Building a PC for Cat Angels' Adoption Application System

The team is excited to have finally built a PC that will serve as an adoption application system for Cat Angels, a non-profit organization dedicated to finding forever homes for cats in need. The main purpose of this setup is to provide an efficient and user-friendly way for people to fill out the adoption process, which currently involves filling out forms at home and then updating them separately.

The team has chosen a Chrome-based solution as the primary method for the adoption application system, with plans to also support web browsers. This will ensure that the system can handle the adoption process for a long time, providing a reliable and efficient way for people to adopt cats from Cat Angels.

To power this PC, the team has opted for an onboard solution that supports both HDMI and DisplayPort. The APU (Advanced Processor Unit) handles these connections, allowing the team to easily switch between different display types. However, the team has also considered adding a small expansion card to support VGA or DVI displays, should they need it in the future.

The build is complete, and the team is now working on getting the monitor set up. They have acquired an adapter that will allow them to connect the PC to a 1600x900 display. Once the monitor is connected, the system will be ready for use.

Andrew, one of the team members, has taken some footage of the cats while his colleagues worked on setting up the PC. The team has also added a few finishing touches to the build, including a desktop wallpaper with the Gamer's Nexus mascot and RGB LEDs in the case.

The team is excited to see how people will react to this system once it's set up for use at Cat Angels' adoption center. They're looking forward to hearing feedback from volunteers and adopters alike, who are often less familiar with PCs and technology. The team hopes that their efforts will result in a more efficient and enjoyable experience for everyone involved.

One of the team members shares some technical insights on how to set up displays using VGA and DVI connections. Specifically, they note that when working with VGA analog signals, an active adapter is required to convert them to digital, as most modern displays use digital connections like HDMI or DisplayPort. The team had previously encountered counterfeit products claiming to be VGA cables, but the right adapters can make all the difference.

The team has also considered expanding their setup in the future by upgrading some of its components, such as adding an extra mouse and possibly bringing in a higher-resolution monitor. However, for now, this system will serve as a reliable foundation for Cat Angels' adoption process.

In conclusion, the team is proud to have built this PC for Cat Angels, which will help facilitate their adoption process and make it easier for people to find forever homes for cats in need. If you're interested in supporting Cat Angels, they have a donations page available on their website, where you can contribute directly to their cause.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enevery one today we're doing a special PC built it's a mini ITX build for cat angels which is a charity it's a cat shelter so there will be cats in this video there'll be a lot of them snowflake will make an appearance not just in this form but actual snowflake form and perhaps more importantly think they have a hundred and fifteen plus cats in there shelter right now they do a really good job of taking care of them they do adoptions that you cat intake and if a cat comes in and someone adopts it great if no one adopts it then they keep it forever for the life of the cat so it is a proper no-kill shelter and I've been there personally to check it out and vet it and make sure that we like what they do and we're working on a separate charity auction with them but in the meantime they said hey we kind of need a computer for people coming in to fill out the adoption forms could you help us out with that I said please take things off of my shelves yes I can help so today we are going to explore the storage room and find some parts for a mini ITX build and put together hopefully a good machine for google chrome which will probably require a 39 70 X with all the dims occupied before that this video is brought to you by Squarespace Squarespace is what we've been using for years to manage our own gamers Nexus store and we've been incredibly happy with the choice Squarespace makes ecommerce easy for those interested in starting stores but it also has powerful tools to build all types of websites photo galleries for photographers resume and portfolio sites and small business sites are all easily done through Squarespace having built a lot of client websites the old way before running GM full-time we can easily recommend Squarespace as a powerful fast solution go to squarespace.com slash gamers nexus to get 10% off your first purchase with Squarespace alright so I guess what are we doing here the PC has one basic need which is serve as an office PC they have some desktops and laptops at their cat shelter already they are currently so slow that the the staff I should say the volunteers no actual paid employees so the volunteers are taking the filled out adoption forms home to their houses and filling them in on their own computers at night and that's just an efficient so I think we can speed that process up the current issue is that the machines I've slowed down to the point that for someone coming in trying to - cat you really want the person - to be able to fill that form out efficiently get in get out and not create a line obviously for events a quick note to our GN Steve side channel which is linked in the description below we'll have a unedited cut of all the b-roll we took while at the cat shelter so if you just want a series of cute cats playing on your screen then check the link in the description below because we're just gonna upload that for fun so my guess is are one maybe the systems are on hard drives and Windows has become bloated with time that's a really common reason for systems to slow down and get bad with age - second possibility very likely is there's probably a lot of fur actually been there I know and I'm allergic to cats but I've never been near a hundred cats so I didn't know how quite how bad that would be but they have a hundred plus cats there which is great taking really good care of them it does however mean that there's a lot of cat fur hair just dust in general even though they do a really good job of cleaning the place I mean what are you gonna do about a hundred cats so that stuff might be clogging up the ventilation on the current computers or laptops and I'm thinking if it's that simple I might be able to take them apart die in the process and then have Patrick finish cleaning them and the system's clean so that they are breathable again because I won't be breathable after that so those are the the possibilities we're still gonna put together a good system for them I want to pull some parts out of storage we're gonna pull parts that are not going to be used for testing anymore so things that we have duplicates of or just don't need I've got some ideals already I'm thinking we use an eye GP for this so CPU with an eye GP or APU maybe and pass on the video card as much as I would like to put the cute pet in there because it looked great it is a bit overkill in the meantime though we need to put together a good box for them quick things are on cat angels so first of all they are located in North Carolina you can stop by and adopt a cat or just see the cats if you want and they do take donations on their website we are going to be doing a charity auction later I don't know exactly one yet we're gonna be listed in some 1080 TI's some noteworthy things like the original thread Ripper press like Pelican case stuff like that we're gonna be listing that for auction charity auction all the money that goes to those things to buy them will then go straight to cat angels so that's coming up later and if you want to support them that's great way to do it we're also gonna auction off the mod mat on the live stream set and on the main set and a couple of other ones that have been in use for over a year now so that's the plan the shelter I've checked out myself it's very good they provide cats with the cats that have special medicine needs get everything they need because they have a special dietary needs get everything they need they don't cut corners they look very very hand to mouth way of operating and we're happy to help them out so let's get started in the next shot I'm going to get sick we decided to film this part because of that so I would have be joined by Patrick and we'll check out the storage room and try and find stuff for this PC build all right so I've got Patrick here to let me pick some parts we have a good amount of ITX case is not a crazy amount but Patrick did ITX case testing for awhile before we decided we need to completely