The Computer I Would Actually BUY

[@JerryRigEverything]

I'll make murder-ability a higher priority on V2.

[@RizzotheG]

You're a G Mann

[@arir43]

@@RizzotheG I haven’t been warned by him about unforeseen consequences, so I doubt it.

[@XIIchiron78]

Word from my man Gus is that they work just fine for all your murdering needs

[@Pranav_PD]

Make sure no cats are harmed in the testing!

[@AnthonyAckme321]

@@Pranav_PD at least the minimum required number of cats.no eXtras

[@borgejoh]

It's incredible to me that a 2hr livestream closely matches the production quality of your fully edited videos. Some passages made me forget it was live.

[@nufmatt]

sooo true!!

[@RossReedstrom]

Yeah, when he went off the rails and started to talk about killing cats, I realized "oh right, live stream!"

[@zyrastolemyllama6231]

Took me 15 minutes to realize it was a live and not a regular vidéo lol

[@KingLarbear]

@@RossReedstrom that's what I love

[@nezothgarone2319]

well, linus said at the begining that there where stripted parts and he has dan and others on the promter to help him know what to do next or remind him, but still his high energy, experience and improv skill makes it look so natural that most of the time you can't tell what is scripted, what was practiced beforehand and what was thought on the spot

[@iHasCaek]

i like how linus's employees are allowed to tell him he's wrong. says a lot.

[@drandersjiang]

It's almost like it's all an act...

[@JasonBhoy7]

A very wealthy businessman was asked why he was so successful and he said it was because he employed better than him.

[@TheHatBandit]

In what dictatorship circle of hell workplace would that not be OK?

[@AwesomeBob]

Well... when you're wrong a lot...

[@Emertxe4]

@@drandersjiang Nah, a good workplace is like this. It's previous obvious which parts are "scripted", you can tell a lot of LTT videos just have natural human interactions.

[@Mythos27]

Dan, this one is for you. I generally don’t comment on videos, keeping my interactions limited to subscriptions and likes only, but Dan, man, your voice is top-notch radio broadcast quality. It would be so nice to have your voice in some of the future videos, anything, any segment, any commentary or voiceover, or even a short plug of LTT store. It’s just awesome.

[@PrinceAlberts]

When Linus opened that case saying it wasn’t too big, my first thought was he’s full of it, that’s huge! Then I remembered that he’s Linus-Sized, so it’s probably a decent size.

[@OptimalMayhem]

Yeah you have to multiply apparent case dimensions by about 1.4 when using Linus for scale

[@spdcrzy]

I have the P500A as well lol. It is NOT a big case at all.

[@kurok1tenshi]

@@spdcrzy Ye it is, i have a Lianli O11 D and the p500A is bigger and the normal O11 isn´t small.

[@spdcrzy]

@@kurok1tenshi The P500A is 20x9.5x20. The O11 is more squat than the traditional layout of the P500A. It's shorter by 2.5 inches and not as deep by a bit over an inch, but it's wider by over an inch as well. They're both still in the mid-tower category.

[@XIIchiron78]

It's a pretty standard mid tower. A bit bigger than the h510 style or meshify mini but only by a couple inches, and the extra room makes it quite nice to build in. The Phanteks P series is my go to recommendation these days as they're really impressive for the price.

[@mikescomputercorner1204]

Everytime I watch 1 of your video's I am continually amazed at your work ethic , your care of your employees, your comittment to Canadian content and Companies to supply your Companies. On top of this your humour and ability to make some boring into a funny situation. Its a pleasure to be a member here and whilst I can't afford to me a paying member because I am a 67 year old pensioner I do love everything you do. I have only learnt to refurbish and build computers in the last 2 and a 1/2 years and a lot of what I have learnt is directly attributed to your videos. Last year I refurbished or build new 61 computers.I don't put much on my builds just as long as I cover costs. I like to work with disadvantaged people in the comunity where possible but its terrible the amount of people that try and fake being disadvantaged just to get something done for free or cheap. I once fixed up a Computer that had been sold to a guy from a not so reputable person and it only lasted a short time before it wouldn't work anymore.. I fixed it for him and to his credit he paid me what he could afford and the smile on his son in front of a working computer would have been payment enough.

[@aflury]

Crucial: I don't know [why we sent them], I thought you might put drives in things sometimes. Linus: _installs Crucial drive in front of 100k+ people and says they're great_

[@jacobmees8040]

It's genius marketing.

[@GinsuSher]

I had to laugh out loud at that part. I personally use Crucial drives too because Samsung ones always seems to be either out of stock or overpriced (probably related to the low stock). They've been pretty reliable too.

[@thejsix]

@@GinsuSher I've never had a problem finding Samsung drives in stock and at a good price

[@mndlessdrwer]

Can confirm, have been using the same Crucial SSD in my personal computer, then in a laptop, then in my parent's computer for the better part of a decade now and it's still just working, which is insane to me. I've never had an SSD actually fail on me, but theirs is the oldest one in my fleet, so they get bonus points.

[@ToastedFlowers]

Literally why I bought mine. Linus.

[@Spacialvekter]

55:55 I've said this before about integrated I/O shields, but honestly the rear-installed power supply is up there for "most underrated innovation in PC building". So, so much easier to put in than trying to wrestle it in there.

[@mathdantastav2496]

note to any webcam company: If you are gonna sponsor a youtuber, DONT GO FOR LINUS, his camera gear is so overly top gear that even if your product is really dam good, itll look trash when compared to his

[@Sevo-]

i can agree for the average consumer . anyone who knows a thing or two about videography or photography then it makes it easy to just pull examples from your head.

