these $5,000 AMD ultimate Tech upgrades have gotten a little out of hand lately
and I was assured that today our editor and memelord extraordinaire Alex is just
getting a simple workstation upgrade to the fastest CPU money can buy the ry9
7950 x3d what is that trouble I'm organizing
this and this I'm supposed to wall mount the TV two TVs there's a projector in a
ceiling now this is is an unconventional component but at least it might come in
handy it's electric oh I guess that was
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nothing to do but get down to business then where do you want to start in the
bedroom if you don't mind I'm just going to um oh not bad not bad for jumping i'
I've learned my lesson about that though we're not going to do that can you not yeah uh the point is my understanding is
that the plan is the projector goes up here and then you got a screen over here
but there's a door yeah it's retractable a retractable screen oh good that'll be
even easier to get in exactly the right spot perfect how are you going to power
any of this I don't know yet okay let's
go get the screen screen first then I hope you got a seismic mount for this
thing no cuz uh I'm going to die it's fine I couldn't help noticing
that that's how the other problem is we can't just
Mount this the wall because you have a door here yeah so the door frame is
going to get in the way we have to mount this to the ceiling yeah I know so
you've got about a foot of black space
before the screen itself has to start that's good because that means that our
projector can come down a bit and maybe clear that light I really think we're
just going to have to get rid of that lamp but that's okay okay crazy
proposal if you must watch TV in here we
take your second TV that you don't even have a plan for and we just mount it to
the wall right there no all right then
let's change gears and talk about the office you've got your existing computer
here and you've got a new case motherboard and CPU but you don't appear
to have enough Hardware to build a full second computer so what exactly is it
that you're doing here I'm trying to build a new
computer uh but keep the same parts for
the most part so we're going 7950 X 3D
with ddr5 memory in a new case but with
otherwise the same guts most of them yeah okay this I feel good about this is
going to be no problem we found them guys the one person other than me who's
dumb enough to use one of these m.2 carrier cards are you actually booting
off this thing I'm not booting off of it but you know what the problem is with
that I don't have enough Lanes so only two ssds that are in it uh actually work
wait and and it has how many in it
four you're missing so many screws we can't talk about that oh okay man I can
tell I haven't watched this in a year a year it was on a carpet this is not that
bad I mean for a year when you had like a rabbit then yeah you have a rabbit or
had you um no um what's wrong with all
these people out there who are working on Noctua coolers without even a Noctua
addition screwdriver sign up for a notification LTT Store.com coming very
soon buy a regular one well
why do you have an HBA in here uh I had too many is it connected right now no
it's not connected to anything well no that's not true you this is broken uh oh
cool wait there's more SSD yes dude I'm loaded why do you need so much solid
state storage what the hell why do you
need 24 TB of SSD storage why not no
that's not the question the question is why I just have no reason is this the
main Drive good question uh there were any a raid
configuration up until recently and it broke so um yeah one of them is the main
Drive I hate this no you don't yes I do
I hate this you love to suffer content
my understanding so that you can use all 16 of these lanes and all four of these
drives is that you want to put this in your primary PCIe slot but you have a
problem you don't have a graphics
adapter this CPU has no onboard GPU so
you can't use I here I can't run it at
um you may not be able to complete
booting you'll have to put a GPU in it at least once yeah to get your OS
installed and everything set up and maybe to configure the BIOS to say to
ignore that error and then after that it might work okay yeah your next problem
is that your HBA which you use to connect here all of your unnecessary 2
and2 solid state driv semi busted is a
4X card oh yeah I know about that that means that it either needs to go in the
bottom slot which you will need if you ever wanted to put a GPU in here or it
needs to go in your other 16x slot which
will automatically split your primary one into 8 and eight so then this won't
get all 16 lanes and you won't be able to run all your ssds okay so I will put
it in the bottom oh actually you know I guess that's okay okay yeah I'll put
this in the bottom slot how did you do this this I'm trying to get the cables
out of here and you can you not pull so hard you've managed to run two cables
through the one cable I mean I wouldn't need to pull on it if you didn't do this
I don't know what how did you how did
you manage to run I don't know I'm going to have to completely disconnect
