WEBVTT 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:05.920 Over the next few weeks, my wife and I are going to be making some long overdue 00:00:04.080 --> 00:00:12.240 techy upgrades to our house. We've lived here for 10 years, but we've never done 00:00:09.519 --> 00:00:18.800 much more than throw a wireless access point in and like a Nest thermostat. 00:00:16.880 --> 00:00:24.160 I'm talking the whole 9 yards. Network upgrade, security system upgrade, DIY, 00:00:21.279 --> 00:00:28.800 air conditioning, inseiling speakers. The only problem is that in order to run 00:00:26.720 --> 00:00:34.160 all that stuff, I've actually got to clear out the makeshift floor that I put 00:00:31.039 --> 00:00:37.040 in my attic that I use to store the 10 00:00:34.160 --> 00:00:42.160 years worth of tech and other assorted paraphernalia 00:00:38.719 --> 00:00:44.239 that I have piled up here. So, let's go 00:00:42.160 --> 00:00:49.920 on a little archaeological expedition and see what we find. 00:00:47.200 --> 00:00:53.600 Oh, brought to you by Thermal Grizzly. Thermal Grizzlies conduct liquid metal 00:00:52.160 --> 00:00:57.120 thermal interface material offers maximum cooling performance for your PC. 00:00:55.680 --> 00:01:03.960 We even used it in a phone once. Not that we would recommend that. Check it out and keep things cool at the link in 00:01:00.480 --> 00:01:03.960 the video description. 00:01:10.479 --> 00:01:19.200 So, most of that is like sentimental corner. Uh, this is all kind of like 00:01:16.159 --> 00:01:23.360 oversized, including a fair bit of like 00:01:19.200 --> 00:01:25.840 tech boxes and stuff. And then this is 00:01:23.360 --> 00:01:33.759 stuff that hasn't been organized at all. Let's start with sentimental box 00:01:29.520 --> 00:01:36.720 number one. Oh man, this feels like it's 00:01:33.759 --> 00:01:40.479 going to be a multi-part video. I hardly even know where to begin with this. 00:01:38.320 --> 00:01:45.200 Every item in this pile has a story. Here's my NCIX business card. Great 00:01:43.439 --> 00:01:49.439 technology selection and service motherucker. MSI made these back when 00:01:47.360 --> 00:01:54.079 they were doing a big military standard marketing push. It's fun for him and for 00:01:52.159 --> 00:01:59.280 her. Agent Ruby broke her sword. 00:01:57.280 --> 00:02:06.079 Should I get rid of duplicates? Yes. Okay. So, in that case, I only need one 00:02:03.119 --> 00:02:10.160 each of the trendet uh soccer and footballs. Should there be a place for 00:02:08.399 --> 00:02:13.760 consumables that shouldn't be consumed anymore? 00:02:11.840 --> 00:02:17.760 Do we need to keep those? Yeah, they're cool. Our first run of 00:02:15.520 --> 00:02:22.560 Linus TechTip shirts as a company. That's pretty cool. These are a piece of 00:02:19.760 --> 00:02:27.200 my DIY Duke Nukem costume from that video that I made. Yeah, these were 00:02:25.599 --> 00:02:30.640 actually kind of nice gloves that I got the fingers off of, but I had two pairs 00:02:29.280 --> 00:02:37.120 of them, so I was like, ah, I could only need one pair of leather gloves. Promptly lost the other pair. This is 00:02:34.160 --> 00:02:41.360 the NCIX name plate of the original cameraman whose name was never actually 00:02:39.280 --> 00:02:44.400 revealed. These are the coolest case thumb screws that I've ever seen. 00:02:42.720 --> 00:02:49.440 They're from I by Power. This was a swag item at CES one year. Is that as 00:02:46.560 --> 00:02:54.319 blingastic as you ever did see or what? This is a great story. This was my first 00:02:51.599 --> 00:02:59.440 CES badge. Back then, YouTubers didn't qualify as press. So, I was only able to 00:02:57.200 --> 00:03:04.239 get in because Corsair, who was our first ever sponsor as a company, just 00:03:01.599 --> 00:03:09.519 signed me up as one of their staff. So, I was there as Corsair Components Linus 00:03:06.879 --> 00:03:13.840 Media Group exhibitor, one of the ultra wide dream setup winners. Look how young 00:03:11.760 --> 00:03:17.120 Luke looks. More photos. This time, Austin Karen's wedding. This hat's 00:03:15.519 --> 00:03:21.920 awesome. This was a gift from LG. Apparently, it says Lionus in Korean. 