NZXT PODCAST - #186 - Rating Your PCs!

Episode Date: August 16, 2024

On this week's episode of the NZXT Podcast... We rate your PCs that YOU submitted to us! Watch the VOD at twitch.tv/NZXT and join our Discord server to submit your setups: discord.gg/NZXT

That was pretty fun. Well, hello, everyone. Welcome to episode 186 of the NCC podcast, the official podcast of the NCC community. This podcast is quartered to live every other Friday, or actually in the past next couple weeks, it's going to be a little weird. On the official NCC Twitch and is available to stream on demand

on Apple Podcast, Spotify, and SoundCloud. My name is Mike. With me is Zelda right here. And then Ivan, how are you doing, Ivan? Doing good. How I do, baby, boo. Happy Friday. So today is going to be a super fun podcast.

We are going to be rating PCs, not gaming setups, PCs. In the past, we've rated people's setups that we thought, you know what, we should probably just rate computers. So earlier this week, we put out a call to action on Twitter, asked people to show us their computers, and we got hundreds and hundreds of submissions. We also told people in our Discord server to go to that tweet and submit their picture. So if you have it, you're not on Discord, you're missing out. Go to Discord.g.g slash NZXT.

And you guys can get in a lot of this stuff that we don't usually post anywhere else. We usually just post chinchillas on Instagram and brain rot on TikTok and boomer jokes on Facebook. So if you really want to get in on showing off your PC, and getting access to giveaways, you won't get any rolls to join the server. So speaking of giveaways, before we get into this stuff, one lucky person who is tuned in live today on twitch.tv slash nzxt will win a $25 steam gift card.

And if you stick around to the end of the show when we're all done rating these PCs, you guys will get a secret word that will get you a bunch of bonus entries that will increase your chances of winning. So hang tight. Mr. Coco Nutter as asking, can I still join?

Unfortunately, it's too late, but if you just post your PC on the tweet, if we have time, send us the link at the end of the show, and we'll rate it. All right, let's get into it, Mike. All righty. Yeah, and then you guys can still reply to the tweet. Actually, I'll send a tweet into the thing,

into the chat. You guys can still reply to it, and then it will pull a week. from whoever submitted from this as well. Yeah. It's going to be Twitter. Yeah. Yeah.

So if you guys want to submit it, go to the Twitter. Leave a call. And then we'll choose a random winner at the end of the stream. And then we'll find one. So you guys can still submit. We won't be able to maybe rate it, but we should be able to put into your submissions. All righty. Let's get to the first one.

From, it's going to buy you. I'm not sure if that's how the ways I pronounce here. But this. Woo. I think it's H-9-Flow, it looks like. It is. Yeah. The H-I. Flow.

So I, well, do you want me to rate it first? Or you want to rate it first? I mean, we can just, what's our cartier for rating? I don't know. I mean, I guess we'll just kind of how we do setups, I guess, but just focus on the PCs. Well, for me, like, I love this setup, but there's a couple of things. I think or I shouldn't say set up this PC don't say set up I love this PC but there are two things that I would do to make it better the first is I would put an RGB fan in the rear because it looks like he has or they have RGB fans on the top as well as the front

and then I would probably even though they're not needed I would just put fans on the bottom just because you can just to feel up the case a little bit. They're not necessarily needed per se, but it would just add to the overall aesthetic of the PC, but this PC looks very clean. You can tell that it also has a good cable management just by the way

the tables in the front are routed. It looks like they took their time to make sure that it's clean. So I'm going to give this one an 8 out of 10. I was thinking 8 out of 10 as well. but what

Graphics card is this where the the plug goes on to the side here that's so cool is a gigabyte I know I'm trying to figure out what card yeah because like my 4090 it has in the front here

but like I that's that's so cool I don't even know but I love that I'm increasing to build a frame so those sleepiness I'm going to give it an 8 out of 10 as well it's very clean

cables the only thing that I was thinking nine because it was so clean but also the stuff here like it looks like there's a lot of dust settled here

remember we're just waiting the PC yeah but you know you should still clean the PC you know so I'm gonna say I'm gonna say

an 8 out of 10 very good though very fantastic though uh great ghost we love this guy well actually go back go back

real quick it's I believe this is Eugenia I just noticed the username. I believe it's Eugenia who she used to work I forgot the name of the company, but she worked at a company that we actually did something with like some partnership with a couple years ago so that's cool.

Never mind, take it back Eugene and you get a 10 out of 10. So, Grey Ghost, I mean, come on. If you guys are not following Grey Ghost, you're missing out. The Grey Ghost is, The Great Ghost is a PC modder from Japan, and they've modded basically every single NZT case I can think of, going way back to my favorite, the Manta, which is back here. Yeah, and like by mod, I mean, they don't really do any sort of crazy mods. They paint, so they're like they're painters, and they paint, like, really cool colors into, like, designs on not just cases but even like components and um i have not seen one bad paint job of theirs

so good yeah every once in a while too like they'll post like a picture of their workspace and they have like this uh this big storage container and in the storage container it's it's full of just computer cases and motorcycles that they paint so yeah follow grigos if you're not they're on Instagram and Twitter at Graygos CC underscore JP. Yeah.

And yeah, I'm going to give there's nine, there's nine computers here they submitted. It looks like one of them is just like an empty case, but I'm going to give them a 10 out of 10.

How could you not? Like I think anyone would kill for any single one of these computers, right? Yes, ultra. This is a hot tsunami miku case.

