 Oh yeah, the question we'll be answering today is what kind of Intel Extreme $5,000 tech upgrade would you get the LTT writer who already has an amazing setup? Spoiler, it apparently includes an RTX 3090. This is mine now. You're the first to go RTX 3090. I know. This is gonna be an interesting one, folks, because not only is Plouffe's place full of stolen LTT property, like this prototype CPU pillow dog bed. Colin gave me that. But it is full of all kinds of weird stuff. Yeah. Your house has a lot of character, dude. Thanks, Linus. First of all, I gotta say respect, right? I use Trello for my personal shopping list and to assign chores to my kids and stuff. Really? Yeah, if it's good enough to organize at work, it's good enough to organize at home. That's a good point, yeah. Right? Yeah. Yeah, I bought a whiteboard years ago and I just kind of always get one if I get rid of the old one when I move. See, I think that's a lie because I'm not convinced you ever get rid of anything. No, no, no, no. Here's a whole bunch of Gateron Black switches. When you work at game studios, there's always people selling memorabilia and a lot of the time it's not selling, it's just, hey, I don't want this anymore. That explains a lot. Yeah. God, this is a lot of magic gathering. Yeah, I have a couple other... Ultimate God. So those are each like a commander deck. Be careful. Some of those are like several hundred dollars each. Really? Yeah, each deck is like a few hundred bucks. If you look, I got a lot of shiny foil cards. Some of those are like 50 bucks a card, 100 bucks a card. You've got some frauds in here. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You've got some fake cards. This looks like I drew it. Yeah, so once you've spent like five or 10 grand on Magic Cards, you kinda don't wanna pay for them anymore. I love your pizza shovel though. Do you actually use this? Cause it looks suspiciously clean. There's some dough left over right there. He made his pizza. Well, that's gross. I know, I should have cleaned it better. I should have cleaned it better. Yeah, we had pizza on Friday. It was like last, no, Saturday. Saturday, it was delicious. Oh, so this is fresh then? Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, please. And here's the battle station we'll be upgrading. You got a... It's just a Blue Yeti. Blue Yeti, yeah, okay. You have stickers everywhere. They're on my speaker. I'm surprised you don't have them on your screen. No, no, come on. You're into records too then. Yeah, that's a lot more money than I've spent over the years. I came down here for this bin of extremely expensive looking keyboard cables and sleeving. But what I ended up finding was how many computers does one man need? I just need two, okay? And I have two. You have two. I have two. But you're building another one. Yeah, yeah. So we're gonna move all the stuff out of this one. Yeah. And then return the stuff that was stolen from work. This is all mine. To the office. This is all mine. I bought these. I bought that. The more expensive impractical hobby number, the third. Impractical? It's extremely impractical. Every keyboard functions basically the same. And most people don't collect key switches like candy. They're for when I wanna try them out and change them. I took these. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. You're gonna break my switch jars. Now some of this I understand. You gotta have your pliers. You gotta have your magnifying glasses so you can look like a big, big, big nerd while you're working on your soldering or whatever the case may be. What does this have to do with? When I was doing a lot of D&D, I was DMing. And so I'd make my own maps and stuff, or I'd recreate the ones from the books that you can get. You literally bootlegged your own maps with pencil crayon. You know that one man can only use one, maybe two keyboards that, wow, this is really heavy. Hell yeah it is. Please be careful. That's a $500 key mark. This is my end game. Those are cheap key caps, but I have expensive ones coming. You have more key caps. Yeah. I mean, you already have expensive key caps. Oh my God, is this that thing you did the short circuit for? Yeah, I took that. How much is this? It's like a hundred bucks. And you just took it? This one, yes. Like how much is crap like this? This looks handmade. That's like 20 bucks. That's like, yeah, you can get stuff like this on Etsy for like 10, 20 bucks. That's not expensive, but this guy's, that's like $80. The space bar is like a hundred. But it looks sick though, right? Look at that. You have a problem. And this is just decoration then. Oh yeah. You actually plugged it. Oh no, it's wireless. No, it's just wireless. Yeah. The plan is to plug the other one in later too. Cause this is going to be like where I