Building a PC: A Journey of Trial and Error

As I sit here in my garage, surrounded by wires, motherboards, and the occasional stray screw, I embark on a journey that has become all too familiar. Building a PC is a labor of love, but it's also a time-consuming process that requires patience, dedication, and a healthy dose of frustration. Today, I'm tackling a new build with a memory and motherboard that I've chosen specifically for each other. The anticipation is building as I begin the setup process.

The first thing that catches my eye is the form factor of this card. I've always been a fan of small form factor builds, and this particular card fits the bill perfectly. Its compact size makes it an ideal candidate for those who want to build a PC without sacrificing performance. And, as I take a closer look, I notice that it's not just aesthetically pleasing but also packs a punch in terms of power. I'll have to see how well it performs under load, but based on my initial impressions, I'm excited to get started.

One question that keeps popping up in my mind is the difference between the non-Golden Sample and this particular card. From what I've gathered, the main difference lies in the overclocking capabilities and the cooler attached to the GPU. It's clear that this card has been tweaked to be more potent than its stock counterpart, with a beefier cooling system that should help keep temperatures under control.

As I begin to plan out my build, I find myself drawn to a specific color scheme – black, white, and red. There's something about the combination that just feels right, and I'm hoping it'll be a cohesive look for this PC. Of course, there are always concerns about clashing colors, but in this case, I think we can pull off the bold look without any major issues.

Moving on to the storage drive, I carefully remove the existing unit from its current position and prepare to install the new one. This is a crucial part of the build process, as the SSD will be responsible for holding all my precious files and programs. A quick glance at the specs reveals that this particular drive has some impressive features, including fast read and write speeds.

Thermal paste application – always the most contentious aspect of building a PC. Some prefer the old-school "grain of rice" method, while others swear by the PE (paste extract) technique. I'm opting for the latter today, using a small amount to ensure that everything runs smoothly and efficiently. It's amazing how much of a difference it can make in terms of system performance.

Next up is the cooler, which has been a topic of interest among PC enthusiasts. Apparently, some folks have had run-ins with stock coolers before – one particular story involving a guy who got a little too enthusiastic with his disposal methods left me speechless. In any case, I'm using a pretty decent Wraith Stealth cooler to keep my components at bay.

With the cooler in place, it's time for the final touches. This is where patience comes in handy, as we wait for the system to boot up and take its first breaths of life. As the computer whirs to life, I can feel a sense of accomplishment wash over me – all those hours of tinkering, waiting, and tweaking have finally paid off.

And then there's the question of aesthetics. A beautifully built PC is only as good as its appearance, and I'm thrilled with how everything looks so far. The blue accents on the drive are a nice touch, and I think it'll be easy to find a case that complements the overall color scheme. Of course, there's always the risk of clashing colors, but for now, I think we're in good shape.

In the end, building a PC is all about experimentation, trial and error, and learning from our mistakes. It may not be an easy process, but it's one that yields some incredible rewards – the satisfaction of watching something come together, seeing the final product shine, and knowing that I've created something truly special with my own two hands.

