Ultimate Christmas Special & Build Guide
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2014-05-07
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1,640 words · ~8 min read
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he doesn't suspect a thing
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so uh brandon's been trying to
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buy some computer hardware he's wanted a rig because he's using like some ancient
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laptop so he's been trying to buy computer hardware for black friday
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and uh luke and i keep refusing to help him with anything
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we're just like no no um don't don't buy that don't buy that uh
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yeah no it's not a good deal it's not a good deal so uh secretly down here
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we're working on putting together a rig for him so let's go through what we got
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we went through the tickle trunk so to speak so we got an i7 47 70k
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we got a Gigabyte z87x ud5h this is a pretty freaking high-end
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board okay we dug up a two terabyte wd green
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storage drive where'd those ssds go okay
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we got a couple uh we got 16 gigs of course there vengeance memory and then
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we grabbed a couple of our test drives so we're gonna do two 128 gig drives in
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raid zero two ssds and raid zero for the boot drive
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um he's been eyeing the Corsair air 540
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since we got our hands on that but he recently changed his desk so he can't use it
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anymore so instead we're going to use the one we used for our ultimate video
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editing build guide so that's the
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tj04ew from silverstone
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and then uh power supply i don't think we're quite decided yet we're either
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going to chuck this ocz zt in there it's actually not a bad power supply it's
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modular in 80 plus bronze or we're going to go like all out silent
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and put the rosewill 500 watt 80 plus platinum power supply in it we're going
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to probably pull apart the case because i don't remember what ventilation around
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the power supply area is like and find out if that makes sense because
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i'd like to make the system quite quiet if we can so for our cooler we've got a
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dark rock too from be quiet! and then uh what are we doing for
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graphics card okay well we'll pick a graphics card
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soon stay tuned guys so he's taking over the motherboard now so he can actually
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start setting up it's actually pretty beast motherboard
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see this they wanted to go with a gold idea like ASUS did their gold
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motherboards this is how you do a gold idea
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you don't make the whole damn thing
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you just do it like a little bit and it's okay it looks fine
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it looks good my camera skills don't look good but it looks good all right
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well we might as well do a CPU installation guide you want to be the narrator
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sure so he he spins it so that the notches are properly lined up and
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elegantly pulls up the ARM and then very delicately places it in
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the slot oh my god
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oh wow dun dun
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impressive thank you finish it
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if you could do that accurately that would be kind of amazing that would be
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awesome so now we're revisiting the cooler the
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cut Linus this this is the very cooler that in a
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different build guide cut his finger open
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so this is round two what
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he applies to thermal compound precision
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scarcity skill determination yes oh actually that's not
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that great no no i probably should have gone for a longer thinner line
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audio solution
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oh i don't know you could do like a macro of like the header
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because you won't be able to see it because it plugs into the case that's the guy we're building a computer so the
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way this heatsink actually screws in is instead of screwing it in from the front
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you screw it in from the back so you just have uh brackets that are
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pre-installed on the front and then you just tighten these screws at the back and preferably a cross pattern going
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little by little until it is completely attached to the board so once that's
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done you should have a pretty good look i mean it's important for a capture pc
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to uh be extremely quiet because you don't want i mean obviously it's going
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to be used in an environment where video production is going on so you don't want
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uh you don't want to be loud and obnoxious right
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all our graphics cards are upstairs so uh when he was up here editing
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we couldn't really dig through them so here we go what do you got
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oh yeah going with the 680
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so brandon uses cuda and the mercury playback engine for some
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of the stuff he does so we figure that's a pretty good choice
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so luke's working on front panel headers yeah good work like we we assign all the
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right jobs because the guy with the like
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gigantor hands is plugging in front panel connectors
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and i'm like plugging in this fan so here's how to install a graphics card
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you put the thing in the slot see
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right in there and then you put the screws in the other thing
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so here's our 680 it's starting to come together hey
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yep that's a nice looking rig that guy is still here editing our
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rampage for extreme black edition
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thing so we've had to just kind of do this
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but there we go oh actually do you want to grab the back side panel just so that it's uh
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the sexiness comes through properly
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so there you have it guys not a bad little rig for someone who
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wants to do some video editing and get into gaming a little bit coffee oh
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yeah oh yeah and of course you know captured
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video capture right just like that yeah
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so uh cable management on the back is reasonably clean but not clean enough
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that we necessarily want to show it to you there's only one more thing we need
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to do here is just uh tuck these away and then we are pretty much
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ready to rock i'm i'm liking how few
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cables we had to use to put this rig together we only had to use one modular
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cable that was it and it has four set of harnesses on it we were able to plug in
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all of our drives and we were ready to go so the only thing left now is the
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surprise okay so it's not the best wrapping job ever but uh
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my wife's helping me kind of put like a
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like wrapping sort of looking thing on it
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so that it will look somewhat nice and then we're gonna surprise him
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tomorrow morning so all right so brandon went out for lunch so
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we're bringing out the system we got the muscle handling that uh that
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aspect of things bring it upstairs all right so what i'm
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gonna do is i'm gonna like barricade this door or something
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so that we uh so that we hear him coming or like i'll
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i'll pile boxes at the top of the stairs because that'll he'll be like why are
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all the boxes like piled up the stairs i can't get up
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okay just like yell surprise or something
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oh okay glass
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record a video
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oh brandon we're good we're not filming i mean we are filming but
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surprises what
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oh it's your christmas bonus what
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seriously we were trolling you so hardcore when we
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were building a system with all your favorite stuff and telling you it wasn't for you
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what when did you even have time for this
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we built this on friday what
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after i asked like a million times that's why we kept on trying to convince
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you not to buy yeah we were like good deals please please don't buy things
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you didn't buy anything did you no
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it got hard to drive it was like a really good price
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well thank you for your hard work thank you and uh yeah it's pretty much the
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balinest is is this going on the track this is on the channel yeah yeah you're
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gonna you're gonna have to edit it this was that awesome this was that b
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blog video that you asked me about that was on the release schedule for this
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week really all right well congratulations enjoy
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merry christmas and all that good stuff i wish you had had a little more patience
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because i wanted to give it to you at christmas but you're like oh no i'm gonna buy a system like damn come on
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brandon i don't think i could stall you for a month
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yeah no it was getting really difficult i think just a laptop all right well
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that's pretty much it so uh i hope you guys enjoyed our christmas special it's
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coming a little early on account of some people can't wait till christmas to get
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their christmas presents uh as always don't forget to like the
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wow usually i say subscribe last so i guess we're done here
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you