- You know what the problem
is with computer cases? They're just too expensive. Even the cheapest ones,
they're like 50 bucks. You could spend that
$50 on games for gaming. So, today we're going to show you guys, courtesy of our sponsor, Seasonic, how you can make your own
case out of cardboard. - And, it's a competition. - He's going to show you the worst way, and I'm going to show you the better way. - Well, I'm keeping these materials. - You piece of! (techno music) - Hi, my name's Jake and I'm on team Linus, I guess. Can we call it team Jake? - Nope. - It's called "Team Jake's Gonna Win 'Cause He's with Linus." - Oh, I would say that I
have a fair bit of confidence in my partner, because it's like, the options are what? James, Linus and Jake? Like, I clearly won in this situation. - [Interviewer] Are you putting yourself in an unfair advantage by
designing the contest yourself? - That's a fair question, which is why I sent out the
rules and I've shown the judges' scoring cards to everybody ahead of time. Everyone knows exactly what we'll have. They know what the rules are. They had last night to Google
(bleep) if they wanted to. - I know we're going to use cardboard to make a computer case, but I don't really know
anything else other than that. - [Interviewer] Do you know
that you're not allowed to use tape? - Really? No tape. How the heck are we gonna. - We don't have tape? - [Interviewer] You
said you read the rules. - I read the rules, but like. - It's gonna be spicy. - Okay, let's have a look
at the judging categories. Integrity. We're pretty upstanding guys. We should be okay there. Modularity, cooling,
aesthetics and creativity. - It looks like he's drawing
something that's not a case. It's a dog. - [Alex] I want a prancing
horse on the top of our case. Because like I imagine both
of them are going to be poorly engineered and poorly made and kind of just garbage. So if we can put like a statue on top, I think we're going to be able to win. - Okay, maybe. But can we do that in the last 15 minutes? - No, I think that we
should spend the majority of the time on the
gigantic prancing horse. - Do you have any ideas coming into this about like a design for the case? I don't want to be a team
that just tries to win by having a funny picture on this. This is not how I want to win. - If we just do the sort of like panels that are joined together, I think it's not going to be very strong. So I was thinking like
regular, like cardboard boxes, you know, those like
foldy put together ones where you have little tabs, I think that would be the strongest
way for us to build a case. - Okay, are we able to sit the motherboard on the bottom of the case and then just put like screw, screw, maybe like a third one down here so it's mostly being held by gravity, but it looks like it still is up? - Yeah, I think we can do that. - So here's our motherboard
back panel, right? - [Jake] Yep. - Okay, so then we need one
segment out here for the bottom. So then there's our next
segment which will actually be, - [Jake] Which is the same length as this. - the side panel. - Oh no, that's not what I was thinking. I'm thinking building a
box that's open on one side and then we affix the side panel. Because the side panel
doesn't need to be structural. - And then I think I
understand what you mean by, for like the back and front. - Yeah. - So we do this and this. - No, that's not what I mean. - And then we fold over. - That's what this side is supposed to be. But it's going to be a little spicy because of what you just said. - I was thinking of using a design similar to some Corsair cases. There's the front of the case, right? Like it's the normal box. But then on this front panel, that's where your fans are. And then there's another superficial, just like piece of square cardboard. That's opaque. But in between there there's an air gap. You know that design? - [Alex] Yep. - Usually that's not a piece of cardboard, it's a piece of tempered
glass or metal or something. - Standoffs are holding this together and also holding this out and we can cut something
really cool into this to show through the fans. - [James] Oh, that'd be badass. - We have lots of cardboard. Let's just start building it. And we'll probably learn
way more from just doing it. - I am going to understand
if you don't like this idea. Is I almost wonder if we should have a motherboard tray because
aesthetics is a factor and cable management would be better with the motherboard tray. - (blows out air) - Wait, wait, wait, wait, hold
