mine crypto before too

 - Do you like money? Better yet, do you like free money? Well, the value of Ethereum and other cryptocurrencieshas rocketed so high that even if you're running an olderPC, it could be worthwhile for you to start miningwhile your system is idle. So NiceHash sponsoredthis video where we'll be showing you guys how you can mine on your existing hardware asan easy way to make a couple of bucks with almost no downside, especially while the weather's cold and you'd be paying to heat your house, anyway. (opening music) You're probably alreadyfamiliar with cryptocurrencies decentralized digitalcurrencies with no direct tie to government issued notes or coins, particularly if you alreadywatched our mining series from a few years ago. But how many of you are actuallydoing something about it? Particularly those ofyou with a graphics card that has six gigs of memory or more. It may come as a surprise, but if your power rates are cheapenough, thank you BC Hydro, it's gotten really really easy to tune your system to profitably mine crypto when it wouldotherwise not be doing anything, and conveniently it's still winter and a gaming rig isactually no less efficient for heating your house thanan electric heater would be. But then there is the question of why bother, didn't Bitcoinjust have a major correction and we have no way of knowing what's going to happen to Ethereumnow that Eth2 is live, sure, but there's alsoalmost a two year window for you to mine Ethereum normally until it's supposed to fully transition to a proof of stake systemrather than proof of work. And yeah, Bitcoin is currently down but also sometimes it goes up. So if the whole set up can be done in less than an hour,which it can, it's probably not a bad idea, likesubscribing, not a bad idea. Don't miss our upcoming GPU reviews. Now, NiceHash Miner has beenavailable for years now, but it's also been a few yearssince we've talked about it and they've made some pretty cool changes. In a nutshell NiceHash builta system where you essentially sell your computing powerto the highest bidder, who then uses it to mind a specific coin. They get the coins that are generated and you get paid in Bitcoinbased on current market rates. This is really helpful for folks who are lookingto acquire Bitcoin, since Bitcoin now requiresASX to be mined effectively. And of course, if you wantsomething else, other than Doge, you can trade for it on the exchange. Now, NiceHash isn't the only option, and large-scale commercialmining operations wouldn't use it, but frankly we don't have much interestin helping those guys. And NiceHash has been our tool of choice for small time,personal mining, for ages now. One of the reasons, is thatpretty much every piece of mining softwarerequires you to either turn off your antivirus forall third party algorithms or allow absolutely everything through. Both of which are obvious security risks. By contrast, NiceHash's newQuickMinor is digitally signed and doesn't require anythird-party software for overclocking, undervolting or mining. And since it only uses theirin-house developed excavator miner and OCTuner, you don'thave to grant permissions to any suspicious software. For those of you who areconcerned about security risks this should be a huge load off your mind. Of course, it does come with a drawback. With NiceHash's traditional miner, you can swap algorithms on thefly to make a bit more money by targeting the algorithmwith the highest payout. QuickMinor only Mines Ethereumusing DaggerHashimoto. With that being said, Ethereumis currently dominating the market, so it shouldn'tbe a huge deal for the moment. One of the other bigconcerns that gamers have about mining is of coursewear and tear on their, especially right

now,expensive graphics card. Now, as we demonstrated a few years back there is no performance difference between a worn out GPUand one that's brand new. At least as long aseverything else is equal. The challenge here, isthat modern graphics cards dynamically adjust parametersthat do affect performance, like core clock, accordingto thermal and power limits. And here's the thing, Silicon does degrade over time and the more heat and the more voltage,the faster it degrades. So we want to minimizeboth of those things. That's for QuickMiners built-in automatic GPU tuning functionality comes in. So all we got to do is go tonice hash.com/maya/mining/rigs. And there's a yellowoptimized button here. This is pretty sweet. So you can either lightor medium optimized let's just go light mode. And then you can probablyactually hear the fan profile change over there but that's not the onlything that's happening. At the same time, it's going to undervolt and over clock the video memory to maximize the efficiency of the card. - Actually they're reducing the core clock and then reducing the powertarget to match demand. It's not quite undervolting, but I mean I guess it's close enough. They'll be getting tothat a little bit later. - Now it only works with 20and 30 series Nividia GPU's, at least for now, but as long as you have at least six gigs of Vram,you can also use their guides to manually tune your 10 series card. It should be noted that for now AMD cards require an alternativeoverclocking utility. If you want even moreefficiency, or if you're like, I'm heating my basementwith this thing who cares? You can right click thesystem tray, go to OSI tune and go all the way down to the bottom. This Autotune right hereshould be able to get you either slightly better efficiency or maximum balls to the wall speed. If you want to play around manually you can do that as well. And NiceHash has a full set of guides that you cancheck out on their website. Based on the method wejust showed you guys we're sitting pretty at around $5 per day of Bitcoin that is depending, of course on current prices. Which isn't at the point where I would recommend spendingscalper prices on a new GPU hoping to make back your investment. But as my Grand Pappy always said, you can never have enough free money to spend at lttstore.com. He's right you know, greatwater bottles over there. By the way, before you leave, we do want to offer onefinal bit of advice, not about tuning your rig or buying graphicscards, but about wallets. If you're going to hold anyamount of cryptocurrency we would strongly encourageyou to get some sort of hard wallet or your owndigital wallet that you control. because whole cryptoexchanges have basically vanished overnight andyou never know who's going to get DDoSed or hacked orhave their founder die next. So it's always best tokeep your own coins safe with yourself. Now in the interest of full disclosure, NiceHash was actually hackeda couple of years ago. However, unlike most otherservices and exchanges they actually used theirown money to eventually pay back everyone who hada new crypto go missing in full during the attack, whichis actually the only reason that we were comfortable workingwith them on this project. Because remember guys it's not your mistakes that define you. It's how you handle the fallout after. Just like I would never make the mistake of not telling you aboutour sponsor, NiceHash. If you guys haven't figured it out yet it makes it easy to turn yourPC into a mining machine. No registration is needed andthey even act as an exchange. So you can trade your coinsinto other cryptocurrencies. You get paid in Bitcoin every four hours, and they're quick. Miner was made completely in house to make it saferand easier to use than ever. So to learn more and register today check out the link down below. How many of you are alreadymining with NiceHash or another service by theway, leave a comment below. And if you haven't already,make sure you check out our mining adventureseries from a few years back it's obviously a little older now but there's still a tonof really good information in there about cryptocurrency and mining. 

this monster video card has 4 gpus and it's from 2004!

 - This thing is so unbelievably cool. Okay, sorry. Let's host the video. Okay, quick: name the companies that pioneered 3D graphics. If you said SiliconGraphics, Pixar and 3dfx, you're close, but no. Those guys merely adopted 3D. Evans & Sutherland was born into it, created by... (coughs) Excuse me. Sorry, I don'tdo a good Bane voice. Evans & Sutherland the company was created by and named for the guys who literally taught the classes that shaped the careers of the people who went on to createthose other companies. "But that's ancient history," I might hear you say. "Show me something interesting." Here's something interesting. A dual-layered graphics card with two different connectors on it, that's old enough to still use DVI and yet appears to have four GPUs on it, predating Crossfire and Nvidia SLI. Are you not interested? I'm interested in telling you about today's sponsor, Private Internet Access. PIA is fast, affordable, and you can get it (snaps fingers) right now through the linkin the video description. (upbeat music) What the heck are we lookin' at here? What it appears to be istwo completely separate, independent graphics cards sandwiched, and then if you look in between, bridged together withtwo different connectors. So this one uses AGP, orAccelerated Graphics Port, and this one uses PCI. No, not PCI Express. Old school PCI. And what it all comes together to make is Evans &

