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and we are lion-o I'm on the wrong camera view haha you never know what kinds of things are gonna go wrong when you're doing it live like for example starting a stream and then stopping it almost immediately because you left the cursor on the start streaming button and you didn't realize that you accidentally clicked the mouse again shortly afterward so we are oh this is only the second time we've ever done a live build on - tech tips but we are definitely getting our live shenanigans money's worth out of them speaking of getting your money's worth LG sponsored this video they're having us build what they're calling the hive mind PC so most of the components in front of me were actually selected by a group of our viewers so they got to vote for what they thought were the best choices so we're gonna go through and show you guys what exactly the community thought was a good idea to put in our system so first up we've got our case this is the ends at X th 500 I Midtown there goes my water bottle there we go then the community didn't actually pick the power supply I think we just advised LG and won what we thought was a good power supply because you don't want to end up with the wrong power supply for a build like something that doesn't have enough power for everything or doesn't have the right connectors or whatever so the whole concept of having the community choose the individual components won't work if you end up with an incompatible computer with that said the community did go ahead and pick the core i7 8700 K for us great choice six core processors fastest thing on the planet right now for gaming drives let's see we've got a WD blue 500 gig MDOT two solid-state drive for boot then we've got a Seagate Barracuda that's a four terabyte Barracuda Pro alright not bad another thing the community voted on was the graphics card and once again the community is a good job picking the most expensive thing good job community can't go wrong when you just pick the best graphics card for like the amount of money that you have to spend so we've got an msi armor gtx ten atti we're gonna be equipping this thing with I'm finding all of this out for the first time by the way 16 gigs of DDR for dual channel memory we're going to be using an asus rog strict z 370 e gaming motherboard and this was another community vote we're gonna be cooling it with the master liquid ml 240 our RGB so for all the haters out there that are like oh RGB sucks no one likes it the truth of the matter is that people do like it given the choice people will take the RGB won over something else and of course the centerpiece for the whole thing is the lg ultra wide 38 wk 95 C so this is a gigantic 38 inch ultrawide monitor let's run through some of the specs for this thing it's got a 21 by 9 aspect ratio so it's I got a higher resolution than the ultra woods that initially launched back when ultra-wide was sort of first becoming a thing a couple of years ago so it's like kind of ultra wide 4 K so it's 38 40 by 1600 instead of 34 40 by 1440 it uses an IPS panel it's curved and a monitor that sits right on the desk in front of you is one of the situations where a curved display I personally find does feel pretty nice it's got HDR 10 so it can accept an HDR 10 input signal it covers 99% of the sRGB color space it's got USB type-c it's got a three sided borderless design so super slim bezels and of course it's whoop got this okay it is large and in charge let's go ahead and take these components out of here maybe it will assemble this first what do you think Brendon should we should we assemble this first and then we can we can put it aside while we build the computer all right yeah oh it's heavy okay okay huh got this oh okay wait no I got it no problem no problem all right let's get that box set it Oh laptop's about to go no no laptop's not gonna fall back on the table yes see we're not gonna have any more difficulties stemming from you know technical problems or me dropping anything or anything like that for the rest of this stream who's who's that at the door hubris why come on in hubris it's good to see you old friend all right Oh see this is the kind of stuff we normally don't make you guys sit through but honestly so many people loved the last live build that we did that we thought mean when LG came to us they were like hey we want to do another one of these live builders like such a shirt heck yeah why not you guys are getting the whole experience nothing removed so if you guys wanted to go out and build the exact machine that we have you could literally throw this video on in the background and sit there and build it because we're gonna go through absolutely everything even the process for screwing in the base of the monitor stand bippity Boppity done so it's a metal piece here and then a plastic piece here interesting they're these accessories we won't need until we hook up the computer later so we're just gonna put these somewhere where Brendan is unlikely to trip over them we're gonna go ahead put our stand there monitors have gotten a lot easier to assemble over the years I still remember when they didn't have like self retaining screws with the little wires on them and you had to kind of put a bunch of screws into the base and then you had to put a bunch of screws between the base and the monitor itself real hassle I know how I'm gonna show you guys this mounting process oh I know how I'm gonna do it I'm gonna do it over here so basically the way that it goes on you're gonna want to get a side side boob angle here here we go I'll line it from the top end there you go there's your height adjust there you go there's your tilt no pivot and you just rotate the base I guess or did I say pivot I meant swivel all right so the monitor is in place what else MSRP $14.99 oh and I'm supposed to talk about the Tilton height adjust but I already did that then freakin tastic all right now let's build a computer we can power this thing so the idea was to have sort of a hybrid workstation slash gaming machine and that has become a surprisingly easy thing to do now that intel has finally beefed up the core counts on their mainstream processors with the LGA 1150 whatever platform that isn't Ron now I really wish they would 1151 so it went 11 56 1155 1150 1151 so there's no like pattern that you can find to it so now that they've got six cores available on this platform it's really easy to build something that's great for gaming but can also handle like a render here and there or some video editing on the side if you need to do it so in terms of stuff that we're gonna need to have the motherboard box we're gonna grab our i/o shield so we're gonna install that in the case later we're gonna need a couple of SATA cables one for our hard drive and then one actually for a test SSD that I'm gonna use because I think you guys don't want to just sit here and watch me install Windows for an hour then other than that there's like some temp probes and stuff but generally I don't really bother with this kind of stuff SLI bridge which I also generally don't bother with anymore I mean ever since that last season of scrapyard wars like SLI SLI betrayed me SLI let me down so I've been I've been off the SLI bandwagon for a little while Brandon you can take a short short rest there if you want I'm gonna switch over to the wide for just a couple couple seconds here you want me to indicate to you in some way when you're live okay so why don't I just why don't I just do this like right in front of you then you can see is that helpful alright actually I'll I lied I need to again anyway so come over and have a look we're gonna do our CPU installations so I always recommend using the motherboard box as a test bench but not necessarily using the anti-static bag you might think if the motherboard comes inside it then you should put it on it but actually the outside of some of these bags can have conductive materials as part of what makes them ESD safe and if there's for whatever reason a charge and one of the capacitors on the board and you bridge those contacts you can actually cause a short so not all ESD bags do I know I've taken a lot of flack from people saying well actually I'm actually Linus some of them do I don't know if this one does so if I was going to give you guys the general rule that works for everything that is put it on something definitely non conductive which a cardboard box is definitely non conductive it is amazing to me how much time Intel seems to spend re-engineering these cardboard holders for their chips so now there's a little pull tab here for your fingers or whatever that's really horrible and how bad it still it's so you pull this and then this comes out or whatever thank you I thought it was I thought it was this one that was supposed to come out I would have actually worked a little better for me all right do you guys want me to put the sticker on I'm not actually monitoring the chat right now my computer's over there but let me know in the chat and maybe someone will someone will let me know what you guys think I think Nick's having a look at the chat over there so he can he can tell me if you guys want me to put like case badge stickers on and stuff I remember that's the kind of thing I used to get really excited about when I was younger and I hadn't done as many PC builds I'd be like yeah I'm gonna get these stickers so perfectly aligned like you're not even gonna believe it wasn't put on by a machine all right so CPU installation pretty simple you just lift up the arm here come on in nice and close Brandon how close can you get you get a little closer can you get closer can you get closer come on come be my friend okay so we pull out the arm lift it up then what we're gonna do is we're gonna take the CPU here we're gonna find the corner with the little triangle so there it is right there pull that out like that then we're going to be mad at ourselves for not checking the triangle corner before we lifted this there it is sometimes it's indicated by a little dot but now I've seen dots that aren't on the same corner as the triangle so it's always good to make sure you find the triangle drop it into the socket no force required give it a little wiggle make sure it's actually in there then you pull this down put that arm down and it pops off just like that okay protip you guys never ever throw this away because if for whatever reason you have to RMA your motherboard down the road or whatever the case may be you have to use this to protect the pins in transport so what I usually do is I go well I'm unlikely to need this unless I also need this so I put it in there then I take that whole thing and put it into the motherboard box for safekeeping it's actually really important as you go to stay organized with all the parts that you have otherwise you finish your build and at the end of it you've got like this giant mess to clean up instead of sitting and playing your games which is what you actually want to do at that point so I'm gonna go ahead and throw this core i7 box back together if I can I think a stupid plastic holder dang it hold on a second none of this is helping my reputation for dropping things I don't think honestly I don't drop that much stuff it's just it's just a misconception all right I like to build out a lot of the motherboard before I even open up the case so the next thing we're gonna do is we're gonna go ahead and install our RAM so we've got is this uh oh it stridency oh I thought it was RGB Ram looks like looks like the community wants an RGB cooler but they draw the line at RGB Ram how interesting can I can I can never tell you know you know what's what is the step too far you know RGB fan yes RGB system component no okay I think this Rick's board is fairly RG beat up too though so Ram installation pretty simple this is just an old habit you don't actually have to do the sockets that are further away from or the RAM slots that are further away from the CPU socket but what is still nice about this approach so it used to be that those were the primaries and you couldn't populate the secondaries first I was a long time ago though the reason I still do it though is because it does give if you don't have all four slots populated it does give the CPU a little bit more breathing room if you're using an air cooling or like honestly just in general so you've got that extra extra little bit of space where you know if you had a large heat pipe cooler or whatever the case may be you wouldn't have to worry about any kind of clearance issues especially if you have tall ramp like you look at the height of the PCB there and then you look at the height of the cooler there's actually quite a difference so this this is what I would consider to be fairly tall Ram all right now we're gonna set that aside and let's get this case opened up I have never actually built in this one so this will be a new experience for me and hopefully I can do a reasonably good job of cable managing it for you guys but I'm not gonna make any promises here let's go ahead and continue to practice what we preach so putting all the packaging for our ram together and then we'll just kind of dump that it's uh you know what why don't we want me like collect our trophies back here or something there we go okay I didn't grab a knife so that's okay a new key will do in a pinch this thing tempered glass oh yeah wow this case even gets a special sticker from Canada Post saying that is it is heavy / Lord which is heavy in French so it's over twenty two point seven kilos that's over fifty pounds even though really no that can't be right why does this say heavy is this thing even tempered glass I was like wow 50 pounds of tempered glass is a lot maybe this is just Canada Post going a little bit on the on the drunken side here because that does not seem right it does have it does have tempered glass in it but there's there's no way this is fifty pounds up that's ridiculous all right box on box ah haha ouch hate that still haven't figured out a way to avoid getting zapped every time I take a case out of the box cuz the styrene and the plastics that they use to wrap these things they just are like magnets for static electricity alright so I'm gonna switch back over to you Brandon and let's have a look at this thing I've never actually seen this case even pretty simple pretty clean so standard ATX we can go ahead and pop our panel off make sure that we don't whoa this is new I have never seen a kit wait what hold on a second so the panel comes off like that looks like there's just one screw here for it instead of having two even though there's two on the other side and then there's this there's this little ear here that oh okay there we go oh just pops off like that Oh interesting so you just slide the tempered-glass into this bottom kind of there's a little there's a couple little plastic like nubbins down there and then you just pop these these like friction mounts up here in and then you can screw it in at the top Oh interesting I'm actually kind of surprised that that keeps it