Linus Went Undercover to Answer Your Tech Questions

Fri, 20 Feb 2026 15:26:49 +0000

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Linus brings Tech Tips to the source, going “undercover” to answer questions from Reddit, and popular tech forums across the internet: how should you troubleshoot a finicky GPU? Can you save a dying monitor? And what terrible games did Linus love growing up? Let’s find out!

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CHAPTERS
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0:00 Intro
1:30 GPU Has to Be Reseated Daily
3:07 What’s the Most Overrated PC Accessory?
4:14 How to cool the i9-14900k
5:37 Fork in a PC
6:15 Is My Monitor Dying?
7:27 Is This Thermal Paste Too Little?
8:48 Prepping for GPU waterblock
9:30 Air Cooling Fan Configurations
10:07 Why Have I Been Having Bad 1% Lows?
11:19 GTX1070 Runs Well Then Stutters – No Heat or Memory Issue
12:20 What Insulation Do You Use Behind In-Ceiling Speakers?
13:11 Advice on Home Theatre Upgrade?
14:00 What Terrible Games Were You Great At?
14:34 Computer Room Gets Too Hot
16:52 Laptop Cooling? (Or Not?)
17:10 Capacitor Fell Off RAM
17:28 Debug Light is On, But Nothing is Wrong
18:08 Water Cooling Residue Buildup
18:44 Water Cooling RAM??
21:00 Credits