One by one, we've been setting up our team with $5,000 ultimate tech upgrades that they can spend on anything they choose, from board games to extremely scary induction forges. And today, it is Colin, our production assistant's turn. We're going to be upgrading his music gear, his camera gear, and of course, his gaming PC with one of the best CPUs AMD has to offer. There's just one small problem: Colin is still learning English, which AMD knew about and decided to send over this prototype calling to English translator. No, I'm so excited! Let's try it. Okay, Col, and say something. Why do you look like Slim Shady? Great Scott, it works! Okay, do the line. Roll the intro. [Music] Another AMD upgrade means another AMD giveaway. This time, you can win one of five Radeon 7700 XT Frost Punk 2 edition cards from Sapphire. Not only does this card feature 12 GB of VRAM, but it's also themed after the game Frost Punk 2, which, by the way, you actually get a deluxe edition code for the game with the card.

enter for your chance to win by using the link in the video description. Being mute has made Colin extremely popular at the office because he can never rat out anybody for taking things. But that doesn't mean that he isn't guilty himself. In fact, I've already found something that is very recognizable because it's probably the only one in North America. Colin, why the bloody hell do you have one of these? I acquired this from the Christmas party. That's what they always say. The pillow I knew about when he came from the old country. He had absolutely nothing, so we kind of said, Yeah, sure, you can have one of those. I'm unsure what this device does, but I still acquired it from the office. It looks like you put a bunch of Apple watches in it. I, I've never plugged it in. It was in the swag pile, and I just took it. He should talk less. I've never seen so much self-incrimination. I title-tailed it myself. Calibration complete. De Voom spark your life. Connecting. What the hell.

is this thing apparently. It's just some sort of pixel art display. It's $1,170 Canadian dollars, so it's $100 off. So clearly, nobody else gets it either. Did you help him with any of this? Because I don't know if he realizes that this is not really very modern. I don't even know what that is. Maybe Colin can explain it. So tape, I can talk now. I know, but can you like understand this is tape? Yeah, it's tape. Not good. It's not good. I agree. That's why I got this. This is the power play FPV DVR. So basically what you can do is this makes this now a tapeless setup. Okay, so it's a little box that goes from the AV port, the out to the AV in right on here. And it looks like a GoPro. It looks like a GoPro, but it's not a GoPro. And what you could do is maybe just get a GoPro. No, because it's, it's, I want it to look like the camera is this like some

Zoomer where like it's a vibe, and you want to record like an old. I wouldn't say maybe Boomer. It looks like you've got almost everything for a new PC. Are you taking anything from the old one? Yeah, so I'm taking the power supply and the AIO out of the old one. Okay, hopefully, the AIO transplants without too much trouble. And then Elijah, do you want to get things going with the TV? Yes, sir. I think Colin likes having holes in his walls. Do you like holes in your walls? There's no holes involved with this TV. We're not mounting it to the wall. Well, not until Elijah gets his hands on it. I put like five extra holes in someone's wall. There's still going to be a hole. So am I helping with this or so far? No. Okay. I mean, you can be helpful if you want. Okay, yeah, I can. I've built one or two of these, I think. All right, it's what that thing is though, right? A computer. All right, all right, all right. I'm yeah, I'm moving my TV. Oh, you

guys know there's no room to put that down right. Yeah, there is. Yeah, there is. Oh, okay. It didn't look like it was going to fit with the Soundbar there. Okay, fine. So nervous doesn't trust us. Pece after into his house. Don't move it now. Want to explain your rationale behind your parts here. You've got a pretty decent gaming machine already, but you've clearly gone balls to the wall. Yeah, so I have a 5700X in the old PC. This is just the obvious choice. Mainly, I use my PC for only gaming. So gaming and music stuff I use for my Windows machine, and then on my Mac, I use for all the CRE stuff. So this kind of is more gaming-centric, but this gives me enough ches and enough power for the music stuff. Got it. He's gone with 32 gigs of DDR5 6000 CL30, which is basically the perfect spot for bang for the buck. So I don't think you noticed, but the CPU is from the office.

