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Here at LTT, we’re often making videos about crazy small form factor, oversized, no compromise, or otherwise unusual and extreme PC builds. But… what about our employees? Are they all rocking RTX 3090s in their sweet battlestations, or are all of their systems at home just shells of glory, not to be used by even the most infrequent of gamers?
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[@realitytechnology]

"You may think LMG employees have the best hardware, but that's not really the case, we only have 3070s, 3080s, Dual 1080TIs, and threadrippers." Lol, jokes aside, love the video, always great to see all the employees. I also really appreciate Matt's story, and the lack of funds for PCs, although by the time you've bought an Xbox one X *and* a Nintendo switch, may wanna start looking at a budget build imo.

[@foxxyytofficial]

i came to the comments to say that but i knew in my heart that someone already said it

[@sku77boy82]

Yeah, this is kinda the doucheiest video they've ever made 😑

[@ZORU11]

lmaooo was thinking the same

[@TheRoughGo]

@@craig9365 I built my PC like 5 months before covid, I got myself the 1650 super as a cheaper card for the time being thinking I'd upgrade after like a year, well that was a huge mistake, as I can't get anything better for a good price haha

[@donkey7921]

What does a switch and an Xbox have to do with a budget PC?

[@nahasco]

Jake: "people think that everyone at lmg has the most cutting edge tech in our homes" Also Jake: RTX 3080

[@foxxyytofficial]

i came to the comments to say that but i knew in my heart that someone already said it

[@salonisaraogi5865]

Not a 3090 though lmao jk

[@joegamer9593]

lol

[@ethan-fel]

And a 5900x

[@loganhuwe9458]

its not a 3090...

[@charlesward9963]

"dont... dont worry it always does that" is such a perfect description for homemade pcs, all of them have weird af things that just happen

[@Gadzinisko]

Oh yeah. I'm my old PC you had to push the power button in a very specific way or it wouldn't turn on ;)

[@connorml]

@@Gadzinisko mine doesn't have the cover part for the button anymore so I use the wrong end of a thin painbrush or a knitting needle to turn it on

[@TheRealLink]

I believe some EVGA boards do a pre-POST for the board. At least the last 3 of them I owned have done a temp cycle on, off, then full power up. Might just be something with their boards.

[@geronimodk]

Mine is home-built and has parts that are turning 12 this year! No quirks, it just works! It was finicky about the power button at one point, turned out the power supply was giving up and when it finally died and I changed it, it just works!

[@Wix92]

When I turn on my current PC, the fans sometimes spin up to 100% until the OS loads. One of my previous PCs would sometimes turn on by itself within ~10s of being turned off.

[@SunKing0586]

Every LTT employee who didn’t get the $5000 Intel upgrades

[@foxxyytofficial]

i came to the comments to say that but i knew in my heart that someone already said it

[@frenkdenk]

yet..

[@Motionnerf]

Some of them put more of the money towards other things aside from their PC’s tho xD

[@balu1676]

Lmao

[@leonardoc.1584]

What Madison or Sarah, or the rest? They should make part 2

[@GatoPaint]

5:50 I lost it when they started to tell the background story of the Xbox xDDD

[@frankb.8071]

@@yuukina9807 the only asuna i care about is 100T asuna

[@rezz5570]

it's a pc, you blind?!?!?

[@changavila]

very informative. kekw

[@CrampavanAdventures]

legit

[@RH-hz9ly]

When they go to the next person i thought it's over, but they get back to this 😂

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Remember when we could ACTUALLY buy a GPU? Like literally the good old days....pull up a Wednesday NCIX sale or a Newegg shell shocker an be able to get a brand new GPU in any class/tier we wanted. Sigh.....

[@KSHAWK]

These shortages in my experience happen every couple years when I built my current pc (like 4 years ago) a gpu shortage had just ended

[@fallu2]

Bout my 970 about 10 years ago, now that I've got a decent job and some spare money I can throw at one, they're about impossible to get, but somehow my 970 still decides it wants to get 50+ fps on about high settings, sometimes even maxed settings, so I guess ill survive for now

[@kristers.g3901]

Deamm i miss these old days.

[@lightningblites5970]

@@fallu2 970 came out 2014. Not 10 years ago

[@deongeiss12]

Not really. I built my first pc at the height of the crypto mining boom. The only affordable gpu I found was a 1050, when the 2000 series came out I ordered a 2070 right before they sold out.

[@razeenrajaful]

Jake: People think that everyone at ltt has the most cutting edge tech in our home Also Jake: **Has 5900x, 3080, X570 motherboard, and 1tb pcie gen 4 ssd + 2 • 4tb hdd's**

[@derekberry1399]

"it's not the most up to date"

[@SPECTRA890]

I was screaming in my head 😂😂

[@mynamejeff4142]

@@allyourfuturebelongstochina boyfriend? Did he say he was gay somewhere before?

