you know, most of the time, the guy who picks the lottery winner doesn't get to win the lottery. How did you end up with an AMD ultimate Tech upgrade, especially since you already stole one of the secret shopper PCs? Not to mention this TV, these dark plates, this miniature shoe, this Ikea blanket, and this light that used to be in my house. It's a random draw, dude. The Bingo ball handler can win too. Seriously though, what else could you possibly need? Your setup is already sick. Just some duct tape for petty and some decoration. And that's not all. I see computer upgrades, a home DJ setup. Wait, I got to admit this was spoiled for me, but you got a gold grill. Did you carve the AMD logo into this? It's only fitting, right? Does it fit? Yeah, it's custom made. Oh my God, just roll the intro. [Music] I can't believe I missed the most obvious stolen merch. Listen, he modeled for it, okay? He earned it, right? The computer may be stolen, but apparently, beggars can be

choosers, we're going to be upgrading this. First, you want me to put something on the counter. Not really, it's not my counter. I mean, who needs a static safe workplace when you can bring a static material and put it cut this so my landlord doesn't see it. As I mentioned, you guys might remember this PC from secret shopper 3. It's from Star Forge, complete with penis rocket logo. It's not a dick for some reason. It's signed. Is this because we were going to give it away or something? And you know that's just for me. I'm just missing Shay's signature. So Shay, hit me up. Funnily enough, Star Forge was the only one to use a Radeon GPU in their system. So we're going to be keeping this 6750 XT and just upgrading our platform with an 7800 X3D 3D V-Cash processor. This is as fast as it gets for gaming, some DDR5 memory, and of course a matching motherboard. Sherro, um, question for you. Have you built a computer before? Like is

that a thing you do or I took the GPU out once and put it back in cool yeah oh God we're adding one of those EK aios yeah Chase won that at the Christmas party this is like before my time but he was nice enough to give it to me because he wasn't using it so thanks J that Christmas party gift was like the smartest five grand that EK ever spent the millions and millions and millions of views that they have gotten on these things so if any Brand's watching this we have a Christmas party this year while Shard tries to figure out how to remove the motherboard AMD is giving three more of these away to some of you lucky viewers all you have to do is follow the link in the description to enter amd's been killing it both with continuing to sponsor this series that you guys all love and also giving you guys some pretty cool gear let's um see how he's doing wait you just removed the one screw that whole time that no that was

good that good you know what you can remove any cables you want. Just go for it. Just rip them off. Wait, not doing all the other one. You just, no, I'm, I'm kidding. Okay, I warned you. I've never done this. Yeah, yeah, no, you're doing great. You just going to like Facebook Marketplace this or whatever. Trash can's right there. You don't have to suck up to AMD. I, I know it's Intel. All my homies love AMD. In the intro, you know how I was like, you know the ball handlers not allowed to win the Bango or whatever. He, he, he handles the relationship with AMD for this series. So that's the context there. Hi Ray. Now for building up the new platform, tell me, have you at least ever watched one of our build videos? Yes, okay, go. Nice motherboard goes first. Nice. Oh my God. Wait, wait, why is there no socket cover on this motherboard, Elijah? I had asked Logistics to do a quick post test and I guess they forgot to put the cover on. Hold on, hold on. New role play.

new role play. Okay, I'm Logistics. Okay, Sherod, go ahead. Drive the bus. No, it looks fine. It looks like it's fine. So, normally a motherboard. Oh, here it is. Oh, so maybe it was on. Maybe it just. Normally, a motherboard comes with a cover to protect these delicate pins that are in the CPU socket, but somehow this one came off. And it's very easy for anything banging around in the box or, you know, someone accidentally handling it and mashing their fingers in the socket to completely mangle it. And the cost is so high to replace that socket that you might as well just buy a new motherboard in most cases. So, that's a pretty stressful thing. I'm not stressed. You're stressed. I'm not stressed. Elijah's stressed. Nice haircut. Don't find out soon. Whoa, stop. Surely you can't put this CPU in without your AMD Grill in. Now, I have to confess. I don't know much about grills and grill culture, so you might have to explain this whole thing to me. You can either get your actual teeth.

