3 Hours to Build a Gaming PC Setup!

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**Hello and Welcome**

Hello and welcome to our channel, where we're excited to take on a challenge with the help of our fine sponsors, Micro Center.

**The Challenge Ahead**

It's actually the wrong channel for this video... Okay. Hello and welcome to our fine sponsors, Micro Center, where we have a challenge. Matt and I have three hours and six minutes to build a gaming PC that can both stream, as well as record, as well as an entire studio setup using the wide variety of creator tools available here at Micro Center.

**The Goal**

Our goal is to set up a complete studio setup with the help of Micro Center's creators' tools within this tight deadline. We'll be recording at 12:00 PM today, and we're eager to show you what we can accomplish in such a short time frame.

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WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: en- Hello and welcome to-- It's the wrong channel.- Okay.- Hello and welcometo our fine sponsors, Micro Center,where we have a challenge.Matt and I have threehours and six minutesto build a gaming PC that can both stream,as well as record,as well as an entire studiosetup using the wide varietyof creator tools availablehere at Micro Center.12:00 PM today, we'rerecording a "This Is" livein the store with gearthat we have to findoff the shelf and put together.- I'd be worried about that,but we have that extra six minutes,I think we're gonna be good.(Austin laughing)I'm like a kid in a candy store,except the candy is recording equipment.- Audio gear.Look at the microphones!- They have every microphone.- Look, I talk into allof microphones, noneof them are connected,but they all I'm sure sound really cool.Do you wanna start with mics?I mean, they have, obviously, camerasand have everything here.- What we have to figureout is whether we want to,we want this to be able to stream,that's not how wenormally do a This Is.Like, do we want this to bea little bit more versatile?Do we want it to be just for streaming?- 'Cause the other thingis we have to consideris that while Matt is gonnabe building the studio,I'm gonna be building the PC,we have a very limited amount of spacesince we're gonna be in the storeand people will be here in like an hour.So what do we actuallyhave on the studio setupthat I need to build a PC around?- So we're gonna be using threecameras that are 4K ready.We're gonna have two microphones.I'm gonna simplify it andhave a single audio interfacethat's gonna be a mixerthat both mics go into,so that's just a single USB-C there.- Okay.- And then,the same with the cameras,I'm gonna do a physicalswitcher with that-- Thunderbolt?- It does not have to be Thunderbolt.- Excellent.- It actually spits outjust a regular USB-C signal.Everything that we need isright here at Micro Center.So we have a bunch of Sony options here.- Yeah.- And like, so ZV-1,which is basically thelittle brother of the camerathat we're using now,it's gonna be pretty plug and playwith what we already have.- We're not gonna be able to redoour exact setup at the office,but we can actually get,I think, relatively close.I'm sorry, you can get relatively close.I'll go build a PC.(upbeat music)Look, I feel so confident right now.Matt's over there struggling to figure outhow he's going to put anentire studio set up together.I gotta build a simple PC.I can do that in my sleep.Three hours?I built a PC in three hoursliterally blindfoldedat Micro Center before.Remember that I was just like this?Okay, wow, that's a lot of boards.So what I wanna do is I wanna builda moderately powerful systemthat is somewhat small form factor.So I think the way I'm gonna startis I'm gonna go with this MSIMag B650 Mortar WiFi board.So this is a microATX.So it's a midsize board,which means that I can hopefully downsizemy case a little bitwithout sacrificing theexpandability and the performance.So I'm gonna do thisbecause I really think thatRyzen's 7000 is my move.Again, theoretically,I will not need a hugeamount of CPU performance,but having six orrealistically eight coreswill make a big differenceif Matt throws some giant files at me.So if I was building a gaming PC,the graphics card selectionwould be incredibly important.But because this is much more meantfor streaming and recording,I actually don't need ahuge amount of performance.Well, it's obviously nice to say,"Oh, I've got a 4090 whatever,"complete and total overkill.Realistically, I just need likemaybe like a 30-Series cardthat is gonna have NVENC,which is NVIDIA's very quite high-qualityencoding engine built into the GPU,which, again, is going to help me stream,record, whatever I need to do.So I've got my components picked out,the next choice is the case.Ideally, I want something smaller,maybe even something with a handle,and all I need issomething that's microATX,which is actually gonna probably lean metoward a little bit of a cheaper case.Oh, hello, what is this little Lancool?This might be my move.Something like this Lian Li Lancoolmight actually not be a bad move.Fairly small, especially'cause this will supporta full microATX motherboard,this actually might be the move.Now, the configuration on the insideis a little bit unorthodox,but importantly it doeshave a lot of ventilation.It's also only 85 bucks,which is pretty solid.So I think I have all of the componentsI need for my PC picked out.Let's go check in with Mattand see if he's made anyprogress on the studio setup.