**The Art of Building a PC: A Journey of Trial and Error**

As I sat down to build my new PC, I couldn't help but feel a sense of excitement and trepidation. Would I be able to assemble everything correctly without any major mishaps? After all, building a PC is not for the faint of heart. But, with the guidance of my trusty sidekick Stefan, we were ready to take on the challenge.

**The Importance of Thermal Paste**

One of the first things we needed to address was applying thermal paste to the CPU cooler. Now, I had heard that some coolers came pre-applied with a small amount of thermal paste already applied in a circle around it. And if you have it pre-applied, that's all you need. However, Stefan had done extensive research and proved that putting too much thermal paste on a CPU was actually counterproductive. "The worst you can do is make a mess," he joked. So, we carefully applied just enough thermal paste to get the job done.

**Braving the Unknown: The Build Process**

With our thermal paste application complete, it was time to start building the PC. Stefan expertly guided me through the process, and I have to admit, I was a bit nervous at first. We began by installing the motherboard stand-offs, followed by the motherboard itself. As we worked, Stefan regaled me with stories of his own PC-building adventures, including the time he accidentally broke one of the screws on the motherboard (oops!). But, with each screw tightened and each component installed, our confidence grew.

**The Art of Cable Management**

As we neared the end of the build process, I realized that cable management was going to be a major challenge. With two keyboards, two mice, and two hubs to connect, it seemed like an impossible task. But, Stefan had a secret trick up his sleeve – undoing one screw on the motherboard and carefully tucking in some extra cables to create a tidy mess (okay, maybe that's not the most glamorous solution). And, just for kicks, we also decided to "close" the side panel of the PC before powering it on. After all, what could possibly go wrong?

**The Moment of Truth: Powering On**

With our PC now assembled and cabled, it was time to power it on. We plugged in the power cord, turned on the power supply, and waited anxiously for the fans to spin up and the screen to illuminate. And, voila! Our PC sprang to life, its Core i7 11700K processor humming along at lightning speed. We had done it!

**Redemption Story: The Verge Build 2.0**

But, just as we were about to declare victory, disaster struck. I accidentally turned off the power supply, leaving us staring at a dark and silent PC. Stefan and I looked at each other in horror, but then, something unexpected happened – we both burst out laughing. It was almost as if the universe had given us permission to laugh at our own mistakes. And, with that, our redemption story began. We fixed the mistake, powered on the PC again, and voila! The Verge Build 2.0 was complete.

