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1. the last time we invaded the privacy of our staff entering their homes and rifling through their belongings. It was for The Wall of shame, showing you guys the three worst computers out of everyone who works at a lioness and a lioness at Linus tech tips. This time around we're gonna find the three best machines out of everybody who works here, except there is one small challenge. Last time we took the very worst one and gave them a free upgrade this time around. This is already the people who have the most ball and setup, so we had to dig pretty deep to find anything that would be an upgrade so Intel our sponsor. For today's video has provided a core. I 999 hundred K and Asus chipped in one of their Maximus rog gaming motherboards as well. So, let's head into our first contestant here, i can tell you one thing: they definitely have a better gaming rig than a barbecue by wow. I thought it was a propane one, but is actually it's. That'S actually looked in there. We'D have a natural gas and there's another one over here we have three, so our first stop. Rather, unsurprisingly, is Jake's house, or rather I should say, Jake's mom's house, which might explain why Jake has so much budget to spend on his gaming setup. One thing he doesn't apparently have budget for is a soldering iron. Although I got ta say Jake, I really appreciate you helpfully taking all the things that you've stolen from the office and putting them in one place for me, so that I don't have to go digging for them. Like I did at Dennis's house. I also bought it. I pay for this. I actually was looking for. This is like our third solder, and I borrowed it for like two days well, I was looking for this one. What about the floss? Are you flossing right now? I actually have not seen Jake's setup. There'S some unusual things like, for example, this UPS, that's definitely from the office. Yes, I do have so many wireless mice I like to switch it up. Sometimes that's a G 305 you've got a G pro wireless. You already have the king of gaming mice. I, like the G 305 and then the 403 is just kind of nostalgia. You know, let's see if he has all of them plugged in okay. This one is indeed actually active. This one is also. I also have another 403 502 s and I think there's a G 900 somewhere, oh, oh god, yeah cables are kind of short. So what are you already running? How'S this ITX? So this case is actually 4 M ATX, but the board that I had was ITX. Oh and that graphics card is so massive that I can't even put anything else in PCIe slots, though whatever I'm just trying to figure out how much of this stuff is from the office literally none of it literally none of it. You know that Ram has an inventory sticker. Ok! Well, I thought I bought it from work. This is a pretty bangin red 20 atti, 16 gigs ram. What cpu is that in there? So that's 7700 K yeah well at least that would be an upgrade on the subject of mechanic. I really like your a decal that you've got on your your rear panel here yeah. So that's actually my old tr.im/1nkA7 car that some guy like hand-drew. These have me a sticker and I stuck it on the side of my case that voltage cable. I did not pay for. Oh that's, nice, so I actually saw this trick online. You use the bolt to cable and stick the little one or two gram dongle a bit in the mouse and assuming that somebody isn't holding it well, it just goes like that and you just go hooks up charges the mouse. What about this chair? I think I bought that chair from work for $ 10 no way it was broken on the bottom and then I got a new base for it and it's like kind of wonky, but it's good enough. It'S better than the IKEA chair I had before this is actually a pretty sick setup. You'Ve got to a surprise, X, 30 fours, so these are 100 Hertz. I see you've helpfully put the yeah okay, 34, 40 by 1440 ultra wide monitors and then I'm guessing. These are your old monitors over here. I actually bought those as side monitors off a guy from Craigslist for really cheap, so you seem to be kind of set up for streaming, but as far as I know, you don't actually game streams. So are you just like a poser streamer? I didn't stream for like eight months I used to do it quite a bit and then recently I've done it. You know once or twice a week just on the not-yet LTT minecraft server. So why don't you tell us about your audio setup here because it seems to be a fair bit better than land show. So, overall, it's actually pretty simple. This is the same preamp we use on Windows. This is where I got the inspiration to buy it. So I have an audio technica at2020 ting with a road psa1 boom arm. So that goes right into the preamp, which is pre-empting our signal, and then it goes over