He Tricked Me out of $20,000

On November 28th, 2025, I got scammed. For every new sub this video gets, Lance will give me $1 for my next piece. I had no way of knowing it would actually work, but it did work. So, I bought the PC. However, if I have to buy him a $20,000 PC, then I'm the one who gets to decide what we spend the budget on. And part of it is going to be a system to make sure that he's getting absolutely 100% utilization out of it. Also, he's got to help me build it. Sammy, are you ready to build the most There you go. overpowered video editing PC on the planet. World record. What? World record for the lowest quality segue to our sponsor. Previously on the Coding Chronicles. Wait, so you want me to believe you're the real Boots the Bear Wizard and he's not? Uh, so he's gone for now. What are you doing? I'm going to find my hat. Watch to the end for a new episode. Starting with our CPU, we've gone with an AMD Ryzen Thread Ripper Pro 9975WX. You'd think with a $20,000 budget we could have actually gone for something better and we could have. But it turns out that when we looked at the numbers from Puget Bench, thank you Puget Systems. This is actually as fast as it gets for video editing because with just 32 cores but turboing really high, you get a great mix of very fast cores and also many cores. Can I try guessing uh the price? You can try guessing. In USD, I would guess 4,000. You're actually not that far off. Yeah, it's a it's a little over $4,000 in this economy. You're the one who made me buy it. I don't think AMD sent this, right? They didn't send one of the things we had to buy. Yeah. Oh, did I buy it? Well, yeah, that was the Why do you think I was like, "Yo, Sammy, what the [ __ ] I don't want to buy a $20,000 computer." To be honest, my man, don't hide behind your $1,000 motherboard. Is it $1,000? Let's get this cleared off. We'll get to everything. No, no, we need that. Everything. You said everything. No, I didn't say everything. I said, "Let's get this cleared off. The record will show." everything. Did you really just put this here? What? What's going to happen to it, Sam? You You did it. No. Roll the camera. Roll the footage. Roll the footage. So, why is this one fat? Wait, can I ask Can I ask questions or would that would that take way too long? You can ask as many questions as you want and then we'll just cut the really dumb ones. Why is the Thread Ripper fatter than like the standard CPU? The reason is that there's just plain more CPU under there. So, what you're looking at on the top here is not a CPU. This is just a big piece of copper with usually nickel plating. The actual dyes, the actual logic chips are under it. And so on a consumer CPU, you'll get like a couple of those logic chips, but on a Thread Ripper, they have to be able to accommodate up to I think it's 12 on the biggest configuration. So, this Oh, wait. So, this heat spreader here has to be able to fit all of those dyes under it because it's not like you can just have a different socket for every different core configuration. So, even though yours only has 32 cores, which is going to be what, like four dies, I guess they have to have room for a lot more. Another thing is it has an eight channel memory controller. So, you have to have communication pins for all of those channels down here. You can only make these little pads so small. So sometimes you can end up just like needing a bigger CPU in order to have all of the connectivity that it needs. So fat is good. Sure. Which is why we chose the fattest of motherboards for you. Wait, that's kind of Wait, this is crazy. I was actually a little on the low side when I told you how much this thing was worth. It's closer to $1,300 for this motherboard, but it supports literally everything. up to a 96 core CPU, up to eight dims running in an 8 channel configuration, a full complement of seven PCIe slots at various lane widths, not to mention more PCIe in the form of these slim SAS slots over here. Four PCIe Gen 5 M.2s, a whole whack of power inputs, not to mention just about the most stacked rear IO that I've ever seen. Dual 10 gig LAN, everyone. Dual 40 gig USB. Is that a DVI? No, that's VGA. Why is that VGA? The reason is that this is more of like a workstationy commercial type of motherboard and it actually supports remote management. I don't know what that means, but it's probably good. It means you're more likely to see weird stuff like this. And also this management port so that you can remote into your computer and even do something like flash the BIOS from a remote location. That's cool. But can't play Minecraft. I actually play League of Legends. I don't play Minecraft. What are the odds I can trust you to install this? 100%. Okay. Wait, don't touch the bottom of it. I'm not. I'm holding the sides. How