Building a Retro Gaming PC Stream Rig

I'm really happy with how this build turned out, it's got that sick eighties aesthetic inspired theme and I've managed to get all the components to sync up together. The case is a budget oriented DIY PC case which has some corners cut off, but that's not a problem for me as I've added some cable management to keep everything tidy.

I've used a small form factor build that should be compact enough to take to my retro game area or fit into any future gaming setup. The rig is complete and it's looking pretty solid, although it is a little louder than I'd like. However, the noise of the fans is not a major concern as I'm used to running quiet systems.

I've managed to sync up all the components with each other, including the power supply, which is an Asus RS unit that matches the color scheme of my motherboard. The fan on this is actually a beautiful purple fan, and it's also a sync compatible fan, so I can control it through my Corsair IQ software. This means that when I turn on the motherboard fans, they will all start moving together.

I've also got some Corsair h100 i platinum liquid cooling in this build which is also synced up with the motherboard. The pump is also connected to the motherboard and allows me to sync everything together. Unfortunately, my ram seems to be more towards pink and red hues rather than purple like I wanted, but it still looks great.

I've added some sticker bombing to give the rig a bit of personality, although this will come off eventually. Overall, I'm really happy with how this build turned out and I think it's going to serve me well for my streaming setup. The GTX 1070 TI is going to handle all the heavy lifting when it comes to OBS scene compositing and rendering.

The processor in this rig is a bit of a surprise, as I didn't expect to get a top-of-the-line CPU like an Intel Core i9-9900K for such a budget build. However, I'm glad that I got one and I think it's going to handle all my streaming needs with ease.

The NVMe drive in this rig is also going to be great for recording and other tasks, and I've chosen a pretty fast 500GB drive to start with. Overall, I'm really excited to get started with this build and use it for some retro gaming streams.

I'd like to thank Intel, Asus, Zotac, XP GA Data, and Horse Taco for providing the CPU, motherboard, graphics card, RAM, and liquid cooling respectively. Without their support, this build wouldn't have been possible.