Sutherland'slast graphics card, known as the SimFUSION OpenSim 6500q, and what a beast it is. Each of these cards has twoRadeon 9800 XT graphics cores for a total of four GPUs. Guys, other than someweird Alienware thing, this is before quad-SLIor quad-Crossfire existed, so how did they do it? As it turns out, afterwe posted on Twitter about finding this card on eBay, one of the former Evans& Sutherland engineers who worked on this project took notice. Layne Christensen, who, by the way, is still working for thesimulation arm of the company, which is now owned by Collins Aerospace, volunteered to offer us some background, so we want to thank him very deeply for taking the time outof his busy schedule to demystify this for us. - During my conversation with Layne, he explained that he was part of a team of about 10 hardware engineersand 5 software engineers who worked together to build the cards, which came in both a dual-GPUand quad-GPU configuration. The quad-GPU config we have here requires two separate cards, and they communicate togetherusing AGP 4x and PCI slots, with a mid-board connection that links them together here. Layne wasn't sure exactlywhat bridge chip they used, but I see an FPGA on thefront of the card here that seems to fit the bill. As for why not six or eight GPUs, this was actually thepractical upper limit that they could achieveusing AGP and PCI alone. Remember, while AGP and PCIExpress are dedicated links, or at least can be, the old PCI standard shared its bandwidth among all devices on the bus by design. - According to Layne, ATI, which is now Radeon Technologies Group, had baked-in support for connecting multiple GPUs together like this in what was clearly aprecursor to Crossfire, even though they didn't offer it to end users as a solution like just, you know, plugging in a couple of cards. Kinda makes sense, because nomotherboards that I'm aware of existed with multiple AGP slots. But hey, why not offer itsince you're working on it to a third-party partner who's trying to build a custom solution? I mean, they don't reallydo that kinda stuff anymore, but that was somethingthat ATI fully endorsed and even offered support for at the time. By the way, speaking ofthe past, get subscribed. We're gonna be buildinga PC from 10 years ago and comparing it to brand-new. You won't wanna miss it. Now, as for Evans & Sutherland, you guys might think, "Well, gee, if they're gonna go and build this thing, why don't they just sell it? Why couldn't I buy one of these? Why have I never seen one of these?" The truth is these cards weren't available to just anyone on the open market. SimFUSION was their simulatorplatform at the time, and as best as I can tell, a prospective customer wouldbe looking at buying a 25U or even a full-height 40U rack of five to nine node PCsconfigure with these, all connected together as a cluster with a common sync for bothoutput and the render buffers. Now, as you can see, unfortunately we don't havefive or even two of these, but Anthony did manage toput together this test bench based on the same hardware configuration, using specifications fromLayne and the user manual. Wait, is this thing usingall solid-state caps? - [Anthony] That would make sense. - Wow. That was like, veryhigh-end shiz back then! - Back then, all-solid-statecaps was a little bit, mm, unusual. This, actually, high-endIntel server board used caps that were partof the capacitor plague. I actually had to recap the board before it would work. - We're just gonna have to pretend that we're using propercooler mounts here. Don't overthink it. Let's just throw the card in here and... Oh, right, a two-slot card. (grunts) Had to kinda push on that pretty hard. And take a nice colddrink to take our mind off at LTTstore.com. (Linus laughs) Power on our switch.Let's do moment of truth. (fans whirring roughly)Whoa! Yep, well, there's you're... There's your Thermaltake bearings... Yeah, 17 years later. (laughs) To be clear, I'm not actuallyblaming Thermaltake for that. That's just what happens to bearings over the course of 17 years. - [Anthony] Especially forsomething that would've been on 24/7 for a long time. - [Linus] Num Lock's working.No display output yet though. - There's an interesting idiosyncrasy with this card, actually. Due to the way they had to, I guess, do like double-wide and eventriple-wide resolutions, they disabled certain other resolutions in the BIOS of the card, so it won't actually display text mode or even, I think, VGA mode. It has to be 800x600 or above. So you're not gonna getanything over there right now. - Until I do! Is that a Windows XP desktopthat I'm lookin' at, baby? - That's what it ran on. (clears throat) I put on my mask again. - You guys might be wondering, "Where on Earth did you find a driver for a card like this? Some Russian FTP?" Good guess, but actually, no. We scoured the internet and were not able to find any working driver. Thankfully, Layne actually had one lying around on an olddrive, and presumably got his employer's permissionto fire it over to us so we could do somethingthat a SimFUSION 6500 probably never did: run games. What should we try first? I mean, 3DMark 2001 SE is whatI'm sort of leaning towards. Or maybe some good old-fashioned AquaMark? Is that still around? - [Anthony] I don't know.I didn't download it. - I don't know if Iwanna plug an XP machine into our network. - [Anthony] It wasplugged into the network for a while there, butit's XP Service Pack 4, like the Unofficial ServicePack 4, so it's fully patched. - All right. Man, this is not a fast computer, sir. - [Anthony] No, it is not. - What is this? Single-core... Single core with Hyper-Threading, oh yeah! Four threads, baby! Mm, yeah! Four threads! High school me would've thought this was amazingly sexy to look at. - [Anthony] Oh yeah. Just even seeing multiplegraphs in Task Manager was like the most trippy thing. - Okay, here we go. (Linus laughs) Oh no! Wow! Okay. In fairness to the card, though... I mean, it's running. Wow. Even the loading screens are a little broken. - [Anthony] It's worth pointing out that all of Evans & Sutherland'ssimulation stuff was OpenGL-based. They didn't really qualifythe card at all for Direct3D. The GPUs themselves areDirect3D 9 compatible, but four of them? It might be a bit hit-or-miss. - I remember this nature demolooking so impressive to me. I was like, "Wow! There's so many leaves on the trees." Man, I'm trying to find a 9800 XT 3DMark 2001 run to compare against, and these old websites have not aged well. Hey, there we go! Okay, so at 1024x768, a single 9800 XT managed 16,800 points. Let's try AquaMark. Oh man. This too. It just brings back so many memories. This is like pre-me-making-videos. This is like me literallysitting in my basement or my girlfriend's room, you know, tuning my overclock one megahertz at a time or whatever and staring at this,checking for artifacts. Lemme tell ya, if I eversaw it look like this, I'd be like, "Oh no! Off, everything off!" andturn that overclock down. That's not the issue right now though. And that's the massive overdraw, was the big explosion at the end. 9 FPS. 8.6 FPS. 8.5! AquaMark 3. 44,262 withan average FPS of 44.26. Now, this isn't coming up right now, and my Num Lock's not even working. I think the system may have crashed. But it's pretty fair to say that we did not average 42 FPS, so from a Direct3D gaming perspective, buying four 9800 XTs is actually worse than buying one 9800 XT. Let's try something OpenGL. Here's something I don't really get. Why is it that the two 9800 XTs in the middle of the sandwich are the ones that don't have fans? - [Anthony] It's possiblethat it was designed for case airflow. - If that's the case, then we should probably puta fan on this poor thing 'cause it might be cooking in there. I wonder if that's why we'regetting so many artifacts. We need a bigger fan. Well, not bigger, but definitely more powerful. Aw! Stop! - [Anthony] Should we havegrills on our blowies? - [Linus] Absolutely, we should. These are a finger-removalhazard waiting to happen. Ow! - You okay?- I pinched my tummy. (Linus and Anthony laugh) - [Anthony] I've done that so many times. - [Linus] Ow! Whoa! Settle down there, buddy!(fan screaming) Oh yeah. We got airflow now, boys! All right, benchmark time. Dammit! We're gonna leave it on anyway though, because having the card cooled properly is gonna be a factor for our last test: "Unreal Tournament" '99Game of the Year Edition. Now this is an actual OpenGL game, so this is what the card was... Well, I'm not gonna say tuned for, it wasn't made to run games, but their simulators did use OpenGL. Oh my god, I can't rememberhow to move in this game. No! No, I suck! Aw, no! I don't understand this FPS counter. Okay, it's frame times, not FPS. So we're anywhere between three and eight milliseconds per frame. Probably we're running around 150, 160 FPS, I would say. - Sounds about right. We're at 1280x1024. - Oh, come on! Just die! Okay, if I can't manage to get a kill with the rocket launcher,I don't deserve to... (fan whining) All right, I can't deal with this anymore. Ah, my headache. We couldn't find a professionalreview discussing this, but here we go, here's a Rage3D.com thread where someone complains that in "UT", whenever there's dynamic lighting their 9800 Pro drops from100 FPS average to 40 FPS. So that would seem to indicate that if we're over 100 FPS here, then at least we're doingbetter than a single 9800 Pro. Okay. So that's not four times the performance, but it's better than a kick in the teeth. Of course, as I've said before, gaming was really not the point of it, and the enterprise-grade functionality, like being able to synctogether many of these running in many systemsacross an entire rack, was really what Evans &Sutherland's customers were after. Here's a fun thing,though. Check this out. I Alt-Tabbed out of the game and we got this really weird sort of interleavy pattern on the desktop. - The card was able to be setup in multiple different ways as far as how it rendersthe screen itself, so as Linus Alt-Tabbed here, he ended up with these strips. It seems to indicatethat we were looking at a kind of line-basedrendering mechanism right now. Otherwise, it could besplit up into quadrants, or alternating the swap chain as each card just kinda renders a frame and just kinda keeps going like that. - What's especially cool about that is that those rendering techniques are actually the sameones that are still used for multi-GPU setups today, which I guess leads usto why the 6000 series was both the first and last of its kind. Layne says that after thedevelopment of this card, PCI Express enabled justoff-the-shelf solutions for single- or even multi-GPU setups that made this kind ofengineering totally unnecessary. So for how long this thing was relevant and how expensive it must have been, I count myself lucky to have one, even if I did apparentlygrossly overpay for it. What's in your online security toolkit? Adding a VPN lets you mask your IP and encrypts traffic toand from your devices, and Private InternetAccess has reliable service with thousands of serversin dozens of countries. They offer no bandwidth caps, configurable encryption with a kill switch to keep you in control of your connection, and when combined with private browsing, PIA can make websites think you are in a different country. Try it out risk-free with their 30-day money-back guarantee at the link below. You can connect up to 10 devices at once with clients for Windows,macOS, iOS and Linux. What are you waiting for? Thanks for watching, guys. If you're looking for something else kind of historical to watch, maybe go check out my video on Intel's previous dedicated GPU project, Larrabee. We unfortunately weren'table to get that one working, but we did get a chance to, you know, at least try to power it on, and talk to one of the engineers who worked on that project as well, so a very informative little video. 

just how bad is mixing memory

 (dramatic music) - Wait a second. Everyone knows it's bad tomix and match your memory. But how bad is it? I mean, if you found a really sweet deal to double up the RAM and your gaming rig, would you be such an evil personif you pulled the trigger? What if the RAM that's in your system isn't available anymore? Are you stuck with it forever? Let's find out. After we find out justhow smoothly Linus here is gonna segue to his sponsor. With GlassWire you caninstantly see your current and past network activity, detect malware, and block badly behaving appson your PC or Android device. Use offer code LINUS toget 25% off GlassWire at the link down below. (upbeat music) We never wanna feed youmisinformation or myths, particularly if it causes you to miss out on a free or cheap upgrade. So we took five differentmemory sets from our inventory, rated for various speeds and latencies, throw them on an AMD test bench with a Ryzen 5 3600X and2060 Super, and went to town, checking configuration after configuration after configuration after... Well, you get the point. And after many grueling hoursof mind-numbing benchmarks, we're here to give youthe exciting results. Guess what? It barely matters. Or at least, it sometimes barely matters. We created a baseline for reference using two eight gig modulesclocked at 3,200 megahertz with primary timings of 6-18-18-36. We ran our benchmarks, took notes, and then started swappingout modules one by one. And you might be as surprisedas we were to find out that, honestly, for the most part, with two sticks you canget away with quite a lot as long as you're willingto tweak some values here and there in the system BIOS. If you don't overclockyour memory subsystem. And I'm talking eitherwith XMP or manually, RAM compatibility withDDR4 has come a long way to the point where basicallyit just freakin' works. Faster modules will generallyhave no issues clocking down and running steady with the slower ones, especially if they'reunder four gigahertz. And our performancemeasurements demonstrate this with pretty much all of our configurations within the run-to-runvariants of our tests. But the enthusiasts among you will know that if you wanna get themost out of a modern system, increasing your memoryspeed is really important. What if we take thenhalf of our reference kit and half of a slower kitand run them in dual-channel at the reference kit'sfrequency of 3,200 megahertz? Our slow kit here is timedpretty similarly, 16-18-18-35. But the traditional rule of thumb is that for every speed bin bump, you would expect to alsoraise your CAS latency by one. I am really not sureif this is gonna work. Crazily enough, though, theresults look pretty good. Almost as good as our RAM styleTech Scarf on

