### David's Ultimate Gaming Room Transformation and Tech Upgrade

David transformed his hoarder garage into an impressive gaming and home theater space, investing $20,000 from collectible sales.

### Transforming David's Space: From Hoarder Garage to Ultimate Gaming Room
* 💵 David's garage transformation resulted in a stunning upgrade, turning a cluttered space into a **$20,000 gaming room and home theater**.
* 🎮 The focus is on creating the **ultimate gaming setup**, with high expectations for the technology and design, especially since David financed this project by **selling collectibles**.
* 🖥 The setup includes an **LG C1 77-inch OLED TV**, known for its **excellent pixel dimming and motion clarity**, perfect for both **retro and modern gaming**.
* 🔧 The team is also building a new computer for David's partner, showcasing a mix of **high-end components** and **creative solutions** to overcome missing parts.
* 🎨 Custom touches, like a **floating PC design** and a **Galaxy-themed wall**, enhance the aesthetic of the room while ensuring **functionality**.
* 📡 The audio setup, cobbled together from older speakers, is emphasized as **vastly superior to entry-level soundbars**, providing an **immersive experience**.
* 🛠 Despite minor setbacks and improvisations, the team is excited about the progress, highlighting the **importance of creativity and resourcefulness** in tech upgrades.
* 📧 The video concludes with a reminder of the **importance of privacy**, promoting Proton Mail as a **secure email alternative** amidst the tech transformation.

We did it! David's hoarder garage is no more, and in its place is $20,000 of cold hard cash. But um, you do still want to play games, right? So much more than that, I want this to be the ultimate gaming room, home theater, slow... 

workshop. No exaggeration, when we're done here, I think this is going to be the best upgrade anyone has ever done at our company. Okay, that might be a little bit of puffery, sir, but I actually do have very high expectations for this setup. 

Because there's no sponsor for this upgrade, meaning the tech tips are going to be a bit more practical and also high stakes, since every dollar that David put into this came right out of the precious collectibles he had to sell to pay for it. So I think it's time to roll up our 

sleeves and uh, stretch some dollars, like I'm stretching out this segue to our sponsor, Proton Mail. Take control of how your data is used online by degoogling your life and choosing Proton's suite of privacy-first products. You can check them out at the link in 

the video description. This is my house. Wow, I can't believe you guys moved in like a month ago. Yeah, my partner's been working really hard on getting the space set up. Priority was getting the book nook sorted. Wow, and it's awesome. This is incredible. 

Yeah, we're very, very lucky. It's funny, my girlfriend has the same problem I had a little while ago. She loves collecting things. This is a very valuable collection of books. They're all like special edition. Oh really? Like, I think this one's like $600 or 

something one of these uh one of these Tour Edition ones is is that much and like everything is quite valuable on the shelves so oh wow part three of this video line is clearing out her collection TV Corner looks great too other than oh I was going to say TV too

high but I got the fancy mount it was so hard to install it took me like hours and hours but I also wall mounted the PS5 does it come down more so we can see that and you can see the top cool my only question is what are you

going to do here I can see the bones of some pretty interesting ideas what is the PVC pipe in the corner for we are going to make an RGB Cloud lamp that that a computer will be coming out of before we do that let's get the TV

mounted okay I see you went with the LG C1 77 inch it was the best value OLED I could find so per pixel dimming great blacks great motion Clarity for gaming both retro and new stuff right cuz you can throw filters on that and it gets

not it's not a CRT and it'll never be a CRT but pretty CRT like it also has four HDMI 2.1 in including the ARC Port which means I can use this receiver that has two HDMI 2.1 outs for the two TVs that

are going to be in here two TVs one's a monitor it's monitor not TV oh man okay okay okay let's go let's go 3 2 1 there we go oh it's not that heavy okay are you stuck behind the TV David nope