In conclusion, I'm really happy with how this build turned out and I think it's going to serve me well for my streaming setup. It's not perfect, but it's a great start and I'm excited to see where it takes me in the future.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: entoday we're doing another PC build video instead of doing my main production PC which we worked on last time we're doing a themed build we're doing an 80s themed streaming computer this is going in my retro game room that I have in one of our spare bedrooms upstairs and I'm using it to livestream all of my retro games so from GameCube PlayStation 2 PlayStation 1 original Xbox I've got a ps3 up there some Sega stuff that I've never honestly touched before super stoked for and some cool Gameboy stuff so I'm gonna have to spend some time developing the layouts for it and making it look nice and neat but I wanted a build that at least on a surface level of as aesthetics where the heart looks 80s themed and I got a couple of cool parts submitted for it I'm pretty stoked to show you guys so we're gonna get into it and I am doing another livestream for this so we'll be integrating the livestream footage I think you're gonna like it so here on the workbench we have a lovely assortment of parts some of which were provided graciously by some companies this is actually my second actually this is my first build work I did not buy a single part in this build myself which is a little weird for me because I've always done that or you know I've only ever had like a single part submitted or something like that this entire build was contributed say for the power supply which I think was like some of the cost was contributed by one of our discord members or something a long time but this is it's a 1000 watt power supply box but it's actually an 850 watt power supply that came out of my old rig when I was upgrading so other than that everything else has contributed so we're putting this what started the this build was the DIY PC case here this is actually my second build in there cases for some reason it's super cheap but it's got a nice little you know 80s theme to it that I really wanted to take advantage of with a nice pink purple stripe it's got some LED lit fans I really wanted to utilize this in my retro game room for an 80s themed build and so to fill it we have some pretty cool stuff we have the i-9 9900 K from Intel which I'm just realizing I didn't bring over here to put on the table so I'll have to go get that a minute and that is going in this really badass motherboard from Asus this is the asus rog Maximus it is a micro ATX motherboard for the for the Z 390 chipset for my I $9.99 hundred K this motherboard is not even available in the US but under normal circumstances at the moment this and the apex both which they also sent me which we'll be covering later not even available in the US yet and we're already doing a build with it which is pretty freakin cool really awesome motherboard for this M ATX form factor that we're rolling with we're cooling it with the corsair h 100 i it's not actually what i was going to use but it's what we ended up with and thanks of Corsair for sending it out regardless we've got XP g 16 gigs of there ddr4 3000 spectryx ram got a nice little crazy color scheme going so that way we can keep ridiculous i don't know how aesthetically this is gonna turn out but i'm going for ridiculous neon looks and hopefully we accomplished that xpg also sent out a 512 gig m dot 2 nvme SSD so we got fast storage to boot from and keep it quiet and then ZOTAC sent out there gtx 1070 TI mini graphics card which is gonna fit in the smaller form factor and still give us plenty of power if we wanted to game upstairs we're mainly using this for a live streaming rig but we do have the power to game with this as well this doesn't fully fit aesthetically you know with the look we're going for but i don't think it'll be super visible for it to matter too much so I'm pretty stoked and then like I said I have a EVGA supernova 850 watt power supply and that's 1000 watt box I'm pretty stoked well let's get into it checking out the motherboard the motherboard actually came with quite a lot in terms of accessories and things like that although most of them were hidden in the box it comes with a nice little adapter so you can connect all the front panel connectors without having to plug them in individually it's got a nice layout heat shields for and him to drive and then and supported 16 X PCIe slot comes with Wi-Fi antenna ROG stickers things like that has tons of i/o I'm a pre-installed i/o shield which is pretty cool and then it has two RAM slots so you'll have to use those weird dual capacity Ram sticks if you want a whole lot of RAM in your system I don't currently have those available maybe Asus wants to hook me up for a future video on this kind of stuff and then it has a dim dot 2 slot which is dual nvme Drive that run directly to the CPU instead of the chipset now I originally set up this xpg drive through that because it's a really fast drive and I really wanted you know to get whatever speeds that code out of it just for fun however I later learned that the using the dim - since it runs to the CPU directly it limits your graphics card to eight PCIe lanes instead of sixteen theoretically this isn't a problem since I but since I am using the graphics card for encoding and live-streaming and things like that I went ahead off stream and swapped it back to the onboard MDOT to drive slot which would run through the DMI chipset instead of the processor so you know whichever is up to you but the fact that you have all this flexibility on an m-80 X board is pretty crazy now in terms of building in this case this is a really cheap case I mentioned this before when I did my wife's choose rig in another DIY PC case like this is a company that makes things as cheap as possible and so there's a lot of corners cut in terms of cable