who has the best pc at llt

 - The last time we invadedthe privacy of our staff, entering their homes and riflingthrough their belongings, it was for the Wall of Shame, showing you guys the three worst computers out of everyone who works at a Linus... At a Linus... At Linus Tech Tips. This time around, we are gonna find the three best machines outof everybody who works here, except there is one small challenge. Last time, we took the very worst one and gave them a free upgrade. This time around, thisis already the people who have the most balling setups, so we had to dig pretty deep to find anything that would be an upgrade. So Intel, our sponsor for today's video, has provided a Core i9-9900K, and Asus chipped in one of their Maximus ROGgaming motherboards as well. So let's head into ourfirst contestant here. I can tell you one thing: They definitely have a bettergaming rig than a barbecue. - [Jake] Wow. - I thought it was a propane one, but it's actually, that'sactually, that's nice. - Look down there, wehave a natural gas one that's routed into the house.- That's a wire brush. - And there's another one-- I shouldn't be a hater. Shouldn't be a hater.- We have three. Three of 'em.- I just... (upbeat music) So our first stop, ratherunsurprisingly, is Jake's house, or rather, I shouldsay, Jake's mom's house, which might explain whyJake has so much budget to spend on his gaming setup. One thing he doesn'tapparently have budget for is a soldering iron,although I gotta say, Jake, I really appreciate you helpfully taking all the things that you'vestolen from the office and putting them in one place for me so that I don't haveto go digging for them like I did at Dennis' house. - I also stole- - I guarantee you didn't buy this. - No! I bought it, I paid for this. - I actually was lookingfor this yesterday. - This is like our third soldering iron, and I borrowed it for like two days. - Well, I was looking for this one. - What about the floss? Oh. Uh, are you flossing right now? - I actually have not seen Jake's setup. There's some unusualthings like, for example, this UPS that's definitelyfrom the office. - [Jake] Yes. Um... - Why do you have so many wireless mice? - (laughs) I like to switch itup sometimes. That's a G305. - You've got a G PRO Wireless. You already have the king of gaming mice. - I like the G305, and then the 403 is justkinda nostalgia, you know? - Let's see if he hasall of them plugged in. Okay, this one is indeed actually active. This one is also pluggedin. What the hell? - I also have another 403, two 502s, and I think there's a G900 somewhere. - Ooh!- Oh god. Yeah, the cables are kinda short. - [Linus] So what are you already running? Wow, is this ITX? - So this case is actually for mATX, but the board that I had was ITX. And that graphics card is so massive that I can't even puteven put anything else in PCIe slots, so whatever. - [Linus] I'm just tryingto figure out how much of this stuff is from the office. - [Jake] Literally none of it. - Literally none of it? You know that RAM has aninventory sticker on it, right? - [Jake] Okay, well,I bought it from work. - [Linus] This is a prettybanging rig. 2080 Ti. 16 gigs RAM. What CPU is that in there? - [Jake] It's a 7700K. - Okay, well at leastthat would be an upgrade. On the subject of mechanic, I really like your decal that you've got on your rear panel here. - Yeah, so that's actually my old car that some guy hand-drew. He sent me a sticker and Istuck it on the side of my case. That Volta cable I did not pay for. - Oh, this one?(Jake laughs) - So I actually saw this trick online. You use the Volta cableand stick the little one- or two-gram dongle-y bit in the mouse and then, assuming thatsomebody isn't holding it, it just goes like that,and you just go bloop, and it hooks up, charges the mouse. - What about this chair? - I think I bought thatchair from work for $10. - No way.- It was broken on the bottom, on the casters.- Oh. - And then I got a new base for it. And it's kinda wonky- - Yeah, all right.- But it's good enough. It's better than theIKEA chair I had before. - This is actually a pretty sick setup. You've got two Acer Predator X34s. So these are 100 hertz. I see you've helpfully put the refresh rate counter up there.- I love that thing. It's great.- Yeah. Okay. 3440 x 1440 ultrawide monitors, and then I'm guessing these areyour old monitors over here. - [Jake] I actually boughtthose as side monitors off a guy from Craigslistfor really cheap. - [Linus] So you seem to bekinda set up for streaming, but as far as I know youdon't actually game stream, so are you just like a poser streamer? - I didn't stream for like eight months. I used to do it quite a bit, and then recently I've doneit once or twice a week, just on the not-yet-LTT"Minecraft" server. - So why don't you tell usabout your audio setup here? Because it seems to be a fairbit better than "WAN Show." - So overall it's actually pretty simple. This is the same preampwe use on "WAN Show." This is where I got theinspiration to buy it. So I have an Audio-Technica AT2035 with a stupid pop filter that's just there to protect it from food when I'm eating, with a Rode PSA1 boom arm. So that goes right into the preamp, which is pre-amping oursignal, and then it goes over to this little,crappy Behringer interface. - But your webcam kinda... - It does kinda suck.