LTTStore.com. And the benchmarks look identical. So what we've managed to showhere is that if you get lucky and you're mismatched RAMwill run at your target speed, there's unlikely to be anyperformance difference. But remember how I promisedwe'd find some differences? What happens if we up the ante, and mix our 2,666 with ourhigh-speed 4,000 megahertz kit? Well, the reason DDR4 4,000costs more than this stuff is that it's been sorted orbinned by the manufacturer according to their internalperformance targets. Now, sometimes you get lucky and this puppy'll overoverclock to the moon, but other times, you get ourlittle friend, Mr. 2,666 here. He managed to be compatiblewith the big, bad, extreme gaming modules, butnot at their rated speed, where the system failedto even power on properly. Things broke down even further when we tried to populatemore than two DIMM slots. The thing is the more modules you install the greater the load on your CPU's integrated memory controller. This didn't cause anyperformance issues per se, as long as we could getthe RAM all running, but it did cause some flakyand undesirable behavior. For example, when we populatedthree slots with a mixture of our reference and slow modules, the system would post and benchat 3,200 speeds just fine, at the start, but here's the thing. AMD's Ryzen processors havea feature called flex mode that allows two modulesto run in dual-channel, with a third running in single-channel. That's great for gettingmaximum performance out of a non-ideal configuration, but you've gotta be very careful how you populate your slots. As soon as we put our 2666module in the B1 slot, it got real unhappy, spittingout memory error codes and getting stuck in a restart loop until we reset the CMOS anddialed it all back to 2,666. As for populating all four DIMM slots and getting the system to work? That was no easy feat, with only a single configuration posting, and only when we toned it all down to meet at 3,200 megahertz. That was below our highest rated modules 3,400 megahertz speed. Funnily enough, though, we tried back to this configuration later, and despite using the same BIOS settings with the same sticks in the same slots, it actually failed to postproperly during round two. Which goes to show that while your friend might have no troublerunning a poop mix of memory with no performance penalty, you can't count on the same result. And here's the big problem with that. Two mixed modules was pretty much fine, but most people aren't mixing memory at the time that they buytheir brand new system. It's when they're upgrading down the line and trying to max out an older system, that these kinds of questions come up. So the chance that mixing and matching will result in unpredictability when you're maxing out yoursystem and filling all the slots is just too high to ignore. Speaking of unpredictable, get subscribed so you don'tmiss the next installment in our crazy Intel home upgrade series. Andy is doing a man-cave.(clicking tongue) Back to mixing memory though. Is there anything that youcan do to improve your odds? Well, yeah, actually. For starters, buying an upgrade that is rated for the samespeed and primary timings will help your chances. And so will finding amodule that was built using dies from the same manufacturer. And when I say manufacturer,I'm not talking G.Skill or Corsair or Kingston, I'mtalking about the actual chips that are soldered to the module. So if you've got a modulehere with Samsung B-dies, good for you, by the way, those are nice. Try to get more of the same, even if they have a differentlogo on the heat spreader. "But, Linus," you might ask, "what about different capacities? "Can I pair up similarly specced "eight gig and 16 gig modules "and finally join team dual-channel?" Yes, you can. It's called asynchronous dual-channel. So we also ran benchmarks withdifferent capacity modules of similar speeds and not onlydid it all register properly but as long as your workloaddoesn't exceed the capacity of the smallest module you shouldn't noticeany performance impact With that said, we still cannot in goodconscience recommend going out, buying whatever set of modules is on sale, rubbing them together for good luck, and throwing them at your rig. Both the best and theworst thing about PC gaming is that every system is wildlydifferent from the next. To the point where whatworks for your friend, or for us today, might not work for you. You might hit the silicon lottery and get something thatoverclocks just fine and has perfect compatibility, or you might get something that runs at exactly its rated speedand not a hertz more! Worse yet, you might landyourself in a restart loop or even run intounpredictable blue screens on a rig that otherwiseseems to be working fine. So we would strongly recommend if you're upgrading your memory flip your current moduleson Facebook Marketplace or eBay or something andbuy matching replacements. If however, you've got thespare parts lying around and you wanna see if you cangive yourself an easy upgrade with minimal or no performance loss, and you're not afraid of a little bit of fine-tuning in theevent of some crashing, the good news is that it can work. So please do some of your own testing and let us know in the comments below just how far you were able topush your mismatched hardware. Who knows, maybe you've had access to a free upgrade this whole time. Just like I upgraded my segueto this one from our sponsor, Micro Center. Get the best prices and bestselection on PC hardware, and anything else techat one of Micro Center's 25 locations across the United States. Check out Micro Center'sDIY arcade cabinet kits. Each kit includes the arcade cabinet, a 27-inch monitor, two joysticks, 20 arcade buttons withswitches, a Raspberry PI, Atari-themed graphics, and all the components needed to connect and power the system. The included Atari games SD card comes with over 140 licensed Atari games from their systems, theAtari 2600, Atari 5600, and Atari 7800. I mean, even back then they had console generationalnames figured out. They add 2,600 to every one.Why can't Microsoft do this? Anyway, the point is, ifyou wanna get more creative you can choose your own components with the Micro CenterRetro Arcade Builder. So click the link below and build your perfectarcade cabinet today. If you guys enjoy these kindsof deep dives into memory, check out our previous look at the performance impact of ECC memory. It is slower, but it might help youkeep memory errors at bay. You can check out findingson that sweet stuff at the link down below Or I think we've probably gota thing here. (clicks tongue) 

the all-white gaming pc

 - This is the fastest gamingGPU on the face of the planet. The ROG STRIX GeForceRTX 3090 white edition. And it is so flipping gorgeous, that when ASUS hit usup asking if we wanted to check it out, I was like, "yeah, but not right away." I gotta pull out all the stops. We need all white powersupply, all white cooler, all white case. We are going full white out for this build and it is going to be gorgeous. Oh, what about our sponsor indeed? GlassWire. With GlassWire you caninstantly see your current and past network activity, detects malware and block badly behaving appson your PC or Android device. Use offer code "Linus"to get 25% off GlassWire at the link below. (upbeat music) No, I lied. We've got to put that away. The most painful part ofpretty much any gaming build. You've got your shiny, sexy GPU, and you don't even get to touch it until you've done all of the work. It might not be up to thecrazy premium standards of some of the other componentswe're using for the build, but the Prime X570-Pro fromASUS, is a really solid board. It's got full supportfor PCI express gen four, thanks to its X570 chip set. It's got four USB threepoint, whatever it is, 10 gigabit per second ports, and it's got two M dottwo PCI express gen four, storage ports. So, realistically when itcomes to gaming performance there are no compromises here. With the one thing that'skind of missing for me, being higher speed networking. It's only got gigabit LAN. We're gonna be pairing it of course, with a Ryzen 9 5950X. The very same one that you've seen in every video we'vedone featuring the 5950X because these things arerarer than hen's team. And why wouldn't they be? With 16 cores, 32 threads and turbo going up to 4.9 gigahertz, these things are the absolutepinnacle of what AMD can fit in a consumer socket. For system memory, we've gone with an utterly overkill 128 gigs of G skill TridentZ NEO 3,600 megahertz, which I have been informedrecently is called the juicer. So, one juicer, two juicer, three juicer. And we're gonna wedgein that fourth juicer, a little something like that. As for the reason we'vegone with these juicers instead of something more exotic like 4,000 megahertz memory, it comes down to AMD's infinity fabric. You wanna run at a one-to-one ratio between the infinityfabric and your memory. And unfortunately on a lot of Ryzen 5000 CPU's, you can'tpush your infinity fabric all the way to 2000 megahertz, which means if you wannarun 4,000 megahertz RAM, you actually have to runat a one-to-two ratio which slows down your infinity fabric. Meaning, you've gotta go wayhigher in terms of memory speed to yield any benefit. So we've gone with 3,600 megahertz which means we only have toget the CPU's infinity fabric to 1800 megahertz. As for the CL16 latency, well,it's not super impressive but remember, these are 32gig modules, so, pretty good. As for storage, we've gone zero excuses, absolute top of the flip in line with Samsung's 980 Pro twoterabyte PCI express gen for SSD. This thing uses NLC flashfor excellent endurance and performance, and has anew generation controller from Samsung, giving it read speeds of over seven gigabytes per second. It's hot, it's hot. The performance is hot. Ah! Don't worry. I threw it somewhere safeand delicate and gentle. It's a good desk pad there. Three and a half millimetersthick, lttstore.com. This thing is crazy balls to the wall. I mean, it's got two gigs of DDR4 memory. It's basically a computer,not that long ago. And that's yet another waywe're going absolutely top of the line, with our cooling. This is the IQ H150 Elite Capellix. I don't know why it's called the Capellix, but what I do know, is that it is snow white, absolutelytop to freaking bottom. And that really was the only requirement. Yeah, I'm not reallysure what else there is to tell you about this thing. Other than that, this isCorsair's latest generation all in one design, it's got RGB integrated into the pump, so it's gonna look absolutely freaking awesome. And, it fits perfectly in our, IQ 5000X RGB case. You know what's kind ofcrazy though Brandon, is as good as the system's gonna look, we're actually not spending that much of our budget on the aesthetics. Like yeah, 210 US dollars. It's not a cheap case, butit's also not crazy expensive. Especially considering thatyou get three of Corsair's excellent RGB fansincluded in the package. Yeah, I mean the pre done wiring for the front panel connectors,the built-in fan hub, the RGB, not bad for 200 bucks Corsair.

