Rough times, but: Explanation n such 0:00 Case roll 9:11 Motherboard roll 17:31 Cooler roll 26:34 Ram roll 41:37 Linus noticing the 4000$ gpu 42:32 Storage roll 46:24 Linus eating cheesewiz to have another roll 56:20 PSU roll 59:47 GPU roll 1:31:56 Mouse roll 1:41:46 Keyboard roll 1:45:00 Monitor roll 1:54:03 Keyboard roll again 2:00:00 Monitor roll again 2:07:39

Linus, I'm ready to double the stakes. I'm gonna buy it for the whole $2.

This bit idea was brilliant. Whoever came up with it good on you 👍

why i like your channel is you make it easy to understand my friend age 65 asked me to help make a pc but as i sent them to your channel and also i did help with what they needed but your channel helped alot as they put the pc together themselves with little to no help so you make it easy to understand

linus has been presenting videos so long the live stream almost just feels like a regular youtube video what a pro, his on camera work is so consistent, plus he cares about what he is talking about great content!

Linus's voice cracking when he repeat the price that it might cost him really gets me.

This seems like such a fun stream. You are doing great work Linus!

The passive-aggressive level from linus at the staff never disappoints with these live streams.

Linus going over the details of that Sun Microsystems case like it was a legit contender was hilarious.

I originally had no intention of watching the whole damn thing, but it was surprisingly good. I liked the rando premise, which is actually pretty relevant for those of us on old/budget/secondhand/donated hardware. Alex was a good wingman, and a shout-out to Anthony who was trying to avoid the cameras, but failed. 😁 I love the idea of "LTTNotCom"; I'm nowhere near BC, but somehow it seems to round out the LTT Death Star you've been building (as well as dispose of all the reviewed stuff you're drowning in). It's like a Lego Store -- you might not have one, but the world is better for having it. Still don't know how to apply to purchase the frankenPC (I'm not on social media so I probably won't find out soon enough to participate), but great fun nonetheless. Thanks, and keep up the great work!

thank you for doing this, you're essentially giving this away to a supporter so i realized you're doing something good for someone

I can't stop laughing at all the entitled nerds in the chat complaining about every little thing and demanding re-rolls over and over.

The look of absolute terror and disbelief on linus face when alex told him how much was the worst case scenario.

Seeing Alex chuckle at Linus' reaction to the $4K GPU being in the running was all I needed to see today.

I appreciate your integrity and not selling out to a board run sponsor for a bigger budget. Steady growth, run by the people who worked their way up, is what made companies productive.

Linus, you are the only one that I can watch for 3h+ building a PC. Keep it up!

I'm only halfway through this video and this is one of the best LTT videos in quite a while. You guys push out really good content regularly, but events like this take it to the next level - love the concept and would love to see this become a recurring thing down the road. It's kind of like Scrapyard Wars - don't do it too often but every once in a while, something wacky like this is a ton of fun to watch. Thanks!

2:51:09 This is what makes an experienced presenter. Automatically, instinctively even, mirroring his hand gestures for the viewers, to mimic a line going up. It's like a good sport instructor, saying "now we move our right arm" (then moves their own left arm).

idk why ive rewatched this so many times but you were that guy that helped me through building my first pc so i kind of just like watching your videos now i hope i meet you in person or in game someday Linus you seem hella cool my man keep up the good content brother

These livestreams really separate the wheat from the chaff. Linus has been in front of a camera for so long that this felt like a fully edited and scripted video. Writers, behind the scenes crew, massive props to you all. Production is top tier at LMG.

I was a fool thinking he'd actually sell it on stream

I was surprised to see the Phononic Hex make a return from the peltier cooling video. I still happen to have one (just missing the mounting hardware) from my parents' friend, who, if I recall, manages commercial sales for the company. I have yet to try it because I'm unsure of how it'll work, but I imagine it'll be okay with 65w processors.

Im still using an AZZA GT1 case. I've rebuilt my system 4 times in the same case. The mobo tray completely slides out the back so you can do all of the hard ware stuff out side the case then just slide it in and hook up your cables, and the display window and internals can be flipped from right side to left side. Its great.

