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. 

how to build a gaming pc in 2021

 - Are you ready to build a gaming PC? Well, you have clicked on the right video. Hello and welcome to our 2021, gaming PC tutorial, proudly sponsored by ourfriends here at Micro Center. By the end of this video, you should have everythingyou need to know on not only picking out your components, but also how to put them together and build yourself thatsweet new gaming rig. Shall we get started? The first place to start, is with your processor. Now this is really the brain of the system and it will impact, a lot of your performanceacross the board. And today we're gonna be taking advantage, of the Ryzen 5, 5600X. Now of course, this has been an incrediblypopular processor and therefore it is notthe easiest to find. Although of course, we'll have links, to all of the components we're using, in the description of this video, but this is a great place to start. Now when it comes to buildingyourself a gaming PC, the gaming part is kind of important and that is where, agraphics card comes in. Now in this case, we're going with the GigabyteAORUS MASTER RTX 3070. This is a high-end card. It's not incredibly over the top, like a 3090 or something would be, but this is a solid option. Especially if you wanna build something, in that, high, but not extreme kind of price category, which is what this wholebuild is all about. Now the next part, is a little bit more complicated and it is your motherboard. So there are a bunch ofthings to keep in mind when choosing a motherboard, but the most basic version of it, is this. A motherboard is essentially the, mother-board that you connect all of your components to. First of all, you need to make sure, that it is compatible with your CPU. So you see a little AMD Ryzen logo here. This means that it will work, with our Ryzen 5 processor. But the other thing thatyou need to consider, is the actual chipset and the features that are on board. So this is a B550 board, which means that it should, fully support everything, on our Ryzen 5 processor. So this is an ATX board. This is the standard size. You've got seven slots. You can load up like graphics card, you can throw in likeon network card, wifi, all kinds of stuff, includinga capture card, right. This is probably what most people, are gonna wanna go for. But for our purposes, the B550 AORUS MASTER is perfect. Next up, we have our memory, otherwise known as RAM. Now this is a little bit more simple. There are only two things, you really need pay attention to. Well, three, if you care about theaesthetic and the RGB. But two as far as the actualfunctional difference. First of all, 16 gigs I think, is a good sweet spot, for a lot of game PC builds. So this one is clocked at 3,600 megahertz. Which is a good sweet spot, for Ryzen both third and fifth generation. Obviously, you need tosave a couple bucks, you can go a little bit, lower than that. But that is the kit, thatwe've opted for here. So today we are gonna be using, probably the best SSD on the market for gamers right now, which is the Samsung 980 PRO. Not only is this gonna give you incredibly fast load times but also is gonna give you plenty of storage space as well. Now we've got all ofour shiny new components but the only thing we're missing here, besides the case, is something to power them with. Which is where the aptly named power supply comes in. So this is the NZXT C750, which is what we're gonna use, for this system. When it comes to pickingyourself a power supply, there are a few things to keep in mind. First of all, is the wattage. Kind of self explanatory. The whole purpose, of the power supply, is to power your components. Now they do actually, come in a couple different sizes. So there are small form factor supplies. Those are usually only used, for very small form factor builds. Most of the time, you're gonna use a standard size ATX. But, if you take a lookon the back of this box, you'll see a little 80 plus gold badge. This is important. Now while, yes, we can certainly get acheaper 750 watt power supply. Those are generally not 80 plus rated and you really wanna look, for that 80 plus rating. Now comes the fun part, the case. Now, this is really where you get to customize your system, right? So of course you can pick the actual level of performance of your components. But the case is themost visual part, right? So this is very much gonna come down, to what you want yourgaming PC to look like. So this right here, isa mid tower ATX chassis. This is probably the most, common, sort of case you're gonna find and this will be able tofit all of our components. And then some we can add water cooling. We can do a lot of stuff, inside this chassis. Now before we finish up. There's one more item, that you may or may not need, which is a CPU cooler. Now, to clarify, you need a CPU cooler. The difference is, some processors actually come with, pretty decent stock heat sinks in the box. We're gonna go with the NZXT Kraken X53. Every case has different configurations, for, how big the radiator can be. How many fans it can support, what kind of locations, all that kind of stuff. This is a pretty safe bet. This should fit in most chassis. But before you pick up,any kind of liquid cooling, make sure it fits in your case. Before we continue, Micro Center has a very coolpromotion going on right now. Where you can get yourself, a free 32 gigabyte micro SD card as well as a free 32 gigabyte USB stick. And when I say free, I mean free. Of course you have to pick it up in store. But other than that, check it out at thelink in the description and what could be betterthan something free? Other than I don't know, maybe a, a free gaming PC tutorial on YouTube perhaps. Now comes the fun part. So before we actually get started all you need to do, is make sure you have anice work area prepped. Get yourself a nice sized table. Just a hard surface and try not to build on carpet. For tools, you need exactly one thing, a Phillips screwdriver. Now I have my handy kit here, which is an electric screwdriver. I have a bunch of bits, but honestly this is notcompletely necessary. You have electric screwdriver. It's a little bit faster, but generally speaking, as long as you have aPhillips screwdriver. That is the, only tool, we will need to buildourselves a gaming PC. So the first step, is to start disassembling the case. You don't have to go completely crazy and every case is slightly different. So, for example the H510, has a nice tempered glass window. But all we do, is setthat off to the side. And then, if we wanna flip itaround to the backside, we can also remove, the couple of screws that are holding the back panel on. So with that, we have mucheasier access to the system. So this is the back of the system. So this is where we can install something like a hard drive and SSD here. Now the nice thing, about what NZXT have done with this, is they actually havesome nice cable channels, which we will be takingadvantage of later. Fun fact, cable management. It's um, look, there's two schools of thought. You can, run it nice and neat, or you can jam it all in and no one ever, will ever look on the back of your system. It's up to you. The next step, of course, is gonna be installing our power supply. This is actually pretty straightforward because really all we'regonna do for right now, is just put it inside the chassis, and screw it in. All the actual cable management, and stuff, will be done, after we're done puttingeverything else in. So you can see that there are, differently labeled components for things. Such as CPU, PCIe, which would be for graphics card, peripherals, SATA, motherboard, et cetera. Just keep in mind, that when you go for a modular supply, it just means that your cable management, can be a lot cleaner. You don't have to spend all kinds of time, tacking, 85 extra cables you don't need, in the back panel. You can just plug in what you need. One of the main cableswe're gonna always use, is a 20+4Pin. So you can see that it's broken up into two parts. So this is the part, that goes into the power supply. You can see it's broken up here. And then the end, is thisvery long cable like this. Motherboard 20+4 is right here. I set it down. All you do, is connect the, little part on the left side. And should just clipped right in. These all go in one way. If you could see the little clip, it'll only go in the one way. And then we'll connectto the other side, here. Push it in until we get a little click. There we go. This part, the PSU part, obviously it goes into our power supply. And then we have two, 6+2Pin connectors. This is what powers the graphics card. And then, we'll just plug it in, just like we did before. And that will be anothercable ready to go. Next up, we have the CPU power connector. Now this will also go to the motherboard. I'll show you in just a little bit, but again, we wanna make sure that this is gonna be plugged in. For this, it's just as simple as, find the CPU tag, on our power supply and plug in the PSU end into it, and that's one more. Now for our specific motherboard we do actually need to plug in, a second, one of theseCPU power connectors. And once we get theclick, we're good to go. Now SATA is used for a few things. Traditionally it wasused for power supplies, going to your hard drives, right? So, you're using a standardold-school hard drive or a SATA based hard drive, or SSD. You use this, to power it. However these days, mostly what this is used for, is powering some of your RGB accessories, Hubs, all that kind of stuff. Specifically for us we're gonna be using it to power our AIO. With our cables attached,to our power supply. Now it is time, toinstall it in the system. So for this system, we're gonna take our power supply. We're gonna face the fan upside down, facing toward the bottom of the system. We're gonna slide it into place. The most important thing is, we just wanna get thisroughly in position. If you look on the backside, you'll see, that it should line up. Something like that. And you'll see four screw holes. Take a closer look here. There should be one on pretty much in each corner, right? So one, two, three, and four. Now it is time to grab, the little baggy of screws that came with your power supply. Again, the ones thatyou're not supposed to lose and start screwing it in. Now, when it comes to screwing, kind of any hardware and this actually goes for not, just the power supply but for some of the otherthings we're gonna do later. It pays to do it in a cross pattern. So don't just go to sort of, put everything in a circle instead. So we just started that top left. Now we're gonna go to the bottom right. So that we're evenly applying pressure. Now for this, you don't have to have it, super, super tight. As