**Where to Find Us**

If you're interested in staying up-to-date with my latest projects, be sure to follow me on Twitter (@StefanEtienne) or check out my tech blog, laptopmemo.com. And, if you're looking for some new tech gadgets to spice up your life, I've got you covered. Ting Mobile is our sponsor for this episode, and they're offering exclusive deals for our viewers. Just head to linus.ting.com and use the code "VERGE20" at checkout to receive a $25 credit in addition to your savings.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: en- Normally I'm the guy who makes the guidefor how to build a PC.But today we're shaking things up.We're doing something different.I will be following theguide to how to build a PC,but not just any guide,the most infamous guidein PC building history.The one created by The Verge.I don't know if I'm ready.No, I'm ready.- It's dangerous to go alone, take this.- The hell am I going to do with this?This video is brought to you by CableMod.CableMod allows you topersonalize the look of your PCwith custom colored sleeve cables.Try out their configuratorand build your cablesexactly how you want themwith their realistic cablepreview at the link down below.(cheerful music)Oh, this is hilarious.I actually need the tweezers.(Stefan laughs)- There's a screw stuck in it.- Oh, stuck in it?- Now, we're done with them.Step one, find the guide.Unfortunately, the originalupload is no longer there.What's the story behind that?- There were some lawyers involved.Someone wanted to do atakedown notice of it.I didn't greenlight thatand apparently thatjust made people angry.- But the original guide on The Verge,that's gone now.- The written portionis still up there, yeah.- Is it really?- Yeah, yeah, yeah.Essentially, that's the scriptthat was supposed to be turnedinto an hour long video.Maybe around three o'clock they were like,do you think we can finish up at fourso we can head out early?I did not get to see it until48 hours before it went live.And that's on the next Friday.So I can't tell myeditors, I can't call Neli,I can't tell anybody that this is crap.It goes up on Monday at 8:00 AM.That's it.- All right, let's do it.- First you need a table.- First you need a table, all right.- A table.- We got a table.I'm not going to lie.I built my first computer on the floor.I did.- I did.- I actually did.- The first computer I everupgraded when I was fourwas Windows 2000 to XP andthat was done on the floor,on the carpet with my dad, yeah.- Okay, so you don't need a table.That's fine.- The thermal paste applicator.An Allen wrench.Some tweezers to tight up the wires.A Swiss army knife,which hopefully has aPhillips head screwdriver.- Now this--- Is much better.- Unfortunately it doesn't havea Phillips screwdriver on it.- Right, but it cuts things.- But it'll cut things.- It'll work.- You looked really nervous.- Yeah, at that point thatwas my fourth machine.That was my first time doing it on camera.- But these are not tweezers.- They are not tweezers,those are cable ties.- These are cable ties.He does know, guys.- Last but not least,an anti-static bracelet.- Okay, bow this seems like itwas just one of those thingswhere you had a misunderstandingat some point or another,but those bracelets have noanti-static functionality.- You have to be, yeah.- So here, give us the demo.How do you use an actualanti-static bracelet?This housing is groundedas part of the design of this table.So now we are grounded.Also we did a videorecently with ElectroBOOMwhere we demonstrated thatactually it's very difficultto kill your hardware.(ElectroBOOM screaming)Bottom line, what toolsdo you need to build a PC?- Screwdriver, cableties, a knife or a sharp edge,- Some kind of cuttingimplement of some sort.You might need an Allen key.But odds are if you do,it will be included withwhatever part requires it.- Place items into the caseand make sure that they allfit and then start working.- Okay, now we've jumpedahead a little bit here.- Yeah, so they were like,can you do all of this stuff top-down?And then the portions wherewe're facing front of you,like, we'll do it normally.- But we're going to do ourbest today to follow the guide.- Cool.- So, oh, apparently we need our case.And our power supply.- So let's get that.- Just trying to matchthe state of preparationof the case here.I've got this panel off.I've my got accessory boxes removed,but the sleds are back in there.I couldn't understand whoit was geared towards.We had this baby simpleexplanation of what a computer isat the beginning,and then the guide portion,all of a sudden I'm going,whoa, whoa, hey, whoa,now hold on a second.- Yeah, super complex, yeah.What we're doing rightnow should have beenin the original video.That's all cut out.Yeah.- This is an RM850 rather than an HX850,but hey, close enough.- Close enough, close enough.