on, hold on. Let me pitch it. Can I pitch it? - I think me and Linus are gonna have some cooperation issues, and the other team I think will work a little more fluidly together. - I'm just worried that
it's going to make this very complicated. - Full-sized motherboard tray. - [Jake] Yeah. - So it's exactly this size. And then it actually just
tabs in on all sides. It's going to be a really tight fit. This will be the most
difficult part of the build, but I think it will dramatically improve our cable management. - [Jake] How far offset are we talking? - This far off the back panel. - It's going to seriously
hurt our motherboard. It's like the mounting durability. Oh man. I don't know. That's risky. - This can still have tabs. - [Jake] Oh, yes! - Yes, there's no reason not to. - [Jake] Wait, wait, no. Because that's the bottom piece. - Which is fine. - I think we just need to start
going because it's already been 12 minutes. - Holy crap. - This is my basic idea for joining all this stuff together. At each corner, we have one of these, so panel goes on like this. - And so you're just going to cut slots into the panel that goes on here? So this will just puncture through? - Yeah, it goes like this. - Okay. That's cool. Oh it'll be, it's like an internal thing. So the wall be here and
the wall will be here. - Yeah. - And it's just like a little buttress. - So you have like the circular hinge, but you kind of need a
pin to go through it. - [Linus] Well, they did say we're allowed to have an IFixit kit. - [Jake] Oh my God. Just use the sim- - [Linus] They never said
that we can't just like. - (laughs) - Fill it with IFixit nuts? - [Interviewer] Do you think
Linus is going to cheat? - I don't know, Linus hasn't
been cheating as much lately. - I'm surprised at how useful I was. I was sort of expecting
to be just the assistant, but I got to make some key
decisions that ended up working out really well. See, aren't you glad you have me on your team? - Yeah. - Who would think of this? - A cheat and (bleep) like you! - I think James is going to be like trying to dovetail joints and stuff. - [James] Not bad. - How are we half an hour in already? We haven't done anything. What I want to know is if I wanted three identically sized pieces, how much extra do I have to account for for folds? Okay, so we definitely lost
a significant amount of it. I think we've accounted for some stuff that they're probably going to forget. - [Jake] Yeah. - While they try and like
(beep) dovetail (beep) together. - So we've got two walls. They're adjacent to the motherboard, got their washers, they're
flush to the ground. Got the SSD on there. I did do a test it, I know that I can plug my PSU
cables and data into that. And so, cool, we're ready to move on. - We definitely should have
a post for at least the GPU to stop it from sagging. - Well, I thought we could do that by having a back panel
that lets this slot in. - True, yeah. - It goes like that. That'll be nicer. - Yeah, I think you
should cut side panels. See if that they make sense in a thing, then hand them off to me. I'll cut the dovetails
and slot them together. - I just had a thought. You know how we were so concerned about cutting out fan holes
for structural rigidity? - This is adding rigidity. - Our idea of having the double fold, your idea of having the double fold, means the whole case can
rest around the frame. So we're not even worried about that. - No, it doesn't even matter. - If you do a square
hole and a round hole. - Good point. - So we need to start cutting. - Yeah. - [ Alex] And just so you know, I still want to make the horse. - You still wanna make the horse? - [Alex] Still want to make the horse. - Well, our computer would
benefit from some horsepower. So why not? I'm not, I'm not saying no. - [Alex] The only problem is
that I can only draw cows well. I can't draw horses. - Well, why not use a cow? - I just had a realization. I think this might still be
doable if we ax the basement, at least as part of this piece,
because then we don't need (pen marks paper) or that. - Yeah. We're going this way now. - Yeah. - Side panel on, we'll just keep going. - Oh my God. - Wait, no, we can't, because
we need to fold it over. But if we didn't fold over one of them. - I don't like that. - Well, I don't either. - Linus is a smarter guy than
he portrays a lot of the time, but he's also very stubborn. So if we come to a
disagreement about something, I think it could be a problem. But we're also just going
