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whoa we're resurrecting tech showdown we were thinking we should call it something else but then we were talking about other names and one of them was in use by a law firm or something so tech showdown it is except for changing the format now it's two teams competing to build a themed PC okay that's exactly the same as before but now we've got four days so we're gonna build something totally kick-ass this season is brought to you by synergy and the theme is candy now in a stunning turn of events it was brought to my attention this morning that rather than each Luke and I being paired with a professional mater Luke and I will be squaring off against two professional modders so I wish us the best of luck building a candy-themed PC and a candy-themed full desk set up to look fricking awesome or at least be tasty failing that yeah and there's no real clear rule so go Tech showdown is brought to you by synergy 2 in partnership with g.skill be quiet and cable mod synergy 2 makes sharing your mouse and keyboard between multiple computers so simple that anyone can use it learn more at the link below so in fairness to you guys you should understand who you're building the system for we've got three celebrity judges our minor celebrity judges are gonna be Riley from NCIX tech tips and Steve from gamers Nexus and then our sort of headliner celebrity judge is actually iJustine so she's coming all the way up here and the three of them are going to contribute to who actually wins so keep that in mind you've got okay we take this board markers we got markers baby we got three markers we got all the markers oh yeah that's one big difference there's no barrier hey we don't need markers everyone everyone can see what everyone else is doing this is like tripping me out like I want to hide stuff but okay I think the first thing we have to deal with though is your your sponsor logo shirt hear that okay so you got to do one of two things yeah you got to start eating these to fill in or we could find some taste you look ridiculous I think these belong over there don't they oh yeah called dumb-dumb yeah these go over here you guys these are dum-dums there you go here you go smart guy you don't have those in America do you I think no thought they call these Rockets down there oh no our Smarties no wait our Rockets are your Smarties and you guys don't have our Smarties you have the lame like powdered candy Smarties so okay my grand idea that has si you are everything that is wrong with us staying organized you just put a not working marker back in the pile of working markers yeah it has to be okay so where this can go though is another level there's one where it like comes out of the top of the computer and it flows down and then there's like a little river but then how do you recycle that that's gonna be pretty pretty bonkers but one thing that I observed about these tables that were using already is that they could actually be configured that way but how do you get it back up okay um so here's the thing there's no fixed budget for Tech's showdown it's all within reason so I don't really see any reason you know that's not within reason why we couldn't obtain something to help us do that now here's how we take it to like a crazy level though this is I believe what a 180 watt CPU okay that would be awesome I mean what could unlock the power more than this I feel like that might be hard to communicate to judges we could have like an info like this is how it works card that's worked in the past yeah we could man oh okay having like four days to work on this in some ways is actually like okay okay yeah okay okay this is not attached so these are just like sawhorses so let's open our case first and then we'll worry about how to plan it's a big Tower basically blank canvas yeah it's a big Tower okay okay so here here we got add like I don't want them to know too much we need yeah okay buy a thing that would come with that but it would have to be continually which makes a little bit difficult yeah and how do we keep it from like dunking up we need to run for a little while okay so these like our designs that it won't matter but our extra stuff we will have to be pretty careful about sure but like the the river part I wouldn't actually worry about it too much but we just have to get it back that's the part that I'm really worried about cuz yeah you can like slant the table and stuff oh no we can't do that because that would make a terrible user experience I imagine that they're going to get really creative and do all kinds of crazy stuff and that might hurt them okay so khon kaen yeah it would be it'd be difficult right okay cotton candy that you can apply and it starts good like you know to keep it that clean fluffy yeah stick it yeah so the desk see the desk has but we have to do some paint work with the desk okay the Jess kind of remind me of like you know when they pulls halfy at the fair they're always on a big workbench and stuff and I was like and sometimes they've got those big machines that like stretch the taffy like automatically it's like how cool is it to build that if we have this big table what if we created a game like a Candyland again Candyland or candy land game works right board game where you have to move spaces and then we incorporate L like Lyle incentives or something or whatever on the table we could paint this white and then do you like some sort of a like um like a big game board or something maybe no problem okay can you help me okay priorities priorities let's get you not looking like a smack tool what's this it's does it sound down mission accomplished whoever word of the t-shirts may have ordered the wrong one for Luke Colton I mean it's alright yeah it looks not as bad but it's definitely still kind of bad because like look at this look at this and look just start eating candy then I tried but you think Colton try which is why we're here so this pretty much goes on this side what about like regardless of what else we think is that not sure yet where is this gonna sit like if this is a complete battle station you're too big objects are gonna be your case and your monitor so if your