why build a creeper pc in absolute
secrecy well here's the thing we heard celebrity
pc builds were the new hotness but we didn't want to fall into the classic
trap where you promise someone something really cool and then you take a freaking
year to deliver it so anyway pewdiepie
started playing minecraft again so we're gonna build a cake lighter i don't know
three or four months ago back when we initially conceptualized this so we were
like heck yeah let's do the greatest
creeper pc build that's ever been done
but then now we're finally finishing it and then the word on the street is he's
quitting youtube but then he says he's not quitting youtube but then the last
time he uploaded a minecraft video was like three weeks ago you know what
doesn't matter who cares we're building the creeper pc the docos v9 speakers on
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so let's go through how we made it starting with the hardest part which is
the case the skeleton was designed in fusion 360 over a span of about a month
with a couple of main design goals one was we wanted there to be enough cooling
for top spec hardware i mean the last thing you want to do is send someone
a cool custom pc that ends up being a downgrade from what they're currently
running and we also wanted no cheating
compromises to the creeper look we weren't going to allow ourselves to like
oh well you know we need to extend this leg in order to get a bigger graphics
card or something like that so i started with a rough concept for what i wanted
the creeper pc to look like and once i figured out scale by taking the form
factor of an matx motherboard and plugging in into fusion 360 and just
scaling a creeper shape around it then i could
start building the actual frame from aluminum extrusion so
after i had the actual frame built and scaled properly then i can
skin it put all the components in it and pray it all fits together
as a bonus goal we wanted the head to
pop off like kind of like a you know like boom you know explosion moment with
the press of a button which i actually have right here
um but i can't do right now because as you can see it's not yet tilt
this head was by far the hardest part of this entire build it went through like
three design changes so how it works now is there's two solenoid latches that are
like for gate latches that clip into little tabs that i tig welded into the
bottom of the creeper head so these guys you can just come down and they'll pop
right into place like so
and now it's latched and active so
once we give it power off comes the head initially it didn't
have enough support the head is just a little bit too heavy so yeah
the first time i tested it oh we have footage of this actually
the head pops off and it just goes
it flops all the way down we can't have a flaccid creeper no no plastic creepers
so there's limiting straps that i installed
on each corner to keep it just floating just so and without it
falling off of the support axis in the center it was also really challenging
getting the strength of the spring just right because that jack-in-the-box
effect requires you to get it balanced just
right i think you nailed it go me
so this is it we just start building now right yeah so for our power supply we
actually didn't end up going with a full-sized atx unit even though we
possibly could have um i guess this saves us a little bit of
space where we could have mounted a hard drive in the front in emergency but
other than that is there any rationale behind the 800 watt silverstone sfxl no
it's just a really nice little dense power supply
it's easier to fit so mounting for this pretty straightforward we've got some
double-sided tape on the bottom here but that's not actually what holds it
together what actually holds it in place is this bracket on the back here which
is a bent piece of sheet aluminum and this looks like it was quite the finicky
little piece to get right well thankfully i didn't have to make it
ah our friends at protocase friends of protocase it's good to have friends in
uh fabrication places sure is so do i get to do most of the building
you've already built it so it's really important we get this
first little drop right because once that tape goes down it's
not coming off a little lower there it is it's really
nice working with pretty case on stuff like this too just because they specialize in pc stuff so you don't have
to explain to them things like you know why the spacing needs to be
just so on a power supply mount yeah i actually use their template designer
which is really neat it has cutouts for most of
the stuff i used here being able to just draw in a motherboard and have all the
holes be in the right space was fantastic push that down power supply is
in i think you're supposed to hold this tape for about 30 seconds
GPU we can do it so
how the GPU is mounted is we have a little bracket i machined yep we have
cable mod to thank for these cables see
how flat those are oh okay it fits to
within an eighth of an inch wow that's really tight okay so how does this go in
here this just goes under there and that sandwiches it down and that's it that's
it that's it before we tighten it yep it's best now to do the power supply
cables so got it we will punch these guys hold on a second we better do this
peel too
that's a really unsatisfying peel this is a really cool looking card though so
it's got a triple slot cooler we weren't sure how much airflow we were going to
be able to get into this bottom foot so it was all about making sure that our
card has a really really good cooler on it but this is an rtx 2080 ti so
