The Art of Plastidipping: A Journey of Self-Expression and PC Upgrades

Dude, that looks really good. Yeah, I know. My LG Velvet case is looking fresh, thanks to some expert plastidipping skills. That's exactly what I needed – a pop of color to make my PC stand out. The custom HP parts did give me a challenge, but I decided to lean into it and make it my own. A clean white theme was the way to go, and I'm stoked with how it turned out.

Wait, is this just the computer I bought on eBay, and you plastidipped it? Is that? Mm hm. So you didn't make any changes? Mm mm. All right, should we start with Geekbench? Yes. Okay, so because I'm running on Linux, I have to launch Geekbench from the command line. So this may take a moment. Gathering system information. See? You've got my Xeon E5-2620, six cores, 12 threads, 12 gigs of Ram. Boy, you ain't got a chance on this one.

I just hate that you don't have a GUI for this. No 'cause I'm a real broke person, and that means that I, instead of pirating Windows, I'm using Linux. Don't be afraid of a little command line. It's like being afraid of your grandfather. My grandfather's dead. Well, you shouldn't be afraid of him.

(whooshing) 552 single core, 3246 multi-core. That my friend is going to be a not particularly hard benchmark to beat. All right, let's go run our CPU benchmark. Oh my God. This is very slow. How's it feel to be using a hard drive from 1994? I will admit that it's giving me flashbacks to how bad the hard drive days were. SSDs are the way to go. If this were me, I would totally put a 20 gig, 20 gig, a 120 gig SSD in this machine, which would probably cost me around 20 bucks.

There are extra SATA ports in her that'll let me do that, but I didn't think ahead. All right. Moment of truth. browser.geekbench.com. Show me the results? Wait? I was 552 single core, 3246 multi-core. Wait. No something's wrong. No, no, no, no. It's fine, it's fine, it's fine. This way it was meant to be done.

It don't seem right? Yeah. That sounds exactly right. You have single channel memory. You only have one DIMM. I have single channel memory. I have triple channel. I'm gonna say I win. No. Multi-core. Who cares about the little number? I want the big number. I have a bigger number than you, which means I win.

I'm dealing with a kid. I'm just dealing with a kid. If you ever wanted to know what it's like working for Austin Evans, it's literally working for a child. (whooshing) All right. CS:GO. I'm at 140 frames per second. So suck it, Austin. I made the better move.

It's okay. I'm busy while my game loads. I'm just going to change my lights here and a little bit blue. It's still loading right now. Ooh, spooky. Wait, Ken. Yeah. If I can't load the game, I'll have a zero K/D. If you're negative that means that I win.

Okay. Come on. (keyboard keys tapping) Yikes. Don't like that. Don't like that at all. Oh! That's my teammate. Oh! Hey, headshot. No! Knife. Knifer, knifer. No! Stop it, stop it. Oh! Fix that. Yeah, no. Look again. Gamer strat is sometimes not to even work at all.

Look at the sadboy corner over there. I just spend so much time on my PC. I zip tied the cooler. I fixed my motherboard. Austin spent a lot of time making his car but he never made it to the race. I at least finished. Wait, are you already done with the game? I haven't even loaded into the first one.

Exactly. Exactly. You see? See. I think I've done good. I think I've done better than... Sorry. Let me rephrase. I have not done good, I've done better than Austin, which is what matters. Don't buy this PC. Don't shop for PCs on Wish. Just go build your own $600 PC from scratch. Go to like Micro Center. You can even shop at Best Buy.

Can you believe that? Yeah, there are way better moves than buying PCs on either store.

WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: en- Today we're going to be buildingthe cheapest gaming PCs we can,using eBay and Wish.So I have 15 minutes onthe clock starting now.Probably should have screen recorded that.What is this?Wait, wait, wait, wait.Here's a bundle an X79motherboard with an E5 2620,16 gigs of Ram,and an NVME SSD slot,but $172.- But?- This is a lot of money.- With all ofthese entry level cardsthat probably are notwhat they say they are.- All right,120 gig SSD for $23,perfectly reasonable.Okay, a thousand watt power supply.This is clearly what I need.I think the brand is Power Supply.Why is there a human lubricant?Do you need to reallyspecify it's for humans?Oh God.What? Three minutes left? Oh!- Incredible.- $104 for this case.It shows one, two, three,four, five, six, seven, eight RGB fans.- How many of those fansdo you actually think comewith the case?I bet none of them.I bet one, maybe.- Six fans and controller.- That's actually pretty good.You know you should get that.- And for $500,do you think(fan whirring)- It has Aura Sync.- Austin, I thinkyou're missing something.- What?- Don't help out.- What? What?I have power supply,graphics card,CPU.What am I forgetting?What am I forgetting?- Nothing,don't worry about it.- What am I forgetting?- It's fine.- Power supply.Wait, wait.45 seconds, 45 secondsHold on, hold on, okay.Okay, I have case,fans,power supply.- Who counts like that?- SSD.Cooler!Cooler!!!No!!!No!What is this? What is this?What is this? What is this?Oh, look, look, pause.I pause my timer.- No way.No, no.No.- I'm just gonna buy it.I'm just gonna buy it.Look.This, this.No, this one, this one, this one.Done, there, there, there.Add. Buy.Buy. Buy. I did it, I did it, I did it.- He didn't hit it.- No, no, no.- He didn't select thatso he doesn't have a cooler.- I had that.- No, no, no.- It just took a secondto look.- No.He missed it.The other thing that you forgot to buywas Windows.So yeah.- I'm gonna use Linux.I don't care.(Ken laughing)- Okay, you ready?- I think so.- Three,two.Look, I already started.Too bad, go. 15 Minutes.- Okay. All right.I'm going to try to find a really cheap,decent PC case.Oh, you know what?- Same thing, the power supplies.- You know what?I'm going to rip Austin off.I might as well just getthe same damn PC case as him.- What?Wait, wait.You found my same case but it'slike half the price?- Buy.(Ken laughing)- I paid a hundred dollars,So you paid $55?- So custom-built gamingPC desktop computer.AMD HD 7570. All right. We'renot going to pick that one.Let me keep going.Let me keep going.- If you believe you can just buya pre-built right now.- He literally doesthat for most of these.- I do. Oh, wow.Look at this. Yeah.So Core i5.Kind of variable.I don't know what is in it exactly,but has a 1060,16 gigs of Ram,Windows 10,and $25 shipping.If I add this to cart.- How much time do you haveleft? (numbers whirring)- R-G, a while.- I'm eight minutes. I'vealready done most of my shopping.- You just bought a Dell, that's enough.- I just bought a Dell.I just need a three pack of fans.- Those are my fans.Are you just copying me?You're getting my samefans and my same case.- Look, it's not my fault eBay decidedto give me the same exactresults for cheaper.So I'm just going to do that.I mean, everything is very muchthe exact same thing,but cheaper.- How are we still not done?We have to sit here for 45 seconds?- Make it dramatic, Ken,pretend that you're goingup against the timer.- What do I want to find on eBay?Is there anything you want, Matt?- Yeah.- What do you want?Something that's 25 bucks.- Pogs.- Pogs.Okay. We'll buy some Pogs.- You're buying Pogs?- We'll buy some Pogs.Oh word.There we go.He seems very mad.I'm happy.I'm thoroughly satisfied.- I'm just happythat I finally get tohave Pogs on the channel!(whooshing)- And we're back several months later,now that we have receivedall of our wonderful itemsfrom eBay and Wish.So I'll start out with my build.Okay.So there were some slight issues beforeand those issues continuebecause while I was ableto get most of my items from Wish,unfortunately,the power supplyis still three months awayfrom shipping.So I'm gonna have to go alittle creative with that one,but besides that I have myquestionable looking items,like my completely legitimateGeForce series graphics card.- Oh Jesus.That looks horrible.That's not even the same font.- So inside my 1060...(both laughing)NVIDIA.- We have graphics cards at home.(both laughing)- Now what I'm really banking on,and the only item whichis not complete trashis my motherboard, CPU and my memory.Oh!So what I'm banking onis my Xeon.So it's an E5-2620,but you can seeit's definitely been inand out a little bit.You'd could see like just actuallylike scratched up and dented.Look, there's like two dentsin the middle of the chip.- So this is what I have.Funny enough,Austin.We got a lot of the same stuff.I mean, of course this PC is not the same,but I got the same fans as youand this PC is not a slouch either.I mean, it's a pre-builtthat we bought on eBay.- Wait, wait.It's certified refurbished.- So you have no SSD.You have a 2400Gand a 580.What? Why?That's such a weird combination.- It is.It is.I wish I could explain that,but this was literally the only SKUthat that seller even had on their store.- I wanna see what's inside.- Yeah, let's open it up, shall we?This PC on its own, actuallydoesn't look too bad.- Wow. That's very small.- Yeah, look here's the thing,like I don't think this is--- Wait.- That's very small.- It is very tiny.- Oh look at this!You have not only USB-C.- Oh yeah, look at that.Modern.- And 10 gig USB.- Modern.(metal clanging)Wow.Okay.Small boy.Thatis very interesting.You take a look at otherpre-builts like thisthat are built in fairly small cases,and these things are kind ofa pain in the ass sometimes.I think we'll be okay,but I should be able toeasily transplant this.- Yeah.