long as the power supply is not moving it shouldn't be a problem. So we can always come back through and tighten things later. But with that, we have our power supply installed, and you have your first step to building a gaming PC complete. Look at that. All right, now let's get into building, some of the more fun components. So for this, we're gonnawanna grab a few items. So first of all, we'll grab our memory, have that handy. Also grab yourself the M.2 SSD. Of course, if you're using a standard SSD you can install that later. But for M.2, we'll go ahead and grab that right now. You'll also wanna grab your processor. So in this case, our Ryzen 5. And last but not least, we want our motherboard. Next step, is to unwrap the motherboard. Now with this, like I said, it is a piece of electronics, which is a little bit sensitiveto static electricity. Try not to grab it from the actual PCB. So you'll see that there's a lot of like metal components here. It's not a big deal, but generally speaking, try to grab it by components, that are a little bit more durable ultimately up to you. But once you actually have it out set it down on the box that it came in. So the first thing to start with, is the CPU socket. Now that's pretty much always, in the top middle of the board. Beside that, you're always gonna have your RAM. Now right to the, right of that. You'll see our 20+4Pin power. Now that is that big connector, that we connected, to the motherboard. So we'll be using that a little bit later but essentially that supplies power to, the vast majority, of yourvarious components on the board. Now, if you look on the top here, you'll have our CPU power connectors. Now again, every board is different. Sometimes you'll have four. Sometimes you'll have eight, this has eight plus four. So just keep that in mind. Not all power supplies, have capacity to do, say, 12 pins of CPU power. You usually don't need that much, but it's on there. And if you have it, you should plug it in. Moving down the board, we also have ourselves a PCI slot or in this case, we have several. Now this is usually, where you'll plug in things like, well, first of all, your graphics card. So for the graphics card, you wanna plug that into the top slot, which in this case, isour shiny metal slot. Moving over to the right, you have USB 3.0. USB 3.0 is an annoying connector. I have broken this, many times. Now to the right of that. We have our front panel connected. Now, besides that, the only other thing wereally need to take a look at, is where we install our SSD. The only thing to keep in mind, is exactly which screw,you're going to use, to mount the SSD. So if you take a closer look here, you actually have three options here. So you see 42, 80 and 110. 80 is by far the most common size of SSD. But if you ever have any kind of doubt you can just sort of roughly measure it. And you see that, that lines up pretty much perfectly. So you'll see that it'sactually keyed on one side. So again, it will not go on the wrong way. And then you just have to line it up, with the slot, slide it in til it goes all the way. And that's pretty much it. The last step here, is there's a tiny, tiny little screw. Which again is usually included, with the motherboard. So this one was actually, already screwed into place. All we need to do, is use this to hold down the SSD. I'll just line up like this, screw it in. And that, is it. Before we put the little cover, that was covering up the SSD back in. If you flip it around, you'll actually see that it already has, a thermal pad already applied. Now we'll go ahead andremove the plastic here. Now this is not 100%necessary for all SSDs but essentially thiswill just help to serve, as a heat sink, so theSSD won't get too warm. So we'll just slide it in like this. And then we're gonna gently, drop it right on top of that SSD. And then the screw in the back, should line up, and we can screw it right down into place. Before we install the CPU, there's just one thing we need to do. So if you come over to the socket you'll see there's a little retention arm, on the side. Pull that out and up. It's literally all you need to do and it will get it all prepped. Pretty much the same process for an Intel motherboard. Now we'll grab our CPU. Now with the CPU, be careful especially with an AMD CPU. Grab it from the side, that you can see the plastics, kind of already cut out there for you. So grab it from the side. And again, just donot touch those pins. Now, when it actuallycomes time to install it, there's a little gold arrow, on both the front as well as on the back. It's a little smaller on the front and that is gonna, line up with the corresponding arrow on the socket, right? So in this case, it looks like we're putting it in, sort of sideways. But this is the correct orientation. When it comes time to install it, it's not that bad. Just be nice, smooth and careful. So just, we'll rest it in very gently, should just drop right into place. There we go. Don't push it. Don't force it, nothing like that. Once it's resting nicely in place, you take that arm you push it down, sometimes it's a littlebit firmer than others. But besides that, congratulations! You just installed yourself a CPU. Pat yourself on the back. Next up, let's install our memory. So in this case, we have two DIMMs of G.Skill Ripjaws. Now this board actually supports four, and that actually does matter. Less so again on Intel, usually it's a littlebit easier on that side. But for AMD, you actually wanna put these, into various specific slots. You'll see that about twothirds of the way down, there's a little notch. This notch again, surprise, surprise meansit goes in only one way. So then come over to the board, you'll see that there's a little notch, in each of the DIMM slots, right? Now, before we install it, you actually wanna make sure that you're installing it, into the correct slots. So again, for Intel, it doesn't make a massive difference. You just wanna have it paired up, in banks A or B. But for AMD, you wanna specifically put it in the far right slot. So if you take a look, it actually says it, on the board here. So you'll see that it hasa little diagram here. So it's A1, A2, B1, B2, going from left to right. You actually wanna, populate A2 and B2 first, right? So instead of puttingit in that first slot, I'm gonna put it in the second, and the fourth slot. All you do, is just take your memory. You line it up, in thecorrect orientation. So again, making surethat notch is gonna clear, and then once it looks all fine, take your thumbs on each side and just firmly press until you hear, clicks. There you go. Got a second module, line it up, with our third slot. Again, keeping in mind, what the motherboardmanufacture recommends. And then again, we'll just line it up, make sure it works. And then, boom. Good, so with our system on its side, now it's time to drop the board in. Now, if you're using a motherboard, that does not have the pre-installed, IO shield, this is the time where you want to ahead and snap that in the back. But because our system already has it you can pretty simply drop it in. So if you take a look inside you'll see that for this system we already have all ofour standoffs, installed. So you see these littlestandoffs on the bottom, in the middle, as well as on the top. Now, because we have, a chassis thatalready has these installed and we're using an ATX board. It drops right in, we don't have to do anything. Traditionally, a lot of systems at least, will need you to install these yourself. It will come inside the little box, or bag of hardware thatcame with your system. So just keep an eye out for that. So now, we're just gonna gently, drop it into place. So it should pretty much be lined up with the top of the chassis. So, drop it in here. Gonna be kinda hard to get in a camera, but essentially we're gonnamove the board forward until we see that middle slot and there we go. It is installed. So once it's sitting on that peg, you should be able tosee all of your screws, through the standoff holes on the board. Some of the nice things, about the way the NZXT label their screws, is that they're well, labeled. So there are a few different kinds of screws, that areincluded with the system. This is what we're gonna look for, specifically for the motherboard. You can tell really quickly, if you have the wrong screw because it won't tap in right? So, you know. From here, it's pretty straightforward. You just wanna take your screw. And in the same that we did before, we were going to do a cross pattern. We're gonna start with the bottom left, just 'cause that's the easiest to get at. And then we'll screw it into place. And then we'll grab our next screw and work all the way around. So for this board, there are, I believe a total of eight screws, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven eight screwsthat we need to attach. So, I'll see you in a minute, after I finish screwing all these in. Next up we have our CPU cooling. Now this is the part of the tutorial, that's actually gonna vary the most, based on your specific build. So if you're using an air cooler, you're gonna use an entirely different kind of instructions for it. Honestly, even if you're using the stock cooler that comes with it, it's gonna be pretty simple. Don't feel like you have to go out and do liquid cooling. But, that's the the main reason why, I'm using this AIO, because they're incredibly popular. I wanna give you a little bit of an idea, of how I to install it. Thankfully, this is actually fairly easy to do on an AMD motherboard. So if you come over here,I've already removed. There's a little plastic piece on the top and on the bottom of the CPU. So go ahead and remove that. But I would only do the first one, right? Leave that other one there, because there's a back plate on the back and that way it won't fall. Right, so with two of these removed, all I need to do, is pull out, there's a little baggy that says AM4. You'll pull out the standoffs and you'll start screwing them, into place Now with this, you just wanna do a finger tight not to get it super, supercranked down or anything. And then once I have these two into place, I will then remove this topplastic component, dude. Oh, we're deep in the tutorial and am calling things dudes. I've ran out of words. Once we have these standoffs in place, we're ready to actually begin, putting the AIO into place. And if you take a look at it, what we actually have here, are a few different components. So we have obviously the fans, these are kind of important. You also have a baggy of the hardware so we'll have some short screws, some long screws and some washers we'lluse that in a minute. But the most important component here, really is gonna be the AIO and the pump as well. So