to this little crappy behringer interface, your webcam kind of it does kind of sucks, but it's it's honestly good enough lets you unplug it when you're not using it. Well see this thing with this stupid webcam is this: is how long the cable is? It'S like three feet, but it's conveniently just long enough to plug in right there, so I might as well just unplug it to talk about it when I'm not using right. Why do you need two 34 inch ultra wide z' worth of desktop real estate? Ah, pretty much just have everything you need access to, while you're streaming, while you're gaming and then have your game on the main screen and don't have to tap out like literally ever pretty Saxena with that said, I think you might end up giving up some style Points here this stand, this is three two by eights. This is pretty bad Jake I mean okay also also. I couldn't help notice saying that, even if this Hardware wasn't stolen from work, it's not really being treated with the proper respect down here under the bed. We'Ve got a heart, that's are dead, hard drive got another hard drive dead, and what is this? Do your laundry got a ps3, those okay? So that's the other more different. Just one of those ps3, this is fun, is running Linux. I bet this IO field is stolen from the I want more

2. monitors yeah. I don't know if it's necessarily more efficient, but it is convenient. So contender number two was sort of a surprise to me because he's more into board games than computer games. As far as I knew, but our next set up is actually none other than Tyler's our warehouse in inventory and logistics manager, yeah, and I think the important thing to remember when you step into my home is that at the office I am the organization and cleanliness Guy - and this is my setup - Wow okay - so I've seen Tyler working on this kind of stuff at the office. Oh, I think I actually saw you working on this guy yeah. You did Tyler actually paints his own figurines with figurine, be the correct term miniature. I knew there was a proper term that I was missing here. I think he does a spectacular job of them I'll. Let you guys be the judge, though, why don't we make our way in towards the computer so got ta get past the boxes of new miniatures? That you still haven't worked on. Oh some of them have some paint on them, though they got their white coats on and then they got their green trim. And then I have my collection of various romance books and real human hair that I use for cosplay, along with a list of real letters, two fictional people that you apparently need to write yeah. So that's that's a series of short stories that I'm working on to the other participants of this Mexican standoff to the poor bastards on the other side of the blast door and to the anonymous man giving me constructive criticism. That'S just more painting stuff yeah with something something got on there. Yeah it's it's just all over. I can only focus when something's. This close, I think that's how close it's supposed to be when you're working on it. I don't like it yeah, I'm not a fan. Either in terms of general setup here, there's some highlights already and there's some lowlights and we've got a g502 Mouse like it. We'Ve got one of those free mouse pads that they gave away in the early 90s. This is a freaking lg ultrawide monitor here, 34 inches you're connected via HDMI. Aren'T you? Yes, I am he's running at 49 Hertz instead of 60 Hertz on his ultra wide because of the bandwidth limitation of the HDMI input on this model. Tyler, this keyboard is quite frankly, disgusting needs to be swapped out yeah. It is uh or run through the difference or something something please. It has been with me for a long time. Your computer might actually be the cleanest component of this entire rig. Well, it's the newest. What kind of specs are we looking at here? So it's an i7 8700 GeForce 1080 TI 32 gigabytes of ram RGB an SSD and a hard drive. So did someone at the office put this together for oh yeah this? This was all that I was going to do it on my own, because I felt very confident my abilities, but then, as soon as I started, putting it together, I realized that it was quite out of my league. So what inspired you to put together a rig like this? So first I wanted to play fallout 76, but then it became quickly apparent that it was a terrible game. So then, after that, I wanted to play the outer world when it comes out, so I'm pretty eager for that at the moment, mostly, I use it for civilization, which is this is overkill. It'S a little over the kill for Civ, although I did see a lot of performance improvement in the later game when normally the processing power starts to lag down just because there's so much stuff on the map. But it's still