it's finally happening ladies and gentlemen the ultimate pc build off
between Linus tech tips and bit wit
but rather than exhaust ourselves and you
know get all sweaty building computers we've decided to fight this as more of a
proxy war so instead of Linus versus kyle it's
going to be my wife Yvonne versus wifey sauce wifey sauce that's a good
nickname so mine has a nickname ladies uh have fun
we're gonna go sit on the couch and uh critique your builds and you have snacks
i do i'm gonna have some snacks
so you guys are each going to build your pc starting on the same mark and then
we're going to come in and inspect each other's wives buildings
okay okay okay so so it's not a speed contest no it's a thoroughness contest a
little bit of both actually so you'll get 10 points if you finish first and
then you get deducted one point the slower person gets deducted one point
for every 10 minutes extra they take then we have a five-point score for your
cable management so one is going to be you basically just threw it all in their
total rat's nest and bang the side panels on you're nasty with a 5 being
what we would consider to be better than what we would have done for these builds
however even if you get 15 points if there are
defects or damn it what was the word deficiencies
something's not plugged in io there's a memory stick that's undone
yep you get one point docked for every single deficiency
so then if we're going to be doing cable management where are zip ties and all
that uh i believe you said you have a bunch
of uh LTT cable ties most of them are in use but i do have a bag of zip ties
yeah okay you could even you can even fight over
who gets to use that more often okay um and did we get
like a sort of briefing do we get to watch one of your videos you can watch
as many of my videos as you want okay and i can watch as many of yours sure i
mean they won't be helpful are we allowed to read the instruction man it's an hour long yeah of course okay just
checking i don't know we're not allowed to help each other you can help each
other if you want but like that's no one wants to see it close what if
like one of those finishes first they can go over and help the other person
where's the fight she already knows she's gonna win she's trash talking right now she's coming
over to help me out that is true women are
yeah it's like mean girls okay well see you guys yeah good luck
okay okay i'm going to start with the motherboard
i'm afraid to say things out loud i know me too but you're
see i don't you're being local this is i think this might be like a back plate of
some kind i'm actually really looking forward to this i am too this is great
like we're making content i feel like we're just sitting back and relaxing i
know right we should just do this more often let them do all the work oh shoot
they didn't give us thermal paste uh does it not come on the cooler
already wow just uh making a mess of things right away i
mean you gotta you know desk space is a valuable asset when you're building a
pci how is she not using the motherboard box as a cheap easy anti-static safe
work station well because she's got a beautiful gamer's nexus mod mat
i don't think the CPU works for this mother this motherboard she get wait and
she doesn't have it lined she doesn't have it lined up right she has it she hasn't rotated wait she keeps like
second guessing she keeps putting it in the same way i can't tell can you tell if it's facing them it's not facing the
right way you know what i take it back this is not much fun this is really this
is really sad so far they're not going to sleep with us for
like a week after they watch this video
wait a minute was your CPU exactly the same can i see the top of it
uh AMD ryzen 2400 mine's not AMD ryzen no they're not the
same they're not the same mine's at 2700
so mine's not like when i put it when i line up the arrows
unless it goes this way no because i lined up the arrows
and then yeah because it's not like seating at all i feel like this is the
blind bleeding the blind right now but
there oh my gosh okay i was like
okay thank you you are welcome this is so embarrassing oh my
god wifey you're better than this
i mean at least she's installing RAM now instead of like trying to put an aio
cooler on outside of the case right well see now if wifey sauce is a good
sport she'll help Yvonne when she gets in a pinch yeah right she owes her one i
think she owes her one at least right now yeah so you said you haven't built a
computer in 10 years i feel like that's a lie because you remember
you just no it has it actually has been a really long time and i've never built
one completely myself before okay
but i think i'm just i'm using like logic i saw
like for the CPU i saw a little gold triangle on one side and then i saw a
little triangle on the other thing so i assumed that they went together i think
i really need to get my eyes checked because i was seeing like two markings
that looked both looked like arrows and i was like
i don't know i think it's the nerves or something it must be
this is not right what is going on does it go this way that can't be right
let's sit this way
