so Luke and I recently hosted mod 24 a
24hour like live PC modding yeah
building Extravaganza yeah spectacular Event Event yeah that's what
it was and we actually had a number of you reach out asking us to do some kind
of a recap of the event now we don't have all the footage from it so
uploading the 24-hour archive isn't really an option no but what we do have
is some footage of the finished systems so we were thinking we'd do a quick
overview of the third second and first place systems and kind of talk about the
event as a whole yeah or as an event cuz
it wasn't a hole Yeah like not a literal
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mod 24 for me was at least at the start co-hosting with lonus and then by the
time we were most of the way through it turned into like just clearing the way
for Linus's zombie walk to be able to be successful so I had to just make sure
that I could manage where cameras were going to be so that by by the time he
got somewhere he could just continuously talk and it would be fine that he could
go and pass out for short little like 20 minute Windows regain a tiny amount of
energy and then keep going well I think it would have been easier if cuz I
thought the original concept was we were going to kind of be sitting in chairs
and then we'd be looking at footage yes coming from elsewhere commentating on it
that's what I thought it was too but instead we ended up running all over the
place you know coordinating a lot of it I mean the team there was great oh yeah
they were awesome but we were kind of going okay uh I think they're doing this out in the
in the atrium so you camera guy come
with me let's go luk you do this and
talk here and then we'll we'll talk about the security thing and figure out when we're going to flip cameras and
something will happen and it'll work and when we were really organized Luke and I
would go to two different places and then we would we would tag
team off and we'd throw the camera to each other and that only happened a
couple times yeah not not not way too much I think the coolest thing about it
was being there with all these people whose builds I've seen on the internet
and uh to actually seeing them work in person even if you know the quality of
what they could do in 24 hours it's obviously not going to be the same as
what they could do in months which is what a lot of them are doing outside of
this event yeah so I guess we'll start with Team kill ninja this is Rich suras
and Travis Jen um Rich probably better
known by his Alias Darth beas definitely yeah lots of famous builds for him I had
really high expectations for these guys but I really wasn't sure about their
choice of an open airflow test bench style case I think that came because
they had very very recently done a build in that exact same test bench with a
very similar style like two external reservoirs the same radiator placement
all that kind of stuff um so if they were coming into a 24-hour build being
able to build on a platform that they knew probably helped quite a bit but
then they did throw in a bit of a monkey wrench in terms of things that they know
um and my understanding is that that laser cutting machine that they were
using to make their deal they had only had for about a week about a week yeah
yeah they had not had it for very long at all they were while we were there
they were learning how to work with different types of acrylics in terms of
different colors and different densities and everything and like how something
would react if it was reflective you'll notice a lot of the deal on the side of the case are actually kind of a
reflective metal look yeah instead of like a clear blue and I think it worked
really well for some of them I think you and I both agree that the Titan the main
Titan the center
and theot pretty well but I think some
of them either didn't come out as clearly I think the ships are a good
example of this and then some of them it was more of a placement issue the guns
under the reservoirs are kind of hard to see and the middle of both of them is
basically entirely chopped off from most angles because of that Reservoir so it
just kind of looks odd and I mean I
think that if they'd had more time if they hadn't had to spend so much time
working on the deal themselves they could have come up with a more polished
build I mean the thing that really hurt them was they had planned a bunch of
lighting effects for the main Titan the centerpiece That was supposed to tie in
the you know favorite gaming experiences theme and then they never actually
managed to illuminate him so they they
had tried but I don't think they had kind of enough time and this was also
kind of a newer thing for them just like the laser cutter they hadn't done it a
ton in the past and speaking of time they also had the problem with their
coolant coloring yeah this was right near the
end right as everything was winding down and Darth beas tried to mix colors
together to make a cool looking orange which probably actually would have
played together with the build a lot better but didn't have enough time to squirt anything in other than pink right
so it made his previously white which looked kind of fine coolant turn to this
crazy vibrant pink which while some people liked it was pretty polarizing
and didn't work super great with the judges well I think that whoever gets
this system when they've had more time to polish it and finish it up before
sending it out is going to end up with something that's a pretty different looking experience than what they were
able to do in 24 hours definitely I think that's going to be a fairly common
theme for all the builds but this one especially mainly due to the color of
the coolant and possibly uh the illumination of the Titan team mongus
made up of Lee Harrington and Ron Ley Christensen had a kind of a I'd say they
had the simplest overall game plan yeah they were the only ones that took a real
case and then they picked a theme that would fall kind of sort of into any of
the three that NVIDIA might throw at them at the time of the competition and
they had that whiteboard that had their entire plan every half an hour little
half an hour slots and everything so they knew exactly what they had to be
done by different parts of the contest and every once a while we' check up with
them and they'd say yeah we' we've now uh cut all of our what was that styrene
y we've cut all our styrene so we know we know we're ahead of schedule now or
whatever they always seem like they're ahead of schedule speaking of cutting
styrene I really didn't have much hope for this build at the beginning it
looked like uh lee didn't seem to really have much to do until the liquid cooling
started and it seemed like Ron was spending a lot of time cutting out
little white pieces of styrene and it
was hard shaving them in different ways and it was hard for me to visualize what
