 What do you do when there's a big bald biker guy who knows everything about your personal finances? You make sure he gets the best darn Intel Extreme Tech upgrade possible. Guys, we are gonna have some fun today. Meet Clarence from our accounting department. Hey guys. We are gonna be taking his living room, which appears to already be adorned with electronics from work. That's becoming a bit of a theme in these. And we are gonna turn it into a surround sound home entertainment system. Then we're gonna take his office, which I think I also recognize this triple monitor stand, but that's okay. It's in need of an upgrade too. And we are gonna be turning it into a sick battle station with three 32 inch 4K monitors. Also, there's a memory foam bed topper, king size. Okay, not electronics, but hey, Intel didn't specify what you have to spend your $5,000 budget on. So let's have some fun and huge shout out to Intel for sponsoring Intel Extreme Tech upgrade. Here we go. Now I have to confess, this was the most surprising part of your upgrade to me, because you've actually got a pretty decent laptop. It's got a sixth gen processor. I hate that computer. Okay then. I've had nothing but problems with it since I bought it. That's like the fifth chassis that it's ever had. I mean, it's like, it's like the first one I've ever had. It's like the first one I've ever had. It's like the first one I've ever had. It's like the first one I've ever had. It's like the first one I've ever had. I've never had a chassis that it's been on, and I hate that thing. Okay. But then why did you go for such an OP creator spec laptop? Let's get this thing fired up because it's the MSI creator Z16. This thing is so over the top. Like you don't even game as far as I know. Don't, but it's gonna last me the next five, seven years. I want something that's gonna be around for a long time. No, it's really funny. It's even internally people do a lot of their tech shopping based on LTT videos. And Clarence comes to me, after we do the sponsored video on this, which was a while back, he goes, give it to me straight, is it actually good? And I go, yeah, yeah, it's really good. So here it is with the sponsorship well behind us, Creator Z16, Core i9, 11th gen, RTX graphics, amazing display, but that you won't be using. So was 327, oh, these are 24s. I guess it was time for an upgrade. Yep. So you're going to three- Those aren't even HDMI monitors. Oh, okay, not that that matters. DVI and HDMI have no signal quality difference. Not DVI, VGA. These are VGA, oh wow, okay, yeah, it was time. Okay, nevermind, I take everything back. By the way, I love your calculator. Please tell me this has a story. Well, this I got when I started working for the accounting firm in 2001, and it's been with me ever since. I'll cry if I ever lose this calculator. I won't take it from you. It's still, there's still some guys that I know from my PWC days, and we talk about this calculator, right, Casey? Let's get this all sorted out for you here. Let's get these monitors going, shall we? Now you're not expecting to reuse this same monitor stand, are you? Oh, you're saying- Too small. Okay, good, I was hoping that you knew that. The monitor stand that you took from the office. No, no, I was in the garbage. I picked it out of the garbage trailer. I remember saying they could get rid of it, yeah, because we tried to give it away. We couldn't even give it away. And then Clarence turns out wanted it apparently. It's just so heavy. No one wanted it. This is so janky. You're using those old EVGA, like, what are these? Like USB to VGA adapter things? Yep, but for years, those have worked fine. They've done everything I need. That's fair, but I would have at least hoped that you would use the DVI, I don't put on them. I didn't have DVI cables. We have an entire bin of them that we never touch at the office. My keyboard, I've used that exact one for the last 10 years. That's the keyboard that I use at Linus. I brought it from home, so I have the same keyboard at Linus. Oh, really? Yep. Is that what you call work, just Linus? Sure. Your name is L.M.G. I've heard most people shorten it to L.M.G. or Linus Media. How many of these you got? Three. I have three of them. My fingers know exactly where every key is, and that's why I don't wanna switch. I hear you. I mean, I can understand why you'd need this much monitor real estate at work, and you have almost this much monitor real estate at work, but why do you need it at home? I work some private clients. Oh, okay. Yep. So it's for the same thing then, essentially. Got it. We got him hooked on that monitor candy then. Oh, I was hooked long before I met you guys. I used to work with a guy who had six. Wow. Awesome, because every monitor had a purpose. I would totally have six. Now we need to talk about this because the pluggable hub that Clarence is using is actually not available yet. This is the MK2 version two, which we are the first people outside of pluggable to actually have our hands on it. So what's different about the Mark II? It has three display ports. The other one had two display ports and an HDMI. Oh, I see. So it's just- Plus it does more power delivery. There's a bunch more ports on the front. Got it. It's just a cool upgrade. Now you said you were sure all three of them were gonna fire up. Yeah. And I said, I wasn't sure about that. Which side did you plug into? The other side. You did plug into the other side. Let's try that and see if it behaves a little bit differently. Oh, now that, there you go. Interesting. So the thing about USBC is that USBC is just a connector. So it depends on how that USBC