- Sucks. Yeah. - [Jake] But it's honestlygood enough. (laughs) - You unplug it when you're not using it? - Well, see, the thingwith this stupid webcam is this is how long the cable is. It's like three feet. But it's conveniently just long enough to plug in right there, so I might as well just unplug it and tuck it behind whenI'm not using it, right? - [Linus] Why do you needtwo 34-inch ultrawides' worth of desktop real estate? - Ah... Pretty much just haveeverything you need access to while you're streaming,while you're gaming, and then have your game on the main screen and don't have to Tabout, like literally ever. - Pretty sick setup. With that said, I think you might end up giving up some style points here. This stand. This is three two-by-eights. This is pretty bad, Jake. - I mean, okay-- Also, also, I couldn't help noticing that even if this hardwarewasn't stolen from work, it's not really being treatedwith the proper respect. Down here, under the bed, we've got a hard drive-- Those are dead hard drives. - [Linus] Got another hard drive. - Dead!- And what is this? Do your laundry.(Jake laughs) Got a PS3.- Those, okay, so that- - [Linus] Got another, more different PS3. - One of those PS3s is running- - This is fun!- Is running Linux. - I bet this I/O shieldis stolen from the office. - Uh... - I want more monitors too. - Yeah, I don't know if it'snecessarily more efficient, but it is convenient. - So contender number twowas sort of a surprise to me, because he's more into board games than computer games as far as I knew, but our next setup is actuallynone other than Tyler's, our warehouse and inventoryand logistics manager. - Yeah, and I think theimportant thing to remember when you step into my homeis that at the office, I am the organization and cleanliness guy, and this is my setup. - Wow! Okay. So I've seen Tyler working on this kind of stuff at the office. Oh, I think I actually sawyou working on this guy. - Yeah, you did. - Tyler actually paints his own figurines. Would figurine be the correct term? - Miniature.- Miniature. I knew there was a properterm that I was missing here. I think he does aspectacular job with them. I'll let you guys be the judge though. Why don't we make our wayin towards the computer? So gotta get past theboxes of new miniatures that you still haven't worked on. Oh, some of them havesome paint on them though. - They got their white coats on, and then they got their green trim. And then I have my collectionof various romance books and real human hairthat I use for cosplay. - [Linus] Along witha list of real letters to fictional people that youapparently need to write. - Yeah, so that's a series of short stories that I'm working on. - "To the other participantsof this Mexican standoff," "To the poor bastards on theother side of the blast door," and "To the anonymous man givingme constructive criticism." - That's just more painting stuff. - Yeah, with something. Something got on there. - Yeah, it's just all over. - I can only focus whensomething's this close in front of me.- I think that's how close it's supposed to be whenyou're working on it. - I don't like it. - Yeah, I'm not a fan either. - In terms of general setup here, there's some highlights alreadyand there's some lowlights. We've got a G502 mouse. (clucks) Like it. We've got one of those free mouse pads that they gave away in the early '90s. This is a freakin' LG ultrawidemonitor here. 34 inches. You're connected via HDMI, aren't you? - Yes, I am. - He's running at 49 hertz instead of 60 hertz on his ultrawide because of the bandwidth limitation of the HDMI input on this model. Tyler. This keyboard- - This keyboard-- Is quite frankly disgusting. - [Tyler] Needs to beswapped out, yeah. It is, uh- - Or run through thedishwasher. Or something. Something, please. - It has been with me for a long time. - Your computer might actually be the cleanest component of this entire rig. - [Tyler] Well, it's the newest. - Oh! What kinda specs are we looking at here? - [Tyler] So it's an i7-8700, GeForce 1080 Ti, 32 gigabytes of RAM- - RGB.- An SSD and a hard drive. - [Linus] So did someone at the office put this together for you?- Oh yeah, this was all Ed. I was going to do it on my own because I felt veryconfident in my abilities, but then, as soon as Istarted putting it together, I realized that it wasquite out of my league. - [Linus] So what inspired you to put together a rig like this? - [Tyler] So first, I wantedto play "Fallout '76," but then it became quickly apparent that it was a terrible game. So then, after that, I wanted to play "The OuterWorlds" when it comes out, so I'm pretty eager for that. At the moment, mostly I use it for "Civilization," which is a little- - This is a pretty overkill "Civ" machine. - Yeah, it's a littleover-the-kill for "Civ," although I did see a lotof performance improvement in the later game, when normally the processing power starts to lag down just because there's somuch stuff on the map. But it's still more ofa machine that I built for gaming in the next two to three years, as opposed to stuffthat's just out right now. - [Linus] Tyler, doyou have a screwdriver? - I think Kristen hasone. Just let me check. - Okay. - [Tyler] Do we have a screwdriver? - So iFixit told us we had to get rid ofall the first-gen kits so that they would stopappearing on camera, and Tyler helpfully tookone off of our hands for us. - Yeah.