The Critique of xQc's PC Build: A Reaction Video

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Revealing xQc's PC Build

We're revealing this bad boy that's going to be able to run Minecraft, unlimited FPS - Is that my face? That's my face. Why is my face on his stream? Kay, first things first. Yeah, I want to unbox everything, but First things first, I'm gonna set myself up on the carpet. Now we did show recently in our collab with electroBOOM that the risk of actually damaging your components with electrostatic discharge is pretty low, but I probably still wouldn't go out of my way to sit on a low pile carpet and unbox computer hardware.

Unboxing the Motherboard

So the motherboard goes first. I got a Rog Crosshair VIII formula, dude. This is a very overpaid computer, okay. Some of these parts were really more expensive than they should have been, but it's COVID and whatnot. So it is what it is, man. Is he actually gonna water cool? Cause that motherboard has like integrated chips that water cooling. First we'll open the actual (unintelligible) itself.

Examining the Motherboard

This is usually like 900 bucks, but this was like at 1.7K because of scalpers, feels weird, man. He paid seven hundred dollars? But there's no real alternative. So this is the piece that is worth all the money, right here. Little metal bracket. Up. Oh my God. This must be how people feel watching me handle stuff, like seemingly not carefully. I assure you guys, I know what I'm doing, but I'm not actually convinced that Felix knows what he's doing.

Opening the Case

Ooh, I'm confused. Oh, got it. You gotta pull out from the thing. Okay. Okay, put the arm the other way. Also, most important here, the most important part of all this is the bragging rights. So whenever you build a PC, you gotta keep all those stickers. And whenever you buy these boxes - Okay, he's joking about this. But I actually have like a whole sticker book with like a shiny kitty on the front. Of like old case badges from like way back, like ten, fifteen years ago.

RAM Installation

128 gigs of RAM juicers. So these sticks are - Sorry. He's now used the word "juicers". He's got 128 gigs of RAM in a gaming PC and he's calling them juicers. I'm really not sure I'm following so far. I want to try one PC setup with a really good computer. And if it doesn't work as well as I thought it would, well, I'm going to kind of like break it in two and make two PCs with my old PC and the new parts, and split them in half. And we're gonna get two PCs set up.

Explaining RAM Installation

Okay. I kind of understand what he's talking about here. So, if this single computer gaming and streaming setup doesn't work, then he can take 64 gigs of this 128 gigs of RAM, which is a lot for a gaming and streaming machine. And put it into a separate machine. Okay. Let me do a little bit of explaining, boys. I know some of you guys already know this, okay, and you're like a tech genius. So this is - I don't know why this computer doesn't have it but normally, you're gonna have two colors. These are your channels.

RAM Dual Channel

Eh, sometimes. Something called dual channel, I think, or something like that. Okay. That's very close. The memory slots are color coded. So you will correctly install your dual channel memory, but they're not color coded according to the channels. It's actually the other way around. Dual channel now you know.

