The Strimmer Conundrum: A Tale of Bitwit and Blue

Oh god, it's strymer not strimmer, well that's what I always pronounce it as. Oh, it's this strimmer, ey, hardy-har-har. I'm Linus.

These are RGB cables in essence, but because they have to run light, they're also very, very stiff. So doing the cable runs will require a little bit of finesse. Three of them. Holy. It's two. What? MSI, thank you for not adding five more eight pins. What? So that actually is going to make our cable runs easier, 'cause we only need to run two of the Strimers. I mean actually we need to run four.

Yes. Oh you have. Wait four? So we're trying to build the bluest gaming PC, right? We've got an Intel processor, blue case, but also we have to acknowledge that we're using a team green graphics card NVIDIA graphics card, which doesn't seem fair. It doesn't really seem like the way to do it.

So I would propose building the RGB gaming PC, Intel blue team processor, Nvidia green team graphics card, and an AMD blue graphics card. Oh this. Oh my. (Austin laughs)

Look. It's blue. So wait. We're using team red in order to get blue in our PC. That doesn't just? Okay but no, no. But okay, hear me out, hear me out.

Yo, come around here, come around here. Yo, look, look. Look at the blue. That actually. Oh, yo, wait a minute. Yeah, okay, maybe we might be on to something. Is it strictly necessary? Probably not. Is it gonna give us some headaches in installing both AMD and Nvidia drivers in the same system? Maybe?

But it's the bluest graphics card that I've ever seen in my life. And so we'll use it for 3D video model render gaming, and then we'll use the 3090 for everything. How's it going? Oh, uh, it's going well. I'm trying to hook up all of these span cables, and this is actually kind of... what did I? Did I do I break it?

So the cool thing about these Lian Li UNI fans is that they just kind of nest together like this, which not only makes it really convenient to mount them into a case but also you can daisy chain all the cabling and connect them onto the included hub, if you buy the set of them. So this is probably the least amount of cable management we'll have to do for not only powering fans, but also doing RGB.

As of right now, we're gonna be using the Strimers for our PCI power, but we're gonna use these blue extensions, which also are a very nice shade of blue, for our 20+4 pin and our CPU. Is this your first time applying thermal paste? You've done this before.

X is the move, especially since it's the bigger chip, we wanna do X it. Okay, well that corner is the hot corner anyways. It's fine. Poor guy's worried about the comments. Yeah, that was the force course, see. Okay. Actually, no, no, no. That is fine.

The thing is when you put the thing on the thing, it goes squish out like the thing. Those were the words of professionals, ladies and gentlemen. So we are making progress. We have our Carbon board installed. We have the SSD installed. We have our two DIMMs. We have our cooler. We have the actual radiator installed, and we're starting to put together our cable management, which we still don't exactly know if we have the right cables. But I think, we almost gonna have to start plugging things in to see. But the good thing is, we can start installing things like our graphics card.

(Jared whispers) Stop whispering into the mic, Jared. (Jared laughs)

All right. There we go. That blue looks really sick, I mean. I think AMD did Intel blue better than Intel did. You know what? Facts, bad things may happen, but it's fine. We didn't say we're going to build the best PC. We're just going to build the bluest one.

Yo, come around here. Come around here. Yo, look, look. Look at the blue. That actually is...

