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I think we're live so if we're coming through and the feed is good then hello and welcome to awesome hardware episode 15 I am Kyle and usually I coast the show with my buddy Paul but he is away on business right now in Taiwan for computex 2015 doing all that fun business I hope he doesn't get deathly ill over there from being overseas he's not a fan of seafood so god help him but in his place i have with me a very awesome person this is matt philly matt how's it going oh it's it's going it's definitely gone it's always going and Matt 44 I know a lot of people in chat already know who you are and what you do but for those of us who don't I won't you tell us a little bit about yourself what you do and where people can find you as well yes so basically a lot of people know me as swashing or the pimp could not not really i just made that up now the pimp part but uh yeah i do pimp my setup you know I've had a lot of cool people on like your name's Kyle right now should maybe I've had you on pole on lioness all those people which is basically how people find me but people submit setups and then it's kind of the same thing as this it's it's kind of funny how that works out right no yeah I mean yeah you like okay so let's let's just lay the the rumors to rest if there's any uncertainty Matt started the pit my thing first I mean I mean technically MTV did with ya the pit my right but matt has been doing his show pimp my setup on youtube.com slash watching TV if you wanna check it out for way longer than Paul and I have been doing I actually contacted matt DM dim through Twitter was like hey dude we've got this great idea for a show it's basically your show but instead of desk setups we use pcs is it cool if we do it and and you were so gracious to to give us your blessing and that really meant a lot and I mean not that it wouldn't really have mattered regardless but it was a nice gesture for him to ask so I appreciate that but uh as long as I'm not getting sued by MTV I think we're all good that's really well yeah exactly right I'm still waiting for that subpoena soon soon some hairy man shows up at my door but yeah I mean like like that was saying I was a special guest on his show oh I don't know month month or two ago and super fun show and by the way thank you not giving me the diss courtesy of showing up like three hours late like I did on your show I was like literally throw like three or two or three hours late ish and I was great still so sorry about that but oh good you've been very punctual I really appreciate it but I think oh I even I don't know if you have the stream up right now but I even created this little text to go under your name boom might be a little delay there but there's his Twitter handles Matt Matt philly at hit my setup as well as his YouTube handle watching TV please go check him out he's super awesome he does great work super high quality stuff and good streams as well but this going back to the show itself and the format we're going to be switched it up because of Matt's background and what Matt does I figured it'd be kind of cool if we did a special extended pimp my pc segment for this episode so we're going to be taking a look at many more of your systems than we usually do on a single given show and Matt and I are going to be critiquing it and and poking around giving you guys advice and suggestions on how you can really pimp it out and make it look the way it's supposed to but Matt I know you recently built a pc yourself haven't you yeah my first ever build and it's an x 99 so you know I starting big I like that and it's ah it's just you can't even hear it it's so quiet it's beautiful and I I've had it for a month and it's just been amazing that's awesome yeah we hope we all like it big here on awesome hardware so we're glad you feel the same way but you you actually um you streamed your entire build live didn't you on Twitter yeah yep all 37 hours of it straight no sleep okay yeah it was like maybe six or seven but that's only because I listened to the community which can be great but also terrible so yeah it's not like it's kind of like a twitch plays pokemon right where everyone is doing but it's like twitch builds Matt's computer and because of that it takes like five times longer than it should have but that's super cool that's definitely a cool experience for for your first pc that's that's definitely memorable I have to say the least but okay first first off before we jump right into it there's a couple things I wanted to go with to start off with first off is just quick and Spence the first of which being Paul and I are still selling shirts if you want to go check out our merch store you can go to awesomesauce network.com slash store and buy a shirt I'm running out of a lot of the sizes it's been really popular lately but I will be restocking soon so I know there's a lot of mediums out there a lot of mediums who are struggling and don't have shirts on at this very moment but they will be back in stock pretty soon also Paul is still selling stuff as well he just got a new inventory stock supply of these English pub glasses as well as some mugs he's got a new logo on there as well looks really nice it's a thumbscrew very fancy stuff for reasonable prices as well so go ahead and check it out at paul's hardware dot net so yeah I just got to do that shameless plug right there and before we we jump right into i guess i guess the thick of it with with all these pcs that you guys have sent in which look great by the way i kind of want to break the ice a bit for especially for those of you who have questions for Matt and open it up to a Q&A right from the get-go so they can ask you or me questions I know people are probably tired of me and sick of me by now but if you guys have any questions particularly format or myself go ahead and fire away in chat and we will be answering them to the best of our ability but there's a bit of a delay so while they're generating ideas and stuff in chat I have a question for you how has life been since you quit best buy because you quit best buy pretty recently yeah yeah it's it's almost coming up on a month and let's just say before the show I was chillin in my hot tub you know that life is pretty good because I could I could make my own schedule and it's you know it's not easy obviously especially when you're still under 20 because you're considered like a kid to these companies where you're trying to get sponsors and stuff but for the most part I love it and I just I need to get more videos going and what not but it's nice to not be in retail and have people throwing bags at you and cursing at you for return policies so so far pretty good like it seems like you're in a much less abusive environment now than you were until you really need to come it's something it's like twice as abusive exactly but that's awesome dude that that's that's definitely a big step I remember when I resigned from my full-time job at newegg it was like one of the most difficult things I ever had you know it's just like there's no turning back at that point and you know and you don't you just don't know what's around the corner or if it's gonna succeed or fail well you can do is try but I feel like the fear of not knowing you know if you really reach your potential or you know explore that possibility is almost worse than than failing you know in some respects 2015 you got it you got to try new things that's right that's right it's a modern age we're all supposed to you know take risks and you know it's we have the internet on our side I think that's one thing that people back then you know couple generations ago didn't really have we can we can make a living online and it's like well I like being online even when I'm not working so this seems like the perfect job for me yeah don't even to wear pants most of the time I'm not moving to pants any right now actually yeah so and neither are you I'm sure ah you got me we'll do it we'll do a full you know from the waist down tour we'll save that for the end though because people will stick around for that um all right so what questions do we got here and if you see any questions in chat as well Matt feel free to fire him off um let's see Oh someone a fractal Josh asked how is the i Justine book so far Matt oh well as you would assume Josh still have not opened it but I'm planning on it maybe otherwise it's just gonna go sit with Steve like you assumed so yeah that's gonna is it kind of like