Building a Custom Gaming PC with a Diorama

The building process of a custom gaming PC is an exciting and rewarding experience, especially when it involves creating a unique and personalized system that reflects your personality. The creators of this PC have taken their time to carefully plan and design every aspect of the build, from the materials used to the final product itself. In this article, we will delve into the process of building this custom gaming PC and explore its various features.

The creator started by experimenting with different materials, trying out various combinations to find the perfect fit for their project. They discovered that plastic bowls worked great for creating the lava patches, which were used as a base for the painting process. The bowl was cut out to create small plates that could be used to apply diffusion on top and bottom, allowing for a smooth and even surface to paint.

The lighting samples were also an essential part of this build, providing an opportunity to showcase the color scheme and overall design of the system. The lava effect on one side of the display was created using special effects, adding a touch of magic to the build. Another interesting feature of this PC is the engraved glass side panels, which add a level of customization that sets it apart from other builds.

The creators opted for full Corsair RGB across the board, selecting six LL 120 fans to ensure consistency and ease of use. The reason behind this choice was the limited availability of RGB components, as only one manufacturer, Corsair, makes RGB program-compatible products. However, the end result is worth it, providing a visually stunning display that can be customized to suit individual preferences.

One of the most exciting aspects of this build is its diorama, which features a Charmander, Bulbasaur, and Squirtle modelled after the original Pokémon designs. This attention to detail and dedication to bringing out the Pokémon spirit makes this build truly special. The creators have managed to create a miniature world within the computer case, complete with moving parts and animations.

The process of building this custom gaming PC involved several steps, from designing the diorama to selecting the components. Throughout the build process, the creator's excitement and enthusiasm are palpable, evident in their eagerness to share each new development with their audience. This level of engagement is a testament to the builder's passion for creating something unique and special.

Throughout the creation of this custom gaming PC, the creator has demonstrated an impressive attention to detail, showcasing their creativity and skill as a builder. From experimenting with different materials to crafting intricate dioramas, every aspect of this build reflects the creator's dedication to their craft. As we explore this custom gaming PC in further depth, we can appreciate the care and effort that went into creating such a unique and captivating system.

The inclusion of various miniature models within the computer case adds an extra layer of complexity to the build, requiring careful planning and execution. However, the end result is well worth the effort, providing an immersive experience for the builder and viewer alike. The use of lighting effects and animations further enhances the diorama, creating a dynamic and engaging visual display.

One of the most impressive features of this custom gaming PC is its Corsair RGB display, which provides a stunning visual effect that can be customized to suit individual preferences. This level of personalization allows users to tailor their system to fit their unique style and needs. As we delve deeper into the build, it becomes clear that attention to detail and creativity are essential components of this project.

Throughout the build process, the creator's enthusiasm is contagious, making it easy for viewers to become invested in the final product. This level of engagement is a testament to the builder's passion for creating something unique and special. As we continue to explore this custom gaming PC, we can appreciate the care and effort that went into crafting such an intricate and captivating system.

The build process has been detailed throughout, from experimenting with materials to selecting components. The result is a stunning custom gaming PC that showcases creativity, skill, and attention to detail. Each aspect of the build reflects the creator's dedication to their craft, making this project truly special.

WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: en- Big thanks to Adobe Premiere Profor sponsoring a portion of this video.Today, we are building theultimate Pokemon Gaming PC.Now, you'll probably noticethat recently I've gotten morethan just a little into Pokemon cards.As part of that, I've becomefriends with Leonhart,one of the absolute OGs of Pokemon cards,and honestly just a side note,one of the nicest guysI've ever met in my life.So today we're buildinghim a brand new gaming PCthat not only looks the part,but that can game, stream, and edit.So what do you wantthis thing to look like?Do you care about what size it is?Are there any special features?Anything that comes to mindthat you wanna go for, forthe aesthetic of the system?- What if like grasp maybe the colorson the inside could be likered, green, and blue.Just kind of like theoriginal Game Boy games.- Oh.- Maybe make a little play on nostalgia.- What if we even take a step further?What if we actually putsome kind of little likepool with like a Squirtle jumping inand we have a volcano,or we have like a little grassy section,something like that.- Do you have like a deskspace, or something in mind?Just so I can get a little bitof an idea of the scale if we're gonna gofor a smaller chasse, or a bigger chasse?- Right here is my current one.- Okay.- It'scollecting dust down there.(Austin chuckling)I'm about to do a full-on clean, so,- Nice.- It's just an IKEA desk.- Okay, cool.Let me start tracking some stuff down.Keep making the videos.Keep making me waste way too much moneyon eBay every day.(laughing)- Yeah, sorry.Sorry, Sorry let's piecefor all that's out there.Let's see who pulls my Leon cards(Austin chuckling)Right?- I'm pretty sure you're gonna opena hundred more packs than I will,but I'll give it my best shot.(laughing)- I pulled again, so it's still fair game.- So, for the ultimate Pokemon YouTuber,we need the ultimate Pokemon build.So, first of all, while we're gonna makethis look as cool as possible,it needs to perform well.And there are a few mainthings we need to dowith the system.It needs to be able to game,it needs to be able to video edit,and it also needs to be able to stream.Which is why we're starting outwith the Ryzen 7 5800X.Brand new Ryzen chip, eight cores,and importantly, not only will it be greatfor the editing side,but it also will be great for streaming.On top of that, we're gonna be pairing itwith the RTX 3080.Again, when you talk about streaming,having that invent coding is nice,and this will easily be ableto play any game thatLeon wants to throw at it.Now, to actually makethis all streaming ready,we have a couple of Elgato products.So we have Elgato 4K60 prowhich you can route not onlycamera and if he wantsbut also this is reallymeant for connectinglike a PS5 or an Xbox or something too.And we have a Cam Link 4K,so now it's just all capable of 4K streaming.But importantly, this will also work againfor any kind of camerahe wants to route in.- Okay. So here we have the casethat we gonna be buildingeverything inside of.This is an O11 Dynamic from Lian Li- From Lian Liwhich is a killer case.Well, the nicest thingsabout it, it's super modular.But the thing is for this systemwe can make it perform great, right?We have all the components, but really howwe're gonna have to sell thisis by making it look cool.Right?Ken, I've never seen this before.This is a red Nendoroid.- Yes.- Okay. Wait, wait, show me this.Show me this.- So actually used tocollect animate figures a lotand a lot from the series in particularthe Nendoroid seriesfrom Good Smile Company.This is in particular Trainer Red.And the reason why I bought this for usis because it actuallycomes with little versionsof the starters to goalongside Trainer Red.- How much was this?- So this has been long out of retailbut some places are obviouslystill selling it from stock.- Yeah.- This cost us, I think around $120- Ooh!- which is like double of retail.- I got to see, I got to see the Squirtle.Dude, I mean look Squirtle'smy, Squirtle's my guy.- I'ma pick my favorite one though.- Charmander the Wrong Starter?Huh, that's okay.Bulbasaur deserves to beon the ground by himself.Don't at me.- that's rude.- I want to water gun you right now.- It's in the handbook somewhere.I don't think that's a lab.- Well, so one of my big questions hereand something we shouldreally sort out right now,how much space are we gonna have?'Cause we still need tofit a full 360 mm radiatorgraphics card, and everything like that.Why don't we actuallyget the motherboard out?And kind of roughly figure outwhere everything is gonna live,because I think we may haveless space than we hoped for.But think about it.If we're building like a whole forestand a lake and a volcano,I mean, cause we're gonna needat least a couple inchesof verticality, right?So we have our Crosshair Hero,which will obviously do the job.So we're gonna load upour Ryzen 7, the RAM,everything else later.(upbeat music playing)- So with that, we shouldhave our board in place.So you can see how muchwe're gonna have above,which will make sense becausewe do have a 360 mm radiatorthat we are gonna be installingat the top of the case.But beyond that, theactual bottom of the case,I mean, we're gonna have some spacebut it's not gonna be like massive.So, okay.So this is what's gonna looklike with the graphics card.Oh crap, okay?And then,- This is crazy.- That's fine.- You sure you don't wannaput a screw in there?- That's fine.- You sure?- Fine, Wes.I will put a screw inso it doesn't break offor something silly.- I literally heard a creaking.- And then if I drop alittle 4K 60 in here.- So how much space arewe working with here?- Oh, that's fine.No, it's fine.- Yeah, I know, you canalmost see it, right?We could actually do a little depth trickwhere when it rolls back, wecan do a little hill up hereand then just roll it immediately down.So, it looks like it has some depth to itbut you actually have alot of space back there.