on the surface the challenge for our contestants today is very simple all
they have to do is take all the parts which are going to be laid out ever so
nicely for them on this table and assemble them onto this test bench
except we're going to be throwing a bit of a monkey wrench into things
this is a blindfold yes my friends they're
gonna have to do it blind but not without assistance all together
in my left and right hands are dji's
ocusync first-person view goggles and
camera setup that's right our two builders are going
to be Yvonne and dennis both fairly
inexperienced pc mechanics and on the other side of a
two-way communication device also known as a walkie-talkie and peering into the
goggles seeing through their eyes will be none other than me and Anthony so who
will complete the challenge first Linus and Yvonne the married couple which
could go either of two ways or Anthony
and dennis with Anthony calling the shots of course
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okay the first thing you're going to do is look a little bit to your right
look to my right you mean feel to my right no i mean look to your right
because i i can see your eyes okay no no stop stop okay your hands are just out
in front of you just just just out in front of you okay look to your right okay okay now reach your right ARM yep
uh forward forward forward down to the right a little bit okay forward a little
bit there's a little lever by your index finger push it down and then pull it
towards you is this the little lever i'm pushing on no it's a little bit to the
right to the right yeah oh okay there you go so you can't be groping around
for this part because we could bend the CPU okay okay left hand forward okay
okay forward forward okay that's the CPU
okay pick it up okay hold it up to the camera and uh
other side to the camera i need to see where the little golden triangle is
closer to the motherboard socket do you remember where that was do not grope for
it more to the right okay uh more to
more forward more down down towards the table what do you mean towards the table
forward yeah okay good good good good good down
not so fast uh that's the other one no no no no no
no just one hand okay no no no two two counter clockwise clockwise backward
okay yeah all right okay good ish right okay
and just let it go should i wiggle it no no
don't wiggle yet now lift it up ever so slightly and shove the CPU a little bit
to the left don't bend those pins though oh no is she mashing it is is that not
in place okay it's got to go a little bit counterclockwise
can i use my left hand to help yes okay so it needs to go a little
counterclockwise yeah okay okay does it
feel like it's in uh now it does oh yes okay cool
nice yes yes good lower that yeah uh and then yeah lower that
hey not bad and then this thing
just just chuck it doesn't matter okay oh my goodness we have to mount the
CPU cooler wow yeah don't celebrate yet the thing under your left hand pick it
up okay good okay uh wow you gotta flip the
motherboard over that'll be interesting no it's stuck up cake okay okay
all right so that post i gotta find that hole yeah you gotta
find yep perfect no oh just a little up into the right there it is okay so that
post that you were holding goes through that hole you got this hon i believe in you you can put it in the hole it's
wow i can't feel the hole she can't feel the hole uh well you
gotta um you know find it it's tight you know
oh my gosh okay
oh okay i got one now you just rotate it
a little bit until they all go through good good good good good push it through
okay nice okay so you're gonna put those over the posts all four posts you can
find them i believe in you okay hold on hold on you can't find them i don't believe in you okay um
right there yes good good good good and does it go on a specific way it doesn't
matter for the purposes of what we're doing oh oh shoot i dropped one i
dropped one did you find it yet no oh there it is okay good okay don't drop
anymore uh oh oh okay we're good we're good okay
now it's on properly there that's your bracket you need that
did i get it if they're both on then you got it yes yep okay good okay uh yeah
that's correct can i do the same thing yes oh nice nailed it you're good you're
good okay go back and get those thumb screws good yep right there one at a time you
are such a champ i um i was not expecting to go from
building my first computer to building one blindfolded now uh okay oh yeah
there's your post so much for not touching the motherboard
my palm's like all over it yeah that's fine there are multiple layers to that
pcb yeah i think i think that's on i heard
something yep okay nice okay next uh we're going to do
the let's do the m.2 i get close okay
um get closer no no that's a pci express slot it's
getting right there right under your middle finger right there right there undo that screw do not drop it
yep good okay back to the motherboard okay uh turn it counterclockwise oh we
got this we got this okay uh no no two two counter clockwise that's perfect
okay down oh oh boy okay um
so it needs to sit flat like parallel to the motherboard yes perfect perfect did
i get it you're in okay okay can you put the screw on the screwdriver show me
those sewing hands can you line it up and then i'll screw it in i can try yeah
that's that's lined up so it's just gonna go into that hole
did i get it no you're to the left of it
did i did i get it now that might be it it's hard for me to tell you got a lot
of hands in the way well i hope i'm not screwing into the
motherboard me too i can't see it oh it worked no oh nice
okay let's do the RAM first because the CPU is tall and it'll be in the way sure
okay so um away with your left hand away
left left pick up a RAM stick okay so start with it's gonna be easiest if you
start with the slot that's farthest from you yep that was where you're no no no no farthest from you yeah there you go
that one i don't want to push down if it's wrong no it doesn't look quite
right to me no it doesn't feel right okay i think it's not in on the right
