 This is gonna be quite a short video. Is this $4,000 of Starbucks? Are you serious? Hey, LTT, welcome to my crib. Let's go check it out. Sarah, this is the bathroom. That's right, ladies and gentlemen, Intel Extreme Tech Upgrade is back. The one and only Sarah Butt got a $5,000 budget from Intel for the ultimate tech makeover. And we are gonna be checking out, not her front door, for obvious privacy reasons. So we use this door. Ha ha ha. Ha ha ha. Hey, Arlo, do you wanna come with us? Oh, come here, oh my, oh. This is gonna be quite a short video. I present to you my upgrade. Wait, what? So I got, of course, my 12th gen Intel CPU. Yeah, got my 712, 700K. And then a $4,000 Starbucks gift card. Who signed off on this? Is this $4,000 of Starbucks? Of course. What do you expect? Do I get money? I need coffee, like. Are you serious? I can't tell. I'm not serious. Oh my God. So this is actually my regular setup. I did install these shelves yesterday. Okay, wonderful. Let's go check out what I actually got. Let's do that. I. Sorry, before I give my boss a heart attack. She actually got me. Sorry, I'm still reeling. It's not like it's technically against any kind of established rules. That's what I thought. I still got the CPU. I bought a CPU, I put it on a shelf, and now I'm gonna chug coffee. Yes. For the next 10 months. I literally got everything I could possibly need for the perfect graphic design slash gaming and streaming setup. That is sick. Yeah. I'm already loving some of these choices. Right? Like, so many people didn't think of stuff like this. Where do I keep my laptop? And when I need my Apple systems, I can just plug my computer or my laptop into my monitor and ready to go. The Peach edition from Red Bull. Is this part of it though? Yeah, it actually is. So I figured if I was gonna really be a gamer, I'd need my energy drinks. So I invested some of my funds into that. I noticed you are one of the first to go relatively modest in terms of GPU. So break it down for me. What's your intended mix here for like graphic design versus gaming time versus streaming time? So I just wanna make sure that I can get a good mix of all three. My system doesn't need to be super overpowered. It just needs to be able to handle the Adobe and Creative Cloud programs, but as well as like run Steam, run some games that I enjoy playing like Apex or Minecraft. I think this will handle Minecraft okay. Yeah, I think so too. Might be all right. Ooh, maybe not actually. I'm kidding. So what I've got- I'm gonna have to try and get her before this video is done. We're gonna have a crap ton of cable management to do. We're doing microphones, like studio monitors, yeah, laptop arm. We better get started. Let's gather the computer. Yeah, load me up. All right, okay. Beep, beep, beep. I am passing. No, yeah, ooh, that's a heavy motor. Yes, so everything I got is new computer parts except for the power supply. We're gonna use the old power supply from my previous computer. There's way more stuff here than I thought. Are you sure you're within budget? I am. I didn't even see the chair. I bet you didn't pay for this. No, no, of course not. I designed it for goodness sake. Stolen from work 100%. Is this part of the Intel Extreme Tech upgrade? So this I bought myself, but all of the paint and art supplies are part of the upgrade. And you know, as an artist, I really wanted to be able to put some of the money into buying some nicer art supplies for myself. So I got a set of all new acrylic paints, some new paint brushes, some new sketchbooks, all of the fun stuff. Ooh. And of course, how can we forget the brand new LTT store cable ties. That's right. Now they are a 50 pack for the same price and available in a bunch of different colors. Yeah, I had to get the white to match my upgrade. Buddy, that's not your chair. If you hang there, you are gonna get butted at some point. Okay, let's get you all of the computer components. All right, all right, all right, I'll stop getting distracted by the cat. Oh my God, there's so much stuff here. I've got a new keyboard, a new mouse, a Wacom tablet. I got some merch from my favorite film production company, A24, because when you design merch, you also enjoy other people's merch. Right. You got it? Oh God. No, no, I'm good. My nose is flat. I cannot see. Originally I wanted to build the computer, but I think that might take a lot longer than we want to. So. That's okay, we got all day. All right, Sarah's building the computer. Okay, let's do it. New LTT screwdriver. Oh, I think this is the intended use, right? For this new screwdriver. Yeah, I think so. Can you tell there's a bit of rivalry between the like fashion