 Why build a creeper PC in absolute secrecy? Well, here's the thing we heard celebrity PC builds were the new hotness But we didn't want to fall into the classic trap where you promise someone something really cool And then you take a freaking year to deliver it. So anyway, PewDiePie started playing Minecraft again So we're gonna build a cake lighter I don't know three or four months ago back when we initially conceptualize this so we were like heck yeah Let's do the greatest creeper PC build that's ever been done But then now we're finally finishing it and then the word on the street is he's quitting YouTube But then he says he's not quitting YouTube But then the last time he uploaded a Minecraft video was like three weeks ago. You know what doesn't matter who cares We're building the creeper PC the docos v9 speakers on Alibaba feature rotating ear cups that double as a speaker They've got their March expo 2020 happening right now Which features more than three hundred thousand new and exciting products so go check them out at the link in the video description So let's go through how we made it starting with the hardest part Which is the case the skeleton was designed in fusion 360 over a span of about a month with a couple of main design Goals one was we wanted there to be enough cooling for top spec hardware I mean the last thing you want to do is send someone a cool custom PC that ends up being a downgrade from what they're currently running and We also wanted no Cheating compromises to the creeper look we weren't gonna allow ourselves to like oh well You know we need to extend this leg in order to get a bigger graphics card or something like that so I started with a rough concept for what I wanted the creeper PC to look like and once I figured out scale by taking the form factor of an m8x motherboard and plugging in in diffusion 360 and just scaling a Creeper shape around it then I could start building the actual frame from aluminum extrusion so After I had the actual frame Built and scaled properly then I can skin it put all the components in it and pray it all fits together as a bonus goal We wanted the head to pop off like kind of like a you know like boom you know Explosion moment with the press of a button which I actually have right here But I can't do right now cuz as you can see not yet This head was by far the hardest part of this entire build it went through like three design changes So how it works now is there's two solenoid latches that are like for gate latches that clip into Little tabs that I take welded into the bottom of the creeper head so these guys you can just come down and they'll pop right into place like so and Now it's latched and active so once we give it power Off comes the head initially it didn't have enough support the head is just a little bit too heavy So the first time I tested it oh we have footage of this actually the head pops off and it just goes Flops all the way down we can't have a flaccid creeper no flaccid creepers So there's limiting straps that I installed on each corner to keep it just floating just so and without it Falling off of the support axis in the center It was also really challenging getting the strength from the spring just right because that jack in the box effect Requires you to get it balanced just right. I think you nailed it Go me So this is it we just start building now right yeah, so for our power supply We actually didn't end up going with a full-sized ATX unit even though we possibly could have I guess this saves us a little bit of space where we could have mounted a hard drive in the front in emergency But other than that is there any rationale behind the 800 watt Silverstone SFXL? No, it's just a really nice little dense power supply It's easier to fit so mounting for this pretty straightforward We've got some double-sided tape on the bottom here, but that's not actually what holds it together What actually holds it in place is this bracket on the back here? Which is a bent piece of sheet aluminum and this looks like it was quite the finicky little piece to get right Well thankfully I didn't have to make it ah Ah our friends at proto case friends a proto case. It's good to have friends in Fabrication places sure is so do I get to do most of the building you've already built it So it's really important we get this first little drop right because once that tape goes down. It's not coming off Little lower there this it's really nice working with proto case on stuff like this too Just because they specialize in PC stuff So you don't have to explain to them things like you know why the spacing needs to be just so on a power supply mount Yeah, actually use their template designer, which is Really neat it has cutouts for most of the stuff I used here being able to just draw in a motherboard and have all the holes be in the right space was Fantastic push that down power supply is in I think you're supposed to hold this tape for about 30 seconds GPU we can do it so How the GPU is mounted is we have a little bracket I machined yep We have cable mod to thank for these cables see how flat those are Okay, it fits to within an eighth of an inch Wow that's really tight Okay, so how does this go in here this just like that goes under there and that sandwich is it down That's it. That's it. That's it before we tighten it. Yeah, it's best now to do the power supply cables So got it. We will punch these guys hold on a second. We better do this peel too. That's A really unsatisfying peel. This is a really cool looking card though, so it's got a triple slot cooler We weren't sure how much airflow we were gonna be able to get into this bottom foot So it was all about making sure that our card has a really really