The PRACTICAL Tech Transformation - Intel $5,000 Extreme Tech Upgrade

# Intel Extreme Tech Upgrade: A Day in the Life of Building Alex’s New Computer Setup

## Introduction

It’s time for another Intel Extreme Tech Upgrade! You know the drill—LinusTechTips is back with a $5,000 budget to upgrade one lucky team member’s computer setup. This time, it’s Alex’s turn. The video kicks off with a lighthearted conversation about Alex’s current setup, which consists of powerful but secondhand hardware that has since broken down. His laptop for his girlfriend is also in need of attention, as she can’t work without her charger while everything is being set up.

## Unboxing the Laptop

The video quickly shifts to unboxing a sleek new laptop—a 1650 Ti with 16GB of RAM, an RTX 3080, and a Core i9 10850K processor. The team jokes about how this setup resembles a “Dennis situation,” referencing a previous upgrade where Dennis ended up with a similar build. Alex explains that the laptop was purchased within budget for $1,500, which impresses the team.

## Discussing the Upgrade

As they dive into the upgrade, Alex reveals that his old computer suffered from a blown motherboard due to faulty RGB lighting—an issue diagnosed by ASUS support. The team also discusses other items taken from the office, like a 3D printer and a broken monitor, which have become a running gag in previous upgrades.

## Tackling the Build

The build process begins with removing Alex’s old desk, which is secured with VHB tape. The team struggles to peel off the tape without damaging the desk or each other, leading to laughter and frustration. They eventually succeed, but not without some creative solutions like using a hairdryer and shaking the desk vigorously.

Next, they tackle assembling a new desk from IKEA. The process is filled with challenges, including mismatched parts and a keyboard drawer that no one uses in 2021. Alex humorously remarks on how he’s “not good at sharing,” as his girlfriend Sarah has taken over his workstation, leading to endless jokes about misplaced dongles and office moldy leftovers.

## Hardware Choices

Alex shares the details of his hardware choices for the new build. He opts for an ASUS ROG Strix Z490 motherboard for its support of the 10850K processor and BIOS flashback feature—a must-have for someone who works with tech daily. The team also discusses the importance of selecting non-RGB RAM to avoid repeating past mistakes, settling on Crucial Ballistics DDR4 sticks for their reliability and potential for future upgrades.

## Salvaging Old Parts

The team salvages components from Alex’s old computer, including a 960 Evo SSD and an HD15 heatsink. They joke about how the old setup might have been better in some ways but agree that it’s time to move on to something newer and more stable.

## Final Assembly and Setup

With the desk assembly complete, the team moves on to installing the new computer components. Alex chooses an EVGA XC3 RTX 3080 for its reliability and quiet operation, contrasting it with his previous GPU that sounded like a rocket ship. The build also includes a custom water-cooling loop and cable management that leaves even Linus impressed.

## Accessories and Finishing Touches

The article wouldn’t be complete without mentioning Alex’s accessories—a mechanical keyboard with brown switches, a Corsair mouse pad, and a set of Surface Headphones 2 for noise cancellation during work calls. The team also touches on the importance of having a NAS for multiple hard drives, a lesson learned from Alex’s past data-hoarding tendencies.

## Conclusion

As they wrap up the upgrade, the team reflects on how far Alex has come since his old setup. The new desk, computer, and accessories create a much cleaner and more efficient workspace. Alex jokes about forgetting where he put the VHB tape but is overall thrilled with the outcome. He expresses excitement for future upgrades, hinting at upcoming projects like Chase’s gaming-focused build.

## Final Thoughts

The video ends with gratitude to Intel for making this upgrade possible. Linus emphasizes how each Extreme Tech Upgrade transforms not just the hardware but also the workflow and mindset of the person it’s intended for. For Alex, it’s a chance to start fresh and avoid past mistakes while still indulging in his love for gaming and tech.