- An immediate observationin me trying to transplantthe motherboard into this case is,it is not using a standard layout.So I can't exactlyscrew this in that well.- How many screws do you have?- One.- One,the whole thing is held in by one?- Well, well, well.- Oh my God!- If I justdo this.- You use your graphics cardto hold your motherboard in.- I just do this.(Austin laughing)Just hold on.- Oh! This is so good.- Hold on.Wait, wait, wait, wait.Hey, there it is.We're in. We're in.Okay.I'm gonna screw it in first.- So triggered right now.- Wait, wait.Oh! Look at that!Oh!Oh!Am I doing it?I'm doing it. Look at this,look at this, look at this.- Ken, that's disgusting.- Look, look, look, look, hold on.Wait, wait, we gotta testit, we gotta test it.We gotta test it.Look at that.Look at that.Ingenuity.- Does the cable need to be thereto hold your motherboard in place?- No, actually that's pretty locked in.You want to feel that?- No, I'm good.- You sure?- Yeah, I'm good.- Look, I can carry it by the...Look.Look.- Okay,maybe don't do that.- Just jealous of myingenuity. Wait, wait.(Ken laughing)- You see,you talk of ingenuity,have you seen how I got that in there?(Ken laughing)- Are you okay?- No, no.That's (beep) hilarious.- Originally thismetal was touching the backof the graphics card,which I thought was probably a bad idea.So a little bit of foam,and it's actually not that bad.Now the foam was there.The CPU is touchingabout 70% of my cooler,which I think is probably enough.It's not gonna run cool,but considering thatI have no real cooler,and I have just this one.It's gonna work.(whooshing)Okay.So I have finally fixed my Wish gaming PC.So as you can see,it looks a little bit different.My top PCI slotmight not be entirely dead,but is super flaky.Out of booting it about30 times yesterday,I got it to POST once.I was getting differenterror codes every time,it was driving me crazy.By moving my fake graphics card downto the bottom slot,which because this is an X79 boardstill gets full bandwidth.That solved that issue.- So,my systemdid not go as planned.I could not put it into the other casewithout some other cables and whatnot.- Wait. What is that?- So I went to back,- Wait.I literally plastidipped this overnight.- This is all plastidip?- This is all plastidip.- Dude, that looks really good.- Yeah. I know.- Wow!- It matches my LG Velvet.- Oh my God! Okay.- But because I couldn'tget my whole gamer case,and fans working,there were numerous problems.Mainly the fact that alot of the internal partson this HP were custom.So I decided to just go back,lean into this,and make it my own.And I made it a clean white.- That actuallydoes look really good.- Thank you.- Wait. Is thisjust the computer you boughton eBay,and you plastidipped it?Is that?- Mm hmm.- So you didn't make any changes?- Mm mm.- All right.Should we start with Geekbench?- Yes.- Okay, so because I'm running on Linux,I have to launch Geekbenchfrom the command line.So this may take a moment.Gathering system information.See?You've got my Xeon E5-2620,six cores, 12 threads,12 gigs of Ram.Boy, you ain't got a chance on this one.- I just hate that youdon't have a GUI for this.- No 'cause I'm a real broke person,and that means that I,instead of pirating Windows,I'm using Linux.Don't be afraid of a little command line.It's like being afraidof your grandfather.- My grandfather's dead.- Well, you shouldn't be afraid of him.(whooshing)- 552 single core,3246 multi-core.That my friendis going to be a not particularlyhard benchmark to beat.- All right, let's gorun my CPU benchmark.- Oh my God.- This is very slow.- How's it feel to beusing a hard drive from 1994?- I will admitthat it's giving me flashbacksto how bad the hard drive days were.SSDs are the way to go.If this were me,I would totally put a 20 gig,20 gig,a 120 gig SSD in this machine,which would probablycost me around 20 bucks.There are extra SATA ports in herethat'll let me do that,but I didn't think ahead.All right. Moment of truth.browser.geekbench.com.Show me the results.What?(Matt laughing)Wait? I was 552 single core,3246 multi-core.- Wait. No something's wrong.- No, no, no, no. It'sfine, it's fine, it's fine.This way it was meant to be done.- It don't seem right?- Yeah. That sounds exactly right.You have single channel memory.You only have one DIMM.- I have single channel memory.- I have triple channel.I'm gonna say I win.- No.- Multi-core. Who caresabout the little number?I want the big number.I have a bigger number thanyou, which means I win.- I'm dealing with a kid.I'm just dealing with a kid.If you ever wanted to knowwhat it's like workingfor Austin Evans,it's literally working for a child.(whooshing)All right.CS:GO.I'm at 140 frames per second.So suck it, Austin.I made the better move.- It's okay.I'm busy while my game loads.I'm just gonnachange my lights here,and a little bit blue.It's still loading right now.Ooh, spooky.Wait, Ken.- Yeah.- If I can't load the game,I'll have a zero K/D.If you're negativethat means that I win.- Okay.Come on.(keyboard keys tapping)Yikes.Don't like that.Don't like that at all.Oh! That's my teammate.Oh!Hey, headshot.No!Knife.Knifer, knifer.No!Stop it, stop it.Oh! Fix that.- That's pretty smooth.- Yeah, no.Look again.Gamer strat is sometimesnot to even work at all.- Look at the sadboy corner over there.- I just spend so much time on my PC.I zip tied the cooler.I fixed my motherboard.- Austin spent a lotof time making his car,but he never made it to the race.I at least finished.- Wait, are you alreadydone with the game.I haven't even loaded into the first one.- Exactly, exactly.You see? see.I think I've done good.I think I've done better than...Sorry.Let me rephrase.I have not done good,I've done better than Austin,which is what matters.Don't buy this PC.Don't shop for PCs on Wish.Just go build your own$600 PC from scratch.Go to like Micro Center. Youcan even shop at Best Buy.Can you believe that?Yeah,there are way better movesthan buying PCson either store.