unfortunately if we built a PC for every fan who asked us we would be overworked
exhausted and probably out of business
but Grant's case is special Grant reached out through the Make-A-Wish
Foundation with a simple wish wanted to meet me but due to the ongoing pandemic
situation and the fact that he is over the Border in the United States we were
unable to make that happen Make-a-Wish compromised and said hey how about a
digital meet and greet but the thing is you can only have one wish so it was
just going to be hanging out until crucial sponsor this video where
we are going to be building a dream PC
or what I call it a wish PC that's right
what we're going to be putting together is what I would want if I was building
the sweetest gaming rig and we're gonna
get to see Grant's face when he opens it up
the journey that's LED Grant to this point started when he was 14 and he was
diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia but the horrible disease with a
horrible sounding name is not the story today the story today is that he is now
on a maintenance program for his meds and kid's a big gamer loves OverWatch
Legend of Zelda Minecraft and Fallout so
naturally the ryzen 5 5600x that we were
going to put in this thing see you later buddy
how did I end up with the 5600x in my hand where's the 5800x
found it had to make a quick run to MedEx
there we go I chose the 5800x because it is both a top of the line gaming CPU as
well as a capable performer when it comes to creative applications like game
streaming or video editing and for the motherboard since any high-end board is
going to perform about the same I wanted something that has all the high-end
connectivity that Grant's going to need for years to come and this tough gaming
x570 Pro Wi-Fi fits the bill Wi-Fi 6 PCI
Express Gen 4 two and a half gig Ethernet pretty much the weeks obviously
for system memory we went a little Overkill what was crucial being the
sponsor and all of that so rather than go with 16 gigs of RAM something you
know reasonable for a gaming machine like that we've gone with 32 gigs of
3600 megahertz cl-16 memory of course
with RGB let's go ahead and get this installed
and remember kids friends don't let friends install their memory sticks in
the mirror slots you want
and as we move on to storage this crucial gravy train only keeps getting
better so it's no secret that the best configs these days are going to use an
NVMe m.2 boot drive and then something
else when it comes to mass storage because even a two terabyte drive like
this crucial P5 is only going to be able to hold a limited number of modern games
fortunately we had a plan we dug around in our
warehouse and found not one but two mx-500 2 terabyte two and a half inch
ssds giving us a total of six terabytes
of storage that's two terabytes of NVMe
storage and a whopping four terabytes of
slower SSD storage when it comes to
cooling there are obviously solutions that might cost less look better maybe
even perform better but when I want the
ultimate balance between reliability performance and Noise
thank you I always turn to knock two up we went
with the nhu12s not because it's their highest end product but because I think
it is a great balance of the performance we need without being super bulky and on
that note we're going to have to shift this PC and I need it to arrive in one
piece so the actual weight of the cooler was a big consideration for me for our
case we've gone with the fantex eclipse p500a it's a great balance of looks
cooling performance because we're going to have some pretty high-end Hardware in
here and okay this part was a little selfish it's
super easy to build in this is one of the best things about fantech's cases
look at this accessory kit you've got all the extra hard drive brackets you
need and then inside one of them all your screws handily organized by
type absolutely love it I'll start by
installing your ssds these little toolless mounts are absolutely fantastic
just screw them in like this position them over the little nubbies
slide down and you're good to go now's as good a
time as I need to connect our SATA data cables and I'm going to go ahead and run
these bad boys right over here
get down there there the tough series often issues
fancy features that do nothing for performance like built-in IO Shield so I
will have to install my own i o Shield
okay to be clear built-in ones are actually a super nice treat but you also
don't need them now it's time for motherboard installation I love these fantax cases
they have that nice little nub in the middle NZXT Coursera are a couple of
other brands that do this really well so you can just pop the board in and it'll
actually hold itself into place while you screw in the board not that I would
actually recommend counting on that it's just something that I do
do as I say not as I do you should you should hold the board until you screw it
in the screwdriver will be available on ltcstore.com eventually not yet in the
meantime why not get a water bottle hey we've got the new spout lid if you've
ever bought a water bottle it's five dollars off so go check it out lttstore.com
carrying on our systems theme of pragmatic yet performant we've gone with
an EVGA 750 G6 this is a 750 watt power
supply with 80 plus gold efficiency a fully modular interface a nice quiet fan
and a decent price point it's exactly
what you need for a system that performs great and looks great and nothing more
I'm sorry Brandon did I say this case is super easy to build in
it is as long as you don't want to Cable
manage it at all now I just gotta hook up the addressable
RGB header for the included fans there we go
there we go curiously the only front
panel switch is a power switch no reset switch no power LED I guess the idea is
that it uses the fans as a power LED so it'll be pretty obvious if your system
is on or off we'll go ahead and plug in the front USB type c
front USB type A and obviously we'll need our front panel audio which just
goes in the bottom left corner right there that's nice and clean
oh look at that I already ran the 24 pin power connector so we can go ahead and
