The Grand Reveal: A $700 Gaming Build

It's time to reveal our latest gaming build, and we're excited to show off this beautiful rig. But first, let's take a look at the case that brought us here. We've got a sleek and modern design, with a focus on compactness and style. The case was purchased for $60, and it really made a big impact in terms of the overall aesthetic of the build.

As we remove the two slot covers, we can see the graphics card in all its glory. It's a lot to take in, but the camera doesn't lie - this is a serious gaming rig. We're using the new 12th gen CPU, paired with an 8th gen graphics card. The power supply was chosen carefully to ensure that it would be future-proof, and we're excited to see how it all comes together.

Now that we've removed the covers, let's take a closer look at the components. We've got a new motherboard, a high-performance CPU, and an 8th gen graphics card. The case is designed to work seamlessly with these components, and we can see that it's been carefully thought out. The Power supply is a big part of this build, and we're using a high-quality unit that should provide plenty of power for our system.

The last step in the build was connecting the eight-pin connector to the motherboard. This required a bit of care, as the clips on the top side of the connector needed to be aligned properly. But with a little patience, we were able to get it done successfully. To finish off the build, we've added some zip ties to tidy up any stray cables and keep everything looking neat and organized.

Finally, let's take a look at how our system performs. We've plugged in the power cord and HDMI cable, and powered on the system. The result is impressive - this system should handle even the most demanding games with ease. We're running Windows 10 on one of the SSDs, which provides plenty of storage for our operating system and programs.

The Moment of Truth

With everything powered on, it's time to see how our system performs in real-world usage. We've updated some drivers and installed a new graphics card, but we should be good to go. Let's flip the switch and see what happens...

Ah, perfect! The system boots up smoothly, and we're greeted by a beautiful desktop interface. The lighting on the system looks great, and we can see that all of our components are working together seamlessly.

A Tour of the Build

As we take a closer look at the build, we can see that everything has been carefully thought out. The Power supply is well-utilized, providing plenty of power for our system. The graphics card is cooled by a beefy air cooler, which should keep temperatures in check even during intense gaming sessions.

We're also pleased to see that the motherboard has plenty of features, including USB ports, SATA ports, and an HDMI output. This makes it easy to connect peripherals and accessories, and we can see that everything has been carefully routed for maximum cable management.

Conclusion

Overall, we're thrilled with how this build turned out. The $700 budget was used wisely, and we've ended up with a powerful gaming system that should last for years to come. We want to thank Matthew for being such a great support, and for allowing us to build and showcase his new rig. If you have any questions or comments, be sure to let us know!

A Word from the Builder

I'm thrilled with how my new build turned out. I think it looks really modern and sleek, and I appreciate the attention to detail that's gone into every aspect of the build. The case was a great choice, as it helped to keep costs down while still providing plenty of room for our components.

I also want to thank Micro Center for their support - having them just an hour away made it easy to pick up my new parts and get started on building my rig. If you're in the area, I highly recommend checking them out.

