 We're sliding into another Intel Extreme Tech upgrade, this time around it's Hoffman, one of our editors who also does all the shoots for me for lttstore.com. Oh yeah, work it, right? Yep, you look great. Thank you very much. Today we're going to be blowing the budget apparently because he's got an OLED TV, he's got an RTX 3080, he's got a Core i9 CPU, and there's no way this fit within the $5,000 limit. But there's one more thing. Yes. Two systems. Two systems? Behind you, right there. Oh my gosh. It's a NAS. How on earth are we going to do all of this? Oh you also need these, since you're here. Please. Sorry, I'm not supposed to slide around the front. Sorry. Not gonna lie, this looks extremely ambitious. You have a full PC build, new TV, and what are we doing with this? It's a NAS. Yeah. I want to store... I love it. Oh yeah. So basically I'm giving you the workstation that you need to leave me, and go back to independent work. Oh how did you... You're kind of too smart actually. You dick! What are we doing first? PC first, I guess. Okay, PC first, ask questions later. Bam! Why'd you choose this particular motherboard CPU combo? It's... well the motherboard's cheap, and the CPU's an i9. I mean what's cooler than us saying I have an i9, so... Don't you love the smell of new electronics? That manufacturing stank. Oh my god, can I play with this first? Oh the Camaro! Does it have battery? Oh no, it's on now. There's no way... Oh is... I need a USB charger. God, this thing looks ugly, doesn't it? Oh my god, I need a money cat. It's a solar money cat! But good luck. I know what it's for. I know it's for you cat. Bring me that money, baby! Thanks Intel! All right, let's see what you've stolen from the office. Oh no. No, that's mine. Oh! Wow! Academic excellence and third place doubles. I was told to come on. So if you need math questions, just find me, you know? Oh, that is wonderful. What is level J200? I don't know, I don't remember. That was grade eight. Oh, can we... That's for the study breaks? Is it work now? Keep that with your academic trophies? Do you want some? I got some soju as well. Oh my god, I love it! Wait a second. No, you've told me about your jank mod PC in the Mac case thing. Back when we did our thing, you were like, oh yeah, I have one too. And then you showed it to me and I was like, oh, that's pretty jank. I think we can do better. Wow, it looks awesome! Oh my god. This is like walking into an Apple store. Apple everywhere. Okay. The fact that you still have the G5 water cooler shroud things on there, you were doing really great, really great, up until the hard drive just being in there. Oh, that's not the only thing. Dust though! Hoffman! What's up? Have you ever cleaned it? No, you know, when I go to the Apple store, the genius bar usually tell me to get a new computer. Well, so you actually already have a decent GPU. Why do you need an RTX 3080? Everyone's getting 3080. Because I can. Are you at least going to try and get into gaming? Yeah, well, I actually game sometimes. Look here, look at what this is. Really? Yeah. I didn't even know you were like a racing game guy. You know, no one has beat my score in Project Cars. Yeah, that's true. Yeah. You can't beat it, Andy? Not even Edzel. Before that, Edzel kept talking about it in the office. He's like, oh, you should play this track. And then I think someone's getting called out right now. Yeah, a little bit. So carry on. It's been a year. I like it. Can we like have some competition, please? We had a chat called Race for my Tom. We only had one race and I won that race. I had no idea the editing den was so spicy. And I had no idea you took my Prusa printer. Oh, it's been so helpful. Okay, I found something that didn't take that long. Is this from work? Yeah. Oh, for crying out loud, dude, is this one of the new M1 ones too? Mm hmm. Okay, those were like for the lab. Those are not really actually for internal use. You're fine with this one though, right? Like this MacBook here. Why do you need two MacBooks from the office? Do you realize that if everyone took two MacBooks, we would need to issue 120 MacBooks? Yeah, but you know, they just sit on the shelf because no one ever uses MacBooks in our office. All right. Hey, are these the ones that EK gave out at the Christmas party? Yeah. Clever budget use. I'm starting to understand how this happened. No, it's not clever because there's another cooler right here. Oh, you have two coolers. Yeah. Are we building together? Yeah, sure. Why not? Where's your screwdriver? Are you going to bring it? Well, in my butt, obviously. Well, no, don't