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Linus tries to get Intel 12th Gen early by buying an Engineering Sample CPU off China's version of Craigslist....But will the motherboards play nice?
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CHAPTERS
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0:00 Intro

[@JeffGeerling]

5:56 calling in the big guns! When nothing works, Anthony comes to the rescue... ...and drops the truth bomb.

[@MrEight8190]

Lol

[@123abcooo6]

Bop

[@ianm-y5s]

I love you so much sus

[@JeffGeerling]

@Cashanova Persona heh, I literally saw the video pop into my feed when I opened KZbin to check the day's news. I know the Alder Lake deadlines are coming up so thought there might be some juicy news in here. Alas, just a chip that won't work :(

[@ianm-y5s]

sus

[@Wheres_my_Dragonator]

Linus: "Don't preorder" Also Linus: *buys the earliest batch possible*

[@TheCrazyCanuck420]

Better him than us

[@w1redonkey]

I'll make a wild guess here and say that LTT made their money back with the video itself.😀

[@emperorgizmo3014]

They do this sorta thing on purpose to expose why it's often a stupid thing to do. 🙂

[@dezdesilets5047]

"Intel confidential" *shows serial number that will tell Intel who it came from*

[@alexdavis9324]

Intel gives no fucks

[@mike4402]

these chips are stolen but probably nothing will happen. If intel really cared they would buy this chip themselves and find who stole it.

[@emlyndewar]

Yeah, they’ve been on taobao for weeks now. I’m sure Intel would just pay the money if they really wanted to catch them.

[@rubiconnn]

@@mike4402 The police in China are too busy hunting down people with unfavorable opinions or Muslims to care about intellectual property rights or theft.

[@React2Quick]

Im sure as you can tell from the video the CPU doesn't work with any retail board atm. So Intel doesnt care all that much.

[@metallicamadsam]

anthony such a good addition to LTT, both as a person and his IT knowledge. enjoy the paper weight linus!

[@danielpierce9343]

Intel Confidential sounds pretty cool and now I want to see AMD Classified

[@TechBits-]

I remember handling APU engineering samples working at AMD during my internship. That shit gets lost/stolen so easily out of the labs and offices... 😂

[@haven216]

@@TechBits- That sounds like a cool job! Are you a computer engineer or?

[@TechBits-]

@@haven216 I'm finishing up grad studies in electrical (mainly CMOS related work). And it wasn't a cool job... :(

[@Flash136]

Just like GenuineIntel vs AuthenticAMD

[@TheDwarvenDefender]

AMD Classified Shortage Survival Guide. (Results may vary.)

[@6DAMMK9]

Just ask the sellers for "BIOS patch" And probably get the "working MB" You just bought "too early", they will "test eventually" and keep selling.

[@Konranjyoutai]

Theoretically there is probably a mobo with the correct bios revision that enables this cpu to work out there somewhere.

[@6DAMMK9]

@@Konranjyoutai correct “internal” revision actually. depends on asus staff.

[@joseph0258190]

unless Intel is cracking down on certain bios patches to curb the very thing Linus has done, China not playing nice ATM also....

[@TheEpicAppleEater01]

@@Konranjyoutai Definitely, in Asus HQ. If a engineer slipped a CPU i dont think they will have an issue slipping a bios file.

[@testthisfordecficiencies]

That is highly unlikely. Those bios' are usually not released. Modified bios is the only way to go but there may be a manufacturer with a bios that will accept that microcode.

[@MrEight8190]

The CPU is so fast that it won't be in stock when intel release it officially.

[@zodkip3147]

that's why you preorder like I did

[@zodkip3147]

@@neondemon5137 what's that supposed to mean? I also got my hands on 32gb ddr5 😎

[@Esurient-]

This CPU is so fast that it changed the video title on its own from "I brought a 12th gen CPU on the Chinese Craiglist..."

[@HappyDaClown187]

Seriously tho find it on eBay for triple the retail

[@unkn0wn_face]

Pretty funny

[@vgamesx1]

I don't think it's fair to say Linus was scammed, I mean he even admitted right at the start that you could run into issues buying ES chips, meaning he was well aware that he was taking a risk and it may not work, so unless there's proof this isn't an i9 12900k then it technically isn't a scam yet.