[@dinkarfowkar999]

@@SPECTRA890 me too

[@GizmosGameLounge]

Jake gets intel extreme upgrade. Tosses mb and processor trades in for top of the line amd

[@Die-Coughman]

Watching Tarren explain his mess whilst avoiding eye contact with the camera and camera crew was the highlight of this video.

[@ahmadshafiqzia2087]

'' people think that everyone at lmg has cutting edge tech in our homes" Also lmg: *owns 30 percent of rtx 30 series ever produced*

[@i_like_Peanuts]

Lmao

[@thenonexistinghero]

Honestly though... at this point anyone in the US who really wants a 30 series card will have gotten one already. They still go for normal prices in stores, unlike Europe where even the stores are asking for the inflated prices.

[@thenonexistinghero]

@@Folsomdsf2 No, I'm for. Europe where they go for even more.

[@number1plyr741]

@@thenonexistinghero out of stock everywhere in the us

[@trollge3712]

@@thenonexistinghero cap

[@stevenarvizu3602]

“You may think LTT has the latest and greatest PC’s but our PC’s are actually 6 months old”

[@salonisaraogi5865]

@@DemeDemetre same

[@DailyCorvid]

@@DemeDemetre happy birthday to your pc man :D If you were in the UK your computer will be getting a card from the Queen soon :D

[@not-ank7884]

@@DailyCorvid what does that mean? I don’t get it

[@bigduginc]

@@not-ank7884 The Queen send birthday cards to anyone in England celebrating their 100th birthday.

[@DailyCorvid]

@@bigduginc but only citizens of the British mainland! Irish don't get em for some reason, I think previous occasions of treachery. Off with their heads type of thing!

[@K_Tart]

LMG is probably the only place that has a “Bring your PC to work day”

[@Trefl204]

I wish we had this at my workplace

[@MonsterGaming-gn3pi]

and Matt brings out his xbox and pisses off linus

[@chandlerlaruex]

I work at a local pc repair shop and bring mine in whenever I want. its always very clean and as i build custom rigs off commission I use it to display my work as well as I feel like having a PC in front of you that is absolute meta sells the service more then pictures do. Lesson here is work at a pc shop and you can bring your pc to work anyday! xD cheers

[@thatisthatoof]

I can feel the love for his consoles at 13:51 but holy sh#t get this man a PC

[@jamesjason8471]

PLEASE!! Please get Matthias to make a low, mid, high, and extreme 3D modeling, texturing, and rendering system! There are too many "gaming" pc builds out there on every goddamn channel but there are not enough workstation builds for 3D VFX work. Make something that will actually help a lot of artists to build a proper system to do 3D work.

[@MNsLegoChannel]

YESSS!!!! I NEED THIS

[@syedobaid2585]

THIS

[@gregbphotography]

I don’t do any 3D modeling myself but I’d love to see this regardless. Make it happen LTT!

[@stiegelzeine2186]

Workstations are just like gaming PCs the only difference is that some workstations use threadrippers instead of normal ryzen CPUs So how would this help?

[@4ghzgaming664]

This. Although I like being a lonely expert in this niche field

[@Virtual_brain]

Is the segue now a kind of initiation ritual? 😂

[@coolshiz7319]

@@yuukina9807 the fuck lmao

[@lukeflett6683]

The cult of the sponsor spot

[@VincePlayGames]

100% yes it is

[@janemba42]

It probably is hahaha!! Imagine you're the new employee and you've never been on camera before. Being made to make a sponsor segue would be so damn embarassing doing it the first time.

[@CrazycatASG]

@@yuukina9807 yes but what if I'm an 11 year old

[@Derethevil]

So in summary: "You would think we here at LLT are all having cutting edge tech in our PC's..... and you are 99% correct."

[@libertyprime2852]

I wouldn’t call 10 series cards and i3 cpus cutting edge.

[@Derethevil]

@@libertyprime2852 Most have 3080's at least. So yes. I would call that cutting edge.

[@adamahmadzai2357]

@@Derethevil one guy in this vid had a 3080. One had a 980ti which is not cutting edge and neither is a 1070 or 1080 anymore

[@baltmatrix]

Hold up. Matt, we NEED a video showing off you're use of Dex day to day.

[@ohyou_6599]

I use dex for web browsing and content consumption. Like the day to day use is just plug in type-c cable and headphones, set phone down, grab mouse and click icon for web browser.

[@bandicoot543]

Dex dock

[@YouAreBreathing]

I used Samsun Dex as my computer when my internet went down due to a service issue with my ISP. A 1Mbps internet to watch KZbin videos is better than nothing at all (I still had videos stored on my phone itself, and I can connect an external hard drive to the Dex's USB ports for more videos to watch).

