A Christmas PC Build Inside a Tree

I was like trying to tell you that I'm gonna build a PC inside a Christmas tree, and you were like, Ken, go home, you're drunk. What exactly do you guys have here? Also, can I just say that having a fully on, which looks like it's on PC underneath the blanket, isn't great for thermals.

Yeah, so... Thumbs up? Dude, two thumbs up. There's a bow. I know that's what you're laughing at. You have fake snow on top of the graphics card. It's about to be inhaled by the fan. There's so much flammable stuff here.

Yeah, down here we have a little girl and her cat. She's getting presents from Santa. That's fake Santa. Real Santa is actually up there, him and that's Donner actually. Couple kids building a snowman. That's actually, that is Jack Frost.

Jack Frost himself? Yeah, that so, well licensed him for this. (Cash register sound effect) This is ridiculous. How did... okay, first of all, props that this has not caught on fire. Congratulations.

Yes, no, see, we were actually pretty careful to not actually touch any components. I mean, as you can see, like, we actually cleared the fan back there too. So this is what's this back here? It honestly looks like a smaller graphics card.

So GTX here's the thing. We went specifically for aesthetics here, and not necessarily based on, like, perfect performance to price. Are you trying to tell me that you spent like $2000 on a PC with kind of crappy specs?

(disagreeing) There's actually a thousand. Okay. There's only a thousand. Okay. This is a GTX 1660. We got it because it was silver, and it was low profile.

Yeah, because, well I mean it's still a double slot card but essentially you wanted this other space to build a diorama. That makes sense.

To do all this up front we have a 750 watt power supply. (laughing) Why?

Which is way overkill for this. Wait, wait... Because it's in the back of the case here. You can't even see it. It's white.

It's white. You can't even see it. No, but most importantly it came with white cables.

Yes. Oh wait, so I actually gotta ask you about that. So I'm looking at the cables. I see that the GPU, the power cord for the GPU goes inside the snow.

Yes. That's a really clever idea. Yeah, the thing with the power supply is the cables it came with, while fully modular, it had the pigtails to do dual eight pin.

He just cut it, it's fine. It's fine, we're fine. You're talking about a fire hazard. It's taped. So you take a PC, something which is inevitably full of very hot, very power-hungry electronics.

Then you fill it up with what I'm sure is very flammable like cotton. And then you take a power connector and you saw it off. Saw it? No, no, we cut it with scissors.

Don't be insane. We unplugged it before we did it, so... In fact, you'll be proud. I just took a cable that was never plugged in ever, I just (vocalizing cutting sound), and then (vocalizing cutting sound), and then (vocalizing cutting sound).

Guys, you did an incredible job. Like actually, this is ridiculous. I don't know why exactly, you felt so compelled to build this PC, but it's really good.

It's honestly better than it should be. I mean, we just wanted to add a little more holiday cheer to the channel. So what's the plan for this PC? Who asked for this?

None of us did. K. Got it. It was mainly a ploy just to make a video on the channel that's a little more festive.

But, I'm gonna give this one to Matt because it's his second build, I think he deserves it. He can choose to do what he wants with what we did on the inside. Like remove all the flammable material from inside your PC?

Yeah, I mean, if you want to use it daily. For the record, I didn't even ask for it. He just said...

WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: en- This might be the bestPC that we have ever builton this channel, not even joking.It's not, but it...- Aesthetic, aesthetically wise.- Are you trying to say that like,you've built the bestPC when I'm not around?- Yes.- You guys said that way too fast.- Hey, what's going onguys, this is Ken, and-- Hey, I'm Matt.- That was terrible.- What?- And today, we're going to bebuilding a PC without Austin.Now, I don't know if you guys remember,but the last time we did this,it may or may not have looked like a bomb.- It did.It totally looked like a bomb.- But, today Austin taskedus with another project,this time to make a PCthat's a little festive.If I'm to believe that thisis going to be uploadedat the time of Christmas.- Ish.- Ish.Also, the last time Matt and I built a PC,it was actually hisfirst time building one.- Yeah, so this will be actuallymy second time building a PC.- But he's at least watchedsome of our videos at this point.- I've watched every PC buildthat Austin has done over the past year.I feel like I could do this in my sleep.I'm probably wrong.I'm probably really bad at this.- In your sleep, but you're probablybetter at it when you're awake.- Maybe.- But, before we get started, we need toactually buy some festive things.- All right, so we're trying to get somearts and crafts for the PC build.We're thinkin' somethinglike a winter village.- Honestly, we're not even sureif things will catchon fire or not, but...- Everything we want to do is like,this is gonna be flammable.- But, makes for a good video.I like this.Cloth snow.That'll definitely not catch on fire.- Definitely, there's a 60 percent chancethat it will definitely not.- Oh, well, we have more things here,we've got like little trees.That might be useful, right?Little trees.This Santa, that's giving away gifts.Yeah, no, I like the lookof that a lot, little Santa.- You know whatI don't like about it?- What?- It's got glitter.Already, already.- No, I don't see any, it's fine.You're fine.So far, we have, we've built a little townthat has a pond, a skater.- She's going to the Olympics.- She's uh, she's gonna grow upto be a gold medalist one day.Success, right?What?- Smells like farts out here.- It's fertilizer.- So if I pull the full Austin, I justthrow that for Matt to clean up later.- I'm testing you.- I'm gonna be building a PC apparently.- Build a PC so I don't have to.- So I'm gonna start withthis ASUS Prime X470 Pro.And you know, we chosepretty much every singleone of these parts, not becauseof their price to performance,or even their performance.Pretty much all of them isbecause they came in white.- Let me see, let me see.Ah, yeah, look at that.So, it matches.- Yeah, it's got afair amount of black on therebut you know, that little bit right therewas our deciding factor.- So this case, to preface,is actually gonna bein another Austin buildwith his wife Karen.And for some reason, he chose this one.Probably because it looks cool.We actually bought a secondone of these for our build.- I am not a PC kinda guy,but if I was to be building my own PC...- This is the one that you'd get?- I would probably grab this case.I'm too short for this, soI'm gonna bring it down here.- Okay, okay, okay.I gotcha, I gotcha, I gotcha.(yelling together)Yeah.This Lian Li case is actually really cool'cause it's glass on two sides here.- It looks almost likeit's a display case.- Yes for a Christmas,or sorry holiday, diorama.- Dioramas are where it's at.Let's see if Matty here remembershow to build a computer.I'm gonna put my static bracelet on.(Ken groaning)- No.- With us buyingspecifically for aestheticsand not performance, we cut alittle corners on some things.So we went with a second gen Ryzen 5.- Which isn't bad.- It's not bad.It's the 2600.I'm gonna look for the little triangle.- Don't bend the pins man.- I'm not gonna bend the pins.- Don't bend the pins man.Yeah just, oh don't, you gotyour thermal paste on theredon't set it down.(both humming)Need some help buddy?- I do, I have no idea how this goes on.- Right, to be fair,I've only done one of these before.- Already, you know, I'm so goodat building computers,that I just had Ken help mewith the CPU 'cause it scared me.I'd never encountered alatching CPU cooler like this.- Yeah but like,the interesting thingabout this cooler thoughis that we're just barelyclearing the RAM DIMMs.We can ever so slightly make it,I mean, I'm pretty sure they designed thisso that it will just barely clear.No I don't think it's rubbing dude,it's barely clearing it.Yeah.- So that is makingslight contact over herewith the heat sink, Idon't know how bad that is.This is not a tutorial, how to build a PC.This is don't do anythingthat we're about to do.That looks roughly...- Austin, what are you doing here?- It's fine.- Get out.- Is the red light on?- Get out.- I brought you packagesYou're not allow- weneeded those but get out.Oh my god, dude.- Uh oh.- I'm locking the door.(beep)- I mean, frick.(upbeat music)- Oh, there it is.- Hey!- There you go.- I've done something thatAustin has failed to do.And that's post a PC on the first try.- The next day.- So we finally got the PC done.Overnight we got it updating,we got all the drivers installed.We set our RGB, everything's good.- We had to change thingsaround a little bit.I forgot to get a fan controller,because I don't know what that is.So, instead of the six fansthat we were originally gonna have,we just have the three.- That are going in exhausts.- Yes.- So it's just gonna let air out.Which I think should be fine,'cause we're not runninganything super hot here,in fact this Wraith cooler willdo a lot of the work for uspretty efficiently and pretty well.We could try to overclock it if we want.- Yeah we definitely have the ability to.- We'll try to seewhat our thermals are atwhen we put our winterwonderland in there.- When we stuff it withBuffalo snow.Being from, the Buffalo-isharea, Buffalo BillsI can tell you that this doesnot look like Buffalo snow.So then we knew we hadthis little spot down here.We weren't sure howthe clearance would be.So we thought this littlepond would go well, so...