- Stealing it. - [Tyler] I jumped right on that grenade. - [Linus] I knew I wasgonna find something stolen. - [Tyler] It's not stolenif you give it to me. - [Linus] Did Ed know whenhe built you this machine that it was going to be subjected to this? - [Tyler] Subjected to what? - I mean, it does sit in afairly gloriously nerdy place. I'm willing to bet there is a backstory for literally everything in this nook. What's the backstory forthis surprise container? - So this was brought tome from one of my friends, who I'm actually in arole-playing podcast with. He went on a trip toJapan and he brought back unique gifts for each of us. I believe it is a little spirit animal- - You don't know what it is. - [Tyler] I thought it was a goat. - The Kindle with the dead battery. - Yeah, it's a Kindlethat's not plugged in. - You don't like E Ink? - I love this Kindle. That's a cat toy. Obviously Mycroft batted itbehind my computer station. - 17 months ago. - Possibly. I enjoy Coke. (David laughs) - Oh my god. - [Tyler] Oh, the originalVHS tapes of "Star Wars?" - Well-- Or, sorry, the last launch of the original ones before they digitally remastered them. - I had this, and my parentsthrew it away when they moved. - Yeah, I found thosein a thrift shop for $3. - What? Do they work though? - They do. - And you have a VHS player? - I do not. - This place has a lot ofcharacter, but I'll say this: if you're ever doing like acleanup Saturday or something, call me, I would be happy to help. - Yeah. I'll call you whenI need to paint my walls. - First Dennis, now Brandon... Taran was like, "Oh, Ididn't know you paint walls. I would've had you come paint my walls." It's not actually a service I offer. So we've had some good ones so far, but Jono's promises to be the cutest of our setup tours today. Not because Jono isparticularly cute, sorry Jono, but because he has a new puppy! Oh my goodness! You can pick her up? - Yep. She's 52 pounds of love. - You were almost Sho Pao? - [Jono] If it was a male dogI was gonna call it Subway. - [David] From "Community?" - Yeah, (laughs) exactly! You got it! - So I'm liking the setup here overall. You've got the whiteboardfor the organization. You got the DualShockcontroller over there. Do you actually use that for PC gaming? Is that why it's there?- No, no, for PS4. I used to have it over here, but I don't play any consoles anymore, so it's all about PC gaming. - Don't suck up. - Why? So basically enough, just, let's say, for the monitors, I have a PG279Q here- - Cadence! Quit licking my hand! - (laughs) So cute! And before I actuallystarted working here, I actually watched your review on it and I was like (snapsfingers) gotta get it. - Now, you're definitelygetting some marks off for your other monitor, because the viewingangles on that are so bad I thought you had a privacy filter. - Yeah, so this one is,basically enough, was... Aw, I don't even know how old this is. I think it's probablylike six, seven years ago. But I keep it vertical because every time I do any spreadsheets, Excel, or when I do my after/beforework kind of stock trading, it's all nice and vertical for my charts. - I am liking the desk pad here. - Mm-hmm.- Not bad. - [Jono] Aw jeez, Rick! - Pretty good. I'm liking it. All right, but we're gonnahave to move it out of the way so we can admire the setup here. This is from the office, isn't it? - [Jono] Yep, so I gotit at a super good price. - How much did you end up paying for this? - 200. - [Linus] Really? For the Lian Li desk? - I was actually preparedto pay 500 bucks, Tyler. - And you've got apretty sick rig in here. So that looks like an RTX 2080? - [Jono] Yeah, 2080 Ti. - [Linus] 2080 Ti. - I was trying to play"Anno" with you guys one time and it would just notwork, so I had to upgrade. - And then what are welooking at for CPU here? - So that's an 8700K, not overclocked, 'cause I just don't feellike bothering with that. So right now I havethe H150i from Corsair, but I did change thefans from the stock ones, so they're ML120s, just because of RGB, and I like the future tech of maglev. I got them on sale! I think it was on Neweggfor like 40 bucks for three. - Oh, that's not too bad. - Yeah, that's actually pretty good. I am rich enough, maybein two or three months, to do a full custom water cooling on it. (metal clangs) - That's the sound ofa quality water bottle dropping on the floor. - It's super good.