The Verge Ridiculed for "How We Built a $2000 Custom Gaming PC" Video

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DukenukemX said:
Science Studio guy is not someone I'd want to use to disprove that Verge video. He's kinda a dick.
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That more or less seems to be what he was like in the video, though I don't catch much of it because I'm WTFing right along with him.

Perhaps his reaction video could use a little more constructive advice along with quick explanations rather than just 'this is all wrong'.
 
I dropped this in their comments:

OMFG! Why did you guys put this up? I would be totally ashamed to produce and show something like this video on my site. The amount of misinformation in that video is astounding and shows that you guys have no clue how to properly build a computer. First right off the top, an anti-static strap is supposed to have a wire attached from the band to a metal component like the computer case to, you know, ground any static charge built up in your body. <i>A rubber band does squat in protecting your expensive parts</i> that your guy is handling willy-nilly in ways the manufacturer specifically tells you <b>not to</b>. What's up with mixing brands of thermal paste - pre-applied and a glopped on amount of 3rd party stuff. The way it is applied will 100% create an air bubble between the heat spreader and the cooler base.

Are you guys really expecting that PC to work properly when you have all your memory installed in the <b>second channel slots</b>? I am absolutely surprised it even posted (and since you guys skipped over the startup I'm betting it didn't).

In 30 years of building PCs I have <b>never, <i>ever</i></b> shorted out a power supply by letting it touch the case. Are you guys serious? What did you think you were screwing it on to?

Seriously, fire the person that made up the script for this and your editor who approved the video. Those people should not be allowed within 10 feet of unsuspecting computer parts.
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He could have read any of the instructions that came with the parts he bought. "They're just really long screws because they go through the whole cooler, and it take a long time."

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He started speaking and partway through I lost it at the shitty animated graphics card drawing. The Thermal Paste application was a major facepalm moment. My god, did he get his computer assembly degree from a Cracker Jacks box? Unbelievable...
 
Can anyone give me a quick summary of what happened here as I"m not quite clear on what's going on. Sounds like the Verge did a video on how to build a PC and it was done poorly?
 
kledar586 said:
I feel bad now cause my cable management looks on par with theirs.
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Mine has in the past too- but if you're not dumping whole tubes of paste on the CPU, leaving out screws, not running RAM in dual-channel, you're doing well enough. Your system will work.

This thing looks destined to have actual hardware issues.
 
Nearsite said:
Can anyone give me a quick summary of what happened here as I"m not quite clear on what's going on. Sounds like the Verge did a video on how to build a PC and it was done poorly?
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It was a masterful build, sort of like that kid that still wet his bed in high school was cool. Pretty much the value of a perfect way of not to do anything, except using lots of vasoline, er I mean thermal paste. ;)
 
IdiotInCharge said:
That more or less seems to be what he was like in the video, though I don't catch much of it because I'm WTFing right along with him.

Perhaps his reaction video could use a little more constructive advice along with quick explanations rather than just 'this is all wrong'.
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When he just started his YouTube channel I posted in his video and got into a debate. I can't remember what it was about, but at some point he told me to stop commenting and unsubscribe to him. Wasn't like bad language was used or anything like that. I didn't agree with his opinion and debated him on it, and then he just wanted me to leave. Like YouTube comments work that way. I don't remember what it was about but he definitely didn't act mature about it.

Somehow he has nearly 400k subscribers.
 
Chris_B said:
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A fucking masterpiece....if you happen to be Stevie Wonder. How did he manage to lose one of the screws for the bottom left portion of the corsair cooler?
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Master_shake_ said:
i'm not very "with it" in terms of anti-static bracelets. but aren't they supposed to be grounded?
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Nah, those days are long gone. Parts are built with countermeasures now days. Just touch the metal part of your case to ground yourself. Heck, I don't even go that far, built computers in socks on carpet for 20 years, never had a ESD incident.
 
Meh, someone else can always do it better. Anything that gets people out there an involved in the hobby without doing something outright dangerous is a good thing in my opinion.

9/10ths of the computer building hobby is just getting off your ass and doing it, the other 10% are just style points.
 
Brian_B said:
Meh, someone else can always do it better. Anything that gets people out there an involved in the hobby without doing something outright dangerous is a good thing in my opinion.

9/10ths of the computer building hobby is just getting off your ass and doing it, the other 10% are just style points.
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As long as that 9/10ths includes reading and understanding the instructions, I agree. I wouldn't have been so put off by the mistakes if he had even mentioned reading the instructions, but it's pretty clear that he hadn't looked at them himself. When your audience is a bunch of people who don't know what they're doing, it's best to at least point them in the right direction, and ensure you are doing the right thing.
 
Brian_B said:
Meh, someone else can always do it better. Anything that gets people out there an involved in the hobby without doing something outright dangerous is a good thing in my opinion.

9/10ths of the computer building hobby is just getting off your ass and doing it, the other 10% are just style points.
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Doing things wrong is a poor way to get people involved in almost anything. There is bad advice and procedure in the video which lowers someone’s chances of success if they build their own PC. Stuff like putting in the power supply backwards is BAD. Even the order they did shit in was stupid. It’s easier to put the CPU in while the board is about if the case. And putting in the GPU first just makes the whole thing harder to work on.
 
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