to have to push forward because we're limited on time. We can't do that because this is the tab, like it's gonna be drooping. - That's what holds the, okay fine. - That's the structure. - So you just want to deal with it later. - I don't want to deal with it later, but I don't think we have a choice. - Okay, so we use some
leftover fan screws. But then our problem
is, screwed into what? - The cardboard. - We haven't left any cardboard. - I just drew tabs. - Those are not! I don't like 'em. - This is the back of the case, but pretend it's the front. We're going to have to have fans and then that like stick
out thing we wanted with the air gap, and I just don't know
if that's going to be wide enough for that. - The frame on the outside. We can just, we have standoffs left. Exactly like that. Just cut another one
of these that just sits with the panel in it. - Presto right now, we're an hour in. - [Jake] Yeah, I guess this is your cut. - Send it right? - [Jake] If worse comes to worse, if we screw something up, we can just Sharpie the entire case. I was very impressed with
how me and Linus got along. Shoes off boys, oh my God. - I don't like it, but
I have to work on this. What do you want from me? I think Jake and I worked
together really well today. - Yeah, we're just going
to have to support this within the case, basically. I don't know how we ended up with all this space up here but. My biggest concern about
this point is I'm afraid that the motherboard just
isn't going to stand up. We didn't really, we cut it
before we had this system down. I just am afraid that there's
not enough meat on it. - As a partnership, I don't
think we worked great together because I think that the
other team was more of a team. Whereas he and I agreed on what
we were going to do and then just kind of worked alone to do it. And there were times
that I didn't really know what he was doing, and he didn't really
know what I was doing. And and we were just kind
of doing our own thing. - I do think that if we make
like a part that goes up here and like angles in both directions, and it's just held in like that, especially if it's
dovetailed from both sides, it should work. - You guys have one hour now. - I feel like on our side for the viewers, it's really going to look like
we're just not doing anything until the three minutes where we like. Don't forget, we still
need to build a computer. - [Jake] Yes. I know. - Holy shit. - This is hopefully going
to hold up the motherboard. It's also the first completed, like dovetail structure that I have. And it's really important that it works because if it doesn't, our motherboard might fall over, which would be really frickin' bad. - One hour remains. - I really want to fold this
together and feel like we've actually made some progress here. - [Alex] It's not going in. Oh no, come on out, let's
give me the good news. - This is not going to hold it at all. - [James] Okay, we need to post then. - [Andy] 30 minutes! - [Jake] It's a little wide on that edge. We can shave some off. - [Linus] Nothing that we can't work with. - Okay, holy crap. We have a PC case. Whew! - It's a box. - [James] Well, my post works. - [Alex] That was actually the part that I was most concerned about. - Now it's time to start just doing it. - [Jake] 24 Minutes. We don't have anything in the case yet. - 24? - [Alex] These are not going
together nearly as well as it did in my test piece. Here, we have this nice panel gap. It's a feature actually
for better cooling. I am very proud of this myself. That's actually pretty close to right on. - We are no longer doing the thing where we were going to have like the square cut out
on the inside for the fans and the round cut out on the outside. - [Jake] There's no (bleep) way! - Fans are in. - Hey, we're getting rid of this part. The sunk costs. - [Alex] Mr. James, I hope
it's okay that this back panel is going to suck at this point. It just needs to get on there. - I can actually use, I can have a more integrated
design where I use what I built before. And then I just bend this around a corner and it holds up the GPU. - [Linus] Oh, that's yours. - There you go. Take
that one, I got this one. - Nobody look closely at this window. - Just what? Like eyeball it. - Just eyeball it, it doesn't matter. Just go for it. - [Andy] Six minutes and nine seconds! - [Linus] Yeah. That's not helpful, Andy. We are straight up not going to finish. So is there a time penalty or what? - Yeah ours is just as (bleep). - Well, I didn't say ours was (bleep), it's just not done. - Well, ours is like done. It's just (bleep) in some sort of a way. - [Andy] Six, five, four, three, two, one! - Yeah. We're not done, so. - Stop! - Okay, we need to make a decision. - How garbage out of