[@cocotug0]

can't be unseen! it looks awful!

[@benkle3000]

To be fair, my reaction whenever it switched to the webcam was "I mean it doesn't look quite as good as the other camera..." and then I remembered the quality of his cameras and was thoroughly impressed with the webcam hahahah Plus the fact that it does all internal processing (no load on cpu etc) and has remote with zoom functions etc has made me REALLY look at purchasing that webcam for Zoom Tutoring

[@littlejackalo5326]

Looks just fine

[@Sevo-]

@@benkle3000 I've been out of the game for a few years now, but I recommend looking at used dslr prices. As long as the shutter count isn't absurd its a truly worth owning. Its nice to look through 1000's of photos and videos throughout the years.

[@chriscarrozza1820]

I worked in the molding industry for years and oversaw the designs. I would love to help you guys with your molding problems. The problems you have are very easy to fix, and you should be able to do all the things you want.

[@sirjuggles]

13:54 "For all you guys know I could kill cats for fun." You can hear the ENTIRE production unit groan at having that go out in a livestream.

[@zimbu_]

Just a two hour video with at least a million views getting demonetized, no big deal.

[@aokaze-minotaur]

Someone is definitely going to clip that.

[@littlejackalo5326]

I'm sure there's some loser that will whine about it. And if the sponsors are one of those companies without a backbone, they might get mad. Instead of being a company that tells the whiny losers to deal with it. Companies are spineless now and they'll apologize, or fire someone, to make those losers that cry about stuff happy. Companies need to start telling the Twitter losers to go get effed.

[@WayStedYou]

@@fleshy420 bruh

[@chrisdpratt]

Probably not the best exaggeration he could have chose, but I definitely appreciate this type of sentiment from Linus. More public figures should make people aware that their public persona does not necessarily equal their actual personality. This should be obvious to any human that's ever interacted with any other human for more than five minutes, but sadly it is not.

[@gidi1899]

I love the combo: - one person building a computer, and dialog with audience - second person side working on a computer, and side conversing It's like a Jam Session. Taking me for a ride with a cool group of people.

[@Strongboy1xboxgamer]

Queen: *dies* Linus: "finally, an opportunity to tell the people about my cat killing hobby without them suspecting a thing"

[@SecretSauceyjuice]

This^ comment is exactly what the whole team's moans and groans were about after he said that lmao.

[@therealplatinumminer385]

also linus: we might need some new money, but in all seriousness she might have been a bad person actually anyways back to building the pc

[@dnik117]

Then the we have a queen too, realises fuckup, then hides behind pc and continues to build the pc

[@pacitoman9721]

It's really amazing how Linus can keep viewers entertained and the stream interesting for almost 2 hours. On other channels, I'd get bored and tune out after about 10-15 minutes, but here, with the production quality _on a livestream_ being better than some other channels' regular content quality, Linus's great storytelling and of course, pc building, I never get bored.

[@Maradiaga23]

As a software developer, Notepad++'s autosave feature has saved me several times at university and work.

[@purplepenguin43]

there's also a notepad ++ plugin that will autosave everytime the window un focuses and refocuses for when your flipping back and forth between apps and editing perams that could cause a crash. super recomend

[@reoencarcelado5904]

As soon as Linus said Notepad I facepalmed. The teammate/coworker could have used CTRL+S. Instead, they don't, and they get what's coming to them ("they get what's coming to them" as-in, they get what happens when you don't-use CTRL+S often). Also, they could have used Notepad++, NotepadQQ, or "Kate" (that is the name of the "KDE"-desktop-environment "advanced--text-editor" program). Hell they could have used Gedit also. ("Gedit" is the name of the text-editor program for[/of] the "GNOME" desktop-environment).

[@littlejackalo5326]

@@reoencarcelado5904 yes, I'm sure he wants to run his company using obscure software that no one uses.

[@junjiexie]

@@littlejackalo5326 who says notepad++ is obscure? Or gedit for that matter

[@eisenklad]

@@littlejackalo5326 notepad++ is great for the casual script user/modder...

[@Christopher_S]

I don't know why, but I love Dan. He's got a brilliant sense of humour and says the most laugh out loud things.

[@mndlessdrwer]

I've got a friend very much like Dan. He's the kind of person that you occasionally have to remind to stop making miracles happen at his IT job because that sets an expectation that the other engineers can't sustain. It's also the dry wit, which is one of my favorite kinds. I spent a tremendous amount of time watching British television on satellite while I was doing homework and projects, so a dry wit is now my default sense of humor.

[@Neoxon619]

Like Linus said a while back, him doing PC building videos & streams are a sign that PC parts are becoming easier to find at decent prices.

[@newearth9027]

they have been available for msrp or lower for like a month now

[@charredolive]

@@newearth9027 Except weirdly enough, all RTX 30 cards below the 3080ti are still above MSRP on average.

[@verakoo6187]

@@charredolive were are u looking? Plenty of 3070s on amazon for $500-$550 and 3070tis under $700. Msrp if for founders cards. OEM boards are usually always around $100 over

[@charredolive]

@@verakoo6187 I saw it from a Paul's Hardware video a week ago. I think the title was "Don't buy these "cheap" gpus"

[@completionofanexorcism1195]

I'm sure with less cuda cores and what not.