stream keyboard stuff. Okay. I guess that's a perfect transition to finally talk about your upgrade a little bit. Now you blew most of your budget on an RTX 3090. But I see you've got a lot of other stuff in here. That's kind of streaming focused. You got a ring light. You've got a Sony camera. This is a ZV-E10. You're the first to pick up a Go XLR. I've wanted this for ages. I actually love it. Yeah. The bleep button is the best thing ever. I mostly- It's awesome. I couldn't live without it at this point. Like what's the alternative? I have to hire a editor to bleep all this out of the video. I mostly want it for the sliders. So I can put individual things like discord or like windows sounds and so I can just slide them up and down. Software's got a learning curve. Sure. That's fine. I can figure it out. I'm not too worried about that. Time for some division of labor. Who's doing what? I see you've already assigned yourself starting the Red Bull. I want to swap all the stuff from my old server that never really got turned into a server into my old case. Cause I want to keep that cause it's pretty sweet. And then obviously we've got to take that down, like take that apart and put that just in boxes or somewhere else before I do whatever I want with the parts and then build the new computer. Conveniently today's Intel Xtreme Tech upgrade is for a writer. Hey, you can do it. That's fine. I know how to build a computer. You should unbox the case though. I spend a bunch of time doing something and it looks pretty cool. And I recorded it all for Floatplane exclusive stuff. Oh, go subscribe Floatplane.com. Hell yeah. This is an insane freaking machine. You went 980 Pro for your drive. Oh yeah. You've got like freaking what? 64 gigs of RAM? No, there's two kits. G-Skill was afraid of sending me the 4,400 stuff and it not working. So they sent a 4,000 kit as well. If it as a backup. You sticker bombed your case. Yeah, the top of it. I gotta say, this is pretty classy. I spent like a hundred plus dollars on stickers. I went with the Torrent because it's like the best case ever. Cause you're a big pirate who pirates magic the gathering cards. No, that's the funny thing is that like this doesn't have a ton of hard drive space. So I'll build this. And then what do I do? I need you to Tidy this place up. Well, no, that's fine. I need to tear down the old computers and then swap the motherboards with everything on them basically. The ergonomics of your setup are atrocious. What? You literally have a mouse pad seam right in the middle of where you'd be gaining. You don't know how you'd move. You don't know how I'm gaming though. I game like this. Look, this is great. I actually like the L desk. It's not a full L, but it's enough to put my arm here. You're right. It's not a full L, but it is a bit of an L. Okay. Who's this? Allira. Allira. It's from a video game. Would you like to go back out onto the porch, darling? She's just gonna go outside right away. See you later. Okay. Oh God. There's a lot of cat hair here. Yeah. Oh my God. The front panel. I didn't even see the front panel. I usually- You usually? Nothing. No, I usually clean it, but I'm like, oh, we're doing this at some point. I'm building a new computer. I'm just not gonna bother. This is an actual blanket. This is so gross. David's was pretty bad. Not like this. Not like this. Yeah, okay, fine. Damn, I can't believe you tried to throw me out of the bus, dude. Yeah. Oh, there's a dead bug. One thing that kind of sucks is the new 12th gen chips. A lot of them actually have this AV-512 support. Like it's still on the chip and you can unlock it, but it's like a thing they kind of just shoved away. Yeah, but if you boot it even once, I think, with a board that has updated microcode- Oh, it'll already be like, don't. Yeah, okay. It'll shut it off. Well, anyway, if you see the square there, that means I don't have it anyway, so it doesn't even matter. And the reason AV-X512 might matter to a gaming enthusiast is that it's really great for certain retro emulation. Yeah, emulation. It's really great for particularly, I think, PS3. Maybe next time. Probably not. AV-X512's one of those data center only kind of technologies. I'm surprised it was even in these in the first place. Yeah, I chose this board mostly because it has like three RGB headers. And lots of places to put stickers. Yeah, actually. Yeah. No, I'm not gonna sticker the board. No, you sure you don't wanna put some stickers on there? No, no, no, it's got the built-in- Nice little stickers. IO shields. I don't have to put the shield on. No, this is RGB. I don't wanna sticker over that. I bought these Noctua things. The covers. Yeah, I bought covers for the cooler so I can get a sticker bomb the top of the cooler. You know what's funny? Right