Gadgetory

hey guys this is Austin and today we're building the ultimate sleeper gaming PC and it's all thanks to our friends at Intel for sponsoring this madness the rules are very simple we have today which right now it is 10:40 a.m. to build an entire sleeper gaming PC and what does that mean well first of all we want to find the oldest the most bays retro-looking chassis we can and load it up with some properly high-end stuff we're talking a ninth gen core i7 high-end graphics opt a memory the entire deal the main idea here is that we have to have an overkill gaming PC that looks like it's something from 1999 right like I don't want from the outside there's no RGB there's no like huge exhausts or anything like that like this should look like some old like Windows XP system but inside it can handle all the latest games editing whatever we want to actually throw at it we may want to go for an ITX supplied but until we find the case I don't want to commit to that because I take supplies are more expensive and generally not yeah well I should this one's not so bad so we've got let's go Wi-Fi built in as well as we can Oh does it have obtained though I did support octane okay excellent let's go ITX we've got I've got the smallest cooler I can find let's get a core i7 let's get our obtained I'm just afraid that 1050 is not gonna be enough power we need this to be awesome but it's so hard to pick unless we were able to find like a properly big old case if we do I don't think it'll be a problem but I'm just so nervous like I don't want to commit to something like I want it as small as possible what if we get a low profile card and that's our backup but we try to put the Arctic's 20/80 eye in so that was mostly successful the main thing I'm worried about right now is that we still have a case there were a couple in there that looked ok but for the most part they all it's way too modern the start of the show here though is definitely the i7 9700 K it's a ninth generation Intel processor it is a full 8 core chip and on top of that it's overclockable now depending on the case and everything else we choose I'm not so sure how much we can actually overclock Gabe but the whole idea here is that I want to have a system which looks old and retro and lame on the outside we can handle the latest games video editing streaming whatever now we just have to find the case and actually build it hey how's it going I've got a little bit a weird one I'm looking for an older system preferably like one of the old like beige towers I'm mostly just needing it for the case it doesn't actually have to be working would you happen to have anything like that okay good this could be a problem like do you think we actually gonna have a real hard time finding these old systems because he's right most people just recycled them at this point gave me no one really wants them you wouldn't happen to have any older desktop towers Mike preferably something beige no dude it's one o'clock we need we need to have time to get back to the office and fill this if we don't get something in the next like hour we're screwed there's no way Oh we'll be right over them all right okay that's kind of promising so I told him what we needed he's just gonna give us the case it might have some parts they might I think he might just give us one justic with just the case nothing hot perfect yes success so Ken pulled this one out we're able to find a computer shop with what I think is the perfect case so it's nicely beige up front you can see it's got we're doing that until Celeron got the old school power button even got a CD drive now we just have to actually build this thing but this I mean look at this imagine walking up seeing this system and inside you've got a like a full 20 ATI at core i7 oh man I really didn't have to pull this one out I really thought that we had I really thought we had bitten off more than we could chew and so with that we have everything we need to build the ultimate overkill sleeper gaming PC which is a little bit of a mouthful but now that I have a super cool wardrobe change I think I'm ready come on how can I not wear this it literally just showed up Microsoft sent over a Windows ugly sweater so I really don't know how old the system is if I was to take a guess I would say probably early 2000s but the important thing is is it it has essentially everything we need or at least I hope so besides it is to say I think it's time to pull the motherboard out and upgrade it with something just a little bit more modern the first thing we can remove is our modem which I don't think we'll be needing any dial-up anytime soon so that we have our motherboard damn things have come a long way what Oh front panel we're gonna look hilarious with a 28 epi this old system and our i7 on this tiny little motherboard that looks a little interesting but we will make it work the important thing is that does mount up to our current spots look at that is this actually going to work did I decide not to do a terrible idea so with our processor installed our cooler on here our Intel Team memory as well as our RAM we're ready to see if this actually fits although it should be fine so if that a big trigger build is actually already ready we have the motherboard the core i7 pretty much everything we need for the main components now we figure out how to put in our graphics card our hard drive or power supply this is not a crazy high-end unit or anything but should give us enough power and importantly at a semi modular which should be helpful because cables might be a little tricky in this case all right three power supply screws should be enough to keep that in place I do see a problem and that the back doesn't quite match the front but as soon as we put the side panel on I don't think anyone will be able to know this excellent all right now now we've made some progress so that looks pretty close we still need to install the hard drive but I actually think it's safe to say now this is going to work now where are we gonna put this I believe that's a three and a half inch type thing oh yeah no problem right like that so with this the ultimate sleeper PC hopefully is ready to go fingers crossed oh okay I see fan spinning graphics card spinning it's making noises okay not a great sign we'll be right back after a quick BIOS update of our motherboard so after a little bit of updating and downloading and installing the ultimate sleeper PC lives and I can't tell you how happy I am with this build you just look at it I will knit I may have slightly misplaced the core i7 sticker so run you guys through the build inside we've got proper components we've got that core i7 9700 K full eight cores overclockable the whole deal we also have an nvidia r-tx 20 80 TI and that's all inside this chassis which will be a little bit of a surprise for most people I expect oh yeah so we even got the K speaker to work so it's wired up to the motherboard here so if you ever have a problem with your super cool PC you'll get some helpful beeps just like 2001 and ten days the crazy part of this build is that everything works exactly like you would expect the power button works that speaker works the LEDs work for the hard drive I mean the only thing that we don't have fully up and running is the CD drive because I don't have an adapter to make it work but I mean I'm really surprised what we were able to find in just a few hours and actually make it work the fact that we're getting this kind of performance out of a PC that looks like this is awesome I mean look we're maxing out our 1080p monitor at 185 frames per second that's full Ultra settings and everything it's so smooth I love the idea that we were able to build something but from the outside looks so old school and so retro but on the inside has all the power to gain all the power to stream we can video edit I mean there's literally almost nothing we can't do at this PC it has the power for pretty much anything we throw at it but the looks from straight out of 2011 ah no so that my friends is the ultimate sleeper gaming PC we've got all the performance and all the nice conveniences of a modern system but as soon as we slide the side panel on from the outside no one needs to know this is not a Windows XP 2001 gaming box that has been sitting in someone's grandma's basement for 20 years anyway huge shout-outs Intel for sponsoring this crazy project if you guys want to check out the core i7 or some of the other parts I included in this build the links will be in the description we put that 92 millimeter and a description Cooley's important kids