This Intel Extreme Tech Upgrade is proof that sometimes, you really do need to spend money to save money—and your sanity. With a new desk, computer, and accessories, Alex’s workspace is now a haven of productivity and style, ready for whatever comes next.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: en- It's Intel Extreme tech upgrade time!You guys know the drill.It's a $5,000 budget for one lucky memberof the Linus Tech Tips team,and today it's gonna be Alex!- Hello.- We've got a great themefor the build today.It's Alex made hiscomputer out of powerfulbut secondhand hardware, and it brokey,so he needs a new one.And also there's a laptopfor his girlfriend,which we need to unbox immediatelybecause she can't do her work right nowbecause Alex lost her charger as part- (laughs) No!of getting everythingset up for this video.She thinks you lost it,and I tend to probably agree with herbased on what limited experience I have.Let's just get this thing openand get on with this video, shall we?(upbeat music)This is a nice machine,a 1650 Ti, 16 gigs of,did you go over your budget?- No, it was in budget.That's a $1,500 laptop.- This is a $1,500 laptop,you've got a RTX 3080,you've got a Core i9 10850K,a new desk, new chair.I think we've got anotherDennis situation here.- No, here's the mainreason why this was picked.Linus, do you know whatthe Century Challenge is?- Century challenge?- That's good, okay, anyway,this didn't survive New Year's,so that's why that hasto happen. (both laugh)- Here you go. (laughs)- So what do we got here?We got a brokey computerwith a GTX 1080, we've got...- Well just look in thereand see if you can spotwhat is properly wrong about this?- Oh, well there's a missingRAM stick for one thing.- Yeah, so there were four,and then the motherboardkind of went kaboom, and nowone of those doesn't exist,and it's not been stableat all ever since.I talked to the guys at ASUSand kind of diagnosed what happened.The most likely thing thatkilled it is the RGB on those.The motherboard came out liketwo years before that existed.It draws way more currentthan it was supposed to,chuck in overclocking and you have a bomb.- Yeah, all right.And then this is yourpanel-swapped broken monitor,but there's still works.- No, that thing's sick, that's staying.- Okay, and then interms of materials stolenfrom the office, let's have alook at how you're doing here.That's from the office.- Yes, Final Mouse didgive that to me though,because mine broke.- 3D Printer, I'm prettysure you didn't buy a,oh my God, that's incredible.- Our Prusas were builtby people that weren't usand are all broken.Now we just repair them, use them.And then when one breaks at the office,this one goes there and thenI get a broken printer again.- All right, so you'reactually doing me a favor.- We have so much of thatstuff it's a problem.This is leftover from when we did allof the face shield making.And we stopped when wegot an order for 5 millionfrom the Canadian government.Industry stepped in, we're done. (laughs)- Fair enough.The last thing that I cansee that was clearly takenfrom the office is this.- That was won.- He did win this, it isa video work watching.- That's weird (bleep) under 2019.- Your cable management needs some work.Is that something you'reexpecting me to help with today?This is very organized, good job.- Thank you.- All the clutter is on one floor.Even if you did go over budget,one thing I'm really gladto see as a new chair.I have no idea if SecretLab.co is any good,but what I do know is thatit's definitely betterthan Vertagear.Some people even think like,oh, gaming chairs are bad.No, no, no, no, there are good ones.I'll be able to tellimmediately from the qualityof the foam.Oh yeah, it's really good.- 420 bucks, not too bad.Before we get a bunch ofstuff that needs to gointo the room, should weremove the stuff from the roomthat needs to go?- Step one, Vertagear chair,to be clear, that is an olderVertagear chair, it's possiblethey've gotten a lot better.- There's a lot of stuff.- This is kind of a nightmare.- Yeah.- I'm starting to noticea pattern in theseIntel Extreme tech upgrades.It's not really about themoney for these people.It's about having me comeand work on their house.- Having like eight hoursof Linus' time, so good.- Is this monitor staying oris this just side of the road?