holy crap how is it that everything you
touch turns to absolute garbage i don't
get it it's Intel extreme tech upgrade time again and today i am not in charge
taryn has some very terran rules for how this extreme check
upgrade is going to go including that we will only be filming in front of this
wall and in the room behind me which i am not allowed to walk into right now
because he hasn't put a blanket over the bookshelf yet i value my privacy and
that's good and i value our sponsor that's right we're doing a five thousand
dollar tech makeover for taryn's apartment here we go it's gonna be a little
cramped but that's okay i mean you have at least made yourself comfortable oh
yeah there's no rules about not wearing pajamas in your own house
just in the office that's true
is this a poor man's version of my whole thing where i have my computer in a
different room so i don't have to listen to that's exactly what it is but aka
yeah careful no no i'm careful it's vibrating um the problem is it just gets
so hot in that room during the summer that i was like well
let's just put the computer in the other room and then be able to run the air
conditioner in there because i don't i don't like the idea of like heating and
cooling the same room with electricity right especially with ill-gotten gains
like this black and orange painted graphics card that i painted i won that
at the christmas party see i know why taryn doesn't want us to film his place
because then he'd have to show us all his other ill-gotten gains but he never
specified that i'm not allowed to take things from the rest of the apartment
and bring them here like say for example
this maxnomic chair that he applied his corrosive ass to yeah for the better
part of six years yeah or this
rad power bikes rad mini hey i'm doing you a
favor because this takes up so much room in the warehouse you heard it here first
folks if you're gonna take something from work make sure it's really large
this is far more cobbled together than i initially thought yeah and like there's
no room to put the panel back on on the back and like i hate this case i hate it
so much this hard drive isn't even plugged in turn this one isn't either i
know it's not because they vibrate like crazy in this case
so i just only plug it in when i really need it what's with the what the face
minus this is why i need the upgrade why are you even using the front
because instead of the back i don't know this is more obviously visual like
sometimes i gotta swap it around i'll have like one pair of headphones
that i talk into another pair that i'm actually using as headphones is that crazy my
brain hurts already i just don't have a very good headphone i haven't even
gotten into the room yet okay so this will all be blurred because
you're not allowed to know what books you read or these are my girlfriend's
books actually all of this is going to be bleeped out nope
oh and also all of these things need to be off the wall i can't have you knowing
my to-do list what are bed papers they were papers that were on my bed that
needed to be sorted okay i mean are we allowed to at least show the epic fan
art yes and the monument to the original logitech g15 i have two of these now you
gave me another one yeah i know oh my god i remember this computer yes okay
there's a story here i believe we
upgraded what was already your computer
or we no you just straight up gave me this whole computer i gave you this
computer because when i started editing ncix tech tips videos i
did not have a computer that worked for video editing and then i would do that
for you remotely right and sent over the like finished premiere files but i
couldn't i couldn't edit even 720p on my old machine were you technically even an
employee yet no i was just contract crazy yeah this is definitely the
original power supply yeah i remember this being like a good enough to
actually trust in a deployment but not good enough that i cared about giving it
away power yeah yeah this case is another example of yeah i
really just did not care about this thing so yeah but gmc man you made a
video about manly dust cleaning uh manly
dust removal remember oh that's true that's what this computer is in because
taran had the dustiest computer in the office yeah
before you yeah you dusted it out and then you gave it to me perfect oh i
recognize this dell too yes i bought that this was the this was like one of
the first monitors i had working for you because it's 16 by 10. i really like the
aspect ratio on it it gets way too hot though i remember you were very
particular about monitors because because i want a lot of time live space
only monitors like you're not super particular about anything else
well no you know that he actually has a custom depth of desk yes at the office
yes because i need to be able to rest my arms on it also i'm very particular