basically as good as it gets for minecraft with rtx let me give you a
good angle on it here and then i can just drop it right into place lovely
basically this is the spot and i can crank it down now then right yep if
that's the only thing holding it in place i do i am actually a little bit worried
we might uh i've seen things in shipping that would make your blood
curl curdle blood curdle hair curl if we put like a u-shaped foam piece at the
back i'd feel a ton better and just glued that in vibrations and drops so
a lot of this mass there's a lot of leverage here yeah and it can actually
rip the pci plate right off the card i've seen it you've seen that i've seen
it i've seen pci express slots ripped off motherboards oh god and the pci
plate ripped off fs and chat just just you know shipping to alberta from here
how difficult would it be for us to fabricate a hold down strap for this as
well it's it's taped it's not going anywhere
you'd have to be really trying to have that dislodge i have seen power supplies
ripped out of like standard cases like the screws sheared off in shipping
and banging around inside them i love tape as much as the next person but it's
good because this whole thing is held together with tape think about it a little all right mom we might just have
to put it on a pallet yeah i would not box this okay no way
all right so that's in we can put the heart in so which way does it go on
standoffs here okay and then four standoffs for the other
side oh fantastic so is this motherboard tray custom yes
wow did protocase make that for us as well i designed it protocase cut that
that's actually steel so it's a little bit more rigid nice that's a good call
so in terms of the hardware we're using we're running a maximus 7 gene so we
went with matx so that we could have a little bit more expandability it's only
got a single pci express 16 out slot but
if you wanted to add 10 gigabit networking or whatever else down the
line we've got another 4x slot up here it's got basically everything you could
want built in on board ac wi-fi usb 3 uh
you know type c blah blah blah et cetera et cetera and
more importantly because we're not putting a hard drive in this it's got a ton of m.2 expansion so we've got a two
terabyte mp600 in here we've got room for another one here and then this thing
collins holding this is their latest dim.2 goes in here and holds another two
m.2 drives so that should be that should
be enough plenty of storage yep those are some big old screws so we went
pretty basic in terms of cooling i'm not expecting him to overclock or anything
like that and given that we're running a 9900k a single 120 millimeter aio with a
replacement fan we went with a knock to a fan we want the whole system to be nice and quiet seemed like a pretty good
bet now i'm sure there are many many of you that are going to be like
he edits video he does this why didn't you go AMD
the answer is that we started planning this project like four months ago
yeah AMD didn't have anything that was top tier for gaming at that time what do you
want from us um which way do you like the two so i
have the tubes sticking out just like that like that way ah yeah that should
work so what's really cool about having the cooling configured this way with our
thick rad and our 120 millimeter fan actually pulling air and then blowing it
out this way is that the exhaust comes out around the head
so it's nice and dispersed there's not going to be like a hot zone near the
computer and the intake for this fan is
going to be drawing fresh air from the bottom over the m.2 the dim slots the
vrms and all that stuff so it's going to stay nice and cool and it's not just
this fan there are actually two 80 millimeter fans
that are going to be pushing air up from the center crotch cooling
tm so this was one of our challenges
right now felix has 64 gigs of RAM in
his system according to the information we were able to find we didn't talk to
him about this because we wanted to be a surprise now this board in spite of being matx
only has two memory slots because it takes up so much room for all these m.2s
so we ended up needing to use these special trident z dc series memory
modules so these are basically like two
sticks in one so each of these is 32 gigs for a total
of 64 gigs of ddr4 3200 cl 14. that
should be plenty for our Intel platform um how much is one of those sticks
around fifteen hundred dollars ish not for one for two and of course
they're RGB completely hidden this panel is going to be held on by magnets so we actually
can't have anything pressing on it there we go so you can see the crotch is more
than just cooling there's actually room for cable cutouts and pci express and
stuff like that to run in between them so that you don't really see it
but it's i mean it it has to run there and there was no way to be true to the
shape of the creeper without having a little bit of cheating
in between here so that'll go in probably last yep if we want to post it
we can just plug it all in and make sure it functions we can verify that the head
ejects i ran all these runs with string before i ordered the cables okay there's
got to be an easier way than that not that i've found so this is the head
ejection system so what we have here is a remote relay
these are really cheap i think it was like eight dollars um runs on four to twelve volts but
one of the problems i encountered with the solenoid system here is that when
the spring force is pushing up on the latches here there's so much spring
force that you can't actually eject the head
right yeah so what we have here is we have 12 volt
then being sent into a boost converter which ups this to like 18 and a half ish