This morning at a store an employee gave away free chocolate. Since i don't line chocolate that much, i declined. She gave me anyway, telling me i can give it to colleagues. A bit later at the checkout she came back to me and told me: "Back in Bulgaria we have a saying: Even if it's a slap in the face; If it's free, you take it" Great saying and lovely employee 😃👌

The whole feedback section for the toolkit from the new IT guy around 3 hour mark was awesome. I'm glad to see Linus able to be more giving as he has been able to grow his time to the point that trusted people can literally be working behind him and allow him to connect with the small guy/gal

i loved my old fx cpu days. it was way cheaper than intel so price to performance was better and i think it aged better with better multi score over intell on alot of games

Crazy how they make it so professional, and yet there live. More live streams should be like this.

This video was legitimately a lot of fun. I think the mystery added to it, as did the wide variety of parts discussed. Thank you for putting this together.

Can’t get over that “7 blades of inefficiency” line

Love the candid and honest answers to questions no matter what they are 👍👍

You could make the bit holder stack ontop of each other instead of them side by side in the handle and just make the handle slightly longer and it would be half the thickness but it's a great driver I love it 😀

There is something great about these kinds of builds. Linus slightly out of his comfort zone but still professional af and doing some awesome work

The premise hooked me. Promote whoever came up with this!

Amazing, imagine playing this entire video and wanting it to keep going. We are here for over 3 hours. The reactions are great. Also explains how he got that monitor at the lab.

Appreciated Antoine hustling over to claim the Samsung monitor for himself and Linus letting it go to avoid having to add that one's value to the final running total. (And then rolling for the OLED monitor!)

I'm always rooting for team LTT. You all built something special and I hope you all grow old in success and prosperity.

I am usually not into streams, but this one I enjoyed fully as a VOD. Super fun concept, I hope you guys do it again in one form or another.

Mathias switches are essentially proprietary switches, they're the same molds as ALPS switches used to be, including keycap compatibility. I believe the "quiet click" gray switches are their tactiles.

to those who code or game on the fly those roll up bluetooth keyboards are soooooooo class, especially the ones you can slide into a wrist mount for easy typing on a standalone VR system

This was honestly one of the most entertaining streams you have ever done! I'm sure it was an expensive video to produce, but I really enjoyed it!

The transparency of Linus with what he does and how his company works, (including some of the random finance costs) is so genuine and awesome.

Alex slowly reducing potential sponsors for LTT one by one with his disses lol. Love it

i love the randomness and laid back style of LinusTechTips, and how there is some moments of total comfusion and chaos lmao

The display re-roll thingy. Quite funny he said "We need it in the labs." which in reality was "I want it for my workstation."

Must be so much fun to be on the cutting edge of tech with these guys. They get to try it all, everything you can think of they get to tinker with. Super jealous tbh.

02:36:40 there are 4090 cards with the powerconnection on the backside (externalconnecters being the 'front'-side) instead of the topside

"0 is a 10" killed my programming heart...

Thanks, for the shoutout El Papi Grande Linus. I agree, Temple OS was a terrible idea. A terribly funny one. @37:20

what a rollercoaster of nostalgia, as well as modern tech I couldn't afford. Thumbs up!

1:20 Linus' face is priceless, literally going from "I'm about to have fun!" to "Holy shit this could actually be more expensive that I thought, and I'm the owner of this company".

I’m seeing this one year late 🥲

This was the first i had heard of the MSI liquid cooler problem but this explains why my MSI liquid cooler stopped cooling nearly entirely despite the pump and fans etc. still running. Already replaced it with a Noctua NH-D15S though so.....im good.

that was a fun way to spend my afternoon honestly, thanks for the stream!

I truly enjoyed the creative way you guys did this. Great content

2:19:06 I love how Alex came back and started looking at the monitor, tracing the cable back to the PC and scrubbing his beard trying to figure out how the heck did he plugged it in without them adapters xD His face was filled up with confusion xD

