Upgrading Our WORST Setup

[Other James]

 

Whether they’re an old employee or new, not EVERYONE at Linus Media Group has an incredible work or gaming setup at home. We can’t fix 'em all, but we can try to fix the worst one.

 

Thanks Nvidia for sponsoring today's video. Enter for your chance to win your own 4080 Super https://gleam.io/E6Yvw/nvidia-rtx-4080-super-giveaway

 

Buy an Alienware AW2725DF 360Hz 27" Gaming Monitor: https://lmg.gg/1g73J
Buy a Fractal Design Meshify 2 Compact ATX Mid Tower Case: https://geni.us/0jRuDWb
Buy an Intel Core i5-13600K CPU: https://geni.us/W4Ptq
Buy an ASUS Prime B760-Plus Motherboard: https://geni.us/uk7N
Buy an ASUS TUF Gaming 850W 80+ Gold PSU: https://geni.us/qI1YLX
Buy an NVIDIA RTX 4080 Super FE Graphics Card: https://lmg.gg/b9Isk
Buy an Epomaker RT100 Wireless Mechanical Keyboard: https://lmg.gg/FGKiu
Buy a Logitech G305 Wireless Mouse: https://lmg.gg/e8s80
Buy an LG DualUp 28" Monitor: https://geni.us/WgNsQb
Buy an 8K@60Hz DP Cable: https://lmg.gg/myA8U
Buy a Focusrite Scarlett 2i@ USD Audio Interface: https://lmg.gg/vQf9y
Buy Beyerdynamic DT 770 Pro Open Back Headphones: https://lmg.gg/7BLsR

 

Purchases made through some store links may provide some compensation to Linus Media Group

[Do everything later]

Is it just me or does the camera have so much more noise than usual? I am also not sure if it's just camera angle or not but the Batman game on Jessica's screen doesn't even look good...

 

This video is good (except the camera problem) that I hope there'd be a Floatplane Exclusive for it, but maybe you need a better thumbnail and title. At first I thought it's a react video that you folks have done so many times.

 

And where's Justin? Is he trying to beat Colin at his game by getting memorable despite not even being on camera except that first time?

[AbydosOne]

3 hours ago, Other James said:

Thanks Nvidia for sponsoring today's video. Enter for your chance to win your own 4080 Super https://gleam.io/E6Yvw/nvidia-rtx-4080-super-giveaway

Now that Lent's over I have somewhere to complain about this again: STOP TYING GIVEAWAYS TO XITTER. I refuse to support that platform and its owner. Your (Nvidia and AMD too) contestants are not your private viral marketing army, so stop treating us as such with the enticement of free stuff.

LTT needs to take them to task over these requirements/rules. Either they want to give out stuff to the community for free (no strings attached), or my participation in their "marketing schemes" must be materially compensated; none of this "chance" nonsense.

Protip though: you can just put @LinusTech (or any other big name you think of) in the box and it happily accepts it. Sorry not sorry.

[manikyath]

10 minutes ago, AbydosOne said:

Now that Lent's over I have somewhere to complain about this again: STOP TYING GIVEAWAYS TO XITTER. I refuse to support that platform and its owner. Your (Nvidia and AMD too) contestants are not your private viral marketing army, so stop treating us as such with the enticement of free stuff.

LTT needs to take them to task over these requirements/rules. Either they want to give out stuff to the community for free (no strings attached), or my participation in their "marketing schemes" must be materially compensated; none of this "chance" nonsense.

Protip though: you can just put @LinusTech (or any other big name you think of) in the box and it happily accepts it. Sorry not sorry.

while i agree with the sentiment.. they could also not give away an RTX 4080 super to a lucky individual who did nothing more than retweet into a void of zero followers. it's not the conclusion i want to make either.. but they either have this, or no RTX 4080 super given away. if you dont want to participate, you're free to not do so. act as if the link isnt there. to be fair i hadnt even noticed until you pointed it out.

 

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on topic: we need more people like Jessica in this world. life would be boring without chinchilla headphone pads. This video had a lot of "3/4 idiot" vibe going on.. and i want more of it.

(also, if you dont get that reference, look it up on youtube.. if you can handle *that* kind of humor)

[Middcore]

55 minutes ago, AbydosOne said:

Now that Lent's over I have somewhere to complain about this again: STOP TYING GIVEAWAYS TO XITTER. I refuse to support that platform and its owner. Your (Nvidia and AMD too) contestants are not your private viral marketing army, so stop treating us as such with the enticement of free stuff.

LTT needs to take them to task over these requirements/rules. Either they want to give out stuff to the community for free (no strings attached), or my participation in their "marketing schemes" must be materially compensated; none of this "chance" nonsense.

Protip though: you can just put @LinusTech (or any other big name you think of) in the box and it happily accepts it. Sorry not sorry.

I sympathize with your irritation about these things being tied to Twitter, but ultimately giveaways like this ARE "marketing schemes."

[DeathsMinion]

Minor Correction: The headphones in the description are incorrectly listed as being opened back when they are correctly stated to be closed back on the affiliate website and in the video

[IkeaGnome]

1 hour ago, manikyath said:

on topic: we need more people like Jessica in this world. life would be boring without chinchilla headphone pads. This video had a lot of "3/4 idiot" vibe going on.. and i want more of it.

(also, if you dont get that reference, look it up on youtube.. if you can handle *that* kind of humor)

Not sure if you saw the game show Jessica did on WAN show a while back, but the upgrade had the same character. Jessica is great.

I'm trying to find it, but it's kind of difficult to find with a quick search.

[atxcyclist]

This was a fun video to watch, and Jessica is hilarious; LTT has so many genuinely funny people working there, it’s awesome.

[OhYou_]

my setup is totally worse rn

 

[OU812]

Does anyone know where to find her podcast?

[manikyath]

6 hours ago, IkeaGnome said:

Not sure if you saw the game show Jessica did on WAN show a while back, but the upgrade had the same character. Jessica is great.

I'm trying to find it, but it's kind of difficult to find with a quick search.

yes, i vaguely recall enough of it to remember the vibe, now you mention it.

[tkitch]

New Old Man Linus Meme!

 

[digitalscream]

Jessica is absolutely brilliant. I have absolutely no idea why they don't put her in more videos (assuming she'd want to, of course), because she's hands-down the funniest on-camera talent at LTT....at least, when she's given free rein.

[Anonymouser]

Did they say they used an active USB 3.0 cable? They don’t list it in the description unfortunately.

 

Anyone know what they used? I’ve been looking for a good one for a while.

[Seedeewhy]

I might have missed it but how was the switching of display and usb done from the main desk into the closet? Was there a KVM used?

[Elijah Horner]

On 4/5/2024 at 11:52 PM, Anonymouser said:

Did they say they used an active USB 3.0 cable? They don’t list it in the description unfortunately.

 

Anyone know what they used? I’ve been looking for a good one for a while.

https://www.infinitecables.com/products/usb-aa-male-female-3-0-active-extension-cable?variant=42860631458033

[GoStormPlays]

49 minutes ago, Elijah Horner said:

https://www.infinitecables.com/products/usb-aa-male-female-3-0-active-extension-cable?variant=42860631458033

What's the extra USB-male cable on the end for?

[digitalscream]

5 hours ago, GoStormPlays said:

What's the extra USB-male cable on the end for?

Judging from the comments on the product page, it's for additional power.