 Oh, I left my thing. Okay, I'm live. Welcome friends to something a little bit different. It actually is kind of surprising to me that it's taken this long for me to do this. I will be doing Yes with my flippy knife and my flippy screwdriver. I will be doing a live PC build. This is actually the machine that I worked with the winner of LG's ultra wide festival. It's the sweater that I actually just put on randomly this morning and worked out as a happy accident that I'm wearing. So I'll be putting together the machine that I worked with the winner of ultra wide festival to Well pick out all the parts for and then well put together. In theory he was supposed to put it together himself But I picked out a bunch of stuff that frankly I wasn't really a hundred percent sure would even work. So I was like, you know what bro? Why don't you have it sent to me? I'll put it together for you and I'll stream it which is pretty cool. I think so check this out. I have two camera angles. I have the top down camera angle got my like stabbing screwdriver and then I got the more in the front more traditional camera angle. So without further ado I guess I will pretty much get started actually. Now one thing I'm gonna do is I'm gonna grab my laptop So I can talk to you lovely twitch chat people today. Most of you are lovely. I've already seen Star Wars by the way our our bot is set up to ban people for Star Wars spoilers So I really wouldn't tempt the gods on on that one right there So I get to interact with twitch chat The wretched hive of scum and villainy that it is Wow, we have 1,400 people watching me have audio difficulties. I guess that shouldn't really surprise me because it's the same as every week Haha, all right So why don't we start with the usual thing where I walk through all the different parts that I picked out and sort of why? So for the case we went with a fractal design to find our five We were gonna go with some totally like wonko tastic in one thing for like nine hundred dollars because we were like Yeah, whatever. We got a ten thousand dollar budget Instead we ended up rebalancing that so he could afford like a more reasonable case and like a laptop So so yeah, we went to define our five. It's quiet. It looks good. It's black Fractal it's reasonably well built in terms of motherboard things get a little bit of more of a long story This is actually not the motherboard we intended to buy, but it doesn't make that much of a difference We were gonna use the deluxe. This is the x99a. I think it's missing Wi-Fi basically so we'll have to fight excuse me We'll have to find some kind of solution to that particular little little whoopsie for CPU this is pretty cool now a Normal youtuber probably would have told our winner. Hey, you could get yourself a extreme edition But I'm Linus, so I was like hey Let's get an e5 2690 v3. I don't even remember how many cores that has I'm going to have to look it up right now In case you guys are wondering here's a really cool pro tip arc ARK is Intel's little site for finding out all the information you could want to know about pretty much all of their CPUs so the 2690 v3 is a done, da da da He stalls for time he hits specifications 12 core so it's 12 core CPU that runs at a nominal frequency of around 2.6 Gigahertz, but can turbo boost up with pretty much the best of them so that was why we went with that What else we got here? There's some cool stuff Okay, so ram we went with the ecc ram We got 64 gigs so for 16 gig sticks Vcc memory because quite frankly it's gotten to the point where memories fast enough and so is so with our CPUs So this is 21 33 megahertz stuff some Samsung stuff that was on the QVL for the deluxe board So I really hope it works otherwise. I'm going to be stuck with some ram that I don't need and The winner Ryland is going to end up with some of my ram if it comes to that alright in terms of coolers Here's another little little mistake. We were we asked for some knock to a one They sent us a cooler master hyper 212 you know the reality of it is These zions in spite of all their cores actually don't run very hot It helps to have the heat distributed more so that cooler is going to do just fine for us And you can't overclock zions anyway, so really really not too worried about that in terms of power supply We went with an RM 1000 I I had actually he picked this out himself, and I was like dude It's a thousand watt power supply you don't need a thousand watt power supply, and he was like yeah but it's a really good deal, and I was like You're right This was a really good deal when we ordered it so I was like okay. You can have your overkill power supply I guess that's fine These are cool, so a lot of people Including including Ryland don't know this but you can actually buy just Generic ram sticks that don't have heat spreaders on them because remember guys the heat spreaders really don't do anything So you can just buy like whatever ram sticks you want and then you can actually get pretty cool looking here I'm going to switch to my alternate angle here. You can get pretty cool looking Like after like after market II looking heat spreaders that actually look pretty cool, so we picked up for those Although it should be noted that buying those Aftermarket is quite a bit more expensive than buying them included with your ram So you don't end up saving a ton of money the only reason we ended up doing it was that we wanted to We wanted to get ECC memory none of which comes with like cool gamery looking heat spreaders or anything like that For storage we went with the usual so we've got our We've got our one terabyte Samsung 850 Pro And then we've got our solid-state storage backed up by two WD red six terabyte drives he actually didn't specify how he wants those set up So I'm going to put them in raid one because I suspect six terabytes is more than enough for him We went with Linus Tech Tips Edition and FF12 fans. Yes my friends I wasn't going to miss an opportunity to sell some of my fans to my fans also we went with a Hue plus Hue hue Which way should I hold this? Which way is right side up for you? I guess this way. There we go We went with an NZXT hue plus in order to throw some illumination inside and finally I guess that leads us to our graphics card so Ryland actually did what any Sort of excited person who gets a huge budget for building a computer does and Put Titan X's into the machine and I went Ryland Ryland Ryland we can get you the same performance if not better With a couple of these for a fraction of the cost and we can spend all that other money on other really cool stuff So he ended up with like a camera notebook Like two pairs of Jbird Wireless earphones like a bunch of a bunch of really cool stuff because we saved money without compromising on performance So let's start the way we usually do I am live streaming. What can I do for you, sir? The camera mic is on the camera mic is not on so there's that Why am I why am I being informed now and not informed? Why am I why am I being informed now and not like 15 minutes ago? Oh, it's why I have the overhead cam up I see Hmm Oh Bloody Hell Oh, I'm sorry. Apparently this one has its microphone on Well then Hmm I don't actually know how to turn that off That's an idea Okay, well hopefully that fixes it Yes friends, hopefully that fixes it indeed All right boom Now, let's see if that is fixed. Apparently my flies. Oh my fly is half open. I Shall demonstrate for you Half see the bottom half is actually zipped Yes, friends only half Only half unzipped. All right, so let's start this build the way that we usually do with the motherboard Inside the motherboard box. We will find the accessories that we need like our I o plate our SLI bridge and three SATA cables dang it It always messes with my OCD when I have to use When I have to use one right angle SATA cable and the others are straight Going to kill me. All right I'm going to go ahead and take off the anti-static bag And I'm going to put that back in the box and that'll be it for that motherboard box We don't need any other of the action inside there You know, it's really funny is because I don't have to like painstakingly film all of this This is probably going to this video probably isn't going to be much longer than my usual build guides always were even though I Don't actually get the benefit of video editing today. I have to actually do the whole thing live so CPU installation Always double check even I double check After all these times installing CPUs make sure the golden corner aligns with the other more different golden corner triangle thing boop Oh, I always do that I close up the motherboard box before I remember to put on the socket cover socket covers important keep that in your motherboard box because if You ever have to our make your motherboard They're going to ask you to put that on before you send it back And if you don't have it, they may actually reject your RMA and maybe for good reason because you can oops Because you can damage the you can damage the motherboard socket pretty easily without that cover on All right Next up is ram