Henry Cavill aka superman has recently built
a gaming pc and the internet is going crazy
over this video that he posted on instagram now i watched this video and i
absolutely loved it but the reasons i loved it for
are probably not the most obvious reasons which is why i'm going to make
this video today and talk about some of the things that i
really took out of this that i think that you could apply to not just pc
building but life in general though of course i
can see why the internet will go absolutely crazy over this video to
begin with first of all he's building a gaming pc and therefore superman's
building a gaming pc then you've got greater than symbol
console and i'm sure the pc master race subreddit is going to be going
absolutely but bonkers over this video but then also in the video he's using
amd ryzen so a lot of the amd subreddit is probably going to be going bonkers
over this video too and then of course nvidia they're like tweeting this going
hey he's using an rtx graphics card so all the factors involved are
absolutely loving this video of course except intel you gotta feel sorry for
intel or do you now let's go from the start to
the finish on this video and see what we can all take out from
henry cavill's epic first gaming pc today's video is
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let's get back to the video so then uh we move into the next part of this video
we see that he's got all the parts laid out here on the desk and he's blurred
out some of the logos in particular the rtx and also the ryzen
logos and my guess here would be either two things i don't
know exactly why but the first reason would be he's using
copyrighted music in the video and he doesn't want the companies to be
associated with that so i guess he's just blurring
out the logos just in case anything could come out of this
secondly of course he could be saying look i'm going to build a pc i want to
get into the magical land of gaming pcs and here's how many views
i could potentially get your brand so let's work out some
deals perhaps it could be either of these two reasons
but i'm guessing it's actually more to do with the first reason
but honestly how cool would it be if henry cavill had his own pc gaming tech
channel so straight away he's uh reading the
instruction manual and then he's clearly showing the camera
that he really like just doesn't know what he's doing but he's got the
instruction manual and he doesn't really care he's just taking a
simple laid-back approach to building his first gaming pc and that
is a really good thing that you're going to see coming into
this because in life if you don't know something you can
figure it out and that's how everything with human
evolution and also technology and stuff like that
that's the attitude that a lot of people had
going into it if you don't know something someone
somewhere along the longs of time had to figure out how to do it
and so that's that attitude you just see it it starts like look
we've got the instruction manual here we don't know what we're doing but we're
just going to take a laid back approach and get into this
and start building he then tries to install
the cpu he's reading again being patient reading the instruction manuals
on both the motherboard and the cpu and he even makes a note this is
a really sensitive part and then he just proceeds to take his time he actually
made a mistake here and he put the cpu on the wrong way but
because he's taking his time and being patient
he tried to pull the lever down but he knew straight away that
that wasn't going to work and so this is important for pc building in that
if you know something isn't fitting right just take a step back
ask some people on forums or get some friends to help you if they've not only
done pc building but say for instance you're doing something
else in life that you've never done before whether it's changing a car tire
or something like that you can just apply this simple
way of going about it and that is of course just be patient and if something
doesn't look right always take a step back so that's what i
really loved about this right here up until one minute and
15 seconds is that he's humble he's showing that he
makes mistakes and everyone in this world makes
mistakes but also it's the way you go about that
and so nothing was really severely damaged here he didn't have a finished
product he didn't claim to know that he was the
master and god of pc building unlike another publication we've seen in
the past so now we can see here he's uh putting
the water cooler on reading the instruction manual again
and he's actually trying to mount it in the case at
1 minute and 47 seconds because i guess you can read the instruction manual to a
certain point but there's going to be things that
don't apply to your situation i'm guessing
his particular case and how he should mount this cooler
isn't in the instruction manual so he's trying to figure that out himself
and he's like no that doesn't look right we'll take a step back
and then we'll try it again so really again just that whole calm and patient
approach is working out really well and at two
minutes in one second we can see here he kind of abandoned the radiator install
and then just went on to the power supply
and something else and if you're getting frustrated with something
this is actually a good thing in life where you can just try and do something
else to take your mind off the frustration
and i can kind of see here reading his face at two minutes
that he does look a little bit frustrated but also we can see outside
his house that it's actually turning into night so
he has spent a lot of time so far trying to build this pc but
that's a good thing right it's better to get the job done
right one time than to make a mistake and potentially damage something
so now we fast forward to two minutes and 30 seconds and here is where he's
sort of skipped a lot of the video showing you how he built the pc
putting the power supply in and putting all the cables and routing all that
stuff but you can see he's now kind of got a
near complete build and he's just checking over it to
make sure it looks okay and this is a great process not just for
pc building but for anything you do in life
and that perhaps if something doesn't look right then perhaps it
isn't right and now three minutes in it looks like he has his preliminary build
finished with his gravis card mounted but then there's a message here
totally just ran out of hard drive space uh not really a surprise considering
this took hours i'm not sure what he's particularly referring to here did he
run out of like actual space on his hard drives trying
to copy data over or did he run out of hard drive uh like
space to mount the hard drives in the case
with perhaps too many cables at the back with cable management
so that one's a little bit ambiguous so now the next minute of this video is
basically he's uh started the computer up it's
working fine he's checking over it in the bios and
then he's showing the world that hey look we made a mistake mounting this
cooler upside down but who cares i want to play some games
i've spent long enough building this pc it's time for me to
enjoy my hard work and fruits of my labor and i'll get to
fixing this later and that's a good thing like showing the
world that you make mistakes even superman can make mistakes is a
good thing everyone in life makes mistakes
and this was my favorite part of the video
because he just said look i made a mistake and he just he could have easily
have cut all that out and just mounted it properly and
pretended like it was never there but the good thing is he just doesn't
care about that perception and he wants to show people look this is
my first time building of course i'm going to make some
mistakes and you could make these mistakes
too it's nothing really to worry about we'll fix it later
and then right around four minutes you can tell he has spent a lot of time
building this gaming pc just that oh here we go again and then
after that he says the end or more realistically
just the beginning and so that's the positive
glass half full coming out of it it's like look we've built this pc and it
isn't really the end it's just the beginning because i'm
going to start playing pc games on this thing
and really enjoy what i've built and all in all that
is a pc build done and dusted by a celebrity
and it's really cool to see this not just because of how humble
henry cavill was when he was building this but also the fact that he just made
mistakes and he took a patient and laid back
approach to doing this and basically the biggest message coming
out of this video for me personally was hey we all make mistakes in life it's
just your attitude towards how you make those mistakes
and whether you learn from them and clearly he did learn from them even
within the video itself and he showed that so that was really
awesome to see another really good thing of course is that
pc gaming is getting a lot more mainstream attention now
and if celebrities are getting into this kind of thing it just means that there's
going to be more interest in pc gaming and when that happens that means that
we're going to be getting ultimately the end
better parts better games and it's just really one good thing to see pc gaming
evolving and for me personally how about console
gaming well i guess that that's just sort of getting integrated into pc
gaming because they're starting to use a lot of uh pc
hardware and consoles now so it's only a really good thing for pc gamers when
videos like this pop up the last thing that came out of this
for me personally was i love that this was how he approached this video
as opposed to another publication in the past that's made
a video building a pc and then they claimed they knew
everything and they made some of the most terrible mistakes you could make
and then they backpedaled on all those mistakes and the ironic thing is is they
reported on henry cavill building his first pc and made
no mention of their own uh terrible first pc building experience
but anyway guys hope you enjoyed today's video do let us know in the comment
section below what you think of henry cavill's
first gaming pc i absolutely love this video and as i said in the intro
i loved it for all these other reasons that i pointed out today
as opposed to the main celebrity getting into pc gaming kind of thing
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