oh i left my thing okay i'm live
welcome friends to something a little bit different it actually is kind of
surprising to me that it's taken this long for me to do this i will be doing
yes with my flippy knife and my flippy screwdriver i will be
doing a live pc build this is actually the machine that i worked with the
winner of lg's ultrawide festival hence the sweater that i actually just put on
randomly this morning and worked out as a happy accident that i'm wearing so
i'll be putting together the machine that i worked with the winner of ultrawide festival to
well pick out all the parts for and then well put together in theory he was
supposed to put it together himself but i picked out a bunch of stuff that
frankly i wasn't really 100 sure would even work so i was like you know what
bro why don't you have it sent to me i'll put it together for you and i'll
stream it which is pretty cool i think so check this out i have two cameras i
have two camera angles i have that i have the top down camera angle got my
like stab and screwdriver and then i got the uh more in the front
more traditional camera angle so without further ado
i guess we'll pretty much get started actually now one thing i'm going to do is i'm going to grab my laptop
so i can talk to you lovely twitch chat people today
most of you are lovely i've already seen star wars by the way our our bot is set
up to ban people for star wars spoilers so i really wouldn't tempt the gods
on on that one right there ah one two three four so i get to
interact with twitch chat the wretched hive of scum and villainy
that it is wow we have 1400 people watching me have
audio difficulties i guess that shouldn't really surprise me because it's the same as every week
all right so why don't we start with the usual thing where i walk through all the
different parts that i picked out and sort of why so for the case we went with
a fractal design define r5 we were gonna go with some totally like wonko tastic
in win thing for like nine hundred dollars because we were like yeah whatever we got a ten thousand dollar
budget uh instead we ended up rebalancing that
so he could afford like a more reasonable case and like a laptop so um
so yeah we went to define our five it's quiet it looks good it's
black it's fractal it's reasonably well built
uh in terms of motherboard things get a little bit of more of a long story this
is actually not the motherboard we intended to buy but it doesn't make that
much of a difference we were going to use the deluxe this is
the x99a i think it's missing
basically so we'll have to fight excuse me we'll have to find some kind of solution to that particular little
little whoopsie um for CPU this is pretty cool
now a normal youtuber probably would have
told our winner hey you could get yourself an extreme edition
but i'm Linus so i was like hey
let's get an e5 2690 v3
i don't even remember how many cores that has i'm going to have to look it up
right now in case you guys are wondering here's a really cool pro tip arc ark is Intel's
little site for finding out all the information you could want to know about
pretty much all of their cpus so the 2690 v3 is a
he stalls for time he hits specifications
so it's 12 core CPU that runs at a nominal frequency of around 2.6
gigahertz but can turbo boost up with pretty much the best of them so
that was why we went with that uh what else we got here there's some cool stuff
oh okay so RAM we went with the ecc RAM
we got uh 64 gigs so four 16 gig sticks
of ecc memory because quite frankly it's gotten to the point where memory is fast
enough and so is so our cpus so this is uh 2133 megahertz stuff some samsung
stuff that was on the qvl for the deluxe board
so i really hope it works otherwise i'm going to be stuck with some RAM that i
don't need and the winner ryland is going to end up
with some of my RAM if it if it comes to that all right in terms of coolers here's
another little little mistake we were we asked for some knock 201 they sent us a
cooler master hyper 212 yield the reality of it is um these zeons in spite
of all their cores actually don't run very hot
it helps to have the heat distributed more so that cooler is going to do just
fine for us and you can't overclock the ons anyway so really really not too
worried about that in terms of power supply
we went with an rm1000i i had actually he picked this
out himself and i was like dude it's a thousand watt power supply you don't
need a thousand watt power supply and he was like yeah but it's a really good deal
and i was like you're right uh this was a really good
deal when we ordered it so i was like okay you can have your overkill power supply i guess that's fine
uh these are cool so a lot of people
uh including including rylan don't know this but you can actually buy just
generic RAM sticks that don't have heat spreaders on them because remember guys
the heat spreaders really don't do anything so you can just buy like whatever RAM
sticks you want and then you can actually get pretty cool looking here
i'm going to switch to my alternate angle here you can get pretty cool looking um like after like aftermarkety
looking heat spreaders that actually look pretty cool so we picked
up four of those although it should be noted that buying
those uh aftermarket is quite a bit more expensive
than buying them included with your RAM so you don't end up saving a ton of
money the only reason we ended up doing it was that we wanted to um
we wanted to get ecc memory none of which comes with like
cool gamery looking heat spreaders or anything like that
for storage we went with the usual so we've got our uh
we've got our one terabyte samsung 850 pro
and then we've got our solid-state storage backed up by two wd red six
terabyte drives he actually didn't specify how he wants those set up so i'm
going to put them in raid one because i suspect six terabytes is more than
enough for him we went with Linus tech tips edition
nff12 fans yes my friends i wasn't going to miss an opportunity to sell some of
my fans uh to my fans uh also we went with the
hugh plus which wish i hold this which way is
right side up for you i guess this one there we go with an nzxt hue plus in
order to throw some illumination inside and finally i guess that leads us to our
graphics card so rylan actually did what any sort of excited person who gets a
huge budget for building a computer does and put titan x's into the machine and i
went ryland ryland ryland
we can get you the same performance if not better
with a couple of these for a fraction of the cost and we can spend all that other
money on other really cool stuff so he ended up with like a camera notebook
um like two pairs of jaybird uh wireless
earphones like a bunch of a bunch of really cool stuff because we saved money
without compromising on performance so let's start the way we usually do i
am live streaming what can i do for you sir
the camera mic is on the camera mic is not on so there's that
why am i why am i being informed now and not like 15 minutes ago um
oh it's while i have the overhead cam up
i see hmm oh bloody hell
apparently this one has its microphone
on
well then hmm
i don't actually know how to turn that off
that's an idea
okay well hopefully that fixes it
yes friends hopefully that fixes it indeed
all right boom well let's see if that uh is fixed
apparently my flies my fly is half open
i shall demonstrate for you half see the bottom half is actually
zipped yes friends only half
only half unzipped all right so let's start this build the way that we usually
do with the motherboard inside the motherboard box we will find
the accessories that we need like our i o plate our sli bridge
uh and three SATA cables
dang it it always messes with my ocd when i have
to use uh when i have to use one
right angle SATA cable and the others are straight
it's going to kill me all right
i'm going to go ahead and take off the anti-static bag
and i'm gonna put that back in the box and that'll be it for that motherboard
box we don't need any other of the action inside there
you know what's really funny is because i don't have to like painstakingly film
all of this this is probably going to this video
probably isn't going to be much longer than my usual build guides always were
even though i don't actually get the benefit of video editing today i have to
actually do the whole thing live so CPU installation
always double check even i double check
after all these times installing cpus make sure the golden corner aligns with
the other more different golden corner triangle thing boop
oh i always do that i close up the motherboard box before i remember to put
on the socket cover socket cover is important keep that in your motherboard
box because if you ever have to rma your motherboard they're gonna ask you to put that on before you send it back and if
you don't have it they may actually reject your rma and maybe for good
reason because you can oops
because you can damage the uh you can damage the motherboard socket pretty