side i think you gotta lift it up and move it a little closer to you yeah right there there it is okay and then
i'm doing the second slot perfect i think you got it that sounded good yep
yep yep you're good it's in so you really can't see anything
no oh you're doing well there it is yep good good
seems like you might be a little too close to yourself
only only the right side went in so i'm trying to fix it there it is nice okay
if this was only two sticks of RAM this would actually be more difficult
but since it's four we're populating all the slots so we can just butt them all
up against each other thermal compound left uh forward
down yep good good okay wow first tap off use your teeth
the very tip of your index finger that is where you will apply the thermal
compound okay i'm not going to push it yet but you mean here yes hold it like
you hold a spoon it drives me crazy oh come on okay good no you have not gotten
any out yet what i'm squeezing
how about now as long as she's using that as a guide i'm pretty sure she's
going to get some on her finger oh there we go that looks pretty good to me okay
heat sink uh yeah that one yep yep pick that up
did it stop there's thermal compound there right right right okay so feel the
bottom of the heatsink uh no no no that's not the bottom the shiny part
feel the shot yeah there you go i thought you're not supposed to touch that ah just chill it's fine okay okay
there's it there there stop don't go right there yeah so that is going to go
on one of the pokey things yes stop feeling around the CPU socket you're
going to get thermal grease all over yourself okay but how am i going to find the post don't don't worry about it a
little more to the right knit it down
towards yourself towards yourself towards yourself towards yourself little
to the left a little oh too far away from yourself
down i think that might be it like it feels good
doesn't look that good actually can you do me a favor yeah can you rotate the
entire test bench 90 degrees clockwise 90 clockwise oh geez okay this way no
what do you mean that is clockwise what are you talking about yes it is it
definitely is not clockwise is this way
ah okay so no we're crooked we're crooked okay so pick up the heats just
don't pick it up don't put your hands on it okay and
rotate it clockwise a little bit and move it a little bit to the right okay
uh up okay oh no too far up okay oh wow that
looks good down i think that's it there you go i think i
see it tightening okay stop stop stop what you're doing okay okay other side
then oh shoot you got to loosen the one that
you just put in a little bit it looks like it's on straight yeah so go ahead
and you're going to have to apply some pressure you got to straighten out that heat sink is it catching no then you
need more pressure oh wait no it is catching oh it is okay
okay get the fans left left left left left left up away from you there good
yeah but there's little like wire clips that feel like paper clips on the fan yeah oh
yeah yeah okay so there's one there and one on the other side yeah you need to stretch those over the fins good
is that on yeah okay now you need to do the same thing with the other fan
is that on yeah nice okay
where are the uh okay now we gotta find those cables that are coming out of the bottom of the fans i don't know what's
going on okay this doesn't reach get the other one
then it's okay oh are we calling that a good we're gonna call that time oh okay okay good
job man i'm glad i don't have to do the fan header thing i was actually bracing
for the fan header and for the power supply connectors too okay
to your right is the test bench can you turn that 90 degrees counterclockwise
please yep that's good oh you knocked some
stuff but okay now with your right hand reach forward
yep uh there should be a lever on the CPU so just down a little bit
right there that oh there you go that thing
okay so open that up see i'm really good um oh geez oh you're
going right for it okay um yeah no um down yes or no down okay up up
uh to the right right don't don't scrape it across the
oh is it is that down are you still holding it or no i am not and okay i got
it i got it i got it okay okay
uh okay so uh oh oh uh oh oh what oh
what tell me what is he like two handing it in there it
does appear to be that to the left oh is that are you dragging that across the
socket trying to uh don't don't don't don't do that uh oh boy okay okay okay
okay did they feel it don't oh jeez don't feel the socket
he he is shredding that socket
oh boy oh boy uh
this is this is going great okay okay wait wait one more time where where do i go uh
you're basically right over it so lower it down a little bit
to the left move forward yeah i think you're good
i think i think the CPU is crooked okay so just pull it back why don't you pull
out and pull back in there you go there you go hold it down like that now push
it down and lock it into place yes okay
that is done this is m.2 yes it is yes
that's not a screwdriver what's this we'll get to that in that area and i
don't want you to stab the motherboard okay don't stab it don't stab the
motherboard no no no no no no no no no no that's not wait wait let me feel it i can't feel it
um right there yes ah you're dead Anthony i'm dead what
okay yeah back uh move the screwdriver out of the way
oh i lost it again uh okay so it's the
next one up so further out from you that that one there next to your fingers
finger the up that's the one wait let me
i can't put it in oh yes i got it i got it okay okay i got
it it doesn't matter his computer is broken he
everything he does now is hooking things up to a broken motherboard remember
where you put that screw okay i'll put it in my mouth don't do that that sounds
like a safety problem okay i don't know where to put it i can't find it later
okay okay just just keep don't put it in you don't
and you're nowhere in the area you need to go uh just right there right here
back back there we go here
roughly and um are you pushing that like directly down into the drag it down yes
it's directly down uh okay this is the hole i can't feel
it it it doesn't take any force to did you