say that. Oh yeah, but seriously, I need you to decide for me. Okay. Can you settle like a debate, air or water? Air. Okay. But maybe water. Okay. All right. I learned nothing. This is going to be your NAS then, right? Yep. Have you given any thought to networking at all or? No. No, so it's do you have a switch? No. How are you going to access your files on the NAS? That's something you have to teach me. Oh my gosh. We're going to end up going shopping today. No, we're not. We're not. I have a really long cable I stole from work, like ethernet cable, that we can run from the router to my room for now. There's so many things wrong with what you just said. I don't even know where to begin. Is this a super micro board? It's, yeah. How do you have this? It's got a Xeon in there. Is it from work? No, I got it from Craigslist. Okay, I think I've so basically we don't need to change anything about this other than to blow some dust out of it. Exactly. Oh, that's not too bad. Yeah, so I was like, it's not too bad. Andy, that's not too bad, right? Not as bad as David's, honestly. David's was the worst. Yep. Wait, why didn't you go 12th gen? Oh, because I made this whole list like a couple months back. Oh, you got screwed by the bad timing. A little bit. I mean, it's still very, very fast CPU. So I think we this thing, right? That's the CPU. You know how to build a computer. Come on. Kind of. Stop pretending. You built that, right? No, I didn't. Oh, you really? No, it came as a whole. Oh, that's why it's so cheap. Oh, well, didn't you build your Mac? I did. Okay. That was a long time ago. I was gonna say, actually. Like a month to do it. It was a while. Okay. Corner to corner. Which corner is that? That corner. Okay, cool. And then I see that you always wiggle it. And then you close it. And then that thing will pop up. Ta-da. He knows how to loop your computer. Yeah. The speed is like... The system works. Make sure you got to keep this flat right here. Just in case you got to RMA it or something. Okay. All right. Are you done taking the piss? And then we got, I forgot what these are. Two sticks of 16 gigs. Stop. I forgot what these are. Enough. No, I meant like the memory. Like how much did... ROM. RAM. ROM. RIN. RUB. Two sticks of 16 gigs. 3,600 CL16. 16 gig. Nice. This is the part that gets crunchy, right? That crunch is healthy, right? Yeah. Yeah, yeah. It's a good crunch. Now I'm craving Captain Crunch all of a sudden. Honestly, this is growing so well. I feel like we don't really need me anymore. Just be Hoffman Tech Tips. Yeah. You have so much tech tips though. Is that like a baby saying Linus Tech Tips? Or... Hoffman Tech Tips. Oh, you know my kid just learned how to say LTT. Oh really? Really? Yeah, because like I'm learning the LTT thing. And he always pointed at it and he's like, oh, chichi. That's so cute. Oh my god, that's so strong. Linus. I was like, Kyle, I want the biggest possible magnet embedded in the shaft. He's like, is this big enough? Like, is it the biggest possible magnet? No. Well, then it's not big enough, is it? The screws don't come off. I like that. I'm going to steal one when it's out. Let's get the case. Oh, it's there. It is there. We don't have to go to the store and buy it. So, ta-da. Okay. Why are you taking digs at Edsel, taking digs at Nicole? Is he like the department troll or what? It's a white case. It's pretty. It is pretty. But the thing we got to figure out is our cooling solutions. I would go with the NH-D15 personally because I just don't like hassle. And an air cooler with two fans on it is basically bulletproof. It'll be running in 10 years. I give you my personal Linus Tech Tips guarantee. But the AI was more expensive, right? The AI was more expensive. And it looks prettier. It looks prettier. I need a hobby, so I think we should use the AIO. Okay. We're going AIO. Let's do it. So have you ever installed an AIO before? Nope. Okay. So now we're crossing new ground with you, Mr. Is this the RAM? I mean, I've seen you struggle with the AIO all the time. You know, Mr. Smack Talk here, it's a pretty good idea to make sure that you're going to be better at it before you come at someone else about how much they struggled. Because I'm getting real unhelpful feeling. I gotta say. That's a cooler. Yeah. Am I going to do it or? I told you I wasn't feeling very helpful. I really... Where are the Tech Tips Linus? Wait, can't don't you have to install this before install a motherboard before this? I don't know. Well, it's a quiz. I've developed some amnesia here. Oh, what is this again? What is what? What or culling? Uh-huh. Is