[@oalmaftool]

I would see that video

[@rjsmith2007]

My life would feel so limited with his setup lol

[@danieljensen2626]

Jake's computer is like a hermit crab that moved into a huge new shell.

[@PabzRoz]

LOL

[@Gelbton]

Wtf hahaha why is this so funny

[@Qardo]

Don't worry. The motherboard will grow into its new case. Next time we see Jake's rig. The Motherboard will have the processing ability of a Super Computer but only stuck with 16gb of RAM....you know....chip shortage still happening and China taking over half the world by that time.

[@litapd311]

lmao this is way too accurate

[@yuyuy666]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/nGLHn6KZhbaLerM I want a video of Jake building that pc with narration from Attenborough

[@templetoon1983]

I love that Taran doesn’t go for the latest and greatest when it comes to hardware and is still rocking the 4790k and a GTX 980ti....

[@mbahmarijan789]

@@junaidywijaya4596 lu cewe apa cowo?

[@SlyStarling]

@@mbahmarijan789 Why do you care? You ain't getting a girlfriend on youtube bud, go out into the real world ffs

[@gabelofi]

the dream combo back in the day.

[@templetoon1983]

@@gabelofi still my combo with 32gb Corsair Vengeance Pro at 1866mhz over stock 1600mhz

[@2048Megabytes.]

I still have a Phenom X6! Paired with 16GB of DDR3 RAM and a GTX 1060 6GB it isn’t that bad, but it is still a bit of a bottleneck because of the CPU

[@chrisrnz]

So, Taran is basically the Screen Rant guy without glasses and gives zero craps about what's in his PC. Nice.

[@sherlockmaverick]

Ryan George?

[@envigraphy]

You mean the Ryan Georges from the Ryanverse

[@munjee2]

He did have glasses until recently when he got lasick

[@LonelySandwich]

I was laughing at Matt at first but he’s kind of living in the future.

[@Contrastings]

Lol

[@mamba2019]

Beans

[@Daniel-fi7jp]

Ok, Dex can definitely replace a laptop but nothings touching dGPUs for a while

[@Sly1020]

@@Daniel-fi7jp isnt that what the xbox is for

[@dubfunk1886]

Hmmmm... No. He's living in the now. For a console gamer. The future would be more like a device that has the power of a desktop, with the portability of a wearable (or at the very least laptop), and the ease of use and accessibility of a console.

[@letiziasparks2902]

I truly appreciate how humble and transparent these gentlemen are about their own personal systems. I would be nice to see some ladies who are involved in Linus Tech, are there any tech ladies?

[@mcmoozack]

There's Sarah and Yvonne among others.

[@lambdasixtwo8808]

Matt: The best part about my PC is that they rerelease skyrim like every 5 years with my new pc's release, so i get to buy and play skyrim all the time. It just works

[@yeetwchybaban]

lol

[@neph9205]

"people think that everyone at lmg must have the most cutting edge tech in our homes" starts with a 3070 and 3080 ah yes, this old junk

[@foxxyytofficial]

i came to the comments to say that but i knew in my heart that someone already said it

[@Sup_D]

Well yeah, obviously since "3090 Super" is rumoured to release soon.

[@Kailtro]

it is

[@Kailtro]

@Not RickRoll 👇 ip adress stealer, account stealer, soul stealer

[@Matty__Matt]

The shot at 14:19 made me finally realize that his system wasn't dirty it was part of the artwork lol

[@gidderman]

I actually dig Jake's massive white case with almost obscure motherboard. Something about the video card and cpu cooler just dominating the space with almost no wires just screems overkill-minimalist. Honestly its a look, and i like it.

[@kevinwaag9976]

pitch it to Riley xD

[@marcuscoster6529]

I think It's clean too but it sucks that the cutout behind the motherboard is so big and that there's all the extra standoffs.

[@seralegre]

agree, very minimalistic, love it

[@benadkins7695]

I remember doing this on my first build just because of the budget, and I wasn’t too mad about it

[@nubreed13]

I made the mistake of buying a full size axt motherboard. It just barely fits in my case and cable management is really difficult

[@ffnbbq]

Taran's years-long home PC problems sound like a prank that Berkel forgot to turn off when he left LMG back in 2017. Also, the specs are from around the time they moved from the LMG house to the office/warehouse.

[@TheDoosh79]

I like how Taran's is the oldest stuff but has only just got it working reliably, just in time for an upgrade!

[@Razear]

"I can play GTA V and make myself dinner by the time it loads a mission." Sounds about right.

[@agenericaccount3935]

Ah, when pets look like their owners. Jake: Odd proportions, but works. Brandon: Sleek and functional Taran: mad science professor Matias: Lovecraftian madness veiled in civility

[@AkkumuLBC]

And then there's Matt doing everything on his phone xd

[@agenericaccount3935]

@@AkkumuLBC Golden Retriever. Just happy to be here.

