Food and Wi-Fi. It's what connects us.
And for this $5,000 AMD Ultimate Tech Upgrade, our money guy, Josh,
has put his accounting skills to good use. I mean, look at all this stuff. We got a Radeon 9070XT,
a bunch of ubiquity networking gear, a $600 meat grinder.
Watch out, Mythical. There's a new chef, Josh, in town, and he's got better networking.
But I'm still gonna have you help me make lunch.
Oh my god. We have a lot to do.
Let's make sure we don't leave any of these projects half finished, right, Josh?
Right? See, with Josh's accounting skills, he can evidently afford to start
as many projects as he wants. It's just that, like any busy person, he never has the time to finish them.
I mean, I can relate. Who needs to hang the picture on the wall
when you can just prop it against the wall? This will be a great grow setup someday.
This is the kind of living room I would want to live in.
What man wouldn't want to be surrounded by all his precious tools?
Just careful with that one. That one's a sharp blade.
Kid-friendly. This way, you can totally see the wires are all connected.
And this dresser, too. If you're gonna be made of MDF, be proud of it.
Who needs veneers? I think you catch my drift. So today, I'm gonna teach Josh a thing or two about finishing projects.
And he's gonna teach me a thing or two about cooking.
So that's what you spend all your time doing. Because it clearly isn't finishing your...
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The plan is to start with some food prep using some of Josh's new doodads.
So I guess I'll start by grabbing a knife.
Wait, did you put in a wider range?
But then just leave the original with backsplash? Yep.
Also, this is not how you cook oranges. No, but it is how we prepare juice.
Yeah, so a key part of your upgrade was this limb meat grinder with juicer attachment.
Why does somebody need this at home? When you want to prepare fresh meat or fresh juice, you got it.
Right, but it's $600. When you get a deer or a bear in the woods, this will handle it for you.
Why don't you show me how it works? All right, let's get down.
Here we go. Oh, it's cold. Yeah, we keep it cold to keep the fat cold.
So it doesn't get all mushy and squish out and all compacted when we're making the ground beef.
Oh, okay. Is it cold enough? It's close enough.
Okay. So here we got someâ¦
$75? $75 bonus prime rib roast, 100% grass fed.
I'm going to keep chopping it Costco. I'm going to have you cut this nice prime rib roast into nice big chunks.
Okay, I can do that. Do you want just like half of it cut up?
We'll do the whole thing. We'll do the whole thing? You sure?
Yeah. Maybe I could just do a third of it and just leave the rest of it kind of scattered around.
Okay. So just any kind of chunks that can fit in the thing, right?
Am I doing it right? No, you're fine. Yeah, that's okay. You're fine. It was more when you were going like, I have the knife.
No, that's still not the right thing.
He's fine. Well, how do I do it? What we'll want to do is actually cut it lengthwise,
just so we get a slightly smaller piece. Or we could test it.
I mean, it's $600. If it can't cut up this, then it sucks.
Yeah, but if it clogs immediately, that wastes our time. It's got to fit in the thing. There's no way this is going to clog.
You guys are hilarious. Come on. When's the last time you ground meat?
20 years ago. Let's get a shot. Let's get a shot.
Wow, you guys are so right. I so had to cut it into smaller pieces.
It couldn't handle it at all. Don't put your finger in there. I'm not putting my finger in.
There's a pusher. There's a whole pusher. Please use the pusher. Just relax.
Dude, no one is relaxing in the comment section. Everyone relax right now.
That's how relaxation works. Calm down. Now that's a $600 meat grinder.
OK, so that's the point of it then, is that it's chungus.
Yep. OK, I like it. Yeah.
Now you might notice that this meat is pretty lean.
Sure. What we want to do is actually add some extra fat.
Seriously? Yeah. Josh, can I just like turn your computer off?
And install a GPU for you? Sure. Well, no, we're going to install a GPU later, right?