okay this really is the true test
of manufacturer documentation no kidding right
because i think honestly our wives are probably a pretty good representation of
people who like are like aware of computers right but
have never actually like really done it yeah what's really baffling me
is that they haven't just pulled out one of our videos to watch along with do
they really have this little faith in us i'm trying to be careful not to touch
the bottom and oh yours had thermal paste and mine doesn't
so i gotta figure that out too after oh thank you
why are they collaborating so much i don't know like i wouldn't be helping
you at all look at them there's like sharing tools and stuff like what are
you guys baking a cake together
this is supposed to be cut throat there's no prize for finishing together
i need to put these on but i don't know which
way these go on so it looks like the RAM is over
i'm really bad at physics so i need to like line things up
exactly how it says this is not physics milady
ironically she got a far better grade in our first year physics course than i did
i mean you were probably just busy dropping things that was your physics exam
drop the you know things drop the course drop my whole degree
i'm shaking right now are you shaking i am thinking i love doing this and on
top of that i have thermal compound all over my hand
no no no no this is wrong this is wrong
it is not making contact at all okay
okay this is all the wrong way
why isn't it working
she flipped it she flipped the other the breath did it oh they did it too yeah
they flipped it well that's why heather had to flip it around because i didn't
go i didn't notice she did that too yep she's got it now but yeah but she can't
figure out how to put on the socket
did she just take it off put it back on exactly the same way
there it is there it is i'm gonna get my memory in
okay so this part
you gotta line up the little things and open it up
oh boy hand it should be
okay i heard it click that's good okay
yeah that's some good RAM installation hon good job
you rammed it in there you rammed it where's my other fan okay
oh no i did this the perfect way is she putting the fans
on the radio
oh no wait what is she doing hold on if
she if she's putting them on the right way it could still work
in fact i would oh no that's not right at all she's
doing it the same as he does i know oh no
honey that was your chance to catch up yeah i always mess up like what
direction like the cable should go when i'm mounting fans on
radiators i can hear them like yelling in there and i wonder like what they're
getting so riled up about which one of us is making a horrible mistake right
now that they're making fun of us for both of you
really the reflection is on us though it really is you know that right yeah
they're just an extension of our own skill and training abilities do you have snacks i
do i'm kind of hungry yeah let me get something like kind of lunch time right
oh nice you've got like a platter i really hate working this hard but you
know oh boy
okay am i supposed to mount the radiator before i put in my memory
because it is not fitting you know what to be safe i'm just going to take out my
memory they both took the RAM out
i didn't see heather take the rabbit
but if they left the RAM in then they probably wouldn't have been able to install the radiator oh which means that
they're going to be like i said they have to be they have to install it at the front
that's the only option they're both let's see who figures it out first
why does my memory not fit see i thought it was just actually i'm clearly i don't
think it's gonna fit i think i think i think they're too tall is
yours too tall too yeah i had the same issue
okay but that can't be right i mean because i
had to take mine out in order to mount the radiator that's what i just did and
then i now i'm wondering if we should have left
it in there the memory well it i didn't want to ruin
because i took it off for the same reason i was having trouble fitting the
radiator in there but there is no way in hell yeah it's going to go back there
it's going to go back in there oh my god i'm am i screwed right now
are we
you know what i think we should do is remove like the fan
i'm not sure if that would help well just to just just to be sure that you
know but then do i tell you if it works well if you've moved on i'll know that
you did you did you did help me with this the CPU so that's that's true
that's true i'll tell you um okay so GPU uh-oh
uh-oh i don't do that don't do that premature
okay please go in come on just just go in there
and don't break anything oh she's got the GPU installed
for better or for worse i mean it's fine as long as she got all of the front
panel i o and everything hooked up perfectly underneath it
it might be blocking the SATA ports though because they do have a two and a half inch SSD to deal with graphics card
last hun watch videos
just any video um okay so do you guys want any hints we both
cannot figure out how to make this fit we think it's too tall
well sorry i can't give you any hints
but you guys are 100 certain that this will fit with the build this computer
