 Welcome to ROG Reboot Episode 1. Our first winner here is Josh! He had a very simple request. I mean, especially in retrospect, it seems like this is the kind of thing that should be pretty doable. He wanted a white and blue gaming computer, and we got the gaming computer! We got the ROG GTX 1080 Ti! We got the Core i7 7700K! We got water cooling up the bananas! But the case is black. This is my peace offering. Can you live with a balls-to-the-wall gaming computer that's not white? And that I dropped pieces of? I think so. Good. Let's get started then. The ASUS ROG Strix 1080 Ti features R-Async RGB lighting with a plethora of colors and the ability to synchronize effects across the ecosystem of R-Async enabled products. Learn more at the link below. Your video Pretty short, pretty sweet. Had one of my friends help me write a script and then grab my sister and said, hey will you help me with this? That's a little awkward. Not like that. Have you ever gamed on a machine of the caliber of what we're building today? Never. Huh. See I get so disconnected from this stuff sometimes I just like kind of take it for granted. So man, have you ever built a computer before? No. I should know that because the last desktop you had was what 10 years ago? Yep. You don't even have a desktop. We did at one point, but I might have broken it. Well, that's a little awkward. Are you gonna break the one I built today? No, not at all. So even just a little bit broken? Nope. Let's try. Okay, so you got you had a desktop, but we're talking it was like a a Pentium 4 or something. It was ancient. Yeah. Okay. Got it. Yeah. I feel old. We're off to a good start. Okay, so how much of the building do you want to do versus how much of the building do you want to be like like when I would help my dad with carpentry? I'd like to do at least a good part of it. Okay, a good part of it. All right, I'll pick the best part. Okay, so the best part here, hold this screwdriver and hand it to me when I'm ready for it. So we're gonna open up our power supply. Silver box right there. Yes. I know it's not it's not white or blue. That's okay. Like it's 80 plus titanium efficiency, which is like Bananas. Bananas? Yeah, bananas are good. They have lots of potassium. Yeah. We have these also not white and blue cables from cable mod, but they'll look really good. Don't worry. It's okay. I don't really care at all that there's no white case. I just think it's funny that Linus takes it so personally that there's no white case. I don't know if I can work under these conditions. Ten points if you can find the motherboard and the massive pile of awesome hardware that you're getting. Ten points if you can find the motherboard and the massive pile of awesome hardware that you're getting today. Nice ten points. Perfect. You leveled up. It's like the beginning of a game where like you actually don't do anything. You just like look in the right direction and it's like 25 XP. You're level two now. Yeah. Yeah, it's like that. Boom. See if you install it, you can pull that off. Okay. There you go. Hold on to that. If you ever had to, if like let's say you legitimately had something devastating happen to your board like critical functionality like the RGB wasn't working quite right. If you send it back to them without that cover and the pins get damaged now that's physical damage. It's bricked. Okay, do you want me to do that right now? Sure. Okay. I mean you don't have to. I can't force you to do anything. Like you could just leave. I could but I won't. There you go. At first you didn't cut it, but then you got it. Yes. Now you don't got it. That is true. Okay, so that looks pretty good so far. Next stage is we actually move on to the not white but still very good case. Look, I'm showing you how to build the computer. I can see it in your eyes. You're super disappointed. It's not white. I'm just getting really tired of how much pressure you're putting on me about the parts not being white. I'm sorry. I'll stop. No pressure, but this is the part where you either kill your motherboard or it's fine. Oh, that's stressful. No, no, it's not stressful at all. Don't worry. You know the one funny thing about this though to me is that we didn't choose an ROG board for the build. Oh, white and blue. You got this. Yeah, it always does that. It's kind of annoying. It's like they were determined to have the logo upside down on their water cooler in this case. All right. Well, I'd recommend tubes up because then it doesn't run across the graphics card. So I usually recommend a pull orientation on a radiator. Are you familiar with push-pull? Pulling push-pull? Yes. The reason for that is that when you have the fans pulling air this way, this is really easy to clean. You just kind of go like this. You take some cat hair or whatever and you tuck it in the garbage. When you turn these around, the air goes through this way. Well, now you have to take your fans off. Let's face it. Last time you had a desktop was 10 years ago. This thing could be running for 10 years. We got to be ready for this stuff, okay? What matters more to you? Your precious blue color scheme or cable management? I just need to go get something really quick here. This complete piece of paper. This completely, definitely new H100i V2 that definitely we didn't pull off the shelf because our shipment didn't get here in time, which definitely has nothing to do with why your color scheme isn't right. Definitely isn't missing some of the hardware. So I'm definitely not gonna go over there and get it. Fantastic. Cooling done and without any mishaps whatsoever. All right, let's do a hard drive. Oh, sorry, it's in that box. I was just getting this one out of your way. She's like, wait, that was the motherboard. I knew that. I showed him I knew that. Yeah, if it's not going in just force it a little, you know, just give it the old force it. So we put it right there. What's he gonna do? How's he gonna put it through? Nope. Nope. Nope. I think the white goes better with what's currently inside. Wow, you can't just pick a color without taking a shot at me for us not getting it right. You can't even do that. And It's time for the graphics card. So naturally I'm gonna let myself do the honors. Come on, be a man. Open it with your teeth. Be a man. Open it with your teeth. Yes! You ready? Foam and a CD. That's it. That's what the highest performance graphics card on the market looks like. Be gentle. GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Strix overclocked. Overclocked. So I'm gonna get you to unbox your Nice Cherry MX mechanical gaming keyboard. Your mouse pad, your mouse, your monitor. There you go. Are you wearing your mouse pad? Yes. Excellent. Here we go. Go ahead press the button. Oh That's a bad sign. No, I'm just kidding. I didn't turn the thing on. Your RGB is lighting up. So the most important thing about the system is already working, which is great. So we are going straight for static color blue What? You have got to be kidding me. It's ROG. Everything's red. The tablecloth's red. You just be happy with red. There we go. See? I told you this was a white and blue themed build. Would I ever lie to you Josh? Never. What do you plan to do with your new rig? I want to run some games. Probably will buy Rocket League because I love that game. I just play it at my friend's houses all the time. Right. I also might want to do some video editing and get into that more because I'll have something that can run something other than Right. A potato. Okay, so color scheme five out of ten performance. Eleven out of ten. Eleven out of ten. Very good. Good answer. Building my first gaming PC was pretty difficult. Nah, it really wasn't. It was pretty simple. All right. Well, I'm glad and Thanks for tuning in to ROG rig reboot all of you guys out there and a huge thanks to Josh for entering and why am I thanking you? A huge you're welcome to Josh for getting this frickin awesome computer courtesy of Asus Who else contributed to it? Corsair helped us out with it. Intel Nvidia helped. Seagate. All good stuff. So congrats, man. Enjoy. Thank you.