I have been betrayed - AMD $5,000 Ultimate Tech Upgrade
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2024-05-04
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5,786 words · ~28 min read
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If you've ever bought something from lttstore.com,
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there's a good chance you've met
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our customer care supervisor, Adam.
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He's positive, thorough, and a venomous backstabbing snake.
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There's a lot of great choices in this tech makeover.
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I like this.
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Where did you get these?
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And these are a great choice.
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AMD hooked up Adam with a $5,000 budget.
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And I gotta say, he has spent it extremely wisely.
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If you were following along from home,
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looking for inspiration for your own setup,
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you'd end up with something that is A-tier,
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a great value, and promotes AMD's technologies.
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What more could he do?
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Well, he could consider me a non-LTT desk pad.
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Can't even drink your own Kool-Aid?
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I'm not using that.
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Secret Lab hooked me up, but I got that behind you.
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Oh, thank goodness.
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Well, okay, that's great,
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but it does kind of kill the rest of this intro for me.
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You know what, we're gonna do it anyway.
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To rebuild our trust,
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we're gonna do a
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roll reversal exercise,
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where it's my job to bend over backwards
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and make sure you're happy today.
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Whatever you say, I gotta do it,
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which might be a nice little change of pace for you.
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I have some ideas.
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We're back again with another AMD Ultimate Tech Upgrade.
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And a new video means a brand new chance
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to win some great goodies from AMD.
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It's basically a tradition at this point.
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This time, they're giving away two Steam Decks.
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You probably know what a Steam Deck is by now,
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but if you don't, it's a handheld gaming device,
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with a simple interface
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for you to access your Steam library,
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and a battery that's designed to last
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throughout those extended on-the-go gaming sessions.
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And it's powered by an AMD Zen CPU and AMD RDNA graphics
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that provide high-definition gaming, even on a handheld.
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So head over to our Twitter to enter the giveaway
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for a chance to win your very own new and shiny Steam Deck.
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Thanks again to AMD for sponsoring this series.
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I'm sure you're excited to tell us
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about some of the retro consoles you scored,
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but before that happens, we have to do the obligatory, um,
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poke-around-in-your-space-a-little-bit-make-you-uncomfortable.
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Sure.
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He looks uncomfortable.
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So you're Big Swifty, right?
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No, that would be my wife.
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Mm-hmm, sure.
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Then how do you explain this Taylor Swift clock
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in your office?
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This is your computer, isn't it?
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Yes, but this is my wife's computer over here.
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Wow, she has a way better setup than you.
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I know.
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I've neglected it quite, quite a lot
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in favor of giving her a good enough setup
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that she feels compelled to game with me.
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You know?
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Wow, I was gonna say gentlemen move.
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Gentlemen like a fox.
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Yeah, it's very clear to me who gets the budget
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for cool stuff in this household.
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But no longer will your setup be neglected.
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This is amazing.
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We've gone with a Ryzen 7 7800X3D,
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just about the fastest gaming CPU money can buy.
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This chip is such a great choice for gaming.
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I mean, sure, compared to AMD's top-of-the-line consumer chip,
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it has half as many cores, but that's eight cores,
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16 threads still, and it has 3DV cache,
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which contributes significantly to gaming performance.
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And of course, it supports all the latest technologies
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like PCI Express Gen 5 and DDR5.
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You've gone with a 7900XTX,
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which is the top-of-the-line 24 gigs of VRAM.
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And I love this, a practical supporting cast.
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If you don't need the extra features of X670E,
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a B650 is gonna perform well.
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It is gonna perform the same for you.
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I can't wait to build this machine,
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or rather I can,
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because I want to check out those retro consoles real quick.
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We've got the N64, got the M Classic upscaling cable,
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which works way better than you would probably expect.
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We did a video on it a while back.
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And then there's a couple that are kind of wrapped up here.
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What am I looking at right here?
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Yeah, so this is a Wii we scored
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at a thrift shop near here for like $30.
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It's literally worth it just for the Wiimotes alone,
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considering what those are typically worth.
