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- Oh, my God, is this the graphics card?
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iss a heartbreaking story is one
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of loss, betrayal, and pain.
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This is just sad.
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Oh my gosh.
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This was a 2070 Super in a previous life?
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Earlier this week, Spencer,
AKA NeverLuckyChozo,
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great username by the way,
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posted this absolutely gut
wrenching photo on Reddit.
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His heartbreaking story is one
of loss, betrayal, and pain.
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You see, this was no ordinary computer.
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You guys, this was his gaming rig.
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His other child.
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What once glowed and hummed in the night
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is now charred and silent.
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To that I say, no!
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Is PC will rise like the Phoenix.
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We are stepping into
right this gross injustice
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and all you have to do is prove
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that your story isn't a
bunch of internet bull(beep).
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So, we offered Spencer a trade.
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His PC for our PC.
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And all I need to know is
if what's in here matches
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what he posted on Reddit.
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(light music)
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(parts rumbling)
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Oh, that is depressing.
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(man laughing)
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Now, anyone can get 70,000
upvotes with a good enough story.
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Reddit's full of tearjerker
posts from attention seekers
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that turn out upon further
investigation to be tall tales
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and we weren't gonna build
a brand new gaming PC
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and send it to one of those people.
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We needed proof which is exactly why
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we had Spencer pack up his
machine and send it over to us.
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Our poor PCMR brother here.
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So, the components lost
in the blaze include
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an AMD Ryzen 5 3600X,
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a Noctua NH-U12S of which,
as far as I can tell,
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basically nothing remains,
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an MSI B450 Tomahawk motherboard.
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We've got the IO shield from that puppy.
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I mean, should we try?
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Let's try and find pieces
of each one as we go.
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I mean, this seems to be,
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oh my God, is this the graphics card?
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Oh, what was this?
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- 2070 Super.
- This was a 2070 Super
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in a previous life?
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Gigabyte GeForce RTX 2070 Super.
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Oh, I think I found the CPU.
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Yep.
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So, here's the pads where
the pins used to be soldered
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on the bottom and we've
verified Spencer's story.
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This was in fact a chiplet
design Ryzen processor.
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You can tell from the multiple spots
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where die components were attached there.
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It had a two terabyte Crucial BX500.
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I don't see anything
resembling an SSD in here,
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but everything checks out so far.
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So, this is just, this is just sad.
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Even the things you'd think
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would remain relatively unscathed.
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I mean, like metal doesn't
burn in a wood fire right?
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Oh, sure does.
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Like this case is, I don't know, Colin.
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We had intended to kinda try
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to hot glue it back together
to resemble its original form,
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but I don't know, dude.
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- [Colin] I mean, there's a chance.
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- [Linus] So, there is your power supply.
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Got a 500 watt EVGA something or other.
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Oh, I found another piece
of the graphics card.
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- [Colin] Ooh, are those cables?
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- [Linus] There's the
display port and HDMI ports
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from the inside.
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Here's the mount for the water cooler.
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So, this would go kind of here-ish.
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Huh?
- Yeah.
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- [Linus] There you go.
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Found his hard drive.
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- Hey.
- Got some, got some data.
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- [Colin] I bet you, if you
sent that to DriveSavers
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they'd pull the data off it.
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- [Linus] I bet if I
sent it to DriveSavers,
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they'd tell me to go F myself.
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No, those platters are dead.
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They're dead, Jim.
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Okay, I'm gonna install the hard drive
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in the front bay there.
(hard drive rattling)
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Hold on, I gotta, look the graphics card
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is one of the most important parts
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of the gaming computer.
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- CPU.
- Need a support brace for it.
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It got a little bent in shipping.
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- [Colin] There, yeah.
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- [Linus] Okay.
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- [Colin] Mint!
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- Basically good as new.
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Of course, even now this could be
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any random burned computer.
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In fact, Spencer here could
have just gone to a pawn shop,
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gotten a computer, and put
it inside a dumpster fire.
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So, what we need to see is if this is
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in fact the same computer.
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So, let's have a look here.
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This is the original post on Reddit.
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Oh yeah, there's our HDMI cable.
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Here's our IO plate.
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That does in fact appear
to be the same IO plate.
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Oh wow, it looks like the
graphics card disintegrated
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a little bit more on the way over here.
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But, so far this checks out.
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The goal here wasn't to go
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all completely balls to the wall crazy,
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it was to build something
reasonable and comparable
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to what Spencer lost in the blaze,
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a sort of PCMR insurance.
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So, we've gone with an ASUS
Prime B450-Plus motherboard
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and a perfect one-to-one replacement
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of Spencer's old CPU, a 3600X.
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Now, what happened to our
3600X from the shipment, Colin?
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Did you catch where that?
- Oh, where'd it end up?
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I put it back.
- Oh, did you install
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it in the socket?
