Let's play a game. Quick, count all the screens in this PC.
If you said six, you missed almost half
of them. But don't feel bad. [music] You had no way of knowing JUST HOW MANY
PRODUCTS you can get with a screen on them these days. And neither did we when
we started sourcing parts for this build. A screen on every fan. Why?
More like why not? You can use them to show temperatures, CPU load, FPS graphs,
your Twitch chat on the side of your case, anyone? You can even use all your
screens to show your friends that you've got more money than brains, cuz you're
paying extra money for parts that consume precious CPU cycles, not making
your games run faster, but making your memes danker. Guys, we are not even
going to pretend [music] that this is a build you should replicate. Even aside
from the cost and the worst performance, getting all the different softwares to
work nicely with each other, but somehow even worse than we expected. But it's
definitely a video you should watch closely, just like you should watch
closely to see which Lionus is doing the segue to our sponsor. Selecting the
motherboard was more challenging than you'd think because these ones seem like
the clear winners. I mean, they've got screens on them already. The issue is
that they lack one thing that our all screen PC simply cannot live without.
And to get that, we needed the Z790
Steel Legend from ASRock, which was chosen solely for this, its embedded
DisplayPort or EDP connector. With this
mamajama, we don't have to settle for a little 2in screen, even though my wife
says that that's plenty. Instead, we get to hook up this 13.3 in monstrosity, a
side panel kit from ASRock that is specifically meant for mounting inside
the case. And you guessed it, connecting
to that [music] header. Let me think. Here. You know what?
We'll get to that later. First, we've gone with Intel's 13900K since well, a
14th gen isn't much faster, and b we started this project like a year ago.
[laughter] It's been a real nightmare to get working and we just don't want to
change anything at this point. Realistically, we could go with a 14900
K. That wouldn't be a problem. But what we couldn't do is go with a KF variant
since the built-in graphics are absolutely necessary to drive all the
displays that we're going to have connected to this thing. For RAM, we're
using two 16 gig sticks. Of course, our Vengeance lowprofile DDR5. [music]
More on that decision later. And for our boot drive, we've gone with the
triedand-true the triedand-true Crucial P3 Plus.
Mainly because there aren't any M.2 drives that have screens on them. At
least not yet. With that boring stuff out of the way, now we get to kick
things up a notch with the Height Y70
Touch. That's right, my friends. One internal screen wasn't enough for us.
So, we picked a case that has an integrated touch screen. That's right,
14 in 1100 by 3840 resolution at 60 Hz.
I mean, that should be pretty good for Twitch chat, right? Or kick.
And the case itself has really solid
airflow and plenty of room to work in alongside a pre-installed vertical GPU
mounting bracket that we will not be using. Why? Well, how would we see the
screen on our GPU once we've got this screen sitting right here? So, instead,
we've actually had our fabricator Justin rig up a new mount that's going to move
our GPU. What, Elijah? All the way over here.
Yeah, it's going to be vertical. Oh, that's going to be so cool. Now, we
considered going with the I by Power Snow Blind. That's pretty cool. It's got
the side panel with like kind of a transparent [music] LCD integrated into
it, but we've looked at that before and we felt the color wasn't
This is a brighter screen. You'll be able to see it easier. Yeah. Not fun enough. That also ended up
being the reason we went with the Aoris P1200 80 Plus platinum power supply from
Gigabyte. Now, ASUS does have those four
units that do have a wattage readout, good quality units built by CSIC, but we
felt that Gigabyte screen was [music] just plain cooler. It cost us some
compromises. Cable Mod currently doesn't support these units. So, we're going to
be stuck with the stock cables that are going to be a little long for our needs
and going to get in the way. But, uh, hey, totally worth it, right, Elijah?
Yeah, it was a pain in the ass. Positivity, come on.
It's great. Hey, I love it. One small thing. This is how it goes in.
Yes. Well, no. The screen's the other side. I know.
Yeah. Well, no, it can't go this way because this is the intake.
