How we built a $2000 custom gaming PC

How we built a $2000 custom gaming PC was a YouTube video uploaded by mh:rottenwebsites:The Verge on September 13, 2018, which showed how to build a gaming PC. After negative reception, comments and likes were disabled, and later the video was removed entirely, but it was reuploaded.

Why It Sucks

 * 1) The guy (Stefan Etienne) says you need a table, but you can build a PC on the floor.
 * 2) *Speaking of Stefan, he can't take criticism, as he called his critics "angry nerds" and said they were racist. They even had the balls to false copyright strike people who criticized the video.
 * 3) The video said to use a thermal paste applicator and Allen wrench, but they were never used on the video at all, plus they are also not needed to build a gaming PC.
 * 4) The video mislabeled zip ties as "tweezers", and said to use a "Swiss Army knife that hopefully has a Philips head screwdriver in it", instead of using a proper screwdriver.
 * 5) The "anti-static bracelet" on the video was not an actual anti-static bracelet, as it was missing the ground wire. As Lyle said: "He not fighting static, he fighting cancer!"
 * 6) One of the boxes was destroyed, despite having a knife on hand.
 * 7) They forgot to mention how to screw in the motherboard standoffs, so people might install the motherboard wrong.
 * 8) The I/O shield was called a "brace" and they said that you should hammer it in because it has no screws, but hammering it in would break the I/O shield. What you do it press the corners of the I/O shield until it's locked onto the chassis.
 * 9) The memory was installed on slots that wouldn't support dual-channel. Some motherboards will only recognize one stick of RAM or no RAM at all if it's on non-dual-channel slots.
 * 10) *They also said that 2666 MHz is fast RAM, despite it being classified as slow on DDR4.
 * 11) The M.2 SSD was installed without the standoff, so, if the SSD is bending downward, it can break.
 * 12) They said that you could choose any lane to install the graphics card, when you should always put the graphics card on the uppermost lane because it has the most bandwidth.
 * 13) They said to put the power supply on "insulating pads" so the power supply "doesn't short-circuit and come into contact with the rest of the system", but the power supply chassis is grounded, so it can't short-circuit. Plus, they're not insulating pads, they're anti-vibration pads so the power supply doesn't wobble too much.
 * 14) *The power supply was put so the fan would be facing towards the back of the case, which could cause the power supply to overheat and possibly explode due to lack of ventilation.
 * 15) They didn't show how to put the fans on the radiator, and they even used the wrong screws as they used the long screws (which are used to put the fans) instead of the short ones, which could drill holes into the radiator and cause liquid to leak out of the radiator.
 * 16) They said that every power supply comes with a big bag of Velcro cables, but not every power supply comes with external cables as not all of them are modular.
 * 17) The CPU on the video is an Intel Confidential chip, a review sample. It is theorized that review sample chips are cherry-picked to be faster than release CPUs, so it may or may not accurately represent what an actual setup would be.
 * 18) *They also said said "A Core i7 hexa-core CPU. Yeah, we've got one", despite the Core i7 being available on every hardware shop and being somewhat inexpensive from a PC building perspective, costing about $300 at the time of the video's release.
 * 19) The socket was called a slot and the socket cover was thrown away, but you need the socket cover to send the motherboard for repair.
 * 20) The video was edited with almost no input from Stefan, as it talks about a CPU installation tool that wasn't even used, and the shot of screwing the water block in the CPU is a shot from outside of the PC.
 * 21) They said that every CPU cooler would come with thermal paste pre-applied, when some of them have external thermal paste or sometimes don't come with any thermal paste at all.
 * 22) *They also said that the thermal paste pre-applied is "not enough" and said that it's good PC building practice to use more thermal paste plus the pre-applied thermal paste, but it mixes two different brands of thermal paste. Speaking of thermal paste, they also used too much thermal paste, as a pea-sized blob of thermal paste is enough. Also, installing too much thermal paste could cause it to leak out of the CPU and short-circuit the board.
 * 23) One of the games they chose for benchmarking is League of Legends, which is a terrible benchmark game since it was designed to be played on the lowest-end of PCs, not to mention that the game was 9 years old when they uploaded the video, making the game even more compatible with the lowest PC.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) A gaming PC build guide video was a good idea, but it was very poorly executed.
 * 2) At least they installed the graphics card on the correct lane, despite saying that you can choose any lane.
 * 3) Despite the PC being built horribly, it actually POSTed.
 * 4) The PC that was built in this video was fixed by Linus Sebastian of Linus Tech Tips, albeit with upgraded parts (Intel Core i7-11700k and Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Ti).

How To Build A Gaming PC Properly

 * 1) Put the graphics card in the uppermost lane because it has the most bandwidth.
 * 2) Install the M.2 SSD with the standoff.
 * 3) Use the fastest RAM possible (Unless if you are on a cheap budget).
 * 4) Screw in the motherboard standoffs.
 * 5) Don't put too much thermal paste as it might fry the CPU as well as the PC in general. If your cooler has a pre-applied thermal paste, don't put some more.
 * 6) For benchmarking, use something like 3DMark or Time Spy.

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