This is Vance, LTT's executive assistant, who among other things, helps
keep me on task. That means grabbing my lunch, telling me my schedule, or even
calling to wake me up when I'm late for a morning meeting. Well, when AMD heard
about all of that, they said, "Not today." No, today. As part of Vance's
$5,000 AMD Ultimate Tech upgrade, we're flipping the script. I will be his
assistant, executing his vision for upgrading his gaming computer, building
a NAS so he can get off Google Cloud Storage, and putting up posters. Yeah,
of course. Before I go full assistant mode, I need to know when Vance isn't
swapping places with Dennis as a prank. How sticky are his fingers? He actually
seems like an honest guy. I doubt he has too much stuff from the office here. I
have way better stuff than this. There's no way. See, exactly. Why would I take
that from the office? What the heck, dude? I almost wish you stole a monitor.
2005. This monitor is 20 years old. I
didn't buy it.
Clearly, another AMD Ultimate tech upgrade means another AMD giveaway. This
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while you can. Go, go, go, go, go, go, go. Do you know we have the same
keyboard? We do? Yeah. Oh, I have one of these at home. I got this from a friend
after I spilled apple cider on it and ruined it for him. So, I bought him a
new one and I he gave me the old one so I could try and repair it. And so, I
dunked it in water, took it all apart, and then it dried and then it fixed
itself. Yeah, I stole that from the office. No, no, I was just going to say this is adorable. Is this from when you
were a kid? No, this is actually Oh,
okay. That might be worth more than the monitors.
Probably. I mean, there's only one way to find out. Oh my gosh. We're not going
to count. Yep. We're counting money. Everything's
content. Drum roll,
please. $14.0042.
I found two square Dell monitors.
Granted, they're Dell, not HP, so you know, whatever. Uh, but for $5, you can
get We can get Vance's monitor set up
for that spare change. Poo.
It's cables. Random things. Well, there's no way you bought these. Okay,
why don't we get started? Obviously, the first thing
we're going to do is unbox this monitor.
Okay, even with a screwdriver sticking out of it, it's worth more than your old
ones. Let's get this Let's get this fixed. All right, Vance, do you want to
unbox this? No. Trick question. You turn upside down. I unbox things, too. Okay,
cool. So, this is what it's like to not be an assistant. I just stand and watch you.
I'd like to think I actually do things,
too. Here. Can you hold this? No. Not
today. Clip this up. Oh, wait. No. We're
probably going to use your I was just going to say you're not a very good assistant if you're not looking around
at how it's actually going to get set up.
That's fair. Now, hold on a second. I see another monitor over here. Did it
just like spawn or what? Your um your
lecture about the wonders of face of marketplace also brought me this. Oh,
wonderful. Okay, cool. So, we're replacing both of your monitors. Yeah,
cuz it's kind of mismatched if you have one that's worth a penny and one that's
worth a lot more than Right. Yeah. Well, in fairness, it's worth 250 pennies. But
this is great. He has no idea what to do with himself.
You just No, you just watch. You just watch. You just watch me. We watch me
struggle. This feels so wrong. This is like the opposite of what my everyday is
supposed to be. I should have a coffee in my hand. I I think so. I think so.
Maybe an assistant should get that for me. Oh, yes, of course. Hold
on. Here. Put on your slippers. Put on No, no. I'll put on your slippers. There
we go. Okay. How to make coffee. I think
I've got a bit of a cheat here because nobody cleaned up this. So,
you're going to make coffee. You going to run it water through that again? No.
No. I'm I just mean I could see how it's set up. Is this worth the Floatplane
exclusive? Oh, I think there's going to be multiple Floatplane exclusives from
this one. You can also watch Vance's meet the team on Floatplane. You can
watch him talk about the first time he met me where I was super awkward. How
good of a job do you think he's doing right now?
I am concerned and I would like to show him where the instant coffee packets
are. So, I need 10 to 15 g of coffee beans.
I'm going to assume that this is probably about what you
need. We're burning daylight over here and I'm
just still waiting for my coffee. Sorry, sir. Don't call me sir.