- All right, and then interms of fan placement,now you did take some flack over this.I'm not sure if it was entirely fair.But I would recommend in a case like thisthat the fan be orientedto the outside of the case.That way it's drawing in nice fresh airand then exhausting it out the backas kind of its own isolated thermal zone.Oh, you know what?We might just need thatSwiss army knife here.Okay, you know what?- Nice.- Gorgeous.- And now we're reallygoing to start building.- We've got this continuity errorwith the power supply atthe wrong end of the table.- And screw in with confidence,but also don't screw in too hardotherwise you could crack the board.- Now the odds of crackingthe board are pretty slim,unless you're really going ham,in which case it's actually true.That can happen.The most common instancesof cracking the motherboard though,are when you've made another mistake,say for example,you didn't install one ofyour motherboard standoffs.And I've seen this happen even with peoplewho have built PCs before.If you keep screwing,when one of the standoffs ismissing and there's no support,a lot of the time that screw threadis actually the same as the threadingon the motherboard tray itself.And you can crank themotherboard down and crack it.- And so it hassupport for NVMe SSDs,meaning you can get really fast SSDsthat are really easy to install.- Now that part's a little awkward.Let's get our power supplyscrewed in real quick here.And then we'll go from there.By the way, that's our new screwdriverthat we're coming out with.- Sweet, so it's LTT?- It is.- This is magnetic tip also?- Of course.- Nice.- Only the finestfor the LTT viewers.It's not actually out yet, butit will be on lttstore.com.- Gotcha.- Looks good.Now, Stefan, did you study upat all for the build today?- Yes, I watched a couple of your videos.- You did watch a couple of our videos.And do you kind of realizenow at this point that like,there were definitely some thingsyou could have done better in the video.- Yeah, of course.- Okay, this is definitely one of them.- Like, the back plate forthat motherboard is one.- Yeah.- When I realized that I didn't put it onand I'd already screwedin the motherboard,not cracking it though thankfully.So I took it apart from this point,that's why there's a continuity error.- Right.The reason I never did a react videowas because most of themistakes that you made herewere ones that I have madeat some point or another,including this one.If we're being honest with ourselves,if you've built more than adozen or a couple dozen PCs,you might've accidentally putthe motherboard into the casewithout installing the IO shield before.And truthfully, the way Stefanis correcting his error here,you can actually see whathe's doing with his hands.He's unscrewed themotherboard, slid it back,he's installing the IO shield,and then obviously in orderfor the finished shotsof the build to be completed,the motherboard has beenslid back into placeand screwed in.It's not wrong, but it'snot helpful to a beginneris the issue here.What the?Don't include that. (laughs)You know what?Actually let's include that.I put this in upside down.This is even though I have builtprobably hundreds of computers on camera.So something people don't realizeis when you're doingsomething for yourself,you would turn it around andyou would be looking at itlike this while you're working on it.So it's a lot easier toline up where the holes are.But when you're doingsomething to present to camera,especially if you're not used to it,it can be very easy to makethese sorts of mistakes.And it's not worthcrucifying people over them.Although if I can speak frankly,I think you probably could have avoidedat least some of them the backlashby just kind of going, you know what,I screwed up in the first place.So--- Why didn't I?- Why didn't you?- Everyone at The Vergewere just looking to meto lead that situationand it's sort of like,either you back downand you let all thesepeople steamroll you,or you keep it up there.And my original advicewas to keep it up thereand then now lawyers get involvedand then it gets taken down.- Okay, I can tell you theadvice you got was really bad.- It was really bad, yeah.- That was bad advice.I would not have given that advice.I mean, internally whenwe upload somethingthat is clearly problematic.- Rectify it.- We fix it.Once and for all, this isyour redemption story Stefan,go for it.- Cool, cool, cool.Yeah, there we go.There we go.Okay, thank you.- This corner wants--- A little bit more.- I can see you have beenwatching some of my guides.He's holding themotherboard by the heatsink.- Yeah, heatsink, yeah.- As someone who's built alot of computers on camera,I could at least relate toalmost, not all of the mistakes,but a lot of the ones thatwere made in the video.- Basically everythingis twice as hard on camera.- And takes three times as long.That's it, I think we're in.you always want to do a sanity checkfor where your standoffs are located.Sometimes the case manufacturerinstalls them for you,but your motherboardmanufacturer had other ideas.So make sure all of them arevisible through the holes.There's an empty one.- Yep.