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yo what is up guys welcome back how's it going guys yo hello everyone welcome to booted this is episode 4 for all the marbles this is the grand season finale of season one the very first finale of this series thank you all for being here so much I know this is a very new initiative for the channel so i just want to give a huge shout out i'm very grateful to all of you who have supported this new initiative so far so I'm good to have you all back and if your first first timers well welcome i hope i don't disappoint you like I usually do but yeah it's gonna be an exciting show because everything is on the line we've got a 500 all or gift card that we're gonna be giving away not given away but one lucky finalists will be earning tonight / your votes we all in the live audience there so hey let me know if the audio video is ok I know we were having a rough start with the first couple of episodes there with us and choppiness freaking chopped salad over there but hopefully I am using a new system for today one that I have not tried before and that is I think I have an actual I set up a little cam for it i'm using the silent night bill that i did back in december for christmas that's why it's all red and green and god awful ugly but before i was using a half stacker build with a 4770k and there was no discrete GPU in there i was just running off of the integrated graphics on the cpu so hopefully this does a better job of I don't know smoother streaming inevitably hopefully that's hopefully that's the deal but y'all let me know y'all let me know no lag looks good yeah yeah let's let's just hope that that carries through the rest of this episode I really hope it does but on that note this is really exciting guys im sue I'm super excited to see who wins because i was looking at all three contestants earlier today thinking about who i would vote for personally and I it's a tough call man it's a tough call you know I really like the age for 40 and all three finalists today have an H for 40 that just happened coincidentally this is not sponsored by NZXT in any way it's actually sponsored by fantex who I'm going to talk about right now actually and then we're going to dive right into the three finalists we're going to recap on all the pros and cons of each of their systems and then put it to a vote and see which one brings home the dough and which which other to get booted indefinitely I know it's very sad this is a very sad depressing show but why don't we go ahead and take a look at our sponsor fantex you guys have been a great sponsor for this first season of booted you guys put your faith in me a lot of other sponsors probably wouldn't have taken the leap of faith that you guys had especially on a on a little youtube channel like myself but they've got some great stuff here their new eclipse p400 is an excellent case I had a chance to look at it at CES 2016 just last month and they've even got a pea 400s for a silent silent version well they got the p400 which is not silent and they got the p400 s4 silent you know like Sam dampening material on the panels and stuff like that they've got some RGB colors here well it's not sixteen point whatever million colors there are like nine or ten different colors you can scroll between and they do have some RGB strips to go along with that which if you guys have an empty Lux then you're probably familiar with that whole set up and we're gonna be talking a little bit more about their new RGB LED LED adapter and how you can possibly get one for free so stay tuned for that yeah yeah yeahs is it still smooth I'm expecting any minute now for the stream to just crash and and for things to be horrible but let me know let me know so far it's looking good I'm seeing zero drop frames according to xsplit they could be lying to me but who knows um but on that note let's let's just ahead and quickly recap let's go to the how it works page all right so you guys who have stuck with me from the season 1 premiere earlier this month you were there for week one when we had our first five contestants you were there for week two when we had five more and week three where we had the last of our 15pc entries and we voted 12 of them off and only three of them came out in the end and that's where we're at right now is week four with three remaining finalists very exciting stuff very exciting and like i said it's it's anyone's ballgame it's anyone's game right now because really they're all pretty excellent little systems here and this is the mid-range edition by the way so you're not going to see anything super fancy high-end and you're not going to see any any low-end ketchup and mustard stuff either so we're right in that sweet spot this is probably the type of bill that most people have it's probably the most relatable system tier if you will so hopefully you guys are familiar with that sort of thing and before I ramble on too much longer why don't we go ahead and kick it off with contestant number one finalist number one I should say which is Luke Luke Luke Luke you are weak one finalist the very first finalist of the series how's that feel Luke do you feel you feel any different are the ladies ladies flocking to you like like an axe commercials I bet they are if they're not then you just need to tell him look I was a week one finalist on booted season one baby getting my getting my drawers whatever the kids say these days you've got a pretty nice system here Luke you've got an Intel I don't need to talk about the case but you've got a core i5 4690 k got an NZXT Kraken x60 one