Maybe Building Your Own PC is a BAD Idea

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[@Kore_YT]

It's still better than the verge guide

[@lelandbatey]

At least with this build guide there’s application of logic, learning, and good points brought up about how to improve things like labeling.

[@Bloodster8]

The fact that both this PC and the Verge PC POST just fine and mine didn't suggests I might be actually retarded.

[@OhMyGadd]

@@Bloodster8 The verge pc build actually jump cut many times to things being installed correctly. This one was actually just built correctly, badly correct, but correct. :D

[@galaxybiscuit]

Anyone can say that

[@pointlesspress]

@@lelandbatey just marginally

[@blaze27748]

Petition to have Sarah come in for any video that has a product or computer to shake them as a quality test.

[@diavalus]

Sarah the automated shaker test

[@real_bork7858]

@@jackwinter1507 dont reply to the bots you may have a chance of being hacked idk how or why but this happened to one of my friends

[@minty4018]

@@real_bork7858 Your friend probably clicked a link in the bot's comment by mistake. To my knowledge, there aren't any known exploits that enable an account to be stolen through replying to someone

[@GmKofHard]

@@real_bork7858 there is no way a bot can hack you from replying

[@oplkfdhgk]

Lmao yes please :D and then linus can drop test it :D

[@lex400]

"I'm just gonna be gentle with everything" *vigorously shakes and whacks motherboard*

[@gonzoferguson1574]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/i3O1apx6f96VpNU

[@gamerf3643]

[insert anime protagonist "go gentle" meme here]

[@maishao7059]

wait until she grabs that gpu

[@fazeobama8872]

the amount it bent made me cringe in a way i didnt know before

[@ffwast]

Well she learned from Linus

[@thetechbin401]

Every time she wiggled that GPU, I was screaming insid- never mind I just got notified that I was screaming on the outside too

[@josemundo7026]

I was also screaming on the outside and got notified xDDD

[@George-uy2kb]

I also got notified

[@chrispham6599]

I'm just laughing my ass off

[@AFKBIN]

I think the scariest part was when Sarah wiggled the gpu up and down 😖

[@VallornDeathblade]

Sarah: *Wiggles GPU* Linus: *Escalating cries of pure anguish watching this*

[@Hydranox]

nah, doesnt do anything unless you MANHANDLE IT really bad

[@Mfury001]

Nah, scariest was when she yanked the sticky cooler off the cpu. I have witnessed the destruction of bent pins in the past when people did that.

[@rafenwulf]

Just as tooth clenching when the SSD was held and swung by the SATA plug alone, and shaking the case upside down to see if the board wouldn't fall out. Why didn't she have an instruction booklet for the motherboard?

[@AliasAlias-nm9df]

@@rafenwulf Still beter than the Verge.

[@Anon7906]

When she shook the case I thought the motherboard was coming out...

[@HappyMan0203]

Same, it hurt me to watch. Love the Cosmo avatar icon, btw.

[@krishg602]

holy shit me too because they didn't show us the part where she screwed it in

[@yeahnahmate8098]

My heart skipped a beat!

[@sage131]

@@krishg602 they always skip those boring parts

[@RabidSPG]

My heart stopped, I couldn't believe it. They for sure edited it so that we'd think that lol

[@zoepermafrost9329]

"I don't know what I need to be gentle with so I'm going to be gentle with everything" VIOLENTLY SHAKES AND DROPS AND WIGGLES EVERYTHING 😭😭😭 love her enthusiasm tho

[@nihonkokusai]

There are worse samples see q0 whatever video.

[@tomikun8057]

@@nihonkokusai what?

[@why6212]

The best part of this was witnessing her gargantuan quantity of confidence despite being inexperienced. And then agreeing to have it filmed. One day I hope to worry this little while assembling a computer.

[@Alvah707]

well to be fair its not her money she has to worry about lol. if she was paying for it im sure she would be nervous to not destroy anything.

[@ChrisDubss619]

Worry is very good when building a couple thousand dollar worth rig

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[@captbloodbeard]

The less you know, the more confident you are because you don't know how much you don't know.

[@chris11sholtz]

Sarah: "I'm going to be gentle with everything" Also Sarah: EARTHQUAKE TEST *shakes cpu and ram*

[@iamapant8142]

If it can handle an earthquake, is it even a pc?

[@SensitivityGames]

dont forget the pci flex testing

[@stephanweinberger]

Well she nailed vibration testing, now we only have to teach her what leverage is.

