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and they've given us full reign
to build the most bad-ass PC we can,
but we're not gonna do just any PC.
(grunts) This guy right here.
Meet Francis, our latest sleeper PC.
By the end of this video is gonna be real fast.
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(upbeat music)
We're back here in the service center.
And the first thing we need to do is figure out
what exactly we can fit into this case.
So Nicholas has been working on this for the past week,
so it can accept modern components.
Well, this is obviously,
not like a massive modern PC case.
We're not gonna be able to fit
your standard stuff in here.
So, first thing we need an mATX motherboard.
ATX is clearly not gonna fit.
Although it does look like,
we're going to be able to put in a full sized power supply,
which is nice.
It looks like we only have a 90 mm fan in the back here,
which means full size like an NH-D15 or something like that,
is not gonna be able to go in, unfortunately.
Now we do have two options.
So we have this stupid bracket thing here for an AIO.
We need to drill it.
It's gonna be a terrible time.
If I can get away without using it,
I'm gonna be a lot happier.
What?
How big an air cooler we can get, we will see.
First spot's the tech bar,
looks like the only liquor they have
is of the isopropyl variety,
but they'll repair your stuff for you.
Heaps of laptops.
Look at this, two rows deep all the way down here.
Heck yeah.
Back here, past the laptops,
there're all of their complete systems,
if you're into that sort of a thing.
You don't always wanna build your own PC.
Heaps of monitors too, geez.
This is one area that I'm super stoked about,
and that I've never seen in a physical store before.
3D printer stuff, look at this.
You can come in here and be like,
oh yeah, this filament.
That's the color that it is,
instead of just having to trust some random photo
on the internet and be like,
oh yeah, what's the difference between gold and yellow?
Now I can tell.
Wow, they even got some SLS stuff here,
if you're into model making, damn.
There's so much stuff in here,
that'll just save your bacon
when you're in the middle of a project
and you find out like, oh yes, I need this HAT.
And normally you have to wait like two weeks on Amazon.
Here's our first spot
that we're gonna put some stuff in our cart though.
And, oh my god, they have the ProSiphon.
This thing's sick.
Wow, there is no way this is gonna fit.
This is one of the largest coolers ever, yep.
Shadow Rock 3 will definitely fit.
So that's an option.
The Zalman Flower Cooler, that would also fit,
but I don't wanna use it.
Oh, I think we got our cooler.
Cooler Master Stealth ARGB,
bit of an oxymoron but it's gonna fit.
And it seems like the largest one that will,
so there we go, goodbye, Be Quiet.
All right.
What are we feeling for a motherboard today, Dennis?
I'm kinda thinking AMD.
What about this guy right here?
$185, limit one per household.
Here we go.
Are you thinking Ryzen 5, maybe Ryzen 7?
Oh, 5800X, I think this is gonna be our chip.
Oh, this is wicked.
Bunch of water cooling supplies.
You can fill it without doing it like the sketchy way.
Got a whole bunch of tubing here.
We, of course,
are gonna have one heckin' powerful GPU in this thing.
So we need a power supply to suit it.
I think this one right here will do just fine.
1200 Watts EVGA P2.
That's a lot of Watts.
On this side over here,
we have all of our AMD GPUs.
Now buying a GPU is a bit different.
You can't just like go in here and grab one.
You have to actually enter a lottery system.
And then that way they're able to track it
and make sure that people aren't scalping all of the GPUs.
It's actually pretty safe.
If we moved down here,
there's a bunch of 3080 Ti's,
but I don't think any of those fit in our case.
(smoke puffs) (harp strums)
Wow, would you look at that?
Yeah, this will do just perfect.
Heaps of SSDs all along this wall.
But the one that interests me is waiting here.
Western Digital, 2 terabyte, $150 off.
Wicked, this thing is gonna be awesome.
Now this is gonna be really cool.
It isn't fully operational yet,
but this is gonna be their PC Builder.
So you'll be able to come in here and be like, okay,
I want a 3070, an 11900K, yada, yada, yada.
And then they just bring you all of the components.
And if you want they can put it all together for you.
In here, we have the chassis garage.
We don't need a case,
we already have the best one in the store,
but they have over a hundred of them in here.
So if you want to look at a PC case,
this is where you do it.
Look someone forgot their LTT water bottle here.
I hope they remember and come and get it.
That'd be a sin, the lttstore.com. (laughs)
Final part of our build here,
just needs some RAM.
I'm thinking of going with this,
T4 4000 MHz C16, 32 gigabytes of this stuff.
This is gonna be super fast.
All right, let's go and build it.
First thing I wanna get out of the way
is the CPU and cooler,
'cause if that doesn't fit we are boned.
Oh, wow, it's gonna be close.
I'm not happy.
- [Dennis] Tape it.
- I see what the problem is.
Everyone else on their dimensions did height, length, width.
Cooler Master for whatever reason did length, width, height.
I need to do a return.
