We did it! David's hoarder garage is no more, and in its place is $20,000 of cold, hard cash.
But, um, you do still want to play games, right? So much more than that. I want it to be the ultimate gaming room slash home theater slash workshop.
No exaggeration, when we're done here, I think this is going to be the best upgrade anyone has ever done at our company.
Okay, that might be a little bit of puffery, sir. But, I actually do have very high expectations for this setup, because there's no sponsor for this upgrade,
meaning the tech tips are going to be a bit more practical, and also high stakes,
since every dollar that David put into this came right out of the precious collectibles he had to sell to pay for it.
So, I think it's time to roll up our sleeves and, uh, stretch some dollars.
Like, I'm stretching out this segue. To our sponsor.
This is my house. Wow! I can't believe you guys moved in like a month ago.
Yeah, my partner's been working really hard on getting this space set up.
Priority was getting the book nooks sorted, and it's awesome.
This is incredible! Yeah, we're very, very lucky.
It's funny, my girlfriend is the same problem I had a little while ago. She loves collecting things.
This is a very valuable collection of books. They're all, like, special edition.
Oh, really? Looks like I think this one's, like, 600 bucks or something.
One of these, uh, one of these tour edition ones is that much, and like, everything is quite valuable on the shelves, so.
Oh, wow. Uh, part three of this video line is clearing out her collection.
TV corner looks great, too, other than, oh, I was gonna say, TV too high, but.
I got the fancy mount. Love it. It was so hard to install. It took me, like, hours and hours.
But I also wall mounted the PS5. Does it come down more so we can see that? No.
Let me see the top. Cool.
My only question is, what are you going to do here?
I can see the bones of some pretty interesting ideas.
What is the PVC pipe in the corner for? We are going to make an RGB cloud lamp that a computer will be coming out of.
Before we do that, let's get the TV mounted. Okay, I see you went with the LG C377 inch.
It was the best value OLED I could find, so per pixel dimming,
great blacks, great motion clarity for gaming, both retro and new stuff.
Right, because you can throw filters on that, and it gets not, it's not a CRT, and it'll never be a CRT.
But, pretty CRT-like. It also has four HDMI 2.1's in, including the Arc port,
which means I can use this receiver that has two HDMI 2.1 outs
for the two TVs that are going to be in here. Two TVs.
One's a monitor. It's a monitor, not a TV. Oh man, okay, okay, okay.
Let's go, let's go. Three, two, one, there we go. Oh, it's not that heavy, okay.
Are you stuck behind the TV, David? Nope. You sure? I can crouch.
You're quite certain you're not stuck. Oh. This is definitely the biggest TV I've ever owned.
Wow, you are going to be pretty close to this, hey? It's like a movie theater.
I feel like there's going to be a pretty stark contrast between what David's S.O. did,
and what he's doing here. She likes the ideas.
She won't like the executions.
Now, I didn't think you were planning to build a new computer. Also, I couldn't help noticing that this was from the office.
Well, I didn't start out planning on building a computer. I just sort of got one upgrade at a time until it turned into a whole new computer.
This looks sick, though. Yeah, this is from one of our streams.
Cherry tree scented over, and it was in white, which doesn't quite work with the vibe I wanted.
So I had Justin paint it to a dark gray black.
And now you've got a black Borg cube PC.
Oh, it's so sick. And this is like top of the freaking line, dude.
It's pretty close. My only question is, what's the deal with these bolts coming out the bottom?
A PC this beautiful doesn't deserve to rest on a desk.
It deserves to float in the sky. And we have a mount for it to be floating.
And that is the base for it. Oh boy. Okay, Reese, do you want to get started on that?
Wish me luck. I will. Luck. But that's not the only computer today.
No, we are building my partner a new computer. She's been stuck with my old 7700K system.
And it's time for her to get something a little more up to date, not fully up to date, but.
I mean, it's a 7900 XT. Well, yeah, the graphics card is good.
Why don't I get to work on her machine? Great. In the meantime, I'm going to go help Reese, but I want to give you a sneak preview of the extra piece for the Borg PC.
No way. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. You just wait to see it.
Okay, that's pretty cool. Man, when you got to hand me down SOPC from David, it doesn't seem that bad.
3900 X, 32 gigs of RAM.
To mount the Borg QPC and make it sort of look like it's floating, we have this piece of metal that we've cut and welded back together.
It'll drill into studs and then we have built a custom mount
for the PC to mount on top and then sort of kind of stick out.
It's not perfect and this color is an exact match for the wall, but I'm going to paint the wall a galaxy color editor.
Put up a galaxy. That's what it's going to look like.