a autobiography or a memoir type thing or yeah yeah it's a memoir so it's basically just how she got to where she is today which is pretty cool cuz she's pretty successful and she follows me on Twitter so I also hit me up Justine you know nice yeah right Matt single hey oh yeah you know everyone in chat isn't have disappointed but that's okay yeah anyone in chat sorry you don't have a chance against iJustine we all know who Matt's going what else we got here um let's see looks like someone was talking about my mic flag yeah it has a logo on it it's so beautiful isn't it where did you get that that's really nice amazon it's like eight dollars for the plastic part it and then I just printed my logo out on photo paper nice I just taped it on there cuz that's how ghetto I am but it works hey it looks way less ghetto than the setup that we have here's curse to you for that it definitely adds kind of like a more professional look like wow that kinda he's doing oh he means business making me will you got a flag see the flag the deciding factor between amateur and professional exactly yeah okay what else we got here come on guys fire off some questions oh I should be checking my Twitter as well sometimes people like to ask in Twitter do to do so they said some people ask questions that I'm just like I can't say that on stream come on guys you know that's not going to get get pushed it's like ninety percent of them too how do you use your camera as a webcam I mean technically you just need you know video cable going out if it supports it I I have a black magic capture card in my stream bucks that were running this whole shindig with right now and I've got the camcorder that Paul bought recently specifically for the show it's just got a mini HDMI two regular hdmi out going into the back black magic card and OBS pretty much takes care of the rest in that arena so not too difficult I don't see any like hard-hitting questions you know life changing right right I don't either come on guys you guys aren't drunk enough yet to drop your inhibitions and just ask us all the random shits oh hey Matt from your experience what is the best store to buy a PC desk ooh um god I'm gonna get so much hate for saying it ikea cuz where else are you gonna do it um but honestly i would also say you don't need to buy it from you know like a store you can go to like home depot and just get like a granite countertop you know do it yourself and make it work yep that's very true probably save some save some cash if you you do it yourself as well exactly every money every dollar saved building a desk is another dollar into your PC which you know considering the show's called pin my pc right now yeah it's kind of a big deal exactly just just don't leave your PC on the floor whatever you do yeah oh yeah there's there's some interesting pictures that we're going to take a look at later great oh yeah yeah i just recently put mine up on my desk i have hardwood floors anyway but i like it up on my desk so yep safe and sound wet headphones are those probably asking both of us so Matt what do you got there these are brain waves hm nine brain waves I don't think I've heard of them or I haven't had much experience with them are they pretty good oh good oh good there they're literally like the the opposite um like the good version of beats basically okay and I a lot cheaper so it's good that's that's good I was gonna ask I hopefully bit cheaper than beets yeah they're like a hundred in some box like not not bad at all so they're they're cheaper than beets but sound better which is like all headphones yeah basically and it really good build quality they kind of resemble the beats i guess yeah definitely this thing that compact are they pretty comfortable as well oh yeah i could sit here for like 13 hours straight sweet cuz that's how long the stream is so alright hopefully your put it to the gentle yeah exactly I where'd some dt 880 pros from biodynamic german-engineered open back design super good studio headphones I use them for editing gaming or they're really comfy floor pads and stuff okay what else we got here HTC vive or oculus cv1 I actually don't know too much about either of those I was gonna say the same thing I'm like one of those awkward things already we're getting no I i know i know very briefly about them but i haven't done enough research on them yet to to give an opinion one way or the other and you never want to do that you never want to give your opinion on line when you're not well informed cuz then you just get it's a shitstorm of trolls and and whores you could just pull a matt philly and say both both just confuse the shit out of them equal opportunity I'm gonna I'm gonna go devil's advocate and say neither Oh see there you go they boil sides both what are you in there both horrible okay question Kyle what's your favorite system you've built to date oh man that's that's really tough actually cuz do it thanks i built a lot um favorite one I built ever man it's it's really tough to beat your first it really is just because there's that whole dreaded dreading feeling of if it'll work and I think that makes the the moment when it finally turns on and actually does work a lot more satisfying because after that it's like you know it's like riding a bike it's like well no one's ever been like it was the 50 of 50 third time riding my bicycle that really got to me now it's always like your first time when you finally get it I think that's at least the most memorable and probably the most impactful build that I've experienced and life changing life changing life changing um I would totally agree considering I've only known one builds up it's also the first build format as well yes yeah that would make sense what else we got here all right just a couple more and then we'll move on to the good stuff um don't know what that means I guess something fun I can mention is tomorrow I'm getting a nice package in the morning and not okay whoa keeping it on to hear Matt get a bj I'm getting a delivery from UPS that's better Jesus the UPS guy you're all over the place buddy yeah um what is it though what sounds getting too very nice brand new displays so I'm getting rid of my triple display setup 27 aoc displays and I'm getting I haven't really said but let's just say they're ultra wide and the brand spankin new I'm getting two of them you know pretty good that's pretty hot are they are those gonna be your new primary monitors I'm guessing yep yep I'm actually uh being a really good brother in giving all my three displays to my little brother so you better appreciate that shit wow you have a brother he's like the luckiest brother in the world yeah so yep he better be happy all the other brothers in the world are just getting their older brothers socks and like oh yeah it's the back of them anymore yeah that's that's pretty awesome but are you gonna be doing any video coverage on those monitors we check him out oh yeah tomorrow I should have a video up of me just setting them up and whatnot so stay tuned for that yeah it's gonna be dope very cool says when you're doing your unboxings and reviews how many video recording devices do you have filming from different views at the same time I only do single camera I'm not sure about Matt but I only have one camera recording at the same time unless I'm doing a build then sometimes I'll have like two cameras set up I think that most i've ever had was like three but that was for a web series that i did back in the day for system config but usually it's just one I record one section of a video at a time I do all my teleprompter stuff talking to the camera and then separately i'll record all the sexy b-roll shots of the hardware and things like that pretty much like it should be done yeah that one I mean you're like old professional you know like it's just a matter of bandwidth to like who's gonna be manning the other campuses well you know for you and me it's just that's it this is the entire camera crew you know I can only press so many things with so many hands yeah so that's just what works I guess for now you know that's me once we get to line his status will have like an entire camera crew hey awesome that works yeah okay let's let's see oh this is a good one for you Matt what was the one life changing moment in your life that started you down the road of being a professional youtuber um I honestly I always had to throw back to the barn Cleese he found me and he's like put me on your show and I was like okay like I didn't even