female port on your device is wired up internally, what its capabilities are. So what that means, as far as I can tell, is that this side may have more display port lanes available to it than this side potentially. But let's try the other side again. And what I suspect is gonna happen is it's gonna say no again. Here's my next question. Yes. I have a 90 degree elbow. Oh, it's fine, nevermind. Okay, good. But I have a 90 degree elbow, so the cable doesn't stick that way. It goes, will that work? I'm gonna give you a big probably not on that one. This is a very edge of the spec configuration that you're running here. Yeah. You could try it. Do you wanna grab it? If I can find it. Yeah, give it a shot. This is really cool. It specifies on the back of that hub that two of the ports are display link. So those are the ones being driven by the laptop's dedicated GPU. And then one of them is display port, like alt mode over type C. And that one has to be driven by the onboard graphics. So that's what I was talking about before when I was saying it depends on how everything is linked up within your device, how a USB-C port might behave. So we've got a compatible setup here, which is great. But one thing that's really important is if Clarence or his kids or whatever ever wanted to actually play games, this is totally capable of it. It's got an RTX 3060 GPU in it. But we wanna make sure that our middle monitor is one of the ones that's running in display link mode and actually being driven by the proper GPU. Somehow without putting anything confidential on the screen, can you show us what you look like when you're in your accounting zone? I can tell you. Sure. I've got Outlook on this screen. So I can monitor on my AMO. Excel is usually running on this screen. Okay. And QuickBooks or whatever I need to do is my second working screen. Second working screen. Got it. You're the first one to go laptop for your daily driver. Why did you choose a laptop over a desktop? Cause I'm not a gamer and I take my laptop around tons of places. I like the portability. Fair enough. Yeah. I mean these days, you're not even giving up that much in terms of performance. This is what like eight core CPU or something stupid like that? It's gonna be a long time before I have to upgrade this laptop, which is why I went the way that I did. Yeah. Eight core, 16 threads, 32 gigs of RAM. Yeah. Well, you're right. It'll be a while. And that's even accounting for the Clarence is one of those, I'm gonna use the word, one of those freaks who uses Excel so hard that it can actually take a while to process what he's doing. I think my record is something like 12 million calculations in one sheet. Yeah. I don't, I don't, that doesn't surprise me. Yeah. Now, come on in. You gotta tell me about the plan here because obviously this guy- This is gonna go. Most of this stuff is just here for looks. These speakers are going, these speakers are going there from a totally different system. These two black ones or these two white ones are gonna be the left and rights. The other one's gonna be my center channel. And I've got these little guys, they're going wireless to back behind the chairs for my full surround. Cool. Okay. And I noticed that you tried to pull one over on me here by covering it up, but it's still a sin to put your TV above a fireplace. Let the record show. Not a working fireplace. Not a working fire. Okay. All right. So at least you don't have the heat concerns, but- Oh, you know what you didn't see? There's a big ass sub behind that chair. Ooh. Well, you can't have bass without a big ass sub. Get it? It's a big ass, it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. Okay, perfect. So I guess what we're trying to decide, do you have any kind of, any brilliant ideas for mounting? Like these are supposed to be kind of like outdoor speakers. I do. It's going to eventually get mounted here like this. Oh, interesting. I just ran out of time. Oh, okay. So for today, we're just going to stick it right here. Probably right there. It'll look silly, but- And what is this? Wood-ish stuff. Wood-ish. TM. What else we got here? Harry Potter fan, but not of actually reading the books. Oh, hold on. There's a story behind that. Oh, there's a story. Sorry, I figured, I figured there had to be a story. I read to my kids every night. But not Harry Potter. That's our next series. Okay. So we read through all of, this is all the Chronicles of Narnia. We read through, you ever heard of the Land of Stories? Best book series ever. My kids cried when we read through it. Really? We are legitimate readers in this house. I read to my kids every night. That's good. Super important. We're on Half-Blood Prince with my son. I've been doing Harry Potter with him. The girls were a little young. They found it a little scary actually, which is really cute. All right, what else can we poke around at here? Now this I already know, this is super cute. The Jar of Awesome contains ticket stubs for everything fun they've done for the year. And then at the end, they smash it on the concrete and then get their fingers all cut up, digging through the stubs to see what fun stuff they did. Exactly. You don't smash it, do you? No. All right, fair enough. Safety first. All right, what else we got here? Let's just start digging through stuff. Each, these are definitely stolen from work because they have work cable ties on them. Everything I have have cable ties. Uh-huh, yeah. But these are LTT cable ties and Seasonic cable ties. Wow, a DVD player. That's, that's good technology right there. Google homed up though. Playing my favorite song. It's gonna be something