it's clear at this point that Society is on the brink of collapse the wealthy
Elites have all run away to New Zealand
leaving the rest of us plebs defend for
ourselves well I for one welcome the end of the world as we know it all I need is
food water and a tricked out gaming PC so I can live out the rest of my days in
my bunker playing follow another settlement has seen word that they need
assuming I survive the nuclear fallout
meet the prepper PC it's designed to
stand up to all the main apocalypses zombie alien Financial it'll Outlast
them all and it's brought to you by jackery okay tricked out might have been
overselling it a little bit but this Pony does have one really cool trick up
the sleeve it's super efficient in a
full-blown gaming scenario this bad boy will draw only about a hundred Watts
remember 100 Watts only powered a freaking light bulb we achieved this
using a combination of careful Hardware selection and software tuning starting
with our power supply this fanless unit from seasonic is 80 plus titanium
certified for efficiency and can output a total of 700 Watts not that we need
that but it's going to help us manage our thermals more on that later for our
CPU we've gone with an Intel 12th gen hold on before you freak out twelve 100
actually super efficient and capable
gaming CPU then for our GPU it was a
tight race between the RTX 3050 and the Radeon 6500 XT at stock it was an easy
win for Team Green but like our CPU which is undervolted to maximize
performance per watt running an offset of minus 80 millivolts our GPU needs to
be tuned since that's the most power hungry component in our system and what
we found was that 1800 megahertz at 825
millivolts is a great sweet spot for playable 1080p gaming while just sipping
power and the 3050 just edged out the 6500 XT every unnecessary motherboard
port was disabled in the BIOS including removing the Wi-Fi module outright I
mean what are you gonna connect to the hotspot at Starbucks
post-apocalyptic world and finally the stock fans in this old antec 900 V2 draw
a whopping 6 watts each so so we took
their power leaves coiled them up and replaced them with some nice efficient
Nautilus we've got one in our nhd-15 cooler and a second up in the top of the
case which is hopefully going to be enough to cool not only our system but
also our burial enclosure let's talk
about that for the ultimate in protection from the
elements and concealment from looters and brigands we determined that burying
our gaming system would be the best course of action we settled on a truck
bed toolbox for a couple of main reasons one is that it's made of aluminum
meaning that this will never rust and two at only 150 Canadian dollars this is
just one of the most economical ways to get your hands on a large weather
resistant enclosure can fit so much PC
in there is there a safety
Safety Red gets our gaming PC
we printed a bracket or something to hold it in place but we didn't so uh
stay
good boy on the other side ah yes this
is how we are going to stay entirely self-sufficient for power the Explorer
2000 Pro can easily handle the load of
both our PC and our Monitor and
a maximum of 2200 Watts sustained 4 400 watts Peak
and the second we plug in one of jackery
solar panels it turns from a power station into
a solar generator now obviously we need
to run jackery's cables along with their little consolidation boxes here outside
because we're not going to get a whole lot of sun underground so for that we've actually modified our box with these two
gooseneck vents these will help us get air in and out as well as cables in and
out without risking any water seeping into our enclosure that would be an
extremely bad time this is not a water cooled setup of course to be air-cooled
we're going to need a cooling fan so we're adding another
ah
there it goes of our Noctua industrial
PPC fans this time directly to the vent
on the other side so intake over on that side exhaust over here next to our PC
now we need a dig site and this is a big decision because as much as I'd love to
just chill on a lawn chair in my backyard playing video games if the
zombies are wandering around they're gonna find me like that so I would like
to hide out in the basement of my house which means I need a spot where I can
easily trench my way back to the interior of the building fortunately the
previous owners of this house plumbed the mechanical room for pool equipment
running these PVC pipes out to the backyard unfortunately these are not the
other ends of them and we have no idea where they go eeny meeny miny marred one
of these is in my yard
oh it stinks what the hell
here we go oh look at that let's see you
do camera work like that David can we get one of those goodness we're gonna be
able to see up my nose ew oh nice
unrealing it tells us how deep we are oh
I haven't shown you guys the coolest trick yet where's the diving Rod we
power up this boy the navi track
okay and then now see that you can see
the end of the thing huh wait are you sure it turns I'm right
well how do we go around the corner
really how do we get it to like Bend
please oh okay sure I'll try
this fish stick is wet I think I'll wash my hands before eating
any more of my hot dog come on sneaky boy I think it's actually the spring
kind of catching on the ridge we have an idea to kind of bend it around that
first turn and feet 30 feet that's far enough to reach
outside right I think they figure 25.
