i'm not really the kind of person who piles on when somebody's already having
a bad time but here's the situation twitch streamer xqc reached out to me a
number of weeks back asking for help with a new gaming pc i pointed out that
i'm sure anyone and their dog would be happy to send him a free gaming pc in
exchange for a tweet given his popularity but i did offer my help if he
really needed it and then i promptly never heard anything about it ever again
until i was streaming today and you guys wouldn't stop talking about how
apparently horrible his build was so given that i did offer to help i will
with no guilt whatsoever be critiquing xqc's pc build
i've never done a reaction video before so
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we're willing this bad boy that's to be able to run minecraft at other FPS
uh is that my face that's my face
why is my face on his stream okay first things first um yeah i want
to unbox everything but first things first i'm gonna set myself up on the
carpet now we did show recently in our collab with electro boom that the risk
of actually damaging your components with electrostatic discharge is pretty
low but i probably still wouldn't go out of my way to sit on a low pile carpet
and unbox computer hardware so motherboard goes first i got a rog cross
air v i i formula dude planet hi this is a
very overpaid computer okay some of these parts were really way more
expensive than it should have been but it's covered and whatnot so it is what it is man is he actually going to water
cool because that motherboard has like integrated chipset water cooling first
we'll open the actual CPU itself this is usually like 900 bucks but this
was like a 1.7 k because of uh scalpers
feels a weird man
he paid 700
oh but there's nobody there's no alternatives
this is the piece that is worth all the money right here little metal bracket up oh my god this
must be how people feel watching me handle stuff like seemingly not
carefully i assure you guys i know what i'm doing but i'm not
actually convinced that felix knows what he's doing
oh that got it you gotta you gotta pull out from the thing
okay okay put the ARM the other way also what's important here the most
important part of all this is the bragging rights
whenever you build a pc you gotta keep all those stickers whenever you buy
these boxes okay he's joking about this but i
actually have like a whole sticker book with like a shiny kitty on the front
of like old case badges from like way back like 10 15 years ago
128 gigs of RAM juicers so these sticks
are sorry this the word juicers he's now
used the word juicers twice he's got 128
gigs of RAM and a gaming pc and he's calling them juicers i'm really not sure
i'm following so far i want to try one pc setup with a really good computer and
if it's not it doesn't work as well as i thought it would i'm going to kind of like break it in
two and make two pcs with the with my old pc and the new new parts
and split in half and we're gonna get two pieces set up okay i kind of
understand what he's talking about here so if this single computer gaming and
streaming setup doesn't work then he can take 64 gigs of this 128 gigs of RAM just a
lot for a gaming and streaming machine and put it into a separate machine okay
let me do a little explaining boys i know sometimes you guys already know this okay and you're like like a tech
genius so this is um i don't know why this movie doesn't have
it but normally you're gonna have two colors these are your channels sometimes
something called dual channel i think or something like that
okay that's very close the memory slots are color coded so you will correctly
install your dual channel memory but they're not color coded according to the
channels it's actually the other way around they're color coded so that your
monkey brain will put two sticks in the same colors and get dual channel
operation but it's actually the two
separate channels that are the same color dual channel
now you know open them at the back one two three four
okay and we're going to wedge the RAM inside the computer
it's backwards okay this is normal more about it everybody
makes a mistake i usually put this on
the side that doesn't have the lever on first
now on the one hand he says i usually okay
and that's not even wrong to put it in the side that doesn't have the latch
first but he usually but then this is actually hard and scanning your
thing and [ __ ] among us what i'm telling you dude okay am i doing this well yeah yeah
i love the coaching from the background do you have the lever open fortunately
it's so poorly put in that i'm gonna it's gonna break i'm gonna lose it why
is my face keep showing up is this like a twitch feature
stick number two twitch chat's already like call Linus
it's backwards again
dude okay next is gonna be the m2 drives
okay what would our cool technological advancement boys uh we don't have to
have these uh see this is like the old ssds it's been nine minutes and he has
