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so here we are a long painful seven months after we first teased the concept of building the first ever Linus Media Group gaming lounge and ironically pretty much everything else about this space is done so we've got our side people here this just arrived it's still got all the protective stuff on it we've got our board games table here this is actually a bit of a placeholder but whatever we could play board games we've got the media lounge that is like it's freaking awesome and the one part we haven't actually started on yet is the actual land gaming center fortunately oh my god so it's time for us to finally build the first real system except that we had a small problem we were having trouble getting the core i7 processors that we had intended to use from our prototype system way back when so we figured you know what well we're only running our TX 27 TS anyway would AMD really be that much of a performance compromise here well there's only one way for us to find out the mas grande backpack is the perfect companion for laptops of up to 17 inches since the bag is water-resistant and padded for protection also it has an orange interior check it out at the link below so before we get into building our actual final spec rig I guess a bit of a haul video is kind of an order here isn't it man this is a lot of hardware every system is getting a G 903 no it's it's actually worse a little we went even further over the top those are extras every system is getting one of Logitech's Pro wireless gaming mice okay as if half the people that are gonna be using it or even skilled enough to know the difference everyone's getting a g5 13 carbon with their Romer G linear switches everyone's getting a g9 35 headset and thanks to Logitech's recent acquisition of Blue Microphones a Yeti nano mic because you know the built-in headset mic I mean we've got it it's not like it's not a super high-end headset but if we're gonna use an off board like you know whatever then moving into the systems themselves we're running rise in 2700 X processors so yes we lose a little bit of single-threaded performance compared to the 8700 k's we initially expect but we can probably overclock them a little and quite frankly in the eSports titles that we'll be running for the most part I don't expect it to make a difference although we will be testing that out today and then cooling them we're gonna be using H 100 i RGB platinum water coolers from corsair we're gonna be pairing them with 16 gigs each of ddr4 26 66 megahertz RGB ram from also corsair every system gets an MP 300 480 gig boot drive do we have hard drive strings yes and often oh nice everyone's getting a Brio 4k pro webcam so everything's gonna be stream ready all the optin oh wow okay so that's pretty cool that means our 480 gig SSD is gonna handle OS duties and any critical applications and then our hard drives are actually gonna have accelerated caching so that the games that are played most frequently even if they are on magnetic storage are still gonna load faster than if they were just on a hard also pulling cooling duty course are sent over a hold on to their light loop 120 fans first let's talk about what they're gonna be driving so a soos sent over 12 of their VG to 79 gaming monitors so these are 1080p IPS with 3 millisecond response times and they run at a hundred and forty four Hertz so these are basically your kind of no frills but still looks really great gaming monitor they don't have D sync but now that Nvidia has enabled g-sync on free sync displays we're not expecting that to be a problem for our GeForce r-tx 2070 graphics cards the whole thing's gonna be hooked into a Seuss's top Series B 450 m+ gaming motherboard and installed in a crystal serious - ATX case from Corsair for power we've gone way over the top see sonic sent over their prime titanium 1,000 watt modular power supply I told them like 750 Plus this is literally three times the power we actually need but cool thanks hi guys actually a couple things I forgot minor details AK want you sent over there 10 gig NICs so guys we don't expect this to make a difference to the actual gaming experience but while installing games off our steam caching server which you can check out the video about up here this will definitely make a difference while we're pulling down from all these machines at once so that's gonna be sick and these chairs from Max anomic so we haven't actually reviewed one of their chairs in quite some time but this is still my daily driver in my office actually not quite this one but a similar model and I'm super excited that when we're here for hours after work we're gonna be sitting on something as comfortable as their classic office chair we've got the black one right Jake yeah and it's embroidered oh that looks awesome as the kids would say I'm not a kid anymore I'm not saying it I just want to hear you sit it's late it's late yeah yeah yeah thank you thank you you're gonna say damn it I said it okay so while deke puts together a couple of the chairs which we're gonna need for our head-to-head mano a mano gaming session I'm gonna put together one of our final AMD based rigs so we can find out when we put it head-to-head against our original Intel based prototype over here how much if any performance we're leaving on the table with our 2,700 X's you know what I think I'm gonna mix things up for this build I'm gonna start by getting everything ready in the case then I'm gonna put together my core platform on my motherboard here I haven't even gotten as far as putting the fans into the case and we've already found a problem because we changed from an Intel board to an AMD board sort of midway through this project we might have overlooked a small compatibility issue now it's nothing sort of game ending here we still have room for our triple slot graphics card and our 10 gigabit NIC but what we are losing is the ability to put in our obtained module because this board only has a single m2 slot and yeah there's no additional one on the back or anything like that yeah that's a little disappointing actually hey so Jake how are we arranging the fans on these things because we can either design it for optimal airflow and have to in two out or we can have our light loop rings all visible externally and it can look badass and then it'll be like highly positive pressurized but but they're all filtered - into out - into out yeah you got a better than the system's overheating he's not gonna do it I just wanted to check something real quick with you though however I build this first one that's how we'll have to build all of them right well I could always just fix it alright I guess this one is done now hey not bad pretty good man I mean it's just I have this exact same chair at my desk oh yeah a MIMO sent over there so they don't actually sell a complete desk big yourself do they yeah that's not what we got we needed a big one that's not the one that I bought the