pulled out and put gold teeth in there or these go on top of your teeth so it's they're like retainers made out of gold. I got Sebastian to use the tormac machine to put a little little tiny tiny AMD logo on the on the middle tooth. Okay um but backing up again the idea behind a grill is just it looks sick oh wow it's like like a bit to get on there yeah cuz it stays on oh my God and how much are these worth uh like $600 it's 14k gold that's pretty good where where are they from uh G grills they got ship from Houston Texas all right okay what games do you play pegle pegle Deluxe or pegle extreme pegle kns uh that one I've been playing Skyrim for 13 years uh nice I still play it I only got a PC like this year I used to play on my PS5 yeah okay uh a lot of Red Dead 2 um cool a little bit of I think it goes right side

up right. Oh, yeah, yeah, the right side up is definitely a plus. Yeah, I see the, see the little arrow. Nice. Yeah, you got to give her a little bit on this. Boom. There you go. Look at that. There goes the dynamite. All right, let's put this back together. Wow, a man after my, my own heart putting things away as we go and keeping the workspace tidy. You got clean as you go, right? I'm impressed. I worked in the kitchen. What kitchen did you work in? It used to be called, uh, Mags 99. It used to be a KFC Taco Bell, but someone bought it and they started making real food in it. Speaking of, uh, fried chicken, here are the Rams. Um, see you guys think segueing is easy. I just make it look easy. So here's what I know about RAM just watching the videos. I know you're supposed to go in odd or even channels, one and three or two and four. M two and four are the first ones. It does technically vary from board to board. You know what we're going to check.

yo stickers got little dragons on it. Oh my God, they do not include a paper manual with this motherboard. We're going to go two and four. It's probably two and four or Logistics could have lost it, right? How's that second bus Logistics, you know Logistics are our unsung heroes, okay, they get so little, they get so little time in the sun, okay, they do so much for us. What is wrong with you people? Was that open or did you open that? Uh, I don't know, it might have been Logistics. Doesn't matter which way. Oh yeah, I'm assuming since that side doesn't have stickers and it's pointed to the camera, I'm assuming it goes this way, right? Fun fact, I believe he is actually right. That is not how to Landmark memory, um, but I have noticed a pattern that the vast majority of the time the sticker is toward the CPU socket, which makes it more photogenic. It got to look good. Yeah, would you like to know how to actually know how to put it in? You just kind of, right? Oh, I mean, yeah.

no, I mean how to tell. How to tell though, like the notch isn't in the middle. Oh, one side's long, one side's short always. Yeah, so like you're supposed to line it up, but like no, that dude that works, yeah, good job. Guess now is a good time to shout out the RAM since I can so conveniently read the sticker from this side. DDR 56000 CL30 32 gigs. You could load in lots of Skyrim mods, all of them. Do you play modded Skyrim? Uh, I have started, yeah, since getting a PC. It's way way easier. You played like 10 years of Skyrim without modding it? Yes. Let's get this in the case. While we're on that, do you want to do something other than call out logistics? Sure. What? Maybe you could light some incense. Actually, please don't. I'm sorry, but we got incest here. This one's called Jamaican girl. Yeah, also money. Also, where you at? Why don't you set up? I don't know. Where's the DJ setup going to go? Uh, on

the CX CX is part of our upgrade actually, but I know oh, we hate Furniture, so I took the liberty of putting it together beforehand. Oh, perfect. Okay, so why don't you? That, yes sir, at least the logistics kept this manual. That's going to be the running gag in this video. You started it by driving the bus, Glenn. I have a task for you. Go back to Logistics. Give them an opportunity to say their piece after we're done shooting here, okay? Because they deserve it. They work hard. I know, and these guys don't respect it. I was in logistics. I was see it was there. Just fell off in transit. I, I legitimately like, I, I made a boo boo on that. Am I what am I doing wrong here? Oh, yeah, it is tradition to check and make sure there's nothing under the motherboard before we, uh, put it down. There's cables there, yeah, there's cables. All right, I'll give you a hand. Why don't you go show Elijah where you want your DJ stuff? I'm just going to get the

motherboard install. What even is this? Uh, this is a DJ controller, FLX 4. I'm not like a professional or anything. I'm just going to like have fun at home, so this is like more than enough. The cool thing it has, uh, smart effects while you're mixing. It helps. It's like training wheels. And it also has smart fader, so it bat matches, uh, the two decks together automatically when you're fading in between songs. So, and then I also unboxed this Mix 5. It's actually pretty useful 'cause, uh, everything's basically going to go through this 'cause this whole cic is going to be like a music setup. Because we're going to have so many things going through the same set of speakers and subwoofer. Uh, this is going to bring everything together and put everything through at the same time, all in one place. Oh, cool. Okay, so we're going to have that. Oh my God, Elijah, please don't lose those pieces. Where'd it go? Oh, that's a sampler, uh, drum machine.

