 Whoa! Now I won't say that Chase is a gamer nerd who lives in his mother's basement because that's a mean, hurtful stereotype. But he's not really leaving me a lot of choice, is he? I mean, look at him. Is this your parents' house, Chase? Yeah, it is. I couldn't move out because of COVID, so I'm stuck in here for a little bit longer. Yeah, all I hear is, why have you been like... I'm not trying to pay rent. I'm just trying to get out of here. I gotta say, as far as basement man caves go, it's looking pretty good. We've got the mini fridge, we got the TV with the PlayStation 4. I'm loving the decor in here, and of course, Chase already has an absolutely sick gaming setup, which sort of raises the question, what are we gonna do to transform this space? We are gonna be upgrading the computer. It's already pretty good, but you know, it can always be better. We got some even better hardware than I currently have, and we're gonna be putting in some new furniture and rearranging it, so it's gonna be kind of a big change, but it's not just the computer. It's a lot of other little things as well. Let's check out the setup here. So you're rocking the 2080 Super. Wow, you've got like Dominator Platinum. What the hell are we even upgrading about this thing? I don't know how to describe it. Every once in a while, the graphics driver does like to crash. In fact, it happened last night, but I have a feeling that had more to do with Cold War being a little jank sometimes than the computer itself. Now, something you guys might not know about Chase is that while here at Linus Tech Tips, we're gamers. Chase is a gamer. Unless your name is David or Edzel or Luke, he's probably gonna make you look stupid in pretty much any game. So I have two agendas here. One is to help him reach his peak gamer potential. And number two is to maybe find some way to sabotage him a little bit for the next time we play. Yeah, how's he gonna bungee that? That's my only mouse at the moment, so don't break it. That's okay, you got lots of controllers. Rocking the PlayStation 2, rocking the other more different PlayStation 2. You lied, you do have another mouse. This is how we sabotage him. Now let's have a look at what we're gonna be doing in terms of upgrades. Okay, some things are gonna be legit upgrades. This is Intel Extreme Tech upgrade, which is obviously brought to you by Intel. And we're gonna be going full bore with a Core i9-11900K processor. So we're going one of those, an RTX 3080. This is going to be among the fastest gaming machines money can buy. But we're also doing some stuff that's more tailored to Chase's personal preference, like this Sony Trinitron 20-inch CRT TV. Yeah, 20-inch. 20 inches. Wow, that's like some big donger CRT, at least from the side. We're gonna be upgrading some of the furniture. I don't have a TV stand, so we're gonna be changing out the coffee table for this TV stand here. I see some rugs. Yeah, we're gonna get some rugs. Unfortunately, I don't have one in the room at the moment. The monitor as well, that's like a 27-inch, I think it's like 200-something hertz. So that's a bit of an upgrade. It's gonna be really nice. We're putting in some Nanoleaf light bulbs. So that'll be sick. And we're doing a bit of a retro mod on the PS2. So we're gonna be putting a hard drive in it, and then you can use this memory card to rip your games to right to the hard drive and play them off of that. So no more of a need for CDs. That is sick. For those of you who are new to the series, Intel is providing 5,000 US dollar budgets for tech makeovers for my staff. And Chase, he's getting a lot of bang for the buck here. And we haven't even talked about the desk yet, man. We're gonna have to haul a ton of stuff out of there. Better get started. I had considered going with a automatic adjusting desk, but they were just hella expensive. So I didn't wanna spend the money on that. If it doesn't give more FPS, it's not making its way into this setup. I'll set up to build here then. And what are we doing? I noticed we have a new case, but you mentioned reusing that one. The plan right now is we're going to take most of the guts out of this computer, put them in the new case, take all the new parts and put them back in this case. We're gonna leave in the storage and the AIO cause it fits really nicely. I don't wanna touch it at the moment. So basically you hate me and you want me to have to build two computers instead of just one. It's two for the price of one. So, you know, it's pretty good. At least I don't have to paint the wall. Okay. You just need the computer, right? So. I guess, yeah. Oh God, what just? I didn't screw the side panel. I see that. Wow, did Dbrand just send you a bunch of sticker bomb wrap? Yeah, I had to cut it myself. I see that. Don't look too closely. It looks really good. Yeah. About that. Do you have the chocolate power supply