 I'm not really the kind of person who piles on when somebody's already having a bad time, but here's the situation. Twitch streamer xQc reached out to me a number of weeks back asking for help with a new gaming PC. I pointed out that I'm sure anyone and their dog would be happy to send them a free gaming PC in exchange for a tweet given his popularity, but I did offer my help if you really needed it. And then I promptly never heard anything about it ever again, until I was streaming today and you guys wouldn't stop talking about how apparently horrible his build was. So given that I did offer to help, I will, with no guilt whatsoever, be critiquing xQc's PC build. I've never done a reaction video before, so wish me luck. Just like I feel lucky to tell you about our sponsor, Ridge Wallet. Ridge Wallet wants to redefine the wallet with its compact frame and RFID blocking plates. Check out how they can keep your wallet bulged down and use Afrocode Linus to save 10% and get free worldwide shipping. First things first, I'm gonna set myself up on the carpet. Now we did show recently in our collab with Electro Boom that the risk of actually damaging your components with electrostatic discharge is pretty low, but I probably still wouldn't go out of my way to sit on a low pile carpet and unbox computer hardware. So motherboard goes first. I got a ROG Cross Air VIII formula, dude. Planned to catch you guys, this is a very overpaid computer, okay? Some of these parts were really way more expensive than they should have been, but it's COVID and whatnot, so it is what it is, man. Is he actually gonna water cool? Cause that motherboard has like integrated chipset water cooling. First we'll open the actual CPU itself. This is usually like 900 bucks, but this was like a 1.7K cause of scalpers, feels weird, man. He paid $700? Oh. But there's no real alternative. Now this is the piece that is worth all the money right here. Little metal bracket up. Oh my God, this must be how people feel watching me handle stuff, like seemingly not carefully. I assure you guys, I know what I'm doing, but I'm not actually convinced that Felix knows what he's doing. Oh, I don't get you, oh, that got it. You gotta, you gotta pull out from the thing. Okay. Okay, put the arm the other way. Also, what's important here, the most important part of all this is the bragging rights. Whenever you build a PC, you gotta keep all those stickers whenever you buy these boxes. Okay, he's joking about this, but I actually have like a whole sticker book with like a shiny kitty on the front of like old case badges from like way back like 10, 15 years ago. 128 gigs of RAM juicers. So these sticks are... Sorry, this, the word juicers, he's now used the word juicers twice. He's got 128 gigs of RAM in a gaming PC and he's calling them juicers. I'm really not sure I'm following so far. I wanna try one PC setup with a really good computer. And if it's not, it doesn't work as well as I thought it would. I'm gonna kind of like break it in two and make two PCs with my old PC and the new parts and split in half. And we're gonna get two PCs set up. Okay, I kind of understand what he's talking about here. So if this single computer gaming and streaming setup doesn't work, then he can take 64 gigs of this 128 gigs of RAM, which is a lot for a gaming and streaming machine, and put it into a separate machine. Okay, let me do a little explaining, boys. I know some of you guys already know this, okay, and you're like a tech genius. So this is, I don't know why this computer doesn't have it, but normally you're gonna have two colors. These are your channels. Sometimes. Something called dual channel, I think, or something like that. Okay, that's very close. The memory slots are color coded so you will correctly install your dual channel memory, but they're not color coded according to the channels. It's actually the other way around. They're color coded so that your monkey brain will put two sticks in the same colors and get dual channel operation. But it's actually the two separate channels that are the same color. Dual channel. Now you know. Open the back of that at the back. One, two, three, four. And we're gonna have to wedge the RAM inside the computer. It's backwards. Okay. This is normal, no one but it. Everybody makes that mistake. I usually put the side that doesn't have the lever on first. Now on the one hand he says I usually. Okay. And that's not even wrong to put it in the side that doesn't have the latch first. But he usually, but then. This is actually hard and scanning your thing in the fucking among us, but I'm telling you did. Am I doing this wrong? Yeah. I love the coaching from the background. Do you have the lever open? Fortunately, it's so poorly put in that I'm gonna break. I'm gonna lose it. Why is my face keep showing up? Is this like a twitch feature? Stick number two. Twitch chats already like call Linus. It's backwards again. Dude. Okay. Next is going to be the empty drives. Okay. What are cool technological advancement boys? We don't have to have these seem. This is like the old SSDs. It's