OK. So tell me something. What is the point of buying like a super fancy lean cut
and then putting a bunch of fat in it? Why don't you just get a fatty cut? When you get a grass-fed cow, unfortunately,
they're pretty lean. OK, well then, why don't you just buy a grain-fed cow?
Grass-fed better flavor. And this is not a waste of time because...
Well, when you're just making a simple beef burger,
but when you got a deer, then you don't have to pay a butcher to do it for yourself.
Right. And then you could pay a contractor to patch the holes in your walls instead.
Yeah, that math's out. The most fascinating thing about these AMD Ultimate Tech upgrades,
shout out AMD, by the way. Thank you so much for making them possible,
is not seeing where people live. It's seeing how people live, how they allocate their time.
So tell me something. Did it occur to you to clean things up before we came here for this?
He said he did. He told me that he did. I did clean it up, but this weekend,
I spent a lot of time out in the yard and time got past me.
OK, and you really are a lot tidier when you do our accounting, right?
Yeah, yeah. So do you hunt your own bears and deer?
I've only started recently, so I've gotten one bear and one deer.
Is bear meat good? Bear meat's delicious.
Really? Really, no sauce, nothing?
I mean, a little seasoning. No, bear meat.
What we're going to do next, we're going to portion out some meat for our burgers,
and then the rest, we're going to make some sausage. Right. So what's your favorite recipe?
I don't know. A sausage recipe?
Sorry, you want a sausage recipe from me? Like off the top of my head?
To keep it easy, I'm going to narrow down to five ingredients here for you,
or maybe six. I'll bring in some pepper. Sure. We got oregano, paprika, garlic powder,
some chipotle chili pepper, pepper and salt. And then now what?
Do I just mush it up? This must be how normies feel watching us build our own computers.
Just like... You know you can get a computer at Best Buy, right?
It's all built and everything. It's got Windows on it. So now we put on the extruder attachment,
and then we fill the...
Oh, the intestines you've had soaking. Yeah.
Brilliant. What could go wrong? All right, here we are.
You want to hold? I actually just washed my hands.
On that note, now might be a perfect time to upgrade Josh's rig.
I noticed you only got a GPU and some hard drives.
Do you already have a decent gaming computer? Want to show us where it's half built? Yeah, follow me.
All right, here we are. Oh my god, it's half built.
You don't have your side panel on. I was joking.
Well, it doesn't really need a side panel. It's just better airflow, right?
Oh my god, Josh. They're all dead.
Yeah, those got a little bit of neglect. Thank god you only ever do things halfway.
I'd hate to see what they looked like if they were fully neglected.
The good news is this will be the fastest ever computer upgrade
in an AMD Ultimate Tech upgrade. All right, do you have a screwdriver handy?
Um, while you grab that, I'll tell you guys about this sick 9070XT that we're installing.
This is Sapphire's Pulse model. It features 16 gigs of VRAM and of course AMD's RDNA4 architecture,
meaning it's got great gaming performance and any other kind of performance you could possibly want pretty much.
All right, you know what, Josh? Here, you go ahead. You do the GPU upgrade.
I've got to talk to Linus. No one's going to ask what that means.
I thought you meant you were just going to like have a good think. No, I'm going to talk to the other Linus.
In fact, he just joined the call. From peanuts?
Out with the old.
Oh my god, you can take the half finished out of Josh, but you can't take the Josh out of the half finished or whatever the thing.
You didn't take the peels off, brother.
I thought I was waiting for you. What games do you play?
Don't really play much anymore, but I got Warzone. Okay, well, let's see.
You really do have a comical number of hobbies.
Is that a knock to a fan for blowing on the plants?
Yep, it was the quietest fan I could find. Okay, here we go.
All right, fight, win.
I have good dreams. Hey! I'm getting 166 frames now compared to before.
I was getting 120. Nice.
You know what else you're getting is a big networking upgrade. You want to check it out?
I do. Wow, nice door on your media room.
What is this to store?
