(dramatic music)
- Whoa!
- We're good.
(groans)
- This is a...
- Okay, so it's usually Linus who shows up
at somebody's house to do an extreme tech upgrade
sponsored by Intel.
But the problem is that he's usually here
to upgrade a PC.
As far as I'm aware,
there's never actually been a PC in this house.
So maybe we can get Mark to let us in
a little bit on why it is he's never had a PC.
- Hello there.
(laughs)
(upbeat techno music)
(crashing sounds)
- All right, well, I think the last time
I was at a house without a PC in it was the 1990s.
So, why don't you show me what it looks like?
- Sure, all right.
Well, everything is integrated with HomeKit.
- HomeKit?
I have the Eero device here,
which is the mesh network.
One that works with HomeKit.
- You don't wanna mount it somewhere, like up here?
- I'm working on it.
This is the kitchen.
So, these are my knives and everything.
- Oh.
- Before I was an editor, I used to be a butcher.
Yeah, so before I cut videos, I cut meat.
- I guess it's a natural evolution.
- Yeah.
- So, who's the very good boy
that's been following us around all the time?
- Oh, this is Ben.
He's my dog.
He's got 2,000 followers on Instagram.
- Really?
- Yeah, Ben the terrier.
Fun fact, he's not actually a terrier.
Don't tell anyone.
- Is that a plasma TV?
- Yes, a 42 inch plasma TV.
I did not buy this.
- So, it wasn't specifically for playing games?
- Oh, definitely not.
- I'm guessing the reason we're here though
is you're going to replace it.
- Absolutely.
- What are you replacing it with?
- A 55 inch LG OLED TV.
- And there's also a soundbar over here.
I noticed you don't have a soundbar
or any kind of speakers right now.
- Yeah, so I got this.
I chose the Sonos Arc,
mainly because it's HomeKit integrated.
- Oh.
- So, I can connect it
very easily with AirPlay.
I know a lot of people in the comments
are gonna say I shouldn't mount it over a fireplace.
- [Andy] Linus would say that.
- Yeah.
- This is true.
Talk about burn-in.
(laughs)
- The air purifier over there is also HomeKit enabled.
- Why do you need an air purifier to be HomeKit enabled?
- So I can shut it off when we leave the house.
- Do you not have a remote control?
- The remote control is my iPhone.
(upbeat music)
So continuing with the home tour.
- Okay.
- It's upstairs.
So this is kind of my home office slash studio.
- Okay.
Slash server room, slash everything.
- Server room?
- Well, yeah, here's my server.
- Huh, you got an actual rack.
- Yeah, yeah.
Is it just the Drobo?
- Nope.
- Is it the camera?
- Nope.
Come over here.
It's that!
- What? This!
- That's my server.
And this is my desktop editor,
which is a VCR.
- Yeah, that's about what I thought that was.
- Yeah.
Oh yeah, we got this when the first iMac came out,
it came packaged with the computer.
I don't get rid of my Macs,
I just re-purpose them for other uses.
- So you don't get rid of your Macs,
where's your iMac G3?
- I don't know.
I was looking for it, I actually have a G3, a G4 cube,
I have a 6,400 power Mac.
Also, I have a Apple II Plus.
- Okay.
- That I actually think my mom got rid of,
a while...
- Got rid of?
- I moved out and then we moved back in.
- So this is your mom's place?
- Not exactly, look, she lives with me.
- Okay, okay.
Whatever you say.
I see you also have a 3D printer.
- Yep. This is the one I got from work.
- [Andy] Stolen from the office.
- Yeah.
- Yes stolen from the...
- That's the excuse we're using.
Despite you know, being an Apple guy,
I do play games.
It's not like I don't have Windows installed on here.
It's through Boot Camp.
- [Andy] Boot Camp?
- Yeah, Boot Camp.
- [Andy] That's illegal.
- Uh...
I mean, it is kind of now with M1,
and that's part of the reason why I really need a PC.
