 I'm actually not a hundred percent sure how I got roped into this but somehow Anthony and I are going head-to-head competing in the first ever tech Triathlon is sponsored by gigabyte aorus It's very simple in the next however long it takes each of us has to build a gaming computer overclock it and Complete this level in doom eternal and whoever does it the fastest wins go Z490 we're going tense gen baby Z490 this is gonna be all about controlled Speed okay, so thinking carefully before doing something like closing a box to make sure that I'm not gonna need anything else from inside Like the mounting hardware for my m.2 drive later Oh wow is gigabyte the one sensible manufacturer that actually just puts it in the slot where you're gonna need it That would be cool because I don't see any mounting hardware in there. We're gonna do something unconventional here We're gonna start with m.2 And here is our Aorus SSD that actually probably I'm not gonna be able to put that cooling back on because I think it's got its own cool All right component one Done you feeling threatened Anthony no look I'm doing harder stuff Are you I put the m.2 drive on I already did that actually I should probably put the yeah put the cooler hardware on first See that pile feeling threatened yet Anthony. Oh lordy. There's an AIO sure is that's gonna slow me down Are you just gonna throw it on the bench and not put it in the case is that what your plan is no I? Am going to build this computer completely properly like you've never seen done before okay, mr. President Yeah, who's got their case unboxed now, so you might be a professional PC builder, but I happen to be a professional unboxer Your overconfidence is your weakness now. I gotta let you guys in a little secret here. I Think Anthony's gonna do at least some basic management. I'm not nothing Now under normal circumstances. I love to win and I would pick someone that I'm pretty confident. I can beat But I didn't pick who I was competing against today under normal circumstances you cheat give me okay We're gonna stash that right there. I'm gonna be building right side up We're gonna see if my standing build technique is better than Anthony's lying down build technique You want me to build a computer build a PC lying down so what you want me to do I mean anyway you can get an advantage right this is a perfectly fair and square competition We're having here Anthony young I'm nothing if not an honorable competitor Linus And I are doing things in a little bit of a different order. We'll see which way works out best Motherboards going in am I doing? Yeah, Linus is really in my head right now. It's not to do that. Oh No, this fan has closed corners Corner blocked I can't you can't stick a cable management thing through the corner because it's a closed corner. No Please don't do that. This is the most challenging part of a build with an AIO Oh, you mean you haven't done that yet. You've got your AIO mounted already. No oh I just thought I was really behind because I looked over and I saw the fans like oh wow I'm gonna need to Get going I think I'm doing okay actually you're not bad. I might even be out ahead right you might be Well the reason that I'm pushing as hard as I can to go as fast as I can For the build is that I am quite worried about Anthony's overclocking skills versus my own these days hashtag lie Nus I usually just ask him to deal with it for me if I need something overclocked because it's been so long since I've really been You know into the little details around overclocking. I do not have that luxury today This is where Linus is more nimble fingers Come in handy for him so that goes there RTX 2060 super it's a really nice pairing for our 10th Gen core i7 It's a good pairing fruity aroma The way overclocking works is for every percent extra performance you get you get a 2% modifier to your overall time So there is definitely a benefit to overclocking But neither of us are gonna have the time to fully you know dial it in and spend hours and hours fine-tuning it Why here screws dropping over there oh yeah, I'll clean those up while the operating systems installing I'm gonna go ahead and put this in the computer. Is it a computer it is kind of monitors are we rocking here? CV 27 Q 165 Hertz refresh rate 1 millisecond pixel response times FreeSync to HDR ooh display HDR, but to what degree I'm gonna assume 400 if it doesn't say otherwise That's usually the safest bet in the meantime moment of truth you ready, baby. Oh oh, oh, it's It's awful well there's your problem Not actually endorsing this method is yours rubbing too a little bit Fortunately I have engineered a quick fix Let's call back off the screws a little bit okay now is the time to see that bio screen and I am in the bios You know what? Thanks for sponsoring this ARS. I'm gonna leave your I'm gonna leave your marketing bullet points right there, okay? Advanced mode we're going CPU upgrade um advanced what what did that even do gaming profile advanced profile What does that even okay? Well we can turn XMP on a DDR for 3600. That's fast Hey, Anthony, what's like a blitz version of multi-core enhancement called? I don't know I haven't used many gigabyte boards you dick. Oh, no. It's called enhanced multi-core performance Fantastic and it's cool. Why is there a European plug in here? They thought maybe you had to go to the bathroom Get it cuz European Wait a minute hey Colton do these drives have windows on them Jake hit me with a windows 10 install USB I Can't prepare it wait is this USB 2? How much did you pay him Anthony? I didn't pay him any Alex. How much did you pay him? I didn't pay it What Alex what do you mean? How much did you pay him to give me a USB 2 drive? 