safe during shipping but you can see they've taken some extra precautions here so they've got these plastic or no it looks like these are metal yeah they've got a metal bracket up here and then at the bottom there's these the two pieces that hold it in place you can actually see where they go the plastic that protects the glass here is has got dents in it those are made of plastic so that it's I guess mounted on all sides by except this one my softer components interesting sure I actually don't know what exactly a super chat is just when I went in the live dashboard it was like oh you should turn this on and I was like okay so over on this panel we've got Oh interesting that's actually one thing NZXT does really well is spending money even on their budget cases in ways that are meaningful so check this out they've gone and they've put a regrettably not like easily cleanable as far as I can tell I mean how does this pop-out so here's like a bracket yeah it's not it's not that easy to pop out but they've gone and they've put a filter on this front air intake that's over here by the kind of where the the drives would go in a more traditional chassis but where you'll probably end up installing a radiator in something like this so that even though you've got a solid front panel here on at least this side you're able to get a decent amount of airflow and it's filtered as we saw in our one year airflow experiment filters definitely work if there was any doubt in your mind that a mesh filter on air will you know draw some of the dust particles out of it you can put that to rest once and for all I sure Nick do you want to tell me oh we're laser etching the back panel oh that's right I forgot to mention that so in addition to the community choosing the components for the build they also provided some ideas for how we could pizzazz it up a little bit so I think we're putting like our laser etching like a sandal or something on here look you know what we'll get to the customizations later let's let's go ahead and get the rig built right now strat our Scrat are 20 bucks to say sup Scrat are should change his or her name to like mad ballin are that's crazy scratch our it kind of sounds like like kind of a I don't know like kind of sounds like a rash that you'd kind of get on your groin you know like I've got a mad you know I've got some mad Scrat are going on down there like I'm gonna leave I'm gonna leave my boxers on in the change room I don't want anyone seeing that scratch are like Spice family you know fun fact I've actually my my my go to playlist right now stop radio now part of the reason I like it is that whenever I start it I have to play stuff like google music is like play stop radio I'm like haha that's funny those of you who don't know stop is a Spice Girls song from like way back in the late 90s holy crap was it the late 90s dad anyway so part of it is that and part of it is I'm like yeah I love this music I have I have terrible terrible taste music it's got like some S Club 7 in there it's got some newer stuff got some other Spice Girls Robin says loving the vids lately what's the implication here Robin but you didn't love the vids before that something about no no that's not nice that's like you know like imagine if I said this I matter so I was like you know Brandon that last video are you shot it was really good what's the implication then Brandon like all the rest of the work that you did for the last five and a half years you know what pretty subpart pretty subpart that last one that was good really I didn't know super chat was like a big thing I I don't think we were eligible for it before and a lot of people a lot of people if you follow on Twitter you'll probably know this but our live-streaming was actually turned off outright by YouTube due to a a small disagreement that we had well actually you don't disagree with YouTube YouTube just disagrees with you so YouTube had a small disagreement with the way that we were using the YouTube platform to promote live streams on Twitch so you're technically not allowed to just make a video upload it to YouTube and say hey hey guys we're streaming live somewhere else and we actually didn't even know that because even though it's in the you know YouTube Terms of Service which we have read it's never been an issue because we've been doing that for years and we had no idea that was bad because we've been they've never cared before and we've actually been doing it since before YouTube would have really had a good reason for caring about twitch because they didn't have a competitor back when we first started the land show it must have been like Oh Raoul um I'm gonna be doing that here come on in close so people can see how to install the power supply so I'm I'm oh ok hi Cooper oh yeah floatplane does accept credit card with that said the payment system is a little borked right now we're expecting it to be fixed in the next two weeks yeah I'm refering to the Spice Girls song someone bought a super chat just to dis my taste in music thanks Joel Joel knows what's up we've got some rig but what there's so many of these I mean we're gonna have to yeah ok so we're gonna throw a link in the video description once this goes to vaad we had someone send a super chat letting us know that they wanted to replicate this build because they've got about this much money to spend and actually yeah there's nothing in here that I'm the community actually did a surprisingly good job like there's nothing in the here that I'm looking at going wow you guys really screwed the dog on this one this is that this is a bad choice so if you guys wanted to go and build this exact machine I would I would I would stand behind it I there was one super chat that I had wanted to answer so there we've got our four power supply screws and I will get to it in a second here I've gone with a bottom facing fan so this is always something you have to think about your particular situation for because most cases have the mounting for both orientations you can see there's a lip here there's one here there's one here and there's one here so I could have flipped this power supply around if I wanted to but I opted to go this way because this case has really nice big feet on it so even if it's sitting on carpet you should still have adequate clearance for the power supply to dryer and from the bottom and it's got a nice easily removable filter that's not super long so it's it's pretty simple to get at so when you can get away with it it's a little nicer to orient it this way all right so right I had wanted to get to when am I doing the seven users one CPU ultimate virtualized workstation so that's gonna be as soon as I can it's something that I am sort of already working on behind the scenes I've gotten a couple of VMs up I just got my PCI Express extension cables in so that'll help me get that going because I'll be able to throw all six of the graphics cards that I want in there but there's no real hurry for it and it's gonna be a very time-consuming build so I want to take my time I want to make sure I'm doing it right I'm still waiting for some octane drives from Intel and I'm holding off on requesting them you know just in case they release a new one with higher capacity or whatever in the meantime while I'm waiting that's also why I've held off on requesting graphics cards just in case something were to drop before I finish this project like I think it's gonna be a few months before we actually release that video I want to make sure that we are running the absolute latest and greatest in that thing I mean there's nothing worse than building what will probably be in the neighborhood of a forty to fifty thousand dollar machine and having it be obsolete by the time you actually load an OS on it like I I hate that that sucks that's the worst when you get the timing wrong and you just feel like a total Butthead so I'm gonna try and I'm gonna try my best to avoid that yes soon so the cables I'm pulling out right now I've got my 24 pin connected already I'm grabbing my four plus four CPU connector so we are definitely going to need that I'm grabbing a SATA connector and then the last one that I grabbed already is one of these puppies so an eight pin to do late pin PCI Express connector those I think all the power cables we're gonna need but I don't know if this needs a molex connector or something like that I'll grab that out of the power supply box later all right go ahead and hit me with the super chasse Ian gave $50 oh well thank you Ian appreciate that here do you want to just can you can you fire up the super chats on here and then I can read them myself yeah I just I can't look at that right now all right so let's let's go ahead and get this i/o shield in here so one trick that's really important is bending back these contacts there you don't wanna bend them back too much because these actually serve a purpose they're supposed to make contact with the outer metal housings on the connectors here I think it's like a grounding thing or something can't remember anyway the point is you still want them to make contact but if you don't bend them back a little from my experience you'll often end up especially with things like HDMI and USB you'll end up with the the metal things sticking into the port and then you won't be able to put something in it like see see that see how you could accidentally have those tabs sticking in the port and you can actually short or even fry a port like that if you're not careful so we're just gonna give them a little Bend then we're gonna go ahead and pop this baby in here this is actually one really nice benefit to higher-end motherboards that's like a stupid thing and you shouldn't really have to pay more for it but they come with nicer i/o shields nicer cases nicer motherboards the i/o shield installation process does tend to be a little bit easier you know you get but you gotta save I mean when people when people want to save you know $3.00 from one bottle of motherboard to another and that's how compressed the product stacks are in a lot of cases for things like motherboards you gotta you gotta save two pennies somewhere alright so now I think wow is flowing really smoothly building a PC really has gotten a lot easier over the years so what I usually like to do is I hold by the PCI Express slot and buy a power slot or a power connector or RAM in a pinch or a heatsink up here actually you know what I'm going to go with the power the 24 pin power and I'm gonna go with this heat sink right here for this board it varies from board to board and then we want to double check make sure everything is aligned back here we're not yep see it happened I knew it the HDMI the HDMI one is not bent enough so it was jamming in there 26,000 people are watching this yeah really that's more live viewers than we've ever had buy it oh we had 42 on the we broke up stream that's oh oh six million oh okay okay okay she's hi everybody now I got all this pressure I would have rather not know her that many people like it's a funny thing because you you sort of you sort of assume that you know someone who performs on camera all the time is just you know comfortable on camera and it's you know it's whatever it's just routine and there are certain aspects of my job that are by the way there's one little trick that I that I used here already NZXT does a really great job of this so they've got a nice little nubbin on the middle motherboard connector so that you can slide the motherboard into place and then just pop it on there and that'll hold it still while you're plugging in all your other stuff that is one of the most common ways that people will brick a motherboard when they're building a computer they'll be holding trying to hold it in place and they'll be like so focused on putting in this screw that they don't realize that the rest of the motherboard is pivoting around it and scratching up the back of the PCB it's a really easy way to accidentally break a trace so we've got that popped into place it's a really really nice feature of their cases there's other manufacturers that do it as well I'm gonna go ahead and grab what I think are the motherboard screws I actually grabbed them before and then I went and I put them somewhere and I don't remember put them see now I've got now I got all this pressure huh right here it is okay give me one give me one second here right right so people may can I just how do I do it really are you gonna throw right there I can read their two hands okay okay what was the thing that I was gonna tell people though oh right right right the uncomfortable part okay I'll remember that okay so go ahead hit me hit me with some super chats oh so it's um google play music has a feature where you can just play a song and then you can start up a radio station of songs that other people who like that song also like it's one of my favorite features actually because like I I like a lot of crappy late 90s early 2000s music so if I just grab any song from that era then it'll just start to feed me other crappy music and it makes my Saturday thanks Scott okay hold on who was that okay Tim alright Tim let me have a little super chat with you I actually break surprisingly little hard to do you guys see how careful I'm being right here like I've got my I've got this magnetic screwdriver that I borrowed from Jake because I left mine at home I've got okay I kind of damned that into the motherboard there I've got this ergonomic I've got this ergonomic desk that I am working sitting on top of it no but in all seriousness I actually break surprisingly little hardware it's kind of a funny thing about computer hardware is because it's expensive we treat it like it's made of glass like it's crazy scary fragile it went off for a second are we back you're back poof so because it's really expensive we treat it like it's super crazy fragile and it is it is but really experienced text you guys are gonna see this in the upcoming iMac pro repair vlog with Lois Rossman tend to have enough experience to have lived through doing stuff that they probably shouldn't have done and no one would including them would ever recommend that you do and having the hardware be just fine like I remember going into a computer shop one time when I was young and impressionable and they just had like a Rubbermaid bin full of graphics cards no est bags no no like protective sleeves no styrofoam slots for them like pretty good compared to these guys they were all older things like they were basically worthless but it was an entire bin of graphics cards just just piled in there and they like fish through them and get them they pullin out and they pulled one out and and I think it worked and I was like my mind was blown I was like there's there's there's no way that should work but they're not actually that fragile in a lot of cases which is not to say that you should not be careful it's just that when I drop something and now hard drives would be an exception I would never drop a hard drive but if I were to you know drop something like an SSD because I'm being blase or whatever