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without further ado Brandon here you just go ahead and take a look down alright today is super exciting because we get to do episode two of this wonderful new series which has Pitt my rigs where we take a subscribers gaming PC it doesn't have to be a gaming PC I guess could be any PC we accept all pcs here we don't judge and we basically pimp it the heck out usually it's sort of an aged or olds or dilapidated system hello hey Josh I left my define s and our six in the same room together last night and now there's a third case like what's going on baby let me guess it's got a PSU shroud flexible yeah actually wait hold on how do two computer cases you know make a baby I don't have time to explain this to you you need to know how humans do it first I gotta go okay okay I gotta ask you guys do you like touch dust filters or something is Lube even non-conductive is there thermal paste involved and if so you know where does it go now staying silent okay good talk just wrap it up next time we're running out of space the define us to from fractal design features front panel USB see ample water cooling support and a clean interior layout for your next custom build click the link below to learn more today we actually have a gaming rig from Brandon he's a 19 year old student from Huntington Beach California and this is the gaming PC he built a couple years back with his dad and it's it's actually in pretty good condition all things considered but the hardware is definitely getting a little old here inside we've got a core i5 4570 processor at 3.2 gigahertz that is of the Haswell family from intel and that's paired with an msi b85 g43 gaming motherboard so definitely no overclocking happening here but okay because we don't have a great cooler on here anyway we've got a hyper t4 from coolermaster which also looks a little bit dated to say the least kind of hanging on by a thread here with eight gigs of ddr3 a vexer LED memory at 21 33 megahertz and our graphics card is the sapphire r9 270x toxic Edition which is definitely starting to show some wear and tear especially on the metallic parts at the end of the backplate it's looking a little bit rested there so we might have to do something about that as well our power supply is a CX 600 from Corsair it's actually a fairly decent budget unit although it's got those nasty ketchup and mustard cables that we just can't allow on this series we've got two mechanical hard drives in here so plenty of capacity but there's no SSD in this bill so Brandon's been booting off of spinning rust for the last few years so I'm guessing he probably just hits the power button goes to class for the next eight hours when he comes back his his systems finally booted into the desktop so we're gonna have to fix that as well all of his hardware is nicely enclosed however inside of the master box like five from Coolermaster it's actually a fairly decent case for for being a budget oriented option it's got some modern features like a power supply shroud RGB fans at the front of course and tempered glass side panels so that's looking alright as far as the actual build itself goes I mean it's completely color mismatched obviously I won't fault them for the RGB fans because they're supposed to change colors but everything else is kind of clashing right we've got sort of an orangish yellow graphics card red accents on the heatsinks for our motherboard blue LEDs on the RAM it's just kind of a mess overall and I think we should probably go with a singular colour theme with the help of some RGB lighting along the way cable management isn't the worst I've seen but it could definitely use some improvement we've got this molex cable that's just kind of hanging out here of the power supply shroud I'm guessing maybe that that happened during transit when you brought the system over to me and we've also got just sort of loose cables here that really aren't utilizing many of the the cutouts that the case offers even though it's maybe not the best chassis for cable management he did do a fairly good job on the backside for what he was given it's actually not too bad back there he you know he utilized some zip ties and tie-down points and things like that before we start cutting things left and right though Brandon is a die-hard gamer he's car playing a lot of pub G with his buddies and he's averaging about 45 fps in that game right now at the lowest possible settings at 1080p while all of his other friends are pretty much soaring past the hundred Hertz 100 FPS mark so definitely an unfair advantage for Brandon in the hardware department which hopefully we can change later on he also plays doom battlefield 4 and a bunch of other titles that his system may be currently struggling with a bit more than it was when he initially built the system back in the day so we're gonna try to give Brandon the competitive edge he deserves I think we're gonna start doing that by gutting most of the system there are a couple things I want to keep here because not everything needs to go I think the case is still great it's got a lot of updated features so that's not going anywhere obviously we have to keep his drive that would be bad the power supply even though it's a CX unit it's still got 600 watts it is 80 plus certified and I think it's gonna be fine for the hardware that we're putting in here we've also got a pretty decent motherboard and platform b85 obviously there's no overclocking to be had there but I think we can still yield quite a bit of gaming performance with a hazard CPU although I think we did we definitely need to upgrade that core i5 so I will look into that in a bit but those are pretty much the the parts that I want to keep everything else we will be swapping out in some capacity so let's just get right into it I say we start getting our hands dirty now because we have a lot of work to do all right so we've just finished tearing down Brandon's PC and we've only left the motherboard power supply and drives installed and I give it a quick dusting as well there was quite a bit of buildup in there I'll probably clean it a lot more as we continue on with the rest of the build but for now we are ready for our first wave of new parts starting with the CPU I wanted to upgrade that core i5 4570 just a little bit so here we have an i7 4770k skew because we can't overclock anyway on that b85 chipset but this will at least bump up his base and boost clock frequency a few hundred megahertz while also giving him hyper threading so maybe he could even do some light streaming because this chip is definitely capable of that I'm also replacing his eight gigs of a vexer memory with this brand new 16 gigabyte kit of HyperX savage ddr3 at 2133 megahertz leo those red heat spreaders they're gonna match perfectly with the red accents on his motherboard unlike the blue LEDs that we saw on those effexor modules and the last new part we're throwing in at least for right now is the master liquid ml 360 our RGB from