We Replaced his Crappy Laptop with a DREAM PC!! - ROG Rig Reboot 2018
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2019-05-06
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3,443 words · ~17 min read
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how's my hair it's beautiful oh more beautiful than i've ever seen
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thank you it's rog rig reboot again and the
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winners are here at least one of the winners is here this is shawn and i
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would like everyone to take a moment both to feel good for him because he is
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getting a brand new gaming rig courtesy of rog and he has excellent posture look
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at his posture his mom actually asked him before he showed up he would make
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sure that he keeps his posture nice because he she'd hate for other people
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to see his posture and think that think what i don't know i don't have good
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posture that would be terrible wouldn't it let's build a rig shall we yes
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there we go you know those like oh yeah yeah
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i hate it when people do this because there's no standard way to do it
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for both gaming and content creation the ASUS z390a motherboard is built to last
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using premium japanese capacitors learn more at the link below
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so here's a screwdriver it's like you're not ready yet so sean where are you from
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maple ridge that's where i'm from did you go to garibaldi no that's probably
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just as well i went to garibaldi and we all kind of see how that worked out have
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you ever built a computer before no never have you at least watched
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a build video before i know yeah i watched the rog ones and then the super
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RGB one which is probably why ASUS liked
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you so much as a candidate because those guys are all about RGB all the things
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you've got an RGB keyboard you've got an RGB graphics card RGB motherboard with
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rsync got an RGB cooler you have an RGB mouse an RGB headset and uh in case it's
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probably rgb2 so then since you're a seasoned watcher
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of build videos i'm sure you know where to start oh right
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i'm just kidding go ahead oh okay if you want to break it it's totally up to you
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i don't want to break it yeah because you know if you break it
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like the whole thing's over like you get back in your car you go back home and
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it's over right like it's a test
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okay so let's go go ahead and get the processor out of the box now this is the
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heart and soul of your system there's a seal on it six cores turboing up to 4.9
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gigahertz i still remember when i built my first system
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i'm just kidding i don't remember that it was a long time ago you are way out
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ahead of me so sean already pointed at that little dot and why is that dot
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important so you can line it up properly with this arrow
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that's right are you sure that you don't line it up with the dot though
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i'm not sure well that's it he's done he's packing it back up he's gonna get
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out of here with holy crap you are
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getting two terabytes of solid-state storage normally they do like a hard
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drive for your games and stuff but you've got an almost terabyte NVMe drive
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and you get a terabyte ASUS pulled out all the stops for you
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they must really like you hear that sniffle that's his case of
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the crappy systems i'll stop sniffling by the time this build ends
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all right now i know maple ridge kids fall onto one of two camps the ones that
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play with knives and the ones that play with fire so which one are you i don't
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know what's the right response only in the wrong hands yeah is that because your dad's sitting there and you won't
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admit it no so which sticks go in which slots
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uh this you're filling them all with a matched set it doesn't matter oh yeah
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okay and then you want to push it down
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evenly until it clicks in on both sides so that's how you know you got to give it a little
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right there oh
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there you go one more okay
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this is a tougher one that'll be the
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npme SSD oh very nice this is a brand new ifixit kit wow they
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have to do just one side or both i don't know what i usually do is i
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start with one and then i see what happens i need a place to put this
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having flashbacks to being a teenager this was my job whenever my dad did
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something hold the screws in the nails
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symptoms of crappy systemitis include shaking hands not being able to open
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boxes yeah and the sniffles oh i forgot about that
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this way sure why not i don't know how to put it in well it's okay you're
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pretty young you'll learn later
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you want to give it a little okay push snug into the socket i'll let
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you do it though okay um
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cooler for the CPU you know sure yeah let's do let's let's do that that side
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of the cooler in that crazy
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when you walked in here you had like an old
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laptop with onboard graphics i have an Intel t6400 four gigs of RAM ddr2 and
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that's still what you have because you haven't actually completed the challenge
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yet tf2 is running at like 15 to like 30
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frames per second and all those settings look at the size of these nuts they're
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bigger so it's gonna be easier to like yeah yeah i mean they're easier to
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handle which i guess is nice so this is the one that has an OLED
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screen built into the CPU block and i'm gonna do the peel because i can't trust
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you to do it properly
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that was worth it shiny this is your mom's spaghetti dude arms are heavy
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these builds are too much fun i love this i thought he was like putting on
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sort of a character like making it a bit more extra for the camera but he's like
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always active and that much like excited about everything so what do you
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think goes on next thermal paste actually yes but no
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ASUS pre-applied your thermal paste thank you ASUS
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wow so the screen in the middle here you can actually put anything you want on it
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you could put like an rog logo if you were all about that you know thanks rog