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I was still stuck on Wii Wii scored,
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but yeah, go ahead.
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Another thrift shop find.
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This was in a Goodwill down in Linwood, Washington.
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When I bought this, it was $40 USD,
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and it had Mario Kart Devil Dash inside of it already.
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Wow, that is flipping awesome.
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Only one small problem.
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This is full already.
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That's okay.
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We have a solution.
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Oh, cool, the back of a console.
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One moment, please.
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Ooh.
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Woo, nice.
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Ooh, I like it.
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An open front for better airflow.
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Is that wire?
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No, it's just, it was cheap.
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Fun fact, I'm not the only one
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who's at your beck and call today.
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Colin will also be helping,
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and he's going to get this out of here
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and the new one in place
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while we get started building the PC.
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Woo.
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We can do it out in the kitchen.
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That's what he said.
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Okay, you know what?
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Let's not use any of that.
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Maybe it'll make it into a Floatplane exclusive,
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LMG.gg slash Floatplane.
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The point is, Adam, where do you wanna build this computer?
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This, no offense, is a very small desk.
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There's plenty of space in the kitchen.
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David, would you believe this is the first time
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I built a computer in a kitchen?
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I, no, that's not true.
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It's the best place to build a computer.
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There's always counter space.
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It's supposed to be clean.
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At least you pretend to have not gamer hygiene
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when I come to your house.
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Some people had some gamer hygiene going on.
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Try to make it look lived in,
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but not too spick and span, you know?
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Yeah, I mean, Riley.
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I mean, clearly nobody lived there.
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I realized something just now.
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You haven't actually instructed me to build the computer,
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so what is it that you want me doing?
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That's a good question.
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I mean, I don't get to build computers very often,
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and I love doing it,
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so I like to take the lead here for sure.
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Feel free to advise me.
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I mean, we got the master here, so.
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Yes, sir.
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When's the last time you built a computer?
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Oh, God, like back in 2016, I think.
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I put a RX 480 in that bad boy way back in the day,
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right when it first came out.
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It was supposed to be $200,
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but it ended up being more like 250,
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because that was when the whole mining explosion happened.
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That mining wave, yeah.
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The first one.
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Yeah, not this time.
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We thought that was as bad as it could get.
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It was not, ladies and gentlemen.
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First thing I usually do is the CPU,
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so might as well get the hard out of the way first.
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I am going for primo customer service today.
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Your CPU, sir.
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Oh, boy, you think I can do it?
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I mean, if you can take care of some of the demands
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that reach our inbox, I'm sure you can handle this.
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I love our customers.
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I do.
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I usually do the RAM next, so why don't we do that?
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Very wise, sir.
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We've gone with DDR5-6000 at CL32.
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This is pretty much the sweet spot for seventh gen Ryzen,
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and you've got 32 gigs of RAM,
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which is enough for gaming today,
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enough for gaming tomorrow.
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I can't speak to the day after tomorrow,
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but it doesn't matter
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because I think the world freezes over or something.
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Yep.
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Yes, that does happen in the famous documentary,
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The Day After Tomorrow.
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Your salons are prepared, sir.
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Oh, thank you, sir.
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Look at that, it's like I've done this before.
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Your M.2 standoff, sir.
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I don't think it matters which slot we're using
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because Adam, being wise, has gone with a Gen 4 drive
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that uses high quality NAND, a WD Black,
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but knowing there's no performance benefit in games
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to Gen 5, which is why you chose this, right?
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Allegedly.
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Adam has chosen capacity with a two terabyte drive
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rather than speed, which means it doesn't matter
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which of your M.2 slots we use.
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That's where I was getting at with all of this.
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Yeah, let's see the one with the heat sink,
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just for funsies.
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Adam, you're a very different person than I.
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I would have Linus do everything.
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I would bring out a Swiffer.
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No, I actually love doing this, so, you know.
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And he had me paint his basement.
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You know, I could just put on a little maid outfit
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and start cleaning, except that, like,
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the place doesn't really need it.
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So, yeah, I'll just stand here and look pretty.
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Okay.
