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yo what's up guys welcome back to booted this is season 3 episode 2 you guys are watching live here on awesomesauce network my youtube's channel and in case you guys don't know already this is a livestream that I do every single Monday or I should say every first four mondays of the month I know that's totally not confusing at all but every first four Mondays of every month I'll be doing this show right here on awesomesauce Network hopefully unless some shit hits the fan we have to go back to twitch again like last week but other than that it's gonna be at 5:30 p.m. Pacific figure it out if you're in a different time zone I can't I can't be father time for all of you but thank you so much for being here I appreciate all of your participation and attendance here in chat thank you guys for tuning in so much I'm very excited about this episode because pretty much marks our halfway point in this season which is the first ever high end season of booted so we're taking a look at systems that are of $1,500 in value or greater and at the end of the show I'm going to tell you guys how you can be a part of next season as well and how to enter in things like that so stay tuned for that but we've got some couple announcements here first off huge thanks to our sponsor once again it's cable mod we took a look at their wide beam LED strips last week but I have something even more tantalizingly good for this episode for you guys this is probably been in the news at some point but this is their website they just came out with a cable mod their own cable mod configurator for custom sleeved cables now this is this is big guys this is a big deal and I'm gonna be doing a demo on how this configurator actually works later on in today's show but look at this link these screenshots just to give you an idea you can choose pretty much first you select or any kind of power supply you want they've got over a hundred and something different models of psus that you can choose from so you're not just talking extensions here these are the actual full length cables that go directly from your power your power supply your components and you've got all these options 24-pin you know all your standard EPS you know PCIe shit and you can configure essentially any length of extent or cable you want so based on the parameters and dimensions of your case and where your components are you can measure out exactly how long you want each of these sleeves to be at each of these cables to be that way you're not taking up any unnecessary space in your system which is pretty epic and this is even more epic you get to choose pretty much any color on any cable you want to your heart's content they've got three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve different colors to choose from guys and you can pretty much have a field day go you could do it you know RGB you can make the ugliest cable ever and people will hate you for it but you can do it you can do anything you set your mind to this is a very inspirational ad right here and then they've also got some other extras you can add on like they're very nice transparent cable combs as well as some some very nice colored SATA cables as well but we're gonna be doing a demo of this later guys if you want more information right now you can't wait for the demo to come and just like you know twenty minutes or so then there's a link in the description below of this stream slash video where you can check that out play around with it so you already kind of have an idea of how it works but it's really really cool stuff I know the community the PC DIY community has been waiting a long time for something like this there might already be something like this I don't know I don't know I don't have all the answers guys but I haven't really seen anything to this degree of detail orientation as the cable mod configurator so very exciting stuff from those guys also feel free to check out some stuff on my site as well I've got some shirts guys some shirts we are selling shirts the new CPU cooler relatively new Heather Navy shirt which is a now a very nice comfy material these have been flying off the shelves very good stuff I've also got the the og CPU cooler shirt if you guys are just classic like that and just like the regular cotton I actually kind of prefer the regular cotton I don't know it doesn't show my man boobs as much but I've also got the BIOS flasher shirt now in stock and these have also been flying off the shelves as well two different colors here that's a bios chip by the way and he's getting flashed by a creepy perverted flasher it's adorable so metal gray I've got the heavy metal gray color as well as the maroon my personal favorite a range of sizes to choose from as well so whether you're anorexic or huge I've got you covered quite literally so I'm good stuff all around yo I forget to send out my show tweet boom did it well so yeah we've got some really exciting contenders for today's show guys I'm very excited to show you these these dudes and their PCs so if we want to take a look really quick and recap from last week we had Alex who is our week one finalist and pretty much a landslide I wouldn't say the biggest landslide we've seen here on booted but definitely leading by a sizable margin and the reason why I love Alex as our week 1 finalists so far in the high-end season 2 booted is because there's nothing too crazy going on here there's I mean