and this will be more interesting than it usually is because I have never installed I have never installed these accost ironmax Ram sinks before Yes, friends. I have actually no idea how to install them so Okay, it involves a screwdriver Dang it. Where's an I fix it kit when you need it. Oh, there's one Okay So I did say I would pay attention to twitch chat, and then I proceeded to not not notice Any of the things that they said about my audio issues all the motherboards not broken you guys need to all just Calm your boobies down a little bit. It's all good in the head All right Now one thing I'm a little uncertain about is whether this ram is actually going to work in this motherboard so That's interesting, so that's just a phone doodad This is one really tricky thing about installing these aftermarket memory spreaders is getting the memory module centered Because if you if you're off by too much then when they're all installed next to each other They're going to look really really weird Okay, so I'm going to have to try and remember this I want stickers stickers up That looks about right how adhesive is this oh, it's not that sticky okay? Yep This is how boring it is when I do this stuff unedited. There's an awful lot of tedious like Little thing on the other little thing and then and then yeah screw it down Nice headshot. Oh, sorry did I just have you guys staring at the back of my head? I didn't even get a haircut this weekend. I actually meant to I was trying to get my wife to do it for me, but she wouldn't what did I do? I'm not holding anything upside down look upside down I Alright So this my friends is what it's going to look like installed in the motherboard you can see out here actually I'm going to switch to the other angle so you can see even this like Server e memory can actually look pretty pretty gamer tastic if you go and throw yourself a little aftermarket heat spreader thing on there Here's another another angle at that. I'm going to go ahead and throw this on the motherboard There you go looks about as like Gamery and performance as pretty much anything so All right, let's sorry. I'm having trouble remembering which ones are my hotkeys I'm going to I'll definitely talk to twitch chat now I'll definitely show it to twitch chat. I'll talk to twitch chat now The green ruins it what green all the green PCB you know Okay, the thing about the whole green PCB thing is like did you know that green PCBs are legitimately cheaper? For one thing I did not know that a black PCB does add cost to the part and on servers that is a completely unnecessary cost because Literally no one on earth Cares that their server has a black PCB on the memory Where was I going with this? I'm fairly sure this was important That that that that little known fact did you know something something green piece, but you know nothing of okay ram Yeah, it doesn't the green PCB really doesn't bother me that much on ram because once it's installed you really Can't see it very well, so Unless you're really getting in there with like the macro lens with your SLR And you're like determined to have your build be like totally perfect for million dollar PC or something Those kinds of little details don't matter as much to me as having a system. That's a hundred percent stable so Ecc ram is it necessary for most applications no But does it eliminate yet another potential? source of of instability Yes, it does else we got here So that is why my macbook something Minus, I'm basically building a server. Oh, no. I wouldn't call this a server There's a lot of things that make a computer a personal computer or a server Ecc memory is One of them that I would definitely consider to be on the on the server side of things Because you can you can definitely have a desktop computer that is stable enough with unbuffered dims But in order for this to qualify as a server it would have to be a lot of other stuff as well So for one thing we wouldn't be running a consumer grade motherboard. We'd be running some kind of a server board Asus has stuff available supermicro is very popular But yeah, we'd be running a server board and server boards aren't really suitable for desktop and workstation applications for a number of reasons mostly because they Trade they trade off their their no nonsense Stability for well nonsense and features and stuff so they tend not to have a lot of the features that as consumers We really want to see on our products So you know if you expect to have you know thunderbolt and uh, you know a whack ton of usb Ports and all that stuff you're not going to find that on a server board The other thing that a server typically has that this machine doesn't is a lot of fail safes So we're just using a single non-redundant power supply that means if the power supply fails The system shuts down and and potentially even parts of it don't work anymore I'm not saying I expect an rm1000i to fail. It's a very good power supply But i'm saying that if it failed it would be very very bad on a server You would want to be using a redundant power supply where there's actually two Separate completely independent power supply modules within a single unit and if one of them fails outright stops working The whole thing continues to work in fact one of our servers here actually has a triple Redundant power supply i'm just going to change up the angle just for the sake of I don't know just having a bit of a different Angle while I talk for a bit um The bot is unforgiving yes the bot is unforgiving for certain things where we've had a lot of problems in the past I love our bot actually it's great It makes life a lot easier for us. It's fantastic um What does this build for got some people asking questions that I answered at the beginning of the stream way to not tune in immediately loser No, i'm just kidding. You're not a loser I know twitch is the loser because they only send notifications sort of approximately when they feel like it Um, this is for the winner of the ultra wide festival ultimate dream setup machine thing so um Yeah, this is this is his this is his rig i'm putting together with the with the Does this have 64 gigs of ram? Yeah, I guess it does That is freaking sick Freaking sick. Yeah All right Boom so there you have it. I'll give you guys a better look at that that Is what it looks like with all those uh memory sticks there installed Not bad, huh? for ecc dims Yes friends, all right What else we got here, what do I do next usually right cpu cooler, so hyper 212 evo Uh, where's my knife there it is I see what's Like 64 gigs for a gaming rig. Yeah, well remember too Um, it was kind of a creator oriented contest so I'm very certain that especially with the camera that he picked up He actually had to borrow a camera in order to participate in the contest But uh, he now with his new dream setup has his own so with the camera that he picked up I'm pretty sure he intends to do some content creation on this rig as well So in that case that uh that extra ram will actually be helpful. Okay. I need to go get a garbage can This is driving me crazy This is driving me crazy Okay There we are Funny story. I have actually never mounted a hyper 212 evo But i'm going to try and do it without the instructions Okay, so that appears to be a hold down plate of some sort That appears to be a fan of some sort That appears to be a oh my goodness. What is that? It's okay. Don't worry. I got this I got this you guys What the heck? Yeah, sure, okay I still remember when like heat pipe direct touch Which was like a big deal. I think zigmatech started that nonsense Sorry, i'm just i'm thinking because i'm thinking out loud because this cooler has the heat pipes directly contacting the cpu Yes, my friends I do I vaguely remember back when Back when cpu coolers were changing really fast, you know back when thermal right was releasing stuff like the xp90c and we were all like Whoa, man It's like a full copper heat sink, man What the heck is this Okay. Yep. Yep. Okay. There's a thing that holds it in the place to something something Can I help whoever's here with something I don't know what the heck That is weird Okay. Well, let's not stress about that. Let's put the uh Wow, that's really nice the way they put all the hardware in a little uh clamshell for you here I like that That is a nice touch cooler master I'll give credit where credit is due Okay Now There's less credit due here unless i'm not supposed to use that back plate at all Which may actually be the case. It's possible. I'm just supposed to put these puppies in. Yep. Looks like that's how it's done again 2011 mounting is always a bit of a Always a bit of a challenge or not always some companies do it really well knock to it does it really well Be quiet does it particularly poorly? Where just some guys it's like a total afterthought. It basically doesn't work at all And you're just kind of like well, what the heck because our our thermal testing platform is an lga 2011 Uh test bench and so be quiet every time they sent us a cooler back when we really did heatsink reviews They'd be like, whoa, why are you guys