You sure I can crouch? You're quite certain you're not standing? Oh, this is definitely the biggest TV I've ever owned. Wow, you are going to be pretty close to this. Hey, it's like a movie theater. I feel like there's going to be

a pretty stark contrast between what David Zeso did and what he's doing here. She likes the ideas, she won't like the execution. Now, I didn't think you were planning to build a new computer. Also, I couldn't help noticing that this was from the office. Well, I didn't start out

planning on building a computer. I just sort of got one upgrade at a time until it turned into a whole new computer. This looks sick though. Yeah, this is from one of our streams. Cherry treent it over and it was in white, which doesn't quite work

with the vibe I wanted, so I had Justin paint it to a dark gray black. Uh, the aesthetic, you got a black Borg Cube PC. Oh, it's so sick. And this is like top of the freaking line, dude. It's pretty close. My only question is what's the

deal with these bolts coming out the bottom? A PC this beautiful doesn't deserve to rest on a desk. It deserves to float in the sky, and we have a mount for it to be floating. And that is the base for it. Oh boy, okay. Reys, do you want to

get started on that? Wish me luck. I will. Luck, but that's not the only computer today. No, we are building my partner a new computer. She's been stuck with my old 7700K system, uh, and it's time for her to get something a little more up to

Date's not fully up to date, but I mean it's a 7900 XT. Well, yeah, the graphics card is good. Why don't I get to work on her machine? Great. In the meantime, I'm going to go help Reese, but I want to give you a sneak preview of the extra

piece for the Borg PC that uh, no way. Oh yeah, oh yeah, you just wait to see it. Okay, that's pretty cool, man. You get a hand-me-down PC from David, doesn't seem that bad. 3900X, 32 gigs of RAM. To mount the Borg PC and make it

sort of look like it's floating, we have this piece of metal that we've cut and welded back together. It'll drill into studs, and then we have built a custom mount for the PC to mount on top, and then sort of kind of stick out. It's not

perfect, and this color isn't an exact match for the wall, but I'm going to paint the wall a Galaxy color, editor, put up a Galaxy, that's what it's going to look like. Uh, and we're going to paint on top of this and make it all kind of more

cohesive and invisible. You know, S is not a brand that we look at very often on this channel, but I got to say I'm pretty impressed with the value. $80 US for curved glass, and four of these fans were already included. It's a pretty nice

value. A less impressive package is this motherboard. David, for all of his wonderful qualities, is not always the most organized, and while I did manage to track down the back plate, I don't have the screws or the brackets for the front, which unfortunately I do need.

thankfully I have the capability of channeling my own inner David and I'm going to steal the screws that he apparently didn't need for his new ring. The upgrade today is not going to be complete, there's still lots of little projects that are ongoing. I started

doing these comic book tabletops. I'm going to do the same thing on the other side. I have a bunch of Star Trek comic books and I'm going to do a collage of all the Star Trek things that I love, uh, and I'm going to do a movie one for the

console in the middle, didn't get done in time. Uh, this one isn't even finished, but it gives you an idea of what it will be like in the future. Oh, sorry, I was leaned down here to do a shot to figure out what I'm going to do about Justin not including

the AMD standoffs. It looks like these ZGA 1700 ones will work in a pinch, it'll just be a little bit tight. And then I saw what David did to the poor SSD that's in this M.2 slot, there's going to

be a lot of improvisation today, guys, cuz while the height of the 1700s is okay, they don't fit over these posts. So I'm going to have to drill them out. I don't know, I got to fix that SSD. BRB, not

going to lie, David, between you and Justin, that computer is going to be the death of me. Oh, oh, what's the odds you have a vice? Uh, zero. Okay, I'll hold it by hand. What are the odds you have a drill and a bit that's a little bigger than

This is pretty good actually, all right, let's do it. What could go wrong? Ow ow ow oh! If I spin it backwards and I can just kind of melt it in there. Oh dude, buddy, that's sick! They almost contact the standoffs almost, which is exactly

what we want. We want a little bit of kind of spring pressure on these. Oh yeah, dude, we're good. H! What a relief! I'm very curious if you can figure out what this is for. It's a door, yeah, but it's not it's a

climbing wall for a really really small person. Hint: it's in that bin. Oh, controller wall, magnetic controller wall. No, uh oh. The idea is that this is going to cover that breaker panel, but I still need to access it, and so it's going to