volts and then that trip that overvolts these solenoids and enough enough and it
works okay plugging in the power supply and bumped
your auntie this thing's freaking heavy dude and i don't even have the panels on
watching you lift my project scares me
and lights hey well
oh are we do we have a monitor or anything oh yeah i can pull one over all
the keystones yeah we've got like one
two three unnecessary connections
all good just had a cable and a fan there ah that click by the way was the
solenoids getting power
you can do the honors
and we're posted with all 64 gigs of RAM very nice
okay so we have no more components to put in it so we want to deal with
installing all of the buttons and stuff in our panels sure
and then the panels go on we vinyled over all these mounting holes for the
rear i o so this is our power and this is going to be DisplayPort but i'm
going to need to just make a little little hole that's really tight with the
vinyl in there okay need a nut
that is how finished it's going to look from the outside love that that looks
great so this is this one then that's correct yep we're definitely going to
need to adjust the position of the motherboard a little bit then so we're going to move it up with the main
fasteners on both the rails and then over will be with the pcb fasteners yeah
so let's do the vertical adjustment first sure which is you can just do that
with a rubber mallet right actually yeah percussive maintenance
send it no really no bad Linus
oh you know what what are we running into here i think we're running into i need
to uh tap it
nope it doesn't make sense this should just slide they're like locking
themselves yep okay we want to come down about an
eighth of an inch that's bang on tap it i might have found
one other small oversight uh this nut
interferes with this oof that seems you know rimmel fixable well
not your dome that was bound to happen notch it out
under normal circumstances you would never
grind metal creating metal fragments inside a computer that's already built
but we feel like we've got everything masked off well enough uh yeah it's got
to come up a little higher i can see it from here
did i get it a little more a little more yeah i see it yeah
actually a lot of the build was like this um
you put everything in place and you can design as as much as you can in cad but
when it all goes together sometimes parts aren't the same size as what the
cat drawing is or any number of things
we got it this time yeah it's flush okay awesome i know that i know you want the
finish to be similar i can sleep soundly tonight now so port power rear i o
done i think we're actually ready we're really close yeah we just start peeling
panels and sticking them on holy smokes well not before we put the pci express
connector back in uh-huh we should do any final cable management okay
well the lich pin in this whole shebang is this middle panel okay so the cut out
side here fits over should we do that first
i want to we got to just fit before we take off the adhesive though okay so 24
8 and two PCIe i'm just worried about
cable length they'll be fine honestly
all right i have done every surface on my side here i'm just gonna finish this
side this vhb tape is like super lit
sticky so we don't want to be pulling things off once we've applied it because
we could end up bending it what's that it's a razor for pulling the vhp tape
off oh so this side is the pci side
snuck that LTT logo in there we have a little bit of a cut out that is
totally planned and not done after the fact yeah to give a little bit of
clearance for the ribbon cable that 120 millimeter fan is going to take care of
intake for our graphics card which does it have an exhaust or is it just
pacifica so all the exhaust comes out the foot at the bottom so they're
elevated up on these little bumpers okay perfect yep oh i didn't take the
adhesive backing off oh i got it oh no you got it oh there's one's up at the
very top okay all right yep everything's clear
up ribbon cables a little stressed but okay
oh yeah yeah it's quite contacted yeah well should we just bend it yep that
one's on for better or for worse just little tiny bit more
oh i'm good everything's fine
so that's on there this way these cables can't come loose and stick into the fan
or anything nasty like that that would be a real pain to diagnose and fix
all right shall we line up the other side i think we should just stick it and then
run the cables um sure yep okay you do bottom i'll do
top well okay
oh i think that's a lot better than last time we should have done that last time that's like perfect we're living we're
learning that actually looks pretty darn sharp
and it's worth noting i haven't seen it with all the panels on it either
that's just bubble wrap popping
nice okay that looks pretty clean because the 24 pin covers everything
else now yep what do you get a guy like pewdiepie for christmas someone asked me
on twitter it's like what do people buy you for christmas and i said socks
i actually truly the greatest gift well the fans on the bottom are hooked up
they're both into a single header that should have easy software control okay
do you want to come back on this side and stick on the head ejection system
here we go this is a sick build thanks
do you still sell those yes we sure do
lttstore.com can i actually get another one of those ltcstore.com
lc2store.com i noticed that the power
supply isn't plugged in yet oh no
if we grab the belt sander
let's see if our shaven power connector looked nice that went no
problem so that's plugged in now i mean do you want to do that one for wait oh
