audience on Facebook, my grandmother.
Why does Facebook get early shows?
Are we early on Twitch too? Yeah. Yeah.
So it's Float Plain, Facebook, and Twitch.
Get the stream early. Why? Riley's trying to wrap his brain around this.
Because my grandmother watches on Facebook, Riley.
No, I'm kidding. Hi, Grandma Linus. Yeah.
Well, for some reason, everyone calls her Grandma Linus.
I'm sorry, we're live right now. Oh, yeah. Hi. Hey, Floaters.
Oh, we're pre-streaming right now? We're pre-streaming right now. OK, do not do an ad, Linus.
Do not do a sponsor read. Do not do an ad? They hate those.
Speaking of hating those. I.
Here's something you won't hate. My hat.
Yeah, brought to you by hats.com. I have no idea what hats.com is.
Don't go there. Brought to you by my grandma. Maybe they have fishing hats, and they take all your information.
That'd be a great fishing hat. That really would be a great fishing hat.
You could put like bits of bait on the end of each of those. That would be a funny merch item.
Fishing hat, and it just like has a QR code on the front.
Oh, and it's gone. And it goes to a site that just asks you to enter your information.
Just like a fishing hat style hat. Is that as funny as I think it is?
Why haven't we made that already? I'm just checking down. Just check.
Dan confirms indeed funny. So we're going to be talking to other people a lot today.
Andy, basically, if I'm not looking at you,
follow me kind of thing in general. So if I'm like talking to Riley for a bit,
then assume that he might respond it. So oh my god, Riley.
Can't get me. This is why we don't let him on LTT.
Can't get me. What? Andy, what is your number one?
All right, cool. Flow Plane Chat loves the fishing hat.
Yeah, that's fair. Birthday fish hat. Dang.
Did we really go with that for the title? Building PCs until I get good at it.
OK, cool. I'm only 16. Yeah, we pitched a few different options for title, I guess.
I guess that's what we settled on. Double Swing 16.
What is going on with my? You know what I think it is, Andy? I think we need to pair another controller.
This one just disconnected. And it was being really leggy before.
Can we pair a different controller? OK, that would be great.
Because it was like, I'd click, and it would be like,
and then it would go. And so it was very distracting and hard to find the right spot.
It's not going to matter for most of the stream, but I want to make sure we know the intro.
So, Vance, do you happen to know? Oh, it has to delay now, the extra prompt we know.
Do I only really need it for the intro? Nice.
I knew they were here somewhere.
Ah, got a remote.
8-bit dough reached out. They offered to do a custom, like, LTT colorway for the ones
that I use for prompter remotes. I was tempted to ask them to make one that's, like, not
a controller that is actually more useful as a prompter remote, but I didn't want to be too needy.
Bluetooth.
Well, no, that's problematic for its own reasons.
Do you see the blurred out things? Well, occasionally it kind of dangles down, like,
kind of here when I'm leaning over. So the pink one, people have been applying blur filters
to them as they, like, dangle there. It's a dual shot.
You never can tell what those redditors are going to do.
Should I forget it? Yeah, we could be. All right.
OK. All right, Dlinus, try that.
Sorry, excuse me. Oh, thank you. Thank you, kind of. Oh, wow, this is a great teleprompter.
Oh, God, I got it, I got it. Thanks, Andy.
OK, oh, she's so responsive. Look at that.
Look at that. All right, we doing this thing? Let's do this thing!
See, you're going to get so many headshots with that prompter. So many headshots.
Oh, yeah, because it's low-latency, I get it. Hit markers.
OK, perfect. Dan, did you hear that?
Oh, yeah. Does it sound like Call of Duty hit markers? They do. Just like them.
Thank you. Thank you, Riley. Thank you.
It's a good thing you're here. I got all the tech tips.
Who are my other co-hosts? Are they in, like, in the same room?
You don't need any one else.
I got all the tech tips you need. Ah!
All right, cool. Oliver says at least buy us dinner first.
What? Well, about your mouth sounds.
What? You should be so lucky. OK, all the mouth sounds you need.
OK, let's do this thing. I'm pushing it.
I'm pushing it. I'm pushing the boundaries of good taste. And I've got Riley here to help.
Who else?
Oh, right. I was going to put the hat on. How's my hair?
Beautiful. Are you going to be wearing a hat anyway? Here.
I'm going to take it off after. It's your birthday, Linus.
Just wing it. Whatever goes.
This isn't 16 candles. I said 16 candles.
This is bull spit. This is eight candles.
Oh, is it eight, though? Times two.
Because it's a double sweet 16 birthday.
I love playing the diva character. But enough people in our audience take it seriously.
And then I don't really get to do it anymore. Wait, it's a character?
Wait. What are you talking about, Linus?
OK. He was hitting me minutes ago.
OK, I'm punching it. I'm punching it.
It's the stream, not you, Riley.
Not when we're live. OK.
OK. OK. Oh, quiet, that's it.
For like four hours. So if you need like 30 seconds, now's a good time to tell us.
Do you need 30 seconds? They can't even.
Yvonne can confirm. I've got 30 seconds. All right.
What? I can give you 30 seconds. I don't even.
No, all right, here we go. Yvonne, get out of the way.
OK, all right, all right, I'm punching it. I'm punching it.
Punch it, shall we? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, except me.
Because we actually have some. OK, hold on, I hit it, I hit it.
We're doing a parsec.
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And I think the building that I'm supposed to get to
is over here with my co-host Riley.
Welcome Linus to my build station.
We've got two different base builds. One is AMD, one is Intel.
We're going to be building eight of each of them, two at a time.
We'll talk about each part at some point during the afternoon, but maybe not during every single build.
The exact GPUs are going to be the one thing that varies.
Java sent over a dozen GPUs for us,
and Jordan over there is going to be interrupting us
with some memories from each of our 16 years
as a channel as we go. So without further ado, why don't we get started?
Which one do you want to do Riley? I don't know.
It's been a long time since I actually built a PC. I don't know if I've.
I did build some at LCT, but I was going to say since NCIX,
but no, it's been. Are these custom stickers?
That's so cool. Double Suite 16. Are we putting them on the computers?
That is so cool too. 32 stream.
Because it's double Suite 16. I get it Riley.
Thank you.
Are we supposed to say what the components are? We're just doing it. We're just going.
We could just do it if you want. We only have half an hour.
We have half an hour. I have half an hour until I phase out of existence. We have half an hour?
Well, 28 minutes now. Well, I do. Well, is he going to build a new PC every half hour?
He's going every half hour. Fine. You better hurry up. Yeah, I'm going to actually have to go pretty quick.
No pressure on me. OK, well, hey, while I get the motherboard and CPU
and stuff built up, why don't we do your first little memory
thing, Jordan? All righty then. Well, let's talk about the first memory
from our first year, which was November 2008 to 2009.
What video do you think got the most views in that time?
2008 to 2009? Yeah.
Brother, I probably couldn't tell you a single video
that we uploaded in 2008 to 2009.
OK. All right, well, let's get there. No, no, no, no, I'm going to try. All right. No, I'm going to try.
I'm going to say it was an unboxing, which
is, I know, a very bold guess, you know,
that's pretty much everything we uploaded on the channel was unboxings at that time.
It was just all unboxing. I'm going to say it was an unboxing.
And is the question, which one got the most views
during that time frame? Or which one got? During that year. During, oh.
During the first year of LTC's existence. During the first year.
Yeah, I went by each individual year.
Oh, boy. OK. We're going to have Dan throw up the thumbnail. Maybe that'll give you a clue.
No, no, no, no, no. I don't need the thumbnail. I don't need any hints.
Why was the fire truck that year? No. No. No, it was not in the first year.
I'm going to say it was an unboxing. Oh, I'm torn.
I'm torn. OK, I'm going to let Riley pick. What category do you think it was? I'm going to let Riley pick.
OK. Do you think it was a motherboard or a case?
In 2008 to 2009? Yes. Big year for motherboards.
Riley, you weren't even working in the PC industry yet. Big one. And I remember it like it was yesterday.
You were a Mac guy. You have no idea what was going on in the PC space at that time.
I was a Mac guy at that time. I was still rocking my Core 2 Duo white MacBook
that I got for university. Nice. OK.
But I installed wine on it. OK. I was kind of a dork.
That's pretty cool. OK. That's pretty cool. Did you install wine or do you spill wine on it?
Huh? A little bit of both. I'm in second year university sitting at home,
swilling, burning the midnight wine oil, studying.
Yes. Economics.
Is that what you studied? No. I was just trying to think of something
that you might study in university. Right. Got it. What did you study in university?
I actually don't know the answer. I got a psychology degree.
How's that working out for you? Great. I've learned so much about you.
Oh. You know what? That's kind of fun.
I said in the what if like to work, did you watch it?
No, I'm not allowed. Oh, right. Well, I'll tell you just this part. Once the company, I told myself that once the company was
shut down and or none of those people worked here anymore,
then I would allow myself to watch it. I'll tell you just this one thing I say. If I retire, I'm allowed to watch it.
I did say that I have a psychology degree.
And that's sort of a joke, because it's not actually true. I'm like, I could talk for hours about blindness
and psychological profile or something to that degree. OK. Could you talk for?
Nope. Not right now. Is that like an ethical thing?
Like you're not allowed to? No, of course. It's the doctor-patient confidentiality.
Like we could do a session. We could do a session. We could. We could do a session right now.
I'm sure the people would love it. You still haven't guessed what the friggin thing is. Well, you still haven't told me what category it's in.
Motherboards. Motherboards. You were stalling. OK. I'm going to go with Rampage 2 Extreme Motherboard Unboxing.
Not even close. Not, not. Well, OK. Are you even the real Linus?
I've got a camera right here. It's OK. Oh, he's got a camera.
This big thing right here is called a camera.
OK, look. In fairness to me, hold on a second. In fairness to me, this place is covered in cameras.
How am I supposed to know which camera is pointed at anybody? I mean, Dan doesn't even have a camera pointed at him.
So Dan, are you just flipping between all the things?
Are you moving all over the place? Oh, is this the one? Ice cheating. Get it in.
Stop. He's got the video on the screen.
Get out of here. This guy. This guy's like an old timey.
What are you doing here, man? Come on.
Oh, man. OK, all right. So not even close.
Not even close. OK, well, I saw it's a GPU. Yep.
Man. Maybe this will help you. It's got 25,000 views in that year.
25,000 views? It's actually had more views this month
than it did in the first month it was out.
Wow. What was even the hotness back then?
What if I break something here? Do I take this off? Don't do that.
No, no, don't take it off. You just leave it like that. You can just kind of slide.
So they did a little bit of pre-building for us, but in some ways it's actually complicating the situation
because it prevents the hold down on the ILM
from actually coming all the way up.
So you'll just have to kind of hold this here. See, like the CPU in there.
It's been so long that I've built a PC. The last time I built a Ryzen PC,
it had the pins where the opposite way. Yeah, yeah. It was not LGA.
The other one. PGA. Yeah? Yeah, you didn't get the old.
No. That's right, though, right? PGA?
Yeah, what the? I'm all about tech news now.
I'm all about just talking about platforms and Google and antitrust.
Yeah, it's LandGridAway. Man, I am off today.
I have now tripped over my own tongue. Like four times already on the stream.
LandGolf Association. LandGridArray.
As opposed to the much more difficult Seagolf or PinGrid
Array, those are the two options. Man, these are nice machines for $1,600.
We're going to get into a little bit more detail later, but we've got 7,800x3D processors.
It looks like we've got 32 gigs of DDR5 memory.
All the GPUs are going to be a little bit all over the place. But the point is that at retail,
these would be costing hundreds of dollars more. And because of the generosity of our partners
who provided the vast majority of the parts for them, here's your RAM, Riley.
Oh, thank you. Yeah, we just kind of randomly moved the parts around.
Because of the generosity of our partners who provided all these parts, when
we donate the profits from them, it's not going to be like 10% or whatever it would normally
be when you're building a computer. It's going to be darn near the entire amount of the computer,
because most of these parts were sent over for this charity build stream, which is pretty exciting for me.
And when we talk about profits from the computers, it's the recrypto mining, right?
What? Oh, man. What year do you think it is?
It's been a while. Look, I'm building PCs. It's taking me back.
Like, am I at NCIX right now? That would be funny if it was like a year ago,
but we are headed into another crypto boom.
So I have no idea what GPU pricing is going to look like. Oh, I don't say that.
Well, I should probably. Just because I don't say it is not going to change the reality.
We actually have a video coming on the main channel very soon.
How do you use 9-channel? Whoa! Whoa, whoa, whoa.
We have a video coming on the main channel really soon asking and trying to answer the question,
is now a good time to build a PC? And there's a lot of factors to consider.
Like, on the one hand, you've got, according to the rumors,
NVIDIA's 50 series coming. But on the other hand, according to the rumors,
and also, you know, NVIDIA's pattern of behavior. Intel.
Oh, sorry. No, you go, you go, you go, you go. I have so many thoughts.
50 series isn't going to be cheap. And also, that could be exacerbated
by the incoming US administration's plans
to put some serious tariffs on basically all goods coming
from, well, pretty much anywhere.
I've caught up to you, by the way. You've caught up to me.
I thought you were ahead the whole time. No. No, that won't be the case.
Sorry. OK, so sorry. You had some thoughts on whether now is a good time to buy a PC.
Well, no. I just thought you were mentioned to NVIDIA's cards coming up.
Just this. Allegedly. Maybe. We don't know anything.
That's what the rumors have been pointing to. And if we did, we wouldn't tell you. And this week, there were also rumors about Intel's GPUs.
I did see those rumors. Yeah.
I did see those rumors. Does this feel like a make or break moment for Intel's GPU
division? Jeez, Louise. Like, if Battle Mage does not absolutely crush it,
and move some serious numbers, are they just going to pack the whole thing up?
Yeah. Well, I mean, I thought that they were packing this thing up
already, because there were previous rumors talking about how they were like, OK,
we're not really going to focus on discrete GPUs, like in the investor calls and stuff.
Yeah, that wasn't even just a rumor. That was the CEO directly.
You were just saying, we're not really going to focus on it. Yeah.
How do I, what is this? Oh, this whole thing comes out. That's a big yikes if you're working on discrete GPUs
at Intel. Not to be clear. I'm not saying they're going to stop developing GPUs
anytime soon. Now that we've seen Battle Mage integrated into what
has been a, I mean, by Intel's recent standards,
successful launch, the integrated GPUs on Lunar Lake
are part of what makes those processors a compelling option
against AMD's own. So I don't think that Intel's GPU architecture unit
is going to go anywhere, but it does seem kind of unlikely
if these Battle Mage discrete GPUs don't absolutely crush it.
It seems kind of unlikely that we're going to see many more of them in the future.
Well, I have to say, yeah, I mean, the one that was leaked, so there was an Amazon listing leaked for the,
oh, I missed this. Yeah, this was just this week, just on the weekend,
actually, the ARC B580.
So not the top one that they do, which was the A770,
or the A750. 50, this is the A580.
So this is the B580, the successor to their lowest one.
I think it was one of the lowest.
That's mine. Yeah, I know, but I already put my box away. Can I have your thermal goop, please?
I'm just about to use it. Fine. While you're waiting, how about that video you can't remember?
Oh, yeah, right. I should try and guess that video, then.
OK, GPU 2008, 2009.
This is post-8800 GTS. This is pre-98.
Is this 8800 GT?
You know what? How much do you use? Is that too much? I'm going to say it's an EVGA 9800 GT.
Is that too much? A little bit more. No, all right, fine. Can you just?
All right. I'll put you out of your misery. Yeah, put me out of my misery.
Show me the video. Dan's got the thumbnail there.
OK, where's the thumbnail? On his live screen there. There's a computer screen in between me and that screen.
Oh, yeah. A computer screen, a computer tower. Hang on a second.
We'll fix that. It's not a screen. It's quite opaque.
Oh, it's an XFX.
So that would be a 9800 GTX.
5870. A 5870. Had they already made the switch to Radeon only?
I'm not sure. No kidding. You're a fake tech tipper.
Even I knew that. I totally forgot when XFX made the decision.
I wonder all these years later, if they regret that move
or not, because the old school among you will remember that like EVGA and BFG,
XFX was actually NVIDIA exclusive
before they went AMD exclusive. They are, to my knowledge, the one exclusive NVIDIA board
partner who has ever just gone completely the other way
and gone AMD or, well, Radeon exclusive.
I think Gainword may have been NVIDIA exclusive at some point.
Don't quote me on that one. In fact, don't anybody quote me on anything
because I'm going to get my cheat sheet or, as I call them,
Le Chat, the cat, the chat. I'm going to bring the chat up and see
if you guys can remember anything that I'm forgetting here.
Here we go. First time float planer, love the show. OK, great.
I don't think that's working. We've had some intranet issues today,
which is why the stream started an hour behind schedule.
Oh, man. This is really taxing my brain here.
It's been a while. Really? I don't do this anymore.
Yeah, I guess that kind of makes sense. I stopped writing LTT videos because I really
wanted to make tech longer than you let me to my surprise.
Yeah, how are those doing? How are those doing? I've looked at the analytics for those lately.
Oh, I mean, they just take too long. OK, well, I mean, it is right in the name.
But we'll have to see. Take longers. Take longers.
I think that was that joke. It was made a number of times.
Has that joke been made? Have I made that joke before? Yes, I believe so. Oh, OK, I don't remember making that joke.
I thought it was fresh. I think everyone made it. We all made it. We were having a great time together.
Sorry, Riley. No, it was good.
All right, I think I have my chat working now. Oh, I should pause these because I'm
tethered to my phone right now. I need to go all the way with that one. Yeah, yours are tight.
Yes, you go all the way until it bottoms out. I'm just trying to be like you, Linus.
So I have a quick question for you, Jordan. Yes, sir.
Not that I'm implying anything about my current co-host or anything of that nature.
But how much help am I expecting to have, like, completing these PCs?
Like, do most of the co-hosts. I'm helping you right now. You really are.
Do most of the co-hosts know how to build computers?
Or am I going to be kind of? I know how to build computers. There's a mix.
Let's put that away. I just care about quality over quantity, OK?
Take longers, right there. You have a mix of a veteran and somewhat less veteran help.
Got it. Just so that we can sort of gear me up and prepare me
for what's going to be happening today, who's my most veteran co-builder?
Jeez, Linus. Don't say Riley.
Don't say Riley. I'm honestly probably on the upper level side, right?
I'll give it to Jake. Jake, OK. So Jake's my most veteran builder.
He's a pretty veteran builder. Jake's OK. He's a young man, but he's definitely
built his fair share of computers. OK. And who's my least veteran builder today?
Please say Riley. Please say Riley. No, not Riley. Not Riley.
OK, OK. I built, I mean, this is why it is so funny,
because I feel like I built, particularly at NCIX,
I built a crap ton of PCs. Oh, yeah, 100%. It's between a couple of people.
We'll find out later. I feel like close to 100 over the years.
Yeah, I'm probably. I just pulled that completely out of my butt. Well, yeah, but you were the main techie guy.
I was the guy. At NCIX at that time. At a certain time.
Yeah. Chris was there. Yep.
And other people. Actually, you know what?
I'm going to say. Did I do this wrong? No, no. Because one of them will normally you would have,
I shouldn't say normally, often these days, you'll have a CPU fan header, and then you'll
have like a CPU opt or like a secondary CPU fan header.
But on this motherboard, you've got a CPU fan header. You've got a pump fan, which often by default
is configured to run at 100%. And then you've also got a system fan header up here.
So because I just stabbed my finger.
It's not bleeding. I don't have to fill out the form. Nobody saw it.
So I just did it again. Wow, that RGB header is really sharp.
We're using this as evidence. I just stabbed two of my fingers.
We're off to a really good start here. Well, don't show them the wound.
You did it for charity, Linus. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. They take blood out of the food bank, right?
Yeah. You could buy a system with Linus blood in it.
No, that's fine. What? Yeah, no, that's fine. No, it's going to go this way.
We want to go that way, don't we? It's not. It's not going this way. You're good.
Don't worry, Riley. You're doing a great job. Your instincts.
Oh, no, you're right. I have kicked in. Your PC building muscle memory.
Double-checking things before you get too far in. Has taken over.
And then you build the entire thing, and you realize you have to disassemble the entire thing
because one thing went wrong. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, but nothing went wrong. You're doing great.
Honestly, you're a little slow. I mean, the fact that I'm like.
Can you just? Hey, he's got 11 minutes left.
He's got tons of time. Yeah, we've got 11 minutes to finish this. The PC's basically built.
And we have to stay on schedule today. Like, we don't really have a choice,
because other hosts are coming in.
They're coming in hot, Riley. They're coming in. Yeah, but I'm stressed.
I want to do it go as far as I can, but at the same time, I'm not going to get in trouble.
If I don't finish this, or wait, yep.
Yeah, I don't think you do. Are there stakes?
I don't think. Yeah. Hey, Jordan, are there any stakes? Like, if people don't finish, does that person just
get like crapier, unfinished PC? Like, is that the idea?
Like, do we get stakes at the end? Who brought out this anti-static strap?
It came with the pad. It came with the pad.
Oh, it came with the mod mat that were, hey, are we ever launching this thing?
Do you know? Can you? Do you want to send a quick message over to Nick? I have no internet.
Oh. We'll talk to him later.
Right, the internet problems. Yeah. Guys, it has been an actual adventure today.
It's been. Zoomer says, Linus, quick question. How many screwdrivers does it take to solve all my tech
problems? Well.
Legitimate question, though. I mean, I'm sure that every tech problem could be solved
with some amount of screwdrivers. You just have to get creative. Yeah, I mean, you need thermal paste.
Like, there's metal and screwdrivers. If you grind it up fine enough, you
could kind of put it in there. Mix it in with a little bit of peanut butter
or like toothpaste or something. I think you could make that work.
As Alex Clark did. It was like pretty bad tech advice.
Well, look, if people wanted good tech advice,
then they can go watch Toasty Bros. OK? This is, we're an entertainment channel.
Purely an entertainment channel. I get such a kick out of that, right?
Because I get about for, I think for every,
LTT is just entertainment. For every one of those messages that I see,
I get a message or an email at my inbox
or I have an interaction with someone in person that's like, dude, LTT kickstarted me on my IT career.
And I'm like a system admin now or I just finished my,
I just finished my degree in Compsi or whatever else.
I think that people, I think that people underestimate
how hard our writing team, people like Jordan work
to make sure that the content, yes, is entertaining because that matters.
I mean, think back to your teachers, right? If you had an entertaining teacher in school,
were you like, oh yeah, but it's like just entertainment.
No, the best ones will entertain you while also teaching you something.
Do we get absolutely everything right and are we absolutely perfect?
And do we go into the greatest depth on every subject? No.
That's what you go to TechLinked for.
Subscribe today. Yeah, subscribe to TechLinked.
That's where you'll get the deepest, the deepest depth.
The deepest, yeah, analysis, expert.
All right. But, but we do go out of our way
to bury, to bury knowledge nuggets, you know?
In between all of our, in between all of our cars, okay?
And mansions, okay? We also want to deliver on knowledge.
Knowledge. Is he still culturally relevant?
I don't know, but I made the same reference the other day and I was like, I don't, maybe this isn't a good idea.
Like on, like on the show or like in person. You know what I like more than tech tips?
Knowledge. Knowledge. I don't think he has a New York accent,
but I did it for a second. Okay, Riley. Let's have some fun.
At least I'm gonna have fun. Don't do it. What? No, I'm gonna have fun.
I don't know if you're gonna have fun, but I'm gonna have fun. You put that in? Wait, I want you to do.
Don't I put, can you do some accents for me? No.
Like how many accents can you do? You know what? It's a bit of a dance.
Let's have, let's have fun. Andrew, Andrew, can you do it for a second?
You know what? Let's have fun. Yeah, let's have fun. I've decided today we're gonna have fun.
I can't borrow you, Andrew. We have fun here. Can you go stand next to Riley for a second?
No, no, no, no, no. No, not with Andrew. No. Okay.
Come on, Riley. Riley, can you do it? No, no. Riley has an Irish accent.
I couldn't, I couldn't possibly. There's no way.
Don't, don't make me do it, Linus. I won't.
No, no, it doesn't matter what I think. It matters what you think.
How invariant it's over, Riley. I can't deal with it.
Well, cause I don't know, I, I, you did reveal what area of Ireland you're from.
I've revealed it, yeah. Yeah. But I, I, I have one Irish accent.
I don't know like the different, you know? So.
You don't. All right. There's someone in the middle, I don't know.
I have one Irish accent. You don't even have that.
I'm sorry. Thanks, Andrew. I'm so sorry to put you both on the spot.
I'm not actually sorry. I actually found that really funny, but I'm not even sorry a little bit.
I didn't know that part comes off.
Why don't we shout out our first donor company here?
Oh, let's do that. Let's shout out our first donor company.
Okay. Jordan, do you want to do that? Cause I don't actually know who they are.
It's right on the screen here for you. Oh, it's right on the screen.
Kingston. There you go. Kingston sent over eight of their,
what are they, NV3s? NV3, two terabyte. Of the two terabyte.
Yep. They sent over 16.
Nope, eight. They sent over eight of their two terabyte SSDs
for these machines. That is all completely free of charge,
which means that when we go and we donate the profits
from these machines to, oh boy, this is kind of scary.
When we go to donate the profits of these machines to charity, the entire value of those SSDs
will be part of that donation. Now, my understanding is that we have not actually settled
on an exact charity. Is that correct?
We're looking at probably a local food bank, but the exact one is not certain yet.
You know what? It seems like a good time,
a good time to donate to the local food bank. Well, things being challenging
and this being a particularly challenging time of year.
So hopefully we can get that processed pretty quickly
and help make a few people's Christmas
a little bit more merry. Is that magnetic? That's the plan for now.
Is which magnetic? This little doohickey here. Corsair.
It really looks like it is, but. Corsair links. It is the least of my concerns right now
because I'm trying to figure out why my motherboard's not going in. You guys have five minutes left here.
Oh, come on. Oh, you know what? We got another memory we had to get to as well.
Okay. So Dan, do you have any merch messages? We're kind of on some casual Black Friday sales
on LTT Store. Yeah, we're getting to clock out a lot too.
Are any people picking up merch messages? Yeah, there's quite a few coming in.
All right, hit me, Dan. Sure, I love the magnetic cable management idea,
but it's a little on the expensive side. Have you ran into any competition with this product?
Has anyone tried to copy or undercut you to your customers?
That's a really good question. So the thing about our magnetic cable management
is that a majority of the cost
is in the neodymium magnets. So neodymium is, you know, a commodity material,
which means that the price is the price. So no matter where you are or who you are
or what currency you buy in or sell in.
And so in terms of undercutting, right, you could try to undercut us on the neodymium
by just taking less margin. But I can tell you that, you know,
if you're an Amazon marketplace seller, for instance,
you're probably gonna be spending about what our margin is on that product,
just on Amazon listing and selling fees. So you're not gonna be competing with us on Amazon.
And if you're sort of, you know, running your own marketplace or whatever else,
then you're probably gonna wanna make some margin. So you're probably gonna be priced similarly to us
because the reality of it is is once you are,
once you're working with injection molding, plastics are functionally very little cost
and the same for the little plates that we have for them that so you can attach them to like, you know,
wood surfaces or whatever else. Like those are literally pennies.
The vast majority of the cost is in the neodymium. So because neodymium costs what it costs,
it's gonna be pretty hard to undercut us without significantly harming the quality.
What makes the magnetic cable management products work so well is that the magnets are super, super strong
and they hold stuff really, really well.
And so if you were to have a competing product that's the same as LTT magnetic cable management,
but with less magnet in it, then you would just have a worse product.
So will someone make a worse product at a lower price?
Probably, but I don't really have any interest in competing in that space.