[@Jaymiecain1]

Linus constantly China-baits. Misrepresenting the truth to be edgy, anti-china does not shock me.

[@HitchensTV]

@@Jaymiecain1 The all-china computer with a lot of interesting things ruined by them not swapping a 120/240v PSU was such a disaster. They never returned to it. An all time low.

[@hsiajamie9526]

@@HitchensTV Linus tends to capture some of the smallest glitches of "Chinese products" and overstate it, while ignoring what really matters. For a PC restricted to be sold in Mainland China, only accepting 220V is no big deal because we are all using this standard. What they should focus on is whether it can sustain the labeled power consumption. I do know this is where low-end producers in China like to cheat, and it may result true safety issues.

[@HitchensTV]

@@hsiajamie9526 They set it to the wrong power and then said "Thats what happens when you buy from China" and didnt test any of the parts

[@Robrob007]

scam. no one buys a cpu that doesn't post

[@lyaonplays]

"Should you go buy engineering samples to get early access to up coming platforms" Who would do this other than Linus 😂

[@F2_CPB]

You underestimate power of nerds with too much free time in their hand?

[@lyaonplays]

Yoo got hearted by Linus! cool

[@F2_CPB]

@@lyaonplays congrats🎉🎊

[@benjaminlynch9958]

Last generation GamersNexus got a retail chip that they actually bought online from a legitimate online retailer in Europe and had a review up like a week or more before it officially launched. Apparently Intel ‘soft launched’ the product in Germany without any sort of announcement and anybody and everybody could buy the chips weeks before the embargo was officially lifted.

[@Axyo0]

Enough people that there's a market for it

[@VeraTR909]

I like that you people are always honest about sponsoring/NDA's and such.

[@BullfrogProtectsTadpoles]

Because they have to.

[@Jzwiz]

They have to by law

[@ironsteal]

What you mean you people

[@siccoblue2112]

well its common knowledge how the embargos work and how to get around them

[@VeraTR909]

@@ironsteal I meant you guys and non-guys.

[@MaximiZe__]

"I Bought a 12th Gen CPU on Chinese Craiglist..." 29 seconds ago, me and the boys: *oh yeah, it's linus time*

[@crmb]

hell yeah

[@fardmachine3521]

@@keirania__4759 dont be surprised imagine being surprised Heavy death your gonna die by getting decapitated

[@Grqphx]

Relatable

[@CakePrincessCelestia]

Last time I was this early, I still had an Older Lake...

[@MaximiZe__]

oh god even worse, he got scammed!!!

[@LemmingOverlord]

Idea: reach out to the seller and instead of lambasting them, ask them politely for a BIOS file (and mobo model) that works with the ES (they might not be aware of such a limitation, who knows). Then you can compare that BIOS file to the retail version of the same BIOS and do a piece on exactly what Intel is doing to disable QS/ES chips on retail boards.

[@jdkarchivos]

Why is this comment so underrated

[@serbrighterunagainst9231]

Lemming story is a scam, they actually don't ever murder themselves and were in fact murdered for film by dsney.

[@maxd9392]

can't wait to see the actual comparison 12900k vs R9 5950x after L3 cache bug fix and full wattage load on both chip! gonna be spicy !!

[@JAIPOD100]

I hope they push the video at midnight!!!

[@Nikhilsj33]

12900k wins

[@ajrsabbagh]

12900k wins in single core and loses in multicore in most of the benchmarks. Sorry to spoil

[@Nikhilsj33]

@@ajrsabbagh are you sure 12900k loses on multicores? That’s not what I heard

[@WayStedYou]

@@Nikhilsj33 16c 32t vs 8c16t which do you think will win multicore

[@mainmanbumfuzz8983]

Linus: "I Got SCAMMED on Chinese Craigslist... " Me: "NO FUCKING WAY!"

[@4FYTfa8EjYHNXjChe8xs7xmC5pNEtz]

I couldn't believe it!!

[@mainmanbumfuzz8983]

@@4FYTfa8EjYHNXjChe8xs7xmC5pNEtz if you could see my shocked face, you would be shocked!

[@itsprivate3061]

i mean, he would have gotten scammed with dealing with regular craiglist, or chinese sellers in general, combining both is just suicide.

