The ULTIMATE Sleeper PC Build

In the automotive world a sleeper is typically a slow car like say a Toyota, Cressida That has been modified to be insanely fast And there's another key element the best sleepers like this one from mighty car mods feature no external modification So potential challengers would have no way of knowing that it's capable of chopping them to shreds eating aforementioned shreds then pooping them out, so inspired by this concept we grab the nastiest oldest your great-uncle is still using it for some reason case that we could find and Vowed to make it smash gains once more meet Hubert, play name plain looks plane performance You know that kind of plane? Synergy allows you to share your mouse and keyboard between multiple computers at once check it out now at the link in the video description So first we needed a case and our good friends over at Free Geek hooked us up with this, an Ntech Sx 840 which back in the day was pretty dope but after almost 15 years of filth collection, well Let's just say it was Perfect opening it up though the insides actually could have been a lot worse all things considered I wonder if this thing has even been opened since shortly after it passed QC back in 2003 I really hate that that's a long time ago now anyway Next order of business was a plan to pack it full of as much power and water cooling as we could and because Alex can't resist an opportunity to fire up that copy of Solidworks that they gave us for just such occasions We created a model of the case and started Virtually test-fitting our components radiator in the bottom with vent holes Hmm. Well that could fit, but then we'd be stuck with a single graphics card Unacceptable so we settled then on a thick triple radiator in the front this might seem slightly overkill But these new core i9 processors run hot as hell when overclocked and we wanted to be able to push up this baby as far as possible Time to head down to the workshop we pulled the drives then spent about the next half an hour drilling out rivets with our trusty bottle of rapid tap Ah, that's better I mean who needs ancient mechanical drives when you can have more room for cooling time for a test fit then before we make any Irreversible modifications. Our pump reservoir position was the trickiest to figure out At first we wanted it to go in the bottom But because of the PCIe slot positioning on our Asus Prime X2-99 Deluxe we couldn't make that work There is some room up top but that would make filling the system more difficult without putting in a fill port in the top and ruining our Beautiful sleeper aesthetic, so finally we came up with an idea Maybe we could mount it to the fan I mean sure, that's not the greatest for airflow and it means that we'll have to be darn careful while drilling into them But it might be just crazy enough to work. How to mount the radiator though? Holes in the front of the case would be the most obvious solution but stealing the top radiator mount from a master case pro 5 would save us some time, so we flattened it out a bit and Oh, shoot.

Still about a half an inch too thick not a problem though. It's angle grinder man to the rescue so with the cuts tidied up it did still interfere slightly with the Motherboard Tray rivet, so Out those came with the drill and these holes here should serve us well for mounting the radiator. Of course though our troubles weren't finished and we were still having some difficulty. Getting it in due to these pesky tabs thankfully almost every problem in life can be solved with abrasives Much better.

To line up the screw holes, We poked the drill through the existing holes and gave it a little spin just to remove some of the paint so we knew where to drill. Next we center punched where the screws would be and drilled on through we then poor-man's tapped them out with some thumb screws and a lot of love and Holy Crap! This might actually work Now since the reservoir can't go anywhere else we had to make some modifications to this poor fan So we started small then worked our way up to the thicker objects. That's always the best way Okay, then awesome the reservoirs mounted But clearly we'll need more airflow. Angle grinder to the rescue again and as though like Magic That's more like it so with hopefully all of our modifications to the case finished It was time to finish it off with a nice coat of black tape So at this point, we were ready to slap all the parts in, plan out our water cooling loop and Call it a day, but then Shortly after the cameras turned off for the night Getting jiggy with it came on the radio and we realized the soft tubing we'd planned Wasn't big willy style.

So we flip the script and flip the red Extended the rest and devised the plan for a loop sexy and hard enough for even the biggest willies So instructions for hard line then measure cut fill heat Bend check insert secure Rinse and repeat until done. Custom hard line water cooling easy as that After several hours of cable management, man old cases suck for that We were ready for the final touch-ups So we disassembled the loop installed the storage, ram, 80 millimeter OG Case fans which only got cleaned on the inside to maintain our sleepers perfect external fill and then reassembled the loop and filled it up So, then at this point. We put back together the outside of the case front panel goes on with double side tape, CD and floppy drives the side panels go back on and would you look at that? It's still awful and dirty on the outside Leaving anyone without a very keen eye to dismiss it as old crap But open it up And holy freak. Is it beautiful and with the horses to back it up.

