Life is full of surprises - AMD $5,000 Ultimate Tech Upgrade

Finally, it's AMD ultimate tech upgrade time, but for some reason, they wouldn't tell me where we're going. Oh, still don't see why all this was necessary. Oh, okay. This is my garage. Did you guys get me a tech upgrade? What? You get enough upgrades, it's my turn. What Linus doesn't know is that I'm donating all of AMD's money. There we go, $5,000. Thank you, AMD. What I'm gonna do instead is use Linus's money. He never buys me stuff. He always buys himself stuff. So here's my chance. This looks like a lot more than $5,000. Well, that's why I'm coming to help. I'm going to help you to do the shopping part where I'm really good at. You're kidding me, Dennis was involved? Well, I don't know much at this point, but I do know that this AMD ultimate tech upgrade is going to be completely off the rails. And I guess I'm here for it. We're back and thrilled to be working with AMD for another episode of AMD ultimate tech upgrade to celebrate the launch of their new Radeon RX 7600 GPU. They want to give a couple of them away to some lucky viewers. Head on over to our Twitter to enter the giveaway for a chance to win one of the two AMD Radeon RX 7600 GPUs that are up for grabs. We're going to have that down below. Thanks again to AMD for sponsoring this series. First order of business is to get all this stuff inside. Okay. What, the chump way? What are you talking about? No, no, no, no, no. We're going to roll the whole thing. Oh my gosh. No, no, you're not. That's not going to fit. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Trust me when I say it'll fit. Okay, well, I'm going to take this load in first. Oh my gosh. I'm going to need some help. You don't deserve help. I deserve help. One sec. Okay, is my wheel on? Okay, that's enough wheels. Well, how many things have we broken already? None. I don't even remember half the stuff I got. Jake helped me pick a bunch of it. Oh good, Jake was involved. So I'm sure it's on budget. Jake's budget. You're going to abandon the key caps that your children picked out for you. I'm sorry, but- Made for you. Look, it's wearing out and it's actually not just the key caps. The problem is that when I type on the keys, they don't register anymore. Oh. Yeah. I'm actually really sad to lose this too. Cause I really like the wrist rest. Why in the heck are there so many sets? Okay, because there wasn't one set that had, actually, wait, I don't know. These look exactly the same. They do. Do they just have standard packaging? No, that says 10 and this says 15. But here's my keyboard. PBT is, I don't know what the 10 and 15 are. Oh, okay. Keychron K10. Why do you have two keyboards? Why? Yeah, why do I have two keyboards? It's the knob version. Must be for me. Knives. Yeah, we need kitchen knives. Ours suck. We've had them for, what, 20 years? And they don't cut things anymore. Not properly anymore. My love, we haven't even been together for 20 years. No, whatever. Feels like it. Yeah. Look, I finally got one of these that isn't broken. What is this weird picture? I don't know. Is it for disciplining children if they don't dance well enough? Here, let's try. No, hey, ow! Okay, that was my hip and not my butt. So it works. Okay, it was a $2 brush. I know, but you're making me feel like I don't normally buy you things. You don't normally buy me things, look. I got wireless charging pads for the kitchen for my phone. So when I'm cooking. Yeah, let's take those now. Oh man, I'm so excited to be replacing that. Look at it. I don't think we've ever cleaned this. I know, I don't think so. And it's missing knives. This is my aunt's fault. All our steak knives have the tips broken off because she uses them to jam stuff into the carburetor. Love you, auntie, but please don't do that with the new ones. I'm surprised you ended up with hankels. I don't know any better. The accounting people are super into knives. Yeah, I'm sorry, r slash knives or whatever. They would be very disappointed in me, but I... We're basic like that. Yeah, and I know you wanted self-sharpening, but Jake says those are a terrible idea. So we got a sharpener, one that doesn't change the shape of your blade. That's not gonna fit. That's not good. That's what she said. Oh. Your baby. Ow. Yeah, it hurts, right? Actually, this is really weird. Is it supposed to go this way or this way? This way? Yeah. But now you can't even like... I know. But then that's still... Okay. Let's see. This is what happens when you get Jake's help. He's well-intentioned. I got wireless chargers. Why is this one different? That's a power bank. Oh. A thing is just gonna sit here all the time. Yes. How many phones are you planning to have charging while you're cooking? No, not for the kitchen. Okay, I want one for over there so that when I'm sitting on the couch, reading or doing whatever, I have a charger too. How are you gonna read on your phone with a wireless charger? No, you're not. Eventually, we'll get console table. Maybe we can put it here. No one is going to use that. I promise you. What? I would use it. No one is going to use that. Okay, fine. Then you have to wire that somehow. Your idea was just to have a cable. How were you gonna have a cable? No, my idea was to charge your phone at night and then use it throughout the