this is the radiator. So what you can do, is think about this as, where we're gonna removeall of that heat, right? Now for this, the first thing to learn, is just how the airflow works, right? So if you look at the fan, this is the front, right? So air is coming into this side. If you flip it around, you'll see the actual like frame of it, as well as the cable. This is where air's coming out of. So we have two of our fans. Now, before we mount these, there are different ways to do it but this actually makes it easy. So if you come take a look at this. I actually have a little platethat I can remove, right? So not all cases are gonna have this, but this is essentially a bracket. So the way we're gonna do it, is simple. So we're gonna start withour fan facing inward. Then we're gonna have our plate. And then we're going to put our actual, radiator, on top. Now the only thing we need to do here, before we get started, is just pull out our hardware. So that is where we're gonna use these long screws. As well as you're gonna use washers. So once you just sortof slot that through, if I flipped the entire thing over and make sure it's all aligned it should just go straight in. It doesn't have to be super tight. Honestly, you may needto wiggle things around, to make sure that the second fan fits, but that's on there. Now we'll take another screw. We'll take another washer. And again, we'll use the cross pattern, to attach it on the bottom. Having a plate that removes like this makes this a lot simpler, because some cases, you'll kinda have to belike, crouched in here, and you're like, trying to screw it from the top and from the side. Obviously you've got this whole thing dangling from the bottom. So you wanna be a little careful. So that is pretty much, what it's gonna look like. So we have our fan on that side and then, this is gonna live,something like that. So once you've confirmed,this actually all fits, we can go ahead and take it back out and finish screwing the rest of it in, and get these fans nice and tight. Now comes the fun part. Let's install the pump, and then the, CPU isessentially gonna be done. Couple of things to learn here. First of all, there are different retention brackets that will hold it in, right? So we've removed all the plastic. So again, just don't touch that part. This is the one, for AM4, it's labeled and the instructions. It's taller and narrower, so it's a little more oflike a rectangular shape. And to put it on you just line it up, and rotate it, right? I think, that should be fine. We can obviously try to get these bends to be a little bit cleaner. Keep in mind that everysystem's gonna be different. Sometimes this looks a little ugly, so, don't be in a huge rush. Think about, if there'sa way to get it in there, slightly smoother. Last thing to consider, there are a couple of different things, that need to be plugged in. So you have the cables they're included, but again when youdecide which orientation you'll put it in. Just consider that you have two cables coming out one side. So, you know, try actuallyrunning it across, half the system if you can. If there's a way to like, rotate to the right andtuck it around whatever. Once you're ready, grab yourself your screw, line it up, and we're gonna be good to go. One, two, three, four and then I will do them finger tight. Don't worry about getting itsuper tight at the moment. Again, very important. Do it cross pattern. So I'm gonna keep pressureon the middle here and I'm gonna line it out, right here. But basically just sort of, evenly apply pressure. And you actually wanna go all the way around a couple of times. To make sure, that that thermal paste is spreading out nice and neatly. Now don't worry about our cables, we're gonna move that alittle bit out of the way but let me find my screwdriver. And what we'll do is, we'll just tighten that up. Again just go around a couple times, nice and slow. So you're evenly applying that pressure and we're pretty much done. We're gonna have the AIO installed. Got that liquid action, my friends. So when it comes to cable management, one of the nice thingsabout this NZXT case, is they've actually donea lot of the work for you. So you see, yes, youhave cable channels here, as well as the little like Velcro ties, to hold them down. And so once you start running things it's actually pretty straightforward. So I always like to start with that 20+4Pinmotherboard power connector. And you'll see here, that what we've got is, we actually have a channel, which is pretty much perfectly labeled, although I will get thatpart out of the way. So all we do, is just drop this right in here. We'll rotate it up here and, we can even go ahead and Velcro it down just for the moment. And then once it comes out here we just need to pull it through, to the front of the case. So don't worry aboutgetting things too neat. But if I turn it around, you'll see that now it is caught up, pretty much in the perfect spot. So again, there's a little notch here so it's only gonna go in one way. I'll rotate it around. And, there we go, press it in, boom. Connected and importantly,it's nice and clean. You can hardly see it at all from the front. Next let's install our CPU power. So again, there's anothercable channel back here. So we'll deal with theexcess there in a little bit. So we have ourselves, our CPU number one and we have our, CPU number two. So if you look all the way up here, on the top left of the board, like I was showing you earlier. There's our 8Pin as wellas our 4Pin for the power. So these have already been right out here, so I'll just drop my light down here, and just plug it in. Again, it's 4Pin, so it's only gonna go in one way. Yeah, the only problem is, that fan is in the way, isn't it? Hey, hey, hey, well this is gonna be tight. Apologies, it's kind ofhard to show on camera, but essentially, you can see that we've got everything plugged in here. So now we'll come around back and start grabbing some ofour cables from the case. So I've gone over someof these on the board. So this one is our HD audio. Self-explanatory it goesinto the audio jack. We have this little guy, which is USB-C. Now, not all cases have this and not all motherboards have this. So in fact, our motherboard, does not support USB-C but you plug that in here. This is that USB 3.0, I was telling you about. This connector is terrible but it will do the job aslong as you're careful. And then one of thenice things about NZXT, is they have your front panels all on one little block. First up, I have my audio. So just like a whole of these things I feel like I'm a broken record here. You'll see that it is nine pins, with one knocked out. Which means it's only gonna go in one way. And I'm gonna rotate around and plug it into my audio port, right here on the bottom left, of the motherboard. So now I'm gonna route my USB 3.0 and that one does have the notch. So it goes in the one way. So we'll just rotate it around and slide it right into place. Just be firm with it, push it in, make sure it's all the way seated and try never to touch it again. Now we have the fun part, which is our front panel, little header. This, is gonna be far simpler than usual because I literally have to, just line it up and plug it directly in. Now they did give you that little cheater, in case your board is different. But I think this all should line out. And, if I plug it then like this, hopefully, that'll be everything. Coming back to the cables that came with ourall-in-one liquid cooler. You'll see that this is the part that goes into the actual cooler. So it'll be mountedright here on the side. And then it has all kindsof fun goodies to plug into. So we have a pump header. This will go to the motherboard. You'll see it's three pins, with a notch on either side. You'll also see we have this little guy, as well as we have our SATA power. Grabbing my splitterthat came with the AIO. I'm gonna take my 4Pin fan header. You can see right here, it's got the two notches. I'm gonna plug it into my CPU fan. Now that is gonna go right on the top. And then I'm gonna route the rest of that cable through the back. And we'll deal with that in just a second. And I'm also going to at the same time run the cable for the pump. So, with the little, 10Pin connector that came with our AIO. We're gonna now, plug that into the side. It should just clip right in. And then with that, we have a bunch of these cables, which we can route around. But this little 3Pin, that is gonna go into ourCPU optional connector, which is right up here. So, now we have both of them connected. You just need to routethese two extra cables through to the back of the system. And I'm gonna use that same little hole in the top of the chassis, to make it as neat as possible. Now we're gonna plug that micro USB cable, that we also got with the AIO and, should plug-in one way. And then I'm gonna pull theslack through on the back. Now, we have a couple ofthings to connect back here before we move on. So, first of all, we have the fans. So we have our two, fan, headers. Or fan cables, that came from the two fans in the front. We wanna connect these, to that little extensionthat we ran earlier, right? So it should be pretty straightforward. So we'll just plug it in, they're a notch so, yet again, there's only one way to plug them in. So that's one, and this is, two boom, easy enough. Now beyond that, we also have one morecable we need to look for, which is that SATA power. So this is what's gonna power the pump and that can plug in to, the SATA power from our power supply. So again, very simple. Well, we'll deal with cable management in a minute, we just wanna make sureit actually POSTs first. So plug that in, again because it is notched, it goes in exactly one way and we are getting a lot closer. Next let's take the USB 2.0 header, from that micro USBcable we just plugged in, to the side of the pump. We're gonna run that down. I'm just gonna run it through this cable channel here. Again, we'll kind ofclean things up later, once we know that it all works. And no we'll route it back out in the front. Pull it out here, and plug it right into the motherboard USB 2.0 header. That way, you can easily change stuff like the RGB lighting andwhatnot on the system. So we have the two fansthat came in the case, that we now need to pluginto the motherboard. So I've reached around to the back. Now this is gonna vary based on where the fan headersare in your motherboard. So I've routed mine, over to the side here and I'm gonna plug that right into the system fanheader on the right side. So that will be one. And then I will grab the second one, which has also already been run. And that, can run, right beside it. That my friends, is almost a fully completed gaming PC. There may be one thing