good cooler on it But this is an RTX 2080 Ti so basically as good as it gets for Minecraft with RTX Let me give you a good angle on it here, and then I can just drop it right into place Basically this is the spot and I can crank it down now then right yep That's the only thing holding it in place. I do I am actually a little bit worried We might I've seen things in shipping that would make your blood curl Curdle blood curdle hair curl if we put like a u-shaped foam piece at the back I'd feel a ton better and just glued that in vibrations and drops so a lot of this mass There's a lot of leverage here. Yeah, and it can actually rip the PCI plate right off the card. I've seen you've seen that I've seen it. I've seen PCI Express slots ripped off motherboards Oh god, and the PCI plate ripped off F some shit. Just just you know shifting to Alberta from here How difficult would it be for us to fabricate a hold down strap for this as well? It's it's taped. It's not going anywhere You'd have to be really trying to have that dislodge I have seen power supplies ripped out of like standard cases like the screws sheared off in shipping and Banging around inside them. I love tape as much as the next person But look good because this whole thing is held together with tape think about it a little alright I just have to put it on a palette. Yeah, I would not box this okay. No way All right, so that's in we can put the heart in so which way does it go on standoffs here? Okay, and then four standoffs for the other side. Oh fantastic. So is this motherboard tray custom? Yes Wow, did protocase make that for us as well? I designed it protocase cut that that's actually steel So it's a little bit more rigid nice. That's a good call So in terms of the hardware we're using we're running a maximus 7 gene So we went with mATX so that we could have a little bit more expand ability It's only got a single PCI Express 16x slot But if you wanted to add 10gb networking or whatever the else down the line. We've got another 4x slot up here It's got basically everything you could want built-in on board AC Wi-Fi USB 3 you know type C blah blah blah etc etc and More importantly because we're not putting a hard drive in this it's got a ton of m.2 expansion So we've got a 2 terabyte mp600 in here. We've got room for another one here, and then This thing Collins holding this is their latest dim dot 2 goes in here and holds another two M.2 drives so that should be that should be enough plenty of storage Yeah, those are some big old screws, so we went pretty basic in terms of cooling I'm not expecting him to overclock or anything like that and given that we're running a 9900k a single 120 millimeter AIO with a replacement fan we went with a knock to a fan We want the whole system to be nice and quiet seemed like a pretty good bet now I'm sure there are many many of you that are gonna be like He edits video he does this why didn't you go AMD the answer is that we started playing this project like four months ago Yeah, and AMD didn't have anything that was top tier for gaming at that time. What do you want from us? Which way do you like the tubes so I have the tubes sticking out just like that like that way Ah yeah, that should work so what's really cool about having the cooling configured this way with our thick rad and our 120 millimeter fan Actually pulling air and then blowing it out this way is that the exhaust comes out around the head So it's nice and dispersed there's not gonna be like a hot zone near the computer and The intake for this fan is gonna be drawing fresh air from the bottom over the m2 The dim slots VRMs and all that stuff so it's gonna stay nice and cool and it's not just this fan There are actually two 80 millimeter fans that are gonna be pushing air up from the center crotch cooling TM So this was one of our challenges Right now Felix has 64 gigs of RAM in a system according to the information we were able to find We didn't talk to him about this because we wanted to be a surprise Now this board in spite of being a matx only has two memory slots because it takes up so much room for all these M.2's so we ended up needing to use these special tried and Z DC series memory modules So these are basically like two sticks in one So each of these is 32 gigs for a total of 64 gigs of DDR 4 3200 cl14 That should be plenty for our Intel platform How much is one of those sticks around? $1,500 ish not for one for two and of course their RGB Completely hidden this panel is gonna be held on by magnets So we actually can't have anything pressing on it there we go so you can see the crotch is more than just cooling There's actually room for cable cutouts and PCI Express and stuff like that to run in between them so that you don't really see it But it's I mean it it has to run there, and there was no way to be true to the shape of the creeper Without having a little bit of cheating in between here, so that'll go in probably last Yep If we want to post it we can just plug it all in and make sure it functions we can verify that the head Ejects I ran all of these runs with string before I ordered the cables okay It's got to be an easier way than that mmm not that I've found so this is the head ejection system So what we have here is a remote relay these are really cheap. I think it was like eight dollars Runs on four to twelve volts But one of the problems I encountered with the solenoid system here Is that when the spring force is pushing up on the latches here? There's so much spring force that you can't actually eject the head Yeah So what we have here is we have 12 volt then being sent into a boost converter which ups this to like 18 and a half Ish volts and then that trips that over volts these