Blog:Off Topic: SpazJR61's thoughts of The Verge's PC Build video

In September 2018, The Verge posted a video titled "How we built $2000 gaming PC". It gained notoriety in entire tech community due to it features lots of misinformation, mistakes and more. They're disabled the like/dislike ratio and the comments. Later, they're deleted the entire video but people reuploaded this horrendous PC build video.

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Every mistake in the video

 * You don't need a table, you can do it in floor or a desk
 * You don't need an allen wrench and a Swiss army knife for build a PC. You need a screwdriver which it has the correct head in it.
 * He calls zip ties as "tweezers".
 * He not uses an anti-static wristband. It is a normal wristband.
 * He literally rips the box when he unboxing the parts.
 * You should install the CPU and the RAM to the motherboard first. Although you can install the motherboard to the case firstly but putting the CPU and RAM to the motherboard in the case is harder and bit dangerous.
 * The motherboard choice: WLAN and Bluetooth is not a main reason for choosing a motherboard.
 * He calls I/O shield as "brace". Also, do not hammer I/O shield to the case, it can injure you.
 * Again, The RAM Choice: LED's are not main reason for buying a RAM. 2666 MHz DDR4 ram is really slow for a DDR4 memory.
 * Speaking of the RAM's, he installed the RAM's to the wrong slots. In other words, these RAM's are only work in the single channel mode. Some motherboards not even boot because of this.
 * He is not installed the standoff's for the M.2 SSD. If you try to install the M.2 SSD without the standoff, you can bent the M.2 SSD.
 * Nitpick: The graphics card he using is the normal Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080. Instead, you can buy a GTX 1080 Ti, which is superior than the normal GTX 1080.
 * PCI-E slots are not lanes. And, it depends on the PCI-E slots' connection. You always pick the top one because it has the full 16x connection. Other slots in the motherboard are only 8x or 4x, which limits the graphics card's performance.
 * Nitpick #2: 850 Watt power supply is really overkill for the system. You can use a 650W power supply, which is already enough for the ray-tracing GPU's like RTX 2080 Ti
 * The "installation pads" on the power supply is anti-vibration pads and power supply is not short circuit your system.
 * He installs the power supply to the wrong direction. The fan cannot get proper airflow and it can burn your system if you install the power supply to the wrong direction.
 * He not installed the fans to the radiator of the water cooler and he uses wrong screws to the install the case, which it can damage the radiator.
 * Not every power supply come with bag of cables. There are three variants of power supplies: Fully modular, semi-modular and non-modular. Non-modular power supplies are come with attached cables and you cannot remove them. Fully modular and semi-modular power supplies come with bag of cables.
 * Do not throw away the socket cover. If your motherboard is faulty, you need the socket cover to in order to send to the warranty. Without the socket cover, the warranty refuses to fix your motherboard. (This is only applies to Intel and AMD's TR4 and TRX40 platform, which they're have a socket cover)
 * Nitpick #3: CPU socket is not holder and CPU slot is a different thing.
 * You don't need a CPU applicator for installing the CPU. You can just drop the CPU gently to the motherboard.
 * Not every CPU cooler has pre-applied thermal paste. Some coolers come with thermal paste seperately in the box like Noctua's coolers.
 * The worst part of the video: The pre-applied thermal paste is already enough for the CPU. If you don't want to use the pre-applied thermal paste, wipe it off from the cooler and apply the thermal paste. He using way too much thermal paste and mixes two thermal pastes together, which is really dangerous for your system.
 * There's little to no cable management at all, as the cables can block the airflow from the fans. The case used in the video (Corsair 280X) has already good spots for clean cable management.
 * Also, the water cooler is missing one of the screws, which is pretty dangerous because the cooler is not contacting to the CPU properly and the CPU can be fries because of overheating.
 * Nitpick #4: You don't need an USB flash drive for install Windows. You can use a DVD drive as well.
 * There's little to no benchmarking at all: He only uses two games, they are Arma 3 and League of Legends. Arma 3 is a five year old video game as the video's release date, which is not a problem in today's hardware. Leauge of Legends can run on any computer, even on a Pentium 4 (which is a single core processor). They're not even used other benchmark programs like Cinebench and 3DMark.
 * The tutorial lacks of the other stuff like how to install the standoffs to the case, setting up BIOS, installing the drivers etc.



Conclusion
This video is one of the worst guides of all time and this is a great example how to not build a PC. This video also really shows The Verge's inability to take criticsm, as they're played the victim card by saying "racism and "harrasment campaigns" and they're abused the copyright system by taking down Bitwit's "Lyle Reacts to The Verge PC Build" video. Also, that guy who responsible this mess, Stefan Etienne, can't take criticism and called the critics as "angry nerds" and people started to make fun of him on Twitter, even to this day.

