 On the surface, the challenge for our contestants today is very simple. All they have to do is take all the parts, which are gonna be laid out ever so nicely for them on this table, and assemble them onto this test bench. Except, we're gonna be throwing a bit of a monkey wrench into things. This is a blindfold. Yes, my friends, they're gonna have to do it blind, but not without assistance altogether. In my left and right hands are DJI's OcuSync First Person View goggles and camera setup. That's right, our two builders are going to be Yvonne and Dennis, both fairly inexperienced PC mechanics. And on the other side of a two-way communication device, also known as a walkie-talkie, and peering into the goggles, seeing through their eyes, will be none other than me and Anthony. So who will complete the challenge first? Linus and Yvonne, the married couple, which could go either of two ways, or Anthony and Dennis, with Anthony calling the shots, of course. Man, I'm pretty stoked for this. And it's brought to you by Open Bench Table. Open Bench Tables are made for enthusiasts who are looking for an easy solution to quickly test and overclock PC components like us. It comes in different colors and sizes and fits most motherboards, and you can check it out at the link below. Here's one. We love these things, they're great. Okay, the first thing you're gonna do is look a little bit to your right. Look to my right, you mean feel to my right? No, I mean look to your right, because I can see your eyes. No, no, stop, stop, stop. Your hands are just out in front of you. Just out in front of you. Okay, look to your right. Okay. Okay, now reach your right arm. Yep. Forward, forward, forward, down to the right a little bit. Okay, forward a little bit. There's a little lever by your index finger. Push it down and then pull it towards you. Is this the little lever I'm pushing on? No, it's a little bit to the right. To the right. Yep. Oh, okay. There you go. So you can't be groping around for this part, because we could bend the CPE pins. Okay, okay. Left hand, forward. Okay. Okay, forward, forward. Okay, that's the CPU. Okay. Pick it up. Okay, hold it up to the camera. Other side to the camera. I need to see where the little golden triangle is. Closer to the motherboard socket. Do you remember where that was? Do not grope for it. More to the right. Okay. More to, more forward, more down. Down? Towards the table. What do you mean towards the table? Like forward, yeah, okay, good, good, good, good, good. Down. Not too fast. That's the other one. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, just one hand. Okay. No, no, no, no, two counterclockwise. Clockwise, clockwise. Okay, yeah. Okay, good-ish. Right. Okay, and just let it go. Should I wiggle it? No, no, don't wiggle yet. Now, lift it up ever so slightly and shove the CPU a little bit to the left. Don't bend those pins, though. Oh no, is she mashing it? Is that not in place? Okay, it's got to go a little bit counterclockwise. Can I use my left hand to help? Yes, yes. Okay, so it needs to go a little counterclockwise. Yeah, okay. Okay. Does it feel like it's in? Now it does. Oh, yes, okay, cool. Nice, yes, yes, good, lower that. Okay, yeah. And then, yep, lower that. Hey, not bad. And then this thing. Just chuck it, doesn't matter. Oh my goodness, we have to mount the CPU cooler? Wow, yeah, don't solid weight yet. Okay, now do your left hand, pick it up. Okay. Good, okay. Wow, you got to flip the motherboard over, that'll be interesting. No, it's stuck, okay. All right, so that post. I got to find that hole again. Yeah, you got to find, yep, perfect. Just a little up into the right. There it is. Okay, so that post that you were holding goes through that hole. You got this, hun, I believe in you. You can put it in the hole. Wow, I can't feel the hole. She can't feel the hole. Well, you got to find it, it's tight, you know. Oh my gosh, okay. Oh, okay, I got one. Now you just rotate it a little bit until they all go through. Good, good, good, good, good. Push it through. Okay. Nice. Okay, so you're going to put those over the posts, all four posts. You can find them, I believe in you. Okay, hold on, hold on, you can't find them, I don't believe in you. Okay, right there, yes, good, good, good, good. And does it go on a specific way? Doesn't matter for the purposes of what we're doing. Oh, oh shoot, I dropped one. I dropped one. Did you find it yet? No. Oh, there it is. Okay, good, okay, don't drop anymore. Oh, oh, okay, there. We're good, we're good. Okay. Now it's on properly. There, that's your bracket, you need that. Did I get it? If they're both on, then you got it, yes. Yep, okay. Good, okay, yep, that's correct. Can I do the same thing? Yes, oh nice, nailed it, you're good, you're good. Okay, go back and get those thumb screws. Good, yep, right there, one at a time. You are such a champ. I was not expecting to go from building my first computer to building one blindfolded now. Okay, yeah, there's your post. So much for not touching the motherboard, my palm's like all over it. Yeah. It's fine, there are