THIS is what PC Heaven Looks Like!

what's up guys jay's two cents here and this is an exciting one right here if you guys have ever wondered what pc heaven looks like then you're going to stick around for today's video because today we are going to take a tour of the brand new grand reopening of the tustin micro center where the entire store was gutted rebuilt and turned into tech heaven okay so three years ago we were fortunate enough to be invited to the grand reopening of the denver store for micro center and that in itself was nuts and i mentioned back then to the executives i said you know my local store is tustin what do you guys have planned for that and we were basically given a wink and said trust us we have something special in store for tustin tustin is one of the busiest stores that they have of their 25 locations if you've been to this store you already know this is massive they have completely opened up the sales floor they have pushed all the walls back they have like just completely increased the sales floor space if you don't know what a micro center is you can basically say if you like anything that is electrical and plugs in then this is your store whether it be 3d printing build your own computers pre-built systems laptops monitors desk setup furniture power strips soldering equipment tools everything is here now we're going to focus on a few things today we can't possibly cover the entire store but i want to show you guys what's different especially if you live local to the tustin micro center this is a flagship store and they have spared no expense when it comes to what they've done here now i'm going to tell you right now in terms of product they did tell me that this store has more product in the history of micro center of any of their stores ever in fact let's go take a look build your own because we have to put their money where their mouth is and you got to see this so peripherals obviously peripherals are a huge part of any sort of setup so they've got a massive amount of peripherals keyboards mice everything from basic to rgb gaming uh pro if you look they even got the huntsman mini keyboard from razer air this has been really hard to get look at this little 60 little baby keyboard if you've seen it online the chances are they have it in stock here even some of the most obscure like you wouldn't think that a store would actually have in stock you got to order in line but as we come down here look at how far the store continues to extend again if you've never been to the tustin store it might not be coming across in translation just how massive the store has become you know i'm gonna be honest with you i'm i've never really put tv shopping in micro center in the same sentence it's always been build your own pc parts peripherals cables tools things like that but the tv section the av this [Applause] okay well you know [Music] i'm gonna start making drives to test it more often so microsoft over the last few years has actually been getting really involved with 3d printing we've always had 3d printing be a part of micro center when it first came out but they've really started getting into the creator side of it so they've got lulzbot here we've got snapmaker we've got creality stuff different sizes all your materials your filaments your tools your replacement parts taz workhorse 3d printer i just saw it was the most expensive one i'm assuming that means it's the best i mean come on that's ignorant i know but i just don't know where to start so expect to see a collaboration soon between microcenter and 3d printing where i start and for like the star wars build to be perfect for that so i'm actually standing in what used to be the old build your own which is not the pc system this is where you've got your laptops your tablets your full your si builds your pre-builts are all available here also all your monitors which are kind of flanking everything here so you can see the monitors on and in action uh which is very important when buying a monitor you can look at specs online but you need to see it and see if you like it um but you know what although this is all really cool and there's no way we could even cover a fraction of everything that's in the store we're going to go now to the part where you guys i guarantee are here to see and that is the build your own pc components i call it pc heaven and this is why so this entire side of the store is dedicated to build your own this is if i had to make a guess as to the old build your own versus the new one this is four or five times bigger than it was before so i mentioned that i'm going to be doing a live build and one of the things that i'm doing while i'm here is picking parts for that build now this is something new right here the build your own parts the custom pc builder we've already shown on the website how you can pick the parts it'll guide you through compatibility even cases it'll guide you through making sure that your motherboard you selected will fit in the kind of case that you chose uh same thing with the water coolers and the air coolers it just has all of the data to know what is compatible with each other well you can take that same concept here to the store now where you can actually use the pc builder touch screen kiosks right here where you can drill down through the same selections find all the parts you want it'll tell you what's in stock show you prices all that sort of stuff and then if you don't want to actually go around and try and find those parts you can even use the in-store pickup option from the kiosk where somebody else will pick the parts for you and then you pick it up at the customer service counter just like you would have done with your online parts selection you can do it here now in the store so instead of running around and trying to maybe find an associate or someone or wait in the queue to grab a graphics card or a cpu or whatever you get it in your build right here you get it handled then you actually cut the line technically that way but then somebody else picks it for you you pick it up you're out