 For almost two years, Matt here has coordinated the procurement for everyone else's Intel Extreme Tech upgrades. Always the bridesmaid, never the bride. Well, not today! Because it's finally time we are giving Matt a $5,000 tech makeover. He's got a Core i5, he's got an RTX graphics card, he's got a turntable speaker system, and an iPad? What is this? There you go. But also bribery to ensure that I won't dig around too much and find all the stolen goods. Two-Bite Brownies. Is this actually part of the upgrade? No, just for you. They're not really two-bite. No. I am gonna dig around, I'm gonna find everything. I'm pretty sure this soundbar is from the office. You have to find a tag, don't you? I'm sure you're smart enough to take off the tags. But I am damn sure that this thing is from the office. Even better yet, it is. It just never was inventoried, but then I still bought it off. It was never inventoried. It was an extra. Right before I started, they sent two of the exact same ones. And one went into a video according to Jamie, and the other one didn't. So you did me a favor is what you're saying. Yeah. A man of culture, I see. When you walk into a house and you see a Wii sensor bar, you know they're a true gamer. Wow, that's a pretty good Wii game collection too. I love it. This is awesome, definitely not bootleg, this one. No, that one was just a real slow copy. We have a lot of extras because... You have two copies of Wii Fit. How fit do you need to be? Not fit at all, because we don't have the sensor bar right here. We don't have the board anymore. But the bigger thing is that this was my Wii, which I have still the memory card in here for the GameCube games, but I also homebrewed it. So I had the occasional N64 game on there, which doesn't matter anymore because of Nintendo Switch Online. Oh yeah, it's a good service, Nintendo Switch Online. It feels more right doing it the broken way than doing it the paid way. This fridge is almost certainly stolen. I don't know if anyone would actually buy one of these Dyson things. That's gotta be from the office. No, I bought it. When you don't have AC, you kinda get desperate. And when it's app controlled, it's even better. You know, they have fans, they have a thing in the middle that goes like this. Yeah, but that one matches the floors better. It's all about the aesthetic. I can't tell if you're serious right now. Oh no, I'm 100% serious. We bought this one simply for the fact that it has the formaldehyde detection because it's the fancier one. Well that's cool. Okay, that's not what you said before. What you said before was that it matched the floor. But that was the main reason. That was the first one. Not gonna lie, I think you're mostly clean. These Ugreen cables are almost certainly stolen from the office. Amazon purchase. Really? Yep. That one is obviously... It's got an asset tag on it. So I've been loaning this one because I want to purchase one. And now I have an actual one that's on pre-order. It's just hiding in this bag. Wait, it's on pre-order or it's in a bag? Nope, there's this exact one coming. But this one is unfortunately from the office. From the office. The blue colourway you'll see as a theme very soon. Are you going to play for us? Probably in the exclusive. In the exclusive? Yeah, because I used to play in a band for about six years. Wow, okay. And they're still running strong back home in Winnipeg. They gave you the boot, hey? I kind of left them. They thought I was going solo. No. One thing I noticed when we were back in the study, there isn't a computer we're replacing. No, there's just a brand new build happening because when I first applied for this job, I typed up my entire resume using Dex. Because my laptop just died. There's an old video back where we had what do the people at LMG use in between Intel upgrades. My running joke was my whole PC is the Xbox. Because it has Edge on it. I see, okay. So up until then, it was simply a USB-C cable as you saw with a dongle, with a mouse and keyboard, running Dex, that got me to this point. We can do better. Where are we going to set up to build? We could either use this table or that table. Depends where you want to sit. Oh, where I want to sit? Yeah. Oh, you think I'm building the computer? I'd like some assistance. I put the ass in assistance. Sit down. Oh, boy. You know what I think I like best about Matt's setup? It's like the FU fanboys setup. You're rocking Android, you got iPadOS, you got Windows PCs, Nintendo, PlayStation, Xbox. You just don't give a f**k, do you? It's a matter of where the games are and eventually getting the money to go get them. And yet you've never built a gaming