multiple layers to that PCB. I think, I think that's on, I heard something. That seems to be on, yep, yep, that seems to be on. Okay, nice, okay, next we're going to do the, let's do the M.2, get close. Okay. Get closer, no, no, no, that's a PCI Express slot. It's getting, oh, right there, right under your middle finger, right there, right there, undo that screw, do not drop it. Yep, good, okay, back to the motherboard. Okay, turn it counterclockwise. Oh, we got this, we got this, okay. No, no, no, no, two counterclockwise, that's perfect. Okay, down, oh boy, okay. So it needs to sit flat, like parallel to the motherboard. Yes, perfect, perfect. Did I get it? You're in. Okay, can you put the screw on the screwdriver? Show me those sewing hands. Can you line it up and then I'll screw it in? I can try, yeah, that's lined up, so it's just got to go into that hole. Did I get it? No, you're to the left of it. Did I get it now? That might be it. It's hard for me to tell, you got a lot of hands in the way. Well, I hope I'm not screwing into the motherboard. Me too, I can't see though. Oh, it worked, no, it's good. Oh, nice. Okay, let's do the RAM first, because the CPU is tall and it'll be in the way. Sure, okay, so away with your left hand. Away. Left. Left. Pick up a RAM stick. Okay, so start with, it's going to be easiest if you start with the slot that's farthest from you. Yep, that was where you're, no, no, no, no, farthest from you. Yep, there you go, that one. I don't want to push down if it's wrong. No, it doesn't look quite right to me. No, it doesn't feel right. Okay, I think it's not in on the right side. I think you got to lift it up and move it a little closer to you. Yep, right there, there it is. Okay, and then I'm doing the second slot? Yep, perfect, I think you got it. That sounded good. Yep, yep, yep, you're good, it's in. So you really can't see anything? No. Ah, you're doing well. There it is, yep, good, good. Seems like you might be a little too close to yourself. Only, only the right side went in, so I'm trying to fix it. There it is. There it is, nice. Okay. If there was only two sticks of RAM, this would actually be more difficult. But since it's four, we're populating all the slots, so we can just butt them all up against each other. Thermal compound, left, forward, down. Yep, good, good. Wow, first try. Take the cap off, use your teeth. Ugh. Okay. The very tip of your index finger, that is where you will apply the thermal compound. Okay, I'm not going to push it yet, but you mean here? Yes. Hold it like you hold a spoon, it drives me crazy. Oh, come on. Okay, good. No, you have not gotten any out yet. What? I'm squeezing. How about now? As long as she's using that as a guide, I'm pretty sure she's going to get some on her finger. There we go. That looks pretty good to me. Okay, heat sink. Yeah, that one. Yep, yep, pick that up. Stop, there's thermal compound there. Oh, right, right, right. Okay, so feel the bottom of the heat sink. No, no, no, that's not the bottom, the shiny part. Feel the shine. Yeah, there you go. I thought you were not supposed to touch that. Just chill. Okay. Okay, there, there, there, there. Stop, don't move. Yeah, okay. Right there. Yeah. So that is going to go on one of those posts. The pokey things? Yes. Stop feeling around the CPU socket. You're going to get thermal grease all over yourself. Okay, but how am I going to find the posts without? Don't worry about it. Okay, so a little more to the right. Down, towards yourself, towards yourself, towards yourself, towards yourself, little to the left, little, oh, too far, away from yourself, down. I think that might be it. Like it feels good. Doesn't look that good. Actually, can you do me a favor? Yeah. Can you rotate the entire test bench 90 degrees clockwise? 90 clockwise, oh geez, okay. This way? No. What do you mean? That is clockwise. Yes, it is. It definitely is not. Clockwise is this way. Right. Oh. Okay, so no, we're crooked, we're crooked. Okay. So pick up the heats. Just don't pick it up. Don't pick it up. Put your hands on it. Okay. And rotate it clockwise a little bit and move it a little bit to the right. Okay, up. Okay. Oh no, no, too far up. Okay. Oh wow, that looks good. Down. I think that's it. There you go. I think I see it tightening. Okay, stop, stop, stop what you're doing. Okay. Oh shoot, you got to loosen the one that you just put in a little bit. It looks like it's on straight. Yeah, so go ahead and you're going to have to apply some pressure. You got to straighten out that heat sink. Is it catching? No. Then you need more pressure. Oh wait, no, it is catching. Oh, it is, it is. Okay, good, good, good. Okay, get the fans. Left, left, left, left, left, left, up, away from you. There, good, yeah. But there's little like wire clips that feel like paper clips. On the fan? Yeah. Oh yeah, yeah. Oh, oh yeah. Okay, so there's one there and one on the other side. You need to stretch those over the fins. Good. Is that on? Yeah. Okay, now you need to do the same thing with the other fan. Is that on? Yeah. Nice, okay. Now what? Where are