Playstation Xbox switch Wii U PC VR
headset I'm all set except this kind of sucks the layout is far from ideal and
if I want any airflow at all I have to leave the cabinet doors open while I
play which can be a bit of a hazard now my wife and I like the way this thing
looks but nothing about it seems to have been designed to be functional and
looking at some of the newer options online I can't help but wonder what the
heck people are supposed to be putting in these look at the dimensions of these
cutouts does no one in the furniture industry play video games and what I'm
supposed to put books in my Blu-ray player so with that in mind our only
course of action was to break out the tools and with the help of our sponsor
SolidWorks take a nice looking cabinet to the next level to satisfy our Tech
needs we've got cooling dust filtration RGB and a few extra special touches to
inspire your ultimate Media Console or maybe Inspire the furniture industry to
get its act together so we don't have to do this stuff ourselves
thank you SolidWorks for sponsoring this project they were a huge help in making
this build check out their 3D experience SolidWorks for makers offer in the video
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right out of the gate while it would have been fun to go the full costume
route thanks to yeah let's
oh this is the back thanks to designer
Charlie zagaroli really okay sounds like
a fake name we didn't have to go from scratch his Enzo Media Console actually
has a ton of the elements that we would include in a from scratch design
including a durable marble top classic color scheme and perhaps most
importantly a killer sale price on Black Friday when I bought it the first thing
we did after taking delivery of the Enzo was to have Tim from the lab recreate it
in CAD using SolidWorks features like externally controlled parametric
equation files are a lifesaver for projects like this we are adding all of
the little funky details and dimensions can end up taking a staggering amount of
time with the model finalized we were able to start planning the perfect
gaming cabinet starting with cable management bar for improvement though is
very low here I mean many cabinets actually including my own have the cable
management holes up high on the shelves for some reason why would you want to
consolidate your cables up high where you can see them even better before you
run them around to the back where they're no longer visible it makes no
sense unfortunately Charlie in His
Infinite Wisdom didn't actually do much better the holes a don't match the
picture B are kind of centered in terms of height and C aren't even symmetrical
between the two sides the solution though a replacement full metal back
that will allow us to drill any additional holes that we need and then
pin everything down using the upcoming magnetic LTT Store Cable Management
arches as I mentioned before though modern cabinets need more than just good
looks they need to be functional and the biggest thing I've struggled with is
cooling I mean it blows my mind on
uh that more cabinets don't include mounting points for ventilation fans I
mean a mid-range gaming PC or current gen console will easily kick off 150 to
200 Watts while it's running so I've always had to add fan holes myself and
even my efforts haven't always been enough which has resulted in these needing to stay open and actually being
accidentally knocked off on more than one occasion let me show you what I mean
I'm going to go ahead and fire up a GPU stress test and while this is heating up
let's take a closer look at the upgraded
cooling solution in cabinet V3 over there check this out we found another
excuse to use one of these massive 200 mil by 30 millimeter Noctua fans these
things are all about moving the most air with the lowest noise possible and at 86
CFM we're going to be replacing the entire volume of the interior of this
cabinet about every four seconds at just
18 decibels we're going to lose some performance to the dust filter though so
we might actually have to add a second one for good measure but this is a
pretty good starting point you can see I actually had things not bad we're
getting just about maximum turbo out of this Founders Edition RTX 3080 but it
gets pretty loud and you can actually smell hot Electronics when you open the
door it's not a very good time in here let's see do we actually get a little
bit more frequency when we open up the door too
really but temps are dropping and it's getting quieter fan speed 69 nice nice
next order of business this all has to come out this thing's really cool I have
a little HDMI 2.1 switch up here that's meant to be an extension for a Marantz
brand receivers but you can just use it completely stand alone and get three
inputs to one input on your TV or your
receiver or whatever the case may be my universal remote didn't have support for
this model because Logitech no longer supports their Harmony remotes but I was
able to just pick the last gen one and all the signals worked exactly the same
yeah as long as I really didn't think about
is these these IR blasters have to be
within cable reach of the main universal remote Hub and within signal reach of
every device inside or on top of the media console and positioning them so