computer. Hey, look, a manual. That's what we do with manuals, right? Well, hold on a second. You've got a lot of things going wrong here. This place looks so nice. I'm going to try not to destroy it today. That's going to be one of the themes of today's Extreme Tech upgrade. We did a test build, me and Dan, about a week ago, just to make sure everything would fit. You do a lot of talking and not a lot of building. Look how red you are. Are you really that nervous? This one is one of the freshest ones off the board. And I'm pretty excited for it because it's literally the only board you can get, one of two that you can get that is DDR4 and ITX in 12th Gen. So as a consumer, you are SOL, good old Prairie Talk there, if you mess it up because it's either this or an ASRock board. You're still talking and not building. Now you want 12600K. That's a pretty gaming focused chip. Are you planning to do any kind of content creation or anything like that or just straight gaming? It's going to be mostly gaming. There are times when I want to edit some pictures and then occasionally make some sort of montage. I used to edit all the videos for our band whenever we were on stage with my phone so I'd shoot it with my phone and then edit with my phone with Adobe Rush. Nice! I would spend hours just going ne ne ne ne ne ne ne ne. I think 6P cores, 4E cores should be lots for what you're going to be doing then. I am so nervous. You look like you've been drinking. Like you got that rosy. I was never one for pressure even though I would be on stage all the time but at the same time this just is way worse than memorizing songs. Have you breathed yet? While you work on SSD and RAM we've got a 1TB P5 plus along with 32GB of Crucial Ballistics. I'll do the hard part of the build. I'll put the iPad Pro together. Oh actually I do have a hard part if you want to put the iPad Pro together. Oh. From your lovely friends at dbrand. Awwww. dbrand says you've got to go to their site for the installation instructions but you know what I have to say to that? Eat sh** dbrand. I'm going to do it YOLO style because this isn't my iPad anyway and I don't care. This board has two SSD slots which is half the reason why I bought it so that I could use this 1TB now and then upgrade to a 2 down the line. So I'm guessing just hide the 1TB in the back here and then that way I can keep this one out front and open so I don't have to totally take the motherboard out. Yes. That is definitely what I would do. Z690 is going to be PCIe Gen4 on both of those SSD slots anyway so you're not giving up anything by using a lesser slot because this is a Gen4 SSD. I mean if you really want it to be tricky you could do the side rails. I don't know if I care about that. You guys can judge my application. Are you sure there's an M.2 slot back here? There was supposed to be unless it was double layered up here. Ah there's no M.2 slot back here. Wow so it even looks like an M.2 slot. Have you been spinning your wheels this entire time? Okay you did manage to put the RAM sticks in. Oh it's double stacked. I said I wasn't going to build it for him. But boy are we ever getting dangerously close to it's time to build it for him. This is a cool color. Funny thing is when this case came out I had a great idea for the whole color way of my entire build that I wanted to do and then Dave2D did it about two weeks later. Of course he did. I'm like well there's the blueprint. After all the times you've been blamed for compatibility issues in other people's extreme tech upgrades what are the odds that yours is going to have compatibility problems? I can tell you one right away. My PCIe Gen4 cable never ships so we helped to boot this without the GPU to start. But that's the only thing. That's pretty minor. You think this is going to fit? Yeah we did a test build. You did a test build? Remember we have one of these at the office so we kind of use that as the demo. So you're sure it will all fit? Yep. I want to see this cooler fit. This is an AIO and the case is AIO compatible. There's just two ways it can go. EK's AIO is a little bulkier than your typical AIO. Look at this thing. So we can either go side mount and then just go normal GPU or we could go vertical mount GPU skip the whole Gen4 riser cable issue. You want to go vertical mount GPU? If we go vertical mount GPU then we have to boot into Gen3 and then that's a whole issue. That's not a hassle. That's fine. And then that way it kind of looks cool. If we do it the normal way then the pump's in the right order because otherwise the rad can either go in one or two spots either along the side here or down here in the bottom which we did the