Ultrawide Festival 2015 $10,000 DREAM SETUP - Live Build
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2016-05-06
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15,120 words · ~75 min read
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oh i left my thing okay i'm live
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welcome friends to something a little bit different it actually is kind of
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surprising to me that it's taken this long for me to do this i will be doing
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yes with my flippy knife and my flippy screwdriver i will be
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doing a live pc build this is actually the machine that i worked with the
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winner of lg's ultrawide festival hence the sweater that i actually just put on
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randomly this morning and worked out as a happy accident that i'm wearing so
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i'll be putting together the machine that i worked with the winner of ultrawide festival to
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well pick out all the parts for and then well put together in theory he was
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supposed to put it together himself but i picked out a bunch of stuff that
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frankly i wasn't really 100 sure would even work so i was like you know what
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bro why don't you have it sent to me i'll put it together for you and i'll
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stream it which is pretty cool i think so check this out i have two cameras i
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have two camera angles i have that i have the top down camera angle got my
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like stab and screwdriver and then i got the uh more in the front
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more traditional camera angle so without further ado
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i guess we'll pretty much get started actually now one thing i'm going to do is i'm going to grab my laptop
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so i can talk to you lovely twitch chat people today
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most of you are lovely i've already seen star wars by the way our our bot is set
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up to ban people for star wars spoilers so i really wouldn't tempt the gods
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on on that one right there ah one two three four so i get to
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interact with twitch chat the wretched hive of scum and villainy
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that it is wow we have 1400 people watching me have
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audio difficulties i guess that shouldn't really surprise me because it's the same as every week
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all right so why don't we start with the usual thing where i walk through all the
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different parts that i picked out and sort of why so for the case we went with
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a fractal design define r5 we were gonna go with some totally like wonko tastic
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in win thing for like nine hundred dollars because we were like yeah whatever we got a ten thousand dollar
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budget uh instead we ended up rebalancing that
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so he could afford like a more reasonable case and like a laptop so um
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so yeah we went to define our five it's quiet it looks good it's
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black it's fractal it's reasonably well built
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uh in terms of motherboard things get a little bit of more of a long story this
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is actually not the motherboard we intended to buy but it doesn't make that
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much of a difference we were going to use the deluxe this is
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the x99a i think it's missing
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basically so we'll have to fight excuse me we'll have to find some kind of solution to that particular little
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little whoopsie um for CPU this is pretty cool
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now a normal youtuber probably would have
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told our winner hey you could get yourself an extreme edition
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but i'm Linus so i was like hey
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let's get an e5 2690 v3
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i don't even remember how many cores that has i'm going to have to look it up
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right now in case you guys are wondering here's a really cool pro tip arc ark is Intel's
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little site for finding out all the information you could want to know about
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pretty much all of their cpus so the 2690 v3 is a
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he stalls for time he hits specifications
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so it's 12 core CPU that runs at a nominal frequency of around 2.6
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gigahertz but can turbo boost up with pretty much the best of them so
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that was why we went with that uh what else we got here there's some cool stuff
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oh okay so RAM we went with the ecc RAM
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we got uh 64 gigs so four 16 gig sticks
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of ecc memory because quite frankly it's gotten to the point where memory is fast
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enough and so is so our cpus so this is uh 2133 megahertz stuff some samsung
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stuff that was on the qvl for the deluxe board
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so i really hope it works otherwise i'm going to be stuck with some RAM that i
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don't need and the winner ryland is going to end up
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with some of my RAM if it if it comes to that all right in terms of coolers here's
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another little little mistake we were we asked for some knock 201 they sent us a
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cooler master hyper 212 yield the reality of it is um these zeons in spite
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of all their cores actually don't run very hot
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it helps to have the heat distributed more so that cooler is going to do just
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fine for us and you can't overclock the ons anyway so really really not too
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worried about that in terms of power supply
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we went with an rm1000i i had actually he picked this
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out himself and i was like dude it's a thousand watt power supply you don't
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need a thousand watt power supply and he was like yeah but it's a really good deal
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and i was like you're right uh this was a really good
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deal when we ordered it so i was like okay you can have your overkill power supply i guess that's fine
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uh these are cool so a lot of people
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uh including including rylan don't know this but you can actually buy just
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generic RAM sticks that don't have heat spreaders on them because remember guys
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the heat spreaders really don't do anything so you can just buy like whatever RAM
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sticks you want and then you can actually get pretty cool looking here
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i'm going to switch to my alternate angle here you can get pretty cool looking um like after like aftermarkety
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looking heat spreaders that actually look pretty cool so we picked
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up four of those although it should be noted that buying
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those uh aftermarket is quite a bit more expensive
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than buying them included with your RAM so you don't end up saving a ton of
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money the only reason we ended up doing it was that we wanted to um
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we wanted to get ecc memory none of which comes with like
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cool gamery looking heat spreaders or anything like that
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for storage we went with the usual so we've got our uh
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we've got our one terabyte samsung 850 pro
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and then we've got our solid-state storage backed up by two wd red six
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terabyte drives he actually didn't specify how he wants those set up so i'm
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going to put them in raid one because i suspect six terabytes is more than
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enough for him we went with Linus tech tips edition
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nff12 fans yes my friends i wasn't going to miss an opportunity to sell some of
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my fans uh to my fans uh also we went with the
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hugh plus which wish i hold this which way is
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right side up for you i guess this one there we go with an nzxt hue plus in
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order to throw some illumination inside and finally i guess that leads us to our
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graphics card so rylan actually did what any sort of excited person who gets a
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huge budget for building a computer does and put titan x's into the machine and i
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went ryland ryland ryland
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we can get you the same performance if not better
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with a couple of these for a fraction of the cost and we can spend all that other
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money on other really cool stuff so he ended up with like a camera notebook
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um like two pairs of jaybird uh wireless
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earphones like a bunch of a bunch of really cool stuff because we saved money
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without compromising on performance so let's start the way we usually do i
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am live streaming what can i do for you sir
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the camera mic is on the camera mic is not on so there's that
