Building My Ultimate Dream Setup V3 - Part 2

We don't have enough blocks. Uh, we ran into another issue. We haven't even started the setup. Here we go. This, this is sick. Windows 11 is a hot mess right now, with pre-installed apps, bloatware, and Microsoft shoving CoPilot down our throats. Wouldn't it be great if there's a cleaner version of Windows 11 without all this nonsense? Well, of course there is, you baboon cheeks. It's called Windows 11 Enterprise LTSC, which stands for Long-Term Servicing Channel. Basically, it's a cleaner version of Windows without all the pre-installed software, no ads, and way more stability. People even compare the stability to Linux. It's that good. It's actually available for both Windows 10 and 11, and you can grab it for only $17 from vip or cdkey.com, but you have to use the code TS25 to unlock the cheapest price. Activating the key is the same process as before. Just go into the user center, navigate to the orders, click on the view button, and copy and paste the cdkey into the activation settings of Windows, and you now have a fresh, clean version of Windows 10 or 11. All right, what's next? Next, it's time to figure out our power situation, because obviously, all the power is run through the desk, and SQLabs offers a power strip, but there's a big problem. What would that be? Not enough holes. How many holes do you need? We need a lot of holes. So the power strip comes with six, and if you count my PC plus the four monitors, that's five already, plus my speakers, we're done. We are starving for outlets, so we're actually gonna be replacing this with a Belkin strip instead. This one has eight. There's one over here, seven over here, but the good thing about this strip is that it actually pivots. So if there's gonna be like a massive power brick, we don't need to worry. Power brick, exactly. So let's say this plugs in. It's gonna interfere with the strip on the side, but luckily, we can just rotate this to the side, clearing up space. So we can plug in eight devices. So I got my monitors, I got my speaker, my PC already taken care of, and additional, let's say, accessories if I wanna add, like LED strips behind the monitor and stuff like that. That's actually smart. You didn't think of this, did you? I did not. Exactly, exactly. I actually had this in my laptop. I was thinking of the double row ones. You know what I'm talking about? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That'll be too chunky. One of the outlets are gonna be used up by the strip. So we're gonna have one extra left over. All right, what do we got? We have an intruder. I feel like every time I build my setup, Shayla always stops by. Is this the inspector? That's the inspector. She's obviously testing and seeing if it's opening up correctly. Is it opening up correctly? Yeah. Did we pass the inspection? Good. So the next thing I wanna hook up is our Ethernet extension. This is a game changer. It's actually one of the reasons why I went with the Seeker Labs desk specifically. The power extension, which is built in, and then this is an extra add-on, which lets you hook up your Ethernet into the actual desk. So you don't have to worry about cable slack when you're rising and lowering the desk. So it's the exact same thing we added for Pinkalali's setup as well. I actually need to get one for my own desk. Your own desk, exactly. How awesome is this? No one else is doing this. I feel like Seeker Labs is the only one who's doing this. So this is magnetic, and this clamp down here attaches to the power strip so it doesn't move, just like that. And then this part hooks up to the desk, just like that. So now we can plug in our Ethernet cable. Don't mind the cable management, obviously. We're gonna be fixing that later. Plugs into the desk. And now all I gotta do is run one Ethernet cable from the top here straight into my PC. And we can raise and lower the table. So that's all the way to the top. And now we're going down to the bottom. That is so freaking sick, dude. That's actually really smart. Now you don't have to worry about Ethernet cables getting caught. Exactly. This is the perfect solution for a sit-and-stand desk. And I really wish a lot of other sit-and-stand desk companies would incorporate this into their desks. But here we are. All right, I need something a little more exciting than an Ethernet cable connector. Well, I'm glad you asked. I got just the thing. A Home Depot box. What's inside the Home Depot box is gonna add some character, some personality inside this room. After all, this is my setup, right? So we need something that represents me, or at least my channel. That's what's inside this box. Any guesses? Assuming we did a sign for pink loli, is that kind of what we're going for? You're warm. You're in boiling water. Let's put it that way. This is