The WORST PCs Linus Tech Tips Ever Built

Watching Linus Tech Tips is better than watching Tesla streams.

Linus is still lubricating his backdoor with the same lubricant after all these years. Truly inspiring!

Yvonne is HARD PROOF that you have to support eachother no matter what.
I mean these people are running BY FAR the best tech media production firm in the WORLD.
Major respects to the wifey👌

This is computer history, biopic, romantic comedy and ads all combined very wholesomely. It didn't need to be a roast, such a fascinating story!

Linus is so lucky to have had parents supportive of his PC passion. My parents were like "This computer thing is going to ruin your life" and literally forced me away from it all the time.

Yvonne and Linus stories always make me happy. They're so good together.

What I learned from this video: Yvonne's parents are absolutely deserving of sainthood.

This cracks me up so bad. In my awkward teen years, I used to always see Linus on G4 and his early YT days. It's funny seeing how far things have come, changed... but Linus hasn't. Never change. Alex, Riley, Jake and everyone else are all great. You could do nothing and let all your employees host, work - but you still do it. One of the biggest things that has me coming back - the feel hasn't changed after all these years. It doesn't feel like some big commercial YT channel. Even though you're a multi-million dollar business now. Enjoy the same goofiness that has always been present- 10+ years now, shaking my head as you vertically build PCs, and the outlandish things you love doing with tech. Never change.
PS. You never looked like a lesbian, don't let some stupid kids bully you on the internet.

May God bless you, Linus, Yvonne and the team. Thank you for making us happy for the last decade. Seeing this video of Linus and Yvonne growing up together made my heart melt, and it explains all of the love and care that has gone into the company. 😊

What I learned from this: Yvonne and her parents are amazing people and deserve everything in the world

This was so fun to watch!
I'm pretty sure the newer gens wouldn't care much, because of how dated it all looks, but for the ones born in the 1980s-early 1990s - it's pure nostalgia.

How can Yvonne and her parents know that look at them companies now, this is what they ended up with is beyond me
Perseverance through and through for both of you

The key takeaway from all these "started from the bottom now we here" videos is just how much of a saint Yvonne is.

It would be amazing if you guys made a series about "remastering" old PC builds you did in the past where you build everything with modern hardware while preserving the original vibe of the builds (or the entire setup).

As someone who came of age around the same time in the PC world, I thoroughly enjoyed this. I remember splicing IDE cables to bundle them... and inevitably have data corruption...

I would love to see an insane Alex build where they recreate the UV looks and feels with custom water loop(s) of different colors and the UV paint and a cool custom case (painted by Nick in a sweet color scheme) but with modern components and have it be either a gift for Linus or a charity raffle at LTX or something else fun.

Honestly, this is great. I haven't built PCs for long, but seeing what other people had to go through before my time, it's a humbling experience for me for sure

That Arctic Cooling GPU cooler was legendary. I had one installed on my old 9800SE (soft modded to 9800Pro) and it worked so much better than the stock cooler.

Linus always seemed to know what he was doing with computer building but I had no idea his history went all the way back to 2002. That's some very strong qualifications.

That reminds me of the time I built a car ignition into my PC for booting... It was really cool (and unnecessarily stupid) to need a key and use it to turn it on, but over time it became a hassle and I grew out of modding.

Yvonne is really an amazing person. Happy for linus for being successful

I love how as someone who got into PC gaming around the same time, I'm totally in the Luke camp of "I dig this". There's something about mid to late 2000's mods that just hit differently.

Shoutout to Yvonne for being consistently the best thing to happen to Linus (and the rest of us, by extension!) :)

I identify multiple (similar) builds of my own during the same time. And that's why we LOVE Linus, you a pure pc enthusiast just the rest of us. Keep going man!!

11:43 I can say with 100% certainty that software is Nero Express (probably version 5). You can make out the burning CD in the top right corner and the letter X for eXpress.

linus will always make your day because he has god given character that is surreal. great content and story for 31 mins and stil so enjoyable to watch.

Those green cables reminded me of my first PC which I made Nvidia themed. I put these green tube lights (similar to those UV tube lights) in the bottom of the case and for some reason the frequency of them attracted every gnat within the immediate area. One day I came to find HUNDREDS of them dead in the bottom of my case after they were completely CLOBBERED by the intake fans 🤣

What's really making me sad right now is knowing I still have a PC that has a case on it that I bought back in 2005. You all just made me feel really old. My first personal PC I got in the year 2000 and I was already legally an adult. I would love to see you trying to work with what I had in highschool for learning things like HTML on Netscape. I learned to draw in MS Paint using a mouse only. You have no idea how good you had it. 😂

Some of those early builds were like:
"So you wanna be a player, but your PCs ain't fly?"

that part about the lubricant and Linus using it on his backdoor 😂 whoever edited this video deserves a raise

I loved the Logtitech G15 keyboard! In fact, I change mine just last year, as there were no support anymore for the LCD screen, the feet broke once again (I had them several times 3D printed on eBay), and the rubber dome switches had some reaction issue on certain keys (W and A mainly).