missing though, the graphics card. Which we've saved the best for last, because trust me, thisis not the hard part. So this is our RTX 3070. Now it's fairly straightforwardkind of installation just a couple of things to keep in mind. Obviously we have our fans, pretty straightforward. Down here in the bottom is our PCI slots. So this is the actual connector, that goes inside the PCI slot, on the motherboard, right? So it slides right in. On the back, these are all of our variousdisplay outs. They usually have theselittle plastic protectors and I just get rid of all these. This is where you find your HDMIs, your DisplayPorts. Older graphics cards willhave like DVI and whatnot. But this is what is going to go out the back of the case. Now this is something that is gonna vary, based on what case you're using. But you can see that we needto install it right here. Now, sometimes you canjust remove the little screws holding the PCI cover. For this though, we actually have two, little like screws holding a plate in. Take off this little plate and then we get easy access to the screws. The only thing to do here, is just make sure you're actually taking out the right screws. Which is not as easy as it might seem, because before, you always just put it in the top slot. If you actually look inside this case, our PC has slots actuallyon the second, right? So if I line it up just to make sure, we should see something like this. Which would yes, mean thatwe need to take the second and the third PCI cover out. Now, it is as simple asgrabbing your graphics card, lining it up, with where itneeds to go on the motherboard. Just keep in your mind that, you do need to go directlyinto that top slot. Or the top most 16 X slot. So we'll line it up there and then just press it until it clicks. There we go. Now, because this isa heavy graphics card. I would recommend keeping a hand on it while you screw it into place. Because otherwise it'snot gonna wanna stay. So now I'm gonna run our two 6+2 PCIE power cables,from the power supply and simply plug them into the card. Usually they're gonna be onthis sort of leading edge. Sometimes there'll be on the back but just depends on the card. And with that, we just kindof pinch them together. So if you're using 8Pins like this, just make sure it kind of snaps. Otherwise it will not wanna, well, it'll fight you, it'll fight you on the way in. And now, we have built ourselves, a gaming PC. Though sure, there might be some cables that need to be cleaned and whatnot. Well, at this point, we're actually ready to make sure the powersupply is flipped on. Plug everything in andsee if it actually works. And if it doesn't start troubleshooting. The moment of truth is here. So we've plugged in HDMIto our graphics card. We've plugged in our power supply, made sure it's on. And plugged in our mouse and keyboard. Now, let's press the power button and hope it works. Hey, all right. So we have one, two fan spinning. We have the fans on the AIO spinning, the graphics card is, graphics carding with our little display. We have our AIO on, we're running through codes. And then if we give it a few seconds, we should see somethingpop up on the display. So we have, our Ryzen 5 5600X. I will say one of our memorymodules is not showing up. So I'll just try and reseat that in a second. We have our 980 pro SSD and we have our four fans even though it shows up as three because we have it all connected. All right. So with that, I'm gonna make sure that RAM module isproperly seated and we have successfully built ourselves a gaming PC. From here, go ahead and turn it off. Do a little bit of cable management, tie some things up in the back, get Windows installing. And you've successfullybuilt yourself a gaming PC. So thank you very muchfor watching, please. If you found thistutorial, helpful subscribe to the channel because we doa lot of PC builds like this. And again, if you wanna check out any of the components thatwe used for this build, the links will be in the description from our wonderful sponsor Micro Center who graciously allowed me to crash their spot all day long, as I showed you how to build a computer. Anyway, thank you very much for watching. We'll see you next time. 

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 (dramatic music) - They're the same picture. Except they're not. This is a boring old U.2 drive. You can find these puppies with up to a four lane PCIExpress Gen 4 interface and up to about eightgigabytes per second speed which is okay, I guess. But it's not nearly as cool as this. U.3 doesn't increase speeds at all. And in fact, it could even be much slower, but it could also be the same speed, which doesn't reallysound that great does it? Until I tell you that it alsoallows cross compatibility with SAS and even SATA drivesin exactly the same slot. What? That's right my friends,this connector here, is basically like putting aUSB drive in a FireWire port. And we've got both a drive from KIOXIA who sponsored this video, and this server over here from Supermicro, and we are going to be testing it out. (bright upbeat music) U.3 is super new, so while the drives are readily available, hardware to actually plug them into, is still pretty hard to find. Our server for example, only supports U.2. Fortunately KIOXIAprovided us with everything we're going to need starting with, aha! This. Now in the old days controllercards like this one, usually had built inspecialty processors on board, to perform the parity calculations, that protected the attachedRAID Array from data loss. Over time though hardware RAIDcard have given way to HBAs or host bus adapters that simply convert, your PCI Express slotinto dumb storage ports, leaning on the general purposeCPU to do the heavy lifting. This kind of softwareRAID is more flexible, more cost-effective and it'seasier for administrators, to troubleshoot and repair. And these are actually someof the big driving forces, behind the U.3 standard. So this Broadcom 9500-16iis what's called, a Tri-Mode Storage Adapter It uses a PCI Express Gen 4.0 x8 interface and can address up to1024 SATA or SAS drives using expanders or up to 32 NVMe drives. Now let's have a lookat the Broadcom Ellord. Yes, that's right my friends, it's a custom externalU.3 testing enclosure. That's designed for researchand development of new drives and adapter cards to makesure that they interface with servers correctly. In other words, this isn't something that you can just go out and buy. Normally the way it wouldwork is a U.3 backplane, like the one that'sbuilt into this enclosure would just be directly in the server behind the bays at the front and you would plug right into them. But as of right now, we haven't found any serverswith native U.3 support, at least that we can get our hands on. HP Enterprise is one of the only brands that shipping U.3 technology currently, though Lenovo has alsoexpressed their support for it. So here we go, we just install our Gen 4Tri-Mode card into our Caddy here and plug that into our server. Oh, contact. (fans revving) Believe it or not, we haven'teven turned it on yet. (fans revving) There it is. Here we go. You're ready. (fans revving) Now one little trick is normallyyou would run these cables internally to the backplane at the front of the device obviously. Well, that's not a Tri-Mode U.3 backplane so we're just gonna kinda... (fans revving) Yeah. Good. It's good cooling. Gotta have air holes on the side. Okay there we go, very funny. What am I Putin? (feet stumping)(cameraman laughing) I'm gonna be next level impressed if this manages likehot-swap functionality. Now you might have noticed that even though we've only got an 8X card we've got four, 4X capablecables coming out of here. That's because thatbandwidth can be shared. It's in much the same way that even if you did plugin a thousand SAS drives obviously if you were actuallyhitting them all at once they would have to sharesome of that bandwidth. What do you think? Is this just gonna likemagically hot-swap pick up? (fans revving) Wait, probably not, cause wedon't have a drive in it yet. One moment please. This just feels so wrong. SATA port U.3 connector. All right here we go. (fans revving) Just like that. Let's put it online,initialize, tpt blah, blah blah. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh ouch. 60 megabytes a second reads. Not exactly impressive, but of course the performanceof U.3 was never the point. There's nothing you cando with an interface to make a two and a half inch hard drive suddenly magically fast. The point is that we can do this. This is a SAS SSD, and theoretically I'm gonna pop that rightin there, hot-swap, and it's gonna just like work. Wait for it. (dramatic music) There it is, Ooh. Ooh, Ooh. Ooh. Ooh, Ooh We can run a quick performancetest here, there it is. You can see it's a lotfaster of course it's an SSD, it's not a mechanical hard drive, but the point here againis not the performance it's to demonstrate how just because you'vegot one physical connector doesn't mean that you can't usedifferent protocols over it. And this is a much moreappropriate analogy for what we're doing today. Then the whole USB FireWire thing because those are completelydifferent physical connectors. SATA and SAS alreadyused the same connector just a different protocol. So that's what we've looked at so far. But now... This one, now it's time toput in a Gen 4 PCI Express SSD using again the same U.3 connector. This is a CM6 from KIOXIA which was the first availableU.3 drive on the market and it's rated at up to6,900 megabytes per second. Nice. Just like our merchants is nice, like the CPU Pillow lttstore.com. Now you probably notice, Ijust shoved that in there is hot-swap gonna work? I actually don't know, cause I've had some pretty bad experiences hot-swapping PCI Express devices. - Oh ooh ouch. Ooh. - But that's supposed tobe one of the benefits as the technology has matured is we're supposed to be able to take any kind of drive wewant, chuck it in there, hot-swap, cold-swap. Let's see if it's in here. There it is, online and boom. We've got our E drive. I'm expecting this to bea lot faster and it is. Now... Wait a minute, you might say That's not 6,900 megabytes per second. That's not nice but we're not actuallyreaching the drives full speed because of two bottlenecks in our setup. One, this system hastwo EPYC 7702 processors pretty cool. But although each of themhas 64 cores and 128 threads. Their single core performanceisn't particularly impressive because of their low clock speed. And with this setup on Windows Server 2019 we're not taking advantageof the drive's full potential but we can still try out U.3 hot-swap. Oh, interesting. So, okay, we're taking it one step further with the hotting andthe swapping apparently. I'm