And we're going to paint on top of this and make it all kind of more cohesive and invisible.
You know, Sam is not a brand that we look at very often on this channel,
but I got to say, I'm pretty impressed with the value. 80 US dollars for curved glass and four of these fans were already included.
It's a pretty nice value. A less impressive package is this motherboard.
David, for all of his wonderful qualities, is not always the most organized.
And while I did manage to track down the back plate, I don't have the screws or the brackets for the front, which unfortunately, I do need.
Thankfully, I have the capability of channeling my own inner David.
And I'm going to steal the screws that he apparently didn't need for his new ring.
The upgrade today is not going to be complete. There's still lots of little projects that are ongoing.
I started doing these comic book tabletops. I'm going to do the same thing on the other side.
I have a bunch of Star Trek comic books, and I'm going to do a collage of all the Star Trek things that I love.
And I'm going to do a movie one for the console in the middle. Didn't get done in time.
And this one isn't even finished, but it gives you an idea of what it will be like in the future.
Oh, sorry. I've leaned down here to do a shot to figure out what I'm going to do about Justin,
not including the AMD standoffs. It looks like these LGA 1700 ones will work in a pinch.
It'll just be a little bit tight. And then I saw what David did to the poor SSD that's in this M.2 slot.
There's going to be a lot of improvisation today, guys, because while the height of the 1700s is okay, they don't fit over these posts.
So I'm going to have to drill them out. I don't know.
Damn, I've got to fix that SSD. BRB. Not going to lie, David, between you and Justin,
that computer is going to be the death of me. Uh-oh. What's the odds you have a vice?
Uh, zero. Okay, I'll hold it by hand. What are the odds you have a drill and a bit that's a little bigger than this?
Well, pretty good, actually. All right, let's do it. What could go wrong?
Ow. Ow.
Oh, if I spin it backwards, and I can just kind of melt it in there.
Oh, dude, buddy. Oh, that's sick.
They almost contact the standoffs, almost, which is exactly what we want.
We want a little bit of kind of spring pressure on these.
Oh, yeah. Dude, we're good.
What a relief. I'm very curious if you can figure out what this is for.
It's a door. Yeah, but it's not. It's a climbing wall for a really, really small person.
A hint? It's in that bin.
Oh, controller wall. Magnetic controller wall.
No. Uh-oh.
The idea is that this is going to cover that breaker panel, but I still need to access it.
And so it's going to be on a barn door, so it can slide in and out of the way.
Eventually it'll be painted black to match the rest of the wall. The vision's great.
Execution by ABC Blocks.
Because do you want to cut all these blocks?
This is the easiest, cheapest way to get a bunch of little blocks that are identical.
David, question for you. Yeah. How essential would you say front USB is?
For my partner, quite essential, because that's what she knows to plug into.
Okay. How essential would you say these fans are?
Absolutely not. Cool. Because, well, I think you see the problem.
Yeah, that's not what I thought. Now, what I didn't tell David is I do have another idea.
This housing on this thing is huge.
I think it could be trimmed. What am I thinking?
This is really stupid. Are we going to get it?
It's really tight.
I think we're going to get it. Don't take this the wrong way, but the whole spending your own money thing,
I wasn't expecting to find ARGB cables. They were really cheap.
To find really cheap. 40 bucks? Each?
Yeah. Oh, that's Canadian.
Oh, okay. That's actually not bad. It was like 37 something each.
So if they work, then... I mean, they look like they should work.
Honestly, the space is, okay, it's still rough, but it's starting to look like I can see what you were going for.
It's the vision. Yeah, which is something.
There's still a lot of somethings left though. What's up with that cable management line?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Look, this side looks pretty good.
That looks amazing. Okay, but there's a lot of finishing touches that still need to go in.
Like there's one motherboard screw in. I just need to see it post before I do everything.
I have very little confidence that this is just going to immediately fire up.
I have high confidence, not only in your ability to do amazing PC work,
but the fact that this was a PC that was working yesterday.
Well, that's going to make me feel even worse when it doesn't fire up. Thanks, David.
Okay, neat.
Okay, all the RGB works. That looks good. I was not sure if that was going to happen.
And I'm not getting an output. Oh, well.
Many batteries. Oh, it might need to be plugged in.
Computer output.
Let's try again with a thing. Yeah, maybe just kind of.
Oh, it might be giving us a no keyboard error. Do you have a keyboard? Yes.
I've got a new keyboard for this video. Oh, oh, nice.
Nice. Okay. David isn't even back yet, but we already know that that was the problem.
Everything's detected, even the bent SSD. So I think I'm good to button everything up and close this out.