[@danpadro8883]

I like the conversational vibe of this. It's good to hear Linus talk business w team members and touch on vendor design philosophies. Enjoyed all the honorable mentions of products they almost used and why. Also, it's really flippin cool to see them go through their tech and logistic processes, dealing with vendor relationships, and business rationale. Dan is also a good addition to the dialogue.

[@servanofmyGod]

This was a great video, It was more about you and your business, not just another hardware review. Very good show. Thankyou for doing the show.

[@herbert4247]

Only LTT can publish a 2 hour video and not get any flack for its length.....nice job. Watched the entire freaking thing....enjoyable all the way through.....dog knows what hes doing

[@yomomma9513]

at first i was thinking. 2 hours is way too long. i was bummed out when i was saying goodbye. he is a lengendary content creator.

[@lummoxicide1502]

Thermal pads factory? Yes please, love the industry insider stuff 👍

[@Daniel-uj1nu]

Yesss

[@MikkoRantalainen]

25:30 "I'm not a fan but I respect G.Skill RAM" Those could have been my words. I had one G.Skill stick that was broken on arrival but other than that, I've had zero issues with higher quality G.Skill RAM. And unlike some of the other manufacturers, their advertised XMP clocks haven't been vulnerable to rowhammer attack. I would also try to avoid any RGB and windows.

[@codycopeland7527]

If Nexego made that webcam into a dashcam, even with its size, I would buy one in heartbeat. I'd pay up too 350$ or even 400$ USD without hesitation to have a dashcam that's actually worth half a crap.

[@bobjohnston1239]

I wonder what it would take to turn a webcam into a dashcam?

[@zipengli4243]

@@bobjohnston1239 half decent low light performane

[@allanbadilla8041]

The problem is energy, for selling a dashcam you need to make it able to power it from the smoke connector, you COULD connect it to the alternator (witch is possible and not that difficult I've done it with led lights and an Android radio) but it would be a nieche product

[@jonathanzj620]

@@allanbadilla8041 You mean like through the OBD port? That's how ours connect.

[@TimSheehan]

@@allanbadilla8041 any decent dashcam you wire into the fusebox for features like parking mode, that's not an issue.

[@TimBell87]

"6 workstations, 1 cpu - nobody builds a machine like that and actually deploys it, that would be stupid." 1990's VAX mainframe: "Listen here you young whippersnapper"

[@Janzer_]

ok respect. linus feels about and defines "fan" the way that it should be known. apple did a real number on marketing when they pushed the whole process of building "fans".

[@snowdirt2529]

I fell victim to apple, I’m absolutely a fanatic

[@jemiebridges3197]

no they were aiming at religious status and that always brings fanatics

[@stpirate89]

I disagree, whilst the word fan does derive from fanatic, I think it's possible to be fans of things without being fanatical about them. The word has evolved since then and taken on new meaning. That said, I do appreciate that lots of people who call themselves fans are fanatical about the thing they're a fan of (sports teams is a good example).

[@stpirate89]

@@IRMacGuyver that's not how to use the word "literally".

[@ArturoTabera]

Apple should put more of those fans in their laptops.

[@king_of_savagery6289]

Just wanted to state, I thoroughly enjoy your little rants and really like watching these kinds of videos. I get so much tech perspective that I apply often and a vast majority of it, I get from videos like these listening to you. Just wanted to say that. Don't mind your tangents one bit. :)

[@Beastintheomlet]

As someone who became an avid LTT watcher because of the streams having Dan mic’d was 10/10 (I always wished had David mic’d when was there for the streams). I think some bullet points are good but every now and then it did feel a little too scripted. I think the moments Linus is just hanging out building computers and telling stories as they pop to mind are what made me love the streams so much, I’d hate to see that get lost.

[@codycopeland7527]

David has such a good radio voice too. I literally could listen to him talk about anything lol.

[@RikkSpencer]

I mean, she was technically still the Queen of Canada. It’s not *only* ceremonial; the military, for example, is still under the Dominion - the Governor General of Canada, in practice, operates as a representative of monarch and actively communicates with them. That’s not to say that the monarch really does anything to intervene, but they certainly *could* (it would just be seen as grossly unpopular and unnecessary).

[@dannyboylan5926]

Man. Working for Linus must be the absolute best job in the world. "My employees may at times have to use mobile hotspot from the plan that I pay for. Hey that's okay right guys?" What a guy.

[@JonRakos]

I don't know. I kind of thought that was a jerky move. Like, imagine having to use your work phone for, like, work. Gross.

[@rogerroger10-47]

Wow he provides his employees with free internet?!? What a guy!

[@dannyboylan5926]

@@rogerroger10-47 That's what I'm saying! Glad we're on the same page.

[@V1N_574]

Careful dis kind of comment will get you hate from people that don't like linus and yet don't miss a single video hahaha.

[@coolieee]

dont be naive & fooled by the youtube persona , from any of these dudes

[@costafilh0]

That's what I love about the streams! They are not only fun, but very informative on the state of things, state of the company, and techy in general! Nice!!

[@thehollows]

I need more Dan. He has such a soothing voice and also he's hilarious.

[@manoverboard987]

We need Dan to read some audiobooks or do some Calm app type stuff.

[@thehollows]

@@broken1965 it certainly could be ;)

[@littlejackalo5326]

@@broken1965 it's the new house phenomenon. Everytime a new host comes around (Sarah, Anthony, Dan, etc), there's thousands of people that get distracted by new shiny things, and think that they're the best host. They start drooling on themselves, banging their helmet on the wall, and licking the glass.