solenoids and enough enough, and it works okay? Plugging in the power supply and Bob Geronti this thing's friggin heavy dude, and I don't even have the panels on oh Watching you lift my project scares me And lights hey well Are we do we have a monitor or anything? Oh? Yeah? I can pull one over all the keystones. Oh yeah We've got like one two three unnecessary connections All good just had a cable and a fan there that click by the way was the solenoids getting power You can do the honors And we're posted with all 64 gigs of ram very nice, okay, okay? So we have no more components to put in it So we want to deal with installing all of the buttons and stuff in our panels sure and then the panels go on We've vinyled over all these mounting holes for the rear I oh, so this is our power And this is going to be display port, but I'm going to need to just make a little Little hole that's really tight with the vinyl in there, okay? Need a nut that is how finished. It's going to look from the outside Love that that looks great, so this is this one then hey correct. Yeah, we're definitely going to need to adjust the position of the motherboard A little bit then so we're going to move it up with the main fasteners on both the rails Yeah, and then over will be with the PCB fasteners. Yeah, so let's do the vertical adjustment first sure which is You can just do that with a rubber mallet right actually yeah percussive maintenance send it. No really no bad Linus oh You know what what are we running into here? I think we're running into I need to Tap it No, it doesn't make sense this should just slide. They're like locking themselves. Yeah, okay. We want to come down about an eighth of an inch That's bang on tap it. I might have found one other small oversight this nut Interfers with this oof that seems you know Rimmel fixable. I'll not you don't that was down to have notch it out Under normal circumstances you would never Grind metal creating metal fragments inside a computer That's already built, but we feel like you've got everything masked off well enough. Yeah, it's got to come up a little higher I can see it from here I get it a little more a little more. Yeah, I see it. Yeah, actually a lot of the build was like this You put everything in place, and you can design as as much as you can in CAD but when it all goes together sometimes parts aren't the same size as what the CAD drawing is or Any number of things we got it this time. Yeah, it's flush. Okay awesome I know that I know you want the finish to be similar I can sleep soundly tonight now the display port power rear I oh Done, I think we're actually ready really close. Yeah, we have to start peeling panels and sticking them on Holy smokes well not before we put the PCI Express connector back in we should do any final cable management, okay? Well the litch pin in this whole shebang is this middle panel okay, so the cutout side here it's over Should we do that first? I want to test fit before we take off the adhesive though. Okay, so 24 8 and 2 PCIe I'm just worried about cable length. They'll be fine honestly All right, I have done every surface on my side here. I'm just gonna finish this side This VHB tape is like super listicky so we don't want to be pulling things off once We've applied it because we could end up bending it. What's that? It's a razor for pulling the VHB tape off Oh, so this side is the PCI side Snuck that LTT logo in there. We have a little bit of a cutout that is totally planned and not done after the fact Yeah to give a little bit of clearance for the ribbon gable that 120 millimeter fan is gonna Take care of intake for our graphics card which does it have an exhaust or is it just passive? So all the exhaust comes out the foot at the bottom so they're elevated up on these little bumpers. Yep, okay perfect Yeah, oh, I didn't take the adhesive backing off. Oh, I got it. Oh, no, you got it. There's ones up at the very top Okay. All right. Yeah, everything's clear Ribbon cables a little stressed but okay. Oh Yeah, it's quite contacted. Yeah. Well, should we just bend it? Yep. That one's on for better or for worse Just a little tiny bit more Out I'm good Everything's fine So that's on there this way these cables can't come loose and stick into the fan or anything nasty like that That would be a real pain to diagnose and fix. All right, shall we line up the other side? I think we should just stick it and then run the cables Sure. Yep. Okay you do bottom. I'll do top Well, okay. Oh I think that's a lot better than last time. We should have done that last time. That's like perfect. We're living we're learning Pretty darn sharp And it's worth noting. I haven't seen it with all the panels on it either That's just bubble wrap pop it Nice okay, that looks pretty clean because the 24 pin covers everything else now Yeah, what do you get a guy like PewDiePie for Christmas? Someone asked me on Twitter It's like what do people buy you for Christmas and I said socks. I Actually truly the greatest gift. Well, the fans on the bottom are hooked up They're both into a single header that should have easy software control Okay, do you want to come back on this side and stick on the head ejection system? Mm-hmm. Here we go This is a sick build. Thanks We sure do Can I actually get another one of those LTT store calm mmm, that's a new store calm I noticed that the power supply isn't plugged in yet. Oh no Oh, if we grab the belt sander See if our shaven power connector, oh nice that went no problem So that's plugged in now. I mean do you want to do that one foot weight also? We do not I don't know if I shaved it enough to fit through here We are professionals oh So I wanted it as far away from the PCI Express extender as