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what's happening people welcome back to booted how's it going all thank you for being here thank you for joining I just finished my my bourbon so I think I'm all prepped for the show that's really the only criteria that needs to be met in order to host a successful live stream so to speak welcome welcome everyone this is booted season for the final episode this is week four we're in the this is the finale the grand finale where all of the finalists of three finalists that were chosen over the last few weeks are going to be pitted head-to-head against each other for the grand prize of five hundred dollars in their choice of an Amazon or steam gift card so far everyone who's one booted the last three winners of the series have all gone with the amazon gift card which i suppose is probably what I would go with two it seems like the more favorable option however if you're you know just really into games and you're already you don't need anything on Amazon maybe you're Steve if you're Steve OMG and you just you by like 30 steam games a day maybe maybe maybe we'll have one winner who picks the steam gift card but so far it's all amazon welcome guys it's so good to to be here so good to have you here I'm excited I'm really excited about this final episode and and hopefully you guys have your voting fingers ready because it's going to be a tough choice I was looking at the contenders earlier today and thinking who I would vote for personally and I think I have mine figured out however it took me a while to get to that conclusion because they're they're all such really good rigs they're very well-composed their finalists for a reason put it that way but before we dive into it just a couple announcements I will be flying out this Wednesday actually thursday morning like 1250 am myself and my wife Heather wifey sauce we're going to be catching a plane to frickin China we're going to be going to China Macau for an AMD press event wonder what they're going to be talking about there I can't really give away too many details but we're to be going to to freaking China and then we're going to be hopping over to type a couple days later to cover computex 2016 I will be traveling with Paul from Paul's hardware as well and we're going to be kind of sticking together helping each other film and whatnot all of our computex coverage so stay tuned for that there's going to be a lot of Awesome coverage for this event on both mine and poles channels so very looking forward to that so just just a forewarning or you're gonna be seeing quite a bit of coverage i would say expect anywhere from two to three videos a day at the event um maybe more who knows but yeah it should be should be good stuff and I mean custom I'm looking forward to all the adding board partners and their GTX 1080s maybe maybe we'll even get some 10 70s in there who knows should be some exciting stuff so lots of good things to look forward to let's go ahead and thank our sponsor really quick for making the show possible which is cable mod this is their second consecutive season of sponsorship because they're awesome guys if you haven't checked out cable mod products at all now might be the time to do so they've got cables obviously as you could probably suspect from the name and they've also got really good these cable mod y beam LED strips i worth the configurator page right here and they actually just released a new type of sleeping there mod flex leaving before or I'm sorry their mod mesh I forgive me mod flex is what they already had but now they have mod mesh which is a special type of PT sleeping and i'll be talking more about this during the voting round so be sure to stay tuned for that there's links in the description if you want to check out any of their products really good stuff I have cable mod products in probably four maybe three or four of my 11 pcs that I have currently operational so I am a personal believer in their products now let's get on to the important things the pcs the shows about damn it hopefully everything is also sounding good i'm going to check the stream really quick all you guys in chat alright people are not rioting so that means audio is apparently coming in clear enough it sounds okay news on all right all right those really expensive microphone so hopefully it sounds awesome okay let's talk about our first contender who is Michael McHale I'm gonna say McHale because it's more original in his evolved ATX we had a quite a few evolved ATX Chessie's in this season of booted and it's not too hard to see why it's a beautiful case and very functional as well rockin at core i7 6700 k so this is again the high-end season of Buddha we're going to be seeing some some heavy hitters here let's take a look at the inside see all right so he's got two gtx 980 eyes reference design but they are you know rebranded under zotac of course gotta suz 170 deluxe ATX motherboard beautiful board for not too much not too much moolah and you've also got he's also got 16 gigs kingston savage ddr4 a 3000 decent storage set up everything's looking good here that's a also a reasonable power supply for the amount of hardware he's got connected here so first off right off the bat what I really like about this system overall