 All right. What should I be doing right now? You should be coming over here. Yes. Because we are about to build your new dream gaming machine, sponsored by Asus ROG. Wow. That's it. Gonna be one of those kinds of videos, Linus. Apparently. So Nick, my understanding is that you went full Snowflake on the rig configuration here. I will admit, yeah. Can you explain some of your choices? So I see some significant differences here. You've got team group, 480 gig SSD, with a massive one terabyte additional SSD, because like, you know, your mass storage can't, even that can't be on magnetic, apparently for you. You've gone Ryzen. I have. Why did you decide to go Ryzen? Because I'm not just gonna be playing games all the time. What else will you be doing? I mean, what you do on your personal time is not- I've been streaming, but kind of hard to do on my laptop, because if you open anything other than OBS, it just crashes. Right. So you could stream a blank desktop. Yes. Interesting. So have you ever built a machine before? No. How do we keep finding you people where you're like super into tech, but then you've like never built a computer? I have no idea. Have you ever owned a desktop? I owned a Mac mini from 2006. Or like 2008 or something around there. That doesn't count. Okay. Well, it was a desktop. Okay. So here's your motherboard. Yeah, there it is. Is that the new one? Yep. Nice. The latest motherboard. Go ahead and- Is this the motherboard? Yes, this is the motherboard. I didn't know for sure. Ah, this guy's sharp. I like this Nick guy. Can he open the box though? That's the question. Oh, it's just a- That was easy. You know what? Oh my gosh. It's a little over the top for a motherboard. Well, this is like top of the line shiz, yo. You gotta go for it. I mean, not quite. They do have Threadripper, which is more top of the line, but this is like as top of the line as- Look at this. Look at this motherboard picking up for me, Scott going on here. Edge of the PCB and like heat sinks and shrouds and stuff. It's good. You know what? It works. That was an accident, wasn't it? Stickers. Of course. Most important part. I'll apply these for you, okay? I'm gonna do a really good job. All of them. Bouncing hardware and these are for chumps. Chumps? Yeah, chumps. Those are for people who don't know what the wires are. Yeah. Oh, the chumps are? That's me. Sorry, but I'm here to help you. I need to leave. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Yeah? Yeah? Actually don't do that. Okay. Okay. Like that? If you were to open this sideways- It would just fall out. Yes. So what I'd like you to do is put that right there. Look. Told you I've never built a PC. I'm an expert when it comes to dropping things. And the thing that you learn from dropping a lot of stuff is how to not drop things. And then you continue to drop- The hard way, the hard way. The hard way. I keep finding new ways. Oh, it's the triangle, right? Yeah, but what about that triangle? There's no triangle there. Am I gonna get bamboozled twice? It should require no force. Did I do it? Little bit of force. Ah, little bit of force. He lied to me. This is all the easy stuff, though. Yeah. This is the stuff I have actually done once before. You lied! No, I haven't built a PC. I've put in a CPU and I've put in RAM. And that was not the RAM slot. That's the RAM slot. Good. Okay, you made it. You were gonna try to trick me there, weren't you? No, no, I wasn't. I wasn't. Have you seen that meme where it's like, trust no one, not even yourself? That was me right there. Young kids today, they have different memes than in my generation. See, for me, it's like I walk into a room, I'm like, how are you gentlemen? People are like, what did you say? What are you talking about? That's not English. Ha ha ha. There, nope. Oh, we almost got it, yes. Did I do it? Yeah, okay, you got it. Now hold on. Yeah, that's fine. We got it, we got it. It is customary to line it up carefully. Use two hands. Two hands, push it. And then this side doesn't have a thing. Oh yeah, this thing. So you generally put that one in first. Gotcha. And then the other one snaps into place. Wow, so how'd you swing 32 gigs of RAM in this thing? I don't know. It's funny, because I'm making him feel special, but the other guy got all solid state storage and 32 gigs of RAM too, so. Yeah, looks good to me. The Linus Media School of Life has taught me well. Taught you that by making videos about things, you can get handouts. That's a pretty good life lesson. That is a good life lesson. If I've ever seen one. It's more important to be popular than smart. How old are you? You in university yet? I- Or college, or? Turned 18, I mean 19 two days ago. Okay, so you graduated last year then? I graduated in the spring, yes. Yeah, okay. So this is my first year of university. Cool, how's that going for you? Oh, it's good, I think. I don't