- I'm not really the kind of person who piles on when somebody is already having a bad time, but here's the situation. Twitch streamer xQc reached out to me a number of weeks back asking for help with a new gaming PC. I pointed out that I'm sure anyone and their dog would be happy to send him a free gaming PC in exchange for a tweet, given his popularity. But I did offer my help if he really needed it. And then I promptly never heard anything about it, ever again, until I was streaming today. And you guys wouldn't stop talking about how apparently
horrible his build was. So given that I did offer to help, I will, with no guilt whatsoever, be critiquing xQc's PC build. I've never done a reaction video before, so, wish me luck. Just like I feel lucky to tell you about our sponsor, Ridge Wallet. Ridge Wallet wants to redefine the wallet with its compact frame
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keep your wallet bulge down and use offer code LINUS to save 10% and get free worldwide shipping. (upbeat, techno music) - We're revealing this bad boy that's going to be able to run Minecraft, unlimited FPS, uh- - Is that my face? That's my face. Why is my face on his stream? - Kay, first things first. Yeah, I want to unbox everything, but - First things first, I'm gonna set myself up on the carpet. Now we did show recently in our collab with electroBOOM, that the risk of actually
damaging your components with electrostatic
discharge is pretty low, but I probably still wouldn't go out of my way to sit on a low pile carpet and unbox computer hardware. - So the motherboard goes first. I got a Rog Crosshair VIII formula, dude. This is a very overpaid computer, okay. Some of these parts were really way more expensive than
they should have been, but it's COVID and whatnot. So it is what it is, man. - Is he actually gonna water cool? Cause that motherboard
has like, integrated chips that water cooling. - First we'll open the actual
(unintelligible) itself. This is usually like 900 bucks, but this was like at
1.7K because of scalpers, feels weird, man. - He paid seven hundred dollars? - But there's no real alternative. So this is the piece that is worth all the money, right here. Little metal bracket. Up. - Oh my God. This must be how people feel watching me handle stuff, like seemingly not carefully. I assure you guys, I know what I'm doing, but I'm not actually convinced that Felix knows what he's doing. - Ooh, I'm confused. Oh, got it. - You gotta pull out from the thing. - Okay. - Okay, put the arm the other way. - Also, most important here, the most important part of all this, is the bragging rights. So whenever you build a PC, you gotta keep all those stickers. And whenever you buy these boxes- - Okay, he's joking about this. But I actually have like
a whole sticker book with like a shiny kitty on the front. Of like old case badges from like way back, like ten, fifteen years ago. - 128 gigs of RAM juicers. So these sticks are- - Sorry. This word 'juicers'. He's now used the word juicers twice. He's got 128 gigs of RAM in a gaming PC and he's calling them juicers. I'm really not sure I'm following so far. - I want to try one PC set up with a really good computer. And if it doesn't work as
well as I thought it would, well, I'm going to kind of like break it in two, and make two PCs with my old PC and the new parts, and split in half. And we're gonna get two PCs set up. - Okay. I kind of understand what he's talking about here. So, if this single computer gaming and streaming setup doesn't work, then he can take 64 gigs of this 128 gigs of RAM, which is a lot for a gaming
and streaming machine. And put it into a separate machine. Okay. - Okay, let me do a little bit of explaining, boys. I know some of you guys
already know this, okay, and you're like a tech genius. So this is- I don't know why this
computer doesn't have it but normally, you're
gonna have two colors. These are your channels. - Eh, sometimes. - Something called dual channel, I think, or something like that. - Okay. That's very close. The memory slots are color coded. So you will correctly install
your dual channel memory, but they're not color coded
according to the channels. It's actually the other way around. They're color coded so
that your monkey brain will put two sticks in the same colors and get dual channel operation. But, it's actually the
two separate channels that are the same color. Dual channel. Now you know. - Open at the back. One, two, three, four. Now we're going to wedge the RAM inside the computer. It's backwards. - Okay. - This is normal, don't worry about it. Everybody makes that mistake. - Oh, I'm so tense right now. - I usually put this on the side that doesn't have the lever on first. - Now on the one hand
he says, "I usually..." Okay. And that's not even wrong, to put it in the side that doesn't have the latch first. But he usually, but then- - This is actually hard
and scanning your thing in Among Us, man, I'm telling you dude. Okay, am I doing this wrong? - (woman off-camera) Do you have the lever open? - Yeah. - I love the coaching from the background. Do you have the lever open? - Fortunately, it's so poorly put in that- It's gonna break. I'm going to lose it. - Why does my face keep showing up? Is this like a Twitch feature? - Stick number two. - Twitch chats already like call Linus. - It's backwards again. Dude! Okay. Next is going to be the M2 drives. Okay, what are cool technological advancements, boys, we
don't have to have these- See, this is like the old SSDs- - It's been nine minutes and he has installed the CPU and memory. Take your time. - They're very Pog. - They're very Pog? - Those are a little bit better. And they're faster. They're less of a hassle to put in. And thankfully, boys, we got two of them! - He is in for a real nightmare if he wants to configure NVMe RAID on- well really, any platform, but I've done AMD's
