I have built PCs for myself, my wife, my kids, my colleagues, even an NBA star.
But the one person I've never built a computer for, my little sister. I
brought in my favorite little sister to
answer two questions for us. One, is growing up next to a tech nerd enough to
just absorb by osmosis the skills that you need to build a PC from scratch? And
number two, can we get you off that Xbox
and Mac for your gaming and onto a PC?
Sorry. For the love of all that is good, Bella.
Maybe we're going to try.
Here's the catch. This computer is yours. But the deal is that once you
experience it, you have to decide. Do you keep it and trade me your Mac or do
you keep your Mac? My Mac is old. Well,
then it looks like this is going to be a low bar for me to clear. The Sims should
have asked me that first. The Sims are going to run like you've
never seen them before. Okay. Now, do you have any idea where to start here?
Open the boxes. Wow, she's a natural.
Which box? That one. Wow. That's a valid
choice. Sort of. That's not really.
You're just going to just going to grab things. You thought that was a knife. I thought it was a racer. This is I mean,
sure. Okay, fine. You know what? No, we're going to do this the bell way. It's called the ripoff. This is your
case. Cool. This is the Fractal Design Pop Air. And it's not that we're
stereotyping. I just legitimately did think you might appreciate a case with
pink accents. I love it. Now, I didn't get a chance to screen these first, but
they included some questions for you. Do you feel you have an advantage or a
disadvantage when it comes to building computers? Because you have me for a
brother. I don't think that it does
anything for me much except for today. I might get a computer out of it. That's a
fair response. For those of you who are wondering, this is not the sibling that
I have raged about on the podcast who damaged the finish on my CRT. I'm fairly
certain it was a different one. Who's that? What's the You don't know about
this? No. My monitor. Don't you remember when
and like Yes. Yeah. Still hasn't apologized for that or admitted it, but
I'm 100% sure. Well, no one admitted to killing my mouse. So, killing your
mouse. That mystery still remains unsolved. Oh, in the book. Yes, you do
know. Is it you? No, I thought that was a hamster. So, yeah. Uh, her mouth got
closed in a book. I mean,
at least you weren't forced to eat it. It was a crime that went unsolved. You
remember how they made me eat my pet goat, right? Yeah, I'd eat it, too.
What? It's a different time. Okay. You
wouldn't understand. Yeah, that looks familiar. Sure. I'll get you another one
of our questions while you open up your graphics card. All right. This is
graphics card. Yeah. You probably remember Lionus before he was actually
any good at this stuff. Can you think of a time when he made the problem worse
rather than better? Yes. I have a specific memory in mind.
Uh-huh. You were doing something similar
to this. And you're trying to run water through tubes. You remember that? I
mean, I've run water through a lot of tubes over the years. Anyway, the water
did not stay in the tubes. I do remember that. I lost a 7950 GT. I must have
blocked that from my memory. Yes, I had a very Sorry, you asked. I had a very
bad leak on the back of my 7950 GT SLI
setup. Yeah, that um you used to ask mom
to hide your video games and you would freak out and want them back. I'd
forgotten about this, too. Why do we ask you these things? You go through withdrawal and then she wouldn't give
them to you. You said, "Swear to me, you're not going to give them back to
me." Okay. So, this is what you call um
a hard disk. This is actually the last step. Oh, so we're going to put this
aside. We'll save this for later. Yeah, we'll save this for later. All these guys. This is really cool. Actually, I
do remember these. And it made me think of like a aerial view of a city. Now, it
goes into the computer. It could. Or it could go right here. Oh, okay. Yeah. Now
it goes here. Yeah. Corsair. I know that company. Do you? Air mattresses, haird
dryers, right? Are you But do you do you
find a different Corsair? Okay.
Whoa. Cool. Does it go right there? Yeah. No, it doesn't. What do you mean?
No. Does it? Yeah. Oh, wow. Cool. Thought you were messing with me. You'll
need some screws. I would never in a hundred years mess with you. Okay. Okay.
I'm going to show you how to use a screw. I used to drop water balloons on me from the roof. It would flatten me to
the ground. It would not flatten you to the ground, but it was really funny. We
had a three and a half story. and rig the front porch with squirt guns and
with trip wires. It actually pretty funny, but later, much later. So, this
is your CPU. This is kind of like the brain of the computer. Does all the
processing? You're really manhandling that CPU. Oh, sorry. It should not be
touched. Is it not to be touched like with your fingers? Oil fingers. It would
be best not to Oh my god. Yeah, we're just going to put it there. Sure. We've
gone with a 12400. It's got 6P cores. No
efficiency cores, but for gaming purposes, this is more than enough.
Okay, that looks really good. That looks really perfect, actually. Awesome. You
just installed your first CPU. Feels good. Now, do you want to go for the
easy but not as quiet and not as cooler?