[@TheWoblinGoblin]

She works at LMG after all

[@watamalonez6802]

@@iamapant8142 almost all pcs can handle an earthquake. much more so than houses or other large structures. my laptop for example can survive being flipped 720 degrees and landing on a pillow, can your house do that?

[@bullish3584]

Sara: I'm just going to be gentle with everything. Also Sara: Shakes motherboard violently.

[@patrickchapman3242]

Stress testing xD

[@gorginhanson]

He mansplained the shit outta her.

[@gorginhanson]

@The13thRonin Did you even watch the video? Whole thing was just him cringing at her. That's not even a word anyhow.

[@gorginhanson]

@The13thRonin Women invented that word. Take it up with them. Seriously you didn't even watch the vid and still thought to comment. There's your cringe. Ok enjoy your block.

[@PinkB00mer]

@@gorginhanson this comment is full of cringe

[@lukeogregory]

*I never knew Linus having a stroke for 25 minutes was this good*

[@matthewdrake486]

I wonder if Madison and Sarah working together would kill him.....

[@nuarius]

I feel like this is n opportunity to upload the video to pornhub with the title "Linus strokes for 25 minutes, with happy ending"

[@joshua41175]

These new series are essentially linus reacts to his legacy.

[@the_wudarian]

just remember! most of this was scripted to happen!

[@jordanhooper1527]

Phrasing...

[@tedh9u]

Sarah was pretty much how I felt when buying a PC but I didn't know partpicker existed.

[@A_G_YT]

RIP

[@hlarjay7503]

without part picker id be a lost soul

[@innovativeadvertising6463]

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[@mescobar1118]

Honestly I never used part picker always google. Probably me being dumb but oh well. What works amazing as well is chatgpt. Not only does it tell you compatible parts it can also be asked parts that work well with others. For example what gpu works with ryzen 5 5600 and it’ll give you a list. Also building in general. If you’re new and have questions you don’t wanna waste time finding answers for on google chatgpt can help you pretty fast and explain any problems and fixes.

[@Loltroll8]

@@hlarjay7503same, I would have totally gotten a different sized motherboard than intended and a way larger AIO than it could possibly fit in my case 💀💀💀

[@Yishai_Zohar]

Now I want to see Linus trying to design a LTT store shirt from scratch, also while having 3 “hearts” and investigating by himself with Sarah reacting. Edit: sell it as a limited run obv

[@KeeperOfTartarus14]

I second this idea!

[@nevmiku]

Might be a good idea on a more relevant channel.

[@samtherat6]

Definitely seems like a good CSF video.

[@HahnFaust]

Fantastic idea!

[@casualseraph709]

I hope she's just as critical and snarky

[@Enhydra_l]

Huge props to Sarah for being so willing to be the “person who doesn’t know computers” on a tech channel. She does a great job and is super charismatic. A+ job, you did better than I probably would have with the info you had!

[@danield.8615]

She did a really great job! Linus should honor her way to build this with her little knowledge.

[@r.l.strange1897]

Yeah she is a fart smeller. If I wasn’t into pc’s, I would have done waaaay worse

[@ncard00]

Love when people are truly happy and positive, like Sarah is, without being over the top or shallow, so healthy allowing yourself some childlike joy and wonder :)

[@lukeogregory]

She exudes “she doesn’t know what’s going on but has spirit” and I love it

[@senseicheems3270]

Its in😏

[@TheJademan85]

"she a little confused but she got the spirit!"

[@exssnyn1]

that's the energy we need

[@walkinmn]

I do love her energy here

[@mrmoosetachio]

We have a word for that. It's called moxie

[@Tyrinath]

I will not dog on sara, this is a PERFECT example of "Well I've never done this before I don't understand anything about it, let alone connection tolerances." That said, truly had me rolling at the GPU, the horror.

[@benwu7980]

That thing with the 8 pins is fairly true though. It worked out kind of handy for me on an old Tesla card, it uses 8 pin cpu pinouts not pciE pinouts.

[@Stand-as-One_Virox]

much better than the verge guy anyway...

[@asymsolutions]

@@Stand-as-One_Virox even so, if someone like sarah can break the connector loose, it's a bad design. Ignoring Laptops, these ISO connectors are also expected to be used on computer systems that while they may not be used while in motion, will be transported a lot, and subjected to stronger forces. If someone like Sarah can cause a failure by shaking it, the manufacturer failed. These are consumer grade products, and shipping while assembled should be an expected stress on the product.

