Popular tech YouTuber Linus Tech Tips recently released a video showcasing the $100,000 custom PC used by renowned content creator Karl Jacobs to play Minecraft. Linus and his staff are known for their tech reviews and informative content on building PCs, and their extravagant computer setups have received quite a few comments from his social media, many of which are all points out how unnecessary
Karl Jacobs has been a huge Minecraft streamer in recent years, attracting thousands to his Twitch channel and currently has over 3.7 million followers. He’s also pretty popular as part of his YouTube team on MrBeast, making him quite the online celebrity. Carl has ordered his PC worth $100,000 to play Minecraft, and it looks like he’s about to take the MrBeast extravagant content route.
Fans have been stunned by the hefty price tag, with many wondering how much FPS streamers can get in-game, with one Twitter user claiming over 10,000 FPS due to the super-expensive parts. He is joking that he was caught.
“He wants to be the first guy to reach over 10,000 FPS in Minecraft…”
Karl Jacobs of Linus Tech Tips’ $100,000 computer for playing Minecraft is technically just about $5,000 worth of PC parts
Linus Tech Tips viewers will know that the YouTuber himself is an avid proponent of building his own computer because it’s so cost-effective. And his 100K computer this group made certainly doesn’t, but that’s clearly him a one-off exception. Nonetheless, others in the tech industry are using the opportunity to gobble up the build.
This is clearly a gimmick build, but it’s hard to imagine a single PC worth this much. The actual computer parts—CPUs, GPUs, motherboards, and everything else—were only a fraction of what was needed. price. At the beginning of the video, Linus Tech Tips says that even though he’s got all the top-of-the-line products to use in his system, Carl only buys all the core components for Jacobs’ Minecraft PC. clearly announced that it only cost $5,000. A YouTuber pointed out:
“We just picked the fastest gaming ones in existence: a Core i9-13900KS, an RTX 4090, 64GB of DDR5 memory, and a premium Z790 motherboard from EVGA, all for $5,000.”
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This is only 5% of the budget set. For those wondering how Linus Tech Tips achieved his absurd goal of $100,000, they painstakingly built a custom glass desk to house his entire PC. rice field. Most of the money went into the act of building an aluminum case etched with the initials of Karl Jacobs’ YouTube channel to house the entire computer.
The main purpose of this very expensive PC is obviously to get people talking. Minecraft, even the RTX version, doesn’t need a lot of horsepower in the chassis to run at high framerates. And this bit obviously worked so well that the video on the Linus Tech Tips channel had him over 1.5 million views within a day of being uploaded. Karl Jacobs has not yet commented, but he is expected to show off the computer in the next few days.