- LTTStore.com. - (clucks) Yeah. (snaps fingers) - Why do you need it so quiet? - I don't know. I just wannado custom water cooling. - You're one of the only onesthat has paid much attention to their sound setup though. - I had to do thatbecause my old Logitech- (metal clangs) (Jono laughs)- LTTStore.com. But your gaming rig is only part of your overall computersetup, is that right? - Yes, it is. Yeah. - So this is sort of themedia and entertainment hub. Now, are you unironicallyusing an Xbox One Kinect? If I find any dancegames over here, Jono... - [Jono] I don't think so. - So even this one looks like a pretty banging machine here. So you got an NH-D15 in here, Z370, so this is probably, what? Like a 7700K or... - [Jono] That's a 8600K. - An 8600K! And then you've got a 1080 Ti in here. - [Jono] Yeah. - This is your secondary machine? - [Jono] It's for the wife. We originally builtthis for "Fallout '76," but we all know how that turned out. - That's the second timewe've heard that today! - Yeah. - [Linus] You played "Breath of the Wild-" - [Jono] Yeah. - [Linus] And then didn't touch it again. - [Jono] I haven't finished it yet. - [Linus] You haven'tfinished "Breath of the Wild?" - It just got so good Ididn't want it to end. - Now, why do you have two PS4s? - Oh, because Jillieand I can play "Destiny" and multiplayer gameslike "Watch Dog" as well. But I got those at a pawn shop. - [Linus] So basicallythese are stolen goods. - I have no idea. - Sounds pretty stolen to me. Now, I did find one that wasa bit of a cause for concern. Jono, do you have something to tell us? - So I travel at least once a year- - Okay, the first step isadmitting that you have a problem. - [Jono] Okay, okay, that. Yeah. - So welcome to therose ceremony, everyone, except instead of roses,we will be awarding a Maximus XI HERO gaming motherboard and a Core i9-9900K. This is basically the pinnaclewhen it comes to gaming, and when paired with the right hardware, it'll basically run anything under the sun at frame rates that willpretty much boggle your mind. And it can be yours if the judges, that's me, select your setup as the fame-iest. There were some pros andcons to each of your setups. Jake, yours stood outas by far the geekiest, and I mean that in avery functional sense. Nobody else would've thought to strip down the housing of their webcam to make it so that it'll fit in between the bezels of their verticallystacked ultrawide monitors. Massive credit for that. What held your setupback was, quite frankly, the fact that I had totouch one of your socks. That was the most disgusting experience of my day.- You went under my bed. - That was the most disgustingexperience I had today, and I touched Tyler's keyboard. - I think it was a clean sock too. - Was it? Tyler, the vibe I got from your space was that you were more thanjust about computers and gaming. You know, your nerdy,fringe, unusual hobbies stretch far beyond just tech. I kinda feel like, you know... You know that club in high school with like two or three members? I feel like you were in that club, and then you were in the otherclub that was like that club. - I was probably leadingboth of those clubs. - With that said, you lostsome serious brownie points for how brown my hands were after I touched anything in your setup. Dude, it was disgusting. - That's fair. - Jono, you had the slickest setup. So you've got the desk PC going. You've got the whiteboard next to it. All your controllers andconsoles have a place. You've got somewhere to actually keep all of your games and stuff. I felt like you were a littletoo focused on the dog. You actually lost points forCadence being a distraction. - But she's so cute! - Exactly. Honestly, when it cametime to determine a winner, it was really, really difficult, because what it ultimatelyhad to come down to was who needed it the most. The one thing that one of you needed more than anyone else was incentive. Tyler, you're taking home a Core i9-9900K and matching motherboard,come claim your prize. But stop. Until such time as you take meup on my very generous offer to come and help you clean up your space, when I come over and we take on that place and it is cleaned to my satisfaction, I will hand you your award. Guys, stay tuned on Twitter,because it's happening. Soon. Right? - Yep. This is reallya prize for my fiance. - She actually kindaneeds it more than you. I can't talk about whatshe was working on, but it was really cool. It's NDA'd, but it's like... But what's not NDA'd is intel.com/gaming. It's a great place to find out which Intel desktopprocessor is best for you, find products that have thepower that you're looking for and get tips for building,overclocking, modding and more. If it's a gaming rig you're after, but you're just getting started, Intel's "Pre-Built Vs. Custom PC" article can help you decide the best path to start enjoying those delicious frames. So guys, thank for watching. Massive thank you to Intelfor sponsoring this video and providing this fantastic prize. Also Asus for theaccompanying motherboard. If you guys feel likeI got it wrong though, leave a comment and tell me whose epic setup you think should've won. Maybe there will be a runner-up prize. 