begging on us for our 2013 mount? We'd be like well Because it's trash It's terrible and they're like, yeah, but most people don't use it. I'm like, that's nice. We do So the people who read with a different platform, they'll like it And we won't Wait a minute Dang it. Okay. I'm resorting to the instructions Because I don't know which of the correctly threaded Doodads I'm supposed to put in so 1366 gets the taller one and Bloody hell Um, yep 2011 gets this guinea once I knew that was gonna happen Again the benefits of video editing When you screw something up, I'll just completely get it wrong you can just undo that part I'm not sure what except sometimes when we do anyway because we screw up sometimes Even in the video editing part of things This Let's twitch chat one Hope he sees the amount of thermal paste you're supposed to put on according to the graphic I will I promise to check that out. I promise to check that out And then if it's any more than like a little bit, I will completely ignore it Just for you guys That was actually my favorite moment in austin's uh, boronator Boronator build log thing that he and I worked on together Where he gives it to me the expert to put the thermal paste on i'm just like Very fun. You guys should check out that uh, check out that That build log thing if you haven't already austin evans's channel I actually am shipping the pc out to the winner today as we speak I am doing actually colton is doing it, but uh, that's basically the same as me doing it All right thermal compound I promised to look at the instructions for this so where we where we get where's that? Oh nice There you go guys. That's how much thermal paste to put on just like that. Don't worry about it. Just go go ham Go ham. No big deal No friends. We're gonna put on we'll put on a little bit more than usual because this is a larger cpu and it does have A lot of cpu cores in there A lot of people get really wrapped up in the in the how much thermal compound Oh dang it. Well how much is pretty important? But a lot of people get really wrapped up in the how to apply thermal compound argument When the truth of the matter is that it's within a degree or two Pretty much however you put it on it's it's really not that big of a deal So unless you're unless you're going for like Sub-zero letax or Overclocked zores or or whatever and even if you are That degree is really Very unlikely to make that big of a difference Using the right type of thermal compound is actually quite a bit more important Like if you are going sub-zero, for example, you want to use a thermal compound That that that handles sub-zero temperatures. Some of them really don't work very well at very low temperatures, for example Cerametic Ceramic is apparently the the go-to for those for that crowd or at least it was a long time ago I'm pretty i'm pretty out of the loop as far as the whole extreme overclocking thing goes these days All right, let's get this puppy Mounted now. Hmm. Maybe you guys can tell me Cooler master or cooler master These are important details. I think we're going to go this way That's another thing people get really stressed out about that really just doesn't matter that much is um Lifting up and and reseating the heat sink once the once the goop is already on there Really isn't that big of a deal. I've actually Taken just old test benches Popped off the cooler worked on it put it back on Really doesn't matter I did that as just like a test for myself. I didn't end up making a video about it but I did do that at one point where I took like a really old thermal compound application and Like took it off and put it back on and took it off and put it back on several times And then I did a brand new fresh application to see if that would make a difference and it did not It was within the margin of error which is like realistic A couple of degrees actually Okay look at that awesome Now I think I was actually supposed to use the taller one But it doesn't really matter as long as I don't completely overdo it with the pressure This is fine. I'm not gonna I'm not gonna overdo this Um turkey cola Hmm what's up with the video stutter? I don't know I have no idea Yeah, maybe I should switch angles. Maybe that'll help. I don't actually expect that to help. I'm just being unhelpful I'm kind of glad we went lga 2011 on this uh on this system With all the things i've been hearing about skylake and cpus bending and shipping this is a system that I intend to Ship to the winner. So you know what? That's really not that tight actually i'm gonna go all the way then I think that's where the stopper is. Yeah. Yeah, that's not too bad All right All right, this is one thing I also like to check is just have a look at uh if you want to evaluate your mounting pressure If your board is bowing like crazy, then that's that's probably not really what you were going for. This one seems to be completely fine Speaking of being completely fine. It's really lucky that we ended up with um With a cooler that was going to work for us here given that they didn't ship the one that we had wanted Because lga 2011, you know, you can mount pretty much any cooler on it Almost everyone has compatibility with it, but many coolers out there don't work Optimally with it if you want to install a whole bunch of memory sticks because you've got memory slots on both sides of the cpu So it happens that the hyper 212 I think this is what the evo yeah hyper 212 evo is one of the ones that does work just fine If you install a memory stick Uh if you install a bunch of ram All right, so that accessory back in the box Okay, so we're done with our cpu cooler I was sure I was doing something else right now, right? Linus tech tips edition fan friends. I could read you guys the little letter that's inside them If you didn't order one, you won't have seen this letter yet Dear fan you not the thing in the box the linus tech tips team won't make any outrageous claims about how we Co engineered this special edition nff12 pwm, which is probably a good thing because as our regular viewers know We are not exactly mechanical engineers That's why we left the product development entirely to noctua knowing it would deliver the same outstanding performance quality and reliability that we've come to expect from their brown and tan fans Over the last decade. So what did we do? Something we've wanted to do since we first laid eyes on the nfs12 We picked the color scheme. It's the same great nff12 pwm fan, but now in linus tech tips black and orange Thanks for being a part of this. I sincerely hope you love this fan as much as I love all of mine You're sincerely Linus Sebastian Linus Media Group CEO So i'm gonna have to uh do some kajiggering here in order to get this puppy mounted So you can see the the stock fan here is it's got these little noise isolator tabs on it So i'm gonna pop those off and i'm gonna try and reuse them after There we go take out these screws Oh What do you mean the fan is gonna be dead Telejonic bulletproof The fan is gonna be dead telejonic boss. It is not gonna be dead. It's gonna be awesome Actually, I was talking to one of the uh, one of the resellers for them And they said they got something like two out of a thousand back or something like that So that is uh, that is to be considered a fairly good, uh fairly good defective rate In fact, I don't even think that um That the fan was actually dead. I think it was just someone changed their mind. So Yeah, take that This fan's gonna be dead Ha Yeah, right I mean to be clear nothing is perfect But uh, we just I mean we wanted to pick something that we thought we were gonna have a pretty darn good chance of having work. So So we went with nff-12s I mean to be clear I know that you don't need an nff-12 fan in order to get like really good performance out of a fan It's just you know best of the best and all that and it's not because I think that you have to spend thirty dollars on a fan either It's just for me if i'm gonna put my name on something I Want it to just I want to be sure that it's really really good I don't want I don't want that stress of people being like well I bought the linus tech tips edition one thinking it was the best and now I don't trust linus anymore because my fan died I'm like, you know how people are like some people don't really get that Any product can have a defect um Shoot Don't worry. This is no big deal. Just gotta pull this sticker ran out and put this on and then get back to it Can I help you colton Caltain Caltain Caltain's his gamer handle. He's really creative that colton. He managed to change two whole vowels Follow me on twitch. Yeah, right I refuse to follow you on twitch. All right, let's have a look at this So that friends is what it's looking like now Not too shabby, right? For like all servery stuff and all that All right Okay, what's next? I guess i'll put uh Well, I forgot those rubber tabs. So I guess those are going back in the hyper 212 box rylan If you're watching this, i'm sorry. I forgot your rubber tabs. They're not going back on there now because I'm live streaming and people