- Hello, welcome to This Is
where we have the most requested guest
on the entirety of this channel,
Linus Tech Tips Sebastian.
Linus welcome to This Is
and thank you for joining me
for this very special occasion.
- Oh, I'm super stoked.
I actually, I knew that
you rebranded the channel
and you're doing a totally
different thing now,
but I don't know what it is.
So apparently it's a game show
because that's what the
discord voice channels called.
- So the rules are simple.
We are going to show
you 10 pieces of tech,
mostly focused on the PC side.
And we're going to ask
you a series of questions
about what you know about each.
So because some of these things
are a little bit obscure,
I'm gonna keep it a little bit open-ended.
So we're looking for the
names/whatever kind of main
differentiating feature from this product.
And that will be clear in a little bit,
and we're looking for
the year that it came out
or as close to that as possible.
So when it comes to the
years that these devices
have come out, we are giving you
a plus or minus one year handicap.
So if something came out 2009
2008 or 2010 would get you points.
And if you can get 50% of
these questions, correct,
you are officially a This Is winner
and we will tweet out
whatever it is that you want.
- And if I lose?
- Then you have to tweet
out a photo of my nipple.
- All right, okay.
- I feel like you guys might,
- [Austin] (laughs) All right.
- Have overestimated my skills
with these questions here.
I'm real, I'm real afraid.
- It's okay, sandbagging before you begin
is always a good strategy.
Beginning with question number one.
- That's a GIGABYTE looks
like a P35 board of some sort.
It's a mid-range one, I would guess.
And what was their
naming scheme back then?
Like a P35-DS3 or DS3L
or something like that.
- You immediately go to GIGABYTE why?
- Yeah cause it's got a blue PCB
and that horrendous color scheme
that they were using back in those days.
(Austin laughs)
Oh, snap, no, it could also be Biostar.
Biostar had this kind of really
awful green and orange thing
going on in those days as well.
- If I can step in and help out
just a little bit for a second.
We've had many times on this show,
people sort of answer with
their gut and then talk
themselves out of correct answers.
And I will say based on
what you said so far,
you're very much in the right ballpark,
because this is a little bit
tricky and I don't expect you
to know the exact model name of the board.
Can you give me the year that it came out?
And can you give me as much
of the detail manufacturer
as possible, and then we'll decide
whether or not you are correct.
- This is about 11 years
old, would be my guess.
- So 2008, 2009?
- It would be, it would be 2008, 2009
somewhere in that range.
I believe it is a Biostar
motherboard and I,
I'm going to go with it
is a 50 series LGA 1156,
1156 board, yeah.
- Linus Tech Tip Sebastian.
I'm gonna give you full points on this.
This is a Biostar, T5
X3 P55 board from 2009.
That was very impressive,
you like, the watching you
kinda work your way from the beginning
toward the answers,
you kind of picked up on like
the color scheme everything.
Well done, that was actually
really really impressive.
- Thanks.
- Thanks, that's it.
That's all I get is a thanks!
- I'm eating.
- What are you eating?
- My tuna melt just arrived.
It was lunchtime boys.
- You're so busy, you can't
even take a few minutes
to hang out with your friend,
Austin and shoot a video,
you gotta eat at the same time.
- It's so delicious.
- You know, I haven't
had lunch yet either.
- It's only gonna be hot
for five, 10 minutes.
So I'm doing this thing.
- All right, well, with Linus,
with full points on the
board and a full tuna melt
in his mouth, let's move on to
question number two (laughs).
- Oh, this is a coolant,
coolant next source, so,
so I think it has like three Xs in
or something stupid like that.
Theoretically, you could
install it on any case.
They were extremely expensive,
basically made no sense.
And unfortunately what I'm
running into trouble with here
a little bit, now that
I look closer at it is
those look like AC Tech
fittings on the radiators.
That's an AC Tech style fitting,
but it's very hard for me
to say who's branding it
because AC Tech acts as an OEM for a wide,
wide variety of hardware,
'hardware manufacturers'
but they're the actual manufacturer.