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why am i why am i being informed now and not like 15 minutes ago um
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oh it's while i have the overhead cam up
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i see hmm oh bloody hell
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apparently this one has its microphone
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on
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well then hmm
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i don't actually know how to turn that off
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that's an idea
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okay well hopefully that fixes it
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yes friends hopefully that fixes it indeed
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all right boom well let's see if that uh is fixed
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apparently my flies my fly is half open
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i shall demonstrate for you half see the bottom half is actually
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zipped yes friends only half
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only half unzipped all right so let's start this build the way that we usually
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do with the motherboard inside the motherboard box we will find
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the accessories that we need like our i o plate our sli bridge
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uh and three SATA cables
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dang it it always messes with my ocd when i have
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to use uh when i have to use one
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right angle SATA cable and the others are straight
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it's going to kill me all right
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i'm going to go ahead and take off the anti-static bag
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and i'm gonna put that back in the box and that'll be it for that motherboard
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box we don't need any other of the action inside there
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you know what's really funny is because i don't have to like painstakingly film
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all of this this is probably going to this video
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probably isn't going to be much longer than my usual build guides always were
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even though i don't actually get the benefit of video editing today i have to
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actually do the whole thing live so CPU installation
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always double check even i double check
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after all these times installing cpus make sure the golden corner aligns with
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the other more different golden corner triangle thing boop
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oh i always do that i close up the motherboard box before i remember to put
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on the socket cover socket cover is important keep that in your motherboard
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box because if you ever have to rma your motherboard they're gonna ask you to put that on before you send it back and if
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you don't have it they may actually reject your rma and maybe for good
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reason because you can oops
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because you can damage the uh you can damage the motherboard socket pretty
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easily without that cover on all right
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next up is RAM and this will be more interesting than it usually is because i
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have never installed these akust
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iron max RAM sinks before
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yes friends i have actually no idea how to install them so
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okay it involves a screwdriver
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dang it where's an ifixit kit when you need it oh there's one
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okay so uh i did say i would pay attention to
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twitch chat and then i proceeded to not not notice uh
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any of the things that they said about my audio issues
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oh the motherboard's not broken you guys need to all just calm your boobies down
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a little bit it's all good in the hood
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all right now one thing i'm a little uncertain
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about is whether this RAM is actually going to work in this motherboard
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so that's interesting so that's just a foam
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doodad this is one really tricky thing about
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installing these aftermarket memory spreaders is
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getting the memory module centered
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because if you if you're off by too much then when they're all installed next to
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each other they're gonna look really really weird
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um okay so i'm gonna have to try and remember this i want stickers stickers
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up
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that looks about right how adhesive is this oh it's not that sticky okay
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yep this is how boring it is when i do
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this stuff unedited there's an awful lot of tedious like oh line the little thing
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on the other little thing and then and then
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screw it down
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nice head shot oh sorry did i just have you guys staring at the back of my head
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i didn't even get a haircut this weekend i actually meant to
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i was trying to get my wife to do it for me but she wouldn't what did i do
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upside down
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that looks fine i don't know
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all right so this my friends is what it's going to
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look like installed in the motherboard you can see out here actually i'm going
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to switch to the other angle so you can see even this like servery memory can
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actually look pretty uh pretty gamertastic if you go and throw yourself
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a little aftermarket heat spreader thing on there here's another another angle at
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that i'm going to go ahead and throw this on the motherboard
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there you go looks about as like
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gamery and performancy as pretty much anything so
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all right let's uh sorry i'm having trouble remembering which ones are my
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hot keys i'm gonna i'll i'll definitely talk to
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twitch chat now i'll definitely show twitch i'll talk to
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twitchchat now the green ruins it what green
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oh the green pcb you know okay the thing about the whole green pcb
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thing is like did you know that green pcbs are
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legitimately cheaper for one thing i did not know that a black pcb does add cost
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to the part and on servers that is a completely unnecessary cost because
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literally no one on earth cares that their server has a black pcb
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on the memory um where was i going with this i'm fairly
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sure this was important
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little known fact did you know something something green peace be you know
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nothing okay RAM yeah it doesn't the green pcb really doesn't bother me that
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much on RAM because once it's installed you really can't see
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it very well so unless you're really getting in there
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with like the macro lens with your slr and you're like determined to have your
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build be like totally perfect for a million dollar pc or something
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those kinds of little details don't matter as much to me as having a system
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that's 100 stable so
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ecc RAM is it necessary for most applications no
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but does it eliminate yet another potential
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source of of instability yes it does
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what else we got here
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so that is why my macbook something
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minus i'm basically building a server ah no i wouldn't call this a server there's
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a lot of things that make a computer a personal computer or a
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server ecc memory is one of them that i would definitely
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consider to be on the on the server side of things
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um because you can you can definitely have a desktop computer that is stable
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enough with unbuffered dimms but in order for this to qualify as a
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server it would have to be a lot of other stuff as well so for one thing we
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wouldn't be running a consumer grade motherboard we'd be running some kind of
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a server board ASUS has stuff available super micro is
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very popular but yeah we'd be running a server board
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and server boards aren't really suitable for desktop and workstation applications
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for a number of reasons mostly because they
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trade they trade off their their no-nonsense
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stability for well nonsense and features