and it's about being quick and easy and efficient um it's not online quite yet it'll be online very soon but these are the type of functionalities that they're bringing into the store for the high tech customer experience that i was telling you about at the start of this video where it's um well not only does it build your own it's literally like self-service but full service at the same time now that's not online yet right now it's very soon and we're actually here before the store opens therefore we are going to be picking our parts old school style because although this is great for somebody that may need the guidance to picking parts i'm very old school and i'm going to pick them myself so let's go do that so one of the things we're going to be doing today is building a system that will be determining what we're going to do with but i have to pick a case for that now here they have what they call their case garage where they have over a hundred different case models on display this is just one aisle of it you can see it goes on all the way behind me but the hardest part about building a a system is trying to determine what the best case is for you and let's face it the cardboard boxes don't do them justice you need to be able to see it feel it touch it look at it see what the build is going to be like and the case garage is going to allow you to be able to do that they also have these lazy susan uh kind of displays right here so you can actually take a build like this is a complete build right here and actually turn it have a look at it i like the fact that it's spring loaded and goes back to where it's supposed to so they're not to pay someone to come here and constantly be making it straight so let's go and pick a case we need a case for this build nice thing is if you want to know more about the products too if you look down at the floor you'll see they have these barcodes throughout the the store these barcodes will allow you to actually scan it with your phone and then it will give you information about all the product that's on this aisle and even zero rate on the product that you want the cool thing is they also have an app a smart app for the phone specifically that you can log into where they've got i think it's a couple hundred bluetooth beacons here in the store that can pinpoint where you are down to a meter so if you need help you literally push a button that says i need help it puts you in a queue and then when the associate's ready to come help you they can confine you within one meter because of all the bluetooth uh beacons here in the store so no longer you can be running around trying to find somebody like i need help i need help uh you actually are gonna be able to just sign up on your phone hit the queue they'll come find you you could go look somewhere else in the store they will tell the associate where you are so you don't have to stand here and be like okay i want this case you just be over there picking out a keyboard or something like that in fact the app can even if you want to find a certain product even the bathroom you know where the bathroom is it'll even bring up a map and show you here's you here's the bathroom it's kind of like google maps for streets only it's micro maps for the store which literally will guide you anywhere i want a keyboard i want this keyboard and it will tell you where to go and it will even draw a line and you can go there the idea is to take a tech-minded store like this and use tech to make the customer experience well seamless fast efficient and high-tech so i'm kind of looking for something maybe that i haven't built in before and that's sort of the nice thing about the case garage um so they got everything sort of set up by a manufacturer too so you got your cooler master stuff you have your corsair stuff together um let's see what we got over here oh here's all your lee lee stuff it's so hard to decide it's everyone's dream job or idea to be like i just want to go have a shopping spree in a store but i'll tell you what you got a timer to this and be like hey five minutes that's not what they did but man i'll tell you right now the pressure is on i'm actually kind of digging this one right here this is the lee lee lancole 205 mesh in white i like white cases they're easier for us to film honestly because they're not there's a big old cave so we will go ahead and grab this to start our build all right so we're gonna need some storage uh they've got this huge storage wall that's actually broken up between sata ssds m.2 ssds you're spinning up or spinning drives um we're gonna go with m.2 build because there's no reason not to so let's kind of look around here i like how they have everything broken out by by brand also it makes it really easy especially when you use the barcodes to try and find something if everything's broken out by brand it makes it much easier to zero in on where you want to go so since we're going with an amd build which i've already decided got pcie gen 4 where you use a pcie gen 4 nvme it's a 980 pro up to 7000 megabytes per second read write one terabyte uh i like using m.2 because of the fact that it's clean you don't have to deal with a sata power cable you have to deal with sata data cable uh just nice and easy so can't go wrong with the 980 pro all right so this is the motherboard wall again everything broken up by brand broken out by manufacturers as well as you have your amd boards your intel boards the nice thing is everything's here for you to see all the prices are clearly visible so all your amd stuff is on this side all your intel stuff is on that side you can have them you know all mingled in they'll fight they won't get along you know just like you guys when it comes to whoever your favorite brand is okay fine that was that was a cheap shot i know but the best boards are behind the glass so this is still what i feel is one of the absolute best motherboards that you can get your hands on for amd it's rog crosshair 8 dark hero this is the one that allows you to actually set a specific all core overclock for your ryzen