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Did your last rig even use NVMe?
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No.
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2016, yeah.
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Yeah.
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Is this the first time you've done an M.2 drive?
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Well, I did it in my wife's computer when I built that,
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but, you know, this is the first time I've done it for me.
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Wait, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop!
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Okay, all right, I do have to interfere.
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We probably haven't broken it, probably.
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Whoops, well, that might have.
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So, this is a cool little tool-less mechanism.
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Ah, I see what's going on.
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Yeah, go ahead and screw that in,
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and then, no, no, no, no, you just leave that alone for now.
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He's recovering.
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Okay.
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Don't worry, you're doing great.
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So then, now, all you do is you just
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flippy-doodle this little plastic thing.
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I was wondering what the plastic thing was for.
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Yeah, it was to help you.
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That's new, right?
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It's not, I'm not crazy,
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because that wasn't a thing
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the last time I built one of these.
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It's pretty new, yeah, okay, go ahead and try again.
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Put down the screwdriver.
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Wow.
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Perfect, flawless.
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Hey, that's nice.
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Yeah, with no do-overs.
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It's nice when you know that it's a thing.
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Heat sink.
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Got the peel.
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Love it.
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You guys ever whisper sweet nothings
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at the plastic that you're peeling?
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No.
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Does anyone not?
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Oh.
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We seem to be divided on this issue.
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What do you mean, sweet nothings?
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You have to.
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Colin.
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Who are you people?
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Do we wanna plug in the power supply
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and do a cute little test boot?
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I think you're the first to suggest that.
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It's a very good idea.
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Let's do it.
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I feel like I'm the only one
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that actually follows your advice.
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Paul's advice, Bitwit's advice.
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Paul's advice, sure, but Bitwit's advice,
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he's got that Lyle guy on the channel.
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You gotta be careful.
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That's true, that's true.
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Actually, if we were really smart
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and followed all of my advice,
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we would have done this earlier.
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Had the power supply here, plugged into ground
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so that we could ground ourself
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before handling any of our sensitive components.
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I suppose that's true.
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With that said, the humidity is extremely high right now.
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We're not on a carpet.
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My concern level is extremely low,
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especially after that collab with Electro,
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boom, boom, boom, where he showed how hard it is
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to kill a component with that.
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Oh yeah, that was very informative.
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I'm sorry, it's automatic.
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I just, computer stuff appears in front of me
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and I start assembling it.
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I'll just, I'll be ready.
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Wait, sorry, I need a more butlery posture.
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Colin, can you come over here and just slap his hand
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anytime he reaches for a computer?
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Meanwhile, over here, Colin has cleared this bookshelf
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and securely anchored it to the...
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No, he has unanchored it.
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I remember the details now.
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Good work, thanks.
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And this is a great time to talk about
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how we're gonna get networking
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over to the media console here.
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You could run a wire, but running wires all over the place,
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not really the vibe I'm getting in this place.
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So how about you use Powerline?
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It uses your power lines in your walls to run networking.
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And while it's not gonna do the two gigabits
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that they claim here, that's very theoretical,
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it'll be fast enough and most importantly,
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predictably low latency enough to be great for gaming.
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Wait, isn't that the router right there?
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Doesn't the networking come out here?
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Oh.
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So it's a great way to get networking,
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low latency gaming to your PC in the other room.
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What's that, Colin?
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Oh, I see.
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So you're worried that because of the shape of this plug,
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these aren't gonna both fit at the same time.
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That's okay.
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This particular Powerline adapter has a pass-through,
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so we can do the full 15 amps of this circuit
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just through it.
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And as long as we don't put any really gross,
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noisy devices on the circuit,
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it shouldn't interfere too much with our networking.
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And I'm not worried about the overall power
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because this is retro consoles.
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I didn't even see like a new Xbox or PlayStation.
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No, I'm allowed to unbox things.
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I'm allowed to unbox things.
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See, the thing is I understand theoretically
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how to do all of this,
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but because I don't do it nearly as often as you,
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it's just not automatic.
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Yeah, no, no, I get it, I get it.
