 Can I start by saying this is the greatest welcome mat of all time? Riley and his wife Lauren bought this apartment back in August 2019 with the intention of renovating it to reflect their minimalistic style and just two weeks before their wee baby boy arrived they completed it with the help of their friends and family. As for the tech side of things, well between budgetary and time constraints they didn't really get it done, which is where Intel comes in. In episode 2 of Intel's Extreme Tech Upgrade we're gonna be equipping Riley with five grand US worth of tech to take his minimalistic space and Do something. Minimalism is about having not very many things and the few things that you do have have to be small and white or Gray or black Except when you can have a big thing that is very colorful, but most importantly minimalism is about Looking down on people who are not very good at things And then you have to be very careful about what you do with your things But most importantly minimalism is about looking down on people who have lots of things and saying ew You have so many things that's disgusting. So then you didn't buy any stuff? Oh, no, I bought stuff. Yep. I'm getting a new PC I'm getting an ultra wide monitor for that PC because I wanted that for a long time. I'm getting a TV Linus Can you imagine? Finally, I'm getting a digital piano because I don't know if you know that's why my nickname was keys Really? I've never seen you play a piano. Tinkling the Ivories First of all, do I understand this correctly? No, this is just here when we got here. You did not have a TV. No And I've been made fun of it Relentlessly on Carpool Critics movie podcast subscribe today Because I've been watching movies on a laptop. Well, it's safe to say that this is gonna be a gigantic upgrade. Yes It doesn't matter. All right, and then this I don't get it this This is your PC nook now. I realize you're you've really gone out of your way to stage this place So I have beautifully minimalistic like did you have to remove your old computer? Why is it not here? My computers right there? Oh, that's awesome. Yeah Oh what a reveal and the cable management through the thing with a really cool Wi-Fi adapter. Oh But here's the deal I had an office but now the office is the baby room because I just had a baby and so You know, you have to make sacrifices. They take everything from you So so this is this is where I'm gonna be just like next to the kitchen and I'm happy with it But we made it we made And I'm happy with it we made it just wide enough so that I can fit an ultra wide monitor You know your son's gonna watch this in like 10 years He's gonna be like Wow, thanks dad if the world hasn't exploded by then but that's not the whole setup in this corner No in this corner. We're also gonna have a digital piano and You might be asking where's the piano? It's it's not it's not here yet Um because it's sold out everywhere in Canada. Oh bummer. Okay. Well, where's it gonna go? It's gonna go right here So I got these folding brackets pause So I got these folding brackets on Amazon for I think they're like, you know 19 bucks each or something I think there's gonna be a way to mount the keyboard onto them So that once they're on the wall hit the little switch and then it'll fold down So the keyboard goes flat against the wall and guess what color the keyboard is Linus white That's correct Did you wall mount your like cable modem Yep, it's mounted and then you guys have actually Already drilled pilot holes and got your wire fishing wire here for the TV So you guys are gonna do a totally wire free. Yes like installation here because it wouldn't be minimalistic if we didn't do that Fantastic. Well, what are we waiting for? Let's get started. What are you waiting? I don't know I'm gonna build this PC. You're gonna build a PC. I'm gonna build a PC with me. Let's build a PC Where are we building it? I mean, I'm good with the coffee table. Are you sure that oh, I guess we could sit and do it I guess we could move the decorations. No For the heart of the system. This is an interesting choice. You've gone with a B 460 pro Wi-Fi I guess the Wi-Fi because cables are not minimalistic. They're not at all Okay, and then you've gone with a 10600 K now, I guess the K is just because it's a little faster than the non K That's right. I was thinking about going with the 10600 but the K does have a higher base level of performance So why would you go with the core i5? Because I didn't necessarily need the raw horsepower of a core i7 I'm not doing like 8k crazy high-end editing, you know So I will be doing some video editing and I want to do some music production So the six cores will come in handy for that. Yeah, I mean most games don't need more than six cores these days anyway So this is a really great choice if there are