How LTT turned me into an addict. Thanks Linus.

[mrzoltowski]

8 months ago, I was content and happy. My trusty Lenovo Razer pre-built PC ... browsing the web, playing some games and doing work.

Then I came across this little channel on YouTube, called Linus Tech Tips, featuring a complete control freak that breaks things all the time @LinusTech and a mild mannered goofball that is quite easy on the eye @Slick . This is where their entertaining and engaging content started to brain wash me. Soon enough I started hearing voices. Those voices told me ... "Nooo, you don't need new clothes ... buy a new CPU! .... noooo you don't need to fix that leaky bathroom pipe, buy a new graphics card!" ... as the weeks and moths progressed the undeniable charm of the LLT team and those HYPNOTOAD eyes have slowly etched a complete and insatiable hunger into ever fibre of my being.  That hunger was for one thing only, a custom build PC and RGB. 

For many weeks I questioned my sanity, having binge watched the ENTIRE LTT back catalogue in under 2 months. Did it scratch that itch? Did it satisfy? NO ... I needed more, I needed something stronger.

So I said to myself, hey ! I'll buy a case .... and move my rusty Lenovo parts into it .... just to see what happens. So I bought a Corsair Carbide 400C White, it had a clear window so you could see your computer parts. What a novel idea! I exclaimed ... in my head. With my brain armed with all the combined knowledge of LTT staff I managed the move.

A few days have passed, I stared at this clear window, the parts inside, green and dark and ugly ....  my life lost meaning ... colours faded ... sounds muted ... I have become my case .. an empty shell full of potential.

Something had to be done, images of previous LTT videos flashed inside of my mind, so fresh, so new .... @LinusTech whispering into my ear ..... "build ... build my friend .... be free".

8 moths and almost £3000 later .... I have a kickass PC. It reflects me, it is an extension of me, my little precious thing. It has my favourite colours, it has my design sensibility. It is a reflection of me. I worked hard for it and on it. I tweak it almost every day, imagine new ways to cable manage, look up new things I can add to it.

 

Yet I want more, I want to build something else,something better ...

When will it end? Maybe never ... but this new passion and fire I have for PC stuff .... the only limit is my imagination ... and wallet

Let me know in the comments how LTT has affected the way you look at PC hardware ...

My little baby





 

 

 

[Billy_Mays]

5 minutes ago, mrzoltowski said:

8 months ago, I was content and happy. My trusty Lenovo Razer pre-built PC ... browsing the web, playing some games and doing work.

Then I came across this little channel on YouTube, called Linus Tech Tips, featuring a complete control freak that breaks things all the time @LinusTech and a mild mannered goofball that is quite easy on the eye @Slick . This is where their entertaining and engaging content started to brain wash me. Soon enough I started hearing voices. Those voices told me ... "Nooo, you don't need new clothes ... buy a new CPU! .... noooo you don't need to fix that leaky bathroom pipe, buy a new graphics card!" ... as the weeks and moths progressed the undeniable charm of the LLT team and those HYPNOTOAD eyes have slowly etched a complete and insatiable hunger into ever fibre of my being.  That hunger was for one thing only, a custom build PC and RGB. 

For many weeks I questioned my sanity, having binge watched the ENTIRE LTT back catalogue in under 2 months. Did it scratch that itch? Did it satisfy? NO ... I needed more, I needed something stronger.

So I said to myself, hey ! I'll buy a case .... and move my rusty Lenovo parts into it .... just to see what happens. So I bought a Corsair Carbide 400C White, it had a clear window so you could see your computer parts. What a novel idea! I exclaimed ... in my head. With my brain armed with all the combined knowledge of LTT staff I managed the move.

A few days have passed, I stared at this clear window, the parts inside, green and dark and ugly ....  my life lost meaning ... colours faded ... sounds muted ... I have become my case .. an empty shell full of potential.

Something had to be done, images of previous LTT videos flashed inside of my mind, so fresh, so new .... @LinusTech whispering into my ear ..... "build ... build my friend .... be free".

8 moths and almost £3000 later .... I have a kickass PC. It reflects me, it is an extension of me, my little precious thing. It has my favourite colours, it has my design sensibility. It is a reflection of me. I worked hard for it and on it. I tweak it almost every day, imagine new ways to cable manage, look up new things I can add to it.

 

Yet I want more, I want to build something else,something better ...

When will it end? Maybe never ... but this new passion and fire I have for PC stuff .... the only limit is my imagination ... and wallet

Let me know in the comments how LTT has affected the way you look at PC hardware ...

My little baby





 

I wish I had a lot of spare money laying around 

[Linksys120n]

It inspired me to build a ryzen 7 1800X PC... Soon I'll even upgrade my R9 285 to an RX580...

[NTDaws]

I think of this like shrek is love shrek is life. cant help it sorry lol.

[Princess Luna]

My goal is make the most overkill PC possible without using a single RGB to spite Linus

[leontai_9222]

Me too. I had a trusty MSI GP60 laptop which did the job for me. 

 

But after 3 months of watching LTT videos, I had to do something about it. So 3 months later, I came up with my new baby below.

 

And now I spend any and every free time from work looking for new hardware to add, new ways to cable manage, new ways to improve air flow, etc...

