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Getting all of your tech tips from one source means that you might miss crucial details,

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but watching four videos at once is just so inconvenient.

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So, hear me out then. How about we smash four amazing tech tubers into just one video

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and they compete to build the best thousand dollar gaming PC. It's a generous budget,

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but not so large that they can just spend carelessly. So, to help, we've sourced this pile

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of secondhand parts that we're going to price according to what's typical on

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marketplaces like Facebook, eBay, and Java. The online marketplace for new news PC stuff

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who sponsored this video along with C-Sonic, who also pitched in to help us bring together our four

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amazing contestants. Let's meet them. I'm Danny from Nirner Budget, and I make content about

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PC builds, steel, hunting, and sometimes land parties. My name is Tito. I have the YouTube

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channel Machinautra Productions, and I modify retro video game consoles. Hi, I'm Joyce from

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TechJoyce, and I make technology and car content. Hi, I'm Zach from ZTT, and I make a ton of PC

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building content, kind of similar to what we're going to do today. Where did you get those in?

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For those that don't know, it's Zach's Tech Turf, where Turf stands for

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Tutorials, Unboxings, Reviews, and Fun, but I don't say that on camera. It'd be a lot to say each

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time. What do you think is going to give you your edge today? I think maybe my lack of knowledge

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of PCs, maybe. How do you think it's going to give you an edge? I have no idea. Most of my content

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revolves around looking for used deals, so this was right up my alley, but I try to maximize the

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performance any time I do a PC build, so I have a lot of practice with that, I'd say. Aesthetics,

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for sure. You know, there's one competitor that I'm worried about that's going to beat me in terms

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of price to performance. It's Danny. Hopefully there's points given out on the aesthetic realm,

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which that's what I'm going for. I think I'm the youngest out of all the contestants,

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so my hands will be faster, and I'll probably think a little faster than them,

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so hopefully my age will give me a bit of an edge. What is the CPU that you picked?

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I picked the Ryzen 5 7600. Initially, I went after this Ryzen 5 9600X, listed for $185. I

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offered $10 less and got declined. This ended up working out, though, because I later came across

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this Ryzen 5 7600 for $125, which works out to be a way better deal. With the money saved,

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I then set my sights on a little bit more expensive graphics cards around $500. The best card I could

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find was this RX6950XT. It was a AMD Ryzen 7900X. I mostly made all my decisions based off price

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because I really don't know too much about PC building. I picked the Ryzen 5 7600X. It was the

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best deal that I could find on Java at that specific moment in time. I actually found this

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RX7800XT for $450, and that's actually a really good price. I picked the Ryzen 5 7600X3D. Yeah,

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that one was just a really good deal. I decided to go with an NVIDIA graphics card because I'm

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hoping for the benchmarking it involves ray tracing. Please Linus. Now it's time to pick

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the rest of your computer. We've got a large stock pile of parts, but if there's something else that

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tickles your fancy, Games Master David will see what you can do and try to get you a fair price.

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You are allowed to go over your $1,000 budget. However, you're going to be evaluated based

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on your performance in three demanding games. And for every $10 you go over, it will cost you

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1% of your total score. So be frugal. To keep things balanced, we're going to be doing a snake

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draft starting with Danny, which was decided by random chance off camera and also because

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don't tell the others, but we just plain like them better. Go. Okay. Can I get the Game Master's

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help? Anything that's got red? I just need color. A little something up my sleeve here.

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It is red. Yeah. Can I get this? It'd be 95. Best I can do is 90. 90. 90 it is. I only have like

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$50 left. So I'm going to go really cheap. We are adding aesthetics to the rubric. Correct.

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I don't think so. It's the entire strategy. Wow. That's unfortunate.

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Someone might actually do it. I didn't think it was going to be possible. I mean, I wouldn't be nerd on a budget if I didn't stick to the budget. Five bucks. Five bucks. I like it.