Wedge the RAM Inside

Open at the back. One, two, three, four. Now we're going to wedge the RAM inside the computer. It's backwards. Okay. This is normal, don't worry about it. Everybody makes that mistake.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: en- I'm not really the kind of personwho piles on when somebody isalready having a bad time,but here's the situation.Twitch streamer xQc reached out to mea number of weeks backasking for help with a new gaming PC.I pointed out thatI'm sure anyone and their dogwould be happy to send hima free gaming PC in exchangefor a tweet, given his popularity.But I did offer my helpif he really needed it.And then I promptlynever heard anything about it, ever again,until I was streaming today.And you guys wouldn't stop talkingabout how apparentlyhorrible his build was.So given that I did offer to help,I will, with no guilt whatsoever,be critiquing xQc's PC build.I've never done a reaction video before,so, wish me luck.Just like I feel lucky to tell youabout our sponsor, Ridge Wallet.Ridge Wallet wants to redefine the walletwith its compact frameand RFID-blocking plates.Check out how they cankeep your wallet bulge downand use offer code LINUS to save 10%and get free worldwide shipping.(upbeat, techno music)- We're revealing this bad boythat's going to be able to runMinecraft, unlimited FPS, uh-- Is that my face?That's my face.Why is my face on his stream?- Kay, first things first.Yeah, I want to unbox everything, but- First things first,I'm gonna set myself up on the carpet.Now we did show recentlyin our collab with electroBOOM,that the risk of actuallydamaging your componentswith electrostaticdischarge is pretty low,but I probably still wouldn't goout of my way to sit on a low pile carpetand unbox computer hardware.- So the motherboard goes first.I got a Rog Crosshair VIII formula, dude.This is a very overpaid computer, okay.Some of these parts were reallyway more expensive thanthey should have been,but it's COVID and whatnot.So it is what it is, man.- Is he actually gonna water cool?Cause that motherboardhas like, integrated chipsthat water cooling.- First we'll open the actual(unintelligible) itself.This is usually like 900 bucks,but this was like at1.7K because of scalpers,feels weird, man.- He paid seven hundred dollars?- But there's no real alternative.So this is the piece that is worthall the money, right here.Little metal bracket. Up.- Oh my God.This must be how people feelwatching me handle stuff,like seemingly not carefully.I assure you guys,I know what I'm doing,but I'm not actually convincedthat Felix knows what he's doing.- Ooh, I'm confused.Oh, got it.- You gotta pull out from the thing.- Okay.- Okay, put the arm the other way.- Also, most important here,the most important part of all this,is the bragging rights.So whenever you build a PC,you gotta keep all those stickers.And whenever you buy these boxes-- Okay, he's joking about this.But I actually have likea whole sticker bookwith like a shiny kitty on the front.Of like old case badgesfrom like way back,like ten, fifteen years ago.- 128 gigs of RAM juicers.So these sticks are-- Sorry.This word 'juicers'.He's now used the word juicers twice.He's got 128 gigs of RAM in a gaming PCand he's calling them juicers.I'm really not sure I'm following so far.- I want to try one PC set upwith a really good computer.And if it doesn't work aswell as I thought it would,well, I'm going to kind of likebreak it in two,and make two PCs with my old PCand the new parts, and split in half.And we're gonna get two PCs set up.- Okay. I kind of understandwhat he's talking about here.So, if this single computergaming and streaming setup doesn't work,then he can take 64 gigsof this 128 gigs of RAM,which is a lot for a gamingand streaming machine.And put it into a separate machine. Okay.- Okay, let me do a little bitof explaining, boys.I know some of you guysalready know this, okay,and you're like a tech genius.So this is-I don't know why thiscomputer doesn't have itbut normally, you'regonna have two colors.These are your channels.- Eh, sometimes.- Something called dual channel, I think,or something like that.- Okay. That's very close.The memory slots are color coded.So you will correctly installyour dual channel memory,but they're not color codedaccording to the channels.It's actually the other way around.They're color coded sothat your monkey brainwill put two sticks in the same colorsand get dual channel operation.But, it's actually thetwo separate channelsthat are the same color.Dual channel.Now you know.- Open at the back.One, two, three, four.Now we're going to wedge the RAMinside the computer.It's backwards.- Okay.- This is normal, don't worry about it.Everybody makes that mistake.- Oh, I'm so tense right now.- I usually put this on the sidethat doesn't have the lever on first.- Now on the one handhe says, \"I usually...\"Okay. And that's not even wrong,to put it in the sidethat doesn't have the latch first.But he usually, but then-- This is actually hardand scanning your thingin Among Us, man, I'm telling you dude.Okay, am I doing this wrong?- (woman off-camera) Do youhave the lever open?- Yeah.- I love the coaching from the background.Do you have the lever open?- Fortunately, it's so poorly put in that-It's gonna break.I'm going to lose it.- Why does my face keep showing up?Is this like a Twitch feature?- Stick number two.- Twitch chats already like call Linus.- It's backwards again.Dude!Okay. Next is going to be the M2 drives.Okay, what are cool technologicaladvancements, boys, wedon't have to have these-See, this is like the old SSDs-- It's been nine minutesand he has installed the CPU and memory.Take your time.