Okay, that looks like kind of Oh, no.
There was There was more in there before. Well, okay. Well, then we just
need to make sure we don't put too much water in. Yeah, I'm pretty sure this
didn't work. I mean, I could just like ring it out. Go on, get in there. Get in there,
buddy. Any good assistant would know how much sugar and uh and milk or cream to
put in. Um, one of these has got to be
salt. I'm pretty sure this one's sugar.
Do you take sugar, milk? You know, I would love to appreciate your coffee
exactly the way that it is. Okay. All right. Sure. Well, just in case you
don't, here's this. Uh, I'll get back to work on the monitor, sir. It looks like
coffee. It does look like coffee. It tastes like coffee. So, yeah. Great job.
All right. Nice. Now, let's turn all of this off and upgrade the computer. Sir,
I have only gotten as far as removing this back panel and looking at the back
of this system, and I'm already deeply confused. What was that? So, for one
thing, you've got a fan and RGB hub that is plugged into pretty much nothing and
is just hanging here loose. For another thing, you've got a single 120 mm
radiator. You know that these are worse
than just like using a crappy air cooler, right? Maybe you should have
bought me a better PC. Maybe I should have Maybe I should have bought you a
better PC. Yeah, I won this from the Christmas party, so I just transplanted
it. Oh, this is one of the secret shopper
machines. So, right now you're just dissing on HP, which is fine. Oh my god,
this 12pin connector. It's got broken bits in it
and the latch doesn't work. This is a fire hazard. Please tell me you got a
new GPU as part of your upgrade. Yep. Okay, we've got a 9070 XT. I'm actually
extremely happy to see that because I really don't feel very good about one of
those connectors without having a without having some kind of a latch on
it at the very very least. So, I'm basically just taking all these new
parts and putting them in here. Then we're going to take these parts and put
them in a Naz. Oh, super cool. Okay. Well, why don't we get Elijah to help
with that? Hold on. I'm just going to clean this thermal compound off so we
can find out what this is. Open. Do you want to open? I love it. By the way, the
half a piece of paper towel. Why do you need a full piece? I am all about that,
dude. What the heck? That's going to be the most OP Naz ever. You've got a Ryzen
7 5800X. I was told it could be done. I
don't know. Yeah. Well, no. I Yeah, it can be done. I mean, it's not a problem.
It's just like overkill. All right, here you go, Elijah. Oh, that's a cool case.
I haven't actually seen this before. What is this? The Fractal Node 804. Oh,
cool. Eight hard drives over here. Full-size
ATX power supply, MATX motherboard. I am
liking this. Let's have a look at our new hardware. There's not much out there
that's a lot faster than the 5800X for gaming, but it looks like Vance found
it. We're moving up to socket AM5 with a
B650 Tough board, and we've gone with
the 9800 X3D, the fastest gaming CPU on
the planet. asterisk asterisk asterisk.
He doesn't need 16 cores, so this will be just fine. Thanks, Andy. Yeah,
indeed. Do you game much? What do you
think? Based on my monitors? Well, see, that's the thing. Based on your
monitors, I would say no. But based on your keyboard and mouse, I would say
yes. But based on your chair, I would say no. But based on the fact that you
prioritized getting a 9070 XT for this
new build, I would say yes. I enjoy gaming. Okay. But like nothing
competitive clearly. What What are you going to play? Um God of War Last of Us
Part Two. I am not here for the fast-paced twitchy
things. Oh boy. We got like some DDR56000 CL30.
This is a nice middle of the road, good bang for the buck memory kit. 32 gigs.
It's about where you want to be today. For our cooler, we've gone with the Thermal Right Phantom Spirit 120 SE, I
think. Right. Yeah. SE Black. I'm paying him to watch today. It
it hurts me. Not because I would do it any better or do it any faster, but just
because it it feels wrong. Realistically, I think you're doing too
much work right now, boss. I'd like you to have a seat over here and just you
can just put your feet up right here in front of Elijah's work space. here.
