 The last time we invaded the privacy of our staff entering their homes and rifling through their belongings It was for the wall of shame showing you guys the three Worst computers out of everyone who works at L-Inus at L-Inus at Linus Tech Tips this time around We're gonna find the three best machines out of everybody who works here except There is one small challenge last time we took the very worst one and gave them a free upgrade this time around This is already the people who have the most ball and setups So we had to dig pretty deep to find anything that would be an upgrade So Intel our sponsor for today's video has provided a core i9 9900 K and a suze chipped in one of their Maximus ROG gaming motherboards as well So let's head into our first contestant here. I can tell you one thing They definitely have a better gaming rig than a barbecue Wow. I Thought it was a propane one, but it's actually it's a that's actually look down there. We have a natural gas So our first stop rather unsurprisingly is Jake's house or rather I should say Jake's mom's house which might explain why Jake has so much budget to spend on his gaming setup One thing he doesn't apparently have budget for is a soldering iron. Although I gotta say Jake I really appreciate you Helpfully taking all the things that you've stolen from the office and putting them in one place for me So that I don't have to go digging for them like I did at Dennis's house I guarantee no I bought it. I paid for this. I actually was looking for this It's like our third soldering iron when I borrowed it for like two days. Well, I was looking for this one What about the floss? Oh Are you flossing right now? I actually have not seen Jake's setup. There's some unusual things like for example this UPS That's definitely from the office. Yes Why do you have so many wireless mice? I like to switch it up sometimes. That's a g305 You've got a G Pro wireless. You already have the king of gaming mice I like the G 305 and then the 403 is just kind of nostalgia, you know, let's see if he has all of them plugged in Okay, this one is indeed actually active. This one is also I also have another 403 250 twos and I think there's a g900 somewhere. Oh, oh god Yeah, the cables are kind of short. So what are you already running? Wow, is this ITX? So this case is actually for MATX But the board that I had was ITX and that graphics card is so massive that I can't even put anything else in PCIe slot So whatever I'm just trying to figure out how much of this stuff is from the office. Literally none of it Literally none of it. You know that RAM has an inventory sticker. Okay. Well, I bought it from work This is a pretty banging rig 2080 Ti 16 gigs RAM what CPU is that in there? So that's 7700k Okay Well at least that would be an upgrade on the subject of mechanic I really like your decal that you've got on your your rear panel here Yeah, so that's actually my old car that some guy like hand drew He sent me a sticker and I stuck it on the side of my case that Volta cable. I did not pay for oh That's fine So I actually saw this trick online you use the Volta cable and stick the little one or two gram dongle II bit in the mouse And then assuming that somebody isn't holding it. Well, it just goes like that and you just go And it hooks up charges the mouse. What about this chair? I think I bought that chair from work for $10 No way, it was broken on the bottom And then I got a new base for it and it's like kind of wonky But it's good enough. It's better than the IKEA chair. I had before this is actually a pretty sick setup You've got two Acer predator X 34s. So these are 100 Hertz I see you've helpfully put the I love that yeah, okay 3440 by 1440 ultra wide monitors and then I'm guessing these are your old monitors over here I actually bought those as side monitors off a guy from Craigslist for really cheap So you seem to be kind of set up for streaming but as far as I know you don't actually game stream So are you just like a poser streamer? I didn't stream for like eight months I used to do it quite a bit and then recently I've done it, you know once or twice a week just on the Not yet LTT Minecraft server So why don't you tell us about your audio setup here because it seems to be a fair bit better than Wancho So overall, it's actually pretty simple. This is the same preamp we use on Wancho This is where I got the inspiration to buy it So I have an audio technica AT 2035 with a stupid pop filter that's just there to protect it from food when I'm eating With a Rode PSA 1 boom arm So that goes right into the preamp which is preamping our signal and then it goes over to this little crappy Behringer interface. Your webcam kind of... it does kind of suck but it's it's honestly good enough You unplug it when you're not using it. Well see the thing with this stupid webcam is this is how long the cable is It's like three feet, but it's conveniently just long enough to plug in right there So I might as well just unplug it and tuck it behind when I'm not using right Why do you need two 34 inch ultra wides worth of desktop real estate? Pretty much just have everything you need access to While you're streaming while you're gaming and then have your game on the main screen and don't have to tab out like literally ever Pretty sick setup. With that said I think you might end up giving up some style points here. This stand This is three two by eights. This is pretty bad Jake I mean, okay also also I couldn't help noticing that even if this hardware wasn't stolen from work It's not really being treated with the proper respect down here under the bed. We've got a hard drive Those are dead hard drives got another hard drive dead. And what is this do your laundry? Got a ps3 Those okay, so that other more different just three one of those ps3. This is fun is running Linux I bet this IO shield is stolen from the office. I want more monitors too. Yeah, I don't know if it's necessarily more efficient But it is convenient So contender number two was sort of a surprise to me because he's more into board games than computer games as far as I knew But our next setup is actually none other than Tyler's our warehouse in inventory and logistics Manager. Yeah, and I think