that they actually hit everything every time can beat such a
why did I only decide to switch this thing out do we have drawers wait you
said drawers but you pointed up okay thank you do I seem smart to you most of
the time that's about destructive and answer as I could have asked for with a question like that
ah yes if I was wondering what it contained now I know
feels like it's made of paper Charles
paper really great
Cable Management handhold thing at the back we've got a little lip on here so
your stuff doesn't come flying out the front in case gravity changes
orientation they're saying the darts cord flows change in direction oh these
are actually these are pretty good shelf hangers though I know I approve of these
especially after the trouble we had with the MSI yeah not bad I don't believe
that off on this I think they're going behind
his back which Harley would have put a cable management hole in a slightly less
stupid place slightly hey Linus
oh well that explains why there's serial
numbers or something printed into the top of these shelves you're probably not
supposed to see those you know what I like my theory that they're supposed to
go up to prevent things from falling out oh it doesn't really prevent anything 10
gig link back to the server room and then gigabit for everything here except
the gaming PC which can actually get 10 gig unfortunately this is an older 10
gig switch so it won't do multi-gig it won't do two and a half or five which
honestly okay
okay what you don't like my cable management hole what's your problem that's a glory
hole this thing is
this it absolutely dwarfs the other one damn
it Harrison did you check the dimensions yeah did you check them with me you had
this sideways uh-huh it worked yeah it
worked wouldn't you rather have it more accessible well
I don't know and the point is every console
right you have to get an Xbox and a PlayStation and all that in there how
else will I play psvr and I'm not playing psvr okay fine
uh we might as well just load things in it now yeah
let's get this out of here uh there's a hole here VR that's VR
you know this is a drawer though is there a slit in the side of the drawer I
had some input on this but I wasn't familiar with all the details going into
things today we had this argument once before let's do it again
180 degrees cables towards the back seriously I
think you're high no I I think it's the absolute best decision what the absolute
best decision is an extremely strong choice of words there are three choices
there are three orientations that we can put this in cables towards the back is
by far the most functional what do you lose out on by having the power button
at the front you're not wrong I mean it's awful but
it might be right look at it I can't you
can't now I see it okay that's convenient
but now I see it fine it's better to chosen it wins
so VR goes in here and then the idea is
that it just hangs out the front yeah like this yeah whenever you want a VR
you don't have a door open to get knocked off okay I think that this is
less stupid actually not bad not bad less stupid
that's good I mean that's the bar
just treated myself to some adequate Craftsman Clippers this side is
sticking up about a millimeter more than this side
that that will I wouldn't describe it as smooth but that's more what we're
looking for functional we went from straight to straight functional cool
VR headset installed uh so I'm kind of
thinking switch this side or I don't
know I guess it doesn't really matter the Wii U matters more than you think
okay this Wii U is Central to the experience how else will we play motion
control games shut up VR motion control no no no not VR motion control I'm
talking classic motion control
I cannot duck hunt no no The Shield
boom Shield I do have to say I'm having some second
thoughts about the multiple shelves in here way to go Harrison
um you know what we could do is we could go shield on top of Wii U
H and then switch like this and that's a little bit easier to get at
hmm it's almost like I had a cad model to work off of you know you went from I
wouldn't call anything that you did stupid to wow you're an idiot really
fast that's uh I think a record time would you like the left hand shells now
that we're taking them out would you like you left your face got them okay
I'm up oh wait where do all the consoles go
right hand side oh
and these I can probably all hit all of
with one IR Blaster that I'll just put up here in the top that means the
Marantz thing is going to have to go over here as well iron blasters cannot
hit Nintendo devices so the only thing on this shelf that this needs to
actually hit is the NVIDIA Shield the only other things that need IR are the
TV which will get hit by the bubble that sits on the top and the computer which
is using this bad boy
so we may only actually need one IR Blaster but I feel like I should put one
in up here for future proofness or something oh no
this Marantz HDMI switch also needs to
be hit by the IR Blaster oh God where's the Hub
The Hub which is here oh my God this pile of wires is a problem that's it
that's it for cable management stuff you don't think that's enough good Savory
dressing okay I need a glue gun who needs to screw
things in when you can simply
wait we left the wood backing in oh it's on
the back
