Building the Lowest Rated PC

[@LinusTechTips]

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[@wzzupp548]

Video idea for yall, Ask chatgpt to build you a pc, I actually tried this yesterday and it was fairly decent as you might expect with only minor notes i would have about getting every bang for buck spent

[@somefreshbread]

I ran the Zen4 version of that motherboard for years. It wasn't until I "upgraded" to a Proart that I started having problems.

[@Jeffrayne]

How about also telling us where you got the cowboy Star..... the one thing you didn't post lop

[@wandameadows5736]

@LinusTechTips - Here's a Content Idea. Build the cheapest PC that can run the most Popular Games.

[@raminpro9765]

this system is my dream ,,,many in world dont can buy this pc

[@HeyItsSnaith]

Once bought a low rated power supply because it was only 35 bucks. It may or may not have caught on fire.

[@guiorgy]

A $35 one time use fire lighter is a total reap off. You should demand a refund.

[@sadiqsalau]

😂

[@Oyamada13]

This is why I go premium (brand and above 80 bronze) on the PSU and then everything else is down to the remaining budget. Not having the risk of your room or home set on fire is a lot better than RMA bad parts.

[@brucepreston3927]

I bought a $25 1000w PSU like 15 years ago and it also caught on fire...

[@SB-pf5rc]

once adopted a free kitty from the pound. it may or may not have caught on fire.

[@Vociferous]

“Building the lowest rated PC” "Why won't it turn on" ....power switch on psu wasn't switched over.

[@wooper2308]

@@Vociferous that's some low power consumption there

[@cattech4050]

@@wooper2308good fps per watt

[@notspacegoat2000]

LOL

[@ianchim4002]

no way bro watched the whole video in one minute

[@CaptainRex332]

*”The greatest technician that’s ever lived”*

[@TheOnceAndFutureDoug]

"Would you eat at a 3-star restaurant on Google Maps?" I might if it was an asian restaurant. The number of places near me with amazing food but ratings that are dinged because the decor is outdated or the service is that purely functional type you get when people don't care about tips... I love those places. They're always packed with locals.

[@Unknown_Genius]

I'd still do it on my local kebab restaurant. Most people that give 1 star reviews there are pretty much frequent customers that complain that a bun was in the oven for like a minute too long once, so something where you'd usually still give 3 stars at least. But had the same with a rather cheap server provider, used them for years, at some point I randomly saw the reviews on 2 stars because people didn't pick prepaid contracts but subscription instead and then complained that they had to pay again after the first term was over and that it'd be a subscription trap. If I learned anything from user/customer reviews it's that you're better off reading a few positive and negative ones that actually go into detail but always keep in the back of your head that those might have a bias/telling half truths at best regardless.

[@ReidvinK]

There is a place near me that is always full. is badly lit and walls grimed top to bottom in absolute filth, besides the fridge is a webbed up cockroach that has been there for more than a year, I've gotten sick from them more than once and one day I might even die there one day. I still go back there weekly

[@michaelpeet5588]

Google reviews are almost exclusively reserved for people that like to bitch and moan about some of the most insignificant stuff or only remember the details that benefit them. Very few people go somewhere and think to themselves "I want to leave a google review, these guys do a good job.".

[@NinjapowerMS]

Always go where the locals are eating at plus these locals aren't even rating stuff anyway lol

[@justinl8791]

Restaurants are different. As long as the place is clean, food is nice & served well, I couldn't care less what stars they got.

[@therealdemen247]

"Did they literally just take an existing chassis, drill four holes in it, thread them, and put it on?" Oh Linus, why do you think there are brackets for a 5 1/4 inch optical drive? That is what tipped me off, considering the front panel.

[@ChortleChortle]

9:05 as a 1080Ti gamer who wanted to record in AV1, I had Newegg's email alerts active for when the A310 ECO first went on sale. Whether Intel intended it or not, the A310 is a phenomenal companion card for older powerhouse GPUs many people still run. It enables new encoding or transcoding technologies, it can take over the load of driving auxiliary monitors, and it doesn't even need a power cable. My 1080Ti will be in my machine for eternity because of the A310. I friggin' love this little thing.

[@PinotNoir_]

did you put the intel arc on a secondary pc or use both a310 and 1080ti on a single machine?

[@ChortleChortle]

@@PinotNoir_ Same machine, in one of its lower PCIe slots, and told OBS which GPU and encoder to use.

[@PinotNoir_]

@@ChortleChortle there's no driver conflict whatsoever? I think imma do this for my system since AMD encoder is really sucks.

[@ChortleChortle]

​@@PinotNoir_ Windows has supported running drivers from multiple GPU vendors since WIn7, and I've been running both cards simultaneously in Win10 since the A310 released in January. My 1080Ti drives my center screen and renders the game, and the A310 drives my two extra monitors and handles the AV1 encoding. The one problem I have is Intel's driver not detecting that ReBar is enabled on my motherboard, but that doesn't matter because the card doesn't need it for encoding. Intel's driver pops up a little warning saying ReBar is off when I first log in, and that's it. Whatever other performance or compatibility problems Intel's drivers have with gaming are also irrelevant, since the A310 isn't running the game, just encoding what OBS feeds it. I can't speak to the fan noise some people complain of though because my case has good enough dampening to silence all of the fans inside it. Just have to be sure your motherboard has a PCIe slot that fits the card and provides it the x4 lanes it needs to work. Fortunately the card is single slot so it can fit next to anything.