about keyboards look Linus it's uh it's another k95 rtv tara and i have two of
these i was being verbally ironic oh
i did not pick up on that and there's a towel on the desk uh yeah
so so that's my wrist rest basically and
and as you can see here it's largest wrists brandon you want to oh what as
you can see hell so this is ikea
and my elbow is always here uh-huh so so
you've got a shock absorber over time it has completely destroyed
this how is it that which everything you touch turns to absolute garbage
i don't get it i mean so i i don't know uh nick nick van
burkel says i've got a sandpaper ass uh-huh brandon how does it feel to be
objectively the least eccentric of the original Linus media group employees
pretty good this is this is my youtube silver play
button oh i see youtube it's a youtube i know for a fact
you have a real one i do now but i forgot to put it up so um i'm gonna let
you file that away why don't we have a look at your bed
at what particular parts you picked out for your build did you get any help with
this or is this all your own design i had a lot of help they were very helpful
awesome yeah i don't know Jake was helpful cool all right so new
computer yeah new monitor and a nas yeah
so the desktop here is because this one is now trash oh no it might have gotten
bopped in shipping is it broken oh
oh wait hold on it's just a little bit of shmuel i think okay
the ultimate plan the ultimate plan my dad is going to build me a beautiful
douglas fir desk out of trees from our own property got it so this is actually
a bit of a temporary measure anyway got it okay you know what i'm going to
disconnect everything from the back of the computer uh
okay hey let me turn it off you know we're gonna have to right
why because we're replacing it this old
computer i'm gonna keep it that we're not gonna deconstruct it at all uh it's
just gonna be my gaming computer now so you won't game on the new one you're going to have an rtx 3070.
karen i don't play games that require tons of GPU power i play civ 6
and like chess you don't game on a 980 ti when you have an rtx 37 do what i
want well i know but it's nice to have a separation between
work and play Linus holy crap what it's
smiling i know i know i know and listen
if this newest ikea desktop also fails
in this way then i'm just never going to buy anything ikea ever again i've said
that so many times every time they get me no i know i always go back yeah i
know it's like an abusive relationship this one's supposed to be really strong
they said it's really strong mm-hmm yeah they wouldn't lie to me so what's with
all the googly eyes everywhere those are fluffies i see that but why do you have
them well my girlfriend and i make these and then we hide them all over the house
and then we gaslight each other about them oh i see where did that come from i
don't know where that came from i think it's possible that taran found facility
have you not noticed these all over the office
oh no i haven't they are all over the office and they
are adorable oh okay
okay you've just got like ssds in a bin taren
yeah i know the number of creatives and even in some cases small to medium-sized
studios that i've seen where they manage their data exactly like this from the
dollar store it's it it is it's mind-blowing and now this is a game
changer so for those of you who are doing this pay
close attention today i found a pile of all your sizes thank you i know i know
that they're there i keep accidentally kicking them oh i
like how huge that fan is by the way yeah that's a big ass fan i'd like to i'd
like to jack up the desk while we're working on the machine okay
oh gosh okay no this is a bad idea we could have just put like books under it
or something we would have to censor the books yes we would
ow ow this was a bad idea lioness oh i got
hit by hardware yeah you did you did i would appreciate it if those hadn't
fallen off the table if it helps at all they were questioned by my butt
i'm already stressed out are you gonna build the computer no you're gonna do it
i'm gonna build the premiere come on you're the computer guy when i do it i
break things i bricks three drives
and i busted it up hey i remember motherboard i remember that i plugged in
an old power supply cable to those drives listen guys i've literally never
seen it on Linus tech tips but you cannot use
a power cable from another power supply with anything else they only go with
that one power supply even if it's modular but it isn't quite strictly true
it might as well be it's not worth risking all your drives cable mod has an
excellent compatibility matrix on their website for different power supply
models and different cable series yeah i don't think i've ever co-hosted with you
it's terrantec tips today well why don't you tech tip us why you chose the z690
plus wi-fi d4 tough gaming from ASUS i
have no idea look i still know very much about cpus and motherboards okay so just