over the Chrome X. I gave them a hard time. What? About this product. Cause I was like, that is a really kludgy solution. Oh, I agree. To making your coolers look better. I don't disagree. Someone somewhere will buy them. Yeah, it's true. I've already dismantled part of it, but for such a cluttered person, I gotta give credit for the cable management within the case. There's some odd things like this electrical tape together. Molecs. Brick of molecs connectors. That is a lot of thermal content. That's a good amount. It's gonna make a mess. You're gonna swish that down and it's gonna be everywhere. That's not bad. I'm not putting around this much at work and it's fine. For the longer CPUs. For performance it won't matter. Okay, sure. There's a little bit on this one. How much you wanna bet? There's a little too much on this one. I agree. There's a little bit too much. I probably could have stopped the line here and here. A little off topic, but I've got an update on the LTT screwdriver. You might've noticed the one I'm using looks a little different. Previously we had a black shaft. It was like a dark nickel plating. Unfortunately, we noticed that it had a tendency to scratch off, particularly around here. Like when you're kind of digging into something and screwing things in, it would scratch off. So I think we're probably gonna go with a silver shaft. Also, the ratchet is completely fixed now. The back force on this thing is so little. It's so smooth. Yeah, he's making a ton of ushers. I know. All our expensive hobbies. I spend money. Yeah. Yeah, mine makes money. Hey, he's gonna stream. Have you ever streamed before? Yeah, I streamed my God of War playthrough and then my Elden Ring playthrough, but I've been kind of waiting for this because I wanna do more keyboard centric stuff and just game in my off time instead. Can I have my power supply, please? You're sitting on it. I'm sorry, you mean my chair? I'll get you a chair. Why would you use a chair to power your computer? Because it's an HX 1000. It's got 1000 watts in a chair. You're not gonna put on the orange corners? No, it doesn't. That's what makes it LTT edition. I know, but it doesn't fit the rest of my theme. But Nicholas. No, I'm not. What about the stickers? No, those are. Okay, I'll add the stickers. I'll add the stickers. These are sick stickers. Yeah, I'll put the stickers on somewhere. Oh, and I get a knock to a badge. You see my knock to a badge collection? Yeah, I like it. Yeah, that one's good. I'm sorry, I never gave you the power supply. Hey, my power supply. Hey. Wow, the box is busted. That's okay. I finished my tear down, but what am I actually doing again? Now you've torn down one of them. You gotta tear down the other one too. And then you swap them. They do some swapsies. I feel like the young child that is just being given busy work while dad does all the real stuff that's important. At this point, I've got my board basically ready to go. I've got my CPU and I've got my memory and my cooler attached. And I threw the two, two terabyte drives in that I'm gonna have for extra storage. Now I have no chair. Ugh. I'm physically incapable of sitting cross legged. So I will sit like this. Yeah, my thighs are too thick. That's why Yvonne married you. Or it could just be bad flexibility. I need the SSD. That line is just tore down and I'll strap that on here. And then I am pretty much ready to put the board in. I've hit a wall again. I have the X99 motherboard in here. Yeah. And this is the server now? Yeah, that's gonna be a server now. But it doesn't have any hard drive base. I know. I'm just gonna like VHB tape a four terabyte NAS drive in there. And then I'll throw an SSD. One drive, no redundancy? Just for now. I don't like it. That's okay. That's not your computer. That's what everyone says. Look at this guy. He blows all his money on Magic the Gathering and key switches and doesn't have redundancy for his storage. I spent all my money on this computer instead because this is the one that matters more to me. I totally forgot. Why am I putting a GPU in this thing? Well, there's two reasons. One is because I'm just gonna keep mining on it. How noble. And two is for, I mean, that's gonna be like the streaming computer when I'm streaming keyboard stuff. If my girlfriend comes over and we wanna play games together, I'll take the worst system and she can play on my nice new computer and we can play games together nearby. So there you go. That's the good reason. Is this seriously what I'm doing? Because I hate it. I'm just gonna jam these in here? Yeah. Oh. Ploof, I'm so mad right now. You just flip it. Oh, this was on my server, right? Yeah. This is the boot drive. Sorry, that has to go in there too. Yeah, no, fine. I just- Yeah, you can totally fit them in there. What are