can be built dude i think it's too tall
this is the life yep you know
happy happy wife happy life right absolutely they look happy
oh my gosh i'm so flustered right now where did my
screwdriver go okay am i oh my gosh why isn't this coming out
because i need this to come out
okay i think that's the only way that's gonna be plugged in
i can go like that i think that will
work hey what is this
whoa oh wait is this oh wait is Yvonne asking for help what is
this okay so she's helping her she's help my
wife is helping your wife are they mad at you
i think it might be one of those but i honestly i thought so too but they don't
they don't plug in i think we have other connectors for that
um oh that's all i'm gonna say
okay other connectors is that what these are
that looks like a looks like an RGB lead please don't try to plug that into that
stop just stop just stop please no stop
i had this brilliant idea that i was going to try to mount the radiator
somewhere else but i don't think it fits over there
does a radiator really need two fans
she's not technically wrong it's an aesthetic thing it's only
cooling like a ryzen CPU it's a 2700 it
can get warm yeah with a stock cooler on it
did she just like jam it in there i don't know wait is there RAM on her tail
oh i can't see oh she got it got it in there how got it in it can be done is it
and it looks fairly installed right it looks fairly intact even didn't line up
with the right there is enough clearance to me but maybe there just just just is
mind you now she's gonna have a hell of a time getting a PCIe power cable
she's gonna have to pull you're right
let's just start plugging things in i guess
oh my god did i just do just i mean
oh there it is
you've got to be kidding me at least she recognizes it at least she
at least she realized it that's good that's good because otherwise she was good fry your
board yeah yeah third time's a charm
you know what i think i'm just gonna move on from this
it's one point for a deduction for not getting something right so i'm just not
gonna put that second fan in and i'm going to hope that i make it up for with
speed there it is honey there it is sorry she
blows oh isn't that easier
remember when we were like four hours yeah we don't need four hours
to build a computer that's insulting that they would think
we would need four hours to build a computer yeah well
it seemed like 90 of both of their struggles just stemmed straight from the
aio they haven't really struggled with a whole lot else that's taken too much
time actually everything else looks installed correctly
yeah you figured out the fan thing too nope
i'm sorry the the aio they wear it plugged in did you figure
that out nope and i am also bleeding now so i'm
bleeding too looking i don't know it was all over me
i have no idea how that happened did they say they were both bleeding i think
so they must be on the same cycle
making my own tourniquet are you bleeding law do you need a
band-aid um
i'm so stressed out building this thing that i didn't even feel it
yeah i just don't want to get blood everywhere right
the phone is still a flashlight oh no
dear heaven no no no
why do i feel like this goes together but i can't
i don't know if this was it the whole time
it was
if they finish at around the same time so far i think they both only have one
obvious deficiency Yvonne doesn't have both fans on her rad
right and heather didn't plug in the usb on your CPU block right
you know i just realized i uh installed my aio
kind of upside down i noticed that
you have time now to fix it if you wish because i am not and i'll get a point
off for that i'm not touching it unbelievable
on but why would she not Yvonne's still building her two thirds
sorry a third of the score is aesthetics why would you not think that an upside
down logo is gonna cost you i know
after doing this it makes me realize that i need to build more
computers it makes me realize that
i don't need to do any more computers
there are lights on everything if Yvonne manages to put in her eight
pin she could still win this kyle i can't
turn it too much because it's plugged in right now and it's really ugly from the back but
oh shoot this panel's not on properly
but you don't open your backside panel so yeah okay that's that's what i expect
normal yep that's what happens when you don't when you don't plug things in
i will confirm for you guys if this system has posted
you know what we're going to call that a no post okay okay so what am i missing
so here this is a moment of truth for wifey sauce you're watching or what yep
i think it did does that mean it posted not yet ah
i didn't see her do anything wrong i'll go double check double check just
change the input just a minute
no post that's too long
now that they've now that they've both failed their first post should we give
them a hint i think so could could you tell what was wrong with her build
i didn't look closely i was just looking i was legitimately just looking to see
if there a postcode readout okay kyle and i have talked through it and since
you both reached sort of the finished stage of your builds and did not manage
