A Most Dangerous Upgrade - AMD $5000 Ultimate Tech Upgrade!

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AI GeneratedAndrew, a camera operator, receives a $5,000 tech and gear upgrade focused on space efficiency and vlogging preparation. The project includes building a compact, high-performance PC for video editing and customizing his SV650S motorcycle with themed aesthetics and gear for upcoming travel tours.
This AMD $5,000 ultimate tech upgrade it's gonna be a little bit different like this. Give me the camera
It's for our camera guy Andrew. He's a really great guy. He's witty
Thoughtful full third of his upgrade is going to his SO and he's even got an accent. Go on say something
Oh god, I don't know what to say right now. Are you kidding me?
Yeah, thank you, yeah, isn't he dreamy though too bad
He spent his upgrade money on a bunch of gear for vlogging his motorbike tour. So enjoy him while he's still around everyone
Thanks AMD. This is gonna be a good one. I'm gonna die
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I have to say the vibe of this place feels almost unnaturally cozy and comfortable for me. Hey Reese
Can you please go grab something over there for me?
Yeah, whatever man. I
Don't even I didn't even notice it was so low until he walked in, you know, tell me this. Yeah, I mean
Did you really have to go this full Lord of the Rings hog?
Okay, I know we're basically hobbits
Yeah, I know do you even actually have an Irish accent or is that just a bit you're putting on I
Can't not do an Irish accent in all seriousness
This feels borderline obsessive like after work you just come home every day and read Lord of the Rings
I've never read any of them. My girlfriend is a big collector here. Emma is she loves Lord of Rings?
I'll ask her which is also a big reader so you can see over there. I'm very dyslexic
So I've only read probably four books in my entire life you roll
So, okay, I'll tell you something right? There's a bit of a theme we're standing right by the way
He's actually really great when he's behind the camera a really good sense of awareness on the set
It's literally the opposite. My girlfriend's also Swedish. So there's a mix of Ireland and
Sweden in here. Oh
Swedish berries. Yeah. Oh, I mean these aren't actually Swedish are the fish ones are yeah, how did he beat me to that?
These are really famous in Sweden. I don't know why since we're over here. Why don't we take a look at your setup?
This oh, this isn't your Wi-Fi pass. Yeah, it is. Yeah, I get rid of that. Yeah, I don't have a router
So it's so it's your neighbor's wife. So it's your neighbor's wife. It's my landlord and he lives upstairs
There's a lot of that kind of ---- going on. So but yeah speaking of stealing
Let's see if we can find anything that Andrew lifted from work like say for example
This project Matt like I brought that for this. Did you pay for it? No sounds like stolen
Thanks, Adam. See he shot a fair number of these so he knows what I'm gonna be looking for
I bet he didn't think I'd be looking for this
This believe it or not. That's something that we just have I kind of like things the way they are
You know what? I mean organize slash. Mm-hmm, you know, he doesn't need multiple kinds of cereal. He just needs cereal
He likes it the way it is. Yeah, I like everything the way it is
Which is why I take it out of the bag
It comes in to put in a different jar
What I gather then from the stealing of the neighbors Wi-Fi and all of that is that while you haven't taken anything from the office
It's more to do with that
None of it entices you no offense to the office ring, but no, it's just not my thing. Oh straight away
Right. There you go. Yeah that belongs to the office. There's no way you bought medical tape. No, what about second roll of tape?
We don't use that
What about Ridge wallet? I mean sure. I'd say they could have it. Yeah
Found an international power cord. I'm international. I've no idea what's in there. I've heard that before
Oh, okay. It's my old laptop
This was my main editing rig when I used to work for myself and at the past company over to a funny story
Um, I found this laptop. Yeah by watching your videos basically. Oh really back in 2017. Yeah, not this particular one
I don't think you ever had anything to do with with this laptop in particular
But I knew what specs to look out for all that kind of thing. Just thanks to that. Yeah now you give people the tech tips
Let's take a look at the rig upgrade. Do you use this for editing or gaming or what? Yeah editing video editing?