like whatever works for video editing is good enough this is great it's got two
and a half gig lan it's got 10 gigabit usb it's got usb type-c it's got
built-in wi-fi in case you ever have a situation where something happens and
you got to move it to the other side of the apartment you don't want to run blah blah blah blah blah
with your 12th gen CPU we went with the core i7 12 700 k this is such a freaking
great bang for the buck CPU right now would you be wearing a total of 12 cores
well yeah we could do that sure what can we connect it open up your power supply
we'll plug the power supply into the wall and then we'll connect this to that
okay and you would be crazy to use your old rig for gaming once we have this
thing set up taren so now i'm just going to clip this
some metal as long as we make sure that we kind of bite into the paint a little
bit and i am grounded i am one grounded boy
i mean now i'm grabbed why are your hands so clammy because it's hot in here
cpus installed same procedure as any Intel platform
from pretty much the last 10 years next thing we're going to need is RAM 3200
megahertz c16 this is a 64 gig kit
two 32 gig sticks yeah i need a lot of gigs so the idea then is i guess you
could go up to 128 on this motherboard without actually swapping these out or
had you considered that or no okay i mean
someone whoa Linus someone probably
considered that dude it's solid state it's probably fine
did you scratch the motherboard you know what the peel was still here oh my god
unfortunately it's still less likely that things will break if you do it
for your boot SSD you've got this 500 gig p5 from crucial yeah um i've won
that from the christmas party solid choice is that the new screwdriver yeah
can i have one yeah of course you want to check it out this is mine now it's
not quite how that works it just this was one of my requests in
with all the merch like the pillow and stuff oh really some of our biggest fans
of LTT merch are actually people internally
because they have to see it all the time internally and if they don't have one
it's like oh yeah that's pretty sick so what case did you go for
i don't know let's find out ah
yes i just i just wanted something that was
easy-ish to build in something with enough room
so that the drives don't get in the way of the cable management like on my old
case something with magnetic dust filters look Intel i assure you we're
not cheating on you Corsair is not a co-sponsor of this series
the last three or four people in a row have just independently chosen
i mean they're not all good my last case was Corsair and it's awful and i hate it
okay well there you go so i'll give you the side panels put
them in your side panel pile probably yay my side panel sure you don't want to
help at all no you do it i don't want to do it i'm going to break some
you know what actually that can be your job to break some stuff i don't what
here's the thing the reason i know this already is because the last three people have used
this case and also got a free ek cooler at the christmas party and there's a
slight oops there's a sliding compatibility
you're going to have to make a modification
to the plastic clips for the front magnetic fan filter oh that's a that's
too bad okay i'll use my cheese knife that i hate why do you have a knife
specifically for the cheese no no the knife is oh shut up i think taran has
the most responsible build that i've
seen so far he's got a power supply that is over
spec he's got a ups to protect his system he's got two hard drives because
he's planning to run them in raid one for data redundancy whereas i think a
lot of the people so far have gone bleeding edge to try to get as much
performance as possible out of their setup instead this is like the
responsible man's computer i don't like being on the bleeding edge because it's
the bleeding edge and things are more likely to go wrong i like tried and true
yeah and responsible so i i might have cut my thumb a little bit
so it's just it's just going to kind of sit there yeah magnetically kind of yeah
but the front bezel will go on okay see yeah i can't help but notice you're
not grounded anymore please oh right yes
well it's a good catch oh my god static is probably the least of your concerns
mr carosa what is oh god this is a very small room uh you
guys might wanna the window's already as open as it's gonna get oh no
oh oh god oh it's not great
you're welcome i need to to get it out of the room
Linus what what don't sit on that i'll get you a chair well you don't think
evga makes get off of the box
get off of my graphics card it's very comfortable yeah it's it's like it
deflects a little bit so it kind of accommodates the ass groove jeez man
still smells in here these screws uh
are longer than the table is thick i don't have any other screws do you have
