I RUINED his brand new PC - ROG Rig Reboot 2018
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2019-05-06
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4,146 words · ~20 min read
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all right oh what should i be doing right now
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uh you should be coming over here yes
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because we are about to build your new dream gaming machine sponsored
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by ASUS rog wow that's it that's
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gonna be one of those kind of videos Linus apparently
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so nick my understanding is that you went full snowflake
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on the uh the the rig configuration here
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i will admit yeah can you explain some of your choices so i see some
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significant differences here you've got team group 480 gig SSD with
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a massive one terabyte additional SSD
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because like you know your your mass storage can't even that can't be on
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magnetic apparently for you you've gone verizon i have
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why did you decide to go rising because
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i'm not just gonna be playing games all the time
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what else will you be doing i mean what you do on your personal time is not so
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i've been streaming but kind of hard to do on my laptop because if you open
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anything other than obs it just crashes right so you could stream a blank
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desktop yes interesting so have you ever built a
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machine before no how do we keep finding new people where you're like super into
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tech but then you've like never built a computer i have no idea have you ever
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owned a desktop i owned a i owned a mac mini from 2006.
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or like 2008 or something around there that doesn't count okay well it was a
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desktop
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okay so here's your motherboard yeah there it is
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is that the new one yep nice the latest motherboard go ahead and
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uh is this the motherboard yes this is the motherboard i didn't know for sure
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ah this guy's sharp i like this nick guy can you open the
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box though that's the question oh it's just a
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that was easy you know what oh my gosh it's a little over the top for a
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motherboard well this is like top of the line shiz
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yo you gotta go for it i mean not quite they do have Threadripper which is more
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top of the line but this is like as top of the line is
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aha look at this look at this motherboard picking up form he's got
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going on here edge of the pcb and like heat sinks and shrouds and stuff it's
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good you know what it works that was an accident wasn't it
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stickers of course most important part i'll apply these for you okay i'm going
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to do a really good job all of them mounting hardware
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and these are for chumps
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chumps those are for people who don't know what the wires are yeah oh the
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chumps are that's me sorry but i'm here to help you i need to
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leave whoa yeah okay yeah actually don't do
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that okay okay like that you were to open this
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yes so what i'd like you to do is put that right look i told you i've never built a
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pc i'm an expert when it comes to dropping things and the thing that you
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learn from dropping a lot of stuff is how to not drop things and then you
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continue to drop the hard way the hard way the hard way i keep finding new ways
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oh that's the triangle right um yeah but what about that triangle
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there's no triangle there am i going to get bamboozled twice
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it should require no force
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they do it a little bit ah a little bit of force he
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lied to me this is all the easy stuff though yeah
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this is the stuff i have actually done once before you lied no i haven't built
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a c a pc i've put in a CPU and i've put in RAM and that was not the RAM slot
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that's the room so good okay you made it you're gonna try
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to trick me there weren't you no no i wasn't i wasn't have you seen that meme
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where it's like trust no one not even yourself of me right there
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young kids today they have different means than in my generation see
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for me it's like i walk into a room i'm like how are you gentlemen people are
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like what you say what are you talking about that's not english
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there nope oh we almost got it yes did i do it yeah okay you got it
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now hold on yeah that's good it is customary to line it up to line it
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up carefully use two hands two hands and then this side doesn't have a thing oh
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yeah so you generally put that one in first gotcha and then the other one
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snaps into place wow so how did you swing 32 gigs of RAM in this thing i
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don't know it's funny because i'm making him feel special but the other guy got all solid
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state storage and 32 gigs of RAM too so
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yeah it looks good to me the Linus media school of life has taught me well taught
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you that by making videos about things you can get handouts
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that's a pretty good lifeline that's a good life lesson if i've ever seen one
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more important to be popular than smart how old are you in university yet i went
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to college or turned 18 i mean 19 two days ago okay so you graduated last year
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i graduated in the spring yes yeah okay so i this is my first year of university
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cool how's that going for you oh
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it's good i think i don't know better than it will when you have this to