just gonna pull out a SATA drive. I'm gonna pull out an NVMe drive. And theoretically they'rejust gonna come back. My script says react tothe hot-swap just merging. We've got OO, we've got E,no the SATA drive is missing. What if I re... seriously? Boom all three of them are there. So we've got SATA OO and E. OO E. Okay then what does all of this mean for me the average consumer. For the time being, probably not much. I don't expect that U.3is gonna be sweeping in to replace the popularM.2 gumstick form factor in your home gaming PC anytime soon. But in the data center it offers a couple of clear benefits. One of which is visibleright on the face of it. See these cooling holes. I call them speed holes because adequate coolingallows these drives to perform their best, even when they're under heavy load 24/7 like they would be in anenterprise or data center setting. The other thing that thelarger form factor does is it allows the drivesto have more capacity because they can physically solder more non dice to the thing than can fit on a simple little gunstick. So for the data center,these are gonna be huge not just because theyhave a single connector that natively supports multiple protocols. That's not anything new. We already showed that with SATA and SAS. The big deal is that itallows a single server with a single type of bay in the front to serve all kinds of different roles. So manufacturers, instead ofhaving to have different skews for like a slower bulk storage box and then a faster all in NVMe one are gonna be able tohave just a single skew simplifying their product development and simplifying their product stack that data center administrators can just deploy however they want. So I want this one to be all NVMe. I want this one to be all SAS. I want this one to beNVMe accelerant over here and then SAS mass storage over there. It's totally up to the admin, and that is super, super cool. Another fringe benefitactually that we heard from one of the techsthat's working on this is that it makes trying out differenthardware configurations and troubleshooting way simpler because you can just use one machine for all of your test benches instead of having to likemove giant servers around as you're testing outdifferent drives and config, so that's another thing. Thanks to you guys for watching. Thanks to KIOXIA for sponsoring this one. You guys can get more detailsabout their CM6 drives and the rest of their technologyat the link down below. If you guys are interestedin the backstory behind my nightmare experience hot-swapping PCI Express devices, you can check out the video that we have linked inthe description as well. This was much smoother. (bright upbeat music) 

amd you confuse

 - Ow. Hey! Ow, quit it. What are you... Stop! Hey! - I'm launching paper at you!- What is... Ah-ha-ha-ha! I get it! AMD, you, on the other hand, I just don't get sometimes. We're in the middle of oneof the biggest chip shortages in a long time, maybe ever, and here you are proudly announcing your newest graphics card to the world. Is it that you know something I don't? Because this move feelslike a confusing one, given how people have reacted to all the other graphics cards that have launched this year, with functionally zero stockavailable to actual gamers. Maybe there's a methodto the madness, though. Maybe there's a 4D chess gamehere that we just can't see. Maybe there's a segue totoday's sponsor, Honey. Honey is a free web browser extension that'll find you the best promo codes on shopping websites likeAmazon, eBay, and more. Get it today at joinhoney.com/LTT. (upbeat music) Our first glimpse at the RX 6700 XT came just one day beforeNvidia launched their RTX 3060, which seemed kinda like a rotten move, but you know what they say: all's fair in love and gaming. The first-party card has a design similar to the largerRX 6800 and 6900 series, except that Team Rocketstole the third fan, and as soon as that teaser went up, speculation and leaks began to fly, leaks that turned outto be rather accurate. What they got exactly right was the price. At 479 U.S. dollars, it's much higher than the RTX 3060 MSRP, but this card isn't targeting the 3060. It's landing somewhere betweenthe 3060 Ti and the RTX 3070. Now, you might be scratchingyour head, thinking, "Didn't AMD target the RTX3070 with the RX 6800?" Yes, but as AMD points out, the lower VRAM available to the RTX 3070 can be a potential bottleneck for more demanding titlesat higher resolutions. And AMD wants 1440p maxquality out of this card, all at a price point thatwill still be appealing. Just like this insulated40-ounce Stealth water bottle from LTTStore.com. Ah. Tastes like winning. Of course, the price AMD targets matters very little right now thanks to the one-two punchof a cryptomining boom and a worldwide silicon shortage. It's gotten so bad that retailers are now raffling off theopportunity to buy a card instead of selling them directly. Nvidia's attempt to tackle this involved nerfing Ethereummining efficiency on their 3060, nevermind that there are tonsof other GPU-mined cryptos, and launching a separateseries of mining GPUs, while AMD is taking a different approach. They're going to be sellingthe cards directly to gamers. And AMD tells us they'llbe releasing the RX 6700 XT in weekly drops on AMD.com, giving consumers multiple chances to buy, this is at suggested pricing, in spite of the retail landscape. This could be a viable method of getting the cards intothe hands of actual gamers, but one of the problems with announcing when the cards will drop is that you're still relyingon strong protections against bots and scalping groups, which is not going to be easy. And it also doesn't tell us anything about how many units willbe available for each region or even in each drop. Fortunately, if you'renot into that strat, it's not just AMD who'sgonna be selling these. So on March 18th, both AMD'scards and their partner boards will go on sale simultaneously, which also gives better odds that they won't all be sold out as soon as they go live, and they've also got ahost of system integrators that are geared up and ready to go. But hold on a minute: are these things gonna be worth buying? Well, we will have a full review, make sure you're subscribedso you don't miss it, but here's what we know so far. Compared to the RX 6800, the 6700 XT has a thirdfewer Compute units, 25% less Infinity Cache, and four fewer gigs of GDDR6 memory. To offset that, though, the game clock is substantially higher at 2,424 megahertz, a 25% increase. As a result, we can probably expect ray tracing performance to be lacking, even compared to AMD'sown higher-end cards. But as we've seen when weoverclocked the RX 6800 XT to near-6900 XT levels, higher core clocks can have a huge impact on the RDNA 2 architecture'sraster performance. With that said, though, there's a bigger gap inCompute units with the 6700 XT, so we'll have to seehow this all plays out. Now, AMD didn't mentionthis in the presentation, but there's another potentialpitfall for the 6700 XT, and that is memory bandwidth. Unless AMD is usinglower-capacity chips for memory, which we doubt, it's likely the memory interface has dropped from 256-bit to 192-bit. Now, AMD may be clocking the memory higher in order to compensate and we were surprised athow much of a difference the Infinity Cache makes in memory-intensive gameson the bigger Radeons, so maybe it won't be such a big deal here, especially at sub-4K resolutions. But remember, the InfinityCache is smaller, too, so this gives me reasonto temper my expectations. As for what resolution whatpeople will be gaming at, 1440p display adoption,at least according to AMD, has increased by 44% over last year. And while that still puts itbelow high-refresh rate 1080p, high-refresh rate 1440p displays have made a 98% jump in sales thanks to declining pricesand improved capabilities. What this means is that agrowing percentage of gamers are looking to drive fast 1440p panels and that's exactly what AMD is banking on for the RX 6700 XT. On paper, though, high-refresh rate 1440p looks like a bit of a stretch, especially in triple-A titles. But AMD hopes their Radeon Boost hardware-acceleratedadaptive resolution function in DirectX 11 mode and variable rate shadingin DirectX 12 mode will make up some of this ground, that is, as long as you're willing to give up some image quality in your peripheral areasand in high-motion scenes. Curiously missing from the presentation is any further explanation as to how and whenFidelityFX Super Resolution, that's AMD's answer to Nvidia's DLSS, is going to make an appearance. What they did do is givea few insights, though, into what's taking them so long. Apparently, rather thanrushing it out the door on only one new top-end card, they want it to be cross-platform in every sense of the word, so they actually want itrunning on all of their GPUs, including the ones inside consoles, before they pull the trigger. It would've been nice to have it ready by the time the cards launched, but as we saw with Nvidia'sDLSS 1.0 versus DLSS 2.0, it could be for the best. I mean, lots of peoplestill think that DLSS sucks thanks to the poor image quality of v1 and Nvidia's confusing marketing where they actually referred to it as an anti-aliasing technique, still more proof if you needed it that lots of people, andNvidia for that matter, can in fact be wrong about things. Anyway, in the meantime AMDis pointing to Radeon Boost and FidelityFX ContrastAdaptive Sharpening for their upscaling. Whether that's an acceptable compromise or whether it's worth it to wait for FidelityFX Super Resolution or whether this questionis utterly meaningless until such time as these cards can be purchased for a reasonable price, all of that is up to you, the viewer. What's not up to you is whether I'm gonna tell youabout our sponsor, FreshBooks. FreshBooks is easy to use and it's accountingsoftware that's designed specifically with you in mind,the small business owner. FreshBooks has everythingyou need to manage your books so you can invoice, track expenses, track your time, and more. And because it's designedto be so easy to use, it lets you spend more timedoing what matters most, which is growing your business. So whether you're a tradesperson, creative agency, or a YouTuber, FreshBooks has the planthat is right for you. And if you have any trouble, they have award-winningToronto-based support and they are always happyto help you if you need it. So try FreshBooks for free for 30 days, no credit card required,at freshbooks.com/linus. We're gonna have that linked down below. If you guys are lookingfor another video to watch, you can check out our reviewof the 6800 and 6800 XT, which might give you anidea of what to expect from Team Red's latest offering. 

