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sponsored by ASUS tough
yup they were the only ones crazy enough
yes my friends who but us would be crazy
enough to build a hardcore gaming setup in a bathroom
yeah bit wit but we had the idea first
and he also did it wrong i mean who sits
on the throne long enough to actually play a game you wanna play a game
you wanna relax you know you wanna lounge
and you wanna hang out with brian the electrician hey guys
to put some fancy new outlets on your walls so you can set up a sick tv above
your bathtub let's see how this goes the plan for today is actually pretty
straightforward i've already got electrical wiring up in my attic for an
outlet and some lights that are up there so what we're gonna do
is we're gonna tie into that fish the wiring down this wall put a
plug on this wall add some RGB and then up this ladder i've got a shelf right
here sitting next to an outlet that we're going to use to power our tough
rtx 3090 gaming rig that's right my
friends the fastest computer in my house
is going to be in my bathroom every time we've put an electrical outlet in my
house you've actually done literally all the work so
i'm not sure what the first step is here find a stud
well figure out where you want to put the plug ah yes good uh on the wall
one small problem though brian what's up the installation's in now so we're gonna
need to you know diggy diggy hole okay i could
give you a sharper bit i got lots of tools just like you have lots of screws
some of them are loose that is wood
ah that's a problem you can see the brace
that's wood there why would they have extra bracing on an interior wall like it might partly be
like i say because the plumbing stacks here so to help brace that
or hold that in place so we can try a different wall cavity all right let's do
that sounds good the main highlights of
ASUS's tough rtx 3080 are that it's factory overclocked and boosts up to 18
15 megahertz it's got an axial tech fan design that's been newly tuned with a
reversed central fan direction for less turbulence it features dual ball bearing
fans those last longer than cheaper sleeve bearing fans and of course it
includes military-grade caps and other tough components to enhance durability
it also features two HDMI 2.1 ports if your configuration requires such a thing
oh wow this space is not as big as i kind of felt like it was 49 inches
the right size other than the rtx 3080 graphics card this is actually a pretty
reasonable gaming system so we went with a tough gt310 case it's got the carrying
handle on the front got the filtered intake that's going to be important
because we're up in the attic got a nice nhd15 cooler not necessarily for quiet
because it's going to be in a completely separate room but actually because it
gets quite hot up there and i'm going to want to make sure that even in the
summer my system is still running cool enough the CPU is a core i5 10 600k
again we wanted to keep things relatively reasonable and naturally
we've got a tough gaming GeForce rtx
3080 and i did throw in 10 gig networking just just in case it comes up
now the one thing that is pretty over the top
crucial sponsored us incentive of their extreme
speed 5100 megahertz ddr4 memory
this is crazy my memory is faster than my CPU
so it's a 16 gig kit right here and it comes with this ridiculous case that
includes an electric screwdriver with its own light on the end some energy
drink powder or mix or whatever screwdriver bits and
a little lego the flash
some assembly required can you see the RAM
oh right oh yeah
there's the memory ballistics max
dang they don't need no RGB on this just go fast
so the thing about really fast memory is it depends not just on the RAM but
also on the quality of the integrated memory controller and your CPU as well
as just the quality of the traces on your motherboard like we are asking this
thing to go real freaking fast so let's
go ahead and there we go
5100 okay yeah i can take a moment to show
off some of ASUS's tough gaming peripherals so they sent us over a
complete suite of their uh tough keyboard mouse and actually it's an rog
mouse pad that happens to include RGB lighting which is pretty freaking cool
and then we were like hey yo ASUS i'm gonna be in the bathtub i'm probably
gonna need wireless so then they also sent over
a bunch of wireless stuff including i think we even got like a wireless
headset i mean headset in the bath why not right wireless mouse got a gladius2
wireless well as it turns out my apprehension was justified at default
settings without really in-depth tinkering our poor CPU was not able to
run our memory at 5.1 gigahertz so we'll have to settle with
66 it's like basically peasant speeds you're going to
be sitting in the tub way lower than the part of your wall where the tv can go
because there was tile then drywall yeah therefore we needed a pull down tv wall
mount so you're going to be able to lay in the tub yeah pull it down to the
height that matters um and also if you're in the shower you can
even tilt it this is no way i didn't even think of that yeah