revamp it if we want to do it more seriously so I'll come back to it eventually eventually so we're gonna pick between the ITX cases I saw this case labs s ma8 is that what it's called I mean yeah I think you got into one and I am Not sure that this is really size appropriate for their office it's made of whole aluminum so it's light enough before yeah it's it's really lightweight actually it is very late right so a little too big ITEX cases are on this shelf will pick out the motherboard CPU and stuff next this case it was this SG 14 maybe it's got a Silverstone name so nobody will ever remember it this is just a cheap piece of sheet metal basically but that makes it really cool really good case yeah normally put the board in there and it's got some mesh on the front and it's about as basic as you get this whole shell comes off at the top and then there's a motherboard tray on the bottom the Sugo series SG 13 yeah you're better remembering these than I am yeah I got the number on but this one like I said we'll get close-ups we did we review this I think we did yeah I think I remember the Qi charger so it had some issues in the review like the height between the ground and the fans on the bottom was not really sufficient yeah but we're gonna be working with a much lower end system so it's not super relevant and also you know GPU and I was thinking we probably for the case we probably want to do negative pressure to deal with the are actually positive pressure is the word I'm looking for we probably be positive pressure to deal with the dust because here cat hair because I think if we I think we have positive pressure we should be able to control where the air is coming into the case whereas if we do negative it'll just try and get it anywhere it can so if we control where it comes in the case then we can put filters in the appropriate places and they can also potentially use the Qi charger right we I can't it doesn't you might be able to yeah okay holds Bergen never mind I don't I don't think my phone will support it the Qi charger we think it probably works we've never tested it because none of our phones supported but it would be nice for like an office PC if anyone there has a phone that supports Qi charging I guess Andrews might the Andrews does we could test it with his we shouldn't told people what funds we had because now they can correct us if we say that we can't do wireless I would say which one my I have okay alright I just said I have a they were everything it's good policy security reasons so this one's got filtration on the bottom there's no filter in the back which as long as we don't use the back for intake that's fine we can put one there though so that's that's possibly let's look at the other side see there's a program there so this one maybe not an ideal candidate part of the reason we like this was that it cooled the GPU fairly well yeah but this is a nice case it's got a riser for the GPU this is one of the better cases for sure yeah I don't know it's like kind of entering overkill territory do GPU and if a lot of it goes to waste it doesn't look particularly interesting I'm thinking for not enthusiasts I think they can correct me if I'm wrong but I think non computer hardware enthusiasts the audience like with the computer I kind of want to do something that looks a little cooler to someone who doesn't see this stuff every day so that's why I kind of like the n1 one on the other side and I'm leaning towards the one on the other side especially if we can make it look kind of nice because it's got the window that sounds good to me I think a lot of the advantage of these larger ones is that they have ok GPU cooling with the GPU right up against a vent on the side panel yeah so if we're not doing that then we might as well get a case that has better CPU cooler support right yeah so let's go with that in one one so our CPU storage has has recently recovered from the disappointment build in true yes I think everything's everything's in this proper place no but we I think we're leaning towards an APU but we definitely are leaning towards an APU that's a couple less fans to clean out and they're not gonna be doing anything GPU intensive anyway yeah I like to look the fewer fabs to clean is a good point too so as far as older ApS go we have a lot of AMD 7070 800 series ApS from when the site first started but that limits us to older motherboards and I don't think we have a bunch of old AMD yes mullen vector board a lot of that stuff to you I don't know I've got started around two thousand seven or eight so a lot of that we have some 7000 series ApS I think theirs might have been 2012 or 2010 or something like that it's getting old enough where even though it'd be fine I don't really want to build something that old so I kind of like the idea of a 2400 G maybe yeah we have two of those obviously we do have a lot of in sold with integrated graphics on them but we specifically have an extra 2400 G in here all right if we didn't tell I think we'd have to do a pentium G 5400 and that should be significantly worse than the APS so probably better D is the 24 - g AP you this these are both 24 of G's this one is the one we were using for mini ITX testing so I'll take the other one out yeah it's a good size yes one oh you want to take the ITEX one yeah like keep okay all right yeah actually good so we'll grab that 24 out of G mm-hmm we uh we recently reorganized our motherboards because we were running out of space on the shelf which means that most of our mini ITX boards are up here somewhere yeah on the left 1 2 3 4 5 v rail from the bottom far left is gonna that looks like a B 350 I think this is the one yes this is the mini ITX test board the gigabyte a be 350 in gaming Wi-Fi so it's got a Wi-Fi card on it that's another thing I hadn't let talk about yeah so only 2 RAM slots let's find ya and a GPU slot would you like a Wi-Fi inclusion I'm not sure what their what their Ethernet situation is there so that might be good and we're probably never gonna use that board again anyway there's newer stuff before 50 makes more sense and if we go back to ITX testing we probably probably really want to modernize everything anyway so okay so onto Ram no yeah Rams next we're gonna have a bit more fan noise white noise here from the servers to our left but the downside for us with Rison is that it does mean ddr4 it's necessary which is fine I'll make a bit better build for them we just we have a good amount of ddr3 we're never going to use again so I would have liked to get rid of that but I'd rather give them a system that actually gonna run for a couple years without issue so what can we spare his really question we have that old HyperX predator memory with Heights I don't think the height will be an issue in that case yeah that is a kid of four though what does this vengeance our GP is that from the case oh no that's 46 that was forty three hundred megahertz don't want to use that probably wouldn't even boot Corsair do we need all this Corsair no X we don't and there are actually a couple eight gigs sticks in there that might be good candidates this is to buy eight gigabyte it's forty six hundred records yeah they should be separated out this is three thousand my grades but that's right handy okay though this might be the this is thirty two hundred sixteen eighteen eighteen thirty six eight gigabytes okay yeah do we have I think we have a couple of those yeah I think I think the GP adventures have like for each yeah I think we have two of those specifically because I can do this the ones for a couple there might be one I'm not sure died okay so we're just gonna use this memory vengeance LP axe is way overkill for the kind of system they're using anyway our standards are just every time I do a build that's not that's like for use that we don't typically cover I realize how out of touch we are with like the like lower end systems so I'm looking like looking at this going uh 16 18 18 36 per hour so yeah how are you gonna fill in their spreadsheets like that hey but to be fair this is still considered very high on memory by pre-built standards yeah if you bought a prebuilt box which is typically what an organization like that would be using it would one be green and two it'd probably be like 2666 and they're a they probably wouldn't even turn X and P on and just write what you think you had a the pre-built just run with like fall stock science and it would be garbage so this is still very good quality and we don't want to use it for CPU testing any more because in our memory Verizon we showed that Corsair wasn't particularly strong in performance compared to G skill but they are not doing performance benchmarking yet so we're gonna use this 20 for energy this is 16 gigabytes of RAM actually which should be enough for google chrome for her to a gig sticks yeah for a couple of tabs anyway okay so Patrick is grabbing the sorting the cooler situation and I kind of I know I don't normally do looks oriented pcs but to the extent that we can make an