The UGLIEST Gaming PC
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2019-05-06
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2,633 words · ~13 min read
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okay so this is cool our buds over at cable mod you know these guys that make
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fancy cables they just launched builds.gg which they're gonna kill me
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for putting it this way but it's basically pinterest for gaming rigs so
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if so you build a gaming rig you submit it
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and then people can get inspiration they can see what parts you use they can see
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what like mods you apply to it or whatever the case may be and you can
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also go there if you want to find like the coolest rad stuff for your build
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anyway to celebrate the announcement they are sponsoring this video where
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alex and i are going to be building our submission to builds.gg and they're
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launching a contest which obviously we're going to be winning where they're
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giving away 10 000 us dollars in prizes
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for the sickest builds so check that out but not before you check
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this build out
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oh those have we told them what we're doing yet
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um we're building an awesome system for
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for build.gg okay all right
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so we have this Corsair cx600 um be a bit careful because
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these are just wires why are these just bare
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it says in the thing scrapyard wars is the reason so water cooling next i mean
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we have water cooling right yeah so i have this swiftech radiator um
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i really like the bit um where is it yeah the marine epoxy that's in here
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from that time that you drilled into it
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fun bit of trivia for our viewers radiators used to be designed with the
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water tubes directly under the screw holes so it was a fairly easy mistake to
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make if you accidentally over tightened something a little i've heard the washer
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aesthetic is like really in because the more washers you have the cleaner your
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build okay get it
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so what tubing do you think we should use i was thinking we need quick connects anyway so
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the white could just run to the quick connects and then we could change it to
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blue and red you know what though there's a compelling practical reason
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for putting in some clear tubing that way we can make sure the water's in
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there oh true yeah and we need to make sure that it doesn't cancel my old coils
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yeah those are really important so basically the way it works is you just
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kind of put it on there kind of like that
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and then
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it's like instant performance increase for your
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tubing kink free oh this right here goes on the front oh
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our build we're gonna have to go in from behind
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actually i think that you can just take this whole radiator bit out yeah and just move it
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right to here
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bam does that fit because if we could get even more cooling that would be
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great we could just double sided tape it oh yeah that could totally work so for
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this build we're going to be using the rog maximus x formula it's a z370 board
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and it's actually freaking sweet so
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really don't make a mess
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so we've got water cooling for the vrm that's built right into the motherboard
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it's awesome but my only concern is that
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these vrms put out a lot of heat yeah so we probably shouldn't combine the CPU
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and the vrms on the same radiator
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hmm so what i'm thinking is there's this cooler master gemini or
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gemin 2 s424 yeah which i think could look
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really good in this case how does this go on uh yeah it goes over
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the RAM so that you get the additional benefits of cooling the RAM that's
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something you won't get with normal water cooling so we're going to go with the tridenzi royals they're
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definitely the blingiest RAM on the market at the moment like look at that
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like can you just see me so the most important thing
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before you put on your CPU cooler is to make sure that you get the correct
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amount of thermal paste oh that's gonna make a mess don't do
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that don't do that it's gonna take like 10-15
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minutes to clean that up oh my god it's a dick
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up and to the left just a touch
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so we have the zotac mini 1080 that uh
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it got a bit chopped up so yeah yeah in the case yeah i remember that um
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did we shave down the top of it too yeah it looks like that we did
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this is gonna look great oh yeah
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straight from unloved zero
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to epic hero
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by not cutting off the end of this zip tie i can actually keep it for use later
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on down the line because all you need to do
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is stick a little pin or something in there and you can bend that little
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plastic tab down and then you can actually extract this and completely
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reuse it for any length of project so i'm just going to fold this up under the
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card kind of like that nice
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and what's really cool is that we actually get some additional cooling for
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the rest of the system out of this configuration so we're going to put the
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GPU in the vertical mount right here and that gives us some direct cooling
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for our chipset which is located right here on the motherboard so i guess one
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thing that we haven't thought of yet is where is our pump and reservoir going to
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go no you know what it actually looks like what there are o-rings in here
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that's o-rings not threading oh so this is to be straight piped into in fact i
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love it so since that's just the reservoir we also need a pump
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so i was thinking that this one right here from active aqua which conveniently
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has its own power supply you could just put it in here it has suction cups on
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the bottom to uh that's great and then we could just have
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it have its own power cord yeah that goes on the computer uh here can you
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help me cable manage this first though um sure see that
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that actually goes right back too if we just put a screw in there it's not the
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right one but uh it should work yeah no one's gonna notice we do not have the
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correct size fittings at all oh really yeah
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we could just not do that yeah i think we're going to have to not do the pump
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so i found another pump res combo oh great
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i'm just not sure where to put it it's like kind of too long to go up in here
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like the last one yeah like it fits but it's not going to be great
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um it could go sort of
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right there
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but it might be kind of messy yeah i don't really like that look
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i'm just really disappointed that we're not going to get to use this res anymore
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can we use this one too and just put it up in the top
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sure cool yeah i mean two resins is fine well
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and it makes a lot of sense because you want to have the water nice and high
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yeah so then we can just loop it here up
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there yeah i found that when i was strapping on my
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second fan here which i really want for optimal cooling that i was accidentally