Finally, as we near completion, I take a moment to appreciate the little things – like the macro shots this camera can capture. It may seem like a small detail, but it's moments like these that make me feel grateful for the entire process.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwhat's cracking people welcome back to the channel today I am joined by Paul of Paul's Hardware my good uh friend and colleague to do this sort of really fun collaboration build that we're doing uh it's a two-part series actually part one of course is what you're watching right now and afterwards you can head over to Paul's Channel I'll put a link of the description cards annotations all that but what we're essentially doing today is we are doing sort of a charity or a donation build for our good friend and twitch moderator cell processing go cell yes his name is Nick and he has been a really dedicated moderator and just friend to us uh via the Internet we've actually met him in person um one or two times and he's just a really great individual he helps us a lot with our our twitch streams for awesome hardware and even on our live streams on YouTube on a regular basis he's been a really good pal we game with him frequently and we just wanted to give back and say thanks by building him a pretty sweet rig uh he already does have a PC of his own which I believe is is is pretty decent it's in relatively good condition I believe this one though might be a little bit better and more Rel Kyle cell's computer is an Abomination it's horrible and he deserves something much much much better so that's what we're going to be building for him today and obviously as K Kyle already mentioned just as a huge thank you to him for being so dedicated uh if you guys are familiar with me and Kyle you know we do a live show every Tuesday and uh cell has been our moderator for like a couple years now super consistent and we like we don't pay him a dime um but he's always there and he's always doing a great job so thank you cell and and I hope this computer uh is is a good way of saying thank you y it I I I hope it is I I don't know any better way to say thanks than to build someone a computer only way we know how to speak to people or express love yes it comes from the heart for sure uh so I guess should we just go over some of the parts that we're using that's a good idea okay cool all right guys so on that note uh Paul and I have kind of joined forces here to contribute half of the hardware on either side so we're just going to take turns talking about each of the parts that we contributed for this build that is true so uh I'm going to start off here with the CPU and we're going of course with the ryzen build because the ryzen CPUs are awesome this actually is the ryzen 7 1700x uh that came directly from AMD and uh so not only is it our 1700x you which you can only tell by looking at the side actually right there but it's it's awesome and it's one of the original 1700 X's which is probably means it's a limited time like you you can never can never have another 1700 x like that one one of a kind yes and then uh for memory that we're ING with the 1700x we've got a ddr4 kit this is a 16 GB kit 2x 8 gig sticks of the Vengeance lpx from Good Old Corsair they are rated at 3200 MHz which is obviously good for ryzen since it does benefit quite significantly significantly from higher frequencies in their ddr4 pairings and uh the cast latency on that Paul I can't really see it from here 16 18 1836 all right cool and not too bad for 3200 at all definitely not too bad and the dies on those should be pretty good as well we should have some pretty solid comp compatibility with ryzen at this point uh with all the BIOS updates that have surfaced uh but yeah that should be a pretty good kit excellent for our motherboard and this is part of the reason KY went with white memory we have the orus ax 370 gaming 5 from gigabytes so uh this is sort of a middle of the road x370 board but it has very good overclocking actually the uh vrms on this board are the exact same vrms as you get on the gaming 7 so um yeah you got m.2 support all of the fancy stuff am4 that you get with uh ryzen and you even get like RGB it's got LEDs cuz we know cell loves loves RGB LEDs he's about those that's all he cares about uh and then we've got a 240 gig ocz tl00 this is Toshiba ocz of course I think the uh the SSD is also white so it should be matching with the rest of the rig pretty nicely with the mobo accents and whatnot and uh let's see I don't know exactly which controller is on this SSD I just sort of grabbed it um had it line around but um it is SATA sata 3 no nvme here but it should be pretty good for sell's needs um again like Paul said there is .2 slot on the mobo so he could always upgrade in the future or expand his storage and uh yeah that's pretty much all I got to say about that going to be a good SSD um all right next we have let's do the case this is the master case Pro 6 uh I've already built in this case once it is very solid it is very well built uh it's got a nice side panel window on it and everything uh actually a big part of the reason why I chose this case is because of the packaging the actual uh stuff that's in there we'll show you in just a minute is absolutely insane as far as how this case is packed and since we got to ship it to sell and it's going to be rough handled in shipping uh we wanted to make sure it's going to get to them okay so we'll