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distract you uh okay so i'm an undeclared major at my
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university right now and if i had to pick one today i would do computer
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science or software engineering so yeah programming kind of code
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that's what i've been doing yeah a literally six-year-old laptop yes i know
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i've watched your video no way okay what's next um
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i think oh it's the mouse mat it's got to be
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all right i think i i i mean you want me to set it
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up right here right there it's perfect
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okay you're going to want to hold on to that
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panel make sure that doesn't uh fall fall there yep
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there we go it's glass whoa yep tempered glass wow the year is 2018
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indeed thank you not a bad case did you pick
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this now what i think you can go
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i think it's either you mount the motherboard or you can put the power
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supply in but i think go with the motherboard
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yep you put it does it go like this way
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yeah it does because this thing goes out there should i
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just go for it i think it just i don't know if i'm
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lining it up exactly but i think it just goes like that i guess i found one of
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the screws holy things
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done okay so you're in upside down i'm upside
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down i even mentioned that before i put it in and i put it in backwards
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look it's nothing personal it just makes me feel like a big man you know i just
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you know i have to let other people make mistakes so i can feel like a big shot
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what's better than that well doing it well is better yeah i
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didn't do it very good that was like yeah
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enjoy it was in your butt pocket you betcha
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houston we have a problem come on get in there
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it's it's been one of those days you know where you don't want to wake up
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everything is everybody sucks where are you going with that
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really oh man trying to reference something
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again you don't really know why but you want
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to justify ripping someone's head off forget it
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holy crap you're 18. 19. 19.
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it just turned 19. you're 19 which means that
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when that song came out i was just born
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parents probably consummated to that song yeah they did
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is the young and restless still around oh probably like
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like you've you've heard of it right yeah okay oh i've heard of that
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did i am am i are you proud of me now no
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like do you know green day yeah i love green day
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don't be a poser yeah you're right i don't know what green day is i don't
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i've never heard of it i was just trying to before i met Linus i thought of course
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he's putting on a persona for the videos because he has to sometimes but then you
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meet him and you're like there's no way he's just acting like that you're gonna go that way i'm gonna
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go that way go that way i am okay i mean i'm not judging you are
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power supplies in yes now what um
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cables there they are one with cable on the front yeah that would be a good
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guess yeah how do you open this it's very crushed
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is that like a slang from the kids now yeah does that mean cool it's totally
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rad look at him even just trying i'm trying old slang it's pathetic no it's
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not it's not it is that's that's slang we use us kids these days
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you said we need one of these did i so like started out and i was feeling good
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about things because we did the CPU and the easy stuff and then we got into like
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where does everything plug in and Linus just like looked at me and gave me that
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look like you don't know what you're doing and i'm like yeah well i don't
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help me right
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wrong wrong yeah do you like that
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wrong wrong this i think we need this one looks like
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a good one right yes
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i'm one for three i'm still failing but i'm getting up there
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you're actually two for four right two for four
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that's just underpassing i think 50 is actually a pass not where i come from
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what's left uh ed could roast you he put them up he
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put the motherboard in i put it in bag about his building were you gonna go
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after like his shoes yeah go after my my looks i mean this is
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weird i think his right shoe is in a double knot and his left shoe's in a
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regular knot no it's in a double knot it's just like it's just falling apart it's just a crappy double knot it is
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yeah i'm not gonna lie look at this ready good enough
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that's how we do it are you gonna pick another cable at some
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point here you know what i'm wrong
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right yes the same thing but one's longer longer
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is better right Linus right i'm just laughing because you were
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roasting my shoes and you're wearing white socks and sandals these are crappy
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socks i don't recommend them i had no idea what was going on most of
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the time what the crap did you just do what i messed up quite a bit wow it's a
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good thing i was here you would have just tried them other players that would have been that would have been like full
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user error no warranty nothing but we got there and it was really fun
