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It's still better than the verge guide
At least with this build guide there’s application of logic, learning, and good points brought up about how to improve things like labeling.
The fact that both this PC and the Verge PC POST just fine and mine didn't suggests I might be actually retarded.
@@Bloodster8 The verge pc build actually jump cut many times to things being installed correctly. This one was actually just built correctly, badly correct, but correct. :D
Anyone can say that
@@lelandbatey just marginally
Her definition of “I’ll be gentle with everything” scares me.
👀
haha
“I’m scared of breaking things” *proceeds to flail her motherboard with ram and cpu in it around*
RIP GPU
Same
Every time she wiggled that GPU, I was screaming insid- never mind I just got notified that I was screaming on the outside too
I was also screaming on the outside and got notified xDDD
I also got notified
The best part of this was witnessing her gargantuan quantity of confidence despite being inexperienced. And then agreeing to have it filmed. One day I hope to worry this little while assembling a computer.
well to be fair its not her money she has to worry about lol. if she was paying for it im sure she would be nervous to not destroy anything.
Worry is very good when building a couple thousand dollar worth rig
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The less you know, the more confident you are because you don't know how much you don't know.
"I'm just gonna be gentle with everything" *vigorously shakes and whacks motherboard*
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[insert anime protagonist "go gentle" meme here]
wait until she grabs that gpu
the amount it bent made me cringe in a way i didnt know before
Well she learned from Linus
Petition to have Sarah come in for any video that has a product or computer to shake them as a quality test.
Sarah the automated shaker test
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@@real_bork7858 there is no way a bot can hack you from replying
Lmao yes please :D and then linus can drop test it :D
Sarah was pretty much how I felt when buying a PC but I didn't know partpicker existed.
RIP
without part picker id be a lost soul
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Honestly I never used part picker always google. Probably me being dumb but oh well. What works amazing as well is chatgpt. Not only does it tell you compatible parts it can also be asked parts that work well with others. For example what gpu works with ryzen 5 5600 and it’ll give you a list. Also building in general. If you’re new and have questions you don’t wanna waste time finding answers for on google chatgpt can help you pretty fast and explain any problems and fixes.
@@hlarjay7503same, I would have totally gotten a different sized motherboard than intended and a way larger AIO than it could possibly fit in my case 💀💀💀
I will not dog on sara, this is a PERFECT example of "Well I've never done this before I don't understand anything about it, let alone connection tolerances." That said, truly had me rolling at the GPU, the horror.
That thing with the 8 pins is fairly true though. It worked out kind of handy for me on an old Tesla card, it uses 8 pin cpu pinouts not pciE pinouts.
much better than the verge guy anyway...
@@Stand-as-One_Virox even so, if someone like sarah can break the connector loose, it's a bad design. Ignoring Laptops, these ISO connectors are also expected to be used on computer systems that while they may not be used while in motion, will be transported a lot, and subjected to stronger forces. If someone like Sarah can cause a failure by shaking it, the manufacturer failed. These are consumer grade products, and shipping while assembled should be an expected stress on the product.
*I never knew Linus having a stroke for 25 minutes was this good*
I wonder if Madison and Sarah working together would kill him.....
I feel like this is n opportunity to upload the video to pornhub with the title "Linus strokes for 25 minutes, with happy ending"
These new series are essentially linus reacts to his legacy.
just remember! most of this was scripted to happen!
Phrasing...
She exudes “she doesn’t know what’s going on but has spirit” and I love it
Its in😏
"she a little confused but she got the spirit!"
that's the energy we need
I do love her energy here
We have a word for that. It's called moxie
She would probably find it way less fun if she had actually purchased all of those components herself and would therefore have to take the loss if she had damaged anything. That's the only legitimately stressful part about building a pc as a total newbie. You've spent all of this money on components and now you have to assemble them all without screwing anything up. If you do, you're on the hook for replacing it. Something tells me she might have been a bit more cautious if that were the case
If she paid for the parts she wouldn't do half the shit she did specially what was done to the gpu
I always partially build some of my PCs myself, but I always was scared of damaging the CPU. But after doing a complete build, I realized that installing the CPU is probably the easiest part of the entire build xD
No, I don't think that's that. She wiggled the GPU (and other stuff) because she was worried that if it was not secured it wouldn't work or would create some problems (more than she was worried about the connectors). However, if she had to buy all these things herself, she wouldn't have gotten to the point of deciding whether or not to wiggle the GPU, because she wouldn't have done any of it to begin with - she'd have bought a pre-built computer, like 99% of those who buy a desktop do.
@@KEEYBLADE agreed haha. Installing the CPU is a weird process, but it's very straightforward and has basically zero room for failure, because either you do it right, or you can't do whatever you intended to do. If you have the common sense not to force the CPU into the socket, there's nothing that can go wrong, normally.
@@azaria_phd unfortunately common sense isn't really common...
It was WAY more stressful for Linus to watch than it was for her to build. My daughter built a computer with me standing there to answer questions. I did install the CPU cooler as she was not sure about that.