Although naturally, formachine of this caliber we have not gone that route. Meet, the ROG Strix850 watt white edition. That's right. It's clean. NoW I know, 850 wattpower supply, RTX 3090, might not be ideal, but, it should be enough, aslong as this particular unit can handle those current spikes that we see from RTX30 series cards. And the reality of it is, you guys may or may not have noticed this, but there's like a miningsituation going on out there. Cryptocurrency. Power supplies a thousand watt and over, you basicallyjust can't get them. So, we're gonna put that in there. There it is. Yeah, 850 watt. I wouldn't call it a fatalflaw, but one potential downer of this case is that, onceyour power supply is in there, it is basically impossibleto get these thumb screws to loosen the hard drive cage. And furthermore, if youwanna install hard drives and you have a prettyreasonable size power supply, you pretty much cannotinstall your modular cables after the fact. So, I'm probably just gonnapull the hard drive cage out since I'm not gonna need athree and a half inch drive. That's better. That's not room A, roomB, room C or room D. That's room E. Get it, it's roomy. Now it's time to pop our motherboard in. Dang, that is looking good. One thing I really liked though, is Corsair's using a much bigger nubbin to hold the motherboard than before. And it's really easy to keep it in place and build up right like this,which I personally do prefer. This is a pretty roomy casefor my cooler configuration. Just gonna pull out myfan filter over here. I've gone with a push configuration, meaning I'll be able tosee all that smacksy RGB from the inside of the system. So, that's gonna go right there. It's all set up correctly,so that the Corsair logo is gonna be right side up. Not that I can I couldn't move it around if I really wanted to. You can actually pop thisplate off and reconfigure it. But now I don't have to. See. One little trick in thissetup though, is gonna be RGB. Now, I thought, I was gonna be able to use the pre-installedRGB hub for these fans, cause they're all Corsair. The problem, is that,there's one RGB component I did not account for. And that is the CPU block. So for that reason, I'm gonna have to swap out this RGB controller for this one. Fortunately, this is six channels and should have supportfor the integrated fans. So, it's just a matterof, popping this out, popping this out and thenplugging the CPU block into this little controller plug here. We were having an interesting conversation before you guys showed up. How fast, like if we teamworked it, got it like right, got it down, how fast could we build a PC? Maybe there's like a worldrecord to be set in there. Or like we could do like a team challenge. - Team challenge. - What do you think? Is that a video? Get subscribed so you don't miss it. It's gonna be a video. We're doing it. There is a little bit oflike pass through airflow from this fan over here. There's a lot of heat pipe on this thing. It's kind of hard to see over here, but like, look at this,plus a vapor chamber. This thing is so freaking heavy and big. It's actually got atriple slot cooler on it. Okay. But there's only a dualslot back plate on it. So I've only got to take out two of these black plate covers here. You know what, I think I kindof found the one fatal flaw in this case. I otherwise really like it. I think it looks like a fantastic deal. It's got this cablemanagement shroud thing here. And the problem is, that the GPU sits like right on top of it. So you either have tocome over it like this, or you gotta come under it like this, which kind of interferes with the fan. Back here with management,already looks pretty darn good, when we go ahead. - (man) Is it going toget rid of all of it? - Put this puppy on here. Yeah, yeah. All that work you weredoing, totally pointless. There it is. Boom. Dang. That looks so slick. Like that's the nice thingabout a white interior, is that instead of the RGBlooking like kind of harsh and it has kind of like a softness to it. Cause it's like RTX on,global illumination. You got the light bouncing. Wow. That is a good looking machine. Honestly, this case is really impressive. I have not seen it in person before. They've done a great job of maintaining like thatclean tempered glass aesthetic but then making sure thatit's dif and GamersNexus won't rip them a new onefor not having any airflow by like putting a big vent on the side. Everything else about this, Ithink we can probably crank. Ooh, screen space, reflectionquality returning it to psycho. Remember, we're running at 10 ADP here. High refresh rate monitor. So, ultra ray trace slate. No, no, psycho ray trace lighting. There we go. Don't need any of that DLSS. Ooohhh. Except when it doesn't, cause that looks realsmooth right about now. I mean, oops, RTX 3090 at 10ADP, even cyberpunk bows to it. Now that's Jason hard at work right there. Cause it actually is not running it, that many frames per second. We're sitting at around60 frames per second. Feels really good. It's really consistent. Like our 99th percentileis like 54 right now. 51, if we put DLSS on quality,this is gonna look nutty. Okay. Quality DLSS, hold on. Let's just see what that looks like. That's real smooth. Like we're running at ahundred frames per second. That is fine for asight-see game like this. Man, that looks so good. - (man) Look at the reflections! I know, right? I mean, I'm not gonna say that it's worth the performancepenalty in all situations, but there is no denying that real-time prey tracingcan look really, really good. Wow. These guys can take a lot of... Wait. How'd the cops get here so fast? Oh, press X, don't die. Oh, still died. Just like I died, if I didn't tell you about our sponsor "Micro Center." 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Gaming on a $ 60,000 computer-liqid badger Den

 - On today's episode of"The Most Expensive Thing "Isn't Always The Best", we are gonna take this. The fastest server money can buy. It's got 128 processingcores, a terabyte of Ram. It's got storage that can copy files at a hundred gigabytes a second, and we're gonna put a graphics card in it and play video games, comealong for a grand old time. And a grand old segue toour sponsor, Origin PC. Origin PC desktops can now be customized with Nvidia GeForce RTX30 series graphics cards. So if you're in the market for a new PC powered by RTX 30 series and backed by a 24\7 support team, check out origin, PCsystems at the link below. (upbeat music) We'll begin by meetingthe RTX 3090 graphics card that we will be installing in our server. And I use the word inkind of loosely here. This is the Supreme X fromMSI, and I actually get it. That's a funny one, MSI. It's like Supreme because youcan't make enough of them. And the prices get jacked up on eBay. This thing has an absolutelymassive triple slot cooler three eight pin powerconnectors, three fans. And of course everythingelse that you would expect from an RTX 3090 graphics cards. Got a full metal back plate, PCI express gen four 60 X connector down here and enough RGB to choke a horse. Why anyone wants to choke a horse though? I've never been here quite figure out. Here's the thing. It's not as though a server like this isn't designed to haveGPU's installed in it. It totally is. There's a riser right here so the slot comes out at an angle. You can actually see whereusing PCI express 60 next slots. In fact, they're gen four aswell for our storage drives which are installed here,here, here, and here. The issue is that serverGPU is coming pretty standardized form factors. And a lot of the time theydon't even have display outputs or fans on them. So they're designed to sithere and utilize the airflow. That's already going through the chassis for their own cooling. Dell in their infinitewisdom also requires you to buy a special GPU adapter kit that comes with their proprietary cable. So you can plug in your GPU and a bracket. So we are gonna have to get a little more creative than that.