ITX box look good without doing something obviously like open-loop I would like to try to make it look interesting and we'll do an option I guess to turn off all the LEDs if they don't like them but the I'm thinking maybe some RGB fans in here and then we'll use an AMD Wraith cooler with RGB LEDs in it because we have plenty of those that's gonna be an upgrade for the 24 energy anyway and we can program it and then it should be good it should be set so I guess we need to I'll walk through the case and after I build it I'll get some b-roll of snowflake with the system so everyone will be happy and then of course she'll be jealous that it's going to other cats but let's start with a walkthrough of the case so I can remember what I'm even working with this is the end when I want to say a 1 I think is the name of this case and it does include a power supply it looks like it's 80 plus bronze and it's 600 watts which is way way more than enough I think things I liked about this was easy access like toaster oven door I guess is kind of neat makes it easier to maintain if I have to go back there and fix anything up here on the top if we can get a try and get a shot up there there's a tiny yeah there's a tiny piece of plastic in there that houses a PCB and that goes to the Qi charger which is indicated right there on the case now this is charging through some pretty thick glass so I would think that the I think that the strength of that charge would be pretty low relatively but it might still be should still be good enough to charge a phone slowly over time other stuff on the case like I said we reviewed this a while ago but two USB and the three on the top front got two audio power button no reset which is fine and then on the bottom side it's got that acrylic skirt down here so this was never really a big fan of in the review partly because it doesn't come up high enough for good cooling performance but again for a build like this that's okay the power supply power cable is routed to the back here so the cables gonna run internally and plug into the power supply and then feed over here which one thing I wish more companies would do on this and one of them did I can't remove it was.but is put a toggle here it should be easy enough to wire in a toggle kill switch to do on/off for that but because you can't reach inside and hit the kill switch for the power supply once it's inside of the case like this one typically I would like it if this were just a magnetic filter but four screws isn't that bad unless the fans I think have to screw in there as well which would kind of not be great well in terms of service that's not not great for an experienced user I would have liked this to just be just a removable filter but not a lot I can do about that because there's nothing critical I could if it were steel I should say I can just put magnetic filters on here and solve that problem but it is at least filtered it's not to start all right I think I've seen enough the case for now it should be good enough to work with that hopefully this builds fairly quick I think it will be I guess we'll do something like this downdraft is gonna be nice here with this side exhaust because although it's not really gonna need it it will spit the air right over the vrm so we can get some direct cooling on the mosfet from downdraft through the cpu cooler fan which is just kind of a nice bonus not necessary for the set up but the extra coins not a bad thing the random they're a two sticks of 3,200 I'm gonna clean off this thermal paste because it's been there a while it's like oh my god it's not even coming off on my hand really wow it is not going to be effective it has it has fully cured shows you what to expect you got to expect if you like bhaiyya AMD cpu off-the-shelf that's been sitting there a while like if you buy any of those 2000 series on sale I want to repay stit Patrick I need help Patrick how do RGB cables work based on my experience that is as limited as your experience I think we need an RGB block did you see one on here somewhere I don't know what those look like I'll get it to a fan header I mean Jimmy he's have 12 volts down ground see what happens alright so why all Patrick's looking up some more of that stuff I'm gonna start sorting out the power supply which is gonna start with removing the cable ties extension here EPS 12 volt 24 pins very short that's really nice to see I'm glad glad these as short cables as possible the included power supply that's a big upside to this alright so I'm gonna hand off the build for a little bit to Patrick because my voice is terrible right now so I'm gonna let him do some of this so he can talk you through some of the process and I guess the current thing we were looking at was the RGB cabling situation you can try and figure some of that out it's also a perfect perfect three time for me to step out of the shot so good luck yeah I'll do the 24 pin cable one thing we do almost zero of is RGB lighting on any system the most recent system bill that we did that we can't talk about yet because that video hasn't come out is Steve specifically tried to avoid as many RGB LEDs in it as possible and just talking about putting electrical tape over the remaining ones threatening to put electrical tape over the remaining ones so where does the motherboard go I have not built in this case in a long time if I ever built in it at all I'm still unclear on that but if you look up the article and it has my name on it and then I built in it well there's four screws so theoretically even I should be able to do this we have a cable cover here that redirects some of the cables that would otherwise be pointing out towards the side of the case it's in like I did that the first time Keagan would never betray me by making it seem like it was really hard for me to install everything yes so we have display output here okay so when we last left off I let Patrick get back to doing the building and on-camera stuff because I had basically lost my voice there was a few days but we're back and couple things so first of all because this motherboard in here was a test motherboard for our mini ITX case reviews we had gotten rid of the i/o shield we don't use i/o shields in any of our builds you have to remember that our stuff is assembled for like a day sometimes hours so we just get rid of them unfortunately that means in this instance where I want to pass the board on to someone I don't have an i/o shield here so one option is I could scavenge through boxes and try and find one with a similar layout and then maybe use metals and ifs and cut something together next thing I did was I currently a CPU fan is unplugged but I am connected come on something's loose I did a test connection for this RGB stuff just to try and see if I get it working without committing to building the whole computer because it'll really pay for it later yeah there we go so we got RGB LEDs this gonna be a mess but at least I can daisy-chain everything because we'd run out of plugs otherwise this is kind of a mess cuz we've got a bridge so I'm going to need to electrical tape that to make sure it doesn't fall off this is making me really dislike working with RGB LEDs by the way we never do so not something I normally think of but I mean like when I made that joke earlier in the video it's probably still in here - Patrick of Patrick I need your help how do I use these I wasn't really joking like I don't work with LEDs so anyway I'm gonna need to do cable cleanup on this like crazy and just stuff it all in the back I guess and I don't know but at least it's working it's synchronized the case the case is the same color on the bottom this will also synchronize I just I'm gonna need another fan connector so we've got these which that's just this is in the latently 120mm fan box so these are be our light 120 s they're called I think it's from the Bora fan series I honestly I'm not sure how good these fans are it doesn't really matter for this build I just like them for the fact that they didn't need a bunch of external controllers and all this stupid stuff Corsair fans do it's got this like super nice way overkill aluminum exterior we actually have a video showing how these fan borders are made in Taiwan so I mean it is it's a nice fan I don't know how good it is but it is sufficiently good for this build for sure and then this is a fan hub so we're gonna have one of these go to the computer and that's gonna be this one I think so that will go to the system will have a bridge fan cable between this and a socket on the motherboard fan header on the motherboard the rest will go to the fans in the system it's got sticky tape on the back so I can stick it on the back of the motherboard tray but as long as they're all pointed the right way it's still 12 volt to 12 volt so one thing you don't want to do is send 12 volts to ground on this that's why the there's arrows on these that point to a line where the live line is oh that's looking good though I just need to get them in the system and how do