run that and now we can snake up our four pin and
eight pin connectors for the CPU I'm gonna plug both of them in there's not a
lot of extra power supply capacity like I wouldn't wouldn't overclock the snot
out of this thing but hey it costs nothing to put them in oh
come on this better reach oh I'm gonna
be really annoyed if I have to plug in a completely separate Zeta Cable in order
to plug in the strap oh no there we go
House close then our last one is going to go over to power that RGB hub
poop nice and tidy pretty much no extra
wires in this one ladies and gentlemen such a Linus build
it's like good but not over the top and
by Linus I don't mean Linus Tech tips I mean this is like what I would build
back in the day with one exception
this is going to be a little awkward Grant because you were supposed to get
an RTX 3060 Ti ftw3 from EVGA but I
thought oh
let's live a little know what I'm saying we're going art
we're going RTX 3080 TI
oh yes this
is as fast as it gets
reasonable which brings us to the part of this video that we're not going to
gloss over because everything you've seen up till now will already be
assembled for you but you are going to have to put in your graphics card
yourself so the first thing you'll do is
take out these two screws Ben you want to hold the card from the
bottom like this find these golden fingers and position
them just above that top PCI Express 16x
slot press in firmly but not too hard
then you're going to go ahead and reinstall these two thumb screws to help
you with that I'll be sending you a one of a kind unique item the very first 3D
printed prototype of the LTT screwdriver it don't actually work too good but
that's okay we'll get you hooked up with one of the real ones once they roll off the production line hopefully sometime
later this year by the way don't forget to plug in the
8-pin PCI Express power connectors for your graphics card you will need all
three of them
not to be outdone Logitech sent over their Pro wired gaming keyboard as well
as their Pro super light gaming mouse along with one of their Pro wireless
headsets and ASUS provided a tough
gaming vg27aq it's a 1440p 165 Hertz IPS
gaming monitor oh yeah and it's of course got support
for g-sync has a cable management either thing it
just fell off one moment please hey
there we go nice all 32 gigs of RAM detected all of
our drives are detected all we got to do now is flip on our XMP profile excuse me
this is AMD our docp profile so this is going to take us from our normal jdex
beads to the higher overclocked speeds
that our CPU motherboard and RAM should all be capable of
do a quick reboot and see if it takes come on baby
oh yeah easy peasy there's one other thing I
have to change because we're using two SATA drives and I want to run them in
raid so I'm going to have a total of four freaking terabytes in my array and
Boop there it is okay raid zero is not
like you know the most reliable thing
these are say to ssds we're not going to be writing to them that much these are
this is a game Drive
now all we got to do is add this wicked
side panel which was customized for Grant we didn't want to uh get in any
trouble with the house of mouse so we're
going into Hooper's bass and
um it's like stir Weirs themed
Madison did it up with our vinyl cutter I think it looks pretty sweet
and I guess shadow of the Tomb Raider is going to be the game we run to validate
that in fact our system is working
love it man this is a good looking game when
it's cranked and this is cranked
one thing I might tweak is that I'm feeling a fair bit of passive exhaust
coming from the top and the back of the case from these 140 millimeter intakes
but I think we could use at least a 140
millimeter fan in the back to move some of this heat that's building up back
here and other than that courtesy of crucial who sponsored this video and
make a wish who have been granting wishes since the 1980s we're about to
box this up and see Grant's reaction we
got a package I didn't know what it was but my name was on it this is the first
thing I see so I know it's last time oh my gosh that's awesome so there's some
stickers first thing I did
what is that it's a CPU pillow
I thought it was something that goes on a computer
oh my gosh that you guys just released
that is adorable
here oh here is their giant desk pad oh Lord
that's huge just recently released
uh water bottle oh awesome you could use
that definitely yeah a small smaller CPU
I was gonna buy this I know you were that's fine
oh this is new too oh good you can use that for school this is really nice nice
house oh for sure every day at school yeah I was gonna buy this yeah oh I like
it I like it
oh it's like a hard drive oh that is so cool
oh geez Louise this is a uh jacket oh no
way you need one yeah and this is like a
nice jacket yeah go ahead
oh my god oh wow that is so nice
so oh and it says it on the sleeves
that is
oh you don't like that that's definitely okay okay okay very nice gotta be
careful when I watch that that's it okay so nice
so nice Good Start what do you say thank you
all right new game oh
nice nice That's a
show
it's okay what there's a keyboard awesome Logitech
the second one there's a mouse a motherboard box see that's why it's
confused isn't it already put together oh I guess
we'll find out I guess is that just the box is it emptier
oh okay okay
okay I think this is the computer I
think so
wow whoa
what is that oh my gosh wait what look at the bottom
here it is on it your name's on it
wow I really want to give this something
I think you gotta put that stuff in there
yes maybe yeah right the stuff they sent
you you put in there right yeah okay I'll put those with my CPU fan
on unless I'll figure it out
all right wow so that's gonna light up
okay I will show everybody the finished
product pressure
oh you got it
hello I'm Grant Metzger uh last year I
was diagnosed with leukemia and for my Make-a-Wish I got
a custom built computer by lions Tech tips uh here is everything that I got
for the most part
um I got this new mouse
um it's a Logitech uh like G Pro super
light something like that uh it's very good it's very light and I got this
