The creators of this portable gaming PC had a lot of fun building it, and their excitement is palpable throughout the process.

"I've seen you've got Patrick," one of them said with a chuckle, referring to a friend who lives under a rock – or at least, that's what his name suggests. "Patrick typically lives under a rock, but today he's upgraded to living under a PC." It was clear that this project was going to be a bit unconventional.

The team began by loading the PC into a custom-made sack, with the aim of creating an all-in-one unit. "It's a very bad idea to cut the sack," one of them warned, although they were determined to make it work. They shoveled the PC into the sack and closed the lid, which surprisingly hinged shut.

The team then took turns adding components to the PC, including a Ryzen 5 5600G processor, 16 gigs of RAM, and a 500-gig SSD. "This one's gonna be way simpler," one of them said with a grin.

As they worked, they couldn't help but joke about their progress. "My fingers are sacrificing for this," one of them joked, as he carefully handled the delicate components. Another team member offered to cut the sack, but was rebuffed – after all, that would be far too destructive.

Finally, the moment of truth arrived: it was time to fire up the PC and see if everything worked as planned. The team took turns clicking a big red button, which activated the PC's power supply. To their delight, it booted right up, its screen glowing with life.

The team marveled at the tiny PC, marveling at how compact it was despite being capable of serious gaming. "If you live in the Kansas City area, then by all means, come down to the Overland Park Micro Center," one of them joked, referring to a local store that had sponsored their project.

In the end, the team emerged victorious, having successfully built the world's smallest gaming PC – and proved that even the most unlikely projects can be achieved with creativity and determination.

WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: en- Hello, my friends and welcometo a very special occasion.We've traveled all the wayout to Overland Park, Kansas,to visit our sponsors at Micro Centerfor one simple challenge.I'm going to build the greatestgaming PC known to mankind.- Now, hold up.If you're gonna build the greatest PC,then I'm gonna put you up to the challengeand try to best you.- That's impossible.We have to build PCs andthey're going to live here.(button clicking)Oh, look at that.(button clicking)- How convenient.- Whoa, whoa, whoa.- If you would like to comeinto the Overland Park storebefore October 2nd,you can come and voteon our builds in person.I think I need to get some ideas, so.- Yes, I agree, and I actually,I have some seeds planted in my brain.I'm just here to build themost ridiculous PC as I can.- If you do not follow mryeester,you're probably unaware ofhis ridiculous nonsense.Hmm.- Are we going straight for the RGB?Is this how you're gonnatry to win people over?(blowing raspberry)- Hey, I hear super gluemakes great thermal paste.You should try that.- You know, I actually havein the past and it does workmuch better than you'd expect.Don't try that at home.Really hard to take off.So these are ATX standoffs.So these are the normal size standoffsthat a computer would normally haveunderneath the motherboard.But I have an idea that's gonna take thismaybe times 20 or times 50.- They also have a lot of graphics cards.The thing is, we're notdoing a straight gaming test.It doesn't matter to performanceby a huge amount, right?We're just trying to impress people.It's much more so aboutthe aesthetic than the um.- Performance.- as we look at the cases.(button clicking)- Whoa, I'm just gonna givehim some extra help too.(button clicking)He needs it.- Oh this, look at this little guy.I never built this before.Thermal tape.I need to find somethingeven smaller though.I feel like I need to find somethingalmost suspiciously small.My genius foolproofplan is in full effect.Adam, would you like tosee what I've got here?- I would love to see, Austin.- How do you feel about GAEMS?- I love GAEMS.- GAEMS.I'm going to attempt tobuild my entire gaming PCin a GAEMS VANGUARD case.Yeah you usually have a PS3in there, or an Xbox Series S.- Oh, so you're gonna putyour whole entire motherboardand stuff where thisPlayStation is currently?- Yep.- I think we have somethingcooler over there.- Oh, by all means.- I'm thinking, if Iwanna build the biggest PCas possible, why not build upwards?Look how much ceiling space we have here- That's pretty tall.- And so I brought thissecret, secret ingredient.These standoffs are probably20 to 30 times tallerthan your normal motherboard standoff.- Are you gonna daisy chain them?- I'm going to stackthem as high as possiblewithout the computer falling over.I do need to have some typeof base to build my computer.- And this is the base you chose?It says two person lift.- Well, you know that thatPC gym we were talking about?It's in full effect.This is the biggest casethat I've ever dealt with.- Look, I get it.I get it.You need to compensate.I'm not gonna judge.- We are ready to go.- Fair fight.- Good luck, sir.You're gonna need it.- You don't need this anymore though.- Oh, I don't need a CPU?- No.I've decided that I'm gonnago for my dual CPU set up.But anyway, fair fight.Best of luck, my friend.- I don't have a CPU.- The number one thing I need to dois actually get my case out.I'm hopeful that I will have enough spaceto actually work in, 'causethat's really gonna decidealmost everything from this point on.I've tried to pick thesmallest components that I can.I may have more space than I think though.Uh oh.(chuckling)- There's some instructionshere for Xbox and PlayStation.Where's the PC instructions?- Instructions?Where we're going, wedon't need instructions.- Oh my gosh.I may have bit off more than I can chew.This case has like 200 parts to it.This is the third layer of styrofoam.- So vaguely think about it like this.Motherboard here.Running extra cables, I canjust slit a hole in the backhere to run any cables in or out.And I can just kind of cinch this up.The good thing about thisis that the actual PC partis really straightforward.I've got my X570 AORUS PRO AX board,which importantly is an ITX board.And I'll have you know,I grabbed it off of the clearance section,because our good sponsors Micro Center,I gotta make sure I'mrepping their terrific dealsavailable every day,but also specifically hereat the Overland Park store.- My case has too many parts.- Can I remind you that our flight leavesand about four and a half hours?- Oh, no pressure's on.- All right.Adam, you got your system done yet?- I got the case up, soI'm just gonna installas much as I can into the motherboardbefore I can't reach it anymore.That'll include the SSD.We'll install this into the slots,and then we'll install the RAM, the CPU,plop on the cooler, and thenupwards and onwards we go.Whoa.- What happened there?- Fighting words.So I'm also using a Ryzen 5 5600,and I am actually gonna usethe pre-applied thermal paste,but I'm gonna spicethings up a little bit.Somewhere with me,I have brought aninconspicuous little baggy,and this is the secret formulafor beating Austin over there.- Hey your secret, what?- Oh no, sorry, what?Are you over in your section?You can.- No, I'm good actually.- Oh, oh, okay.But this here is 22 caratsof finally grained diamond powder.And if you're unaware,diamond has some of thehighest thermal conductivityof all non metals.And thermal paste's job is to havereally high thermal conductivity.And so I'm going to add alittle pinch of diamond powderinto my pre-applied thermal pasteto help increase the thermalperformance of the core.- That's either geniusor the most ridiculousthing I've ever heard.- Why not both?Don't try this at home, kids.Drop in a few little bitsof diamond, just like that.We are on the CPU.Let's go.- Look at this though.Look at my little baby 6500 XT.So a big reason why I chose this cardis 'cause it had ITX on the box.And look, it's small.I mean, everyone knows the6500 XT is the greatest cardthat AMD have ever created.Who needs more than two display outs?Am I right?At least it's very lightweight.So there we go.Does that look dumb?That doesn't look dumb, right?Are you getting a ladder?- It's an essential part of building a PC.- Oh my God.(laughing)- Is this not?- That's illegal.- Is this not what yours looks like?What are you doing over there?- I'm calling the police.- They're gonna have toget me down from up here.- If you breathe on it though,you're gonna snap something.- Yeah, if you could walkcarefully around here.- No, no, you know what?I wanna see this.- All right, so.- You ready?- Yes, so I need.- Which orientation do you want?This way?- This side up here, yep.- Okay.Hey Adam, you know,you didn't have to picksuch a heavy motherboardthat I'm gonna have to hold over my headfor the next 10 minutes.- I just, I reallywanted to make you sweat.- Can I just point out thatthere's a growing group of peoplewaiting for this to collapsewho just are coming to spectate?The train wreck is incoming.