be on a barn door so it can slide in and out of the way. Eventually it'll be painted black to match the rest of the wall. The vision's great. EX: Why APC blocks? Because what do you want to cut all these blocks? This is the easiest, cheapest way to get a bunch of little blocks that are

identical. David, question for you. Yeah, how essential would you say front USB is for my partner? Quite essential, cuz that's what she knows to plug into. Okay. How essential would you say these fans are? Absolutely not cool, cuz well, I think you see the problem. Yeah,

that's not what that's out now. What I did, didn't tell David, cuz I do have another idea. This housing on this thing is huge. I think it could be trimmed. What am I thinking? This is really stupid. Are we going to get it? It's really tight.

um I think we're going to get it don't take this the wrong way but the whole spending your own money thing I wasn't expecting to find ARGB cables they were really cheap to find really cheap 40 bucks each yeah oh oh that's Canadian oh okay

that's actually not bad it was like 37 something each so if they work then uh great I mean they look like they should work honestly the space is okay it's still rough but it's it's starting to look like I can see what you were going

for it's the vision yeah which is something there's still a lot of something left though what's up with that cable management L what the heck yeah look this side looks pretty good that looks amazing okay but there's a lot of finishing touches that still need

to go in like there's one motherboard screw in I just need to see it post before I do everything I have very little confidence that this is just going to immediately fire up I have high confidence not only in your ability to do amazing PC work

but the fact that this was a PC that was working yesterday well that's going to make me feel even worse when it doesn't fire up thanks David okay NE may not okay all the RGB works I was not sure if that was going to happen um and

I'm not getting an output oh well um might need batteries oh it might need to be plugged in [Laughter] oh computer output uhoh let's try again with a thing just kind of oh it might be giving us a no keyboard error do you have a keyboard

Uh, yes, I've got a new keyboard for this video. Oh, oh, oh, nice, nice. Okay, David isn't even back yet, but we already know that that was the problem. Everything's detected, even the bent SSD, so I think I'm good to button everything up and

close this out. Oh, this actually ended up looking kind of cool. Don't tell anybody I said that though. Is there going to be something like here and oh God, the table will be here. They basically make it to here, David to his parents. Can we get Linus to drop things? No, we

have Linus at home. I think I've dropped more stuff in recent videos than you have. Oh wait, how did you attach them? Hot glue? What else? St, what else would you use? Epoxy? Yeah, but then I could never get it off. I want to basically 3D scan and like print

something that's going to fit better and be flat, cuz none of these are flat, so none of them stay super, super well. So this is a temporary solution. Okay, we should just put a crash pad under the door then. I'm a man of vision. This isn't a crylic mount, hey

yeah, is that a good idea? I don't know. I, I had Justin make it cool. Okay, where does it go onto this? So we're going to just this, yeah, no, no, she's close, she's close, she's real close. Yeah, yeah, she's going, she's going

to go. She'll, she'll catch. Okay, wait. Oh, yeah, this has got a PC in it. The thing about PCs is the weight distribution, not even. So she wants to go this way, which I mean, um, how are you planning to hold the heads of these

bolts while you screw in the nuts watch me uh you're going the wrong way oh yeah you're trying to take it off okay um oh God oh gosh I mean I don't want to tighten it too much it's acrylic but I don't

want to tighten it too little cuz it's a computer look at the flex can you see the flex in this Andrew okay stop stop stop I haven't heard any acrylic cracking so that's good okay giant crash pad there will be a desk right here it's going to be it's

going to be low oh okay so the thing that I'm most excited about in this entire upgrade is this incredible work that Justin did on this Starship Enterprise model look at this thing that looks awesome custom paint job he did like battle damage I didn't know he was

into that stuff oh he wants you to know that he's into this stuff he he likes this stuff I want to see like Ploff versus Justin like uh like battle battle damaged armor paint off now have you seen some of Ploff's stuff too oh it's so

good this is crazy this looks incredible oh buddy oh that is so cool so this is like I guess so here's the part you're not going to like uh we're going to epoxy it [Music] stand oh God it's adding even more

weight to this side David wait okay I'm going to pitch him I'm going to pitch him something else okay um we're going to we're going to try and come in David to let us have it come off the shelf we could even do it in the top surface so

you wouldn't even see it David we're not letting you do it what are you going to do we're going to drill a hole in the top of this shelf sure that's mine oh okay I'm easy uh okay um one drill please uh should we glue it into the

