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Today, we are building the ultimate Pokemon Gaming PC.
Now, you'll probably notice that recently I've gotten more
than just a little into Pokemon cards.
As part of that, I've become friends with Leonhart,
one of the absolute OGs of Pokemon cards,
and honestly just a side note,
one of the nicest guys I've ever met in my life.
So today we're building him a brand new gaming PC
that not only looks the part,
but that can game, stream, and edit.
So what do you want this thing to look like?
Do you care about what size it is?
Are there any special features?
Anything that comes to mind
that you wanna go for, for the aesthetic of the system?
- What if like grasp maybe the colors
on the inside could be like
red, green, and blue.
Just kind of like the original Game Boy games.
- [Austin] Oh.
- Maybe make a little play on nostalgia.
- What if we even take a step further?
What if we actually put some kind of little like
pool with like a Squirtle jumping in
and we have a volcano,
or we have like a little grassy section,
something like that.
- Do you have like a desk space, or something in mind?
Just so I can get a little bit
of an idea of the scale if we're gonna go
for a smaller chasse, or a bigger chasse?
- [Leonhart] Right here is my current one.
- Okay.
- [Leonhart] It's collecting dust down there.
(Austin chuckling)
I'm about to do a full-on clean, so,
- Nice.
- It's just an IKEA desk.
- Okay, cool.
Let me start tracking some stuff down.
Keep making the videos.
Keep making me waste way too much money
on eBay every day.
(laughing)
- Yeah, sorry.
Sorry, Sorry let's piece for all that's out there.
Let's see who pulls my Leon cards
(Austin chuckling)
Right?
- I'm pretty sure you're gonna open
a hundred more packs than I will,
but I'll give it my best shot.
(laughing)
- I pulled again, so it's still fair game.
- So, for the ultimate Pokemon YouTuber,
we need the ultimate Pokemon build.
So, first of all, while we're gonna make
this look as cool as possible,
it needs to perform well.
And there are a few main things we need to do
with the system.
It needs to be able to game,
it needs to be able to video edit,
and it also needs to be able to stream.
Which is why we're starting out
with the Ryzen 7 5800X.
Brand new Ryzen chip, eight cores,
and importantly, not only will it be great
for the editing side,
but it also will be great for streaming.
On top of that, we're gonna be pairing it
with the RTX 3080.
Again, when you talk about streaming,
having that invent coding is nice,
and this will easily be able
to play any game that Leon wants to throw at it.
Now, to actually make this all streaming ready,
we have a couple of Elgato products.
So we have Elgato 4K60 pro
which you can route not only camera and if he wants
but also this is really meant for connecting
like a PS5 or an Xbox or something too.
And we have a Cam Link 4K,
so now it's just all capable of 4K streaming.
But importantly, this will also work again
for any kind of camera he wants to route in.
- Okay. So here we have the case
that we gonna be building everything inside of.
This is an O11 Dynamic from Lian Li
- From Lian Li
which is a killer case.
Well, the nicest things about it, it's super modular.
But the thing is for this system
we can make it perform great, right?
We have all the components, but really how
we're gonna have to sell this is by making it look cool.
Right?
Ken, I've never seen this before.
This is a red Nendoroid.
- Yes.
- Okay. Wait, wait, show me this.
Show me this.
- So actually used to collect animate figures a lot
and a lot from the series in particular
the Nendoroid series from Good Smile Company.
This is in particular Trainer Red.
And the reason why I bought this for us
is because it actually comes with little versions
of the starters to go alongside Trainer Red.
- How much was this?
- So this has been long out of retail
but some places are obviously still selling it from stock.
- Yeah.
- This cost us, I think around $120
- Ooh!
- which is like double of retail.
- I got to see, I got to see the Squirtle.
Dude, I mean look Squirtle's my, Squirtle's my guy.
- I'ma pick my favorite one though.
- Charmander the Wrong Starter?
Huh, that's okay.
Bulbasaur deserves to be on the ground by himself.
Don't at me.
- that's rude.
- I want to water gun you right now.
- It's in the handbook somewhere.
I don't think that's a lab.
- Well, so one of my big questions here
and something we should really sort out right now,
how much space are we gonna have?
'Cause we still need to fit a full 360 mm radiator
graphics card, and everything like that.
Why don't we actually get the motherboard out?
And kind of roughly figure out
where everything is gonna live,
because I think we may have less space than we hoped for.
But think about it.
If we're building like a whole forest
and a lake and a volcano,
I mean, cause we're gonna need
at least a couple inches of verticality, right?
So we have our Crosshair Hero,
which will obviously do the job.
So we're gonna load up our Ryzen 7, the RAM,
everything else later.
(upbeat music playing)
- So with that, we should have our board in place.
So you can see how much we're gonna have above,
which will make sense because we do have a 360 mm radiator
that we are gonna be installing at the top of the case.
But beyond that, the actual bottom of the case,
I mean, we're gonna have some space
but it's not gonna be like massive.
So, okay.
So this is what's gonna look like with the graphics card.
Oh crap, okay?
And then,
- This is crazy.
- That's fine.
- You sure you don't wanna put a screw in there?