- Would you like to take a guess
at the manufacturer
and maybe what those graphics
cards are and the year?
If you get a couple of those
right, I'll give you points.
- So I'll throw GIGABYTE out there,
but I can tell you now AC
Tech is making it for them.
So yeah, this is 29, 2010.
And if I had to guess,
I'd say these are 9,800
GTXs or 9,800 GTX Pluses.
- So in question number two,
you are actually somewhat correct.
This is a GIGABYTE product.
However, that's about the extent of it.
You are correct obviously
it is made by AC Tech,
but this is actually from 2014.
This is the GIGABYTE
Waterforce 3X 980 SLI.
- Really.
- So it was $3,000.
The good thing about this
game is that you are actually
still in the points because
you are at 50% right now,
which is all you need to win.
So if you get every other question right,
you're totally fine.
Or even you get like half of
a question of like the year
or something next correct.
So are you ready to move on
to question number three?
- I'm ready.
- [Austin] Question number three.
- So it's got dual eight pins.
I will confess that's throwing me
for a little bit of a loop.
The IO doesn't give me a lot of hints
because it's nonstandard.
I have never seen this card
before the styling of it
looks very HIS, but this could
also be just one of those,
like Europe, China only
brands like Gain Word.
Basically what they've done
is they've taken the very
limited form factor for graphics
card cooling that exists.
So just the slots next to it.
And they filled that up with just
these passively radiating fins.
So I'm gonna say it's an HIS,
it's a 4870 X2 or a 5970.
This is a totally out there guess
but I've never seen this card before.
So I'm working with what I got.
3,800, when was it?
I don't know, I would say this
is, I'd say it's nine years.
- Linus I'm gonna give
you 50% points on this.
So this came out in 2012.
This is actually a colorful igame GTX 680.
- Okay, why does it have dual
eight pin power connectors?
That's ridiculous.
- So the reason it had the dual eight pin
is because this was actually
an optional sort of upgrade.
So the base card was just
the single passively cooled graphics card.
So that actual, that add on, on the top,
that was if you wanted to do overclocking.
So I'm happy to say three questions in
you are still exactly at 50%.
How are you feeling right now?
Is your tuna melt delicious still?
Or have you finished eating that?
- I've finished one,
I got one more though.
- I cannot wait for you
to see this next one.
This is my favorite one.
- I'm feeling all right.
These are very challenging questions.
These are, these are fricking brutal, man.
- But the thing is you're
Linus Tech Tip Sebastian,
you are the smartest
person on the PC internet.
You also can't see I'm wearing
a Linus shirt right now too.
So you know, we're supporters here, okay.
Except when we screw you
with stupid questions,
like question number four.
- Oh, I remember this thing.
Shoot, I think it's from ECS.
So it's got an LGA 775 Socket
built onto the motherboard
cause that's the older
AMD mounting bracket.
I couldn't guess the model
number in a 1000 years,
but I can definitely
explain to you what it was.
Now that is a different
add on module for it.
That's a Socket 478 add on module.
Yeah, I'm really not good with years guys,
(Austin laughs)
Socket 939 was somewhere in the like 2000,
I'm gonna say around 2005,
somewhere in 2005, 2006,
somewhere in that territory.
This is pre me making videos though.
- Linus I'm not even gonna
pretend you are 100% correct.
This is the ECS PF88
Extreme Hybrid from 2005.
And you're correct, It had the 775 Socket,
but then it had optional 479 Socket,
754 or 939 based on
what you want it to do.
- Very close.
- [Austin] Okay.
- Good try though.
- Dude, I would never have
guessed this in a million years.
I looked at that as like,
that is not a real thing.
It's so stupid, the good
thing is you're in good shape.
Are you ready to move on
to question number five?
- One more bite.
Okay, well that's like a 460 or 560.
It's a reference card.
So it's like the most boring thing ever.
I don't recognize the graphic
that whatever OEM like
put a sticker on it to do that with.
If I had to guess, I'd say it's a GTX 560,
- What year would this 560 have come out?
- God you guys with the years, for days.
Yeah, it's like nine years ago.