to post we've come up with two hints
that are designed to help both of you
we're not going to say which hint is for who
but the hints are watch a freaking video
make sure you didn't miss a step yep wow and hint number two is
make sure everything is seated correctly
okay well the the watch of freaking video is definitely for me
so see ya i'm watching the no dollar wasted pc build guide now i found an LTT one
hello welcome to dennis tech tips this is happening so you just do this very
very gently what the hell okay that is
okay this right here is not where i meant to put this um i
removed yeah i don't know i don't know how that happened it's not even in a slot
sorry ladies figure it out time is kind of over yeah
it's up to us now to try posting your systems okay okay and we've decided that
each thing we have to do to your system is a one point deduction okay
okay well honey you were so like just so close for so very long i
thought the comment you had for me was that i should watch a video so it was
you should have watched a video three hours ago though oh i missed plugging something in the
top so graciously kyle has agreed that plugging in your
eps connector doesn't count as three steps removing your radiator i should
have plugging in your eps connector i regret everything in your radiator that
can i regret everything that was the part that i was just on for the video i
i was gonna get there uh yeah maybe
what can i do actually no i'm not going to do that holy crap no just kidding just kidding
you scared me yeah that scared me too it's funny because i know that you asked
you used to build your build outside the case just to make it post first maybe
i even thought about doing that that would have been a great idea yeah it would have been great if you watched a
video well no but i knew that i just i i
thought oh man she's starting with the case i'll just i'll just go for it oh
that and you guys didn't give us the monitor so i thought we were just supposed to build oh you're supposed to
watch a video that's what the challenge was
using only your husband's videos we're going off of memory obviously yeah
yep ain't working yeah something good that did
oh boy hold on hold on there it is we have a post all right oh my other
friend's spinning oh oh it sounds like it might be promising
okay fans and now is the time to get a little quieter
yep anytime now
any time now that would be good
now would be even better ten seconds ago maybe wait just give us some time now
would be worse but still okay i think it's gone i tried a different
CPU one step this motherboard has worked
before if neither you nor i can find any
clear deficiency in the build do we chalk it up to dead hardware which we
cannot penalize for i mean i think that that's fair i think that's our only
choice yeah
i do too i thought we were both going to post and
yeah we didn't well she did eventually i know yeah that's true you did eventually
i only fixed one thing and kyle and i we have no way of knowing definitively
whether you actually killed the board or whether you got a bad one in the first
place so we've decided to ignore it right and pretend that it posted because
neither of us can find a reason that's physically obvious for it to not post so
if neither of them get any sort of advantage in the time category it really
boils down to cable management or aesthetics and any deductions yeah so
you both get 10 out of 10 for time right because you finished effectively at the
same time there was a really solid effort made to
hide your cables behind the motherboard tray which in this case is quite
challenging because it doesn't have a lot of space right there
you did a good job of managing your tubing here having like a nice arc to
somewhere sensible as opposed to having them twisted or anything like that all
your RGB is illuminated so all those components are functioning
enough to at least look good and you did what i would say is at least a b-plus
job of getting rid of the power supply
nest down here and running all of your motherboard panel connectors um down
along the edges here where your aesthetics kind of struggle
are in the rat's nest that you've got under your drive cages over here
the fan connection wires that are hanging right across your RGB
motherboard here i agree and while you've done an okay job of the
cable management for your aio um i've
got to take a point right off for this being upside down
oh i know i know
if one is a dog's breakfast you didn't do anything and five is better than i
would have done um i i'm gonna give you a three
five three point five okay so taking a look
at Yvonne's build here it actually looks fairly tidy at the front uh kind of an
interesting method here for wiring your water cooling tubes you have it sort of
zip tied to the motherboard tray which isn't super conventional but i i guess
it kind of looks all right um but apart from that you have this
cable that's coming right in front of your fan which
had you just sort of flipped it it could have been completely hidden behind it or
something like that there's also probably not a whole lot wrong with the
fact that your rear fan is mounted as an
