 Alex, don't worry about it. Cool. ROG Rig Reboot is back where all the coolest kids in our community submit their crappy machines so we can give them an ultimate upgrade courtesy of Asus ROG. And we almost had one of those cool kids, but instead we ended up with Alex here. Rock, paper, scissor, shoot. I win. Maybe not, I'm just a pro. So check it out, that is gonna be your new machine and what are you gonna play on it? Roblox. Now, you fancy yourself something of a rapper. Can you do a little bit of freestyle for us? My name is Alex and I'm building a PC. I don't know how to rap. Um, in Madison's ROG Rig Reboot, she said something about- Originally I wanted to do what everyone did, which is a rap video, but then I realized I didn't want to be the cringey person that did the rap. So I decided to do a rap video. And I did it. And I did it. And I did it. And I did it. And then I realized I didn't want to be the cringey person that did a rap video. That's what I did. And you know what, Madison, I think, well, Madison won, so she's right, but I'm right too. You know. Let's have a look at this machine. Now, you claim that you've been watching the channel for four or five years, which means- Oh, I claim. That you should have pretty much seen every previous ROG Rig Reboot, which means that you should have a really good idea of what's coming for you. Does all that seem accurate? That seems really accurate. Okay. So in that case, have fun. Have fun. So Linus has left the building, apparently. And I'm here. I'm your host today, right? Okay, so I have a Dell XPS something old. It's really old. It would freeze like constantly. I have a square monitor and a rectangular monitor. Square one has like a huge red line going through it. It's past its prime, definitely. I'm impressed. You know, everyone else claims that they've watched previous ROG Rig Reboots, but then they're surprised when I'm not actually that helpful. It seems like you were ready for it. Okay, we do start with the motherboard. What can you tell me about this thing? Mom, I have never built a PC before, but I have put a hard drive into the bad computer. So I guess that kind of counts, but not really. Your timing for ROG Rig Reboot was pretty freaking awesome because Intel just launched their 12th gen Alder Lake platform, which means you are getting a shiny new Maximus Z690 formula board. This thing has all the bells and whistles. The shine gives you extra FPS. DDR5, PCI Express Gen 5. You even get this thing. Look at this thing. You were gonna just take this out without even looking at it? It's just a thing. Look at this M.2 carrier card. You can put a PCIe Gen 5 M.2 in here. Is this really gonna be my computer? Put it over there. What? What? What is this unboxing job? I put it in upside down. That's how you do it, right? Where does the motherboard go? Mom, can you help? Oh, on the top of the box. Good. Always hold the motherboard by things that are not the PCB. Maybe make it do a little back flip or something. Yeah, okay. You managed to touch the PCB. I managed to touch the... What part do you need next? CPU. CPU. Corsair makes CPUs. That's my one hint for you. Alder Lake 2020. Oh, is this a lake? That's like, you can't game at a lake. Anyway. You got this, Alex. That's the cooler. What? No, what? It's like, you know. Alex, this is serious. If you break these, the computer is dead. There's nothing I can do for you. This is very cool to look at. So this is a 12900K. Okay, so top of the line, Core i9. Don't screw it up. Don't screw it up. I'm serious, I cannot fix it for you. Circle, circle, circle, triangle. My friends accused me of being shapist and I don't agree. That's good. You should get a close up of this pro... Whoa, wow. I either broke it or did it correctly. I'm just gonna assume I broke it so that Linus can give me another computer. Hey, Seuss, you wouldn't get your video. You did a great job. The CPU is in. You can fit so much RAM in this bad boy. 128 gigs. We didn't get you 128 gigs. Okay, I was about to say, I was about to say. How do we... This is the weeding out process. I've already weeded in, so like... Did he just admit to the consumption of drug substances? You wanna talk about how much you hate Corsair that they gave you 64 gigs of DDR5 memory? No, I didn't say anything bad about Corsair. Corsair, they are the dominators. That's your sixth lie today. You're not even from Florida, are you? Is that right? You can see it, I can't see it, because of... And also I didn't snap them in. No, I don't think it's installed correctly. So you might wanna give that another try. Did I just manage to touch the... Anyway, let's not talk about that. There we go. Do you play a lot of sports, Alex? Bull, bowling? Yeah, lawn guards? Is that a sport in Canada? No, we