[@PinotNoir_]

@@ChortleChortle thanks for the explanation! i always assume that different card from different vendors won't work because of SLI and Crossfire thing, so using a310 just for the encoder really never crossed my mind. well i'm using mITX, so only 1 PCIe slot, but i'm planning to upgrade my system anyway :D

[@pauldrice1996]

The KSP2 situation sucks because the devs actually cared, they literally brought on modders from the first game for some of the stuff, and it just got the axe. There should be a law against continuing to sell something that was early access after firing all the devs and shutting down the studio.

[@PlatypusVomit]

I actually had been wondering what happened with KSP2. I'd heard it was a buggy, resource hungry mess when it came out and figured 'well I'll play it in about 2 years when either I get a more powerful rig or they've fixed it up some. But then it was like it'd fell off the face of the earth.

[@daemonhat]

@@PlatypusVomit i did the same. got a bit of a better pc just for it to never get off the ground so to speak.

[@LordOfNihil]

@@PlatypusVomit the first release was terrible. completely unplayable even on a brand new rig. the current release is playable, but its not as feature complete as ksp1. i think i said elsewhere you can mod ksp1 to the point where it actually has all the features ksp2 was supposed to have.

[@camerontovey2315]

Take 2 Interactive are known to be assholes, they did the same to the FiveM developers and all they got was abused by Rockstar.

[@matthews2243]

Thus far it hasn't been cancelled and they say they are still going to support the game. It's not the first time they've taken the project away from one of their studios and given it to another But still... It doesn't look good. There hasn't been any official communication about it for awhile, and as far as I'm aware they haven't handed it off to another studio yet. So I'm pessimistic, but not to the degree that I have entirely given up on it. But as of now they say that they still plan to support the game, so I'm not sure that banning the sale of the game is justified.

[@dewaldschuler9736]

"At least our storage was cheap." $40? For a _120GB_ *S A T A* SSD? I don't think Linus's brain was working at that moment.

[@GimpyDingo]

@@dewaldschuler9736 I thought he said $4??

[@satakrionkryptomortis]

oh it was....his range for cheap just has an upper bound of a 2tb 990 evo.

[@beanmasterz]

Lmao I have the 2tb 990 pro ​@@satakrionkryptomortis

[@Bladsmith]

I've seen name brand 120GB SATA SSDs reduced to like 12€ at a brick and mortar store cus nobody wanted them :D

[@ActuallyGoose]

@@Bladsmith Here in Australia you can very occasionally find 500GB pcie 3 M.2's like a team group or Kingston for around $30AUD which is like in the 20€ ballpark i believe stepping up to around $45-50AUD gets you into the 1TB range kinda crazy that I got my old 250GB 850 Evo for $135AUD back in 2016 and now that sort of storage is priced less than a fan

[@Mister_RTM]

Now the middle-rate pc We gotta milk this idea while its fresh

[@Squidmoto3]

most of these are about 3 stars though so that wouldn't really make sense.

[@ArdaU]

@@Squidmoto3 I think they should do 5 star rated pc it makes more sense, if is possible of course :D

[@bionicgeekgrrl]

Nah, post a series of polls on the forum and get users to pick favourite or least favourite that they've bought (they'll have a idea of what people buy from affiliate link data), then compile the worst, best and what linus would choose without looking at the results.

[@Squidmoto3]

@@ArdaU there's tons of 5 star rated products, so no it doesnt make more sense. not to mention people gravitate toward negative content so thats why this works

[@sp00n]

A PC that hits the middle ground of 3dMark as close as possible.

[@life_danik]

Schools when they decide to get some pc's:

[@thatguy5233]

LOL they go to pc parts and sort by "lowest"

[@fruit5488]

my school recently went from r7 2700x and i think rx 570s to i5 14500s and rtx 3060s... also it was about 40 to 50 pcs. And we're a public school

[@splatterling4539]

My old "tech teacher" literally came in with a computer looking like roadkill and was so happy about it and asked me if I could salvage some parts xD that was our standard. On the other hand the put two network cards into each PC. Each PC had a direct wire to the server room. We had three computer rooms on different floors with about 20 PCs each. And yes, each and every PC had two cables going down into the server room I kid you not they had two or three of those large cable drums it was insane. To this day idk why they did not use a switch or do and why they could do that and not give us PCs that didn't literally come from the streets lol. Oh yeah and we had a Pervy teacher who worked with glass and we had a crazy paint lady (the fumes..), crazy metal worker lady (we had all those shops in house because it was a mandatory part). And also a hippie wood worker who every two hours sent us out of the building, then he smoked some joints before we went back. Best time.

[@Azz_t]

@@fruit5488we are on i5 3rd gen or something like that

[@harvmathh]

@@fruit5488tf your school is crazy

[@leafan101]

Basically, my prediction at the beginning was that most of the components would fine but just have a higher chance at failing. But a low rating case was always going to be a nightmare.

[@fermitupoupon1754]

I've only recently put an A310 into a system I built for a friend. For the simple reason that it's basically trivial to do passive cooling on it and it's a monster for AV1. My friend primarily uses it as a media center, to rip BR and DVD films to NAS, and to do some light browsing. So yeah an 11th gen T-sku an A310, 32GB RAM and an SSD, pico-PSU and a laptop power brick. The whole system bolts to the back of a monitor using a VESA 100 adapter.

[@powerfulshammy]

You should've used a 980ti or 1030 cheaper.

[@fermitupoupon1754]

@@powerfulshammy 1030 doesn't have hardware acceleration for AV1, which matters a lot for this use case. It's worth the 23 euro price difference. 980ti is a 250W GPU, doesn't have hardware acceleration for AV1, is not available as a low-profile card, and it needs 6+8 pin PCI-e power. Keep in mind this entire system needs to fit in a

[@powerfulshammy]

@@fermitupoupon1754 980ti has low profile card but you have to buy it here in South East Asia I still have that old video card as a memory of my old PC since I'm rocking a AMD 7900 x3D now with a 4060

[@boonelockyer630]

That bit with Helldivers 2..... Man my PC might be kinda shit if it runs better on this thing...