With an intel core i9-7900X 10 cores, 64 gigs of ram RGB of course. Dual Geforce GTX 1080. Samsung 940 Pro SSD in a fully custom water cooling loop We are looking at a machine that can run with pretty much anything out there today, while staying both cool and quiet That is if, you disable the rear fans... Cause they're really really loud.

So bask in the glory now of Hubert and stay tuned for dale Because the sleeper PC series is far from over So if you're a game developer or a video editor or you, uh You use both linux and windows one for serious work and one for gaming Whatever the reason is that you have two computers Synergy solves once and for all the problem of needing to have two keyboards and two mice to go with them because it allows you to share your peripherals between multiple computers, so you won't get confused anymore they have a basic and a pro option for Synergy With a one-time payment for features that include copy and pasting between the computers dragging and dropping files between computers The ability to set up hotkeys and more. And the best part is that synergy works cross-Platform between Windows, Mac and even Linux. So check out the link in the video description and get 50% off Synergy today So thanks for watching guys if you disliked this video I'm sorry that you hate fun but if you liked it hit that like button get subscribed and maybe consider checking out where to buy the stuff we featured At the link in the video description also down there is a link to Free Geek huge shout out to them for hooking us up here as Well as our community forum and our merch store both of which you should check out.

The ULTIMATE Compact Sleeper PC Build

Our first sleeper PC; we nicknamed him Hubert, rocked dual GTX 1080's, a Intel Core i9 processor and Hardline liquid cooling crammed into a pretty old Antec case So how do we one-up something like that? Ha-ha, meet Hubert's brother Dale. Sure, Dale is a bit smaller and wayy older, but don't let his outward appearance fool you because, this build Sponsored by Intel, is about as fast as a gaming PC can be in 2017. * Laszlo - Supernova* We knew that for a small form-factor sleeper, we needed a really unique case as a starting point. And our good friends over at Free Geek Vancouver were able to provide just that.

They have everything there. This Morrow Designs MD3 hails from 1982 making it older than literally, everyone in our office, and it has clearly seen better days. With its dual floppy bass and 8-bit operating system, this puppy would have cost about three thousand dollars back in its day But it hasn't worked in years, and even if it did, it is basically useless now. Cracking it open, other than this massive dust bunny, it's really not that bad though all things considered.

So with the internals removed, it was time to do some test fitting. Now, unfortunately, a full sized, high end GPU is just a bit too long to fit. But ZOTAC had exactly the right medicine, this mini GTX 1080Ti with a water cooling block. So, huh, I guess we'll have to water cool the system now then, but that's not going to be easy in such a small space, and we're gonna be limited to a thick, single radiator.

But we're hoping that that's going to be enough, which brings us to the best part of every mod, angle grinding! From the factory, there's mounting for literally no modern hardware, so all of the cutouts for I/O and mounting had to be created from scratch. For the motherboard here, It was, basically a case of cut-a-bunch-out-with-the-angle-grinder-then-come-in-with-the-Dremel for a while, and finally finish off with a hand file. This one hole here, actually took close to four hours, since there was no going back if we slipped up. Now in 1982 120 mil fans for PCs were not a thing at all, so we needed a new fan hole.

With some help from this cable management tie, we cut it out using the cannibal, and then at this stage We also drilled lots of holes for everything to mount on the bottom. We decided to position the GPU above the motherboard. This ended up being a bit tricky, because Originally, we were going to use this 3D Printed bracket, but it was Really ugly and not in like a cool vintage way, so we opted to Very slowly, create mounting points for the backplate and holes for the I/O to fasten It directly to the back of the chassis instead. Bringing us to test fit time.

And it looks good! Now, for the front of the floppy drives, just to be sure, and... Oh crap! Ooh, I guess that interferes with the radiator No worries, though. Just a little bit of hole enbiggenment, and Dale is off to get a fresh coat of paint, BUT only on the inside. On that topic, let's talk about what's under the hood.

For the CPU we went with Intel's Core i7 8700K making dale as good as it gets for gaming for our motherboard We chose an Asus Z370I Gaming, with a Samsung NVME SSD underneath this sexy heatsink Then to keep the CPU cool, We're using an EK Supremacy full nickel block. We decided against an acrylic block since it'll actually have to help hold up the graphics card And also, because you won't be able to see it anyway. For our radiator, We went with a 120 millimeter single rad from alpha cool. That is a massive 60 millimeters thick and then for our pump we're using an EK SPC 60 with a built in cylindrical reservoir.