have ice bowling. It's called curling. Oh, that's what that is. You got your CPU and your RAM in. Good job. Boom. Pfft. Pfft. Nope. Ah, see, I told you, you'd correct me if I'm wrong. I have protection of the tech tip himself. Oh, storage. Hey, I like it. That is tiny, actually. That's what she said. Oh, here, here. Oh, wow. That is a screwdriver. It clicks. It's like ASMR. Oh, Canada, they unscrew it to the right. That's so crazy. Oh. Pfft. So what you wanna do is you wanna get this out of the way. You could do that? That's mental gymnastics. This is Canadian physics. It's Canadian. I bet your normal computer is actually really good and it just performs crappy because you suck. Well, no, we. All right, let's try and speed this up. Get him out of here. Chop chop, race car. Yeah. But in Canada. The headline is Florida man builds a computer. Wow. Why isn't this going in? How are you ever going to finish screwing this in? Look. What? You're not making any progress at all. The screw lines up with the screw hole, Alex. Yes, but like, what? Is this going? Is it? Oh, I got it in. I got it in. Is this going? Oh, good for you. Can you please. Get this done, I know. Please. Let's go. I'm jacked. Just like this computer case from Asus ROG. You know, I've said many times in the past that I feel like my audience is really a cut above the average YouTube audience. In Linus Tech Tips, I think that's so true. I just don't really have any evidence for it at this point. Have you met like a flat earther? They don't have any evidence. So you're calling me a flat earther for thinking that you are- I'm saying you have an opinion. That's wrong. I feel like this is definitely not correct, but okay, whatever. And then you take the box off like a true basketball player who has seven feet tall. Okay, you know you're never going to be a pro basketball player, right? Yeah, I know. Oh my God, he's trying to like WWE it. Oh, this is something or other. That's the real reason we do these ROG reboot. We need someone to come in and make it look hard every once in a while. So people really appreciate what we do around here. You can lay down so much computer in there. You can lay down so much computer in there. Are you even listening to yourself? What, who listens to themselves? Boom, that is not even close to what is correct. No, really isn't. Wow, that was- I'll tell you what, if you have this motherboard in before my watch says 140, you can appear on TechLinked. Go. Okay, what is- Shh, shh, shh, shh, shh. Okay. Let's just like that. You actually did a great job of screwing this motherboard. Why are you coming over here? Your mom's over there. My mom's over, oh. Let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go, let's- My arm's getting tired. If the Verge could build a computer, I can, right? This is a crucial 2.5 inch solid straight. This is so light, oh my God. Is this a prank? It's like a prank show. Oh, there's four terabytes of storage in there. Can you be careful with it, please? That is a lot of space, wow, okay. It goes some... I am so confused. This, the top, am I just, oh. What year were you born? All of them. Are you ever going to take off this giant plastic shield thing? This would... My brain is ticking. Like the app, the phone app, TikTok. Why is this not working? Why is it, what? Does this, oh, it just doesn't come. That's a captive thumbscrew. Boom, I did it. No, I didn't. Top 10 moments where they celebrate too early. Yeah, if my kids did this, I would be pretty disappointed. Aren't your kids like five? Yeah. There's no way in the- You have one job, Alex. There is no way. Look at this. What? It's lined up perfectly. It's not going in. I feel like this is set up. I'm telling you, the game show person's gonna come out and be like, you've been pranked. Go back to Florida. This is the world power. Wait, what am I doing? Wait, no. You're doing better than Madison. Thanks, Madison, for doing worse than me. I appreciate it. It's not- That seems fine. All right. This is gonna be so painful. This is, no, this is great. This is, what did I just do? It's a AAAIO, so triple 120 millimeter fans, got RGB up the butt. It's white to match the case. This is gonna be a sick looking build if you manage to not break it. The black and white color scheme on this thing is gonna look sharp. This is good enough. I'm having a good time. Line of tech tips. You should watch more Gamers Nexus. Hi, Steve. I actually don't know where to go from here. Me neither, this is hopeless. Can I have a tech tip, please? Fans. Oh, wait, oh, these are RGB. Wow, these are like our greatest fans. Alex, less talking, more doing. How many times have you said that to him? I feel like it's amazing that you've made it this far. Guys, can we get some respect for Alex's