you know what the problem is with computer cases they're just too
expensive ah even the cheapest ones
they're like 50 bucks you could spend that 50 on games for gaming so today
we're gonna show you guys courtesy of our sponsor see sonic how you can make
your own case out of cardboard and
is a competition he's going to show you the worst way and i'm going to show you
the better way well i'm keeping these materials you piece of
hi my name is Jake and i'm on team Linus i guess can we call it team Jake nope
it's called team Jake's gonna win because he's with Linus
oh i would say that i have a fair bit of confidence in my partner because it's like the options are what james Linus
and Jake like i clearly want in this situation are you putting yourself in an
unfair advantage by designing the contest yourself that's a fair question
which is why i sent out the rules and i've shown the judge's scoring cards to
everybody ahead of time everyone knows exactly what we'll have they know what
the rules are they had last night to google if they wanted to i know we're
gonna use cardboard to make a computer case but i don't really know anything
else other than that do you know that you're not allowed to use tape
really no tape how the heck are we gonna
we don't have tape because we read the rules
i read the rules but like it's gonna be spicy
okay let's have a look at the judging categories integrity
we're pretty upstanding guys you should be okay there modularity cooling
aesthetics and creativity it looks like he's drawing something that's not a case
it's a dog i want a prancing horse on the top of our case because like i
imagine both of them are going to be poorly engineered and poorly made and
kind of just garbage so if we can put like a statue on top
i think we're going to be able to win it okay maybe but can we do that in the last 15 minutes no i think that we
should spend the majority of the time on that gigantic prancing horse do you have
any ideas coming into this about um like a design for the case
i don't want to be a team that just tries to win by having a funny picture on this this is not how i want to win if
we just do the sort of like panels that
are joined together i think it's not going to be very strong
um so i was thinking like regular like cardboard boxes you know those like
foldy put together ones where you have little tabs i think that would be the strongest
way for us to build a case okay are we able to sit the motherboard on the
bottom of the case and then just put like a screw screw
maybe like a third one down here so it's mostly being held by gravity but it
looks like it still is up yeah i think we could do that so here's our
motherboard back panel right yep okay so
then we need one segment out here yep for the bottom so
then there's our next segment which is actually the same length as this the
side panel oh no that's not what i was thinking i'm thinking building a box
that's open on one side and then we affix the side panel because the side
panel doesn't need to be structural and then i think i understand what you mean
by for like the back and front yeah so we do this and then and this
i mean fold over that's what this side was supposed to be but it's going to be a little spicy because of what you just
said i was thinking of using a design similar to some Corsair cases there's
the front of the case right like the normal box yeah but then on this front
panel that's where your fans are and then there's another
superficial um just like piece of square cardboard
that's opaque but in between there there's an air gap
you know that design usually that's on a piece of cardboard it's a piece of tempered glass or
metal or something standoffs are holding this together and also holding this out
and we can cut something really cool into this to show through the fans oh
that'd be badass we have lots of cardboard let's just start building it and we'll probably learn way more from
just doing it i'm going to understand if you don't like this idea
is i almost wonder if we should have a motherboard tray
because aesthetics is a factor and cable management
would be better with the motherboard wait wait wait wait hold on hold on let
me pitch it can i pitch it i think me and Linus are going to have
some cooperation issues and the other
team i think will work a little more fluidly together so
i'm just worried that it's gonna make this very complex full-sized motherboard
tray yes so it's exactly this size um and then it actually just tabs in
on all sides it's going to be a really tight fit this will be the most
difficult part of the build but i think it will dramatically improve our cable
management how far offset are we talking this far off the back panel it's going
to seriously hurt our motherboard it's like the mounting durability oh man i
don't know that's risky this can still have tabs
oh yes yes there's no reason not to wait no because that's the bottom piece which
is fine i think we just need to start going because it's already been 12
minutes holy crap
this is my basic idea for joining all the stuff together at each corner we have one of these
so panel goes on like this and so you're just going to cut slots into the panel
that goes on here so this will just puncture through yeah it goes like this
okay that's cool oh it'll be it's like an internal thing so the wall will be
here and the wall over here yeah and just like a little
buttress so you have like the circular hinge but you kind of need a pin to go
through it well they did say we're allowed to have an ifixit kit oh my god
just use the sim they never said that we can't just like
fill it with ifixit bits