[@ashindc5859]

Sarah's husband : are the kids ok? Sarah(shakes the kids upside down): i think yes

[@Falco_SSJ]

this comment has me rolling

[@samparin]

Lol

[@arthurmann578]

LMAO! 😂😂👍👍

[@spoiler_guy7701]

loool!!!

[@uponpaul]

I was just about to write such a comment, wonderful!

[@StoneMountain64]

I have faith in agent Sarah!

[@kunjugaming885]

Yoo wassup, didn't expect you here. Big fan.

[@mastarminds4042]

No pls don't

[@Critterz_]

Sarah's pc is gunna died to fall damage now. Thanks stone

[@Luckman999]

No

[@AtharvaVaidya]

Damn. How are you here SM?

[@saint-cetacean]

"She found the CPU, that's better than some of the ROG Rig Reboot contestants" [Madison will remember that]

[@alexserrano9227]

I'm glad I wasn't the only one to catch that shade lmao

[@the_kombinator]

The first time I dealt with a 486 (PCI at that!) and I removed it for some reason, then I put it in backwards and turned it on. The CPU survived! The board was replaced under warranty. I was 14 IIRC?

[@smore8566]

Having watched Madison’s ROG video like 4 times I can confidently point out that she did actually identify it on her own, and Linus was impressed 😛

[@landonlaureano6850]

I mean Madison had to watch LTT vids for her class

[@niiiiiix]

This action will have consiquences.

[@RyeOnHam]

It was WAY more stressful for Linus to watch than it was for her to build. My daughter built a computer with me standing there to answer questions. I did install the CPU cooler as she was not sure about that.

[@nikanj]

"I'm not sure which parts are fragile and which parts are not so I'm just going to be gentle with everything." Proceeds to roughly handle every single part.

[@YourComputerBlog]

You should see her not beeing careful.

[@dandyND]

I think she just wanted to get it done with lol. Unless you're an enthusiast it can get frustrating real quick

[@kiradus]

@@dandyND when something doesnt work i get really fucking mad but still pet my pc afterwards rather than break it

[@fakecubed]

At least she didn't hit anything with a hammer.

[@ACEDTVL]

Linus is dying this is great television 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@nateh75]

If linus dies, at least lmg will still run the channel

[@H3LLGHA5T]

@@nateh75 Anthony Tech Tips when?

[@nateh75]

@@H3LLGHA5T famous KZbinr "linus tech tips" dead by apparent drowning, no foul play found

[@adversHandle]

Im convinced Shara was trolling Linus 😅 Oh she knew he was watching 😂

[@qwertyferix]

He _is_ a dinosaur.

[@Triforcefilms]

my heart.... can't take it....

[@Vladislav_0001]

Linus can't take it.

[@hookah5842]

bruh literally disliked then undisliked after 😂

[@Rocky-od5my]

Same as mine

[@nistax2880]

can't take it , door stuck

[@-ZodiacPrince-]

Anyone else having trouble breathing watching this?

[@MelodySC2]

Props to Sarah for being vulnerable. I know quite a bit about computers and yet I'm still not confident I could build my own PC without some amount of help.

[@76EATDX.]

Did you build your computer

[@okagedesu]

I love how enthusiast she is about building something she has no knowledge about, while being surrounded with people that do that for a living and are silently judging her. Good spirit, good video !

[@ErebuBat]

All the time knowing how the KZbin comments will REEEEEE at her.

[@jamescanjuggle]

I think it's an essential building block to learning. Humility 😂 I know I did when a friend got me to take apart my first PC and I put the CPU on top of a foam sponge while I took off the screws with a baby kitchen knife

[@_hellogan]

My thoughts exactly - I really appreciate the "what not to do" style this video has and would totes watch more.

[@kythrathesuntamer9715]

I think the horror in me is the fear that a lot of the PC master race will conclude because of one woman that women don't know technology or aren't well suited for the IT industry.

[@TomwithaDream]

Her spirit, exactly!! And willingness to become the foil for the nerd brigade in the office.

[@jerrypinewood6278]

Huge props to Sarah for this. Doing something you're not good/experienced at in front of a crowd of people (both in person and virtually) who are either very good or at least better than you takes huge stones. And to have such a fun attitude while doing it is really intoxicating to watch. More of Sarah, she's lovely!

[@LordSandwichII]

Totally agree. I actually didn't expect to hear her say that she enjoyed it so much! It was really fun to watch, and it is making me even more excited to build my own! (Yes, I do have a gpu. :P)

[@beastybear4499]

Bless her precious soul

[@JrockProject1]

at least it looks like she had fun!

