i've had ones where the contestant sort of tries to play dumb and that's fun
but the real thing is so much better there are three things i know about rog
rig reboot one it's sponsored by ASUS two we give away sick gaming rigs that
we build with our viewers every year and
number three absolutely nothing can stop it that's right my
friends in spite of the fact that we weren't able to fly people in here to
build the machines with us we still pulled it off and that actually worked
out great for ethan because his might not have even been one of the top three
except that we had to pick someone locally so we could build the computer
together i mean that's great it's great you're like the best of the like
people who happen to be here good for you thank you
my name is ethan i'm from surrey british columbia and what's your
current setup oh man i really don't know i just bought it
on craigslist tell me something ethan have you ever built a computer before
nope really you know did you study up before
showing up here for rog rig reboot i watched a few of your videos but that's
pretty much it the most research i did was watching just the old rog brig
baboot videos with the actual build itself i really don't know what i'm
doing at all and i don't know any parts of computers and so i hope he'll explain
it to me and be a little nice but i don't think he'll be nice
all right let's go ahead and get started what's the first component we're going
to need are you asking me well yeah oh right you told me you watched one of
these i watched one let's start with
that what is that motherboard okay
ASUS has gone with a tough themed machine for ethan probably because they
watched his entry and they were like what this guy rides his computer it's
gonna have to be about as tough as humanly possible so we've got
an x570 pro wi-fi which means that he's
gonna have wi-fi yeah
don't use it though wi-fi sucks what else are you gonna need in there ethan i
got i think stickers oh my god oh my god
look it's already it's not even right side up you know that's not right side
up what does that mean right side up right side up well it means when it's
what i oh he's gonna Linus is gonna tear me
apart this is not gonna be good the rest of
this video is just gonna be like 30 minutes of me crying and putting little
plugs together that don't know where should we work on our motherboard
on the table
here on a safe static resistant
okay that makes sense workspace
what's next
no yeah i think i know what the graphics card looks like motherboard yeah power
supply has that big box with the cords right this looks cool the
heat sink this one you want to do that next yeah
let's do it all right fine so that's a two terabyte NVMe pci express gen 4 SSD
with a massive heat sink on it so that it can it can never slow down one of the
reasons that we went for x 570 on this machine is that we're actually going to
be using two pci express gen 4 ssds a
one terabyte for boot and then a two terabyte for mass storage
what a freaking world three terabytes of gen four NVMe ssds so b550 only supports
a single gen 4m.2 and this one's gonna have support for two of them okay where
does this go okay this is gonna go
well first you have to assemble it okay so all you've managed to do so far
is scatter the pieces of it so let's let's try to organize our thoughts a
little bit here i feel like if i could describe lioness it would be
very energetic and i wanted to use my words carefully i
don't know Linus loves computers
you're doing great i don't know i don't know much about you you might not be great you might be an awful you might
torture cats for all i know no look it's my cat that's your cat he's dying i
don't torture him making shirts for him got an imaginary cat no it's a real cat
i actually got one for you if you want a cat so i know you like computers so i
put in a laptop bag uh-huh this is for you
oh it's just a shirt like yours but an
LTT orange exactly i love it it's
exactly my size it's extremely your size
i love it no way i appreciate your gift we are gonna wear matching shirts for
the rest of this video i'm so glad before you put the screws in i'm gonna
save us some time why don't you try and install that in the slot these are big
words they don't know what they mean install
is this it looks this looks like the right shape is it this thing yeah oh
yeah so it would have to go that way because there's a notch
this is bad people are going to make fun of me well yeah i mean did you watch previous
rog rig reboots so why do you think it won't go that way
because it looks like it's upside down or something is it upside down it's upside down
that's good i saved you some time at least you didn't put all the screws in thank you you know in your video you
said you were gonna give away your old computer if you won
i would probably not get ahead of yourself here because
this one might not work by the time you're done with it really
just by that but i just the way you are you you know i have some information
about that actually uh-huh i broke it that doesn't surprise me okay well i
broke it just like a few weeks ago it was in the car and when i braked it
tipped over and it broke and it just won't start at all so you
have no computer right yep so you better not break this one yep
what's next oh let's do this all right we got to keep the viewers
interested is gonna be rocking the ryzen 5 5600
x his priorities are in no particular
order minecraft and video editing what
would you say your top priority is minecraft i definitely want to play
minecraft i want to get as much like texture packs and shaders and everything
that would be fun some mods so it's such a big box but for such a tiny thing what
could possibly be in here nothing okay we're good what no the
cooler why'd you drop it well we're not gonna
use it okay yeah it's also just it's made of metal like it's not fragile i
would really like you to figure out what you're going to do with it before you open the package though okay because
this is the hard part this is the fragile piece of this entire endeavor if
you bend one of those pins you're done okay here's my game plan i need to open
this and put this inside of it okay that's all i have there's a weird thing
right here it looks like a sticker i'm hoping it's just a sticker
