I Sold Her this $5000 Gaming PC for $20!

[CPotter]

 

[BrinkGG]

If possible, I want to see the brother's reaction to this gift. 

It would be an awesome completion to the wholesome video this is. 

[Tristerin]

3 minutes ago, Genwyn said:

This and the Halloween thing, is linus tryna capitalize on the types of Mr Beast and all them with the “look, I have money and give it to people!”

Even if a kind act is coming from an angle less than moral (lets just say when money is involved its usually not moral reasons, its for financial gain or notoriety) its still a kind act to the person on the receiving end.  I have to do things like this as a business owner and its not for the WRONG reasons, but its for better reasons than nefarious 

[SupaKomputa]

Sold her for $20, in return for $10000 adsense.

Worth the dime!

[imreloadin]

20 minutes ago, Genwyn said:

This and the Halloween thing, is linus tryna capitalize on the types of Mr Beast and all them with the “look, I have money and give it to people!”

This is exactly what I came here to say...this actually annoys me...

[dizmo]

They're both cute AF.

Cool video though, I don't usually watch LTT content but these are fun.

 

17 minutes ago, SupaKomputa said:

Sold her for $20, in return for $10000 adsense.

Worth the dime!

Hah, I don't think they get that much per video It's great return for Microcenters marketing department though.

37 minutes ago, Genwyn said:

This and the Halloween thing, is linus tryna capitalize on the types of Mr Beast and all them with the “look, I have money and give it to people!”

What's wrong with that?

[Velcade]

38 minutes ago, Genwyn said:

This and the Halloween thing, is linus tryna capitalize on the types of Mr Beast and all them with the “look, I have money and give it to people!”

It's not his money.  This isn't a Linus flex, Microcenter fronted the bill.  It's a commercial for Microcenter with a 'giveaway' at the end.

[xARACHN1D]

This better not be another thread ike the one where people were hating elon musk for donating 1 million to the teamtrees project and claiming he was a braggart and annoying.

[TheSLSAMG]

8 minutes ago, Velcade said:

It's not his money.  This isn't a Linus flex, Microcenter fronted the bill.  It's a commercial for Microcenter with a 'giveaway' at the end.

I mean that's basically what Mr. Beast does, given his sponsors bankroll most of what he does.

[TheBean]

"donates" $4980, gets tax exemption for a donation, gets adsense, overall makes >$5000. easy revenue.

[xARACHN1D]

36 minutes ago, TheSLSAMG said:

I mean that's basically what Mr. Beast does, given his sponsors bankroll most of what he does.

Actually beast uses a lot of his own money as well. He uses the money directly from his own merch store, and makes more videos with it. Its not all sponsors.

[GoldenLag]

A single rail 1000w PSU........

 

Aaaaaand its the G3.......

 

At the very least it wasnt the G5

[Zando_]

11 minutes ago, GoldenLag said:

A single rail 1000w PSU........

 

Aaaaaand its the G3.......

 

At the very least it wasnt the G5

Don't worry, my 1000W G3 hasn't exploded yet, shall see how it goes with SLI 780s once those arrive tho... 

[GoldenLag]

Just now, Zando Bob said:

Don't worry, my 1000W G3 hasn't exploded yet, shall see how it goes with SLI 780s once those arrive tho... 

Yeah. The inherent flaws of high wattage single rails PSUs isnt great.

 

Speaking as someone who got a high wattage single rail PSU before knowing anything about PSUs. 

 

Then  there is the issues with the G3. 

[Zando_]

2 minutes ago, GoldenLag said:

Yeah. The inherent flaws of high wattage single rails PSUs isnt great.

 

Speaking as someone who got a high wattage single rail PSU before knowing anything about PSUs. 

 

Then  there is the issues with the G3. 

be right back imma just forget about this 1600W T2 that's also a single rail no sir nothing wrong here 

 

Tho also same, I got my G3s before I was looking into PSUs much. But my M12II Evo didn't explode either so perhaps even eeeh ones aren't too bad. The latest high wattage lad I got was a proper multi-rail boye though, an RM1000i. Though I can put it into single rail mode to be a rebel 

[Bacon soup]

You son of a bitch you did it! You actually did it! You built the ultimate gaming rig that any good older sister can afford!