I mean, how ironic is that? Dell has a proprietary 12 pin connector so that I can go to dual eight pin and then back to a 12pin if I put a Pinterest. Fortunately, we have a plan. Since we don't actually needto install this in a rack unit. Anyway, we can just take a PCI extension, jam it in there and run thegraphics card wherever we play. I could even put it on top of the monitor if I really wanted to. It's not really that crazyif you think about it. I mean, the traces inside your motherboard are basically just, youknow strands of copper. So all we're doing withan extension like this is extending the copper strands some more. Now we might run into trouble with PCI express gen four signaling since getting the timing right on that is a bit more complicated. But we already know thatrunning an RTX 3090, even on a gen three slot which we can manuallychange it to if we need to is only gonna cost us acouple percent performance. So this seems like areasonable compromise. Before we can fire it up though. There's a little trick here. We're just gonna put a little wire into the green and black pinson our ATX 12 pin connector before turning our power supply on. Plugging it in Server, here we go. You can really hear the performance. Look at this RGB. It goes perfectly with our server. It's a good thing we set thefans to the quiet pro file. - [Man] It's just loud 'causeit has intrusion detection. So if the top panels off it spins up. - I don't know what we can do about that. Where's the intrusion detection? - At the back, but Ithink it's electrical too. So even if you push it down,it needs to also be grounded. - Hold on, I got this. - [Man] Oh my God. Do not unplugged that power supply. Oh man. - They call it me the PC surgeon. That's an open heart surgery right there. Okay, so what I'm hoping is that we can trip the chassisintrusion detection thing so that we don't have to listento this noise quite so loud. There might not be any getting around it. No, I'll just deal with the noise. It's easier for this toget dragged off the table if the cables are hanging down. Okay, I just need to keepthose clear the fans. You need fans for good coolingand make sure you get this by the time this video comes out that thing might finallybe on lttstore.com. - [Man] Wait, lttstore.com. That's where you get this? - Oh yeah. - LTT store? - This game will unlock inapproximately less than an hour. There we go, all right. So we might actually get to play this. In the meantime foranyone who didn't catch it in our first video about this, that's task manager, double flax. The reason there's so manydrives in this thing is 'cause this machine isactually going to end up being our main videoediting storage servers. So those are all gonna beput together in some kind of Linux rate or multitaskor something like that. But we're focused onthe GPU RTX 3090 baby. Also there's a terabyte of Ram in here which are using 148 gigs. Do you still have a Ram disk installed? - [Man] Yeah. - That makes sense. We're not gonna end up usingthat for gaming though. We had intended to likeinstall all our games in Ram. But what we realized is that every Ram just software we tried and there's like half adozen of them on here, was limited by the software itself. Not by the speed of the memory. So our honey badgers,even though we've only got I think two of them likewindows rated together it's actually faster than a Ram disk. Before we game, we've got someunfinished business though. Blender wouldn't run 'cause we didn't have agraphics card last time. So it's time for a blenderCPU rendering flex. Now even auto tile sizedefaulted to 64 threads. And I keyed in 256 but I have a feelingthat is not going to work especially because we'vegot two CPU sockets and I don't believeblender is pneumo aware. So it might be limited to justone, but there we go, BMW. - [Man] Oh no. - It's utilizing it about 69%. Not too shabby Lobby 48 seconds. Classroom is something I expect to be like a five to 15 minute test. This is gonna do it in it's tracking about two minutes and 35 seconds. Of course because we're notbenefiting from multiple CPU's we'd be better off with a thread ripper. Now, normally I would be impressed that we're getting just shyof 200 frames per second, 4K alternate mirror details do maternal except that when you'regot a $60,000 machine you might expect more bang for your buck. Now the situation has changed a lot over the last few years in particular but video games are stillrelatively lightly threaded compared to otherapplications like 3D animation or video editing, evenvideoing coding in particular. So what happens is ifyou've got a CPU like this that is all about width ratherthan per core performance. Well, you can pop into your task manager and see what's happening here. Our GPU is running it like, now that's not quite representativeof the real situation but it thinks it's runningat like 10% capacity. Now based on the heat coming off of this it's definitely working reasonably hard but the fans are also barely spinning. That's crazy town. We're using 40% CPU,downloading a cyberpunk update. Okay, that's some heavy compression. This is one good looking freaking game. Particularly with Ray tracing on. Is that not unreal? It's not, get it? This is at 4K with RTX on we're using DLSS but we've manually selectedthe quality setting. So that's why we're onlygetting 43 FPS right now. Of course, the questionthat we have right now is how well or poor at bestthree gigahertz processor is keeping up with our GPU. Let's go have a look, shall we? Wow, we are entirely GPU bound right now. We're up to 75 degrees and at 97% usage. Oh yeah, GPU power usage is anywhere from 94 to 100% absolutely cranked. So as long as you'replaying Cyberpunk at 4K, absolutely Maxed, your 3090is gonna be the bottleneck. For anyone who was wondering that's how many chorus Cyberpunk can hit. Assuming it has all the coresin the world to work with. There were sitting at like 17, 18% usage. Man, this game has the new crisis. Like nothing is able to run this. Absolutely maxed out. Remember we're using DLSS. We're only rendering at 1440 Pand then it's upscaling to 4K with that said from myexperience with it earlier today DLSS quality on this looks really good. That is to say the DLSS quality preset not the quality of DLSS. Look at this fire Jake,look at these shadows. Look at these shadows of the people walking around on the street. There's no like stair-stepping,there's no like jutter 'cause they're onlyrefreshing every 10th frame. Man, remember how good thisgame looked when it came out? - [Man] It was hard to run too. - And it still looks good. But compared to Cyberpunkjust now, it's like, no. - [Man] It looks 10 years older. - It really does, like how fakethe sunrays look and stuff. All right, so let's exit to menu. And then we're gonna see ifour load times don't suck. 'Cause we have 128 cores. I don't know. We've blown it up oncejust to make sure it's not cloud sinking a profile or anything. But this is what 25gigabytes, a second in storage and 128 CPU cores getchafor GTA loading times. Let's see if it helps at all. - [Man] Like if you wereto do this on a hard drive it might actually takelike two or three minutes. - No, I know. I remember I used to benchmarkthis game on hard drives back in the day, our testrigs had like 128 gig SSDs. Like we couldn't haveall the games on SSD. Feel like I'm a grandpatalking to like, you know the young boys that grew upwith solid state, you know? - [Man] I remember I bought my- - That was not bad. - [Man] That's pretty good. - That's actually not bad. - [Man] It's not asgood as it like could be like realistically that shouldhave happened a little faster but it's still pretty good. - Yeah, not too shabby. The game, it's like, oh look, you know, we got rays. - [Man] Yeah, and pre-rendered shadows. - Yeah, pre-rendered shadows. Nice, I mean these soft shadows are, they're pretty good for back then, but it's no global elimination. All right, how hard isour poor GPU working here? Oh boy, GPU one power isanywhere from a 65% to 92%. So we are a little CPUbottlenecked in some situations. Given it's running ata mere 2.9 gigahertz. That kind of makes sense. If you wondered how many cores verifying your game cashtakes, the answer is one. You might think youknow, Oh, 200, 290 FPS, that's pretty good. That is terrible. I mean didn't we hit like 500, 600 FPS on the new Ryzen 5,000 chips? - [Man] Yeah maybe at 1080 P. - Okay, that's fair. That's fair. - [Man] But still I don'tthink it scales that. - No, I mean right now togive you guys some idea we all turbo, we're now using anywhere from 45 to 70% of our GPU 'cause we are so CPU bottlenecked. Only one core wasactually due here I think. So, okay, it's not a gaming machine, but the good news is thatthe things that we will do with this, fast storage, fast networking actually are heavily dependent on having lots and lots of CPU cores. So stay tuned 'cause we're gonna have some updates coming around that. Just like I've got anupdate about our sponsors. Squarespace gives you thetools you need to build and grow your online presence. They've got a ton of templates spanning, a large variety of categories. So if you need a website foryour blog or your wedding, or your business,Squarespace has you covered. You can buy a domainquickly through Squarespace if you need one or you can port over an existing one that you already own. So why wait get startedwith a free 14 day trial just head to squarespace.com\LTT and you'll get 10% offyour first purchase. If you guys enjoy this video and you love crazy gaming setups, maybe check out the one where I took four GPU's running in a mosaic and tried to set aperformance world record only for it to gohorribly, horribly wrong. Will you cut when that fell. 

the incognito gaming pc

 - When Crucial reachedout to sponsor a bill, they didn't just want another gaming PC. They wanted somethingspeedy, subtle and stealthy. We said sure, but like, don'tyou guys just make memory and SSDs, guide oranything else we can use? And boy, did they ever delivered. It turns out Crucial has a case, or at least (laughs) they used to. Yes, my friends, this is theultimate stealthy, sleeper PC. And I managed to break it already. - [Colin] Dammit, Linus. (bright upbeat music) - Okay yes, technicallythis is a Micron case. Yes, they made cases wayback in the before four time. And this little piece ofhistory was one of a handful of designs that Micronput out, in the mid 90s. So, seeing as Micron is theparent company of Crucial, it seemed fitting to useone of their old cases for our ultimate stealth sleeper build. It features not one but, two Zip Drives, a CD drive and just a single fan, that's right. Just one fan in the entirechassis for cooling, like man, they reallydidn't need a lot of cooling back then, did they? That's in spite of the rest of the case, having almost no gaps in it for air flow, and the CPU cooler in theoriginal system being passive. This appears to be the originalhardware from the system. What the hell is this? - [Colin] That's AGP and it's got two, I don't know, phone jackson the back, I guess modem? That's definitely not AGP this predates AGP by a significant margin, but those are definitely phone jacks. This is a modem. Why would you shape your modem like this? You need like a more streamlined internet. - [Colin] Yeah, it's a faster speeds. - S3 ViRGE/DX on board, okay. So this is our graphics card. This puppy got a nice little upgrade with that USB, Universal Serial Bus. And then it's also got, oh look at that. Like why does this not have a back? Did you take the back plates off these? - Yes.- That's a weird thing to do, all right. Thanks Colin, I got probably1,000 LAN right there. Maybe just 10, 10 megabit. This thing is so weird. So you got your EDO memory up in here. You got what appears tobe some kind of slotted in motherboard VRM. Why would you slot that inafter the fact, and then - [Colin] They're probably unreliable. - Wow, this is before IDE even had the like things around it. This is, this is old. You know it's an old motherboard, when every trace on itis like easily trackable, to where it goes and lookslike it could be repaired with a steady hand and a magnifying glass. That's some fine attentionto detail 90s Micron, got your logo right-sideup on your cooler. Lots of companies,still can't handle that. What's the (beep) is this thing? - [Colin] I don't know. - Oh wait, it's an 032-UPG. So it seems to be an upgrademodule for a sound card. And they really did meet oldkeyboards right you know, the oldest keyboard isthe goodest keyboard. See, that's why Crucialdoesn't make gaming keyboards 'cause they know they couldnever surpass the excellence they had already achieved. - [Colin] They already picked. - In the mid 90s. RAM though, RAM has gotten faster. So our second focus with this machine after stealth was speed. So Crucial hooked us up with some of their Ballistix MAXRAM, this stuff is rated-- - Oh, don't, no come on, man. I worked so hard onthis, stand over there. - This stuff is rated at up to 5100MHz. (label pops)5100 It's so fast. You're more likely to hit hardware limits with other components in your system. Like the memory controller on the CPU, before you hit the maxspeed on these dimms. And the reason Crucialis able to get this RAM, so darn fast is hopefully pretty obvious when you account for over a quarter of the global manufacturingoutput for memory, you have both the expertise and the volume to both tune the chipsand then picked them from an enormous pool of memory chips. There's just no other way to do it. Furthermore, Crucial beingunder the Micron umbrella is able to go beyond binning. After the cream of the crop is determined, Crucial puts their chipsthrough a secondary process that physically unlocksthe voltage regulation, taking what was alreadyan outstanding candidate, and opening it up to thebleeding edge of performance. That's why their Ballistix RAM can hit those extreme frequencies. It's literally designed andthen tuned to be gaming RAM. Now, when it came totransforming this beast from a clunker to a sleeper, it wasn't a task for the faint of heart. After gently removing all the old hardware and putting it to bed one last time, sweet bedtime story by theway guys, lttstore.com. Colin started figuring out exactly how to fit our array ofmodern parts into the case. Now it is ATX. So this case was made rightaround that transition. So on paper, the whole transition was supposed to be pretty simple. We chose an AMD Ryzen 3900X 12 core CPU, with an ASUS Strix B550-F Gaming. This is a great balance ofperformance, features and costs. Giving us all the expansion we need today and PCI Express Gen4capabilities for future SSD, and who knows, maybegraphics card upgrades? Then for our SSD, we chose the Crucial P5. It uses the TLC 3D NAND witha dynamically sized SLC cache, along with a gig per terabyte of DRAM to maintain performance under heavy loads. It comes with a five-year warranty, uses Microns own controller supports all the usualencryption standards and is available in up totwo terabyte capacities. We actually put two on there I think. - [Colin] Yep.- Yes we did. Now unfortunately, the motherboard and all the stuff attached to it was where the ease of use ended. While the holes for our powersupply did in fact line up, for whatever reason, 90s Micron saw fit to include this weird support bar that interferes with the power switch on our new Sea Sonic 851Watt 80 Plus Titanium unit, which we definitely needed. Because while our old one was in fact ATX, it used, oh, I just stab myself. It used the older 20 pin connector rather than 24 pin connector, not to mention that it was rated for what, 200 Watts?- [Colin] - 270, somewhere around there. - That would get us maybe our RAM and CPU. So we went with this particular unit for it's super high efficiency, which means less waste heat, in the AC to DC conversion process. The cross-brace problem was solved with a little bit ofpercussive maintenance. And now the switch here works as intended. Note though, that we actually turned off the hybrid mode switch. That's because the air flowis so stifled in this case, that we're kind of countingon our power supply to help push some of thehot air from the inside, out the back of the system. Now at the heart and brains figured out what about the muscle? Well, we weren't the onlyones who got kind of bone and aided by Nvidia