would I pop it out? Do I just like How do you What? Pop it out. Oh, you know. No. No. No. No. Don't remove it. So, what we're going to do is we're going to open this. 3 2 1 open sesame. That's how you can remember what order to do it in. 3 2 1 open sesame. Yep. It's not going. Well, no. Like that's the order you do. Number three, then two, then one. They're labeled. Oh, I didn't see that. I'm shaking so much. I'm so anxious. This is so expensive. Yeah. I mean, this one CPU is worth more than like a topsp spec gaming PC. Do you think our viewers are watching this with full of anxiety as I handle a jillion dollar computer? Okay. Are you going to take this? Sorry. Okay. Don't touch the bottom. I'm not. I'm not. No, you're not. Look at that. There's the grease from your finger just now. Yes. Okay. This time, don't touch the bottom of it because even one of these pins not having good contact in this socket might mean that one of your memory channels won't work, for instance. Really? Or you can have PCIe issues. Yeah. And because the CPU is so large, it's actually really challenging from a mechanical engineering standpoint to get even pressure across all of it and get good contact with all those pins. So, we don't want any junk in the way. Okay. Hold on. You said put it down. No, I didn't say put it down. I said put it in. Put it in the spot that it came. Yeah, that Oh. Oh, it clicks. Oh, it clicks. Yeah, it clicks. That's I don't know. Then don't do stuff. If you don't know, then don't do stuff. If you don't do anything to it, it will be fine. I I literally told you I have never built a PC in my life. So, I don't know what you expect. And that's literally a lie because it's not I worked on a PC that you built. My friend built that PC. I don't believe you because it had Sammy written all over it. And then let me hear me out. You know the ship of the thesis the ship of Thesus. Thesius. Yes. Yes. I'm familiar. Yeah. It's like when you keep revolving over time, it's no longer the PC. In that case, I built a PC. But like I always swapped it. And then when I have issues, I get people to fix it. Like Pancrats fix my PC on full plane. Why did that need to be fixed again? I fixed it already. It was not fixed. You broke it. I literally told you the top PCIe slots broken. You're like, "No, I'm Tech Tips. I know what you're I'm talking about. Worked when I left. Adam, did it work when I left? It worked when we left. Speaking of that video, I I have beef with pick with you. It's interesting that we did three videos of that and I am the only one that's non thumbnail. Yeah, because you were an absolute nobody at that time. Ash is in the second one. Well, yeah. WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? How much of the budget is left out of curiosity? So far, we've spent $5,700 or so. So, we still have like almost 13 grand with the leftover budget. I have a proposal. What leftover budget? Whatever's left after this whole shoot, you know. Yeah, there's nothing. It's kind of a lollipop. We'll we'll figure something out. What? No, I'm not. No, I'm not agree. I'm not agreeing to What the heck? Oh, your hands are so sweaty. Ew. How stressed I am. What the heck? I'm in front of Li's Tech Tips. The Liest Tech Tips. That doesn't make you nervous at all. 16 million subscribers, guys. You work with me every day. Jimmy Fallon, guest star, redacted YouTuber, special guest. Multiple content. I feel like a lot of this is going to end up on the cutting room floor. lg.gg/flat plane. If for some reason you want to watch more of it, let's have a look at your RAM. GKL, not going to lie, kind of homies came through for us here. Shout out. Check this out. Where's RGB? Don't worry about it. This is better than RGB. This is RAM that automatically checks and corrects errors. Say for instance caused by like a solar incident. The point is Gcale sent these over and you've got a total of 128 gigs of RAM in this system. Wo. And because it's 8 channel, it's only one stick per channel. It's running at four times the bandwidth of a typical gaming system. So a lot of Minecraft. So I'm going to install one for you and then you can install the rest. You just pop off the tab at the end. I know this one. Put it in position and click it down firmly. I know this one. But not hard. Just firm. Yeah, it will click. It'll click. It's I did it the wrong way. Why is not going in? You know, shouting why is it not going in more? Oh, it went in. Doesn't make it go in better. Oh, we need more lube in here, man. Oh, why is it so tight? He's going to get one. He's got five more tries. Sammy, Sammy, Sammy, hold on. Just wait a second. You watch me do it every time and then every time you don't do it the way that I do it. It goes in and then out. Thumbs go here and here. Then you push down. You'll need some