how far will intenl go

 (birds chirping) (dirt breaking) (wings flapping) (intense music) (guy laughing) - 14 nanometers! Lives! It's better, faster,stronger than ever before! Just like our sponsor. - [Narrator] Honey is thefree-to-use browser extension that helps you find some ofthe best promo codes on over 30,000 sites. Get it today at joinhoney.com/ltt (upbeat music) - Yeah, yeah nanometersaren't an accurate measure of anything, I know. But this process is old and this has huge performance implications which we'll test on the Core I9-11900K and Core I5-11600K that we have here today. To do that we've grabbedthe equivalent 10th gen core processors, along withthe Ryzen 5 5600X and Ryzen 9 5900X forcomparison with team red. Special note, we'rerunning both benches at one-to-one memory. More on that later. And we're running these tests under completely stocked turbo limits. Shadow of the Tomb Raider is the Core I9's first L. At a roughly eightpercent lower average FPS than Ryzen 9. While the Core I5 sees significantly better minimum frame rates than Ryzen 5. GTA5 has the Core I9 pulling ahead of the 5900X by five percent or more in minimum frames, while theCore I5 again pulls off a 13 percent or so leadover Ryzen 5's minimums. F1 2020's absurd frame rates really generational improvements Intel's manage here for the Core I5. The Core I9 appears roughlyin line with 10th gen thanks to fewer threadsand lower base blocks. Forza Horizon 4 has Inteltrading blows with AMD with better minimums andworse averages on both new CPU's, while turntimes in Civilization 6 are about half a second orso faster on 11th gen. Flight Sim 2020 has bothCPU's ahead of last gen, but falling short of AMD in allbut the minimum frame rates. CSGO is another bloodbath,where AMD's Zen 3 architecture firmly curb stomps rocket lake. Perhaps, thanks to the gigantic amount ofsheer cash Ryzen enjoys. Although it's worth pointing out that every CPU here is already in overkill territory. Moving on to

productivity,Intel's single threaded Cinebench scores are muchbetter than last gen and higher than AMD's, butnot by a huge amount. While PugetBench for CreativeCloud shows that even lightly threaded work loadslike Photoshop can still favor AMD, again, likelythanks to the extra cash. It's not a big L though. That comes from Blender. The Core I5 falls behind by10 percent in Gooseberry, while the Core I9, becauseof stock turbo, is a staggering 40 percent slowerthan Ryzen in the same test. Corona bench mark, beingmuch shorter, puts the Core I5 much closer to Ryzen5 and the same goes for V-Ray. A test that only lasts about a minute. POV-Ray has Intel very close to AMD in single-threaded performance, while the Core I9 continues to struggle. SPECworkstation is mostlyanother pain point for Intel. With some tests againfavoring the 10th gen Core I9, thanks to it's additionalcores and threads. Even the Core I5 struggleswith 10 to 14 percent lower aggregate scores than AMDacross the life sciences, financial services, andenergy segments of the test. Not looking great so far, atleast not for the Core I9. But now we need to talkabout power in thermals, and we're gonna talk alot, because if you recall Comet Lake was better thanCoffee Lake for thermals, but only because Intelbusted out all the tricks of the trade to make it happen. And now despite having two fewer cores, all earlyreports had Rocket Lake pegged at basically beinga flame thrower in addition to the performanceconcerns relative to AMD. At stock, both are Core I9and Core I5 managed thermals that are reasonable. Thanks in large part to strictly conforming to Intel's rated 125 watt TDP, once turbo expires. They do draw much higherpower than last gen to hit their peak all coreturbo speeds, but in the Core I9's case, Intel's newadapted boost technology impressively allows thecores to run 300 megahertz higher all core than it's rated for. This new behavior is similarto AMD's Precision Boosts Two, opportunisticallyincreasing all Core clocks within thermal and powerlimits, but Intel's is still constrained by their finiteturbo period of 56 seconds by default. Upon disabling this turbolimit using our motherboards multi-core enhancementfeature, the Core I9 draws a staggering 275 watts peakwith 260 watts sustained from the socket. That is nearly doublethe Ryzen 9's power draw. And around 40 percent more than 10th gens. We did get about a 19percent faster render time than stock, but even with our Noctua NHD 15S the I9 instantly hits 80 degrees and creeps up tothe mid 90s throughout the run. Bizarrely though, the CoreI5 manages better thermals and power draw with multi-coreenhancement compared to its own stock turbo,thanks to a lower core voltage provided by the motherboard. These results however were for AVX 2. Intel added the AVX 512instructions set and machine learning extensions toRocket Lake, and they're leaning heavily on the marketing. We don't have any benchmarksfor that right now, but we can do a quick stresstest with Prime95. Where at stock we've gotokay thermals, again, for our Core I9, but our Core I5hits the 100 degree mark thanks to a higher turbospeed before settling into the mid 60s to 70s. Power consumption roughlymatches the non AVX-512 testing, and unsurprisinglyboth CPUs dropped straight to base clock afterthe turbo window expired. It's when we remove thelimits again that, oh no. Intel, are, are you okay? The Core I9 can drawover 290 watts at peak. The Core I5 once again drawsless power thanks to the motherboard SPID control,but both CPUs still run toasty enough that ourdual tower cooler can just barely handle it. We're really at the limits of what Intel's reheated 14nanometer process can do here. Thankfully you won't haveto reheat your drink for up to eight hours with a waterbottle from lttstore.com! But even without AVX-512you have to ask, why is 11th gen so hot, with fewercores than last gen? Aside from AVX-512 taking upa huge amount of dye space, it was originally built for 10 nanometers. That's right, Intel hadto backport this thing. And that's why we got this reallystrange looking procstack. No fewer than 10 eightcore CPUs across Core I7 and Core I9. 9 six core CPUs in the Core I5 line, and everything else is justa Comet Lake refresh. No Rocket Lake Core I3s orPentiums this time around. Without being able to relyon core counts to cleanly distinguish between skews,the differences are so minor in practice that they'regoing to make most people think twice aboutspending an extra $140 for a Core I9 when a CoreI7 is almost as good, or when AMD is a betterperformer for the money. Granted, Core I9s getthermal velocity boost and adaptive boost technology,but you can mimic that by enabling multi-coreenhancement if your motherboard has it or by maxing out thepower loads manually in Intel XTU if it doesn't. All 11th gen core desktopCPUs that we know about, have the same cash for core andthe same improved graphics core with expanded videodecode capabilities on skews that include them. Once more, they all have anextra four PCI express gen four lanes on the CPU now forMVME's storage like AMD does. Hit subscribe by the waybecause even within the same models not all theMVMESSDs are created equal, and we're calling out the worst offender. Now there is the issueof gear one mode support. TLDR, it's just likerunning infinity fabric in one-to-one mode with memory speed on Ryzen for better performance. The Core I9-11900K inKF are supposed to be the only ones that handleDDR4-3200 memory this way, but from our testing theCore I5-11600K can too. It's just not the default. And it'll go even higher than that. It looks like the CoreI9's main draw will be in pre-built PCs that don'texpose these options. If the Core I7-11700K isas Gamers Nexus put it, a waste of sand, the wholeCore I9 line up on paper is even worse. Especially the case skew that's just priced $10 less than Ryzen 9. Thankfully you don't need tobuy a high-end motherboard to use faster memory now,so that's one savings that's no longer exclusive to team red. But that doesn't save the Core I9. In games matching Ryzen'sperformance is a best case scenario, where even theRyzen 5 at times comes close. Granted it may not make orbreak your game play, but the value's just not there. For work, unless you canuse AVX-512, the extra oomph from Ryzen 9's12-cores means Intel is not going to be your firstchoice this generation in that domain either. The real star of the show is the Core I5. It's only about two to six percent slower than the Ryzen 5 at stock across our testing, but itcosts $30 less at retail. Even better for Intel,availability troubles means the 11600K is $100 cheaperthan Ryzen 5's street price. Making it a no brainer as long as Intel has the chips to sell. Bonus, if you don't overclock you'll lose very little by gettinga cheaper non-k skew and turning on multi-coreenhancement to offset the difference in baseclock. Just make sure you get acooler that can handle it. If you're worried aboutupgradability, DDR5's impending arrival meansboth teams sockets have an expiration date at this point, so you lose nothing either way ifyou need a new CPU today. Or, or you lose everything depending on how you think about it. You know, glass half empty, half full. It might be rough going forIntel for a while longer, but it looks like things are improving. A week ago their CEO, Pat Gelsinger, announced a renewed focus on fabrication and processtechnology including a seven nanometer tile processthat will hopefully power Meteor Lake two generations from now. We've heard this kind ofpromise from Intel before, so, time will tell. For now, just buy a Core I5 or AMD when the scalpershave finished scalping. But if Linus won't scalpyou for sponsor segways, I won't either. Get the best prices andbest selection on computer hardware and everything else technology at any of Micro Centers 25 locations across the United States. Check out the MicroCenter custom PC builder to spec out the best PC for your budget. You can ensure all yourparts are compatible, find stock available at yournearest Micro Center location, add it to you cart, and arrange for same-day in store pick up. For a fee, check thebox marked same-day pro assembly to have the MicroCenter expert technicians assemble your PC for you. If you want help decidingwhat parts to put in your new custom gaming PC, join the new online Micro Center community. This is a great place to discuss tech with other enthusiasts. See the link in the descriptionbelow for a free pair of wireless Bluetooth headphones. Valid in store only. No purchase necessary. Thanks for watching guys. Go check out our video onthe dangers, or lack-there-of of mixing and matching memory. With these new memorycontrollers it might be more important than you think. Or not. You just have to see. 

buy this $100 gaming headset! (and not this one)

 - There's so many gamingheadsets out there, but how to choose? Amazon reviews areeither fake or unhelpful and trying all these headsets out yourself isn't really a workable option, unless you hate the environment. That's why we are hereto do the work for you. We tested out eight populargaming headsets under $100 and we are here to tell you which ones pump and which ones dump. And hey, don't be a chump. Today's video is broughtto you by Pulseway and all Pulseway users are non-chumps. Pulseway is a remotemonitoring and management tool that we use ourselves here at LMG. You can control all your Windows, Mac and Linux machines from justone app, the Pulseway app. Try for free today at the link below. (upbeat electronic music) (electronic beeping) Let's start things offwith the cheapest headset of the roundup today, TheAudio Technica ATH-PDG1s for $81 and 19 cents. Right away you'll probablyeither love or hate the retro futurismaesthetic of these things, but the build quality is quite good. They don't creak, theplastics aren't too cheap, and the continuous headphoneadjustment is consistent. The velour earpads feelvery soft and comfortable, as long as your skin isn't so sensitive that the rubbing irritates you. Comfort wise, they're oneof my favorites of the bunch due in large part to their light weight. Watch out though if youhave sticky-outy ears, because you might find thatthe ear cups are a bit shallow and that your ears rubagainst the drivers inside, which is always uncomfortable. This headset is all analog,using various 3.5 millimeter jacks and adapters to power its drivers, rather than going the USB route, like all the otherheadsets in this roundup. Sound quality is pretty good overall, but if I'm nitpicking the low mids and the bass can be a bit muddy, and the high end tendsto distort a tiny bit once you've turned it up. The bass is present but Iwouldn't quite describe these as punchy or the cleanest around. I'll have another recommendationfor bass heads in a moment. Overall, the sound profile makes them a solid all-rounder for gaming, with a decent sound stage for hearing enemies all around you. The mic is better than most. It's got a warm toneand it's easy for people to understand what you're saying. Really the biggestdownfall with this headset is simply the fact that, being open back, it bleeds sound into the room around you. Plus a tiny little volume knob on here. It kinda is a pain to adjust. Look how small it is. So small. Get out of here. Oh, God, it's right in...

