COLOSSAL $20,000 PC Gaming Setup [2017 - 2018]

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#### **Introduction**

Whoa, whoa, whoa—just before we upgrade to the next generation of our gaming setup, let's take a look at where we are now. This is my room, and while it looks pretty good overall, there are some noticeable problem points. The chair is extremely uncomfortable, the so-called "curtain" on the bottom left is just a piece of fabric taped to the ceiling, and that old PC on the far left is aging fast—it’s on its last legs. Meanwhile, the curtains on the right-hand side are looking completely out of place.

Before we dive into the upgrades, there's one thing I need to address: cleaning up my room. Since filming the last setup, I’ve received a ton of deliveries, and while that’s great, it means I need to get better at managing all these boxes and items. So, I've been shifting things around, using black bags to pack everything away, and now we’re ready to start upgrading.

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#### **Upgrading the Gaming Setup**

The first thing you’ll probably notice is the brand-new PC on the right-hand side of the room. You might remember that I did a build with Marcus from PC Centric, where he put together a custom PC specifically for editing videos on this channel. Let’s talk about the specs: it has an Intel Core i7-1800X processor, 32GB of 3,000MHz RAM, and a GTX 1070 card. This setup allows me to completely remove that aging PC I had before and replace it with the one that was originally on the right-hand side of the room.

Another significant addition is the PlayStation 4 Pro hooked up on the right side. We’re also adding a standard PlayStation 4 on the left side, which will create a more balanced and symmetrical look. Unboxing the new PS4 reveals its slim design—it’s sleek and fits perfectly next to the PC.

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#### **Room Improvements**

If you glance around the room now, you’ll notice a few other changes. Those ugly curtains I showed you at the beginning have been replaced with blackout blinds. These aren’t anything special—they’re just standard blinds—but they do an excellent job of blocking out light, which means I won’t be waking up at strange hours due to sunlight coming through the windows.

You might also notice where I film now: this white table over here. The wallpaper was made by Raul, and I’m grateful for that creative touch. Speaking of upgrades, I’ve also added these same blinds to the back of my setup to block out any backlighting. This ensures there are no unwanted reflections in my videos.

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#### **Upgrading My Equipment**

If you look closely, you’ll see that the monitor which was previously on the far left has been moved to the center and replaced with a 49-inch LED TV. This TV is the same size as the one on the right-hand side, creating a more symmetrical setup. When I show you the final shots of the entire setup, it will all start to make sense.

One cool feature of my custom desk is the ridge running along the inside. This allows me to have an LED strip and hide the monitor’s power cable. Using some sticky tape and patience, I managed to wire everything up so that the only visible cable is a small one dangling off the end of the monitor—it’s connected via HDMI.

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#### **New Additions**

You might recognize this little friend: it’s my Nvidia Shield Tablet, still going strong even three years after its launch. It’s an excellent multimedia Android tablet and feels almost as good as an Xbox One when using the controller for gaming.

Another highlight is the NanoLeaf Aurora, those triangular lights that have defined my setup since the second update. With the Aurora Rhythm plugin, I can sync these lights to music or even voice commands, creating a truly unique effect.

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#### **Audio Upgrades**

For some serious audio enhancements, I’ve added these Co2 Wireless Bluetooth desktop speakers. While they’re quite expensive, they sound fantastic—especially in terms of bass. These speakers connect directly to my TV, so every time I turn it on, the audio plays through them. Plus, their Bluetooth functionality allows me to connect them to my phone for a seamless media experience.

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#### **PC and Hardware Upgrades**

Let’s dive deeper into this new PC, which is geared toward editing. It has an Intel Core i7-1800X processor, 32GB of 3,000MHz RAM, and a GTX 1070 card. While the GTX 1070 isn’t an extreme gaming card, it’s perfect for this PC’s primary purpose: video editing.

The case is a Corsair 570X with custom lighting through the Corsair Commander Pro application. The keyboard is a K95 Platinum, one of the best I’ve ever used in terms of response time, LED customization, and typing experience. Interestingly, the same lighting software works across the keyboard, mouse, and mousepad, creating a synchronized light show across the room.

