remember this I do all from five minutes
ago where did aqualinas get this look that's
me that's the surprise for the intro you said bring no friends for the intro yeah
the surprise was spoiled it doesn't matter some of you might remember my
social media team counterpart from NCIX but you might not realize that she's
actually my sister-in-law anyway she called me up on the weekend for help
adjusting her desktop resolution
typical family right it didn't take long for me to realize that this thing needs
a lot more help than that what is going
on with this power button this was once
white these thumb screws don't even match and you're missing one here in
your defense though the reason you needed help adjusting your resolution
was that your GPU died so over the phone
I walked her through enabling her onboard graphics and disabling the GPU
it was successful and I thought that was going to be all that there was to it and
then we looked inside we're going to show you that later after
seeing it I immediately dialed up my friends at ASUS to sponsor this video
because even ignoring the dead GPU it's clear this thing needs some serious
help but we need to lay down some ground rules rule number one you can call me
anytime you want as long as it isn't for tech support rule number two what's the
point you can bring your PC to me anytime you want as long as it's not
for tech support right rule number three
your family so like all family members you're gonna ignore rules one and two so
my goal today is to build the PC that
cannot fail we're talking Overkill cooling redundant storage preloaded good
antivirus and the most stable ddr5 on
the market and we're building it for this incredible OLED monitor from ASUS
with upgraded OLED protection to reduce the risk of burn-in what's the peak
brightness on that thing like 1000 nits or something 99 coverage of the DCI P3
color space okay it's OLED so it has like the inkiest blacks it's the 240
hertz pg27 aqdmn do you even game this thing's 240
hertz it's amazing I don't but these guys do let's go new pc ah that makes
sense yeah this thing's going to play a lot of Minecraft
thank you
this is where I think you said I need a new PC to be clear this is totally
salvageable and we could just upgrade it but I can't have my nephew and niece
playing games on this there's an actual cobweb in here you had an actual spider
in your computer get rid of its home
well no it's dead when is the last time
you cleaned this and don't lie because we won't believe you I don't think I've
ever cleaned it good answer oh there is
no filter on this case well that is the issue we've solved the issue don't worry
the new case has filters it is designed so that you never have to do anything
because you're clearly not going to look at this
oh that's not even a Dust Bunny anymore that's a dust rabbit see we do have
animals I don't think you've ever played video
games why do you even have a 680. we were at a LAN party in Dupont Washington
for Intel they took me to the back room where they were building all these new
PCS and he said do you want one I said
yes please time-honored family tradition of stealing computers from NCIX this
isn't traveled very far from DuPont to fairies your house cars I'm gonna tell
you something the top of your GPU is black I did know that at some point and
then I just thought it changed Colors Over time we're saying goodbye yes right
now goodbye bit Phoenix Prodigy it just doesn't have enough air intake for
modern gpus so see you later buddy one
of the very first videos I did was how to build a PC in a bit Phoenix Prodigy
case so then why don't you know how to build a PC because that was like 15
years ago no it wasn't I started at mcnx what no yeah Linus media group's only
been for 10 years how old do you think I am very wild
well you're very old minus so there you go
we were not telling people that I am the very much younger sister enough sadness
about the Crusty old PC let's meet the hot young new PC this is not just made
up of high quality reliable components but we actually pre-built and pre-tested
this in a thermal chamber at 35 degrees for three days straight running the
heaviest loads that we could throw at it if that didn't kill it I don't think
even you can thanks guys first things first for our CPU we chose the core i5
13600k both Intel and AMD are kind of crushing it these days but we have found
that just due to maturity Intel's a little bit more stable I feel like I I
owe until something so I'm glad we're going with it though oh yeah that makes
sense they also gave you your old PC whether anyone at Intel actually knew
that that happened or not we were also going to keep that between
us now regardless of inteller AMD one
thing we were very particular about was we wanted a chip that had onboard
Graphics because I wouldn't put it past you to destroy your dedicated graphics
card and we wanted to make sure that we had that as a fallback it's actually a
pretty nice perk aside from being able to use Quick sync for video encoding or