If they wanna do that, I think that's chill. And yeah, I'm not into it.
So, no, I'm not really worried. On the round ones.
Riley! Mine is, Riley! Listen, for crying out loud, Riley, it's a charity.
Yeah, you're gonna dent the glass panel.
Dent it. Two minute warning. You could dent it? Two minutes? Two minutes?
Geez, you know, I was actually feeling pretty good because I was pretty close to you.
We got our case out at the same time
and I had my mother, I mean, you were talking the whole time.
What else is new, you know what I mean? Geez, wow.
Wow, Riley, thank you for that. What a guy.
And now I'm just way behind it, just like, geez. Don't worry, Riley.
I think that you are doing absolutely...
What are you doing? Oh, geez, Rick, I gotta put the screws in the...
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. In the motherboard. Oh, yeah, yeah, no, that's great. I mean, that's good.
That's where the screws go in there, right? They do, I think they go... Well, they don't go in the motherboard.
They go in the case, through a hole in the motherboard.
Through the... You know, so it's attached like a motherboard should be.
Yeah, right. That's what you usually do.
Dan, do you want to hit me with a merge message? Yeah. I'm not gonna lie, I'm getting a little stressed out here
because even I who build a lot of computers like now...
Oh, I didn't put the shield in. You didn't put the IO shield in.
Classy. It's always the... Oh, no. At least I checked.
Yeah, now was a better time to check than after you had put in all of the...
All the screws. All the motherboard screws. You're getting stressed because why?
Because even I who build computers on a fairly regular basis still,
not exactly finishing these in half an hour.
We're gonna have to try and get a little faster. I feel like that's like the...
Fastest people can do half an hour. I mean, I'm sure some of the builders at NCIX could do that.
No, in the I Love... In the I Love Building computers stream
where I was actually trying to build them as fast as possible,
I think I got down to about eight or nine minutes, I want to say.
What? 17? Is that...
Oh, I thought it was lower than that. Oh my goodness. So I'm actually gonna have to haul,
but in order to make this happen. You know what? I can do it though.
So are we gonna time each one? We're gonna time each one. Yep, you're moving over here now.
No, no, I gotta finish. We gotta set a baseline. No, no, we got guys coming in to finish for you.
I know, but I gotta set a baseline, at least for my machine. Don't worry, I'm gonna make it up in the next one.
I'm gonna make it up in the next one. Mark, do you wanna start on that one? Oh, hi Mark.
Yeah, you can have a head start, Mark. Go for it.
I'll be over there in a minute. You just give me,
well maybe a slightly more than a minute. Oh man, so Jordan,
did I really start at the half hour mark on this one? You started at the half hour mark.
Okay, if I can finish this one in 35 minutes,
uh-huh, right, then if I can finish the next one in 25 minutes,
I'll be caught up after just two PCs.
And then, if I could finish the next one in 23 minutes,
I'll be two minutes ahead, which would be incredible.
And if I could finish the next one in 19 minutes,
then I would be slightly more ahead.
You're one minute behind already. Jordan, Jordan, Jordan, Jordan, look, look Jordan.
Sir? Sir? Sir, this is a Wendy's.
Not even supposed to be built in PCs. Yeah, but PC wasn't built in a day, okay?
Supposed to be built in junior freaking cheeseburgers. We're not sponsored by Wendy's.
Don't get late to them. What, oh, is it?
JBC's is the acronym, in case you're wondering, that's what you're trying to think about, right?
No, that's not what I'm trying to think about at all. I'm actually really scared right now.
Because I feel like you and I may have mixed up a bunch of our stuff.
No. And because these are systems that are going to actual people
who are gonna actually use them at some point actually, you know?
Wait, I didn't think about that, but I've done a good job. They might need to have all of their accessories
included with them and what not. You know, we didn't cross pollinate our deals here.
Are you sure? Yeah, what do you mean? How is that possible?
I mean, you took some of my thermal paste, so whoever gets the cooler is gonna, you know,
get a little cheated there. Can't believe.
We have a team for that, it's okay. No, no, we got this, we got this.
I've got this, you know what? I've got this totally under control
and I am no longer stressed at all because of math.
I did the math earlier and if I can build each computer
two minutes faster than the last one, I'll be ahead by the time we're done.
That's why I'm not stressed. Oh my goodness, this case just tripped me out.
I went to lift it up and there was no,
there was no anything there. It's starting.
That's much better. My hallucination is starting. Oh no. You're an AI Linus.
This isn't real. If I was an AI, I would probably,
probably be building this faster right now. Okay, I think I'm in pretty good shape here right now.
I'm most of the, suddenly it looks like a computer. I couldn't help wondering what these fans are for.
Just in case. Just in case.
Three lights over. Now they're just in the case. This guy's a father.
That's content.
Puns like those? That's content. Okay, Jorah, hey Jordan, which GPU is me?
Whichever you like. Whichever I like. Those are both from Java.
I can have whatever I like. Please, please.
I'm gonna take the one with the bigger cooler. Let's go. Like it a little faster.
What, what a little faster? Like it a little faster. Hey, thanks for stressing about
getting the builds built on time, but he's also stopping to dance and do a little dance.
Yeah, you're four minutes over now. And I'm more done than Riley.
So, you know what, I- And also four minutes behind the other next one, dude. Oh dude, this guy, this guy's a Mac guy.
You think I'm not gonna catch up to Mark in like the first two minutes?
Look at him. He's got a manual out for how to install a CPU.
Not with you, it's not. Don't. Wow.
If you're slower than Linus, you don't get to have any cake. Okay, so.
I'm off now, right? All right, yeah, I think you're off.
No, no, I'm still gonna finish mine regardless, Mark. What?
Yeah, you're good, Riley. Huh? You're good. So our skilled team of procurement professionals
are going to be finishing up any PCs that don't get finished.
You're gonna, or is it Reese? Reese, are you? Okay, mix of logistics and procurement.
You know, the people who do the real work who are skilled regardless.
Who aren't just pretty faces. They're also pretty faces.
Everyone's a pretty face. Okay, I'm just gonna leave this.
Yeah, perfect. I'm not gonna do any more damage. I mean, you can pretty much ship it like this.
It's a concept PC. Riley.
You could totally take this to Computex and just be like, oh, we have a bold new vision.
It transforms into a caterpillar.
You can kind of see where you were going with it. I think that's really good.
Great work, Riley. Wow, that makes me feel so great.
Don't patronize him like that. I'm gonna go ahead and I'm gonna put a side panel
on this bad boy. And I'm gonna figure out how it's oriented.
And then, do I have to post them? Is that when the stopwatch stops?
Okay. Well, the stopwatch never stops. So, you know, never, buddy.
See you later, Riley. Thanks for dropping in.
Happy birthday, me. It's a weird thing to bring up when someone's leaving.
Happy 32 years. Dan, stall them.
Hit me with a merch message. Yeah, sure, sure, sure, sure.
Hi, Linus. What do you think is the next big tech change you're excited for?
I'm hoping for a drastic leap in battery tech sometime soon.
Man, doesn't battery technology feel almost like
carbon nanotubes at this point? I wish Riley was here so we could talk about
carbon nanotubes. You know where it's... Yeah, tubes, what?
Hey, he's back. What? I'm sure Mark knows about carbon nanotubes.
Nanomachines. Yeah, it feels like carbon nanotubes, you know,
where every other week, we're hearing about some huge advancement
that's going to absolutely revolutionize the entire world.
And week after week, it just stays mostly relevant
to the lab and not really applicable to the real world.
To be clear, I'm really excited about, you know, solid state batteries and some of the headlines
are extremely promising. Like you got companies that claim
they're literally putting them in cart right now and the range is awesome and it's incredible.
I just want to touch it, you know, I want to see it.
I do think that better battery technology
will change everything. Like, oh man, this is something that drove me crazy
when I had this realization. I pulled my old iPhone 6 out of my nightstand drawer
because I wanted an iPhone with a headphone jack. I wanted to like listen to headphones on my iPhone
and I couldn't find my USB-C adapter.
Don't ask why, it doesn't matter. The point is I pulled it out and I was like, wow,
this is really thin. Like that's really cool.
Man, they've gotten chunky. You know, if Apple could put that same capacity battery
in a slim form factor again, you know they would because they're Apple
and it's kind of what they do. Hey, were we expecting there to be an HDMI cable
on this monitor by any chance? I suspect this is posted and I'm gonna call this one done.
Yeah, I think you're good. I'm calling that time. So you're seven and a half over.
Okay, you know what? Not bad.
I am about to just absolutely clown on this noob.
Wait, where's my PC? Dear, where the heck is my stuff?
Oh, it's way up there. Mark, you're taking up the whole,
you're taking up the whole table here, brother. What's the, what?
Hey, look, look, I got AI RAM.
That's probably A1, AMD system one, I assume, right?
Not AI. I'm gonna go with that it's AMD system one.
Okay, Jordan. Yeah, buddy. What am I supposed to be doing?
This is, we're on year two now. For those of you joining us a little bit late,
this is our double sweet 16 stream.
We're on year three, we missed year two. You were kind of slow, so I skipped it.
What? No, we have to do year two. All right, year two.
Okay, year two. Well, hold on, I gotta update the people. I gotta update the people.
I gotta get, I gotta get Mark's tower out of my way.
Apparently I'm supposed to, supposed to do everything around here.
I'm supposed to compete with like a tiny sliver of table over here.
So we're doing a double sweet 16 stream where we're celebrating 16 years as a channel
and also 16 million subscribers by building 16 PCs in the most chaotic way possible
for charity. Where is my motherboard? How did it, how did my motherboard end up?
I have no idea how that. Were you stashing my stuff to slow me down?
No, it was in my way. Did you guys see him?
Where's, where's Chad? Chad's gonna, Chad's gonna out you.
Did he do that? He didn't see it.
He was cleverly off camera. Why you yum yum?
I saw nothing. I saw nothing.
Nothing happened. Stop gaslighting your employee.
That's right. There you go. I don't believe. Gaslighting isn't real.
I did nothing wrong. I don't believe you. I don't believe you.
And I especially don't believe any of you. I am quite certain that I would have,
I would have realized if my computer was supposed to be like that.
Okay. Okay, you're two. Let's do this thing.
All right, you're two. So November 2009, 2010.
You were a wee baby. And this video got 110,000 views that year.
110,000 views.
2000, 2009, 2010? Yeah.
So mostly 2010, cause it's November to November. What?
So you guys don't understand the, you guys don't understand the pressure I'm under
trying to answer these questions, because we unbox random stuff back then.
Like I would, I would unbox a portable hard drive, you know?
I would unbox a coupon code for a game
that was coming with like a, like a bundle, you know, when you buy a GPU or CPU motherboard bundle or something.
Right? Like I, I have no idea which video is performed well.
I know which ones have performed well in the longterm. I might be able to take some stabs at that,
but he wants me to tell you which ones performed well out of the gate.
Let's just say, I'm gonna go, Oh, no, no, no, I don't want any hints.
I don't want any hints. I don't need them. I don't, I don't need the hints. All right.
You're trying to buy more time. That's all. I am not trying to buy anything.
I'm trying to sell these amazing PCs that we're building
at java.gg. Okay.
And all the profits are going to charity. That's what I'm trying to do today.
And how dare you? How dare you?
How dare you question my motives today?
Mr. Jordan Block. Yeah.
To say, to say to me
that I might be stalling for time. Never.
Why I find it,
I find it to be,
I find it to be unconscionable
to say that I might be stalling for time.
You mark, you want to hit him for me? Unconscionable.
Are you, are you taking my stuff again? You know that I've already installed that CPU, right?
You have effectively hidden nothing. You have achieved exactly nothing.
And also I saw you do it. I saw you do it this time.
You will have absolutely no one on your side now.
I'm going to go check. I'm going to check right now while I unbox this fan
because I can multi-tap. Did you just take all of his RAM? You guys all saw that.
I saw nothing. I saw nothing.
No. No. You saw, you saw everything.
He actually did it. He actually, he put the RAM a different place, what?
No, it's in his computer. Where'd he put the RAM?
Mark. Mark, you only get one kit of RAM.
There's four RAM slots? Yeah, there's four RAM slots, but this is AMD.
So two of the RAM slots are mostly decorative.
If you want to run them at, if you want to run them at an optimal speed,
you don't use them. At least my CPU isn't decorative.
My CPU is not decorative. My CPU is right here.
Oh, I was making an Intel joke.
So how about that year two video? Dang, dang.
Now hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on.
We don't need light because Mark casts all the shade all by himself.
Also, I think I've created a serious problem for myself.
Oh no, it turned back on on its own. Oh great. The power button's up there,
which if you guys have followed any of Dbrand's marketing, you'll know that I'm four foot one and can't reach it.
Room. Okay, secure.
What does it, what does it say on there, Andy? Oh, that's right.
That one's, I am very short.com. Yeah, I remember now.
Oh boy. Okay.
Well, I am in a flow now. And what you guys may have noticed
is that even though I'm still behind Mark, I have 15 minutes to complete this PC,
which I have made excellent progress on. And this time around,
I have pulled out all the things that I need ahead of time. Whoopsie doodles.
Oh. Like wires and thermal paste and IO shields
and all that stuff. I bet he doesn't even have his IO shield.
Look at him. He does.
Now, Mark, you were gonna build a NAS a little while ago. What is the last, what is the last PC that you built?
The last PC that I built? Yeah, did you end up building that NAS? Oh yeah.
Yeah. What kind of machine did you go for? Andy.
Oh, okay. It's a B550.
It was quite a while ago.
And it works. No one saw that, right?
The plastic bottom on the bottom micro.
Who needs it? I can't verify it for you. No, no, you don't need to see.
You don't need to see any of that. Now, what do you use your NAS for?
Are you still super into like VHS captures? Is that like a side hustle still?
Yeah, I learned all about the Doomsday project.
The Doomsday people did it. Oh, okay.
You're gonna have to tell me about it because I have to confess
that while I find the topic interesting,
I haven't dedicated nearly the amount of time that you have to like old analog video captures.
So tell me about the Doomsday project. So, well, so I got my whole analog capture set up,
posted it on X, and they told me,
or somebody DM'd me and was like, hey, there's this better thing
that like can capture your footage at like the original tape quality.
Yeah, but like way better in terms of like,
instead of going through your RCA output.
Oh, okay. Oh, like you can pull the internal tape quality
kind of like with like consoles where you can like pull the original quality
right off the chip instead of taking it to like the RCA output on the console or whatever.
Like there's an internal spot. There's like an RF test point that you can tap into
and get more detail, which is amazing.
I'm not good with soldering, so Dan, Mr. Dan, help me out with that.
Yeah, that was a lot of fun. Yeah. It was pretty interesting.
I have never seen, you know, like the snow on the VHS.
Oh, yeah. I've never seen it perfectly pixel perfect.
Like all of the squares, like you can see the brushes going over the,
well, the heads going over the tape. Cause it's all magnetic. Incredible.
Yeah. I was, I was floored. Okay, that's pretty cool.
Is this a new thing? Yeah. Like 2018.
Really? And it was used originally for a laser disc. And the cool thing is because it's all magnets.
Yeah. It's all magnetic. You can basically do it with anything
that has an RF test point. So even if they don't haven't decoded the actual signal,
it exists. So this is the end game. Once you capture it like this,
there is absolutely no point in continuing
to hold onto your original media in hopes that a better capture method
could come along or anything like that. Basically, but I've heard that this is the end game
multiple times in my life. So, we'll see.
Right. I'm very impressed with it though.
That's pretty cool. Yeah. And so is that something that people like come to you for
often or is it mostly a hobby or like?
Oh, right now it's mostly a hobby.
But we'll see, we'll see. Maybe I can make a little side hustle out of it.
I mean, we did that video a little while ago. If you guys remember, we did that video
on capturing one of my old VHS tapes. And Mark was brought in as sort of an outside,
well, an inside consultant, because the truth is he's probably forgotten
more about analog capture than I ever knew. Like I always found it interesting.
Like my first real GPU was actually one of those
all-in-wonder ones that had the TV tuner on it
because I loved the idea of being able to get video into the PC.
Like if you can take video out of the PC,
surely you should be able to get video into the PC,
but as it turns out, video capture and encoding is half black magic.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Half black magic and half science.
It's all science, I know. I know, but black magic. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Black magic design. Yeah. Yeah. You know, a company that makes capture.
I'm more of an AJA guy myself. Which is fair, which is fair and valid.
I'm just, that's just not a joke. It's not funny.
Yeah, no, I know. I mean, mine wasn't funny either, wasn't it?
How many minutes? 11. 11 minutes? No problem, no problem, brother,
because I couldn't help noticing a little thing.
I couldn't help noticing a little thing here. Remember, remember how I told Mark, I was like,
he probably doesn't even have his I.O. shield.
Remember how I said that? Guess what, he doesn't have it in his computer right now.
That's two for two. Who needs an I.O. shield?
Look at that.
No, we need it. Nice, you do. What do you need it for?
What does it do? He absolutely pulled it out and showed it to me.
I then forgot to put it in. It's the most common, it's the most common
Mac guy PC building error. Wow, wow, wow.
I've seen lots these days that have it just built in. Yeah, yep.
Also, I still don't know what it's for.
Grounding. Dust, grounding? I actually think it's more to do with RF, Dan.
Oh, that would make sense, yeah. I think it's to make the entire chassis enclosed
and safe or whatever. So, the reality of it is it doesn't,
you're not still putting in screws. What screwdriver are you using?
What is going on over here?
You can, I can't. What? Are you taking it out of the motherboard
or are you leaving it in? Oh, my goodness. What's happening?
It's a screwdriver. How many have we done?
We've got some great Black Friday deals running on LTT Store, so if you wanted to leave
a merch message, now's as good a time as any. We've got free shipping around the world.
I think it's on orders over $300, is that right, Dan? I've got so many merch messages, I have no idea, probably.
Okay, cool. Go to LTT Store and buy stuff, it's fine. I have to put this in beforehand?
Oh, yeah, buddy. Oh, man. Oh, yeah, buddy.
So, I have in, what am I at, like 12 minutes here,
closed the gap and pulled into the lead.
Not that it's a competition, not that it's a competition. Cause like I said, it was never gonna be a competition.
Wow. It was never gonna be a competition. Well, it's not really trash talk when it's like over.
You know, I didn't have a screwdriver. I mean.
For the first little bit. I mean, that sounds like a skill issue to me.
It's yeah, it's not like you work at a place where. Yeah, this is a pretty good screwdriver.
Screwdrivers run like milk and honey.
I'm a video editor. We don't edit videos with screwdrivers.
I mean, if you did, I'd be pretty impressed. Whoa.
That would make for a fun short. Yeah. I should pitch that to Artie.
Like, okay, here, Artie, hear me out.
For a spot for LTT Store, we have one of the video editors edit with a screwdriver.
LTT like Edward Scissor's hands, but we just like zap strap a bunch of screwdrivers
to all their fingers. I'm into it. Screwdriver hands.
Shoot. I actually missed something on my last machine.
I didn't plug in this front USB two header. I didn't see it. So I'll penalize myself.
I'll give myself a small 30 second penalty. So, Jordan, you're keeping track of my times, right?
Sure. Where the devil is my front audio connector on this case?
Are these all the same case? Yep. Okay.
So all the first eight are. So whoever's job it was to arrange this, hold on.
Linus. This is my front panel audio. Yes, sir.
Does this go in here? Yeah. Or does it go in here? Yeah, yeah, it goes in here.
It goes in here. It's funny how many things I kind of take for granted
as an old school builder that people
who didn't really build back in the day. Yeah, I built back in the day.
Won't know. Or may have forgotten. I rebuilt my G5 Power Mac.
Okay. That doesn't count. Yeah, that doesn't really count. Oh, here it is.
I don't know. Okay. Why don't we show it to a couple more donors for us?
Yeah, let's show to one of our donors. Okay, so a massive shout out to Noctua
who contributed 16 of their, these are NHD 15s, hey?
Yeah. Yeah, 16 of their NHD 15 Chromax black coolers.
You can check these out here. These are a great cooler for cooling.
Well, basically anything.
And that means that when we are donating
the profits of these machines, which we are selling at jawa.gg,
when we're donating the profits, the entire value of those coolers gets to be donated
rather than contributing to our costs. So thank you very much Noctua.
We were actually blown away by the generosity of our partners
when we told them what we were doing. We ended up, man, I think we ended up getting
almost everything comped by someone. They were all extremely excited
to help contribute to this. And it's just, it's heartwarming,
especially this time of year. So massive shout out to Noctua.
And then I think I've got another one. I also want to shout out Gskill
who sent over eight of their Flarex 5 memory kits.
These are a perfect pairing for our AMD systems.
They are DDR5 6000 and the exact CL rating.
I'm going to guess 30 because Gskill, Gskill ain't no fool.
Yeah, there you go. So they're DDR5 6000 CL 30, 32 gig kits.
They sent over eight of these to make sure that our systems would have enough memory
and enough high speed memory that you're going to be playing the latest games.
Let's go. What else we got here? That's your five minute warning.
Five minute warning, huh. I don't even need five more minutes to finish this PC.
You wouldn't even believe how fast I'm going to finish this one. Yeah, let's take bets on that.
It's going to be so fast. It's going to be so fast. Look at this.
I'm plugging in my front panel headers and everything. Dan, just to show how confident I am.
Yeah. Hit me with a merge message. Oh, yeah, sure. I'm going to build the rest of this PC in five minutes
while also replying to merge messages. Wow. Easy.
Hey, DLL, it's just DL and M now.
What is the worst computer parts company? My personal pick has to be HP.
Oh, see, I could get behind the HP pick
if we consider a printer, a computer parts,
because I am not a fan of some of the incredibly
anti-consumer things that they pull with respect to their printers.
However, if I have to narrow it down to computer parts,
HP does have that case. But I wouldn't really classify them
as a computer parts company. I would say they're more of a finished goods company.
So if I've got to pick a computer parts company,
am I allowed to pick ones that don't exist anymore? Is that an option?
Because some of them don't exist for good reason.
OCC.
Dan, you spoiled the answer. Sorry, I actually have a personal vendetta about them.
I guess that's unrelated. You and everyone has a personal vendetta against OCC.
OCC was the one that I was gonna pick.
Sorry. To give you some idea of how shady this company was,
they marketed a product that used what they called
UTT dies.
And these UTT memory dies,
the way that OCC marketed them
was that compared to the really desirable dies at the time,
so things like in the lower capacity DDR days, like WinBond BH5, or later on,
you had Samsung TCCDs, for instance,
the way that they marketed these UTT dies
was that, man, they were flipping fast.
All you had to do was pump enormous amounts
of voltage through them and you could get them to go wicked fast.
And don't worry, we got your back, if anything goes wrong, we'll get you a new one.
So UTT was code for untested.
So basically, instead of actually binning them
and making sure that they could run at the speed that they were selling them at,
they just marketed as a bullet point,
like on the product page, that these were untested dies
and you could just juice the snot out of them and they would cover it under warranty
and that was their product.
And you know what? Oh, yeah, sorry, what's that? I have a fun story about OCC.
Do you? Yeah, I bought one of their- Does it involve an agility SSD?
Yeah, I bought one because you recommended me one
on NCIX Tech Tips years ago. Okay, so in fairness to me,
agility SSDs were a crazy good value
and I have a theory that they were using
similarly unvalidated NAND flash,
but that was not something that was, I don't know if that was ever actually confirmed,
but it sort of came out later that that may have been the case.
So I did not know. Did your agility SSD live by any chance?
No, not for very long. Not for very long. No. The funny thing about that is that some of them did great.
I mean, that's the thing about random untested hardware.
Hey, speaking of that, OCC doesn't exist anymore,
but there's some very OCC-like practices that are going on in the DRAM industry right now,
particularly DDR4. So there's two competing low-cost approaches
to DDR4 memory, which is still relevant
because you still got AM4 out there using DDR4.
You still got LGA1700, older Gen Intel CPUs
that are using DDR4. And also some of the non-Western CPU platforms
are using DDR4 as well. And there's this competition
between the folks that are taking harvested dies
off of old memory modules
and remanufacturing them into new modules. So these would be like South Korean dies
and the Chinese fabs that are building brand new DDR4
at super, super cut-rate prices.
I wasn't going anywhere with this. I just thought it was really interesting.
Also, it's time for me to install my GPU. I've got an XFX Speedster 7800XT.
So this is the same class of GPU that we put in those last two systems over there.
And basically it's gonna mean that you're gonna be getting a fantastic
1440P gaming experience out of this thing.
And in slightly older titles, you could even drive these systems at 4K.
So these are really nice little systems, 7800X3D.
This was sent over by Jawa, by the way, who is our sponsor for the stream
and who is the one who is handling selling all of these machines for charity for us.
I'm just gonna go ahead. Yeah, but remember last time,
I was like eight minutes over time and I am just about done.
I already got my GPU in. Whoa, when did he get all?
When did he get all caught up? He's got a different panel. That's pretty impressive.
Yeah, but he doesn't have his eight pin power connector. It's a Wi-Fi. Well, you know.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Is the IO shield in properly? It's in. Wow.
Really? I even got the little Wi-Fi antenna's in.
It's amazing what having an actual screwdriver will do for you. There's no kidding.
Do you have your Wi-Fi antenna's in? My Wi-Fi antenna's in. I don't need those.
I use wired Ethernet like a child. You know what? Got them.
Roasted. Well, you don't have a power supply though.
Do you not have a power supply? Mark?
Well placed hand. Yeah, the head is very clutched there. Shut up.
What's in the box?
This is even with him trying to sabotage me. Look, the cables were inside the case.
I didn't know those. Unlike Mark, my completed PC here is actually completed.
Okay, we're gonna do a quick post test. Do I have an HDMI cable yet?
To demonstrate my confidence that I have made up ground here,
I'm gonna go ahead and put my side panel on,
which I know is bad jubies, but I am extremely confident.
There you go. What a gorgeous little machine.
HDMI? Oh, you go Jordan. Oh, wait. Okay, yeah.
So do I have a power cable here? Did we think of that?
Yep, it's here. Oh, okay, so not here. It's over there.
That's fine. That's fine. That's close enough. Mark, you put all your stuff.
Is the plan to put these on? Yeah. Oh, cool.
Do I get to pick where it goes? Yeah. Ooh.
Okay. Or maybe that's your prize that you get when I'm done on time. All right, I'm putting this, excuse me.
No, I'm putting it on. Dan, do you want to hit me with a merge message?
Yeah, sure.
There's a peel. Yeah, yeah, no, I know the peels there. I'm just, I'm eyeballing it, I'm eyeballing it.
Plastic on plastic. I'm thinking right here. All right, here. Okay, hit me, Dan.
Hello, wanted to ask what would be the one tip tip that seems obvious, but surprises you the most
with how many times it slides under the radar?
You know what? I think the one for me has to be buying secondhand gear.
Even though we talk about it all the time, even though it's like, it's something everyone's
probably heard at some point, it amazes me
how often I see people buy something brand new
for reasons that, just for reasons that I cannot,
that I cannot understand. There are times when buying brand new makes a ton of sense,
but I would say that for most people,
unless your budget is quite high, there are at least some parts that you should
at least explore, getting something secondhand.
It does take more work. And maybe part of it is just me being in my,
my hobbyist mindset and being like, well, what?
What? Like, deal hunting isn't like the best part
of building a new PC. You just want to go to a store
and walk away with everything you need. What?
That's crazy, right? I do think part of it is just me being sort of
out of touch in that sense, but it is probably the one that surprises me the most.
How few people are open to picking up a used something.
And for reasons that just don't seem rational to me sometimes, we did that recent video on picking up home theater
equipment secondhand versus buying a brand new sound bar.
And I saw this, I saw this one comment. It was like, I don't want like some like herpes,
AV receiver and speaker coming into my house. It's probably dirty.