But you want to see the screen. We can't have the intake against the
motherboard tray. We're not even going to see this screen, guys. We're not even
halfway through this build. And I can't help but think to myself, like, what are
they doing here? All I can think of is desperation. Like, don't have more
performance than the competition? Put a screen on it. Don't have better product
support than the competition? Put a screen on it. [laughter]
That was a heavy slap. I'm scared. Well, how else are you going to get the screen to stay?
Stop. You're going to break it. I work. So, Linus, please stop.
If you thought you weren't going to get trolled in this role, you got to temper
your expectations. That was a good one. Are you proud of it? I wouldn't.
I can't wait for the comments on this video to build stupid.
[laughter] It's like, yes, we're aware. With that said, these Unifan TL LCD fans
from Lee and Lee, they might have kind of won me over,
man. They're pretty sweet. Each of the 1.6 in displays on their fan
hubs runs at 400x 400 pixels, meaning
they should look pretty good, right? So cool. And we're going to be connecting
them to an ASUS ROG Rugen 2360,
which has its own 320x 240 display that
needs its own USB 3 header. Wait, this
isn't [music] a USB 3 header. This is just a USB 3 to USB 2 header adapter.
This one uses USB 2. We ran out of USB 2s,
so we just gave it its own USB 3. I see. Yeah.
Yeah. And we'll talk more about the hub later. Buy a retro screwdriver. for
ltstore.com. Speaking of the orientation, are we even going to see
these screens? Dude, if you look like underneath, yes, cuz we
have other screens later we'll talk about that are going to get mounted at the top here.
So, we're going to have this as an intake.
Uh, no, it exhaust. It doesn't though. Why?
Because then we wouldn't see the screens. In order for it to exhaust, we have to put it on like that.
Uh, then yes, it's going to be an intake. These are cool. They've got these pogo
pin connectors, so you only have to plug in one of the fans and boom, all plugged
in. Then we just take the whole block of them and plug it into the hub. Wow. You
can connect up to four blocks of devices to this thing. And this will do both RGB
and LCD products is my understanding. Yes. And that's why we actually need the
six pin PCIe power. What the moment when fans are drawing more
power than some graphics cards did 10 years ago. Okay. I like this case. Everything's
kind of toolless and kind of easy to use.
We'll just pop this bad boy in here, right? Uh, actually, can we move it over a
little bit more? We have some other things that we're going to mount. Uh, no, we can't.
Cool. Then we're going to go here. It just It doesn't fit with this
bracket. Oh, yes, it does. You have to bend the bracket. Oh my god.
Want to go ahead and screw it up in I always screw it up, dude. That's what
my mother tells me. She friends with mine.
Time to goop it.
Is this the right orientation or can you just flip it in software? Uh, you can flip it in. I had it
vertical. The You had it screen vertical? Yes, I had it like that.
Oh, interesting. Now, we get to do the wiring for our displays. [music] Uh,
we'll start with the EDP cable. We actually got a B-roll shot of me plugging in this side of it earlier. You
do want to be really careful with these. They aren't fragile, per se, but they
are easy to break. And then we're just going to leave the other end of it kind
of here. Let's do all our front panel connectors, I guess. Yep.
Love these capacitors just kind of hanging out on this 24 pin.
Yeah, it helps with ripple. I wonder if that's why Cable Mod hasn't made custom cables yet.
Probably a significant part of it. Yeah. Now, because some of our displays and
hubs connect through USB [music] and our board only has a single USB 2
header there, we'll be using this really
cool powered internal USB hub that has a
combination of headers.
See that? And USBA ports so you can
connect freaking whatever you want. Throw your Xbox wireless dongle in
there. Little Bluetooth connector. Plug in all your, you know, stupid fan
controller nonsense. And it all goes through a single header. These were a
lifesaver [music] back in the day when they first came out. Uh, where do you want to mount this
bad boy? It's just going to get thrown in the back. Oh, so disappointed.
Yep. But before we plug it in though, we need to plug in this breakout cable
right on the motherboard side. Wait, what? Okay, one of our devices
will not work through the hub. So instead, we have to take cuz you can see
the USB header here [music] is actually two USB ports. There's your four
conductors for one. There's your four conductors for the other. What's funny
about this breakout cable is that it's got all nine pins on the other side, but
only four of them can be active. So, I guess we [music] just need to be careful
of the orientation when we plug everything in. But that's all fine. The
point is, one device is going to plug directly into the header, and the rest
is going to plug into this hub, which is plugged into the other side. And which device is that?