We went with these super sexy white fittings and black acrylic tube both provided by bits power for a sleek monochrome look The first bend was one of the hardest since it needs to come around our PCI Express extender and then make a funky bend too, so We ended up just making a little steak out of black fittings in hopes that nobody would notice right here The bending wasn't finished yet, though. Next this 90 degree from the pump to the res and after that a nice long tube from the GPU back to the radiator Both of which were made the perfect length with a bit of help from the bench sander Now, we just need to do a bunch of little touch-ups to make it perfect like Splicing together the LEDs for the drives so they can be attached to the hard drive header Soldering on the front panel connector that we borrowed from another case so that the OG power button and LED would still work gently removing the print and modem ports massaging them with the uh, sander before inserting them and then finally... Screwing and double-sided taping the fronts to the floppy drives back in their original positions the insides we finished off with this sweet purple cathode from bits power and U N B E L I E V A B L E. 800 Watt 80-plus titanium SF XL modular power supply from silverstone And some cleanup from Ivan the cable management king Perfect.

Now, Let's fill the loop making sure to use a secondary power supply so that in the unlikely event that we have a spill- OH SH** Seriously you guys forgot a plug on the radiator. Oh, man I mean, it... At least it wasn't out in the open I'm an idiot Yes But now you're not alone my friend so my team of skilled boaters Remove the rad added a plug and tightened everything down- AHA NO It leaked again. What are you guys even doing this time the tubing is full! No worries though, what you're looking at right now is a perfectly legitimate Strategy for emptying a loop by the way Yes, perfectly legitimate totally not weird So after swapping out some of the fittings...

Third time's a charm We were finally leak-free to see how Dale runs And performance wise? Oh... It runs Idle temps are in the 20s, and then under full synthetic load on the CPU and GPU. For half an hour with the lid closed Dale held steady at 80 degrees with the CPU still turbo Eng - 4 gigahertz on all six cores though it should be noted that he did get a little loud in this scenario As for games though, here things got even more impressive. Dale, in spite of his looks can drag race with ANY challenger He is one of the fastest, small form factor computers on the market with frames per second in the hundreds on ultra and And even during heavy extended gaming sessions He stayed reasonably quiet with GPU temperatures maxing out at 53 degrees so let's bask then in the glory of Dale and Look out for our next addition to the sleeper family...

Margaret [80's music plays] So, thanks for watching guys if you dislike this video you can hit that button But if you liked it, hit like, get subscribed maybe consider checking out where to buy the stuff we've featured... How about a core i7 processor even if you can't get this case to put it in at the link in the video description Also down. There is our merch store, which has full shirts like this one and our community forum, which you should totally join.

The Most HIPSTER PC Weve Ever SEEN!

Remember the good old days when your desktop was in your own room where it could be as big And bright and loud as you wanted without anybody yelling at you Unfortunately for many of us Life is just not that simple anymore Maybe you're in a dorm room or in a studio apartment with no walls or maybe your wife Just never lets up with that computer is so ugly can't you just use a laptop? It doesn't go with our Reimagined boho aesthetic That's what she sounds like Anyway, whatever the reason there are times when it's beneficial for your gaming rig to be inconspicuous Or have an air of sophistication And if you like the cut of my jib then I'd like to introduce you to the volta V. On the outside, it's a mature Piece for your space, but on the inside it's a frame rate destroying Beast Synergy allows you to share your mouse and keyboard Between multiple computers at once. Check it out now at the link in the video description the Volta V is a 15.6 Leader complete system from computer direct outlet whose Custom-designed enclosure is made of domestically sourced Selectively cut you USA walnut, or, if you're more into chow mein than apple pie, bamboo. ;) In many ways it's a wonderful marriage of form and function.

The uninterrupted facade makes it look completely at home on your desk or Entertainment centre, while the front i/o on the side is still easy to access. The rest of the i/o is at the back, well *cough* Actually, in an effort to streamline cable management, most of the i/o's Actually inside the box and we access it simply by lifting off The magnetically held lid, no tools required. Not all of it though Is that easy to get at due to the 92 millimeter rear cooling fan. With that said, inside We've got an entire motherboard's worth of connections our asrock 2 70 MITx AC is equipped with dual Gigabit LAN ports six USB three, five gig ports; no type-c though, onboard AC Wi-Fi, and three video outputs But you won't need those because there's an HDMI port and three DisplayPort ports on the back of the *record scratch* what GT X 1080 TI.

