I Make Questionable Choices Sometimes...

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Linus hasn't gone all AMD in YEARS, but now that AM5 and RDNA 3 are here it's time for a change. There's just a few problems to sort out first, like the RAID card he HAD to use, and the custom loop that has already changed since he built it.

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MUSIC CREDIT
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Intro: Laszlo - Supernova
Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKfxmFU3lWY
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Artist Link: https://soundcloud.com/laszlomusic

Outro: Approaching Nirvana - Sugar High
Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngsGBSCDwcI
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Intro animation by MBarek Abdelwassaa https://www.instagram.com/mbarek_abdel/
Monitor And Keyboard by vadimmihalkevich / CC BY 4.0 https://geni.us/PgGWp
Mechanical RGB Keyboard by BigBrotherECE / CC BY 4.0 https://geni.us/mj6pHk4
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CHAPTERS
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0:00 Intro
1:35 The Raid Card
4:45 The CPU
6:10 The Motherboard
8:03 The CPU Cooler
9:50 The Memory
12:04 We Figured It Out
13:50 Water Cooling Montage
14:50 The GPU
15:55 The Thunderbolt Card
17:45 The Network Card
18:40 Will It Boot?
20:00 Conclusion
21:44 Outro