Like, this one up here, one that's on box. bottom like like i've been said it this is i love the knock to a brown member we got sent the knock to a brown one and we all started freaking out we're like we should totally make like a brown case i would kill for this brown case right here it's looked so clean so yeah i mean 10 out of 10 you can't i mean there's a thing of like making a good pc that looks good you know from parts then there's taking that step above and customizing it and just making it and just making

It looks so good. Like the purple here, the Noctua sign right here, the sleek black, the hot seat in Muku, the orange, this like porcelain kind of marble white. Oh, I mean, come on, man. They always match the interior components to the paint job, if you notice. Like, everything always matches perfectly. They do an amazing job. 10 out of 10, man. I honestly, 11 out of 10 if we could because, like, that is ridiculous.

Actually, this is 9, 9, 10. out of 10 right here in this one submission. Yeah. 900 out of 10. Yeah. 90 out of 10, right? Sorry. 90 out of 10. I like that.

All right. And then for the next one, I love this next one. I don't know. I think this one will blow this one out of water. All right. I think, I think this is a 9-01. I think it is a 901. I think it is a 901 out of 10. if you're not tuned in live you don't know what the heck we're looking at it's just a empty table and it says my john sina computer so uh yeah the cable management on this is superb uh it also has you know excellent airflow from what i can tell here so i'm gonna give this a 10 out of 10

i mean murmur man a baricle boy would be happy because you know they had that visible bolt and bill and they'll have this invisible pc come on man Like, oh, the cable management. You can't even see the cables. It's perfect. My favorite part about this is he didn't just like, didn't just, like, find like a, like, he didn't just take a picture of his desk. He looked up a picture of a desk from Adobe stock.

That's my favorite part about this. He didn't just, like, oh, here's my desk. It is he looked up desk in Google, went to images, and it's found an Adobe stock. documentage of it. 10. Gamers game pass. Tad of 10. All right.

This is from TJFPS, I believe, TJFPS. So this was interesting. I pulled this and what, what? I've never seen

a PC on a mount like this. I've seen PCs get mounted to walls, but I've never seen it like elevated like this before. Yes. And I know we're just rating computers or not reading setups,

but I have to, I have to call it. attention to the setup because this looks like a hazard waiting to happen because it looks like that that computer is on the tiniest of shelves right next to a bed right next to your pillow where your head is at night like I could just imagine being asleep on there and there's an earthquake and that thing falling on your head yeah I I don't like the I don't like the placement of this PC. I feel like one bad like you slam your desk over.

Gone. Yeah, the desk, I mean, I'm not knocking their desk, but I mean, it doesn't look like a very high quality desk either. Like, it looks like it's very flimsy. So I can imagine just, you know, bumping my elbow in here and knocking this computer off. And yeah, and I know we're not rating the setups, but the cable management is also very horrendous.

You can see the messy cable tangled up. like a rat'sness in the back. But yeah, if it was just the PC, I mean, the PC itself looks awesome. I love the air cooler. I love the, um, the RGB in there. I love the, I look, I can't tell if it's RGB RAM or if it's the, no, it's just their reflection. Yeah, but I'm a big air cooler guy.

Like, I love air cooler. And to me, it looks like it's a very well built with good cable management. just the placement is horrible it looks very dangerous it's so dangerous setting it the link over I like what sage said it's that's a large clock T-C to forehead because

yeah because one bad earthquake wabam I know Laurent just said loves air coolers but has a crack in I mean I'll give us a 6th I think it's not awful.

I mean, the PC itself is great. It's just in a very precarious situation, which, you know, we're not doing sense, but I feel like the PC itself is like in a very scary situation. So I'm going to give it a six because I'm just, I'm really worried about this. Yeah, I think a six is fair just because. It's still a good PC, just scary. If it was not on that shelf, it would probably be a 10, but the fact that it's literally a risk and it could possibly kill you.

Oh, my gosh, man. Imagine this just slamming onto your forehead at night. Yeah, I don't want it. Can we rate our setups in the office? We should totally do that. I'm going to put that as goodballs. We should totally do that. I thought about doing that,

but everyone here has really ugly setups except for me. So I don't want to make them all sad. All right. from Text Morton This PC There's only There's only one One word to describe it

I think The airflow though The airflow I mean there's no case It's just like computer parts on a desk With You know Cables everywhere

Screwdriver Right next to the power supply This also looks like a hazard Waiting to happen because the motherboard is just chilling on the edge of the desk. It also looks like a very old picture. I mean, or if it's not an old picture, it's old hardware. Yeah, similar to the last one.

I mean, this just looks like a hazard waiting to happen, not just for injury, but... Innovative. ...to destroy your computer part. So this is a brum moment. I'm going to give it a... I'll give it a one out of 10 because at least they have a computer or computer parts. But man, this thing is a disaster.

Yeah, I'm going to go. Well, actually, I'm going to give it two out of ten because like Ricky Relo said in the chat, Shrek profile pick, that gives an extra point. The thing that worries me the most is the power supply being here and like a bunch of like wires here. because like what would happen if something had like you know the cat on top or something sharp accidentally felt or water

he spilled some water oh my gosh this thing was the this would be a nightmare oh gosh yeah I gotta give it I'll give it a two out of tech it works and the Shrek profile picture gives an extra one but that's yeah imagine playing and your entire PC slides off the desk

I just realized something So this hardware looks like it's 15, 20 years old, right? I was looking up where the quadro was. I was like, but that's a Windows 11 screen. Is that really? Windows 11? Isn't it? That's like a new window.

I don't remember sign up screens. Like sign-in screens. I'm not like a Windows 95 or 98 or even 7 screen. That's definitely like a Windows 7 screen. like a Windows 10 or 11 screen. And also the monitor while old, it's still a widescreen. Yes.

Maybe it's not that. Maybe this is like a new picture. You know, the worst part is, I'm looking up Nvidia Quadro. And I don't know which one does this. Because I've never seen this card before. It's from 2014, 2013. Yeah.

