**Building the Perfect PC from IKEA**

There's no power button I forgot to buy a power button none of the local computer stores have power buttons so I've ordered one on Amazon but for the time being I'm just gonna have to have it on the whole time because it's it's really difficult to access the power oh well there we go it's kind of powered on we've got some LEDs running over there we've got the motherboard LEDs as well CPU fan spinning the naktu our fans are spinning as well with some pretty good airflow over there so now I think we're at the point where we can kind of put it in the drawer and now it's time to finally see if it fits so let's go for it yeah the power supply cable kind of lives with this whole setup now okay and there we go it's actually looking pretty good honestly it looks it looks like this was made by a professional which obviously I am but ya know the only thing is that graphics card is looking pretty tall well it's not touching anything like it's actually fine it actually fits and I mean again the clearance is crazy it kind of looks like I measured it let me give you a closer look here look at that that is a snug as a bug PC and look there's no PC on the desk it's in the drawer look next to me I I really am very excited about this build I don't know I don't know if it's if it's stupid of me to be this excited but the thing that really gets me about it is that it's really easy to do as well I mean if I could do it you can definitely do it usually when I do these projects there's so much swearing involved I didn't have to swear once while building this it just kind of happened it's awesome but now it's time to see whether or not the thermals are okay because at this point it looks cool it wasn't that difficult to build but if it's a furnace in there there's no point in doing this and considering that we're using the front handle hole for like front airflow I was a little bit worried about the thermals but as you can see from this Ida / firm arc run for 26 minutes the thermals are actually pretty good in this case it's surprisingly good like while gaming for extended sessions this is the temperatures that I get the CPU is running and you know it's not even that hot and the graphics card that's kind of the temperature this version of the 2060 runs regardless of what airflow situation you run it in I'm really impressed with this in fact I think I'd probably be able to put a 20 atti and a 39 50 X in there and we'd still be fine for airflow one thing that I'd have to bear in mind though is dust is gonna be a nightmare I think it's gonna be really bad so I'm gonna give it two months and then I'll do a follow-up video where we look at the dust situation but now it's time to do a little bit of gaming benchmarks just so that we can see what kind of gaming performance we get from this IKEA drawer

**Gaming Performance Benchmarking**

so with that I think this turned out really well as you can see I'm super happy about all of this because usually my projects are really ambitious but end up rubbish which is kind of kind of the tagline for my channel like Java does tech stuff ambitious but rubbish however this really worked out and it's awesome I'm so excited about it so if you want to see me streaming on this setup I'll be streaming later today I stream from 11:00 p.m. Pacific time every Saturday let me know in the comments section below what you thought of this build basically just tell me how much you liked it if you have any other opinion your objectively wrong I'm thinking of doing like a like a desk set up a breakdown video where I talk talk you through this whole this whole set up if you want to see that like this video and comment below telling me that you'd like to see that and yeah thank you very much for watching if you like this video do like and subscribe to the channel for more videos like this one follow me on Twitch for the streaming on Instagram Twitter and discord and I think there's a reddit server now as well a reddit

WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enthis is the computer beast desk and as you can see it's fairly cluttered now considering how limited space is here I kind of want to get rid of this guy and that's what we're gonna do today I'm actually I'm really excited for this video I've it's done at the point of filming this and it's it's pretty cool it's made a huge difference to the whole desk setup but we'll get to that later in the video but before we get to any of that let's just get the fairly boring part out the way which is me just listing the components that I'm using for this drawer build now obviously the most important component is the IKEA Alex drawer which is actually surprisingly good for building a PC case in it's very roomy in there although it's a bit it's a bit shallow but we'll see how we get around that later in the video in regards to the CPU I'm using an AMD rise in seven 2700 this is a really good value for money eight cores sixteen thread CPU the motherboard that I'm using for it is an asus x4 70 Strix ITX board and then in regards to cooling scythe was actually nice enough to send over a big shuriken three now we could have used the actual stock AMD cooler but this is going to be quieter and it's gonna have lower temperatures so yeah I'm pretty excited to see what this little cooler can do and then I've got 16 gigs of DDR 4 32 hundred megahertz it's a team group kit it's a pretty good value kit and it's also low profile so it'll fit under that cooler and then in terms of the graphics card we're actually using a non TX 2060 I'm specifically using this because well it's got a very good end vent like a streaming encoder in it and it's gaming performance is okay for 1440p high refresh rate gaming storage wise I'm using a 500 gig WD blue MDOT 2 SATA Drive the end or Tunis of the drive means that I don't have more cables that I need to worry about and in the power supply was actually sent over by Corsair it's an SF 600 the are really good small form-factor power supplies I think I've actually covered all of the important bits now for those of you that have been following the channel for a while you probably recognize the core components here that's because I actually used this in my streaming