we didn't replace it though no I thought it would look better if you only had
wood inside I wanted magnetic mounting everywhere
this is what happens when I roughly lay out the scope for a project then M to Z
slash go on vacation and then come back and we shoot
we just need stronger magnets watch this
I can't even put this one down because the one in my hand is so strong but it's
grabbing onto it
these are thick boys
just wait it'll stick
my life hands you would get a bigger
magnet watch this to give you some idea how strong the ones I'm holding are to
actually see the field yeah from this far away yeah that's with a few of them
stacked mind you but they're they're still they're still quite op but how do
they work here's the plan I'm going to take this magnet and I'm going to glue
it to the bottom of the Shelf then I'm going to take this magnet and I am going
to glue it to the bottom of this thing then they're gonna go smashy smashy
stick okay no problem
no problem right right okay at least we
have metal on the back so when we go to mount a power bar now we can basically
just go chunk these magnetic power strip holders are
going to be an absolute Game Changer once they hit the store I know I've been teasing them for literally months at
this point I assure you we are working on them they are coming diametrically
opposed wiring detangling strategy see you later
man untangles wires for multiple hours
all of Worlds stunned are you writing
haikus man it really would be better to have the right shelves because then it
would have the little Heidi thing on the you know I'm gonna go get them no no I'm
over it I'm already gluing things to what it is the top of these shelves so
forget it ow that's very hot it's magnet it has a hole in the middle I just put
my finger in hot glue that's really smart having a kind of date just go away
first day back from vacation easy day
oh it's tidy right tell me it's tidy no
don't look that close don't look that close ow darn it I stuck my finger in it
again all right no problem
and you're not glue in your beard boom
got him wait do we even have enough HDMI
for all those consoles and stuff
I mean long time viewers are gonna know that anymore we're just showing that you
could
I want this IR receiver for the computer ah
ouch ouch ouch darn it ow both too hot for my hands and too cold to actually
stick nailed it
really got things under control here right now foreign
okay
does that look okay I can even see that
okay
you have a seat okay
it's so big it's all right
don't look at the cabinet look at the TV
it's so huge
everything's fine so this um Avon hasn't
seen it yet maybe we could put a plant or something like a space filler so you
don't feel like you're coming around this corner and gonna like no take
yourself out oh freak
it's so big
oh no okay but hey it'll hold a lot of
stuff right damn boy
I am loving this all magnetic back
just boom power bricks just stuck on there easy
that makes me feel very good because
I was bound to say something encouraging eventually are we gonna get all this in
here heck yeah I mean today
slightly less heck yeah yeah slightly well we've solved a few problems for
example we have these dots to hopefully deal with this
bottom thing uh no no no you know what
let's try double stack two dots and then
we'll put a white one in the middle and we'll have an Oreo
okay this is not going well
quadruple stack drupals what
I mean I guess it's better than that the good
news is that some other things went really well so we got the hole for the
second 200 millimeter fan in here looks
absolutely awesome and things get even better you're probably wondering about
those Metal Frames that we put on the fans earlier that's for these that's
right magnetic fan filters boom
um boom again okay they don't stick
amazingly they're not like the super strong kind of magnet but hey once the
fan is spinning it's going to stay on there no problem it'll just suck it on
there and they are temperature controlled okay not with the most
sophisticated mechanism but these little control boards are actually pretty cool
you set your target temperature with dip switches and then you use a
potentiometer to control the speed of the fan it sure as heck not from Corsair
I'll tell you that much which is good though because it means we don't have to have software running for it to work and
it also means that it can cool the cabinet when we're running a game
console rather than a PC that's what the space over here is for what controls the
RGB lighting I just noticed those RGB strips in here now whatever button you
press oh assistant's guppy goby goby oh
okay so you could just put like effects and stuff in there if you really wanted
to hello cool we've made some big improvements to
the charging situation this is not that different from before fundamentally in
that there's one of these brand who must not be named uh USB charging hubs and
then a whole bunch of USB cables in a pile but now
the pile moves using the magic of
where's that stapler using the magic of a handheld stapler we were able to just
take this power cord and carefully not
puncture it being sure to only work on it while it was not plugged into the
wall staple it to the cabinet staple it
here so it just kind of sits here with just the right amount of slack and then