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Question for you. What are we doing about power supply? I'm so glad you asked in a totally

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unscripted way. Everyone is getting, oh my God, David. Okay, you're good. You're good. A Focus

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at the link in the video description. Now let's build these PCs. Before we do that though, where

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did they land in terms of pricing? Danny, $9.99. Wow. Okay. Nerd on a budget. Joyce, $10.34. Oh,

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wait, wait, wait. $10.40. Zach, $10.41. And Tito, $10.53. Everyone did pretty darn good.

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A lot better than I expected. Really close. Wow, nice case. Does it have a side panel? It does not,

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but that's so I could fit the cooler. Wicked smart. How are you feeling about your choices?

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I think I went a little bit over budget, but I'm still very confident because I think my CPU is

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the best out of all four of them. Very nice. Any regrets? I think the GPU. Do you regret just

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standing here and chit-chatting while the timer's running? Oh, what? I'm supposed to get started

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now? Yeah, what are you waiting for? How about you, Danny? Any regrets? I'm pretty happy with it. I

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think I got a pretty beefy graphics card and a decent CPU to pair with it. So, it's just some of

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the other parts might be jank, but that's just when you go use sometimes, you know? We have a

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red alert here, David. There's no I.O. shield in here. Oh, god. Oh, my god. Given how much of our

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grading is going to be aesthetics, that's going to really hold you back. 100% what I was thinking.

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Thank you. Here's my deal. Okay. We will offer you a 2x multiplier on your aesthetic score.

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I will gladly take 3x. 4x. Final offer. Thank you. Thank you. Appreciate it.

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How are things going over here? Any regrets on your build? Maybe the case? Is this an intentional

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vibe? That was kind of a late-breaking decision where I'm just going to kind of go with a really

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messy setup and that's going to be part of the vibe. Oh, I like it. You have only one stick of RAM.

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I do. Yes. Better than none. If we were an actual team, I probably would have helped you with that,

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but I'd like maybe I'll just let them cook. Or like let them be cooked. I don't like your SSD,

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though. Well, that was strategic. I did not want to waste money on anything. Performance impacting.

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So, you'd rather that whoever ends up with this system, which by the way, people are going to

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end up with. Yes. Have a crappy SSD and lose their data down the road. Correct. Like my stock cooler

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here? Dude, I approve of the stock cooler. My tech ick was people who spend a bunch of money

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on a fancy cooler when they haven't already min-maxed the rest of their hardware.

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That's true. Am I distracting you? A little bit, but it's okay. It's missing one standoff. The

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bottom right one. Nerd on a budget with attention to detail. Keep an eye on this one. There's a

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reason he's our favorite. I didn't mean what I said over there. You're doing great too. Thank you.

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Wait, I've never done this before. I've only built like like six, seven PCs. I'm deciding if I should

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try to give you hints or not, but since we're competing and you wanted to race. I don't need

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hints. Don't worry. Gabe, you're good. I know exactly what I'm doing right now. No, that does not seem

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right. Okay, I'm not going to ask for help because I feel like that makes me lose automatically.

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There's nothing wrong with getting help. No, I have to do this alone. Okay, I'm definitely the

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least qualified out of the three contestants. Yeah, so I picked this cooler because well,

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it looked really big. So and I have apparently one of the, I guess better CPUs out of the lot.

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So probably need a lot of cooling power. The case is small, but it's missing the door. So that gives

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me plenty of room to use this. The reason for my cooler is I was definitely thinking about aesthetics.

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Okay. I guess the Riz 400. The Riz. Is that, is that what we're going with? I am also not above

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using the CPU cooler manual. Do you ever use these? Not on this. It's showing me exactly

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which hardware to use and whatnot. I like it. Yeah, I respect it. You know what? I like his style

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so much that I'm going to increase his aesthetics points multiplier to 5x. No, no, no, we were at

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five. Were we? Yeah, I think we're up to seven. I am retarded. Actually, I have thermal paste now.

