- Welcome my friends to a very special episode
of BROKE vs PRO.
As you can see our fine sponsor Micro Center is
currently undergoing a massive amount of construction
so much so that I've got myself lost
in this store twice already this morning,
but we have a simple challenge.
Today, I am going to be building a gaming laptop setup
to go head to head with none other
than Mr. Ken Bolido's gaming desktop.
Wait till you see the end of this video what I got planned.
All right, I've already scouted it out.
I know exactly where I'm going.
- [Ken] All right, show me.
- I am feeling confident
because after the last couple of times
where there were some, some shenanigans,
when it came to the judging.
(beep)
- I'm giving this one to Austin.
- Yes. BROKE vs PRO champion of the world.
- You act like you've been there before.
I'm giving this one to Ken now.
- I have a foolproof plan,
thanks to our kind sponsors at Micro Center.
The Micro Center Platinum Collection.
Ken, do you know
what the Micro Center PLATINUM COLLECTION is?
My secret weapon.
Ryzen 5 5800H, we've got 16 gigs of RAM, 512 SSD
and a 3050 Ti with 144 Hz Display.
- You mean to tell me that he's just getting a laptop really
for BROKE vs PRO.
You have to shop through Micro Center like that from now on.
And now it is my turn.
Austin might have the Micro Center PLATINUM COLLECTION,
but I might have something up my sleeve.
Maybe this is the episode where I actually try to up you
in value at least a little bit.
- [Austin] Price performance?
- Maybe? Maybe?
- [Austin] I would recommend a Core i9. This is-
- [Ken] No, no. You know what-
- [Austin] A 100% ROI on that.
- I'm going to start my build with the Ryzen 5 5600H.
- [Austin] Wow. So revolutionary Ken.
No one's ever used a Ryzen 5 in a build before.
- So what Ken doesn't realize right now
is that there is a very affordably priced,
11th gen Core i5 11400, which-
- [Ken] 11400? Really? Cool. Let's go.
- [Austin] Oh, no. What are you doing? No.
- I don't know if Austin knows how sound works,
but he just went to the next aisle and started spewing out
some secrets that he probably shouldn't have told me.
It's kinda crazy that he shills Micro Center to the point
where he actually just helps the competition,
but a W is a W.
Alright, well, I hope it's a W.
That's a whole $100 cheaper and save $20
with an eligible motherboard. Oooh.
- [Austin] Motherboards you say, I happen to see a few of...
Why am I helping you?
- Look, the Micro Center shill will always shill
inside the store too.
You're gonna give me the best deal because that's your job.
- [Austin] (laughs)
- Austin keeps going on and on and on
about this Micro Center PLATINUM COLLECTION
with its awesome line of laptops.
So I'm gonna make my own, make my own collection,
the KEN COLLECTION.
B4, that's a really cheap board.
- [Austin] That seems like a perfectly reasonable choice.
- $109 is in my strike zone.
- [Austin] Actually, that's (indistinct).
- I think the KEN COLLECTION needs a little bit
of brand consistency and it just so happens that
Micro Center has MSI cases as well.
So if I have an MSI board, I might as well get an MSI case.
What else does MSI sell?
- [Austin] A power splice?
- Look at you.
- [Austin] I can't help myself, I'm being helpful.
- 650 watts should probably do me good. Right?
The KEN COLLECTION endorses mystic light,
the best RGB solution for your PC (indistinct).
- [Austin] The KEN COLLECTION seems like
you just saw the MSI badge and just bought everything.
And then you're like, cool I'm done.
- Look, the KEN COLLECTION is very different
from the collection that Ken actually wants.
The KEN COLLECTION is things that everyone can afford.
And the thing that Ken wants is just
what's the most expensive thing.
Sort lists of products by most expensive.
- [Austin] This is branding makes no common sense.
- I'll figure it out and post.
- [Austin] Josh is just gonna go select all
and delete your entire section.
- Probably will actually. This is probably gonna be
like two seconds.
- [Austin] It should be two seconds-
- Josh is probably gonna cut me mid-
All right. So I have the KEN COLLECTION of PC goodies.
Oh, this doesn't count in the budget, but I bought us.
- [Austin] Wait, what? Go ahead.
- I bought us a label maker for the office.
- [Austin] Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
This doesn't count towards your budget.
What do you need a label maker for?
Oh God. Do I need to ask?
Are you making KEN COLLECTION stickers?
- Actually. Yeah. What else would I-
- [Austin] How much was the label maker?
This goes against your budget.
Whoa, what does that sticker say? $49.99.
You just crushed off the $100 mark.
Well, Micro Center has great deals,
but they're not that great
- Are you gonna tell them that
or is that gonna make it in the video, Austin?
- [Austin] That Micro Center has excellent deals,
but not a $100 off.
- I heard Micro Centers is not back great,
is what I heard from-
- [Austin] Whoa, whoa, whoa, selective hearing friend.
- That is very vertical.
- [Austin] That is very vertical. That's a weird shape,
but that actually is pretty cool.
- [Ken] I don't hate it.
- [Austin] Yeah. I hate it. It's terrible.
It's not as good as my laptop.
