he doesn't suspect a thing
so uh brandon's been trying to
buy some computer hardware he's wanted a rig because he's using like some ancient
laptop so he's been trying to buy computer hardware for black friday
and uh luke and i keep refusing to help him with anything
we're just like no no um don't don't buy that don't buy that uh
yeah no it's not a good deal it's not a good deal so uh secretly down here
we're working on putting together a rig for him so let's go through what we got
we went through the tickle trunk so to speak so we got an i7 47 70k
we got a Gigabyte z87x ud5h this is a pretty freaking high-end
board okay we dug up a two terabyte wd green
storage drive where'd those ssds go okay
we got a couple uh we got 16 gigs of course there vengeance memory and then
we grabbed a couple of our test drives so we're gonna do two 128 gig drives in
raid zero two ssds and raid zero for the boot drive
um he's been eyeing the Corsair air 540
since we got our hands on that but he recently changed his desk so he can't use it
anymore so instead we're going to use the one we used for our ultimate video
editing build guide so that's the
tj04ew from silverstone
and then uh power supply i don't think we're quite decided yet we're either
going to chuck this ocz zt in there it's actually not a bad power supply it's
modular in 80 plus bronze or we're going to go like all out silent
and put the rosewill 500 watt 80 plus platinum power supply in it we're going
to probably pull apart the case because i don't remember what ventilation around
the power supply area is like and find out if that makes sense because
i'd like to make the system quite quiet if we can so for our cooler we've got a
dark rock too from be quiet! and then uh what are we doing for
graphics card okay well we'll pick a graphics card
soon stay tuned guys so he's taking over the motherboard now so he can actually
start setting up it's actually pretty beast motherboard
see this they wanted to go with a gold idea like ASUS did their gold
motherboards this is how you do a gold idea
you don't make the whole damn thing
you just do it like a little bit and it's okay it looks fine
it looks good my camera skills don't look good but it looks good all right
well we might as well do a CPU installation guide you want to be the narrator
sure so he he spins it so that the notches are properly lined up and
elegantly pulls up the ARM and then very delicately places it in
the slot oh my god
oh wow dun dun
impressive thank you finish it
if you could do that accurately that would be kind of amazing that would be
awesome so now we're revisiting the cooler the
cut Linus this this is the very cooler that in a
different build guide cut his finger open
so this is round two what
he applies to thermal compound precision
scarcity skill determination yes oh actually that's not
that great no no i probably should have gone for a longer thinner line
audio solution
oh i don't know you could do like a macro of like the header
because you won't be able to see it because it plugs into the case that's the guy we're building a computer so the
way this heatsink actually screws in is instead of screwing it in from the front
you screw it in from the back so you just have uh brackets that are
pre-installed on the front and then you just tighten these screws at the back and preferably a cross pattern going
little by little until it is completely attached to the board so once that's
done you should have a pretty good look i mean it's important for a capture pc
to uh be extremely quiet because you don't want i mean obviously it's going
to be used in an environment where video production is going on so you don't want
uh you don't want to be loud and obnoxious right
all our graphics cards are upstairs so uh when he was up here editing
we couldn't really dig through them so here we go what do you got
oh yeah going with the 680
so brandon uses cuda and the mercury playback engine for some
of the stuff he does so we figure that's a pretty good choice
so luke's working on front panel headers yeah good work like we we assign all the
right jobs because the guy with the like
gigantor hands is plugging in front panel connectors
and i'm like plugging in this fan so here's how to install a graphics card
you put the thing in the slot see
right in there and then you put the screws in the other thing
so here's our 680 it's starting to come together hey
yep that's a nice looking rig that guy is still here editing our
rampage for extreme black edition
thing so we've had to just kind of do this
but there we go oh actually do you want to grab the back side panel just so that it's uh
the sexiness comes through properly
so there you have it guys not a bad little rig for someone who
wants to do some video editing and get into gaming a little bit coffee oh
yeah oh yeah and of course you know captured
video capture right just like that yeah
so uh cable management on the back is reasonably clean but not clean enough
that we necessarily want to show it to you there's only one more thing we need
to do here is just uh tuck these away and then we are pretty much
ready to rock i'm i'm liking how few
cables we had to use to put this rig together we only had to use one modular
cable that was it and it has four set of harnesses on it we were able to plug in
all of our drives and we were ready to go so the only thing left now is the
surprise okay so it's not the best wrapping job ever but uh
my wife's helping me kind of put like a
like wrapping sort of looking thing on it
so that it will look somewhat nice and then we're gonna surprise him
tomorrow morning so all right so brandon went out for lunch so
we're bringing out the system we got the muscle handling that uh that
aspect of things bring it upstairs all right so what i'm
gonna do is i'm gonna like barricade this door or something
so that we uh so that we hear him coming or like i'll
i'll pile boxes at the top of the stairs because that'll he'll be like why are
all the boxes like piled up the stairs i can't get up
okay just like yell surprise or something
oh okay glass
record a video
oh brandon we're good we're not filming i mean we are filming but
surprises what
oh it's your christmas bonus what
seriously we were trolling you so hardcore when we
were building a system with all your favorite stuff and telling you it wasn't for you
what when did you even have time for this
we built this on friday what
after i asked like a million times that's why we kept on trying to convince
you not to buy yeah we were like good deals please please don't buy things
you didn't buy anything did you no
it got hard to drive it was like a really good price
well thank you for your hard work thank you and uh yeah it's pretty much the
balinest is is this going on the track this is on the channel yeah yeah you're
gonna you're gonna have to edit it this was that awesome this was that b
blog video that you asked me about that was on the release schedule for this
week really all right well congratulations enjoy
merry christmas and all that good stuff i wish you had had a little more patience
because i wanted to give it to you at christmas but you're like oh no i'm gonna buy a system like damn come on
brandon i don't think i could stall you for a month
yeah no it was getting really difficult i think just a laptop all right well
that's pretty much it so uh i hope you guys enjoyed our christmas special it's
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