know who he was to be quite honest um but I was like yeah and then after that you know and then obviously things like lioness and this guy Kyle just threw me through the roof and ya know it's just don't have that guy back on again yeah took the words right out he was like yeah but now I would just say getting someone you know big like Jerry to to kind of be someone that believes in what I do so that's pretty cool that's that's definitely got to be pretty pretty damn Inc urging I think oh yeah when someone like so much bigger than you notice his potential in what you're doing it's just like whoa like it opens up doors and makes you think like wow I can actually do this if this guy who's already successful thinks I can yeah then it's definitely obtainable exactly plus he just in his video yesterday was wearing my shirt uh when he was painting and he basically was talking smack he's like I don't wanna get my good shirt sturdy so i'm wearing my pit myself it's like thank you in typical barnacle ease fashion yeah exactly brilliant awesome i actually didn't know that i actually didn't know that he was like your first big co-host or whatever for the show or guest yeah that and that he contact contacted you that's that's awesome yeah it was very cool guy yeah totally and let's see let's do one more question format come on what about uh it's actually just in general i didn't even know this was a thing steam doing refunds that a thing that real I I briefly heard about this um I well the last steam refund I heard was for the mods like when people were paying for mods when when steam tried to do the whole paid mods thing people bought some mods and I guess steam at some point so that they were going to give people refunds for the mods because they realized paid mods were where a bad idea I think that's pretty much the story but interesting you know steam steam definitely is one to listen to their audience and they don't take what they say lightly you know their their business and they're trying to profit like any other business but I think they they understand that the only reason why they're successful is because they've been catering to their audience a certain way and their voices are being heard so uh yes good to me that's I'm not too surprised that steam would would be given refunds for like that for something like that if they felt gamers how to write gamers Nina were justified in that cause true but that's super cool alright cool thank you guys so much for the questions we're going to shift gears here and let's just start taking a look at some of these pc's because we've got quite a few of them to go if were already about 20 minutes into the show I'm going to try to keep it an hour long just just to be respectful of Matt's time and your guys's time it well at home but let's just see how many we get through here so first off let's go to this one from Brandon Brandon sends in his system which isn't a half X be there it is right there sitting pretty now we were just talking Matt we were just talking about having a desk to put your computer on and not putting it on the floor at all costs Brandon's kind of taken like a hybrid approach it's not really on the floor but it's not on a desk either he's got wooden pallets under this system and I'm not sure if that's where he keeps his system regularly or if or if that's just where it is you know you and I don't know why he'd have pallets in his room maybe his room is a warehouse great you're never gonna find out but you know at the very least it's not on the carpet I will say that it might not be the prettiest thing to look at but it is more functional than than the damn carpet getting sucking in all that dust and foot debris oh I like to call it Phil debris don't say it like that was wounded I know it's supposed to ruin it it's supposed to ruin it for everyone but let's take a look at what he's got inside so under the head we've got an air cooler here looks like maybe a hyper 212 evo from from coolermaster but he's definitely put some slapped on some corsair fans there which looked pretty nice it's kind of hard to see here's a better picture a top-down view so Matt like the way the half XP I've never actually physically built in one before but from my understanding like half the components are it's basically a cube it's a cube-shaped case that the motherboard mounts horizontally instead of vertically and it's kind of got two platforms over two floors if you will it's like a two-story house so on the top story you've got your motherboard cpu and GPU and things like that and on the bottom are the less attractive components like your power supply hard drives and things of that nature where you can kind of keep most of your cables so it's supposed to be a really good case for cable management as well as promote really healthy air flow as you can see he's got to intake fans they're off to the right but this is a I mean I don't know I think there could be some work done with the cable management it kind of looks like you've got a nice sound card there but I feel like it's just kind of the cables routing a little bit too far you definitely want to cut down the visible length of your cables if you can see like a long distance long part of your cable or a large chunkier cable it's typically not favorable on the eyes and in most cases these days I know especially the fxb offer solutions around that so you don't have to expose so much of your cable there might be another way that you can route it around I can kind of see towards the bottom there you might be able to shortcut it I don't know if you know maybe you had to take the long route or have to route it to the right side because maybe your cable wasn't long enough to route underneath you know and we don't know the full story here all we can do is make judgments based on what we see from the pictures but apart from that I think you also would need to clean this system yes it seems like i can see fingerprints like on the on the motherboard the motherboard panel or whatever the motherboard tray i should say there's fingerprints like made in the dust like you know it's great for for crime scenes if you want to like stop a burglar in his tracks and you know get the dust of fingerprints off or whatever but all together it looks like you haven't cleaned this thing in about six to eight months possibly which i think is just too long these days especially if you're going to be using this thing everyday which a lot of us are and that generates a lot of dust you know i'm probably it's half of the dust that came with those two two wooden pallets is probably now in your system so you have to make sure to like get that stuff out every now and then but apart from that I don't see anything glaringly wrong with it other than the cable management definitely I think this think this is the eight pen pci I don't know that's what is that I think that's a cpu cable whether it's the CPU cable or the 24-pin that could be tucked away i think if you zip tie that it just kind of looks like it's flopping all over the place it looks very loose and i understand that you know it's it's on the first floor of the case and it's not going to be visible from from any other point of view unless you were to take the actual and closure off but just just you know for four principles sake for tidiness I don't know it feels good to know that all of your cables are tucked away because even even though no one else can tell it's like one of those things we're like oh I don't I don't care and people try to reassure you like oh it's not a big deal i don't mind and you're like I don't even notice it you're like but I notice it and that's the problem I don't care if anyone else notice is it so it's kind of one of those things here's a shot of it lit up in the dark which looks really nice I definitely like how he's matched his fans together you know what I mean I think that that kind of makes a more cohesive theme to it a bit of a color scheme there I can't tell if they're blue I think they're blue in this picture they look completely purple but based on the fact that he's got a blue I'm sorry a motherboard with like blue heat sinks and stuff i'm guessing that they're they're blue LED fans but all together pretty nice build did you have anything else to say about this one Matt I honestly just think that it's a badass-looking case like I really really like that it's so different and that's to me someone that likes the look of you know everything not even inside but outside that looks great in