- [Austin] Hello and welcome to a very bad idea.
- So, Austin is using this
really interesting contraption
for this video that involves this backpack
that you may have seen from Mystery Tech,
but that's not even the best part about this
because it has pole sticking out of it
that has a GoPro attached to it
and the GoPro is attached to a drone racing headset.
- [Austin] So while I'm building this PC,
the only thing I can see is what the GoPro sees,
which is what you're about to see.
- [Wes] All right and here we go. Try not to vomit.
- [Austin] Oh god, what the?
Wow that's crazy dude.
Now as you might imagine from a shoulder mounted GoPro,
if you're prone to dizziness,
you may want to be a little bit careful.
This video, especially with me in the headset,
but especially when it comes to you watching the video back,
is a little bit shaky at times.
So just a fair warning, if you're prone to dizziness,
you may wanna skip this one.
- [Wes] Do you wanna get used to it by maybe-
- [Austin] No, I'm going to go straight for it.
Okay so I am grabbing the first box.
Picking up the first box.
This is freakin' ridiculous.
How? Oh, oh god.
My sense of perspective is so far off.
The rules are very simple,
our wonderful sponsor Micro Center,
has graciously provided a number of parts for the build.
We have a Ryzen 5, you can see this, 30 3600 right?
Ryzen 5 3600.
And all I need to do is get it together and get it to post.
I don't need to install Windows in third person
because I would be here all day and so would you,
but if I actually get this computer to post
and all the components to show up,
I will consider that to be a victory.
Okay, let me just try to open a box first.
Can I actually open a box?
Oh I need a knife.
- [Ken] Oh no.
- [Austin] Do you trust me with a knife?
- I have this morbid curiosity to see how you do.
Oh no.
Oh god.
- [Austin] Oh look at that.
- [Ken] Oh okay.
- [Austin] No problem.
I'm gonna open up a bunch of boxes
now that I'm here and I'm armed.
Oh boy.
- [Ken] Austin looks like the (beep) serial killer
I've ever seen.
- [Austin] Wait I need my case.
So this is a Fractal case of some kind.
I can't actually read it from here.
(Austin groans)
Ow it's the Define S2.
Okay oh no don't hit the camera.
Don't hit the camera okay. Oh oops.
Well, that's just never gonna be found.
(Ken laughs)
So what is that?
Is that for the... Oh that's for this.
Can you give me a screwdriver?
- [Ken] You can get it.
- [Austin] You can't give me a screwdriver?
- [Ken] No there's one in the table.
I feel I have to help this old man cross the street.
- [Austin] Okay that's a camera.
- [Ken] Yeah that's very much a camera.
- [Austin] Oh it's in the This Is set.
Cool, glad all my tools are very well prepared.
- Okay let's be clear here,
I did not hide the screwdriver.
He took it from the set and brought it over
to the This Is side of the room that's not my fault,
I'm not even going to say it's Matt's fault.
That's just Austin forgetting where he put his stuff.
He needs to put stuff back where they belong.
Boy can trip for all I care.
- [Austin] Oh what the fu-?!
These all look the same! These all look the same!
No!
So this is that's big Phillips, all right smaller.
- [Ken] Almost looks like you're listening to them
without any context.
- [Austin] So something different between
what you're able to see with the GoPro footage on YouTube
and what I'm able to see is the fact that
I have a headset in my way
and while it is a fairly nice display
and it works well for drone racing
where you need to see a tree coming,
when I'm working on a PC
and I'm looking for tiny little details,
the fidelity just isn't there
and on top of that the color inside the headset
is a little bit different as well.
The blacks, for example, when I look at the case,
the shadows are just black.
I don't really see any detail.
I was feeling confident.
I was really feeling confident,
but the more I have to do these little things,
the more I just wanna not do this video any more.
I'm just realizing that this was a terrible idea,
and I don't know why I signed up for this.
- [Ken] Well, you didn't sign up for it.
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Now I'm gonna go back to third person
and not following any of their wonderful sound advice.
So my first task will be to install the power supply.
- [Ken] Oh.
(Austin laughs)
- [Ken] Good job.
- [Austin] Dude my depth perception is terrible.