installed the CPU in memory
they're very popular those are a little bit better they're a little faster
they're little of a hassle to put in and thankfully boys
we got two of them he is in for a real nightmare if he wants to configure NVMe
raid on well really any platform but i've done AMD's recently and it's not
fun i think there's a company called rocket and they make those in like crazy
storage like okay uh sabrin uh they have the rocket line up to eight terabytes um
i think that the m2 drives are hidden under here after after the voltage can i
just say for a moment that i love the quebecois of englishing d-bolt it
unscrew d-bolt who cares same thing i'm just going to d-bolt it debultable like
attachments transformer-looking things like that oh
it's just a strip i've seen worse drops these are like
support bolts or whatever standoffs and we're going to go set it up are those
spongebob socks because i definitely approve that really is not all the way
in good thing twitch chat is babysitting oh he's no it's still not in isn't that
in okay i'm stupid overall i've seen far
worse i've seen far worse now for the second one wait is he gonna
screw it in uh oh
it's a dual bolt collider dude the x back the x back plate
what guys i had to screw in the [ __ ] x back plate before the motherboard
oh the back is open okay
all right the bill i got the kraken seven seven
threes it's what chat recommended i really don't know that i would buy a
computer based on twitch chat's recommendations pre-applied turbo paste
people say it's bad i don't necessarily agree i kind of like
it people say it's bad nobody says pre-applied thermal paste is bad
self-applied face not because i'm lazy actually it's just because i'm lazy
and that's a triple radiator wait why is he trying to put it in the top
dude it actually doesn't fit i can see his twitch chat
right here telling him to call me no
shot he goes inside what the [ __ ] he's talking about man up until this point of the video i kind
of thought he was just playing a character because he would be like oh
yeah it's kind of called this so i don't know and then proceed to completely
correctly explain what it is pretty much but
now i'm just really not so sure remove the case
i have to remove now does he not know that you can remove side panels dude it
can't mount it's too big yeah this doesn't fit it just it just it just
doesn't he's got to be he's got to be just pretending like i think you guys
are just suckers i'm pretty sure felix knows how to build a computer just fine
guys if removing the case fans is a [ __ ] hassle so he 100
knew that he can put the radiator in the front he just didn't want to remove 12
screws to i'm gonna read but the message
i sent him it's possible we could get you hooked up
with the system and we'd love to collab but surely you'd have at least half a
dozen system integrators on speed dial who could get you anything you want
if you're not in a hurry it'd be a fun project but we're still undergoing renovations and not in a position to
tackle anything big like the creeper pc we built for pewds at the moment if
you're in a hurry it may be faster to just get hooked up with a pc builder
just let me know email's best for me since this is a shared inbox with many
other staff here if you wasn't willing to remove 12
screws why build a computer already
pre-installed and pre-wired and already pre-settled it's going to be terrible to
remove them no it's going to be 12 screws to remove them i i can't do anything what
oh he doesn't know how to remove the front you just got to you got to pop it
just de-bold the whole thing yes i think we need to de-bolt the whole thing oh
wow that's gonna be a lot of fun guys they're welded to the mesh dude oh my
god no there oh i bought this thing over here
so i bolt this in at the top the speed with which he switches between
eureka moments and having no idea what's going on again
okay well this is remarkably really tough little chat this is literally
soldered together no and re-screw our thing manually at the
top so we can put the the CPU fan intake
from the side and then we then make it pull and the top is going to push or
some i don't know again he's demonstrating fairly deep knowledge he
knows that we're gonna have pole fans at the front and we're gonna have push fans
at the back for balanced airflow but then he thinks his case is welded
together i don't wait a minute it doesn't fit
of course ah all you had to do was you just had to
leave the fans exactly where they were and just put the screws that came with
your radiator through them we need to go
way back to basics and do a for beginners build like really for
beginners we need to bring in a committee of qualified beginners
to ask their questions as we go and make sure that we answer every single one of
them dude there's not enough space for three
of them why is he trying to put three fans there
is he faking it wait no it doesn't go like this does it turn
it around now it's an intake well the [ __ ] it's going through the
