 Do I? Oh, holy. What, what, what, what? We finally put our epic employee gaming lounge back together, but there's a key thing missing. Check this out. We got our PlayStation, our Xbox, our Switch. We've even got an Nvidia Shield. Where's the freaking gaming PC to power the VR experience? No problem. We know how to build gaming PCs, or at least some of us do. To help me out today, I brought along my one and only wife, who to my knowledge has never actually built a water-cooled computer before. Yeah, no, not a water-cooled one. Yeah. I built one for, it took me four hours. We don't have four hours, so let's see what we can do. And let's see if I can tell you about our sponsor. The Voltaspark 60 watt braided charging cable features a snag safe magnetic connection tip for both trip protection and for swapping between devices. And for even faster charging, you can check out their Voltaspark 100 watt at the link below. Here we go. There you go. Oh, okay. So there's a number of ways we can go about this? What, you look nervous. Oh, well, okay. If I'm building it myself, then I'm very nervous. You're gonna do most of it, but I'm going to be here to help you. Okay. And not here to help you and like screaming, why are you doing it wrong from the other room kind of way. So what do you want to start with? Do you want to start with the water-cooling or the computer hardware? I feel like there's a right answer and you're testing me. Great. Okay. So that's it for today. Thanks for joining us. We hope you enjoyed today's episode when you're testing me. We start with the motherboard, don't we? I learned from last time, okay? I did. Wow, that's pretty good. We've gone with a Crosshair 8 Dark Hero, and the main reason for that is that, well, this is a top of the line rig and we are making no compromises whatsoever. Totally unlike us, I know. Hold on, you can't put it on yet because we've got to see if there's any accessories that we need. No, we need the stickers. You've got to keep those. Yeah, we can keep them in here. For our CPU, we've gone with a Ryzen 9 5900X, and while that's not technically the highest end in AMD's lineup, that would be the 16-core 5950X, 12 cores is lots for gaming, and in terms of gaming performance, it is on par with its more expensive cousins, so this is more than enough. Okay. Are you gonna put it in at some point? Well, I, sorry. It's fine. You know that that will just fall out of there, right? Yeah, yeah, but it didn't. It has pins on it. This is AMD. Oh, yes, okay, I know. I know there's more of them downstairs. I was just waiting for you to finish talking. I thought I had to wait. I didn't know I could just keep going. Golden triangle. See? Wow, have you been studying? No, I did that part right the last time. I even helped somebody with that part last time. We've gone with 3600 megahertz CL14 DIMMs from G.Skill. These are part of their Trident Z RGB series, so they're gonna look freaking awesome, and this is pretty much best case scenario in terms of performance memory for AMD. Oh, those are a tight fit. That's what she said. I'm gonna take every opportunity today. Now, last time I made the mistake of trying to put the cooler on, so we're gonna do the, I don't remember what these are called. I just called them SSDs, but I know that that's not what they're called. Really? What would they be called? Well, I don't know. I thought there's a different name for the tiny ones. Oh, yes, it is an SSD. This is just an NVMe M.2 SSD. So yeah, you were 100% correct. That's why I was sitting here going like, I don't know what these are called, so I'm gonna call it an SSD. I don't know, gumstick maybe? Can you do that? I mean, you can do anything you want. Actually, don't tell me, but I don't actually see where this goes. So is this a test or are we actually working together on this? I don't know, I hadn't really decided. Okay, so I think. We're not gonna put that there. What? You're 100% right that it fits, but there's actually a primary and a secondary slot on this board, and this right here is an eight terabyte QLC SSD from Sabren. It's not really that fast, but it's got a ton of capacity, so this is gonna be our bulk storage drive. We're gonna put it in our secondary slot, which is under here. I thought you said we were building the best PC ever. Well, okay. I made a small compromise on the boot drive. Wait, what are you doing? Oh, we need those screws. Got a screw in the drives. Okay, I thought the plate screwed that in. I had oriented it a certain way, and then you picked it up and gave it to me, and now I don't remember which way it goes. That's okay, text is always your best clue. If there's text on something, then put it right side up. Okay. Did you even check for the text? Yeah, I did. It says M.2, and also the pattern goes this way. I think it actually says 2.W. No. No what? No, stop it. Should we put this- Are you mad about something? She always cleans when she's mad. No. Annoyed, maybe. Here, you clean. You put that away. I'm guessing this is a water block. Yes, but it's been pre-installed by Jake for us. Thank you, Jake. Actually, this is a super cool block. We did a video about this recently. EK released a two-part block, so this is for an RTX 3090, which has the GPU and memory on the front, and then also has memory on the back of the card. So this two-piece block cools both the front and the back of the card, and we found a real difference in temperatures with this implementation. It also looks fantastic. This is like, I don't know if you