we are kicking off a very exciting episode of Linus tech tips today we have
the one and only seth curry now tell me something have you ever done a celebrity
pc build before i have not man i'm excited about it i'm excited about i'm
kind of stepping out to a different world something i know nothing about and if it goes well maybe someday you'll get
to do one with someone really cool like jay's two cents
tell me something we are gonna build a top of the line gaming rig today why do
you even need something that crazy some big time game when i'm growing in the space i know last year doing the
pandemic and in the bubble i got into pc gaming i just want to learn more about
it you know what i'm saying have you ever even installed a graphics card before or is this it i haven't this is
like i said i'm a rookie hopefully i'll learn a lot and get better today maybe i
can do it on my own so what have you done to train for this build today i got
to be honest i'm not i'm not too uh prepared like i said i know i got an
expert here that's going to walk me through it teach me the ways i'm gonna
have some questions for you as we go but i'm i'm as rookie in as as they come so
many people want to get into pc gaming but they have no idea where to start and
they feel like they're going to ask a stupid question and someone's going to
someone's going to hate on them or whatever but that's your job today isn't
it yeah that's one of the reasons i'm here that's why i'm doing it and i want to get to know the
finite details so you got to find your motherboard the box here that says
motherboard on it so i'm assuming it's that one real quick real quick what tools do i
need before we get started like the basic screwdriver i love this she's
asking all the right questions already okay yes pretty much all you're going to
need is a screwdriver if you want to get into cable management stuff like that
you might need some side cutters to you know clip off your zip ties an
anti-static wrist or ankle strap is kind of
recommended so i got to be careful messing around i got do i need to take
my watch off what like you kind of scared me a little
no you're good with your watch your power supply is over on your left okay
and it's the one that says 1 000 watts on the front and very shiny hollow foil
there you go you got it right here fantastic so start by opening that
sucker up all the ASUS gifs and the stickers and all that come included yeah
this is not the right one oh they took it out oh wait what they
took the power supply out yeah it's just cool i was a little confused when i opened those cords but
okay here we go they robbed you of the unboxing experience i don't know all
right i want you to find the power cord that goes into that three pin plug yep
that's the one yeah so we're just gonna plug this power supply into the wall as
though we were gonna power up the system okay but we're not going to power up the
system hopefully there's a power outlet somewhere kind of nearby i would assume
yeah i hope so there's one down here but i might need an extension cord
they got this that's okay in the meantime why don't i walk you through
some of the cables you're going to plug into the other side okay you've got what's called a modular power supply and
it's good for cooling it's good for cable management and it's good for just
having a really clean nice looking build yeah that is key can i just say i'm
having so much fun already it's early and we're kicking it off with a bang you
are doing awesome okay you want to find the thickest one looks like this one
here that's your 24 pin connector so go ahead and untie that guy got it every
computer build needs one of those these days so the one that splits apart that
one goes into the power supply pc manufacturers are smart like that they
mostly make it so you can't screw it up too bad okay and they should have little
like they have little keys on them and then in the back of the power supply there there'll be like a little notch
right there yep perfect yep okay we're in it's so cool for other people i think
to see someone who's so well coordinated having exactly the same down struggles
that we do because the thing just won't go in the thing i'm gonna catch my
rhythm and we're gonna keep it keep it going smooth one of these times i've got
all the exact same parts over here on my side okay so that i can really guide you
here speaking of coaching is it ever kind of tough having your father-in-law
as a coach i thought it would be but it's usually harder on my wife than
anything else after a bad loss if the next day coming over for dinner it can
get a little awkward here and there but so you're going to grab a couple cables
that are going to say PCIe on them i got it so the other end where it says psu
that one's gonna go into the power supply next to the one i plugged in uh
yes yep you can use that one fun fact the state of california recently banned
the shipment of systems with graphics cards this powerful into the state geez
okay in this power supply i ran out of room at the bottom so now i go up top you bet you've got
three connectors here that are labeled CPU slash vga PCIe i think they could
label these better i agree
you have built yourself a beautiful pitch black octopus there
yeah i love it one way to make sure that you keep all your parts safe is to
ground yourself stay grounded i got good traction on my shoes so
i wasn't worried about you slipping are you saying for the the the case for
static electricity oh oh so whenever you move around you just want to touch that