graphic design team and the engineering team? The way they treat each other's products, shameful. Oh my gosh, he wants the thing hanging off of the light. I think I have a better chance of jumping into orbit. I'm not calling your cat fat. I'm just saying he's. It's okay. He's got a lot of fur weighing him down. Oh yeah, it's fur for sure. I'm thirsting for computers. So is Arlo. Yeah. So I know after being an experienced computer person, I know you start with the motherboard. So I will get to opening that. Okay. Oh. Car's tray. Oh, smart. So I did get the Z690A motherboard to kind of match the white, the black and white theme that I'm going for. One nice bonus that I don't have on my. Oh Arlo. He just knocked it over. You do have. Wow, it comes with a little key chain, some stickers. This is the stuff that really matters. Who cares about this? That is a spiffy motherboard. Some really good features on this motherboard. Okay. We've got support for PCIe Gen 5 along with 12th Gen Intel Core processors. Got the nice little PCI Express release button here, which is super cool. If you ever need to get your graphics card up, got lots of power phases. This is a freaking sick motherboard. There's the little triangle right there. And see, I've got the little triangle here. Go ahead and stick it in. Oh my God, you're shaking so much. Okay, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. It's not. No, no, that's not a triangle. So the triangle's here. Oh. And also there. Okay, cool. So we gotta flip it the opposite direction. This is actually a really good opportunity though for us to talk about the other way that you can landmark your CPU because we'd really never mention it. So there's the triangle method, right? Where you've got the little golden triangle in the corner and you line that up with the triangle that's either on the socket cover or silk screened onto the motherboard. But Intel CPUs are also keyed. See that? There's little notches in the side of the chip. And so you can check that and you can validate them against the notches that are also here in the socket to make sure that you've got it in the right spot. All right. I did it. Nice. All right, and now we close it. That's me. Am I not supposed to do that? How I would have closed it. Sure. Maybe it took me two tries, but I did it. You did it. What's next? RAM. Yes. I'm making two RAM from my old computer and I'm also installing two new RAM. Don't worry, I made sure that they're all the same. So we're not going to have any issues there. Two RAM for you, m'lady. Thank you. After doing Secret Shopper, I would say I'm pretty good at putting RAM sticks in. I know to look for the click, but I don't want to jinx myself. A little pro tip for installing RAM on cameras, you want to populate from farthest away from the camera operator. It's okay, don't worry about it. Arlo, pardon me, thank you. Next, I believe is the SSD, correct? Correct. So you've got multiple options in terms of your SSD install. You have a really high performance SSD. We've got a Sabrent Rocket 4 Plus. This is a Gen 4 SSD. So while you could install it here, here, or here. Oh, it goes here. There's a total of four M.2 slots on this mofo. You're going to want this one. Yeah. Awesome. Exactly. Okay, SSD. So this part goes in here. So what you're going to want to do is you're going to want to turn this clockwise to lock it into place. Oh. Yeah, it's a really cool little tool-less mechanism that Asus has now. Oh, I just have... Wow. What did you do? I'm sorry. Can we like press it back? No, stop, stop touching it. Stop. I have this AIO from EK. I was promised there was going to be a 12th gen bracket in here, but it doesn't say that there's one on the box. So I actually am a little nervous that that's not going to happen. Matt, if you're watching this and you're wrong, bad news. You're fired. You don't have that power, Sarah. We're actually making really good progress so far. Don't say that you're going to curse it. Ugh, knock on fake wood. Is it working? I think so, yeah. Okay, that's good. But not because the correct mounting hardware was included. So you can let Matt know. Yeah, Matt's fired. Was not? Well, that's not what I said. Sheesh. I'm just going to move this. Yes, it has a built-in IO shield. So we don't have to worry about putting the IO shield. You're good to put your motherboard in. There we go. Perfect. Like a preceptional. Beautiful. Arlo's tired from helping. It's a tough life, you know. Eat, sleep and poop. What a life. Where's my scissors? Really? Yeah, totally easy. Yeah, yeah, the easiest. I do love to tease Yvonne like that. If she can't open a jar or whatever, I'll totally go my way to