it's fine I have literally shot hoops with an SSD before that was back the back the first time that I visited Intel's Folsom campus just for like a silly vlog style video so you can see in spite of my rambling we are actually making excellent progress here we've got our CPU and RAM installed we've got our motherboard mounted in the case there's if you want to do like a quick sanity check on your motherboard most of them use nine mountings so you got one two three and they're mostly in a row one two three one two three this one uses eight because it's got that nubbin in the middle that doesn't actually have a place to screw it in but honestly that's plenty your motherboards not going anywhere I've used as few as like three when I'm in a hurry so yeah all right do you want to hit me with some super chats okay do you want to stand close so that at least the mic can or do you want to just hold it so that I can see it so I can read them I like to read things okay thank you well that's fantastic because I would have hated it if our videos inspired you to build your worst gaming PC you know that's actually a marketing thing that I always get a kick out of like oh man like you know when in video we'll release a new graphics card and they're like it's our best GPU ever and I'm like wow really so you're now hold on just a minute here you're telling me that you guys built it better this time than last time you didn't build something worse yeah well golly oh what's going what's going on over here what is what's this we've got a whole gear here listen what's what's going on what's going we've got a whole committee Oh is it done wow that looks fantastic so we're doing this to the window look at that dang the hive mind so is this a piece of tempered glass that we etched listen to you Dan you know someone actually messaged me on the forum the other day asking if I would recommend this laser engraver or this laser cutter would we recommend it wait we've got a little bit of burn mark you know that comes right off oh say that is so clean do you guys want the real one then okay the real one's smaller and it's not it's not tinted so might you might get a bit of a different effect to it but yeah just make sure you peel off that plastic which you knew but anyway man does that not look freaking awesome here let me just make sure I'm not catching the light here so you got the Linus cat face mean face thing up there and then here we go hive mind down here looks great great job you guys freakin awesome no I'm not gonna drop it I don't actually drop things okay random come on in close while I installed the m-dot to drive and then Nick can Nick can can you just point it at me so I can read them I can I can do that oh no no this is not my screwdriver you can actually see that this is jacooz screwdriver and I actually really I hate the way that he set it up with the tape on the bottom there because so mine is a snap-on and then this is like their like budget brand but like it's basically the same thing so it's a Williams it's the same screwdriver pretty much except it doesn't have a knurled finish here and that's the one that I actually like to use when I want grip like this gives you a little more torque which is nice but when you're trying to go fast it's actually nice to have the thinner shaft when you're kind of screwing things in quickly to like a drive or something that doesn't require a lot of force screwdriver musashi miyamoto super chatted eighteen point nine nine of whatever PLN's are what currency is that PLN do you know Brandon you have any idea okay yeah well we got nothing so I have I have no idea if that's like an impressively large super chat or if it's like really small Poland low tea slow tea slow tea ones low tea is 36 cents so that's about five bucks then okay all right I want to say that I like LMG cooler okay I'm gonna assume that means that you think LMG is cool and that I'm cool I'm can I go with that I'm going with that I'm going with that what else we got where's the Yoko body pillow ah yes we do have the Yoko body pillow we still have it no you do not need to go get it right now we've though the Yoko body-pillow has made plenty of appearances in our videos that thing has turned into like such a meme it's in the bedroom that's the answer I mean come on what else were you expecting okay so for those of you actually watching for the build the parts that I took out of the motherboard box here yeah my experience in the past anyway typically motherboards have these pre-installed but it looks like they're not doing that anymore so there's a little standoff and then a little tiny screw get you guys a nice good look at that that's for installing your MDOT to drive and I guess the reason they don't pre install them anymore would be because it might you might have to put it into a different spot and that might have been confusing for users but I actually I kind of disagree with that approach because most MDOT two drives at least on the desktop are the 2280 format so they're eight centimeters long and if they were to pre install it at the eight centimeter mark like most companies have in the past I think that's actually a better user experience just having this pre-installed and then undoing the screw but then I can also see how removing this this this nut could be confusing because when you take out the screw initially it's not obvious that you can move it if you if you've never installed an MDOT to drive before so well dang it there you go these are non-ferrous so I can't pick them up with the magnetic screwdriver sorry super chats I will get to you in a moment here I just need to go ahead and get this screwed in and I need my focus for that all right here we go so there you go so that's the nut then you go ahead and you just pop this in from the top kind of like I'm like a laptop memory slot then you see how it kind of sticks up like that that's intentional then you just need a smaller screwdriver put the screw on there line that up and bippity Boppity screw it in Bobby mark says hi Linus hi Bobby Time Lord says what's the most expensive thing you've ever dropped up and asked that a lot and for some reason I can never remember them we can answer man I mean it was it was kind of me like I definitely contributed at least 50% of the blame when max dropped that test bench like we didn't that wasn't really clear from the video but that was definitely a thing that was pretty expensive because it was an entire built computer with like high end graphics card brand-new unreleased processor is hard to a sign of value to something that's not even released yet I just realized I got ahead of myself and I installed the 24 pin power connector without you guys sorry I just I get into like PC building mode and spitting all over the computer and then I'm just like plugging things in so here we go I'm gonna plug in the 24 pin oh this is a nice little cable management thing that ends that XT does so that allows you to hide your 24 it's keyed so it can only go in one way to go ahead and it's usually got the key towards the outer edge of the board so you would install it this way and boom that goes on a little something like that and kind of tie you up we're gonna we're gonna fix up fix it up a little bit more later the way that I tend to do my cable management is in Reverse in most cases so that's why I didn't plug any of my modular cables into the motherboard I just find when I don't have a bunch of tension on the cable from the back it's a little bit easier especially on ones like the eight pin CPU connector here so I'm gonna go ahead and plug that bad boy in this one's always a little tricky I personally prefer power supplies where they have a little plastic bridge between them that locks those two four pins together but see sonic didn't do that on this model for whatever reason thank you see sonic that's fine I got this so then what I like to do is pull them back through and then that way I just I find it's a little bit easier to manage there you go nice and clean all right what else we got yeah cheap i/o shields are literally knives says Sheldon for five bucks uh-huh yeah pretty much why did I use a key for opening up the monitor I should have just grabbed the i/o shield I mean we also have a good i/o shield that's one reason why we couldn't done that something else sends that ecstasy typically does pretty well but they actually didn't do a great job of on this case is lots of little cable management loops on the back they've got a few down this side they've got a few down this side but what these will allow us to do is go ahead and oh actually oh no I see I missed one here oh maybe it's better than I thought so this will allow us to route this 8 pin connector wherever it is that we want to go so we're gonna go ahead and you know we're gonna write down this side so this is a this is a total cheapskate move so most people will use zip ties and they're typically included with your power supply in case to secure cables at the back but a lot of cases come with these these twist ties already waste not want not right so I take out the twist tie and put that back in who says you can't use a twist tie for cable management see that that's right I just saved a fraction of a penny right there you guys thought it happened live fraction of a penny boom just like that ah all right super chance when's the last time you used a molex cable oh it actually comes up all the time like there's still like if you still run a sound card there's sound cards that take molex cables there's like fan controllers that take molex cables there's advantages a molex like this say that connector is really fragile it's easy to snap off so it's not like it's perfect you know what I want to do real quick here is get this Wow get this cooler in because I'm a little bit worried about how the cable management is gonna work for it things with RGB fans pumps I mean that's that's already a lot of things to plug in they tend to have a lot of wires and since they're all around the CPU socket area if you don't do a good job of planning exactly where you're gonna put them then you'll end up with a really messy rat's nest and it's right in what would normally be kind of like the centerpiece area of your system so I want to make sure that we're we're planning this out accordingly so here's our here's our RGB CPU blocks blast pump combo unit here we've got so actually wow these are some pretty nice flexible tubes on here that's not bad they're using these rotary fittings here so that's that should give us some options and then we've got a couple of connectors here we've got an RGB lead that's actually long enough that we should be able to get it behind the motherboard so that's good and then we've got a simple three pin power that's actually well it's really fine gauge wiring I guess this must be a pretty low power pump so we're gonna run that to the CPU fan header on the motherboard so that's that's that's fine so far then we've got our fans so it looks like Coolermaster hasn't gone the route of including like RGB passed through through there block like a little more complicated circuitry in the block / pump for the fans so we're gonna have to find our own RGB ports for the fans maybe there's a maybe there's more wiring in here Oh see this is what I'm talking about so in addition to the NZXT control hub for case fan and RGB lighting a little push there we've got an additional control hub that'll do what's this are these magnetic no how does this oh wow you have to put in all the little pins yourself or you serious oh boy oh boy this is what I was afraid of holy smokes look at the sheer amount of wiring this thing comes with this is exactly what I was afraid of this build just got like 20 minutes longer so I apologize in advance to everyone who's sort of you know waiting with bated breath for like the moment when we plug in the GPU but that is not happening for a while twenty-seven thousand people are still watching they're gonna watch me struggle with this thing for a little bit here because this is some pretty some pretty bad news bears yeah we can we can switch to the wide for a little bit of Brendan's tired just just I don't know I don't even know where the keyboard went I lost it I lost the keyboard where is it okay so I'll talk to you guys over here for a while Brandon do you just want to man focus on that or something or you could even just throw it on sticks above me here actually that would probably be better if you just want to throw an angle down here because there is so much freaking stuff here I can't even figure out how the mounting works for the CPU out of like in in less than 30 seconds here which is how long I would expect a really good mount to take me okay so this we don't let's start by getting rid of stuff we don't need so this right here is LGA 2011 hardware don't need that almost everything else in here is not labeled which is frustrating but I suspect this is AMD man man you guys know I think this one's Intel so this looks like this looks like an Intel bracket kind of akin to the the nock to a style one okay presumably we will need yeah okay this is it this is AMD there you go you can tell because it's got the little little hooks here that that's a mounting mechanism that I'm not a huge fan of I wish AMD had never done that okay then we've got four screws for these and we can put away these AMD side brackets we don't need those anymore okay process of elimination no no I can I can read them I'll tell you what I want what I really really want you know of I really really want - to build this PC Thanks minna minna doe appreciate that appreciate that although I don't know if wannabe is really my favorite of theirs I've known Y wannabes awesome uh what way is this gonna go in I'm not sure if it matters actually ok so we'll pop that in there and then it looks like it's got cleanings for the screws to go in yet there we go alright that's pretty good ryan says can you turn the ISO up it's a little bit dark Oh perfect thanks Ryan I can't believe that you paid us to help us improve our production values you're you're a kind you're a kind person Ryan appreciate that what do we got here oh wow I just I oh crap I just scrolled through like literally all of them I yeah can you find where we left off cuz that's that's all I need to know if you just want to find where we left off I just accidentally scrolled like to the bottom no no no we'll do our best we'll do our best go back to where we left off I don't want to I don't want to skip people if I have to just if I have to just talk to super chat people at the end I will do that actually I probably shouldn't necessarily commit that cuz I don't know how many there are there's a lot okay we'll do our best how about I commit to doing my best that's like the ultimate non-committal commitment you know what I'm gonna do my best for you but I will okay so some assembly required on this CPU cooler so what I've done so far here is attached the LGA 1150 we down to 775 bracket to the pump / block component all right now I'm gonna need I'm going to need the instructions I am actually