- This is the kind ofthing that I would catchif I'm taking my time doing it properly.Stefan and I have set asideabout three and a half hoursto shoot this build for you guys.But it's something thatcan be easily missedif you're under pressureand you're being rushed.And this can be a killer.This right here can short out the traceson the back of the board and fry it.So let's go ahead and get that removed.Now you guys see me kind ofstanding here supervising.That's one of the reasons that, again,I didn't get personal aboutwhat went up in that videoand that's because to meit looked more like a systemic problem.Someone, especially who has never donesomething before on camerashould have an experienced supervisormaking sure that they don'tsay or do anything dumbbecause it happens, right?And that's the role that I'm playing herethat was clearly completelyabsent at The Verge.How the (bleeping) did thatvideo ever get uploaded?- After that they toldme that that would betheir new policy moving forward.Evidently.- Good.How helpful is that for you?- Right?- All right, let's get this screwed in.Actually, hold on.We should be following the guide.- Yeah, we should be following the guide.- So the guide doesn't screwin the motherboard yet.- Pay closeattention to the bracethat goes at the--- Okay, you called it a brace.- It's an IO shield.Because there's no screw,it really just has to gooutside of the case and clasp.- Okay.- Yeah, that was donefrom the outside,should've been from inside.- That was another one,should be from the inside.But I can see your hands.You wouldn't have gotten it inif you were putting itin from the outside.- It's just, yeah.- You know, it's the verbal equivalentof fat fingering something, you know?- And this is very importantbecause otherwise you can't alignthe motherboard correctly with the holes.- The reason it's importantis because it acts as an EMI shield.Strictly speaking,the computer will completelyfunction fine without it.It's a bit of an outdated way of thinkingnow that we have so many computer casesthat have glass or acrylic side panels,like how silly is it tothink that these little gapsare where all the EMI is going to get out,but that is their original purpose.Those aren't the right screws.- Nope.- So this is the redemption moment.Show me the correct screwsfor the motherboard.Another thing that can be trickyfor inexperienced buildersis that you can actuallyhave multiple types of screwswith the same threadingincluded with your parts.For example, I'm holding an M3 button headthat would be intended for somethinglike screwing your motherboardinto your standoffs,as well as an M3 countersunkscrew that would be intendedfor installing an SSD onto a trayso that the button head wouldn't stick outand cause interference asyou slide it in and out.And in many cases,these could be used interchangeably.They're just not supposed to.I noticed you were usinga countersunk screwand that's one of the thingspeople got very mad about.- It's pretty fast RAM, it's2666 megahertz, I believe.- People were rally madabout the speed of the RAM,2666 megahertz being not fast enough.I don't entirely disagree, though,with the choice of the RAM.At that time, I think the gaming communitywas just coming around againto the idea of fast memorybeing really importantfor gaming performance.The main thing is that youwere a little behind the times.I see why people were mad.I also see how the mistake happened.- It also had to do withthe budget of the build,but yeah, I get it.- Where did the budget come from?- The budget was not my idea.That was an editorial idea.They were like,let's make this approachablefor most people,let's set a budget.And I was like, okay, $3000.They're like, no, that's too high.I was like, well then it'sgoing to have to be $2000.And that's where that came from.- God, so it was just kind of arbitrary.- Just arbitrary.It had nothing to do with anything.if I wanted to use thebest parts I could have.Open the slots firstand just aligning the stickwith the middle of the strip,not with the end, and justlining that up with the logo.- That is not the bestexplanation I've ever heardfor how to align memory.Why don't you take anothercrack at this one for me?- Let's do it.- We found some Vengeance RGB2666 CL16.Okay.Why don't we grab thoseBallistix sticks over there?- So you want to keep these slots open,otherwise you can't put the RAM stick in.And you want to align thatwith the center partitionso that once you pressdown, you'll hear a click.- Turn it around.- Yeah, this is the realityof building a computerin front of a camera.- Ever try to put in a USB portwhile you're not facing it?It's kind of like that.- There we go.- Oh, I see.There was actually another error here.You were installingyour sticks in the slotsclosest to the CPU,which almost always arethe less preferred slots.- So when you hear that solid claspand you don't see the goldconnectors on the side.- Now that's interesting.Here it's in the correct slot.What happened there?