a setup and yeah it's just it's really dusty especially the outside of the case it's killing me yeah yeah there's definitely something to be said about dust in the case that has such good airflow too because it's bringing so much air in constantly especially he's got I think that's probably a 200 millimeter fan up there at the top which you know that's that's pulling a lot of stuff anything that you know gets tossed off of the left side of your desk probably falls right into there and yeah go ahead and clean that sucker definitely manage them cables and you should be good to go so thanks for setting that in Brandon next up we've got something from something weird I'm not making the joke or anything that says his twitter handle is something we are going to start off exactly but his system doesn't look too weird it actually looks pretty decent he definitely has some good robust hardware in there he's got to win forest cards those might be um I don't know what those are seven 80s maybe I'm not too sure but he's got him an SLI looks pretty solid again with the dustiness there's just too much dust in this system that that leads me to believe it's been way too long since you last cleaned it I think I think you again you've got a lot of air cooling in here I think those are 2 1 40 millimeter fans at the front and this is this is an air too I'm sorry an air 540 case I think just just because you know you notice Matt how you don't see like a power supply yeah I was going to say I think it's because it's on the other side so you kind of like after seeing so many cases you realize like most cases are just like that you could they can be categorized in certain genres or you know class classes or whatever and this is almost kind of like if you think about like the half xb but on its side we've got you know the second floor it's just a house that has now been turned on its side and you've got a vertically mounted motherboard but still all your Messier components are in the back which you would think leads to clean our cable management and for the most part this is definitely better cable management than we saw in the last system I think certain things stand out to me more than others like like the I think that's an 8-pin think you're 8-pin pcie I'm so I keep saying saying pcie but you're a pen cpu connector up there on the top right is just it just looks a little I don't know how it's a little out of place how it's crossing over the RAM there if you could maybe tuck that away a little bit better also i like how kind of blacked out this thing is it looks very like simple and minimalistic again if you clean it up and shine it up it'll look way like a million times better but I think maybe those pcie cables that are going into your video cards are kind of throwing me off a little bit just because of the red connectors I feel like that those red accents kind of demand a little bit more red in the system yo for example if you maybe had like some some of those corsair airflow fans that have like the interchangeable rings on them that you know they can be either be switched to blue or red if you had some fans like that just give it a little bit more accent I think to to match those pcie connectors that would be pretty sweet or you can just get some extensions like some nice black sleeved extensions from silverstone orbit phoenix or something like that or sleeping yourself and swap him out for those stock flat flat cables with with the red connectors and just make it all black black it out yeah I agree cuz the the red is like like why why is there like a theme cuz i don't know maybe does he have lights that we don't see cuz you know he's only gave us one photo there's not much to go off of but it's so out of place normally you know you see too much of a color where it's like whoa that's overwhelming but this is like it's just it's out of place so i would definitely decide are you going all black are you gonna had some read into it so yeah i agree yep definitely but altogether nice looking system something weird i still that i still liked that name is weird yeah now I see why he did it there you go that's his name thank you for setting that in though next up we've got Anthony Anthony sending in his his r9 290x system he's got an AMD 8350 corvy 51 this is a pretty nice-looking system first off we can take a look at what it looks like in the dark with all the lights on so we know here that he definitely does have some red LEDs going yeah and so we kind of know like what kind of thing he's going for now the other one should have been if you have that read it you know even with the lights off you could see the red kind of flows through the whole pc right exactly I'm not Beth maybe that's maybe something I should start doing like having people sending not just pictures of their rigs in the daylight but also maybe a shot of it at night or a dimly lit environment if they do have things like LEDs because that might change you know what what Paul or I or you might say about it when we're not giving suggestions and things like that but altogether this looks nice in the dim and the dimness of the night but here let's take a look at a brighter picture can definitely kind of see a bit more here I like how you've gone the extra mile and sleeved your own cables I'm pretty sure that that's a that's self self done they don't look like you bought them anywhere because they're they're actually different the the red striping in the PCIe cables is a bit different than the ATX cable on the side there so I think you did that yourself so kudos to you that's definitely it's definitely a tall order to just leave your own cables like that so a good effort there looks like you've got enough room in your case it doesn't look like anything's competing for space at this point I see a couple hard drives there in your cages on the bottom cage anyway the top cage I don't see any drives in it maybe there's an SSD or something but it just kind of looks like your housing more cables in there and if that's the case maybe try to route those behind the motherboard tray that's that's a pretty big substantial looking case I think you'll probably have some extra room for cables back there but again Oh a lot of these boiled down to cable management and Matt this is probably something that I know this is something that you deal with a lot on the channel even though you don't work with pcs directly you're still constantly talking about cable management when it comes to people's monitors and keyboards and mice and and computers as well and it's just amazing like how much of a difference that that alone makes it changes everything I've been imagined this picture with bad cable management I mean it it's really not that bad in this uh this pc at all um but just imagine with it like all over the place it kills it but when it's old nice and clean and it's got that nice accent lighting in the red all over it just makes it look like that's hot that's like you know that's they're gonna put that on their website you know selling the case exactly nice it is yeah exactly yep very nice so all in all I don't have too much to say if you really wanted to get nitpicky about it um what you could do is and this is one thing that I like it's so nitpicky but it's one thing that I like is a pet peeve of mine with course air coolers is their corsair link cable which is this little cable off to the left sticking out of the water block there it just it just adds another cable is the really the problem that I have with it and usually it's located like on the side I wish that corsair would actually put the port right next to the fan ports so that you could sleeve them all together and kind of bind them but they don't it's off to the side i'm sure there's engineering reasons behind that and that's fine so what we what i would do as a builder if i was really being picky or whatever and being super precise azide probably route this the corsair link cable over to the two fan cables you have there and just zip tie them together so what looks like one slightly thicker cable instead of two separate cables going in different directions I think that will really make it look a bit a bit tidier overall and you know it's it's the cpu it's like the main thing that people look at it's one of the first things that people look at when they look into your side panel window so try to keep that as clean as possible if you can but I do like this the setup here I like how you have a bottom mounted fan just pointed straight at your video