There's something. are like $500 and there's something that are $150 with good reviews on it so it's a decent setup it's actually kind of decent which is the weird part yeah I'm gonna stick with two though two two two what even two though because this let you know what cocoa dutter you're right it this gives me anxiety just just as I stare at this it makes me more anxious and worried like I get more scared as I watched this picture all right

let's go ahead and uh let's go ahead and go to next one all right I'm gonna move just a little bit more to the center for big day I thought this was interesting it's interesting because there is no PC yeah I guess the only way to rate this because it has no PC but it's using

I don't even know what this is is that the rogue ally or... Yeah, is this a... No, this is a portable PC, right? Or stream deck? I don't even know what this is. I don't think it's the

Valve one. No, I think it's... It's got to be one of the handheld ones. I'm going to say it's a PSP. Oh. As a PSP. If it's a PSP, then it's on a PC, right?

Not really do much on it, but... All right. let's just rate whatever is that a honey stick at the bottom there or what I'm like I think it's a blunt I'm going to be honest yeah I'm

I'm too innocent I don't know I just I just don't know why he has a keyboard and mouse here with this setup then if it's a PSB maybe he plays the games with keyboard and mouse maybe but he had a VR goggles.

Yeah, it's a VR goggles. Let's just say that that is a PC and you could browse the web or maybe he is playing games with that, then. It's a pretty cool setup, to be honest. Oh, it's a handheld PC with a PSP design.

Okay, yeah. That's what, okay, that makes a little bit more sense. Okay. If that's the case, then I only give us a 10 out of 10 because that's pretty cool. And, like, I always say,

I feel like, in my opinion, the Nintendo Switch is the only console that makes sense for a PC gamer because it does something that a PC can't do and plays games that you can't really play on PC.

And the biggest thing is that you can play laying down in your bed or whatever. And the fact that they basically have that with a PC, it's pretty cool. And I'm not the biggest VR guy, but the fact that they're playing

VR on that thing. I mean, that's also pretty cool. So I'm going to give this one at 10 out of 10. I'll give it a 7. I don't like the distance from, because it's like using a TV. I feel like the distance is weird. I probably feel like the,

the, what do you call it? What's a lag? What do you call? Like the, when you move like a mouse and then it lags on the screen, I can't remember the terminology for it.

latency. The latency on it. Thank you. The latency on it would be kind of weird. And who said this? Cocoa Nutter said it's kind of sad how little the shelf has. Like, there's nothing on this top shelf. It's these little things here.

It's so sad. If we're ready and set up, I would call that out, but that is weird. It is a little weird. But I'm going to give us, I'll give us, you know, I'll give it a seven. I think it's innovative with the PSP design with the PC and then it's standing out, you know, it's relaxing. I like it. I like the setup.

I like the PC too. The unique. From Mochi-Kisu. All right. Once again, we're just ready to PC. Not the setup. I know, I know. It's just hard not to when you see it.

I know. Well, some people submitted the whole setup. Yeah. So, just the PC itself. I am not like a big like RGB guy per se I do have RGB

inside my PC but it is always a little distracting when it's in rainbow mode like this PC here I'm not going to deduct any points for that I'm just saying that's just the first thing I see and can't really see the inside of the PC or anything I'm not sure what case it is but

I don't know I guess I guess I can't rate the PC. I'm going to have to rate the setup a little bit. I love the monitor arms. I hate the cables dangling all behind it. The cables could definitely be cleaned up. I do appreciate the fact they have an Xbox there as well. If I'm looking at the setup, I'm going to say it's 7 out of 10

just because the cable management is idiot. It is six. It's like you'll match. And I kind of agree. The RGB, and I love the blacked out RGB. Like blacked out with RGB is great, but just with rainbow and stuff. I agree.

I don't like pure rainbow. Like, right now I just have my settings on purple. And then it just does the breathing. That's it. Like the rainbow mode is cool. It's a lot. Like, you want to take a picture, I guess. Or if you want to show me like your, your, your homey, your PC.

Like, oh, look at this rainbow mode. But just when you're sitting there all day long, it's really distracting for me. I never have it in the rainbow mode. I just have it like purple or something. Okay. And I agree, Sage. Don't worry. The recipes are purely PC, so do not worry.

So from Master Kush, great name. All right. So Master Kush, I feel like he was probably on that Master Cush when he was building this PC because... Look at all this. I mean, even said in the caption, the cable management is in great, but it's my beast.

Well, they're, you know, they're right. The cable management isn't great, but it's also not even good because it looks like they didn't even do any cable management. All the cables are just,

they look like they're in the front of the, of the case when they should be behind the case. Yeah. So, I mean, that alone, I guess that's going to deduct at least five points for me, at the very, very least. And yeah, I mean, they also have like the

the ugly 24 pin cable there, which, I mean, it works, but, you know. This, this, this scares me. This gets anxiety looking at like the CP 24 like this, with all the colors. technically it's RGV man you know what you're right yeah I'm gonna give this a three out of ten because I mean they said it themselves the cable management isn't great but

I mean they really did know cable management here it's just they just put all the parts in the front they didn't even bother to like make anything look pretty so because of that I'll give it a three out of ten I'm gonna give it a four cable management is not good like you said and I feel like it's a hazard because

like with all these wires and all the fans I feel like it can end up like cutting one of these. But if you say if it works, it works. I'll give it four. But yeah, now this, this gives me anxiety because of this part here. This part up here, like it's just all around the place. Yeah, even like the AIO tubes, like the tubes themselves, they're not even.

Yeah. I like the Snapchat. Oh, yeah, too. Yeah, the tubes themselves just, they're all tangled. up. Yeah. Hidious. But if it works, it works.

From Tyson, TV, great way of spelling Tyson, by the way. All right. All right. You go. This PC is

super clean. I love... Interesting. I love how... I was like, I love the cable management on this first and foremost, because the cable

extensions there on the CPU and the motherboard, and then, sorry, the 24 pin. They're really nicely organized. Vertical GPU always looks super clean. The AI, I don't know what AIO this is. I think it's, someone in the chat probably knows. It says Arctic Freeze.