really embarrassing. Not what I imagined. Yeah, but I've got two girls. They're eight and nine. I just, I was just expecting something like a little more hardcore, you know? That's what I listen to at work, Hailstorm. Yeah, yeah, for sure. Without further ado, let's actually get this show on the road then, shall we? I see you've got a big roll of Rocketfish speaker wire here. I guess this is what's gonna drive our front speakers, but the surrounds are wireless, right? Yes. Okay, perfect. Oh, and we've got more speaker wire. Why do we need this much speaker wire? I've collected it over the years and I've never used it. All right, okay, fair enough. Now you said that you wanted to remove this mantle piece here and get the TV farther back. So the idea is what, you wanna take this off? Yeah, see these two brackets? There should be just two screws. Are we gonna gain that much more space though? Because this looks like a brick. It is. We gained nothing. Okay, let's not do it. Well, I mean, I don't know. It's a couple inches. Last time I heard that counts. Here, use this, takes less than that. Hey, look, you work in the accounting department. You know the importance of lttstore.com, all right? There it is. lttstore.com. All right. Woodworking grade eight, 10 out of 10. Hey Clarence, have you ever used the bathroom in row five? Yeah. Okay, do you know that weird picture on the wall? There's a super- I don't spend that much time in there. There's a super weird picture. It's like a bird, lizard, scorpion thing in the desert. Oh, that one. Yeah, okay, so that's my grade eight art project. Oh really? I did not get 10 out of 10. That looks better, doesn't it? I was about to say I can't tell the difference. I like it. Okay, good. If you're happy, I'm happy. Now, is there any reason we couldn't just mount that today? What do we need for that? I'd want to put a two by four backing up there to make it a little stronger. Do you have a two by four? I do. Yeah, you seem like the kind of guy who would have a two by four. I mean, look at this innovative strategy to keep the table up here. You know what I don't have? I don't have the right length screws. No screws. Oh, I've got screws, but they'll poke out the top of the table. Do you have bolt cutters? I don't have bolt cutters, but I got an angle grinder. Angle grinder will do. Ready for some power tool action? Yeah, all right. Please tell me you have eye protection. You're at home, but you're still technically at work. You can tell he wasn't gonna use this. Why I gotta be here to supervise. For all the good, your 32 inch monitors are gonna do you if you can't see anymore. Those are definitely not protective glasses. Oh, wow, that might go in. Start it with these ones. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, yeah, yeah. So, okay, so I'll keep one good one and then I need three more cut off. I'll go outside and finish the rest. Okay, I believe. You know, I thought I was a pretty janky boy. And I went to Clarence's and David's place. How much sentimental attachment do you have to this? What is this called? Like a side table or whatever? If we poke a hole through the top, I can patch it. Okay, I think that's in the right spot. And as long as we can just have a mark. Good, good. I'm in. Nope. Oh, neither were you. No, no, no, we're good, we're good. Okay. Oh, sure, okay. Yeah, fine. Okay, yeah, sure. Okay, okay, great. Okay. Dude, perfect. Getting toasty here and all we've done is mount a center channel. It's kind of on there, isn't it? I mean, if you didn't know, you wouldn't know. Nobody's gonna know. Everybody's gonna know. Nobody's gonna know. Can I humbly request that we at least move them to the outside of the side table? I'm worried about this chair actually interfering. If they fit, absolutely. I just put them there because I didn't think they fit. What I really want is to get them two feet up. I feel like it's a tall, tall order. I'll build two platforms off each side, two little wings, and I can put it on top. Okay, I mean, here's an idea. Decorative speaker stand. I have two of those. You have two of these. Ta-da! Now, what I would like is just some like blue tack or something like that so that we don't get vibration passing through to the decorative subwoofer here. What color Play-Doh do you think Linus is gonna want? I'll take acoustic yellow. What I'm imagining is, you ever made a snake? Yep. Made a Play-Doh snake. So I want two snakes, one at the front, one at the back, and it'll just help us keep the vibrations from passing from the speakers to the thing under it. To be clear, this is not a perfect solution. Clarence is gonna build his wings, and then that will be the proper solution. In 10 years. All right. Yeah. Okay, so we've got our front. Actually, I guess that's it then because the others are wireless. So where's your transmitter for these guys? That's this. That's part of the Intel Extreme Tech upgrade. Yep. Got it. That's for the rears. Great. And that's the sub. Oh, perfect. Okay. Did you research this one or is this something that someone else advised you? I've never heard of this before. Yeah. Sorry, which one? Oh, no, I did research it. Yeah. Oh, okay, cool. This seems extremely straightforward. You got your power in, you got your subwoofer and line in, speakers in, and you got your speakers out, subwoofer out, volume knob. Yeah, not a whole lot to it. Hey Linus, does that do both speakers and sub? Yeah, looks like it. Because I got separate boxes for the sub. Oh, well, I don't think you need that. Oh, cool. Where do you want the sub? There. Oh, well, I mean, in that case, why are you going wireless to the sub? It's