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(laughs)All right, so next up wehave the Core i9 12900K,which side note, just comesin some very cool packaging.Look at this.- Oh, it's like a replica wafer.- I know.So this is our first timedoing any kind of Intel 12th gen build.Now something I know about this,it's obviously a very powerful chip,but we also wanna make surethat we properly cool it.So for a board,obviously we need to gowith one of the Z690s.I kind of lean towardthe black, the Carbon,'cause I feel that'sgoing to fit in betterwith the look of the case.So one thing you should considerwhen you're building a 12thgen Intel sort of buildis that different boards willsupport either DDR4 or DDR5.So there are advantages to both.DDR4 is cheaper, a little biteasier to get your hands on.DDR5 will give you the best performance.And since we're going with the bluest,the ultimate Intel build,we might as well go with aboard that supports full DDR5.Let's find a GPU.- Oh, uh, uh, no, oh!I can do it. 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(laughs)All right.So big reason why I wannago with the Lian Li Galahadis the fact that this is goingto support the new socketon these 12th gen chips.So if you look at the motherboard,unlike Intel processors for a long time,the physical socket size is now larger,which means that older coolers,basically all coolers that exist right nowwill not work out of the box.So that's something to consider.Most companies are offering some upgrades,so they'll just sell you,or they'll just like ship youlike the actual likeadapter plate or somethingto make their coolers work.This is exactly what we need,because this will allow usto use our Galahad cooleron our LJ 1700 socket.Let's start payingattention to the aesthetic.So this is actually ourfirst time doing a buildwith the Strimers.So these aren't totally differentthan something likethese sleeved extensionsthat we typically use.The big differences is that,these will actually give us full RGB.So essentially the cablesthat are running from our power supplyinto our graphics card.And maybe we'll see ifwe can find some more,but at least we'll havethem into our graphics cardwill be fully RGB-fied.I think we'll be in pretty good shapeto make this thing super blue.All right, my friends.It's time to get to building.I'm gonna run you over withthe cart but it's fine.- What is?- Oh, you didn't see,you didn't see what we're building today?We're building the bluest game PC.♪ I'm blue. ♪- The bluest?- Yeah.- Like the color blue or like?- You act like youdon't know what we're doing.(laughs)- You're, Jared, no one said act.You'll be like, no, bluest?- What the hell is the color blue?- Blue?- I don't know what blue is.- Oh my god.So I just wanna prioritizetoday getting this thing,even if we don't kill manage it very well,just like somewhat up and running.So we can then start spending time tuningand making sure thateverything is actually,gonna be functional.I also have my secret weapon,but we're gonna use that later.All right.- Secret what?- Don't worry about it.Okay, so.- Oh man, that is, look at that.- Hello, welcome to tech tech potato.(Jared laughs)- Oh Jesus.- Oh my god.- Yeah, this is very good-looking.- Oh wait, actuallythere's a slight problem.That's a much darker blue thanI thought it was going to be.- No, it matches.- It's fine.It's Intel blue.That's not the same, but that works fine.- Dude, straight up.we cut part off the box and we use it.- Now, I'm actually excited.I wasn't excited before now I am.One of the other thingsthey don't know about,is what the actual RGB onthe motherboard looks like,but that is a very high end board.So I'm assuming that itwill be comprehensive.Oh wow, this is my firsttime seeing 1700 and,- It's pretty chunky.- Wait, what does it say?LJ 1700 and 1800.Is 1800 a thing?Did they accidentally leakthe next generation of Intel processors?Intel 17th gen leaked,confirmed right now.How do you actually take this apart?- He's gonna drop the CPU.- Excuse me.You're wearing LTT merch.You don't get to touch anything.- What do you mean?You're a father and youcan't open this box.- You're imbued by the power of Linus.Oh my god, Jared.- I'm a supporter, very comfortable.(all laughing)- What is wrong with you?- Very comfortable.- Oh my god.Would I have to start making merch,just so you stop wearing this?So this is the Core i9 12900 K.Do you wanna do the honors?I feel like you're ready.- Should we look up avideo on how 1200 works?- No, no.We're supposed to be making the videoon teaching people how to do this.- We're experts.We know what we're doing.- It's our first and last time.(all laugh)- I do not likehow our laughs wereperfectly synced. (laughs)- Do you even read the manual?- Why would I?- Do you read the manual?- No, I read anandtech.com.- Look at this.This is some next level shot right here.- This is the POV.- Some X games stuff.