Okay, so given that everyone at Linus Media Group
spends their day playing with and making videos
about the latest and greatest technology toys,
you'd probably think that our entire team here
has like sick AF gaming machines at home, right?
State of the art.
You'd think wrong.
So I had everyone in the company submit photos and specs
of their personal setups to me
without telling them why I wanted to see them.
And some folks were pretty reluctant to show them.
I mean, don't you guys trust me?
Well, it turns out they should have trusted their instincts
not to trust me because the plan was to pick the worst three
and subject them to a healthy dose of public shaming.
Welcome to the Linus Media Group wall of shame,
but with a surprise twist.
The worst rig as determined
by our highly qualified panel of judges
gets an upgrade,
courtesy of Intel who sponsored this video.
So let's get this show on the road.
Some of the submissions actually weren't half bad
and some of them were pretty darn nice.
I mean, let me know in the comments
if you guys want to see a follow-up wall of fame.
Some of them contain totally unnecessary details
like Ivan, for example, apparently games by candlelight,
but his was far from the worst.
Let's begin our journey with someone
that you are just meeting for the first time because
he only recently passed his probation.
This is Lloyd's setup.
He's our new graphic designer slash merchandise manager.
So to his credit,
he has done some pretty amazing work so far for the company,
including our new logo.
You can let him know what you think of that
in the comments below,
but brace yourselves my friends,
because this is going to be a shocker.
So what do you got buddy?
Oh, okay.
Okay.
He does win some bonus points because this is some of the
most amazing, amazing, amazing, amazing, amazing, amazing,
shadow box decor that I think I have ever seen.
Is this your Game Boy Color?
Yeah.
Yeah, all right.
And this is your original Game Boy
with your red and blue?
No.
Oh, this is a film camera.
That's a film camera.
Okay, so you're kind of a photography nerd?
I am a photographer.
Okay, right.
Because there's so many lenses back here,
I can't even tell.
You gotta get a shot of this .
Look at this.
So you have an iMac 5K.
How much did this bad boy cost you?
My parents gave it to me as a gift.
Wow, nice parents.
So you got a four gigahertz Core i7.
You got 32 gigs of RAM.
This is a pretty tricked out machine, I think, actually.
Oh, yeah.
You guys might be wondering
how this guy even got a job here.
And the answer is, at least he's a gamer.
All the-
Oh, the Pokemon fandom is real.
All right, so at least he gets
some street cred points for that.
Who's next for the wall of shame?
Well, I'm gonna give you one hint.
As I take off my feet to,
take off my feet, goddammit.
As I remove my shoes to enter his domicile.
Yes, my friends, it is Dennis.
You might know him as DennyIsHung
from his gaming and cooking streams.
Okay, you need four eight.
Why is this so hard?
Look, I know how to do it.
Oh, oh .
But when it comes to his PC setup,
he comes up a little short.
Dennis, do you just not do dishes?
Like, are these just,
do you use disposable cups for everything?
No.
Oh my god, they're dirty.
I wash them and-
George, you just play a lot of beer pong.
It's quite the system for your paddle storage up here.
I didn't know you were into boating.
Well, at least you're consistent
because your kayak setup is every bit as clean
and organized as your PC.
Yeah, you will love it.
So here it is.
This is the gaming corner.
Yes.
Of shame.
So you got a fake cockroach.
One of these people's not working.
But you don't know which one.
I have a lot of money, so I can flee any time.
Let's see if I can find anything
that was stolen from the office.
I knew it, I knew it.
That's not, that's...
Yes?
Why do you have this projector?
Hey, I want that from the Christmas.
Oh, you won that at the Christmas party.
Okay, all right, all right, okay.
I also stole...
I guarantee you didn't buy this.
No, I bought it, I paid for this.
I went to Best Buy to buy this.
Walk me through your setup.
Okay, so my setup is very simple, very easy.
Everyone can do it at home.
Basically steal your keyboard and mouse from your work.
I don't know where you work, but...
And I have four coasters that I use to live on my laptop
so the fan, the heat can come up from here.
That's actually not the stupidest thing
I've ever heard.
And these are like fancy.
Wow, these are like marble or something.
Did you steal these from the office?
Look, they match.
No, no.
This is mine.
No.
Yeah, this is not Linus Media Group property.
No, no, no, Linus, I asked Brandon, no.
So you asked Brandon if you could take my stuff.