Jesus (laughs). Coming in next at 84.99is the Arctus 5 Pro from SteelSeries. These have RGB, soobviously they're the best and you should buy them. Thanks for watching. If you liked this video, remember that- Just joking. The Arctic 5 have more going for them than just looks, though. The foam earpads breathe very well, and the excellent headstrap is adjustable, so you can strike a perfect balance between strong grip and comfort. I really like thisadjustable suspension design. Cool. The mic on the Arctus 5 is also decent, but nothing exceptional. Points, though, for being retractable. Zip. Unfortunately, the Arctus5 falls a bit short when it comes to sound,with a muddy low end and a naturally bright soundthat makes hearing footsteps in game difficult comparedto the other headsets. They don't sound bad and they can be EQ'd using the SteelSeries Engine 3 software, but they definitely arenear the bottom of the pack of what we have here today. This wouldn't be ag-g-g-gaming product roundup without a Razer product, would it? The Razer BlackShark V2, oh this big head, comes in at 89.99 and it comes in strong. The aviation look with razor styling could be an acquiredtaste for some people, but the build quality is excellent. They use foam everywhere forbreathability and comfort, and they have just the rightamount of clamping force to stay on your melon,even at those extreme, "I just dropped something onthe floor" kind of angles. Razer Synapse is naturallyautomatically loaded when plugging in theblack shart into a, shart. Black shart.(beep) The BlackShark into a PC, sono additional work is needed to get an installer downloaded. It gives you more extensive EQ options than any of our other headsets, but using it wasn't even necessary. The BlackShark V2 on its own already has solid tuningout of the factory, with the best clarity out of the bunch. Although in game the sound didn't feel like exceptionally out of this world, there wasn't any wishing forthings that weren't there. It just works. Its only real downfall is the microphone, which can sound a bit distant and kind of just suckedon discord in particular. It's still usable, It's just a blemish on anotherwise fantastic contender. And now, (sighs) the Turtle Beach Stealth 600 Gen 2. In my opinion, theselook like the cheapest, despite costing 99.95. These are wireless, with acceptable range and a USB-C cable inthe box that's so short that it's practicallyimpossible to charge them at the same time as using them. If you have average sized or larger ears, these will probably beextremely uncomfortable after just a few seconds. And if you have anything but a tiny head these will definitelybe unpleasant to wear for anything longer than 15 seconds. And that's if you're notactually playing anything yet. Once turned on, the high end is harsh, the low end is muddy and thestereo profile is exaggerating, meaning it's easy to tellwhich side of your head things are coming from,but it's hard to tell if something is directly in front of you or directly behind you. - What's up actual gamers? Pay very close attentionbecause this is all important. MSI has joined the VerifiedActual Gamer program and they have provided 80 of their Seahawk RTX 3080 graphics cards. These things are freaking sick. 10 gigs of V-Ram, of course Nvidia's latest Ampere architecture,and some extra special stuff. The GPU and video memoryare both liquid cooled with a micro fin copper cooling plate for optimal performance. The radiator is actually cooled by their fourth generationof Torx cooling fans, so these are designed for optimal air flow through a restrictive radiator and it looks freaking awesome with a brushed aluminum back plate. To get the most out of your card, don't forget to pick up MSI's famous Afterburner over clocking utility, 'cause that'll help yousqueeze a little bit more out of this liquid cooled card. Now, if you wanna get yourhands on one of these at MSRP, plus applicable taxes and tariffs, all you've got to do ispass the Gamer Gauntlet. So go to LTTstore.com/3080 followed by the type ofcooling the card uses, the type of fans the card uses and MSI's famous overclocking utility. While you're on the store, we've actually got a promo for you guys, if you aren't one of the first verified gamers to get through. We're doing our cable ties for five bucks and every order gets one ofour all new sticker packs. So go, go, go, go, go.(claps) Good luck, gamers. - [Sebastian] Oh, and the microphone. It doesn't sound great, it's rigid, and it picks up a lot of room noise. There was no other way to say this, this is by far the worstheadset of the roundup. Don't buy these. If you want a better wireless experience, then you should probably consider the X-Box Wireless Headset instead, coming in at 99.99, or as Ilike to say, a hundred bucks, this is a pretty solid headset overall. They're lightweight, due to being made out of high quality plastic and the giant volume dials on the side are super intuitive and easy to find. They're comfortable,though I do wish they had a breathable fabric on the ear cuffs instead of the full leather material, but I don't hate it either. They're nice and cushy. Now your mileage may vary,but actually getting these set up on our MSI laptop was a pain. It was a frustrating pain. We had to jump through a bunch of hoops and Bluetooth settings andin the sound control panel to get the headset to useits proper speaker channel, instead of the Windows 10hands-free speech nonsense that drastically reduces audio quality. But once that's dealt with, this headset does sound passable. Though the high end is a bit washed out and the bass is somewhat loose, in games you can easily locate people from their footsteps and gunfire, and it's all about the games, right? And the microphone too is all right. It basically matches the headset overall. Decent comfort, decentwireless functionality and decent sound. 100% meh. Although, it has to be said that it had 15 hours of battery life which is nice and you can connect them to your X-Box and your phone at the sametime, which is pretty cool. And finally, the Corsair HS60 Haptic. These are currently $111.99 on Amazon, but they've recently beengoing on sale for about 99.99 so we thought we'd just chuckthem in any way, you know? Sound wise, these are apretty solid pair of cans. No musical instruments soundwashed out or left behind and, living up to the haptic name, these have punchy, powerful,but not overpowering bass. Game audio sounds great,but sometimes it's a bit hard to tell which ear asound is coming out of, which is probably thebiggest downside with these. Rounding up the experience, the microphone is also quite clear. One issue of note though,is that while testing, the headset randomly stopped playing audio and just started playing white noise both through the headphonesand out of the microphone, creating an unpleasantexperience for everybody. (white noise buzzes intermittently) It only happened once, andreseating the USB fixed it, but it's worth noting. Otherwise, these closed backHD600 clones are pretty cool. And that's it. We did also test out the Logitech G Pro and Kingston HyperX Cloud 2 headsets, but they were exceedingly mediocre. We're recommending theRazer BlackShark V2s as a good all-rounder instead, or the HS60 Haptic ifyou want the extra bass. This video is broughtto you by FreshBooks. FreshBooks is the easy touse accounting software designed specifically with you in mind, the small business owner. FreshBooks has everything you need to manage your books, invoices, expenses, time tracking, and more. Designed to be easy to usewith built-in automation, you can spend less timeinvoicing, expensing and tracking projects, and more time doing what mattersmost, growing a business. Imagine that. Stonks. FreshBooks helps you focus on your craft by saving you time invoicing, expensing, and tracking your work. Whether you're a trades person,creative agency or YouTuber, you can choose a planthat's right for you. They have an award-winningToronto based support team who are always happyto help if you need it. So try FreshBooks todayfor free for 30 days for free today at freshbooks.com/linus. There's no credit cardrequired and it's awesome. Go. (upbeach techno music)So thanks for watching guys. If you like this video, why not check out our review of the Apple AirPods Max, which are a silly butsomewhat satisfying product, which is my favorite kind. 

our favorite tech - show and tell

 - It provides a sensation of flight that you can't get any other way. We love showing you thelatest and greatest in tech here on LTT, but thisisn't one of those videos. - Instead, we're giving youa show-and-tell of sorts, showcasing some of our ownstaff's most prized tech. - Giving you a story behind each piece in their own words. - Right after some more wordsfrom our sponsor, PulseWay. PulseWay is a remotemonitoring and management tool that we use ourselves here at LMG. You can control all your Windows, Mac, and Linux machines from one app. Try it for free at the link below. (bright digital music) Today, I brought the Sega Dreamcast. I feel like it was 199 or299, I'm not sure which. We've got four controller ports. This was popularized by the Nintendo 64, but around the back, what's this? It's a modem, a 56K modem. And it's detachable; just comes right off. They sort of released a broadband adapter, which is like a 10 megabitper second ethernet adapter. They released more of them inJapan but very few in the US. AV output. And there's a serial port back here. Basically, you could have it communicate between the two games. You have the Dreamcast, and you have the NeoGeopocket version of the game, and you can transfer data back and forth. It was actually the way that pirates first began dumping games. You could just pipe it out with composites if you have it on your TV, but that would look like ass. Otherwise, you can get a box like this. This is a Toro. On the back here, there are switches. And one of these switches lets you switch between 480p, which is normal VGA, and 15 kilohertz RGB,which is basically 4080i because not all games support 480p. If the game you're playingdoes not support 480p, power off the console, flip the switch, then power it back on. It's an enormous pain, yes, but it's less of a pain that it could be, which is you don't getto play those games. This is a open-sourcescan converter, or OSSC. What it does is it takes signals, like VGA or component or SCART, and upscales them andspits them out via HDMI. This abomination, it's kind of like a proto Xbox controller. This is a bad analog stick, and it always has been badand always will be bad, and there's no rubberor anything like that. It's just plastic. This D-pad is also bad. In the back here, we've got two slots. Yeah, so this is a memory card. This is a third-partyone that has eight pages, so I can flip between themwith this little button here. It has staves on it going back as far as the year 2000, when I bought it, which is kind of mind-blowing. This one here though... This memory card is special. It is what Sega kind of banked on, as far as the the Dreamcast's killer app. It's actually a little console. You can play... You can load little games onto it, like "Chao Adventure" from"Sonic Adventure" here, and you can also manageyour files with it. And if you wanted to... You could plug two of them together and transfer files between them. It was the most successfulvideo game launch...