suddenannouncement of a graphics card that's hey, actually fasterthan the old one, gotcha! So the machine as it isright now was actually built, with an RG Strix 20 ADTI,which barely squeezes in there leaving what I would callthe absolute minimum amount of space for some semblance of airflow. Like, look at this, comecheck this out Andy. These power cables are actually squished against the side panel. It's that friction that makes it so hard to get the pedal off (laughs). Now, to try to cool it, wewanted to take advantage of the natural tendencyof warm air to rise. So our goal was taken coolair from the front and bottom, and exhaust warm air from the back, where this knock to a PWN fan replaced the old three pin unit. And hopefully it's good. Like I said before we'regonna get some help for the power supply. So that's fine. But the case didn't comewith any intake holes. Fair warning guys, thisis gonna get graphic. ("Rock It Out") (driller whirring)("Rock It Out") - With a bit of adrenaline massaging. The front panel was trimmedopen for more airflow and to allow a single 120 millimeter all-in-one liquid coolerto be mounted that way. At least our poor CPU getsnice fresh air (laughs). And we used a hole saw to add a second, not to an 80 millimeter fan. Now I know that it's not quite factory, but we did allow ourselves to add a couple of 3Dprinted elevating feet so that the new fan canactually draw in air. And then hopefully that'sthe ventilation sorted. So it's definitelystealthy, but is it enough? Did it work? I have to confess Colin,I'm a little skeptical. It really does not looklike enough cooling. Oh my God, I love this vintagePentium with MMX designed for windows 95 stuff we got going on here. See, when Alex builds a sleeper PC, he usually water close it. - That sounds like work.- That's true. He does do seem to do a lot ofunnecessary work, doesn't he? I love that guy. All right, we're firing up. What are we doing? We're firing up some reddead redemption here. - [Colin] Yeah, whatever you want to do. - All right. - [Colin] I think I got a tombright around there as well. - Wow, look at that. Look at that snow falloff that branch there. Cool, all right we're goingto go stand by the fire there. Okay, but seriously, whyis this not loud yet? You're breaking the rules here, Colin. - [Colin] Your hand by the fan though. - You took all the PCIplates out of the back too. - [Colin] Of course. - That's where you got somemore ventilation from you. - [Colin] Pulled out all the stops, man. - You sneaky guy. - [Colin] Yeah, you want to know, you want to know what else is sneaky? - It's toasty, all rightwhat else is sneaky? - There's a little sneaky trick up here. You know, when you're, you'rehungry and you're gaming. There's where there's, youknow, the old man candy? - Got where there's a fridge. How much time did you spend on this? - [Colin] Too much? - The craziest part is thatthis isn't just, you know, a three minute test here. Colin actually stresstested this thing in 3DMark over an extended period without running into thermal throttling issues. Right?- Yup. - Are you sure? - Yeah, I ran the can stress test ran, ran all the way through andpassed with 98%, so wow. - Okay then. But can it run an RTX 3080? Now I saw you brought down the 3090, but surely you weren't hopingto actually put this in there. - It was optimistic like, like real yeah. (both laughing) - Yeah, by the time wegot the 1210 plugged into the top of it, there's no way. Now let's see if this boy will fit. If you want to grab that 12 pin adapter. - Yeah try here. - Oh, you got it, all right. - Okay, we're going to run, the same thing I ran on the 20 ADTI. So the time spy, the long stress test. So this will take, I thinkit's 10 or 15 minutes and it's going to get real hotand we'll be able to see it. I'm actually expecting this to be better because the new cards are more efficient and the exhaust that's goingto be coming out of the back that will hopefully help me. - [Andy] What was the FPS on 2080 Ti? - I think it was around 6570. So we're pulling over 107 right now. You hear the fans ramping up. The amount of heat thisthing is thrown out the back is kind of astonishing. We passed. And if we look at the actualdata, our CPU hit a peak of 70 degrees and our GPU rode 74degrees, the whole way there. There's the odd blip, but like97 1/2% I'll call it good. - No way, I can't believe that worked like it's significantlymore power than the 2080 Ti. But that goes to show youthe strength of Nvidia's new, like flow through cooler, right? Because that's exactly howthey designed it, right? To have cool air comingin from the bottom front. I mean, that's the ATX standard obviously, but like to assist that natural convection and like, this is the samething we saw in our review, where even though it draws more power, it actually managed betteroverall system cooling. I'm absolutely freaking loving it. Just like I'm lovingtelling you one more time. Thanks to Crucial forsponsoring this video. Go check out their high-speedmemory and storage products at the link in the video description. And if you guys enjoyed this video and you're looking for one ofour other sleeper machines, hey, we've got a whole playlist, absolutely chock full of them. So don't miss it. (soft upbeat music) 

dennis wasted his money intel $ 5,000 extreme tech upgrade

 - You spent $400 of Intel's money on this? What do you mean it's ugly? You go (beep) yourself. One thing I love aboutIntel extreme home upgrade is that when I give one of myteam members 5,000 US dollars, sponsored by Intel, toupgrade their home setup, I learn a lot about them. Like some people are more into multimedia and others are hardcore into gaming and still others, like Dennis, spend the money on some really weird shit. (Dennis chuckles) - [Dennis] Charlie, bite him, bite him. That's a bad person. (upbeat techno music) - One of the things Ialready knew about Dennis, is that he knows how to stretch a dollar. And I can't believe how muchstuff you have here, man.