recently and it's not fun. - I ended with a company called Rockets and they make those in like crazy storage, like- - Okay. Sabrent, they have the Rocket lineup, up to eight terabytes. - I think that the M2 drives are hidden under here, I have to de-bolt it. - Can I just say for a moment that I love the Quebec law of English-ing? "De-bolt it". Unscrew, de-bolt, who cares. Same thing. Just gonna de-bolt it. - De-boltable attachments, transformer-looking things like that. Oh, it's just a strip. (gasps) - I've seen worse drops. - These are like support
bolts or whatever. - Standoffs. - And we're going to go set it up. - Are those SpongeBob socks? Cause I definitely approve. That really is not all the way in. Good thing Twitch chat is babysitting. Ugh, he's- no, it's still not in. - Isn't that in? I'm stupid. - Overall, I've seen far worse. I've seen far worse. - Now for the second one. - Wait, is he going to screw it in? - Uh-oh! It's a dual bolt collider, dude! The X back- the X back plate. - What. - Guys, I had to screw in the X back plate before the motherboard. - No, it's fine. - Oh, the back is open. - Okay. - I got the Kraken 773, it's what chat recommended. - I really don't know that I would buy a computer based on Twitch chats recommendations. - Pre-applied thermal paste. People say it's bad. I don't necessarily agree. I kind of like it. - People say it's bad? Nobody says pre-applied
thermal paste is bad. - Self applied paste. Not because I'm lazy. Actually, it's just because I'm lazy. - And that's a triple radiator. Wait, why is he trying
to put it in the top? - Dude, it actually doesn't fit. - I can see his Twitch chat right here telling him to call me. - No sh-- it goes inside, what the f- you guys talking about, man? - Up until this point of the video, I kind of thought he was
just playing a character. Cause he would be like, "Oh yeah, it's kind of
called this, I don't know" And then proceed to completely correctly explain what it is. Pretty much. But now I'm just really not so sure. - Remove the case, I have to remove- - Does he not know that you can remove side panels? - Dude? It can't mount, it's too big. Yeah, this just doesn't fit. It just doesn't- - He's gotta be just pretending. Like I think you guys are just suckers. I'm pretty sure Felix knows how to build a computer just fine. - Guys, removing the
case fans is a hassle. - So he a hundred percent knew that he can put the radiator in the front. He just didn't want to
remove twelve screws. I'm going to read the message I sent him. "It's possible we could get you hooked up with a system, and we'd love to collab, but surely you'd have
at least half a dozen system integrators on speed dial who could get you anything you want. If you're not in a hurry, it'd be a fun project, but we're still undergoing renovations and not in a position
to tackle anything big like the Creeper PC we built for pewds at the moment. If you're in a hurry, it may be faster to just get hooked up with a PC builder. Just let me know. Email is best for me since this is a shared inbox with many other staff here." If he wasn't willing to remove 12 screws, why build a computer? - Already pre-installed and pre-wired and already pre-settled. It's going to be terrible to remove them. - No, it's going to be
12 screws to remove. - I can't do anything. - What? Oh, he doesn't know how
to remove the front. You just gotta, you gotta pop it. - Just de-bolt the whole thing. - Yes. I think we need to
de-bolt the whole thing. - Oh wow, that's gonna be a lot of fun. Guys, they're welded to the mesh, dude. - Oh my God. No they're- - Oh, I bolt this thing over here! So I bolt this in at the top. - The speed with which he switches between Eureka moments and having no idea what's going on again. It's remarkable. - Okay, well this is
gonna be really tough. Chat, this is literally solded together. - Nooooo. - And I'll re-screw our thing manually at the top, so we can put the CPU fan intake from the side and then we make it pull. And the top is going to push or some sh--, I don't know. - Again, he's demonstrating
fairly deep knowledge. He knows that we're going to have pull fans at the front, and we're going to have
push fans at the back for balanced air flow. But then he thinks this
case is welded together. I don't- - Wait a minute. It doesn't fit. - Of course. All you have to do is you just had to leave the fans exactly where they were and just put the screws
that came with your radiator through them. We need to go way back to basics and do a for-beginners build. Like really for beginners. We need to bring in a committee of qualified beginners to ask their questions as we go and make sure that we answer every single one of them. - Dude, there's not enough space for three of them. - Why is he trying to
put three fans there? Is he faking it? - Wait, no. It doesn't go like this, does it? - Okay he turned it around. Now it's an intake. - What the fuck. It's going through the plastic. I spun this thing the both ways. And you guys said - wrong side of both. - (man off-camera) What are you yelling about dude? - The radiator should fit in here. Yes it does. - All right. We got the radiator in. - Okay. Why would you have the tubes down? Aren't they going to work
against gravity, dude? - Fun fact, in a closed loop, gravity kind of is like canceled out. You could think of it that way because gravity might pull
