Level1Techs

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Editing and post

Recording software1

OBS
first cited October 2026
“OBS is giving me a 2560 by 1440 capture option, but I think it looks much worse than the 1080p capture option.”
View source at 7:09from October 2026

Coding software5

Visual Studio Code
first cited September 2026speaks highly of it
“And Visual Studio Code scanning a bunch of files, working with dev drive, all of that was a standout experience on this drive.”
View source at 11:50from September 2026
Codex
first cited August 2026has reservations
“Another way I know I'm right here is there's been a recent Codex CLI update. That's what I was complaining about in the beginning. In my own use, I'm seeing much less useful insight into why the agent is doing particular things.”
View source at 20:54from August 2026
WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux)
first cited September 2026positive about it
“I was expecting the Windows Subsystem for Linux to be a dumpster fire, but in reality, basically everything worked.”
View source at 11:39from September 2026
GitHub
first cited August 2026
“There's a DKMS driver that I uploaded to GitHub.”
View source at 5:14from August 2026

Python1 video

AI software21

LM Studio
cited in 5 videospositive about it
“…we're going to switch to LM Studio for the software as well because it can handle multiple runtimes.”
View source at 12:21from August 2026+ 4 more sources
Turnstone
cited in 3 videosspeaks highly of it
“I like Turnstone for its enterprise architecture and how it does output guard and that sort of stuff.”
View source at 5:09from July 2026+ 2 more sources
llama.cpp
cited in 2 videosfirst cited September 2026mixed views on it
“Llama.cpp I left llama.cpp out of some of the descriptions, but llama.cpp CPP actually lands at an interesting place with Quinn uh 27B.”
View source at 23:11 + 1 more source
Gemma 12B
mixed views on it
“And AI stuff on this laptop, you can run like the Gemma 12B model. It'll run.”
View source at 23:04from July 2026

Nemotron 3.5 Lightning open source model1 video
ROCm 101 video
DeepSeek 07311 video
Handy with Parakeet (voice recognition)1 video
GLM 5.3 Flash1 video
ComfyUI1 video
Qwen 3.81 video
Qwen (27B dense and 35B MoE models)1 video
Radiance1 video
Switchyard1 video
Nemotron Orchestrator 8B1 video
Windows MCP server (cursor)1 video
Qwen 3.61 video
Intel SuperClaw1 video
Lemonade1 video
Hermes Agent1 video
Qwen 35B (A3B) model1 video

Productivity software11

AIDA64
cited in 4 videosfirst cited August 2026
“The latency is not fabulous at 143.8 nanoseconds, 140-ish nanoseconds according to our AIDA64 test, but we do have 118 GB per second of memory bandwidth.”
View source at 7:26from August 2026+ 3 more sources
Linux
cited in 3 videospositive about it
“You can configure that as RAID 10 in your operating system of choice, which my operating system of choice on this platform, Linux, 100% Linux.”
View source at 13:09from July 2026+ 2 more sources
Cinebench
cited in 2 videosfirst cited September 2026
“There's really not a lot of comparable benchmarks, but if we do Cinebench, Cinebench 2023, our single and multi-core score for the ASUS Ascent QM1 looks pretty good.”
View source at 3:17from September 2026+ 1 more source
Windows
first cited August 2026mixed views on it
“But first, we will do some benchmarks in Windows and we will look at the Windows configuration.”
View source at 4:46from August 2026

Geekbench1 video
AMD Adrenalin1 video
Paperless-ngx1 video
HWiNFO641 video
3DMark1 video
Obsidian1 video
Ubuntu1 video

Platforms

Hosting platforms1

Twitch
first cited September 2026
“Twitch”
View sourcefrom September 2026

Membership platforms1

Patreon
first cited September 2026
“Patreon”
View sourcefrom September 2026

Desk

Computers70

NVIDIA RTX Pro 6000
$17,999.99cited in 6 videosfirst cited August 2026
“Now, I'm only going to have four RTX Pro 6000s in this build.”
View source at 7:09from October 2026+ 5 more sources
GMKtec Evo X3
$3,799.99cited in 3 videosfirst cited August 2026speaks highly of it
“GMKtech GMKtech this is the Evo X3. It's a Strix Halo machine, 128 gigs of combined LPDDR5 memory now in a completely different package.”
View source at 0:00from August 2026+ 2 more sources
ASUS NUC 16 Pro Mini PC (Intel Core Ultra 7 358H)
$559.00cited in 3 videos
“I'm using ASUS NUC. This is the NUC Pro 16. Um this has 64 gigs of memory.”
View source at 5:30from August 2026+ 2 more sources
AMD EPYC 9575F
cited in 2 videosfirst cited August 2026speaks highly of it
“And there's also only really one choice of CPU as well, the 9575F. This is a very special Zen 5 CPU.”
View source at 4:24from October 2026+ 1 more source