actually the first time I'm unboxing it, so hopefully it didn't arrive broken. Otherwise, that will suck. I'm excited. Freshly painted. Does it smell like victory? Doesn't smell like sadness. Great, we got a T. We got the T. You know what that means. I don't know. Is that a C? P? We got the other half of the S, baby. That's not how that goes. Let's see our way. Wait, there we go. Bam. That's actually fire. It's clean, right? Nothing fancy, no RGB. But I specifically got this custom TS logo in white, so it pops against the black. And you just put it on backwards. Oh no. Oh, I think I scraped it a little bit. Oh god, I gotta be careful. This is freshly painted. You can smell the paint on there. But anyways, it's gonna be going right here in the center somewhere. We'll find the center point. Not too shabby, Aria. Not too shabby. What do you think? I think it looks good so far, but how does it look with the lights on though? That is a good question. Let's find out. Bam. Okay, everybody's alive and no one's dead. That looks clean, I'm not gonna lie. But we still have a lot to do with the panels. We're not quite done yet decorating it, but we're gonna hold off on it and actually focus on the desk now. You guys probably have noticed, we're not gonna be doing a wall-mounted PC because we have a motorized desk. So we're gonna be building a temporary system and we're gonna hang it underneath the desk. That is why we have this. The Seagrow Labs Premium PC Mount. Why do I feel like you're just slowly copying my setup? Slowly. You have this too? Yeah. Dang it. Honestly, this is the only solution because we have no space on the desk for the PC. We're gonna have quad monitors just like my previous setup. We're gonna have two verticals, one ultra wide at the top, and a 27 inch on the bottom. There's literally zero space on the desk for the PC. As much as I want the PC on the desk, my hands are tied. Okay, I take it back. You're not copying me. I don't have four monitors. Well, there you go. You'll never have four monitors. So until I come up with a solution, maybe we do like a custom in-desk water-cooled PC, we're gonna have to go with the under-desk mount. And this is just a temporary PC, guys, until I build Big Red version 6, which is gonna be like a super high-end custom water-cooled build. But just to get the setup started and running, you know, I can still get some work done. Let's work on this. Before we continue, though, how do you feel so far about everything that we've done? Oh, absolutely loving it. Absolutely loving the way it's coming out. I envisioned this. Me and my amazing designer, Danny, from my Discord server brought it to life with his 3D rendering skills. So yeah, if you guys, again, I sound like a broken record, but if you guys need help with 3D designing or rendering, 3D modeling, 3D printing, anything 3D related, hit up my boy, Danny, from my Discord server. He's always coming up clutch with all these renders for all the setups. He is, he is. I saw this on the render, I was like, oh yeah, it's gonna look amazing in person. So this is where we're gonna be mounting our PC to, and it's adjustable. So you pull this knob in the back here and you adjust the height and then you lock it in place. Once you put the PC on here, you slide it from the top, locking it in place so that it doesn't tip over, obviously. The only thing missing is a PC. So I say we go to the studio and build it real quick. Let's do it. I ripped my shirt. No. I tried to pull this damn tag off and it ripped my damn shirt. Oh my God. My wife is not... I like this shirt too. Oh God. What did we learn, Ab? Cut this out of the video. All right, ladies and gents, we are back here in the studio so we can build our PC for the setup. Now this is gonna be temporary until I can get around to building Big Red version 6 because that's gonna be super high-end, water-cooled, 5090, all the bells and whistles, but we are actually downsizing. Oh yeah, we're going with the Micro ATX today. Why M-ATX? Because reasons. I told you, right? I'm getting old. I need better reasons, man. I'm getting old. I can't be moving around chunky 100-pound cases back and forth. Okay, this is temporary until I build my super high-end system and I can't go too small because M-ATX, I give up a lot of connectivity and USB ports and as you know, I have a ton of stuff connected to my gear. So I feel like a good compromise is Micro ATX. We all know how that went. Yeah, things didn't go well. No, no. No, it didn't. But we're gonna be recycling a lot of the parts because I'm a firm believer of if it ain't broke... Don't fix it. Don't fix it, exactly. So we're gonna be reusing a lot of the parts like the 9800X 3D processor, which is sitting underneath this cooler. Unfortunately, we can't use this motherboard because it is a full ATX board. So we have to