There we go, Arctic Freeze. I heard it look really good AIOs. Yeah, but I was literally saying, like putting my mouse on it, Ricky. Why is the AIO towards the bottom, not the top? Well, there's a whole debate, right? Right. It's which way do the tubes go? And to be honest, you're most of the time never even making a notice.

I like, I personally think the AIO looks better when the tubes are on top. I agree as well. I like it when it's hanging. But the way that they have it here set up with the, with the vertical GPU and how the tubes kind of go over the GPU a little bit, it looks pretty cool. Yeah. Maybe it's for the aesthetic too because then you don't have a tube here it kind of goes along with the GPU

so maybe it worked maybe that's what the aesthetic was because he didn't want like the tubes in the way of anything. I've had AIOs with the tubes on top on PCs that I have been running for like almost 10 years

never had an issue with it. It's like but there's like this whole argument. The tube should be on the bottom or whatever, is like, any way you install it, it's going to be wrong.

And there's arguments for either way. But yeah, I, I like the way they built this. This is a 10 out of 10 for me. It's a really nice build. I'm a little, I'm a little of a stickler,

so I'm going to go 9. It's a fantastic PC. I literally barely see, I see one cable. And obviously, like, like, not like one of these coiled cables. I'm talking about like a loose cable like this i don't i only see really one but this right here the bottom really does not so i'm

going to even a nine just because of it going bottom i feel like it should be i feel like these two should swap but it's probably one of the cleanest cases i it's clear to my pc because i tried to swap into this dude case and it's awful so you know what i can't i can't complain too much about it if you gave me this i'd be so happy there's some people in the chat here, I think TTC Beppo and KRNTC talking about the direction

of the airflow. I'm not familiar with these fans, but I can't confirm or deny if the radiator is blowing air in or out, but if it's blowing air in the case, definitely not a good

way to have these fans. Oh, yeah, I didn't think about that. That's weird. The fan on the radiator should be blowing out. But then again, I also don't know how the airflow is optimized in this case either. I wonder how it is too, because it is a vertical mount too. So, you know, vertical mount, it tends to not be the best performance. So the performance will be very interesting.

I would love to ask this guy, how his performance is when he's on load. Yeah. Yeah, because I think about it because, yeah, air is coming in on size. Air is coming in here and I assume these are exhaust but he has no fans on the back so I don't know it's weird very odd but I give it a solo 9 though still 9 from

Rachel Gamer Girl Gamer gal sorry I love the frog the frog's my favorite part and I don't know what figury I think this is Sunade from Naruto but I love the frog

the frog is straight up the best part all right this is a really nice H9 It looks like an H9 flow build. The only thing I would do to improve this build is I would put a 360 radiator on top just so you don't have that empty space there on the front. And then I would do a little bit of better job routing that AIO cable. so it's not going over the motherboard like that.

I would just kind of make it go like to the side of that. Yeah, I'd probably like right between the top of this part and the RAM just like right there. Yes. And I think besides that, I mean the GPU cables, the bottom one kind of triggers me a little bit because it looks like it's too close to the fan, but not a deal breaker.

Yeah, it's like... The figuring is cool. I love it when people put figurines on their GPUs. I think that's a really like underrated spot to put something cool. People are scared, I think. Yeah, I have a question. Does if your GPU gets super hot and you put a figurine, would the figurine have issues?

Like, would it have to be able to withstand a lot of heat? Because these GPUs get hot. There's only one way to find out, Mike. That's true. That is true. do it. No, I put stuff on my, on my GPU before and like, nothing's ever happened. Okay. Yeah. Because like I was, you know, I was thinking about it because I have some, I have some of my fresh figurine right here. I was like, you know, I could put this inside, but I'll be worried.

I do things to my PC that people are always telling others not to do and like I've never had an issue. Okay. Like right now I have a chinchilla plush and a poochy plush on top of my case just where there is. Oh, where it is. My PC does not overheat at all. Like, that thing happens. I'm sure if I moved it, maybe it'd have like one degree better attempts, but you're never going to notice that stuff.

Google it. Plastic has a mounting point, a 70 to 200 Celsius. I assume figurines are on. Okay, so as long as it's not a fully plastic figurine, it should be fine. Okay. The 200 Celsius, I mean, unless you're GPS,

unless you're playing Minecraft with mods, Or you put like a bunch of TNT in, yeah Okay, yeah That, you know what, that puts me a little bit of use Okay, I'll put a figure you in by PC I'll put in later All right This next one, I'm gonna go to Twitter for this

Because they submitted a lot of different stuff Grifts So we'll soft, we'll go through the pictures first And then they have a video of their PC All right You see looks... Well, the PC is nice, but it's on the floor so I'll deduct one point just for that.

Yep. I'm going to deduct another point because you go back to that first picture. I'll send it to you so you can see it. But cable management. Ooh, yeah. The bottom is really, really bad. Like the cables are basically just almost touching the fans. Some of them are touching the fans.

Super dangerous. And the cables on top. Criss-cross ones are interesting. Like another point there. The AIO tube is mounted on bottom like the other one. However, these ones don't look as good. Wait, yeah. I do think the two's in this particular AIO would look better mounted on the top.

But like I said before, it doesn't matter which way you install the AIO. It's always wrong for some reason. I'm going to give this one a 6 out of 10. I'm confused where is, is this one to the side or is the aerial mounted to, I think it's to the side here, right? It's the front side. Oh, I know, like the video of the thing. Okay, so the setup's nice. Okay.

Yeah, I, the cable management kind of screws with me a little bit. I'll give it a six out of ten. I think it's good. The RGB. what the build really truly is. It's a good... Even like the GPU, the GPU cable itself is, I don't think that's routed in a good way either.