- Hey look at that.- You know, maybe...- It just sits right there.- Maybe this goes about right here.Does she clear this?It'll be clo-(cheering)- Look at that!Aw man, it's like we planned that.- I mean we did good.- I think if weput this here, like this,go like this...- Oh yeah that's lovely.- That's really nice.And it hides our cable too.- So what we'll probably end up doing...- Hang him!- Is hanging.Right here.- Yeah, on the top.- All right so we haveroughly our layout here.This is looking pretty good,so now we're going to lay down the snow.We're gonna secure these downwith some double sided tapeand add a little sprucing.- Oh!- Straight uppressing up against the...- The components.- The components.- So don't do that.- So I mean, that's fine.Right there, look at that, that's good.- Tuck it in a little.We should totally putsnow on the graphics card.- No, no, no.- Why?Why Matt?- No, it just-- Look at that.Look at that.And hold on, I have thepiece de resistance.- What do we got?(Low-key music)- There.- For safety.- Just in case.- So we also have our spray.So I'm just gonna be-(sprays)Oh.- Oh.Oh boy, it's gonna, oh God.- In case you guys can't tell,this is super powerful.- Let's see, let's see.Oh! Yes.Oh Matt, Matt.Yo, that's awesome.This almost reminds me of whenwe did Jimmy's Halloween PC,when we did the bloodsplatter on the glass.- Yeah.- I'm kinda getting those same vibes,like, it worked surprisingly well.- Ready? Armed.- Armed. All right.And-(Christmas music)- Austin, I wanna build a Christmas PC.You were like trying to tell meyou were gonna build a PCinside a Christmas tree,I was like, Ken, go home, you're drunk.What exactly do you guys have here?Also can I just say,that having a fully on,which looks like it's onPC underneath the blanket,not great for thermals.- This is the least ofour worries for thermalsfor this PC, as you will see in a second.(laughing)- Yeah, so.- Thumbs up?- Dude, two thumbs up.- There's a bow.I know that's what you're laughing at.- You have fake snow ontop of the graphics card.It's about to be intaked by the fan.There's so much flammable stuff here.- Yeah.Down here we have alittle girl and her cat.She's getting presents from Santa.That's fake Santa.That's like mall Santa.Real Santa is actually up here,him and that's Donner actually.Couple kids building a snowman.That's actually, that is Jack Frost.- Jack Frost himself?- Yeah, that, so, welicensed him for this.(cash register sound effect)- This is ridiculous.How did, okay, first of all,props that this has not caught on fire.Congratulations.- Yes, no, see, we wereactually pretty carefulto not actually betouching any components.- I mean, as you can see, like,we actually clearedthe fan back there too.- So this is, what's this back here?It honestly looks likea smaller graphics card.- So GTX here's the thing.We went specifically for aesthetics here,and not necessarily based on, like,perfect performance to price.- Are you trying to tellme that you spent like,2000 dollars on a PC withlike, kind of crappy specs?(disagreeing)- There's actually a thousand.- There's only a thousand.- Okay.- This is a GTX 1660.We got it because it was silver,and it was low profile.- Yeah, because, well I meanit's still a double slot cardbut essentially youwanted this other spaceto build a diorama.That makes sense.- To do all this up front wehave a 750 watt power supply.- (laughing) Why?- Which is way overkill for this.- Wait, wait, 'cause it's inthe back of the case here.You can't even see it.- It's white.- It's white.- You can't even see it.- No, but most importantlyit came with white cables.- Yes.- Oh.- Yeah.- Oh wait, so I actuallygotta ask you about that.So I'm looking at the cables.I see that the GPU, thepower cord for the GPUgoes inside the snow.- Yes.- That's a really clever idea.- Yeah, the thing with the power supplyis the cables it camewith, while fully modular,it had the pigtails to do dual eight pin.I thought that was ugly, so I just cut it.- He just cut it, it's fine.It's fine, we're fine.- You're talking about a fire hazard.- It's taped.- So you take a PC, somethingwhich is inevitably fullof very hot, very powerhungry electronics.Then you fill it up with whatI'm sure is very flammable like, cotton.And then you take a powerconnector and you saw it off.- Saw it?No, no, we cut it with scissors.Don't be insane.- We unplugged itbefore we did it, so.- In fact, you'll be proud.I just took a cable thatwasn't plugged in ever,I just (vocalizing cutting sound),and then (vocalizing cutting sound),and then (vocalizing cutting sound).- Guys you did an incredible job.Like actually, this is ridiculous.I don't know why exactly,you felt so compelledto build this PC, but, it's really good.It's honestly better than it should be.- I mean, we just wanted to adda little more holidaycheer to the channel.- So what's the plan for this PC?Who asked for this?- None of us did.- K. Got it.It was mainly a ploy just tomake a video on the channelthat's a little more festive.But, I'm gonna give this one to Mattbecause it's his secondbuild, I think he deserves it.He can choose to do what he wantswith what we did on the inside.- Like remove allof the flammable materialfrom inside your PC?- Yeah, I mean, ifyou want to use it daily.- For the record,I didn't even ask for it.He just said, "Hey,you're taking this because"I don't want it sitting around."- We don't have the room for it at all.But, it was a bondingmoment between me and Matt.We had workplace bonding.A lot of workplace bonding.- It smells like farts out here.- So thank you very much for watchingthis holiday themed episodeof the Austin Evans channel.Of course if you'd like alittle bit more holiday cheerin your life, you canfeel free to check outour holiday Mystery Tech,it's available right here.And until next time, I will remind youplease don't try this at home.And if your house burnsdown, you can blame Ken.And Matt, but probablyKen, I think it's his idea.