 I've had ones where the contestant sort of tries to play dumb and that's fun But the real thing is so much better There are three things I know about ROG rig reboot one. It's sponsored by Asus two We give away sick gaming rigs that we build with our viewers every year and number three Absolutely, nothing can stop it That's right My friends in spite of the fact that we weren't able to fly people in here to build the machines with us We still pulled it off and that actually worked out great for Ethan because his might not have even been one of the top three Except that we had to pick someone locally so we could build the computer together. I mean, that's great It's great. You're like the best of the like people who happen to be here Good for you. Thank you My name is Ethan I'm from Surrey, British Columbia Man I really don't know I just bought it on Craigslist Tell me something Ethan. Have you ever built a computer before? Nope Really? No. Did you study up before showing up here for ROG rig reboot? I watched a few of your videos, but that's pretty much it. The most research I did was watching just the old ROG rig reboot videos with the actual build itself I really don't know what I'm doing at all and I don't know any parts of computers and so I hope he'll explain it to me and be a little nice, but I Don't think he'll be nice Alright, let's go ahead and get started. What's the first component we're gonna need? Are you asking me? Well, yeah. Oh, right. You told me you watched one of these. I watched one. Let's start with that What is that? Motherboard. Okay Asus has gone with a tough themed machine for Ethan probably because they watched his entry and they were like what this guy rides His computer it's gonna have to be about as tough as humanly possible So we've got an x570 pro Wi-Fi, which means that he's gonna have Wi-Fi. Yeah Don't use it though. Wi-Fi sucks. What else are you gonna need in there Ethan? I got I think stickers. Oh my god Oh my god, look, it's already it's not even right side up. You know, that's not right side up What does that mean right side up right side up? Well, it means when it's what I Always gonna Linus is gonna tear me apart This is not gonna be good the rest of this video is just gonna be like 30 minutes of me crying and Putting little plugs together that don't know Where should we work on our motherboard on? the table No Here on a safe static resistant. Okay, that makes sense workspace What's next? No, yeah, I think I know what the graphics card looks like motherboard. Yeah power supplies that big box with the cords, right? this looks cool the Heat sink This one you want to do that next? Yeah, let's do it. All right fine. So that's a two terabyte NVMe PCI Express Gen 4 SSD With a massive heat sink on it so that it can it can never slow down One of the reasons that we went for x5 70 on this machine is that we're actually gonna be using two PCI Express Gen 4 SSDs a one terabyte for boot and then a two terabyte for mass storage What a freaking world three terabytes of Gen 4 NVMe SSDs So B 550 only supports a single Gen 4 M.2 and this one's gonna have support for two of them Okay, where does this go? Okay, this is gonna go. Well first you have to assemble it So you all you've managed to do so far is scatter the pieces of it So let's let's try to organize our thoughts a little bit here I feel like if I could describe Linus, it would be very energetic and I've wanted to use my words carefully. I don't know Linus loves computers You're doing great. I don't I don't know much about you. You might not be great You might be an awful person. You might torture cats for all I know. No look is my cat. That's your cat He's died on torture him. I'm making shirts for him. You got an imaginary cat. No, it's a real cat I actually got one for you if you want a cat so I know you like Computers so I put in a laptop bag. Uh-huh. This is for you. Oh It's just a shirt like yours, but an LTT orange exactly. I love it. It's exactly my size It's extremely your size. I love no way. I appreciate your gift We are gonna wear matching shirts for the rest of this video. I'm so glad before you put the screws in I'm gonna save us some time. Why don't you try and install that in the slot? These are big words I don't know what they mean Install is that it looks this one looks like the right shape. Is it this thing? Yeah. Oh, yeah So it would have to go that way because there's a notch. Mm-hmm This is bad people are gonna make fun of me. Well, yeah, I mean, didn't you watch previous ROG rig reboots? So why do you think it won't go that way? Cuz it looks like it's upside down or something. Is it upside down? It's upside down. It's good. I saved you some time. At least you didn't put all the screws in. Thank you You know in your video you said you were gonna give away your