easily without that cover on all right
next up is RAM and this will be more interesting than it usually is because i
have never installed these akust
iron max RAM sinks before
yes friends i have actually no idea how to install them so
okay it involves a screwdriver
dang it where's an ifixit kit when you need it oh there's one
okay so uh i did say i would pay attention to
twitch chat and then i proceeded to not not notice uh
any of the things that they said about my audio issues
oh the motherboard's not broken you guys need to all just calm your boobies down
a little bit it's all good in the hood
all right now one thing i'm a little uncertain
about is whether this RAM is actually going to work in this motherboard
so that's interesting so that's just a foam
doodad this is one really tricky thing about
installing these aftermarket memory spreaders is
getting the memory module centered
because if you if you're off by too much then when they're all installed next to
each other they're gonna look really really weird
um okay so i'm gonna have to try and remember this i want stickers stickers
up
that looks about right how adhesive is this oh it's not that sticky okay
yep this is how boring it is when i do
this stuff unedited there's an awful lot of tedious like oh line the little thing
on the other little thing and then and then
screw it down
nice head shot oh sorry did i just have you guys staring at the back of my head
i didn't even get a haircut this weekend i actually meant to
i was trying to get my wife to do it for me but she wouldn't what did i do
upside down
that looks fine i don't know
all right so this my friends is what it's going to
look like installed in the motherboard you can see out here actually i'm going
to switch to the other angle so you can see even this like servery memory can
actually look pretty uh pretty gamertastic if you go and throw yourself
a little aftermarket heat spreader thing on there here's another another angle at
that i'm going to go ahead and throw this on the motherboard
there you go looks about as like
gamery and performancy as pretty much anything so
all right let's uh sorry i'm having trouble remembering which ones are my
hot keys i'm gonna i'll i'll definitely talk to
twitch chat now i'll definitely show twitch i'll talk to
twitchchat now the green ruins it what green
oh the green pcb you know okay the thing about the whole green pcb
thing is like did you know that green pcbs are
legitimately cheaper for one thing i did not know that a black pcb does add cost
to the part and on servers that is a completely unnecessary cost because
literally no one on earth cares that their server has a black pcb
on the memory um where was i going with this i'm fairly
sure this was important
little known fact did you know something something green peace be you know
nothing okay RAM yeah it doesn't the green pcb really doesn't bother me that
much on RAM because once it's installed you really can't see
it very well so unless you're really getting in there
with like the macro lens with your slr and you're like determined to have your
build be like totally perfect for a million dollar pc or something
those kinds of little details don't matter as much to me as having a system
that's 100 stable so
ecc RAM is it necessary for most applications no
but does it eliminate yet another potential
source of of instability yes it does
what else we got here
so that is why my macbook something
minus i'm basically building a server ah no i wouldn't call this a server there's
a lot of things that make a computer a personal computer or a
server ecc memory is one of them that i would definitely
consider to be on the on the server side of things
um because you can you can definitely have a desktop computer that is stable
enough with unbuffered dimms but in order for this to qualify as a
server it would have to be a lot of other stuff as well so for one thing we
wouldn't be running a consumer grade motherboard we'd be running some kind of
a server board ASUS has stuff available super micro is
very popular but yeah we'd be running a server board
and server boards aren't really suitable for desktop and workstation applications
for a number of reasons mostly because they
trade they trade off their their no-nonsense
stability for well nonsense and features
and stuff so they tend not to have a lot of the features that as consumers we
really want to see on our products so
you know if you expect to have you know Thunderbolt and uh you know a whack ton
of usb ports and all that stuff you're not
going to find that on a server board the other thing that a server typically has
that this machine doesn't is a lot of fail safes so we're just using a single
non-redundant power supply that means if the power supply fails
the system shuts down and and potentially even parts of it don't work
anymore i'm not saying i expect an rm1000i to
fail it's a very good power supply but
i'm saying that if it failed it would be very very bad on a server you would want
to be using a redundant power supply where there's actually two
separate completely independent power supply modules within a single unit and
if one of them fails outright stops working the whole thing continues to work in
fact one of our servers here actually has a triple redundant power supply i'm
just going to change up the angle just for the sake of i don't know just having
a bit of a different angle while i talk for a bit
um the bot is unforgiving yes the bot is
unforgiving for certain things where we've had a lot of problems in the past
i love our bot actually it's great it
makes life a lot easier for us it's fantastic
um what is this build for got some people asking questions that i answered
at the beginning of the stream way to not tune in immediately
loser no i'm just kidding you're not a loser i know twitch is the loser because
they only send notifications sort of approximately when they feel like it um
this is for the winner of the ultra wide festival
ultimate dream setup machine thing so um
yeah this is this is his this is his rig
i'm putting together the with the does this have 64 gigs of RAM yeah i guess it
does that is freaking sick
freaking sick yo all right
boom so there you have it i'll give you guys a better look at that
that is what it looks like
with all those uh memory sticks there installed
not bad huh for ecc dimms
yes friends all right
what else we got here what do i do next usually right CPU cooler so hyper 212
evo
uh where's my knife there it is
let's see which chat we're like 64 gigs for a gaming rig yeah well remember too
um it was kind of a creator-oriented
uh contest so uh i'm very certain that especially with
the camera that he picked up he actually had to borrow a camera in
order to participate in the contest but he now with his new dream setup has his
own so with the camera that he picked up i'm pretty sure he intends to do some
content creation on this rig as well so in that case that uh that extra RAM
will actually be helpful okay i need to go get a garbage can this is driving me
crazy
okay
there we are funny story i have actually
never mounted a hyper 212 evo
but i'm going to try and do it without the instructions
okay so that appears to be a hold down plate of some sort
that appears to be a fan of some sort
that appears to be oh my goodness what is that
it's okay don't worry i got this i got this you guys
what the heck
yeah sure okay i still remember when like heat pipe
direct touch looks like a big deal i think zigmatech
started that nonsense sorry i'm just i'm thinking because i'm
thinking out loud because this cooler has the heat pipes
directly contacting the CPU
yes my friends i do i vaguely remember back when
back when CPU coolers were changing really fast you know back when thermal
write was releasing stuff like the xp90c and we were all like
whoa man it's like a full copper heat sink man
what the heck is this
okay yep yep okay there's a thing that holds it in
the place to something something
can i help whoever's here with something
what the heck
that is weird okay well let's not stress about that
let's put the uh wow that's really nice the way they
put all the hardware and a little uh clam shell for you here
i like that that is a nice touch cooler master
and give credit where credit is due
okay now
there is less credit due here unless i'm not supposed to use that back plate at
all which may actually be the case it's possible i'm just supposed to put these
puppies in yep looks like that's how it's done
2011 mounting is always a bit of a always a bit of a challenge but not
always uh some companies do it really well Noctua does it really well uh be
quiet does it particularly poorly
where just some guys it's like a total afterthought it basically doesn't work
at all and you're just kind of like well what the heck because our our thermal testing
platform is an lga 2011 test bench and
so be quiet! every time they sent us a cooler back when we really did heatsink