And I'm just like, bro,
you ain't got any like lights all wipes left over
from the pandemic. You can't, you got, you got no disinfectant.
That's, it's fine. Chill brother. It's okay. So I think that's my, I think that's my big one.
All right. Here we go. Oh, we got any, you got any lights?
Hey, there we go. Let's go. Also for bonus points,
I'm removing the peels from these. There we go.
You're five and a half behind. Oh man. You're doing okay.
I'm doing great. Better than okay.
No, no, okay. And this thing's going to post. You just watch.
She's got all her power things plugged in.
Everything's going to be great. I'm so confident. Dan, go ahead and hit me with a merge pass.
Hey, let's go. All right. I'm onto my next system. See you later, Mark.
Thanks for tuning in to the sweet 16 stream. Thanks for playing. Good effort.
You're pretty good at building computers. Well, thank you. I mean, has anyone ever told you?
The thing today is I'm going to build them until I get good at it.
He's getting better. I'm getting better. I'm improving. All right.
So this time I've got 24 minutes and speaking of no competition.
What do you mean? I am up against the one.
You just dropped my stuff. Why are you even using that stuff?
Uh-oh. Wait, Dennis, what are you doing?
I'm taking the plate off. You're currently unbuilding it.
How could I possibly lose against this guy? Oh wait, you don't even have a mic yet.
What is happening here? Is it your screws? They're all over the...
I'm looking at the instruction. They're all over the floor.
My goodness. Well, I think I'm going to win.
Okay, so what was my mark? It's the competition. No one told me it's a competition.
Yeah, of course. Everything's a competition. I thought you were. How are we going to do it?
So we should make a start. What more do you want? Life's a competition, Dennis. That's all we do here, Dennis.
No one told me it's a competition. Come on. Come on. Let's go.
Faster. Well, that's not a very competitive mindset. And I'm afraid you might not win then.
What's the paste thing? You don't need to worry about paste yet.
You need to get that CPU in the socket first. All right, all right, all right.
I'll tell you what. I'll tell you what. And stop. No, no.
Okay, oh my goodness. One sec, one sec, one sec. There is so much wrong here already.
Okay, so that's... No, stop. Just wait. Oh, okay.
Well, here's the thing.
Oh, sorry. There's a little prompt open on the thing. I need to...
There we go. Here's the thing. I can only guarantee that eight of the computers will work.
The eight that I built. Jordan, what was my time? For the second one, by the way.
All right. How much over were you the first time?
I don't remember. I thought that that's why I have an official timekeeper,
Jordan. I don't want stuff going on over here. Okay, maybe someone in the chat.
Maybe someone in the chat can help you out. But I'm starting this one now. Yeah, you're eight minutes behind.
So I was at more like 23. More like 23.
Behind what? Because I'm not behind Dennis. I'll tell you that much. He has been unbuilding over here.
No, I'm not. He took off the CPU cooler mounting brackets.
And then I'm going to put it back on. Exactly. He's trying to make it fair.
That's what I'm saying, Dennis. I'm saying you were out building. And then you're like, no, I'm not.
And then you proceed to tell me the thing you unbuilt.
I haven't watched OTT video for a while. I don't know how to do it. You're not missing much.
Jeez. I mean, in fairness, we don't really
build computers very often anymore. So. Exactly. Yeah, you're not really, yeah.
You're not really missing too many. You watch the build streams. We do a lot of these. Do we though?
I don't think we do that many of these. It just feels like we do a lot of them. Cause every time it's, it's quite the production.
I don't think we need this anymore. Yeah. Now I'm going to do the paste.
He's going to do the paste. Doesn't it come with paste? I'll tell you what, I'll tell you what, Dennis.
You've done enough paste in your life. No, wait, no.
Tell you what, Dennis. Why don't you move your RAM first?
So you want that in the slots that. But how do I put it on after if that's,
it doesn't have to kind of be on my way, like in the way, right?
Well, no, it's more just that you have one of them in the wrong slot. Oh.
Yeah. So you wanted in the second one from the, well, okay, you took out both of them.
Okay. Well, only, only one of them was in the wrong slot. So you want it in this one right here.
Right there. Yep. There you go. And then you also wanted in the farthest one from the slot.
Why? Those two are the most electrically stable.
They have the best signal integrity on most motherhoods. So who put in the first and third?
The first and third? Yeah. Oh my goodness. Click these on.
Okay, I don't worry, I'll help you, Dennis. First and third would be if you're putting in four sticks
and you don't mind if they run at a much lower speed. Did you, okay, hey.
How come they're not the same? Here, I bet you watched this video.
Yeah, it's really complicated and it has to do with like,
like, like the signals effectively like, like bouncing back and causing some kind of interference
on it's, it's,
I can understand it if I'm like reading and I'm like, oh yeah, I get it.
But it's one of those things that I don't get well enough to remember it later and then explain it.
Well, okay, hey, I bet you watched that, that Taiwan computer video, right?
The one where I built the machine in the- Yes, I skipped, I skipped, I skipped the end.
Sorry. Well, at any rate. Wow.
Yeah, it is. There it is. You know, it's a really funny thing.
It's a really funny thing to see the speculation that takes place online sometimes about what an ogre I am
and how my staff is obviously afraid of me and stuff. They could use a little more fear.
This is what I think I'll say about this guy.
Anyway, in that video, one of the things that I critiqued about the build
was that the builder opted to use two lower capacity kits
instead of one higher capacity kit. And the reason that I criticized that was that
if you run two kits, they're stuck running at a lower speed.
They're not really listening. So instead of running at like 6,000 or 6,400
megatransmitters per second, it runs at like 5,200,
which doesn't make as big of a difference to performance as my thing. This is just old numbers.
Yeah, well, one number much bigger than the other number. Yes.
Yes. So it runs at lower number.
And slower RAM, right, could be bad, right?
Yeah. Probably. Maybe.
Might be fine, but could be bad.
Okay. Okay, Jordan. I'll finish that video. I'll finish that video.
Hit me with my guess. With your what? Hit me with my guess thing.
For those of you who are tuning in a little bit later, this is our double sweet 16 stream.
We're having a lot of fun today to celebrate 16 years of LTT
and 16 million subscribers. We're building 16 PCs for charity.
And when we build each pair of eight PCs,
Jordan is supposed to be giving me, oh wait, so you're supposed to do two years per PC.
Oh yeah, you're way behind. Oh, okay. Oh my gosh. Well, let's do a few then.
All right, let's follow through. I'm supposed, he's supposed to tell me, or he's supposed to have me guess. Are we up to number three now?
I want number two still, Dan. Yeah. The card thing?
Okay. Yes. Oh my gosh. So put the thumbnail up, don't listen to him.
Which video from that year? All right, that's our most viewed. Okay.
So 2009 to 2010, November to November.
Yep. Here's your thumbnail. Oh, I got a thumbnail now.
Okay. What's the thumbnail? Wait, we already did that one.
It looks very similar. You said that was number two.
Dennis. Yeah, number two. 2009? This one is labeled as number two.
Yeah, that's right. Oh, we're still doing it, okay. No, I did that one. No, no, you did number one.
I never finished it. No, no, they look very similar.
Really? Yes. Another XFX GPU? You are correct.
Oh. This was the HD 5770.
Really? Yeah, that was the most viewed in year two. Wow, XFX GPU were like bangers for me back in the day.
Apparently. I didn't remember that at all.
So year three is a little more interesting. Okay, all right. Hit me with the thumbnail for year three.
And yes, Dennis, that was a thumbnail back then, okay? Because I don't even...
Do you want to see a real thumbnail? I don't think the thumbnail was a stink back then, right?
Did YouTube support? That's a real thumbnail. It's custom thumbnails yet?
I think they might have. But it might have been a still frame. Was it a still frame from the video though?
Yeah. Oh, okay. So it's not entirely my fault that they looked the best.
Hang on Reese, can you look down so we can see the screen? So that one I remembered. No, I already saw it.
Okay, never mind, you're good, you're good. So that was a special edition EVGA GPU.
And I'm just gonna have to try to remember what it was.
I want to say, I want to say it was a...
Oh God, how did you take that? A 560 Ti.
You're pretty close. I want to say it was a 560 Ti
and it was a special Duke Nukem Forever edition card
because that was back before anyone knew what an absolute turd sandwich Duke Nukem Forever
was gonna be. Yeah. Was it a 560 Ti?
You're very close. Ah, darn it, what was it? GTX 580 and the Matrix 3D monitor and 3D vision.
You were doing a giveaway apparently back then. Oh, cool.
Dude, I wish that I had archived all the giveaway entries
for some of the contests that we did back in the day. Yeah.
Some of them were so funny. And the thing is, you treat YouTube
like it's gonna be there forever. It's not. Most of the really good ones are gone.
Even if I could find the old spreadsheet on my NCIX email or like Sheets account or whatever,
even if I could find it, most of them were pulled down over the years
and it's sad because some of them were so creative
and so funny. There was this really cute one where they did stop motion
and they were like a monster or something and there was this one with really, really bad acting
and like someone was attacking the city or something
and like, I don't know, it was really cool
and the community was smaller, was hyper-hyper-engaged at that time.
It was a lot of fun. It was a really fun time on YouTube.
All right, let's do one more here. Okay, okay, one more guessing game.
Oh, gosh. You wanna fire up number four there, Dan? Boop.
Okay, what year is this? This is 2011-2012. Oh, Peridae Ar Drone.
Yep. Peridae Ar Drone. So this one had 820,000 views in the first year.
This, I think, was the closest thing to like a viral hit
that I had had up until that time. I ended up doing multiple videos featuring the Ar Drone.
I did like a range test in the NCIX parking lots.
I did like a weird jousting thing where we got two of them and Luke and I
like tried to fly them at each other and have them hit in midair,
tried to milk the heck out of the Ar Drone but in the end, nothing ever really came close
to the success of that first video. Oh.
All right, time to get this thing in a case. Okay, that was like neat somehow.
What can I do for you, sir? How do you attach this thing? I don't have these wire clips.
You take that off here? No, you get more of them.
So you put them on just like this. Okay, and everyone does it a little different.
You know, some of them you hook it onto the inside one, some of them you hook it onto the far one, whatever.
So it's better to just find one that's already done and just do it exactly the way that they already did it.
That's the safest way. What do you think, Jordan?
Who's gonna be the first of my co-hosts to actually finish their PC?
Don't want to finish? It'll be the next one.
I finished. Not on time yet though. Who was it?
Who was it? Mark was the last person? Yeah, Mark and you've had, who was first?
Riley. Did he finish? Riley did not finish.
In fairness for them, half an hour later. He just needed to finish. He doesn't need to work, right?
I mean, mine have worked, but sure. Can you just work before we sell it?
People are actually buying these. We're selling this on Jawa.
Yeah. It might already be sold. Yeah, actually, yeah, can you tell?
Has anyone bought any of the system, Jordan? I'll see if I can find out.
I'm kind of curious now. Dan, do you want to hit me with a merge message? We've got a Black Friday sale running on LTTstore.com.
You guys can go check it out at LTTstore.com.
We'll have more about that later. Oh yeah, okay. Do they get cheaper if they buy the one I'm building now?
No. They don't discount. I'm not sure if they get to pick which one they get.
Oh, okay. They might just get it. And you might just have to kind of do your best with it.
The one that's broken is Janice's one. No. It should be pretty easy to tell.
It's not done yet. We've sold five of the AMD builds.
Wow. It's the one we're gonna pull out of. I'm afraid to ask how the Intel builds are doing.
Yeah. Okay, cool. One of those. Well, in fairness to the Intel builds,
we haven't actually built any of those on stream yet. So people have only seen the AMD builds.
Merch message? Yeah, hit me, Dan. Sure.
Hold on. Wait for Janice. Are you okay, bud?
Janice? Why did you put the cable on? I think you broke Janice.
Hold on, the cable's freezing down, right? Oh yeah.
Yeah, you want the cable on that fan facing towards the bottom.
Nice. It gives it a bit of a cleaner look. Yeah.
All right, hit me, Dan. Figure this is the best time to get an LTT screwdriver.
Do you feel like financing a PC is a good way to go? Or is it better to wait until you can afford to pay full price?
Man, I'm gonna call out so hard. One of my elementary school friends.
You guys remember, oh man, what were they called?
I was at MDG? The ones that had the computer for a dollar a day?
Yeah. Was that MDG? I think so. Or was it someone else?
I can't remember anymore, but he bought a Pentium 3 PC.
For himself, he bought it with his own money, sort of,
because like me, he was in grade six or seven or whatever.
And like me, he didn't have any money.
So what he actually did was he got his parents
to sign on for him to finance a computer.
And I will tell you the same thing that I told him back then.
That is like the dumbest shit ever.
Don't do that. They're still around offering those deals.
They're still doing it, wow. Okay, so the thing about technology
is that it depreciates so fast
that if there's an affordability issue,
you are far better off just waiting around
for the affordability to reach your savings
than you are financing something because the interest is a killer.
Now, I would say it's actually less true today
than it used to be. Electronics don't move nearly
as fast as they used to back then. Like by the time he finished paying for that P3,
he could have had a way faster P4
for all the money that he spent. Can I help you? Are you?
You're carrying screws. Oh, okay. Any hoop.
So I would say it's less true today now that the industry doesn't move quite as fast,
especially if you can get a reasonable financing rate
and if there's some reason for it. Like with the incoming tariffs,
we have a video coming soon that is sort of discussing is now like a time
to urgently buy a PC in hopes of getting a better deal before computer hardware gets slapped with tariffs
because it may very well be. But in general, in general, I am very opposed.
I'm very opposed to using financing to buy something
that depreciates so quickly.
Okay, there are other exceptions because you could look at a car
and you could kind of say the same thing. Like how could you possibly use financing to buy something
that depreciates so quickly? And I mean, well, for one thing, no, I don't.
I did not buy any of my early cars with financing.
I bought cheap crappy cars for as little money as possible.
So I'm not a huge fan of that, but there are reasons to buy something.
If the money you can make from having it
is greater than the cost of owning it, even with financing, then you can justify it that way.
So if you need a car to get to a better job that pays you more, then absolutely,
finance the car, right? Like I'm not gonna, no one's gonna give you
a hard time for that, I don't think. So in the same way, if you're using a PC to do work
and you need to finance it in order to more effectively do that work,
that's such a totally different conversation
than if you're like financing a gaming PC.
This day and age, you straight up, under no circumstances,
should you be financing a gaming PC because you can get a capable gaming PC
that'll tide you over for like nothing,
like next to nothing. You'll pay more in interest on that financed computer
than you would on this, on a PC that would absolutely be able to play games decently
while you wait to be able to afford something new and something nicer.
So I'm not a fan, but if you're making money with your computer and you need like new capabilities
that are simply not available on older hardware, and that's a totally different calculation
and I'm a lot more on board. Does that all kind of shine in sparkle?
What do you think, Dan? Have you covered that enough? Yeah, I would say so. You have a long answer.
I think it's the correct answer. Dan, I literally talked for a little. Question, question.
Did I say Dan, Dennis? Yeah, I'm Dan. Is this the wrong one?
It's so short. I can't screw this one in. I have that problem too.
You haven't put your iOS shield on. We are three for three. Oh my God, he did?
Three for three, how?
Oh my God.
So I only have to buy this half B.O.P.C. and bill themself.
No, Dennis, you have to take the motherboard out again.
Dennis, you have to take it all apart. Yeah, also why are you here?
I thought you had to put the motherboard laying down. Why does everybody keep taking the whole table?
You missed me. I have no room to work.
I thought you were supposed to put the PC down to put the motherboard, no?
Well you can, but do it over there. I must take, everyone takes up the whole flippin' table.
Like I have my stuff down here on the floor
because I have no room to work. Dennis, you have literally like 85% of this table
dedicated to your stuff and overflowing onto the floor.
Look at this, Andy. He's also taking up space on the floor.
That's ridiculous. Okay, Dan, do you wanna hit me with a merge message?
I suspect things are poppin' pretty hard on the store right now. I wasn't expecting you to be so busy.
Yeah, we've already done 200.
I'm not exaggerating. Let's see, what do we have that's fun here?
When are we getting LTT sandals?
I'm sure we get this a lot. He only curated that to bother me.
I know he knows better. Is that a contentious issue? I actually don't.
Oh, you didn't know. Okay, so I would love to do an LTT sandal.
But the challenge is that in order to do a sandal,
you're not just doing one mold. You have to do a left foot mold.
You have to do a right foot mold. These are probably relatively complex molds, right?
These are, I mean, if you're gonna have a couple different colors on the sole,
then you're gonna have at least a couple stages. So they're reasonably complex molds.
I don't understand. Also, you're gonna need, let's see,
I don't know, what does it work out to? How many sizes would you typically expect
to find in a range of sandals? Like eight to 12 and all the half?
At least, at least eight sizes.
So now I'm on the hook for 16 molds, minimum.
Good number. Then what else do I have to deal with?
Oh yeah, minimum order quantities. In order to make that mold cost to make any sense,
I'm stocking thousands and thousands and thousands
of these sandals.
Man, that even assumes that like, we don't know anything about making shoes.
So could we even, would it even be comfortable? Would it even be any good?
It's just, it's a huge gamble. It's a huge bet.
And for what? I don't, you know, I think it's funny.
You know, I would be the first person to be like,
you know, yeah, let's make a mean product, I love it.
Like that's why we did the strawberry underwear, for example, we did a strawberry colorway of our underwear.
I love that stuff. But this is like, huh, this is like a six figure joke
at this point. You know, you start making sandals because like,
her and her Linus love socks and sandals, right? That's not, that's not responsible,
that's not responsible businessmanship.
Whoever prepped this machine,
may have overlooked something.
I will figure it out though. Basically all of my eight pin connectors
on my power supply are taken up and they shouldn't be.
So that's fine. Lee, you're so fast.
It's getting faster. You sound like my wife. One is going to the fan distribution.
Yeah, but it's, I can use a six pin for that.
I think, unless those six pins are not, well,
what? Good to tell you. So the other builds that I've seen so far
didn't have both eight pin power cables going up to the CPU.
And I think that may be why I have an extra here.
Oh, okay. Yeah. I don't think we have enough to do both.
Yep, that's the problem. So I need to salvage one of those back
and use it for,
We're at two minutes by the way. I just need to salvage one of those back
and use it for nothing. I'm just out of connectors on the power supply.
Oh, two minutes. I got two minutes to finish. Hey, did we get the final times for the first two?
What am I up against here? I have no idea.
How many does Linus have to do? He has to do eight himself.
Okay. We've got two hours left. I can build eight. There's got another four.
Is this computer three or four? This is number three. Okay. This has got five to go.
Dude, what a problem. You're doing okay.
This is not a problem. Easy. I mean, it definitely isn't helping
when I have to unbuild things, but I got this. So Jordan, what are my times?
What are my times? Has anyone tabulated them? I have no idea. I'm not on the internet Linus.
I can't do anything on the internet. I'm not on the internet. We should have internet. You might want to adjust.
It's not working for me. It's still not working. We'll figure it out.
Don't worry. Apparently I've got, I opened my phone
and I have a thousand angry messages from Sean and Jake
because somebody told me to plug something in. And then I did that
and I was absolutely not supposed to do that. Nice. Oh, this is not easy.
Nice. Sorry, everyone at the company. Well, don't worry.
We got this. We've been having some internet problems today. So it's been an exciting day
because I can tell you as a web video production company,
internet, pretty important to our daily operations.
Yep. Cool. So Jordan is sitting over there with no internet.
So what are you even, what are you even doing Jordan? I have my offline copies of all my information
for the stream. Why do you still not have internet? Is that my fault?
I don't know. I think it's probably my fault. Oh, it's a pie.
What? I'll blame Dan. You see why we like Dennis?
What he lacks is knowledge and skill. He makes up for an enthusiasm.
Like, look how hard he's trying. I'm trying to pretend I know what I'm doing.
Do you guys actually know what Dennis does here now? Like Dennis started as a video editor
and now he actually like, I think you still open up a timeline once in a while
for your site, right? Yes, I do, yeah. But he actually works for the business team now
on sponsor spots. So he does like creatives,
what do we call them? CSP, creative sponsor.
Creative sponsor productions. So the idea is to make our sponsor spots
so watchable. Yeah, so entertaining and engaging
that people will actually go out of their way to watch them or at the very least,
abandon the video a lot less during them.
And it's been successful so far, right? Like you've been in this role for over a year.
On a win show, I mean every week on a win show
that's the regular stuff. And on LTT videos,
he used to be on TechLink and now mostly just on LTT stuff.
Got it. Some of them are pretty funny.
There's a Vessi spot. Is that Vessi spot with the like stolen sandals?
Is that up already? Yeah, that one's up in end of September.
That one performed very well. All right, cool.
All right, Jordan, are we all caught up on those guest the video things?
Oh, we're two years behind. Okay, hit me with another then.
Number six? Yeah. Yeah.
Do we show the- Or no, number five actually.
Don't show this one. Don't show it? No.
Okay, what year was it then? This was 2012, 2013.
And you'll be shocked to learn it was an unboxing.
Oh, so hot. 2012, 2013.
Well, that's gotta be the fire truck. Yeah. Let's see.
Okay, how many views did that get in the first year? That was, I think that was over a million.
Wow. So I can tell the story behind that. 1.1 million.
One of our other product managers, one of our junior product managers
was handling Arctic cooling, right? You know, like freezer series coolers,
like that silencer series coolers they had, I think back for GPUs back in the day.
So they were handling Arctic cooling. What do we got here? Is this another 7800 XT?
Sure is. All right, sick, let's put this bad boy in. Java sent over six of those guys.
So Arctic cooling decided that, well, hey,
like, I mean, if we can source like coolers from China
or wherever and we can throw our brand on those
and sell them or, you know, whatever. Like if we can handle the logistics of sourcing
and merchandising and marketing and selling, you know,
coolers, then why not remote control vehicles?
And they, so they released a tugboat,
a tank and a fire truck. And as a favor, the junior product manager was like,
hey, look, I brought in a bunch of these stupid things.
They're not selling. Can you help me deal with this?
Can you make a video? Can you like help me get rid of these stupid things?
And as it turned out, so I, so I said, okay.
And as it turned out, they were actually pretty cool. And even though the fire truck is the most famous one,
the tank and the boat actually both got a fair number of views.
So that ended up being a, that ended up working out for everyone. I think we ultimately did manage to sell through them all,
although it did take a while,
just cause like, I don't know what it is. Even if you have a good price and okay product or whatever,
if it's not what people go to your shop for, sometimes it can be hard to sell things.
Like I remember NCIX brought in like Zojirushi rice cookers.
And every time I talk about Zojirushi, people who know are like,
oh yeah, those are like the best rice cookers, but we couldn't sell them to save our lives.
It was crazy. So we had a heck of a time selling those remote control vehicles,
but we tried, we did our, we did our darnedest. Are you done? I don't know.
We're going to find out when I try and post this thing. So what was my time for that one?
What was my time for that one? Am I making up time here?
Am I making up ground? You're like an entire computer behind. Is this supposed to be a price if we someone beat you?
I mean, sure, I'd be down to, I'd be down to do a price. Too late, Ty.
One and a second from Dennis.
Too late. You're the one. Okay, here we go.
Yeah. Wait, you're going to form a head start?
No, he's above the previous PC still. Yeah, no, I'm... So you have a head start right now
if you quiet down and start building. Yeah, okay.
Okay. We'll get you a mic in a sec. Yeah.
All right. My fans are spinning.
My RGB is lit. Let's go.
What are the odds? I have to try turning my on. Dennis, there's no point trying to turn yours on
and nothing's plugged in. You got, you got nothing plugged in, brother, but...
Oh, that's not good. That's not an ideal noise.
Oh! That was not good.
That was actually kind of bad.
I just mangled this cable.
You're posted. Oh, but the system works?
Yeah. Yay! Nice.
Wow, that... Well, it's a good thing it's a...
Well, it's a good thing it's a Snapdragon PC
and I don't need to charge it very often.
All right, hey, computer's fixed. Okay.
I am gonna move on. Which side am I on?
Am I this side? Am I just like... Yeah, you're done. You're done.
You're done. Thank you. Whoever's buying this...
Thanks for coming out. You can't even learn how to build a PC at home.
Yeah.
All right.
For those of you just tuning in now, we are doing our sweet, double sweet 16 stream.
We're celebrating 16 years of LCT.
We're celebrating 16 million subscribers
and we're bringing in, well, eight.
Eight members of our team to co-build PCs with me
that we are going to be selling for charity on java.gg.
There's a java read off the prompter there. Oh, can I shout out one of the parts providers first?
Sure. Is that the next one? We have the right ones there.
Okay, so I wanted to shout out MSI, who sent over eight motherboards and eight SSDs.
They sent over all of the B650 gaming plus Wi-Fi boards
that we're using for our AMD builds. Thank you very much MSI.
Thanks to them. All of the cost of those boards will go directly to our charitable cause,
which I think from our conversations so far is probably gonna be a local food bank.
It just seems like the right time of year to be... Oh, that sounds lovely.
Yeah, contributing to the food bank. And so that means $1,600 times 16 PCs.
We're gonna be pitching over 20 grand toward the local food bank, which is pretty exciting.
Assuming all of you find folks by these computers. Hey, there's a 50% chance you'll get one that was built
by me rather than one that was built by Lake Denison Mark. Yeah, I don't know if I would want those ones.
So far, those have not been going great, but...
Well, this is just gonna be boring then. How can I make this terrible?
No, no, don't... Where's the shock collar? Don't say, don't talk about those.
We don't need the shock collar. What about two?
I mean, need is one thing. Want, well, that's a different word.
Anyway, I also wanted to shout out Corsair, who sent over eight cases.
So all of the AMD PC cases were provided by Corsair.
We ended up paying for almost nothing out of this stuff,
which is super cool. Yeah, and our sponsor Jawah sent over all the GPUs.
So that's why those are mismatched, because Jawah's a...
Right, they're used. They're a marketplace. Oh, cool. Yeah, very cool.
Very cool. Actually, in this case, on your last builds here, these two GPUs are from Colorful.
Jordan, that's no longer on. So if I was supposed to do a Jawah read-off,
then it... You are indeed. Let's make that go on.
It ain't happening, sir. Wait, we're supposed to be racing, right?
I mean, yeah, we can race. I mean, are we at the same point?
Like, kind of... Oh, there's already an SSD in there. This is so cheaty.
Yeah. I think it was already done for me. Look, it's not meant to be, like,
the hardest possible PC build. It's just meant to be, like,
a friendly PC building challenge. It's like friendly, but, like,
I want to destroy you kind of thing, right? What?
Why you gotta be like that, Jake? Well, I'm not even trying that hard.
You're just going so slow. I figure I have to go slow to, like,
stay on your level. You know, some of us are going to sing a video. Okay, Dan, do you want to hit me with a merge message?
Whoa. Oh, Dan's not there. What?
Oh. Whoa. Oh, wow. Where'd Dan go?
Okay, well, cool. We'll find a Dan. We'll find a Dan later.
We'll get a new Dan. Yeah, Dan, do you want to hit me with a merge message?
Yeah, sure. I mean, we've got a couple of Dan's as it is. We've got Dan Siegel. We've got...
Oh, better Dan. Yeah. Better Dan? That's what I call him.
Only Dan's. Only Dan's. Dan's.com.
Shit. Dan, see that? Don't say that domain. It's probably a thing.
Yeah, it's probably a thing. Like all mustached men with a lot of body hair.
No, stop it. Stop it. Please.
Please, sir. It's okay. That's why we can't have nice things.
Yeah. That's why we can't have onlydans.com. Oh, my God.
I ate it here. You're going to give me so much traffic.
Too bad you're stuck. Yeah. Forever.
Hey, Linus, did you ever give out hot chocolate to people in line at NCIX?