card right at the bottom of the case very thoughtful and apart from that Oh other thing I caught is I would probably swap out that optical drive and the top right for a black one Paul and I were kind of talking about this on a previous show we were like yeah well I don't know why all the optical drives are beige and then someone in chat reminded us that they do have black ones i think asus has a black one and then i was like oh duh i have one of those it's just been forever since i actually had to use it obviously but they do have black ones and they're dirt cheap i mean even if you get a blu ray one you can probably get it for 40 50 bucks just swap that out the beige honestly is the only thing that clashes drastically with with this set oh and um so yeah Bo than that nice job Anthony well done well played sir all right next up we got Michael and this is Michael system I think he might have sent this in now I look at it this might be a repeat but I think he's made some improvements since then particularly in cable management let's take a look here definitely has a strong theme going I like the blue theme obviously he's got two cards in sli and they're not matching ones a reference design cooler on the bottom and the one on top is a think it's EVGA or they could see vga or XFX i'm not sure but I I think I remember him telling us that he got the the reference card on sale like a killer deal it was either a 780 or 780 ti or something and he just couldn't say no and I would've done the same thing if you get a really good deal it doesn't matter what it looks like just buy the damn thing you're getting a steal but I don't know if there's any way that you could possibly get that same cooler that you have on the top card maybe buy it after market from the manufacturer and install it on the reference card because that would look a lot better I mean just functionally this is this blows my computer out of the water chances are but if you're talking about pimping can't have no mismatching cards now I'm saying yeah seriously what got a match that up but um yeah that's probably easier said than done but you know yeah depends oh he also he made a good point cuz he said he should probably get a new case cuz yes that's the first thing when I look at that I'm like wow good job fitting all that yeah exactly the clown car you know yes it is it is and there's this to me clowns in it I think that that definitely is true like there's in this system it looks like the components are competing for space it really looks like they they might be starved for a bit of air flow because they're all so close to each other even whatever air flow they do get is probably just more hot air because of the other component that's sitting right next to it is warming up the ambient temperatures inside the case or the in case temperatures so yeah a 780ti I mean that's that's like the polar opposite of this case seven ATT is huge I mean you can go eatx and it still looks like a mini ITX board in comparison it's just so cavernous but it's a great case and offers really great cooling as well and just oodles and oodles of water cooling support and things like that but I think that's exactly what what Michael needs is he needs a bigger case because he's got a lot of hardware he's taking full advantage of his pc he's got for hard drives in there on SSD to two video cards and and i'm sure he'd like to slap on possibly a larger radiator in there as well maybe even do some custom water cooling but yeah kudos on on being able to fit all that stuff in there and still get some really nice cable management out of it as well i think it's super clean I like how he's tactfully tied the unused PCIe connectors kind of underneath the cables so they're kind of like pointed off to the left and they're all facing the same way it just looks really tidy it does Stefan and I even liked the attention to detail with the the two blue fan connector the sleeved fan connectors right right above the power supply going off over there see that's how small this case is he doesn't even have any grommets underneath the motherboard to slide those and he's got to go all the way over to the main grommet for the power supply to to hide those cables anywhere but yeah great attention to detail has even got a blue SATA connector save it save the cable back there as well I'm digging it I'm digging it just get a bigger case try to get a you know try to match those video cards somehow I don't know how you're gonna do it but just try just try a damn it and possibly even get a you know a custom decal over your power supply to cover the red ax because it's a clashing a little bit but you know or if you get a case that you know a lot of cases these days we'll have a shroud that covers the power supply so you don't see it at all it's you know something that like companies like NZXT like to do because like power supplies are always stealing the show just we'll just cover the whole thing and slap an NZXT logo on top of it that's how mine is but mine mine is just stealth it's odd that the fantex it is the lux I think yeah um Here I am looking like a new because I don't even know the name of the case but that's so it looks so nice yeah like hiding that because cable management wise it's amazing it looks like a crap down there but you don't even know that so it's great I like it hello like yeah oh also the other thing I was gonna say you should have people say the name of their pc you know how like people know that's a good idea because I want to know looking at this build what did he call this cuz I'm thinking clown car but I don't know like I'm wondering what what people call their systems I think that's something people should start doing see Matt this is this is exactly why I copied your show is you have great ideas and I'm starved for them so i'm just going to plagiarize everything you do uh but yeah cool uh yeah let's thank you Michael for the clown car I really love it just work on those few things and you should be good to go let's move on to the next one and let's let's just try to make up names for these pcs from now on oh I like that yeah good let's do it will make him up for them for this round since that provided any this is from Ed from sapphire sapphire ed some of you may know him on Twitter he's a he's a vendor rep for sapphire the actual company the actual GPU video card manufacturer I shouldn't say GPU but video card board partner and Sapphire make some really great cards of course his system is rocking a sapphire vapor-x hello God yeah it's a 290x um feel free to send me a sample ahead if I tell you your system is perfect is does that increase my odds of getting a sample to 90 x over 3 90 x with that XD give me a Fiji card but this is a pretty nice setup I think this is in arc midi i want to say it's a fractal our committee case based on the feet looks a little bit smaller than fine define r4 to find our 50 yeah it's definitely an arc midi because i can tell from the front panel but a beefy beefy video card in there which I like very healthy air flow because it's completely unemployed you got both drive cages removed there are no drive cages so you probably got them in the back somewhere I think I think he might have mentioned that they were SSDs which makes a lot of sense because I don't know how you'd fit two three and a half's back there but you can see that he's prioritized airflow over storage here and I think that that that works that's a good solution you know not everyone's gonna be able to do that because they're gonna they're gonna need more storage but ed doesn't apparently need it so much he's prioritizing airflow for that 290x as well as the other components in the system and he said his card runs pretty damn cool like it doesn't get above 68 Celsius which is awesome also a testament to the the sapphire cooler in there but I believe those are cougar fans as well very good airflow and static pressure but I'd say the only thing here because your cable management is spot-on ed like everyone take a lesson from Ed's cable management even like if you look at the front the two front fans you can see like the cabling like the cables meet at the bottom corner of Lucy and they just go and like I didn't even notice it you know they have to really look at you gotta try to find it it's like I spy I spy cables and edson computer one game takes forever so yeah I think it looks really really nice the only thing I would have to say is color coordination yep and I know this isn't this isn't a big deal for