weight until it clicks. It's not go. I don't know. I What THE WHAT AM I doing wrong? Don't Don't laugh. In fairness to Sammy, I am like trying to make it look easier than it is. It does take a W. That's a wrap everybody. Thanks for watching everybody. Uh, check out the video where he Okay, can you stop clapping right in your mic, dude? Editors are going to hate me. Not only did I get a better PC than all of them, I'm making their life miserable. Yeah. And you don't even like do more advanced editing like they do. I export like four times what they do. I think at one point I had two PCs because I was exporting like four videos a day. Uh Samsung. Yes. Sure. We went with a 9100 Pro. This is the 4 TB capacity. Why? Because we were trying to spend the entire budget and it turns out it's actually pretty hard to spend almost $20,000 on a workstation PC. Oh, wait. Only only get one. What? What? What? What? Can you go back to the wide? Can you go back to the wide? Did you hear what he just said? You only get one TB 9100 Pro. Yes, Sammy. Deep breaths. We We're still behind on the Anyways, what's this? Uh, that's a mounting bracket. I'm I'm trying to figure it out because I've never used this mounting bracket before. Can I explain? Looks nice though. Yeah, you can explain it. Go for it. So, this is the Silverstone mounting bracket. It's just specifically made for our AMD Thread Ripper. It It will help basically cool the CPU so we doesn't overheat. Now, Lionus, have you ever mounted a bracket before? I I just told you I've never mounted this bracket before. Well, it's your first time, so I'll let you do it, buddy. Good try. All right, we're going to put the motherboard in the case next. Okay, so we're going to do is lift this very heavy motherboard on. Did you check where all of your standoffs are first? This is one of the most dangerous points where there's a high risk of damaging your motherboard. Okay. If we have an extra standoff in a spot that we don't need it, it can scratch the back of the board, which will destroy it. Now it's oriented the same way as the case. Yeah. So, I got to lift and put it down. So, now you can look at where the holes are and you can more easily align where the holes are going to be. You literally just have to put it on the ground in there. Like, that's literally all you have to do. Oh, I know. But what if I done already? You're done already? I'm putting in now. Okay. You're sure they're all aligned? They're not aligned. Wait, what? What did you do exactly? Nothing. I Why is the bit no longer in here? Because I was going to put it in like through the hole here, but you were going to. Was supposed to What are you talking about? Can you show me what to do? And then I'll do it. But what we need to do is we need to remove any extra ones. Oh, which is why I handed you a screwdriver with a socket on it. Oh. Then we screw them into the spots where they need to go. Stop. You're not done yet. I only did Oh. Oh. While he almost certainly screws up this install, I'm going to tell you guys about the case. We chose the Fractal North XL. Why? Good case. Looks classy. Fits a ginormous motherboard. Really great choice. We did a good job. It went in. It went in. What? What? What? You breathe. No, you're good. Your breathing is very judgmental. Did you know this? Is it in? It's not in. It's not in. God damn it. It's really close to being in, though. Is it down? Is it? Oh, it's up. It's better. Oh, I think it's in. Okay, it's not quite in. Damn it. Oh, yeah. It was in. It just wasn't quite centered. Yep, he's right. It was in. Now, let's do the hard part. That was That was That's the That's That's the easy part. Oh, I know this. I know this one. I know this one. What you do is you plug it in, get the screws in here, and that's it. I know it's intake like this and then intake this and out this. No, I think we're going to have this be an exhaust for us. yeah. Because basically looking at the airflow pattern for our case, we're going to have all Did you ever screw in the motherboard? Oh my god. Oh my god. We got distracted. Oh my god. Oh my god. Oh my god. Okay, so anyway, our intake is going to be here. So, this will bring fresh air to our GPU and our power supply. And these guys are going to come over here. And then we can take what is basically pretty fresh air at that point and use that to cool our CPU. Okay. Now, let's put this down. And you need to screw in that motherboard. My general preference when I'm installing a radiator is to have the fans in a pull configuration. So, I like to put the fans like this and then screw the longer screws through them like that. It's kind of a twoman job, though. It's a bit of a pain. Why is he doing this? I'm I'm just putting the bracket for the CPU cooler on. When I heard you try to explain it before I got