[@the_aurora]

well he didn't get scammed, the cpu seems to be working and everything, linus just doesn't have a compatible motherboard/bios/intel ME

[@thesteelrodent1796]

technically he got exactly what he paid for (presumably), so scammed isn't the right term. At some point there likely will surface a board list and hacked BIOS for these chips

[@Octagon-514]

Loki: "THESE ARE INFINITY STONES!" TVA Worker: "Yeah we use them as paper weights here" Linus: "12 GEN INTEL ENGINEERING SAMPLE" Antony: "You just bought a 700$ paper weight"

[@PoTskiii]

its not a paper weight tho. Just don't buy shit you are to incompetent to use I guess.

[@emlyndewar]

I remember with Skylake having to modify bios files to add microcode for the earlier ES chips. Don’t think I’d want to do that on a Z690 board though… 😂

[@staidey5994]

Unless you have a programmer like CH341A

[@ruslanetss]

I guess Madison will never receive her Intel tech update after this video

[@justinandout]

Еще один простачек который верит в эту показуху Лайнуса.

[@ruslanetss]

@@justinandout что он пошутил, что я пошутил, это все понимают, расслабься)

[@OmPrakash-pc1ec]

@@keirania__4759 haram

[@viztiz316]

@@SimonBauer7 nah intel sponsors the series and they're supposed to use intel CPUs for the videos according to the agreements

[@mrgamerxz7674]

​@@viztiz316 yeah it aged like milk

[@jakedill1304]

I like how with this video Linus has shared the experience of his wasted time by allowing us all to waste our time together! Authentic!

[@ShadowMystic7]

If I was Intel, I would know exactly who I gave this CPU to as soon as Linus flashed that etching on the IHS at 1:56. I suspect they probably do.

[@Garrettdx1988]

Got em

[@lukas_ls]

I’d guess Intel doesnt care

[@wootwoot5414]

They give out tens of thousands of these ES chips. They don’t give a shit. It gets leaked every single generation and doesn’t remotely impact intel in anyway.

[@tmarritt]

Eh you can work out the partner but getting it down to the individual will be hard. They will probably send a strongly worked letter telling said company to increase internal security and inventory control, but its not worth losing a partner for a chip you have already bricked being sold on a shady Chinese site.

[@TheCrazyCanuck420]

If only they could drone strike these POS......

[@Eljamio1234]

Anthony is such a great addition to the company, love seeing him on camera. His knowledge and problem solving always amazes me. +1 for a pay rise 😅

[@thedivisionmusiconYT]

His risking capability is the reason we love him most!

[@BananJumper]

He's not risking anything, be real.

[@narfbite5239]

What risk? LTT makes money hand over foot. 700 dollars is nothing for him.

[@SomeOne3194]

They already made more than 700$ from this video only.

[@Dublin_N]

3:46 I don't think I've ever caught a LTT editing mistake before!

[@raawesome3851]

Didn't you talk about how this was super risky on Wan show? You talked about how Intel would sue you out of existence... I mean, what else can I say except, godspeed Linus. You've got balls of steel.

[@Splarkszter]

If he has done it it's because maybe he talked with lawers to see if there is any problem. Maybe not if this is live.

[@LinusTechTips]

I was talking about availability of retail chips - LS

[@raawesome3851]

@@LinusTechTips oh, I see.

[@a7dfj8aerj]

@@LinusTechTips If it was nvidia it wouldnt be worth it but intel doesnt care that their cpus are leaked their cpus are shipped before release date

[@punchfrancescka3980]

these engineering samples of CPU’s are always awesome videos :D

[@ZMacZ]

8:02 The solution is simple (?!?), get an engineering sample mainboard, that has a BIOS that allows ES samples, or use a BIOS flash utiltiy that allows flashing an engineering BIOS update onto the mainboard's BIOS.. Alternately, check the BIOS code for the lock out code and place a JMP instruction at that spot to skip it, then flash the BIOS with it.

[@applepulse]

linus you and your team are a truly awesome content producer .... you are literally a researcher thank you

[@PabzRoz]

Lol so basically this was a bust of a video that you normally would have scrapped but instead uploaded it anyway to recoup the costs of buying a $700 paper weight.... Ok I see you Linus.