too oh this is from our Roundup. Yeah, yeah, and then this board is from the Caris. Okay, he sold it to me on the low. I didn't look too far into it. Storage, he's done with two. You got scammed. What do you mean I got scammed? This is a 500 gig in here. Yeah, that's my old one. The new one's in there. Oh, what, Colin? I have to preload it. Okay, with videos. With videos from the web. Cut that. That is exactly where I was going to put this down. Thanks, Elijah. Well, I was clearing the desk 'cause didn't you want to show off, you know, show off what? Oh, it's not quite the final version. No way. We've got a modmat here today. Okay, cool. Let's build on the modmat made in collaboration with the original creator of the modmat. The LT modmat is better in every measurable way. All right, coming soon LTD store.com. Let's go. You can sign up for a notification. I got to say this is a very nice-looking build. Did you

build this. Yes, I did. Damn, what do you need all this storage for? Another 2 TB drive? I only have bad jokes. I don't want to know something, something, goon cave, something. Man, your dating profile must be a trip. My favorite thing is that you just automatically assumed I'm single, like there was just no doubt in your mind. I just mean, you know, you have a goon room. It's a lay. I prefer layer. I actually just lost a screw, though. Oh, it's stuck to, along with another bit. It's stuck to the magnetic end of the screwdriver. LTTstore.com. Ultra strong magnets. While they struggle with that, Colin actually bought a bunch of Ikea stuff because he found a Pinterest-perfect Ikea desk. Read it, Reddit-perfect Ikea desk. And, uh, I'm going to get started on that by mounting things into the wall. So here, here we go. I'm going to mount this pegboard. Colin didn't give me instructions, so I'm just going to YOLO it. But I think this goes above. He's got two of them. Can we

actually confirm. Are we going like this? Are we going like this? Uh, horizontal? Do two side by side. I love Colin that you were like, Hey, we're just putting the TV on a console. There's no way Elijah can put extra holes in my wall. And now you're having him mount these. So, I would say so. This, that is kind of the same length as this. So, this shelf. Okay, easy, easy there, easy tiger. What are these instructions? They're good instructions. You said this, that, that, this. I was so confused. I say that, okay, is like, is the same length as this. Okay, so we want to line it up right. And then you can put these, and you want to measure it out so it's equal on each side. And you're going to go one and then have the one right next to it. Okay, it's very easy. What am I mounting first? That's why you're doing it. You green the makers of the Nexo charger. Yeah, did you really include that with your upgrade? What do you need a like 200-watt USB charger for? Cuz this

cuz basically what's going to happen, yeah, is that there's going to be a power bar up here, yeah, and then I have all the shelving and all the hooks and everything, so I'm going to have all my camera charging stuff on the peg boards. Got it. So this is kind of going to have to feed a lot of it, cuz a lot of it's um uh USBC. I've always kind of wondered what people are using these gigantic USB chargers for. That, yeah, is a valid use case, yeah, and the Goon server too. That has to, okay, let's, we got to tone that down. Oh, speaking of weird stuff I own, you're a big fan of Star Wars, I hear. I us love the prequels, right? You love the prequels. Wait, what? You love the prequels? Uh, cuz boy do I have something, a full siiz Jar Jar Binks in his goon cave. I I I own these two uh Star Wars memorabilia um, so I don't have the full

body, but I have the best part of the head. Oh, what a weird thing to say, is it? Oh, they're putting two, right? Yeah, so what, one on one side, one on the other? No, I want them like attached. Yeah, they will. So I'm saying like, where is the center? Like, they have no chance, no hope between the two. You might as well just start putting in holes. Well, no, and then just no, no, no, no, no, just measure the tape, and then, well, we can move the table. I was going to say that we could just move it, so I wouldn't worry about it. So then I'm just going to put, so this is fine. Yeah, you're fine. Oh my God, wait, actually, are you fine though? Oh, see, I know. The only thing, the only thing I'm worried about is that this end, it doesn't line up with this. This is the center of the table. We can move the table. I know, but I, I, but you're cramming me this way. I already have it in a good spot. I'm going

to now there shouldn't be a stud here 'cause if there is we're kind of boned. Okay what do I hear all right here we go no takes Backes go ahead penetrate the wall for Glory nice all right you're so sweaty yeah 'cause I'm so nervous now I'm self-conscious why are you holding it 'cause I don't want to lift my armpits 'cause now I'm sweaty and life is like me no good result can come from such a bad process high up but I make it work I guess stop dude we got to cut this down bro while Elijah's working on that why don't you tell us about your drone upgrade is this part of it yeah so that's part of it um I currently have uh a mini2 and this is the air uh 2s uh I bought it from the office so basically the one thing I wanted to fix was having 4K 60 on a drone mine currently only does 4K 30 so this does 4K 60 and it does 5.4k