case sits on this side you know it blocks off so much then your monitor say sits on the front like do we do base amount like on the monitors the monitors on arms how do we keep it like super clean do we mount the chassis like yeah does it fit inside the sawhorse things or something like that I mean you want to be a showpiece you don't want to hide it but it's huge I mean it blocks up yeah do we really want to have it and then Ulsan you got the back here I mean you're gonna be looking at from this side put on the same I mean so then you monitor your battle stations here it doesn't have to be just like we could we could incorporate like ice cream I mean ice creams technically yeah right like what's our like for things we're doing right so like are we putting a gumball machine in this like that's a major you know cut grind there seems too easy though it's here yeah okay like how does a gumball machine and a reservoir work together like what if one dispenses gumballs and one dispenses Aurora fluid like it's a two loop system but it's not ones Andy and one's coolant so should we stay away from stay away from doing crazy paint because there's no paint booth here there's no yeah the only thing I'm thinking you got this white canvas on these sawhorses I think that is something that we should do so we could paint we could paint this whole tabletop white starting point - I like the I mean I like the maple but if it doesn't work in the theme then you know so these are standard regular key caps so we might even be able to buy a key cap set but get them in time if we can get them at like maybe NCIX or something or yeah or just Amazon Prime so it's just the caps of the keys that we can replace the black ones with some color synergy - is designed to be easier and more seamless to use than synergy one features include sharing from anywhere with automatic control of any other computer without reconfiguring SSL encryption to protect your keystrokes from attackers dynamic networking so it detects the best route based on your setup and being able to always run in the background on all your operating systems so you can set and forget and it even works across VPNs and tricky home networks if you get the pro version you can get access to other cool features too like clipboard sharing dragging and dropping files copy pasting lock screen synchronization and lots more okay so Bob and rod are starting to get a few good ideas but just because they don't have a solid ton yet doesn't mean they've been sitting on their hands they've already assembled their monitor and are well on their way to painting their case and now time for a little cable management this thing can go out you know all the way through holes route route everything down through it's like perfectly clean I'm really hungry wait this is their plan yeah distract dude this is their whole plan they know I like candy so they put all his candy here to keep me from working on the computer the whole plan no you guys are mean you don't think I can sit here with all this candy anything between anything water cooling it's probably coming from the supply here okay so we we have to go see what they have okay yeah which we could go we could go look at that yeah I know okay so the mouse I'm taking off the question mark there we can decide on colors later we may go together or you know what we may have to stay split up on all of this there's some pictures well yeah we'll just go we'll pick something really fun we definitely need to spend some time doing what they're already almost done doing which is taking this baby apart and figuring out but we need the overarching theme first I'm gonna be stressing for the next four days I don't think our mods gonna be on par because neither of us has the fabrication or the painting experience that those guys do like they do this all day what I was mostly counting on going into today was Luke having some kind of a kick-ass idea like Mad Max or whatever I mean he's behind me so this is a little awkward to say but like his idea was okay it wasn't like game breaker you know I'm having doubts about both well I think we should go back to the original time it's gonna Rev I hope at this point I hope that we at least turned in a computer I mean we'll have some yeah we'll have something oh my god what time is it it's - yeah should we build it no cuz we have to take this all apart - like we have to paint this they're obviously painting we can't not paint it maybe this is the gold foil and chocolate thing so gold all on the outside and then try to chocolate as much as you can on the inside so that it's a candy bar computer interesting okay and then we go with other candy for all the rest so we get those multicolored key caps and we go with other candy for the rest and we go with chocolate bar for the computer and then do we still do the brown desk no I don't think it's I think we could because there would be enough contrast of the outside of this being gold how gold can we go though without ruining like airflow and how good of a job can we do of that this is a super modular case this won't look at where they're at cuz I come worried about stuff like this yeah but how are we gonna put it back in tidally because what ever kind of oil we're using is not gonna be that strong we could do that we can do foil for some parts but I think a lot of its gonna be like this is definitely gonna be painted this would be okay okay okay okay so we go golden wrapper outside and then inside all Brown we could do cream and so we could do cream accents with a brown base we can mask off these fans and we can go like brown frames so we are we are we are brown and brown and cream I don't think this is an incredible idea but I think it's a doable idea and then we might be able to spend more time doing crazy things with the rest of the film it took us until 2 o'clock to even sort of have an idea it wasn't finalized by any stretch frankly our whole value add on this one is the idea because our execution isn't going to be better so yeah I'm really worried right now will Linus and Luke continue sucking next week don't wait to find out you can watch part 2 right now on floatplane follow the link in the description below