00:03:19.920 --> 00:03:27.120 Oh, this was the failed main board that Lewis Rossman actually had me attempt to 00:03:24.800 --> 00:03:30.720 repair the proper way after he saw me reflow a graphics card in a toaster 00:03:29.440 --> 00:03:36.319 oven. Hold on to that as a little souvenir. We didn't actually manage to fix it, but hey, it's a cool little 00:03:34.159 --> 00:03:41.360 keepsake. Here's some of the special Lionus edition black and blue to match 00:03:39.280 --> 00:03:48.080 the color scheme of my rig memory that OCZ cooked up for me in true OCZ 00:03:44.159 --> 00:03:49.760 fashion. Um, most of it died. 00:03:48.080 --> 00:03:53.519 Hey, it still works as a souvenir, right? Watch me. Is this you? 00:03:52.159 --> 00:03:57.519 No. Should we watch it? 00:03:56.080 --> 00:04:01.519 Haven't had to hook up one of these in a while. What do you think's on here? Oh, 00:04:00.159 --> 00:04:04.879 I have no idea. This is way less cool than I thought it 00:04:04.000 --> 00:04:14.560 was going to be. What is that? Whatever. This is just a stupid cringy 00:04:09.120 --> 00:04:18.160 AMD promotional thing for the uh R9295 00:04:14.560 --> 00:04:19.919 X2. Like a bad graphics card. 00:04:18.160 --> 00:04:25.280 This is an extreme graphics card. Cool. Swag. Crucial's memory hog. This 00:04:22.720 --> 00:04:30.479 is seemingly random, but it's actually the only remaining piece that I have of 00:04:27.840 --> 00:04:33.199 our FS700, which was the first major piece of equipment that we bought as a 00:04:32.000 --> 00:04:38.400 company. Uh, we never really acknowledged it publicly, but it was stolen a number of years ago. This was 00:04:36.880 --> 00:04:45.440 the one thing that they didn't have cuz we didn't have it on the camera cuz we never used it. This is my Disneyland 00:04:41.919 --> 00:04:49.600 pass when I was like six. Oh, my failed 00:04:45.440 --> 00:04:52.960 project. NX Fusion. This was my concept 00:04:49.600 --> 00:04:55.280 to turn NCIX into like a boutique PC 00:04:52.960 --> 00:04:58.800 building brand. I said we needed like a custom case in order to really get it 00:04:56.800 --> 00:05:03.360 off the ground. And they said, "Okay, great idea. Let's do it, but without the 00:05:00.960 --> 00:05:09.360 custom case." I kind of went, "Okay, well, we could make this case badge." 00:05:06.160 --> 00:05:11.600 How did I forget about this? We broke a 00:05:09.360 --> 00:05:17.360 Guinness World Record, or rather, we set a new one when we participated in the 00:05:14.639 --> 00:05:21.360 world's highest elevation land party. Good old Highlander. We made a video 00:05:19.199 --> 00:05:27.960 about it. We had Paul and Kyle and in there and everything. It was a lot of 00:05:22.560 --> 00:05:27.960 fun, actually. We ready for round two. 00:05:28.160 --> 00:05:37.280 No, no, I'm good. Oh. Oh, I'm good. I'm good. Ah, yes. The last time I actually 00:05:33.520 --> 00:05:39.120 won Scrapyard Wars season 5, you played 00:05:37.280 --> 00:05:43.520 hard and you're awesome. You know, when you give yourself an award, that's cool. 00:05:40.880 --> 00:05:46.160 Oh, wow. My old DS light is in here. Uh, there's a problem with the shoulder 00:05:44.560 --> 00:05:50.560 button because I played a lot of that Mario Kart. Anybody remember Funk