- That one's getting yeetedlike side of the road,it's a TN panel.This one right here is for work from home.- This is a USB mic?No, this is XLR, where'syour interface even?How do you even, where does this cable go?Alex, what are you doing?Do you even stream?- I don't stream.I just have really nice audio for people.- Oh, like for calls.- Like for Discord.- I got the mic for recordingdrums like years agoand it still just works really good.Don't get gaming stuff for audio.Get used music stuff.The quality is incredible.- All right, that's fair.And then you just treat it like garbage.I mean, this cable couldhave been treated better.Defies gravity. (laughs)- This guy can go.- Riparoni.- Yup, bits of it are coming out.Bits of it are good.- Oh yeah, there's an eightterabyte drive in there,I'm sure you're keeping that.- Yeah, but I don't trust it.That's from the bathroom server.- Yeah, no.- You know, it's funny,Dennis has the reputationfor stealing all the stuff from work,but I think Alex is wayout ahead of him so far.- You missed this, theseare from the office.- No, you talked to me aboutthat, I was okay with that.- Yeah, they were moldy. (laughs)- They were moldy?- I didn't even realizethat when I took them.- Oh goodness.- Yeah, it was really gross.- The quality of gear thatAlex gets when he gets it free,and the quality of gear Alex getswhen he spends his own money.- I have this as well.That's my Rocket League controller.I learned how to play Rocket League on it,and I can only play RocketLeague on that controller.- Is this that DIY CPU that I paid for?- So this is the RAM circuit.Do you see how manywires there are in this?- Yeah.- I got one of themwrong, fried everything,and this took me like three days.And at that point I wasjust like, no, it's done.- I'm over it, it was only like 200 bucks.- I think in total it was like 600.- What?- When's the last timeyou used this wheel?It's clearly not plugged into anything.And given that you cable managed it,you must've known it wasgoing away for a whileor never actually plugged it in.- Whenever I do a high speed USB stuff,the computer shuts down.So I plugged in the wheel and caput,like do an SD transfer, (crashing noise)- Well, I normally usethat with the VR headset.So you plug in the VRheadset and she's done.- Oh, I see, that makesway more sense, yup.Fun fact, you're apparently not supposedto spread them out like this.Apparently they're supposedto go up like this.But don't quote me on that,so audience, let me know.Are you really replacing the G710+?- No.- I saw a keyboard out there.- Yeah, that's the workfrom home keyboard.- Oh, okay, all right.Cause you couldn't possibly work from homeon your regular desktop.- Sarah works from home soshe steals my workstation,moves all my stuff aroundand then I have to come homeand be like, oh, themouse dongle, where is it?- So basically the theme of your upgradeis you're not good at sharing.- Look at Winston over there,he got tired just watching us.- What a good project manager.- Time for a water break.Oh yeah, LTTstore.com obviously.So how much stolen goodsdo we have in here?- I don't think any, those are mine.- Oh yeah, those areyours, all right, okay.There's the Ram that drewtoo much power. (laughs)All right, okay.Now this desk's coming out, right?- Yeah, so this is goingto be a bit difficult.- Yeah a little bit.It's VHB taped onto here.- Yeah, it is.- So my thought is weuse the hairdryer to tryand heat the VHB tape up and hopefullywe don't destroy everythingwhen we pull it off.- Oh God!- Oh geez.Yeah, they're not very good.- (laughs)- That's a problem, how theycome off the base like that.Sorry.If you guys want to knowhow strong VHB tape is,you saw how full this was.(yelling)- This is going to suck.(hairdryer running)- Yeah, that's what a hotday like today needed,a hairdryer running for no reason.- Okay, that's going to taketoo long, let's get a hammer.- I could just give itthe old shakey shake.Shake and bake.Seriously?- (laughs)- Oh!- Oh yay we did it.- We?- How is it?- Eh, it's not bad.- Now where do we put this?It's a table with three legs.- Yeah, we really should'veremoved the other table first.- Okay, there's a drawer on the bottom.Really, who uses akeyboard drawer in 2021?- No one.- The yeet pile has gotten a little big.I mean, I can't even getout of your apartmentat this point.How the hell do you have so much stuff?