there's no liquid cooling of any kind he has one granite it's a solid GPU but it's it's one GPU it's not like this crazy two-way SLI or crossfire machine it's just it goes to show you that you can have a really nice clean looking system that looks better by a landslide than other systems that have you know thousands upon thousands of dollars of hardware in them crammed in as much as possible so this it really comes down to like you know the kind of tactics you use how clean your cable management can be and that's all that has nothing to do with how much money you have to spend on a system and that's why I really like the fact that Alex took this finalist slot home last week so congratulations congratulations you can Eric I'm very proud of you but you do have some heavy competition coming up for you sir and we're gonna start it off by talking about PC number one from Andrew alright and he's rocking an evolved ATX case beautiful case by the way that I think Dmitriy from hardware connects gave the Evolve ATX case of the year for 2015 and well-deserved at that we actually have a couple evolve ATX chassé ease in this season of booted but we've also got a x99 5820k and we do have a lovely gtx 980ti for the win edition EBG a babe at 16 gigs of Corsair Vengeance rim look at them sleeves I like those cables bro I like them cables Andrew I like how you got the cable combs in there shows shows your dedication I also like how you swapped out a lot of the fans pretty much every fan in here that I can see with venturi fractal design fans having some fractal fans and in enthu or in a fan tex case it's an interracial hardware porn there Andrew we're getting getting into Tabu territory but I like it I like the way you think very progressive my man and look at that NZXT hue plus just chilling there on the hard drive wall oh that's sexy that's super sexy I like that implementation there Andrew you're doing thanks it's doing it for me I like the money shot as well very clean diggin that cracking x61 there very nice very nice what we got here oh all right so we've got the hue plus all lit up I'm not sure if these are just your colors of choice or if you were just kind of randomly throwing throwing on some RGB goodness there but yeah sharp indeed sharp indeed very clean some people are saying looks okay I I personally like it I think you did a good job here Andrew better than 90% of the pcs I've seen so far and booted at least in the high-end season you're definitely in the running my friend look at that - yeah all right cool and I don't really see any problems with your hardware configuration either kind of jealous of your your SSD configuration there quite frankly one terabyte and a 250 gig Samsung 850 Evo primo I think we're gonna start seeing a lot more high-end systems that are just omitting the mechanical drives altogether just because of the lowering costs for for a mid-range - you know obviously mid-range and below SSDs are still not that affordable - just completely go 100 state but we're getting there we're getting there it's nice to see nice to see so thank you Andrew next we've got George or if if you're from Mexico Jorge in the fractal design define s not a bad case we've also got Xin here as well 59 30 K there will take water 3.0 ultimate and look at those fans look at those fans what about those fans it looks like you custom-painted all of the fans here which are also fractal design venturi fans beautiful looks like you did a pretty got a pretty nice paint job there as well let me see yeah yeah you did a fairly nice job spray-painting those fans those blades that I like it I like it you've also got two gtx 980ti s from msi durham sun with a custom painted sli bridge as well very nice and I also like what you did with your SSDs those HyperX savage drives just chill in there on the reservoir as I like to call it not typically a place that you would mount SSDs at least according to a user's manual for this case but you've managed to get them on there either you either screw them in from the back or using some velcro and either at either point it looks really nice that you have both of them there obviously the color coordination here is on point everything from your motherboard to the fan blades your SSDs cables video card SLI bridge everything is on point sir you probably have the best color-coordinated themed system here with that red and black only thing that could have made it more color-coordinating is maybe getting some dims with some red heat spreaders on them instead of all black but I'm not complaining because that g.skill kit is quite beautiful as well man this is gonna be a tough one guys this is gonna be a tough voting round I can already tell you've also got some LEDs in here I got some white LEDs now it looks like you've only got the top and the front of your chassis lined with those strips however with a side panel window on it looks like it's pretty evenly coated all around it doesn't look like there's any hot spots sometimes when I see like a system with a side panel window and it's got an uneven lighting it's almost like looking at a monitor like a an IPS monitor with heavy backlight bleak or just like super bright in this one corner and darken all the rest kind of like that but it seems pretty even all together here so good job on that mate I do like it I like it I like it and I like the again the bit of custom work that you did here getting everything nice and color-coordinated I appreciate that because