power supply anywhere on the metal part of it and that's gonna ground you we're
gonna go ahead and we're gonna grab the motherboard which was over on your right
perfect oh man dude's a natural so you're gonna go ahead and put it down on
top of the box and that's it cardboard does not conduct electricity okay so
that's a safe place to put a motherboard here's one of the biggest challenges of
pc building you got to install the CPU so you play uh play a fair bit of
warzone is my understanding is that right i do that's the normal go to game
right now this thing is going to slay warzone for you so you're going to be
running a core i9 11900k okay oh this
little guy right here that's the one there's one corner of that CPU that's
got a little golden triangle on it i want you to try and find that for me
golden triangle i see it i see it i see it you're going to look at your motherboard and on that little black
piece on the top so on there there's going to be a little imprint of a black
triangle yes okay that's the orientation that we're going
to want okay so now we got to actually install it though my mouth's like cotton
i believe in you though we're gonna get it done trust me so there's a little
metal ARM you wanna pull that out to the side to the side towards the memory
slots they're perfect now you see those little pins in there i do so if one of
those pins gets bent that's it dead
computer okay so you want to hold the CPU by the edges and try to lower it
kind of perfectly in place with those two triangles aligned he even gave it
the little wiggle without me prompting him that's that's amazing i'm gonna go
ahead and ground myself real quick i love it
yeah there you go just with confidence go forward pull it out and then hook it
under the thing and that black piece should pop off the top okay that's out
of here okay i thought i broke it for a second okay that was the hardest part oh
it's gonna be easy peasy then next thing we're gonna need is our memory we got
some Corsair dominator platinum RGB got all the shiny lights on it this looks
pretty cool right here 64 gigs that's kind of overkill but it's a little much
see those four slots that are kind of right in front of you there here got it
there's some little tabs there yep you want to pull those back yeah perfect
no which way should it okay yep you were right the first time you got it you're
gonna have to push quite firmly and the tab will snap itself into place yep got
the first one in nice it's like sports you catch a rhythm you keep moving
pretty smoothly i don't really follow basketball very closely and so one of my
guys had to tell me this before the stream but i heard you actually had a
career best game in the playoffs this year yeah i had a career year i had a
great series personally i wish we would have won you guys gave him a good fight
though i mean seven games that's not exactly yeah lying down and just letting
them roll over you yeah it was a fun series for sure but um well actually
what sports do you watch do you promise not to laugh let me hear it i'm
following olympic badminton very closely
wow i've been watching water polo i'm not gonna lie so we're kind of in the
same boat there yeah those are both kind of uncool sports but man water polo you
got to respect those guys you ever try and play water polo i've never played it
before it is unreal you know imagine egg
beatering yourself up waist high out of the water so you can make a shot like
that like those guys are going yeah that upper body strength is crazy so you've
got CPU and memory installed let's find your SSD so it's a seagate fire cuda 520
is what you're looking for this has got two terabytes of storage you can throw a
ton of games on here and if you ever need more you can actually add more i
think this motherboard's got two or maybe actually three m.2 slots on it
four i lied so you're gonna need your screwdriver you'll need a number one
phillips head in it all right i got the one so do you see that piece that says
hero yes here i got it right here you're gonna take off the two screws that are
in that hero piece this is what it's gonna look like when it comes off okay
there you go i heard that click that's a good question this is a little fella ha ha yet another
evolutionary advantage for small people
we can handle computer screws big hands are not an advantage here now would you
consider yourself like a handyman like around the house like are you pretty
handy out of 10 i'll say i'm about a three i can get enough done around the
house to where my wife didn't yell at me well that's kind of the bar isn't it
yeah exactly i've done builds with people before where they just they over
torque that thing because these are little tiny screws so you could strip
the threads off them it's a subtle thing about being
rough enough to get it in there but not overdoing it and i got a good little
touch man we're making really great progress here feeling good about you
you're a great teacher man i got to give you your flowers thank you thank you i
kind of lied to you before the CPU is not really the hardest part it's just
the riskiest part in the very bottom corner of the motherboard there's nine
little pins sticking up labeled f panel uh yep f panel right there yeah that
is the hardest part okay i call it f panel because when you're working on it
makes you say ah if i wish i wasn't working on this this is another time
where the big hands is at a disadvantage
yeah a little bit i imagine i've never experienced it there's one
