- Get on there!
Look, I wanna see you build a computer this fast.
I removed the hard drive.
- [Colin] Okay, this was my mistake.
- I call timeout.
I call timeout.
- [Colin] Okay.
- Pause - [Colin] We can time out.
- Here's the sitch.
Every iPhone, from the 6 onward,
has supported some form of fast charging,
from 10 watts all the way up to over 20 watts
on the iPhone 11 Pro Max.
The only problem is that the included brick charger
at 5 watts, maxes out at less than a quarter of that.
Why Apple does this?
We'll never know for sure
but our sponsor for today, Anker,
wants to show you that there's another way.
They issued me a challenge,
me versus their tiny phone charger,
in a race to see which comes first.
Me building a gaming PC or this iPhone reaching 69% battery
plugged into their Nano wall charger.
Man, we are really scraping the bottom of the barrel
for video ideas at this point, aren't we?
But I do want to see who wins.
(upbeat music)
In this corner, Anker's new Nano charger.
It's a cute little brick about the same size
as the 5-watt Apple charger
but with four times the maximum output.
That's right.
This tiny thing will do up to 20 watts
which is actually more than Apple's bigger, 18-watt charger.
In this corner, a gaming PC, that I'm gonna build
no, don't worry Colin, I got it.
Just need to Oh my God!
What's in here?
Hold on.
What is in here?
It's not like water cooler or something is it?
Gaming computer that I'm gonna build
all we need to do real quick here,
is get all of these phones plugged in.
So do I have to beat the first phone to 69% or the last one?
- [Colin] You have to beat the iPhone 11.
- I have to beat the iPhone 11
Okay but we've also got a 10S Max and a S25G.
As soon as I press this it goes, right?
- [Colin] As soon as you press that.
- OK, three, two, one, oh Lordy!
OK, It's going.
Is that minutes or seconds?
That seems to be minutes.
- [Colin] Well, it's minutes now.
- It's minutes now.
Okay, if you guys were wondering
if they're all actually dead there's your evidence.
What is this?
GT track Simulator Cockpit?
Is this not a computer? - [Colin] Oh it's a computer.
- I don't understand what's going on here.
Okay, oh no hold on a second.
- [Colin] Let's put it on the ground.
- Are we sure this is working?
- [Colin] Well, it started.
- It's only gone up one, though.
Has it been only a minute? - [Andy] Press the ST button.
- Oh shoot yeah, it's working.
AORUS all-in-one liquid cooler.
Well, this definitely isn't an actual UPS
because they are much heavier than that.
CORSAIR power supply, a MAINGEAR VYBE
but that's a prebuilt computer
and whatever's in here.
Am I just being trolled here, you guys?
According to my briefing notes here,
I'm expected to build, cable manage,
and post this system before the phone reaches 69%.
And apparently there's a prize if I win
and a punishment of some sort if I lose.
Knowing my staff,
the prize is probably nothing special
and the punishment probably really sucks.
So I'm gonna have to push pretty hard here
to try and win this.
So in this box we've got a motherboard, a graphics card,
an SSD, a CPU.
So this is all starting to make a little bit more sense now.
Except for the fact that this is a prebuilt computer
and also there's a case over there.
What is going on here?
What is this?
Why is this in here?
Is this just to be heavy and mess with me?
- [Colin] Yes.
- Are you serious?
- [Colin] Yeah.
- We've apparently gone with the Master Case Maker 5T.
Which presumably we're using
because we found it in the warehouse in usable condition.
How much time do I have?
Holy crap it's at 7%
I have only just unboxed things.
Okay, we need to go a little faster here.
RAM is apparently just in the motherboard box.
That's how motherboards come these days.
Okay, how tidy do I have to be?
It's someone else's job
to clean this up when I'm done, right?
- [Colin] Yeah.
- OK, sick.
Then we're just going, we're going full ham bone here
nope we're not, we're gonna stay organized
cause I don't want this stuff sitting
in the warehouse with half the accessories missing.
Just get in there!
All right, CPU we got a Ryzen 7 3800X
it's good CPU for gaming and content creation.
Mid-range, kind of good CPU is gonna go in there.
All right.
Four sticks of RAM?
You guys are really stretching out the build time here.
Got some Trident Z Neos 3600 C14.
Wow, this is really nice memory
to have banging around inside a motherboard box.
Okay, cool.
Why would you guys give me a case that locks?
I feel like I'm being set up here.
Both sides lock.
Here's a probably unintended bit of help that they gave me
because someone built in here before presumably.
Some of the cable management's already kind of done.
So I'm gonna take advantage of that.
There's a hard drive in here.
Why is there a hard drive in here?
Did you even know there was a hard drive?
- [Colin] No idea.
- Is removing the hard drive part of my task?
Let's put in our SSD.
Come on!
Ah!
Do I have to put in all the screws?
- [Colin] Nope.
- Okay, motherboard's getting one screw, boys.
