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okay it it's in

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in our recent secret shopper series agent sarah determined which pc builder

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delivered the best balance of cost price

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and customer service but one thing we didn't explore was

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what if she had just researched the parts herself and put it together

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creating her own gaming rig could she have saved money could she have gotten

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more performance would she have had a good time

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out to sea with only three lifelines to get her through the process of

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independently researching and building her dream gaming rig

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i know the CPU is quite important i know the GPU is quite important and if the

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motherboard is like the number one piece that i need then i think that that would

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also be important so maybe those are my top three that i should spend the most

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money on i know ryzen is a good CPU

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brand so i think that's where i'm gonna go but they might be more expensive than

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Intel i don't know

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i don't know that goes to show you the kind of mix of information sarah got

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from the pc builders this one looks cool it has wi-fi and RGB

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yeah that's a really easy way to spend way too much on a motherboard she's not

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way off like CPU GPU motherboard that's

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not a terrible list of you know your top three most important components of a

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computer it's just that with the motherboard because it doesn't affect

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performance it basically comes down to does it have the features you want like

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is it the right form factor to fit in your case or does it have the i o that you need i don't know let's just write

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down the number one motherboard for now honestly if i was buying something i'm

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not familiar with like a paintball marker for example i might just google

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what's the best marker for woods ball and

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who cares i guess if they know anything about me or my play style or my skill

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level because i don't know apparently on amazon it's

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255.99 but let's see how much it is on

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pc picker oh okay yeah it's 255.99

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i guess i'll add that google what's next

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CPU like i know we want something that's high speed does the CPU even control

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speed it's central processing unit maybe it just controls

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some other stuff i mean

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yeah if i was a gamer and everyone told me hey you need a great graphics card

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that's the most important thing for gaming i'm

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i might not even realize what a big deal that is maybe the ryzen 5

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5600x it's oh

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it's already it's already gonna be more than half

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i think of my budget oh maybe not 341.49

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she's gonna blow this budget real fast at this rate it's supposed to work with

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my motherboard i think so i don't know

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the fact that pc part picker exists does make this process a lot easier if you

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know to use it because it'll actually flag you if you pick a CPU that's

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accidentally not compatible it'll even tell you if the BIOS of the motherboard

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might not be compatible out of the box and might require a flash i mean usually

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what's the difference what does 5600 versus

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3600 versus 3700 what does that mean

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that's a really fair question it really was easier when we could shop

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by gigahertz i don't want to go Intel

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but Intel is cheaper there's no shame in going Intel you

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gotta take advantage of that supply and demand boys and girls five thirty six

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hundred x okay i'll add the 3600x then

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she is way overspending on motherboard and underspending on CPU right now

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i'll look back into it later i think we should just get everything first i

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actually support the idea of just getting everything thrown into a cart

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and then playing around with it after the fact because that way at least you

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can post to our slash build a pc or to the

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Linus tech tips forum and people can at least kind of help you tweak it as

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opposed to just going i don't feel like doing any work and just dumping the work

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on someone else Corsair vengeance

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i really like the white ones

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are they more expensive and we're shopping for RAM by color i have a

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friend who shops for badminton rackets by whatever has the prettiest paint job

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and i'm just like best SSD

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for gaming top ssds in 2021 a data i've

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literally never heard of that company before oh no the samsung one is quite

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expensive as well i trust samsung like i

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i've heard the company name before and i feel like when

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you can trust a company you are more likely to go with their products you

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know it's funny that she would say that because samsung has a long and proud

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history of kind of coming in with a very mediocre product like their earlier

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optical drives for example terrible and

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then just through sheer brute force making it better or competitive with

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everyone else and then pushing everyone else out of the space

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so eventually yes i trust a samsung product i trust a mature one samsung 970

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pro but it's 250 dollars

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wow that is a really expensive SSD

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what are we at now 874 and we still need

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the graphics card and the case and the power supply

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she is in for a real rude awakening when she tries to fit a graphics card in her

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budget you know you work around here and you just like see these cards being used

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in projects and you're like oh they can't be that expensive

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yeah 30 80 pretty pricey 1660 super six

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that's why gamers are so mad right now because a 1660 is costing what a

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freaking 3080 is supposed to but shipping is for you

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what i have no idea how i'm gonna do this uh

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maybe the SSD is 250. maybe i could find a better SSD