- Right.
You can't upgrade.
- Well, I can't upgrade Windows anyway,
because I have an eGPU.
- Oh that's what that is.
- Yeah, in order to game with it,
I should be plugging into the display port
or HDMI or whatever into the GPU.
But this monitor here is Thunderbolt only,
so I have to plug it into the MacBook.
But let me show you how I have to boot
into Windows, there's the real challenge.
So to do this properly, I need to set the start-up disc
to Boot Camp.
What I usually do is press restart.
And then I unplug everything.
I got to hot plug it right now into the left port.
- Okay.
Cool.
- Huzzah, all right.
So now the fun part.
So now what I have to do is I have to unplug the eGPU,
plug it into the other side, unplug it again.
- Wait, what?
- And then plug it in again.
And now its recognized.
(computer beeps)
Now I can plug everything else back in.
- So, tell me something.
- Yep.
- Where are you going to set up your actual build?
- Right here.
- Do you have a display for it?
- This is the display.
So I got a EVGA 3080, because they're the only
ones that had GPUs for some reason.
- Fair enough.
- I got these Lian Li fans because I was
recommended them and they just came out and
they looked pretty.
That's what I'm going for, clean.
And a red theme, that's the other thing.
- A red theme?
- Yeah.
- You know, you do know that this is sponsored by Intel?
- Yes I understand that, and you know,
as a Apple user, I've always been team Blue.
- Yeah.
- And before I was team Blue,
I was team Big Blue.
So we got a Core i7.
- Yup, 11700K.
- Yup.
And then this was the most important piece
of the puzzle, because this is the Z590 ACE from MSI.
- And the reason I got it is because it has
Thunderbolt 4, and that's what I need
to make it work with that monitor.
- Mm-hmm.
- The big ticket item here is the case.
- Please don't tell me that's an Antec 900.
- Nope.
This is a Tou 2.O
- What?
- [Andy] You got that case?
- Yeah.
So the reason I got this case is it was
featured in the first video I was in, an LTT video.
If I'm going to get a PC, I'm going to go all-out PC.
- This case is weird.
- It's literally made of windows.
- So the CORE I7 11700K is a 8-core,
16 thread processor with a base frequency
of 3.6 gigahertz with a maximum turbo of 5.O.
And thanks to this rather beefy cooler,
we should be able to actually do that
much more often than we normally would be able to.
Now, Mark's not here to defend himself,
but I don't see any RAM here.
For now I'm going to move on to the NVME SSD.
Now this is the Sabrent Rocket NVME 4.O,
these are actually quite good drives.
Price to performance-wise, it's kind of tough
to say no to them.
- Yeah, I'll get you the RAM.
- Oh, the RAM question, It's finally being answered.
Where is it?
- Here's the answer.
- What is it?
Crucial Ballistix, okay.
So DDR4 3200, 15-18-18-36.
So... it's fine.
- It's fine.
- Did you... Yeah, this is... You took this from the office.
(beep)
- I was kicked out of the computer club.
- [Andy] What?
- Yeah, in high school, I was kicked out of the
computer club.
- [Andy] Why?
- Because I was a Mac user.
Yeah. No, nothing important.
I just kind of screwed one of the drywall
anchors into the wall somehow.
I don't even know how that works.
- So you're probably asking like, "Okay, this looks amazing.
I'm holding basically a Tetris block.
How do we power it?"
Well, we've got this.
It goes straight on something like,
not like that.
Hang on, what?
So, it goes on like that.
I don't look like a fool at all.
So you just snap it on there and you're good to go.
Well, I noticed that you don't have
a whole lot of RGB, these fans are basically it.
- I want to make it tasteful.
- You don't think unicorn vomit is tasteful?
- Unicorn vomit?
No.
A case made of glass?
Yeah.
- Long story short, I've got the fans in and
I've got the fan controller and RGB hub in.