Yeah, because I feel like it's pulling it to the side a little bit. It should kind of hang. But it's still very well clean. You know, it's not cables all over and it's got blocking anything, but you definitely need to do like some cable ties. It needs some tidying. And then KRATC pointed out that the motherboard has an error code,

which I didn't notice. I thought some motherboards that have this it's not an error code. It's just, it just has something that just says it. But I don't know. I don't know. If it has an error code, maybe they should definitely fix that.

I'm confused. Is that a glass top with fans on top? Yeah. We have like an H9 elite that has a glass top. As long as that's like an exhaust, it's fine. You know, usually there's like a little slit in the back that brings it out. It should be okay.

I thought this was a very clean case. I love this one from Bandit, from Beaming Bandit. Clean case. I also love the two mice here, too. Very, very aesthetically pleasing. So this is H9 flow. I love that they have a... They basically filled up every fan slot, which I always, I'm a big fan of that, pun intended.

If your case has placed for fans, just put fans there. It looks like the cable management is also very, very nice. They have the extensions on the GPU, on the 24 pin. I can't see the CPU connector. The AIO cable on top is also, it's not, I would probably, put it so it's like not going over. Yeah, it's like going around this thing right here. On the side, but at least it's straight.

So no big E. The AIO tubes do look a little stretched. I would probably prefer to have the AIO on top just so the cables don't look like they're stretched like that, but it's not a big deal breaker. It still works fine.

And then I love the the GPU support bracket on the bottom. It looks like a salam. or something. You see that face? Oh, this thing right here.

It looks like a little salamander. Yeah, this one's nice. It's nice for sure. To me, this is a 10 out of 10. And like you said, two cool mice next to it doesn't hurt. So, yeah, this is a really nice build. I agree. I would prefer if the AIO would go on top.

That's probably personal preference. Because I feel like it's, uh, um, the tubes like straightened out I feel like that's it's a little scary to me even though it's you know these things are multi-threaded I always like to have some slack in the in the tubes so I'd rather have this

here and then just swap the fans here to the side but fantastic and yes the Crackin Elite with different fans so it's so used it to the Cracking Elite and looks like it's one of our motherboards and cases too but they wanted to make sure all the fans matched which is also pretty dope so

10 10 literally I can't see a single thing really wrong with this PC like yeah yeah but it's preferences it's it's not like oh you have you really should fix this it's like that's preference like you know like I haven't said about this cable I'd rather have it

kind of go right between the top of this motherboard and then the RAM so it's kind of like flushed in you know I like the AI on top but other than that freaking 10 at 10 man amazing this was interesting so it's a

Proximus host, Ryzen 3,900X with 128 gigabytes of RAM. Oh, all right. From, uh, I am June, June. So it's an NCC case with NXT,

uh, let's say M22 or a 120. It looks like one or an old one, so probably an M22. I have no idea what's going on here. Like, look at this thing. All right, let's see, hold on. Let me dissect this build.

All right. It looks like they have a 120 millimeter radiator in front. Yeah, you see this? And then there's no fan on top. But then this is also, the SOTA, the Celsius is also, the energy drink is also blocking the radiator.

What is that thing in the middle? I don't know. P-I-K-V-M. It has like Ethernet connected to it. E-I-K-V-M. It is an open... Oh, it's a Raspberry Pi. It looks like it's some sort of Raspberry Pi.

This is an H-5-10. I don't even see a graphics card, right? Oh, shoot, yeah, there is no graphics card. I don't know what's going on here. It's a hosting thing. So I assume it's just... to post a server? Is that what?

Well, you know what? I don't know what the heck it is, so I'm going to give it a 10 out of 10, Mike. Yeah, you know, I'll give it, I'll give it a... Yeah, I got it... I'll give it 10 of 10, you know? It's just interesting. Like, I just saw this thing and this with no panel,

the radiator with the energy drink blocking it, and it just the standard, like, two fans with, you know, one exhaust. And I'm just like, what is this? But I assume maybe it's a close thing. So I'll give it 10 out of 10. You know, if it works, it works, you know? And I'm also a fan of Celsius water.

So if you haven't drank, it's pretty good. I don't drink energy drinks. Technically, it's water with caffeine. Oh, I don't think that's how it works. All right, from Carmelo Presti. All right. This is an interesting one. The GPU cable's got to go.

They're not mounted. Not only correctly, they're also... They should go underneath. They're also just mounted in a really ugly way, in my opinion. Like, if you're going to mount them on top like that, at least clean them up a little bit so they're not all tangled up like that. There's no reason to run the cables like that. They should go through the bottom. That's what the hole on the bottom of it.

case is four is so you can mount those cables so right off the bat i'll deduct i'll deduct five points right off the back yeah this GPU cable so weird um the aio tubes can also be you know cleaned up a little bit it looks like they're they're just not they're not tangled but they're also like not just pretty to look at. So I would pick those. Besides that, the PC honestly is pretty flawless. I love how the GPU

barely fits in there too. I love when it looks like that. So I'll give it a 5 out of 10 just because of those cables, man. Yeah, I think I gotta give it a 4. I'm sorry. Like, I've never seen a graphics card cable

just hanging like that. Um, it's just, oh gosh, it's just, it's just, I do not like this at all. The tubes is fine because, you know, this looks like H510, so you can't do 240 or 280 on top. Totally fine. Um, it's just, it's just this. But other than that, that's like the hardest, it's not that hard too. You just unplug these, put it around it on bottom. You have the, you know, we have that, uh, case cable management bar for a reason.

So it shouldn't be terrible. And I think, I think it's doable. I think it's doable. You definitely fix it up, though. It's doable, but will you do it? That is the question. From Sora Cloud. This is a video, but very clean.