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How do you know what I brought you isn't better? I want to go with these because this looks fancy.

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Okay. Thank you. You're welcome. Thank you. Oh, I've been being dismissed. I see. I think

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there's something to the whole passive aggressive generation, you know, with the whole like COVID

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lockdown and the lack of social skills. It's like they can't tell things like they're standing too

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close. They're making people uncomfortable. How are you doing? Good. I think I'm making good progress.

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I'm just putting all the motherboard screws in, which is like one of the more time consuming

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Yeah. Parts of it? I think I'm good with that now. Unflappable. See, this is why he's our favorite.

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You can't say that. What the hell is that supposed to be? Usually it turns out fine,

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but I think I got a little nervous because he's right beside me. I don't want to put any pressure

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on you guys, but you are way behind Danny. Am I helping with the pressure? Nope. Linus, I would

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like to run something by you here. This is a sponsored component. Yep. Very top of the line.

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There's one problem for my build with it. It's only black cables. I brought some cable extensions.

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I got red, but I'm going to plug these into these. How much did these cost? $0. Should I trust him?

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I'm going to believe him that these were $0. And for being such an amazing deal hunter, I'm going

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to reward him by increasing his aesthetics multiplier to 6x. We were just at 7. How are

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you already almost done? What are people doing? Modern computers? Everything just goes on the

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motherboard? Yeah, that's great. I just mean we're going to have to rely on some of the other folks

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to do our extras for Floatplane. LMG.GG slash Floatplane. Danny, do you think you could beat

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Linus in a build off? I honestly don't know how quickly Linus can build a PC. I usually don't

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try to speed through PC builds. I just kind of go at a leisurely pace. If this is your leisurely

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pace, I think you'd kick my ass. You just need a quality ratcheting screwdriver. Wow, you've made

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a lot of progress. So nothing fits, like nothing's long enough to reach the bottom of that. Yeah,

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so what you need is like a little stand underneath. You better believe it. Okay, now I gotta take

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everything out then. Can I just leave it like this? Because look, I got one, two, three, four,

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five, six. Six screws already. And that's a lot of screws. That's, you know, that is a lot of screws.

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So I'm good. I'm good here then. I'm making sure I get your approval. I'm not the judge. They're

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the judge. Do I have your approval? You may not be familiar with this concept, but we are not live

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right now. Oh, the audience. I'll tell you in the camera, man. Okay. Oh, the audience gave a thumbs

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up. So I think we're good. Did everybody go radion? Wow, it's almost like that's the way to go when

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you're trying to build on a budget. Speaking of GPUs, all of our contestants picked up their GPUs

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on Java. Java makes it easy to list and sell full builds or parts with buyer and seller protection,

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lower fees, and a community that's actively searching for gaming PCs. And this is all,

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without getting hit with, is this still available, messages a thousand freaking times. The only thing

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I don't love about it is this rear fan. That is specifically why I purchased three fans for the

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competition to make sure that they're all black. The aesthetics is the last thing on my checklist

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here. I'm just trying to figure out the wiring and making sure that everything works. I do know

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that they were talking at some point about selling these on Java. If we get points for that, then

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an aesthetic build could potentially help me out. That is true. It might actually matter at some point.

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We have our beautiful C-Sonic power supply here. I was sure to put the fan facing downward. So I

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chose a 3080 because I was looking on the website and all the 4070s were like $600. So I went one

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generation behind and this one is like basically the same performance for like a hundred bucks cheaper.

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Wait, these are not like screwed in. Do I have to rip them out? Do I need help again?

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Those are breakaways. Okay, thank you. Pretend to cut that part out when you say that. Oh,

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these are breakaways. So basically I don't have to unscrew anything. I'm wondering if I should

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help Joyce with something right now? No. Okay, she doesn't want to help. I'm independent and smart.

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How many PCs have you built? Over a hundred and under a thousand. So somewhere between there.

