- I'm already kind of regretting the poop storm
that is going to envelop the comments under this video.
We don't normally get political,
but I cannot say the same about the recipient
of the gaming PC we are about to build.
(breaking glass sound) (screams)
HasanAbi is a self-described, full blooded socialist
and that is not even close to the most controversial thing
about this particular figure.
With a resume that features dating adult film stars,
and beating Dark Souls 3 in the same paragraph.
He's one of the more [Radio Feedback]
colorful characters in the online gaming world.
Our goal is to build a PC that truly aligns
with HasanAbi's values. [Laughter]
I think we nailed it.
It's called Big Red and ironically,
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[Upbeat accordion intro Music]
As we begin unboxing our, by the way, I love the theme,
all red components for the build today.
Let's talk about who the hell HasanAbi Piker is.
He's a journalist termed Twitch streamer
who started his career working for the digital news network,
The Young Turks.
He's also the co-host of H3H3's new political podcast,
Leftovers, alongside the hairline king, Ethan Klein.
Hasan streams north of 8 hours, almost every single day
and garners north of 35,000 concurrent viewers daily.
Making him one of the top streamers on the platform,
which means that he needs a PC
with the same work ethic that he has.
Oh my God!, this motherboard weighs, like, 10 pounds.
Are we gonna acknowledge the irony of
a self-described socialist having the kind of swag
that you can only achieve through capitalist means?
[Voice Off screen] He also says, you know, "Hey,
just tax the hell out of me".
- Was ASUS like, "we know who this is
and we want to provide cool stuff"?
[Voice Off screen] I was like, Hey,
can you give me a Strix X570 board? and they're like,
we only have this board, I was like, okay.
- This thing has everything, Wifi 6E.
It's got Thunderbolt! 10 gig and tuner half gig networking?
[Voice Off screen] Five and two port.
- The board's probably worth more than the chip.
This is truly the Cadillac of boards
for a dead end platform.
Enough Jibber Jabber though, let's
start getting this thing built.
When I asked Hasan what he wanted,
he basically said a balling ass PC.
So we didn't hold back.
That's a Ryzen 9 5950X, 16 core processor.
That's right, if he was dumb enough
to use his CPU for encoding, rather than his GPU,
he would have all the cores that he needs for it.
And for our RAM, we naturally went
with some Crucial Ballistix, red. [Laughter]
Its 3,600 mega transfers per second, C16 and a 32 gig kit.
So plenty of room for upgrading in the future.
Did we pay for this hardware?
[Voice off screen] Yup.
- Wow. Whew. Okay, go ahead and cut for a second.
- (voice off screen) Tax the rich!. [TV Signal Beep]
- Was that the joke, Colin?
[Colin] No, but it is now.
- Cause you know, he could afford it just fine himself,
right? I'm sweating right now, this is higher end hardware
than I would put in my own PC if I was paying for it,
Let alone some guy I've never met.
Thank goodness, we went with the 970 EVO.
Can't believe I just bought a millionaire a 16 core CPU.
It's side panel graphic. [Laughter]
Let's get the cooler on first, actually.
Nothing more democratic than air cooling.
Although this cooler says, I wanna cool your CPU.
This cooler says, eliminate all student debt.
The cool our CPU. [Laughter]
HasanAbi's got enough cores,
he can afford to share a few of them.
I did all of this in completely the wrong order.
Keep trying to put the whole thing together,
Then put it on the CPU socket
and that keeps not being how it works.
- I am once again asking.
- For you to take apart your CPU cooler before
you try and mount it to the board.
What would you call a movie about the
movement to occupy a dead socialists house?
[Colin] I don't Know.
- Weekend at Bernie's.
- [All] aaaaaahhh
- It's terrible, I know.
[Colin] What happens when you don't use fans
in a socialist computer? It gets Bernie.
- Oh my God.
- [Bernie Sanders] I am so proud.
- Let's keep moving here, let's get through this.
Wow!. This thing looks freaking sick.
Little mark on here says Medicare for all?
Wow, it really is red. There's no mark on that.
but there's Marx. [Laughter] Gotta built in IO shield.
I don't really see anything in the way.
Let's go for it here. (Breaking sound) (Yells)
Does this board even have a center ATX mounting hole?
- (Voice off screen) I am once again,
asking you to take off the CPU.
- No, I will not. You know what?
I think we're going to make it.
It's going to be a little forced though.
Look, you want the highest quality, you need capitalism.
If we're all getting paid the same,
why would we care if we do a good job?
I'm sorry, Colin, what exactly was
left-wing about our power supply here?
