finally the last part arrived for my brand new gaming PC Elijah Elijah Elijah
wasting money again when you could have just used your old case or better yet
this one that someone was just throwing away those things are older than I am
there's no way it's going to fit all my Modern Hardware
really challenge
accepted see too easy and with the money
I saved I upgraded your CPU your SSD and
even your memory wow but there must be a downside right otherwise why would
companies continue to make cases okay there are some downsides your old case
is not going to have the latest USB standards it's not going to have a fancy
glass panel or nice Cable Management it'll also probably make your rig look
kind of worthless but I see that as an absolute win this kind of thriftiness
can save you hundreds of dollars over time so I'll tell you what Elijah you
come up with some fany feature your new case has and I'm going to make it happen
on this one at a fraction of the price deal but only if I can tell them about
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one of saving money on a case is to get creative and get your hands on the
cheapest possible possible canvas for your modding Masterpiece local
electronics recyclers can be a great bet but if that fails there's always
Facebook Marketplace and sorting from low to high we're going to start there
after the usual runaround from jerks who label things free that aren't free we
were lucky enough to find not just one but a handful of cases that would work
but do note that not all cases are made equal for starters you'll want to make
note of the size so you can make sure that whatever Parts you plan to use are
going to fit also materials if you're going to have to modify your case well
you'll want a material that your tools can work with speaking of modifying my
power supply is going to be suffocating up top most cases have vents now for it
and so does this one it just doesn't know it
yet look at that who says shirro from the business team's the only one with a
grill his looks much nicer no I haven't
goldplated it yet okay now obviously most people are not
going to have the tools at home to do something like this but many Hardware
shops do allow rentals and some cities even have maker spaces and Tool
libraries that you can use to help get the job done now I just need to cut
these plastic strips off here and clean things up a little
by the way I fully acknowledge that we could have just had the intake fan on
the bottom but Elijah asked for a grill
and now he has one I'm almost afraid to ask what you're going to do for my CPU
and GPU but here it goes the case is sealed off at the front Linus how are
you going to cool that
Elijah does have a point there's nowhere to mount case fans here we'll talk more
about that later but for now one trick that is very popular on r/ tech support
mcgyver is just ripping the side panel off and then pointing a regular old
household fan at the system it's going to be just as effective now we're just
about ready to start our build but before we do let's do a quick history
lesson on why I expect all of my brand new parts to work in a case that's 20
years old Adam the computer guy I'm so glad you
asked the ATX standard for motherboards was patented in 1995 and the mounting
holes and IO locations of the three most common sizes ATX microatx and Mini ITX
have remained unchanged since 1995 but don't let the secret get out there have
been other changes like the motherboard power connectors and internal slots and
headers but none of them affect the shape of the board so any board as long
as it follows the standard should fit in any old case and it does as you can see
the io Shield goes here or doesn't for boards that have them built in and nine
quick screws later we are G2G actually uh does it require a back
plate for the CPU Cooler yes it does ah
another feature we're going to need to add older cases didn't have a cutout to
install a CPU back plate once you already had the motherboard in but don't
worry I got you covered
all right ready yep
yeah come on that was pretty cool yeah
okay isn't that fantastic yeah it looks pretty good and if we wanted to avoid
all that extra work all we would have had to do was install this on the motherboard before we put it in the case
like the old days so we installed it took it out cut the hole just to put it
back to put this on yeah
now you have this feature and look it almost won't slice your hand open this
point in the video I can't tell if I'm on Team new case or team an old case
we're having fun though yeah yeah maybe the cases the friends are made along the
way probably the wildest thing that hasn't changed is the PIN outs for these
front panel connectors this HD audio connector boom still HD let's go same
goes for my USB 2 as well as my front power switch reset
switch and LEDs but what about USBC I
want to charge my phone poor innocent Elijah you weren't
there for the good old days of PC Building when cases used to come with
these bad boys 5 and 1/4 in Bays which
for some inexplicable reason manufacturers still make accessories for
as tempted as I was by the fan controller the hard drive caddy and the
literal drawer I felt that this iio
would better address Elijah's concerns type-c USB 3.2 two USB 3A ports two USB
2 ports and even front panel audio now
it's a fair criticism that buying one of these can cost as much as a case some of
them are pretty fancy boasting features like premium audio decks but in the
spirit of buying into form factors that you can carry forward with you I would
recommend an external deck anyway rather than a fancy one of these so you could
move it around and use it on your laptop as well all right so I'm at
$20 what else do you need well I bought RGB RAM and that Secura GPU I would like
to be able to see them and this side panel you know don't just leave it off
cuz I have cats okay if you must have a side panel
window Home Depot sells sheets of acrylic and pretty much any size you
need all we got to do is cut it up more
cutting oh great
and there it is there's multiple options for cutting acrylic you can score it and
break it you can use a laser or probably the best option if you want to keep
things simple is to just buy the right size in the first place so we've got our
side panel window but I'm going to do you one better okay with nothing but a
whole saw a pair of old panty hose and a can do attitude we can throw some
filtered side intakes on this mama jama
feeding fresh air directly to our hungriest components cool let's do it
you got the pany right no but I have something
else that is not going to work yes it will that is actually
terrible I'm kind of thinking intake fan
here intake fan here for our GPU and I
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
an intake fan on the acrylic on the acrylic yeah oh that's not what I had in
mind but okay can do at get it together please don't break the acrylic this is