- That's fine.
- You sure?
- Fine, Wes.
I will put a screw in so it doesn't break off
or something silly.
- I literally heard a creaking.
- And then if I drop a little 4K 60 in here.
- So how much space are we working with here?
- Oh, that's fine.
No, it's fine.
- Yeah, I know, you can almost see it, right?
We could actually do a little depth trick
where when it rolls back, we can do a little hill up here
and then just roll it immediately down.
So, it looks like it has some depth to it
but you actually have a lot of space back there.
- So I think all the space we're really gonna need
is just maybe like an inch or so,
just so we can bring cables up.
- Okay.
- And then I would say let's make it where
when the diorama is in the board could still come out
will be my main question.
Or if there's a way to remove the diorama in any way,
basically I wanna make sure
that this is not locked in it for all the time.
If anything goes wrong,
if we need to do troubleshooting or something
- Sure, you just put magnets on the back
of the board and just slapped it onto the case.
- You know what's great with computers?
Magnets, never causes any problems.
- [Ken] We have SSDs.
So while Ken and I are going to start prepping the system
so we're going to do our test fits
and we're going to start running cables.
We're gonna get all of the components ready.
Wes is going to grab some stuff
like the side panels and get them laser edged.
And yet actually layering in all
of the different diorama components that he wants.
So that at the end of the build, we're both done.
We can put the entire thing together and hopefully it turns
out to be truly the ultimate Pokemon gaming PC.
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but without any further ado,
why don't we get back to building ourselves a PC,
shall we?
So there are a few specific things
that we're doing for this system.
One of which is to use a pair of SSDs.
Now, ideally I would have used just a single 980 pro
'cause that really is my favorite SSD at the moment.
However, the issue is that they only make
a one terabyte version, which is fine.
I'm sure that Leon would be totally okay
with one terabyte of storage, but I wanted to
give him a little bit more,
which is why we're also going to be using
an additional one terabyte PCI 4.0 SSD.
So, as someone who is a YouTuber
specifically as someone who does a lot of video editing
having really fast PCI storage is nice.
And these 980 Pros cannot say enough good things about them.
They're incredibly fast it's like
seven gigabytes per second reading speeds.
And when it comes to working with huge video files
and tons of Pokemon cards spreadsheets,
lots of
I don't know, it's just nice to have that storage.
So we have 32 gigs of G Skull Trident
and this is the Trident Z Neo
and this should be more than enough.
(cool music playing)
Okay, we are ready for a test boot
of the ultimate Pokemon gaming PC.
So obviously all of our cabling is completely temporary.
We also don't have the final CPU.
So because the board needs a bios update
we just threw in a third gen I think an Athlon.
So when it comes to building an AMD system
especially with the latest AMD 5000 series of Ryzen,
you actually have to be slightly careful because
if the board is say a few months old
and it doesn't have the correct BIOS
you can put the chip in and nothing will happen, right?
So what I wanna do today
is take an older chip that I know should work,
install it in the motherboard
and make sure that the BIOS is fully up to date
and then we'll swap over to the Ryzen processor.
I mean I need to do this,
but it's going to save me
a whole lot of time in troubleshooting.
If we put the entire system together and nothing happens.
Now, it just needs to post for us.
Take in a minute to post.
- The monitors on, right?
- Yeah, it's stuck on 4D right now.
- [Ken] So our BIOS code is reading 4D.
So Austin's looking up what that even is,
(Austin laughing)
- So funny.
- [Ken] What is it?
- Looks like it's a memory issue.
- [Ken] You wanna unseat and reset the RAM?
- Yeah, let's pull some memory out.
All right, let's go for round two.
- [Ken] 4D.
- Doesn't like our memory.
Something about the CPU,
the board and the memory are not communicating correctly.
I can throw the Ryzen 7 in there
like the actual processor to see.
(upbeat music)
- Oh, that looks much better.
Yep, okay.
- [Ken] There's a processor.
- It was just a processor.
Now let's see if the BIOS actually is compatible
'cause if it's not up to date it will not post.
'Cause it depends on how new the board is
and this board has been,
oh, okay it's fine.
All right.
Well, we did all that to make sure that it works
and it works right out of the box
and I didn't have to bother with it.
So now I'm going to update the BIOS,
load up all of our RAM
and we should essentially be good to go
with the actual hardware of the system.
Wes, how are you looking over on this side?
- It's going pretty good.
I'm starting to figure out the density for the water color.
Just to have a nice sort of cartoony blue.
- That looks very Squirtlely.
- Yes, very Squirtlely.
- It sounds, that sounds weird.
So, what we're gonna do is we're gonna underlay it
with some of these and then we're gonna apply
a little bit of this texture over top of the LEDs
to get it to have a a ripple effect,
so as we animate through,
hopefully it kind of shines up and then
and then we just sort of some water motion effects in there.
OK, I'm testing now.
- Working with this set, I realized that there's a lot
of opportunity for animation through lighting.
Now we need to make, you know,
somewhat of an elevated surface
that is going to hold its shape.
So it has to be durable but at the same time,
transparent in certain places.