500 gig SSD show me that NVMe install speed What is with my screwdriver today, oh god I forgot about that. Where are you at Anthony? Uh? installing the operating system I Am pretty far out ahead right now actually I am going to get a oris engine and do some Graphics card overclocking and then I'm gonna configure OBS. That's part of the challenge We have to get OBS configured so that we can capture our gaming while we game. This is my secret weapon Gaming optimized bios there it is say we're on f3 so that's an older one. This is gaming optimized for gamers Now I just have to hope that the power doesn't go out while I'm updating it because then I lose I'm just grabbing some updates Doing some other stuff. You know might as well grab that bias update. I guess He's copying my strat I need to figure out what's going on with this weird stability stuff my problem is I think what I need to do is remove My GPU overclocking utility in order to get it behaving normally, but it's really hard to do that when it's not behaving normally I decided to go a little unorthodox I don't think that the CPU overclock is gonna make too big of a difference So I'm just removing the turbo limit to make sure that that's not a limitation for the GPU I'm gonna try and push the clocks as far as they'll go. This is my secret weapon I bet he turned off hyper threading and stuff, too Hyper threading and stuff too. You're gonna turn off hyper threading? Well for gaming sure why not? You know what that might be a decent idea. Maybe see now that I'm sharing ideas. Why don't we all just you know? Collaborate and share ideas. What's your secret weapon again? It's Linux Wait, what? Oh, that's a pretty clever idea So it's a bit of a gamble we'll see if it pays off I Just found out Anthony is planning to compete with Linux, which I probably should have seen coming a mile away We're gonna see how that works out for him because when we did our last gaming on Linux update I was really really impressed by how seamless the experience has gotten and then there were also times when I was Disappointed because between moving the computer from upstairs to downstairs It wasn't behaving the way that we were expecting in a couple of cases to be clear. I can't blame that on Linux necessarily We've seen the same thing on Windows machines, but there's just always a bit of a Diral involved in this sort of thing for GPU overclocking. What I'm using is green with envy It's an open source tool and what it allows me to do is set custom fan profiles set my overclock All of that is currently applied. So I just have the fan running at full tilt power limit at 200 watts and the GPU Offset and memory offset are both set here I might see if I can get away with a little bit more on the memory. So it seems stable on the desktop But I'm not a hundred percent sure if this is gonna work in a game 33 seconds I get the feeling this is gonna come down to whoever's better at doom. I'm gonna tell you guys something I'm pretty sure I'm significantly better at FPS games than him So wait, you're saying you're significantly better at FPS games than I am pretty sure I am Okay, pretty sure we've played together before we played halo. Yeah, and you were sniping on top of a hill and Were there bullets in your head or not? I don't know Yeah, exactly because when there's bullets in your head, you don't exactly have the self-awareness anymore to know that they're there Meanwhile, my screen is black. That's always a good sign. If it completes a run I'm pretty sure my overclock is dialed in pretty well I can probably squeeze more out of it, but I'm not sure if I want to spend that much time Seems pretty good so far. This is about what I'd expect. I've got a good feeling about this Famous last words. All I know is I'm looking at about 70 FPS around the fountain here 69 there. Hopefully that's nice. I don't know if it is though. All right average FPS 66 Not great Okay, so I'm at 85 I'm calling that good enough. Okay, we're out of here. Hey, there it is. Okay Okay So I'm gonna have to be a lot more careful than I'm accustomed to being holy I feel like my mouse is not quite doing the right thing. I don't have the chainsaw equipped No time for this. Gotta win. How's Anthony doing? How am I doing? Pretty sure I'm further along but I may die here Never mind. Oh I may still die. Yeah, I died shoot Shoot low health low health and I'm dead crap. Oh Oh sh**, okay restart the recording Doom eternal me I think I'm still out ahead of Linus. Is he really? What can I say? I'm better at shooters than you thought I was how good a shooter I probably shouldn't be talking smack right about now. Can't get in there Okay, this is a problem. It's gone again 83 83 Okay I'll take that. Am I done? Campaign fortress of doom? Did I finish? Is this the end or do I have to fight something? So what was Anthony's Tomb Raider FPS? 83. What was mine? Okay, hey did I win? You know what GG though? Yeah, you definitely won GG You were you were way better at gaming than I expected. I was like five minutes ahead But then it crashed and I couldn't get it to reload So like I had to go back and change a bunch of BIOS settings and it wasn't actually any of that Five minutes ahead would have been enough for the win. Yeah. Oh It was I'm so disappointed and it was my own fault because I chose Linux But like also you you went back into the BIOS and you were fine-tuning like the hyper threading stuff. I ended up not bothering Yeah, I just left it on and was like forget it. I just need to get in this game actually It was worth doing that because when I went back See my original FPS was 66. It was below what Colton got but then I went back disabled hyper threading and then reapplied everything And I got 83. Yeah, like just trying to diagnose all of this is just not possible in the time We had well either way that was a lot of fun Congratulations, it takes that. Oh, thanks. We showed that there is no excuse for not building your own gaming rig Because between the two of us it only took about two hours to build Overclock and beat the first level of doom eternal one nightmare or whatever difficulty we were playing ultraviolence ultraviolence And now I'm the proud owner of this trophy that I already owned before we started because it belongs to Linus Media Group Incorporated you also have a sticky note though. Oh Oh Massive thank you to gigabyte a or s for providing these sick Intel 10th gen gaming rigs I was really impressed with the doom eternal performance like look at this I was out like 200 FPS in my in my spaceship or whatever I'm in sick stuff You guys can check out the links to where to buy all the parts of these rigs in the video description And of course shout out to Anthony for being a good sport. That was a real back-and-forth battle there. Well played, sir Yeah, it was it was looking like it could go either way for a long time there