[@matgaw123]

What your specs and we will see

[@MtnNerd]

Keep in mind Helldivers 2 performance scales with level as it depends on the number of enemies onscreen. It looked like they were on a lower level and conveniently cut out before Linus engaged the bugs

[@quantum5661]

brother, literally nothing was happening during the helldivers 2 segment, two enemies were on screen and they werent even alive. be it intentional or not they basically rigged the test, its like benchmarking the main menu of starcraft.

[@Luteloots]

@@MtnNerd Not to mention fire. Firestorms or even just fire weapons and I expect this system would have just straight up dropped to single digit FPS if didn't just crash.

[@BoneStack117]

It wasn't rigged lol it was just a brief test, they didn't even provide FPS. It was just a sampler, chillax

[@Soj_89]

My OptiPlex outperforms this. An i5 7TH GEN and a GTX 1650, both of which are over 5 years old, and budget components at that, still will outperform that $1.2k mess. I spent less than £250 on this. And it's reliable and won't die.

[@robertopazsoldan9641]

Yeah 1650 is even faster than a380

[@baoquoc3710]

Then what in your unicorn clouds would you expect from a 1 star PC?

[@mintagenart]

"It won't die" makes it sound like you tried to kill it lmao

[@Soj_89]

@@mintagenart I mean it tried to die. It gave me a light code telling me the mobo was bad, until it turned it off and back on.

[@Thurgosh_OG]

@@Soj_89 Aha, you used the sacred magic on it. The power of 'Off/On' again.

[@TheBoostedDoge]

4:15 $40 for a 120GB SATA SSD is completely uncalled for 💀

[@AlexDerBoss1]

Yo David looks pumped af. Huge guy. Awesome

[@neothermic1]

In defence of the Intel Arc Sparkle A310, it not only comes with a half-height bracket in the box, but fits wonderfully in a 2U, needing no extra power (it seriously even runs at 50W, when you can get 75 from a PCIe slot). The AV1 enc/dec on that device rocks, and unlike nvidia cards, you don't need to modify it to remove 'session' restrictions. You possibly can't get better for that really niche edgecase from a single-slot GPU.

[@gabrielpi314]

Yeah I have one of these and love it for it's very specific use-case. Hope it sells well enough that they continue to iterate on it as new encoding tech flows down the pipe.

[@bionicgeekgrrl]

Its something I might consider if I upgrade the plex server from a 6700k to something amd with more cores. Plex support for hardware encoding on Linux with amd chips is fairly poor, but that a310 should probably be seen as the quicksync feature of the 6700k.

[@robinbegley1077]

Its a really nice hdmi adapter to turn a $80 office pc into an mp4 player

[@空の夢-h1j]

@@bionicgeekgrrl I haven't been able to pin down the issue but I cannot get the A310 to work for hardware encode on a proxmox VM. Device passes through but won't take on a load

[@KellyHarding78]

@@空の夢-h1j Weird, it should just work as if it was an Intel CPU with iGPU in theory. Maybe Proxmox or the drivers are not passing it through correctly for some reason? a Non-Proxmox install to check might determine where the problem is (ie proxmox or the drivers)

[@lawrencium2652]

The a310 is one of the only single slot low profile cards on the market. GPU manufacturers don't think about size and space constraints.

[@modarkthemauler]

Modern ones yeah, there used to be so many options for tiny LP GPUs.

[@DelfinGames]

The RX 6400 is LP single slot is also wired as a X4 but has no encoder of any kind.

[@gdintrans]

I got a low profile A310 for my Plex server (a 2nd gen Ryzen Lenovo workstation) because of the power constraints, the low profile and the AV1 compatibility. It works great for what I need

[@AndrewStrydomBRP]

MSI made a 1050 in a low profile double slot form factor? Maybe not new but it's something.

[@EZTeamOfficial]

@@AndrewStrydomBRP the thing is the a310 performs exactly like a 1050

[@Ledplous]

The tf2 issue is now fixed btw

[@Maxo-bh5ni]

Dont celebrate just yet. Bots are still here occasionally, and valve needs to STAY off their ass

[@KingKool2099]

@@Ledplous it IS? I hadn't heard. I'll have to check that.

[@kitrod]

@@KingKool2099 So far I've only seen one or two bots since the start of July.

[@feetenthusiast1015]

What is tf2

[@kitrod]

@@feetenthusiast1015 Team Fortress 2. Good game if a little hard.

[@TonGi018]

I like that the intro is getting more use in the last few videos! I really like it and I'm glad it's back, it just feels like more of a finished product when it has the proper LTT branding and the Supernova song.

[@WillUlt1mate11]

0:48 I was so expecting a segue there, ‘the beginning, with our sponsor!’

[@AlpakaWhacker]

1:30 The article on the left from Wccftech which shows 1 memory channel also states at the top of the page "Update: It looks like the single-channel memory may just be a typo since the 8300G page lists dual-channel memory." which has been there since sometime in January 2024 according to the Wayback Machine. AMD's own website also states dual channel anyways.