you talking about? Look, you just- That's not the point. You just push them in. No, it's not the, I know they'll fit. Just push them in. Look at that, it's great. That's clean. That's pretty clean, right? And it fits right in there? Real good. No, what you can do is flip the whole case over. Here, pull these out. Did you just lift that out by the cable? Yeah, I did it gently, it's okay. Instead, you could cable manage it from here and then put them right here, that'd be fine too. I don't care if they sit inside the case, that's fine. You have a case. I had one and that's what- With hard drive base. I know, that's what the R7's for. You literally- I know. Have hard drive sleds. I know. Right here. So put the hard drive sleds right here. No, it won't fit because of the GPU. The reality is I'm gonna build a NAS eventually and then that'll be like my actual storage. Go, just go, just go. David, did you think you were gonna get outjanked? No, I didn't think it was possible. Hey, look, I got a new G305 wireless. You're not gonna distract from this. You know what? I'm gonna with him. No. I'm gonna put it on crooked. Yeah. All right. You don't even care. You don't even care. How do you- He's jankier than me. How do I learn this power? Okay. Okay, well, it's on there, I guess. I'll give you this. It's a pretty cool looking machine. Yeah. It's too bad that your hard drives are literally held on by double-sided tape. That's cool. They're just chilling there. It's all right. Sticker bomb. Yeah, I'll sticker bomb the HDDs. Oh. Yeah. Oh yeah, it didn't even click. Doesn't even need to click. She's in. Moment of truth. I've got everything wired up. It's just not cable managed yet. RGB, there's a whole bunch of RGB fans and stuff. I don't think it's gonna work. You don't think so? No. Well, that's not good. Hey, there it goes. Hey. I haven't tidied up the back much yet. I see that. Yeah. Still some work to do on this side. Yeah, still a little bit. Oh. Careful with the, yeah. That's not screwed down yet. What is with the sticker placement? I just put them there. I was like, well, you know what? I got it from somewhere, so I'll put them on the power supply. What the hell? With the system done, we're in pretty good shape to finish this today. All we have to do is cable manage the desk, set up the streaming lights, get the headphones hooked up, set up the GoXLR, get the camera connected. I'm sorry. How are we gonna finish this today? Look, this will all get done in like five minutes. The headphones is two seconds. Look, watch. You push it down, you pull them out, and then they're connected. Ah, it's stuck. It's stuck on the stupid tab. It did this to me earlier. Ah! No! It's done! What are we gonna do with this? Those are, so that's a, hold it careful. Me, Bel, and Jamie have our record podcast. That's why we have the Behringer and like a bunch of microphones all over the place. Yeah, vinyl verdict. That's great. We talk about records. Where's your back panel? Oh, they're all on the couch. They're both on the couch. Okay. Yeah, I'll cable manage later. Just shove it in for now. I no longer care about this. Shove it in for now, Linus. I can only care as much about a job as the client does. Totally. Hey, I care about it a lot. I just, you know, I want a lot of- Usually he cares. I want a lot of time for cable management where I can sit here and think about it and do it really prettily and like- Yeah, think about it. You need to do more than think about it. Tie all the things down and sort it out, especially because this has a glass panel on the back. Oh my God! If you break the panel, I will, I'll get mad. I don't know. You can push the cables in a little bit so it's not bending the tempered glass. You're gonna break the- Linus, Linus! We can move the cables. It won't secure. I know because the cables are in the way here. Well, maybe you should- We can do a better job then. I'm gonna. Probably what you told your mom when she asked you to clean your room. There we go. I have one more sticker. At long last, I can place it down. Warning, Neko energy. Yeah, it's Ref F7. Look at that. It's so crooked. That's cool. I will reluctantly put the new computer back where it's obviously just gonna get- Dusty. It's not even dusty at that point. It's furry. It's okay, I'll take much better care of this one. Yeah, you won't. Usually you will. Well, what do you want plugged into the speaker out here then? Oh, okay, the speakers. And then you don't want your splitter anymore? No, I don't need this. The girlfriend was imaginary after all? No, no, no, she's imaginary. She's still gonna come over and use the headphones? No, it's just we did a Discord call with my family and so we needed both headphones and I don't know when that's gonna happen again. I'll put this somewhere and if I