[@startedtech]

Jake's PC got bigger just as he did 😅

[@Bill-lt5qf]

My 3600 that overheats sums me up quite well. Pretty average, but struggling like mad to be so.

[@agenericaccount3935]

@@Bill-lt5qf 9900k 2080ti. Dual loops in an 011. I used to be cool but am a couple generations out of date now 🙃

[@matthewgumabon7498]

I live in Japan, and space is a premium here for many of us (as a well as PC parts because anything Intel, Nvidia, AMD, etc. needs to be imported in). Matt’s setup is the most ideal in my opinion. Smartphone for work, comms, and productivity. Switch for gaming on the go. Home console for more serious games at home. As long as you don’t heavily rely on high performance computing in your job, I think this setup is a good as it gets (as honestly if your job does require it they should be providing the equipment for you). And depending on the games you like, sometimes a single console can have you covered.

[@darryljack6612]

GODDAMN!!! Jake is running a whole war machine.

[@topvisualkitten4338]

@@DemeDemetre is that one quiet kid

[@Knitterfest]

"If PC is so good, why is there no PC2?" Matt: "Aight, on it"

[@Formedras]

Or a more serious answer: There was. The XT, then the AT, then the PS/2, and then we went to a rolling release setup.

[@emanuelneiconi]

Dex - the most underrated setup ever... And one of the most awesome things out there.

[@makenza]

"My parents are mining" what a household, BTC/ETH for the whole family

[@SmokinGoodd420]

I agree 100 Percent with Jake. People who build PC's for a living , last thing you wanna do is work on your PC all the time.

[@MrSolLeks]

@yasio bolo Same man, I kinda did some cable management, but the other side panel, oh boy, barely fits on.

[@MidnightCityMusic]

Matthias: has threadripper 1950x and 1080ti SLI "granted, it's not the fastest..."

[@luisaazul]

For 3D rendering a rtx 3080 is like more than double the power of a 1080ti so yeah His double 1080tis lose to a single 3080 Of course only in Ray tracing rendering

[@BlakieTT]

Meanwhile: Linus running a spaceship in his side room.

[@Narthanael]

Hyperdrive inculded. Farming Space Coin on Alpha Centauri because no taxes and lower energy bill. I mean 3 suns is better than one right? (As he drops a GPU into one of the suns by accident)

[@BlakieTT]

@@Narthanael I like this comment. 😂

[@aarron1234567]

But he really isn’t though his hardware is not out of date but it’s also not the highest end Linus is pretty liberal when it comes to his rig

[@mitchyk]

"My name's not David and I don't like the Dualshock controller". Don't know why but the deadpan delivery of that line had me laughing my ass off!

[@LogicalError007]

@yasio bolo She probably must be using her MacBook all the time. Except while streaming.

[@gen2mediainc.577]

Would be funny if Linus’ segment included tons of insane rigs, implying that he hogs all the parts and gives the less powerful ones to his employees

[@philtkaswahl2124]

"It's kind of a mess." * looks at visible "cable management" in my own rig * Yeah, haha, a mess....

[@katrinabryce]

My approach to cable management is push the cables away from the fans and wedge the case shut.

[@daveshistoryfacts4650]

The fuck is wrong with all of the bot comments

[@TheUnknownGodAce]

My version of cable management is no management its a closed case problem solved

[@tuxido4913]

These people: 'We don't have crazy computers' The first three builds: a 3070, a 3080, and 2x 1080Tis

[@Sup_D]

Don't forget the Threadripper CPU

[@foxxyytofficial]

i came to the comments to say that but i knew in my heart that someone already said it

[@thatslegit]

If you got a 1070ti and above and something close to a 3600 you have no right to say the pc is junk

[@PoserGalore]

When jake removed that glass back panel I had an immediate flash back when my glass blow up in my face when it hit the floor 😭

[@kevincaparas013]

man, Linus wasn't kidding when he said they have a lot of new employees

[@Neoxon619]

They have a lot of other employees that are on probation, which I think is basically the phase where you prove yourself before being formally brought into the fold. That said, LMG could stand to diversify themselves a bit more in terms of who they hire.

[@How23497]

@@Neoxon619 why would you base hiring on ethnicity? theres like 1 black person that lives in canada and thats twomad anyway

[@somnorila9913]

@@Neoxon619 Meaning what? More primarily mobile and console users as one is not enough? Or some that do crosswords instead of using a PC in their spare time?

[@Kitulous]

@@How23497 I wanna support your point -- that was already answered in the LTT forums. LTT does not do forced diversity. They hire by talent, not by being different.

[@daexion]

@@Neoxon619 They cannot hire people who don't apply, and the people they do hire have to be able to do the job they are hired for.