reviews they'd be like whoa why are you guys begging on us for our 2013 mount
he'd be like well because it's trash it's terrible they're
like yeah but most people don't use it i'm like that's nice we do
so the people who re with a different
platform they'll like it and we won't
wait a minute dang it okay i'm resorting to the
instructions because i don't know which of the
correctly threaded doodads i'm supposed to put in
so gets the taller one
and
bloody hell
um yep
2011 gets the skinnier ones knew that was gonna happen
again the benefits of video editing
when you screw something up oh just completely get it wrong you can just
undo that part and not show it except sometimes when we do anyway because we
screw up sometimes even in the video editing part of things
what's twitch chat one
hope he sees the amount of thermal paste you're supposed to put on according to
the graphic i will i promise to check that out i promise to check that out and
then if it's any more than like a little bit i will completely ignore it
just for you guys
that was actually my favorite moment in austin's uh borinator
bornator build log thing that he and i worked on together where he gives it to
me the expert to put the thermal paste on and i'm just like
very fun you guys should check out that uh check out that
that build log thing if you haven't already austin evans channel
i actually am shipping the pc out to the winner today
as we speak i am doing actually Colton is doing it but uh that's basically the
same as me doing it all right thermal compound i promised to
look at the instructions for this so where are we where we got where's that
oh nice there you go guys that's how much
thermal paste to put on just like that don't worry about it just go go ham go
ham no big deal no friends we're gonna put on we'll put
on a little bit more than usual because this is a larger CPU and it does have a
lot of CPU cores in there a lot of people get really wrapped up in
the in the how much thermal compound
ah dang it well how much is pretty important but a lot of people get really
wrapped up in the how to apply thermal compound argument when the truth of the
matter is that it's within a degree or two
pretty much however you put it on it's it's really not that big of a deal
um so unless you're unless you're going for like
sub-zero elite hacksaw overclock zors or
or whatever and even if you are that
degree is really very unlikely to make that big of a
difference using the right type of thermal compound
is actually quite a bit more important like if you are going subzero for
example you want to use a thermal compound that
that had that handle sub-zero temperature some of them really don't work very well at very low temperatures
for example um ceramic is apparently the the go-to
for those for that crowd or at least it was a long time ago i'm pretty i'm
pretty out of the loop as far as the whole extreme overclocking thing goes
these days
all right let's get this puppy
mounted now maybe you guys can tell me
cooler master or cooler master
these are important details i think we're going to go this way
there's another thing people get really stressed out about that really just doesn't matter that much is
lifting up and and reseeding the heatsink once the once the goop is
already on there it really isn't that big of a deal i've
actually taken just old test benches
popped off the cooler worked on it put it back on
really doesn't matter um i did that as just like a test for
myself i didn't end up making a video about it but i did do that at one point
where i took like a really old thermal compound
application and
like took it off and put it back on and took it off and put it back on several
times and then i did a brand new fresh application to see if that would make a
difference and it did not
it was within the margin of error which is like realistically a couple of
degrees actually
okay look at that awesome
now i think i was actually supposed to use the taller one but it doesn't really
matter as long as i don't completely overdo it with the pressure uh this is fine i'm not gonna i'm not
gonna overdo this
um turkey cola hmm
what's up with the video stutter i don't know
i have no idea here maybe i should switch angles maybe
that'll help i don't actually expect that to help i'm just
being unhelpful
i'm kind of glad we went lga 2011 on this uh on this system
with all the things i've been hearing about skylake and CPU's bending and
shipping this is a system that i intend to ship to the winner so you know what
that's really not that tight actually i'm gonna go all the way then
i think that's where the stopper is yeah yeah it's not too bad
all right
all right this is one thing i also like to check is just have a look at if you want to
evaluate your mounting pressure if your board is bowing like crazy then that's
that's probably not really what you were going for this one seems to be
completely fine
speaking of being completely fine it's really lucky that we ended up with um
with a cooler that was going to work for us here given that they
didn't ship the one that we had wanted
because lga 2011 you know you can mount
pretty much any cooler on it almost everyone has compatibility with
it but many coolers out there don't work
optimally with it if you want to install a whole bunch of memory sticks because
you've got memory slots on both sides of the CPU
so it happens that the hyper 212
this i think this is what the evo yeah hyper 212 evo is one of the ones that
does work just fine
if you install a bunch of RAM
all right so put that accessory back in the box
okay so we're done with our CPU cooler i was sure i was doing something else
right now right Linus tech tips edition fan friends
i can read you guys the little letter that's inside them
if you didn't order one you won't have seen this letter yet dear fan
you not the thing in the box the Linus tech tips team won't make any outrageous
claims about how we co-engineered this special edition nff12
pwm which is probably a good thing because as our regular viewers know we
are not exactly mechanical engineers that's why we left the product development entirely to Noctua knowing
it would deliver the same outstanding performance quality and reliability that we've come to expect from their brown
and tan fans over the last decade so
what did we do something we've wanted to do since we
first laid eyes on the nf s12 we picked
the color scheme it's the same great nff 12 pwm fan but now in Linus tech tips
black and orange thanks for being a part of this i sincerely hope you love this fan as much as i love all of mine you're
sincerely lioness sebastian alliance media group ceo
so i'm going to have to uh do some cajiggering here in order to get
this puppy mounted
so you can see the the stock fan here is has got these little noise isolator tabs
on it so i'm going to pop those off and i'm going to try and reuse them after
there we go take out these screws
oh what do you mean the fan is going to be dead
telegenic boss it is not going to be dead it's going to be awesome
actually i was talking to one of the one of the resellers for them and they said
they got something like 2 out of 1000 back or something like that
so that is uh that is to be considered a fairly good uh fairly good defective
rate in fact i don't even think that um
that the fan was actually dead i think it was just someone changed their mind
so yeah take that
fans gonna be dead
yeah right i mean to be clear nothing is perfect
but we just i mean we wanted to pick something that we thought we were going
to have a pretty darn good chance of having work so
so we went with nff12s
i mean to be clear i know that you don't need an ff12 fan in order to get like
really good performance out of a fan it's just you know best of the best and all that
and it's not because i think that you have to spend 30 on a fan either it's
just for me if i'm gonna put my name on something i
want it to just i want to be sure that it's really really good i don't want i
don't want that stress of people being like well i bought the Linus tech tips
edition one thinking it was the best and now i don't trust Linus anymore because
my fan died and like you know how people are like some people don't really get
that any product can have
a defect um shoot
don't worry this is no big deal just got to pull this sticker RAM out and put
this on and then get back to it
can i help you Colton caltane
his gamer handle he's really creative that Colton he
managed to change two whole vowels
follow me on twitch yeah right
i refuse to follow you on twitch all right let's have a look at this
so that friends is what it's looking like now
not too shabby right for like all
servery stuff and all that
all right okay what's next i guess
i'll put uh oh well i forgot those
rubber tabs so i guess those are going back in the hyper 212 box rylan if you're watching this i'm sorry i forgot
your rubber tabs they're not going back on there now because
i'm live streaming and people got places to go and people to see
