Top 3 PCs at the BYOC (Bring Your Own Computer) LAN Area - PAX East 2016
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2016-05-06
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thank you to Logitech and Discord for sending us to PA East 2016 this year if
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you want to see all of their different products and services check them out in the video description down below all
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right guys we are not at a booth per se this is the byoc section packs in
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Seattle packs in Boston packs in Texas packs in Australia all of them have like
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a lan area there's the Lan free play section there's the console free play
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section and there's the byc section which stands for bring your own computer
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it's actually really cool I've been doing it for a little while now with some of my friends and Pax Seattle this
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is the first time I have done PAX East and what we're going to check out is the
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top three modded computers of the byoc section and they're pretty sick we're
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going to start off with a system that is close to my heart I love fish tank
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systems my like claim to fame in terms of building computers was in a fish tank
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system because I feel that with oil this one is done in a different way but
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equally as cool in my opinion so this system was built by polish you can see
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his name in the front bottom right hand corner and is not filled with oil is not
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actually filled with any liquid at all EX except for the little smaller inner
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tank area which houses his fish which is named Alpha the beta which is like super
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great I absolutely love that in terms of Hardware he has the Intel Core 2 Duo
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anniversary edition a 960 which is reference blower cooled so that it can
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get the air out of the fish tank so it doesn't just fish around on the inside
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pun intended he's got fish rocks all over the place which actually helps him
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hide his cables which is super smart I wish I did that with my rig it's a
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really good idea also on the bottom left hand side under the rock behind the
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Polish badge is a hard drive and below
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that is where he hides his SSD amongst the rocks on the bottom in and outside
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of the fish containing area he has little fake fish plants and the whole
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thing just looks aesthetically awesome in terms of lighting he has two cathode
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lights in the top which are actually hidden behind the black plastic band
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among the outside which is a really cool way to do that and it's kind of hidden
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under the top of the lid as well all of the I/O goes out of the top which is
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probably prob what you would expect from a fish tank build and I just absolutely
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love it easily one of my favorite mods I've ever seen and then you have how
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it's put together so for my fish tank build which you can see up here or for
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the one that we did for work way later on which you can also see up here we
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used like uh laser cut plexiglass panels
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what he did was actually a much more effective way in my opinion to be
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completely honest he just Velcro on one of those kind of Bitcoin mining
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motherboard trays that people were building for quite a while there that I
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think you can get from highs speeed PC I don't know where he got his and then
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yeah he just velcroed it on in terms of his motherboard to keep it in place he used a little angle bracket on the
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bottom and then another little bit of Velcro on the top just to hold it in
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smart effective cheap next up we actually have two computers as kind of
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one feature that I'm going to cover here these were both built by a guy whose tag
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is IM root or at IM root he had that
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name before the Guardians of the Galaxy movie Just so you know the first one
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we're going to cover is the one that looks like a red iMac this one was built
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for his son it has an I3 in it a 750 Ti
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an SSD and a 500 GB hard drive what's
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really cool about both of these rigs is how they look very much like old IMAX
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even including the fact that their front loading optical drive Bays still work
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it's not actually the original Mac one it's an aftermarket optical drive bay
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but it still works and it looks completely authentic which is super cool
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he did it in a stack formation so there's a power supply on the bottom and
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then a motherboard above that which is held up by some ready rod and then
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everything just kind of sits there quite nicely in the back of the iMac in the
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front he has LCD panels that he bought on eBay so these were bare LCD 1080p
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panels that are 13.3 in he then used a
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little custom PCB that he also bought on eBay which was shipped from China which
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converts HDMI to lvds it's a converter
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that costs $35 it takes 12vt in and then
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is wired directly into the PSU for the 12vt rail and then just yeah you plug in
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LCD lvds on one end take HDMI o to the
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other end and you're good to go in order to hold the screens in place he created
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what looks like a plexiglass sandwich so he has clear plexiglass on the front and
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then colored plexiglass on the back behind the panel which matches the color
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of the iMac so the red one has red the purple one has purple I think this is
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super cool I love that he did it this year for his son and daughter in the
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past he's done builds for himself and like a briefcase and one of them was in
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like a super old radio and one of them was was in a long board super cool I
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love guys that do rigs every year what he does because that sounds very
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expensive is he just reuses the internal hardware and buil a custom case around
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it very good idea next up is the Minecraft creeper build made by 8bit
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Builder or also known as thorcon t h o r KO n and check out his YouTube channel
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which is youtube.com/ thorcon this build
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is sick I'm going to get to him in a moment but the hardware in it is an I3
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4170 that's an azrock h97m ITX
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motherboard a Samsung 750 series SSD as
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far as I can tell and an sfx power supply the button on the side is a TNT
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block which is sick all of these little individual blocks are actual small
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individual blocks not just carved out of one piece of wood which is actually
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pretty fantastic and some of them are translucent meaning that you can kind of
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see some light coming through them so we have some white and some green ones that
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have illumination all throughout the case I guess we can call it for now or
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the creeper also up through the middle is where a lot of the air flow comes
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from so there's fans up here that pull air down from the bottom there's a fan
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that pushes air out the back and there's another big fan that can keeps it going
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up through the top of the computer so this thing has no lack of air flow at
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all how do you go about building these you told me you built a bunch in the past too I just use uh 2,000 I use I use
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a 1in cubes about they're all wooden usually 2 to 3,000 depending on the case
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and I usually actually plan it out I build it out in Minecraft actually and
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then um I take a time lapse of building the whole thing up and then and so I
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usually make a video of just building the whole thing from nothing to everything painting everything so so
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like architectural planning is all done in Minecraft yeah you know a lot of
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people are like oh you know you could get in some you know heavier editing
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programs to do stuff that's like ah you know I started with Minecraft it gets
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the job done I'm not doing anything crazy it it works pretty good you know some red lines for when I'm running the
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electric you know where the electric goes everything and most of the computer
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parts are all like almost inches anyway so it's pretty perfect it works pretty
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good so what's your what's your favorite one of these that you've built um man my
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favorite actually I think is the Airship uh I built a final fantasy Airship from
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uh Final Fantasy 2 has spinning propellers uh and that's that's probably
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that's my favorite one it's that one's pretty sweet that's sick and can people
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check out that build on your YouTube channel yeah that's definitely that one's on my YouTube channel they're all
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on my YouTube channel this one's not up yet but it'll be up very soon if someone
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wanted to get into doing something like this what would you how would you recommend they start I'm actually for
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this one I actually have I've made a video I'm making a video series I
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recorded everything about each step of building this so I'm actually a little
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video series going on how to actually make one of these on your own and it's
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actually very simple you don't need any you just need wood glue and cubes and
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very basic tools you know power tools really I built I built my first one in
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an efficiency apartment no problem that's awesome and how do you go about
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Distributing lighting all throughout the case for all the individual like translucent panels all right so these
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all all these plastic cubes um I probably have about there's probably
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about 50 on here I I have about a 12in cathod tube on each leg one in the body
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and then one in the head uh usually I like to have some kind of lighting
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effect because all computer mods have some kind of lighting going on so for
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this one I decided to go with one inch cubes with uh some Frost fat to get the
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light spread out but they're about 2 in L they're 2in long cubes so when the
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lights going through the inside it hits the side of the cube and it just spres right down through the side and that's
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about it that's awesome all right guys thanks for watching if you want to see
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racing wheels whatever you want check out the g900 all of that video
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back there they have really cool voice services and text chat services and all
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description down below I'll see you guys next time