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what's up guys welcome back to the channel today is hopefully going to be a fun and interesting video for you all because I'm essentially going to be giving you a grand tour of all the pcs that are currently in the awesomesauce Network household and that spans about eleven systems now some of which are being used on a daily basis or a weekly basis and others are just kind of collecting dust and some some of them don't even have like all the components some have had their CPU coolers or their CPUs stripped from them to be utilized for other purposes or other builds so I'm kind of I'm going to kind of be giving a rundown of each of those what the main system specs are and what my future plans are for each of these systems and you know one of the biggest questions on the channel that I get is Kyle what do you do with all of these pcs after you've built them for a particular video and that's kind of what this video aims to answer in one regard but yeah hopefully you guys enjoy it let's let's go ahead and take a look at the I don't know there's so many where do we start where do you start with eleven computers which one do you talk about first I'm just gonna like close my eyes and like pick a pick a system to talk about so let's let's talk about this one all right so this first system is very important and sentimental to me in many ways because it's essentially the first rig I ever built with my own two hands back in 2011 when I was still working at Newegg with Paul he was one of my co-workers there and at the time this was a frickin high-end system it had a 2600 K in it which has since then been repurposed to going into my wife's bill the wifey bill to go ahead and check that video out if you haven't already but since then you can see it's it's just gone there's no more CPU here so I'm having booted it in a while it also had do TX 670 direct Cu 2 from Asus in there so video card was pretty on point at the time but I think before I completely scrap it and tear it to bits I think I want to do one last video and you guys can let me know in the comments whether or not you think this is a good idea but a lot of you have been asking in the comments lately you know I've got this older PC you know that's a couple generations old but I don't know if it's time for me to upgrade till it's something like skylake or or even x99 so I think I'm going to do one last rodeo with this system and benchmark be the original rig that I had in 2011 to see how it stacks up against current gen titles in terms of gaming performance and things like that so let me know if you think that would be a pretty cool idea and if I am able to do that that's probably gonna be the last use that I have for this rig before I completely disassemble it that's essentially its this is a really a very important PC to me again and I'm gonna be sad to see it go but there you have it the next PC I have in my arsenal is the white build and I did a recent video on this maybe a month or two ago many of you guys saw it but this is essentially one of the nicest looking pcs I've built in the last year it's probably one of my favorites as well because of that feature two gtx 980 from Galax Hall of Fame Edition very nice card as well as a 6700 K but that's since then been repurposed into the silent build the Silent Night rig that I built very recently but more on that later what I really want to do is get that CPU back in here reinstall the inner max CPU cooler and find a place to just just to put this to have it on display because it really is one of the nicest looking builds that I built in 2015 and I really don't want to scrap it and the enthu luxe from fantex is just an awesome case because if you guys remember that white build video it does have case lighting on it that can change I think seven to nine different colors I forget exactly how many but I also got the fantex LED strip that I that I placed right here on the side of the case that is a that also changes the same number of colors the same various colors as the case itself so altogether it makes it look really nice but yeah that's pretty much all I have to say about that rig moving on to the sleeper system sleeper PC was a rig that I built oh maybe a month of cube ago as well where I essentially took high-end components and put them in a crappy HP Pavillion case this is actually my dad's old case from like five five to six years ago and I thought I'd make a sleeper PC essentially by that I mean a really high-end rig in a crappy case so that people don't really suspect it or pay much pay much attention to it it's kind of like a covert rig I guess if you will and it's got a 980ti as well as a gtx i'm sorry a gtx 980ti as well as 6700 K so latest and greatest from the Intel skylake platform but you know when I brought this to CES this year I thought I had high hopes for it and while it was a really good editing machine for my editor we were blue screaming every time he tried to render out a video so since then I really haven't had time to troubleshoot it but that's my those are my plans for this rig is to kind of do maybe I'll do a video on it I don't know just to find out what's wrong instantly I'm thinking it's got to be the memory and usually memory is the the culprit when you're blue screening that early on in a system build so maybe maybe do a ram mm okay test or something like that just to find out exactly whether or not this thing should be scrapped or if it can be kept around for future events and different on-site locations where I need to edit videos so altogether apart from that little quirk I'm pretty happy with that system moving on to the file and build which I think this is probably the most recent build that I did let me go ahead and adjust the lighting here for you this is the most recent video I did I'm pretty sure this was for