our one sheet well that's a pretty sheety
situation get
cutting I'm a little worried about doing this on the acrylic by the way are we
going to like shatter it to bits do we want to just not take the
risk so that way I can see all my pretty components without shattering
it okay that tell Elijah but I'm pretty
concerned about this ripping up the acrylic too let's see how this
goes what was that on
nothing see it's working perfectly just like I told you cool I have an
idea oh my oh my God I just need more
weight sir I just need more
weight oh yeah it's so cooked what do
you mean it's cooked that's plastic like right there you cracked it all along
there no all right I guess we're only going to
find out when we peel the paper off
yeah it looks like a screaming
person that's a Vibe that's this video
Let's see if lus actually did crack it or
not wow I for sure thought this thing was
destroyed underneath that is why you
fail it's a movie reference you wouldn't get it oh okay what
movie The Empire Strikes Back oh okay
from the Boomer Star Wars you can cut that you can cut you
can cut cut please cut please cut please
this window is going to stay on it's like 9,000 lb of VHB holding strength
that's that's good I wanted a side panel window so you will have one forever I
want the best one damn it Elijah those lines are really not straight that's
okay no it's really not well we can't can't go back now no we really
can't okay you know what from the outside it's probably it's actually not
that bad oh yeah that's fine I mean compared to everything else about this
side panel it really doesn't stand out look at that side intakes front IO
ah mother board tray cut out the only question now is is our power supply
going to fit Professor Adam Adam the
computer guy believe it or not the width
and the height of standard PC power supplies have stayed the same since 1995
and dimensionally only the length has changed over the years as systems have
gotten more power hungry again there have been other changes some of them
controversial but even the mounting hole locations remain unchanged now there is
one thing the original spec had the PSU as close to the CPU as possible why the
belief was the fan could pull double duty pulling air over the passive CPU
heat sink and also cooling the PSU before exhausting it in completely from
the system but that obviously won't work because processors noway like 250 wats
it's freaking stupid why would you need that much power there that resolves the last major
hurdle but here's the thing not everyone's going to be building a mid-range system so why don't we take
our case and take it to the next level to see if it can handle a high-end
machine to do this again I'd probably make sure that there's no little metal
filing bits left in here that could fall into the power supply that could be catastrophic
but I'm not doing it again I'm doing it now and inside here is about
$3600 worth of modern power hungry Hardware including a 16 4 CPU and a 4090
GPU as you can see everything fits let's
game before we fire up a game I think we should test our cooling it's not the
quietest thing in the world and we appear to have a bit of a problem here
oh our temperatures immediately spiked to 81° and we are using 63% of our power
also I couldn't help noticing that one of our fans is actually getting spun
backwards do you think there's too much back pressure in there I do
okay see here's the thing though Elijah I thought the front panel was staying
open I mean we can open it I designed it for maximum intake there's too much
pressure in the computer okay she cannot take it open the front panel then here
we go let's see what happens when we do
that they are staying the same it's not
even hot in here oh Liah that 12pin
power connector is not plugged in all the way no it was I had an issue where
it wasn't plugged in so I plugged it in more look at it oh my God turn it
off nope you said turn it off oh the clip is
broken oh okay that man that's weird cuz
yeah I opened it up and I was like expecting it to be an inferno down here
in the bottom of the case um cuz that would explain 61% power usage you know
what none of this even adds up because why was the GPU at 80° then if it was
only using 60% power and theral issue weren't plugged in has this
GPU been disassembled and reassembled I don't know I grabbed it from the Shelf I
didn't I just didn't check I just grabbed it from
inventory the good news is that on LTT
store.com we can find PTM 7950 thermal
pads that we can use to repaste this GPU
and get great temperatures guess who just volunteered dude I nope I'm just
going to go find a different 490 from inventory nope
I'm GL really glad my one day shoot turned into a three-day
shoot my side quest is complete and as you can see the 490 is in my hand
because I actually had to put a different one in the computer this is the one that Alex like tore apart for
some water cooling and that sh mod where it can draw 1,000 Watts this cooler
cannot cool it so goodbye this 490 and welcome in the AME 490 we're going to
try rerunning firmar and see if we run into the same issues we did before I'm
pretty confident we won't so let's just hit the 4K one let's see what happens
happens here oh yeah already our temperature is much much better than the
80° yesterday and our power seems to be recording correctly we're drawing like
440 Watts on the GPU right now I may be acting surprised that Linus's Jank work
did do well but I'm not as dumb as the character I play on TV I do know that
buying a new case every single time when you're upgrading your computer is a
mistake especially if you're on a tight budget but I also know that it's not the
worst idea either if you're already planning on shoving an entire small
nation's power consumption worth of Parts into your computer you might not
be in a position where you need to pinch Pennies on a case and even if you aren't
worried about pinching pennies it might not be a bad idea to pick up something
that's not this because if you get a nice case now you can still carry it
forward for future builds which again will save you the money before you do
jump the gun on buying a premium case let's go back to our original $1,000
budget and we'll show you what we were able to upgrade you can choose to double
the RAM double the storage and go from a six core to an eight core CPU that is
faster and I could honestly give you an infinite number of systems to use with
the extra 10% of your budget we gave up our time but it was worth it in the end
because we were able to get a much more powerful system and while lonus isn't
here to share an our Glory of it working we did have fun along the way I got to
learn how to use some power tools and you know maybe touching our tools is
actually more fun than you know touching grass did he script that he really
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