they don't want to see me put on that tab again
sorry buddy your system's basically a failure
it's a failure waiting to happen
but at least it comes with this cool Linus tech tips case badge
all right
what does uh twitch chat want
worth it to upgrade from 3570k to 6600k
casualgamer you know i don't know it really depends are you
running into CPU bottlenecks in your games you'll notice because
your frame rates will be lower than other people who have the same graphics
card as you are reporting although something to bear in mind is that the
internet is full of people who are getting 500 frames per second in every
game with an 8400 gs so
yeah there's there's there's three pieces there's three pieces of the calculation
and a lot of people conveniently leave out a very important
one there's your frames per second there's your graphics card
and then there's the detail settings that you are running the game at
that is very very very important so
people be like yeah i got like this wicked hd 5450 it runs shadow of ward
door at like 80 FPS i'll be like okay a
no it doesn't you're a liar and
b what resolution and settings are you running yeah man i'm running 1080p man
i'm like okay did you have to do like some
some like eye and eye edits in order to get the details turned
down low enough like i didn't know they had negative anti-aliasing
uh like like just plain aliasing it's
like i'm just gonna add aliasing to my game
um so yeah the problem is that you can't really rely on the reports of people
online although some review sites
will show you what benchmarking run they use and they will give you numbers that are
actually reputable and then what you can do is you can you
can just see you can go like kind of oh how am i how am i performing compared to
that and if it's not very good then your CPU is probably what's holding you back
but the question to ask yourself too is does it matter
um do you need 90 FPS if you have 80 FPS
i can tell you right now unless you have a monitor that runs at
90 hertz the answer is probably no
um
okay so
that isn't what was supposed to happen
huh
wow how did how did this happen
i don't know i mean technically this will work fine
it's really not what i would have preferred
um let me think
let me think hey um luke can i interrupt you for a minute
did we ship evga back all those cards yet yeah
we did yeah oh
do we have an evga 980 ti with an acx
2.0 cooler
so we managed to order a reference card and
an acx card oh oh
what you know what i might just have to put
it together and send it to rylan to figure out if he
can do an exchange for something like that because
i have to get this i'm sure he'd rather be using the system than have me muck
around with trying to get a card swapped out but that is that is that is definitely
not what the objective was today to have two different cards um i can use this
though as an opportunity to talk about sli compatibility and how it works
like ah yeah sli compatibility and how it works
basically as on the NVIDIA side as long as you have two of the same GPU with the
same amount of RAM they didn't used to require the same RAM amount in theory
although very few people ever got it to work with
very few driver uh versions and very few like uh you
know cool bits tweaks or whatever else so as long as you have the same GPU so
that's like gtx 980 not a 980 and a 980
ti not a 980 and a 980 se
two 980 ti's or two 980s or two 970s the
same thing no matter what brand they are you've got
you know your evga or Gigabyte or whatever else no matter what clock speed
they run at no matter what coolers they are no matter what pcb design so you can
even have like a an evga kingpin card
and like a you know reference card from Gigabyte or
something they will run an sli
at the speed at the lower speed of the two so it's not a compatibility issue
it's just an aesthetic issue um
all right so this is the nzxt hue
inside we will find a controller box
i've actually never used this one before i recommended it to ryland um having
heard good things about it but i've never i've never actually used
now it's broken this is what he gets for letting me
build this computer
i got to figure out how to get the stupid led strip so the hue is has got like a
front bay controller mixer thing that lets you mix your red green and blue led
strips and then it's got a whole bunch of led strips inside that you can like connect
together with these little connector doodadlies and then you've got the
controller box that lets you plug in a couple of things to it it's
got like usb control and all that kind of cool stuff so basically just a more more elegant
way of handling this stuff than just you know back in the day we
had to use inverters which by the way were all garbage every single one of
them was trash so we had to use these inverters
and then we had to use cathode tubes all of which failed uh
eventually even if their inverters didn't i actually on a number of occasions had inverters so those are dc
to ac electricity conversion things i had them melt inside my case and like
almost start fires those were awful i'm so glad that led lighting is a thing for
computers now all right so we're going to put all
those parts kind of over here i guess and get to them later got our hard
drives wd reds a lot of people think wd red is
only for nas let me ask you this
what is a computer with a bunch of hard drives in it
if not a nas yes
network attached storage if your computer is on the network and it has
storage and you're sharing it
it's a nas
what are you gentlemen up to anyway
oh lens things
oh cool
they're better why is the door closed though
okay so you'd rather get cancer than be cold
because that's what i'm hearing
oh you turned the heater off yeah we had the heater on in here this morning
and we've never actually turned it on before so it basically smelled like cancer in
the studio all day like it it was some pretty
yeah it was some pretty it was some pretty bad news
stuff which is weird because i'm used to turning on a heater for the first time
and having it be kind of like a burning smell but uh yeah
yeah but that wasn't burning that was like that was like burning your lungs
okay so i'm gonna do one of those things that i always try but never works
but i always try anyway because i'm like that
i'm going to take everything out of the power supply box
that i believe i will need down to every modular cable i intend to
use and see if i can actually get it right
like i said it never works i know this
but i'm still going to try
ah look at that only one seal to break in here boom
okay so we will need a power cord we will need some cable ties we will not
need silica gel modular cables
we will need this four plus six pin pci express
we will need this one too we will need
this CPU power connector we will need oh how is the hue powered
dc 5 volt okay it must have an adapter yes it does
okay so we will need whatever the
lowest number of connector molex adapter
harness that we have is it looks like this one this one has
three some power supply makers ship one with
two but i guess we'll have to live with three okay we will need our 24 pin
and we will need
four SATA cables
hopefully that's good
we will also need the power supply i love these little baggies the Corsair
packs their power supplies in i'm not convinced they're actually
expensive but they feel really premium little velvet
baggy doodads
okay this is the foam by the way that my cat ate or like not this foam exactly
obviously i'm i just got this power supply and he ate foam months ago but
this type of foam this this really soft closed cell black foam that you find in
Corsair power supply boxes that's not actually where he got it it's just
really similar to the stuff that he ate all right
so there's our rm1000i here's all our accessories that we need
and now it is finally enough stalling actually time to crack
open the case and start building the machine
i might have to just do this off camera i'm sorry guys it's kind of heavy and
awkward to deal with up there
oh i did that thing i always do
pro tip oh never mind it worked anyway okay forget
it ow static
all right yeah baby
there it is how many people are watching this wow 4
600 people watching the live computer building
i should start like performing
do like deadline a circus he is building
computers
i don't know if anyone would watch that
although some people internally have been pitching the idea of us doing like
some kind of a live show at some point like i don't know
what that would look like but uh it seems like it'd be a pretty cool idea
like kind of just even i don't know q a or something
i don't know all right side panel off
what shall we start with
okay just checking had kind of a kind of
a panic moment there i was like does this board support sli
it does which is good because we're running sli
okay what slots this one
and this one so we leave one gap and do
another two there we go
so they'll either have to send rylan the other board to swap out or
