- Hey guys, this is Austin.
This was not my finest work.
Now, less than $300, it is a powerful computer.
However, it leaves a little bit to be desired,
which is why today, I'm going to be fixing it.
Well, actually not today.
I have one more thing I need to do first.
- [Pilot] Welcome to Australia.
The local time here in Sydney is 18 minutes past.
(upbeat music)
- Asus recently sponsored my trip out to Australia
where I got to attend the launch
of the ZenBook Pro Duo.
It's very loud here!
I did a full video on this a couple months ago,
but it is ridiculous.
Not only do you have a 4K OLED,
but you also have a secondary display right below that.
Both screens support touch,
and since Windows sees a dual-screen setup,
everything just kind of works.
You can throw your editor across both displays
or have tons of notes open at once.
I mean, these ScreenPad Plus is seriously legit.
Inside, it's rocking, well, pretty much everything,
including a Core i9 processor, RTX 2060, WiFi 6,
Thunderbolt 3, you name it.
So if you're interested
in one of the coolest laptops of the year,
definitely be sure to check out the ZenBook Pro Duo
in the description.
And huge thank you to ASUS
for having me out for their event.
All right, so we are back at Micro Center
to do a few upgrades.
Yo. - Welcome back.
- Thanks man, appreciate it. - Good to see you, man.
- So I think number one thing I wanna do
is get a slightly better board.
'Cause last time, I went with A320.
I was thinking like maybe an ASUS B450.
- I know I got the B450M-A right here.
- Oh okay, the Prime boards, I like these.
Okay cool. - What else?
We got your board. - Easy.
Board, so maybe we should go to power supply.
- Possibly, yes.
Which power supply did we get last time?
- [Austin] Don't worry about it, it's fine.
- [Cody] Is it doing okay?
I got the EVGA right here on sale.
- Love it, done. - For $39.99.
- That is so much better. - 500 watts, all power.
- Honestly, I think that 590 actually
might be the best call. - Best call?
- I mean $180, yeah, let's do it.
- I do like this one a lot, this is the Q300L.
- I love the front of that. - Yeah, that's sweet man.
- [Cody] It's actually mesh so you can dust it out easy.
- Yeah. - It's just a metal front.
Put that back on.
- I feel like the only thing that's missing,
and I can't believe I'm about to say this.
- RGB? - RGB.
- [Ken and Cody] RGB!
- Do you have like a couple strips
that we can easily add to the top and the bottom?
- Let's take a look.
So that guy's only $15.99. - Okay.
Oh it's magnetic. - Exactly.
- [Ken] Oh, no need for adhesive.
- I've never used a magnetic RGB strip.
Now I think we have everything we need
to rebuild my worst gaming PC ever.
- [Ken] Wait, I got something though.
- What, oh no.
Wait, where are you going?
Oh no.
Ken, stop.
- RGB mount, oh no. - Oh no (laughs).
- Oh no (laughs).
I don't know if I should be saying oh no or oh yes.
You don't get the full grasp--
- [Ken] Until you actually see it.
Oh yeah, there it is.
We can make the PC case blue like RGB.
- Oh no, oh, I regret everything now.
This is supposed to be about fixing my worst PC build,
not ruining it even further.
- Ruining it? - How is this ruining?
- I feel like I'm getting out numbered right now.
- [Ken] I like him.
(everybody laughs)
- And so it is time to upgrade my worst gaming PC ever.
So if you guys are not familiar with this build,
well I mean it's not bad for the price.
I mean we've got a Ryzen 5 1600.
Perfectly respectable six core processor.
We got GT 1030, little bit on the weaker side.
As well as we got like a 120 gig SSD.
My main issue with this system is that,
well, it doesn't have a case.
It has a detonator.
And also the power supply is questionable at best.
So let's do a little fixing shall we?
And by fixing I mean,
forget that this is what it used to look like.
I'm going to make it look much better now.
So with everything we're looking at about $600
including all of our RGB accessories.
Not too bad considering that I think this
should be a much less explodey looking computer.