noticed, but the theme of the build is all matte black. Yeah, I did notice. Except for RGB. RGB is okay, too. Should we put the motherboard in the case? Yeah, we can do that. Okay, I'm gonna move it. This feels like ROG Rig Reboot. What? I mean, we've had people do so well at ROG Rig Reboot, we ended up hiring them. And if you work hard, someday we might hire you, too. Oh my gosh, wow, okay. Who's technically the boss of it? Oh. It's complicated. I think it's complicated depending on who you ask. Okay, we're gonna put this over here. The 5000X from Corsair's biggest standout features, just that everything is really well thought out. So cooling, cable management, the amount of hardware it can fit. I've never seen these things before. Yeah, included little cable ties, included fan hub, included RGB hub. Just everything is ready to go. If you're looking for just kind of the simplest case to build in, if you're getting kind of all standard components, and you just wanna throw it together, it's a really good choice. Oh no. I have a present for Lionel. Yeah, the chief troll officer of lttstore.com just arrived with some new mouse pad samples. Oh, that's unfortunate. Oh man. Wow, need some DLSS. Are we actually making these? I think the audience would like us to make them. No one is gonna buy that, look at it. I mean, tell Yvonne she's wrong in the comments, I guess. Ha ha ha. Rude. Ugh. Don't. I am figuring it out. Okay, looks like it. Wait. What? Do you want me to tell you? Okay, yes, yes, yes. Okay, all right, you gotta take this peel off now, otherwise you can't get it off. Oh, okay. Okay, there we go. All right, so. Got the nipple coming through the hole, and that means all of them are lined up. Yeah, you're good. I haven't done water cooling before, but I'm guessing this is the reservoir, but I don't know why there's two of them. Me neither. Okay, well, I guess we'll figure that out. That's GPU block. Wait, is this another reservoir? Yeah. Why do we, sorry. Why do we have three reservoirs? Why are there three radiators? Jake works in mysterious ways sometimes. That seems like overkill. In this case, because we want something that is quiet optimized, we want something that doesn't have super, super dense fins. The biggest difference is that the XC is quite a bit thicker. So yeah, if we're stuck with just one, thicker is gonna be better. We definitely can't put one of these thick boys on the top. Just not enough room. Hmm. That's not gonna fit in there either. We'll have to make some adjustments. Wait, what are you doing? You're supposed to be teaching me how to do stuff. Oh. Okay, go ahead and take that out. Stuck somewhere? Well, I don't know. I was trying to figure that out, and then you told me I wasn't allowed. Okay, well, move then. I actually don't know what it's doing. There we go. Okay. I don't actually know if that should come at the bottom or the top, but I'm assuming if I were to go based on what he said about text, that being able to read that is a good thing, right? Okay, no, come back, come back. I don't wanna be here all day. Okay, does it go in this way? No, we should go the other way, probably. Of course, this is the part in the build where we decide whether we wanna be a David. What's a David? A David is someone who installs fans in a push configuration on the outside of their case into their radiator. Davids end up with a big bunch of cat hair and dog hair built up on their radiator, and then their good friend Linus, who they definitely don't only hang out with because Linus gives them a free computer and pays them money, has to come and clean all the hair out of the radiator, okay? So if we don't wanna be a David, we move our fans to the other side of the rad, which makes it a lot easier to clean. I'm actually gonna have you pivot and work on installing the CPU block. Okay. That's a fun one. That's a sexy CPU block. EK Velocity, baby. You know what, I'm feeling fancy today. I'm gonna put in four screws per fan. What? I know, right? Look, this is for my staff, okay? This is for my staff to enjoy VR games. It has to be built properly. We never put the screws in the motherboard to hold it to the case. We never? You took the case from me. I did overlook that. Okay. But I'm putting all the screws in the radiator. Not content to order fittings like a normal person, Jake decided to order them by the pound for this build. What? Oh my God. Man, these quantum torque fittings from EK are fricking gorgeous. Oh, yeah. I have no context for that. I don't know what other fittings feel like. Now I know how you feel when you show me like some, I don't know, cross stitching thing or something. And I'm like, oh, neat, you know? Well, wait, what the heck is going on over here? What? There are different ones. So I'm just going to test and see. Ah, okay. It was a good idea. Unfortunately, in order for your test to work, you would have had to put them in the proper way. Yeah, right side up would be nice. But I got this. But this way fits. She's planting mounting post trees. Does it come with a back plate? I thought I took everything out. Oh, okay. Well, it was on the bottom. Then this one's not thick enough. Or like not long enough, sorry. Wait, what? It must be this one. Okay, hold on a minute. This goes here. Okay. And then this goes here. Yeah, so I said we have to use the longer one because the other one was too short. I just said that. Oh, well then what's the problem? There wasn't. You just assumed I was doing it wrong. I, no, I just... See, you even went and