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and stuff so they tend not to have a lot of the features that as consumers we
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really want to see on our products so
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you know if you expect to have you know Thunderbolt and uh you know a whack ton
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of usb ports and all that stuff you're not
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going to find that on a server board the other thing that a server typically has
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that this machine doesn't is a lot of fail safes so we're just using a single
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non-redundant power supply that means if the power supply fails
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the system shuts down and and potentially even parts of it don't work
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anymore i'm not saying i expect an rm1000i to
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fail it's a very good power supply but
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i'm saying that if it failed it would be very very bad on a server you would want
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to be using a redundant power supply where there's actually two
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separate completely independent power supply modules within a single unit and
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if one of them fails outright stops working the whole thing continues to work in
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fact one of our servers here actually has a triple redundant power supply i'm
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just going to change up the angle just for the sake of i don't know just having
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a bit of a different angle while i talk for a bit
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um the bot is unforgiving yes the bot is
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unforgiving for certain things where we've had a lot of problems in the past
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i love our bot actually it's great it
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makes life a lot easier for us it's fantastic
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um what is this build for got some people asking questions that i answered
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at the beginning of the stream way to not tune in immediately
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loser no i'm just kidding you're not a loser i know twitch is the loser because
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they only send notifications sort of approximately when they feel like it um
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this is for the winner of the ultra wide festival
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ultimate dream setup machine thing so um
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yeah this is this is his this is his rig
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i'm putting together the with the does this have 64 gigs of RAM yeah i guess it
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does that is freaking sick
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freaking sick yo all right
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boom so there you have it i'll give you guys a better look at that
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that is what it looks like
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with all those uh memory sticks there installed
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not bad huh for ecc dimms
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yes friends all right
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what else we got here what do i do next usually right CPU cooler so hyper 212
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evo
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uh where's my knife there it is
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let's see which chat we're like 64 gigs for a gaming rig yeah well remember too
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um it was kind of a creator-oriented
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uh contest so uh i'm very certain that especially with
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the camera that he picked up he actually had to borrow a camera in
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order to participate in the contest but he now with his new dream setup has his
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own so with the camera that he picked up i'm pretty sure he intends to do some
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content creation on this rig as well so in that case that uh that extra RAM
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will actually be helpful okay i need to go get a garbage can this is driving me
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crazy
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okay
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there we are funny story i have actually
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never mounted a hyper 212 evo
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but i'm going to try and do it without the instructions
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okay so that appears to be a hold down plate of some sort
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that appears to be a fan of some sort
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that appears to be oh my goodness what is that
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it's okay don't worry i got this i got this you guys
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what the heck
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yeah sure okay i still remember when like heat pipe
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direct touch looks like a big deal i think zigmatech
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started that nonsense sorry i'm just i'm thinking because i'm
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thinking out loud because this cooler has the heat pipes
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directly contacting the CPU
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yes my friends i do i vaguely remember back when
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back when CPU coolers were changing really fast you know back when thermal
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write was releasing stuff like the xp90c and we were all like
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whoa man it's like a full copper heat sink man
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what the heck is this
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okay yep yep okay there's a thing that holds it in
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the place to something something
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can i help whoever's here with something
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what the heck
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that is weird okay well let's not stress about that
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let's put the uh wow that's really nice the way they
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put all the hardware and a little uh clam shell for you here
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i like that that is a nice touch cooler master
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and give credit where credit is due
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okay now
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there is less credit due here unless i'm not supposed to use that back plate at
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all which may actually be the case it's possible i'm just supposed to put these
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puppies in yep looks like that's how it's done
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2011 mounting is always a bit of a always a bit of a challenge but not
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always uh some companies do it really well Noctua does it really well uh be
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quiet does it particularly poorly
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where just some guys it's like a total afterthought it basically doesn't work
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at all and you're just kind of like well what the heck because our our thermal testing
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platform is an lga 2011 test bench and
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so be quiet! every time they sent us a cooler back when we really did heatsink
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reviews they'd be like whoa why are you guys begging on us for our 2013 mount
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he'd be like well because it's trash it's terrible they're
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like yeah but most people don't use it i'm like that's nice we do
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so the people who re with a different
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platform they'll like it and we won't
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wait a minute dang it okay i'm resorting to the
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instructions because i don't know which of the
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correctly threaded doodads i'm supposed to put in
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so gets the taller one
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and
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bloody hell
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um yep
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2011 gets the skinnier ones knew that was gonna happen
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again the benefits of video editing
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when you screw something up oh just completely get it wrong you can just
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undo that part and not show it except sometimes when we do anyway because we
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screw up sometimes even in the video editing part of things
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what's twitch chat one
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hope he sees the amount of thermal paste you're supposed to put on according to
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the graphic i will i promise to check that out i promise to check that out and
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then if it's any more than like a little bit i will completely ignore it
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just for you guys
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that was actually my favorite moment in austin's uh borinator
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bornator build log thing that he and i worked on together where he gives it to
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me the expert to put the thermal paste on and i'm just like
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very fun you guys should check out that uh check out that
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that build log thing if you haven't already austin evans channel
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i actually am shipping the pc out to the winner today
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as we speak i am doing actually Colton is doing it but uh that's basically the
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same as me doing it all right thermal compound i promised to
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look at the instructions for this so where are we where we got where's that
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oh nice there you go guys that's how much
