**The Building of a PC: A Journey of Overkill**

As I embarked on building my own custom machine, I wanted to push the limits of what's possible in a gaming computer for my 9-year-old daughter. The project was ambitious, and I knew it would be a test of my skills as a builder.

I started by selecting the motherboard, which I had previously tested with an AMD 3400G. However, this time around, I wanted to ensure that the board could handle more powerful components. After some research, I settled on the ASRock B550M Steel Legend Micro ATX motherboard, which is a great option for gaming and content creation.

The next step was to choose a CPU, which I also had experience with in previous builds. This time, I decided to go with an Intel Core i5-11600K, which offered excellent performance and power efficiency. The CPU was paired with 16GB of DDR4 memory from Corsair, which provided ample storage for games and applications.

The graphics card was a crucial component in this build, as I wanted to ensure that my daughter's gaming experience would be smooth and seamless. After some research, I decided to use two NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti water-cooled video cards from EVGA. Yes, you read that right - two graphics cards! This decision was driven by the fact that I wanted to future-proof my build and ensure that it could handle demanding games at high resolutions.

Speaking of cooling, I also wanted to include a liquid cooling system in this build. After some research, I settled on the Swiftech Hydro Series water cooler, which is a great option for CPU cooling. The water blocks were already installed on the video cards, so I just needed to connect them to the radiator and pump.

The fans used in this build are also noteworthy. I opted for the Gim Fans from EVGA, which offer excellent airflow and quiet operation. The fans have a remote control that allows for adjustable speed and lighting effects, making them a great addition to my build.

As I worked on building this custom machine, I knew that I had taken some risks with my decision to use two graphics cards. However, I was confident in my choice and believed that it would pay off in the long run. And, as it turned out, I was correct!

The final product is a beast of a machine that can handle demanding games at high resolutions and frame rates. The build was completed with a case from Fractal Design, which provides ample space for cable management and cooling.

Overall, this build has been an incredible journey, and I'm thrilled to see my daughter's face light up when she plays her favorite games on this machine. The build may have been overkill in some respects, but it was definitely worth it in the end!

**Key Components of the Build:**

* Motherboard: ASRock B550M Steel Legend Micro ATX

* CPU: Intel Core i5-11600K

* Memory: 16GB DDR4 from Corsair

* Graphics Cards: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti (x2) water-cooled from EVGA

* Liquid Cooling System: Swiftech Hydro Series water cooler

* Fans: Gim Fans from EVGA with remote control and adjustable speed

* Case: Fractal Design

**Will I Go Overkill?**

I know that some people may think that building a gaming computer with two graphics cards is overkill, but for my needs, it was the perfect solution. The build has been incredibly successful, and I'm confident that it will provide years of reliable performance and enjoyment for my daughter.

But, as always, I want to hear from you - have I gone too far? Share your thoughts in the comments below!

WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhello and welcome back and before we start i'd like to thank gim for sending this three fan digital argb kit for my daughter's build links to the fans if you like them will be down below and as usual i will give you a show of what the fans are doing in the color scheme that they're in and talk about their airflow i think i went overboard i wanted to build my daughter she's nine-year-old she's starting her own channel called kara's world and the idea behind it was her computer was really lacking in horsepower now to explain that i will go to that machine real soon and show you what she was using and how you can cringe a little it's not terrible but it's not great the problem is she's you she's becoming a lot more of a gamer and because that of course can't have her using this thing so she was using this right here it is a name brand that i don't recommend to anybody i actually bought it for fifty dollars stripped and when i say strip this guy ripped everything off the board i had to repair everything um and when i say stripped i mean this is an apu it's soldered to the motherboard the cooler everything was ripped right off the board i had to go find something else to clip in which i ripped off a video card to make this thing actually work so for 50 what did i get well that was the bonus part so you get windows 10 home built into the bias so already a copy of windows 10. it was a amd dual core a9 94 20 apu with r5 graphics now the graphics weren't horrible for what it is but it's just a dual core so you can see where it could struggle so like dad would do i added an rx 554 gig yeah her gaming got a little better and the car didn't so for me to go throwing a better card in here oh and the ssd was a 256 i had taken out the 128 and one terabyte i am not a physical drive kind of guy and it just slows the machine down in my opinion and if she wants to do data transfers that's what our server is for so uh this machine wasn't horrible it's 16 gigs of ddr4 i put in it i think originally it was 12. so i mean specs weren't horrible it's a newer machine it is a ddr4 machine running ddr2600 or something like that not terrible but for 50 bucks it definitely was a buy got it working she's been using it now for over a year it's got bluetooth it's got wireless it's got everything built in but it just doesn't cut it anymore and when i say i went overkill just give me one second i mean i went overkill now i don't think the computer is really showing it to you yet so let's do this this is a nine-year-old's computer now i'm going to go in depth we're going to scan and zoom here we're going to go around i'm going to talk about what i did i wanted to water cool this machine i wanted to do something really special her favorite color is pink her new channel logo is the same color pink i'm trying to find a keyboard mouse headset and a gamepad in this type of pink so that's some things i'm still working on now what i did and i'll have to take the glass off and show you a bunch of things that i did and why i did them but i built a machine to be proud of i built a machine that i would be proud of and the expression on her face was priceless games she couldn't play now played perfectly fine so she was extremely happy it was a downside to that of course was i couldn't get her to get on video i really wanted her on video for this because i wanted people to see her expression i wanted to see it touched me it really hit my heart really well because i've never seen her glow so much until she looked at this machine so i'm going to go over all the stuff that i did why i did it why up here does not have any lights and why we're not going to use this yeah now one really nice thing about this look i have the pins out and glass ain't falling off it has a ledge over the glass here and it has a ledge under the glass here so i literally gotta take it out not bad for the price tag this case is just a diy pc they call it the n1 esport edition so this is a 59 canadian case that's all i paid 59 i think the build quality on this case was really good it's tinny don't get me wrong it's got a little bit of flex like if i push hard enough i can make things move a bit but it's built decent for 59 anyway i took a gamble on this case for 59 bucks i think it went on sale it might have been 69 or something like that or 74 or whatever but it ended up with it had tempered glass it wasn't plexi very important i don't want plexi i got plexi on another one that i was doing something with hated the case uh it scratched so easily just by taking off a piece of dust i was very upset so a few things i did here i went with be quiet fans up here these are silent wings reason why i want with them well one they're very silent two they move a lot of air without having to push or to be a very fast so the air movement on this i didn't want to play around with because usually argb fans and so on that you buy after market do not do well on radiators so i wanted to make sure i had some fans that are known and proven to push air be quiet was the answer so in order to compensate for lighting this up and not having too much light going on i put an argb strip down here from easy diy then the three fans over here did the job of moving light through on top of that i put in deep cool's video card mount and matched it and hooked it actually to the argb strips controller so they did the same thing so they have a little bit more purple or bluish added to the pink here and here than it does here giving it a little bit more effect now the water