a big box that I use to store backups, Linux ISOs, and tons and tons of legally 30 00:02:24,860 --> 00:02:28,820 acquired media. It is actually like a server. 31 00:02:28,820 --> 00:02:33,540 It's a Lenovo Think server, and it has a server motherboard, as well as a Xeon CPU 32 00:02:33,540 --> 00:02:42,060 in it. But that doesn't just mean it's good. So today, what I brought in was my NAS box or NAS machine running TrueNAS. 33 00:02:42,060 --> 00:02:47,020 My NAS or network-attached storage is where I stole all of my data. 34 00:02:48,020 --> 00:02:54,260 Oh, sorry, I say stole. My name is Justin, and I am the fabricator here at LTT. 35 00:02:54,260 --> 00:02:59,820 So today, the PC I have brought in for you is my gaming slash CAD rig that I use at home. 36 00:02:59,820 --> 00:03:04,060 Primary gaming machine, and then when I need to do all my design work, whether it is for 37 00:03:04,060 --> 00:03:09,500 stuff here or for the crazy crap I'm building at home, this is the machine I use for it. 38 00:03:09,500 --> 00:03:13,020 We turn it on and see it drip. Gurgles. 39 00:03:14,020 --> 00:03:17,020 Ooh. Pretty colors. 40 00:03:18,020 --> 00:03:24,020 There we go. Ooh. Look at all that RGB that I actually really hate. 41 00:03:24,020 --> 00:03:27,020 These are not the colors I run at home, just so you know. 42 00:03:31,020 --> 00:03:34,020 Okay, cool. It actually turned on for... Oh. 43 00:03:34,020 --> 00:03:37,020 So I've been building this over, I don't know, the last six months or something like 44 00:03:37,020 --> 00:03:44,020 that. It's gone through a few different iterations. It went off with a pair of 2080TIs and has now moved up to the triple 3090 configuration 45 00:03:44,020 --> 00:03:50,020 you see here. I decided to buy it off someone because I didn't want to go through the hassle of researching, 46 00:03:50,020 --> 00:03:57,020 buying every single PC part by myself. And at the time I was in university, I was pretty busy, and so I've paid someone on Facebook 47 00:03:57,020 --> 00:04:01,020 Marketplace to do it for me. This I built last year, mid-summer. 48 00:04:01,020 --> 00:04:05,020 This one I built two, two and a half years ago. 49 00:04:05,020 --> 00:04:10,520 It's funny. I think the day that our video review came out on it, I think it was the first day that 50 00:04:10,520 --> 00:04:16,280 was available in stores. And on that day, before this, I had a Steam Deck, and I sold my Steam Deck on Facebook 51 00:04:16,280 --> 00:04:20,020 Marketplace, and the guy who came to buy it was like, hey, you work for LTT. 52 00:04:20,020 --> 00:04:23,580 I just saw you guys' video on the ROG Ally, and I was like, yeah, that's what I'm selling 53 00:04:23,580 --> 00:04:29,540 this to you for so I can go buy it. It was pretty sick. It was last year at the Christmas party, and I had won a PC case. 54 00:04:29,540 --> 00:04:33,220 So there's only two options when you win a PC case, either you get rid of the case or 55 00:04:33,220 --> 00:04:39,060 you build a computer in it. I developed to build this PC back in 2020, before that I was just running off a laptop. 56 00:04:39,060 --> 00:04:43,940 It's also probably the longest computer I've ever owned. I have not opened this in two years. 57 00:04:43,940 --> 00:04:47,780 It's grody. This system is primarily developed as an AI Mule. 58 00:04:47,780 --> 00:04:52,940 So learning how AI development works, learning how inference works, learning how training 59 00:04:52,940 --> 00:04:58,580 works, all that sort of stuff, running models at home, and also kind of acting as an internet 60 00:04:58,580 --> 00:05:04,020 server. So, you know, not everybody has access to play with AI, so I wanted to be able to set 61 00:05:04,020 --> 00:05:09,340 this up in VMs and separate out GPUs, so friends of mine or other people could actually 62 00:05:09,340 --> 00:05:14,300 have a GPU and have a dedicated space to play with it instead of having to pay for tokens, 63 00:05:14,300 --> 00:05:19,980 that sort of thing. I decided to upgrade because I was lagging a lot on my Valorant games, and I decided 64 00:05:19,980 --> 00:05:23,220 I've had enough. I mainly use this for gaming at home. 65 00:05:23,220 --> 00:05:26,700 I've done a little bit of freelance on the side, which is slowly picking up a little 66 00:05:26,700 --> 00:05:32,260 bit more, so it's used for editing, light editing, nothing crazy like what we do. 67 00:05:32,260 --> 00:05:37,780 Yeah, but mostly gaming on the side. I wanted to handheld specifically this handheld for two reasons. 