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for this totally free computer or i mean you could just put like a dickbot on it
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like whatever i guess while we're like working with cables and stuff we could like
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no you really want to put that SSD in don't you i guess we're going to do this then
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are you sure oh we're going to put it in the case yes
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yeah this is the part where it gets really fun tempered glass
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looks nice be careful when it gets mad just boom shatters
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oh that's not good all right so this
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is gonna fall off very soon so you should probably yep that's good
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there you go two hands please very nice okay so tuck that away
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somewhere safe we don't want to scratch that because that is your viewport into your gorgeous
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system that is a perfect place for it he's putting it in a bin he's not just chucking it on the floor
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is this heavy i don't want to crush my fingers
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then i won't be able to use my mouse
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10 points if you can figure out how to open this before i do
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i won't i lied anyhow yeah
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this is something that's always kind of triggered me about these you went to all
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the effort to print on the bag and yeah i couldn't just say what it's
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for
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goes in here sure does either way
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other way oh like that no
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nice wait would it go in
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i just had it lined up you have to like really
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force it in yeah pretty much use the force
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like yeah no no the real force yeah no that's that's movies
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do you want a LTT logo in your class
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yes oh what we can do that we have a
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laser yeah i was gonna ask for a sticker but i guess that's cooler
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and he's still putting the iowa ship i'm having a lot of trouble
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so hold it by the cooler and use your other hand to guide it in
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and you're going to try to guide the rear i o through the back
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before you make contact with all of the metal standoffs that are on the
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motherboard tray you ready i hope correct answer is yes i was born ready
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and you gotta have like kind of a gruff tone to your voice oh it's boring born
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ready that's too deep yeah it's done and the
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screws you're gonna use are the 632 flat
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flat is the heads of the people who labeled
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these flat because these are clearly a
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pan head and they clearly use a phillips type
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driver so there's nothing really flat about them
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so what do you think is next um power
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supply all right so we're gonna put your modular cables onto the power supply
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first 246.
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that's not good as a drop expert i can tell you that drop was
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fairly benign yes
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yes sweet do we need all of them am i just doing
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this for no reason no you're actually almost done you only need one more cable
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you know what's really good about a video like this
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is that you are giving other people the confidence to ask stupid questions
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and make mistakes but that means i'm doing worse than them
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right you're like welcome the sacrificial lamb i wanna die
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i just got this cool computer
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does this plug into the motherboard or is it gonna go into the basically the
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rule from here on out with these is if it fits it says would have to spend like
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eight years yeah don't worry your street cred was it was too low kind of down here already
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anyway so it's fine there's an alignment thing right there
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maybe these this goes into the motherboard
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it kind of doesn't work without any of the pieces
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well you don't really need fans well maybe your old system didn't but
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with a 2080 ti and 8700k you're gonna
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need fans and the reason this part is tricky is
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because you kind of have to align a
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that's a technique that i've perfected over the years did you notice i kicked it a little bit before it hit the ground
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you can arrest some of its momentum before it actually falls and there we
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are all of our cooling is completely wired up now
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what do you want to install uh power supply all right so let's do it
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okay no
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you can tell he's almost cured he hasn't sniffled in forever oh that doesn't have to come all the way
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out that is called a self-retaining screw
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so you see how it has like a kind of a knob on the end and then a shaft in the
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middle yeah um you don't really need a screwdriver
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for this oh it was too tight for me oh not strong
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no that's not in it's not in yet you rock it a little bit
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almost on the bottom a little further there you
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go so these guys separate out your cables nicely so they look all clean and
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professional uh okay
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yes go ahead
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enjoy it breathe it in i don't know why i was so excited to
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open this there we go
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that hurts whoa
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trick shots that's something kids just say now like trick shots whoa trick shots like
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no no one says that except me
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no one literally no one
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the moment you've been waiting for the fastest graphics card
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i was having it just you there now over there look if you're not going to do it
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right if you're not going to take this seriously like we can just leave the graphics card
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you know what there that's it that's the computer forget it it has integrated graphics just like your current one yeah
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there it is the rtx 2080 ti definitely
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wasn't expecting that i thought i'd get like a 1080 ti
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but the 2080 ti is really cool
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now with like however many bazillion heat pipes three fans rsync
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compatibility a dual bio switch so you can switch between quiet and performance