sequencer. All in one type of thing. Yeah, it looks like Lego. It does. It kind of does, especially with these little little pieces that go on. No, no, hold on. That's the wrong one, brother. They're color-coded. Another audio source, a sound Burger. Yes, sir. So I saw that at CES this year, and I thought it was the coolest thing ever. What is it? It's a record player. Oh, I think they originally released these in like the 80s or something. And they what, records? No, no, I think they've been around a lot longer since the 80s, but that's fine. That moment when Elijah schools you about history. Got him. He doesn't know anything. Anyways, they released a very limited number of them like a couple years ago, and they sold out immediately. So they kind of made it a permanent thing in their lineup. This pops open. You got the needle. You kind of like click out. You put the record in here, and then this goes on top of the record to like kind of hold it in place. Shut it.

turn it on. Oh, so it's battery as well. Yeah, so it has, I think, it's 12 hours battery, and it has Bluetooth, so you can just like take it anywhere. Shro I've got your motherboard in, and I've decided after watching you for a while, I'm just going to keep going. That is the smart choice, I would say. So why don't you guys um learn about coffee. I used to have an Express machine before, and it was semi-automatic, but it was kind of a pain in the ass to upkeep and clean. This one's fully automatic. Uh, it grinds the coffee, packs the shot, pulls the shot, and dumps the little puck in a little bin that you can dump out yourself. What is one of these worth? This looks crazy expensive. 850 worth it. Is that Canadian rubles, or is that like Canadian Canadian? Okay, so like $600 something like that. Yeah, hey, look, look who it is. It's Reese from Logistics. Were your ears burning? I guess so. So I'm told at least. Who was the one

that did the test boot with this motherboard. I don't I don't know, probably Jamie. I assume it's okay. So he's throwing Jamie under the bus. Okay, it's just Jamie from Logistics then. No, these guys are on a team. He would never throw Jamie under the bus. He's answering a direct question. Why are you forcing him, putting him in this putting him in this uncomfortable situation? Pretty comfortable. These fans are going to go on top again. Nope. Why not? Uh, well, I put the EK vardar ones that came with your AIO in the front. See? Yeah. And then I was lazy, but that's less RGB. I want RGB. Fine. Was going to quietly not put them back in, but fine. Fine. Fine. Not on my watch. Fine. Fine. Fine. Fine. Fine. Sorry. What? What? I'm just checking what is on your watch. Oh, speaking, speaking of watches. Oh, did you get a new watch? I did. Oh, look at that. Okay. What'd you get? I got the new Apple watch Ultra 2. Oh, wow. Because, and hear me out, because you just

like throwing money away. That and also the bigger battery because honestly it's a pain point for me. Look at that, that's beautiful. The Humane pin looks better. Wow, it's really heavy. You shot your mouth. You seem to be over your $5,000 budget, uh, by like $60 Canadian. Elijah, I'll put the sheet on screen. Oh, we never put the D in there. Lus is on lunch. It's all [Music] [Music] you. What was [Music] that? Oh yeah, we might need a fan splitter. Do you know if Lus took one out? Okay, well just just do your best. It doesn't look the greatest, but I think once it's up against the wall, it's pretty good. Of course, you're the type of guy who'd buy a gold grill. Can we drape this across the front? Oh, it's like almost perfect. I didn't need to do any of that cable management. We could have just hung ice spice. We're doing the goie TV lights right now. All wish home theater video that we did.

at Linus's house, we put this on his TV, and I liked it. Thank you GOI shout out to Hershey. Keep this in, editor. Editor, keep this in. Thank you, Hershey. Yeah, you want to see the Elijah special Glenn best part about modern cases, bro. Solid back panel. Take this off, please. Do not tell L. He will check it. It's way cooler when it's darker, and it's an actual movie that you're watching. But like this is like pretty cool to demonstrate it, right? These are the headphones I got for the DJ controller. Okay, so by the company, they make cool, uh, modular headphones. Modular headphones, yeah, yeah, yeah. So you go on their website and basically pick and choose what parts you want. This specific setup was $140. I don't know about you, but I chew through headphones. Why? I thought that was cu's job. Uh, we both do, okay, like father like son. And the beauty of these is you can replace the specific parts so you don't have to get a whole new set of headphones. Oh no, he just

stabbed the cable with his Cactus bro. Oh no, it's like in there, you know. For $150, you can buy a pretty good set of headphones. These feel super cheap, but I think it's because they have the modularity to them, so I will judge it based on how they sound. But they don't look over-the-top special. It's on purpose too though, 'cause for DJing, you want something lightweight and like, so you don't really feel it on your head 'cause you're listening to it for like hours possibly. Exactly, right. So it's this is like a pretty lightweight setup, and it's like one of their cheapest setups that they have too. And y'all thought Colin couldn't speak using his fingers. That's crazy. [Music] [Music] Damn, clearly anywhere CA have to around LTT store.com except what is the arody disc? Oh, those are for his car. Oh no, you did not get like Spinners, did you? I wish. I wish I actually did look for Spinners like really hard, but