No.
Let's do this one. That was easy. Hey.
Yeah. This is the LTT edition NH12S. It was a collab product that we did with
Noctua way back in the day. Oh, cool. We still have a few of them kicking out. Awardw winning. It It's an award-winning
cooler. It's not an award-winning like our logo being on it. This is
interesting looking. Yeah. This reminds me of like big server rooms and movies.
Yeah. So, this is cooler. This goes right on.
Oh, we both had the same dad. Does this go metal touching? Yep. I had an idea.
Not yet, though. Oh, just kidding.
So, first we need a mounting bracket. First is a mounting bracket, which is
probably this. That is a mounting bracket, but not the one we need. Not
the one we need. Sorry. This princess is in another castle. Goes right there.
Right. Yep. Now, we got to decide which way we want to put our cooler on. Oh, so
we're probably going to blow air toward the back where the exhaust is, which
means we're going to put it on this way, which means we're going to put these
guys on a little something like this.
Just like that. And then you're going to use those uh thumb nuts to screw them on
into place. That can call worse.
Was Lionus always on the family PC when you guys were kids? Often. Not always.
We grew up on a farm, so there were many things to be done outdoors. Lionus was
often found on the PC or chopping firewood, shoveling manure. Shoveling
manure. You know, the glamorous jobs. Well, I could be found, you know,
beheading chickens or baking the ice in the pond to collect
water. What year is this? Are you really so allergic to using my screwdriver? Is
this product so bad that you were actually putting in screws by hand? It
looks like it's supposed to be putting in screws. Also, we need thermal
compound first. Oh, of course. You're going to apply uncooked Psized amount
right in the smack dab middle of that. Okay, that's a lot more pee. I mean, we
both had trouble controlling our pee, so that's to be expected. I was waiting for
that. You took longer than I thought you would. Bed weters big time. Yeah, big
time. Both of us like into our well into our teens. Yeah. Builds character,
though. Oh, yeah. All right. This is really secure. Yeah. It's not going
anywhere. It's like my city has a massive tower. Yeah. That's actually
called a tower cooler. Oh, this is all done. Oh, okay.
Yep. We'll need that pretty shortly, but not yet. That Well, that we put in
already. Oh. Oh, this. Nope. Oh, these
things. Sure. Razors. Terabyte. What
does this mean? Uh, 1,000 megabytes.
Gigabytes. Oh crap. Yes. Ooh, that's embarrassing.
This is RAM. Does it go any certain way?
Yeah. Okay, we'll figure it out. So, you uh for the slots, you want these these
little guys. Yeah. Oh, I don't know what
to Oh, yay. Perfect. Okay, now this is
the moment where you are second most likely to bung up your computer. Okay,
see these little standoffs in here? Let's show Let's show all the
You did a great job of applying those stickers, but they made it a little heavy. They're a little front heavy now,
so they fell. Right. So, you see all these little standoffs? Yes. These are
made of metal. Yep, I can see that. Now, let's imagine for a moment get
scratched. A piece of metal scraping across the back of a motherboard. I have
hands like a surgeon.
Good god. Um, you're not a doctor though, right? I go to medical school.
Oh, wow. That's actually Wait, did you get it? You got it.
Oh, no. Ah, we have another question, by the
way. Which of you got into more trouble as a child?
As if you what? I thought I was gonna
say me. Shut up. I was a good kid.
You were constantly in trouble. No, you never ate. You were always
made the family late. You got lost at
public events. That's true. Constantly. Still happens. How many times were you
in the principal's office? Admit fairly frequently. I was never in
the principal's office. Never. Not at one time. I did not get into more
trouble. I never got into trouble ever. That's such horseshit. You were always
in trouble. Okay. I did get in a fair bit of trouble
for like pyromania related offenses. How
about the firecracker in the toilet? Who did that? That wasn't a firecracker.
That was hairspray. I just happened to get the mixture exactly right and it
went off like a firecracker. How about the bomb in the toilet? Sorry. What
about all the shredded paper in the kitchen? Well, that shredded paper burns
really fast. can confirm. Okay. Um, we got another drive for you. 1 TBTE is
only enough to hold like a handful of modern games. And I don't want you to
have to think about like, oh, I'll delete that one and then reinstall that
one cuz I don't know if your internet's super fast or anything. It is not. So,
we picked you up an additional uh 2,000
megabytes here.
