The $20,000 Ultimate Gaming PC Build.
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So hardline tubing it is.
So how's it going?
So we have chased the root of our problems once again to the radiator. So when we actually went to pressure test this, we found that it was losing air. And we traced every single part of our line, which to be fair, some of it is pretty loose, but nothing too egregious.
Is it actually holding pressure now?
Yes. So these luckily screw in with the old Thermaltake ones. These are just plastic stoppers that don't really do much at all.
So basically we spent two hours chasing a leak that was actually just a loose cap on the radiator.
Yes. I'm not discounting the fact that it could have been some of our leads as well, but after tightening and tightening and tightening, at some point something wasn't right.
What, on a scale of one to 10, is your frustration level right now?
Um, very.
That's not a number.
It is to me.
All right. With our loop fully assembled, we have not lost pressure.
Jesus. Oh my God. Why is everything in our lives just not working as intended.
Dude, this coolant was a very good call.
All right, well, this is what all of our work was worth.
All right, some bubbles. We'll have to obviously run this a little bit as to get the bubbles out of the system, but this is a great start.
Okay. Here goes nothing.
Woah!
Oh my God, dude! That's so cool!
It does, it does.
It doesn't look like we're using cooling inside. I like it. I'll just say that, while I wasn't expecting things to go wrong, I wasn't expecting things to go so right either. But seeing the liquid flow through our whole entire loop for the first time, without any leaks mind you, I'd say job well done. Hopefully.
Hello and welcome to Tuesday where we have the PC up and running. So the only thing we're waiting on right now is we need to, well besides all the cable management and the RGB, we just need to get the actual shell, the exoskeleton on. And that should be arriving any minute now.
Oh my God.
Something arrived. Fresh from the fabrication.
Dude, that is so cool. We got to unwrap that.
Yeah.
After everything we've been through, the end result of seeing the exoskeleton, is so rewarding. I hadn't seen the exoskeleton at all while it was being fabricated, right. I've seen a couple of progress photos, but until you see it in person, is it actually the right size? Is it the right shape? Does it look nice? Was the finish correct? All of this kind of stuff.
If it showed up and one side of it was slightly bent, that could have been a complete disaster. But the fact is we have it, it's here, it's ready to go on the PC. What could possibly go wrong?
Oh, that looks pretty good.
Oh, hold on.
So we're a little... Yep.
So we're tight over here.
Start going down.
Woo!
Woo! Oh my God.
And I'm in.
All right, maybe...
The pegs there.
Oh my God. It worked.
That was way too close.
This actually comes out.
This actually sticks outside of it.
We're gonna have to rotate that real slow.
That could have been so...
Dude, that's not gonna work.
Wait.
No, we'll double check it. I think we'll be okay. I think we'll be okay.
Read the instructions again.
Ready?
Yup.
Nice little rotate.
Oh my God. Nope.
Definitely not. That is a hard no.
All right. Can we make that a diagonal? Do we have 45 degrees?
Nope.
We installed the drain, right?
Nope.
Well, look. There are a couple of things that could go wrong in this process. One, we compromise the design that Wes worked so hard in doing, or we redo our water tubing. The problem with us redoing the water tubing is that it took us so long to do as well.
It doesn't need to rotate. I think it's fine.
I'm gonna plug it just to see what happens.
No, no, no, no, no, no. Let's just...
This is the way it will live.
WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: en- With a $20,000 budget,Xbox Game Pass reached outand wanted to sponsor a gaming PC buildfor the one and only Karl-Anthony Towns,professional basketballplayer extraordinaire,to truly build the XboxGame Pass signature rig.With only three weeks to puttogether this signature rig,the time crunch is real.So thankfully we have helpfrom the one and only iJustine,who is helping guide us through,by not only talking with Karl-Anthonyand getting his ideas for what he wantsin his signature rig,but ultimately in puttingtogether the entire packagethat hopefully will end upworking by the end of this video.Now to do this,we have the one and only Wesley Knapp,who of course has built many crazy thingsfor us in the past,but this,this is something on acompletely new level.So Wes,we're starting it with theThermaltake Core P90, right?- Yup.And this is going to beessentially the center core,just like the name,but this is where all of ourPC components are gonna go.And then everything that we're doingto sort of snazz it upis gonna go around it.- Yeah.- As far as the design goes,we are really inspired by the fact thatobviously basketball isa huge part of his lifeand thinking actually abouta recent trip to New Yorkbefore, you know, the world ended,I remember the Atlas statueand how it was really justthis cool metal sphere.And I was thinking,well, if we took thatand we shaped it more likethe lines of a basketball,having something like that,and if it was able to rotate even cooler,but just having somethinglike that around the entire PCwould make it really a centerpiece as opposed to just a PCliving on someone's desk.