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mode and it's super duper duper duper fast
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open it let's do it let's put it in
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heavy right yeah really heavy i think i got it
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no i don't
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see i knew he was a knife kid
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there we go
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and that was it your rtx 2080 ti is installed
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well after you put the screws in and put the power connecting yeah
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so now we just need to find the
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prettiest spot to bring these guys around which honestly we don't have a
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ton of great options here so now that i've given up we're just
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gonna do whatever then before anyone gets a chance to look
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too closely at it i'm going to close up the back panel
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and it is
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beautifully cable managed as far as you know need a hand
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is that an eight pin CPU connector why is that got two of those in there
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you go in there i'm gonna close this up for the last time
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almost done laser engraved
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that looks really cool oh nice yeah our logo looks really good when engraved
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yeah that is sick if you want something else we can probably put something down
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here if you want like a giant dick butt that takes up the whole rest of the that
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is awesome alex yeah so uh the monitor
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we're hooking this up to is basically one of the finest gaming
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displays on the market now this guy is 2560 by 1440 resolution up to 165 hertz
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pretty much what that means is that your monitor can keep up with your system a
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lot more than 60. i knew you were here for a reason and it was that
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contribution that one line this entire experience was leading up to that moment
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all right go ahead and press the button
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whoa okay dang we got it wrong that's fine i'm pretty sure we can flip
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it this is going to look sea yak as the
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kids say what total memory 32 megs that's why i was
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thinking back to my first computer um
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press f1 to run setup that's good i mean sounds good you don't have a choice so
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we've got pretty much everything wow this has touch controls
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that's pretty cool there's a mic ah retractable mic
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that's what that was yeah that's the worm is the worm still cool it's enough
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it's in fortnite here you go oh
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i don't play fortnite really no one plays it in my school anymore you kids
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today you like hear it one day and boom go on the neck
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you know what forget it let's just finish this thing up so let's go ahead
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and put our tempered glass side panel back on complete with laser etched LTT logo okay
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go you do the peel you do the feel come on we got places to be i can't go faster
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oh we still got stuff on the
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motherboard and stuff that needs to be peeled
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don't don't blow it
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oh oh okay well yeah you know what
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ruined probably the least exciting part was screwing everything in here we go
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you want to screw me in here oh yeah that took a really long time oh
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but the rest was really interesting really fun you see a skill player
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not really all right the sound dampening in this is like
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really really good i put it on and like i could barely hear you talking you're
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just gonna put those there you're not gonna have sound oh well i'm not gonna play like a full game oh all right no i
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don't know man so have you ever oh
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wow you just got tracked man
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oh is this like team deathmatch yeah why'd you pull out your knife there
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i was i didn't see him so it's going to run faster you know what i um
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okay there's okay well that's that's pretty oh you haven't sponge oh
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he was just look i wouldn't have given you this computer if i'd known you were gonna do that
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that is what you get that's the same guy you 100 deserved it anything 250 FPS
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what is what is that an increase above like 20x yeah more over your old machine
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all right well now why don't we go for something that's a little bit more demanding so i'm going to show you how
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you dial in the optimized settings for a machine like this you go to graphics
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and you go to highest that's basically it
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also you should turn motion blur off because it's for chumps yeah
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i think they're crashing looks like it they seem to be distressed about it so
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it's probably not like a planned crash no that's definitely not
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oh that's whoa whoops uh i don't think the seat
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belt is going to help you hun two days
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what oh boy she's
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okay she's gonna pry the rock off the leg and that leg that looks
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very painful all right you're sort of playing you get to crawl on the rock so there you go w
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oh oh yeah well this game's really hard
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ah yes this is going to be fun so results
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for 3d mark times by extreme better than 83
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of all results way above like even the guys running you
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know 4k gaming pcs or whatever else the case may be you're like way out here so
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basically of all the giant nerds that like benchmark their systems for fun
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you're in the top twenty percent so that's pretty much it thank you rog and
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Linus media group for having me out here are you feeling better sean yeah yeah no
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more coughing no more stuff excellent excellent he's cured he's karen
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so guys thanks for watching thanks to ASUS rog for sponsoring this video
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bringing shawn out here and of course providing all of this hardware if you
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want to make him sad how's he ever going to feel better oh right gaming on his machine nevermind he'll be fine if you
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that's what kids like to do that right my mom already knows i'm here right fair
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enough what does she know you have good posture
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yeah does she know you have good posture so this
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is a little bit sort of what's going on here right
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you