[@randomfrankp]

Hell yes for that Aesop Rock sticker panel.

[@YuProducciones]

Yoo this guy!

[@Sparklingwater1231]

Randomfrankp is an Aesop Rock fan, who would have thought. Nice

[@BassClefEly]

MUST NOT SLEEP MUST WARN OTHERS

[@Tuckdragon]

yes aesop is the shit yoooo!

[@joshuaellis3051]

Coming here to say this!

[@kylesommer3641]

Says “doesn’t have the bleeding edge tech” Also jake “I have a 3080 FTW3”

[@liamkelly5727]

Jake: I've had a mostly-consistent white theme Yes, when your PC is >60% white case, it's mostly a white theme. :D

[@jmporkbob]

My understanding of when he said that is that he means over the course of his life he mostly kept white themed PCs.

[@Mywk]

White & Black aesthetics looks really nice imo! I tried to make a 50/50 build pretty recently, would you consider this white themed tho? kzbin.info/www/bejne/gYuZpGCDbr5rjsk

[@ПавелПовх-з3у]

LIke, once it was white, but some things got replaced.

[@1WithTheDark]

@@Mywk I would say no, its black with white accents. You would need a white case to start off a white theme imo

[@enisra_bowman]

@@1WithTheDark i mean, try to get Hardware that has not Black PCBs today and 80% is Black

[@tankgrrl]

It's ironic how photogenic Brandon is given that his job is behind the camera. Also, kudos to Geoff for that sponsor read. Very smooth.

[@Kevin-jv7mz]

I'm not going to be as eloquent as you. Brandon is hot.

[@scccythe]

@@Kevin-jv7mz I’m not saying he’s ugly, but are you guys okay???

[@DizzyBusy]

@@scccythe what? You don't think he's kinda cute?

[@iAmVonexX]

@@scccythe even i thought dang he's good looking and i'm a pretty hot guy myself

[@kire929]

@@iAmVonexX your own looks don't necessarily correlate to the way you judge other people's looks

[@EZReezy]

1:02 He talks about canadian dollar then goes EH i love it

[@silverlining1706]

Matt used to play keyboards for us, now he talks about USB ports. Growth.

[@DehkadeSVNZ]

The best part is seeing if anyone who had their intel extreme tech upgrade has a ryzen cpu in their pc

[@DehkadeSVNZ]

Okay nevermind

[@Armoire68]

"I don't like the dualshock controller" Someone get this man a xim

[@dumpsterdawg]

Who knew all I had to do to upgrade my PC was "Use one of these USB ports"

[@kye3k1]

with Thunderbolt that could actually be true! Crazy world.

[@paradox_monke7338]

Yep, external graphic card via thunderbolt!!!

[@alolanstarboy]

I can relate to Matt somewhat on the whole “using your phone for everything” bit. I remember when I first got an Android phone in 2016 after years of using Windows phone, I didn’t touch my laptop for over a year because I was simply able to do everything I needed on my phone.

[@MarcinKralka]

How is that even possible, I can't imagine using any phone for even 1/10th of things that I do on my PC.

[@flareb99]

@@MarcinKralka probably doesn't do much, web browsing, news updates music etc, most people probably don't really need a computer if they have a decent phone

[@Tw3akst3r]

@@MarcinKralka Same thing I said to someone earlier... When you use Samsung DeX it is connected to a display (and can have a mouse and kybd) and works just like a computer with a desktop OS similar to Chrome OS in terms of looks. I enjoy using it personally though I don't need it often due to having several laptops and desktops.

[@pedro6636]

@@Tw3akst3r Can you play warzone tho

[@crisvega7588]

@@pedro6636 That is a fair point but gotta remember not everyone plays games.

[@kyuketsu316]

"people that Everyone must have the most cutting-edge tech in our homes" *proceeds to show 5900X x 3080 setup*

[@EclipseDaBossHooplah]

14:56 Would be quite interesting to hear more about his experience with DeX and how much he can get done vs a laptop

[@trowawayacc]

Yep. Also wich phone he uses. Or has tried. I considered dex over a laptop. I hate laptops they suck at resale value and are done in 3 to 4 years.

[@deadsh0t843]

my theory on back cable management: is it currently on fire? good enough

[@PsyKeks]

I like that there is no answer to the question, suggesting you did not wait for an answer, because your conclusion would be the same either way. 😄

[@blockbertus]

NZXT might have a word about that. ;D

[@LRM12o8]

Agree: Cable management on the front is good, when it looks clean and organized, Cable management on the back is good, when the side panel closes without obvious bulge XD

[@zdream720]

I'd like to see more of Matt! He's funny and seems comfortable on camera.

[@banzobotic]

Alternative title: Linus's stolen parts from the office audit

[@benjaminoechsli1941]

11:24 They're stealing parts even during the audit. Smh.