got places to go and people to see They don't want to see me put on that tab again Sorry, buddy Your system's basically a failure. It's a failure waiting to happen But at least it comes with this cool linus tech tips case badge Yeah Yeah, all right What does uh twitch chat want Uh, worth it to upgrade from 3570k to 6600k casual gamer You know I don't know. It really depends. Are you running into cpu bottlenecks in your games? You'll notice because Your frame rates will be lower than other people who have the same graphics card as you are reporting Although something to bear in mind is that the internet is full of people who are getting 500 frames per second in every game with an 8400 gs, so Yeah, there's there's there's three pieces There's three pieces of the calculation and a lot of people Conveniently leave out a very important one. There's your frames per second. There's your graphics card And then there's the detail settings that you are running the game at That is very very very important. So people be like yeah, I got like this wicked hd 5450 it runs shadow of war door at like 80 fps I'll be like, okay a no, it doesn't you're a liar and b What resolution and settings are you running? Yeah, man. I'm running 1080p man I'm like, okay. Did you have to do like some? some like I&I edits in order to get the details turned down low enough like I didn't know they had negative anti-aliasing Uh like like just plain aliasing. It's like i'm just going to add aliasing to my game Um, so yeah, the problem is that you can't really rely on the reports of people online, although some review sites Will show you what benchmarking run they use and they will give you numbers that are actually reputable And then what you can do is you can you can just see you can go like kind of oh How am I how am I performing compared to that and if it's not very good then your cpu is probably what's holding you back But the question to ask yourself too is does it matter? Do you need 90 fps if you have 80 fps? I can tell you right now unless you have a monitor that runs at 90 Hertz the answer is probably no Okay so That isn't what was supposed to happen Huh Wow How did how did this happen? I don't know. I mean technically this will work fine It's really not what I would have preferred Um Let me think let me think hey um luke can I interrupt you for a minute? Did we ship evga back all those cards yet? We did oh Uh Do we have an evga 980ti with an acx 2.0 cooler? Hmm so So we managed to order a reference card and an acx card You know what I might just have to put it together and send it to Ryland to figure out if he can do an exchange or something like that because I have to get this i'm sure he'd rather be using the system than have me Muck around with trying to get a card swapped out But that is that is that is definitely not what the objective was today to have two different cards Um, I can use this though as an opportunity to talk about sli compatibility and how it works Come on Like ah Uh, yeah sli compatibility and how it works Works basically as on the nvidia side as long as you have two of the same gpu with the same amount of ram they didn't Used to require the same ram amount in theory although very few people ever got it to work with very few driver Versions and very few like, you know cool bits tweaks or whatever else. So as long as you have the same gpu So that's like gtx 980 not a 980 and a 980ti Not a 980 and a 980 se 2 980tis or 2 980s or 2 970s the same thing No matter what brand they are you've got, you know your evga or gigabyte or whatever else No matter what clock speed they run at no matter what coolers they are no matter what pcb design so you could even have like a an evga kingpin card and like a you know Reference card from gigabyte or something. They will run an sli At the speed at the lower speed of the two So it's not a compatibility issue It's just an aesthetic issue All right, so this is the nzxt hue Inside we will find a controller box I've actually never used this one before I recommended it to ryland And um having heard good things about it, but i've never i've never actually used one Now it's broken this is what he gets for letting me build this computer I'm gonna figure out how to get stupid led strip So the hue is has got like a front bay controller mixer thing that lets you mix your red green and blue led strips And then it's got a whole bunch of led strips inside that you can like Connect together with these little connector do daddly's and then you've got the controller box that lets you Plug in a couple things to it. It's got like usb control and all that kind of cool stuff So basically just a more more elegant way of handling this stuff Than just you know back in the day we had to use inverters which by the way were all garbage every single one of them was trash So we had to use these inverters and then we had to Use cathode tubes all of which failed Eventually even if their inverters didn't I actually on a number of occasion had inverters So those are dc to ac electricity conversion things I had them melt inside my case and like almost start fires those were awful I'm so glad that led lighting is a thing for computers now All right, so we're gonna put all those parts kind of over here, I guess and get to them later got our hard drives Wd reds a lot of people think wd red is only for nas Let me ask you this What is a computer with a bunch of hard drives in it if not a nas? Yes Yes, network attached storage if your computer is on the network and it has storage and you're sharing it It's a nas What are you gentlemen up to anyway? Oh lens things Oh cool Oh, they're better why is the door closed though? Okay, so you'd rather get cancer than be cold because that's what i'm hearing Oh you turn the heater off yeah, we had the heater on in here this morning And we've never actually turned it on before so it basically smelled like cancer in the studio all day Like it was some pretty Yeah, it was some pretty it was some pretty bad news stuff Which is weird because i'm used to turning on a heater for the first time and having it be kind of like a burning smell but uh, yeah Yeah, but that wasn't burning that was like that was like burning your lungs Okay, so i'm gonna do one of those things that's I always try but never works But I always try anyway because i'm like that I'm going to take everything out of the power supply box That I believe I will need down to every modular cable. I intend to use And see if I can actually get it right Like I said, it never works. I know this but i'm still going to try Oh look at that only one seal to break in here boom Okay, so we will need a power cord we will need some cable ties we will not need silica gel Modular cables We will need This four plus six pin pci express We will need We will need this four plus six pin pci express We will need this one, too We will need this cpu powered connector We will need oh, how is the hue powered? DC 5 volt Okay, it must have an adapter. Yes, it does. Okay, so we will need whatever the lowest number of connector mole x adapter harness that we have is It looks like this one. This one has three Some power supply makers ship one with two, but I guess we'll have to live with three. Okay, we will need our 24 pin And we will need Four sata cables Hopefully that's good We will also need the power supply I love these little baggies that coarser packs their power supplies in I'm not convinced. They're actually expensive, but they feel really premium little velvet baggy doodads Okay, this is the foam by the way that my cat ate or like not this foam exactly obvious than I just got this power supply and he ate foam months ago But this type of foam this this really soft closed cell black foam that you find in coarser power supply boxes That's not actually where he got it. It's just really similar to the stuff that he ate. All right So there's our rm 1000i Here's all our accessories that we need and now it is finally Enough stalling actually time to crack open the case And start building the machine Oh, I might have to just do this off camera. I'm sorry guys. It's kind of heavy and awkward to deal with up there Oh, I did that thing I always do Oh, never mind it worked anyway, okay, forget it. Ow static All right, yeah, baby There it is How many people are watching this wow 4600 people watching the live computer building I should start like performing Do like a that that that line of circus. He is building computers I don't know if anyone would watch that I don't know if anyone would watch that although some people internally have been pitching the idea of us doing like some kind of a live Show at some point like I don't know what that would look like but uh, it seems like it'd be a pretty cool idea Like kind of just even I don't know q and a or something I don't know all right side panel off So, what shall we start with Okay, just checking had kind of a kind of a panic moment there I was like does this board support sli It does which is good because we're running sli Okay, what slots this one and this one so we leave one gap and do another two there we