And finally, a special thanks to everyone who watched our build today! We appreciate your feedback and support, and we can't wait to share more builds with you in the future.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enthis is the Charlotte North Carolina Micro Center the newest Micro Center in their Fleet and the largest by square footage this is the CPU section and I want to kick things off by mentioning that if you are a new customer to Microcenter you can get $25 off your CPU of choice and they have plenty to choose from not just team red but also team blue literal cabinets full of them you actually get pretty decent bundles on these as well have I mentioned how big this store is there are plenty of sweet deals to be had check out the links in the video description including Charlotte specific deals if you live in and around the Charlotte North Carolina area I uh I just want everyone to know this is what Raymond looked like to film that previous shot hey stay with me that didn't go as planned the antech C7 argb is Peak mid Tower with 4mm tempered glass panoramic panels a multi-directional air intake design and plenty of mesh throughout each case comes equipped with four fans three of which are reverse blade 12 mil intakes and the four a 140 mil exhaust providing subtle and elegant argb Vibes the C7 also supports back connect motherboards for Ultra Clean hidden cable PC builds like the one you're seeing here and can house up to dual 360 mm radiators for optimal Cooling and at the rear much of the same ample space clean cable routing lines and convenient panels to cover any stragglers the antex C7 argb is the full package and you can learn more about it by clicking the link below now in this episode we have Matthew with a pretty old system I think ninth gen Intel platform and something like a GTX 1070 thought he was definitely a great candidate for an upgrade let's go see what he's got oh here he is hey Matthew right how you doing all right so this is a a pretty old rig this is what an obsidian 750 course air wow it's been a while since I've seen one of these so how long ago did you build it um I built it roughly around 2014 with my friend James over the years I've upgraded the CPU motherboard and the ram wow okay so what uh what do you currently have in it uh 97,000 K in there with 2 8 gig gab of Ram with uh G 7390 UD yeah z790 yeah okay and then a GTX 1070 for the graphics cards yeah uh 850 wat that's actually a decent power supply here 850 wat GQ looks like you got a few hard dis drives you got a lot a lot of storage it looks like lot of storage drives in there okay are you looking to migrate all of that over to the new rig probably not just some of okay okay um is like a a new case on your radar or do you want to keep like the old kind of like vintage look I think this one needs an upgrade yeah okay so we'll put that on the list for sure uh I actually I think every contestant up to this point has been able to upgrade their case Okay they've been able to make it work with the budget and upgrade other you know larger more uh noteworthy components as well so uh okay it is nice that we do have a a beefier power supply here I think it's going to be a nice start for us maybe we can recycle that in the new rig but uh everything else we're going to we're going to try to hit in this this one microcenter's got some good bundles so maybe we could start there and try to squeeze a graphics card in as well depending on what you spin speaking of it's time to bring out the wheel so Matthew we have a physical wheel this time around I figured that would be important uh last season was kind of lame so if you don't mind standing beside that um there are a couple things you probably want to know uh the numbers range from 600 USD up to 12200 okay uh and you have a chance to land on one of these purple uh pie slices which have $100 each on them so you're going to add $100 to whatever your next spin is if you land on one of these first okay and you can land on this multiple times which means in theory you could win several thousand dollars so if you want you can spin this thing literally as hard as you can there we go and that's a proper spin 700 bucks okay we are stuck in everything under a th000 I don't know why we haven't gotten a bigger number yet but 700 bucks is still a lot of money I think we still do a lot with that uh is there anything in mind that you want to start with knowing that that's the budget we're working with I feel like CPU first the good thing is and this is the best place to buy a bundle so we can start there all right so do you have a preference uh I know you have Intel currently are you like do you have you know I've never tried either I never tried AMD I tried an AMD uh craft but never an AMD processor you can start off with like a 5800 X 3D bundle 329 that's going to have a 16 gig of ddr4 in it and a b550 motherboard you want to step up to am5 a 7700x b650 and 32 gigs of ddr5 for 379 power supply is good we can recycle that maybe a platform like this we can check out Intel stuff as well a case a cooler not sure how much money we're going to have left over for a graphics card though right that's the thing so we can keep maybe this one in mind this one look good okay and then we'll check out Intel's as well now for Intel I actually happen to think that some of these Intel bundles are better we're pretty much at end of life with ddr4 but it will save you money in the now if you went with that instead of something a bit uh bit newer I think the Intel is looking way better