**Building 10 Identical Systems for a Unique Esports Experience**

As a huge fan of esports and innovative team dynamics, I was thrilled to embark on an exciting project that would challenge my skills and creativity. The goal was to build ten identical systems, each with its own unique features, in order to create a dynamic and engaging esports experience like no other. One of the key characteristics of this project was the avoidance of traditional team structures and the emphasis on creating a positive and supportive environment.

I spent most of the day clamping all the systems together underneath these 10 desks, ensuring that each one was sturdy and secure. I also took the time to carefully manage the cables, running them in a way that made everything accessible while still maintaining a tidy appearance. It was clear that none of these desks had been designed with cable management in mind, but I was determined to overcome this challenge. As I worked, I couldn't help but feel a sense of pride and accomplishment at having turned what could have been a mundane task into an opportunity for creativity and problem-solving.

One of the systems proved to be particularly finicky, refusing to boot up until I moved the M.2 card from its top slot to the bottom slot on the motherboard. Another system required some troubleshooting, as it wouldn't post unless the displayport cable in the back of the monitor was plugged in all the way. Despite these minor setbacks, I was relieved that each system worked flawlessly once I had gotten everything sorted out.

The entire process took around 40 minutes to complete, and I was eager to see how my creations would come together as a whole. As I clamped down the final desk, I couldn't help but feel a sense of excitement and anticipation about what this project would bring.

**The Making of the Esports Experience**

Once all ten systems were built and in place, it was time to start thinking about how to turn this space into an immersive esports experience. I spent some time setting up the lighting, using RGB disks to create a unique and eye-catching atmosphere. While I had initially considered turning off the lights altogether, the more I thought about it, the more I realized that it was probably best to leave them on – after all, even with the best intentions, something is bound to break or update at some point in the future.

I also took the time to set up a lounge area, complete with comfortable couches and plenty of seating options. The projector on the wall would soon be displaying esports games and tournaments, creating an electric atmosphere that was sure to thrill even the most seasoned gamers. And as for the makerspace, I had big plans to transform it into a hands-on tech lab where kids and college students could come to learn and experiment with cutting-edge technology.

**Community Engagement and Giving Back**

As I looked around at my creations, I couldn't help but feel a sense of gratitude towards all of our sponsors who had made this project possible. Their support was not only invaluable in terms of cost, but also in terms of their willingness to believe in the potential of this community-driven initiative. I truly believed that this project would become something special – not just for the team or the esports enthusiasts, but for the entire community.

In fact, we're already talking about ways to expand this project further into the future. We're considering setting up a scholarship program for kids and college students who want to come and experience this unique environment for themselves. It's going to be an exciting time ahead, and I'm thrilled to have such a dedicated group of supporters behind me.

**A Call to Action**

For now, I'd like to extend a heartfelt thank you to everyone who has watched our videos and supported us on this journey so far. Your enthusiasm and encouragement mean the world to us, and we can't wait to share more updates and behind-the-scenes content with you in the coming weeks and months.

If you're interested in getting involved or contributing to this project, please don't hesitate to reach out – whether it's through social media, email, or even a simple comment below. We're always looking for ways to grow and improve, and your input is invaluable to us.

And finally, I'd like to remind everyone that we're still open to donations, although our system for accepting them is currently under development. In the meantime, please feel free to reach out if you have any questions or ideas – we can't wait to hear from you!