Uh, the device that plugs into the header is a RAM screen. Oh my god. Oh, I'm glad it was something
really important. Yes, sir. The Pacific R2 Ultra memory
LCD monitor kit memory not included detachable 3.9 in LCD display support
DDR4 memory module. Yes. And I guess that's why we needed
the low profile RAM 100%. I think this is compatible with most RAM kits, but
just to be safe, we got a low profile. Okay.
You're probably also wondering, how does it attach to this? Sure.
Yeah. Double-sided tape. All righty. There's no way. I don't believe you. It
came with a sticky pad, but because I tried building this so many times, the
sticky pad wore out. So, we need to use tape.
One small detail, Elijah. We're plugging in all the front panel nonsense.
This does not plug into the other side of that breakout. This would have to go
into one of the A ports on the hub. Okay. So, you just grabbed the front
panel USB 2 connector [music] off of a case. Yes, sir. Trust the science.
Ingenuity. That's a long cable.
Man, I could run this RAM LCD freaking
on my brain RAM. Report no operation. All right.
Want to make sure it's straight, you know. Yeah, because it matters. Yeah, it does. We want this. We still
want the computer to look good. No, I mean, [music] the alignment of the tape doesn't matter. The alignment of
this matters. Uh Oh, no. No. So, you're going to want to not plug that in cuz we're going to
want to route it nicely. The other end. Mhm.
Stop. What is that sound?
Don't Don't do it again. Well, you wanted to know what it was. No, I
This is great. Normally, it's the [music] zoomers bothering L minus. Uno.
Reverse. Let's go. What's Uno?
There you go. That's installed. Look at that.
So much screen. No. No. Don't move it. Don't move it. Now, let's power the CPU screen. It gets
its own dedicated SATA. Seriously? Yes. Cuz it needs this hub cuz it comes
out of a USB. So, we're using the hub as basically a power converter
just for the screen. [music] Yes. Genius. With all the USB hub plugged in,
we went ahead and attached our four PCIe 8 pin to 16 pin connector right here and
a much longer PCIe extension, which
means it's finally time to get to the
GPU. [music] Justin's brackets here really show off
the 800 by 216 screen on Colorful's Vulcan 4090
which is Wait, [music] where the hell is the screen? It is right here. It uses like pogo
pins. Oh, wow. Innovation.
First things first, we need to attach the bracket that Justin printed. It goes on the bottom. I left the screws already
in there. Sick. But we'll just screw through that. And that helps give it support while it's in
the vertical mount here.
Good old Justin. You probably didn't know that he was with us, but that's
okay because he's just in.
So, okay. No, stop. We're going. Okay.
We [music] need this first. And you need to come in from this side.
Yes. But let's plug this in first. Let's
Okay. No, [panting] I'm at my breaking point.
Oh, all right. I'll see you in 15.
Okay, then it sits on an angle. What? Just for now. Okay.
We then plug in all our displays and pop it up into position.
Perfect. Flawless. Now, hold on just a gosh darn minute
here. You have an HDMI splitter involved. Correct. We're using these EK screens.
They're actually 1080p screens. They're actually really good quality. We're
going to mount them near the top here. The reason we're using an HDMI splitter
is when we first started this build, we had a bunch of different screens and in
order to get even these two to work, we just split them. What is the point of these screens? What
Why does EK even make these? The marketing material for these screens, it shows like your water
temperatures or the flow rate and everything. Realistically though,
they're just displays. Okay. [laughter] Does this have two HDMI ports on it?
No, it has one. That's why we have a splitter. Wait, you just have 6 ft HDMI
cables that you're just running internally in the case?
Well, yeah. No, in the back panel.
You won't see them. This project's been in the works for a year. We're not
asking anymore. Changed hands between writers, I think, three times.
Correct. I am writer number three, and I'm pushing it across the finish line.
I think the term is towing. Yeah. [laughter]
Can't wait to see the finished product, though. It looks really good once it's all together. And then just never open the
back panel. Go ahead. I'll hold it. You screw. Yes, sir.