ten is yours right now? - I'm a level with you. I have nothing. - Okay. - It's not a garbage, it's just not there. - Yeah. - We have like a case,
but it's like a case. - Extra half an hour? - I know how to draw a cow, sort of. Oh, this is sick. Oh, it's way better than I thought it was. Reginald milk master. - You are not going to get this in here without taking it out. - Can I just see? Can I just see. - Also, there's the fans, which is going to be a whole other thing. - Can you just humor me? - No. - Can I just see? - No. - Can I just see? I wanna see! - You suck. - Okay. - I just want to see. - Be gentle with the GPU. - You might be being pessimistic. Wait, brilliant idea. So let's pull it out. Unfold the fans. Yeah, that opens up the entire side. - Oh, Jesus. - I might have put the lines on the side that was supposed to. As opposed to yeah, it was a bit of a, - Linus, how did you screw that up? - If it helps at all, the ugly window will be exactly as nice as we were hoping. - Just lay it on top. - [James] Nice, nice, nice. - No, no, just, just
jamming in a bit in it. It's not that crazy. - Just do it. I don't care. We don't have to time. - Well, I can't reach it. And you've got to do it. - (bleep) off! (shrieks) - He's lost it ladies and gentlemen. - Back pedal? Back pedal? - We don't have time. Just go for it. No, top, top, top, top, top. - [Andy] Five, four, three, two, one. (alarm wails) - (laughs) What are you even doing? - Oh man, what didn't go wrong. I mean, we put lines
where we didn't mean to. We cut things we didn't mean to, we overlooked entire components and where they were gonna go. Our SSD is just, well it's in there. - Well, we have a kind of floppy mess. It's got elements that I think are good and it may still win. I don't know what they built over there, but I know they had trouble. - They're gonna lose, okay? - [Linus] My first
thoughts seeing their case. - [Jake] Oh my God. - Oh (bleep). We're actually up against something here. - Holy crap. I thought theirs
was going to be way crappier. - Oh, you've gotta be kidding me. The motherboard is just sitting on that. - It's just sitting on that. - I hope, I hope the judges notice this. - [Jake] Does that even count? - Will it fall apart if moved is a requirement in integrity. Our team has integrity. So if we lose, we're gonna
lose with integrity, Jake. Confidence level that I'm going to win. I've got two words for you. Lttstore.com. - When I first saw their case, ah, God damn it, right away. I was like (bleep). Right away, it's a little more like I had intended mine to be in
terms of it being a square. Pretty goddamn boring. Kinda surprised they didn't
draw anything on their case. They must've been like really not done at the three hour mark. - Wait a second, what the hell are these? Are those from an IFixit kit? Is that allowed? - Oh, they started using
the double sided tape. That's so gutty. This seems like legitimately cheating. - Literally cheating. Yeah, but it's Linus,
so what do you expect? - Judging was a mixed bag. I thought Colton was way too generous. I thought that Sarah was way too generous. I had no idea what she was
going to say because she came in as a graphic designer. Not because she was applying
to a highly technical position, but we wanted an alternative perspective. - This one, it just seems
like the parts are kind of in there, I would be afraid to move it. Lots of space to maneuver. You got lots of air ventilation there. Does it look nice? I mean, if I was six,
probably look sick, dude. What would you call that? It tantalizes your brain
cells when you look at it, like you see that cow
there and it like stirs something deep in your groin. - Three out of five. So that gives you guys a score for me of 18 out of 25. It's pretty janked, tbh. - Could extra fans, drives
or expansion cards be added? Could a different PC be
built inside this case? Absolutely, as long as you don't expect to mount it anywhere because the layout of the intake and exhaust I think is pretty much spot on. Okay. Does it look nice? Aesthetics, I gave you a three. Where you lost points
for me is that sunken IO. It is so difficult to get at that IO. And I think that that removes