- Do you want to look at the list?- You can always tellwhen one of our reviewersdoes a spec list cause it's just like,yep, the 10850K, it's prettymuch a 10900K but cheaperso I got that one.- Especially now that Rocket Lake's out,these things are a realgreat deal. (laughs)- Turns out 5,000 USdollars is a lot of money.- Winston is spooked.- Oh, I'm so sorry, you're right there.We have a strange relationship.Okay, let's move you away from here.Aww, little guy.- I thought that therewas a back in the shelf,it turns out it's open, and the picturesjust had white walls behind it.But that's fine, that makesrunning our Phillips Hue stuffway easier later. (laughs)Yeah, we do have one kind of a problem.- Oh?- So this was in the deskconfigurator and has the desk,but there's no mounting hardware.- Oh, I see.- I think the solutionmight be just VHB tapeand don't touch it.- Oh God.- Meanwhile, I'm going through that stagein Ikea furniture assembly that goes, wow,this is going great, lookat all this progress I made,and then you get to the nextinstruction, it's like, yeah,that doesn't look too bad.Do this five times.So I'm assembling drawers.- That's not as tall asI thought it would be.- Sup dog.Get it, cause he's a dog.- G305, 35 bucks, bestmouse that you can buy.- For 35 bucks, that's for sure.I mean, you can get a G Pro wireless.- Yeah you can get a G Pro wirelessand then you have to charge it and crap.This right here, you justchuck a triple A in it,lasts for like a year.- Yeah, that's fair.- Did you want yourbig drawers on the top,and your little drawers onthe bottom by any chance?- Uh, no.- He assembled it upside down.- Okay, so you want thebig drawers in the bottom?- Yep.- There we go, yep, okay.- That wasn't too hard.- Okay, all right, yep,see you later, thanks.- I'm removing VHB tape with a fork.And right now it's lookinglike removing this VHB tapeis going to take longer thanassembling that shelf did.- I'm fighting with these railsand trying not to slice open a finger.- I love how I got the moredifficult piece of furnitureand I got the hand tool.- What, I asked you ifyou wanted the drill,you can have it.- Dammit, one of the feet came off.Wow, that's a lot of leverage.So this one goes on thisright side here, right?- Yes, actually we should plugin the power strip right now.- All right, plug this boy in.- Boom, all right.- This guy goes here Iguess, at the very far end?- Yeah, the tolerancesare pretty tight on thisso I really hope it all fits.We're good, that wasn't even that close.- Wow, hey, that's awesome,this looks so much better.- Yeah.- Now we've got to getyour desktop though.- Yes, oh, there's more VHB.- I'll take a shift.- There's no mounting stuff at all.Let's just bring the table in hereand see what it looks like.- Okay.- Oh, this is rounded on the sides.- Did they send the wrong table top?- Maybe.- You used way more VHB tape than you needto just like hold something. (laughs)- I did, yeah.- I mean, I only know thisbecause I've made the same mistake though.- Goes like that.- This is not what Iwas expecting (laughs)- We've got a plan.Alex is just going to do aquick Ikea run, get some legs,and I'm going to startbuilding the computer.Cause we've got an Extremetech upgrade to finish today.And that's how it's, oh, sorry, sorry.That's how it's going to be.- I asked for Madison andSarah to laser engravethe side panel and Ihave no clue what it is.- Oh really?- Yeah.- Big moment.- Rattlin' Dog.- Okay, so this is like a traditionalIrish/Newfoundland songcalled Rattlin' Bog,but they instead took a picture of my dogand substituted dog andtell all of the lyrics.