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That's insane. Over a hundred? It's like 10 a year. You look so young though because your skin's really

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good. Why did you use the lower slot on your... What? On your... She doesn't want to help. She doesn't

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want to help. Oh my god. I didn't even realize. She said she didn't want to help. Bro, this whole

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video is just embarrassing. Like you're going to be like, wow, you guys noticed and didn't tell me?

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That's fucked up. That's fucked up. That's fucked up. Especially you. You probably knew the whole

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time. Yeah, come on, Glenn. Come on. First try. Professional. We're trying to find something

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to close the side panel with. Oh, brilliant. Oh, we have one. Yes. Yes. Wow. Two. Celebrating.

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Was that a boot? Are they done? That's really crooked. Really? I mean, wow. Thanks. That's a

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computer. Yeah, I did it all first try and I didn't get any help. I don't think your motherboard

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is all the way down. No, no, no, no. Don't show that. Okay, just to set the record straight,

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I've never claimed to be a PC professional.

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Why didn't you screw them in all the way? I did. I thought I did. Oh, no. Okay, wait. Cut all of

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this out. Give me the screw. Wait, guys. I don't know what he's doing right now. He's trying to

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touch my build. So, see, all I did was turn it a few more rotations and you can see now the

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motherboard doesn't shift around like that. Right. Do you need me to check anything else? No, no, no,

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no. You sure? Yes. You can. Thank you. Now I feel like I need to check everyone's homework. Can I

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just? Yeah, you can take a look at it. Oh, yeah. Look at that. All the screws are in even. Oh, wow.

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I got nice little cable management in here and everything. Quality. Now it just comes down to

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performance. What is this situation here? Oh, is that it? It goes in. Yeah, I just forgot the

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screw in all the way, I think. I found problems with everyone else's build, so it feels unfair if

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I don't find something here. Feel free. You'll find something. Oh, a classic rookie error.

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Error. Missed the I.O. Shield. That is not an error. This was not supplied, sir. I mean,

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when you buy a secondhand motherboard, that's the first thing you got to check. Yeah, I mistakenly

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trusted the seller. That's why you got to shop on Java. Yeah. See, I would never put a motherboard

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without an I.O. Shield into my inventory, but that's what you guys do. See, that's kind of an

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error, but this is actually an error. Just don't make it worse, man. No, I'm helping. I'm helping.

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Let's see. I fixed it. Thank you for the tech tip. Yeah, that's my turf. I'm also going to pretend

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that I don't have to push down hard on this to keep the cable bulge down. Here's how we're looking.

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This is my GPU, and the reason I chose it was it was the most expensive one I could afford

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within my budget. Pencils down in five, four, three, two, one. Done. I'm done. Okay, moment of truth.

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Here we go. We're good. Okay, it's even plugged in. What? Damn, you guys sent me off. Yeah, it's

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plugged in. Okay, cut off. Take out the first cut. Just remove it all. Delete all the footage.

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Hopefully, I did the I.O. right. Oh, okay. Got an LED. Right out of the gate, I got to say immediately,

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I want to give you bonus points for leaving the $22 sticker on your case. As you can see,

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aesthetics was maybe kind of lower on the priority list. Yeah, and even cooling. You got like half

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of your fans in here. That's right. One of them's not spinning. I didn't actually catch your specs.

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I was so distracted by how ugly it is. So maybe it's like going to be a sleeper underdog. That's

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what I'm hoping. Victor. It was the first computer to work. Of course, no one cares what the tower

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looks like. If the monitor looks great. Oh, that's already a good sign. And most impressively,

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this isn't even running at low settings. This is 1440p ultra no ray tracing. It's actually

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Zach's machine that's making all the noises bothering me right now. It's going to be hard to

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beat. Or is it? If there were points for aesthetics, which there aren't, this would have lots of points.