pretty much all the aesthetic goodness that you packed in there. Instead of front IO,
there's a picture of it. I gave you a two. Total comes to 14. It'll do in a pinch. - You could pinch it off (laughs). - I would love to see everything
flush with this side where it's kind of like on the inside. So there's a lot of extra
space that could be filled, but with it being placed
more on the inside, I feel like all of that room
is taken up for aesthetics. It's interesting. - They even had a window for their SSD. I'm surprised the judges didn't
look at their SSD window. We didn't even have an SSD mount. Our SSD was just jammed
behind the motherboard tray. - The top lifts off, so obviously
there's a problem there, but it's SpaceX and
SpaceX lifts off, so sure. Overall, my rating is 18. - Alright, integrity. Four out of five. Yeah, it looks like you
can actually move it. Granted, I couldn't quite
see exactly how things are mounted on the inside, but from what I did see, it looked solid. - It has a motherboard tray. Dammit, nobody noticed
our motherboard tray. - [Colton] A five out
of five for modularity. - [Linus] Really? - I feel like you can do lots
of things with that case. I'm sure you can mount
some other stuff, you know. Aesthetics, gave you
guys a four out of five just because everything is so symmetrical. The only thing that was really weird, were you guys drunk when
you were cutting that hole in the back there? - [Linus] If by drunk, you mean we had a minute left, then yes. - Oh, okay, one minute left! Very safe choice. - Going with that folded
origami style was ingenious and it looks so clean. That is a grand total of 19 out of 25. - [Jake] That's good. - As far as integrity goes, I think you're a pretty good guy. - [Alex] Not until you
learn how he cheated. - These are all materials
that were provided by the contest organizer. - [Announcer] Shut up! - The whole thing looks
a lot more solid than the space box over here, yeah. Modularity. - (laughs) - So like there's no mount point for a rear fan, for example. For cooling, I actually originally gave you a three for this. There's no exhaust except that open vent actually does push a lot of air. It was upon realizing that
that I changed it to a four. - Nice! - That brings us to a total of 18. I would say that this case is serviceable. - [Linus] This is really close. - If I was to pick a case
out of either of these, I would probably pick yours. It looks a lot cleaner. - One thing I was really proud of was managing to have no marker lines on our finished case that were visible to the judges. - You could put more stuff in there. There's enough room, if you wanted to. For aesthetics, I gave
you a 4.5 out of five. It looks really nice. It's not bad for a case
out of cardboard, honestly. I'm kind of impressed. You get a 19.5 out of 25. - (screams and shouts) - Can you show them
how it can be lifted up and moved around? Whoa, Whoa, would you look at? - Let's just take a look here before we, it's attached with double sided tape. - Double sided tape
provided by the organizer. Hey guys, can we agree that we should have a piece of double sided
tape for the RGV mount, since they're supposed to be included? I would normally have
this double sided tape, assuming this hardware was new and that's exactly what I would do. I would salvage some from
here and use it there. I just came up with an
alternative use later. - Now that I think about it, he obviously had no intention
of sticking his RGB thing. He wanted that tape for the
window and he thought of it at the eleventh hour. - [Linus] The powers of mind
are not mounted, look at it! - Oh, the fans are still alive. Yeah, but once you're inside, look how awesome this bench is. - Let's take off all the parts that have any double sided tape on them. And let's have a look at this
kind of structural integrity we've got here. - [James] Goddamn, it's so good. - I didn't think either team
was going to be able to build something this functional without any tape when you first told me
about the challenge. But hey, now you guys
know that if you, too, are stuck with nothing, but you know, a big piece of cardboard, a hobby knife, a straight edge, a square, an IFixit kit, some double
sided tape that you finagled. - And a positive attitude! - And a positive attitude, You, too, can build your own case. Thanks for watching guys. Of course, big shout out to Seasonic. Look how convenient this is, too. I can just grab the sponsor's
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