It looks like it's an H7, H7 Flow. It's H7 Flow, or Elite. It's H7 Elite. Elite. Right, sorry. But love this. All right, so pause right there. So, you see.

see how they have the AIO cable right on the side like that? That's perfect. That's how... I like this. Yep. That's how I think it should be. I love how they they have the GPU cable routed.

Whoa. I actually haven't seen anyone do it that way. Whoa, that's cool. It would look cooler though if black connector there was white, but no big a deal i'm sure that that's fine um the gp u also looks really cool looks like it's made out of some crystals um they have a 360 aio on top awesome to the radiator tubes nice and nice and neat there's only one cable out of place and that's coming out of the uh aio like they mounted it on

the side how i think you should do it but that one that one cable is that one cable is got to be zip tied to the other. So I'll deduct half a point for that. So I'll give this one a 9.5 out of 10. Yeah, I don't really have any gripes. Yeah, the one cable, but that's fine. That's not something I should deduct the point for. The cables are great.

Yeah, I'll give us a 10. I'll give this a 10. I think I think it's a fantastic case that it's clean it looks good I love the vertical mount temps are a little high but you know

you're going for ascetic with these vertical mounts you know but oh my gosh 59 Fahrenheit would be what I don't even know what that would be 59 Fahrenheit to Celsius would be 15 Celsius it could be

dang But I get that a 10 out of 10. From the T-SpaceX-Fan 8. All right, SpaceX-Fan. This is a really, really nice build. It's inside the H-6 Flow. Looks like it's the H-6-Flow RGB. Looks cool, man.

Like, I really can't complain about anything on this build, except for the cables peeking out the back that they look like they're a little tangled, so I'm assuming whenever I see the cables outside the case tangled, I'm just right off the bed, I'm thinking, oh, they probably have the cables all messed up in the back of the case as well.

Hold on. Actually, I do say something to complain about the 24-pin cable should not be sticking out like that. Oh, that's... Yeah. No, no, no. Not that cable, yeah, there you go. that's got, see, and this is what I mean about the cables on the outside telling me that the back panel, once I take that back panel off, they're probably going to be all sloppy as well. So I'm going to deduct, I'll deduct two points for that.

So I'll give this an 8 out of 10 just because they have the rocket. I love rockets. But besides that, I mean, clean up those cables. Um Yeah, I'll give it an 8 I'll give it a good You know I'll give a 7 How about 7?

The cables Definitely should be fixed But Everything else about this case Is awesome Like the This is literally how my PC is right now Just a standard purple

Um I love you know You're a SpaceX fan So I see the Rockest A figurine Great, fantastic I think it's great But yeah

You could just clean up Just a little bit Just a tiny, tiny bit. From Scott Baker. B. Scott Baker. B. Scott Baker. Another video. The H5 Flow.

Got a Stormtrooper in there. I love the little GIF here. 44 CPU 32 GPU. Fantastic. It looks like a 4090. I love the GPU cable. Yeah, it's a really cool GPU cable. That GPU cable is so nice.

because it's like flush. You can support stick as well. Yeah. The only thing I think would make this build better is putting an RGB fan in the rear because you have two in front, two on top, and then the black one and the rear just looks out of place. The bottom one, I don't really think you need RGB down there, but you could do it too if you want, but at least the rear.

The rear fan should be RGB, I think. yeah I'll give this a 9 out of 10 just because of that 9 out of 10 9 of 10 star trooper figuring 10 of 10 um yeah I mean love the blue I this GPU cable and the stand alone just gives it just that just makes it so much better so yeah oh yeah I got to I'll get I got to give it a I'll give it a I give it a 9 out of 10 as well. The blue is nice. Maybe I should switch mine to blue. It makes it feel cooler.

All right. From midnight, mid-in-vow or midnights in Valah, look at these. Hey, I love the purple again. All right. This airflow on the max, though. Yeah, they have, I'm trying to count the fans.

Looks like they have three in the bottom, Three on the side. Six on top. Two in the rear. So that's... Oh, yeah. 14 fans inside this case. That's a lot of fans.

The... The GPU cables right through the top. Oh, yeah. Interesting. Because I assume the things here, so maybe they don't want to block the airflow, I guess. You know, Maybe I am on board with GPU on top because the cable won't block airflow, I guess, if it's on top.

Yeah. But like, the only thing. So, okay, the GPU cable's on top, but it's the, it's, it's the only black cable inside the case. Or there's two. There's the CPU one. There's another one. Yeah. So I guess if you're going to get white cable extensions for the other cables, I don't know.

At least make the cables match, I guess. Might as well just go with one color, black or white. I'm digesting this build. There's a lot to take in here. Because the only thing I really don't like is the tubes on the AIO do look a little stretched. They're a little too taut for my taste. But overall, I mean, it's a really nice build.

I think I'm just going to deduct one point, only because I feel like, that GPU cable could be organized a little bit better, maybe possibly white, just when it matches the others. And besides that, though, it's very, very clean build. I'm going to do a 9.5.

I think the fans are fantastic, lots of airflow, the RGB's on point. But yeah, the GPU cable on top, I think that's a preference, but I don't know if the performance of it, because I personally like it when it goes on bottom

because I feel like that looks cool. cleaner. Because cable's going like top to bottom looks better. But you know, I, I, I'm with it. I'm with it. I think it's good. All righty. Let's, uh, let's go over to from Nicopan VT.

Remember, like I said, we're going to do the, the PC itself. But I mean, you got to look at this. You got to look at the, uh, the setup as a whole. Because it's like, look at that. It's just so nice cozy gaming Very cozy I love the soccer

The setup is awesome The PC is awesome Everything in this picture is awesome Can't really Complain about a single thing on here I feel like anyone Would just Love to have a setup like this

PC Just looking at the PC itself I guess the only thing that I would do to improve the PC is I would not put that much stuff on top of it. It's just too much going on there. I would probably just put one thing on top.

