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"You need to spend $1000 for a gaming PC, but we went all out and spent $2000" Says that you need an Allen key to build a PC (never seen using it) Need to use thermal paste spatula (never seen using) "tweezers" (AKA cable ties, also never seen using) Uses a swiss army knife instead of a screwdriver Anti static wrist band that is nothing more than one of those STANyourground bracelets "If you are building a streaming PC, you want to focus on parts like a core i5 or core i3 processor that require less energy" (I sincerely hope he means netflix streaming and not twitch streaming, but by this point in the video I'm honestly not sure) "First step is to take everything out of their boxes" "Put everything in to the case to make sure it fits" < Bit late to figure that out if you have already unboxed everything and can't return it "Screw with confidence" ... I try... "I chose Azeses Z-Three-Seven-Zero motherboard" "Pay close attention to the... [line?]... Brace?... That goes to the... [line?]... Back? of the computer" "You really have to make sure you hammer [the 'brace'] in" "We bought this memory for two reasons... It's fast... It's 2666Mhz which is pretty fast" Not installing memory in correct dual memory configuration (I thought you wanted that fast memory?) "Now we're going to install the hard drive, or in this case a NVMe SSD"... "When it comes to a hard drive you want files to write quickly and you want games to load quickly, so that's why it's best you use an SSD" (Should call it a Storage drive if referring to both SSDs and HDDs) SSD is the Kingston UV500 480GB, which is SATA based not NVMe as claimed in the video [When installing GPU] "Which [PCIe] lane you choose depends entirely on what other parts you're going to put in the system" "I'm going to pick the top one [PCIe slot], just because the SSD is at the bottom and I don't want to cover it because I think it looks nice" "I chose Corsairs 850W PSU because I need enough headroom for raytracing GPUs" (I guess he did technically say GPUs as in plural, so maybe he's planning on doing SLI with 2x2080tis) "So all you have to do is take the brick [power supply]" "Make sure you align it [power supply] with rubber pads so it doesn't come in contact with the case and short circuit the system" Installs the PSU backwards, blocking the PSU fan Recommends installing the AIO radiator first and having the 'hose' hang off Installs radiator without fans attached to the Rad Uses the fan mount screws to screw all the way THROUGH the radiator to mount it to the case, which will damage the radiator Doesn't install all of the screws in to the radiator (which is okay since he was doing it wrong anyway) "Every power supply is going to come with a big bag of velcro cables" Goes through the list of all the power cables you will need to install - Motherboard power cable, GPU cables, RGB cables, CPU cooler cables - Doesn't mention CPU Power cable Finally begins installing the CPU after installing the Motherboard, PSU, RAM, GPU, SSD, and AIO. "Take the little plastic part out and just toss that out" "Now we have an exposed CPU holder... Or rather, slot" Boasts about his 8th gen Hexacore CPU. "Year, we got one!" (Is actually an Intel Confidential Chip for some reason, likely just 8700k. See image below) "Every CPU cooler actually already comes with thermal paste already applied" "But it's usually not enough [thermal paste]" "It's good PC building practice to have extra and layer it on top of the CPU" Extra layer of thermal paste application method (see images below) Doesn't screw down all mounts for the CPU cooler Only tests the GTX1080 at 1080p. Playing LoL as Yasou and doing that badly underneath friendly tower playing against a single BOT (see images below - Note it is less than 3 minutes after the game has started, note his health, and how his D & F are on cooldown) [Someone mentioned they thought it was fake footage and he wasn't actually playing, but I honestly believe that's just how badly he plays judging by his PC building skills] Tests the performance of a gaming PC, but locks the framerate during the test because "I can get 300FPS but that's just too much so I locked it to 120fps" "And of course now we have a computer here to test and benchmark games here at The Verge"  
 
I fully and wholeheartedly support any new user wanting to get in to building a PC, and for someone who isn't educated in it and experienced as much as we all on this forum are, I can understand them making mistakes like this guy did in this video. The young guy tried and it looks like he didn't have a lot of help either and just got thrown in to it without much warning or even perhaps interest in what he was doing. He seemed to be trying to make up a lot of it as he went along. As much as I love to see new people exploring the PC world, this video should NEVER have been released as a guide video, and certainly not by a 'respectable' tech-based media outlet.
How anyone at The Verge involved in this project gave it the green light is beyond me. I hate to imagine what the editors cut out.
 
The Verge saw the shitstorm that happened with Avram Pilch over at Tom'sHardware and said "Hold my beer..."

Hello everybody, this is my first forum in a couple of years, thought they all died out because of Facebook... I like all things PC and I work with old/older hardware regularly, mainly because I live in Croatia, where most things are a few years behind, and children in schools still learn about floppy disks as one of main types of data storage   I don't speak perfect english but I try 

Hello everybody, this is my first forum in a couple of years, thought they all died out because of Facebook... I like all things PC and I work with old/older hardware regularly, mainly because I live in Croatia, where most things are a few years behind, and children in schools still learn about floppy disks as one of main types of data storage   I don't speak perfect english but I try