downsize to the B850M AORUS Elite Wi-Fi 6 Ice. Obviously, this is a white-themed build. So we're gonna be going with mostly white components. I do have my 1,000-watt trusty ASRock 1,000-watt power supply as well. And we are actually gonna be giving myself a little bit of an upgrade. I've been using the 4080 Super for, I think, almost eight months now. So I think I deserve a bit of an upgrade, which is why I'm going with the Gigabyte RTX 5070 Ti. I mean, it's not quite a 5080 or a 5090, but this will keep me satisfied until big red version 6 is ready to go. So let's begin. All right, first things first. Let's get this dinky cooler off of my poor baby, the 9800X 3D, which actually, surprisingly, it kept the CPU very cool. Like, I think I was getting under 80 degrees Celsius around 75C on a 9800X 3D, which is impressive. I mean, it's not ideal, but it did get the job done. It's not ideal, but it's a very efficient chip. So no complaints, to be honest. But obviously, we're gonna be upgrading to a full 360 cooler because we got the space for it inside the case. So why not take advantage of it? Aria is wondering if there's gonna be any burn marks on the CPU. And I told him, absolutely not. All right, let's see. Do we got any burn marks like Aria predicted? Maybe some rubbing alcohol. Come on now, what, what? This is good enough. No, look at that. It's clean. Clean as a whistle. Oh my lord, what is that? Do you see that? I see that. What is that? That's exactly what I was talking about. Oh my god. Is that the burn mark you were talking about? That was exactly what I was talking about. It almost looks like a fingerprint spot. Like when it gets too, like, moist, you know? Maybe that's what's been causing all your issues all along. Oh my god. Remember Saturday nights, you always had those, you know, crashes. It doesn't smell burned. Well, you had those crashes on Saturday nights. That would probably... That's wild. But it's not even an ASRock board. Like, I know there's issues on ASRock motherboards with the X3D chips. That's crazy. Can you actually see that on the camera? Oh yeah, I can pick it up on the camera. Oh my lord, hold up. That can't be. Maybe just some thermal paste. Maybe clean off some rubbing alcohol so you can... I can see it on the... Oh, is it? Actually, hold on. You can kind of see it right here on that right side. I can't get a good angle on the camera, but I can see it in person. Oh, you can kind of see it. Yeah, right there. If I can kind of see it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Right there. That's insane. Wait, what does that even mean? Does that mean my CPU could have fried? Like, eventually? Who's to blame here? AMD or Asus? That's what I want to know. The builder. Well, we're doing a heart transplant to a Gigabyte board. So, I mean, hopefully it doesn't get worse. But I guess time will tell. Either way, I mean, this is a temporary... Now I'm worried. If that was a 9800X3D, I had that issue. I should probably go check my 7800X3D. You probably should. If you guys are running an X3D chip, check on your boy. So, unfortunately, with the memory prices being so ridiculous, I'm gonna have to reuse my current memory. I think this is a 96 gigabyte kit. So, it's a dual 48 gigabyte kit from G.Scale. The Trident Z5 RGBs in white. Why upgrade the memory if I can just reuse it, right? And obviously, you're gonna have to reuse the storage as well. I'm just gonna borrow one of these for my PC. And we have two additional 8 terabytes for the secondaries. I'm just gonna reuse the storage until I add more later. I see you got a new toy. Yes. Actually, have you heard of the 83 piece? I did not, actually. 83 piece. 83 piece electric screwdriver kit. It's still out of stock. But by the time you're watching this video, we might have some stock. I'll drop a link to it below if you guys want to check it out. Obviously, you got your electric screwdriver with four different torque settings. But check this out. You also have a manual handle. And check this out, Aria. It's longer than yours. Wait, how do you know? Um, a bunch of bits over here. You got all your bit selections over here in the middle. And check this out. I bet you guys didn't even know. Box cutter knife inside a toolkit. Have you seen that before? No, I have not. Yep, it definitely does box cutter things. Case dismissed. You know what I actually just noticed? This is our first ever PC build together. We've done a sim rig build, but we've never done a PC build. And maybe this will be like a test between you and me in the audience watching. Like if you guys are thoroughly enjoying this experience with me and Aria building a PC, maybe, just maybe, you know, I'm throwing some ideas out here. Maybe I call them over for every big PC project I do on the channel. Some food for thought. Let me know in the comment