- Okay, so I got my pile of goodiesand there's one that I'm really excitedfor because it's not yet out.- What are you using for cameras?This is the E10s?- Okay, so I know originally we saidwe were gonna do the ZV-1F,which is a wonderful little camera,but it's got a fixed lensand I mean you're paying for it.So instead,I got the ZV-E10,which is the big brother to it.- 'Cause that's APS-C, right?- This is APS-C.- It's interchangeable lenses.- Yeah.- You've chosen the ATEM Mini Pro here,which is a really interesting thing.I'm surprised that Micro Center sell this.So this is essentially a live streaming,like, a lot of the thingsyou could do in OBS,this does in hardware.So around back you can connectup to four HDMI sources,you can connect USB out.So essentially to the computer,this looks like you've justgot a USB webcam plugged in.However, this is going to beable to do all of the stuff.You can change your actual cuts,you can do picture in picture,all kinds of wild stuff,which is really nice because I wasn't surethat you were actually gonnagive me something like this,so I slightly overbuilt my PCassuming that I needed abunch of capture cards.But I don't, which meansthat my life is way easier.What is this?- This here, I don't know.- What do you mean you don't know?- I saw this in a sneakypart of the store.This, as of recording, is not out yet,but this is the Mackie-- Are you breakingan embargo right now?- Shh, well.- Did you clear this with Micro Center?- Well.(fist pounding on door)- FBI open up!(alarm blaring)- This here is an all-in one mixer,interface recorder from Mackie.I'm a huge fan of Mackie stuff.Coming from an audio background,I loved a lot of their products.So the fact that I found this,I'm really excited toget my hands on this.We're gonna be controlling this ourselves.I don't wanna deal with softwarewhen I'm recording a video.I wanna be able to physically,like, touch the faders.- Wait, we don't have Kinsey?- No.- What?- No, I left Kinsey behind.- Nani?!- Your setup I will saylooks quite nice,a little overkill I might say,because I was very reasonable.Look at how small this is.I've got myself a Ryzen 7 7700 8-core.I've also got 32 gigsof T-Force DDR5 memory,32 gigs, 24 gigs more than Ireally need, but it's fine.I also have myself the MSIMag B650 Mortar WiFi board,and an MSI VENTUS 2X RTX 3050with a Crucial P5 Plus SSD, two terabytes.- Can I ask you why you went with a 3050as opposed to a 4090 TI?- So here's the thing,I respect our kindsponsors at Micro Center.I don't walk into the store and go,"I need the best or I'm leaving!This just needs 4090s or else!"I'm gonna be reasonableand only build what we actually need.And I don't need 73 inputs on my Creatorwhen we have two microphones.If this was a year or two ago,you would not have been able to buyhalf of this at Micro Center.Like, they've really invested a lotin building a lot morestock of creator gear.So if you want to be streaming,if you want to be creatinga studio or something,you can get a ton of stuffhere at Micro Center,and a streaming PC to go along with it.We have an hour and 45minutes to build all this.We should probably stoptalking and start building.- I feel like I'm gonna be donebefore you're done with that PC.- Bet.- Bet?(upbeat music)So the longest part for meis gonna be building out these lights.- I used to use those a long time agoand it's like building likea little tent or something?- Yeah, oh, these came pre...Feeling pretty good about my decision.They came pre-built.- Yeah.My main concerns are twofold.One of which is workingwith this hardware,especially this case thatI'm not familiar with.The other one is a littlebit more existential,which is I have a largenumber of bits of software,Windows and whatnot,and drivers to install,which I need to do very quickly.- A lot of my setup is very physical,but I'm just powering through it,unlike Austin who's just making excuses."I've never used it before."Bro's been building PCssince before you were born.And it is 10:37.- We have anhour and 23 minutes left?Are you serious?- He is now pulling out thepower supply and motherboard,thus undoing everything he just did.- Okay, all I'm doing is I'mjust changing my routing here.So, again, this is an unfamiliar case,so I'm figuring it out live.I'm like legitimatelyfeeling the pressure.Like, we've done a lotof like goofy challengesat Micro Center,but this is the first one in a long timewhere like I don't knowif we're actually gonna be done in time.- (laughing) He's so confused.- Well, so the problem is, like,there's no space in thebottom of this at all.- I think someone's just making excuses.This is ready to go, to power it on.It's waiting for a computer to plug into.Ah, we're waiting on you, Austin Evans.- Yeah, I noticed, so theproblem is I literallyjust took this out andnow it won't go back in,and I think I'm really stupidand I'm getting frustrated.- I mean, you are.- I'm gonna do what I never wanna do.- Read the manual.- Which directiondoes the fan bracket go in?- Really that's the level?Which direction a fan goes? Okay.- The bracket doesn't fit, Matt.