oh oh I saw a light what is it
73 feet that's the end let's go find it
they told me at the shop that aside from lining up the Crosshair I want this
number as high as possible why did the contractors tell me this was so hard
it's right here I mean I guess we have to actually dig and see if it isn't back
there
digging like a man
fast as I can we're locked in here boys
oh yeah pretty sure I got at least like two rocks where'd my mark go this is um
very tough soil please take it like a
man oh yeah we're getting in there there's a good one boys
oh yes okay wanna dividend Road me three
feet deep what the
okay how are you doing is this the right spot now at least
put in a half oh there's a good one whoa
Nelly she's a Bronco oh there it
is okay can I have a shovel oh there's
they're all here all my friends are here wait is this too many one two three four
five six hold on hold on no no this one over here seems to be more irrigation
yeah that means the extra foot is that
way
oh my God this soil is atrocious how was
this a garden beautifully insulated water bottle from
ltdstore.com my ice that I put in it earlier
it's not melting thirsty we don't have any Plumbing tools because I'm not a
plumber but what I am is the world's worst Woodsman ready here we go
this is awesome these things are so cool who says Tech has to be computer tech I
can use these other ones for like whatever right I mean hell they need
power out there so I'll be like hey by the way couldn't help doing your job for
you the context for that is that I asked the contractors over a year ago to find
out where these go they were like oh very complicated I have tied my DisplayPort cable to my
snake ah and now I'm going to tie everything else that I need we should
definitely run that piece of string so I don't need to go rent a 300 snake if I
ever need to run anything through here again now I'm assured this works but I've never actually tried it we've taken
a standard momentary PC power switch and
then soldered it to 100 feet of speaker wire
all right calinan let's do it keep going nice and slow I'll call out stop if you
need to stop keep hauling this is freaking awesome I got a wired up yarn
this would have been a way way better
path to the water cooling for the walls of the pool it's right there and then
the whole thing would have just been underground okay there it is power
switch Optical DisplayPort fiber optic USB time to finish burying the PC oh
our cables into the box obviously we don't want the excess to sitting in the
ground we just get our PC in here oh and you
guys are sure this is gonna work hey the power switch hey thanks cable mod cool
orange power cable whoop there we go I am a huge fan of these
fiber optic USB extenders from ikron they can do USB 3 USB 2 and USB 1 over a
single just run-of-the-mill fiber optic
cable now I want to do a test before we
actually lower it all the way into the hole we've got it braced across the hole
right now so we got a webcam with a ring light in here I'm just going to put that
right there so we can keep an eye on what our power input is from our solar
panels and our output to our gaming rig also before we bury this whole thing
we'd like to do a quick test of our solar power generation capabilities but
the sun has kind of gone down already so we're gonna play into our whole
apocalyptic narrative and say well there's probably a cloud of particulate
matter in the sky causing permanent overcast let's see how much power we can
generate these things are legit super cool sponsored talking points aside my
dad uses one of these jackery solar generators at their off-grid cabin so he
charges up his sleep apnea machine during day and then at night he runs his
machine charge all their phones do all that good stuff rinse and repeat go go
yeah let's go that way as much as we can hey because we might as well be in the
Sun a little oh damn it
I'm making it worse not better get the out of the way kickstand
oh it appears to be full also how'd all
this dirt get on the computer all right post-apocalyptic gamers are
you ready this better work if it doesn't work then I don't know what we're gonna
do a switch on the back of the power supply
is good okay well that's good because that's relatively simple to solve so
let's just give her a replug okay hit it again
ah oh my God there's a rock in the fan ah ah looks like we would need to
explore some kind of relay system to have a fully functional power switch in
the meantime let's see if at least our cooling works
I don't know that these are necessarily the games that I would have put on an
offline only forever PC Counter-Strike Global Offensive rocket League Halo and
anyone else feeling that you'd probably be the coolest guy in post-apocalyptic
Ville if you had a gaming PC either that or the deadest guy man why are we
settling for high settings here we could do more 120 FPS with that said even
though it's running at this frame rate I can definitely feel that the frame
pacing is not super even and that's
going to be in no small part thanks to our under voltage GPU this is not a 3050
at its best wow we were at 132 Watts we
fell all the way down to 85 Watts here not too bad we are running Windows in
low power mode how much of a difference that makes I don't know Jake said it
made a difference I didn't validate it how we doing for temps oh my God this is
not problematic at all we're at like 50 degrees on our GPU freaking awesome also
we are still not getting any input from our solar panels I guess because we're
too charged we might have to shoot a quick pickup to see how much power we
can generate without the solar generator part of our generator either way this
was it the prepper PC did it make perfect sense probably not so much but
darn it we had an awful lot of fun making it shout out jackery for
sponsoring this video and you for watching it it's time for me to play
some Duma Turtle it's the end of the world laughs