Okay. Uh, that's not threaded in there.
Nope. It's more just to hold it. But doesn't it look good there? It looks so
good. Looks really good there. Yeah. Yeah. Is this the plan for this, though?
What? Yeah. Oh, cuz we're going to have the screen here.
Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Okay. Just put a screen on it.
You said it earlier. Don't have the best looks, add a screen.
Fair. Solved. That looks sick, right? It's kind of coming together.
Yeah. I like the GPU mounted this way. It looks really good. And lots of access to fresh air. Like,
this is awesome. Outside screen uses DisplayPort. So,
we're going to run this bad boy. Ah, yes. Okay, I got you. It's already
plugged [music] in. Out it comes. And then we just leave the vestigial cable
in there, apparently. Cuz you're looking at the screens. It's fine. For these screens, how they're
mounting, we ran the cables up to the corner. Justin also whipped up these 3D printed
brackets. Sick. And that's what's going to go kind of beside the radiator.
We're going to screw them up here like this. Mount the screen on this side.
Uhhuh. And they'll just be displaying in the front. Okay.
The dank memes, dude. These screws do not screw in at all.
Like you know that, right? Yes, they do. Mine's screwed in. So, it's clearly a skill issue.
Okay. Go for it. Okay. Check this out, ladies and gentlemen.
Boom. Done. Boom. Done. Why did these go in? What is happening
right now? Okay, that one's gone.
Cool. We got two of four. That's good enough.
See, though, the ones you put in are out. No, stop moving it. It was
Stop moving it.
Oh crap, dude. It still doesn't go straight, dude.
[music] Yeah, it never did. Oh. Oh, you didn't make that clear.
Oh, yeah. We were We were trying to get this straight the whole time.
Oh, let's go.
Let's go. All right. It's kind of aligned
actually. It's not terrible. Wow. Oh, just wow. Oh, wow. This is the
mount for this, correct? Huh. I mean, yeah.
Wow. Just needs to hold it long enough for the shoot. Oh my god, there's so many.
Uh, when you get 10-ft HDMI cables because you [music] think it's funny and
you'll have the range, you start to regret it very quickly. I had this
closed once. I can do it again. [music] I'm just eyeballing this.
You can put it anywhere you want as long as it's on the bottom.
[laughter] I tried to put it down fast. Looks good.
Can you stop saying it looks good? It's not good. It's not done.
It's not in the right spot at all. It's all coming apart. Am I supposed to hold
this here? No, I can do it.
Okay, then [music] don't get upset. Ah, [laughter] please. We already broke one screen.
We did. What screen? Another one of these. We had two of them
already, so I just grabbed the other one. Oh, okay. But what doesn't kill you doesn't hurt
you. No. What? This little bad boy in there. And then
uh I don't know. Sure. Cool.
And good enough. Ready? Uh maybe. I don't Oh, I don't know if my
heart can take this. That's a lot of screens, boys.
Woo. We need to plug in the HDMI splitter as well. Comes out the back of the computer
case. All right. Oh, man. We got some screens.
As a heads up, [music] we need to boot it twice. Minus 30° liquid.
The software hasn't loaded yet. I see. And so that's their default.
Yes, I it Yes. Makes [music] perfect sense.
Well, it's letting you know your computer's good. Why do we need to boot it twice? Because
this screen will never ever work on the first boot. Don't know why. [music] I I
tried booting this thing like a hundred times. And Right. But you only tried the first boot
once. The other 99 wouldn't have been the [music] first boot.
Oh, it is booting. We put made past. Okay. So, this is our primary screen now.
So, it does boot on the first time. The computer boots, but that screen will
never work on the first try. Yes. Touch me, feel me, peel me. That's
creepy. [laughter] I love that. Sure. Oh. Uh, wait. What? What just
happened? I left the peel for you cuz I thought it
would come off. [laughter] You know, Liz, that's why you never
peel. Yeah. Okay, I get it. Go on. Go on. Get
That's a valid criticism. No, it's not. Okay, I just got to reboot it real quickly.
Correct. Oh, hey. Whoa. Hey, look. The big screen works.