intake apart from you know zero dust filtration but we'll get to that later i
think more or less it's just kind of an eyesore that we're seeing the back of the fan as opposed to the nice looking
blades uh and also it's upside down so so that's not quite plumb um but uh
apart from that it does look like you've taken care of your bottom cable
management pretty well here i don't really see a lot of rats nests
additionally there's i don't know if this counts as
aesthetics but having your one of your radiator fans relocated to the back i
mean it looks a little bit odd to have one fan on a rad
imo i don't know if this counts as aesthetics either but uh the missing
panel the side panel that goes oh oh
interesting we'll get to that later it looks like
your RGB is pretty much all lit up for the most part which looks nice uh the
cable management around your aio also looks pretty good you did a pretty
good job of routing it sort of behind the water cooling tubes and around the
memory and i think that's pretty much it so as
far as scoring goes i think i would also have to give this
a 3.5 out of five
really why do you think you deserve more or less i'm curious um actually more
because i don't have things just like hanging in front of my
my thing like i don't have just wires coming down
across my build and yeah it's unconventional that i
tucked it away but it's also like super clean okay i'll give you a four yes okay well
heather i think you should get an opportunity to argue with your judge do you think you deserve more than a 3.5 my
only argument is i i i guess when you said cable management might i i thought
i thought cable management was front and back i didn't know it was only the front
you know what i guess we never specified i think i think we didn't specify make
it a four out of five i saw it already it's better than ebon's all right functionally speaking we have
a couple things to note here uh the first thing that i pointed out i think
was this expansion slot isn't even mounted so it's just kind of hanging out
there um so i would have to deduct at least one point for that
okay my turn
your GPU is on in the bottom slot or the second slot which
generally isn't recommended uh you might be lucky to the point where there's the
same number of of lanes going there but uh it's not 100 it's most likely not 100
of the performance that you would get out of the top slot even if it's just by
a really slight margin so i'm gonna have to dock a point for that uh missing
motherboard screws that's a deduction i have to point out the obvious the
8-pin eps connector for the CPU wasn't plugged in Linus had to come in and do
that himself that's fairly important so
point didn't you take out my front panel connectors
yes yeah so she would get docked a point for the front panel connectors because
that's something i had to fix oh you fixed it yes going back to this fan at
the rear it being mounted as an intake with no dust filtration whatsoever would
be even more detrimental to potential dust build up in the case over
time and i think that sort of ties in with the fact that you're not really
getting all the cooling performance that you would have theoretically paid for
out of this aio by moving one of those fans
obviously it wouldn't fit anyway because of the clearance issue involving the
memory but there was still the possibility that the rad could have been mounted to the
front of the case to avoid all that entirely see i even thought of that would this be
one point or two you can't prove that the cooling potential is not good
because unlike this aio yeah that one at least has two fans
spinning that one was spinning actually and yet here we are okay
all right we'll do one point Linus is a baby
so did you break your SATA cable here sorry what
um so i'm just gonna pop this SATA cable out but it appears that you've actually
cracked your SATA data cable during installation
that is there are certain things and i just unplugged that and your other fan
started spinning which is really interesting i think that's all
i think so too i can't see anything else so
in summary i have a total initial score of 14 out of 15 for time and aesthetics
same and i have deductions for a missing pci
slot cover missing motherboard screws incorrect front panel connection and a
broken SATA cable that once removed actually caused a fan to start spinning
so that gives heather a total of 10 out of 5 or 66.6
percent 10 out of 15. 10 out of 15 yes Yvonne got a 10 out of 10 for time a 4
out of 5 for aesthetics and i doctor once for not having expansion slot
mounted down one more for a GPU in the
incorrect slot an additional point docked for not having her eps eight pin connector
plugged in which is why she wasn't able to post and one more for having a rear fan
mounted as an intake that didn't have any dust filtration which brings her
total score to 14 minus four which is 10
out of well that was another waste of time if we were gonna end up with a tie
i wouldn't have even bothered this was pointless way to go hon you guys suck
wow you know what we're definitely going on a date without
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