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all right you got the music cued

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here we go

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this right here is michael's new rig michael stood out

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from the other contestants in rog rig reboot 2019 for doing what nobody

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thought possible creating his very own

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laptop it was terrible

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dude next time can you please stand out in a good way i'd do my best well that

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was the best i had that's fine it worked out for you so you haven't even seen

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what we're building for you at all no i will show you

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so michael where are you from it doesn't matter my name is michael

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mclaughlin i live in a small town outside of boston called bolton

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massachusetts have you ever built a computer before i haven't actually all

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right do you know what this is i believe that's the cpu that is the cpu you are

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going home with a ryzen 7 3800x that is an eight core cpu great for gaming great

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for video editing and lord knows you need it because your

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editing was not great on that video that's okay you made up for it in

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creativity i can't take can't take credit for that your brother helped you

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with that right at least you got a trip out of it it was

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definitely a collaboration between my brothers and i uh i did a lot of the

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scripting my brothers had various ideas about which pieces to do

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um so i couldn't have done it without them for sure yeah we actually had like

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a wall then we we put sticky notes on the wall with like ideas and like

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spliced the whole thing together and had a storyboard well my brothers

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and my cousin actually had a couple of friends they wanted to see more

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regularly so they started doing a weekly lan party at my cousin's house and i

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wanted to spend more time with my family so i started playing the games that they

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play so i had a rog laptop that i was using i don't even remember what model

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it was but i bought it on craigslist for four hundred dollars a couple years ago

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and a couple of weeks ago the power brick just died and then it didn't work

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anymore do you know what this is i'm guessing that's a motherboard that is a

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motherboard there's an rg crosshair 8 hero this has basically all the freaking

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bells and whistles overclocking crossfire support all that good stuff

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all right so we've got our power supply rog 4 850 watt platinum there was a

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cooler in there as well your graphics card which you did get and your aura

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terminal which honestly i don't even know what it is

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oh rgb lighting control very important you missed the most

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important it's gonna be pretty a data helpfully provided us with a one

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terabyte ssd and a two terabyte ssd which one would

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you like uh just kidding you get both of them what uh i think it's gonna be fun i

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haven't ever built a pc or really watched a whole lot of videos on how to

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build a pc but i have a general idea of like

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the sequence they should go in but i definitely don't know how to do it in

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the most optimal way so tell me something michael how did you

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prepare yourself for your build challenge today

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well i asked my brother who has a lot more experience with this kind of thing what i should do to prepare and he said

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you're probably best just going and letting them show you how to do it properly did you watch any previous rog

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rig reboots i didn't did your brother watch any previous rog regular boots

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yeah he's seen everything oh so he was just messing with you

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because i put everyone on the spot oh boy you're supposed to study up

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whoa faith in my brother he can do it he can

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do it all right so let's find out if he can do it what parts do you think we

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need first well i think we need a table first

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yes yes and the livestrong bracelet yeah let's move on from the verge edition of

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building a pc we also need a case we do have a case okay actually we have

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the rd strix helios that's a pretty freaking awesome case uh but what do we

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actually need to do first open the motherboard and put it in the case put

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it in the case put it in the case i always recommend plugging your

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components in and powering your system up once outside of the case to verify

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that the system posts or powers on and outputs to a display

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open the motherboard you know what i'm gonna let you do it your way okay this

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is like burger king building right have it your way

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and if it's all a sparking you know pilot mangled mess at the end well that

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was your way hey it's your build your way he's definitely high energy and that

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that was exactly the way i expected it to be you can tell when he's being

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sarcastic or cutting it's it's really just for the humor of it so there there

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was no problem with that for me oh hold on hold on this is actually this

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is kind of a two this is kind of a two person left here but check this out

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so you actually said in your request

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that you would like something portable now yes we didn't get you something

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particularly light that's all right but we did get you something with

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carrying straps excellent sweet right that's awesome all right so the cheapest

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fastest easiest way to ground yourself

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protecting your hardware from electrostatic discharge

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is to touch a grounded object right so

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what we're going to do is we're going to unbox our power supply

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throw our power supply on the table and plug it in and the case the power