mouse 00:05:48.479 --> 00:05:54.639 pads? They were like local and this was a custom one. Obviously, they couldn't 00:05:52.320 --> 00:05:58.800 actually make a Playboy mouse pad because like copyright and all that, but 00:05:56.720 --> 00:06:03.280 they did a custom one for one of my old friends at NCIX and he gave it to me and 00:06:01.440 --> 00:06:06.880 I used it until it was completely unusable and warped and like it's all 00:06:05.199 --> 00:06:12.639 sticky on the back and gross. Martial arts uniform. That's Mr. L. Sebastian to 00:06:10.560 --> 00:06:18.479 you ladies and gentlemen. My Happy Bunny calendar. This was a gift from Ivonne 00:06:15.759 --> 00:06:23.840 early on in our relationship. And this is a classic. Go back to the earliest 00:06:21.280 --> 00:06:28.080 NCIX tech tips episodes. Hand airbrushed. Stylish. You wouldn't 00:06:26.319 --> 00:06:32.160 understand. I used to unironically wear this hat like all the time. You can vouch for me, right? 00:06:30.240 --> 00:06:38.080 Yeah. All right. Down we come. Now, a lot of 00:06:34.800 --> 00:06:41.360 this is more recent stuff, but some of 00:06:38.080 --> 00:06:43.120 it is the coolest stuff. This is sick. 00:06:41.360 --> 00:06:46.880 This is one of those cool clocks that someone sent me. Unfortunately, one of 00:06:45.039 --> 00:06:51.919 the tubes stopped working like shortly after I got it. Oh, you know who sent it 00:06:49.199 --> 00:06:58.400 to me was our subtitling group. This holds a lot of sentimental value. It's 00:06:54.160 --> 00:07:01.120 just the first piece of YouTuber swag 00:06:58.400 --> 00:07:04.720 that I was ever sent by YouTube as like, you know, acknowledgement of my 00:07:02.479 --> 00:07:08.800 existence. So, I don't think they actually sent out that many of these. 00:07:06.720 --> 00:07:12.800 So, it's got bird poo on it. There's those birds that went into our attic. 00:07:10.560 --> 00:07:17.680 They pooed on my YouTube peg. This isn't disappointing, though. As a troll, 00:07:14.639 --> 00:07:19.360 someone printed up Luke Tech Tips mouse 00:07:17.680 --> 00:07:23.280 pads to go along with an April Fool's joke that we ran on the forum. Going to 00:07:21.039 --> 00:07:28.000 hold on to that forever. I feel bad for not remembering who salvaged this for 00:07:25.039 --> 00:07:33.280 me, but this is awesome. What an appropriate sign, right? Closed. Please 00:07:30.400 --> 00:07:37.759 use another counter. Actually, I think it was at LTX last year, and it might 00:07:35.360 --> 00:07:41.360 have been these guys. I think it was uh dis might have been disappearing inc. 00:07:40.000 --> 00:07:45.840 Don't quote me on that one though. Here was my bid card at the NCIX bankruptcy 00:07:43.759 --> 00:07:49.680 auction. I tell people at events I'm like, "Oh no, I don't take swag." And 00:07:47.520 --> 00:07:53.599 yet I have all this swag. But this is cool swag. How could I not keep this? 00:07:51.599 --> 00:07:57.520 It's a Microsoft Windows ugly Christmas sweater. Like come on. This is neat. 00:07:56.000 --> 00:08:02.960 This is a batch of letters that people sent me. Uh, Jeppe probably wasn't 00:08:00.160 --> 00:08:08.000 expecting a reply 4 and a half years later, but uh, thank 00:08:05.440 --> 00:08:11.440 you for the letter, Jeppe. I do not pretend that you reply me because I know 00:08:09.599 --> 00:08:15.919 seeing your videos that you're too busy. I just hope you read this letter. Sup, 00:08:13.599 --> 00:08:20.080 Jeppe. This was a wonderful birthday present from my staff. This is a ModelM 00:08:18.080 --> 00:08:24.400 keyboard that was manufactured in the year that I was born. The badge that I 00:08:22.080 --> 00:08:28.319 wore at the home show back when I was running that uh, painting company. This 00:08:26.639 --> 00:08:33.919 is how I make all my content decisions now. Are people gonna like this video? 