welcome to tech showdown the theme this time is pixels that's it last time it
was future we we all saw how that went so hopefully it goes a little bit better
this time i'm here with severus and i'm here with ant venom we've got some game
streaming game youtubing guests to go along with our well potentially very
game oriented theme but first introducing the hardware so Corsair
provided their 600c case a nice clean blank canvas for us to work with we've
also got h115i water coolers rm1000x power supplies along with some
dominator platinum memory to go with our maximus eight extreme assembly
motherboard our MSI gtx 980 ti gaming
graphics card our 6700k processor and
last but not least are cable mod cables and lighting so beyond all that stuff i
just listed the rest is up to the imaginations of the two teams and i wish
the other one luck not because i want to wish them luck because they don't seem
to [ __ ] need it because this is gonna be my third time losing if i go down
again here so i wish myself an aunt venom luck
we got this i'm confident let's go
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okay so now one thing i'm a little bit concerned
about is this top panel doesn't seem to
yeah it seems to be like riveted
in a way that i was not expecting it to be hang on let's see what we're doing
there i mean oh at the top here oh that shouldn't matter yeah it's like
we're not doing the original thing on that remember i mean look look what's
set there like that's not even required no you're good okay yeah so the top
panel is your problem okay the right panel is your problem yep left panel is
my problem and the front's my problem how did i wind up with like the two like
showcase pieces it was great
hey man you wanted to be a guest so you know
i'm not saying i'm not owning up to the challenge i'm going for gold here well
you said you wanted to win so we're giving you the uh i wanted to be among
the team that took luke down that's right that's right we're taking luke
down he's not he cannot be undefeated
yet again okay so this is nice this front canvas comes off for me like
really really beautifully wow which is going to give me a lot of uh
a lot of room to work here so i have to get started on this right away
because i'm relying on multiple layers of paint to dry fortunately it's
extremely hot today okay let's take all the crap off just oh
so i gotta get started on this right away okay i think
i'm gonna we need to do painting really really quick i'm going to lay everything
out though
uh which is the top that matters sorry which is the top for this this is well
the clip goes on yeah this is the top okay
okay yeah this is top yeah should we have uh brown in the middle so there
should be a brown stripe in the middle look up an image
well there is no top down
yeah the path brown and then we'll build it up on the other end right okay so six of them there we go
regardless of my planning for the uh for the paint here i need to get this first
layer on like extremely quickly here so
i hope this tape works properly um
okay paint oh all right i need to paint all of
these yeah do all are all of them like that
have you tried this one backwards i don't want to like reveal anything
does it actually i don't actually know if it matters no it has the arrow
oh it's just it wiggles a lot i just go arrow towards you
it just wiggles a lot unless it's not oh
whoa it's pretty tight it's pretty tight yeah yeah right now i'm just sort of
tracing over this area right here and then i'm going to like practice cutting
this material and then make sure i get the cut really smooth because sharpness
is like a key thing here making sure that it all looks really really good
it makes sense with this so i am working on a multi-layered paint
job that is going to be
the dog from duck hunt here and a duck
so this is going to require about six layers of paint which means i need to
get started painting it
immediately because i mean it makes sense because our guest today is sky does minecraft
right wow you went there
it almost like it even though i know it's going to turn out really well it
makes me feel so useless as i'm going along because i feel like i could be doing so much more at once
i did not check the drying time for this paint not that we had a choice because
the colors that we needed were only all available in this uh this tremclad rust
paint stuff but it wants one to two hours to dry i'm gonna have to find a
faster way to do that okay so it's a hot day
but where is the hottest place you can think of on a hot day
inside of a black car or at least a car that used to be black
so this is the sky color for the front of my case
and i'm going to be basically baking this dawn
in the inside of my car
now that will hurt its adhesion
but i only need this to last for a few hours
so step two is i actually need to take my design
and count pixels well okay yeah that's fine i'm just
gonna draw myself a grid and use this
nice big piece of paper here and i'm going to take one of those
pencils that you yeah hate it on so hard
i'm just breaking down my graphic here that i want to use
into how many squares by how many squares i
need here i noticed speaking of squares that they already managed to have
something painted before we started here so i'm not really sure how the [ __ ] that
works this is for the mario road up on top
sure so this thing which will play
these things that's not descriptive right
is theoretically going to go up here
so that it can be accessed from this area
all of these are going to be used literally
i guess i could probably leave with that to the theme um yeah and then we're
gonna use this
along with these which we will color to make sense with
this and these which will create the thing that
he's coming out of um
and then that whole situation is going to go up here
and then this