[Colin] It's Thor,
- (Voice off screen) Thor has both a hammer and an Axe.
[Colin] yeah, yeah.
- (Voice off screen) Like a sickle.
- Yeah, because of the side mounted
24 pin here, I gotta push this. Oh, okay.
I got to push it out a little bit.
And then I'm going to have to kind of wrench it down by
screwing that piece in, this is really bad.
Oh my God, this is really tight.
[Colin] It's what you get on a Monday at
the lot of factory, not on a Friday.
- I love the way that NZXT just pre-cables everything up.
I mean, why would you need to do something your own way?
One way should be good enough for everyone.
[Colin] Be more like Stalin, be stoic.
- (voice off screen) Be like Stalin
and kill all of your advisors.
- and Photoshop them out of your
pictures with your powerful computer. Oh man.
[Colin] You know, we've never got to
joke about politics on this channel.
- I know, I'm making up for so much lost time here.
I swear, it's more fun for me
than it is for you guys cause I got no skin in the game.
To be clear, I'm rooting for America.
They're our big, burly neighbor to the south.
We don't exactly get along too great without them.
I just mean like, you know, the daily
outrage is not so much a part of my life.
[Blast of classical Music]
I'm sorry. Are you here to help?
You know what? If he wanted a good computer,
he would support privatized computer building and he would
just make more money and get a better computer.
Put that there, side panels closed.
(hand banging closed side panel)
Oh, we left something out, our graphics card.
The reddest thing yet,
our MSI, Gaming X Trio, AMD Radion, RX 6,900, XT.
All joking aside, this build is kind of sick,
good thing it has free health care. [Laughter]
I love that this is like a square foot of VHB tape.
This thing is never coming off the front.
It's kind of how it works. Right?
What you get is what you get. If it's a little
bit crooked, well, should've gone capitalism.
[Colin] a little bit right, Nope, too right, no.
- Oh, we need it a little bit left.
[Colin] Yeah, there you go, a little left.
Let's have it close enough that
it looks like we were trying to center it.
If you were wondering if it's on there, the answer is yes.
I feel like I shouldn't have to say this,
but I saw some concerned comments on Twitter.
Linus media group and Linus Sebastian, the person,
in no way condone the actions of the Soviet Union.
And also, I don't actually recommend eating rich people.
What's our final hardware mod?
[Colin] Well, you've got to make it lean left.
I mean have you seen the guys streams?
You need to go pretty far.
- Okay. We're going far, we're going far left here.
[Laughter] It's the left leaning PC, get it?
All right, let's get it fired up.
We've got some software mods. I really don't
know why I agreed to build this.
Truthfully, I didn't actually look into them very closely.
[Colin] Didn't even read the Wiki?
- No, what's on the Wiki?
- Not savory stuff.
- Oh, yeah.
I mean, at least it's not very good.
We're really not going to send him the feet?
(Colin) No!
- All right, I support this.
Anyone out there need these feet?
(triumphant cymbals clash)
[Russian National Anthem ]
Eat the rich, all lower case?
(Colin) all lower case
- Am I rich enough to eat me?
Does this happen every time you boot it up?
[Colin] Technically, yes. But it runs for 90 seconds.
- 90 seconds?
[Colin] Well you've got to get the whole song in.
- And I guess it couldn't have had any more resolution.
This was deemed to be sufficient resolution?
(Colin) Yes
- I mean, if you wanted more resolution,
you'd need capitalism to breed innovation.
[Colin] Absolutely.
Oh my God, are we really going to sit
through this whole thing and I've borked it.
Oh my God, this is already horrible to use.
[Colin] Okay. So to do this correctly,
- Let's not tell him how to do it.
[Colin] No, no, no, no, no.
We're going to cut this from the video.
- Oh my God. This wallpaper though. (laughing)
Apparently, there's a nice little
treat for me bound to the keyboard,
so let's fire up a browser.
What's the thing that I should-
[Colin] Linusmediagroup.com?
- Oh, very funny. Every time you type A, it types, AOC.
[Colin] I almost forgot, when this PC boots,
it automatically donates a moderate amount of its power.
- Okay, so as long as HasanAbi has
no idea how to disable that, he will be
donating some of the CPU cycles that otherwise
he would have been able to keep for himself.
That's the right thing to do, right?
Wow. Colin, that's not really moderate CPU use is it.
This thing is trucking 95% CPU usage.
There's a joke in the script about feeling the burn,
because Bernie, I love this.
His CPU is going to be pinned at 100% all the time.
Unless he watches the video and knows what we did.
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