whoa we're resurrecting tech showdown
we were thinking we should call it something else but then we were talking about other names and one of them was in
use by a law firm or something so
tech showdown it is except we're changing the format now it's two teams
competing to build a themed pc okay that's exactly the same as before
but now we've got four days so we're going to build something totally
kick-ass this season is brought to you by synergy and the theme is
candy
now in a stunning turn of events it was brought to my attention this morning
that rather than each luke and i being paired with a professional modder
luke and i will be squaring off against two professional modders
so i wish us the best of luck building a candy themed pc and a candy
themed full desk setup to look freaking awesome or at least be tasty failing
that yeah and there's no real clear rules so uh
go
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at the link below so in fairness to you guys you should
understand who you're building the system for we've
got three celebrity judges our minor celebrity judges are going to
be riley from ncix tech tips and steve from gamersnexus
and then our um sort of headliner celebrity judge is
actually ijustine so she's coming all the way up here
and the three of them are going to contribute to who actually
wins so keep that in mind
you've got okay okay can we take this board yeah we have markers we got
markers baby we got three markers
we got all the markers
oh yeah that's one big difference there's no barrier hey we don't need
markers everyone everyone can see what everyone else is doing this is like
tripping me out like i want to hide stuff but okay i think the first thing we have to
deal with though is your uh your sponsor logo shirt here
that okay so you got to do one of two things yeah you got to start eating
these to fill in
or we could find some tape or something you look ridiculous
i think these belong over there don't they oh yeah they're called dum dums
yeah these go over here you guys
these are dum-dums
there you go you know here you go here you go smart
guy you don't have those in america do you
i think no don't they call these rockets down there
or no our smarties no wait our rockets are
your smarties and you guys don't have our smarties you have the lame like
powdered candy smarties so okay my my grand idea okay
see you are everything that is wrong with us staying organized you just put a
not working marker back in the pile of working markers
yeah it has to be um okay so where this
can go though is another level there's one where it like comes out of
the top of the computer and flows down and then there's like a little river but
then how do you recycle that that's gonna be pretty uh pretty bonkers but
one thing that i observed about these tables that we're using already is that
they could actually be configured that way
but how do you get it back up okay um so
here's the thing there's no fixed budget for tech showdown it's all
within reason so i don't really see any reason
you know that's not within reason why we couldn't obtain something to help
us do that now here's how we take it
to like a crazy level though
this is i believe what a 180 watt CPU
okay i know you're going with it
that would be awesome i mean what could unlock the power more
than this i feel like that might be hard to communicate to judges
and then we could have like an info like this is how it works
card that's worked in the past
yeah we could
oh man oh okay having like four days to work on
this in some ways is actually like like like ah too much pressure yeah yeah yeah
okay okay and this is actually you know i haven't even
looked at what hardware we're using yeah okay
okay this is not attached so these are just like saw horses
so let's open our case first and then we'll worry about how to plan
it's a big tower basically blank canvas yeah it's a big tower okay okay so here
here we go like i don't want them to know too much at this stage but
we need um river
okay so we have to yeah yeah we could probably buy a thing that
would come with that but it would have to be continually which makes a little
bit difficult yeah and how do we keep it from like gunking up
probably needs to run for a little while
if we okay so these like are designed that it
won't matter but our extra stuff we will have to be pretty careful about sure
but like the the river part i wouldn't actually worry about it too much but we
just have to get it back that's the part that i'm really worried about
because yeah you can like slant the table and stuff oh no we can't do that because that
would make a terrible user experience i imagine that they're
going to get really creative and do all kinds of crazy stuff and that might hurt
them okay so cotton candy idea it would be it'd be difficult to
get cotton candy that you could apply and it starts to like you know to keep
it that clean fluffy yeah stick it yeah
we've got it so the desk the desk has to we have to do some paint work with the
desk oh my god okay the desks kind of remind me of like you
know when they pull taffy at the fair they're always on a big workbench and stuff and sometimes they've got those
big machines that like stretch the taffy like automatically it's like how cool
that's to build that if we have this big table area what if we created a game
like candy land like a candy land
candyland or candyland game where it's like a board game where you have to move
spaces and then we incorporate el like lions
detectives or something or whatever on the top we could paint this white and
then do like some sort of a like um
like a big game board or something maybe no problem
okay can you help me yeah
okay priorities priorities let's get you not looking like
a smack tool what is that
it's well it doesn't sound dumb i mean then mission accomplished
whoever ordered the t-shirts may have ordered the wrong one for luke
Colton okay and i'm definitely touching your butt i'm okay with this which is
definitely a little weird but that's
hopefully fine i mean it's all right yeah it looks not as bad but it's
definitely still kind of bad because like look at this look at this
endlessly look just start eating candy then
i tried but you didn't try
