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yeah I cannot wait for us to watch handman tonight I mean obviously the movies gonna butcher the original storyline but come on he's like the most underrated character in the Marvel Universe screw Ant Man man let's go to Vegas the venturi fans from fractal design make everything cooler that's right even you check the link in the description boy what's up guys welcome back to the channel so today I've got another vlog for you guys but it's not going to be focused on my custom water-cooled PC instead I'm going to be building another computer from scratch from the ground up for someone else and this person would be my beloved father who he works from home he's self-employed and he relies heavily on his desktop PC for for all of his work and multitasking needs of course but lately it's been having a lot of issues and crashing frequently shut up bone and he's really at the end of his rope in terms of being able to work efficiently and get his work done in a timely manner so that being said I've decided to build him a full new computer from the ground up and he doesn't know about it yet this is a complete secret so hush-hush don't don't tell him I know you have complete access to to getting in contact with him but yeah I'm gonna be building him kind of a workstation he doesn't I kill ya the main purpose of the PC is essentially a simple workstation that he can do some light gaming on it if he so chooses he's not a huge gamer he plays a really basic like almost 8-bit type game so he doesn't really need that much horsepower which is fine because uh basically all the parts that I'm using today with the exception of one I believe are just parts that I have lying around my house that have just been collecting dust and need to find a good home so why don't we take a look at that right now here's a couple of the parts and you can see no retail boxes in sight because a lot of them are reused let's start with the motherboard and CPU so this is actually taken from Heather's old system that I built her for Chris a couple years back but it's still a really good hardware it's Ivybridge so we've got a z77 n Wi-Fi board from gigabyte so it does have a built in Wi-Fi which is nice and you can't really see the CPU because the CPU coolers already installed on there I didn't really see a point to take it off but that's a core i3 I forget the exact model number it escapes me at the moment it could be a 32 25 or something like that but we'll find out when we boot the system on so that should be pretty good for as multitasking needs we've also got the this memory kit from g.skill this is their sniper series really good stuff super reliable this is 1333 megahertz and is 8 gigabytes so you get to-four gig sticks which would be more than enough for my dad and then also like I said he might be doing some lighter gaming maybe he'll get more into it now that he's got a badass system so for the for those purposes he's got a GTX 650 Ti boost I remember this card is more akin to a 660 that it is a 650 Ti so it definitely still packs a punch obviously it's a lower-end card nowadays but should still be quite enough for for my dad and last but not least we've got the node 202 now this is probably the newest freshest component in this entire system and it's also probably the most important apart from it already having a the pre-installed 450 watt 80 plus certified power supply in here which is SFX this is really important to have a case like this for my dad because he's really limited on space he does have a pretty large desk it's actually much bigger than mine but he needs that space to be utilized for other things like paperwork and his monitors and stuff like that so he's got a little cubby hole and in the underneath his desk that he's currently keeping his main system and so this is going to slot inside of that and the cubby isn't really that big so he's going to need a really slim form factor case and I think the note 202 is going to do a fine job because even in the Indian clothes cubby space you've got a lot of open ventilation for your video card your motherboard area and stuff like that so I think he's going to be pretty happy with this situation overall but wait Kyle where's the where's the storage what what is he going to save all of his precious files on and stuff what is where's the OS going well I'm glad you asked that that's actually the one item that I have still waiting for me at nuke new eggs will call I just ordered it this morning it's the WD black squared it's their dual hybrid drive I shouldn't hybrid but it's a dual Drive in a small 2.5 inch form factor which includes a 120 gig SSD as well as a one terabyte hard drive he is going to be using an external drive he told me this personally he's going to be using an external drive to store his backups and things like that he opted for that instead of a raid solution which is totally fine so I'm gonna have to be picking that drive up later today and putting it in here before I hand it off to him and blow his mind but that being said I'm not gonna wait until I have that drive I'm just gonna start building because I can get 90% of this stuff in here before actually hooking up any any storage devices so why don't we put this thing together and make some people happy or just just one person but still let's it'll be fun you all right so I reached a pretty good stopping point here and this is pretty much as far as I can go until I get that two and a half inch drive and I can install it in this little compartment right down here there are some tie-down points on either side so I'm not gonna be able to really tidy up the cable management until that drives installed but for the meantime here's a look at everything else sitting pretty I've got the video card in there even though I'm gonna have to take this out eventually when I install the drive just because it's a little bit in the way and I'm gonna have to route some cables and do some more management there but overall pretty smooth builds the reason why I opted for AWD black squared I've never used one before this is the first situation where I was like this drive makes sense and that's because even though you do have two two slots for two and a half inch drives in this No - OH - I just wanted to minimize the number of cables that I had to use so I could just tuck them away here and just kind of you know reduce the amount of cable clutter overall in the build so I think that's going to work out nicely only having one SATA one SATA cable for data and power and also this doesn't support this case doesn't support three and a half inch drives so obviously a two and a half inch drive was the only solution and yeah I think it's going to work out pretty well as soon as I have that install going to be installing Windows 8.1 on here and then I think my dad's planning on upgrading to Windows 10 very soon after that apart from that the cable management in here so far is looking pretty good obviously it's really tight you can see up here I've just got barely enough clearance for the side panel to go on for the rest of the enclosure and it's just kind of like really just cramming in here between the power supply and the the RAM modules but it is enough room it's very tight but that's you know one of the sacrifices