it's looking way better yeah I had a feeling uh this one actually I think this was a bundle that someone else chose earlier uh and I think episode one or two uh and this was a great value at 250 16 gigs of RAM you can always upgrade that later z790 motherboard core I 5 12600 KF that's going to leave you a lot lot of room in your budget for a graphics card a case and a cooler yeah let's just do that one want to do this one here yeah I think that's a wise choice my friend right so we've got the z790 pro from MSI we've got the 12600 k f so no integrated Graphics here and speaking of memory swaps we actually were able to swap out the kit that came with the bundle uh with a Vengeance lpx kit that matches what he currently has in a system so we can migrate that kit over to this new build and have 32 gigs in total instead of 16 not bad almost the same price as well all right look at that very humbling right underneath 409s now this card does get some hate online but if you're coming from like really old stuff like 10 series and older it's fine it's okay I'm still going to be attacked for saying this but it's okay so if you wanted Le and Lee looks like the cheapest you're going to get is probably that 206 montech King 95 for 80 bucks H5 flow 90 bucks this is RGB baked in as well 8 hours later all right I'm going to get the cgar dual face RGB temper glass yeah do face so you can swap the panels out right get air if you want which is probably recommended 65 bucks it's a good price so while we're waiting for somebody to get the cougar case from way up there I was on Amazon and I was looking at large cooler options for you if you wanted an air cooler you know Micro Center price matches oh so we were about 10 bucks over and turns out they have the dark Rock Pro 5 on Amazon for $79.90 that's 20 bucks cheaper than Microcenter currently has it for sale and Micro Center will honor this price so we can save 20 bucks get ourselves a beefy Tower cooler and still work it into the budget wow that's not bad no so just one option if you wanted that would very comfortably fit in the budget if you went with that case and this cooler I think that they'll also fit dimensionally we can confirm that with the guys okay so there's just something to throw out there you know what let's do it have have you ever been told you look like Jesse Eisenberg very often I had to say it I was like I was getting heavy Jesse Eisenberg vibes so that leaves us with like 80 something and that be quiet dark Rock Pro 5 is like right at 80 bucks price matched so we should be right in under budget all right cool so let's go grab that for the last thing so again I don't want to push this on you if you if you want something else that's totally fine I like these coolers but there's there's a lot of other stuff we could look at um let's just get that okay this is simple okay we do have 240s if you want a 240 we could probably make that work but I'm good okay I like I like air cooling anyway peace of mind that's what I'm running in my current building anyway so all right let's bring this to the front tally it all up I think I think we're right on the money yeah I'll tell you what Matthew if we were going to reuse that old case of yours all the cleaning gear you could want is like right here before check out so if it came to that wouldn't be the end of the world so this is pre price match and look at that there we go that brings us right under that $700 cap sweet all right Matthew so uh a few things we've got to do to start we've got to harvest some of the stuff that we're going to be moving to the new rig such your power supply your old Ram since we have it matched with the new stuff now and some of your storage drives right not all of them I think you're going to keep maybe a hard drive or two in there yeah okay for maybe like a repurposed rig okay so this is a pretty dusty one I'm going to have you help me cuz if I'm going to get my hands dirty I want you to get your hands dirty too that's fair so we'll get some uh zip tie Cutters wire cutters and things we'll clean all this up and try to pull the power supply off first I guess all right one more screw here if you want to pull down let's see I'll get the retention clip if you want to pull that card out there you go going to get these SSD connected these are the two drives going in the new system one of these has his boot drive on it and uh well yes we could have maybe squeezed in an m.2 I think that it was important that uh we save that money for cooling and for a case just to revamp everything these are still plenty fast and you can always upgrade later going to get our ddr4 out there we go a lot of people don't know this with their Vengeance lpx memory actually get some plastic peel here on one side this is from his old kit so this entire time he had no idea that it was here and I'd reckon a majority of folks that have this memory in their systems right now have haven't taken that off you know I I don't know why we took this out in hindsight we're ready to remove the power supply and I think we just got ahead of ourselves so we're going to put that back in and this rig is still like 80 90% complete so if you want to repurpose this you definitely could ah look at that Matthew I caught you little bit of a cobweb down there uhoh this is pcdc worthy so we've got the power supply out we've got couple CA cables for the two ssds and his 16 gig kit of ddr4 now it's time to reassemble the new platform and throw some of the stuff into the new build so out comes the motherboard we're going to set this on