management and things like that it was pretty cramped but since I already had a ma ma TX optimized build with the mini graphics card and stuff I did not honestly run into too many problems other than just fitting my hands where they needed to go in order to connect everything so I was quite impressed with that got the 240 millimeter cooler from Corsair in there hooked up really well airflow still ended up alright my cable management isn't great which is why later you'll see me sticker up the side panel a little bit to cover a little bit of that up without sacrificing too much of our neon glow but I was able to remove all the panel's including the front panel with YZ wire everything how I needed and then one of these side panels does or you know the backside panel does have a big ol bubble out to help with cable management a little bit the drive trays still a little tough but for the most part everything went together pretty well and that 240 millimeter AIO is keeping that 9900 K surprisingly cool after having fought so many cooling issues with my big I 979 ATX e and my gaming pcs 8700 K it was honestly an amazing feat to kind of hook this up and see how cool this 9900 K was and keep in mind this motherboard has a really cool feature that I covered on stream in that it has some preset overclocking profiles two of which are from our so I went ahead and flipped on that 5 gigahertz adaptive profile from der Bauer and was able to hit this processor at 5 gigahertz 4.7 gigahertz for the avx-512 workload and it's still keeping really cool this motherboard is a boss this rig turned out pretty cool the ram from a data is quite nice looking a little goofy from the side but looks really really nice got a nice glow syncs up with the Asus RS ink so that means I get to control it from my motherboard and have it sync up with the lights unfortunately I can't control the Corsair fans that way that easily but I got it all synched up we got a sick looking rig I've got the power and we did it here is our lovely eighties aesthetic inspired themed building computer here and of course it's not using eighties parts that would be absurd for a streaming rig doesn't make any sense but I'm gonna get the comments anyway but here we go it is built it as small it is compacted is easy to take up to my retro game area or fit into any future gaming setup because we might have a more important familial use for that room within the next year so but it is complete it's it's a little louder than I'd like but you're not gonna hear it like it's not loud at all it's just it makes noise and I'm used to silence Orient's oriented cases the build is pretty solid I'm pretty happy with it I've got it looks white on camera but I promise it's pink purple it changes but I've got the Corsair IQ software set up to match the front-facing fans for the Corsair h100 i platinum synced up too with the pump and then to my motherboard and that xpg ram is RGB and it's or a sync compatible so it works with the asus motherboard software so that i can sort of get the motherboard in the ram and everything in sync unfortunately the ram seems the trend more towards the pink and the red and the purple kind of hues for the colors i set whereas the motherboard is very blue with the RGB x' so i have two unsink them and set them to specific colors but everything's lined up with the beautiful purple fan the purple accents got some sticker bombed the stuff I might add more later but had fun sticker bombing it and then that gtx 1070 TI is gonna kick ass when it comes to heavy OBS scene compositing and rendering because i load up my OBS scenes with a lot of stuff and then the 9900 k we were actually able to use the built into the motherboard der Bower 5 gigahertz 24-7 profile as running at 5 gigahertz still saying staying under a DC able to did this processor is only second to my eye 9 79 80 XE within my Cinebench testing so pretty freakin cool this thing is going to kick butt and rock for my streaming setup and that nvme drive is going to be great for recording too and things like that so again this is going for some retro game streaming and encoding and eventually it could be used for a secondary editing production rig or something with how Specht it is but nice compact the case itself the DIY PC case is of course a very budget oriented cases case it's all the corners are cut there's virtually no cable management so you do have a little bit of spaghetti monster rat's nest over towards the a io radiator but that's why I stick it up the side panels so you don't have to look at it and something that I kept a kind of dark lighting color scheme you don't see it a whole lot anyway airflow so good still looks pretty solid I'm still pretty happy with it overall and I think it turned out really freakin cool I am stoked pretty happy with it thanks everybody hung out in the stream and thank you for watching huge huge thanks to Intel for providing the CPU almost like six months ago now asus for providing the gene motherboard that it's not even available in the US yet it is pretty freakin cool thanks the zotac for providing the 1070 TI mini graphics card fits perfectly in this kind of build a full sized graphics card would start to be problematic and thanks to XP GA data for providing the RAM and the nvme storage lots of NAND flash running through here really freakin awesome and thanks to cores Arif we're providing the liquid cooler thanks to horse taco for my discord server a Teeples box comm / discord will provided me with the case pretty freakin great build I'm excited to put it to use in some streams stay tuned to twitch.tv slash equals box for some retro gaming streams I am stoked and I had something else to say about this rig and I forgot about it already it's really cool my voice is dying I've been streaming for like four hours pretty red yeah I don't have a clue what I was gonna say I was gonna edit I'll edit it in if I need something but pretty stoked with it thanks so much