But even then, you know, I can't really complain about that too much. This is, I mean, this is basically a 10 out of 10. I mean, what are you going to complain about? Literally, I'm like, looking at this. I'm like, what can he complain about in this thing? I'm trying to find her Instagram to see like if there's like a, zoom in on her PC because I think I remember

oh yeah this is I do I do remember this PC this is the one that's like slightly slanted which is pretty cool with really cool cables like look at this the twisted cables is a little odd but I feel no but you have to have it like that never mind but wow the AIO tubes could be cleaned up a little bit

just a little bit but that's that's not that's ideal breaker to me like gosh it's not a deal breaker but you gotta deduct something from that I'll do like half a point I'll do 9.8 I think this is like one of the best looking cases so far

clean loved RGP to set up on top of it like would you who would you ever like if you had to set up if someone was like you could have to set up for free would you be mad I would not be mad at the slightest

I would I would say no because I have kids trying to get all these knickknacks off of the setup. There's a lot going on here for sure. There is. There is a lot going on. Definitely the cozy gamer aesthetic

that is popular with the youth these days. All righty. So we got a few more left from Beano. Wish Hirotani. Clean set up.

Okay, this is cool because it's basically a murder out PC, except for the RAM and the AIO. And I guess the little strip there on the motherboard, and I guess the little light up logo on the GPU, but no RGB looks pretty cool. Cables look very nice and organized. Yeah, and I love this graphics card too.

Yeah, I love that. I guess, I guess, I mean, there's really not much to complain about. This is a nice, nice build, man. It looks like a workhorse, right? It literally looks like it. This thing is, you know, the RAM could be like 232 sticks as well. Yeah.

And it's just like, this thing's a powerhouse. Yeah. Founders cars, yeah. The founder's cars always look so good. This thing looks like I can run any game you throw at it. Yeah. It looks like a, like a workhorse. Yeah, I'm going to give us a 10 out of 10.

It's really nice. Black, you know what? A lot of people, like I have a white PC setup. But you know what? The blacked out with a little bit of light RGB, you know, that still goes hard. So you know what? I will, I'm going to give us, I think I'm going to give us a 9.5. I still think the one before was better.

But this is still, gosh, 10 out of 10. so or 9.5 out of 10 because god like kale imagine clean everything looks clean powerhouse founders card looks great good job you know i think we have to give some give some credits yeah this looks like my setup this is this is your setup at home i mean i'm not like an anti-laptop guy like i have laptop i guess the only thing I don't like is the they kept the stickers on there which bugs me I would take off the stickers

per that's just me though K. Kare NTC said the cable ban shit with this one is crazy I know right like if you have it in a laptop stand or cooler of sorts yeah maybe like a slanted like laptop case so you're not like

this kind of more comfortable Yeah So I would just get rid of the stickers on the on the Laptop itself But besides that I mean It's a It looks like it's a When did laptop start having like

RGB on the thing? Like I have a I know there's like laptops with like lights on it But this one has like full RGB on it I don't even know what laptop this is I do not know either It looks like it has It has a bunch of stuff on it Well if we're reading the stickers correct

See, AMD, Risen. A.MD.D. Radioon GPU and a NVIDIA G4s RtX GPU. So I don't think it has all that stuff. Maybe they just put those stickers on there now that I think about it. Unless it has two GPUs and one of them's AMD and one of them's Invidio. Mm-hmm. Which, if that's the case, and this is the ultimate, ultimate PC.

It really is. I mean, can your PC, can you play on your PC in the car? Not really. Can you play this in a library? Or can you play with your PC in a library? Not real. This, you can. So honestly,

dedicated GPU by Nvidia and integrated by AMD. Thank you for the Nucks. That's cool. Well, this thing is like every, I mean, I guess the only thing you could do is add something Intel on there, right? And you have like everything. Yeah. Until AMD and then video.

I just wish that this guy had a mouse, not using the track pad. Maybe they do have one. Maybe they do. But they showed us just the PC, not the Yep But honestly, I feel like laptops are so underrated

I think people love PC setups But sometimes you gotta get some love To a little bit of a laptop There you go Fill in access to toss some Intel storage And then just so you can put that sticker on there Yeah

All right, the final one If you have everything I'm gonna give it a 10 out of 10 Yeah, I'll give it 10 out of 10 I think laptops easy Laptops are goaded All righty Guys, I saved

The best PC for last I don't know if there will be any PC That beats this one that was submitted to us From Byrne Station 3D I know I mean, come on guys Come on This is the best PC setup

It's a dual PC setup Stacked on top of each other Come on Come on. Nowadays, washer and dryers, they're basically computers, man. They, like, they connect to Wi-Fi. People, I think you could run Doom on them. It's water and air-cooled, guys.

It's water and air-cooled. Cable management on point. I guess the only thing that I would complain about is these units are much too big for the space they're in. See how they're hanging out? Yeah, I don't like that. You need smaller, smaller washer and dryer unit here for the space provided.

Oh, gas powered, air heated, and integrated display. I think, no, no, there is a screen coconut. It's just, it's on sleep right now. I think it's just on sleep right now. I guess I'll get better out of 10, man. I got to lay in 11 out of 10.

I mean, come on. The latest thing. Powerhouse All right, right We should For the last PCs we rate We should rate each other's Ooh, okay

Um Okay, here I was to take a picture of mine Ooh, oh here Hold on let me Let me swap over to two people See Ivan's What are just specs on it?

Uh, good question. Let me see Send it to myself in Slack Ooh I-9-900k 2080 Pretty good Wait, where's the super computer that you got?

That's in the My work area, not in the podcast room Oh, oh, you're in a podcast room, gotcha Yeah See how dusty this is? I didn't clean it I didn't use this computer for Four years

Oh, I'm gonna increase Oh, yeah It just, um, it just sat there for four years. And then, um, when we moved off. You're just sitting there. Yeah. Okay. Like the ones that have in the back here.