top of its box use this as a sort of a assembly bench now we've got our 12600 KF remember there's no integrated graphics on this chip and there she is I've got to say getting this included in a $250 bundle with a z790 motherboard and 16 gigs of ddr4 that's pretty impressive in she goes our socket looks good nice and gentle here give it a little wiggle she ain't going nowhere lowerer that down lower the retention arm and we'll save this for a rainy day Matt's going to take care of oh my God oh my God okay hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on sorry maybe uh maybe maybe I'll do this how about I'll do that one and uh where's the other identical di that one should be this one here okay so I'll do the first two but you take care of the second two there you go all right well uh scanning around that first slot there and this is looks like a resistor it's it's some SMD that just popped off the board I think when that first M was going in uh this is probably going to keep the system from posting and it's too fine to just fix with like a makeshift soldering kit we could pick up here at Micro Center that uh that's not good so if you notice this dim here has a small SMD off to the uh far left from your perspective and on this second dim it is missing and entirely so that's where it came off I suppose it's better that it happened on RAM than on the motherboard cuz this is cheaper and easier to replace moving on then we're going to slide this bracket for the cooler under the CPU sweet sweet peel you can see my beautiful work of art there thermal paste usually put this on after the bracket but uh I got this backwards a second ago it is different than the Shadow Rock 3 we worked with earlier so we're going to tighten this down on she goes make sure everything is aligned sort of like that you can see we've got that decent clearance here above our ddr4 and the last piece of the puzzle the be quiet cover it's magnetic that's sweet and a little bit of Peel now this is why cougar calls this case the duo face that is because has two different front panels so right now we've got the the glass one here and this just comes off it's held in by uh four different points we can snap this new one on in its place I can get it aligned that there and there you go now you have a case that's more airf flow oriented so you get the best of both worlds for 65 bucks that's not too bad it's going to fasten down a few extra standoffs for his ATX motherboard of course they get caught like right away so this is going to take some extra Force I don't have my tool that lets me torque these down carefully align things tighten down the board now you know one thing that's really nice about this Duo face is that it's wide enough to accommodate larger uh Tower coolers like this dark Rock Pro 5 wanted to make sure if that before we bought everything cuz we've made that mistake recently see the PCS too yeah cool that's awesome Al I'm sure he's around it a lot then huh that's cool man oh that's awesome here I got you something $50 gift card wow yeah yeah I appreciate you no thanks for swinging by it's it helps us when when you know folks come and Shop while we're filming come say hi it's it's uh it really is it's big help we appreciate it that's just a small Tok toen to that so yeah no worries yeah sure yeah you want to come on this side no you're good man hey this nice to meet you I appreciate you cool thank you so much hi another camera over there hi how's it going here I've got I got you a little something $50 microne gift card thank you so much yeah no worries you guys take care I appreciate you it's convenient we have two 2 and2 in SSD trays we're going to load up both of his drives these Bad Boys I Tried to have Matthew do this with the cage in and it was a disaster so removing it just makes a lot of sense I'm just going to tighten things down take care of eight8 pin APS up top Matthew's got that 24 pin there there you go and that last one there that's for the RGB Fan Hub definitely want to make sure we remove this first oh the grand reveal minus the anti-static bag it's always a little underkill when that is in the way oo la la we're just going to remove the two slot covers now all right Matthew it's Redemption time yep you slot the graphic skir in there's a lot of uh precious material on the line here I think you got it yeah I think you got it you know the camera I know not everyone's used to the camera and it can make things a little jarring for folks I appreciate you guys being so comfortable with uh with being on camera for us make sure that it is aligned before you push down okay I think that was a good pop this time yes not a bad one all right yeah looks good and uh the last thing to do is connect that eight pin there I think you have to flip it upside down actually yeah the clips on the top side very nice so what we can do we'll take a zip tie and we'll tie this behind this so it just looks like one cable instead of like this ugly like Daisy chained one just keeps it looking a little cleaner finishing screwing into the G the G you into the chassis nice just going to put these covers back on and here we are uh this came out quite nicely the card is a little small but uh I like that uh it just looks much more modern now compared to your old rig the case helped a ton I personally am glad that you worked the case into the budget I think it I think it needed to be a little more modern although you some folks will swear by the old stuff nothing wrong with the 750 but uh this just looks much more compact much more