 🎵 He doesn't suspect a thing. So, uh, Brandon's been trying to buy some computer hardware. He's wanted a rig, because he's used some ancient laptop. So he's been trying to buy computer hardware for Black Friday. And, uh, Luke and I keep refusing to help him with anything. We're just like, no, no, um, don't buy that, don't buy that. Yeah, no, it's not a good deal, it's not a good deal. So, uh, secretly down here, we're working on putting together a rig for him. So let's go through what we got. We went through the tickle trunk, so to speak. So we got an i7 4770K. We got a Gigabyte Z87X UD5H. This is a pretty freakin' high-end board. Okay, we dug up a 2TB WD Green storage drive. Where'd those SSDs go? Okay, we got a couple, uh, we got 16 gigs of Corsair Vengeance memory. And then we grabbed a couple of our test drives. So we're gonna do two 128GB drives in RAID 0. Two SSDs in RAID 0 for the boot drive. Um, he's been eyeing the Corsair Air 540 since we got our hands on that. But he recently changed his desk, so he can't use it anymore. So instead, we're gonna use the one we used for our ultimate video editing build guide. So that's the TJ04EW from Silverstone. And then, uh, power supply. I don't think we're quite decided yet. We're either gonna chuck this OCZ ZTE in there. It's actually not a bad power supply. It's modular and 80-plus bronze. Or we're gonna go, like, all out silent and put the Rosewill 500W 80-plus platinum power supply in it. We're gonna probably pull apart the case, because I don't remember what ventilation around the power supply area is like. And find out if that makes sense, because I'd like to make the system quite quiet if we can. So for our cooler, we've got a Dark Rock II from Be Quiet. And then, uh, what are we doing for a graphics card? I don't think we picked that one. Okay, well, we'll pick a graphics card soon. Stay tuned, guys. So he's taking apart the motherboard now. So he can actually start setting up. It's actually a pretty beast motherboard. See, this, they wanted to go with a gold idea, like Asus did their gold motherboards. This is how you do a gold idea. You don't make the whole damn thing gold. You just do it, like, a little bit, and it's okay. It looks fine. It looks good. My camera skills don't look good, but it looks good. All right, well, we might as well do a CPU installation guide. You want to be the narrator? Sure. So he spins it so that the notches are properly lined up. And elegantly pulls up the arm and then very delicately places it in the slot. Oh, my God. Oh, wow! Dun-dun-dun. Impressive. Thank you. Finish him! If you could do that accurately, that would be kind of amazing. Gotta be awesome. Yeah. So now we're revisiting the cooler that cut Linus. This is the very cooler that in a different build guide cut his finger open. So this is round two. What? He applies the thermal compound. Precision. Accuracy. Skill. Determination. Yes! Actually that's not that great. No. I probably should have gone for a longer thinner line. What is this? Is this the front audio solution for this motherboard? I'm sorry? You said something about a front audio solution for this motherboard. Oh, I don't know. You could do like a macro of like the header. Because you won't be able to see it. Because it plugs into the case. That's the guy we're building a computer for. So the way this heatsink actually screws in is instead of screwing it in from the front, you screw it in from the back. So you just have brackets that are pre-installed on the front, and then you just tighten these screws at the back. Preferably a cross pattern going little by little, until it is completely attached to the board. So once that's done, you should have a pretty good look. I mean it's important for a capture PC to be extremely quiet. Because you don't want... I mean obviously it's going to be used in an environment where video production is going on. So you don't want to be loud and obnoxious, right? All our graphics cards are upstairs. So when he was up here editing, we couldn't really dig through them. So here we go. What do you got? Oh yeah. Going with the 680. So Brandon uses CUDA and the American Playback Engine for some of the stuff he does. So we figure that's a pretty good choice. So Luke's working on front panel headers. Yeah. Good work. Like we assign all the right jobs because the guy with the like gigantor hands is plugging in front panel connectors, and I'm like plugging in this fan. So here's how to install a graphics card. You put the thing in the slot. See? Right in there and then you put the screws in the other thing. So here's our 680. It's starting to come together, hey? Yep. That's a nice looking rig. That guy is still here editing our Rampage 4 Extreme Black Edition thing. So we've had to just kind of do this. But there we go. Oh actually do you want to grab the backside panel? Just so that the sexiness comes through properly. So there you have it guys. Not a bad little rig for someone who wants to do some video editing and get into gaming a little bit. Oh yeah, oh yeah, and of course, you know, capture. Video capture. Just like that, yeah. So cable management on the back is reasonably clean, but not clean enough that we necessarily want to show it to you. There's only one more thing we need to do here is just tuck these away. And then we are pretty much ready to rock. I'm liking how few cables we had to use to put this rig together. We only had to use one modular cable. That was it. And it has four SATA harnesses on it. We were able to plug in all of our drives and we were ready to go. So the only thing left now is the surprise. Okay, so it's not the best wrapping job ever, but my wife's helping me kind of put like a wrapping sort of looking thing on it so that it will look somewhat nice. And then we're going to surprise him tomorrow morning. Alright, so Brandon went out for lunch. So we're bringing out the system. We've got the muscle handling that aspect of things. I'm going to bring it upstairs. Alright, so what I'm going to do is I'm going to like barricade this door or something so that we hear him coming. Or like I'll pile boxes at the top of the stairs because he'll be like, I don't know, the boxes like piled up the stairs. I can't get up. Okay. Just like yell surprise or something. Okay, glass. Record a video. Oh, Brandon, we're good. We're not filming. I mean we are filming, but surprise! Surprise what? Oh! It's your Christmas bonus. What? Seriously? We were trolling you so hardcore when we were building a system with all your favorite stuff and telling you it wasn't for you. What? When did you even have time for this? We built this on Friday. What? After I asked like a million times. That's why we kept on trying to convince you not to buy things. Yeah, we were like, please don't buy things. You didn't buy anything, did you? No, I didn't. Okay, good. Thank you for your hard work. Thank you. And yeah, it's pretty much the ballinest. Is this going on the channel? This is going on the channel, isn't it? Yeah, you're going to have to edit it. This was that Bblog video that you asked me about that was on the release schedule for this week. Oh, really? All right, well, congratulations. Enjoy. Merry Christmas and all that good stuff. I wish you had had a little more patience because I wanted to give it to you at Christmas, but you're like, oh, no, I'm going to buy a system. I'm like, come on, I don't think I could sell you for a month. Yeah, no, it was getting really tough. I think it was just a laptop. All right, well, that's pretty much it. So I hope you guys enjoyed our Christmas special. It's coming a little early on account of some people can't wait till Christmas to get their Christmas presents. 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