@linus I'm about an hour and a half in, and you're talking about 6 conductors on 1 harness connector and the other kind having 3hot and 5gnd... So I'm not familiar with the specific product, but I think I can help with the reason (without math). 1st: electricity actually flows from gnd to pos.. it works either way u draw it out, but bare that in mind (we call earth "ground", but in reality, the atmosphere is negative and earth is positive). 2nd: the loads of a circuit take the push of the line (power feed) down. 3rd: the push (pressure... Voltage) measured after the load, subtracted from before the load, is called "forward voltage"... My point is; Because electrons flow from gnd to pos in vDC, there is higher voltage, higher amperage, and higher resistance.. hence the reason for more gnd wiring. I'd also imagine that AT LEAST 1 (maybe 2) of those gnds are shield gnd. Last nerdy thing... If the wire's sheathing (not the connector... I feel bad for people that have food theory and just can't get good product) is able to control the heat from the amp draw in each wire, then it's very likely that this "smaller wiring" may actually have finer strands within the conductor. Electrons travel on the outer edge of their conductors. The inner (core)of the conductor acts as more of a heat sink. If u use more strands in finer wire, the electrons have more surface to flow, heat escapes WAY TOO FAST, but can be controlled by say XLPE sheathing... A wire can melt and stay contained in the sheath, turning it into a larger solid core, instead of acting like a fuse. I think the issue of the company ur talking about, is SOLEY a pour choice in terminal pin style and size.. not the wiring

This was really fun please do another one! Thanks Linus & Team!

This PC sure is gonna be worth the cost!

Linus is so really and awesomely transparent about what he does and how his business operates, even some of the arbitrary finance charges.

There's one thing I would love to see Linus do. That is to find the water cooled r9 390x red devil. I was going to pair two of these crossfire with the i7 990x on the rampage 3 Extreme motherboard.

Man this is such an awesome concept hahaha nicely done y’all.

They should have given chat the option to force a reroll for each time Linus drops something.

I'm not hearing impaired and I would absolutely love to see tests comparing hearing aids and consumer headphones. Also any time spent looking at accessible tech would be amazing. It might be hard to find ideas with mainstream appeal in some cases but yall could do a lot of good for so many people by finding a way to expose more people to accessible tech. Could also get companies to improve standard devices.

So, Matias is a Canadian keyboard maker and possibly the only manufacturer of the Alps mount switches. Alps Electric made fantastic keyboard switches which are coveted to this day. Matias was a Apple keyboard 3rd party manufacturer that used Alps switches and once those were gone they began producing their own. The Quiet Click switch referenced here was released as a key switch acceptable to stenographers that needed a reliable and quiet key switch. Matias keyboard are expensive, but the board is not a bad buy, though a gamer may be unimpressed.

One of the most fun streams I've seen from you guys, would watch an even much longer version of this with much more small options for rolls and rerolls. Great idea overall, I'd love it if you expanded on it 😁

Industry Standards and new equipment adoption point is so spot on… just really well explained and a great take on business/industry in general. Especially when talking about how, if there’s no clear front facing benefit to the consumer, so good! 👏👏👏

Congratulations to the winner.. I just wish I had a PC To develop a game that I've been working on creating for years writing it down in my cell phone text in a notepad thing. Very informative video.

About Thunderbolt on AMD MoBo: Gigabyte B550 Vision D-P has 2 thunderbolt USB-Cs while the X570 version of that Mobo has just USB 3.2 Gen2x2

What an intersting stream, loved spending the last three and a half hours watching this

Hands down the absolute best stream. I loved this! Great job LMG!

Damn, thats a flashback. I remember covering it at Intel Conferences... common building blocks, the video's showing grade 1 and 2ers putting laptops together... and the branding of the three or four components needed for centrino... Ah the memories... And today you have to take the keyboard and entire top or bottom of the main deck off to upgrade ram or swap out a battery/hdd.

I love that when Linus is saying "in between" as he's scooping the cheese whiz you can hear slight nausea in his voice 🤣

Sounds like the echo is phase cancellation when the two microphones are both live. Using an audio console with an auto mixer would help remove this problem

That was a great twist on a PC building stream, wouldn't mind to see something like that again.

Hey Linus you have probably already figured it out for the mics, but maybe you can try with something like reaper audio DAW or other DAW software to run your vocals through a gate so the mics activate only when you pass a set threshold in db, maybe that can help but I do not know anything about live streaming precisely, anyways you all make very good content I really love your videos 😉

I like the clever segways leading into your segways! Well done!

You guys are awesome for doing this and it's a really fun and cool idea. I genuinely really enjoyed watching this. But it felt a little clunky and too chaotic if I may say. Other than that super good content guys/girls. Y'all are awesome!!

Leave it to Linus to make even the setup a blast to watch! Love this channel.

