Upgrading from the Worst Laptop EVER - ROG Rig Reboot
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2018-05-06
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1,714 words · ~8 min read
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it's time for rog rig reboot so
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many challengers approached only three were successful and this
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is one of them charlie say hi hi hi
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internet hi mom hi dad no no your dad's
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over there so uh charlie hails to us from where you're from man of florida oh
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oh wow so you were right in the heart of it
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yeah so you have power to go plug this into right well we have power it's not
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wi-fi yet wow all right well that's pretty lucky man well everybody you know
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safe and cool yes rock on glad to hear that okay so today we're gonna be
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building a rocking machine have you ever built a computer before no no this is
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your first time yeah well today that changes
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welcome to the party let's get started
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the ASUS rog strix 1080 ti comes with ASUS GPU tweak 2 which allows you to
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monitor performance and helps you stream
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it also features their game booster as well as a free one-year premium license
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of xsplit gamecaster learn more at the link in the video description
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so what do you want to start with motherboard good choice
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so even though you've never built a computer before have you watched a build guide yeah i've watched a lot of them a
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lot of them all Linus tech tips guides right no
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have you at least watched elina's tech tips guide yeah you don't want to make
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very many of them oh wow
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so that's the kind of video we're making all right shots fired
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shots hit the target let's all just wipe up our tears and
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continue holy crap Corsair
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there we go your system at home
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you were the one with the laptop right yeah the super ball and laptop that's
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great for gaming no no not so much hey
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my computer is an hp laptop it's uh my little laptop
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and then right next to it i got my little 25 mouse i don't actually know
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what brand my mouse is i kind of got it because it wasn't really expensive pretty much
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not really it had like a pentium core with hd Intel integrated graphics and
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tell me something hd Intel graphics how high definition are they 720p is
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good yeah that's what they'd like you to think
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okay have you ever installed a CPU before no all right even touched one
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okay so here not yet okay you can touch it no just kidding
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okay you can touch it not all right so you want to line that up real carefully
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there's no force required so all you got to do
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there you go that was it let's push down down lower the ARM down
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you have officially installed the CPU yeah
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okay have you done RAM before i mean i took RAM out of like a old computer
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fantastic all right let's do it why am i even here
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because i don't know everything i memorized how to do the motherboard and
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that's pretty much where it is so
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tell me then charlie what was your plan if somebody ever did give you a
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computer's worth of parts you were just going to assemble the motherboard and kind of
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i just go on youtube and watch a guide and build it with that we've got all the
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answer kids today man so tell me something charlie what's
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going to be the first thing you do when this system arrives at home
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i messed with the RGB and then i'm going to go to the steam store
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and buy a game's really good graphics so that i can see those
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this one's really good
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for the sake of thoroughness we could pull the board out we could
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relocate this standoff and we could put it there feels like too much work
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wait stop we missed something really important oh no
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you didn't do the satisfying plastic peel off the RAM enjoy this you only get
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to do it once oh yes look how shiny it is now we also
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have to figure out where our hard drive is gonna go because
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this hard drive cage can you say it was gonna go up here
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i did say that but uh let me tell you something about adults
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charlie sometimes well they don't lie
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but they say things without having really thought them through are kids
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your age allowed to use knives yeah yeah okay which i i don't know mine are like
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five and three so understandable
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all right now leave these fans because
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i have something better RGB fans
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it's gonna be lit that's what the kids say right yeah
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when that RGB lighting is giving you an extra 15 frames per second you'll thank
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me i'll tell you man it is so easy to build
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a computer these days and like have it look awesome compared
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to a thousand years ago i can imagine it was hard a thousand years ago to build a
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computer you sure your name is charlie yeah you
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sure it's not alec oh i'm gonna confess something to you
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charlie you missed her i
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know so how come you picked an AMD build
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because i like raising beard plus it feels like
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they actually care about prices even when he's not paying for it he's
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going for the uh the perception of who's treating the customer more fairly
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so you said this machine is for gaming that's cool
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so surely 480 gigs on your boot drive is not enough for the library you want
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okay well that's fine we've got you covered two terabyte drive
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then you got to make a big decision here possibly the most important decision of
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the entire build do you want to put it on the bottom or the top
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is there really a difference no
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okay got those two on either side then we need that SATA data cable that we set
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aside much much earlier and then misplaced
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and then found go for it open it up
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enjoy it savor it
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oh i ripped it there goes all the good vibes
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oh i ripped it again see i used to wonder why people watch
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unboxing videos then i watched an amateur open a box
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totally get it now oh there's cool little on top yeah it's
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a cool logo this isn't just anything
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this is a strix 1080 ti wow
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there it is that's what's going to run
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all your minecrafts and uh
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there are neopets believe it or not it works as cool as it
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looks if you were to run cheapo games like
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minecraft on it believe it or not these fans look as cool as it looks
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these fans wouldn't even have to spin wow because the heatsink on it is so big
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this thing has like the entire thing
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basically covered in aluminum fins okay
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now the most important part of installing
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the graphics card not dropping it
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okay the next most important
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oh yes it's got a typo on it i think hey really
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look at this gtx 1080 ti gaming
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it's kind of embarrassing it's not gaming it's like it's like gaming yell
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so line up your ports at the back
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okay you can tell if these are yep you're good i did it i installed a
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graphics card sure did and you started with the best graphics
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card now this is cool your graphics card
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actually includes an RGB lighting header
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so we can hook one of our RGB lighting strips that we have from cable mod up to
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it cool okay go ahead cover your eyes
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okay just follow follow us out of my voice okay okay this is the time for the big
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reveal don't trip over that big block in front of your foot all right no i'm just
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kidding there's no block because i moved it turn to the right and experience
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180 hertz gaming so that
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is what high refresh rate with g-sync looks like
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so however many frames your GPU spits out
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that's exactly how many frames get displayed here so you don't see any
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tearing you don't see any lag so you don't even
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have to give kids these days a game they'll just play move the window around
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if you throw a high enough refresh rate monitor at them now let me show you something else
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that's really cool come around this side
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that's nice RGB yeah that's some nice RGB and
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and uh we'll get the utility loaded up but check this out see this uh
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RGB logo here and the logo on the back of the graphics
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card it's synchronized with the RGB strip
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across the top here that's cool i got one other cool thing for you too really
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listen to it that's quiet that's drinks for you my
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family won't get annoyed at all
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well i'm sure they'll find reasons to get annoyed because you're always going to be on the computer or bugging them to
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go on the computer the day was awesome actually it was
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really cool the bill was my favorite part and then it was also fun at the end
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to test the computer and stuff i was definitely not expecting a 1080 ti
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so while charlie plays around with the RGB settings on the video card which
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also controls the RGB strip along the top i guess i'll bid you guys farewell
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thanks for watching this episode of our rog rig reboot huge congratulations to
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you bud for uh winning this whole thing uh
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rate the system you gotta tell me out of ten ten ten out of ten perfect i like your
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style man all right thanks for watching guys