68 00:05:37,780 --> 00:05:42,020 The first being that I'm a parent, so I don't get as much time to be able to game at my 69 00:05:42,020 --> 00:05:48,740 computer at my desktop PCs I used to. And then the second thing is I like this because it has Windows. 70 00:05:48,740 --> 00:05:52,100 I know you can configure the Steam Deck to have Windows on it, but I looked up a couple 71 00:05:52,100 --> 00:05:55,140 of videos and I was just not down for that, so that's why I got this. 72 00:05:55,140 --> 00:05:58,780 I was trying to just build the best gaming experience. 73 00:05:58,780 --> 00:06:04,460 I'm more of a gearhead and I have this addiction of chasing the FPS, even though I play games 74 00:06:04,460 --> 00:06:10,500 like Heroes of the Storm, but I need 400 frames because I know I can have 400 frames. 75 00:06:10,500 --> 00:06:14,380 My main goals when I picked up this server was that I wanted something cheap, but also 76 00:06:14,380 --> 00:06:22,100 that would have a lot of room for expansion. This is a 8-bay storage server, and it is filled with almost all of the hard drives. 77 00:06:22,100 --> 00:06:26,460 There was a hard drive in here, and when I moved it, it fell out this morning. 78 00:06:26,460 --> 00:06:33,340 Luckily, I have Unraid, which means I have a parody and also I have a spare backup anyways. 79 00:06:33,340 --> 00:06:36,460 So some of the projects I'm working on at home right now that I'm using this machine 80 00:06:36,460 --> 00:06:42,740 for is both me and my father, we're heavily into doing RC cars and things like that. 81 00:06:42,740 --> 00:06:47,420 My dad's more so into the RC semi-sides of things, so trucks that are a little bit more 82 00:06:47,420 --> 00:06:53,580 scale-looking. So right now, we're working on making a bunch of scale accessories for the cars, or for 83 00:06:53,580 --> 00:06:59,300 the trucks. We just finished a project recently where we built a 14th scale low-boy trailer for 84 00:06:59,300 --> 00:07:02,900 one of his trucks. It's all 3D printed, and I had to design everything in CAD for that. 85 00:07:02,900 --> 00:07:09,460 I didn't really have a budget when I built this originally. It was just sort of cobbled together from parts I either got from the company or other 86 00:07:09,460 --> 00:07:14,780 ones I had lying around. Yeah, it's got 33090s in it, but I bought the two that are waterblocked here kind of 87 00:07:14,780 --> 00:07:19,940 secondhand. I believe they're crypto-mining-abused cards, so I don't feel too bad about it. 88 00:07:19,940 --> 00:07:23,540 The air-cooled one here, which I still haven't got a waterblock for, is actually my personal 89 00:07:23,540 --> 00:07:30,420 one that I used to have. I've since upgraded to a 4090 in my main rig, so it gets a hand-me-down GPU. 90 00:07:30,420 --> 00:07:34,980 I remember 100% how much I paid for it. It is the biggest purchase I've made at the time. 91 00:07:34,980 --> 00:07:37,980 I was really proud of it. It is $3,000. I'll include it. 92 00:07:37,980 --> 00:07:43,340 I had a budget around, I think, under $2,000 for just the PC parts itself, not including 93 00:07:43,340 --> 00:07:49,700 the peripherals. So I think, in total, I spent about $1,500 Canadian. 94 00:07:49,700 --> 00:07:54,820 I got this for, like, $150, not including the drives. 95 00:07:54,820 --> 00:07:57,940 That's really where the drives are much more expensive. 96 00:07:57,940 --> 00:08:07,460 I have, like, some regrets about this thing. One, is that since it's a literal server, I have a redundant power supply, but it's a 97 00:08:07,460 --> 00:08:13,380 server power supply. There's no cheap ATX power supply that is in this form factor. 98 00:08:13,380 --> 00:08:17,660 I would build it myself next time, because then that would be, like, smaller upgrades. 99 00:08:17,660 --> 00:08:21,620 So, like, I know now, for example, the memory is pretty small. 100 00:08:21,620 --> 00:08:25,740 Later on, I would encounter probably a problem that I don't have enough memory, so I can 101 00:08:25,740 --> 00:08:33,420 probably do that myself. My dream is that I just have a single cluster of computer in the corner, and then everything 102 00:08:33,420 --> 00:08:40,660 in my house is just a thin client. So if I did anything, I'd rather build just one big machine, some of the server rack stuff. 