day. Yeah, but my phone dies. And that's why I got a power bank. You got a new phone. What? Oh, it's my upgrade. Yeah, okay, that's true. But I didn't have it yet when I bought these. How about we put it on this one? Okay, that's fine. I'm okay with that. I thought we were gonna do the phone first. Oh, no, let's do the side tables first. It's AMD Ultimate Tech Upgrade. You don't like it, do you? Yeah, you know what? No, no. If you like it, then I love it. Well, now I don't know. I know what we need. LTT Screwdriver Twins! Yes. LTTstore.com. You know, there's a screwdriver right there. I know, but- You're using your hands. To get it started is easier. You're screwing it by hand. How many times have I told you, you can't use your hands for that? Oh, it's better. Please stop. Please. What? This screwdriver paid for this house. Okay, I will use it, I will. But it's easier to line it up with your hands. We're still working on her screwing technique. It's not my technique that's the problem. Remember, folks, if your marriage can survive assembling furniture together, you're good to go. I mean, yeah, like if she likes it, then I'm fine with that. Okay, I think that was a success. My phone? Yeah. Yeah, okay. Oh, it's a Galaxy S23. Yeah. Really? You chose that? I really think this is probably a mistake. Okay, should I return it? This is number three. At least you don't have expensive taste in purses. Yes. This looks very AliExpress. It is not. Really? Yeah. Well, it doesn't look expensive. I mean, I think it was $200. And that's how it comes packaged? Are you kidding me? But now you can't make fun of me anymore, okay? I got a purse. Oh yeah, I should show you her old purse. This is what she's been using as a purse. All right. Okay, but the real trick is, does it fit my phone? Oh no. Okay, maybe I am keeping the Samsung non-Ultra version. You're gonna be so unhappy with such a tiny phone. It fits. I'll stretch it out. That was accidental. Wait, did this just come apart? Oh yeah, it did. Wow, that didn't take long. Oh, that is really disappointing. This snap just came right off. Yeah. How embarrassing. Return pile. Oh man. Should we start getting into the tech stuff? That would probably be a good idea. AMD did sponsor this video. Sort of simple houseware, desk monitor stand riser with adjustable. This looks like crap. Who picked this? I did. Oh, I assumed it was Jake again. Let's see if you guys at least managed to pick a cool laptop. You picked a Chromebook. Yeah, you know why? It's actually not for me. It's for the kids. For the next grade she's going into, she needs a Chromebook. So that's why I picked a Chromebook. Wow, this thing is way overkill for school. Ryzen 5 with Vega graphics. So you'll actually be able to, isn't Steam on Chrome OS now? You'll actually be able to game on this thing. Eight gigs RAM, 128 gigs storage. That's lots though. Nothing will actually be loaded onto the machine itself. And then a 56 watt hour battery, which on an efficient processor like this is going to be more than all day. Plastic top, but it does have a metal bottom, meaning the stiffness of it is actually quite solid. It's funny because in the past, AMD only used to get kind of the lower end designs from the big OEMs, but that just doesn't seem to be the case anymore. This is a really nice chassis. Can I see how heavy it is? Oh, that's not bad. It's not light. Yeah, but it's not bad. It's got a big fat battery in it. So like, what do you want? Yeah. It even has IO, micro SD slot, headphone jack, USB-A, two USB-Cs, both of which are charging compatible and an HDMI port. Awesome. Should we open my keyboard? Not the wavy one. So this is going in the return pile. Look, I'm not the one putting things in the return pile now. I'm surprised they didn't get you a 10 keyless and then a separate numpad. No, I don't want a separate numpad. Why would I want that? Oh, that's the new hotness. Oh, okay. I don't know. I'm not the new hotness. Okay, you're the old hotness. Yeah. I don't like that the things are round, so maybe the replacement keys that we got hopefully are not round. I like it. It's pretty. All right. Yeah. Are you going to at least still use the kid's escape key? Yeah, I can. You know they love you, right? Yes, I do. I can. And you know I helped them make it and I love you, right? Yeah, I know. I was part of that video. I was there. But we can also use it for one of their keyboards downstairs. You're going to smoke me in the face. No, you already did that. Okay, I give up. I needed new runners. What are you running from? So these are my old lady orthotic runners. And you got two pairs of the same shoe. Yes. Okay, says the person who got six pairs of the same shoe for badminton. That's an athletic shoe. I go running. What are you talking about? Is that why you went running yesterday? So that today you could say I go running. Wow, this is very fake looking. Dennis liked it. Oh, well then. No, it doesn't go up there. What? No. It doesn't go up there yet. Did you really get two of the exact same painting? Bon! What? I'm pretty sure that's a decor sin. Is it? Dennis was with me. He approved. How much were these? How much do you think they were? 130. Are you kidding me right now? Yeah, I felt really bad about these ones. She's actually tearing up. This is how I can tell that this is