test build with. If you want the cool look of the GPU vertically mounted on the side then I think it's fine to put the rad in the bottom. Rad screws are here. Yep. And then the separate 12th gen bracket is tucked away in the box as well. Because unlike everybody else's build I made sure to grab the bracket which was in a nice big pile of bags next to the AIOs. And they were right there the whole time. Did you just blame other people for your confusing procurement? No, I didn't put the boxes next to the other one but I did mention to everybody else who has been using this to go down and ask for the bracket. I'm specifically looking at you Sarah. You called me out and I'm coming right back by clearing the air and saying it was not my fault. It still is compatible. You just forgot the one bag. And now I'm vindicated. With what a fan favorite Sarah is that's gonna cause some heat. I don't think anyone's gonna be taking your side here. No. No one knows who I am, where I came from or what I do. How's it going? It's going good. You know how they say to always cable manage your setup? They always forget to tell you how much of a hassle it is when you have to take it apart. Right now I have my power bar on the opposite side of the actual holder because it was too thick and it's about to fall on my face as soon as I take off this LTT cable tie because the screw I need is right behind it. This is not the fault of the LTT cable tie. User error. User error. Oh man, I got all distracted and I ended up took the screws out of the one I've already installed. Dang it. As you can see I am helping a lot. I'm going just as slow as you now. I don't know what it is. It's cursed. What does this even screw into? Also it stinks. Oh. Matt. Yeah? In this case, yeah? Does the vertical GPU just hang out there? Yeah, I think it just hangs out there. That can't be right. Yeah, it literally just says to insert into the PCIe slot and then insert into the GPU and call it a day. Well thank goodness I got a small GPU. That is absolutely wild. Also I'm a little less concerned about the horrible, horrible tubing routing. I realized once we've got our GPU in here, we're not going to see any of that. This is great. What did you go with? 3060 Ti? Yep. Just a small boy. Very nice. Very nice. 1440p gaming right there. Everyone was like, oh, but you're not going to see the RGB off of the AIO and then to that I say Neon Strip. Hopefully. This is cool. The case has two different spots where you can put the power supply bracket depending on whether you have an SFX. That's what we've got here with the 92 millimeter fan or an SFX L power supply, the longer one that uses a 120 millimeter fan. And what's nice about that for us is that instead of having the power supply down lower like this, where the modular cables are very likely to interfere with our thick fan on the radiator down here, we can just move it up and that'll buy us some extra space, which we really need. You're going to love the colorway, I guarantee it. Ooh, I do love the colors. This is amazing. How cute is that? I don't know quite how this happened, but I think I'm just about done. Suddenly there is an entire PC in front of me. Now this is going to go in. Man, you got to line up these little tabs at the bottom. Come on buddy. Ah, there you go. There you go little buddy. You know what? I bet I could get those top fans in there without even the covers. Let's go for it. One of the main purchases that I did as part of this upgrade was this Andover Audio Spin Bass Turntable Speaker. Okay, so tell me this. Were you into vinyl records before it got all trendy recently, or are you a bandwagon hopper? 50-50. No, pick a lane. My dad always had a stash just chilling in there. That's your dad, that's not you. He kept showing me them, but we never had a record player of our own to actually start listening to them again, and it was the same for Miranda as well. And the cool part about this is that they've designed a way so that you can have your whole speaker resting on your stand, and then your record player will go right on top, and now you have speaker out here, speaker out from here, and speaker out from here, and it'll give you 270 degree audio, and one very nice knob to use. Now I'll confess something. In spite of the recent trend, I have not listened to a vinyl record since I was a small child, and my aunt or my dad or someone put one on for me, and I went, wow, it's like a big CD that sounds crappier. I issued then, to you, this challenge. Convert me. Let's hear it. Okay, let's do a comparison then. In the meantime, I've got an update for you guys. I wanted this SFX L spot here, but what I realized is this