other parts of your system that you want to beef up So I noticed you've gone with a pretty freaking crazy graphics card and monitor I have the priority for me there was having that 3440 by 1440 Ultra-wide because I've been using it at work. I'm tired of coming home to my 24 inch 1080p That's why you game on your lunch break Because it's like high-end it's like whoa I can't get this at home one of the other areas where you've gone extremely practical is cooling with the noctua NH-u12 a yeah, this is just such a great choice. Like it's not too much It's definitely gonna give you a nice quiet operation, which is important and I also tend to record some voiceovers in here It's not the best room for that, but it's been working Okay, you guys might not know this but Riley actually does some voice acting work He's been on my little pony just a little bit Of course One of the biggest minimalism choices for a system is the case the Corsair 275r carbide series So why don't I get started on getting everything mounted to the motherboard and then do you want to start putting the? TV mount on the wall. I will do this Honestly, one of the big trends in gaming motherboards over the last few years has been away from Necessarily using the highest-end chipsets because from a gaming standpoint unless you're overclocking The motherboard doesn't really make a big difference to performance now one area where Riley will not be able to maximize his 10600k is in terms of memory frequency But Riley's only gone with 2666 megahertz RAM anyway from G skill So that wasn't gonna be a concern at least the latencies are quite low on these though CL 15, you know Riley I'm surprised you went with red memory Is that an accent piece kind of like the orange chair David sitting? Yeah, exactly. Is it? No, that was an accident I'm not gonna see inside the PC because it's gonna be in there the whole time So I didn't really think lots about the aesthetics of the inside. Got it. Yeah for storage I guess you're not planning to have a ton of games installed at any given moment I noticed you've gone with a single 500 gig m.2 drive So that's gonna give you great speed for your operating system and everything. Yeah, we've only got 500 gigs of storage I do and that's because I already have Three SSDs in my system and a hard drive. I'm good for storage But I did want to get an upgrade just to get that fast boot times. I've never had an NVMe SSD I just I want to know what it feels like the mount I'm using is a Kanto PDX 650 and they were nice enough to send it to us and And it's really strong and you might notice White oh my god, it doesn't matter You're not gonna see the mount because it's behind the TV. I put this on upside down in my in my defense I've never owned a TV before I don't know how they work any setup is gonna be huge upgrade So rather than going with a big giant home theater setup with multiple speakers Also, because that's not minimalist went with a Sonos beam because it's basically a pretty good bang for your buck while still looking really nice and Well, I hope it will and with the whole set up. So here we go This was actually a steal because I got it used it's an Asus PG 348 Q but the Q isn't on there 3440 by 1440 100 Hertz so it's not like the balling is gaming monitor, but the thing is that I mostly play single-player games and Occasionally, I might jump on a multiplayer game in order for David to show me how to get headshots because you know I don't know. I don't know how you do it. Let's see. Let's just double check that it fits. Oh, yeah lots of room and we got Vesa mounts because my desk is so tiny I Really don't want to screw around with taking up space with the with the stand for this monitor, which is especially large I'm discovering that this mount maybe is not great for this monitor Mostly because of this little ridge here. Yes. What's this here? Originally, it's not very minimalistic to have two mounts for one monitor. It's not but originally I purchased this one That says it only supports up to 32 inch TVs. Oh The weight limit is fine though. Oh, come on. Look at this thing. What it's fine It's metal. Well sure, but it's got 30 pounds carrying capacity. Look at it and the monitors 25 What do you mean? The monitor is less than 30 pounds. Yeah, that's only five pounds I like having some leeway. There's a buffer built into it. You don't think that could carry more than... These have buffers? Of course. Oh wow. I didn't know that about this. Riley! Riley are you planning to carry the drives over now? Like should I rip that computer? Oh sure. Put all the drives in here? Rip it out. Yeah, let's do that All right, when you saw this setup, did you have concerns about thermals? Yes. Well, there's vents. Oh boy. That's not enough Wow, that's a lot of SSDs just kind of like a double-sided taped onto the