trouble. This is not what I normally would do. Okay, just, they were $299 each. Yeah, I know. It's brutal. It's totally brutal. I could just use this as a canvas. Oh my God. That's the most expensive canvas ever. I'm just kidding. I'm not bothering you. Need some floor time. Do we need to start talking about this orter thing? What is this? And why are there so many pieces of it? So you need to make space for me out in your workshop. What? You have a workshop. No, that's a- She converted our living room to a craft room. That's a craft room. Right. Yeah, it's not a workshop. I need space in the workshop. Whoa. Our entire living room from here to all of this, David, you gotta come in here. Okay. Of this is your craft space. Yeah, that I have work people here every Friday night to craft with, so it's a work thing. Good. Yeah. Then it's a workshop. No, there are fumes. There's fumes. It's a laser cutter. So it's, and engraver. Okay. And it apparently requires assembly. I don't know. I don't know anything about these. This is an activity to learn. This goes with the wall of flowers, the Lego flowers, you know, cause you don't buy me real flowers or real birds. So I get, these are the ones that I get. Once again, I'm pretty sure I'm the one who got you that one. You did get me that one. Yeah. But here's the bird so that I'm not allowed. You didn't even upgrade your monitor. No, I like my monitor. Why? Well, it's only 75 Hertz though. So? It's amazing how the meta kind of changes. For a while, these monitor stands were a thing. And then now everyone's got the arms, you know? I don't even think these will go through the spacers. Okay. I might have a solution to this. Oh, who's the hoarder now? Don't mind me. Just back from my perfectly organized garage. Okay. What do you think? This monitor falls down. But you said you have a bigger one downstairs, I guess. Yeah, I do. Oh my gosh. You know, usually these come with instructions on which piece goes where, but this one really does not. Where do you want the monitor? That's really far away. I wanted it to be like tucked back. See, this won't bend anymore. So that's as far back as it goes. Really? Yeah, it's really not as flexible as I would like it to be. I mean, it's still an upgrade because you get all this space under it back. All right, we're going to put this piece up first. Hello. Oh, what? Whoa, what are you doing? What? Well, you have to take it off the backing. No, no, no, no, no. No, stop, stop. What? You take it off a little piece at a time. Oh yeah, but you're bending it. You got to take it off a bit more. I'm working on it. Just one sec. You're bending it. Dee Brandy watching this like. I'm a strong, independent woman. I can do this myself. Okay. And I helped. Wait, what are these for? For above there. It's decorative. These should go up before the vinyls. Okay. Oh. That was close. I got this. This is one of the few classic man duties that I'm actually pretty practiced at. I don't know. He hung the pictures in the hallway and they are all about an inch higher than I had requested they all be. What percentage of the shareholders and directors of the company is precariously perched on a table right now? Crap. What? What happened? Well, that doesn't seem to be a stud. Even though this thing claims there's studs all over the place here. Well, there's an extra hole here. That is a very happy shelf right now. Happy shelf? Yeah. It's coming out of the wall like this. I'm gonna open this crappy desk monitor. Yeah, because that's where I keep my keyboard and my mouse. Well, no, I don't- Because I'm a big, dumb idiot and I like my keyboard and mouse in there. Can't even charge the Apple mouse like that. Do you think you could have picked more things that need to be assembled? Why? What's wrong? This thing is crap. I really don't know if I even want to build it. Look at it. It goes here. Does that appeal to you? Does that shine and sparkle? No, I hate it. Yeah, let's leave it. Get out of here. Yeah. This return pile is something else. Hey, Yvonne. Did you check and make sure this is gonna- Whoa, is everything okay? Oh, yeah. Okay. Did you check and make sure this is gonna fit under the desk? Just raise it like a centimeter. Yep. Now push. There you go. And you thought we were gonna make candles today? Well, not necessarily. So ambitious. Not necessarily today. Did you actually ask for all these things from Ugreen or are they just trying to show off the breadth of their type C dongle catalog? No, I asked for some of it. I don't remember asking for so many though. But maybe I did. I don't remember. This was a long time ago. Thanks, Ugreen. Okay. AirFly Pro. Connect two wireless headphones to any headphone jack. Oh, yeah. Instead of buying all these things and whatever, I was actually gonna take you on a trip. Oh. So that's why there's a bunch of travel accessories. But then I thought about the filming schedule and all that stuff. And I was like, ah, forget it. So basically our whole life. Yeah, pretty much. They got you a headphone stand, but they got you like the cheapest, crappiest headphone stand imaginable. Okay, no, this one's my fault. Oh. Just like the desk thing. Jake advised against it, but I was like, this looks fine. No, it really doesn't. It doesn't even stay together permanently. You can add that to the