PC upgrade a couple months ago but now we're small grading it if that makes any sense that's a terrible job but now with the boring listing of stuff out of the way we get into the very exciting assembling of the drawer PC pod which starts off with me building some IKEA furniture currently this is the configuration that I've chosen we have the graphics card standing up right about that distance as far back as we can get it from the drawer and then we have that fan as an exhaust so it'll suck that hot air out hopefully it means that these cables do lie on the CPU cooler a little bit but it's not a disaster and finally before we actually cut holes in the back I have to kind of thought processes that I'm going through here the first one is either cut two holes out so one all the way from the top down to here and then also to have this cutout for the rear i/o and the power cable I thought about just leaving the whole back off and not dealing with it at all the thing is though that's like I if you take this bit out the bottom of the drawer sags quite a lot so you need a little bit of support in the back if you see here we've got the holes that you actually mount it to the to the drawer with so I cut just above that right so just above that I cut all the way along and literally throw the top bit of the drawer away and just use the bottom bit to reinforce the base of the drawer so yeah I'm gonna take it to a woodshop and I'm gonna talk to the people and see which one they recommend this is the design that I ended up going with for the back of the drawer I know that it's not nearly as elegant as you know cutting a an exact IO hole and cutting a fan hole but you know what it's it's just it's particle board so I I'm actually quite happy with that dust is gonna be a hella issue but that's fine here though is where I'm a bit more worried because I obviously had to cut the back of the drawer of the actual cabinet out as well because otherwise there's nowhere for cables and air to go and stuff like that the thing is though it kind of removes one of the three kind of like weight bearing planes and because I'm gonna use it to you know prop up a desk ah you know we're losing 33% like a weight bearing capacity yeah so hopefully hopefully it's all gonna be fine we've still we kept all the actual mounting holes as you can see the bit that we're getting rid of is just focus is just like a bear bit of particle board okay well there we go we have a lightly modified IKEA drawer as you can see there my only concern at this point is that the back of the drawer and that cutout that they're not gonna align properly because I didn't measure it that that was the only place I could put the hole whoa look at that it fits like a glove it actually almost looks like I measured it okay so now comes what's in my opinion a fairly scary part which is actually mounting the standoffs oh yes so it mounts fine the only problem is we still just don't have proper access to the bottom USB ports okay so very exciting stuff this is actually the final configuration that I'm gonna be using for this build well at least at the moment it looks a little bit like a like a server tray but that's kind of what I was going for now let's start at the front where we have some addressable RGB which meant might shine nicely through the top of the drawer there obviously you need that that's a commendable requirement in any bills and then we have the power supply here with a cable running along out here one slight concern that I have about this awesome little power supply is that well the hot air is going to exhaust into this fan which is going to blow it over the graphics card and then back here we have the we have the PC now it's gonna be very close height wise I really hope that it's actually gonna fit in but you know worst case scenario I can just take the bottom of the next drawer up out to get this whole thing to fit oh yeah and then finally down here we have the the rear i/o which as you can see this process didn't go very well there was a lot of savaging involved I pretty much just went to town on it with a combination of a craft knife and and a file and this is as far as I could get down but I don't have something like a like a dremel a dremel would have worked really well now another massive oversight is there's no power button I forgot to buy a power button none of the local computer stores have power buttons so I've ordered one on Amazon but for the time being I'm just gonna have to have it on the whole time because it's it's really difficult to access the power oh well there we go it's kind of powered on we've got some LEDs running over there we've got the motherboard LEDs as well CPU fan spinning the naktu our fans are spinning as well with some pretty good airflow over there so now I think we're at the point where we can kind of put it in the drawer and now it's time to finally see if it fits so let's go for it yeah the power supply cable kind of lives with this whole setup now okay and there we go it's actually looking pretty good honestly it looks it looks like this was made by a professional which obviously I am but ya know the only thing is that graphics card is looking pretty tall well it's not touching anything like it's actually fine it actually fits and I mean again the clearance is crazy it kind of looks like I measured it let me give you a closer look here look at that that is a snug as a bug PC and look there's no PC on the desk it's in the drawer look next to me I I really am very excited about this build I don't know I don't know if it's if it's stupid of me to be this excited but the thing that really gets me about it is that it's really easy to do as well I mean if I could do it you can definitely do it usually when I do these projects there's so much swearing involved I didn't have to swear once while building this it just kind of happened it's awesome but now it's time to see whether or not the thermals are okay because at this point it looks cool it wasn't that difficult to build but if it's a furnace in there there's no point in doing this and considering that we're using the front handle hole for like front airflow I was a little bit worried about the thermals but as you can see from this Ida / firm