going to need the instructions this is not good because I've got to Baggies here of long screws one with square ends and then one with thumb screw ends oh you know what the thumbs go around one that's probably Radiator I think we're actually in pretty good shape here okay cool so this must be for the CPU socket itself so we've got a backplate which this was one of the biggest innovations I think in case design over the last like ten years was the idea of cutting out the area behind the CPU socket so that you can install coolers with back plates without ripping the whole motherboard out really really nice feature so we've got one of those and then we've also got oh my goodness a whole bunch of crap then we've got these little kind of screws here so these stick through okay that's good that didn't get lost so these stick through here and then you've got these little retention pieces that stick on to the end so that they don't pop off then you can you can slide them back and forth to the position that you want some some assembly required all right okay let's do some super Chad's here toasted vivid says hey just want to say love your vids wondering why you like socks and sandals so much because they're the best do I need another reason to like socks and sandals no so much no in all seriousness though my feet get too hot and then they smell if I if I don't have adequate ventilation I mean it's just like you know it's like why do you like having a case with cooling fans in it so much because you got to have that cooling it's important all right got this assembled Adam Jones says what are you gonna do if it doesn't post ah not an option we're gonna we're gonna we're going to make sure this computer boots I mean we'll do the usual troubleshooting steps well you know try and figure out why exactly it is that it's not posting we'll start swapping components if it comes to that I'm really not expecting any problems I mean pretty much everything we've got you not pretty much everything we've got here is reputable reliable stuff alright so we've got our back played on there we haven't used any adhesive strips or anything I'm not a fan I don't think this one even comes with any but I'm not a fan of using those anyway just because then if you need to rip it off then it's sort of a hassle we've got these spacers those are gonna go on the other side of the board when we actually install the block you know what none I'm gonna throw them on now ah no I'm not gonna throw them on now I actually mmm I actually don't know if we need those oh that's interesting then we've got these thumb screws they might go they might go on top hmm nope yeah those spacers do look like they go on okay I'm gonna put those here for now along with all of these thumb screws we'll keep those safe now I'm gonna figure out this wiring situation I I am not honestly a huge fan of what's going on here right now so oh wow look at this so I understand wanting to give the user options but Coolermaster has gone and they've they've included an internal USB connector here to an external adapter then the cable that actually plugs into the block presumably is that where it goes no it plugs into the controller hub so then the cable that goes into the hub which is a micro be my favorite connector of course is like an external cable and then the whole thing is like this long like look at this that right there is the stuff that cable management nightmares are made of I'm not a huge fan of this kind of approach we're gonna have to find somewhere to put this we might end up stashing it down here in the drive bays or something like that I'm still figuring out my options then we've got these little extensions and these are for the RGB connectors that are on the fans presumably so you can see these guys man okay so these guys go like this there we go these are nice these are these are keyed so you can't put them in that wait what oh okay yeah these are keyed so you can't do them the wrong way so that's good I guess but then they've got one that's got four wires I guess that's for the one on the CPU block itself did I drop one holy bananas the number of wires this thing comes with and maybe you don't even need those are those just extensions okay so then you've got this like three piece harness Ritu one harness here that goes from oh boy oh boy you guys and then they've got these little these little adapter doodads if you don't want to use extensions these little can you even see those they're little like pin to pin connectors are really hard to make out alright so the fans are gonna be easy as far as I know this motherboard has two CPU fan headers one for the pump and then one for the fans themselves so we're gonna go ahead we're gonna plug these fans into this Y adapter so what these do is they allow both of the fans to be controlled a court and then you just read the RPM or the no the 11 I believe it's only one of them has a PWM wire no only one of them has an RPM sense so they can both be PWM controlled and then you just read the rpm off this green wire on one of them so that way you can tell that they're both the same model so they're probably both spinning at about the same speed so we've got that done now oh these seem to go into this and this and then the block has an RGB lead that seems to go into this so the block and both fans all go into this one connector assuming that you want them all incra NIH's then this goes into our control hub presumably and you can either do that through an extension cable like this one that you then put one of these little male to male adapter pin doodads in so here so you would you would go ahead you would put that thing in there and then you would put that thing in there or if you're close enough you could just leave the adapter pin in here and you could plug directly into the controller hub so you have many many options for how you want to plug this in which is both a blessing and a curse we're gonna plug everything into a one here I guess holy crap oh I'm getting stressed out here alright this is kind of neat this hub has apparently temperature fan sensors case reset and motherboard reset maybe that's four I'm actually not a hundred percent sure like can you hook your like actual motherboard switches up to it or something holy bananas so this right here is a four pin two four pin extension that has a green and the black wire running off of it that I guess here we go yeah is a fan rpm sense of some sort I don't understand why would need this why am I not using my motherboard to monitor this stuff I am gonna use my motherboard to monitor this stuff I don't want this okay so let's put that away we'll put that in our pile of cables that the winner of this machine is gonna get in a gigantic bag because there's so many pieces that I don't need here alright then we've got whatever the crap this is this looks like it goes to a thermal probe or something and then yes it does come with an included extension to your reset switch so maybe there's like a feature where you can go online and use the cloud to reset your computer if you're not there or something like I could see that being useful for something like crypto mining for example but I don't think a typical desktop is gonna benefit much from that so we're gonna go ahead we're gonna put that away as well okay so the nightmare mess of cables seems to have been mostly reduced down to this hub this USB connector to control the hub this harness of RGB wiring that will go to the hub and then these optional extensions that we might need later but I'm gonna talk over here for now when did life become so complicated like when did this happen and what is that piece that just dropped I'm gonna need that let's put that back up there 20 bucks to not drop the computer I know not to drop the computer right I'm supposed to let's see Mazda fan gaming says SSDs are safe to around 50 G's yeah the SSDs are pretty difficult to damage by shock like you would actually have to like baseball-bat them to reliably destroy them just by like hitting them against something and I just realized again stressing out here that I actually don't know if this cooler is compatible with this case it's probably fine but you never know there can be there can be slight differences in clearance for things like radiators that can cause a real nightmare for you it looks like it's going to be fine though so let's go ahead and pop these screws off of here and NZXT thoughtfully included a nice little removable bracket here okay go ahead and pop that off and then we've probably got a couple of different options here in terms of how we want to mount our radiator and our fans so there's enough space in the front there that you could actually put the fans or the radiator tucked into oh crap well we'll find this later I've tucked into the front of the case but that might affect our air flow a little bit because if you guys remember that side panel had that nice little like vented spot on it so I think what we're gonna do instead is we're going to mount our radiator directly to this panel so this should come with some small radiator mounting screws yep it does and then we're gonna mount our fans to the radiator that also gives us a nice look at our RGB fans through the windowed side panel if you're into that sort of thing Nikolai wants to know if there are LTX videos coming I think that is pending a decision from you actually I said I said I basically didn't care and it was up to you when Colton asked me so okay and then the first one okay all right so it looks it looks like yes we will have at least one video from LTX I think the the first thing that we kind of shot they're thinking it might end up being a video might not end up being a video but I mean honestly we were happy to get any video content out of it LTX was more about sort of meeting up with the community in person and it was less about creating videos like I only spent maybe 30 40 minutes of my time there doing stuff that could conceivably have turned into a video and the rest was just live engagements like it was it was a lot of fun I actually challenged attendees to like the joust the hamster ball race case toss just you know you gotta you gotta have fun with stuff like that and for for us like the whole secret behind a fun live event was trying to find ways for us to have fun so we actually had fewer booths than last year but attendees are telling us they had more fun than last year which doesn't make sense on the surface except that that was done on purpose so last year most of our staff were so busy running booths that they didn't really have time to interact with the with the attendees whereas this time pretty much every booth had at least two LMG staffers on it so people could take turns running them and they have would actually have time to you know eat or or talk to people or you know do those things that you're supposed to do at conventions Kyle MacIsaac says tell Anthony his Newfoundland friends miss him oh Anthony are you over there your your Newfie friends miss you bro he's he says he he misses them - they're they're you know missing missing them yeah getting get in the car and go out there sorry sorry not funny pretty good pretty pretty funny oh okay good question will there be an LTX on the East Coast for now the answer is no because I would rather under promise and over deliver nothing is impossible through music but it's a regular show thing don't worry about it nothing's impossible but right now there are no plans whatsoever for an LTX on the East Coast it's just with the amount of hassle that it is to get all of our staff and all of our equipment to the Richmond Olympic Oval which is like 40 minutes away I mean imagining being on the other side of the country and having forgotten a cable or whatever is just terrifying terrifying yeah yeah or spending five hundred dollars on glitter now that would have been fine that would've been fine I think they have staples over there for those of you wondering what I'm doing right now so I used the short screws to screw the radiator into this mounting plate and then I'm using the long screws to screw my fans into the radiator here now usually there's enough play in these long screws that if you don't need to mount the radiator directly to something you go straight through your case through the fans and then into the radiator with these it used to be that old radiators had had some of their the tubes see it's hard to tell that their tubes cuz they're so thin but they had tubes directly under where the screws went in and you could easily puncture them with a screw that was too long but nowadays most of the radiator manufacturers and screw manual most of the cooler manufacturers are aware of that particular problem and they will do a couple of things they'll make sure that there's enough sort of play in the length of the screws before they hit the fins that it's not going to be a problem and what they'll also do in some cases is make sure that there are no tubes under where the screws go in so you could never puncture anything anyway oh can you do anything about the horrible framerate no yeah yeah so sorry guys there's really nothing we can do about it YouTube is as YouTube does we decided to stream on YouTube today for some reason and so we're we're we're having that we're having the YouTube experience together line is who's your biggest arch enemy and why is it Luke's mom okay Luke's mom is not my arch enemy Luke's mom is awesome she's great like she has been so supportive like not just of him but like of me directly over the years even though like I hardly knew her and it's because of me that her son dropped out of school and ran off to join the circus like she owed me nothing and she's been nothing but kind and supportive to me and him and you know everything that we've accomplished together so Luke's Luke's mom is awesome absolutely not my archenemy assasinate says I subscribed on floatplane thank you and if you say hi Dylan I'll be a great day Dylan I think you got a typo in there but you can be a great day all you want Dylan it's like on Dylan's tombstone here lies Dylan he was a great day we have a what Oh is it done oh nice noise here it is you guys wow that looks fantastic now this is gonna be a bit of a stretch for your imaginations out there but imagine this on here imagine it for just one moment here not too shabby not too shabby at all I'm liking it good work Thank You Anthony that's super Anthony over there actually I'm kidding that's not the real super Anthony the real super Anthony is our fighting robot that we are working so that company sent us a fighting robot and then when we reached out to them saying like hey could we borrow another one like we're not asking you to keep it or anything but we really feel like a video about a fighting robot should probably have our robot fight in it they were like no no we don't we don't have any left so you you can't have any more like well like we can wait till you make another one they're like no so we're like okay so we reached out to another creator who also has one and we are thinking of maybe doing a