00:08:31.280 --> 00:08:39.519 Cannot foretell now. What's the point? Thanks, YouTube. Oh, fun. I've only been 00:08:37.360 --> 00:08:45.360 featured in print media a couple of times, but I have kept them all the 00:08:42.800 --> 00:08:51.680 times that I've remembered to get the thing. Hey, there you go. This guy. I 00:08:48.959 --> 00:08:56.080 picked the LG Graham for what I'm into back in whatever 2017. Hey, there's some 00:08:54.560 --> 00:08:59.080 other familiar faces here. Look at this guy. 00:09:01.760 --> 00:09:10.560 This is the radiator from my old personal rig. Uh it's got some special, 00:09:08.320 --> 00:09:14.399 you know, emotional value to me because I got it for next to nothing. It got 00:09:12.640 --> 00:09:18.160 dented in shipping and I told my boss, "Hey, like we can't sell this and they 00:09:16.160 --> 00:09:21.519 won't take it back cuz we would have to pay more than the worth of the item to 00:09:19.760 --> 00:09:25.040 ship it back to the UK. So like you should just give it to me for like 10 00:09:23.200 --> 00:09:29.839 bucks." And he did. Okay, that's not it's not the most amazing story, but how 00:09:27.440 --> 00:09:34.080 about this one? This is the first water cooling radiator that I ever bought. And 00:09:32.000 --> 00:09:38.640 I continued to move it forward in my rigs uh until I finally did my rack 00:09:36.800 --> 00:09:42.240 mounted one just because, hey, there was always a piece of my first ever water 00:09:40.160 --> 00:09:47.120 cooled PC. All right, fine. I'll find something cooler. These KEF speakers, 00:09:44.880 --> 00:09:51.279 great speakers, great sound quality. Something about the finish on these 00:09:48.640 --> 00:09:55.839 makes them really sticky and disgusting. Ah, before it was super easy to control 00:09:54.320 --> 00:10:00.800 all your fans and lighting and everything with one dongle. Uh, you had 00:09:57.920 --> 00:10:08.560 to use the MCubed T balancer. This thing sucked. Was a nightmare to configure. 00:10:03.680 --> 00:10:10.800 Yeah, paid like $150 for that. 00:10:08.560 --> 00:10:20.399 But this I am never getting rid of. This was the 00:10:16.480 --> 00:10:24.240 first big ticket item that my now wife, 00:10:20.399 --> 00:10:26.720 then girlfriend, ever bought for me as a 00:10:24.240 --> 00:10:32.880 gift. She surprised me with a Silverstone TJ07, which was my dream 00:10:30.079 --> 00:10:37.440 case, and it's been through a lot of changes. It's actually been painted 00:10:34.959 --> 00:10:41.920 multiple times. Got my own glass side panel that was modded in after the fact. 00:10:39.680 --> 00:10:45.680 I had to use fan screws to cover up the second power supply mount because it got 00:10:43.600 --> 00:10:50.160 so eaten away by the process of stripping off the paint one of the 00:10:47.040 --> 00:10:52.640 times. These are 00:10:50.160 --> 00:10:57.040 I was really into UV lighting and you can see that uh they weren't very well 00:10:55.120 --> 00:11:01.440 designed back in the day. The plastics were not actually designed to tolerate 00:10:58.720 --> 00:11:08.160 UV light. Other notable inclusions, this was uh a custom created T-virus themed 00:11:05.200 --> 00:11:13.440 reservoir. You could put a UV cathode down the middle of it so that it would 00:11:09.519 --> 00:11:15.200 illuminate the UV uh like double helix. 00:11:13.440 --> 00:11:18.880 Definitely some imperfections on it, but if I ever built in a tower again, my 00:11:16.880 --> 00:11:24.079 intention would be to use it again. 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She 00:12:01.040 --> 00:12:04.959 doesn't even deserve her sword.