Nice. I'm gaming, boys. Wow. Okay, so I go up
the top of this one and that comes out on these ones, which are mirrored. Why
are they mirrored, Elijah? Okay, again, when we had more screens
planned, we wanted to mirror these ones just so we could have as many screens as
possible. I see. As I started taking screens out, I had
enough ports. But now you have two extra ports off the GPU, so you could actually
run like another display on the outside if you chose to.
Why would I do that? Excellent question. I forgot my screen right here.
Oh, I agree. You that 1080p 60 Hz
dedicated. Oh, look at that. Look at that.
Look at this. We're so close.
Don't look. This is cool. Oh, it's better if you don't. It's better if
you don't. Oh, get the power supply screen. It's totally worth It's up It's upside
[laughter] down. Wow.
I mean, pretty cool though. I actually really like the quality of
this screen. Yeah, that looks great. Dang.
Okay, ready? [laughter]
I cannot Oh yeah. Hold on. We just got
to relieve some tension.
Nice. Don't. [laughter]
Oh my god. It's bulging.
[laughter] Holy crap.
It's like a Tesla. With these panel gaps. We should call it the model. Why?
But where's the mouse? I didn't say get rid of the mouse. Oh, screen on the mouse, baby.
No way. So, you can play PUBG on your mouse.
No, you can just have an image of PUBG on your mouse. [laughter] You can't
actually do anything other than PGs. The J500 display screen gaming mouse. At
least they know who they're after. Like, that's it. Display screen gaming mouse.
That's what it is. That's what it does. Everything else is just bonus. Oh, wow.
This does not look nearly as good as the image on the box.
The lights aren't on. Yeah, but dude, it's like freaking half
an inch in there. This makes it look like it's right on the surface. Oh, wow.
It's really clearly photoshopped. There's like a border there. Where's my
Logitech G15? Uh, no. I don't have a Logitech one.
Oh. Oh, it's got one tiny little OLED baby right
in the corner. Okay. I mean, I guess we'll settle for
it. It's not that cool one with like the whole screen behind the whole thing.
That's not out yet, right? Okay. Well, now hold on a second. Are all the
screens working? So, Oh, yeah. This one's working.
There we go. That was good. MUCH BETTER. WOW. Are we able to align
everything? Oh. Oh. Oh. Hi. Okay. [music] Cannot control. Oh. Oh. Oh. Hi,
kitty. That was one of the stock ones
Thermaltake had. Did the GPU software work on this one?
Yeah. Oh, yeah. That one's up. Cool. That's doing stuff. Awesome.
Okay. Do I need to open [music] it and reconfigure it or I game center, I
guess? Yeah, that would be the eye game center. That's where you could customize whatever you want on it.
There it is. Okay. Well, that's the thing we did.
We have all the screens on the inside. You know, they're all powered on displaying wallpaper.
Yes. You want more screens? I guess. Cool. Elgato
makes all the stream decks and I've customized every single image
on these for when we plug them in. We need as many screens as possible. Why
did I even need a keyboard at that point? We debated on that. I didn't want to
remap the entire keyboard to a stream deck. I was too worried I'd miss
something critical. Oh, yeah. The mouse has a screen on it. Did you check it out yet?
No. Now that it's loaded. Wow. What a surprise. You know, the
quality of the screen is really good. Yeah, it's actually a really good
screen. I'm kind of impressed. I look good.
You're a pro streamer now, Lionus. How much you want to bet it's just covered in Lionus faces? Oh, it's not.
Wow, some creativity. Good job. If you boot hardware info, this will
actually give us hardware info stats. Will it launch hardware info [music] if it's not launched? Nope. Okay, that's
too much to ask. It's on one of the How am I supposed to find my mouse? Shake it around a bunch. There you go.
Okay, there it is. See, look. Got little stats. Wow, that's so cute. So, why' we cheap
out and not put it inside? You saw how much we struggled with the
other screens. This is true. Are these dedicated emoji keys? Teams actually has
a pack on the Elgato website. They don't do anything integrated with Teams,
[laughter] but they're really cute. But you could just you just type an emoji.
Oh, no. No. I just made them folders. But I didn't You want to pay me 2 hours to
script each one to type [laughter] something? Two hours.