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thermal paste to put on just like that don't worry about it just go go ham go
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ham no big deal no friends we're gonna put on we'll put
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on a little bit more than usual because this is a larger CPU and it does have a
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lot of CPU cores in there a lot of people get really wrapped up in
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the in the how much thermal compound
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ah dang it well how much is pretty important but a lot of people get really
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wrapped up in the how to apply thermal compound argument when the truth of the
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matter is that it's within a degree or two
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pretty much however you put it on it's it's really not that big of a deal
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um so unless you're unless you're going for like
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sub-zero elite hacksaw overclock zors or
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or whatever and even if you are that
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degree is really very unlikely to make that big of a
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difference using the right type of thermal compound
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is actually quite a bit more important like if you are going subzero for
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example you want to use a thermal compound that
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that had that handle sub-zero temperature some of them really don't work very well at very low temperatures
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for example um ceramic is apparently the the go-to
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for those for that crowd or at least it was a long time ago i'm pretty i'm
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pretty out of the loop as far as the whole extreme overclocking thing goes
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these days
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all right let's get this puppy
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mounted now maybe you guys can tell me
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cooler master or cooler master
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these are important details i think we're going to go this way
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there's another thing people get really stressed out about that really just doesn't matter that much is
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lifting up and and reseeding the heatsink once the once the goop is
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already on there it really isn't that big of a deal i've
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actually taken just old test benches
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popped off the cooler worked on it put it back on
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really doesn't matter um i did that as just like a test for
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myself i didn't end up making a video about it but i did do that at one point
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where i took like a really old thermal compound
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application and
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like took it off and put it back on and took it off and put it back on several
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times and then i did a brand new fresh application to see if that would make a
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difference and it did not
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it was within the margin of error which is like realistically a couple of
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degrees actually
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okay look at that awesome
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now i think i was actually supposed to use the taller one but it doesn't really
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matter as long as i don't completely overdo it with the pressure uh this is fine i'm not gonna i'm not
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gonna overdo this
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um turkey cola hmm
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what's up with the video stutter i don't know
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i have no idea here maybe i should switch angles maybe
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that'll help i don't actually expect that to help i'm just
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being unhelpful
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i'm kind of glad we went lga 2011 on this uh on this system
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with all the things i've been hearing about skylake and CPU's bending and
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shipping this is a system that i intend to ship to the winner so you know what
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that's really not that tight actually i'm gonna go all the way then
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i think that's where the stopper is yeah yeah it's not too bad
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all right
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all right this is one thing i also like to check is just have a look at if you want to
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evaluate your mounting pressure if your board is bowing like crazy then that's
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that's probably not really what you were going for this one seems to be
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completely fine
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speaking of being completely fine it's really lucky that we ended up with um
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with a cooler that was going to work for us here given that they
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didn't ship the one that we had wanted
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because lga 2011 you know you can mount
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pretty much any cooler on it almost everyone has compatibility with
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it but many coolers out there don't work
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optimally with it if you want to install a whole bunch of memory sticks because
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you've got memory slots on both sides of the CPU
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so it happens that the hyper 212
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this i think this is what the evo yeah hyper 212 evo is one of the ones that
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does work just fine
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if you install a bunch of RAM
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all right so put that accessory back in the box
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okay so we're done with our CPU cooler i was sure i was doing something else
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right now right Linus tech tips edition fan friends
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i can read you guys the little letter that's inside them
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if you didn't order one you won't have seen this letter yet dear fan
30:37
you not the thing in the box the Linus tech tips team won't make any outrageous
30:41
claims about how we co-engineered this special edition nff12
30:46
pwm which is probably a good thing because as our regular viewers know we
30:50
are not exactly mechanical engineers that's why we left the product development entirely to Noctua knowing
30:54
it would deliver the same outstanding performance quality and reliability that we've come to expect from their brown
30:59
and tan fans over the last decade so
31:02
what did we do something we've wanted to do since we
31:06
first laid eyes on the nf s12 we picked
31:09
the color scheme it's the same great nff 12 pwm fan but now in Linus tech tips
31:15
black and orange thanks for being a part of this i sincerely hope you love this fan as much as i love all of mine you're
31:20
sincerely lioness sebastian alliance media group ceo
31:24
so i'm going to have to uh do some cajiggering here in order to get
31:28
this puppy mounted
31:32
so you can see the the stock fan here is has got these little noise isolator tabs
31:36
on it so i'm going to pop those off and i'm going to try and reuse them after
31:41
there we go take out these screws
31:52
oh what do you mean the fan is going to be dead
31:56
telegenic boss it is not going to be dead it's going to be awesome
32:01
actually i was talking to one of the one of the resellers for them and they said
32:05
they got something like 2 out of 1000 back or something like that
32:09
so that is uh that is to be considered a fairly good uh fairly good defective
32:14
rate in fact i don't even think that um
32:17
that the fan was actually dead i think it was just someone changed their mind
32:21
so yeah take that
32:25
fans gonna be dead
32:28
yeah right i mean to be clear nothing is perfect
32:32
but we just i mean we wanted to pick something that we thought we were going
32:35
to have a pretty darn good chance of having work so
32:40
so we went with nff12s
32:44
i mean to be clear i know that you don't need an ff12 fan in order to get like
32:49
really good performance out of a fan it's just you know best of the best and all that
32:53
and it's not because i think that you have to spend 30 on a fan either it's
32:57
just for me if i'm gonna put my name on something i
33:01
want it to just i want to be sure that it's really really good i don't want i
33:05
don't want that stress of people being like well i bought the Linus tech tips
33:08
edition one thinking it was the best and now i don't trust Linus anymore because
33:12
my fan died and like you know how people are like some people don't really get
33:16
that any product can have
33:20
a defect um shoot
33:24
don't worry this is no big deal just got to pull this sticker RAM out and put
33:27
this on and then get back to it
33:33
can i help you Colton caltane
33:41
his gamer handle he's really creative that Colton he
33:44
managed to change two whole vowels
33:52
follow me on twitch yeah right
33:56
i refuse to follow you on twitch all right let's have a look at this
34:02
so that friends is what it's looking like now
34:06
not too shabby right for like all
34:10
servery stuff and all that
34:14
all right okay what's next i guess
34:18
i'll put uh oh well i forgot those
34:22
rubber tabs so i guess those are going back in the hyper 212 box rylan if you're watching this i'm sorry i forgot
34:26
your rubber tabs they're not going back on there now because
34:29
i'm live streaming and people got places to go and people to see
34:33
they don't want to see me put on that tab again
34:37
sorry buddy your system's basically a failure
34:42
it's a failure waiting to happen
34:45
but at least it comes with this cool Linus tech tips case badge
34:55
all right
35:08
what does uh twitch chat want
35:16
worth it to upgrade from 3570k to 6600k
35:20
casualgamer you know i don't know it really depends are you
35:25
running into CPU bottlenecks in your games you'll notice because
35:29
your frame rates will be lower than other people who have the same graphics
35:32
card as you are reporting although something to bear in mind is that the
35:36
internet is full of people who are getting 500 frames per second in every
35:39
game with an 8400 gs so
35:44
yeah there's there's there's three pieces there's three pieces of the calculation
35:49
and a lot of people conveniently leave out a very important
35:53
one there's your frames per second there's your graphics card
35:56
and then there's the detail settings that you are running the game at
36:01