the important thing to remember when you step into my home is that at the office I am the organization and cleanliness guy and this is my setup Wow Okay, so I've seen Tyler working on this kind of stuff at the office. Oh, I think I actually saw you working on this guy Yeah, you did Tyler actually paints his own figurines with figurine be the correct term miniature I knew there was a proper term that I was missing here. I think he does a Spectacular job of them. I'll let you guys be the judge though Why don't we make our way in towards the computer? So got to get past the boxes of new? Miniatures that you still haven't worked on. Oh, some of them have some paint on them, though They got their white coats on and then they got their green trim and then I have my collection of various romance books And real human hair that I use for cosplay along with a list of real letters to fictional people that you apparently need to write Yeah So that's that's a series of short stories that I'm working on to the other Participants of this Mexican standoff to the poor bastards on the other side of the blast door and to the anonymous man giving me constructive criticism that's just more painting stuff. Yeah with Something something got on there. Yeah, it's it's just all over I can only focus when something's this close and I think that's how close it's supposed to be when you're working on it. I Don't like it. Yeah, I'm not a fan either in terms of general setup here. There's some highlights already and there's some lowlights We've got a g502 mouse Like it. We've got one of those free mouse pads that they gave away in the early 90s This is a freaking LG ultra wide monitor here 34 inches You're connected via HDMI aren't you? Yes. I am He's running at 49 Hertz instead of 60 Hertz on his ultra wide because of the bandwidth limitation of the HDMI input on this model Tyler this keyboard is quite frankly disgusting needs to be swapped out Yeah, it is a or run through the dishwasher or something something please It has been with me for a long time. Your computer might actually be the cleanest component of this entire rig Well, it's the newest. Oh What kind of specs are we looking at here? So it's an i7 8700 g-force 1080 Ti 32 gigabytes of RAM RGB an SSD and a hard drive So did someone at the office put this together for you? Oh, yeah, this this was all Ed I was going to do it on my own because I felt very confident my abilities But then as soon as I started putting it together, I realized that it was quite out of my league So what inspired you to put together a rig like this? So first I wanted to play Fallout 76, but then it became quickly apparent that it was a terrible game So then after that, I wanted to play the Outer Worlds when it comes out So I'm pretty eager for that at the moment. Mostly I use it for civilization Which is this is a pretty overkill. Yeah, it's a little over the kill for Civ Although I did see a lot of performance improvement in the later game when normally the processing power starts to lag down just because there's so much stuff on the map But it's still more of like a machine that I built for gaming in the next two to three years As opposed to stuff that's just out right now. Tyler, do you have a screwdriver? I think Kristen has one. Just let me check. Okay. Do we have a screwdriver? So iFixit told us we had to get rid of all the first gen kits so that they would stop appearing on camera And Tyler helpfully took one off of our hands for us. Yeah, I jumped right on that grenade I knew I was gonna find something stolen. It's not stolen if you give it to me Did Ed know when he built you this machine that it was going to be subjected to this? Subjected to what? I mean it does sit in a fairly gloriously nerdy place I'm willing to bet there's a backstory for literally everything in this nook What's the backstory for this surprise container? So this was brought to me from one of my friends who I'm actually in a role-playing podcast with He went on a trip to Japan and he brought back unique gifts for each of us I believe it is a little spirit animal. You don't know what it is I thought it was a goat. The Kindle with the dead battery Yeah, it's it's a Kindle that's not plugged in. You don't like E Ink? I love this Kindle. That's a cat toy. Obviously Mycroft batted it behind my computer station 17 months ago. Possibly. I enjoy Coke Oh my god. Oh the original VHS tapes of Star Wars? Well, sorry the last launch of the original ones before they digitally remastered I had this and my parents threw it away when they moved Yeah, I found those in a thrift shop for three dollars. What? Do they work though? They do. And you have a VHS player? I do not. This place has a lot of character But I'll say this if you're ever doing like a cleanup Saturday or something Call me. I would be happy to help. Yeah, I'll call you when I need to paint my walls First Dennis now Brandon. Taron was like, oh, I didn't know you paint walls I would have had to come paint my walls. It's like it's not actually a service I offer So we've had some good ones so far but Jono's promises to be the cutest of our setup tours today Not because Jono is particularly cute. Sorry Jono. But because he has a new puppy Oh my goodness, you can pick her up. Yep. She's 52 pounds of love You were almost show pal. It was a male dog. I was gonna call it Subway From like community? Yeah, exactly. You got it So I'm liking the setup here overall. You've got the whiteboard for the organization You got the DualShock controller over there. Do you actually use that for PC gaming? Is that why it's there? For PS4 I used to have it over here, but I don't play any consoles anymore. So it's all about PC gaming Don't suck up. Why? So basically enough just let's say for the monitors I have the PG27. Cadence quit licking my hand. So cute. And before I actually started working here I actually watched your review on it and I was like gotta get it. Now you're definitely getting some marks off for your other monitor Because the viewing angles on that are so bad. I thought you had a privacy filter Yeah, so this one is basically enough was I don't even know how old this is. I think it's probably like six seven years ago But I keep it vertical