- One of the unforeseen
consequences of self-isolation has been that my kids can't go to school and they can't go to
their friends' houses. So, ever since it started,
my dinning room table has been covered in
kid's school assignments and virtual play dates
over Discord in Minecraft. So in my usual fashion,
I'm gonna be solving both of these problems with technology. We're gonna finally put a
work desk into my kid's room, and in order to make it
as compact as possible, we're actually going to build the Minecraft gaming
machine right into the desk. So this MALM desk from IKEA was selected for its actually very similar
to a computer case pricing, and the rest of the components
we're actually chosen well half by us and half by
MSI who sponsored this video. Unfortunately, with all the time people have been missing at work, this one is not in such
an organized state. So wish me luck here, ladies and gentlemen 'cause this is what I've got to work with. (metal clinks) (upbeat music) Got some instructions for the desk. Got a partially built up test bench so we've got an MSI 5700 XT graphics card. Dual fan, four heat pipe
cooler with back plate. Three display port
outputs, factory overclock and lots of performance for Minecraft. Got a test bench with a
black NHD15, some CPU. I actually don't know what's in there. And an MSI extreme gaming X570 ACE. So the main features of this one are that you've got four GEN4 M.2 slots, active cooling on the chip set, an infinity mirror here, lots and lots of RGB lighting and of course, very robust
VRMs for overclocking. TX-850 80 PLUS titanium power supply, gaming keyboard, mouse
and headset from MSI. Some light Delrin. Oh this is good, labels! Front, back, mid. Vertical GPU mounting kit. Some 3600 megahertz, CL12 Trident Z RGB. Cooling fans, power cables,
Commander PRO for RGB, RGB strips for Commander PRO. Wifi antenna, Velcro strips and then a variety of fan
filters, power cables, USB splitters and. (sighs) I guess I'll go get the desk now, we'll just start throwing it
all in and see what happens. - [Yvonne] Do you need help? - Uh, no. It's better this way 'cause at least there's a camera rolling if I fall down the stairs and die. I swear it's genius. Okay. (groans) Yes. (groans) Please tell me there are
no obstacles on the stairs. Oh my legs are gonna get trapped. It smells like cat pee on the carpet here. One of the objectives for this project, was for it to be something that could be easily reproduced at home with minimal tools and no how, so the modifications to the
desk are actually pretty minor. We've got an RGB strip that's already in place here on the back so we're gonna hook that
up a little bit later, and then basically on
the bottom cabinet here where there's gonna be
a (groans) here you go. There's gonna be a door on the front. We've basically just got a
couple of 120 millimeter intakes, so that's just a hole saw
and then a regular drill bit. We've got a square hole
that was cut with a jig saw, and this little, like comb
style cable management piece and then around back, a
single hole for a power cable to go to one of our power bars, as well as a 120 millimeter exhaust. Other than that, it's just a
matter of a few holes in here and some computer hardware in there and we should be pretty much good to go. There's no manual but power supply first is as good about as any
we're gonna go ahead and leave hybrid mode on, I do want this to be as quiet as possible, 'cause this is a room where people sleep. So I think it goes there. I think this one goes right here, and this one goes here. Another way to mount the motherboard if we don't care about
getting it lifted up of the bottom of the table is to actually just put little 632 like inset things into the wood itself, we actually showed this when I did a build on the bottom of a desk, way back in the day but
what's nice about this is it lifts up the motherboard so that we can cable
manage underneath of it and all of that good stuff. I will say this about case is
that our intended to be cases, they're a little more
ergonomic to work in. (whirs) now you guys might decide to do yours slightly differently but
we will put the plans for any pieces that we
created for this build in the video description. This is one of the last
times we're gonna have access to the motherboard so
actually the M.2 boot drive is already installed in
the top slot over here but, now is a good time for me
to throw in my memory as well so this is 16 gig kit. Is that lined up now? Oh shoot I missed.
