 Get on over here, Chris. So this is an interesting one. Our final contestant for ROG Rig Reboot 2018, or rather our final winner, Chris here had only one request for this machine. Wireless internet? That's it. That's the one special request. Well, hopefully ASUS managed to send over a board with Wi-Fi because tough series boards didn't used to have it. Oh, they did. Cool. Well, we're off to the races then, aren't we? That's what the jet act. Dead. What are you wearing? An LTT hoodie, an LTT t-shirt. Actually, Chris, I forgot to show you the best part of my ensemble today. Everyone's been complaining about my socks and sandals. So I agreed finally to switch to sandals and bare feet. Oh, bare feet. Bare feet. Bare feet. Bare feet. Bare feet. Bare feet. Bare feet. Bare feet. Bare feet. Bare feet. Bare feet. Bare feet. Bare feet. Bare feet. Bare feet. Bare feet. Bare feet. Bare feet. Bare feet. Bare feet. Bare feet. Get it. So have you ever built a computer before? Yes. Really? So this will be easy peasy. Go ahead and get started. Do it. I gotta get the case open first. Do you not like my method? I'll do the motherboard. No, it's a free country. No, it's a free country. Keep an eye on me. Try not to be judgmental right now. How would you go about it then? Well, I don't know. You don't seem like you care. You seem like you just wanna forge your own path. to interfere with whatever it is, whatever this is. What kind of system you built before? I have some old like Windows XP computers, like early 2000s. Oh wow, okay, so first of all, never open anything over top of the socket. Just in case you drop it. Good point. Yeah, so you drop enough things, you start to come up with mitigation strategies. Yeah, that's good, so what are we loading in here? 9,700K? How do you pull this off? Did he end up with the best CPU? Shh. Oh, it's cause he got to go last. That's the secret, dang. Eight core chip, man, nice. Sorry, you were having trouble getting the box open, right? Yeah. Okay, I'm gonna show you a secret technique for getting past these seals that's been handed down by my unboxing forefathers. Oh, so just go around it. Yeah. Like if there's a detour, you just drive around. Yeah, so you put it in the 2280 socket here, or at least you try, you just scrape it around on the board for a bit. And then, yeah, go ahead. Yeah, yeah, yeah, grab a socket, there. Find the right size. Nope, too small. So there we go, we've got our M.2 drive, we've got our CPU. What would you think comes next, old timey chap? We put the motherboard into the computer. No, he's just, like no foreplay. Graphics, let's put the graphics card on now and then just put it in there. With no power supply. No power supply. The RAM. Yes, let's put the RAM in. Okay, so putting in RAM last. So you know what's cool? You actually ended up with the coolest RAM too. This is the Trident Z Royal. Heck yeah. All right. All right, how does RAM go in? Well, normally. There we go. Nice, he's done RAM before. That is kind of blingy to the point of ridiculous. And it is like RGB'd up the butt. What would you like to do now? I'm gonna go with my first impulse and say the power supply. So these are your custom, individually sleeved cable mod cables. And once you get those sorted out, then we can plug them into your power supply. Eh. Buh-bye. Molex cable. Eh. That's what I figured. Eh. Okay, then. Have you considered the possibility that you're done? Oh. Done. Eh. We got more cables. Eh. Oh. You seem so stressed out, man. Don't worry. It's expensive. Nothing can go wrong. Eh. Okay. Put your cables on first. It's a lot easier to put them on now than to try and finagle them in in there. It's facing up. This would be the closest. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Gonna need the IO shield. We may have a small issue, Houston. All right, Chris. So there appears to be, to have been a small error in your favor. You were already getting basically the Bangenest gaming computer and it's just gonna get a little bit more banging because we're gonna have to go with an ROG motherboard here because your case has one of these connectors. So these are designed for high data rates and high power delivery such as is needed for USB type C ports. So, you know, I'm just gonna do a quick swap here for the components that we have installed so far. That's a pretty nice upgrade. Eh. Yeah, right. Why I've been installing RAM since before you were born. I'm gonna need a minute. Oh. But I dress older than you. So it's okay. You gonna be all right? Yeah, I'm fine. You need a minute? No, I'm good. Okay. You're only as old as you feel. Yeah. You're really old today, Colton. Thank you for that. You're only as old as you act. How about that? Where the chuffing hell is the IO shield for the... Oh, it's one of the ones with the built-in IO. Okay, it's fine. Okay, so now I really wish you hadn't exploded the packaging for this motherboard. Do we need like a cleanup session, like a montage? No, it's gonna be fine because it's gonna be Colton's problem. Oh, and he's gone. There is not a lot of clearance here. Yeah, we are going to have to take the fan out in order to install this motherboard. Wow, that's a tight fit. Snug like a bug. Yeah. Okay, it goes in, but the tolerances on this case could be better. You know what? I'm just gonna do these. Sounds best. I'll hand you screws. Oh, it's helpful that way. One job, Chris. One job. I drop things almost as much as you do. It's nothing to be proud of, sir. You could be my real dad. All right, so the motherboard's in. I'm gonna say put the SSD into its holster, holster, like a Texan. Is this gonna be your everyday carry SSD? Yeah, but I can't take it into work, not allowed. Are you sure you don't have a knife? See, I thought those were fake. No. Real fake knives. You don't need regular real knives when you got real fake knives. You got fake fruit. There's no way that you could do this any worse than our last winner. It's not possible. Is this a challenge? No. And, and, and, and. Okay. Okay, I lied. It is possible for you to be as bad at this as the other guy. No, no. Do I mount it like that? After looking at it, I'm like, oh, I see where I am. Screwing up. Screwing up. Yeah, that's good. I'll get there in the end. It starts with. No. You know, Linkin Park? Of course I do. He knows Linkin Park. All