- [Saleslady] Okay. (laughs)
- Like I said earlier for cooling,
we're gonna use the Kraken M22 from NZXT.
It's RGB and should more than be enough for cooling our PC.
Well, as long as you use the speed hole.
Before I permanently put anything else into place,
we're going to just do a nice test fit,
and see if we need to do the walk of shame, again.
We have this really cool Phanteks Halos Digital RGB frame,
that's able to just go on the outside and fit in here.
And then we can just use our normal non RGB fan.
And it's still gonna look sweet.
Star of the show RTX 3070.
Oh, loads of space.
Look at that.
No problem at all.
So we ran into a little bit of an issue.
That goes in there like that,
and pretty standard AIO mount in the front.
But the problem that we have,
is that we need to have fan screws
that go through here,
through this little bit of sheet metal,
and then out the back.
And the ones that it came with,
just simply are not long enough.
The fortunate thing is that here they do,
really wild, exotic builds,
and they just so happened to have really long 6-32 screws
for exactly situations like this.
So not the most beautiful thing ever,
but you won't be able to see it anyway.
Storage time.
So 2 terabyte SSD should be more than enough.
I'm actually not totally sure if this is PCIE gen 4,
that would've been good to look for room.
I don't believe it is,
which is really a mistake on my bet,
but it was on sale.
So this is an exceptionally large one.
Then again, 1200 Watts, quite impressive.
I hope it just fits in, it should.
That is comically large for this case.
So small problem.
One of our screws,
isn't quite long enough to fit through.
As you can see,
there's kinda this little indent here,
and that's stopping me from being able to get at it.
(drill whirring)
Now, was our embiggening method a success?
Perfect we did it.
This is the last bit.
Look at that.
All right.
It's time to go.
I actually have a feeling this isn't going to work.
This is a AMD 3000 certified motherboard not 5000,
and it does not have BIOS flashback,
which is a huge pain in the butt actually.
Oh, and the NZXT logo's upside down.
Awesome, that just worked.
We have our Ryzen 7 5800X,
32 gigabytes RAM, sees both of our stuff.
And our SSD was picked up as well.
So we are golden.
Not the most functional CD drives ever.
There we go.
Now what you might be thinking is, oh no.
Now your CPU cooler has no air at all.
Nice and quiet.
Real fast.
All right.
Let's test this thing out and see if it actually works.
So we're here in Far Cry 5,
I'm gonna close the speed hole and see what happens.
Not bad.
160 FPS on Ultra.
I will take that for sure.
Oh yeah, our CPU is up to 86 degrees.
That's not ideal.
Let's open the speed hole.
Nice.
So speed hole open.
74 degrees is our maximum temperature on the CPU,
which is really not bad.
I would not suggest this PC would be great,
if you're like a professional video editor,
or something like that.
The airflow is not the best ever.
This chassis was never intended
for like anywhere near this amount of componentry, but.
Cinebench, it's hot for sure.
We're up to 90 degrees on the CPU,
even with the speed hole engaged.
But it held all core at four and a half gigahertz.
You zoomed in there after it did it, Dennis,
but you have to trust me,
it did four and a half gigahertz the whole time.
And it was just fine.
This is the sort of thing where it has a bit of an overclock
from the factory with this motherboard.
If we ran at stock settings,
like three and a half gigahertz,
that's the stock that is supposed to be at,
it would be more than fine.
All right.
Francis' certified, an awesome little sleeper.
Let's go and put it out on the shelf and see who gets it.
(suspenseful music)
(customers chatter)
- Oh, what is this?
- 20 bucks - 20 bucks?
- 20 bucks, case? - Case?
- This is the case, right? - Yeah.
For school project?
- My professor likes a lot of retro things.
- Aha.
- So I'm just like, we need to make a presentation on it.
So that will be good.
- Do you wanna play retro games though?
- Maybe.
- 'Cause it's not gonna be great for that.
It might be a bit too fast.
- What do you mean? - What do you mean?
- Kinda sus. - Yeah.
- Are you LTT? - No.
- Yeah, well, do you wanna open up?
- Yeah. - What the hell?
- Is that RTX card?
- Yeah, it's a 3070.
- What the? - That's faster than. (laughs)
- For $20 it's not a bad deal. - Can I buy it?
(customers laugh)
- Yeah. - Can I buy it?
- Yeah. You can buy it.
- Let's go.
- Do you wanna know the full specs?
- Sure.
- So Ryzen 7 5800X,
- Okay.
- 32 gigs of RAM 4000 MHz,
1200 Watt power supply, 2 terabyte SSD.
- 20 bucks.
- All right, not a bad deal.
I have to say.
- Thank you.
- It's a huge thanks to Micro Center
for sponsoring this video.
And if you guys liked it hit Like, get subscribed.
I don't know what video should we throw them to, Dennis,
last Micro Center one where Linus sold a PC
for 20 bucks as well. - Oh.
All right, see you later.