Like, console launch inhistory up until that point. And then the PS2 happened,and then Sega left the market. Out if all my consoles, the Dreamcast has aspecial place in my heart because not only was itthe first one that I bought with my own money, it was also the first onethat I modded in any way. The long story short isthat you can run software on the Dreamcast that was not published or licensed by Sega. Emulators, MP3 players... You could run DivX video players. And that was the first kindof like spark that I had that, like, I could tinker with things that weren't meant to be tinkered with. And I think that's really special. Okay. I don't think I evertook the time to get good at this level though. They did a partnership with Soap shoes. Yeah, there's there's Soap ads. One thing about Dreamcast games. Most of them ran at a high resolution, and most of them ran at a high frame rate. - I brought you my MacBook Pro that I got in like eighth grade. This MacBook is the computer that I first started streaming on. It's also what I editedmy "Rig Reboot" on. Introducing my PC, a gateway to the past. Found in the garage ofa repossessed house. Which kind of, you know, got me more popularitywith streaming, YouTube... Literally everything I'm doing right now is sort of because of thatvideo and LTT in general. - Well, that coupon codeis for a discount -- - You say, "Cyu-pon?" It's coupon! The U comes after the O! Love you guys. This stuff is just randomstickers people gave me, and I was like, "I'm gonnaput 'em on my laptop." These are Egbert. Egbert is my little egg character. He wears a bunch of different hats. This is a little cutout ofthe bird that Linus drew on the lens of my "Rig Reboot" monitor. And I was like, "Okay,I need to sticker that." So I put it on this bad boy 'cause this is where "Rig Reboot" started. I have definitelydropped this laptop a lot and ran into walls with it, and... - [Colin] But there'sliterally a sticker saying, "Do not drop." Is that at LTTstore.com? - Yeah, it is, LTC... (blows raspberry) But there's a part two coming for those. Different stickers, newstickers, better stickers. The ports are a little... For lack of a better term, (bleep). (Colin and Madison laughing) - [Colin] They're not square anymore. - No, they aren't. So sometimes I spit onit and then put it in, and it works, and I'm like, "I don't know why, but it works." So it charged the computerand I was like, "Okay, cool." I'm pretty sure this is fromdropping it down the stairs. And then also I like... I was at school holdingit, and then I, like, couldn't see past the screen,and I walked into a pole. It still works. You can still shove anethernet cable in there, surprisingly. Some of the keys are stickytoo because, at one point, Sprite got knocked on the computer. Then there was chocolate milk. Then there was orange juice. - [Colin] Well, is there anything else you wanna tell us about it? - These are chickensticks from, like, Costco. Oh my God, they have, like, garlic chili pepper seasoning on them. Oh, they're so good. - Today. I brought in my YeetMule. This is a five inch or sixinch freestyle quad-copter that's running a DJIdigital transmission system. Also, it says "YEET" on the bottom. And it's the first drone thatI built from the frame up. And I put it through hell. It's seen its fair share of dirt and walls and power lines and trees and grass. This one has seen a ditch. It hit the ground sohard the battery ejected. I spent just under 700Canadian dollars on this build. I enjoy both flying drones, and I do use the video for some things. The video that comes outof this is incredible. If I wanted to add lights or, you know, have it open a a clawarm and drop something, it's all something you can do. Drones are just like building computers. Once you're you're in the goggles, it provides a sensation of flight that you can't get any other way. It corners and accelerates like nothing you've ever seen. I've been to drone races, but I've never actuallydone any drone racing. Over here is actually a grid, and you can connect toother pilots' channels. So if you're just a spectator, you can watch exactlywhat the other pilot sees. And you can just change the channel if someone else is in the lead, right? It's the ultimate spectator sport. You just like sit therein your lawn chair, and you goggle up. - I'm bringing you my whole life. It's a Leica MP film camera. And also paired with thatis the Leica Noctilux, like, 50 millimeter F1 lens from Leica M-75, which islike super big aperture. So the apertures control, like, how much, like, light that's hittingon the sensor or the film. - [Colin] So you seeyou get that sweet Boca. - Yes. I spent five grand Canadian on this lens. (Colin laughing) It's crazy expensive,but never regretted it. This thing, right now, itprobably was, like, 10 grand US. Probably not ever gonna sell this. - [Colin] Did you have tojustify it to your wife? - [Andy] That was before I got married. - [Colin] See, this is the only way. - I can show you the inside. There's nothing; there's no sensor. - [Colin] So it's all mechanical. - It's all mechanical. The only electronicpart is the light meter. There's not that much of,like, electronic in this -- - [Colin] Can it run without a battery? - [Andy] Yes, then youdon't have the lyometer, and that's all. - [Colin] And that's it? - And you can stillshoot with this camera. For shooting digital, I don't really care, but, like, for shootingfilm, especially on Leica, I think before I press the shutter. - [Colin] So you develop your own film? - Yes. - [Colin] Is that a sous vide? - Yeah. For C41, which is the color negative film, the temperature has to bestaying around 38.5 degree. Otherwise you're acquiringthe, like, more grainy film or, like, color shifts. - [Colin] What do you like about Leicas? - The build quality is super high. It took me at least like coupleof years to track this one. Actually drove all the way to Seattle just to pick up this camera. God this in Japan; toobad they discontinued it. - [Colin] Yeah, so film isgetting rarer, isn't it? - Yeah, this expiresaround, like, two years ago, but it's still... Like, I put it in the fridge. I have, like, a half drawer full of film. - [Colin] So do you know what a segue is? - Maybe Anthony can tellyou about our sponsor. - Privacy lets you shop onlinewith virtual credit cards that offer way more security and control than conventional cards. Like, have you eversigned up for a free trial and then forgotten about it, only to find charges on your account for a subscription serviceyou never really wanted? Well with privacy.com, you can create a newcard just for that trial. All you do is designatethe card to be single use and set the monthly spending limit to $1, so companies actually cannotcharge you even if you forget. We've partnered with Privacy to do a giveaway on anAlienware R15 R2 laptop. To enter, just click thelink in the description and sign up for a Privacy account. Use that same email whenentering the giveaway, and you're all set. You must be 18 years or older and be a US resident toenter, unfortunately. I wish it was in Canada. Good luck. - Well, that's it for show-and-tell! I really hope you guys enjoyed it. No, seriously, I hope you enjoyed it because I was on vacationall this weekend. I haven't seen any of this, andI had nothing to do with it. If you guys like these types of videos, you'll probably enjoy our Intelextreme tech upgrade series, where certain people on staff... Actually, we're hopingeveryone eventually. You know, knock on wood. Get $5,000 for an extremetech make-over from Intel, and it is... Man, it is amazing how muchyou learn about someone when you give them a shopping spree. We've done Colton, Dennis, Riley... Oh, David, one of our cameraoperators, is coming up soon! The guy has a $2,000 webcamas part of his setup. Who does that? Oh yeah, so go check that out. We're gonna have that linked below. 

The most average gaming pc

 - You know, the script calls for me to say this isn't running verywell, but it's fine. We love building, benchmarking, and gaming on the kinds of showcaseone-percenter machines that most people can only ever dream of, but as much fun as that is, the vast majority of those rigs actually get torn down forreuse in future videos, because even for us, dailydriving that kind of hardware, it's just not cost-effective or practical. It also kinda gives PC gaming a bad image as something that onlythe elite can afford, when that couldn't befarther from the truth. We've built competentesports gaming machines at great prices and even forunder $100 on this channel, and you can too if you'rewilling to make some compromises. Of course, the kinds of machines thatthe average gamer is running are somewhere between potatoand dream battle station. How do we know this? Well, the monthly Steam hardware survey, which tells us exactly which PC gaming hardwareis the most popular. So with its help we built the most populargaming PC on the planet and we're gonna show you guys exactly how much it wouldcost you to build it and what kind ofperformance you can expect. And today's video isbrought to you by Corsair. The Corsair iCUE 5000X RGBtempered glass smart case features their RapidRoutecable management system, smart RGB out of the box, and more. Check it out at the link down below. (upbeat music) That's right, we've gone one: a quad-core Core i7 4770K. According to the Steam hardware survey, 42.94% of you are rockingfour-core processors, with 18.03% of you runninga hyperthreaded model like this one between 3.3and 3.69 gigahertz, nice. It turns out then that as much as we alllove Ryzen right now, AMD couldn't possibly even manufacture enough of these things to put a dent in Intel's years of dominance, and as of January 2021, Team Blue still owns72% of the install base. Now, that number is shifting, and fast. Intel is down almost 10% since December, but it's gonna take time. Since motherboard choiceshouldn't impact performance much, we grabbed a Z87I-Deluxe from Asus that was lying around on a shelf. This combo should put us in the top range of average CPU performanceaccording to the survey. It was important for us to find something with hyperthreading since just shy of 20% ofyou apparently do have it. It's kind of amazing how long this chip has kept its relevance. And we actually checked out some reviews on Newegg and PCPartPickerleading up to this video, and it's mostly super positive. Like, even as recentlyas a couple of years ago. In the interest of strictly adhering to the specs in the Steam hardware survey, we're unfortunately gonnabe running this puppy at stock speed. But lots of users of this CPU report running it at 4.2, 4.3, or even 4.4 gigahertz for years at a time. That's not too shabby for a CPU that's older than our newsocial media coordinator. Memory was a surprising one for me. The average gamer out there,a whopping 43.85% of you, is running 16 gigs of system memory. Not bad! So we picked up two 8-gig sticks of good, old-fashioned DDR3 1866. This is actually a greatmiddle ground today. You can still squeeze by with 8 gigs, but most triple-A games arerecommending 16 gigs or more and a lot of other desktop applications can also benefit from more RAM. We're gonna go ahead and assume that you guys are running yourmemory in dual-channel mode and install it that way. You are running indual-channel mode, right? Now, a few things thesurvey doesn't mention include the case, power supply, cooler, and other peripherals, so we went with some Amazon bestsellers that I'm sure most of you will recognize. We've got the NZXT H510, a Hyper 212 EVO V2, and a Corsair CX550 power supply. All of them are tried-and-true classics and all of them should fit comfortably within most people's budgets. That is, unlike our solid-goldXbox controller. Ha ha! Get subscribed so youdon't miss those videos. That is, like, theemptiest-looking computer. Now it's time for what youguys all crave: the GPU. Thing is, as much as we mayall lust after ray tracing, you might surprised to learn that the top ray tracing-capable card was the RTX 2060 in fifthplace with only 3.6% share. Pretty much every current card, then, that is capable of delivering a smooth ray-traced gaming experience is conspicuously absent. The 3070 isn't even on the list and the 3080 maintainsa slim .6% market share. So it ended up being a pretty close race with the GTX 1060leading the pack at 9.4%. Okay. Get outta here. (Linus grunts) We've gone with the 6-gig model since that's how muchVRAM 23.5% of you have, and with 66.7% of yourunning 1080p displays, this should be more than good enough. All that remains is storage. On average you guys are running over one terabyte of storage. It didn't specify whether it'ssolid state or mechanical, so we're putting an SSD in here just to make our benchmarkingrun a little bit faster. And that's it. Ain't she a beauty? Looks to me like a lean,mean Steam machine. Or at least an LTT Steamgame-playing machine, since that whole Steam Machine idea totally, unexpectedly, fizzled and died. Let's go ahead and fire her up. But what games should we play? How 'bout the top fivegames on Steam? All right. So we got "CS:GO," "Dota 2,""PUBG," "Apex Legends," and "Source SDK Base 2013 Multiplayer"? Wait. Is that really "Garry's Mod" and "Half-Life 2:Deathmatch" in fifth place? Did this thing take us back in time? To a time when there was noLTT underwear on lttstore.com? Nope. They're definitely there. Go check 'em out at the link below. As it turns out, mostSource mods running on Steam contribute to this inflated number, including the "GTA V"community with the FiveM mod. So "Team Fortress 2" in sixth place? Let's go with that. Who put this here? Whee! Okay, I'm gonna fight this guy. Honestly, it's running pretty darn well. We're at 80, 90 FPS,dropping as low as 70, but this is totally anacceptable gameplay experience. Now you might've noticed the, ah, details of the game arelookin' a little basic. That's on purpose. That'sso that we get enough FPS. How have I not... Dang it. Aw, I'm knocked... I'm dead. I'm still a winner'cause the game ran okay. And overall, the average Steam gamerwith a machine like this is having a pretty smooth experience. Only "Apex Legends" and"PUBG" fell to 60-FPS lows, with most of these competitive titles here managing closer to 100 FPS with reasonably consistent frame times. Now, that's not to say that these games wouldn't benefit from a faster machine. We did a video back in 2019 demonstrating the competitive advantage of running at higher FPS, even if you don't have ahigh-refresh rate monitor, since your eyes will getmore up-to-date information than your competitors'. And "CS:GO" was an example of a situation where that difference is quite noticeable.