collab with that person so that we can actually watch the super Anthony's fight because our only other option was to have our regular Anthony fight the super Anthony and that was gonna be a pretty one-sided fight because well I mean they have weight classes for a reason this robots like this big like he would have just been like boom and it would have been dead what went over G Gnaeus 10 3 whatever it was okay scrapyard Wars is coming it's coming sooner than you think unless you think that it's coming on Saturday in which case it's coming exactly when you think thank you thank you for that Nick let's go ahead and do some thermal compound here really quick Brandon do you want to get us a good good shot of this so we're applying kind of a grain of rice sized amount of thermal compound here that's the typical application method for these smaller processors bippity Boppity done then this is really important please peel off label before you use out there we go so there's our nice clean copper base there so I actually need that hardware that I dropped earlier so I'm gonna go ahead and do a couple more Super tats are you gonna liquid metal this PC no I am not there's a very good reason for that so liquid metal gives you amazing performance but it actually has at this time unknown long term effects like it does have to be well not unknown you do have to reapply it every once in a while which is not something that I'm necessarily going to assume that the user of this computer will know how to do it's a little bit finicky err to install it takes longer so between it not having as long lifespan and taking longer to install that's pretty much all the reason that we really need also it's it's dangerous it can kill your components it's metal so if someone were to go in and fuss about with it after the fact and they accidentally got a little bit of liquid metal on something they could kill it so they could very easily kill their CPU or their motherboard so liquid metal is one of those things that you know we love and we love to play around with but that we don't run out and recommend to our viewers or go in pre install in systems that we're building for people if that if that kind of makes sense corrupt tor turret 20 bucks yes 20 dollars more than makes up on the lost ad revenue on the forum especially because the forum barely even has ads on it anymore like yeah the forum has I don't think the forum has ever made money it's it's mostly a community initiative at this point like it's pretty much run by the community almost no one at LMG puts a lot of hours into it like Luke still does some work on it but again it's most the community and then the community is what kind of keeps it alive like I post very little over there most of the staff is pretty much concentrated on replying to like comments on float playing videos over there and stuff like that so the general forum is just kind of it's as much a generic tech forum as it is Linus tech tips it's just that it's administered by us so sorry oh yeah sorry I'll change cameras I got this but it's administered by us so you know it's well funded it's never gonna go anywhere I mean NEVER is a strong word but it's it's not going anywhere and yeah if you like it then go I mean honestly there's a there's a lot of people over there that don't like Linus tech tips the YouTube channel want nothing to do with it but they just like it that it's a that it's a it's a good online community so and that's and that's fine that's the way that we're running it these days and we're totally cool with that so yeah I mean the days of making money running a web forum unless you're running something very very specialized with like a very affluent audience like something very niche I think is a better way to make money on a web forum then something more mainstream and it's it's just it's it's not a good way of making money why don't you do case reviews anymore so the reason we don't do case reviews is actually the same reason we don't do a lot of things anymore it's it wasn't a particularly strong category for us in terms of viewership like people seemed to be kind of losing their interest in it compared to other things and additionally there's other guys that do a great job of it like do you really need to watch dimitri spots on a case and mine and steve from gamers nexus do you really need that many reviews of a case the case sort of you use it I see a case unless it's a very high-end one as mostly a one-time-use affair where if there's something kind of wrong with it you can kind of fight your way through that in the initial set up but then beyond that even though there are cases out there that don't have great performance in terms of airflow the age 500 P was a great example of that a little while ago it's not like that was it was so bad that it was gonna kill your components or anything so it's one of those components that there's not really a whole lot that you can totally screw up like really really badly and if people just pick what they like they're gonna mostly end up with a pretty decent experience so we we just don't care as much anymore and when you stop caring and when you stop being excited about something that is a perfect time to stop making content about it and leave it to the guys that are still amped on it and still really want to talk about it because I've said this a lot when people have asked me like how do I become a youtuber and the answer is always do what you're legitimately actually passionate about because if you try to fake it no one's gonna be fooled and everyone's gonna hate your content so we're not about faking it here we want to make sure that when we're making videos we're making videos about stuff that really sort of lights our fire you know so that would be the main reasons why we don't really do case reviews anymore oh boy cable management oh boy oh boy okay so yes I have decided on a location for this I'm going to put it in the heart oh it's magnetic that's cool that's cool I got this it's magnetic you could stick it anywhere you want boom so I'm gonna put it down there and then I'm gonna run my USB connector I'm actually gonna do this fairly early on here and I think I'm gonna pop this out under the motherboard here start getting this wired up this thing is like over 50% of the total wiring for this build is this freaking water cooler there we go so we're gonna throw that USB connector right there and actually this is great this motherboard has two USB twos and I think we are going to need both of them because I believe the integrated NZXT hub also wants one yeah it does so we're gonna need to plug that in as well perfect everything's actually going shockingly smoothly all things considered although you know famous last words of course alright I'm gonna go ahead and then I'm going to take all the RGB connectors here sorry I'll give you guys a better look at that so these are the RGB connectors for the top two fans or the sorry the the wait what oh the CPU cooler and then the front two fans here we're gonna run all of those over here down to our hub doodad oh man there's gonna be a bit of a rat's nest on the bottom of this one so I apologize in advance to whoever wins it because there's a big difference between a build that I have six hours to work on and a build that I have like two hours to work on while I'm streaming yeah oh so for those of you joining us this is kind of the the 2000 ish dollar gaming machine it's got a core i7 8700 K 16 gigs of dual channel ddr3 from g.skill it's got an a sous z 370 Strix motherboard if I recall correctly I want to say that it's got e it's got a WD 500 gig m2 SSD it's got a 4 terabyte hard drive from Seagate it's in an NZXT th 500 I and then it's running an 80 plus platinum 850 watt power supply from see sonic down here and of course we are rocking a GTX 1080 TI for both gaming and light workstation use and the whole thing is going to be running an LG ultra wide 38 inch monitor which you can actually see in the in the back over there so that's just waiting for me to get my crap together and get this machine built it's just sitting there patiently waiting it's like it's like poised you know alright so we've just jammed all those cables in there as best we can and we're gonna kind of zip tie them up a little bit later but that's that's all I can really do for now now we're gonna try and find power connectors for the actual fan opponents of our fans you know the important stuff wait oh this is good so we can actually use interesting we can use the built-in NZXT thing here to power our fans yeah why don't we why don't we do that you know what I really don't even know if I want to do that I might just I might just plug into the motherboard I'm all about that built-in motherboard control because then you can even configure profiles in the BIOS and stuff we actually have three separate options for hand controls for this system just because of the cooler master cooler the NZXT case and the ACS motherboard so let's go ahead and see how Asus has positioned their their plugs and then if they're good then we'll go with that and if they're not then I'll use the hub clever cooling solution for the 2018 macbook actually I did have some thoughts I think one thing we're gonna do for sure is liquid metal it the only reason we hadn't liquid metal to our old one yet like that's been on our content calendar for a while was that our new designer is a Mac and has been using it so we weren't able to get it from him so that's that's the thing oh shoot I plug the the wrong one in I wanted to do the other one for this sorry give me one second hearing you guys so we're probably gonna liquid metal it and see how much that addresses the problem and then from there I actually have a couple of other ideas as well like kind of think think laptop cooling pad but like you know it's been hitting the gym so state stay tuned for that we're gonna we're gonna see what we can do we're not going to resort to the freezer as we've experienced in the past running a computer in a fridge or freezer actually is not a great long-term solution though I know of course Dave Lee did that in with his tongue firmly planted in his cheek obviously he knows that is not a good solution oh shoot dang it I I had it the right way this this is the problem this is the problem with trying to do it live okay so this one's going up here there we go so I'm plugging my two fans into two of my headers on the motherboard here the top fan is going up to that top one down there up there and then the bottom one is going into the one down here there we go this is a sort of mid-range board so it doesn't have a ton of fan connectors on it's got a couple here actually it's not bad it's got six but usually I'm used to seeing more along the bottom edge here it's a nice place to have them and I really like that all right then what we need to do is bring our CPU pump power back around here and we're gonna go ahead and plug that into CPU fan so I had said I was gonna plug the fans and two CPU optional but I actually opted not to do that because I forgot and now they're plugged in so you know what screw it I will man all right where's that stupid Y adapter where'd I put it I think I might have dropped it okay got it so let's go ahead and unplug those fans and yet again and we'll we'll plug this into CPU opt on the other side here why does anyone take PC building advice from me again clear clearly no idea what I'm doing yeah that's not a thing yeah the winners we already know the winner well we'll let you know when we're done building the machine so that's on there now then right so this is good this is that Y cable that I explained earlier I explained why sorry I apologize but I'm not really sorry you guys knew that though alright so there we go now we can run these bad boys up up this thing with these velcro ties that's actually gonna that's actually gonna cable managed pretty nicely for us in there I'm liking liking that mostly these kind of overlap funny I'm not a huge fan of that but that's okay that's okay we can we can work with it we can definitely work with it we'll run that through there or something there we go yeah cool okay that works oh that was exhausting like you guys are probably exhausted just watching me do that yeah look like there's only 24,000 of you watching now you're tired of watching me install a CPU cooler and I don't blame you at all it's horrible but the good news is that that's not half bad we actually managed to hide the vast majority of the wires see we can tuck this little one coming off of the block here under this heatsink it's a really nice little cable management spot we got the tubes nothing you can do about that and then this one Y cable here just wraps around the back and can actually use that to hide the little ugly skinnier cable behind it if we if we want so it looks really clean really clean from the front oh alright kevin says love your channel and what you do don't suppose you have any vacancies for a UK test manager I don't know what a test manager is presumably you manage tests so that's good we don't administer tests maybe it's like a Oh like like a reviewer like like benchmark err no okay okay okay I get it um so right now we're not really planning to you know open up a branch office somewhere else the taxation implications behind that are actually incredibly complicated as far as we can tell most of the industry takes a seek forgiveness rather than permission approach to it but that's not really something that we're comfortable with like I like to do things by the book okay when it comes to business things I like to do them by the book as a lot of people have gotten and I'm gonna use sort of air quotes here have gotten screwed on taxes a lot of small business owners and the reason that they got screwed was because in a lot of cases they weren't staying on top of it and they weren't doing things properly as they went so what will happen is you'll get hit by a gigantic tax bill that you didn't know you owed because you didn't do it properly you'll owe a bunch of interest on it because you didn't do it properly and you won't have the money on hand because you haven't been managing your cash flow correctly and something that a lot of people don't realize is that I actually you know try to run this business in a way that is a lot to me so we we really do try to do everything by the book to the greatest extent that we can and it's not always possible like sometimes the the hourly rate for the the tax lawyer who can advise you about what to do and in some you know weird edge case is you know more than you would have owned if someone came back to you five years later and was like hey you owe us this money and you're just like well you know what we'll cross that bridge when we get to it and we'll just we'll just pay it with interest what else are we supposed to do like it but a lot of things aren't like that so we do do our best Oh what else we got here Skrill I loved your videos so much and you inspired me to make my first PhD at 13 did I read that one before hmm what lives like that our feature for Linus tech