(laughing)
I forgot how lightweight this thing was.
It literally weighs nothing.
That can stay over there.
- [Ken] Take this.
I'm just gonna throw this in the garbage.
Where it belongs.
- So with that we have our Ryzen 1600x processor.
Now this is not the most powerful chip in the world.
However, we only paid $80 for this
and at that kind of price it's actually not that bad.
So first thing thing I'm gonna do
is start getting our new board together.
Look at that.
What an excellent thermal paste application.
And so, easy as that, we've got ourselves
an upgraded motherboard.
Next, let's toss in the,
are you on your phone while you're filming?
- Yeah. - Are you literally
one-handing the camera so you can like browse Twitter.
Are you on the Roboraptor account or something?
- [Ken] I got DM's so I needed to check that.
- You got DM's?
Well, I'm making a video right here.
I don't know if you noticed, this is real work, not DM's.
- [Ken] Yeah, this just all looks the same to me.
We did this once already.
- Now we did opt to stick with the same eight gigs
of RAM from the last system.
Mostly for budget reasons.
This was pretty cheap and it is super easy
to upgrade this guy to 16 gigs when we need it.
But at least for what we're doing right now
this should be plenty of an upgrade.
Also, especially for a build like this,
I just like going with like a slightly smaller case.
It doesn't really make sense to waste a ton of room
on your desk when you can have something
a little bit cleaner.
Oh dude look at this!
Look how much room we have for cable management back here.
- [Ken] Oh look at that, you can tuck in your mess.
- Man, do you know what the funny part is?
I went through all the hassle
of building that stupid mining case.
This is only like $10 or $15 more.
- [Ken] Probably should've just done that instead.
- I should have just done this from the beginning, man.
I think all of these are mounting holes.
- Wait, what? - I can put it up and down
in any orientation.
Dude, this is such a clever design.
So we'll leave the fan there for right now.
Next let's go ahead and put the power supply in.
I didn't even notice, it's actually, it's sunk.
Wait, what?
It's like sunk in, that's weird.
Look, so when I actually mount the power supply.
Oh, wait is there a bracket?
No.
What?
- [Ken] No, that's a--
- [Austin] Oh you know what, because it's not flush here,
so you have to, right?
- It's not, yeah. - I think the power supply
has to be sunk in a little bit, right?
That's gonna be the final. - Yeah that's it, yeah.
- Oh I don't about that.
That's weird.
Okay yeah, that's the first thing
I don't like about this case.
Oh no, wait.
Is that (sighs).
Do you have to take the PCI covers out
before you put in the motherboard?
That's really dumb.
Wait, let me see if I can do it the lazy way.
- [Ken] Looks like it's barely clearing.
- No it's like scraping the side of the board.
Don't try this at home ever.
There we go.
That's how to fix it.
Just bend it the other direction.
So at this point we have pretty much
all of our components in the case.
Our Ryzen 5 1600.
Eight gigs of RAM, the RX 590.
As well as our B450 motherboard.
The 256 gig NVMe SSD.
The 120 gig SATA SSD.
As well as our 500W power supply.
And now really it's just time to do some cable management
and start thinking about how we're going to run our RGB.
(upbeat music)
Wait, what are you doing?
Wait, wait, what did you, wait, what is that?
What are you doing?
- Don't worry about it. - What is that?
- Look, I set the colors appropriately.
- [Austin] I asked you to finish the RGB.
What are you doing?
- I made the colors really great and I'm like I had an idea.
We color matched everything.
It's like Miku colors, got Miku figure.
We got our very awesome mouse pad
from the wonderful Micro Center.
- [Austin] They are not sponsoring this video.
- They are not sponsoring this video
but they let us shoot there again.
Thank you.
And we also got this mousepad.
Which I needed everything to match
so we made everything match.
(Austin groans)
- So while Ken's over here tuning his RGB
and playing with his little figures,
I have gotten the PC all set up and ready.
So I was able to do a little bit of tuning.
It's not really pushed all that hard
but I was able to overclock the Ryzen 5 to 3.9 on all cores.