looks red it really does actually it was supposed to be a fluorescent pink but we're happy with it she was still very happy and that was good with me down here i put a 650 as a bronze argb power supply to run everything and i have it cycling like a police light type of thing on a pinkish maroon style color to give some more definition to it and it adds a lot of color out the back now the reason why that black magnetic filter is being removed with it on temps went up over 10 degrees it was absolutely useless i didn't like it how i proved it i took the fan the fan in my room turned it on and had my daughter stand in front of i said feel that wind she's like wow it feels good i had it on bust i had on six speed put that in front of it there was no more air now you guys tell me how that makes any sense so there she goes how does that work it's got these little holes yeah let's count on those also little holes lining up with the holes that are in this case ain't happening so it wasn't moving very much air i could feel heat but i couldn't feel air without it i feel the heat actually rising which is what i wanted so we went with be quiet on there to cool the radiator to make sure that 240 rad can do the cpu and the gpu now onto the cpu and gpu i put a 34 water block nickel plated water block from freeze max which i believe is the same company that makes this pump and you can see down here 31 degrees is the water temperature coming out so this actually tells me the temp of the water coming out of the loop which is pretty cool so if i'm keeping the water at around 31 well you can see that i'm keeping the system in the 30s 40s i wanted to uh with the soft tubing come up with an idea to make this look kind of like a hard tube setup but i wanted to be able to move this you got to see that this can be in the way in different things so what i did i took a couple brackets mounted it to the fan clipped on here and put the water tank looking like it was floating kind of so now the water tank's on an angle so the angle was important to make sure that the water was coming back out we know it's coming in we just need to make sure it's coming out that's something i will have to monitor and hopefully soon these bubbles will go away the board is the gigabyte a 520i ac uh pro wi-fi board that we had talked about that actually runs the 3400 g again i have tried the 3400g in other boards like b 550ms and so on it does not work this is the board it was tested on it's the board it works in this is the board i put it back in and it's working so 3400 g is in here but the video was just not enough so we added and let's keep in mind here that we're in a crisis when it comes to video cards but i wanted something overkill for what she's doing but i didn't want to take anything crazy out of my inventory so we're using and i have two of these so i'm very happy because it was actually doing it's doing very well in games i have two of these they are the uh r9 290 water cooled so it's a full water cooled block on here uh from swiftech so it's a swiftech water cooler which i don't see much anymore these days i bought two of these used with these water blocks on them on purpose and i get really got a good deal on them and this video card is a four gig and it's running everything absolutely beautifully so 16 gigs of a pc a 3200 ddr4 of course and we came up with this so so guys honestly what do you think uh it is my first i guess extreme water cool build that was not you know this is a little taste of where i'm going i have something big coming that you guys know of now building my own custom machine and uh i wanted to play around did i go overboard please comment below it's a nine year olds gaming computer guys as for the gim fans they will go up to about 1300 rpm they have a remote control to control the lighting different modes and so on you can plug into the controller and the controller will plug into the board so it can go motherboard control as far as the argb goes the fans are not pwm they are controlled by a fan speed on the remote kind of like the easy diys that i used in my first game build for my own machine but at 300 rpm did they do a good job well i can tell you when i put my hand in here there's air there's lots of air because there's no real restrictions here the front of the case is open on that one side put your hand in front you feel it sucking the air in now what's different you may have noticed that i did not put an exhaust fan on this trying this out i feel the air from these fans going out the back especially when the glass is on i believe that these gim fans are moving really nice air for what they are again there will be a link down below if you wish to get these i would not use them and please i will make this comment now do not put them on a radiator okay they're not going to push they don't have the static pressure that's capable of doing that you're going to see some really cool fans coming up on my build that have over 60 cfm so about 2.6 2.5 somewhere around there and the static pressure they're going to be impressive i hope guys until next time i gotta get this up to my daughter's room she can't wait to play ancestors have you guys heard of ancestors basically you're 10 million years ago and you're just little monkey baby because your parents got killed and you've got to get to i don't know if it's our world along the time like evolution but looks pretty cool it was very demanding her old computer could not even start the game we tested on this and i seen the glow on her face and it was all worth it again let me know did