it's a sticker yes oh yeah there we go
and it'll just go in sort of however it has like little dots i'll line up
maybe wow that is um one way you could
orient it in the socket i suppose well he's got a 50 50 shot don't say that
really well those dots are symmetrical so how are you gonna know this has like english
words language this way this is the same
thing so they go the same way
well you logiced your way out of it does it work
that's not how you're supposed to do that how are you supposed to do it um
well there's a little golden triangle on here and there's a little golden
triangle there and you're supposed to put it on that way but you know what
ethan in your own roundabout way you made it work yes good job work ooh does this go
on like the case or something it's technically uh a case sticker but you
really can put it on your apple watch if you really want to
what time is it rising time what would you like to do
next um RAM
sure you know what RAM is wow this is nice 32 gig kit of 3600 megahertz cl 16
memory this is an excellent pairing for your CPU
there's holes on this thing that looks like they need to be filled so
whatever goes here that's what she said or here
let's do this one then nope let's do the other one then all right
well you're probably gonna need a case for that we're gonna be installing
in the tough gaming gt301
case it's got a tempered glass side panel lots of airflow and of course radiator
mounting for the all-in-one water cooler that we're going to be using build it
all right
looks like iron man yeah it's copper where would you like to
put it i'm really guessing but let's just maybe the top i've seen
is that good or did you say don't put at the top you could put it at the top if
this was a case that was compatible with the top mounted radiator i think this is
where it's on on my old computer except it's tiny it's like this big
mm-hmm so let's just put it right there then i
can't tell if you're trolling me i'm really not i promise i have no clue what
i'm doing okay tell you what to make your life a
little bit easier then we're gonna put the motherboard in the case okay okay
does that sound good yes zip ties
yes this looks like get your cable ties at lttstore.com
and there's instructions any pictures
it's a headphone hanger no way like right there probably not
i don't have headphones anyway what i don't have headphones oh
headphones uh i think these probably pop up and it looks like they go here so you
can put it on either side as far as i can tell what side do you want it on
i don't know yet do you want to see a picture of my desk no just think about
your desk imagine it my desk is a piano it's a piano
what do you want to see a picture of my desk oh fine
i made it myself at the beginning of my first quarantine you want to see this
picture wow when is that um i think it was 2016.
oh so you're one of those creepy people that just walks up to me in public and
it's like hey can i take a picture yep it was my friend's iphone 4 too who led
him through the front door of course the weirdest thing isn't that you took the
picture it's that it's like still right there did you see the like i
got a picture of your credit card on accident and so i blurred it out in
paint but it's such a bad photo that you can't
see it in the first place you put it at such a bad angle
i can't oh
damn it you want to line up the standoffs with the holes in the boards are these the
standoffs no the screw things the standoffs so you
will need these screws okay you'll need nine of
them don't worry ethan you got this i
got this one two three four excellent
now would you like to put the cooler in yeah okay so it can't go there it can't
go on the top then there's fans over there would that
be good to be on those fans what do you think yes
why is it good to be on those fans because air
will cool it down wonderful okay so
now you are basically decked out as far
as cooling goes you got three fans in the front two on the top one in the back
these are all intakes all right and these are all exhaust
how do you change that did you just put them upside down
yep cool there's a tech tip for you
put your fan upside down if you want it to blow what you need to do see these
holes see these holes see these bolts
those need to go through these holes
into those holes okay this seems easy enough i know you guys are gonna love this guy
but if we didn't hire madison we're definitely not hiring him
you got one did you really yeah well
now it was the funniest thing because i like saw your eyes move
to this when i put it on top of the case i need my fingers for your hostility
you're still putting in screws with your with your hands i'm gonna keep doing it
too it's good because i can line it up properly and then can you how's that
working because i use my fingers to like angle the screws
then they go in perfectly i mean it's not stupid if it works right
right just like how i lined up the CPU
i don't see any point to screw it in okay so let's look at the retention
mechanism how does this go on to the CPU
this is like a hook on this oh yeah sorry was that word this is a hook
uh-huh okay right what are you holding in your right hand a screw with a little
twisty bit on it a hook
oh okay wait i think i got this my bag
hurts so much you can move it
oh it's half off the desk
prepare for talking you got it
i did it i didn't know building computers was an
extreme sport yeah it's not
you know what though for all the razzing i've done here i think you're
the first rog rig reboot contestant to fully install their aio without me
actually touching it it did something and guess what what the fun keeps coming
now we get to plug in all the front panel connectors and you know all those
little like banks of headers and stuff nope we're going to do that what the mix
of headers you pointed them out like all the little pins and stuff yeah yeah we
get to do all that now do it can you do it do you want me to just do it you should
probably do it okay i'm just going to do it because it's gonna take you like three hours a night
what time is it it's rising time
would these help um
you know what maybe some asmr
there we go all your fans are plugged in all your front panel connectors are
plugged in you got your front usb and all that good stuff so what do you want