- Let's talk through someof the hardware choices.So Alex went with theZ490 ROG Strix Gamingfor a couple of main reasons.Number one is it's a well-reviewed boardthat supports his 10850K motherboard.And reason number two isthat it's one of the cheapestboards in ASUS's lineup thatsupports BIOS flashback.It's one of those features thathonestly for a home machine,not very likely to come up,but as someone who workswith tech all the time,he certainly would appreciatehaving in the timeswhen you do need it.It basically allows you toreflash a corrupted BIOSon the board, even withoutany hardware installed.Really nice to have.I alluded to this before, but the 10850Kis an absolutely killer deal.10 cores, 20 threads,boosts well over 5 GHz.What's not to like?I mean, you could go11th gen if you wantedPCI express gen four,but the reality of it is,Alex didn't even get an NVMe SSD.So clearly he doesn't care about that.Because of the RGB memory inhis old system killing it.To be clear, it'd be finetoday in the era of RGB.But because of that, Alexspecifically went from memorywith no RGB and went Crucial in particularbecause he wanted something with dyesthat he knew he could matchlater on down the line.So these are Crucial Ballistics,they're using Micron E-dies,because crucial is owned by Micron.And aside from beingable to move to a 64 gigsin the future, this alsomeans that if you wanted to,he could overclock the snot out of them.And now we've come tothe point where we haveto start scavenging from the old computer.I mean, who needs a newheat sync when you alreadyhave an HD15?It's not like it gets anybetter than that still.Unless you want to go really exotic.This may be one of the dumbestthings we've ever done.- I was trying to think of dumber things.- (yelling)- Dude, it's dripping.- Yeah, exactly.- Just give her a good blow.- There's some stamina here.Jesus.- (sighs)- Alex, we got to top up the water.- Just a second, it's leaking really bad.- It's going to get all over the tableif we don't top up the water.- We didn't go there, not for this video.I noticed Alex didn't gofor an M.2 boot drive,but that's actually becausehe's already using oneon an add in card here.He's got a 480 gig phisoncontroller, DRAM cache.Yeah, okay, (indistinct).Perfect, so we'll justthrow that on the new board.And that's not the only one,he's got another drive here.How the devil manydrives does one man need?Got a 960 Evo one terabyte as well.That's a really nice feature on this case.These drive sleds onthis case are cable-less,so the cables are just at the backand they're pre-hooked up.Okay, that's all for old PC salvage parts.Let's go put these in the new one.It occurs to me thoughthat with Alex at Ikea,we don't really know wherethe mounting hardwareis for this socket.I can definitely install theseSSDs while I wait though.Andy found the mountinghardware, Alex came back,got me the thermal compound,ladies and gentlemen, we aremaking good progress now.- Just installing legswhile being supervised.- Alex didn't choose thewifi model for the wifi,he chose it actually so that he couldconnect Bluetooth headphones more easily.That's some good thinking.All right, I going to tryreal hard not to drop this.Certainly no one will sithere, on this clear thing.- Dog might.- Yeah, I don't think thedog will break it though.- We almost got absolutelyscrewed again by the legs.So the hardware that itcomes with is this long,which if you look here,would've gone straight through the table.- (laughs)- Fortunately, I happened tohave a bunch of framing screwsaround that will do the trick.That could have been a little awkward.Good thing you checked.- Yeah, good thing I checked.We will have to be a bitgentle with these legs.I imagine if you pickedit up and tweaked itwith these little screwsit would come out.I don't think it will be a problemfor just sitting there though.Probably should have asked forhelp before starting this but- You got this.- Yeah, I got it.I'm just scared becauseI'm afraid if I bumped oneof those legs too much, it might pop off.But I think once it's down, it'll be good.All right, we did it.- Now it's time for the secretsauce of this case...ouch.That's not what I meant to do.Right here, so it's a 12volt only power supplythat goes into the bottom of the case,and then it splits out and allthe other voltages we need:3.3 volt, 5 volt, minus 12 volt.They're derived from thisguy right here that sitsright here, so all our cableruns are as short as possible.Alex is going to have hiscomputer up on the desk,like a good boy.So we're going to go fan side down,get that nice, good ventilation for it.I mean kind of makes sense.A power supply manufacturergets into the case business,they make a case with a lot of roomfor power supply ventilation.- Oh, that's a chonk.- No way that that powersupply will not get air intakeworking properly. (laughs)- Make sure it doesn't gettoo dark over on this sidenow that there's a shelf there.And installing some Phillips Hue strips.Hopefully I'll be ableto do the whole thingwith just a single strip.