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finally the last part arrived for my brand new gaming PC Elijah Elijah Elijah

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wasting money again when you could have just used your old case or better yet

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this one that someone was just throwing away those things are older than I am

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there's no way it's going to fit all my Modern Hardware

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really challenge

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accepted see too easy and with the money

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I saved I upgraded your CPU your SSD and

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even your memory wow but there must be a downside right otherwise why would

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companies continue to make cases okay there are some downsides your old case

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is not going to have the latest USB standards it's not going to have a fancy

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glass panel or nice Cable Management it'll also probably make your rig look

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kind of worthless but I see that as an absolute win this kind of thriftiness

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can save you hundreds of dollars over time so I'll tell you what Elijah you

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come up with some fany feature your new case has and I'm going to make it happen

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on this one at a fraction of the price deal but only if I can tell them about

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cheapest possible possible canvas for your modding Masterpiece local

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electronics recyclers can be a great bet but if that fails there's always

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Facebook Marketplace and sorting from low to high we're going to start there

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after the usual runaround from jerks who label things free that aren't free we

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were lucky enough to find not just one but a handful of cases that would work

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but do note that not all cases are made equal for starters you'll want to make

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note of the size so you can make sure that whatever Parts you plan to use are

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going to fit also materials if you're going to have to modify your case well

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you'll want a material that your tools can work with speaking of modifying my

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power supply is going to be suffocating up top most cases have vents now for it

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and so does this one it just doesn't know it

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yet look at that who says shirro from the business team's the only one with a

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grill his looks much nicer no I haven't

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goldplated it yet okay now obviously most people are not

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going to have the tools at home to do something like this but many Hardware

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shops do allow rentals and some cities even have maker spaces and Tool

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libraries that you can use to help get the job done now I just need to cut

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these plastic strips off here and clean things up a little

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by the way I fully acknowledge that we could have just had the intake fan on

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the bottom but Elijah asked for a grill

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and now he has one I'm almost afraid to ask what you're going to do for my CPU

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and GPU but here it goes the case is sealed off at the front Linus how are

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you going to cool that

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Elijah does have a point there's nowhere to mount case fans here we'll talk more

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about that later but for now one trick that is very popular on r/ tech support

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mcgyver is just ripping the side panel off and then pointing a regular old

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household fan at the system it's going to be just as effective now we're just

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about ready to start our build but before we do let's do a quick history

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lesson on why I expect all of my brand new parts to work in a case that's 20

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years old Adam the computer guy I'm so glad you

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asked the ATX standard for motherboards was patented in 1995 and the mounting

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holes and IO locations of the three most common sizes ATX microatx and Mini ITX

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have remained unchanged since 1995 but don't let the secret get out there have

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been other changes like the motherboard power connectors and internal slots and

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headers but none of them affect the shape of the board so any board as long

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as it follows the standard should fit in any old case and it does as you can see

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the io Shield goes here or doesn't for boards that have them built in and nine

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quick screws later we are G2G actually uh does it require a back

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plate for the CPU Cooler yes it does ah

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another feature we're going to need to add older cases didn't have a cutout to

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install a CPU back plate once you already had the motherboard in but don't

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worry I got you covered

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all right ready yep

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yeah come on that was pretty cool yeah

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okay isn't that fantastic yeah it looks pretty good and if we wanted to avoid

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all that extra work all we would have had to do was install this on the motherboard before we put it in the case

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like the old days so we installed it took it out cut the hole just to put it

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back to put this on yeah

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now you have this feature and look it almost won't slice your hand open this

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point in the video I can't tell if I'm on Team new case or team an old case

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we're having fun though yeah yeah maybe the cases the friends are made along the

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way probably the wildest thing that hasn't changed is the PIN outs for these

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front panel connectors this HD audio connector boom still HD let's go same

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goes for my USB 2 as well as my front power switch reset

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switch and LEDs but what about USBC I

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want to charge my phone poor innocent Elijah you weren't

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there for the good old days of PC Building when cases used to come with

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these bad boys 5 and 1/4 in Bays which

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for some inexplicable reason manufacturers still make accessories for

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as tempted as I was by the fan controller the hard drive caddy and the

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literal drawer I felt that this iio

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would better address Elijah's concerns type-c USB 3.2 two USB 3A ports two USB

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2 ports and even front panel audio now

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it's a fair criticism that buying one of these can cost as much as a case some of

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them are pretty fancy boasting features like premium audio decks but in the

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spirit of buying into form factors that you can carry forward with you I would

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recommend an external deck anyway rather than a fancy one of these so you could

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move it around and use it on your laptop as well all right so I'm at

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$20 what else do you need well I bought RGB RAM and that Secura GPU I would like

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to be able to see them and this side panel you know don't just leave it off

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cuz I have cats okay if you must have a side panel

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window Home Depot sells sheets of acrylic and pretty much any size you

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need all we got to do is cut it up more

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cutting oh great

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and there it is there's multiple options for cutting acrylic you can score it and

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break it you can use a laser or probably the best option if you want to keep

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things simple is to just buy the right size in the first place so we've got our

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side panel window but I'm going to do you one better okay with nothing but a

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whole saw a pair of old panty hose and a can do attitude we can throw some

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filtered side intakes on this mama jama

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feeding fresh air directly to our hungriest components cool let's do it

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you got the pany right no but I have something

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else that is not going to work yes it will that is actually

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terrible I'm kind of thinking intake fan

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here intake fan here for our GPU and I

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don't know oh I thought that's how about another one here this cutout was going to be for the I know we're going to put

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an intake fan on the acrylic on the acrylic yeah oh that's not what I had in

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mind but okay can do at get it together please don't break the acrylic this is