whatever else the case may be you're my fallback guys so rules number one and
two I refer you to those I never agreed to those is it written on the case
somewhere like in blood but the rules yeah the rules well no it's a good idea
yeah it is a good idea there are two rules when it comes to
family that's the good thing about Family Esther what did you think of
Linus and his pink hair when Yvonne first brought him home I thought I was
very surprised that she liked a little punk kid with spiky pink hair and like
ear piercings you don't get to be both the very younger sister and call me a
punk kid you know what why am I building this you were just gonna let me keep
doing this you should be building the computer I never got the memo okay
there's your CPU do you remember how to do this
uh probably not it's been 15 years but
it has not been 15 years it was just a very long time ago let's
go in this way yeah yep that was that was pretty good you wow you lined it up
excellent I remember having these like thermal paste on here but we're good we
don't need that we do that's good though good remembering do remember things now
in addition to the monitor ASUS sent over some other components as well
starting with their b760 ITX Trix gaming board now you might be wondering really
a k-series chip with a B series motherboard you were wondering that
right I was definitely wondering because k-series chips are for overclocking and
B series motherboards can't overclock she's not gonna be overclocking but what
the K series chip will still do compared to the 9k is Turbo higher and turbo for
longer so when editing like Instagram pictures no I I don't even do that
anymore my kids will be doing this whatever overclocking and no they won't
I forbid it that's rule number four no overclocking this thing it's built for
stability Esther what was it like working with Linus at NCIX oh it was not
fun he is not a fun guy what have you
met him that's not very nice I'm kidding
I tried to help you we did not cross paths very often you were like in a
whole kind of separate building occasionally I would kind of
try and get her to work a bit harder occasionally he didn't try very hard
okay my social media had very hard actually did you because you developed a
bit of like I'm a girl and guys will do stuff for me attitude I think I did not
this is not what we're doing now let's talk about our memory we have lots of
memories yes we have lots of memories and you have 32 gigs of memories these
are not is that a show choosing daggers I'm
kidding you're getting 32 gigs of RAM and it's not fast lovely I love it slow
it's like wait no don't I did not one of
my favorite stories about her I messaged her about her MSN profile name no we're
not talking about this okay so that's very certain things that we will keep
taking this to the Grave I'm uh
seriously the last time around was my sister with all the dirt on me now it's
me with all the dirt on this is what I
want for letting him come and live with us in our house oh yeah because that was
your choice because if you wanted me there do you need any lunch I can tell
you right now that she definitely wants free lunch other than her sister Esther
is the cheapest person oh and Luke that I have ever met I was into the uh the
tuna sandwich at the time and Esther pipes in can you get me a veggie sub
I've got my own can of tuna in my office
this is not a true story this is a true
story I remember the time you made something
though was it cookies they were inedible didn't you substitute some critical
ingredient no I just forgot flour right
all right then it's odd we're telling all the stories today okay the point is
this memory 4 800 Mega transfers per second it's ddr5 so it has some basic
ECC functionality built into it even if it's not strictly speaking ECC memory
and it's only two modules which means we've only got a single stick per memory
Channel which is good for stability darn it no you put the memory in am I doing
this ring I'm not no I'm not jumping in and helping you no no don't break it it
didn't snap in because it isn't in right so yeah
It's a Wonderful yeah I'll get the
lemongrass chicken without the lemongrass I'll add the lemongrass after
we were gonna do storage now this is not what ssds looked like when you built
computers the problem is that B series motherboards do not support NVMe raid
and we want to run raid 1 so that even if a drive dies it just keeps on working
the ITX board that supports that the Z series board is like 600 bucks and I
love you but I don't love you as much as I love your sister so you get this one
you get sad already oh so it's really you're the Cheapo all I said was you
were one of the cheapest people I've met I didn't say you were the cheapest people I am
so these are your ssds they are fine
this is what I remember it looking like yep the bx500s one terabyte each side
will give you a terabyte of total storage but we can't install them now
because these don't install on the motherboard like the fancy new ones side
