Awesome Tips My Assistant became my Boss for the Day – AMD $5000 Ultimate Tech Upgrade
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Vance is the executive assistant to the higher ups here at Linus Media Group, but today its his time to shine having Linus build him a new computer, a new NAS, and even installing posters! Linus also attempts to make coffee, but we will just tell him he did a good job even though it turned out… not great!
Check out the items from the Vance’s upgrade:
AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D 5.2 GHz 8-core CPU:
GIGABYTE Gaming Radeon RX 9070 XT 16GB GPU:
LG 65″ C4 OLED TV:
Fractal Design Node 804 Micro ATX Case:
Roborock QX Revo Robot Vacuum and Mop:
Samsung Galaxy S25 256GB Icyblue:
ASUS TUF B-650-PLUS Motherboard:
RM850x White, 850 Watt, 80+ Plus Gold PSU:
Thermalright Phantom Spirit 120 SE CPU Air Cooler:
T-Force Vulcan DDR5 32GB (2x16GB) 6000MHz CL30 RAM:
Acer Nitro XV275U 165 Hz LED Monitor:
8BitDo Ultimate 2 Wireless Controller:
Seagate 8TB 7.2k 256MB SATA 6Gb/s 3.5 512e SED Enterprise HDD
BaBylissPRO® Ceramix Xtreme™ Curling Iron and Flat Iron Duo:
Flying Appa Displate Poster:
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CHAPTERS
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0:00 Intro
1:20 AMD Giveaway!
1:49 What has Vance stolen?
3:03 Lets start upgrading
4:21 Linus tries to make Coffee
6:26 Computer upgrade!
11:25 Vance gets TOO Comfortable
12:36 Linus Sketch Tips
13:39 Continue the Build
16:43 Swapping the TV
17:40 Some final Touches
19:15 The computer has issues…
21:59 The Final Setup
Deals for Days. Big home savings are happening now.
This feels like a Micheal Scott moment.
10:26 How did you miss the peel here! Shame!
Wow the Sound Switch was an actual tec tip I didn't know.
One of my favorite series 😅 thank you! Its awesome! ❤😊
Oh I love this one lmao
So Happy to see the RX 9070 XT!!!! Go Team Red!!!!! I would've chosen XFX…But that's me…Still an ABSOLUTLEY FANTASTIC CHOICE Vance!!!
Linus. Can i get a tech upgrade? More like a tech all new setup. Cuz the tech i have is a laptop only. 😭
you never give away to Africa. give this away to Africa please. I am in Tanzania Africa
that seem like a real small apartment…
Great Episode!
That's a content. Watching Linus getting into a role is entertainming. I might have to fly with floatplane fir an exclussive behind the scenes
19:42 threw a trash bag, into space
20:10 Linus' face! 🤣 LMFAO!!! Bro was not diggin that one.
9:36 – Dont try cover it up Linus it didnt pop off 😭 (I would demand a refund. ASUS Make more springy things😏) – Also Asus fix the broken Fan expert widget 🤨
an app for hotkeys? WIN-CTRL-V then click the output you want…
we got another "Linus forgot to peel off the sticker" before GTA 6 boiiii
Amd coming in to kick Intel extreme upgrade out
Now a video idea where they actually trade positions for a day 😂
8:15 how has Linus never seen a Fractal Design Node 804, the case has been in production for at least 10 years
HEY LINUS!!!! THAT PC BLACK SCREEN ISSUE. so on my pc the gpu was a radeon 5700xt that took more than a 700w powersupply. i have 700w. so basically i thought my pc was shutting off when it reached the power threshhold for the psu. so the only solution i found was undervolting the gpu to stop it from reaching the threshhold.
I want to know if the cpu overheating was ur issue? was the psu fine? because my pc doesnt overheat at all and it does the same thing. i assume dead psu but i cant prove because im to broke to buy an 850w or better.
1:04 still works tho
17:01 Ya’ll (LTT staff) should honestly look into the Samsung S90 series when recommending TVs for these upgrades. They’re better than the LGs in pretty much every conceivable way, even gaming features.
"have a seat over there" elijah laughing at that sounding like Chris Hansen 😂
Most overkill NAS ever?
I have a 16 core Xeon E5-2697A V4, 256GB Registered ECC (fully functional), in an X99 Taichi with a dual port 25Gb Ethernet card, GTX 1050 and 4 port SAS12 HBA with sixteen 4TB 7200rpm drives in two RaidZ3 VDEVs.
And even I would say that's not overkill because Jake wins that crown with the NAS he built for the pi record.
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Welp, that's the first time I've seen Linus forgot to remove the heatsink sticker. I guess he got distracted when he attempted to make coffee using the V60 method 😂
Linus talking about how he liked the NAS case is pretty funny. He has a dedicated video on that exact case from May of 2014.
20:52 imagine, you're in the military and you will make such a mistake… Somebody could die or you blow off equipment for 100 millions….this is not the same but similar responsibility to do it in the right way.
Respect for showing mistakes.
so Linus do make mistakes… +confidence
Love the upgrade series!
This episode was sooo good
Linus leaving the heatsink thermal sticker on just go to show anyone can f u c k up while buildig a pc
Now we know who is really doing the stuff #LIEnus
Even veteran PC builders aren't immune to one of the biggest PC building rookie mistakes, it seems…
Those Kraft knives just hurt seeing them. Invest in a good folder.
I would be FRAMING that Cooler plastic with thermal compound on it 😂😂😂
15:00 Limp bizkit reference
All LTT members have bad taste in games.
It's so bad I think it's an advertisement
TLOU2, South of MIdnight, DA Vailguard etc.
22:25 but windows has its own switcher
Linus is gettin old @ 8:45 he is looking the cpu text from quite far 😀
Please look at eveonline it is a game by the ccp
This is basically my setup except I ran cables from my office to the living room including extension cables for the wifi/Bluetooth antenna.
I even think he got the same 1440p BenQ monitor except I got two of them plus a 1080p Dell turned vertical.
There is nothing like PC gaming from the couch on an OLED.
1:00 That monitor was born 2 months after me…
As a German I'm confused they called the "Hocker" a "Stuhl" and the "Stuhl" a "chair" xD
i have build almost the same pc 3weeks ago and its freaking amazing.
Hey! No techshaming here! I also have a monitor that's from the earl 2000s! It's an acer and still goes hard!
17:41 I also uses Vault for my SATA SSD, Glacier for my 4TB 3.5" HDD ('cause it move slowly) and Iceberg for 500GB 2.5" HDD ('cause it's a smaller chunk of a glacier)
he has a better nas then my gaming pc….