throw in a wi-fi card or something like that it's really not that big of a deal in terms of build quality i don't think
the x99a and the x99 deluxe are really
that different and in terms of features aside from the wi-fi i actually couldn't
really find anything that mattered like i suspect there's some like weirdo
features that that are there or not there but
nothing really important this is cool Corsair has to put this
warning on their power supplies okay guys
it's all right if the fan in your power supply is not spinning
it is literally supposed to do that that is literally a feature
it's good i love that feature why spin the fans if you don't have to
there's no such thing as a silent fan except a fan that is off
can i help you brandon
you're looking for something are you looking for love brandon
because love is right here it's right here brandon
it's right here inside of you
and me at the same time it's a it's a very uh
it's a very liberal sort of love it's an all over the place love
what cable do you need
oh yeah i won't be able to help you with that it's not in my bin by the way
okay usually i'm a pretty good person to turn
to when you need help finding a cable
yeah not as good as me didn't i own you the other day
brendan and i are keeping score kind of like uh
like legolas and the other guy give me
in the middle earth movies that don't suck
um who can find
who can find things in like 30 seconds that other people can't find and then
between us we're finding out who can do it most often and
most consistently because i swear no one else in this
entire company could find anything
to save their lives it's like i can't find a
multimeter like did you try that drawer where we
keep the multimeters brilliant
all right so the power supply is in if you're into
that sort of thing um
i had some people asking me to take the drive cage out i actually can't think of
a reason why not we can take it out even if it's just to
get it out of our way that's one of the cool features of this case
boom more ventilation for the gpus just like
that my friends and because we only have three drives
um we can just mount everything in this
lower cage and we're in pretty good shape there
okay so i think especially with
a little bit more open air and all that kind of stuff i
think we're gonna get away with not opening up the top mod event so i think
i'm just gonna go ahead and boom put the uh put the motherboard right oh
i am getting spoiled i'm getting used to
uh motherboard standoffs being pre-installed
and this particular one is not um hold on i gotta grab my motherboard
standoff screwdriver yes i do actually own a screwdriver
specifically for that just tech
things
here check it out oh i'm on the wrong camera angle oh i'm on the wrong camera angle there we go
so this is my little socketed uh socketed screwdriver just for installing
motherboard standoffs
they actually come with uh actually used
to come with a lot of cases so i've got a handful of them
but now everyone's cheaping out like fractal includes this horrendous
like stupid plastic adapter thing that you can put
around the stand off and then you can drive in with a phillips head screwdriver but really
guys plastic oh man i think liam lee was the one that used
to include these ones
cooler master uses a metal one oh i got people reminding me about the i
o shield i would have figured it out i would have
i definitely would have figured out that the i o shield is not in there don't
worry i don't remember the last time i
failed to install an io shield when i had one a lot of people are probably
going to bring up the i o shield that was missing in the build with my son but
the only reason that was missing was because luke had that i o shield in his
garage that is why i didn't install an io
shield and i have since followed that up with him and it has been retrieved so
next time i build a system with that motherboard which i actually intend to
do fairly soon i'm going to be doing like a really cool ltd edition build
so next time i do that i will be i'll be using the i o shield
okay why power supply fan side up uh there's
a reason for that if i was building this for myself
i would probably go power supply fan down
and the reason for that is that it keeps the power supply heat isolated from the rest of the system however because this
is not for me the thing about fractal cases this one
in particular is that they have very short feet so if this case were to be
installed on a relatively plush carpet it would actually come up leaving only
like a fraction of a centimeter of space between this bottom
fan filter guy here and the actual intake on the
bottom of the case so installing the power supply fan side up
is sort of the um less optimal but safer way if you don't
know how the system is going to be used look at
that so that's why i did that
like plush carpet well yeah carpet that's more plush plush is a word
i don't mean just like shag carpet like the feet on this case really aren't very
tall so really any carpet could be a potential
airflow issue and i've actually killed power supplies that way just putting the
system on a carpet forgetting that it was one that had the fan on the bottom
of the power supply like not opening it up to check because why would i think of
that and i have actually killed systems like that so
yep these little lessons that you learn
people are telling me the fan is upside down
well okay i don't know all right let's get our motherboard
installed here one thing that i really like about this case is it has this cool little nub in the middle so that your
motherboard doesn't shift around while you're trying to install it
why would you put a computer on carpet i don't know because you have carpet on
your floor and you have a small desk
it's not an atrocity it's fine
remember when your computer's plugged in like the thing's grounded like it
actually has a ground prong
i mean in most places i actually uh had to
um i had to rip the ground prong off of one
of my laptop charger cables when i was over in asia because we were in some
country i forget which one it was and almost none of the outlets there had a
ground prong i was like okay so it's 120 volt
there's the two prongs like like at home but then there's no ground prong
feel like crooked CPU cooler or whatever look it's adjustable
man you guys are you guys are killing me here
you guys are killing me here
all right wow this is actually kind of a nice
looking build i'm liking this white and black and just a touch of orange color
scheme thing that we've got going on here let's do some power supply cables
shall we
i got people asking me to mount the SSD behind the motherboard i actually could do that i don't think it's realistically
going to matter much because
that leaves us with only one extra expansion slot
in the case and without having to add the extra cage
but it's not a bad point i can probably do that i know fractal did one case i
can't remember which one it was like define r3 or something like that where
you actually couldn't install an SSD on the back of the motherboard tray
without taking the motherboard out
so i never recommended in that case
installing the SSD on the back because then if you ever had to get your SSD off
you would have to take the motherboard out as well but this one i don't believe that is the
case so it should be fine 24 pin etx peripheral blah blah blah
blah blah blah six plus two pin PCIe
six plus two pin PCIe
yeah i really don't know if we're gonna keep doing
build guides in the same way that we've been doing them before anymore like this
kind of stuff feels so routine for me now while i recognize that
you know some of our viewers are are new to us and
haven't seen this stuff before i just you know i hate i hate making content
that's boring for me and so mixing it up a little bit every time is i think what
keeps it fresh not just for you guys but for me and so like doing this live
stream thing was kind of like oh that's a novel idea yeah sure let's do it let's
do it live but we've had a lot of people request more
of our traditional style build guides which i personally think are great i think they're the best
pc build guides on the internet um
but i just i just don't know if we're gonna really continue to do them the way
that we the way that we used to
um blah blah blah are the new skylake i5s
overclockable motherboards you said would allow it on lan show i don't know
are they um i know that i had heard although i haven't personally tested it
yet i had heard that uh non-k skylake cpus are now
overclockable but um
yeah i haven't verified it yet i think
asrock and MSI are the only ones that have actually implemented the the patch
at this point and i don't have a ton of assrock or MSI on hand so
it's hard for me to verify something like that all right
let's turn this puppy around
there we go
i'm actually going to take off the back panel so i can start doing some cable management
that is the mark of an inexperienced builder doing cable management at the