know. Better than it will when you have this to distract you? Okay, so I'm an undeclared major at my university right now. If I had to pick one today, I would do computer science or software engineering, so. Yeah, you can kind of code on a six year old laptop. You can code, yeah. That's what I've been doing. Yeah. A literally six year old laptop. Yes, I know. I've watched your video. No way. What's next? I think. Oh, it's the mouse mat, it's gotta be. I think, I mean. You want me to set it up right here? Right there's perfect. Okay. You're gonna wanna hold onto that panel. Make sure that doesn't- Fall? Fall there, yep. There we go, it's glass. Whoa. Yep, tempered glass. Wow. For the years 2018 indeed. Thank you. Not a bad case, did you pick this? Now what? I think you can go, I think it's either you mount the motherboard or you can put the power supply in. I think, go with the motherboard? Yep. You put it, does it go like this way? Yeah, it does, because this thing goes out there. Should I just go for it? I think it just, I don't know if I'm lining it up exactly, but I think it just goes like that. I guess I found one of the screws. Holy things. Done. Okay, so you're an upside down. I'm upside down? I even mentioned that before I put it in and then I put it in backwards. Look, it's nothing personal, it just makes me feel like a big man. You know, I just, you know, I have to let other people make mistakes so I can feel like a big shot. What's better than that? Well, doing it well is better. Yeah, I didn't do it very good. That was pretty- Like, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop. Yeah. Yeah. Enjoy. It was in your butt pocket. You betcha. Houston, do we have a problem? Come on, get in there. It's been one of those days, you know? Where you don't wanna wake up, everything is f**ked, everybody sucks. Where are you going with that? Really? Oh man. Trying to reference something again. You don't really know why, but you wanna justify ripping someone's head off? Forget it. Holy crap, you're 18. 19. 19. I just turned 19. You're 19, which means that when that song came out- I was just born. Parents probably consummated to that song. Yeah, they did. Is the young and restless still around? Oh. Probably, like, like you've heard of it, right? Yeah. Oh, I've heard of that. Did I, are you proud of me now? No. Like, do you know Green Day? Yeah. I love Green Day. Don't be a poser. Yeah, you're right. You don't know what Green Day is. I don't. I've never heard of it, I was just trying to- Before I met Linus, I thought, of course he's putting on a persona for the videos, because he has to, sometimes, but then you meet him and you're like, there's no way he's just acting like that. You're gonna go that way? I'm gonna go that way. You're gonna go that way? I am. Okay, I mean, I'm not judging. You are. Power supply's in. Yes. Now what? Cables. There they are. One with cable on the front. Yeah, that would be a good guess. Yeah. How do you open this? It's very crushed. Is that like a slang from the kids now? Yeah. Does that mean cool? It's totally rad. Look, I'm even just trying. I'm trying. The old slang, it's pathetic. No, it's not, it's not. That's slang we use, us kids these days. Shut up, it is not. You said we need one of these. Did I? So, like, start it out, feeling good about things, because we did the CPU and the easy stuff. And then we got into like, where does everything plug in? And Linus just like looked at me and gave me that look, like, you don't know what you're doing. And I'm like, yeah, well, I don't. Help me. Right? Wrong. Wrong? Yeah? You like that? Wrong. Wrong. This, I think we need, this one looks like a good one. Right? Yes. I'm one for three. I'm still failing, but I'm getting up there. You're actually two for four. Two for four. That's just underpassing. I think 50% is actually a pass. Now where I come from. What's left? Ed could roast you. He put the motherboard in. I put it in backwards. Oh, oh. About his building. Were you gonna go after like his shoes? Yeah, go after my looks. I mean, this is weird. I think his right shoe's in a double knot and his left shoe's in a regular knot. No, it's in a double knot. It's just like. It's just falling apart. It's just a crappy double knot. It is, yeah. I'm not gonna lie. Look at this. Ready? Good enough. That's how we do it. Are you gonna pick another cable at some point here? You know what? Wrong. Right. Yes. The same thing, but one's longer. Longer is better, right Linus? Right. I'm just laughing because you were roasting my shoes and you're wearing white socks and sandals. These are crappy socks. I don't recommend them. I had no idea what was going on most of the time. What the crap did you just do? What? I messed up quite a bit. Wow, it's a good thing I was here. You would have just tried a motherboard. That would have been like full user error, no warranty, nothing. But we got there and it was really fun. And that, oh. Beautiful. Isn't it though? That is a work of art. Linus, you had to drop something. Otherwise it's not a Linus Tech Tips video. Yeah, this is, I was all like, yeah, ROG. They went like full out on this. All solid-state storage for you guys. They just knew we gave you anything that could be broken by dropping it. Boom. Yeah, good. There's no mounting thingy there. No, there isn't. So just leave that there. Oh yeah, you're missing school, aren't you? I am. What a good deal. I'm a good boy. Oh yeah, I don't know which way it goes. I'm gonna assume this way. Nope, nope, nope, nope. What the? Ew. Nope, nope, nope. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. In his defense, okay, there's not a lot I can say to defend him, but like it kind of looks like it goes on like that. But what would happen, you wouldn't be able to slide this into here or screw this into. Oh, no way. Oh, they're here. What? You are going to be the first to own the Linus Tech Tips cable ties. Yes. We are gonna cable manage your system. Yes. With LTT edition cable ties. Let's do it. They're just like regular cable ties. Except they're LTT. Except we put this logo on it. That's a logo just like Comic Sans LTT. Spent forever on this. You know what I mean. I just roasted your company. Just Lloyd. It's fine. Just Lloyd. Radiator. Yes. Drop my washer. Clean up your act. I'm sorry. Get it, cause it's a washer. What do we do next? Is that all the cables that we have so far? There's only two left, I know. Or there's those two. It has to be the graphics card. Yes. We can plug the graphics card in now. Okay, it's just on the floor. That's okay. It's true to the theme of the build. The graphics card is not the most important part of a gaming machine. Especially not when it's like the ballinist graphics card. Oh no, of course not. You know what this is, right? Yeah. This is top shelf, man. Yeah, no, they just came out, right? 2080 Ti. This is a two and a half slot cooler. This is the overclocked edition, so it'll run a little bit faster. Yeah. It's got RGB. 20% increase right there. That's right. Performance. I don't know, this is sponsored by ASUS, so I gotta be careful about performance claims, I think. So not actually. Don't pull an Intel on this. Dang. Wow. All right. Open this baby up. Let's do it. I'm gonna use my nails to try to cut this tape. And if I fail? Then it'll just slice into the skin under your nail. Yeah. And take weeks to heal. Yeah. The sacred tablet. What? Yeah. The ancient manuscripts foretold of its arrival. You open it up and you're like, whoa. Nice. Oh my gosh, this thing is a little bigger than I expected. Oh yeah. That's really big. And that's not what she said. But, so like I was telling Jonah before that the only card I'd ever really handled or touched before was a GT 1030. This is what true power feels like. This thing is just like all cooler and it's great. It's wonderful. I love it. So because you have so much like raw surface area there, these fans like don't even need to spin up fairly a lot of the time. Yeah. So you're gonna hear it, but less than you'd probably think. Okay. Yeah. Yeah, power. This is gaming power right here. Hold on, let me brace the case for you a little bit here. You want me to go? Oh. Wow. Look at that. That was the best rip. Oh. Come on, click. Yes. Cool. And what's nice about running them over the top like this is they actually give it a little bit of sag support. Yeah. Do you wanna see it turn on? Sure. No, you don't wanna see that. I don't, you're right. Such a hater. We're talking double, triple, even quadruple numbers here. Sorry, this is a little- You're good. There's a lip here. Nick, can you tell us again how you feel about those cable ties? You want me to say? You want me to give my raw opinions? Hire me to sponsor your products. With these cable ties, you too can cable manage quite adequately. Sorry, Lloyd. See if we got this all tightened down enough. That seems pretty good. Got a little bit of bulge there, but hey. Never hurt anyone. That's right. Hey, what's up with that bulge in your computer? Oh, it's giant penis. In your computer? Yeah. Well, you ever heard of E-Pin? Let's try and shoot down at it so we can't see those top cables. Hey, David. Meanwhile, he pans right up. Thanks, David. End of this note, use this. Terrific work, David. Okay. Yes. So this is the part where we like power it on for the first time. So we gotta get the keyboard, mouse, mouse pad. Let's do this thing. Okay. I feel like a young child again at Christmas. When you're that- Young child. Well, I don't know if you haven't. Is he legally an adult here? Yeah, 19? Yeah, okay. You can't drink yet though, I don't think. At 19? Yeah, have fun. So I don't know if you know this, but all your peripherals, they are all RGB. And you can actually synchronize them, not just between themselves- Performance