and furthermore you'll be able to slide it this way
to get the perfect centering when you're in the tub that's not all we
needed an audio solution because you don't want to just be wearing headphones in the tub all the time yeah kind of
weird that's so we decided i mean the whole thing's weird
we want to minimize the weird so we got a sound bar that we had in the office a
pretty well-regarded one from anchor but how on earth are we going to mount a
sound bar and then pull the tv down in front of it so these are little sticks
that are going to come down that you attach them to the wall mount and then
you can put your sound bar on there so you can pull down your sound bar on your
tv all as one unit is the tv going to be way up here when it's
no when you look at it it'll clip on here and the two most of the tv be over
here okay will this be covered
yeah but i mean will the tv cover it we're gonna find out yeah yeah all good
okay yeah yeah i'm just gonna undo my nut here
all right how's the size now this is actually so sick it's like right
here it's awesome that's hilarious get in you absolutely
nailed the mount on this it's like
oh my god it's like right there
why would i watch tv anywhere else yeah this is the move then okay bath time's
over can you believe it took me three years
to find a sponsor for this project next step we're going to get a tough gaming
pc it's tough for gamers and we're going to put it up there which is actually
like more why it needs to be tough don't drop your body down the stairs i'll try
not to now's our chance guys hey hey see
you later
hey what's the HDMI plan
you said 15 feet i did uh and i said are you sure there's
only one way to find out for certain got some good news here
it's possible that cable's long enough
so we just gotta do a little attach attach here
HDMI in one
oh hey
this isn't even regular phillips hue is it it is regular philips hue but all
philips hue can synchronize through the games if you have the desktop app oh
lttstore.com he's trying
look i just don't want it to come off okay
like i trust this so much more than i trust double-sided tape that is not
going anywhere now oh hi whoa hey yup
it's bright i don't know if that's gonna enhance it how much i pay for this it's
a dimmer i don't know this is kind of a lot of electronics above my bathtub is
this the master plan to finally off me you guys
i just need to cable manage these and we're in in terms of peripherals
i'm going to go ahead and put the dongle for the rg strix go 2.4 up there so it's
2.4 gigahertz for low latency all that good stuff mouse and keyboard that
matters a lot so we wanted something with great performance as well as strong
range so we're using the rog gladius 2 wireless and then for our keyboard
awkwardly ASUS who as you may recall is the sponsor of this video doesn't have a
high performance wireless gaming keyboard so we're actually going
with a g915 tkl so i just need the
dongle for this puppy and we good to go put out your hand so i can put my three
dongles in it oh yeah
can i just lock you up there for a sec if you want can i just come down instead
ah you can but what if we have to like reset it or something it's hot up here i
have to pull the tv out you're fine
you're good i guess i don't really know what input i'm supposed to be on hey oh wait what i
think it's working all right you're clear to come down sweet so Jake applied
conformal coating to the pcb have we tested make sure it still works oh he
did wonderful so this is great because i mean obviously i'm not going to want to
drop it in the water that would be really stupid but if there's you know
steam coming off the bath or whatever this should be much more resistant to it
ooh the ambiance here is improving a lot we go ahead and fire up like a high
octane video here wow that's cool
i could get into this
what are we getting 130 FPS
do maternal 4k ultra nightmare man all the candles all
the fire right now very mood setting
like i can see why nobody does this
but on the other hand because they didn't think of it
now let's enjoy what realistically i'm gonna
spend most of my time on watching tv and movies that i don't feel
like taking a break from in the back
or should we just stick to our uh podcast about movies called carpool
critics it's a good podcast you should check it out it's the best podcast
spotify youtube wherever you get your podcast bro
shameless just like this plug for today's sponsor
ASUS tough you guys you gotta go check out ASUS time why
because they're daring no one else for three years was willing
to sponsor this concept in spite of how obviously cool it is i don't know what
their problem was they were too afraid it would look like a satanic ritual they
were worried their weak hardware was going to get destroyed by the water
vapor i don't know what it is but ASUS tuff they're tough enough to use duct
tape on their chest go check them out at the link in the video description if you
guys enjoyed this video you might also enjoy the one where we set up a hot tub
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