beautiful cooler msi crate edition z97 s also very nice choice of motherboard for this case as you can see here guys he's gone with the white edition kind of a black and white theme we take a look here you've got a radeon r9 265 which is probably the most questionable part hardware-wise of this build because it is pretty low powered compared to the beefy cpu you've gotten there but maybe that's maybe that's exactly what you had in mind for spending that dollar gift card on its maybe a new fancy GPU but there are a lot of things I like about this system for one I think you've got the theme down pretty solid the black and whites there's nothing that really stands out I mean there's a little bit of red on that sandisk SSD I'm not gonna fall for that it's so minimal and you don't really see it all too much but cable sleeving as well I really like how you got those White's white extensions i as i mentioned in week one i would have liked to see some more tightening maybe some zip tying or some cable training of that pcie cable that looks like it's kind of just fraying at the end as it goes into that lower cut out there and the psu shroud so maybe some point stock for that and yeah i mean honestly this is this is a pretty solid build if we look at the money shot here you can kind of get a look at yeah that's definitely a budget card you get those nasty red stickers on the bottom which are you know a lot of a lot of cheap e video cards these days don't tend to look the greatest and that's that's not i'm not going to fault you for that really because this isn't about how much money you have to spend on high-end GPUs it's about the pc as a whole and i think overall you've done a nice job i really like how you went with an NZXT cooler and an NZXT case those two go hand-in-hand really beautifully as you can see the white fans there they all match all the radiator fans and your case fans very much in sync which i think was a really good call you do have some LEDs on this bad boy as well and that was one thing that I think I doubt you some points for and again guys if you're not aware the points here don't matter just like in whose line is anyway I just like to just like to give them out or take them away but yeah the LED strip which you can see over here guys he's lined right along that hard drive cage wall whatever you want to call it which is granted probably one of the best spots you could pick one of the only the few spots that you can choose to have led strips to run along the H for 40 if it's a on that side of the case but the downside to that is that you kind of see the LEDs bleeding through the side panel window which um you know it's it's not my fave it's not my fav it doesn't look quite as seamless it's a bit distracting kind of takes away from your actual components and I would have liked to see another LED strip maybe on the left side of your chassis so that you would provide some more even lighting across the entire innards of your case just to give a more even coat of lighting that sort of thing and here's a nice wide shot of your system it looks like you keep it very clean as well so I appreciate a nice clean system it looks like you dusted or you clean it out regularly or it's a brand new system that you just built but given the the hardware specs hair going with Haswell and an older generation AMD card i would guess that you built this maybe a year to go pro or a year ago so um but haha you know what time it is now guys you know what time it is it's time to reveal luke's cable management this is the first time on the series that we will be revealing such a thing Revere rearing revering words um let's take a look you never know what we might find behind the motherboard tray boom okay so uh the other thing about cable management here is that since all of our three finalists are using the same case we can kind of rate their cable management on an even playing field right a same same number of tie downs same same space and all that sort of thing and here it looks like you've done a decent job it's not as atrocious as it could be and the thing about the age for 40 and frankly any case that has a power supply shroud that allows you to just stuff cables inside of is that it tends to make you a bit lazy when it comes to cable management it really does and a lot of the bills that I've done that have power supply routes I usually just say screw it and I just stuff them all in the power supply uh in that area under the under the shroud now that's fine because no one's really going to see it I mean from you know from the from the regular basic side of from this angle no one's going to know they're none the wiser but where cable management does come in handy regardless of people of people can see it or not is when you need to swap out a component or you need to rewire something then the the clutter really takes away its convenience and having a night a nicely wired system is very important as a builder if you're a DIY type of person that is we're swapping out components you're upgrading your troubleshooting things replacing your hardware and stuff so I think you've done a pretty fair job I mean it looks like you are utilizing a lot of the tie-down points where you should be it's just when you get to that power supply shroud area it looks kind of jumbled and I think that could be a little bit neater not for anyone who walks in your room sake like I said they're not going to see it but for your sake Luke to tidy all that up at the bottom and and make your life a whole lot easier anytime you need to swap out something but overall overall beautiful