go So they'll either have to send rylan the other board to swap out or Throwing a wi-fi card or something like that. It's really not that big of a deal in terms of build quality I don't think the x99a and the x99 deluxe are really that different and in terms of features aside from the wi-fi I actually couldn't really find anything that mattered Like I suspect there's some like weirdo features that that are there or not there but nothing really important It's cool, of course there has to put this warning on their power supplies Okay guys It's all right If the fan in your power supply is not spinning It is literally supposed to do that. That is literally a feature It's good. I love that feature Why spin the fans if you don't have to there's no such thing as a silent fan except the fan that is off Can I help you brandon You're looking for something are you looking for love brandon? Because love is right here. It's right here brandon It's right here inside of you and me at the same time It's a it's a very uh It's a very liberal sort of love it's an all-over-the-place love What cable do you need? Oh, yeah, I won't be able to help you with that. It's a I'll be able to help you with that. It's not in my bin by the way, okay Usually i'm a pretty good person to turn to when you need help finding a cable Yeah, not as good as me didn't I own you the other day Okay, Brian and I are keeping score kind of like uh, Like legolas and the other guy. Give me In the middle earth movies that don't suck Who can find Who can find things in like 30 seconds that other people can't find and then between us we're finding out who can do it most often and most consistently. Because I swear, no one else in this entire company could find anything to save their lives. It's like, I can't find a multimeter! I'm like, did you try that drawer where we keep the multimeters? Brilliant! Alright, so the power supply is in, if you're into that sort of thing. I had some people asking me to take the drive cage out, I actually can't think of a reason why not. We can take it out even if it's just to get it out of our way, that's one of the cool features of this case. Boom! More ventilation for the GPUs! Just like that, my friends. And because we only have three drives, we can just mount everything in this lower cage and we're in pretty good shape there. Okay, so I think, especially with a little bit more open air and all that kind of stuff, I think we're going to get away with not opening up the top mod events, so I think I'm just going to go ahead and boom, put the motherboard right, oh! I am getting spoiled. I'm getting used to motherboard standoffs being pre-installed. And this particular one is not. Hold on, I gotta grab my motherboard standoff screwdriver. Yes, I do actually own a screwdriver specifically for that. Just tech things. Here, check it out. Oh, I'm on the wrong camera angle, oh, I'm on the wrong camera angle, there we go. So this is my little socketed screwdriver just for installing motherboard standoffs. They actually come with, actually used to come with a lot of cases, so I've got a handful of them, but now everyone's cheaping out. Fractal includes this horrendous, like, stupid plastic adapter thing that you can put around the standoff and then you can drive in with a Phillips head screwdriver, but really guys, plastic? Aw, man. I think Lee and Lee was the one that used to include these ones. Cooler Master uses a metal one. Oh, I got people reminding me about the I.O. shield. I would have figured it out. I would have, I definitely would have figured out that the I.O. shield is not in there, don't worry. I don't remember the last time I failed to install an I.O. shield when I had one. A lot of people are probably gonna bring up the I.O. shield that was missing in the build with my son, but the only reason that was missing was because Luke had that I.O. shield in his garage. That is why I didn't install an I.O. shield. And I have since followed that up with him and it has been retrieved. So, next time I build a system with that motherboard, which I actually intend to do fairly soon. I'm gonna be doing like a really cool LTD edition build. So next time I do that I will be, I'll be using the I.O. shield. Okay. Why power supply fan side up? There's a reason for that. If I was building this for myself, I would probably go power supply fan down. And the reason for that is that it keeps the power supply heat isolated from the rest of the system. However, because this is not for me, the thing about fractal cases, this one in particular, is that they have very short feet. So if this case were to be installed on a relatively plush carpet, it would actually come up leaving only like a fraction of a centimeter of space between this bottom fan filter guy here and the actual intake on the bottom of the case. So, installing the power supply fan side up is sort of the less optimal but safer way if you don't know how the system is going to be used. Look at that. So that's why I did that. What about like plush carpet? Well, yeah, carpet that's more plush. Plush is a word. I don't mean just like shag carpet. Like the feet on this case really aren't very tall. So really any carpet could be a potential airflow issue. And I've actually killed power supplies that way. Just putting the system on a carpet, forgetting that it was one that had the fan on the bottom of the power supply, like not opening it up to check, because why would I think of that? And I have actually killed systems like that. So, yep. These little lessons that you learn. People are telling me the fan is upside down. Well, okay. I don't know. Alright, let's get our motherboard installed here. One thing that I really like about this case is it has this cool little nubbin in the middle so that your motherboard doesn't shift around while you're trying to install it. Why would you put a computer on carpet? I don't know, because you have carpet on your floor and you have a small desk. Not an atrocity, it's fine. Remember, when your computer's plugged in, like the thing's grounded, like it actually has a ground prong, I mean in most places. I actually had to rip the ground prong off of one of my laptop charger cables when I was over in Asia, because we were in some country, I forget which one it was, and almost none of the outlets there had a ground prong. I was like, oh, okay. So it's 120 volt, there's the two prongs, like at home, but then there's no ground prong. If you're like crooked CPU cooler, oh, whatever, look, it's adjustable. You guys are killing me here. You guys are killing me here. Alright. Wow, this is actually kind of a nice looking build. I'm liking this white and black and just a touch of orange color scheme thing that we got going on here. Let's do some power supply cables, shall we? I got people asking me to mount the SSD behind the motherboard. I actually could do that. I don't think it's realistically going to matter much, because that leaves us with only one extra expansion slot in the case, without having to add the extra cage. But it's not a bad point. I can probably do that. I know Fractal did one case, but I can't remember which one it was, like Define R3 or something like that, where you actually couldn't install an SSD on the back of the motherboard tray without taking the motherboard out. So I never recommended in that case installing the SSD on the back, because then if you ever had to get your SSD off, you would have to take the motherboard out as well. But this one, I don't believe that is the case, so it should be fine. 4-pin ATX, peripheral, blah blah blah, 6-plus 2-pin PCIe, 6-plus 2-pin PCIe. Yeah, I really don't know if we're going to keep doing build guides in the same way that we've been doing them before anymore. This kind of stuff feels so routine for me now. While I recognize that some of our viewers are new to us and haven't seen this stuff before, I just hate making content that's boring for me. So mixing it up a little bit every time is, I think, what keeps it fresh, not just for you guys, but for me. So doing this livestream thing was kind of like, oh, that's a novel idea. Yeah, sure, let's do it live. We've had a lot of people request more of our traditional style build guides, which I personally think are great. I think they're the best PC build guides on the internet. But I just don't know if we're going to really continue to do them the way that we used to. Blah blah blah, are the new Skylake i5s overclockable on motherboards? You said would allow it on WAN Show. I don't know. Are they? I know that I had heard, although I haven't personally tested it yet, I had heard that non-K Skylake CPUs are now overclockable, but yeah, I haven't verified it yet. I think ASRock and MSI are the only ones that have actually implemented the patch at this point, and I don't have a ton of ASRock or MSI on hand, so it's hard for me to verify something like that. All right, let's turn this puppy around. There we go. I'm actually going to take off the back panel so I can start doing some cable management. That is the mark of an inexperienced builder doing cable