“we don’t yolo” -guy who made a solid gold controller
And built the best gaming pc
... and tried to convince his wife to keep it
And invested in gme
He literally yolo’d 30K on $GME, and he didn’t even realise
@@marcellkovacs5452 it was 50k.
Sarah's husband : are the kids ok? Sarah(shakes the kids upside down): i think yes
this comment has me rolling
Lol
LMAO! 😂😂👍👍
loool!!!
I was just about to write such a comment, wonderful!
Props to Sarah for being vulnerable. I know quite a bit about computers and yet I'm still not confident I could build my own PC without some amount of help.
Did you build your computer
I think it is unrealistic to expect anyone to go into this on their own. Everyone I know came to me if they wanted a computer, asking if I could help them, which I could.
She wasn't on her own, she had linus and most importantly google If she actually thought about watching at the very least one video she would t have had this much trouble
Yeah man it’s true
I know that feeling I have been there for many many people but I love building pcs so I don't mind helping others.
@@guardiancreator same.
Meh, I did it on my own and everything turned out ok. Definitely scary and I definitely did more research than Sara seemed to but honestly after seeing this video I have a new respect for the durability of these parts.
"Is this seriously Madison? Doesn't she have work to do?" ...Madison, Social Media Coordinator
i mean, work means helping the company to get bigger. And, if she is clicking on the forum many times, than its higher rated on Google, so LMG gets more reputation and more people get know to about it. Aint that much more work? So she is working for sure!
@@bigsmoke6414 Thanks Big Smoke, very cool!
@@bigsmoke6414 Big Smoke, we made Big Steak
Flushing Linus's money down toilet and flexing on the haters. LMAO
@@ivo215 You haven’t watched the whole thing yet, have you?
Linus: She found the CPU, that's better than some of the ROG rig reboot contestants. Maddison: BIG OOF.
My thoughts exactly
OUF*
@@bondjw07 OEUF*
@@matekovacs2696 œf
I get that the point of this is to show an extreme example, but it's pretty misleading and a bit unfair to her. I started pretty blind but I definitely didn't pick my parts in one sitting and was watching a guide/referencing the manuals the whole way. Which is just... what you should do when you're not building a computer on camera with time constraints. I have to imagine her experience would be pretty different if she was doing this on her own time and didn't have a limit on asking questions. But even then, she figured it out!
Well, this is LTT. Their purpose is not to portray reality; it's to entertain their audience. Which makes the whole bit where Linus criticises companies for not making things easier for average consumers come across a bit... I don't know, a bit fake? Like they haven't earned the right to criticise anyone, because they intentionally made it harder than it should be? Almost. I mean, he's not wrong either. I'm somewhat tech savvy, but stopped following PC hardware quite a while ago, and the current landscape is confusing even for me. An average consumer has no chance of making sense of all the confusing model numbers without doing a ton of research, and most of the information they'll find will fly right over their heads. It's just that, he makes it look like the true thing he says is a conclusion he draws from Sara's struggles. But most of her struggles were caused by the format they enforced on her.
@@EvenTheDogAgrees considering this is a follow-up to the secret shopper videos where the whole point is to just have a person with no knowledge on the subject buy a computer very quickly, it wouldn't make any sense to have her dedicate the time most people put into researching parts and the process. There are artificial restraints put on her but by no means are they unrealistic, and it does show that companies can do a better job explaining model numbers and things such as that for the average person.
Sarah compliments Linus's drops with Sarah's shakes
At least Sarah's PC is confirmed to be earthquake proof.
As a licensed insurance broker authorized to operate in BC, I can confirm that Sarah's PC's earthquake proof test is very relevant.
Huge props to Sarah for being so willing to be the “person who doesn’t know computers” on a tech channel. She does a great job and is super charismatic. A+ job, you did better than I probably would have with the info you had!
She did a really great job! Linus should honor her way to build this with her little knowledge.
Yeah she is a fart smeller. If I wasn’t into pc’s, I would have done waaaay worse
Props to Sarah. She did an amazing job, especially for a first timer. Combined with the pained looks from Linus when the "fit tests" were done, this was great fun. More please!
Amazing is probably not the right word to use here. She did a "successful job" at most lol
The fact that she even dragged the Edge window instead of maximizing it was somehow the perfect way to encapsulate this entire build. XD
"I don't know what I need to be gentle with so I'm going to be gentle with everything" VIOLENTLY SHAKES AND DROPS AND WIGGLES EVERYTHING 😭😭😭 love her enthusiasm tho
There are worse samples see q0 whatever video.
look at 25:25... [drop tested, Linus approved]. She is the drop tester.
@@nihonkokusai what?
I can't imagine the pressure of building a PC for the first time knowing Linus is watching your every move.
and you also worked there.👍
Or a 12k cinema camera watching your every move. Your mistakes have never been more detailed!
and that millions people online will see the video.
I wager I built my first pc before Linus... so.,,
Linus builds PCs standing up. Even with an overhead camera mount, so he has no excuse. If you saw anyone else doing it, you would laugh and say amateur. First step of working with the tower/case.. you lay it down. There's this thing.. it's called gravity.