you could have just found some fans with red blades in them and saved yourself the trouble they probably would've been cheaper than the fractal fans too however you knew that you wanted those fractal fans and you knew that you wanted you didn't want to sacrifice performance in your airflow by the way Holy Mother of airflow am i right look at this there's like eight fans in here Jebus so I do appreciate that you know I can respect that that you bought the fans you wanted didn't sacrifice anything in terms of performance or acoustics and things like that and just decided to do the extra work and spray-paint them and it came out great so very nice Jorge Jorge you have a man next time we've got Thomas number three piece of number three again in the Evolve ATX like I said there was gonna be a couple of these 5820k still rocking the x99 this is uh this has been all x99 haswell-e shit so far this episode which I'm not complaining got a very nice ek predator 240 we don't see too many of these unbootable I maybe it's because this is our first high-end season obviously but it's such a nice AI oh I I haven't even physically held one or seen one in person but they just look beautiful because it's pretty much essentially all custom parts that ek just threw together as an AI Oh as a closed-loop cooler and you've got a very nice you know push-pull configuration on it as well blasting intake into your two gtx 980ti s classifieds damn son I mean the title of this this episode says it all I am super jelly with a lot of the the hardware that's packed into these systems today and you've also got that very niche but also a very beautiful x a9 SOC champion board from gigabyte where they've only got the the two or they got they got before DIMM slots instead of the traditional eight on a x9 ATX board because it's you know apparently better for overclocking and things like that setting world records but the one thing I would say here is that it has such a nice beautiful orange hue to it on the board those those orange accents I would have liked to see maybe just you spray-paint the same shade of orange on the red strips on your video carts cuz you've got you know the orange on the motherboard we've got red on the cards yeah it doesn't quite match up still a very beautiful system altogether All Things Considered but that would have been sick I think orange is a highly underrated color for 4 pcs I really do I don't think it gets enough credit I really love it a good I love me a good orange and black build makes me feel like I don't know it's Halloween I don't know where I'm going with that but I like the way it looks super sexy I also like your your addition of that Samsung Evo right there the a 50 Evo I like it yeah man this is good so that's that's the thing I would say you know getting some more orange in there to color coordinate with your motherboard would be a smart choice and um and maybe even like I don't know I feel like if I was you there's not much else to do here with this system it's already beautiful but as a PC enthusiast like I feel like a system is never truly done so I think if I were if I had the money I would probably go to like the cable mod custom cable configurator that we just talked about and actually throw together some nice black and orange custom cables for this system I think that would make it look like a showpiece that would really that would do it for me that would do it for me so altogether though very nice built honest these are all just so lovely let's move on to Casper he is the friendliest ghost you know sorry I had to I had to give you some some shit you know I apologize it was very immature of me what were you expecting though from me what were you expecting honestly Casper you've got a noctus 450 the the dark knight cases as myself and many others like to call it and NZXT kraken x61 ACU z97 motherboard eight gigs of Crucial Ballistix and an msi r9 390 so let's go ahead and take a look at the side here get a better idea so z97 you're not necessarily on the latest platform but that's okay because you don't need to be in order to win booted that's that's the how the show should work live viewers who are voting today keep that in mind however I would have liked to see a bit more than eight gigs in your system I don't know I feel like you know that that also comes with the new platform with z170 everyone's you know rocking eight gig dims now at least a dual-channel kid so they've got 16 gigs in their system that wasn't necessarily the case we weren't quite there yet with z97 it was still like eight gigs was still like the mainstream standard so I guess I'm not gonna take off any points for that however I do think the dims could have matched a little bit more with the rest of your system Crucial Ballistix sport I mean obviously they're low profile they have that benefit I would have liked to see some some more black and red though in there if possible also I mean I can I can't take off any points however all the other systems that we've seen today had like custom sleeved cables and this one's just using the default ones that came with the the EVGA supernova which is perfectly fine but you can definitely tell the difference looking right off the bat you can tell when it's like stock cables even if they're all flat black which look arguably nicer than ketchup and mustard there is still a difference there but I also realize that there's no CPU listed here Kasper actually that's that's probably my fault