that has nothing above it so you ignore that one that's like the smelly kid on
the team you know yeah he plays real good so you gotta you gotta pick him but
like you don't wanna have lunch with him i understand that all right we're
plugged in so i lied to you a little bit before because this is actually going to
be kind of the hardest part it sounds like practice when coach says one more thing
and we're done and one more thing and we're done one more thing and we're done
and we got an hour practice we're gonna go find our motherboard screws first
we're gonna be ready
can you believe we've been at this for an hour already it's been an hour it's
been an hour without even trying to put the motherboard in i just want you to see if that threads in properly to one
of the posts in the case there it does uh well in the case oh not a screwdriver
in the case perfect okay so right now you've got kind of your case here and
you got your motherboard lying next to it right like this right so you see that
rectangular out there yes that's going to line up with all those ports and you
just want to try and see those posts through the holes in the board so we
don't want to scrape it around too much ideally because if we scratch the
motherboard it can make it not worky anymore you know what i can make this
easier on you we're just gonna lay the case down so let's try that again but
with gravity helping rather than oh don't worry we got this they didn't
go far i think i got it okay so i couldn't help noticing you're
building like a desktop here how does that work with travel like you
travel a lot right i have a ASUS laptop that i bring on the road and play with
in my hotel room so got it now tell me something as part of your rider do you
have that you need to stay in a hotel that has decent internet
i'll tell you a funny story we were in the bubble and the first two days the
internet was horrible everybody was trying to get on everybody sitting up there it was horrible so i we would
comply complain and the next day they were setting up better wi-fi and they
got it done well i wish i had that kind of sway man that's crazy as a pc gamer
are you kind of an anomaly like is everyone else xbox it's the primary
console so most guys got xbox playstation i could probably count the
number of guys in the league that i know personally have a a pc setup or pc
gamers and do you have any idea why that would be i just don't think they know
about it honestly i didn't know about pc gaming until a year and a half two years
ago it's like we live in completely different worlds yeah one of my friends
was telling me all along about pc gaming it was all like coming back to me and
well what do you like about it whatever even attracted you to it the the frames
the smoothness of the of the gameplay being able to customize it to how you
personally want to play your games was a big difference in the way i play and i
got a lot better once i got on it so i couldn't turn back you cannot buy an
endorsement like that because you're just speaking the truth yeah i thought i thought pc game was was playing sims on
a macbook or something like ah it's so mind-blowing to me you can
describe you know high frame rate smoothness to someone but it's the feel
exactly so your motherboard's in we're less than an hour and a half into this
mess i broke a little sweat getting on that one that was the hardest part pc
building sweat that's a stress sweat yeah and stress sweat it stinks it's a
little worse yeah we're gonna stand the case back up and
grab the power supply it's time to install that all right now i gotta
confess as kind of a normie my assumption is that you know you guys
kind of eat sleep drink breathe
basketball yeah you know i just kind of thought hey they probably don't have a
ton of time for like hobbies yeah were you always a gamer i use gaming as like
a relaxed time as a recovery time so especially on the road i integrated into
him into my routine as far as what i'm doing in the hotel room man okay here's
advantage to the big hand guy yeah
i mean you might not realize kind of the jokes i'm making at my expense here i'm
i'm about five six and a half oh okay
when you're five six you count the half all right when you're six two and a half
in the nba i count that half too you know what actually that's a good point i
never really thought about that you're not that tall for an nba player i'm your
average person on the street but a little guy in the nba six two and a half
i need that that extra half so really we're kin right now i understand trust
me do you think you're likely to put this
computer on the floor or is it going to go up on your desk probably on the desk
if it's going to go up on the desk then what i want to do is i want to put the fan side of the power supply down
because this case has nice big feet on the bottom it's got a lot of room for
ventilation and if you think that it's likely to be up off the floor then
there's no danger of dust getting sucked in so you grab your octopus with your
left hand you're actually going to slide it in from the back of the case i know
in hockey in the off season everyone's just playing golf yeah what is it for
basketball you guys like what bowling is that more applicable or like everybody
got their own thing there's less and less golfers out there by the year
though just because the league's getting younger as you get older in the league and more
veterans play learn start trying to learn to play golf and do different