for watching these build videos comment like subscribe check out more tech education stuff on the channel I will see you in the next videotoday we're doing another PC build video instead of doing my main production PC which we worked on last time we're doing a themed build we're doing an 80s themed streaming computer this is going in my retro game room that I have in one of our spare bedrooms upstairs and I'm using it to livestream all of my retro games so from GameCube PlayStation 2 PlayStation 1 original Xbox I've got a ps3 up there some Sega stuff that I've never honestly touched before super stoked for and some cool Gameboy stuff so I'm gonna have to spend some time developing the layouts for it and making it look nice and neat but I wanted a build that at least on a surface level of as aesthetics where the heart looks 80s themed and I got a couple of cool parts submitted for it I'm pretty stoked to show you guys so we're gonna get into it and I am doing another livestream for this so we'll be integrating the livestream footage I think you're gonna like it so here on the workbench we have a lovely assortment of parts some of which were provided graciously by some companies this is actually my second actually this is my first build work I did not buy a single part in this build myself which is a little weird for me because I've always done that or you know I've only ever had like a single part submitted or something like that this entire build was contributed say for the power supply which I think was like some of the cost was contributed by one of our discord members or something a long time but this is it's a 1000 watt power supply box but it's actually an 850 watt power supply that came out of my old rig when I was upgrading so other than that everything else has contributed so we're putting this what started the this build was the DIY PC case here this is actually my second build in there cases for some reason it's super cheap but it's got a nice little you know 80s theme to it that I really wanted to take advantage of with a nice pink purple stripe it's got some LED lit fans I really wanted to utilize this in my retro game room for an 80s themed build and so to fill it we have some pretty cool stuff we have the i-9 9900 K from Intel which I'm just realizing I didn't bring over here to put on the table so I'll have to go get that a minute and that is going in this really badass motherboard from Asus this is the asus rog Maximus it is a micro ATX motherboard for the for the Z 390 chipset for my I $9.99 hundred K this motherboard is not even available in the US but under normal circumstances at the moment this and the apex both which they also sent me which we'll be covering later not even available in the US yet and we're already doing a build with it which is pretty freakin cool really awesome motherboard for this M ATX form factor that we're rolling with we're cooling it with the corsair h 100 i it's not actually what i was going to use but it's what we ended up with and thanks of Corsair for sending it out regardless we've got XP g 16 gigs of there ddr4 3000 spectryx ram got a nice little crazy color scheme going so that way we can keep ridiculous i don't know how aesthetically this is gonna turn out but i'm going for ridiculous neon looks and hopefully we accomplished that xpg also sent out a 512 gig m dot 2 nvme SSD so we got fast storage to boot from and keep it quiet and then ZOTAC sent out there gtx 1070 TI mini graphics card which is gonna fit in the smaller form factor and still give us plenty of power if we wanted to game upstairs we're mainly using this for a live streaming rig but we do have the power to game with this as well this doesn't fully fit aesthetically you know with the look we're going for but i don't think it'll be super visible for it to matter too much so I'm pretty stoked and then like I said I have a EVGA supernova 850 watt power supply and that's 1000 watt box I'm pretty stoked well let's get into it checking out the motherboard the motherboard actually came with quite a lot in terms of accessories and things like that although most of them were hidden in the box it comes with a nice little adapter so you can connect all the front panel connectors without having to plug them in individually it's got a nice layout heat shields for and him to drive and then and supported 16 X PCIe slot comes with Wi-Fi antenna ROG stickers things like that has tons of i/o I'm a pre-installed i/o shield which is pretty cool and then it has two RAM slots so you'll have to use those weird dual capacity Ram sticks if you want a whole lot of RAM in your system I don't currently have those available maybe Asus wants to hook me up for a future video on this kind of stuff and then it has a dim dot 2 slot which is dual nvme Drive that run directly to the CPU instead of the chipset now I originally set up this xpg drive through that because it's a really fast drive and I really wanted you know to get whatever speeds that code out of it just for fun however I later learned that the using the dim - since it runs to the CPU directly it limits your graphics card to eight PCIe lanes instead of sixteen theoretically this isn't a problem since I but since I am using the graphics card for encoding and live-streaming and things like that I went ahead off stream and swapped it back to the onboard MDOT to drive slot which would run through the DMI chipset instead of the processor so you know whichever is up to you but the fact that you have all this flexibility on an m-80 X board is pretty crazy now in terms of building in this case this is a really cheap case I mentioned this before when I did my wife's choose rig in another DIY PC case like this is a company that makes things as cheap as possible and so there's a lot of corners cut in terms of cable management and things like that it was pretty cramped but since I already had a ma ma TX optimized build with the mini graphics card and stuff I