[@quickmix-streammusic7019]

@@AlpakaWhacker they needed something to build tension in the video, I'm guessing they chose to ignore the note for narrative sake

[@nightfr09]

I love the way cheap tech looks, it's got a very like crunchy cyberpunk vibe with the exposed boards. There's probably a reason why gpus and other things don't do this, but it is kind of a vibe

[@beanmasterz]

Poormaxxinf

[@spagettech]

100% a vibe

[@LordOfNihil]

i really dont like all the plastic moldings and cnc machined heat sinks on "gaming" products as they add a lot of unnecessary costs. unfortunately its usually the only way to get that one premium feature you actually need. this is why mobos are fucking expensive now (even the low end mobos that dont have any of that stuff).

[@russianbear0027]

Tbh its still weird to me NOT to see all the components on the surface since I took a break from desktops for like 15 years and now plastic is everywhere. I think the plastic covers for GPUs are supposed to help with cooling and supporting the weight of the chip. As for RAM sticks etc idk maybe dust prevention and easier handling at the cost of some surface components not getting airflow to cool them?

[@De2t3ny]

wdym cheap tech lol. this is what hardware looked like 20 years ago. am i already to old or is there kids talking in these comments? lmfao

[@yngmikeyj]

Having the intro music and animation again heals my soul. I missed it when they silently removed it from their videos and honestly it felt like there was a void in my LTT videos.

[@Lukksia]

5:06 awfully close to the hard r again linus...

[@MattLowne]

20:43 KSP 2 💔 💔

[@neptunium_239]

rip

[@AC3pog]

Rip

[@AC3pog]

​@@neptunium_239guh

[@KSPAtlas]

rip ksp2, killed by t2

[@suitman4759]

Rip

[@CoolTI-Daniel]

I recently built a PC with that Asus Motherboard... No complaints what so ever. B650 while not high end it's decently midrange. Paired with a 7600X and a Cheap mint marketplace RX6800 and 32GB Good Quality ram DDR5-6400... Made for an excellent system.

[@SDMasterYoda]

6:40 I will never understand Linus installing motherboards with the case upright.

[@poode1529]

I think he already said in a video that it's to make it more visible for the camera

[@filipepmachado]

Gamers with an Intel ARC A310: "#$%&£*¥⅋§#@ !!" "Linux ISOs" hoarders with an Intel ARC A310: "Is this what heaven, but on a budget, feels like?"

[@guiorgy]

As someone with an external SSD with Ventoy and a bunch of Linux ISOs gotten through torrent, took me a while to understand 😂

[@smashed_penguin]

I wonder what IS the lowest rated Linux Distro 🤔

[@Galileocrafter]

Have two, they are awesome if you get around the reset bug in proxmox. remove all reset options of this card before starting a vm with it passed through and do the same for every subsequent reboot of the vm. -> script it something like "echo > /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:03:00.0/reset_method"

[@guiorgy]

@@smashed_penguin red star?

[@UnfaehigerKanal]

And it's barely any faster than the 780M iGPU

[@Peekofwar]

Insecure mode in Source Engine games means you can't connect to servers that are running with Valve Anti Cheat enabled, which will probably be most servers. Usually this is disabled by an argument that's passed to the game executable when you launch it.

[@Nostalgia_Realm]

For the peeps on a low budget, buying used in always the best strat. Buying new cheap stuff will land you with a PC like this one.

[@davidgoodnow269]

No kidding. Get any OptiPlex or an HP at a thrift store like Goodwill or a garage sale, then maybe add that ARC card if whatever you bought checks all of Intel's compatibility boxes; and splurge on a WD SSD so that you can use their cloning software, if what you bought doesn't have an SSD or it's an old SSD. If you need Wi-Fi, see if you can upgrade whatever is on-board with Intel's latest, or plug in a slot adapter. Probably drop in a RAM upgrade. Still at $100-200, total.

[@Lucifye]

​@@davidgoodnow269I'd just avoid the arc card and just get a used GPU. Plenty on Facebook Market place that'd be way better than the arc in this video

[@cfx115]

With the current used market, I'm currently loving the performance sweet spot of AM4 Ryzen 5 3600 builds. The market is flooded the 3600 CPU and fair market price is about $70 Freedom bucks, but you can possibly grab one for cheaper. An AM4 motherboard is about the same $65 (but make sure the BIOs out-of-box compatible with a 3600 or the prior owner has information on the BIOs version). Plus you have 5800X3D CPU upgradability down the line. DDR4 is flooded and you should be able to land decent 3200Mhz CL16 or 3000MHz CL15 for about $25 or buy new 2x16gb for $55. Pair that up with a beefy GPU like the 4070 Super Ti or and they're still a very relevant CPU in Ultra 1440p gaming, and seem to be fairly consistently capable of 100-120+ FPS in the majority of games (unless they're CPU hogs, like Rust). Will your CPU bottleneck in the "wrong" game? Absolutely. Are some of those "wrong games" popular titles? Absolutely, so check your game. If you can't directly jump at a new GPU like the 7900XT or 4070 Super Ti, a $140 5700 or better should "get you by" in 1080P gaming until you can - which should clear 60FPS med-high in most titles. It's absolutely not a bad combo for $70 CPU, $20 RAM, $65 mobo, $140 GPU and that's without finding good deals/bundles. (I just sold a 5700, 2x8, and 600W psu for $140 locally and it took a while to sell because I needed the upgrade for Blender).

[@wandererreece9540]

The problem is the used tech market doesn't exist everywhere. In the area I live, there is very little used tech being sold. I started building a PC and tried my best to find used parts, but there was just too few things being sold, and I had to just give up and buy new. I know the 2nd hand tech market is greast in some areas, but other areas are not as fortunate. However, buying cheap stuff is still not the way to go. It's better to save up for the "more expensive" stuff.

[@Bewefau]

Not always

[@ChainPenguin]

The TF2 bot problem was "fixed", it is very difficult to find bots now.