- Almost, there. - Figured it out. The taller insets are a little, meh, but if we loosen the
screws going into the desk, we can screw the
motherboard into the mounts and then put the mounts into
the desk after the fact. Wow, we got that one at the back. That motherboard is down. So now we're just gonna
tighten this back down but not too much. Have you used the drill before? - Hmm, yes. - Okay perfect, you're gonna use it again. So here's what you're gonna do. This bolts need to go
through this fan filter, through this hole and then
I'm gonna hold the fan on the other side, this is
gonna be our exhaust fan. Yup, just press it just a little bit and then it'll grab on to the right spot. (knocks) If I were to go back and have
this care package re-designed, I would probably ask for a slightly different
power supply mount, I'm a little bit fussy
about my power supply mounts just because they are so heavy but the way that this
one's intended to be use is we've got a hook and
loop, fastener pair here, and then it's kinda friction mounted against the motherboard. I had my mic turned off but putting in the front power button
was a bit of a chore, so because the desk is so thick, I couldn't really get access
to the ring at the back but basically, with a screwdriver, I was able to kinda hold it in place and now that it's screwed in, this is a good time for us to go ahead and route the power switch 'cause the more stuff we
install on the bottom here, like, you know graphics card and all that, the less access we're gonna
have to the motherboard. Modding a pc power
button is pretty simple. You can just salvage
these from any broken case and then just extend them using wires so all we need is a power switch and then power LED that's built in to our power switch up here. MSI actually has not only 12 volt RGB, they have five volt addressable
RGB and then they even have one of Corsair's stupid
proprietary connector ones built right into their motherboard. That's pretty sick, we're still
gonna need a Commander PRO because I'm gonna have a separate zones for the strips and the fans, but that's still sick. Now is as good a time as
I need to put in our RGB and fan controller so the one trick is we need to make sure
it's below this shelf. The idea is that this
shelf and this drawer are both still completely accessible and the computer is just
built in to the bottom here. So, I'm gonna go ahead and put it there with a little hook and loop fastener. The USB plug goes into the bottom of the motherboard down here, and the only other plug that
needs is a SATA power connector that I'm gonna go ahead
and run all the way under the motherboard. Now we just run another one
of these short CableMod cables and plug that in. (groans) I was been this much time on
my back since I was in college. Ey. Just kidding we all know I
didn't get laid in college. I'm not sure if it's your intent but it makes that kind
of thing more awkward when you don't reply. My kids are all downstairs
watching Wild Kratts now so I guess I'll have to put this in myself but here's a tech tip for
you guys free of charge. It is really, really
important for this fans to have filters on them
'cause they are intakes and they're gonna be right next to this carpeted floor right here, carpet can be just an
absolutely nasty dust trap and we have an intake next to carpet, it pretty much must be filtered or your computer's gonna be disgusting. Just full of cat hair, dead skin cells all that kind of nasty stuff. Another nice side effect of this is that it makes this
holes look so much better, this are from Silverstone,
they're actually magnetic. Now we're at the point
where it's time to wire up our RGB strips but unfortunately, there's no hole at the back so I'm gonna have to put a new one. I don't want saw dust
all over the motherboard. Can you grab a vacuum? You suck, I'll drill okay? - Oh, man. - Did you catch it all? - [Yvonne] I ain't sucked at all. - [Linus] No? - No.
- Wait, what really? Oh yeah I can see it from through here. That's pretty bad, oops. There we go, and I've got the RGB and the front power switch through that. Now I can bring those
down really nice and tidy. (clacks) Good job. Now, I've got all of the LED strips on the bottom of this shelf. In, in, in, in, there you go. Oh I almost forgot the
most important part, the graphics card. So we're using this aluminum rod, see it's threaded on this end. We've got a washer here so I'm just gonna run this
through the entire desk, just gonna be nice and strong. (hums) There it is. Then, just gonna tip the whole thing. Then we throw our washer
and a nut down here, tighten that up and that's it. That's the graphics card mount. Nice. (slides) Doors on. (upbeat music) Its got power, ready? Fans are all spinning
and we've got a post. For the keyboard, MSI
sent over the Vigor GK50 with low profile mechanical switches and as you can see, full
individual key RGB back lighting. It's not if I wanna plug in
the wifi or what have you. You just throw that in there and then on the other side, there's actually a little
cable management shelf, so, we can chuck my wifi junk up there. For the mouse they sent over
their Clutch GM50 mouse, this has a PMW-3330 optical sensor, it's super lightweight,
it's got RGB lighting and it's got 20 million
click rated omron switches. The Immerse 50 headphones were provided for their durable metal construction. 40 millimetered neodymium
drivers, detachable microphone and of course, RGB lighting. Oh yeah and there's inline,
volume and mute controls and all that good stuff. And finally, the cherry on top is their Optix MAG272CQR so
this is a curve gaming display with a 165 hertz refresh rate, it's 2560 by 1440 resolution, it's rated at one
millisecond response time, it's got freesync and
what else do you want? Oh yeah it's got RGB lighting of course. (techno music) Now that we've been in-game for a while, we're ready to take a
look at our thermals. It's running super quiet
even with the door closed, I've got my mic right on me and you can barely hear this
thing in the quiet profile. We are boosted up to 4.35 gigahertz. 60 degrees! No, 53. As for our GPU, with all
that fresh air coming in right next to its intake, it actually hasn't gone over 60. Minecraft is mind you a pretty light game but that's all this
machine was designed to do and it looks like it's
gonna do it just nicely. Well hey, it's running so
mission accomplished right? So thank you to MSI for
sponsoring this video, thank you to you guys for
coming along for the journey. I think it actually worked
out like shockingly well, this is clean and speaking of clean, well MSI sponsored this video so I don't have like another
sponsor to talk to you about but maybe you could check one of my previous desk PC builds where I strapped the whole
computer to the underside. That was pretty cool too. (clicks)
