I Tried Your Darkest PC Fantasies

Seriously, don't try any of this stuff at home. Don't delete system 32, don't put thermal paste in the CPU socket. Don't spray water on your computer. Don't blast your computer with x-rays for 5 hours. Just don't do it. Let us do it.

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CHAPTERS
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0:00 Don't try this at home
1:03 Don't put Thermal Paste here
2:40 Don't Use a Display at -30 C
5:41 Don't Put your PC in Here
6:07 Don't yank your drives
8:20 Don't Delete System32
10:24 Don't Waste Solder
10:45 Don't blow your fans?
12:10 Don't Water your computer
13:17 PC post X-ray blast
15:11 Outro

[hafezali]

“You could get hurt, or worse! Damage your PC”. Man has his priorities straight.

[iFix.]

I always tell people that computers, and electronics in general, are way more resilient than they used to be but they can also be completely destroyed by the tiniest water droplet if you are unlucky

[AleksiJoensuu]

My uncle when I was a kid: "DO NOT vacuum clean your fans because your motherboard could fry!"
LTT Crew: "I've got a compressed air gun..."

[einstijn]

8:26 "Windows actually doesn't want you to break your own PC"
No, Windows obviously wants to have that right exclusively to themselves

[grego]

0:11 "You can get hurt, or worse, you can damage your computer" - Order of operations peeps

[DennisWagelaar]

12:53 Whoa! There ONCE was a secure separation between high and low voltage, but not anymore since you sprayed the power supply. Hands off!!

[scorpionelite]

That thermal paste one at the start BLEW MY MIND. That’s so wild that should not be ok

[alidee]

The command line stuff just helped me get rid of a stubborn directory I've wanted gone for several years now. Thanks!!!

[kshitijvarshney]

If you actually did, this would've been on your Onlyfans account

[SSand]

"Everything's got shmoo in it"
20 sec. later: "Why is there thermal compound in the fan?"
Me: "Because everything needed to have shmoo in it; duh."

[SceneTurkey]

5:00 "Maybe their viscosity is... (higher?)..."

[PhunnyConflicts]

the whole "taking out storage and ram" was crazy. never knew the comp can still somewhat operate before crashing. makes sense why ram usually is the faulty part.

[HiTechLoLife]

Good Lord it looks like you applied maximum motion blur to that entire display in that chamber.

[GhoulishAestheticism]

14:05 - instructions unclear, I'm now giving my doctor a CAT scan while he holds a picture of my laptop.

[WumbologyPHD]

5:21 Fun fact. -40 C and -40 F are the exact same temperature

[Kodack-kiim]

11:46 That is caused by the sampling rate being slower than the rpm pulses from the sensor. If you shoot video of a spinning wheel at a fixed frame rate, as the wheel gets faster and faster, sometimes it appears to stand still and other times it may even appear to move backwards. If you filmed at a higher frame rate, which is analogous to a faster sampling rate, then these artifacts would appear less and only at higher speed.

[goldrushjkgh]

12:55 - as an Electrical engineer, I'd warn you that's a VERY dangerous thing to do even if you've turned off the computer. Why? Cuz you sprayed the PSU that has bulk caps (electrolytic caps) that can hold charge for longer, and can electrocute you when its still wet.

[Cossieuk]

I love the LTT staff trying to outdo each other with bad segue ways and Linus just shaking his head at them

[NicholasFlamy]

I remember having a tablet with an LCD and a tablet with an OLED in the car while skiing, and coming back and the tablet with an LCD having crazy motion blur and the tablet with an OLED being fine. It's pretty cool.

[Volk_N]

What is this magic at 9:17???? "Hit the like button to proceed" and the button glows up? I'm scared, I'll hit it