- It's clear at this point
that society is on the brink of collapse.
The wealthy elites have all run away to New Zealand
(mimicking tractor noises)
leaving the rest of us plebs to fend for ourselves.
Well, I, for one welcome the end of the world
as we know it. All I need is food, water,
and a tricked out gaming PC.
So I can live out the rest of my days
in my bunker, playing Fallout.
- [Michael Scott] NO!
- Assuming I survive the nuclear fallout.
Meet the prepper PC!
It's designed to stand up to all the main apocalypses:
zombie, alien, financial- it'll outlast them all.
And it's brought to you by Jackery.
Okay, 'tricked-out' might have been
overselling it a little bit.
But this pony does have one really cool trick up its sleeve.
It's super efficient- in a full blown gaming scenario,
this bad boy will draw only about a hundred watts.
Remember when a hundred watts only powered
a frickin' light bulb?
We achieved this using a combination of
careful hardware selection and software tuning,
starting with our power supply.
This fanless unit from Seasonic
is 80 Plus Titanium certified for efficiency
and can output a total of 700 watts.
Not that we need that,
but it's gonna help us manage our thermals.
More on that later.
For our CPU, we've gone with an Intel 12th gen-
(mumbling)
- yeah, hold on, before you freak out, 12100,
actually super efficient and capable gaming CPU.
Then for our GPU, it was a tight race
between the RTX 3050 and the Radeon 6,500 XT
At stock, it was an easy win for team green,
but like our CPU, which is under-volted
to maximize performance per wat running an offset
of minus 80 millivolts, our GPU needs to be tuned
since that's the most power-hungry component in our system.
And what we found was that 1800 megahertz
at 825 millivolts is a great sweet spot
for playable 1080P gaming while just sipping power.
And the 3050 just edged out the 6,500 XT.
Every unnecessary motherboard port was disabled in the bios
including removing the wifi module outright.
I mean, what, are you gonna connect to the hotspot
at Starbucks in a post-apocalyptic world?
And finally, the stock fans in this old Antech 900 V2
draw a whopping six watts each.
So we took their power leads, coiled them up
and replaced them with some nice, efficient Noctuas.
We've got one in our NHD15 cooler, and a second
up in the top of the case,
which is hopefully gonna be enough to cool
not only our system, but also
our burial enclosure.
Let's talk about that.
(thump)
For the ultimate in protection from the elements
and concealment from looters and brigands,
we determined that burying our gaming system
would be the best course of action.
We settled on a truckbed toolbox
for a couple of main reasons.
One is that it's made of aluminum,
meaning that this will never rust,
and two at only 150 Canadian dollars,
this is just one of the most economical ways
to get your hands on a large,
weather resistant enclosure.
(thumping)
You can fit so much PC in there.
Is there a safety release for this?
This side gets our gaming PC.
We could have 3D printed a bracket or something
to hold it in place, but we didn't. So, uh.
(firmly) Stay. Stay. Good boy.
(sound of dog barking)
On the other side, ah, yes,
this is how we are going to stay entirely
self-sufficient for power.
The Explorer 2000 Pro can easily handle the load
of both our PC and our monitor, and-
(object hitting the floor)
- A maximum of 2200 watts sustained,
4400 Watts peak.
And the second we plug in one of Jackery's solar panels
it turns from a power station into...
a solar generator.
Now, obviously we need to run Jackery's cables
along with their little consolidation boxes here,
outside. 'Cuz we're not gonna get
a whole lot of sun underground.
So for that, we've actually modified our box
with these two gooseneck vents.
These will help us get air in and out
as well as cables in and out
without risking any water seeping into our enclosure.
That would be an extremely bad time.
This is not a water cooled setup.
Of course, to be air cooled,
we're gonna need cooling fans.
So we're adding another...
Rah!
(laughter) Woo! There it goes.
- of our Noctua industrial PPC fans.
This time directly to the vent on the other side.
So intake over on that side
exhaust over here next to our PC.
Now we need a dig site, and this is a big decision
because as much as I'd love to just chill
on a lawn chair in my backyard, playing video games
if the zombies are wandering around
they're gonna find me like that.
So I would like to hide out in the basement of my house
which means I need a spot where I can easily
trench my way back to the interior of the building.
Fortunately, the previous owners of this house
plumbed the mechanical room for pool equipment
running these PVC pipes out to the backyard.
Unfortunately these are not the other ends of them,
and we have no idea where they go.
Eeny, meeny, miney, marde.
One one of these is in my yard.
Aw, stinks. What the hell?
Here we go. Ooh, look at that.
Let's see you do camera work like that, David.
Goodness. We're gonna be able to see up my nose.
Ooh. Oh, nice.
I'm reeling it. It tells us how deep we are.
Oh, I haven't shown you guys the coolest trick yet.
Where's the divining rod?
We power up this boy. The Navi track!
(imitating electronic noises)
(beeping)
Okay. And then now, see that?
You can see the end of the thing. Eh?
Wait, are you sure it turns?
Well, how do we go around the corner?
Really? How do we get it to...
I'd like you to bend, please.
(comical voice) Oh, okay, sure. I'll try.
(saw grinding)
This fish stick... is wet.
I think I'll wash my hands
before eating any more of my hot dog.
I think it's actually this spring
kind of catching on the ridge.
We have an idea to kind of bend it around
that first turn.
10 feet... 30 feet.
That's far enough to reach outside, right?
What is it?
73 feet.
(knocking) That's the end. Let's go find it.
They've told me at the shop that aside from lining
up the crosshair, I want this number as high as possible.
Why did the contractors tell me
this was so hard? It's right here.
I mean, I guess we have to actually dig
and see if it is in back there.