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supply is grounded so so every time you move around or rustle too much or

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whatever else if you periodically touch that you should be fine you should be

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fine awesome i wouldn't manufacture microprocessors with this method sure

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should probably be wearing a full bunny suit in that case but for just building

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a computer this is a simple easy way to make it a little safer cool thank you

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you don't have to hold it yeah

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thank you question for you yeah is there anything

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that you'd like us to etch on your side panel window

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like a gamer tag or like a favorite meme

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or i think the linus tech tips logo would be cool linus tech tips logo

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you know you don't have to suck up you already won yeah keller flame is my

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usual gamer tag keller flame yeah okay i'm gonna ask you to send jono an

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email with the exact spelling and capitalization you like for that you got

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it i think we can probably do that for you

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you found stickers i found stickers

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those are pretty cool stickers these i think are the mounting screws

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what about these these mount something else so when it comes to screws we've

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got mounting screws and mounting other mounting screws yes careful

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so when you're yeah okay that technique was not bad so when you're repositioning

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the motherboard it's very very important that you're not just sliding it around

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on the standoffs in there you want to kind of lift it up while you're repositioning it otherwise it'll scrape

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the back of it nice feature of this case it's got a little nub in there mm-hmm so

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some of these won't accidentally slip around would you like somewhere to put

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those screws that would be awesome thank you this video is not brought to you by

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ifixit.com but i still recommend their hardware boom right there

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see now they won't move too much

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thank you i'm not here because i'm judging

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but you are just a tiny bit

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oh i'm not done with that one far too loose i can show you a little trick to go a bit faster now that i'm impatient

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so this has a knurled thing here on the ratchet you just go

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like that

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and now and

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now probably should mount the cpu sure

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think of it this way if you break the cpu

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you will have no fewer cpus than you walked in here with that's a good point

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so you have nothing to lose really except everything that we're giving you

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there it is there it is i know it goes there oh yeah now there's a couple of

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things we need to know to install a cpu one is where's the golden triangle

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the quest of the golden triangle i'm serious find it yeah

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um it would be right here that is an amd logo i'm going to need a triangle sir so

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that piece of the arrow is not there no i'm sorry it's also not golden right

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right there ah there yeah it was a difficult question yeah yeah so you have to find

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the corresponding triangle on the cpu socket that is really small and really

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hard to see so i'm going to do it once and then i'll let you do it after okay

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okay we hold the cpu by the edges of the heat spreader that's why there's these

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little indents in the packaging cool then we line up the triangle with the

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triangle we insert it with no force whatsoever this is called a zif socket

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zero insertion force so you can see i'm not inserting it it's just falling into

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place and we lock the arm cool now your turn

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no pressure but this is kind of the moment where you can really screw this

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you were so close

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all right that's it your cpu is installed i'm groping in the dark here so anything

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i do after this is guessing oh groping in the dark you say

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right so i would probably

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go with the memory next sure

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it only goes in one way and you can kind of cheat because mine is already in the

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right way give it a good crunch

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a plus crunch love it you're the captain of crunch now

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i don't believe you did no studying i think you were trying to set the

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expectations very low where would you like to put it

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that is the question of the day i'll give you a hint this motherboard from

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asus has support for two m.2 ssds he's like is this an m.2

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i presume it is it can actually even do pcie gen 4 but that's not what we have

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with us today i don't see a port that seems to match that connector

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that's good if you did i'd be really worried that

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your prescription was a little off right we need to take the cover off of it

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this is another little bit of a tricky install so they've got a handy dandy

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little thumb thing here now this ssd is

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hilarious because it has rgb lighting on it which actually means it won't fit in

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one of the m.2 slots down here with the like built-in heat sink and stuff which

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is great so you put it in a bit of an angle

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pop it in like that and then push it down and put in that

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screw he knows how to use a screwdriver i'll give him that

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michael thanks gonna go down here where the second demo

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is oh shoot dang what that's a different kind

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goodness what are we gonna do with that so there's probably a cable

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or not so there's two cables

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that go to this and one goes to the power supply yeah

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cool i knew he studied i don't think he goes back here