I just think about decades of development. The science. The engineering. The manufacturing precision. The technological achievement that is the modern computer. Then Sarah over here “shake, shake, bang, bang”
This is the most informative PC build video on the internet for a beginner. Having someone mirror all my uninformed thoughts and then an expert rim them point by point is so helpful
I think the scariest part was when Sarah wiggled the gpu up and down 😖
Sarah: *Wiggles GPU* Linus: *Escalating cries of pure anguish watching this*
nah, doesnt do anything unless you MANHANDLE IT really bad
Nah, scariest was when she yanked the sticky cooler off the cpu. I have witnessed the destruction of bent pins in the past when people did that.
Just as tooth clenching when the SSD was held and swung by the SATA plug alone, and shaking the case upside down to see if the board wouldn't fall out. Why didn't she have an instruction booklet for the motherboard?
@@rafenwulf Still beter than the Verge.
Sarah: "I'm going to be gentle with everything" Also Sarah: EARTHQUAKE TEST *shakes cpu and ram*
If it can handle an earthquake, is it even a pc?
dont forget the pci flex testing
Well she nailed vibration testing, now we only have to teach her what leverage is.
She works at LMG after all
@@iamapant8142 almost all pcs can handle an earthquake. much more so than houses or other large structures. my laptop for example can survive being flipped 720 degrees and landing on a pillow, can your house do that?
Wow this was tense to watch. Sarah being gentle with everything: shakes and wiggles each component
Just binged this entire series and I have to say: Bravo Sarah People are so afraid of doing things they aren't comfortable with regardless of the situation. Much less pushing forward in front of millions of viewers. Going in blind is tough, and uploading a video of you going through all of these pitfalls (especially in an industry historically caustic towards newbies) is so badass. Very cool
tbh there were no consequences for fucking up here. irl there's usually consequences, which is why most people are afraid of doing things they aren't comfortable with.
Yeah, she had a team of very supportive people behind her and was definitely building a PC with not her money. I was referring specifically to the act of uploading a video where she is engaged in an activity that she is hilariously and frightfully unpracticed at. I know that I would be too scared of the potential shame I would get from the tech community to publicize my unwitting errors
Now I want to see Linus trying to design a LTT store shirt from scratch, also while having 3 “hearts” and investigating by himself with Sarah reacting. Edit: sell it as a limited run obv
I second this idea!
Might be a good idea on a more relevant channel.
Definitely seems like a good CSF video.
Fantastic idea!
I hope she's just as critical and snarky
"She found the CPU, that's better than some of the ROG Rig Reboot contestants" [Madison will remember that]
I'm glad I wasn't the only one to catch that shade lmao
The first time I dealt with a 486 (PCI at that!) and I removed it for some reason, then I put it in backwards and turned it on. The CPU survived! The board was replaced under warranty. I was 14 IIRC?
Having watched Madison’s ROG video like 4 times I can confidently point out that she did actually identify it on her own, and Linus was impressed 😛
I mean Madison had to watch LTT vids for her class
This action will have consiquences.
We all go thorough this confusion the first time we build a computer. Very entertaining, and yeah, I've shaken a few things myself! Way to go Sara!
What a delightfully optimistic personality. Really fun to watch and I wish i had this attitude when I was started building.
“At LMG we don’t YOLO” Y’all most definitely YOLO
What is YOLO
@@keanureeves9201 "you only live once"
*makes a golden xbox controller and has an onlyfans account* "We don't YOLO"
@@keanureeves9201 an acronym for “you only live once”; basically the idea of just doing something without thinking it through
When she shook the case I thought the motherboard was coming out...
Same, it hurt me to watch. Love the Cosmo avatar icon, btw.
holy shit me too because they didn't show us the part where she screwed it in
My heart skipped a beat!
@@krishg602 they always skip those boring parts
My heart stopped, I couldn't believe it. They for sure edited it so that we'd think that lol
I love this cuz this gives you insight of how scary it can be to try go out there buy parts and actually build a PC but at the same time can be incredibly fun too
This is a very interesting perspective, growing up with access to old towers deffinitly gives you an unquestionable advantage. I broke so many computers to get to where i am today. It was so easy to find xp machines people were just tossing them out when i was kid. I about fell over when that duck tape came out. I have tape holding my all in one hackintosh together rn lol and a 3ft rubberband keeping the front pannel and lcd connected to the housing...
"I don't know what parts I have to be gentle with and what parts I have to be rough with. So I am going to be gentle with everything" After this I was feeling less worried. UNTIL SHE PROCEEDED TO SHAKE ALMOST EVERY PART LIKE THEY OWED HER MONEY!!!
@@JimJamTalks Thanks Man
You should be gentle with all parts.
looking for this comment
The treatment of the gpu had me cringing so hard...
VE CUT OFF YOUR JOHNSON LEBOWSKI!
"I don't know which parts I should be gentle with, so I'm gonna be gentle with everythig" *shakes everything violently*
Punches GPU.
She _gently_ shook everything violently.
I felt myself age like 1000 years after seeing everything going through a shake test
That’s what she said
@@piplup10203854 That GPU should okay, but I am now forever sus at that motherboard's PCI-e slot. it's... at least weakened.