I still need to do cable management,
but there's not a whole lot of cable management
opportunities in this case, unfortunately.
So we'll have to see how that goes.
- Well, to go with the red and black build, we got...
- Purple.
- Purple and blue.
- Brown.
- Brown and purple.
- Okay. So I've discovered a slight problem.
- Yeah?
- Okay, so there are two of these.
- Yeah.
- There's only one of those on the board,
- Yeah.
- Which would you prefer, the Type-C or the Type-As?
- Maybe Type-C.
- That's what it currently looks like.
- Dang.
- Yeah.
Everything should be good to go from here.
All that's left to do is to throw the side panels
on and power it up.
- Hey, let's see if this works.
Is it this?
- Nope.
There you go.
- Holy Crap.
- Hey!
- That's a lot of light.
- Sure is!
That is some grade A rainbow barf.
- Ben seems to like it.
- Yeah, it looks like it's like 54, 60 FPS.
- Wow!
- Dipping into the forties, but you've got it
turned up to unreasonable in 5K, so.
- Yeah.
(upbeat music)
- So I guess this is the part where we're taking
down the old TV and putting the new one in?
- Pretty much.
- All right. You got a drill?
- [Andy] If not we're just gonna use your knife.
- Yeah we'll use your knives, that'll work.
- Yeah. (laughs)
- You can.
(snapping sound)
We're good.
(groans)
- All I did was let up off it a little bit.
- Yeah.
- I'm kind of glad it's you and not Linus right now.
I can't see.
- I think you need to go up a bit.
Here we go.
- How do we lock it in place?
- It is.
And I think, I don't know what this is for.
Oh, wait. Hold on.
- "To unlock the TV from the wall plate,
pull down and hold both of those."
- Good thing I didn't pull down on those.
(sarcastic laugh)
Yeah.
- Cause we "Get it right the first time."
- Yeah.
Wow, that's like the first time in any
Linus Tech Tips video.
- Well it's cause we didn't just like,
"Oh, what was this do?" Yank. We're like,
"What does this do? Oh! Yeah, don't do that."
- Yeah. We read the manual.
Always read the manual.
You see I kind of peeled a little bit already.
(crackling sound)
- Why would you do that?
Oh, it's actually making a beautiful sound.
- It's like a campfire.
- Yeah, oh yeah.
Oh, that looks pretty.
- So another reason I chose the Arc was
mainly because sometimes I don't want to have
the TV on, especially it's an OLED,
but I do want to play music or something.
And I can just, you know, from the laptop down
here or upstairs, just AirPlay straight to this
on the network.
- So what you're saying is,
it's a glorified HomePod.
- Yeah.
No, the HomePod kind of sucks.
This is just it, I'm not like a fanboy
of every product Apple comes out with.
I don't have an Apple Watch and literally
everybody at the office has an Apple Watch.
Yeah.
So, there's your explanation there.
- Press the OK button wheel on your remote.
- Okay, I'm getting it. God.
(crashing sound)
- Whoa.
- [Andy] Did you destroy anything?
- What? Oh, that's the legs, right?
- Holy crap. That's a huge remote.
(laughs)
- [Andy] Wow, that remote is big!
- Yeah, press the wheel.
(orchestral music)
Yeah, it looks pretty good to me.
Sounds good to me.
- Dang.
- All right, that's gonna just about do it I think.
We've got the TV mounted, we've got the PC built.
Everything is good to go.
So hopefully, Mark enjoys his newly upgraded spaces.
Hopefully you enjoyed this video in part
of Intel's extreme tech upgrade series.
Mine was the first one,
but there's plenty more than you can watch.
There's David's, there's Andy's, there's Colton's,
there's Riley's, there's Dennis's.
If we can twist enough arms at Intel,
we can get everybody one of these.
So stay tuned for more of these and thanks
again for Intel sponsoring this series.
- What is he?
- He's a Chihuahua poodle and
a few other things.