the, okay, now we got to find those cables that are coming out of the bottom of the fans. I don't know what's going on. Okay. This doesn't reach. Get the other one then. It's okay, Yvonne. Oh, are we calling that a good? We're going to call that time. Oh, okay. Okay, good job. I'm glad I don't have to do the fan header thing. I was actually bracing for the fan header and for the power supply connectors too. Okay, to your right is the test bench. Can you turn that 90 degrees counterclockwise, please? Yep, that's good. Oh, you knocked some stuff, but okay. Now with your right hand, reach forward. Yep, there should be a lever on the CPU. So just down a little bit. Right there. That up, up, up, up, up, up. There you go. This thing. That thing. Okay, so open that up. See, I'm really good. Oh, geez. Oh, you're going right for it. Okay. So down? Yeah, yes or no? Down. Okay, up, up, to the right. Right. Don't scrape it across the... Oh, is that down? Are you still holding it or no? I am not. Okay, I got it. I got it. I got it. Okay, okay. Oh, oh, oh. Okay, so... Oh, oh, oh. Oh, what? Oh, tell me what? Is he like two-handing it in there? It does appear to be that. To the left? Oh, is that... Are you dragging that across the socket? Trying to. Oh, don't do that. Oh, don't do that. Oh, boy. Okay, okay, okay, okay. Let me feel it. Oh, geez. Don't feel the socket. He is shredding that socket. Oh, boy. Oh, boy. This is going great so far. Okay, okay. Wait, wait, wait. One more time. Where do I go? You're basically right over it. So lower it down. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. So lower it down a little bit. To the... Move forward. Yeah, I think you're good. I think the CPU is crooked. So just pull it back. Why don't you pull out and pull back in? There you go. There you go. Hold it down like that. Now push it down and lock it into place. Yes. Okay. That is done. This is M.2. Yes, it is. Yes. That's not a screwdriver. What is this? We'll get to that. In that area, and I don't want you to stab the motherboard. Okay? Don't stab it. Don't stab the motherboard. I don't know where you're going. No, that's not... Wait, wait. Let me feel it. I can feel it. There, right there. Yes. You're dead. Anthony. I'm dead? What? Okay, you're back. Move the screwdriver out of the way. Oh, I lost it. Okay. So it's the next one up. So further out from you. That one there next to your finger, that's the one. Wait, let me... I can't put it in. Oh, yes. I got it. I got it. Okay. I got it. It doesn't matter. His computer is broken. Everything he does now is hooking things up to a broken motherboard. Remember where you put that screw. Okay, I'm not putting it in my mouth. Don't do that. That sounds like a safety problem. Okay, I don't know where to put it. I can't find it later. Okay, okay. Just keep... Don't put it in your... Don't... And you're nowhere in the area you need to go. Just right there, right there. Back. Back. There we go. Here. Roughly. And are you pushing that directly down into the... Direct it down, yes. It's directly down? Where's the hole? I can't feel it. It doesn't take any force to... Did you just eat that screw? To the right, to the right. No, that's... To the right, to the right. Here. There you go. There you go. There you go. Grab the screwdriver. Yeah. Presumably also the screw that you... Yeah, it's back from my mouth. Oh, no. Damn it. The hole. Where's the hole? No, no. You need to reinstall it. Oh, my God. He's trying to jam it into where the PCB meets the mount for it. The slot, yeah, yeah, yeah. And that's why he's not able to get it in. Instead of actually up in where the pins are. Yeah. Yeah. You're there. You're in. Oh. Oh. Okay, this is a real in, I guess. Oh, my God. I don't want to lose the screw. That would be disastrous, but I'm sure we have magnets. Oh, my God. I can't. I don't know where it is. Oh, my God. Where it is. Okay. Where's the screw? Wait, where's the screw? This is clearly going nowhere fast. In the interest of a fair fight, Dennis. Oh, my God. I just lost my screwdriver. You're the remote control human, but we're going to let you see. Okay. Where's my screw? I don't have my glasses. I can't see. Ow. This is hot. Do you? Okay. Here, how about he wears this as a bandana? Just so you know. Ow. Hot. So hot. Burning my forehead. Okay. All right. Ninja warrior Dennis here. All right. All right. So there you go. Okay. Well, okay. So you can see hopefully. Okay. I got it. I got it. Yeah. Okay. There you go. Good luck. What screw do you have? What is that? I don't know. What do you know? That's not the screw. This is not. No. Where's my screw? See, that's why I say I have to put this in my mouth. Yeah. Let's pretend that we didn't lose that screw. Okay. Let's do right. No, not ram yet. We want to do the cooler first. Okay. So this that's not quite what I'm talking about. But yes, pick that up. Uh-huh. Now it needs to line up with the four holes around the CPU socket there. It'll just pull right off of that. You can just pull on the motherboard. It's not really even. Oh, okay. It's just on there. All right. Yeah. So we need to