you can maybe figure out from what he's doing right now pretty self-explanatory
if you know what's up yeah yeah and then
there's gonna be some of this stuff going on
and then uh these guys are gonna explain everything
and like how it all works with like this thing and stuff
um and yeah the other stuff you'll just have to kind of come along see how it
goes that might be the one
i'm just checking to see which ones are the sharpest by rubbing them against my
bare fingers because
okay this cuts right now to make sure that i
know how this is all going to break apart and like how it's going to look so
i think i might be okay but i might do
what i might do is cut a little bit too big and then just sort of
make it make the cuts thinner and thinner until i get the perfect shape
so i'll say to figure out all right
just the fact that i have these lines that cut on made this like such a brilliant find because the scissors are
just kind of like gliding with it this is this is probably going to look super
sharp yeah i need your i need your uh i need a
judgment call over here for a minute okay
to make my life easy i can work with centimeter-sized pixels yeah
and that will make this graphic
go to about here okay so it'll be about this big
that's but that means i'll have to cut off his head about here sticking with
the bottom wait what do you mean so like it's gonna go from the chin up
i'm gonna it'll it'll mean that i'll have to make a lot of adjustments to
okay to the size of my grid okay um
i mean if you think we got to do it then we got to do it so i'm just oh actually
you know what you could do is there a way you can like zoom in on that picture super far and then we could
like use a scroll wheel and like actually see what it'll look like cropped
with the duck i could see it but i mean the whole hand so you think we need that
basically down to that that's what i'm thinking personally okay
so this is not the right size oh my god there's there's a CPU sitting here
just what the heck all right
you really only care about getting the tops of these and some of the sides
i'll sort of piece it together so that the ones that i get the sides of
will also go on the sides of the the build
and the ones that have the non-painted sides
those will go on the interior and hopefully math works in our favor
and uh we have enough with a half sides painted
oh yeah
okay what do we got yeah a little bit wide on each side i
might end up making it a little bit taller just while i'm cutting it okay
and then we'll surround it with blocks
yeah there's no way to take this off and cut it
so i like really if i screw up the cut we're just like done
oh man if it's screwed up or if i scrub the top
of the case like i i can't get another case
i'm a little worried about this one
all right good so first incision made i'm actually really satisfied with that
result my one centimeter by one centimeter grid
that i need for the big the big my big contribution to the
project so aunt and i have divided up the labor so each of us is taking on one
smaller project and one bigger project
so we're prioritizing the bigger ones right now and then whoever has time left
over will actually build a pc i guess
well you'd be surprised how often that's happened every single time
that's perfect ah it's so good
so good we we actually should do an install the install pretty soon not all of our
blocks are the same size you know what that just adds to the charm
that goes there sounds like Linus is doing a lot of the
work over there yeah i thought this was supposed to be a team project
this was like the best find am i gonna really free ball this one
free ball freehand this one
i hope i didn't make this too big i don't know if we have enough
blocks oh really like i thought we got it a lot
but yeah the
magic doesn't happen
so it's just sort of making it look close to right at this point
that's about the best we can do i think it's fine
people say picasso was a great artist i say check this out
so good okay so i think i'm good i ended up i cut off
one pixel on the wingtip here
which i don't think really affects the look
and gives me one pixel of margin on either side
so now what i have to figure out is
the order in which i want to do the colors
so what i want to do is layer my tape onto this template i think i really wish
i had used the shiny side which i would feel more confident about removing this
from but i want to layer on my tape cutting really really sharply in such a
way that i can remove layers as i want to apply more paint
wait no that won't work hold on i need to cover it more as i want to apply more
paint wait
so i just need to file it down a little bit nice but like it turned out really
well so the stenciling on the back obviously it's not showing through at all yeah that's great so
just file it down a little bit and it's gonna look sharp i mean it already does
look pretty sharp okay so i really wanted to do this with tape
but it does not appear as though i'm going to have a choice which might mean
my lines will be a little bit less clean but i think that's a sacrifice i'm going
to have to make here so i'm going to go see how dry it is i'm going to do my dog
and then what i'm going to do is i'm going to use the x-acto knife
to cut out color by color and then i'm going to use tape
to fill in the gaps as i do other colors
part of me was worried that this would like bubble or some something like that and
i'd have a real problem on my hands
in fact that actually looks kind of fantastic
that paint is still tacky though that
is a huge problem because i can actually live with the
other colors being tacky because i'm going to cut away my top layer as i go
but this one cannot be i think i need more airflow
this paint i can tell you one thing for sure this paint's going to be wet when
the judges are judging
i've never used one this big to do this job i don't know if this will work