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would you like a lifeline i would

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a lightest line go anywhere your imagination wants it to

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you just run a cable anywhere you want you can double sided tape it here

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or here actually i wouldn't put it there there's a lot of heat on the back of the

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cpu or here but where it's actually intended to be installed is here

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now what would you like to do probably the cpu cooler

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sure okay here you go

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that's not the cooler i didn't think so

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here's the real cooler thanks how do you think it goes in

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so i know this goes over the cpu but i we need some thermal paste to make

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the thermal uh link better ah that's okay it has

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thermal paste on it already all right with the pad yep cool

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these have to come off because it's gonna go on these screws

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not bad i like it okay so

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how important is it to you that the logo is right side up on your cpu cooler

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uh there's only one correct answer it's not important to me that is not the

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correct answer all right now i have a special job for you

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i'm ready uh i need you to get out that

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baggie of hardware from the cooler box that i said we didn't need

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and grab the big thumbnuts

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they go all the way until they stop

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nice see how much better is that now that the

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rog logo here here and here are all

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aligned so this is a judgment call so you can have it here

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or here let's go that way because

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okay and at the far end they're less kinked yep okay

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okay so michael i'ma let you in on a little secret

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we are actually shockingly close to being done

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awesome we do still have some things to do though first we need to plug in

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our pump and rgb nonsense

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for our cpu block so this is great michael i'm going to pass you the fan

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connectors from the radiator fans yep

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and you can go ahead and throw those on the hub that is built into our case

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that's a handy feature got it okay

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wow what do you want to do next

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so probably graphics card next cool

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all right here's your graphics card

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not falling for that twice all right ah yes that's the useful stuff so

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you're going to be rocking a radeon 5700

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xt so you've got support for freesync you've got their new anti-lag mode

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support which is basically just a way of making it so that there's less delay between

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when your gpu draws the image and when it's actually displayed on your screen

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um you've got support for free sync so if you want to run variable refresh rate

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whether it's on a monitor or a tv that whole ecosystem has really exploded over

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the last few years and of course because you've got this beef-tastic

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strix cooler on it you can actually run at zero decibels when you're not

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actually gaming or in some cases even under very very light gaming loads wow

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well are you going to put it in oh okay

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i actually wouldn't do that yet sorry i wouldn't you shouldn't do the

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gpu yet so we're going to need our aura terminal which we're going to power

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with this here adapter doodad

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so it's going to go like that

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then we're going to get a signal to it with our usb connection here

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now because we've got plenty of cable management room on the back we can

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basically stick this anywhere that we want back here so we'll just chuck it on

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the back of the motherboard tray and call that good to go how about right

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there what do you think works for me okay michael hit me with what you think is

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next well it looks like we're getting close to the power supply

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let's do it so i know it goes in the back

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on the bottom cool probably need to take the screws out

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first cool

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so what are you gonna do next well i think it'll probably be pretty

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hard to plug cables into the back of it once i put it inside so i'd probably

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like to plug them in out here and then slide the power supply inside i like it

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so go ahead and plug those into the back of the power supply any way you like it

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all right inspection time not bad not bad your 24 pin is not

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plugged in okay other than that you are in great shape here now what

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now they go in there and trying to decide whether i think it's better to

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plug them all in and then slide it in or slide it and plug them all in

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i would slide it in and plug them all in all right time to play computer

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just pull arm in there so is there a cage that stops it from

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pushing in too far

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am i holding it in my hand yes

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okay so now it's time to power this thing up

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you ready to plug in the 24 pin i think so so it's just like on the power supply

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side except make sure you plug it in otherwise identical to what you did

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before so this is a little tricky yep basically

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on some motherboards you're going to have a four and an eight pin you can

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plug them both in but you actually don't need to just the eight pins enough so

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you're going to turn around a little something like that and then that'll go

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in like that cool all right do you need any hints here or have you done this before i haven't done

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this before but there can only be so many ways it

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can go in but i don't know what any of them are

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all right so first we're going to want to remove this protective cover that

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would explain why i couldn't figure out where it plugged in yeah and then now i

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think you can probably sort this out probably does it matter which one