- You haven't even opened your laptop yet.
Let's see, what should I start with the motherboard
because why not?
- [Austin] Because you watched our
2021 gaming PC build tutorial.
- [Ken] No, I'm not (indistinct).
- [Austin] Whoa. Wow.
Have you ever seen a motherboard board before?
So this is where you put your CPU.
- No, Austin. I've seen a motherboard before.
This is really odd though.
- [Austin] Hey Ken?
- Yeah.
- [Austin] There's one very key difference
between Anton and AMD processors.
Do you know what it is?
- Oh, you have to shave off the pins. (laughs)
- [Austin] Jared approves of this.
Ken, you spend too much time on Tik Tok?
Ah, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
- [Ken] What? What? I'm doing right.
- [Austin] That's (indistinct) aggressive my friend.
Are you sure that's safe? I don't know.
- Arrow. Arrow. It's right there.
So just put this down, right?
And then boom. And this thing will pop off. Right?
That's very tight, whoa. Wow, maybe I did that wrong
or right. We'll find out.
- [Austin] So much confidence, man.
- The next thing I gotta install the power supply and then-
- [Austin] Knock, knock. The secret weapon is here, friends.
This is exactly what I need
to complete my ultimate gaming setup.
If you recall there was an episode of BROKE vs PRO last year
where Ken built a set up in a box.
Well today,
I've got a better box.
I may or may not be recycling this from my setup last time
on BROKE vs PRO.
I'm gonna use it as an F1 cockpit.
- [Ken] Wait, this was my setup.
- No, I used it last time.
This is where I built my setup on last time.
- [Ken] But it was for my monitor.
(upbeat music)
- So I'm going to start painting.
- [Ken] Oh, we're going to be here all day.
Oh, my God. You're not even masking anything.
- [Austin] What's-
- [Ken] Dude, you just put paint on the edge, dude.
(upbeat music)
- Welcome my friends to the judging day,
of BROKE vs PRO aka the day that Austin redeems himself
from the tragedy that was the last episode.
- Are you proud of this paint job?
- Absolutely. It's the best paint job I've ever had.
Whoa, whoa, no, no, no. Okay, okay.
Look, I was trying to be environmentally friendly
and only use the amount of paint that I needed to.
So we're just gonna put this right back here.
- I understand the whole painting one side
because you're lazy, but I'm getting confused,
if you're going for the whole Formula One NASCAR theme,
I see you have one number on this side,
which is your actual number for the race. Right?
There's a completely different number over here.
- Wait, what?
- Yeah.
- I didn't do that one.
- Well, that's my point.
So now we're confusing the judges, the fans.
- [Austin] When it was shipped here, someone wrote 606 on-
- Right. So if I'm rooting for my favorite race car driver,
am I rooting for 606 or am I rooting for 3303?
- The fans are gonna have an identity crisis.
We can't have that.
- One of the other things that's kinda bugging me
is that this has wings.
So this is more of a flight (indistinct)-
- But usually-
- If you had rotated this,
before we drop everything on you.
- Oh.
- I feel like that right there-
- But that doesn't count though because you helped him.
- What laptop do we have here?
- So this is the ASUS TUF A15 from the PLATINUM COLLECTION.
Our fine sponsors of Micro Center have graciously provided
the world with a high quality laptop
for your gaming pleasure.
- Now, I actually do really like this.
It's gamery, but it's toned down.
I don't like it when it's like in your face gamery.
This looks really good.
- All right. So we have the KEN COLLECTION
of fine PC parts and accessories.
- So this is-
- Are you okay dude?
- I get what you were going with here,
but I am going to dock you points because this looks ugly.
- What are you talking about?
- This is not aesthetic. Here and here and then here.
- What?
- And at the bottom of the keyboard.
- Yeah.
- All right. I do like the inside. It's nice and minimal.
I like the subtle blue.
Again, I'm not a huge fan of rainbow RGB.
I know that's unpopular.
Hey, I'm the judge, you're not so.
I can't help, but notice that you somehow managed
to get the fan header cable stuck in front of your P2-
- What?
- Yeah.
- Wait. Really?
- Oh, what's that?
- So-
- Oh, wow.
- Oh, we'll just-
- No, no, no, no. We have to let that stay there
for when we get in (indistinct).
- I did not see that at all.
- Hang up. Judge, can I just point to something?
- Yeah, what do we got?
- Look at the orientation of those two fans on the AO
and how one is push and one is pull.
- [Ken] What?
- [Matt] Whoa, whoa, wait a minute. Oh wait.
- [Austin] I'm no PC expert. That seems (indistinct)
- [Ken] I was in a little bit of a rush here (indistinct).
- [Matt] What we're gonna do is you two are gonna game.
- Yeah.
- Yup.
- Then we're gonna take your (indistinct) scores,
your three mark scores.
And then I'm gonna judge you
on the aesthetic and creativity.
- Best of luck. Best of luck. Best of luck.
- Look, I'm just out here, if I win, I win.
If I lose, I lose.
We all know where this is gonna go.
I mean the graphics card, we know where it's gonna go,
but I know where the rest of the piece is gonna go.