[@bonoveenstra]

@@littlejackalo5326 Dude, what

[@stofio]

Video idea: Linus actually does his finest cable management work

[@NJRoadfan]

I basically built the AMD version of this with the Asus Proart X570 Creator Wifi and 5800X. Same cooler, but opted for a Define 7. Note that Asus already discontinued the X570 Proart board after like 5 months of production tops. I would have verified that they plan on producing more of the Z690 version, maybe stockpile a few spares. Overall they are nice boards, just wish they had more PCIe x1 slots. I hate how these ATX sized boards only have 3 slots these days.

[@OfficialDJSoru]

Ok, now I am really sad that I will have to go Intel then. I was dead set on the X570 Creator cause I have a dead set use for all that I/O (even the 2.5gb ethernet despite not having a NAS)

[@NJRoadfan]

@@OfficialDJSoru Another option is to go Zen 4 as Asus is selling a X670E version of the board. Same I/O, just that they can't advertise Thunderbolt as it is not certified. The USB4 ports are powered by a Maple Ridge controller.

[@OfficialDJSoru]

@@NJRoadfan No dice then. When I do a full upgrade, I keep the same CPU and Mobo at the very least for 8 years. I know how costly it can be, but it is worth it in the long run since I do not wanna deal with the future issue of having to add PCIe cards to do the functionality I need. I know this sounds picky but I need guarantee of Thunderbolt even if it is the older 3 protocol cause of future investment in hubs that support TB. (basically I work with a lot of external hard drives and peripherals, so 8 USB ports already feels like I am cutting it close)

[@NJRoadfan]

@@OfficialDJSoru Best shot is a 3rd party seller then. My board is still nib, but I really don't want to sell the cpu and ram and go zen 4 or intel due to the added expense.

[@NJRoadfan]

@@OfficialDJSoru as of right now newegg has stock of the x570 proart board, catch it while you can.

[@jesseseehawer5840]

That cold psychotic look in his eyes when he said he doesn't kill cats. "although I could just be saying that....." goosebumps.

[@THIRSTYGNOME]

I love these long format videos. As someone in IT/operations it's cool to see insights into LTT

[@brendanhoffmann8402]

I built a computer in 2021... I was upgrading from a 7700k system which I'd only had since 2019. For my new rig I got a 5600x, 6700xt, 32Gb 3200 Corsair vengeance LPX, Corsair RM850x PSU, Samsung 980 Pro ssd, Gigabyte Aorus Master B550 motherboard, Corsair 4000D Airflow case. It's a pretty good PC but the Aorus master motherboard didn't come with front panel USB-c. A few of the components I upgraded later like the 6700xt which I got for $300 in November last year. I still have the box from an Asus motherboard I bought in like 2004... a P4B533! (533 Mhz FSB!)

[@j.blackburn3722]

I like the shelving for the GPUs, honestly I wouldn't've thought of something like that and just put them all in their boxes or tetris'd it with all my other components like I did when I moved

[@dutchbachelor]

I am an IT guy and in my experience, standardizing things does not REALLY help. In our company we have two main types of enterprise-grade Laptops. One batch can be fine, the next can give you only headaches for some unexplicable reason. Sure, some devices are lemons out of the box, but if you do your research and stay with the main brands, you should be fine. Also, at least in our experience, building the PC yourself hardly offers enough savings to be worth the time that could be spent elsewhere. We tried it and still do it when we have time just for giggles and to keep our skills sharp. But almost all our Computers are off-the-shelf. However, almost all of our machines are used to run Office and RDS and that's it. Nowhere near the requirements that LTT would have.

[@khashayaraz3998]

1:07:13 In fairness to Linus, it hasn't even been 12 hours so give the man some time to adjust. Still funny tho

[@TheBraveCupcake]

He commited the funny

[@xiraijuakara5988]

yeah i mean i did the exact same thing myself already too, Its a emotional moment for alot in the UK for our old queenie, may she rest in peace. I dont think anyones gonna really have an issue with linus for this. Canada and some other countries may have our monarchs as a form of representative but they really dont have much to do with our monarch compared to the UK.

[@littlejackalo5326]

Who cares

[@coffilover]

@@littlejackalo5326 Well she is someone that was always on spotlight for the majority living in the uk. She's on our money, stamps,TV news but she is also the one thing that has kept Britian stable.

[@ennspek]

Wasn't great but it's not really what he's there for.

[@AntneeUK]

Been rocking a Sandy Bridge-e i7-3930k with 32GB DDR3 since February 2012. It's been fine, so no, never upgraded. It's finally time. Just trying to decide between Raptor Lake and Ryzen 7000. Couldn't agree more about upgrading when it feels right FOR YOU

[@BlackHoleForge]

I had this stream on while I was cooking dinner, and I swore in the beginning he said this stream was sponsored by mexico. I was rolling on the floor

[@bryan199234bs]

Dan has a fantastic voice for audio, I would use that Linus.

[@bryan199234bs]

Or it could be the mic too

[@codythep]

Electro Voice Re20! One of the best vocal mics you can get. But he does have a great voice also 😊

[@Henrque123]

I thought an ad was playing when I heard his voice. Almost eerie how good it sounded

[@bibhuprasad6962]

I love this format , some part scripted and a everything free flow. Always creative #TeamLTT

[@Jeff_Okayabashi]

37:49 "it comes with rgb, what's not to like" I like Dan

[@krmusick]

1:07:19 is pure gold. Please don't ever change.