Christmas that's why I called it Silent Night but what this essentially was was a really quiet and silent build designed primarily for acoustic so you can see I've got a CPU cooler here that's completely passive or semi passive I should say because there's no direct fan attached also a silent power supply from enter max one other digi fan digit fanless units which is excellent I might add it is pretty pricey but it's completely silent there's no fan just relies on the heat sinks again and it's got really nice sleeved cables as well completely modular fully modular so this is a really nice rig but yeah I really have no plans for this either I don't know if I should sell it or if I should just scrap it for parts and use those parts you know at later dates when I need them let me know what you guys think I should do with this system because I'm really at a loss at this point but moving on to the 400 dollar budget rig that I made for Black Friday weekend back November this is actually a really nice system that I was very happy with because I spent so little money on putting it together and yet it was I don't know I qualified it as a certified console killer just because it outperformed what most consoles can do or what current gen consoles can do in this day and age granted it's only got an FX 4350 in there for the CPU and Radeon HD 7950 but still I was getting you know well above 40 frames per second on average at high settings playing at 1080 on triple-a titles like GTA 5 Metro last light and things like that so I'm very happy with this rig again it sits in a core 1000 case from fractal design very nice budget case and it only has a hard drive in it currently there's no SSD so my plan for this guy was essentially to do kind of like what what to upgrade first for for a budget PC builder so I know a lot of you guys have budget pcs that are very similar to this and you're probably wondering you know will I have a hundred to two hundred bucks to spare I don't know what I should upgrade first though with my little budget system and I thought maybe doing a video on that would be pretty cool so let me know what you guys think in the comments about that the next rig here is the stream box that I specifically use and primarily and only exclusively use for streaming episodes of awesome Hardware every other week anytime pallas over and we're hosting the episode at my house now this is a pretty nice this is a pretty nice system it's mini ITX and I granted it's a bit large for a mini ITX case so I'm thinking about downsizing it to maybe something like one of those small box size silverstone chassis but right now it's doing the job it's got a 4770k in there and we're using that to do all of our streaming all of our encoding it's been doing a great job it's got quick sync and all that sort of thing but it's also got a black magic capture card the intensity Pro which is just one of the best capture cards that you can get right now apart from that been really happy with it and I don't really plan on changing much to it any time soon the next system in our list here I believe this is PC number seven as far as the video goes is my lovely x99 test bench I've got a LAN Lee I think it's a PC t60 I forget exactly the model name that might be it but it's a great little open-air chassis for for a test bench such such as this one where I'm constantly swapping out the motherboard of the CPU the CPU cooler or the video card or the RAM pretty much any component possible to do a lot of testing and benchmarking and things like that so you can see here this is actually just below my where my 600 t system was this is pretty much where it lives all the time I don't know if I mentioned this before in the video but I am like super cramped and have kind of already outgrown the space that I have here at the awesomesauce studio at my home so I wish I could actually get this somewhere higher up above the ground above above sea level but this is pretty much the most I can do for now but rest assured this system is not going anywhere anytime soon the only thing that will be changing or the components that are mounted to it for testing this is system number eight and this is my overkill console killer which many of you guys saw that was also a very popular video where the the hardware specs are really nothing too impressive here I mean I've got an 8 60 K for the cpu I've got an r9 380 I believe it's a it's a mid-range system for sure but it's just in this beautiful Leanne Lee PC oh is it PC o8 chassis I know PC o5 chassis I believe that's just absolutely incredibly pretty to look at so this is my PC I really don't use it you know I have no long-term plans for it but it's just there to look pretty and nice so it's totally PC moving on the hotline most of you guys have already seen this computer extensively I'm not going to talk too much about her but this is my custom water-cooled PC the only custom water-cooled system that I have in my house right now and really the only one that I've ever built is right here and this is my primary desktop that I use for pretty much everything gaming editing web browsing all that sort of thing it's on my main desk area it's the only PC out of my 11 rigs that's actually worthy of being put on my desk essentially this is a really nice system very high end with two gtx 980ti s as well as a 59 60 X so pretty much I don't know it's pretty much as good as it gets in terms of hardware currently for the average consumer I did run into a scare recently there was a bit of a leak with that 45 degree fitting they're merging from the emerging from the 240 rad but I tighten the out of it and I put a little hashtag PC diaper as you guys were calling it right on there with just a bit of paper towel and some tape just to see if it was going to continue leaking after continued use and so far after two three days later it's been