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our one sheet well that's a pretty sheety

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situation get

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cutting I'm a little worried about doing this on the acrylic by the way are we

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going to like shatter it to bits do we want to just not take the

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risk so that way I can see all my pretty components without shattering

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it okay that tell Elijah but I'm pretty

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concerned about this ripping up the acrylic too let's see how this

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goes what was that on

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nothing see it's working perfectly just like I told you cool I have an

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idea oh my oh my God I just need more

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weight sir I just need more

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weight oh yeah it's so cooked what do

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you mean it's cooked that's plastic like right there you cracked it all along

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there no all right I guess we're only going to

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find out when we peel the paper off

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yeah it looks like a screaming

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person that's a Vibe that's this video

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Let's see if lus actually did crack it or

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not wow I for sure thought this thing was

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destroyed underneath that is why you

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fail it's a movie reference you wouldn't get it oh okay what

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movie The Empire Strikes Back oh okay

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from the Boomer Star Wars you can cut that you can cut you

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can cut cut please cut please cut please

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this window is going to stay on it's like 9,000 lb of VHB holding strength

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that's that's good I wanted a side panel window so you will have one forever I

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want the best one damn it Elijah those lines are really not straight that's

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okay no it's really not well we can't can't go back now no we really

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can't okay you know what from the outside it's probably it's actually not

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that bad oh yeah that's fine I mean compared to everything else about this

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side panel it really doesn't stand out look at that side intakes front IO

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ah mother board tray cut out the only question now is is our power supply

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going to fit Professor Adam Adam the

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computer guy believe it or not the width

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and the height of standard PC power supplies have stayed the same since 1995

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and dimensionally only the length has changed over the years as systems have

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gotten more power hungry again there have been other changes some of them

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controversial but even the mounting hole locations remain unchanged now there is

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one thing the original spec had the PSU as close to the CPU as possible why the

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belief was the fan could pull double duty pulling air over the passive CPU

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heat sink and also cooling the PSU before exhausting it in completely from

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the system but that obviously won't work because processors noway like 250 wats

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it's freaking stupid why would you need that much power there that resolves the last major

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hurdle but here's the thing not everyone's going to be building a mid-range system so why don't we take

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our case and take it to the next level to see if it can handle a high-end

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machine to do this again I'd probably make sure that there's no little metal

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filing bits left in here that could fall into the power supply that could be catastrophic

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but I'm not doing it again I'm doing it now and inside here is about

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$3600 worth of modern power hungry Hardware including a 16 4 CPU and a 4090

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GPU as you can see everything fits let's

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game before we fire up a game I think we should test our cooling it's not the

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quietest thing in the world and we appear to have a bit of a problem here

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oh our temperatures immediately spiked to 81° and we are using 63% of our power

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also I couldn't help noticing that one of our fans is actually getting spun

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backwards do you think there's too much back pressure in there I do

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okay see here's the thing though Elijah I thought the front panel was staying

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open I mean we can open it I designed it for maximum intake there's too much

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pressure in the computer okay she cannot take it open the front panel then here

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we go let's see what happens when we do

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that they are staying the same it's not

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even hot in here oh Liah that 12pin

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power connector is not plugged in all the way no it was I had an issue where

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it wasn't plugged in so I plugged it in more look at it oh my God turn it

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off nope you said turn it off oh the clip is

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broken oh okay that man that's weird cuz

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yeah I opened it up and I was like expecting it to be an inferno down here

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in the bottom of the case um cuz that would explain 61% power usage you know

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what none of this even adds up because why was the GPU at 80° then if it was

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only using 60% power and theral issue weren't plugged in has this

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GPU been disassembled and reassembled I don't know I grabbed it from the Shelf I

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didn't I just didn't check I just grabbed it from

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inventory the good news is that on LTT

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store.com we can find PTM 7950 thermal

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pads that we can use to repaste this GPU

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and get great temperatures guess who just volunteered dude I nope I'm just

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going to go find a different 490 from inventory nope

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I'm GL really glad my one day shoot turned into a three-day

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shoot my side quest is complete and as you can see the 490 is in my hand

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because I actually had to put a different one in the computer this is the one that Alex like tore apart for

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some water cooling and that sh mod where it can draw 1,000 Watts this cooler

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cannot cool it so goodbye this 490 and welcome in the AME 490 we're going to

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try rerunning firmar and see if we run into the same issues we did before I'm

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pretty confident we won't so let's just hit the 4K one let's see what happens

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happens here oh yeah already our temperature is much much better than the

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80° yesterday and our power seems to be recording correctly we're drawing like

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440 Watts on the GPU right now I may be acting surprised that Linus's Jank work

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did do well but I'm not as dumb as the character I play on TV I do know that

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buying a new case every single time when you're upgrading your computer is a

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mistake especially if you're on a tight budget but I also know that it's not the

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worst idea either if you're already planning on shoving an entire small

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nation's power consumption worth of Parts into your computer you might not

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be in a position where you need to pinch Pennies on a case and even if you aren't

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worried about pinching pennies it might not be a bad idea to pick up something

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that's not this because if you get a nice case now you can still carry it

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forward for future builds which again will save you the money before you do

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jump the gun on buying a premium case let's go back to our original $1,000

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budget and we'll show you what we were able to upgrade you can choose to double

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the RAM double the storage and go from a six core to an eight core CPU that is

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faster and I could honestly give you an infinite number of systems to use with

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the extra 10% of your budget we gave up our time but it was worth it in the end

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because we were able to get a much more powerful system and while lonus isn't

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here to share an our Glory of it working we did have fun along the way I got to

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actually more fun than you know touching grass did he script that he really

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