[@Watchandlearn91]

I remember Linus talking on the WAN show about how he wouldn't ever post a video with performance metrics from a retail chip before an embargo lifted because of the potential lawsuit or risking the relationship with a company. So I knew when this video dropped that this thing was probably a paperweight OR he somehow got special permission from intel. While I was hoping it was the latter, I knew the former was more probable.

[@gannonbest7251]

Umn they did that with 11th gen intel got a retail edition that was accidentally released because of a difference in EU and US date formats.

[@davecarsley8773]

This wasn't a retail chip.

[@kpskills7763]

Well the timing is weird but perfect for me.

[@Cubquick]

same xd

[@HyBlock]

who asked

[@brendanhoffmann8402]

I'm so nervous for this! I can't wait for the real verdict tomorrow!

[@tortugatech]

Tomorrow? It's been the 4th for 11 hours already here in Europe! I was expecting a full review when no video came out last night...

[@jakobpettis6281]

@@tortugatech I was expecting them to release last night too... sadness

[@50shadesofbeige88]

Good to know about the BIOS incompatibility. Thanks for taking the bullet for the rest of us.

[@50shadesofbeige88]

@MINA C'mon man!

[@tanmaypanadi1414]

@@50shadesofbeige88 Bots going what their masters command

[@Mario64iscool2]

@@50shadesofbeige88 If enough people report, I think the account gets banned. Not sure, but it's what I'm going after.

[@50shadesofbeige88]

@@Mario64iscool2 I appreciate it. I'm kind of wondering how it's still there. This is absurd. If I so much as sneeze the wrong way my comment dissappears.

[@tacoin]

I owned a QX7E, which is 12900K es2. It works on Gigabyte Z690, using the BIOS that "DOES NOT" support 13th intel core. Updating the BIOS to support 13gen will cause this to not boot up. However, since 12th gen is not released yet, I'm confused why the chip won't work on Linus's PC. All samples before(include some) ES3 won't run the first pciex16.

[@minus3dbintheteens60]

bump

[@thelinuxcolonel7292]

I really appreciate you guys saying "megatransfers" instead of "megahertz" when talking about RAM as of late. It doesn't really matter, but the proper terminology is really nice to see in the videos.

[@brucepreston3927]

They had some complaints from the community a few months back so they decided to start saying "megatransfers"...I think he mentioned it in a video or on WAN show or something...

[@XDSDDLord]

@@brucepreston3927 Ian brought it up, and Linus went out of his way to say that it doesn't matter and even doubled down on MHz, and then they silently changed it. I'm guessing some people on the staff agreed with Ian, and Linus, being a reasonable adult, agreed to make the change.

[@thanhanle3879]

2:42, some may even coming out from Intel's manufacture process in China as well.

[@OpLapDancePikachu69]

Oof, I got so excited. Looking forward to the official review tomorrow Linus!

[@TaranovskiAlex]

Claim: "I'm breaking the embargo to never ever be sponsored by Intel to show you the TRUTH (tm), guys!" Reality: "I'm spending 700$ to catch industrial spy and expose them to Intel, so that Intel appreciates the work I do for them and I get lots and lots of sponsored videos and hardware from Intel!" Not blaming, nicely done 4d chess))))

[@avidsaya1172]

Man always finds loop holes

[@walrider]

Anthony: Yeah, that's just paper weight Linus in his dungeon of hell: Oh that's too bad... for you. Chinese Seller: *muffled voice*

[@AluminumHaste]

Willing to wager that had this CPU worked, we would not have seen this video.

[@TailsGuy72]

Linus is the reason why I'm motivated when I do my work. Stay awesome.

[@dexgaming6394]

I'm excited to see where the new CPU architecture is going to change the market.

[@BasedAstraea]

@@elbeetlebeasto then they take all the workload, giving less core to you precious AAA game program 😁 it's experimental

[@justinandout]

@@elbeetlebeasto sure AMD fan, sure :) keep us posted )

[@StrykerMaximus]

@@justinandout Lol.

[@StrykerMaximus]

@@elbeetlebeasto It's just more power efficient and handles some lighter processes and stuff while your perfomance heavy work gets more power imo lol.

[@viztiz316]

@@StrykerMaximus Why does that matter for a desktop cpu? It only makes sense in mobile since you need less power consumption

[@FryeG]

Thank you for taking the chance :)

[@porasnagar]

Always been a good relationship between Linus and Asian products hehe

[@ishank562]

BRUH!!

