{"video_id":"vkVNqtLYVsE","title":"Tech Upgrades Where are They Now? James Strieb","channel":"FP Exclusives","show":"FP Exclusives","published_at":"2026-03-05T14:53:29Z","duration_s":468,"segments":[{"start_s":0.0,"end_s":8.64,"text":"Hello! You finally moved. I did move. After five whole years. I've actually lived in like two or three places since that last one.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":14.72,"end_s":18.56,"text":"Everything you guys saw from my upgrade before where I had a home theater in a living room,","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":18.56,"end_s":23.04,"text":"well now I actually have my own home theater room so we're just gonna stay in here. We don't even have to go upstairs.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":23.04,"end_s":26.32,"text":"Yeah, sorry, it's dark in here. The walls and ceiling are velvet.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":27.04,"end_s":32.08,"text":"Home theater room tour, maybe it's own video if you guys thumbs up this one.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":35.6,"end_s":44.0,"text":"You may remember that during my upgrade, my PC was actually a MSI Trident small form factor guy that we upgraded and put new stuff in.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":44.0,"end_s":51.36,"text":"Well, since then, even though I have a lot of the same guts, all the same guts, I have a full-size ATX case now.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":51.52,"end_s":57.2,"text":"So please don't roast me, but I have an ITX motherboard and an ATX case and not only that, but","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":58.48,"end_s":65.52,"text":"this is going on the internet. When I swapped the case, the power supply, I didn't get longer cables for it yet.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":66.16,"end_s":70.72,"text":"See how it's just kind of hanging there? It was only supposed to be like that for a couple days, but it's been","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":72.0,"end_s":77.76,"text":"longer. Still have my 3080. I still have my 11th gen in hindsight. Everyone hated that gen.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":78.64,"end_s":84.08,"text":"Intel CPU. I don't know if I had the UPS back then. I'm pretty sure I got that on marketplace.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":84.16,"end_s":89.44,"text":"It wasn't party upgrade, but I also from the subsequent Christmas parties got a big old monitor.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":90.16,"end_s":93.36,"text":"I love the super ultra wide form factor. I have it at my desk as well.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":93.6,"end_s":101.04,"text":"I also have this at my desk at work as well. I love the horizontal scroll wheel and it's just a really good urgal mouse and this keyboard is actually, this was something","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":101.52,"end_s":109.36,"text":"Oh, it must be so bad to be in a relationship with me. I got this for my wife for her birthday or Christmas or some kind of Valentine's Day or something a number of years ago","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":109.36,"end_s":112.0,"text":"when she had it in her office. I was like, I'm going to get her a mechanical keyboard","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":113.52,"end_s":119.28,"text":"with RGB. This is something I'd like to upgrade. I'd really like to do a full custom build with a really stylish","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":120.48,"end_s":125.68,"text":"classy keyboard, but maybe Poof will help me. Oh, printer. Didn't have this before.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":126.96,"end_s":130.48,"text":"Works some of the time. Like every printer.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":130.48,"end_s":135.52,"text":"I got the good brand. I got the the least. Oh, it's an Epson. Never mind.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":136.56,"end_s":139.44,"text":"I wanted to get a brother because they're like the least scummy, but","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":140.08,"end_s":144.88,"text":"Uh, I don't know. I probably just bought it from the office. What they had laying around elephant room. Um, who's your guest?","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":145.2,"end_s":153.2,"text":"Oh, Terry It's a jujitsu dummy, but usually it's just a toy for my kids at this point. I've practiced on him very very seldom","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":153.84,"end_s":164.0,"text":"James is turning on his TV because we can't see the TV. This is a different TV than I had. Oh, you upgraded it slightly just slightly","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":164.56,"end_s":171.6,"text":"In my upgrade, I already had an LG like C-Series from 2018, which I had until last Christmas. We're at the Christmas party. I won this","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":173.04,"end_s":175.92,"text":"Sorry, it looks like two televisions aren't available right now","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":176.4,"end_s":181.84,"text":"At the Christmas party, I put like all my tickets in basically one bag and got this bravia qto led from Sony","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":181.84,"end_s":188.16,"text":"So it's like honestly looks the same same size. It's all the same. Welcome to your old TV, then gave it to my