Could quit Lumboxing Day, sir. Probably.
Oh, I remember NCIX used to do like weird things like that.
Dude, our boxing day and like grand opening day events,
they were events. Kind of cool, actually. They were actually fun.
Like I'd go out and I'd do like crowd work and like huck swag into the crowd and stuff.
And like it was, it was, man,
when NCIX was firing on all cylinders,
it was actually a pretty cool company overall and a pretty cool place to work.
Now, not everyone had the same experience I did.
I got to acknowledge that. I was told multiple times by multiple people
that I was sort of a favorite child. And enjoyed a bit of a privileged position there.
But I will say that, dang it, that's the second time I've done that.
It's the second time today I've tried to put it on with the thing.
Dude, whoa, that's a lot of thermal paste. That's fine. You just gooped it up, eh?
Yeah. Are you just putting the other fans on here or just one? I've been putting the second fans on,
but it's not a competition. I mean, I thought you said the most. Unless I win.
Oh, man. It's actually kind of fun to,
it's kind of fun to bring Jake on for our sweet 16 because you must have been 16 when you started here.
I was 15, actually. For like 26 more days, I was 15 at the time.
That's crazy. Are you even allowed to work here when you're 15? I don't know.
I think so. Yeah, you can start at 14. In BC.
Really? I mean, it seems like the kind of thing Yvonne would have figured out is she's actually
the one who hired him. I wouldn't have. Yeah. I wouldn't have clear attitude problems.
Oh, definitely. Problem child. 100%.
What did you do to impress her during the interview? I actually don't know much about your hiring.
I think it was Luke that made the,
Luke is the reason that I got hired because they gave me this just like
very poopy pre-production small form factor case
and was like take it apart because I guess somebody, nobody spent the time to take it apart beforehand
so I could assemble it on camera, or not on camera for the interview, let's say.
No, we specifically built it. We rebuilt it every time. Oh, yeah.
No, that was a thing. I don't know if I believe you. No, it's 100% a thing. Anyway, as I was taking it apart,
I was like, wow, this thing kind of sucks. Oh, the tolerances are kind of weird here.
Like, oh, why do they do it like this? Just like kind of reviewing it as I was doing it.
Not intentionally. And then Luke, I guess, was like, yeah, we should hire that guy.
That is pretty cool. I mean, we didn't hire him as a writer initially.
No, well, those didn't exist back then. Yeah, oh, well, they kind of did.
Like Luke and John. Luke and John were kind of writers at that time.
I don't know if we didn't really call it that, though. But no, Jake was our warehouse guy.
Yeah, otherwise known as Linus' personal assistant.
He did mostly just do whatever I needed done
because I didn't have time. Well, I never got to organize the warehouse
or anything like that because every time I get to work on the limited amount of hours I would work in a week,
there would just be so much stuff on my desk to deal with with no information, no sticky note.
No, hey, can you do this? No, no, I would put a deal with it sticky note.
Jake deal with sticky note. Deal with this. Can you, can you deal with this?
And that's it. What is this? I don't know.
What do I need to deal with? Huh? Those are all minor details.
Those are all minor details. So like half of my hours would be finding him
and being like, hi, what do you want me to do with this? And then doing the thing
and never actually cleaning anything up. Yeah, so I mean, that's why,
that's why he got fired from that position because he never actually cleaned the warehouse.
Listen, I never officially got fired from that position. I think it's a general laborer on my like pay stubs
for like four years.
Well, we didn't, in fairness, in fairness, we didn't really have like job titles at that time.
Yeah, that's, that's fair. We didn't really have like clear,
like clear like positions in the company, really.
I don't know, all this is just sounding like copium to me, so I'm just gonna.
I'm not making excuses for it. I'm, I think I'm meeting it pretty head on here.
It was a pretty random time and we didn't, we didn't have, nobody got time for like bureaucracy at that time.
I don't even remember the time before we had snacks.
Yeah, dude, snacks were such a game changer for me.
It's a problem because when the snacks are not refilled, it's like everyone in the office
becomes a little bit feral, especially him.
It happened recently because, I was told because of the, the strikes.
Our recent snack delivery was delayed. Yeah, so that's why, that's why we didn't have snacks.
And it's like, look at them. No, everything's fine.
Point the camera over here, point it at him. I didn't do anything. I didn't drop a laptop.
That wasn't me that dropped that laptop. You remember that, right? That was me.
I can, I can show you guys a closer look at that in a minute if you want.
It's not, it's not good. It's not great.
Did you just take my screwdriver? No, you didn't. I thought about it.
I looked at it and went, this would make it difficult for him to win. I could see the look on his face
and I heard a screwdriver move. That was all the information I had.
Knowing me, that's a reasonable substance. I've been hanging around with this guy
for a minute or two, so I've seen pretty likely.
The only screwdriver that I will ever steal from you is that clear one.
And you know, it's just sitting in a drawer actually. Oh really, you don't even use it?
No. I just like to look at it sometimes and feel a sense of accomplishment.
I really want to bring the clear screwdriver to market, but there were issues with the mold.
Ooh, cable manage this.
I gotta fix this. Here, can I, yeah, thanks.
Seriously? Yeah. How does this happen every single time?
Look how much of the table I get. You're little, it's fine. And look how much of the table he gets.
We both have the same size computer.
The computer takes up the same amount of space. The person doesn't.
Jake looks bigger. What? Jake looks bigger, is that what you said?
Hey Jordan, how are we doing for time?
No, no, I mean each machine. Each machine, what's our,
how's our time trending on a per machine basis?
You have 13 minutes left. No, no, I know, but how are we tracking?
I've told you several times I'm not tracking that. But someone's got to tell us
so that we can know what we're doing better. I don't have a fucking internet line as I don't want to tell you.
You should have internet. What is going on? I'm well aware of trying to make it work.
I will come do tech support for you. Okay. Jake, do you still use the 7900XTX?
I do, actually. Casper Explorer on full plane was asking.
It's actually been really solid. Okay, tech support, bye.
The only, you know, actually my computer has been a massive steaming pile of doo-doo for ages,
like in terms of stability, but it wasn't the graphics card's fault.
It was pretty much in, it ended up being an audio issue
that was causing it. You were telling me about this. Yeah, oh boy.
So the new Call of Duty Black Ops 6 seemed to make this problem substantially worse.
And I'm not really sure why, but apparently other people have experienced
weird audio issues with it. Anyways, the game would crash.
I'd be like playing, it'd be like, I was always like between one and two minutes
before the end of the game. And then my whole everything would just pause
and I could still hear. But then you'd hear like a peek in the audio
and then the game would resume. And the last thing that I would think,
the last thing I'd think, if my audio is the only thing that's working,
is that the issue is my sound hardware. Yeah, yeah, and it was, actually.
So how'd you diagnose that again? The audio.
I reinstalled Windows after like, trying literally everything I possibly could
to not have to reinstall Windows. And then I hadn't installed the audio interface drivers yet
because it has like a default Windows driver that it uses
when you don't have the drivers. Everything was fine, installed the audio interface drivers,
and then everything went to crap immediately after. I was like, it's gotta be that.
Uninstalled them, it stopped crashing. So I bought a new audio interface.
Which one are you using now? It's a Mo2M4.
I hadn't heard of this brand before, but I looked up online like measurements of like,
ooh, the signal to noise ratio, and they were good. And it seems to work pretty nice.
It's got a little screen on the front. Wow, signal to noise ratio. That really takes me back.
Like, Audigee ZX reviews, you know what I'm saying?
Nobody really looks at that anymore. The thing with like cheap audio interfaces
is so many of them are built just with the nearly the exact same hardware.
Right. And they're all just kind of whatever. So I was trying to find something that's like,
in a decent price category, like two to 300, or maybe 400 Canadian, that was maybe a little bit better
for whatever reason, and this seems to be quite a bit better than those other ones. It looks like a good one.
Yeah. I was investigating some Mo2 stuff for my own setup.
And any driver issues since then? No. Okay, so confirm.
Which one was the bad one then, if you don't mind us calling them out? You know, I think calling them out is reasonable.
Did you steal my GPU? What? No, I don't have a GPU. What is it doing down here?
Here, let me untrinkle this.
It was a ART.
Oh, you bought the cheap stuff. Voice channel. It's not that cheap.
It's like a $600 Canadian. Yeah, yeah, that's right. It's a full channel strip. That's why I like it.
It had like DSR, EQ. Never mind. Noise gate, compressor, all built in.
It's supposed to be like all of the stuff you need for a mic in one channel.
Yeah, yeah, that's nice. And it had, it also has an interface in it.
That's why I originally got it, because it was everything in one.
Right. And then. But as it turns out,
all in ones can sometimes be more trouble than they're worth.
Oh man, Andy came in and he was expecting me to do like some kind of dad joke punchline, I think.
No Andy, I got nothing. I got absolutely nothing for that.
Dan, do you want to hit me with a merge message though? Yeah, sure.
Am I required to put all the screws in here? No one's required to do anything, Jake.
So I didn't put any of the screws in before putting the graphics card in it. And that just occurred to me.
So I don't know if I can actually reach them all. I think I can.
Nice. I got one here that's more of a comment first. Sure, hit me, Dan.
Thank you Linus, for all you've done for short people representation.
And then another one here from Philip. Reasonable. Will CPU pillows make a return?
We do have some alpaca wool that we kind of need to figure out what to do with.
Dude, we need to bring back the bread. I think, I don't know if the bread's coming back,
but I think someone floated the idea
of bringing back the CPU pillow to get rid of some alpaca wool.
Ah. Yeah, we just, we just like, I think it's appreciated in the time we've had it.
So like, I don't know. It's appreciated. Good investment.
I thought you weren't big on the whole investing in stonks thing.
Well, alpaca wool is hardly a stonk. I mean, it's stonk.
It's stonk, like we have it in stock,
but it's not like stonks. Is alpaca wool a registered security?
Yeah, I really, I really don't think so. Is there, is there somebody that like approves those?
I guess it has to be listed on a stonk exchange. Yeah, I would think so.
Is there a website called stonks exchange? All right, don't look it up, please.
Yeah, don't look it up. It's probably a scam. Or other things that are not good.
Yeah. Man, it's kind of crazy how sort of scary
the internet has gotten. Like, I don't know, you might be too young for this,
but we used to use the term surf the web.
Like, we would, we would- I'm too young to have heard that term.
No, not to have heard the term, but for like surfing the web being a reasonable thing to do.
What? Like, you surf the web, you're gonna find some stuff, dude.
I mean, I have- It's always kind of been like- I have seen some things on the internet.
No, okay, that I know. We're not talking about that right now. I don't think it got better.
I, yeah, I don't, I don't know what kind of like- No, I'm saying, I think it's probably gotten worse.
What was the wild, oh yeah, 100% it's gotten worse. Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
I know you're saying it got better. I'm like, no, dude. We used to be able to surf the web
and probably not everything was trying to steal your personal data.
And it wasn't just core websites. Like, you'd get inundated with ads and stuff.
I think everything is still trying to steal your data. You're just like- No, everything is now.
Oh, okay. I mean, like, you could surf the web, you know?
And probably not everything was like a catastrophe.
You know, like every site you go to is just trying to fish you.
I don't know, it just feels like, it feels like the internet is as dangerous,
if not more dangerous than ever. Oh, I- Is there meant to only be one piece of CPU power?
I scratched the side panel, but no one's gonna know
because I'm gonna pull out a super awesome move here
and no one will ever notice. No one will know.
Oh, you're gonna stick the sticker on there? I'm gonna stick the sweet 16 sticker on there, right?
Where the scratch was. Beautiful. Is there meant to only be one CPU power connector?
Yes. Why? Because otherwise we don't have enough PCIe connectors
on the power supply to plug in the RGB interface thing.
The RGB interface, that's fine, you don't need it. What are you trading with?
PCIe power. Oh, okay, sure. You can do your Java, we're gonna have a moment.
Oh, okay, hey, Java mid-spot, look at that.
We mentioned earlier that we're gonna be selling each of the builds we're doing today for $1,600 on Java.
So why don't we take a look at what will be up against in their gaming PCs section?
And Dan's doing that. Oh. Or do I go over there? Yeah.
Oh, cool, I go over there. Okay. So we just punch in a price range
and let's go with verified sellers, apparently.
They've been vetted by the Java team, so you know they'll stand behind what they're selling
and we're supposed to look at two to three listings and give some thoughts, okay, cool.
I am currently looking for verified sellers.
Okay, can you just filter by verified sellers?
Here, we'll sort by. The link I gave you had that already on there.
Oh, you gave me another link, is this not a different link?
Cool. Oh, that's not okay. This is a smooth production today.
We didn't go over that earlier. We did, we were there for that. That's fine, guys, okay children, don't squabble please.
Feel like I'm listening to my kids in the back of the van. Oh boy, this is embarrassing.
All right, one sec.
What do we got here? Oh yeah, we got this. We got this, don't even worry.
It's okay, I'm sure it's my fault. Wow, what is happening right now? This is a, this is a whole thing.
He sure does. Good gravy, what is this interface?
There we go, verified sellers. Okay, cool, verified, oh wait.
Okay, and this is all in kind of our price? Okay, well one of them is us.
Okay, here's a pro gamer PC. 1200KF, RTX 478Ti, 32KTi, this is actually pretty competitive.
That's pretty nice. I think we have, oh yeah, I know we also have
a 750 watt power supply.
What do we have over this? We've got a newer CPU, we've got a 7800X3D.
I'd say our GPU is, we've got a 7800XT,
so we're probably reasonably close to this,
so if I had the choice, I might actually prefer the 478Ti Super.
We've got, I think we've probably got a slightly nicer case.
Are we including Windows? Like real Windows is included? Oh yeah, okay, we've got real Windows, that's good.
The one is 11 Pro. Cool, okay, that's a nice little machine.
What else we got here? It's got RGB and everything.
Here, let's, that one looks cool. Sure, yeah, let's look at that one.
It's got orange. It's got the same GPU as us.
We've got a slightly better CPU, a little bit more SSD storage.
We have two terabytes, but they've also got 32 gigs of RAM.
There's some pretty decent deals on here.
Not bad. Neat. All right, cool.
So my notes say it may look like we're underpricing our builds a little,
and I guess we are a little bit, like I think we're quite competitive with what's on there.
But the only way we were able to do that
was that the brands that provided these parts for us,
they didn't charge us for them. When they heard that we were doing this for charity,
they were like pretty excited to get on board, just like Java, and sent over a lot of this stuff for nothing.
So we thought, hey, that's the way, our buyers get a little bit more bang for their buck.
The system should sell out quickly, and we're still able to provide a pretty solid donation
to our local food bank in time for the holiday season.
Pretty cool little project.
And a lot of fun today. How's your system going, Jake?
You just about done, you done taking advantage of your huge, huge time advantage you got just there?
What happened? Yeah, exactly. Did you put the IO shield plate in?
Oh yeah, did Jake put an IO shield in? Of course I put it in.
You are the first. Are you joking? You are the first of our non-Linus builders
to put in an IO shield. I have built a few computers in my day.
All of the other ones left out the IO shield. Where the devil is my GPU?
Every computer in my household that it is possible
to miss it on, it is missing.
Jake, did you take my GPU? I didn't take your GPU.
Did someone take my GPU? I actually don't think I have it. What? Oh.
Oh no, it's in a box. Oh man, all the other ones were in anti-static bags.
So I just assumed it'd be in an ESD bag. All right, Dan, do you want to hit me with a merge message?
Or wait, Jordan, are there any things on your list I'm supposed to do?
Well, probably. Well, probably. All right, we'll give them a minute.
We talked about them already. You're good. All right, Dan, do you want to hit me with a merge message?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Is there anything stopping me from just turning this on now?
A power plug, maybe. Well, yeah, thanks. Hi Linus, just got married in October
and leaving soon for a three week honeymoon in Hawaii.
Wow, congrats. Any vacation tips for making this trip extramemorable?
We haven't gone on a trip like this since 2016.
I mean, I can tell you right now, given that it's been a minute,
it's probably gonna be pretty darn memorable.
Oh man, I'm trying to think. Is there a monitor? Oh, this thing in the middle, that's the testing card?
Yeah. This is very much, this is very much personal taste.
But I find the pictures that I actually look back on
most fondly are not the posed ones.
Yes, hand it, oh, buy a disposable camera
and then just take some silly photos.
Don't overthink the photos, the ones of actual memories for sure
are definitely better than the posed ones. Like looking back at just like,
I don't know, the kids hanging out in the room, you know, reading books and, you know, watching TV,
just like chilling or like,
I don't know, just like the picture of everyone walking down the street, you know?
You don't have to be in front of a famous landmark.
And for me anyway, I find the most meaningful memories
are the ones where it was, you know, nobody really posed.
You may be just like, make a noise to, you know, get the younglings' attention.
But other than that, it's just in the moment,
you know, capturing what everyone was doing. I've also found that lately, I've started to take more,
just like short little video clips.
You know, just a couple minute video of like,
one of my kids explaining the story they wrote or talking about their day at school or whatever else.
And those have been a lot of fun to go back in
and watch as well. Yeah, put it on outside of the plastic. Seriously?
Well, because then if the person doesn't want it, they can peel it, right? Jake, you're not peeling everything, are you?
But then if they do want it? This thing has got to get shipped, bro. Why are you peeling all the stuff?
Oh, I'm not peeling all the stuff. You just peel. Like all those things you peel. What?
What, you peel that? Yeah. That has nothing to do with shipping.
That's a fan hub. I'm putting it on here. Don't put it on the plastic. Why?
No, don't put it on the plastic. You gotta put it under the plastic. Peel off the plastic, put it on,
and then put it on the plastic. And the person that gets this, they're not gonna leave this. No, stop it.
No, look, I'm not doing that. No, I'm not gonna put it there. Just leave the plastic.
God, you guys are the worst. Now he can't win, because his system won't be complete.
I'm putting it over here. Got him. What did you do? Did you steal something?
Got him. I put the sticker on the back, kind of poorly so that it can come off easily.
Oh my goodness. Where can I test this thing? You can plug it in over there.
Dan, are we working on getting the times for all the systems?
I have to throw the laptop on the floor first, right? Yeah. Are you able to do that?
It's on the ground. Jordan, do you want to, like...
Just ask the chat. Oh, I don't have chat. I didn't screw the power supply in.
What? Chat, help. Chat. Oh, what?
I can still win this? You got time. Go, go, go, go, go. Let's go.
Speed GPU install. Here we go. Why did I put the side panel back on?
Here we go. Oh, he's got a side panel and everything? Oh dude, I can totally win this.
All I got to do is put these two screws in.
Not that this is a competition because quality, quality is actually far more important for these machines
than getting them done quickly because they will be going to some of you
who are buying them, you know, quality first. But any who?
Trust me, bro. Is this another 7800 XT? Yep. All right, it's a brand new one too.
Yeah, those ones are from Colorful. Oh, Colorful sent it.
Oh, that's nice of them. Okay. Hey, look at that.
And a side panel.
Oh, we got a power supply in place. The race is on.
And a front panel. Who can grab the cables first? Cables grabbed.
Yeah, he's already got the cables, which I think is actually kind of a cheat, personally.
Chat is not helping. I think that's kind of a cheat, personally.
What did you say? Chat is not helping? I think they said at least five.
Well, if you're done this one now, you've caught up. There we go. I'm done.
You've caught up. You have 30 seconds left. Pencil's down. Let's go.
Good work. Let's go. How many more? You know, Jake, couldn't help noticing
that my computer was done.
Let's see if his post. 30-fuck did. What are you talking about? Yeah, but that's cool because he stole the cables
before he was actually done the guy. What do you mean? I was, I put that in literally after.
All right, well, let's see. Let's see. Let's see if it burns up. Let's see if it fires up.
Here we go.
Yeah, no, no, no. Don't get us copyright strikes. Well, while we're waiting for that,
let's see if Jake can guess the next yearly.
Sure. The next what? That'll be fun. Yearly memory. So the last one was the fire truck.
Nice. Oh, there's a specific memory.
So 2013, 2014, what do you think was the most viewed video
in that year from November to November?
2013, I have no idea. Were you alive then?
No. I'm still not alive.
No guesses at all? What am I going to guess? All right, Linus, you got a guess.
I made a terrible mistake. And so did Jake.
So we may have to see who can fix it first to determine who
actually won. I made a terrible mistake, what do you mean? We both made a terrible mistake.
Of what? We both forgot to bend up the tab on the DP on the IO shield.
I forgot to bend up the tab.
Oh, honey, that's awful.
Who in there? How many of you unplugged my computer?
Who do you think you are? I'm going to pull back. Oh, I'm going to do this. Oh, jeez.
I did it on all three of the other ones. And I kept getting pulled away from this build.
And so Jake's taking the trial.
Yeah, Andy, you'll have to go get a look at it. Jake's is worse if you want to get a better look.
You speak for yourself there, mister. Jake's is much worse.
There's nothing wrong with mine. Mine's great.
I need a not stubby screwdriver. Great.
Do you just have a knife stuffed in there? There's nothing. Relax, Dan.
Everything's going to be OK, buddy. Oh, boy. Where did you get a knife?
Don't worry about it. I guess we're in a kitchen. Everything's fine. Everything's beautiful.
Everything's great. I'm just going to go ahead and do this. I'm so sorry to whoever.
Linus already got blood on a couple of the other ones, so that's totally fine.
All right. We're good. Only kind of sharp. Did you mangle it?
No. That's not the proper way to do that. Look at the thing.
It's mint. Listen, sir. That's not the proper way to do that.
I work on BMWs all the time. That's all I do is mangle.
It's not mangling it if you unmangle it after nobody notices it.
All right, Andy, I'll let you be the judge. You go have a look. It's a true mechanic.
It's the only kind of mangle. You might have to turn it so Andy can see. Yeah, turn it on and mangle it a little bit.
You see? It's a little sharp. It's a little sharp, like the knife I used to do it.
And then we're just going to go like that. Bend it back a little bit.
If you're plugging in a cable, it should be fine. Yeah.
OK, so I get Andy's vote. Why would you plug into the DP on the motherboard
when it hasn't? Yeah, yeah, Linus. Well, why would you want to maybe short it out?
Yeah, it's got some tape. Yeah, no, it's still bad to leave it there. To be clear, you don't want it in there.
Sometimes it can actually short things. And sometimes your computer won't turn on because of that.
Rats. Here, let me use the knife to bend it. So much for being caught up now.
Back some more. Because I'm doing things properly.
Actually bending it. Actually bending it. There you go. Properly.
Listen to this cope. We're in our safety humidity when we need them.
Let me, here, I'll turn the knife away from my face. That's a good call.
Oh my goodness. What? Cut to your friends, not to your face.
Towards your friends, not to your face. Is that what you said, Dan?
Yeah. That's the thing Dan would say, all right? Yeah, certainly.
Well, anyways, you guys are pretty good. She's manned. That's fine.
I mean, it did that by itself. So are you still doing this?
What's he doing over there? I took the board out so that I could bend it back
so that I could. Oh, it ended up back in the port again. It did not.
I'm just kidding. What a guy.
That look. All right.
What's next? What does chat think? Who had the better method?
Who wins, chat? Yeah. Yeah. I don't know.
Chat usually sides against me just for the lulls,
but I don't think they're going to like your knife method very much. I'm going to give full plain knife.
Remember, these are computers that people are actually paying money for.
Jake, Jake, Jake. They're almost as plain as. Knife, blindness, Jake.
Jake, knife. I like knife. OK, they like the knife. I like the knife.
OK. Vote kick knife. I don't know.
Perfect. All right. Thanks, everybody. Appreciate your support out there.
Here, Andy. All right. Thanks, Jake. Thanks for popping in.
Bye. Thanks for being the first one to actually build a functioning computer.
Yeah, it did work. Well, I mean, it might crash, announce it.
Yeah, it still could. I mean, we did boot it up once with a thing
shorting out the DisplayPort port. Where do you want this? On the table.
This one. Over here. Oh, you want on that table.
That was the idea, yeah. Hey, did we ever figure out that most viewed video?
No. Did Jake take a guess? No. He chickened out. I don't have anything.
Like, there's nothing in my brain that the answer, the field,
you know, the drop down on the web page is empty. Yeah, well, like, that's not a surprise.
Linus, do you have a guess? What was the year again?
I think 1314. 1314.
I'm going to say, yeah, I'm going to say over 10 years.
480 GTX on Boston. No.
No. OK, well, it was more similar to the previous year.
OK, give me a thumbnail. Give me a thumbnail then.
Oh, boy, it probably says the product name. Oh, no way.
Really? Yep. It was the Arctic hobby excavator?
Are you kidding? I didn't even remember there was an excavator.
Remember when I said all of them earlier? I thought I said all of them. I said the tank.
I said the boat. I think you missed that one, yeah. I forgot the excavator even existed.
That's hilarious. Why were you doing, like, toys like this?
Oh, I explained it earlier, so I'm not going to explain it again right now for the people who will be bored
by the second explanation. But I barely listened to it.
Basically, it was a favor to a colleague who brought them in and needed help moving them.
Oh, shh, dude. I ended up being absolutely stoked on how that turned out.
Should I be cable managing this real quicker? Did you not?
I mean, I did. I mean, it's in there. So are you even done?
The computer turned on. Are you even done? I'll put a couple zip ties before I leave.
All right, now a moment of truth. Let's see if mine works. You still haven't figured that out yet?
No, I didn't test yet. Oh, dude, I wasn't going to turn it on with that thing
sticking in there. You were until you realized. Well, I was until I checked, because I believe in a little
thing called quality control. As known as he had prior knowledge, insider trading.
Just saying. Oh, it's not prior knowledge to know that those things can go
in there. Does my computer still work? Maybe.
I'm just wondering. Life gang. Hey, look at that.
It does. That's awesome.
I can show you what happened to the cable, if you guys would like.
Those of you who returned into the stream earlier will know that I accidentally knocked my computer off
of this test cart. And when that happened, it landed on my cable.
It's a USB-C cable, but it's an INI, not an Audi.
Here's what used to be in it.
TMI. There you go. That's a bummer. I liked this cable.
Sorry, what'd you say? You're good. Hey, nice. I posted. OK.
So I'm going to move on to my next adventure.
See you later, Jake. See you. Thanks for playing.
OK, who's next? Your next adventure is cake break.
Cake break? Oh. Wait, do we get cake? We get cake.
Yay. Nice. I haven't left yet. I stayed for the cake.
Should I have chat? Maybe I can check my mic, if you want.
How you guys doing? All right, I'm no longer connected to my Wi-Fi,
so chat is no longer updating. Sick. Hey, Dan.
Hey, Dan. Yeah. Do you want to hit me with a merge message?
Yeah, I've got loads here for you. All right. Hey, LDRJ.
Happy birthday, LTT. What personal achievement throughout LTT's life
are you most proud of?
Personal achievement. That's a tough one, right? Because you'd have to go personal achievement.
So you'd have to go back, I was about to say, you'd have to go back to the very early days
to find anything that I did completely by myself. Well, I know it's your mic.
Oh, is it because of this pendant I'm wearing? Yeah, I think so.
It's protecting us. Is it blocking all the 5G?
Yeah. OK, in all seriousness, though, is my mic good?
OK, cool. Might want a better one. So I was going to say, I'd have to go pretty far back
to find things that I personally achieved completely on my own.
And then I was thinking, no, even back really far,
like I always had someone holding a camera for me. I always had some kind of help.
So I don't know, if I had to pick something,
I'd say being a real company, where people pay their bills
and feed their families and have snackies in the kitchen.
Yeah, we have free snackies. Most of the time, most of the time,
all the good stuff goes pretty fast. But there's almost always something there
if you're desperate enough.
That would be a really interesting data point
for a snack company to have. They just go into a company and put in 20 of everything
and then just gauge how fast they all disappear. And that's like the disappearing food taste
index of quality. That would be a very interesting metric.