old computer if you won I would probably Not get ahead of yourself here cuz this one might not work by the time you're done with it Really? You might still- just by that. But just the way you are you you know? I have some information about that actually Uh-huh. I broke it. That doesn't surprise me. Okay. Well, I broke it just like a few weeks ago It was in the car and when I braked it tipped over and it broke And it just won't start at all. So you have no computer right? Yep, so you better not break this one. Yep. What's next? Oh, let's do this All right, I gotta keep the viewers interested. Ethan is gonna be rocking the Ryzen 5 5600x His priorities are in no particular order Minecraft and video editing. What would you say your top priority is? Minecraft? I definitely want to play Minecraft I want to get as much like texture packs and shaders and everything that would be fun some mods So it's such a big box, but for such a tiny thing what could possibly be in here? Nothing, okay, we're good. What? No the cooler. What why did you drop it? Well, we're not gonna use it Okay. Yeah, it's also just made of metal like it's not fragile I would really like you to figure out what you're gonna do with it before you open the package though Okay, because this is the hard part This is the most fragile piece of this entire endeavor if you bend one of those pins you're done. Okay, here's my game plan I need to open this and put this inside of it. Okay, that's all I have. There's a weird thing right here It looks like a sticker. I'm hoping it's just a sticker. It's a sticker. Yes. Oh, yeah There we go, and it'll just go in sort of however It has like little dots a line up maybe Wow that is One way you could orient it in the socket. I suppose he's got a 50-50 shot. Don't say that Really? Well, those dots are symmetrical. So how are you gonna know this has like English words language this way This is the same thing so they go the same way Well, you logic to your way out of it Did it work? Yes That's not how you're supposed to do that How are you supposed to do it? Well, there's a little golden triangle on here And there's a little golden triangle there and you're supposed to put it on that way But you know what Ethan in your own roundabout way you made it work. Yes. Good job Ooh, does this go on like the case or something? It's technically a little bit more It's a case or something. It's technically a case sticker, but you really can put it on your Apple watch if you really want to What time is it? Risen time. What would you like to do next? Ram Sure I know what Ram is Wow, this is nice 32 gig kit of 3600 megahertz cl16 memory. This is an excellent pairing for your CPU There's holes on this thing that looks like they need to be filled So whatever goes here That's what she said Or here Okay Let's do this one then Nope Let's do the other one then All right. Well, you're probably gonna need a case for that. We're gonna be installing in the TUF gaming GT301 case It's got a tempered glass side panel, lots of airflow and of course radiator mounting for the all-in-one water cooler that we're going to be using Build it All right Looks like Iron Man Yeah, it's copper Where would you like to put it? I'm really guessing but let's just maybe the top I've seen... is that good or did you say don't put at the top? You could put it at the top if this was a case that was compatible with the top mounted radiator I think this is where it's on my old computer Except it's tiny. It's like this big Mm-hmm, mm-hmm, mm-hmm So let's just put it right there then Tell if you're trolling me or not I'm really not, I promise. I have no clue what I'm doing Okay, tell you what, to make your life a little bit easier then we're gonna put the motherboard in the case Okay Okay, does that sound good? Yes. Zip ties? Yes This looks like... get your cable ties at lttstore.com And there's instructions Any pictures? It's a headphone hanger! No way, like right there? Probably not I don't have headphones anyway What? Headphones Oh! Headphones! I think these probably pop up and it looks like they go here So you can put it on either side as far as I can tell What side do you want it on? I don't know yet. Do you want to see a picture of my desk? No, just think about your desk. Imagine it in your mind's eye My desk is a piano It's a piano. What? Do you want to see a picture of my desk? Fine I made it myself at the beginning of the first quarantine Do you want to see this picture? Wow, when is that? I think it was 2016 Oh, so you're one of those creepy people that just walks up to me in public and is like Hey, can I take a picture? Yep Here's my friend's iPhone 4 too Who led him through the front door? Of course the weirdest thing isn't that you took the picture It's that it's like still right there Did you see the... I got