[@jorgesegura9635]

I like that guy Geoff 1) the most realistic build 2) has the same build I do (5 3600, gigabyte 1070 g1, cooler master MA610p) 3) also got my card 2nd hand at $300 lol

[@itsfrogdad3401]

Second hand market for cards was insane. Was able to score a 1070ti for like $240 last year

[@jorgesegura9635]

@@itsfrogdad3401 yeah second hand market really is the answer for this never ending gpu shortage... Even if there was stock, I'd most likely still go with second hand lol

[@Dalrae]

Taran has to be my most favorite person, ever. Thank you for being Taran, Taran.

[@tbhousen]

Me: *Immediately sees an Aesop Rock case:* "I'm in love."

[@NathansWargames]

Tweet at him to watch the vid I just did.

[@trajectoryunown]

Same. Aes is awesome. Best lyricist in hip hop if you ask me. I'm seriously glad to see him getting some more recognition, even if it is in subtle ways.

[@LMBC6Brian]

Taran looks like a noble man with the hoodie draped over him lol.

[@neferiusnexus]

Eyy! Shoutout for the guy rocking the AE-5 soundcard! I bought mine because it was cheaper than getting a DAC+AMP setup... and then I proceeded to break it, buy another, then spend that much over buying more WIMA foil caps. But the important bit, buying more powerful PNP+NPN transistors (D882+B772) and going through 200 pieces to hand-match the most powerful two pairs with the highest matching hFE rating.... that was surprisingly cheap! (Albeit time consuming.) ...but of course audiophiles laugh at my setup when I show it off despite it being able to now output 1000mW of power @32Ohm at ridiculously low distortion rates for its price bracket ._.)

[@CarthagoMike]

Taran's PC really got me a good laugh, since its Frankenstein looks and placement yet perfectly functional approach is exactly how every PC in my family is.

[@Joe-so6su]

I'm kind of surprised Taran isn't more into PCs. Mostly with how much he is into efficiency of software controls.

[@ffwast]

Well there's a good reason he's interested in efficiency...

[@briandsouza7854]

Agreed! I was also shocked to see his old hardware! 😬

[@TheHammerGuy94]

as a programmer: you need hardware to run software, but you need software to maximize the hardware's potential. So it made sense that Taran being the macro king is deeper into the software side of things on PCs.

[@LordPrometheous]

I love how clean the 2nd guy (readhead) has his build put together. It just dawned on me that the way people are hiding all their wires is to have the mobo mounted underneath the plate. Why am I just now realizing this? Now I can't wait to do another build, once the chip famine is over with. Maybe by then, eVga will finally let me know it's my turn to get a 3080 at MSRP.

[@DamnCyrus]

Jake's PC actually infuriates me because it is such a wasteful case, but I also love just how perfectly clean it looks having a little itx mobo in that giant case. Next build for myself I am going the all white look.

[@insainllama]

It's wasteful now but it will allow him to expand in the future

[@eliasoreinic5003]

5000D is a very good airflow case, so being bigger and have less component is actually not that bad.

[@rjsmith2007]

My PC is the same way. I got an ITX motherboard because I had originally planned to make a tiny hackintosh, but ended up getting a Phanteks Eclipse P400s case (with a solid side panel, no window).

[@mryellow6918]

Not really wasteful it's probably very quiet

[@bryan.w.t]

I like Matt's approach. It's simple and everything is on one device. Really want to learn how he does things with DeX

[@gamagama69]

samsung phones s8 and up support it. All you need is a usb-c to hdmi adapter, and some form of keyboard and mouse. You could get a laptop dongle for all that, and even connected wired ethernet.

[@mohddanialakmal2781]

I dont hv samsung device but i do own 1+ 7t, which also hv a desktop mode, albeit shittier lol. Need to install taskbar + secondscreen(to adjust dpi) But it is still a nice experience. Did some ms office(web ver since it is better than app ver on android imo), photo editing etc. Really depend with the web app, like chrome os i think. Only downside is i cant use extension like mendelay when using word for citation

[@teddy7746]

lol "my parents decided to try mining" cool ass parents right there

[@agunemon]

This is a great linus-free video that they can do to fill up slots in the week... I hope they continue this hehehe... edit: props to the dude using dex for work and video editing, finally someone utilizing their flagship and using it for more than basic phone stuff and for what its actually capable of.

[@duffatty]

"You may think everyone at LMG has cutting edge PCs. But we dont!" Enter 3000 series cards and a threadripper lol

[@DennyFatKid]

"LMG Staff pleading to Linus for an Intel tech upgrade" is the alternate title to this.

[@UnhipSpring-hu2kn]

Everyone thinks everyone at LG has... Me: na I've seen Dennis's old set up

[@Mr.Morden]

7:00 wires thru the wall in the next room is literally what I did for years without good AC in south Florida. I put a 24 inch box fan next to the case with the side panel off and that was remarkably effective.