Oh, it's actually ended up looking kind of cool. Don't tell anybody I said that.
Is there going to be something like here? Oh, God.
The table will be here. They will basically makes it two here.
David to his parents. Can we get Linus to drop things? No, we have Linus at home.
I think I've dropped more stuff in recent videos than you have.
Oh, wait. How did you attach them?
Hot glue? What else? Steven. What else would you use?
Epoxy. Yeah, but then I could never get it off. I want to basically 3D scan and like print something
that's going to fit better and be flat, because none of these are flat. So none of them stays super, super well.
So this is a temporary solution.
Okay, we should just put a crash pad under the door then. I'm a man of vision.
This isn't a acrylic mount, hey? Yeah. Is that a good idea?
I don't know. I had Justin make it.
Cool. Okay, where does it go? Onto this.
So we're just this? Yeah. No, no, she's close.
She's close. She's real close. Yeah, yeah, she's going to go. She's going to go. She'll catch.
Okay. Wait. Oh yeah. This has got a PC in it. The thing about PCs is the weight distribution?
Not even. So she wants to go this way, which I mean,
how are you planning to hold the heads of these bolts while you screw in the nuts?
Watch me.
You're going the wrong way. You're trying to take it off? Okay.
Oh, God. Oh, gosh.
I mean, I don't want to tighten it too much. It's acrylic, but I don't want to tighten it too little
because it's a computer. Look at the flex.
Can you see the flex in this, Andrew? Okay, stop, stop, stop.
I haven't heard any acrylic cracking, so that's good.
Okay. Giant crash pad. There'll be a desk right here.
It's going to be, it's going to be low. Okay.
So the thing that I'm most excited about in this entire upgrade,
is this incredible work that Justin did on this Starship Enterprise model.
Look at this thing. That looks awesome.
Custom paint job. He did like battle damage. I didn't know he was into that stuff.
Oh, he wants you to know that he's into this stuff. He likes this stuff. I want to see like Plouffe versus Justin like,
like battle, battle damage to armor paint off now.
You seen some of Plouffe's stuff too? Oh, it's so good. This is crazy.
This looks incredible. Oh, buddy.
Oh, that is so cool. So this is like, I guess.
So here's the part you're not going to like.
We're going to epoxy it stand.
Oh God, it's adding even more weight to this side.
David. Wait, okay. I'm going to pitch him.
I'm going to pitch him something else. Okay.
We're going to, we're going to try and convince David to let us have it come off the shelf.
We could even do it in the top surface. So you wouldn't even see it.
David, we're not letting you do it. What are you going to do?
We're going to drill a hole in the top of this shelf. Sure. That's fine.
Oh, okay. I'm easy. Okay.
One drill, please. Should we glue it into the enterprise first?
Absolutely. Hold on. Don't pinch just yet then, because I want to check the angle for this.
So we were thinking kind of like that, right? Yeah. Okay.
So with that in mind, it's time to pinch.
And now we play the weighting game.
Forest theater setup. David's using kind of a mishmash of older speakers.
So we just need to take a quick look and see what the rated impedance of these is.
So we can tell his receiver how hard to drive them.
Unfortunately, they don't seem to say.
Wait, we could save ourselves some trouble. Do you have a multimeter? I don't have a multimeter.
I have a voltage chest. I don't know if it does anymore. I don't think it does.
Yeah, that's not going to do that. No multimeter, huh? Because then we could just find out the impedance.
It's probably six ohms. So what happens if it's not?
Does it just blow up? It's a big time. One way is much more worse than the other way,
and I forget right now. Do you want to find out? Yeah, I'll find out.
No, by doing, I'm saying. But there's only one way to find out. Oh, I mean, yeah.
How married are you to these speakers? They're old hand-me-downs from 15 years ago.
Okay, well, we're going to go for gold then.
Six ohms or higher? I think it's going to be fine. Okay, what about the rears?
Those are probably labeled, right? They, I think they have at least names.
What? Yeah, just know. I mean, we promised people this was going to be
a more frugal, practical tech upgrade. The speakers, they at least have names.
You know, yeah, that's, that's the bar.
There we go. Oh, hey, DM 100. That's right. We don't have a multimeter, but we've got a model number.
We got a multireader. He can read letters and numbers. It's crazy.
These are eight ohms. Okay. So that means it's six or higher, right?
The six or higher setting will be fine for these then. These are the real tech tips though, you know,
hacking together, whatever it is that you've got lying around and doing it in a way that's safe and doesn't blow anything up.
Probably a little bit of blown up. Okay, so we're safe to continue with the receiver setup wizard.