apparently they don't really make them anymore in 24. Remember the old rally cars that had the little salad spinners on their wheels? Mhm, the way they worked, they would pull air. They would act like a turbine and pull air through the brakes to cool them better, and the wheels themselves were designed like that. These are add-ons. Uh, that rotor form makes. I always wanted white wheels, but I was terrified of washing them. This way I can have white wheels, and I, I can just pull them off and clean them. That sits on the wheel, yeah. And they got these machined aluminum wao caps. W that go in the middle, okay, those look kind of cool, okay, even I like these. Woo, damn, that's a big nut. Whoa, watch this. You're going to love my nuts. Now that's my generation, mem. I mean, yeah, there we go, you're good. So just hold that in place, yeah, and then do you want the black one? I like, no, no, the black one doesn't fit. Do you mean it doesn't fit because the threads are

shorter cuz that one has to go deeper. You know what shrod, I like the way it looked before. Yeah, cuz you got no taste. This looks really stupid, dude. Like, this looks like you didn't take the PDI sticker off the wheel or something. Looking great is very much, you know, an opinion. They're like but holes, we all got one. Looking great as like butth holes. I mean, all opinions. Opinions, in this case, I think you're on to something. Well, I don't know, my car also exists. Very true. This man drives around in Barney and is criticizing my wheels. It's a shame cuz I really like the rest of your car's look. You know what shrod, maybe in motion, maybe in motions it's bad. Why don't you get in, get in. [Music] Hey, wobble, that's a pretty fine job, Elijah. Thanks, sir. Yeah, it's nice that Star Forge did all the cable management for you. In all seriousness, I cut out most of it because they had everything wrapped up so tight back there, which is

not a bad thing. Take this off, please. Do not tell lonus. Yeah, I did it all back up as well. Why is your awkward energy so high? Wasn't one of the things you guys were going to do while I was at that meeting, cable managing this desk? No, did you really just put two cable ties on here and call it a day? Oh, that did sherro really steal these cable ties from the office. No big moment. Let's see if this thing still. Oh, who hi hi. Yeah, you forgot about me. I think he thinks I'm also a dog 'cause I'm so yappy. I mean, you do have to dog in you. AMD 7800x 3D with 3D cash. Thanks, AMD. I'm having a hell of a time now. Do a smile, show your grill. This is great. I'm not complaining. Okay, fight someone in here. All right, here we go. No, not a guard. Fight a woman or something. Fight someone you can beat. Are you even hitting him? Yeah, he's losing Health. You can see it at the top.

okay so why don't we play an AMD certified game here? Something from the last, you know, decade. Have you played Halo Infinite at all? Sure, okay. I love Master Chief. Is it too late to repo all this stuff? Technically, no. It's technically Still Company property. Oh, you didn't launch it, so now we get to wait 25 minutes for shaders to cash. Jesus Christ, how many things does it load? I'm not getting any younger here. We might leave a little bit of the context for that in the float plane cut lm. Floatplane, maybe not. I'm not going to promise it though. Have you ever played Halo? I was a PlayStation boy, so no. Oh, you got. Oh, let's go. How did you manage to get a Kill playing like this? Do you even strafe, bro? Listen, if it works, it works. That's your teammate. Team, don't worry about it. There's no friendly fire, so who cares? Yes, there is. Yes, there is. You don't even check corners, brother. Don't worry. Listen, has it been

detrimental. No, dude. You march across open spaces. You don't even check anything. Am I vibing? Yes. Oh my God. Hey, yeah, get wrecked. Okay, what kind of drink do you want? I don't drink coffee. We can do a latte. Yeah, that's coffee. So this is the outro. So yeah, I'm trying to understand the point. You asked us all to get on the couch and have mugs. Yeah, well, 'cause Shro was drinking coffee in the beginning, right? So we're just reflecting on what a nice upgrade this was. Thanks AMD. Upgraded dog. Upgraded DJ. Upgraded car. Upgraded coffee sidecar. Downgraded car. Upgraded PC. I can't wait for this to be a 10 out of 10 on YouTube in our analytics dashboard. 10 out of 10 is bad. Very editor. Just delete the video. You can still get AMD to pay though, right? Yeah, yeah. All right then. It's fine. Thanks AMD. Thanks AMD. Appreciate you. See you at the next upgrade, guys. We didn't throw. Do you want to throw to a video? Oh, yeah. If you guys

enjoyed this one. Oh, God, Matthews, sure. That's all you got to say.

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