section. What do you guys want to see? Because I don't want to overload the channel with Aria. Like you guys see him in the Micro Center videos enough, I feel like. But, you know, maybe once in a while... You want the balance. Yeah, I feel like it's a nice balance of Aria. I don't want people to get sick of you. Like I'm getting sick of you. Okay. So here we are. I got all three of my eight terabyte M.2 SSDs out. Unfortunately, they are Gen 3 drives, but I will be upgrading to Gen 4 and a single Gen 5. These are Gen 3? I thought you were on Gen 4 already. No, no, these are like way like from Big Red version 4, I believe. I just kept translating. No wonder I always slowed loading up. I will be upgrading to Gen 5, obviously, for Big Red version 6, but these will just be a placeholder in the meantime. But anyways, we are done with dismembering our motherboard. We're going to put this to the side and we're going to bring over our B850M Aorus Elite Wi-Fi 6. Baby, let's go! I've actually been digging this board except in black, but unfortunately, in the U.S., they don't sell it in black. They don't sell this in the U.S. in black? Really? That is weird. In Europe, they have it in black, but not here. See, there's actually more benefits of having you here in the studio. I actually learned a lot from you as well. And for once, I'm not like talking just to the camera. There's somebody else in the studio building the PC with me. I just, I feel like it's more exciting for me personally. Oh my god, that's such a beautiful motherboard. Check that out. Look at that. Aorus, honestly, you guys just kill it. You guys kill it when it comes to white motherboards. But as I was saying, the only downside with this is we only have two M.2 SSD slots. Are you sure? I believe you have two, actually. I'm pretty confident, actually. So there it is. Just two. One here and one there. So I'm going to be missing out on an 8 terabyte drive, which is fine. I mean, this is just going to be like all my videos that we rendered out. These two are more important. So let's pop those in. How do you know which is which? I actually don't know. I mean, I guess we'll have to test it out when the PC's done. I should have probably just marked them, but oh well. Well, hey, if the PC doesn't boot, we know why. That's one way to find out, too. Luckily, it's a quick switch, so. Yeah, yeah, it's a quick switch indeed. Okay, motherboard is officially ready to go. I say we prep the cooler before we install it inside of our case. Okay. Let's pop it. Actually, speaking of case, how does it look on the inside? Let's find out. Assuming I know how to open this thing. I'm assuming it's just this thing. Nope, I bent it. I actually bent it trying to open it. It would be nice to take off the screw first. Well, no, this is for the top panel. Well, maybe you do need to remove the top panel. Maybe there's a screw holding it in place. Okay, that comes off. We're almost there. One at a time. There we go. Okay, we're just very, very tight. Gotcha. What do you think about the case design though? I'm digging it. You're digging the floating style? It's pretty cool. You can actually put your phone over here. Oh, it comes with pre-installed fans as well. Triple 120s in the bottom. And we got reverse blades on the side. Sometimes you just gotta use force in life to get what you want. All right, let's prep the cooler next. Maybe I shouldn't have cut a hole. Why? I was demonstrating a box knife. God damn it. If this is damaged because of that, I'm gonna laugh. I'm gonna laugh. Now there's no resale value. Oh, you know, oh, whoa, whoa. That looks pretty sweet. Oh, fans pre-installed too. I have used a lot of Dark Flash coolers before, but I have never seen anything quite like this. What in God's name is that design? Not gonna lie, I actually like the blade design. That's actually sick. Now what's your go-to method for thermal paste? I like to spread things. That was the longest stare you've ever done. But no, I like to spread the paste, as everyone who watches the channel knows. This is some tough paste, actually. Oh, look, it comes with a spreader. I like when my paste is a bit slippery. I'm like, not necessarily wet, but more smooth. Like this one's a bit hard to spread, but I want to make sure I cover the entire IHS. Leave no room for error, essentially. See, like even the smallest lift and it just breaks apart. All right, I already popped this inside the case. Here we go. Wait, are the standoffs hooked up? No, they're not. Bro, okay, Dark Flash, I am taking away two points. It's a micro ATX case. Why don't you have the standoffs in the places for a micro ATX motherboard, right? True. Is that too much to ask for, Aria? Yes, it is. Come on, it can't be too easy. Always gotta put in extra work. But you know what? I will give the points back. They gave me