[@Wally_MD]

Chat: What are your thoughts on the death of the Queen? Linus: I could be a cat murderer and you'd never know.

[@arctrog]

That’s exactly how it happened, makes you think 🤔

[@lief1]

"We're gonna build a computer and make NexiGo pay for it" Linus 2022

[@fleurdewin7958]

Is this the Linus version of Donald Trump's " We gonna build a wall, and make the Mexicans pay for it" ?

[@felixpetittjr.6472]

Oh yes. Firmware is always an issue. Running custom batch files at startup to skip things doesn’t work that well either.

[@jordanjonescelestialwaffle1698]

Kudos to Linus for not dropping anything during the 1 hour 47 minutes of his streaming. Usually you would expect him to drop something like a card of RAM or something PC parts. But no, he didn't fail this time. Give this lad a Cheeto, he deserves it! Great job, Linus!

[@jordanjonescelestialwaffle1698]

@@chic-fil-ashouldopenonsund3623 I have not thought it of that way. It may be true hmmmmmmmm

[@thefimo4505]

he did drop the remote in the end.... 1:46:13

[@MikkoRantalainen]

17:20 Nice way to enforce the 1 TB standard is to format that 2 TB drive with only 1 TB partition and leave the rest unused. This would be good for the drive internal wear leveling algorithm, too, as a bonus.

[@TheAechBomb]

plus you also have an extra bit of space if you need it later

[@desertkil]

I don't think their problem is having 1 tb or not, but that they want to be using the exact same drives in all systems. They said they only need it as a bootdrive and that any actual work is supposed to be stored on the servers, so you already have that extra space.

[@MikkoRantalainen]

@@desertkil Yes, and if you only partition the first 1 TB of the 2 TB device, you can later clone the first 1 TB of that device to 1 TB hardware to downgrade to official standard format without losing any data or having to reformat the storage.

[@lummoxicide1502]

This was a great build video...more of a behind the scenes video than just about the pc itself 😎

[@yambo59]

Ive been telling my water cooling friends the same thing for EONS - air coolers JUST WORK - long as its clean and has a good fan on it you set and forget so to speak they run for literally YEARS with no issues unless a fan bearing goes out, but thats rare with a quality fan and even if it does happen theres protective cooling still left in the tower itself even with a dead fan, far less likely to cook or over heat a CPU.

[@m0nkene]

Pro tip : notepad++ opensource and auto-saves

[@Rockmaster867]

Notepad++ changed my life!

[@SamTheEnglishTeacher]

and has syntax highlighting + themes + plugins that do all sorts

[@paddy1414]

VSC just saves the state it was last at

[@tomrecane6366]

Been using it for years. “Local storage is banned”? How unreliable are their Maxine’s?

[@TheAechBomb]

@@tomrecane6366 the main reason to 'ban' local storage is so everyone always has access to current data on the server

[@kazriko]

With ZFS, They don't have to be matching. You can use larger drives as replacements, they just won't be fully utilized until the entire VDEV has been upgraded to at least that size. I actually set my pools up so that each drive is a little bigger than the last so each time I replace the smallest drive, it boosts the size of the pool by a bit. That way I don't have to buy all the drives in batches. It's a bit wasteful of space, but it is a frugal option for upgrade paths, and I only upgrade one drive when the pool gets to a certain percentage full.

[@LKN117]

Glad to see my long running theory about Linus killing cats in his free time has been vindicated.

[@TehShadowDeath]

The G.Skill memory part is a really good point. The Corsair Vengeance LPX is a prime example. They had several revisions of the same 3200MHz model and they kept flipping between samsung and Hynix modules which made it difficult for a lot of people to get stable ram with it.

[@A-CHONKY-BOI-PRODUCTIONS]

Hi Linus and crew. I have been watching your channel for quite some time now. I have always been interested in tech but watching your channel over the years has motivated me to try to make a career out of it. I got a job in IT and have never been happier with my job! I learned how to build computers by watching you do it I dont know how many hundreds of times now. I just finished putting my gaming rig together and am VERY proud of it even though it's not really high end. I have a Ryzen 5 5600X, Asus ROG Strix B550-f Wifi mobo, Phanteks Revolt Pro 850W PSU, 32 GB XPG D60 3200 MHZ RAM, and a EVGA RTX 3060 ti, in a Lian Li O11 Dynamic case. I really wanted to put a RTX 3080 ti in there but it was NOT in my budget unfortunately. I love that I could build my PC myself and that is thanks to you. Keep it up Linus and crew. You do a lot more good than you know.

[@PascalDickhoff]

that does sound like a potent rig imo, recently got my gfs old one and happy to have a 1060 6gb now haha.. before i used bootcamp on mac

[@matzo33333]

1:23:03 I actually had a very similar experience when I bought my GTX 1050 Ti in early 2017! The cheapest option on Amazon was from EVGA, and it was their SSC version, with a big 3-fan cooler that was longer than its PCB. IIRC it had the highest factory overclock of any 1050 Ti of the time, as well. Yet it was like $20 less than the next cheapest option from a reputable brand, which only had a single fan and no factory OC, lol. I lucked tf out too, because the crypto boom spiked GPU prices literally before the card arrived to me XD

[@Jan-de-Munck]

Even 1TB seems like a lot if you're storing *_nothing_* locally. 128GB is probably more than enough for an OS

[@Jan-de-Munck]

@Taistelu_pelto they could use the 1TB drives for something else.

