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thank you to Logitech and discord for sending us to pax nice 2016 this year if you want to see all of their different products and services check them out in the video description down below alright guys we are not at a booth per se this is the BYOC section pax in Seattle pax in Boston pax in Texas pax in Australia all of them have like a LAN area there's the land free play section there's the console free play section and there's the BYOC section which stands for bring your own computer it's actually really cool I've been doing it for a little while now with some of my friends in pact Seattle this was the first time I have done PAX East and what we're going to check out is the top three modded computers of the b-y-o-see section and they're pretty sick we're going to start off with a system that is close to my heart I love fish tank systems my like claim to fame in terms of building computers was in a fish tank system because I filled it with oil this one is done in a different way but equally as cool in my opinion so this system was built by polish you can see his name in the front bottom right hand corner and is not filled with oil is not actually filled with any liquid at all except for the little smaller inner tank area which houses his fish which is named alpha the beta which is like super great I absolutely love that in terms of hardware he has the Intel Core 2 Duo anniversary edition a 960 which is reference blower cooled so that it can get the air out of the fish tank so it doesn't just fish around on the inside pun intended he's got fish rocks all over the place which actually helps them hide his cables which is super smart I wish I did that with my rig it's a really good idea also on the bottom left-hand side under the rock behind the polish badge is a hard drive and below that is where he hides his SSD amongst the rocks on the bottom in and outside of the fish containing area he has little fake fish plants and the whole thing just looks aesthetically awesome in terms of lighting he has to cathode lights in the top which are actually hidden behind the black plastic band among the outside which is a really cool way to do that and it's kind of hidden under the top of the lid as well all of the i/o goes out of the top which is probably what you would expect from a fish tank build and I just absolutely love it easily one of my favourite mods I've ever seen and then you have how its put together so for my fish tank build which you can see up here or for the one that we did for work later on which you can also see up here we use like laser-cut Plexiglas panels what he did was actually a much more effective way in my opinion to be completely honest he just velcroed on one of those kind of Bitcoin mining motherboard trays that people were building for quite a while there that I think you can get from high-speed PC I don't know where he got his and then yeah it just velcroed it on in terms of his motherboard to keep it in place he's a little angle bracket on the bottom and then another little bit of velcro on the top just to hold it in smart effective cheap next up we actually have two computers as kind of one feature that I'm going to cover here these were both built by a guy whose tag is I am root or at I am root he had that name before the guardians of the galaxy movie just so you know the first one we're going to cover is the one that looks like a red iMac this one was built for his son it has an i3 in it a 750ti an SSD and a 500 gigabyte hard drive what's really cool about both of these rigs is how they look very much like old IMAX even including the fact that their front loading optical drive base still work it's not actually the original Mac one it's an aftermarket optical drive bay but it still works and it looks completely authentic which is super cool he did it in a stack formation so there's a power supply on the bottom and then a motherboard above that which is held up by some ready rod and then everything just kind of sits there quite nicely in the back of the iMac in the front he has LCD panels that he bought on eBay so these were bare LCD 1080p panels that are 13.3 inches he then used a little custom PCB that he also bought on eBay which was shipped from China which converts HDMI to LVDS it's a converter that cost $35 it takes 12 volt in and then is wired directly into the PSU for the 12 volt rail and then just yeah you plug in LCD LVDS on one end take HDMI o to the other end and you're good to go in order to hold the screens in place he created what looks like a Plexiglas sandwich so he has clear plexiglass on the front and then colored Plexiglas on the back behind the panel which matches the color of the iMac so the red one has red the purple one has purple I think this is super cool I love that he did it this year for his son and daughter in the past he's done built for himself in like a brief case and one of them was in like a super old radio and one of them was in a longboard super cool I love guys that do rigs every year what he does because that sounds very expensive is he just reuses the internal hardware and built a custom case around it very good idea next up is the minecraft creeper build made by 8-bit builder or also known as Thor con thr Kon and check out his YouTube channel which is youtube.com slash Thor con this build is sick I'm going to get to him in a moment but the hardware it is an i3 4170 as an as Rock H 97m ITX motherboard as samsung 750 series SSD as far as I can tell and an SFX power supply the button on the side is the TNT block which is sick all of these little individual blocks are actual small individual blocks not just carved out of one piece of wood which is actually pretty fantastic and some of them are translucent meaning that you can kind of see some light coming through them so we have some white and some green ones that have illumination all throughout the case I guess we can call it for now or the creeper also up through the middle is where a lot of the airflow comes from so there's fans up here that pull air down from the bottom there's a fan that pushes air out the back there's another big fan that keeps it going up through the top of the computer so this thing has no lack of airflow at all how do you go about building these you've told me you built a bunch in the past - I just use a 2000 I'll use a use of one inch cubes about Birol wooden usually two to three thousand depending on the case and I usually actually plan it out I build it out minecraft actually and then I take a time-lapse going the whole thing up and then so I usually make a video of just building the whole thing from nothing to everything painting everything so so like architectural planning is all done in Minecraft yeah you know a lot of people are like oh you know you could get in some you know heavier editing programs to do stuff that's like you know it started with Minecraft it gets the job done I'm not doing anything crazy it works pretty good you know some red lines for when I'm running the electric you know where the budget goes everything mostly computer parts are all like almost inches anyway so it's pretty perfect it works pretty good so what's your what's your favorite one of these that you've built man my favorite actually I think is the airship I built Final Fantasy airship from Final Fantasy 2 has spinning propellers that's that's probably that's my favorite one it's that one's pretty sweet that's it can people check out that build on your YouTube channel yes F that one's on my youtube channel they're all on my youtube channel this one's not up yet but I'll be up very soon if someone wanted to get into doing something like this what would you how would you recommend they start I'm actually for this one I actually have I made a video on making a video series I recorded everything about each step of building this so I'm actually have a little video series going on how to actually make one of these on your own and it's actually very simply gonna get any you just need wood glue and cubes and very basic tools you know power tools really I built I bought my first one in an efficiency apartment no problem that's awesome and how do you go about distributing lighting all throughout the case for all the individual like translucent panels alright so these are all these plastic cubes I probably have about there's might about 50 on here I have about a 12 inch cathode tube and each leg one in the body and the one in the head usually I'd like to have some kind of lighting effect because all computer mods have some kind of lighting going on so for this one I decided to go with 1-inch cubes with a some frosted fat to get the light spread out but there are about two inch lot there are two inch long cubes so when the lights are going through the inside it hits the side of the cube and it just verses right down through the side and that's why that's awesome alright guys thanks for watching if you want to see all 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