show you guys that in just a second other than that it's a really nice case though too uh built like a tank and it's got a couple fans in there that stay nice and quiet you said rough handled I did L next up we've got the graphics card this is the powercolor Red Devil golden sample what so this is a uh specifically um dialing in some some higher overclocks than the original Red Devil this is the RX 580 of course from AMD which is featuring uh more refined 14 NM lpp uh package and whatnot so it should have a little bit more higher performance per watt than the rx480 uh not terribly much more performance in game but uh it is a very fantastic card I've done a review on the non golden sample and that was already a blazing fast GPU for 1440p gaming so the other Red Devils that we've seen in the past from Power color have actually featured triple uh fan designs this one only has two but they are larger at 100 millimeters which should help for uh better Cooling and and low lower noise so overall it should also have a bit more headro for overclocking if you know if Cell knows how to overclock or something like that I don't know if he knows much about computers and a big part of the reason uh that that we went with the 580 is because Kyle pointed out cell has a free sync panel thank you for reminding me Paul um which obviously would be kind of a bummer if we got him an Nvidia card he wouldn't be able to take advantage of that so uh I don't know if if this is not fast enough for his needs which I'm sure it will be he could always you know add in a second 580 or even wait out for for Vega um sell this back to me if I you know whatever and then just buy faster Graphics C so you're you're planning to profit on this ultimately no I didn't I didn't say that that's the goal I didn't say that edit that out now the power supply situation is one of uh I want I don't know for some reason the word butterface comes to mind but um this is an antec 1200 watt high current Pro power supply I can't get these anymore uh you can't buy them at retail but it is 80 plus gold rated and it is actually a beastly power supply it's also one of the power supplies that has a fan on the end rather than on the bottom or the top or bottom or top uh and yeah it's it's really nice it it as far as the power uh it's not the prettiest when it com done when it comes to the cables we do have some ketchup and mustard going on so um basically we didn't want to give cell a computer that he's just never going to touch again cell loves to build computers and Tinker with them just as we do so uh this is maybe potential upgrade opportunity in the future also we didn't want to give him something he could just immediately submit to pimp my PC and like get get a bunch of Ooo and AZ over we need something to uh give him a hard time about so sell for now you've got ketchup and mustard to deal with but you know what it's still going to work and and part of it matches the video card oh yeah the gold silver lining Sil the gold and the red hey oh yeah see it just just got to find something to do with the purple gray and orange and you know Flawless a all the colors of the rainbow fantastic let's start uh pre-assembling and de unboxing ifying and of those things I think I think there's a fantastic line of Hardware that we have here Paul um although what are we going to do about the operating system uh well I 1 2 3 that was a tie yeah I'm sure cell can handle it himself he'll figure it out yeah you can get Windows 10 for 20 bucks well 30 bucks now so I've heard check out the card in my all right look at check out the video card look at how ridiculous this thing is what it comes in a bag it's I've never seen a case that came in a bag it's got a bag so once you once you build your system you can use this bag to do shopping with like in California you can't use plastic bags anymore or you got to bring your own non-disposable bags uh I'm going to go to the store and buy an orange and bring this bag we go I've got my own I'm good thanks so not only did it have this outer bag really really thick gray foam pieces it also had straps it had those shipping like Zip straps around it as well when first arrived so I would have been expecting like a custom water cooled system inside of this given the packaging I think that's the idea a Cooler Master wants to make sure if if a system integrator buys this just ship the original pack yeah they they don't have to worry about doing anything special for the packaging so how thoughtful there it is T beautiful this one has little popup panels you know they pop up and pop down and sometimes nice nice yeah they're they're fun cool all right uh let's let's prep the motherboard I suppose prep that moo come to me CPU come to me now you have already this is a CPU that you've already kind of used a little bit just to for reviewing and stuff right for testing yeah just did some really basic testing so you know it works though that's good yeah and it's the 1700 x it is it is objectively better than like the 1700 1700 just in that it's going to run at a higher frequency and TDP right out of the gate which is nice it's got a higher TDP but honestly like if you if you overclock a 1600 you pretty much destroyed the I mean if you overclock a 1700 you pretty much destroy the 1700's TDP true um but but yeah um 1700 x I mean part of the reason I'm okay giving it up is because it's not a chip that I would just say hey go and buy this I would say buy