It's really at its best when you can crank out over 200, 300 FPS. The competency of our... Competence? Whatever. Of our Steam PC shouldn'tbe that surprising though, I guess. Most of these games are actuallyfrom around the same era. So to kick things up a notchwe're heading over to Twitch to see if we could use this thing to play along with our favorite streamers. We didn't plan on this part of the video, but it is an interesting point to make. Sometimes your CPU canactually be a bottleneck when it comes to downloadingand installing games. But our 4770K is actuallykeeping up pretty nicely with a 107-megabyte-per-second download of "CoD: Warzone" from Battle.net, so... Oh yeah, it's at 20, 30% CPU usage. Not bad. Really? They make you watch a cutscene. See, every other gameknows not to do this. Okay, here we go. Whee! Let's see if I can manage to stay alive slightly longer than last time. You know, the script calls for me to say this isn't running verywell, but it's fine. Definitely a little chuggierand a little more tear-y than what we looked at before,but actually looks not bad. Okay, that's a lot of tearing right there. When I was a kid I'd have been absolutely elated to have anything over 60 FPS regardless of whether I had tosmear Vaseline on the screen for that free anti-aliasing. As for the rest of our games, you know, being on older hardware reallyisn't the end of the world. "Fortnite" was only a little rough when flying in on the Battle Bus, and even "GTA V" was able torun at plenty of FPS by default and even looked pretty decent if we didn't mind losing alittle bit of frame rate. So there are a coupleof lessons here for us, with the biggest one being that all it takes tojoin the PC master race is an interest in computers, and the gatekeepers whofawn over brand-new hardware and put down anything lessthan the latest and greatest can go suck an egg. Because unless you're trying to run brand-new triple-A gameson high or ultra settings, like "Cyberpunk," "The Medium,"or "Microsoft Flight Sim," you can have a reallysolid gaming experience with hardware like this. And the best part is thatwith some savvy eBay-ing you can build a machine like this, or upgrade a non-gaming machinethat you get your hands on, for anywhere from 750 to $1,300. Or maybe even less if you're willing to get a little creative with a Dremel to fit things together. With that said, a lot of this hardware isstarting to show its age, and if you upgraded you'ddefinitely appreciate the smoother animations andadditional image quality, especially in anything fast-paced. So there you have it,ladies and gentlemen, the average Steam hardware survey PC. Are any of you guys out there running any of these components? Of course you are. Are you still happy with them, or are you ready for an upgrade? Let us know in the comments below. Do you need to create a beautiful website without the hassle? Check out Squarespace. Their all-in-one platform makes it easy to get up and running quickly. They have award-winning templates that you can use as starting points for a wide range of projects, and if you ever need additional help Squarespace also offers webinars, a full series of help guides, or you can even contacttheir 24/7 customer support via live chat or email. If you already have a third-party domain you don't have to give it up. Just transfer it over to Squarespace, or you can get one directly from them. Plus you get e-commerce features to help you sell merch or services online and easily manage yourinventory and orders. So head to squarespace.com/LTT to get 10% off your first purchase. And if you liked this video and you're looking tobuild something like it, check out the Dell office PC that I upgraded to run"Valorant" a few months back. It's got some reallygreat tips in that video for optimizing OptiPlex gamer builds, as we like to call them. 

your gaming pc has a bottleneck

 - Do you know what your last PC upgrade, complete waste of money, why? 'Cause it's not about nanometers,it's not about Giga Hertz, it's bottlenecks, the bottlenecksare going to eat them all. They don't want you to knowabout this because the truth is every PC has a bottleneck, more than one. I mean, you could upgrade and upgrade and upgrade and get nothing. Haven't you been readingbetween the lines? The cron sheeple, just look, look! Look at our sponsor! Seasonic has got you coveredno matter what kind of system you're building and what kindof power supply you need. They've got up to 80plus titanium efficiency and warranties that gofor as long as 12 years. Go check them out at the linkin the video description. (Electronic Dance Music) A lot of you out there are probably perfectly happy with your PC.

You built it and nowyou're gaming, working or streaming away with minimal hiccups. But what about those of youwho crave unlimited power? Well, for an enthusiast, itcan be absolutely devastating to finish a rig only torealize that one key part is holding back the performanceof all of the others. If only you'd spent a littlebit more or alternatively if only you'd saved a bunchof money on the rest of it, or is it really that straightforward? In our most thorough investigationinto system bottlenecks to date, we took three games, three CPU's and four graphics cards andput them on our test bench. First up one of our favoritegames for showcasing smooth scaling across both CPU and GPU shadowed the Tomb Raider at 1080p. Well as it turns out, whenyou're low end consumer graphics card can only get you about 17FPS at high settings, you're really not going to get a bigboost from upgrading your CPU. In our case, the core i5-9,600k actually performed worse than the core i3-8,100 and then the 9,900k hardlymade any difference at all. Now upgrading to a 1050Ti doubles our view RAM from two gigs to four andgives us a faster GPU, and yet we still don't see any majorimprovement from a better CPU. As you can see from the nextgraph however, the second we swapped for somethingbeefier like an RTX 2060 with six gigs of I-RAM and more than double the CUDA cores,we're off to the races. Now, there isn't a huge gapbetween our six core i5 and our eight core i9 but the performancegains for moving to a CPU that's both significantly fasterand has an extra two cores, and two threads is a staggering18% gain in terms of FPS. What's even more interesting, is that when we upgrade to an RTX 3070, we see almost zero gain onour poor little quad core i3. So maybe it actually doesn'tmatter if you can't get your hands on a 3070, becausefor a lot of you out there, there won't be much ofan improvement if any. As you can see though, withour higher end processors, the gap does widen as the core i9 starts to leave the i5 in the dust. Now this is a perfectillustration of why reviewers configure their testbenches the way they do. We've been criticized manytimes over the years for using let's say an extreme edition processor in a review of a mid-range graphics card. And it usually goes alittle something like WTF are you guys doing? Nobody buys a $300 GPU and a $1000 CPU. And that's a fair point, surebut the thing is reviews live online indefinitely and afaster CPU will eventually come. We might even review them,get subscribed by the way. And the thing is byalleviating these bottlenecks proactively using the besthardware we can get our hands on, we get a much clearer pictureof the true capabilities of that graphics card even ifit might take a little while for a mid-range gamingtower to realize them. One of the other things you'veprobably noticed is that reviewers tend to benchmarkgames at different resolutions, depending on what's being tested. CPU reviews tend to focus on1080p numbers while GPU reviews can include performance datafor 1440p, 4k and beyond. Let's look at why. On the same setup at 4k,yeah look at this graph. When both the 1030 and1050 Ti are asked to render such a high fidelity scene, they end up so bogged down that anyCPU can keep up with them. Even the 2060 hardly careswhich CPU it's paired with. And as for the 3070, while itcertainly gains a few frames from higher end processingpower, really it isn't gaining anywhere closeto what it was at 1080p. So at the end of the day ateither resolution you have to ask yourself, is it reallyworth spending almost double the money on your CPU toeke out just a few more FPS? Is a bottleneck really all that bad? Well it can be. Some programs inherently load certain components differently, take CSGO. CSGO is a game so it needs agood graphics card or whatever. But the thing is, it's anolder game that was tuned for professional gameers torun it at very high frame rates on previous generation graphics cards. So as you can see from our benchmarks, if you were to read on theinternet that CSGO is so CPU bottle-necked and then runout and buy a shiny new CPU, you might end up sorely disappointed. That is until you alsoupgrade your graphics card. This quad core 3.6 gigahertzmanage i3 manages very solid frame rates with our2060, but then look at this stepping up to an i5 straightup doubles that performance. That's right, double! Don't you love it when your CPU does that? Show it some love byrocking a processor t-shirt or CPU pillow from lttstore.com. Finally, step up to a 3070, and spending even more money starts tolook like an okay idea. Our 9,900 lead gets evenlonger when it's paired with a powerhouse of a graphics cardlike this one, gaining over 50 FPS while our core i5lags behind with an increase that could be described asbenchmark margin of error. This illustrates why thesuite of applications used to evaluate aproduct is so important. We've taken flack, againmany times for including games that no one plays, instead of just testing the most popular titles on Twitch. But the reason we do it thatway is to demonstrate how different types of gamesmight run on a new product. The thing is we don't needthe exact FPS of every single E-sports game to know that ifit gets 250 FPS in Dota two, it's probably going to runLeague of Legends okay. We also want to know how it holds up in a more visuals focused game, right? Of course, while our testingfocused on gaming today, bottlenecks occur in alltypes of computing processes and operating system for example, can limit your file transfer speeds. You take the samecomputer throw Linux on it and all of a sudden, boom,you're copying files faster. Your onboard network port mightnot fully utilize your ISP's new two gigabit service oryour CPU might be sitting there with absolutely nothing todo while you're opening up a program, because your harddrive is struggling to deliver it any data that it needs to work. Thermals can also be a silent bottleneck. Taking a system that normally runs fine and then throttling itdown under heavy workloads. And then there's scientific computing. That's an area where unlikegaming, you might need hundreds of gigabytes or eventerabytes of system memory in order to keep an extrememulti-core processor like an AMD Thread Ripperor Epic fed with data. Speaking of lots of cores,do you need more for gaming? Well, the answer is yes,but only to a point. While modern games have beenmoving in that direction since the last generation ofhome consoles included eight core CPU's there's just a limitto how much can be done in parallel in a game because thework of one core is so often dependent on work that anothercore hasn't yet completed. So while it's notorious forperforming best on a 16 core Ryzenine 5950 X our Ashes ofthe Singularity: Escalation tests didn't actually see asmuch of an improvement in terms of FPS, as you might think after we moved from a respectablypowerful quad core. So in many cases, theperformance gains that you see on a chart where the highercore count one outperforms the lower core count one reallycome down to the manufacturer, tuning the turbos of theindividual cores so that those higher end onesturbo up to higher speeds. On AMD at least this issomething you might be able to overcome on your own withbasic software like Onesmus' Clock Tuner for Ryzen,so there you have it. The answer to the age oldquestion of what do I upgrade first CPU or graphics card is, it depends. That's because if you thinkabout it every system has a bottleneck because if itdidn't have a bottleneck, the performance would justkeep going to the moon. And the crazy part is thosebottlenecks shift around depending on what you're doing and how the rest of thesystem is configured. That's where the title came from. And that's one of the mainreasons it's so important to look at multiple reviews when you'reconsidering spending money on a gaming PC, 'cause noone can test every workload with every combination ofhardware, while also considering every upgrade path that may ormay not be available to you. But one thing you probably won't need to upgrade is your power supply. Seasonic power supplies arebuilt with the future in mind. They've got everything intheir lineup up to 1300 watt 80 plus platinum power supplies. They've got units that have12 year freaking warranties. So clearly there's a greatdegree of confidence in the product that it's going tolast you like three to four upgrade cycles of the rest of their gear. And they've also got a bunchof unique products, too. If you want a quiet build you can go for one oftheir fanless options. If you need something for anall white build like the one we just put together, they'vegot you covered there too. And the bottom line is man,Seasonic just makes good stuff. So go check them out at thelink in the video description. Thanks again, Seasonicfor sponsoring this video and guys let us know what other kinds of bottlenecks would you likeus to explore in the future? Leave a comment and then maybetake a look at some of the best 240 Hertz gaming monitorsthat we've been looking at. So you can make sure you're not missing out on all those FPSsis your system's making after you upgrade therest of your hardware. 

