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/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.

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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? She's like, I think this one's like 600 bucks 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. Linus 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?

No, 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 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 C3 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? Because 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 2.1s, 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.

It's a monitor, not a TV. Oh man, okay, okay, okay, let's go. Let's go. Three, two, one. 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 st- 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 Zezzo did and what he's doing here.

she likes the idea, 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 sent 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.

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, Reese, 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.

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 SFF 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 rig.

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, 'cause 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, what's the odds you have a vise? 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? Pretty good actually. All right, let's do it. What could go wrong? Ow, ow, ow.

Oh, if I spin it backwards, then 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. 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, because that's what she knows to plug into.

Okay. How essential would you say these fans are? Absolutely not cool, because well, I think you see the problem. Yeah, that's not what that out.

Now what I did didn't tell David, because 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, it 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.

Oh, computer output. Uh oh. 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 makes 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? 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 because none of these are flat.

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 is an acrylic 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 to go. 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 because 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.

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 Plouffe versus Justin, like, uh, like battle, battle damaged armor paint off.

Now, have you seen some of Ploof'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. 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 calm 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, because I want to check the angle for this.

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