Oh yeah.
- [Colin] We're at 18%.
- 18%?
- [Colin] Yep, 51 to go.
- Motherboard, CPU, RAM, and SSD are all in the case
but that's not the time-consuming part
of a project like this.
This is the time-consuming part
of a project like this.
So let's go ahead and throw this.
I don't know what, front now?
Ooh, that looks like it might be more challenging.
Let's do a top mount.
We're going top mount here today, ladies and gentlemen.
Okay.
Okay, so that's, you know what, I'm just gonna put
these screws back in here now
and I'm gonna mount it straight to here.
Not bother to pull this out.
I don't think that's gonna save me any time anyway.
Where are my fans?
Shoot, AIO takes so long.
Wait, it's got RGB?
I can't possibly be expected to wire up RGB lighting.
- (laughing)
- What are we at for clock?
- 11:40 on the clock and on the phone we're at 26%.
- 26%.
Do I go for the simpler method of mounting it.
Where I just have to screw the radiator in
from the top and then screw the fans in from the other side
but I need to put in twice as many screws
or do I go for the method that's more complicated to line up
but takes half as many screws?
We're going more complicated to line up.
Half as many screws.
Wait.
This does not fit.
I call timeout.
- [Colin] Okay.
- Pause. - [Colin] We can time out.
- Thicker fans might cause an additional problem
in that I won't have screws long enough
to go through them into the rad.
In any case, I don't think these are 25 millimeters thick.
As far as blame goes,
I think AORUS shoulders at least some
for shipping fans that are slightly thinner
than the industry standard 25 millimeter.
But I'm mostly putting this on Cooler Master.
There's a little lip up here in the top
that just, by a couple of millimeters,
interferes with mounting a radiator here.
Meaning that the only way to mount a rad
is to put it in the front of the case.
Something we didn't anticipate.
So I am requesting a two-minute
- [Colin] Whoa! - Opposite of a time penalty.
- [Colin] Whoa, whoa!
- I want two minutes to rectify this wrong.
- [Colin] Okay, this was my mistake.
- Yes.
- I'll give you one and a half minutes.
- A minute and a half.
I'll take it.
- [Colin] OK.
- All right.
Start out a minute and a half timer
and then we will resume charging and start the timer again.
- [Colin] And go.
- All right.
Jokes on these guys.
I put these thumb screws in while the timer wasn't running.
(laughing)
- [Colin] Cheater.
- Look, I need all the help I can get.
This is not fair so far.
Okay.
I just need this crap out of my way.
What is wait what's in here?
There's a co-ax cable in here.
- [Colin] And time.
- So I wasted my extra time opening up that garbage box.
- [Colin] Sure did.
- Unbelievable.
Come off.
Who uses this old-fashioned system anymore?
You know, when you asked me what screwdriver I wanted
for this project what I should have said
was a motorized one.
And now to get the front actually saves me
some hassle with this AIO cooler.
Those gigabyte fans are weird like, they're skinnier
in some spots and thicker in other spots
and mounting them is a bit of a pain on the butt.
So I'm just gonna use the stock fans
that came with the case.
And I'm gonna put those on my radiator
after I remove the hard drive cage.
Oh my gosh, how does it come out?
- While you deal with that we'll see where we're at.
- How does it come out?
- We're at 31%.
- All right, but I know Gamers Nexus
might not like how I'm mounting the radiator
okay, where the bubbles are gonna get in the pump.
I don't have time for that right now.
And I obviously can't put it in this way.
So, we're rolling with it.
Gosh, this is really hard to line up
because you can't see the holes in the case
because the fan sits in front.
This also saves me wiring up the RGB.
- I heard that.
- Loosen them all a little bit now,
so I can get this last one through.
Just get in there!
It's too high.
It doesn't line up.
Okay, that's fine.
It still doesn't go down!
Why not?
Why?
Why this?
What just fell off of it?
Everything lines up if we come down slightly.
It's just the unnecessary-ness of all of this.
You know if you think about it,
every case should probably go through
a speed build challenge as part of the development process.
Because that's where you really find
the aggravating, stupid stuff that makes no sense, you know?
- [Colin] You're at 21 and a half minutes in
and we're at 42%.
- 42%.
The good news is that in order to protect their battery,
phones will only charge at that maximum rate
for a short duration so it should continue
to slow down as we go here.
We're getting close now.
The AIO is mounted.
That's one of the big, scary things.
Next up, power supply.
Ah, smells like new power supply.
- Seems as good a time as any to see how you're doing.
- I actually really didn't wanna know right now.
- 52%.
You got 17 to go.
- You know what Mr. Power Supply?
You're getting two screws.
JK, I'm putting in all four screws.
Power supply is one of the heaviest components
of the system.
Should always be properly secured.
Graphics card power, CPU power.
Does this case require a Molex?
Does Molex, can save ourselves a little bit of time
by pre-attaching all the modular cables like this.