tips consider that hello from PL says Christophe has do a live builds are the future oh I don't know they're really stressful right I was gonna talk about the whole thing about like being on camera like you'd think it's comfortable so it is comfortable but only in certain situations so one of the things that's not comfortable for me is oh dang it I went and I put the screws for the bottom of the case into the drives bloody hell one thing that's not comfortable for me is stills cameras and I I joke about this with anyone who's ever sort of watched me in person working on shooting a thumbnail for example you put a video camera in front of me I'm I'm pretty comfortable like I can kind of do my thing I can talk to the camera I can I can multitask sometimes I'll screw up and I'll use the wrong screw and I'll put it in the drive and stuff in the bottom of the case they're threaded the same like nothing's ruined or anything it's just I'm wasting time but I'm pretty good but then you go and put a spills camera in front of me and I just lock up like I have no idea what to do with my hands I have no idea what face to make and I'm just like this is very uncomfortable put it away I hate this so believe it or not one of the things we've resorted to around here is actually shooting our thumbnails as video and then just pulling us still out of it after the fact because we shoot on red this is not a good reason to buy a red camera but because but because we shoot on red that 8k resolution means that we're really compromising almost nothing in terms of the image quality of our thumbnail by shooting it on a video camera even though it's really not designed for that like if you if you called up red you're like hey so you know we're gonna buy a red weapon and we're gonna just use it instead of a DSLR for photography shoots they they think you're drunk it'd be like that's the stupidest thing we've ever heard and yet here we are no wonder red doesn't talk to us actually I did have a conversation with red the other day I pitched them a crazy project that I sincerely hope that they will you know put the past in the past and work with us on because that would be the best thing ever like let let us let us actually let us know in the comments you guys want to see a Linus tech tips red digital cinema collaboration on something kind of crazy I'd love to I'd love to know what you guys imagine it would be because it's it's something that I suspect most of you wouldn't guess it's pretty neat so what I'm doing right now is I'm installing the hard drive this case not a great hard drive installation experience I personally prefer here so I personally prefer like plastic rails that you can just slide the drives in from the back but what this approach with the little metal cage down here and all screws does is a couple of things one is that it allows you to put a third drive up on the top so that's pretty neat you can screw that in with the little tabs on the side then you can put two more down here so they get an extra drive out of it and then number two is that it requires the assembler to use all screws and NZXT has a very close relationship with iBUYPOWER so they've they've got a lot of they've got a lot of people there with a proud system builder pedigree and system builders know that nothing beats a screw if you have like you know rock paper scissors screw screw is the way to go if you want something to arrive to the end-user not having completely fallen apart in shipping so I understand why they did it it's just a bit more of a hassle for me to assemble but now whoever wins this machine and the monitor is going to have a working system when it arrives hopefully so that's definitely a good thing all right so our drives in now we can grab SATA power harness so I think this single modular harness is actually going to handle everything that we need to plug into it plot our plug in with SATA so we're gonna run a couple things so we've got the NZXT fan controller hub up there so we can go ahead and I don't know let's use let's say the third one for that one we've got our cooler master hub down here okay that one goes in a little something like that actually I'm gonna use the third one for this drive here and then we've got this drive right here you want to be really careful with these SATA connectors they're a little bit fragile so you just need to make sure you've got them aligned exactly right they're keyed so they only go in one way just look closely and then you push them straight in don't put any upward or downward pressure on them because if you do that there's a good chance you'll snap the connector off the drive and it typically costs more to try to replace that connector than it would to just buy a new drive so that's a bad time don't want to do that all right oh man see this is what I hate about these stupid little these stupid little male-to-male RGB pin things I just bent that one just doing basically nothing to it it's okay we can just pop it back on and if anything now that it's bent it might stay on a little bit better they also come off really really easily as quite frustrating so we're gonna you know I might need to pop this off while I put it in so let's put that baby in there all right maybe I'll do a couple super chats while I'm CUBAN managing this stuff ah sir cloud says for $5 sir cloud paid $5 just to burn me Lois draw up tubes thank you sir cloud for your contribution both monetarily and intellectually to this conversation we're having here for this super chat as it were oh yes we cut here Eduardo says still can't believe Linus can make all sorts of builds but is not able to use a Mac okay now hold on a minute in fair okay in fairness to me if I have the power of Google on my side I can use a Mac it's just that I don't use them every day and I haven't used one as a daily driver in probably about two and a half three years so let's see you you know put down your Windows computer for three years and then go back and remember how to do everything all right all right I want to see that before you're gonna burn me on my Mac skills okay yes I know that I should probably be better at it as a as a tech guy but it just doesn't come up that often like the only time I ever really need to use a Mac is when I'm working on a review of something and now that Alex handles most of the laptop stuff that comes in even that doesn't come up that often so yeah Anthony did the iMac Pro so okay I've been live for an hour and 40 minutes that's fine believe it or not we're actually surprisingly close to the end it's it's hard to tell as you're going but the whole thing kind of comes together in the final moments like Brandon and I would always have this experience when we were shooting build guides back in the day where we'd be like everything's like check like look at this like everything's exploded all over the table everything's a mess and then we'd be like hold on a minute all you got to do is put the GP yeah we're almost done that's great all right so the last couple of things that I've got here I've got to do my data for the hard drive but I'm gonna do that later because it's that's a particularly fragile connector we don't want to bump it so all I've got to do is my front panel case connectors here so what is this front power switch and stuff I don't see them Oh Andrew hi Andrew yes there is a story behind the orange branding that's really funny I I have built almost no computers with any screwdriver other than my orange one that was a gift that I got about 15 years ago and so that that orange branding came from my my partner in crime back at NCIX who helped me run the NCIX tech tips channel integrating that that screwdriver that I always had and refused to use anything but it he integrated that into the branding of NCIX tech tips so we had kind of the blue and the yellow of NCIX and then we also had this this screwdriver in there and then because that was just sort of you know it was sort of like meme status by the time - tech tips was started it became part of the Linus tech tips branding as well so it's just kind of it all comes from that snap-on screwdriver that I would use all the time there's nothing sort of more more sentimental about it than that it just was the color of my screwdriver so we simply rolled with it thanks sir cloud I'm not forgiving you though so you know ah okay let's do our front USB three connector this guy's really fragile you want to be careful with this one I actually really don't like the position of this connector and the way that this case is designed here they don't go together very well because it's a really bulky connector and a really bulky cable so you can see it's going to put some upward pressure on it if we cable management cable manage it really tight so what we're probably gonna do is we're gonna make a cable management compromise and we're gonna run our USB 3 connector out through where we would normally run the GPU power because the last thing I want is for someone to get this machine and have their front USB 3 not work it's better to make a compromise on cable management than to make a compromise on the functionality of your machine so we're gonna go ahead and do that I mean it's not the end of the world because we're gonna hide that a little bit when we bring those PCI Express cables up but I just thought I'd I'd acknowledge that now is there any chance of a cloud gaming video I'm glad you asked because we actually had a sponsor who runs a cloud gaming service reach out to us and we might be going to see their actual data center where the cloud gaming happens so stay tuned for that we've got our USB 2 connector for that NZXT controller that's built in so we're plugging that into our other USB 2 header those are keyed they only go in one way then we've got we got HD audio high-definition the highest definition audio it's funny we don't even have the video industry to blame for this HD nonsense its audio okay so that's plugging in there that's keyed it only goes in one way typically these are in the sort of bottom left of the motherboard and all the other USB stuff is in the along the bottom edge and this is something I haven't seen and I really don't like NZXT typically I think I've actually given them a lot of praise throughout this video for the good decisions that they make when they're building their cases this is not one of them they have integrated all of the front panel connectors the power reset and the LEDs into a single gear which on the surface seems like a good idea and might even work today although I'll have to check the pin outs on this particular motherboard but if you run into a situation where you need any other configuration and other boards especially across generations are not standard this is a real pain in the butt to reconfigure you can do it you just need to take like a pin or a needle or something you pop up these little flaps pull the pins out and then put them in wherever you need them but that is so much more of a hassle especially for experienced builders where I can just take all the loose wires hold it in my hand and put the whole thing on myself that is so much more of a hassle than being able to reconfigure them as I need so I'm gonna go ahead and assume that the one button missing here is a reset switch and that everything else is wired up correctly and hope for the best I mean if the industry does manage to standardize on this great but even if it does just in case someone's buying this case for a motherboard that's a couple years old that is a conceivable thing that could happen i I think it should probably be a few more years before you run out and integrate that standard into a case but I'm sure NZXT has their own sort of thoughts on the situation and they and they don't agree and that's fine that's that's the beauty of the world we live in people have the right to disagree and then I have the right to disagree right back in your face all right so this is over here this all looks pretty good let's go ahead and run this the CPU power connector into this one right here I'm sorry I'm probably writing your way but there's nothing I can really do about it we'll just do it as quick as I can okay so that's in there now look at that Brandon it happened it happened we've got all this kind of mess going on right now and everything and we're like just about done it is time to do the graphics card love that so Oh before I do that yes what's up oh yeah no I think the viewers did a great job of choosing the parts that water-cooler was a nightmare to install but otherwise pretty good you want to frame me for a bit of headroom yeah cool cuz of me I'm not gonna need the table much anymore thanks Brandon yeah I thought they did a great job I mean that water cooler was a nightmare to installed but I'm sure we're gonna feel that it was all worthwhile once we see the RGB lighting effects and other than that I mean there's nothing in here that I would really question I mean it's all reputable brands MSI graphics they cease on the motherboard Western Digital and Seagate for the storage I think it's gonna look really good when we're done and we fire this thing up and this thing's performance is going to be fantastic like this is a good all-rounder you could save some money like if you were building a pure gaming machine you could save probably a few hundred dollars on this configuration if you're just like yeah I don't give two cares what it looks like I don't care how cool it runs and I don't care what my you know video rendering times are gonna be you could save a significant amount of money but this is more of an all-rounder machine that'll perform well across a broad spectrum of different workloads and looked good doing it and run efficiently and all of that kind of good stuff that's so it's got a lot of nice extras even if you don't necessarily need them all oh so this was the only RGB cooler that was an option all right the people the people have spoken RGB is in Brandon do you want to just take this do you want to just control the angles like why are we letting me do this yeah yeah we're gonna do that we're gonna do the final component install okay I am seriously not a fan of the way that these PCI slots are configured on this case this is not my favorite thing ever I get this whole vertical GPU mounting thing is a big deal right now and that's really cool but I don't like you can here I can barely get a screwdriver in there to get the PCI cover off not not like in that I don't have I don't have like a constructive suggestion for how we can fix it but I can definitely complain and ask the engineers over at NZXT to engineer better for next time oh wow this is gonna make it really hard to get this card into I do not like this I do not like inaccessible screws and ham I do not like them so actually I love ham I don't like inaccessible screws though oh this whole bracket comes off okay they didn't think of it fantastic good and that XT engineers are like cringing into their faces going like taking off the thing okay it's still flimsy yeah well you know what I figured it out pretty quick so I'm still I'm still giving