end you always do cable management as you go otherwise it makes your life a lot more
difficult
ah these new power supplies with their newfangled i shouldn't even say new
actually some companies have been doing this for a very long time their newfangled uh
capacitors all over the 24 pin connector makes them quite a bit
bulkier to deal with but the folks at Corsair and i think i can't
remember who the first one to do this was was it pc power and cooling or something
i can't remember who did it first but apparently it helps with ripple
suppression or something or something which i'm sure matters to some extreme overclockers
somewhere in scandinavia
i don't know i'm at the point now where really a high it's not like it was in
the old days where like there were good power supplies and then
there were power supplies where basically you plugged them in and hoped
for the best like most anything from a fairly reputable
brand is is fairly good these days
um not really that worrying
where is the eight pin connector on this motherboard
oh it's kind of in the middle okay i'm gonna go through this other cable management hole here
so i tend not to stress about it too much for me it's more like features
um you know does it have modular cables
um yeah because unless you're really pushing the
limits which if you're honest with yourself you're not
because unless you're using liquid nitrogen to overclock you're really not pushing the limits
then it really doesn't make that much of a difference as long as you go with
something that's fairly decent like i'm not telling everyone to run out and buy
the cheapest power supply that they can find on newegg.com that is still
probably going to explode and kill things spectacularly at some point in
the future i just mean that whole thing where everyone was
buying you know hx1000 you know 1000 watt top of the line power supplies
um i really don't think is that important
anymore okay eight pin connector done i'm sorry i'm
just going to adjust the positioning of this so you guys can see
a little bit better this is my favorite way to deal with
these fans these days oh shoot i think i plugged into the
wrong CPU fan header boop
no big deal
all right where is my screwdriver in my back
pocket where it always is
i'm just going to coil this baby up um actually that's very slow never mind
i'm going to do it my less favorite way
so this is one of my other tricks though you take the fan
connector you run it around the outside of the fan itself and then if you can
you find a fan header that it just barely reaches and
then it usually won't go anywhere if it does go somewhere then you just run a
twist tie or a zip tie i usually like to use twist ties if i can because they're
a lot easier to take off if you screw something up but you run a twist tie
through one of the mounting holes on the fan you grab onto that cable and then boom
doesn't go anywhere and it looks really really clean without
actually doing like our custom length
fan cable or anything like that like all the kids are into these days
i'm actually very i'm getting to the point where i'm
getting very old school and the way i build computers another reason why i
feel like i should leave the guides to the people who are really more into it
these days the guys that are like yeah custom
length cables for this and hard pipe
cooling for that and i'm just like that sounds like a lot of work
you know because i'm old all right
um you know what i'm gonna finish my wire runs you know what i'm actually
not going to mount the SSD behind the motherboard tray because that way i can win
i can uh i can have taken out the right
modular cables from the power supply box so i'm cheating a little bit but yes i'm
going to do that
uh yeah i am actually planning to up this upload this video to the to the
channel i'm planning to not edit it and just upload the whole thing and kind of see
how it goes we don't do that kind of stuff very often where we do like experimental
formats on the uh on the channel so i just thought yeah
what the hey let's uh let's give it a shot it's not going to be the the full
release for tonight like it's going to be this and something else
but yeah yeah we are we are going to do that
so you guys will be able to see the whole thing if you missed any parts of it i mean not to mention that we are
streaming it on twitch so there is the uh there is the vod for that
speaking of streaming on twitch we've got a really really cool video coming on
vessel tonight it's um i create like like a diy
news reporter like mobile streaming backpack thing and
we go out and test it out it's actually pretty freaking cool
so you guys can check that out if you're into that sort of thing
most of what we do these days is kind of like that where it may not actually have
a ton of practical application but uh
it's mostly just like hey here's a really cool idea we had and
here goes
all right three four is that a six g i don't know whatever
let's do i don't know that one okay
let's run these puppies through here this is one of the things i really like
about this case is that the motherboard tray is actually stamped in so the
motherboard sits a little bit further back
than the cable management holes for your SATA cables right next to it that means
that when they run in there's really no no strain or tension on them
it's just a nice nice little touch it does take away some of the cable management room that you would otherwise
have behind the motherboard tray but i think it's a worthwhile trade-off
all right let's run our pci express connectors
what's up brandon
oh i can't believe it's almost six i am so thirsty right now
i don't think it helps that i sucked back that milkshake right before i started this oh i still have some
i'm totally having more milkshake oh it's completely liquid
okay no wendy's chocolate frosty that is
completely melted is a really really bad idea
i will regret that for sure
more than i already regret it i feel fat just drinking it
to be clear i don't mean i feel fat like like covered in rolls of fat i just mean
i feel like if i ate junk like that all
the time i would get fat very very quickly
okay that's the thing you get older your metabolism just kind of runs away from
you like it used to be i never had to worry about any of that stuff and i mean i'm
sure i'm not the only one telling this sad story but
really like it it used to be fine no matter what i did
and now it's just like i eat one wrong thing and i'm like wow i just ate one
pound of junk food and i just gained one pound
it's amazing how that math works
it shouldn't surprise me i know this but that doesn't change the fact that it
does
okay this 24 pin cable management is going to be a little bit tricky actually
there's really not a lot of space behind the motherboard tray on this case
okay front usb 2
front usb 2 what you gonna do
watch out i gotta take a poop
but don't worry you don't have to watch i won't make you
what do you think brandon should i quit my day job and become a rapper
you'll be my producer
what do you know about audio producing
god i hate you brandon
you crush all my dreams that's what rap taught me
that's what rap taught me chase your dreams
if incredibly talented people like jay-z can do it then surely i can
yeah see people are finally witnessing the kind of crap that i take around here
everyone hears what i dish out because i'm the like the on-camera personality
most of the time but the cold hard truth is i i take at least as much as i give
out around here
that's weird um
okay brandon the battery died
can i have a new can i have a new battery please
ah the uh the top one the other one's running off ac
maybe if you didn't break all our ac adapters we wouldn't have this problem
well it's taking longer than i said you should have known that was going to
happen mr producer
mr smart guy who claims to know anything about
producing
i would never hire someone so unproductive to be a producer
wow it's funny because brandon actually had
like a crazy productive day today he got with some help he got all of our our
lights mounted in our ceiling lighting grid thing uh it actually looks freaking
ba so
i can get out of the way if you'd like
sure i'll go let me go around the front i can actually cable manage this fan and
then there you go
yeah this video is more like a it's like closer to a behind the scenes than it is
to an actual release video
it's kind of cool i'm liking the vibe actually i'm liking the uh
discussion with the twitch chat i can't believe there's 4 500 people watching
on like an off time we've actually tried streaming not at our our scheduled time
before and let me tell you guys it has not gone very well like we don't tend to get
a ton of viewers when it's not our normal same bat time same channel nonsense
thank you brandon
you are a valuable and appreciated member of
this team yes have you seen penguin madagascar no okay
i can't remember what the exact quote is but it's something along those lines that's what they tell the mentally