Yeah. No, no, no. He His needs are less important than
yours. There you go. No, no, no, no, no, no. Don't move. Don't move. I will get
around. Got his SSDs installed. One of them had this gigantic heat sink on it.
Like, she's she's chunky thick. So, I put that one on top, and I'm hoping that
there will be no clearance issues with the back plate on my GPU. But overall, I
think this is pretty much ready to go in the case. Did you take out the old
thermal content or it does not matter? Uh, it doesn't really matter. I mean,
unless this is like dry and crusty. It's a little dry and crusty. Where's your
paper towel? Uh, it's just don't use a whole piece. I was going to say rip it
in half. Rip it in half. Okay. I didn't
realize it was like a big deal or something. What? Lengthwise? Yes. What
kind of a psycho are you? What the? The seam is here, so I ripped it in half.
What do you mean? Otherwise, I'd have to rip the whole sheet off and then rip it
in half. It's like people that bite. Oh my god. Elijah, no.
What? You go down. Oh, cross. Well, now
that's a quarter though, I guess. Yeah. Perfect. That's all you get. Vance, when
are we allowed to break for lunch? Then you're done. Everything.
Okay. I do not sound like that. Sir.
Sir. Hold on. Let me try that again. Sir,
respectfully, that is not a very accurate imp. I believe that is I feel
my feelings are hurt by that impression of me. Okay. Wait, this is interesting
because are you saying everything up until now was an accurate impression of
you? Ooh, Keith got you there. No. Oh,
Vance, please. Oh, sorry. Wait, what just happened? Well, I need to ask him a
question. Oh, you can ask him a question. Yeah, just approach. Eyes
down. Okay. an approach, sir. Yes. Okay. Now,
now you can look up. I might have screwed up. How badly do you need that
GPU in your NAS? What? The GPU goes in the NAS. It's not the right size. Oh,
ball sack. The problem is that this is a by8 card.
Yeah. And the slot that we intended to put it in is by four. Ah, there is a
block at the back of the slot. We could remove that for you though, sir. Is that
sketchy? Yes, sir. Worst case scenario, I stab the knife
into the motherboard and it's destroyed. Well, at least it's on
camera, so then I can get a new one, right?
Sure. I'm ready to try
again. See that right there? Okay, that's a solid maybe. I think it
might work. So, how is there a quick way for us to check this? Okay, storage
controller. Can you not move the monitor? Oh, it makes it really hard.
LSI adapter SAS 2 2008
Falcon. Seriously, you gave him an HBA
that is as old as his monitor.
I keep sticking with the theme, you know. But this isn't actually the one,
right? This is what this from Logistics. Yeah, we ordered one on eBay and I think
we got scammed, so we just took the one from Logistics instead. Oh, that's not
what I heard. No, it just never like showed up. Boom. Oh wow. Speaking of
showing up, there's our hard drive. Let's go. All right.
Successful mod complete. I like this choice of power supply. We went with the
RM series from Corsair, specifically the
RM850X Shift, which makes it a little
bit easier to access all the modular cables since they're on the side in a
case like this. I do, you know, just because how things have gone, feel a
little bit of discomfort with these little mini connectors, but so far
Corsair hasn't had any issues with the RM series. So, good luck everybody. Now,
let's go ahead and install our Radeon 9070 XT. This is AMD's current gen
top-of-the-line. Great for 1440p rate tracing or even light 4K gaming. Not
that Vance's monitor game is going to push it to its limit. Okay, boss. Okay.
Why did I get out of my seat? He's learning. He's learning to
evaluate the cable management that you were criticizing before. Wait, you have
to open the back. Pretty good. Pretty good, right? See, look. Pretty good. You
have to open it first to really see it. Why would I want Why would I do that? So
you can see if it's proper. Why you got to Man, why you got to look at the back?
Well, can you at least tell me if the front is good? The front is fine. If
front is good. The front passes.
Yeah. I mean, that's better than it was. Yeah. That's as long as you need to look at it.