This gave me some confidence to build my own computer, and I really love Sarah's optimism through it all and at the end! I have my parts picked out (took me two weeks to pick...) and I think I'll have a lot of fun putting stuff together and even troubleshooting. I've fixed laptops a ton before, so I don't imagine that this will be much harder I hope...
I'm from the future. How’d it go? …did you shake your motherboard to check if it was secure?
@@iced_coffee_table Ha, it went fine! No issues at all, the computer runs fine. I haven't seen any temperatures over 55 C. I even pulled my old hard drives from my dead laptop and plugged them in too. Okay there's one small issue. The case power button is in a prime spot for my cats to accidentally push it. So sometimes I think the computer has an issue and turned itself off, but every time it's been one of my two cats pushing the power button.
Watching this makes me realize I was so lucky to have someone to watch and guide me while I built my first pc
I love his frustration towards Madison. "Is that really Madison? Doesn't she have work to do?" LMAO
Well, to be fair, she's the "social media coordinator" so I imagine monitoring the forum is kinda part of her job.
11:28 Linus throw some shade to Madison.
@@SteveDice21 That, being on LTT Twitter, FB, and various other sites, as well as help coordinate events. She has a lot of work to do actually, given the kind of company LMG is. Honestly i think having just Madison on the job is too much for one girl, but so far she's on top of things.
Sara: I'm just going to be gentle with everything. Also Sara: Shakes motherboard violently.
Stress testing xD
He mansplained the shit outta her.
@The13thRonin Did you even watch the video? Whole thing was just him cringing at her. That's not even a word anyhow.
@The13thRonin Women invented that word. Take it up with them. Seriously you didn't even watch the vid and still thought to comment. There's your cringe. Ok enjoy your block.
@@gorginhanson this comment is full of cringe
I built my first computer about a month ago (after watching tech videos for years and helping my dad build his computer last year) and the only thing that really supprised me was how hard it was to get the ram in. They required more precise alignment than anything else and more force than anything else.
yeah, this video is meant to be for laughs and whatever, but this has really boosted my confidence for my first build coming up in a few days since i've been so worried about not knowing how to plug stuff in or whatever. If sarah can do it without looking it up or reading the manual, I'm pretty sure I can do it. Thanks LMG
"I don't know what I need to be gentle with, so I'm going to be gentle with everything." *is gentle with nothing*
still gentler then linus.
at least she didn't drop anything
just like Dumbledore speaks calmly
"I feel like at LMG, we just YOLO" - Sarah Nailed it!!!
Linus didn’t like that one
Butt she was good
Is Sarah a Light Machine Gun???
If it cant fit.. **grab a grinder** you'll make it fit..
I love how offended Linus was at that, even though he knows its true.
This girl is such a damn joy to watch, she is so so so contagious with her laughing and glee. Also, I feel Linus so much with how tense he feels watching the build.
Love this, I’d like to see other newbs try to build it, even if they didn’t order parts themselves. It’s great way for everyone to learn the important components. Great vid as always team.
She deserves a medal. She willingly walked into the Linus Man Cave and with good humour and enthusiasm, she took on the challenge as a novice. I enjoyed this video.
And I think she nailed it. Two little tips and the PC is running. Really awesome. This video could free a few people from the fear of building a pc yourself.
"We don't YOLO?!?" Your dremel tool would beg to differ
All of the Brian the electrician videos would disagree as well
*Alex's dremel tool ;D
Dozen Dremels, worn out to death.
let me just say that i have been fixing my own PCs for the past 22+ years (i'm 37), i have 2 years in computer engineer, i built my own PC without any help back in 2014 and today i just built a PC for my neighbor and back in 2014 it was much quicker and less headaches than it was in 2022. props to sarah for a first timer because even someone like me can still struggle. side note for any first timers out there it takes alot more than the video makes it look. i spent less than 8 hrs from start to finish back in 2014 and now in 2022 it took me double that time because of new technology, troubleshooting, installing drivers, etc....
Watching Linus freak out when she wacks things around and almost breaks them is so satisfying. He FINALLY knows how we feel.
so true!
I was thinking this the whole episode!
I think she basically roasted linus when she said "I've been watching the videos and it seems that's how they do things" - while banging the motherboard on the desk.... lol Linus this is your fault!
Loki: "YES! THAT'S HOW IT FEELS!"
"He FINALLY knows how we feel"... when we watch him build a pc LOL
I love how enthusiast she is about building something she has no knowledge about, while being surrounded with people that do that for a living and are silently judging her. Good spirit, good video !
All the time knowing how the KZhead comments will REEEEEE at her.
I think it's an essential building block to learning. Humility 😂 I know I did when a friend got me to take apart my first PC and I put the CPU on top of a foam sponge while I took off the screws with a baby kitchen knife
My thoughts exactly - I really appreciate the "what not to do" style this video has and would totes watch more.
I think the horror in me is the fear that a lot of the PC master race will conclude because of one woman that women don't know technology or aren't well suited for the IT industry.
Her spirit, exactly!! And willingness to become the foil for the nerd brigade in the office.
Brilliant video and really helpful for a new builder. Well done Sarah
She did a great job considering the situation, I hope she didn't get too much negative reactions. She even had fun with it!