top fan is actually interfering with the power cable when I have it plugged in here, so what I'm gonna try and do is without disturbing anything else, I'm gonna try and unhook this, scooch it down one, and screw it back in, which will hopefully give me enough clearance. Ready? One, two, three. Yes! Success! And both of these fans will spit. Okay, we'll work on that. Okay, I think I've probably heard enough that I can now listen to that. I think the best thing I can say about the record sound quality is that I can't really tell the difference. Matt, what are you doing? Yeah, I'm cleaning the record because I- Wait, what? That's not a controlled before and after. A piece of fuzz landed on it! Okay, I get your argument for digital now, but still! It takes this long to play a song? Look, if it helps at all, Matt, probably half of the audience out there is siding with you right now. What about the other half? The other half is like, this is the stupidest thing ever. Just turn on the TV and use the Alisam bar? Yeah, that would be probably the other half. It's skipping. There is a skip on the disc. It's right at the seam of the color. It will hit. So, I always skip this song. It's proving his point. I know. I don't want to be that guy, but I think your old speakers sounded better. Definitely better bass here. But those sound really good. The one thing about these old speakers is the fact that they ruined the aesthetic of the living room. There's not much for neon green here other than Gregory. I'm so disappointed right now. Really? We're going with this because it looks better. You go to all the trouble to get actual gigantic music pancakes because of the so-called sound. Yep. And then you're like, no, I would rather use an inferior speaker because it looks better. There is EQ on the back. Constellation Prize. What the hell is this? I have no idea how I'm going to manage to flatten this enough to get that pop on panel in there. Okay. I lied. I have some idea. Just apply more force. Oh, that's kind of neat. It's just symmetrical. So you could actually get two of these and you could put them on both sides if you really wanted to. You know how you say not to close the side panel? You can't close it. You can't close it. You can't close it. You know how you say not to close the side panel? Oh. Do you think there's a space along the top there? Oh, I see. It could be done. Quick update. The desk is now a desk and I just need to fix the monitor arm because it's set too deep because my old desk was a lot deeper than this one and we'll quickly hang up some posters and we'll be good for the computer. Okay. That seems good enough, right? Not bad. Let's take it in. You're letting Ploof be a bad influence on you. You got the vinyls. Now you got the fancy, goofy keyboard cable. Why is this such a trend? Back in my day, we hid cables. We didn't want to see them. You kids today, you have the privilege of wireless interfaces that are literally faster than a wire and you go and you put wires all over it. How you kids making out in here? Pretty good. Well, okay. That's fair. I walked into that. I mean, you did. You walked into the room. What the hell is this? Nothing. A color scheme. Is this a Bitwit mousepad? Did you see the color of the keyboard or the cables? I guess we don't really have anything in this color scheme. We need more colors. I know we had a white one in development. I don't know. This rubberized backing doesn't quite go up to snuff, but you know what? It fixes that. Doesn't seem to be LTT grade. Hmm. It's harder to move now. But that won't be the only keyboard on here. You're going to have more than one keyboard. I'm going to pull a ploop right now. I will have two keyboards on my desk. You want to see the second keyboard? I guess. What choice do I have? You're going to show it to me. Keyboard number two. It's a Roland. It's a Roland. I am getting these speakers wired up. Mac you see are threes. You've seen the Bluetooth versions in Nicole's video and you will see the same white Bluetooth versions in Jeff's video. So make sure you subscribe for that as well. He will be doing a very well themed PC build. Is this like the new generation of Kick Me post-its? Okay. What do you think? Is it going to power on first try? Oh crap. Oh, power needs to be on. Oh. You're one of those psychos who unplugs or turns off power bars. Yay! It's up! All RAM is detected. Got that 4.5 GHz frequency. I feel like we've missed some stuff though. We've got some Philips Hue bulbs to add and this backpack. Oh, okay. A GoPro lens. Hold on. Reach inside the cavern. That's the main ticket item. So I picked up the Hero 10 Black. And then you also picked