make it seem as easy as possible. Be like, yep, oh yeah. Oh, here you go, hun. Oh wow, that's crazy. It almost looks kind of cool. This pattern on here. But yeah, you've got a dust pattern on your power supply. I often get allergies when I'm cleaning. I think I have some kind of, well, I tell my wife it's because I'm allergic to cleaning. Sorry, hun, I really want to help. I'll just. Can't clean. I'm just kidding. Hold on a second. Is his food up there or something? No, I have no idea why he's trying to get in there. Your butt is so wide, the cat. I think he has a wider butt than me. Definitely. Get over here, Arlo. Anywho, I have this GMMK Pro keyboard that I bought. I really wanted to try assembling one on my own. So I got all of the pieces here. I decided to go with blue keys because that's what I have in my keyboard that I use now. There's more stickers. I love when things come with stickers. You know, if you buy from LTD store, your package will likely come with stickers. Designed by? Designed by moi. Now I've noticed this keyboard, like the base of the keyboard is really heavy. Oh wow, yeah, that's a machined base. Yeah. How much was that keyboard? I actually don't know, but it looks nice. Thanks, Intel. I won't need this cable because I actually bought like the iconic keyboard style cable. How does this? So you just take this and line it up and give it a little. Okay, I've got a lot of these to do. Yeah, a hundred times. What is he doing? It's just laying on his back. Um, hi. I'm actually like not far from finishing this machine. It's nice. It's kind of been like a painless process so far. Other than that one mishap. Why would you say that? Ah, sorry. Everything has gone so smoothly. You're still doing it. I'm sorry, I helped you. All of my switches are in my keyboard and I guess next I put the keys on or the key caps. Tediously put a hundred things on again. Oh, I have to do this in the right order too. I didn't think about that. I mean, you don't have to. A, B, C, no, I'm joking. Oh, we're gonna need to mod this again. Basically there's magnets on this front piece, but you're supposed to hook these bad boys into the bottom. Okay. Because there's a radiator there. Oh. They can't go in. So these need to come off. Do you have a pair of like needle nose pliers or something? We might have to like heat up a knife and cut them off. That says pardon. Well, I couldn't find any pliers and I figure that may be the next best thing. I do want to point out that we're not at work. No. So if anything bad happens, Sarah is in her own home doing her own thing. We got a little bit of brown on there. I might paint it. I don't know. Did you, wait, did you ever put the GPU in? Oh, no, I didn't. I got sidetracked by doing fun craft projects. I always love holographic packaging. Our new sticker packs actually have holographic stickers. Okay. We're getting very hung up on stickers today. When we got this GPU, I didn't realize that the little stickers on top of the fans are actually like a really weird yellow color. It's a big problem. Hey. Is that in? Yeah. Wow. There was almost no crunch. Wow. That is a beautiful computer. This is it. This is the moment. It's loud. I love it. Are we ready to head upstairs and try and post this machine? Yeah, let's do it. Now, do you want the silver or the black dial? Not gonna lie, I'm not really feeling the black dial. I think I like the silver. Yeah, I'm not feeling it either. It does not match. Bye-bye, buddy. It's stuck. Is it in there? I wasn't pretending. I'll totally go my way to make it seem like as easy as possible. Be like, yep. Oh yeah. Oh, here you go, hun. Holy crap, that is. We need David. What are you implying? I'm sorry. Here, hold on. Let's get a shot of these arms. You can do it. You can do it. You can do it. I don't think it's the scores. Well, Sarah, at least there'll be a story behind why your keyboard doesn't match. Yeah. It's in there. It's possible. Let's take this show upstairs, shall we? Let's do it. All right. Oh, side panel. You know what? We'll put the side panel on later. This, Sarah, is why you will never be allowed to design a white mouse pad again. Never. I've already spilled on it. And really, I'm not even joking. Within putting it down, two minutes spilled coffee on it. These I've borrowed from somebody and I have my own now that we're gonna install. Got it. So this has to. Yes. Got it. But I also have two monitor arms that we'll also need to install. Wann show's gonna be late and you know whose fault it is. Worth it. Am I right? Yeah, for you. I've never set up a monitor arm before and I really have no idea what I'm doing. Well, the first thing you're doing wrong is