more of like a machine that I built for gaming in the next two to three years, as opposed to stuff. That'S just out right now! Tyler do you have a screwdriver? I think Kristen has one just. Let me check. Okay, we have a screwdriver, so I fix it told us we had to get rid of all the first gen kits so that they would stop appearing on camera and Tyler helpfully took one off of our hands for us. Yes, I feeling right on that grenade. I knew I was gonna find something stolen. It'S not stolen, if you give it to me, did ed know when he built you this machine that it was going to be subjected this subjected to what I mean it does sit in a fairly gloriously nerdy place. I'M willing to bet there's a backstory for literally everything in this nook. What'S the backstory for this surprise container. So this was brought to me from one of my friends who I'm actually in a role- playing podcast with he went on a trip to Japan and he brought back unique gifts for each of us. I believe it is a little spirit and you don't know what it is. I thought it was a goat. The Kindle looked the dead battery yeah, it's it's a Kindle, that's not plugged in you don't like eating. I love this Kindle. That'S a cat toy, obviously Mycroft batted it behind my computer station 17 months ago. Possibly I enjoy coke, oh my god. Oh the original VHS tapes of Star Wars. Well, we're sorry the last launch of the original of the original or they digitally. I had this and my parents threw it away when they moved yeah. I found those in a thrift shop for $ 3. What do they work, though? They do and you have a VHS player. I do not. This place has a lot of character, but I'll say this: if you're ever doing like a cleanup Saturday or something um call me, I would be happy to help yeah I'll call you when I need to paint my walls first Dennis now, Brandon Taryn was like. Oh, I didn't know you paid walls, I would have had to come paint my walls, it's like it's not actually a service. I offer so. We'Ve had some good ones so far, but Jah knows promises to be the cutest of our set up tours today, not because Johnno is particularly cute, sorry, Donna, but because he has a new puppy. Oh, my goodness, you can pick her up. Yep she's 52. Pounds of love - you were almost show pal, it was a male dog, was gonna call somewhere from the community, so I'm liking the setup here. Overall, you've got the white board for the organization. You got the DualShock controller over there. Do you actually use that for PC gaming? Is that why they're for ps4, I used to have it over here, but I don't play any consoles anymore, so it's

3. all about PC game, don't suck up. Why so, basically enough just let's say for the monitors I'd so Heydrich's quit licking my ass and before i just started working here, I had to watched your review on it. That was like got ta get now you're. Definitely getting some marks off for your other monitor because the viewing angles on that are so bad. I thought you had a privacy filter yeah, so this one is Basin up with. I don't even know how old this is. I think it's like six seven years ago, but I keep keep it vertical because every time I do like any spreadsheet Excel or when I do my after before work kind of stock trading, it's all nice and vertical. For my charts, I am liking the desk pad here: mmm, not bad, oh geez, pretty good, I'm liking it all right, but we're gonna have to move it out of the way. So we can admire the setup here. This is from the office. Isn'T it yep, and so I got it a super good price. How much did you end up paying for this Jimmy really for the lien lead desk? I was at you prepared to pay 500 bucks down and you've got a pretty sick rig in here. So that looks like an RT X, 2080 yeah, 20 atti, 20 atti. I was trying to play add- on with you guys one time and it would just not work so I have to great and then what are we looking at for CPU here? So that's 8700 K. Not overclocked because I just don't feel like bothering with that so right now I have the H 150 I from Corsair, but I did change the fans from the stock ones to the ML 120 s just because our TV and I like the future tech of Maglev. I got them on sale, it was like goes on Newegg for like 40 bucks or three. Oh, that's not TV yeah! That'S not your pretty good! I am venturing that, content maybe into three months, doing a full custom wallet going on. That'S the sound of a quality water bottle dropping on the floor. It'S super good ltte, Starcom yeah. Why do you need it so quiet? Oh, I just wanted you custom water, cooler, you're, one of the only ones that has paid much attention to their sound setup, though I had to do that because my old [ Music ] did you start out huh, but your gaming rig is only part of your Overall computer setup is