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covering my pci express power connector here but get this i can actually
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repurpose my fan strap here
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as like cable management to hold it in
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that is using the old noggin
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now our power supply isn't modular
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so we can't actually replace the 24 pin cable but
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we can get what i think is really basically the cable mod
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experience with one of these extensions so we're just going to run this down
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keeping the cable nice and taut as we go
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and then we're going to run it back up and you can see
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that with the really vibrant green and black color scheme on our extension
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cable the regular one just kind of fades into
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the background and you barely see it at all okay so i found some fan splitters
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and fan extensions so that's how we're gonna get power to our front fans over
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here and then i also found this single SATA to quad SATA power
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adapter oh nice yeah so that way with just this one SATA power plug
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we can power up to four SATA devices
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high amperage check this out there's even a high amperage header on this
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motherboard it's like it was designed for me to plug three fans into it now
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what i noticed is that
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those leads that i taped up
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what we could do is we could splice on a molex connector oh use that to power the
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pump or do you think that we can just run this over to that and just solder it
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right on i mean i still want them to be detachable though so i'm not going to
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solder them i'm just going to twist them together and use electrical tape oh okay
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okay this is like the perfect situation where you'll want to use these anti-kink
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what do you even call them just anti-kinkers yeah tube coils tube coils
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okay yep and as you can see i've gotten a bit
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artistic with it and kind of made a little
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pattern here and then we're able to just come in here like this would be horrible
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if we did not have these on but now we do not have to worry at all
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about potential kinkage and those vrm's just hitting
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5000 degrees i mean that should be fine yeah so you
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go in there with that and then we bring another tube out of there into the vrm
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cooler and then we're good we've completed the loop
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just make sure you leave enough slack in the lines that actually has a double
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benefit so one allows us to pull that out and fill it and then put it back in
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and two that means we can repurpose the soft
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tubing for a future build if we have a run that's slightly longer ah yes so i
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really want to use white to go down to the vrms but we only have this little
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scrap of tubing fortunately check this out
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this quick connect from colder not only matches our red white and blue
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color scheme it can act as a coupler so then we can
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actually take check this out this piece of red tubing then
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and extend it that is perfect three two a one
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dang so one of our Corsair fans isn't connected but the pump does work
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i think you might just have to power cycle real quick here
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i thought it's hey nice okay so now we just need to uh i
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think we need to plug plug it into a monitor and stuff get these fan headers turned on and all yeah
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we've got all these cables for the light strips which looks
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not all that great you can't have all of those cables there so i'm going to use
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this cable mod aio sleeving
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to just get it all nice and tucked away so we
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don't have to worry too much about it oh i can smell it
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we are so close so at the back we've got a matching
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power and HDMI cable and then we've got other colors
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hey it posted nice i mean we knew that was gonna
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happen yeah because it didn't post and then we fixed it don't don't put that in i love the
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way she moves
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rides we be sitting here chilling in the woods on the campfire
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take that boat out to that water for that fish fry i'll be swimming with some
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gangers drinking mudslide if you get it how i get it then you living life i know
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they hate the way i get it cause i'm some flying i can go and throw them
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hundreds like emojis and go and chill with your girl while she coach me i'm
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that dude i'm that dude
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we've got quite the puddle here we might need to swap it out every
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like hour or two of use but yeah that's fine think of it like oil changes for
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your car okay but instead of oil changes just filling up the oil
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that leaks out the bottom which i mean that's the thing yeah people do deal
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with with their cars oh yes we've got a full bench drive
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ready to rock here i want let's see this thing haul um
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there's artifacting our GPU is dead
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i don't think it's dead
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speaking of dead this meme so uh thanks for watching our video creating um out
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of parts we legitimately already had which is sort of terrible
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the world's ugliest gaming rig
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sponsored by cablemod so guys i'm going
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to give you the full details for the builds gg giveaway you guys are going to
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have to do a little better than this by the way so method one of winning is
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they're providing ten thousand dollars in prize money five thousand to first
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place three to second and two to third and the top three builds that receive
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most of the votes during the contest will win that method number two
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is not everyone has an awesome rig but they want to make sure everyone has a chance to win so depending on how many
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people participate cablemod will provide another additional ten thousand dollars
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of prize money so if there's a thousand entrants they'll do two one hundred
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dollar prizes and if there's up to fifty thousand entrants they'll do two fifteen
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hundred dollar prizes and then there's a whole bunch of stages in between a total
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of up to another ten thousand seven hundred dollars method number three is
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for users that have no build to share but want to join the competition by
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voting for builds for those people there will be hardware prizes from brands like
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ASUS noble chairs performance pcs cablemod and others so head to the link
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in the video description for your chance to win or to submit your build or to
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vote on builds by the way we do fully intend to submit this build so feel free
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to vote for us so thanks for watching guys if you
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disliked this video you can hit that button but if you liked it hit like get subscribed or maybe consider checking
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out where to buy the stuff we featured at the link in the video description
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also down there is our merch store which has cool shirts like this one and our
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community forum which you should totally join
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thanks alex really uh really getting your priorities
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in line there we go thank you
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uh we should do a thumbnail and let's uh
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let's end this