It's kind of mid-tier. I I used to do freelance work
But right now I'm I just do it for pleasure stuff now. Um, why do you have a low-profile cooler in here? This is
Inexpertly built. Oh
Okay with all due respect what the actual heck is going on with the front of this computer
It's been moved from there to there and I never noticed that there was so much dust at the front of it
We're getting rid of it. Sure are I noticed you're going for a
Significantly smaller build with the Loki ghost s1. Yes indeed
I want to downsize want to make more room on our desk over there for crafts and things like that
Also, you're into crafting. Are you a little bit? It's more my girlfriend. But yeah, I like I craft a bit, you know
Well, I will now that I have all this new stuff
What are you gonna make the plan is like stickers like merch not to sell it just for her friends and stuff
But that kind of thing. Okay, but what are you gonna craft?
I'm probably gonna craft some sort of decals for my bike
I would come up with a name of like the crew make a sticker for it and put it on all the stop signs and
Stuff. I don't know. I don't care. What are you gonna do? I mean, I'm not from me
Why don't we get the build started then so you're reusing your old GPU, but basically everything else is new
So rise in 9700 X that aligns well with the goal of video editing. So we got eight cores Zen 5 architecture
You've got what I assume is gonna be 32 gigs of RAM here
Nailed it. Yeah for terabyte SSD who needs that kind of solid-state storage. I actually don't think I asked for that
It says on your parts us two terabytes, so I don't know if you get to keep that it's in the pile
I'm keeping it. You know what? I mean? I picked this and when we did Emily's gaming van
Oh, yeah, I took a photo of the motherboard and I was like that is gonna be perfect and then big fat
850 watt power supply. I asked Adam about this Adams here. That's the one isn't it? Yes. Yeah, so apparently this will fit
How about this before we start the build? Let's go take a look at some of the bike upgrades for sure. Wait, I
Missed the office that's that was right in front of me. He's been wearing our cargo pants since long before they came out
Oh, yeah, and did you know what? These are my second pair?
I offered to test them because we like to put batteries and all that crap in our pockets
So yeah, good pants though available now lttstore.com. This is my bike. You might recognize it. I do
It's an SV 650 s. Yes s stands for less comfortable than the regular one
Yeah, pretty much just but you look so much cooler. It's a pretty cool bike yours
I think is a 2003. Yeah, 2003. This is a 2010. This is a really late for this
Type, I don't think they kept making the s after this year
This is a smart choice because mine doesn't have ABS exactly
that was probably the biggest change that they made from 2003 to now in terms of bike safety and
Yeah, this guy doesn't have it on this a brake fluid reservoir right there's always something covering it
I have no idea why I was driving down highway one and someone recognized the LTT on it. No way
Alright, do me a favor buddy. Go get a piece of wood. Yeah, you bet. Yeah, we've Canadian eyes to me calls people buddy now
Yeah, buddy. Hey, buddy
Biggest piece you could find. Oh my god
What are we changing that not much actually, I've got a top box that I'll show you that normally goes on the back here
We're gonna try and
Make it so that we can have camera equipment with us on the tours
But for the bike itself, we're gonna put decals on the wheels like round tape and stuff like that. Cool
All right. I am not sure they sent over two. Well, you got two wheels, don't you?
Well, well you see I hope so because they're very different colors. What do you prefer? This one's rubbish. Yeah, isn't it?
Yeah, I mean and it's a far completely different Andrew. Look who the **** is Andrew George? Definitely not me. That's a real British name
Do you think he's having a go at you? He might be having a go. Yeah, he's from Sweden though
Oh, there's a lot of Swedish people in my life. I don't know how that happened, but
It's not designed for hobbits this one. All right, help me here
I'm allowed to give him ---- about being short. Oh god. Oh
Wait, did you want me to let go of the brake when we were doing that? I hope you're a joke
It'd be the first time someone's been fired on their upgrade shoot. You know to me
Oh, no, it'll be me. I'm telling you
LMG GG slash floatplane floatplane exclusive
No wonder so many people quit after we do these things he told me that he didn't real
Yeah, there's no way I'm gonna let that make the cut
Can I help with anything like wait, that was it you're just gonna give it a wipe down that was the dry
There's so much dust on it. It's barely even cleaner than your computer
What do we think? WD-40 probably? I mean that'll clean it. But then how do we clean off the WD-40?
It's a bit of a pain in the arse. I lick it off. I love it
Don't do that. I'll go get another cloth. Please don't spray the brake with this
No, you don't have to spray the brake yet
I'm just saying don't spray the brake with the WD-40. You know, it's probably gonna be fine. I'm not gonna help you with anything
Don't spray the brake. This is what it's meant to look like. We'll show you in a sec
That's cool, I don't think we're getting that effect dude
These are giant friggin stickers getting these perfectly aligned is gonna be a thing. Okay. Well one thing I got figured out already is
This yeah goes here on the rim. So why don't we start with that? Yeah, I'm probably gonna screw it up
You know what? It already looks good
Sure, maybe that's all we need we are gonna have a conversation once you've done that first one though about
What's gonna look like?