everything in this computer to get your power supply cables out they're
hooked the good news is the Cavalry is here we've got Colin and Elijah who are
going to be helping us with the project ctor screen Mount okay what happened to
the ones that are a complete circle I also got those ones you also got those I
mean I bought those ones and then calling whatever it's just AMD's money
anyway right exactly it works actually I think he spent all the budget so I think
it's my money now but sure I didn't spend all the budget I have like $400
left I don't know I see a lot of stuff here I assume you want the screen
centered to the bed uh
yeah if it makes sense trust the process
no bye I don't
help it's broken certified not a stud oh
boy you guys say there's a problem I walk in there's a hole in the ceiling so
is that related to the problem yes if you take this stud finder and go right
beside it it'll say that a stud is right between that hole but there ain't no
stud there homie oh well it's a metal stud that's your problem yeah that's
what I then found out okay wait you put two holes in the ceiling yeah because I
was like oh I'll try the other one see if I was just wrong on this one and I'm
wrong on both it's a good thing they're small holes
it's a good thing it's an autot textured seil yeah that is an actual good thing
yeah it's a good thing you've got a lot of paint touch-ups to do already we
could use the gigantic pilot hole that we drilled to throw a Toggler in there
mhm and then we could just hang this off
of the metal stud yeah okay possibly as
long as it does we have some oh I
already looked at that option these are what supposed to go in it and they're
not even like close I see oh God another piece broke
off this HBA uh be careful well I did I
didn't mean to I really really sincerely
hope that no no that's a good
noise what's in it is it just a cable is
it broken now hold on no no no everything's fine yeah yeah everything's
good I just need to uh Hey there you go
it's like you know when your car turns on like that's how you know it's working
hey we've got the AMD raid detected so that means that the uh the the the SSD
card okay now I just need the other three SATA ssds to pick up sick the last
thing I need to figure out then is why the SATA drives are not showing up cool
because the HBA is broken is it just cuz the HBA is broken it might just be hey
you know what this board has enough SATA ports that I can just plug into there
and we'll take the HBA out that's what I was saying the whole time okay attempt
number the third here we go hey let's go
all right we're good yeah your drives are all detected except the two ones
except the two that we know could be detected if I pulled up the GPU all
right this system is done I'm going to close it up and then we can focus on
that one and the TV mount and the projector and the projector mount the
range actually is part of the upgrade but it was insted by professional before
no it was installed by me oh I'm a professional I couldn't help
noticing you have a lot of bananas for scale from the store yeah why are they
all pink I asked for like I asked for six and I don't think they caught on
that I wanted all the colors oh I see yeah so now I just have a uh bowl of
pink bananas with one that has white
stuff on the tip um before I get too far
ahead of myself installing the cooler I should probably install the CPU
naturally as a baller with more ssds than sents um Alex has gone with the
7950 x3d this was necessary for all of
the '90s games I guess yes got all that
3D vcash to run at the highest FPS the
lowest latency like 12200 frames per
second playing 90 game playing 90s gam
I'm a speedrunner you get it speed Runner hey this is going smoothly oh
that's a little dirty uh there I fixed it oh oh that's awful
oh I lived in a place with us best I think I just inhaled half of your old
rabbit but hey the system's almost done all I got to do is wire up SATA and
power for that yet another SSD in the
bottom of the case throw the GPU in and I think we're good to boot this thing up
holy shnikies I got so distracted plugging in ssds that I forgot to check
in with you you guys have done nothing we you said you wanted to see the idea
before we did it we got the hook here that will use
our existing hole so we just need to drill three
more and then we picked up like hooks
that can go into this clip on and clip onto this okay so then it'll actually be
cleaner cuz it'll be easier to take down if he wants to just for whatever re oh
yeah just like a standard Carabiner then yeah you know what that's actually not
that janky yeah it looks a lot nicer and
okay yeah cuz it's got a foot of extra at the top anyway so if you just pull it
down a bit extra yeah I think so okay yeah hey great job guys yeah the guy at
Home Depot said to do this one too I don't believe
you who you put the side panel on I put the side panels on before we tested the
PC uh where do you want it Alex uh beneath you want it on on the bottom
yeah probably next to UPS right there sure don't drop it on my head please I'm
not going to drop it on your head head uh yeah sure here I'll just put it
