See NordPass Business in action now with a 3-month free trial at https://www.nordpass.com/linusbusiness with code LINUSBUSINESS Save 10% and Free Worldwide Shipping at Ridge Wallet by using offer code LINUS at https://www.ridge.com/LINUS Starforge Systems are a system builder created by Twitch streamers that gained notoriety for their bad configs on launch. Have they been able to turn it around? Discuss on the forum: https://linustechtips.com/topic/1458531-this-has-never-worked/ Buy an Intel Core i9-12900 (16 Core): https://geni.us/FVWc Buy a Corsair iCUE H150i Liquid Cooler: https://geni.us/wjXFbzQ Buy an MSI PRO z690-A Motherboard: https://geni.us/9DSzAnA Buy a Kit of Corsair Vengeance RT 32GB DDR4 RAM: https://geni.us/SWfSh4e Buy a Samsung 980 Pro 2 TB NVME SSD: https://geni.us/V33TL Buy a Zotac GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 12 GB: https://geni.us/Vj0h57Q Buy a Corsair iCUE 5000X RGB ATX Mid Tower Case: https://geni.us/qUNK Buy a Corsair RM1000x 1000 W Power Supply: https://geni.us/kJqI31x Purchases made through some store links may provide some compensation to Linus Media Group. ► GET MERCH: null ► SUPPORT US ON FLOATPLANE: https://www.floatplane.com/ltt ► AFFILIATES, SPONSORS & REFERRALS: https://lmg.gg/sponsors ► PODCAST GEAR: https://lmg.gg/podcastgear FOLLOW US --------------------------------------------------- Twitter: https://twitter.com/linustech Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/LinusTech Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/linustech TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@linustech Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/linustech MUSIC CREDIT --------------------------------------------------- Intro: Laszlo - Supernova Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKfxmFU3lWY iTunes Download Link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/supernova/id936805712 Artist Link: https://soundcloud.com/laszlomusic Outro: Approaching Nirvana - Sugar High Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngsGBSCDwcI Listen on Spotify: http://spoti.fi/UxWkUw Artist Link: null 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 Mouse Gamer free Model By Oscar Creativo / CC BY 4.0 https://geni.us/Ps3XfE CHAPTERS --------------------------------------------------- 0:00 - The Appeal of System Building 1:33 - Ridge! 1:55 - Why I don't sell PCs 2:30 - Who are Starforge Systems 4:09 - Our System 10:01 - Turning it on 14:57 - We had a chat with Starforge 17:12 - Performance & Price 19:58 - NordPass 20:59 - Outro