been nine minutes and he has installed the CPU and memory. Take your time. They're very pog. They're very pog. Those are a little bit better. They're really faster. They're less of a hassle to put in and thankfully boys. We got two of them. He is in for a real nightmare. If he wants to configure NVMe raid on well really any platform, but I've done named these recently and it's not fun. I need a company called Rockets and they make those in like crazy storage like. Okay. Sabyrinth. They have the rocket lineup up to eight terabytes. I think that the empty drives are hidden under here after the bolted. Can I just say for a moment that I love the KBekwa of Englishing. Debolt it. Unscrew. Debolt. Who cares? Same thing. It's going to be bolted. Deboltable like attachments transformer looking things like that. Oh, it's just a strip. I've seen worse drops. These are like support bolts or whatever standoffs and we're going to go set it up. I'll go SpongeBob socks because I definitely approve that really is not all the way in. Good thing Twitch chat is babysitting. Oh, he's no it's still not in. Is it not in? Okay, I'm stupid. Overall. I've seen far worse. I've seen far worse. Now for the second one. Wait, is he going to screw it in? Oh, it's a dual bolt collider, dude. The X back the X backplate. What guys I had to screw in the X backplate before the motherboard. Oh, the back is open. Okay. The bill I got the crack in 7773. It's what it's what chat recommended. I really don't know that I would buy a computer based on Twitch chats recommendations. Pre-applied thermal paste. People say it's bad. I don't necessarily agree. I kind of like it. People say it's bad. Nobody says pre-applied thermal paste is bad. Self-applied paste. Not because I'm lazy. Actually, it's just because I'm lazy. And that's a triple radiator. Wait, why is he trying to put it in the top? Dude, it actually doesn't fit. I can see his Twitch chat right here telling him to call me. No, sure. It goes inside. What the fuck are you talking about, man? Up until this point in the video, I kind of thought he was just playing a character because he would be like, oh, yeah, it's kind of called this. So I don't know. And then proceed to completely correctly explain what it is pretty much. But now I'm just really not so sure. Remove the case. I have to remove now. Does he not know that you can remove side panels? Dude, it can't mount. It's too big. Yeah, this doesn't fit. It just doesn't. He's got to be just pretending. Like, I think you guys are just suckers. I'm pretty sure Felix knows how to build a computer just fine. Guys, removing the case fans is a fucking hassle. So he 100% knew that he can put the radiator in the front. He just didn't want to remove 12 screws. I'm going to read the message I sent him. It's possible we could get you hooked up with a system and we'd love to collab. But surely you'd have at least half a dozen system integrators on speed dial who could get you anything you want. If you're not in a hurry, it'd be a fun project, but we're still undergoing renovations and not in a position to tackle anything big like the creeper PC we built for Pewds at the moment. If you're in a hurry, it may be faster to just get hooked up with a PC builder. Just let me know. Email's best for me since this is a shared inbox with many other staff here. If you wasn't willing to remove 12 screws, why build a computer? Already pre-installed and pre-wired and already pre-settled. It's going to be terrible to remove them. No, it's going to be 12 screws to remove. I can't do anything. What? Oh, he doesn't know how to remove the front. You just got to, you got to pop it. Just de-bolt the whole thing. Yes, I think we need to de-bolt the whole thing. Oh wow, that's going to be a lot of fun. Guys, they're welded to the mesh, dude. Oh my God, no they're... Oh, I bolt this thing over here. So I bolt this in at the top. The speed with which he switches between eureka moments and having no idea what's going on again. Okay, well this is going to be really tough. But look at this, this is literally soldered together. No. And we re-screw our thing manually at the top so we can put the CPU fan intake from the side and then we make it pull and the top is going to push or some shit. Again, he's demonstrating fairly deep knowledge. He knows that we're going to have pull fans at the front and we're going to have push fans at the back for balanced airflow. But then he thinks his case is welded together. I don't... Wait a minute. It doesn't fit. Of course. All you had to do was you just had to leave the fans exactly where they were and just put the screws that came with your radiator through them. We need to go way back to basics and do a for beginners build. Like really for beginners. We need to bring in a committee of qualified beginners to ask their questions as we go and make sure that we answer every single one of them. Dude, there's not enough space for three of them. Why is he trying to put three fans there? Is he faking it? Wait, no, it doesn't go like this. Okay, turn it around. Now it's an intake. Motherfucker. It's