which is why we're here
wow let's do that
let's do that let's do that
so this pretty much goes on this side
what about like regardless of what else we think what's that
not sure yet where is this gonna sit like if this is a complete battle
station your two big objects are gonna be your case and your monitor
so if your case sits on this side
you know it blocks off so much then your monitor say sits on the front like do we
do vase amount like on the monitors the monitors on an ARM how do we keep it
like super clean do we mount the chassis like underneath or something yeah does
it fit inside the the sawhorse things or something like
that yeah i mean you want to be a showpiece so you don't want to hide it
but it's huge i mean it blocks off
yeah do we really want to have it and then also you got the back here i mean
you're going to be looking at from this side but on the same side i mean you can do
this we're incorporating the cable so then you monitor your battle stations
here it doesn't have to be just candy though right like we could
we could incorporate like ice cream i mean ice cream is
technically yeah candy right
like what's our like four things we're doing right
so like are we putting a gumball machine in this
like that's a major you know cut grind
that seems too easy though it's i hear ya you know
okay like how does a gumball machine
and a reservoir work together like
what if one displaces gumballs and one dispenses
aurora fluid like it's a two loop system but it's not
one's candy and one's coolant
so should we stay away from stay away from doing crazy paint because
there's no paint booth here there's no yeah the only thing i'm thinking you got
this white canvas on these sawhorses i think that is something that we do
so so we could paint we could paint this whole tabletop white
as a starting point too i like the i mean i like the maple but
if it doesn't work in the theme then no
so these are standard regular keycaps so
we might even be able to buy a keycap set for this but get them in time
if we can get them at like maybe ncax or something or yeah or just amazon prime
so it's just the caps of the keys that we can replace
the black ones with some color
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bob and rod are starting to get a few good ideas but just because they don't
have a solid plan yet doesn't mean they've been sitting on their hands
they've already assembled their monitor and are well on their way to painting
their case and now time for a little cable management this thing can route
you know all the way over drill holes route route
everything down through so it's like perfectly clean
i'm really hungry uh wait this is their plan
yeah distracting dude this is their whole plan they know i like candy so
they put all this candy here to keep me from working on the computer
that's the whole plan no you guys are mean
why you don't think i can sit here with all this candy
and what if we put a res like on the corners and then straight
anything between anything water cooling is probably coming from the supply
here oh okay so we we have to go see what they have oh wait
yeah which we could go we could go look at that
yeah um
okay we still need we need a good solid feeling though i know
okay so the mouse i'm taking off the question mark there
uh we can decide on colors later uh we may go together or you know what we may
have to stay split up on all of this just send pictures yeah we'll just go
we'll pick something really fun we definitely need to spend some time doing
what they're already almost done doing which is taking this baby apart and
figuring out but we need the overarching theme first
i'm gonna be stress eating for the next four days
i don't think our mods gonna be on par because neither of us has the
fabrication or the painting experience that those guys do like they do this all
day what i was mostly counting on going into
today was luke having some kind of a kick-ass idea like mad max or whatever i
mean he's behind me so this is a little awkward to say but like his idea was
okay it wasn't like game breaker
you know
i'm having doubts about the foil i think we should go back to the original plan
it's gonna rip yeah yeah
i hope at this point i hope that we at least turn in a computer
i mean it we'll have something yeah we'll have something
oh my god what time is it it's two yeah
should we build it no because we have to take this all
apart to like we have to paint this they're obviously painting we can't not paint it
maybe this is the gold foil and chocolate thing so gold all on the
outside and then try to chocolate as much as you can on the inside
so that it's a candy bar computer interesting
okay and then we go with other candy for all
the rest so we get those multi-colored keycaps and we go with other candy for
the rest and we go with chocolate bar for the computer
and then do we still do the brown desk or no
i don't think it's i think we could because there would be
enough contrast of the outside of this being gold
how gold can we go though without ruining like airflow and how good of a
job can we do of that this is a super modular case this whole
look at where they're at because like i'm worried about stuff like this i'm pretty sure that
yeah but how are we going to put it back in tidally because whatever kind of foil
we're using is not going to be that strong
we could do that we can do foil for some parts but i think a lot of it's gonna be
like this is definitely gonna be paint this would be easy okay
okay okay okay
so we go golden wrapper outside
and then inside all brown
we could do uh cream and brown so we could do cream accents
with a brown base
we can mask off these fans and we can go like brown frame cream spinning
so we are we are we are brown and brown and creamy i don't think this is an
incredible idea but i think it's a doable idea and then we might be able to spend more
time doing crazy things with the rest of the build it took us until two o'clock to even
sort of have an idea it wasn't finalized by any stretch frankly
our whole value add on this one is the
idea because our execution isn't gonna be
better so yeah i'm really worried right now
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