our first build together in years

 (upbeat music) - Good god, what happened to this thing? Do you even do maintenance dog? Aw (bleep) me. This is disgusting. (laughter) You call yourself a techie. What happened to this thing? - Time. - No, no, no, no, no, no. (Linus groans) I can't even react to it. It's clearly had nomaintenance on it whatsoever. Your LED strips are cracked, broken, not even in the right place. This one looks like it fell down, and you just left it where it fell. One of your graphics cards is missing. And I (bleep) told him that this stupid Geodude-rock theme was going to get old fast. And yet, somehow, here we are, even though Luke no longer even works here and therefore does not qualify for an extreme rig upgrade from Intel, We're building him a new themed PC, or so he thought. (deep laughter) I lied. You're still getting an upgrade, and it's still gonna be pretty sick, but it's going to be a combination of hand-me-downs from my old rig, whatever we had lying around in inventory, and broken parts that you need to fix. - That sounds fun, actually. - You're getting a sick, new rig, but boy are you ever going to work for it. (laughter) - Speaking of working for it, I work for telling you about our sponsors. Use glassware to see what appsare wasting your bandwidth and causing your games to lag. You can get 25% off using offer code Linus at the link in the video description. (laughter) - This is going to be fun. (upbeat techno music) (laughter) (funky bass) (laughter) - [Linus] Ew! Just trying to do a be-roll shot here. What the hell happened to all the amethyst rocks that I spent hundreds of dollars on? - Over time, as you can see, things started kind of breaking because of, uh, heat issues. So I took a lot of the crystals out. - That addresses the crystals. What the hell happened to the second graphicscard that I gave you? - You actually told me to take that out. That's in my girlfriend's computer. You told me on theweigh-in show to do that. - [Linus] So this is howyou install drives now? You've completelyforgotten your tech ways. - I don't know where this came from. And then this one, thatone was installed that way with a old basic red SEDA cable - (Bleep) dude. What do you even need allthis solid-state storage for? - You've got like threeterabytes of SSD in here. - I don't need that to be honest. So that one was just for windows 10. I needed a - I wanteda separate boot drive. The SSDs were rated. - So where's your other side panel? - The other side panel is a giant question mark, actually - Okay, that's real rough because I think Jake might've told you that you were gettinga new case; you're not. - I - I somewhat put that together. - This is Luke-rig upgrade, not Luke-rig brand new. Let's turn it offbecause it really smells. - Okay. - Most of what Luke does on his computer is a combination of gaming, streaming, and development. So do you want to meet your new hardware? - Sure. Yeah. - This spent a numberof months in my system. This is the X570 Aqua from ASRock. It's got some gunk in it though. - [Luke] (laughter) So here begins the, "we gotta fix things." Okay, nice. - This is a hand me down from me. - So you're roasting me. (laughter) Okay. So you're roastingme for my computer. Your computer has gunk init, and you just dropped it - Now it's your maintenance problem. - Nice - For graphics, we wanted to get you the latest and greatest,but there's a shortage of latest and greatest. - Yup. So we got you the greatest but it's not the latest. - [Luke] Not the latest, okay. - This actually was contributedby a fan of the channel. - Okay. - A Ryzen 9 5950X. - Oh, jeez. - These are rarer than hen's teeth. You can game, you canstream, you can develop, you can do them all at once. (laughter) All you need to do, my friend, is put some of the pins back on it. - Like on it? Like they're not bent. They're gone? - They're gone. They're gone, sir. - Uhhhh... - I'm sorry, sir, if you don't fix it, I will mercilessly snatch it back from him and give him something crappier. And you know this will be true. - Of course. - Search your feelings, Luke. - (laughter) Do we have the pins at all? - Theoretically, in this bin - Oh my goodness - is everything you'll need. - Okay. Okay. Nice. Alright. - Oh, and also this brick (laughter) Ah, I'm having way too much fun already. Don't you love the pressure? This is like 1,000 Canadiandollars on the line. - If you can buy it. - Let's start by tearing this out. You want to go from the backand I'll go from the front, If you know what I mean? We'll, uh, double-team it here. - Sure. But we're leavingthe power splay in, right? - Is this even attached? - No. Do you remember this? - No. - So, the RAM didn't fit. (groaning) (laughter) - There are chunks on it. There are actual chunks. It blows chunks. - Yeah. - People are going towatch this many years from now and they're not going to be sure if this happened during COVIDcuz we need masks anyway. We cannot leave it like this. (laughter) No, get it stripped! Strip it! - But I got to do it from the front. - Strip it real good. - I gotta reach around. I can't do my job back hereif I'm not gonna reach around. - AHHH! (banging) How the hell are you even supposed to remove this heat sink? Holy (bleep). No wonderI couldn't screw it in. Oh my God. Is this melted? Did you glue this? What is this? Why is there glue in your a-pin? - 'cause there was rocksall the way up there.