in 30. And what do you use a drone for? So mainly I would use it on weddings, just with the consent of the bride and groom. Or is this another weird thing? Well, you know they can hear it. Colin's case is a big upgrade. 01 Vision PCMREdition. That must have been something that we ended up with as a sample that you bought on the cheap. No, no, we I got that sent in from Lean Lee. So would you recommend that as opposed to like zip tying it? What kind of question is this? Would I recommend my own product from my own store or would I recommend a zip tie that looks like sh? Zip tie is cheaper. Yeah, it is cheaper. That's a good point. These are really expensive. I'm broke. Look, thank you. But look how cool that is. I know it looks so clean. I did it and the magnets are so strong. You can like plug in a thing and you can pull it out and the magnet will keep the thing on the

thing that is the best explanation I've heard so far. Why can't everybody just say it like that? Yeah, but you see where I might have screwed up. Oh, how they're overlapping. Yeah, I didn't think they were supposed to overlap. So, oh, so two extra holes. Okay, uh, we'll find out what go do your review. Stop editor, cut it here to make it look like I did it. Colin, look, hey, we uh, got him perfectly leveled. There's a tiny bit of a gap, but I think it looks, you know, looks kind of good. My God, Elijah, you did it in one try. Yeah, there's no extra hole. No, get that in there. Hell yeah. Oh, huh, finally got the pegboards installed. We left a little bit of a gap, which kind of nice. Your shelf's installed. We made a huge mess with all of the uh, the C cotton candy, so we're going to get this all cleaned up. I think, is there anything else we need to mount? Uh, no, not right now. Everything else either will be with the hooks and and with magnets. Got it. Okay, then we'll

slide this all back, and then we're good to go. Yeah, oh my God, you're bringing out the heads. Yeah, nice head game on point. It is. Wait, what? Oh dear. Oh, you're recording. Oh no. So the one thing I'd like to do is take these goby lights and put them underneath, and there's just two, so I think they sink together, and they should just go right into one of these pretty easily. Okay, is it just to like shine light at your desk? Yeah, just so I can like app control it there at night if I'm alone in the dark. Um, as I am. There you go, look at that. And then o even more mixed light in here. Sorry, editor. Now that we've put the desk back and Lonus is still figuring out the computer, you brought out all your camera stuff. What was part of the upgrade and what isn't part of the upgrade you already had? So the big part of the upgrade is the RS4. Um, so this is a new gimbal. This is actually replacing my

rsc2 uh I love this thing, but this is pretty overkill. I'm camera illiterate, okay? What's a gimbal? Like, what does it do? A gimbal is basically a stabilization unit for your camera that you can put it on, and your shots are just really smooth. Got it. So, if you were walking or something. Exactly. So, if you're even holding a handheld tripod, you'll still feel the bounce of your walks. This smooths it all out. Got it. Okay, okay, cool. And then, what is some of these camera filters by Moment? Yeah, so I got four filters. I got all 82 twos. I got the Cinere Gold Streak. I got the Antiglare CPL. I got the Blue Streak Original. And then, the variable ND, all in 82. Got it. Which means that I have to, which I also got these as well. Yeah, so these are my KNF step-up rings. So, basically, all my lenses currently are 67, so I have to adapt them up to

82 got it okay so again I know I said I had no idea anything about cameras. How much does a gimbal cost? This one's pretty high-end, so this one's around 640 bucks Canadian. Oh, Canadian. Okay, so 450 US. I'll throw it on screen, but yeah, that's super cool. That's super, super cool. So it's good if you need to get lower to the ground for animals and pets. It's great 'cause you can just kind of follow them. Yeah, there we go. Okay, putting in my last fan here, my exhaust fan. I've got these ones screwed up. I've got the hub all wired and everything. We're looking for one more CPU power 'cause apparently we're missing one. This board actually has two headers. Then I think we're ready for a post-test, so let's screw this in. I took a short break for a meeting, and somehow it's worse than when I left it. The shelf's on the wall though. Are you proud of me? Do you mean specifically this?

computer, or is it a more general question? All right, we've gone with a 7900 XTX 'cause Colin, my boy, is a gamer. I mean, I guess if you have nobody to talk to and infinite budget, nobody else sleeping in your bedroom, what does that to do with the GPU? Just, it makes sense to invest a lot in playing video games really fast. Colin, you're going to find love, Elijah, no. None of this makes the YouTube cut. Turns out there was a lot left for the YouTube video, but there's also over 30 minutes worth of extras on Floatplane, as well as a 15-minute meet the team video with Colin. We learn more about his role here at LMG, and he even tells us his weirdest experience that he's had on the job so far. Head over to lmg.floatplane.com and subscribe today. This looks like ass. Where are all the cable combs on the other ones? Well, just only the one has cable combs on it. Okay, there's no cable combs on those ones. No.