up a ZV-E10 camera. What is this boy for? So this one, you probably saw this in Plu's video as well. It is pretty much a point and shoot. It has a little autofocus button here to help de-blur your background because I'm still learning how to use an actual camera and not just my phone. It's also really good because you can just plug it in on USB-C and use it as a webcam or a stream cam. Cool. Now it's time for the part of this extreme tech upgrade where we have the big transformation. We're going from the old TCL TV to the Sony X90J. Movie magic. Okay. We went from a 65 inch black mirror to a 65 inch black mirror. But this one's way better. While the old stolen from the office model was a 4K set, this one will do 4K 120Hz and with Sony's markedly better image processing. Now I couldn't help noticing that the stand for the TV doesn't really fit on this glass, tempered glass, doodad you've got here. No and that's the sad part is that this is part of it. There's no way to take it off or anything so we will have to cheat the sound bar a little bit for the sake of this TV security. Oi! We're good. Okay. Okay. I mean it kind of looks like it's hovering there. It actually sort of works. It looks kind of like it's already got kind of a tiered foot design on it anyway. Yeah I think it kind of works. Okay. And now the TV is actually resting on this tent. I love that we didn't have to wall mount the TV today. Wow. I mean obviously we cheated it a little in the editing but that really was the easiest and fastest TV upgrade we've done for Intel Extreme Tech upgrade. The only hard part is the cable management. Yeah are you gonna pass me some cables ever? Look how well I've cable managed them. I have to undo that first. I'm gonna go unpack light bulbs. Apparently the coolest shtick with these boys from Philips is that you don't actually need their hub. You can just connect to them via Bluetooth. How exactly that works I truthfully do not know because I would still think you'd need a hub if you want to control them and you're not like within a couple of feet of them. I'm a bit of a short boy. I don't know if I'm gonna be able to do this. Nope. Violating company policy right now. You're not allowed to make me feel short. You know we said we weren't gonna make a mess for a change and I consider this a success. It's really not that bad right Brandon? I mean you can totally get at the sink in the kitchen. Yeah. Look at that. Water. It's good for your LTT store water bottle right there. Yeah. Go buy a water bottle. Seriously I gotta pay for the lab. Oh did we finally get it working? Yep. Okay. Choose your descriptions. Definitely got that Fubo TV. No. You don't have Fubo TV? Oh okay. Rakuten, Vicky, whatever that is. Acoustic auto calibration. Okay well we should probably sit where you would sit then. I just realized something. I can't believe I didn't call you on this earlier. You have your TV mounted above a fireplace. Oh I thought I was gonna go the whole video without you noticing. It's a pretty low fireplace. Yes. It's not like it's a whole wall type of thing like how Marx is but. But when I sat down and actually tried to watch TV I was like. You're looking at the switch. You were just Benedict Arnolded here. I've just been informed there's something else stolen from the office in this room that I haven't found yet. I can give you a hint. No. He'll find it. Orange you say. Yeah. Orange well it's not that one wheel. You don't have any one wheels. There is a short circuit. It is the one wheel. It's the one wheel? What? That was stolen? Hey those are expensive. It's on loan. It's on loan? Yeah. What does that even mean? It means no one wanted to try it out. No one wanted to try it. No one asked me if I wanted to try it. Man I gotta say leave it to the procurement team to procure one heck of an upgrade. Living room TV looks so much better. You've got the wicked gaming PC that's going to be perfect for 1440p gaming. You've now got a 65 inch TV in the bedroom and the gaming PC and the living room TV manage to not end up sounding worse. Can't say the same for the turntable but hey you win some you lose some. I personally still think that the turntable sounds great. I think it's a win. I personally think it's a win. If you guys enjoyed this Intel Extreme Tech upgrade check out Intel. They're down in the video description. Obviously you guys know what they make. CPUs now GPUs. Man wireless chipsets. What does Intel make kinda crazy? And if you're looking for another video to watch maybe check out Brandon's Intel Extreme Tech upgrade. He shot for us today but he was on the other side of the camera for that and it was a gong show. I blame Matt.