i don't know Linus hasn't been cheating as much lately
i'm surprised at how useful i was i was sort of expecting to be just the
assistant but i got to make some key decisions that ended up working out
really well see aren't you glad you have me on your team yeah who would think of
this a cheat now like you
i think james is going to be like trying to dovetail joints and stuff
not bad how are we half an hour in already we
haven't done anything what i want to know is if i wanted three identically
sized pieces uh how much extra do i have to
account for for folds
okay so we definitely lost a significant amount of it i think we've accounted for
some stuff that they're probably gonna forget yeah well they try and like can
dovetail together so we've got two walls
they're adjacent to the motherboard about their washers
they're flush to the ground got the SSD on there i did do a test fit
i know that i can plug my psu cables and data into that
and so cool ready to move on we definitely should have a post for at
least the GPU to stop it from sagging well i thought we could do that by
having a back panel that lets this slot in true yeah it was like
that that'll be nicer yeah i think you should cut side panels see if that they
make sense in a thing then hand them off to me i'll cut the dovetails and slot
them together i just had a thought you know how we were so concerned about
cutting out fan holes for structural rigidity and rigidity our our idea of
having the double fold your idea of having a double fold
means the whole case can rest around the frame
yeah so we're not even worried about that no it doesn't even matter we do a square hole and a round hole good point
so we need to start cutting yeah and just so you know i still want to
make the horse you still want to make the horse i still want to make the horse well our computer
would benefit from some horsepower so why not i'm not i'm not saying no
the only problem is that i can only draw cows well i can't draw horses well why
not use a cow i just had a realization i think this might still be doable if we
ask the basement at least as part of this piece because then we don't need
or that yeah we're going this way now yeah just put the side panel on let's
keep going we'll just keep going oh my god wait no we can't because we need to fold
it over but if we didn't fold over one of them
i don't like that well i don't either Linus is a smarter guy than he portrays
a lot of the time but he's also very stubborn so if we come to a disagreement
about something i think it could be a problem but we're
also just gonna have to push forward because we're limited on time so no we can't do that because this is the tab
like it's going to be drooping that's what holds the okay fine that's the
strength so you just want to deal with it later i don't want to deal with it later but i don't think we have a choice
okay so we use some leftover fan screws but then our problem is screw it into
what the cardboard we haven't left anytime we haven't left anything
those are not i don't like them this is the back of
the case but pretend it's the front we're gonna have to have fans and then
that like stick out thing we wanted with the air gap and i just don't know if
that's gonna be wide enough for that the frame on the outside we can just we have
standoffs left exactly like that just cut another one of these that just sits
with the panel in it you're stressed out right
now we are an hour in yeah i guess just
send it right worst comes to worst okay if we screw something up we can just
sharpie the entire case i was very impressed with how me and
Linus got along um shoes off boys oh my
god look i i don't like it but i have to work on this what do you want from me i
think Jake and i worked together really well today
yeah we're just going to have to support this within the case basically i don't
know how we ended up with all this space up here but
yeah my biggest concern about this point is i'm afraid that the motherboard just
isn't going to stand up we didn't really we cut it before we had this system down
i just i'm afraid there's not enough
meat on it as a partnership i don't think we worked
great together because i think that the other team was a more of a team whereas
he and i agreed on what we were going to do and then just kind of worked alone to
do it and there were times that i didn't really know what he was doing and he
didn't really know what i was doing and i and we were just kind of doing our own thing
i do think that if we make like a part that goes up here and like angles in
both directions and it's just held in like that especially if it's dovetailed
from both sides it should work
you guys have one hour now i feel like on our side for the viewers it's really
gonna look like we're just not doing anything until
the three minutes where we like
don't forget we still need to build a computer yes i know holy sh yes this is
hopefully going to hold up the motherboard it's also the first
completed like dovetail structure that i have
and it's really important that it works because if it doesn't our motherboard
might fall over which would be really freaking bad one hour remains
i really want to fold this together and feel like we've actually made some
progress here it's not going in
oh no come on alex give me the good news this is not going to hold it at all okay
we need a post then i already made it okay it's a little
wide on that edge we can shave some off nothing we can't
work with okay
holy crap we have a pc case it's a box
well my post works that was actually the part that i was most concerned about now
it's time to start just doing it
24 minutes we don't have anything in the case yet 24.