because every time I do like any spreadsheets Excel or when I do my after Before work kind of stock trading. It's all nice and vertical for my charts I am liking the desk pad here. Not bad. Oh geez Rick. Pretty good I'm liking it. All right, but we're gonna have to move it out of the way so we can admire the setup here This is from the office, isn't it? Yeah, so I got it at a super good price How much did you end up paying for this? 200. Really? For the Lee & Lee desk? I was actually prepared to pay 500 bucks Tyler. And you've got a pretty sick rig in here. So that looks like an RTX 2080 Yeah, 2080 Ti. 2080 Ti? I was trying to play Atom with you guys one time and it would just not work So I had to upgrade. And then what are we looking at for CPU here? So that's 8700K Not overclocked because I just don't feel like bothering with that. So right now I have the H150i from Corsair But I did change the fans from the stock ones to the ML120s Just because RGB and I like the feature tech of Mag-Lev I got them on sale. I think it was on Newegg for like 40 bucks or three. Oh, that's not too bad Yeah, that's actually pretty good. I am rich enough maybe in two or three months to do a full custom water cooling on it That's the sound of a quality water bottle dropping on the floor. It's super good. LTTstore.com Why do you need it so quiet? Oh, I just wanted to do custom water cooling You're one of the only ones that has paid much attention to their sound setup though I had to do that because my old logic LTTstore.com But your gaming rig is only part of your overall computer setup. Is that right? Yes, it is. Yeah. So this is sort of the media and entertainment hub Now, are you unironically using an Xbox One Kinect? If I find any dance games over here, don't know I don't think so So even this one looks like a pretty banging machine here So you got an NHD 15 in here, Z370. So this is probably what like a 7700K or? That's a 8600K An 8600K and then you've got a 1080 Ti in here. Yeah This is your secondary machine? It's for the wife We originally built this for Fallout 76, but we all know how that turned out That's the second time we've heard that today. Yeah You played Breath of the Wild and then didn't touch it again I haven't finished it yet. You haven't finished Breath of the Wild? It's just it got so good I didn't want it to end Now why do you have two PS4s? Oh because Jillian and I could play like Destiny and multiplayer games like Watchdog as well But I got those at a pawn shop. So basically these are stolen goods. I have no idea Sounds pretty stolen to me Now I did find one thing that was a bit of a cause for concern. Jono, do you have something to tell us? So I travel at least once a year. The first step is admitting that you have a problem Oh, okay that, yeah So welcome to the rose ceremony everyone except instead of roses We will be awarding a Maximus XI Hero gaming motherboard and A Core i9 9900K. This is basically the pinnacle when it comes to gaming And when paired with the right hardware It'll basically run anything under the sun at frame rates that will pretty much boggle your mind and it can be yours if The judges, that's me, select your setup as the famiest There were some pros and cons to each of your setups. Jake, yours stood out as by far the geekiest And I mean that in like a very functional sense Nobody else would have thought to strip down the housing of their webcam to make it so that it'll fit in between the bezels of their vertically stacked ultra-wide monitors Massive credit for that. What held your setup back was quite frankly the fact that I had to touch one of your socks That was the most disgusting experience I had today. You went under my bed That was the most disgusting experience I had today and I touched Tyler's keyboard I think it was a clean sock too Was it? Tyler, the vibe I got from your space was that you were more than just about you know computers and gaming You know your nerdy, fringe, unusual hobbies stretch far beyond just you know tech I kind of feel like you know that club in high school with like two or three members I feel like you were in that club and then you were in the other club that was like that club I was probably leading both of those clubs With that said you lost some serious brownie points for how brown my hands were after I touched anything in your setup Dude, it was disgusting. That's fair Jono, you had the slickest setup so you've got the desk PC going, you've got the whiteboard next to it All your controllers and consoles have a place You've got somewhere to actually keep all of your games and stuff I felt like you were a little too focused on the dog You actually lost points for Cadence being a distraction But he's so cute Exactly Honestly when it came time to determine a winner it was really really difficult Because what it ultimately had to come down to was who needed it the most The one thing that one of you needed more than anyone else was incentive Tyler You're taking home a Core i9-9900K and matching motherboard come claim your prize But stop Until such time as you take me up on my very generous offer to come and help you clean up your space When I come over and we take on that place and it is cleaned to my satisfaction I will hand you your award Guys stay tuned on Twitter because it's happening soon, right? Yep, this is really a prize for my fiance She actually kind of needs it more than you I can't talk about what she was working on but like it was it was really cool It's NDA but it's like But what's not NDA is Intel.com slash gaming It's a great place to find out which Intel desktop processor is best for you Find products that have the power that you're looking for and get tips on building, overclocking, modding and more If it's a gaming rig you're after but you're just getting started Intel's pre-built versus custom PC article can help you decide the best path to start enjoying those delicious frames So guys, thanks for watching Massive thank you to Intel for sponsoring this video and providing this fantastic prize also ASUS for the accompanying motherboard If you guys feel like I got it wrong though Leave a comment and tell me who's epic setup you think should have won Maybe there will be a runner-up prize