going through the plastic. I spun this thing the both ways and you guys said wrong side of both sides. What the fuck are you on about dude? The radiator should fit in here. Yes, it does. All right, we got the radiator in. Okay. Why would you have the tubes down? Aren't they going to work against gravity, dude? Fun fact, in a closed loop, gravity kind of is like canceled out. You could think of it that way because gravity might pull some of the water down, but then that equal force will push the other water like up. Like it's doesn't really matter. Somebody said tubes down won't fit with the GPU. Longer lifespan of the product. Got it. I actually don't know if that's going to reach with the tubes on the bottom. I know it's like more optimal for the pump to last longer, but it actually just might not reach. Oh, and then you install the thing on the bracket and then you bracket it in. There we go. Ah, no, it's not the same size, dude. No, it's fine. You got the other holes. It's okay. It doesn't fit, dude. It does. It's fine. Well, we're going to be using those then. Then we have to use those then. People are going to tell them to flip it around, right? Oh, no, no, no, no, no. No, no. Oh, the pace is gone. Oh my God. That stuff is impossible to clean. This one. No, no, it doesn't go on that side of the... Now, how do we do it? What? Wait, is he going to put one Corsair fan and then like other NZXT? Dude, the fans are on the wrong side, man. Guys, the wire is on the other side. Fans can go on any side of the radiator you want. It doesn't matter. If they're on this side, then they blow and if they're on this side, then they suck. The wire goes inside the computer. This goes on the outside. Good. This is going to hang the whole thing together. The fans then need to go inside the fucking bracket. It doesn't matter. So like this then. That's fine. The bracket goes at the back and then the bracket goes inside at the back. Logo outside, pumps inside. Okay. I had it right the whole time, dude. I literally from the start. I don't know if you had it right the whole time, but yes, fundamentally what you're saying is sound. So the logo, the sticker, on the hob, okay, that points towards the direction the air goes. This is fine. I need to say NZXT on the way upwards. Wait. Over the radiator. This is like... So radiator facing outside the case. It is completely installed just fine. I mean the fans, the cables are coming off in a way that the cable management is going to suck, but like it's mostly fine. It only fits this way, I think. No, he does have the tubes at the top. So yes, the fans are sticking right up next to the window. Okay. I mean that's not going to affect the functionality of the machine. ROG Strix Gaming Graphics Card GeForce RTX 3090 NVIDIA Asus ORA OC O'Clock 240 GPU Juicer. There it is. I don't think that's going to fit. That thing is an enormous card. If it wasn't COVID, I would just fly out there and build it for him. I can't screw it. It's actually not lined up. Oh, that's fine. You just got to get the screw in there and kind of... Dude, I'm pushing right now. I can see how that would be really confusing for people. I think this case is just trash. I mean look, and even then, even the GPU slot doesn't line up, dude. Unless you're meant to use the squares part, but I don't think so. No, please don't do that. No, that's not necessary. You just don't get there, dude. Look at the holes. Look at them. So much anchor. You're not going to fit this in there. I mean... Yeah, no, I just thought about this. This is fucking dumb. It's not like he has a completely invalid point. The manufacturing tolerances of computer cases and the way that PCI backplate sometimes don't quite have the mounting holes line up can be extremely frustrating, especially for a new builder. And I can see how if you've spent, you know, two grand on a graphics card, you don't want to be like, like pushing and pulling on it. But the reality of it is a lot of the time when I'm manhandling stuff and I seem really careless, I'm actually just like kind of doing what you need to do. You got to have... You got to put some force on it sometimes. You got to understand that the kinds of costs that PC case manufacturers are targeting, it's just... It kind of comes with the territory. Okay, I'm going to rebox most of this stuff. I can't chat with you in your case. There you go, Corsair. Honest consumer review, your case a disaster. The good news is I don't think any of this stuff is broken. Okay, now I feel worse because at the beginning, it was pretty clear that he was just... Pretty much knew what he was doing, but was kind of like playing a character. Then by the end, it's obvious that he was ready to huck the GPU at the wall. So, Felix, if you're watching this, my offer still stands. I DM'd you. I would be happy to walk you through this. We can make that case work. You can destroy that case, get rid of it, do whatever you need to do, donate it, get a different one. But just let me know because I'm here for you, my fellow Canadian. 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