a microfiber cloth. I'm always losing my microfiber cloth. So I will give Dark Flash some points. The honors, Aria? Man, that's always satisfying. Almost as satisfying as that one night in Cabo. When was that? I don't know. I always like to make things hard for myself. I don't know why. Why do you? I don't know. I'm just built different. You know, I do wish Dark Flash would have made the interior of the case white as well, right? Like why make the outside white if you're going to keep the inside black? You know what? Here's my theory. I think they did that because they don't have the white version of the fans. They're like, what blends in with the fans better? Well, not only that, I kind of like the design of it being half white, half black. Because then you can mix and match. It gives me height white 40 vibes. Whether you have the white outer shell and then the black interior. I mean, it's nice. Don't get me wrong. But if you're someone like me who wants to do like an all white build, it just kind of throws it off, you know? But to each their own. Unfortunately, there's a bit of a design flaw with this case is these standoffs do not align with the holes of the motherboard. So if you're building a micro ATX, well, actually really any motherboard in here, even if it's ITX, you cannot screw these in. So that is unfortunate, but it is what it is. The good news is despite the micro ATX form factor, we can fit up to a 360 AIO on the top area. That's actually a good thing. Which is why we got this baby. I love daisy chaining, but I don't love daisy chaining because there's so much cable clutter. Look at all this. There's gotta be a better way. Like daisy chaining, right? Like how Lian Li does it with magnetic fans. Like I know my- That's one of my favorite systems, but the fans themselves are a fortune. Yeah. Unfortunately, it's just going to cost an arm and a leg. It's the price you pay, right? For convenience. Unfortunately, that's just how it goes. As much as I love Lian Li, their price kind of makes me want to run away at times. Where are you running away to? From their stuff. Okay. Have you seen the prices? You go to the grocery store? Tax. Go to gas station? Tax. Yeah. Breathe air? Breathe. Tax. That's why I'm getting the hell out of here. Oh, you want sleep? Tax. You get tax for sleep? Yeah, I don't know. Property taxes. You sleep in your home. Five minutes later. You have fun over there? One day, I'll get all these damn cables through the case. I love daisy chaining, but I mean, it's just, it gets a little excessive at some point. Wait a minute. Don't tell me this doesn't fit. You're kidding. Am I missing something? Well, actually, no, hang on. It's because it's hitting the fan over here. Which honestly isn't that big of an issue because we can just shift it down literal and then it should fit. Oh, can we? Yeah, we can. Oh yeah, we can. I was like, does Dark Flash's own cooler don't fit in their own damn case? I was about to like... This is reminding me of the... Do you remember a 280 aerial that I got and then fit the case? Yeah. There you go. There we go. That is a very tight fit. Mamma mia. Can you hold the thing up real quick? This is literally after hours PC building with Aria and Ed. Welcome. Adult swim. Adult swim version. I am down to do like a members only rated R PC build. You need a side channel, but it's only rated R. Sex source. Cancelled. Immediately cancelled. This is why we can't have nice things. I can already imagine that termination letter from YouTube. From YouTube. That is a long ass tube. What the hell? Are you trying to route an AIO to NASA? To the moon and back. Why is the tube so long? Is it because it's a micro ATX case? Probably, right? I mean, even then the ATX wouldn't be that big because you know, ATX really is just the bottom piece is just extended. That's true. It's the same. It's the same width. It's so flaccid. All right, Dark Flash. We need to have a talk. We do need to have a talk. Why are your tubes so long, my guys? Better question is which way we're supposed to... I don't know. I'm trying to figure it out. I'm like, why are you... Because the bracket's missing. There we go. Now, maybe now we have some clarity because... Maybe take off the plastic before you even... No, no, the plastic will stay on. Here we go. Okay. It's only this way, which means the tubes have to be on the side, which means false advertising. Hang on. Does the screen touch? I don't want to hear it. Okay, so it's magnetic. So where I'm getting at is I think me and you need to swap places at this point. Dude, you want to bring this table down? Why? Is it too tall for you? Yeah. What do you think I am? Six foot five? I keep forgetting you're the height of a leprechaun. It's not that I'm short. It's the fact that you're tall. Sure. We'll go with that. I mean, the only