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We all saw that when you were doing the SSD.
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Yeah, yeah, I know.
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What the crap?
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GPUs have actually reached the point
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where they are comically large.
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Oh, geez.
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This looks novelty-sized.
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Look at it compared to the motherboard.
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It dwarfs it.
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Look at it compared to a totally normal-sized human hand.
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That's what my wife tells me.
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I have to say that's a lot bigger than even I was expecting,
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so it'll fit, probably.
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Let's hope.
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AMD's X3D chips don't come
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with the cooler in the box,
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because the assumption is that you're going to want them
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to boost as high as possible
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with their precision boost overdrive,
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and if you want it to do that,
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well, you're gonna need some decent cooling.
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You have gone so far beyond decent.
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This actually seems kind of extravagant,
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given how practical everything else has been so far.
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The nice thing is that I won it at a Christmas party
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instead of having to pay money for it.
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You've been holding this for,
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was this a year ago or two years ago?
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Two years ago.
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Two years, it's still brand new.
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It's brand new.
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Yeah.
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Just been waiting for,
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have you just been waiting for your upgrade?
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Oh, yeah.
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Playing long game, friends.
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Oh, no, Colin, what's happened?
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A cat has chewed through the cable.
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Actually, oh, wow.
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That is much worse than I,
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oh, crud, it's the Wii U.
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We'll have to call the ambulance.
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Oh, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I couldn't resist.
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No soldering iron, no morets,
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but what I do have is enough tape and ingenuity.
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I'm gonna need some additional tape and ingenuity
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to get us limping along today
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until we can make a more permanent fix.
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This is definitely not my finest work.
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Is it a fire danger?
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It is probably not a fire hazard.
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Well, I had a dream last night
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about a ShortCircuit that caused a fire in my house.
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I'm not even joking.
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Hey, hey, well, that's good.
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What? What? What?
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Oh yes.
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Of course.
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Which nuts?
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With these nuts.
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This is ready to go.
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Fantastic.
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All we got to do is fire it up.
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Yeah.
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I guess we need a monitor.
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Where do I put screw driver?
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Oh yeah.
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Just this is JFP, which is jumper front panel one.
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And then you're going to want to do the top row.
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The rightmost two.
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You want to bridge them.
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Yeah.
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There it is.
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Yeah, you're good.
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You can let go.
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It's a momentary switch.
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So you just momentarily.
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Very good.
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Hey.
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Hey.
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Okay.
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Well, hey, that's great news.
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Now we can go ahead and move forward with the build.
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Keep them with the pragmatic theme.
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We've got the Phanteks G360A case.
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Three RGB fans in the front.
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Got the tempered glass side panel.
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Reasonable price, about 125 bucks.
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So nice case, but not overkill.
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And tons of airflow.
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It actually came with the standoffs pre-installed,
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which is nice.
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Yeah, it's very handy, but also risky
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because if it comes with ones
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that don't match your motherboard,
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then you can scratch the back of the board.
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There you go.
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Sick.
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I think I stole your screwdriver.
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Wait.
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Nope.
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This one's mine.
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You know what?
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With Colin and Adam otherwise occupied,
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I guess I'll just find this to do.
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Check this out.
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For our reigning frugality champion,
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this is a pretty extravagant jet.
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The Secretlab Magnus Pro.
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A, has way more room for activities,
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like moving your mouse at all.
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And B, has all kinds of great features.
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Built-in cable management.
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Built-in power distribution.
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It raises, it lowers.
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He's got the add-on dual monitor ARM thing.
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Let's see if I can move it into place myself.
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Well, okay, it's a little heavy.
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What exactly is our plan for input switching here?
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Cause we've got one M cable.
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Oh, one of these.
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Inputs one to four.
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All HDMI though.
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Do we have converters for the not HDMI consoles?
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Like, I don't know most of them.
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All right, I get it.
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I get it.
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They're right in front of me.
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Fine.
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Um, smart guys.
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Uh.
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What about N64 though?
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Yeah, what about the N64?
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Uh, there is little janky adapter that I have for that.