All right, let's get this thing hooked up. Man, if you ever have one of those
days where you feel like everything I did today was pointless, just remember
I'm right there with you. I spent my entire day making this gorgeous computer
so that I can put it in here where nobody will ever see it. So,
don't feel bad. Everything you did was more important than what I did. We're
only putting three drives in. These are eight terabyte drives, though. And we're going to put it in RAID five, which will
give us about 16 TB worth of storage, which is more than what Vance is using
on Google Cloud right now. And of course, he'll have the option to add
four more drives in the future. Five? Oh, yeah. Five more drives in the
future. Thank you. Quick maths. Is this the new keyboard, Vance? Yep. All right.
Cool. And how did you choose this? Other than that, it's cute. It looked cute.
Okay. Hey. And it's And it has quieter switches. No. No. You can't. That's
work. Oh, wait. No. What do you think you're doing? I have to get this. Um,
but okay. I have a question for you. I have a question for you. Now that we're back in the kitchen. Yeah. Give it to me
straight. Out of 10. How bad was that coffee? It's like if uh if my nephew
gave it to me who's like 4 years old, I'd be like like, "Oh, yeah. Like that's
great coffee. Thanks." And I'd be like, "This tastes so good."
As for me, take the last peel off. And we're going to slide Mance's little Naz
box nicely just beside his TV stand. We
had to move this anyways cuz we think the new TV is actually going to overhang
his TV cabinet. So, I don't know. It kind of fits nicely here. I realized
Lionus covered the CPU that was in this and we didn't go over the rest of the hardware. If you're curious, here's the
list right here because it was from the past Secret Shopper episode. The only
difference we did was put that LSI card in so he can get more drives. Yeah,
we're going to replace the TV. Now that Lionus is in here, I'm actually doing
work cuz he can't stop me. The good news is I finally got to the installer and we
saw not only his boot drive, but all three of those hard drives. So Lionus'
kind of jank job to get that LSI card working worked and it's setting up right now.
Yippee. Holy crap. This is a much bigger TV. Much better, you mean? Yeah. What is
this TV? Uh, it's an LG C4. Oh, okay.
Yeah. going OLED. And why did you get this one? Cuz ratings said it was pretty
good. I think almost every upgrade where people have gone TVs, they've got an LG
C something, whether it's been like the C2 or the C3. And I guess we're on C4
now. Well, now it's actually C5. So, this is the old one. Oh, it was
explosive. Oh, wait. We should put in the No one's
going to get that one. Yeah. Yeah. C4. Haha. Plastic explosive. Woohoo. So
funny. Okay. You didn't have to go that hard. That's fine. I'm working on
getting his NAS configured. So, we're having the SMB share. That way, he'll
have all his stuff. I like the name of his drives. His SSD is called Fast Stuff
and his hard drive is called Slower Stuff.
Hey, it's practical. He's not wrong. Right. We got to talk
about the chair. Yes. Have a seat. Have a seat right over there.
Oh, okay. Try gaming.
Well, well, I'm trying not to do work today, so I'm fine. Well, no, no, it's
okay to game. You can use your computer to game. Why do you have three displays
showing up? Cuz it's plugged into Oh, that's right. It's plugged into the TV. Nice. Oh, dang. This is going to be
awesome setup. Yeah. Going to be It is.
It is. It's already so good. It just needs a robot vacuum. Wo. Good thing we
have one for the upgrade. What made you choose the Robo Rock? It was on Costco
and it comes with extra pads and filters. And I hear that Robbo Rock is a
good brand. This is also your second one already, right? Yeah, I hear that Robbo
Rock is a good brand. So, I'm learning for myself whether it is a good brand or
not. Cuz the first one you bought apparently broke right away and we had
to RMA it and we got this one back. Yeah. I ran it like a few times and it
was totally fine. And then one morning it decided to say, "Hey man, your wheels
are suspended. They don't work." And I'm like looking at it and it's not
suspended. And it's okay. Factory reset and all the things did not do anything.