Okay
Conversation. Yeah, you're in trouble. I mean that's on. Yeah, that's pretty that looks good
Why don't we only do this but we do all the wheels with this? Oh, okay. Wait. No now
I'm super confused because we totally have enough of these ones to do both wheels. Yeah. Yeah, this is enough. I
Hope it's okay. So somebody probably looked at that straight away and knew that we had enough and now we look like tools
Yeah, do you want Reese to do the stickers? No
Wow
Rude. Okay. Let's see what these guys are up to. Hold on. I will come back to the stickers
well, the mod mat ended up on my
Yeah, cuz it's heat resistant. So if I turn the stove on it should be totally no. The ghost s1 is very small. Yeah
Luckily, this is a custom-made cooler from noctua that's designed specifically for this case. Really they did that. Yep. They modified it
It's the ghost s1 edition. I will say this is my first time really getting work done with the precision kit. Uh-huh
The magnetic lid is
So amazing, that's the screws on the motherboard that screws for the case and
They're they're in that cool. They're gonna handle the 9700 X. Okay. Yeah, sure, right? Oh, that's five watts, right?
It's freaking that's why we went new you can decide
which power profile you want to use the stock 65 watt profile or AMD now warranties a
105 watt profile that increases performance compared to our original review
But obviously it's gonna run a little hotter. Alright, why don't we get back to sticker time? Sure. Yeah, this is Adam
She's have this under control
Yeah, she's going she's going what am I doing? Sure. You ready? Yeah, here we go first spin. Oh, I can't spin it
It's hard. I mean that looks alright, doesn't it? Right? Yeah, I was real skeptical about this when I saw it. Yeah, it's alright
That's actually not bad. That looks good. Yeah
What your side is better than
Yeah, but my side I put the thing in the wrong spot. Yeah, there's plenty of time for mine to get worse
There's definitely a few more bubbles in it this time and I think that from six feet away, you know
Yeah next to you in traffic. That's not gonna be noticeable. You never know what these AMD upgrade videos are gonna devolve into
This is like 20% actual tech hardware and like 80% putting stickers on a motorcycle
I'm not gonna lie. I was a little bit worried because like I'm not like a techie
I don't know mechanical stuff is more my interest. You know what I mean?
Well, that's the thing that I think a lot of our content misses the point of sometimes is that tech is a means to an end
Yeah, it's not just for the sake of tech. Like why are we doing this?
So that we can like vlog our touring and like edit it together
And that's why we need a good computer not because we just like to look at the computers. What do you think?
it's not great because of the
There's a thing here. Oh, yeah. Wow. No, you actually did. Yeah now watch me do it even worse
It's not a competition. That's the who could do it worse. Please. There's always driving the right lane. I will. Oh, she's perfect
Why didn't I think of this? Why am I putting all this work in a painting?
I have little girls. So my experience putting stickers on things appears to be
Pretty aced here compared to the average. What?
Compared to the average dude, I'm not average. This is coming together great. Yeah, I get why Andy doesn't like working in it though
It's very cramped. Mm-hmm, and you basically have one order that you can do things in
So if you mess up one step, you're gonna find yourself pulling something like three or four things out just to fix it
It looks great though. It looks really cool. Yeah, the coolings even not gonna be that bad
He's got the 92 mil on the CPU cooler over there big 120 millimeter cooler on the power supply
That's what I love about SFX L. That was a Silverstone innovation taking the SFX form factor
Which is limited to a 92 millimeter fan and just making it a little bit bigger allowed them to squeeze those low-profile
120 millimeter fans in there. Yeah, because this is a platinum efficiency power supply. It's gonna be dead quiet sick
Want to see a minor problem with this case? Sure
Okay. Well, no, no, I don't go it'll go. Yeah, I just wanted I need to get this stuff
And also before I close anything up, we got to do a boot just make sure that everything's still good
Wise yeah, this is always the scariest part of doing a case short-circuit because either you're done or it's gonna be like another hour
That's a good sign. What you just did it without even telling the camera guy. You're gonna turn the thing a
Moment of truth like everything's going great. Hey, how's it going?