that a reference again? No. Oh, we can put this in. No, we can put this in now or we can put the motherboard in now and we can install this after. It doesn't really matter. Okay. If you put that in the front, it will let you view fit. Oh crap. Is that what happened last time? No, no, that was with the other case, Andy. You're right though. Let's make sure. Yep. Easy-peasy. No problem. See that Nicole? You know, she's your supervisor now. Yeah, she is. Okay. So what? She can fire me. She can advise that you should be fired. We're sorry, Nicole. Nicole, you're amazing. She is amazing. You're also going to need to pop the front panel. Yeah, just grab the bottom and pull out the jerking motion. Yeah, jerk it. Do you want to do, do you want to jerk it? You can just jerk it for me. Oh wait, is this screwed on? Oh, thank God. I didn't force it. So that's how we break things on camera sometimes. Do you want looks or do you want convenience? The best looking. You want looks. Yeah. Can I talk you into convenience? Okay. Yeah, let's do it. Okay. Let's do convenience. So we're going to have the radiator fins right at the front and we're going to have the fans pulling air through the radiator at the back. If you put the fans at the front and they blow air into the radiator, then you have to take the whole thing apart in order to clean the dust out of it. And I've seen how much you like doing maintenance on your computer. Did we ever do any tests about like the stock paste? Oh, EK ships decent paste with their stuff. So I wouldn't worry about that. There are manufacturers that ship super cheap paste with their products, but I honestly, I would just assume this is fine and use it. Okay. Maybe you could get a degree, even two degrees with something else. But oh, I thought you were telling me to go back to university. Oh, no, no, no. No, Kumon is all you need. G Hoffman, you know, I think you could be not if you just got some more education, you know? Oh, it's like out of nowhere. You know, I'm working for you, right? Yeah, I guess it speaks to my poor taste if you suck. And we're going to be done this build in no time. I love it. See, Andy, I told you it's going to be easy. And I love these accents. Why do you have a 40 pack of anodized aluminum washers? Oh, they're like, why not? But what are they for? Oh, is it for the motherboard? Yeah, it is. For the motherboard. I think so. Yeah, is it? Dude, I don't think so. Is that what these are for? Yeah. But I have never heard of people just like putting things on there like that and for bling. Maybe I'm just not cool anymore. No, you're the coolest. Oh, stop. It's safe, right? I mean, I wouldn't do it. That's OK, as long as it looks cool. Not going to lie, that looks pretty cool. Oh, I have cable mod cables, actually. Do you? I do. Look at that. Wow. And got some gold accents too. White, black, and pink. Well, it's gray. With gold accents. Bling, bling. I mean, wear it loud, right? You like it. You like it. I do like it. God, I love those cable combs. You go from like tangle to dangle. I wish my life could be like that. Good solid power supply. We've gone with an RM850X. Are you going to comment on an 850 on a 3080? It's fine. I mean, people have done much worse. James tried to get away with a 650, didn't he? I don't remember. I can't remember. That didn't work out. Actually, two of the ones that I warned about their power supply have had their power supply either fail or their system shut off sometimes, and they have had to replace their power supplies. Your power supply is closed then. Yours was no good? I wasn't even counting you, so that means three then. Well, it's not pretty, but I think we dealt with your super long cable here. Let's see if that panel is even going to close. Oh yeah, there it is. Thanks. People ask me, Linus, why you work out, you know? Why you try to get such a big booty so I can close the case? All right. Hey, not bad. Let's get that GPU installed, right? Let's do it. Here you go. Well, now you're going to do it. That's your job. Oh, that's true. We're going to just have a big loop on this, I guess, because I screwed up. Well, that's perfect because I pay for those cables. I want to see more of it. Good. More bang for your buck. Sick. Let's find out if it works. You ready? You do it. You do the honors. No, you know what? You do it. No, you got to do it. No, you build it. No, you got to do it. You named it. This is your machine. Fluffy Bunny. It's your machine. But you built it. You configured it. OK, fine. Can we do it together? We can do it together. OK, ready? Crap. Did you turn on the