that is very very very important so
36:04
people be like yeah i got like this wicked hd 5450 it runs shadow of ward
36:11
door at like 80 FPS i'll be like okay a
36:15
no it doesn't you're a liar and
36:18
b what resolution and settings are you running yeah man i'm running 1080p man
36:24
i'm like okay did you have to do like some
36:27
some like eye and eye edits in order to get the details turned
36:32
down low enough like i didn't know they had negative anti-aliasing
36:37
uh like like just plain aliasing it's
36:40
like i'm just gonna add aliasing to my game
36:43
um so yeah the problem is that you can't really rely on the reports of people
36:47
online although some review sites
36:51
will show you what benchmarking run they use and they will give you numbers that are
36:55
actually reputable and then what you can do is you can you
36:59
can just see you can go like kind of oh how am i how am i performing compared to
37:02
that and if it's not very good then your CPU is probably what's holding you back
37:06
but the question to ask yourself too is does it matter
37:10
um do you need 90 FPS if you have 80 FPS
37:14
i can tell you right now unless you have a monitor that runs at
37:17
90 hertz the answer is probably no
37:35
um
37:38
okay so
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that isn't what was supposed to happen
37:52
huh
37:55
wow how did how did this happen
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i don't know i mean technically this will work fine
38:06
it's really not what i would have preferred
38:10
um let me think
38:13
let me think hey um luke can i interrupt you for a minute
38:17
did we ship evga back all those cards yet yeah
38:20
we did yeah oh
38:27
do we have an evga 980 ti with an acx
38:31
2.0 cooler
38:35
so we managed to order a reference card and
38:38
an acx card oh oh
38:44
what you know what i might just have to put
38:48
it together and send it to rylan to figure out if he
38:52
can do an exchange for something like that because
38:55
i have to get this i'm sure he'd rather be using the system than have me muck
38:59
around with trying to get a card swapped out but that is that is that is definitely
39:05
not what the objective was today to have two different cards um i can use this
39:09
though as an opportunity to talk about sli compatibility and how it works
39:20
like ah yeah sli compatibility and how it works
39:26
basically as on the NVIDIA side as long as you have two of the same GPU with the
39:31
same amount of RAM they didn't used to require the same RAM amount in theory
39:35
although very few people ever got it to work with
39:38
very few driver uh versions and very few like uh you
39:43
know cool bits tweaks or whatever else so as long as you have the same GPU so
39:47
that's like gtx 980 not a 980 and a 980
39:50
ti not a 980 and a 980 se
39:54
two 980 ti's or two 980s or two 970s the
39:58
same thing no matter what brand they are you've got
40:01
you know your evga or Gigabyte or whatever else no matter what clock speed
40:05
they run at no matter what coolers they are no matter what pcb design so you can
40:09
even have like a an evga kingpin card
40:12
and like a you know reference card from Gigabyte or
40:17
something they will run an sli
40:20
at the speed at the lower speed of the two so it's not a compatibility issue
40:26
it's just an aesthetic issue um
40:30
all right so this is the nzxt hue
40:35
inside we will find a controller box
40:38
i've actually never used this one before i recommended it to ryland um having
40:43
heard good things about it but i've never i've never actually used
40:54
now it's broken this is what he gets for letting me
40:57
build this computer
41:03
i got to figure out how to get the stupid led strip so the hue is has got like a
41:07
front bay controller mixer thing that lets you mix your red green and blue led
41:11
strips and then it's got a whole bunch of led strips inside that you can like connect
41:17
together with these little connector doodadlies and then you've got the
41:21
controller box that lets you plug in a couple of things to it it's
41:25
got like usb control and all that kind of cool stuff so basically just a more more elegant
41:30
way of handling this stuff than just you know back in the day we
41:34
had to use inverters which by the way were all garbage every single one of
41:38
them was trash so we had to use these inverters
41:41
and then we had to use cathode tubes all of which failed uh
41:47
eventually even if their inverters didn't i actually on a number of occasions had inverters so those are dc
41:53
to ac electricity conversion things i had them melt inside my case and like
41:58
almost start fires those were awful i'm so glad that led lighting is a thing for
42:02
computers now all right so we're going to put all
42:06
those parts kind of over here i guess and get to them later got our hard
42:10
drives wd reds a lot of people think wd red is
42:15
only for nas let me ask you this
42:19
what is a computer with a bunch of hard drives in it
42:22
if not a nas yes
42:26
network attached storage if your computer is on the network and it has
42:30
storage and you're sharing it
42:34
it's a nas
42:40
what are you gentlemen up to anyway
42:43
oh lens things
42:48
oh cool
42:51
they're better why is the door closed though
42:56
okay so you'd rather get cancer than be cold
43:00
because that's what i'm hearing
43:03
oh you turned the heater off yeah we had the heater on in here this morning
43:07
and we've never actually turned it on before so it basically smelled like cancer in
43:12
the studio all day like it it was some pretty
43:19
yeah it was some pretty it was some pretty bad news
43:24
stuff which is weird because i'm used to turning on a heater for the first time
43:28
and having it be kind of like a burning smell but uh yeah
43:36
yeah but that wasn't burning that was like that was like burning your lungs
43:43
okay so i'm gonna do one of those things that i always try but never works
43:49
but i always try anyway because i'm like that
43:54
i'm going to take everything out of the power supply box
43:58
that i believe i will need down to every modular cable i intend to
44:02
use and see if i can actually get it right
44:06
like i said it never works i know this
44:09
but i'm still going to try
44:15
ah look at that only one seal to break in here boom
44:22
okay so we will need a power cord we will need some cable ties we will not
44:27
need silica gel modular cables
44:33
we will need this four plus six pin pci express
44:38
we will need this one too we will need
44:42
this CPU power connector we will need oh how is the hue powered
44:49
dc 5 volt okay it must have an adapter yes it does
44:53
okay so we will need whatever the
44:58
lowest number of connector molex adapter
45:01
harness that we have is it looks like this one this one has
45:05
three some power supply makers ship one with
45:08
two but i guess we'll have to live with three okay we will need our 24 pin
45:14
and we will need
45:18
four SATA cables
45:22
hopefully that's good
45:27
we will also need the power supply i love these little baggies the Corsair
45:31
packs their power supplies in i'm not convinced they're actually
45:34
expensive but they feel really premium little velvet
45:38
baggy doodads
45:41
okay this is the foam by the way that my cat ate or like not this foam exactly
45:46
obviously i'm i just got this power supply and he ate foam months ago but
45:50
this type of foam this this really soft closed cell black foam that you find in
45:55
Corsair power supply boxes that's not actually where he got it it's just
45:58
really similar to the stuff that he ate all right
46:02
so there's our rm1000i here's all our accessories that we need
46:06
and now it is finally enough stalling actually time to crack
46:11
open the case and start building the machine
46:16
i might have to just do this off camera i'm sorry guys it's kind of heavy and
46:19
awkward to deal with up there
46:32
oh i did that thing i always do
46:35
pro tip oh never mind it worked anyway okay forget
46:39
it ow static
46:59
all right yeah baby
47:02
there it is how many people are watching this wow 4
47:06
600 people watching the live computer building
47:10
i should start like performing
47:13
do like deadline a circus he is building
47:17
computers
47:24
i don't know if anyone would watch that
47:28
although some people internally have been pitching the idea of us doing like
47:31
some kind of a live show at some point like i don't know
47:35
what that would look like but uh it seems like it'd be a pretty cool idea
47:42
like kind of just even i don't know q a or something
47:45
i don't know all right side panel off
47:52
what shall we start with
47:59
okay just checking had kind of a kind of
48:02
a panic moment there i was like does this board support sli
48:07
it does which is good because we're running sli
48:16
okay what slots this one
48:20
and this one so we leave one gap and do
48:24
another two there we go
48:30
so they'll either have to send rylan the other board to swap out or
48:35
throw in a wi-fi card or something like that it's really not that big of a deal in terms of build quality i don't think
48:39
the x99a and the x99 deluxe are really
48:42
that different and in terms of features aside from the wi-fi i actually couldn't
48:45
really find anything that mattered like i suspect there's some like weirdo
48:49
features that that are there or not there but
48:52
nothing really important this is cool Corsair has to put this
48:56
warning on their power supplies okay guys
49:00
it's all right if the fan in your power supply is not spinning
49:05
it is literally supposed to do that that is literally a feature
49:09
it's good i love that feature why spin the fans if you don't have to
49:15
there's no such thing as a silent fan except a fan that is off
49:20
can i help you brandon
49:23
you're looking for something are you looking for love brandon
49:27
because love is right here it's right here brandon
49:32
it's right here inside of you
49:35
and me at the same time it's a it's a very uh
49:42
it's a very liberal sort of love it's an all over the place love
49:55
what cable do you need
49:58
oh yeah i won't be able to help you with that it's not in my bin by the way
50:02
okay usually i'm a pretty good person to turn
50:07
to when you need help finding a cable
50:11
yeah not as good as me didn't i own you the other day
50:22
brendan and i are keeping score kind of like uh
50:25
like legolas and the other guy give me
50:29
in the middle earth movies that don't suck
50:33
um who can find
50:36
who can find things in like 30 seconds that other people can't find and then
50:41
between us we're finding out who can do it most often and
50:44
most consistently because i swear no one else in this
50:48
entire company could find anything
50:51
to save their lives it's like i can't find a
50:55
multimeter like did you try that drawer where we
50:58
keep the multimeters brilliant
51:05
all right so the power supply is in if you're into
51:09
that sort of thing um
51:12
i had some people asking me to take the drive cage out i actually can't think of
51:16
a reason why not we can take it out even if it's just to
51:19
get it out of our way that's one of the cool features of this case
51:22
boom more ventilation for the gpus just like
51:26
that my friends and because we only have three drives
51:30
um we can just mount everything in this
51:33
lower cage and we're in pretty good shape there
51:36
okay so i think especially with
51:40
a little bit more open air and all that kind of stuff i
51:44
think we're gonna get away with not opening up the top mod event so i think
51:47
i'm just gonna go ahead and boom put the uh put the motherboard right oh
51:52
i am getting spoiled i'm getting used to
51:55
uh motherboard standoffs being pre-installed
51:59
and this particular one is not um hold on i gotta grab my motherboard
52:04
standoff screwdriver yes i do actually own a screwdriver
52:08
specifically for that just tech
52:13
things
52:17
here check it out oh i'm on the wrong camera angle oh i'm on the wrong camera angle there we go
52:22
so this is my little socketed uh socketed screwdriver just for installing
52:26
motherboard standoffs
52:29
they actually come with uh actually used
52:32
to come with a lot of cases so i've got a handful of them
52:36
but now everyone's cheaping out like fractal includes this horrendous
52:41
like stupid plastic adapter thing that you can put
52:45
around the stand off and then you can drive in with a phillips head screwdriver but really