the 1,700 and overclock it but if someone gives it to you for free hell yeah well hell yeah then it's a great processor so C's demonstrating the might be able to get an addition zero insertion for socket there might able to get like an additional 100 MHz out of this guy over the 1700 yeah potentially so it should be able to hit 39 4 maybe 41 depending on voltage and everything uh let's uh how about that memory I'm kind of curious to see how the memory is going to match let's do it well I don't know Paul white on white and black I think it's going to match quite nicely well youve always been the style expert I remember back in the day a new egg this really does feel like an old school New Egg build right now but uh I remember like I don't know I was telling you about like RGB like when I was building mine I was like oh I wanted to have like sleeve cables and and RGB lighting and you were all function at that point you're like why the hell would you even spend money on that stuff I hadn't transitioned over yet and I feel like I like you also rubbed off on me cuz I was all about the the for and no function and now we're kind of a a hybrid Beast of Both Worlds may I also say just how nice it is to have one other person here as a build is being done here in my garage often doing it myself yeah it's just it's just so much more time consuming setting up all the shots and all that stuff that looks that is beautiful this memory and this motherboard are made for each other indeed okay I actually do like this card a lot I like the form factor um or the size I should say it's not terribly long and I know sell does like small form factor builds he's quite partial to them so in the future if he ever did want to repurpose this card you could it it fits in a lot of small form factor cases and it's quite powerful for the size as you're about to see again still manages to fit a pair of 100 mm fans on there what's the main difference between the non golden sample and this one is it just overclocked like it's it's overclocked higher and it actually does have a beefier cooler on it okay so thermals should be a bit improved um you get one six pin and 1 eight pin PCA connector uh it's also nice that it does come with a back plate and hopefully hopefully cell's not super religious because uh there have been a coup there been a bit of controversy on power colors branding yep well they certainly aren't targeting the more religious demographic it's okay be thee I'm sure cell will forgive them that's a solid card though yeah it's pretty and so I think it it's looking like we're going to have sort of a a black white and red theme system here I personally like a lot black white red and blue there are some blue LEDs on the case right I believe there's a a blue LED fan at the back there's a blue LED fan at the back I'm I'm not sure what we should do with that though we should we should maybe see what it looks like but we potentially could swap it out too okay cuz the only thing is I remember giving people crap on pimp my PC for having like red and black or red and blue clashing like I would never do that it looks like a police car this is patriotic but it is patriotic what do you want me to hate my country what's wrong with you people sells very patriotic all right so um let's move on to the SSD we'll take this out really quick so maybe we should leave the blue LEDs in cuz it matches the blue accents on the the drive there possibly I don't know man so many options all right we're we're coming down to very vital very crucial part of this build which is of course the thermal paste application always crucial always controversial I'm going to do the uh the the old school uh grain of rice method or the PE method if you like saying P I'm just do a little bit of a little bit of a turd that was like that was a nice I like the form there yeah it's a little spiral it's a call it the turd the turd the turd method is always the turd method yeah that really I'm glad this camera gets really good macro shots good I I approve Kyle I think that's some very nice thermal Pace application you got you got going on there I thank you all right I think it's time for the cooler go ahead and slide it on over oh and drop that bad boy on there dude I I forgot to tell you cell hates stock coolers like I know this is a pretty decent wraith stealth here but he's he's going to be livid if we put this in his system are you sure like that we you've used The Wraith coolers they just they do okay no you don't understand man one time a guy tossed a stock cooler to me and cell jumped in front of it like he was taking a bullet it was nuts seriously dude how do you think he's racked up all those domestic violence charges actually know I think I've heard those stories too like I heard cell's mom built him a computer with the stock heat sing fan once once dude one time I saw him grab a guy's balls just for holding one of these things granted I've seen him grab a guy's balls for no reason at all but it was still really disturbing I heard s built an obstacle course out of old heat sink fans and he makes neighborhood kids run through it and it chops them into little pieces of meat then he eats them oh God that's disgusting Jesus look I don't care what kind of a fetish cell has for aftermarket CPU coolers I am not going to let it ruin this project get your together Paul we're going we're going to get do this all right we're going to make it I don't know how we're going to