And now Linus knows how we feel whenever he picks up any power tool.
XD
Thank you for this :)
Damn not going to lie my heart was dropping down my chest watching this what type of person is spoiled enough to think they can treat delicate hardware and expensive items this way by forcing them in to each other and shaking each product to test if it is actually installed makes no sense her mentality is trash with no common sense would suck to her boyfriend 😂
@@johnpatrick5282 bad day?
@@johnpatrick5282 dafuck i want to see u do ur GFs makeup and see ur common sense. Its only common if u always do it if u never build a pc u litterally can’t know these things people tend to forget how the beginning was once they get more advanced or once te basics become second nature
And Linus can finally understand how we all feel when we watch him drop something.
Linus: *juggles 5 3090s*
Just figuring out the parts you want to buy for your custom PC, especially on a budget, is a nightmare. There are so many conflicting opinions and information online, and popular websites that straight up lie according to many enthusiasts that it can cause a real case of decision paralysis, even if you know how to get parts that actually even work with eachother in the first place. That's not even going into the stress of assembling and testing the thing after the fact. Always lovely when you figure out you'll have to get something extra or something replaced right when you thought you could finally test some games on it.
It's quite interesting to see her after watching some videos being semi-confident about assembling the PC. I broke legs of my first CPU that I assembled myself, so valiant effort here :D
"I'm not sure which parts are fragile and which parts are not so I'm just going to be gentle with everything." Proceeds to roughly handle every single part.
You should see her not beeing careful.
I think she just wanted to get it done with lol. Unless you're an enthusiast it can get frustrating real quick
@@dandyND when something doesnt work i get really fucking mad but still pet my pc afterwards rather than break it
At least she didn't hit anything with a hammer.
Huge props to Sarah for this. Doing something you're not good/experienced at in front of a crowd of people (both in person and virtually) who are either very good or at least better than you takes huge stones. And to have such a fun attitude while doing it is really intoxicating to watch. More of Sarah, she's lovely!
Totally agree. I actually didn't expect to hear her say that she enjoyed it so much! It was really fun to watch, and it is making me even more excited to build my own! (Yes, I do have a gpu. :P)
Bless her precious soul
at least it looks like she had fun!
Yeah, she did a great job, in front of a crowd with cameras. Damn. Just don't shake everything so violently!!
Finally, somebody who uses common sense to figure out unfamiliar things
when i was trying to build a PC, people kept telling me if i have never built one before, buy a prebuilt. ended up buying an AMD one from Stince built, putting all the parts in pc part picker, and getting a good deal from Stince and then upgraded it myself with more HDD, SSD, and individual parts next time, i'll likely build my own, but for first time. its nice to literally watch someone, like Stince, build your pc live on stream (and save the recording)
That motherboard shake was incredible
Linus: "My work here is done." Sarah: "But you haven't done anything." Linus: **dramatic cape flutter**
Feels kinda sad that they deduced the first two points.
I know right. Like she lost two lives cause Linus walked in the door and literally did nothing.
She has done an amazing job thinking out loud and voicing exactly what the average Joe/Jane goes through when building a PC for the first time. Kudos!
Who's joe (I'm sure u wanted someone to ask that)
@@KrishnaTejasVoruganti bruh
@@its_johnH just a joke dude
@@KrishnaTejasVoruganti come on man! You... you know the thing!
@@SnifferSock lol
The pre-AM4 AMx sockets don't hold in the CPUs very well, so much that a cooler can pull it off. I've seen spoons being used for AM3 style coolers, and I used a flathead to push down one of the clips on a socket 939 stock cooler
As someone who learned basic PC building in highschool I agree that building a PC is something you should at least experience once. But the school's way of teaching PC building was flawed because we didn't really have specific parts... Instead of naming the parts by their actual names we just use their PC names. Instead of Intel i3 or what not we use CPU from the small box of CPUs, instead of ddr3 ram 1333 MHz we use the ram from a pile. It's nondescript and quite easy to understand. And as newbies we just didn't delve deeper into as we have a full schedule of other subjects. The gist of it is that it's like a Lego building when we handle PC building. From the basics of assembly to the harder parts of installing a os and drivers through the disk drive. Mixing and matching mobos CPU, hdd, and rams. To hell with compatibility if it fits it sits. It was a fun and satisfying subject. And watching the PC you built turn on and connect to a Lan network with other PC the other classmates built is gratifying. This was in my highschool before the internet was easily accessible.
It's admirable that she's willing to go through this, I mean the internet can be cruel sometimes after all.
Definatly. Their are a lot of small (and huge) things that have to change for tech. TLDR,BLUF: Working with a verticle case just sucks ass, just about no room to get things in to it. Parts with cute sounding parketing names: no clear marking what several different looking slots are. Documentation that's utter ass, riddled with jargon that is tech heavy, and just not done for joe average to know which thing, does what. Just even upgrading a computer I was given as a stupid amazing present. tracing what wire goes to what was a un-needed headach, getting the god dam wires out of small slots, things to be reseated,. All the fucking QOL things these assholes refuse to do with very fragile, very expensive parts. Drives up the fucking wall! YOu have practically sacrfice someones soul just get the god damn thing to start and all the shit to phyiscally fit, wade through a fucking night mare of how to's with no fucking direct insuctructions For example: see this green slit/nob/.thingy/ Put in this other greenthing. And the parts might even available! it's fucking insane!