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oh beautiful isn't it though that is a work
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of art
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minus you had to drop something otherwise it's
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not a Linus tech tips video yeah this is i i was i was all like yeah rog they
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went like full out on this all solid-state storage for you guys
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they just knew we gave you anything that could be broken by dropping it yet
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boom yeah good there's no mounting thingy there
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no there isn't so just leave that there
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oh yeah you're missing school aren't you i am what a good deal i'm a good boy
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oh yeah i don't know which way it goes i'm gonna assume this way nope nope oh
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oh yeah what that no nope nope nope nope yes yes no yes yes
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yes in his defense okay there's not a lot i can say to defend him but
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like it kind of looks like it goes on like that but what would happen
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you wouldn't be able to slide this into here or screw this into oh no way
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oh they're here
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what you are going to be the first to
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own the Linus tech tips cable ties
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yes we are going to cable manage your system yes with LTT edition cable ties
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let's do it they're just like regular cable ties except they're LTT except we
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put this logo on it that's a logo just
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like comic sans LTT
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whatever on this side you know what i mean i just roasted your company just
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lloyd it's fine radiator yes
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drop my washer clean up your act i'm sorry get it because it's also
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what do we do next
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is that all the cables that we have so far
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there's only two left right now or there's those two it has to be the graphics card
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yes we can plug the graphics card in now okay it's just on the floor
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that's okay it's true to the theme of the build the graphics card is not the
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most important part of a gaming machine especially not when it's like
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the bolonist graphics card oh no of course not you know what this is right
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yeah this is top shelf man yeah no they just came out right 2080 ti this is a
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two and a half slot cooler this is the overclocked edition so it'll run a
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little bit faster yeah it's got RGB 20
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increase right there that's right performance i don't know this is sponsored by ASUS so i got to be careful
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about performance claims i think so not actually don't pull an Intel
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wow all right open this baby up let's do it i'm gonna
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use my nails to like try to cut this tape and if i
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fail then it'll just slice into the skin under your nail and take weeks to heal
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yeah
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the sacred tablet what yeah the ancient manuscripts
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foretold of its arrival you open it up and you're like whoa oh
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nice oh my gosh this thing is a little bigger than i expected oh yeah that's
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really big and don't that's not what she said but
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so like i was telling uh jono before that the head like the only card i'd
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ever really handled or touched before was a gt 1030. this is what true power
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feels like this thing is just like all cooler and it's great it's wonderful i
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love it so because you have so much like
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raw surface area there these fans like don't even need to
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spin up fairly a lot of the time yeah so you're you're gonna hear it
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but less than you'd probably think okay
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yeah yeah power okay this is gaming
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gaming power right here hold on let me brace the case for you a
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little bit here do you want me to go oh wow look at that
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that was the best rip oh oh
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come on click yes cool and what's nice about running them
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over the top like this is they actually give it a little bit of sag support yeah
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do you want to do you want to see it turn on sure
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no you don't want to see that i don't you're right
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such a hater
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we're talking double triple even quadruple numbers here
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sorry this is a little are you good there's a lip here
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nick can you tell us again how you feel about those cable ties you want me to say
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you want me to give my raw opinions um hire me to sponsor your products with
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these cable ties you too can cable manage quite adequately
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sorry lloyd see if we got this all tightened down
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enough that seems pretty good
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got a little bit of a little bit of bulge there but hey never
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hurt anyone that's right hey what's up with that bulge in your
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computer oh it's a giant penis
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in your computer yeah well you ever heard of epeen
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let's try and shoot down at it so we can't see those top cables hey david
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meanwhile he pans right up thanks david
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end of this note use this terrific work david
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okay yes so this is the part where we like
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power it on for the first time so we got to get the keyboard mouse mouse pad
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let's do this thing okay i feel like i feel like a young child
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again at christmas when you're that you are a young child well
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i don't know if you hadn't are is he legally an adult here yeah 19 yeah okay
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you can't drink yet though i don't think at 19. yeah have fun
