We've got a brand new set for ShortCircuit, and that means we need a brand
new computer. So, we asked Maingear if they could send over some of the most
top-end hardware available, so that when we're gaming, you know it's as good as
it's going to get. See?
Progress. Progress. That's great.
That's what building computers IS ALL ABOUT.
GOOD THING WE DON'T HAVE TO SEND THIS BACK. NICE. NICE. That's right. We've got the
Doom the Dark Ages limited edition computer. And the nicest thing is, if
you do buy the case from Haven, it's just the Haven 420. However, if you buy
this specific limited edition case, you will get a couple of things that are
different from the normal builds. Oh, man. How do I get this out of this? It's
a 360 mil AIO, and it's also just a lot of high-end components, so it's like
really heavy. Um, but you can still do this.
Yeah.
All right. I actually do really like
that even just the Haven HS420 has this really cool uh Doom design on it. So,
it's not like some, you know, "Oh, I'm buying the HS420, and then it's the Doom
one." It's like, "No, even your box has the cool Doom stuff on it." I've also
been playing Doom since the '90s, uh probably before I should have been, to
be clear. I was just a wee a wee lad.
Um, but I've been a big fan ever since. I'm not sure if you'll be able to buy this
by the time the video comes out, but as of time of filming, there are some left
available, but they're all at Micro Center. So, if you do want this case, I
guess you're going to Micro Center. This is one green lean machine, and I'm going
to flip it over. That's one part, and
then the other Oh, it's going to go right on my head. There we go.
This also might be a bit of a hot take, but I love Doom 3. I liked how scary it
was. It was very scary as a kid. Maybe now that we've got this sick machine,
because oh my god, this thing looks incredible.
Um, on top of the normal Haven HS420 styling, you've got some nice touches,
like the Doom symbol here. I actually don't know what that specific
symbol means. I don't know if that makes me a fake fan. I don't know
uh where the symbol originally came from, but uh it's also on our power button. It's also on the side of the box
there. Um, when I see that symbol, I think Doom. I really don't know the lore
reason behind it. So, please kill me in the comments.
Call me a fake fan. But, because HS420 is so easy to take apart,
we're not going to like tear this whole thing down. I just love how easy it is to take the top off, so that you can
just like see that we've got a nice 360 mil AIO up here.
Oh, there's a bunch of stuff in I haven't even seen the insides yet. Okay,
let's get uh let's get these out. I'm pretty sure you
got to take this top part off. Oh, yeah.
Is there a peel or anything? No, no internal peel. They've just got this Maingear decal here, and then this cool
Doom decal here. Woah! That's cool.
They've got a Doom logo GPU [music] bracket, anti-sag bracket. Looks a
little 3D printed on the top here, but you know, that's actually pretty easy to
fix on your own if you really care about seeing some layer lines.
Let me get this out of out of the way. There's all our pink foam.
Don't forget the skull. >> What skull? The skull.
Yo! What is this thing for? So, this what
this comes with the computer? Yeah, open it up. >> Haven Danger strong magnets. How do
those work? Woah! What the hell?
It's a cover for your reservoir. We have an AIO already pre-installed, but if you
do ever upgrade this with like a big reservoir or something, cuz you do your
own custom loop, which would look pretty cool, cuz you can put some red water in
there, make it look like blood, whatever. Um, but it'll slot right on top here, reservoir, like this. But, if
you don't have that, and you've just got the same computer we do,
it's magnetic. So, you can kind of stick it like just about anywhere, cuz all
these parts are metal. It'll go there for now. And also, I completely neglected all this other
stuff, like you've got this other like cool Doom imagery. It's all spooky hell
stuff. I don't know if this is Latin or not, but kind of looks weird.
So, that's super cool. Oh my god, even around the fans?
Oh, and then down here it says, "Haven 420 limited edition Doom PC number one."
Did you know they gave us the first one? >> No. We got number [music] one. We are
number one. Bell kept reading, and he told me that you could also, they say,
put it outside as a headphone hanger, which it looks like it. It totally looks
like you put a band of headphones right there. Bell doesn't know I'm stealing the skull
later. Shh. From the
logo on the back to the custom uh top IO
cover to like the red cables to all the
random Doom script here, and like the neat just color match on the fan, and
this has got to be probably one of the coolest themed PCs that I've ever
opened. I haven't opened a lot of them, but uh this is my favorite. You guys haven't
even seen the back of this thing yet. It still looks so cool from the front. Oh
my god, move again. There is, in fact, an RTX 5090 and a 9950X3D,
along with 64 gigs of DDR5 running at, I think, 6,000 mega transfers per second.
So, pretty top of the line. And then we've got a 2 terabyte Gen 4 or Gen 5 NVMe
drive. Either way, plenty fast for gaming. But, as you can see, the red
cabling has continued along the back here. And I just I don't know, I love
the style of this case. And I love how the power supply like doesn't take up a
giant chunk of space in the bottom like it does, but It's apparently 72 lb. 72
lb? My god.