- This carbon fiber looks absolutely sick.What I've never seenbefore is this PCI slot.It actually has two sidesto the thermal pads.So if you're using something,which actually to be fair,the 980 Pro is not super inefficient,but if you're using asuper power hungry SSD.Oops. Okay.It'll keep it cool onboth sides, which is nice.This thermal pad feels like slime.- That's every thermal pad.- Why didn't youimmediately go to sniff it?That is not the appropriate responsewhen something is slimy.- So for the Strimers.I always hate saying the word strimmer.- I thought it was strymer.- Is it strymer not strimmer?- Well that's what Ialways pronounce it as.- Oh god. Strimer, it is strimmer.- Yeah but, do we trust Bitwit?I think that questionyou had in the beginningwas a very good question.- I trust Bitwit implicitly.- Let's call Linus.- It's gotta besomething Canadian line.- We've got to get that Canadian accent.- Oh, it's this strimmer,ey, hardy-har-har.I'm Linus.- These are RGB cables in essence,but because they have to run light,they're also very, very stiff.So doing the cable runswill require a little bit of finesse.Three of them.- Holy.It's two.- What?- MSI, thank you for notadding five more eight pins.- What?- So that actually is goingto make our cable runs easier,'cause we only need torun two of the Strimers.I mean actually we need to run four.- Yes.- Oh you have.- Wait four?- So we're trying to buildthe bluest gaming PC, right?We've got an Intel processor, blue case,but also we have to acknowledgethat we're using a teamgreen graphics cardNVIDIA graphics card,which doesn't seem fair.It doesn't really seemlike the way to do it.So I would propose webuild the RGB gaming PC,Intel blue team processor,Nvidia green team graphics card,and an AMD blue graphics card.- Oh this. Oh my.(Austin laughs)- Look.It's blue.- So wait.We're using team red inorder to get blue in our PC.That doesn't just?- Okay but no, no.But okay, hear me out, hear me out.- It's great. It's great.- Yo, come aroundhere, come around here.Yo, look, look.- Look at the blue.- That actually.- Oh, yo, wait a minute.- Yeah, okay, maybewe might be on to something.- Is it strictly necessary?Probably not.Is it gonna give us some headachesin installing both AMD and Nvidia driversin the same system?Maybe?But it's the bluest graphics cardthat I've ever seen in my life.And so we'll use it for 3Dvideo model render gamingand then we'll use the3090 for everything.How's it going?- Oh, uh, it's going well.I'm trying to hook upall of these span cablesand this is actually kind of, what did I?Did I did I break it?So the cool thing aboutthese Lian Li UNI fansis that they just kind ofnest together like this,which not only just makesit really convenientto mount them into a case,but also you can daisychain all the cablingand connect them onto the included hub,if you buy the set of them.So this is probably the leastamount of cable managementwe'll have to do fornot only powering fans,but also doing RGB.- As of right now,we're gonna be using theStrimers for our PCI power,but we're gonna use these blue extensions,which also are a very nice shade of bluefor our 20+4 pin and our CPU.Is this your first timeapplying thermal paste?You've done this before.- What's thermal paste?- X is the move,especially since it's the bigger chip,we wanna do X it.Okay, well that corner isthe hot corner anyways.It's fine.- Poor guy's worriedabout the comments.- Yeah, that wasthe force course, see.Okay. Actually, no, no, no.That is fine. That is fine.The thing is when you putthe thing on the thing,it goes squish out like the thing.- Those were the words of professionals,ladies and gentlemen.- So we are making progress.We have our Carbon board installed.We have the SSD installed.We have our two DIMMs.We have our cooler.We have the actual radiator installedand we're starting to puttogether our cable management,which we still dunno exactlyif we have the right cables.But I think,we almost gonna have to startplugging things in to see.But the good thing is wecan start installing thingslike our graphics card.(Jared whispers)Stop whispering into the mic, Jared.(Jared laughs)All right.There we go.That blue looks really sick, I mean.- I think AMD did Intel bluebetter than Intel did.- You know what?Facts, bad things mayhappen, but it's fine.We didn't say we're goingto build the best PC.We're just going to build the bluest one.♪ I'm blue, da ba dee da ba di. ♪("Blue Da Ba Dee")- All right, let's just get to work.- So today we start off day twowith a little bit of a problem.So we spent a lot of yesterday,and a lot of this morningtrying to figure outour RGB situation.Now, as you guys remember,we're trying to build thebluest PC possible, which-- I'm literallywearing blue for that reason.- Yes, Austin is wearing his blue shirt.The only things that wecan't get blue are the RGBs.Now-- What, you mean everything?(Austin laughs)- I know.Yes.We have our MSI motherboardhere and it works totally fine.We have Windows 11 up and running.We ran some apps.We were doing some benchmarks.Everything works totally well,except for MSI Dragon Center,which might be having some problemswith the fact that thisis just a brand new,kind of system altogether, Z690.There might be some software issuesthat are not allowing us todo what we need with RGB.Most importantly,we cannot even change themotherboard RGB to just be.