(tractor noises)
♪ Digging like a man, digging like a man. ♪
Fast as I can.
We're locked in here, boys. Aw, yeah.
Pretty sure I got at least, like, two rocks.
Where'd my mark go?
This is, um... very tough soil.
♪ He's diggin' like a man. ♪
Aw, yeah, we're getting in there!
There's a good one, boys!
Aw, yes.
Okay. Wanna divining rod me?
Three feet deep? What the...
Okay. How are you doing?
Is this the right spot now, at least?
Foot and a half.
Whoa, there's a good one.
Whoa, Nellie. She's a buckin' Bronco.
Oh, there it is.
Okay. Can I have a shovel?
Oh, there's- they're all here.
All my friends are here.
Wait, is this too many?
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.
Hold on. Hold on, no, no.
This one over here seems to be more irrigation.
Yeah, that means the extra foot that way.
(whirring)
Oh my God. This soil is atrocious.
How was this a garden?
Curse this... beautifully insulated
water bottle from Lttstore.com.
My ice that I put in it earlier.
It's not melting. Thirsty.
We don't have any plumbing tools
cuz I'm not a plumber.
But what I am is the world's worst woodsman.
Ready? Here we go.
How you doing? Do-do-do-do-do.
This is awesome. These things are so cool.
Who says tech has to be computer tech?
I can use these other ones for like whatever, right?
I mean, hell, they need power out there.
So I'll be like, hey, by the way,
couldn't help doing your job for you.
The context for that is that I asked the contractors
over a year ago to find out where these go.
And they're like, oh, very complicated.
Woo! I have tied my display port cable to my snake.
Ugh. And now I'm gonna tie everything else that I need.
We should definitely run that piece of string.
So I don't need to go rent a $300 snake
if I ever need to run anything through here again.
Now I'm assured this works
but I've never actually tried it.
We've taken a standard momentary PC power switch
and then soldered it into a hundred feet of speaker wire.
(thump)
All right, Callanan. Let's do it!
Keep going. Nice and slow.
I'll call out stop if you need to stop.
Keep hauling!
This is freaking awesome.
I got a wired up yard.
This would've been a way, way, better path
to the water cooling for the walls of the pool.
It's right there.
And then the whole thing would've just been underground.
Okay. There it is.
Power switch, optical display port,
fiber optic USB.
Time to finish burying the PC.
(grunt)
Now we just gotta run our cables into the box.
Obviously we don't want the excess
just sitting in the ground.
We just get our PC in here.
Ah, and you guys are sure this is gonna work,
hey, the power switch?
Hey, thanks (mumbling) cool orange power cable- whoop.
There we go.
I am a huge fan of these
fiber optic USB extenders from Icron.
They can do USB3 USB2 and USB1
over a single, just, run of the mill fiber optic cable.
Now I wanna do a test
before we actually lower it all the way into the hole.
We've got it braced across the hole right now.
So we got our webcam with a ring light in here.
I'm just gonna put that right there
so we can keep an eye on what our power input is
from our solar panels
and our output to our gaming rig.
Also, before we bury this whole thing
we'd like to do a quick test
of our solar power generation capabilities
but the sun has kind of gone down already.
So we're gonna play into our whole apocalyptic narrative
and say, well, there's probably a cloud
of particulate matter in the sky
causing permanent overcasts.
Let's see how much power we can generate.
These things are legit super cool.
Sponsored talking points aside,
my dad uses one of these Jackery
solar generators at their off grid cabins.
So he charges up his sleep apnea machine during the day.
And then at night he runs his machine,
charge, all their phones,
do all that good stuff, rinse and repeat.
Go, go that way as much as we can, hey?
Hey, because we might as well be in the sun... a little.
Aw, damn it.
I'm making it worse, not better.
Get the (bleep) out of the way, kickstand.
Oh... it appears to be full.
Also, how'd all this dirt get on the computer?
(blowing)
Alright, post-apocalyptic gamers.
Are you ready?
This better work.
If it doesn't work, then I don't know what we're gonna do.
(tapping)
Okay. Well that's good,
because that's relatively simple to solve.
So let's just give her a re-plug.
Okay, hit it again.
Ah! Oh my God, there's a rock in the fan.
Ah, ah! Looks like we would need to explore
some kind of relay system to have
a fully functional power switch.
In the meantime, let's see if at least our cooling works.
I don't know that these are necessarily
the games that I would've put
on an offline-only forever PC.
Counterstrike Global Offensive, Rocket League,
Halo Infinite- (laughing)
Anyone else feeling that you'd probably be
the coolest guy in post-apocalypticville?
If you had a gaming PC?
Either that or the deadest guy.
Man, why are we settling for pie settings here?
We could do more, 120 FPS-
with that said, even though it's running
at this frame rate I can definitely feel
that the frame pacing is not super even,
and that's gonna be in no small part
thanks to our under-voltage GPU.
This is not a 3050 at its best.
Wow. We were at 132 watts.
We fell all the way down to 85 watts here.
Not too bad!
We are running Windows in low power mode.
How much of a difference that makes, mm, I don't know.
Jake said it made a difference.
I didn't validate it. (chuckle)
How are we doing for temps?
Oh my God. This is not problematic at all.
We're at like 50 degrees on our GPU.
Freakin' awesome!
Also we are still not getting any input
from our solar panels.
I guess because we are too charged.
We might have to shoot a quick pickup to see
how much power we can generate
with the solar generator part of our generator.
Either way, this was it.
The prepper PC. Did it make perfect sense?
Probably not so much, but darn it.
We had an awful lot of fun making it.
Shout-out Jackery for sponsoring this video
and you for watching it.
It's time for me to play some Doom Eternal-
It's the end of the world!