- They're very Pog.- They're very Pog?- Those are a little bit better.And they're faster.They're less of a hassle to put in.And thankfully, boys,we got two of them!- He is in for a real nightmareif he wants to configure NVMe RAID on-well really, any platform,but I've done AMD'srecently and it's not fun.- I ended with a company called Rocketsand they make thosein like crazy storage, like-- Okay.Sabrent, they have the Rocket lineup,up to eight terabytes.- I think that the M2 drivesare hidden under here,I have to de-bolt it.- Can I just say for a momentthat I love the Quebec law of English-ing?\"De-bolt it\".Unscrew, de-bolt, who cares.Same thing.Just gonna de-bolt it.- De-boltable attachments,transformer-looking things like that.Oh, it's just a strip.(gasps)- I've seen worse drops.- These are like supportbolts or whatever.- Standoffs.- And we're going to goset it up.- Are those SpongeBob socks?Cause I definitely approve.That really is not all the way in.Good thing Twitch chat is babysitting.Ugh, he's- no, it's still not in.- Isn't that in?I'm stupid.- Overall, I've seen far worse.I've seen far worse.- Now for the second one.- Wait, is he going to screw it in?- Uh-oh!It's a dual bolt collider, dude!The X back- the X back plate.- What.- Guys, I had to screw in the X back platebefore the motherboard.- No, it's fine.- Oh, the back is open.- Okay.- I got the Kraken 773,it's what chat recommended.- I really don't knowthat I would buy a computerbased on Twitch chats recommendations.- Pre-applied thermal paste.People say it's bad.I don't necessarily agree.I kind of like it.- People say it's bad?Nobody says pre-appliedthermal paste is bad.- Self applied paste.Not because I'm lazy.Actually, it's just because I'm lazy.- And that's a triple radiator.Wait, why is he tryingto put it in the top?- Dude, it actually doesn't fit.- I can see his Twitch chatright heretelling him to call me.- No sh-- it goes inside,what the f- you guys talking about, man?- Up until this point of the video,I kind of thought he wasjust playing a character.Cause he would be like,\"Oh yeah, it's kind ofcalled this, I don't know\"And then proceed to completely correctlyexplain what it is.Pretty much.But now I'm just really not so sure.- Remove the case, I have to remove-- Does he not knowthat you can remove side panels?- Dude? It can't mount, it's too big.Yeah, this just doesn't fit.It just doesn't-- He's gotta be just pretending.Like I think you guys are just suckers.I'm pretty sure Felix knowshow to build a computer just fine.- Guys, removing thecase fans is a hassle.- So he a hundred percent knewthat he can put the radiator in the front.He just didn't want toremove twelve screws.I'm going to readthe message I sent him.\"It's possible we could get you hooked upwith a system, and we'd love to collab,but surely you'd haveat least half a dozensystem integrators on speed dialwho could get you anything you want.If you're not in a hurry,it'd be a fun project,but we're still undergoing renovationsand not in a positionto tackle anything biglike the Creeper PCwe built for pewds at the moment.If you're in a hurry,it may be faster to just get hooked upwith a PC builder.Just let me know.Email is best for mesince this is a shared inboxwith many other staff here.\"If he wasn't willing to remove 12 screws,why build a computer?- Already pre-installed and pre-wiredand already pre-settled.It's going to be terrible to remove them.- No, it's going to be12 screws to remove.- I can't do anything.- What?Oh, he doesn't know howto remove the front.You just gotta, you gotta pop it.- Just de-bolt the whole thing.- Yes. I think we need tode-bolt the whole thing.- Oh wow, that's gonna be a lot of fun.Guys, they're welded to the mesh, dude.- Oh my God. No they're-- Oh, I bolt this thing over here!So I bolt this in at the top.- The speed with which he switchesbetween Eureka moments and having no ideawhat's going on again.It's remarkable.- Okay, well this isgonna be really tough.Chat, this is literally solded together.- Nooooo.- And I'll re-screw our thingmanually at the top,so we can put the CPU fan intakefrom the sideand then we make it pull.And the top is going to push or some sh--,I don't know.- Again, he's demonstratingfairly deep knowledge.He knows that we're going to havepull fans at the front,and we're going to havepush fans at the backfor balanced air flow.But then he thinks thiscase is welded together.I don't-- Wait a minute.It doesn't fit.- Of course.All you have to do is you just had toleave the fans exactly where they wereand just put the screwsthat came with your radiatorthrough them.We need to go way back to basicsand do a for-beginners build.Like really for beginners.We need to bring in a committeeof qualified beginnersto ask their questions as we goand make sure that we answerevery single one of them.- Dude, there's not enough spacefor three of them.- Why is he trying toput three fans there?Is he faking it?- Wait, no.It doesn't go like this, does it?- Okay he turned it around.Now it's an intake.- What the fuck.It's going through the plastic.I spun this thingthe both ways.And you guys said - wrong side of both.- (man off-camera) What are youyelling about dude?- The radiator should fit in here.Yes it does.- All right.We got the radiator in.- Okay.Why would you have the tubes down?Aren't they going to workagainst gravity, dude?- Fun fact, in a closed loop,gravity kind of is like canceled out.You could think of it that waybecause gravity might pullsome of the water down,but then that equal force will pushthe other water uplike it doesn't really matter.