[@MonicaHolly143]

@Taistelu_pelto this is just for their regualr staff the staff that need a beast pc will get a higher end pc

[@RyanFairchild]

This stream reminds me of Mr. Rogers but for grown up tech nerds lol. Just opening and door to go talk to our friends. Interaction with the audience. Teaching, discussing. This is great.

[@im.thatoneguy]

You should put 2TB of storage into workstations because Adobe products eat HDD space as disk cache

[@acidd4681]

HDD bad

[@dwarvenaxolotl5348]

Linus, I’m glad that you’re standardizing! As an IT professional, I talk with my boss daily on standardizing our machines. We currently have dells and hp all in ones. All of them are different models.

[@HedgehogY2K]

Cool, the e6530 plays Halo 2 Cartographer in 1080p default settings perfectly. However it does struggle in some map areas and I tried CSAA 8x and it got pinned to the 30&40s, so I turned off the anti-aliasing and it jumped back to 60fps+Vsync. That is comfotably more than my Tecra A11 can say, it merely handles 720p with plenty of 30fps dips without Vsync and cinematic spots do chug horrendously. I had fun experimenting with both machines with this game as Halo 2 Cartographer can really push a half decent gpu. Oh yeah>NVS 2100m&5200m.

[@PileOfEmptyTapes]

The NVS2100M is basically a G210, so yeah. Muy potato. The related 8400GS (same chip with half the shaders / TMUs and DDR2 memory) will even turn fullscreen _video playback_ on a 1920x1200 screen into a slideshow with Windows Aero on... GPU loading basically halves with it off. You don't often hear of a GT610 as a revelation, LOL. The NVS5200M with GF117 should have about twice as much _grunt_ as that, really not a bad little GPU for the time. Funny how I'm well familiar with all of these machines, we've had plenty of iGPU-only E6520s, A11s (along with S10s - the battery charging algorithm ought to have been grounds for a class action lawsuit, it's that bad, it'll literally continue until emergency temperature cutoff kicks in) and even the odd E6530 at work. I still have E6330 and E6520 at home. Nice machines although screen calibration was _direly_ needed. Laptop screens used to be so bad, I'm glad that IPS panels are pretty much standard now. Interestingly, with dual channel RAM the performance between HD Graphics 3000 and NVS4200M on the E6520 seems to be almost identical in Furmark P720, even power consumption is. So I settled on the iGPU only, not the least because you can tackle PWM flickering then (which would annoy the living daylight out of me otherwise).

[@HedgehogY2K]

@@PileOfEmptyTapes First off, I'm also using Windows 7 Aero Blue what a quink-dink. Second, I don't think a G210 is quite close enough of a gpu to use as a reference as DX10 and 10.1 are different API levels in the DX11.1 family. Three, that was a lot of information that I'm shockingly familiar with. I'm a total stranger who knows what you're talking about by chance.

[@NAMOR5000]

I just started watching this again and what strikes me is that it would be so much 'nicer' if for future videos the Top View camera can be turned 180 degrees so we can see (and feel) much better of watching all. Please pretty please, thank you. Back to watching it and adjusting my shopping list for my first project since 4 years, using the newer versions , like 13th gen, Z790 , NH-D15 .... etc....

[@musajawad6374]

Hey Linus, could you do a video on great laptops/desktops for computer scientists or software engineers.

[@mikescomputercorner1204]

She has to be one of the most amazing women in the 20th and 21 st century. She will be sadly missed by most of the British people and a large % of Commonwealth Countries. She is not responsible for any or all previous monarchs. She has put her public life before any of her own requirements. I am an Australian not of British heritage but have the utmost respect for a Grand Lady.

[@ianhamilton350]

You should be careful recommending Unraid with parity. They use btrfs, and the btrfs documentation says their implementation of raid 5/6 "should not be used for production, only for evaluation and testing". I don't know how likely failure is or under what circumstances, but it's definitely a caveat that should be mentioned. Edit: I was mistaken, Unraid uses XFS as the default filesystem on all devices (except cache devices; they use BTRFS)

[@danieljonsson8095]

Unraid doesn't use btrfs for the multi drive stuff. Each drive is an individual btrfs fs. You should not use unraid anyway though because unraid has a really bad caching strategy that can lead to massive dataloss as the cache is not redundant.

[@matthewgray7444]

I don’t think btrfs is default or even recommended anymore. I feel like unraid said they only include it for compatibility

[@ianhamilton350]

@@danieljonsson8095 So, if i'm understanding you correctly, each disk has it's own filesystem and Unraid implements another layer of logical volume management on top?

[@danieljonsson8095]

@@ianhamilton350 Correct. Specifically, XFS, Reiser or Btrfs is supported. This is because these are used to detect bit rot and such. Then the array itself runs similarly to unionfs, with parity done similar to snapraid. And that’s where you get serious issues. Like if I write a file. Now first, it’s written to the cache drive. And it just sits there. It’s a schedule to write from cache to array, so it can be hours before the cache is written to array which is itself ridiculous, but also because if cache now dies, so does your data. Now next step is that it writes the data to the array. Deleted it from the cache, and only now does it start calculating the parity, in another god damn schedule. All while all data that that was just now written to the drive, is lost if any drive in the array fails. It’s an absolutely terrible choice for data safety, and with modern array handling and drives, it’s also terrible for speed which used to be its strong selling point. Hence, it should no longer be recommended, at all, anywhere really.

[@stephenmitts9958]

And you checking in on if things are ok, is why you are a good CEO. Checking it to make sure you are not making problems is a great CEO move.