Body elastics, like exercise gear? Exercise bands.
Oh, okay. Right now it's not really set up for anything. Right.
Yeah, well, that's kind of the theme of the day, isn't it?
And then you have compressed gas tanks. Let's give it tanks.
Right, because you needed more hobbies. There's the boxes for the LED potlights you put in here.
That you did. Didn't feel the need to cap off the existing lights in any way, though, I guess.
Those are going to get finished later. Right, yeah.
Into photography as well. Yep, got those new lenses.
And when was the last time you used them?
Probably when I bought it. And drones.
Yeah, another hobby that I don't really do that often.
Oh my God, Josh. Does anybody ever intervention you or like try?
My wife tried, but I've kind of got her started on the hobbies with me now.
Okay, let's just do the new networking gear. What do you need new networking gear for?
You already got a nice switch. You've got what appears to be a UDM Pro.
I thought I would get a UNVR, expand the space.
The storage. I got a 16 port PoE Pro.
Oh okay, so you can put up security cameras someday.
I got one security camera today to add to the the matrix of cameras that I have.
And then we could also put in some new access points. Yep, I got a Swiss Army knife from Ubiquiti.
Cool, why don't you explain to the nice people what the Ubiquiti Swiss Army knife ultra does?
What it does is it's basically an access point. Right now my access points do not reach into the garage that well.
So I'm planning to put this in my garage and it'll connect well to my charger
and anything that I want to do in the garage. And why do they call it the Swiss Army knife?
That I actually don't know. Oh, it's got Wi-Fi 5.
It can cover an area of 1,250 square feet. It's got a gigabit Ethernet uplink.
Right, but what makes it a Swiss Army knife? IPX6.
Indoor and outdoor. Are you going to put it outdoors? This one's just going to live in the garage.
Right. You got to give it to Ubiquiti. Their mounting hardware just fits.
I'm going to start installing some drives in our Ubiquiti at UNVR.
We got some four terabyte drives that we swamped out of his nas with his new upgraded
10 terabyte drives. And we're going to toss them in here so he can have a collection of videos of people around his home.
Describing security that way makes you sound weird. Yeah, so pretty.
Wow, now you just put that in there and it just does that, right? Yeah. Just a look at.
Accent lighting, RGB. There we go. What do I plug into it now?
What do you mean? You're supposed to know this. I just work here.
That is pretty heavy. Yep, it should be fine.
All of the weight's on the front of it anyways. Like the back of it's quite light.
The hard drives are the heaviest part. If you want, we could just put it on the lowest and then we can have it sag on the floor.
Then if it falls, it just goes tink. And then you can deal with that in like a year and a half.
No, you need to get it around these.
You need to get it around these. All right, after a quick five minutes, here we go.
Nice and smooth. We got it done. Wow, that's amazing.
I found something distressing on my way back up here. Please tell me if it's not live.
No, no, stop. Not live.
Use it to hang pictures.
You guys didn't catch it earlier. Oh my god. Should we throw in the new security camera?
We should. Or should we make some food? Let's make some food.
I'm getting hungry. I'm getting hungry too. Are we going outside or are we, what's the plan?
Yeah, we'll go out to the barbecue. Okay, we get to see what the yard of a person who never finishes anything looks like.
Oh, wow, you're gonna have a lawn someday, I guess.
In three weeks. I don't believe you.
That is a delightful stick pile. And look at all these tools that he could use if he wanted to.
Tremendous. What about second wand?
Pressure washer, extension wand. So you buy things second hand then?
Yep. Like is that because I gotta admit, I was kind of walking around here going like,
how do you afford all these hobbies? Well, even that meat grinder was a warehouse deal off of Amazon.
So brand new, that's about 1200 bucks. So it goes to show you guys.
You just got to be a deal hunter and then you too can live like Josh.
Do you have a compulsion? Can you just not resist a deal?
A very good deal. I can't resist. Right.
Is, was this a good deal? That was not a good deal.