things but golf falling out of favor i guess for guys in the nba man i can't
even imagine you know i go to like the beer league softball game and like yeah
freaking lebron james shows up yeah for some reason that's that's that's another
sport that a lot of people play i guess it's a little easier to learn than golf
or like your brother's playing catcher or something yeah yeah probably not i
imagine you know being like 6'2 trying to get in that catcher squat that can't
be a lot of fun put me at third base outfield i'll knock it out this part can
be a little tricky but it's not the hardest part actually oh man for you with the big
hands it might be this is gonna hold the two things together
you got one in oh no if you get desperate a nice old pc
building trick is just to take a piece of tape and tape the two pieces together
so it's a little bit easier to put them in this part's a little tricky don't worry it takes everyone some time okay
i'll try not to distract you not you is me known each other for a
couple hours and already you're breaking up with me all right got one yeah that
made it a lot easier hey that's what i'm here for forever tech tips now this is
probably also a dumb question but all the gamers have got to know do you guys
actually play nba games a lot of guys play nba 2k do you play though i do yeah
do you think that ea is fair to your
skill level no i do not
like if you have a good month they'll address your ratings and make you a little bit better make you a little bit
worse but i don't think i'm close to where i should be i love this he's doing
the cable management right ladies and gentlemen this rig is going to look sick
when he's done you are doing awesome for serious i'm not even just like oh he's a
celebrity and you have to tell him he's doing a good job or whatever you pick another connector and i'll show you
where it goes oh wow this case has a ton
of front usb i forgot about that i hate to tell you
this that top usb 3 that we had over here it's a little metal it's got a
metal housing around it yeah i see it we're going to have to swap those too
because your graphics card is not going to go in right now his attitude is so
good when i tell him like oh you got to redo it i guess you're used to that
though hey oh i don't know man that's a good drill do
it over you know that ever happen where the coach tells you the wrong thing and
you're the one who ends up having to do it you usually lose man this is going to be
so much faster than your laptop i'm not going to sleep tonight trust me good
good good good wait did this come out i have
another power led power led minus
where did that go again yep the little yep there you go i cannot
believe how fast you're plugging these in with those giant mitts power led goes
at the top left so that whole top row should be full okay are you ready for
the hardest part i'm ready i'm ready i got a good lather good sweat we're gonna
do the water cooler so that's gonna be the rog ryugen 360. look what cooler got
it i'm having a lot of fun here but it feels kind of unfair because this is you
know my element and you gotta try and do all my stuff you're gonna have to give
me some basketball pointers someday we'll get you on the court next time we
got a game in vancouver we haven't had a real nba team for
since i was a kid yeah i was young i remember well i don't really remember
but i seen the highlights yeah all right
so for realsies this is the hardest part you should have a back plate that looks
a little something like this guy back a backplate um
you have two that is very interesting you notice how it has
these four little like whoa that was close uh don't worry i got this okay see
how it has these four little bits in the corners you see how they slide back and
forth a little bit yes there you go and then you're going to
want to leave your left hand holding that in place you're going to thread that into one of the holes on the front
side okay finger tight finger tight but finger tight all the way
tell me something what's your favorite thing about streaming on twitch the legit questions talking to the chat
talking to my fans i actually like the giveaways man it's a lot of fun and i
met a lot of people a lot of other streamers through the twitch community so it's
been cool um these are all in i'm gonna have you sanity check something for me
okay on your water cooler on the kind of the ball head like the head end this so
there's thermal compound on there don't touch that if you can avoid it thermal compound it's that gray gunk oh okay
okay okay tubes toward the back okay and then we're gonna need these big old
thumb nuts okay fantastic now we're going to start
by removing the velcro we're just going to take it all the way off what is this
velcro for just a little grip it's a carrying handle yeah okay yeah so you
decide kind of which way you like it yeah i like it like this there we go
okay now pull it back out so hubs are gonna go up
good lord they sent you RGB fans of course they did what does that mean it
means a lot of cabling oh okay i know that my camera guy's commenting i can't
believe they hit him with a triple radiator this one is a workout they
really pulled no punches percep there's no shame in having
trouble with this ASUS really did kind of throw him a curveball uh having him
try to do a triple radiator on his very first build no that was the hardest part
really i'm not going to spring another one on you i promise all right it's hard
to believe you have to after the tenth hardest one