make it what are we going to do falling apart they just expect so much from us he poops on them at least the dogs are here to comfort us hi doggywhat's cracking people welcome back to the channel today I am joined by Paul of Paul's Hardware my good uh friend and colleague to do this sort of really fun collaboration build that we're doing uh it's a two-part series actually part one of course is what you're watching right now and afterwards you can head over to Paul's Channel I'll put a link of the description cards annotations all that but what we're essentially doing today is we are doing sort of a charity or a donation build for our good friend and twitch moderator cell processing go cell yes his name is Nick and he has been a really dedicated moderator and just friend to us uh via the Internet we've actually met him in person um one or two times and he's just a really great individual he helps us a lot with our our twitch streams for awesome hardware and even on our live streams on YouTube on a regular basis he's been a really good pal we game with him frequently and we just wanted to give back and say thanks by building him a pretty sweet rig uh he already does have a PC of his own which I believe is is is pretty decent it's in relatively good condition I believe this one though might be a little bit better and more Rel Kyle cell's computer is an Abomination it's horrible and he deserves something much much much better so that's what we're going to be building for him today and obviously as K Kyle already mentioned just as a huge thank you to him for being so dedicated uh if you guys are familiar with me and Kyle you know we do a live show every Tuesday and uh cell has been our moderator for like a couple years now super consistent and we like we don't pay him a dime um but he's always there and he's always doing a great job so thank you cell and and I hope this computer uh is is a good way of saying thank you y it I I I hope it is I I don't know any better way to say thanks than to build someone a computer only way we know how to speak to people or express love yes it comes from the heart for sure uh so I guess should we just go over some of the parts that we're using that's a good idea okay cool all right guys so on that note uh Paul and I have kind of joined forces here to contribute half of the hardware on either side so we're just going to take turns talking about each of the parts that we contributed for this build that is true so uh I'm going to start off here with the CPU and we're going of course with the ryzen build because the ryzen CPUs are awesome this actually is the ryzen 7 1700x uh that came directly from AMD and uh so not only is it our 1700x you which you can only tell by looking at the side actually right there but it's it's awesome and it's one of the original 1700 X's which is probably means it's a limited time like you you can never can never have another 1700 x like that one one of a kind yes and then uh for memory that we're ING with the 1700x we've got a ddr4 kit this is a 16 GB kit 2x 8 gig sticks of the Vengeance lpx from Good Old Corsair they are rated at 3200 MHz which is obviously good for ryzen since it does benefit quite significantly significantly from higher frequencies in their ddr4 pairings and uh the cast latency on that Paul I can't really see it from here 16 18 1836 all right cool and not too bad for 3200 at all definitely not too bad and the dies on those should be pretty good as well we should have some pretty solid comp compatibility with ryzen at this point uh with all the BIOS updates that have surfaced uh but yeah that should be a pretty good kit excellent for our motherboard and this is part of the reason KY went with white memory we have the orus ax 370 gaming 5 from gigabytes so uh this is sort of a middle of the road x370 board but it has very good overclocking actually the uh vrms on this board are the exact same vrms as you get on the gaming 7 so um yeah you got m.2 support all of the fancy stuff am4 that you get with uh ryzen and you even get like RGB it's got LEDs cuz we know cell loves loves RGB LEDs he's about those that's all he cares about uh and then we've got a 240 gig ocz tl00 this is Toshiba ocz of course I think the uh the SSD is also white so it should be matching with the rest of the rig pretty nicely with the mobo accents and whatnot and uh let's see I don't know exactly which controller is on this SSD I just sort of grabbed it um had it line around but um it is SATA sata 3 no nvme here but it should be pretty good for sell's needs um again like Paul said there is .2 slot on the mobo so he could always upgrade in the future or expand his storage and uh yeah that's pretty much all I got to say about that going to be a good SSD um all right next we have let's do the case this is the master case Pro 6 uh I've already built in this case once it is very solid it is very well built uh it's got a nice side panel window on it and everything uh actually a big part of the reason why I chose this case is because of the packaging the actual uh stuff that's in there we'll show you in just a minute is absolutely insane as far as how this case is packed and since we got to ship it to sell and it's going to be rough handled in shipping uh we wanted to make sure it's going to get to them okay so we'll show you guys that in just a second other than that it's a really nice case though too uh built like a tank and it's got a couple fans in there that