Pumped that these fools do stuff like this. Linus keeping that momentum throughout the entire 3.5 hour stream is criminally underrated. If you haven’t tried yet-try speaking into a red recording light and talking about something that you’re knowledgeable on, while also entertaining the audience to an extent that you feel confident releasing to millions of people. Then consider doing the entire thing live, in front of millions of people, knowing that there will be curveballs in your speech while simultaneously building with your hands. The most widely viewed television events would never allow for something like this.. and Linus and his team handle the broadcast better than pretty much most. Hats off to the production department You guys keep leveling up.

great content. just started watching ur channel and had no att on watching the entire show in 1 sitting when i saw how long it was but yet i couldnt take me eyes off it. ty. just curious but what vr games do u play and what do u play on. do u play Pop One?

I love your content and how you give back. You encouraged me to build a pc!

'7 blades of inefficiency' had me in stitches

I like how whenever Linus remembers it’s live, he gets nervous as hell for a few mins.

On the topic of physics bullcrap branching off of the Ray tracing convo. Keen Software House made the game Space Engineers with a Space and planets physics built into the (The game engine they run is their proprietary game engine that they build) engine (sandbox game) then they added fun stuff like the warfare 1 + 2 updates that are tons of fun. Or at least they will be. But the game won't run on my laptop anymore. (not their fault this isn't a gaming laptop) And I fixed the problem by sinking 2000 into a gaming PC desktop.

Come for the computer building, but 100% stay because of the heart to heart Linus answering live questions!

I'd love to see this done again, but with a few changes. Same component selection and die rolling concepts, but with a reckless lack of care to compatibility janky or not, I want to see forced compatibility ... zip ties and all I'm sure you guys can put together a ddr4 to ddr3 adapter if you auctioned off the final system starting at a high enough price to cover expenses

For the record, I have an 8350 in my build oc'd to 4.4 (Crosshair Formula -Z) and it still can run all the newest games without issues. The only limiting factor I've run into is with ram and the vram on my video card (which I may upgrade to buy some more time) I haven't built a new system because I haven't needed to, and I tend to build the highest end I can afford, then make it last forever before the next build (around 12 years on this one so far) Yes I'm hitting the time I need to do my next build, but with prices being what they are, I'll be saving for a while for top end.

Only thing I'd say about the game was when it came to the monitors that Samsung G9 should have never been in the running if their was a discrepancy to whether or not it was needed for some other project should have had something equivalent there in it's place. But the second roll ended up being better so it's still a win with the OLED

Instead of a thinner screwdriver you could just have a longer shaft (that's what she said.) that way you can still fit it into tight spaces and still have the Bulk for the bit storage.

Damn, that 8350 and Cross hair V MB was what in my one and only PC build. Worked well for many years but it made my apartments central heating obsolete.

My favorite tech tool is a slot cover i wrapped in tape and i use it as a punch tool for punch blocks. Heck of a ton better then an over priced dedicated tool and lighter in my bag to boot.

You going to need a bottle of Tylenol after this one 😂😂😂😂

This is the most entertaining thing I've seen in a long long time 🤣. Your sacrifice does not go unnoticed 🥴😵‍💫🤭

The Vega 64 liquid edition is 8GB HBM2 not 12GB. Also, it's the Vega 10XTX chip, not the Vega10 XT used in the Vega 64 air version. It's quite a bit faster and binned. Nowadays it's on par with the 1080ti. These are actually somewhat rare.

I almost had that exact Asus AMD FX set up. Asus Crosshair V and an FX8370. After seeing the disappointing behavior of my FX processor, I decided the best motherboard available for the platform will fix the issue. It didn't.

Linus' face when he heard the $16k was actually... *drum roll* priceless.

I actually loved this as a video it was awesome to watch the high stakes. I'd definitely rock the build as is just to say "yeah this is an LTT build" 😂💯

I like the sales pitch for the LTT acoustic treatement. "Some panels are DIY, some are great performance but really expensive, ours are a little DIY but no tools required, but great performance - but you buy the acoustic treatement that goes inside the panel yourself you can use whatever!". So what is great performance? haha

I wouldn't say this channel is my favourite, but I would miss you guys just for all the fun you have with tech

honestly you should these more, its not about the final build nor the pc, its on the journey and giving back to your fanbase ❤