myself a b-minus on this BB - B - yeah you never heard of rocket surgery Brandon well brain science is a thing yeah okay fair enough they wouldn't have to do quite so much of it if they didn't keep blowing them up um all right so this guy is gonna go in here now just get that aligned pop that in ha ha it just doesn't look like a gaming machine without that beefy graphics card installed you know see see I knew it that's the money shot moment of a PC build it's getting that getting that powerful graphics card in there so people were into it as long as we were like putting in the CPU and the RAM and then like power supply oh yeah yeah what's that GPU how many frames is gonna get yeah that's better that's what people have more than this extreme for sure that's what people get amped about man still can't believe - wait oh no I'm not reading that again watching with my five-year-old daughter she says hi and wonders when my computer will look like yours when you stopped giving me $10 for super chats and spend it on your computer actually I don't know maybe it already does maybe it already does look the the one the one youtuber that teases people about spending money on super chats you saw it here first folks - tech tips yeah yeah exactly that's right so we actually gave away a pair of Gucci sandals at LTX did that make it into J's vlog no okay it was it was pretty it was pretty dumb it was definitely dumb out of 10 so I'm putting in the - eight pin power connectors for the GPU this is one of the most common missed steps I'm not gonna call it a misstep because it's not actually a huge deal it totally doesn't matter you can just it just won't post and then you'll be like oh why isn't it posting and you'll put in these power connectors but it's one of the most common missed steps when you're building a machine and then you realize oh no it's not working it's because you need to plug in these extra power connectors over here yeah shout out to Brandon for being awesome did someone super chat that oh no that's just you five bucks five bucks ah all right what else we got here Ian says my gaming laptop cost two thousand two oh no my laptop battery died all right no that's fine it's fine got this got this got my got my Tesla charger here in my backpack you know never leave home without it that's right that'll make sense in time or if you follow on Twitter it might already make sense but if it probably doesn't ask let's go ahead and turn that laptop back on there and theoretically I don't want to I don't want to speak out of turn here but theoretically this system should post so let's go ahead and let's go ahead and clear some space here and see if Lady Luck is smiling upon us today or if if I've dropped one thing too many during this build and it's not gonna not gonna fire up for us here no I don't need the panels yet no it's okay so the most important PC building advice that I can give to anyone is you never put on the panels before you power it up for the first time it's bad luck and I don't believe in luck I don't believe in horoscopes I don't believe in astrology it's all nonsense but you never put the panels on until you've powered it up it's bad luck but I don't believe in luck but it's bad luck all right I hope that was very clear to everyone clear clear as mud all right so let's go ahead and pop these power supply cables over here pop our tools down there pop these manuals you know what I'm just gonna make someone else sort this stuff out when I'm done so I'm just gonna throw everything down there aha Oh ha see and this my friends is exactly why because we didn't put the SATA data cable in yet and we were gonna be like ooh what happened why isn't our hard drive detected because as soon as you as soon as you put that panel on you'll have you'll have forgotten and you'll realize as you're cleaning up or whatever that you never put that thing in like oh this sucks now I have to take out screws there's nothing less fun in the PC building universe then taking apart computers building them fun taking them apart not fun Jake actually had to disassemble the the dual system be over the last couple of days and it's just like depressing because you put all this work into it and it's like so cool and awesome and then you have to take it apart and like clean out the gunk that build up in the blocks and like really tedious and then when you're left instead of getting like the satisfaction of that moment when it turns on and everything lights up you're left with a pile of parts that you get to put back on the shelf because we're done with it alright so let's get our SATA data cable here and actually I'm cheating a little bit on this build instead of installing Windows cuz I don't think you guys want to watch all that because that's boring I just grabbed an SSD and I'm gonna I'm gonna boot off of that in order to make sure that the rest of the components are working so I'm gonna go ahead I'm gonna use the right angle connector on this bottom drive here so we've got lots of room to tuck the rest of our cables here it doesn't really matter we could easily use a straight one I like how much space sends that XE has given us there once again more praise for them they just didn't do everything right on this case and then I'm gonna go ahead and plug that into any port on the motherboard been a long time since mainstream boards have really needed third-party chipsets like non Intel chipsets in order to have enough ports free to plug in as many drives as you'd want so you don't have to worry as much these days about which port you plug things into then I'm gonna use that last SATA connector I had I'm just gonna run it outside of the case here Boop and I'm gonna go ahead and plug that in over here so I actually need a keyboard and mouse would it be possible to get that someone who's off camera do you mind cool thank you and do I have a network cable over here probably I think so well yeah it's that stupid when I was ranting about earlier I mean look at this okay whoever did this who works here you're getting called out right now because this is ridiculous so this this cable these two cables this one over here that's under the carpet and this one here are for this workshop set and for the old Blanchot set and they used to run back here behind all these like painting supplies under this shelf over to the server room someone went out of their way to take them out of there and run them up here with this growth tape that leaves a bunch of residue on stuff over the top of this counter and then back down so now it's a tripping hazard by the door who does that sort of thing what's it you Jake no okay well good someone did that someone just got called out because that was bad that was like super fail uh yeah I do all right let's go ahead oh you know what we need we need a monitor oh hi - Justin I adjusted that height real good all right let's go ahead and pop that on there we need our power cord oh this is what this is when it gets exciting when it's like okay we're getting to the moment we're getting to the turn-on moment that's what turns me on okay run this over here so when do we when do we say who wins this thing whenever I want oh cool okay well I don't want to yet I want to do it I want to do it later so how did people how did people enter this just turn on whoo okay hold on hold on no no I want everything plugged in before we do that it's like we don't want to blow the proverbial you know what let's keep it pg got it okay okay so in case that was too far from my microphone for you guys to hear people voted by voting or people entered to win by voting for the components for five days so there were four components that got voted on and then on the fifth day people submitted sort of fun ideas for the build like itching the panel with memes for example so we're gonna announce who was drawn randomly out of the people who participated very shortly here but I really want to see it I want to see it booted and maybe even running a game first because that would be pretty sick key step get off get off this is making it worse how did this get so tangled look do you guys ever have these experiences we're like two things touch each other and then all of a sudden they're just like permanently fused together for some reason all right here's our power brick for the monitor needs a pretty hefty power brick because it's like a lot of pixels and whatnot right HDR backlight let's go ahead and put got my DisplayPort cable yeah you're gonna want DisplayPort I know if this one runs at its full refresh rate and resolution on HDMI but I but I would have to check that for you guys I don't know we can do that after it let's let's uh let's show let's let's get it being assembled first we'll show the putting on the panel and doing whatever else it is that we're doing and then we can get some honorable mentions in there all right so I'm gonna actually use my front USB port for my mouse just to make sure that those work well those are cute they're purple in this case then but where's that all the network cable is over there because we're streaming off of it that makes an awful lot of sense okay does someone want to get jaku and see if we can grab a switch for it or something all right here we go it's time to boot are you ready Brandon hmm okay so did I forget to plug in the power for the Coolermaster hub that seems possible wait oh no that's just the interesting that's just the lighting for the board that's just standby lighting so you don't actually have to have the system powered on for that to work interesting all right so now we're powered up but I'm actually still not seeing any RGB to those fans so it is entirely possible that that hub is not powered no it must be powered because the fans are spinning I guess it's possible that we have to configure it in cooler masters utility or something like that okay I don't know if I ever turn the monitor on though so that's probably a key step there's been somewhat anticlimactic I apologize on HDMI let's go ahead and switch our input now we're on DisplayPort fun little fun little thing about DisplayPort is that it doesn't always do a fantastic job of picking up a signal that's thank you that's already running so I've from my experience it's actually a pretty good idea to go ahead and turn the system right back off and then power it back on I don't know what it is about DP but it just it's not as good as HDMI which isn't as good as DVI at just detecting the signal and going I miss DVI sometimes but DVI was limited to 2560 by 1600 60 Hertz so it was clearly not the display interface of the future there we go there's the ROG moment that's weird why does it have an our own ROG oh yeah SAS Trix board oh yeah how about that okay cool make sure to use the supplied input cables okay can do no problem and then this is the moment in the video where I would normally go okay Brandon go ahead and cut and we'll we'll be back in a while when there's something interesting to look at but instead I'm gonna do super chats what do we got here Oh someone spent 10 euros and then retracted their message who does that Wow um okay then there's there's 70 roubles from a name that I have no chance like not a hope in anything of pronouncing because it's all in like what is it Cyrillic no was whatever the like Russian characters are I got I got nothing Lucas says thanks to your videos I built my best PC following your recommendations 8700 KP 4000 also this is like a workstation machine not bad Paul sent 30 box and says hey Linus bought that motherboard for my RG build RGB illed r do you know what fans would you recommend them where are the pins for it oh yeah I think this board does have our GB headers yeah they're both at the bottom kind of in the middle to the left dish and of course there's light loops are fantastic of course but I think they really rely on Corsairs hugg to plug them into anyway I don't think Corsair has built Oris into or are a sink sorry are a sink into IQ yet witcher 3 and LTTE worst combo says Pavlin our PG schizo says hi from india and - media group taylor says still voting for the PC Co build with hardware connects I'd be kind of fun I mean we kind of did that in scrapyard Wars last season Dimitri and I built oh hey we're booted caution make sure to use the supplied input cables oh oh there's clothes and then there's do not display this message again I think I'll go with do not display this message again this time also that's not necessary as long as you get a high quality thing then you should be good ok alrighty then so here it is let's make sure everything's detected can I get a mousepad from someone oh no I have one I have an emergency mousepad where's my backpack I don't know people will make fun of me when I feel like I've legitimately had this happen when I pull out a mousepad at like the airport or something and I'm like yo I've got stuff to do like I can't be using a touchpad for everything always carry Mouse always carry mousepad so that's necessary no no no it was it was this one it was just this ancient steel series one I actually really need a new one stuff doesn't track that well and it's kind of worn out ok cool so we're booted let's make sure everything is actually detecting here good work Jake ah there's our Kingston Drive there's our 4 terabyte drive I actually don't see our MDOT two SSD which is weird we will have to diagnose that a little bit later but we can do that off camera we're booted up for now everything else looks to be showing up we've got our gtx 980ti and let's go ahead and get our monitor settings dialed in this is always fun you know booting up a machine for the first time and kind of you know setting up everything especially when you get to BAM change your refresh rate from 60 to 75 Hertz it actually makes more of a difference than you'd probably think like going from 60 to 75 or 85 is a bigger Delta for me than going from like 120 to 144 or 165 anything over 60 feels pretty good if all you've ever experienced is 60fps before so I mean what should we should we go should we go full cringe and fire up fortnight I mean is that do we not have epic games launcher on here some of our test benches actually are not are not set up for for fortnight nonsense it's got battlenet though so we could do like overwatch no it's doesn't know the password in it okay forget it we're just gonna you know well let's just run the Deus Ex mankind divided benchmark well once again I'm just gonna have to cover my keyboard here are we are recovered Brendan alright I have no idea if I actually entered that right I'm thinking probably not oh I get it Oh Christian says been following since your NCIX days like the build Zachary says but can it run crisis oh I'd love to know where´s we're steam can it run Crysis Crysis 1 ok let's get that downloading in the background there hey come on come on you know we got to do it I'll downloads during gameplay and we're good that is that is downloading oh no it's doing a bunch of updates no no I don't want to do no updates good let's do it let's download crisis first how the biggest crisis I remember crisis being like a big game