Anyway, am I supposed to open this? All right, we've got a cake break.
Has anyone partake? Oh, wow.
That's cute. They are bombs.
I'm going to go with balloons. All right, yes, good.
You're upside down. In fairness to me, it was going this way.
They kind of look like bombs.
I'm also playing dumb a little bit. OK, so am I supposed to cut the cake?
Do I just do the first cut? Just do a first cut here. Yeah, OK, I'm not going to just stand here and cut cake
the whole time. No, no, no. OK. And we've got cakes going to other buildings as well.
Oh, really? Oh, that's fun. All right, Happy Sweet 16 LTT.
Let's go. All right, so should I just be awful and do this?
Whatever you want for your piece, you go nuts. Nice.
OK, people hate it when I eat on stream, so I might just have one bite for now.
People get extremely angry when I eat on stream.
Yeah, yeah, get in here. All right, I'm here.
You used my knife for your cake.
What was the cake knife? Mine now. It's a computer knife.
You can have it. This knife is probably expensive places.
Well, Beth's watched it. Oh, you did? Yeah. Oh, nice. It's our prop knife.
It actually lives on the kitchen here. We used to have a little magnetic knife thing,
but now we don't anymore. OK, I'm going to put this aside for me for now.
Oh, I'm going to bring my next victim here then. Am I starting my next build?
Yep. I got to switch your mic pack battery, Linus.
Can you see what he's doing, Andy? Look what he's doing. Look what he's doing.
There are worse things I could do. I was going to cut the 16 out of the middle.
He seriously just cut that. Wow. Damn, I've got one here.
Yeah, a swab Linus is packed for me. Yep. Please, so we can eat some cake.
You see the kind of things that I deal with around here? Give me your pack while you eat.
Totally reasonable. What is the problem?
One person's going to get a little angled piece. That's fine.
Listen, you have lost your knife for this, so just relax.
Are you trying to do the chocolate magic trick?
Yes. Dude, this isn't.
We're not doing this here. I am, right now, actively, see?
And lovely.
See you later. All right, see you later, Andy. Hi, second, Andy.
It's over there.
Does someone want to take an end of this so that we can get the computer builds going again?
Oh, my goodness.
This is dangerous. Yeah, the knife is just kind of hanging off of it.
Oh! Let's put that out here. Yeah, yeah, we'll take it out there.
We'll take it out there. Take it outside. Will other people have cake?
Yeah. Let them eat cake. OK, Marie.
OK.
Sure. You can follow him for a second if you want. Let's go talk to Andy.
See you later, Andy. See what he ends up doing? There you go, they're back.
All right, cool. Oh, man.
Wow, this has been quite the stream today.
Oh, look. We're going to get another competently built PC.
It's John from the lab. Thank goodness.
Our first three in a row. Our first three guest builders didn't put the I.O.
shield on. And then our fourth guest builder put the I.O.
shield on, but had the tab sticking into the DisplayPort port.
The part that I left off is that I also did that on the fourth build. But I didn't do it on any of the three prior.
So I'm still giving myself a 75% passing grade here
for building PCs. That's fair. All right.
So clock's running. We've got half an hour. I think you can.
John, do you think you can build a computer in half an hour? Absolutely not.
Yeah, for sure. But you asked him to build a test bench.
Oh. He just slaps them in there.
You wouldn't believe the way this man builds test benches. But you show him a case.
Cases don't exist. He gets confused.
He's all like, mama. He just doesn't get.
I'm making a lot of this up, obviously. So you haven't been on camera that much.
Tell us something about John that the audience is unlikely to know.
I did archery competitively for 13 years.
OK. I also did not know that. So is that like, do you bring that up
because it's like a threat? Or how fast can you run like this? Only if you make it that way.
Got it. Excellent. Why?
I know not that that's a weird thing to do. I'm just wondering why archery.
Started as when we were on vacation in Mexico one year.
We saw, oh, there's archery. So we went there. They totally had the bow string wrong and everything.
So it was a bad time. And then for my birthday the next year,
my parents actually took me to an archery club.
And then since then I was enamored by it.
You were just hooked. Yeah. Yeah, and then nowadays if it shoots,
I probably have shot it. That's cool. You know, it's funny because even though I was teasing you
a little bit, why archery? That was like my favorite thing at summer camp.
That was my favorite station. And we had this little sporting goods store.
And the only reason that I'm thinking of it right now is because we had lunch across the street from it
last weekend with the family. And I was like, oh my god, I don't remember what
it's called anymore. But there's this little sporting goods store in Ladner
where I used to love going in there because they had all kinds of cool bows and cool arrows.
And I was a kid and I didn't understand what the heck any of it was. But I always found the bow more interesting than the gun.
And I couldn't tell you why.
They weren't elegant. I just loved the, I loved drawing it back.
Now, the thing that everyone's going to need to know here
is what's your archery style?
What do you mean? Do you get all the glasses and everything? Or do you have one hand in the pocket?
That would be pretty dope. I mean, it would be pretty hard with a bow.
You could do it. You just set up a rig? Yeah.
So do you have the cool glasses and stuff? Or are you just like it?
No. I had a pretty good competition bow, though. It was an actual shoot through one instead of having.
It was a compound bow. And typically.
So you don't knock it on the side. It goes through the thing? Yeah.
So what about the feathers, though? So the way that it has a drop rest,
most competition bows for compounds have drop rest.
Drop rest, yeah. You're going to have to give me a little more detail on what a drop rest is.
So normally, an arrow rests on a rest of some sort that's
not directly on the bow. Sure. Because if it didn't rest on a rest, what would it rest on?
Yeah, exactly. Don't settle for the rest.
Settle for the best rest. Sorry.
OK. So normally, you've got to have some kind of rest.
Yeah. So this one, the way it works is it would attach to the actual compound strings.
And as you draw back, it lifts up.
And then when you release it, it would actually drop the rest down so that the arrow is not actually touching
anything as it's flying. What? Yeah.
But then wouldn't it like go down? No.
Because the arrow is already mid-flight.
Huh. OK. Sure.
And that's good. Yeah.
Because then you don't have anything potentially influencing the flight path.
I see.
Oh, OK. I'm having a very hard time wrapping my brain around why,
how it would not kind of start to go down a little bit.
But I will take your word for it, because I know far less about archery than you do.
So when did you stop competing?
You're with that a day and I think it was 22?
Oh, OK. So like quite recently then.
I wish I was that young still. Oh, 22 years old.
Yeah, yeah. I thought you meant 2022.
All right, never mind. OK, fair enough. Hey, it's blue on 1700, right?
I think so. I think so too. We're both going with I think so.
So this is either going to go 100% great for both of us or epic fail for both of us.
See how it goes. Pretty sure it's blue.
Pretty sure it's blue. There are color-coded standoffs
for our AT&T Pistons Clues. I don't. You don't have a booklet?
No, I don't have one in mind. I must have thrown it out. I'm pretty darn sure it's blue.
Yeah, it is. All right, Jordan, you've got some stuff for us. So oh, we want to thank the folks who provided the hardware
real quick here. Intel sent over eight CPUs for our builds.
Actually, now is as good a time as any to have a look at what we're using. Oh, these are great.
We've got Core i7-14700KF processors.
We're not going to need the onboard graphics because we're going to have GPUs for our builds.
And this gives us like 20 cores or something stupid like that.
Hopefully, the BIOS is up to do on these. A lot of flipping on the packaging.
The packaging on. Oh, no, they still do. Can you remember how many cores a 14700K has?
Oh, god, don't. Yeah, John. The product lineups have gotten so complicated.
And there's a barcode over top of my sticker.
They used to say how many cores they have on them. They don't anymore.
That's weird. Dan, help me. Is it 20 cores on a 14700KF?
Oh, chat. Chat's there for me.
Yeah, I think it's 1420.
Chat says no. All right, how many cores is it? Hit me, chat.
Hit me, chat. It's on the prompter. Oh, nice.
Hey, that'll help. Ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba. It's totally 14 of those.
Mm, Intel builds.
Hey, there we go. 20 cores. 20 cores, 28 threads.
That's the one. That's what I said, right? Did I say 20? Totally.
Yes. All right, sick.
What are these things turbo to? Do I have that too? Look at that. They turbo up to 5.6 gigahertz.
Got all the little specs. So anyway, Intel sent these over so that when
we are selling these on java.gg, the entire value of the CPU can go to charity.
So it's going to be going to one of our local food banks,
which is a pretty important thing to contribute to this time
of year. All right, Jordan, hit me with a challenge,
or you can throw it down for a merge message, or whatever you'd like.
Ooh, a price challenge. This is such an organized stream.
We're celebrating 16 years of streaming challenges.
All right, I'm good. You think we would have figured it out by now?
No, maybe after 32.
So let's do a pricing challenge. OK. What was the price of that firestruck?
They weren't cheap. I remember them being, you know,
not completely ridiculous, unreasonable,
but certainly not cheap. RC.
Wasn't it like $1,200 or something like that?
No. No way. Well, that would have been way back in the day.
I'm going to say that the RC firetruck was 2012.
In 2012, I'm going to say it was $330.
That's some of the good guess. You're high. How dare you, 270?
The price I found on an archive page from NCIX
was $99 Canadian. Wow.
No, that was fun promo. That was like on clearance to get rid of them, for sure.
All right. I promise you. All right.
I promise you. I believe you. Now, our videos weren't sophisticated enough back then
to have so much as a, like, print screen,
screenshot of the product page. So we're not going to be able to go back
and look at what it cost when it was first launched.
But there's no way that it was $99.
That would have been a sick value for $100. It was actually interesting going back
because I found a video of you talking about why we will never
talk about prices in our videos. Oh, really?
Yeah. Because you wanted them to be evergreen.
Yes. We gave up on that at a certain point.
Yes. It turns out that when you review a product,
people, for the most part, want you to talk about the value of it.
And we particularly ran into trouble with that
during the great GPU pricening
during the COVID lockdowns and the crypto mining boom
because we tried to kind of... This was before your time, John.
But we tried to kind of review a GPU
in the context of, like,
how it fit into the right way of, like, how it fit into the rest of the lineup
and its relative pricing against what relatively speaking existed
rather than kind of get into that everything's a terrible value
and absolutely nothing makes any sense and everything is horrible.
You're talking about the landscape today is just perfect.
Well... It's funny because people talk far less
about how bad it is right now. It's because it's normalized.
But it's not that much better. As far as I can tell,
the GPU manufacturers, I mean, especially NVIDIA,
because being the market leader, they kind of set the curve.
They basically saw, hmm, so they'll pay that much.
And we're like, okay, well, we have effectively
a semi-monopoly in this space,
in this discrete gaming GPU space. Well, I guess these are already installed.
Yes, they're already installed. They don't have a relative whatsoever
to ever adjust pricing back down. So things did come down a little.
But we are nowhere near. And you don't have to go back that far.
We are nowhere near what, you know, the reasonable pricing
we saw for 30 series was. It's kind of wild, actually.
How we've all just kind of gone, okay,
well, I guess that's what GPU costs now.
Yeah. Not a fan, to be honest with you.
Yeah, like gaming, well, gaming still is accessible.
I mean, part of that is thanks to IGPUs.
Thanks to companies like our sponsor, Jawa.gg, who makes it easy
to buy second-hand GPUs. But
brand new GPUs, like brand new current-gen GPUs are
really, really expensive these days. All right, Dan, do you want to hit me with merge message?
Yeah, sure. I've got a bunch here I want to do a couple. Sure.
Hey Linus, finally getting my hands on the screwdriver. What will be
the next episode of Wacky Water Cooling Solutions with Alex and Linus?
Truly my favorite series on the channel. Ooh, Wacky Water Cooling
with Alex and Linus. What do we have planned?
I know that we want to do something in the office,
like some kind of some kind of whole room water cooling of some sort,
but I've kind of talked about this on Wandshow.
Our office situation here may
change at some point, and so I don't think we're looking to do anything
big to this building right now.
That depends, because we may just not be able to find anything.
Not matter. No, it's built-in. Oh yeah, that's right. No, it was only the...
Yeah, okay, that's funny. Look, I'm like what?
I mentioned to him when we started. Yeah, hey, three people who had afford
didn't manage to put in a diode shield. Yeah, we're using a different board now.
We're on our Intel platforms now, and they have an integrated diode shield.
There you go, so everything's fine. Anyway, Wacky Water Cooling Solutions,
I want to get one of those water-cooled air conditioners.
And yeah, but that might be a Linus and Jake thing, because that'll probably be
for the server room at my house, so that we can finally have it not be stupid.
I had a leak this weekend. Actually, I might have
a picture of what happened on my phone. Ugh, here, let me see
if I have a picture. It was not good though, and this
jerk, I messaged him on the weekend.
I'm like, yeah, that thing that you helped me build is
leaking all over the place. I was helpful.
And you were like, lol. Well, it was funny.
You were like holding it with your finger. It was ridiculous.
Okay, John, I send him this, and his response is
lol, because Just put a bucket under it.
No, because it would drain the whole loop. So?
So the fitting on there just snapped off. No, no, no, no. You snapped it off.
No, I didn't. Dude, it did not just explode itself.
No, it did. Jake, I showed your stepdad what happened
to it. So, if you look at it, if you look at it, because it's a clear
plastic, it's like a polycarb or something, probably not polycarb, but it's some kind of
clear plastic. And if you look at it, most of the,
most of where it's severed is shiny. Like a
crack, like a sudden break. And then there's like 20% of it
where it sheared off. Where I went to tighten it, because I thought
it was just loose, because it was like with spewing water. So I went to
tighten it, and the whole thing just immediately came off. I barely touched it.
So you know, you know how I was saying it was straight before? I found a photo of when
we installed it, and the valve was straight. So I think something like fell off that
table or got knocked off and hit it, and that's why it was leaking, but anyways.
Can I give you just say a sentence on stream that's going to make no sense to the stream, but you need
for something else? It's very quick. I guess. Is this an audio pickup for a video?
It is, yes. That's how I add screen recording to the live stream.
Seriously? Okay, that's going to be trash quality.
Okay. So with that said,
so with that said, until the end of the day, December 2nd.
That's all you need? Sure. Update for your Linux.
That's how we do it? I know what video that's for.
I know what video that's for. We are finally announcing
the product that the NAS software
that I made my second Hey, this really needs to exist, and I guess
if I don't fund it, nobody else will. My second tech investment
into a NAS software and there's going to be some kind of special
offer that is only available for a limited time. I guess that's the new
time window for it. Very cool. Very, very, very
very cool. I have a sales update for you. Oh, sales update.
We are sold out. We're sold out of what? Out of our Java computers.
Wait, all these computers are gone? Yep. Oh. You better get them done. Does that mean
we can end the stream and go home? They're all built. Yeah, we can just leave. I mean, if we've already
got the money, what does it matter, right? Thanks because I became a camera person.
You became a camera person? Oh, we sold out all of them? Yeah.
He's that powerful. Yeah, that's the power of John.
That's why we don't let him go on camera because the entire industry is going to be
in shortage. Look at that mug. I want to buy a computer.
Oh, that's fantastic. Thank you guys so much. So that means
that we are contributing like, what does it work out to?
Like, about 20 grand? It'll depend on shipping, but yeah, it'll work out to about
22,000, 23,000, probably US to local food banks.
That's awesome. Thank you so much, you guys. Super cool. Every time
we do stuff like this, I'm like, oh, we should do this kind of stuff more often. But it's a ton of work.
It's like actually a ton of work setting up for streams like this. So we're still going to
do it. We're going to do them. We're going to do them as often as we can make
it make sense. But yeah, that's why they don't happen just like every week or whatever.
Oh, wow. To go back and do this one again, I think
I might put the cooler in after the fact because
this is not as roomy a case as the first one we were working in.
It's definitely nice that it's really compact, but it is not
the roomiest. I also may have found one other small challenge.
Mine are bigger. Well, I mean, I
can work in it. Yes, that is my superpower. But it's
a little trickier to work in. Also, I may have noticed one small problem
because we're using higher profile memory. Yeah, I was concerned
about that too. I think this fan is not going to be
inside the computer. We might be able to put it on
the reverse side. I think we can get away with the one fan
on the NHD-15 on this thing. This is only a 14700.
I Okay, hold on.
You know what we could do is we could just pull from our inventory
and get some 120 mil fans for the secondary. And then we could put 120s on there.
That's what we did in the Keras machine. Okay. Yeah, let's do that.
So maybe, Jordan, can you just make a note that we're just going to, for the Intel machines
to replace that 140 millimeter fan with a 120? All right. Okay, that should be fine.
Have we shown it out to our contributors for this? Oh, no, I haven't.
ASUS sent over eight mother boards
and two GPUs. So the Z790 plus Wi-Fi
boards that we're using here were provided by ASUS. And then I guess we've got
a couple of GPUs that we're going to be checking out later. And because all of our hardware
partners who provided stuff for the stream today were so generous, it means that
pretty much the entire retail value of these machines
that people are paying is going to be going to the food bank.
So that's super exciting. We set out to do this with the goal
of contributing all of the profits for the builds and it turned out that
once everyone found out what we were doing, they were just like, oh, well here's all the hardware.
So then it's pure profit. So it's pure donation.
This is pretty cool. And 16 people are going to get
sick deal on a computer. I can't believe how fast these sold.
Now can you imagine if we were a retailer just like building computers
and selling them all day? We could probably make a pretty good business out of that. I should go full circle.
We should just be becoming peace.
Linus build tips. LCIX.com
I think it was... You don't have to change one letter on your sign in your office.
And then it's no problem. That would really save a lot of money
in the long run. Oh, I'm changing that sign in my office.
You know, I have actually tried to buy LCIX.com several times.
I make about a yearly offer every year or so.
I reach out and I make another offer. But I think that there's a bit of a disconnect
between me and the current owner on the value of it.
So until we can bridge that gulf
I don't think it's going to happen. But the thing is I can be patient
and I don't think anyone else is lined up to buy it.
So time's on my side. Yeah, hit me, Dan.
Hey everyone, I have a question. With my area having no services
to build or repair PCs and a lack of ways for people
to get good support for their techniques, any tips on starting
to provide that myself? I think that if we learn to
anything from that Facebook
PC video a little while ago where we hired random people on Facebook
to build PCs for us, I think what we learned from that
is that there is a shockingly active marketplace of both buyers
and sellers for tech goods and services on these kinds
of marketplaces. And if you were going to set up
something like that and pursue a business like that for yourself, the best
thing to do would be to keep your overhead extremely low, market yourself
on social platforms, take it slow, build up a
client base, build up referrals. Small businesses never,
never underestimate the importance of referrals as a small business
and don't quit your day job immediately. The cool thing about
tech support and tech jobs is most people don't
expect service while you wait for
service removal or reformatting a system or anything like that.
So just make sure you don't bite off more than you can chew, get referrals, and I don't see
any reason why you couldn't build something like that up.
I think that it's, I mean I did make money when I was younger
building machines for people. I think it's probably a little more
challenging these days. There's really not a lot of margin in the
just like piece together parts and build a PC
business, but there's also ways that you can be creative and help stretch
a dollar for your clients. We ran into
our builder codename, The Professional
who had some interesting corners that they cut. They were very up front
with us about it, but using like an engineering sample
CPU, I wasn't a fan of the power supply they used, but using an engineering
sample CPU and some other creative techniques, they managed to
put together a very performant PC for the price.
And the only way that one of the other builders was able to compete with it was that they
literally were doing it for fun and were not making any money on it.
So I believe The Professional did end up outperforming the other person
who was doing it as a side hustle and was trying to actually make money at it.
So if you're creative, if you find
good deals, there's
a lot of good that can be done, helping people get a bargain.
I came across a Reddit post, I think it was last week, where an elderly
relative accidentally bought like a 12 year old
computer for way too much money, way more than it was worth.
I hate it when stuff like that happens. I hate it when stuff like that happens
and I hate how preventable it is because I've been saying for years
that that's a big problem that I have with this like
i7 branding. Let's move away from any kind of
meaningful specs. Don't worry, we're ultra now.
I think it's just going to get more and more confusing as time goes on.
And so what I was going to say was, I think there's a lot
of room to do good by
finding the bargains that are out there
on, you know, older hardware that is still perfectly serviceable
and keeping machines keeping machines
on the battlefield or call of duty
as it were.
Alright Dan, hit me. In classic line of Sebastian fashion
my painters messed up the plan to eggshell finish.
What am I leaving on the table for having matte finish walls?
Scrubbability. Eggshell basically just means
there's a little bit more resin in the paint and it has a bit more
of a glossy, durable finish.
And so that means that when it comes time to wash it, you're less likely
to leave marks that are going to look kind of stupid.
It's not going to no indoor paint
unless you're in like a I don't know, like a
kitchen with a ton of moisture or something like that.
So no indoor paint is likely to actually like
flake off the wall unless you Unless you live in my house.
What happens in your house? The previous owners did a terrible job
with the paint and they put water based over top of oil
based. That is a problem.
And you don't worry, you can prevent that. All you got to go do is
go get yourself a little thing and nail polish remover as long as it has acetone in it.
You need something with acetone. You take a little bit of acetone, you put it on a rag
and then you rub it in a discrete spot on the wall. I mean theoretically
it doesn't matter because you're about to paint over it. But you just rub it in a little discrete spot on the wall
and if it comes off, it's water based and if it doesn't come off, then it's
oil based and you just make sure that you paint on whatever matches
what was already there if you want the best chance of adhesion. So in general
indoors, there's not much risk of like the elements causing your paint to break down.
But it just means that the nice
finish won't last for very long. Matt will look better for like
45 minutes. And then after that, it will look worse.
That's why we put it on the ceiling. Yes, that's exactly why you put it on the ceiling.
That's why we use Matt on the ceiling. The other reason we use it on the ceiling is because
Matt hides imperfections much better. Can you paint in a previous life?
I had to paint my house. Oh, okay.
Let me get covered in spit. Sorry
my watch was talking to me. So one of the other reasons for the ceiling
is they have these long uninterrupted
spaces and it's really hard to apply drywall perfectly.
That's one of the reasons that stipple or popcorn ceiling exists
is because it helps to mask any errors in the ceiling drywalling.
But what also helps mask it is Matt paint is far less likely
to draw the eye to a bump or imperfection.
What is going on right now? Wait, who put this in here?
Whoever pre-wired this put the power supply end at the top.
I was wondering why this 8-pin wasn't going in.
Amateurs. Alright, that's fine.
In fairness to them it has been
overall helpful to have a lot of things pre-applied.
Dan, hit me with a merge message. Sure thing.
Just swapped over to an AMD system. Does AMD take advantage of dual channel memory?
Thinking of swapping out my B450 Mark II for one with four RAM slots
but if it's not going to make a big difference I'll skip.
So your two slots are already dual channel.
Your four slots is just going to allow you
to put two dims
sorry cable tie up
is going to allow you to do two dims per one of your channels.
AMD does support two dims per channel on their consumer platforms
but not at the same speed as if you only run one dim per channel.
So I would say
personally I would prefer to just
use one dim per channel on modern platform because
the speed difference is something that is probably going to be
more noticeable than the difference of having more memory
unless you know that you absolutely need more memory in which case
having more memory is more better. So basically
if you know you need more memory go for it if you aren't a hundred percent sure
probably you aren't going to get a performance benefit from it anyway.
We've only got two minutes left
because you started drilling me on archery.
Well you didn't have to answer
you could have been the responsible one and kept us on task. I mean he's been pretty good.
It's not entirely on me. What do you mean he's been pretty good? I'm almost done too.
Is this GPU in? No. I had to restart my motherboard
because I cross-threaded a screw. Oh no!
I think we're pretty close there Jordan. Mr. He's been on task.
Man! I'm just polite okay. There's so much RGB in here.
I don't want to deal with this. What even is all of this?
Welcome to Thermaltake.
I don't want RGB. I just want an easy build.
Why is edition? Don't plug it in.
That's what we did for Brad's computer. It was too bright.
I'm going to plug it in. I thought he liked the RGB.
I plugged in his EK fans and they were on like rainbow mode the entire time.
Oh no! I didn't set to orange. I'll pass on this. Yeah, probably.
Yeah. I don't know.
I've got a pair of side cutters for you if you want. Okay. Hit me Dan.
Sure. Hi DLM. I work at media marked
the best buy of Europe. Why do you think these big box
tech shops don't sell many individual PC parts? My store basically only
sells SSDs and thermal paste.
Yeah, I know the answer to that. There's no margin in it.
Finished systems, you're going to be supported not just
by the margin on the system itself, but a lot of the time there's much more generous
SPA or SPF or MDF programs that are attached
to them. So that's where you're actually making money
in the PC industry is through marketing programs when you're a large retailer.
And on a motherboard you might make
8 or 9 points, 10 points on a CPU
like especially a popular high run rate model
you're maybe making like 5 points. I mean Micro Center famously sells
so many of their CPUs at a loss, right?
So a lot of retailers just kind of look at that industry
and they kind of go, why? Like
why am I bothering with this when I can sell I can sell TVs
which have a lot of the margins out of TVs these days, but you know I can sell TVs
I can sell laptops, I can sell
a lot of categories have really
contracted over the years. I was going to say cameras but like they're kind of dead.