[@Growlizing]

Yeah, she did a great job, in front of a crowd with cameras. Damn. Just don't shake everything so violently!!

[@angeltensey]

Finally, somebody who uses common sense to figure out unfamiliar things

[@StrikeAxl]

I love his frustration towards Madison. "Is that really Madison? Doesn't she have work to do?" LMAO

[@SteveDice21]

Well, to be fair, she's the "social media coordinator" so I imagine monitoring the forum is kinda part of her job.

[@HeineMorantin]

11:28 Linus throw some shade to Madison.

[@matasa7463]

@@SteveDice21 That, being on LTT Twitter, FB, and various other sites, as well as help coordinate events. She has a lot of work to do actually, given the kind of company LMG is. Honestly i think having just Madison on the job is too much for one girl, but so far she's on top of things.

[@Jdogrey1]

I think it is unrealistic to expect anyone to go into this on their own. Everyone I know came to me if they wanted a computer, asking if I could help them, which I could.

[@Alucard-gt1zf]

She wasn't on her own, she had linus and most importantly google If she actually thought about watching at the very least one video she would t have had this much trouble

[@stanleybochenek1862]

Yeah man it’s true

[@guardiancreator]

I know that feeling I have been there for many many people but I love building pcs so I don't mind helping others.

[@Jdogrey1]

@@guardiancreator same.

[@yeisonrodriguez4958]

Meh, I did it on my own and everything turned out ok. Definitely scary and I definitely did more research than Sara seemed to but honestly after seeing this video I have a new respect for the durability of these parts.

[@troy9596]

Her definition of “I’ll be gentle with everything” scares me.

[@a_single_white_female]

👀

[@dahdude1015]

haha

[@VNM-mr8fh]

“I’m scared of breaking things” *proceeds to flail her motherboard with ram and cpu in it around*

[@Baba_Yaga_123]

RIP GPU

[@TheMobSlayer3]

Same

[@nuarius]

Sarah: "I dont know what parts are fragile and what are not, So im just going to treat everything as fragile" Also Sarah: [violently shakes, wobbles, and forces everything]

[@ColaGangster1]

I guess you don't want to see her not beeing gentle

[@cameronlewis5307]

When everything is fragile, nothing is fragile.

[@UltrafineDeluxe]

WE NEED WOMEN IN STEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@CristalianaIvor]

@@UltrafineDeluxe you called?

[@UltrafineDeluxe]

@@CristalianaIvor Must have forgot your number, you can go ahead & pass it along.

[@philipford6183]

She deserves a medal. She willingly walked into the Linus Man Cave and with good humour and enthusiasm, she took on the challenge as a novice. I enjoyed this video.

[@damienthorne9328]

And I think she nailed it. Two little tips and the PC is running. Really awesome. This video could free a few people from the fear of building a pc yourself.

[@aatheus]

Props to Sarah. She did an amazing job, especially for a first timer. Combined with the pained looks from Linus when the "fit tests" were done, this was great fun. More please!

[@JTheraos]

Amazing is probably not the right word to use here. She did a "successful job" at most lol

[@Brom3z]

I can't imagine the pressure of building a PC for the first time knowing Linus is watching your every move.

[@VietboyGamerUSA]

and you also worked there.👍

[@ids1024]

Or a 12k cinema camera watching your every move. Your mistakes have never been more detailed!

[@mapetlv]

and that millions people online will see the video.

[@mathewhex7045]

I wager I built my first pc before Linus... so.,,

[@SupraSav]

Linus builds PCs standing up. Even with an overhead camera mount, so he has no excuse. If you saw anyone else doing it, you would laugh and say amateur. First step of working with the tower/case.. you lay it down. There's this thing.. it's called gravity.

[@NKOWZeroRenegade]

Sarah: *SHAKES PC* LINUS: "NOOOOOO" Also Linus:"Oops, I dropped the GPU"

[@TriggerzConnors]

That was a dummy gpu.

[@el_de_el_loquendo9855]

@@TriggerzConnors Yeah...... Of course......

[@el_de_el_loquendo9855]

@@TriggerzConnors I hope he doesn't drop a RTX 4090 or a RX 7900 XTX"dummy".

[@marctestarossa]

@@el_de_el_loquendo9855 he will, don't you worry about it ^^ Linus should work at those facilities where they do those military grade drop testing.