these are not going together nearly as well as it did in my test piece
here we have this nice panel gap it's a feature actually for better cooling
i am very proud of this myself it's actually pretty close to right on
we are no longer doing the thing
where we were gonna have like the square out on the inside for the fans and the
round cut out on the outside
hands are in hey we're getting rid of this part
rip ah the sunk costs yeah mr james i hope it's
okay that this back panel is gonna suck at this point it just needs to get on
there i can actually use i can have more integrated design where i use what i
built before and then i just bend this around the corner
and it holds up the GPU
oh that's yours uh there you go take that one i got this one
nobody look closely at this window just what like eyeball it like i don't
just eyeball it it doesn't matter just go for it sixth minute and nine seconds yeah it's
not helpful andy we are straight up not going to finish
so is there a time penalty or what yeah ours is just as shitty well i didn't say
ours is she it's just not done well hours is like done it's just in like uh
some sort of a way
yeah we're not done so
is yours right now i'm a level with you i have nothing okay it's not garbage
it's just not there yeah we have like a case but it's like
a case extra half an hour
i know how to draw a cow sort of holy this is sick oh it's way
better than i thought it was reginald milkmaster oh yeah here can i
just not gonna get this in here without taking it off can i just see can i just
also there's the fans which is gonna be a whole other thing can you just humor me no okay can i just see can i just see
i wanna see you suck okay
i just wanna see i think gentle with the GPU pessimistic was expecting wait
brilliant idea so let's pull it out unfold the fans yeah that opens up the
entire side oh jesus
i might have put the lines on the side that's supposed to yeah it was a bit of
a how did you screw that up if it helps at all the ugly window will
be exactly as nice as we were hoping you just lay it on top
nice nice nice no no just just jamming a bit in it it's not that crazy
just do it i don't care we don't have to i can't reach it and you've got to do it
he's lost it ladies and gentlemen we got to protect
our back panel yeah backwards i don't have time just go for it no top top top
oh man what didn't go wrong i mean we put lines where we didn't mean to we cut
things we didn't mean to we overlooked entire
components and where they were going to go uh
our SSD is just well it's in there what we have is kind
of a floppy mess uh it's got elements that i think are good and it may still
win i don't know what they built over there but i know they had trouble
they're gonna lose okay
my first thought seeing their case oh my
god oh we're actually up against something here
holy crap i thought theirs was going to be way crappier oh you've got to be
kidding me the motherboard is just sitting on that's just sitting over here i hope i hope the judges noticed this
does that even count like
will it fall apart if moved is a requirement in integrity our team has
integrity so if we lose we're going to lose with integrity Jake confidence
level that i'm going to win got two words for you
lttstore.com when i first saw their case
ah god damn it right away i was like
right away it's a little more like i had intended mine to be in terms of it being
a square pretty goddamn boring kind of surprise
they didn't draw anything on their case they must have been like really not done
at the three hour mark just like what the hell are these are those from an
ifixit kit is that allowed oh they started using the double-sided tape
that's so gutty this seems like legitimately literally cheating but it's
Linus so what do you expect judging was a mixed bag i thought Colton was way too
generous i thought that sarah was way too generous i had no idea
what she was going to say because she came in as a graphic designer not
because she was applying to a highly technical position but we wanted an
alternative perspective this one it just seems like the parts are kind of in
there i would be afraid to move it lots of space to maneuver you got lots of air
ventilation there does it look nice i mean
if i was six probably looks sick dude what would you
call that it tantalizes your brain cells when you look at it like you you see
that cow there and it like stirs something deep in your groin three out
of five so that gives you guys a score for me uh 18 out of 25. it's pretty jank