mixing your parts in with mine. Hold on. Uh oh. Thank you. By the way, Sarah, this is super cross threaded. Those screws are never coming out. Oops. I did get this monitor as part of my upgrade, but this one I owned previously. Cool. This is a BenQ 32 inch, like sRGB calibrated design monitor. So this is what I use in like my day to day work. And this is. This is a gaming monitor so that I can game and have it look nice. 2560 by 1440. Yeah. So I have a tremendous number of things here from my mouse to my Wacom tablet, to my Nanoleaf panels. So I'm just gonna start unboxing everything. I don't even know where to start. Ideally for a stream setup, obviously you'd want a microphone. So I did get the PSA One Plus mic arm. Wow. You have a lot of monitor, lady. I didn't plan for the PC to be on my desk. So we can also move that down. What I want to be able to do is have my laptop also on here. And if the PC is there, I also have speakers. Yeah. After lots of discussion with a few people throughout the office, I was recommended this Audio-Technica microphone. I guess it's just really standard and good for streaming. So. Is it the AT2020? It is. Yep. Yep. Okay. Linus agrees. Okay. Wow. It comes with a little pouch. You're impressed by the wrong stuff. Look at it, it's so cute. So you're not even gonna spend any time looking at my beautiful cable management job? You know, I wish I could, but that wouldn't be optimal for the setup that I'm going for. It is a shame. I just got dumped in the nicest possible way. So you just kind of move it till you're happy with where it is. Okay, I think there. Oh, wait. These should be beside each other. All right. So does it need to go over more now? Nope, that seems fine. Are you very sure? I'm pretty certain. Okay. I like it. All right, that's awesome. Let's start getting things built up on here. Yay. Oh, I wanna know if this computer turns on. Oh, the button, the on button. Do the honors. Okay, I see glowing lights. That's a good sign. Is that enough RGB, Sarah? Oh, absolutely. All right, especially because you won't be looking at it ever. 32 gigs RAM, 12700K, storage is detected. All we need is a keyboard. I got this desk pad from Grovemade. I'm sorry, I am a trader to LTT store, but I really just wanted something simple. So what makes a Grovemade special anyway? It's just black. Uh-oh. Maybe once we put the 10 pound keyboard on top, it'll stay down. Oh my gosh. It's beautiful. Except for that, but everything else. I sent you to get one thing and you managed to not bring it. Oh, I need the mic arm. Oh no, that's on here. Oh, geez. Okay, great. We went with the beautiful Pro Super Light from Watch Tech. That's not why you choose a Pro Super Light. Look how light it is. Oh, I don't really care about that. It's white. That's what I bought it for. Wow, I've never felt a mouse this light. Stark contrast from the keyboard. It is pretty though, yes. That is beautiful. Confirmed pretty. I almost think it's prettier than the computer itself. Whoa. I'm joking. I'm joking. Panto, what made you choose? Oh my God, I know the answer. They're white. Oh. Uh-oh. Arlo, one of those is not attached to the wall. Oh, buddy. Yeah, the top corner on the right side. Oh. Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no. Okay, I'm so sorry. Come here. Come on. He's taking it with him. Arlo, come here. I'm sorry. Down you get. For streaming, the webcam that I was recommended was the C920S by Logitech. So that's what I went with. Oh my God, the N key's not working. Huh. Um. Oh. We're back. It's back. That's okay, I have an idea. Okay. Oh. Who needs a keyboard, right? Gaming stance. Show me your best gaming stance. I gotta scooch in a little. Okay. All right, I'm gaming. I'm gaming. Okay, David, we need to show her how it's done. Okay, this is your gaming stance. You gotta get in. This close to monitor. No, I'm kidding. I'm kidding, you don't actually. You game like this with your mouse backwards? I'm that advanced, otherwise it's too easy. I am really into this game, whatever I'm playing. Okay, so we're gonna- And I'm talking because I'm streaming. You don't have to talk. Children should be seen, not heard, you know. Did you break it? Wouldn't be the first time you broke somebody doing one of these videos. Broke somebody. Broke somebody. Something. Somebody's never been the same. Yeah. Of course, if you go with an XLR mic, you're not gonna be able to just plug into a USB port on your computer, so I'm not actually familiar with this particular brand of audio interface. It's white, it looks pretty, and it matches. Those are all the same thing. And I've been told it's good. Okay, where do you want this bad boy? You're