[@el_de_el_loquendo9855]

@@marctestarossa True he is an expert, those GPU will survive.

[@davidturner1079]

Linus: She found the CPU, that's better than some of the ROG rig reboot contestants. Maddison: BIG OOF.

[@Sett86]

My thoughts exactly

[@bondjw07]

OUF*

[@matekovacs2696]

@@bondjw07 OEUF*

[@ls200076]

@@matekovacs2696 œf

[@kylestewart4444]

She would probably find it way less fun if she had actually purchased all of those components herself and would therefore have to take the loss if she had damaged anything. That's the only legitimately stressful part about building a pc as a total newbie. You've spent all of this money on components and now you have to assemble them all without screwing anything up. If you do, you're on the hook for replacing it. Something tells me she might have been a bit more cautious if that were the case

[@ThanosTheTitan93]

If she paid for the parts she wouldn't do half the shit she did specially what was done to the gpu

[@KEEYBLADE]

I always partially build some of my PCs myself, but I always was scared of damaging the CPU. But after doing a complete build, I realized that installing the CPU is probably the easiest part of the entire build xD

[@ZiggyMercury]

No, I don't think that's that. She wiggled the GPU (and other stuff) because she was worried that if it was not secured it wouldn't work or would create some problems (more than she was worried about the connectors). However, if she had to buy all these things herself, she wouldn't have gotten to the point of deciding whether or not to wiggle the GPU, because she wouldn't have done any of it to begin with - she'd have bought a pre-built computer, like 99% of those who buy a desktop do.

[@azaria_phd]

@@KEEYBLADE agreed haha. Installing the CPU is a weird process, but it's very straightforward and has basically zero room for failure, because either you do it right, or you can't do whatever you intended to do. If you have the common sense not to force the CPU into the socket, there's nothing that can go wrong, normally.

[@soonlytaing1708]

@@azaria_phd unfortunately common sense isn't really common...

[@nvpg666]

"I don't know what parts I have to be gentle with and what parts I have to be rough with. So I am going to be gentle with everything" After this I was feeling less worried. UNTIL SHE PROCEEDED TO SHAKE ALMOST EVERY PART LIKE THEY OWED HER MONEY!!!

[@unsungraccoon2580]

@@JimJamTalks Thanks Man

[@Suspicious259]

You should be gentle with all parts.

[@vannoah]

looking for this comment

[@HenryOfGnarlia]

The treatment of the gpu had me cringing so hard...

[@julianking4793]

VE CUT OFF YOUR JOHNSON LEBOWSKI!

[@Zoomy]

At least Sarah's PC is confirmed to be earthquake proof.

[@boat02_alt]

As a licensed insurance broker authorized to operate in BC, I can confirm that Sarah's PC's earthquake proof test is very relevant.

[@Maka91Productions]

Me making a guest appearance at 16:44 👀👀👀 Just trying to help Agent Sarah on her journey, but we definitely don't recommend duct tape for mounting a SATA SSD.

[@jahejsa]

Well done sir! You made Agent Sarah accomplish wonders !

[@RandomTheories]

that duct tape advice was on point, sir 👌

[@samtherat6]

Time to start up your own company and buy out LMG.

[@RadarLeon]

I think she needed a what not to do video first

[@Matej1200]

Damn man. Didn't expect to see you from the x360a days. SideDish120 here. Good to see you're still chugging along.

[@Moondog911]

This is the most informative PC build video on the internet for a beginner. Having someone mirror all my uninformed thoughts and then an expert rim them point by point is so helpful

[@jonawhite17]

"I don't know what I need to be gentle with, so I'm going to be gentle with everything." *is gentle with nothing*

[@Sound_Spark]

still gentler then linus.

[@itsaUSBline]

at least she didn't drop anything

[@akhyarrayhka4048]

just like Dumbledore speaks calmly

[@FerasBanna]

She has done an amazing job thinking out loud and voicing exactly what the average Joe/Jane goes through when building a PC for the first time. Kudos!

[@KrishnaTejasVoruganti]

Who's joe (I'm sure u wanted someone to ask that)

[@its_johnH]

@@KrishnaTejasVoruganti bruh

[@KrishnaTejasVoruganti]

@@its_johnH just a joke dude

[@SnifferSock]

@@KrishnaTejasVoruganti come on man! You... you know the thing!

[@KrishnaTejasVoruganti]

@@SnifferSock lol

[@KazeMemaryu]

Linus: "My work here is done." Sarah: "But you haven't done anything." Linus: **dramatic cape flutter**

[@Armybob]

Feels kinda sad that they deduced the first two points.