[@MrCODEmaster00]

Southwest Florida here, have thought about that before when I was running 2 CRT monitors and my desktop.. Nowadays I have a Corsair 750D Airflow case, and also a Cyberpower 1500watt "UPS" (Uninterruptible Power Supply) because well.. Florida Power. Honestly am going to be building a Thin mITX computer when I can be bothered to, cuts down on power consumption/heat dissipation by a lot + is portable, moreso than a Full Size ATX case anyways.

[@joshuastedford1670]

One of my favourite LTT videos yet. My main takeaway was actually how bored I am of ATX builds. A few months ago, a 5900X/3080/5000D combo would make me blush, but I couldn't care less. I'm officially going SFF for my next build. Shoutout to the guy with the XPS. I've got a 2018 model with a 4k touch, and it's utterly brilliant. I'd definitely recommend any fairly recent XPS if searching for an ultrabook.

[@stylezlp]

Taran looks like he's training at Kamar-Taj these days.

[@tybehny5722]

This comment is underrated.

[@tybehny5722]

@GMEZA -Taran "There's power beyond macros?! Teach me!!"

[@stylezlp]

@@tybehny5722 aegroriufjhaeowfjif "My hands don't work". .

[@tybehny5722]

@@stylezlp Hahaha! Yes! -Also Taran: "Why is there a page missing from the Tome of Infinniton Black Macro?" -Anthony: "It was stolen... by Berkel."

[@jonmayer]

I'm guessing Taran doesn't own a surge protector. $15 could have saved his PC.

[@insainllama]

Not really surprised considering how janky his set up seems

[@cocotug0]

you can even add one to the main electric panel and it works for the whole home!

[@tampixena]

sometimes even the surge protection can fail. don't ask how I know it

[@carlangelo653]

Same thing happened to me while connected to a Surge Protector. Power shut off, it came back and psu was dead. I was using a tripp lite and it was fine, so I was thinking that maybe it wasn't a surge that killed it.

[@evolicious]

Taran seems to be oblivious about everything else except video editing, lol.

[@ggmanatee]

"It's nothing special and it does the job for me." I love it I think we get so caught up trying to get the best of the best nowadays, and never fully utilize that hardware.

[@Bigred10101]

I kinda feel like Matt does deserve to have a PC though, because man having to use your phone to edit music would be so painful!! It could be an interesting video about giving him a max budget say $500 or $600 and then seeing how he spends it and what you can get in today's market

[@Tw3akst3r]

When you use Samsung DeX it is connected to a display (and can have a mouse and kybd) and works just like a computer with a desktop OS similar to Chrome OS in terms of looks. I enjoy using it personally though I don't need it often due to having several laptops and desktops.

[@LRM12o8]

@@Tw3akst3r well, Chrome OS _is_ a pain in the butt...

[@larsradtke4097]

Android Desktop Mode works great. With Samsung DeX you can also you dual screen setup.

[@vadnegru]

Let's face it, 90% of pc stuff (aside from games and workstation use) is just web app that also works on a phone.

[@evolicious]

@@vadnegru Because android is very similar to chrome environment (both made by google), which is a desktop OS. Which is why they can easily emulate desktop environments and filing.

[@thumpsmcgee6899]

They really said “that’s not the case” when mentioning them all having great rigs. Casually have rtx 3070 and 3090 in their rigs

[@TankSenior]

"Casually have rtx 3070 and 3090 in their rigs" None of them have a 3090 though?

[@Thefreakyfreek]

Linus must be paying them good

[@carlangelo653]

@shirase I mean it was shitty point to begin with.

[@TankSenior]

@shirase How am I the one being petty if only 2 of them really have a relatively impressive system?

[@vadnegru]

@@TankSenior dual 1080ti is not impressive for you?

[@TheRealLink]

As someone who self-built a gargantuan rig with 16 RGB PWM fans, 8 drives, and a custom loop, the amount of wires quickly became staggering. I *feel* Matthias' comment at about 8:50 man. SO MANY WIRES. My attempt at good cable management is now out the window but hey, machine works great.

[@soulizsouliz]

Truer words have never been spoken. "I don't like the dualshock controller" -Matt 2021

[@___Robin___]

@@dstranger idk if you really can't stand the position of the analogue stick it will bother you on every game. I wouldn't own a switch if I had to live with the standard joycons. They are unplayable for me so I would rather give up on franchises like zelda and pokemon than having an experience that feel discomfortable to me. If nintendo didn't have the pro controller I would rather use an emulator and skip on the online parts of those games than having to use those obnoxious joy cons. I've used them they were uncomfortable and they soon had drift issues. I'm a pro geometry dash player and the two most important things are my high refresh monitor and my mouse. I own a basilisk v2 that costed me 50 USD. Would I enjoy having a crappy or different mouse, not really. I wouldn't even mind paying 1000 USD for this mouse in specific cause it is that good for the game. My point being is that I can fully understand someone skipping some exclusives for a better user experience.