pile. More kitchen accessories. Oh, yeah. This is for that pot we bought from the liquidation place that burns our handle this time. I love this. Okay, so we've got the sick Chromebook. Hey, thanks, AMD. We've got all the furniture, the monitor arm. But this, this is what's exciting. Well, we- Let me show you. We won't burn our hands. This is amazing. Never again will this cheap Kaiserhoff pot burn my wife's dainty hands. Yes. Success. This is kind of coming together, hey? Looks good. Not bad. How often do you use these headphones? Like if you're working in here and I'm working in here and we're both like on a call, I don't want to bother you. Okay, all right. Maybe I'll just have to find a better place to mount this. Like maybe if I mounted it like under here or something like that. Yeah, that would be nice because right now the cable gets in the way a lot. And are you sure you want battery powered lamps? They're not battery powered, they're USB. Well, okay. They're rechargeable battery powered, but they're USB. One day I will get real birds, for real. You have cats. How do you like the keyboard? I'm used to so much more pressure to push on it. It feels soft in some ways, but I like how quiet it is because my one at work is really loud. I like how it looks. It matches my wall stickers and my flowers. You have better speakers at your desk than me now. I like it. Oh man, this is so nice. It's like, now I don't have to look at my side and just be sad when I look at your side. Man, on my side it looks kind of bland. Now, yeah, now it does. Well, okay, except that you have the wall of YouTube plaques. I mean, those are our YouTube plaques. On your wall. Oh, I know, right? I need to get more plaques. Oh, you know what I haven't put up yet? Gold Bilibili, but should it go here right next to the other Bilibili or is that not random enough? Should it go maybe here or it could start going that way. We just start going that way. Okay, more Bilibili, more plaques. Let's go, subscribe to LMG clips. Get another gold one. For the craft space, I got a rug. Oh, for how often you spill glass, I'm really just not sure. Okay, stained glass is a temporary hobby. A temporary right now hobby. Okay, well, we don't have to open it. No, let's go, let's go. I think we should see what it looks like so that we know if we have to return it or not. Wait, wait, wait, before you do that, I don't know if I like this rug. Okay, I'm not gonna be responsible for putting another thing in the return pile. I think it's good enough. Okay, all right. All right. Let's do it. Yeah, you're good, you're good, you're good. And we're under. She's trying really hard to put a splash of color in her life in this room and it's killing her inside, I think. Well, no, it just doesn't go. I mean, hey, look, I just added a splash of color in there and it looks great. You did a great job. Between the things we couldn't find and the things that ended up in the return pile, this has been quite the day. Oh, okay, so you have a dress. Okay, come on over, let's see it. Okay. Wow, that's really great. Do you like it? Yeah, it's awesome. That sounded super sarcastic. Okay, it's pretty clear. It's going in the return pile. I mean. What? From the back, it's pretty good. It was supposed to be so we could go on a date together. Okay, well, we can go on a date and we can buy you a new dress. How about that? Okay, but we also planned three more dates. Oh. Because the whole idea was, I just wanted to spend time with you. Aw. No, I don't know if I want to. So rude. Shout out dbrand. Thanks for sending over this thing for the wrong phone. Okay. No, it's for the right phone. They sent us the right thing. We bought the wrong phone. And there it is, grip case matching my car. Wait, I don't even need to upload your ordering ink for you, you still have ink. It's agitating the ink. Yeah, I know, this is for when it runs out. It's already, I didn't print very many photos and it's already at like a quarter. Man, the float plane exclusive for this is going to be long. Long and veiny. What? I'll see you over there, floatplane.com. Now we just need to figure out where the devil this is going to live. Yeah. I propose here. It does not fit up there. I mean, anything fits in dry hardener. No, look, look, look, no, no, no. Oh, look at that. That's terrible. Awesome. Okay, just put it wherever you want it. In the workshop? Yeah, I'm putting my blindfold back on. Okay, you realize I don't actually have that much desk space in this area, right? Okay, but you have enough for this. It's filled with junk right now. Junk? See if it can go right in that corner and we move these litter boxes and stuff. It's perfect. It goes right there and you get to use it too. Or you can build me a little shelf and I can put it in there and then when I want to use it, I pull it out. Okay, compromise, teamwork. That's a pretty sick vibe. Yeah, I like it. Yeah, this is great. Go AMD. Usually we check out more desktop-y stuff like their Ryzen 7000 series processors, including the 7800X 3D, which is basically the king when it comes to gaming these days, or their Radeon 7000 series GPUs, but today we were more mobile-focused, aesthetic-focused, and spending time together-focused. See you at the next one. We'll have links to a bunch of AMD's great technology down below.