handicapped one wow
i don't actually know if that's the politically correct term for
private i'm usually not that up on my
politically correctness
power led does this case have a reset switch i
think i might be missing one of my front connectors you know a lot of people use
those little things that um that ASUS includes
those little blocks that let you plug in all these front panel connectors and then plug the whole thing in one go i
never recommend it the reason is that it's um
it can interfere with long expansion cards sometimes you're much better off
to just do it right the first time install it correctly john john here is a
big fan of them but both luke and i are like no
you should not use those but he doesn't listen he just uses them
anyway because everyone just forgets their own path okay let's test this other camera angle again
yeah we're back baby okay
we're actually getting surprisingly close
drives drives that's the home stretch right brandon drives are the home
stretch always the home stretch
let me tell you guys we have done some we have done some build logs brandon and
i yes we have
drives are the home stretch gpus are like
you can you can smell it you can smell it it's almost over
and then the conclusion is just the conclusion it gets harder again because
you're just like oh this just it's just a few more bases until it's
over guys we have been at the office filming
to like we hours of the morning doing those build guides
i'm sorry 5am for your video i didn't even know
that for the a7s2 do you even want to do more camera
reviews okay okay
i'm down man
what's your next one going to be oh ursa mini that's right
what else do you have on kind of on your radar
oh yeah that'll be cool okay cool
yeah brandon wants to uh wants to go all
like kind of scrapyard wars on like camera camera stuff
so i i can't give i can't really give any more detail than that without sort
of giving away what he's doing but it's going to be it's going to be pretty freaking cool if you're into camera
stuff and even if you're not come on watch it
it's brandon he's nice we like him for some reason
killing your china balls which is less racist than it sounds by
the way it's much less racist can you show them
your china balls
thank you see it's on the other ankle
uh no no it's it's i i that one is real time yeah that one's don't worry it's
all good
no seriously china balls are a thing this is not this is not sexual
harassment and it is not racism
jeez i can't catch a break here
no i think they know that if i was if i was going to be racist i would just be
upfront about it besides i really don't think too many
people are going to accuse me of being racist against chinese people
nope i just dislike them all individually
just kidding for those of you who don't know my wife is chinese just throwing
that out there
i am not a racist person
ah this is cool though check this
out so fractal actually has a really smart hard drive sled design you can
mount the rubber things more towards the front or more towards the back depending
on whether you want like a nicer aesthetic or you want more cable
management room behind them i always go with more cable management room because i personally don't find that that
affects the aesthetic you can't really see it through the window and i also
there we go and i also really find that defining various cases need all the
cable management they can get oops i actually did that wrong
i was so busy explaining the cool and clever thing i was doing that i did it
wrong story of my freaking life
like our storage server
so busy showing you guys how to do it that i rush
that's what happened basically i was just in a hurry it's not that i don't
know the right way to do it i was just in a hurry
and i've got a lot of video projects that are relying on
making videos about those drives and all this stuff and so i was like okay i'm
going to take a shortcut and the shortcut was bad the shortcut led down
disaster junction can i help you
okay please don't drop that
on yourself or anyone else
he's holding this ginormous ladder i swear when brandon first joined the
company we couldn't we couldn't trust it oh dang it i did it wrong this time
son of a um like we couldn't trust him to tie his
shoes in the morning the guy was tripping all over everything
like oh man it was it was terrible but he's
been he's been with us so long in our messy environment because brendan's kind
of a neat freak you'd never know it um like looking at his workspace here but
like i've been to his house he's actually a pretty like tidy person but
it's just that especially at the old office there
really wasn't much that could be done to be tidy so everyone just kind of gave in
to the mess the analogy that i like to use is kind
of like those puzzles where there's one empty square and you have to
rearrange all the other squares to make a full picture the problem is that at
the old office there was no empty square there was no way to rearrange anything
so so brandon had to learn like the rest of us
to just catch himself when he tripped because the tripping was inevitable
and now he's like a pro like it's crazy i think he's better than me from having
to navigate all of the uh like all of my
stuff all of luke's stuff because he had to set up cameras and lights in every
area of the office so he's like the master of uh the master
of not tripping anymore
but man brandon you were scary in the early days
i always thought you were gonna die or destroy all my expensive stuff
or do both of them at the same time the ultimate insult
okay so we've got all our front panel connectors done we've got all our drives
plugged in um hey why don't we plug in some video
cards so oh man this is this is like this is killing me inside
well hopefully rylan can get that sorted out i'm going to have to leave it to him
unfortunately i mean it doesn't matter what they exchange it for as long as
they as long as it's like two of the same either of these configurations is fine
i don't know who screwed up i don't know if it was the retailer or if it was um
like lg's procurement the thing is like the cards are called the same thing
they're both called evga superclocked
it's just one of them has a reference cooler and one of them has an acx cooler
so i'm going to put the acx on the bottom i'm going to let the power supply deal with some of the heat from that and
exhaust it i know that exhausting your GPU heat through your
power supply is not really in the in the book of
best practices for a wicked awesome wicked awesome computer machine build
thing but uh yeah
it does work um especially if you've got a really
high quality power supply it's probably fine
sorry i just i want to tuck these things away so that i can do my uh
do my graphics card screws here there we go
got people asking me to do a test boot
ah yeah if i was smart i'd do that
i'm going for gold today my friends i'm actually i have only about 60 confidence
that this is gonna boot because i haven't uh i haven't checked this
motherboard with um i haven't checked the
compatibility matrix for xeons or for this RAM
we were going to use something else so i don't know i don't know we shall see
i might just get luke to lend me a monitor very temporarily
and then we'll we'll test it after see if it works if it doesn't work then
basically it's pretty simple i'm just going to grab a board off our shelf here
and then i'll figure out with lg how to get the right board and they can replace
it for me
because i do have at least something that'll work here in the studio for sure
and i really want it i really want rylan to get his machine because he's been waiting very patiently for it so
okay ah
these six plus two connectors i do appreciate them i like
them it was really annoying before everyone started putting these on video
cards but man it's hard to get the two
lined up sometimes especially when you're trying to
bend the cable into something so i saw force force awakens which is
cool don't worry brandon i'm not gonna say anything for their sake as well as for
yours um oh oh oh crap i got a message from a
twitch mod uh can i move you too creative uh sure
thanks bro i i wasn't really sure what i was
supposed to do with this so i just kind of i just did that Linus thing where i'm
just like ah someone else will let me know if i'm
doing it wrong and sure enough
they did they told me i was doing it wrong they asked if they could kind of
fix what i'm doing because i'm doing it wrong i was like okay sure man that's
cool all right
so the last thing to set up here is the nzxt
you oh i just crushed a box sorry rylan
oh boy i have no idea how this works
there's a lot of cables though so first is power i know we need that
okay so here's a molex connector
to my little just
dc plug i really wonder why they don't just have
a native molex plug on this thing that's really weird
probably they're repurposing something else that was intended for like another
