- Why, hello there,
and welcome to the happiest place on earth, Micro Center.
So what better thing to do on a beautiful morning
than build ourselves a back to school gaming PC.
- Welcome back to school.
- [Austin] Well, thank you.
Do you happen to have any PC components available
at very reasonable pricing?
- Well, it happens to be what we specialize in.
(both laughing loudly)
- Obviously, we got to go to the RGB land.
You guys do have Ryzen 5 5600Xs.
These are what, like 280 bucks?
- Just about.
- [Austin] This definitely seems like what we
should really build the system around.
Now for boards, do you have anything ITX?
- Well, we should have plenty of options, B550.
- So, we've actually used this in the past.
One of the nice things about pretty much all ITX boards is
that they do have Wi-Fi already built-in,
which especially in a dorm is
probably gonna be pretty helpful.
- I doubt you'll have wired if I'm honest.
So we have things like the NZXT H210i.
- So, with a smaller case, like the NZXT H210i,
I think I'll be in fairly good shape as far as the chassis.
It looks nice, almost like...
- Are you gonna say it looks nice as me?
Were you trying to compliment me there?
- [Austin] That's what I was trying to do,
but I didn't want your head to get too big, all right.
- Oh, wow. (laughs loudly)
- [Austin] You're like, I'm not opening the store
for you early anymore.
- Yeah, no, not anymore.
You're gonna have to shop here like the rest of them.
(both laughing)
- So for memory,
for a system like this 16 gigs really should be
all that we need.
You know, it's funny, this is such an easier experience
when I'm not here with Ken and Matt.
- It's the fastest experience we've had to date,
I gotta be honest with you.
♪ Do do do do do do. ♪
- I've always had a lot of luck with Samsung SSDs
and specifically, the 980 and the 980 Pro.
But because we're trying to do something,
that's on at least somewhat of a budget,
I think the standard 980 is gonna make a lot sense.
Hey, look! It's a 980, just on cue.
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So, what are you waiting for?
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Oh, good morning, friends.
Would you enjoy your luxurious sleep?
- You mean us, the overworked boys at Overclock Media?
- Well, I'll say that I, well, actually no,
we have successfully shot basically the whole video
at this point.
Y'all can go. - Off you go.
We don't need you anymore, we're independent now.
- [Austin] Just go home.
- [Matt] You know that he hasn't shot any of this, right?
- All right, so now that we have
a slightly higher end camera to play with,
why don't we take a look for a monitor.
I want something that's gonna be a little bit smaller,
importantly, affordable, but realistically,
I want something that will easily fit
on a fairly small desk.
1080p 144hz, it's 180 bucks.
This might be what we want to go for.
'Cause like our system realistically should
easily be able to play at 1080p 144.
We could probably go up to 1440.
The only downside though is that we're going to have to go
for a much larger monitor.
This might be the actual move.
Now, this is not something that I normally would do,
but because we're trying to build
a very space constrained setup,
I want to go with a 60 Percent Keyboard,
specifically the HyperX Alloy Origins 60.
For a mouse, I think we should go with the Haste.
I've not tried this yet, but at $50,
not only is it one of the lighter weight mice
that has the honeycomb sort of carve-outs, but importantly,
I think this will be a nice pairing
so we can kind of keep our RGB software to a minimum.
Do we have space for a headset?
We should get
a headset, right? - I would hope so.
In a dorm room, you don't want speakers.
You're gonna annoy people.
- Or you really want speakers.
- [Ken] No, I want to listen to things in privacy.
- [Matt] It's very clear you never had roommates.
- [Ken] Yeah, some things are not meant to
be heard, Austin Evans.
- Yeah, like the rest of this conversation.
All right, friends.
It is time to build a back to school gaming PC.
Now, we've done tutorials in the past
if you really want the step-by-step.
But the idea with this system is really
to try to build something which is not simple,
not beginner, but nothing which is particularly complicated.
When it comes to building a PC like this,
you actually have quite a few different options.
So, I would say that this is probably on
the upper end of the mid-range of gaming PCs.
We've got ourselves a 3060 Ti,
we have a Ryzen 5 5600X,
but a lot of what we're doing here
could easily be subbed out with a more expensive
or less expensive graphics card
based on what you're able to find
and what's in stock at your friendly local Micro Center,
as well as things like the Ryzen 5, which generally speaking
is pretty much the best deal right now,
but you can go up to a Ryzen 7 if you'd like,
or down to a Ryzen 3 if you would like.
I have never built in the H210i in the past.
I've built several systems in its bigger brother.
And this looks really like
just a shrunken down version of it.