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enall right here is part three of the js2 cents tech lab here at the scholars collective in downtown long beach california and uh this is the part i know everyone's been waiting for the building of the 10 esports gaming towers so let's go ahead and start building some systems we interrupt this video to bring you a special message from ifixit no we interrupt this interruption with this interruption about new stuff from my fitness pushing graphics card but inventory sucks fix the inventory problems with ifixit whoa don't drop it can't fix that with ifixit just kidding yes you can wish you could take ifixit with you anywhere but your pockets aren't big enough introducing you more and the new menu take them with you anywhere it's okay i'll fix it for your loved ones or just get them for yourself all right guys welcome back to what is hopefully going to be the last video of our tech lab okay the last build video we'll probably do a complete showcase once everything is done and people are in here and using it we'll do some sort of a video this is the part that people care about this is the building of the 10 esports gaming computers here now to sort of reiterate our sponsors here intel sent us over 10 11 900ks crucial sent us 10 3200 megahertz 16 gigabyte kits of their ballistix ram asus sent over 10 of their z590e gaming wi-fi motherboards as well as 10 of their rtx 3060 tis evga hooked us up with power by sending us 10 of their i forget which power supplies this was i think it's only a 750 or 700 so 700 uh bronze power supply and then be quiet sponsored us with 11. we actually have three six nine ten eleven we have a extra cooler here dark rock force i mentioned we were going air cooler because i wanted this to be as maintenance free as possible i want to deal with any sort of water pump issues um but also with storage we actually have them sitting in the other room um because i'm going to be imaging an os and copying it to all these so we have to do a windows install on every single system we've got 10 of their crucial two terabyte ssds what we are doing today is we are bringing over remember i mentioned that part of this whole concept for this is to get the community involved in not just playing games but learning how to build computers work on them so we're going to be bringing over a few students as well as the it director from domingo sales college and so they're going to be coming in and building these systems i'm probably going to be putting all the cpus in myself before they get here though because we do not have any room for error here or waiting on any replacements would be extremely difficult especially how long it took to get these parts i don't want any chances of bent pins but jay you just said they need to learn yes we will have stations for them to learn that we will be providing they cannot learn on these when it comes to potential damage so i think i was really going back and forth if there were amd cpus with the pins being a lot less delicate than say lga pins are i would i would let them do it but with one supervisor watching them well i'm gonna be doing other things i'm gonna be wiring up all of the getting all the workstations here um pre-wired up with power and ethernet and all that getting the switches installed i'm not gonna be over here hovering over their shoulder going are you doing it right are you doing it right i wanna be a helicopter parent when it comes to the things to the to the build but the rest of the build they'll be able to do all on their own that's what we got set up right here is these two these four tables we pulled them away from the wall so they have room to build we brought tools zip ties cutters um all that stuff so they'll be able to grab their case bring it to their station come grab one of each part or a motherboard with a cpu in it grab go over start building and the amount of people we have coming i believe that means each person will be responsible for two builds all right so what i've got to do next is we've got 10 computers here fortunately we've got one two three four five wall outlets here one two three of them are four gang four game means there's just four plugs per because this used to be a school there used to be a lot of computers and stuff down here so this would just be a college actually down here and so each one of those are going to be on a different circuit which is nice which means we can have 10 computers running here without popping any breakers sure they might only be pulling three 400 watts at load with the hardware that they have but you do that times ten that's more than three thousand amps or three thousand wow oh let's back up that's more than three thousand watts which is definitely gonna be more than a 15 amp these are 15 amp circuits so that's going to be way more than 15 amps which means they would constantly be tripping the breaker if all 10 loaded up say even a game like rocket league or cs go at the same time so because these are individually like uh breakered in a different part of the room or warehouse wherever you want to wherever their storage is means that i have to run cables to where i want them now sure i could have just gotten extension cords and coiled them up under the desk but this is js2 freaking sense and you know me in cable management so i'm gonna do kind of like we did at the studio where i got this 14 gauge industrial heavy duty cable and then we got our ends means that i can actually make cable links to be the length i want them to and then we've got them somewhere on the floor those little tracks that you can put down some chairs can roll over and stuff we'll tape those down to the floor and then i'm gonna have five drops i need to have five power drops because i want two computers per power strip we could probably actually fit i don't want to put four computers per power per breaker because then two will be on their own and i still think four computers per one 15 amp circuit is too much although i think we're doing it at the studio anyway at the very least i want three drops but i just need to kind of start making the chords now and see what's gonna happen all right so under the table here we've got the power strip powered up right here this is gonna power at least two systems maybe three i've got to do