- Probably like, photos,not paying attention in that moment.We're going to install thehard drive or in this case,the NVMe SSD.- Using hard drive colloquiallyto describe an SSD- Is bad.- Is about like calling a tower a CPU.It's kind of boomer terminology.- And it's only held downby one screw and the latch.So it's really simple andreally straightforward.- I'm going to get you to install this SSDthe way you did it there.- Okay.- Where'd our little screw go?- Good question.In a better place. (laughs)- Here it is.- There it is.Okay, sweet.- All right.One of the big problems withthis portion of the videois that while Stefanis actually installingthe M.2 drive correctly,you can't see a thing he's doingbecause it's often not practicalto lower the table enoughthat the camera operatorcan see down into the case.So that's why sometimes theygotta get a little bit high.You want to go get high?When you're installing an M.2SSD, usually either on the boxor on the drive itself,you'll see a little code says M.2, 22,and then some other numbers.This one says 2280.So that tells us where toinstall the threaded standoffso that we can correctlyinstall the drive.You can actually see itlabeled right on the drive.(beeping) You can see it labeledright on the motherboard.See that verbal slip up.I said, see it labeled right on the drive,I was holding a drive.Now something you couldpoint at as an errorin today's videois that we've put a PCIexpress gen three drivein a PCI express gen four capable slot.But if we're not spending theextra for a gen four drive,I would still recommend doing it this way.And then if you upgrade to agen four drive down the road,you can always move this downto one of the beta slots,nothing prevents you from doing that.- Step four, we're going toinstall the graphics card.- Okay.This is very out of orderbecause so far we've gotnot a whole lot of actualcomputer built yet.And we're going to goput the graphics card in,it's going to get in our way.- Yeah, it's huge.- Do you want to go for the 1080 again?Or do you want to upgrade it?- I want to upgrade it because,well, at the time thatthe 20 series came out,I upgraded it and that's how I benchmarkedand did the whole review.But no one knew it wasbuilt on that computer.So you want me to install it now?- I mean.- Yeah, okay.- I guess that's whatyou said to do right?- Now which lane you choosedepends entirely on what other partsyou're going to put in the system.I'm just going to pick the top onebecause the SSD is at the bottomand I don't want to cover it.I just think it looks nice.Click down.Take your remaining bracketsand just put them in the spotsthat you haven't used.- I think what probably happenedis you pulled off all thebrackets at some pointduring the preparation for the videoand then forgot that they're all includedand you don't have to take them outand put them back in.- Back in.- Whoops.Show us how it's done then.As for which PCI expressslot to install it in,Stefan got it right.- But for the wrong reasons.- Wrong reasons.The top one is correct, butnot because it looks nice.It's because that slot has itsfull complement of 16 lanesconnected directly to the CPU.So your graphics cardbeing one of the mostbandwidth hungry componentsin your system wants asmany lanes as it can get.- This brackethas been bent a little bit.- Yeah, just gonna rougharm it in there.- This is an old PC builder trick.- What's up?- If you've only got afraction of a hole exposed,what you do is you get the screw on there.As long as you have a nicemagnetic screwdriver it'll work.You just kind of,you just kind of lever it over,and then you can screw it in.- Screw it in, gotcha.I'm geeking out moreabout this than the PC.Cause it's just really,really useful, right?- What, not a Swiss army knife?- Nope.(Linus laughs)I once asked for food recommendationsand I would lead with, Ialready tried the thermal paste,it does not taste good.By the way, don't eat thermal paste.- Yeah, pleasedon't, I was gonna--- It's in the same category as Tide Pods.Don't do it.- Now that we've challenged them...- (laughs) You, no, no, no, no, no.Always be sure to try toplace it in the system firstbefore you install it'cause you can see ittakes up a lot of space.- That's a fair point.- But in thiscase, no pun intended,it fits in perfectly.- Got 'em.- And we're goingto start screwing it in.And there's nothing specialabout this screwing in process.They're just really long screwsbecause they go through theentire frame of the cooler.- Ugh.So what happens if you do that?- Well, you could possiblypuncture the linesand that would be pretty bad.- Yeah, it could cause a leak,especially in a case where the radiatoris above the motherboard.- And above the GPU.- Most modern radiatorsare actually designedso that the tubes, these flattened tubes,that's where the wateractually passes through it,are offset from the screw holes.So many people have madethis mistake over the yearsthat they've changed theway they design radiatorsto account for it.In fact, confession time,I have an old ThermoChill PA 120.3that has a punctured tube.Although I fixed it,still works to this day.