other week you know yeah they sell just like a standing sitting like leg assembly so that's what we're gonna be putting these custom dbrand skinned MDF tabletops on top of I'm actually super stoked for how good that's gonna look those things are really happy please be careful so this is a pretty cool little piece of kit this is a Corsair commander Pro and it plugs in using SATA for power and then USB for data and then it's got all your LED ports here you've got up to 6 fans that you can plug in directly it's got temp sensors right here and then 2 USB internal headers in case you have a motherboard that only has one and then you're taking it up with this thing well this way you can plug your front panel USB 2 into this or any other accessories like say for example one of course there's own CPU coolers which we are probably going to need to do in this case so we're gonna replace our existing fan hub with this guy yeah cable management pan I tell you the adhesive that they used to hold the original LED and fan controllers in is ridiculous just barely get that thing off sounds like something a beta male would say what are you gonna cry - you know what you take it off show me how it's done alpha guy oh man that's pretty on there oh it was really loosened a lot uh-huh why did they put that much adhesive on look I love you guys of course sorry great great people sent us a lot of hardware for this project okay yeah we're going full RGB ring this here it's taking me as long to do the RGB wiring as it would to build a normal computer of course it'll be all worth it but like we've got the - we've got the commander Pro we've got the RGB hub we've got the the leads for all the strips and all the fans - power leads for the whole thing I think we're finally ready to put a motherboard in it look at the chairs though but the chairs are done you know the funny thing is I've always just kind of used whatever like brand loyalty is not a thing for me but because the community's perception of me as some kind of fanboy one way or the other is so strong it feels a little bit naughty building an AMD system see check this out this is what I love about this case this side like look at that it's that look clean or what and then this side in typical Linus fashion I'm like getting pretty close here actually I just got a pop the power supply in wire that up and then I need my graphics card network card and then I'm good to go I don't know who would use this as a standing desk but maybe if you're like an NBA player or something well I wasn't sure if I could do it but after giving it my best effort I think I've succeeded in making the contrast between my cable manage side and mine on cable manage side even more stark good job Linus it's a real shame about that video card sag äj-- that's actually not that bad it's not great I was expecting it to be a lot worse than that I'm okay I'm also a little upset about the one yellow accent can you just get the T out of there finish the T off so it's just off gaming gaming for gamers you have to do this like like this yeah I guess otherwise it's not you don't get the white out look otherwise it's just how beta his his writing game is here look at its gorgeous thanks to Aki for sending these mousepad XL mouse pads very nice with the braided edge this is the moment we've all been waiting for hey nice okay so my nick is showing up my 16 gigs of ram is all showing up my hard drive is not showing up oh it might be a SAS Drive I just grabbed something off the shelf because our drives didn't actually arrive ok I will figure that out later but we still have a couple things to do here so I'm going to set our do CP so that's AMD's XMP equivalent which should configure our ram to its optimized settings and then install windows so this is it this finished AMD system versus not the old concept Intel system on a test bench I mean really the point of all of this is to find out how much we compromised by going AMD so I think we're 2 and 2 right now aren't we Jake is that does that sound right also I'm pretty sure that while I was pretty far behind before you're dead again and my kill count is pretty close oh oh would you look at that am I out ahead now ha cuz I remember you talking some smack about how you're like a young hip gamer or something oh nice performance-wise oh it's it's not making a difference what are you at in terms of fps Oh like around 300 250 250 it really depends on where you are in the map yep I'm anywhere from like 150 to 250 ok we're here this means it's me it's me ok so let's just look down look down the thing I just want to know what the FPS is difference is like okay mine's higher what yeah yours is quite a bit higher actually thing in the background no I mean remember csgo is a notoriously intel favoring game so yes there's a difference but like I didn't feel for a second like I was affected by the difference and you know when we're talking a hundred and fifty versus yeah it made one hundred and forty FPS I'm alright with it okay I wanna try a different game DG you can't all time out of this game yeah I won okay man I haven't played on 1080p in a hot minute it's a little different than 1440 PL Troy yeah like it's it's like a 10 FPS difference well remember csgo was behind so I was thinking about it was that good but like csgo was behind in the context of like a hundred and sixty versus 240 FPS like it's not I don't know it wasn't that much I feel like it was like thirty oh there's two crap okay well sorry no the frame rates are good I mean yeah dang it you did more damage alright alright so you're better at the game that only you play but I don't play so okay that's good that's good so then that's our takeaway Jake isn't actually that great at video games in spite of being one of the young kids actually depending on you know what game you're playing you might even get a better gaming experience with the 2700 X which did surprise me an apex legends anyway that's like 100 bucks cheaper no regrets then now we just have to build eleven more that's my regret I only regret is doing it eleven time to having this idea all right so I guess all that's left now other than preparing ourselves to do this 11 more times is to thank our sponsor for this video fresh books so if you're a small business owner or freelancer fresh books is the counting solution for you it's a simple way to be more productive more organized and to get paid faster with fresh books you can create and send professional-looking invoices in less than 30 seconds you can set up online payments to get paid up to four days faster you can see when your client has seen your invoice to put an end to the guessing games and you can take the whole experience with you on the go with their fully featured apps for both iOS and Android so don't take word for trial fresh books for free for 30 days at fresh books calm / tech tips we're gonna have that linked in the video description and just make sure 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