this uh two or three more times underneath this desk you want to talk about cable management like difficulty it's hard enough when you do one setup but you're trying to account for four for one bundle of wires and stuff it sort of gets a little bit uh cluttered under here especially when the desks have no built-in cable management you know in hindsight i knew these desks were here and didn't have it i could have ordered under table trays that i could have mounted under here which made things a lot easier but you know as you guys know i don't like to do things the easy way i like to do it my way so we're going to go ahead and just get this all wired up we've got the uh comp tech guys starting to show up now so the builds will be starting here pretty soon while i'm working on this i've got to image the os's on the m.2 that way those could just go in without having to be installed and things are about to really start getting moving fast so rather than bore you guys with the under the desk stuff i'll let phil b-roll their builds and then we'll see how far we get today do so and uh build them we did so i i gotta i gotta tell you right now huge thanks to the uh folks that came over from dominica dominguez hills college some of the guys from the computer tech team uh our class some of the uh csudh toros which is our esports team they came and helped out here they're gonna be helping us uh run tournaments and stuff remember i said in the very first video one of the things we want to do with this lab is teach kids how to be a successful esports team with positive attitude so many esports teams are full of toxicity and what their goal which is why it aligned perfectly with this this enrichment center is the fact that they're going to teach kids from a young age how to work as a team how to be dynamic and how to uh just not be like typical esports teams that you find out that they're very narcissistic and very toxic not something that i've i've been a fan of but i'm a fan of that ideology and hopefully it's going to play out so we've got 10 identical systems here and they actually all look very very similar some of them have slightly different cable management different slightly different routings but at the end of the day all the fans work everything works and i even told them i said i will be shocked if we get 10 systems that boot without a problem all 10 worked without any problems we did have two that were kind of finicky turns out one it didn't like the um m.2 being in the top slot in the motherboard so we moved it down to the bottom slot worked fine all of these systems were in the bottom slot that's the one that they didn't put in the bottom slot and that rooted's ugly head not a problem with the builder just something to do with the configuration of the motherboard second one of the systems we i personally took back apart was trying to figure out what was happening with that system because it wouldn't post the displayport cable in the back of the monitor wasn't plugged in all the way so i lost about 15-20 minutes with that but at the end of the day everything works everything's cable managed i got both ethernet switches so so what i spent most of the day doing and i built one system js2 cents number one this one right here so they're all numbered one through ten i built this system took me about 40 minutes we timed it but i spent the entire day other than that one build underneath these 10 desks clamping them together because i wanted them all to be like one big sturdy setup so i clamped them all together got all the wires run remember for each one of these i've got a monitor that need power i got a tower that needed power i've got the ethernet switches that needed power and they all had to be run and none of these desks had cable management but i happen to do any cables running down everything's accessible everything is tidy like wrapped so that if anything needs to be changed although it's still somewhat spaghetti under there we could still be able to do it without too much of a problem so there's one more video coming for this i know i said this was hopefully gonna be the last video but it's not we still have the maker space we have to do i've got to set up the js2 sense tech hands-on area where i'm going to bring components that people can you know plug in motherboards and cpus and something just updated behind me apparently because they're all on the internet now um so we've got a lot of stuff to still do over here we've got the makerspace with the 3d printers we've got some lounge stuff we want to bring in here some couches and stuff we got the projector on the wall we're going to do we've got more lighting we want to do and in fact turning off the lighting this is probably going to turn into a noisy mess but already looks like a land center if you ask me with all the art i love the fact that this is rgb disk going we're going to leave it that way um because let's face it even if we set up all the rgb the way we want at some point something's going to update and break and then go back to rgb anyway so we're just going to leave it that way but i've got to tell you right now huge thank you to all of our sponsors we've got them all listed right here this project would have absolutely not been possible without their help not just because of the cost but also the availability and the fact that the sponsors believed in this as much as we believed in it tells us that we are building a great community not only with the manufacturers but with our viewers to allow us to do this type of awesome stuff so we gotta get games installed on here updates all this stuff that's not going to be a part of today's video because we were already here 10 hours and it's time to leave so thanks for watching guys comment down below um how you guys feel about this kind of project i've had some people reach out going i want to donate to this and right now no one's set up to take donations and stuff however we are talking about early talks about setting up jc 10 scholarship for kids to be able to come here get access to the tech lab get access to the enrichment center as well as uh college students as well so we are going gonna be doing what we can to continue to grow this idea to something bigger than even this space is right now thanks for watching guys hope you enjoyed this video