right, check my. Maybe you are an old soul. No, check my phone. You'd see a lot of old songs on there. Did he just call it an old song? Oh, just gonna. If it's from, He was about to say, if it's from 2000 or earlier, it's old. Okay, you're right there. That is what he was about to say. Because that's before he was born. Is Nsync, would you consider Nsync an old band? I am actually going to see the Backstreet Boys. I am so excited. They're coming to Vancouver next summer. Nice. Oh really? Yeah, I got. I'm not even ashamed. I'm into it. BSB. BSB, yo. This cooler is pretty cool. Ah. So aside from just being like an Asetek built, dual 120 millimeter, blah, blah, blah. It has a screen on it. Does it tell me the temperatures? It can. Oh, okay. It can tell you whatever you want. It can curse at you if you'd like. Oh, sweet. This is a little tricky and I don't expect you to know the right way to do it. We just want to check our orientation here to make sure that, so that's going to be probably how we want to put that on. You know what? I'm just going to pop it on there for you. So what's the highest spec Windows XP computer you've built? It has a GT210, I think. Okay. Well, that's a graphics card at least. The processor is a Pentium 4D 3.0, not 3.0. By the time you have a Pentium D in the machine, it doesn't matter how many gigahertz it is really. It's more of a space heater to be honest. Yeah. Okay. Cooler's in, looking good. What's next? I guess that needs to be turned around then for cable management in the back. Ooh, would you like LTT hook and loop fastener ties? Sure. They're just like regular cable ties, except they say LTT on them. Nice. Just going to replace those built-in cable ties for you there. It's a nice, decent quality LTT ones. Decent quality. More secure, I'd say. We're not saying they're the best, we're just saying they're fine. They're functional. Wow, this is coming together now. Okay, yeah, we can do the graphics card if you want. All right. This is it. The scariest part. This is the RTX 2080, what do you mean scariest part? This is fun. Yeah, except fastest gaming card known to man. OC edition. 11 gigs of GDDR6 memory. This is probably more GDDR6 memory than you have in your life of any kind of memory. Well, unless you count my memory drawer. Best part, man. This is as good as it gets. And your timing for this build, it just keeps getting better. Battlefield V finally just dropped with RTX enabled. Ah, it's a tight fit box. Oh, thank you. Don't drop it. I know, that's why I said this is the scariest part. This I don't have a replacement on hand for. And also this is more expensive than any computer I've owned alone. So, yep. Why does it stop on? It's in the hand. Let me have a quick peekaboo here. How'd you do that? Oh, it got stuck. Okay. I'm gonna bend that back for you there, bud. Just take care of that there for your bud there. And now it fits. Just for that, I'm gonna peel your graphics card. No, I'm not gonna do that. I'm not gonna do that. I wouldn't do that. I wouldn't peel another man's graphics cards. Go for it, go for it. After all this practice. Oh, oh, oh, oh. Oh, oh, oh, oh. Oh, no. Oh, awful. Oh, wow. Two-handed peal. Oh. Oh my goodness, this is, I think this is the worst level of chaos out of any of these builds so far. Is this wireless? Nope. Also, you can decide if you want a braided cable or a regular cable. Good, because braided cables, I'm gonna go with regular, because braided are heavier and drag. Fascinating. So I had just said on our last ROG Rig Reboot, why would anyone not choose the braided cable? Because the braided cable has more drag to it and it's a heavier cable, so. Looking good. I'm liking the old timey hat with the brand new. That's how I do things. That's how I do things. Look. Even at home. Really? Yeah. Have you ever owned a display port anything? I owned a 1080p monitor that had a display port option, but I never had a display port on the computer. Well, this monitor has more than just display port. This thing is 165 Hertz. 2560 by 1440 resolution. G-Sync. And in the other corner. Nothing. Nothing stands against it. Okay. Yeah, no, this is basically as banging as it gets for gaming. I think you'll be able to tell that it's really fast and really clear. Have you ever experienced greater than 60 Hertz displayness? The highest I have seen is 70 something. So I just enabled overclocking for this monitor. So that'll get you from 144 to 165 Hertz. Boom, there it is. I'm gonna test it out on my favorite game. Mind sweep. Ooh, the mouse. You can mind sweep like nobody ever mind swept before. You can see exactly when the clock changes its number. So each of these only borders one. So it's either here and here, or it's just one of these and it's both of these. I'm gonna take 50-50 guess and go with, wait, you don't have to. Do I not? This one here. Yeah. Which means that's clear. Which means that's clear too. Hey, yes. All right, that means these three are clear. Not that one. Wait, which? No, no. One over that, that and that. Yeah, those are all clear. We can play a real game now though. All right. This is a real game. I'll have you know. Okay. Okay, so in typical call of duty fashion, people are running around on the battlefield with swords. Just knife at each other, all right. How are you liking it? How's it feel? Much better, especially on the graphics department. I don't even think I could play this game on my old computer. How's the smoothness? Very smooth. Even though I'm not used to sensitivity, it's smooth enough that I can see and stop myself. I can't see that I'd be playing this competitively, but having a lot of fun. No, no. Oh, the dog's coming. You got dogged. Shot of like three times. I get such a kick out of this. Aura thinks like, hey, you're playing Cod. Now it's orange. Did you just die? Yeah. It turns red when you die. I'm gonna rage quit. This is my first rage quit on this computer. I'm upset. How's your kill to death ratio? Oh, I missed it. I rage quit. I think it was around one to one-ish. I think you were a little bit below, but I don't blame you if you're not used to the sensitivity. You can get that dialed in though, that has tons of DPI adjustments. And we're back to your regular color scheme now. That's pretty cool. So that's it, guys. 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