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Yeah.
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No, not that one.
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No!
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Wow, it's so light.
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A million RetroTINK owners just died.
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Yeah, I know.
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This is really cool.
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Terrible.
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Their sales pitch is a bit over the top.
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PC gamers are able to upgrade the graphics card.
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While console gamers have been limited by locked hardware.
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Many more.
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This is not a GPU upgrade for your console.
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But what it is, is a way to take older consoles
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and upscale them for modern displays in a pleasing,
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yet not totally awful and inaccurate manner.
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And it works not only on games,
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but also on low resolution video content.
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So what we're gonna do with this,
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is we're going to adapt the output of our GameCube
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with this retro prism, right?
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Then we're going to put this here.
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Actually, if we were really smart, what we would do,
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is we would take this
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and put it on the output of our HDMI switch.
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Since everything that's going into it
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is either a retro console
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or a woefully underpowered modern console.
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Wow, great job guys.
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Look at it.
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It's all oriental related correctly.
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And only a small amount of wall ended up on the table.
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Yes.
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Nice.
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Okay, it'll buff out.
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Of the wall or the table?
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The table.
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Oh yeah, I mean the important thing.
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I realized this.
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I was about to tell you guys about the GPU
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that I never really showed you the power supply.
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It's an EVGA 1000 GT.
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It's 80 plus gold.
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It's modular.
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It's a really nice unit
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and it should be a great pairing
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for the 7900 XTX from ASUS,
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but it's not over the top.
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It's even gonna look just like simple
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and clean when we're done.
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This GPU is big enough to kind of hide these cables
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or at least draw the attention away from them.
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It's all in the hips.
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Hold on.
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Whoa, watch out.
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Okay, don't move.
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Do you see the little fingers
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on the bottom of the PCI slot back there?
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Do you see the tiny surface mount components next to them?
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It is so easy to be trying to position the card,
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moving it back and forth
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and knock off some of those components.
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Adam didn't, which is good,
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but oh, here's why he was accidentally almost doing it.
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The height of this card is such that I don't know
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if we can actually slide it back into place
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without hitting those and knocking them off.
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We literally don't have a spare millimeter here.
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Holy crap, this might not fit.
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Ah, I'm just gonna make sure it's possible
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without killing it and then you can do it.
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Okay.
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Okay.
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Yes, it can be done.
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You wanna do the honors?
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Okay.
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It's got a little bit of RGB.
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Yeah, it's got enough.
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And you know what?
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It didn't impact the budget much.
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Well, especially because you won the AIO with the RGB fans
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and like, those are really nice RGB fans
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to be included with a case.
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Hey, there you go.
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I didn't even post.
19:33
Now what's up with this?
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I thought we were G710 plus buddies.
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We were, but you know, I've had that keyboard
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for damn near 10 years at this point.
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And I think it's just time for a little bit of a change,
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you know?
19:45
All right.
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Hopefully my wife never says anything like that to me.
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OC explore mode.
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What am I even?
19:52
Expo, there we go.
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Bop, bop, bop.
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Here we go.
19:57
Well, that applied perfectly.
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All we need now is a Windows installer.
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While Colin's putting in
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these cable management things to hopefully keep the cats
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from chewing up the power and HDMI cables back here,
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we can put things on the shelf.
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Taylor deserves to be front and center here.
20:12
Adam says that this will not fit on the shelf.
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And that assertion has been challenged here.
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Hey, there it is.
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Oh God.
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I'm so happy right now.
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Don't worry, Adam.
20:24
We're gonna put your games on the shelf too.
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They're just not gonna be as prominently placed.
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I know.
20:31
Adam, maybe I was confused before,
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but I never actually saw a computer here.
20:38
Was your work laptop what you were just gaming on?
20:41
That's just my personal laptop.
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Oh.
20:44
Oh, wow.
20:45
All laptop all the time.
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Yes.
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Laptop gamer.
20:49
It's not the best bang for the buck.
20:50
So I'm a little surprised.
20:52
Oh, well, I knew that eventually
20:54
I was going to get an upgrade, right?