And in we go.
Do I have a monitor?
If I'm expected to post this thing, do I have a monitor?
- [Colin] Yeah, the monitor's right there beside the sink.
- See, this is where you start making careless mistakes.
Have my front panel oriented incorrectly.
That cost me at least five seconds.
And then Power LED, hard drive LED, I believe,
power's on top, yes. This is a good little trick.
You just hold them all in one spot together,
plug the whole block in
and they don't get to open the side panel
when they're judging the cable management, do they?
- [Colin] Correct.
- Okay.
(laughing)
- [Colin] Do you wanna know how far you have?
- Oh, not especially.
I'm just gonna do me here.
RTX 20, what is this?
2080 Super?
- [Colin] Yep.
- It's basically just a prop now, you know.
It still looks pretty.
You go here.
- Okay Linus you have 6% left.
- 6%, we're at 63?
- [Colin] Yep.
- Just go on!
Easy peasy, these are symmetrical.
I actually wanna post it first though
before I put these on.
Now do I have a power cable for that?
Oh I do.
Wanted another penalty.
- [Colin] He's reaching straight for the lifelines
aren't you now?
- Look, I wanna see you build a computer this fast.
Ow!
(laughing)
Who's laughing over there?
Okay.
- 65.
- Then I'll go here.
Show me the post.
Ooh, I got a few things not plugged in here.
- 66.
- Shh, not helping.
So I never plugged in my pump.
I never plugged in my fans to the AIO cooler.
All my fans spinning.
What about this one?
Why is this one not spinning?
There it is.
See the power for it is, like, over here.
Oh, what a stupid place for it.
- [Colin] That's 68.
- What's going on?
I don't need it.
I'm just gonna take this off.
This panel just needs to go in.
Where are the dang keys?
- And 69.
- Where are the keys?
- No, no it counts!
It counts!
Side panel's, it's on.
Get on there!
(slow motion sounds)
- You hit it so hard it rebooted.
- Posted.
It's, we're just posting again to show
how much it can do it.
It's still 69.
It's not 70.
- Now it's 70.
- Well now it's done.
Please post again.
I'm a little worried I might have whacked it too hard there.
- So we have our two judges, Anthony and David.
Thank you for coming down.
We're looking at Linus' cable management
and determining whether it's satisfactory.
Whether he did a good enough job to win his prize.
The prize is an A&W teen burger.
- When did we order that?
- That was ordered about 30 minutes ago.
- Oh, OK.
- And if he loses, he has to drink a durian bubble tea.
- [David] Ew!
- That's disgusting.
- So you guys are the deciding factor.
Would you consider this cable management to be adequate?
- [David] Well, how can I tell it?
It's closed and locked up.
- [Colin] Do you wanna open up the front for us?
- You told me I didn't have to open it.
- [Colin] The front, not the back.
- [David] (laughing)
- Would you be satisfied with this on a day-to-day basis?
- I might not be the right person to ask.
I don't have my front USB or reset
or hard drive read button cables plugged in.
So I'm not, I'm at one end of the cable management spectrum.
- You chose a really good judge.
Thanks, Colin.
- We're only judging this side.
- Can you just answer the question, David?
Would you be happy with this on a day-to-day basis?
- Yeah, I'd be super.
- Yeah! Woo!
- [Colin] That's one half of the judge.
- You know it doesn't look too bad from this side.
There's, there's a bit of a mess down in the basement, here
but you're not gonna be looking at that.
I mean, yeah, as far as, like, day-to-day use, why not?
Your airflow's not impeded.
You got no mess to speak of that you can really see.
So yeah, I mean why not?
- Linus, it was down to the line,
but I think you, you earned that.
- Yay, I got a burger instead of durian sludge.
And to my American friends out there,
Canadian A&W is nothing like American A&W.
They are completely different companies.
I would not eat an American A&W teen burger.
They're disgusting.
Now that the challenge is over,
we can take a look at our results in more depth.
We've actually paused our charging here.
It looks like our S20 made it to just shy of 60%, 59%.
64% on our 10th gen iPhone.
And then of course, 69% on our iPhone 11
in about 40 minutes.
So it's pretty darn impressive
for a little, tiny charger like this one.
So, guys, check out their Nano charger,
as well as their other mobile accessories,
like this new iPhone fast-charging essentials kit.
It's got a C to C cable,
a C to Lightning cable.
And this is pretty cool.
This wart is about the size of the MacBook one,
except it's got two ports on it.
So you can do your MacBook and your iPhone or iPad
or whatever else at the same time.
You've also got battery banks and all kinds of good stuff.
Thanks again to Anker for sponsoring this challenge.
If you guys enjoyed it,
you might also enjoy this video called
"I love building computers".
Where I build six computers in a row as fast as I can.
Well, the first couple I sandbagged a little
because I wanted to make sure I could keep improving
but by the end, I'm going full tilt.
It's stressful.