arc run for 26 minutes the thermals are actually pretty good in this case it's surprisingly good like while gaming for extended sessions this is the temperatures that I get the CPU is running and you know it's not even that hot and the graphics card that's kind of the temperature this version of the 2060 runs regardless of what airflow situation you run it in I'm really impressed with this in fact I think I'd probably be able to put a 20 atti and a 39 50 X in there and we'd still be fine for airflow one thing that I'd have to bear in mind though is dust is gonna be a nightmare I think it's gonna be really bad so I'm gonna give it two months and then I'll do a follow-up video where we look at the dust situation but now it's time to do a little bit of gaming benchmarks just so that we can see what kind of gaming performance we get from this IKEA drawer so with that I think this turned out really well as you can see I'm super happy about all of this because usually my projects are really ambitious but end up rubbish which is kind of kind of the tagline for my channel like Java does tech stuff ambitious but rubbish however this really worked out and it's awesome I'm so excited about it so if you want to see me streaming on this setup I'll be streaming later today I stream from 11:00 p.m. Pacific time every Saturday let me know in the comments section below what you thought of this build basically just tell me how much you liked it if you have any other opinion your objectively wrong I'm thinking of doing like a like a desk set up a breakdown video where I talk talk you through this whole this whole set up if you want to see that like this video and comment below telling me that you'd like to see that and yeah thank you very much for watching if you like this video do like and subscribe to the channel for more videos like this one follow me on Twitch for the streaming on Instagram Twitter and discord and I think there's a reddit server now as well a reddit page as well and yeah until the next video bye byethis is the computer beast desk and as you can see it's fairly cluttered now considering how limited space is here I kind of want to get rid of this guy and that's what we're gonna do today I'm actually I'm really excited for this video I've it's done at the point of filming this and it's it's pretty cool it's made a huge difference to the whole desk setup but we'll get to that later in the video but before we get to any of that let's just get the fairly boring part out the way which is me just listing the components that I'm using for this drawer build now obviously the most important component is the IKEA Alex drawer which is actually surprisingly good for building a PC case in it's very roomy in there although it's a bit it's a bit shallow but we'll see how we get around that later in the video in regards to the CPU I'm using an AMD rise in seven 2700 this is a really good value for money eight cores sixteen thread CPU the motherboard that I'm using for it is an asus x4 70 Strix ITX board and then in regards to cooling scythe was actually nice enough to send over a big shuriken three now we could have used the actual stock AMD cooler but this is going to be quieter and it's gonna have lower temperatures so yeah I'm pretty excited to see what this little cooler can do and then I've got 16 gigs of DDR 4 32 hundred megahertz it's a team group kit it's a pretty good value kit and it's also low profile so it'll fit under that cooler and then in terms of the graphics card we're actually using a non TX 2060 I'm specifically using this because well it's got a very good end vent like a streaming encoder in it and it's gaming performance is okay for 1440p high refresh rate gaming storage wise I'm using a 500 gig WD blue MDOT 2 SATA Drive the end or Tunis of the drive means that I don't have more cables that I need to worry about and in the power supply was actually sent over by Corsair it's an SF 600 the are really good small form-factor power supplies I think I've actually covered all of the important bits now for those of you that have been following the channel for a while you probably recognize the core components here that's because I actually used this in my streaming PC upgrade a couple months ago but now we're small grading it if that makes any sense that's a terrible job but now with the boring listing of stuff out of the way we get into the very exciting assembling of the drawer PC pod which starts off with me building some IKEA furniture currently this is the configuration that I've chosen we have the graphics card standing up right about that distance as far back as we can get it from the drawer and then we have that fan as an exhaust so it'll suck that hot air out hopefully it means that these cables do lie on the CPU cooler a little bit but it's not a disaster and finally before we actually cut holes in the back I have to kind of thought processes that I'm going through here the first one is either cut two holes out so one all the way from the top down to here and then also to have this cutout for the rear i/o and the power cable I thought about just leaving the whole back off and not dealing with it at all the thing is though that's like I if you take this bit out the bottom of the drawer sags quite a lot so you need a little bit of support in the back if you see here we've got the holes that you actually mount it to the to the drawer with so I cut just above that right so just above that I cut all the way along and literally throw the top bit of the drawer away and just use the bottom bit to reinforce the base of the drawer so yeah I'm gonna take it to a woodshop and I'm gonna talk to the people and see which one they recommend this is the design that I ended up going with for the back of the drawer I know that it's not nearly as elegant as you know cutting a an exact IO hole and cutting a fan hole but you know what it's it's just it's particle board so I I'm actually quite happy with that dust is gonna be a hella issue but that's fine here though is where I'm a bit more worried because I obviously had to cut the back of the drawer of the actual cabinet out as well because otherwise there's nowhere for cables and air to go and stuff like that the thing is