20:56
And so around Christmas last year,
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I decided to buy a laptop because I was like, oh, well,
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after I get my upgrade,
21:02
I'll still be happy that I have a laptop
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because then I can take it with me places and well.
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But you knew that we had only done like 20 upgrades
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and we have like a hundred people.
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You were really,
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I was, yeah.
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Gambling.
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Oh yeah, a hundred percent.
21:15
Now to be fair at that time,
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I didn't know it was a randomized.
21:18
Oh, so you were just counting on us just
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I was just counting on seniority at some point.
21:21
Thinking you do a great job and seeing your eyes.
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Ah, yeah.
21:25
Not how it works.
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No, no.
21:27
I know that now.
21:28
Now, how do these come off?
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Can we check the instructions?
21:31
What? Check instructions?
21:33
Oh, okay.
21:34
You're right.
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So how silly of me to suggest that.
21:38
I mean, I'm sure that is a thing
21:39
you have to suggest sometimes.
21:41
I have to suggest it very often.
21:43
Once you say that they always look at the instructions
21:45
and then everything goes perfectly, right?
21:47
Absolutely.
21:48
I've never had that interaction go south for me, not once.
21:51
I think these are the same ones that I have in the land room.
21:54
These things are fricking awesome.
21:55
No, this seems to be a revised version
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that over clocks higher.
21:58
They're 1440p.
21:59
They support HDR,
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but they don't have full array local dimming.
22:03
So it's more HDR end, but they're pretty bright.
22:06
So they look great in SDR.
22:09
Really nice gaming monitors and really good value.
22:12
Wait, where's the, yeah, where's the VESA things?
22:15
They're out here.
22:17
I am VESA man.
22:19
I have two extra arms growing out of my neck.
22:22
What's the problem?
22:23
How did you manage that, Colin?
22:29
So the adhesive on these.
22:32
Very powerful.
22:33
Very strong.
22:34
Actually had a similar issue at my house on a recent shoot.
22:37
It wasn't Colin.
22:37
So this is only his first strike.
22:40
Well, luckily your boy knows how to patch drywall.
22:44
All right, see you later.
22:45
Before you put that on, we should roll out the desk pad.
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Oh, don't you dare.
22:51
Okay, good.
22:53
He had his hand on the other one.
22:55
I could never.
22:56
Linus, you know me.
22:57
Well, I thought I did.
22:58
I thought I did until I saw, oh God.
23:00
Jesus.
23:02
I kicked a piece off of your radiant heater.
23:05
No, that's supposed to come off.
23:07
Oh, good.
23:08
That looks nice.
23:09
That's fricking awesome.
23:11
Real upgrade from your old one, honestly.
23:13
Your bezels are huge.
23:15
I know.
23:15
It only displays one color, unfortunately,
23:17
but still a big upgrade from the old one.
23:20
Thanks, dad.
23:21
Right across to the back.
23:23
Yep, right there.
23:24
Perfect.
23:24
That's so cool.
23:25
They lock into place too.
23:26
Oh yeah.
23:27
Where are you planning to put the computer?
23:29
Cause I'm a little bit worried
23:29
about the DisplayPort cables reaching.
23:32
Immediately to the right of the monitors.
23:34
Like on top of the desk.
23:35
Okay.
23:36
See, I saw like a hanger.
23:38
Secret lab was very kind.
23:39
They sent us all the accessories for free,
23:41
but I'm not going to use a hundred percent of them.
23:44
Oh, well that's easy.
23:46
Oh, is this a new chair?
23:47
Yes.
23:48
It is the Ikea Marcus.
23:49
The Ikea Marcus.
23:50
I just marked it with my ass.
23:52
I'm turning it on.
23:54
There was so much value for the 5k.
23:56
You managed to buy a thousand dollar GPU
23:59
and then still do the whole setup out.
24:02
Multiple consoles, you know, game consoles.
24:05
TV consoles, all different kinds of consoles.
24:08
We have to console him for his wall being destroyed.
24:11
Ah, yeah.
24:13
Thanks for that, David.
