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  • - This might be the best PC that we have ever built

  • on this channel, not even joking.

  • It's not, but it...

  • - [Ken] Aesthetic, aesthetically wise.

  • - Are you trying to say that like,

  • you've built the best PC when I'm not around?

  • - [Ken and Matt together] Yes.

  • - You guys said that way too fast.

  • [Beep]

  • - Hey, what's going on guys, this is Ken, and-

  • - Hey, I'm Matt.

  • - That was terrible.

  • - What?

  • - And today, we're going to be building a PC without Austin.

  • Now, I don't know if you guys remember,

  • but the last time we did this,

  • it may or may not have looked like a bomb.

  • - [Matt] It did.

  • It totally looked like a bomb.

  • - But, today Austin tasked us with another project,

  • this time to make a PC that's a little festive.

  • If I'm to believe that this is going to be uploaded

  • at the time of Christmas.

  • - Ish.

  • - Ish.

  • Also, the last time Matt and I built a PC,

  • it was actually his first time building one.

  • - [Matt] Yeah, so this will be actually

  • my second time building a PC.

  • - But he's at least watched

  • some of our videos at this point.

  • - I've watched every PC build

  • that Austin has done over the past year.

  • I feel like I could do this in my sleep.

  • I'm probably wrong.

  • I'm probably really bad at this.

  • - In your sleep, but you're probably

  • better at it when you're awake.

  • - Maybe.

  • - But, before we get started, we need to

  • actually buy some festive things.

  • - All right, so we're trying to get some

  • arts and crafts for the PC build.

  • We're thinkin' something like a winter village.

  • - Honestly, we're not even sure

  • if things will catch on fire or not, but...

  • - Everything we want to do is like,

  • this is gonna be flammable.

  • - But, makes for a good video.

  • I like this.

  • Cloth snow.

  • That'll definitely not catch on fire.

  • - Definitely, there's a 60 percent chance

  • that it will definitely not.

  • - Oh, well, we have more things here,

  • we've got like little trees.

  • That might be useful, right?

  • Little trees.

  • This Santa, that's giving away gifts.

  • Yeah, no, I like the look of that a lot, little Santa.

  • - [Matt] You know what I don't like about it?

  • - [Ken] What?

  • - It's got glitter.

  • Already, already.

  • - [Ken] No, I don't see any, it's fine.

  • You're fine.

  • So far, we have, we've built a little town

  • that has a pond, a skater.

  • - [Matt] She's going to the Olympics.

  • - [Ken] She's uh, she's gonna grow up

  • to be a gold medalist one day.

  • Success, right?

  • What?

  • - Smells like farts out here.

  • - It's fertilizer.

  • [Fart noise]

  • - So if I pull the full Austin, I just

  • throw that for Matt to clean up later.

  • - [Ken] I'm testing you.

  • - I'm gonna be building a PC apparently.

  • - [Ken] Build a PC so I don't have to.

  • - So I'm gonna start with this ASUS Prime X470 Pro.

  • And you know, we chose pretty much every single

  • one of these parts, not because of their price to performance,

  • or even their performance.

  • Pretty much all of them is because they came in white.

  • - [Ken] Let me see, let me see.

  • Ah, yeah, look at that.

  • So, it matches.

  • - [Matt] Yeah, it's got a fair amount of black on there

  • but you know, that little bit right there

  • was our deciding factor.

  • - [Ken] So this case, to preface,

  • is actually gonna be in another Austin build

  • with his wife Karen.

  • And for some reason, he chose this one.

  • Probably because it looks cool.

  • We actually bought a second one of these for our build.

  • - I am not a PC kinda guy,

  • but if I was to be building my own PC...

  • - [Ken] This is the one that you'd get?

  • - I would probably grab this case.

  • I'm too short for this, so I'm gonna bring it down here.

  • - [Ken] Okay, okay, okay.

  • I gotcha, I gotcha, I gotcha.

  • (yelling together)

  • Yeah.

  • This Lian Li case is actually really cool

  • 'cause it's glass on two sides here.

  • - It looks almost like it's a display case.

  • - [Ken] Yes for a Christmas, or sorry holiday, diorama.

  • - Dioramas are where it's at.

  • Let's see if Matty here remembers

  • how to build a computer.

  • I'm gonna put my static bracelet on.

  • (Ken groaning)

  • - [Ken] No.

  • - With us buying specifically for aesthetics

  • and not performance, we cut a little corners on some things.

  • So we went with a second gen Ryzen 5.

  • - [Ken] Which isn't bad.

  • - It's not bad.

  • It's the 2600.

  • I'm gonna look for the little triangle.

  • - [Ken] Don't bend the pins man.

  • - I'm not gonna bend the pins.

  • - [Ken] Don't bend the pins man.

  • Yeah just, oh don't, you got your thermal paste on there

  • don't set it down.

  • (both humming)

  • Need some help buddy?

  • - I do, I have no idea how this goes on.

  • - [Ken] Right, to be fair,

  • I've only done one of these before.