management at the end. You always do cable management as you go, otherwise it makes your life a lot more difficult. Ah, these new power supplies with their newfangled, I shouldn't even say new actually, some company has been doing this for a very long time. There are newfangled capacitors all over the 24-pin connector. Makes them quite a bit bulkier to deal with, but the folks at Corsair, and I think, I can't remember who the first one to do this was. Was it PC Power and Cooling or something? I can't remember who did it first, but apparently it helps with ripple suppression or something, which I'm sure matters to some extreme overclocker somewhere in Scandinavia. I don't know, I'm at the point now where really a high, it's not like it was in the old days, where there were good power supplies and then there were power supplies where basically you plugged them in and hoped for the best. Almost anything from a fairly reputable brand is fairly good these days. Not really that worrying. Where is the 8-pin connector on this motherboard? Oh, it's kind of in the middle. Okay, I'm going to go through this other cable management hole here. So I tend not to stress about it too much. For me it's more like features. Does it have modular cables? Yeah. Because unless you're really pushing the limits, which if you're honest with yourself, you're not, because unless you're using liquid nitrogen to overclock, you're really not pushing the limits, then it really doesn't make that much of a difference as long as you go with something that's fairly decent. I'm not telling everyone to run out and buy the cheapest power supply that they can find on Newegg.com. That is still probably going to explode and kill things spectacularly at some point in the future. I just mean that whole thing where everyone was buying HX1000s, 1000 watt top of the line power supplies. I really don't think it's that important anymore. Okay, 8-pin connector done. I'm sorry, I'm just going to adjust the positioning of this so you guys can see a little bit better. This is my favorite way to deal with these fans these days. Oh shoot, I think I plugged into the wrong CPU fan header. Boop. No big deal. Alright. Where is my screwdriver? In my back pocket, where it always is. I'm just going to coil this baby up. Actually, that's very slow. Never mind. I'm going to do it my less favorite way. This is one of my other tricks though. You take the fan connector, you run it around the outside of the fan itself, and then if you can, you find a fan header that it just barely reaches and then it usually won't go anywhere. If it does go somewhere, then you just run a twist tie or a zip tie. I usually like to use twist ties if I can because they're a lot easier to take off if you screw something up. But you run a twist tie through one of the mounting holes on the fan, you grab onto that cable, and then boom, doesn't go anywhere. And it looks really, really clean without actually doing like a custom length fan cable or anything like that, like all the kids are into these days. I'm actually very, I'm getting to the point where I'm getting very old school in the way I build computers. Another reason why I feel like I should leave the guides to the people who are really more into it these days. The guys that are like, yeah, custom length cables for this and hard pipe cooling for that. And I'm just like, eh, that sounds like a lot of work, you know, because I'm old. All right. You know what? I'm going to finish my wire runs. You know what? I'm actually not going to mount the SSD behind the motherboard tray because that way I can win. I can have taken out the right modular cables from the power supply box. So I'm cheating a little bit, but yes, I'm going to do that. Yeah, I am actually planning to upload this video to the channel. I am planning to not edit it and just upload the whole thing and kind of see how it goes. We don't do that kind of stuff very often where we do like experimental formats on the on the channel. So I just thought, what the hey, let's let's give it a shot. It's not going to be the full release for tonight. Like it's going to be this and something else. But yeah, yeah, we are we are going to do that. So you guys will be able to see the whole thing if you missed any parts of it. I mean, not to mention that we are streaming it on Twitch. So there is the there is the VOD for that. Speaking of streaming on Twitch, we've got a really, really cool video coming on Vessel tonight. It's I create like like a DIY news reporter, like mobile streaming backpack thing. And we go out and test it out. It's actually pretty friggin cool. You guys can check that out if you're into that sort of thing. Most of what we do these days is kind of like that where it may not actually have a ton of practical application, but it's mostly just like, hey, here's a really cool idea we had. And here goes. All right. Three, four, six, G, whatever. Let's do that one. OK, let's run these puppies through here. This is one of the things I really like about this case is that the motherboard tray is actually stamped in. So the motherboard sits a little bit further back than the cable management holes for your SATA cables right next to it. That means that when they run in, there's really no no strain or tension on them. It's just a nice, nice little touch. It does take away some of the cable management room that you would otherwise have behind the motherboard tray. But I think it's a worthwhile trade off. All right. Let's run our PCI Express connectors. Sup, Brandon. Oh, I can't believe it's almost six. I am so thirsty right now. I don't think it helps that I sucked back that milkshake right before I started this. Oh, I still have some. I'm totally having more milkshake. Oh, it's completely liquid. OK, no. Wendy's chocolate frosty that is completely melted is a really, really bad idea. I will regret that for sure. More than I already regret it, I feel fat just drinking it. To be clear, I don't mean I feel fat like covered in rolls of fat. I just mean I feel like if I ate junk like that all the time, I would get fat very, very quickly. OK, that's the thing. You get older, your metabolism just kind of runs away from you. I never had to worry about any of that stuff. I mean, I'm sure I'm not the only one telling this sad story, but really, it used to be fine no matter what I did. And now it's just like I eat one wrong thing and I'm like, wow, I just ate one pound of junk food and I just gained one pound. It's amazing how that math works. It shouldn't surprise me. I know this, but that doesn't change the fact that it does. OK, this 24 pin cable management is going to be a little bit tricky, actually. There's really not a lot of space behind the motherboard tray on this case. OK, front USB 2. Front USB 2, what you going to do? Watch out, I got to take a poo. But don't worry, you don't have to watch, I won't make you. What do you think, Brandon? Should I quit my day job and become a rapper? You'll be my producer? What do you know about audio producing? What do you know about being a rapper? God, I hate you, Brandon. You crush all my dreams. That's what rap taught me. That's what rap taught me. Chase your dreams. If incredibly talented people like Jay-Z can do it, then surely I can. Yeah, see, people are finally witnessing the kind of crap that I take around here. Everyone hears what I dish out because I'm the on-camera personality most of the time. But the cold hard truth is I take at least as much as I give out around here. That's weird. OK, Brandon, the battery died. Can I have a new battery, please? The top one, the other one's running off AC. Maybe if you didn't break all our AC adapters we wouldn't have this problem. Well, it's taking longer than I said. You should have known that was going to happen, Mr. Producer. Mr. Smart Guy who claims to know anything about producing. I would never hire someone so unproductive to be a producer. It's funny because Brandon actually had a crazy productive day today. He got, with some help, he got all of our lights mounted in our ceiling lighting grid thing. It actually looks freaking BA. I can get out of the way if you'd like. Sure. Let me go around the front. I can actually cable manage this fan. There you go. Yeah, this video's more like, it's closer to a behind the scenes than it is to an actual release video. It's kind of cool. I'm liking the vibe, actually. I'm liking the discussion with the Twitter chat. I can't believe there's 4,500 people watching on an off time. We've actually tried streaming, not at our scheduled time before. Let me tell you guys, it has not gone very well. We don't tend to get a ton of viewers when it's not our normal same bat time, same bat channel nonsense. Thank you, Brandon. You are a valuable and appreciated member of this team. Have you seen Penguins of Madagascar? No. Okay, I can't remember what the exact quote is, but it's something along those lines. That's what they tell the mentally handicapped one. Wow. I don't actually know if that's the politically correct term for private. I'm usually not that up on my politically correctness. Power LED. Does this case have a reset switch? I think I might be missing one of my front connectors. You know, a lot of people use those little things that ASUS includes, those little blocks that let you plug in all these front panel connectors and then plug the whole thing in one go. I never recommend it. The reason is that it can interfere with long expansion cards sometimes. You're much better off to just do it right the first time. Install it correctly. John, John here is a big fan of them, but both Luke and I are like, no, you should not use those. But he doesn't listen. He just uses them anyway because everyone just forges their own path. OK, let's test this other camera angle again. Yeah, we're back, baby. OK. We're actually getting surprisingly close. Drives, drives. That's the homestretch. Right, Brandon? Drives are the homestretch. Always the homestretch. Let me tell you guys, we have done some, we have done some build logs, Brandon and I. Yes, we have. Drives are the homestretch. GPUs are like, you can smell it. You can smell it. It's almost over. And then the conclusion is just the conclusion, it gets harder again because you're just like, oh, it's just a few more bases until it's over. Guys, we have been at the office filming to like wee hours of the morning doing those build guides. I'm sorry? 