This makes me regret deleting my old pictures. At some point my PC was running with more devices outside of the case instead of inside the case. Actually, there wasn't even a desk. In another rig the desktop was used as armrest with the mouse on top. Also have rocked the second display in like an 90 degree angle on the side. Still angry at my G15 breaking down as well as my G5 mouse 😅 Good old days.

This brings back memories, im same era kid as Linus and built my own PC s back then. The good old times :)

Linus has great taste in keyboards in 2004 with that Ergo keyboard. I had that very same keyboard and it was awesome. I loved that keyboard. Love that circa 2004-2005ish artic GPU cooler. That really takes me back. Love the early days of water cooling. Love the chiller and remembered Linus talking about his Pentium Dual core E6600 that he put on the chiller and then OC'ed the living hell out of that CPU.

Luke isn't just a "Self proclaimed Neo." This man should be called the, "Savior of LMG" for the amount of times he's saved the company from Linus

Its impressive how many times he manages to plug a laptop with only one of them feeling like a stretch lol

This video is up there with some of the best LTT videos.
Love these types of videos. KEEP UP THE AWSOME WORK :)!!!

I remember the black light setup, had a few of my own. Crazy looking back and thinking about what I thought was cool then. Of course back then there wasn't RGB lighting so we had to do what was available.

That G15 and G7 setup took me back GOOD. The G15 is still around here somewhere with a busted USB-connector, worn out from all the times is was plugged in going to LAN parties. I gifted my G7 to a friend who had worn his batteries out after I upgraded. Those were the days.

this is such a nostalgia trip I used to build my PCs with my dad and I was broke af had to improvise, all these builds are like high-end shit for me but those monitors and janky setups just fun to remember, we really come a long way from a much more simpler times

Yvonne being extremely supportive and her parents having the patience of saints has to be the best part of this video.

I love Linus when he goes down his memory lane. I’m 40 old guy having similar memories regarding the PC and I love Linus talking about stuff that shaped my history too.

Luke being a total boss by responding to you’re going to be late to your meeting with, “It’s ok, I’m his boss” I can identify with 😂

I had some of those light tubes at 6:24. This was pre-led so they were like some kind of fake neon or very early bad LED tech. The 12v adapter cord would shock the F out of you when you were trying to position them like sticking your tongue to a 9v battery. The tubes were unyielding plastic definitely from a very short era between old style LEDs (Radio Shack days) and the great stuff we have now. I don't miss these tubes. The low voltage remote controllable cut-able LED strips we have now are better in every way.

Lets truly take the time to appreciate that Yvonne and Linus have been together since early MSN days....That's goals ♥.

I can relate to this video so much! Thank you Linus for this video. Got the feels man. Been a long time viewer and you guys are awsome

Moral of this ENTIRE video:
Thank you Yvonne, and Yvonnes' parents. Without the tolerance of Yvonnes parents and the love of Yvonne, LTT never would've happened. 🙏🙏 Many thanks, many thanks.

You can tell how supportive Yvonne is of Linus when she lets her bedroom be used as a workspace.

I would love to see Linus rebuild some of his old computers

Wow props to Yvonne. I had no idea someone could be so supportive of a boy/girlfriend. What a quality person!

The 1st computer I ever built I opted to use CCT lighting because I thought LEDs were dumb and too expensive at the time. I still don't really use LED, normally turning off any of them that can be easily turned off.

People are forgetting that cable management back then was literally not possible. Cases rarely had anything to make running cables cleanly possible, power supplies with removable cables were not a thing and those massive IDE cables were a nightmare for airflow. I typically just shoved everything to the side, used zipties to tie everything down and then tried masking the mess with something.

The siliconed motherboard, the P5W-DH, is what I, until recently, pretended to have in my secondary PC. Pretend to have because it's actually a P5WD2-E which I crossflashed the BIOS on. The crossflash added better fan control but more importantly let it boot Core 2 Duos with a little hardware mod. The C2D at 1.8GHz was just as fast as a Pentium D at 3.8GHz but ran so much cooler.

This 100% explains why he's so chill when he sees company stuff in his peoples' setups.