Oh, man. I don't know if it's the case or the water or what, but 72 lb is a
lot. Uh you saw us struggle earlier. If you buy this computer, uh maybe look for
help in setting it up. Even if you're very alone, hire someone on TaskRabbit
to come by and give you a hand. There's no shame in that, you know, everyone needs help sometimes. Um, but yeah, like
even the top with like the power button and the cool uh I think the leather
strap is always there, but like it really fits with all this. And then the
custom green uh color, you know, the classic Doom green for
Doom guy. Man, I just
I love this thing. I got so excited that I actually forgot that there was uh some
extras included. These are probably power supply cables. Um, it has a 1250 W
80 plus gold power supply, by the way. So, even with the high-end components,
it should be totally fine. Uh so, this looks like Yep, extra power supply
cables. Probably all of them, because it looks like they got replaced by
something from uh third-party vendor. We've got a nice C13 power cable.
Maingear sticker.
We've also got instructions for our CPU cooler, it looks like. Wait, what's
this? So, with a lot of AMD boards, this was common on AM4 as well. Um, when you
put a new cooler on, you actually have to remove the stock hardware. And so,
they've given that to us, because if you have to RMA this, I mean, you probably
go back through Maingear, but I don't know, they probably want it. I wonder if the socket cover We've got uh all of the
extra cables that come in our motherboard box, like our SATA data
cables, uh keycap.
PG, that's from Hasrock.
Some RGB cables. And uh what else? This
is a little Oh, it's like a power switch, but it goes to an antenna? I'm
not sure. LVPE4 collision de plastique.
That's not what that's for. Wi-Fi. We're probably going to go wired
directly to Ethernet, but I'm going to plug these in and attach them just in
case. But, enough about cables. Let's see what this thing looks like powered
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Bell put the computer down, and he plugged stuff in, but he didn't he didn't flip the switch on the back of
the power supply. So, luckily, that's an easy fix. And if
it's not, well, our computer's hooped, and uh that's not good. But, uh you
know, there's already lights going to the motherboard. Hey, oh, sick, and it's all red out of the box, too.
>> Keep an eye on that AIO. WHY A
WOAH! [screaming] [groaning] THAT'S AWESOME. It's playing what, Doom
1 1? I kind of wish you could move it, though. Like, that's my only issue is
it's like in the middle. I want it to be full screen here, or full screen on the
side. Uh right now, it's like split. So, I don't know if that's adjustable in
software, but I really hope it is. I'm being told that we've done a video on the Panorama before, and it is
adjustable. So, we're going to adjust that for the future. Not for this video,
but this is our new set PC. So, absolutely in the future. First thing
I'm going to do is make sure XMP is on. It's from Maingear,
so of course, it's set. They've also enabled rebar right out of the box,
which I mean, I think most motherboards just kind of do that these days on their own, but hey, it's nice to know that
they didn't disable it, and um that's where some of your performance is going
to come from. So, you want to make sure that everything's configured. All right,
we're playing Doom the Dark Ages on our Doom the Dark Ages computer from Main
Gear and I've got everything set to ultra nightmare except for path tracing
and we've got DLSS set to quality. I
personally won't go lower than quality. Yeah, we're getting
easy 140 120,
31% lows. Like this plays great. But let's, you know,
some of you don't like DLSS even at quality. So, let's turn it off and
see what we get at native 4K. Okay, now we're native using I think TAA was the
only option which I don't like TAA, but you know, you can probably use DLAA
instead of DLSS and that's fine. But without upscaling, we're looking at like
still 90 frames per second average. 1% is only in the 84, 85, like 88 range.
Um so, yeah. The truth is, if you spend
a lot of money on your computer, it's going to do just about whatever you
want it to do when it comes to gaming, especially in a really well-optimized
game using id Tech. But what about other games? Well, the lab did test a slew of
games at both 1440p and at 4K and they
all tested admirably. Basically, as good as you're going to expect from the
hardware that we've got in this machine. It also ran nice and cool during all of
that. So, you know that the case, the fans, the GPU, everything is working as
it should along with our nice 360 mil
AIO keeping our CPU nice and cool. And I should really hope that it does because
as spec'd, this machine costs about $6,000.
So, it's a lot of money, but also we needed a really high-end PC for our
brand new ShortCircuit set and I'm really glad that Main Gear sent it over.
They didn't sponsor this video, but thanks Main Gear. We do appreciate it.
Ultimately though, it's up to you to decide whether one, you want to spend
this much money on a computer and two, whether you want a super cool limited
edition Doom version of your computer. [music] Whatever you want to do, if you
want to get more information and stay up to speed on what's coming out, make sure
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the LTT that we're going to release if you want to learn anything more about that. Goodbye.