filled out got a nice beefy air cooler all right so now we're going to take this to the knowledge bar they have a nice little kiosk where we can plug this in uh to power as well as an HDMI cable with a monitor sitting there so make sure that this turns on and posts it should actually load into Windows too if you already have Windows on one of those ssds yeah yes okay cool so maybe update some drivers and things since you're going from 9th gen to 12th gen but uh that'll be something we can check very quickly Moment of Truth yep here we go you ready go ahead flip the switch let's do it pretty much a new build so so no reason to think that it wouldn't turn on you're good just give a second yeah there you go wow that lighting actually looks okay I'm surprised for a $60 case and we're just waiting for something on the screen now come on hey there we go and since you're using your old ssds make sure that you uninstall your old Graphics drivers I would DD you anyway just to be on the safe side and you should be largely good to go so Matthew what do you think at the end of the today I love it yeah yeah I think this is a great use of 700 bucks you had a a different approach I think than some of the others because you had a power supply that was actually good enough to be brought into the new rig um so you kind of already future prooof that ahead of time which I think was really smart that opened up some of the budget for a new case and an even beefier uh Power cooler than we otherwise would have been able to afford right so I think you did very well there I really like this I think it looks really modern I think you spent the money well and uh hopefully you enjoy this for years to come I will thank you so much yeah no worries dude there's just one thing I forgot to do before I send you on your way going to zip tie this extra daisy chain eight pin just to keep it looking a little cleaner here and we'll trim it down we'll rotate the end of that zip tie to the top so you can't really see it now are you a local Matthew yes I am cool how far do you live from about an hour away hour away oh that's not bad so if you ever have any problems you ever want to upgrade your rig you could uh just drive an hour down to a Micro Center I I would love to have mic Center an hour away from me but Orlando Florida is not getting the love that I wish we could sadly no it's nice uh appreciate you coming out yeah appreciate you too and uh you left me hanging for like 20 seconds there by the way I'm sorry just letting you know and uh hopefully you all enjoyed this one as well matth you're a great support I appreciate you being on camera you did very well thank you so much and uh I'm you did well with the budget as well I say we got a nice upgrade in big transition from what he started with and that's the entire point of the hero thank you so much for watching and uh stick around for the next onethis is the Charlotte North Carolina Micro Center the newest Micro Center in their Fleet and the largest by square footage this is the CPU section and I want to kick things off by mentioning that if you are a new customer to Microcenter you can get $25 off your CPU of choice and they have plenty to choose from not just team red but also team blue literal cabinets full of them you actually get pretty decent bundles on these as well have I mentioned how big this store is there are plenty of sweet deals to be had check out the links in the video description including Charlotte specific deals if you live in and around the Charlotte North Carolina area I uh I just want everyone to know this is what Raymond looked like to film that previous shot hey stay with me that didn't go as planned the antech C7 argb is Peak mid Tower with 4mm tempered glass panoramic panels a multi-directional air intake design and plenty of mesh throughout each case comes equipped with four fans three of which are reverse blade 12 mil intakes and the four a 140 mil exhaust providing subtle and elegant argb Vibes the C7 also supports back connect motherboards for Ultra Clean hidden cable PC builds like the one you're seeing here and can house up to dual 360 mm radiators for optimal Cooling and at the rear much of the same ample space clean cable routing lines and convenient panels to cover any stragglers the antex C7 argb is the full package and you can learn more about it by clicking the link below now in this episode we have Matthew with a pretty old system I think ninth gen Intel platform and something like a GTX 1070 thought he was definitely a great candidate for an upgrade let's go see what he's got oh here he is hey Matthew right how you doing all right so this is a a pretty old rig this is what an obsidian 750 course air wow it's been a while since I've seen one of these so how long ago did you build it um I built it roughly around 2014 with my friend James over the years I've upgraded the CPU motherboard and the ram wow okay so what uh what do you currently have in it uh 97,000 K in there with 2 8 gig gab of Ram with uh G 7390 UD yeah z790 yeah okay and then a GTX 1070 for the graphics cards yeah uh 850 wat that's actually a decent power supply here 850 wat GQ looks like you got a few hard dis drives you got a lot a lot of storage it looks like lot of storage drives in there okay are you looking to migrate all of that over to the new rig probably not just some of okay okay um is like a a new case on your radar or do you want to keep like the old kind of like vintage look I think this one needs an upgrade yeah okay so we'll put that on the list for sure uh I