The point is just there's other there's other categories that
at least have some profit left in them and PC parts is not
not a lucrative not a lucrative business
officially behind your next challenger is here
my next challenger is here okay that's fine
I am close I am a lot closer than it
probably looks or I am a lot farther than it probably looks
and I am not sure which one yet because I don't know how hard it's going to be
to plug these cables into this power supply with this little room
I am certainly going to do my best to do it
oh you did the opposite way you fool
I know I know
I did not do a very smart thing here oh no
oh no we are NVIDIA on this one
oh no I have to get all the way to the other end
also did whoever wire this up wire it backwards
no they didn't okay I oh man can I do this
can I plug one of these 12 pin connectors in
all the way in there
what is that sound is that showing up on the mic
yes sounds like my neighbors are doing it
during the ridiculous
nope I cannot do this
my small hands power does have limits I am going to have to
undo this power supply and plug in the modular cables and put it back in
fortunately that shouldn't take too long I thought you were supposed to be getting better at this
he's got to re-set because it's Intel 3
yeah this is a very different system with different quarks
one of four not five of eight
has anyone at any point here figured out what our times are for the machines
it is very important to me and I cannot stress this enough
that we figure this out at some point literally no one
no I need to know how much each system took as anyone
watching at home able to go back and get
get us the times the in and out times for each machine
thank you it would mean so much to me
the entire title of the video is building PCs until I get good at it
but we can't quantify it until we know how long they take to build
I will go through everything now thank you so much
hey Dan maybe put that on pause could I get a merge message
you don't have to complain about it then do you think PC electronics are
sturdier than that of a decade or more ago example
they had multiple g-force 8800 GTXs and the cards only ever
lasted just past their warranty and even the motherboard suffered issues
no not even a little bit
man the tolerances are so tight these days
things are things run hotter
by spec these days I don't think I've seen
I don't think I've seen anything to indicate that the electronics
manufactured today are more robust
there are things that are there are things that are I think if we were to go back
to electrolytic capacitors that would be a big problem
for the longevity of our electronics but I think all other things being
equal man like John you've probably
dug a PCB out of some
radio from the 1970s you look at the size of the traces
on those boards they couldn't they couldn't fail
like it's they were built like tanks except for they were
very terrible tanks okay I've got some times
yeah so we have great tanks that are
finicky as all heck these days I guess if that's if we're continuing
John's analogies thanks flowplane chat I've got times for you Linus
we've got times okay what are our times
PC 1 37 and a half minutes okay PC 2
27 minutes PC 3 28 minutes
PC 4 35 minutes
really yeah oh wow I'm all over the place
interesting where are we now Jordan like what is this one
this is number something
36 what's the timer say
oh he's been building it for six minutes nope
36 minutes it doesn't count up
no oh it just resets immediately
we're plugging in the PC's yeah he's on six minutes into the next one
oh my goodness this is um cool I can keep track of that now
okay sorry this is the most challenging build so far
I am challenged right now
okay I think
I have built this computer
I
but will it post am almost certain
that the RGB is not hooked up
correctly dang it
no I don't think they wired together all the RGB for us John
mine looked pretty clean I mean
I won't deny that it's clean it's just a question of whether it is plugged in
oh god these are those stupid ones that you have to bend off
what the graphics card area
oh yes
the other case I don't want to be down too much on the case
because they generously provided it for the stream
and it's for charity which is really good
but I
will say that I appreciated
some of the nice tabs
that our other case had
okay let's see
let's see if my system works oh after I put a GPU in it
dang, dang, nab it these can be a little scary
I think for my second oh no this is nice this motherboard
has this area of the PCB quite clear but if you look right here
there's some surface mount components here and when you bend these out
you can knock these off don't ask me how I know
alright what do we got for GPUs here I got an RTX 4070 Super
oh that's nice to see mine's white
alright we've gone well your doesn't match
the visual aesthetic there but hey that's fine
it'll output frames just the same
it is a bold choice or generate them it's just an absolute kill case
that is the other option does the GPU generate the frames
or is that done on the CPU and the GPU just purchases us
I'm calling it the GPU I'm saying it's generated on the GPU
alright Dan do you want to hit me with a merge message sure
do you think the big difference between AMD and NVIDIA is just software
CUDA, DLSS, etc or are NVIDIA GPUs better even
without those things taken into account if anything I would say that
price for price AMD GPUs are
better a lot of
a lot of the engineering of a GPU these days
is pretty well understood those folks at both team red and team green
have been doing things for a very very very long time
and I think that we have seen generation by generation
that on paper AMD will have a lot
more performance in theory
but NVIDIA finds a way to
be very very competitive in terms of real world performance
it's also gotten extremely complicated to measure because
now we can't just look at memory bandwidth
and how many shaders it has or whatever else
you can't just look at raw specs because especially NVIDIA
has included like
essentially assist
co-processors on their GPUs that do things like
help with AI accelerated upscaling so
I would say AMD
generally builds a stronger GPU for the price
but not out of the goodness of their heart it's because
in order to compete they kind of have to throw more
at the problem would be my assessment
let's see if we manage to build a functioning computer here any luck
any dice oh my goodness
am I I'm 10 minutes over time on this one
yeah good gravy
okay and I'm supposed to talk about LTT Store I think it's posted
hey did it post 40
40 minutes 30 seconds okay I have a new guest
hey how's it going Tatiana from creator rear house wow you are making
progress which is good no good job
you're doing everything right so far so that's better than Dennis
here's a mic for you oh she doesn't have a mic
well okay cool we'll talk in a minute okay
I was wondering why you were all done up this morning I was afraid to ask because I think you're not supposed to ask
oh my god yes it's for our viewers yeah okay
that makes sense we had our merch meeting this morning
and I was like well you know like Mark for example
you know showed up and like totally done up all nice
and you know you ask but I
I don't know I never know what the rules are and I don't want to overstep
my bounds so I just was like okay yeah her hair looks nice today
I didn't say anything but this makes way more sense now
it totally makes sense anyway do you want to explain or are you mic not yeah you're mic now
do you want to explain what you do for the for the creator rear house team and also
get out of my way because I know you have the table get out of my way
yeah so I'm the raw materials product
developer here at creator rear house so I work on a lot of fashion products
to make sure that everything is tested and that we have excellent fabrics
that are tried and true and stand the test of time sorry
and sometimes I work on some engineering products and I also help around with photography
and everything else in order to make creator rear house what it is
so one of her first challenges that is now finally coming to market
I think sometime in the next couple months
yeah yeah was our mod mat
so I I
gave her a very difficult task I basically said
yeah needs to be price competitive because I think one of the problems
with the existing mod mats on the market is that they're so expensive that unless
you're building computers regularly or commercially
they don't even really make sense to buy so so many people who are working on projects
or building computers can't really absorb that much cost
in the cost of their machine I don't think that really makes sense
but I also came back to her and said well okay so the cost has to make sense
but do you remember all the things that I was like
they need to be class leading let's see for fun because
I'm having you do it because I don't remember well it had to be
very easy to oh sorry it had to be very easy to clean
it had to make sure that no screws would fall off
so the tribology and the wear would be really good in order to capture
that kind of friction you're gonna have to define words like tribology she always
does this she just dropped some technical ass term in the middle
of the meeting and I'm like yeah that's that's a word I've never heard
of or really yeah explain oh okay um well it's
the study of wear and friction okay so especially when you're talking about
sorry for example bearings or when you're looking at gaskets and stuff
you want to make sure that there's enough lubricant so wear means it's that
the actual texture on it allows for more friction
in order to make sure that nothing will slide off so that was one of the tests to make sure that
we had a adequate amount of friction applied and then looking at
doing not only internal testing but also third-party testing
I did a ton in regards to picking the blend of
rubbers and even the fillers so it actually uses a
conductive carbon black in order to make sure that the top
is dissipated and that the bottom is conductive that's so cool
I always forget that like a lot of the people we work with are nerds too
and CW has some really cool specialties almost all of them
I know it's awesome so cool it's just types of
nerd to dumb it's great yeah we're very excited
about this product she ended up hitting some stretch targets it is
extremely burn resistant so you're still going to be able to
market if you try really hard don't expect to be using a blowtorch
over top of it and hitting it full blast and having it not mar at all
or whatever the case may be but it is up there with any other
any other product on the market in terms of heat resistance
and we also managed to find an outstanding print
process that gives it a really vibrant but still extremely
clear clear print so that was
that was one of Tatiana's early tasks that she has managed
to bring all the way to market now it will be launching fairly soon
and then there's another one that we're going to have to discuss
because it wasn't nearly as much of a success and has been an ongoing
pain point and actually has actually put some strain on our relationship
because I asked Tatiana to solve once and for
all the fact that we don't have socks and she promised
do you remember that she was young and naive then
yes I was she promised to find
a sock blend and a sock what is it it's not a weave
is it what's the technical the knit and a sock knit
that would meet my exacting standards and the only reason
I actually bring it up is because I think we're finally
getting close hopefully how many
samples have you have you brought to
my god a ridiculous amount of samples
ridiculous amount of samples but I don't ask
for much I ask for comfort durability breathability
quick drying I want it to look nice
I mean really affordable
yeah yeah right that's what everyone wants
I'm asking for no more than what our customer wants
which is the world at a good price
oh man yeah no it's kind of wild
the different rabbit holes that you've ended up okay give me
another rabbit hole that you ended up down during your time here
that you did not expect that I did not expect
you can give me one you expected as long as it's fun too I love all of
the different changing materials that we do such as
we're doing some that change when you apply water to it
and it reveals something or even some heat changing
one so when you touch it it'll actually phase change essentially
into a different color I know okay but
Nick it wasn't me it was not
me for a change hey you know what I did talk about
the zip-off shorts that I was like oh would anyone
actually want this and lo and behold Nick comes to me and he's like you know what
everyone in the comments wanted it so I got schooled a little bit
and it might be coming out soon so you know
seriously gonna do zip-off shorts that would be amazing I actually
love those they're so practical but what do you do with the legs
are you doing mix like different color ways or do you do mix and match
okay I revealed so much already I gotta stop
I should at least clarify what she's talking about with the
the water reveal so I'm
personally extremely excited about this one I mean
do your best impression of the noise that I made when you guys first showed me the fabric samples
let's hear it and I was like it was either that or
something along those lines it's something so cool
so do you want to explain how it works it's a fabric that when it gets
wet it like reveals a hidden picture essentially
so how does that work so essentially it's a
clear resist that's applied onto the fabric so therefore wherever
the resist is it's going to not
wet or absorb the into the fabric thus
not changing the color therefore you're going to see the print
when the parts do get wet and the other parts resist it
hopefully that makes sense I think that's a good explanation
what I don't understand necessarily is
oh that like wouldn't the
wouldn't the water creep in from the side like under the resist
or does the resist soak into the fabric so that it just
um well resists essentially okay
so that's how it works anyway we're doing a bathing suit yes
and it is so cool because
when it gets wet so it just looks like a solid color
when you're still on the beach and then when you get in the water and it gets
wet what did we settle on for the pattern do you remember
uh yes well there's going to be two I don't know how much we want
to reveal but
you are officially the leatiest team member now
jeez I can't you know what just go for it do you remember
what either of them are because it actually is escaping me right of course the
the redisaurus and the circuit print okay that's right okay so we're going to
have we're going to have a common version of the swim trunks
and then we're also going to have a like a special like a shiny
and it's going to be just kind of loot boxy so you'll order the swim
trunks and you will either get like a circuit inspired print
kind of like our old like water cooling inspired
print that we had on our old swim shorts or is it
5% I can't remember I can't remember what the odds are don't quote me on the odds
but there are some odds 5% is it 5% nice
okay so there's a 5% chance that when they get
wet they will instead reveal bread sources
so so excited about that product and then
the the temperature change one is like
it's like I wouldn't describe it as a puffy jacket
it is a puffy jacket it's a little puffy but it's not like
like a puffer jacket I don't think kind of how would you describe
it kind of is okay well I would say that
it's not like your average down jacket
but it is going to be a kind of like a coach's jacket
so it's going to be a like a polyester fill
so it's not going to be as warm as a down so it's going to be a really good in between especially for
the fall or spring months anyway the part
that's really exciting about that one is what do you call like a
thermochromic? yeah, thermochromic so we found a thermochromic material
that initially they kind of tried to talk me out of
but you were in my camp for this one right? oh yeah I love it
yeah she was pro thermochromic so they tried to talk me out of it and the reason
was that it takes your body heat and it changes color
but the challenge with that is that if you have any internal pocketing for instance
you end up with more
thermal insulation between your body and the jacket right
because insulation is insulation it works both ways it's kind of
doing what it's supposed to do if it keeps your body heat in
away from the surface where it can be dissipated to the surrounding air
so because anywhere with extra layers
so anywhere where there's a pocket bag or anywhere where there's like extra stitching or whatever
is not going to transfer heat as well and is going to end up kind of
looking kind of patchy they kind of tried to talk me out of it
and honestly I just think it adds to the coolness of the look
it's very cool so essentially how it works is that
once heat is applied the change structure
becomes more flat thus allowing more
light to pass through making it more transparent so then you can see the base color
so cool so we're
Tatiana has been a big part of us experimenting with
like new materials in particular
because that's kind of her bread and butter but she also does more
just like run-of-the-mill stuff as well
for instance we were working on a t-shirt that we're calling the Zuck
and the reason is that it's modeled after the t-shirt
that Mark Zuckerberg famously wore for years and years and years before he got a stylist
and one of the things that's a big challenge is getting
the hand feel right to match the kind of
the quality and the the drape of a
really expensive material because it legitimately is like he wears $400 shirts
I don't think I think it could be done for less than $400
which becomes Tatiana's problem
so I forget where I was going with this right so one of the things that
Tatiana did recently was cut up a $400 t-shirt
in order to have the fabric tested
because she's really struggling with this PC I'm sorry
I wanted to ask I'm going to put your bracket
on the right way and then this is the first time I'm doing this
have you ever built a computer before? you are doing amazing
I appreciate it you're probably lying
you have the RAM in the correct slots you got the CPU in without busting anything
as far as I can tell you have the correct standoffs
the correct spacers for your CPU cooler mount
you're actually doing outstanding all things considered
you need some help obviously but all things considered
this is great okay so you're going to want to tighten
all those down first before you do that I'm going to take that fan off of there
anyway the point is we're trying to
match it she has this special little machine
I guess it's technically a machine anything's a machine that does work
so she has this special little machine that cuts like a perfect circle
out of a garment or out of a fabric so that you can measure the exact
weight of it which is in what like grams per
square something or GSM cutter
grams per square meter there you go so by finding that out
we are basically able to oh
this is whoops
oh man this this machine is a lot harder to build
in but I'm going to gosh darn it I'm going to do
my best here let's take that off
part of figuring out why something is good I wouldn't go as far as
to say reverse engineering because we're not necessarily targeting
the exact same composition or the exact same source because
if we were to target the exact same source it would probably cost just as much
because it's like what is it like a particular town in Italy or something where they
Solatano I believe but I'm not quite sure but a small town in Italy
where everyone is like it's a generational knitters
and weavers and everything is able to be traced back however
we are looking at the options that we do have and using other European mills
to also have the same kind of ethics and the same kind of practices just at a much more
reasonable price point for our consumers yeah there you go that thing
that thing she said okay managed to
get the eight pins plugged in which is going to save me some time later
but I'm a little worried about some of this cable management because the last one was kind
of a nightmare how much time do I have for this one Jordan I have 15 minutes left
you know what I can do it
I can do this I think Tatiana is going to do her best
I'm going to do my best yes that is all
that anyone can ask of you um
kind of lost now can I help you yes please no problem
you are going to want to go ahead and put some thermal goop on there
let's see how she does let's see how she does
because I think as part of designing or helping with the design of the mod mat
she's probably had to look at like thermal goop patterns
you know what that is a good guess okay that's a good enough guess
that um whether what you did is necessary or not
it's not going to harm anything and that will work fine I know there's an X pattern
I know there's a lot of different patterns I know a lot of people just do the one line
that's free did it I guess yep you know what that's uh
totally valid and you're going to get away with one on that
okay what I need to do because I'm actually trying to get
this computer done in a shorter time than the last one I built
is I need to pre run a couple of these things that don't fit through this gap
once I put the power supply in so let's get our front panel audio in here
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but I let's go
alright help him buy hair
wow can you send me to turkey?
send you to turkey, is that a thing? no hair transplant
they all go to turkey because it's cheaper
you see like airplanes on the way back from turkey you see so much dudes with their heads wrapped up
you never seen that before? no that's like a thing
I've never had to look into it I've never looked
I don't care no I know
this is getting so much worse obviously you don't care
no no that's not what I meant
keep the hole deeper oh my goodness
okay Nick can I do something for you?
are you visiting for a reason? can you check the call list here?
oh you're next oh good okay well
because Linus is taking so long on the computer sorry Nick
you're gonna want to take this fan off and then you need to screw down
through here to screw this to the plate there because right now it's just
like that and also just it doesn't matter
but it would mean a lot to me if you'd have the Noctua upright
okay yeah no problem it doesn't matter it doesn't affect performance
it's one of those things yeah
just decide you please this punch if you could do that
I should do a what now? leak some more stuff
Tatiana leaked all the stuff yeah that's okay
I'm gonna touch you on a tail oh wow
for now we've done a lot of screwdrivers
let's go oh man okay what else am I supposed to be doing
do you have any other things for me or anything or like
do we have a guessing game thing? we can guess some stuff
I got a merch message in the meantime if you fancy I'm getting a little frazzled here at this point
why because you're so behind yes
oh okay hi from Switzerland thanks for all of the great content
my friends at university what about the other content you're not gonna thank me for that
why would they we share this love for tech
thanks to y'all we wonder what your utility bills look like
how do I say this without sounding completely
like deranged levels of out of touch
I have no idea I have not looked
at a utility bill in my adult life I got a message Cito
yeah Cito would know
yeah I went straight from my parents paying my utility bill to my wife paying my utility bill
so I legitimately have never I've never so much as seen one
I don't know probably not good
because we have people who work from home
and they cannot possibly be expected to
like put their computer to sleep only when they need
only when they're not gonna need to wake up the next day to remote into it or whatever else
and stuff so basically all like 100 machines in this building
are just on all the time
just like our idle power consumption is probably ridiculous
Cito is getting it for us yeah I don't know what to
I don't know what to tell you guys other than that it's probably horrible
and that is in spite of us being in a part of the world
that has very very
favorable energy costs I mean we've been calculating pi
24-7
don't worry about it we've been doing nothing
to nobody there's no pi only cake
any who let's change the subject really quick here Dan
sorry which ones am I supposed to screw down oh yeah yeah yeah
okay so you gotta start by taking that fan off okay sorry I feel so bad
no no you're doing great so if you'd like I can show you how to do it
thank you okay so you pull this back here
you weren't looking where you were pull this back here
it's gonna make such a mess I hate getting it on my hands it takes forever to clean
um I feel so bad no no you're doing great
this is the more challenging of the two computers
so you would have had probably an easier time if you'd done the other one
they really threw you to the wolves on this one great I love it
oh I okay there you go
there you go no I'm kidding I'm kidding it's right
no no it was right it was right I'm just being supremely unhelpful
why are you doing this to me I don't know you probably
had it coming for something let's look back in time for a second
I always do probably something let me think
well okay maybe maybe how you failed me for the last time
commander when it comes to socks no I'm ill serious this though
the latest sample is very promising very very promising
super quick drying oh yeah right I forgot one of the other things that I told you
couldn't do is shed really didn't ask for much
tell us another cool project you've already leaked everything that's upcoming
so what was something that you did in the past other than this
in the past that I've done other than this I mean super soft I worked on and that was a lot of fun
oh yeah that hoodie is doing really well the super soft hoodie on the store
I mean it's right in the name it's super soft what did you do for that
so I mean I do everything in regards to testing
to make sure that it has a really good dimensional stability wash
I do everything in regards to color fastness to make sure that you don't see
any color transfer when you wear it stuff like that
even for a lot of the reorders making sure that it is relatively the same
so a lot of the testing that I do also mimics is trying
it's best to mimic the real world environments that it's in so
pilling we do as much as we can while also being very very soft
oh that's a fun one so I had you mimic
the sound that I made when I first saw
what was it I think the oh yeah the water color change
materials can you tell us the sound you made when you saw
the me get validated by Project Farm
with his washing methodology for our t-shirt
oh my god the whole fashion team we were all just like
what do you mean that you threw them all in the wash all at the same time
just randomly on a high heat and you were just like are you kidding me
see I've told them for years
one of the things that I'm always riding the fashion team about is
what's shrink
shrinkage dimensional stability to wash yeah and they're always
like well it's not really a problem if people
take care of their garments properly and I'm like they won't you have to
understand our customer is not going to and so I'm always getting
this push back on like well as long as we provide really clear
as long as we provide really clear care instructions then it should be fine
and you know it shouldn't be a huge problem like no they're just going to
have them in the washing machine and then they're just going to have them in the dryer and so
when Todd did his test and uploaded his video I immediately
cc'd the entire fashion team and I was like
see we have to be ready for that
everything that we did led us up to this moment when we were the
highest overall rated t-shirt in Todd's test and if we
hadn't if we hadn't had our super low shrinkage
we wouldn't have won it's true
all right I've got a monthly power bill here for you
oh no do you want to take a guess uh
man I feel like this is going to be like Lucille
Lucille Bluff guessing at the price of it
how much could power cost 1.2 million dollars yeah um
I honestly just have absolutely no idea I'm going to say
$2,800 a month uh okay you gotta
go to Dan go to Dan get the it's just under five grand
what but that also includes gas what what do you mean
it includes gas what gas for the shop
for the shop what gas do they use what gas
oh like natural gas oh we use almost no
natural gas we have that one radiant tube left and we hardly ever
we hardly ever touch it because it's loud um well it's not loud
there's a fan next to it that is loud because otherwise it just heats the one
side and it doesn't blow any of the heat way way cheaper than I was expecting
really well we're in BC so like well absolutely it is
a place that has very very inexpensive power relative
to most of the world but uh and we have a lot of power hungry stuff
five grand a month
huh that's like a whole employee if we just
didn't use any electricity we could hire like an assistant for Tatiana think of it
what do you think should we stop using electricity we'll just switch to paper
and pencil candlelight oh god candlelight yeah I'm down
could you find us the best candles that have the optimal like light throw to
oh yeah we would be measuring the luminescence we would be doing all
that oh of course and I got like a 5500 kelvin candle
like Andrew Andrew would kill us can we do that
yeah we need like a lighter blue candle otherwise the lighting
for the cameras that we'll have to charge outside are gonna be like pretty bad
um alright how do I not know about this
two minute warning I guess it kind of makes sense
because I didn't I never asked anybody um actually that's not true
I have asked Yvonne before but she wasn't sure either
it's it's been uh it's been on the accounting team to sort
these things out for quite some time now huh
alright don't think about it
that's probably the safest thing realistically
jeez man think about how many computers you have going on yeah look at all these computers
we're building for charity isn't that cool
I won't be paying my power bills with them we're gonna be feeding
the the the the people there we're gonna be donating we our plan
is a local food bank we haven't figured out exactly which one I don't think
yet um Jordan just told me the plan is
a local food bank because it seems like the right thing to do this time of year
okay let's go ahead and get my power supply plugged in jeez
I'm trying I'm trying my best you are very trying no I
I'm kidding I'm kidding it's just you walked right into it you walked right into it I know I did
I really did I had to take the bait I'm sorry I don't actually mean that anyway
the point the point is um
okay one minute oh shoot um okay you need to turn this fan around
the other I do okay uh yeah um yeah
you can use that one too and that one is gonna be more work to move because you
need to um put the metal bracket on the other way
on the other way okay yeah I'm sorry you're no it's fine you know what
considering that you have have had only half an hour you have made
excellent progress for a first time builder so what made you volunteer for
this if you've never built a computer before I told Jordan I was like
I've never really done this before are you sure he's like yeah we're gonna have different skill
levels I'm like okay I'm down but I then I saw that it was timed
and I'm like I do not do very good things under pressure
everyone in the comments is probably saying who is this girl and why does
she not know anything I'm really sorry no no she knows lots of stuff just
not about this you're doing better than Dennis and that's okay
um yeah yeah you've gotten less done but you've also gotten
less done incorrectly okay so like he got more done
but a lot of it was wrong I would say I would say doing
less right is better than doing more wrong so this way in general
like it's I don't know
yeah it's better to do it's better to do a little bit right
okay there should be some hot glue in the box to just kind of
hot glue okay what are we talking about
was I supposed to need hot glue for something I have not used any hot glue
is no one gonna clarify that for me or no I'm just on my own okay
that may be what you call a joke oh is joke
End your own time by the way I am doing
I am almost done where did I put my screws
for this power supply there they are one two three four
okay so what was um I guess you don't
have a time what was my time for the last one the last one in this case
was 40 minutes and 30 seconds dude I'm gonna be so far under
that on this one I got this okay it's time for
oh no I haven't done the GPU yet oh for crying out loud is Nick starting now
oh boar head starts I really shouldn't have let myself fall behind
at the very beginning that that was my mistake today
to be fair I did delay us an hour
you did what now I delayed us an hour well no I mean
it wasn't your fault that the internet went out at the building unless it was your fault
in which case bad damn um might have been his fault
can we actually know for sure that it wasn't no not my fault it wasn't you
okay I think it was my fault that the rest of the company was down
for about too long okay cool
oh man
this whole time I had this concept of that I would have my laptop for chat
and then I accidentally knocked my laptop off a desk earlier and then I haven't
had I haven't had any any chat I've had no idea what's going
on are people even enjoying this Dan yeah they seem to be like they can't believe
it's been still entertaining after three or so hours um
tell Tatiana she's doing a great job oh my god who is this girl
and why can't she be on more lol get wrecked Dennis
she is on more you just have to subscribe to Floatplane Tatiana has actually had
uh you did a couple exclusives I think on Floatplane
what was the one you did by yourself the oh the backpack the mining
mining backpack I've done I've also done a deep dive
into how we test for materials so that one I had also done
if anyone wants to also see me say that you have to follow the care instructions
then I get roasted in the comments saying we're not going to follow it anyways I'm like
well okay suits yourself do but if you want the longevity
longevity of your clothes you probably should
so if you want to get lectured by Tatiana if that's your thing
then feel free to subscribe to Floatplane you were also
heavily involved in the one where we we all tried out
and talked about the $400 Zuckerberg t-shirt yeah the Brinello
Cuccinelli yeah and then also the teeth boots if you've seen
that if you have no idea what you're talking about go check it out essentially we
3d print some fangs onto a shoe and we get to use a lot of the equipment
around the office and Labs in order to do so so that was super fun
and we have some fun upcoming ones too oh are you in some more exclusives
that are coming up yeah are you gonna are you gonna leak them like you leak
everything no this one I can't oh really this one I can't oh interesting
because I think there's some people who'd be very upset if I did oh okay
other names Sammy oh no
oh okay so this is like very top secret do I even know about this
no you don't and that's all I'll say oh I'm not gonna say anymore
oh good I love surprises especially surprises
like I don't know if this 4070 super is
actually gonna fit in this case um
oh boy um
huh well
this is fun wait
no way hold on okay hold on
no no I want you guys to I want you guys to be there with me for the adventure
so I'm coming around so you can see here we go
we're gonna get this we're gonna get this in here
oh my gosh this may be
the tightest GPU fit that I have ever seen
there we go we are
here hold on here let me find
here this number two Phillips
friction fits between this GPU
and the fan here
that's how tight it is oh god
hilarious cool let's get this power plugged in
and then let's find out if there's bad boy posts
I know this one can go on the side
they go on the far end you're doing great
chat's getting antsy which one of you two is taller
I guess they're being back to back let's stop
not by much I am not
I got those teeth boots okay well which one is it
are you guys gonna settle this for us it's you
yes I won for once it's your shoes
yeah I think you wear higher shoes than me
well in general I've seen some high shoes
someone just turn this on I haven't screwed the GPU in yet
I mean she's probably fine
oh man okay sure
jeez we have fun here
when did that become a super toxic thing to say
was it always dude I am
number 6 wait no
wait yeah yes it's kind of turning into a blur
not gonna lie all my RGB on
okay yeah that one was quite a bit faster 36 minutes 30 seconds
36 minutes all right go go go go go go go
yeah I tried nice job
all right good stuff merch messages
wait did you take my did you take this
no I just moved it I just moved it
okay I'm sorry no I was just wondering where my screw tray went
I was using the power supply packaging as a screw tray anyway all right thanks Tatiana
okay bye all right
it's Nick what a big dog
so I saw some speculation there was no way
that I could actually have been cruel enough
to blindside you with that secret shopping LTTstore.com
video there was no way I could have
possibly been that cruel all fake totally fake
what would you what would you have to say to that
accusation he's crueler than you know
no it was not the way I wanted to spend
what was that a Friday afternoon I will say
so thanks for that I think it turned out
okay it wasn't perfect I thought that
I thought that we came out looking overall like we have
our heart in the right place and like we are
improving and like we are committed
to almost an unhealthy degree to transparency
yep I think that is a fair assessment
and based on how sales are going for the store this Black Friday Cyber Monday
I'd say people overall have pretty high faith
in the team and the store I agree
but no it was absolutely real if you guys didn't see it we did a video recently
secret shopping my own store I think is the title or something
along those lines secret shop my store
you can tell that it's burned into his memory I do a lot of videos
I don't know I forget some of them but the point is that
Nick got brought on to set had no idea what was going on
don't look at the script don't look at the teleprompter
and watch his team
get an honest third party review from a handful
of our community members who I think
really took the task very seriously
I think so I think there was even some feedback where people were like
oh this person was too harsh and it's like no that was like their job
they were supposed to be harsh they were harsh
that's why we asked them to be a part of it and in order to keep ourselves honest
we went out of our way to choose members of the community
that would have a strong voice if we were anything other than
completely honest and transparent and
high integrity about the whole situation because we could have easily
secret shopped our store by just hiring someone to secret shop it
and then provided us with the results privately that would totally been a thing that we could do
but it wouldn't have been nearly as entertaining
I don't think this made the cut but like three or four times throughout the entire video
he was like you know what this would be stressful
but I'm just having fun watching you squirm and I was like cool
that feels good it was fun
well the thing is I knew about the concept
but I didn't actually know any of the results either so I was sitting there
like super stressed as well
but his reactions were just so funny
I couldn't help it and it was so good we have fun here
alright Jordan what am I supposed to be doing am I supposed to guess anything
are we playing any guessing games well yeah hit me you gotta interrupt
and let me know I'm sitting here stalling for time half the time
I I built the last one in 27 minutes
alright here we go don't worry about it
who's counting you asked me to count
alright let's get in your way back machine here 2014-2015
what number is this number 7 Dan
should I throw it up bless sure
oh well that's kind of an easy one guess what video that was
that was our 4k gaming PC build guide
so that would have been our top viewed video that year
2.1 million what year was it
I've already forgotten 14-15
so do you think you made that thumbnail or do you think I made that thumbnail
can you put it back up again let me see it was madeinpaint.net
and we had like a standard process I believe I did that one
yeah okay yeah I'm pretty sure I did that one we didn't have
like any actual people who know how to use photoshop or anything
that's just like there's this oh man there's this
site something vandermote and something where you can download a drop shadow plugin
for paint.net and I just had like a standard
offset and standard blur and I would just put text
on top of a screen grab from the video which was like kind of
fine because by then Brandon was working here and doing nice B
roll for our videos and that was it that was our thumbnail design
we actually continued to use that for the WAN Show up until
I guess a number of months back I actually remade
this exact paint.net look in photoshop
amazing so that it could stay consistent nice
and it's way more templatized now so it's easier to do rather than having to do all of it
manually every single thumbnail and the reason the WAN Show
was done like that up until basically now
because we never decided on a title and thumbnail concept
until right as we were about to go live and by then we couldn't count on anyone
other than me to be in office until
now we have a producer for the show finally
so it had to be something that I could do and
with all the other stuff I have going on I'm not going to learn photoshop anytime soon
so well now it's a template so you don't even have to just drop in
the thumbnail and type in the text and you're done Dan, you know for a fact
you know for a fact that if I had to do it again for some reason I would use paint.net
there would be probably a bigger problem if you ever had to do it
yeah probably it could come up though
you never know are you looking at my homework?