mom in the comments? Okay, you've got some fans now. We are gonna wanna mount those fans to our radiator. Ah, like this. These are 100, stop, let's back up a little bit. No, not you. Millimeters are a sensible unit of measurement. At least everybody has a foot. Like nobody has a centimeter on them, right? You know what? I think this is the part where I just start doing things for him. I can't afford that much over time. David would be like, when's the double time kick in? I love no effort. Then this is, that's how we're doing it because I'm picking up what your mom's throwing down. What are you doing? Stop, stop, stop. From the top. Oh, from the top? That makes things easier, wow. Two clicks, there you go. Use the knurling, knurling fast. This, oh my God. I have no clue what you're talking about. Please hurry, my back hurts. I'm sorry, Linus. Oh my God, it's taking so long. No, it's fine. Just put the thing. Can you stop pulling that back out? Okay. Are we good? Thank you, Alex. No problem, Linus. We only have 18 more. 11 more, but yes, who's counting? Oh. What is this screwdriver for? Didn't I just show you how to do this? That's, okay, can I just? What? That's what I showed you. What? My brain just evolved like a Pokemon. If only I was tall enough to see it, but that's okay. Like this. Get the knurling. It's already in, like I don't know what you want from me. I feel like this is like going to a doctor and the doctor knows exactly what's wrong with you. You know, he's just reading all my symptoms to me straight from his head, like, and it takes too long. The doctor's for profit and gets paid by the minute, so. You're getting paid by the minute of sponsorships we do for ASUS ROG Rig Review 2021. I'm convinced that ASUS only sponsors these anymore just to watch me suffer. It's okay, they only get to see the 30 minute version of it, don't they? Yeah, condensed suffering is what they call it where I live. I need the thing, right? Not that thing. This thing? I don't know what these are, like I don't. Is there like a third brand of CPU that I'm missing here? Like why? Oh God. That David, he just wants to go home on time today. Thank you. Cool. I don't, I. Yeah. Okay, sure, you know what? I'm just gonna do it, whatever. Unless I need the screws. Hmm, interesting. Interesting, interesting development. Okay, am I supposed to put these in from the? No, you put them in from the front. I'm showing you what to do. Okay. So you just find one and screw it in. I believe in you. I don't. You want this? I think I need the ratchet and clank or whatever it's called. Isn't that like a movie? Or a book? A book, yeah, it's a book. Yeah, it's by Mark Twain. Do you take it? You do it. Oh! It's fine, don't worry, I didn't touch anything. Boom, boom, boom, perfect. Can you use the screwdriver, please? We need to do some cable management. This is my least favorite part, I love this. How about you just help me by grabbing, you know what, why don't I just do the whole thing? Why don't I do both sides? You know, that sounds, yeah, like more Linus, less tech, tech, tech, tech. Okay, solve the mystery of which of these plug into the thing you're holding. Oh, it's the thing I'm holding. All of them. One, two, three, four, five, six. Okay. Is it, it can't, no, it can't. What? Can I phone a friend? Okay, look away, see. What? So, what did you do that do? I plugged them all in. Well, you told me to look away, so I don't know what you want from me. Please just plug them in. Please don't bend the point. No, it's back. You just bent it. No, but it was bent. It's fine. No, you bent it. No, but it was bent like backwards. No, it was not. It's completely crooked. Yeah, right. You can put it back where it was. Yes, exactly. But it was like crooked the other direction. We need like a T. Lazy Susan. Lazy River. Okay, can you, the AIO is over here. Well, every time I move around, you like, you turn your hands so that I can't see it. I move this 180 degrees. Look, it's 180 degrees Fahrenheit. I'm even speaking freedom units for you. Okay, no, I get it now. That's great. Okay, now we need to plug in this. Actually, it's long, so it has to go behind. It has to go through the back. My standards are getting real low. That's fine. Your real low is my three more computers that I have. That didn't make sense. Don't put that in. You know, every time you say don't put that in, they put it in, right? How's that for cable management there? I can't see it. One other nice feature of this board is it has a crazy number of RGB headers. It's got an older style 12 volt one down at the bottom. Then it has three more of the five volt addressable ones, two on the bottom and then one at the top here, which makes the cable management kind of a treat. The GeForce RTX 3080. Okay, can