some of the water down, but then that equal force will push the other water up like it doesn't really matter. - Somebody said tubes down, won't fit with the GPU longer lifespan of the product. Got it. - I actually don't know if that's going to reach with the tubes on the bottom. I know it's like more optimal for the pump to last longer, but it actually just might not reach. - Oh. And then you install the thing on the bracket and then you bracket it in. - There we go. - Ahhh, no, it's not the same size dude. - No, no, it's fine. You got the other holes. It's okay. - It doesn't fit, dude. - It does. It's fine. - Well, we're going to
be using those then. Yeah, we have to use those then. - People are going to tell him to flip it around, right? Oh no, no, no, no, no. No no. - The paste is gone. - Oh my God. That stuff is impossible to clean. - This one. - No, no it doesn't go
on that side of that. - Now how do we do it? What? - Wait, is he gonna put one course air fan and then like- - Dude the fan's on the wrong side, man. Guys, the wire's on the other side. - Fans can go on any side
of the radiator you want. It doesn't matter. If they're on this side, then they blow. And if they're on this side, then they suck. It's fine. - The wire goes inside the computer. - Yes. - This goes on the outside. - Good. - This is going to hang
the whole thing together. - Yes. - The fans then need to go
inside the fucking bracket. - Not really, it doesn't matter. - So like this, then. - That's fine. - The bracket goes at the back, and then the bracket
goes inside at the back. Logo, outside. Pumps, inside. - Okay. - I had it right the whole time, dude. I literally, from the start- - Hmm, I don't know if you
had it right the whole time, but yes, fundamentally what you're saying is sound. So the logo of the sticker, on the hub, okay, that points towards the direction the air goes. This is, this is fine. - It needs to say NZXT on the way upwards. - Wait. - Over the radiator. - This is like- - So radiator facing outside the case - It is completely installed just fine. I mean the fans, the cables are coming off in a way that the cable management is going to suck. But it's mostly fine. - It only fits this way, I think. - No, he does have the tubes at the top. So yes, the fans are sticking
right up next to the window. Okay. I mean that's not going to affect the functionality of the machine. - Rogs Strix gaming graphics card geforce RTX 3090 nvidia Asus aura OC, o'clock, 2.40 GPU juicer. There it is. - I don't think that's going to fit. That thing - It's an enormous card. If it wasn't COVID, I would just fly out there
and build it for him. - I can't screw it. It's actually not lined up. - Oh, that, no, that's fine. You just gotta, you just gotta kinda, you know, get the screw in there and kind of, nyeah. - Dude, I'm pushing right now. - I can see how that would be really confusing for people. - I think this case is just trash. I mean look, and even then. Even then, the GPU slot doesn't line up, dude. Unless you're meant to
use the squares part, but I don't think so. - No, please don't do that. No, that's not necessary. - You just don't get there, dude. Look at the holes, look at em! - So much anger. - You're not going to fit this in there. - I mean. - Yeah, no. I just thought about this. This is fucking dumb. - It's not like he has a completely invalid point. The manufacturing tolerances of computer cases and the
way that PCI backplates sometimes don't quite have the mounting holes line up can be extremely frustrating. Especially for a new builder. And I can see how, if you've spent, you know, two grand on a graphics card you don't want to be like pushing and pulling on it. But the reality of it is, a lot of the time when
I'm manhandling stuff, and I seem really careless, I am actually just kind of doing what you need to do. You gotta have, you gotta put some force on it sometimes. You've got to understand the kinds of costs that
PC case manufacturers are targeting. It's just, it kind of
comes with the territory. - Okay. I'm going to
rebox some of that stuff. I can't shove it in, need a new case. - There you go, Crosshair. Honest consumer review:
your case, a disaster. The good news is I don't think
any of this stuff is broken. Okay. Now I feel worse because at the beginning it was pretty clear that he was just pretty
much knew what he was doing but was kind of like playing a character. Then by the end, it's obvious that he was ready to
chuck the GPU at the wall. So Felix, if you're watching this, my offer still stands. I DM'ed you. I would be happy to walk you through this. We can make that case work. You can, you can destroy that case. Get rid of it, do whatever you need to do. Donate it, get a different one. But, just let me know. Cause I'm here for you, my fellow Canadian. Just like I'm here for my audience to tell them about FreshBooks. FreshBooks is the easy-to-use accounting software specifically designed with you in mind: The small business owner. FreshBooks has everything you need to manage your books including invoicing, expenses, time-tracking, and more. And it's got built-in automation. So you can spend less time invoicing, expensing, and tracking projects, and more time doing what matters most - growing your business. So whether you're a tradesperson, creative agency, or YouTuber, they've got a plan that's right for you. And, if you're having trouble, their award-winning
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He showed the xqKaren picture for xQc lmao
I love the fact Linus gives Xqc the benefit of the doubt in that he's pretending haha
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Linus' face when X says "dual bolt collider" lmao
he needs to watch this
He absolutely must watch this, because watching xqc trying to build was so heart wrenchingly painful, and having Linus make sure he’s doing the right things makes everything feel so much better
so he DonoWalled Linus lmao