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for that price this one is 119 i don't

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know if i would have gone with SATA you can get some really good value m.2

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drives these days but i do agree with saving some money on the storage maybe i

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could downgrade the motherboard here what does does the motherboard just

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connect to the pieces it's like the puzzle piece that holds everything

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together 84. or 113. if it doesn't have wi-fi then i

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have to get a wi-fi connector sarah you can get a wi-fi dongle for like seven

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dollars this looks way more sensible given the

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other constraints on the build like the GPU shortage

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169 dollars but at 750 watts

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power supplies are few and far between right now too especially any that are

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high capacity enough for mining we are under budget right now

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but my case has to be less than 50 dollars i mean you can get

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cases for under 50 bucks i might have balanced the budget a little differently

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they're small cases for small pieces and big cases for big pieces i don't know

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the size of my my pieces my components do i get like a

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really big case just in case or do i just yolo and pick a case and

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hope everything fits i feel like at LMG we just yolo we don't

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yolo what does that even mean ah that one's

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ugly that one's ugly actually that one's not bad cool case is just not a priority

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when you're this far over budget part picker doesn't have it

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or do they just order from other people i don't understand she thinks pc part

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picker is an actual store does pc part picker not have cases you see part

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picker not have pieces they don't have anything what are we at here

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okay i i only need to go down

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85 dollars and 92 cents with the motherboard change and dropping

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to an 870 evo SSD this is looking reasonably well balanced

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with the only thing that's out of whack being of course the graphics card but

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what is sarah supposed to do about that i'm on the ltd forum i'm gonna post the

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parts that i've picked for my new pc hopefully

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somebody can suggest how we can get my budget down to fifteen hundred dollars

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no fifteen hundred dollar pc should have a 1660 super and an a a 520 board okay i

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agree but like it's not helpful what is she supposed to

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do about it madison oh those are my best

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zoomer friends over here

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is this seriously madison doesn't she have work to do

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flush your money down the toilet and flex on the haters this person replied

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with quite a long post uh they said i understand the urge but unless you look

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out at getting a card at msrp um this is frankly a bad idea now that

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is a pretty helpful response unfortunately we gotta make a video so

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you would think working in this office you just pick up a thing about computers

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here or there but the wing of the office she works in

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actually has very little computer conversation that takes place in it

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i'd strongly recommend getting a b550 board instead of an af520 the chipset is

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better and you can get them for the same price okay is it b550f

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this video is proof that manufacturers could do a way

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way better job of improving clarity for the average consumer i think it's more

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expensive but this one for sure has wi-fi

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and it doesn't have those ugly orange axes why are you so obsessed with wi-fi

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sarah okay i guess i'm downgrading my case again just buy a dongle now the

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funny thing is she was so determined not to go Intel but if she'd gone Intel she

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could have used onboard graphics while she waited for a decent deal on a

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graphics card i wish that AMD had their best apus available here like isn't that

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ridiculous all the motherboards still have like video outputs so where do i

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start off from where we left off i

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essentially need to figure out how to assemble it i've heard a lot that

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building a computer is like adult lego if all the pieces were made by different

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manufacturers and there were eight different sets of instructions that

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don't really match up so yeah sort of we'll see how this goes here we go

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i don't know what parts i need to be gentle with and what parts i can be

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rough with so i'm just gonna be gentle with everything the a520 board is fine

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if you need to save a buck but one thing you're really missing out on is of

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course pci express gen 4 which might end up important for gaming in the future

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but for now she's not really giving up any performance

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i think it's safe for me to grab it from the bottom yeah just

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one hand all over it um

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okay um so with this i know the CPU is the

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next step uh just from watching our videos every once

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in a while so i will grab that

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she found the CPU that's better than some of the rg rig reboot contestants uh

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this is the AMD ryzen 5 3600 xt

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i don't know what any of that means other than this is the processing unit i

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think what it means is we didn't have a 3600 x in the warehouse so we grabbed an

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xt and i also know from illustrating the

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stealth CPU shirt that these little guys

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have triangles and i know the triangles

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line up with the triangle on here uh but i don't see one

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maybe that they really could make the triangles bigger hey

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there's probably no good way of doing this other than just trying to line it

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up best as possible we mean no good way of doing it no no there is a good way

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oh i did it and then this

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must go down that seems pretty secure wait