If I had to guess, I'd
say like 2011 probably.
- Linus I'm happy to
say for multiple reasons
that you are correct, because
this is not any GTX 560.
This is an EVGA GTX 560
Duke's fully loaded package.
I don't know, did you
ever do a video on this?
I seem to recall you had dressed up
as Duke Nukem for this video.
- Yeah, I do remember that.
I don't think I actually
opened the card, did I.
- Look here's the thing, right.
So the card actually came
with some other stuff.
So it came with the game
it came with like the
belt buckle and stuff.
The only reason this card is in the video
is so I have an excuse to show everyone
clips of you dressed up as Duke Nukem.
That's really what I was looking for.
- I still have the finger cutoff gloves.
They're in my like sentimental,
(Austin laughs)
my sentimental bin, my memorabilia bin.
That costume cost me less than $10.
- Sorry, like that
literally all just existed
cause I just wanted it to make
fun of how ridiculous it is.
But I'm glad that you
remembered with such detail,
your costume and how much things cost.
If you ask me anything
about the year 2011,
I don't think I could
tell you like a thing.
Now it'd be a time to mention,
even though you have certainly
do not need it at the moment
that we do have one lifeline available.
If for some bizarre reason,
you do not know one of these questions
and you think that Ken Bollito does,
you can call him and ask for his opinion.
He may or may know the answer.
He may or may not have any clue.
Just saying, if you ever get stumped,
you shouldn't trust him.
But I'm just saying the lifeline is there.
Use it, don't use it totally up to you.
All right, let's move on
to question number six.
- This is an aftermarket cooler
for probably like an X800.
It's gotta be an X800,
the board's super short.
I don't know who actually
like shipped this monstrosity,
but if I had to guess
at what's going on here,
I would say there's some kind
of like Peltier cooler on it
or something like that.
This is not something
I've ever seen before.
It's an X850 XTX that's my guess.
I don't know who makes it
though, it could be anyone.
- You know what I'm gonna ask,
do you know what year that
particular card came out?
- I'd say 2006.
- I am happy to say that
you have half points.
So this is the
Radeon Sapphire Blizzard X850
XT Platinum edition from 2004.
So you were very close,
but just outside the handicap window.
- They probably never even
shipped one to a customer.
X800 Platinum edition was
just like the 6800 Ultra
or what was it?
50, 59, 50 Ultra, whatever.
Like this is back when NVIDIA and ATI
were at each other's throats competing
for the performance crown.
And it got to the point
where both of them have now,
have released cards that
basically they shipped
like maybe double digits
of finished boards
to actual customers.
Like these things were
products that they released
and reviewers reviewed them
but nobody that anyone on
the internet is aware of
ever managed to actually buy one.
So like a retailer, like a
zip zoom fly back in the day,
might've gotten an
allocation of three units.
- (chuckles) All right, well, good news is
you are currently at eight of 12 points,
so still well in it,
are you ready to move on
to question number seven?
- It's definitely LGA 775.
So it's either P35, it's probably P45
based on that it's got
water cooling on it.
That didn't really start
being included motherboards
until around that era.
So if I had to guess,
I would say it's a P45 DQ6
or something like that.
- What year did this board come out?
- I'm gonna say 2007
thinking it's probably 2006.
But knowing that if I hedge my bets,
no, I'm gonna say 2006.
I'll say 2006, somewhere,
somewhere in that range.
- Sometimes, my friend,
it's good to hedge your bets
because this is the GIGABYTE
EP45 Extreme from 2008.
So you get half points on that one.
I hate it when someone
will talk themselves
out of the right answer.
Let's move on to question number eight.
- Okay, so this looks like
some kind of wireless display card.
I'm gonna say it's a wireless
display card of some sort.
And it's from, I don't know, 2017 there.
- On question number eight
I can't give you points.
This is a really tough one.
So this is the KFA2/Galaxy GTX 460 WHDI,
which stood for Wireless
Home Digital Interface.
Supposedly with all of those antennas,
it could wirelessly
transmit ADP 60 a 100 feet,
which I am slightly dubious of.