a picture of your credit card on accident And so I blurred it out in paint But it's such a bad photo that you can't see it in the first place You put it at such a bad angle I can't Ow! Damn it You want to line up the standoffs with the holes in the board Are these the standoffs? No Are the screw things the standoffs? So you will need these screws Okay You'll need nine of them Don't worry, Ethan, you got this I got this One, two, three, four Excellent Now would you like to put the cooler in? Yeah Okay So it can't go there, it can't go on the top Then there's fans over there Would that be good to be on those fans? What do you think? Yes Why is it good to be on those fans? Because air will cool it down Wonderful Okay, so now you are basically decked out as far as cooling goes You got three fans in the front, two in the top, one in the back These are all intakes, alright, and these are all exhaust How do you change that? Do you just put them upside down? Yep Cool There's a tech tip for you Tech tip, put your fan upside down if you want it to blow What you need to do, see these holes, see these holes, see these bolts Those need to go through these holes into those holes Okay, this seems easy enough I know you guys are going to love this guy But if we didn't hire Madison, we're definitely not hiring him I got one Did you really? Yeah, well Now it was the funniest thing because I like saw your eyes move to this when I put it on top of the case I need my fingers for tactility You're still putting in screws with your hands I'm going to keep doing it too It's good because I can line it up properly And then, can you? How's that working out for you? Because I use my fingers to angle the screws, and they go in perfectly I mean, it's not stupid if it works, right? Right, just like how I lined up the CPU I don't see any point to screw it in Okay, so let's look at the retention mechanism How does this go on to the CPU? This is like a hook on this Oh yeah, sorry, what was that word? This is a hook Okay, right, what are you holding in your right hand? A screw with a little twisty bit on it A hook No Oh, okay, wait, I think I got this My back hurts so much You can move it It's half off the desk Prepare for docking You got it I did it I didn't know building computers was an extreme sport Yeah, it's not You know what though? For all the razing I've done here I think you're the first ROG Rig Reboot contestant to fully install their AIO without me actually touching it I did something And guess what? What? The fun keeps coming Now we get to plug in all the front panel connectors and you know all those little like banks of headers and stuff? Nope We're gonna do that What? Banks of headers? You pointed them out, like all the little pins and stuff Yeah Yeah, we get to do all that now Let's do it Can you do it? Do you want me to just do it? You should probably do it Okay, I'm just gonna do it because it's gonna take you like three hours and like What time is it? It's rising time Would these help? You know what? Maybe ASMR There we go All your fans are plugged in All your front panel connectors are plugged in You got your front USB and all that good stuff So what do you want to do next? Let's do this Nope Let's do this Cool All right, I'm glad I have an option Open it up This is your ROG Strix 1000 watt gaming power supply for gamers and amateur video editors too This looks intense Can you tell me a bit about this? It's a thousand watts Has a 10-year warranty Modular interface So you only use the cables you need So we're gonna go ahead and install all of our modular cables now Oh, they're labeled? That's nice Do the labels mean anything to you? This one says CPU and I touched that thing earlier You gotta put this in there Okay So you gotta get the orientation right though That looks right Oh, nope Ah, language I'm gonna go for it No He shook his head This is not always the answer Well, I went off the shape of the power plug Can you think of any other way you could line it up? I'm either going off language or the shape of the power plug Oh, there's a hole Yeah, this seems right It's like this thing All right Now what do you want to do? I mean, I kind of want to do this one It's the last big box We got a lot of cords hanging around but Cool Let's do it Okay This is it This is insane I've seen this number It's a big number RTX 3080 This is pretty much as fast as it gets for cards that like you can actually obtain 10 gigs of GDDR6X memory Free fan cooler Yeah It's even overclocked Okay, what does overclock mean? That means that the clock is like over what it would normally be Is that a joke or is that real? No, that's real What's the clock? Clock is you know like megahertz and gigahertz You know that kind of thing? That's like that's the speed The clock speed So overclocked means like clocked