note we installed Windows 11 on these not necessarily just because it's the
latest but because it's going to have the longest term support and because
it's crucial it's a joke get it it's
crucial for the best multi-monitor and HDR support because you're going to have
two monitors and one of them is going to be HDR that thing looks freaking amazing
every single Pixel is a dimming zone so if you have a super bright object next
to a super dark one you won't notice it until you're watching YouTube videos or
whatever and you come across something with HDR it looks amazing we'll look at it later Esther what did you do after
NCIX and what are you doing now some of you that have stayed following me thank
you do know I got into design and this
was probably one of my first gigs you guys let me design all your sets here
when you first started we did so all those sets you guys complained looked
too set like and not enough like a Shabby house that we're filming in if I
got shabby house I could have done chubby house if you want to follow me
you can do that you can find me on Instagram Facebook Esther macauichek
look me up have we sent you with a screwdriver yet do you even have one of
these I do not that's embarrassing it is embarrassing for me I know uh okay so
you want to use the neural link whoa so fast and then just tighten it up yeah
there you go okay that tight that's tight enough hey at least we got you a water bottle lttstore.com you're not
that cheap thermal compound now you're probably wondering why we went with air
cooling rather than water cooling I was were you no well it's more reliable
we're gonna install two fans on this Tower cooler that is way over spec for
this CPU one of those fans would have done a perfectly good job and the reason
is much
I'm miming the answer
in case one of the fans dies Esther is it true that you helped Riley
get a job at NCIX and if so how did you know Riley beforehand we went to high
school together we ran into each other at a I think November party he had a
full-on mustache what were you doing at a movember party I also had a mustache
at that time I needed some help I needed some interns and uh so he thought wow he
would be a great enter you could be exploited I did and sure enough we
exploited him NCIX was good at that you still got to
put the heatsink on this is always the part where everyone's like okay yeah a
little piece so I do want to pull back on the plunger
a little bit so it stops is it supposed to go in oh yeah am I getting any case
yeah yeah you're getting a new case let's have a look
more surprises every surprise spoiled today well look at where you put it I
didn't put it there okay this is come on guys the torrent something or other from
fractal design oh look at this I can actually see when it gets dirty yeah
because that was the problem that was the problem was you couldn't see that it
was dirty yeah this is a beautiful cake I know look at this baby go giant fan in
the front that will blow I will need that so much air through the caked on
Dust on the filter in front of it that's how long it takes to get the
filter out and clean it that fast you're still not gonna do it I will call you
when it needs to get done now it's time to install some components in here why
don't we do the power supply the Rog Thor 850 watt Platinum is super
efficient covered in RGB built by a very
reputable OEM and it comes with a 10 year warranty so you heard it from them
there you go 10 years that'll last me another 10 years before you're inviting
me on set again if you're still around because you are
old wait why am I doing this again no no
I have this effect on people okay I'll
unbox it too we gotta save room
oh yes get it it's the Linux strategy
you don't ask people how to do it you
post incorrect information
and then you wait for them to correct you see she tries to open the box in the
worst possible never was going to work way so that someone will leap to a
rescue I saw you do it you just can't stand me doing it wrong Should I shake
it like so it falls out of the box here let me turn it around the Box before I
can open it it's like I need to go to sleep tonight you know what else this box is good for
why am I doing this again see you just you just sit there well you
didn't tell me I was supposed to do anything all right power supply goes in the case we're here to build a PC yes
now you tell me you do need this one though these two go in here see who
needs therapy when you can just build a computer with your family members I'm
having a blast I was very excited to come today does this go through here
oh heavens now so the fan goes down okay
and this goes out um you know what sure we could punch a hole
here and then we could put the cables back into the case like that look we're
designing now she's doing it again what am I doing you've built a computer
before I know but everything's different from 20 years ago
can you get a close-up of this was that so wrong oh yeah it's very
wrong I know computers have changed a lot