right there. You can go wired. Yeah. Do you have an RCA cable? He's got an RCA cable. He'll find it. I know why Linus, I don't have one long enough. Oh. But wait, then you bought a wireless subwoofer kit instead of a cable? Yeah. Oh, okay. Thanks Intel. Yeah, thanks Intel. In that case, we'll probably need the separate box anyway then. So maybe you had already thought of that, but just forgot. Can we talk about why we choose this? We didn't really have a good reason other than that. Oh yeah, I have a very good reason. What? I thought you just told me it just was like, you just picked it. Oh no. The system, I picked the system, good, it's good. But I picked the wireless because I hate wires. Do you have any flexibility on the positioning of the subwoofer? Is there any reason not to have it in this corner? Wireless, move it. All right. My main concern and the reason for doing this is just that I don't want any more wireless devices in the room than we absolutely have to have because yes, wireless has the benefit of fewer wires, but it also has the drawback of potential interference. So if we can have just one system, I would prefer that. I think you've stolen more cable ties than anyone else so far. Lttstore.com. Yeah, but I'm the cable management master. Oh, I don't know if cable management master is necessarily the term I would use. It's not even plugged in, Clarence. It's never been used. Mr. Cable management king. It's easy to cable manage when you don't have to plug anything into the wall. I was waiting for you to come install it. Well, at least you didn't wait for me to come paint your wall. That was the worst one. Yeah, that's right, Andy. You're welcome. Where'd you get this thing from? Craigslist. Craigslist, okay, perfect. Subwoofer out, okay. Do you wanna power on the back unit and we'll see what happens here? It did not grab our rear speakers, but it grabbed the subwoofer. I'm gonna have a look at the front right wiring here. It seems fine on this one. Hey Linus, this has a volume switch. It was almost off. Oh, well that could be it. You know what? Okay, these are loose. Here's what I think happened. This is one of those speakers, I forget the term for it right now, but where you can drive the tweeter and the woofer separately. And it's not set up that way right now. Okay, see, the inputs are just bridged, but these were loose. So I think what was happening was we were just driving the tweeter. Oh, watch it. There was a seventh speaker. Run it again. What the devil? It's running these as subwoofer. Maybe that thing can't run a sub. Stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop. Stop. Mute. Nope. Ah, I figured it out. I felt these were more rear channels because of their positioning. So I plugged them into rear and it comes up on the report. Oh, no rear detected, but it never actually tries the test tone. So let's get them into the surround, the regular surround, not surround back ports. And then I think that'll address it. Yay. Story really starts. Whoa. Oh yeah. Four months ago on my team's first mission. Sub works. Yes, the sub is working. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. A little bit compared to how bad the TV speakers. My chair is shaking. Yeah. Looks so much better too. Looks good, doesn't it? Yeah, looks just way better. You know what I think I'm going to do? Get some black cloth and cover that speaker with black cloth. Heck yeah. While I disapprove of the height of your TV, I absolutely approve of the fact that you don't have any motion smoothing or any of that nonsense turned on. We've taught you well. Either that or it was already set up and you didn't touch the settings when you went into the Christmas party. I said it the way he said. Now the only thing left is the weirdest part of this upgrade, the mattress topper. I'm experiencing some regret about our strategy of taking everything that was in our way and dumping it here. Oh well, we'll move it. Okay, here we go. We're basically just playing the one free space game because I don't want to end up buying you a new bed. I'm going to let you do the actual crawling around on it. Before you open it, let's rip all the bed sheets and everything off. Oh, for sure. Okay. You'll see if it breaks, it's not because I touched it. I'm trying to get it out. Ah, it's trying to expand as I try and slide the slip off of it. Is this the right size? I think so. Looks a little short. Is it going to expand? Give mattress topper time to rise to intended size. So yeah, I think it actually just needs to sit here for a while. Oh, I learned something the other day. Do you want to know how to put the sheet on right? First try every time? Yep. The tag is in the bottom right corner. It's one of those USB port type things where I would try it this way, then this way, then this way again until finally settling. See? Life hack. I was today years old when I learned that. This guy with the memes, with the young people slang. Well, you got to try it. You got to tell us how it feels. All right. It's probably not reached its final state yet, but. Oh, okay. Dude, lie down. Okay. Okay. Yeah, I could get used to that. That's nice. All right, good night. Hey, thanks Intel for sponsoring Intel Extreme Checkout. Thanks Intel. This was Clarence from accounting. We've got upcoming, man, we've got Brandon coming up. We've got Hoffman coming up. And if you guys are looking for something else to watch, you can check out the whole series. Some of my favorites include Dennis, Riley's was amazing, Andy's was awesome. That's the one where I broke the bed. Not entirely my fault. Okay, it was my fault. Whatever. My fault. Bye guys.