Okay, what am I looking at here? This is part of this apparatus, right?
Yeah. So this controller is a dumb controller.
You turn it on and it goes to the temperature. I mean, that seems not that dumb.
Which when it works, it works. But when it doesn't, which is often enough, kind of sucks.
So if you're doing a long overnight brisket and you don't want to get up middle of the night,
check the temp, this one connects to the Camp Chef app and I could just wake up,
turn to my phone, quickly look, what's the temperature at?
Is the fire gone out or is it still on? Oh, well, that's pretty cool.
Wait, let me say fire gone out. What are you talking about?
This is, this just has a cord. Yeah, so this is a pellet grill.
So the electrical turns the little fan, keeps it blowing and it ignites the pellets.
Oh, cool. So that keeps the smoke going. Very cool. How much was it, Josh?
I was hoping he didn't ask. It's 200 USD.
For a thermometer and a Wi-Fi chip? Yep.
But I got the pellet grill for 150 bucks.
Canadian. That's like me saying I spent $10,000 on my floor mats.
But don't worry, I got the car for a grand.
Yep. Are we going to install this now or like it's like cooking right now, right?
So maybe not. I'll do it this weekend.
Still good, right? Mine hasn't been like that.
I'm so lost today, you guys. What have we even done?
Oh, we ground some meat, we made sausages, we put a network switch in and now we're
going to juice some oranges. Oh, that's what the oranges are for.
Why do you guys keep pretending we're going to cook them? I wasn't pretending.
I was just confused. I don't know where the butt plug goes.
I mean, I have some ideas. Right here.
This is called the entonnoir pour Ã©culement de la pulpe.
You know, it occurs to me, I didn't do the traditional search for merch, but like,
he buys so much stuff, I think I'd believe him if he just told me he bought it.
I buy a few things here and there. Surely you will use this all the time because it's surely not way more work than just
buying a bottle of water. You know what? It doesn't matter. But you could get a far less consistent product by making your own orange juice.
Yeah. Okay, this was... Don't put your fingers in there. They'll sign right on.
It's right in front of you. Put my fingers in it. What do you do? You literally just get your fingers out of there.
Use the stomper, lioness. Fine. No, I'm a guy.
Hey, look at it go. I am very anti-single-purpose appliances.
My parents were classic, like, buy-all-the-appliances people.
And I just realized after we had the, like, the potato slicer slidey thing and the
Famic special wand and the stupid ice cream maker and the thing and the other thing,
you don't use any of it because it is so much work to clean them.
However, this does look delicious. Wow, we got a whole liter of juice.
I said, this is the kind of appliance it's fun to bring out to show people that you have the appliance.
Yeah. You go like, I need to show you my juicer. And they go, wow.
And then they leave before cleanup time. Yeah, oh yeah.
Just like we will. This better be the finest glass of orange juice I've ever had.
Oh, it's warm. We left the oranges out. That's delicious.
Really good. It's actually really, really good. Very delicious.
Okay, let's fry up some burgers. Show us your routine.
All right, so one thing I like about my burgers is I don't compress it too much.
I got to say, for all the unnecessary extra work, that is a good looking burger and I am
looking forward to it. Was this anything to do with your upgrade or we're just having ribs for lunch?
It's supposed to be using the smoker. Okay.
This is the least about tech AMD Ultimate Tech upgrade yet, but you know what?
Shout out AMD for putting up with our shenanigans.
I like the table, Josh. Thank you.
The chairs, they go with it really nicely.
I like your Lego centerpiece. Genuinely though.
The Lego Botanical series. Yeah, they're really nice.
That is so tender. That's so good.
Our stomachs are full, but there's still more kitchen stuff to look over.
You also got a KitchenAid stand mixer shave ice attachment?
For shaved ice desserts. Okay. Couldn't the meat grinder do that too?
Unfortunately not. We also got a sorbetier.
It's this ice cream maker. That was the French side.