you get this hooked up I guess so let me grab a I'm gonna get an extension cable probably probably grab a knock to a 1 and we can hook that up I don't know if one fan header is gonna be able to run all these because we need one for the CPU cooler also I have my doubts about one motherboard fan header being able to how much current are these they're normally limited to one amp the motherboard fan headers sometimes less so if you look here LED and fan are separate we can ignore the LED current so the fans gonna be 0.1 7 amps we're gonna have three of those the CPU coolers probably probably like points you or something also so we should I think we might actually be ok just because there's these are such low power this could do PWM I guess but we just do DC control that's fine so we still control of fan speed just I'll just reduce the voltage cool they all spin and I get an idea for the noise level this idea is not plugged in otherwise I'd be on and they're turning off now or turning down anyway because I don't have a CPU fan so it's probably shutting itself off for protection nice ok we can actually make progress on this build now this parts gonna suck a lot because I have to completely as a disassembly get the fans in and they don't have to hide all the cables which is not gonna be easy with this amount of cables for LEDs and stuff I think they'll like it I hope they'll like the LEDs you guys can also turn them off if you don't like that but haha it's gonna be effort to get them in there so that's gonna be it nice wow that's awesome some things in this build finally coming together after letting it sit for a few days okay well I need to disassemble everything oh there's another fan header in there nice this is actually gonna be worth taking apart it's down there where the screwdriver is there's a great one down there so that that'll help a lot cuz now I can keep the CPU fan on pwm and just set it to run on a fan curve instead of at full blast okay so I got the motherboard seated properly and glad to have this because normally I don't care but for a semi-public machine I don't want anyone to have to worry about like dropping a USB key in it's possible cuz short something it's unlikely we want to go positive pressure on this so we can control where the dust is entering the system and I could do like this the CPU downdraft fan is going to pull some air in through here for sure but I think it might it might not pull too much because we'll have air coming in from the bottom from the side so air pressure trying to reach equilibrium should dictate that it'll most likely be exhaust coming out of here especially because the fins are oriented this direction right now on the cooler so that the air hits the prm's as well so I guess I'll start putting the fans in scale management's really gonna suck this is not going to be fun cable management so Patrick in the first part of this video referred to this thing on the bottom of the case as the has a bathtub for the fans he just not wrong I think it'll look nice when it's all done especially for like I said an audience that doesn't look at this stuff every day like we do kind of really what I'm going for fans are going to mount in here I'm gonna do intake which means they need to be orange this way okay should be pretty good on that I tell you this tastes really kind of sucks to Milton it's a nice case I wouldn't want to build a computer in it and I guess I'm doing that so there's a small hole back here that I could have routed through I think but it was really hard to get to these are I should be able to hide these reasonably well back here once I pull all the excess through the back I got one more fan in here I'd really like to do exhaust here because I think it'll look super cool actually like from the window looking in I think it would look cool to have an exhaust fan back there I think it looked cooler to have a Rin fan like a Thermaltake or Corsair where it's got the rain on the outside with LEDs that look pretty sweet but I just don't want to deal with all the different types of connectors we're doing enough with LEDs as is feel like if anyone made this except instead of fans in this chamber down here they made a cable management that would be like perfect maybe just stuff all the RGB cables on the basement it'd be perfect for a build okay so we're gonna take a break from filming here because it's in a good place all the hardware's where I want it I think the fans will look good I hope so and I figured out the case now some of the intricacies of it so everything is where I want it it's just time to do cable management and I don't want to film that for two hours because that's probably what's gonna take to do this so we're gonna do cable management come back with I guess some discussion some b-roll maybe and show off the completed build and hopefully do a successful delivery I also need to go get the SSD for this scheme use an eight sixty Evo 250 gigabyte SSD I picked it up for them on a recent sale I think there's like 60 ish dollars so it's marked down pretty reasonably but every time to cut into uko management and then we'll show it off after that here's the completed build we ended up doing some fluid testing they're all tested on this and while keep statics and dust both in mind this configuration worked really well the rear ends up acting as an exhaust since we're in a positive pressure setup and the CPU cooler is pushing air through its fins at the back the side panels exhaust also helps with dust prevention so just the bottom needs to be managed for dust we tested all this before finalizing and we're pretty happy with how it came out Patrick cleaned up the cables really nicely and made it all presentable we even installed a licensed version of Windows 10 for once we didn't want to just throw a volunteer on camera either without giving them any notice that we were showing up a couple days before Christmas so we're just going to show up set the system up for them and get it going okay so we've made it to cat angels now and I'll put the link in the description below if you want to check out their site and visit and maybe adopt the cat or otherwise or check out this computer that we built but we brought a system here I have to hook it up so we've got keyboard monitor Mouse already here one thing I realized immediately that I did not prepare for was a non HDMI or DisplayPort monitor so fortunately I have stuff to fix this I just I didn't bring it with me it's only a cable or adapter that we need but we can get that fixed so monitor just needs to be adapted to I think we've got HDMI and DisplayPort on here with the onboard solution for it the APU alternatively I can bring in a small expansion card and throw it in the bottom for VGA or DVI which this has so we're going to set it up in the very least and get things started so there's the build let's get a boarding house and I was speaking with cat angels so like I said earlier the main purpose is more or less going to be Chrome or web browser based for the adoption application which this will handle just fine for a long time hopefully because currently what they're doing is filling out the having people throw out the forms bringing that information home and then updating it separately which is something that I think we can improve the efficiency of this all right so it's turned on we're just missing the monitor now I'm gonna go grab an adapter for that and you'll have already seen his work by the time you're at this part of the video but Andrew needs to get some footage of the cats so he's gonna grab that I'll grab some kind of adapters or cards and bring them all in and we'll figure out what works get this monitor up and running but it's in place so if you come by and want to adopt hopefully soon they'll have it set up so that you could fill it out on the computer that we built for cat angels Andrew got to do the fun thing and play with cats for a bit and I came back we got it working so I I did load the gamers Nexus mascot for the desktop wallpaper it's best if she's under the tree so there's snowflake it seemed appropriate but cat angels really loved the build they thought the LEDs were awesome the case was something that they hadn't really seen for a PC before and even the Qi charger definitely got some interest it's really cool for us to see how people who are less frequently exposed to the pcs that we do get so excited about the looks of a system because we're in it every day so it you don't feel quite the same enthusiasm about some of the stuff that we see on a daily basis like RGB LEDs so it was really cool to see that we've got a setup I end up using a for the people interested in the not really super technical solution but it did work its way back there but I end up using an adapter kind of like this so quick teaching moment I guess for anyone who has the same problem but for VGA you're dealing with an analog signal for DVI it might be analog or digital so the solutions change a bit but with VGA specifically you need an active adapter to