when we need our stuff boom easy access these are called Watchmen they're the
receivers for the trackers that I wear for VR streaming and the problem with
these is that the reception sucks so it's possible that we could go with
shorter USBC cables and just run them off the back here and just kind of sit
them on the back of the computer it's also entirely possible that with this metal Grille in front of them they won't
work inside here at all got it so we
might end up getting a little bit creative and I was kind of thinking
maybe we run them out the back and actually can I put them here so that
there's wood in between us and them yeah
these are not amazing
yeah these don't really uh stay in here hey we're gonna have this Linked In the
video description but that's not going to be a recommendation to buy it I mean
realistically I'm not charging any of these on here anyway so these cables can
just go micro b how old are these
yeah I'm sure we could 3D print something better than these good enough
for the video and then he never updated it
yeah these have to be C to C right because
you need separate controllers for them okay that was a troubleshooting step
um I thought I needed separate controllers for these but it turns out
it was actually just Wireless interference so
maybe I do maybe I don't but what I know for sure is that most of my USB ports on
this thing are see now because of that card so yes okay long story short if
you're wondering what we're talking about this is a super cool USB card
right here it's got eight USBC 10 gigabit per second ports but that's not
what's neat about it what's neat is that it has four separate controllers for
them so it actually gets the full bandwidth to each pair of them that
means full bandwidth for devices like cameras or high-speed external storage
and it also means that if there's any interference between different devices
say audio devices can be pretty picky about what else is plugged into the same
port that all goes away by just plugging into a dedicated controller I love how
we started with Magnetic everything and then it tests how long to break out the
hot glue you broke out the hot glue on day one I undid your hot glue and
replace it with magnets are you happy with all the crossers now there's nothing else to go from this shelf to
that one yeah okay yeah I think I think we're good I mean I'll probably find
stuff but it's simple enough to just this drawer out and then run a thing and
this is cool the hole here is not quite big enough for this to
seriously why is this thing such a piece of crap
look at this Harrison three thousand
dollars look at how much play there is why am I the only one outraged about the
quality of we're gonna have to do an LTT Store media cabinet at this point no
Honestly though like apparently
this is acceptable look at that I'm
gonna have to break out the same long stupid drill bit and the same
countersink thing to do the same after the fact repairs on this thing that I
had to do on my old one and that one was like 600 bucks
not too big and didn't have drawers that don't work
look I'm not blaming you I'm just saying that you're the one who
spent my money on this I didn't wanna Yvonne's notorious for
not checking the dimensions of things before she orders them she ordered this dollhouse for the girls she was like oh
yeah this will fit in our house this thing's like five feet tall I'm like
you know it has Dimensions right on the site I didn't expect it to be that big
right but the dimensions are right on the site you know I'm kind of feeling
games on display on the shelf and maybe this is just random accessories
every family has a drunk drawer yeah
yeah junk drawer trunk drawer okay yeah theoretically
this is just gonna work you ready what are the unable to reach Hub okay
good start yeah we changed the access points and this
thing is one of those stupid things that won't just be like oh the SSID is the
same and the password's the same no problem the red light went off yeah the
red light went off indeed I don't think this is going to work
I have no idea what's happening right now okay let's try LG TV
power toggle okay well that worked hey
hey sick and it's even spinning man nocturnal makes good stuff hey yeah
they're spinning I wonder if the IR thing just is confused because it's
plugged into a different port than usual or something like that I'm willing to
bet that's the one well let's just start
ripping stuff out is the unknown USB device out yet
come on why would you do that oh right
this that was the dongle for me jeez
way to go Harrison I think it has to plug into USB 2. GPU stress test now
what I want to see oh my goodness these fans are on already you've got it real
sensitive over here hey I've left them at the default settings really this is
just default yeah about how's our frequency yeah yeah
it's a little bit better we are actually getting slightly better performance our
GPU fan is still kicking into high gear here I guess there's just not really a
lot we can do about that though because we're pumping fresh air right into it at
the bottom of the case kind of is what it is then substantially
louder actually having this open in the front hmm
do not anticipate that okay LTT Store media cabinet definitely learning some
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