Upgrading Our WORST Gaming Rigs
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2019-05-06
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1,940 words · ~9 min read
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Okay, so given that everyone at Linus Media Group
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spends their day playing with and making videos
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about the latest and greatest technology toys,
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you'd probably think that our entire team here
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has like sick AF gaming machines at home, right?
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State of the art.
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You'd think wrong.
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So I had everyone in the company submit photos and specs
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of their personal setups to me
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without telling them why I wanted to see them.
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And some folks were pretty reluctant to show them.
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I mean, don't you guys trust me?
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Well, it turns out they should have trusted their instincts
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not to trust me because the plan was to pick the worst three
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and subject them to a healthy dose of public shaming.
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Welcome to the Linus Media Group wall of shame,
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but with a surprise twist.
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The worst rig as determined
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by our highly qualified panel of judges
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gets an upgrade,
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courtesy of Intel who sponsored this video.
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So let's get this show on the road.
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Some of the submissions actually weren't half bad
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and some of them were pretty darn nice.
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I mean, let me know in the comments
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if you guys want to see a follow-up wall of fame.
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Some of them contain totally unnecessary details
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like Ivan, for example, apparently games by candlelight,
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but his was far from the worst.
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Let's begin our journey with someone
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that you are just meeting for the first time because
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he only recently passed his probation.
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This is Lloyd's setup.
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He's our new graphic designer slash merchandise manager.
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So to his credit,
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he has done some pretty amazing work so far for the company,
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including our new logo.
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You can let him know what you think of that
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in the comments below,
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but brace yourselves my friends,
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because this is going to be a shocker.
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So what do you got buddy?
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Oh, okay.
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Okay.
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He does win some bonus points because this is some of the
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most amazing, amazing, amazing, amazing, amazing, amazing,
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shadow box decor that I think I have ever seen.
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Is this your Game Boy Color?
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Yeah.
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Yeah, all right.
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And this is your original Game Boy
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with your red and blue?
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No.
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Oh, this is a film camera.
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That's a film camera.
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Okay, so you're kind of a photography nerd?
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I am a photographer.
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Okay, right.
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Because there's so many lenses back here,
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I can't even tell.
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You gotta get a shot of this .
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Look at this.
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So you have an iMac 5K.
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How much did this bad boy cost you?
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My parents gave it to me as a gift.
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Wow, nice parents.
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So you got a four gigahertz Core i7.
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You got 32 gigs of RAM.
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This is a pretty tricked out machine, I think, actually.
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Oh, yeah.
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You guys might be wondering
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how this guy even got a job here.
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And the answer is, at least he's a gamer.
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All the-
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Oh, the Pokemon fandom is real.
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All right, so at least he gets
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some street cred points for that.
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Who's next for the wall of shame?
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Well, I'm gonna give you one hint.
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As I take off my feet to,
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take off my feet, goddammit.
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As I remove my shoes to enter his domicile.
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Yes, my friends, it is Dennis.
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You might know him as DennyIsHung
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from his gaming and cooking streams.
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Okay, you need four eight.
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Why is this so hard?
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Look, I know how to do it.
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Oh, oh .
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But when it comes to his PC setup,
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he comes up a little short.
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Dennis, do you just not do dishes?
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Like, are these just,
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do you use disposable cups for everything?
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No.
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Oh my god, they're dirty.
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I wash them and-
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George, you just play a lot of beer pong.
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It's quite the system for your paddle storage up here.
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I didn't know you were into boating.
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Well, at least you're consistent
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because your kayak setup is every bit as clean
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and organized as your PC.
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Yeah, you will love it.
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So here it is.
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This is the gaming corner.
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Yes.
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Of shame.
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So you got a fake cockroach.
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One of these people's not working.
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But you don't know which one.
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I have a lot of money, so I can flee any time.
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Let's see if I can find anything
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that was stolen from the office.
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I knew it, I knew it.
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That's not, that's...
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Yes?
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Why do you have this projector?
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Hey, I want that from the Christmas.
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Oh, you won that at the Christmas party.
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Okay, all right, all right, okay.
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I also stole...
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I guarantee you didn't buy this.
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No, I bought it, I paid for this.
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I went to Best Buy to buy this.
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Walk me through your setup.
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Okay, so my setup is very simple, very easy.
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Everyone can do it at home.
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Basically steal your keyboard and mouse from your work.
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I don't know where you work, but...
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And I have four coasters that I use to live on my laptop
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so the fan, the heat can come up from here.
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That's actually not the stupidest thing
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I've ever heard.
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And these are like fancy.
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Wow, these are like marble or something.
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Did you steal these from the office?
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Look, they match.
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No, no.
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This is mine.
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No.
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Yeah, this is not Linus Media Group property.
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No, no, no, Linus, I asked Brandon, no.
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So you asked Brandon if you could take my stuff.