there's not what you guys knew this. Yeah, I could have told you that. You like I said, it didn't matter. You know what doesn't matter, Elijah? What your face did. I just call out what you were going to say. What your name is. What my name is. Who? Shim. Shim. Shady. Why are you cable tying the AO pumps? I'm adding aesthetic. No, you're not adding any. Oh, that looks like ass. Not that looks like actual ass. Take 10 steps away from the PC for the love of God. Oh yeah, oh yeah, there you go. Oh yeah, bud. Okay, cool. Look at this, Andrew. What the? Like look at this one. Oh my God, I can see the hole. No, no, you can't. You have an entire thing in front of it. You managed to put the hole right in the gap between them. Oh, only on a certain angle. I can't see it from here. What? Colin's not complaining. I don't care. No, it's fine. Do you know how many extra holes I put in? Oh man, how

many four lus what you put the side panel on. We didn't power it on yet. Uh oh, calling your computer's broken. He didn't plug in the front I/O. There's a problem. You didn't plug in the front I/O. El do it. Give me a second. I thought you built the computer. No, I didn't. I didn't get much time on it 'cause you know Elijah. You're doing great. I don't know if I am. You're cheesy. Okay, let's plug in the damn computer. Your hair looks cheesy. Like literally, why didn't we decide to let him talk today? Uh, it wasn't us. That was AMD, by the way. Thanks, AMD. Oh yeah, yeah, AMD. Lots of good technology, GPUs and CPUs and AI. Hey, what? I just turned off. Oh, it's okay. Never mind. Fine. Yay. Okay, three of these fans are not on. The ones that I didn't install. So I mean, you have a lot of gear. Like, do you like play? Yes, I do. I do in fact play guitar. Are you like a

Weezer cover band or like no, no. I'm not in a band. I'm not in a... I'm definitely not in a Weezer cover band. You could be in a Blink-182 cover band. This system here is my pedal board. Um, so when I moved, I wasn't able to bring my amp, so I kind of needed to figure out something else. Um, this seems way less complicated. This is actually not that complicated. It looks like a lock, but it's not. And a lot of them kind of do the same thing, but I just have a bunch of them. So I have one, two, three, four, five, six delays. Mhm. Um, you only need one. You have a lot of delays. You still haven't explained what any of this does. Oh, well, basically, so this is all DI. So you plug in, it goes to the board, and spits out out of here, and then it goes into the interface. Okay, so... And then this pedal actually is my amp. Okay, so this is from UA. This is the

dream uh 65 Reverb um 'cause if you run everything through it minus this, you'll probably need like a uh like a Plugin or some sort of preamp to uh push everything. Wait, what is that? How did I not realize in this picture? How did you not realize you're right there? What is going on here? This is my favorite band, blinkin 82, so I thought you the heck you guys. I thought you uh Maria made me this yesterday. How does it have film grain? Oh, I have it on a video background. I have it on wallpaper. So if you have wallpaper engine, look up Linus 182, and it too can be yours. I am dead serious. It's live right now. Why do so many people who work here have pictures of me in their houses? I got to remember who you're doing before while you're setting up to play some music for us. Is there anything Elijah and I can do um you can run the HDM cable that I bought. Just run it from the back in uh around the room into the TV. Cool, right? We

haven't even turned on the TV yet. Okay, cool, let's do that. Uh, where's the cable? It's in this room that has everything in it. Just go in the Goon cave. I don't care. I found lots of magazines that Colin likes for the articles. Oh my Playboy. This is a really nice Playboy. Um, it's from uh 19. Don't open it. It's all ads. Watch. No, don't imagine that being the page it opens to. So, I'm going to want one of the four. Oh, they're all 4K 12 HZ. That's right. This is one of the new ones. What TV is this? We didn't even say what the model was. Oh, it's an LG C3. Ooh. Oh, open box unit. He got it for like dirt cheap 'cause it was open box. How much was it Canadian fo? It was 1,700 Canadian. I think the finished setup looks really good though. Oh yeah, this looks amazing. Like all jokes aside, this is sick. Uh, are you going to play music for us or you

just going to stare at your blank screen. Well, I have to. I have to make sure the GPU works. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, 'cause of our sponsor AMD. What is this? What is this? This Tinder profile. Have you never seen Superbad? Oh, yeah, I know. Okay, I recognize. I bought it from Teu, and it's definitely the lowest quality JPEG I've ever seen blown up to the biggest size I've ever seen. It's like not even remotely centered. If we go right, right here, that's that actually adds to it. That's really the Teu experience. I got a promotion for nine free things, and this was part of it, but the catch was that you had to buy two things, so I ended up paying $50 for all this garbage. So I got scammed from 10. There isn't even any room on this for more pedals. I know. I got to swap them out. Where even get put? Okay, is this more delay, or this is something else? This one is so... This one's kind of a