that was going to turn into but once he started painting them end up looking
absolutely fantastic he's obviously very skilled with an airbrush and this this
case just looks really sharp especially for how much time they had to get it
done and there were some some things I didn't expect like the fact that that
vibrant top panel ties in so well to the rest yeah the fact that it actually
works with the rest of the build is is kind of interesting especially because
he even described the side panels as being muted yeah they were they were it
was a muted style and then the top was very in your face which is interesting
and other than a couple stencils for words here and there one of which got
wanged during the during the build process but it ended up kind of working
he basically freehanded the whole thing which is actually very impressive uh
something interesting talking about freehanding they had to move the
reservoir because NVIDIA kind of changed the game on them with how many graphics
cards they're going to have so they had to move the reservoir into where I
believe the hard drive cages would originally go Y and that ended up
screwing a whole bunch of stuff up like they had to custom cut the power supply
cover that comes in that in case and I think that is what ultimately cost them
the competition because theirs was the one that should have been done like they
could have installed Windows on it by the end of the competition but making
those last minute alterations ended up causing them to not even be able to post
their system at the very end of the competition which to my understanding
was actually the tiebreaker I think that's actually where their extensive
planning ended up hurting them because they planned so much that they didn't
plan for anything not going according to plan so when something Mi mixed up their
plan they didn't have any time allotment left for it and it kind of threw them
over honestly I think losing points for not posting might not have been entirely
Fair because looking at the other systems particularly the winter and how
functional those actually are in spite of whether they did or didn't
post they all had postcode errors so you can say whatever you want
about that which leads us to the project that turned out to be the eventual
winner the team BS mods
ancient IBM server machine that Bob
Stewart and Rod Rosenberg chose to tackle I think they had by far the most
ambitious project in terms of leaving no
time to spare taking something that they could have worked frantically at for 48
hours and trying to do it in 24 well we would see we would see the other teams
go for smoke breaks or like stop for lunch breathe just generally like
necessity kind of things and these would completely ignore it anytime that we
were wondering where they were at for interviews just oh okay go to the
Courtyard they'll be there working on their case they'll be sanding something
yeah yeah for the first 20 hours they will be sanding something yeah uh they
had to completely build whole they had to completely fabricate entire new parts
of their case including a whole new back uh they they had to add in they didn't
fabricate this but they had to add in an entirely new motherboard tray they had
to cover up a whole bunch of venting on the inside of the case with they weren't
going to make it me neither I flat out thought they were not going to have a
finished system by the end of the project wouldn't have though right that
brings in the 30 minute extension we were chosen to cap off the stream
because mod 24 was freaking awesome so they decided to let us kind of finish it
off um and that gave all the teams an extra 30 minutes which was fine because
they didn't actually have 24 hours anyways so we allowed them to have a
little bit more and get close to the 24-hour cap but with all that 30 minutes
I do not think they would would have finished and you know what I think that
even if the judges had had a little bit more time to look at the systems or if
the judges had been a bit more technical it might have gone to team Mongoose
because frankly it wasn't really done
the stencil behind the door was not that great I mean I even heard them calling
it a quote unquote 30-footer when they
were working on the paint job because they saw how little time they had left
after the fabrication and metal working that was involved in getting the case to
even house the hardware that they had yep their fans weren't plugged in I
believe that radiator is just glued to the back panel well they cut holes for
the radiator there's a triple radiator hole series cut but the the tubing
doesn't reach and they had not planned to do custom water cooling because they
knew coming into the competition that they would have no time for that and
they'd be spending all their time building the case yeah so while I don't
necessarily know if the eventual
winning spot was entirely deserved
especially because they mostly went with an NVIDIA theme not a gaming theme not
your favorite moment in gaming it was very specifically your favorite moment
in gaming which I guess none of them does
kind of tie into to Phil and I don't think the others really did it any
better than Yes actually that's a good point because Phil attaches to them through PDX land that's right and you
could definitely say that their favorite moment in gaming was attached to PDX
land but their system ALS Al just plain old wasn't finished I mean the front
fans were just not plugged in yeah even
though they did manage to post which ended up being what pushed them over the
edge although we did find that the two systems that quote unquote posted were
hitting postcode errors and the same postcode era that actually team mongus
was posting on but for some reason wasn't getting a display output yes so
overall though with all of that said I was cheering for team BS mods I told
them that I told you that I thought their project their concept was the
coolest I think they actually probably had the most amount of people cheering for them including myself as well um
because it was so ambitious I loved what they were doing and the fact that they
pulled it off to the extent that they did is amazing I just wouldn't want to
be them cleaning that system up for the
eventual Prize winner because I mean those panels don't even go back on no it
it's going to take them an incredibly long uh amount of time to finish this
build outside of the event um and much more time than any of the other two
builds especially team Mong but it sure was a cool concept
definitely and whoever wins it is going to be super stoked all right so guys
that was our recap of the mod 24 24-hour
gaming stream system builds hope you guys enjoyed it I hope that we do an
event like this again yeah next
week yes next week let's do it we mod 24
on the airplane going to Germany we to build little mini ITX systems it's
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