keyboard uh that's a 1440p 165 Hertz monitor
um and down here that is uh my new computer
it has my name in the bottom right
I just got this set up um I I figured I could use my old
monitor as for my racing uh setup yeah
so that's that so this is his setup for
now yeah thank you to uh make a wish and and
stack tips for everything
hello how's it going
oh our pleasure
nice hoodie by the way also I see a plushie back there
nice nice
set up here whoa nice
um oh nice yeah what kind of retro games do
you play Xbox box
damn Daniel
got that yeah
and then NES
what SNES games you got by the way all
right let's see if you got any of my favorites
okay good choices good choices
classic reproduction
not bad not bad I was playing uh one
that was one of my favorites when I was a kid uh but it's called pilot wings
and I was like man this qualified as like a full-blown game
for 59.99 at the game store when I was a
kid it's like it would be three or four
mini games in uh in a Mario Party now like it's it's kind of crazy how much
gaming has changed
that's quite the collection yeah yeah there's some really cool handhelds
coming I'm still pretty jacked to check out the switch OLED just because I think
the screen is going to be a lot better than what's in the steam deck but in
terms of ergonomics man steam deck killer
it's not light yeah
but the the Contours of it make it very
holdable
it's closer to a Wii U gamepad or to
like a Sega Game Gear than it is to something like a switch it's all
comfortable I mean it's gonna be it's gonna be the emulation
handheld to just end all other emulation Hands Held something so hit me with your
favorite retro game um
Super Metroid really yeah must be interesting to be like a
younger a younger person where you don't have any recollection of the original
versions of games playing these remasters of these remakes
yeah no it does make it does make a big difference so what games have you tried
on the new machine I guess you probably haven't had it for
very long right now
yeah I'm having a feeling that good but
but I'm about downtown
oh wow yeah
for sure of course
yeah that's fine
uh yes I did um as for what I went there for it was
to spend my money
um it did not end up being a very useful Endeavor for me but I am definitely
going to encourage my kids to stay in school because I think there's a lot
that you can learn there what I did learn was research skills so when
employers are looking for an applicant who has a degree or has some kind of
post-secondary education what they're looking for is someone who knows how to
grind their way through and learn something because it's a lot easier to teach those
people than people who never figured out how to do that
if that makes sense an idol it's hard to uh it's hard to
kind of say this it puts me in a bit of an awkward position but I don't think
people should idolize other people I think that we should be appreciators of
their work but I've always been a little bit uncomfortable with the word fan
obviously wouldn't have asked me to like do this meet and greet with you unless
you you know felt like that about me but
the best advice that I can give you is to keep your eyes on the road and try
not to focus too much on the person try to look at at you know what they've done
that you want to emulate instead of trying to emulate an actual individual
you know maybe I I see this person like wow I really respect this person's work
ethic or I really respect this person's positive attitude about life and I could
take all those little pieces and I can put them together into who I want to be
if that kind of makes sense take
your yard my spot
I don't even think one person would take
my spot it's not so much that I think I'm some kind of Mega big brain genius
and only I can do all the things that I
do it's just that I think that only I can do
all of the things that I do so you could
take me and you could replace me and everything would probably run better
you would just need more people it's kind of the way that I see it I'm like a
jack of all trades master of none do you play any game talk talk about online
when we choose a game to Benchmark with
a lot of the time we choose it based on how demanding it is or we choose it
based on what technology is featured in it so we'll be looking at hey we really
need to evaluate this new GPU feature dlss or RTX or tress FX or whatever it
is right this new functionality so we're
basically choosing from this list of games that's usually very short and the
list of games within it that anyone actually plays is even shorter so the
games that we talk about on LTT I mean I've never played through shadow of the
Tomb Raider I I've only played the first level of do maternal
um but do I play games yeah actually I've been doing quite a quite a bit more
game streaming lately all right I think I have to go in just a couple minutes uh
do you want to hit me with uh any more of the questions that you have my mom
um you don't even have to look to me for
that I think probably the biggest one right now is the Intel's upcoming Alder
Lake CPUs those are looking like they might not actually be dog crap which is
pretty exciting I mean you don't want Intel to be on top forever but you also
don't want AMD to be on top forever anyone who's not being challenged is
gonna is gonna sit back right so uh I'm
excited for a return to competition from Team blue for sure and it's looking like
it's going to be a really interesting winter all right well no worries you
know what it was really nice to meet you Grandpa
have a great night
yeah I'm excited I'm I'm jacked I can't
wait to watch them yeah
all right take care thanks everybody I am so glad it made it there one piece
and I'm so glad that he loves the system
Grant enjoy your many years of gaming on
this sweet freaking rig thanks for choosing me for your wish and once again
I want to thank our sponsor crucial for helping us build this awesome gaming rig
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first time every time thanks again for watching if you guys enjoyed this video
maybe go check out Rog rig reboots kind of a similar idea we build PCS for
people some of those are pretty interesting