And so either way I feel like I won. Are you okay?
- Yep. I'm fine.
I'm just preparing the winning system.
- [Ken] Whoa. Okay.
- [Austin] Look at that sweet 170 frames per second.
- [Ken] 200 And something.
- Wow. This screen is high quality.
All right. All right.
I gotta just be nice and calm here.
Nice, calm, and collected.
- All right. Let's go. Oh, come on. Yes.
Oh God, there's another one.
- Oh, what the hell? What the hell?
- Oh. Well, at least I'm on a second on the board,
so I mean we're good.
Oh, let's go. Okay.
- I'm three on four right now.
- Shots coming back. Okay. We're good.
What's great is that I think my MMR is still higher
than Austin's so I'm like-
- No.
- Oh, I just shot Austin. Hell, yeah.
And as per usual, I shot him in the back.
It's the only way to do it.
Let's go. Yo, I'm wrecking right now. (laugh)
All right. Well, that was a good streak though. I'll take.
- I will say my arm positioning for the mouse and keyboard.
Not great.
I'm a little high for (indistinct). That's fine.
- I can say that I'm very ergonomic here.
Even though I'm sitting on a bar stool.
My back definitely isn't happy right now, but okay.
- I'm just dying a lot.
- What's the... Okay, back to (indistinct).
Okay. Well we're all doing bad,
but Austin's doing worse and that's all that matters.
- How the (inaudible)
Bro, we gotta do this again.
- Oh
- Was that you? Was that you?
- That was me.
You killed me.
- I got you.
- I got Ken. I got Ken.
- Oh no, I lost.
Well, I won against Austin, but I lost the match.
- I lost everything.
- I got 36 Kills.
- Oh look, the game's over.
I can't see how many kills I got. It was almost 36, I think.
- Well, how much was it?
Because it does tell you at the end.
- 10.
- So I'm three times better than Austin.
- So, with how bad you just got beat,
I'm gonna go ahead and say,
you need to beat Ken by a minimum of three seconds in F1.
- So Ken's gotten off to a lead
and he's blown the apex by a mile.
- Oh my God. I can't-
- [Austin] Oh, I'm stalking him right now.
I'm just sizing him up,
waiting for him to miss another apex like that.
Because you are leaving me behind a little bit right now.
- Yeah, I know. Because now that I have my bearings
and know what's going on, I'm driving better.
- This is very bad.
Oh God. Oh God. I spotted 20 miles an hour.
Oh yeah. Thanks Jerry. Yeah, this feels very accurate.
Oh, (indistinct) I just pulled a half a second on you.
I'm catching back up.
All right. It's the last lap.
I'm still only a second behind you right now,
but I need you to make a mistake.
- (indistinct) You're like 1.2, what are you talking about?
Oh, this is not a good line.
- No, no.
- Yellow flag, Let's go. Yellow flag. Boys let's go.
- Okay, fine.
I'll give you the gaming section. I will concede that,
but price performance, creativity,
I might still have a shot here.
- So, we have our results in.
You got destroyed in the gaming section.
I don't feel like we need to spend a whole lot of time
talking about how you got destroyed in the gaming section.
- No, we're good.
- Ken, you destroyed Austin in the gaming section.
We really don't need to go into too much detail about badly-
- I agree. I definitely destroyed him in the gaming session.
- So next up we have price to performance.
So the formula that we use for price to performance
is we take GPU scores, we take the CPU scores,
we add them together.
We divide them by the cost of the systems.
Austin, you had a total of 18,728.
Ken, you had a total of 18,366.
And because yours was a cheaper overall system at $1,112,
you have a score of 16.8.
- Wait, how much was my build?
- Ken your build was a total of $1,483.
- Wow.
- So your score was 12.3. This was very close,
but the point goes to Austin on this one.
- I'll give that to him.
- So, we have aesthetics. I love laptops,
everything like that.
Look, I gotta be real. Ken, I'm sorry.
- What?
- But, if Austin had done this from the beginning,
instead of having me fix his crappy setup,
I would have given him the point.
But because he didn't, I'm giving you the point.
- Yeah. Let's go.
- What? Wait. What?
- Yeah, because he made years better with the-
- This looks great.
- Matt's edition looked really good.
- If you had done this from the beginning,
I would have given you the point.
- So, I only lost because this was rotated
in a slightly different orientation.
- Yeah. It's all about creativity
and you didn't have the creativity
to wrote it rotate it 90 degrees.
- But his fans were upside down.
- It doesn't matter.
- But I can't see that.
- It's true.
- And I don't know shit about fans.
- At this point, I should have won three BROKE vs PRO
in a row.
And each one of them keeps getting stolen away from me.
It's almost like if there's collusion.
I felt good about this one. I thought it was going to win.
How could I lose with the power of my Micro Center mousepad?
Like this is all I really needed.
This is humiliating.
- Now it's approved.
- Well, if you feel like you should've just put it.
- Oh yeah.
- Because Ken made you his (indistinct) today.
- Wow (laughs)
- Thank you very much for watching this episode
of BROKE vs PRO.
If you excuse me, well, you know where to find me.
I'll just be here.
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