any other wood this is the only other wood that i have
what is this try to guess what this is supposed to be for trimming
uh like like uh uh uh flower flower bass
hanging baskets blackberries blackberries yeah you hang a bucket on
the little eye bolt on the bottom see so you just you just pull the little thingy
and it just it's very simple but it gets the
blackberries hi uh so i'm here we're with Linus at
doing the Linus tech upgrade for taren Intel upgrade and we need some screws
taran i love your phone etiquette okay i'm in the middle of something right now Linus
sorry i'm just building a computer for you
i'm i'm just building a desk for me
he's a dad now no i'm not not that i not that i am oh
my god we're gonna go ahead and put the GPU in
where'd my chair go wow this is a beefy freaking card yeah did
you go ftw i don't know ftw3 ultra this
is like one of the fastest 3070s on the flipping market yeah
it's cut the more you get to the bleeding edge the more expensive things get so it's like if you can get just a
little close to it it's okay yeah this will be very this will run civ 6 like a
dickens yeah well it's it's not about
the speed don't forget that that's a 4k display
yeah it's pretty sweet your games are about to get a lot more demanding to run
yeah but i can just run them in a lower resolution but you wouldn't have to you have a 30
70. yeah but i'm saying if i didn't it wouldn't matter but you have one i'm
trying to convince you not to use the other machine for gaming
it's so ridiculous i'm a ridiculous person no i know but it what do you
think about this whole thing of you should have a separate space
for your play and your work and your recreation well i haven't for years you
have not and i haven't died yet it's not about dying it's about
optimizing your life and uh
i just want to give that a try i mean i didn't like having the office in my
house we did away with that paradigm right six
months yeah but in terms of
whether i used the same computer for playing a game or writing emails i that
doesn't make any difference yeah but writing emails is one thing editing entire videos
is another that's pretty loosey-goosey right there i don't
know about that it's a really heavy card giant vapor chamber
triple fan triple slot cooling solution this thing
is chunk should i get like a little thingy to hold it i mean you could but it yeah it
doesn't really doesn't make i mean that's that's several millimeters
of play there don't do that you can probably get a whole center don't do that
stop what you stop can fit so much gaming in here
all right let's
build a desk brandon we're going for skyhook
yes okay please stop you were an agent of chaos you knew
that when you invited me here he didn't really technically i didn't yeah you
have invited me just not today i have not today come to think of it it was
only one time it was only the one time never been invited back that's right
hang on look how comfortable that would be for the people's elbow here ah you
know this i think this is too bendy i'm already
disappointed wait really oh you oh you're done you're you're out on this
desk yeah like even this one is like actually solid like even though it's
like even though it's already curved like it's solid when you push on it bear
in mind because they're screwed in this far apart
that will actually change hello that
why do i even talk i can't show anything in darren's
place but
i want to make one of the googly eye things and stash it somewhere
so that they'll both think that the other is gaslighting the other
just put the eyes on here hey look there's a silver button
okay i'm gonna glue it to the bottom of the stool
we have screws oh fantastic do you have a measuring tape i have a sort of a
measuring tape cool whoa whoa whoa
what just happened aaron made everything fall oh i'm glad
it wasn't me all right just take that take that just
blur everything
this boy goes all right we're gonna see how wobbly
this table is in a minute wearing a headlamp yeah yeah i put it on i was
looking for the drill you know and i needed some light i don't know i don't
need it
oh man it's so bouncy
this is basically what i built the entire thing around
i need a monitor that is big enough so that i can use 100 ui scaling in Windows
rather than 150 or 125. because so many programs are
so terrible with their own ui scaling yeah that it's just so much better just
keep everything at 100 and then go from there but also it has an srgb mode that
i can just turn on and i know that all my colors are going to be
pretty much correct cool and it's hardware
calibration not software i did a lot of
work to figure out the exact right monitor to get
for what i need and this is the one it is the king of the 43-inch class so if
this monitor sucks keep your little comment to yourself because taryn likes
it and if he's happy then i'm happy the calibration report
okay okay srgb monitor they line up