52:50
guys plastic oh man i think liam lee was the one that used
52:54
to include these ones
52:59
cooler master uses a metal one oh i got people reminding me about the i
53:04
o shield i would have figured it out i would have
53:08
i definitely would have figured out that the i o shield is not in there don't
53:12
worry i don't remember the last time i
53:16
failed to install an io shield when i had one a lot of people are probably
53:20
going to bring up the i o shield that was missing in the build with my son but
53:24
the only reason that was missing was because luke had that i o shield in his
53:27
garage that is why i didn't install an io
53:31
shield and i have since followed that up with him and it has been retrieved so
53:36
next time i build a system with that motherboard which i actually intend to
53:39
do fairly soon i'm going to be doing like a really cool ltd edition build
53:44
so next time i do that i will be i'll be using the i o shield
53:54
okay why power supply fan side up uh there's
54:00
a reason for that if i was building this for myself
54:03
i would probably go power supply fan down
54:07
and the reason for that is that it keeps the power supply heat isolated from the rest of the system however because this
54:13
is not for me the thing about fractal cases this one
54:17
in particular is that they have very short feet so if this case were to be
54:22
installed on a relatively plush carpet it would actually come up leaving only
54:26
like a fraction of a centimeter of space between this bottom
54:30
fan filter guy here and the actual intake on the
54:34
bottom of the case so installing the power supply fan side up
54:39
is sort of the um less optimal but safer way if you don't
54:45
know how the system is going to be used look at
54:50
that so that's why i did that
54:54
like plush carpet well yeah carpet that's more plush plush is a word
54:59
i don't mean just like shag carpet like the feet on this case really aren't very
55:03
tall so really any carpet could be a potential
55:06
airflow issue and i've actually killed power supplies that way just putting the
55:11
system on a carpet forgetting that it was one that had the fan on the bottom
55:14
of the power supply like not opening it up to check because why would i think of
55:18
that and i have actually killed systems like that so
55:22
yep these little lessons that you learn
55:29
people are telling me the fan is upside down
55:36
well okay i don't know all right let's get our motherboard
55:39
installed here one thing that i really like about this case is it has this cool little nub in the middle so that your
55:44
motherboard doesn't shift around while you're trying to install it
55:53
why would you put a computer on carpet i don't know because you have carpet on
55:56
your floor and you have a small desk
56:00
it's not an atrocity it's fine
56:04
remember when your computer's plugged in like the thing's grounded like it
56:07
actually has a ground prong
56:10
i mean in most places i actually uh had to
56:16
um i had to rip the ground prong off of one
56:19
of my laptop charger cables when i was over in asia because we were in some
56:24
country i forget which one it was and almost none of the outlets there had a
56:27
ground prong i was like okay so it's 120 volt
56:32
there's the two prongs like like at home but then there's no ground prong
56:37
feel like crooked CPU cooler or whatever look it's adjustable
56:41
man you guys are you guys are killing me here
56:45
you guys are killing me here
56:51
all right wow this is actually kind of a nice
56:54
looking build i'm liking this white and black and just a touch of orange color
56:59
scheme thing that we've got going on here let's do some power supply cables
57:02
shall we
57:08
i got people asking me to mount the SSD behind the motherboard i actually could do that i don't think it's realistically
57:13
going to matter much because
57:16
that leaves us with only one extra expansion slot
57:21
in the case and without having to add the extra cage
57:25
but it's not a bad point i can probably do that i know fractal did one case i
57:30
can't remember which one it was like define r3 or something like that where
57:33
you actually couldn't install an SSD on the back of the motherboard tray
57:39
without taking the motherboard out
57:43
so i never recommended in that case
57:48
installing the SSD on the back because then if you ever had to get your SSD off
57:52
you would have to take the motherboard out as well but this one i don't believe that is the
57:56
case so it should be fine 24 pin etx peripheral blah blah blah
58:02
blah blah blah six plus two pin PCIe
58:06
six plus two pin PCIe
58:10
yeah i really don't know if we're gonna keep doing
58:13
build guides in the same way that we've been doing them before anymore like this
58:18
kind of stuff feels so routine for me now while i recognize that
58:22
you know some of our viewers are are new to us and
58:25
haven't seen this stuff before i just you know i hate i hate making content
58:31
that's boring for me and so mixing it up a little bit every time is i think what
58:36
keeps it fresh not just for you guys but for me and so like doing this live
58:39
stream thing was kind of like oh that's a novel idea yeah sure let's do it let's
58:42
do it live but we've had a lot of people request more
58:46
of our traditional style build guides which i personally think are great i think they're the best
58:50
pc build guides on the internet um
58:54
but i just i just don't know if we're gonna really continue to do them the way
58:57
that we the way that we used to
59:01
um blah blah blah are the new skylake i5s
59:05
overclockable motherboards you said would allow it on lan show i don't know
59:09
are they um i know that i had heard although i haven't personally tested it
59:13
yet i had heard that uh non-k skylake cpus are now
59:19
overclockable but um
59:24
yeah i haven't verified it yet i think
59:27
asrock and MSI are the only ones that have actually implemented the the patch
59:32
at this point and i don't have a ton of assrock or MSI on hand so
59:36
it's hard for me to verify something like that all right
59:39
let's turn this puppy around
59:42
there we go
59:47
i'm actually going to take off the back panel so i can start doing some cable management
59:54
that is the mark of an inexperienced builder doing cable management at the
59:58
end you always do cable management as you go otherwise it makes your life a lot more
60:02
difficult
60:08
ah these new power supplies with their newfangled i shouldn't even say new
60:11
actually some companies have been doing this for a very long time their newfangled uh
60:16
capacitors all over the 24 pin connector makes them quite a bit
60:21
bulkier to deal with but the folks at Corsair and i think i can't
60:27
remember who the first one to do this was was it pc power and cooling or something
60:32
i can't remember who did it first but apparently it helps with ripple
60:35
suppression or something or something which i'm sure matters to some extreme overclockers
60:40
somewhere in scandinavia
60:43
i don't know i'm at the point now where really a high it's not like it was in
60:47
the old days where like there were good power supplies and then
60:52
there were power supplies where basically you plugged them in and hoped
60:56
for the best like most anything from a fairly reputable
61:00
brand is is fairly good these days
61:04
um not really that worrying
61:08
where is the eight pin connector on this motherboard
61:11
oh it's kind of in the middle okay i'm gonna go through this other cable management hole here
61:17
so i tend not to stress about it too much for me it's more like features
61:21
um you know does it have modular cables
61:24
um yeah because unless you're really pushing the
61:28
limits which if you're honest with yourself you're not
61:32
because unless you're using liquid nitrogen to overclock you're really not pushing the limits
61:36
then it really doesn't make that much of a difference as long as you go with
61:40
something that's fairly decent like i'm not telling everyone to run out and buy
61:43
the cheapest power supply that they can find on newegg.com that is still
61:47
probably going to explode and kill things spectacularly at some point in
61:51
the future i just mean that whole thing where everyone was
61:55
buying you know hx1000 you know 1000 watt top of the line power supplies
62:00
um i really don't think is that important
62:04
anymore okay eight pin connector done i'm sorry i'm
62:08
just going to adjust the positioning of this so you guys can see
62:11
a little bit better this is my favorite way to deal with
62:15
these fans these days oh shoot i think i plugged into the
62:19
wrong CPU fan header boop
62:22
no big deal
62:26
all right where is my screwdriver in my back
62:31
pocket where it always is
62:36
i'm just going to coil this baby up um actually that's very slow never mind
62:41
i'm going to do it my less favorite way
62:45
so this is one of my other tricks though you take the fan
62:48
connector you run it around the outside of the fan itself and then if you can
62:52
you find a fan header that it just barely reaches and
62:56
then it usually won't go anywhere if it does go somewhere then you just run a
63:00
twist tie or a zip tie i usually like to use twist ties if i can because they're
63:05
a lot easier to take off if you screw something up but you run a twist tie
63:08
through one of the mounting holes on the fan you grab onto that cable and then boom
63:13
doesn't go anywhere and it looks really really clean without
63:17
actually doing like our custom length
63:20
fan cable or anything like that like all the kids are into these days
63:24
i'm actually very i'm getting to the point where i'm
63:27
getting very old school and the way i build computers another reason why i
63:32
feel like i should leave the guides to the people who are really more into it
63:36
these days the guys that are like yeah custom
63:39
length cables for this and hard pipe
63:43
cooling for that and i'm just like that sounds like a lot of work
63:48
you know because i'm old all right
63:54
um you know what i'm gonna finish my wire runs you know what i'm actually
63:59
not going to mount the SSD behind the motherboard tray because that way i can win
64:04
i can uh i can have taken out the right
64:09
modular cables from the power supply box so i'm cheating a little bit but yes i'm
64:14
going to do that
64:20
uh yeah i am actually planning to up this upload this video to the to the
64:24
channel i'm planning to not edit it and just upload the whole thing and kind of see
64:28
how it goes we don't do that kind of stuff very often where we do like experimental
64:32
formats on the uh on the channel so i just thought yeah
64:36
what the hey let's uh let's give it a shot it's not going to be the the full
64:39
release for tonight like it's going to be this and something else
64:44
but yeah yeah we are we are going to do that
64:48
so you guys will be able to see the whole thing if you missed any parts of it i mean not to mention that we are
64:52
streaming it on twitch so there is the uh there is the vod for that
64:58
speaking of streaming on twitch we've got a really really cool video coming on
65:01
vessel tonight it's um i create like like a diy
65:07
news reporter like mobile streaming backpack thing and
65:12
we go out and test it out it's actually pretty freaking cool
65:15
so you guys can check that out if you're into that sort of thing
65:21
most of what we do these days is kind of like that where it may not actually have
65:25
a ton of practical application but uh
65:29
it's mostly just like hey here's a really cool idea we had and
65:33
here goes
65:37
all right three four is that a six g i don't know whatever
65:41
let's do i don't know that one okay
65:45
let's run these puppies through here this is one of the things i really like
65:48
about this case is that the motherboard tray is actually stamped in so the
65:51
motherboard sits a little bit further back
65:55
than the cable management holes for your SATA cables right next to it that means
65:59
that when they run in there's really no no strain or tension on them
66:03
it's just a nice nice little touch it does take away some of the cable management room that you would otherwise
66:07
have behind the motherboard tray but i think it's a worthwhile trade-off
66:16
all right let's run our pci express connectors
66:21
what's up brandon
66:27
oh i can't believe it's almost six i am so thirsty right now