tv could extra fans drives or expansion
cards be added could a different pc be built inside this case
absolutely as long as you don't expect to mount it anywhere the
layout of the intake and exhaust i think is pretty much spot on okay does it look
nice aesthetics i gave you a three the where you lost points for me
is that sunken io it is so difficult to get at that i o and i think that that
removes pretty much all the aesthetic goodness that you packed in there
instead of front i o there's a picture of it i gave you a tube
total comes to 14. it'll do in a pinch
you could pinch it off
i would love to see everything flush with this side where it's kind of like
on the inside so there's a lot of extra space that could be filled but with it
being placed more on the inside i feel like all of
that room is taken up for aesthetics
it's interesting
they even had a window for their SSD i'm surprised the judges didn't look at their SSD window we didn't even have an
SSD mount our SSD was just jammed behind the motherboard tray the top lifts off
so obviously there's a problem there but it's spacex and spacex lifts off so
sure overall my rating is 18.
all right integrity four out of five yeah it looks like you can actually move
it granted i couldn't quite see exactly how things were mounted on the inside
but from what i did see it looked solid it has a motherboard tray damn it nobody
noticed our motherboard tray a 5 out of 5 for modularity really i
feel like you could do lots of things with that case i'm sure you can mount some other stuff you know aesthetics
gave you guys a four out of five just because everything is so
symmetrical the only thing that was really weird were you guys drunk when
you were cutting that the hole in the back there if by drunk
you mean we had a minute left then yes oh okay one minute left
very safe choice going with that folded
origami style was ingenious and it looked so clean that is a grand total of
19. out of 25. okay okay that's good as far
as integrity goes i think you're a pretty good guy
not until you learn how you cheated these are all materials that were provided by the
contest organizer shut up like the whole thing looks a lot more
solid than the um the space box over
here yeah okay modularity
so like there's no mount point for a rare fan for example for cooling
i actually originally gave you a three for this there's no exhaust except
that open vent actually does push a lot of air it was
upon realizing that that i changed to a four
nice that brings us to a total of 18. i
would say that this case is serviceable
this is really close if i was to pick a case out of either of these i would
probably pick yours it looks a lot cleaner one thing i was
really proud of was managing to have no marker lines on our finished case that
were visible to the judges you could put more stuff in there there's enough room
if you wanted to for aesthetics i gave you a 4.5 out of
5. it looks really nice it's not bad uh for
a case out of cardboard honestly i'm kind of impressed you get a 19.5 out of
25.
can you show them how it can be lifted up and moved around whoa whoa would you
look at that okay so let's just let's just take a look here before we um it's
attached with double-sided tape double-sided tape provided by the
organizer hey guys can we agree that we should have a piece of double-sided tape
for the uh the RGB mounts since they're supposed to be included
i would normally have this double-sided tape assuming this hardware was new and
that's exactly what i would do i would salvage some from here and use it there
i just came up with an alternative use later
now that i think about it he obviously had no intention of sticking his RGB
thing he wanted that tape for the window and he thought of it at the 11th hour
yeah the power supply is not a mountain look at it
ah the fans are still alive yeah but once you're inside look how
awesome this bench is let's take off all the parts that have any double-sided
tape on them and let's have a look at this kind of structural integrity we've
got here god damn it's so good
i didn't think either team was going to be able to build something this functional without any tape when you
first told me about the challenge but hey now you guys know that if you too
are stuck with nothing but you know a big piece of cardboard a
hobby knife a straight edge a square and i fix it kit some double-sided tape that
you can a positive attitude and a positive attitude
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