though it kind of removes one of the three kind of like weight bearing planes and because I'm gonna use it to you know prop up a desk ah you know we're losing 33% like a weight bearing capacity yeah so hopefully hopefully it's all gonna be fine we've still we kept all the actual mounting holes as you can see the bit that we're getting rid of is just focus is just like a bear bit of particle board okay well there we go we have a lightly modified IKEA drawer as you can see there my only concern at this point is that the back of the drawer and that cutout that they're not gonna align properly because I didn't measure it that that was the only place I could put the hole whoa look at that it fits like a glove it actually almost looks like I measured it okay so now comes what's in my opinion a fairly scary part which is actually mounting the standoffs oh yes so it mounts fine the only problem is we still just don't have proper access to the bottom USB ports okay so very exciting stuff this is actually the final configuration that I'm gonna be using for this build well at least at the moment it looks a little bit like a like a server tray but that's kind of what I was going for now let's start at the front where we have some addressable RGB which meant might shine nicely through the top of the drawer there obviously you need that that's a commendable requirement in any bills and then we have the power supply here with a cable running along out here one slight concern that I have about this awesome little power supply is that well the hot air is going to exhaust into this fan which is going to blow it over the graphics card and then back here we have the we have the PC now it's gonna be very close height wise I really hope that it's actually gonna fit in but you know worst case scenario I can just take the bottom of the next drawer up out to get this whole thing to fit oh yeah and then finally down here we have the the rear i/o which as you can see this process didn't go very well there was a lot of savaging involved I pretty much just went to town on it with a combination of a craft knife and and a file and this is as far as I could get down but I don't have something like a like a dremel a dremel would have worked really well now another massive oversight is there's no power button I forgot to buy a power button none of the local computer stores have power buttons so I've ordered one on Amazon but for the time being I'm just gonna have to have it on the whole time because it's it's really difficult to access the power oh well there we go it's kind of powered on we've got some LEDs running over there we've got the motherboard LEDs as well CPU fan spinning the naktu our fans are spinning as well with some pretty good airflow over there so now I think we're at the point where we can kind of put it in the drawer and now it's time to finally see if it fits so let's go for it yeah the power supply cable kind of lives with this whole setup now okay and there we go it's actually looking pretty good honestly it looks it looks like this was made by a professional which obviously I am but ya know the only thing is that graphics card is looking pretty tall well it's not touching anything like it's actually fine it actually fits and I mean again the clearance is crazy it kind of looks like I measured it let me give you a closer look here look at that that is a snug as a bug PC and look there's no PC on the desk it's in the drawer look next to me I I really am very excited about this build I don't know I don't know if it's if it's stupid of me to be this excited but the thing that really gets me about it is that it's really easy to do as well I mean if I could do it you can definitely do it usually when I do these projects there's so much swearing involved I didn't have to swear once while building this it just kind of happened it's awesome but now it's time to see whether or not the thermals are okay because at this point it looks cool it wasn't that difficult to build but if it's a furnace in there there's no point in doing this and considering that we're using the front handle hole for like front airflow I was a little bit worried about the thermals but as you can see from this Ida / firm arc run for 26 minutes the thermals are actually pretty good in this case it's surprisingly good like while gaming for extended sessions this is the temperatures that I get the CPU is running and you know it's not even that hot and the graphics card that's kind of the temperature this version of the 2060 runs regardless of what airflow situation you run it in I'm really impressed with this in fact I think I'd probably be able to put a 20 atti and a 39 50 X in there and we'd still be fine for airflow one thing that I'd have to bear in mind though is dust is gonna be a nightmare I think it's gonna be really bad so I'm gonna give it two months and then I'll do a follow-up video where we look at the dust situation but now it's time to do a little bit of gaming benchmarks just so that we can see what kind of gaming performance we get from this IKEA drawer so with that I think this turned out really well as you can see I'm super happy about all of this because usually my projects are really ambitious but end up rubbish which is kind of kind of the tagline for my channel like Java does tech stuff ambitious but rubbish however this really worked out and it's awesome I'm so excited about it so if you want to see me streaming on this setup I'll be streaming later today I stream from 11:00 p.m. Pacific time every Saturday let me know in the comments section below what you thought of this build basically just tell me how much you liked it if you have any other opinion your objectively wrong I'm thinking of doing like a like a desk set up a breakdown video where I talk talk you through this whole this whole set up if you want to see that like this video and comment below telling me that you'd like to see that and yeah thank you very much for watching if you like this video do like and subscribe to the channel for more videos like this one follow me on Twitch for the streaming on Instagram Twitter and discord and I think there's a reddit server now as well a reddit page as well and yeah until the next video bye bye