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#### **Graphics Card Upgrade**

On the left-hand side, you’ll notice a brand-new graphics card: the GTX 1070 TI. This card is 10 to 15 percent faster than the previous top-of-the-line 980 TI I had in my PC. It’s an impressive-looking card with angular edges and Nvidia’s latest cooling solution.

I’ve removed the 980 TI from the left-hand side PC and replaced it with the 1070 TI, giving me a significant performance boost.

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#### **Laptops and Accessories**

On the right side of the left-hand setup, I have Google’s brand-new PixelBook. This hybrid laptop-tablet is something I’m really excited about—it combines the benefits of both devices. You can fold the lid to switch modes, and Google even engraved "Mr. Who's the Boss" on it for me. While the trackpad isn’t as responsive as those on a MacBook, the battery life and portability are fantastic.

On the far left is a custom Edition 2015 top-end MacBook Pro—a mouthful! This is more of a spare laptop that gets passed around the house but isn’t regularly used for editing videos.

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#### **Conclusion**

That’s almost all of the latest upgrades to my gaming setup. I haven’t even touched on the rest of the room—cabinets filled with phones and other cool tech—but I think it would be better to save that for a full room tour in the future.

Thank you so much for sticking around this far into the video! I hope you enjoyed watching it as much as I enjoyed creating it. Most of the product links are in the description below, so if you’re interested in any of these upgrades, check them out. Don’t forget to submit any ideas or suggestions for future setup editions—I’d love to hear from you all!

Until next time, this is Mr. Who’s the Boss signing off.