the distinct impression that you didn't understand what it was, and therefore it might be better if I just assemble it. So, we've got pre-installed thermal compound, which saves us some effort. I went ahead and installed the hold down plate on here. So, now all Sammy has to do is put that on the CPU and screw it in. Is there a reason why it's like flat? I usually like AIO's are like really thick or like those stock coolers are like really fat but like this is like thin. That is actually a really good question. The reason this one is flatter is because unlike most AIO coolers, the pump is not in the CPU block. The pump was actually right there. So, you lose a little bit of your radiator surface area. But because that sits right where the hub of the fan is, you're losing less than you'd probably think. And what you gain is a lower profile CPU block. Hey, there we go. Cooler installed. I don't want to touch your hands. They're so sweaty. All right. So, we got the TX600 W PSU. Now, this bad boy can probably boot up at least four Minecrafts, but what we're going to do is install it onto this PC case. Now, Lis, how much did this cost us? A lot. Oh, can I guess? Wait, wait, wait. Hold on. 1,000 watt is about like 8, 900 Canadian. No. Okay. Well, so this is like $1,800 US. No. What's this bad boy worth? About $450. $860. This is $860. What's funny is before he started doing my job, I was actually going to say this is a pretty spectacularly fancy unit because a TX1600 is already a top-of-the-line power supply and then you go and add the Noctua attacks to it. Well, let me put it this way. It doesn't get cheaper. I was not expecting it to be over $800. With that said, there aren't a lot of power supplies on the market that could credibly power like dual 5090s, but this is one of them. Wait, what mean 5090s, too? No, but this could power dual 5090s. No, you're not getting a 5090 because you're actually getting something way bougier. A 6090. This is a longass power supply. Wow. One of our 3 and 1/2 in drive cages is going to have to go. No, it's coming together. What do you think? Cable managing worth it? That's pretty nice, actually. I never killed mash. This is great. I know, Sammy. I know. Now it's time for the big one. The 60 wa. Hey, your RTX 5080. WHOA. This is an RTX Pro 6000. Is that really good? This? Yes. It has 96 GB of VRAM. I don't know what that is, but that's a lot of VRAM. What do you mean you don't know what that is? I don't know. A 5090 has 32 gigs. This has three times that much. You're saying the VRAM? I don't know what VRAM does. VRAM acts as a temporary storage for anything that your GPU is working on. Oh, wa. That's crazy then. Wait. Wo. Wait. 96 gigs of VRAM. and it actually has more CUDA cores and a higher boost clock than the 5090. This is the fastest GPU on the planet that you can put into a workstation system. This is $9,500. 9 What the Wait, what? I don't want to touch it. Look how shiny it is. What do you mean you don't want to touch it? You got to put it in there. It's your workstation. You did this to yourself. Nobody asked you to make me commit to building you a $18,000 workstation. This is why you don't scam the company, guys. This thing is so wasted on you. Do I Am I inserting it? I I'm eventually I don't know. I can't tell. I'm This is such a technique. What? What's What are you What are you What are you What is he doing? What are you yapping about? Oh man. I'm putting it in. I'm scared. Oh god. Oh god. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Sorry. It's open. It's open. Why did it go in? Why did it go in? This card costs more than not only my first car, but my second car and my first car combined. Got your whole car on my wrist. I did it. Good job. Where'd you put the screwdriver? Oh, this this LT screwdriver. No, no. I just think you can screw it back in. Oh, how? Wait, what? Screw what in? The GPU. You're not just going to leave it like that, right? I am. No, you're going to screw it in. Screw what? No, I'm actually I'm so I'm so serious. The screws you took out in order to install it, Sammy. I didn't take out any screws. Oh, almost had a repeat of the motherboard incident. What's the motherboard? Almost. We were so close. You want to go ahead and plug in the GPU? Yes, sir. Don't call me sir. Sorry, daddy. And it's in. Nice. Should we take it right up to your office? I feel Should we do a post test here, Adam? Yeah, let's do a post test. Let's do a post test. Let's make sure she fires up. Are you ready? Yes, I'm ready. Fire it up. Oh no. What? What? What? What? What? 00 post code is not good. Oh, is that pos? Oh, it's stuck on DRAM. Well, I know at least half of the sticks were installed properly. All right, USB BIOS flashback is done. Let's hope that was the issue. Please. Yes, we've got a Well, okay, we're not