And after messing around with a bunch
of different materials, honestly,
plastic bowls just ended up working great.
So, cutting them out
for the little lava patches was awesome
because I could put a little diffusion on the top,
a little on the bottom,
maybe sandwich another layer in there
then have a nice surface to paint
that I could mesh in with the plaster.
So you can see we're starting to get the overall idea
of how this is gonna come together.
And I've just thrown together really quick
and dirty lighting samples here.
You can see the lava over to the side here
which will have Chamander,
some cool flowing effects in there,
and then that will be our lake where we will have
our Bulbasaur.
I mean Squirtle.
Now we just have to paint.
I like paint.
Very tired, but it feels good.
But more importantly because apparently college never dies,
I'm drinking Monster again.
It's gonna be a hell of a year.
All right, we got something fresh from the Laser Etcher.
- Okay.
- And they were engraved by laser.
- Check that out.
- Yo, that looks pretty cool.
Oh dude.
Especially when you get some light on that.
So this is the first time that we've actually
had glass etched side panels for a build.
We've done stuff like vinyls and what not
but this looks so, so sick.
The thing is, I think it gives a level of sort
of customization to assist them that you don't usually see.
So the fact that we were able to get
the Leonhart logos etched onto the glass,
I personally think, takes this bill
to an entirely different level.
So one of the things we are doing
just to keep everything even here
is that we're going full Corsair RGB across the board.
So I went and picked up six LL 120s.
not cheap.
However, we wanna make sure that everything is consistent
that we can run everything through IQ.
We don't have to deal with multiple types of RGB.
Cause we've done that before and it's not fun.
- [Ken] Corsair is the only ones
that's allowed to make RGB program.
- So the main reason that we opted to go for the Kraken Z
this is the model that has the LED screen.
You can kind of see it right here.
So this entire thing is a display
so we can put whatever we want on it.
Which will look a lot better than the
the test heat sink we have on here.
I'm just gonna take that off.
I don't like looking at that.
So we still need to install
obviously the AIO, the fans,
get some of the RGB strips in, where is the diorama?
How is the inside looking?
Cause I know you're building that all still separate, right?
- So here's where we're at right now.
(Austin laughing)
Wes, Wes, this is so cool.
Look at Charmander!
- [Wes] There he is.
- Oh, that is so cool.
- So, there is test animation going right now.
So you can kind of see the lava flowing underneath there.
And right now that's about half of the pour,.
We're going to go up all the way to about the edge here
and this branch, which comes around to kind of
form the puddle is actually what holds up the GPU.
- [Austin] Oh, dude. This is legit.
- So I've been a part of a few custom builds now.
And this one is the most similar
to Grounded because of all the miniatures and model work.
But I like this one a little better than that
in a way because it gave me restrictions to work within,
I mean physical restrictions were in the base
of the computer case,
more problem solving which is always a fun part of the,
of the process.
- I really did not want Leonhart
to see this system at all.
I tried to keep myself from teasing it
on Twitter and everything.
'Cause I really wanted to see his genuine reaction.
I really, really hope that he's surprised
and he likes it and he doesn't look at the system go.
No. Is that like cool or something?
He's nice.
He probably like pretend to like it even if he didn't.
(Austin laughing)
whenever you're ready, spin around and take a look.
- All right, man, I've been waiting a long time for this
and, oh my gosh!
There is actually like a diorama going on
in my computer right now.
There's a Charmander,
Bulbasaur,
my boys Squirtle, you even included in this?
And then you got Red.
There's even a GIF of him running right now.
Oh my gosh.
I seriously am going like numb right now.
It's like I pulled a first edition base set Charizard.
(Austin laughing)
For me, this is what like embodies Pokemon for me.
It's the original starter Pokemon.
And you somehow made a whole
like "diorama" is if that's the word,
got like the colors and oh my, I didn't even see it.
Oh my, you have my logo etched in the sides of it.
And it's in the Leonhart in the front of it.
Is this mine?
- This is all yours, man.
The ultimate Pokemon game PC
for the ultimate Pokemon YouTuber.
So you've got yourself, you Ryzen 7 5800X,
plenty for editing gaming, streaming,
the whole deal and RTX 3080.
You've got yourself tons of LED lighting
and RGB lighting literally everywhere.
But we also have a 4K capture card built in
and we have another one for the external.
- This is exactly what I was looking for.
This is just gonna allow me to move forward
as a content creator
and just help like overall my whole community, you know.
And the Pokemon community in general, you know.
I can start doing hopefully better content from here.
- Dude, you've done so much for the community.
This is the least I could do to give back.
I mean like you've changed the whole game in such a big way.
Hopefully this PC is at least one small part
of helping you kind of push things forward.
This has been one of my favorite gaming PC builds
we've ever done.
I remember those early days
where some of the builds I would do
like hardly even worked and what not.
I was like, trying my best to make something that was cool.
And we've come from that to delivering something
which my favorite YouTuber in the world thinks is awesome.
I mean, I'm not sure what more you could ask for.
It's a happy ending and a great reason for you
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Maybe we'll build a Digimon game PC next.
Oh boy, 1999 called and wants its ideas back.