[@Yuriel1981]

I know right. Like she lost two lives cause Linus walked in the door and literally did nothing.

[@Megraptor]

This gave me some confidence to build my own computer, and I really love Sarah's optimism through it all and at the end! I have my parts picked out (took me two weeks to pick...) and I think I'll have a lot of fun putting stuff together and even troubleshooting. I've fixed laptops a ton before, so I don't imagine that this will be much harder I hope...

[@iced_coffee_table]

I'm from the future. How’d it go? …did you shake your motherboard to check if it was secure?

[@Megraptor]

@@iced_coffee_table Ha, it went fine! No issues at all, the computer runs fine. I haven't seen any temperatures over 55 C. I even pulled my old hard drives from my dead laptop and plugged them in too. Okay there's one small issue. The case power button is in a prime spot for my cats to accidentally push it. So sometimes I think the computer has an issue and turned itself off, but every time it's been one of my two cats pushing the power button.

[@SunbleachedAngel]

"I don't know which parts I should be gentle with, so I'm gonna be gentle with everythig" *shakes everything violently*

[@MrALUCARDIII]

Punches GPU.

[@qwertyferix]

She _gently_ shook everything violently.

[@piplup10203854]

I felt myself age like 1000 years after seeing everything going through a shake test

[@goodvibesonlydude]

That’s what she said

[@matasa7463]

@@piplup10203854 That GPU should okay, but I am now forever sus at that motherboard's PCI-e slot. it's... at least weakened.

[@linkthehero1234]

“we don’t yolo” -guy who made a solid gold controller

[@dyna6448]

And built the best gaming pc

[@OscarHazeGaming]

... and tried to convince his wife to keep it

[@MaksKCS]

And invested in gme

[@marcellkovacs5452]

He literally yolo’d 30K on $GME, and he didn’t even realise

[@HH-le1vi]

@@marcellkovacs5452 it was 50k.

[@Sett86]

And now Linus knows how we feel whenever he picks up any power tool.

[@Night-FuryDreamer]

XD

[@trappman5758]

Thank you for this :)

[@johnpatrick5282]

Damn not going to lie my heart was dropping down my chest watching this what type of person is spoiled enough to think they can treat delicate hardware and expensive items this way by forcing them in to each other and shaking each product to test if it is actually installed makes no sense her mentality is trash with no common sense would suck to her boyfriend 😂

[@mikeguy1899]

@@johnpatrick5282 bad day?

[@guysimone1]

@@johnpatrick5282 dafuck i want to see u do ur GFs makeup and see ur common sense. Its only common if u always do it if u never build a pc u litterally can’t know these things people tend to forget how the beginning was once they get more advanced or once te basics become second nature

[@Tridentgumisgood]

I just think about decades of development. The science. The engineering. The manufacturing precision. The technological achievement that is the modern computer. Then Sarah over here “shake, shake, bang, bang”

[@CertifiedDynamite]

I am just 9 seconds into the video and I already know that I want a Sarah vs. Madison build-off challenge.

[@mrmilkshake9824]

This ^

[@Wartner100]

Totally underrated comment!

[@shinkji]

Couldn’t agree more🤣💪👍👍

[@ahmeddarwish7106]

All in .... they should do this

[@svetievboris]

Yeah!!! Make this happen!!!! :)

[@cro9909]

Watching Linus freak out when she wacks things around and almost breaks them is so satisfying. He FINALLY knows how we feel.

[@lovehatecomments]

so true!

[@NateWheeler1]

I was thinking this the whole episode!

[@Lancia444]

I think she basically roasted linus when she said "I've been watching the videos and it seems that's how they do things" - while banging the motherboard on the desk.... lol Linus this is your fault!

[@Arashmickey]

Loki: "YES! THAT'S HOW IT FEELS!"

[@evansvillerojas652]

"He FINALLY knows how we feel"... when we watch him build a pc LOL

[@udntknw001]

It's admirable that she's willing to go through this, I mean the internet can be cruel sometimes after all.