plastic i spun this thing the both ways and you
guys said bo wrong side of both times what the on about dude
the radiator should fit in here
yes it does all right we got the radiator in
okay why would you have the tubes down
are they gonna work against gravity dude fun fact in a closed loop
gravity kind of is like cancelled out
you could think of it that way because gravity might pull some of the water
down but then that equal force will push the other water like up like it's
doesn't really matter somebody said tubes down won't fit with
the GPU longer lifespan of the product got it
i actually don't know if that's gonna reach with the tubes on the bottom i
know it's like more optimal for the pump to last longer but it actually
just might not reach oh and then you install the thing on the
bracket and then you bracket it in there we go
ah no it's not the same size dude
no no it's fine you got the other holes it's okay
it doesn't fit dude it does it's fine
well we're going to be using those then that we have to use those then people
are going to tell them to flip it around right oh no no no no
no no the pace is oh the pace is gone
oh my god that stuff is impossible to clean this
one no no it doesn't go on that side now how do we do it what
wait is he gonna put one Corsair fan and then like other nzxt dude the fans are
on the wrong side man guys the wires on the other side fans
can go on any side of the radiator you want they it doesn't matter if they're
on this side then they blow and if they're on this side then they suck it's
it's the wire goes inside the computer
this goes on the outside good this is
going to hang the whole thing together yeah the fans then need to go inside the
[ __ ] bracket it doesn't matter so like this then that's fine the bracket
goes at the back and then the bracket goes inside at the
back logo outside
pumps inside okay i had it right the whole time dude literally from the start
i don't know if you had it right the whole time but yes fundamentally what you're saying is sound so the logo the
sticker uh the the on the hub okay that
points towards the direction the air goes this is this is fine
you need to say ndxd on the way upwards
way over the radiator this is like
so radiator facing outside the case it is completely installed
just fine i mean the fans the cables are coming
off in a way that the cable management is gonna suck but like it's it's mostly
fine it only fits this way i think
no he does have the tubes at the top so yes the fans are sticking right up next
to the window okay i mean that's not going to affect the functionality of the
machine rog strix gaming graphics card GeForce
rtx 3090 NVIDIA ASUS or oc o'clock 2 20
40 GPU juicer there it is
i don't think that's going to fit okay that thing that's an enormous card if it
wasn't coveted i would just fly out there and build it for him
i can't [ __ ] screw it it's actually not
lined up oh that no that's fine you just gotta you just gotta kinda you know get
the screw in there and kinda yeah you know dude i'm pushing right now i can
see how that would be really confusing for people uh i think this case is just
trash i mean look and even then even
the GPU slot doesn't line up dude unless you're meant to use
the squares part but i don't think so no
please don't do that no that's not necessary you just don't [ __ ] get
there dude look at the oh look at him
so much anger you're not gonna fit this in there i
mean yeah no i just thought about this this
is [ __ ] dumb it's not like he has a completely invalid point the
manufacturing tolerances of computer cases and the way that pci backplates
sometimes don't quite have the mounting holes line up can be extremely
frustrating especially for a new builder and i can see how if you've spent you
know two grand on a graphics card you don't want to be like
like pushing and pulling on it but the reality of it is a lot of the time when
i'm manhandling stuff and i seem really careless i i'm actually just like kind
of doing what you need to do you got to have you got to put some force on it
sometimes you got to understand that the kinds of costs that pc case
manufacturers are targeting it's just it kind of comes with the territory okay
i'm gonna re-box some of this stuff i can't chat we need a new case
there you go Corsair honest consumer review your case a disaster the good
news is i don't think any of this stuff is broken okay now i feel worse because
at the beginning it was pretty clear that he was just pretty much knew what
he was doing but was kind of like playing a character then by the end it's
obvious that he was ready to huck the GPU at the wall
so felix if you're watching this my offer
still stands i dm'd you i would be happy to walk you through
this we can make that case work you can you can destroy that case get rid of it
do whatever you need to do donate it get a different one but um
just let me know because uh i'm i'm here for you my my fellow canadian
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