  • - [Matt] Already, you know, I'm so good

  • at building computers, that I just had Ken help me

  • with the CPU 'cause it scared me.

  • I'd never encountered a latching CPU cooler like this.

  • - [Ken] Yeah but like, the interesting thing

  • about this cooler though is that we're just barely

  • clearing the RAM DIMMs.

  • We can ever so slightly make it,

  • I mean, I'm pretty sure they designed this

  • so that it will just barely clear.

  • No I don't think it's rubbing dude,

  • it's barely clearing it.

  • Yeah.

  • - So that is making slight contact over here

  • with the heat sink, I don't know how bad that is.

  • This is not a tutorial, how to build a PC.

  • This is don't do anything that we're about to do.

  • That looks roughly...

  • - [Ken] Austin, what are you doing here?

  • - It's fine.

  • - Get out. - [Matt] Is the red light on?

  • - [Ken] Get out.

  • - I brought you packages

  • [Ken] You're not allow- we needed those but get out.

  • Oh my god, dude. - Uh oh.

  • - [Ken] I'm locking the door.

  • (beep)

  • - I mean, frick.

  • (upbeat music)

  • - [Ken] Oh, there it is.

  • - Hey!

  • - [Ken] There you go.

  • - I've done something that Austin has failed to do.

  • And that's post a PC on the first try.

  • - [Voiceover] The next day.

  • - So we finally got the PC done.

  • Overnight we got it updating,

  • we got all the drivers installed.

  • We set our RGB, everything's good.

  • - We had to change things around a little bit.

  • I forgot to get a fan controller,

  • because I don't know what that is.

  • So, instead of the six fans

  • that we were originally gonna have,

  • we just have the three.

  • - [Ken] That are going in exhausts.

  • - [Matt] Yes.

  • - [Ken] So it's just gonna let air out.

  • Which I think should be fine,

  • 'cause we're not running anything super hot here,

  • in fact this Wraith cooler will do a lot of the work for us

  • pretty efficiently and pretty well.

  • We could try to overclock it if we want.

  • - Yeah we definitely have the ability to.

  • - [Ken] We'll try to see what our thermals are at

  • when we put our winter wonderland in there.

  • - When we stuff it with

  • Buffalo snow.

  • Being from, the Buffalo-ish area, Buffalo Bills

  • I can tell you that this does not look like Buffalo snow.

  • So then we knew we had this little spot down here.

  • We weren't sure how the clearance would be.

  • So we thought this little pond would go well, so...

  • - [Ken] Hey look at that.

  • - You know, maybe...

  • - [Ken] It just sits right there.

  • - [Matt] Maybe this goes about right here.

  • Does she clear this?

  • It'll be clo-

  • (cheering)

  • - [Ken] Look at that!

  • Aw man, it's like we planned that.

  • - I mean we did good.

  • - [Ken] I think if we put this here, like this,

  • go like this...

  • - [Matt] Oh yeah that's lovely.

  • - [Ken] That's really nice.

  • And it hides our cable too.

  • - So what we'll probably end up doing...

  • - [Ken] Hang him!

  • - [Matt] Is hanging.

  • Right here. - Yeah, on the top.

  • - All right so we have roughly our layout here.

  • This is looking pretty good,

  • so now we're going to lay down the snow.

  • We're gonna secure these down with some double sided tape

  • and add a little sprucing.

  • - [Ken] Oh!

  • - [Matt] Straight up pressing up against the...

  • - [Ken] The components.

  • - [Matt] The components.

  • - [Ken] So don't do that.

  • - [Matt] So I mean, that's fine.

  • Right there, look at that, that's good.

  • - [Ken] Tuck it in a little.

  • We should totally put snow on the graphics card.

  • - No, no, no. - Why?

  • Why Matt?

  • - No, it just-

  • - [Ken] Look at that.

  • Look at that.

  • And hold on, I have the piece de resistance.

  • - What do we got?

  • (Low-key music)

  • - There.

  • - [Matt] For safety.

  • - Just in case.

  • - So we also have our spray.

  • So I'm just gonna be-

  • (sprays)

  • Oh. - Oh.

  • Oh boy, it's gonna, oh God.

  • - [Matt] In case you guys can't tell,

  • this is super powerful.

  • - [Ken] Let's see, let's see.

  • Oh! Yes.

  • Oh Matt, Matt.

  • Yo, that's awesome.

  • This almost reminds me of when we did Jimmy's Halloween PC,

  • when we did the blood splatter on the glass.

  • - [Matt] Yeah.

  • - I'm kinda getting those same vibes,

  • like, it worked surprisingly well.

  • - Ready? Armed.

  • - [Ken] Armed. All right.

  • And-

  • (Christmas music)

  • - Austin, I wanna build a Christmas PC.

  • You were like trying to tell me

  • you were gonna build a PC inside a Christmas tree,

  • I was like, Ken, go home, you're drunk.

  • What exactly do you guys have here?

  • Also can I just say, that having a fully on,

  • which looks like it's on PC underneath the blanket,

  • not great for thermals.