Great. Yeah. Well the bike looks good. Yeah. Yeah. Yes. Why don't you go look at it some more?
Why don't you go show the people your camera equipment you got and go take some pictures?
Functioning guess I'm on my own here. They're finished both front and back. I think they look good. It's a little oh, it's going great
Here's going great. It's a little bit. It only wobbles a little. Yeah, it's only a little it's a lot less than my paint job
Did okay. I got this with the bike
It doesn't look great or anything like that. But you know, it is for traveling and things
Yeah, let's show them how much storage this bike has on its own
Look at my oh my camera gear and that's the included toolkit. It's like 48 liters goes on here
Yeah, this is a camera insert from moments. I got exactly because we're gonna Velcro it
So I'm gonna get these power banks so I can charge my stuff on the move. I got a cardo
This is a Bluetooth speaker that goes in your helmet and it's a communication device
And it means that on my way into work, for example, I can listen to
Music do you want to describe what that camera is? Nope. Okay. I wrote it is it's a DJI action for they brought out a five
But I was too late but also I didn't really what I don't need the five
I'm getting a ND filter so I can keep the shutter speed the way I want to
Cinematic and then I got this Sam a mic adapter and I'm gonna run that into my helmet from here
Oh, that means when I can go around. I'm like, oh
People yeah, or people I'm probably not gonna share any of that stuff. Like it's work. There's a lot of noise out there
You know, I don't know. I don't know if people want wanted to see it. Maybe sure
Well, you know that now that you've said that the entire comment section should be
Do it and I got this one from chin mounts, it'll actually fit my specific
Model helmet. Oh cool. It'll go here. Oh, yeah. Okay. That's why they call them chin mounts
All right, dude, you're gonna be looking at your tank here to about
Here. Oh, okay, so I can see like here. What if we did hang it upside down?
We could try that. Oh, yeah better. Yeah. Yeah, that's pretty good
You can see the instrument cluster and you can also actually see anything like I can see up to here. Oh, perfect
Yeah, a nice wide angle. You can see any like leprechauns that are
running by and
He can't get down from there, so I'm safe
And you got to figure out the audio setup though, yeah, I know actually since we're in here
Do you want to talk about some of the upgrades that aren't for you? Yes this cricket. Oh my goodness
They've gotten really small. Yes. I actually edited Yvonne's cricket short circuit that she did
Oh really and ever since then I was like you should get one of these things to Emma, right?
But we worked out that that the one that Yvonne had or has still it's just too big
So yeah, we got the joy extra or something like that. It's called
I have actually have no idea how these things work. Well, you can put a cutting thing
You can put a pen thing you can put like just like various ends on it
Yeah, basically just a CNC controlled head moves around but that's the point of the iPad. There we go
Yeah, we got an iPad iPad air. Yeah and the pencil grab the pencil pencil. Yes, and then so we
Draw and then print speaking of printing
You decided to go back to what like the 90s and buy a printer. Yes. This is another thing that
Is gonna go with all our crap
The best thing about this was I got multiple messages on teams when it came in and a lot of people were like
I can't believe you got a printer
Yeah, like I was in like that was like well done almost rock star move, you know
You got one of the eco tank models from Epson so you can actually print pretty copious amounts of stuff with these and it's pretty
Economical. Yeah, the only drawback as we covered recently is that if you don't print something for a while
It can get clogged like any inkjet would but if you guys are printing out stickers or printing out transfers or whatever else then
Yeah, it's pretty much the way to go. Yeah. Did we figure out what was going on?
Is it just that he's running an older platform from some other maker and it just started working and I didn't question it
Oh, I'll get started on putting this card. Oh on here
I'm just a little confused by this because I got the male side of the velcro here. Okay, I got the soft side here
But there's already is already a thing. Oh, dude, is this gonna be that easy?
Done, it just goes in there like that. That's too easy. Oh, yeah
Yeah, just kind of stuff it in there and then we'll put this over top and that will probably like kind of mash it in
There there we go. All right
Yeah, what do you think there? Yeah, like just somewhere like not stupid looking
Wait, no, don't what if I was serious then you would have just done it tell me right now
No, it's got me right now. Yeah. No, that's good. That's good. All right
We're gonna have to beep so much of this video because of this guy get your ******* swearing under
Give me this ******* thing and I know I really don't want to swear that much. It's just you're you in fury
Yeah, okay there
Jeez, it's not quite looking though. Is it?