Enterprise first absolutely okay hold on don't pinch just yet then cuz I want to check the angle for this so we were thinking kind of like that right yeah okay so with that in mind it's time to pinch and now we play the waiting game for his theater setup

David's using kind of a mishmash of older speakers so we just need to take a quick look and see what the rated impedance of these is so we can tell his receiver how hard to drive them uh Unfortunately they don't seem to say

wait we could save ourselves some trouble do you have a multimeter I don't have a multimeter oh I have a voltage tester I don't know if it does any I don't think it does it yeah that's not going to do that no multimeter huh cuz

then we could just um find out the impedance it's probably 6 ohms so what happens if it's not does it just blow up um Spectacular One Way is much more worse than the other way and I forget right now do you want to find out uh

yeah I'll find out no by doing I'm saying but there's only I mean yeah how married to you are how married are you to these speakers they're old hand-me-downs from 15 years ago okay well we're going to go for gold

then six ohms or higher I think it's okay what about the rears those are probably labeled right they I think they have at least names what yeah just know I mean we promised people this was going to be a more frugal practical tech upgrade the

speakers they at least have names you know yeah that's that's the bar there we go oh hey DM 100 that's right we don't have a multimeter but we've got a model number we got a multi reader he can read letters and numbers

is crazy these are eight ohm okay so that means it's six or higher the six or higher setting will be fine for these then these are the real tech tips though you know hacking together whatever it is that you've got lying around and doing it in a way that's safe and doesn't blow

anything up I like a little bit of blowing up okay so we're safe to continue with the receiver setup wizard I'm not getting any test tones are you guys sure you hooked all this stuff up right nope uh yes what did you do David the wrong way no

no that's that's fine for now I don't think I haven't done anything yet all I did was move these connections from the bottom to the top which shouldn't matter that's all I did oh reys when were you going to mention you

haven't plugged those in yet what what do you mean you I mean I'm sitting here going oh the front's working but the surrounds not it clearly says they're not yeah okay well now you know okay get the best surround by using the

Attach microphone? Yes, I'd like to calibrate now. Uh, before I do that though, I was thinking maybe we revisit this. Let's do it. And we were thinking here, yeah, what's uh what drill do we need? I said call her a drill. They're children, go get the drill.

You are the drill now. Yeah, buddy. Okay, I think that's good. Here we go. You guys ready? I think we should epoxy yet. Moment of truth. Oh buddy, let's go. That's so cool. Okay, oh man, we actually got, we nailed the angle on the epoxy thing, you

see that as soon as I stuck it in there, it didn't move at all. So we've actually got the weight kind of distributed correctly. And then we can, what we can, I've got some black zip ties upstairs. I'll bring them and then we can use

those to anchor to the to the pool here. I'll be right back. Okay, okay. It was worth it. It was worth it, David. I agree. Are we ever going to like maybe show your, so her, like new computer? Yeah, is she here right now? She's here right now.

All right, it's not done done. There's more stuff to add but okay, it's so pretty. It's rainbow. I don't know what any of those things do, but I love them. No, I love it. You did a good job. Thank you. Yay. We wanted to play some retro games

cuz like you know, David was going to like emulate retro games because you know he had to get rid of all of his consoles to pay for the the space. But um, apparently all of his Linux ISOs were on a RAID array that died. Yeah, you don't

have a single retro game not currently well wait what did okay well you kept a couple consoles yeah okay well then we can play a game well then we don't have the filters yeah I I have a retro 4K I only have the 5x

though I don't have anything guys I don't have anything nothing I got nothing well I mean it's still a cool setup but we have to yeah we have to play a pixel game what filters do you like it depends on the screen I like the

scale 2x ones you there's like a scale 3x or 4x the HQ hq2x actually is one of the ones I like really yeah I know I thought you I thought you were some kind of purist that looks terrible I love CT

