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one of the unforeseen consequences of self-isolation has been that my kids

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can't go to school and they can't go to their friends houses so

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ever since it started my dining room table has been covered in kids school

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assignments and virtual play dates over discord in minecraft so

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in my usual fashion i'm going to be solving both of these problems with

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technology we're going to finally put a work desk into my kids room and in order

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to make it as compact as possible we are actually going to build the minecraft

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gaming machine right into the desk so this malm

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desk from ikea was selected for its actually very similar to a computer case

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pricing and the rest of the components were actually chosen uh well half by us

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and half by MSI who sponsored this video

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unfortunately with all the time people have been missing at work

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this one is not in such an organized

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state so wish me luck here ladies and gentlemen

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because this is what i've got to work with

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got some instructions for the desk got a partially built up test bench so

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we've got an MSI 5700 xt graphics card dual fan four heat

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pipe cooler with back plate three DisplayPort outputs factory overclock

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and lots of performance for minecraft got a test bench with a black nhd15 some

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CPU i actually don't know what's in there and an MSI extreme gaming x570 ace

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so the main features of this one are that you've got four gen four m.2 slots

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active cooling on the chipset an infinity mirror here lots and lots of

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RGB lighting and of course very robust vrms for overclocking tx850 80 plus

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titanium power supply gaming keyboard mouse and headset from MSI some white

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delrin oh this is good labels front back

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mid vertical GPU mounting kit some 3600

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megahertz cl 12 trident zrgb cooling

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fans power cables commander pro for RGB RGB strips for

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commander pro wi-fi antenna velcro strips and then a variety of fan

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filters power cables usb splitters and

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oh i guess i'll go get the desk now we'll just start throwing it all in and see

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what happens do you need help

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uh no it's better this way because at least

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there's a camera rolling if i fall down the stairs and die

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i swear it's genius

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yes please tell me there are no obstacles on

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the stairs oh my legs are gonna get trapped it smells like

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cat pee on the carpet here one of the objectives for this project was for it

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to be something that could be easily reproduced at home with minimal tools

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and know-how so the modifications to the desk are actually pretty minor we've got

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an RGB strip that's already in place here on the back so we're going to hook

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that up a little bit later and then basically on the bottom cabinet here

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where there's going to be a oh here you go there's going to be a door on the front

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we've basically just got a couple of 120 millimeter intakes so that's just a hole

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saw and then a regular drill bit we've got a square hole that was cut with a

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jigsaw and this little uh like

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comb style cable management piece and then around

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back a single hole for a power cable to

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go to one of our power bars as well as a

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millimeter exhaust other than that

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it's just a matter of a few holes in here and some computer hardware in there

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and we should be pretty much good to go there's no manual but

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power supply first is as good a bet as any we're gonna go ahead and leave

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hybrid mode on i do want this to be as quiet as possible because this is a room

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where people sleep so i think it goes there

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i think this one goes right here

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and this one goes here another way to mount the motherboard if

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we don't care about getting it lifted up off the bottom of the table is to

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actually just put little 632

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um like inset things into the wood itself we

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actually showed this when i did a build on the bottom of a desk way back in the

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day but what's nice about this is it lifts up the motherboard so that we can

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cable manage underneath it and all of that good stuff i will say this about

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cases that are intended to be cases they're a little more ergonomic to work

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in now you guys might decide to do yours

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slightly differently but we will put the plans for any pieces that we created for

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this build in the video description this is one of the last times we're going to

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have access to the motherboard so actually the m.2 boot drive is already

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installed in the top slot over here but now is a good time for me to throw in my

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memory as well so this is a 16 gig kit

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is that lined up now oh shoot i missed

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figured it out the tolerances are a little eh um but if we loosen the screws

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going into the desk we can screw the motherboard into the mounts and then put the mounts into the desk after the fact

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wow we got that one at the back that motherboard is down

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so now we're just going to tighten this back down but not too much

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have you used the drill before

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okay perfect you're going to use it again so here's what you're going to do

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these bolts need to go through this fan filter through this hole and then i'm

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going to hold the fan on the other side this is going to be our exhaust fan

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yup just just press it just a little bit and then it'll grab on to the right spot

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if i were to go back and have this care package redesigned i would probably ask

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for a slightly different power supply mount i'm a little bit fussy about my

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power supply mounts just because they are so heavy but the way that this one's

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intended to be used is we've got a hook and loop fastener pair here and then it's kind of

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friction mounted against the motherboard i had my mic turned off but putting in

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the front power button was a bit of a chore so because the desk is so thick i

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couldn't really get access to the ring at the back but basically with a