industry and then they're just nzxt'ing computering it up so
that would probably be why
yeah yeah pretty much hey
until it gets mainstream enough
usb
okay oh i think i found a place to stash it
under this hard drive um wow it's gonna be really hard to fit
it down there though get in there oh yes very nice he's nice
i like it okay so i'm gonna stash the
hue right under the front hard drive i'm sorry you guys can't really see what i'm doing
um
everyone's like luke use the force star wars star wars mania is uh
is is strong with this one
okay oh sick
some of them some of them all of them
some of these strips are magnetic oh i love it are they all magnetic this
one doesn't seem very magnetic they're all magnetic sick
you're magnetic i think so
personal magnetism that's the only context i can think of
for it i'm leaving don't forget to do the thing
right the thing
it's with like the butt right
i said that that's with the butt yeah okay cool
just making sure
oh it has been a long long month but
if i get the thing done before work tomorrow
then um that'll be
good yeah people are like loop change shirts
do you guys really think we wear our Linus tech tip shirts all the time like
for realsies okay i do but other people aren't required to
i even offered them to them for free very few people have actually taken me
up on them apparently apparently they don't want to rep
LTT on their own time i see how it is
i know you don't have any LTT shirts brandon
do you have one which one do you have oh nice yeah did you buy that oh how come
you how come you have one of those
oh okay
nice
it's funny because we have kind of a g-rated channel so like
i'm never quite sure if i'm supposed to even say what it says on the front of
that shirt but it's our shirt so surely we decided at some point that we could
say on this show
yeah cats well that's that in the context of the shirt it's very clear
that it's a cat
oh dang it i gotta plug in a usb header here
it'd be cool if i had a third camera angle that's like um
like a headlight headlamp view kind of thing
okay so i'm going to show you guys actually i'm going to do the backs of these drives first
so this is how i deal with my ocd i use my my right angle one on the the SSD so
that at least the two hard drives are using both straight connectors and the SSD has the
right angle connector or something i justify it to myself that they're not
all the same like that
this is something that drives me crazy about other power supplies actually this
one doesn't do it i was ready to complain about this power supply and then it ended up doing it right is they
mostly have the um the SATA cables set up
so that you would have to run them top down in order to have them all plug in
easily so they're all like left angle instead
of right angle whereas most power supplies are in the basement of the
cases these days so having them come up this way actually makes more sense so
here we're going one two three and we're good just like that
then let's plug in our two SATA cables for those hard drives
so funny i so rarely put hard drives on the builds that we do for the show
that feels kind of weird plugging these in right now although i've been doing it more lately
now that we've been doing all that naz stuff with uh with unraid
showing how you can actually use your gaming tower as a nas that one's coming
to youtube fairly soon all right so that's done
oh dang it i dropped all the stuff
switch angles here
uh did i switch angles yes i did
okay so we got to figure out how we want to
do all of our lighting effects so this baby
can go up here and plug into
one of these little extension you do that finish this
and we're back i think
okay brandon repeat after me i step where you step
i touch nothing
what i did
well all we know was brandon was moving a ladder over near the streaming do you
see anything uh-huh and then the machine shut down
spectacularly shut down like zero warning
completely locked up shut down so
it's okay though i forgive you
um oh crap how does this work
yeah that's probably it okay i might actually have to check the
manual for this uh for this fractal fractal or this nzxt hue do dad
plus five volts something something grounding etc okay i'm gonna have to
check the manual you'd think i would have been checking the manual this whole time that i was
off camera but actually i was fixing the damn stream computer
yeah i'm getting a lot of hashtag fire brandon
so they've turned on you brandon it's official
that's how into you they were they like you as long as you're talking about
camera things but as soon as you break the stream
they turn on you
death by ladder yeah i don't even need to fire him he's probably going to die
oh it actually doesn't seem to say does it
okay plug a thing in there plug another thing in there yeah yeah yeah
huh okay
oh the edge with the black line on the led strips you'd think that would be in
the like very obvious and easy to find
quick guide part of it but it's not black line on the led strips
look at that i had it right anyway so there's a first time for everything
i got something right without having to do it a few times
oh i guess i don't really need this extension here
okay
the sucky thing about having the stream
cut out in the middle is that i will have to cut together
the video now which is very unfortunate it makes it a lot more work
but that's okay because brandon makes up for it with his good looks and charm
well i know it wasn't my fault and i know you were moving ladders
around
so i think the point of the magnets isn't necessarily to work on their own
so i'm going to go ahead i'm going to use the magnet but i'm going to also use
the included adhesive jug so the magnets can kind of hold the
adhesive in place something that is more needed than you might think if
you've ever mounted an led strip you probably know for the most part they do
not mount very reliably
all right so let's grab another one here i really like this system with the
little extensions and the little uh
you know whatever else it is that we got going on
huh it goes in this end i like this
so now i'm gonna do one on the top
going to go ahead i'm going to
yeah so i'll install that right up there we are going to have any lighting effect
we want oh wait a minute
it occurs to me this is not a five and a quarter inch bay device i wonder if we
actually ever got the strip that lg
ordered or if this is just one that nzxt sent to
me it doesn't really matter
i don't actually care
i'll just get nzxt to send another one
yep that'll do okay
so i'm actually really uncertain about this
last run here i think we might kind of
think we might kind of end up overdoing it if we're not careful
so i'm just going to kind of put that in there and then i'm going to
run this one kind of down here and i'm going to hope that that kind of
holds together for me here there we go
all right and that we end up with a nice nice even glow effect so i'm going to
use one more extension and then bring that around to the oh
they've got really short ones oh shoot i should have used one of those there
that's okay i'll send all the extra bits to ryland
i'm sure the first thing he's going to do is take the whole thing apart and put it all back together anyway
how many people managed to stay oh 2600 of you you guys you guys are the ones
who believe in me who believe in me for some reason
i've never given you a reason to believe that i can bring the stream back online
successfully but you believe anyway i admire that
see them i admire brandon
it's okay i know you didn't mean to ruin the evening
sorry
okay there we go all the led strips are
in cool i'm liking this rig so far actually
all right what's left
what is left is that it oh sli bridge
never want to forget the sli bridge that's always uh that's always annoying
you go and you boot up the machine for the first time you're like i'm sure something's missing
i've got people telling me to put the leds on the case door yes that is
actually a way to do it but i'm going to do it like this
all right i sure wish ASUS included black sli
bridges those just look awful this like orange sli bridge i don't know
what the deal is with that okay
not too shabby actually
a zip tie here a zip tie there and this
is uh this is some primo grade stuff right here oh there you go guys
looks a little something like that and i think that pretty much concludes
our first ever live
build log it wasn't really much of a guide or anything like that but let me
know and if you're watching this on youtube which it will be uploaded to
later let me know in the comments do you like this format for builds do you want
to see us do you know completely different things that are not like this
leave your suggestions we're always open to them but we're not always open to
them but we always ask for them and then sometimes we ask for them just so we can
ignore them that's not what we do all right see you guys later
it's always awkward doing outros on live broadcast stuff
because like yeah
and we're done oh crap i