- So for the actual PC itself,we've got to go high-end, right?We've got the custom design.So to start out with,we have AMD's Ryzen 9 3950X.As of recording this,that's about the most powerfulgaming CPU we can use.16 cores,Zen 2,all that kind of stuff.Gigabyte were also incredibly kindin hooking us up with someof the other components.And I say incredibly kind,because not only are they helpingout with the actual parts,but importantly theyhelped me get it on time.Because otherwise--- We would have to buy it,which you can't buy it.- Yeah, we would actually beusing old-school componentslike a 2080 or something.- Or we would havespent $10,000 on eBay.(Austin laughs)- True.So shout out to Gigabytefor the hookup here'cause this is going tomake a huge differenceto the actual PC.You ready?(angelic singing)Oh, okay!That is a big...Oh!Oh!- Holy Jesus Christ, okay.Looking at this card in person,it is enormous.I'm happy that we're buildingthis in an open chassisbecause I think this mightbe a pretty hard cardto fit even in some normal PC cases.(trap music)- All right.So the test fit is complete.So we have our RTX 3090,our sweet orange extension cables,which of course will be slightlytidier in the final build,as well as we have our Ryzen 9just sort of behind a stockcooler just for right nowwhile we're making surethat everything works.Wes, would you like to do the honors?Go for it.Yeah!Oh baby!It's funny.This case is so hugeit makes the 3090 lookpretty reasonably sized.- Yeah, I was gonna say,if you put that inliterally any other case,that would just be stupidly big.- So now comes the realtest of cable managing,cooling all of this with the custom loop,and getting the actual sphereand the rotating bits to work.- Yeah, now comes the easy part.- Yeah.- We got the hard parts done.- You say that but this isdefinitely the easy part.Everything else is gonna be so much more,all the custom stuff.- I was being sarcastic.- Oh.- There's sarcasm in there, shh.- All right.(upbeat music)- All right.So we've actually made somereally good progress here.We have the whole base made.This is aluminum T slot,which even though it's aluminum,it's very strong,very sturdy.(drilling noise)All right.So we have everything all wired up.I call this thing the drawer,just because it looks like a drawer.And we also have the motor in the back,all rigged up to the power supply.So when this turns on,it should activate the motor as well.Let's see if it works.(humming noise)Yo.Okay.Cool.Look at that.It's spinning.- So I've been taskedwith doing water coolingfor another big Austin Evans build.And I'm pretty excited becausethis is my redemption arc,where I get to actuallytackle hardline coolingbecause last time people in the commentsdidn't take to kindly to myfirst ever water cooling attemptwhen I used soft line tubing.And I think the reason whypeople get so up in armsover soft line tubingis because there's not a lot of optionswhen it comes to shaping the tubesthe way that you want.With hardline tubing,while it does require a lot of workto get shape in the tube,it does tend to look a lot better.It's a lot more clean.And I do want it to look betterbecause this is a prettyhigh profile buildfor a pretty high profile person.So hardline tubing it is.(intense music)- So how's it going?- So we have chased theroot of our problemsonce again to the radiator.So when we actually wentto pressure test this,we found that it was losing air.And we traced everysingle part of our line,which to be fair,some of it is pretty loose,but nothing too egregious.- Is it actuallyholding pressure now?- Yes.So these luckily screw inwith the old Thermaltake ones.These are just plastic stoppersthat don't really do much at all.- So basically wespent two hours chasing a leakthat was actually just aloose cap on the radiator.- Yes.I'm not discounting thefact that it could have beensome of our leads as well,but after tightening andtightening and tightening,at some point something wasn't right.- What,on a scale of one to 10,is your frustration level right now?- Um, very.- That's not a number.- It is to me.- All right.With our loop fully assembled,we have not lost pressure.- Jesus.Oh my God.Why is everything in our livesjust not working as a intended.(Austin laughs)- Dude, thiscoolant was a very good call.- All right, well,this is what all of our work was worth.All right, some bubbles.We'll have to obviouslyrun this a little bitas to get the bubbles out of the system,but this is a great start.- Okay.Here goes nothing.Whoa!- Oh, there it is,it's running through.- Oh my God, dude!That's so cool!- It is, right?- Oh, it looks so good!That legit looks likewe're using orange tubing.- It does, it does.- It doesn't look likewe're using cooling inside.- I like it.I'll just say that,while I wasn't expectingthings to go wrong,I wasn't expecting thingsto go so right either.But seeing the liquid flowthrough our whole entire loopfor the first time,without any leaks mind you,I'd say job well done.Hopefully.- Hello and welcome to Tuesdaywhere we have the PC up and running.So the only thing we're waitingon right now is we need to,well besides all the cablemanagement and the RGB,we just need to get the actual shell,the exoskeleton on.And that should bearriving any minute now.Oh my God.