These are not just cases. These are actual PCs. Yeah. So yeah, it just, it's sat. It literally sat behind me for four years. And then, um, we moved offices. And then I made my, my good PC, my regular PC. And then this podcast makes me use this one now.

All right. and this one's mine obviously you got out of chinchilla i hate the aio cables on top my i know i need of i have i literally have i have my cable ties here but i haven't i haven't done it i've been lazy

i hate that you don't have a 360 aio and my gp u cable's not too good either the chinchilla so i'm gonna i'm gonna give this a 10 out of 10 because I love you, Mike. Thank you. Thank you.

I mean... I still hate the chinchilla, though. That damn rodent. I mean, I hate it too, but this thing is... It's taken over my life. You know, this is my legacy. All righty. Is there anything else before I get into announcements, Ivan?

No. Just want to thank everyone for tuning in. Thank everyone who's submitted. to their setups. If you, or I shouldn't say setups, I should say PCs. We didn't do set up this time. If you guys want to get in on these rating shows, please just joining Discord server because even though we do post on social to get submissions, most of the time we do just

pull them from Discord. So Discord.g.g. slash NZXT. And for those that are here, you guys can submit to the Twitter and then we'll just pull a random winner and a random setup and whoever wins we get a $25 a gift card. But for those that are here and actually doing the gleam, so make sure you do the gleam. But before we do, give you guys the 500 extra, 500 extra entries into the giveaway. Let me get through some announcements. Okay.

So for those that are here, we're doing a back-to-school sale right now. the back to school cell ends in two days. If you buy a PC over 1K, you can get a free 1 terabyte SSD, which is pretty dope. Honestly, my SSDs are filling up, so 1 terabyte, super worth it. I must interrupt you.

Was it? I must interrupt you because that promo is no longer a promo. Oh, is it not? No, so now the promo is you spend, here I'll tell you right now, You spend... Oh, here it is. I have it here.

Yeah. Sorry, guys. So the back to school, the back to school one is now, if you spend $100, or save $100, if you spend $1,500, you could save $150,000.

You spend $2,500. Or if you spend $3,000, you'll save $200. So that's actually, that's actually a really nice deal, actually. Covers, like, shipping and everything like that, and tax.

So go ahead, take a look at nCC.com. If you guys want to take a look at our, back to school sales. We are heading to Gamescom. Super excited about that. That's next week. Next week.

So if you guys want, go ahead and follow our German NCC account, NCC underscore D.E. And follow along with news and some new stuff. We may be announcing, wink, wink. Yes. And if you want to guess what we will be announcing at Gamescom, go to the the coming soon channel and Discord and take a guess. No, and no, it's not going to be a chinchilla.

Now, not yet. We will. We will release an NCC chinchilla that is just a chinchilla that's branded with an NZXT. It's a live one. We have some new AMD Risen 9,000 processors on our website. Take a look at nccc.com slash 9,000.

These AMD CPUs are crazy. So take a look at our website if you guys want to take a look. NZC Flex, which is our subscription service. You can get a PC for as little as $59 a month. Cancel it anytime. You can upgrade every two years. And it comes with a warranty. So take a look at nccc.co slash flex or exclamation point flex in chat.

Pretty dope. It's great if you're traveling or if like a new game's coming out that your PC can't handle. You'll do it. What if I have corporal credit? You will have to be approved. So it depends on whatever that company we use for that. But I will say that the credit check is not as strict as if you were financing. That is true.

There's been people that have been denied financing from us and are approved for the subscription service. So I know some people think it's really weird because they haven't heard of a PC subscription. But like Mike gave a few examples there, like where it would make sense? you know, but I mean, me personally, like, if I was a student, like Mike said, like, man, I would kill to have one of these in my dorm room that I didn't have to like lug back and forth between my house and my dorm. I would just like, you know, rent a, or not run, subscribe to a PC for like three months.

And then, you know, I'll send it back where maybe I want to keep it or maybe want to actually buy one, you know, whatever. Or maybe you're a constant gamer and just want to test PC gaming. see what it's all about. You can spend 60 bucks and try it out. Yeah. Super worth in my opinion. Like, I didn't think about it, but it's actually a really sick deal because, like, you

know, if you have a PC that can barely handle Minecraft at, you know, full render distance. And then like a new game comes out. You're like, you know what? Just buy one real quick. Easy. And you can send it back after a month. Yep.

Discord. J.G slash NZC. Guys, seriously, go there. We're doing so many contests. we have a Discord wallpaper and Setus Contest where you can win a Pucci literally every month

just submit it pretty dope and then if you have a Pucci you could show off your Pucci with a on the Pucci Photo Contest channel and you can win a $25

Steam gift card. Super dope. So Esclamation point Discord thank you Sage for posting it Discord.org.com. DG.S.N.C. We're launching some really dope products guys like we have to do h7 flow which i just showed you guys on stream uh rgb core single

frame fan single frame fans piece psus white psus super awesome take a look at nccccom and take a look in our um take a look on our um socials because we're going to be uh announcing any new stuff there i think that's it anything else before i give them the uh secret code no just thanks everyone once again for tuning in love y'all yeah thank you guys uh Let me go ahead and give you guys the code for 500 extra entries. So thank you guys for doing this. This was awesome. And we'll make sure to do more.

Because a lot of people seem to like the rating the PCs. All righty. Since we just rated some PCs, the code always has to be. But what about free PC? But what about free PC is the code for 500 extra entries? Refresh the page. Yes, please. Refresh the page.

But what about free PC is the code? Thank you guys for joining us. You know, like I said, next week, take a look at N6T underscore DE or German N60 channels because we have some new surprises coming out, so please take a look at it. So thank you guys for joining us.

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