intel and nvidia copicd amd

 - AMD has certainlyenjoyed the high ground for some time now. But is it over? MSI doesn't think so, which is why they'vesponsored today's video, giving us a sneak peek atsomething really exciting. Take a look at... (grunts) This! The GE76 Raider. "Big deal," you might say. Sure, it comes in a cooletched Tiamat edition, but at the end of the day, isn't it just yet anotherIntel/Nvidia laptop? Oh, no, no! This one is different. This laptop support Resizable BAR like AMD does with theirSmart Access Memory. That means that this Intel CPU can access all of thisNvidia GPU's memory at once, just like a Ryzen and Radeon pairing can. Could this be what Intel needsto fight back against AMD? I mean, honestly speaking, I doubt that MSI reallygives a flying (beep). (wings flapping) (gun bangs) (carcass thuds) They're playing it both ways anyway. But this back and forthcan only mean more laptops flying off the shelves to consumers, so I guess that's why they'reraining marketing funds into this fiery showdown. (upbeat music) Just so we're clear, this is not a review. We're only testing this machine today in an on-versus-off configuration. But we should still getto know it a little better so that you guys know what to expect and so MSI doesn't get mad at us. It's got a 17.3" 300-hertz IPS display that should keep our RTX 3080 Max-P busy despite its 1080p resolution. Under the hood, ours has a Core i7-10870H, 32 gigs of DDR4 3200-megahertz RAM, and a 1-terabyte NVMe SSDin one of two M.2 slots. It's got a beefy five-heat pipe cooler for the CPU and GPU that MSIcalls their Cooler Boost 5, and feeding the beast isa 280-watt power brick and a 99.9-watt-hour batterythat's, let's be honest, is essential if you're gonnarun this thing off the wall, especially in the Extreme Performance mode in Dragon Center. In order to toggleResizable BAR on and off we're gonna use an Nvidiadriver that supports it and one that doesn't. Simple. Er, unlike these results. "Shadow of the Tomb Raider"in traditional rendering mode actually got slower withResizable BAR enabled and was identical when weturned on ray-traced shadows. "Wolfenstein: Youngblood" at least picks up a coupleof frames at minimum, but nothing big, and again, has little to boast about when ray tracing is enabled. "F1 2020" is a title that sawsignificant performance uplift with Smart Access Memoryin our Radeon 6800 review, but it loses a few minimum frames with Resizable BAR enabled here, while "Flight Simulator 2020"does gain a frame or two, but just a frame or two. Finally, "CS:GO," a big winner for SmartAccess Memory on AMD, sees, well, a tangibleincrease in minimum frame rates and not much else. For fun we ran 3DMark tosee if a synthetic test might show us more of a difference, but it was within halfa percent either way. When we moved to Blender, we're once again lookingat minimal differences to the point where it's tough to say that there's any realdifference here at all. It's a second faster in CUDA BMW, but then a second slowerin OptiX Classroom. And LuxMark has Resizable BAR losing by about 2% across the board. So does Photoshop, withDaVinci Resolve and Premiere coming within a singlepercentage point of difference. SPECviewperf 2020 againgives us some brutal numbers. Like, we're not far off, but across the board it's on par or slower than the traditional driver, save for CATIA, where itwent up a single point. This all lends a fair bit of credence to AMD's claim that Smart Access Memory is more than simply enablingResizable BAR support and Nvidia's confidence that they could match AMD'sperformance improvements simply haven't materialized here. So does Resizable BAR on Inteland Nvidia close the gap? No-ot yet. You're probably sitting there thinking, "This is kinda a weird sponsoredvideo experience so far, showin' off this crazy,ballin', sexy gaming monstrosity by highlighting howone of its key features makes no difference at all." But wait. There's far more to this story. We reached out to MSI withour results and they said, I'm paraphrasing a little bit here, "Well, what are you,some kind of an idiot? This is an early tech preview. It's only validated underspecific circumstance 'cause the ladies and gents in the lab still have a lotta work to do, ya dunce!" Oh, you guys. (sighs) The good news is that wefound one of those cases where Resizable BAR makes a difference for Intel and Nvidia today: in "Assassin's Creed: Valhalla." Now, because we only have one data point and because we don't havean RDNA 2 mobile GPU yet, we decided to throwtogether a desktop GPU bench with an RX 6800 XT to inform our guesses as to what the performancedifferences might look like between Team Red and TeamBluish-Green in the future. As it turns out, Team Red'sstill got an advantage off of the startingline compared to Nvidia, with roughly double theperformance gain across the board. That's still a significantdeparture, though, from the rest of our results today and it looks like theseimprovements scale proportionally with the amount of additionalpower draw that we observed. This shows that not onlyis there a lot of room for performance to grow from here; for laptop manufacturers like MSI there's also an additional benefit. Being able to increase core utilization and keep the CPU working to feed the GPU means that you could actuallymaintain higher performance than you otherwise might in athermally-constrained chassis. And would you look at that? This actually bears out when we try testing theGE76 Raider in Silent Mode, where the cooling systemis limited for acoustics and the CPU throttles clockspeeds more aggressively. Not only do we get better frame times with Resizable BAR enabled, we're getting them at a smaller increase in power consumption. So in the future, you mightexpect smaller laptops to pack a bigger punchthanks to Resizable BAR. And as for the big ones, well, they'll just get better still. Like our new underweardesigns at LTTStore.com. Oh, those are the oldones. Doesn't matter. The point is, speaking of LTTStore, make sure you get subscribed because, yes, I do know about thecounterfeit LTT merch out there and I'm gonna have a videocoming about it very soon. Back on topic, though. These performance resultsleave us with some questions, like, "What does Resizable BAR even do to get these kinds of results?" and "Why did it take so long to get here?" Resizable BAR is the official PCI-SIG term for what AMD brands Smart Access Memory, which allows a CPU to communicate with all of a PCI Expressdevice's memory at once instead of in smaller 256-meg chunks, which is a big deal becausethat is 1/64 the size of the frame buffer in theRTX 3080 in our GE76 Raider. While AMD only officiallysupports Smart Access Memory on their 500-series chipsets, MSI's been in the news forhaving enabled Resizable BAR not only on 400-series AMD motherboards but on Intel motherboardsas old as their 300-series, which means that owners ofCPUs as old as 8th-gen core can get in on the action too. Now, this has been an optional part of the PCI Expressspecification in some form since at least around 2008, but it's never really been thought of as a desktop technology. It makes sense. I mean, Resizable BAR probably wouldn't have even made much of a difference even a couple of years ago, where on average CPU threadcounts weren't as high and GPUs weren't shipping withtens of gigabytes of memory. But when AMD moved first withtheir Smart Access Memory for their Radeon 6000 series, the industry took notice. As the kids say, "It's free real estate." And AMD's platform tookadvantage of it out of the gate, at least for some games,giving them a head start. This left Intel and Nvidia scrambling to validateand enable a feature that they were always able to turn on but hadn't planned to introduce yet, which is where the GE76 Raider came in. While it might look likejust another gaming laptop... It's got that RGB, right? It's going to be among thefirst with Resizable BAR support for it's 10th-gen Corei7 and RTX 3080 Max-P, once the official drivers land. And as we've seen, RTX 3080's mobileperformance can be very good, so chances are it'll only get better as performance gains like we saw today start showing up in moretitles and getting embiggened. And chances are that I'm gonna tell you a little more about our sponsor MSI here in the sponsorshipportion of the video. The GE76 Raider is theirfirst gaming laptop that's equipped with Wi-Fi 6E, it uses a refined chassis with their customizable light bar, it's got up to an Intel Core i9 processor and RTX 3080 Max-P, it features their DuoWave speakers and woofer, with a full-HD webcam, and, of course, Intel plusNvidia Resizable BAR technology for smoothing out your gaming experience. You can check it out at the link below, and ancient Babylonian goddesseshave never looked so good. Does someone know how to read cuneiform? If you guys are lookin'for another video to watch, maybe check out our deeperlook at Smart Access Memory. We're gonna have that linked down below. 