so we didn't do it right
we did not i don't know if i shaved it enough to fit through here
or there we are professionals
oh so i wanted it as far away from the pci express extender as i could get it
oh you think power like the frequency will i don't know for sure
gotcha but what i know is that i don't feel like dealing with it if that is a
problem me neither here also i'll line up the bottom again and you line up the
top okay okay i think that's as good as we're
gonna get wow what should we do next Linus
um why don't we close up the feet i have
a image of a creeper because i want to make sure we get the panels on in the
correct orientation so you want to get the actual
like pixels pixels in the correct spots oh we're going for accuracy here all
right all right all right uh the dark corner
goes towards the side yep yep now seems
like a good moment to shout out protocase with their fantastic high
precision laser cutting they actually made all these panels for
us before we had them sent off to the vinyl wrapping shop this head is a piece
of art it's all aluminum and it's welded sharp
edges and you can't weld it too fast otherwise it'll just melt so they're
like slowly dabbing we'll we'll put in some footage of this
it's incredible is that going on you better believe it these are
different yeah we don't have pieces why is the left different from the right one
small error all right so i'll just put it on randomly then yep okay oh no
that's too far off okay that's gonna happen a lot all right i'm calling that
good enough i'm sorry if it's not good enough okay so what's the foot is that
the foot that is the foot so we still end up with about a millimeter of gap on
my side i can take a little more yeah i think we we're gonna have to live with
that yep like that looks pretty darn good all right should we put a big panel
on wait no this isn't the same this is the front
that's the back minor problem we put double-sided tape
on the front piece and magnetic strips on the back piece
just gotta take all this off are those
really no good anymore yeah the adhesives toast okay and that's
uh it's literally on there okay go ahead okay
those cables will never be seen ever again bye-bye cables great so we've now got
magnets on the back of this panel yep but this is an aluminum chassis so but
it's aluminum i've made
four neodymium magnet stacks and i've counter-bored half-inch holes which fit
these so we just give this little tap and we'll deform the aluminum around
the magnet and it'll hold it in place oh okay
hey nice that is quite flush sir
and then you're going to want to do probably six or eight all around the periphery
and it's dead
can't make it worse
all right are you doing that by hand
oh it's a spring-loaded thing you're not
doing it by hand poop and boop
all right so now we put the front on then yeah oh wow yeah nailed it feel the
edge it's done oh wait it's not done
you should have done this earlier wait no this is no problem because we thought
of this oh gorgeous
monitor keyboard mouse mode keyboard mouse let's do it this thing seriously
does look like just a computer graphic brought to
life like it's crazy
uh should i power it on
he even told me it might happen because i was busy with something else
i'm so happy with how well that head retains itself like getting it to latch
and release every time perfectly literally took four days
hey if you were him
do you leave it down so that you can like do this on a whim or do you leave
it up so you can just oh no i totally leave it up you leave it up we gotta let
game on this thing start for the micro see if it actually works yeah worst case
scenario head down head down yeah so i'm gonna hit the GPU with the MSI combustor
built in stress test
and i'm gonna hit the CPU with a blender classroom render excellent so we are
turboing to 4.7 gigahertz all cores
our CPU is sitting at anywhere from 80 mid to 90 low remember this is under an
all core load while stressing both the CPU and GPU our GPU is sitting pretty
darn healthy actually around 62 63 degrees i think it's safe to call that a
success i mean we're going to want to leave this run for a little bit make
sure that it actually holds at these temps but
it seems like it's actually doing a perfectly good job of getting rid of the
heat yeah great job colin
white
really does just look like a like a like a piece of video game just
sitting on your desk doesn't it uh what just happened it turned off
i was trying to uh troll james i was asking how it looks up close and uh
i tried to trigger the head while it was under load uh
oh current spike current spike
how power hungry is that it's pulling like
four amps at 12 volts so like
48 watts it's only 50 watts it's an 800 watt power supply maybe don't stress
test it and hit the button
i mean that's kind of funny okay we might have to live with this
particular little design flaw it's a feature let me see if it happens again
let me see what happens again full stress
pack it and send it i think the odds of that happening are
pretty slim yes i have my job for another day oh oh
66 chance so then outside of a couple minor
finishing touches
it's done it's playing minecraft
it looks like minecraft and it may not be the world's first
creeper pc but you know what i think it's the best
one so come at me bro i hope you guys enjoyed
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i can't believe we don't get to keep this now i'm only going to get to play with it a
few more times it doesn't crash when it's running minecraft no
you sure i'm positive okay good
because that'd be super awkward try one more time one more time ready
it's good right good okay