all right you got the music cued
here we go
this right here is michael's new rig michael stood out
from the other contestants in rog rig reboot 2019 for doing what nobody
thought possible creating his very own
laptop it was terrible
dude next time can you please stand out in a good way i'd do my best well that
was the best i had that's fine it worked out for you so you haven't even seen
what we're building for you at all no i will show you
so michael where are you from it doesn't matter my name is michael
mclaughlin i live in a small town outside of boston called bolton
massachusetts have you ever built a computer before i haven't actually all
right do you know what this is i believe that's the CPU that is the CPU you are
going home with a ryzen 7 3800x that is an eight core CPU great for gaming great
for video editing and lord knows you need it because your
editing was not great on that video that's okay you made up for it in
creativity i can't take can't take credit for that your brother helped you
with that right at least you got a trip out of it it was
definitely a collaboration between my brothers and i uh i did a lot of the
scripting my brothers had various ideas about which pieces to do
um so i couldn't have done it without them for sure yeah we actually had like
a wall then we we put sticky notes on the wall with like ideas and like
spliced the whole thing together and had a storyboard well my brothers
and my cousin actually had a couple of friends they wanted to see more
regularly so they started doing a weekly lan party at my cousin's house and i
wanted to spend more time with my family so i started playing the games that they
play so i had a rog laptop that i was using i don't even remember what model
it was but i bought it on craigslist for four hundred dollars a couple years ago
and a couple of weeks ago the power brick just died and then it didn't work
anymore do you know what this is i'm guessing that's a motherboard that is a
motherboard there's an rg crosshair 8 hero this has basically all the freaking
bells and whistles overclocking crossfire support all that good stuff
all right so we've got our power supply rog 4 850 watt platinum there was a
cooler in there as well your graphics card which you did get and your aura
terminal which honestly i don't even know what it is
oh RGB lighting control very important you missed the most
important it's gonna be pretty a data helpfully provided us with a one
terabyte SSD and a two terabyte SSD which one would
you like uh just kidding you get both of them what uh i think it's gonna be fun i
haven't ever built a pc or really watched a whole lot of videos on how to
build a pc but i have a general idea of like
the sequence they should go in but i definitely don't know how to do it in
the most optimal way so tell me something michael how did you
prepare yourself for your build challenge today
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
you're probably best just going and letting them show you how to do it properly did you watch any previous rog
rig reboots i didn't did your brother watch any previous rog regular boots
yeah he's seen everything oh so he was just messing with you
because i put everyone on the spot oh boy you're supposed to study up
whoa faith in my brother he can do it he can
do it all right so let's find out if he can do it what parts do you think we
need first well i think we need a table first
yes yes and the livestrong bracelet yeah let's move on from the verge edition of
building a pc we also need a case we do have a case okay actually we have
the rd strix helios that's a pretty freaking awesome case uh but what do we
actually need to do first open the motherboard and put it in the case put
it in the case put it in the case i always recommend plugging your
components in and powering your system up once outside of the case to verify
that the system posts or powers on and outputs to a display
open the motherboard you know what i'm gonna let you do it your way okay this
is like burger king building right have it your way
and if it's all a sparking you know pilot mangled mess at the end well that
was your way hey it's your build your way he's definitely high energy and that
that was exactly the way i expected it to be you can tell when he's being
sarcastic or cutting it's it's really just for the humor of it so there there
was no problem with that for me oh hold on hold on this is actually this
is kind of a two this is kind of a two person left here but check this out
so you actually said in your request
that you would like something portable now yes we didn't get you something
particularly light that's all right but we did get you something with
carrying straps excellent sweet right that's awesome all right so the cheapest
fastest easiest way to ground yourself
protecting your hardware from electrostatic discharge
is to touch a grounded object right so
what we're going to do is we're going to unbox our power supply
throw our power supply on the table and plug it in and the case the power
supply is grounded so so every time you move around or rustle too much or
whatever else if you periodically touch that you should be fine you should be
fine awesome i wouldn't manufacture microprocessors with this method sure
should probably be wearing a full bunny suit in that case but for just building
a computer this is a simple easy way to make it a little safer cool thank you
you don't have to hold it yeah
thank you question for you yeah is there anything
that you'd like us to etch on your side panel window
like a gamer tag or like a favorite meme
or i think the Linus tech tips logo would be cool Linus tech tips logo
you know you don't have to suck up you already won yeah keller flame is my
usual gamer tag keller flame yeah okay i'm gonna ask you to send jono an
email with the exact spelling and capitalization you like for that you got
it i think we can probably do that for you
you found stickers i found stickers
those are pretty cool stickers these i think are the mounting screws
what about these these mount something else so when it comes to screws we've
got mounting screws and mounting other mounting screws yes careful
so when you're yeah okay that technique was not bad so when you're repositioning
the motherboard it's very very important that you're not just sliding it around
on the standoffs in there you want to kind of lift it up while you're repositioning it otherwise it'll scrape
the back of it nice feature of this case it's got a little nub in there mm-hmm so
some of these won't accidentally slip around would you like somewhere to put
those screws that would be awesome thank you this video is not brought to you by
