Building the Ultimate Sleeper Gaming PC #Helpful Post

hey guys this is Austin and today we're

building the ultimate sleeper gaming PC

and it's all thanks to our friends at

Intel for sponsoring this madness the

rules are very simple we have today

which right now it is 10:40 a.m. to

build an entire sleeper gaming PC and

what does that mean well first of all we

want to find the oldest the most bays

retro-looking chassis we can and load it

up with some properly high-end stuff

we're talking a ninth gen core i7

high-end graphics opt a memory the

entire deal the main idea here is that

we have to have an overkill gaming PC

that looks like it's something from 1999

right like I don't want from the outside

there's no RGB there's no like huge

exhausts or anything like that like this

should look like some old like Windows

XP system but inside it can handle all

the latest games editing whatever we

want to actually throw at it we may want

to go for an ITX supplied but until we

find the case I don't want to commit to

that because I take supplies are more

expensive and generally not yeah well I

should this one's not so bad so we've

got let's go Wi-Fi built in as well as

we can

Oh does it have obtained though I did

support octane okay excellent

let's go ITX we've got I've got the

smallest cooler I can find let's get a

core i7 let's get our obtained I'm just

afraid that 1050 is not gonna be enough

power we need this to be awesome but

it's so hard to pick unless we were able

to find like a properly big old case if

we do I don't think it'll be a problem

but I'm just so nervous like I don't

want to commit to something like I want

it as small as possible what if we get a

low profile card and that's our backup

but we try to put the Arctic's 20/80 eye

in so that was mostly successful the

main thing I'm worried about right now

is that we still have a case there were

a couple in there that looked ok but for

the most part they all it's way too

modern the start of the show here though

is definitely the i7 9700 K it's a ninth

generation Intel processor it is a full

8 core chip and on top of that it's

overclockable now depending on the case

and everything else we choose I'm not so

sure how much we can actually overclock

Gabe but the whole idea here is that I

want to have a system which looks old

and retro and lame on the outside we can

handle the latest games video editing

streaming

whatever now we just have to find the

case and actually build it hey how's it

going I've got a little bit a weird one

I'm looking for an older system

preferably like one of the old like

beige towers I'm mostly just needing it

for the case it doesn't actually have to

be working would you happen to have

anything like that okay good this could

be a problem like do you think we

actually gonna have a real hard time

finding these old systems because he's

right most people just recycled them at

this point

gave me no one really wants them you

wouldn't happen to have any older

desktop towers Mike preferably something

beige no dude it's one o'clock we need

we need to have time to get back to the

office and fill this if we don't get

something in the next like hour we're

screwed there's no way Oh we'll be right

over them all right

okay that's kind of promising so I told

him what we needed he's just gonna give

us the case it might have some parts

they might I think he might just give us

one justic with just the case nothing

hot perfect yes success so Ken pulled

this one out

we're able to find a computer shop with

what I think is the perfect case so it's

nicely beige up front you can see it's

got we're doing that until Celeron got

the old school power button even got a

CD drive now we just have to actually

build this thing but this I mean look at

this imagine walking up seeing this

system and inside you've got a like a

full 20 ATI at core i7 oh man I really

didn't have to pull this one out I

really thought that we had I really

thought we had bitten off more than we

could chew and so with that we have

everything we need to build the ultimate

overkill sleeper gaming PC which is a

little bit of a mouthful but now that I

have a super cool wardrobe change

I think I'm ready come on how can I not

wear this it literally just showed up

Microsoft sent over a Windows ugly

sweater so I really don't know how old

the system is if I was to take a guess I

would say probably early 2000s but the

important thing is is it it has

essentially everything we need or at

least I hope so besides it is to say I

think it's time to pull the motherboard

out and upgrade it with something just a

little bit more modern the first thing

we can remove is our modem which I don't

think we'll be needing any dial-up

anytime soon so that we have our

motherboard damn things have come a long

way what Oh front panel we're gonna look

hilarious with a 28 epi this old system

and our i7 on this tiny little

motherboard that looks a little

interesting but we will make it work the

important thing is that does mount up to

our current spots look at that is this

actually going to work did I decide not

to do a terrible idea so with our

processor installed our cooler on here

our Intel Team memory as well as our RAM

we're ready to see if this actually fits

although it should be fine so if that a

big trigger build is actually already

ready we have the motherboard the core

i7 pretty much everything we need for

the main components now we figure out

how to put in our graphics card our hard

drive or power supply this is not a

crazy high-end unit or anything but

should give us enough power and

importantly at a semi modular which

should be helpful because cables might

be a little tricky in this case all

right three power supply screws should

be enough to keep that in place

I do see a problem and that the back

doesn't quite match the front but as

soon as we put the side panel on I don't

think anyone will be able to know this

excellent all right now now we've made

some progress so that looks pretty close

we still need to install the hard drive

but I actually think it's safe to say

now this is going to work now where are

we gonna put this I believe that's a

three and a half inch type thing oh yeah

no problem right like that

so with this the ultimate sleeper PC

hopefully is ready to go fingers crossed

oh okay I see fan spinning

graphics card spinning it's making

noises okay not a great sign we'll be

right back after a quick BIOS update of

our motherboard so after a little bit of

updating

and downloading and installing the

ultimate sleeper PC lives and I can't

tell you how happy I am with this build

you just look at it I will knit I may

have slightly misplaced the core i7

sticker so run you guys through the

build inside we've got proper components

we've got that core i7 9700 K full eight

cores overclockable the whole deal we

also have an nvidia r-tx 20 80 TI and

that's all inside this chassis which

will be a little bit of a surprise for

most people I expect oh yeah so we even

got the K speaker to work so it's wired

up to the motherboard here so if you

ever have a problem with your super cool

PC you'll get some helpful beeps just

like 2001 and ten days the crazy part of

this build is that everything works

exactly like you would expect the power

button works that speaker works the LEDs

work for the hard drive I mean the only

thing that we don't have fully up and

running is the CD drive because I don't

have an adapter to make it work but I

mean

I'm really surprised what we were able

to find in just a few hours and actually

make it work the fact that we're getting

this kind of performance out of a PC

that looks like this is awesome

I mean look we're maxing out our 1080p

monitor at 185 frames per second that's

full Ultra settings and everything it's

so smooth I love the idea that we were

able to build something but from the

outside looks so old school and so retro

but on the inside has all the power to

gain all the power to stream we can

video edit I mean there's literally

almost nothing we can't do at this PC it

has the power for pretty much anything

we throw at it but the looks from

straight out of 2011 ah

no so that my friends is the ultimate

sleeper gaming PC we've got all the

performance and all the nice

conveniences of a modern system but as

soon as we slide the side panel on from

the outside no one needs to know this is

not a Windows XP 2001 gaming box that

has been sitting in someone's grandma's

basement for 20 years

anyway huge shout-outs Intel for

sponsoring this crazy project if you

guys want to check out the core i7 or

some of the other parts I included in

this build the links will be in the

description we put that 92 millimeter

and a description Cooley's important

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