 - The last time we invadedthe privacy of our staff, entering their homes and riflingthrough their belongings, it was for the Wall of Shame, showing you guys the three worst computers out of everyone who works at a Linus... At a Linus... At Linus Tech Tips. This time around, we are gonna find the three best machines outof everybody who works here, except there is one small challenge. Last time, we took the very worst one and gave them a free upgrade. This time around, thisis already the people who have the most balling setups, so we had to dig pretty deep to find anything that would be an upgrade. So Intel, our sponsor for today's video, has provided a Core i9-9900K, and Asus chipped in one of their Maximus ROGgaming motherboards as well. So let's head into ourfirst contestant here. I can tell you one thing: They definitely have a bettergaming rig than a barbecue. - [Jake] Wow. - I thought it was a propane one, but it's actually, that'sactually, that's nice. - Look down there, wehave a natural gas one that's routed into the house.- That's a wire brush. - And there's another one-- I shouldn't be a hater. Shouldn't be a hater.- We have three. Three of 'em.- I just... (upbeat music) So our first stop, ratherunsurprisingly, is Jake's house, or rather, I shouldsay, Jake's mom's house, which might explain whyJake has so much budget to spend on his gaming setup. One thing he doesn'tapparently have budget for is a soldering iron,although I gotta say, Jake, I really appreciate you helpfully taking all the things that you'vestolen from the office and putting them in one place for me so that I don't haveto go digging for them like I did at Dennis' house. - I also stole- - I guarantee you didn't buy this. - No! I bought it, I paid for this. - I actually was lookingfor this yesterday. - This is like our third soldering iron, and I borrowed it for like two days. - Well, I was looking for this one. - What about the floss? Oh. Uh, are you flossing right now? - I actually have not seen Jake's setup. There's some unusualthings like, for example, this UPS that's definitelyfrom the office. - [Jake] Yes. Um... - Why do you have so many wireless mice? - (laughs) I like to switch itup sometimes. That's a G305. - You've got a G PRO Wireless. You already have the king of gaming mice. - I like the G305, and then the 403 is justkinda nostalgia, you know? - Let's see if he hasall of them plugged in. Okay, this one is indeed actually active. This one is also pluggedin. What the hell? - I also have another 403, two 502s, and I think there's a G900 somewhere. - Ooh!- Oh god. Yeah, the cables are kinda short. - [Linus] So what are you already running? Wow, is this ITX? - So this case is actually for mATX, but the board that I had was ITX. And that graphics card is so massive that I can't even puteven put anything else in PCIe slots, so whatever. - [Linus] I'm just tryingto figure out how much of this stuff is from the office. - [Jake] Literally none of it. - Literally none of it? You know that RAM has aninventory sticker on it, right? - [Jake] Okay, well,I bought it from work. - [Linus] This is a prettybanging rig. 2080 Ti. 16 gigs RAM. What CPU is that in there? - [Jake] It's a 7700K. - Okay, well at leastthat would be an upgrade. On the subject of mechanic, I really like your decal that you've got on your rear panel here. - Yeah, so that's actually my old car that some guy hand-drew. He sent me a sticker and Istuck it on the side of my case. That Volta cable I did not pay for. - Oh, this one?(Jake laughs) - So I actually saw this trick online. You use the Volta cableand stick the little one- or two-gram dongle-y bit in the mouse and then, assuming thatsomebody isn't holding it, it just goes like that,and you just go bloop, and it hooks up, charges the mouse. - What about this chair? - I think I bought thatchair from work for $10. - No way.- It was broken on the bottom, on the casters.- Oh. - And then I got a new base for it. And it's kinda wonky- - Yeah, all right.- But it's good enough. It's better than theIKEA chair I had before. - This is actually a pretty sick setup. You've got two Acer Predator X34s. So these are 100 hertz. I see you've helpfully put the refresh rate counter up there.- I love that thing. It's great.- Yeah. Okay. 3440 x 1440 ultrawide monitors, and then I'm guessing these areyour old monitors over here. - [Jake] I actually boughtthose as side monitors off a guy from Craigslistfor really cheap. - [Linus] So you seem to bekinda set up for streaming, but as far as I know youdon't actually game stream, so are you just like a poser streamer? - I didn't stream for like eight months. I used to do it quite a bit, and then recently I've doneit once or twice a week, just on the not-yet-LTT"Minecraft" server. - So why don't you tell usabout your audio setup here? Because it seems to be a fairbit better than "WAN Show." - So overall it's actually pretty simple. This is the same preampwe use on "WAN Show." This is where I got theinspiration to buy it. So I have an Audio-Technica AT2035 with a stupid pop filter that's just there to protect it from food when I'm eating, with a Rode PSA1 boom arm. So that goes right into the preamp, which is pre-amping oursignal, and then it goes over to this little,crappy Behringer interface. - But your webcam kinda... - It does kinda suck.