um but this is one thing you're going to want to do kind of the same the power
supply goes at the back of the computer like that as they're between yourself
Yvonne and Linus who is the ultimate Wii Sports Champion I would say that I'm
probably the golf champion yeah given
she was a toddler at the time it's very important it's very impressive how are
you so bad at this look at this it's been a very long time
Serenity Now Insanity later that's a
reference she wouldn't get though because she's very young well he was a
comedian who went out with someone about your age
I'm used to drills give me a drill drill
it in she's too good for the LTT Store screwdriver she wants a drill give me a
bit that is a very small pets
lioness is very sensitive about the size of his Tech tip okay
I remember doing a big chalking for you right here oh yeah that's right he
replaced me with this fancy thing well the problem is that we don't have anyone
else who can draw we just left it like that forever and then we accidentally
scuffed it at some point and we were like can anybody draw and the answer was no
it's like having a window to that look phallic Monument they're traveling
places already Esther Linus told us his favorite story about you with the veggie
sub and everything do you have a favorite story about him that is your favorite story that is actually my
favorite story I tell it regularly can you not it's so funny hmm
favorite story about line is you can put in the motherboard while you think about
it about it wow that is as big a cooler as
we could possibly put in here I am loving it let's go ahead and get some
stuff plugged in now this is a real challenge though these two have to stay
together and then they have to plug in down there
I'll be really impressed if I can get it in you know what though you know why
they had women actually make all of the
memory for the Saturn V rocket computer because it was hand woven and they like
had way better dexterity wow that that
is a really tough plot he couldn't have
done piano fingers this is how xqc broke his computer plugging
in this one you're not even going to tell me where to plug it in
nice officially better computer Builder than Felix
this is the part that defeats many
first-time Builders I'm not a first time Builder though
um first time in like 40 years
go ahead and plug these in only the LEDs are directionally sensitive wow I got
this right why are you so impressed I am
a pro because nobody gets this right it's only been 45 years
I'm like this is so small
sorry oh those screws are never coming out
again so that's good I confess I screwed
something up we didn't get all these fans plugged in before we put the heatsink on if you buy this case and
this motherboard you are definitely going to want to do that make sure the logo is however orientation you like it
come on I mean no I mean just the logo on the top oh you don't care just it's
hard to even clip them on with it all the way in remember I'm never going to
open this up again we got this okay wait what no I like his advice he always
gives good advice like we would not be doing this right now what did he
recommend to my sister like a 600 keyboard no I didn't I said hey you can
get a nice one for like a couple hundred bucks and you're the one that's like oh
he's got the expensive one at his desk show her that WAN Show her that was so I
did and she liked it that's not my fault are your hands getting tired no no I'm
good are you doing okay over there why are you so why are you using your your
hand to put in a screw there's this other driver right in your armpit see
this clip is right up against the power supply shroud here so it's really hard
to get it on thankfully you're not the only hoe around here
I happen to be a fairly experienced hooker
that's a lot I really do the to this family yeah yeah they're
speaking of memories have you thought up a favorite memory of Linus
you can't think of one good memory
no there's just so many but I think I do
remember you sleeping in the car outside of our driveway
overnight one night yeah your sister probably dumped me
wow tell us about that sorry this wasn't a favorite memory this
one is blue I thought we were I thought
it wouldn't forever wouldn't leave the driveway I thought you were gonna go
with them we built the igloo oh you could have picked something sweet and
wholesome like that that was really fun actually you were supposed to be studying both of you were supposed to
study or maybe all three of us we were probably you for preschool and I started
University we're doing a great job on this piece together it'll run so much
Minecraft all right look at that we got a nice
whole airflow airflow it's good let's
get those ssds installed that's going to be crucial to our PC Building here good
job nice those go right there and
realistically two screws is enough I'll just go back to using my hands again oh
you are determined no sell any screwdrivers today
there we go see she's doing it again
obviously if you've got a 1440p OLED HDR
monitor that runs at 240 hertz you're