Okay so that's one.
I almost caught that though.
Where is my, where is my PCI power?
Did I drop it?
Oh I did drop it didn't I?
Oh look at that. Can't put one over on me.
So cable management not gonna exist in this system.
(Ken laughs)
- [Ken] What, you don't wanna try?
- [Austin] If it powers on, it will be a miracle.
There we go.
All right, c'mon, there we go.
Oh my god, this is so hard.
Holy. (beep)
This is no longer fun.
- [Ken] (laughs) Yeah we passed the point
of this being fun and now we're just watching you suffer.
- [Austin] I can't believe I have an AIO to install.
- [Ken] You all right there, bud?
- [Austin] I'm fine.
- [Ken] It's just-
- [Austin] I'm closing my eyes now.
- [Ken] Oh well, I guess that that's a way to rest.
- [Austin] This is my break.
- [Ken] Makes sense.
- [Austin] I have one screw in the power supply
and that's gonna be enough for now.
Okay, I'm gonna put this off to the side
and I'm gonna try to build the motherboard.
I need to be careful though
because if I sort of ruin the pens on the CPU,
I'm gonna be in deep trouble.
Which direction is that?
Is that Ryzen? Yeah, that's Ryzen up okay.
(Austin breathes deeply)
Yes!
I am the Ryzen master!
- [Ken] That's the first thing that has gone right so far.
- [Austin] Is that lined up?
And it feels like it's lined up.
- [Ken] You go it. You got it.
Yeah there you go. One more to go.
- [Austin] Oh, that's actually a good angle.
I think I got it.
(Austin growls)
Next where am I gonna install my M2 drive?
Under here I'm assuming, right?
You know what's funny, after the power supply,
I was feeling really down and dejected,
but now I'm doing the easy stuff.
This is much, much simpler.
SSD is over here.
I'm just gonna rip it open
'cause I'm not using the knife anymore than I have to.
So I'm gonna just get my head out of the way.
There we go okay. There we go.
This is so dumb.
This is literally the best way to do it
'cause I can actually reach.
Okay so line this up right here.
Come on, come on. There we go. There we go.
Oh no, oh god, c'mon dude.
What am I doing wrong here?
It looks like its going in, but it doesn't feel right.
Can you give me some guidance?
Am I like what's, where am I at right now?
- [Ken] I mean you're kind of there.
- [Austin] What happened?
- [Ken] The stand off is in the wrong spot.
- [Austin] Oh, I did put it in the wrong spot, oh.
- [Ken] For as much as it's fun
seeing Austin suffer, I can only do that for so long.
One I'm kinda running on the clock.
I get paid by the hour,
but on the flip side of that, Austin's a friend,
and some times we gotta help our friends
even if it burns us on the inside.
- [Austin] The longer I spend in this headset,
the less I think it's cool and the more
I just get frustrated.
For me, especially as someone who knows how to build a PC,
it's incredibly frustrating to spend all this time
trying to do some minute little detail
and I can't do it right.
This should be so simple
and yet I'm consistently failing,
which is making more frustrated,
which that compared with the third person build
just kind of the longer I wear the headset,
the less like I don't wanna say nauseous I feel,
but I start to feel less and less attached to my body.
All this stuff over time
is really, really adding up to a very unhappy Austin.
Ow
- [Ken] Oh.
- [Austin] There ya go.
Those ports look pretty good to me.
Oh god.
oh, oh I'm being defeated.
I can't give up.
Oh
I'm not giving up.
I'm gonna do this.
C'mon yeah! Thread it!
Thread it! Thread it! Thread it!
What the fu-?
What? Where's even the screw? What?
Oh it fell out!
I thought I had it in,
then I realized it came back out on the bit.
Oh god.
- [Ken] Hopefully that will bite.
- [Austin] Feels like it.
- [Ken] Yeah okay.
- [Austin] Yes!
- [Ken] Okay so-
- [Austin] Okay I'm done, one screw's fine.
This headset is legitimately running out of battery
and if I'm gonna be completely honest,
if I'm in this headset for much longer,
I think I'm gonna have
some serious like I think I legitimately need a break.