- So I think all the spacewe're really gonna needis just maybe like an inch or so,just so we can bring cables up.- Okay.- And then I would say let's make it wherewhen the diorama is in theboard could still come outwill be my main question.Or if there's a way to removethe diorama in any way,basically I wanna make surethat this is not lockedin it for all the time.If anything goes wrong,if we need to dotroubleshooting or something- Sure, you just put magnets on the backof the board and justslapped it onto the case.- You know what's great with computers?Magnets, never causes any problems.- We have SSDs.So while Ken and I are goingto start prepping the systemso we're going to do our test fitsand we're going to start running cables.We're gonna get all ofthe components ready.Wes is going to grab some stufflike the side panels andget them laser edged.And yet actually layering in allof the different dioramacomponents that he wants.So that at the end of thebuild, we're both done.We can put the entire thingtogether and hopefully it turnsout to be truly theultimate Pokemon gaming PC.- This portion of the videois sponsored by Adobe Premiere Pro.The Premiere Pro was the veryfirst pro video editor that I ever usedeight years ago,nine years ago,and they've come a very,very long way since then.Premiere Pro is used byeveryone from TV shows,to YouTubers, to TikTokers ,and for good reason, it reallyis the industry standard.Now do you have Lumetri colorwhich is a great way of now adding lightbut of course you have that full capabilityto customize the color ofyour videos however you like.You also have very powerfulaudio editing tools.So I personally really like the factthat you have that sortof AI one click abilityto customize it,to have your voice to becompletely where you want it,including your levels which is much betterthan me doing it by myselfand low key one of the bestfeatures of the Premierereally is the integration withPhotoshop and After Effects.Between the three of those,that really is sort ofyour Swiss army knifeof tools that you need tocreate content in 2021.So if you're looking toup your video editing gamedefinitely check out Adobe Premiere Proat the link in the descriptionand huge shout out to Adobefor sponsoring this portion of the video.They do a lot to support creators,but without any further ado,why don't we get back tobuilding ourselves a PC,shall we?So there are a few specific thingsthat we're doing for this system.One of which is to use a pair of SSDs.Now, ideally I would haveused just a single 980 pro'cause that really is myfavorite SSD at the moment.However, the issue is that they only makea one terabyte version, which is fine.I'm sure that Leon would be totally okaywith one terabyte ofstorage, but I wanted togive him a little bit more,which is why we're also going to be usingan additional one terabyte PCI 4.0 SSD.So, as someone who is a YouTuberspecifically as someone whodoes a lot of video editinghaving really fast PCI storage is nice.And these 980 Pros cannot sayenough good things about them.They're incredibly fast it's likeseven gigabytes per second reading speeds.And when it comes to workingwith huge video filesand tons of Pokemon cards spreadsheets,lots ofI don't know, it's justnice to have that storage.So we have 32 gigs of G Skull Tridentand this is the Trident Z Neoand this should be more than enough.(cool music playing)Okay, we are ready for a test bootof the ultimate Pokemon gaming PC.So obviously all of our cablingis completely temporary.We also don't have the final CPU.So because the board needs a bios updatewe just threw in a thirdgen I think an Athlon.So when it comes tobuilding an AMD systemespecially with the latestAMD 5000 series of Ryzen,you actually have to beslightly careful becauseif the board is say a few months oldand it doesn't have the correct BIOSyou can put the chip in andnothing will happen, right?So what I wanna do todayis take an older chipthat I know should work,install it in the motherboardand make sure that theBIOS is fully up to dateand then we'll swap overto the Ryzen processor.I mean I need to do this,but it's going to save mea whole lot of time in troubleshooting.If we put the entire systemtogether and nothing happens.Now, it just needs to post for us.Take in a minute to post.- The monitors on, right?- Yeah, it's stuck on 4D right now.- So our BIOS code is reading 4D.So Austin's looking up what that even is,(Austin laughing)- So funny.- What is it?- Looks like it's a memory issue.- You wanna unseatand reset the RAM?- Yeah, let's pull some memory out.All right, let's go for round two.- 4D.- Doesn't like our memory.Something about the CPU,the board and the memory arenot communicating correctly.I can throw the Ryzen 7 in therelike the actual processor to see.(upbeat music)- Oh, that looks much better.Yep, okay.- There's a processor.- It was just a processor.Now let's see if the BIOSactually is compatible'cause if it's not up todate it will not post.'Cause it depends on how new the board isand this board has been,oh, okay it's fine.All right.Well, we did all that tomake sure that it worksand it works right out of the boxand I didn't have to bother with it.So now I'm going to update the BIOS,load up all of our RAMand we should essentially be good to gowith the actual hardware of the system.Wes, how are you lookingover on this side?- It's going pretty good.I'm starting to figure out thedensity for the water color.Just to have a nice sort of cartoony blue.- That looks very Squirtlely.- Yes, very Squirtlely.- It sounds, that sounds weird.So, what we're gonna dois we're gonna underlay itwith some of these andthen we're gonna applya little bit of thistexture over top of the LEDsto get it to have a a ripple effect,so as we animate through,hopefully it kind of shines up and thenand then we just sort of somewater motion effects in there.OK, I'm testing now.