logical way I see is maybe the tubes being on this side. You forgot to peel the thing, didn't you? Get over here. Anyways, yeah, we're going to be... First of all, we're going to peel this off. Two cycles and we still didn't peel that off. We do need the USB cable. Actually, we can take that off. Yeah. We should probably reapply a thermal paste the amount of times we smudged it. No, we're not going back. We're not going back, Marty. Well, if we have hot spots, we know why. We have hot spots. An actual hot spot on the CPU. We don't want any more. Okay, time for the supply power. I have no issues with my 1000 watt from ASRock. So why not reuse it in our system? It's also white, so it matches the color scheme. Oh, do I have... Oh, we have the 600 watt power cable as well. So yeah, everything's already connected. Let's do it to it. Okay, now it's time to pop in our beloved RTX 5070 Ti from Gigabyte. This is the Eagle model. It's going to be a nice upgrade to my 480 Super. Yeah, if it works. I think the 480 Super actually performs faster than the 5070 Ti. They're neck and neck, really. I'm downgrading. Yes and no. Unless you factor in DLSS. There you go. That's why I'm saying like yes and no. I can't put that black card inside of my system. It'll ruin the build. It's temporary anyway, so whatever. To be fair though, you are getting faster memory on this one. So that is one trade-off. You make a good point. Pop this in. Will it fit is a better question. Oh yeah, plenty of space. Bam! That actually looks pretty good. Now it's time to plug in all the cables and fire it up. See how it performs. Oh, I know one more thing that's going to make this PC pop, Aria. What would that be? Hydro cables, baby. We got one for the 24-pin and we have a 16-pin. So check this out. Instead of this nasty bulky 24-pin cable, we're going to be going with this. Look how clean this thing is. And this is actually perfect for these super tight bends where a normal 24-pin would have problems. This one doesn't because the cable actually bends. Bam! Look at that. Super clean. And we got one for the 16-pin cable as well. This one actually plugs directly into your power supply. So no extensions. No more adding clable, clable cutter. Clable? No more adding cable cutter inside of your build. So this one I'm actually going to run through the top and into. Check that out. How clean is that? That is a thousand times better than this. Not going to lie, with how long the tubes are from the AIO, it actually fits perfectly because it just blocks everything. That's true, actually. Yeah, it also kind of blends in with the tube style. Yeah. Okay, now time to work on the rest of the cables and fire her up. Let's get started. Okay, the only thing left to do is add my boy Vegeta on the screen so we can take this back into my office. We're going to be using the Space Station app for the AIO so we can customize our screen. There's actually quite a few pretty cool themes to choose from. This car one's actually pretty cool, but you know what? Let's make our own. So I'm going to make a custom theme, upload my very own background. We got my boy Vegeta. The cool thing about this is you can actually zoom in, which is basically their version of crop. So that way we can see the entire GIF. Now I can take this a step further if I really wanted to and add system information. So there's like a bunch of different options over here. Let's say if I want to check out my CPU temperature, I just drag this over here on the screen and I can literally put this anywhere I want. So it's like fully customizable, which is nice. We can change the font color as well. Let's just say, I don't know, red for example. And we can even adjust the opacity. That's pretty dope. You can make the size bigger. We can even add an FPS counter, which is pretty cool. But you guys know how I feel about text overlaying my images. So I'm just going to delete all of this and keep Vegeta on here. Okay, here's the final look of my 10 PC. And I got to say, it looks pretty damn sweet. The yellow trim around the fans aren't as noticeable now that we have the RGB lighting enabled and the form factor is perfect. Big Red version 6 will no doubt be a micro ATX build. I thought I wasn't going to like the undermount PC, but I'm honestly digging it. You can still see it. Yeah, I'm going to be standing a lot with this desk. So all I got to do is like take one step back and you can see it. It's not like it's tucked away in the corner, like in the back there. You're not fixated sitting down like your last setup. Yeah, exactly. I'm actually digging it. All right, ladies and gents, it is finally time to bring in the big guns. What big guns? You got none. Those are tiny ones. Just wait right here and I'll show you. Okay, don't you think this is slightly excessive? Oh baby, we are just warming up.