you just get the power supply? I'll get the power supply. Thank you. Now, unfortunately, your cable mod cables didn't arrive in time for us to do the build today. So we're gonna swap them out for you, but you can still assemble them. I get even more Linus tech tips. Smells like gaming. Thanks, Asus. Do you have any idea how many watts fit in there? But watts don't have weight. This is your 15 minutes of fame right now. And this is how you chose to use it. B48, that sounds like an Atari game. Get me the rest of the cables I need. That was all of the cables. Could you maybe pick out one that I actually need or two? Oh, oh, oh, like, like, do you just want me to get, no, PCIe. Help me, Alex. This one. You need this one. I don't know if that graphics card has two eight pin power connectors or three. So I need you to find that out for me while I do all the work. Hey, is it taped? It's taped. If I cannot figure out how to open up the box, I'm gonna be so sad. What would I do? I'd have to return it and email them to ask it. It has three. There's a picture of it on the outside of the box. No. Where'd you see three? Oh yeah. That's like an Easter egg, but it's not Easter. It's like, when is this coming out? Round. Here we go. Okay. Let's see how many of the cables I can plug in while you work on that one. That is, oh, yes. Did you get it? Maybe. It's not in. Do I just push it in more? I mean, you can try that. But is that not gonna work? I'm not gonna let you leave here without a working computer. It just might not be this one. That's fine. It might be a raspberry pie. I might just keep this one. Oh, I have one of those. That's great. I eat one every day for breakfast. My mom says it'll make me fat. I think that's not a concern for you. I do 10 pushups a day, Linus. Do you do 10 pushups a day? Let's see it. Those are good pushups, actually. His form is actually excellent. He's slowing down though. This one right here. Yep, right there. And where is this going? So you're gonna find the HD audio port, okay? Which, oh wow, that's weird. There's two extra pins on the front audio. Front panel audio header. Then you got your Hydra node signal on the last two pins. Why they didn't just do a separate two pin header for that, I don't know, but hey, there you go. That's a feature that it has. We've got right angle USB 3s right here. These are one of the most likely connectors to break. One of them is actually a right angle as well. I could pull this off, but it's faster to just bend it a bit. Oh. Hey, look at that. Wow, you're actually doing mostly really sort of well, actually. Oh. That's awesome. They're all in the wrong spots, but they are on pins. Oh. Well, you know, it's good enough. Minus is on the left. Minus is on the right, but otherwise, yes. No, no, that's the right. I just said minus is on the right. I'm gonna need a SATA power cable. SATA power cable, modular cable. Good job. I'm gonna assume that you need this was the right thing. No, that is not. Yeah, these are SATA connectors. Oh yeah, no. I know that because I installed that one hard drive two years ago. Are you at least gonna impress me with your gaming skills? I was like first kill in Fortnite like two years ago. Like you got the first killer you were the first. No, I was the first kill. Is a negative KD even possible? Yes. Man, Alex, we are close. So you can have any color of say the cable you want. This is gonna be the little splash of color in the build. I'll take this one. You're gonna pick red. Okay. I mean anything's a good choice except red. I made a whole PowerPoint on why purple is not a real color and I got an A. I guess that's the kind of school you go to. Something in to go violet is it related to all that? Okay, you can see purple so it's a color but like the thing is there's no like wavelength that's purple. That was my point. It's just violet. So it's basically what I just said and you told me no. You ready? What are we doing? Are you ready? The GPU. Yes. Wow. How did I know? How did I know? Well, there's only like one component left. How did you make such a mess over here? This is the worst way I think I ever cut something ever. I don't wanna rip this box. I normally rip boxes but I can't for this, can I? Listen, like these boxes are childproof, okay? And I'm not saying I'm a child but like I think I'm gonna be doing some great mafia city on this GPU. That is if it doesn't fall off the table. Why do we need scissors for this? Thank you Linus. Please don't cut up the bag. There's a, oh there's peel. So many peels. Let's get peeling. Let's get peeling Alex. There's no more peels. Is there on the back? David meant you were so close because they're like everywhere on this thing. You can't touch it without being so close to something to peel off of