[@Sithhy]

Is it really? Last time I played TF2 was relatively recently, like 3-4 months ago & the issue was still prevalent

[@dadi2450]

@@Sithhy it's been fixed since then, you probably last played just before that, but hang on a little, do i know you? did you used to play beamng a while back, or were you active on the forums back in the day?

[@RiptideUrBadLol]

@@Sithhy fixed in like mid june valve banned the bots and bot hosters

[@Sithhy]

@@dadi2450 Yeha, am the same person as on the forums. Been active for a few good years

[@dadi2450]

@@Sithhy wow that's crazy, small world, been there since like 2013 ish, a decent bit before the pre-race update iirc, i'm too busy nowadays to partake in the forums, but i used to be very active, and although i never really ended up releasing much, i did partake quite a bit in the modding scene, kinda regret never polishing my barstow hatchback mod up to the standard i wanted.

[@budiisnadi]

Okay, so to clear up some things: 1. The 8500G does support dual channel memory 2. It runs PCIe at x8 but the ARC GPU only runs at x4 edit: no, it was just x4 as confirmed by Taavi below. 3. That Mushkin memory is unstable at it's rated speed 4. The mice uses cheap sensor that won't work well on contrasted pattern on it's mousepad, but works fine on other mousepad 5. That Gigabyte PSU isn't as bad as it's early version Please coorect me if I'm wrong.

[@taavikiisk]

You are off about one thing. The 8500G only has 10 available PCIe 4.0 lanes, of which four are available to the GPU (this is a limitation shared by all Phoenix-2 APUs with Zen 4c cores). The secondary NVMe SSD lanes are limited to two as well.

[@budiisnadi]

@@taavikiisk thanks!

[@grey4567]

😂 did you misspell correct on purpose? Thanks for the summary

[@person749]

I wish they tried the 8500g with lowered ram speed. Really want to see how it stacks up to the A310.

[@aguywithasauce6645]

Yeh i have a gigabyte psu (ud750gm) is still working powering my 7800xt and r5 5600

[@Sorcerio]

21:46 This frame rate, angle, and craft reminds me of playing KSP1 when it was still a free prototype back on the old Gen 1 Crystal Ball

[@LukeBurnard]

14:16 Thank you AI linus, very cool 👍

[@rujigo69]

Regarding on who buys these parts, I have defenitely seen that Case, fans and Rams going around PC Shops in my third world country, my guess is that they get deep discounts from a distributor to sell them. In third world countries the customer is less informed and these shops usually don't have a review system where you can see why those parts are so cheap or bad.

[@Bluecolty]

The Sparkle Arc A310 is genuinely a great GPU for niche purposes, it was good to see Linus mention it. It’s an absolute powerhouse for video transcoding and energy efficiency. It supports AV1, and it’s a low profile single slot card. One of the only on the market currently.

[@NinjAsylum]

7:47 Correction. It was under ANY Load. It didnt need to be high. Literally just turning on your PC and sitting IDLE at your desktop was enough to cause an explosion.

[@matthewschneider4758]

21:53 "Check Your Staging" - Scott Manley

[@Accessless]

I'll buy that A310 if you don't want to keep it. I was after one as a transcoder for my NAS but they stopped selling them. I ended up buying a standard one and taking the fans off to fit it in.

[@HPad2]

I have one of those ADATA SSD's but the 960GB flavor, For about 6 years or so now. With 4 years of curent runtime and over 40TB of total write/reads. Its mostly a draft storage drive at this point, but its still going.

[@TrinomCZ]

I used to have multiple ADATA SSDs and CF cards for my cameras. Never had any issue with them, all survived the needed time and got replaced due to capacity constrains, not because of a failure.

[@iitzfizz]

I have an ADATA SU630 which I use as a game drive and it's doing fine! I have my OS on a Samsung Evo 870.

[@gaveup]

At least one of the top exhaust fans was facing the wrong way :p

[@qusaifarid513]

I think they did that on purpose as the case had no intake without it

[@evilpotatoman9436]

I dont think that was the problem with this system :) It may have some slightly bigger issues.

[@acev3521]

@@qusaifarid513 my nzxt case did that too actual dog water thermals until I fixed it.

[@ZirJohn]

power supply was upside down too

[@MikeHarris1984]

A company I support, needed two new computers and to build two identical systems that are good for business / CAD use, the MB prices and PSU prices had me floored.... I could not believe the price uptick... you used to get a decent MB for around $70 for business simple use (mATX/Mini ATX), and a decent PSU that is perfect for this, like 450/500watt PSU for like $40 with $60 being a platum rated.... now they are like $140-$200... wtf!

[@l3lue7hunder12]

You still can get decent hardware at that price range, but I won't be current generation, and you need to actually invest a lot of time for parts selection - usually so much time that paying the inflated prices would have been cheaper in the end. Have you checked out Minis Forum's Neptune Line ? They got dedicated GPU options ( 6600M, 6650M, 7600M XT ), 1TB SSD and up to 64GB RAM for less than $900 in a very small form factor fitting anymore, providing enough performance to easily manage 4 years even with graphically demanding applications. These Mini-PC start making ever more sense by the year, as does buying good last gen setups, simply because both performance gain and price of current generations ain't worth it.

[@v0ldy54]

@@MikeHarris1984 to be fair I've never seen prices that low on PSUs, my first good one was a 650W gold more than 10 years ago and it was about 100€...

[@bionicgeekgrrl]

A mini pc these days is probably fine for most business use, plenty on eBay that are cheap enough. Though for cad you probably want one with a pcie slot which do exist.