why don't why don't I have your CPU here let me go ahead and double check this really quick this is week two Kasper what audio give me your specs oh you didn't include your CPU sir and I missed it but it is I can't confirm guys he has sent me the the hardware monitor spec sheets the you know he screen grabbed it it is in fact a Core i5 4690k I can't confirm and I can also confirm that is in fact in our line 390 so there's no foul play here now you guys know thanks for catching that guys yes it is a 4690k there you go all right now everyone's happy you can all sleep at night all right so good at least it's a at least it's an unlocks cue if you're rocking an AI o CLC then I'm glad you're doing some overclock in there or at least I would hope so honestly pretty pretty nice build here I think there could be a few more bells and whistles to make it a feel bit more premium more putting them quality I also wish that they're kind of confused as to why there's no rear exhaust fan there maybe you took it off and slapped it on to the front of the case or you just don't like the look of the fan they're less noise I'm not sure but it doesn't look like there's any clearance issues especially with those those mounting slots that you can kind of position the fan to not interfere with your top radiator there so no I don't know why I don't have a fan there it'd be interesting to find out and and yeah look at that that is that is very beautiful the all red red and black there if you're going with a red and black theme system not just for 50 probably like in the top three cases to go with if you're rocking a red and black theme rig so overall I really like the way this this looks I really do I really do cool thanks Casper you're a pal and lastly we've got League number 5 PC number five with the NZXT switch 810 I think this is a very underrated case as well and I really like what Lee has done here with the the switch 810 I'm gonna show you that in a sec he's also rocking the 6700 K we are on skylake bitches 32 gigs of corsair dominator plaques I like saying down Platts 32 gigs of course there Dom plants just sounds I just sound cool I feel cool when I say it and then we've got two gtx 980 uh-huh I'm so used to seeing 980 eyes they're actually 970 s so 970 SLI alright and not only that you've actually slapped two custom coolers on them the Kraken x40 ones look at that now do you guys notice what I'm talking about here when I say I really like what Lee's done with the implementation of this case look at this because you know he's got this case has those two fan mounts right in front of the the drive cages there so you can direct air flow directly on your graphics cards well he's actually instead of just used straight up fans he's mounted both of the radiators from those those Kraken coolers those X 40 ones into those slots and I don't think that was 100% NZXT s intent I don't think they expected people to use that feature in that way but I really like it personally and I feel like this is one of those really unique things that you know not many people think of and when other people see it it's a love or hate affair you'll either see this and be like why didn't them there it looks stupid or you'll be like me and be like that looks freaking awesome I'm very impressed that you thought of that I I mean maybe I'm wrong maybe people do this all the time and I just this is the first time I'm seeing it yes it does look like a tentacle porn special I will agree with you on that and that that could be a bear reason why people don't like it this is a not quite as you know elegant of a solution as custom water-cooling maybe where you've just got more you know you've got a single loop that goes through all everything rather than these individual radiator loops you know you've got three different loops going on here but you know what I think it's unique I like that and you got the NZXT q+ in there NZXT fanboy for sure you are Lee I can smell it on you there's nothing wrong with that though and I really love RGB lighting in white cases I realized this when I built the white build months ago that RGB doesn't look nearly as nice in like a black and whatever color unless it's like a black and white system if it's like black and blue or black and red or black and green I mean not that you want RGB in a system like that anyway but more black equals less reflection more white equals better reflection and can really bring out the colors of those LED strips there yeah it just looks really nice that's a good good strong system just taking a look at your other shit you've got a pretty hefty SSD storage solution there and yeah man sexy sexified I noticed that you didn't turn the fan of your power supply downward where there would be you know some ventilation there I think I'm pretty sure the switch 810 has ventilation for your power supply but it doesn't bother me I'm not gonna knock you points for it some people might be like or even mean the past like well you should really flip your power supply if it's not affecting your attempts at all then I don't care and maybe you just like the look of it better that way that's fine you do you Lea you do you I am NOT racist just cuz I like the white that's gonna be taken completely out of context and on that note that is all I have to say about those five contestants Yeah right sweet okay so right about now it's the it's voting round it's voting time so right about now you should be seeing a link that my lovely moderator