is its first of all it's just ridiculously clean the cable sleeving is on point they are trained quite nicely they're not a hundred percent like fully fully you know super tight and crispy is what I would call them but they are very straight and aligned got the cable combs on there and he also has really nice just composition of everything I really love the the large be quiet cooler I think it looks absolutely beautiful that that brushed finished there and he's also modded out the the geforce gtx logos all the branding the leds that are on the the 980 TI is there are buy stock green and you can see here they are clearly white so that's that's just some extra love and dedication that he put in there along with a very nice EVGA bridge SLI bridge to top things off he's also got a an SSD thats hanging down there on the lower right corner I really like that placement I can't tell if it's the camera lens or if it's just actually the ssds a little bit crooked I can't really tell it's probably just the the Boeing of the lens however cable management is on point all around here super clean set up we have a shot of the cpu cooler a little bit closer so you can see here that it is is in fact a non passive cooler at first I thought it was a passive cooler and then I realized oh there's a fan and wedged in between two of those large heat sinks beautiful stuff everything just is very very well coordinated you know I like I like black and white builds Paul's a Arctic Panther is one of my favorite black and white builds personally but this one for air-cooled is definitely does the theme justice and you've got a white fan in the background there which also looks nice but one thing we don't do in the first three weeks of a season of booted is show off the contenders cable management that's only something we do in round four when the stakes are really at their highest peak so why don't we go ahead and take a look at what Michael is packing all right so now while the front end of his system is very nice and tidy it looks to me like he cable managed the rest of his system with a blindfold on handcuffed while under the influence of mescaline this is very this is very erratic and and you can kind of see why when you're dealing with a case like the evolved ATX because there is just so much room for cable management and I feel like the more space you're given to route cables and things like that sometimes the less work you put into it because it's just that easy you don't really need to try that's what a lot of cases full at least a mid tower and full tower cases these days are really pioneering is just ease of cable management and not really needing to tidy anything up on the backside however here we can see michael has done just that he is just kind of thrown everything in there at least on this backside and we can see quite a bit of spaghetti yes quaaludes are delicious so you know take that for what you will but the the main the main squeeze here is this side in particular and it does look quite quite quite tasty if I do say so myself I can't remember if you can see the yeah I believe you can see the power supply through the window on the side panel of this case and if that is the case it's not meant to be punny at all I would probably remove this is just me personally I'm a stickler when it comes to color coordination and if there's just a one bit of splash of color that doesn't really match what the rest of the system I it just drives my OCD crazy so I would personally remove the HX 1000 sticker there on the power supply but that's just me it's such a minor thing that to most people they wouldn't even think about it but I've got OCD and I had to speak my mind because I'm hosting the show so forgive me forgive me for that open minded this or closed mindedness depending on how you look at it let's move on to Daphne Daphne was our week two finalists and when you first look at this case it doesn't strike you as a high-end chassis because it's really not so thermaltake g42 commander you don't really see this case too often in high-end builds but according to Daphne and the little personal message that she wrote me unless Daphne is a dude of course that could always be true this is a this case holds sentimental value to her or him or it we don't know and that's uh I can respect that because there is something more to PC building than just a bunch of inanimate objects coming together and forming a functional computer there is sentimental value that can be attached to certain parts or score rigs out as a whole and I like the fact that she didn't you know just just go with the latest and greatest high-end chassis of 2016 when building the system she stuck to her roots there's something that about this case that means a lot to her and I can respect that and while it's not the most high-end and blingy of all cases it does do a nice job of holding all her hardware in here she's got two gtx 980 s in sli a 47 90 k with a corsair h100 5 cooler those beautiful Dominator Platts which I just love and again we see another fancy sli bridge here from EVGA she's got fully sleeved cables as well for a 24-pin her pcie beautifully sleeve in white and they are full power supply cables they're not extensions which I also think adds a nice touch of class to the