5 a.m. for your video? I didn't even know that for the A7S II. Do you even want to do more camera reviews? OK, OK. I'm down, man. What's your next one going to be? Oh, Earth's the Mini, that's right. What else do you have on, kind of on your radar? I'm going to do the funded camera thing. Oh, yeah, that'll be cool. OK, cool. Yeah, Brandon wants to go all like kind of scrapyard wars on like camera stuff. So I can't give, I can't really give any more detail than that without sort of giving away what he's doing, but it's going to be pretty freaking cool if you're into camera stuff. And even if you're not, come on, watch this, Brandon, he's nice. We like him for some reason. Killing your China balls, which is less racist than it sounds, by the way. It's much less racist. Can you show them your China balls? Thank you. See? No, no, it's, it's, I, I, that one is real time. Yeah, that one's don't don't worry, it's all good. Yeah. No, seriously, China balls are a thing. This is not, this is not sexual harassment and it is not racism. Geez, I can't catch a break here. No, I think they know that if I was, if I was going to be racist, I would just be upfront about it. Besides, I really don't think too many people are going to accuse me of being racist against Chinese people. Nope, I just dislike them all individually. Just kidding. For those of you who don't know, my wife is Chinese. Just throwing that out there. I am not a racist person. Ah, this is cool though. Check this out. So Fractal actually has a really smart hard drive sled design. You can mount the rubber things more towards the front or more towards the back, depending on whether you want like a nicer aesthetic or you want more cable management room behind them. I just go with more cable management room because I personally don't find that that affects the aesthetic. You can't really see it through the window. And I also, there we go. And I also really find that defined cases need all the cable management room they can get. Oops, I actually did that wrong. I was so busy explaining the cool and clever thing I was doing that I did it wrong. Story of my freaking life, like our storage server. So busy showing you guys how to do it that I rush. That's what happened. Basically I was just in a hurry. It's not that I don't know the right way to do it. I was just in a hurry and I've got a lot of video projects that are relying on making videos about those drives and all this stuff. And so I was like, okay, I'm going to take a shortcut. And the shortcut was bad. The shortcut led down disaster junction. Can I help you? Okay. Please don't drop that on yourself or anyone else. He's holding this ginormous ladder. I swear. When Brandon first joined the company, we couldn't trust it. Oh, dang it. I did it wrong this time. Like we couldn't trust him to tie his shoes in the morning. The guy was tripping all over everything. Like, oh, man, it was it was terrible. But he's been he's been with us so long in our messy environment because Brandon is kind of a neat freak. You'd never know it. Like looking at his workspace here. But like I've been to his house, he's actually a pretty like tidy person. But it's just that especially at the old office, there really wasn't much that could be done to be tidy. So everyone just kind of gave in to the mess. The analogy that I like to use is kind of like those puzzles where there's one empty square and you have to rearrange all the other squares to make a full picture. The problem is that at the old office, there was no empty square. There was no way to rearrange anything. So so Brandon had to learn like the rest of us to just catch himself when he tripped because the tripping was inevitable. And now he's like a pro. Like, it's crazy. I think he's better than me from having to navigate all of the like all of my stuff, all of Luke's stuff, because he had to set up cameras and lights in every area of the office. So he's like the master of the master of not tripping anymore. But man, Brandon, you were scary in the early days. I always thought you were going to die or destroy all my expensive stuff or do both of them at the same time. The ultimate insult. OK, so we've got all our front panel connectors done. We've got all our drives plugged in. Hey, why don't we plug in some video cards? So, oh, man, this is this is like this is killing me inside. Well, hopefully, Riley can get that sorted out. I'm going to have to leave it to him, unfortunately. I mean, it doesn't matter what they exchange it for as long as they as long as it's like two of the same. Either of these configurations is fine. I don't know who screwed up. I don't know if it was the retailer or if it was like LG's procurement. The thing is like the cards are called the same thing. They're both called EVGA superclock. It's just one of them has a reference cooler and one of them has an ACX cooler. So I'm going to put the ACX in the bottom. I'm going to let the power supply deal with some of the heat from that and exhaust it. I know that exhausting your GPU heat through your power supply is not really in the in the book of best practices for wicked awesome wicked awesome computer machine build thing. But yeah, it does work. And especially if you've got a really high quality power supply, it's probably fine. Sorry, I just I want to tuck these things away so that I can do my do my graphics card screws here. There we go. Got people asking me to do a test boot. Yeah, if I was smart, I'd do that. I'm going for gold today, my friends. I'm actually I have only about 60 percent confidence that this is going to be because I haven't I haven't checked this motherboard with I haven't checked the compatibility matrix for Zions or for this RAM. We were going to use something else. So I don't know. I don't know. We'll see. I might just get Luke to lend me a monitor very temporarily. We'll we'll test it after see if it works. If it doesn't work, then basically it's pretty simple. I'm just going to grab a board off our shelf here and then I'll figure out with LG how to get the right board and they can replace it for me. But I do have at least something that will work here in the studio for sure and I really want it. I really want Ryland to get his machine because he's been waiting very patiently for it. Okay. The six plus two connectors. I do appreciate them. I like them. It was really annoying before everyone started putting these on video cards. Man, it's hard to get the two lined up sometimes, especially when you're trying to bend the cable into something. So I saw Force Force awakens, which is cool. I don't worry, Brandon. I'm not going to say anything for their sake as well as for yours. Oh, oh, oh crap. I got a message from a twitch mod. Can I move you to creative? Sure. Thanks, bro. I wasn't really sure what I was supposed to do with this, so I just kind of I just did that line is thing where I'm just like, and someone else will let me know if I'm doing it wrong. And sure enough, they did. They told me I was doing it wrong. They asked if they could kind of fix what I'm doing because I'm doing it wrong. I was like, okay, sure, man. That's cool. All right. So the last thing to set up here is the NZXT. Oh, I just crushed a box. Sorry, Rylan. Oh, boy. I have no idea how this works. There's a lot of cables, though. So first is power. I know we need that. Okay. So here's a molex connector to my little just DC plug. I really wonder why they don't just have a native molex plug on this thing. That's really weird. Probably they're repurposing something else that was intended for like another industry, and then they're just NZXT-ing, computer-ing it up. So that would probably be why. Yeah. Yeah. Pretty much, eh? Until it gets mainstream enough. USB? Okay. Oh, I think I found a place to stash