- Yeah, here's the moment of truth.Yeah, let's go.- None of these are straight.- Hey, but at the end ofthe day, it's standing.But now we still have toplug in a graphics cardand all of the power into it.- What's this we?No, please don't touch.(laughing)This is gonna be the cautiontape, 15 feet around.- While Adam is building theleaning tower of questionable,I am ready to do my first test boot.I want to, before I doanything more final,actually just make sureeverything will fire upand work correctly.Otherwise, I'm gonna be in some trouble.Fire up the games.Power supply on.Oh.(sighing)I was stressed there for a second.Okay, so we've got fan action.I've got RGB on the bottom of the board.I forgot that that was there.Please post.Please post.Post, post, post, post.I wouldn't need toupdate the bios, would I?No signal.(groaning)- What's happening over there?- Nothing at all.- What was that?- That was an excited exclamationof brilliant happiness.(chuckling)Oh!- Never mind, we're good.- Again, very excited.Very excited right now.Very excited.That was the longest postI've ever had in my life.(laughing)So Adam's having a little problem,in that this is very wobbly.'Cause there's nothingreally drilling it in, right?I can screw it all I want.- I'm gonna take two off of here.I wonder if we can just put one underneaththat'll kind of pinch it together.- Oh, that's a terrific idea.- All right, yeah, this is.Okay, look at this one.This one's much more stable.One off the top.Put it at the bottom.- Yeah, that is.- We're making it work.We're making it work.- The main hurdle of thisthing not working is done.Now, it's really going to beabout bringing more of the wow factor.The question is, do I need toadd more danger to my system?Do I need to add some confidence?Adam.- Hello, sir.- Is your monitor being heldup by your graphics card,which is dangling from a riser?- Yeah, they typically sayyou're between a a rock and a hard place.Here, you're between agraphics card and standoffs.It's just to see if it's possible.- Okay.- How many of these PCshave you seen in the past?- None.- I haven't seen any.- Zero.- So.- Zero.- We're gonna see if it's feasible.- Is this what it's gonna look like?Are you, this is it?- I mean, I'm gonna makesure it works first.- Okay.- And then, we'll see ifwe can tidy up the cables.- Smart move, smart move.- Lights are on.Is it spinning?It's spinning.- Something's happening.Graphics card's also spinning.- Oh, cycling.- Okay.- Cycling.- You just have to think about it.- Cycling one more time.I might be able to just tryto plug the graphics card top.- Directly in, yeah.- Yeah, let's give that a shot.We will make this work.- I shouldn't be helping you right now.- Yeah, you shouldn't.Get outta here.- I'm now going to have to pick my bestthermal pace pattern withthe thermal pace master.- I will be judging you.- Should I do a grain of rice?I hear that's the bestway of doing it, right?- Well if you want to be fancy,you could do a smiley face.- All right, I'm gonna do a smiley face.♪ Do, do, do, do, do, do, do ♪- Hey.- His eye's a little small.- He's winking at ya.- There we go.I'm happy that I'm gonnawin this competition.- I don't know why you're so confident.- I'm not confident.- Have you seen that over there?- I have seen, you've got Patrick.(laughing)- Patrick typicallylives under a rock,but today, he's upgradedto living under a PC.- The last step here before weactually fire everything up,including Ken's neatolittle custom power button,is to load my sacks, cut my sacks,run cables through my sacks,and then we'll be ready to sack it up.Look, let's just shove it in the sack,and then we'll call it a day.- Yeah, if we canavoid cutting the sack,that sounds like a.- It's a very bad ideato cut the sack, usually.But today, we might haveto make an exception.I don't need commentary on my sack, okay.I'm trying to get it round.I mean square.- I mean, as long as it looks good.- It's a little lumpy right now,which is usually concerning.- Normally, youdon't have an audiencefor this kind of thing.Looks like it won Tourde France at least once.(laughing)- This one's gonna be way simpler.Cutting the sack.Adam, I appreciate yourdevotion to the cause here.- My fingers aresacrificing for this.- That's fine.I'll do it myself.I'll do it myself.I don't want to beresponsible for mryeesterhaving one less finger than he did before.- Good luck.- I think I'm ready tofire up my ultimate systemand see if this all comes to life or not.Three, two, one.Three, two, one.Yeah!- Let's go.- Wait, wait, wait.Wait for it to post, wait for it to post.Yeah.- Let's go.Good stuff.- We've built a portablegaming PC that's not a laptopor a Steam Deck or anINEO or an Alienware.Even a MacBook could probablybe better than this, actually.It is time.Our largest versus smallest gaming PCshave been successfully completed.Adam, would you be pleasebees, bees, be kind.(chuckling)Will you please be so kindas to show us the wonderfulsystem that you have craftedwith your own bare hands.(laughing)It's got a fan on the bottom.- Yeah, that's the underglow.With this much space.- Where did Patrick come from?- The great 3D printingservices here at Micro Center.- Oh.- Directly from that.Yeah, his face kind ofinternalizes the feelingthat you get when you look at this PC.- I feel like this too, most of the time.- If you're gonna have a big PC,you might as well havea big keyboard as well.- The compensation jokesreally write themselvesfor this video.Dude, I gotta say, this islegitimately really impressive.- Shall we take a look tosee what you've come up with?- You might wanna get yourmagnifying glass out though,'cause mine's a little bit small.- All right, let's take a look.- My friend, welcome to theworld's smallest gaming PC.This is an all in one unit.Would you like to do the honorspressing the big red button?- Oh wow, you have a red button to press?- Yes.- That matches your button to vote.- Exactly.(button clicking)- Oh, and it boots right to life.That's awesome.- So, we've got our Ryzen5 5600G, 16 gigs of RAM.And if I tab over here, 500 gig SSD.- Impressive.- And then if you would like,you could hide your gaming PCin this and no one would ever suspect it.It's foolproof.- TSA.- No, don't take this through security.Go ahead, gently try to close it.- Just try to close it as normal?All right, just like that,it hinges nearly, completely shut.- Yeah, just the power cable's in the way.- This is impressive.I love how you laid itout such that everything,honestly, it looks likeit was made for PCs,but it was made forPlayStations and Xboxes.Aesthetically, it does look like it's allsupposed to be together.- If you live in the KansasCity area, then by all means,come down to the OverlandPark Micro Center.Not only do they have some terrific dealsthat you can only get instore, but you also could comeand press these amazing buttons.Let us know in real life.You also could let usknow in the comments.But Adam, thank youvery much for joining meon this excursion.And thank you very much to Micro Centerfor sponsoring this absolute madness.Ken, no!- Yeah, let's go Ken.(chuckling)