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let's check why it's on there

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yes i think next is the RAM

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but i'm not sure what order they go in in the slots it does look like there's

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two slots here that are open oh that's so cheating because we built on this

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board before press oh my gosh i don't want to break it i'm

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i'm so scared by this every time

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oh i got one click but not two two okay wow why does she check things

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like this you don't have to like heave on the RAM and try and shake the

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CPU out of the socket it's in i i really hope i'm doing this in the right order

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i'm kind of just going off uh what is she doing now what what uh

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what i remember from watching our previous videos even if it wasn't in

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right that wouldn't tell you oh that's nice we found one that still has the

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pre-applied double compound on it that'll save her some trouble fragile oh

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my god uh should i put it face down maybe yeah

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okay here wait let me put it here

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um it doesn't look like there's any thermal paste in here

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she's looking right at it there's no instructions

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is there supposed to be instructions is this

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this can't be the thermal paste hey there we go oh i touched it

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i think why i'm gonna look this up

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i'm just gonna assume that this already has thermal paste or is already thermal

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paste should i touch it and we're not supposed to touch it stop touching it it feels

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like it doesn't belong there

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this little little doing here we'll clip both of them in

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i got this i don't think she got this i believe it

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would have to go somewhere on here so maybe i want it to be facing that way

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i can't even i can't even breathe i'm just like i'm

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so tense right now oh man i want to help so bad

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because like it's not hard but it's tricky

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you know what i mean the distinction once you've done it it's like swamp

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swamp here we go she hasn't done it before so it's not swamp film here we go

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it's it's this it's stuck

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oh okay wait oh okay you gotta watch out for that ladies and gentlemen if your

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thermal paste is suctioned onto your CPU and you just

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pull your CPU cooler off you can pull your CPU out of the socket and then it

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can fall and bend pins now we gotta figure out how to clip it

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in no without breaking it the other clip on fur

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first i'm gonna break it i'm so scared i'm

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gonna break it i'm so scared you're gonna break it too i got tiny fingers

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should i use something to like pry it down i feel like you're not supposed to be

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able to do that what you need to use

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is a lifeline right now oh wait wait wait wait wait if you put the clippy

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thingy down if you know this isn't the hardest part

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right i push it i did it oh my god i did

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it wow there was no point

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i'm like a good luck charm

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all right well that's that's one of your three that's one of your three hints

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that's really not what i would have used it on i have my case and i'm gonna lay it down

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flat

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hopefully that doesn't do anything bad uh

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wait oh yeah she keeps watching being so aggressive

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please it's probably fine i think this is fine okay

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wait let's do my my test and see if this is improperly

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okay it it's in

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do i need to take this out is she about to start disassembling the

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drive how oh

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is this not gonna work did i buy the wrong SSD

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it'll force it in

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i don't want to break it no

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i just want to know what i need to do one into your SSD

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and the other into your motherboard why is she not watching lightness tech

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tips come on we have a video on how to

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install an AMD cooler for example i kind of hate this doesn't this look tacky but

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it's not supposed to be there like that this spot right here

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looks like it fits a power supply unit wait did she just

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decide we're gonna put the power supply in the five and a quarter inch base what

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is even happening i'm wrong it doesn't go here it goes here

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because this needs to be facing outwards and this doesn't allow that

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which means it go this way ah yes assuming that we want to blow this part

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i would want it facing out oh no she's now she's overthinking

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it but then that would make this upside down i'm going with my gut and saying

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the fan needs to be facing towards and not downwards

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because most of the airflow is going this way either way is honestly

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yeah this is right is it bad to plug in things into the

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wrong yes places yes it is

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am i gonna destroy this computer by accident maybe i think oh shoot no this

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matches that one so

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i'm gonna try the scariest part of this is that you can actually get it in there

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i proved that when i did my blindfolded build they should have just done a

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10-pin pci express connector just to

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not have this happen after examining

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it's wrong but this one

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this one maybe nice let's try it so this one says uh power led plus and

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this one says power led minus and i can see here

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that this is plus p led and minus p led

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so i'm gonna assume from that that the

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plus one goes here

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and the minus one goes here gigi serum

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damn

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oh stop wobbling wiggling things hey it didn't really click but it's in well why

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don't you check and see if it's in by shaking the computer and seeing if it falls out but no don't oh this cable