tested it after. Go away. Just checking. I might throw on a touch more. Really? I thought it was supposed to be a grain of rice. That's bigger than a grain of rice. Yeah, this is a bigger CPU than Intel. This one, you have to actually make sure the thermal compound does cover the entire area. Yeah, that's fine. Are you just supposed to know that kind of stuff? No, you're supposed to watch tech tips videos. Lttstore.com. Do you actually talk about that stuff in your videos though? Because from all the ones I've seen, I don't think I've heard you talk about that. I mean, I am right now. This will be a video. You just gotta watch all the videos. Well. Every video has 3% of the tech tips you need. AIO pump. It's not an AIO, but could it go in there? I'm gonna go with a no, captain. Let's do one of your favorite phrases. Let's make sure we're thinking critically. What? Does anything here need its speed controlled? No, but it needs power. Okay, but what do you think this is for? Lights. There we go. Okay. Yeah, see? She totally knows all the principles, just hasn't like done it before. We're clearly not going to be able to use the full size tube, so I'm glad we have the little one. The pump is really ugly. And the rosemar, the whole thing. Yeah. Thank you. That's very constructive. It kind of is what it is. There's an RGB accent here, here, here, and there'll be one on the GPU. But I thought it's supposed to be matte black everything. That's not matte black. Yeah. We can sharpie it. We might take it out. Or use the stickers. Okay, why don't we find you something to do? Hold on a second. What do you mean the tubing is ugly? It's ugly. No, this is like professional looking. It's clean. Okay, it's not clean. Look at it, it's dirty. I know it's dirty. No, no, but I don't mean clean in that sense. I mean, clean looking and you can... No, it just looks like tubing. I don't even... Also, sometimes I feel like the point of water cooling a system is so that you can see the water and it looks cool. But now you're just hiding it all. Yeah, it's cause we're like too cool to care about seeing the water. You can see it in the reservoir. Yeah, but the reservoir is ugly. Oh my gosh. Okay, I don't actually know which power things we need. So I got the big one. That's good. You heard it here. This is the EVGA big one. Does that not look awesome though? It's okay. It's kind of covering the memory. Yep, that's not the point. The point is it's clean. We'll see, we'll see when it's done. I think it looks really good. Basically an attack on this tubing is an attack on me personally. That's okay. I think, okay, maybe... What do you mean that's okay? You don't get to decide if that's okay. I'm telling you it's not okay. Are you ready for the power supply or no? What do you mean am I ready for the power supply? Go ahead and put the power supply in. Thought you were building this computer. Well, you're kind of in the way. If you can sew a quilt, you can plug in a power supply. Okay, can I have the 24 pin? Do my fingers fit in here okay? Go away. That's what she said. Can you pass me front panel connectors? From the power supply? No. Through this hole. Through what hole? You're in the wrong hole. Don't say it, don't say it. Oh, okay, whoa, hold on. Okay, no, no, you can't just jam this one in there. You'll end up bending the pins. Oh shoot, I think they're already bent. Oh crap. It's your fault, but I don't blame you. Maybe we should have plugged that in before we put in the motherboard. Cause it's really hard to... What? I blame you, you're the teacher. Thanks miss, miss shoulda, woulda, coulda. All right, oh crap. Oh crap balls. Okay, I'm going to take the motherboard out, bend the pins back, and then I'm going to put this connector in without bending them. Watch me. So basically, oh wait, oh yeah, okay. There's supposed to be one pin missing in the corner here. So that's fine. So it's just this one right here that got a little off course. You know, if you know what I mean, actually, okay, no, it's not just this one. This one's just a touch out of alignment and this one needs to go this way. And then performing a feat, okay? I don't need all your judgment eyes on the back of my neck here. This is doable. I think these pins are just more mangled than I thought. No, I think it's just really hard to get leverage. Aligned, but no, I can put all the leverage in the world. I want you want me to mash these pins down. I'll do it right now. Okay, hold on. Okay, okay, go away. Go away, I will perform the feat later. Go plug in more fans. This is truly the worst connector of all time, but there we go, it's in, which proves that the pins are all in the right spot. Hold on, hold on, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I'm not ready to perform the feat yet. Okay. Are you gonna come watch my feat? I'm watching. My feet are down there. Got it? Got it? Got her. That's my feat. See that? That's fine. Wait, don't tie that one down, because we still need to do power. I know a thing or two about being tied down, if you know what I mean. I am not a brave enough man for that. Tubing is in the way. Oh crap. Hold on. Well, hold on, let's see, does it fit? Well, I mean, you're not even trying, come on, jam it. I don't wanna break anything. No, I don't think we should force that. And then I just pull it out? Yeah. What? Well, like you wanna kinda wiggle wobble it back and forth. That's what I was doing. Okay. Call her. Right. No, I'm not even judging you. Everyone's done it a hundred times. You're always