from tech showdown? I have a receipt. You got a receipt? Yeah. Or I had. Had. The plan for the second computer is I'm probably gonna put unwrite on it. I'm gonna run some game servers and possibly a Windows VM and figure out something else to do with it. Not your fault. You already had a decent computer. I'm not gonna water cool it. I feel like I would not maintain it very well knowing me. I mean, your machine's in far better condition than David's was. Thankfully my dogs are Maltese, so they don't really shed that much. I had to get a USB 3.0 header adapter because the cable that comes with the case doesn't fit with the sleds for the SSD there. It's really tight. I can't get it off. Oh. Everything is totally under control. Your computer will be all in one piece when we're done. Well, we got two of them. So as long as one of them works, we're good. There we go. Hey, board's coming out. Does the dope special edition RAM stay on this board? No, we got extra RAM. And I definitely have a receipt for that. Yeah, I was gonna say, this looks like it's from the office too. Do you have any specific rationale behind the choices here? Like 11900K, that's pretty obvious. You just wanted more FPS. But what about like the TUF Z590 motherboard, for example? I didn't feel like spending any more money than what the TUF was worth, even as part of the upgrade. So that's why I went with that one. And the 3080, because it's a 3080 and I didn't wanna buy 3090. Okay, fair enough. And I guess as far as FTW3 Ultra goes, it was the one we could get. It was the one we could get. That's typically the story with these Intel Extreme Tech upgrades. Thanks, EVGA. Because at MSRP, these will fit in a $5,000 upgrade. At scalper prices, this is the $5,000 upgrade. Chase may not care about them, but a couple of really great features from my point of view are the inclusion of 2.5 gig ethernet that's going to be more relevant in the future, especially if he's going to be running an Unraid NAS separately in the house and he wants really quick access to those files. And of course, support for PCI Express Gen 4 storage. Today, your storage doesn't make a huge difference to the gaming experience, but give it a little bit of time with Microsoft's direct storage, and all of a sudden, the GPU could need high-speed access to your storage drive, and that's going to enable that. Now I gotta scavenge the M.2 SSD from the old board. I actually don't know what he's running, so we'll see if it's Gen 4 or not. I had a drill, but this is fine. We got the old SSD out. The good news is 660p, one terabyte. Good drive, solid drive. The bad news is it's not PCI Express Gen 4. So what we're gonna do is we're gonna install it in one of the two PCI Express Gen 3 slots, and we will leave this open for a future Gen 4 upgrade. How do you have so many standoffs, and none of them are the right one? I don't know. I could have been for this cooler, but I'm not sure. No, I don't think so. I clearly gave someone the wrong hardware, but it must have worked out, because they never contacted me. This is a little awkward, Chase. I know that you spent probably a lot of money on this special edition Dominator Platinum, and you had intended to keep using it in the gaming rig. This Vengeance LPX is substantially faster. This is 3600 CL14. Throw that in there, then. You also don't need more than 16 gigs of RAM in your gaming rig, and this is like a 32 gig kit. So that goes in the server, I think. No problem. Dominator Platinum home server with Android. I got a good deal on it. I didn't actually spend that much on the RAM. Well, it's not that fast. It's just fancy looking, so. It's fine. Yep, you got all flash, you got no dash. But now you got dash, too. That moment when you buy the fanciest, most specialist RAM, and then you swap it out for some basic Vengeance LPX. I'm just installing the cable management tray. I think it's a little short, so I might have to drill holes. Might not, we'll see. Well, we might not have any mounting hardware, but at least we can kind of jam the motherboard in here. Just gotta, just gotta kind of, whoop, finagle it a little. Don't worry, Chase, it'll be fine. He looks like the nervous, expectant father while his wife's delivering her baby. I know for a fact you're gonna have a hard time plugging in the power cable that's for the CPU specifically. I promise you I will have that in in 30 seconds. Okay, timer, go. There's half. There's the other half. I'm glad you're building the computer and I'm not. I did cheat a little bit. Motherboard's not really screwed in, so there's some wiggle room. Man, so far this is the easiest extreme tech upgrade yet. All right, we did it. It's good enough. It's really just to hold some cables, so it's a little jank, but I don't care that much. So one of the things that we're doing to the PlayStation 2 I have is we're gonna install a hard drive. Now