whole thing and the cable management is just is very lovely very lovely you can also see that there's an SSD resting on top of her hard drive cage there which I'm totally fine with I actually like that a lot SSDs you can get a lot more clever and creative with where you mount them because they don't have any moving parts of them you're gonna have to worry about any kind of noise or vibration and she's definitely taking advantage of that fact also beautiful motherboard love the thermal armor on the saber-tooth series at z97 bling 32 gigs of RAM think I already mentioned that and then here's a money shot given us a nice little inside look there and i believe yes these are the thermaltake white LED ring fans now the ring fans I have not checked out personally I might have some on the way actually I think I hit up thermaltake not too long ago as I hey I've been seeing a lot of these ring fans with your name on it on booted they just keep popping up everywhere I want to check them out so hopefully I'll be able to get some of those in test amount for you guys do a fun little video particularly for their unique LED arrangement on them and we do have a shot here of what that looks like in action just a fully 360 degree led this this looks so much better to me in my opinion than having the LEDs shine through through the actual blades of the fan to have a ring around them is just such a smart move and it really adds a lot of a lot of coolness to this to this build I might add however let's let's take a look at daphne's cable management see what she's got hiding under the hood alright actually this is pretty good I would say um yeah Jeets I like it yeah everything's ready nice and neat she's got kind of individual sections that she's going to and nothing's really overlapping too much over each other which really helps you get that side panel on a lot easier um it's a really nice job I like how you kind of also grappled all the cables together in the in the top left corner behind your five and a quarter inch Bay think that was a smart move as well very good use of the tie-down points there's a plenty of zip ties I think people are afraid sometimes to use zip ties justjust I use like way too many zip ties personally it's a it's a shitshow anytime I have to like remove a component because I got a like clip off you know 30 zip ties to remove a freaking I don't know video card or something like that but really nice job here I've been Dallas thank you very much for the donation Daphne she is a he oh sorry i I'm sorry Daphne i I'm just conditioned to think that Daphne is a woman's name because i am a i'm a very arrogant a very ignorant man and i apologize you're just you're also not as cool now for being a dude i don't have like a secret cyber crush on you anymore like I used to but that's cool your pc still kicks ass so um that's that's what counts here but thank you again abend oz for the donation there and let's move on to our last contender here who is luke luke with the NZXT h2 beautiful modding here done by luke and this has kind of a been a work in progress for the last few years for him you can see he's got a 3770k and which tells you he's been working on it for quite some time and he's got that kind of approach where the pcs never really done he's just been kind of making iterations to it over the years resulting in this beautiful system inside of a NZXT h2 that he's fully tricked-out painted modded put a decal on there to make it like us the stark industries like a stark Tony Stark type theme looks really cool he's also got two gtx 980 s and sli again reference design and it looks like he's also whitewashed those uh previously green branding logos on the sides of those cards which i always think is a cool smart move corsair h 1 10 i GT so you've got some liquid cooling for a cpu the one thing i will say here as beautiful as this system is I really want there to be in the EVGA sli bridge on there I mean Daphne Daphne figured it out Michael Michael hit hit it on the head Luke Luke you need to get an EVGA SLI bridge or some kind of rigid SLI bridge on there at least because I was dealing with that same floppy connector that ribbon style bridge on a hotline for a while and it was the bane of my existence for quite some time and my life has been so much better ever since I made the switch you should do the same those those ocz vector ssds are also really killer those vector 150 s I think that just matches perfectly with the theme here the other critique I had was with the the actual cable sleeving I would have liked to see a bit more white in the sleeving particularly with your your your Phoebus solo sound card and the the graphics cards I think that would have been pretty nice pretty mess but I also like how you you also informed me in your submission that you modded the top part of the case to house a 240 millimeter radiator which is how you got that h1 h1 10 i GT in there which i think is really cool adding not just a mod for looks but for function as well let me give you some lower temperatures when overclocking and you've also done away with the the very prominent drive cage that is originally in the h2 and instead you've got two hard drives that are just mounted in the lower right corner of your chassis and while that really clears