Very nice, so what else is in here? While there are a ton of options on CDO's site our unit has a core i7 7700 K. KB Lake chilled by a 92 millimeter ASA Tech all-in-one liquid cooler with 16 gigs of DDR four RAM and a 512 gig samsung 960 pro m.2 SSD. Power is taken care of by 600 watt SFX power supply from Corsair with custom length cables to keep everything nice and tidy inside which is a nice touch because Even with a few questionable decisions, like the friction mount for the radiator, it looks And feels as classy and premium inside as it does out It's little things like the shielded PCIE riser and quiet and efficient Noctua fans Which brings us to thermals. Air is drawn in through these easy to clean nylon dust filters Then it's exhausted out the back end in three discrete cooling zones; for the power supply GPU, and everything else, and even with all of those high-performance parts inside there was no smoke, and No thermal throttling.

Though I will admit that after running synthetic benchmarks for a while the room did *inhale* Smell a little woody it even stayed impressively quiet though. At idle it's barely louder than the noise floor in our office, and while it does of course get louder under load, it never Screamed like some small form-factor systems do. Bottom line then the Volt of ease can make short work of your favorite games without causing a CodeRed Even if it's sitting on your desk just a few centimeters away and That's a fine spot to put it since it's designed to support your monitor on top of hide your keyboard underneath That is unless you have a mechanical keyboard which brings us to the volt of ease' shortcomings. The biggest one being the feet.

Our unit is missing one and The ones that we do have simply roll off whenever you slide them across the very desk they're meant to protect So I give them an F+ *Yay!* Furthermore some of the unsanded surfaces And the roughly cut emi shielding leave the volt of E. Feeling less finished than you'd expect a fine piece of furniture to be, the lack of anything resembling a deliberate alignment on this end of the case makes my OCD flare up something fierce and Finally, there are some problems with what designers call "affordance" This recess for example seems to imply that I should lift from this side but actually I'm required to lift from here where there is no recess and To me the protruding front piece looks like a drawer that I should pull on but it doesn't open. These might sound like nitpicky things but considering the cost of this case I have to mention them. Our configure came to three thousand four hundred and nine dollars Which means that after custom power supply cables air filters and a PCI Express extender We are still well over a thousand dollars for the lifetime service warranty and the chassis.

So is that worth your money? Well, depending on what kind of furniture stores you shop in it'll either look like a ripoff or a Bargain, so I will leave that up to you and focus on the stuff that we can quantify the volta v Gets the thermals and noise right and is easily serviceable and upgradable all while looking subjectively gorgeous. The only trick then is getting some furniture budget allocated to it without also giving up some of the boy toy budget Synergy is a software download that solves once and for all the problem of having multiple computers and Multiple keyboards and mouse connected to them so you have to like Physically move if you want to go between them together remember Which one goes to which it's a nightmare it allows you to share one Mouse and one keyboard Between two or more computers over the network, so you'll no longer confuse Which one goes to which and the best part is it works cross-platform, so you can have your Windows Station for gaming and your Mac station for productivity and your Linux station and you can just Drag the mouse across the screens seamlessly, they've got features like clipboard sharing between the computers drag and dropping files between computers the ability to set up hotkeys and more so check out their basic and pro options and save 50% on synergy at the link in the video description. So thanks for watching guys if this video sucked You know what to do But if it was awesome get subscribed hit that like button and check out the link to where to buy the stuff we featured in The video description also check out our merch storage has cool shirts like this one and our community forum, which you should totally join That's 5 things to do how much fun is that? *Yay!*.

PC Gaming vs Console Gaming - Which Is Better

Video games have come a long way since the
likes of Ataris Pong, a kind of two-dimensional table-tennis game that at the time seemed
like an incredible innovation. In the next decade of the 1980s, video games
really took off, with titles such as Pac-Man and Donkey Kong becoming household names. These could be played at home on a personal
computer, or played on a dedicated games console. In the 70s and 80s such consoles didnt
attract the audiences they have today, although 1977s Atari 2600 and 1983s Nintendo
Entertainment System were proof for the industry that indeed these machines could be a mainstay
in any house.

But some people it seems wont touch a games
console. Why is that? Thats what well find out today, in this
episode of the Infographics Show, PC Gamers vs Console Gamers. First of all, we are not saying its a matter
of if you prefer one to the other and dont crossover from time to time, but it does seem
that gamers to an extent have a preference. Lets take a look at some statistics.