some people but it is for me personally I think you know manufacturer is now more than ever of almost every component go the extra mile to have their components colored differently you know offered in different colors for that reason because customization has become such a huge thing personalization it is a personal computer after all and I think it really ties everything together when you have a cohesive color scheme for all for your entire system but you know I think it's very functional this is definitely a very functional epact rig here that you've got and I know it probably performs really well what about you Matt what else would you say about this system well first of all I'm just laughing at all the different things people are saying about the motherboard color but ed is saying that it's uh the flash made it look like that it's actually black which makes me feel a lot better oh that was like really throwing it all for me yep you know I didn't mind like all the clashing colors cuz whatever but when I saw the motherboard I was like that looks like it you know that you read the comments it's pretty good um but yeah I mean that the colors at the end of the day if you really like nitpicking I mean it's really it's like a rainbow in there so i would definitely figure that out and I don't like the wait is this windowed I don't know is it a week see it's got a tinted window on it okay so can you see the power supply from that or is it the way it's cut I believe the windows a little bit above it you'd have to like be like right really close I'm looking down to really see it alright yeah cuz the power supply with that label they're just throwing up but if you can't see it then I guess it's really not an issue at all so yep yeah I mean cable management's like 10 out of 10 really nice exactly uh I would definitely agree um the last critique I would say is and you know kind of repeating ourselves here but ed blends last time you cleaned your system I can see those fans are getting some build-up right there which is a good sign it means you love your system and that you have been using it frequently I can also see that you used a cloth or your finger to wipe off whatever dust was on the power supply because I can see like a clean line that was just it just been wiped that that top layer but but yeah I mean it all together a really solid system ad which looks really nice and thank you for officially agreeing to send me and 290x everyone everyone heard it right right here on stream I heard it yeah matter if your package yep there you go I have a witness alright cool so let's move on to Simon thanks for that ad Simon's got his budget build here all it says is my budget build and thank you for letting us know that this is in fact a budget build and it looks like you've definitely done a lot here for for a budget system you've got an SSD in there which i think is great if you're able to get something that is super affordable that you think is a budget build and still throw an SSD and I think that's awesome again we've got a sapphire card here not not quite the vapor x cooler that we saw on beefs I'm piece on edge safety card unbe start extra say that in Viva and we've officially lost all control um Jesus Christ but yeah moving back to the system this what were you saying kindly don't know I can't even think straight anymore Oh God someone help me uh but III think cable management again you know it's probably tough because I can tell this is a budget case for sure you can tell it's just maybe a little bit on the cheaper side like cheap cheaply made or I Gary the Jag they're just now see oh but the microwave friends I get I think we've just invented a meme oh no all right I'm minimizing Chad this is not yet i was gonna say yeah he will not be able to do the show hey I'm struggling at Liz all right focus whoo focus and take a sip here everyone take a moment everyone taking oh man what a silence mmm Center your cheek yeah there you go bring it back down how's it going ladies and gentle alright so moving back to this system as I was saying it's a cheaper case and typically with cheaper cases they don't give you much leeway in terms of cable management they give you really small space behind that motherboard tray Matt you were super privileged to build in the enthu looks amazing case for cable management I mean you'll see a damn thing if you don't want to not so much the case with these budgets budget Chessie's you know he probably paid 40 60 bucks for this guy so he's probably got I want to say like half an inch to you know down to five millimeters of space back there and you really gotta you really gotta you know it's it's a valiant effort to to get all the cables hidden in cases like this but um you've also got some interesting stuff here this this layout calls for a top-mounted power supply as opposed to a bottom mounted 1 i'm not sure if there's ventilation at the top of your case there if there is i might flip the the power supply 180 degrees just to have the ventilation in taking fresh air from outside instead of sucking up hot air from inside your case as it runs through your the componentry of your power supply it might just be a bit healthier overall but like i said it's it's a budget case so you might not have much to work with there might not be ventilation holes at the top there you could do some modding I mean as a fun project you know it depends how much effort you want to put in you probably see a really small return for the amount of work that you put in but you know if you're kind of into that DIY you know adding scene or whatever you want to try something new might be something cool to do other than that you know I can't I can't knock you too hard for the cable management cuz I know the type of chess chassis your building and I've built in you know several of them before and I know it's difficult I think here you're also I don't think you I also don't think you mind color coordination much it doesn't look like you care too much about it i know i think there's leds in there you got some blue leds in the case so clearly you're leaning towards blue of all the things of all the colors but you've also got knocked to offends in there which by the way don't don't take them out I would never remove a knock to a fan for aesthetics purpose the first etic purposes they're hideous don't get me wrong i think there's very few systems out there we're not to a fan on that's not been modded or modified in any way looks good with with the rest of the build but that being said maybe you could spray paint the frames or and the blades if you really wanted to give it a you know an overall blue or black theme um I also think it's kind of funny did you notice Matt that he's got two different colored gems in there like his memory oh yeah there's a blue one and a black one I've got a name for the system black and blue Wow didn't see that one coming yeah right yeah or or my second choice was Rihanna Rihanna Rio after you know yeah chris brown rihanna ik soon it was a while here so it'll always be to you soon yeah everyone go tweet that to Rihanna oh okay mega relive the past oh boy what have we done like Rihanna though that's a good that's a good name for it so right that should stick yeah I like it might need to might have put I need to put a few dents there in the cinema side panel just just to bring out the theme you know like to mod it you got to make it worthy of the name yeah this pc the i guess i'll get back on topic for you yeah it's like you said i never built in anything like this so i don't know how that it is but yeah it's like criss cross and it but then again I'm sure you're reaching you're really struggling to get it to where it needs to go so I can only imagine what that's like um I don't know I is there really anything you could do in the bottom cuz it's just so open and empty or is it I mean I guess it's good for air flow but yeah I mean if not there's really nothing down there other than that SSD so right i mean it almost looks like because they're so like there's basically nothing in the bottom and he's got the power supply on top it looks very top heavy things there any mean like it looks like if they were to like if there was a marginal earthquake or something that it could easily you know it just looks really top heavy and i don't know what you could really do about that it's just awkward it's very weird it's gonna be a bit difficult like feeling awkward when you're you know hauling it from A to B or whatever picking it up