need it, I'll use it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Just go up on some Canada, you know? I've got a Canadian girlfriend. She's in Canada, she's definitely real. She thinks my keyboard obsession is super cool. No, she really doesn't. She's like, why do you have all these keyboards and why do they cost this much money? And then I say I like them and she says, okay. Why are you handing me this? I don't know, it's really going to the wire. Here, I'm just gonna usually cable manage it a little here. Here, usually he has this stuck somewhere, but I'm just gonna usually put it right there. We never finished clearing all the crap off your desk though. So first of all, your old headphones can go- Oh yeah, we don't need those. Just keep them there. They're pretty cable managed, I think. Can we get rid of some of this junk? Those are pins and stuff. My keycaps. Keycaps with trees and what's- Elm trees and it's a band. Well here, give me like four. Give me four. Four pins. The four best ones. Oh, ****. You ever want to blow up a hoarder's mind? Pass them to pick their one favorite thing and they have to throw everything else away. Okay, there. Okay, I'll move all these somewhere else. There, now it's organized. Gears 5 dev team, okay, that's pretty cool. Okay, that can stay. This Logitech G sticker. It's great, it's Logitech. I'll try to do basically what you would have done with it. Ah. Where's your new chair? Oh, right here, I'm sitting in it. You brought the new chair. It's the SteelSeries Series 2. Oh, okay. Yeah, Steelcase Series 2, whatever. Check out the armrests. They go forward, back. Four dimension. Yeah, they go up and down. I don't know how they, okay, well they do that. They go like that. They go forward and back. Back, oh. And they can go in and out like this. And then they can angle as well. Wow. And then they go up and down too. Your arms will never feel more rested. I still really don't like the ergonomics of your setup. Where are your feet supposed to go? Really? Like how do you sit like this, man? I actually sit like this quite a lot of the time. And then I'll just like go in and just kinda chill like this. What do you need your foot rest for then? So, cause sometimes then if I put my feet down, look. Your right arm's way over here. Yeah, what's the problem? I don't know, I mean, I guess I just might slay you in games and that's fine if you just wanna like. Nah, you think that, you won't. All right, let's get this camera on. Okay. You said your plan is to put it on the tripod. Yeah, look, I do have the thing already attached to it. But why would you put it on a tripod if you have a ring light? Why don't you just screw it into the data light? The ring light is for this PC, right? Yes. The ring, the camera is for that setup there. This is more for keyboard stream so that I can put it on that tripod there and have it shoot down like that onto the keyboard stuff. Got it. Okay, hold on, here it comes. Here it comes. Oh, I don't know if we're off the wall enough. Oh yeah, we might have to pull out a little bit. Okay, yeah, oh, you're too deep. I think you're hitting something. Probably. You're hitting this. Yeah, I'm hitting, that's my monitor. This is pretty good though, Linus. I mean, this is pretty close to center. This is fine. I mean, yeah, it's usually here. You have it in the center, I guess, right? Yeah. You're ready to spend the weekend completely undoing all my awful cable management? Yes. I'm ready to discover all of the intentional tangling that I've done. Oh my God, are you serious? Did you tangle on purpose? No. Oh, it's a fucking rashness. The definition of pretty face rotten inside. Yeah, I partly just wanted the camera for photography too. Like I used to do a lot of photography when I was in school and I could borrow their DSLRs and stuff. Cause you didn't have enough hobbies. No. Normally he wipes everything down. Yeah, usually. Can I ask who applied the sticker though? I put that one there. What are you doing? I don't know, I'm just putting stickers on stuff. Okay, should we power it up? Yeah, sure. What are the odds this thing fricking works? I mean, it should. I mean. We booted it on my TV and got to Windows. It worked great. Okay, sure. You saw it powered on. I'm sure I did. Hold on, give it a sec. Oh, there it goes. There we go. Yeah. Not bad. By the way, I like your hat. Yeah. LTTstore.com? Yeah, LTTstore.com baby. Yeah, cool. I can plug in the other monitor later. This is great. One other monitor. I can do that. Are you sure? Yeah, you have a headrest down there and everything. Yeah. That's the real purpose. When you're working on the cabling down here, you're gonna have somewhere nice to curse me from. Okay, I gotta try this gaming setup, this ergonomic setup here. Hold on a second. Don't cross