The global video games market in 2018 is said
to be worth in the region of 82.44 Billion dollars. Its expected to go over 90 billion by the
time 2020 comes around. This was according to the website Statistica. A Global Games Market Report shared different
results, stating that the entire global games market by 2020 would reach $143.5 Billion.

The mobile games market alone in 2017 was
said to be worth just over $50 billion. As for the PC market and the console market,
they were almost neck and neck, with expected revenues for the former being $32.3 Billion
and the latter $33.3 Billion. Such high growth in the industry was mainly
down to the Chinese, U.S. And Japanese markets.

According to the same report, which was widely
cited, it seems PC gaming  including a small part of people playing in the browser
and console gaming will stay neck and neck in terms of market share for the next
few years to come. Its anyones guess exactly how many gamers
there are in the world. Are we counting someone who bought a console
and hardly ever played it, or someone who is glued to their PC day and night. For that reason, its difficult to say how
many gamers there are out there.

We can find some industry statistics that
tell us in 2016 there were 1.8 Billion active gamers in the world. The 2017 Global Games Market Report tells
us that it was 2.2 Billion active gamers that year, with the lions share of players using
mobile and tablet. Again, statistics differ, but its thought
that more people play games on a PC than a dedicated console. Its said to be around 62% of gamers use
a PC, while 56% use a console.

This is not a split. It just means 62% of gamers in the world play
on a PC, and some of those will also play games on a console. But why do more people prefer PC-gaming? Well, there are a whole host of reasons we
can find. Well give you a short rundown: The main reason, and it seems this is the
reason why most hardcore gamers prefer the PC, is the power of the machine.

Your PC packs a punch in terms of hardware,
and this means better graphics and smoother playing. This, however, comes at a cost, and is likely
the reason many players are content with what their console provides. Still, you can save some money playing on
the PC, too, as you might have to pay extra when using a console to play multiplayer games. It all adds up.

Another main reason people prefer the PC,
and another way you can save money after paying for your powerful and expensive machine, is
by getting your hands on cheaper games. The Steam platform, for instance, regularly
has sales that are much more enticing than console game sales. Not only that, but you have a much wider selection
of games to buy. The one feather in the console hat here is
that some games for, say Playstation, are exclusive to the console so you cant get
them for PC.

These games are often very popular. We might also add here that there are PC-only
games, too. There are also a bunch of other reasons, such
as you can control games on the PC in all kinds of ways. For some games it might be easier to play
with a mouse, and if its not then just connect your controller.

At the same time, when you have a PC you might
be able to modify the game, which could mean enhancing graphics or adding special content. Now, lets look at these super-powerful
consoles out there. Yes, we know they are being called the best
ever made, but you know full well that not long from now another best ever made will
appear on the market and your old console will end up online for sale. Thats not the same with your PC, because
its easy to upgrade and wont cost you an arm and a leg.

Your PC has staying power. So, in the end all that money you saved buying
a console may not be such a good thing when you take all this into account. Over time, especially if you are a dedicated
gamer, spending big on a PC might not be such a bad idea. But now lets take a look at some forums
and see what you thought about this.

Browsing through various threads where this
question was asked, it seems players mirrored much of what we have just said. Most people prefer PC for the freedom of control
you have, backwards compatibility, better graphics, modifications, and some say the
fact their PC is just more accessible. As for the few that chose console, they said
the exclusives for their machine were things they just couldnt live without. A few other respondents we found said they
just liked the simplicity of a console.

Another respondent that didnt really add
to the debate, but we like his answer, said, Started on consoles, grew up on consoles,
now getting older on consoles, will die on consoles. Actually, we could find quite a few people
that said they started on consoles but have since moved to PCand that they would never
go back. In fact, it doesnt matter where you look,
it seems PC gaming aficionados give pretty much the same reasons. Perhaps one of the more original points someone
made was that he said the PC online gaming community was more mature and less annoying
than the often younger players that use consoles.

Another person added that the PC community
was thriving, welcoming and kind. Just to turn that around, one supporter of
console gaming said on PC there are way too many elitists. There is actually a big debate out there as
to who is the more skilled and mature gamer, with PC gamers seeming to say they take that
prize. Some people divide gamers between elites and
peasants, but that seems more of a joke.

Still, some gamers take it seriously. The best thing we can do now is turn this
over to you and get your thoughts on the matter. Which do you prefer? PC games or console games? Let us know in the comments. Also, be sure to check out our other video
called Minecraft vs Roblox! Thanks for watching, and, as always, dont
forget to like, share, and subscribe.

See you next time!.