actually I think every contestant up to this point has been able to upgrade their case Okay they've been able to make it work with the budget and upgrade other you know larger more uh noteworthy components as well so uh okay it is nice that we do have a a beefier power supply here I think it's going to be a nice start for us maybe we can recycle that in the new rig but uh everything else we're going to we're going to try to hit in this this one microcenter's got some good bundles so maybe we could start there and try to squeeze a graphics card in as well depending on what you spin speaking of it's time to bring out the wheel so Matthew we have a physical wheel this time around I figured that would be important uh last season was kind of lame so if you don't mind standing beside that um there are a couple things you probably want to know uh the numbers range from 600 USD up to 12200 okay uh and you have a chance to land on one of these purple uh pie slices which have $100 each on them so you're going to add $100 to whatever your next spin is if you land on one of these first okay and you can land on this multiple times which means in theory you could win several thousand dollars so if you want you can spin this thing literally as hard as you can there we go and that's a proper spin 700 bucks okay we are stuck in everything under a th000 I don't know why we haven't gotten a bigger number yet but 700 bucks is still a lot of money I think we still do a lot with that uh is there anything in mind that you want to start with knowing that that's the budget we're working with I feel like CPU first the good thing is and this is the best place to buy a bundle so we can start there all right so do you have a preference uh I know you have Intel currently are you like do you have you know I've never tried either I never tried AMD I tried an AMD uh craft but never an AMD processor you can start off with like a 5800 X 3D bundle 329 that's going to have a 16 gig of ddr4 in it and a b550 motherboard you want to step up to am5 a 7700x b650 and 32 gigs of ddr5 for 379 power supply is good we can recycle that maybe a platform like this we can check out Intel stuff as well a case a cooler not sure how much money we're going to have left over for a graphics card though right that's the thing so we can keep maybe this one in mind this one look good okay and then we'll check out Intel's as well now for Intel I actually happen to think that some of these Intel bundles are better we're pretty much at end of life with ddr4 but it will save you money in the now if you went with that instead of something a bit uh bit newer I think the Intel is looking way better it's looking way better yeah I had a feeling uh this one actually I think this was a bundle that someone else chose earlier uh and I think episode one or two uh and this was a great value at 250 16 gigs of RAM you can always upgrade that later z790 motherboard core I 5 12600 KF that's going to leave you a lot lot of room in your budget for a graphics card a case and a cooler yeah let's just do that one want to do this one here yeah I think that's a wise choice my friend right so we've got the z790 pro from MSI we've got the 12600 k f so no integrated Graphics here and speaking of memory swaps we actually were able to swap out the kit that came with the bundle uh with a Vengeance lpx kit that matches what he currently has in a system so we can migrate that kit over to this new build and have 32 gigs in total instead of 16 not bad almost the same price as well all right look at that very humbling right underneath 409s now this card does get some hate online but if you're coming from like really old stuff like 10 series and older it's fine it's okay I'm still going to be attacked for saying this but it's okay so if you wanted Le and Lee looks like the cheapest you're going to get is probably that 206 montech King 95 for 80 bucks H5 flow 90 bucks this is RGB baked in as well 8 hours later all right I'm going to get the cgar dual face RGB temper glass yeah do face so you can swap the panels out right get air if you want which is probably recommended 65 bucks it's a good price so while we're waiting for somebody to get the cougar case from way up there I was on Amazon and I was looking at large cooler options for you if you wanted an air cooler you know Micro Center price matches oh so we were about 10 bucks over and turns out they have the dark Rock Pro 5 on Amazon for $79.90 that's 20 bucks cheaper than Microcenter currently has it for sale and Micro Center will honor this price so we can save 20 bucks get ourselves a beefy Tower cooler and still work it into the budget wow that's not bad no so just one option if you wanted that would very comfortably fit in the budget if you went with that case and this cooler I think that they'll also fit dimensionally we can confirm that with the guys okay so there's just something to throw out there you know what let's do it have have you ever been told you look like Jesse Eisenberg very often I had to say it I was like I was getting heavy Jesse Eisenberg vibes so that leaves us with like 80 something and that be quiet dark Rock Pro 5 is like right at 80 bucks price matched so we should be right in under budget all right cool so let's go grab that for the last thing so again I don't want to push this on you if you if you want something else that's totally fine I like these coolers but there's there's a lot of other stuff we could look at um let's just get that okay this is simple okay we do have 240s if you want a 240 we could