- I need a lot of stuff, Linus. My set up is completely...(fart sound effect plays) You will see it in a bit. - So you've got a new chair, new desk, not one but two new monitors,complete new gaming setup, and even like- Where'd the foot massager go? - Where is it? Here, here, here, here. - [Linus] The RENPHO foot massager and- - That's shoulder massager.- RENPHO shoulder massager. - Know when you're editingall day, eight hours a day, it's like actually hurtingyour neck a lot and your feet, I would like to stay comfort. - Why would your feethurt from editing videos? - Been sitting too much. (chuckles) Yeah. - No! What are you talking about? What else we got? - That's a--- What's the up here? - Fan.- A fan? - I'm not sure. - What do you mean you're not sure? - Nicholas put out the PC list. I was in charge of the comfort stuff, and Nicholas was in charge of PC stuff. - Oh! So it's actually just like, fans? - There's fans.- Oh my God! Why do you have 10 RVP fans?- I have six, I think. I have six. White fans. My color theme is white. - You managed to get a30-80 in this budget? You've got a cable tray, you've got... What is this cabinet? - [Dennis] Officecabinet 'cause I need it. I have a lot of stuff to put away. - And the desktop as... How did you get all of this? Did you blow the budget? - No I did not, I actuallystay within $5,000. - These alone are like $300. What is struck tube? - We also have Intel core i7. - Of course we do, sponsored by Intel. - Thank you.- Extreme home upgrade. What is this? Is this a light fixture?- Oh my God! This light, cost me $100. My theme is modern, clean and minimalist. - [Linus] No, that's Riley's thing. - Riley sucks. Look at mine will be more modern, and mine is minimalistwith comfort, different. - [David] Comfort? - Yeah you can't be minimalist with like machines strappedto your shoulders and feet. That's not minimalism. - Imagine this, Linus, Ihave this shoulder massager with this headphone. So modern, real futuristic. I'll look so cool in it. - (laughs)Okay, I wasable to imagine it up until that last bit. (all laughing) Why don't we look at the current setup? - Okay, okay, Linus, stop. Nothing stolen from work. - Well, at least some of thisdefinitely came from work. I mean, it's got our label on it. - It's signed out. If it's signed out, it's not stolen. - Okay, well wait aminute, hold on, you have- - So okay, let me explain what happenedto this (cock crows) Razor that you gave uslike a couple of years ago at that Christmas party. Look at this, look at this. - You hear that? You hearhow angry he is about-? You know what, maybe Ishouldn't give you anything. (Dennis laughs) Yeah, why don't I give the home upgrade to someone who will appreciate it? - Just not Razor! (technical difficulty beep) Look at the batteries. They've expanded, and I didn't realize it till-- Oh yeah, look at that. - Like last month. And look at here. - Yeah touch pad has like bowed. So you know that you shouldn't keep that battery in there, right? - I know, but I don't know-- It's a fire hazard. - I don't know how to deal with it. - What? It's like eight screws. You just take them outand pop the thing out. - But I still have my stuff in there. - So?(David laughs) - So now I sign up another Razor. - Why would you-? - Alex recommend Razor 13. - Why do you have two pairs of headphones? You're not minimalistic at all Dennis. - I'm trying to. So this is, I've beenusing this for a long time. It's Logitech. What is this actually? - Corsair. - Corsair! Corsair.(Dennis laughs) Corsair RGB wireless thing. Um, it dies. - I'm so triggered right now.- 'Cause of wireless, it dies. - I'm so triggered right now. Look at this. What kind of monster adjuststheir headphones like this? - Oh what? I guess I have to do it evenly. (David laughs) - Oh my god, no wonder you get- - Don't say it, don't say it. - No, no, no, no wonder you get sore. (Dennis and Linus laugh) Look at this chair! It's metal! - Linus, I told you inorder to let you understand why I bought so many massagers for me, - Yeah- you had to try to sit here. - Oh, it looks so uncomfortable. (Dennis laughs) - So we have a pillow. You can have the pillow.- That's not minimalism! - But you have more options. So like you can change-(film crew laughing) You can change the colorlike from a different season. Like this is more like winter color, and this is the kind of winter as well. - [Linus] That's not winter! - Yeah, it's orange! - Okay, David or Other David, any David, back me up on this is: is this winter? - [Other David] Absolutely not. - Thank you. - [Other David] Maybe Halloween. (Dennis laughs) - So let's look at thisminute, cable management. Look at this, it's so- - Your cable managementis dog (fart noise). Let's go look at- Okay, let's go. - Let's go see my guestroom also slash office. - [Linus] Yeah. Oh, well this is way nicer. - [Dennis] What do you mean? This is all Apple stuff. - [Linus] Yeah, but it's not like- - [Dennis] Look at the keyboard. - [Linus] There's onlyone pair of headphones - So this is the kind ofthing that people usually like the minimalistic style. - Yeah, and David's desk is a lot nicer, other than that the drawersare all taped together for some reason.- Okay, this is the worst desk, because this drawersopen by itself sometimes. I think my house is haunted. (suspenseful noise) - Are you sure thatit's not just not level? - (laughs)I'm not sure. - Do you own a level? Yeah, it's not (beep) level Dennis, that's why the drawers open. - You are pushing it this way. - I'm not pushing it!- Okay. (upbeat music) (David laughs)(level clatters) - [Linus] Someone's hidding here. - Anyways, this is desk needs to go. I also like- - This desk looks really nice! - Sit here, sit here. - Well, the chair sucks.That's your problem. - The chair sucks, okay. Look at that, you put yourfeet, look at, do you feel it? Oh, you're too short. This room, you can see it'slike kind of empty right? We need something here to pop the room. - Really doesn't look very empty to me. - I got something to pop the room Linus.- Desk, ugly chair. - I got something to pop the room for you. - [Linus] To pop the room? To pop the room. - Look at this neon signI bought! It's maybe $400. - [David] Live, laugh, Liao. (Dennis laughs) - You spent $400 of Intel's money on this? - Live, laugh, Liao. - No, are you serious? - Yes. - Wait, live, laugh, Liao? (Dennis laughs) How did you afford all of this? - Because I buy this firstand then I figured out, oh, why it needs for PC. So this is more important than PCs. - I'm so sorry, Intel. I didn't know he was gonna do this. That just looks likecomplete gibberish to me. - Well Linus, you don't understand art. Oh-ho! That's cool. Look at that! You don'twanna be on Zoom meeting? Just do this. - You know what the best modefor it, though? That one. (Dennis laughs) Like, this is handmade,look at that hot glue. - This is the part I'm most excited for. That. Look at that. - See with the other ones, like either it was someonecompetent like Anthony, who I could trust toput together good stuff. Or I helped them with their list of stuff. This is the first onewhere I wasn't involved, and look what (beep) happens. Look what happens. Okay, all right, let'sget this show on the road. - [Dennis] Okay. - Don't touch the wall. - I know. I painted yourwalls. I don't wanna fix them. There's nothing wrongwith this desk, Dennis! - [Dennis] I don't like it. - [Linus] How did youget such expensive stuff? Isn't this like a thousand dollar desk? - Yeah, but this brandis actually pretty cheap. - Oh, wait last. I don't have any tools at home. - Yeah, we've been throughthis, I believe you. - I can call my neighborhaving call for deliver tools. (doorbell rings) My tool guy is here, I think. Tool delivery, you see, you don't need to own any tools. Look at this Linus, this tabletop is so pretty just like dbrand. - It's not just like dbrand, it's... - I think it's probablybetter than dbrand. - Obviously I like, it'sa natural wood countertop is better than a vinyl sticker. I don't think dbrand wouldargue with you about that. - Yes, sure. Look so pretty and white and clean. I'll be so happy to edit on this. - So you told David to roll the camera. Was there a point to this or? - There's no point, Ithink I love it already. - While he hopefully putstogether the desk correctly. I'm gonna build the PC,but since I don't wanna sit on his horrible metal chairs,which by the way, oh my god you have so many of them, Dennis. - What? - You spent a thousand dollarson uncomfortable chairs? - Oh yeah, I have many of them, I (David laughs) but the thing is I bought themfrom festival marketplace. So I got a really gooddeal, I paid $40 each. - You know why you got a good deal? - Why - Because they're not comfortable. - But they are modern, likecomfortable to my eyes. (David laughs) - So I'm gonna build thechair, so that I can sit in the chair while I build the computer. You know you have a drill right there. Why are you doing everything by hand? This is gonna take forever. - They don't have the bits for - Dennis, these are drill bits. These are not screws bits. - Oh my god, I broke it. - None of this has hammed upfor the camera off camera. It's pure, solid gold. Every moment, just like this,I can't even believe it. Did you just he's like ripping thehandles off his neighbors. - Oh, look at that site they have. - Look at that, look at that,they got everything here. - Is this a main tool. - I know it is. I can tell cause it's not yours, test time, how's this chair. I read a really good review from a user who said after a while, it was kind of like sitting on directly on the plastic underneath it. And I can kind of see what they mean. I wished the foam was a little firmer, it would be way better than the metal chairs. You've been in here this whole time and you put in - Linus first of all- like 15 screws. - When we line up this thing,you didn't line up properly. It was the wrong length. I had to take this apart and readjust it, your fault head first. - All right.- I fixed that. - And you're quite sure that goes there. - Yap. 100% - Why would it go there? - If you could do this? - I mean, that's whereI would put it, yeah. - But this is facing back though, right? - I would think so. Unless you want your cablemanagement holes coming up in the front of the desk? No, wait, that's not right. Cause then how do you see yourphone charger cable come up? - No, this is the back - Are the holes in the back or front. Oh yeah right, right,it's sponsored by Intel. So we've gone with a core i7, 10, 700. Dennis wasn't realisticallygonna be overclocking anything. And for what he's doing,eight cores is freaking a lot. So this is a perfect balanceof like excellent performance and I'm giving him moremoney to spend on neon signs. (laughs) Motherboard choice makes alittle bit less sense to me. This is an MPG, Z four90 M motherboard from MSI it's an ATX in spite of the fact that we've got a full-sized ATX case and it's Z four 90 whichis the flagship chip set that's capable of overclockingand higher memory speeds which as you may recall we did not get a case seriesunlocked over clockable CPU and Dennis chipped out on thememory going for DDR for 3000. So I don't, I mean, it's pretty. It's cool and that too gota one terabyte Cybriant. Yes, this is the cheapo QLC one this was part of the savea buck strategy here. This does look like agen four capable slot. It's got the metal thing on it and this is probablygen 4 already as well. So you've got a good upgrade path, Dennis. - [Dennis] That's good. - He's never gonna spendany more money on this. He's busy blowing it onuncomfortable chairs. Hey Dennis, you said youchipped out on your Ram but this is like RGB stuff. - Yeah, is RGB cheap? - Well, no it would be better to just get a better spec instead of RGB. Did you, did you tellNicholas you wanted RGB? - I say I want like, not RGB on kind of like a little bit lighting, but I don't need RGB, I need white light. - Well here nothingcomes