booted yet. But you can see how Yeah, it's not just 0 0 all the time. That's a solid indicator. So, somehow this board did not have the BIOS that we needed. Must just be like an older inventory one. Okay, that's wonderful. We do a part two. So, for each subscriber this video gets, it's $1 for the next editor to get it. No. No. So, make sure to like and subscribe. And wait for it. It's me now. Yeah, let's go. We can play Minecraft. Let's throw your work drive in here. Get all the drivers updated. That's it. Well, no, not that's it. I mean, you got to get to work. If you're going to have the most expensive workstation, then damn it, you're going to be working. I don't want a job. Let's go put it upstairs. All right, let's put it up there. You get that on camera. Sammy, should do you want to do the honors? Wow. In search of incredible. They still haven't found it. They're working on it. They're working on it though. Let's see it in action. File export. And then we'll read. I mean, there's more to it than just exporting. Show us the timeline. Is it, you know, is it good? Is it responsive? Yeah, it's very Look how fast it goes. That was really slow. Look how No, look how fast it is. Look at this. April Fool's BTS on full right now. LG touch full plane. Look how fast it goes. Look how fast it looks. Not actually very fast. Are you connected to 10 gig? No, you're at one gig. I'm at one gig, bro. Oh, are you telling me that you've been like, "My computer's so slow." But really, you've just been on bad networking. It could have been. It could have been. I did not set this up. I want I want to know. Okay. Timeline performance. Let's see if it's a little better. Probably will be that was cuz that was horrible. I don't know how you like never noticed this before. Wa. So, you've been editing on one gig this whole time? I guess. [ __ ] Is it even using like this new hardware? Wow. It's using new hardware. Yeah, it's it's using 1.2 Gbit per second, 1.3 Gbit per second. So, some of it is just better network speed, but it is actually really using that GPU. So, your faster GPU is going to be a benefit here. As for your CPU, it's well, it's it's idling. It looks like it looks like uh the algorithm sorder. You're using like 38 gigs of RAM right now, though. I can play Minecraft while while I'm exporting. Yeah. Well, or you could do more work while you're exporting. Or I can play Minecraft. Just an idea. Um I actually need a minute. Time for Sammy's little surprise. See, here's the thing. If he's going to have the most expensive workstation in the whole company, then I think it stands to reason that he should probably be the most productive person in the entire company. As part of the budget that yes was left over from Samy's workstation, we also got this sick UniFi monitor that allows us to keep tabs on him. Check this out. Why is Adam the one working? Then all I got to do is go into the UniFi Protect app and then Sammy. What? I said you're supposed to be working while it exports. WHAT IS THIS? HEY SAMMY, GET BACK TO WORK. WORK. WAIT, I NEVER WHAT THE I NEVER SAW THIS. He literally sees the camera but can't stand in it. NO, I actually never noticed this until now. What the Sammy? Get down. Back to work. Edit faster. Boss is mad at you. I'm going to I'm going to go. Hey, hey, hey. I can tell that's not real editing. Hey, Sammy. Sammy, you know I have a dedicated monitor in my office just to watch you work. Why? Why? What? No. When was this installed? Was this the budget? We put it in yesterday. What? What? Yesterday. Don't worry about the budget. Don't worry about the budget. Just get back to work. Get more float plane subscribers. LMG.gg/flat. You can tune in for a live stream. lmg.gg/flatplane of Sammy working all day. Dude, I can zoom. Whoa, buddy. Dude, I'm going to be able to see exactly what you're working on. Wait, when did you when did you install this? I didn't install nothing. I I didn't see it till you you started shouting in the camera. WA 64% BUDDY. WAIT, when you wait 300%. We're almost there. 66 go light. We're going to miss it. Linus. Did I get it? Did I get it? We missed it. It It's right there. No, but we we want to see it go to 67. He ruined it. All right, I think the video is over. You know what else is over? all the waiting that you had to do to hear this message from our sponsor. Quick quick. It's about to start all the way. The coding chronicles. Wow. Dang. I am having a blast learning to code with Boot.dev. YOU WERE RIGHT, Boots the Bear Wizard. Splendid. Making friends with Python, are we? Yeah. I mean, I'm not sure about the coherence of this metaphor at this point, but he's not trying to eat me anymore. H. Then it's time for your first real challenge. Uh, okay. Uh, where's that? Right here. 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