[@TH3C001]

🤣🤣💀

[@KngSovereign]

I think this is an amazing example of how to capitalize on your losses. Didn't get the CPU to work ...but at least you got a video out with a couple sponsor spots. I like how Linus does business. 😎👌

[@tanmaypanadi1414]

its still a teaching moment for the younger creators who are looking at making youtube videos about pre-release hardware.Or looking at Cheaper ES after AlderLake releases for a bargain.

[@KngSovereign]

@@tanmaypanadi1414 yeah what you said as well. 😁👌

[@diogotranslator]

ES is restricted by Intel to only work on specific MBs Linus: SCAAAMM!

[@khulhucthulhu9952]

I now want a video testing the paperweight capability of CPU's Do it in a wind tunnel!

[@squadteam2309]

Honestly you made watch the whole video for nothing

[@gorkskoal9315]

yep just a troll video.

[@viztiz316]

@@gorkskoal9315 quick money right before launch date

[@Graham6410]

Reminds me of when AMD were releasing one of the first 64bit CPUS and their sales rep said that those CPUS won't work on retail units as it was months ahead of release but the Company I used to work for wanted all of us Techies trained on it.

[@simbiat]

"No offense to the seller", yet the title says, that Linus was "scammed", when it was not necessarily the case...

[@BlueEyedVibeChecker]

LGA 775, 1156, 1155, 1150, 1151, 2011 now 1700? I've honestly lost track of Intels LGA layouts. At least with AMD it's relatively straightforward in that, AM2 is before AM3 and AM4 FM2 is old. The one to succeed AM4 is AM5 etc. Though I'm staying with AM4 for the foreseeable future, since I only moved to AMD since they said it was more "futureproof" so I'll ride it until the 5950X becomes obsolete.

[@felikssmauritis8428]

Its Lga 775, 1366…….

[@yun2764]

0:18 the map is wrong.... it lose something and the red area does not fit the land

[@yun2764]

I can't believe that you have done that mistake.

[@DesolatorMagic]

I love how new CPUs have an NDA like what are you going to do, weigh it? You need a board to test it lol.

[@TheSmileyTek]

Just started watching, but did Linus just find a way to get a benchmark out early? 🤣 We'll see. Uhh.. no

[@heyitsjel]

Hey Linus and the gang at Linus Tech Tips, have you tried using a DDR4 based platform instead of DDR5? According to some of the info floating around regarding ES2 chips: 1) GPU's in the PCIE 5.0 slot won't be recognized (ie. first slot), as current gen GPU's aren't PCIE 5.0. Use alternate slots. (seems like you already tried this?) 2) Something about the memory lock frequency of DDR5 motherboards doesn't currently work with these chips. Not sure exactly what this is referring to, but apparently some MSI DDR5 boards can automatically reduce the frequency of DDR5 memory to start sometimes?

[@enox3547]

I like to see the bad luck on display sometimes. Great transparency!

[@BReal-10EC]

Dang.,. I wanted to see how it did. The idea of performance cores and efficient cores makes real sense when you consider the amount of applications that can be running in the background. If the CPU was able to dump all of those background apps to another efficient core and allow all the high performance cores to be used for gaming, it could really make a difference on PCs with lots of crapware.

[@gorkskoal9315]

just a bunch of tech bable to avoid admitting a huge problem with computers now. Syncrousity. You can only perform one task at a time. because of how circuits and timing between going from processing some part of a what needs to attention on the MOBO (lighting cooling blah blah blah) . An Asynchronous set of clocks (able to check core temps at the same time as...anything else. all that unchangeable (immutable stuff) is like a disease now. use all the fancy verbage, spindoctoring "magical feets of engineering" but until such time as all apps are forced to be multithreaded (ie actually use all the gd core on that silicon).untill fucking proper code cooling and gd stack management is a thing again. we won't make a fucking significant dent in the utter. utter shit level of jank computers have. We have MILLES of metal smashed into a small space, and these cockfucking inept trogladites at intel and AMD are going yeah well my clock has 200 hz able with a petillion core intell yeah well we have a bunch of marketing gibberish and fucking cunts. does anyone really thing this " new and better" intel shit with a few more FPS in cinapenile compensator will make your apps actually useable? not a chance in hell.