- Okay.- My problem is, is thatwhile this is a terrific caseon the outside and thesize is excellent for the,you know, the min maxingof the components,the configurations are quite finickywhen it comes to actually fitting things.And since I have so little time,I'm just going to simplify it.- Would you say this is a great PCfor someone who knows what they're doing?- I'm not gonna answer that,'cause I know where you're gonna,I'm not gonna walk into that joke.I am almost done.I've just had to be a little creativewith my fans and howmany of 'em I'm using.I am almost ready toactually do my first boot.- Are you cable managing?- I don't have windows, so no.- 'Cause, like, you see here,my cables are immaculate.- You're immaculate.- Okay, okay, Joanna.- So I have committed thecardinal of PC building,which is to put all ofmy side panels back onbefore test booting the system.So if I press this powerbutton and it doesn't work,I'm gonna be big, sad boy.Yo, let's go!Ryzen 7 7700, 32 gigs of RAM, yes!My PC is done and I willsay it is 11:30 exactly.I've never put the side panels on a PCbefore test booting in my life.I'm really happy that that worked.Yo!(Matt laughing)Look how big the screen is too.- This is a proper console.- Ah!- Couple of the benefits to thisis not only is it like XLRmixer with a USB interfaceand being able to record,but you could actually hookthis up and do like call-ins.So you can have someonecall into this systemand you could do like,I don't know whether it's Skype or,do people still use Skype?Do people still use Skype?- Some people do,but most Zoom or whatever.- Basically, yeah,you could do audio call-insthrough this thing,which is really dope.On the back here, fourcombo XLR 1/4-inch ports,which we're gonna be usingtwo of the XLR for this,but you have plenty of expandability,four headphone outputs.Here's your output to the computer.You can actually hook thisup directly to ethernet.- That's great.- And I believe youcan hook up an SSD to thisand record directly thereor through a microSD card.- Damn.- And then, one thing that I'm,it's sad that this islike one of the thingsI'm most excited aboutwith a product like this,there's actually a proper on/off switch.Oh, ho-ho!Power up the DLZ!- Oh, that's hot!- That screen is massive.We're gonna check-check real.We're gonna check-check here.Just found the absolutebest feature of the Mackieand that is a full keyboardon here, all right.- Oh my god.So one of the things we were doingwhen we're working through this,this doesn't come out until tomorrow.So what we found out is thatwe actually need to downloadboth the drivers, as well as the firmware,which if you pull this out of the box,you can do in about three seconds.But because we're doingthis the day before,we need to make sure that it's actuallyfully set up and working.Mind you, it will work out of the boxif we wanna record via microSD,but we want to send itover to the computer.- Correct.- So we need to make surethat that's all set.For the record, we have 45 seconds.(hands clapping)Okay, so DLZ shows up,I'm not getting signal.And it is exactly 12 o'clock.- Well, we gotta hit record.(intense electric guitar music)I also don't see a camera on in OBS.- So right now we got A-cam up,and then no C-cam and no B-cam.So we only have one camerafed through OBS right now.That's not right.But on the bright side,my PC is working great.So I'll take a dub when I can get one.I'm just gonna do my little wiggle.- At the moment, I donot have a answer for...- If they ask you how you are,you just have to say that you're finewhen you're not really fine.- So you can tell Matt's stressed.He's dropped his like video voice,and now he actually dida serious voice like,"Oh, I actually don'tknow how to fix this."(tone beeps)Oh, look at the time!Matt, it only took us oneextra minute past the due date.- It's 1:45.One, four, five.Take one and add 45 to it.- An hour and 45 minutespast our self-imposeddate to finish.- We will.I was set, I was good.- So it's blame time?- Yeah, it's blame time,because you just like,"Oh, I'm gonna come in hereand I'm gonna take,hold on, where are those fans?Where are those fans?"- Hey, guess what?The PC's working flawlessly.Can I direct your attention to OBS?Look at this, this is A-cam.- Huh-huh.- This is B-cam.- Huh-huh.- C-cam.- Huh-ha!- Back to A-cam, all runningon the ATEM Mini Pro.- So instead of having three capture cardsfor each of our cameras,we can straight up just go to this here.I'm just realizing that I'mpretty sure that these camerasactually can just betheir own interface nowthat I'm thinking about it.- What?The fact that we wereable to build this setupentirely using gear thatwe got from Micro Centerless than a few hoursago is very impressive.But we're not done yet.- No, our day is just starting,because we are about to recordthe worst thing that we've ever done,a "This Is" live.- We're gonna shoot a live "This Is"using this setup at Micro Center.Make sure to subscribe to "ThisIs" and check the video out.And, of course, hugethank you to Micro Centerfor sponsoring this video.If you're interested in any of the PCor various gear thatwe used in this video,the links will be in the description.- I'm gonna keep playingwith the Mackie DLZ.- Should we hit the record buttonand start the "This Is" now?- Huh-ha!