[mrzoltowski]

1 minute ago, leontai_9222 said:

Me too. I had a trusty MSI GP60 laptop which did the job for me. 

 

But after 3 months of watching LTT videos, I had to do something about it. So 3 months later, I came up with my new baby below.

 

And now I spend any and every free time from work looking for new hardware to add, new ways to cable manage, new ways to improve air flow, etc...

No pics?

[leontai_9222]

I'm new. still trying to figure out how to work this thing. =D

[AvocadosGuac]

Um sorry but i had to.

 

57 minutes ago, mrzoltowski said:

Linus Tech Tips

 

Its 

 

"LinusTechTips".

 

I flipped shit when they changed the youtube name. LOL

[MicrowavedGerbil]

Good choice of case. I love the matching of the lights with your background.

[mrchow19910319]

happened to me too. 

 

last week I sold my old pc, piece by piece. 

Maybe someday you will lose interest. 

like I did. 

 

It is a sick ass looking pc though, dont get me wrong. Mine was not even close to yours. I just lost interest to gaming. 

Edited May 17, 2017 by mrchow19910319

[Taja]

20 minutes ago, mrchow19910319 said:

happened to me too. 

 

last week I sold my old pc, piece by piece. 

Maybe someday you will lose interest. 

like I did. 

 

It is a sick ass looking pc though, dont get me wrong. Mine was not even close to yours. I just lost interest to gaming. 

Some people care more about building and maintaining the pc than gaming.

 

I got into hardware because of gaming,but now I love it. Still, im all about function (for my use case, which is gaming), so I dont care about m.2 SSDs and gazilion core CPUs.

 

I hope I can build a monster pc someday, but for now I settle with small upgrades when I can.

[yathis]

The typical addict blames others.

But realize this, your index finger is pointing towards linus but you got 3 fingers pointing back at you and perhaps your thumb is point to God.

 

I got bored of LTT after about a week or two. Now I hardly watch much of his stuff.

[vanished]

Very cool. You just might be a little bit insane tho  

[mrzoltowski]

9 hours ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

Very cool. You just might be a little bit insane tho  

Just a bit? Ha!

[Zangashtu]

That's a beauty that man!

[MEC-777]

For me, it was the whole PC gaming community that got under my skin. I wedged my foot in the door by joining the Tom's Hardware forums (back before I discovered and joined the LTT forums). Since then, the door has been blown wide open and the "PC enthusiast" world has taken over a significant chunk of my life.  

 

For me, building, fixing, overclocking and modifying PC's is just as addictive as doing the same with cars (which I used to do a lot more of in the past). 

 

It's a slippery slope and for many, your setup/build is never fully and completely "finished". It's a constant, evolving functional work of art.  

[mrzoltowski]

1 minute ago, MEC-777 said:

For me, it was the whole PC gaming community that got under my skin. I wedged my foot in the door by joining the Tom's Hardware forums (back before I discovered and joined the LTT forums). Since then, the door has been blown wide open and the "PC enthusiast" world has taken over a significant chunk of my life.  

 

For me, building, fixing, overclocking and modifying PC's is just as addictive as doing the same with cars (which I used to do a lot more of in the past). 

 

It's a slippery slope and for many, your setup/build is never fully and completely "finished". It's a constant, evolving functional work of art.  

Bravo!

[ProjectBox153]

What a true story! I found the LTT YouTube channel a long time ago, but at that time I didn't know much about computers and customization. I had already started my collection, but it was small (about 5 or so machines). As I learned more and more, I got more and more and actually started to do things with them. I've built a few of my computers, and I know so much about others. My favorite brand of computers and hardware quickly became Dell. My collection has since grown to 57 computers (as of writing) and I get more all the time. 

[EasonIDontKnowAnything]

15 hours ago, mrzoltowski said:

8 moths

8 moths? Jesus what did you do to them 

[EasonIDontKnowAnything]

I found LinusTechTips about uh.... a year ago? Or about yeah close to a year ago. And I didn't even know LTT Forums existed. I just wait for new videos from Linus everyday. He was addicting to watch. His face , his eyes.... his gigantic chin.... ahh my fantasies

[mrzoltowski]

14 minutes ago, Jamiec1130 said:

What a true story! I found the LTT YouTube channel a long time ago, but at that time I didn't know much about computers and customization. I had already started my collection, but it was small (about 5 or so machines). As I learned more and more, I got more and more and actually started to do things with them. I've built a few of my computers, and I know so much about others. My favorite brand of computers and hardware quickly became Dell. My collection has since grown to 57 computers (as of writing) and I get more all the time. 

Um ... you might have an actual problem ....

[ProjectBox153]

1 minute ago, mrzoltowski said:

Um ... you might have an actual problem ....
 

Yes, I have a lot of problems. Where is that??!! I need to go! NOW!

[stealth80]

This has got "I'm going custom loop" written all over it! 

[mrzoltowski]

Just now, Jamiec1130 said:

Yes, I have a lot of problems. Where is that??!! I need to go! NOW!

LOL, aww I hope you know I was just kidding ....

I used to hang out around these sorts of heaps as a young kid. My dad designed microprocessors.