stay nice and quiet you said rough handled I did L next up we've got the graphics card this is the powercolor Red Devil golden sample what so this is a uh specifically um dialing in some some higher overclocks than the original Red Devil this is the RX 580 of course from AMD which is featuring uh more refined 14 NM lpp uh package and whatnot so it should have a little bit more higher performance per watt than the rx480 uh not terribly much more performance in game but uh it is a very fantastic card I've done a review on the non golden sample and that was already a blazing fast GPU for 1440p gaming so the other Red Devils that we've seen in the past from Power color have actually featured triple uh fan designs this one only has two but they are larger at 100 millimeters which should help for uh better Cooling and and low lower noise so overall it should also have a bit more headro for overclocking if you know if Cell knows how to overclock or something like that I don't know if he knows much about computers and a big part of the reason uh that that we went with the 580 is because Kyle pointed out cell has a free sync panel thank you for reminding me Paul um which obviously would be kind of a bummer if we got him an Nvidia card he wouldn't be able to take advantage of that so uh I don't know if if this is not fast enough for his needs which I'm sure it will be he could always you know add in a second 580 or even wait out for for Vega um sell this back to me if I you know whatever and then just buy faster Graphics C so you're you're planning to profit on this ultimately no I didn't I didn't say that that's the goal I didn't say that edit that out now the power supply situation is one of uh I want I don't know for some reason the word butterface comes to mind but um this is an antec 1200 watt high current Pro power supply I can't get these anymore uh you can't buy them at retail but it is 80 plus gold rated and it is actually a beastly power supply it's also one of the power supplies that has a fan on the end rather than on the bottom or the top or bottom or top uh and yeah it's it's really nice it it as far as the power uh it's not the prettiest when it com done when it comes to the cables we do have some ketchup and mustard going on so um basically we didn't want to give cell a computer that he's just never going to touch again cell loves to build computers and Tinker with them just as we do so uh this is maybe potential upgrade opportunity in the future also we didn't want to give him something he could just immediately submit to pimp my PC and like get get a bunch of Ooo and AZ over we need something to uh give him a hard time about so sell for now you've got ketchup and mustard to deal with but you know what it's still going to work and and part of it matches the video card oh yeah the gold silver lining Sil the gold and the red hey oh yeah see it just just got to find something to do with the purple gray and orange and you know Flawless a all the colors of the rainbow fantastic let's start uh pre-assembling and de unboxing ifying and of those things I think I think there's a fantastic line of Hardware that we have here Paul um although what are we going to do about the operating system uh well I 1 2 3 that was a tie yeah I'm sure cell can handle it himself he'll figure it out yeah you can get Windows 10 for 20 bucks well 30 bucks now so I've heard check out the card in my all right look at check out the video card look at how ridiculous this thing is what it comes in a bag it's I've never seen a case that came in a bag it's got a bag so once you once you build your system you can use this bag to do shopping with like in California you can't use plastic bags anymore or you got to bring your own non-disposable bags uh I'm going to go to the store and buy an orange and bring this bag we go I've got my own I'm good thanks so not only did it have this outer bag really really thick gray foam pieces it also had straps it had those shipping like Zip straps around it as well when first arrived so I would have been expecting like a custom water cooled system inside of this given the packaging I think that's the idea a Cooler Master wants to make sure if if a system integrator buys this just ship the original pack yeah they they don't have to worry about doing anything special for the packaging so how thoughtful there it is T beautiful this one has little popup panels you know they pop up and pop down and sometimes nice nice yeah they're they're fun cool all right uh let's let's prep the motherboard I suppose prep that moo come to me CPU come to me now you have already this is a CPU that you've already kind of used a little bit just to for reviewing and stuff right for testing yeah just did some really basic testing so you know it works though that's good yeah and it's the 1700 x it is it is objectively better than like the 1700 1700 just in that it's going to run at a higher frequency and TDP right out of the gate which is nice it's got a higher TDP but honestly like if you if you overclock a 1600 you pretty much destroyed the I mean if you overclock a 1700 you pretty much destroy the 1700's TDP true um but but yeah um 1700 x I mean part of the reason I'm okay giving it up is because it's not a chip that I would just say hey go and buy this I would say buy the 1,700 and overclock it but if someone gives it to you for free hell yeah well hell yeah then it's a great processor so C's demonstrating the