Upgrading Our WORST Gaming Rigs

Okay, since everyone at linus media group spends their days playing games and making videos about the latest and greatest tech toys, you'd probably think that our entire team here has sick

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machines at home with the latest technology. I thought wrong so I had everyone in the company send me photos and specs of their personal setups without telling them why I wanted to see them and some people were quite reluctant to show them to me. I mean, don't you trust me? Well, it turns out. They should have trusted their instincts not to trust me because the plan was to pick the bottom three and subject them to a healthy dose of public shaming.

Welcome to the Linus Media group's wall of shame, but with a surprise twist. Our highly qualified panel of judges gets an update courtesy of Intel who sponsored this video, so let's get started with this show. Some of the presentations actually weren't that bad and some of them were quite enjoyable. I mean, let me know in the comments. If you want to see a wall of fame follow-up, some of them contain totally unnecessary details like Ivan, for example, apparently candlelight games, but his was far from the

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, let's start our journey with someone who is just meeting for the first time.

Because he recently passed his probationary period, this is Lloyd's setup, he is our new graphic designer, merchandise manager, so to his credit he has done some pretty amazing work so far for the company, including our new logo . You can let him know what you think of it in the comments below, but prepare yourselves, my friends, because this is going to be a surprise, so what have you got? Well, he wins some bonus points because this is one of the most incredible shadow box decorations I think I've ever seen. Is this his game? boy color yeah, yeah, okay, and this is your original boy game with your red and blue, uh, no, oh, this is a movie camera, it's a movie camera, okay, so you're some kind of photography nerd, I'm a photographer.

Okay, sure, because there are so many lenses back here that I can't even tell you that you have to take a picture of this, look at this, so you have an imac, you have an imac 5k, how much did this bad boy cost you? Oh, my parents gave it to you. for me as a gift wow, good parents so you have a 4 gigahertz core i7 you have 32 gigs of ram this is a pretty tricked out machine I think actually oh yeah, you guys might be wondering how this guy got a job here and he la answer is at least he's a gamer, the Pokémon fandom is real so at least he gets some street cred points for who will be next on the wall of shame, well I'll give you a hint while I take off my hats feet to take off.

My feet, damn it, as I take off my shoes to enter his home, yes my friends, it's Dennis, you may know him because Denny is hooked on his

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and cooking streams. Okay, I need four eight, why is it so hard? Look, I know how to do it, but uh. when it comes to his pc setup it comes up a bit short Dennis, do you just not wash dishes like these? You only use disposable cups for everything. No, my God, they are dirty. I looked at them and George, you just play a lot. beer pong, it's a great system for your paddle storage up here.

I didn't know you liked sailing, at least you're consistent because your kayak setup is as clean and organized as your computer, yes you will. I'm going to love it, so here it is, this is the gaming corner. Yes, it's a shame, then you have a fake cockroach. One of those things doesn't work, but you don't know what's going on. A lot of money, so I can run away at any time and see if. I can find anything that was stolen from the office Yes, why do you have this projector? Hey, I wonder if I'm the question.

Oh, you won that at the Christmas party. It's okay, it's okay. I also guarantee that I bought it and paid for it. For this I went to the best the best my five sneakers walk me through your setup please so my setup is very simple very easy everyone can do it at home basically steal your uh steal your key , your work keyboard and mouse, I don't know where. You work, but I have four coasters that used to live on my laptop, so the fan and heat can rise from here. That's actually not the stupidest thing I've ever heard.

They are elegant. Wow. They're like marble or something. Steal this from them no, they match no, no, this is mine, no, yes, this is not the property of Linus' media group. I asked Brandon no, so you asked Brandon if you could take my stuff. He said yeah, we sure don't use them, so this is actually it. pretty good hardware dennis is using a 6700 hq he has a gtx 1060 i just found more of that no you stole more stuff ok i wasn't even looking for non tech items i bet you took all these games and the microphone too karaoke, okay.

I paid for this I paid for this I reimbursed you this is the Laser James department What is my name? You told me your name was Big Papa. I could never get over that I probably wouldn't have hired this guy if I'd known the state. from his computer, where is your computer just this way so you walk past the Google Home and the Chromecast and all the Philips II lights and the smart lock and the cat litter? It's not about having the best specifications in the world. That's not what PC Master the race is well that's great, collecting dust, I actually have a Microsoft Surface Pro that is my daily use. driver talking about all your smart home device crap uh, you stole this from the office no, oh, it's kibble, do you still want me to throw it in your mouth? oh, it smells, it tastes like dog breath, I'll wash my mouth out here, okay?

There's no room for a gaming PC, but you've got like a bunch of quail, I mean, look, oh wow, what if they come out? Can fly? Have their wings been clipped or probably won't they be? eat the eggs and it's covered in poop or is it just the color what they look like ok cool x58 so you had a decent deck at one point and you abandoned us I really didn't do it I stopped playing hey man now I'm married Okay, it's a different world if we fix this, could you plug it in? In fact, I wanted to watch less Netflix and play more video games.

I think it's a good activity between husband and wife. Do you know how many people have socket 1366 chips? and I would die for our working x-58 motherboard and yours is just collecting dust, you don't know if it works, you may never leave Linus, oh my gosh, okay, so your job for this part is to stand there and look embarrassed , look if. Head down, more embarrassed, thanks James, it's a shame we're handing over James' machine to Ivan who will revitalize it, okay, bring it back, so congratulations James, you suck, but it worked for you because we just can't have tosomeone. on staff who are not able to hone their gaming skills, so let's remove this and, ah, yes, intelligence and in fact, some of our other partners did their best.

I thought you were just going to get a CPU motherboard and a RAM upgrade, but this is actually I cheated the math, so you have a core i7 8700k, a 760 series nvme ssd, you have an asus strix motherboard, you have 16 gigs of corsair vengeance pro rgb memory, you have an h60 cooler, so this is their new one i upgraded one with the new fans and all that kind of stuff, you have rgb lighting courtesy of corsair and a gtx 1070 strix from asus, oh yeah, and for right, your hard drive is now optano accelerated, so you have two m.2 So even though this hard drive is like a ghetto 640 gig, you should still get good loading times from the games you put on it, but you didn't get a power supply upgrade because it was still good enough so this thing will actually work.

It performs better than my machine now, and of course, in true style, we left the case as is so you can get a full night's sleep. In fact, you can disable these lights and the software if you want no one to be able to tell what's under the hood at night. That was uncomfortable. Wow, there's no Segway in the world that can get me from that horrible joke to this, so let's close this out with some baseline scores. This machine looks pretty beastly, so for those of you who think you know an i7 is an i7 because we technically upgraded our i7 to an i7, we recommend that you keep in mind how much better a new i7 can be than an old one during the Intel Gamer Days 2018 sale, which will take place from September 1 to 16 and we will have more. links to the details below, but basically not only is it one of the best times of year to upgrade to gaming gear from top brands like the one seen in this video, but it's also a great way to participate in tons of gifts and prizes. giveaways so check that out below again so thanks for watching guys if you didn't like this video you can hit that button but if you did like it hit like subscribe and maybe consider checking out where to buy the stuff we featured in the link in the video description.

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