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He said, yeah, sure, we don't use it.
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So this is actually pretty good hardware.
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Dennis is rocking a 6700 HQ.
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He's got a GTX 1060.
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I just found more.
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No, you stole more stuff.
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Okay.
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I wasn't even looking for non-tech items.
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I bet you took all these games.
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Oh, so the karaoke microphone.
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Okay, I pay for this.
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I pay for this.
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I reimbursed you.
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This is the apartment of Laser James.
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What's my name?
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You told me your name was Big Papa.
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I could never forget that.
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I probably wouldn't have hired this guy
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if I'd known the state of his computer.
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Where is your computer?
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Right this way.
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So you walk past the Google Home and the Chromecast
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and all the Philips Hue lights and the Smart Lock
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and the kitty litter.
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It's not about having the greatest spec in the world.
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That's not what PC Master Race is.
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PCMR is proper respect for the PC
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and the hardware in it such as it is.
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This is not proper respect for the PC.
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High performance battling drone.
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Okay, that's pretty cool.
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Collecting dust.
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Really?
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I have a Microsoft Surface Pro.
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That's my daily driver.
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Speaking of all your smart home device crap,
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did you steal this from the office?
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No.
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Oh, it's kibble.
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Do you still want me to throw it in your mouth?
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Oh, it smells, it tastes like dog breath.
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Gonna wash out my mouth here.
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Okay, so you have no room for a gaming PC,
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but you've got like a bunch of quails.
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I mean, look at, oh wow, what if they get out?
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Can they fly?
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Are they wings clipped or?
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They probably won't.
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You're a .
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Is that that one's name?
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Yeah, it's a .
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Okay, and you eat the eggs?
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And is that covered in poo or is that just the color?
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No, it's just what they look like.
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Okay, cool.
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X58.
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So you had a decent rig at one point and you abandoned us.
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I didn't really, I stopped gaming.
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Hey man, I'm married now, okay?
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It's a different world.
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If we fix this up, will you hook it up?
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I've actually been wanting to watch less Netflix
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and play more video games.
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I think it's a good,
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husband-wife activity.
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Do you know how many people out there
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have socket 1366 chips and would die
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for a working X58 motherboard
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and yours is just sitting collecting dust?
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You don't know that it works.
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You may never leave, Linus.
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Whoa, oh my God.
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Okay, so your job for this part is to stand there
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and look ashamed.
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Look at, yeah, head down.
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More ashamed.
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More like full on.
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Thank you, James, that's good shame.
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We're handing James's machine.
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Over to Ivan, who is going to be revitalizing it.
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All right, bring him in.
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So, congratulations, James.
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You suck, but it worked out for you
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because we just can't have someone on staff
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who's not able to hone their gaming skills.
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So we're gonna take this off and, ah, yes.
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So Intel and actually some of our other partners
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went all out.
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I thought you were just getting a CPU motherboard,
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and RAM upgrade.
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But this thing has actually tricked the math right out.
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So you got a Core i7-8700K, a 760 series NVMe SSD.
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You've got an ASUS Strix motherboard.
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You've got 16 gigs of Corsair Vengeance Pro RGB memory.
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You've got an H60 cooler.
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So this is their new upgraded one with the new fans
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and all that kind of stuff.
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You've got RGB lighting courtesy of Corsair.
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And a GTX 1070 Strix from ASUS.
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Oh yeah, and by the way,
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your hard drive is now Optane accelerated.
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So you've got two M.2s.
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So even though this hard drive is like ghetto AF, 640 gigs,
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you should still actually get good loading times
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off of the games that you put on it.
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You didn't get a power supply upgrade though,
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cause that was still good enough.
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So this thing will actually game better than my machine now.
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And of course in true LTT fashion,
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we left the case as is.
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So you can go full sleeper style.
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You can actually disable these lights and software
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if you want no one to be able to tell what's under the hood.
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Night, night.
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That was awkward.
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Sleeper.
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Wow, there is no segue on earth
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that can get me from that awful joke to this.
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So let's just close this out with some benchmark scores.
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This machine is looking pretty beast.
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So for those of you thinking, you know, and I'm like,
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an i7 is an i7,
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cause technically we did upgrade our i7 to an i7.
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We'd recommend that you keep in mind
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how much better a new i7 can be than an old one
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during Intel's Gamer Days 2018 sale.
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It runs from September 1st to September 16th,
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and we'll have more links to details below.
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But basically what it is,
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is not only one of the best times of the year
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to get upgraded with gaming gear from top brands,
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like the one seen in this video,
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but it's also a great way to participate
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in tons of giveaways and prize draws.
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And check that out below.
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So thanks for watching guys.
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Also down there is our merch store,
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which has cool shirts like this one
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and our community forum, which you should definitely join.
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I can't believe how balls to the wall
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this machine ended up being.