it under this hard drive. It's going to be really hard to fit it down there. Get in there. Oh, yes. Very nice. It's nice. I like it. Okay. So I'm going to stash the Hue right under the front hard drive. I'm sorry. You guys can't really see what I'm doing. Everyone's like, Luke used the Force. Star Wars Mania is strong with this one. Okay. Aw, sick. Some of them. Some of them? All of them? Some of these strips are magnetic. Oh, I love it. Are they all magnetic? This one doesn't seem very magnetic. They're all magnetic. Sick. You're magnetic. You're magnetic. I think so. Personal magnetism. That's the only context I can think of for it. I'm leaving. Don't forget to do the thing before you come to work tomorrow. Right. The thing. It's with the butt, right? I said that's with the butt? Okay, cool. Just making sure. Oh, it has been a long, long month. But if I get the thing done before work tomorrow, then that'll be good. Yeah, people are like, Luke changed shirts. Do you guys really think we wear our Linus Tech Tip shirts all the time, like for realsies? Okay, I do, but other people aren't required to. I even offered them to them for free. Very few people have actually taken me up on them. Apparently they don't want to rep LTT on their own time. I see how it is. I know you don't have any LTT shirts, Brandon. Do you have one? Which one do you have? Oh, nice. Yeah, did you buy that? Oh, how come you have one of those? Oh, okay. Nice. It's funny because we have kind of a G-rated channel, so I'm never quite sure if I'm supposed to even say what it says on the front of that shirt. But it's our shirt, so surely we decided at some point that we could say pussies on this show. There's nothing wrong with cats. Yeah, cats. Well, in the context of the shirt, it's very clear that it's a cat. Dang it, I've got to plug in a USB header here. It would be cool if I had a third camera angle that's like a headlamp view kind of thing. Okay, so I'm going to show you guys, actually I'm going to do the backs of these drives first. So this is how I deal with my OCD. I use my right angle one on the SSD so that at least the two hard drives are using both straight connectors and the SSD has the right angle connector or something. I justify it to myself that they're not all the same like that. This is something that drives me crazy about other power supplies. Actually, this one doesn't do it. I was ready to complain about this power supply and then it ended up doing it right. They mostly have the SATA cables set up so that you would have to run them top down in order to have them all plug in easily. So they're all like left angle instead of right angle. Whereas most power supplies are in the basement of the cases these days. So having them come up this way actually makes more sense. So here we're going one, two, three, and we're good. Just like that. And let's plug in our two SATA cables for those hard drives. So funny, I so rarely put hard drives on the builds that we do for the show that it feels kind of weird plugging these in right now. Although I've been doing it more lately now that we've been doing all that NAS stuff with Unraid. Showing how you can actually use your gaming tower as a NAS. That one's coming to YouTube fairly soon. All right. So that's done. Dang it, I dropped all the stuff. Switch angles here. Did I switch angles? Yes, I did. Okay. So we got to figure out how we want to do all of our lighting effects. So this baby can go up here and plug into one of these little extensiony doodah. Finish this. And we're back, I think. Okay, Brandon, repeat after me. I step where you step. I touch nothing. What? I didn't touch nothing. Uh-huh. Well, all we know is Brandon was moving a ladder over near the streaming. Do you see anything touching? Uh-huh, uh-huh. And then the machine shut down. Spectacularly shut down. Like zero warning, completely locked up shut down. So, uh, uh-huh, uh-huh. It's okay, though, I forgive you. Oh, crap, how does this work? Yeah, that's probably it. Okay, I might actually have to check the manual for this fractal, fractal, or this NZXT Hue doodad. Plus five volts, something, something, ground in, et cetera. Okay, yeah, I'm going to have to check the manual. You'd think I would have been checking the manual this whole time that I was off camera, but actually I was fixing the damn stream computer. Yeah, I'm getting a lot of hashtag fire Brandon. So they've turned on you, Brandon, it's official. That's how into you they were. They like you as long as you're talking about camera things, but as soon as you break the stream, they turn on you. They'll be death by ladder. Death by ladder, yeah. I don't even need to fire him, he's probably going to die. Oh, it actually doesn't seem to stay, does it? Okay, plug a thing in there, plug another thing in there. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Huh, okay. Hmm. Oh, the edge with the black line on the LED strips. You'd think that would be in the like very obvious and easy to find quick guide part of it, but it's not. Black line on the LED strips. Look at that, I had it right anyway. So there's a first time for everything. I got something right without having to do it a few times. Oh, I guess I don't really need this extension here. Okay, boop. The sucky thing about having the stream cut out in the middle is that I will have to cut together the video now, which is very unfortunate, it makes it a lot more work. But that's okay because Brandon makes up for it with his good looks and charm. Well, I know it wasn't my fault and I know you were moving ladders around. So I think the point of the magnets isn't necessarily to work on their own. So I'm going to go ahead, I'm going to use the magnet, but I'm going to also use the included adhesive junk. So the magnets can kind of hold the adhesive in place, something that is more needed than you might think. If you've ever mounted an LED strip, you probably know for the most part, they do not mount very reliably. All right, so let's grab another one here. I really like this system with the little extensions and the little, you know, whatever else it is that we got going on. Oh, it goes in this end. I like this. I'm going to do one on the top. I'm going to go ahead. I'm going to install that right up there. We are going to have any lighting effect we want. Oh, wait a minute. It occurs to me this is not a five and a quarter inch bay device. I wonder if we actually ever got the strip that LG ordered, or if this is just one that NZXT sent to me. It doesn't really matter. I don't actually care. I'll just get NZXT to send another one. Yep, that'll do. Okay, so I'm actually really uncertain about this last run here. I think we might kind of end up overdoing it if we're not careful. So I'm just going to kind of put that in there, and then I'm going to run this one kind of down here. I'm going to hope that that kind of holds together for me here. There we go. All right, and that we end up with a nice even glow effect. So I'm going to use one more extension and then bring that around to the... Oh, they've got really short ones. Oh, shoot, I should have used one of those there. That's okay. I'll send all the extra bits to Ryland. I'm sure the first thing he's going to do is take the whole thing apart and put it all back together anyway. How many people managed to stay? Oh, 2,600 of you. You guys are the ones who believe in me, who believe in me for some reason. I've never given you a reason to believe that I can bring the stream back online successfully, but you believe anyway. I admire that. See, then I admire Brandon. It's okay. I'm going to go into room in the evening. Okay, there we go. All of the LED strips are in. Cool. I'm liking this rig so far, actually. All right, what's left? What is left? Is that it? The SLI bridge. You never want to forget the SLI bridge. That's always annoying. You go and you boot up the machine for the first time, you're like, I'm sure something's missing. I've got people telling me to put the LEDs on the case door. Yes, that is actually a way to do it, but I'm going to do it like this. All right. I sure wish ASUS included black SLI bridges. Those just look awful. This orange SLI bridge. I don't know what the deal is with that. Okay. Not too shabby, actually. A zip tie here, a zip tie there, and this is some primo grade stuff right here. There you go, guys. It looks a little something like that. And I think that pretty much concludes our first ever live build log. It wasn't really much of a guide or anything like that, but let me know. And if you're watching this on YouTube, which it will be uploaded to later, let me know in the comments. Do you like this format for builds? Do you want to see us do, you know, completely different things that are not like this? Leave your suggestions. We're always open to them. Well, we're not always open to them, but we always ask for them. And then sometimes we ask for them just so we can ignore them. That's not what we do. All right. See you guys later. It's always awkward doing outros on live broadcast stuff because like, yeah. And we're done. Oh, crap.