This made me remember my first PC that I got in 2002. It was a used gray box that had a Pentium 4 and a Geforce 2 GTS with a whopping 32MB of VideoRAM.
My Dad had bought it off of a colleague with some games and I remember the first I ever played on it was Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear.
I was 9 years old at the time so I didn't understand what I had to do or what was going on really and didn't play it again until I was like 12 and that time I absolutely loved it. Such an amazing game for the time, I wish they'd make some sort of remake of it.
Anyway, by like 2005 the Computer was utterly broken. It just crashed randomly and almost every game had rainbow textures due the Graphics Card being broken I guess.
Still had to use it until like 2007 when I finally got a new one with an Athlon 64 X2 and a Geforce 8600GT. Just imagine the Performance jump..
And yes, it could run Crysis.. barely.

I quite enjoyed that. I had a Fractal XL for a decade as my main PC until about a year ago.
And the same desk to 20 years now (bevelled front edge and deep).
First PC: P120, 16MB RAM (1MB VRAM), 1.2GB hard drive. 👌

That green desk was actually scaring me because of how cluttered everything looked

This is really interesting for me. Growing up in Ladner and occasionally seeing Linus around (including at the pool) knowing what he was up to at home fills in the gaps of what my friends and I were thinking he was doing. At the time I had no idea that Linus the lifeguard was a huge computer nerd!

Seeing young Linus and Yvonne and how far he has come from 2005 living with his girlfriend's parents and his girlfriend supporting him all the way to the man he has become now and having each other and a family, kids and big company that is growing and coming from nothing to having sponsors and big companies inviting over to do reviews. Amazing if young Linus didn't even know what he would become. Anything is possible so go after your dream and make it happen and be happy and proud.

Yvonne being super supportive of Linus is so sweet, super great to see where LMG turned out today cause they deserve all their success!!!

It’s so cool to see what he did and who he became.

I still have my ATI Radeon 9800 Pro with an Arctic Cooling silencer HSF. I don't think it's fair to call it a simple shroud and those blue VRAM heatsinks were included in the package IIRC. This was a fin trip down memory lane as my career in IT spans the same eras as Linus'. Great video

It really just goes to show you, stick with something you love doing/or are really good at and eventually it'll become very profitable. People quit too early on things in life.

This is excellent tech content. University grade, well written, and absolutely fascinating. Great work GN. Can’t wait to share this with my tech coworkers!

You should revisit the UV PC concept.
I bet it could look SICK if done right with the wacky colors.

Linus lubricating the back door made me laugh more than it should 😂

I remember my first pc I got in 2002. Pentium 4, GeForce 4 MX 400 with a whopping 64 MB VRAM and 265 MB Ram. I had the best computer in my class and was so proud. Upgraded it with a Radeon 9100 later for those sweet pixel shaders.

So many desks! I was born in 1967 and the desk I have in my office right now has been in my family all my life; a beautiful Scandanavian design that my parents were into at the time, with a leaf that supports thre monitors, and which I use all day as a home office. It seemed small as desk went when I was little but now it's good sized and vet sturdy. I've used it as mine since about 1985. It's supported probably 8-9 computers in that time starting with an Apple Iic. Can't imagine working from anything else.

they should redo the fluorescent build but with newer components and more attention to detail. it would be interesting nonetheless

I had one of them cases that you have at around the 15 min mark, I had that built when Win XP64 was a thing. The pc that I had came with one of them and after many years of me upgrading it the only original things that were left were the case and the PSU. During lockdown here in the UK my motherboard died so instead of upgrading again I just bought a new gaming rig, with hindsight I should have just bought the parts and built myself a new one using the old case as the one I bought has a fancy glass case with bugger all cooling, so I ended up changing the 3 pathetic RGB standard fans to 6 Noctua ones. Lesson learned, don't throw away a perfectly good case just because you cant be arsed. Ohhhh and don't buy a PC with a Nvidia RTX 2060 Super, they are shit, and run way too hot.

Linus doing all this cool stuff back in the day. While I was happy I could over clock my P3 866 to 1gig plus push my RAM’s mhz up a little bit. UV is pretty epic tbh

I love how Linus looks so happy at all his builds being showcased as if he was waiting for them to get the attention they deserve. I love this man

In Linus defense, back in those days I went crazy with UV paint too, electrical tape, UV reactive IDE cables, shitty sleeving from Fry's, and taped fans in different areas of my case. It was the trend back then. Except I didn't paint the fans, I painted plain fan grills. I also had a couple DFI boards so it made more sense. I still had my P1 rig with Voodoo cards at the time too, and used highlighter to make anything from heatsinks to molex connectors glow. I still have my first "upgrade" case where in the back you can see where I messed up with an angle grinder cutting fan meshing out. Just a long cut going straight down.

after hearing linus rip on people for having their speakers behind their monitors ive finally put my in front and it actually did make a noticeable difference thanks linus for your tech tips

Always great to have a little peek into Linus' comeuppance! Loved this!