not gonna have a ton of options because this is a pretty short XLR cable, so. Yeah, it's six inches, I think. Yeah. Close enough, yeah. Sorry, six feet. If this is what you think six inches is. Wow. Now, is that suitably out of your way? Absolutely. Okay. Yeah. So that's it. That's our little buddy. Okay, you know what, it doesn't matter. The point is there. It's there. I've had this computer for five years now, and the cable is starting to die. So as part of my upgrade, of course, I just got a couple of new cables. Right. And a new little block, too. Really makes you wonder why Apple tries to make anything white when they can't keep it white for longer than- Like, look at, that's disgusting. I know, right? How much was this piece of metal? I think it was around $70. Because it's for Mac. Yes. And I couldn't get white, but the black still matches the black and white theme. Oh yeah, I think you're good. This is really coming together. That's sick. This is like a command station now. It is beautiful. This is an actual thing you can buy? Does Google actually sell this? Yes. I have been eyeing this for probably two years. Well, they actually came out with one that doesn't glow in the dark, but then they launched the dark mode one. And I knew as soon as I found out I was getting an upgrade, this is gonna be part of it. It's the real life dino game. It's pretty cute. I will give that to you. I find it a lot easier doing work using a Wacom tablet instead of mouse and keyboard. So I also picked one of these up for myself. I guess it really does add to making the ideal like graphic designer slash gaming setup. Cause you can use it for a lot of different things. I can't say I've ever heard of A24. What do they do? Well, they're a film production company. They honestly have produced some of my favorite films like Midsommar and Hereditary and some award winners like Moonlight and Ladybird. So I picked up these screenplay books because I already have some and I wanted to complete my collection. Okay. Look at how beautiful they are. Like as a graphic designer, I love books that do a lot of like visual play with typography and photography. And these like really tickle that like design funny bone. Wow, what's this now then? That's just a blanket. Oh, it's aspect ratios. Yeah, it's the ratios. Oh, that's fun and upside down here. Let's get that fixed for you. Look at it. Oh, it's so cool. That is really cool. And then what are these? Those are t-shirts. Okay. Very simple logo design. Oh, cool. Okay. I also got a mug. I already have the Hereditary one of those and I wanted to pick up the Midsommar one. So I guess we'll put that, I don't know, I'll put it on top of here. You got a bit of a thing for dinosaurs, hey? I love dinosaurs. If you walk around my house, you've got hidden dinosaurs everywhere. You've got dinosaur faces, dinosaur rumps, dinosaur. So these pieces actually, I commissioned an artist from Saskatchewan. He specifically draws like dinosaurs and stuff. I really loved his style. So yeah, I commissioned three pieces from him and I thought they would be a great addition to my gaming room. In order to make this kind of like a sanctuary for myself, I bought a diffuser because I really love essential oils and they help, you know, kind of create an ambiance. And while I'm streaming, I definitely will get stressed out and hopefully this will help. I am liking it. I could get comfortable here. This is awesome. We didn't need to figure out why the end key is not working. You know what? Why don't we try a new key switch? Cause like that's a thing. Whoops, there it goes. Oh, you mushed it. Oh, that's why. This is an amazing setup. Right? I've got everything. Arlo agrees. I've done an okay job with the cable management. That's fine. I'm not gonna say it's my finest work, but it's, and this is apparently supposed to come this way. I don't care. I'm putting it over here. At the end of the day Linus, we've got those speakers. Hopefully they work well. Haven't tested them yet. Oh yeah, right. A wonderful microphone, a new keyboard, mouse, desk mat and two monitors. Are you gonna stream tonight? Yes, I'll be streaming tonight. It's been a long day. And it's been a lot of fun. Thank you guys for tuning in. This has been the Sarah Butt edition of Intel Extreme Tech Upgrade. We've got lots more coming down the pipe. And if you guys enjoyed this, we've got a lot more for you to watch. Some of my personal favorites, Dennis, Andy, man, they've all been good. Riley's was great. David! I'm right here Linus! David's was great. So jank though. So go watch guys. And thanks again to Intel for sponsoring Extreme Tech Upgrade. This setup is flipping amazing.