at one point but now five and a half gigs is like nothing there's games out there that are 60 gigs and more alright let's play big Deus Ex mankind divided Lars thanks for buying up all the ends ethics cases on prime day before I got one no we bought this well before prime day our production calendar actually runs pretty far out in advance George sent over 40 rubles with the message From Russia With Love thanks George that's on point Scott 10 pounds what has happened to the 1000d build that is exactly the one I was talking about that that Jake had to tear down and that made him super sad so it has been torn down because we have to salvage that hardware for other builds in fact we had to clear there's might still be some remnants no we had to clear like that the shelves of video cards and SSDs from that build out of the workshop right before we shot this it just got torn down what's the total stream lag I think it's pretty short I think it's only like 10 20 seconds something like that yeah it's pretty low all right so let's start by changing our resolution from 1920 by 1080 yeah I know it requires more video memory but we're mad ballers cuz we got a 1080i 38 40 by 1600 75 Hertz let's see how close we can get to that 75 FPS line I I'm not my expectations are actually fairly low this is a really demanding game and it's on the high preset right now so let's pop into the extras here benchmark I can't remember if this one has a frame counter that you can look at the whole time but I'm gonna go ahead and do some super chats toasted hey I sent 5 pounds before it and you missed it no we just haven't gotten to it yet these messages are from an hour and 25 minutes ago so I'm gonna try and go through them pretty quick since there is no FPS counter we're just gonna have to wait till this benchmark is done in order to get the results better than Sandler says can I get this PC I am at colleague and it's hard to spend money I think you mean college better than sander and sorry the the way to win has already been closed but I think we're doing some more PC giveaways before the end of this year right some like build giveaways yeah so stay tuned stay tuned Emmanuel 20 bucks hey Linus I have a few question on billing my first PC from the ground up I'm acutely using the same motherboard can I send you an male with my parts list and get your opinion on it the best place to go is our forum we actually have a new-build section of the forum where you can post what your machines for there's a whole like there's guidelines and everything for how you can post and then we've got an amazingly helpful community that'll walk you through that that is one of the biggest reasons that we started the forum so that I wouldn't have to answer these questions every time and for that the forum has actually been an amazing resource because our community does an amazing job of it it's it's it's been really cool and that's why we'll keep supporting the forum no matter how unprofitable it is we don't care rage modding says Dennis live build okay that is actually something that we might do at some point dennis has expressed an interest in hosting more content so he's going to be doing a tech wiki soon do you know that yeah so Dennis will be hosting a fast as possible and then apparently he also wants to do a tech linked Ryan says would you rather be a meme or a gif I'd rather be a gif of a meme actually so excuse me benchmark results hey not bad wow it's almost like we built this machine to run on this monitor we got 60 2.6 FPS average which means on average we would need that higher than 60 Hertz refresh rate and our max was 75 point 1 FPS so we are literally getting the full potential out of our build and out of our monitor it's nice when things balance out like that isn't it but can it run crisis first time set up see what I want to know is why it doesn't do first time setup when I install the game oh wow we have to install punkbuster lordy pit Zed x2 is it bad that I'm running a risin 5 1600 with a gtx 750ti in 2018 no not necessarily I mean it's just the next thing I would probably upgrade about that rig is the GPU but lots of people do that where they'll do a platform upgrade keep the power supply keep their GPU like keep everything they can and then they'll do like rolling upgrades so then they'll do a GPU and then a new power supply if necessary and then they'll try and stretch that CPU for a little bit longer I mean that's a great way to manage your money without going on a payment plan because leasing and financing is not better in the long term whereas buying bits and pieces like buying whatever the best value pieces now especially with the way that so many components are inter compatible from generation to generation can be a really good way to manage your overall amount of money that you have to put down at once and still keep your system modern ends ethics case NZXT cases are too expensive here says laz FPS and their currency is a w with two horizontal lines through it I have no idea what that is is that what I don't know I think I think I don't know okay moose what's the most expensive thing you have worked on for LMG it's actually the upcoming six video editors one CPU I think so that's gonna be like a fifty to sixty thousand dollar machine like not even including the monitors it's freaking crazy no I don't want to launch Conrad GameSpy comrade part of the crisis install Aiden hey Linus English and Royal Air Force here did you or any of your team ever consider a military career actually yes but only briefly I have bad knees I've actually got rheumatoid arthritis so that wasn't going to be an option for me because things like marching or even standing for long periods of time can be really hard on them what's art in the game cannot start for security reasons only a limited number of machines can ever be licensed by a single purchase this limit has been reached please purchase another registration code reinstall and then try again how do you even do that on a game like Crysis like can you unbind a game from your Steam library but can you can you even do that I don't even think you can do that how would you fix that Wow eat a gigantic whatever reproductive organ is most offensive to you Wow so no it can't run crisis but I'm blaming some combination of Crytek ei and whoever else was responsible for that game actually did I published the first one I'm not sure I can't remember so I'm okay I don't know I'm not gonna blame EA if it's not EA but you know what no it's blame EA anyway no it's fine don't don't worry about it I mean it was just for the memes anyway I think we're pretty much done here the only thing left is the winner and also some other talking points I'm supposed to boom I got my cable caught there and also some other talking points so the machine works so that's that's good that's always stressful when we have to announce a winner live like hey you won well don't worry we'll get it working before we send it out so it's working and we get to tell you that do I have the winner in this doc there we go so the winner of the PC is this is a difficult name but I'm gonna do my best they're from Canada hey that's freaking awesome ripping my my Canadian my Canadian brothers sister not sure the name is Yoshi Yoshi V from Canada so she okay hey cool so you will be receiving some contact from us we will get in touch with you about Oh No LLG we'll be in touch via email to confirm the win and speak to you about delivery options you're gonna be getting this PC oh we didn't put the we didn't put the edge panel on it where is it baby beauty is there anything else that we have to do for the memes yeah fine I don't really want to I think it's I don't know if it's the best I do want to put this etched tempered glass side panel on here though this is fantastic so adds a touch of a touch of uniqueness to the build and then I think one of the other ideas contributed by our viewers to make the system just one-of-a-kind is to have it signed by the Linus tech tips team so I'm gonna go first but we're gonna cover the entire front panel the signatures every one here and there you have it a one-of-a-kind high performance gaming machine ultrawide monitor Congrats to Shoshi V from Canada and let me just see if there's anything else that I got a that I gotta get going on here yeah I'll do some honorable mention some of the other kind of silly ideas were scratching sponsored by LG into the bottom of the case it would kill me to just put scratches on this thing at this point someone wanted me to paint a sandal print on the front panel I mean if you guys really want that I did bring an extra sandal today like we could we could we could throw some we could throw some paint on there I feel like we'd be routing it okay Brandon thinks we'd be ruining it Brandon yeah bear if show she wants it we will put a sandal print right on the top one idea was to put on a different shirt every time I added a component I actually kind of liked that one Oh another shirt oh I'd be sweating so much oh I would die no I'd be I'd be dead by this point in the strain I've been streaming for over two hours I'd be dead under studio lights I'm already dying that and you guys would barely be able to hear me because I'm wearing a lavalier microphone under my shirt I've actually had a lot of people ask how we do our audio because they can't see the mic I've got a whole system hey have there been any comments on my shirt has anyone even noticed that I'm like repping gamers Nexus today oh okay well yeah I don't know I picked this today because I was like hey we're doing a livestream maybe I'll uh maybe I'll rep the gamers Nexus I would else we got oh okay so those figurines those 3d printed figurines that LG has sent me over the years one of them we auctioned for charity at LTX last year if I recall correctly one of them is gone and I have kept the other one just because I don't know it's kinda it's it's a pretty cool memento of this period of my life you know when I'm old and irrelevant and my grandkids can't relate to me you know I can show them that figurine sort of the way I envision it so that one wasn't really up for grabs those are those would be pretty expensive to replace and it also you know the meaning is hard to replace I want to I want to take a selfie with the picture though or what the selfie with the picture I want to take a selfie with the system though let's get that done that was one of the suggestions with my system taking them live selfies I've actually had been coached on my selfie game by people who have attended conventions or that I've run into it shows and stuff because I really am NOT apparently that good at it so that's great to know thanks guys um I think that pretty much wraps it up if I didn't get to your super chat at this point I think all I can really do is sincerely apologize because I totally suck I'll do a couple more before we go though yeah thank you of course for your support we had no idea what like this super chat thing did or whatever nhd 15 should I get a water a iOS's Andre no NHD 15 is excellent aviation Pro it skipped to the bottom okay let's do some recent ones Jana's jens e boy pc inside an old CRT ultimate sleeper yes we are considering that we are working on that actually we're actively working on that Joris i need to know how to fix that crisis problem i'm sorry i've got nothing for you hey Linus today is my birthday I got 300 bucks what's the best keyboard and headset I can get okay headset super personal keyboard if you want wireless Corsairs got a really good wireless gaming mechanical keyboard personally I mean I'm partial to anything with Cherry MX browns but I'm sort of a mostly typer little bit gamer if you're more of a gamer a lot of people recommend Reds I personally hate them and if you're peer typist then and you don't have people around to get annoyed with you then blues are a good choice Sean Park says Linus what are you using to make your test bench harddrive I thought you can't take a hard drive from a different PC with Windows already installed common misconception in most cases you can do that it doesn't really matter and Windows will do that thing it'll detect new Hardware on first boot but a lot of the time if you're not like going from AMD to Intel it'll it'll pull it off just fine Tyler says fly me up there and teach me everything Tyler for 10 bucks I unfortunately can't but you know you might have an opportunity in the future we're gonna do some giveaways that will involve traveling up here and building a machine with me kay unveils for five euros says not really related to this build but is the Jean Mimi mix to s still your daily driver no right now I'm using the samsung galaxy s 9 plus for $1000 can I be a lifetime member to floatplane probably I think yeah yeah that works out in our favor I think you're better off with the three bucks a month or even five when it probably goes up to that yeah waffle says you're great I love your vids thanks waffle Henry says good two hundred to two hundred and seventy dollars GPU see I only look at GPU pricing when I'm like working on a project so I'm gonna guess GTX to GTX 1063 gig not knowing if that's actually that price but that one's a really good value failing that the 1050 Ti is pretty good rx 570 and 580 are both good values assuming that the price things not jacked up by minors let's see how much of 1063 gig is to 240 to 270 nailed it go - it's a birthday from Kamloops with love says Alex hey Kamloops you know Kamloops I was actually in Kamloops once when I saw like a drug addict walked out from an alley in front of me and then literally pass out while standing up right in front of me I was like 11 at the time it was very traumatic yeah people rushed to help him you know good people of Kamloops were like right in there they were on top of that so that was really good Calvin sent 20 bucks saying staying still trying to get rid of that beanbag that you tried to dump on iJustine name in vancouver can maybe use a beanbag chair if not I tried you know what Calvin sure sure you can come pick it up email the the email that we have listed on the Tube channel and say that I said you could have it but you're gonna have to provide verification that this is actually your YouTube account so they know all right so I think we're gonna cut off the stream now we're gonna get everyone to come in and sign this thing after thank you guys so much for your patience how long have we been going to hours and 23 minutes thank you to LG for sponsoring this live ultra wide build and thank you to Brandon for putting up with being the camera guy audio guy live video switcher guy lighting guy am I missing anything you're kind of a grip too like you like moving around the like ladder and stuff so peace out guys we will see you on our next livestream which might take another year I don't know it's been more than a year I think yeah it might give them more often let you guys vote on the components Brandon you have my you have my eye that can't end the stream yeah yeah yeah yep or okay yeah I can do it do you know how to stop it no okay that's fine P suit