cousin","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":188.48,"end_s":192.0,"text":"Oh, one thing from my upgrade was an NVIDIA shield. I'm still using it","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":192.16,"end_s":195.6,"text":"Although I don't remember. No, it was the full-size shield because previous to that","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":195.6,"end_s":198.96,"text":"I had the little cylinder one the mini and that thing sucked it kept I don't know","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":198.96,"end_s":205.6,"text":"I guess overheating and And resulting in stuttering and hitching and all sorts of lag on movie playback","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":206.08,"end_s":209.6,"text":"Um, so then in the upgrade I got the full-size one, which I still use and it was great","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":209.68,"end_s":212.8,"text":"The biggest thing from the upgrade though, the most expensive thing was the","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":213.36,"end_s":216.48,"text":"Receiver, which I still have. It has lots of airflow and dust","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":216.56,"end_s":220.24,"text":"The reason I bought this was for the room correction, which I of course do use","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":220.32,"end_s":224.4,"text":"I came with the microphone and the tripod. I set it up in my couch in the main listening position","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":224.72,"end_s":229.76,"text":"Got all the arc room correction going which is awesome And now it's in a way better room with a lot more treatment","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":229.84,"end_s":232.8,"text":"The thing though with this is it can logically","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":233.44,"end_s":236.72,"text":"Matrix more channels than it has amps for okay","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":237.12,"end_s":240.24,"text":"So I believe it only has amps for like 7.2","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":240.88,"end_s":243.92,"text":"point Something maybe","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":243.92,"end_s":250.64,"text":"Seven speakers or something like that But what you can do is plug in an additional amplifier, which I have over here. Is it where is it which?","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":251.04,"end_s":253.04,"text":"Oh, that's not open that drawer","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":254.48,"end_s":259.12,"text":"Where is that stuff? Oh, it's just way back there take my word for it in this drawer","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":259.2,"end_s":264.32,"text":"There's my NVIDIA shield and a little network switch and a small two channel amplifier","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":264.32,"end_s":270.8,"text":"Which I use for some ceiling speakers So maybe I'll show you someday ever since I got a wall mount that allows you not just tilt","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":271.44,"end_s":277.52,"text":"But a lot of tilt and not just that but up and down. I'm never going back. 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I should 3d print a custom shroud","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":295.68,"end_s":298.64,"text":"This is honestly made of cardboard and some velvet and it just","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":299.36,"end_s":306.48,"text":"Very jankly sits on here to cover the mess There's a surge protector just kind of to minimize minimize the cables some of them kind of emerge through the wall","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":307.12,"end_s":311.04,"text":"And come here and then I there's an annoying green light on there. So I have the shroud but","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":312.24,"end_s":316.32,"text":"Otherwise, I think this has been cleaner before but it's not so clean right now","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":316.32,"end_s":319.84,"text":"Because just because I like took my Nintendo switch to a party or something like that","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":320.48,"end_s":322.48,"text":"Didn't bother buttoning it up, but","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":324.48,"end_s":327.44,"text":"That's the great thing about having a room that's this dark is all the little","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":330.4,"end_s":333.68,"text":"All the little imperfections and blemishes they just disappear","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":334.72,"end_s":339.92,"text":"At the cost of your uh site I mean, I need to wear a headlamp in here to vacuum, but","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":340.56,"end_s":345.04,"text":"You know, it's all good. One of the things I got was a subwoofer. It actually don't have that sub anymore","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":345.2,"end_s":348.0,"text":"I sold it so that I could justify buying","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":348.8,"end_s":354.08,"text":"These so this is a from the same company svs. This is the cylinder form factor","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":354.08,"end_s":358.56,"text":"I believe Linus has the same form factor of sub is this I have two of these and they're awesome","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":358.64,"end_s":364.0,"text":"And