Mike the man a geek will be posting in chat right now yeah so if you see that link go ahead and click it now in and vote vote on which system you think is is worthy of heading on to the next round because only one can go on to week four the rest of the systems will be booted unfortunately and sent home with nothing now then in the past I do want to address this it's just a little thing but this is the the the same poll system that I used last week and a lot of people were like dude this is a broken poll because everyone can vote twice you can vote more than one time you I'm voting multiple times and it's like not kicking me out or anything this is may by design this is by design you can for the record you cannot vote multiple times you can only vote once I've actually contacted one of the representatives of this company who designs or who knows developed this poll service and that's by design you're supposed to think that you can vote multiple times it's their way of detracting any kind of scammers who are trying to fraudulently send in multiple votes because they'll think oh my second and third and fourth vote is going through and so at that point they'll stop trying to like find other ways to hack the system so to speak and now that I've just told you all of that you all know exactly you know how and why you should try to hack the system further but I'm hoping in your in good faith that you guys won't do that but that is that is an issue I wanted to address because I want this to be a very fair fight and and I believe it will be there's also certain security measures that this poll service implements that should help ward off you know foul play things like that I also have access to like the time codes of when people vote so I can see real time when people are voting and how many votes a certain PC gets so for example if you know PC number three got 200 votes in five seconds I can see a chart that tells me that and I can look back and go okay there is there's something suspicious here let's do a revote shit like that so um guys don't worry too much about it just focus on which PC you think deserves to go on to the final round I know it's gonna be a tough a tough call but just to give you guys a little bit more time with the voting I want you to really think it over we're gonna go ahead and take a closer look here at cable mods configurator because it's just so damn cool now what I want to do is actually just go through the emotions here and give you guys a quick little demo and how this works if you guys haven't tried it already which I'm sure a lot of you have because it's super cool I see which power supply do I have currently that I would like to make a custom cable for I have a Corsair ax 1200 I that's just chillin so you get you can look you can see all these options here you've got a ton of different very popular power supply options this is just from Corsair so you can go you know EVGA and get all these EVGA options super no up up the in yang so I'm going to stick with the Corsair for now they've even got be quiet in there that's impressive X 1200 I maude flex paracord there might be a different different material you can use here but I'm not sure if that's supported with every every power supply I have to double-check on that so we're gonna get a continue next step and you can just select whatever cable you want oh and you can select multiple ones too we're gonna start with the 24 pin add it now this is a 39 it's listed here as $39.90 USD so it isn't super cheap I will admit to that however if you guys have ever tried to custom sleeve your own cables before you know that this is a fair price I I would easily pay someone this amount of money to custom sleeve my cables if it was something more complex than what you could get say from like you know from BitFenix a--'s or or cable mods or anyone silver stones regular offerings right if it was just plain white sleeve cables then I wouldn't go through this service that's not exactly what this is intended for if you want this if this is what you want if you want a bunch of what you just want White Plains sleeve cables then don't use this configurator that's not what this is for just go buy some cheap shit this is like if you want to go all out like custom right like i want to freaking i want like a nyan cat freakin themed cable right here and i'm just gonna do it i'm gonna live out my dreams and yank at it yank at it and then pick like you can't buy this you can't buy this exact cable custom sleeved until now look at that that's that's that's what i'm gonna go at this is the this is my cable my 24 pin I'm gonna make an epic RGB mishmash color themed rig and then you just you just you just go to the next page and then yeah you can add more cables if you want I don't know if I actually showed you guys the ability right here oh no wait what happened I I backed out I backed out of the the thing for the thing bad gateway oh hell no you're not gonna crap out on me on my show i crap out on you damn you damn you perhaps my perhaps my network is is a little bit stressed right now since i'm streaming booted cable mod websites you've been booted okay so for whatever reason I'm not gonna take up too much of your time guys but what I am going to do is I'm going to actually buy that extension the funky rainbow color one I'm gonna buy it probably after I starts stop this show and and then hopefully by next week or maybe in the next week or two it will arrive on my doorstep