beautiful system here Luke I can see why the audience has voted you week one finalist on that note why don't we go ahead and move on to Mitchell Mitchell wait is this Luke's build again no no it's not actually they just look strikingly strikingly similar in the age for 40 white edition we've got another core i5 this time we're going with a 6600 k so we're on that current gen skylake hype on we've got an NZXT Kraken x40 one and a Suzy 170 AR motherboard great budget semi budget to mid-range board but i will i'll talk about that board in a little bit got 16 gigs of Corsair Vengeance and an EVGA gtx 960 supe super cluck alright looking at this system from this angle cable management is pretty pretty on point I will say again we've got those white sleeved extensions which i'm really loving goes perfectly with with the system i can't really argue that at all and and I like your I like your cooler choice it's not a 240 but that doesn't matter i think it's it's well placed and it looks good in the system you've also got an NZXT q+ there and it looks it looks really nice in that s SD slot who would have thought that a that an NZXT Hugh plus would match so well with one of their own cases but we're going to see some some LED money shots in just a bit the PCIe cable however coming from that 960 of yours it looks a little bit awkward to me because it looks like you tied it down kind of at the back like reddit you know where your motherboard is and then it kind of just hangs out it kind of pulls like a sharp right and I think that looks a little strange especially when you have that cable cut out that the h4 40s provided you right at the at the power supply shroud there so I don't know not a huge fan of that of that routing strategy or that routing decision but you know it's it's taste its taste it's just my like opinion man and then you've got some some money shot for us here now this is where I have a gripe with the motherboard the c 17 t AR while it is a fantastic board and i've read a couple good reviews about it for its price point and stuff it's got a lot of features it does have a brown PCB which personally not a fan of it doesn't really match with anything I mean maybe not even the it's not even the same shade of brown that you'd find on like enough to a fan and it just it just looks very budget I don't know what it is but anytime I see a brown PCB on any kind of motherboard or in any system it just strikes me as being kind of like a more economical piece of hardware and yeah so black PCB might have been a bit of NASA looking choice there however when we go over to your your LED shot here it looks absolutely fantastic obviously you can't really see the the brown because it's kind of flushed out by the LED strips of that NZXT queue and unlike Luke you've actually placed the LED strip kind of far off to the right and you you caught on to this I feel like you probably initially have the LED strip mounted in the same place that Luke did and then when you lit it up and put the side panel on you realize that it was still kind of too close to the side panel window and you were seeing some LED bleeding kind of threw that that window there so you took the extra went the extra mile to route that cable a little bit out of the way that LED strip I mean and I think it really paid off here because it it's it looks very nice the coding is fairly even it looks like you've got a longer strip as well than Luke did so you do get a nice little bit of a more more even lighting all around which is nice but um nice color choice to see what you did there but um but not as all not all is is done just yet we still have to look at mitchells cable management and I don't know what do you think guys what do you think it is compared to Luke's let's find out boom you know honestly if you were to show this to me right beside Luke's one after the other I would think it was the same system because it almost looks like you guys have taken the exact same approach and put in about the same amount of effort when it comes to cable management again there's some use there's some use of tie downs here I can see a couple points but I feel like there were some missed opportunities where you could have grouped more cables together and then going back to that power supply shroud conundrum where it's just so easy to stash and you know cram everything into that little space that large space actually but yeah not not the greatest when you're trying to upgrade components or or rewire certain pieces of hardware so the audience will take that for what they will I will leave it in their hands but overall solid little machine that you've got here Mitchell again I think the audience was a you know that they got it right by moving you on to the final round but we've got one more guy to go or a girl I'm pretty sure he's a guy though it sounds like a guy named ha no ha no i hope i'm pronouncing your name right again i'm sorry if i'm not we've got another yet again as I said in h 4 40 this time it's in black and red so refreshing it's just a different color that makes all the difference in the world but you've got you've also got our first lock skew processor you've got a knife I 544 30 haswell cpu and even though it's locked you have a z97 maximus seven hero so you could have maybe gotten an unlock sku processors to do some overclocking that would have been pretty sweet but for whatever reason you opted out of it out of that where whether it was just to save a bit of funds or you just weren't aware that you couldn't overclock on that ship or or maybe you just really like the aesthetic of the z97 