 Whoa, we're resurrecting Tech Showdown! We were thinking we should call it something else, but then we were talking about other names and one of them was in use by a law firm or something. So, Tech Showdown it is, except we're changing the format. Now, it's two teams competing to build a themed PC. Okay, that's exactly the same as before. But now we've got four days. So we're gonna build something totally kick-ass. This season is brought to you by Synergy and the theme is candy. Now in a stunning turn of events, it was brought to my attention this morning that rather than each Luke and I being paired with a professional modder, Luke and I will be squaring off against two professional modders. So I wish us the best of luck building a candy themed PC and a candy themed full desk setup to look fricking awesome or at least be tasty failing that. And there's no real clear rules, so go. Tech Showdown is brought to you by Synergy 2 in partnership with G-Skill, Be Quiet and Cable Mod. Synergy 2 makes sharing your mouse and keyboard between multiple computers so simple that anyone can use it. Learn more at the link below. So in fairness to you guys, you should understand who you're building the system for. We've got three celebrity judges. Our minor celebrity judges are gonna be Riley from NCIX Tech Tips and Steve from Gamers Nexus. And then our sort of headliner celebrity judge is actually iJustine. So she's coming all the way up here and the three of them are going to contribute to who actually wins. So keep that in mind. You've got, okay. Can we take this board now? Yeah, yeah. Can we have markers? We got markers, baby. We got three markers. We got all the markers. Oh yeah, that's one big difference. There's no barrier. Hey, we don't need markers. Everyone can see what everyone else is doing. This is like tripping me out. Like I wanna hide stuff, but okay. I think the first thing we have to deal with though is your sponsor logo shirt here. Okay, so you gotta do one of two things. You gotta start eating these. To fill in. Or we could find some tape or something. You look ridiculous. I think these belong over there, don't they? Oh yeah. They're called dum-dums. Yeah, those go over there. These go over here, you guys. These are dum-dums. There you go. You know what, Nick, guys? Here you go. Here you go, smart guy. You don't have those in America, do you? I think, don't they call these rockets down there? Or no? Our smarties. No, wait. Our rockets are your smarties and you guys don't have our smarties. You have the lame like powdered candy smarties. So. Okay, my grand idea that I have so far. See, you are everything that is wrong with us staying organized. You just put a not working marker back in the pile of working markers. Yeah, it has to be. Okay, so where this can go though is another level. There's one where it like comes out of the top of the computer and flows down and then there's like a little river. But then how do you recycle that? That's gonna be pretty bonkers. But one thing that I observed about these tables that we're using already is that they could actually be configured that way. But how do you get it back up? Okay. So here's the thing. There's no fixed budget for tech showdown. It's all within reason. So I don't really see any reason, you know, that's not within reason why we couldn't obtain something to help us do that. Now, here's how we take it to like a crazy level though. This is I believe what a 180 watt CPU. Okay, I know where you're going with this. That would be awesome. I mean, what could unlock the power more than this? I feel like that might be hard to communicate to judges. And then we could have like an info, like this is how it works card. That's worked in the past. Yeah, we could. Oh man. Oh, okay. Having like four days to work on this in some ways is actually like, like, like too much pressure. Yeah. Okay. Okay. And this is actually, you know what? I haven't even looked at what hardware we're using. Yeah. Okay. Okay. This is not attached. So these are just like sawhorses. So let's open our case first and then we'll worry about how to plan. You know what? It's a big tower. Basically blank canvas. Yeah. It's a big tower. Okay. Okay. So here, here, we got to, like I don't want them to know too much at this stage, but we need... River. Okay. So we have to... Yeah. Yeah. We could probably buy a thing that would come with that, but it would have to be continually, which makes it a little bit difficult. Yeah. And how do we keep it from like dunking up? Well, it needs to run for a little while. Okay. If we... Okay. So these like are designed that it won't matter, but our extra stuff we will have to be pretty careful about. Sure. But like the, the river part, I wouldn't actually worry about it too much, but we just have to get it back. That's the part that I'm really worried about. Cause yeah, you can like slant the table and stuff. Oh no, we can't do that. Cause that would make a terrible user experience. I imagine that they're going to get really creative and do all kinds of crazy stuff and that might hurt them. Okay. So cotton candy idea, it would be, it'd be difficult to get cotton candy that you could apply and stick to every... And it starts to like, you know, to keep it that clean fuzz. Fluffy and stick it. Yeah. We've got a perfect... So the desk, the desk has to be, we have to do some paint work with the desk. Oh my God. Okay. The desk kind of reminded me of like, you know, when they pull taffy at the fair, they're always on a big work bench and stuff. And I was like, and sometimes they've got those big machines that like stretch the taffy like automatically. It's like, how cool that's to build that. If we have this big table area, what if we created a game like Candy Land? Like a Candy Land game. Candy Crush. Candy Land or Candy Land game where it's like a board game where you have to move spaces. And then we incorporate like line insectives or something or whatever on the top. We could paint this white and then do like some sort of a, like a big game board or something maybe. No problem. Okay. Can you help me? Okay. Priorities, priorities. Let's get you not looking like a smack tool. Smack tool? What is that? Well, does it sound dumb? I mean... Then mission accomplished. Whoever ordered the t-shirts may have ordered the wrong one for Luke. Colton. Okay. And I'm definitely touching your butt. I'm okay with this. Which is definitely a little weird, but that's hopefully fine. I mean, it's all right. Yeah. It looks not as bad, but it's definitely still kind of bad. Cause like, look at this. Look at this. Look, just start eating candy then. I tried. But you didn't Colton try. Which is why we're here. Is there... Wow. Let's do that. Let's do that. Let's do that. So this pretty much goes on this side. What about like these? Regardless of what