66:34
i don't think it helps that i sucked back that milkshake right before i started this oh i still have some
66:40
i'm totally having more milkshake oh it's completely liquid
66:44
okay no wendy's chocolate frosty that is
66:49
completely melted is a really really bad idea
66:54
i will regret that for sure
66:57
more than i already regret it i feel fat just drinking it
67:06
to be clear i don't mean i feel fat like like covered in rolls of fat i just mean
67:11
i feel like if i ate junk like that all
67:14
the time i would get fat very very quickly
67:18
okay that's the thing you get older your metabolism just kind of runs away from
67:23
you like it used to be i never had to worry about any of that stuff and i mean i'm
67:27
sure i'm not the only one telling this sad story but
67:31
really like it it used to be fine no matter what i did
67:36
and now it's just like i eat one wrong thing and i'm like wow i just ate one
67:41
pound of junk food and i just gained one pound
67:44
it's amazing how that math works
67:48
it shouldn't surprise me i know this but that doesn't change the fact that it
67:53
does
67:59
okay this 24 pin cable management is going to be a little bit tricky actually
68:03
there's really not a lot of space behind the motherboard tray on this case
68:10
there's really not a lot of space behind the motherboard tray on this case
68:21
okay front usb 2
68:25
front usb 2 what you gonna do
68:36
watch out i gotta take a poop
68:42
but don't worry you don't have to watch i won't make you
68:48
what do you think brandon should i quit my day job and become a rapper
68:53
you'll be my producer
68:57
what do you know about audio producing
69:05
god i hate you brandon
69:10
you crush all my dreams that's what rap taught me
69:16
that's what rap taught me chase your dreams
69:21
if incredibly talented people like jay-z can do it then surely i can
69:39
yeah see people are finally witnessing the kind of crap that i take around here
69:43
everyone hears what i dish out because i'm the like the on-camera personality
69:47
most of the time but the cold hard truth is i i take at least as much as i give
69:53
out around here
69:59
that's weird um
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okay brandon the battery died
70:07
can i have a new can i have a new battery please
70:11
ah the uh the top one the other one's running off ac
70:15
maybe if you didn't break all our ac adapters we wouldn't have this problem
70:23
well it's taking longer than i said you should have known that was going to
70:27
happen mr producer
70:32
mr smart guy who claims to know anything about
70:35
producing
70:41
i would never hire someone so unproductive to be a producer
70:44
wow it's funny because brandon actually had
70:48
like a crazy productive day today he got with some help he got all of our our
70:54
lights mounted in our ceiling lighting grid thing uh it actually looks freaking
70:59
ba so
71:04
i can get out of the way if you'd like
71:07
sure i'll go let me go around the front i can actually cable manage this fan and
71:11
then there you go
71:18
yeah this video is more like a it's like closer to a behind the scenes than it is
71:22
to an actual release video
71:26
it's kind of cool i'm liking the vibe actually i'm liking the uh
71:30
discussion with the twitch chat i can't believe there's 4 500 people watching
71:34
on like an off time we've actually tried streaming not at our our scheduled time
71:38
before and let me tell you guys it has not gone very well like we don't tend to get
71:43
a ton of viewers when it's not our normal same bat time same channel nonsense
71:50
thank you brandon
71:54
you are a valuable and appreciated member of
71:57
this team yes have you seen penguin madagascar no okay
72:02
i can't remember what the exact quote is but it's something along those lines that's what they tell the mentally
72:06
handicapped one wow
72:14
i don't actually know if that's the politically correct term for
72:18
private i'm usually not that up on my
72:22
politically correctness
72:36
power led does this case have a reset switch i
72:40
think i might be missing one of my front connectors you know a lot of people use
72:44
those little things that um that ASUS includes
72:48
those little blocks that let you plug in all these front panel connectors and then plug the whole thing in one go i
72:52
never recommend it the reason is that it's um
72:56
it can interfere with long expansion cards sometimes you're much better off
73:00
to just do it right the first time install it correctly john john here is a
73:04
big fan of them but both luke and i are like no
73:08
you should not use those but he doesn't listen he just uses them
73:11
anyway because everyone just forgets their own path okay let's test this other camera angle again
73:16
yeah we're back baby okay
73:23
we're actually getting surprisingly close
73:26
drives drives that's the home stretch right brandon drives are the home
73:30
stretch always the home stretch
73:33
let me tell you guys we have done some we have done some build logs brandon and
73:38
i yes we have
73:41
drives are the home stretch gpus are like
73:45
you can you can smell it you can smell it it's almost over
73:49
and then the conclusion is just the conclusion it gets harder again because
73:53
you're just like oh this just it's just a few more bases until it's
73:58
over guys we have been at the office filming
74:03
to like we hours of the morning doing those build guides
74:07
i'm sorry 5am for your video i didn't even know
74:12
that for the a7s2 do you even want to do more camera
74:16
reviews okay okay
74:20
i'm down man
74:26
what's your next one going to be oh ursa mini that's right
74:31
what else do you have on kind of on your radar
74:38
oh yeah that'll be cool okay cool
74:43
yeah brandon wants to uh wants to go all
74:47
like kind of scrapyard wars on like camera camera stuff
74:52
so i i can't give i can't really give any more detail than that without sort
74:55
of giving away what he's doing but it's going to be it's going to be pretty freaking cool if you're into camera
74:59
stuff and even if you're not come on watch it
75:02
it's brandon he's nice we like him for some reason
75:09
killing your china balls which is less racist than it sounds by
75:13
the way it's much less racist can you show them
75:16
your china balls
75:22
thank you see it's on the other ankle
75:26
uh no no it's it's i i that one is real time yeah that one's don't worry it's
75:30
all good
75:36
no seriously china balls are a thing this is not this is not sexual
75:40
harassment and it is not racism
75:46
jeez i can't catch a break here
75:53
no i think they know that if i was if i was going to be racist i would just be
75:57
upfront about it besides i really don't think too many
76:01
people are going to accuse me of being racist against chinese people
76:12
nope i just dislike them all individually
76:18
just kidding for those of you who don't know my wife is chinese just throwing
76:21
that out there
76:25
i am not a racist person
76:28
ah this is cool though check this
76:32
out so fractal actually has a really smart hard drive sled design you can
76:38
mount the rubber things more towards the front or more towards the back depending
76:41
on whether you want like a nicer aesthetic or you want more cable
76:44
management room behind them i always go with more cable management room because i personally don't find that that
76:48
affects the aesthetic you can't really see it through the window and i also
76:55
there we go and i also really find that defining various cases need all the
76:59
cable management they can get oops i actually did that wrong
77:06
i was so busy explaining the cool and clever thing i was doing that i did it
77:10
wrong story of my freaking life
77:14
like our storage server
77:17
so busy showing you guys how to do it that i rush
77:21
that's what happened basically i was just in a hurry it's not that i don't
77:24
know the right way to do it i was just in a hurry
77:27
and i've got a lot of video projects that are relying on
77:31
making videos about those drives and all this stuff and so i was like okay i'm
77:34
going to take a shortcut and the shortcut was bad the shortcut led down
77:40
disaster junction can i help you
77:49
okay please don't drop that
77:53
on yourself or anyone else
77:56
he's holding this ginormous ladder i swear when brandon first joined the
77:59
company we couldn't we couldn't trust it oh dang it i did it wrong this time
78:05
son of a um like we couldn't trust him to tie his
78:09
shoes in the morning the guy was tripping all over everything
78:14
like oh man it was it was terrible but he's
78:18
been he's been with us so long in our messy environment because brendan's kind
78:22
of a neat freak you'd never know it um like looking at his workspace here but
78:27
like i've been to his house he's actually a pretty like tidy person but
78:31
it's just that especially at the old office there
78:34
really wasn't much that could be done to be tidy so everyone just kind of gave in
78:40
to the mess the analogy that i like to use is kind
78:44
of like those puzzles where there's one empty square and you have to
78:48
rearrange all the other squares to make a full picture the problem is that at
78:51
the old office there was no empty square there was no way to rearrange anything
78:55
so so brandon had to learn like the rest of us
78:59
to just catch himself when he tripped because the tripping was inevitable
79:04
and now he's like a pro like it's crazy i think he's better than me from having
79:08
to navigate all of the uh like all of my
79:11
stuff all of luke's stuff because he had to set up cameras and lights in every
79:15
area of the office so he's like the master of uh the master
79:20
of not tripping anymore
79:23
but man brandon you were scary in the early days
79:28
i always thought you were gonna die or destroy all my expensive stuff
79:32
or do both of them at the same time the ultimate insult
79:38
okay so we've got all our front panel connectors done we've got all our drives
79:42
plugged in um hey why don't we plug in some video
79:46
cards so oh man this is this is like this is killing me inside
79:52
well hopefully rylan can get that sorted out i'm going to have to leave it to him
79:56
unfortunately i mean it doesn't matter what they exchange it for as long as
80:00
they as long as it's like two of the same either of these configurations is fine
80:08
i don't know who screwed up i don't know if it was the retailer or if it was um
80:11
like lg's procurement the thing is like the cards are called the same thing
80:14
they're both called evga superclocked
80:18
it's just one of them has a reference cooler and one of them has an acx cooler
80:22
so i'm going to put the acx on the bottom i'm going to let the power supply deal with some of the heat from that and
80:26
exhaust it i know that exhausting your GPU heat through your
80:30
power supply is not really in the in the book of
80:34
best practices for a wicked awesome wicked awesome computer machine build
80:39
thing but uh yeah
80:43
it does work um especially if you've got a really
80:47
high quality power supply it's probably fine
80:52
sorry i just i want to tuck these things away so that i can do my uh
80:57
do my graphics card screws here there we go
81:08
got people asking me to do a test boot
81:11
ah yeah if i was smart i'd do that
81:17
i'm going for gold today my friends i'm actually i have only about 60 confidence
81:22
that this is gonna boot because i haven't uh i haven't checked this
81:25
motherboard with um i haven't checked the
81:30
compatibility matrix for xeons or for this RAM
81:34
we were going to use something else so i don't know i don't know we shall see
81:41
i might just get luke to lend me a monitor very temporarily
81:46
and then we'll we'll test it after see if it works if it doesn't work then
81:49
basically it's pretty simple i'm just going to grab a board off our shelf here
81:53
and then i'll figure out with lg how to get the right board and they can replace
81:57
it for me
82:00
because i do have at least something that'll work here in the studio for sure
82:04
and i really want it i really want rylan to get his machine because he's been waiting very patiently for it so
82:10
okay ah
82:14
these six plus two connectors i do appreciate them i like
82:18
them it was really annoying before everyone started putting these on video
82:22
cards but man it's hard to get the two
82:25
lined up sometimes especially when you're trying to
82:29