probably make that work but I'm good okay I like I like air cooling anyway peace of mind that's what I'm running in my current building anyway so all right let's bring this to the front tally it all up I think I think we're right on the money yeah I'll tell you what Matthew if we were going to reuse that old case of yours all the cleaning gear you could want is like right here before check out so if it came to that wouldn't be the end of the world so this is pre price match and look at that there we go that brings us right under that $700 cap sweet all right Matthew so uh a few things we've got to do to start we've got to harvest some of the stuff that we're going to be moving to the new rig such your power supply your old Ram since we have it matched with the new stuff now and some of your storage drives right not all of them I think you're going to keep maybe a hard drive or two in there yeah okay for maybe like a repurposed rig okay so this is a pretty dusty one I'm going to have you help me cuz if I'm going to get my hands dirty I want you to get your hands dirty too that's fair so we'll get some uh zip tie Cutters wire cutters and things we'll clean all this up and try to pull the power supply off first I guess all right one more screw here if you want to pull down let's see I'll get the retention clip if you want to pull that card out there you go going to get these SSD connected these are the two drives going in the new system one of these has his boot drive on it and uh well yes we could have maybe squeezed in an m.2 I think that it was important that uh we save that money for cooling and for a case just to revamp everything these are still plenty fast and you can always upgrade later going to get our ddr4 out there we go a lot of people don't know this with their Vengeance lpx memory actually get some plastic peel here on one side this is from his old kit so this entire time he had no idea that it was here and I'd reckon a majority of folks that have this memory in their systems right now have haven't taken that off you know I I don't know why we took this out in hindsight we're ready to remove the power supply and I think we just got ahead of ourselves so we're going to put that back in and this rig is still like 80 90% complete so if you want to repurpose this you definitely could ah look at that Matthew I caught you little bit of a cobweb down there uhoh this is pcdc worthy so we've got the power supply out we've got couple CA cables for the two ssds and his 16 gig kit of ddr4 now it's time to reassemble the new platform and throw some of the stuff into the new build so out comes the motherboard we're going to set this on top of its box use this as a sort of a assembly bench now we've got our 12600 KF remember there's no integrated graphics on this chip and there she is I've got to say getting this included in a $250 bundle with a z790 motherboard and 16 gigs of ddr4 that's pretty impressive in she goes our socket looks good nice and gentle here give it a little wiggle she ain't going nowhere lowerer that down lower the retention arm and we'll save this for a rainy day Matt's going to take care of oh my God oh my God okay hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on sorry maybe uh maybe maybe I'll do this how about I'll do that one and uh where's the other identical di that one should be this one here okay so I'll do the first two but you take care of the second two there you go all right well uh scanning around that first slot there and this is looks like a resistor it's it's some SMD that just popped off the board I think when that first M was going in uh this is probably going to keep the system from posting and it's too fine to just fix with like a makeshift soldering kit we could pick up here at Micro Center that uh that's not good so if you notice this dim here has a small SMD off to the uh far left from your perspective and on this second dim it is missing and entirely so that's where it came off I suppose it's better that it happened on RAM than on the motherboard cuz this is cheaper and easier to replace moving on then we're going to slide this bracket for the cooler under the CPU sweet sweet peel you can see my beautiful work of art there thermal paste usually put this on after the bracket but uh I got this backwards a second ago it is different than the Shadow Rock 3 we worked with earlier so we're going to tighten this down on she goes make sure everything is aligned sort of like that you can see we've got that decent clearance here above our ddr4 and the last piece of the puzzle the be quiet cover it's magnetic that's sweet and a little bit of Peel now this is why cougar calls this case the duo face that is because has two different front panels so right now we've got the the glass one here and this just comes off it's held in by uh four different points we can snap this new one on in its place I can get it aligned that there and there you go now you have a case that's more airf flow oriented so you get the best of both worlds for 65 bucks that's not too bad it's going to fasten down a few extra standoffs for his ATX motherboard of course they get caught like right away so this is going to take some extra Force I don't have my tool that lets me torque these down carefully align things tighten down the board now you know one thing that's really nice about this Duo face is that it's wide enough to accommodate larger uh Tower coolers like this dark Rock Pro 5 wanted to make sure if that before we bought everything cuz we've made that mistake recently see the