- Oh my god, I'm starting to regret not allocating a new case for you here. - Yeah, that probably wouldhave saved a lot of time. - Yeah. Oh wow, we totally didn'tput in all the screws. - Us? What do you mean? - I helped. - No you didn't. - Did we build that - oh no, you hosted this one on your own. - Yeah, That's why it's so bad. - Your LEDs stripped the finish. - HA! - What the (bleep). Thatis seriously messed up. - Yup. - Why is there so muchhot glue on everything? - 'cause there was so many rocks. - But the rocks were noton the motherboard, Luke. - Yeah, but I don't know. - Literally a hardcore gamer. Literally does not upgrade a single thing about the machine untilI give him a free one. - You know when thelast time I spent money on a computer is? 'cause I don't. (laughter) - Oh my god. Wait, no. You bought those rocks. - They're staying in? - You're stuck with them. Luke insisted on those rocks. And I - - Hey, it works. It works. The thumbnail is awesome. The video got tons of views. - I would never take his rocks from him. Luke, do you really wantto get your rocks off? - I kind of do (laughter) - Do filters work? No. - No! (laughter) - Oh no! I knocked a rock off! - Yay! That's a free one. - This is not going tocome completely clean, so I am adjusting my standards. - I demand only perfection. We both need to spend the greater part of our workday rubbingdown my old computer case. - Yeah. - Why did I put fourscrews in all of these? I never do that. - They probably came pre-installed. Yeah, there's no way you did that. - (laughing) Yeah, okay. So there is actually a reason. - Yeah. Here we go. It starts white, and then it's hairy. (laughter) - Can we call that goodenough on the front here? - If you think it's good enough, I am certain it is above my standards. When you told me you wantedit as is, I was like, okay we're going to be talkingabout how dusty my computer is. That's fine. I didn't think we weregoing to actually use it - You're getting a free upgrade. What are you going to do, complain? - Oh, I'm not complaining. - No, I know exactly. - That's great, yeah. Let's go. I'm down. - How stressed are youabout the CPU repair there? - Extremely. It's going to be interesting. - Yeah. - Looks like a pin on a CPU - Something I didn't anticipate is there is not actually a ton of room for water cooling stuff in here. - Nope. - Oh God. These are, theseare 10 terabyte drives. Cause I was going to say, okay maybe we could just go all solid state and then we wouldn'thave to worry about that. But I don't have 20 terabytes of SSD. - (laughing) Not for this. - Not deploying it in here. - Yeah. Sorry, I should clarify. - You know, after cleaning it there's always the option of not using it. - Yeah. Sorry. - (laughing) Okay. Okay. Um - - It was worth a shot. - It was. - So now we gotta, we gotta make it work. Let's just have a look here, okay? So we could put that thereand fans on the outside we could put a 120 at theback or we could just say screw it on the GPU water cooling. - Maybe let's fix the CPUand then figure it out. - He says as though that will be a - - Maybe let's fail to fix a CPU. - Would you like to watch how to do it? - Yes, yup. - Okay know a guy. - Hey, I recognize that guy - And you'll need this. You're going to need some tweezers. - Yeah, okay. So far, I at least wasable to correctly identify one of the tools. We're doing okay. - Linus/LMG, enclosed isthe first 5950x side-lock with a single pin missing along the edges. - So, not me. - Not you. (laughter) Thanks Chris. - Thanks Chris. - Here we go. Good luck everybody. Ah! (bleep) that's hot. - Can't even see through there. - Do you want - do you wanna move that, so you can look through it? - Sure. How long does this take? - Depends how close youget with the hot air. Remember, you've got lots of donor CPUs. - True. Yeah, so let's just go for it. - Okay, Let's - let's rip her. So we're cranking it to 450. Should I make sure this isdoable before I set you at it? - Why would it not be doable? - I mean, I don't know. Maybe the temperature'swrong or something. This is not an easily melting boy here. This is, uh, This is going to be pretty tough Luke - Hooray! - Remember Luke, there'sno pressure right now. That's just the donor CPU. I mean, you can horribly burnyourself, but other than that - It's getting hot in here. I think I got one. Had? - Look at that. - Looks like it's still there. - What a winner Luke. I believe in you - Use the force, but not too much force. That was just fine. - Okay. We good? We got the settings styled? - Well, we got thesettings styled for this. - So if I was you, whatI would probably do is brace one end of thetweezers on the edge. - [Luke] Just the one? - [Linus] And slide it offby squeezing it together Man, I hope you make it. Cause like, the thing for me is I have a lot ridingin your success too. Like, I could just fix it myself and then we would have a working CPU. So for me to watch this is like actually pretty stressful too. - 'cause, well, I don'tget to use the thing That's worth the value. It's yours. - Yeah. Yeah. - Just like the rock. (laughs) Do you remember one of thefirst things you made me do when you hired me? Put water blocks on GPU's. - Yeah, And I came back like hours later and you had like basicallymade no progress. And I was like, what areyou? Some kind of idiot? - No, I was done. - Were you? - Yeah, I was done. - Oh, maybe I'm thinkingof a different thing I assigned you to. And then I left for along time and came back and you'd barely touched it. - I mean, that probably happened. - You were probably asleep. - I never fell asleep. - Shut up. - I'm kidding. I fell asleep a lot. - He would literally fall asleep - - You also told me it waslike 4-8 hours a week. And it ended up beinglike 40 hours a week. - I'm supposed to be like working on water cooling the rig right now and I just can't look away. Okay. Alright, you know what? No. I'm - I will look away. - Whoa! I think I got it. - Did you really - Wait, no. Oh shoot. - What? Let me see. - The pad came out. - Oh my god, you (bleep)guy. It's perfect. - Yay! (laughs) - Did you do that on purpose? - No, I thought it was ruined - My god. You got it perfect. - Oh, that's mint. - Yeah! Dammit Luke! (laughter) - Yay! I got so much better. - Yeah. That's that's phase one - Yeah, but no, phase one's good. Okay. We're moving on. - This is a good guide.Seems like a nice guy. - And while you're waiting why don't you refresh yourselfwith some ice cold water. (bars clanging) - OW! Oh ho ho! Ow! Oh,my shoulder! Ow! Oh! - [Luke] I'd like, cometry to help you up, but COVID and stuff. - I like, tried tofootball tackle that stand. - [Luke] Do you need anything? No. I just need this refreshing drink. Lttstore.com. - [Luke] Oh, geez. - Looking back then at the old video we did use the solder mask. - I was a little bit ignoring that part because I was told repeatedly that we did not use the soldering mask. So are these the right pins? - Ah, they're good enough. We put the wrong pin onlast time and it was fine. - AH! My hands are so shaky. - Oh god. - You have any regrets? - No - You can have no ragrets in life, Linus. Let's let's be really - I have no idea what I'm doing. - No, it's still just sitting there. You haven't even meltedthe solder yet Luke. - Neat. Alright. Whoa! Okay. - [Linus] What now? - [Luke] Knocked over - [Linus] Okay. Maybe wedo need the mask then. - Okay - Really? I mean, that didn't seem likeit was on there long enough. - It looks lower though. - [Linus] Uhhh. - [Luke] It has lost height. - I think you got to get alittle more agro here Luke. - Okay. So how do I tell when I'm done? - It should kind of snap, like kind of stand to attention. Like it should snap into place. - So I'm looking for the pin boner. - [Linus] Yeah. - [Luke] Now it'sstanding up and not moving - [Linus] It's soldered.Like, it's on there. What we need to know now is- - Oh, okay. Oh, I got it. - Nailed it. Successfully back to square one. - Back where we were. (laughs) Okay. So, so line me up again. Give me a lineup - Go for it. - Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay - [Linus] Are you having fun yet? Are you winning son? - I don't know if I'm winning yet. - Nah dog, you nailed it. - Hell yeah. - Moment of truth. When's the last time youinstalled an AMD CPU? You've been kind of like out of the game since AMD was relevant. That's hilarious. (stammering) Oh, it leaned over! - What, what, what? - What do you mean? - What are you talking about? - Uh oh. - No, no, we're good. Okay. - Now wait - hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Cause if we get it in here and it works then have to take it back out. We're putting more stress on the pin. Then we have to put itback in something else. I might want to just put it in its home. - Okay. Literally remove from this thing. I can't remember. - Of course it had to be a water cooler. - Well, look. I am shaking right now. - (heavy sigh) If thisboots, that'd be so cool. (laughs) - Okay. Who lost thescrew on this damn thing? What the hell? - I don't know. Now it looks like it'sgotta be over there. - I don't remember it beingthis hard to remove it. - You have to take screws off this end. There's one right there. Oh no, it doesn't look like it. (heavy breathing) Oh, okay. (funky bass music) - Why does it say store demo? No signal detector. Ooh. Give it a sec, give it a sec. (bleep) - That's a few little restarts there. - That's not a good sign. (CPU fans whirring) Oh my god. Is it all justgoing to be for nothing? (suspenseful string music) - Oh my god! (laughing) Oh my goodness. - Chris- - Chris. - Chris H., Luke thanks you because he just scored. You're bad luck- good luck for him. (heavy sigh) Why is this in store demo mode. - I don't know. - It doesn't matter, thepoint is we got an output. Let's build a computer. - Yeah! Okay. - Oh, he's leaving me hanging. The challenge we're having right now is that while we do have a templatethat Luke has somewhere. - Oh, right here. Oh, we're going to have to cut into it. Oh man. - He's choked ladies and gentlemen. (laughter) Here we go. - Yeah. Cool. (high-pitched drilling) - Okay. There's a whole already. - Yeah. That was part of the point. - It's like, wow, I'm - (laughter) - What a drill. - Ahhh! (high pitched drilling) Nailed it. Wait, you put the hard drives in already. - Yeah. - There's like metal shards everywhere. - Nice. - Ah, um, Seems fine. - That did a lot. (laughs) - He used shake. It was very effective. - Linus used harden. - Why can't I find the holes? - Down and over? - Oh, here we go. - Do you not like it there? - No, I love it. Yeah, yeah. Right there. Oh yeah. Just put that in. Put that in there. Let's give it a- - It wobbles a little bit. - Yeah! (laughter) - That's okay. - Woo! There it is. It's in This is going to be not a bad looking little machine, somehow. You did a great job ofgluing these rocks on here. (laughter) Did I tell you about the onethat got caught by the 24 pin? And when I first saw it, I was like, wow, that looks really cool. And then I was like wow, I could really kill the graphics card (laughter) - Because we didn't change the case. We still haven't solvedthe problem of this not having enough 2.5 inch drive mounts. Um, let me think. Should we grab some hotglue for old time's sake? - Put a rock there. - Put a rock on it. (laughter) No, this is kind of going to be like a kinda okay rig. You know what? Actually, should we ditch the founders then And should we go with a third party board? Well, that worked out okay for you. We don't have any more 28 ATIs, So we might need themfor future comparisons. So you get a Titan RTX Instead. - So adding some gold to the silver. - We're adding some bling, yeah. I mean, I would have hatedfor it to look too good. (laughter) - It looks strong. It shouldn't clothe itself, you know? - Like a Geodude. (laughter) So that goes right there. Oh yeah. Ho ho ho. Oota goota solo (laughter) - Do you have a - where'syour hot glue gun? - Oh God. - Oh, solved. There's another way of putting it there where it just holds itself. - Beautiful. Is there a faster way to use this thing? (Geodude call) (techno music) Yeah. This thing is gonna like kinda blow your mind compared- 'cause you don't even play with all the latesthardware every day anymore. - Nope. I probably willnot have to run Tarkov on medium anymore. - Yeah. Your system is actually faster for gaming than mine now. Here we go. - This just, I think- No matter what computer you have, this just takes forever. - Oh yeah. Do you have a G-Forceexperience installed? - Uh, no. - I mean, it's fine. It doesn't matter. We all know how to take care of - - It already feels immediately better (laughter) It's like I've, like,slightly turned (laughs) Holy crap. Oh my. Okay, this is pretty cool. - Hardware's actually improved a lot in the last four years The four years that you were reviewing it, was probably the most boring period of PC hardware ever. - And it's gotten kindof like red hot again. I could not be more pleasedwith the results here. We did a water cooled rig, including repairing a pin on a CPU that was otherwise completely a write-off. (laughter) And it's only seven hours later. (laughter) Good job everyone! Yeah! We did it. - And good job our sponsor. Do you need to create a beautiful website without the hassle? Squarespace has got you covered. Their all-in-one platform makes it easy to get up and running quickly. And they have award winningtemplates that you can use as a starting point for awide variety of projects. 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ineed to upgrade already

