Trying to Get Some Actual Work Done: Free Geek Vlog Part 2
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2016-05-06
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1,917 words · ~9 min read
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This ain't no love parade. This ain't no love.
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We're back at FreeGeek Vancouver for more vlogging. So, uh, follow along with
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the exploits of, well, probably Dennis and Teran are going to be pretty
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interesting storylines here. So, uh, obviously we're filming this before we
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start, but, uh, yeah, we're going to be reusing, reducing, recycling, reselling,
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rebuilding, and doing all those re things with computers, and it's going to be freaking awesome.
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we are at the disassembly station. Gloves are required where we take apart
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the stuff that's too old or too broken to really be of much use to anybody. Um,
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so the point here is to pretty much find stuff like these old Pentium Pro CPUs,
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which are chalk full of valuable metals like gold. Y
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gold, too. Check this out. This computer
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has 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10. What am I
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supposed to do with the floppy disc? 11 12 13 14
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rear accessible expansion slots. That is
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a lot of video cards. I wish I had a board like this for uh seven gamers, one
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CPU. I could do 14 gamers, one CPU.
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Assuming I could find a similar dual power supply setup for that with like
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120 mm cooling fans on each power
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supply. 420 watts total. Yeah, the power
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density is a little higher. I mean, Silverstone has a 650 watt that's like
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this big now. Oh, sick. Look at this pennium pro.
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Pentium pro, my friends.
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I'mma stick a cap in your That is really not what that means.
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I I know. I'mma stick a cap in your
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That's not really what that means at all. In your
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Hang on. Hang on. Okay. Push it in. Hey, so we're done with that one.
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What can we um What else can we do? This pile of stuff. Yeah, I think this this
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pile is all the there's so much here. Okay, here.
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Here you take one of these. I'll take the other one. We'll see who does it quicker.
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Taran and I are going to race to see who can disassemble this quicker.
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Purple's winning already.
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Yeah, I don't think that's how that's supposed to work. How do I take If you fake wine, you're whining. Okay,
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just there's no screws.
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Wait, so you guys are racing and you're having Lionus help you?
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This is my secret weapon is to just have Lionus do it for me.
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Yeah, I'm actually not sure how this side panel comes off. Yeah. CF doesn't know. How am I supposed
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to know? It's unlocked. Um, pop the front bezel
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off. Oh, interesting. Wait, the front comes off first?
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I think the whole thing comes off the front. So, I think it goes the other way.
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See those? I used to play a game called like Mother Goose or [ __ ] Mixed up Mother Goose,
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man. Mother Goose. I had the same game. Me, too. Yeah, I beat it several times.
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Good for you. Do you remember the game? Dang it, Taran. It's not about beating
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mixed up Mother Goose. It's not hard. If you look in here, you can see this
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clip that's holding it. Okay, for heaven's sakes. Okay, me and racing, so you got to give this back to
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me.
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Okay, I was I was looking in the kitchen for
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muffins. I couldn't find any. This is not hard. taking stuff apart.
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It's fun to take stuff apart, but it's
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actually not that easy cuz some stuff I'm not sure if it's just I have to use
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a screwdriver or should I just like break it?
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Actually, yeah, this is a lot harder than I thought it would be. Yeah, cuz there's some tape under the
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thing. It would be easier if you were allowed to break things. Yeah,
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we're not allowed to break things. So, I've been taking apart a tape drive.
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We found it right here. It has a SATA connection and an LSI controller as you
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can see right there. I'm assuming this guy's dead or else it wouldn't be in
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this pile. But if it wasn't, this would be worth a ton. Random little hidden
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treasures all over here in the store, which is behind us right now. But don't
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worry about it. There's a whole bunch of little things I don't even know if for sale that I've never seen before in my
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entire life. Super awesome. Awesome.
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So, this is kind of like the chill out station where you dig through all of the
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cables and pieces of cables and you chop the ends off of them and then you can
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you can actually sell the copper or the aluminum for a higher price than if they
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were still sheets and still had connectors on them. The issue that Luke
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and I found with this station is that they have a lot of really good stuff in
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here like these. Yeah, these are awesome. So, these are
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actually for uh jumping two power
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supplies off of the same motherboard so that you can have a dual power supply
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system like what Austin was trying to do in the last scrapyard wars. They've got
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about a bazillion of these riser cards 1
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to 16 for running like Bitcoin machines basically. So, probably someone who had
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an entire farm of Bitcoin machines or a
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whole bunch of people who had entire farms of Bitcoin machines cuz there's
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actually like an obscene amount of these cables. Like, we can probably pick out
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as many as we wanted to. I think the video card Bitcoin mining
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trend is is done. I think it's dead. There's There's a
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lot. There's other cables in here that are crazy as well. I don't know this.
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Why is there Then basically all the end pieces go in
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here. Cuz these are the actually like
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nonvaluable parts because they're going to be mostly plastic and whatnot. So
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they use these like giant cutters. Just clunk.
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We all knew. We all knew where this mouse was going to end up. Hey. Whoa.
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Whoa. Whoa. Are you throwing these away, too? Do you know what these are?
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Coupers. No, these are for running dual power
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supplies. Oh, really? So, this jumps the green and the black
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pin. So, you can run two power supplies at the same time when you uh when you
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power on the system. Tell me Austin could use this in Scrapyard Wars.
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I am telling you Austin should have used this in Scrapyard Wars. Yeah. I mean, I
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know you guys can't keep everything, but like these these are actually like these
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again are probably about 510 bucks a pop. Yeah.
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I I mean, I don't know who you would sell them to. That's the issue. Finding the buyer.
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Yeah, finding the buyer is the hard part. But, uh, jeez, I feel like I could
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spend all day digging through this cable bin now.
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So, I'm down to 2.5 in drives. I'm going
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to try to go through all of them all at once and just see what happens.
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Why is audio taking stuff apart? Oh, that's so hard.
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And like you have to you have to take it apart.
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So it's not really broken, but
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it's kind of broken.
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What have you broken now? You're alive. You have a flathead.
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Why is flathead? Edel, my computer's not working. What
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should I do? Uh, can you blow on the cartridge
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and put the CPU back in? Yeah. Okay.
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Why so quiet? Cuz you're slow. Here, stop. Go up.
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Do it again. There you go. I like that sound.
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Fish eye. Does it work?
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No. No. Oh,
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that's really fun. Yeah. Whoa. Sorry.
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I thought that stopped at the top.
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Oh, look at all that copper. Whoa. So, it's like an elevating optical
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drive so it can move out of the way if you need to work on it. That's actually pretty sick.
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That guy. Sometimes you operate a camera.
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Um, cool. Camera operator.
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Multi-talented. Wait, I thought you did operate a camera for a lot of Linus'
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videos. Yeah, actually I did. But not that one of that sensor. Yeah, a much simpler camera.
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Yeah. There's one button that would zoom in and zoom out.
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Yes, my friends, we finally hooked up the seven gamers machine and all of us
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played Team Fortress 2. Well, some of us
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