perfectly that's all i ever wanted
why did you just throw that at the monitor oh sorry see this is the biggest
desk i could find before they started becoming dining room tables
yes so there's not enough room for the
wacom 22hd and i i like i want this to
be able to just be like this all the time rather than being kind of stored
away like on there you know because because otherwise i
don't use it as much when it's just like this yeah whoa hey what line as i turn around
for two seconds and you're dropping things well no it's just that the
oh well it cut me off he cut me off the
test report thing slipped yeah yeah between my hands excuses
step one when you get a ups make sure the battery is actually
connected oh no so well no no it's normal it's normal they don't want them
connected in transit yeah cause then they'll drain too much
so if i plug it in without the battery connected it'll still work it'll be a
surge protector yeah but not a ups interesting and all you gotta do is like
a car battery take this out yeah wow and then you just plug this bad boy into
here uh yeah like that
okay more peripherals ooh stream deck xl
xl the deluxe i really like them i have two at the
office i kind of wanted to but it was just wasn't quite in the budget you know
what's this this looks like some kind of audio interface yeah
so4 makes recording easy why just be
careful oh there's a tuffy in there where did that come from i don't know
where did these come from so we the editors have evo
8 on our desks so i don't need the eight because i
don't need all like i don't need twice the ports and stuff so the four is
enough for me and then the headphones
these were not cheap closed back closed back at home why you need clothes back
at home i really like silence okay i think they're 500 bucks
like they're not cheap but they are
really sweet is that carbon fiber
maybe damn daniel
so i tried every chair in the office
basically and this is the one that fits me best taren's on team maxnomic with me
a lot of people complained about that yeah i like the next nominee it's just secret lab is it's very similar in build
quality i think this is the ultimate chair it even has a t for taran on it we
need to build an ass oh yeah the nas that's important karen
has been responsible here he's gone with wd red plus drives these are eight
terabyte drives so that'll give him a total of eight
terabytes of storage because you're planning to use raid one is that correct
aaron that is correct so that is full redundancy in the event that one fails
the full data will be on the second drive easy to
recover and but it should be noted that raid is
redundancy and redundancy is not a
backup so if taran really cares about his data he should also have anything
important backed up off-site we need to
uh find out if this computer works okay are you ready for the moment of
truth uh i don't know if i'm ready you dropped it a lot
moment of truth
i love it keyboards on yeah yeah it's actually kind of kind of tastefully RGB
you know because i didn't try at all okay perfect
so go right to ea tweaker
ai tweaker yep and then and press enter for overclock tuner and
go to xmp1 what does that do it sets your memory to the default 3200 c16
profile that's all it does why is that good uh so it's faster
why isn't it already that because xmp is a only sort of stock
configuration it's technically overclocking i don't want to overclock
it's not stable that's not real overclocking i don't know what you mean
f10 enter fine
um what i don't remember making that account but
Windows requires an account do you only have a 50 megabit service i
don't know Linus look as long as it's enough to stream hd netflix and youtube it's
enough for me i don't need faster yeah but like this NVIDIA driver download
it's going to take like freaking 10 minutes why is it so huge
also i don't care
this is a very random approach to uh vacuuming i couldn't help but i'm just
getting the parts that are dirty i didn't realize these pillows came so
flat Linus your slow internet is going to be a pro
taryn did we do okay today brandon
taran managed to go from having a pretty big central monitor to having an
absolutely enormous one yeah he's got more macro keys than ever before still
tons of room for project bins and there's sort of space for the uh wacom
tablet his audio solution has been dramatically upgraded and finally all
his data is safe thanks to his raid 1
naz not bad not bad i'm very happy thanks Intel this
has been another Intel extreme tech upgrade you guys are going to want to
check out the whole freaking series because it's all awesome uh my personal
favorite so far have got to be sarah sarah's is really good well what's your
favorite i kind of have to go dennis gotta go dennis go check those out yeah
see at the next one it's gonna be brandon
you did steal the fluffies all of them
i don't know what you're talking about