- Working with this set, Irealized that there's a lotof opportunity foranimation through lighting.Now we need to make, you know,somewhat of an elevated surfacethat is going to hold its shape.So it has to be durablebut at the same time,transparent in certain places.And after messing around with a bunchof different materials, honestly,plastic bowls just ended up working great.So, cutting them outfor the little lava patches was awesomebecause I could put alittle diffusion on the top,a little on the bottom,maybe sandwich another layer in therethen have a nice surface to paintthat I could mesh in with the plaster.So you can see we're startingto get the overall ideaof how this is gonna come together.And I've just thrown together really quickand dirty lighting samples here.You can see the lavaover to the side herewhich will have Chamander,some cool flowing effects in there,and then that will be ourlake where we will haveour Bulbasaur.I mean Squirtle.Now we just have to paint.I like paint.Very tired, but it feels good.But more importantly becauseapparently college never dies,I'm drinking Monster again.It's gonna be a hell of a year.All right, we got somethingfresh from the Laser Etcher.- Okay.- And they were engraved by laser.- Check that out.- Yo, that looks pretty cool.Oh dude.Especially when youget some light on that.So this is the firsttime that we've actuallyhad glass etched side panels for a build.We've done stuff like vinyls and what notbut this looks so, so sick.The thing is, I thinkit gives a level of sortof customization to assist themthat you don't usually see.So the fact that we were able to getthe Leonhart logos etched onto the glass,I personally think, takes this billto an entirely different level.So one of the things we are doingjust to keep everything even hereis that we're going fullCorsair RGB across the board.So I went and picked up six LL 120s.not cheap.However, we wanna make surethat everything is consistentthat we can run everything through IQ.We don't have to deal withmultiple types of RGB.Cause we've done thatbefore and it's not fun.- Corsair is the only onesthat's allowed to make RGB program.- So the main reason that weopted to go for the Kraken Zthis is the model that has the LED screen.You can kind of see it right here.So this entire thing is a displayso we can put whatever we want on it.Which will look a lot better than thethe test heat sink we have on here.I'm just gonna take that off.I don't like looking at that.So we still need to installobviously the AIO, the fans,get some of the RGB stripsin, where is the diorama?How is the inside looking?Cause I know you're buildingthat all still separate, right?- So here's where we're at right now.(Austin laughing)Wes, Wes, this is so cool.Look at Charmander!- There he is.- Oh, that is so cool.- So, there is testanimation going right now.So you can kind of see thelava flowing underneath there.And right now that'sabout half of the pour,.We're going to go up all theway to about the edge hereand this branch, whichcomes around to kind ofform the puddle is actuallywhat holds up the GPU.- Oh, dude. This is legit.- So I've been a part ofa few custom builds now.And this one is the most similarto Grounded because of allthe miniatures and model work.But I like this one alittle better than thatin a way because it gave merestrictions to work within,I mean physical restrictionswere in the baseof the computer case,more problem solving whichis always a fun part of the,of the process.- I really did not want Leonhartto see this system at all.I tried to keep myself from teasing iton Twitter and everything.'Cause I really wanted tosee his genuine reaction.I really, really hope that he's surprisedand he likes it and hedoesn't look at the system go.No. Is that like cool or something?He's nice.He probably like pretend tolike it even if he didn't.(Austin laughing)whenever you're ready, spinaround and take a look.- All right, man, I've beenwaiting a long time for thisand, oh my gosh!There is actually like a diorama going onin my computer right now.There's a Charmander,Bulbasaur,my boys Squirtle, youeven included in this?And then you got Red.There's even a GIF ofhim running right now.Oh my gosh.I seriously am going like numb right now.It's like I pulled a firstedition base set Charizard.(Austin laughing)For me, this is what likeembodies Pokemon for me.It's the original starter Pokemon.And you somehow made a wholelike "diorama" is if that's the word,got like the colors and ohmy, I didn't even see it.Oh my, you have my logoetched in the sides of it.And it's in the Leonhartin the front of it.Is this mine?- This is all yours, man.The ultimate Pokemon game PCfor the ultimate Pokemon YouTuber.So you've got yourself,you Ryzen 7 5800X,plenty for editing gaming, streaming,the whole deal and RTX 3080.You've got yourself tons of LED lightingand RGB lighting literally everywhere.But we also have a 4Kcapture card built inand we have another one for the external.- This is exactly what I was looking for.This is just gonnaallow me to move forwardas a content creatorand just help like overallmy whole community, you know.And the Pokemon communityin general, you know.I can start doing hopefullybetter content from here.- Dude, you've done somuch for the community.This is the least I could do to give back.I mean like you've changed thewhole game in such a big way.Hopefully this PC isat least one small partof helping you kind ofpush things forward.This has been one of myfavorite gaming PC buildswe've ever done.I remember those early dayswhere some of the builds I would dolike hardly even worked and what not.I was like, trying my best tomake something that was cool.And we've come from thatto delivering somethingwhich my favorite YouTuber inthe world thinks is awesome.I mean, I'm not sure whatmore you could ask for.It's a happy ending anda great reason for youto Ringaling the Dingalingbell, subscribe to the channel,and stay tuned for othernefarious ideas like this.Maybe we'll build aDigimon game PC next.Oh boy, 1999 called andwants its ideas back.