[@candyman1310]

@@___Robin___ bro whaat??? LMFAO

[@___Robin___]

@@candyman1310 I mean I got over 5000 hours in that game. That game is pretty much my life c:

[@sicsiddd]

I mean even as someone who prefers the ps4 controller I can see why some people wouldn’t like it. It’s all about preference

[@mattieb98]

Agreed on the PS3 controller, that was physically painful to use. I've tried the PS4 one a couple of times and while it's pretty bad, it doesn't hurt to hold it anymore.

[@nogoat]

0:09 Well, I'd expect you guys to have that since Intel Extreme Tech Upgrade exists.

[@foxxyytofficial]

i came to the comments to say that but i knew in my heart that someone already said it

[@slyfer3k]

that geoff guy using the split power cable for his GPU "eeeeekkkk"

[@YouAreBreathing]

Aw, I was hoping Madison would show off her PC, and maybe tell us some stories of her and Linus that happened during the build that didn't make it to the video.

[@Flipcrash]

Drinking Game: Drink anytime you see and inventory sticker or knows the parts come from LMG

[@akameoce]

bring your kid to work day, no. bring your pc to work day, yes.

[@nikaiitrk]

Jake : “People think we Have Cutting Edge technology in our home “ Also him : Rtx 3080

[@mazi4203]

"People think that everyone at lmg must have the most cutting edge tech in our homes" "But the truth is very different" Immediately proceeds to show off rigs with rtx 30 series graphics cards and ryzen 5000 series CPUs

[@foxxyytofficial]

i came to the comments to say that, but i knew in my heart that someone already said it

[@DaemonForce]

The X570-I Strix? Jake has the most sensible build, hands down. I still can't believe that thing exists and I'm on a X570 TUF Gaming board. This thing is loaded. I'm on a R5 3600, 64GB DDR4, a RX 580 for my VR/compute/rendering and an antique water cooling case from 2002. I must be really pinching storage because I have nothing close to even half a TB for SSD space. Just a single 240GB nvme and a 120GB sata. The most inspiring part of this video has to be the console dedication. I seriously need to do something with my 360.

[@kubev]

I don't know what I expected from Taran, but I'm also not surprised. Amusingly, back when I was in college, one of my roommates got evicted for drug and weapon possession, and my cousin and I were sharing the other bedroom in the apartment at the time. Instead of having one of us move into the spare bedroom, we just put a laundry drying rack in there, cranked the heat, and closed the door to save money on drying our laundry. (The electricity bill was already built into the rent.) It was really funny when someone from the school came to inspect the apartment at some point, as she opened that door and was hit by a heat wave as heat poured out of the room.

[@aravindvissamsetty]

"I went to school where we were given this Alienware.." "When I returned from England after school.." "So my parents had all these 1080 Ti's lying around.." Mathias, just how loaded are you?

[@ryanwallace983]

Maybe he got a scholarship? Idk

[@brickson98m]

lol what he said about mechanics not wanting to work on their own cars because they work on cars all day definitely applies to people in IT. I feel that way like 99% of the time. I used to love tinkering with my computer but now I leave it alone as much as I can because it just works.

[@fu5ionazzo188]

at LTT they dont have "bring your kid/pet at work" they have "bring your pc for a video at work"

[@fionafiona1146]

In a wanShow Linus talked about the importance of keeping the workplace "safe" from rouge allergens and unsupervised children... Homeoffice apparently got expanded though.

[@BoSaGuy]

Ever since I saw Jake messing around and acting or actually being scared on that lift thing in Linus’ parents’ cabin WiFi upgrade video, I can’t get Sylvester from Scorpion out of my mind when he hosts.

[@aaddy2d]

That was the smooth transition to the sponsor

[@notsogood2576]

12:35 "I guess Linus isn't the only one who drops stuff down" damn.

[@AaronShenghao]

Intel: Okay Linus we are a bit tight on sponsee money…. So… Linus: … Intel: I’m sure all of your employees already got a upgrade yes? Linus: …Wanna some proof?

[@dragonlax9405]

We all know that we want the extreme intel upgrade for our beloved molti-keyboard guy who I do not know the name of, but I adore him

[@GuruTheCoder]

@@dragonlax9405 taran

[@GuruTheCoder]

taran vanhemert

[@ncjsgrki]

It's crazy that my PC would destroy every single PC in this video and I'm currently looking on upgrading because I got bored of it. This video made me appreciate my PC a little more.

[@AdaaDK]

This kinda needed to be a thing, before the intel tech upgrade, since now everyone got the best after that series is hitting each one of them.