and I'll show it off in person for for a future episode of booted which I think will be really cool because I'm will be able to check and review the quality of it and things like that I'll be able to show it to you guys up close very exciting stuff again if you want more info there's a link in the description you guys have eyes and fingers for mousing just click that link and it shall be yours okay on that note why don't we go ahead and queue up the dramatic voting music because we've got some shit to tend to I gave you guys enough time I think to decide on which of these five pcs would be going on to the final round and while I think there is potential here I'm sorry Thomas I can't really get you in the screen won't scroll down any further than that this is gonna be a close match unfortunately there can only be one of you and the other four as the show goes will be booted and sent home with nothing so who is it it's an Andrew George Thomas Casper or Li let's find out boom George in first place with 40% of the votes 196 my goodness let me go ahead and enlarge this for you so you can see the ranking BAM look at that George congratulations you are our week 2 finalists the rest of you Andrew Thomas Caspar Lee I was sorry you gave it your all but in the end you remove it alright so George let's take a look at George's PC one more time yes yes indeed that custom cabling that custom paint job oh it's also beautiful it's also beautiful I love it very nice job George I think you did you really knocked it out of the park here yeah jeez well deserved sir well deserved I think the audience has chosen wisely yet again so we will be seeing you in week four sir it's gonna be exciting so now we can take a look here really quick we've got George all right we've got Jorge this is like a big time you know multi-gpu power system just ridiculous and then we've got like a more minimalistic Alex it was our week one finalist and just completely different systems but equally impressive for different reasons I'm very excited to see how this first season turns out I'm super thrilled so thank you guys for actually being here and participating now don't go anywhere because I did promise you earlier at the beginning of this show that you'd have a chance to enter season four of booted which is next month in May YRT almost it may this is crazy um so just take a look here submissions for booted season four are now open until April 13th and that's that's two days away it's April 11th at the time of shooting this video so I'm only giving you guys two days and the reason why is because this is another high-end season nobuta we're doing back-to-back high-end seasons and I still have a lot of submissions that that perhaps are going to qualify for next season so I don't actually need that many more submissions that are new which is why I'm limiting the submission period to only to two days or so so you're gonna have to get in your entries quick guys there is a link in the description below on how to enter again this has to be a PC of fifteen hundred dollars in value or more in USD and that's approximate you know you'd have to be like ah fourteen hundred and eighty dollars I didn't make the cut its approximate guys but if you're like you know thirteen hundred dollars or less or something like that then I wouldn't bother trying and I do have a quick if you do head to that link in the description then you will find a webpage like this on the awesomesauce network web page and just gives you very thorough and detailed information instructions on how to enter guys you have to follow all these instructions very carefully otherwise I won't think twice you just you just won't be considered I get so many submissions for this show it's unreal I don't have time to work with you at all if it doesn't follow every single thing here to a tee I just don't even bother downloading your entry or looking at it because I just don't have the time I really wish I did and and also camera quality plays a huge role there were so many systems that I had to disqualify for this season actually that were just immaculate so many good systems that had a fair chance of winning they really did but because the camera quality wasn't there I couldn't have them on the show so very unfortunate make sure you guys could get the nicest camera you can and lighting is lighting is 90% of that you can have a really kick-ass camera but if your lighting sucks or it's like orangish and horrid or blurry out-of-focus anything like that not gonna have too high of a chance of getting on and also I will give you another recommendation custom sleeve cables or just regular sleeved extensions that are you know that you buy pre-configured will help your chances immensely for these high-end seasons of booted a lot of systems just don't look quite there if they've got you know ketchup and mustard or even like just regular flat black cables so bear that in mind as well if you guys again want to catch the show live you're watching this on YouTube pre-recorded Mondays at 5:30 p.m. Pacific on gaming youtube.com slash awesomesauce network or youtube.com slash awesomesauce network you can follow me at forever kyle for updates remember for months that have five mondays in them there will be no show on the fifth Monday all right all right all right sweet I felt like this was a much smoother show than last week's episode so if you guys agree with Mika and you 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