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"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwhoa whoa whoa whoa just before we upgrade to the next generation of the gaming setup let's take a look at where we are now so this is my room looks pretty good but there are some noticeable problem points this chair is extremely uncomfortable this pretty shoddy excuse for a curtain is actually just a piece of fabric tape to my ceiling the piece you see on the bottom left is on its last legs it really is aging fast and those curtains on the right hand side are really looking out of place so we're gonna fix these problems and then take the setup even further but before that I need to clean my room unfortunately since I filmed that last set up my room hasn't exactly stayed as clean as I would have hoped and the problem is we just get so many deliveries here which is great but I just need to get a little bit better at managing them so I've shifting up some boxes getting some black bags packing everything away and now we're going to start upgrading so the first thing you'll probably notice is that brand new PC on the right-hand side of our room so you might remember my club I did with Marcus from PC centric he basically built a custom PC just so we could edit the videos on this channel we'll talk about the specs in a little bit what this allows me to do is to completely remove that aging PC I had and replace it with the PC that was originally on the right-hand side of the room it gets better because we have a package here from game they might be aware I've got a PlayStation 4 Pro hooked up on the right-hand side of the room we're gonna add a standard PlayStation 4 on the left as well you'll see where we're going with this in just a little bit so we take it out the packaging it's a really slim line console the new PlayStation 4 and it's gonna sit quite nicely next to this PC on the left now if we take a glance around my room right now you'll notice something else a bit different those curtains those ugly curtains you saw at the beginning have been replaced with these blinds now these aren't anything special that is standard blackout blinds so they're gonna block pretty much all the light which stops you waking up at stupid times in the morning what you'll also be understood in seeing something which has completely changed since I lasted my set up is where I film so this white table over here by the way that wallpaper was made by Raul so thanks to him is basically where I sit I've also very recently upgraded my microphone from the rode ntg3 to the Sennheiser MKH four one six and this is pretty much San Heiser's highest-end shotgun microphone I've been using it for my latest few videos and have been seriously impressed I've also added these same blinds right to the back of my setup just to block out any backlighting and you might notice something else the monitor which used to be on the far left of my setup has not shifted to the middle and has been replaced by this giant TV here this is a 49 inch LED TV which is exactly the same size as the TV we have on the right-hand side so it looks like a more symmetrical setup and when I show you these shots at the end of the entire setup it'll start to make a lot of sense what I think is quite cool is I've got this little Ridge running around the inside of my desk now is a custom-made desk and what that's allowed me to do is to not only have an LED strip running through it but also allowed me to hide the monitors power cable so with a combination of some sticky tape and they serious and under patience I managed to wire this up so you can barely tell there's a cable just a little thing dangling off the end of the monitor and connected to this monitor via HDMI you've probably noticed a good old friend of mine this is the Nvidia shield tablet still even today even three years after it was launched one of the best multimedia Android tablets which is almost embarrassing it's really good for playing any Android games you might want to and it's also got a controller that connects wirelessly to it and feels every bit as good as an Xbox one alright moving on you might be familiar with the Nano leaf Aurora these triangular lights have almost defined my set up ever since the second update to it you can control them via an app and thus plenty of customization options there but they're getting better now because the company is actually released the aurora rhythm is a tiny little plugin that comes in this little recyclable cardboard box and you just clip it onto the end of your existing Nan only for a kit and it allows them to sync to music well technically even when you talk or when you clap and again when I show you all this together at the end it's a really cool effect now for a bit of an audio upgrade these are the co2 wireless Bluetooth desktop speakers and they are regrettably quite expensive tearing open the packaging reveals two giant boxes each of which comes with their own foam padding now I chose these speakers in particular through a play my cube eto threes which were pretty good and these aren't necessarily much bigger but they should sound quite a bit fuller they also connect directly to my TV so by default every time I turn that television on audio will play out of these and also they do sound quite a bit bass yeah they're also bluetooth so you can instantly connect them to the phone so it's kind of like an all in one media solution in the room now let's talk a little bit about this PC and because it is geared towards editing it specifications are focused in this way so it's got an eight call rise in 1800 X and 32 gigabytes of 3,000 megahertz Ram it's got a gtx 1070 card in there which is not an extreme gaming card but for the purposes of this PC is going to do a fantastic job you probably also been drawn to the crazy LEDs going on in this case that says the Corsair 570 X and through courses PC lighting application you can get the lights in your case to sync with the lights in your keyboard and whilst it definitely does need a little bit of a clean this is the k95 platinum and it is one of the best keyboards I've ever used in terms of response time in terms of LED customizability and in terms of typing experience and it doesn't end there the same lighting software works not only across the keyboard but the mouse too and believe it or not even the mousepad so when all the lights are off you just got this crazy surge of LEDs flying across your room all completely in sync all right flicking back over to the left hand side of the room you can see we've got a brand new graphics card this is the gtx 1070 TI and amazingly this card is 10 to 15 percent faster than last generations top-end 980 TI which is the card I have in the PC just below taking the 1070 ti out to the anti-static bag and inspecting it for the first time you realize wow that is one good-looking card it almost resembles a gemstone with all these angular edges reflecting light in slightly different directions and of course Nvidia's latest and greatest cooling solution so as I said this PC on the left-hand side currently has a 980 TI in so what I'll do is take that out replace it with the 1070 TI and now we've got a slightly higher level of performance but that's not the end of this left-hand side you'll notice two other laptops up here the one on the right is Google's brand new pixel books something I was really excited to try out it kind of has both the benefits of being a laptop and a tablet because anytime you want to you can fold the lid and change modes Google was also kind enough to actually engrave the mr. who's the boss logo on there so that's pretty neat and overall I'm really finding myself enjoying using it the trackpad isn't quite as responsive as the ones on the MacBook but in terms of battery life and portability it's fantastic the machine on the far left is a color where custom Edition 2015 top end MacBook Pro that was a mouthful and a half so that's not really the machine I use regularly to edit videos but it's kind of the spare laptop that's often handed around the house alright let's just take a step back now and really enjoy the setup so you've seen almost all aspects of it now and this is the latest and greatest version I haven't even got started on the rest of the room the cabinets filled with phones and all that other cool stuff but I'm thinking I'll save that for a full room tour so do let me know if you want to see that alright guys thanks a lot for sticking this far into the video I really hope you did enjoy it and all the product links or at least most of them are going to be in the description below so if you're interested do check that out and don't forget if you want to submit any ideas for future editions of the set up be sure to do that I'd be really interested to hear what you think but that being said I'm used to use the boss and I'm signing\n"