thing So this case is kind of an amalgamation the original case which is a bit Phoenix Merc which is like one of the cheapest cases you could get back in the day and Some cannibalized parts from other random cases that were sitting around at NCIX that dust filter on the side Cannibalized when if you take off the front, you'll also find another cannibalized dust filter that has no business being in there Wow, wonderful. So I was really excited to get a new PC. There's bandits in these hills. What are we? What what is this bit? I don't know. What are you talking about? You know that one of my eyes droops down But you can't even tell because I wear glasses. It's camouflage. That's not what it is disguise What Riley's off looking for a square, but we're just gonna use his side panel corsair quality. It's probably square Oh, look at that. How dead center is that puppy? So what height do you want it at? Oh, please careful. This is a Like there's a gap Like there's a gap I'm holding it again right there. My hand is on it right now pretend you're You're gaming or whatever. Yeah, no Well, where's the intensity? This is like you got to be gaming Can you gee first? Okay, so don't worry about don't worry about the left and right for now. I just want to know the height higher yeah, I think so higher. Yeah Yeah, uh higher why don't I hold it now and you take a look? No, it's your monitor. Well, I don't know Doesn't matter what I think you're screwing it up. Oh jeez Okay, did you just punch my wall What the hell is a pipeline hard drive pro pipeline over here pipeline pro pipeline Riley the environment can save itself here. I go about to mutilate my wall Hopefully it works. It'll work to mutilate for sure at the very least what we're doing right now is mutilating the wall So half of this is the drywall and half is the studs it will see how that works It's crying now now that i've got all of my storage on a nas It's been a long time since i've wired up this many sata drives in a system. It's got five sata drives Okay, this isn't quite the best I could do for cable management, but it's all i'm gonna do. Yeah I mean realistically it's better than the cable management you had so absolutely which is none minimalist minimal cable management Yeah, it is super it's a 2080 super from asus look at how thick this cooler is the thick boy Thick boy cooler. We're gonna need it because there's no ventilation in riley's Cabinet there. Hey, let's just settle down here. That's okay. He's gonna put fans in later. We're gonna add a fan You're gonna add more than one never take a minimalistic approach to cooling. This is a free tech tip for you guys So if you are building a pc for a buddy And they're just honestly not worth the effort of proper cable management You kind of jam everything down like that. You take this here side panel And you give it a little like city sit, you know Oh, oh jeez, then you just kind of bum slide it forward like that. Oh my gosh Are you still mounting? I've never done it before. Oh boy I'm doing it david I mean linus i'm ready. What do you guys think peel time? Yeah, look at that rig did you check the height of this Uh, no, but we can move the shelves Wow Oh How white is that because this is on here it is all right. Good luck Wow, you did a great job riley. Did you really put a piece of paper there to catch the drywall? See, here's a here's a piece of handyman tip for you linus drywall screws up regular vacuums You need a shop vac. I did not know that I know something about this stuff Did your father-in-law tell you that yes, and we experienced it ourselves because we ruined our vacuum filter with drywall. Hey Okay, let's settle down so this is it let's do it this is it So why did you choose this tv? Well, okay. So this is the lg nano 90 65 inch version. Yeah, it's not an oled but it has a great Let uh bright room performance right and this is nothing if not a bright room Yes, and that was the main really the main thing that I was looking at Uh was just like finding a tv that would be good for this really bright room with lots of sunlight coming in good reflection Handling right viewing angles So hdr it's got that it's got pretty good local dimming. Does it do 120 hertz? Yes Nice and it's got hdmi 2.1 Oh, wait riley, you're not one of those horrible people that leaves the plastic on are you? Because now I have removed some of it. Oh, I was that minimalistic. I was gonna use it to preserve it for uh, for future generations Yeah, okay good. Do you want to put the hole in the wall now? Nope Do you trust me? Here's my pitch Let's not This looks awesome I know. Thank you so much. This is amazing hole in there and run those cables down You're not even gonna you're not gonna see any it's like it's floating there I love it. Am I allowed to put my feet on your table? Is your table? Is this a foot table? It's for you. It is no no, but for you. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, why not? No, well, I don't know Surely this is not the right place for these though. These have to go like these are table But oh well, we let those guys go wherever they want. Yeah, otherwise they might molest you apparently it's art linus Should they be evenly stacked or should they be like? Intentionally unevenly stacked. Oh, hey, this is looking pretty good actually how little you give us I like that. I like the kind of sense of aesthetics here. This is cool. And then maybe like maybe one Okay, this one should this one be open Oh now we're talking. How do you like the magic remote? It's really nice actually now. I feel like i'm using a Wii. It's great Does this have built-in bowling or? No, your internet is so bad. This is at like 480 guys. You don't understand. This looks great to me You know what for how bright this room is it is handling the glare really well This is not bothering me at all I can't even see the glare from that window over there when we were in the menus and it was dark I could see it and now with the content on it looks great Oh, yeah, how's the soundbar? Honestly, my expectations are pretty low given how small it is, but Yeah, that is not good but I also think That sounds great. No, it doesn't that's the tv speakers. Oh Could you show less hard, please Okay, that sounds pretty good Man Okay. Look look look look look look look look You guys got your fancy 77 86 inch tvs. Okay, you got your big giant zono You got your big giant sound bars own theater 7.1 Blah blah blah setups. This is amazing to me This is great. I'm loving this. I mean look at this. That's that pink suit really pops in the minimalistic room. Oh, yeah More pink suits. All right, so I think you don't play rocket league like this. Where's your controller? Nope, I'm a mouse keyboard. You are not I am I am shut up. I'm not even joking what How's the how's the monitor? It's amazing. Oh my gosh. This is so This is so minimalistic Uh, i'm gonna be a bad teammate and go to here or what do you want? Vsync off. Yeah, there you go All right, 90 100 120 150 100 into 200 248 fps Riley you're embarrassing me No, you ran into him No, I don't know. I'm pretty sure you did Yeah, Riley, what's going on? Oh my gosh the heckling I can't do it so you tend to take a more passive approach I like uh Oh Same How's the gaming experience? Oh man, is that enough fps for you? buttery smooth Yeah, nice That's that's a good 248. Whoa guys This is amazing and totally minimalist Rocket league I might get back into rocket league now You know what's funny is I actually had a gaming setup like this when I was in high school I put my whole computer and monitor in my closet so that I could close the closet Oh No I actually really like your machine. It's like high performance enough High performance enough. Yeah, very well paired for the resolution you're running on that monitor, but you didn't overkill anything Got the core i5 got the rtx 2080 super you got a ton of storage now Oh someone's blowed up right now Oh my gosh Nice Come on boy. Come on. No after all that We had the highest score on the team highest score. So it's fine. It's fine both times. All right way to go riley this So you know the problems are ping you got 80 ping there You gotta gotta get that get that power line in that's probably the one upgrade left But the highest score in the game who needs a less than 80 ping? No, I think uh power line is probably a great idea. I definitely uh want to look into that quick update I got the final piece of the puzzle installed The piano it's the casio privia px s 1000 so it's installed on these brackets I got on amazon with the Latch release a couple cool things about this model. It's the slimmest digital piano in its class And it can run on six double a batteries. So it's not plugged in or anything. Look, it's free floating And it turns on the reason I got those crazy amazon folding brackets is so I could do this This plug in a pedal and you're good to go Other than that this setup is Pretty much the bee's knees for a minimalistic not just gaming setup, but also movie watching setup You really made the most out of your budget and made the most out of intel sponsorship Massive thanks to intel for sponsoring not just this video But this series guys check out their 10th gen processors for your gaming rig at the link down in the video description And not just processors ssds networking chipsets all that good stuff We're gonna have it linked down below if you guys enjoyed this video and you're looking for another one to watch We actually just completed anthony's intel extreme tech upgrade just one month ago And he took a very different approach to riley for sure his is more like a vr centric upgrade right wireless