- That's dope.Oh, we're a little wide actually.I'm going to try to squeezeit in from an angle maybe.- Uh oh.- Uh oh.- Did we misconfigure the system?This is the kind of thingthat we'd normally liketo gloss over in the edit.Now in the old days,cases used to come apartand it made it a lot easierto do stuff like that.You know what?- You might be able totake that top apart.- I think the top panelactually comes off this case.The Verge guide has not yet told usto plug in the eightpin CPU power connector,but I'm going to do that nowbecause that thing is going to bedarn near impossible to get atonce we have this radiator installed.We made another significant mistake.- Oh boy.- We didn't putour CPU mounting backplate.- Plate.- Yeah, we didn't put the backplate on.This is the perfect mergingof The Verge's PC building skillsand Linus Tech Tips' PC building skillswhere I'm going to show you guyshow to jankily undo the mistakes you madebecause you used The Verge's guides.You can see that once you'veundone three of the screws,that's actually a fair bit ofplay in the motherboard here.Fits the thingamabobber there.And I'm just going to bendthe motherboard a little bit.Yeah, you got it threaded in?- Yep.- Okay, great.I'll try to line up the rest of them.See, I told them we were going to do like,a totally right one.I let the team down.The difference is I'm outhere sharing the bullet.You know what I need?- What's up?Tweezers.- Get some tweezers in there.Oh yeah.Stefan, is that lined up?- Yes it is lined up.- Yeah it is!- Oh my gosh.- What are the oddsthat following The Verge PC build guidewould result in errors.- Result in errors.- And go down this way.That might actually be how they intendedfor you to do it.- It's a tight squeeze.- That's really tight.- Gosh.- Every power supply is going to comewith a big bag of Velcro cables.More like braided.- Yeah, braided sleeving.And only modular power suppliescome with a bag of cables.- Next step is we'reconnecting the power supplyto the motherboard with the 24 pin cable.- All right.Wanna get us at 24 pin here?- See, where, there we go.- So our 24 pin end goes hereand then I'll get Stefan to show youthe other end on the other side.- The next few additionswill be for the GPU,for any specific ports that the case has,for any lighting that thecase has, the CPU cooler.- We already did our eight pinfor the CPU, that's up here.So next what we're going to dois let's get our case frontpanel headers connected.This is made a little bit more difficultby the fact that we havealready installed our GPU.And we're going to start with our USB 3.0.So can you pull this throughfor me on the other end?The flat one.You gotta watch out for this guy.Very fragile, but it only goes in one wayso as long as you're gentle,shouldn't be a problem.There we go.All right, sweet.USB 2.0, right there, boom.Front audio.I'm not even going to tryto do much better than that.You know, I gotta say,I'm actually pretty surprisedthat not only did you agreeto come and do this with me,but that you reached out to me.- The reason why I didn'tget to talk to you at allwas contract stuff, right?So I was like,if it's not going to bedone right the first time,it's gotta be done rightat some point.- At some point.Now we're going to do ourfront panel switches and LEDs.So the power switch goes, you know what?Let's do the power switch last.Power LED, this one,positive negative does matterbecause your LED won'twork if you do it wrong,but you won't actually damage anythingby putting it on the wrong way.So we're going to go ahead and plug it in.Oh wow.This case has two differentspots to put the power LED on,that's a little bit confusingfor first time builders.So at the top left corner here,you'll see a positiveone at the very top left.Then we're going to take our reset switch.We're going to put it inthe next two pins overon the bottom.And then we're goingto do our power switchright above the reset switch.And then I'm going to get you to pullthe extra slack for all of thesethrough to the other side.- Roger that.- Perfect.- Sweet.- That looks great.Now we can use a single cable for this,one with two eight pin connectorswith a little kind of daisy chain loop.But some builders arepreferring these days,especially with higher power GPUs,to put two separate eight pins in.It's not likely to causeany sort of problemto plug both of these in,but particularly ifyou have a power supplythat is a multi rail design,you can overwhelm theover-current protectionon a single port,especially if you have a superpower hungry graphics card.And the efficiency ofusing separate cablesbecause they won't heat upas much is marginally higher.So here you go.I'm passing these through to you.Roger that.