your legs. You can't. You know what I was saying earlier that I can't cross my legs. You can't cross your legs. Don't do it Linus, you're gonna injure yourself. No, we can't make videos. You can't even fit under the desk. I can fit under the desk. You can't. No, don't do it. I did. All right, I'll go with the progress. I did a lot of yoga for like years. Oh, check if all my drives are at least, like I have to initialize all the hard drives probably. New simple volume. Yep. Okay, volume label. Enjoy your cable management. Why did you buy a GoXLR? If you haven't noticed, I have. Only to have a USB microphone. I'm gonna move that one to the other computer later. And I have like a whole bunch of Shure, like 48s or something for the vinyl podcast. It'll just chill right here. All right, cool. Well, it can't just chill right there. Like it has to be- I'm kidding. I'm joking, yeah. It has to be like kind of at least close to your mouth a bit. Well, we can go with that. Give her a little more juice here. Oh, that might be a little much. Not too much. I mean, you've got about the energy of Eeyore, so. I could probably leave the game up. You don't have OBS? I know. Yeah, you're such a streamer. I stream, I got no OBS. I got a USB microphone plugged into my co-XLR. I've got the- I've got like four XLR mics here. I've got 18 keyboards and I've got 22 foot rests. Playing vampire survivors. The experimental life. First playthrough. I will be Kouchi. Probably the worst one, but that's okay. Hey, what am I doing? I don't understand. It's like an idle game, but not an idle game. What's an idle game? So turn left and get that little green gem. So now you get a upgrade. Get the garlic probably. Get the garlic. So now if you just walk into those dudes, you'll just kill them. And then you get XP. What? Cause you have that garlic on you. Did I get more garlic? Yeah, so now you level up. Get the garlic again, cause it ups your area. Look how big the AOE is on the now. Oh, okay. Now I have- Get the magic wand. Yeah, why not? I don't have to actually activate any of these abilities? No, they're automatic. Well, that's stupid. No, no, no, no, you don't understand. It's so good. They're like keyboards. Like, no, Han, I really need all these keyboards. They're really amazing. I get the candlestick. It's me with the candlestick in the giant library. I like your keyboard. Yeah, it's nice. I love this keyboard. Well, I'm not going to buy this game, but I might buy this keyboard. Yeah, it's a sick keyboard. It's like 200 bucks. Ooh, I'm not buying it. Okay, sure. Mind you, I have my keyboard. I think is actually more. Yeah, that's my- So that's my problem is like, yes, a lot of my keyboards are like 150, 200 bucks, but how much is a Corsair or like a Razer keyboard? Those are like 150, $200. Yeah, I'm a 915 TKL. Are you even a fast hyper though? Yeah, I'm pretty quick. Are you? Okay, you want to have a type off? It's a pretty fast taper. It's a taper or a typist? I think it's- No, no, no, do your thing, do your thing. Don't let me distract you. 114, 97%. I don't think I'm going to beat this. If you can type that fast, you deserve to treat yourself to a nice keyboard. Okay, 97% accuracy. That I will not be able to beat. And that's with you distracting me at one point too. That was me distracting you. I might have hit him. Yeah, usually he has 100%. Oh, I moved. That's not bad. That's pretty good though. The last thing I want to try is your ergonomics for an FPS game. Okay, sure. Halo is installed, launch Halo or something or Half-Life 2, you know, greatest first person shooter of all time. Okay. Oh my God, I know who made the game. Thanks 343. Did you do the volume? Yeah. No, no, no, look at this. What are you doing to me? I'm reaching the volume knob, not your knob. There you go. Show me where the keyboard should be. It's like here. I would use the armrest. The armrest, but my arm goes way over here. I don't know how to explain it, man. I find it comfortable. Nice grenade. Oh, that was close. Yeah, that was close. I don't think I can do over here. I mean, I can make this work. I can make this. Oh God. Did you see that? I just walked off the thing. Definitely unconventional. You're a man of many things, definitely with a girlfriend from Canada, but there's no doubt that this is an absolutely sick setup for gaming as long as you are willing to put in some ergonomic tweaks and a weekend of cable management to un the work that I've done. Massive thank you Plu for letting us into your house and to Intel for sponsoring Intel Extreme Tech Upgrade. If you guys are looking for another one to watch, I'd say Brandon's is pretty fun. Yeah, that was good. Although if you want to see jank, the likes of which only Plu can defeat, then David's is going to be the one to go for. Yeah. So good.