just eat that screw to the right to the right no that's
right to the right there you go there you go there you go grab the screwdriver
yeah um presumably also the screw that you
yeah it's back from my mouth oh no the hole where's the hole no no
it's it's not in the slot anymore you need to you need to reinstall it oh my
god like he's trying to jam it into where the pcb meets the like the mount
before yeah and that's why he's not able to instead of actually up in the where
the pins are yeah yeah you're there you're there you're in oh
oh okay this is a drill in i guess oh my god i don't want to lose the screw
that would be disastrous but i'm sure we have oh my god i can i don't know where
it is oh my god where is
okay where's the screw this is wait where's the screw this is clearly going nowhere
fast in the interest of a fair fight dennis
oh my god i just lost my screwdriver you're the remote control human
but we're gonna let you see okay where's my
screw i don't have my glasses i can't see
oh this is hot
do you okay
here how about you wear this as a bandana just to help look at this
is so hot
burning my forehead okay all right ninja
warrior dennis here okay all right all right so there you go
okay well uh okay so you can see uh hopefully okay
i got it i got it yeah okay there you go good luck
what screw do you have what is that well i don't know
what do you no that's not the screw this is not no where's my screw
see that's why i say i have to put this in my mouth yeah let's pretend that we
didn't lose that screw okay let's do it right uh no not RAM yet oh we want to do
the cooler first okay so um this
that's not quite what i'm talking about but yes pick that up
now it needs to line up with the four holes
around the CPU socket there it'll just pull right off of that now you can just
pull on the motherboard it's not not really even oh yeah it's
just on there all right yeah so we need to line up
that hole yeah with the holes yeah okay
flip it around yeah i mean they need to go through the holes oh my god there's
no way i can do the blindfold oh Yvonne did it
no way there's video evidence
uh okay so you need to hold that in place yeah
and uh the black spacers yeah got it put it on top yeah
those straddle the other way we could do it that way but uh no no uh
uh this yes like that
like that yeah to here and those screws should poke through yep
same as the other side same on the other side like this so grab the thumb screws
yeah okay screw those on
oh there's no way you can do a blindfold there's no way
next we are going to use thermal compound on our CPU
that is that syringe that you thought was a screwdriver a
couple times so what do i do uh rotate the cap off
counterclockwise it's so
oh yeah i got it i got it okay okay all right and uh you know what just
don't worry about it just just push down on it yeah
there you go yeah perfect i love it
there's nothing happy about this dennis and that is a ton of thermal compound
you know who's gonna have to clean that me okay
now we put the CPU tower cooler on and that uh yeah you line up the screws
with the screw posts yeah you know what this is now like remote
controlled ai human what the
why is this not clicking click okay there
come on i guess i'm just around along for the ride at this point i can't do
this you can't or can do it i think it's this
way no it's this way uh yeah that's correct
that looks correct wait no it's not no it's not
this cooler has pigtails and like that okay give them a tug just
make sure they don't come off
there you go your SSD isn't mounted
oh my SSD oh i found my screw here here
here okay okay so yeah use the small screwdriver
there you go done
done it only took cheating
no this is not cheating you guys gave out
on me okay yeah yeah completely but see i i made it
with eyesight i need i need to see how badly you
mangled these pins i want a 10-minute penalty
yeah it's covered in fingerprints
everywhere what fingerprint your fingerprints
why why can't i have my fingerprint on the thing
because it means you were touching it oh no no dude what do you mean no yes of
course it is did you see what oh what to it it's so bad
one two
three four bent pins
down here honestly i'm surprised it's not worse i think Yvonne Yvonne did that
pollen checked i checked it was mint
there's fingerprints in the socket look there's one here
there's it's like discolored you should go get it tested it might be
Yvonne's fingerprint
i feel like i didn't have a whole lot of control here i want a 10-minute penalty
four pins four minutes four pins fine accepted
Yvonne assembled a computer you assembled
nothing because it's only a computer if it can compute their team was so
pathetic that i decided to allow dennis
to remove the blindfold they were about 15 minutes in and hadn't even managed to
successfully install the m.2 yet i heard that you bent the CPU pins i i
think you been what do you mean
nothing colin told you Yvonne didn't bend the
pins you bent the pins they're clearly bent now i think the viewers would know
yeah i think they will probably will
okay so are you ready okay shoot do i go for it oh do go together i
think go together okay count down come on three oh one two three one go we lost
also i was blindfolded that was the whole point of this challenge yeah there
would have been no like honor in that victory anyway
he was not blindfolded for half of it and he starts like blowing through it
there's still stuff that i think you did faster than him even though he was not
blindfolded really no there's no way you said there was no way that she did
it blindfolded at all okay so we have 34
19. ow oh i'm so sorry um victory
see groping stuff was a good strategy well not really
no because it didn't work out for him well i don't know how he gropes things
but apparently rougher well thanks for watching guys and uh
congratulations to our winner me mostly hey
i did most of the work you guys had okay if you had directed dennis this would
not have worked oh you're really good i'm not gonna say
anymore i watched Yvonne's performance and i think that she did pretty well
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