core your ccx's as well as an individual core overclock per ccx that way you can really dial in your best overclock we're going to be pairing that also with a 5900x so in terms of availability you can see here you got your 5900 x's all the way down to your ryzen 7s you got your ryzen 5s you got your apus here so in terms of availability if you take a look at the pricing too you can see the prices are obviously extremely reasonable it's tough times so when i said availability too look at this right not that long ago this is a shell this is this is a cabinet that had been completely empty so you can see why i say that this is like computer heaven now one of the things that i love about microcenter is the fact that they're one of the only retail stores that actually adopted the custom water cooling availability you know concept if you will so you've got your rigid ptg tubing which we need more might as well grab some over here all your different brands you've got your couplers complete water cooling kits in a box that's a thermal tape kit this is a corsair kit it's got everything you need in the box so if you need custom water blocks custom fittings we've got fittings right there behind fill individual tubes your bending cords look how long that one is i need a bending cord ours got stuck in the ceiling don't ask so i'll probably grab one of those while i'm here we've got our fluids the custom fittings like i said and these are all for the most part uh yeah we've come down here all the way to make buy one or two of these before in the past again don't ask i'm not gonna be doing a custom loop in this particular build today because of the fact that um limited time obviously so i think i'm gonna go with the iq h100i elite compelling because we have a white case this is one of those times when being tall is a good thing oh i didn't linus that i'm gonna put that one back if you're short though you might have to join that cue power supplies you name it they got it all right so everything's broken up by manufacturer as expected we got our cooler masters we got our rogs we got our g skills our power specs power specs the in-house micro center brand if you guys weren't aware here we go the rog strix 650. so this is the part everyone has been waiting for what about the gpus what about the gpus okay i'm seeing every skew in stock that's the crazy part and here's the even crazier part they're at msrp or extremely near msrp for example this is a gigabyte geforce rtx 380 ti for 11.99 that is the msrp of a 3080 ti so everything is nvidia on this side and we've got our amd cards on the other side this is where you don't want to be greedy right especially when i'm doing this kind of build i don't want to be like okay i'm going to take all of this stuff and do this 1650 for 219. they actually have 30 80s in stock look that's all three 380s there two 380s there three more there one more there mine right there i mean this is absolutely insane so i think they have the entire nation's inventory of the 6900 xt here we got liquid devils we got red devils look at this 6900 xt 6900 6900 6900 xts 1600 xt's 6900 xt 6800 xt's more 6800 xts the gaming station which is the external card 6700 xt 6700 xt 6600 xt what who did they rob more 6900 xts more liquid devils so one thing i haven't selected yet is ram so this is our ddr4 wall right here i want rgb you know me rgb is important i i'm basic so you know what i've never used before as team force i kind of want to give team force a shot all right so we're gonna go with the 32 gigs the two 16 gigabyte sticks of 3600 t-force rgb should be plenty fast for our verizon cpu [Music] digital locks wow some mission impossible stuff going on here all right thanks now obviously i need some tools and i'm not in my studio but that's okay because i got a full lineup of ifixit tools here explosion [Music] all right guys so there you go there's the build all the parts we picked here inside micro centers tustin's new grand reopening um look we took you through a tour through the store if you guys are into pc parts you're into tech you're into just pretty much anything that has to do with electronics this is going to be your heaven so what we're going to be doing with this build is later on this year probably in december the start of december this will be our first giveaway we're going to do for the month so somebody's going to have a chance to win this but if you guys want to start shopping right now you don't want until december or just learn more about micro center's tustin grand reopening check the links down the comments below you guys will find links to these parts you'll find links to the store um i can't wait to come back and check out the app when the app is active and it's got the little dot that follows you around the store where you can get in line to talk to a customer service representative you can scan the qr codes on the floor learn more about the products are in that aisle find anything in the store even the restrooms are mapped and they'll draw you a line to the restroom if you get lost so there you go guys thanks for watching huge thanks to microcenter for sponsoring today's video and bringing us here sound off down below how you guys feel about microcenter i know the most common thing i see about microcenter is i wish there was one nearby so we're lucky to live near one if you're not it's worth the drive if it's within dry hey plan a mini vacation get on a plane and fly you'll thank me later alright guys thanks for watching as always we'll see you in the next one

Channel: JayzTwoCents

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Length: 17min 6sec (1026 seconds)

Published: Thu Nov 11 2021

Reddit Comments

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Sorry to say I don't ever see a store downtown being stocked with this merchandising. I definitely advocate for something on the west side, being from the PNW (Pacific North West) they could definitely put best buy out of business out here fast, I just fear for all those beautiful parts in the grubby hands of Seattle looters lmao