[@BReal-10EC]

​@@gorkskoal9315 Did you mean Synchronicity? That's a great album. And note I said crapware. Not sure how you got your comment from my comment. That being said, the PS4 had a secondary cpu and memory for background tasks- like downloading/updating games. So it's not like this is totally new ground.

[@Joe-wk9ow]

before the the new BIOS you could use engineering samples in retail boards. I can remember when people were using ES chips of the Core 2 Quad QX9650 way back in the day.

[@johnmckown1267]

As I recall from an old game show called Hollywood Squares You pays your money. And you takes your chances. This was referring, obliquely, to women of negotiable affection.

[@ryansj16]

are we not talking about how sad Linus looks after he got told the news? he legit looks like he was crying....

[@XDSDDLord]

He's a decent actor.

[@TSBermuden]

I love the amount of work that went into releasing this video 10 hours before your own video covering the official product. I am guessing shipping times and NDAs were a bit crazy. :)

[@nafissadiq4664]

It’s 4th November today in this part of the world Linus 😑😑

[@JFinalXDark]

Hey Linus, Actually that can happen as you guys say, because this kinda of qualified samples are not suppose to work in a commercial motherboard UNTIL a modified version of the Bios, because I did the same with a QNCT (which maybe can be different, because it's a a notebook QS but its very closed to that).

[@dubfamilycreator6368]

*"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago and the next best time is now" I consider this to be best motivational quote I've heard in a very long time. But motivational quotes are useless if you don't practice what you preach*

[@marufbepary100]

Not exactly the Chinese Craigslist's fault, I mean they sold you a real functional CPU, they probably should have mentioned that it only works on engineering boards.

[@Ravmyster1121]

This sounds like a sure fire way to get taken off Intel's youtube collab list

[@lexiath]

naw its linus they probably are going to watch this and give another intel sponsorship

[@hellterminator]

Nah, Intel don't give a fuck. They continue to work with outlets that straight up published reviews of leaked retail chips before they even got samples from Intel (and obviously way before the embargo lifted).

[@alricdark]

Message seems to be don't buy dodgy engineering samples via unofficial channels. I'm not seeing anything that Intel wouldn't like about this video.....

[@ejasmith]

Yeah, I think the complete opposite as basically linus I'd showing if you buy a engineering sample, you're taking a risk of losing everything and most people can't afford to waste $700 dollars

[@TheCrazyCanuck420]

@@alricdark anyone buying ES samples deserves everything they run into.....

[@Skubbes]

its funny that LTT actually released their new episode reviewing the 12th gen chips a couple hours ago and its pre-uploaded now by another channel

[@sidd6301]

linus fuels my existence

[@sidd6301]

thanks for 23 likes

[@chandlergloyd4230]

i feel like this video shouldve opened with “sometimes these things dont work, heres what we went through…” so if people leave the video early they get the most important information (although they wont want to because they’ll want to see what went wrong) and theres no expectation to see it work going in

[@brucepreston3927]

I completely agree with this statement! They do this crap because of KZbin analytics...

[@gorkskoal9315]

hey man they have to keep up the shit their 10 minute videos for the sweet sweet clicks per-a-freefidy.

[@774used]

In order for that cpu to have worked at some point, there must have been a working bios. If you can find that old bios and flash it, you might be able to get it working.

[@ebsolas]

Wow, I actually underestimated Linus's willingness to milk every purchase. I was like "oh, well they're going to make it work because if they weren't there wouldn't be a video"... No To be clear, all props to Linus for making this still a fun and learnable video. Also viva capitalism, you deserve the ad money from this.

[@omarlinp]

I felt the same way

[@brucepreston3927]

I had the exact same thought...Although I completely understand why! It's not just the cost of the chip but a boat load of labor cost trying to troubleshoot it...it's all good, we get the real deal tomorrow anyway!

[@smmmokin]

Late night random videos of Linus flying off the handle are always a good thing.