[bellabichon]

2 hours ago, Saksham said:

"donates" $4980, gets tax exemption for a donation, gets adsense, overall makes >$5000. easy revenue.

I don't think you can get a tax exemption for a donation like this. To get a tax receipt, you need to be donating to a registered charity organization, not to an individual. 

[LukeSavenije]

23 minutes ago, Zando Bob said:

be right back imma just forget about this 1600W T2 that's also a single rail no sir nothing wrong here 

don't worry, sf got your back... 2500w on a leadex plat

[GoldenLag]

1 minute ago, Genwyn said:

Y’all made the meme but I lived it.

Did you just assume my level of stupidity. 

 

My CM V1000 + r5 1500x + gtx 1050ti has something to say i guess.

[Zando_]

1 minute ago, Genwyn said:

@LukeSavenije @Zando Bob @GoldenLag 

*glances at RM1000x paired with RX 560 and 7700T*

  Reveal hidden contents

Y’all made the meme but I lived it.

*Time to got hook my i5 2400 and basic Intel mobo up to the T2 then*

Also I see your RM1000x and raise you one RM100, super exclusive PSU only I have:

[Rune]

Man, I work at microcenter but east coast. All the cool celebrities go out west 

@LinusTech next time you wanna do cool stuff come see me instead. We have cookies!

[SPARTAN VI]

Really curious, which Micro Center location is in this video?

 

It looks like the Tustin location, but wouldn't be surprised if they all look alike. 

[maksakal]

5 hours ago, Genwyn said:

This and the Halloween thing, is linus tryna capitalize on the types of Mr Beast and all them with the “look, I have money and give it to people!”

Not sure if this is meant to be positive or negative, but this vid is sponsored by Intel and Micro Center. So it's not Linus's money and thus your statement is incorrect sir. With this thinking you could classify every sponsored give away Linus has done (and there are alot) as a cheap advert. Well we have a word for that and it's: "sponsored". The company sponsoring gets something out of it, Linus gets something out of it and the winner gets something out of it. It is an advertisment, yes. And LMG doesn't make a secret of it. This isn't new and it's definitely not because of TeamTrees or Mr Beast. I don't see what the problem is. Remember, no commercial company wil give away stuff just for free because out of the kindness of their harts. They are in essence a commercial company and everything they do it to that end. If they can promote themselves by giving away stuff to us through LMG, then everybody is a winner. Clear as that, I've never understood why people can be so naive about this stuff.

I'm so jealous of you American's with your fancy stores. Webstores killed of all the physical stores over here in NL. Luckily Amazon isn't that big here and competition between small independent webshop owners is thriving, so atleast the prices are razor sharp. But it also means we don't have playgrounds to go look, touch and play.

It means you can't just drive upto a store and buy parts when you need them. Next day delivery is the standard yes, but when you're working on something right now, next day won't do you any good. Oh and you're double out of luck when it's in the evening because when you order out of office hours it means your order will be picked and shipped the next day which means it will be delivered the day after. So in practice next day delivery actually means the day after the next day delivery.

My first custom watercooled took me weeks to build because of all the missing parts I had to order and wrong fittings I had to return, not to mention the shipping costs I had to pay.

[Luscious]

Imagine if NewEgg had a walk-in store like that.

 

Wait...

[maksakal]

4 hours ago, Saksham said:

"donates" $4980, gets tax exemption for a donation, gets adsense, overall makes >$5000. easy revenue.

Runs a 42 ( I think it's 42 now right?) FTE company. If you only consider the adsense revenue and if that money went right into Linus's pocket then hey yeah great profit! But with modern day LMG and all the production value he would lose money because of all the work that has gone into it. LMG has long out grown it's "single camera on a tripod" era. Heck go watch the camera equipment, storage and networking video's and you'll see there probably nearly a million invested in equipment not to mention the sets, props and other things.

5K isn't even enough to pay the staff let alone the rent.