- Yeah, I think it was really bad.
- A little update here,
so we are currently eight questions in
and you have nine points.
So you actually only need to get one
of the next two questions even half right
and you will clinch the victory.
So you're in very good
shape, very good shape.
All right, let's move on
to question number nine.
- Oh, well that's an EVGA
680i SLI motherboard.
I can't remember the exact model number.
It's also not specific to EVGA.
There were a couple of
different brands because
this was, and excuse
me, I should say 690i,
there were a couple of brands
that if I recall correctly,
depending on the region,
also shipped a similar board.
- Before we get too far
into it, can you explain,
so this is an NVIDIA chip set no?
- Yeah, this was an NVIDIA
chip set motherboard.
And before Intel pulled the power move
of moving the memory
controller onto the CPU
NVIDIA had an Intel chips set license.
NVIDIA didn't wanna
license Intel's chip sets
to use their SLI gaming technology
because they got royalty
fees on the chip sets
and they got to sell the chip
sets to motherboard makers
and Intel didn't want to pay NVIDIA
to license on their chip set,
so it was crossfire only.
But yeah, I'm afraid I don't
recall if this is a 680i
or like one of the weird 690i ones,
but it had support for both
two way and three way SLI
and the year would have
been, I will say 2007.
- Well you would also happen
to be very much correct.
Yes, so this is the EVGA NVIDIA
Enforce 780i SLI from 2007.
- 780i forgot about 780i,
it was the same board-
- Well and speaking of identical boards,
this was actually one of the very first
NCIX videos you ever did.
So this was in those early 2007 days
before a lot of people watching this video
were even born yet.
- I actually wrote a poem
about this motherboard.
- You wrote a poem about this motherboard?
Okay would you be able to
read such a poem to us?
- I would love to recite it for you.
This is, this is very embarrassing.
I, this was back when I first started
the Linus Tech Tips blog.
This is when Linustechtips.com
was like a random weird blog
that I uploaded stuff to and not a forum.
The chip I met that fateful
day was called 680 .
They promised the world it would dance,
it would sing, but it also made me cry.
I unwrapped my board so excited I was
that my knees were all a quiver,
but despite using French
and a knife and a wrench,
I just couldn't make it deliver.
An over clockers delight,
they proclaimed engineered
for the extreme,
but my Q66 at a mere 2.6
made my blood start to boil
and steam, fanboys weren't impressed
they said there's going to be hell to pay.
The partners were scared.
Board revisions prepared
and NVIDIA saved the day.
But all of was not well in NVIDIA town,
there were still a few bugs that remained
cried the internet trolls,
there are FSB holes when the
memory speeds are unchained.
Well, nothing is perfect INVIDIA said,
but we'll help you as best as we can
try linked and unlinked, try a prayer,
take a drink or try an additional fan.
The bios rev is now P32
and most everything seems to be swell.
It BSODs if I so much as sneeze,
but at least it's not Apple or Dell.
Part of the problem may lie with my RAM
because I'm using eight Gs.
It says it should work,
but it's not without quirk.
So the speed boost is only a tease.
Hardware that doesn't
quite work like it says
is so common these days I'm afraid,
but what those eyes dry replace it
don't cry and get back
to your Warcraft raid.
It's the heart and soul of DIY
and there isn't a lot you can do.
You can yell on the net,
suck it up, buy new stuff,
or just go back to Enforce 2.
- (claps) So, you know, when
this whole YouTube thing
doesn't work out for you anymore,
you should go back to the poem thing.
- Well you know, I wrote
a children's book, right.
- You can plug it though.
- It's a board book for little gamers.
It's super cute, it's gonna
be coming out on lttstore.com.
I believe we've placed our
order with the factory.
So sometime in the next
two to three months,
we should be actually shipping the thing.
I believe we're targeting
1499 for the pricing.
And I'm really, really excited for it.
You know, stuff like A's for arcade.
Do you wanna have some fun?
Insert two coins please, player one.
Like it's, it's super cute, it's upbeat.
It should be a lot of, it
should be really great.
- I'll have my email notifications on.