board didn't care for overclocking back that could be an option to so many theories Illuminati confirmed and then you've got a really nice black and theme going here those freaking cables man those cables are fantastic I don't know if those are cable mod or if they're actually fantex I know fantex make some really nice sleeved extensions as well but hot damn it just those kinds of extensions just make your system they take it to a next level to another level really make it look kind of pro grade and I love your choice of vram I think the DRAM that hyperx getting it in red and black was a super good idea it just matches so perfectly with with your video card and the sleeve cables the motherboard everything meshes so well and i also like your your SSD there that you did a little bit of modding spray-painted that sucker red I think that's a really nice choice you didn't try to get too fancy with it you're just like nope doing it clean read the crucial be x 100 and you know it's not the prettiest drive the bx 100 it's super affordable it's a good performer for the price but it really would have ruined the look of your overall system had you not done anything to it so i really like how you uh how you modded that thing good good paint job however taking a look again at the money shot um my big gripe with this system is the cpu cooler and i don't expect you to go out and buy span anyth anything more than like 30 40 bucks on a cpu cooler because you can't overclock your chip anyway so what's the point right at the same time intel stock cooler is butt ugly and you knew that and you took some steps to try to rectify that issue aesthetically by taping the wire that ugly nasty green blue and yellow fugly wire that's connected to that stock cooler as well as a cover-up that center sticker which is equally hideous um while the while you get an a-plus for effort I have to say the execution here is probably the shortcoming of your system because from afar you can't really tell all too much the naked eye can't see see all that great but when you take a closer look it definitely looks a bit amateur I would say I don't know if you use tape or paint or spray paint to cover that Center sticker but it's kind of bubbly and it looks like a makes me want like a hot fresh oven-baked pizza doesn't look the greatest man I gotta say so I'm gonna have to duck you some points for that I mean if you just went out and spent thirty forty bucks on a cpu cooler that you didn't have to do any modifications to and risk the chance of it not looking all that clean in the end result I think that might have been a wiser choice or just get another stock cooler and try again but we've got one more picture to look at and it's your cable management let's take a look all right hey you know what i think you know i can see you you've definitely worked with the the tie-downs and you've kind of got these three pillars of cables going all the same direction it's all you know parallel and stuff um and thank God thank God you got some sleeved extensions cuz those cables are just Oh condiments all around am i right Jesus um so yeah you know good job on that and quite frankly I think this is probably the best cable management job that we've seen out of the three finalists it just it just looks overall cleaner every cable is kind of grouped to it's part of a group there's no stray single fan cable dangling like like I saw on the number one and two granted I feel like maybe some room for improvement is available for the power supply shroud area but considering that you know these are sleeved extensions you're sometimes doubling the length of your power supply cable by doing so I did a pretty nice job not too shabby bra mr. Han oh um and I don't know if oh yeah okay so my wife is on it she's she's way more on top of it than I am she's already posted links in chat for you guys to go ahead and check out all the pictures all the pics of the three finalists that we've just talked about and that'll give you a closer up look and a better idea of who you want to vote for because right now it's voting round it's voting time baby so also she should be posting the voting link to the straw poll where you guys will vote to see who wins the 500 grand prize oh yeah yeah everyone say hi Heather everyone say hi hi Heather Miami so yeah she'll she'll go ahead and post the straw poll link in chat so you guys can actually vote on whichever pc you think is the best and make sure to look at the systems carefully guys and also consider what the specs are not so much in terms of which ones more high-end but how well they're matched you know um think of it like if someone was giving you one of these rigs which one would you want that's kind of how I would probably vote on it you know because that way it's not all about aesthetics it's not just which one looks the best it's like I'm getting the system I want it to be well-rounded I want it to be you know well maybe that's not the best because then you'll be like well I just want the highest end PC relatively speaking just just do I don't care just pick the one you like it's let's not overcomplicate things guys let's just you know let's keep it simple keep it simple stupid on that note why don't we go ahead and take a look again at our sponsor for today hui use and by the way i'll put up the the lower thirds thumbnails for our contestants 1 2 & 3 they're so fantex our sponsor and then right after we do our sponsor spot we're going to go ahead and check out the results if you guys want to be more suspenseful then don't look at the results until I show them to you because