- Sucks. Yeah. - [Jake] But it's honestlygood enough. (laughs) - You unplug it when you're not using it? - Well, see, the thingwith this stupid webcam is this is how long the cable is. It's like three feet. But it's conveniently just long enough to plug in right there, so I might as well just unplug it and tuck it behind whenI'm not using it, right? - [Linus] Why do you needtwo 34-inch ultrawides' worth of desktop real estate? - Ah... Pretty much just haveeverything you need access to while you're streaming,while you're gaming, and then have your game on the main screen and don't have to Tabout, like literally ever. - Pretty sick setup. With that said, I think you might end up giving up some style points here. This stand. This is three two-by-eights. This is pretty bad, Jake. - I mean, okay-- Also, also, I couldn't help noticing that even if this hardwarewasn't stolen from work, it's not really being treatedwith the proper respect. Down here, under the bed, we've got a hard drive-- Those are dead hard drives. - [Linus] Got another hard drive. - Dead!- And what is this? Do your laundry.(Jake laughs) Got a PS3.- Those, okay, so that- - [Linus] Got another, more different PS3. - One of those PS3s is running- - This is fun!- Is running Linux. - I bet this I/O shieldis stolen from the office. - Uh... - I want more monitors too. - Yeah, I don't know if it'snecessarily more efficient, but it is convenient. - So contender number twowas sort of a surprise to me, because he's more into board games than computer games as far as I knew, but our next setup is actuallynone other than Tyler's, our warehouse and inventoryand logistics manager. - Yeah, and I think theimportant thing to remember when you step into my homeis that at the office, I am the organization and cleanliness guy, and this is my setup. - Wow! Okay. So I've seen Tyler working on this kind of stuff at the office. Oh, I think I actually sawyou working on this guy. - Yeah, you did. - Tyler actually paints his own figurines. Would figurine be the correct term? - Miniature.- Miniature. I knew there was a properterm that I was missing here. I think he does aspectacular job with them. I'll let you guys be the judge though. Why don't we make our wayin towards the computer? So gotta get past theboxes of new miniatures that you still haven't worked on. Oh, some of them havesome paint on them though. - They got their white coats on, and then they got their green trim. And then I have my collectionof various romance books and real human hairthat I use for cosplay. - [Linus] Along witha list of real letters to fictional people that youapparently need to write. - Yeah, so that's a series of short stories that I'm working on. - "To the other participantsof this Mexican standoff," "To the poor bastards on theother side of the blast door," and "To the anonymous man givingme constructive criticism." - That's just more painting stuff. - Yeah, with something. Something got on there. - Yeah, it's just all over. - I can only focus whensomething's this close in front of me.- I think that's how close it's supposed to be whenyou're working on it. - I don't like it. - Yeah, I'm not a fan either. - In terms of general setup here, there's some highlights alreadyand there's some lowlights. We've got a G502 mouse. (clucks) Like it. We've got one of those free mouse pads that they gave away in the early '90s. This is a freakin' LG ultrawidemonitor here. 34 inches. You're connected via HDMI, aren't you? - Yes, I am. - He's running at 49 hertz instead of 60 hertz on his ultrawide because of the bandwidth limitation of the HDMI input on this model. Tyler. This keyboard- - This keyboard-- Is quite frankly disgusting. - [Tyler] Needs to beswapped out, yeah. It is, uh- - Or run through thedishwasher. Or something. Something, please. - It has been with me for a long time. - Your computer might actually be the cleanest component of this entire rig. - [Tyler] Well, it's the newest. - Oh! What kinda specs are we looking at here? - [Tyler] So it's an i7-8700, GeForce 1080 Ti, 32 gigabytes of RAM- - RGB.- An SSD and a hard drive. - [Linus] So did someone at the office put this together for you?- Oh yeah, this was all Ed. I was going to do it on my own because I felt veryconfident in my abilities, but then, as soon as Istarted putting it together, I realized that it wasquite out of my league. - [Linus] So what inspired you to put together a rig like this? - [Tyler] So first, I wantedto play "Fallout '76," but then it became quickly apparent that it was a terrible game. So then, after that, I wanted to play "The OuterWorlds" when it comes out, so I'm pretty eager for that. At the moment, mostly I use it for "Civilization," which is a little- - This is a pretty overkill "Civ" machine. - Yeah, it's a littleover-the-kill for "Civ," although I did see a lotof performance improvement in the later game, when normally the processing power starts to lag down just because there's somuch stuff on the map. But it's still more ofa machine that I built for gaming in the next two to three years, as opposed to stuffthat's just out right now. - [Linus] Tyler, doyou have a screwdriver? - I think Kristen hasone. Just let me check. - Okay. - [Tyler] Do we have a screwdriver? - So iFixit told us we had to get rid ofall the first-gen kits so that they would stopappearing on camera, and Tyler helpfully tookone off of our hands for us. - Yeah.