One thing you need to keep in mind
with this case in particular is that there is
somewhat limited GPU compatibility.
You can fit a fairly long card in here,
but you cannot do a 2 and a half or 3 slot card,
which I think our 3060Ti will fit.
But it will not have a ton of room.
So if you're looking, especially when you get into like
the 3070s and the 3080s and the higher end cards,
a lot of them are chunkier, just keep that in mind
before you pick up this case, pro tip.
(screen beeping loudly)
This is take one of the Micro Center PC build portion.
Now it is time to build our gaming PC.
When you have smaller cases,
a lot of times like cable management gets kind of tricky
and just being able to fit like
different kinds of graphics cards.
(beep) my life.
The 3070 will absolutely not fit in that.
That absolutely will not fit.
It's a dual slot case and it's a triple slot card.
There's no chance of it'll fit.
I'm gonna throw this build out the window. (sighs loudly)
(screen beeping)
♪ Do do do ♪
- Was this mystery tech?
Do you throw things, oh!
This is the Pixel hat.
So, oh God, this was probably two, three years or so ago.
Ken and I went to a Google Pixel launch.
It was the I/O like 2018 or 2019 or something.
And they gave these spinny hats because it would be funny.
And now I'm going back to school.
Hey!
♪ Forced jokes that don't work ♪
♪ I'll take it for $5,000 yeah ♪
I've used NZXT power supplies a few times in the past,
but their little bag, for all of your modular cables,
is really, really nice.
Also I just am partial to purple, so I'm just saying,
I'm just saying that is a thing.
So this is the 650 watt, which it is,
as you can see, fully modular and it is gold rated.
They also do a good job, it's all powder-coated
and very sort of matte black,
which doesn't actually matter too much in the case
because it's going to be right down there.
So before we install our power supply,
we have pre-sleeved our cables, or pre-extended our cables,
which I think will go aways toward kind of
helping the black interior pop.
God, I feel like we're like a home improvement show.
Oh, a little splash of white
in our interior will help kind of liven up the place,
feel a little more airy perhaps.
This might be top ten smoothest builds of my life right now,
it's so easy, a simple, simple tutorial
will easily teach you how to build.
And I need to watch that tutorial.
- [Ken] What is this?
- A motherboard?
- [Ken] Yes, do you know what this motherboard does?
- It needs to be updated, the BIOS.
- [Ken] Yes.
- For 5th Generation. - Because it probably doesn't
support this.
- Yes, yes. - Yes, okay.
We will do this ahead of time.
- All right, fine, fine.
- [Ken] So we don't build this computer
and unbuild it and build it again.
Like we do every single build behind the scenes.
- So, I have now updated the BIOS on our B550 board
which actually wasn't super far out of date,
but I'm glad we did it because it still was borderline
if that would actually would have worked
with our Ryzen processor.
So we'll go ahead and pop out our Ryzen 7,
or actually, no, this is a 1600X,
which is our update processor.
And we'll just do a little upgrade here, load up our 5600X.
This really is an excellent gaming processor.
You've got the Zen 3 cores
so you have great single-threaded performance
and you have six CPU cores,
which means that you can really do basically anything,
up to and including streaming.
I think now I just need to install
our Hyper 212 RGB Black Edition.
- [Ken] Okay, question.
- Yep?
- [Ken] Are you sure you want to do that
before you put the--
- The board in?
- [Ken] Will you be able to reach some of the screws
with the Hyper 212 already installed?
- There's only four screws, I can see, I think so.
That should be fine. - As long as you're confident.
- Why do you gotta say it like that?
As if the next thing people see in the video is
a flash-forward to--
- [Ken] Look, if I have to hold a camera
for 10 minutes longer than I have to,
I'm going to get very upset.
- You know what I would get very upset about?
- [Ken] Don't, don't say it.
- If I show up to Micro Center in the morning
and no one else is there so I have to shoot the video
by myself on my phone.
I mean, hypothetically of course.
(upbeat music)
So, we have made good progress.
So, not only did we reorient the fans a little bit,
so essentially the top fan we've moved to the front
because we didn't really have the clearance.
And I think Ken was very much right,
having the rear exhaust fan hop over to the cooler
helps it to be a little bit more consistent.
These are two different fans.
So ideally we wouldn't be doing that for aesthetics,
but we're gonna get the roughly same amount of air flow.
I think it's going to look,
especially once you have the window on, a lot cleaner.
Other than that, it's starting to come together.
So, we're gonna go ahead and slide our graphics card in.
This is the part which is gonna be a little challenging
because it is a very, very tight squeeze.
It'll fit, I think, but it'll fit by a very small margin.