[@gorkskoal9315]

Definatly. Their are a lot of small (and huge) things that have to change for tech. TLDR,BLUF: Working with a verticle case just sucks ass, just about no room to get things in to it. Parts with cute sounding parketing names: no clear marking what several different looking slots are. Documentation that's utter ass, riddled with jargon that is tech heavy, and just not done for joe average to know which thing, does what. Just even upgrading a computer I was given as a stupid amazing present. tracing what wire goes to what was a un-needed headach, getting the god dam wires out of small slots, things to be reseated,. All the fucking QOL things these assholes refuse to do with very fragile, very expensive parts. Drives up the fucking wall! YOu have practically sacrfice someones soul just get the god damn thing to start and all the shit to phyiscally fit, wade through a fucking night mare of how to's with no fucking direct insuctructions For example: see this green slit/nob/.thingy/ Put in this other greenthing. And the parts might even available! it's fucking insane!

[@waynecarrjr.1187]

@@gorkskoal9315 PREACH brother 🙌

[@jesustyronechrist2330]

@@BurntFaceMan Have you been on the internet lately? Simps vs. Incels is the biggest war on the planet if you count out middle-eastern proxy wars

[@TomokoJinx]

@@jesustyronechrist2330 I am confused what is middle eastern proxy wars?

[@merlinathrawes6191]

At least she isn't on the Verge of failure. I'll see myself out.

[@dtfech]

Just binged this entire series and I have to say: Bravo Sarah People are so afraid of doing things they aren't comfortable with regardless of the situation. Much less pushing forward in front of millions of viewers. Going in blind is tough, and uploading a video of you going through all of these pitfalls (especially in an industry historically caustic towards newbies) is so badass. Very cool

[@azaria_phd]

tbh there were no consequences for fucking up here. irl there's usually consequences, which is why most people are afraid of doing things they aren't comfortable with.

[@dtfech]

Yeah, she had a team of very supportive people behind her and was definitely building a PC with not her money. I was referring specifically to the act of uploading a video where she is engaged in an activity that she is hilariously and frightfully unpracticed at. I know that I would be too scared of the potential shame I would get from the tech community to publicize my unwitting errors

[@DaHaiZhu]

"I feel like at LMG, we just YOLO" - Sarah Nailed it!!!

[@4.6slidez]

Linus didn’t like that one

[@costachiever5212]

Butt she was good

[@thatinvincibleguyyt]

Is Sarah a Light Machine Gun???

[@hachimaki47]

If it cant fit.. **grab a grinder** you'll make it fit..

[@ChristmasCrustacean1]

I love how offended Linus was at that, even though he knows its true.

[@Hal_2189]

She did fine for somebody with no experience at all. The fact she was able to look at the motherboard itself and figure out where to plug things in is better than anybody else I've ever tried helping personally.

[@finchhawthorne1302]

Especially because from what I could see, because these things were from LTT’s warehouse, she probably didn’t have any of the manuals that might’ve helped.

[@weedthepeople2795]

she really should have had a i cant remember what its called but its a static strap that goes around your wrist and connects to the computer chassis to ground you and keep you from frying the computer.......its like training wheels for newbies

[@Drunk_n_Sailr]

Even the RAM is seated properly...

[@marinmarinhola]

@@weedthepeople2795 or you know... Just touch the PSU

[@weedthepeople2795]

@@marinmarinhola ya true for people that have been workin on computers for a while, that becomes second nature but not to newbies.....and you just need to be in physical contact with the chassis to be grounded, not just the PSU

[@derekbrown6217]

The amount of stress induced by this videos is immeasurable... but her elation after the fact was awesome.

[@mandalorianjon7846]

This has been the hardest video for me to watch all year

[@markdove5930]

I 💕 it

[@willowweewa]

English ikr

[@kemercs6566]

This video gave me a headache just by watching

[@willowweewa]

How did she get the ryzen 7 cooler

[@21lizra]

I get that the point of this is to show an extreme example, but it's pretty misleading and a bit unfair to her. I started pretty blind but I definitely didn't pick my parts in one sitting and was watching a guide/referencing the manuals the whole way. Which is just... what you should do when you're not building a computer on camera with time constraints. I have to imagine her experience would be pretty different if she was doing this on her own time and didn't have a limit on asking questions. But even then, she figured it out!

[@EvenTheDogAgrees]

Well, this is LTT. Their purpose is not to portray reality; it's to entertain their audience. Which makes the whole bit where Linus criticises companies for not making things easier for average consumers come across a bit... I don't know, a bit fake? Like they haven't earned the right to criticise anyone, because they intentionally made it harder than it should be? Almost. I mean, he's not wrong either. I'm somewhat tech savvy, but stopped following PC hardware quite a while ago, and the current landscape is confusing even for me. An average consumer has no chance of making sense of all the confusing model numbers without doing a ton of research, and most of the information they'll find will fly right over their heads. It's just that, he makes it look like the true thing he says is a conclusion he draws from Sara's struggles. But most of her struggles were caused by the format they enforced on her.