- Stealing it. - [Tyler] I jumped right on that grenade. - [Linus] I knew I wasgonna find something stolen. - [Tyler] It's not stolenif you give it to me. - [Linus] Did Ed know whenhe built you this machine that it was going to be subjected to this? - [Tyler] Subjected to what? - I mean, it does sit in afairly gloriously nerdy place. I'm willing to bet there is a backstory for literally everything in this nook. What's the backstory forthis surprise container? - So this was brought tome from one of my friends, who I'm actually in arole-playing podcast with. He went on a trip toJapan and he brought back unique gifts for each of us. I believe it is a little spirit animal- - You don't know what it is. - [Tyler] I thought it was a goat. - The Kindle with the dead battery. - Yeah, it's a Kindlethat's not plugged in. - You don't like E Ink? - I love this Kindle. That's a cat toy. Obviously Mycroft batted itbehind my computer station. - 17 months ago. - Possibly. I enjoy Coke. (David laughs) - Oh my god. - [Tyler] Oh, the originalVHS tapes of "Star Wars?" - Well-- Or, sorry, the last launch of the original ones before they digitally remastered them. - I had this, and my parentsthrew it away when they moved. - Yeah, I found thosein a thrift shop for $3. - What? Do they work though? - They do. - And you have a VHS player? - I do not. - This place has a lot ofcharacter, but I'll say this: if you're ever doing like acleanup Saturday or something, call me, I would be happy to help. - Yeah. I'll call you whenI need to paint my walls. - First Dennis, now Brandon... Taran was like, "Oh, Ididn't know you paint walls. I would've had you come paint my walls." It's not actually a service I offer. So we've had some good ones so far, but Jono's promises to be the cutest of our setup tours today. Not because Jono isparticularly cute, sorry Jono, but because he has a new puppy! Oh my goodness! You can pick her up? - Yep. She's 52 pounds of love. - You were almost Sho Pao? - [Jono] If it was a male dogI was gonna call it Subway. - [David] From "Community?" - Yeah, (laughs) exactly! You got it! - So I'm liking the setup here overall. You've got the whiteboardfor the organization. You got the DualShockcontroller over there. Do you actually use that for PC gaming? Is that why it's there?- No, no, for PS4. I used to have it over here, but I don't play any consoles anymore, so it's all about PC gaming. - Don't suck up. - Why? So basically enough, just, let's say, for the monitors, I have a PG279Q here- - Cadence! Quit licking my hand! - (laughs) So cute! And before I actuallystarted working here, I actually watched your review on it and I was like (snapsfingers) gotta get it. - Now, you're definitelygetting some marks off for your other monitor, because the viewingangles on that are so bad I thought you had a privacy filter. - Yeah, so this one is,basically enough, was... Aw, I don't even know how old this is. I think it's probablylike six, seven years ago. But I keep it vertical because every time I do any spreadsheets, Excel, or when I do my after/beforework kind of stock trading, it's all nice and vertical for my charts. - I am liking the desk pad here. - Mm-hmm.- Not bad. - [Jono] Aw jeez, Rick! - Pretty good. I'm liking it. All right, but we're gonnahave to move it out of the way so we can admire the setup here. This is from the office, isn't it? - [Jono] Yep, so I gotit at a super good price. - How much did you end up paying for this? - 200. - [Linus] Really? For the Lian Li desk? - I was actually preparedto pay 500 bucks, Tyler. - And you've got apretty sick rig in here. So that looks like an RTX 2080? - [Jono] Yeah, 2080 Ti. - [Linus] 2080 Ti. - I was trying to play"Anno" with you guys one time and it would just notwork, so I had to upgrade. - And then what are welooking at for CPU here? - So that's an 8700K, not overclocked, 'cause I just don't feellike bothering with that. So right now I havethe H150i from Corsair, but I did change thefans from the stock ones, so they're ML120s, just because of RGB, and I like the future tech of maglev. I got them on sale! I think it was on Neweggfor like 40 bucks for three. - Oh, that's not too bad. - Yeah, that's actually pretty good. I am rich enough, maybein two or three months, to do a full custom water cooling on it. (metal clangs) - That's the sound ofa quality water bottle dropping on the floor. - It's super good.