- Something arrived.Fresh from the,from fabrication.- Dude, that is so cool.We got to unwrap that.- Yeah.- After everything we've been through,the end result at seeing the exoskeleton,is so rewarding.I hadn't seen the exoskeleton at allwhile it was being fabricated, right.I've seen a couple of progress photos,but until you see it in person,is it actually the right size?Is it the right shape?Does it look nice?Was the finish correct?All of this kind of stuff.If it showed up and one sideof it was slightly bent,that could have been a complete disaster.But the fact is we have it,it is here,it is ready to go on the PC.What could possibly go wrong?Oh, that looks pretty good.Oh, hold on.- So we're a little...Yep.So we're tight over here.Start going down.- Woo!- Woo!Oh my God.- And I'm in.- All right, maybe...The pegs there.- Oh my God.It worked.(Austin laughs)That was way too close.This actually comes out.This actually sticks outside of it.- We're gonna have torotate that real slow.- That could have been so...Dude, that's not gonna work.Wait.- No, we'll double check it.I think we'll be okay.I think we'll be okay.Ready?- Yup.- Nice little rotate.- Oh my God.Nope.- Nope.- Definitely not.That is a hard no.- All right.Can we make that a diagonal?Do we have 45 degrees?- Nope.- We installed the drain, right?- Nope.(Ken laughs)- Well, look.There are a couple of thingsthat could go wrong in this process.One,we compromise the design thatWes worked so hard in doing,or we redo our water tubing.The problem with usredoing the water tubingis that it took us so long to do as well.- It doesn't need to rotate.I think it's fine.- I'm gonna plug it injust to see what happens.- No, no, no, no, no, no.Let's just...This is the way it will live.- So I know that if I gohome right now and just say,"Ah, screw it, it's just not spinning",I am going to lie awake all nightthinking about how Icould have done somethingto make it spin.So another couple of cups of coffeeand I'll see you all in the morning.(Austin groans)- Okay.So it is two hours untilit's being picked upand we have successfully finished it.If the exoskeleton works.- Yup, so we have our new risers all builtout of premium oak.Premium oak.(Austin giggling)And we have these little shims here,which will go underneath tokinda hold either side of itand just give us a little extra supportwhen we're up in the air.- If this doesn't work,I give up.- Well, we don't really have a choice.We have to give up.- Nope, I give up.Okay.- So if you wanna make sure that the footgoes in the cup over there, Ken.- Yeah.- So we're just gonna take that,one goes here.I got the other one over here.The old slow roll.- Yeah, that's it.(Austin laughs)Yeah, we're gonna manually real quick.Yeah, that's...Oh, that tolerance.- All right, ready?- Let's do it.(humming noise)- Oh, it's so close.Oh!- We're good.We're good, we're good.It is just barely.(Austin laughing)This is literally an anxiety machine.This PC looks awesome.It's nothing like I've ever seen before.It's actually one of thebiggest PC structuresI have ever seen in my life.The spinning takes it intosomething that actually has life,it has character.This is just a really cool PC.If I could make everyone'sPCs rotate, I would.- So there've been a lot of late nightsso far on this build.A lot of 14 hour days.When we hit the button andthat cage actually spun,not just started spinning,but when it did its full rotation,that was just like aknot that was in my chestfor about a month that just...- So.- All right.It's precision.- Let's box this thing upand hope that it survives.- Well, if it gets bent by evenan eighth of an inch we're.- Oh my God.- I swear to God just (indistinct).- We're ready.- I'm so nervous right now.I know that Justine has had a conversationwith Karl-Anthony and hyped up the buildway more than it should.I'm just completely absorbedby the idea of does he like it?Did it work?Also, Karl-Anthony's a pretty cool dude.So it's cool to be able to meet him,but mostly worried aboutif he likes the PC.- Check it out.- What the hell!(Karl-Anthony laughs)That is a full blowncontraption right there.(Austin laughs)And what, it's the worldthat spinning right here?- No, it's a basketball.- Oh, it's a basketball?Oh, that's actually crazier!That's really art though.That's legit art.Bro, what is going on here?It's just...Austin for sure did alittle something, something.(Austin laughs)- How's it going, man?- How are you doing?- If you knew the amount of blood, sweat,and tears that went into this thingand how many times it almost brokeor just didn't flat out work.The fact that it is thereand hopefully working,I'm so, so happy.- I can imagine.I can imagine.Seeing a PC built it's like...Everything works,one day you go to sleep,you wake up and the fan doesn't work or,you know, something crazy happens.- I don't know if we're ever gonna buildany more of thesesignature rigs ever again.But if we were,there's certainly a lotof things to think aboutand a lot of things to learnfrom this KAT PC build.And I think a lot of itjust comes down to planning.And I'm very excited for the next time,if there is a next time.I hope there's a next time.Is there a next time?- We'll have towait and see, won't we.- We'll have to wait andsee won't we he says.Austin Evans, ladies and gentlemen.(upbeat music)