@@gorkskoal9315 PREACH brother 🙌
But not really, shes an attractive gamer female... that's like the anti magnet tri factor for dodging hate online though.
@@BurntFaceMan Have you been on the internet lately? Simps vs. Incels is the biggest war on the planet if you count out middle-eastern proxy wars
@@jesustyronechrist2330 I am confused what is middle eastern proxy wars?
The way Linus feels about Sarah when she's assembling the PC is the way I feel about Linus when he's assembling anything.
HOLY SHIT YEEEESSSSSS!!!! HAHAHA!!!!!
Or holding *coughs dropping
You hate him internally with a fiery passion
Up you go!
Yessss
I relate to this video so much. This was exactly how I felt when trying to build my first ever PC! And all the jargon for the parts and the model numbers did not help things at all! Not to mention all the videos that are supposed to help you step by step through the building process, but then don't show you closeups of where things should be plugged in at all, if they didn't just skip right by them with a "just plug this in", assuming you already know where everything goes!
I've never seen anyone Blizzard test a CPU socket fit.
Sarah's random guessing is a better build guide than the Verge.
10 years from now we're still gonna be shitting on that verge video... And I'm all for it lol
Yeah they messed up ngl
Even Flex Tape can’t fix that!
LMAO
I'm guessing it's partly because she's surrounded by tech heads, while the verge guy was surrounded by knuckle heads who were as clueless as he was.....
To be fair.... when she asked "shouldn't there be a manual in here?" the answer is YES! Not providing one is setting her up for failure.
@Bruine Poep Right. They told her "take your time, watch plenty of KZhead videos as you see fit because spending two hours on KZhead and then knowing what to do makes for great sponsored entertainment!" Maybe somebody didn't have the patience to re-pack things properly? The least they could do is provide the parts as they would have arrived in the mail, including the frickin' manuals. But it really isn't THAT big of a deal in the end, just an observation.
If there was a manual nobody would want to read it then.
@Bruine Poep dawg what do you mean. The manual especially for the motherboard is essential because they all have different architecture and positioning. At the very least everyone should have a mb and case manual.
@@reezuleanu1676 nah bro you need to read the mb manual unless you've worked with them before. Otherwise you're setting up for failure.
Linus likes to think of it as, "setting her up to make "content"" LUL🤣👌
I really had fun watching this particular video, it precisely remined myself back in 2005 when I managed to build my own “gaming pc” when I met the Geforce GTS 250, I know the GPU is way older, but I didn’t had the budget the time it was released!! Thumbs up for your videos and works on the computer universe guys!!
Building your own PC is just so rewarding. Nothing beats the satisfaction you feel when it boots up for the first time. Also becomes much easier every time you do it. Then there's also the fact that upgrading a component is a snap because you know how to install it, and lastly, you'll just love the thing so much more, because it's truly your own creation.
"I think I can get away with being rough on some parts and I have to be gentle with others, so I'll just be gentle with all of them" **Is rough with all of them**
This one got me, spit while laughing. Thanks :)
That was the gentle way....
@@2000YG 🤣
Now linus knows how we feel every time he drops something expensive.
Spot on...
I'm watching this in 2023, and I built my first PC around the time this video was out, and it was exactly for the reason they mention, I was getting into blender 3D and got a deal on a 3090 during the most unlikely times, so I went on and built my 1st computer. Now I'm starting to look around options to upgrade my CPU, and just from building that one PC I have the confidence of looking around what CPUs are out there or about to launch, what fits me best, etc. Day and night for me, from building ONE computer.
6:34 im surprised linus didnt recommend what i always tell my friends on a budget that want an SSD, you dont NEED a massive SSD, you can always buy a 500gb one for booting the OS to and other QOL things, and get a cheaper 1 or 2TB HDD on top of that for storage, it costs them a lot less and is usually a great cost cutting method for someone who doesnt care as much about super fast load times and just wants a lot of space to put things in.
my heart.... can't take it....
Linus can't take it.
bruh literally disliked then undisliked after 😂
Same as mine
can't take it , door stuck
Anyone else having trouble breathing watching this?
Linus is dying this is great television 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
If linus dies, at least lmg will still run the channel
@@nateh75 Anthony Tech Tips when?
@@H3LLGHA5T famous KZheadr "linus tech tips" dead by apparent drowning, no foul play found
Im convinced Shara was trolling Linus 😅 Oh she knew he was watching 😂
He _is_ a dinosaur.
My son & I just built our first computer .. and oh boy, yes it can be frustrating. As you state there is no real end-end process due to different manaufacturers .. and some reall poor manuals. But in the end, when you get there, it is satisfying!
PC Part Picker is a very good website to visit when building a computer. It'll let you know if parts are compatible or not
Bruh, I had a heart attack when she put the board in and shook it, since the screws being put in were cut from the video. Whoever edited that part out, you are evil.