All right, let's move on to
potentially the final question.
Question number 10.
- This is one of those
like Asia only brands.
Like there's a 100 cards
out there like this,
this looks relatively,
relatively new in terms of like the IO
and the board design and all that.
I would say it's from like
the last couple of years,
I'm gonna say 2018, but I
have no idea who makes it
and I have no idea what GPU uses.
- Well lucky for you, you don't
even need to get it right,
because all ready have clinched the game.
However, this is the
Yeston Radeon RX, 5,700 XT waifu edition.
It's not actually called
the waifu edition,
but we call it the waifu edition
because we featured it on a
recent episode of Mystery Tech.
The fun thing about this is that it comes
with a custom mouse pad, a
few other random accessories,
as well as lipstick to be
paired with your graphics card,
which I may or may not have
put on for a thumbnail.
- The most mind blowing
thing about products
like this to me is like,
when you consider, like,
have you ever sourced
something from overseas?
- Not like as in like a product, no.
- So the minimum order quantity
for just about anything
is at least, you know,
a 100 to 500 units.
This has like custom
molding and or tooling done
The minimum order quantity
for anything like that
is closer to like 10,000 units.
They had to make somewhere
between 500 and like 10,000
of these things, just to, just to make it.
- You say all that, we
actually had to pay someone
who was visiting China to buy this.
It was a custom anniversary edition
and now it was way more expensive.
I think it was like $600 or
something like actually in like
in like local currency.
So like we had to
obviously pay the exchange,
but these were actually hard to find.
A lot of people were
really excited about them.
Now Linus at this point,
you are absolutely unquestionably
a This Is Game Show winner.
You can take your tweet.
You can make me talk
about your poem skills
or anything else.
- I want, I want a shot
of you in your underwear.
And I want the caption to
be nothing but lttstore.com.
You better still have your LTT underwear.
- Well, you didn't give me LTT underwear.
- I will send you some.
- You can do that, or,
or you also could go double or nothing
with our final bonus question
where you have to be very specific
on the name and the year so
there's much less handicap.
However, if you win instead of a tweet,
you get a 30 second ad
spot on a This Is episode.
- Hold on, I need my lifeline.
- You wanna phone Ken and
get his opinion on this?
- [Ken] Hello?
- Yo Ken, you're on speaker it's Linus.
- [Ken] Linus, how's it going?
- Okay, so we've got a bit of a situation
on This Is Game Show thing
that we're doing here.
Okay so I need your best, I
need your best advice here.
Should I go for it and get
a 30 second lttstore.com
underwear ad spot on This Is,
or should I take my winnings?
- [Ken] Man I will take any opportunity
to humiliate my boss.
So I think, I think you
should just take the tweet,
- Take the tweet, take the tweet and run?
- [Ken] Yeah, I think you
should take the tweet and run.
- All right, I'm doing it.
Okay, I'm doing it.
I've decided I'm taking the tweet.
- Congratulations I'm very
excited to be in my underwear.
Now, before we wrap up, though,
would you like to take
a guess just for fun
at the bonus question to see
if you would have actually won?
- I would love nothing more.
- Here is the bonus question
you would have had to answer.
- Oh I would've gotten,
it's an MSI 460 Cyclone.
- You're very close, It's
actually a 550 TI Cyclone,
but good for you,
you're walking away
with me in my underwear.
And it's hard to say that
you could have ever hoped
for a better price than that.
- Oh it's really lucky I didn't take it
cause I would have
totally thought I had it.
- Lucky for you.
You were, This Is winner.
Linus if somehow people are not subscribed
to all 74 of your channels,
how can people find you on the internet?
- Just Google Linus Sebastian,
I got a Wikipedia page yo.
- I don't have a Wikipedia page.
But if someone searches
Austin's Wikipedia,
they're directed to your Wikipedia page,
where I'm mentioned multiple times
without a link because
I don't have my own.
So every time someone searches
for Austin Evans Wikipedia,
they land on your page.
Linus thank you very much for being
on This Is Game Show.
And thank you very much
to everyone for watching.
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