103 00:08:40,660 --> 00:08:48,740 I don't have the room for it at home, but that would be ideal. One thing that's super frickin' annoying about this server is that Lenovo includes all of 104 00:08:48,740 --> 00:08:52,020 these little hard drive trays, right? You're like, oh, sweet, thank you. 105 00:08:52,020 --> 00:08:55,580 They're not a hard drive tray. They're just filler. 106 00:08:55,580 --> 00:09:00,260 It doesn't do anything. It just takes up space. You have to buy other hard drive containers. 107 00:09:00,260 --> 00:09:03,820 I had to buy third party ones, because they're $40 each. 108 00:09:03,820 --> 00:09:08,460 I got these on eBay for, like, $20 a pop, not the drive. 109 00:09:08,460 --> 00:09:11,700 The hard drive I got for much more money, that's a 20 terabyte drive there. 110 00:09:11,900 --> 00:09:16,380 I still have to pay so much for the caddies, and I can't get it back in, and I'm mad. 111 00:09:16,380 --> 00:09:19,940 I don't regret it, but I would get something a little bit more modern and a little bit 112 00:09:19,940 --> 00:09:24,900 less servery. I've had a few issues since I bought this thing in July of 2023. 113 00:09:24,900 --> 00:09:29,180 This thing's cooling system started making these god-awful noises to the point that I 114 00:09:29,180 --> 00:09:33,220 couldn't play any games. My wife wouldn't even sit next to me, because she thought the thing was going to, like, 115 00:09:33,220 --> 00:09:37,140 blow up. I just factory reset the thing, and then it went away. 116 00:09:37,140 --> 00:09:41,580 It warms up my entire room. I've turned off the heating in my room for the past two years. 117 00:09:41,580 --> 00:09:46,820 I'm hoping it saves me money, but I don't know. I've recently lost the ability to put it to sleep. 118 00:09:46,820 --> 00:09:50,580 The sleep button just disappeared in Windows, and I don't know how to get it back. 119 00:09:50,580 --> 00:09:54,620 I looked it up for, like, a few days, and my boyfriend and I were trying to figure it 120 00:09:54,620 --> 00:09:59,580 out, and we couldn't. So it only, I just lock it and let it kind of turn off on its own. 121 00:09:59,580 --> 00:10:06,300 The quirk about this one is that this fan and cooler combo, I tried to fit into a low-key 122 00:10:06,300 --> 00:10:12,060 RAW S1, like, garbage can style cooler, but I had to, like, try and file down the sides 123 00:10:12,060 --> 00:10:15,900 because it was basically smush up against it like a child on a candy window. 124 00:10:15,900 --> 00:10:20,620 So instead, I just zip-tied it to this one and slapped it in here. 125 00:10:20,620 --> 00:10:24,740 Sometimes the power button, if I turn it on in a certain way, it gets stuck, so you power 126 00:10:24,740 --> 00:10:28,780 it on and it just stays held, so it just shuts itself off. 127 00:10:28,780 --> 00:10:33,380 That's cool. This GPU has a fun little quirk. Oh, it's not really a quirk, it's a safety feature. 128 00:10:33,380 --> 00:10:38,620 And where the fittings go in here, there is these little, like, brass copper rings that 129 00:10:38,620 --> 00:10:45,060 if any little bit of liquid gets on there, it'll throw the GPU into a liquid detection 130 00:10:45,060 --> 00:10:53,700 mode so that way it doesn't fry your GPU or anything. However, the problem is, the fitting I used on this side here is a little bit too big, 131 00:10:53,700 --> 00:10:58,100 so it's actually coming into contact with the ring on occasion, so if I just bump my 132 00:10:58,100 --> 00:11:02,740 computer too hard, it will cause it to freak out, it'll shut the whole entire computer 133 00:11:02,740 --> 00:11:05,940 down, and yeah, it's a fun time. 134 00:11:05,940 --> 00:11:09,420 That's the SATA cable for the DVD drive. I haven't even opened it. 135 00:11:09,420 --> 00:11:12,460 I don't know, there could be a DVD in it. 136 00:11:12,460 --> 00:11:18,780 What's in the drive? 137 00:11:18,780 --> 00:11:28,460 Maybe it's broken? It's busted. So as much as I love this case, the GPU is mounted so that you have to plug in underneath, 138 00:11:28,460 --> 00:11:34,100 and in the video where Linus roasts all of our setups, you can see this propped up on 139 00:11:34,100 --> 00:11:38,660 the two CPU boxes in the corner of my desk, so it gives it enough clearance. 140 00:11:38,660 --> 00:11:43,580 Let's get this DVD out of here with our, look at that, that's our bit, and our precision 141 00:11:43,580 --> 00:11:49,540 screwdriver with storage from LTTstore.com. All right, that was the moment of truth. 