and things like that but I don't know what you could really do to to solve that problem in this case I mean I think that's just one of the sacrifices you make for you know buying a really cheap case and saving a bunch of money on the bright side if you do have like a fan mount at the front because chances are maybe this this case only came with like one exhaust fan or no intakes at the front slap a fan on there if you haven't already and just drive some more air flow to your video card that's all I could say and I was also kind of curious too because you know you see a cpu cooler he's got that neck knocked to a fan that tan knocked to a fan to the left usually i would suggest putting it to the right of the cooler and blowing the hot air towards the rear of the case so that that that rear fan can exhaust the hot air coming off your heat sink there but i think in this case it looks like he probably didn't have room for it on the right on the right side I think his he's probably run into some ram clearance issues if you were to try to install that fan on the right all I all I have to say is I hope that fan that's attached to your cpu cooler is set to pull and not push every all the airflow should be going the same direction so it should be pushing or I'm sorry pulling air to the back of your case exiting out that rear knock to a fan that you've got there and you should be good to go but Simon a lovely budget build perhaps one day you can you know that's the beauty of PCs you start with a budget build or something really low-key and you can work your way up you know start installing component after component over the years over several months or whatever eventually get a nicer case and your your cables will look a hell of a lot better because of it so thank you sir yeah appreciate it and moving on to Dylan every start I'm still scared to look at the chat I mean it's calmed down a bit okay good that's good okay good you guys are you guys are terrible by the way you're just trying to sabotage the whole stream don't you know that Matt and I will self sabotage the stream without your help exactly sorry that's that's the only reason why I came on here that's what I'm looking to do oh yeah you're here to revive me to pull me out of my dark place when shit like that happens I need an anchor Matt be my anger you're actually my sponsor yeah exactly for AAA ok topic here this is from Dillon Dillon thank you for sending in the system it's a custom water-cooled rig you've got a lot going on here and I I'll be honest I'm gonna level with you guys I've never built a custom water-cooled system myself from the ground up I've helped people build their systems and you know I've done things like mounting mounting certain components and installing things but I've never done the full thing myself from start to finish so when it comes to custom water-cooled builds I always feel like I don't I'm not like you know in the right I don't have the authority to really comment too much on it but I can give my general opinions based on looks and the very little you know the brief knowledge of what I do have dunno about it so again if we're if we're talking aesthetics I just said this the noctua fans don't look good in in ninety-nine percent of the cases or the systems i've seen they just don't that said they are amazing fans and they perform better than than most fans out there grant albeit for for a premium price but um I think I think you can you can do a lot here the one thing that stands out to me well i guess i guess i should finish what I was saying about the fans again spray paint them or yeah that's that's pretty much all i would do spray-paint them or make the rest of your system the color of the noctua fan so I make the rest of your components beige like if they do that like because it's just no one has a bill of that that matches that color see you know right no I don't think anyone's got a system that's like let's let's do desert camo what yes I've never seen worse colors yeah do it do a desert camo mod that's that's my solution Dylan someone's gonna end up doing it now I know yeah desert desert mod with with noctua fans it's the only thing that'll look good um I don't know spray paint your radiator beige oh my god what do you want from me um okay here's here's maybe one more serious piece of advice is I I would probably go with a solid color fluid for your loop because I think when it's clear it just it tends to look murky or cloudy over time um and some people might not mind that but I personally just it feels dirty to me or feels you know like like you should it should be replaced doesn't look fresh you look fresh so maybe I don't know get some beige fluid get some brown fluid you could call it oh you could call it the plumber or so gonna say you know you need to go buy it fluid you could do no figure that I so I'll just hey I don't know that's not a budget build but the last guy if he looks to do some water cooling you know just go to steal your own feces liquefy it and drop it into that bad boy yeah you could do that pretty quick to the plumber yeah yeah go go ahead leave you leave your guys's best names for these pcs in the chat yeah I want to see what people have to say about this no the septic tank there you go there you go that's a good one nice said that that was ad no I'm sorry good job beef me and beef got ed I know the best mistake that's the thing ever like call someone beat by how would I even make that mystique see they could be taking so many different ways like before like beef you know like uh wait here I'll get you back on track I do agree about the it looks cloudy with the chance of beef balls you know you never doubt so it does look a little like especially it just looks gross I don't know I don't know what's wrong with it yeah these girls I don't know anything about water cooling so no I I agree and maybe some of it is attributed to the flash of the camera I know flash tends to do weird things um but I have known you know that this is a problem with a clear fluid and clear tubing and I I would have to guess that changing the fluid is much easier at this point then swapping out all of your tubing that seems like a total hassle and you know a full day project so i don't know maybe just drain the whole thing swap it out with some some solid fluid and then also maybe replace those dims the memory modules may be with with some black ones because you've you know you've you made the effort to get some blacks leaving in there and it does look it does look quite nice i like how the power supply think you've recolored it possibly to match the not to a fan so it shows me you're trying you want to make this work you want your conforming your system to the noctua fan color and i think that's awesome because probably not many people actually or have to have the balls to take on that challenge yeah yeah so do it make it work do it son Thank You Dylan appreciate it brother by the way it is 630 it's been an hour so i am going to we're gonna do two more of these you cool with that Matt I'm I'm down you're down all right yeah just I don't want to go too crazy on you guys people start getting cranky because it's like midnight somewhere else or three everything yeah so we'll wrap up these last two say some closing words and then then we'll be out so the ones from one lon thank you presenting this in this is his heir to 40 from corsair that's the case and he said he tried his best to tidy it up and it does look very tidy actually yeah this the hmm I might not have too much to say about this again with the the Corsair link cable coming out the the left side of your water block you kind of this is a better picture to show you what I mean it just adds another cable that's going you know different way so if you could route that over to the fan cable that's coming out of the top of your water block right there and maybe even tuck it underneath you know just zip tie are really tight you know you can get some really thin zip ties that are very discreet black obviously would work work nicely and just get that sucker out of the way um but all together this is kind of cool i think maybe also if i'm getting you know nitpicky here you've got some red pcie cables but you've got a black HDX cable I would say either do black and black or red and red and I'm going to suggest red and red because you've got red dims already and which looks sick which looks really nice however Matt do you notice anything about this system that that we thought about that we noticed