- Now I can just flipthat on and off on the board.Why I cannot do is changeit in any meaningful way.So what we're going to do is this,we're gonna swap our motherboard out.If we wanted to spend all day,we can probably find some wayof using a chain of adaptersto try to get thingsto talk to each other,but we have so many different things.And even if we do all that,we're likely not gonna be able to getthe motherboard RGB to work.So in the interest ofbuilding the bluest gaming PCdown to my shoes.- That we can build today.- Yes, that we can build today,we're gonna swap out the board with,thankfully we have oneother Z690 in the office.Look when it comes tobuilding high-end gaming PCs,ah, sometimes improvisation,improvisation, improvisation.And so my friends afterwhat was a very long day,the PC is almost done.And I gotta say it's looking pretty blue.So we've made a lot ofmodifications over the last day.I'm pretty happy with that.I mean, we haven'tfinished cable management.If you look around to the backside,it is literally garbage town central,but it's fine.We'll clean that up.- There's a lot of junk in that trunk.Right now,we are working with I think,four different RGB suites.We have our SL fansover here, our UNI fans,that are working off ofthe Lian Li software.We have our AIO and ourtop three Lian Li AIO fansgoing into the board RGB,which is run by RGB Fusion.Our graphics card is runningoff of the MSI Center,Mystic Light system.And then we have ourRAM going in through iQand coordinating all that wasa little bit of a nightmare.But luckily,we're only working with prettymuch two different colorsor two different hues.- Okay I think it's time,for a montage.And then we'll explainhow the PC actually works.- Hell, yeah.- That's thebeginning of the montage,is hell yeah?Can you give a little more energy?Let's do it one more time.One more time.(clears throat)(Ken screams)(electronic music begins)(Ken screams)(electronic music continues)(Ken screams)- Behold my friends, the bluestgaming PC we've done yet.Not that we've ever triedto do this in the past.One of the big things I wanna talk about,is the processor that we used.This is the first time we built a systemwith the brand new 12thgeneration Intel Core processors.There are some pros andcons to this approach.The pro is that this ispretty much the best gamingand sort of overall sort ofmedia encoding processor,that is anything short oflike a Xeon or a Threadripper.You have eight performancecores which are hyper-threaded,as well as eight efficiency coresfor a total of 16 legitcores and 24 total threads.That's, while certainlydoes not come cheap,does deliver a lot of performance,but it is a little bit more complicatedthan just going for straight Core i9,slap it in there and call it a day.On the surface Core i9s, i7s, and i5s,they'll have more chipscoming later next year,or early next year thatdon't have overclocking,the little bit more budget-friendly stuff.They're very powerful,and yet they're very power hungry.Generally speaking it isgoing to be more efficientwhen you actually load it up with gamesand 3D rendering application.Now specifically for thissystem with the Core i9,what we could've gotten away,with something like maybea 240 millimeter radiator,much below that you can startrunning into throttling.You need a lot of coolingto keep one of these processors running,especially considering thatyou're gonna throw somethinglike a 3070, 3080, or 3090 in the system.It can get toasted.The other side is price.So we opted to eventuallygo with the Core i9paired with DDR4 memory.Now for the maximum performance,we would've gone with the DDR5 boardas well as DDR5 RAM.That's certainly great ifyou've got the money for it,but what is a little bit harder to compareis if you're looking at AMD versus Intel.The Intel chips might be roughlythe same price as the AMD,but the boards are very expensiveon Intel for the moment,'cause it's just come out.And you also have to spend a lot of moneyto get that DDR5 memory.Inside this blue system though,I am very happy with how it came out.Not only does it haveplenty of performanceto run the very many RGB programs we have.And of course the world'sgreatest web browser,our channel sponsor Opera.I mean, you've seen this wallpaper, right?I mean, clearly you need themost powerful PC in the worldto gaze at this beauty,look in the description.But of course, thank youvery much to Micro Centerfor sponsoring this video.If you wanna go checkout the new Tustin store,they have tons of deals going onover the next couple of weeks.And if you wanna knowabout any of the componentsthat we've used for this build,billings will be in the description.Now if you, excuse me,I'm gonna go back to Tustinand move in permanently.That's it?That's the joke I livein Micro Center now.I'm not even kidding.I'm sorry, honey, that youhad to find out this way,but you just don't have the RGB I need.