are you cheating? when do you think the last time I built a PC was
like myself probably your gaming PC
so what was that? oh good lord hold on
well the last gaming PC that I built
the gaming PC I have now is a 39
50 60x
3900x and I didn't build it
but before that you had a fourth or 16 I had
a third gen Intel
was that for you or did you build that? I think Luke built that
and so I think the last time I built a PC from start to finish
was like second gen Intel okay so
then this will be a great test because for many years
Nick had to as part of his job watch all of our videos
because he would review them for things like if I said
some kind of joke that was too far over the line or you know whatever else
he would come and be like
you shouldn't say that how dare you question my authority
okay mom how dare you question my authority
anyway sorry go on I'm interrupting
so what we're going to find out is as someone who has watched all the build guides
probably not that 4k one I think that predates you
but as someone who has watched basically all the build guides how useful are they
will he be a PC building expert
should we do another should I put my RAM in the right slot?
sure it is amazing what a draw
like 4k was as a keyword
like if I did 4k gaming PC if I did 4k gaming
PC today yeah so you mean like
a gaming PC you know it's
no one cares build guides man build guides
every once in a while those videos will perform
like pretty good like I think the first person view one that we did
recently is finally picking up
but it started out as like the worst performer
that we'd uploaded in months it's man it's really tough even the
the last guide you'll ever need series it's a series now I guess
cause we did that second one man that
when we uploaded the updated one
like no one was watching it it's tough because
somehow we've gotta make it so that every video
or at least as many videos as possible are appealing both
to the folks who have been watching us since
those videos that we're showing you guys
and the folks who are tuning in for the first time and have never built a computer
that is an extremely difficult line
to straddle making it accessible to newcomers
and also not completely boring
to the folks who've been doing this for a long time it's not that we don't want to do more
basic PC tutorials and stuff it's just that
people give us a really hard time when we do like
we don't know that it's just building LEGO it's like no it's not
some people have never built LEGO before okay
you talk a lot huh LEGO bricks don't cost $4,000
here's my job some of them do
that's a whole kit just like one brick
that's fair alright Jordan do you want to give us another one
you ran into some shoutouts here oh shoutouts right
we've sent over 8 kits of RAM for our builds
here oh no I'll steal mine what am I looking at here
these are DDR5 kits 5,600 mega transfers per second
CL36 16GB 2 so these are 32GB kits
for our Intel based systems over here big shout out to them
and everyone else who provided parts for the stream today they're a big part
of why we're able to contribute so much to the local food bank
we're donating the proceeds from these systems too we've already sold all the systems
so if you're hoping to buy one I'm afraid it is too late
but huge thank you to everyone who did buy one of the systems
and huge thank you to everyone who provided hardware for them so I'm shouting out
Patriot and also CSonic CSonic you know that those guys are always
in when we're doing something cool something wild
and CSonic didn't hesitate to send over 16 of their focus
DX750 power supply is 80 plus gold certified
modular interface got all the modern connectors
for modern GPUs be they AMD be they NVIDIA
and a great foundation for any gaming system
thank you CSonic for sending all of those over
alright let me get this out of my way get this out of my way
Jordan do you have any other stuff that I'm behind on
alright let's go 2015 2016 top video
top video you might even be able to remember these ones
now we're getting more modern I think I know what 2017 was
I'm gonna go with another build guide I'm gonna guess it's a build guide
I'm gonna say it was a silent PC build guide
I don't think this was silent Jordan this one's 8
do I get to see a thumbnail? have another guess
it's not silent it's extremely not silent
there is a build involved though extremely not silent
many monies lots of monies
oh I think I know what it is wait are we already up to
seven gamers? that can't be right no
extremely not silent I think I know what it is
is it the first compensator? no that was later
maybe that's a bit hyperbolic oh okay
it's not a silent build not silent build but it's a build
it's a build dude I do not know our back
catalog as well as I maybe thought that I did
yeah show me a thumbnail you were right
wait it was seven gamers I thought that was 2017
it was really quiet I knew it was January
the 30,000 dollar gaming PC
seven gamers once a year that was like the first video to ever get to a million views in like a day
in 24 hours it was the first one to do that
and you know what's funny as soon as that video was done
it had to be at CES so I had to drive
I forgot about that I had to drive the
expletive work vehicle
the XL7 I forgot about that
it was so bad do you remember when I almost died on the coca-cola
because I took that thing up when my grandpa died
it was like funeral and it was white out and the headlights were misaligned
so I was literally in the left lane and the only way I stayed alive on the drive
was that I could see the barrier so I was
three and a half hours white knuckle on the expletive coca-cola highway
not a good highway in the winter
headlamps going this way just like
anyway, that's another story I think that was the year after or something
but this time around I had to drive that thing
with the seven gamers 1CPU with all seven monitors
which all barely, barely fit tetrastyle into that Suzuki
down four and a half hours or something
to the middle of nowhere, Washington
to, do you remember who brought it to CES for us
wait someone did us like a huge
solid do you remember who it was Kingston
they were the ones who exhibited it oh, no it was bobbin rod
so I had to drive it down to bobbin rod because they were driving to Vegas
BS mods so like two days before CES I drive this thing down to Washington
get up with BS mods, drop off this crazy, I think it was in a server chassis
wasn't it? and there is no way that you declared that properly when you crossed the road
no, no, no, I got hassled on the way back well, because I had to, did I have to bring it back?
no, I got hassled on the way down because the guy was like
what do you do, you have like $30,000 of computer components, you're like importing these
and I was like, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah it's just there for like an exhibit
and they somehow let me in so that was the thing
I was very lucky, very many times so that was like a nine hour car trip
why did it pull on you to do this again? I don't remember
well, I was probably heading down to the show nobody else wanted to do it basically
so I was like, alright should be fun
that's just the stuff we did back in the day, man oh man
I forgot about that stupid XL7 dude, what a
so it was my parents SUV oh yeah, it was sketch
it was a nice car at some point
not when we had it it was not
it was better than literally nothing which was what we had before that
truly, it was better than what we had before do you remember how it hooked up
to the running lights for our trailer that we had at the time?
it just had that like yeah, just had that wire just like
hanging out the back and it was like you just hoped it hadn't corroded so much
that it wouldn't have gone any more every time it was so bad
I'm falling super behind we do things like so pro now
2016-17 then 2016-2017
I'm going to go with mineral, wait, no
mineral oil PC was way before that that was 2015
what is even time? I'm having a really hard time year's 2016-2017
and I'll give you this, the video came out in August of 2017 in August
2017, November to November yeah
was it eight gamers? no, no that one didn't do that well
really? that's why we haven't really continued the concept yeah, that's true
this one got 5.6 million views in the first year was it the blowy matron?
whoa no, this would
this would have to be like a mega bang
or video to do 5 million views why am I trying to like
remember when you guys hooked it up in the conference room? yeah, that did like 3 or 4
yeah, that one did pretty good but 5 million views in the first year
2017 I don't even know
I don't even know what it's a flat circle
so number 9 then show me
okay, what is it 16k gaming
with all the monitors of course it was
lol that is a
banger thumbnail I don't even think it's that good of a video
by today's standards it's kind of all over the place
narratively it's not very information dense
I'm not convinced that the whole higher and higher resolution
gaming thing would have any legs today
but yeah it's an absolute banger
it goes to show you how the race to more k's
mattered so much back then like people cared and were talking about it
two of our top performer of the year videos
have been gaming with some number of k's and in fact
I think we had an 8k gaming one that would have probably been close to some of these
it was like 2nd or 3rd one of the years what was that? that was with 41080p monitors
yeah the next year then
is a build so 2017-18
have we not kept up with these?
oh my goodness next time just interrupt
me because I really am a lot of the time you've been doing lots of things
just talking yeah so 2017-18
2017-2018 6.4 million views
now we're getting into the modern era
and I'll tell you it's a build it's a build
this is tough because I um
how many videos are we up to like total
6000 or something? this is 10th year yet
the number of times these days that I
someone will send me a clip or a gif or a link to a video
and I watch it and I go
I have no recollection of this that's because we were sending you around the world
like on a moment's notice dude I didn't sleep
those were crazy years it's a miracle I can remember
any of what was happening do you remember the time you went to the New York auto show?
I do I remember that very vividly
I literally found out right as we were going to the airport
at CES which is a very challenging week
at the best of times and back when I used to make that many videos during CES
it was crazy I was basically walking dead during CES
so I I got an offer from Ford
to come do some sponsored content for them at the New York auto show
I'm struggling with this fan what am I doing?
I'm on the other way the other way
yeah yeah okay and then you just stretch it
and then there's ponder and over ponder and oh yeah yeah
I'll just have that so they wanted me to come down there
to go to New York and do some sponsored content
and they go now and I kind of go
what? so we waffled and waffled
and things were tough back then basically
every opportunity that came in I was looking at it going okay well how much salaries
does it cover and it was just
Instagram I think they didn't even post it
no no that's a whole other thing we posted our stuff
but it was just like a couple Instagram posts we didn't even have that many followers on Instagram
I was like are you sure you don't want a YouTube video or something
no no Instagram so anyway
we didn't even notice what I'm using oh chat noticed
birch messages noticed we can talk a little bit later about how
that is not happening yet you're in your last minute here Linus
so maybe you don't have updates but it's like we're working on it
okay well we can talk about that later but anyway so they want us to go and do this
and it turned out that the way the trip
had to work was for me to
and in Vancouver I ate one meal
with my family and then I stayed
at the airport for a couple hours and boarded my flight to New York
you didn't even leave the airport no I never left the airport there was no point
it was so so stupid
but hey I met hey you're welcome
the video we're talking about is actually a travel video what?
with that many views? 6.4 million in the first year
traveling and building traveling and building
was that strange parts vlog let's go
strange parts vlog that was a banger
that was a banger video I don't know why it was a banger video I was in such rough shape
I was over there for a thing for one plus and I arranged
literally introduced myself to Scotty
I had never interacted with before and only knew from talking about his
wild iPhone experiments on the WAN Show so introduced myself to Scotty
invited myself to do a collab with him we coordinated
at time to get together and basically
I came up with this concept for the build which was that I was gonna
try to build a PC in China using all like you know brands I'd never heard of
and then I got over there and I saw a lot of comments on the video
like such a jerk to Scotty the truth is that I was just really stressed out
because what I realized part way into the build
was that there were no weird brands or anything it was just all the same stuff
so I was just building a PC
building a computer and it ended up taking all day
because I wasted a bunch of time trying to find like a unique
angle to the build or something and there ultimately wasn't one
that I could actually tell at the end of the video that I'm like in a public square
at night finishing building the computer because the mall
was like closed I just don't want to screw it up
whoops thanks um here
anyway the point is yeah Scotty was
an amazing host we had a lot of fun
and we can't do this yet because there's no way that these 8 pins
are going to get plugged in if you put it all the way in first
it's better to do this now more you know
yeah I was just super stressed because I really
needed to get a video done I didn't want to go all the way there and like
waste his time and not even like do a video together
and I just didn't think I didn't think there was going to be a video
and then it became the biggest video this year and then it became the biggest video this year
it's hilarious who can even tell sometimes
what's going to resonate with people there was another collab I was supposed to do
while I was over there that I am ultimately really glad that I didn't do
but yeah Scotty the Scotty collab was pretty great
a lot of fun well sort of fun it was fun when it was over
and you guys liked it that was the fun part everything else was actually not really fun
about making that video oh I would plug in your
sorry I would plug in your CPU cooler too alright where is it
ouch sorry sometimes my elbow does that
so your next one was not a build okay
was this 2018-19 2018-19
7.3 million views recency
18-19 more of a review I would say
a review that got 7 million views what kind of review gets 7 million views
you tell me you made it I mean
had to be a video right um
had to be like some kind of like really like wacky product
18 well so November 18 and November 19 were talking
yes this was from December 2018
December 2018 oh shoot
review review
you're over your time by the way if you want to see the tires we can move on to the next one
oh sorry no let's not let him
escape before he tells us more about the transparent screwdriver that's true yeah
you know what I give up I don't even know what the point of me trying to
guess these is because I have been in 2080 tie
that's the Walmart gaming pc Walmart gaming pc
what's that that long ago end of 2018
what you might be getting old
oh man that was six years ago
yep okay I can tell you the next year already I'm pretty sure that was the wish
you're correct wish pc okay okay I'm back on
what's the next one I'm back on track after the wish pc
am I supposed to keep just leave it you can keep going until he's done
and then you go over and build the next victim
nope it's not happening no sneeze I guess I don't get a sneeze
no sneeze for you was it ROG rig reboot
no but it is like an upgrade kind of thing
an upgrade was it the first extreme upgrade oh
yeah and was it an Intel extreme upgrade yep
Dennis yeah okay Dennis is Intel
I'm not going to screw anything more up dude that has like 9 million views or something stupid like that
or does it? no I don't think it does that's 6.6 I think it was the first year
6 million in the first year that's crazy okay hold on Nick before you go away
show us the screwdriver you were building with and explain yourself
what's going on here sir this is our clear transparent
screwdriver for LTTstore.com well I mean it's a lot of
sunk dollars if we don't actually make it so we've had
a lot of challenges making this clear plastic work
we started with a different type of clear plastic got further in development and then realized
that it wasn't going to be suitable for all of the scenarios that we needed to be suitable for so instead
of just being like screw it it'll be fine we decided nope we have to go back
to the drawing board and make it work we've had some small
difficulties with getting it across the line I'm trying to even see where the imperfection
here we go there it is so if you can zoom in on that Andy
that little mark there is the reason
that the clear screwdriver is not on the market today Kyle has another thing
that he doesn't like about it too I can show them oh ok
so basically we're having some challenges with the
mold flow of the plastics within the molds that we use today because there
are crossover molds between what we use in our regular ABS nylon
blend for the black and all the other college of screwdrivers that we make
as well as this clear and it's required quite a bit of
mold development to actually make that work we are very very close
that line is caused by the plastic separating and then coming together
well it's that it starts to cool a little bit as it's coming together so you see
that seam whereas if it's total molten plastic it'll just meld together
if it's coming together and cooling at the same time then you get what they call a weld line
which is where the two two pass the plastic meet together
small things but that's the level of detail we want to go to
and that's the level of detail that we understand
that our customers have come to
expect from us for better or for worse and honestly
sometimes it's a big part of the reason that you guys don't get more products that you would
probably mostly really like because we just look at it and we go like
well if we can't do it great then we're just
not going to do it we're getting better at our product development timelines
we're getting better at tracking the process throughout we're getting better at planning these things
and I think as you come into 2025, 2026
especially in the 2027 it's going to be like a very well-oiled machine
it's just taking us some time to get there the business has grown in a really uneven way
like for a while we were a water bottle company and then we were
a desk pad company first we were a t-shirt company
and then we weren't sure what we were doing and then we basically took
more, bed it on black and bed it hard on
on the screwdriver and the backpack and then we had all this revenue
like we had an incredible year
like the kind of year that you have as a company and just go well there's no point trying to beat this
and then we were just kind of trying to figure out, yeah trying to figure out
okay well like no seriously okay we can't just we can't just ride these
products forever how do we what's the next step?
Investing in new people, investing in new processes investing in new equipment
like there's a whole reason that we have let's call it low six figures
of prototyping equipment that the engineering team uses between
SLS printers, SLA printers ton of standard printers
don't forget about old Tatiana's toys she was just here
we have our own injection molder that we are learning to use we have
what is it called? MMM like the super precise
measurement tool that we bought that thing is super cool
we should probably do another video about maybe a Floatplane exclusive
yeah but yeah we have a lot of really cool stuff
that allows us to get better at our product development now and we're working on processes that will make us
better as a product development company and just want to deliver the best we can
for you guys and the best way to support that you know what I'm going on?
here comes the pitch, yeah I'm trying to plug something in what we're going on is to buy some Black Friday stuff
yeah because if we sell them on Black Friday
actually the best way to support that is to wait until Black Friday is over and buy stuff at regular
yeah I'm kidding I'm kidding I'm kidding
sure but if you want to get a good deal and support that
then you should buy it on Black Friday yes and those who are asking
yes we have mod mats coming soon
they should be out next month we have precision bit sets
coming back soon that was just
well beyond any expectation that we could ever have when we launched with that
I think we had assumed hey probably half the people
are going to want to buy a bit set because most everybody is going to have a bit set
and they just want to have like a cool driver that's an upgrade with the hybrid ceramic bearing
and the bit storage is so cool and like that's cool and then you were all like
give me the bit set too okay now we don't have anymore
so it takes time and when you're making
your own products but like actually making your own products
you can't just like it'll be ready in a week
it'll be ready in 60 days
because here's the thing dude I am 7 for 7 today
let's go 7 Linus is 1 pc
and at the volume 3333
I was giving this guy a hard time about not having
bit sets for the regular screwdriver and I was like
come on how can it take that long to get this there was a particular one
and Nick's like okay well let me put it this way
every pack is 12
every pack is 12 bits so you want to order 20,000 packs
so that's a quarter million
a quarter million things
whatever the point is just like to make this is nothing
to make it a quarter million times like you can't
we're in a really weird in between
where we're too small to like have our own factory
but we're too big to necessarily just like
you know have someone be like oh yeah I'll slip you in between my other orders
and to be fair most of the companies that you would think are big enough to have their own factory
likely don't they just have better negotiating power
stronger relationships preferential treatment online time
effectively having their own they own their own production to some extent
yes but we're getting better we've made a lot of changes
over the last year and a half and bringing in new people who have a lot of expertise in ways that we didn't
before and just takes time we're getting better we're implementing these
alright good progress you actually did not too bad thanks big dog middle of the road
well we got distracted talking about you know Suzuki XL7
Bidness alright time for my last build partner
hi are you going to carry this last one because I'm tired
I don't know about that I don't think I've built enough computers to carry this
I can carry you what are you doing over here
put your CPU on the motherboard before you put the motherboard in the case
because it's going to be well I mean yeah actually
you know what whatever you'd like I like your hair it looks nice
Linus should we start banging off some merch messages here we're going to have to get through
let me get completely caught up on Jordan stuff and then absolutely let's
get some merch messages going I think this is all Yvonne stuff
I'm finally on the last system before I do that
I took this bit away what screwdriver did I take this bit out of
it was already on the table it might be from mine that Yvonne has
okay well it's wait what
is it a small hex? it's no
it's a Phillips one
burn everyone else has played enough to say nothing
but no not my wife no it's fine
probably had it coming we have an honest and open relationship
yes yes no matter what
interesting
I mean this is good to know
what's up one percent I don't think it'll matter if you don't
even wear deodorant that's a very good point
I'll be lucky to be getting any from people who have to
contractually actually that isn't in the marriage contract
is it? no it's not rats they really should fix that
okay what are we talking about alright Jordan you were going to hit me with some more
guess which was the number 4 video you got three left here
you got to remember these ones it's pretty recent
so we have 2021 and 22 yeah
6.4 million views from February of 22
February of 22 that's all you're giving me?
there's a brand in the title
oh maybe it's another all something build
one of them did like
crazy numbers is it the all ROG build? no sir
all aorist build? no is it a stream?
