- Our RTX 3070 graphics card.
Come on, hold together baby.
One of you is about to be extremely happy
that MSI sponsored this video,
because I get comments,
tweets, and emails,
freaking constantly,
"Linus, can I please have a free PC please,
"you've so many PCs,
"can you send me one, please?
"I'm your biggest fan."
And I always ignore them,
because the truth of the matter is,
when we finish building PCs,
we usually take them apart and put them back on the shelf,
so that we can use them to make another video,
'cause that's what we do,
we make videos,
we don't build PCs.
Well, not today,
because the first person whose email comes up,
let's see,
follower, free computer, please,
is getting a free computer.
Swara Maruvada, it's your lucky day,
I'm gonna build you a free computer,
and then I am never doing this again,
so stop asking.
But don't give up hope either,
because MSI's giving away RTX 3000 serious graphics cards,
and you can check out that giveaway in the link below.
(upbeat music)
You know, it clearly worked,
so I shouldn't criticize it too much,
but this is one of the worst,
"Please send me a free PC,"
emails that I've ever seen.
First of all, you don't say you've been a follower
of the channel for a month,
you say, "I have been your biggest fan for 10 years,
"since before I was even born."
And you don't say
that you have an extremely slow HP Core i3 laptop,
that sounds like some pretty decent technology.
You say that you're still, you know,
editing your streams
on an Asus Transformer tf101 Android tablet, you know,
you've gotta make it really pathetic,
and don't give me an easy out,
like just sending you a free keyboard,
I mean, we don't even have to send this guy a computer.
- [Alex] Really?
- Yeah, we could've totally just sent him a pink keyboard,
and he would've been fine,
or she,
I actually have no idea.
I don't know,
sorry, I don't...
I already said I was gonna build a computer,
so gosh darn it,
I'm gonna build a computer,
and a darn fine one it is going to be.
Step number one, Swara,
we're taking your lowly Core i3 mobile chip,
and replacing it with a 10th gen Core i7,
that's right,
an eight core processor,
that turbos up to 5.1 gigahertz,
for that extreme gaming.
We're gonna be throwing it
in the MSI MPG Z490 Gaming Carbon Wifi,
this is an overclocking capable board,
four DIMM slots,
you'll be able to upgrade your memory down the road,
it's got support for SLI,
as if that's really a thing anymore,
and even, two and a half gig networking.
Oh yeah.
A $270 motherboard you say, Alex?
Well, that would've made sense back
when this was, basically,
the fastest gaming processor that you could put in it,
fun fact, by the way,
Swara, this is exactly the Core i7
that Anthony used in his testing
against the new Ryzen 5,000 series,
right there,
that's it,
the one that lost,
but it's still really good,
don't worry, it's like,
it's fine.
You know, it's funny,
'cause the intention behind this video,
is to shut up these requests,
once and for all,
by saying on camera,
"No, we are not going to do that."
But I feel like the fact
that we are building Swara a machine,
is only going to encourage some of the more persistent ones.
Wow, 16 gigs,
3,600 CL16,
this is good (beep).
What are my notes for the SSD,
free Acronus True Image,
fast enough,
oh my God,
this is gen four,
why are we putting all the good (beep) in this computer?
Okay, well,
you're getting a gen four drive Swara,
I mean, not that this is a gen four capable CPU,
but hey, you know,
the board is gen four capable,
so, when Rocket Lake shows up,
you'll be ready.
This is the Gungnir,
Gungnir, Gungnir 170?
- [Alex] 110R .
- 110R.
It's a case all right.
- [Alex] Do you want some better notes there, Linus?
- I mean, it's got a front USB type-C port,
that's pretty cool
for a more budget oriented case,
tempered glass side panel, aight?
Okay?
It's got three fans in the front,
and maybe even a little bit of ventilation for them,
not much,
but it should be enough for this build,
so you've got some mesh over here,
three front fans,
- [Alex] They also have the one 110M,
that does have a mesh on the front.
- [Linus] Oh, why didn't we get the M?
- [Alex] Colton got the parts.
- Colton got the parts,
oh, I should've known.
I mean, it's a free computer,
so like, if you have to do that,
you'll do that.
- [Alex] That actually probably'll perform a lot better.
- What're you gonna do about it?
Built in RGB?
This may not actually be that cheap of a case,
it's got a lot of features in it.
So, there was a request,
a special request,
for the case to be pink.
Our intention was to laser,
"This case has pink,"
on the side panel,
because we couldn't actually get a pink case very easily,
but unfortunately, our laser's out of commission,
so, we have a new solution.
Thank you, sir.
Again, it's free,
what're you gonna do about it?
For our power supply,
we went with a classic,
MSI doesn't make power supplies yet,
so we've gone with the RM850X,
it's fully modular,
it's 80 plus gold,
it's got a 10 year warranty,
so, you'll be,
yep, you'll be running this power supply
for a very,
very freaking long time,
and it can supply enough power
for our RTX 3070 graphics card.
Do we only need three cables for this?
24-pin, eight pin CPU power,
and then a dual eight pin for the GPU, that it?
No, one SATA,
for the built-in RGB lighting.
- [Alex] Oh yeah,
we can make that pink. - Oh yeah.
In terms of cable management,
it is a mid tower,
so it's definitely a little tight,
but it's not bad.
All we got to do is run this RGB header
over to the motherboard,
which, presumably,
will kinda pop up there somewhere.
SATA power to this puppy,
that powers our RGB and fan controller there.
Jam that in there.
And then, what is this?
Oh, it's only an RGB hub.
No way,
it's happened.
- [Alex] What?
- Case manufacturer,
given the option,
forgoes a fan controller,
or fan hub,
and includes RGB only.