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And it's also quiet. I don't agree that it's quiet. Oh, that is, yeah. Okay. All right. Let's

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take a quick test drive. Shall we? Oh, this is bad news for Tito because even though there's no

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points for aesthetics, there are points for the game looking better. If only Zach had tuned it.

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What'd you press? I pressed the sabotage Zach button for stealing the similar abbreviations

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to my channel. Next up is the one, the only tech choice who surely will blame her brother for

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whatever problems we find with her machine. I'm scared. You're going to say something crazy.

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Something crazy like, Hey, you should probably put all the screws in.

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That was not my fault. The screwdriver you gave me was faulty.

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Go ahead. Show me. Well, I threw it out. No, no, I threw it out because it was faulty.

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All right. Well, why don't we take a look at your computer and see if anything else is faulty.

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You're going to be blown away. Your side panel is upside down. The AMD logo on your cooler is

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upside down too. What's up with that? Why do you find problems with everything? Just play the game

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and you'll see. I mean, all you have to do is beat a low performing PC with no side panel and one

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that crashes. Can you commentate on this area right here? Yeah, this area right here is looking pretty

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damn good. Not going to lie. It says like 75 FPS and you're 1% low. It's hard to believe.

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Now that we're in here, dude, it's even worse. It kind of smells. It smells like burning. We got

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one exhaust fan. No intakes. I really don't know how long this is going to last. Tech choice,

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builder of temporary computers, which brings us finally to this. You know what? I can't find

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that much to criticize. It's a little on the louder side, but like, is that really that big of a

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problem? And even if the performance isn't the best, right? Like, look at this shirt. Look how he

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wears that. I like these glasses too. Just, you know, of course it's all going to come down to

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performance, which once again, wow, really good. I want to take a moment to recognize that for

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a thousand dollars, every single one of these systems is delivering an outstanding experience

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in what is still an extremely demanding game at 1440p ultimate quality. Some are a little more

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outstanding than the others and I think this might be one of them. I don't want to criticize

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because you're my favorite. I don't love that your CPU is running at 95 degrees. What? Ready? Three,

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two, one, benchmark. Oh my God. I'm absolutely cooked. Oh, it crashed again. Who configured this?

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Who configured it? I mean, you picked all the parts. We just watched you do it. Yeah, but you

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know, the parts were working when I showed up here. Do you want to just come out and say it?

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You can say it. I can say it? Yes. You're a poor sport.

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In all seriousness, there could be an issue with some of the hardware that we provided to Zach. I

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was just ribbing him before, so we're going to do a quick reseat of his GPU and in the meantime,

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we're grabbing another kit of memory just in case this one's a little bit on the flaky side.

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Why is this six gigafansters per second? Okay. Well, you kind of lucked out. Oh, wow. You just

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got a performance boost. Whoops. That was not my intention, but I don't have time to go change it

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again. I just fixed your computer. This feels great already. I can tell. Okay. Here we go. Let's

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see how it goes. Massive upset in first place for performance in cyberpunk. Zach, with the

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come from behind victory, he went from zero to 95 in second place for raw performance.

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We've got Danny. The nerd on a budget stayed within his budget. Zach, not so much. Neither did Joyce

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for that matter, so she's basically out of the running for first place, but could still end up

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with a podium finish because, yeah, that's really not that close, but there's still more benchmarking

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to go. Let's give him a bonus. Let's give him a nice guy bonus. 10 FPS. I still am like blown away

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at how good these machines are. Well, most of them. All of them. Come on. Kind of tempted to

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change Zach's memory speed back to 5600. I'm going to change it back to 5600 for the rest.

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How much lower do you think it's going to be, Linus? I would say two FPS. That could be the

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difference. I was thinking two to three FPS combined with your 4% over budget penalty.

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Times 11 aesthetic bonus. Right. I think we're still good. Your aesthetic bonus is zero though,

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so because there are no points for aesthetics. I was not told this. Never came up. The fact that

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it's so close is why I really feel that we need to double check. Oh my god. How'd it go up?