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see now they won't move too much
thank you i'm not here because i'm judging
but you are just a tiny bit
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
so this has a knurled thing here on the ratchet you just go
like that
and now and
now probably should mount the CPU sure
think of it this way if you break the CPU
you will have no fewer cpus than you walked in here with that's a good point
so you have nothing to lose really except everything that we're giving you
there it is there it is i know it goes there oh yeah now there's a couple of
things we need to know to install a CPU one is where's the golden triangle
the quest of the golden triangle i'm serious find it yeah
um it would be right here that is an AMD logo i'm going to need a triangle sir so
that piece of the arrow is not there no i'm sorry it's also not golden right
right there ah there yeah it was a difficult question yeah yeah so you have to find
the corresponding triangle on the CPU socket that is really small and really
hard to see so i'm going to do it once and then i'll let you do it after okay
okay we hold the CPU by the edges of the heat spreader that's why there's these
little indents in the packaging cool then we line up the triangle with the
triangle we insert it with no force whatsoever this is called a zif socket
zero insertion force so you can see i'm not inserting it it's just falling into
place and we lock the ARM cool now your turn
no pressure but this is kind of the moment where you can really screw this
up
you were so close
all right that's it your CPU is installed i'm groping in the dark here so anything
i do after this is guessing oh groping in the dark you say
right so i would probably
go with the memory next sure
it only goes in one way and you can kind of cheat because mine is already in the
right way give it a good crunch
a plus crunch love it you're the captain of crunch now
i don't believe you did no studying i think you were trying to set the
expectations very low where would you like to put it
that is the question of the day i'll give you a hint this motherboard from
ASUS has support for two m.2 ssds he's like is this an m.2
i presume it is it can actually even do PCIe gen 4 but that's not what we have
with us today i don't see a port that seems to match that connector
that's good if you did i'd be really worried that
your prescription was a little off right we need to take the cover off of it
this is another little bit of a tricky install so they've got a handy dandy
little thumb thing here now this SSD is
hilarious because it has RGB lighting on it which actually means it won't fit in
one of the m.2 slots down here with the like built-in heat sink and stuff which
is great so you put it in a bit of an angle
pop it in like that and then push it down and put in that
screw he knows how to use a screwdriver i'll give him that
michael thanks gonna go down here where the second demo
is oh shoot dang what that's a different kind
goodness what are we gonna do with that so there's probably a cable
or not so there's two cables
that go to this and one goes to the power supply yeah
cool i knew he studied i don't think he goes back here
would you like a lifeline i would
a lightest line go anywhere your imagination wants it to
you just run a cable anywhere you want you can double sided tape it here
or here actually i wouldn't put it there there's a lot of heat on the back of the
CPU or here but where it's actually intended to be installed is here
now what would you like to do probably the CPU cooler
sure okay here you go
that's not the cooler i didn't think so
here's the real cooler thanks how do you think it goes in
so i know this goes over the CPU but i we need some thermal paste to make
the thermal uh link better ah that's okay it has
thermal paste on it already all right with the pad yep cool
these have to come off because it's gonna go on these screws
not bad i like it okay so
how important is it to you that the logo is right side up on your CPU cooler
uh there's only one correct answer it's not important to me that is not the
correct answer all right now i have a special job for you
i'm ready uh i need you to get out that
baggie of hardware from the cooler box that i said we didn't need
and grab the big thumbnuts
they go all the way until they stop
nice see how much better is that now that the
rog logo here here and here are all
aligned so this is a judgment call so you can have it here
or here
or here let's go that way because
okay and at the far end they're less kinked yep okay
okay so michael i'ma let you in on a little secret
we are actually shockingly close to being done
awesome we do still have some things to do though first we need to plug in
our pump and RGB nonsense
for our CPU block so this is great michael i'm going to pass you the fan
connectors from the radiator fans yep
and you can go ahead and throw those on the hub that is built into our case
that's a handy feature got it okay
wow what do you want to do next
so probably graphics card next cool
all right here's your graphics card
not falling for that twice all right ah yes that's the useful stuff so
you're going to be rocking a Radeon 5700
xt so you've got support for freesync you've got their new anti-lag mode
support which is basically just a way of making it so that there's less delay between
when your GPU draws the image and when it's actually displayed on your screen
um you've got support for free sync so if you want to run variable refresh rate
whether it's on a monitor or a tv that whole ecosystem has really exploded over
the last few years and of course because you've got this beef-tastic
strix cooler on it you can actually run at zero decibels when you're not
actually gaming or in some cases even under very very light gaming loads wow
well are you going to put it in oh okay
i actually wouldn't do that yet sorry i wouldn't you shouldn't do the
GPU yet so we're going to need our aura terminal which we're going to power
with this here adapter doodad
so it's going to go like that
then we're going to get a signal to it with our usb connection here
then we are going to plug in
to header one
and run this to our RGB strips
now because we've got plenty of cable management room on the back we can
basically stick this anywhere that we want back here so we'll just chuck it on
the back of the motherboard tray and call that good to go how about right
there what do you think works for me okay michael hit me with what you think is
next well it looks like we're getting close to the power supply
let's do it so i know it goes in the back
on the bottom cool probably need to take the screws out