it. Wait, have you not even managed to peel this one thing? You were right, there's so many on here. I know I was right, I told you. That was the point of me telling you so that you would know after I was done telling you. I couldn't get this one off so I'm just gonna let you do it. I'm flashing forward to prom night here. There's still more. There's more, what? I told you the whole thing is covered in peel. I don't know how I was like so oblivious to this. I was just grabbing all of the peels at the same time. Is it really held on by just this seven pounds? No, 18 liters, my bad. Oh no. It's fine, I didn't hit it hard. Is it in, am I just being dumb? Oh, let me put it this way. The way that I work out is playing badminton. It's like a water bottle from LTGstore.com when you open it up and you turn it too much. It's like a certain kind of seconds. I went back to my elementary school, okay? One of my teachers, what they said to me was, thank goodness you turned out okay. It's upside down again for the love of God. This is not upside down. Oh no, you're right. I want you to unbox this and get it set up. That's not a good idea. This thing is sick. 2560 by 1440, got G-Sync, 270 Hertz refresh rate. If this doesn't turn you into elite gamer, nothing can. Nothing can, thanks AC. Yeah, here's your lesson. How do you do this? Hold this down. Hold it down. Go like this. Go like that. Right, go like this. Do it again. And then it's upside down, no? Who cares? You know what? I'm starting to think that this whole learned helplessness thing from you is just to get other people to do things for you. You're enabling this. He like, goes like this with the box. I don't know how to. I don't wanna break it. You were at the top of the night. And then I come in, I come do the work for him. Okay, no, but I'm trying now. Are you? Let's see it. Come on, let's go Alex. If you drop this thing, I do not have another one for you. That's why I'm doing it so slowly Linus. Oh geez. You know it's too big. Oh geez, Rick. I don't watch that show. You don't watch that show? Then how did you know what I was talking about? Because who else is named Rick? Like short for Richard. Do I take this? Yeah, I take this off. Otherwise I couldn't game on it, huh? Pretty much. Yeah, pretty much. Let's go. A hard mouse pad. Interesting. Alex, I have a feeling that with you everything is hard mode. All right, we've got an ROG Strix impact to moonlight white. I am really liking the black and white color scheme in this thing. I am as well. It looks so sick. Keyboards using Asus' ROG NX red switches. So basically these are just like a light linear mechanical switch. Thanks Asus. What happened to the power cord? All right, wait. I asked you to plug in the keyboard, Alex. Okay. Are you ready? No, is that the right answer? What? That is. Wow. All right. The front. Yeah, there's more RGB in the front. It's got all the RGB. That's interesting. That's super cool. This is it. You officially have the best gaming machine in your whole school. Probably. Yeah, no, definitely. For whatever reason, Asus sent over this. This is the ROG Strix XG16. It is a portable gaming monitor. What? Basically it's a 144 Hertz IPS portable monitor. It uses USB type C for both power and for display in. You can also use micro HDMI. I don't think it really has anything to do with the rest of your machine, but they did send it over. We've got one more surprise for you. There's another surprise. Here it is. Your very own custom laser etched side panel. I don't know why it says pastry. Is it cause you're a flake? Like dry skin? Cause you're friendly? Cause you're fattening? I'm experiencing fast mouse syndrome. It's amazing how smooth things are. Just windows moving the mouse around. I noticed it. So that's pretty interesting. Yeah. So basically that's the, that's the refresh rate of your monitor. It's crazy responsive. Insane in the membrane. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Did you break the computer already, Alex? Wow. Wow. I have dreams about this. Wow. Indeed. I'm a gamer now. What would you like to play? Maybe something more your speed. PC mark 10. City skylines. I played through the first like third of this game, like four times. And then I just always restart there because I uninstall it cause I don't have enough space on my computer. That's your ally. Sorry. So yeah, feels good, right? Yeah, it feels great. I feel very ROG rig reboot right now. And I think that is very good. Thanks LTT and Asus ROG for the new computer. I really like it and I really appreciate it. Thank you so much. All right. Thanks for watching guys. This is ROG rig reboot. We've got two more coming for you this year. And if you're looking for another video to watch, maybe check out one of our previous years.