the problem is the new hard drives that are SATA don't connect to the old network adapter that you can get, so we had to get a third little mini board and we gotta install it to this, install that to the PS2, plug in the memory card, and then we're good to go. I'm just waiting for logistics to bring you the mounting hardware that I need for the CPU, and then I am good to throw the graphics card in. Oh, actually, and one other thing. Chase is going for a live gamer duo capture card, which will presumably allow him, Chase, do you stream? I do stream a bit. This has two HDMI inputs, which allows you to have your camera as well as an external device, such as a game console plugged in. So Nintendo Switch goes in here, camera goes in here, and boom, the PC can do all the streaming. I mean, he talked about doing a dual PC streaming setup or something like that, but they can be a bit of a pain in the butt. Nice capture card, does up to 240 FPS, 1080p. Input one supports 4K, and the other one does not at all. And then it does pass through 4K 60 if you really want to. HDMI one is gonna be, yeah, any of the retro game consoles or like the PS4, and then the second one will just be my camera input. I'm currently using a webcam. If you can see over there on the desk, and I'm gonna be upgrading to a camera. What's your Twitch user name then? Too much Contra, no spaces, no caps. Can you really ever have too much Contra? I finally got the cover off. I had a couple more screws that were really small, but after that it popped right off, not the ones on the back. Those are actually for screwing it into the PlayStation 2. But now I gotta remove this little daughter board that they have, I guess that's what you would call it. So that'll take a couple more screws and hopefully it pops right off. Oh, okay. Oh, that's super cool. Not as cool as this 3080 I'm about to install though. Oh yeah. It's pretty powerful flex. You just unplug the molex like that cause we don't need it anymore. This one board will take over both functions cause it uses the power. And then I guess that's for the data. So it's a pretty cool mod. I just realized after taking this one out, this board actually has a ribbon for us. So I have to take the ribbon out of the main board here. So we're gonna do that in a moment. Seems fine. That looks like that's how you install it. So we're gonna go with that. I don't think I'm supposed to slide it into place. So they pop out and then you push them into lock. Oh, okay. No problem. So this needs to come off. This is the old one. No, no, it's good. That's we wanna keep that. Oh, okay. This one stays. That's a free tech tip. All right, let's get this graphics card. Oh, I think it'll be okay though. Cause these hard drive cages shouldn't interfere. There we go. All right. Chase. Yeah. How married to this case are you? I'm a little concerned about cooling. This is a solid front panel case. This is an RTX 3080. I don't know if it's gonna be up to the task. If it's not, it's not. Okay, we'll find out soon enough. I do really like the case. I really hope that we can use the computer in there, but if it's too powerful, too much heat, we'll have to swap it. But you know, that's a risk I'm willing to take at the moment. The board has been swapped. I'm just putting the metal plate back on. I'm gonna put in the rest of the screws and we should be good to go. Now we can throw this puppy on here. Thermal paste already on. And I have confirmed these are correct, which means we're pretty much done. That's on there pretty good. I think this rig might actually be ready to boot up. The network adapter is installed and the hard drive is inside. So all we gotta do is plug in this memory card and boot it up. And we should find out if it's gonna work or not. Oh, that is sweet. PC gaming first. All right, let's see if it fires up. Look at that RGB voice. Ridiculous. Hey, there it is. Nice. Okay, we got the M.2. We got the two SATA SSDs. We got the hard drive. We got our 16 gigs of RAM. Everything looks like it is behaving as we would expect. Let's try the PS2 next. It's actually good that you plugged in the computer because we do need to power the retro tank actually. Hey. Free McBoot, there we go. We gotta get a game to install it, right? Sure. All right, Disney Extreme Skate Adventure. Well, that's a top priority. Why don't we just- That is 20% a top priority. Why don't we put this one on? I heard that transferring hard drive games can actually take a while if you do it directly on the PS2. So we could just let it sit for a while. So can you just pop the hard drive, throw it in the computer, transfer everything and then put it back in there? Yeah, you can totally do that. I think that's what most people do. Time left. 388,140 hours. I mean, what even is that? That's just an estimation. Don't worry about it. 44 years. So Chase, by the time you're my age, it