It would take a long time cuz you have to do one key at a time. One of them
does open a secret though. It is [music] pretty. If I had to guess, I would say the
secret one is the dinosaur and it opens lts.com. It's supposed to with this. This brings
our total to over 90 screens. All right, now it's time for Wallpaper
[music] Engine then. That Yeah, that's running right now, but you can see the other presets I saved.
All right, might take a second.
You didn't do anything on this one. Oh, there it is. Oh god.
Yeah, nine cat. Wow. This is a This is a computer. Oh my
god. This has a parallax effect. So the cat [music] kind of looks at your
cursor. That is cursed, dude.
Wait a second. And what about the fan screens? So, since they're still pre-production,
the software wasn't up and working when I tested this, but Lean Lee did email me
this morning with new software we can try. No way. So, let's go.
Wait, how are we even supposed to see them? I mean, yeah, they're in there.
They're working. Hold on. I'll have to I'll have to turn this around so you can
even see it. Andrew L connect.
What I really want to know is with all the soft
our CPU usage is 70%. Now in fairness,
we have Doom Eternal running in the background, but Doom Eternal is taking
up 40%. There is so much software running on
this computer to make everything work. It's insane. Doom Eternal is down to 35%. Our CPU
just stays at 70% no matter what. It just gives Doom Eternal whatever's
left over. But it looks good. Yeah. All right,
let's game. Let's game. Doom time, baby. Oh, our CPU usage is 8%, which means it
probably crashed. Oh, it might have. Okay, so I just got to switch my primary
display, though. Real quick, styles here. Wow. You know what? This one's
actually a lot less laggy. This one's running off the internal.
Oh, that's probably why Doom crashed, cuz
it's running through the iGPU, which does work, by the way. You can use your
dedicated GPU through the DisplayPort connection of your integrated GPU. But
they the GPU was hovering around 30 35% and
there's no games open. What [laughter] is up with that? Oh, I
guess we could look at the Linus one now if you want. Oh, sure. Here we go. Load profile meme face.
Yay. I put the intro. Are you proud of me?
Oh, wow. Got a parallax [music] clock and everything. Yep. And that's like rain falling. It's
really great. Sad line. This is really sad. And it's
407 somewhere. Yeah, it's a it's a big clock that is
Oh, it's 1407. [laughter] I'm just happy it booted first try.
You mentioned that there were a lot of screens we didn't end up integrating. What kind of screens did we have?
We had some skinnier ones that we were going to throw around and all over the
place. And the problem is is they would work on their own, but the hybrid of
mixing certain screens with certain USB with certain adapters,
this is what I could get working. Got it. So, your mileage may vary if you
wanted to add as many screens as possible. Let's try Counterstrike. No, no, we're
good. We're good. Play anyway. Here we go. I think this computer's Oh,
yes. Counter Strike 2.
[laughter]
Can you even hit the play button? Oh my goodness. Uh, play. Oh, here we
go. Here we go. Here we go. Uh, casual
dust two. Go. Yes. All right, we got
this. If I can get a kill, what do I get? Oh, firstborn child.
Sure. Done. Oh, dang it. Lined right up in my tunnel
vision. If anything, you should be more accurate
now cuz it has to be in the center. Zero distraction. Holy crap. Okay. I can't
see my peripheral. Is this Okay. Up. Up.
[laughter] Everything's a jump scare. So scary. Love it if your teammates
could see what resolution you're playing at. So when they spectate you, it just
shows this. Oh, that would be [laughter] They would look like, "What is going on?
Is this you playing vertical on a phone?" Can't even see the muzzle. My crosshair
is the entire width of my display. You're playing so, you know, passive.
Get in there, dude. I can't see form even holding a
gun. I'm not sure. Be such a coward. Go.
[laughter] 438 damage in one [laughter] hit.
Oh man, that's basically this computer in a nutshell. If you guys enjoyed this
video, why not check out the opposite of it, the easiest gaming [music] PC build.
We use an NZXT case that had that same handy just like one brick, plugs in all
your front panel connectors and everything. It was It was [music] It was a lot easier. What stupid build?