you make when building this small form-factor case like this one but overall pretty sweet I think it's time for a test boot unless there's anything else that I have to say about this thing other than that's oh yeah I did want to mention that the the RAM modules even though the sniper series does have some fairly tall heat spreaders it's not low-profile back by any means it still manages to fit in here quite nicely I will say you do need a low profile CPU cooler and you can see here I'm just as I said in the beginning of the video I'm opting for the Intel stock cooler right there it should be quite enough like I said it's going to be underneath my dad's desk that's where he wants to put it I know it's his decision I know not all of you are a fan of that fan but I think this is going to be fine so I'm gonna be too close to him or if very audible so I don't think it'll be too distracting for him and some of you might might already know this but might be wondering how did I get this video card installed here when the the PCI slot is clearly right here on the motherboard that's basically a little riser card that frankly uses and actually use two riser cards so there's one that's sticking vertically or perpendicular to the motherboard right here and then you've got a second one that goes parallel to the motherboard that connects to that first one and then that's when you install the video card itself pretty tricky and very clever innovative solution that works really nicely alright enough of my rambling I'm gonna turn this thing on let's do a test boot obviously we don't need the any any storage drives for that so let's see how it goes blah LED I got the LED light that's always good CPU cooler fan is good and I guess the only other indication for power here would be the GPU but of course we're gonna have to go to the other side to see that blower style fan hopefully it's all good ok it's actually impossible to see through this this dust filter here but I can barely hear it it's very slightly audible but I can tell that it is on I can feel some of the cool breeze being sucked off in my hand exhaust my hand my hands hot yeah dissipate that shit yeah alright so I think this is a ok to say we've got a successful boot here I'm really excited to finishing this thing off with that two and a half inch drive getting Windows 8.1 installed and then finally doing the long-awaited surprise drop-off should be good alright so it has been about an hour and a half since the last clip that you just saw in this video and I still have yet to receive my confirmation email from Newegg notifying me that the hard drive that I ordered this morning is ready for pickup so I mean at this point I'm pretty much stuck I'm just playing the waiting game until I get that email and as soon as I do I'm going to haul ass over to will call and pick it up I guess I'm kind of just twiddling my thumb's here until I get that email so guess I guess I'll play some rocket League ah ah I got the email it says it's ready for pickup all right let's go pick this thing up do you ever get those deep thoughts when you're driving in your car all alone em either don't close don't close I made it I made it alright guys and here is the finished system finally with the hard drive installed or the the dual drive I should say and here's a good look at the back of the case you've already seen the inside for the most part but it's uh up and running got Windows 8.1 installed I was actually incorrect about the cpu model it's it is a core i3 but it's a 2120 so none why it is powerful as I thought it was but it should get the job done you can see there we've got full eight gigs of RAM yes everything is looking beautiful and the happy to report that the WD black squared drive is working correctly so there's your 120 gig boot drive along with that one terabyte mechanical absolutely beautiful and I think that pretty much wraps it up for the build vlogedy so I think on that note we should wrap this thing up and surprise the crap out of my dad alright alright moment of truth see Thea she was reacting as I'm really curious when he's gonna what is response it's gonna be he can be kind of like a stone wall sometimes like hides his emotions pretty well but um I think I think this will really catch him off-guard at least what do you think honey yeah I think he'll be very surprised especially because he just sent you an email today explaining to you that he needed a new computer and you just so happened to be doing this oh wait I am yeah I actually forgot to mention that to you guys so this morning I woke up and I didn't really have a video in mind or planned for this weekend and I thought I'm gonna build my dad a computer that's what I'm gonna do today and like not more than an hour later he emailed me completely coincidentally and basically just listed out all the things that he wanted in a computer and it was like the perfect roadmap at the perfect time for me to actually go through with it and find him all the parts that he needed and make sure that he gets a system that's really tailored for his needs so I mean just wow I was pretty shocked and amazed that that'll work so well but but here we are what is this maybe seven eight hours later after the the seat had been planted and if you what we're gonna go around the back we're gonna go around the back way show business he is coming they're sticky huh hey mom okay is he is he in his office all right well we're parked right around the corner so we're just gonna walk up and walk in okay all right thanks yeah good I've got a special package delivery of a new computer for a Shawn no way dad ish thing no way yeah just kind of found this it's a perfectly good PC it needs a home so he built that today what now that's for me this is for you that's what we're talking about yes oh don't do that keep that there you go they look Wow hot this is just flashing my brain can't comprehend oh and then we all went out for milkshakes okay so that didn't happen but it was a very fun rest of the evening and I get to power the system on and show it to my dad get him familiarized with the OS we even got to install couple applications that he'll be using for his day-to-day work work needs and they sure enough loaded super fast and booted really looted up really quick on that SSD which he was pretty amazed by overall it was a pretty cool experience for him I'm sure as well as for me and hopefully for all of you I'm sorry I couldn't get more b-roll shots of his old system but after he's finally done loading all of his software and files onto his new system maybe I can take a look at that old one crack it open see what he was working with if you guys are interested in to look at his old computer leave me a comment down below let me know so I'll know whether or not I should do a video on it or something like that but yeah that's gonna do for now guys thank you so much for staying tuned has been a really fun stay tuned for more tech videos coming really soon feel free to Jesus people always speeding around here what's going on be sure to stay tuned for more tech videos coming really soon toss me a like on this video guys if you enjoyed it and subscribe to the channel T I'm not ready until next time I'll catch you guys in the next video oh it's time to some rocket League you