judging. No. You say you're not, but you always judge. I wasn't judging that. All right, yeah, I was judging it, but I was judging that it's okay. Is this a wifi card? Sort of. That's not what we're using it for though. We're using it as a wireless interface for the Vive VR headset. Oh, okay. Yeah, so it runs completely wirelessly on this machine. Small update, we are totally gonna sacrifice performance for aesthetics. These Dominator Pros are gonna look way, way better in here. Triton ZRGB CL14, fast, great memory. It just looks totally out of place in here. So, yep, here we go. I love how you instinctively put these on this side of the tubing instead of around the tubing. That would look really bad. I knew I married her for a reason. Gotta get like a black piece of tape for the back of this wifi thing or something. Well, that's what the stickers are for. What? Wait, well, hold on just a minute. Actually, that could kind of work. Maybe we're not gonna try and cut it to size. We're just gonna yellow it? No, I'm measuring. But also- You're measuring. Look, it's almost exactly the right size. That's why I picked it. Wait, is it lined up right? Are you gonna line it up right? I am working on it. I'm just bugging you. That's not bad. Not bad. All right. It's definitely better than it was. Yeah, or if we cut a sliver of it, we could do this part right here. Why do I ever not have faith in this woman again? I don't know. And that is why the cable management doesn't matter on this case. I'll wait though. Oh, what? We can't close it up entirely until we've already powered it on. I am not superstitious, but it's extremely bad GBs to put all the panels on a computer before you have powered it on. Cause it's just like Murphy's law, right? What can go wrong will. Is that Murphy's law? Yeah, sure. Something like that. But whatever. Because when it is the most possible work to undo things, that's when it will fail. Hey, were you going to power on the computer? Cause we didn't put in the water. No. Obviously. But what about this person who left a dongle in this keyboard? Yeah, way to go. That's for a G pro wireless. So my mistake is much smaller, but because I was dumb and didn't screw this in, it's actually really good and easy to fill this. We're just going to kind of, right? Okay. And then we'll just kind of, we'll put that back in later. Sure. Do you need help with that? No. Yeah, it's to keep children out. Okay. Cause they don't have the upper body strength to casually easily open it like this. Thanks. Oh, holy. What, what, what, what? What the just what, what happened? Something shorted that right there. Just totally blue. I'm not a hundred percent sure. It looks like a small it's, it's burned up enough that it's hard to tell if it's a cap or something else. No, no, no. We didn't spill anything. Does that mean it's dead? Oh yeah. Probably. Oh, seriously? Yeah, seriously. Three, four pins and right. Everything. There's nothing to really, there's nothing to really bung up about it. Should we power it on again? I vote yes. Where's the fire extinguisher? You know how to use one of these? Yeah. Am I doing it? Yeah. Just make sure you look down the barrel while you pull the trigger so you can make sure it. Okay. Okay. Ready? Well, no, I need that. Wait, you took it away. Sorry. I thought you were just seeing if it was, I thought you were just checking if it was turning on. Okay. It fired up. All the Rams detected. Interesting. Wait, you put the side panel on without me. That's the most fun part. Oh, sorry. I did. I took the deals off. And now you're putting your fingerprints all over the glass. The peel was actually on the inside instead of the outside, which was kind of weird. That doesn't change that you're putting your fingers all over the glass. Well, I'm holding it in so it doesn't fall out while I screw it on. Check this out. It's like actually a tasteful amount of RGB. I like it. No, it's not. Yeah, it is. No, it's not. It's totally tasteful. That is a lot of RGB. Have you ever tried wireless VR? No, I haven't. You should give it a shot. Did we ever acknowledge on camera that this just like works now? And I even tried that fan port that was right there and it works too. I don't know. It seems fine, but it had fire on it. Wow. That is about as high performance as it gets. 2.4, 2.6, like two and a half millisecond frame times. What does that even work out to? Crab rave? Yeah, I don't think you're very good at crab rave. I would try. I mean, you could try crab rave if you want. We should put Yvonne in Arizona sunshine. Okay. Yeah, you're gonna try Arizona sunshine. Oh, is it scary? I thought that was the scary one. No, it's not scary. Are you lying? Yeah, no, no, it's fine. It's fine. It'll be fun. They're not scary zombies. They're more like friendly zombies. This is a game that's really nice to not have a tether because you can turn around as much as you want. No, I don't like this game. I don't like this game. Why is he not dead? No, I don't wanna play. Can you turn it off? That was a lot faster than I thought. No, it's too real. It's a little more immersive. I don't really like this game. That's what I thought. See, I actually listen when you talk to me. That's it. That's our new VR setup. Massive thank you to everyone who sent parts for it, especially EVGA. Like I said, those GPUs, not easy to get your hands on. And I'm looking forward to us all getting our shots so we can actually hang out in the bloody lounge. 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