this is too big but it might work it might work later
whoa it's all good you okay
all right so right now like i made this second shape i mean i haven't cut it so
it's not a time waste but i looked at that and the way that this has to go on
the side panel and i'm like yeah maybe not the smartest idea maybe i should get
something of the same width so i'm gonna do that i'm pretty worried we are down
to an hour and a half and i have basically not started painting yet the
good news is that this second panel is relatively straightforward so
not a whole lot to go wrong
all i'm hearing over there is time is a problem so i don't i don't really feel
bad at all like i don't actually feel like time is too much of a burden for me
right now i'm feeling good everything about everything we're doing takes forever
we are not doing well for time thank you for asking all right so yeah Linus is using the
x-acto knife so like as you can see i still have like a lot of cuts to make here but i think i'm just going to leave
this be for now and then work on this material for the shape that's right
there and then we'll pretty much be good to go and like looking at this
we're looking at this versus looking at that like that's gonna be way easier to
cut i'm not even gonna have to think for that this is like the little pew pew
thing that's it's a square okay snap
that off do that right there
and bam final shape so all i need to do is take the x-acto knife to this guy and
we're done like this entire side panel
you know you can have a look at what that looks like does it look
like pixel art like is it perfect no does it look like pixel art yes
so the term five foot mod okay so i'm starting to get deeply worried about
drying times here this is still very tacky
not to say it doesn't look good i think it looks great it just feels very tacky
so i'm a little worried about how
i'm gonna get my stencil on top of it
without completely destroying the finish and i really don't have a lot of time to
wait anymore so what i may have to do is build myself
some kind of scaffold or something that gets it very
close and then i may just have to spray down
as straight as i can in order to get the lines as clean as i
can but you can see where he's gonna be
yes all right
all right so we're we're done our cuts that took a while
but now i'm gonna move on to like assembling the computer and just making
sure that we have a completed like machine that we can showcase off
so this is either going to be a moment of triumph
or a moment of despair
hey that's not bad i can live with that
you see my no signal oh god why okay
HDMI
i've never included an amiibo before it's kind of weird
don't screw up i think i might have done the power
light and not the hard drive
so first things first i'm going to
touch up that little spot right there
so the good news is i did all of this in pencil
so if i catch the light just right i can see the lines
that could have been bad so i pick up the processor and i have it in this hand
and the heat spreader just falls into my other hand
so this is all i got for like
a way to keep from spraying over the black that i've
already done
i don't know what the hell this is
okay so that's two out of four colors the next ones are gonna be the ones
where it really takes shape and i can probably do both of them in one go here
on these fans we get these like different color rings so just to try and like color match everything we're not
really too sure if like this color this color will really work at all so just to
be safe we're going to go with white and just kind of go for safe as far as the
fans are concerned so that we don't have to worry about you know getting any of
the colors wrong everything i do now
can completely destroy
the project
okay
oh [ __ ] i think i just made a huge error
oh my god dude destroyed it in a good way like
the thanks [ __ ] no no they own like
dude
i'm shaking
beautiful oh it's so beautiful nailed it
okay that's like the unreally bush you have
there yes i know okay
here's my glove need my glove for the love
oh
like didn't expect what you were doing at the bottom there that brought it all together
don't tell anyone but that was dead because this is like my specialty in my
field um i decided to create like actually a little story around this rather than just placing everything at
random so like as you can see like this this guy right here he this guy right
here has no idea what's coming like everything behind him it's like everything in front of him is like nice
and lovely everything behind them is just like danger danger danger that
lighting in there right yeah um
although cablemod sent us some kits that are uh magnetic oh it came unplugged
came unplugged the RGB came unplugged
i have to make a video dude i know
is this actually working yeah it totally is
plug in the controllers
yep got it got it got it got it got it whoa jesus that's very bright
not the most amazing looking thing ever unfortunately
uh tape would have worked better but
we might just have to live with that and by night i mean we will definitely
just have to live with that
okay i might have made a small error defined small
uh let's say an upside down area
desperate times call for desperate measures yeah that's amazing
you're gonna do do the eighth
i like it love it okay we're done done
okay peace bros i'll see you in the judging room well
okay so we got to move ours over there how do you want me to do this
i just want to stay where you're at and then i walk it through the office uh
sure yeah let's do that so because the way it hangs down it's
gonna oh will it close i don't know yeah i think it's gonna be
close uh hold on
i mean if you cut it open dude i could like i can't believe i just
thought about it but you know what i forgot it was inverted
kaboom sucker done okay we're done
perfect okay