^^ This ^^
Heart attack? Lol, calm down dude.
I literally cried out
@@Evan-hq5dt - Looks like we found the guy who DOESN'T build his own systems... LOL
probably Madison, if so I'd forgive her trolling
Sarah: "I'll be gentle with everything" Also Sarah: *Wiggle GPU to check if it's place*
I dunno man if this was intel cpu, she probably would have destroyed the mobo pins somehow.
It got my heart beating much much harder for a few seconds
Jeff Chen I feel you 😂
imeldo marcos I would've left the video
What a great video. Her on the floor afterwards in victory was the greatest feeling. So cool. Love yall. Keep up everything. Love u sara
The best part was the googling of the parts while also using PC part picker 😂 it literally builds you a checklist on part picker. Hilarious vid!
Sarah: "I dont know what parts are fragile and what are not, So im just going to treat everything as fragile" Also Sarah: [violently shakes, wobbles, and forces everything]
I guess you don't want to see her not beeing gentle
When everything is fragile, nothing is fragile.
WE NEED WOMEN IN STEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@UltrafineDeluxe you called?
@@CristalianaIvor Must have forgot your number, you can go ahead & pass it along.
Anthony and Sarah demonstrate perfectly what this channel is about: The full spectrum of PC-nerdiness encompassed in these two.
yin and yang lmao
THIS
Best description of this channel I’ve read.
@@Omonarc To be honest, though, there's really bugger all difference installing Windows and installing Linux. Write the ISO you download from their website onto a thumb drive, plug it in, turn on the PC (and maybe fiddle with the BIOS settings to get the boot order right, if it ain't already going to the USB before the hard drive). As for configuring Linux, unless there's an actual problem that needs fixing, I'd simply say "don't". Get a friendly distro and just go with the defaults. Use it exactly as you would use Windows, with the GUI, and don't unnecessarily mess with anything. Then, honestly, it's no different to Windows. I know this because, to save it from the garbage, I installed Ubuntu on a netbook for my mother, who's in her 80s now, and - absolutely genuinely, no word of a lie - I get vastly less calls for "tech support" from her for the Ubuntu netbook than I do for her Windows 10 laptop (and she uses the netbook more often, as it's more portable for using casually in the living room, while the Windows 10 laptop kind of stays where it is, as it's hooked up to a printer - and, in fairness to Windows 10, most of her calls for "tech support" from me usually relate to the bloody printer not working). Seriously, first time that I installed Linux, I was messing around with the configuration in all directions. Trying to maximise and tweak and customise everything, and upgrade everything to the "bleeding edge". And I made it horribly unstable. So I re-installed it and then left well alone. In a sense, this is the thing people coming from Windows need to appreciate. Open source works differently. Because it's open source then, yes, I am able to re-configure absolutely everything - hey, I could even crack out the source code and alter the kernel directly, if I really wanted to - as nothing is secret or hidden in the entire system. And, yes, you can get carried away with that. Because, on Windows, I can't really do anything, so being allowed to tweak and customise and configure it all can be an intoxicating freedom. But, honestly, unless you have good reason and know what you're doing, then simply don't. Just don't. Despite what Aperture Science might say, you don't have to do it, just because you can. Oh, and open source affects how you should look at software. With Windows, you get a new release and you instantly rush to install the latest version. But, with open source, the software is permanently released - if you really want, you can download those "nightly builds" and literally have the software as it was last night - so, actually, curb your enthusiasm a little. Unless you have reason - like you want to join in with testing and development or something - then just grab the version labelled "stable" or "LTS". You don't want the "bleeding edge" of the "nightly build" because that's the software still in a state of development. It's unstable and in flux. The hatches have not been battened down yet. Basically, if you treat Linux like you treat Windows - with Windows, you can't make many modifications so, in Linux, also don't try to do that - then it's no more difficult or problematic to use than Windows is. The problem is that Linux provides freedom - and people instantly want to start messing with that and then start breaking things. At work, I run a whole cluster of Linux servers and do all sorts of mad shit to make it work. But, at home, I mostly leave my Ubuntu alone and in its "out of the box" configuration. It works fine. (But the great thing with Linux is that, well, I can get myself a Raspberry Pi 400 and then that's the machine that I can tinker with to my heart's content, not caring if I break it all. But this laptop is my daily driver, so even though configuring Linux is pretty much my day job, I leave well enough alone and it works perfectly.) But this is understandable - as I say, initially, I did exactly the same thing. When you've been caught in Microsoft's "closed source" trap all your life, then to taste freedom can be intoxicating. All these configuration files and I can do whatever I want with them all. Awesome! But, well, "with great power comes great responsibility". The responsibility of such freedom is knowing when you should and when you shouldn't exercise it.
@@klaxoncow You can make the same argument with MacOS and Windows. It's all relative. For me, Windows gives me the level of control I need over my computer without things getting too complicated. I know I would mess around with literally everything if I used Linux and ruin it. And I've used MacOS enough times to be disgusted at how it treats me like a child. 🤷🏻♂️
Just built my first PC this past weekend and even though I watched guides the entire way through I still managed to shove a PCI-e psu cord in the cpu slot the first go around and was very confused why my pc wasn't starting. Had to disassemble the entire thing just to figure out where I went wrong. Now everything functions as it should but man its real easy to mess up the first go around not having any prior knowledge on what to look for or just all the little things you learn after successfully building one.