go to digital because you changed from analog to digital with a modern display so I used a an active adapter with VGA on one side this is an HDMI one but it's the same idea and VGA on this side and then if we went to DisplayPort on the other side so we're going analog digital and you do need the box there it has to be active actually on Amazon you can get scams pretty easily for it because you'll find cables that are just they look more like this this one's fine because it's DVI that's interlaced or just digital but it's DVI digital either way to HDMI which is digital but you'll also find VGA analog cables like this that terminate and just hdmi displayport if you buy those in most instances it will not work there's a few video cards that can make it work but for the most part you're getting scams if you buy it except for some of the laptops that are out there so the solution was just an active adapter and everything works great this is a 1600 by 900 monitor so it's definitely acceptable for web use I think if I come across an extra 1080p monitor I'd probably bring it in at some point and I might see if we have an extra Mouse to bring in to upgrade things a bit so we've got some upgrade options I certainly don't need the upgrade so I'm looking for other people's stuff to upgrade taking Kyle bit with Kyle's job basically so that's it we did the the whole explanation what cat angels' is in the beginning if you're interested in them you can check the link in the description below they have donations page if you'd like to donate everything is pretty direct to the cats so no no salaries or anything like that to worry about it's volunteer work and then they do pay for like I said the full medical treatment of cats that need it and then the special dietary needs they get all of that as an even so check that out link the description below otherwise you can help us out at store doc here in Texas net but honestly I'd rather you give the money to cat angels for this one and subscribe for more we'll see you all next timeevery one today we're doing a special PC built it's a mini ITX build for cat angels which is a charity it's a cat shelter so there will be cats in this video there'll be a lot of them snowflake will make an appearance not just in this form but actual snowflake form and perhaps more importantly think they have a hundred and fifteen plus cats in there shelter right now they do a really good job of taking care of them they do adoptions that you cat intake and if a cat comes in and someone adopts it great if no one adopts it then they keep it forever for the life of the cat so it is a proper no-kill shelter and I've been there personally to check it out and vet it and make sure that we like what they do and we're working on a separate charity auction with them but in the meantime they said hey we kind of need a computer for people coming in to fill out the adoption forms could you help us out with that I said please take things off of my shelves yes I can help so today we are going to explore the storage room and find some parts for a mini ITX build and put together hopefully a good machine for google chrome which will probably require a 39 70 X with all the dims occupied before that this video is brought to you by Squarespace Squarespace is what we've been using for years to manage our own gamers Nexus store and we've been incredibly happy with the choice Squarespace makes ecommerce easy for those interested in starting stores but it also has powerful tools to build all types of websites photo galleries for photographers resume and portfolio 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obviously for events a quick note to our GN Steve side channel which is linked in the description below we'll have a unedited cut of all the b-roll we took while at the cat shelter so if you just want a series of cute cats playing on your screen then check the link in the description below because we're just gonna upload that for fun so my guess is are one maybe the systems are on hard drives and Windows has become bloated with time that's a really common reason for systems to slow down and get bad with age - second possibility very likely is there's probably a lot of fur actually been there I know and I'm allergic to cats but I've never been near a hundred cats so I didn't know how quite how bad that would be but they have a hundred plus cats there which is great taking really good care of them it does however mean that there's a lot of cat fur hair just dust in general even though they do a really good job of cleaning the place I mean what are you gonna do about a hundred cats so that stuff might be clogging up the ventilation on the current computers or laptops and I'm thinking if it's that simple I might be able to take them apart die in the process and then have Patrick finish cleaning them and the system's clean so that they are breathable again because I won't be breathable after that so those are the the possibilities we're still gonna put together a good system for them I want to pull some parts out of storage we're gonna pull parts that are not going to be used for testing anymore so things that we have duplicates of or just don't need I've got some ideals already I'm thinking we use an eye GP for this so CPU with an eye GP or APU maybe and pass on the video card as much as I would like to put the cute pet in there because it looked great it is a bit overkill in the meantime though we need to put together a good box for them quick things are on cat angels so first of all they are located in North Carolina you can stop by and adopt a cat or just see the cats if you want and they do take donations on their website we are going to be doing a charity auction later I don't know exactly one yet we're gonna be listed in some 1080 TI's some noteworthy things like the original thread Ripper press like Pelican case stuff like that we're gonna be listing that for auction charity auction all the money that goes to those things to buy them will then go straight to cat angels so that's coming up later and if you want to support them that's great way to do it we're also gonna auction off the mod mat on the live stream set and on the main set and a couple of other ones that have been in use for over a year now so that's the plan the shelter I've checked out myself it's very good they provide cats with the cats that have special medicine needs get everything they need because they have a special dietary needs get everything they need they don't cut corners they look very very hand to mouth way of operating and we're happy to help them out so let's get started in the next shot I'm going to get sick we decided to film this part because of that so I would have be joined by Patrick and we'll check out the storage room and try and find stuff for this PC build all right so I've got Patrick here to let me pick some parts we have a good amount of ITX case is not a crazy amount but Patrick did ITX case testing for awhile before we decided we need to completely revamp it if we want to do it more seriously so I'll come back to it eventually eventually so we're gonna pick between the ITX cases I saw this case labs s ma8 is that what it's called I mean yeah I think you got into one and I am Not sure that this is really size appropriate for their office it's made of whole aluminum so it's light enough before yeah it's it's really lightweight actually it is very late right so a little too big ITEX cases are on this shelf will pick out the motherboard CPU and stuff next this case it was this SG 14 maybe it's got a Silverstone name so nobody will ever remember it this is just a cheap piece of sheet metal basically but that makes it really cool really good case yeah normally put the board in there and it's got some mesh on the front and it's about as basic as you get this whole shell comes off at the top and then there's a motherboard tray on the bottom the Sugo series SG 13 yeah you're better remembering these than I am yeah I got the number on but this one like I said we'll get close-ups we did we review this I think we did yeah I think I remember the Qi charger so it had some issues in the review like the height between the ground and the fans on the bottom was not really sufficient yeah but we're gonna be working with a much lower end system so it's not super relevant and also you know GPU and I was thinking we probably for the case we probably want to do negative pressure to deal with the are actually positive pressure is the word I'm looking for we probably be positive pressure to deal with the dust because here cat hair because I think if we I think we have positive pressure we should be able to control where the air is coming into the case whereas if we do negative it'll just try and get it anywhere it can so if we control where it comes in the case then we can put filters in the appropriate places and they can also potentially use the Qi charger right we I can't it doesn't you might be able to yeah okay holds Bergen never mind I don't I don't think my phone will