[@l3lue7hunder12]

@@bionicgeekgrrl Minis Forum has several options with OCulink and even a < $100 eGPU dock called DEG1 that support a great variety of desktop GPUs.

[@MikeHarris1984]

@@v0ldy54 here in the states, PSUs were cheapppp. I've been building PCs for 30 years. Until the trump terrifs with china, then prices went 3x. But for light business use where you don't need 800 watts of gaming power, a decent 450/500 watt unit would only be around $40 or so, even full modular for an extra $10 or so. I couldn't believe it. I've been building gaming rigs for the past few years, and to need to get back to a simple lower power setup, I was astonished at the prices. I tend to like the MSI pro series MB for corp type usage. And went with a Ryzen 5 9600x to keep hardware generation latest for supportability. The last ones I built for this company, one in office and one in a wood manufacturing facility have been running 24x7x365 for 6 years now with no issues. Updating to get to win11 support with win10 reaching EOL. Otherwise they would keep using the old systems until they died

[@spvvk3621]

Love the 5.25 bays even though you physically have no place for them in the removable front bezel. Could be another indicator apart from the side panel, that it's some ancient case repurposed to be a "gaming" one.

[@LelahDimuzio]

kislux You are so well-informed about luxury accessories and bags. You've obviously done your due diligence and the comparison to the US is very informative...because of course, I live in New York. thank you very much.

[@daniel.stafford]

As big fan of OG Kerbal Space Programme - a "Space Race" video with several members of LMG trying to get to an arbitrary in game goal would be very entertaining - especially if they don't know anything and aren't allowed to consult KZbinrs!

[@suchirghuwalewala]

Same big fan of KSP. It taught me a lot of orbital mechanics and i am very thankful for that

[@l3lue7hunder12]

The Ryzen 5 8500G made me shudder, but shockingly, it wasn't rated that badly. The biggest issue is the Zen 4 price for the Zen 3 performance you get out of it - its comparable to a Core i5 14500, barely 12% above the Ryzen 5 5700G. But the Intel Arc A310 actually is a pretty nice card regarding price and features. For gaming I'd at least upgrade to a A380 though ... .

[@SB-pf5rc]

yah a310 is a really good solution for a very specific user group. pairing it with an APU is just silly though. this build should never exist in the wild.

[@davidgoodnow269]

I am guessing the Ryzen 8500 is chosen because of the memory address problem using an ARC with anything earlier than Zen 4, but I didn't know that Zen 4 fixed that problem with BAR.

[@88porpoise]

​@@SB-pf5rcAnd I guarantee you that people are pairing an A310 with CPUs that have integrated graphics. Simply because there is a widely held belief that integrated graphics are awful and any discrete GPU is better.

[@FO0TMinecraftPVP]

What happened to the de-google part 2??

[@ccoder4953]

KZbin killed it. Probably because it mentioned certain programs KZbin doesn't like.

[@ethanpenn5]

Google pulled it down. When people ask "what's the point of Floatplane," this is the point of Floatplane. By having all internet discourse on Reddit, we trapped ourselves in their system, allowing them to control how the internet as a whole thinks while they sell our data. By having all online purchases be through Amazon, we trapped ourselves in their system, allowing them to manufacture cheap knockoff products and sell for huge profits with fake reviews. By having all entertainment on KZbin, we trapped ourselves into losing free speech. Floatplane matters.

[@CentreMetre]

I think Louis rossman did a video on it today, I didn't watch it all, I only read the comments (if you get that reference, nice)

[@sigstackfault]

BLAPPED by KZbin for mentioning a certain video app funded by FUTO

[@TheSykoRC]

@@CentreMetrewhere’s your Segway… to your sponsor? ;)

[@dedicategrinder88]

7:49 OH GOD I REMEMBER THAT POERR SUPPLY

[@ShadowRiccardo]

@@dedicategrinder88 i have the 1000w one and now i heard the news i bought an new one istantly

[@freescape08]

11:40 Hey! I have that desk pad! No issues on curling, price was right, and it was one of the few in the perfect size for my tiny pull-out tray without leaving my keyboard hanging off. My only issue is that it does migrate slowly, so I often absent-mindedly caterpillar it back into place. And I haven't used the map print nearly as much as I thought I would. 😅

[@dhritimanmandal6931]

11:35 in India this desk pad costs Rs. 300 around 3-4 USD😂

[@luderx]

you also get like 1$/hour

[@unopposedgammer9099]

@@luderx not all people do

[@Joshpods]

​@@luderxidk it's still cheap af

[@apennington123]

Would love to see a drag race between this pc and a low end prebuilts.

[@shaansingh6048]

at least low end prebuilts are generally reliable

[@nercode]

I saw blocked video about Google, and its masterpiece... I listened every word, liked all video, be objective like always .. :)

[@Yoru_Goshujin]

LTT should absolutely build a computer that will play games from the 2010s at 60fps (or 120 for the competitive side), for the lowest amount of money possible

[@Nintega2K]

19:06 When was this video made? The TF2 Bots are gone now

[@IsaacRifkin]

I peeked that knife. Looked like a Leatherman Wave+. Thats a good multitool!

[@davidgoodnow269]

Decent, I have one. SOG PowerPlier (I think it's called) is much, much, better. Better pliers, better screwdrivers (seriously and for-real, night-and-day), _far_ superior wire-cutter, and a better can opener. I think the Leatherman knife blades might be better, but I haven't used my Leatherman's blades nearly as much or as hard as my SOG's.

[@TheGameBench]

The A310 is awesome for Plex/Jellyfin transcoding, stream encoding or if you want the XVAC decoding of the 11th Gen and up Intel CPU's, but don't have one. Can be very useful for video editing timeline performance.