- By the way, I know you saidyou want three hard drivesin here, but it only has two cages.- Yeah, the other one canjust like sit in there.Probably get double-sidedtaped in, like right here.- I'm not doing that.- Okay, I can do it.- I won't do it.- I wouldn't even dothat on my own system.That's too janky, nope.- I don't move it around.It doesn't matter.That's exactly the problem.You don't move it aroundso you'll forget you did itand then you'll move itaround that one time.It's time to get a NAS ifyou need more than this.Like that's the thing,if you need more than oneor two hard drives thesedays, it's time to get a NASbecause you're a data hoarder.How great is that cable management?Like that's it.Boom, done, it's fricking awesome.What can I do for you?- This light strip is going in here.We should probably move thedesk now that I think about it.That would make our lives a lot easier.- Okay.- How do we do that?- It's really rubbing the door now.It's getting worse.Why is angling it making it worse?- Because the legs.- Oh, because the legs push it more.- Okay, so we need to bring this up.- Go, yep, you're good.- All right, we did it.- There we go, we solved it.- That was way more difficultthan it should have been.Oh!- This adhesive's justgoing to come off, Alex.- Yeah, I will have tozip tie it on later.- What if we did this way?So we actually stick them to the back.Like that?That's not bad.Alex, we're doing thistotally wrong here, let go.Yeah, why are we doing this? (both laugh)This thing weighs like four pounds.We haven't put it back yet, butI think it worked out great.- Yeah.- Right there, awesome.- That works.- Yeah.That's great, okay, cool.I will go keep building the computer now.- All right.- For this stage in the buildit's looking pretty clean.Just go into the connectmodule right here.Boom, there's your motherboard connector.Now I've just got to put it in the GPU.Alex chose the EVGA XC3 RTX 3080because it was the 3080 we could get.That's basically it.- I mean, in all seriousness,EVGA makes a mean 3080,no complaints.That's why we went withthis particular model.- Apparently it's very cool.- Yeah, and quiet.- Yeah, very quiet.That was my one complaint withthe one that I had before.It was a rocket ship.It's not that this is the bestlooking build I've ever done,it's just that for howlittle effort I put into it,it does look really sharp.That's what I love about the Synchro.I feel like this is IntelExtreme tech upgrade,but I spent more timetalking about the case,really is awesome.These Velcro ties that theyinclude with the power supplycould be better.I wish I had some LTT Store ones.I got to get an LTT storetattoo at some point.Okay, you ready for this?Oh, there's no spot forit, don't bring it in.- What?- The tables right there.- I pinched my tummy fat, oh, all right.- Okay, I'm good.What a transformation.- Yeah.- There we go, computer placed.- Oh, we forgot the VHB tape!Eh, it's probably fine.- It actually probablyisn't going anywherewith the computer.- Yeah, all right.I need a bigger desk pad.- Hey, LTTstore.com whenthey're back in stock.- Yeah, I should haveasked for some. (laughs)- Get in line, Colin's still waiting.I think David's still waiting.- All right, I do actuallyhave a bigger desk pad.We can just have theeditor turn it into the oneof the LTT ones afterwards.- Okay, where you want these?- Inserting now, all right it's in.- Oh yeah.- Go down.You'd have to be pretty firm hereor it's going to come out again.(laughs)- We good on that one?- Yeah, it seems nice and firm.- All right, now do it again.Harder.Oh man, this is goingto look so much better.I love it.Hey Alex, did you get the financing?- Oh, with the Dell!- Did you get the extended warranty, Alex?- I didn't det the extended warranty.Alex, did you get theonsite extended warranty?Did you get the financing at least?They're never going to live it down.- I just realized something unfortunate.Both of these were on the ground.- Okay, oh geez.- That is scary.- No, it's fine, don't worry dog.Don't even trip.I got this.If you could just put astabilizing hand on there.- Okay.