weird one. So, this one's a micro Looper. So, typically a Looper is you time you're playing. So, you count to four, hit the loop, then it goes. This one always listens, so it works in reverse. So, you'll play, and then you hit it, and then it will start looping whatever you just did. And then these controls, these control like your length, so you can make it really short, yeah, or really long, yeah. Is this alien thing more of your teamu garbage? Yeah, it is actually. Anyways, this is a great time to tell you about my other pedals. So, I got from Ranger effects the Reverb X. It's another Reverb, so I think I have six. I have another pedal. Dave Ranger actually just sent this one over, but it's called the mini drone. So, I actually haven't used it yet, so we'll kind of figure that out. But I do know that it just makes a drone, which you can control two pitches, and that's really all I know so far. So, you know what they

say pitches be crazy. Here we go, here we go. Go, he's riffing, he's riffing, boys. Let me just show you kind of what's... I think this is the best example. We're going to call the Riz riff. So, this is a fuzz pedal. So, this is a fuzz pedal, right? So, you hear that. Sounds like garbage, right? Yeah, okay. And now, it sounds like an amp. Yeah, so it sounds good now. Cool. Okay, so the new one I got [Music]. Oh, I just destroyed. Oh, God, Jesus. So, that's basically a really horrible demonstration of it. It gives you a lot of control, though. You can manipulate stuff like... You can basically manipulate any sound, right, in multiple different ways. But it's just... It's something to... If you're playing something like that, it was really cool. Catch it. There's a song about how, you know, being a guitar player is good for attracting the opposite sex. Uh, I would know about that one. No, all right. Maybe you're playing it wrong. I

think I think so. I think they don't like to hear. I think they like to hear real news, like a... not come on, give me that no. Oh, Adam's song. Yeah, well, I mean, I'm all dressed up for it. Hey, there we go. See, he doesn't know how to play. He was just pretending not to, ladies. Ladies, to tie all the video stuff back together, you got Da Vinci Resolve. Nice, the paid version. You should have seen the previous takes that we did of this. It was embarrassing. What are you going to do with Da Vinci, though? Like, you... I don't like paying Adobe. I actually hate them. Nice. And for the past last four years, they've just been running up my credit card. So, you can buy Da Vinci once. I already... so this... so this say 16. I actually have 18 'cause you get free upgrades. Y and it's a... it's a better editor. It's got... it's got better color. And this is for what? Like doing weddings or like... yeah, well, pretty much just

anything really um just like freelance work kind of yeah yeah yeah exactly cool. I feel like we didn't talk that much about what we've upgraded. Like we're about to play some video games on the new TV. Obviously, we upgraded the computer, got a 7900 XTX, got the drone, the weird camcorder thing that I can't even fathom needing, a couple pedals, and then like that's it. Well, I got all the video stuff as well. I think you were, I think you missed it. So, so um, I got a brand new gimbal, I got all the filters that I got in, I got a new power bank. None of which answers my most important question, what the is that computer doing? It is the most beautiful piece of art I have here. Have you played tape to tape before? Oh yeah, really love it. But why do you never join us for runs? You never invite me. I've literally never been invited. I don't have you on Steam. Alright, we're going to fix this. We're going to fix this. Are we friends now? I I

don't know. Are we best friends? Are we? Are we? Go. Oh, why you get to things escalate so quickly with you. Sorry. Do you play like mouse and keyboard or something? No, no. I just, I haven't played in a bit. Okay, okay. We just got to move the puck a little bit better here, boys. Okay, we got to move the puck. Let's move the puck. Let's go, Carlos. Chico. Yeah, this was fun. This actually ended up being, while not a huge change to the layout or anything like that, a huge change to the vibe of the space. Like, man, it went from, well, it went from what it was to a really nice living room setup. Then that TV is gorgeous. This computer corner is amazing. I mean, spending a bunch of money on a case is not the kind of thing that I would necessarily tell people to do, but oh man, wouldn't you want to sit next to this freaking awesome? And the pedals are now. You have those, and now I can make more noise. Yeah, uh, well. Oh yeah, they need this back. I'm so sorry.

yeah, I know. I'm really sorry. No, you actually can't have it anymore. Wow, it's like taking a bone away from a really angry puppy. See you later, and thanks, AM, for sponsoring AMD Ultimate Tech Upgrade. Don't forget that you guys can get a chance to win whatever it is that the thing is. You can get a chance to win is at the link of the video description. Oh, I went the wrong way.

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