 - On paper today's project is pretty much the simplest thing ever. After many hours of troubleshooting I've identified the problemwith my VR gaming PC. The onboard USB ports are not compatible with the Vive Trackersthat I'm using to enable full body tracking when I'm streaming VR. Now the solution to this on the surface is very straightforward. You need to just installa PCI Express USB card that uses a different chipset and run the Trackers off that. Unfortunately because it needs to fit inside my tiny home theater console, my VR gaming rig uses an ITX motherboard. So, I went out on the prowl for the smallest Mini ATXcase that I could find. And this is it, the Sliger Cerberus. Now on the surface this projectis super straighforward. Take a basically working computer and transplant it fromone case into another with a different motherboard. But with how much has gone wrong with all of this so far. What the (beep) (beep)why are they drifting? I think it's pretty safe tosay that I should probably have a camera rolling for it. So, why don't you come along for the ride? Brought to to you buy GlassWire. With GlassWire you can keeptrack of the weird stuff that's connecting to your PCeven when you aren't using it. You can see if a strangedevice joins your Wifi and block it instantly. Get 25% off by using code LINUS at the link in the video description. (upbeat music) Okay I misrepresented the ease of this project a little bit. I am also going to be addingwater cooling to the rig, and the reason is that this right here is the RTX 2080 Ti thatwas used for the, ah yes, Hydro dipping a graphics card project. In the process of hydro dipping it what happened was the PCBthat handles fan control was actually damaged, or one of the connectorswas loosed in some way that makes the fan ramp upand then ramp down constantly. It's super annoying. That is literally the only reason that I'm going water cooling. To quiet down this now defective card. This case is not really built as a water cooling focused product, but I've seen enough builds from other users online thathave water cooling in them to suggest that it shouldn'tbe too challenging. Front I/O is already a bitof a hassle for my setup just because these are coming out the top and I think this is basically exactly the height of my media cabinet. The cold hard truth isthere's no way around it because you can see here, the motherboard is gonnabe basically the entire height of the case. All they've added that mightbe considered extraneous is this fifth PCI Express slot which actually could comein handy for me big time in the future if a motherboard arrives that has a PCI Express16x slot on the bottom. Because then I could put my graphics card right down at the bottom of the case and that would give methree more expansion slots. That's a bigger factor forme then you might think, because one of the otherthings that I might want to add to the system in thefuture is a wireless card for wireless VR. So, that's already two right there just for USB and wireless. Crap. This is my first timehands-on with this case. It's reasonably solid feeling but the construction is very basic, like pretty much every piece of it is some kind of table cut steel. That's about it. Really easy to get it opened up so you can start working in it though. I opted for a few accessories, there's a handle kit in here. We've got a handle bracket, SFX power supply adapter. Oh no! Did Jake screw me over already? He didn't send me an SFX-L power supply. I'm gonna give him thebenefit of the doubt, maybe I don't need it. Anyway first order of business is to get all the oldhardware stripped out of my VR gaming rig. This two terabyte harddrive has gotta go for sure, I'm gonna replace thatwith a high capacity Solid State Drive. You probably assumed I havea lot of this stuff, I don't. I actually love bottom mounted SSD. Kind of wish I had another matching industrial fan for this system. Jake sent over a FF12 so I'm just not sure of they'regonna have enough gusto. 2080 Ti and a Radeon 3900X. This project is frustratingfor a couple of reasons, One is that it feels pretty stupid to have to upgrade a motherboard because the onboard has a compatibility problem. But that's what you lock yourself into when you buy a system with no expansion, whether it's a compact ITX orother DTX based one like this. Or whether it's a laptop with all the stuff soldered onto it. But that's the trap thatyou stick yourself in. And another is the timing. We are a month away fromB550 boards being available and here I am picking up a B450 board. B550 is gonna be way better. PCIe Gen 4 bifurcation support, I mean probably better supportfor upcoming processors. Just it's a bad time tobuy a budget motherboard 'cause it will probably beat a kind of a similar price. If I'm stuck with it, the B450M Steel Legend fromASRock looks pretty good. Couple of M.2 slots, the two expansion slots I need and it's reasonably priced. I know people get triggeredmy reusing thermal paste but it's well established that it doesn't make aperformance difference at this point so. For memory I'm reusing this3200CL16 kit from TEAMGROUP. It's nothing particularly special but I'm also not going for bleeding edge performancehere necessarily. If I miss a frame or twothen it is what it is. Normally I wouldn't go straight for putting the motherboard in the case but in this instance I'm gonnakinda need to put it in there to visualize what's going on and how everything else is gonna fit. The Cerberus is also extremely open so I'm not expecting thatputting the motherboard in is gonna limit my optionstoo badly as we go forward. And I remember how hardwe all used to cringe at the camo colored schemes onmotherboards back in the day. Who's laughing now? Motherboard manufacturersselling motherboards to kids that's who. Oh that's cool. I don't know what thisis but it's cool so. Interestingly it lookslike I've got a fair number of options for radiator mounting, like can I even put one on the side if I really wanted to? It just comes down to finding the best way to tetris your own components in. So, let's keep putting stuff in and then see we what we end up with. So, we came up with theidea of salvaging parts from an all-in-one sothat we could just get a CPU block with a pump built into it, and putting that on there. But I'm actually worried that this is going to interfere witha full ATX power supply. Oh man if this fits it is goingto be absolutely borderline. Holy smokes. Hold on. Wow, that might actually fit. Okay. Jake took one of the fittingsoff this for me already just to make sure thatthey were barb fittings that we could adapt to customwater cooling equipment, but he left the other one for me to do and it's like really hard to remove. Now if there was ever a time I was likely to slice my hand open this would be it. All right we chewed it up a little bit. Not too bad. So, it goes on this way, which is gonna have these tubes come up right away from the power supply here. That's lucky, and I know for a fact we didn't plan that because I know that Jakedid not open this case before he sent it over to me so. There we go. Let's go ahead and throw this on the CPU. Do you wanna go get mea power supply actually? I bet you could be back bythe time I need to install it. - [Yvonne] You want me to go to the office to get a power supply? - What are the odds thatyou feel like doing that? Slim, got it. Dang it, we're gonnatry and build this thing without a power supply. While normally I wouldn'tput the graphics card into a machine untilat or close to the end. In this case it makes sense because I need to be able tosee how we're gonna plumb up the loop before I can decidewhere to mount the radiator. It's a shame though becausethe front of it was actually the more successful part of the hyrdo dip. Now for the special sauce, this is a really cool USB card. It has not one but fourindependent controllers so each of these fivegigabit per second ports is actually a full fivegigabit per second port, without being shared betweenany of the other ports. That's why it actually requires the PCI Express 4x interface. There we go, the solution to my problem, now I got all the USB. Oh you know what's crazy? I didn't even think of this, this board's got two M.2sand an extra PCI slot. So, even if I don't put agraphics card in the very bottom I could actually still squeeze another PCI Express slot out of it. Wait is this even gonna fit? Oh, right there. Three millimeters maybe? Nice. For ease of plumbing Iwould actually prefer to have my barbs on the bottom, but to make it easierto bleed the air bubbles out of this loop, 'cause I'm gonna have kindof an underpowered pump. I actually think I'm gonnaput them on the top up here. Now that is a color schemeand a half. (laughing) It doesn't seem like much but I actually really like this cutout in theback here where the SSDs go, that is a really nicetouch because it means that you'll have accessto plug or unplug it, even if you've got aradiator installed there just by reaching around from the back. That is awesome. The SATA data cables are crampedbehind the radiator here, you can easily access them like that. And then they plug into the motherboard right under the graphics card. You can barely even see them. The madman did it, just got back from the office with an SFX-L power supply. Among the Silverstone's SX800-LTI it's an extremely efficient and really cool power supply. It's 800 watts and it's justthis teeny tiny little thing, like I would have to be actively gaming for that fan to even spin upwhich is pretty freakin' cool. Silverstone doesn't getenough credit sometimes and we're at the point nowwhere if you've got an 800 watt 80 PLUS Titanium unitavailable in this size. It kind of raises the questionwhy we need a bigger ones. Another advantage to going this route is I now have tons ofroom around my CPU cooler, so that's good. That gives me room to run the tubing and all that kind ofstuff as well, very nice. Tha fact that all thepanels in this case pop off makes it a lot easierto work with than I was letting myself believe there. Look at that, all right. No problem. This really is such aningenious way to handle these. I've talked about it alreadybut I can't get over it. I really like it. I'm using a tubing standardI don't normally use for this partly because Jake sent it over and partly because it makes sense for such a compact build. But these are 10millimeter inner diameter, 13 millimeter outer diameters. Just helps it take upa little bit less space which is gonna be at a bit of a premium once all this is in there. These are CORSAIR fittings and if I recall correctlythey partnered with Bitspower on them which was a good move 'cause these are super nice. Putting a little of sparetubing over the fitting and then using that to get a better grip while you're tightening it isa pretty good little trick. My loop is gonna be really simple, first I'm gonna go straight down there then I'm gonna go out out from here, to this guy over here. And then out from here over to this one back here. It's not gonna look like anything special but it should work pretty well. Now the keen-eyed amongyou might've noticed I cut that a little short. That is because I have apretty clever trick planned. I had wanted to use a proper T fitting but not being able to findthat I'll settle for this. This is just a nice littleEK multi-fitting block here. So, I'm gonna open up the top of this and then I'm gonna open up the other side, both of them up at the top of the loop. And I'm gonna use that toallow the air to come out while I'm filling theother side with water, and then to allow me to topit up once the air settles up in the top there. It's funny some of the thingsI'm doing here feel wrong. Like this a pretty uglyway to implement this considering how nice thehardware I'm putting in it is, but like it or not this iswater cooling done practical. Another not pretty but practical thing, using zip ties to secure tubing on barbs. This is what peak performancelooks like all right? My brilliant theory is that if I just pour water into this, it will fill. Okay we're dripping a bit. Fortunately that is what paper towels and GPU backplates are for. Oh you spilled your water cooling? Surprise Pikachu face. I was a fool, Our water bottle is forhydrating humans not computers, lttstore.com. All right. These tubes are full of water now, so I'm just gonna tip this back. Ooh okay. Here we go, and we're gonna see the waterrun down the other tubes. Hey there we go. My theory was that fillingit this way would make it so I won't have to power on the system in order to bleed the air bubbles. So, let's see how well that'sworking out for me here. Actually it looks likethere's still some air bubbles in the graphics card but not too bad. Really wish I had a couple more fittings, 'cause if I could justrun tubes over to the sink and then into the faucet and just kind of fill it and flush it. I wonder if I do have them. Test time. That's pretty good. Now I now masking tape'snot ideal for this but I need the wife not to wake up and be like, "Hey why isthere a bunch of tape residue all over our faucet?" Here goes. Ooh, ooh it's splashing. Oh wow, there were definitelylot's of bubbles in there. Oh sweet. Okay this is officially how I'm bleeding every loop from now on. I ended up having to wigglethe case around a fair bit to get it all out butI'm pretty sure this loop is completely bled of air bubbles now. That is a full water cooling loop. And the system doesn't boot. Already tried a new power supply, already tried different RAM. That leads me to believe that I probably need to swap out the CPU for an older one and update the BIOS. So, it's daytime now andI'm back from the office with another CPU. If you wanna help come on over here kiddo. So, you wanna do a CPU swap do ya? - Yeah, please. - All right. Step one, remove this power supply 'cause we need to get at the CPU socket. Oh that's gonna take the fan off we don't wanna do that.