to do next let's do this nope let's do
this cool all right i'm glad i have an option open it up this is your rog strix
1000 watt gaming power supply for gamers
and amateur video editors too this looks intense what can you tell me
a bit about this it's a thousand watts has a 10-year warranty modular interface
so you only use the cables you need so we're going to go ahead and install all
of our modular cables now oh they're labeled that's nice
do the labels mean anything to you this one says CPU and i touched that thing
earlier you gotta put this in there okay so you gotta get the orientation right
though that looks right oh no ah language
i'm gonna go for it no
sugar is just not always the answer well
i went off the shape of the power plug can you think of any other way you could
line it up i'm either going off language or the shape of the power plug oh
there's a hole yeah this seems right it's like this thing
all right now what do you want to do
i mean i kind of want to do this one it's the last big box we got a lot of
cords hanging around but cool let's do it
okay this is it this is insane i've seen
i've seen this number it's a big number rtx 3080 this is pretty much as fast as
it gets for cards that like you can actually obtain 10 gigs of gddr6x memory
free fan cooler yeah
it's even overclocked okay what does overclock mean that means
that the clock is like over what it would normally be is that a joker is
that real no that's that's real what's the clock clock is you know like
megahertz gigahertz you know that kind of thing that's like
that's the speed the clock speed so overclocked means like clocked over
like it's fast i can't get the sticker off
dear lord it make the FPS go
oh this is far and away the most expensive
piece of this machine really do not break it okay really yes so 100 you
can't even buy these things is this they're like out of stock everywhere
this is like the thing in all the things that you've been talking about well like
everyone's like oh it's the thing that's seven times more than it
should be on amazon yeah yeah this is that yeah
you could literally turn around flip this on ebay
and then go back and buy it again in like three or four months and you'd have
the entire value of this computer and you'd have the computer left over
don't do that that would be lifted over here that would be very disrespectful that
would be very i promise i won't here's the instructions i have to game on it
i will game okay these are the instructions that came
with it they are not yeah look where did
you get this that's the instructions they were in the box they were not they
were right here where did you get this i did he put this in there no it's just
the instructions that came with it flour sugar
bake oven at 375 degrees oh that's my
cookie recipe
did you think i would think that like it was in there on its own that i would
like believe you for even a fraction of a second that this was in there i don't
know what i was hoping to be honest but jensen jensen was baking up a freaking
GPU or something all right do you think you can handle
installing this i think this is the important oh lordy i hope it fits dude
that does not look like it fits oh crap
yeah that barely fits there we go i mean
look at that you built a computer mostly mostly
you also built most of it but do you think it works
i don't know let's find out damn you be
careful with that thing 170 hertz 1440p ips
g-sync HDR support
this thing's balling pretty cool this is the vg1a
it's got the vg in there yeah vg i can't
do this now tell me something have you
ever actually gamed on like a sick like top of the line right no
never not once no
wow so what's the best machine you've ever gamed on
my brother has a computer he uses for vr
i don't know what's on it but that's probably the best and then the
best i can think of probably like a demo thing i like best buy i don't know
okay all right so this is like this is definitely new for you yeah this is new
well that's exciting this is it i genuinely do not know if this is gonna
fire up oh it's so colorful
that's pretty good okay well we do need other things to do stuff too
yep it's definitely colorful though so if that was the objective then you did
good it's so quiet it's not doing anything
it's still so quiet mine goes
there you go minecraft away minecraft i'll go where
there's some light there's gonna be you know like ray trace lighting this is
pretty cool already oh in the shadows wait i don't know where to
whoa okay that's actually pretty cool look at that it looks like an actual
photo oh we need tnt if we can overload the world with tnt then you know it's
good you know this is basically the same thing that like
my eight-year-old son wanted to do this hey he's not playing microphone
how's it running it's running beautifully i couldn't have
asked for a better tnt placing machine oh look at that
no lag at all it's perfect you can see them fly into the air at
perfect 60 FPS you want to try another game sure all right let's do it uh we
have before you play call of duty black ops cold war we've actually got a
surprise for you your side panel cover your eyes okay go ahead wow it's actually
genius did you do this up i did thank you sarah all right you ready ethan here
it is yo that's me
that's so cool oh my god
that's pretty sick all right we just cranked rtx to freaking ultra in this
thing turned off motion blur disabled dlss so we are going to be running at
2560 by 1440. this is it this is your
machine look all right okay i have been joking
around but it's crazy how it looks like an actual photo i haven't played any games since
like wii and so this is actually really cool yeah
the graphics are a little better than the nintendo wii
oh my gosh using the new computer it was night and day difference like compared
to not working i don't know it was it was really cool
to see like with all the lighting effects and it was fast oh here we go oh
my god i have no clue what's happening but it's
it's so much fun all right well that's it for rog rig reboot with
ethan here in 2020 i hope you guys enjoyed his presence as much as i did
massive thank you to ASUS for sponsoring this video and stay tuned because
there's still more to come
that's right i still got to do more of this