i love the build already they're trying to butter us up by saying hey take a
mint so there's free mints in one of five collectible tins
you want the squid one oh i was gonna go for the star one we were gonna leave
sugar cubes yeah we couldn't find any that was gonna
be they didn't have them at the dollar store that was aunt's idea and i was like oh it's brilliant i want to do it
i don't know if these are real mints or not no this is cool this playable though
like holy crap okay the case looks wicked oh you guys have a
screen that is a beautiful duck interest that's all this guy right here
and that's the system that's playing right now yeah it's not so computer
there's donkey kong on the side of the glass side of the case it looks very
cool the aesthetic is dank um
all the buttons on this controller this is very nostalgic
all right let's see what we got going on here because i spent the past 45 seconds
just like marveling at how all the buttons on this are mapped correctly
we've got like an homage to dk here like with all the ladders and whatnot um
there's i'm not looking at here there's like a big mario sock over the heatsink
it's kind of crude but it still looks pretty cool there's a bunch of like tetris blocks in the bottom space
invaders machine so there's like a mario diorama on top
it looks like they used a couple of little shot cups to make pipes which is
pretty sweet oh and it has like the flag and everything oh this this little thing is
official it has super mario brothers 30th anniversary on it that's pretty
that's pretty sweet so i like this this is cool but over here we've got an
official ant venom minecraft style wait it's like minecraft
as well as duck hunt but it's like a
8bit.com what's the theme what duck hunt was no i know but like
but like is this like a minecraft duck what's the theme i don't know there's a
thing on top of the graphics card the little orange guy do you know what does do either of you guys know what that is
a little orange guy i don't know i don't actually play it's a creeper i don't play minecraft okay it's a creeper from
minecraft yeah Colton knows yeah okay that's pretty important it's actually
pretty clean overall yeah they did it pretty good oh that's that's yes plug
iron the controllers like come on yeah
then push the purple power button on top oh they're cool oh that's cool they put
a little zelda emblem here too that's pretty sweet i do like the setup here
the game is frozen though so oh good you good you good
okay berkeley's going to keep playing um super mario we're going to finish
looking at at the minecraft slash
old-school 8-bit case here so we've got pong over here so what's
going on oh look at this side so on this side
on the mario case we are we so they also
they both want the space invaders here that's interesting so space invaders you
have one that goes from pac-man you have actual pac-man
who apparently is missing an eye but that's okay okay
i feel like the nes build has a lot more going on the inside a lot more going on
here you have like over there all you really have was the one what would you
call it the creeper the creeper from but here you've got like
like the ladders and stuff from dk you've got the mario sock as basically a
RAM cover and we don't know what's in that song
all right so i'm gonna give the uh mario
themed pc i'm gonna give it a 7 out of
10. overall i liked it it has a little bit more kind of wow factor when you
first initially see it but with the theme being pixels and stuff the more i
looked there's a lot going on but i think some of it was a little bit kind
of shoddily done the theming for the most part um is really really good all
the way through um the dk ladders on the front you've got the mario sock as a RAM
cover um most of this build has been touched in
one way or another by the theme which i really appreciate so um in all i think
that the nes build
no i did not forget deserved a nine
uh well i spent the whole time playing video games on the nest build and it had
free mints and it looks cool uh i would say it's almost a 10 out of
10 except it's a little bit dirty you know it's not very clean but you know
what a little little spit shine and polish this bad boy could be a ten but
it gets a nine for me as written right here and i wrote
sivides name on it all right so the minecraft theme build for me
gets an 8 out of 10. i just like it it's uh it's clean it
looks good um i think everything all in all was pretty well executed so
when i looked around the outside i thought the um the paint job especially
for the duck hunt on the front where it actually looks like the duck is fleeing
in terror very realistic i think the diorama on top is slightly more
realistic than the nes build because there is a background but
basically nothing happened with the inside which was a little bit disappointing but a good score i think
is deserved for this so this one gets an eight for Linus and ant
venom well i'll start off by saying i did
really like the paint job on the front i thought it looked great and if Linus was
involved you know that's a great paint job for Linus so i think he really put
in the effort and he worked hard and
uh but no it looks really cool i wish they had almost carried through the like
blue paint job throughout the case because that would have looked really cool or like just like paint on the
other panels that would have been awesome but it still looks good uh the one the pong side i thought was
kind of shadily painted i can't really remember
it shoddily painted it wasn't as good as the front but obviously the front of the
case is what you're gonna see the most if it's like in a desk or something um
but yeah i thought it was good it just didn't have the extra little flare that
was on the other pc build so
therefore i gave it an eight out of ten which is still good that's like
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