- Oh. - Good try though, back here. Four screws. Okay careful don't touchthe pins on the bottom, those are very fragile and if we break that Ihave to drive all the way back to the office to get another one. This is a pretty tight buildand there's not a lot of slack. - Three cable thingy, some radar sensors. - Radar sensors whatware you talking about? - I'm talking about radar sensor cables. Okay let's go test this, see if it works. Think it's gonna work? - [Boy With Black Hair] Oh it's-- - [Man] Hey it's workin' nice! - [Girl With Brown Hair]Daddy what are these things? - Those are packing foam for the case. Hey you can't stand right inthe front there sweetheart. - [Girl With Brown Hair] Daddy how can-- - And this is why I wantedto stay up late last night to get this finished. I think there might bea ghost under my table. - [Girl With Brown Hair]What's it gonna do? Bad ghost things presumably. (screaming) Does anyone wanna put on a panel for me? - [Girl With Brown Hair]Me please, me please! - [Man] You gotta push so hard. Go for it. Okay good job. Yeah you're gonna go last. You don't have to punch it you can just push on it. You just push on it, you gotta use your weight you gotta push. No you don't have to punch it. (giggles) All right little man youwanna give it a shot? - [Boy With Black Hair] I'mnot a little man anymore. - You sure are you're my little man. Now that I'm closing it up, what's more impressive thanhow much stuff I have in here is how much stuff Icould still fit in here. I could put a 120 or 140mil rad on the bottom with some 90 degree fittings without too much trouble. If this isn't enough cooling that's what I'm gonna do. I could put another fan here blowing down on the system memory. That could also be a good idea, I didn't even explore the handle kit just because I found theclearance was so tight in my media console that I wasn't going to be able to add that. But I think there's a fanmount that's part of it. Just a really thoughtfulcase with a ton of options, I actually really like it. And simple construction but top notch. That's it, that's a lot ofpower in a tiny container. In comparing the size tothe old case I realized that height shouldn'thave been my only concern. It's actually quite a bit deeper as well. Now for the big conclusion, the system performs admirably. Temps are around 75, 76 degrees on the GPU very nice. Not great for watercooling but remember guys this is only a 201-20radiator in a tiny case, and our CPU tops out ataround 79, 80 degrees. Remember though that'swith both components heating up the loop tothe max at the same time, for about an hour and a half. So, this is an absoluteworst case scenario. That means it's finallytime for us to play some video games. You guys wanna play Takelings? - [Children] Yeah please! - I'm goin' for it, I'm goin' for it boys. Get wrecked. - Mine, no! Yours nothin'. Get wrecked my literal son. (laughing) Well that was a lot of fun, this video is brought toyou guys by Manscaped. Manscaped makes manscaping safe and easy with their Perfect Package 3.0 kit. It includes everything you need to take your groomingroutine to the next level. Including most importantlytheir Lawn Mower 3.0 trimmer. It's got skin safetechnology with replaceable soft ceramic blades thatcut course hair at 7000 RPM. It's got a rechargeable 600 milliamp power lithium ion battery for cord free use. It's waterproof so youcan use it in the shower and it's low vibrationso she won't steel it. Excuse me, so that it operates quietly. Grab this or their Perfect Package 3.0 that includes the trimmer and more, using code TECH to get 20% off and free shipping at the link down below. Get it the link's down below, for the product, you know you guys get it. You get it. If you guys enjoyed this video maybe check out, I don't know check out myreview of the Valve Index. I really like this headset, my only complaint isthat it's not wireless. I guess that's sort of the review. But I promise I get intomore detail in the other one. I'll link that down below too. - Daddy are you right? 

finally an amd handheld gaming pc!!

 - Don't trust your eyes. That is not a Nintendo Switch with sweet clear plastic Joy-Cons. In fact, it's not evenmade by Nintendo at all. That's right, it's a full-blown gaming PC in the shape of a Nintendo Switch. It's got controller buttons,joysticks, and a D-pad. And based on the marketing, at least, it's got enough raw gaming dragon energy to compete with real handheld consoles while carrying the weight of afull Windows 10 installation. How? You might ask. Let me put it this way. If you saw the GPD WIN3 and you thought, "Man! How awesome wouldit be if they did that, "but they went AMD?" I'm holding the answer. Just like I hold the answerto who our sponsor is. "War Thunder" is an onlinemilitary vehicle combat game that's free-to-play and tons of fun. Try it for free down below and get some special bonusitems for signing up. (upbeat music) Devices like the AYA NEO are clearly niche compared to purpose-builthandheld consoles from the likes of Nintendo. But as the hardware hascaught up to the idea of a handheld portable gaming PC, the popularity of theseis absolutely exploding. As of filming this video, the GPD WIN3, which has kind of theincumbent in the category, has raised over $3 millionU.S. on its Indiegogo campaign. And why shouldn't it? Honestly, for beinghands-on, it's pretty great. Which means, though, that the NEO here is goingto have to be even greater in order to stand out. AYA's company history isshort but fascinating. It was only founded at the start of 2020 by a man we'll be calling UncleA, who dreamed of creating a truly zero compromises gaming experience that he could take with him anywhere. He ended up moving to Shenzhen, and despite having noobvious business experience, here he is, a year later,with a team of 11 people, over 1,000 pre-ordersfor the console in China, and an Indiegogo that's alreadyraised $1 1/2 million U.S. And we're gonna have that linked below. But I wouldn't recommendclicking it just yet because all of that sounds likea pretty unbelievable story. And we haven't even triedthis thing out for you yet. Now, under normal circumstances, I like to crack openthese kinds of devices to take a look at the internal layout, but what's cool is AYAactually saved me some trouble by sending over one oftheir limited edition units with a clear plastic shell. At the heart of it, we find their Raptor Hexa-core Ryzen 4500U with Vega 6 integrated graphics. Which I guess is theirway of saying it has a Ryzen 4500U processor. I don't know where theRaptor stuff comes from. It's paired with 16 gigs of LPDDR4X memory clocked in at 4266 megahertz. And then, up here, isa full-sized M.2 slot with a one terabyte WesternDigital SN530 NVMe SSD.

And over here, we can seethe 47-watt hour battery. Now, these would be prettymodest specs in a laptop but handheld they're a lot moreimpressive and really cool. On that note, by the way, the built-in all copper cooler is small but I would describe as fairly mighty. We did experience thermal throttling during heavy extended workloads, but it managed to hold our six-core CPU at over 2.8 gigahertz, and without getting unpleasantly loud. When it comes to general use,the NEO continues to improve. AYA offers a download on their website to JoyXoff which allows you to use the controller inputs for mouse control. But it still falls behindthe WIN3's hardware keyboard that's hidden behind a sliding screen. To be clear, GPD'sapproach is not perfect. But, if you've ever usedthe on-screen keyboard on a Nintendo Switch, you'llhave a pretty good idea of what the experience is like on the NEO. Where even typing somethingbasic like LTTStore.com, such fine merchandise,requires shifting your grip or reaching beyond the point of comfort. One cool quality of life improvement is the inclusion of these two, four-button clusters on each side. The left has Xbox-stylestart and select keys, a shortcut to Windows's is Game Bar menu, and a toggle for thebuilt-in green lighting. Oh, should turn that own. Hmm! While the right has theWindows and escape keys, and shortcuts to bring up Task Manager and the onscreen keyboard. Curiously, though, this keyboard button summons the worthless classicWindows on-screen keyboard. So I would strongly recommend just pushing here inthe bottom right corner and getting the touch appropriate one. What all of this tellsme, is that you could make a case for the NEOas a daily driver PC. It's got three USBType-C 10 gigabit ports, with Display Port 1.4 built-in. I mean, that's better I/O than some decent size laptops already. But then, that argumentfalls apart a little bit unless you're willing to dock it every time you wanna do more than just browse YouTube or Netflix, 'cause it's just not that easy to use. Clearly, Uncle A was laser-focused on building a portable gaming system. And for that, you know what Uncle? You got a lot of things right,starting with the screen. The NEO's seven-inch H-IPS panel has a peak brightness of 500 nits and resolution of just 1,280 by 800. But you know what? That's actually a really good choice here. I wouldn't start doing allmy Photoshop work on it but it's bright and accurate enough that it's not distracting. And it offers reasonable pixel density while being much easier for the low-powered integrated graphics to drive at its native resolution. Now, it's only 60 hertz, but given that we'relooking at a little over an hour and a half of battery life in a moderately demandinggame like "Rocket League," that was probably a wise choice. The biggest thing that stands out about the gaming experiencethough, is the screen. 'Cause seven inch doesn'tsound a lot bigger than the 6.2 inches ofthe Nintendo Switch, but it feels downright immersive, especially compared to the5.5-inch display on the GPD WIN3. Where it falls behind,however, is the speakers. While they're large, theydid not meet my expectations and could be best describedas tinny and hollow. (upbeat music) Thankfully, the controller experience makes up a significantamount of this ground. They're Joy-Con-style, which means that if your handsare better described as paws, you might end up crampingafter an extended play session. But as someone with smaller hands, who is used to using the Nintendo Switch, I found them just downright usable. That is, as long as I wasn'ttrying to play a racing game. Unlike the WIN3, the NEO does not have analog-style trigger buttons. As for performance, it's really good. Even though AMD Zen 2 based4500U isn't quite enough to keep up with the 11thGen Core chosen by GPD, e-sports games like "RocketLeague" run well enough that I would describethem as butter smooth. And as for AAA games? While AYA's claim thatit can run "Cyberpunk" should be taken with a grain of salt, the game does technically run, even if it feels extremely sluggish and definitely doesn't look its best. Emulation, on the otherhand, is frankly awesome. And since we're relying on AMD, rather than Intel graphics drivers, we encountered far fewerrandom incompatibilities and glitches. A bigger performance issue we ran into seems to be related to wifi. In online matches, we'dexperienced lag spikes and irregularities that were resolved by plugging in a dongleand switching to a wire. So what we'd like to seebefore they ship this thing, is maybe some tweaks to the wifi antenna while they're (coughs)also fixing the speakers. But there's good news because other than those two complaints, if you're the kind of person who wants a device like this in your life, AYA is off to anincredibly good start here. GPD has been playing inthis game for a lot longer and it does show in thematurity of their designs, but the Neo is alreadya dangerous competitor. And I expect that therivalry between these two is only gonna heat uponce mobile Ryzen chips with AMD Zen 3 architecturestart showing up. In fact, I was reading today, GPD is working on a Zen-based Win Max. Hoo-hoo! Anyway, as always, we won't outright recommenda crowdfunded product. It's not finished yet. But at around the same price as the WIN3, this one is compelling enoughthat, as I said before, we're at least gonna putthe link in the description and let you decide if you wanna back it. Just like you need to decideto check out our sponsor. 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