rtx 3090 8k gaming -first in the world

 - Today for you, ladies andgentlemen, I have the privilege, nay, the honor of being the first outside of Nvidia to experience 8Kgaming on this LG ZX series, 88 inch OLED gaming grade TV with, I can't move this, with the RTX 3090, the first legitimately8K capable graphics card in the world. It's got 24 gigs of GDDR6memory, over 10,000 CUDA cores. and I'm gonna be hands on. We're going to actually playgames. Let's freaking do it. Oh, and this video is sponsored by Nvidia because how on earthelse would I get my hands on it obviously? (bright upbeat music) Now Nvidia wouldn'tactually clarify exactly what was in here, but based on the fact thatthere aren't a whole lot of 8K OLED TVs in the world, I'm guessing this is the ZX 88 inch, which is, I kid you not ladiesand gentlemen, a $30,000 TV. I mean, at that point, how could you not afford an RTX 3090? Oh, you know what, it probably is. It's gotta be the stand. Really? That's why this freakingthing weighs so much? Because of the stand? Yup, that's why. One, two, three, up. Here we go, hold. Ah, okay. Wow, so that's what 30 grand gets ya? That and a gigantic hunk of aluminum. What do you think Vonne, TVupgrade for the living room? - [Yvonne] That's not gonna fit. - That's what she said. Four HDMIs, one with ER, still got that composite in, love it. There it is ladies and gentlemen, 8K pill. Theoretically we're ready, but are you ready for the world's first 8K gaming graphics card? I'm so excited. Holy (beep) Oh my God, look how big it is. I've seen dual GPU graphicscards like those Aries cards or whatever from back in the day that are smaller than this. Damn boy. So this is a 2080 TI strip. Remember this is like an add in card, like third party design. I mean, we would mockthis thing back in the day for being triple slots,basically cheating. This is a 1080 TI for scale. So here's an RTX 2060,meaning sheer weight alone, like I think you're gettingabout as much GPU per weight here in spite of the price. Just like the RTX 3080, which we've already covered extensively, this puppy features a dual fandesign with the bottom one, so you can see it, goesinto your system this way. So the bottom one is blowing out this way, and look at that. That is a wide boy PCI back plate. So also out the back ofthe system and then the fan on the top, right? There, actually spinning in a way that is counterintuitive you look at it. So it's actually spinning counterclockwise and sucking air out from under the card. You can see right here, you can actually get a good look at them if you look through the card. So these heat pipes arerunning along the top of the cooler here and it's sucking air through this heat pipeequipped heat sink right here. It uses the same 12 pin power connector that can be fed with dual eight pins off of a presumably included adapter and it's PCI express gen four. It's got 24 gigs of GDDR6X memory and triple display portoutputs, along with HDMI 2.1. So that is the special saucethat's gonna let us run 8K, 60 Hertz without any adapters or any weird tricks, single cable. Enough talk now, let's get it installed. Now, for those of youwho don't play around with graphics cards every day, maybe this will put it inperspective properly for you. This is what this cardlooks like in a gigantic, like gaming grade case. You might not even be ableto have adapter hang out here and still get your side panel closed. Some cases will be wide enough. This is a great case configurationfor a card like this. So we've got all our freshair coming in from the bottom, straight into our RTX 3090, and then you have a CPU canuse whatever's leftover. That's a 10900K? - [Man] Yeah. - Yeah, all right, good stuff. So far so good. We've got an output to our 8K display, but last time I tried to game at 8K, I also got this farwithout too much trouble. Then when I tried toactually apply the settings, it all went downhill. Hopefully this is as simpleas 7680 by 4320 recommended. Keep changes and it's running at 60 Hertz. Holy crap, James, the default scaling is 500%. Let's go 400%. Hey, there we go, you want 100? You just wanna see it, don't you? All right, hey what wasthe screen-door effect distance on that, was that 86 inch, right? 4K, five feet. Holy crap. I think it's like maybe 18 inches on this. Like this is completelyusable at a hundred percent. Look at that. Automatic G-sync, freaking love it. Who needs tearing anyway? And let's be realistic, if we drop below 60 FPS, we want it to maintain asmuch smoothness as possible. That's gonna help with that. Actually, you know what? Okay, it's different though. Screen-door effect versus not being able to distinguish an individual pixel. So screen-door effect, there's just like really nothing on this until you get within 12 to 18 inches. But yeah, you're probably right. It's probably about two and a half feet, so just shy of a meter before I can't make out anindividual pixel at all. I could conceivably game right here and not see an individual pixel. This is crazy. I dialed in the settingsthat Nvidia recommended for this game, whichshockingly has us running at 8K Nightmare. Yeah, Nightmare quality, it'sso smooth. Like what the hell? In some ways, it's almost too high res. Like it makes it look more fake when a really, reallydetailed model is sitting up against a less detailed texture. Like we are gonna needgames to have 8K textures. I've never properly appreciated the detail of this model before. And remember I have noanti-aliasing enabled. It's like you can findthe tiniest stair-step if I'm within 12 inches ofthese very high contrast edges. From here, anti-aliasingis officially dead. Totally unnecessary. You know what I do have? This sweet foil keyboardshirt, lttstore.com This looks insane. Not only that, this is runningat a locked 60 FPS, HDR on. This is without a doubtthe highest fidelity gaming I have ever experienced. I mean, subjectively thehighest fidelity gaming I have ever experienced, there'sno real debate to be had. HDR recording works now. Oh, come on, don't die, don't die Linus. No, no, no, no (mumbling) Gotta get the ammo. Oh, we saw a littledip, we went to 57 FPS. You know what? Forget it, throw it in the garbage. RTX 3090, it's junk now. You can't can't keep it completely locked at 60 the whole time,and I'm done, I'm out, I'm returning it. This is freaking crazy. The fact that it's so big and you still can'tmake out a single pixel. Brandon, what do you think? - [Brandon] It's really good. - Does that look nuts or what? - [Brandon] Yeah, it's insane. - It's 88 inches, but it still looks good. Look at this, look at this. I mean under normal circumstances, yeah, I would probably want higher refresh rate and I would trade someresolution for that, but if I'm playing more ofa site and scene type game, you're never going to see sites like this. Like just so much moreappreciated for the detail these environments at this resolution. Look at this. That's the great thingabout gaming, right? Is like a film that getsretouched and remastered. You can go back and re-enjoy something on a fresh upgrade and seeit in a completely new light. Like I've looked at this level so much, 'cause I used it as a benchmark, but I've never seen it like this. Define better. Like I'm not performing better,but it's not about that. It's just all inspiring. So we're going to runon high, really high. And this is without upscaling. We're not even using DLSS. Good luck everybody, native 8K boys. Find me a jagged line. I challenge you, even inthe foliage on the trees. YouTube is not gonna have a chance of even remotely conveyingwhat this looks like with all the compression. Like even a house on the side of the road, let alone, I mean, we know they spend so muchtime on the car models for games like this, but even the house on theside of the road looks good. Beep, beep, beep, beep (mumbles) Get outta here. Oh wow, okay, so you canwreck stuff apparently. (shouting) How's it going there buddy? Oh yay, I missed ya. Global reflections, hi, sure. Thankfully, everyone at Nvidiahas the same taste as me. None of that ray-trace reflections, ray-trace transparent reflections. We're not gonna try forray-trace, contact shadows, trace debris or indirect diffuse lighting. Okay then, Control isgoing to be the first game that we're trying using DLSS, so that is NVIDIA's deeplearning super sampling. So this is gonna be a real test because we're actuallyonly rendering the game at 2560 by 1440, and then we're counting onNVIDIA's deep learning technology to up sample it to 8K. Now I've got some experience with NVIDIA's up samplingtech from their Nvidia shield. Pretty darn impressive there. And DLSS has only gottenbetter since it first launched. What I wanna know is how does it look if I get real up close here because 1440p is a lot lower than 8K. Let me move the characteraround a little bit. Stay there. I'm just gonna walk, 'cause I don't want the motion blur to color people's perception. Pretty fine looking, look atthis map over here, Brandon. We are limited by thequality of that texture at this point, I think. I collect rocks. All I know is we running at 60 FPS boys. Now for Death Stranding, we're running at a combination of high and very high settings, 8K with ultra performance, DLSS enabled. Let's have a look at how it looks. What do you think David, does this look a little betterthan on the PlayStation? - [David] About four timesbetter. This is insane. - This is like when wewent from giant pixels to, okay, if like I movedback and sprint a little, I won't see the pixels exceptI don't have to move back and I don't have to sprint. Where's the pixel at? Wee! Wee! That's all for now. Stay tuned on the channelfor our performance review where we're gonna be gettingin-depth with the RTX 3090. Make sure you're subscribedso you don't miss that. But for now, all that's left to say is thanks Nvidiafor sponsoring this video. Thanks you guys for watching it. I this is not like anythingI've ever done before this. Yeah, this was a ton of fun. I just can't even, I don't even know whatelse to say about it. If you guys enjoyed thisvideo, maybe check out. I mean, what on earth have we done that's anything like this? - [Brandon] 16K - Yeah, sure, check out16K gaming, I guess. But like the performance sucked. Like it was big, but it wasn't beautiful. Man, we could even revisit that. With all the outputs onthis, you got four outputs. 