up a lot of space and more room for you to add things like those two 120 millimeter fans a little bit concerned that there might be some kind of vibration noise down there just because I don't know if you have anything actually in in the drives it looks like they're just straight up maybe velcroed on top of each other I guess that would minimize some of it if you had velcro in between but that is a slight concern I do like how you have blue fans at the top there you've got a different kind of fan at the back it's a bit fenix can't I can't tell which fan xazhar at the top you guys you guys in chat know which fans those are but perfectly matched blue that blue hue on those blades that you painted I'm guessing you painted them match really well with your cables and the rest of the system so well done on that and it looks like you've got some optional photos here so we get a nice letter look with the front panel kind of a swung open and you can see that he's also done some mod work at the front with carbon fiber he's got carbon fiber lining the side of the the chassis as well I can see those three fans sitting pretty looks beautiful man and also this is a this is killer the full tempered glass side panel so really well done on that Luke but let's what about your cable management though we still have not seen the underbelly of this rig or if there are any skeletons in your closet let's go ahead and see what that looks like alright Wow well then what hell is not expecting to find ketchup and mustard in this build even on the back side however you've concealed it quite nicely albeit with a bit of chaos it does look very it looks messy I'll just I'll just come out come right out and say it it looks pretty messy back here but you do have very good use of zip ties again not being afraid to use zip ties is always key to good cable management and it looks like you haven't really held back there too much there is a lot of crossover i would say between cables there's a lot of cables that are just overlapping each other which adds a little bit more or a little less breathing room for your side panel to go on although I'm sure that you can get it on just just fine again cable management on the back side some people just don't Eve and consider making it look nice because no one's going to see it anyway no one you know on the on the reg on average no one will ever even see that side of your system however there is a certain sense of pride that goes into good cable management regardless of who's seeing it because at the end of the day you personally the Builder know that it's there and I think there is something to be said about good cable management throughout the entirety of your system but that is it those are all the contenders so right now I'm going to go ahead and just scroll through each of these contenders so this is a week finalists week one finalist Michael week two finalists Daphne and week three finalists Luke right about now you should be seeing a link being posted in chat by one of my beautiful mods we've got spider fan we got Mike thematic geek and we've got cell processing those are my 3 mods i'm not sure if they're all still here hopefully at least one of them are by the way thank you guys the three of you for for modding booted I really appreciate all the work you guys do for just kind of being on call um you know i'm not i'm not paying you guys you know other than with other than with love of course but i really do just want to give you guys a huge shout out for all the help that you've up offered this series and me and and and the viewers so right about now you should be seeing a link being posted by one of them and that will take you to a web page that looks sort of like this where you can vote on which pc that we just looked at today deserves the grand prize of five hundred dollars so again we've got numero uno as Michael dos with Daphne and today's with Sir Luke alright guys think about this carefully I really hope you do because um five hundred bucks is a lot to just be like ah he should get it because he had the best yeah the fastest graphics cards or he had the most expensive case he gets the five hundred dollars really think about the composure of each of these builds and the love and care thought that went into them in the meantime while you guys think very hard about that I'm going to go ahead and talk about our sponsor one more time it's cable nod cable mod and just a little bit more information on their new type of sleeving the the mod mesh again it is PT based it's a much more rigid than their current their existing mod flex leaving and because it's PT based it says it's kind of like a nylon eggs are familiar with that nylon slaving it looks really really clean and smooth and kind of shiny a little bit the colors are more bright or more bright and actually more vibrant than what you'd find on something like the mod flex or like a fabrics leaving and they're also going to be offering cable mots also offering it in UV reactive options so if you want to do a UV lit up system or something like that it's a really nice way to just I don't know bling out your bling out your rig and they're also offering it with full power supply kits so not just extensions but you can do this you do a mod mesh for an entire