He said, yeah, sure, we don't use it.
So this is actually pretty good hardware.
Dennis is rocking a 6700 HQ.
He's got a GTX 1060.
I just found more.
No, you stole more stuff.
Okay.
I wasn't even looking for non-tech items.
I bet you took all these games.
Oh, so the karaoke microphone.
Okay, I pay for this.
I pay for this.
I reimbursed you.
This is the apartment of Laser James.
What's my name?
You told me your name was Big Papa.
I could never forget that.
I probably wouldn't have hired this guy
if I'd known the state of his computer.
Where is your computer?
Right this way.
So you walk past the Google Home and the Chromecast
and all the Philips Hue lights and the Smart Lock
and the kitty litter.
It's not about having the greatest spec in the world.
That's not what PC Master Race is.
PCMR is proper respect for the PC
and the hardware in it such as it is.
This is not proper respect for the PC.
High performance battling drone.
Okay, that's pretty cool.
Collecting dust.
Really?
I have a Microsoft Surface Pro.
That's my daily driver.
Speaking of all your smart home device crap,
did you steal this from the office?
No.
Oh, it's kibble.
Do you still want me to throw it in your mouth?
Oh, it smells, it tastes like dog breath.
Gonna wash out my mouth here.
Okay, so you have no room for a gaming PC,
but you've got like a bunch of quails.
I mean, look at, oh wow, what if they get out?
Can they fly?
Are they wings clipped or?
They probably won't.
You're a .
Is that that one's name?
Yeah, it's a .
Okay, and you eat the eggs?
And is that covered in poo or is that just the color?
No, it's just what they look like.
Okay, cool.
X58.
So you had a decent rig at one point and you abandoned us.
I didn't really, I stopped gaming.
Hey man, I'm married now, okay?
It's a different world.
If we fix this up, will you hook it up?
I've actually been wanting to watch less Netflix
and play more video games.
I think it's a good,
husband-wife activity.
Do you know how many people out there
have socket 1366 chips and would die
for a working X58 motherboard
and yours is just sitting collecting dust?
You don't know that it works.
You may never leave, Linus.
Whoa, oh my God.
Okay, so your job for this part is to stand there
and look ashamed.
Look at, yeah, head down.
More ashamed.
More like full on.
Thank you, James, that's good shame.
We're handing James's machine.
Over to Ivan, who is going to be revitalizing it.
All right, bring him in.
So, congratulations, James.
You suck, but it worked out for you
because we just can't have someone on staff
who's not able to hone their gaming skills.
So we're gonna take this off and, ah, yes.
So Intel and actually some of our other partners
went all out.
I thought you were just getting a CPU motherboard,
and RAM upgrade.
But this thing has actually tricked the math right out.
So you got a Core i7-8700K, a 760 series NVMe SSD.
You've got an ASUS Strix motherboard.
You've got 16 gigs of Corsair Vengeance Pro RGB memory.
You've got an H60 cooler.
So this is their new upgraded one with the new fans
and all that kind of stuff.
You've got RGB lighting courtesy of Corsair.
And a GTX 1070 Strix from ASUS.
Oh yeah, and by the way,
your hard drive is now Optane accelerated.
So you've got two M.2s.
So even though this hard drive is like ghetto AF, 640 gigs,
you should still actually get good loading times
off of the games that you put on it.
You didn't get a power supply upgrade though,
cause that was still good enough.
So this thing will actually game better than my machine now.
And of course in true LTT fashion,
we left the case as is.
So you can go full sleeper style.
You can actually disable these lights and software
if you want no one to be able to tell what's under the hood.
Night, night.
That was awkward.
Sleeper.
Wow, there is no segue on earth
that can get me from that awful joke to this.
So let's just close this out with some benchmark scores.
This machine is looking pretty beast.
So for those of you thinking, you know, and I'm like,
an i7 is an i7,
cause technically we did upgrade our i7 to an i7.
We'd recommend that you keep in mind
how much better a new i7 can be than an old one
during Intel's Gamer Days 2018 sale.
It runs from September 1st to September 16th,
and we'll have more links to details below.
But basically what it is,
is not only one of the best times of the year
to get upgraded with gaming gear from top brands,
like the one seen in this video,
but it's also a great way to participate
in tons of giveaways and prize draws.
And check that out below.
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I can't believe how balls to the wall
this machine ended up being.