- Somebody said tubes down, won't fitwith the GPUlonger lifespan of the product.Got it.- I actually don't knowif that's going to reachwith the tubes on the bottom.I know it's like more optimalfor the pump to last longer,but it actually just might not reach.- Oh. And then you install the thingon the bracket and then you bracket it in.- There we go.- Ahhh, no, it's not the same size dude.- No, no, it's fine.You got the other holes.It's okay.- It doesn't fit, dude.- It does.It's fine.- Well, we're going tobe using those then.Yeah, we have to use those then.- People are going to tell himto flip it around, right?Oh no, no, no, no, no. No no.- The paste is gone.- Oh my God.That stuff is impossible to clean.- This one.- No, no it doesn't goon that side of that.- Now how do we do it?What?- Wait, is he gonna put onecourse air fan and then like-- Dude the fan's on the wrong side, man.Guys, the wire's on the other side.- Fans can go on any sideof the radiator you want.It doesn't matter.If they're on this side, then they blow.And if they're on this side,then they suck.It's fine.- The wire goes inside the computer.- Yes.- This goes on the outside.- Good.- This is going to hangthe whole thing together.- Yes.- The fans then need to goinside the fucking bracket.- Not really, it doesn't matter.- So like this, then.- That's fine.- The bracket goes at the back,and then the bracketgoes inside at the back.Logo, outside.Pumps, inside.- Okay.- I had it right the whole time, dude.I literally, from the start-- Hmm, I don't know if youhad it right the whole time,but yes,fundamentally what you're saying is sound.So the logo of the sticker, on the hub,okay, that points towards the directionthe air goes.This is, this is fine.- It needs to say NZXT on the way upwards.- Wait.- Over the radiator.- This is like-- So radiator facing outside the case- It is completely installed just fine.I mean the fans,the cables are coming off in a way thatthe cable management is going to suck.But it's mostly fine.- It only fits this way, I think.- No, he does have the tubes at the top.So yes, the fans are stickingright up next to the window.Okay.I mean that's not going to affectthe functionality of the machine.- Rogs Strix gaming graphics cardgeforce RTX 3090 nvidia Asus auraOC, o'clock, 2.40 GPU juicer.There it is.- I don't think that's going to fit.That thing - It's an enormous card.If it wasn't COVID,I would just fly out thereand build it for him.- I can't screw it.It's actually not lined up.- Oh, that, no, that's fine.You just gotta,you just gotta kinda, you know,get the screw in there and kind of, nyeah.- Dude, I'm pushing right now.- I can see how that would bereally confusing for people.- I think this case is just trash.I mean look, and even then.Even then, the GPU slotdoesn't line up, dude.Unless you're meant touse the squares part,but I don't think so.- No, please don't do that.No, that's not necessary.- You just don't get there, dude.Look at the holes, look at em!- So much anger.- You're not going to fit this in there.- I mean.- Yeah, no.I just thought about this.This is fucking dumb.- It's not like he hasa completely invalid point.The manufacturing tolerancesof computer cases and theway that PCI backplatessometimes don't quitehave the mounting holes line upcan be extremely frustrating.Especially for a new builder.And I can see how, if you've spent,you know, two grand on a graphics cardyou don't want to be likepushing and pulling on it.But the reality of it is,a lot of the time whenI'm manhandling stuff,and I seem really careless,I am actually just kind ofdoing what you need to do.You gotta have,you gotta put some force on it sometimes.You've got to understandthe kinds of costs thatPC case manufacturersare targeting.It's just, it kind ofcomes with the territory.- Okay. I'm going torebox some of that stuff.I can't shove it in, need a new case.- There you go, Crosshair.Honest consumer review:your case, a disaster.The good news is I don't thinkany of this stuff is broken.Okay. Now I feel worse becauseat the beginning it was pretty clearthat he was just prettymuch knew what he was doingbut was kind of like playing a character.Then by the end, it's obviousthat he was ready tochuck the GPU at the wall.So Felix, if you're watching this,my offer still stands.I DM'ed you.I would be happy to walk you through this.We can make that case work.You can, you can destroy that case.Get rid of it,do whatever you need to do.Donate it, get a different one.But, just let me know.Cause I'm here for you,my fellow Canadian.Just like I'm here for my audienceto tell them about FreshBooks.FreshBooks is the easy-to-useaccounting software specifically designedwith you in mind:The small business owner.FreshBooks has everything you needto manage your booksincluding invoicing, expenses,time-tracking, and more.And it's got built-in automation.So you can spend less time invoicing,expensing, and tracking projects,and more time doing what matters most -growing your business.So whether you're a tradesperson,creative agency, or YouTuber,they've got a plan that's right for you.And, if you're having trouble,their award-winningToronto-based support teamis always happy to help you.So don't wait, try FreshBooks for freefor thirty days today.No credit card requiredat FreshBooks.com/linusNormally at the end of our videos,we throw to anothersimilar video we've madethat you can go enjoy,but since we have never doneanything like this before,why don't you go watchLinus reads mean comments?They're me.\n"