Look at this, look at this, that's it.
That's how much we fit by.
- [Ken] That looks very clean
though I question again, that ability of airflow, but...
- I can actually, I have a little bit of a clearance
to screw it in over here.
So I might try to like tilt it up a little bit.
It'll have some airflow here
and it is ventilated on the bottom.
I'm not gonna say this is the best air flow
for a graphics card I've ever seen,
but I think it should be okay,
especially because it's an open cooler.
(drill whirring)
Our system is actually mostly complete.
So there's a lot of cable management I need to do.
And, what was I thinking?
Why did I just screw the graphics card in?
No, all of my cable management in the back
I'm not gonna be able to remotely come close to touching.
- [Ken] Oh wait, you didn't do
the front panel. - I totally forgot.
I plugged nothing into the motherboard
besides the CPU power.
Okay, that's gonna come right back out.
But other than that minor oversight,
which will only take a moment to rectify,
I think we're looking pretty good here.
And so, we've completed our back to school gaming PC set up.
Now, as you can see, it actually looks pretty decent.
Now we've taken some liberties, mostly with the table,
which we have maybe borrowed from a previous setup,
but this is just an IKEA tabletop as well as legs.
And this should give you a good sense of
what the system looks like when you actually have it
on top of your desk with a,
I'd say, small to medium-sized tabletop?
Now when it comes to the PC itself,
I think it came together fairly nicely.
Of course, we have our specs, the Ryzen 5 5600X,
we did go with that RTX 3060 Ti, but importantly,
it all did go inside the H210i case.
Now, I want to talk about that for a second,
because there are a few things that I learned
as we were putting together the system.
Now, first of all, it is well,
not the smallest case in the world,
fairly easy to build in.
The things you do need to keep in mind though
as you go to put this together is really keeping in mind
the orientation of each individual component
and the build order that you're going to be putting them in.
So, the big thing is a lot of the cable management here is
actually really easy if you run it first.
So for example, running your top cables,
your like 8 pin for your CPU, all that kind of stuff,
doing that before you put the board in place,
and especially before we put a larger cooler like this in
makes a big difference.
Same thing with something like the graphics card.
This graphics card is slightly above a two slot
and barely fits, I'm talking like barely fits.
Honestly, you should probably go with
just a straight two slot card.
But that being said,
you can still put this thing together fairly easily
in an afternoon and have an entire back to school setup
before you actually have to go back to school.
For peripherals we did opt to go
with HyperX this time around,
and I've actually got to give them a shout out
for their excellent NGenuity software.
Let's just say that we've used
basically all the RGB software out there,
and most of it is terrible.
The vast majority of it is pretty bad.
But HyperX actually has one of the best apps I've ever used.
Now is it a modern Windows app,
but you've got excellent control over
all the things you expect,
not only like your RGB and everything for your mouse,
but you also have it for the keyboard.
And actually, let me talk about this keyboard for a second.
So, this is a 60 Percent Keyboard.
This is the Alloy Origins 60,
and not only is it really well built,
it's got USB-C and whatnot, but the RGB looks nice
and it feels nice to type on too.
(keyboard tapping loudly)
Yeah, 87 words per minute.
That's actually on the upper end of
what I'm usually able to do.
I really like the red switches in here.
Honestly, especially considering the price,
this is a solid combo as well as our headset,
which I would love to demonstrate with a game of "F1 2021".
I should undo our nice little wrap here.
Yeah, so I'm actually surprised
I have not started playing yet,
but it has defaulted to very high settings
as well as ray tracing on.
We'll see.
Oh, it's raining, oh it's going to be bad.
That is so smooth.
Nope, nope, nope, okay.
We're just gonna take it nice and easy.
Ah ha ha ha!
Ah, they're everywhere!
Okay, all right, all right.
We're gonna stay nice and clean on this one, okay?
Nice and clean.
All right, dive bomb it, yeah, boy!
Yeah, boy!
So the performance is great,
I've been getting 130 to 140 frames per second
this entire time.
And especially F1 in the rain is,
I wouldn't say it's super demanding,
but especially with little bit of ray tracing on,
pretty impressive.
I got the run, I got the run!
Yeah, boy, let's go.
This is actually like top five F1 races for me of all time.
Ken doesn't know this, but I've actually been practicing F1
'cause I'm tired of losing in BROKE vs. PRO.
(exhales loudly) Wow.
So that is our back to school gaming PC set up.
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Whoa, wait, whoa, that was a little more aggressive
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- That was a little more aggressive,
I was trying to make a joke and I was like,
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(chuckles softly) Oh, Jesus Christ.