Yeah, so we'll plug all the fans into the motherboard.
- [Alex] Do you have enough headers?
- Oh snap, it does have enough fan headers,
it's got eight,
we fancy now.
Look at that,
four of them are right along the edge there too.
Let's pop this puppy in here.
- [Alex] IO shield?
- Oh, it's got an included IO shield.
- [Alex] Cool.
- All the fancy boards have included IO shields now, Alex.
This is fun,
the fans are even addressable RGB.
So I'll pop those onto the rainbow header,
I love that they call it that.
There's not much to say about the Mag Coreliquid 240R,
but it's a dual,
120 millimeter,
all in one liquid cooler,
the pump is actually integrated in the radiator,
which is pretty cool,
rather than in the CPU block,
and it's got a neat little rotatable piece on the CPU block,
so that the dragon is always right side up,
no matter how you have to orient it.
Oh yeah, and it includes RGB fans.
What do you think Alex,
we go top mount with exhaust?
- [Alex] Sure.
- All right.
Oh, damn,
wrong bag.
Where's the mounting hardware for the case?
Oh (beep) it.
New plan,
Alex is gonna go find some fan screws,
which were not included, unfortunately,
and we're gonna mount these in the top,
just as exhaust fans,
and then, we're actually gonna use the included fans,
and put the radiator right about here.
Oh yeah,
oh Alex,
I lied,
we can steal the fan screws from these ones,
'cause we're gonna bolt through them.
- [Alex] Cool.
- We're good.
We're good.
I might even put all the screws in.
- [Alex] Wow.
- Yeah, I'm feeling generous today.
How do I want the tubes to run?
Probably like that,
does that look all right, Andy?
- [Andy] That looks good.
- Make sure we remove that
before we put it on there,
that'd be a little awkward.
And silicon,
burning silicon.
I was worried about the RGB wiring,
but actually the hub has six slots,
so that covers my six fans,
and then get this,
I have one more RGB element right here,
which is the CPU block,
but there's actually one more rainbow header,
right there,
in the CPU area.
Boom, we good!
Easy peasy,
now we just gotta make sure we remember
to put thermal compound on before we mount this thing.
Let's go ahead and pop that puppy on there,
then we've got these spring-loaded thumbscrews.
This is looking darn fine,
and pink too.
Oh shoot,
I didn't do any of the front panel connectors yet.
There we go,
with that little detail taken care of,
we are ready for the finishing touch,
our RTX 3070 graphics card.
Come on,
hold together baby.
- [Alex] Oh, wow,
this is stressful.
- It's really big for a 70 class card,
also what the F is this?
An HDMI and display port port cover,
are on the PCI express lock,
and the little nubbin here,
instead of in the back.
- [Alex] Someone must've been fooling with us.
- Someone at MSI must've just been like,
"(laughs) I'm gonna mess with the card we're sending Linus."
No vapor chamber on this one,
but that is a fricking ton of heat pipes in there,
and this is a taller than normal card,
so the cooler itself is enormous.
- [Alex] Even has a bit of, like,
through cooling on the end there.
- Oh yeah, you're right.
Obviously, they just wanted to treat Swara
to the latest in gaming technology,
oh my God,
is this not gonna fit in here?
(laughing)
Hold on,
I think it might fit,
give me a second,
I need to pull the thing out first though.
It is less than a centimeter
from the fins of the radiator.
That's it.
- [Andy] And it looks good.
- Colton configured this thing,
and it's still good.
Let's fire it up.
(fire exploding)
Wait, what are we doing?
- [Alex] What?
- [Linus] We haven't put our desk pad down yet,
lttstore.com.
Oh yeah,
man, these are sick.
Oh, it's gorgeous.
Oh yeah, and the MSI peripherals,
these are part of the giveaway too.
- [Alex] Kailh blues,
it's a headset,
7.1 surround.
- [Linus] All right,
rock on. - RGB.
- [Linus] Where's my Clutch gaming mouse?
- [Alex] Oh geez, you looked away.
- Oh, geez, Alex.
This is precision,
Omron switch,
PixArt PMW 3330 sensor,
oh okay, this is actually pretty decent,
okay, cool,
and, of course,
RGB.
We're gonna try with a non-perforated front panel.
- [Alex] Yay.
- All right.
Hey, that's even like kind of close to pink,
sort of.
We're installing Dragon Center,
to get our RGB working,
check this out.
It's Lucky.
How you doing, Lucky?
Okay, it picked up the motherboard,
graphics card, keyboard, and mouse,
that's pretty good.
You just want pink, right?
- [Alex] I just want pink, yeah.
- [Linus] You just want pink, all right.
Okay, it's pink.
- Except the fans. - Except the fans,
that're red for whatever reason.
Native res,
ultra nightmare,
apply changes.
- [Andy] Have we talked
about the monitor in the video yet?
- No, we did not,
thank you for bringing that up,
so it's 165 hertz,
2560 by 1440,
curved, obviously,
27 inches.
Yeah, 1440p is still the sweet spot,
and 3070's a lot of FPS at this resolution.
Yeah, this seems like a okay gaming rig.
Yeah, I guess if it was free I'd take it.
Ah, yes,
'tis a fine pink computer.
Thank you to MSI for providing all the parts for this build,
congratulations to our lucky winner,
and, of course,
good luck to the rest of you,
who're gonna have a chance
to win an MSI RTX 3000 series card,
just by checking out the details
down in the video description.
If you guys enjoyed this video,
maybe you'll also enjoy the other all MSI build
that we actually did,
like what, like a month ago,
or something like that?
- [Alex] Yeah, something like that.
- Yeah, it's a good watch.
It's not pink,
but that's okay,
neither is this,
if we're being honest.