PCS too yeah cool that's awesome Al I'm sure he's around it a lot then huh that's cool man oh that's awesome here I got you something $50 gift card wow yeah yeah I appreciate you no thanks for swinging by it's it helps us when when you know folks come and Shop while we're filming come say hi it's it's uh it really is it's big help we appreciate it that's just a small Tok toen to that so yeah no worries yeah sure yeah you want to come on this side no you're good man hey this nice to meet you I appreciate you cool thank you so much hi another camera over there hi how's it going here I've got I got you a little something $50 microne gift card thank you so much yeah no worries you guys take care I appreciate you it's convenient we have two 2 and2 in SSD trays we're going to load up both of his drives these Bad Boys I Tried to have Matthew do this with the cage in and it was a disaster so removing it just makes a lot of sense I'm just going to tighten things down take care of eight8 pin APS up top Matthew's got that 24 pin there there you go and that last one there that's for the RGB Fan Hub definitely want to make sure we remove this first oh the grand reveal minus the anti-static bag it's always a little underkill when that is in the way oo la la we're just going to remove the two slot covers now all right Matthew it's Redemption time yep you slot the graphic skir in there's a lot of uh precious material on the line here I think you got it yeah I think you got it you know the camera I know not everyone's used to the camera and it can make things a little jarring for folks I appreciate you guys being so comfortable with uh with being on camera for us make sure that it is aligned before you push down okay I think that was a good pop this time yes not a bad one all right yeah looks good and uh the last thing to do is connect that eight pin there I think you have to flip it upside down actually yeah the clips on the top side very nice so what we can do we'll take a zip tie and we'll tie this behind this so it just looks like one cable instead of like this ugly like Daisy chained one just keeps it looking a little cleaner finishing screwing into the G the G you into the chassis nice just going to put these covers back on and here we are uh this came out quite nicely the card is a little small but uh I like that uh it just looks much more modern now compared to your old rig the case helped a ton I personally am glad that you worked the case into the budget I think it I think it needed to be a little more modern although you some folks will swear by the old stuff nothing wrong with the 750 but uh this just looks much more compact much more filled out got a nice beefy air cooler all right so now we're going to take this to the knowledge bar they have a nice little kiosk where we can plug this in uh to power as well as an HDMI cable with a monitor sitting there so make sure that this turns on and posts it should actually load into Windows too if you already have Windows on one of those ssds yeah yes okay cool so maybe update some drivers and things since you're going from 9th gen to 12th gen but uh that'll be something we can check very quickly Moment of Truth yep here we go you ready go ahead flip the switch let's do it pretty much a new build so so no reason to think that it wouldn't turn on you're good just give a second yeah there you go wow that lighting actually looks okay I'm surprised for a $60 case and we're just waiting for something on the screen now come on hey there we go and since you're using your old ssds make sure that you uninstall your old Graphics drivers I would DD you anyway just to be on the safe side and you should be largely good to go so Matthew what do you think at the end of the today I love it yeah yeah I think this is a great use of 700 bucks you had a a different approach I think than some of the others because you had a power supply that was actually good enough to be brought into the new rig um so you kind of already future prooof that ahead of time which I think was really smart that opened up some of the budget for a new case and an even beefier uh Power cooler than we otherwise would have been able to afford right so I think you did very well there I really like this I think it looks really modern I think you spent the money well and uh hopefully you enjoy this for years to come I will thank you so much yeah no worries dude there's just one thing I forgot to do before I send you on your way going to zip tie this extra daisy chain eight pin just to keep it looking a little cleaner here and we'll trim it down we'll rotate the end of that zip tie to the top so you can't really see it now are you a local Matthew yes I am cool how far do you live from about an hour away hour away oh that's not bad so if you ever have any problems you ever want to upgrade your rig you could uh just drive an hour down to a Micro Center I I would love to have mic Center an hour away from me but Orlando Florida is not getting the love that I wish we could sadly no it's nice uh appreciate you coming out yeah appreciate you too and uh you left me hanging for like 20 seconds there by the way I'm sorry just letting you know and uh hopefully you all enjoyed this one as well matth you're a great support I appreciate you being on camera you did very well thank you so much and uh I'm you did well with the budget as well I say we got a nice upgrade in big transition from what he started with and that's the entire point of the hero thank you so much for watching and uh stick around for the next one\n"