24:16
This will probably make a rebuild for us.
24:17
That sounds like Mario.
24:18
Hey, is the GameCube working out there?
24:21
Okay, we'll have to go check on that.
24:23
Is this going through the M cable right now?
24:25
Cause it's definitely smooth.
24:28
But if I was at a reasonable distance from it,
24:30
like not bad.
24:31
There is some artifacting on the fast moving textures
24:34
there in the corners, but.
24:36
Oh, I do see that.
24:38
Yep. Yep.
24:39
You're not wrong.
24:41
It's not the kind of thing that's going to bother me too much,
24:43
but let's play some Mario Kart, bud.
24:46
These controller extensions are apparently
24:49
part of the upgrade.
24:50
So that's awesome.
24:52
Cause I was kind of wondering about that.
24:54
I have a confession.
24:56
I have never played Mario Kart Double Dash.
24:58
What?
25:00
I played a bunch of Mario.
25:01
It's the best one.
25:02
A bunch of 64, a ton of Mario Kart DS, a fair bit of Wii.
25:07
I can't figure out what buttons,
25:08
what the hell is this button layout?
25:09
I never had a GameCube.
25:11
This is probably my third time holding a GameCube controller.
25:14
So one moment, please.
25:15
I'm impressed by how well that chain link is handled.
25:19
I don't know what any, oh my God.
25:21
You have two people on the cart.
25:22
Yes, you do.
25:23
How do I hop?
25:25
You can't hop in this one.
25:26
What?
25:27
You just drift.
25:28
How do you drift then?
25:30
L or R.
25:31
Ah, I see.
25:32
Okay.
25:33
So here's the real question though.
25:34
How is it that I'm beating you?
25:36
A good question.
25:36
I haven't played this in quite some time.
25:38
I haven't played this in since ever.
25:43
Oh God.
25:43
13 seconds off the winning NPC.
25:45
You know what this tells me is
25:47
I just need to play this more and now I can.
25:49
Hey, it looks really good though.
25:51
Yeah, oh my God.
25:52
It's beautiful.
25:53
Of course all the real gaming happens in here anyway.
25:55
Come on.
25:56
How much of a step up is this from the old setup?
25:59
This is fricking awesome.
26:01
I don't know, that laptop was pretty nice.
26:05
The laptop is okay.
26:06
I'm sure it was fine.
26:07
Sandra will enjoy it.
26:09
Exactly.
26:10
Exactly.
26:11
Why aren't you sitting in the setup?
26:12
Well, because I'm adjusting the monitors, okay?
26:15
I'm providing good customer service.
26:16
There, now it's ready for him.
26:18
There, see?
26:19
Luckily, you're like literally almost
26:21
the exact same height as me.
26:24
While Adam's installing some games on his computer,
26:26
I am going to unbox his new espresso machine.
26:30
David has challenged me to say everything I know
26:32
about coffee while I unbox this.
26:34
I know it comes from beans.
26:36
I know that some like it.
26:37
Some like it dark and some like it creamy
26:39
and some people put sugar in it.
26:41
I know that it smells a lot better than it tastes.
26:43
I know that when we did an LTT coffee roast,
26:46
I was very transparent with our audience
26:48
that I don't actually drink coffee.
26:50
I know that this is not an ice cream scoop.
26:54
Anything's an ice cream scoop.
26:56
Yeah, I mean, I could eat ice cream out of it,
26:57
but I think this goes here.
26:59
I've seen them work it at Starbucks
27:01
when I order a hot chocolate
27:02
and someone else orders a coffee.
27:05
Oh yeah.
27:06
Oh yeah, there we go.
27:07
Put that in there.
27:08
Got other, got the musical instruments
27:12
that come inside with it.
27:14
Is this like a good one or?
27:16
I don't know.
27:17
I don't drink coffee either.
27:18
Adam's the big coffee nut.
27:21
He's behind that wall.
27:22
It takes a C13 power cable.
27:25
You can take your coffee that you didn't consume this time
27:29
and you can put it in here for reuse.
27:31
It'll mix it into one.