  • - This is the least of our worries for thermals

  • for this PC, as you will see in a second.

  • (laughing)

  • - [Matt] Yeah, so.

  • - [Ken] Thumbs up?

  • - Dude, two thumbs up.

  • - There's a bow.

  • I know that's what you're laughing at.

  • - You have fake snow on top of the graphics card.

  • It's about to be intaked by the fan.

  • There's so much flammable stuff here.

  • - [Matt] Yeah.

  • Down here we have a little girl and her cat.

  • She's getting presents from Santa.

  • That's fake Santa.

  • That's like mall Santa.

  • Real Santa is actually up here,

  • him and that's Donner actually.

  • Couple kids building a snowman.

  • That's actually, that is Jack Frost.

  • - Jack Frost himself?

  • - Yeah, that, so, we licensed him for this.

  • (cash register sound effect)

  • - This is ridiculous.

  • How did, okay, first of all,

  • props that this has not caught on fire.

  • Congratulations.

  • - Yes, no, see, we were actually pretty careful

  • to not actually be touching any components.

  • - [Ken] I mean, as you can see, like,

  • we actually cleared the fan back there too.

  • - So this is, what's this back here?

  • It honestly looks like a smaller graphics card.

  • - So GTX here's the thing.

  • We went specifically for aesthetics here,

  • and not necessarily based on, like,

  • perfect performance to price.

  • - Are you trying to tell me that you spent like,

  • 2000 dollars on a PC with like, kind of crappy specs?

  • (disagreeing)

  • - [Matt] There's actually a thousand.

  • - [Ken] There's only a thousand.

  • - Okay.

  • - This is a GTX 1660.

  • We got it because it was silver,

  • and it was low profile.

  • - Yeah, because, well I mean it's still a double slot card

  • but essentially you wanted this other space

  • to build a diorama.

  • That makes sense.

  • - To do all this up front we have a 750 watt power supply.

  • - (laughing) Why?

  • - Which is way overkill for this.

  • - Wait, wait, 'cause it's in the back of the case here.

  • You can't even see it. - It's white.

  • - [Ken] It's white. - You can't even see it.

  • - [Ken] No, but most importantly it came with white cables.

  • - [Matt] Yes.

  • - [Austin] Oh.

  • - [Ken] Yeah.

  • - Oh wait, so I actually gotta ask you about that.

  • So I'm looking at the cables.

  • I see that the GPU, the power cord for the GPU

  • goes inside the snow.

  • - [Matt] Yes.

  • - That's a really clever idea.

  • - Yeah, the thing with the power supply

  • is the cables it came with, while fully modular,

  • it had the pigtails to do dual eight pin.

  • I thought that was ugly, so I just cut it.

  • - [Ken] He just cut it, it's fine.

  • It's fine, we're fine.

  • - You're talking about a fire hazard.

  • - It's taped.

  • - So you take a PC, something which is inevitably full

  • of very hot, very power hungry electronics.

  • Then you fill it up with what

  • I'm sure is very flammable like, cotton.

  • And then you take a power connector and you saw it off.

  • - Saw it?

  • No, no, we cut it with scissors.

  • Don't be insane.

  • - [Ken] We unplugged it before we did it, so.

  • - In fact, you'll be proud.

  • I just took a cable that wasn't plugged in ever,

  • I just (vocalizing cutting sound),

  • and then (vocalizing cutting sound),

  • and then (vocalizing cutting sound).

  • - Guys you did an incredible job.

  • Like actually, this is ridiculous.

  • I don't know why exactly, you felt so compelled

  • to build this PC, but, it's really good.

  • It's honestly better than it should be.

  • - [Ken] I mean, we just wanted to add

  • a little more holiday cheer to the channel.

  • - So what's the plan for this PC?

  • Who asked for this?

  • - [Ken] None of us did.

  • - K. Got it.

  • It was mainly a ploy just to make a video on the channel

  • that's a little more festive.

  • But, I'm gonna give this one to Matt

  • because it's his second build, I think he deserves it.

  • He can choose to do what he wants

  • with what we did on the inside.

  • - [Austin] Like remove all of the flammable material

  • from inside your PC?

  • - [Ken] Yeah, I mean, if you want to use it daily.

  • - [Matt] For the record, I didn't even ask for it.

  • He just said, "Hey, you're taking this because

  • "I don't want it sitting around."

  • - We don't have the room for it at all.

  • But, it was a bonding moment between me and Matt.

  • We had workplace bonding.

  • A lot of workplace bonding.

  • - It smells like farts out here.

  • - So thank you very much for watching

  • this holiday themed episode of the Austin Evans channel.

  • Of course if you'd like a little bit more holiday cheer

  • in your life, you can feel free to check out

  • our holiday Mystery Tech, it's available right here.

  • And until next time, I will remind you

  • please don't try this at home.

  • And if your house burns down, you can blame Ken.

  • And Matt, but probably Ken, I think it's his idea.

- This might be the best PC that we have ever built

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