support it the Qi charger we think it probably works we've never tested it because none of our phones supported but it would be nice for like an office PC if anyone there has a phone that supports Qi charging I guess Andrews might the Andrews does we could test it with his we shouldn't told people what funds we had because now they can correct us if we say that we can't do wireless I would say which one my I have okay alright I just said I have a they were everything it's good policy security reasons so this one's got filtration on the bottom there's no filter in the back which as long as we don't use the back for intake that's fine we can put one there though so that's that's possibly let's look at the other side see there's a program there so this one maybe not an ideal candidate part of the reason we like this was that it cooled the GPU fairly well yeah but this is a nice case it's got a riser for the GPU this is one of the better cases for sure yeah I don't know it's like kind of entering overkill territory do GPU and if a lot of it goes to waste it doesn't look particularly interesting I'm thinking for not enthusiasts I think they can correct me if I'm wrong but I think non computer hardware enthusiasts the audience like with the computer I kind of want to do something that looks a little cooler to someone who doesn't see this stuff every day so that's why I kind of like the n1 one on the other side and I'm leaning towards the one on the other side especially if we can make it look kind of nice because it's got the window that sounds good to me I think a lot of the advantage of these larger ones is that they have ok GPU cooling with the GPU right up against a vent on the side panel yeah so if we're not doing that then we might as well get a case that has better CPU cooler support right yeah so let's go with that in one one so our CPU storage has has recently recovered from the disappointment build in true yes I think everything's everything's in this proper place no but we I think we're leaning towards an APU but we definitely are leaning towards an APU that's a couple less fans to clean out and they're not gonna be doing anything GPU intensive anyway yeah I like to look the fewer fabs to clean is a good point too so as far as older ApS go we have a lot of AMD 7070 800 series ApS from when the site first started but that limits us to older motherboards and I don't think we have a bunch of old AMD yes mullen vector board a lot of that stuff to you I don't know I've got started around two thousand seven or eight so a lot of that we have some 7000 series ApS I think theirs might have been 2012 or 2010 or something like that it's getting old enough where even though it'd be fine I don't really want to build something that old so I kind of like the idea of a 2400 G maybe yeah we have two of those obviously we do have a lot of in sold with integrated graphics on them but we specifically have an extra 2400 G in here all right if we didn't tell I think we'd have to do a pentium G 5400 and that should be significantly worse than the APS so probably better D is the 24 - g AP you this these are both 24 of G's this one is the one we were using for mini ITX testing so I'll take the other one out yeah it's a good size yes one oh you want to take the ITEX one yeah like keep okay all right yeah actually good so we'll grab that 24 out of G mm-hmm we uh we recently reorganized our motherboards because we were running out of space on the shelf which means that most of our mini ITX boards are up here somewhere yeah on the left 1 2 3 4 5 v rail from the bottom far left is gonna that looks like a B 350 I think this is the one yes this is the mini ITX test board the gigabyte a be 350 in gaming Wi-Fi so it's got a Wi-Fi card on it that's another thing I hadn't let talk about yeah so only 2 RAM slots let's find ya and a GPU slot would you like a Wi-Fi inclusion I'm not sure what their what their Ethernet situation is there so that might be good and we're probably never gonna use that board again anyway there's newer stuff before 50 makes more sense and if we go back to ITX testing we probably probably really want to modernize everything anyway so okay so onto Ram no yeah Rams next we're gonna have a bit more fan noise white noise here from the servers to our left but the downside for us with Rison is that it does mean ddr4 it's necessary which is fine I'll make a bit better build for them we just we have a good amount of ddr3 we're never going to use again so I would have liked to get rid of that but I'd rather give them a system that actually gonna run for a couple years without issue so what can we spare his really question we have that old HyperX predator memory with Heights I don't think the height will be an issue in that case yeah that is a kid of four though what does this vengeance our GP is that from the case oh no that's 46 that was forty three hundred megahertz don't want to use that probably wouldn't even boot Corsair do we need all this Corsair no X we don't and there are actually a couple eight gigs sticks in there that might be good candidates this is to buy eight gigabyte it's forty six hundred records yeah they should be separated out this is three thousand my grades but that's right handy okay though this might be the this is thirty two hundred sixteen eighteen eighteen thirty six eight gigabytes okay yeah do we have I think we have a couple of those yeah I think I think the GP adventures have like for each yeah I think we have two of those specifically because I can do this the ones for a couple there might be one I'm not sure died okay so we're just gonna use this memory vengeance LP axe is way overkill for the kind of system they're using anyway our standards are just every time I do a build that's not that's like for use that we don't typically cover I realize how out of touch we are with like the like lower end systems so I'm looking like looking at this going uh 16 18 18 36 per hour so yeah how are you gonna fill in their spreadsheets like that hey but to be fair this is still considered very high on memory by pre-built standards yeah if you bought a prebuilt box which is typically what an organization like that would be using it would one be green and two it'd probably be like 2666 and they're a they probably wouldn't even turn X and P on and just write what you think you had a the pre-built just run with like fall stock science and it would be garbage so this is still very good quality and we don't want to use it for CPU testing any more because in our memory Verizon we showed that Corsair wasn't particularly strong in performance compared to G skill but they are not doing performance benchmarking yet so we're gonna use this 20 for energy this is 16 gigabytes of RAM actually which should be enough for google chrome for her to a gig sticks yeah for a couple of tabs anyway okay so Patrick is grabbing the sorting the cooler situation and I kind of I know I don't normally do looks oriented pcs but to the extent that we can make an ITX box look good without doing something obviously like open-loop I would like to try to make it look interesting and we'll do an option I guess to turn off all the LEDs if they don't like them but the I'm thinking maybe some RGB fans in here and then we'll use an AMD Wraith cooler with RGB LEDs in it because we have plenty of those that's gonna be an upgrade for the 24 energy anyway and we can program it and then it should be good it should be set so I guess we need to I'll walk through the case and after I build it I'll get some b-roll of snowflake with the system so everyone will be happy and then of course she'll be jealous that it's going to other cats but let's start with a walkthrough of the case so I can remember what I'm even working with this is the end when I want to say a 1 I think is the name of this case and it does include a power supply it looks like it's 80 plus bronze and it's 600 watts which is way way more than enough I think things I liked about this was easy access like toaster oven door I guess is kind of neat makes it easier to maintain if I have to go back there and fix anything up here on the top if we can get a try and get a shot up there there's a tiny yeah there's a tiny piece of plastic in there that houses a PCB and that goes to the Qi charger which is indicated right there on the case now this is charging through some pretty thick glass so I would think that the I think that the strength of that charge would be pretty low relatively but it might still be should still be good enough to charge a phone slowly over time other stuff on the case like I said we reviewed this a while ago but two USB and the three on the top front got two audio power button no reset which is fine and then on the bottom side it's got that acrylic skirt down here so this was never really a big fan of in the review partly because it doesn't come up high enough for good cooling performance but again for a build like this that's okay the power supply power cable is routed to the back here so the cables gonna