we'll see you in the next oneall right here is part three of the js2 cents tech lab here at the scholars collective in downtown long beach california and uh this is the part i know everyone's been waiting for the building of the 10 esports gaming towers so let's go ahead and start building some systems we interrupt this video to bring you a special message from ifixit no we interrupt this interruption with this interruption about new stuff from my fitness pushing graphics card but inventory sucks fix the inventory problems with ifixit whoa don't drop it can't fix that with ifixit just kidding yes you can wish you could take ifixit with you anywhere but your pockets aren't big enough introducing you more and the new menu take them with you anywhere it's okay i'll fix it for your loved ones or just get them for yourself all right guys welcome back to what is hopefully going to be the last video of our tech lab okay the last build video we'll probably do a complete showcase once everything is done and people are in here and using it we'll do some sort of a video this is the part that people care about this is the building of the 10 esports gaming computers here now to sort of reiterate our sponsors here intel sent us over 10 11 900ks crucial sent us 10 3200 megahertz 16 gigabyte kits of their ballistix ram asus sent over 10 of their z590e gaming wi-fi motherboards as well as 10 of their rtx 3060 tis evga hooked us up with power by sending us 10 of their i forget which power supplies this was i think it's only a 750 or 700 so 700 uh bronze power supply and then be quiet sponsored us with 11. we actually have three six nine ten eleven we have a extra cooler here dark rock force i mentioned we were going air cooler because i wanted this to be as maintenance free as possible i want to deal with any sort of water pump issues um but also with storage we actually have them sitting in the other room um because i'm going to be imaging an os and copying it to all these so we have to do a windows install on every single system we've got 10 of their crucial two terabyte ssds what we are doing today is we are bringing over remember i mentioned that part of this whole concept for this is to get the community involved in not just playing games but learning how to build computers work on them so we're going to be bringing over a few students as well as the it director from domingo sales college and so they're going to be coming in and building these systems i'm probably going to be putting all the cpus in myself before they get here though because we do not have any room for error here or waiting on any replacements would be extremely difficult especially how long it took to get these parts i don't want any chances of bent pins but jay you just said they need to learn yes we will have stations for them to learn that we will be providing they cannot learn on these when it comes to potential damage so i think i was really going back and forth if there were amd cpus with the pins being a lot less delicate than say lga pins are i would i would let them do it but with one supervisor watching them well i'm gonna be doing other things i'm gonna be wiring up all of the getting all the workstations here um pre-wired up with power and ethernet and all that getting the switches installed i'm not gonna be over here hovering over their shoulder going are you doing it right are you doing it right i wanna be a helicopter parent when it comes to the things to the to the build but the rest of the build they'll be able to do all on their own that's what we got set up right here is these two these four tables we pulled them away from the wall so they have room to build we brought tools zip ties cutters um all that stuff so they'll be able to grab their case bring it to their station come grab one of each part or a motherboard with a cpu in it grab go over start building and the amount of people we have coming i believe that means each person will be responsible for two builds all right so what i've got to do next is we've got 10 computers here fortunately we've got one two three four five wall outlets here one two three of them are four gang four game means there's just four plugs per because this used to be a school there used to be a lot of computers and stuff down here so this would just be a college actually down here and so each one of those are going to be on a different circuit which is nice which means we can have 10 computers running here without popping any breakers sure they might only be pulling three 400 watts at load with the hardware that they have but you do that times ten that's more than three thousand amps or three thousand wow oh let's back up that's more than three thousand watts which is definitely gonna be more than a 15 amp these are 15 amp circuits so that's going to be way more than 15 amps which means they would constantly be tripping the breaker if all 10 loaded up say even a game like rocket league or cs go at the same time so because these are individually like uh breakered in a different part of the room or warehouse wherever you want to wherever their storage is means that i have to run cables to where i want them now sure i could have just gotten extension cords and coiled them up under the desk but this is js2 freaking sense and you know me in cable management so i'm gonna do kind of like we did at the studio where i got this 14 gauge industrial heavy duty cable and then we got our ends means that i can actually make cable links to be the length i want them to and then we've got them somewhere on the floor those little tracks that you can put down some chairs can roll over and stuff we'll tape those down to the floor and then i'm gonna have five drops i need to have five power drops because i want two computers per power strip we could probably actually fit i don't want to put four computers per power per breaker because then two will be on their own and i still think four computers per one 15 amp circuit is too much although i think we're doing it at the studio anyway at the very least i want three drops but i just need to kind of start making the chords now and see what's gonna happen all right so under the table here we've got the power strip powered up right here this is gonna power at least two systems maybe three i've got to do this uh two or three more times