So we're gonna stop, recharge the headset.
I'm gonna come at this with a new game plan
and tomorrow, I'm gonna finish this build.
Now I'm about to rejoin the real world.
Wow oh dude that is one of the hardest things
I have ever done for a video in my life.
Wow everything's so close.
That screen is so bright my eyes have adjusted
so, it actually feels dark, oh.
Yesterday sucked so, today my plan is twofold.
First of all, clear mental state.
My second tactic is very simple,
cut all the corners.
Today, I'm gonna do the bare minimum
'cause all I need to do is get this PC to post.
If I can do that, I've won.
So actually, where do I install a hard drive on this guy?
Oh, that sounded bad.
That sounded like a lot of screws just fell out.
Wait hang on, is my motherboard still in place?
Okay that's fine.
Okay so I assume I can put a hard drive in back here.
Okay so how does that attach?
Does this screw in somewhere?
Okay, I'm just gonna just do one of those things
where I'm just gonna close my eyes and do it by feel.
Yep, there we go.
Okay, got one.
So this is definitely a little loose, but it stays
and that's all I care about.
All right, let's go.
C'mon, there you go.
There you go.
That is horrible!
- [Ken] But dude, this, this thing is, this thing is,
that's royally not screwed in.
- [Austin] Fine.
Use my left hand and push it, push it, push it.
Yeah, one things plugged in!
Who hates doing this in third person?
Okay that's me.
Anyway, so a little tip that I've been doing
is closing my eyes.
So it's not just about, you know, trying to rest,
which is definitely a big part of it, right?
I mean after an hour, an hour and a half, two hours
inside the headset, I'm mentally exhausted,
but even beyond that a lot of times
I feel like I can actually install these components
and find these screws just by closing my eyes
and feeling for it.
Like the GoPro almost was lying to me, right?
I look at it, I put my finger where I think I am,
and I know that I am actually like a half an inch
or an inch off, right?
Like that perception of where my visual hand is going
is different than where my hand is going in real life.
So really pretty frequently through out this process,
I find myself just closing my eyes, re centering,
keeping myself from being too frustrated,
and ultimately relying on my sense of touch,
and my sort of analytical brain to think of where things are
to actually get things accomplished
because mm-mm (negative) it's not it's not pleasant.
Not pleasant.
Power's actually looking pretty good now.
So I think it actually may be time for the AIO.
The most complicated aspect of the build
really to me feels like it's going to be
installing this AIO.
- [Ken] A lot of things can go wrong.
He can touch the thermal paste.
Lay out stuff could be wrong.
what there are two fans on that thing?
There's at least eight points of failure already.
If one power supply took him 20 minutes,
we might be here for an hour.
- [Austin] So if I do it like here.
So I do it like this, yeah like that.
Okay so if this is somewhere like this,
this is like this, right?
I think ah that cable bend feels bad though.
Kay so now, that looks right.
Yeah there we go.
Am I in the right ball park right now?
- [Ken] Yeah.
- [Austin] There we go.
- [Ken] Yeah.
- [Austin] Kay.
- [Ken] You screw it in and then it'll all lock.
- [Austin] All right, I think we just got
a big hurdle for the build taken care of now.
Get this AIO tightened down.
Next, I need to figure out the fans.
(Ken laughs)
I'm gonna say we're gonna go this way.
Well yeah that feels about right, huh?
Yeah!
Okay I'll just say that's okay for the very moment.
Whew
All right fans are now installed.
Now we just need to get that top panel off
and get this installed.
Did it pop or I feel a rivet here?
Do you have any idea how this comes off?
Are those, are these screws?
No that is a screw, right?
Are these three screws or are these three rivets?
Oh! Thanks, Ken.
Whew
(Austin breathes deeply)
All right
(Austin breathes deeply)
Okay let's go.
- [Ken] Up, oh, oh.
- [Austin] No down, right?
- [Ken] Up, up, up, up, up.
- [Austin] All right. Oh man. Oh my neck's feeling it.
(Metal drops) That probably wasn't important.
- [Ken] Down, up.
Yep, left.
- [Austin] Oh is that actually in?
Wait are you tryin' to tell me
that we just installed an AIO?