[@Mighty_Dork]

0:17 and 10:49 lmao my parents bought that deskpad for my brother

[@CaptainRex332]

I see your the favourite child then

[@santhoshv6284]

I bought one with a similar design myself for about $3.50. Honestly, for the price, it isn't that bad.

[@tenatra]

I really don't see what's wrong with it? Works perfectly.

[@purplestrawberrysunset]

​@@tenatrait doesn't have Washington or Ottawa.

[@gamingbud926]

My brother bought this one for me. :) Honestly, aside from the slightly curled edges after I washed it once, it's pretty good. A bit small, but pretty good.

[@ARandomInternetUser08]

13:51 I bought an $8 headset from a thrift store recently and surprisingly it was actually great. Feel is great, sound is great.

[@cut419ram]

I bought the PC I'm using now over 10 years ago. High end parts all bought à la carte and put together by myself, still runs great. Have upgraded the case and video card and hard drive on it since first purchased. Prob need a new one soon though.

[@B_T_B]

I saw that mouse mat at the start. I think half the world has had one of them at somepoint 🤣

[@thwind]

I have had mine for over 6 years. Still in great condition. :) My keyboard is on US, so I never even noticed Washington was missing. =P

[@thecyberquake618]

I had that ADATA drive. It died less than a year into using it. That arc card does interest me though, as I'm still quite happy running with my 3070ti and the only reason I've considered upgrading to 40 series was for AV1 encoding to use with Virtual Desktop on Quest 3.

[@boceksiadam]

Please do tell. Recent quest 3 owner her, using quest link for that purpose but there is a lot of talk about virtual desktop but I have no idea why you said av1 code is somehow good for that.

[@thecyberquake618]

@@boceksiadam virtual desktop makes use of av1 encoding, and the quest 3 has an av1 decoder. So with the right hardware virtual desktop can use av1, which will give better visual quality with less compression artifacts for the same data throughput

[@boceksiadam]

@@thecyberquake618 thank you. I knew av1 cuz GPU review channels always mention when applicable. I know Intel gpus have it, rdna 3 cards have it, Nvidia has it for 40 series and not sure about the 30 series. So far I knew it as the thing twitch streamers care about.

[@therealpeter2267]

@@thecyberquake618 I still don't understand why Meta still does not support Intel Arcs out of the box for Quest Link tho, it's right at our fingertips!

[@thecyberquake618]

@@therealpeter2267 quest link has always been crap imo, it's why I prefer virtual desktop. Quest link has been behind VD in terms of quality and features for years at this point

[@Metal_Maxine]

20:03 Quote Randall Murray "...and you will not be going to space today"

[@thisnameislongjustlikemysh9584]

I’ve always loved how they link good substitutes at similar price. even tho Linus watchers defo have there dream setup at whatever price

[@JonAtkins]

Nothing wrong with that motherboard - built this budget system based on it. Did go for a Ryzen 7600 though, 32 GB Kingston RAM, an RTX 3050, and Samsung 970 M.2 SSD. It's been 100% rock solid for the last 8 months, not a single blue-screen or other problem.

[@kartaispavarau]

dude that earn thousands from yt wont understand :DD

[@GarandThum]

Said this on the last video, but the map is a time zone map, with the cities in each country in which that time zone is based.

[@gentlyfloatingleaf]

Just came to say David is great on camera. Natural and well spoken, I’m always happy to see him in a video.

[@Valerius7777]

dont hate on the ARC 310 lol. Its awesome for encoding / plex.

[@kennytheamazing]

I was just looking at that card the other day just for this. Transcoding support is first class on ARC.

[@RaineyPeng]

They literally say that in the video peeps

[@novotd443]

I think we all can agree that KSP2 gameplay was the only thing absolutely spot on in this video :D Thanks for your hard work folks. I'll be subbing to FP soon as I missed the now gone de-googlify pt2 vid. Sorry that had to happen to y'all, hope the strike isn't affecting your channel. Cheers from Czechia!

[@WesleyF1993]

Ive got that Gigabyte monitor, had it for about 3/4 years and it’s been absolutely fine, zero problems

[@pinkjay6329]

11:54 Chicago is not even in the right spot 😂

[@air8536]

14:17 aaaaah! It's Robo-Linus!

[@iamcallumj]

i knew i wasnt crazy

[@Gaggio17]

@@iamcallumj my hypothesis is that they did an AI voice

[@supermegae7573]

13:49 flashbacks

[@hatemm9234]

@@supermegae7573 as soon as I saw him, I immediately went down to the comments, glad I wasn't the only one😂

[@nontypicalguy]

12:12 Packard Bell still makes peripherals - That's a name I haven't heard in a long time. Evidently Acer bought them in 2008 and markets the PB brand only in Africa, Europe and the Middle East.

[@GasLei]

I would like a review on the UPS market, if it's not too boring. Some recent lightnings reminded me of their usefulness :P *David is a delight in yet another video. Well dome man.

[@nihalanand2690]

10:28 Did Elijah install this glass panel mod? What with the extra holes and all... 😂

[@joelmoorhouse5230]

used a prime board but the "professional reviewers" slot showed scores and comments from the TUF B650 :)

[@firi3153]

Fun fact all the pcs for IT classes at school i worked at partime had the same Adata ssd. I diagnozed 6 of them as dead ( or highly malfuctioning) and 7th one died on me while cloning its image to a better drive lmao. Had to re-do the image thou so that wasnt nice. Few of the drives died before my brief time working there, all of them while on the warranty so they ware being replaced but for same model. 1 of replaced ssd died too. The "might cause" blue screens is true, some of them were causing bsods and others unresponsive/slow pc at the end of its life. SSD never reported to system as faulty. Stopped showing up thou even to cloning devices just plain no disk detected.