[@jaredvanliew7955]

I'm always sus of people like Dan, somehow he's quickly become one of my favorite people at LMG and I'm getting hidden evil villain vibes like with Anthony my other favorite mwahaha.

[@MiguelCatalaoMusic]

Man I see LTT for at least 5 or 6 years. I'm an it consultant and part time music producer, I was starting to have some minor issues with my projects (bigger loads on an 8 years i7 4790k, project's audio cracking and so on ) so I started reminiscing on a new machine. I went for something very very similar to this and the only compromise was to use ddr4 ram and a different less expensive mboard. I have to say I know the processor is 5 or 6 gen away from the other but still... What an amazing performance boost on this build. I reused some stuff (video card, pro audio card, WI fi card) and and was able to build this under 900! The thing eats anything I send it! Super creative freedom, not having hiccups and being able to take care of every production stage on the same project!!! I waited for a year to see what happened with the new tech, check if stuff was stable, and made the move!!! Great recomendation on the i5. It's important to say the i5 has lots of flavors, I opted to stay away from i5 12600 as it doesn't has the e cores. And I never liked the kf versions as graphics might be necessary. Só, Linus ... Thank for being there guiding us!

[@user-hn2wc3fy7y]

My Arctic Freezer 240mm has been truck is long on my 1700 for five years and now on my 5800X for the last week. They make a good AIO for sure lol.

[@worldchamp1999]

did you make it to the E.R after that stroke?

[@Vanilla_Icecream1231]

@@worldchamp1999 hahahaha lmao I had a stroke reading that, luckily I made it to the ER

[@mambapopenhoffer8706]

I read this thing on a door of a high-ranking official, it stuck to my mind: "What I don't want to hear: I don't know; I'm not responsible for that area of work; It was not my fault; It happened before I started working here; We always did it this way; etc. What I want to hear: I will find out; I will fix it; We will find a better way to do if; etc." Bring out the cattle prod, Linus! Your staff need some raw energy.

[@AntonT-TM]

you guys should add a QR- code (or equivalent) to the backs of the pc's so you, quick and easy, can find out the exact components in each machine.

[@PurpleKnightmare]

I have two fans on my 120, one inside, one outside, push/pull. If one goes out, cooling does not fail, redundant. One thing I don't need to worry about.

[@beranek1960smw]

Is there a parts list available for this build? I didn't want to scroll through all the comments for the answer.

[@coolieee]

its literally on the boxes

[@Matlock69]

Dan's mic is just SOOOO crispy clean! I think the handheld podcast mic should become standard for all vids.

[@silenttoxic707]

Linus is the tech worlds Rasputin

[@mikedaken9752]

Grigori Tech Tips

[@Josh-fo5fd]

I really needed that laugh at 13:53, cried myself laughing at your face after saying that.

[@gebzed]

Be nice to get a list of the hardware here unless I am missing something.

[@etiennekraemer2323]

I really love your way of thinking toward organization in a company, it is kind or rare and i like it

[@Deisan]

Holy shit that dude in the red shirt sitting at the computer in the beginning, Dan, has a SMOOTH AF VOICE. Lol Just saying.

[@buhdan]

Thanks b

[@We.R.Comics]

30:00 😂 I was rooting for LTT for that video, great job!

[@alexanderlee5180]

I was really into this, and followed the rational in terms of part selection, right up until you decided to put a 3050 in the system. I would have at least gone 3060, and I like the original idea of using 3070s. But you obviously know what you guys need way more than I do haha. Are these for editing as well? You mentioned standardizing these computers, but does that include the editing workstations? Or are these for the writers and stuff mainly? Can you even use a 3050 for the kind of editing work you do? Or is editing not done on the local machines? I find it hard to understand the rational of using a 3050, especially when you go with a 12600k and a ballin ass motherboard. Sorry if this sounds ignorant, I'm not super familiar with what is required for video editing as I'm not a video editor, but I feel you would need something better than the 3050 at least.

[@Malicious2013]

I chalk it up to cost. The 3050s are still better than older generation GPUs for less money. I mean they can be found new for less than $250, and with the 4000 series around the corner, keeping costs low now and upgrading later seems the better route. Sinking 4070 money into 3070s when the 4060 will be better than the 3080 seems silly. 3050s are a good temporary budget option, and everything else is somewhat future-proofed.

[@PieFlavouredPii]

It's more than enough for editing, as a fellow editor. I've worked on way less with much bigger companies lol

[@raynjpg]

Love the comment he made on the guy who still uses an i7-7700K. I do too, been using the same CPU since 2017. It's never given me issues, it runs fine, and it does everything I need it to do. If you don't need to upgrade, do not feel pressured to upgrade. I'm personally going to be purchasing a new laptop with some specs that are crazy compared to my desktop because I need a good laptop for photography and school, but my desktop is going to remain the same for as long as possible. Old hardware isn't bad hardware, if it lasts you then hold onto it. No need to keep up with all the new releases. And shit, if you do need to upgrade, try finding a couple generation old part that's much cheaper than the new stuff and will still be a major upgrade to what you've got.

[@stpirate89]

The NAS question is good, I'd like to make one that I can set to auto sync with my phone, girlfriend's phone, pc, etc., so that I can do away with any sort of paid-for cloud storage. A video on this would be greatly appreciated 🙃

[@Jakeu1701]

Headset - Just got the FNATIC. Can't say enough good things about it. Metal, detachable mic arm, great sound quality, metal headband, tons of padding on ear cups. Audio for games, YT, Music and Movies is just outstanding.