cooler master this is a three hundred and sixty millimeter liquid a Oh which admittedly is total overkill for a forty seven seventy that can't be overclocked however it looks really nice okay that that's that's a reason unpin my rigs that is a valid reason the second reason is for future proofing purposes so if let's say to three years down the line brandon eventually decides he wants to upgrade his whole platform and maybe drop in a really high-powered super fast and overclockable cpu he's already got a really decent CPU cooler that can handle that TDP load so I think it's gonna be a good option for him in the long run and also you might have noticed that I did remove the three RGB fans at the front of the case here as well as the fan in the back that's because this cooler already includes three RGB fans which are obviously gonna get mounted at the front of the case and then I think I'll use one of those old fans as a rear exhaust so we get all matchy-matchy from the front to the back I think it's gonna look really nice once it's all done so on that note let's go ahead and get this stuff installed so we can move on to the next step hold on hold on your name must be Houston because we have a problem so on the Coolermaster website it specifically lists three hundred and sixty millimeter radiator support at the front of this case but one small detail it doesn't mention is that in order for the radiator to fit there you first have to mount the fans to the inside of the case and then mount the radiator after that because if you don't and you just mount the radiator flush against the frame it actually interferes with the front panel cables at the top of the case and you're unable to slide the radiator in such a way where it's mounting holes will line up with the mounting slots at the front of the chassis so I mean we could technically mount it in there we just amount the fans inside the case but I think that's a terrible idea because the front panel is see-through and you'd be looking at some pretty RGB fans through the nastiness that is this front mounting area of the case and that just it's just gonna look terrible so what do we do well we obviously can't use this product anymore I guess we'll just have to settle for the exact same thing but in 240 radiator form thank God I have copious amounts of hardware at my disposal so we wasted enough time with this little mishap let's hope nothing else pops up and carry on moving right along here we've got three more items that were putting in to Brandon's PC starting with a damn SSD it's about time to get some faster boot times here's a savage HyperX 240 gig it's an oldie but a goodie and it's red so it matches with the system we'll also be adding some sleeved cables from Asia horse I believe it's a Chinese brand not not too big of a name here in the US I did feature the set of cables in a recent video about cables you can check that out if you wanted to these are black and red also going with the theme and they're made of the p80 sort of plastic he's sleeping very malleable very easy to shape they retain their shape very well especially with these cable comes here so I've got a whole set for his system and then finally LED strip courtesy of cable mod this is the wide beam LED strip and we can its RGB so you can do it red probably just red or white nothing else would really match let's get to work all right guys we are dangerously close to finishing this build we have one more part to install which is of course the graphics card now we could use Brandon's existing r9 270x but that would be a terrible idea so instead why don't we pop in this msi geforce gtx 1070 TI gaming and make this system like a bajillion times faster also it's red so yeah you got to go with red man med look at this build I I did that it looks so good I am so good at this no more importantly let's hope that Brandon absolutely loves it I think he will unfortunately we'll actually get to see his reaction in just a bit that should be really exciting I honestly couldn't be happier with how this turned out and I'm really stoked for Brandon to see it for the first time and to show it off to his friends and for him to see their reactions I think it's really gonna elevate his whole lifestyle as a gamer overall especially in the frame rate department gaming performance is definitely gonna see some serious uplift with the various upgrades that we made here so overall really happy for you Brandon a future Brandon when I finally see you and speaking of which I think it's about time that we deliver this bad boy to its rightful owner I'm gonna miss you little guy we've got your sister by the way how was it not having your system for about a week or so new sir your honor I had a laptop but it's not like the graters laptop yeah yeah even the greatest laptops in the world it was like four to four dollars for Walmart whoo oh I'm sorry to have to put you through this bra but but I promised the weight was definitely worth it we're no further ado Brandon here you just go ahead and take a look down like that you know we used the same case yeah sort of preserve that original look because I think it's a solid case for what it is I really wanted to keep your core platform and because I did you obviously can't really do much with the red heatsink so we just decided to roll with the red yeah how do you like it what are your initial thoughts and you feel free to tell me you hate it I'll completely just like throw it off the table right now just I'll just destroy it no I don't know if you know who dr. disrespected I do with the black and red yep I love that all right cool looks really nice and since I did I didn't have an SSP yes let's do that yep yep it's already got Windows 10 loaded up onto it we actually swapped out your CPU for a forty seven seventy so you got a core i7 now you've got hyper threading of course we have braid your graphics card to a gtx 1070 TI msi it's an MSI gaming card but yeah I think I think you gonna be happy with it so enjoy it yeah we're gonna treat it well love it love it Valerie gamer on think nice now you'll have zero excuse to your friends as to why you're dying left or right yeah you happen to be losing I guess that's probably a good problem to happen friend thanks thanks for the opportunity minute let me every become was enjoy dude thank you so much yep alright guys there you have it that was a quick little reaction sorry I didn't get any b-roll of Brandon system here at the park I completely slipped my mind I think I was just too excited about the whole thing but at the other day I think Brian really liked his new rig and that's really what matters here so yeah this has been Pitts my rig episode two guys let me know what you think about the series down in the comments cut me some love with a like and get subscribed for more tech stuff coming at you really soon also shout outs a wifey sauce for for filming the whole thing she did a great job and you sporting all that so have a good one guys I'll see you all in the next one