I sold I sold the cube how much did you sell for and how much you buy this one for I don't remember","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":364.64,"end_s":367.76,"text":"This is a while a while back, but I think I","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":368.4,"end_s":374.88,"text":"I was pretty happy It was it was tough to sell an expensive subwoofer like most people most people don't spend that much on stuff","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":375.04,"end_s":380.08,"text":"Yeah, most people are just happy with like as long as there's a sound coming out sound bars that come with subs is most people","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":389.28,"end_s":393.68,"text":"And then the final thing is over here you may remember we built acoustic","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":394.16,"end_s":398.56,"text":"Panels they were art panels. I had my friends artwork printed out and wrapped around the panels","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":398.56,"end_s":403.52,"text":"I had three of them two of them I gave away to my friend and he wrapped them with different stuff in his home theater","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":403.76,"end_s":410.88,"text":"And one of them I still have and it's here and now it has the velvet on it So all the art's gone. This is the only remaining panel from that time","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":410.96,"end_s":415.44,"text":"But there is a lot more acoustic treatment in here. Where's the stickers that you bought?","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":415.76,"end_s":418.96,"text":"Ah, it's soft. I think I just ripped it off like pretty quickly after","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":419.76,"end_s":423.52,"text":"Nowadays I have Very few cables anywhere","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":423.6,"end_s":427.28,"text":"Because I route was able to route them through the walls and through this bulkhead and that was an adventure","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":427.76,"end_s":435.04,"text":"um But other than this random Ethernet cable that I plugged in way later so that I can get better quality streams","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":435.68,"end_s":439.84,"text":"When I'm watching legal streams Um on my tv","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":440.0,"end_s":445.44,"text":"All the other cables are very discreet. Yeah, because I really see you have a big rug right there","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":446.48,"end_s":452.96,"text":"That covers probably everything what I need as a as a vacuum sponsor if there's some kind of industrial strength vacuum that can actually","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":453.84,"end_s":457.84,"text":"Suck up things on this giant like how long these pills are like","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":458.72,"end_s":466.64,"text":"It's insane. You got to go there with your hands basically But yeah, that's my upgrade Riley had his upgrade before me and now he's done his where are they now before me?","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":466.64,"end_s":468.64,"text":"So you guys can go check that one out","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0}],"full_text":"Hello! You finally moved. I did move. After five whole years. I've actually lived in like two or three places since that last one. Everything you guys saw from my upgrade before where I had a home theater in a living room, well now I actually have my own home theater room so we're just gonna stay in here. We don't even have to go upstairs. Yeah, sorry, it's dark in here. The walls and ceiling are velvet. Home theater room tour, maybe it's own video if you guys thumbs up this one. You may remember that during my upgrade, my PC was actually a MSI Trident small form factor guy that we upgraded and put new stuff in. Well, since then, even though I have a lot of the same guts, all the same guts, I have a full-size ATX case now. So please don't roast me, but I have an ITX motherboard and an ATX case and not only that, but this is going on the internet. When I swapped the case, the power supply, I didn't get longer cables for it yet. See how it's just kind of hanging there? It was only supposed to be like that for a couple days, but it's been longer. Still have my 3080. I still have my 11th gen in hindsight. Everyone hated that gen. Intel CPU. I don't know if I had the UPS back then. I'm pretty sure I got that on marketplace. It wasn't party upgrade, but I also from the subsequent Christmas parties got a big old monitor. I love the super ultra wide form factor. I have it at my desk as well. I also have this at my desk at work as well. I love the horizontal scroll wheel and it's just a really good urgal mouse and this keyboard is actually, this was something Oh, it must be so bad to be in a relationship with me. I got this for my wife for her birthday or Christmas or some kind of Valentine's Day or something a number of years ago when she had it in her office. I was like, I'm going to get her a mechanical keyboard with RGB. This is something I'd like to upgrade. I'd really like to do a full custom build with a really stylish classy keyboard, but maybe Poof will help me. Oh, printer. Didn't have this before. Works some of the time. Like every printer. I got the good brand. I got the the least. Oh, it's an Epson. Never mind. I wanted to get a brother