Minisforum N5 Max2 videos
Framework Desktop (Ryzen AI Max)2 videos
DGX Spark2 videos
HP Z8 Fury G6i Workstation2 videos
G.Skill registered ECC DDR5 memory (512 GB)1 video
ASRock Taichi 10th Anniversary Edition X870E1 video
Silverstone CS 383 case1 video
Intel Arc B601 video
Supermicro GH2001 video
Framework 161 video
Dell business class desktop1 video
ASRock Genoa motherboard1 video
Intel Core Ultra 7 270K1 video
ASRock A620M Pro RS motherboard1 video
Bykski CPU-4677-SR All Metal CPU Water Block for LGA 4677 Intel Sapphire Rapids1 video
Silverstone XE360 AIO cooler1 video
G.Skill DDR5 6000 memory1 video
G.Skill Trident Z Neo XRGB (2x16GB)1 video
Framework Desktop1 video
NVIDIA RTX 58801 video
Intel Xeon 6 CPUs (48-core 658X)1 video
Radeon RX 7900 XTX1 video
DDR5-4800 memory1 video
B85M-I Mini-ITX motherboard1 video
Camino Grando1 video
Arctic 120mm high RPM fans1 video
ASRock X870 Live Mixer WiFi motherboard1 video
Intel Arc B701 video
ASUS ProArt P16 RTX Spark (H7607B, 128 GB)1 video
Bykski Multi-Port Parallel Workstation/Server Distribution Block – Black POM (B-L2-XBM-X-V2)1 video
Fractal Radiance 360 RGB AIO cooler1 video
Minisforum BD775 Motherboard1 video
Quad Intel B70 system1 video
Gigabyte MW94-RP0 Xeon 6 E-ATX Motherboard1 video
AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D21 video
Alphacool NexXxoS Monsta 420mm Radiator (14191)1 video
Zotac GeForce RTX 40901 video
4x Radeon R9700 GPU system1 video
ASRock Steel Legend power supply1 video
Silverstone Alta T21 video
Gigabyte X870E AORUS Master motherboard1 video
ASRock Radeon R9600D (32GB single-slot GPU)1 video
Noctua fans1 video
NVIDIA RTX A60001 video
GMKtec Evo X5 PRO Mini PC1 video
AMD Ryzen AI1 video
ASRock Rack W680D4U Motherboard1 video
ASUS Googlebook 14 (CX946CAA)1 video
Hela 3000 ARZ Power Supply1 video
Fractal Define 1 (case)1 video
Fractal Mood1 video
ASRock Rack Genoa 8 D8X-2TBCM motherboard1 video
Jonsbo N4 case1 video
Minisforum MS-A21 video
ASRock Radeon 9700 XT graphics card1 video
ASRock Z890 Phantom Gaming Nova WiFi motherboard1 video
PrimoChill PrimoFlex LRT Custom Watercooling Flexible Tubing 3/8in.ID x 1/2in.OD1 video
Noctua tower cooler1 video
MSI Cubi NUC AI+1 video
MSI Claw 8 AI EX1 video
Asus Turbo R9 700 32GB1 video
Silverstone Alta T11 video
GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB1 video
ASRock Challenger AIO1 video
Radeon RX 9070 XT (ASRock)1 video
GPD mini (handheld/mini PC)1 video

Monitors1

Apple 5K Cinema Display
first cited October 2026mixed views on it
“So, this is the Apple 5K Cinema Display, and this is the Mario 6K display, but you can already tell there's some differences just by unpacking this.”
View source at 9:51from October 2026

Peripherals11

Minisforum MGA1 OCuLink GPU Dock (AMD Radeon 7600M XT)
$415.90positive about it
“…and now I've booted up my laptop and it's connected over here and yes this 7600m performs like a 7600m The Thermals on this are actually managed quite well there's a lot of air that comes in from the top and is exhausted out the back it works really really well”
View source at 4:07from December 2024
Intel E810 network adapter
mixed views on it
“I did also try running an E810 off of MCIO to PCIe adapters. That does work, although there's a couple of quirks in the BIOS in terms of surfacing that MCIO header.”
View source at 11:44from July 2026
Minisforum DEG2 Oculink GPU dock
$239.90first cited September 2026
“If you connect that to a dock such as this one, this is our DEG 2 from Minis forum.”
View source at 11:51from September 2026
Razer Thunderbolt 5 enclosure
positive about it
“It's actually Razer's Thunderbolt 5 enclosure, but it'll work just fine at Thunderbolt 4 speeds.”
View source at 20:10from July 2026

Storage10

SN7100 1TB NVMe SSD
speaks highly of it
“And then internally, we have the SN7100 1 TB.”
View source at 1:46from July 2026
ICY DOCK E1.S hot-swap dock
first cited August 2026speaks highly of it
“I'd call attention to ICY DOCK's E1 dock that would work perfect in this. I have one of those and I've tried it in this chassis, not in this build, but in this chassis, and it worked fantastic.”
View source at 7:09from August 2026
IC Dock drive bay accessories
first cited October 2026
“I'm planning on using some IC Dock stuff here in the bottom.”
View source at 10:57from October 2026
SanDisk high write endurance M.2 SSD
first cited August 2026
“I've got one high-performance PCIe Gen 5 Phison M.2, and then I have three high write endurance SanDisk M.2 for our data you know, our our data storage, data workload, however you want to think about that.”
View source at 5:37from August 2026

Everything else

Other45

Proxmox
cited in 3 videosfirst cited August 2026speaks highly of it
“Now, Proxmox, Proxmox, like I say, is a virtualization platform. And I'm running Proxmox on both of our Minis Forum machines.”
View source at 21:31from October 2026+ 2 more sources
Intel Arc B50
$599.99cited in 3 videosfirst cited August 2026positive about it
“Same deal with our Intel B50. Like our Intel B50 like this is a single slot adapter.”
View source at 36:14from October 2026+ 2 more sources
Nvidia Tesla V100
cited in 2 videosfirst cited October 2026speaks highly of it
“And I have two 8-year-old V100 GPUs, 64 gigs of VRAM in this platform.”
View source at 1:17from October 2026+ 1 more source
NVIDIA RTX Pro 6000 (Max-Q) GPU
cited in 2 videos
“What if we add [snorts] an RTX Pro 6000 to a Framework 13 via Thunderbolt 4?”
View source at 20:04from July 2026+ 1 more source