because they make smooth so I got an all that into smooth oh man David you just lost all your Retro Gaming street cred in one move no do you know what would be lame is if I bought into what other people thought looks good I have my opinion my

perspective and I bring that to everything I do including the filters I choose you tell me you know this might not be as big of a collection anymore but when you think about the quality per game that we're looking at here now I like it better it

seems more focused this is a sick collection I got to say this is looking mighty fine in here it's not perfect uh as per usual my vision is huge my execution is okay but with the help of my friends I think we did a pretty amazing job so if you guys

are all paid friends to me then what am I to you you know what I think the people can see where you're going with this all it needs is what like an area rug or two a little couch a little spit shine this is sick dude are you going to miss the

fidelity of the original consoles though it's going to take me a little while to adjust I can tell that the input latency was off uh and it didn't feel quite right to me but I think it's something I can get used to and it's something that

I can adjust and research and tweak uh and I'm very excited for the emulation of later consoles as well you know like PS2 PS3 this is about where we had the mic hey David y okay here we go oh I'm so excited I haven't had a good home

theater setup you know what maybe ever not this good for sure this if you're going for full immersiveness is a great size for this space for movies this isn't too big yeah I'm a little anxious for games but I don't think it'll be too

bad well there's always that one there exactly choices you know we did this video recently so I don't really need to talk about it a ton but a cobbled together random ass Facebook Marketplace speaker setup is so vastly superior to an entry level or even a mid-range soundbar that

that's just what everybody should be doing if you're in the know and you don't mind messing about with inputs this crushes what like any soundbar you would have bought for this price crushes it I don't know man I think you might have

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Transformation of David's garage into a gaming room

David's cluttered garage is transformed, yielding $20,000.

Goal is to create an ultimate gaming room, home theater, and workshop.

Upgrade is unsponsored, making the tech choices more practical and high-stakes.

The team starts working on the setup, prioritizing a book nook.

The girlfriend's valuable book collection is discussed.

Setting up the gaming and home theater equipment

Installation of a 77-inch LG C1 OLED TV is shown.

The TV's features, including HDMI 2.1 ports, are highlighted.

A contrast is drawn between David's past and current setup.

Building a new computer for David is mentioned.

A custom mount for the PC is being built to make it appear floating.

Building a new computer for David's partner

David's partner receives an upgrade from a 7700K system.

A sneak peek of the Borg PC's extra piece is shown.

The process of mounting the Borg PC is described.

Discussion on the value and challenges of assembling the PC components.

Ongoing smaller projects and finishing touches

Creation of comic book tabletops is mentioned.

Problem-solving regarding missing AMD standoffs.

Improvisation due to unexpected component issues.

A sliding barn door to cover a breaker panel is planned.

Addressing cable management and PC assembly issues

Discussion on the importance of front USB and fans.

Finding and using inexpensive ARGB cables.

Finishing touches and addressing remaining issues.

Troubleshooting and finalizing the PC setup

Troubleshooting RGB issues and computer output problems.

Identifying and resolving a keyboard error.

Discussion about the placement of a table and other furniture.

Mounting the Starship Enterprise model and final adjustments

Mounting a custom-painted Starship Enterprise model.

Discussion on the model's paint job and details.

Using epoxy to attach the model to the shelf.

Alternative mounting methods are considered.

Drilling a hole in the shelf to mount the model.

Lack of a multimeter leads to using model numbers to determine impedance.

Identifying the speakers' model numbers and impedance.

Confirming the safety of the speaker setup.

Troubleshooting the receiver setup and speaker connections.

Final touches and completion of the setup

Final adjustments to the Starship Enterprise model mounting.

Securing the model using epoxy and zip ties.

Showing David's partner her new computer.

Attempting to play retro games, encountering issues with emulation.

Discussion on preferred retro game filters and settings.

Final thoughts and reflections on the project

Positive feedback on the overall setup and collection.

Discussion on future improvements and additions.

David's perspective on the emulation experience and input latency.

David's excitement about the home theater setup.

Comparison of the speaker setup to soundbars.