we're making a solid gold xbox controller

 - This is the most expensiveXbox controller in the world. It's made of one and a half kilograms, so that's a little underfour pounds of solid gold. And you might be wondering how we made it. - So I just got an emailback from Expert Castings, they did some test castsand they can do it. - Yes. - It's going to be about one and a half kilograms of 18 karat gold. - Wow. - Which is going to be $87,500. - Well, you only live once, gold Xbox controller here we come. This video is broughtto you by the VOLTA 2.0, a universal reliable, fastcharging magnetic cable that works across all USB devices, including with data transfer capabilities. Check it out today at thelink in the video description. (upbeat music) Lets take a moment to appreciate just how challenging this is gonna be, by cracking open this pulsered Xbox Series X controller, starting with the battery cover I guess. For this assembly we pulloff the outer shell , starting with these hand grips at the back and then removeall the screws, including IAS, this sneaky little boy,under the sticker here. My warranty is now voidI think, and woo ah! Wow! That is a complicated part. If we want the functionality of the finished controller tobe exactly the same though, we're going to have torecreate this one for one. And that won't be easy. Thin components,particularly ones with lots of intricate detail areespecially difficult to cast. That's why we won't be attemptingthis here in our own shop. Which brings us to Expert Castings here, in beautiful downtown Vancouver. But as grand as the entryway looks things are about to get down and dirty. Unlike ourselves, ExpertCastings are just that experts with accolades like being one of two places in Canada that can work on a Tiffany pierce, and making jewelry forDisney, 50 Shades of Gray, Once Upon a Time and many more. Now, they first tried toconvince us to cast our piece in bronze, then gold played it. This is generally what'sdone for movie props like this one right here. It's way cheaper and usuallygives a better results anyway, but problem is, thiswas one of those videos where we came up with the title first and then figured out howto fill in the gaps later. So we were stuck cutting a fat order of pure gold to the Royal Canadian Mint. - They just brought thisover and look at it, we have one kilogram of gold right here. So this is, a professionalengineer's salary in my hands, and it's shocking how heavyit is given like the size. I'm surprised how smallit is, look at this thing. - For casting, you firsthave to create a negative of the shape that you want forthe metal to be poured into. Adam is gonna be taking careof this step called sprung. Wax gets heated up by lowtemperature soldering iron and stuck to parts of our controller. This will create pathwaysfor the gold to pour into. In the past, rings would be painstakingly hand carved out of wax, but now most parts are just 3D printed. Some parts they cast allthe time, like this anchor, so for that, they've created a negative that they can inject waxinto using this wax pot. All of the pieces on thesprue need to be organized, kind of like an upside down tree. This shape makes it easierfor the molten metal to flow into the cavities, while also making it easierfor air to find its way out. That's critical, becauseit's super important to accurately weigh the plasticand the wax on the sprue, and use the density of thosematerials compared to gold, to figure out how muchmetal will be needed to fill the mold. Too little metal, and there won't be enough forcepushing down into the mould or it might just not fill it all, and too much metal, wellthat's just wasteful, and that's very expensive waste. Now we need to create the investment, which will harden around our sprue. Simply add a 0.395 ratio of water to plaster powder and a large bowl, and then combine with akitchen mixer for two minutes. Place the mixture undervacuum for one minute 40 seconds to remove bubbles,pour the plaster into the mold and place under vacuum again for another minute and 40 seconds. From here, the whole thing is placed in the Kilns at 700degrees Celsius overnight. This will give the wax and plastic time to melt and then burnoff leaving only voids behind. Now we're basicallyready to melt the gold, but there's one problem. Our hunk of gold is too big. If it makes you feel any better,this is much more painful for me to watch than it is for you. So if you could go to lttstore.com right now to ease thepain, that'd be great. Thanks. Now you guys might've guessed that during this chopping process tiny flakes of gold will fall off. It's not too bad, the flakes coming off of our piece here totalonly about 10 to 20 cents, but they do add up. They actually sweep the floor here and the benches every day, chuck it in this big bucket and in a year it cancatch about a $100,000 in tiny pieces of gold. Our second problem is that the Royal Canadian Mint is awesome and they're four nines goldbars are just two pair. But okay, seriously though even pleb American us mint gold, would be much too ductile for actual use. In fact, it's so soft that it would probablydeform in your hands the first time you got a head shot by some 11 year old in Call of Duty. So then, someone here we'll be expertly creating ouralloy using 450 grams of gold per 150 grams of alloy blend. We're using number 220, which is 12% zinc, 11.5% silver and 76.5% Copper. Blends are chosen mostly for the color that they produce, and ours, should give us anice orangey yellow look. Finally, it's time tomelt some metal baby. Using an induction oven, the gold is heated upto 1100 degrees Celsius and our mold is then removed from the Kilns at 600 degrees Celsius. The thing is if the mold is too cool, then the gold might solidify before it fills in all the cavities. Before the gold can be added though, all the air in themould has to be replaced with an inert hydrogen nitrogen mixture. This helps prevent the gold alloy from reacting with theair while it's molten. So when everything's ready they just lift up the center column that's lined up with thecenter sprue of our mould and all the gold flows in. Is it going, is it going? Did it go? Can I see it? Oh, oh molten gold therein, Is it good? - Yeah - Oh that doesn't sound very confident. We didn't put in enough gold, ooooooh The concern right now is that there's a bunch of tunnels, that the gold is supposed to flow down, and there's one that it didn't go down but there's like fivethat it did apparently. That's what she was poking at. She was poking to see ifthe tunnels were full. Let's see if it worked ladiesand gentlemen, there we go, woo, oh - [Adam] Tragic- Farmer. Oh, wow it's heavy. - [Alex] I guess we might not even need to worry about that though 'cause that's covered. Like all of this in here you don't see. - [Alex] Oh, because of the-- - [Adam] So we're just thinkingof to holding it together, I think it's fine. - Actually you, you might be right. It's actually the texture. Oh my God, it has the textureof the Xbox controller. I mean, I know I shouldn't be surprised, but it did, it kind of looks like ass hey. - [Adam] Right? Like that's-- - [David] I wish my ass looked like that - [Adam] Tens of thousands of dollars and it just doesn't look like anything. - Tens of thousands of dollars of ass. - Of course what you saw was only the back piece of the controller. So the front, the shoulder andtrigger buttons, as well as I don't know, whateveryou call these back pieces in the battery cover, were all done ahead of timedue to size limitations. So, with a combination of a soap bath, scrubbing with a toothbrush,scraping with a pic and even some actualremoval of the material. This, will turn into this. Now, this was our firstcast and it was pretty good but there are some smallsurface finish problems. Once it's cleaned up, we shouldbe able to go from a more a satin like finish to a super shiny one like you actually see on this corner here. Of course, there are still some problems that we have to solve like for example, what do you gonna do about the parts where the sprue was joinedto the original plastic? I don't know, but I can't wait to see if the thingactually comes together. So this is it, ladies andgentlemen, test fit time. Oh, that's it. Okay, where's my battery cover at? Alex can you be my third hand here? (laughs) Oh man. Once all the sprue crap is onthere and this fits together, this is gonna be crazy. Guys, do not miss the next part of this, and don't list the segwayto our sponsor drop.com. 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