I was able to overclock not only the memory
but also the core frequency of the GPU.
We're getting somewhere about 10% more CPU performance
and about 15% GPU performance compared to stock.
And the nice thing is before you put a figure in my way,
everything was running nice and cool.
But now my airflow is impacted by that.
- [Ken] There's a significant amount of volume in there
for air to flow still. - You're literally blocking.
It's like almost directly in front of the CPU.
- No, it's fine. - I don't know why you,
I left you alone for like five minutes.
- It's fine. - I'm just gonna
finish up the RGB. - It's fine.
- It's almost touching the fan.
- [Ken] Here, here, here, here, I got it, I got it.
Okay so that didn't work for you.
Alternatively, just put it there.
- [Austin] That's better.
Not blocking my airflow that I've so carefully overclocked.
- It's fine.
You're thinking about it too hard.
- [Austin] Well, actually I will say,
from the front, it does look pretty cool.
- [Ken] No, actually, no, real talk though.
- [Austin] It actually does look pretty cool.
- With the LEDs that we put in here, you can actually
see them a little bit through the mesh design which is nice.
This is a great case.
Really, really good case.
- Now that the Fortnite apocalypse is over,
let's see how it runs here.
So one of the nice things about this
is that not only do we have that six core processor,
but the RX 590 is not a bad card especially for 1080p.
We should have no problems.
And because we're using a 1440p FreeSync monitor,
we can actually get a little bit higher than that.
Look, it's the Rewind video.
I'm happy that there's a new Fortnite map
'cause that means that everyone else
is just as clueless as I am.
Okay so right now, we are getting 1440p
at like 45 frames per second.
So I probably wanna lower things a little bit
but because we're using a FreeSync monitor,
it actually looks pretty nice.
Let me just quickly bump that down.
1440p high and we're getting pretty much 60fps.
Chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug.
Oh no.
Wait, I don't wanna go down here.
I just need to kill someone with my super cool PC.
That way, everyone will know just how cool I am.
What?
I can hide.
Yo, what?
This is great.
I'm just gonna hide in dumpsters in Fortnite from now on.
I made it so far and I still haven't found anyone.
This is great.
Come on, fish.
- There you go, get him. - No, I don't like it.
I've actually never made it this far in a Fortnite match.
- [Ken] Well you gotta confront him.
- [Austin] Do I though?
- [Ken] Yeah, you gotta put the pressure.
- [Austin] What if everyone just dies?
- [Ken] You gotta put the pressure.
No, don't shoot the wall.
Okay, yeah there you go.
There ya go, you got him.
Yeah, there ya go. - Yeah, what, what?
- Woo! - Did I just kill someone
in Fortnite, and there's only eight people left?
- [Ken] Well, pay attention to the screen,
and let's see if you can get your chicken dinner,
or whatever the Fortnite equivalent is.
(Austin hums)
- [Austin] Don't mind me, I'm just healing in a corner.
- [Ken] Oh, there you go.
(Austin cheers) Wow.
- Yeah!
What's up, what's up?
No you don't, no you don't.
Yeah!
What?
Why is everyone bad right now?
This is great.
What the hell is going on? - Are these bots?
- There are only three people left right now.
No!
Damn!
I got multiple kills.
I was third place, do you see that?
I've never even gotten like top 10 before.
I've gotten like one kill max.
I got three kills in third place.
Yeah, yeah, what's up?
- Congrats. - I'm gonna be like the kids.
- Jesus Christ (groans). - No, it's like.
Is this it?
Wait, no, you gotta do the leg thing, right?
- [Ken] (groans) Nope.
Nope.
Nope, hard no.
- Look I was gonna play some more games
but I think this really all you need to know
about the wonderful PC that has come
from the ashes of, well, this.
It was a questionable decision.
It was something that didn't work well
but thankfully it's been fixed entirely
and because of it, Fortnite is now back.
You're welcome, everyone.
Thank you very much
for watching this episode of Austin Fixes (bleep)
that he shouldn't have done in the first place.
- That's the video? - Yeah, I think that's it.