27:33
Kind of like regrinding for shooting plastic parts
27:35
and injection molding.
27:36
You just reground coffee.
27:38
Yeah.
27:39
So that's a good coffee thing or?
27:42
Oh, it's, I mean, look,
27:45
it'll be my first ever espresso machine.
27:47
I'm not gonna pretend to be an expert on it,
27:49
but it is highly recommended amongst people
27:53
who are snobby about coffee.
27:54
Okay, so you went on Reddit basically.
27:56
I pretty much went on Reddit.
27:57
This is gonna be an hour and a half.
27:59
Do you have Baldur's Gate on here?
28:01
I do.
28:02
Do you have like a high speed USB external drive?
28:06
No.
28:07
Right, brilliant.
28:08
Oh boy.
28:12
Sorry.
28:14
There's a faster way to do this.
28:17
We managed to download less than 3% of the game
28:21
in the time it took me to get this SSD out.
28:23
Sick.
28:24
Let's shut her down.
28:27
Cool.
28:30
This is the dumbest thing we've done this week.
28:32
No, this is smart, Linus.
28:34
Download speed too slow.
28:35
Rip the SSD out of a laptop
28:36
that already has the game installed.
28:38
Let's go.
28:38
Just as long as it goes back together
28:40
better than the wall does.
28:42
Steam apps common.
28:44
Baldur's Gate 3.
28:45
Woo.
28:46
Woo.
28:46
Woo.
28:47
Woo.
28:48
All right.
28:49
Let's see this install speed.
28:50
Here we go.
28:51
Paste.
28:51
Woo.
28:53
Gigabyte a second, baby.
28:56
And of course, after our brilliant idea,
29:00
there's a 25 Gigabyte update.
29:04
Okay, it's not as bad as we thought.
29:05
Battle.net was running in the background.
29:07
It's only six and a half minutes.
29:09
Let's go.
29:10
We got this.
29:11
I downloaded a cat piano app.
29:16
Everyone's coming over here to investigate.
29:26
Okay, anyway, I think Baldur's Gate is done.
29:28
And then because there's no tutorial,
29:30
you can have instructions for how to play the damn game
29:32
on this monitor.
29:35
Holy banana sacks.
29:37
Your 1% lows are over 100 FPS.
29:41
Oh God, I don't remember how to play.
29:43
But look at how smooth the camera movement is.
29:47
Yes, it's very smooth.
29:48
What settings is this running at though?
29:50
Good question.
29:51
It would, I imagine, probably the same ones.
29:54
Oh, that's part of why it's so smooth.
29:55
Triple buffering.
29:56
Gotta love it.
29:57
Turn that off.
29:58
We'll talk about that later.
29:59
Oh, Ultra.
30:00
Okay.
30:01
Ultra all the things.
30:03
Sure.
30:04
Cool.
30:05
Woo, see you later, V-Sync.
30:08
1% lows of 200 and 90, 300 frames per second.
30:14
Are you kidding me?
30:15
That's crazy.
30:18
Well, I'm quite happy with that.
30:20
I honestly couldn't tell you
30:21
which of these room transformations I like better.
30:23
The living room looks freaking awesome.
30:26
And there's so many options for games,
30:28
both retro and modern.
30:31
I mean, this is obviously a gigantic W.
30:36
And honestly, the whole rest of the thing
30:38
just looks so much better than when we started.
30:40
But then that desk Adam started with,
30:43
going from a laptop on a desk
30:45
that barely even holds a laptop
30:47
to a deluxe battle station like this.
30:49
Man, the way it cranks through Baldur's Gate.
30:52
There is no question that he got one of, in my opinion,
30:55
the most efficient AMD Ultimate Tech.
30:58
Not a dollar wasted.
31:00
If you guys enjoyed this video,
31:02
hey, massive shout out to AMD.
31:04
Go check out their products.
31:05
We're gonna have them linked down below.
31:07
And of course, you can go check out
31:09
previous AMD Ultimate Tech upgrades.
31:10
Maybe the one with my wife, there's wrestling.