that right, yes, it is next page yeah, so this is sort of the media and entertainment hub. Now are you on, ironically, using an Xbox one Kinect? If I find any dance games over here, don't know, I don't think so. So even this one looks like a pretty bangin machine here, so you got an NH d15 in here, z, 370. So this is probably what like a 7700 K or that's the 80 680 600 K and then you've got a 1080 Ti in here yeah. This is your secondary machine. It'S for the white. We originally built this for Fallout 76, but the second time we've heard that today, yeah you played breath of the wild. You know and then didn't touch it again. I haven't, you haven't finished breath of the wild, so it's just it got something I didn't want it to end now. Why do you have to PS Force? Oh because Gilly and I could play like destiny and multiplayer games like watchdog as well, but I got those at a pawn shop. So basically these are stolen goods. I have no idea sounds pretty stolen to me now. I did find one thing that was a bit of a cause for concern. Jonno, do you have something to tell us so I travel at least once a year. The first step is admitting that you have a problem. Oh yeah, so welcome to the rose ceremony. Everyone, except instead of roses, we will be awarding a maximus 11 hero, gaming, motherboard and a core I 999 hundred K. This is basically the pinnacle when it comes to gaming and when paired with the right hardware, it'll basically run anything under the Sun at frame rates. That will pretty much boggle your mind and it can be yours if the judges, that's me, select your setup as the famoust. There were some pros and cons to each of your setups Jake you're stood out as by far the geekiest, and I mean that in like a a very functional sense, nobody else would have fought to strip down the housing of their webcam to make it so that It'Ll fit in between the bezels of their vertically stacked ultra wide monitors, massive credit for that. What held your setup back was, quite frankly, the fact that I had to touch one of your socks that was the most disgusting experience went under my bed. That was the most disgusting experience I had today and I touched Tyler's keyboard. I think it was a clean talk to was it Tyler? The vibe I got from your space was that you were more than just about you, know, computers and gaming. You know your nerdy fringe unusual hobbies stretch far beyond just you know, tech. I kind of feel, like you know that you know that Club in high school, with like two or three members I feel like you were in that Club and then you were routerhosting in the other club that was like that Club and I was probably leading both of Those club with that said, you lost some serious brownie points for how Brown my hands were after I touched anything in your setup. Dude, it was disgusting, that's fair, John! Oh you had the slickest set up, so you've got the desk PC going. You'Ve got the whiteboard next to it all your controllers and consoles have a place. You'Ve got somewhere to actually keep all of your games and stuff. I felt, like you, were a little too focused on the dog. You actually lost points for cadence being a distraction he's so cute. Exactly honestly, when it came time to determine a winner, it was really really difficult because what it ultimately had to come down to was who needed it. The most the one thing that one of you needed more than anyone else, was incentive. Tyler you're taking home a Korra, 999 hundred K and matching motherboard come claim your prize, but stop until such time as you take me up on my very generous offer to come and help you clean up your space when I come over and we take on that Place - and it is cleaned to my satisfaction - I will hand you - your award guys stay tuned on Twitter because it's happening soon right yeah. This is really a prize for my fiancee. She actually kind of needs it more than you. I can't

4. talk about what she was working on, but like it was, it was really cool, send Iain, but it's like, but what's not nd8 is intel.com slash gaming. It'S a great place to find out which intel desktop processor is best for you find products that have the power that you're looking for and get tips on, building overclocking modding and more. If it's a gaming rig you're after but you're just getting started, Intel's pre-built versus custom PC article can help you decide the best path to start enjoying those delicious frames. So guys, thanks for watching massive. Thank you to Intel for sponsoring this video and providing this fantastic prize, also a Seuss for the accompanying motherboard. If you guys feel like, I got it wrong, though, leave a comment and tell me whose epic setup you think should have one. Maybe there will be a runner-up prize