- I want themunder the 24 pin.The amount of backlashand the number of memesthat were generatedfrom that original videoprobably actually taught morepeople from your mistakesthan if the video had justgone up and been correct.The last thing our wonderful guideasked us to plug in allat once (chuckles) is,here we go, the RGB and powerconnectors for our fans.And we're going to go number four.Great.And number, oop, hello.Number four.Great.We gotta do these twoSATA power connectorsfor our fan hub, as well as our RGB hub.This just goes anywhere it fits,just like the rest of thepower supply connectors.These, you just gotta watch out.They got the little Lshape on the end there.Make sure they go in such as they go in.Let's continue, shall we?- A Core i7 hexacore CPU.Yeah, we've got one.- We've got one too.Okay, you won't haveseen one of these before.These are little 3D printed holdersthat we make for our CPUs.- Okay.- So just--(electronic beeping)- And this just flies right off.- Just comes right off.- And this will make it easierfor us to apply it to the motherboard,apply thermal paste, and thenapply a CPU cooler on top.And we're just going to carefullylean it down into the systemand make sure that everything lines upand we're going to clasp it down on itand we'll be good to go.- All right, about to put in there.- So we're about to applythe thermal paste to the CPU.Every CPU cooler actually comeswith a bit of thermal pastealready neatly appliedin a circle around it.- Okay, not every one,but many do.And if you have it pre-applied--- It's enough.- That's enough.- Practice to have a littlebit extra and layer it on top.That's way too much.- With that said, Steve from Gamers Nexusactually did a video provingthat you cannot put toomuch thermal paste on a CPU.The worst you can do is make a mess.- So you're going to seethat there are four brackets,or rather like, screws in here.- I can tell this is attempt number twoby the fact that the paste isalready kind of spread out.Now our cooler, becauseit's been used before,it does not have anypre-applied thermal compound.So Stefan, yes, we do needto apply thermal paste.Why don't you show us how it's done?- I'm just trying to make sureit doesn't all come out at once.- There we go.- There we go.- That's all we need.So now we take our cooler and oh no,I didn't think of this beforehand.Well, it's probably appropriatethat the Corsair logois upside down.- Upside down.- (laughs) This is the distressed PC.Now, this is anotherorder of operations thing.It might've been a littlebit nicer to do thisearlier in the process.But that's not the endof the world though.You know what?I've got an idea.This is one of my favorite little tricks.Undo one screw on the motherboard,cram something under it.They can just kind of tuck in there.I'm a tucking expert.- Nice.- There we go.Whoo!Not my finest cable management work,but no one will ever see it.Now it is bad jeebiesto close up the side panel of a computerbefore you power it on.- And not close the front.- Oh, they're both plugged in.- Yeah, they're good.- We're ready to go.Let's freaking do it!- Let's try to POST.- Verge PC Build 2.0, test 1.0.Oh crap, we didn't turnon the power supply.Verge Build 2.0, test 2.0. (laughs)Got lights.- We've got lights.- But do we have POST?- We have camera.- We have action.- Come on, action.Wouldn't it be funny if they sabotaged us,gave us some broken hardware?Nah, we're good.Core i7 11700K, we got 16 gigs of memory.- Two keyboards, two mice, two hubs.- Ladies and gentlemen,that's right, we've got it. (laughs)- Thanks a lot, man. (laughs)- No, thank you.This was an absolute blast.Thank you for coming and putting upwith my jokes.- No worries.- Thank you for comingout and just owning it.- No problem.- I mean, yeah, I love it.That's a redemption storyif I've ever seen one.So where can they find youif they want to get tips onmaybe not building PCs, but?- If you want to keep upwith anything I'm writingon, anything I'm working on,@StefanEtienne on Twitter,which I'm sure a lot of youalready know where to find me.And laptopmemo.com, the techblog I ran since I was like 12.I update that every sooften with cool stuffthat I find like, growlights or like grow boxes,or tech like this, computers.- Cool.And you guys know whereto find our sponsor.Ting Mobile has new ratesthat make it easier than everto see how much you can save by switching.They've got unlimited talkand text for just $10,data plans starting at $15 a monthwith their new Set 12 plan,which has 12 gigs of data for $35and unlimited data for $45 a month.And if you likedtheir previous pay foronly what you use plans,they're still there.They're called TingMobile's Flex Plans nowand they charged us $5 a gig.One cool thing about the flexplans is data can be sharedif you have a family planso you can connect morephones to save more.You'll still get nationwidecoverage in the USand award-winning customer service.And pretty much any phonewill work with Ting Mobile.Just head to linus.ting.comand you can get a $25 creditin addition to your other savings.Hope you guys enjoyed this video.If you did, maybe check out, I dunno,Linus reacts to xQc's PC build.It was actually more cringe-worthythan this one for sure.That ended up looking pretty fly.- It looks pretty good.\n"