First computer I ever built was a 16MHz 386DX with a massive MFM hard drive. Feeling a bit old now

I love these kind of videos, maybe its the nostalgic feeling I get from see Luke on the channel again but either way they're great!

I had no idea you and Yvonne have been together for so long. It's honestly so amazing seeing you two grow up together and being into the same things. I loved this video.

Linus came from the depth and built an empire. What a legend

Shoutout to the 7800GTX's - my first and last SLI setup was a pair of 7900GX2's! I had to cut the HDD bay out of the case to make them fit, then had to make a bracket because they each weighed several pounds... I still have one of them!

Well this video wasn't what I thought it would be I guess, it's more about Linus' life story, but I ended up enjoying it so that's okay. The computers didn't even seem that bad for what they were. I liked the aesthetics of the first few. Computers should look like that again. Also I did not know Hardware Canucks was owned by NCIX until now

Linus is indeed the only person I have ever heard say that Hardware Canuks was a NCIX property. He's said that a couple other times that I can remember in the recent years.

Fun fact... I just used a couple of those Blue Zelman heatsinks they joked about at ~14:45 to Try and cool my 3D printer Stepper motor drivers. Hey, it's what I had in the stash!

I'm glad Luke is making his way back into videos, his on screen personality had improved drastically over the last few years!

Man, this really brings me back. PC building was such a different, and funnier game back then

Listened to the vid on the way home from work and had to restart it once I got home cause I wanted to watch everything cause of how much I just enjoyed the video I’ve been a fan for a long time YOURE the reason I built my first pc and I hope someday I can build a really neat and personal PC again. Thank you for sharing this video! :3

This video shows how much Linus owes Yvonne. You are punching every way Linus. And I mean that in the best way. Well done guys.

Thanks for the trip down memory lane team, very very reminiscent of my foray into gaming computers and I even recognised a lot of the tech in your builds hahahaha! Goodness I built some wack stuff back in the day, I mean I still build wack stuff but now with RGB....

I think I still have that Logitech keyboard around here somewhere. It might even still work. I think when I got it, it was replacing a Yahoo Internet Keyboard that had almost entirely stopped working and was basically an enormous two-port USB hub. Man, that Yahoo keyboard had SO many extra buttons.

3 things to mention here:
- These builds were not trash but just according to the time they were built. We make fun of it now but I have seen far worse from that time.
- What rly sucked were the desks. Holy crap Linus! Just dont spend a fortune on UV stuff and get a desk that can fit your peripherals :D
- Yvonne must really love Linus

Behind every successful venture is someone supporting them 120%. I think we all love Yvonne even more now

The earlier 2000s builds are not that terrible. Most cases weren't built with cable management in mind back then. Case airflow did not yet matter all that much and the idea of having a window to show off sexy hardware was only just coming up. There were also still those pesky 40/80 pin PATA/IDE cables anyway. So we basically just plugged everything in and crammed all the superfluous cable length wherever it would fit, and then called it a day. Pros would somewhat neatly tie everything together with cable ties, but that was already the high effort approach. Really, we neither had the means, nor the reason: Modular PSUs weren't really a thing, ketchup and mustard cables were pretty much the default and cable kits with individually sleeved wires like we are used to today were completely inconceivable. Also: Most boards and expansion cards still were either brown or green, and cases were not coated on the inside. So pretty much every PCs innards looked absolutely terrible compared to todays standards, no matter what we did.

Awesome video idea. I feel like there’s a lot the majority doesn’t know about Linus, got more respect for him

I had a DX/33 as my first copmuter I built. Then I went quickly to a 133MHz HP rig that was awesome.

They're clowning him pretty hard about the UV paint, especially on the heat sink, but it actually looks pretty sick lit up @ 6:23. Even the jank heat sink paint looks sorta gradient. I dig it.

Yvonne is just awesome for letting Linus pursue his passion and supporting him

4:46 Oh my God, I had that Zalman cooler and the successor one. I don't think I've had any other single component attract dust like those coils. They were so cool looking but could attract particles from 5 states over.

I should absolutely find some of my weird setups in the early 2000s now lol. I had an amplifier and speakers and even a full mini split system on my desk hooked into my computer lol

cpu fan on your first build with dedicated graphics card , i had the exact same fan! super high rpm tip magnetic drive (TMD) fan! i loved that thing even though it sounded like a fighter jet at takeoff

Had the laptop Yvonne is sitting with at 24:05, The Acer Aspire 5920, that laptop looked so awesome with the blue lights on the media keys and the blue strip to the power button! Loved that machine!