- Yeah.
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- Oh, that's wonderful.
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Oh, beautiful.
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Okay, got a small improvement.
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We're gonna go from this to this.
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Oh, getting dust all over my motherboard.
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I guess I need a M.2
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So, for a drive, we went
with a 970 EVO Plus,
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this is a two terabyte drive.
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Wow, did Spencer have
a two terabyte drive?
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- [Colin] Sure did.
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- Spencer, you baller.
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Now you've got a new two terabyte drive.
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Let's go ahead and get
that bad boy installed.
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Whoop, now it's time for cooling.
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Now, we could have gone
with a regular NH-U12,
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but come on, this is LTT PC.
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We gotta do the LTT edition.
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Man, I am excited.
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I'd love to see the
look on Spencer's face,
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but thanks to a little problem
in the world called COVID,
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I won't get too.
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Fortunately we've actually arranged
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for one of our YouTuber colleagues,
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I guess you call him a colleague,
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I don't know, whatever, compatriots?
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Craft Computing to drop off the PC.
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As it turns out, he lives like
just up the road from Spencer
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and had actually reached out first
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to offer to build a computer.
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But, then he was like, yo,
Spencer, take the LTT computer
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and I'll tell you what,
I'll make sure it's any good
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before I pass it along to you.
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And I was like, Hey,
you know, that's great.
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Last thing we want to do
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is accidentally ship Spencer a lemon
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'cause it got busted in
the mail or whatever.
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Poor Spencer, then he wouldn't
have his old busted computer
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and you'd have a new busted
computer, that sucks.
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That's funny.
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I didn't even recognize
Noctua's mounting system
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without a Noctua cooler on it.
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Should we reuse his
original mounting hardware?
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I think it might still be good.
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Just to have one little piece
of his old computer in there.
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You know what, let's do it.
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Let's use the fire treated brackets.
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I think this is the right move.
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And you know what?
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It actually even kind of
matches the color scheme
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of this board.
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Like with these gray
accents that it has on it.
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We've got some Patriot Viper.
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What is this?
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3200 megahertz CL16.
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So, this is a really good pairing
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for that 3600X that he's got in there.
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Looking good.
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Unfortunately for Spencer,
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we didn't have exactly the
same case kicking around.
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So, we grabbed this
tempered glass side panel,
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one from Gigabyte, it's fine.
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Everything's going smoothly so far.
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This is kind of a cheaper case
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and just uses like punch out PCI covers.
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So, we went and grabbed some
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that we had lying around,
all matching ones.
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We'll throw those in
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so the case comes together a little nicer.
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We're also gonna grab some extra fans.
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Just a pair of 140 millimeters
for the front here.
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There's not a ton of room for intake,
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but with those drawing
air across the motherboard
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and graphics card, not
too worried about it.
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And then we can go ahead and
pop our motherboard in now.
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Sweet!
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For power supply, we went with an RM650x.
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It's not quite the exact same
model that Spencer had before,
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but it's pretty darn comparable,
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80 Plus Gold, modular interface.
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Apologies in advance Craft Computing,
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this is not gonna be the most
amazing cable management ever.
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We got ourselves an Aorus RTX 2070 Super.
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Oh wait, no we didn't, 2080 Super.
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Hey!
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I've got a nice little
upgrade for Spencer there.
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We woulda loved to do 3000 series,
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but the reality of it is,
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we have as much difficulty
getting them right now as anyone.
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So, the ones that we have,
we need for benchmarking.
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Sorry Spencer, you're just
getting a small upgrade.
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Just needed a BIOS update for
support for 3rd Gen Ryzen.
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And now, we are, wait, what?
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- [Colin] You just shut it down.
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- Oh, and I hit the button.
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Now, Spencer didn't have a 4K monitor
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and the one we're replacing
it with isn't 4K either,
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but I figured, hey,
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we wanna make sure we're
stress testing this thing
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before it gets to him
so he's gonna be getting
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that LG UltraGear monitor,
but we're actually running
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at 4K Ultra Nightmare in Doom Eternal,
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sitting at a casual 250
to 300 frames per second.
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I think it's pretty fair to say
the machine is working fine,
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just fine and is ready
to make its way down
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to our neighbors in the South.
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Very reasonable noise levels
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and actually, considering how
quickly I put this together,
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I think pretty decent cable management.
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Adequate?
- Yeah.
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- All right, thanks David.
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That's what I was going for.
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Yeah, so this is not the best deal
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I've ever made trading one
of these for one of these,
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but I think it worked
out all right for Spencer
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And if you guys wanna
see the look on his face
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when he gets his new gaming rig,
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go check out Craft Computing.
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If you guys enjoyed this PC
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because you're into that
kind of horrifying techagore,
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I actually don't know if we've
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where I build a PC actually
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I would love to bring Spencer
up here, but like COVID.
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