bend the cable into something so i saw force force awakens which is
82:35
cool don't worry brandon i'm not gonna say anything for their sake as well as for
82:40
yours um oh oh oh crap i got a message from a
82:45
twitch mod uh can i move you too creative uh sure
82:50
thanks bro i i wasn't really sure what i was
82:53
supposed to do with this so i just kind of i just did that Linus thing where i'm
82:57
just like ah someone else will let me know if i'm
83:00
doing it wrong and sure enough
83:05
they did they told me i was doing it wrong they asked if they could kind of
83:09
fix what i'm doing because i'm doing it wrong i was like okay sure man that's
83:13
cool all right
83:16
so the last thing to set up here is the nzxt
83:21
you oh i just crushed a box sorry rylan
83:28
oh boy i have no idea how this works
83:31
there's a lot of cables though so first is power i know we need that
83:36
okay so here's a molex connector
83:40
to my little just
83:44
dc plug i really wonder why they don't just have
83:47
a native molex plug on this thing that's really weird
83:50
probably they're repurposing something else that was intended for like another
83:54
industry and then they're just nzxt'ing computering it up so
83:59
that would probably be why
84:02
yeah yeah pretty much hey
84:06
until it gets mainstream enough
84:11
usb
84:17
okay oh i think i found a place to stash it
84:20
under this hard drive um wow it's gonna be really hard to fit
84:24
it down there though get in there oh yes very nice he's nice
84:30
i like it okay so i'm gonna stash the
84:33
hue right under the front hard drive i'm sorry you guys can't really see what i'm doing
84:39
um
84:43
everyone's like luke use the force star wars star wars mania is uh
84:48
is is strong with this one
84:52
okay oh sick
84:57
some of them some of them all of them
85:01
some of these strips are magnetic oh i love it are they all magnetic this
85:07
one doesn't seem very magnetic they're all magnetic sick
85:12
you're magnetic i think so
85:16
personal magnetism that's the only context i can think of
85:20
for it i'm leaving don't forget to do the thing
85:26
right the thing
85:29
it's with like the butt right
85:32
i said that that's with the butt yeah okay cool
85:35
just making sure
85:39
oh it has been a long long month but
85:43
if i get the thing done before work tomorrow
85:46
then um that'll be
85:50
good yeah people are like loop change shirts
85:54
do you guys really think we wear our Linus tech tip shirts all the time like
85:57
for realsies okay i do but other people aren't required to
86:04
i even offered them to them for free very few people have actually taken me
86:07
up on them apparently apparently they don't want to rep
86:11
LTT on their own time i see how it is
86:16
i know you don't have any LTT shirts brandon
86:19
do you have one which one do you have oh nice yeah did you buy that oh how come
86:24
you how come you have one of those
86:27
oh okay
86:31
nice
86:34
it's funny because we have kind of a g-rated channel so like
86:38
i'm never quite sure if i'm supposed to even say what it says on the front of
86:43
that shirt but it's our shirt so surely we decided at some point that we could
86:47
say on this show
86:54
yeah cats well that's that in the context of the shirt it's very clear
86:57
that it's a cat
87:00
oh dang it i gotta plug in a usb header here
87:04
it'd be cool if i had a third camera angle that's like um
87:08
like a headlight headlamp view kind of thing
87:14
okay so i'm going to show you guys actually i'm going to do the backs of these drives first
87:21
so this is how i deal with my ocd i use my my right angle one on the the SSD so
87:26
that at least the two hard drives are using both straight connectors and the SSD has the
87:31
right angle connector or something i justify it to myself that they're not
87:35
all the same like that
87:39
this is something that drives me crazy about other power supplies actually this
87:43
one doesn't do it i was ready to complain about this power supply and then it ended up doing it right is they
87:48
mostly have the um the SATA cables set up
87:53
so that you would have to run them top down in order to have them all plug in
87:57
easily so they're all like left angle instead
88:00
of right angle whereas most power supplies are in the basement of the
88:03
cases these days so having them come up this way actually makes more sense so
88:07
here we're going one two three and we're good just like that
88:12
then let's plug in our two SATA cables for those hard drives
88:17
so funny i so rarely put hard drives on the builds that we do for the show
88:21
that feels kind of weird plugging these in right now although i've been doing it more lately
88:25
now that we've been doing all that naz stuff with uh with unraid
88:30
showing how you can actually use your gaming tower as a nas that one's coming
88:33
to youtube fairly soon all right so that's done
88:40
oh dang it i dropped all the stuff
88:43
switch angles here
88:46
uh did i switch angles yes i did
88:52
okay so we got to figure out how we want to
88:56
do all of our lighting effects so this baby
89:01
can go up here and plug into
89:04
one of these little extension you do that finish this
89:11
and we're back i think
89:18
okay brandon repeat after me i step where you step
89:22
i touch nothing
89:26
what i did
89:29
well all we know was brandon was moving a ladder over near the streaming do you
89:34
see anything uh-huh and then the machine shut down
89:38
spectacularly shut down like zero warning
89:43
completely locked up shut down so
89:50
it's okay though i forgive you
89:54
um oh crap how does this work
90:01
yeah that's probably it okay i might actually have to check the
90:06
manual for this uh for this fractal fractal or this nzxt hue do dad
90:14
plus five volts something something grounding etc okay i'm gonna have to
90:18
check the manual you'd think i would have been checking the manual this whole time that i was
90:22
off camera but actually i was fixing the damn stream computer
90:27
yeah i'm getting a lot of hashtag fire brandon
90:31
so they've turned on you brandon it's official
90:34
that's how into you they were they like you as long as you're talking about
90:37
camera things but as soon as you break the stream
90:42
they turn on you
90:46
death by ladder yeah i don't even need to fire him he's probably going to die
90:53
oh it actually doesn't seem to say does it
90:58
okay plug a thing in there plug another thing in there yeah yeah yeah
91:02
huh okay
91:10
oh the edge with the black line on the led strips you'd think that would be in
91:14
the like very obvious and easy to find
91:17
quick guide part of it but it's not black line on the led strips
91:23
look at that i had it right anyway so there's a first time for everything
91:30
i got something right without having to do it a few times
91:35
oh i guess i don't really need this extension here
91:39
okay
91:42
the sucky thing about having the stream
91:46
cut out in the middle is that i will have to cut together
91:51
the video now which is very unfortunate it makes it a lot more work
91:57
but that's okay because brandon makes up for it with his good looks and charm
92:04
well i know it wasn't my fault and i know you were moving ladders
92:08
around
92:11
so i think the point of the magnets isn't necessarily to work on their own
92:15
so i'm going to go ahead i'm going to use the magnet but i'm going to also use
92:19
the included adhesive jug so the magnets can kind of hold the
92:24
adhesive in place something that is more needed than you might think if
92:28
you've ever mounted an led strip you probably know for the most part they do
92:32
not mount very reliably
92:36
all right so let's grab another one here i really like this system with the
92:39
little extensions and the little uh
92:42
you know whatever else it is that we got going on
92:46
huh it goes in this end i like this
92:50
so now i'm gonna do one on the top
92:54
going to go ahead i'm going to
92:58
yeah so i'll install that right up there we are going to have any lighting effect
93:03
we want oh wait a minute
93:06
it occurs to me this is not a five and a quarter inch bay device i wonder if we
93:09
actually ever got the strip that lg
93:13
ordered or if this is just one that nzxt sent to
93:17
me it doesn't really matter
93:21
i don't actually care
93:25
i'll just get nzxt to send another one
93:29
yep that'll do okay
93:33
so i'm actually really uncertain about this
93:37
last run here i think we might kind of
93:41
think we might kind of end up overdoing it if we're not careful
93:45
so i'm just going to kind of put that in there and then i'm going to
93:48
run this one kind of down here and i'm going to hope that that kind of
93:53
holds together for me here there we go
93:57
all right and that we end up with a nice nice even glow effect so i'm going to
94:00
use one more extension and then bring that around to the oh
94:04
they've got really short ones oh shoot i should have used one of those there
94:07
that's okay i'll send all the extra bits to ryland
94:11
i'm sure the first thing he's going to do is take the whole thing apart and put it all back together anyway
94:20
how many people managed to stay oh 2600 of you you guys you guys are the ones
94:25
who believe in me who believe in me for some reason
94:32
i've never given you a reason to believe that i can bring the stream back online
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successfully but you believe anyway i admire that
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see them i admire brandon
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it's okay i know you didn't mean to ruin the evening
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sorry
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okay there we go all the led strips are
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in cool i'm liking this rig so far actually
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all right what's left
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what is left is that it oh sli bridge
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never want to forget the sli bridge that's always uh that's always annoying
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you go and you boot up the machine for the first time you're like i'm sure something's missing
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i've got people telling me to put the leds on the case door yes that is
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actually a way to do it but i'm going to do it like this
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all right i sure wish ASUS included black sli
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bridges those just look awful this like orange sli bridge i don't know
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what the deal is with that okay
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not too shabby actually
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a zip tie here a zip tie there and this
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is uh this is some primo grade stuff right here oh there you go guys
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looks a little something like that and i think that pretty much concludes
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our first ever live
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build log it wasn't really much of a guide or anything like that but let me
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know and if you're watching this on youtube which it will be uploaded to
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later let me know in the comments do you like this format for builds do you want
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to see us do you know completely different things that are not like this
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leave your suggestions we're always open to them but we're not always open to
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them but we always ask for them and then sometimes we ask for them just so we can
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ignore them that's not what we do all right see you guys later
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it's always awkward doing outros on live broadcast stuff
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because like yeah
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and we're done oh crap i