- Oh yeah, there we go.Output plugged into the audio interfaceand then they need powerand then I think we're good.I love how you don't even pretendto be all about that wireless life.I like this setup.It's just kind of like what I would doif I was on a fixed budget.I mean, this is like thestuff nightmares are made of.I am the little man wholives under your desk.I hate this cable.It's the ugliest thingin this whole setup.Now that is night and freaking day.- Oh yeah, so much cleaner than before.- Your mousepad is upside down.I think my brain might explode.- Yeah, but I don't like thelogo, I want to far away.I'm just over here sittingthis little work area up.We decided to go with the good old K845.It's a mechanical keyboard,has brown switches,not Cherry brown's, just brown switches,but they feel good enough.And it's pretty high quality,I think it was 45 bucks.So we just put the Corsairmouse pad back here?- Yeah, I kind of want to move the monitorup a scooch as well.- Where does the workfrom home machine go?Like it's a laptop Iguess, the one we unboxed.- Yeah.- You guys are totally set up to LAN now.Like this is awesome.- No, this would be way too cramped.- No, I mean.- This room with one personon a computer gets boiling.- All I'm hearing isyou don't want to shareyour epic gaming space.Let's see if his stolenfilament stash even fits here.Oh yup, there we go.Here's your epic controller.- Oh yeah, I guess Ishould have made spacefor that somewhere.- Along with a Linus gaming tip,if you're only good at a gamewith one special controller,you're not really good at the game.- What, I can be.- (indistinct)- I guess all that we have leftis the Surface headphones 2.- Yeah, I couldn't helpnoticing we made it all the waythrough the entire upgradewithout ever opening these.- Yeah, these aren'treally for the upgrade.These are more so for justusing with like a laptop.Noise cancellation, amazing on these.Sound quality is fine.The real reason that I got them though,is because they pair flawlesslywith Windows devices.I find, I think it'sprobably a Windows problemthat other Bluetooth things don't,but those ones every singletime, just boop, boop, boop.- That's how Microsoft got your money,was by making crappy Bluetoothpairing with everything else.- Yes.- The ANC is like...- Yeah, really great for on a plane.I really liked the fact thatthis GPU is powerful enoughthat I can just play whatever game I wantno matter how unoptimizedit is or how stupid it is.And I just know it's going to work.It's going to run well,chuck it on high, your good.Valheim on my old GPU,normally getting like 90 FPSuntil me and the guy that I'msending that GPU to actuallybuild this mansion.I was getting like 18 frames per second.Not ideal.Now we are getting what?Like 45?Yeah sometimes even like 50 FPSin the seventies conversation pit.That's exceptional.Yeah, it looks a lot better.- I'm sorry, did you say you don't likeyour cable management?- Well, it's a little better.Alex tends to like nailthings directly into the walland I wanted, youknow...this is the laptop.I like to be able to movethings and use the deskfor other stuff.- It's over there.- I normally like to putmy computer over here.- Oh well you can have wherever you want.Okay, hold on, hold on, no,we got this, we got this.- See, now everything'sall (explosion noise)- No, no, no, see everything's fine.Don't worry, you're good, you got this.You have two trained unicshere to help you move aroundall your stuff.So that's it, that's the new digs.This'll be taped downso it'll stop moving.It moves a bit right now.- So much leg room!The bar is gone.- That bar was so stupid.- Okay, great, thanks Sarah.- Thank you Intel.So I think Sarah said itbest, thanks again, Intel.This tech transformation wasabsolutely night and day.It looks so much better in there.And I'm really lookingforward to our next one.It's going to be Chase who issuper hardcore into gaming.He's into streaming.He already has really cool stuff.So I'll be really interestedto see what he does.Again, courtesy of Intel.- And if you guys are lookingfor something else to watch,we've actually got about halfa dozen of these things now,my personal favorites aregoing to be Dennis for sure,Andy's was amazing, Iloved Riley's, David's...David's is...it's something.- So all of them.They're all great.You guys love them too, I mean,don't take my word for it.- And James.- Yeah, James' is great.- We upgraded his house andthen he moved two weeks later.\n"