over like It's fast I can't get the sticker off Dear Lord It make EFPS go Zoom, zoom, zoom I get it This is far and away the most expensive piece of this machine Really? Do not break it Really? Yes 100% You can't even buy these things Is this the They're like out of stock everywhere This is like the thing in all the memes This is the thing that you've been talking about? Well like everyone's like oh it's the thing that's seven times more than it should be on Amazon Yeah, yeah, this is that Damn Yeah You could literally turn around, flip this on eBay And then go back and buy it again in like three or four months And you'd have the entire value of this computer and you'd have the computer left over Don't do that I flipped it here instead of on eBay That would be very disrespectful That would be very, I promise I won't Here's the instructions I think You have to game on it I will game Okay These are the instructions that came with it They are not Yeah, look Where did you get this? That's the instructions, they were in the box They were not They were right here Where did you get this? I Did he put this in there? No, it's just the instructions that came with it Flour, sugar, eggs Whose writing is this? Bake, oven at 375 degrees Oh, that's my cookie recipe Did you think I would think that like it was in there on its own That I would like believe you for even a fraction of a second that this was in there? I don't know what I was hoping to be honest That Jensen was baking up a freaking GPU or something All right, do you think you can handle installing this? I hope so I think this is the important part Oh lordy, I hope it fits That does not look like it fits Holy crap Yeah, that barely fits There we go I mean, look at that You built a computer mostly Mostly You also built most of it but Do you think it works? I don't know Let's find out Damn, you be careful with that thing 170 Hertz, 1440p, IPS, G-Sync HDR support This thing's ballin' Pretty cool This is the VG1A It's got the VG in there Yeah, VG, I can't do this Now tell me something Have you ever actually gamed on like a sick like top of the line rig? Never Not once in your life? Not even once, no Wow So what's the best machine you've ever gamed on? My brother has a computer he uses for VR I don't know what's on it but That's probably the best And then the best I can think of Probably like a demo thing Like Best Buy, I don't know Okay, all right So this is like This is definitely new for you Yeah, this is new Well, that's exciting This is it I genuinely do not know if this is gonna fire up It's so colorful That's pretty good Okay, well we do need other things to do stuff too Yep, it's definitely colorful though So if that was the objective then you did good It's so quiet It's not doing anything It's still so quiet Mine goes There you go Minecraft away Minecraft Go where there's some light There's gonna be you know like ray traced lighting This is pretty cool already Oh and the shadows Wait, I don't know where to go Whoa Okay, that's actually pretty cool Look at that It looks like an actual photo Oh, we need TNT If we can overload the world with TNT Then you know it's good You know this is basically the same thing that like My eight-year-old son wanted to do Hey, he's not wrong As soon as he started playing Minecraft How's it running? It's running beautifully I couldn't have asked for a better TNT placing machine Oh, look at that No lag at all It's perfect You can see them fly into the air at perfect 60 FPS Do you want to try another game? Sure All right, let's do it We have before you play Call of Duty Black Ops Cold War We've actually got a surprise for you Your side panel Cover your eyes Okay, go ahead Wow, it's actually genius Did you do this up? I did Thank you, Sarah All right You ready, Ethan? Here it is Yo, that's me That's so cool Oh my God That's pretty sick All right Cranked RTX to fricking ultra in this thing Turned off motion blur, disabled DLSS So we are going to be running at 2560 by 1440 This is it This is your machine Look all right Okay, I have been joking around But it's crazy how it looks like an actual photo I haven't played any games since, like, Wii And so this is actually really cool Yeah, graphics are a little better than the Nintendo Wii Just a little bit Oh my gosh Using the new computer, it was night and day difference Like compared to not working I don't know It was really cool to see, like, with all the lighting effects And, you know, it was fast Oh, here we go Oh my God I have no clue what's happening But it's so much fun All right Well, that's it for ROG Rig Reboot with Ethan here in 2020 I hope you guys enjoyed his presence as much as I did Massive thank you to Asus for sponsoring this video And stay tuned because there's still more to come That's right I still got to do more of this