Okay. Ice cream for on top of the shaved ice.
That's pretty fun. But I have a question about this other thing that you got, this automatic espresso machine.
My first question is, what is this not good enough for you?
Because you seem like you like doing things manually.
Yeah, so this grinder and coffee machine combo here
is what I'll probably still be using day to day at home.
But you know, an automatic machine to get that nice and easy espresso.
I'm actually just going to be bringing that into the office so that the team could have espresso on demand.
That's really nice. Pump action espresso machine.
Oh, I'd be great at this. That's good form.
Just looks so big in his small hand.
Are you guys so mean?
There we go. How many of these do you have to make before this pays for itself?
Well, 40. 40. This unit was actually on clearance.
Nice. Classic Josh. Okay. See if it's good.
It's not bad. Now we're fueled up for more shenanigans. Let's go Wi-Fi or doorbell or camera.
Yeah. What do you guys write? That's a roof rack?
Yeah. It's a roof bucket. It looks more like a dish rack.
Well, you could put dishes in it if they were sufficiently big.
Wait a second. You already have a ubiquity doorbell.
I do, but that one's broken. Yeah. What makes it different from the rest of your house?
Once we pull it off the wall, we'll see.
There you go. Oh, you got the G4.
Wow. Now that's slick.
And it comes with a little speaker. Is this so that you don't have to bother getting it working
with your mechanical doorbell? Yep. Now you're thinking.
This is such an over-engineered solution.
Love it. Love it. Thanks, AMD. Let's do it. I guess you're going to hook the new one up with Wi-Fi
or is there cat six in here? There you go.
Nice. So that's why you have all the holes in your wall
because you were busy running networking everywhere. You know what?
This one I like. If there was something that President Linus would make sure
it would be an Ethernet in every driveway and an access point on every corner.
Okay. I just need to terminate this. Terminate it.
I'm sure no one's ever made that joke before.
Terminating your own cables is one of those things that
I feel like every geek should learn at some point
because it's just so much better than having to try to
shoehorn the wrong length cable into an installation.
It's crazy how he says that, but then we'll make his own orange juicer.
You know what the strangest thing about this place is? That everything is cluttered and yet somehow,
for the most part, clean.
Like it's not dusty or dirty. It's just messy.
Yeah. Yeah. That's how I keep my things usually.
Yes. Josh, you know the NVR is in upside down, right?
Yeah. We had to do that because the power was getting interfered
with the other cables and we couldn't fit it inside. Hard drives are validated to run both upside down
and right side up, which is good for Josh. Did you know that?
I did. I found out today. Oh, okay. Okay. You hit, did you look it up?
Oh, Adam or Adam told me. Pop it in there.
Okay. In there.
Now wait, hold on a second. Well, what was this white one?
So I ran two to the front, one for a camera. And that's the G6 bullet and one for the G4 doorbell.
Got it. Okay. All right. Let's go see if it's working.
Let's go, baby. Give me that internet.
Show me that internet. Do I need to adopt the switch first?
We didn't do that.
Yeah. That might not be a terrible idea because usually the latency means connection and activity.
He's working on it. He's cooking. Man, the Unify app stuff has gotten like so good
to the point where for a home user, or even a lot of professional applications,
you can do so much from the app. It's really nice.
Wow, guys.
Sorry. Did you want us to reply to that? No, I'm just, I'm so impressed.
You guys did so much thinking about installing this roof rack. Go back to your stupid doorbell.
Do me a teller. I think one of the ports on your UDM was not configured to
be on the same subnet. So as soon as I plugged this into your 24 port switch,
it switched over to about 10.40. And there it is ready to adopt.
So you might just have to play around with that.
Yeah. All right. Where's the cable for the camera?
We're going to put it out right over there. Oh, good ladders.
That's okay. I'm actually good at ladders. When you're born short enough, you get good at ladders.
Hold on. We're getting ahead of ourselves though. I want to know if this hot dang Ethernet port works.