i go overkill game over guyshello and welcome back and before we start i'd like to thank gim for sending this three fan digital argb kit for my daughter's build links to the fans if you like them will be down below and as usual i will give you a show of what the fans are doing in the color scheme that they're in and talk about their airflow i think i went overboard i wanted to build my daughter she's nine-year-old she's starting her own channel called kara's world and the idea behind it was her computer was really lacking in horsepower now to explain that i will go to that machine real soon and show you what she was using and how you can cringe a little it's not terrible but it's not great the problem is she's you she's becoming a lot more of a gamer and because that of course can't have her using this thing so she was using this right here it is a name brand that i don't recommend to anybody i actually bought it for fifty dollars stripped and when i say strip this guy ripped everything off the board i had to repair everything um and when i say stripped i mean this is an apu it's soldered to the motherboard the cooler everything was ripped right off the board i had to go find something else to clip in which i ripped off a video card to make this thing actually work so for 50 what did i get well that was the bonus part so you get windows 10 home built into the bias so already a copy of windows 10. it was a amd dual core a9 94 20 apu with r5 graphics now the graphics weren't horrible for what it is but it's just a dual core so you can see where it could struggle so like dad would do i added an rx 554 gig yeah her gaming got a little better and the car didn't so for me to go throwing a better card in here oh and the ssd was a 256 i had taken out the 128 and one terabyte i am not a physical drive kind of guy and it just slows the machine down in my opinion and if she wants to do data transfers that's what our server is for so uh this machine wasn't horrible it's 16 gigs of ddr4 i put in it i think originally it was 12. so i mean specs weren't horrible it's a newer machine it is a ddr4 machine running ddr2600 or something like that not terrible but for 50 bucks it definitely was a buy got it working she's been using it now for over a year it's got bluetooth it's got wireless it's got everything built in but it just doesn't cut it anymore and when i say i went overkill just give me one second i mean i went overkill now i don't think the computer is really showing it to you yet so let's do this this is a nine-year-old's computer now i'm going to go in depth we're going to scan and zoom here we're going to go around i'm going to talk about what i did i wanted to water cool this machine i wanted to do something really special her favorite color is pink her new channel logo is the same color pink i'm trying to find a keyboard mouse headset and a gamepad in this type of pink so that's some things i'm still working on now what i did and i'll have to take the glass off and show you a bunch of things that i did and why i did them but i built a machine to be proud of i built a machine that i would be proud of and the expression on her face was priceless games she couldn't play now played perfectly fine so she was extremely happy it was a downside to that of course was i couldn't get her to get on video i really wanted her on video for this because i wanted people to see her expression i wanted to see it touched me it really hit my heart really well because i've never seen her glow so much until she looked at this machine so i'm going to go over all the stuff that i did why i did it why up here does not have any lights and why we're not going to use this yeah now one really nice thing about this look i have the pins out and glass ain't falling off it has a ledge over the glass here and it has a ledge under the glass here so i literally gotta take it out not bad for the price tag this case is just a diy pc they call it the n1 esport edition so this is a 59 canadian case that's all i paid 59 i think the build quality on this case was really good it's tinny don't get me wrong it's got a little bit of flex like if i push hard enough i can make things move a bit but it's built decent for 59 anyway i took a gamble on this case for 59 bucks i think it went on sale it might have been 69 or something like that or 74 or whatever but it ended up with it had tempered glass it wasn't plexi very important i don't want plexi i got plexi on another one that i was doing something with hated the case uh it scratched so easily just by taking off a piece of dust i was very upset so a few things i did here i went with be quiet fans up here these are silent wings reason why i want with them well one they're very silent two they move a lot of air without having to push or to be a very fast so the air movement on this i didn't want to play around with because usually argb fans and so on that you buy after market do not do well on radiators so i wanted to make sure i had some fans that are known and proven to push air be quiet was the answer so in order to compensate for lighting this up and not having too much light going on i put an argb strip down here from easy diy then the three fans over here did the job of moving light through on top of that i put in deep cool's video card mount and matched it and hooked it actually to the argb strips controller so they did the same thing so they have a little bit more purple or bluish added to the pink here and here than it does here giving it a little bit more effect now the water looks red it really does