[@Spiffer]

11:45 I bought that deskpad for only $8 on AliExpress back in 2017/2018, there might be several companies producing it so the quality might vary but the quality of the one I bought is good.

[@jaydendavis7542]

I have the 1440p version of that monitor and LOVE It. Haven't had a single problem in the 4 years ive owned it so far

[@georgg1996]

Yup, this particular adata SSD froze my OS and died only 2 months in too

[@iitzfizz]

I have the ADATA SU630 for game storage and it's going strong almost 12 months now...I have my OS on a Samsung 870 EVO though.

[@georgg1996]

@@iitzfizz seems like you are the lucky one haha, just don't save any important data on there, games are recoverable

[@bochapman1058]

I thought that first keyboard was just covered in cat hair.

[@halecj1]

Yeah, I once gambled on a low rated, cheaper power supply because it had LEDs in the modular connectors (I don't know wtf I was thinking). I only had to replace my mobo, cpu and gpu in addition to buying a decent, more expensive power supply after it blew up my whole pc. Choosing PC parts is best done by committee...product reviews are great insight, don't ignore them!

[@MowMdown]

Bought an A310 for my NAS for the media encoder, it's form factor, and low power draw. I don't have fan noise issues on the linux drivers. It's a fantastic card for plex transcoding.

[@chaweeasdfghjkl]

I liked this episode, it was interesting and the delivery was better than most.

[@Grudgieson]

5:06 Casual use.

[@jajssblue]

That's the perfect first play of Kerbal Space Program. 😂 Even if it's KSP2.😢

[@danzstuff]

@@jajssblue Didn’t even check staging. Amazing lmao

[@howcanthinkman8519]

hallo from ksp 2 side :3

[@danzstuff]

@@howcanthinkman8519 Woah it’s the person

[@howcanthinkman8519]

@@danzstuff it me porb

[@holden_tld]

12:00 it's a map of timezones, not capitals..

[@LangleyNA]

Good video today, friends. Good work, LMG and David Gauthier.

[@micaiahweaver1346]

As a member of the KSP community, I'm glad to see our plight publicized by LTT.

[@HerbalistGG]

dont insult my motherboard Linus , i am using it with 4070super :(

[@Shadepariah]

12:00 As a citizen of the USA, I can confirm most of us disown Washington DC.

[@colestowing8695]

Absolutely!!!! "You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villiany. We must be cautious" (Ben Kenobi)

[@FirestormX9]

Wait, is it really worse than New York or Cali?

[@Cragdognamedbear]

Well.... All of everyone's least favorite politicians are there, so... ​@FirestormX9

[@Lucifye]

@@FirestormX9 DC is a dump. Good for the Smithsonian but that's about it

[@Kingdomofnoobs]

It's truly one of the worst places

[@nathansstuff1547]

“Winnipeg isn’t on here!” Camera shows Winnipeg on it up close

[@colinstu]

22:40 you need to do a deep dive vid of what "Low" on older games used to look like compared to medium and high. Even medium on games used to look atrocious, and low would be like... absolute most basic geometry and textures and zero shading. Look at these comparisons on some big titles over time, like year 2000 vs 2005 vs 2010 vs 2015 vs today or so.

[@zanacku]

I run the LG-G305 at work and it works awesome. Sadly non rechargeable but grab a set of rechargeable AA's and your set.

[@christopherwalton7736]

That ADATA SSD is giving me PTSD....I wasted idk how much money on those back when SSDs first came out thinking I was just being stupid. Worst. Drives. Ever.

[@Nilos94]

I'm guessing it's worse than SATA SSD?

[@FlyboyHelosim]

@@Nilos94 It was a SATA SSD.

[@dogecode386]

All of the SU800s I’ve gotten continue to work great, though I’m guessing you ended up with something like the SU630 which unlike the SU800 doesn’t have DRAM cache.

[@christopherwalton7736]

The ADATA brand of SATA SSD in the video. Back in 2010 I went through probably 3 in the course of 3 months. They all crapped out because of bad sectors. Even had an ADATA flash drive a couple years later than died within months. Just an awful brand in my experience.

[@daemonhat]

i can't say much. i got a prebuilt that came with an adata ssd as the boot drive. i bought a samsung 870evo 1tb ssd and it's crashed and burned already. didn't last 3 years. one day my pc wouldn't boot and i narrowed it down to the 870 being bad. luckily i only put games and stuff on it. the important stuff goes on the hdd.

[@panagiotispappas1001]

Wow! My PC has been featured in an LTT video!

[@RedChaosScrungle]

19:14 No, it's not still that, they fixed it a while ago.

[@SlickFootTito]

just a matter of time before the bots come back.

[@Addsomehappy]

​@@SlickFootTitoyou could say this about any online game lmao, also if it was a singular ban wave they would've come back already clearly Valve figured something out

[@RedChaosScrungle]

@@SlickFootTito It's been months but we'll see.

[@UnbanMeNowOfficial]

Reviews provide valuable insights into the performance and veracity of the product claims which can go a long way in saving unnecessary expenditure and disappointment.

[@mwgamer7559]

When the PS5 came out there was a shortage of 1440p monitors. (At least here in the UK). So I bought the gigabyte monitor in the video and I can say that I have been daily driving it for 4 years now and it has never had any problems. Maybe I had a lucky unit. Keep up the good work Linus, I have enjoyed these two videos of the best and worst rated PC parts.