I'm testing to see if she actually knows or if she just read it off the other one. It's 2,000 gigabytes. Oh, no. I had
no idea where I I was just reading it off the last one. That's good. So, we're
going to install this bad boy back here. Okay. All right. I've got another
question for you, though. Okay. Oh, okay. Is it a good one? I never really
thought of this one because I didn't really consider your opinion at the
time. Rude. But what did you think when
Lionus decided to make a full-time gig making YouTube videos? Oh, I was so
proud of you. Oh, I always tell everyone I know, you're the hardest worker I've
ever met. You going to cry? A Thank you. You are.
You are. No, I'm not even much harder.
Didn't take a vacation. Sleepless nights, long hours. It was pretty rough
getting You had a dream. It's very inspiring. Oh, thank you. When you want
to do something, you should. Even if it's hard, you have to stick with it.
Yeah. Did you think that at the time? Yeah. Oh, hell yeah. Seemed thought it
Oh, yeah. There. There it is.
But like, you know, I I knew you'd do it. I had no doubt that you would
succeed. This is a 3060 Ti. 6 months
ago, this would have been worth like $1,200. Now, it's worth less than half
of that. Don't worry about it. There's been a big GPU market crash from like,
you know, like cryptocurrency, right? Yes. Yeah. So, cryptocurrency has invest
in crypto. Oh, really? How'd that go? I don't know. I don't listen or pay
attention to it. It's sort of a set it and forget it mentality with investing.
Okay. Yeah. Dang. Pretty not bad. Not bad for a
first try. So, we're asking her what kind of keyboard do you want? It's like
a chest set. Do you want 10 keyless? Do you want the fullsized and like
obviously this guy is trying to sell her on like the more deluxe the most deluxe
keyboards and Brandon's like Plof's probably going to try and sell her like
a $300 keyboard. I'm like no, this guy's moved on from $300 keyboards. This from
Wu Studio is a $600 keyboard. Are you
ready? I'm just going to hold it. You unwrap it. Whoa.
It's really heavy. It's probably like
what, like 10 lbs. 8.2. What's it made out of? Uh, aluminum. Wa. Is this a real
diamond? No, it's moistenite. All right. You going to press the power button?
Where is it? Up here. Oh, you'll find
it.
Okay, that's a good sign. Oh, yeah. Cool. Right. It's really quiet.
Nice air flow. Mhm. We have a small
problem. Oh, great. You know what? I realize I
never actually checked that you plugged everything in, right? Okay. Do we have
video drivers? At least I did install NVIDIA drivers. I didn't do Windows
update because it was a different motherboard. Uh, but we have Steam Cache now minus.
So, it's fast. So, it should be fast. If there's anything else you want to download, if we've already downloaded
it, I have Steam Cash because I returned my last game cuz I couldn't play it. Uh,
I'm glad you're rolling on that. That's really not what that means. It's cash. C
A C H E. Oh, like a like a like a
memory. Like a cash. Yeah.
Masterfully done. Not bad. It's
beautiful. I'm liking it. Wow. Okay,
this is it. Maiden voyage. Oh, we don't
have audio. It's okay. I know how it sounds in my head. I've heard it so many
times. Oh my god. I hear the music. Sweet music in my head. New cheeky items
available. Yes. Don't make fun of me.
It's really fun. Up all night digital content. Sims delivery. Thanks. Oh my
god. Okay. Four pop-ups later. So, go into options. Okay. Okay. game options.
Okay. Uh, all right. It's already set to
ultra. Perfect. Ultra. Okay. Here we go. There's one. Okay. So, how long would
that normally take? Like a minute. Oh, really? What? Really? Yeah. Like on your
machine? Yeah. Oh, so this is faster then? Much faster. Okay. What is he
doing over there? He's knocked over the garbage can. Why'd he do that? Why is he
putting garbage all over the yard? Because he hates her. What an
He's angry. It tells you why. He's angry because he had to socialize and he's a
loner. Oh. Oh, she's mad, too. She stomp on the
garbage. Is this so silly? I love it. You know what the worst part is? Is that
it's really not that unrealistic.
Can I just point out how how smoothly it runs when you pen the camera. Oh, heck
yeah. Oh, yeah. It's like a Tamagotchi,
but more complicated, but not actually that complicated at all. Okay. So, does
it run well enough for you? Runs very well. She's gonna try to calm him down.
Let's see if that works. Why don't we try something a little more intense?
Okay. Okay. She runs kind of funny. She
really injured. Whoa.
Oh my gosh. It's chasing me. Headed into
danger, not away from Seriously. Okay. Go uphill
into the woods. Yeah. I think it's bear rules. Oh god. What does that mean? Oh,
run downhill. I'm just making things up at this point. Anyway, how's it look?
Looks really good. running smooth enough for you? Yeah, I love it. It's really
cool. And is there any other questions I'm supposed to ask my sister for the
people before we're done? I'm pretty sure you got them all. Okay, so the one
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description. If you guys enjoyed this video, you might also enjoy the series
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