we're just going to keep rolling though can you turn it around so i can see where we're at
well uh yeah turn it around let me see it from the back you know what kind of
content you putting out over there i'm into pcs like that do you have any games
that are kind of like uh like a guilty pleasure fluffy's adventure or anything
like that no i don't what was the one that people were on a a few months ago
it was like a race oh yeah yeah uh fall guys fall guys yeah yeah do you like
fall guys that was fun for a while yeah it was print one was pretty fun did you
ever actually win did you get the crown never never me neither apparently it's really
competitive now like really tough really because people know the game's cold yeah
and if you want advanced points then you kind of run it around to the back first
and then bring it around and plug it in but that is not necessary yeah i'm just
going to keep it simple for this one heck yeah we're doing a little bit of movie magic here ASUS actually left the
stock cables in but we're supposed to be using these red and black ones from
mainframe so we have one of their technicians swapping out the pci express
cables before seth goes any farther have we already plugged in the usb2 it's in
okay wonderful now let's turn it around we're gonna focus on the back
those power connectors for the ones in the top let's grab those three they're
gonna plug into something called the commander pro and we're gonna play some hot and cold here
right right right keep going oh boiling hot you're
touching oh here here hey there we go nice so all three of those go into all
three of those you ever play hot and cold as a kid of course that was pretty
good so you want to hear something really cool let me hear it now it's time
to install the GPU so the way that we're going to line this up is you're going to
grab your GPU first yep there you go rog strix it's got all that RGB all that
silent fan operation can overclock it if you want to get into that stuff speaking
a different language this think it's beautiful ain't gonna lie
oh yeah it's a big boy your top slot is the one that tends to
have the fastest connectivity and your GPU
needs that this is pretty easy but is the most expensive possible mistake that
you can make in this build all right get that one just kind of kind of keep
finagling it until it's in exactly the right spot
once it's in there's a little latch at the back of the slot a little plastic
latch that's going to close by itself in your hand that GPU doesn't even look
that huge it's heavy oh did did that slide yeah listen
awesome so see how it kind of sags like that yeah yeah so this slidey piece right
here oh yeah you can twist it to the side and loosen it a little bit and then
you slide it to where you want it and it'll support the GPU from the bottom
and you tighten it up that's going to be really good when you're transporting your pc back and forth because i don't
know about ups and fedex down there but up here yeah no comment no comment you
know i'ma let you in on a little secret it is bad jeebies to put the side panels
on the case or finish up anything right now if you don't power it on first i
guarantee you it won't turn on are there any like basketball superstitions like
that i mean i got a full routine game day routine so from
wake up to game i do i have the same routine so it's just i don't really say
a superstition but i say a routine you know what about like okay when you're on
the free throw line uh i wouldn't say change what you do every time so some
the bad free throw shooters have a different when they catch the ball have a different routine of how many dribbles
they take before they shoot spinning the ball do something different every time
you don't have like a rhythm so the good free throw shoots you see them take the
exact same amount of time for when they catch it to when they shoot how many
dribbles it's just like repetition and this is it then moment of truth uh power
buttons up on the top of the front
oh yes oh okay these lights are crazy
wow okay come on monitor
that's normal that's normal first time you power on it's normal for it to do
what's called memory training okay oh yes yes yes yes okay good
it's up it's up it's up all right big round of applause we got it
oh i'm excited okay that's fantastic oh
yeah there's a couple things i want you to check for me i want to see on the screen if all of your memory is detected
yeah six five five three six megabytes
you did it that's it first try thank you sir it's a lot of fun man worked out
some muscles i've never worked before trying to
fit in some tight some tight spaces but it was all worth it i mean i got a
different connection to this machine i guess that's it from our side this thing
looks absolutely awesome even though it's all like hanging out all over the
desk it already looks freaking sick i was a little stressed when i came in
here but you made it easy on me it's all about making people feel more
comfortable asking these questions and having this first experience thanks
again to ASUS rog for sponsoring this video as part of their build together
give together campaign ASUS rog is giving you the chance to win one of two
awesome gaming computers with all of the proceeds going to bc children's hospital
and they're giving two other gaming pcs to the philadelphia communities in
school program so check out the link in the video description to learn more all
right thanks again so much and you have a great rest of your day get some food
yeah i will all right all right bye man he did it first try