frickin power supply and they've got a couple brands here so it looks like you can just choose any of these I know at first they they launched with only a few available i think it was like EVGA and corsair we're the only ones available but now it looks like don't quote me on this but it looks like you can pretty much choose any of these options and and get your nice nylon sleeving there of course if you don't want to go the full power supply cable route you can use custom extensions as well in the the nylon the dial on option boom and for those of you who haven't seen the cable motor cable mod configurator yet it's pretty amazing you can select pretty much any of the popular most used cables that you might need in your system you can add it they can there's a slider Oh a link length slider goes anywhere from 200 millimeters to 600 millimeters so you can get the perfect length of cable that you need so that you don't end up with a bunch of excess length to kind of find a place for or stash away behind your system and you ensure that it's also long enough after you know measuring properly the the gaps in your system so I'm going to do three hundred and fifty millimeters continue to the next step and here you're abroad too little diagram let me go ahead and zoom this in a bit so you can get a better idea here alright so you have all these colors to choose from they have a ton of colors blood red black brown carbon dark grey silver purple blue or I'm sorry blue light blue green light green yellow orange and red and white so you basically just select a color carbon all right you can do a little carbon there and then you can do I don't know something else if you wanted to some light green there oh yeah don't don't actually do this color combination because this looks horrible I would not I would not recommend it but isn't that cool you guys can you can do whatever you set your mind to do whatever you set your mind to it's pretty awesome so if you guys want to check this out go ahead and check the link in the description it's all there it's all good stuff but yeah thank you again cable mod for sponsoring booted season full and on that note cue dramatic voting music because uh we've got a decision to make ladies and gentlemen at the beginning of this season we had 15 pcs and now we have three and only one of those three will be claimed will be declared a booted champion who's it gonna be you got Michael we got Daphne I figured out he he's not is that he's not a she that was an important note and then Luke alright so which one of these three is going home with five hundred dollars and which of these two will be booted and sent home with nothing let's find out Oh Luke damn Luke with 43-percent just trailing behind him is Daphne with 37-percent very close match up very close call Michael unfortunately you were in last place for twenty percent but hey you still made it to Round four and that ain't bad Luke I am your father I mean I'm not your father but please call me daddy no I'm sorry I don't know I'm saying now thank you very much Luke or a congratulations Luke on your big victory here and I think it's well deserved you seriously put so much time into this I just know from building hotline I can tell you put at least 100 hours plus maybe 200 hours into the state it's freaking phenomenal dude it's one of the most unique and just original and just beautiful systems I've seen in a long time and I'm really glad that the audience chose you so congrats again and well done audience for voting for Luke and maintaining the integrity of the channel whatever little bit is left and that's going to conclude this season of booted don't go anywhere because I have a quick announcement here season 5 of booted will be premiering on july 4th this is the custom water cooled edition guys not the custom water cooled edition guys but it's the custom water cooled edition comma guys be weird if there is a bunch of guys that were just like we're like custom water cooled guys anyway for me or shall I fourth remember there's no booted for next month in in June because i'm going to be a computech so if you want to head back screw you find your way back to the channel come july 4th its independence day ain't that hard to remember and pop in at around five-thirty p.m. pacific and you'll be watching the very first episode of this custom water cooled edition of the show it should be exciting i have already downloaded all of the submissions that were sent and for this next season and very promising stuff you're going to be you guys are going to be impressed for sure so stay tuned for that again thank you to the mods cell processing mike the manic geek spider fan Rach love you gasps if you guys live near me I'd buy you a shot right now and we all drink it and probably do something stupid that we regret later but anyway thank you guys for watching really appreciate you guys stopping in and and stay tuned for computex coverage coming really soon i also have maybe one tech video should be launching sometime this week before then before i hop on a plane so also be sure to catch that as well guys I love you have a good rest of your evening or day or whatever and I'll be seeing you guys soon probably in the next tech video all right all right I'm gonna go gonna go pee now