line up that bracket. The hole. Yeah. With the holes. Yeah. I got it. Flip it around. Yeah. I mean, they need to go through the holes. Oh my God. There's no way I can do this with blindfold. Well, Yvonne did it. No way. There's video evidence. Okay. So you need to hold that in place. Yeah. And the black spacers. Yeah. Got it. Put it on top. Yeah. Those straddle the other way. We could do it that way, but no, no, no. This. Yes. Like that. Like that. Yeah. To here. And those screws should poke through. Yep. Same as the other side. Same on the other side. Grab the thumb screws. Yeah. Okay. Screw those on. Oh, there's no way you could do it blindfold. There's no way. Next we are going to use thermal compound on our CPU. That is that syringe that you thought was a screwdriver a couple times. So what do I do? Uh, rotate the cap off counterclockwise. It's so... Oh yeah. I got it. I got it. All right. All right. And, uh, you know what? Just don't worry about it. Just, just push down on it. Yeah. There you go. Yeah. Perfect. I love it. There's nothing happy about this, Dennis. And that is a ton of thermal compound. You know who's going to have to clean that? Me. Okay. Okay. Now we put the CPU tower cooler on. And that, uh, yeah, you line up the screws with the screw posts. You know what? This is now like remote controlled AI human. What the? Why is this not clicking? Click. Okay. There. Come on. I guess I'm just around along for the ride at this point. I can't do this. You can't or can do it? I think it's this way. No, it's this way. Uh, yeah, that's correct. That looks correct. Wait. No, it's not. No, it's not. It's this way. This cooler has pigtails. And like that. Here. Give them a tug. Just make sure they don't come off. Uh. Oh, oh. There you go. Your SSD isn't mounted. Oh, my SSD. Oh, I found my screw. Here, here, here, here. Okay. Okay. So yeah, use the small screwdriver. There you go. Done. Done. It only took cheating. No, this is not cheating. You guys gave up on me. Okay. Yeah, yeah, completely. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Yeah, yeah, completely. But see, I made it. You made it with your eyes. Yeah, yeah. With eyesight. I need to see how badly you mangled these pins. I want a 10 minute penalty. Yeah. That's good. It's covered in fingerprints. Everywhere. What fingerprint? Your fingerprints. Why? Why can't I have my fingerprint on the thing? Because it means you were touching it. Oh, oh. It's been. It's been. You mean no. Yes, of course it is. Did you see what you were doing to it? Oh, wow. It's so bent. One, two, three, four bent pins down here. Honestly, I'm surprised it's not worse. I think Yvonne did that. Paul in check. I checked. It was mint. There's fingerprints in the socket. Look, there's one here. It's like discolored. You should go get it tested. It might be Yvonne's fingerprint. I feel like I didn't have a whole lot of control here. I want a 10 minute penalty. Four pins, four minutes. Four pins, fine. Accepted. Yvonne assembled a computer. You assembled nothing because it's only a computer if it can compute. Their team was so pathetic that I decided to allow Dennis to remove the blindfold. They were about 15 minutes in and hadn't even managed to successfully install the M.2 yet. I heard that you bent the CPU pins. I think you bent it. What do you mean you think? I didn't bend it. Think nothing. Colin told you Yvonne didn't bend the pins. You bent the pins. They're clearly bent now. I think the viewers would know. Yeah, I think they will. Probably will. Okay. So are you ready? Okay. Do I go for it or do we go together? I think go together. Okay. Count us down. Three, two, one, go. We lost? What? What? We're finished? Not surprised. This always happens. Okay, it's the time. What time? What penalty? For bending the pins. Also, I was blindfolded. That was the whole point of this challenge. Yeah, there would have been no honor in that victory anyway. He was not blindfolded for half of it and he starts blowing through it. There's still stuff that I think you did faster than him, even though he was not blindfolded Really? No, there's no way. You said there was no way that she did it blindfolded at all. Okay, so we have 34.19. Ow. Oh, I'm so sorry. Victory. See, groping stuff was a good strategy. Well, not really. No, because it didn't work out for him. Well, I don't know how he gropes things. Apparently rougher. Well, thanks for watching, guys, and congratulations to our winner. Me, mostly me. I did most of the work. You were just hands. Okay, if you had directed Dennis, this would not have worked. Oh, I'm not going to say anymore. I watched Yvonne's performance and I think that she did pretty well. Speaking of doing pretty well, I did pretty well transitioning to our sponsor, Manscaped. Manscaped created the world's first all-in-one manscaping kit that makes manscaping both safe and easy. Introducing the perfect package 3.0, which includes everything you need to take your man grooming to the next man level. It features their Lawn Mower 3.0 waterproof body trimmer. 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