We Gave Away a SICK Gaming Rig - ROG Rig Reboot
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2018-05-06
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1,633 words · ~8 min read
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welcome to rog reboot episode one our
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first winner here is josh he had a very simple request
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i mean especially in retrospect it seems like this is the kind of
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thing that should be pretty doable
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he wanted a white and blue
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gaming computer and we got the gaming computer we got the rog gtx 1080 ti
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we got the core i7 7700k we got water
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cooling up the bananas but the case is black this is my peace
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offering can you live with a balls to the wall
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gaming computer that's not white
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and that i dropped pieces of i think so
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good let's get started then
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the ASUS rog strix 1080 ti features
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rsync RGB lighting with a plethora of colors and the ability to synchronize
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effects across the ecosystem of rsync enabled products learn more at the link
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below your video
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pretty short pretty sweet had one of my friends help me write a script and then
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grab my sister and said hey will you help me with this
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that's a little awkward not like that
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have you ever gamed on a machine of the caliber of what we're building today
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never huh see i get so disconnected from this
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stuff sometimes i just like kind of take it for granted so man have you ever
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built a computer before no i should know that because the last
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desktop you had was what 10 years ago yep you don't even have a desktop we did
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at one point but i might have broken it
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well that's a little awkward are you gonna break the one i build today no not
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at all it's not even just a little bit broken nope let's try oh okay so you got
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you had a desktop but we're talking it was like a
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a pentium 4 or something is ancient yeah
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okay got it yeah i feel old
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we're off to a good start okay so how much of the building do you
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want to do versus how much of the building do you want to be like like
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when i would help my dad with carpentry um i'd like to do at least a good part
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of it okay a good part of it all right i'll pick the best part okay so the best
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part here hold the screwdriver and hand it to me when i'm ready for it so we're
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gonna open up our power supply silver box right there
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yes i know it's not it's not light or blue
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that's okay like it's 80 plus titanium efficiency
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which is like bananas bananas yeah
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bananas are good they have lots of potassium yeah
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we have these also not white and blue
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cables from cable mud but they'll look really good don't worry
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it's okay i don't really care at all that there's no white case i just think
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it's funny that Linus uh takes it so
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personally that there's no white case
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i don't know if i can work under these conditions 10 points if you can find the
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motherboard and the massive pile of awesome hardware that you're getting today
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nice 10 points perfect you leveled up it's like the beginning
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of a game where like you actually don't do anything you just like look in the
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right direction and it's like 25 xp you're level two now yeah yeah it's it's
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like that boom see if you installed you can pull that off okay there you go
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hold on to that if you ever had to if
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like let's say you legitimately had something devastating happen to your
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board like critical functionality like the RGB wasn't working quite right if
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you sent it back to them without that cover and the pins get damaged now
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that's physical damage it's pricked
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okay you want me to do that right now sure okay i mean you don't have to i
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can't force you to do anything like you could just leave
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i could but i won't so there you go
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at first you didn't cut it but then you got it yes now you don't got it
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that is true
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um okay so that looks pretty good so far next stage is we actually move on to the
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not white but still very good case
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look i'm showing you how to build the computer i can see it in your eyes
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you're super disappointed it's not white i'm just
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getting really tired of how much pressure you're putting on me about the parts not being white i'm sorry i'll
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stop no pressure but this is
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the part where you either kill your motherboard or it's fine oh that's stressful no no it's not
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stressful at all don't worry you know the one funny thing about this though to
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me is that we didn't choose an rog board for the build
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oh white and blue
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you got this okay yeah it always does that it's kind of annoying
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it's like they were determined to have the logo upside down on their water
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cooler in this case all right well i'd recommend tubes up
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because it doesn't run across the graphics card
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so i usually recommend a pole orientation on a radiator you're
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familiar with push-pull pulling yes
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the reason for that is that when you have the fans pulling air this
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way this is really easy to clean you just kind of go like this
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you take some cat hair or whatever and you tuck it in the garbage
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when you turn these around the air goes through this way well now
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you have to take your fans off let's face it the last time you had a desktop
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was 10 years ago this thing could be running for 10 years
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we got to be ready for this stuff okay what matters more to you
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your precious blue color scheme
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or cable management i just need to go get something really
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quick here completely definitely new h100iv2
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that um definitely we didn't pull off the shelf
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uh because our shipment didn't get here in time
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which definitely has nothing to do with why your color scheme isn't right
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definitely isn't missing some of the hardware so i'm definitely not going to go over
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there and get it fantastic
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cooling done and without any mishaps
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whatsoever all right let's do a hard drive
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oh sorry it's in that box i was just getting this one out of your way
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she's like wait that was the motherboard
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i knew that i showed him i knew that
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yeah if it's not going in just force it a little you know
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just give it the old force it so we put right there
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what's he gonna do how's he gonna put it through nope
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nope nope okay
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i think the white goes better with the what's currently inside wow you can't
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just pick a color without taking a shot at me for us not getting it right
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you can't even do that
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and it's time for the graphics card
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so naturally i'm gonna let myself do the honors
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come on be a man open it with your teeth
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be a man open it with your teeth yes you ready
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foam and and a cd
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that's it that's what the highest performance graphics card on the market looks like
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if you'd be gentle GeForce gtx 1080 ti strix overclocked so
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i'm gonna get you to unbox your
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oh nice cherry mx mechanical gaming keyboard
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your mousepad your mouse your monitor
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there you go
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are you wearing your mouse pad yes excellent here we go
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go ahead press the button oh that's a bad sign
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no i'm just kidding i didn't turn the thing on your RGB is lighting up
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so the most important thing about the system is already working which is great
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so we are going straight for static color
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blue wait what
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you have got to be kidding me it's rog everything's red the
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tablecloth's red you just be happy with red
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there we go see
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i told you this was a white and blue themed build
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would i ever lie to you josh never what
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do you plan to do with your new rank i want to run some games probably will buy
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rocket league because i love that game i just play it at my friends houses all
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the time right i also might want to do some video editing and get into that
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more because i'll have something that can run something other than right a
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potato okay so color scheme 5 out of 10
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performance 11 out of 10. 11 out of 10. very good good answer
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building my first gaming pc was pretty difficult
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nah it really wasn't it was pretty simple all right well i'm glad and uh
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thanks for tuning in to rog rig reboot all of you guys out there and a huge
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thanks to josh for entering and why am i thanking you a huge your welcome to josh
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for getting this freaking awesome computer
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courtesy of ASUS uh who else contributed to it uh Corsair helped us out with it
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Intel NVIDIA helped seagate
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all good stuff so uh congrats man
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enjoy thank you