power supply? I did not. On the back of the PS3. I did not. Ready? OK, try again. Oh, crap. Hey, I love this. Stolen from work. The ABCs of gaming. Can we go to L? Yeah, we can go to L. Is that your favorite? What's L? L is for loot. No, L is for LTTscore.com. Thanks, Andy. Oh, boy. It hasn't turned on yet. How do you know? Well, because it... Oh, the monitor was off. It was off. Hey, nice. Everything looks totally fine. What mouse are we using? Really, Hoffman? The least ergonomic mouse of all time. You know what's the best for this? It's slipping into pockets. That's actually valid. You know, I actually use this as a clicker for PowerPoint when I was in university. I would tape the bottom and then hide it in my pocket and click it. Wow, that's slick. Yeah. I like it. Yeah, that's the only thing it's good for. Yeah, so I have a deck link. Like it bypasses all the Nvidia driver system OS color management stuff so that we can have a clean output to the TV. On that TV? Yeah. So you'll sit in bed with like a wireless keyboard and mouse or something and like be working in that? No, I can just look. Well, okay. I question your ergonomics. Okay. Your touch pad for this computer is here and then you're going to have your color accurate output for this computer over there. This computer actually goes with this monitor. I see. Yeah, so this is the Windows computer. How many computers does one person need? How did I not notice this? Oh, Lord. I'm sorry. Oh my God, your paint's coming off your wall. Can you just stick this up with just like double-sided tape? Yeah, I did. Classic. Let's go get the NAS going. Do you have any hardware for this case? This is an older case and it requires those special screws with the spacers for hard drive mounting. No, huh? I mean, we could just do it the Hoffman way. Just rest it on there and put it in. There, hard drive installed, right? Right, Hoffman? Yes. Can I swiffer the inside? Power it up. I don't know, can you? This is a good budget kind of editing setup, huh? Like the whole PC and the NAS. I love it. Yeah. I love it. You need to not have a GTX 580 in here though. That's phenomenally stupid. What should I have in there? Nothing. Wait. You should use the onboard video that's definitely on here. Oh, okay. All right, that was it. That was your big cleaning effort. Unbelievable. What? Okay. What else is there? I don't even care. Okay. Doesn't even matter. I think you should call it Big NAS X because it's big and it's a NAS. Oh my God. I just wasn't really expecting pop, like that kind of like new young pop culture from you. Yeah, thanks. What if you put that one on top of this one? Oh, that's pretty crazy. You stack them. Oh. What was that? Okay, let's do the peel. Peel everything. Peel all the things. Suck it, Andy. I'm gonna sneak into your house and peel all your ****. I still have the braids peeled and Taylor's moving. Oh. Now we are definitely giving up some cooling on the bottom of this one, but I really don't think it's a big deal. We got like three hard drives in there and we're definitely gonna take out that GTX 580. I could sell it for a bit, huh? I don't know. Maybe 20 bucks. Oops. Even now, it's not worth much. Overcurrent have been detected on your USB device. System will shut down to protect your main board. What did you plug in, my man? Maybe the keyboard. Is this cable like safe? I think so. You can figure it out. I'm not gonna lie, Andy. I am extra confused right now. Did we miss something? Did we accidentally get one of the little metal tabs in one of the USB ports or something? No, there's nothing. I can't tell if these are queued up errors or if they're new ones. I'm gonna get some drivers installed and then we're gonna see how that goes. Okay, sounds good. Look at these. I got the HS8s. They are big. They are huge. They are big. They are eight inch subs. There are other smaller subs, but I went for the eight because it's like the end game speakers for me. Audio is 50% of the video and I wanna get better at it. And these speakers are really gonna help me. With studio monitors, they're usually very flat sounding and not much flavor in them just so that we can have a more accurate reference. So I'm not expecting these to, you know, really boom my room, I really wanna hear all the range and the frequency. And these are gonna do just fine for that. I've mixed a couple of videos with my old speakers and there's a lot of complaints. Hoffman! Yeah, Linus? What on earth did you plug that ethernet port into? Oh. Is this a hundred megabit per second port? Uh, shouldn't be. Something smells bad. What? Sometimes you get