no I don't know then I don't know
I'm so I'm so fried it's about a GPU
it's about a GPU
oh I thought Dan was giving me a hint he's just showing me a live feed
of myself right now okay
about a GPU can I interrupt your train of thought
I mean sure there's barely a train at this point
what kind of build is this is this the kind of build where we're putting in
every single screw or like
look I've been through all of them with him so I just need to know
someone bought it for 1600 US dollars
I'm putting in every screw it is actually going to ship to an actual customer
okay and what's cool is the parts were actually donated
I think our last shout out is
for thermal take and colorful thermal take sent over 8 cases
and colorful sent over a couple of GPUs
which were the colorful GPUs? they were the last couple 7800's you had
the last couple 7800's so 7800 XTs
everyone who contributed parts because we told everyone hey we're
going to be donating the profits so if we had to buy
all the stuff ourselves then it was going to be a lot less and our partners
leapt into action and provided us with almost every single part you guys have seen today
whether they're from our hardware partners or java.gg
so we are going to be donating over 20,000
I believe that's US dollars that's correct
US dollars to one of our local food banks which is pretty exciting
what was I talking about? final clue, NVIDIA video card
NVIDIA oh
was it the 3090 the 8K gaming the sponsored video
nope give them a thumbnail Dan
number 14 oh the mining GPU
no wait that wasn't the mining one the one now? A100
yeah yeah yeah what was the title it was like
NVIDIA wouldn't send me their fastest GPU that was a good title
stroke of absolute brilliance that title
honestly sometimes that matters more than the content of the video in terms of getting views on the platform
if you just have like
your next one is real clickbaity okay it's real clickbaity wow that really narrows it down
yeah really right 4223
from May of 23
6.8 million views in the first year 6.8 million clickbaity
huh and a pretty static video
if I remember right static video oh electro boom club
oh that's a good plot but no can static kill your PC is that it
not static in that way static is not moving not moving
do you want any ideas no I don't I mean I can't even get this
screw in what's going on yeah that's usually my job
to put together computers to put together computers why
why what were you thinking Dan what were you thinking Dan
I'm not paid to think I'm sorry sir
you're doing a very good job oh you cross threaded it
oh it's the wrong screw what okay so this is actually
such a common error for novice builders
there's two threadings there's m3 and there's
632 and depending on the manufacturer and sometimes even depending
on the case within their lineup you'll they'll use
a different threading for the motherboard standoffs it's the one screw in the PC
that is not standard okay but why did all these ones go in because you used
different screws you used m3 screws they look exactly the same they don't
why are you taking those ones out if they have to come out because now that you've cross
threaded it it is stuck in the standoff and when
you tried to unscrew it you unscrewed the standoff
underneath so the whole thing has to come apart now I can smell myself
now is it these ones I'm glad that it's
I'm glad that it's you because why do I always get shot
well no I
I mean yeah considering how open things are why is it
sorry um no I'm just
saying because you know I would never because I don't have to hide anything from you because we know we're honest
and honest and open and it's just it's less
embarrassing you've seen me at my worst already there we go so we just got to
get that undone okay so I'll show you the difference now okay please
oh one of these was also wrong so I don't know what happened there
but see how one is a button head okay so
you got a button head screw well there was one of them in this pack yeah one of them is a
button head with a little like circular okay order thing
and see how the threading is different yep I see that yeah so you want these m3
threaded ones for this particular case if you've been building one of the systems earlier
you would have been using 632 for the motherboard tray because the
industry just didn't think it was necessary to standardize
that I mean honestly it's a miracle that they can agree on as many things as they
do agree on okay wait and before
you put that back down did I have the right ones coming out the right
the right cables and stuff the ones that connect to the motherboard
that's a good question I I love the way you're thinking
you know about like having the right things you know pre-run and everything
I don't know if you've got them right but I love that you're trying to get them
right that's pretty cool most
inexperienced builders do not consider those sorts of things
but Poryvon builds computers with me so she knows that
if we don't sort of run it the way that I'm just takes extra long
to redo everything yes that thing
she said that I can't push back
on I know this should stay back there's a couple that you're missing
down at the bottom but it doesn't matter oh we're just going to take off this peel
this is a little easier to get off now am I just building both of these computers
is that what's happening you can just direct me just tell me what to do
well I can put this in now okay so I'm using the one that has
the ridge or the rim around it yeah it's that kind of job
she doesn't know what things are I don't know what you're talking about
get away with all sorts of stuff Dan help me
absolutely not
it was honestly one of the things I liked so much about her
she was like a private school kid and um
was very nice that has some seriously
negative connotations there I just mean you didn't have
you know I mean beyond the
a lot of experience in the world private school kids it can go a number of different ways
that's true that's true she wasn't the skanky kind of private school kid
thanks I thought that's what you were trying to avoid
who brought me a bucket of standoffs I do not need this
I thought you might have destroyed one of them no no it's fine thanks Dan
that also implies that I was a rich spoiled brat
oh not a rich not a rich private school kid
we both grew up not privileged
I remember when I was young my parents used to
we used to share a home with my cousins and we didn't have washing machines or dryers
and we used to wash our clothes in the bathtub and hang them out to dry
I feel like that taught us a lot about how to work hard yep
don't forget that you slept in the car while your parents did their nighttime paper route
yep this one time we were in the car
and my sister and I were like oh wouldn't it be fun to see what it does if we release the emergency brake
on a hill so I think we were 10 and we were rolling down the hill
that was terrifying yeah
I don't know if we slept in the car again after that
um yeah I knew
what were we talking about Jordan do we have any
just tell me which one it is I don't care anymore
you were stepping down what time
oh stepping down as CEO of the company
wait what I have no concept of time
that was May of 23 so not quite 2 years
still the final video then
was from December of last year yeah it's um
what was our oh wait what December of last year 8.5 million
what December of last year
8.5 million still good thank you
I don't even think we had any like 8.5 million mega bangers that recently
I don't even know just just tell me that was your TCL X11G
alright yeah the world's biggest TV
I still love that thing I ultimately even though the high sense has the edge
in some ways I ultimately kept the TCL the accounting was a little less
complicated fun fact by the way I just
just confirmed this with the planning committee
the high sense will be at the Christmas parties this year
the 110 inch TV is going to be at the Christmas party
that is not a small box to deal with seriously that's your reaction to that
where am I going to put 110 inch TV well I don't know don't you have a wall
I do have walls do you have a ceiling put it on the ceiling
110 inch TV let's go that would be pretty cool
Andy you going to put in any tickets you going to put in one and hope for the best
that's how I won the one massage chair last year
yeah and Andy won a crazy massage chair like I think that thing was worth as much
as a car something like that
dude if you win another like
ultimate grand prize with one stupid ticket people are going to call shenanigans
like there's no way there is no way
are you going to emcee the Christmas party this year or should I get cold to do it
oh I assumed I would be emcee but I guess technically there's no reason
that I have to be I don't know it's up to you
yeah I'll do it sure if he really wants to do it then that's fine
no I think everyone assumed you would do it but I just wanted to double check
yeah I'll do it am I missing a fan still
there it is how's your bills going
I did take the fan out because I couldn't get the
I couldn't get it in oh
now before I put it back yeah that's what I wanted to check
so this way in which way do you want the wires
I think the question is which way do you want the wires
I would go so that you have a little bit more slack
okay there you go see this is why I ask these things
I know I'm sorry
I'm super easy to be married to
I actually don't know how you work on this table it's really tall
I'm having a hard time really my own wife
my own wife with the short jokes I see how it is
I see how it is oh
I was like oh no I put the thermal compound away nope I was still holding it
let's put this on man this is
quite a bit more challenging you unlocked out
the one we were doing earlier the AMD bill was a little bit easier
what makes this one hard it's just a little tighter to work in
I mean you're like right in my way
I have less of the
I think you're okay with your left hand
not great but okay
I'm practicing practicing screwing
oh man how about submerged messages
that sounds like a good idea it's great working with Yvonne because
I can get it out of my system it's like
the things that I can't say to literally anyone else it's good
I can't make those jokes
oh man okay yeah Jordan is that all you have for like guessing games and stuff
are we on to Dan is he able to do some I mean realistically
most of the people having merge messages read probably left them like three hours ago
probably yeah we're gonna do those like top five or anything like that
are people still enjoying this are they still into it Dan
I think so yeah we still got some viewers
hey thanks for tuning in today you guys really appreciate you
alright hit me Dan hey LMG just moved out
and straight into the big city what advice would you give to a young person living in Vancouver
don't live in Vancouver I'm so sorry
is it too late move elsewhere
I mean there's a reason that Yvonne and I settled in Surrey and it's not because Surrey smells so good
don't take oh man see we're trying to get in good with the city of Surrey
right now okay if anyone from the city of Surrey is watching
our agricultural industry is important
agriculture is the backbone of a functioning society etc
it just doesn't smell good that's all that's all
man there was a day what was it a couple weeks ago when the business
business land upstairs was like uninhabitable it was
I don't know what kind of poop they were spreading in the fields nearby
but the animal that came out of was not healthy
not a healthy animal that being said
they said that the population in the city of Surrey is going to overtake Vancouver
in the next five years so they're working on making Surrey much more
of a city they want to call it Metro Surrey not Metro Vancouver
that's their goal that is
I'm paraphrasing that's ambitious
well I mean they've made a lot of progress have you seen Surrey Central
like when we moved in my parents used to live on the corner of King George
and there used to be I joked with Yvonne that if she didn't
put out then I'd have other options on my way home
oh that's a good joke now there's just so much more development
going in like the SFU is there I think the
which is a local university or college I always forget that people don't know
and then there's another university that's going in like the medical program is going in there
next to the hospital City Hall they've built this like crazy extravagant building
they've upgraded them all it's just completely different but traffic also sucks
call me when you have a hockey team I mean realistically that's
what makes a Canadian city a real city there's no parking
right take that Quebec City well okay wait wait come help me
just kidding I'm nothing against Quebec City I've only been there once
and I like drove that's too many times don't know anything about Quebec City where do these go
hi those go nowhere so this one
is she's trying to figure out RGB wiring which is it's a nightmare
so this one right here the female one is going to go into one of these
and then all the rest of them are going to daisy chain into this one
and then the very end one that has these metal contacts sticking off it you're going to make sure
it has one of these covers because otherwise if it accidentally touches any metal
it'll short and it'll maybe cause a fire okay wait so
why did you have this coming out the top because now it won't go down
I asked you what ones you wanted coming out and I think
oh no you put it in like that what do you mean in like that I didn't get that in there
I asked you oh I see
no you could probably take one of the ones down here plug it in here and then run the daisy chain up to here
and then just just jam this back here
or something it's hilarious yeah that'll work
just daisy chain to that one instead of from that one and then you're your G to G
you're fine everything's fine everything's good
oh I plugged in my power connectors but I haven't plugged in my fans yet
so I'm just going to go ahead and do that Dan hit me hi Linus I recently bought
a used reference 7900 XTX
and notice the V round temperatures reached 98 C while gaming
in 106 on Furmark should I be concerned I would get a little bit more ventilation
in your case theoretically it's not going to kill it probably
but I would I would probably get a little bit more ventilation in your case yeah
hey Linus wanted to ask if you have any opinions
on the Vajaro Aero VR headset I still need to try it
they sent us one like a thousand years ago
and I it's been sitting there begging me to try it
along with a bunch of other cool VR stuff that I want to check out
I still have the wireless uh index adapter that I
I have spent several hours trying to get working and I got as far
as booking a consultation with their tech team to like
help me fix because I just could not figure it out
and then I had something catastrophic happen
oh my sister died and so I missed my appointment and then I just like
was not not into it for a bit
and I just put somewhere and so now that it's out of sight it's out of mind
so I need to do that and then once I have that done I want to check out the
Vajaro Vajaro Aero or whatever it is they also sent over one of their other ones
they look super cool but I've just been a little behind on my VR stuff
because the reality of it is usually these days when I have time
to use VR I just kind of want it to work and so I've just been
using my index because it just mostly
just works I think it's like
I think it's an aging thing I think I'm just like getting old and I just
want things to work when I uh
finally have a minute to sit down you know I don't know
do you feel the same way about it? yeah but I don't know if that's aging or being burnt out
or both oh we're talking about this really
live? she's been telling me I should take a sabbatical
for like years not a years long sabbatical
like she's been telling me that I should take a sabbatical what if you just took Mondays off
well see I tried that and then
just when you try and get out they suck you back in I hardly ever
actually get Monday off theoretically I have Mondays off
no I think it turned into a work from home turned into Mondays work from home
and then sometimes I I managed to have most of yesterday off
which was nice but I don't know it's just one of those things
like you hear Nick talking about what it was like back in those days
and it's just been go go go grow grow grow
all this time and she's right
you know that's the thing about your better half is
they tend to be right about things just I'm tired
but it doesn't feel like it's it doesn't feel like it's in a place where I can just
kind of like walk away and let it go autopilot for a while without
something screwing up catastrophically so it's hard to
speaking of screwing up catastrophically can you just make sure
I like that nice that was a pathetic high five though
okay this way yes that looks good
nice no we gotta push it down a little more
that things gotta hold down the other yeah there you go
sounds bad but it's good Linus have you ever dropped
one of your kids Christmas gifts I don't think so
have I ever like broken one of the kids Christmas presents
I mean I almost screwed up this I felt like I was screwing up assembling that trampoline
remember that yeah that was not the greatest
I don't know I don't know what I was thinking you didn't drop anything
was that Christmas it was wasn't it it was cold
I don't know why we were installing it during Christmas because we want because
no it was my stupid idea I wanted them to like wake up and see it in the morning
like magic magic Santa assembled a trampoline in our backyard
you never mind that it was December we're gonna jump on it for four months or whatever
but I don't know you know what I wouldn't undo it
I wouldn't undo it totally worth it I just remember us being so angry
I was so mad at Linus it was so cold
and it required so much strength because I think we just didn't know what we were doing
I think we hired somebody when we moved the trampoline to install it correctly
and he was so fast with one person he did it in like less than an hour
two of us like three hours to assemble it the first time
it's one of those spring free ones really nice really nice trampoline very happy with it
but not the easiest to install if you've never done it before
hit me Dan hello from Ireland
what software do you recommend for making cool ARGB
lighting patterns shout out to Borna from work for going in with me on
screwdriver shipping I don't know
I use signal RGB on my computer at work
because I have that NCIX sign PC so I just have like those really long strips
and signal RGB works for that and other than that
I have to confess that I don't give too many hoots about what my RGB
patterns look like so I have never really cared
that's where I'm at on that I'm very sorry if that's not what you wanted to hear
but congratulations on saving on shipping
hey LTT you talked about being too well known
to do scrapyard wars would going in another province
with a different language help with that like doing it in Montreal maybe
Ivan and I were talking about this just last night and she was kind of talking about
how it's impossible for me to go anywhere in Vancouver at this point without
well I shouldn't say anywhere if I went to like
I was about to say to like a crafting supplies store
but we totally got recognized at a crafting supplies store yesterday
obviously it was by a young awkward man
no offense I think he knew it was a little awkward
do you want black or grey surprise grey
you know our demographic basically
but like if we go somewhere where our demographic is not really present
then yeah there's a good chance that no one will recognize me but if I go somewhere
like an electronic store or whatever else then the odds are
extremely slim like it was a miracle that that guy in the Taiwan tech mall
I didn't know who I was he actually posted later that he totally watches
the channel he just like I don't know maybe he just
all white people look the same to him or something why would you be in Taiwan in his shop
in a billion years and you know what I totally have the same thing
where no matter how well I know someone if I see them in the wrong context
super important I've got nothing
like I literally when I was a kid I saw my teacher at the grocery
store once this is someone I spent six hours a day
with five days a week didn't recognize her took me like
a while to recognize her I've had
relatives that I've run into like just on the sidewalk
and I have not recognized them until they recognized me and like said something
like it's it's a hundred percent a thing for me so I
I 100% can relate I get it
but anyway we were talking about it and I
honestly don't think it was any better but I don't think it would be any better like what I brought up
to her was back when we went back to visit her
family in in Southeast Asia and this was
this was when our kid was
two so I try not to get too granular on the ages
so sometime in the mid 20s times
sometime back then I was in Malaysia
at a restaurant and buddy comes up and is like
oh your LTT you know can't get a selfie or whatever I don't think selfies were
as much of a thing yet but basically like oh I watch your videos you know
whatever and so like
how do I how do I say this like I'm not trying to brag or anything that's not
that's not the point but within the like young
man demographic I don't think it's going to make a difference
and like the thing about the thing about Quebec is that even though
it is a French speaking territory or whatever province
not territory that's technically a different thing here even though it's a French
speaking region a lot of people especially in the urban
centers where there'd be any good you know scrapyard warring a lot
of them speak English anyway and we'll watch English speaking content there is a really
good francophone tech scene so they don't have to
watch English speaking content but a lot of them do and part of it is
improving their English so yeah I don't think it would help
cool idea though I'd be down to do it where we have to speak French
the whole time I'd be at such an advantage because the most French thing about Luke
is his last name that's it that's all he's got I don't think he speaks a word of French
hit me Dan sure I got about 11 to go
wow okay with the crowd strike breaking computers earlier this year and Microsoft
365 being offline for most of yesterday what software
if any could be used in the place of softwares of service
I don't know because a lot of the software
that we used to rely on instead of software as a service
has just been replaced it's been it was
software that was from these same companies who now
no longer offer a buy once cry once option it's extremely
frustrating and I don't know
not I don't know how to solve it I'm not I know how to solve
it they just need to like stop doing that but I'm not in a position where I have any power
to force anybody to do that I'm
I think it's something that I think it's something that
as an industry not as an industry as industries
whether it's like media industry or
oil and gas resource exploration industry or whatever as industries
we're gonna have to come together and figure out tools that we can use that are not
reliant on this stuff and we we haven't and I guess in a way
we kind of we kind of have ourselves to blame as well
if we if we allow these these these tool makers
these these software developers to sort of bend
us over a barrel like this and I guess that's kind of on us
at least to a degree come help me oh what's up there's no instruction manual so which way
do these go on oh sure oh it's down there
it just fell out oh yeah okay cool well first you're going to need the spacers
spacers you need the blue spacers so basically what you'll do is you'll
hold this on they used to come with adhesive on a lot of the aio
water cooling kits and stuff but they don't anymore so you'll hold this on
and then you'll put all your blue spacers on and then you'll put
these on like this right like
that okay and then like that on the other side so the curve out
and then do I put these blue washers on or screws or whatever
then you put the black screws on top okay so here why don't
you do one to completion because that'll hold the back plate in place
I'll just I'll hold this for you I mean it's not like I have to build a computer
to yeah I mean you can't leave till I'm done so
this actually I can we drop separately today
but I wouldn't that means I can leave
without you too yeah but you're not done on your computer
alright there you go there you go
yeah I think this is your other one here okay what am I what am I even working on
oh I gotta get my powers to play okay hit me Dan just got an s90d qto led
why did Samsung have to put the badonka donk and vase them out all the way
the bottom of the TV that's a funny thing
I've stopped making fun of it because I'm just used to it now I guess
but back when LG did their first few generations of OLEDs
it was right on the heels it was it was coming up into the brightness
war the brightness war hadn't really started yet and it was
it was right off the heels of the
I think we were in the midst of the number of K's war and we
were coming off of the thinness war and
LG would have this ridiculous marketing for their early OLEDs
boasting that they were just four millimeters thin or whatever
but it would be you know along the top
and then they'd have this giant caboose at the bottom so it's
not like you can get it any closer to the wall that is until they did their gallery series
I'm talking about the earlier ones and I remember making fun of it back then
and then I just kind of forgot about the ridiculousness of it
but no you're a hundred percent right it's hilarious
to kind of market your TV as that much thinner
when actually at the thickest point it's not really thinner at all and I don't have a solution
to that other than to say Samsung why are you so silly
that's all I got hey speaking of Samsung
dude this TV has turned so many heads
I was freaking out about this the other week so this is high senses
like kind of knockoff of the of the Samsung
frame what they call it Canvas it's the high sense canvas
this thing dude I want this thing so bad hey Von remember
in the living room how we had them put those recessed power outlets where
the previous owner had those like art illumination lights
I want to I want to get once these get a little cheaper
I want to get two of these and put them there because it's incredible dude you haven't seen this yet
I don't think but man they
nailed it they nailed the look I think we got this for a short so we never even
like made a full video about it or anything it has the has the magnetic
interchangeable things on it just like the Samsung frame one does
I don't actually know how to put the gallery on
yeah I assume somewhere in here something art mode there we go
okay man they nailed the finish they nailed
the illumination so Yvonne check this out
you should get you get her side does that not just look like a painting
yeah it does I don't like the frame but yeah it does
oh it's interchangeable okay but like shoot
sorry you distracted me and I dropped the screw dude it just looks like a painting
it's it's a wine it blew my mind
and like it is backlit and if if you catch it a light directly
it'll have glare on it and like stuff like it's still a TV but they just
and the viewing angles aren't perfect but compared to
everything else that I've seen they just nailed it
I don't know how to there we go
it's so good it is so good yeah it like really manages to
by being this flat and by doing a good job of I guess ambient light sensing or something I don't
know I don't even know I like I said I I didn't even work on a video for it or anything but
it just does a really good job of seeming like it's just
naturally lit I don't know it's really cool TV
and what's funny is like you don't think about this
until you go to actually shop for it but buying an art
you know like going to a gallery and buying art
is so expensive like it would actually cost
if we wanted to get like a good one or something
like it would actually cost as much if not more to buy a nice
frame and a nice art to put on the wall and compared to the TV I've just put a TV
in there and I can have whatever art I want even just the frame would probably cost as much as the TV
which I know is such a horrible like bonkers tech
bro way to think about it but I just I don't seem very practical to me
so yeah I want two of those actually which means
that we can put that Michael Buble thing downstairs instead of having it above
the piano and then we don't have to come up with anything else to put there sure you can do that
as long as you help me put this in oh okay
oh okay here's your problem this fan needs to come off
oh yeah they ship it with it on just to save space in the package and I guess to
like show you how it works because you're gonna have to put the other one on for yourself anyway
but it just goes like this there you go
and then you screw those see those screws that you can now see yeah yeah you screw those in
why doesn't this come with instructions hmm probably when
the systems were prepped someone misplaced them
story of my life why did someone
you know lose this I don't know
it's a really good question you know what the reality of it is people are for the most part
doing their best and you know stuff happens I mean
there's no way that I have perfectly kept track of every little piece of everything
I've had out today so not gonna judge today not today
um and there was there were a lot of systems to prep
you look at poor Jordan over there look how tired he looks
do you think it's bad as Linus I said do you think it's bad as Linus
no he hasn't had to build new computers I can't hear you
can't hear you no he his hard work was like
yesterday yeah
I can't believe we got 16 computers built today
and we did not all of them happened on camera like Dennis made it like
40% of the way in Dan you think if you look through the door to your right Andy there's a whole bunch out there
yeah yeah Andy you should go check them out
here we go I think you mean to the left though
hey there they are so who actually like worked on them there you go
there's Reese Dylan and Josh and Reese and Justin
hey Justin maybe new guy
okay how bad were mine were mine okay
mine were okay alright nice
well that was the deal today is I had to build computers till I got good at it
so uh if Reese and Justin say I'm good at it then I guess I'm good at it
I guess I don't have to build computers anymore that's interesting how many computers do you think
a new person somebody who's never ever done it before would have to build to become an expert
see that's a tough question because it depends on what you want
to be an expert at and I know you just
said at building computers smart guy
but just because you are good at building say for example modern
computers that doesn't mean that you would be good at
if someone were to bring you an older machine that they needed
help fixing for example so like there are different
there are different eras of computer hardware that you could be
an expert at and just because you're an expert at one of them
doesn't mean you would know anything about others um and so
I think it's really hard to quantify because
oh shoot did I just pull that out like if you handed someone
from you know the the p4
era an RGB wiring hub an RGB hub
and a bunch of RGB wiring and stuff they'd be like this is ridiculous right but
if you were to hand someone who's only ever built modern computers
IDE hard drives and optical drives they'd be like
what do you mean you slave a master I'm having flashbacks move the jumpers around
on the thing and you got cable select so then it should just know
where you plug it on the cable but that doesn't always work especially if one of the drives
was pulled out of an old machine that did have the jumpers set and like it's a whole
it's a whole thing right um no so
it's not so much that I would say you have to build a quantity
of computers as that I would say you have to build
um a variety of computers like
once you've done it enough the odds that you've kind of seen
every curve ball increase but if you were to just build
500 of the same computer I would say you are
probably not an expert I would say you are um you are
probably a really speedy assembly line worker but you are not necessarily
an expert computer builder at all you have to troubleshoot you have to you have to fix
other people's broken stuff you'll learn so much faster fixing other people's nonsense then you
will just building things from scratch and building them properly in the first place
um you also get a lot faster uh if you
if you have to fix because then like the pressure's on because people need
their stuff back but it's a new computer you know people go from not having it
to oh I don't know not having it until they have it whereas if it's something that they're used to
using and they need back right away there's just a lot of uh alright so it's
a when show streaming machine and you need to go live you know there's
you'll learn a lot more shortcuts and stuff and I'd say knowing the right
shortcuts and avoiding the wrong shortcuts is a big part of being an expert
right um I don't know see I would hesitate to even call
myself fully an expert because there's
types of hardware that I have never touched like if you
put you put an old like dual processor
Mac in front of me there'd be I'd probably be able to stumble my way
through it but there'd be a lot of stuff that I'm not familiar with
alright let's plug this in I want to do a build with you where we'll have
like a old 486 with the jumpers on the motherboard to configure everything
486 is
before my time I only really got into the DIY
scene in the Athlon XP late Pentium 4 era like like Northwood
I know a little bit from before that but the stuff that I know from before that is
way before that because I went straight from having in my room
a Pentium 90 I believe it was
either a Pentium 90 or a Pentium 166 Pentium 1
I went straight from that to buying myself an Athlon XP2500 plus
I missed the entire
early gaming era early 3D gaming everything I went straight from
playing like chips challenge okay like ANO 1602
to high fighter okay to like
Warcraft 3 everything in between
okay I shouldn't say everything in between I played Warcraft 2 on our
family computer which was a Pentium 200 MMX and then we didn't upgrade
that until we got a P4
2.66 so both our family computer
went from P1 to P4 and from P1 and my personal computer
which was an inherited one I didn't have it for that whole time I got it later and I was just happy to have anything
I just wanted MSN messenger in my room
so I went from a P1 myself to an Athlon XP
which was essentially P4 equivalent
and just absolutely nothing in between so you hear people talking about how their childhood was like
Unreal Tournament or like Quake or whatever I didn't play Quake
until I was running it on like an Athlon 64
that was when I first played Quake 3 like a LAN or something
okay all my RGB is working let's see if my system works
alright hit me Dan Hello Linus I work in
security monitoring and I get constant encounter customers with faulty
sensors which lead to false positives in what way can we improve the
technology used in alarm systems well
one of the ways to improve it would be to stop costing it down
that was something that I was super insistent on when we built out our
new house was that I didn't want anything wireless
nothing wireless I don't I don't like wireless as much
as I like wires so even like motion sensors
and stuff like that all wired
and honestly it's not even just like a security issue
or reliability issue necessarily although those are definitely advantages
the big thing for me is I just don't want to change batteries because as soon as you have
the whole point of a smart home is that everything's like connected and so as soon as you put a battery in
something you're changing it once every year or two and if you have 50 things in your house
that means you're going and changing some stupid usually some like random
button cell battery like once every week once every other week and you're not going to get around to it
and then it's going to kind of pile up and then it's just it's just such a nightmare
I'm not really answering your question but the point is finding
wired or it's like security equipment these days
it's not easy nobody wires anything up anymore
and a big part of that is that it's a cost down thing even though the wireless sensors are probably more expensive
the labor on installing them is way less
and so I guess what I'm trying to say is until the industry decides like oh yeah
we're going to stop costing down and we're going to start focusing on reliability
you're not going to see any change and so since no industry
is ever focused on quality these days and is always focused on costing
down I just don't think it's ever going to change you've done really well actually this is a
really good progress you don't want to screw your power supply in yet because
yeah you have absolute wow with your hands you can almost do it
that's crazy check this out Andy she can actually
at least attempt to plug in the give these like skinny chicken little wrists
look at her wrists so she can actually get in there and plug in the
GPU with the power supply yeah you're tonight
just like look at this
that's crazy it's hard to tell but
yeah there you go no I can't get in there
well just no no you are just the power supply it's easier if you have the power supply unplugged
and you plug them all in and then put it in but that's okay you don't actually have to finish
I'm done mine which is when each one ends so are we only 17 minutes over time
oh yeah wow that's not bad considering we were like
17 minutes behind at the beginning on the first one and my last one
I believe should be good to go alright so I think
all that we have left is a couple more merch messages right Dan? that's right we got about
7 to go okay hit me Dan sure hello Linus what would you say is the most clever ringtone
message tone that you've had on your phone over the years I have the sound of the ping
from an M1 grand it's a head turner at work
I gotta be honest with you guys I haven't customized my ringtone since my
Samsung Jive I just don't care
I am running on both of my phones you will see
this is not a thing I make up I am running whatever
default wallpaper shipped on them
other than making sure that all of my icons are organized in groups and are where
I can find them quickly and easily when I have something to do my phone is not
an expression of my wallpaper is not an expression of myself
neither is my ringtone I think one of my favorites was actually
from a gentleman who used to work here Tyler
who unfortunately passed away way too early he was taken from us
and he had crazy frog as his ringtone which
every once in a while he would forget to mute when we were shooting and
I could never really be mad about it because it was so funny
bing bing da ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba
hey oh shit quiet on set
that's good stuff good old Tyler
I have not been to Dreamhack Sweden Matthias
a dinos and land love the channels it's my gateway
to getting into tech can we get some behind the scenes videos of creator warehouse
processes and group things since we have Tatiana from CW
we got some stuff that is up on Floatplane right now oh you can also subscribe
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would you like to redo for any reason oh man I would imagine
if I were to go back and watch almost anything older than the last year or so I'd probably
see so many things that I would change about them
you know more detail here better production value there
fix my hair here you know like whatever
right like I like something that I like regret
I mean I'd say I probably said a lot of stuff on WAN Show that I
that hasn't held up I've
I would undo saying well no one will ever use crypto for like actual purchases back when
that guy bought that house that's one that I I like to bring up
a bad Linus don't make bold predictions like that
what else you got let's see thank you and the team for inspiring
to learn more about technology Linus what is a piece of advice you would give to your 22 year old self
marry that girl
good advice
really enjoyed the Equinix data center tour did you find anything there set up to be
applicable to how LTT manages servers and workstations
so going back to the last one I cannot emphasize enough the importance of finding
a partner that builds you up rather than that holds you
down so yeah that was the best advice I could give my
22 year old self I think
when did we get married how old even was I maybe 22
I already knew so 2011 minus
2006 who can even do math
I can't do mental math not this late in the day
yeah I've been live for four hours there's no way I'm doing mental math dance got it he's on it
he's not on it but he's going to be now that I've said that he's on it I don't think he was even listening
alright fine I'll do it he didn't even have his mic
hot when he was saying that it's been a long day for all of us
we were 25 okay yeah that would have been good advice for me at that age
anyway equinix um no there's like
there's definitely really cool stuff about their setup but everything that they do
is done properly and even if
we could afford to do things properly like they do
A that's no fun and B it doesn't necessarily make sense for us
like the number of people that I've seen come at me about
the fact that we don't have we still don't have a backup for the vault
there is no backup for the vault and the reason
is because we just don't need it that badly we need it
exactly as much as um
or like that our willingness to resource into it
is exactly equal to the effort that we put in
to make the most affordable
sensible possible mass storage box that we could
you know making cool content in mind and no more
we're not willing to spend money to retain that data it's all finished projects
shipped projects if we have it it's great it's actually convenient
and if we don't have it we will keep making videos without it
we'll download copies off of youtube I mean even flow plane has years and years and years
of archived video on it that we can download at full quality no problem
so it's very rare that we go back to an old project
that wasn't in the final cut almost I mean
I don't want to use the N word right I don't want to say never but almost
never there's no one from the editing team in here I don't think hey Nicole are you
here oh she's gone okay oh yeah
we're probably getting ready for badminton night let's go it's Tuesday
wait it's Tuesday wait what time does badminton night start Vaughn
it started already we're late oh balls
yeah I didn't realize how late it was cool what was I
what question was I answering why don't we have backups for the motherboard
oh yeah because we don't care I was gonna ask Nicole how often do you guys like use
that and she was gonna say never
it's come up a couple times but it's very rarely yeah okay and as you said
it's often not necessary yeah we don't really need that
honestly we would have backups if Linus cared
yeah but I'm not gonna I'm not gonna put money into something and then
I have people asking okay well like why did you guys bother to recover it when it failed
well because it's interesting it is actually yeah because it was really
interesting that was why Wendell contributed a not insignificant amount of time because
it was a really cool learning experience for what happens if you just allow a
gigantic ZFS server the rot
yeah we don't let it rot anymore so that's good we learned something
so that's cool but other than that yeah we're not willing to put any money into it
because it just doesn't matter that much we still replace drives and keep it up to date
like we do maintenance on it right yep but if we lost it it would have
zero impact on our business and at the end of the day it comes down to
dollars and cents when you're making investments into the business and it's doesn't make sense
that's all I got? alright well hey thank you guys so much
for tuning into suite 16 everyone who bought a system today
we're going to be making a really nice little charitable
contribution hopefully this week but maybe
next week well either way we want to get it done before the end of the year
so that'll be going to one of our local food banks I think
right Jordan? we'll update you guys on Wandshow
we'll get that loop closed there massive thank you to all of the
partners who sent over hardware for the stream today and Jawa.gg
who sponsored the stream today big thanks to all the members of the team who came
and embarrassed themselves the ones that don't know how to build computers
the ones that are turning Scroogeberry backwards I'm like I'm listening to you talk
I can't multitask thanks speaking to people who can't build
computers you're doing great hey I'm trying yeah massive thanks
to the production crew today who obviously
worked hard and of course the most important members of our production crew
our tireless camera operators who are not even going to be able to give
me this camera because it's it's tied to them oh yeah
there you go there's Andy and don't forget about second Andy and all the logistics
folks there's Reese, I see you
yeah Reese is over there
okay see you guys again maybe we'll
have to do another one we'll have to find some other things to build a bunch of computers they'll begin
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