[@Wayofthelao]

Poor guy, trying to do it all for the fans and that shit happens. We appreciate you Linus

[@shanghuali7402]

Hi Linus, 0:18 the map has a fatal error. It doesn`t contain Taiwan Province ,Hainan Province and Tibet Province.I suggest you should correct this political suspicion. Thanks!😄 Linus先生您好，0:18 展示的地图有严重错误。其没有包含中国台湾省、中国海南省以及中国西藏省。我建议您应该修正这个政治嫌疑问题。谢谢！😄

[@tristanholley7141]

You don't have a "contact" at a motherboard manufacturer that can slip you a bios that works?

[@woodant1981]

7:28 Alternate universe Anthony casually staring at prime Anthony

[@mgr8600]

Linus: "No offense to the seller." Also Linus: "I got SCAMMED!"

[@EhmJB]

I really hope this becomes a running gag, where there's papers being held down in the background with a 12th gen ES2 chip...

[@Skrillfreak]

Why was Linus being filmed when Anthony called him 🤔🤔🤔🤔

[@ualdayan]

He makes cameramen record him all day just in case something happens.

[@MrWaheedulHaque]

Ah yes i just bought intel engineering sample of the new i11, now my house on fire

[@crazylocha2515]

Proof that Linus can even drop a stack of cash and break it... Anthony validated ✅ 😜😂🤣

[@TheCrazyCanuck420]

lol Tony doesn't want to touch this chip

[@sxltry8250]

The Video was originally named "I bought a 12th Gen CPU on Chinese Craigslist..." lol

[@clouddrop1740]

The map of China in the video is not complete

[@azurasupport]

This is all so unrelatable for me but god damn LTT videos are so good to just keep in the background

[@pranavsivakumar3873]

linus: whining about pc looks the pc he used has ketchup and mustard non sleeved psu

[@speedyfayur3494]

Intel ES2 Sample: Ha, im not gonna work (Anthony walks into the room) Intel ES2 Sample: Why do i hear boss music?

[@nossiej]

lol "2 seconds ago" I'm early for the first time. That's my achievement this year.

[@mrstoj9558]

You've peaked time to pack it in

[@Jason-xe6et]

yee

[@LuisRamos-sj9hv]

Nerd

[@muhammadsalarrauf4360]

Same here bud

[@bobblueton]

Zero or gtfo

[@dinkiethesink]

This is kind of dishonest, he bought a WORKING CPU, he just didn't have a board for it.

[@IshaaqNewton]

-99999999999 Social Credits

[@kademahler5805]

I could guess that it didn’t work because Linus literally touched the back pads with his bare hands tons of times throughout the video

[@nz_4627]

Dam. First in Linus' Video Feeling Proud!

[@nz_4627]

@@bradhaines3142 Maybe..?

[@Themadhattter]

I have idea for you, Linus. I know you have other bad engineering chips and hate e-waste, have a few of them put in clear polymer for a fancy(yet expensive) paper weight or a trophy for your next tech challenge series.

[@5nowChain5]

Get a RESIN casting kit and you CAN turn it into a REAL 4" square Intel Gen 12 ES Core PAPERWEIGHT. Add glitter to the resin to Add extra Bling.

[@thanhanle3879]

7:50 it takes weeks for some unofficial developers to modify all the existing bios of popular boards on the market. Usually at that time, price will come down and create a reasonable gap to consider buying it or not. Same thing happened to some modified laptop cpus like QQLT(8th gen 6c12t overclockable) and QQLS(basically 10980hk es) when it takes months to develop a large number of bios to support multiple boards on the market

[@Sam_995]

Buying cpus off Chinese Craig’s list is literally buying a pc parts from a guy in a shady alley

[@johnhancock3051]

Linus: I got scammed on Chinese Craigslist Community: We didn't see that one coming!

[@ryanmartinez1703]

great editing and music for this vid. love the up-beat vibes

[@fun_ruiner]

8:27 what's in area 4 Linus??? what are you hiding in there? where were you going before that phone call? did Anthony interrupt you from doing or hiding something? guys I think I'm onto something here

[@GLDragon93]

Don't worry Linus once intel moves from socket 1700, in a few years, some modders will release a bios flash to restore compatibility with ES (once china will be flooded with 12th gen ES ) and you could do a video about it.

[@ZMacZ]

1:30 Clean the connections with some alcohol plz. You should know by now that these are not supposed to be touched by fingers with both the acid and skin grease on them..

[@genarovasquez1076]

I love that he says thermal compound but there is pre applied compound on cooler.