Can you just?
Everybody but poor poor Glenn's like trying to do a maneuver. Sorry buddy. This looks like it's going well. Oh, yeah, it's great
Look at that
72 degrees and fur mark on the GPU. What's our CPU doing?
86 I'll take it all core load turboing to 4.5. It's running at full expo speeds. It's a
It's pretty pretty nice rig you got. Oh, no, you didn't leave it in 65 watt mode. It's doing 88 watts
Yeah, let it do PBO. Let's go
Now I would never call you cool
but this
May be the single coolest
USB drive. Hey, how do much do you like this lamp being right here? Why do you need to move his lamp?
Yeah, I don't know cuz there's just not really a good spot to put his speakers unless you put them on the side
But I don't I'm worried if we have enough room. They look good, don't they?
Just be good. Yeah
Like how to tell a friend slash colleague you think they made a terrible decision with only the tone of your voice
And facial expression there are worse speakers, yeah worse looking speakers, but there are better ones
Of course that that's a longer list. Do you remember where I'm from Glenn?
Somewhere miserable and rainy so that narrows it down to somewhere on this island somewhere rural
It's not that rural which narrows it down to this island
Kilmore no, we're told it's right there. Okay. All right. I was close shout out. We're told I was in what like an hour
Yeah, geoguessr. That'd be a pretty okay score. Yeah, there it is. Perfect. Ah, not bad, right?
It really is nothing. Yeah, so you see if it goes on. Okay. Oh
Sorry, I'm a little up in your space here. It's okay. I got a helmet on I guess I'll just
Talk for a minute. Okay, and I'll
I'll blow area
Like on the road. Well, I'm going real fast
Okay
Yeah
I'm really happy. I had this down. Yeah, that's all I mean
Well, we'll have to you'll have to go out for a spin and we'll have to put that in here. Obviously. Yeah
Yeah, that just seems like the mic that I'm using is too hot. I might come back out tomorrow and
Shoot some more stuff tomorrow. This is just Bluetooth. I think there's maxes out of like four people which is not bad
Right and the rain but the range is still pretty not. Yeah, the higher-end version of these has mesh technology
So then like you could lead a group of like 15 people or something like that, you know, and it has much better range
Okay, I got speakers on. Yeah. No. Oh, is it working? Yeah. Oh my god. Oh
Okay, that's really loud. Oh, wow. These are pretty good. Okay
That sounds very serviceable. Yeah distance. I'm at why don't we talk about your lens?
Yes, please when you were here earlier, you saw my camera equipment set up here
Yeah, I picked up this lens and you said you got it for like four dollars or something
Yeah, well, I was like 15 or something. Most of my lenses I use
Manual focus lenses my camera brand of choice
Panasonic Lumix isn't known for having the best autofocus. Sure. They're getting better
But um, I've always wanted a 24 to 70 last item for the non-gamer. I want to get into gaming
Okay, you know, this is like a terrible time to buy a Nintendo switch, right? I didn't buy it. Thank you
Very appreciative. Yeah, you managed to buy the one console that's not powered by AMD semi custom silicon, but sure
Yeah, they got a shout out. Look at the look at how compact we could only do that because they're a chip
No, that's no that is actually
Really good power efficiency and all that. Yeah. Okay fine. All right, let's get this switch set up
Let's see how bad of a gamer he is. Oh my god. You'll have to 1v1 me Mario Kart. It comes with Mario Kart
Yeah, all right. Let's go. It didn't occur to you at any point to upgrade your TV as part of this did it?
No, do you know that you only have two HDMI inputs and you're using both of them?
Wait, wait, wait, is this running upstairs? Yeah through the wall to your neighbor? Yeah, that's for the cable box
Yeah, that's how I watch f1 moment of truth for that heck of tease by edifier
What do you think for their price?
They make noise they're fine for most people they're not gonna offend anybody. I'm most people. Okay, here we go
Okay, I still I've already
What?
X is to go
This is the last piece of the upgrade. So you set an alarm
Gradually turns on and it gives like a sound similar to the sound machine. I have over there. Yeah, cool
Everything's touchable. So if the lights they're bothering you just like yeah, I pissed it off broke it already
What is going on, yeah, we thought you live
Okay, get out. I have a good idea and after a long day of upgrading you've deserved some rest
Sweet dreams. You've worked really hard today
Thanks for watching this AMD upgrade if you enjoyed it, why not watch another?
He's sleeping
