The Biggest Waste of Money so far… AMD $5000 Ultimate Tech Upgrade

[Shahrad]

 

Thanks again to AMD for keeping this series going and sponsoring us! Check out their giveaway for three Ryzen 7800X3D processors at the link below:

 

https://gleam.io/competitions/6O7Ln-linus-tech-tips-and-amd-gaming-red-team-win-one-of-three-amd-ryzen-7-7800x3d-cpu

 

Linus learns about Ice Spice, Gold Grillz, and how to be a DJ in todays AMD Ultimate Tech Upgrade. Join him and the crew as we upgrade a computer, setup Teenage Engineering gear, hang some RGB lights, and a car?

 

Check Out the Tech from Shahrad's Ultimate Upgrade! Thanks AMD!

 

https://lmg.gg/amdshahradt

 

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

[jfie]

jusjer

[atxcyclist]

As a Texan, I am 0% surprised that an online grill shop would be based in Houston.

[aqarwaen29]

does extreme tech upgrade have rules?

what if person who got 5000 upgrade decided to buy cheapest amd cpu,then also buy any high end intel cpu?

with this i mean some 50 dollar amd cpu and 3000 intel cpu.

or for example my current amd cpu is worth 50 dollars and i buy 100 dollar amd cpu upgrade what is barely better and spend all my money on high end intel cpu.

[danalog]

15 minutes ago, aqarwaen29 said:

does extreme tech upgrade have rules?

what if person who got 5000 upgrade decided to buy cheapest amd cpu,then also buy any high end intel cpu?

with this i mean some 50 dollar amd cpu and 3000 intel cpu.

or for example my current amd cpu is worth 50 dollars and i buy 100 dollar amd cpu upgrade what is barely better and spend all my money on high end intel cpu.

Now that's a good point, buy a $4 AMD Turion on eBay and then get something actually useful with the $4996 - like a Xeon and RTX A-series card 

[Brian McKee]

2 hours ago, da na said:

Now that's a good point, buy a $4 AMD Turion on eBay and then get something actually useful with the $4996 - like a Xeon and RTX A-series card 

Why in the world would you spring for intel at the high end? Except for very specific workloads AMD just creams them...

[Raz89]

6 hours ago, aqarwaen29 said:

does extreme tech upgrade have rules?

what if person who got 5000 upgrade decided to buy cheapest amd cpu,then also buy any high end intel cpu?

with this i mean some 50 dollar amd cpu and 3000 intel cpu.

or for example my current amd cpu is worth 50 dollars and i buy 100 dollar amd cpu upgrade what is barely better and spend all my money on high end intel cpu.

 

As its sponsored by AMD they don't have full control over it and it has to be approved by AMD (see from 0:50 in the video down below for an example). Becuse of this I'm pretty sure things like that would be caught before and the video just scrapped.

 

[aminit]

This video was so much fun lol

[ToboRobot]

9 hours ago, aqarwaen29 said:

does extreme tech upgrade have rules?

 

main rule is work for LMG. 

[SpecTre12345]

If you sold custom AMD, Intel, and NVIDIA Grillz on LTTStore.com, I would buy them. 

[dogwitch]

getting school on record thing...

dammmmmm that was  a burn that i never expected to come out of his mouth

[AndreiArgeanu]

I have one of those Delonghi Magnifica EVOs as well. Good and easy to use coffee machine, it's so convenient to have coffee on the button. Although 650$ does seem a bit much, I paid the equivalent of about 450USD for mine, still a bit expensive but when you consider what "proper" espresso machines cost, plus a grinder it doesn't look too bad. And if you or I spent an extra 50$ you could have also got the slightly better version that automatically makes milk coffee drinks.

 

They're very serviceable as well, but thankfully I haven't had to take it apart yet, other than to clean the infuser. Had it for a bit over a year now.

[clonetek]

Hey Shahrad, post some closeup pics of your Hot Wheels in the display cases!!

[Shahrad]

11 hours ago, clonetek said:

Hey Shahrad, post some closeup pics of your Hot Wheels in the display cases!!

Hell yeah brother. Here you go. I managed to get a third display on the way too  

[clonetek]

Nice! I gotta dust my displays and post pics.
I see a Treasure Hunt Subaru hiding in there!

[Shahrad]

On 7/13/2024 at 5:51 PM, aqarwaen29 said:

does extreme tech upgrade have rules?

what if person who got 5000 upgrade decided to buy cheapest amd cpu,then also buy any high end intel cpu?

with this i mean some 50 dollar amd cpu and 3000 intel cpu.

or for example my current amd cpu is worth 50 dollars and i buy 100 dollar amd cpu upgrade what is barely better and spend all my money on high end intel cpu.

I manage the AMD account so I can give a little bit of an insight lol

Long story short, AMD wants minimal guidelines/involvement in what people spend the budget on, because they want the content to be organic.

Episodes could get stale fast if it was AMD trying to push their newest release and were people being forced to use their budget on that, and AMD understands that. They want the series to be fun and "feel good content". Realistically, how many top of the line AMD PC builds would you watch before it got old?

[Shahrad]

1 hour ago, clonetek said:

Nice! I gotta dust my displays and post pics.
I see a Treasure Hunt Subaru hiding in there!

Good eye! I don't have as much time to go Hot Wheels hunting anymore, so finding a TH randomly at a Walmart was a nice surprise hahaha caught the lady stocking the shelves as I walked in.