to the max. But also with the internals of your system. Aside from the RGB, which I know is the main feature, it's got Cherry MX switches, basically robust build quality, media keys, all that good stuff. Nice high performance mouse. Ah, yes. Ah, yes. Eith. The monitor is the centerpiece of the peripheral upgrade though. So you get a 2560 by six- What is it you're upgrading from? 720. You know, I've gotten used to it, but I know it's bad. So you are getting about 4x the resolution, 2560 by 1440, 144 Hertz native, 165 with overclocking, G-Sync, super low response times. Let's go ahead and find out if this system works. You ready? There you go. Whoa, look at that. You haven't even seen the RAM yet. No, that's gonna add at least 500 FPS. The cooler has a screen on the cooler, which is, I've never seen it before. And I was like, that's really cool. We could also put water in. Water in. The devil is water in. You know what, let's stick with frequency. Oh no, there it is, there it is, 2700 RPM. There you go. We have your side panel, which I actually haven't seen yet. I haven't seen this either. I hope you know I pack a chainsaw. Fred Durst. My ear. And do you wanna see how it runs? Of course. What's your game, my man? Monster Hunter World. Okay, we don't have that. You know what, we're gonna buy it. Right now? Not for you. All right, so you got five minutes to wait, which is actually perfect, because it gives us enough time to install an RGB strip. I don't know if we have enough width. We're gonna have to do some jank stuff here. Slim this down a bit. Don't take your front panel off. Don't maintain the PC. Yeah, no, forget everything I said about cleaning the air filter. Nothing. Nothing. Don't make me take this front panel off, please. Oh, good. You get to play some Monster Hunter World while I play decorate the case with stickers. Okay. I'm ready. Oh no, we suggested that these two stickers go right here and right there. Oh yeah, that's a great suggestion. I see how it is. Have you ever gamed on like a high-end rig like this? No, I was telling Jono that I have never even experienced like SSD speed. Like I've had hard disks. I've never had an SSD. So this is very quick. Well, I don't know what's going on right now. I think it's just a cut scene. You know you have a headset. I mean, you're right. You're about to set in a character customization. Oh, Linus, I'll leave that to you. Will you actually play with the character I make? If you make a good one. I know this is kind of weird, but like the coolest box was that headset. Whoa, this box is the coolest box out of any of them. Look at this. Cause it like opened up from like the middle. Like you didn't pick one side. Wow. This is some very deep. You got to make a good one. Customization. Yeah, you're going to be like, yeah. There we go. Max age, max wrinkles. Oh yes. Whoa. Would you mess with this guy? Cool ass clamp. Look at these angry brows. Oh, now that might be a little too ferocious. Hold on. I'm going to dial back the ferocious a touch here. Oh, what are these outfits? We're trying to make a bad ass here. Yeah. And you did look, you made a bad ass. What? Character limit. Oh, thirsty Mcdurst face. Is that name okay? No, no, this is not okay. Nothing about this image is okay. Oh, you got to be kidding me. You have to make a cat now. You have to, okay. Your cat's done. Yeah. I'm naming him after my dead cat. Okay. Start the game with this character. Go for it. Oh, look at him go. There's your dead cat. Do the honors. Okay. I don't know what's happening, but Fred Durst can climb. Any thoughts on how it runs? It runs. Cause on my old computer, it wouldn't. That is some, well, that is some fucking- Dude, Fred Durst. Tell me where you've been training, dude. Holy crap. What's going on here? I was like, there is no way something is not on my back right now, but I'm just going to let it happen. Republic of gamers. How's it looking? It's good to me. It's, I mean- Can you tell the difference? Are you kidding me? Of course. I'm really bad, but you know, and these bots are really easy and not really doing anything, but it makes me look like I'm good. Kind of. You can adjust the mouse sensitivity, you know? So it just has a button right here. Oh really? Just click that. Oh yes. It's beautiful. I'm not good at the game. Like I said, they're all right there. What? It didn't stand a chance, but like, whoa. This is like, I just like moving around because there's like no stutter at all. You know? Linus Tech Tips killed 80% of the time. So there it is right there. MVP Linus Tech Tips, but Nick, you get the assist. So, and also, also big assist for ASUS ROG for sponsoring this video. Guys, if you liked this video, you can hit that button, but if you disliked it, hit the dislike button, leave a comment for Nick. Cause he's ready. He's ready for you. 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