with ed system we were actually wrong about ed system on this on this presumption but it might be the case for this one they make me look dumb ah something with the PCB possibly word it looks brown the piece of the motherboard looks Brown I don't think that's cuz a flash to or that's a good question I don't see the model number I don't see those look like cocoa butter yeah please in the shop looks black the top does look black so I'm saying it looks black at the top and they kinda it's like a gradient almost guys in chat let us know if this is a poopoo board or if it's a black he isn't chad right now okay said that he tried to bend that cable and doesn't it doesn't want to be bent doesn't want to be bent yeah like no Kyle get over it yeah yeah I know right yeah you should keep of course in linking their shit it um okay so he's saying people are saying that it's possibly black leather okay so it's just the flash see you next time when you guys send in your pictures I want you to buy like a two-hundred-dollar lighting kit make sure that shit's lit properly all right oh no camera phone shit yeah get some expensive ass lights when you send in your tweets because it's worth it all together though one this is a nice looking system and it looks I don't know if you cleaned it right before you took the shot I'm sure a lot of people do that but if not kudos to you for keeping a really clean-looking system I don't see a speck of dust on there if you had the lighting kit I'd be able to see if there was this but I'll let that one slide because your cable management's on point next week though next week next week we shall see all right thanks I agree yeah it's nice yeah well done sir and last but not least this one's from moshe he says he was planning on replacing the orange fan and yes he hasn't cleaned in months okay so he's just told us from the get-go look I know this thing is dirty as hell that's okay I'm glad that you were up front with us so we didn't have to speculate or whatever and it looks like we've got another arc midi case here from fractal awesome cases we tend to see a lot of fractal cases on the show just because they're awesome they're really well-built functionally have good air flow their silent and they're pretty damn affordable as well so I'm not surprised we see so many of them on here but this one looks like he's removed the top drive cage opened up the airflow that top fan there I think that's a smart move just taking advantage of all the airflow also I I mean what color is that motherboard I'd like that one I don't know because there's no gradient effect on that one for me right right yeah just poo poo basic just poo all around you got ya whoo board my friend which wouldn't surprise me because I mean looking at all the dust he might like it dirty you know that's a good point I mean look at that SSD uh I just kind of like want to put my finger over and see how much dust comes up it's kind of satisfying I'm not gonna lie when you just like sing a little bit and it's nice and clean that's probably what he did right after he took the pictures i can now it's just than you think yeah sweat feeling good drawing images this is my favorite oh yeah or the extreme opposite of a smiley face I don't know sometimes two and two go hand in hand but uh what else do you have to say getting us back on track here we have to say about the sister nude well some people are saying it's a poo poo board um and I only saw one person say it's black so I mean overall I wouldn't be surprised if was boohoo like I said it's it's a it's nice i there's really i would really just want to see it nice and clean just wipe it off clean it up um I mean a little clash of colors but there's really nothing too dominant for me to be like why did you just follow through with that so it's just a looks like a nice you know build with random parts basically yeah yeah I agree um it also kind of looks like he might have a micro ATX board in there that's a that's a full ATX chassis but he might be a micro ATX bored so I think that's the only reason why the like all of this I owe is like all of his front panel connectors at the bottom of his motherboard have to reach such a far distance to get into those grommets is because it's a smaller board then the case was potentially intended for but that's okay again yeah I think cleaning it up would be good also that looks like a gtx 980 in there but you know what it might be a 960 as well all i'm going to say is if it does happen to be based on the other components how they look pretty budget especially the power supply i'm going to guess it's a 960 and if that's the case solid well done if it's a 980 i think you might need to be careful on that power supply just make sure that you if you're overclocking i would definitely get a higher rated power supply at least a 500 at the very least and that doesn't even factor into what your CPU might be and if you're overclocking on that as well just want to make sure that you know no one blows out there their hardware and catches on fire although that would be an awesome picture for free show just a melted week half-melted says to it you never know you never know what you're gonna get I'm sure you actually i'm sure you've gotten some pretty ridiculous pictures of setups yeah like since you started the show right disgusting like literally to the point where you know even the guy told me yeah that that uh that plate on the floor under my desk has been there for about six months and i just didn't feel like picking it up Mike well at least you let me know and now I know so thank you disgusting wow that's that's not even pimping at that point that's just like offering general help yeah it's like Annie Consuela from freakin family got to come in and just clean it up you know it's like okay oh man that's that's pretty gnarly but luckily we didn't have any any instances of that like like you said there's always next week who knows what kind of Horrors we might find a clue in these pc's I'm just waiting for like a like a like someone's finger like just a decapitated finger and one of them I god oh no it's been there for months nothing would mine that's the funny part it's Rihanna's Chris Brown they got back together alright that's that's our cue to uh to wind things down here again Moshe thank you for sending that in and thank you to all of you other guys who sent pictures in there was probably three six nine they probably almost almost a ten or a dozen more of you that we didn't get to today because it just would have taken too long but I'm gonna save them on file don't worry if you didn't get picked for this week because it will we will be back with the show next week as well Matt again thank you so much for coming on I really loved having you on I'm sure the rest of the chat did as well you've been awesome thank you very much thank you for having me on man yeah for sure and please if you want to plug your your channels once more in case anyone missed the beginning of the show go ahead and tell me where they can find you youtube.com slash swashing TV go there and then you'll be able to find me you know the script I link everything so I don't being bada boom there you go for sure awesome sweet and thank you guys so much for watching I will be doing an after party tonight I will be streaming either some GTA 5 or I recently acquired a key for insurgency which I have never played before obviously I might install that depending on how long it takes I might do some streaming of that as well but there will be an after party mad do you happen to have either of those games on PC I have both you have both oh hey I yeah I I should have mentioned this to you earlier but that's typically what Paul and I will do will do the stream then maybe an hour to an hour and a half later once we've had dinner and stuff we we started playing some games we do some streaming people and chat it's fun stuff if you're down to join us we would love to have you or I would love to have you obviously I'm the only one here but yeah we've got a game Vox that we all go into with the fractal Josh some other notable characters on the twitters as well so i can give you all the information once we once we sign off that's awesome alright cool oh thank you guys so much for watching stay tuned for next week remember it's five-thirty p.m. pacific time at twitch TV / awesome hardware if you're watching this on youtube feel free to toss me a like if you enjoyed it and we will see you all in the next video see you guys later you you