might be able to get an addition zero insertion for socket there might able to get like an additional 100 MHz out of this guy over the 1700 yeah potentially so it should be able to hit 39 4 maybe 41 depending on voltage and everything uh let's uh how about that memory I'm kind of curious to see how the memory is going to match let's do it well I don't know Paul white on white and black I think it's going to match quite nicely well youve always been the style expert I remember back in the day a new egg this really does feel like an old school New Egg build right now but uh I remember like I don't know I was telling you about like RGB like when I was building mine I was like oh I wanted to have like sleeve cables and and RGB lighting and you were all function at that point you're like why the hell would you even spend money on that stuff I hadn't transitioned over yet and I feel like I like you also rubbed off on me cuz I was all about the the for and no function and now we're kind of a a hybrid Beast of Both Worlds may I also say just how nice it is to have one other person here as a build is being done here in my garage often doing it myself yeah it's just it's just so much more time consuming setting up all the shots and all that stuff that looks that is beautiful this memory and this motherboard are made for each other indeed okay I actually do like this card a lot I like the form factor um or the size I should say it's not terribly long and I know sell does like small form factor builds he's quite partial to them so in the future if he ever did want to repurpose this card you could it it fits in a lot of small form factor cases and it's quite powerful for the size as you're about to see again still manages to fit a pair of 100 mm fans on there what's the main difference between the non golden sample and this one is it just overclocked like it's it's overclocked higher and it actually does have a beefier cooler on it okay so thermals should be a bit improved um you get one six pin and 1 eight pin PCA connector uh it's also nice that it does come with a back plate and hopefully hopefully cell's not super religious because uh there have been a coup there been a bit of controversy on power colors branding yep well they certainly aren't targeting the more religious demographic it's okay be thee I'm sure cell will forgive them that's a solid card though yeah it's pretty and so I think it it's looking like we're going to have sort of a a black white and red theme system here I personally like a lot black white red and blue there are some blue LEDs on the case right I believe there's a a blue LED fan at the back there's a blue LED fan at the back I'm I'm not sure what we should do with that though we should we should maybe see what it looks like but we potentially could swap it out too okay cuz the only thing is I remember giving people crap on pimp my PC for having like red and black or red and blue clashing like I would never do that it looks like a police car this is patriotic but it is patriotic what do you want me to hate my country what's wrong with you people sells very patriotic all right so um let's move on to the SSD we'll take this out really quick so maybe we should leave the blue LEDs in cuz it matches the blue accents on the the drive there possibly I don't know man so many options all right we're we're coming down to very vital very crucial part of this build which is of course the thermal paste application always crucial always controversial I'm going to do the uh the the old school uh grain of rice method or the PE method if you like saying P I'm just do a little bit of a little bit of a turd that was like that was a nice I like the form there yeah it's a little spiral it's a call it the turd the turd the turd method is always the turd method yeah that really I'm glad this camera gets really good macro shots good I I approve Kyle I think that's some very nice thermal Pace application you got you got going on there I thank you all right I think it's time for the cooler go ahead and slide it on over oh and drop that bad boy on there dude I I forgot to tell you cell hates stock coolers like I know this is a pretty decent wraith stealth here but he's he's going to be livid if we put this in his system are you sure like that we you've used The Wraith coolers they just they do okay no you don't understand man one time a guy tossed a stock cooler to me and cell jumped in front of it like he was taking a bullet it was nuts seriously dude how do you think he's racked up all those domestic violence charges actually know I think I've heard those stories too like I heard cell's mom built him a computer with the stock heat sing fan once once dude one time I saw him grab a guy's balls just for holding one of these things granted I've seen him grab a guy's balls for no reason at all but it was still really disturbing I heard s built an obstacle course out of old heat sink fans and he makes neighborhood kids run through it and it chops them into little pieces of meat then he eats them oh God that's disgusting Jesus look I don't care what kind of a fetish cell has for aftermarket CPU coolers I am not going to let it ruin this project get your together Paul we're going we're going to get do this all right we're going to make it I don't know how we're going to make it what are we going to do falling apart they just expect so much from us he poops on them at least the dogs are here to comfort us hi doggy\n"