did not honestly run into too many problems other than just fitting my hands where they needed to go in order to connect everything so I was quite impressed with that got the 240 millimeter cooler from Corsair in there hooked up really well airflow still ended up alright my cable management isn't great which is why later you'll see me sticker up the side panel a little bit to cover a little bit of that up without sacrificing too much of our neon glow but I was able to remove all the panel's including the front panel with YZ wire everything how I needed and then one of these side panels does or you know the backside panel does have a big ol bubble out to help with cable management a little bit the drive trays still a little tough but for the most part everything went together pretty well and that 240 millimeter AIO is keeping that 9900 K surprisingly cool after having fought so many cooling issues with my big I 979 ATX e and my gaming pcs 8700 K it was honestly an amazing feat to kind of hook this up and see how cool this 9900 K was and keep in mind this motherboard has a really cool feature that I covered on stream in that it has some preset overclocking profiles two of which are from our so I went ahead and flipped on that 5 gigahertz adaptive profile from der Bauer and was able to hit this processor at 5 gigahertz 4.7 gigahertz for the avx-512 workload and it's still keeping really cool this motherboard is a boss this rig turned out pretty cool the ram from a data is quite nice looking a little goofy from the side but looks really really nice got a nice glow syncs up with the Asus RS ink so that means I get to control it from my motherboard and have it sync up with the lights unfortunately I can't control the Corsair fans that way that easily but I got it all synched up we got a sick looking rig I've got the power and we did it here is our lovely eighties aesthetic inspired themed building computer here and of course it's not using eighties parts that would be absurd for a streaming rig doesn't make any sense but I'm gonna get the comments anyway but here we go it is built it as small it is compacted is easy to take up to my retro game area or fit into any future gaming setup because we might have a more important familial use for that room within the next year so but it is complete it's it's a little louder than I'd like but you're not gonna hear it like it's not loud at all it's just it makes noise and I'm used to silence Orient's oriented cases the build is pretty solid I'm pretty happy with it I've got it looks white on camera but I promise it's pink purple it changes but I've got the Corsair IQ software set up to match the front-facing fans for the Corsair h100 i platinum synced up too with the pump and then to my motherboard and that xpg ram is RGB and it's or a sync compatible so it works with the asus motherboard software so that i can sort of get the motherboard in the ram and everything in sync unfortunately the ram seems the trend more towards the pink and the red and the purple kind of hues for the colors i set whereas the motherboard is very blue with the RGB x' so i have two unsink them and set them to specific colors but everything's lined up with the beautiful purple fan the purple accents got some sticker bombed the stuff I might add more later but had fun sticker bombing it and then that gtx 1070 TI is gonna kick ass when it comes to heavy OBS scene compositing and rendering because i load up my OBS scenes with a lot of stuff and then the 9900 k we were actually able to use the built into the motherboard der Bower 5 gigahertz 24-7 profile as running at 5 gigahertz still saying staying under a DC able to did this processor is only second to my eye 9 79 80 XE within my Cinebench testing so pretty freakin cool this thing is going to kick butt and rock for my streaming setup and that nvme drive is going to be great for recording too and things like that so again this is going for some retro game streaming and encoding and eventually it could be used for a secondary editing production rig or something with how Specht it is but nice compact the case itself the DIY PC case is of course a very budget oriented cases case it's all the corners are cut there's virtually no cable management so you do have a little bit of spaghetti monster rat's nest over towards the a io radiator but that's why I stick it up the side panels so you don't have to look at it and something that I kept a kind of dark lighting color scheme you don't see it a whole lot anyway airflow so good still looks pretty solid I'm still pretty happy with it overall and I think it turned out really freakin cool I am stoked pretty happy with it thanks everybody hung out in the stream and thank you for watching huge huge thanks to Intel for providing the CPU almost like six months ago now asus for providing the gene motherboard that it's not even available in the US yet it is pretty freakin cool thanks the zotac for providing the 1070 TI mini graphics card fits perfectly in this kind of build a full sized graphics card would start to be problematic and thanks to XP GA data for providing the RAM and the nvme storage lots of NAND flash running through here really freakin awesome and thanks to cores Arif we're providing the liquid cooler thanks to horse taco for my discord server a Teeples box comm / discord will provided me with the case pretty freakin great build I'm excited to put it to use in some streams stay tuned to twitch.tv slash equals box for some retro gaming streams I am stoked and I had something else to say about this rig and I forgot about it already it's really cool my voice is dying I've been streaming for like four hours pretty red yeah I don't have a clue what I was gonna say I was gonna edit I'll edit it in if I need something but pretty stoked with it thanks so much for watching these build videos comment like subscribe check out more tech education stuff on the channel I will see you in the next video\n"