I'm not getting any test tones. Are you guys sure you hooked all this stuff up, right?
Nope. Yes. What did you do, David?
No, no, that's, that's fine for now. What did you do?
I haven't done anything yet. All I did was move these connections
from the bottom to the top, which shouldn't matter. That's all I did.
Oh, Reese, when were you going to mention
you haven't plugged those in yet? What do you, what do you mean? I mean, I'm sitting here going a little,
the front's working, but the surround's not. Clearly says they're not. Yeah, okay.
Well, now you know.
Okay, get the best surround by using the attached microphone. Yes, I'd like to calibrate now.
Before I do that though, I was thinking maybe we revisit this.
Let's do it. And we were thinking here.
Yeah. What's a, what drill bitch do we need?
Who's called a drill bitch?
Go get the drill. You are the drill bitch now.
Yeah, buddy.
Okay. I think that's good. Here we go. You guys ready?
I think we should epoxy it. Moment of truth. Oh, buddy.
Let's go.
That's so cool.
Okay. Oh man, we actually got, we nailed the angle on the epoxy thing.
You see that as soon as I stuck it in there, it didn't move at all. So we've actually got the weight
kind of distributed correctly.
And then we can, well, we can, I've got some black zip ties upstairs.
I'll bring them. And then we can use those to anchor to the,
to the pole here. I'll be right back. Okay. Okay.
It was worth it. It was worth it, David. I agree.
Are we ever going to like maybe show your SO, her like new computer?
Yeah. Is she here right now? She's here right now. All right. It's not done done.
There's more stuff to add, but. Okay.
It's so pretty. It's rainbows.
I don't know what any of those things do, but I love them. No, I love it.
You did a good job. Thank you. Yay.
We wanted to play some retro games because like, you know,
David was going to like emulate retro games because, you know,
he had to get rid of all of his consoles to pay for the space.
But apparently all of his Linux ISOs
were on a Rateray that died. You don't have a single retro game?
Not currently. Well, wait, what did? Okay. Well, you kept a couple consoles.
Yeah. Okay. Well, then we can play a game. Well, then we don't have the filters.
Yeah. I don't have a retro and 4k. I only have the 5x.
I don't have anything, guys. I don't have anything. Nothing.
I got nothing. Well, I mean, it's still a cool setup, but we have to.
Yeah, though. We have to play a pixel game. What filters do you like?
It depends on the screen. I like the scale 2x ones.
Usually there's like a scale 3x or 4x.
HQ2x actually is one of the ones I like. Really? Yeah, I know.
Well, I thought you were some kind of purist.
That looks terrible. I love CRTs because they make things smooth,
so I got an O that and it's smooth.
Oh, man. David, you just lost all your retro gaming street cred
in one move. No. Joe would be lame is if I bought into what other people
thought looked good. I have my opinion, my perspective,
and I'd bring that to everything I do, including the filters I choose.
You know, this might not be as big of a collection anymore, but when you think about the quality per game
that we're looking at here now, I like it better. It seems more focused.
This is a sick collection. I gotta say, this is looking mighty fine in here.
It's not perfect. As per usual, my vision is huge.
My execution is OK, but with the help of my friends, I think we did a pretty amazing job.
So if you guys are all paid friends to me, then what am I to you?
You know what? I think the people can see where you're going with this.
All it needs is what? Like an area rug or two, a little couch, a little spit shine.
This is sick, dude. Are you going to miss the fidelity of the original consoles, though?
It's going to take me a little while to adjust. I can tell that the input linsee was off
and it didn't feel quite right to me, but I think it's something I can get used to
and it's something that I can adjust and research and tweak.
And I'm very excited for the emulation of later consoles as well,
you know, like PS2, PS3. This is about where we had the mic, hey, David?
Yeah. OK, here we go.
I'm so excited. I haven't had a good home theater setup.
You know what? Maybe ever. Not this good for sure.
This, if you're going for full immersiveness,
is a great size for this space. For movies, this isn't too big.
Yeah. I'm a little anxious for games, but I don't think it'll be too bad.
Well, there's always that one there. Exactly. Choices.
You know, we did this video recently, so I don't really need to talk about it a ton,
but a cobbled together, random-ass Facebook marketplace speaker setup
is so vastly superior to an entry level or even a mid-range soundbar
that that's just what everybody should be doing. If you're in the know and you don't mind fapping about with inputs,
this crushes what like any soundbar you would have bought for this price.
Crushes it. I don't know, man. I think you might have nailed it.
Hopefully you guys enjoyed the transformation almost as much as David did,
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It was maybe more chaotic.
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