because they're like the least scummy, but Uh, I don't know. I probably just bought it from the office. What they had laying around elephant room. Um, who's your guest? Oh, Terry It's a jujitsu dummy, but usually it's just a toy for my kids at this point. I've practiced on him very very seldom James is turning on his TV because we can't see the TV. This is a different TV than I had. Oh, you upgraded it slightly just slightly In my upgrade, I already had an LG like C-Series from 2018, which I had until last Christmas. We're at the Christmas party. I won this Sorry, it looks like two televisions aren't available right now At the Christmas party, I put like all my tickets in basically one bag and got this bravia qto led from Sony So it's like honestly looks the same same size. It's all the same. Welcome to your old TV, then gave it to my cousin Oh, one thing from my upgrade was an NVIDIA shield. I'm still using it Although I don't remember. No, it was the full-size shield because previous to that I had the little cylinder one the mini and that thing sucked it kept I don't know I guess overheating and And resulting in stuttering and hitching and all sorts of lag on movie playback Um, so then in the upgrade I got the full-size one, which I still use and it was great The biggest thing from the upgrade though, the most expensive thing was the Receiver, which I still have. It has lots of airflow and dust The reason I bought this was for the room correction, which I of course do use I came with the microphone and the tripod. I set it up in my couch in the main listening position Got all the arc room correction going which is awesome And now it's in a way better room with a lot more treatment The thing though with this is it can logically Matrix more channels than it has amps for okay So I believe it only has amps for like 7.2 point Something maybe Seven speakers or something like that But what you can do is plug in an additional amplifier, which I have over here. Is it where is it which? Oh, that's not open that drawer Where is that stuff? Oh, it's just way back there take my word for it in this drawer There's my NVIDIA shield and a little network switch and a small two channel amplifier Which I use for some ceiling speakers So maybe I'll show you someday ever since I got a wall mount that allows you not just tilt But a lot of tilt and not just that but up and down. I'm never going back. It's so awesome It's just so versatile to be able to just you can just pull it down You can easily work back here and come take a look at the setup back here So you can see I've got some 3m kind of sticky for these philipsu lights to go on the back This is the one thing that actually could improve. I should 3d print a custom shroud This is honestly made of cardboard and some velvet and it just Very jankly sits on here to cover the mess There's a surge protector just kind of to minimize minimize the cables some of them kind of emerge through the wall And come here and then I there's an annoying green light on there. So I have the shroud but Otherwise, I think this has been cleaner before but it's not so clean right now Because just because I like took my Nintendo switch to a party or something like that Didn't bother buttoning it up, but That's the great thing about having a room that's this dark is all the little All the little imperfections and blemishes they just disappear At the cost of your uh site I mean, I need to wear a headlamp in here to vacuum, but You know, it's all good. One of the things I got was a subwoofer. It actually don't have that sub anymore I sold it so that I could justify buying These so this is a from the same company svs. This is the cylinder form factor I believe Linus has the same form factor of sub is this I have two of these and they're awesome And I sold I sold the cube how much did you sell for and how much you buy this one for I don't remember This is a while a while back, but I think I I was pretty happy It was it was tough to sell an expensive subwoofer like most people most people don't spend that much on stuff Yeah, most people are just happy with like as long as there's a sound coming out sound bars that come with subs is most people And then the final thing is over here you may remember we built acoustic Panels they were art panels. I had my friends artwork printed out and wrapped around the panels I had three of them two of them I gave away to my friend and he wrapped them with different stuff in his home theater And one of them I still have and it's here and now it has the velvet on it So all the art's gone. This is the only remaining panel from that time But there is a lot more acoustic treatment in here. Where's the stickers that you bought? Ah, it's soft. I think I just ripped it off like pretty quickly after Nowadays I have Very few cables anywhere Because I route was able to route them through the walls and through this bulkhead and that was an adventure um But other than this random Ethernet cable that I plugged in way later so that I can get better quality streams When I'm watching legal streams Um on my tv All the other cables are very discreet. Yeah, because I really see you have a big rug right there That covers probably everything what I need as a as a vacuum sponsor if there's some kind of industrial strength vacuum that can actually Suck up things on this giant like how long these pills are like It's insane. You got to go there with your hands basically But yeah, that's my upgrade Riley had his upgrade before me and now he's done his where are they now before me? So you guys can go check that one out"}