might've ripped. Nice. Ow. Ah, I stabbed my finger. May I ask why you provided me with all of these Pure Wings 2 120 millimeter fans? Can you put them in the top? I can. Yes. All right, I think I'm only gonna be able to put two in the top, but that's already gonna be five fans in a meshify case. I don't know how effective this top exhaust is gonna be. It's right next to an intake. And I'm gonna move these 140s down. I think this plastic piece right here, just, yep, there we go, pops out. Since this machine is gonna be running on rate, it's obviously gonna have some hard drives in it. We're gonna wanna make sure they get some cooling. So we're just gonna take this fan and give it a little, one of those. I just need to make a little bit more room for myself over here so I can get the desk up right and take it apart a little bit before we haul it out of here. Okay. Perfect, all right. Cool. And I will disassemble some of it, so. Yeah, do you remember when IKEA furniture was like, this is a sick rig in its own right. Sheesh, remind me to be your little brother growing up because like your hand-me-downs, man. Or the couch goes here now. It's no less ugly. At least it's the first thing you see when you walk in the room. Oh, we lost one of the feet. Oh. Whoops. Here, hold on, let me. No, no, no, wait. Hold on, hold on, let me. I can't game if I lose my fingers. Yeah. Don't worry, I got you, fam. Wait, you can't game if you lose your fingers. Oh, here we go, down it comes. Okay. Yeah. Has to come up a bit, but. Yeah, I was gonna say it's a little linus-sized. Yeah, it can go higher. Perfect, you know, you got the TV, you got your main desk, you got another desk. It's fricking awesome. I mean, you might even be able to stream and like game on your PlayStation or whatever on the main TV. Just tilt it a little bit, yeah. Wait, why do all the consoles live over here? How do these go connect to the thing? Or actually the switch might move. You mean you might switch up its location? Yeah. You know, you don't have to laugh at my jokes. To give you credit, I didn't laugh at any of the others so far. Ha ha ha. Not sure if it's supposed to make me feel better or. Look at that. Oh, the system works. Do you guys want to erase the table? We're a little high. Yeah, a little high. Yeah. Actually, I think that one's good. Which one? The one that you're doing right now. Yeah, okay. This is going to be a nightmare to level. Right now I'm installing the back plates on the monitors because we have a two, like a dual monitor mounting arm. So I can put that on the back of the desk. I don't have to use traditional stands. It was a fairly cheap one off Amazon, but it should do the job. We made sure that it was rated for the weight of the monitor. If we don't have the little slidey mount things, one option is to just 3D print them. Option number two, we take this mesh cable management thing down here and we just jam it in there. How about we do that? Ah, hey. I'm good, we're good. Oh crap. Why? The cable management's on this side. Yeah, well we'll spin the desk around later. I just realized that because we put the desk in wrong, we can actually attach the monitor arm before we flip it around. So we're actually good to go in this aspect. I'm a stair master. Trying to slide on it. It doesn't want to go. This kind of juts out just enough. Take this off, put it on first, put the monitor on, then screw it in. How about you screw in the monitor and I'll hold it in place. Right. Got my own LTT store. Not yet, coming soon. Crew driver. Whoa! Oh. No, we good. Hey, rock on. Nice. Cool, this is great. Okay, we gotta get the peels off. I'm sorry, Andy. How much was this? 50 bucks? Not even. Which could come back to haunt me in the future. Oh yeah, for sure. At the end of the day, it was under budget, so that's what had to happen. Bring it forward a bit. Scooch it in. Yeah, that's fine. Okay. I probably, cause I'm gaming, I'll bring it pretty far forward. Yeah, you gotta go all pro. I think my back posture is so bad. Now I'm all self-conscious about it too. Okay, I gotta get the shoulders back, right? You like the thin mouse pad, hey? Do you know where that one came from? The office, I assume. Yes. I had an exact same version of that, and the middle had started to worn out. I just ended up getting the exact same one. But stolen from work. No, we were giving them away. Uh-huh. It's amazing how many things I give away without knowing about it. This is sick. The desktop is way cleaner than it used to be. Oh yeah, for sure. Where's the power adapter for the Samsung? Wow, that's a big power brick. What the? Well, I got rid of two, so I'll take it. This is a hundred watt power adapter. Ah! Oh, that was really close to falling on my face. Oh, shit. It did. No, no, it missed. Oh, okay. If you're gonna have the computer in the corner here, we need this leveled. All right, give me