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Time for our second game. I'm rooting for you. Hold tab. Ready, three, two, one, go.

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Wow. You're getting kind of like the Canucks. Kind of hard to root for. Whoa. We could have an upset

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here. The nerd on a budget is on a roll with a score of 145 with Zach's tech turf with 130.

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Joyce coming in at 122. And once again, Tito was there. 93. That's really good. And it is really

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good. Our budget was limited to a thousand US dollars. And unlike a game console, which sure

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could also run Returnal, as long as it's a PlayStation, these machines can do anything you

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could possibly want them to do. Video editing, browsing the internet. The hell else is it that

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people do with computers these days? Now it's time for the big shocker finish, because see,

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I was piling on my Pal Tito before, but he actually has the best performing CPU out of the bunch.

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And this is interesting. Our last benchmark, kind of CPU dependent. Everyone, go ahead and press

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the check mark. Yeah, I'm rooting for you. Yeah, what? It's already less than 10. Oh gosh.

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While we wait for this last benchmark to run, I want to get everyone to sign their machine,

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because if you guys were paying attention earlier, you will know this. All of these

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are going to be for sale from jawo.gg. Choose wisely. Now for the results. Coming in first,

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nerd on a budget. Unfortunately, Joyce's X3D chip just didn't cut the mustard here.

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Zach is in the 300 FPS range as well. Tito was there. Even a 10 FPS bonus wasn't enough, man.

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I tried. I really tried. And now it's time for me and David to try and do math.

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Aesthetic score equals zero. Yeah. Times 11. There you go. Yep, that's added.

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And did you give Tito his 10 extra bonus FPS on everything? We have come up with the final scores.

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In fourth place, and looking very fine and kind, doing it is Tito with a score of 228.

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Out of a possible 300. Out of a possible 300. That's good. That's good. That is really good.

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After correcting for a slight budgeting overshoot, Joyce comes in third with 259 points

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out of a possible 300. And I think it is actually worth noting here just how close our three podium

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finishers were, which is to say that if you weren't comparing them side by side in benchmark tests,

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you would be more than happy with any of them. It's just that you would be ever so slightly

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happier with Zach's Tech Turf. He managed to score of 271. And that's in spite of the fact

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that his 11 ex-Aesthetics multiplier was multiplied by zero. That was the whole strategy, Linus.

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Which leaves with 297 points out of a possible 300 points, the nerd on a budget, Danny,

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undisputed intercontinental champion of building a computer for exactly,

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one thousand dollars. Give it a little bit, you know, some personality. He's just a black box.

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How are you feeling at the end of this day? It honestly went how I thought it would.

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Nerd on a budget. I mean, he knows how to maximize his budget. I'm a little disappointed with how I

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did. I definitely did not choose the right GPU. So for next time, I would go with the Radeon card.

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Kind of expected those results. Maybe I should just stick with modding retro consoles, but had a

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whole lot of fun. How do you think you did? Pretty happy with the build. I like the way

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it turned out aesthetically. Wish the aesthetics would have mattered a little bit more than they did.

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Audience, if the aesthetics mattered to you, comment down below. Let them know. They do.

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I probably get a little bit nicer of a case. You know, get a little bit better aesthetics and

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maybe one that has a side panel too. How does it feel to be the champion? It feels pretty good.

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What do you think was your key to victory? Throwing a big chunk of money at the graphics card.

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That helped. Other than your own build, what was your favorite one today? I like Zax. It looks the nicest for sure. People would pick a slightly worse performing PC with

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like twice the aesthetics, right? So 11 times. 11 times. Thanks, Java. And Csonic. And Csonic

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for making this possible and massive shout out to you guys for coming all the way up here.

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If you guys enjoyed this video, maybe go check out the time we challenged our writers to configure

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$1000 builds. There was a bit of extra challenge in that one in that they weren't allowed to use

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the internet to look at any pricing whatsoever. They were just going in blind.