running 24/7 and I have not seen any kind of leaking issues so really happy that I don't have to drain the whole system and you know actually replace that fitting so things are looking pretty good right now for hotline I'm also got the NZ s TQ plus in there which I recently added it just does a nice touch to to give it some nice LED flare there alright so those were all the PCs that were living inside of my actual office which is through that door right there and now as you can see we're actually in the living room now that that I share with my wife primarily where you know there's like our couch and TV and and living room and stuff like that and so we're going to be talking about the last two systems here numbers number 10 and 11 first of which is the the wifey build which I was alluding to earlier in the video that has that 2600 K this is my wife system this is Heather's build that I built for her maybe about a month or two ago as well and it's got a 2600 K from my old original system back in 2011 that CPU is still going strong guys and it's still overclocked 240 400 megahertz pretty damn good staying really chilly with that H 105 cooler excellent cooler that is kind of hard to find these days but I kind of went with like a really nice white and blue color scheme for her system I think it just just just worked out that way I had some really nice BitFenix extensions there for the sleeving also the blue strip on the GTX 970 from EVGA this is the for the win Edition so you know but my wife's not getting though you know cheap slouch of a PC this is a very like powerful system that can still pretty much run any game on ultra for the most part and still maintain some pretty good frame rates to boot so um yeah I'm pretty happy with the system obviously the Evolve ITX from from fan tix is an amazing case for a small form-factor build like this one and I think it just looks absolutely fantastic another one of my really favorite looking systems that I've built in the last year or so alright guys and this is my final PC of the hour this is my HTPC which is connected to my TV right here in our living room where Heather and I pretty much watch this every single day apart from hotline the system probably gets you the most out of my 11 pcs we're pretty much on it every single night watching Netflix Amazon Prime stuff or just browsing the Internet in the living room but I built this thing about two or three years ago and the original CPU which is a which is a 35 70 K is still in here going strong also upgraded the initial GPU which was a 650 Ti boost that's now been replaced with this black edition gigabyte card which is a 750 Ti so slight increase there in performance so we do do some gaming on this as well we've been playing a lot of Sonic Sonic all-stars racing which I mentioned earlier as well as a bit of lovers in a dangerous space-time awesome indie game with local co-op if you guys are interested playing with another lover but the cable management in the case like this is pretty limited just based on how small it is but thankfully I've got a really nice fully modular SFX power supply which is also like the case is also from silverstone this is one of their sfx series pretty much the only form factor of power supply unit that this chassis supports but it is 450 watt more than enough to drive the system and it is 80 plus bronze as well so very power efficient the modular design makes all the cables a bit more tidy than they otherwise would be you can kind of see here there was a bit of cable mess down there let me go ahead and try to crank up the aperture here give you a bit more light you get a little bit of an inside look you can kind of barely see it there's a CPU cooler and there a really nice one from prolimatech excellent cooler could definitely put a moderate overclock on it and there's also another 120 gelid I don't know if it's gel it or gallop there's a gelid fan at the front there as well as strapped to the cooler keeps things nice and cool despite the size of this rig actually components stay pretty chilly so happy about that this is also the sg0 5 from silverstone the chassis itself which is the USB 3.0 model there's another model that only has USB 2 but I really wanted that USB 3 support just if we're trying to transfer some files you know and want that faster transfer speed that is available to us right at the front panel there is no mechanical hard drive in here there's just a 250 gig SSD which is perfectly fine because we actually have all of our movies and stuff backed up to the NASS so here's the nask where we have all of our movies and tv series stored that way we don't need too much mechanical storage in the htpc itself it's all just kind of dedicated there on the NASS and it is a raid setup so it is redundant which is really nice but that's pretty much all all I have to say about my 11 pcs guys I know this was kind of a lengthy video but hopefully you enjoyed kind of getting a brief rundown of each one if you have any more questions about each of these systems go ahead and let me know in comments I'll go ahead and answer them to the best of my ability and also if you have any suggestions on what I should do with some of the pcs that I really don't know what to do with if you have any ideas for maybe potential videos or I don't know giveaways or something like that which PC would you want me to give away if any of them just give me any kind of ideas on maybe what you'd like to see me do with either any of these pcs repurpose them reutilize them in maybe ways that I haven't thought of yet I think that'd be really cool so anxious to hear your feedback and thank you so much for watching this video guys go ahead and toss me a like on it if you enjoyed it feel free to subscribe to the channel for more tech content coming really soon and until next time I'll see you all in the next video you