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probably i shouldn't move that yeah i should move that

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oh the fact that it was that easy to pull out maybe it doesn't mean it was

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improperly

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okay that was a good snap not a bad snap

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you can never really tell

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it's in it's in i have

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successfully installed the GPU i guess we don't know that until we get the

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computer running let's just guess so

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uh i have kind of realized this cable is

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in the way and i could remove the graphics card to

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kind of slide it down the back here but i'm trying to decide if it's worth

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the hassle for me because the last time i tried to remove a GPU it really didn't

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turn out for literally anybody involved in that

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but i really want

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i think if i just if i just push this okay she found the clip okay it made a

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click now pull oh that's yes wow i did that yeah wow

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why wasn't it that easy the first time

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we're gonna go back now and do this once more

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and this is lined up please just push it in straight now push

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there we go uh i'm gonna

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i'm gonna see what i can do about this there's our SSD still just hanging there

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i have no clue what to do with this manual

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duct tape duct tape i'm grabbing duct tape

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duct tape fixes everything

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yeah yeah there we go double sided i don't want that to be visible i can't

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see it i realized i have this little plate thing that's supposed to go

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here i'm gonna try to get it in now cringing

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out my face and see if that works that i didn't even no you can't put it in oh no

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i i i was supposed to put it in beforehand it's too late it's not gonna

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work at all who cares about that stupid

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silver backplate anyways i pressed the power button and it turned on

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uh there's a light which is good we got lights we got fan spin

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my CPU cooler looks like shrimp looks like um

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that doesn't help me here

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no it says no dp detected i think this is what i was talking about okay AMD

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doesn't have proper top tier apus here

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in north america all the motherboards have video outputs

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this is the kind of confusion you end up with i have received a hint

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i don't think this goes into the motherboard it goes into the graphics card

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oh no that says dp butts like clenching just watching her

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like jam things into things

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like there's a lock on the cable does she

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know this is this is the hardest part is figuring out what's wrong oh she's

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got to do this just give it a quick power cycle displayport does not hot

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plug as well as some other interfaces so i have a computer if it doesn't

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compute is it a computer i mean

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according to my last logic

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it is not a computer right now because it's not computing

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at all uh so you see when i turn it on here yes

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we've got RGB everywhere

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good that's the first step but then

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am i magic or what i didn't even have to touch it

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i don't even got magic fingers today this is just magic presents

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all right see you later

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you're welcome thanks and select proper boot device how do i

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do that whether you're installing with the UEFI Windows or whether you need to

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enable csm in the BIOS or whatever it's

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really frustrating for even semi-experienced builders her google foo

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is quite strong download tool now

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okay it's been at 97 for like

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two minutes but does that mean i did something wrong

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or does that just mean the computer is well i guess that still means i did

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something wrong reboot

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the computer restarters you told me it would be fine

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i feel as though i belong here

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i'm coming all right yes i think i did something wrong

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uh so this is actually not my fault uh i blame

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new guy uh

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right now what we're doing is we are

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reinstalling Windows so i'm choosing the boot device which is your Corsair

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voyager thumb drive where the hell is your course oh there it is and we're

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just gonna take a fresh go at that okay it should be fine

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i have my good luck dinosaurs no no

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i'm the good luck we determined that these are lucky but you're lucky so

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you're also a dinosaur

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uh lttstore.com

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i did it

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i built a computer now all that remains to be seen is if

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she feels like it was worth the additional stress compared to having

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someone else build it for her it was a struggle you have no idea how much of a

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struggle it was i had way more fun

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trying to build my own computer than i did making phone calls or trying to buy

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one online which was easy yes but i

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really think that this is just something that you need to do in your lifetime

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build a computer it's fun i feel like i've learned a lot next time i build a

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computer i'll know what i'm doing basically maybe

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now it's cheaper to buy a pre-build if you can get a GPU

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at a regular price or a price that you're not

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worried about paying for then i 100 would recommend building your own

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computer truly it was worth it what a great conclusion

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did she nail it or what yes it's stressful and yes it's way more

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difficult it's a lot easier just buy a pre-built computer

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but it's rewarding you'll learn something it can be fun in like a

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stressful anxious kind of way but now is

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probably not the right time to do it unless you manage to get your hands on a

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GPU out on your msrp nailed it sarah

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