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because it looks like there's two ah yes okay so your top one is going to run at

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16x speed that's like ideal so what's

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your intention with this gaming machine anyway so actually most of the games

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that i play are with my brothers and family and friends so i mostly play play

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games with friends i play a lot of multiplayer

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games to spend time with people i actually want to hang out with right so

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basically you're just not any good there's that you're you're afraid to

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play online no that's fine that's fine i get it i get you look the

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bottom of the food chain needs people to populate it

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all right do you want to go ahead and plug in the power connectors for the graphics cards

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does it matter which one goes where it does not because it's in this case yep

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well because they're both eight pins sometimes you'll have an eight and a six pin

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that was it do you want to see it turn on i really

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do well let's hope you put it together right then i don't know if we ever

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actually went through this but you are not just taking home a gaming system

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you are also taking home a complete set of gaming peripherals

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including this 144 hertz freesync gaming monitor

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so we're going to set up the whole thing so your first gaming experience on your

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new rig is going to be as it's all going to be together

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oh this one has that fun feature where it's got a little led in the bottom and

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you put a little lens in here and you can like draw a smiley face or whatever

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you want on the bottom of it and it'll project it onto your desk you know

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things the gamers want it's also curved okay moment of truth time you ready sure

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okay last test you gotta find the power button believe it's straight

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here he doesn't know this but if you can't turn it on he doesn't get to keep it

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ah he wins so we've got our 3800 x 8

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core processor 32 gigs of ram uh our m.2

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drive is showing up our sata drive is showing up everything here looks pretty

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flipping exactly as we'd expect let's throw on our docp which runs our ram at

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3600 megahertz we're gonna reboot that baby so while we're installing windows then

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uh what game is it that you wanted to try you know when you when you fire it

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up for the first time i've been looking forward to

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borderlands 3. okay i think that could be arranged let's get

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some borderlands reloaded on here so here we are we're almost at the point

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where you're ready to experience it but there's a minor detail we have to sort

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out first what's that no i'm kidding alex bring it in

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your panels are ready that's awesome oh wow really seriously

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what does this say family is for life gaming is forever

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keller flame k

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so have you actually played borderlands 3 yet not at all okay

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have you played on a high-end modern gaming rig

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at all no have you ever tried a high refresh rate monitor no

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wow this is going to be something else give it a shot dude

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any first impressions it's so much smoother than i'm used to well i

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can actually track them when they're dodging instead of having to wait for

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them to stop moving that's kind of nice what a technological innovation the

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computer works and that's really the bottom line question i think that means

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we did a good job when you look in from the motherboard side seeing the three

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rog logos there i think that's really cool uh the rgb is nice because you can

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then see stuff like that but but having the unified branding instead of kind of

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a hodgepodge of whatever you could throw in there is really cool so what's the

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most graphically intensive game you can run on your current rig um

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probably ghost recon

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um yeah right wild lands i think that's the previous

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one yeah and i'm playing it on low settings

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so uh and it's and it's even on low setting

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it it's definitely does this look a little better this is

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so much better if i played ghost recon

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with this computer i would be a lot better

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because i can actually see things and then try to shoot at them instead of

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just shoot blindly into the blur it is way beyond what i thought i was

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going to be getting it's so incredible and the video that it's able to push on

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that monitor and the monitor itself is just

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so far beyond anything that i've used to this point i don't even know how to like

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quantify how far ahead of where i was before it is it's just insane i just

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wanted to say thanks linus tech tips and asus rog um this was a great experience

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i really enjoyed being backstage with the entire team and getting to meet

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everybody and interact with people that i'd seen online but

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now i get to know them as people huge thanks michael for coming out and

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participating in rg rig reboot this is it this is your new rig i'm so excited

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it's flipping awesome and hand built by yours truly i'm sorry

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and a massive shout out and thank you to asus for providing well

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everything the parts the experience uh

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the ticket out here and just generally being

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all about supporting the gaming community and doing this now three years

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in a row so you're gonna find the link to where you can find all the greatest use rog hardware down in the video

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description thank you guys for watching and we'll see you at the next rog rig

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