I used to build my own PCs from parts. And in a way, I still do, it's just that nowadays I'm not a heavy gamer anymore, performance (and the need for that extra performance) doesn't increase as drastically as back in the 90's, early 2000's, and as a result, systems last me almost a decade. And I feel Sara's frustration with part numbers. Back when I built a new rig every couple of years, things were logical. You had your Pentium, but a Pentium II was better. Then came the Pentium III, which was again, better. Graphics cards were also numbered logically; all you had to know was which name corresponded to the newer generation. Like, you had to know, e.g. that the GeForce was newer than the Riva, or that the GeForce Fx was newer than the GeForce 2 through GeForce 4 series. There was some odd numbering here and there (e.g. the first GeForce generation was called GeForce 256, while its successor was the GeForce 2), but all in all, it was mostly logical. Pick the highest clocked CPU from the current generation. Some exceptions existed, e.g. a Pentium 166 could outperform a Pentium 180 because the former was bus-clocked at 66MHz, while the latter ran at 60Mhz frontside, but mostly, logical. Then pick the GPU with the highest model number (and price) from whatever the current generation was, and boom! Done! Fast-forward to present time. Now, with Intel, you got the i3, i5 and i7 series. As far as I understand, higher number means better performance, but also less efficiency (as in, consumption rises faster than performance). But then within those series, you have various models. But also, apparently, those 3 ranges each cover various generations of CPUs, and you kind of have to recognise them from their confusing model numbers, and you can't use simple heuristics like the higher the number, the faster the chip. Not sure what it looks like in Camp AMD, as the last system I built was... Ooooh, I wanna say, somewhere between 2012 and 2015? Anyway, GPUs, same story. You have your various generations, which now have names like Pascal and whatnot, instead of increasing numbers. And since I no longer follow hardware so closely, I have no clue which name is the newer generation, nor what the current one is supposed to be. And within those generations, you have multiple series, apparently determined by the first digit in the model number. Which I guess determines things like level of paralellism and which features are supported? And then, the digits after that, denote the performance range within those series, with "higher number = better". Thing is, if you're heavily into gaming, and you build a new system every 2 years or so, it's probably not that complicated. You follow the hardware news, you have a pretty decent idea of how to decode those model numbers, you know what everything stands for. You're totally immersed in that world, it _is_ your world. But if you only need a new computer once in a blue moon, the current model numbering is confusing as hell! I stopped caring a long time ago, and just ask a friend who's more of a hardware guy to advise me. Lately, even that lifeline has disappeared, as he got fed up with it as well and stopped keeping up with the confusing mess that's CPU/GPU model numbering these days.
Sarah: let's be gentle Also Sarah with every component: *Shake It Off plays*
Yet she drops less than Linus...
Taylor Swift like: Shake it off...
Underrated.
I will say though, I think people underestimate just how tough PC components have gotten over the years. I mean, they're definitely not gonna survive everything, but I'd bet that you could drop that motherboard right on the floor and besides MAYBE some bent header pins, it would still work just fine.
Maybe that's just how she does gentle?
I feel like the camera-crew was absolutely internally suffering from Sarah just shaking around the parts
I know I was just watching her wiggle the graphics card or kept touching the thermal paste.
im sure this is how the entire production crew feels whenever linus manhandles stuff.
Fuck em
*ltt crew dies from aneurysm trying to avoid “sexist” comment*
@@Ultrajamz And then you have Linus man handling components. Same you can't see dislikes on comments/replies.
It's amazing how far we've come in 10 years. When I was in college for computer science in 2011 and 2012 anybody that knew anything about computers told you never to touch an AMD processor. The reputation then was AMD processors had about half the life of Intel processors because they weren't engineered to handle the heat that they generated. I wonder when that changed
I've been running an FX-8120 with the stock cooler for 10+ years now, and that's after being OC'd to 4.3Ghz with an AIO for 5+ years. I turned it down a few years ago because it's just a server that doesn't do much now. But this CPU has outlasted 3 different coolers, 3 GPUs, and 1 power supply lol. Maybe mine is just special.
Sarah: *SHAKES PC* LINUS: "NOOOOOO" Also Linus:"Oops, I dropped the GPU"
That was a dummy gpu.
@@TriggerzConnors Yeah...... Of course......
@@TriggerzConnors I hope he doesn't drop a RTX 4090 or a RX 7900 XTX"dummy".
@@el_de_el_loquendo9855 he will, don't you worry about it ^^ Linus should work at those facilities where they do those military grade drop testing.
@@marctestarossa True he is an expert, those GPU will survive.
I am just 9 seconds into the video and I already know that I want a Sarah vs. Madison build-off challenge.
This ^
Totally underrated comment!
Couldn’t agree more🤣💪👍👍
All in .... they should do this
Yeah!!! Make this happen!!!! :)