run internally and plug into the power supply and then feed over here which one thing I wish more companies would do on this and one of them did I can't remove it was.but is put a toggle here it should be easy enough to wire in a toggle kill switch to do on/off for that but because you can't reach inside and hit the kill switch for the power supply once it's inside of the case like this one typically I would like it if this were just a magnetic filter but four screws isn't that bad unless the fans I think have to screw in there as well which would kind of not be great well in terms of service that's not not great for an experienced user I would have liked this to just be just a removable filter but not a lot I can do about that because there's nothing critical I could if it were steel I should say I can just put magnetic filters on here and solve that problem but it is at least filtered it's not to start all right I think I've seen enough the case for now it should be good enough to work with that hopefully this builds fairly quick I think it will be I guess we'll do something like this downdraft is gonna be nice here with this side exhaust because although it's not really gonna need it it will spit the air right over the vrm so we can get some direct cooling on the mosfet from downdraft through the cpu cooler fan which is just kind of a nice bonus not necessary for the set up but the extra coins not a bad thing the random they're a two sticks of 3,200 I'm gonna clean off this thermal paste because it's been there a while it's like oh my god it's not even coming off on my hand really wow it is not going to be effective it has it has fully cured shows you what to expect you got to expect if you like bhaiyya AMD cpu off-the-shelf that's been sitting there a while like if you buy any of those 2000 series on sale I want to repay stit Patrick I need help Patrick how do RGB cables work based on my experience that is as limited as your experience I think we need an RGB block did you see one on here somewhere I don't know what those look like I'll get it to a fan header I mean Jimmy he's have 12 volts down ground see what happens alright so why all Patrick's looking up some more of that stuff I'm gonna start sorting out the power supply which is gonna start with removing the cable ties extension here EPS 12 volt 24 pins very short that's really nice to see I'm glad glad these as short cables as possible the included power supply that's a big upside to this alright so I'm gonna hand off the build for a little bit to Patrick because my voice is terrible right now so I'm gonna let him do some of this so he can talk you through some of the process and I guess the current thing we were looking at was the RGB cabling situation you can try and figure some of that out it's also a perfect perfect three time for me to step out of the shot so good luck yeah I'll do the 24 pin cable one thing we do almost zero of is RGB lighting on any system the most recent system bill that we did that we can't talk about yet because that video hasn't come out is Steve specifically tried to avoid as many RGB LEDs in it as possible and just talking about putting electrical tape over the remaining ones threatening to put electrical tape over the remaining ones so where does the motherboard go I have not built in this case in a long time if I ever built in it at all I'm still unclear on that but if you look up the article and it has my name on it and then I built in it well there's four screws so theoretically even I should be able to do this we have a cable cover here that redirects some of the cables that would otherwise be pointing out towards the side of the case it's in like I did that the first time Keagan would never betray me by making it seem like it was really hard for me to install everything yes so we have display output here okay so when we last left off I let Patrick get back to doing the building and on-camera stuff because I had basically lost my voice there was a few days but we're back and couple things so first of all because this motherboard in here was a test motherboard for our mini ITX case reviews we had gotten rid of the i/o shield we don't use i/o shields in any of our builds you have to remember that our stuff is assembled for like a day sometimes hours so we just get rid of them unfortunately that means in this instance where I want to pass the board on to someone I don't have an i/o shield here so one option is I could scavenge through boxes and try and find one with a similar layout and then maybe use metals and ifs and cut something together next thing I did was I currently a CPU fan is unplugged but I am connected come on something's loose I did a test connection for this RGB stuff just to try and see if I get it working without committing to building the whole computer because it'll really pay for it later yeah there we go so we got RGB LEDs this gonna be a mess but at least I can daisy-chain everything because we'd run out of plugs otherwise this is kind of a mess cuz we've got a bridge so I'm going to need to electrical tape that to make sure it doesn't fall off this is making me really dislike working with RGB LEDs by the way we never do so not something I normally think of but I mean like when I made that joke earlier in the video it's probably still in here - Patrick of Patrick I need your help how do I use these I wasn't really joking like I don't work with LEDs so anyway I'm gonna need to do cable cleanup on this like crazy and just stuff it all in the back I guess and I don't know but at least it's working it's synchronized the case the case is the same color on the bottom this will also synchronize I just I'm gonna need another fan connector so we've got these which that's just this is in the latently 120mm fan box so these are be our light 120 s they're called I think it's from the Bora fan series I honestly I'm not sure how good these fans are it doesn't really matter for this build I just like them for the fact that they didn't need a bunch of external controllers and all this stupid stuff Corsair fans do it's got this like super nice way overkill aluminum exterior we actually have a video showing how these fan borders are made in Taiwan so I mean it is it's a nice fan I don't know how good it is but it is sufficiently good for this build for sure and then this is a fan hub so we're gonna have one of these go to the computer and that's gonna be this one I think so that will go to the system will have a bridge fan cable between this and a socket on the motherboard fan header on the motherboard the rest will go to the fans in the system it's got sticky tape on the back so I can stick it on the back of the motherboard tray but as long as they're all pointed the right way it's still 12 volt to 12 volt so one thing you don't want to do is send 12 volts to ground on this that's why the there's arrows on these that point to a line where the live line is oh that's looking good though I just need to get them in the system and how do you get this hooked up I guess so let me grab a I'm gonna get an extension cable probably probably grab a knock to a 1 and we can hook that up I don't know if one fan header is gonna be able to run all these because we need one for the CPU cooler also I have my doubts about one motherboard fan header being able to how much current are these they're normally limited to one amp the motherboard fan headers sometimes less so if you look here LED and fan are separate we can ignore the LED current so the fans gonna be 0.1 7 amps we're gonna have three of those the CPU coolers probably probably like points you or something also so we should I think we might actually be ok just because there's these are such low power this could do PWM I guess but we just do DC control that's fine so we still control of fan speed just I'll just reduce the voltage cool they all spin and I get an idea for the noise level this idea is not plugged in otherwise I'd be on and they're turning off now or turning down anyway because I don't have a CPU fan so it's probably shutting itself off for protection nice ok we can actually make progress on this build now this parts gonna suck a lot because I have to completely as a disassembly get the fans in and they don't have to hide all the cables which is not gonna be easy with this amount of cables for LEDs and stuff I think they'll like it I hope they'll like the LEDs you guys can also turn them off if you don't like that but haha it's gonna be effort to get them in there so that's gonna be it nice wow that's awesome some things in this build finally coming together after letting it sit for a few days okay well I need to disassemble everything oh there's another fan header in there nice this is actually gonna be worth taking apart it's down there where the screwdriver is there's a great one down there so that that'll help a lot cuz now I can keep the CPU fan on pwm and just set it to run on a fan curve instead of at full blast okay so I got the motherboard seated properly and glad to have this