first cool
so what are you gonna do next well i think it'll probably be pretty
hard to plug cables into the back of it once i put it inside so i'd probably
like to plug them in out here and then slide the power supply inside i like it
so go ahead and plug those into the back of the power supply any way you like it
all right inspection time not bad not bad your 24 pin is not
plugged in okay other than that you are in great shape here now what
now they go in there and trying to decide whether i think it's better to
plug them all in and then slide it in or slide it and plug them all in
i would slide it in and plug them all in all right time to play computer
veterinarian
just pull ARM in there so is there a cage that stops it from
pushing in too far
am i holding it in my hand yes
okay so now it's time to power this thing up
you ready to plug in the 24 pin i think so so it's just like on the power supply
side except make sure you plug it in otherwise identical to what you did
before so this is a little tricky yep basically
on some motherboards you're going to have a four and an eight pin you can
plug them both in but you actually don't need to just the eight pins enough so
you're going to turn around a little something like that and then that'll go
in like that cool all right do you need any hints here or have you done this before i haven't done
this before but there can only be so many ways it
can go in but i don't know what any of them are
all right so first we're going to want to remove this protective cover that
would explain why i couldn't figure out where it plugged in yeah and then now i
think you can probably sort this out probably does it matter which one
because it looks like there's two ah yes okay so your top one is going to run at
16x speed that's like ideal so what's
your intention with this gaming machine anyway so actually most of the games
that i play are with my brothers and family and friends so i mostly play play
games with friends i play a lot of multiplayer
games to spend time with people i actually want to hang out with right so
basically you're just not any good there's that you're you're afraid to
play online no that's fine that's fine i get it i get you look the
bottom of the food chain needs people to populate it
all right do you want to go ahead and plug in the power connectors for the graphics cards
does it matter which one goes where it does not because it's in this case yep
well because they're both eight pins sometimes you'll have an eight and a six pin
that was it do you want to see it turn on i really
do well let's hope you put it together right then i don't know if we ever
actually went through this but you are not just taking home a gaming system
you are also taking home a complete set of gaming peripherals
including this 144 hertz freesync gaming monitor
so we're going to set up the whole thing so your first gaming experience on your
new rig is going to be as it's all going to be together
oh this one has that fun feature where it's got a little led in the bottom and
you put a little lens in here and you can like draw a smiley face or whatever
you want on the bottom of it and it'll project it onto your desk you know
things the gamers want it's also curved okay moment of truth time you ready sure
okay last test you gotta find the power button believe it's straight
here he doesn't know this but if you can't turn it on he doesn't get to keep it
ah he wins so we've got our 3800 x 8
core processor 32 gigs of RAM uh our m.2
drive is showing up our SATA drive is showing up everything here looks pretty
flipping exactly as we'd expect let's throw on our docp which runs our RAM at
3600 megahertz we're gonna reboot that baby so while we're installing Windows then
uh what game is it that you wanted to try you know when you when you fire it
up for the first time i've been looking forward to
borderlands 3. okay i think that could be arranged let's get
some borderlands reloaded on here so here we are we're almost at the point
where you're ready to experience it but there's a minor detail we have to sort
out first what's that no i'm kidding alex bring it in
your panels are ready that's awesome oh wow really seriously
alex
what does this say family is for life gaming is forever
keller flame k
so have you actually played borderlands 3 yet not at all okay
have you played on a high-end modern gaming rig
at all no have you ever tried a high refresh rate monitor no
wow this is going to be something else give it a shot dude
any first impressions it's so much smoother than i'm used to well i
can actually track them when they're dodging instead of having to wait for
them to stop moving that's kind of nice what a technological innovation the
computer works and that's really the bottom line question i think that means
we did a good job when you look in from the motherboard side seeing the three
rog logos there i think that's really cool uh the RGB is nice because you can
then see stuff like that but but having the unified branding instead of kind of
a hodgepodge of whatever you could throw in there is really cool so what's the
most graphically intensive game you can run on your current rig um
probably ghost recon
um yeah right wild lands i think that's the previous
one yeah and i'm playing it on low settings
so uh and it's and it's even on low setting
it it's definitely does this look a little better this is
so much better if i played ghost recon
with this computer i would be a lot better
because i can actually see things and then try to shoot at them instead of
just shoot blindly into the blur it is way beyond what i thought i was
going to be getting it's so incredible and the video that it's able to push on
that monitor and the monitor itself is just
so far beyond anything that i've used to this point i don't even know how to like
quantify how far ahead of where i was before it is it's just insane i just
wanted to say thanks Linus tech tips and ASUS rog um this was a great experience
i really enjoyed being backstage with the entire team and getting to meet
everybody and interact with people that i'd seen online but
now i get to know them as people huge thanks michael for coming out and
participating in rg rig reboot this is it this is your new rig i'm so excited
it's flipping awesome and hand built by yours truly i'm sorry
and a massive shout out and thank you to ASUS for providing well
everything the parts the experience uh
the ticket out here and just generally being
all about supporting the gaming community and doing this now three years
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
description thank you guys for watching and we'll see you at the next rog rig
reboot