else we think. Is that? Not sure yet. Where's this going to sit? Like if this is a complete battle station, your two big objects are going to be your case and your monitor. So if your case sits on this side, you know, it blocks off so much. And then your monitor sits on the front. Like, do we do a face amount? Like on the monitors, the monitors aren't armed. How do we keep it like super clean? Do we mount the chassis like... Underneath or something? Yeah. Does it fit inside the sawhorse things or something like that? I mean, you want it to be a show piece. You don't want to hide it, but it's huge. I mean, it blocks off a ton. Oh! Yeah. Do we really want to have it? And then all of a sudden you got the back here. I mean, you're going to be looking at it from this side, but on the same side. I mean, you can do that. So then you monitor your battle stations here. It doesn't have to be just candy though, right? Like we could, we could incorporate like ice cream. I mean, ice cream is technically candy, right? Like what's our like four things we're doing, right? So like, are we putting a gumball machine in this? Like that's a major, you know, cut grind. That seems too easy though. I hear you. Okay. Like how does a gumball machine and a reservoir work together? Like what if one dispenses gumballs and one dispenses Aurora fluid? Like it's a two loop system, but it's not. One's candy and one's coolant. So should we stay away from, stay away from doing crazy paint because there's no paint booth here. There's no. Yeah. The only thing I'm thinking, you got this white canvas on these sawhorses. I think that is something that we do. So we could paint, we could paint this whole tabletop white as a starting point too. I like the, I mean, I like the maple, but if it doesn't work in the theme, then no. So these are standard regular key caps. So we might even be able to buy a key cap set for this. But get them in time. If we can get them at like maybe NCIX or something. Or yeah, or just Amazon Primo. So it's just the caps of the keys that we can replace the black ones with some color. Synergy 2 is designed to be easier and more seamless to use than Synergy 1. Features include sharing from anywhere with automatic control of any other computer without reconfiguring, SSL encryption to protect your keystrokes from attackers, dynamic networking. So it detects the best route based on your setup and being able to always run in the background on all your operating systems so you can set and forget. And it even works across VPNs and tricky home networks. If you get the pro version, you can get access to other cool features too, like clipboard sharing, dragging and dropping files, copy pasting, lock screen synchronization and lots more. Okay, so Bob and Rod are starting to get a few good ideas but just because they don't have a solid plan yet doesn't mean they've been sitting on their hands. They've already assembled their monitor and are well on their way to painting their case. And now, time for a little cable management. This thing can route all the way over, drill holes, route everything down through. So it's like perfectly clean. I'm really hungry. Wait, this is their plan. Yeah, distract you. Dude, this is their whole plan. They know I like candy. So they put all this candy here to keep me from working on the computer. He's not. That's the whole plan. No, you guys are mean. You don't think I can sit here with all this candy. What if we put a res like on the corners and then ran straight through between. Anything water cooling is probably coming from the supply. Here. Oh, okay. So we have to go see what they have. No, wait, they have, okay. Yeah, which we could go look at that. Yeah. So, okay, we still need, we need a good solid. I know. Okay, so the mouse, I'm taking off the question mark there. We can decide on colors later. We may go together or you know what? We may have to stay split up on all of this. Just send pictures. Yeah, we'll just go. We'll pick something really fun. We definitely need to spend some time doing what they're already almost done doing, which is taking this baby apart and figuring out. But we need the overarching theme first. I'm gonna be stress eating for the next four days. I don't think our mods gonna be on par because neither of us has the fabrication or the painting experience that those guys do. Like they do this all day. What I was mostly counting on going into today was Luke having some kind of a kick-ass idea like Mad Max or whatever. I mean, he's behind me. So this is a little awkward to say, but like his idea was okay. It wasn't like game breaker, you know. I'm having doubts about the foil. I think we should go back to the original plan. It's gonna rip, yeah. Yeah. I hope at this point, I hope that we at least turn in a computer. I mean, we'll have something. Yeah, we'll have something. Yeah. Oh my God, what time is it? It's two. Should we build it? No, cause we have to take this all apart to, like we have to paint this. They're obviously painting. We can't not paint it. Maybe this is the gold foil and chocolate thing. So gold all on the outside and then try to chocolate as much as you can on the inside so that it's a candy bar computer. Interesting. Okay. And then we go with other candy for all the rest. So we get those multicolor keycaps and we go with other candy for the rest and we go with chocolate bar for the computer. And then do we still do the brown desk or no? I don't think it's, I think we could because there would be enough contrast of the outside of this being gold. How gold can we go though without ruining like airflow? And how good of a job can we do with that? This is a super modular case. This whole, look at where they're at. Cause like I'm worried about stuff like this. I'm pretty sure that can go. Yeah, but how are we gonna put it back in tidally because whatever kind of foil we're using is not gonna be that strong. We could do that. We can do foil for some parts but I think a lot of it's gonna be paint. Like this is definitely gonna be paint. This would be easy too. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. So we go golden wrapper outside and then inside all brown. We could do a cream and brown. So we could do cream accents with a brown base. We can mask off these fans and we can go like brown frame creams. So we are brown and cream. I don't think this is an incredible idea but I think it's a doable idea. And then we might be able to spend more time doing crazy things with the rest of the build. It took us until two o'clock to even sort of have an idea. It wasn't finalized by any stretch. Frankly, our whole value add on this one is the idea because our execution isn't gonna be better. So yeah, I'm really worried right now. Will, Linus and Luke continues sucking next week. 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