one second. Okay. Yo dog, I heard you wanted a level, so I got you a level. Wow, you leveled my level, so I can level while I level. Get on my level, Chase. You know what? It's not far off, actually. It could be different from one side of the table to the other. This one has to come up, for sure. There's some weight on the top of it, isn't there? Yeah. That's fine, I can, there we go. Okay, so is it level now? Still looks a little off. Okay. Oy! No, it's all good. I just knocked something. Okay. Watch your feet. This thing will break your foot muscles. Oh, God. I think you broke the front. You know what's funny? They warned us about that when we picked it up. They said the front can break really easily. Oh, I'm sorry. This thing is super old. I'm really not that concerned. I think that's the only thing you've broken, and it's not as bad as the bed, so I'm happy. Oh! Oh! Oh! Linus! Did you just break my bed? So I almost forgot. We have to remount a few things. I have the camera we're gonna use as a webcam, and then the thing you place it on. That's the Sony Alpha 5100. It's clean HDMI, and I can use a dummy battery. That's all I need. Something about it being mirrorless too, but I'm not a camera guy, so. I found it in a closet somewhere, and I was like, hey, I could use this. This cable management tray is doing wonders. I know, right? Yeah. So much stuff jammed in there. It looks so clean under the desk, and you'll never accidentally kick anything and knock it over or whatever. Oh, is that for the monitor? Yeah, it's a USB 3B, but it's got this giant housing on it. Thank you, Samsung. We leave it like this forever. I win our next gaming match. Hold up, hold up, hold up. Everyone's happy. What's going on? That's so much better. You can still see a little bit of jello though. You can still see this one is attached faster. At least one of the light bulbs is burnt out, so I figured I'd just get some smart bulbs and replace them and get some RGB going. If it's not in the computer, it'll be the entire room. We have Nanoleaf Essentials here, A19 or E26. They definitely fit in those sockets, so no problem. I think it was 35 each or something. 35 each? This is $100 in light bulbs per fixture. You gotta go big for the upgrade, so here we are. Oh, I think I got it. Yep. How many LMG employees does it take to screw in a light bulb? You had a Gamers Nexus ModMath the whole time and we didn't use it for a build surface? I like to live dangerously. Another piece of equipment straight from Amazon, super cheap, not sure if it's worth it. Basically it has four inputs and two outputs, but the outputs is duplicated. So the idea is that one always goes to the CRT and then one always goes to the capture card. Oh, okay. So it's just kind of a handy way to do that and you can have four consoles in it. And we have no idea what the AV quality of this thing is. I didn't wanna spend a lot on it. I just wanted to see if it would work. Is that working? Nope, that's just the TV. Oh, you know what? I know why. I didn't plug in the audio to the back. It's in the back of the TV. Got you, fam. Okay, where is it at? Ow. Well, it's under the desk now. Yeah, I see that. Oh God. Oh wow, that's really loud. Kind of like an inverse color thing you got going in the bottom right corner. It's cool. How much did I pay for this again? Like 150. The gamer vibe is real now. This is looking pretty good. We're getting what, 70 FPS? Yeah, considering that you're running with like ray tracing ultimate. Do we wanna turn it off and see what it goes to? That's probably worthwhile, yeah. All right. There we go. Yeah, 120. That's pretty good considering this game really just seems to cap out in like low hundreds. This is cool. You wanna give it a shot? This is the part where we gain a greater appreciation for how good Chase is. Cause we watch me try to do it. Where are you boys at? Everyone. Oh. No. Oh, he was hiding. All right, that was pretty good. Chase didn't even mention that part of the plan here is to have space for VR. He's even got the headset already. This is awesome. This is way better. And we didn't put the disc plates on the wall. These look awesome. Yeah, not bad. Not bad at all. We might've gone a little late on the shoot today. The blueness of the shot is not just from the RGB lighting. It's also getting kind of dark outside, but I love this setup. It's gaming essentials and anything goes. You love your console gaming. You love your PC gaming, your modern gaming, your retro gaming. Chase has pretty much got you freaking covered. So thank you very much Intel for sponsoring this $5,000 extreme tech upgrade. Thanks to you guys for watching. If you're looking for another video to watch, hey, maybe check out one of our previous Intel extreme tech upgrades. We alluded to that I had broken furniture on one of the previous ones. Maybe check out Andy's extreme tech upgrade.