Tecting, detecting, detecting. Ah, crap.
I don't think it does. Oh, hey, we're good.
Did you do the brickwork, Josh? I removed the brickwork.
Now you said you haven't done the socket mount yet, but we just want to terminate it for now and make sure it's working.
Yeah. Okay. Well, I can do that. Do you want the front of the, like the front of the basket on,
like the curtain that says curtain on it? Uh, I will toss it on.
He said he'll do it. You guys know that means nothing.
What it means is it's not our problem. So. Any luck? Here we go.
Uh, click and adopt. Cool.
Look at this fantastic shirt from LTTstore.com.
Wow. Look, Josh is wearing one too. Do you want the angle mount?
I actually really like it. I have this on mine. So.
It turns it this way a little bit. I think I will end up installing it with that, but for now.
Yeah, just do it now. I am going to make a new plate for it.
It's like, it's coming off. His job is actually to do some of like the bigger projects for accounting.
How do I reconcile this personality type at home with the way he does his work?
I can't. Yeah. That's very Josh.
Dude, I got to say having the video doorbell is like a game changer.
So where do you think can you want this? Somewhere central, obviously. Do you know how loud it is?
I don't actually know how loud it is, but. I've never used this before either.
I think there's a spot in the kitchen. Okay. And you have a PoE like Ethernet cable there?
I'll have to make sure it's plugged into a PoE spot on the switch.
There we go. We got a chime. So we got some SVS ultra evolution nano bookshelf speakers.
Why did you get these? I was torn if I wanted a 5.1 or keep my 2.1, 3.1 system.
And I thought, well, SVS makes good subs.
I use their sub SV1000. Thought I'd throw these on into the front.
Two speakers. That is true.
SVS, the ultra evolution line specifically for SVS has been really, really well received.
These are great bang for your buck speakers.
If you're shopping in the like home theater price range.
These are going to be great bookshelf speakers and these are going to be what? Your rear surrounds or are you going to replace?
These are going to be my front. And then I'm going to move those caps to the back as my rear surrounds.
Sweet. Let's get these plugged in. The doorbell works.
How loud is it? I couldn't really hear it. It's loud enough.
It's not the loudest thing. But realistically, you could do like a PoE powered PoE switch just like anywhere in the house.
And you could put chimes everywhere. Yeah. You could put as many as you want.
Probably a couple. It's like ducks at the park. Yeah.
You know, they're free. You can just take them.
I couldn't help noticing that your speakers, none of them match.
So you have a piano black keff center channel.
Black SVS left and rights. And then what is that? Like a walnut or?
Walnut keffs. Yeah. And then those ones now match the new SVS.
The sub matches the new front speakers.
Most importantly, how do they sound? Let's give it a shot.
By the way, I had to plug the ether. Okay.
Okay. They kick. That's pretty good.
Need a little bit of sound treatment in here. A lot of flat walls, a lot of hard surfaces, but damn, not bad.
Remember when you said the Xbox was the one thing that was hooked up?
Yep. Yeah. Your Ethernet cable for it was just hanging loose in the cabinet.
Well, our Wi-Fi is good enough. Yeah. I mean, if you think about it, that's kind of the whole theme, right?
Good enough. We did a good enough job of helping Josh with his kitchen.
He made a good enough meal for us. By the way, that was delicious. No.
Yeah, it was more than good enough. Much better than good enough.
It was good enough for a king. Good enough camera installation and a good enough sound upgrade.
And we installed a good enough GPU. That one was a little more than just good enough too.
And here's a good enough conclusion. Thanks AMD for sponsoring this episode of AMD Ultimate Tech Upgrade.
Thanks Josh for giving us a window into a troubled mind.
A busy mind, maybe. It's a better term. Maybe not troubled.
He seems happy about it. It's a good enough upgrade.
Thanks AMD. Yeah, thanks Linus, Adam, Andrew, and Rhys.