[@kcscott11]

Oh man. The shelf of hardware where he pulled the 2080 from. That would be so sweet lol.

[@williamrockhill8018]

Linus remember when you built the first workstations and you said you were gonna use 6 different thermal past Application patterns on the CPUs. your over heating issue is that thermal paste pattern lets see what patterns are failing now after years of use

[@Hunter-of7fp]

I can relate, I too hate when I’m out of 1TB drives and have to settle with a 2TB 🤣

[@robertlinke2666]

1:22:45 i think they just had 3070/3080 frames left, and needed to use them, so on the 50 they went better to use it and get some value then to let them rot in a warehouse right

[@granturigo]

The truth is that while AMD launching great products, for professionals all the intel libraires (specifically oneAPI are a godsend)

[@denniswahlstedt4420]

The Irony of Linus having a "catch all" department!! :) Awsome work guys, keep it up :D

[@jasonpoler]

Unlike Arc, Intel CPU drivers are just more reliable than AMD's even now for pro users.

[@KingLarbear]

1:07:10, I died laughing when you said that, that was the greatest slip up of the year. Because literally used to have a queen until you didn't lol

[@mingchan9228]

this stream has shed some light to Linus Cat Tips

[@ExcelsiorTech]

I’m glad that this video covers the issue that is inherent with general PC installations. At the university I work for we buy hundreds of the same workstations. That means when we fix one problem we potentially fix hundreds.

[@piyumalshamen7669]

Use Notepad++, that has auto save option.

[@klaxoncow]

When working on Windows - I'm a Linux guy at home, but am forced to use Windows at work sometimes - I always use Notepad++. An excellent feature is built-in FTP, so you can actually work on remote files, as if they were local. I consider this an essential for web development work. On Linux, it's basically built into the file explorer itself - using Nautilus, you can "connect to server" using the FTPS protocol and it just mounts it as a directory... and the drivers are, in the background, doing the FTP stuff for you. So it literally appears as if it's a local directory, and you can 100% treat it that way. Open a file in any program, save the file, use the terminal, etc. and it all just behaves as if it were local, albeit a (usually unnoticeable) fraction slower as it's going over the FTP protocol in the background. It's one of those "once you try it, you ain't ever going back" features. So, when I've unfortunately got to use Windows at work, Notepad++ is the saviour for having that built-in FTP thing as well. It's not quite as awesome as what's built into Nautilus out-of-the-box (which mounts it as a directory, so ANY program will see it as if it's a local file and so I can do anything - remote edit an image in GIMP, remote edit in gedit, run it in a terminal, etc. - but it's as close as you're going to get on Windows, without paying stupid money for something likely vastly less impressive than what you get with any old Linux distro out-of-the-box. Seriously, it's not some "fan boy" thing. It's genuinely that, once you know all the Linux tricks, Windows really is painfully inferior in what it offers. Once you're mounting things in all directions - mounting through FTP to remote servers, mounting "/home" directories to multiple machines so that wherever you login all the machines have the same shared "/hojme", mounting a different drive for your "/home" directory to keep applications and data neatly separate (so when I need to switch machines or change distros, I can just do it all painlessly) - it rapidly becomes impossible to tolerate the lack of such a versatile "VFS" structure on Windows. Like, damn, how do you do anything on this crippled piece of shit? It's a shame the Linux challenge was only a short period. If Linus could use Linux long enough to actually understand how it all works and "git gud" at it, then I think he'd drop his Windows "fan boy-ism" in a heartbeat. Thanks to Proton and Steam, it ain't even really much of a compromise to gaming anymore either. But, yeah, if you're stuck on Windows - you poor thing - then you need Notepad++ to save your bacon. Recommended.

[@profosist]

and tabs!

[@kurok1tenshi]

@@klaxoncow Sure, i bet he would, cause that makes total sense for him to require everyone to learn using Linux and learn how to use console and so on...till everyone ends up learning all the hundreds of "linux tricks". and games, as better as they are, compared to 15 years ago, it´s still far from substitute windows gaming, gl with new games, openworld or mmo games, simulators are a cancer. it´s good single player games though.

[@bFOURdwZEROlf]

Dude.... Your Screwdriver whoops everyone in their pricepoint... You KILLED IT!

[@pa-pyro2804]

This isn't related but your awesome Linus I truly go through your videos anytime I am comparing or about to buy I look for a review or comparison I love the honesty even when the thing is awesome I can't stress that enough so many of these reviews on YT are fake or paid for and not honest that bothers me a lot. Thanks for sharing

[@Respectable_Username]

1:37:30 -ish: For laptops, if you need something futureproof, why not grab some Frameworks 😉 For real though, my Framework arrived last week in the first batch to Aus, and am absolutely loving it! There are a few compromises I'm not so happy with, mainly lack of touch screen and not the nicest feeling keyboard, but overall, so happy! Thanks for reviewing last year. It was your review which primarily made me hold out for them. Obviously I watched other reviews as well and followed the company for like a year before ordering was made available to Aus, but it was the confidence Linus had to personally invest that made me go "ok this seriously sounds like something I want to support, even if it means holding out for a while longer on my old, underpowered laptop".

[@candle86]

I'd hope Linus feels the same way about it that the rest of us in It feel about about laptops. They suck to take apart and repair, let the manufacture handle that, if its not a ram upgrade, its time to toss it and buy again, if its broken and in warranty its for the manufacture to fix, if its not in warranty toss it and buy a replacement.