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so i don't know if you know this but all your peripherals they are all RGB
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and you can actually synchronize them not just between
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to the performances but also with the internals of your system aside from the
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RGB which i know is the main feature it's got cherry mx switches kind of
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basically robust build quality media keys all that good stuff nice high
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performance mouse oh
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the monitor is the centerpiece of the peripheral upgrade though so you get a
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2560 by 60. what what what is it you're upgrading from 720
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you know i've gotten used to it but i know it's bad so you're getting about
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four rex the resolution 2560 by 1440 144
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hertz native 165 with overclocking g-sync um super low response times let's
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go ahead and find out if this system works you ready
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there you go whoa look at that
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you haven't even seen the RAM yet no oh that's gonna add at least 500 FPS the
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cooler has a screen on the cooler which is i've never seen it before and i was
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like that's really cool we could also put uh
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water water in water in level is water in you know what let's stick with
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frequency oh no there it is there it is 2700 RPM there you go
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we have your side panel which i actually haven't seen yet i haven't seen this
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either i hope you know i pack a chainsaw fred durst
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and do you want to see how it runs of course what's your game my man monster
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hunter world okay that we don't have that you know what we're gonna we're
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gonna buy it right now
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not for you all right so you got five minutes to
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wait which is actually perfect
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because it gives us enough time to install an RGB strip i don't know if we
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have enough width we're gonna have to do some jank stuff here
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slim this down a bit uh don't take your front panel off don't
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maintain the pc yeah no forget everything i said about cleaning the air
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filter
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nothing nothing don't make me take this front
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panel off please oh god
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you get to play some monster hunter world while i play decorate the case with
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stickers okay i'm ready oh no we suggested that these
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two stickers go right here and right there
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oh yeah that's a great suggestion
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i see how it is have you ever gamed on like a high-end rig like this
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no i was telling jono that i have never
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even experienced like SSD speed like i've had hard disks i've never had an
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SSD so this is very quick well i don't know what's going on right now i think
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it's just you know you have a headset i mean
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you're right there's you're about to set a character
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customization oh Linus i'll leave that to you will you actually play with the
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character i make if you make a good one i know this is kind of weird but like
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the coolest box was that headset whoa this box is the coolest box out of
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anybody look at this because it like opened up from like the middle like you
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didn't pick one side wow
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this is some very deep you gotta make a good customization yeah you're gonna be
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like yeah there we go max age max wrinkles
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oh yes
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cool would you mess with this guy who will ask grandpa
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look at these angry brows
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oh now that might be a little too ferocious hold on i'm going to dial back
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the ferocious a touch here
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oh that what are these outfits we're trying to make a badass here yeah and
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you did look you made a badass what character limit
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oh dursty mcdurst phase is that name okay no no this is not okay
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nothing about this image is okay oh you gotta be kidding me you can make
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a cat now you have to okay your cat's done
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yeah i'm naming him after my dead cat
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okay start the game with this character go for it ah
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oh look at him go
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and there's your dick
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do the honors okay i don't know what's happening but fred durst can climb
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any thoughts on how it runs it runs because on my old computer it
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wouldn't that is some wow that is some good friend
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tell me tell me where you've been training dude holy crap
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what's going on here i was like i was like there is no
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way something is not on my back right now but i'm just gonna let it happen
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republic of gamers how's it looking looks good to me
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it's i mean can you tell the difference are you kidding me
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of course i'm really bad but you know and these bots are really easy and not
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really doing anything but it makes me look like i'm good
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kind of you can adjust the mouth sensitivity you know so it just has a button right here oh really just click
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that whoa oh yes it's beautiful
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i'm not good at the game like i said they're all right there what
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didn't stand a chance but like whoa this is like i just like moving around
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because there's like no stutter at all you know minus tech tips killed 80
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percent right there mvp Linus tech tips
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