gonna need a pretty sick GPU to power it so we've gone with I don't know
something it's a shiny graphics card no no that's the bag oh she's doing this on
purpose now yes 100 oh good it's a tough
gaming RTX 4070 TI this should get you
through about the next 10 years of Minecraft no problem it's ripping fast
so you can have like Ray traced lighting
and something looking forward to it yeah the
kids will like it they will okay I specifically requested a triple fan card
and the reason for that is that if even if one of them dies this cooler is three
slots and so overbuilt that it should be
able to run did we actually test that did we stop one of the fans and make
sure that it'll still run with two no but oh we didn't test that all right
probably fine though is it in
oh the great thing about these compact form factors is so fun to build yeah did
you get it oh yeah not bad the monitor is the big one ASUS wanted us to focus
on today it's 27 inches got a webcam
Mount up here how cool is that .03 millisecond response times
this thing is sick wow this thing must be really expensive it's like eleven
hundred dollars you do like me she's pricey well Jesus
does color calibrated from the factory why is there an HDMI cable here freesync
premium I had a DisplayPort cable over here somewhere yeah Mouse operated OSD
with display widget Center the point is it's really good last question for today
did you have fun no this was awful the storm ends hanging out with him ouch I'm
kidding ouch like I said we laughed that explains why you didn't come to
Christmas dinner all right press the button you built it should I like wash
my hands first there's nothing you can do to prevent
what's going to happen to that power button well good thing this one's black
ah that did not turn on oh this power switch not plugged in try again okay
thank you seriously oh wait
it's unplugged and powered off that squid one more time
third time's a charm let's go we're gonna do this
yay okay oh it's pretty all right
awesome I like it perfect did you scratch my glasses nope
nope that's the plastic oh and this is actual glass now these days instead of
acrylic so it'll stay looking nice until you cover it in dust and hair
out now this is critical if you're
building a computer for someone else man always go into the BIOS ASUS has this
feature there you go user profiles so we
are going to save to profile we ran out of characters there Esther used this and
then we're going to save that to profile one and then boom Esther used this so if
she ever has any problems that oh man you need to enable The Raid and the BIOS
that turn on X and P no no you say Esther used this load up this profile
and boom she's good to go the CMOS battery dies or something like that
oh critical look at that first thing that you're probably going to notice
because I don't think you've at least not recently used a high refresh rate
monitor because you're sure as heck wasn't running at a high refresh rate go
ahead just drag the window around do you notice it being very smooth okay
come on ah do you notice how readable the text
is when I'm dragging it around
patch because at the very low response
times patch very good it also supports g-sync so we can go into our NVIDIA
control panel oh Windows 11 moves the start menu to the middle do you want to
move back to the left no okay with this change I just filled the
computer I can't give them taste I did tell your son I'd install Minecraft for
him yes so I guess we're doing that then all right let's see how long she
survives move with wasd jump with space
okay what do I do with Minecraft that is the question that adults ask yes you can
go chop a tree I don't want to do that that's rude that's definitely what
you're supposed to do though okay sorry chopping you down now you might want to
put your crafting table down somewhere maybe at the top of this hill okay
there's a thing above your head you're bonking your head a lot
yeah you went from oh I couldn't possibly harm them too
well what do you do for a crafting table hey so now you can make an ax do I want
to make an ax or do I want to make a sword um or a hoe
that might be the most appropriate that we've already got hey we got an ax
there's a sheep chop the sheet get it no do that
get it no the shape is not coming for me
oh it didn't die yeah you gotta hit it
again I heard it you gotta hit it Lots now it's injured you don't want it to suffer
murdered so for extra cool Uncle points I also
put this game on what do you think the kids ready to play this one yeah my
six-year-old will definitely enjoy that watch all the stuff that you can do the
demons demons
you gotta admit it looks great on this monitor though right
good job building the computer we're done thank you Jesus for sponsoring this
uh thanks for coming out yeah it was fun did you join the machine oh yeah always
the boss they said it was the funnest video they've done all week I didn't say
that I would never make a grammatical error like that not you oh the guy who
had to leave