around no no no it's not long enough here just dude it's not long enough stop
why you do okay sorry are you coming out
if you wanted to work for not a giant troll I'm sure there's plenty of other
employers out there oh crap that doesn't seem like it's working does
it buddy come on wait oh the fans just spun
down hold on I think we're going to I
think we got this come on uh keyboard yeah first try
let's go oh wow your cat did a number on this
yep unless that was you I me look at that I mean all the RAM got our so three
SATA yeah that's right and then two m.2 right oh it's almost like the other okay
we're good then yeah I don't know if we're going to get 6,400 megat transfers
per second that is really fast for an AMD CPU but we're going to try feel like
it's time for a check in with these guys but I'm afraid to open this door
oh oh and I can't you're missing a screw
yeah because there's a stud in that one spot oh there's a stud there yeah and I
couldn't get through it with the drill ah brilliant I tried pushing real tough
he pushed real tough this one I'm also hitting a stud here in this spot and
these ones aren't fully grabbing when they go all the way through I see so I'm
trying to back them off a little bit to try to push them up more to see if the
it'll actually catch it's not very straight it's fine you're looking at the
movie not the hooks this was working then I tried to run the memory at 6,400
which is it kind of knew wasn't going to work okay BIOS reset that's okay we kind
of knew that was going to happen oh nice choice of board you've got a clear seamless button right on the back of the
board love it now where do you want your ruler um drawer drawer I don't think
I'll fit hey got him that was the whole that was the
whole setup here we go don't stand right under it we ready oh no no I'm trusting
it I'm trusting IT professional crew I don't see you all right that's
perfect big Improvement they do have calculators for this but we're just
going to kind of you know figure it out
oh my God it it needs to be like right
where the light
is I don't think we could have done this any worse if we had actually tried yeah
I'm sorry I think this really is not a today thing because it goes right
there is there any anything else you need drilled yeah I need my TV mounted
is there anyone else you would like to do it this time yeah you really cuz I no
yeah no you just got to keep going more
yeah oh cool I have space for plant now yeah we're going to run that bookshelf
thing oh wait wait hold on I'm pretty sure that if a saw blade came flying out
of that crack it would cut my dick off that's great here's a tech tip for you
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do except that we need drivers for our network interfaces that we can't install
until we have window you you don't have to use the
biggest drill bit every single time right that's why I took it off you just
saw me take it off I saw you holding it I saw you thinking about it I used that
one for the ceiling holes yes I saw that are you a left start in you guy I
already moved it over there yeah but there's this like registry hack
apparently to get it back on top like in Windows 10 and before oh that's right I
forgot you're a top taskbar guy okay
okay yeah explain I have a Linux face for a bit
and there there's that there's the just
it's on top for Max um if you don't factoring the dock and my I I realized
my eyes were always looking up like rather than at the bottom for
notifications what not so I just yeah and why would you adapt to your computer
when your computer can adapt to you not anymore that's the Linux mindset and
it's not wrong okay let's get this uh let's get this Media Console looking fly
if we can I am so excited to plug these things in we're going to have this so
powered Alex okay this is actually
looking kind of awesome I just got to get some of these cables up here we're
close enough to the media console that you don't really see the cables running
down even though we haven't you know properly done a um a conduit yet I'm
just going to tie these up so that you don't really notice them so much wait
does Armor crate really install wind Roar uh oh I forgot to unselect
sorry um yeah sorry I just wanted the
drivers wi are you a win Roar I'm a win raar uh are you a big winner well sorry
you're the proud owner of a WinRAR trial now a permanent trial that's a lot of
CPU course doing nothing 2% usage yep cool oh I never
updated you guys for memory we settled in at I think 5600 5,400 MHz with some
tuning we can definitely push it higher but I wanted something that was well
fast just set it to a safe setting wow
this looks
great great so you got to who controls
building things like AI Control so your
goal is basically to protect your base unless there's a side quest or a side
goal um sometimes capture the fly you know uh it's like you take command and
conqueror and bring it down to like your you're you're just like an infantry man
cool yeah but there's no player who actually plays the RTS component uh not
in this version got it kind of cool yeah
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