actually it was supposed to be a fluorescent pink but we're happy with it she was still very happy and that was good with me down here i put a 650 as a bronze argb power supply to run everything and i have it cycling like a police light type of thing on a pinkish maroon style color to give some more definition to it and it adds a lot of color out the back now the reason why that black magnetic filter is being removed with it on temps went up over 10 degrees it was absolutely useless i didn't like it how i proved it i took the fan the fan in my room turned it on and had my daughter stand in front of i said feel that wind she's like wow it feels good i had it on bust i had on six speed put that in front of it there was no more air now you guys tell me how that makes any sense so there she goes how does that work it's got these little holes yeah let's count on those also little holes lining up with the holes that are in this case ain't happening so it wasn't moving very much air i could feel heat but i couldn't feel air without it i feel the heat actually rising which is what i wanted so we went with be quiet on there to cool the radiator to make sure that 240 rad can do the cpu and the gpu now onto the cpu and gpu i put a 34 water block nickel plated water block from freeze max which i believe is the same company that makes this pump and you can see down here 31 degrees is the water temperature coming out so this actually tells me the temp of the water coming out of the loop which is pretty cool so if i'm keeping the water at around 31 well you can see that i'm keeping the system in the 30s 40s i wanted to uh with the soft tubing come up with an idea to make this look kind of like a hard tube setup but i wanted to be able to move this you got to see that this can be in the way in different things so what i did i took a couple brackets mounted it to the fan clipped on here and put the water tank looking like it was floating kind of so now the water tank's on an angle so the angle was important to make sure that the water was coming back out we know it's coming in we just need to make sure it's coming out that's something i will have to monitor and hopefully soon these bubbles will go away the board is the gigabyte a 520i ac uh pro wi-fi board that we had talked about that actually runs the 3400 g again i have tried the 3400g in other boards like b 550ms and so on it does not work this is the board it was tested on it's the board it works in this is the board i put it back in and it's working so 3400 g is in here but the video was just not enough so we added and let's keep in mind here that we're in a crisis when it comes to video cards but i wanted something overkill for what she's doing but i didn't want to take anything crazy out of my inventory so we're using and i have two of these so i'm very happy because it was actually doing it's doing very well in games i have two of these they are the uh r9 290 water cooled so it's a full water cooled block on here uh from swiftech so it's a swiftech water cooler which i don't see much anymore these days i bought two of these used with these water blocks on them on purpose and i get really got a good deal on them and this video card is a four gig and it's running everything absolutely beautifully so 16 gigs of a pc a 3200 ddr4 of course and we came up with this so so guys honestly what do you think uh it is my first i guess extreme water cool build that was not you know this is a little taste of where i'm going i have something big coming that you guys know of now building my own custom machine and uh i wanted to play around did i go overboard please comment below it's a nine year olds gaming computer guys as for the gim fans they will go up to about 1300 rpm they have a remote control to control the lighting different modes and so on you can plug into the controller and the controller will plug into the board so it can go motherboard control as far as the argb goes the fans are not pwm they are controlled by a fan speed on the remote kind of like the easy diys that i used in my first game build for my own machine but at 300 rpm did they do a good job well i can tell you when i put my hand in here there's air there's lots of air because there's no real restrictions here the front of the case is open on that one side put your hand in front you feel it sucking the air in now what's different you may have noticed that i did not put an exhaust fan on this trying this out i feel the air from these fans going out the back especially when the glass is on i believe that these gim fans are moving really nice air for what they are again there will be a link down below if you wish to get these i would not use them and please i will make this comment now do not put them on a radiator okay they're not going to push they don't have the static pressure that's capable of doing that you're going to see some really cool fans coming up on my build that have over 60 cfm so about 2.6 2.5 somewhere around there and the static pressure they're going to be impressive i hope guys until next time i gotta get this up to my daughter's room she can't wait to play ancestors have you guys heard of ancestors basically you're 10 million years ago and you're just little monkey baby because your parents got killed and you've got to get to i don't know if it's our world along the time like evolution but looks pretty cool it was very demanding her old computer could not even start the game we tested on this and i seen the glow on her face and it was all worth it again let me know did i go overkill game over guys