like that, I mean. - Are they bad? - No, they're fine. - How big are those in group? - 16 gigs total, which is-- - 16 total? - Yeah, well you bought chair, neon sign light fixture, footmassager, shoulder massager. - Foot massager. - I know I said that already, mixed up. - Look at this how pretty, - It's very pretty Dennis. I actually liked the old one better. - What, no. - Oh my God. - What? What's wrong, what's wrong. - You put the holes in the back. - Don't, don't fool me. I know what you're doing. - Now that the desk is finally done. Do you want to work on the computer or do you wanna work on something else? - I can work on the cabinet? I have a cabinet. I would really not to touch PC stuff. - Yeah, that's probably best. - Don't all jeez, don't feel the socket. - Wait, there's no assembly,this is just a cabinet. (Dennis laughs) What were you gonna be working on? - Just being lazy. (David laughs) - It's just for that, I'm gonna have you do the light fixture. - Oh my god, that's the hardest part. - Wait. I don't have a ladder. - How are we going to get up there? - My neighbor - Wouldn't you just hatebeing this guy's neighbor - A hundred dollars light bulb. Look at this big ball, Linus. - I see that, (Dennis laughs)filing a complaint with HR. Did you get a, like a bulb for it? - [Dennis] Yeah I got it. - [Linus] Oh, did you get it open already? - Yeah. Oh my god. (beep) - [Linus] I mean good save. - Holly, that's why I do in the back. What do I do now? This is connected. - Yeah, you got to disconnect it. Hold on a second. We don't even need the ladder. We don't need the ladder. Here we go. I'm coming to the rescue. - Oh my God,- Oh my God that's really high - well I'm up really high. - Well, you gotta pullthe wires out Dennis. You can't do what you are doing. You pull, yeah you just pull it. Dennis did you turn off the breaker? - I did. - Well then you don't have to like be ginger about touching it Just grab it. (Dennis screams) You don't have to be like. (Linus screams) (Dennis laughs) - I didn't do that, did I? (playback sound) (screams) - This is a really nice case. I love the O 11 series from lee and lee. Not necessarily like the greatest cooling if you don't configure it, right. But if you do, actually the cooling is really solidand lots of tempered glass. I think they look just fantastic. Honestly, it's so nice tohave the time to just sit and kind of relax and do cable management while someone else is doing the hard part of the home rig upgrade. Oh yeah. We went with an RM eight 50 Xfrom Coursera, it's efficient. It's reasonably priced. It's fully modular. So we don't have any extracables that we don't need. Maybe one thing about the setup that's a little bit minimalistic is the modular power supply. That's about it. I think that's actually all we need for... Oh no, I forgot about all this-- You knew where I was goingwith this, didn't you? I forgot about the two boxes of RGB fans. Oh, I have never evenheard of this brand before. Pop here. (laughs) Apparently they're addressable RGB fans are a sync or maybe not addressable. I don't know what they are, but there's a lot of them and they come with a big old controller. Nevermind so much for myrelaxing cable management. Oh wait, it's touching the heat pipes. Oh, it's scratched it. Hi Dennis, what time-- - Did you break it? - Nope, see it looks good. - Okay - Just step back and look at it. Look how good it looks. - That's why I drillextra hole on the wall. Who says this I don't drill. I drill more holes than you needed. - Oh my god the extra hole you drill. It's not like (Dennis laughs)hidden. How did you put a hole over there? - Because we are marking with a pen. I think it's just a random mark there. - And so you just drill there. (laughs) - That's my mark, otherwiseit looks beautiful. - It's something, live, laugh, Liao.- So you don't need a light, this all the light I need. And this is the sleeping light. - Sleeping light, okay. Most people turn the lightoff when they sleep, but - Before you go to bed you watch a movie chill a little bit. You can use that light. - Your TV is out there. We're almost ready toinstall the graphics card. I got really lucky on the fans. It turns out the included hub which we gonna go aheadand plug in down here. So we've got one for fan PWM control and then one for the J rainbow jumpers. So these are addressable RGB after all. So go ahead and run that right there is I don't have to install two hubs because even though eachkit only includes five fans the hub takes up to seven fans. So everything's all wired up back here. You're gonna use this toplay league of legends? - Yeah, 'cause he makes memore powerful in the game. - So wait, you just went 30, 80 just to flex because you can. - Yeah, - Okay- to flex is one other thing I told Nicholas to put out the part I want to flex look good cause it beautiful. - This does, this is actually a pretty - [Dennis] So pretty. - Nice looking card. Gigabyte vision RTX 30, 80. Wait, is this a screen on here? Oh no David, I don't thinkthis is a cheap 30, 80. - Oh yeah. I did ask for a screenon the graphics card, cause I want to flex. - Dennis. - Yeah. - I am actually going to call you a bluff. I am going to check your budget. If you exceeded the budget, I'm gonna take that thing off this wall and he's gonna have extrarandom holes on this wall (Dennis laughs) because there'll be no light. - You can take that. - Well Dennis, if you didn't cheat, then you shouldn't be worried. So do you agree? You agree? - I agree. - You agree, if youcheated, I take the light. - You take the ceiling light.- The wall light - No - Okay. Where do you want it? - That corner. - Wait, that's not gonna fit. - Then put it down - No. - I like my cable, my desk space. - Put on that. - On top of this? - Yeah on there. - Its ugly. - What do you mean it's ugly? You go (beep) yourself. (Dennis laughs) - Sorry. Cut, cut. (beep) I think it's beautiful. (Dennis laughs) - No, I'm out ugly! it looks awesome. - That's cute. - Cute? What the hell. - It's beautiful, it's beautiful okay. Put it here. - He's gonna move it as soon as I leave. - No we can put it here. Actually that's nice. Whoa. - That's definitely RGB. - Beautiful. - Well good all the fans actually works. Dennis, do you not have a mousepad? - Do I need, why do Idon't need a mouse pad. I don't need it. Do I? - [David] What about LTTSTORE.COM - We're out of stock. - [ David] RIp - (laughs)I get, butthey don't have white. - So you need us to bringout a white mouse pad - White one. - All right, Dennis. We'll do it just for you. Look at that you even got the silver and white version of the D 19 TKL. This thing looks, this thing is freaking awesome. Actually David, have you tried this? - [David] NO - I switched to it for mycable management video. Oh yeah. You were there. Yeah I really like it. It's really expensive. I didn't pay for it though. (laughs) Neither did Dennis for that matter. But these fans, I swear. They've aged eight yearsin the like eight minutes. They've been turned on. Why is it on DC mode?(upbeat music) There's your problem? It auto detected DC fan control mode. So it was running these fans at the wrong voltage instead of pulsing 12 Blocks away. All right, good. Now let's just said X andP and then we're good. - Well, as I thought, thespeakers are wireless. Why do I need this? - No, this is speaker wire. - Do I need them? - Yeah, definitely. This is really coming together, Dennis. This is going to look awesome. I agree that a white monitor. - Yeah. - Oh, white is fine is pretty. - Yeah, okay so we'll sync up the Ram now, two I think, give me a sec. (laughs) There we go, - white color. - Yes.(Dennis laughs) - There, yes- How's that - It matches the sign - Yes it matches the sign Does that complete the look for you? - Yes. - Here it is. Intel extreme tech upgrade. Not minimalistic that's for sure. - This is minimalistic - No, it's not. - And look at, I have my massager on - why does it have an arm? - So it's like, you can push down and get, Oh, you'reshoulder will get massage (laughs) - How are you supposed touse a computer like that? - And you get your headphones modern, more like future - This is the least minimalistic setup I have ever seen. You're like the bionic man here. - And do my work catch on Netflix (laughs) - Dennis, is this your thing from paint night - Yes- when we did the work thing? - Yeah. - Oh, that's awesome. We did it paint night on work-cation This is Dennis's That's a building. We know this much. - No, no. That one goes on floor. (thud) (David laughs)- Alright. Oh, fair enough. - But how do you, okay We need to connect the audio though. - Yeah, we can connect on audio. Yeah. Why is this not a hello? Oh, that's a weird, okay, Dennis what'd you do with the oxcable that came with this? - Oh, in the box? - Well, I told you it doesn'tcome with extra cables. (mumbles) you said that but then I said, it's not - then why does it, whyisn't that wireless? - Why would it be wireless? So give it a shot. I'll see some, see some video editing. - Oh nice. Now I've got to turn on my foot massager and shoulder massager Oh my God. This is a lot of work before I do work. - Mr. Oh, I wish the desktopspeakers were wireless because I can't stand wires. Hooks on why you're upto it looks like an IV. - (laughs) Oh my gosh. I was so stressed. So stressed. Editing. Oh, Oh also so nice. My shoulder. - You're not actually gonna sit and work with this thing on your head. Are you? - You don't know. - This really does not look very convincing, but- Once you use it You can't go back. - Okay. - So you push now you feel Oh yeah. And then put your feet in here. - Yes. Yes. - And now you cannot hear anything. - I don't think it's possible To work like this. The foot massage is pretty cool. - Right? - Does it have a higher intensity? - Yeah. There's a median. Is it high air? And it also has heat. So, - I don't need heat for my feet. There's a reason I wear sandals. The heat's not on is it - It is. - Oh, it is. Yeah. - So the winter time you feel like cold, you can just put it on. And it also has heat onthe shoulder massage. - Oh my God my foot is stuck in it. - Oh my God - I can't get my foot out Dennis I can't get my foot out (beep) - And I can stand up nowtoo with a foot massager - You can't stand in the foot massager. - Yeah- Wait. - Yeah, I'm looking at - We haven't got likelong wires on it yet. So I was a little worried. It might just rip things out of the wall. - Oh, look at that. - All right. - Look at that. - Not bad, pretty sick Set up - And I can also look back to my name just feels so nice. (laughs) - Well I think that'spretty much it for this one. Thanks for tuning inmassive shout out to Intel. Of course we're sponsoringextreme tech upgrade. I think our next one is gonna be Andy who is gonna be doing a man cave. And then we're followingthat up with David. - [David] Yeah- Who's doing the ultimate streaming setup. We're talking ultimatelike 4k cinema camera for his fricking web cam - Mine's ultimate toomine's ultimate comfort. - It doesn't look that comfortable. 

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. Done guys, we need that sponsor dollars, like, bring on the raid shadow legends. No, but seriously drop.com is featuring the control keyboard. It's one of their top selling keyboards with over 11,000 sold and why not? It's got a solid CNC aluminum frame, a built-in switch plate, RGBlighting, Q and K firmware for excellent customizability,hot swappable key switches. And your choice of CherryMX, Kiowa or Halo switches. It features a floating key design with dual USB Type-C connectorsand weighs 964 grams. The only way it could be heavier, is if they made it out of a heavier metal. (laughing) So check it out at the link down below. If you guys enjoyed this videoand you love crazy projects maybe you'd like our watercooled PlayStation 4. That's right. We did one of those away a while back, we don't have anything current gen, look, we're working on it, okay?