This is quite the endorsement. So, this does mopping as well? Yep. Oh, very.
What's happening? What is happening? I don't know. What did you Elijah? Why did
you screw up setting up this computer? Why did you break his PC?
No, it's off. It's just It's just off.
Hey, Vance, maybe don't turn it off. Thanks for the advice. Great tech tip.
Did Did you Did you No, I didn't turn it off. I just booted the game. That was
it. Are you sure? I'm pretty sure. While Linus troubleshoots that, me and Vance
are actually going to check out the TV here. What do you normally watch when
you're in their living room here? We watch a lot of food videos. Cool. Let's
watch this 2020 LG OLED. The black. It has honey. That's food. Yeah. Okay. It
does look actually really good though. You guys aren't very good at this. It's
terrible. Yeah. I know. Oh my. I I need to do like
YouTuber reaction. Yeah. Like YouTuber. Oh, I'm Linus Tech Tips. Whoa.
Oh my god. DDU to the rescue. Sony Interactive Entertain. Oh no, it turned
off. Okay, we have a bad power supply. Well, Reese just went down to get the
new power supply, right? Yeah.
Smell burned or anything. Like, I don't know, man. If it's not the power supply,
then we're in trouble. Okay, I'm pretty sure this is it. This is the moment. New
power supply.
And oh, Sony
Interactive. Save the water.
And it turned off. No. What? You got to be kidding me.
I am becoming open to the idea that
maybe I screwed up the installation of the heat sink. I don't think I did that.
I have only once in my entire time working on computers, making videos
about computers, um left a sticker on um
or not installed thermal compound. I
think once of each of those. Um in
general, it's not a thing I do, but you know what? Anything's possible. Let's
see. Maybe maybe it's me. Maybe it's a
thermal emergency shutdown whenever we launch a game.
All right. Give me that white power supply back. Hey, while I was working on
that, you guys did this. We did.
Is this your Is this This your new house? Yeah. For gaming? Yeah. Yeah. For
gamers, you should probably remove the stickers on the bottom. I would. It's new. Yeah. Yeah, I would. I should. You
should. Yeah, you should do that. I should do that. Well, someone should do
that.
How's your game running for you there, Vance? Great.
It's It looks better than it did before, for sure. But I didn't really have
issues with it. Vance's tech tips. Better than it was. Well, it's better.
It's better than before. What about on the TV? I mean, that's one of the
coolest things about this setup is that you can just like drag it over and boom,
TV gaming. Oh, here we go. Let's go. Oh, dude.
There's this really cool application called uh sound switcher or audio switch
or something like that. Basically, you can set up a hotkey and then it just lives in your system tray and then you
tell it when I press this hotkey, switch between these audio inputs. So, it'll be
really quick to just be like tick tick and then nice, boom, you've got your
audio over on the TV. That's cool. Um, dude, this is awesome. You don't even
have to Why even bother having a nice chair, right? I could have stuck with
this. You could have stuck with the stool, but I mean, realistically, and
what? Save budget for what? You've already got one of the best TVs on the
market. You've got a sick gaming rig with the 9800 X3D and 9070
XT. Dude, this is sick. Going to be
good. And also a robot vacuum. Yeah. Did I miss
anything? Whoa, kid. Jeez. Okay. What'd you get? An S25. Oh, nice.
Yeah, it's actually not for me. It was It's for Chantel. Oh, nice. Yeah, I was
noticing you didn't get her anything. Oh, hold on. Hold on. Wait. No. Okay.
Technically, there's also a curling iron and a straightener. So, because she's
indecisive. Is that what you're trying to say? Or No, it's just like covering covering all the grounds, you know,
every every every whatever you want to do. This guy with the coffee jabs, it's
constant around here. Anyway, massive shout out to AMD for sponsoring AMD
Ultimate Tech Upgrade. And if you guys are looking for more of these kinds of
fantastic shenanigans, I don't know, why don't you go watch Ariana's? There's
bunnies. Cute and plants. And Elijah
gets concussed. Oh, that's the one. That's the one down the stairs.