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screwdriver i was able to kind of hold it in place and now that it's screwed in this is a good

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time for us to go ahead and route the power switch because the more stuff we

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install on the bottom here like you know graphics card and all that the less

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access we're gonna have to the motherboard modding and pc power button

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is pretty simple you can just salvage these from any broken case and then just

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extend them using wires so we all we need is a power switch and then power

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led that's built into our power switch up here MSI actually has not only

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12 volt RGB they have 5 volt addressable RGB and then they even have one of

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Corsair's stupid proprietary connector

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uh ones built right into their motherboard that's pretty sick we're

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still going to need a commander pro because i'm going to have separate zones for the strips and the

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fans but that's still sick now is as good a time

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as i need to put in our RGB and fan controller so the one trick is we need

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to make sure it's below this shelf the idea is that this shelf and this drawer

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are both still completely accessible and the computer is just built into the

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bottom here so we're gonna go ahead and put it

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there with a little hook and loop fastener the usb plug goes into the

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bottom of the motherboard down here and the only other plug that needs is a SATA

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power connector that i'm going to go ahead and run

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all the way under the motherboard now we just run another one of these short

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cable mod cables and plug that in

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i haven't spent this much time on my back since i was in college

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hey just kidding we all know i didn't get laid in college

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i'm not sure if it's your intent but it makes that kind of thing more awkward

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when you don't reply my kids are all downstairs watching wild kratts now so i

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guess i'll have to put this in myself but here's a tech tip for you guys free

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of charge it is really really important for these

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fans to have filters on them because they are intakes and they are going to

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be right next to this carpeted floor right here carpet can be just an

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absolutely nasty dust trap and if we have an intake next to carpet it pretty

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much must be filtered or your computer is going to be disgusting just a little

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cat hair dead skin cells all that kind of nasty stuff another nice side effect

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of these is that it makes these holes look so much better these are from

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silverstone they're actually magnetic now we're at the point where it's time to wire up our RGB strips but

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unfortunately there's no hole at the back so i'm gonna have to put a new one

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i don't want sawdust all over the motherboard uh

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can you grab a vacuum you suck i'll drill okay

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did you catch it all i didn't suck at all no

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wait what really oh yeah i can see it from through here

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that's pretty bad oops there we go and i've got the RGB

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and the front power switch through that

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now i can bring those down real nice and tidy

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good job now i've got all the led strips on the

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bottom of this shelf there you go oh i almost forgot the most

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important part the graphics card so we're using this aluminum rod see it's

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threaded on this end i've got a washer here so i'm just going

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to run this through the entire desk

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it's got to be nice and strong

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there it is then we're going to tip the whole thing

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then we throw a washer and a nut down here tighten that up and that's it

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that's the graphics card mount nice

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door's on

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it's got power ready

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fans are all spinning and we've got a post

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for the keyboard MSI sent over the vigor gk50 with low profile mechanical

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switches and as you can see full individual key RGB backlighting

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so if i want to plug in the wi-fi or what have you

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you just throw that in there and then on the underside there's actually a little

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cable management shelf so

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i can chuck my wi-fi junk up there for the mouse they sent over their

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clutch gm50 mouse this has a pmw 3330

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optical sensor it's super lightweight it's got RGB lighting and

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it's got 20 million click rated omron switches the immerse 50 headphones were

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provided for their durable metal construction 40 millimeter neodymium

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drivers detachable microphone and of course

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RGB lighting oh yeah and there's inline volume and mute controls and all that

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good stuff and finally the cherry on top is their optics mag 272 cqr so this is a

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curved gaming display with a 165 hertz refresh rate it's 2560 by 1440

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resolution it's rated at one millisecond response times it's got freesync

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and what else do you want oh yeah it's got RGB lighting of course

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now that we've been in game for a while we're ready to take a look at our thermals it's running super quiet even

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with the door closed i've got my mic right on me and you can

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barely hear this thing in the quiet profile we are boosted up to

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4.35 gigahertz 60 degrees no 53 as for

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our GPU with all that fresh air coming in right next to its intake it actually

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hasn't gone over 60. minecraft is mind you a pretty light

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game but that's all this machine was designed to do and it looks like it's

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gonna do it just nicely well hey it's running so mission accomplished

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right so thank you to MSI for sponsoring this video thank you to you guys for

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coming along for the journey i think it actually worked out like shockingly well

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this is clean and speaking of clean well

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MSI sponsored this video so i don't have like another sponsor to talk to you

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about but maybe you could check out one of my previous desk pc builds where i

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strap the whole computer to the underside that was pretty cool too