I could get it Oh you think power like the frequency? Well, I don't know for sure But what I know is that I don't feel like dealing with it. That is a problem. Yeah me neither Yeah, also, I'll line up the bottom again and you line up the top I think that's as good as we're gonna get Wow What should we do next Linus? Why don't we close up the feet I have a Image of a creeper because I want to make sure we get the panels on in the correct orientation So you want to get the actual like pixels? Yeah pixels in the correct spots. Oh, we're going for accuracy. All right. All right All right dark corner Goes towards the side. Yep. Yep now seems like a good moment to shout out proto case with their Fantastic high-precision laser cutting They actually made all these panels for us before we had been sent off to the vinyl wrapping shop this head is a piece of art It's all aluminum and it's welded sharp edges And you can't weld it too fast. Otherwise, it'll just melt. So they're like slowly dabbing. Well, we'll put in some footage of this It's incredible. So go on You better believe it. These are different. Yeah, we don't have pieces like why is the left different from the right one small error? All right, so I'll just put it on randomly then. Yep. Okay. Oh, no, that's too far off. Okay That's gonna happen a lot. All right. I'm calling that good enough. I'm sorry if it's not good enough Okay, so what's the foot is that the foot that is the foot? So we still end up with about a millimeter of gap on my side. I can take a little more I think we were gonna have to live with that. Yep, like that looks pretty darn good All right, should we put a big panel on wait? No, this isn't the same. This is the front That's the back Minor problem. We put double-sided tape on the front piece and magnetic strips on the back piece. Just gotta take all this off Are those really no good anymore? Yeah, the adhesive's toast. Okay, and that's literally on there. Okay, go ahead. Okay Those cables will never be seen ever again. Bye bye cables. Great So we've now got magnets on the back of this panel. Yep, but this is an aluminum chassis. So it's aluminum I've made Four neodymium magnet stacks and I've counterbored half-inch holes which fit these So we just give this little tap and we'll deform the aluminum around the magnet and it'll hold it in place. Oh, okay Hey Hey nice that is quite flush sir. And then you're gonna want to do probably six or eight all around the periphery And it's dead Can't make it worse All right, are you doing that by hand? Mm-hmm. Oh, it's a spring-loaded thing. You're not doing it by hand Boop and boop. All right. So now we put the front on then. Yeah. Oh wow. Yeah nailed it. Feel the edge It's done. Oh wait, it's not done Should have done this earlier. Wait. No, this is no problem because we thought of this. Oh Gorgeous Monitor keyboard mouse. Monitor keyboard mouse. Let's do it. This thing seriously does look like just a computer graphic brought to life like it's crazy Should I power it on? He even told me it might happen Because I was busy with something else I'm so happy with how well that head retains itself like getting it to latch and release every time perfectly Literally took four days Hey If you were him Do you leave it down so that you can like do this on a whim or do you leave it up so you can just? Oh, no, I totally leave it up you leave it up We got a like game on this thing time for some I could see if it actually works Yeah, worst-case scenario head down head down. Yeah, so I'm gonna hit the GPU with the MSI combustor built-in stress test and I'm gonna hit the CPU with a blender classroom render Excellent. So we are turboing to four point seven gigahertz all cores our CPU is sitting at anywhere from 80 mid to 90 low remember this is under an all core load while stressing both the CPU and GPU Our GPU is sitting pretty darn healthy actually around 62 63 degrees. I think it's safe to call that a success I mean, we're gonna want to leave this run for a little bit make sure that it actually holds at these temps But it seems like it's actually doing a perfectly good job of getting rid of the heat. Yeah Great job Colin wait Really does just look like Like a like a piece of video game just sitting on your desk, doesn't it? What just happened it turned off I Was trying to troll James. I was asking him how it looks up close and I Tried to trigger the head while it was under load Current spike current spike How power hungry is that it's pulling like four amps at 12 volts. So like 48 watts, it's only 50 watts. It's an 800 watt power supply. Maybe don't stress test it and hit the button. I Mean that's kind of funny Okay, we might have to live with this particular little design flaw. It's a feature Let me see if it happens again. Let me see if it happens again full stress Pack it and send it I Think the odds of that happening are pretty slim. Yes. I have my job for another day. Oh Oh 66% chance So then outside of a couple minor finishing touches It's done it's playing Minecraft it looks like Minecraft and It may not be the world's first creeper PC But you know what? I think it's the best one. 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It was cheaper for us to get 50 bean bags from a supplier on alibaba than it was to Buy the 15 that we needed locally. Anyway, check out the March Expo 2020 on alibaba.com for more than 300,000 new products March Expo 2020 is online only don't worry. All good. I can't believe we don't get to keep this now I'm only gonna get to play with it a few more times. It doesn't crash when it's running minecraft. No, you sure? I'm positive. Okay, good Cuz that'd be super awkward try one more time one more time ready It's good, right good. Okay