- LTTStore.com. - (clucks) Yeah. (snaps fingers) - Why do you need it so quiet? - I don't know. I just wannado custom water cooling. - You're one of the only onesthat has paid much attention to their sound setup though. - I had to do thatbecause my old Logitech- (metal clangs) (Jono laughs)- LTTStore.com. But your gaming rig is only part of your overall computersetup, is that right? - Yes, it is. Yeah. - So this is sort of themedia and entertainment hub. Now, are you unironicallyusing an Xbox One Kinect? If I find any dancegames over here, Jono... - [Jono] I don't think so. - So even this one looks like a pretty banging machine here. So you got an NH-D15 in here, Z370, so this is probably, what? Like a 7700K or... - [Jono] That's a 8600K. - An 8600K! And then you've got a 1080 Ti in here. - [Jono] Yeah. - This is your secondary machine? - [Jono] It's for the wife. We originally builtthis for "Fallout '76," but we all know how that turned out. - That's the second timewe've heard that today! - Yeah. - [Linus] You played "Breath of the Wild-" - [Jono] Yeah. - [Linus] And then didn't touch it again. - [Jono] I haven't finished it yet. - [Linus] You haven'tfinished "Breath of the Wild?" - It just got so good Ididn't want it to end. - Now, why do you have two PS4s? - Oh, because Jillieand I can play "Destiny" and multiplayer gameslike "Watch Dog" as well. But I got those at a pawn shop. - [Linus] So basicallythese are stolen goods. - I have no idea. - Sounds pretty stolen to me. Now, I did find one that wasa bit of a cause for concern. Jono, do you have something to tell us? - So I travel at least once a year- - Okay, the first step isadmitting that you have a problem. - [Jono] Okay, okay, that. Yeah. - So welcome to therose ceremony, everyone, except instead of roses,we will be awarding a Maximus XI HERO gaming motherboard and a Core i9-9900K. This is basically the pinnaclewhen it comes to gaming, and when paired with the right hardware, it'll basically run anything under the sun at frame rates that willpretty much boggle your mind. And it can be yours if the judges, that's me, select your setup as the fame-iest. There were some pros andcons to each of your setups. Jake, yours stood outas by far the geekiest, and I mean that in avery functional sense. Nobody else would've thought to strip down the housing of their webcam to make it so that it'll fit in between the bezels of their verticallystacked ultrawide monitors. Massive credit for that. What held your setupback was, quite frankly, the fact that I had totouch one of your socks. That was the most disgusting experience of my day.- You went under my bed. - That was the most disgustingexperience I had today, and I touched Tyler's keyboard. - I think it was a clean sock too. - Was it? Tyler, the vibe I got from your space was that you were more thanjust about computers and gaming. You know, your nerdy,fringe, unusual hobbies stretch far beyond just tech. I kinda feel like, you know... You know that club in high school with like two or three members? I feel like you were in that club, and then you were in the otherclub that was like that club. - I was probably leadingboth of those clubs. - With that said, you lostsome serious brownie points for how brown my hands were after I touched anything in your setup. Dude, it was disgusting. - That's fair. - Jono, you had the slickest setup. So you've got the desk PC going. You've got the whiteboard next to it. All your controllers andconsoles have a place. You've got somewhere to actually keep all of your games and stuff. I felt like you were a littletoo focused on the dog. You actually lost points forCadence being a distraction. - But she's so cute! - Exactly. Honestly, when it cametime to determine a winner, it was really, really difficult, because what it ultimatelyhad to come down to was who needed it the most. The one thing that one of you needed more than anyone else was incentive. Tyler, you're taking home a Core i9-9900K and matching motherboard,come claim your prize. But stop. Until such time as you take meup on my very generous offer to come and help you clean up your space, when I come over and we take on that place and it is cleaned to my satisfaction, I will hand you your award. Guys, stay tuned on Twitter,because it's happening. Soon. Right? - Yep. This is reallya prize for my fiance. - She actually kindaneeds it more than you. I can't talk about whatshe was working on, but it was really cool. It's NDA'd, but it's like... But what's not NDA'd is intel.com/gaming. It's a great place to find out which Intel desktopprocessor is best for you, find products that have thepower that you're looking for and get tips for building,overclocking, modding and more. If it's a gaming rig you're after, but you're just getting started, Intel's "Pre-Built Vs. Custom PC" article can help you decide the best path to start enjoying those delicious frames. So guys, thank for watching. Massive thank you to Intelfor sponsoring this video and providing this fantastic prize. Also Asus for theaccompanying motherboard. If you guys feel likeI got it wrong though, leave a comment and tell me whose epic setup you think should've won. Maybe there will be a runner-up prize.