a little bit of corrosion on the connections and if you just give it a little unpluggy pluggy, it'll smarten up. I think I speak for everyone when I say that eight inches is really too much. Yeah, it is. Yeah. Four, five, that's lots. Oh, what are you talking about? I sort of figured out the USB thing. Your keyboard does not like being plugged into a USB type A port. So I plugged it into the type C and it immediately lit up. I stopped getting that error as soon as I reseated the internal USB type C header. So I'm hoping that we're good to go now. So it was your fault? That's one way of putting it. That's all right, Linus. Well, the fact that you made a mistake and corrected it, you know. That's what life's all about, right? Yep. Is it turning on? No. Oh, Lord. Wait. Oh my God. Look at how big this is. Oh my God. The eight inch is definitely overkill for this room. 100%. Yeah. You're like, you're like right there. This is ridiculous, dude. I have a C1 right here. For SDR grading, this TV is actually perfect. But for HDR, it's not actually that good because it is WOLED. W O L E D. So that means it's got RGB pixels plus a white pixel. So when you go very bright in a scene, the saturation actually go down. But for SDR, totally good. This looks great. Perfect. Ready? It's a good thing it was on right, hey? Yeah. Okay, so you tell me where you want it because that doesn't matter. Ah, counterclockwise, please. My counterclockwise. Okay, that's all I got. Do it, do it. Go ahead. That's perfect. How's that? Yeah, sure. Close to me. Yeah, sure. All right. Yeah, this is not very level, Hoffman. You've got a solid like freaking like inch or two from one end to the next. Poor Hoffman, he's going to like edit someone's portrait and send it to them. And they're going to be like, why is it like this? Let's go back to the NAS. So the way I configured it is you're going to have 16 terabytes of usable space out of 24. Nice. But what's cool is that as you add more drives, that's all going to be pure capacity. So as long as every drive you add is eight terabytes or less, you just get the full capacity of those drives and you can add any mix of drives that you want. Those are really tight. Tight as in? Like good. Good. That's good, that's good. How much are these? Three, four, five hundred around that range per. So it's like less than a thousand dollars for a pair. Like should we just have something like this in the booths ever? I mean we could, but we need to isolate the sound of the room. But I actually, I was working from home and I managed to actually mix the video on these. I'm going to check on my dog. I'm sorry. Oh sure. CPUs are hot and use too much power. Whoa, that is very stereo, sir. Right? Yeah. You can hear everything with these. You can really hear it. It's like headphone level separation. That's really cool. All right. Okay, LG. Hello. Why would anyone have a TV subscription? There should be an option for none. It's like in case my grandma gets a TV, I guess. Roasted. Oh, the blacks. It's so good. I mean it's off, but. We can lay the bed down and watch something. Okay, that's not awkward. Yeah. I also don't have Netflix. Could I use the company Netflix, please? Wow. I'll log out after I'm done with it. Uh-huh. I gotta say one thing that's tripping me out a little bit, aside from your crooked ass TV, is that our sound is over there. Yeah. That wouldn't bother you though? Um, I'll probably play it through the TV. So with the choice between great quality audio that's coming from the wrong place or atrocious audio that's coming from the right place, you take the bad audio from the right direction. It's a tough call. I'm not saying there's a right answer here. I don't know what to do, Linus. But I think in this situation we can go with the TV. Oh, never mind. Yeah, I don't think you can do it. Right? Yeah. I feel like the theater is over there, but I'm watching from here. Yeah. That's all right though. Happy with the setup? Super happy. You know what? I could get used to this bed. Just like I could get used to saying, hey, thanks Intel. Another extreme tech upgrade is wrapped up. We've got more coming. If you guys enjoyed Hoffman's Tech Talk, if you guys enjoyed Hoffman's Tech Upgrade, where we figure, man, we got new like gaming slash editing machines, sick audio setup, upgraded NAS, freaking TV. You really know how to stretch a dollar. I got to give you that. Took me a while. If you enjoyed this one, go check out some of our previous ones. We broke Andy's bed. Dennis wasted his money. Oh, and you in the girls room for the first time. That's such a cringe title.