because normally I don't care but for a semi-public machine I don't want anyone to have to worry about like dropping a USB key in it's possible cuz short something it's unlikely we want to go positive pressure on this so we can control where the dust is entering the system and I could do like this the CPU downdraft fan is going to pull some air in through here for sure but I think it might it might not pull too much because we'll have air coming in from the bottom from the side so air pressure trying to reach equilibrium should dictate that it'll most likely be exhaust coming out of here especially because the fins are oriented this direction right now on the cooler so that the air hits the prm's as well so I guess I'll start putting the fans in scale management's really gonna suck this is not going to be fun cable management so Patrick in the first part of this video referred to this thing on the bottom of the case as the has a bathtub for the fans he just not wrong I think it'll look nice when it's all done especially for like I said an audience that doesn't look at this stuff every day like we do kind of really what I'm going for fans are going to mount in here I'm gonna do intake which means they need to be orange this way okay should be pretty good on that I tell you this tastes really kind of sucks to Milton it's a nice case I wouldn't want to build a computer in it and I guess I'm doing that so there's a small hole back here that I could have routed through I think but it was really hard to get to these are I should be able to hide these reasonably well back here once I pull all the excess through the back I got one more fan in here I'd really like to do exhaust here because I think it'll look super cool actually like from the window looking in I think it would look cool to have an exhaust fan back there I think it looked cooler to have a Rin fan like a Thermaltake or Corsair where it's got the rain on the outside with LEDs that look pretty sweet but I just don't want to deal with all the different types of connectors we're doing enough with LEDs as is feel like if anyone made this except instead of fans in this chamber down here they made a cable management that would be like perfect maybe just stuff all the RGB cables on the basement it'd be perfect for a build okay so we're gonna take a break from filming here because it's in a good place all the hardware's where I want it I think the fans will look good I hope so and I figured out the case now some of the intricacies of it so everything is where I want it it's just time to do cable management and I don't want to film that for two hours because that's probably what's gonna take to do this so we're gonna do cable management come back with I guess some discussion some b-roll maybe and show off the completed build and hopefully do a successful delivery I also need to go get the SSD for this scheme use an eight sixty Evo 250 gigabyte SSD I picked it up for them on a recent sale I think there's like 60 ish dollars so it's marked down pretty reasonably but every time to cut into uko management and then we'll show it off after that here's the completed build we ended up doing some fluid testing they're all tested on this and while keep statics and dust both in mind this configuration worked really well the rear ends up acting as an exhaust since we're in a positive pressure setup and the CPU cooler is pushing air through its fins at the back the side panels exhaust also helps with dust prevention so just the bottom needs to be managed for dust we tested all this before finalizing and we're pretty happy with how it came out Patrick cleaned up the cables really nicely and made it all presentable we even installed a licensed version of Windows 10 for once we didn't want to just throw a volunteer on camera either without giving them any notice that we were showing up a couple days before Christmas so we're just going to show up set the system up for them and get it going okay so we've made it to cat angels now and I'll put the link in the description below if you want to check out their site and visit and maybe adopt the cat or otherwise or check out this computer that we built but we brought a system here I have to hook it up so we've got keyboard monitor Mouse already here one thing I realized immediately that I did not prepare for was a non HDMI or DisplayPort monitor so fortunately I have stuff to fix this I just I didn't bring it with me it's only a cable or adapter that we need but we can get that fixed so monitor just needs to be adapted to I think we've got HDMI and DisplayPort on here with the onboard solution for it the APU alternatively I can bring in a small expansion card and throw it in the bottom for VGA or DVI which this has so we're going to set it up in the very least and get things started so there's the build let's get a boarding house and I was speaking with cat angels so like I said earlier the main purpose is more or less going to be Chrome or web browser based for the adoption application which this will handle just fine for a long time hopefully because currently what they're doing is filling out the having people throw out the forms bringing that information home and then updating it separately which is something that I think we can improve the efficiency of this all right so it's turned on we're just missing the monitor now I'm gonna go grab an adapter for that and you'll have already seen his work by the time you're at this part of the video but Andrew needs to get some footage of the cats so he's gonna grab that I'll grab some kind of adapters or cards and bring them all in and we'll figure out what works get this monitor up and running but it's in place so if you come by and want to adopt hopefully soon they'll have it set up so that you could fill it out on the computer that we built for cat angels Andrew got to do the fun thing and play with cats for a bit and I came back we got it working so I I did load the gamers Nexus mascot for the desktop wallpaper it's best if she's under the tree so there's snowflake it seemed appropriate but cat angels really loved the build they thought the LEDs were awesome the case was something that they hadn't really seen for a PC before and even the Qi charger definitely got some interest it's really cool for us to see how people who are less frequently exposed to the pcs that we do get so excited about the looks of a system because we're in it every day so it you don't feel quite the same enthusiasm about some of the stuff that we see on a daily basis like RGB LEDs so it was really cool to see that we've got a setup I end up using a for the people interested in the not really super technical solution but it did work its way back there but I end up using an adapter kind of like this so quick teaching moment I guess for anyone who has the same problem but for VGA you're dealing with an analog signal for DVI it might be analog or digital so the solutions change a bit but with VGA specifically you need an active adapter to go to digital because you changed from analog to digital with a modern display so I used a an active adapter with VGA on one side this is an HDMI one but it's the same idea and VGA on this side and then if we went to DisplayPort on the other side so we're going analog digital and you do need the box there it has to be active actually on Amazon you can get scams pretty easily for it because you'll find cables that are just they look more like this this one's fine because it's DVI that's interlaced or just digital but it's DVI digital either way to HDMI which is digital but you'll also find VGA analog cables like this that terminate and just hdmi displayport if you buy those in most instances it will not work there's a few video cards that can make it work but for the most part you're getting scams if you buy it except for some of the laptops that are out there so the solution was just an active adapter and everything works great this is a 1600 by 900 monitor so it's definitely acceptable for web use I think if I come across an extra 1080p monitor I'd probably bring it in at some point and I might see if we have an extra Mouse to bring in to upgrade things a bit so we've got some upgrade options I certainly don't need the upgrade so I'm looking for other people's stuff to upgrade taking Kyle bit with Kyle's job basically so that's it we did the the whole explanation what cat angels' is in the beginning if you're interested in them you can check the link in the description below they have donations page if you'd like to donate everything is pretty direct to the cats so no no salaries or anything like that to worry about it's volunteer work and then they do pay for like I said the full medical treatment of cats that need it and then the special dietary needs they get all of that as an even so check that out link the description below otherwise you can help us out at store doc here in Texas net but honestly I'd rather you give the money to cat angels for this one and subscribe for more we'll see you all next time\n"