underneath this desk you want to talk about cable management like difficulty it's hard enough when you do one setup but you're trying to account for four for one bundle of wires and stuff it sort of gets a little bit uh cluttered under here especially when the desks have no built-in cable management you know in hindsight i knew these desks were here and didn't have it i could have ordered under table trays that i could have mounted under here which made things a lot easier but you know as you guys know i don't like to do things the easy way i like to do it my way so we're going to go ahead and just get this all wired up we've got the uh comp tech guys starting to show up now so the builds will be starting here pretty soon while i'm working on this i've got to image the os's on the m.2 that way those could just go in without having to be installed and things are about to really start getting moving fast so rather than bore you guys with the under the desk stuff i'll let phil b-roll their builds and then we'll see how far we get today do so and uh build them we did so i i gotta i gotta tell you right now huge thanks to the uh folks that came over from dominica dominguez hills college some of the guys from the computer tech team uh our class some of the uh csudh toros which is our esports team they came and helped out here they're gonna be helping us uh run tournaments and stuff remember i said in the very first video one of the things we want to do with this lab is teach kids how to be a successful esports team with positive attitude so many esports teams are full of toxicity and what their goal which is why it aligned perfectly with this this enrichment center is the fact that they're going to teach kids from a young age how to work as a team how to be dynamic and how to uh just not be like typical esports teams that you find out that they're very narcissistic and very toxic not something that i've i've been a fan of but i'm a fan of that ideology and hopefully it's going to play out so we've got 10 identical systems here and they actually all look very very similar some of them have slightly different cable management different slightly different routings but at the end of the day all the fans work everything works and i even told them i said i will be shocked if we get 10 systems that boot without a problem all 10 worked without any problems we did have two that were kind of finicky turns out one it didn't like the um m.2 being in the top slot in the motherboard so we moved it down to the bottom slot worked fine all of these systems were in the bottom slot that's the one that they didn't put in the bottom slot and that rooted's ugly head not a problem with the builder just something to do with the configuration of the motherboard second one of the systems we i personally took back apart was trying to figure out what was happening with that system because it wouldn't post the displayport cable in the back of the monitor wasn't plugged in all the way so i lost about 15-20 minutes with that but at the end of the day everything works everything's cable managed i got both ethernet switches so so what i spent most of the day doing and i built one system js2 cents number one this one right here so they're all numbered one through ten i built this system took me about 40 minutes we timed it but i spent the entire day other than that one build underneath these 10 desks clamping them together because i wanted them all to be like one big sturdy setup so i clamped them all together got all the wires run remember for each one of these i've got a monitor that need power i got a tower that needed power i've got the ethernet switches that needed power and they all had to be run and none of these desks had cable management but i happen to do any cables running down everything's accessible everything is tidy like wrapped so that if anything needs to be changed although it's still somewhat spaghetti under there we could still be able to do it without too much of a problem so there's one more video coming for this i know i said this was hopefully gonna be the last video but it's not we still have the maker space we have to do i've got to set up the js2 sense tech hands-on area where i'm going to bring components that people can you know plug in motherboards and cpus and something just updated behind me apparently because they're all on the internet now um so we've got a lot of stuff to still do over here we've got the makerspace with the 3d printers we've got some lounge stuff we want to bring in here some couches and stuff we got the projector on the wall we're going to do we've got more lighting we want to do and in fact turning off the lighting this is probably going to turn into a noisy mess but already looks like a land center if you ask me with all the art i love the fact that this is rgb disk going we're going to leave it that way um because let's face it even if we set up all the rgb the way we want at some point something's going to update and break and then go back to rgb anyway so we're just going to leave it that way but i've got to tell you right now huge thank you to all of our sponsors we've got them all listed right here this project would have absolutely not been possible without their help not just because of the cost but also the availability and the fact that the sponsors believed in this as much as we believed in it tells us that we are building a great community not only with the manufacturers but with our viewers to allow us to do this type of awesome stuff so we gotta get games installed on here updates all this stuff that's not going to be a part of today's video because we were already here 10 hours and it's time to leave so thanks for watching guys comment down below um how you guys feel about this kind of project i've had some people reach out going i want to donate to this and right now no one's set up to take donations and stuff however we are talking about early talks about setting up jc 10 scholarship for kids to be able to come here get access to the tech lab get access to the enrichment center as well as uh college students as well so we are going gonna be doing what we can to continue to grow this idea to something bigger than even this space is right now thanks for watching guys hope you enjoyed this video we'll see you in the next one\n"