Ay! All right now let me install the graphics card.
This part, cross my fingers, should be pretty easy.
Dude I'm closing my eyes so hard through this.
It's crazy how for a third person PC build,
it's so much easier just to close your eyes.
There's nothing holding it back, right?
Oh yeah there.
Okay it feels like it's in.
- [Ken] That
(Ken laughs)
- [Austin] Did I just put it in the wrong slot or something?
(Ken laughs)
- [Ken] This is incredibly painful to watch.
- [Austin] I know.
- [Ken] There are more, there are more cables.
There.
- [Austin] Thanks for taking pity on me.
Now I give Ken a lot of (beep).
Most of it I think is completely deserved,
but in this particular scenario,
he has done me multiple solids.
It's rare for Ken to take pity on me,
but when those rare opportunities do come up,
I would be a fool not to graciously accept his help
as I can't put a screw in a stand off.
Also I want to take this stupid headset off
so I'll take help from (beep) if I have to.
- [Ken] That one can't go in the cut.
- [Austin] Just censor that one. It's fine.
Everyone will wonder who I'm talking about.
Oh, oh, oh that's it, that's it.
Okay so I think we're almost set.
Let's plug this thing in. It's just gonna work.
Huh?
There we go. Okay.
Monitor, uh oh, I'm getting a flashing battery sign
on my headset.
We don't have another battery so that means
if I don't finish this up, I have to do it totally blind.
All right c'mon, c'mon, c'mon.
Key board, that feels like a key board.
Kay let's go.
Run this really quick.
And looks like USB.
Of course I put it in the wrong way first.
Power cables, power cables, power cables, power cables.
Plug it in.
Dude, this battery light is getting angrier
and angrier at me.
All right, I need an HDMI.
Is there any HDMIs here?
There's an HDMI down here if I remember.
C'mon help me out with an HDMI at least.
Fine, I see how it is.
I'm gonna make it all the way back.
Very dark back here.
Hope there's nothing super sharp.
Give me a cable, give me a cable.
Why do all cables look the same?
Okay that's a display port.
Display port, I'll take it.
I like that you came over here to pretend to help me,
but you didn't actually help me.
- [Ken] Oh no, I'm just here to observe.
- [Austin] Oh okay.
Runs back here.
Light is now blinking even more furiously at me.
Okay we're just gonna boot the build like this.
Kay.
Oh, I can see some things now.
See some things now.
C'mon one of these things has to boot it.
Wait is it on?
Oh it's on!
My fans aren't connected, whatever.
Oh yeah, I forgot to turn on my AIO fan.
Oh nothing is, oh god, none of this is plugged in.
Whatever, it'll post.
Oh no, oh no, my headset's dying.
It's getting darker.
Dude like really it's just getting like darker and darker
and the fans are going down.
It's like the headset's letting me know it's dying.
- [Ken] It's like wasted in Grand Theft Auto.
- [Austin] Oh and I'm dead. I literally can't see.
My battery just died.
- [Ken] You died the way you lived.
- [Austin] Did I do it?
I mean I'm done
Like I either succeeded or I failed right now
there's no turning back.
(Austin gasps)
It worked!
It worked! I did it!
One terabyte hard drive or two terabyte hard drive
500 gig M2, two eight gig sticks of RAM, Ryzen 5 3600,
70 degrees doing absolutely nothing with zero fans.
I did it! I built a PC in third person!
There's so many things that could've, should've,
and did go wrong with this build.
There's been a lot of videos I've done.
There have been a lot of weird challenges
and things I've had to do,
but very little has felt as rewarding and as promising
and as just fulfilling as completing it
with literally zero seconds to spare.
I mean I just can't even wrap my head around that.
So, is it possible to build a gaming PC in third person?
Yes, yes it is.
Is is possible to go check out our wonderful sponsor,
Micro Center?
The link in the description where you can build a PC
that's actually properly well done?
Yes, it absolutely is.
Definitely be sure to go check them out.
Thank you to Micro Center for sponsoring this madness
and thank you for watching.
Subscribe.
And if you excuse me, I'm gonna go fix everything,
Like literally everything.