142 00:11:49,540 --> 00:11:53,460 Damn, empty. So I've got a couple other computers at home. 143 00:11:53,460 --> 00:11:58,940 I've got my main rig, which is now 49er to K with a 4090. 144 00:11:58,940 --> 00:12:03,540 I have one that my cat sleeps on, which is a Threadripper system. 145 00:12:03,540 --> 00:12:08,100 That was a waste of money, I'll tell you that. And then I've also got a little John's bow NAS. 146 00:12:08,100 --> 00:12:11,940 I built basically the exact same one that we did in a previous video. 147 00:12:11,940 --> 00:12:17,500 Awesome little NAS. I think it's got about 50 terabytes or something on that. So I've also got a 24 bay storage server too. 148 00:12:17,500 --> 00:12:23,580 That's just kind of sitting in the middle of my living room right now. It's still very loud, even though I changed all of the fans and the power supplies over 149 00:12:23,580 --> 00:12:27,500 to Noctua's. So I think that's probably about it. Most of them are just sitting on the floor. 150 00:12:27,500 --> 00:12:31,180 I just got a NAS, I just put together a NAS for like home photos and stuff, which is 151 00:12:31,180 --> 00:12:35,900 great. I'm using the Ugreen one. I'm slowly transitioning to Mac because I get older. 152 00:12:35,900 --> 00:12:39,660 I just like it to work. And it's working okay. 153 00:12:39,660 --> 00:12:46,820 No. We have a few more computers at home. So obviously my fiance has his own tower and then we also recently, he recently just built 154 00:12:46,820 --> 00:12:52,460 another one for the TV downstairs in the living room so we can like easily cast like Chrome, 155 00:12:52,460 --> 00:12:58,820 YouTube, anything games if we wanted to. As for the other computers that I own, you can watch my AMD upgrade because that's where 156 00:12:58,820 --> 00:13:03,180 I got that. Though now it has been moved into a beautiful fractal terra enclosure. 157 00:13:03,180 --> 00:13:08,020 It's a great system. So I guess the next up for this system is probably going to be a waterblock to A100. 158 00:13:08,020 --> 00:13:12,100 I've still got to be able to put in the two 2080 Ti's. 159 00:13:12,100 --> 00:13:15,540 I think I'm running out of PCI slots. This board has seven. 160 00:13:15,540 --> 00:13:20,580 This is the Sage, I think 621W, something like that. 161 00:13:20,580 --> 00:13:24,300 It's already got a 1500 watt power supply so I need to do some more custom cabling and 162 00:13:24,300 --> 00:13:28,580 things like that. But again, it's supposed to have cards pulled in and out of it, which is why it's all got 163 00:13:28,580 --> 00:13:33,100 all the EK quick disconnects on basically every single fitting on this rig. 164 00:13:33,100 --> 00:13:36,900 Do you have any upgrades planned for any of your computers right now? 165 00:13:36,900 --> 00:13:44,180 No, I'm broke. So if I were to upgrade my PC in the future, I don't think I'm going to stick on AM4. 166 00:13:44,180 --> 00:13:47,740 I think we're kind of at the last legs of where AM4 is going to be good. 167 00:13:47,740 --> 00:13:51,060 So we've probably got another three, four years out of it. I love this case. 168 00:13:51,060 --> 00:13:55,620 This is one of my favorite cases, but I could go for something a little bit newer. 169 00:13:55,620 --> 00:13:59,380 The new Leanne Lease without the bezel would be really cool. 170 00:13:59,380 --> 00:14:04,780 Or the Borg Cube PC case that David has is kind of what I wanted and then he took it. 171 00:14:04,780 --> 00:14:10,460 I'm aware that the LIX came out early this year. I didn't want to upgrade because it didn't have a more powerful processor. 172 00:14:10,460 --> 00:14:14,580 I know there was a few different kind of power things they unlocked with the bigger 173 00:14:14,580 --> 00:14:18,900 battery and stuff like that, but if I can find a handheld within the same ish price 174 00:14:18,900 --> 00:14:23,060 point that can run games at a high FPS or just better, I will absolutely upgrade. 175 00:14:23,060 --> 00:14:27,900 I'm just waiting for that thing that has the biggest leap to justify me spending my 176 00:14:27,900 --> 00:14:31,260 money to kind of buy it, if that makes sense. Thanks for watching. 177 00:14:31,260 --> 00:14:34,500 If you enjoyed this, why not take a trip down memory lane and look at the previous time 178 00:14:34,500 --> 00:14:38,740 we did this. It was quite a while ago and things have changed quite a bit. 179 00:14:38,820 --> 00:14:42,860 Loof still has a way too expensive of a computer though. It's just that man can't be helped.