that that will create more suspense or don't look at chat for the people who are spoilers spoiler alerts all of you but phanteks i was talking briefly about their RGB LED adapter which they just released and here it is and this is a basically it's just if you have a compatible motherboard as a lot of motherboards nowadays are starting to come out with RGB LED headers on them so if you already have some RGB strips and you've got a compatible motherboard check out this adapter from fantex yo check it out y'all the the Maximus 8 extreme Maximus formula extreme is one of those high-end boards that is compatible with this adapter which is super cool and if you happen to be a fan text case owner they are currently doing a RGB LED adapter promo where you could get one of the adapters for free considering that you have a eligible fantex case and compatible motherboard the compatible cases include the enthu lux the mini XL or their new eclipse p400 compatible motherboards include the asus maximus 8 formula and the Maximus 8 hero alpha so if you guys have like a combination of those two things then you can actually send in you know proof of purchase for both those items to fantex at support at fantex USA com again links to all this stuff is in the description and they'll send you a free LED adapter RGB LED adapter which is pretty sweet yep there's also links in the description for their Eclipse p400 MP 400s you want to check that out thank you again super super super kind of you guys to sponsor me Thank You fantex I love you I want to make babies with all of your cases they're all so sexy but on that note guys haha you know it's you know it's dramatic business time you know it's a voting time when i cue the dark moody music because um that's what we're doing right now we're revealing ah the winner oh this is intense I'm purposely not even looking at chat right now because I don't want to know who wins until I click the results button here so who's gonna win all the moneys for five hundred dollars in either a steam or amazon gift card this is intense guys but you guys have voted you gave it some good thought and the person you decided the winner is is Han oh wow by a landslide holy moly look at that sixty-eight percent of the votes Wow holy bejeezus man I was not expecting that much of a landslide with any of the three systems I thought they were all great um but hey you know don't you know that uh that the the crowd has spoken I am beyond words I congratulations Hannah honestly your your system was really kick ass man even despite the cpu cooler there it's not look at the cable management does your victory image that's just that's just wrong look at this look at this thing guys I think those just everything's composed so well the SSD is such a nice touch those cable sleeves everyone congratulate hano on his victory you sir are a winner of a five-hundred-dollar gift card i will be getting in contact with you via email so i keep tabs on that and hey guys that pretty much concludes the season finale of booted what season 1 complete dog guys guys thank you so much for being here this is exciting um and I don't see too many I don't see much of a rage and chat about quality issues choppiness so I'm really happy that silent night good ol Silent Night pulled through y'all which is really strange because um never had a problem with the half stacker build for awesome hardware but I think maybe that this xsplit presentation just has so many more images and and things going on that perhaps requires a bit more horsepower but thank you silent night I do appreciate you you are loved and I appreciate all of you guys as well thank you all so much for coming out in case you wanted to catch this live and you're watching the rebroadcast you can catch booted live every Monday not every Monday but mondays at five-thirty p.m. pacific on gaming youtube com just go to my youtube channel or follow me on twitter for updates i'll give you links to the direct video remember guys for months that have five mondays in them there's not going to be a show on that fifth monday which is like this month there's five there's five mondays in February because February's weird like that so booted season two will actually return March seventh that's when you guys will be able to see which probably take this down now the very next episode of this series and we're going to be coming with five new contestants the first set of our brand new 15 entries which is really exciting it's also going to be a budget edition so rather than mid-range we're going to see ya you know ketchup and mustard welcome all ketchup and mustard is welcome to the budget series the budget season of booted next month because you know I want to give all you guys who have some lower end more economical systems a chance to upgrade that rig and and then maybe you could enter for like another mid-range season in the future that'd be funny and then and then win that one and then win 500 more dollars and then enter the high-end edition season 10 whenever that happens but yeah I don't know I'm saying anymore guys I love you I love you all so much this doing this show really makes me happy because you're all here with me and I feel like we're all in it together so um yeah just from the bottom of my heart thank you guys so much for all the support and stay tuned for more tech videos coming really soon coming right at you on awesomesauce network I hope you all have a wonderful pcmasterrace evening with your friends and family or forever alone that's fun too and I'll be seeing you guys very soon have a good night everyone base you