[@PerkyPineapple]

​@@EvenTheDogAgrees considering this is a follow-up to the secret shopper videos where the whole point is to just have a person with no knowledge on the subject buy a computer very quickly, it wouldn't make any sense to have her dedicate the time most people put into researching parts and the process. There are artificial restraints put on her but by no means are they unrealistic, and it does show that companies can do a better job explaining model numbers and things such as that for the average person.

[@builderk]

And Linus can finally understand how we all feel when we watch him drop something.

[@tomhubbard8510]

Linus: *juggles 5 3090s*

[@DrClumber]

Anthony and Sarah demonstrate perfectly what this channel is about: The full spectrum of PC-nerdiness encompassed in these two.

[@yigite]

yin and yang lmao

[@SideBurn12]

THIS

[@koningskeizer]

Best description of this channel I’ve read.

[@truegamer_007]

@@klaxoncow You can make the same argument with MacOS and Windows. It's all relative. For me, Windows gives me the level of control I need over my computer without things getting too complicated. I know I would mess around with literally everything if I used Linux and ruin it. And I've used MacOS enough times to be disgusted at how it treats me like a child. 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@zephyr.r]

balance as all things should be🤣

[@muskiet8687]

To be fair.... when she asked "shouldn't there be a manual in here?" the answer is YES! Not providing one is setting her up for failure.

[@muskiet8687]

@Bruine Poep Right. They told her "take your time, watch plenty of KZbin videos as you see fit because spending two hours on KZbin and then knowing what to do makes for great sponsored entertainment!" Maybe somebody didn't have the patience to re-pack things properly? The least they could do is provide the parts as they would have arrived in the mail, including the frickin' manuals. But it really isn't THAT big of a deal in the end, just an observation.

[@reezuleanu1676]

If there was a manual nobody would want to read it then.

[@71mb0o]

@Bruine Poep dawg what do you mean. The manual especially for the motherboard is essential because they all have different architecture and positioning. At the very least everyone should have a mb and case manual.

[@71mb0o]

@@reezuleanu1676 nah bro you need to read the mb manual unless you've worked with them before. Otherwise you're setting up for failure.

[@RossMalagarie]

Linus likes to think of it as, "setting her up to make "content"" LUL🤣👌

[@LFXGaming]

6:34 im surprised linus didnt recommend what i always tell my friends on a budget that want an SSD, you dont NEED a massive SSD, you can always buy a 500gb one for booting the OS to and other QOL things, and get a cheaper 1 or 2TB HDD on top of that for storage, it costs them a lot less and is usually a great cost cutting method for someone who doesnt care as much about super fast load times and just wants a lot of space to put things in.

[@AltruisticHedonism]

"Is this seriously Madison? Doesn't she have work to do?" ...Madison, Social Media Coordinator

[@bigsmoke6414]

i mean, work means helping the company to get bigger. And, if she is clicking on the forum many times, than its higher rated on Google, so LMG gets more reputation and more people get know to about it. Aint that much more work? So she is working for sure!

[@filiptalimdzioski7281]

@@bigsmoke6414 Thanks Big Smoke, very cool!

[@H3LLGHA5T]

@@bigsmoke6414 Big Smoke, we made Big Steak

[@CDReimer]

Flushing Linus's money down toilet and flexing on the haters. LMAO

[@chickenmonger123]

@@ivo215 You haven’t watched the whole thing yet, have you?

[@jeffwells641]

Lol I love how she's like: "I'm just going to be careful with everything!" "Is it in?" *shake shake shake* "Yep it's in!"

[@imundeader]

Like what if it fell out. Then what? Well at least you will know its broken now

[@ombiaxlp5531]

Actually, my heart just stopped beating for a second right there xD

[@monke9657]

oh god

[@ernestkhvostov2668]

@@ombiaxlp5531 agreed

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[@osuegbert1]

"We don't YOLO?!?" Your dremel tool would beg to differ

[@computernaut]

*Alex's dremel tool ;D

[@HanSolo__]

Dozen Dremels, worn out to death.

[@darkphoenix7225]

Bruh, I had a heart attack when she put the board in and shook it, since the screws being put in were cut from the video. Whoever edited that part out, you are evil.

[@rijden-nu]

^^ This ^^

[@Evan-hq5dt]

Heart attack? Lol, calm down dude.

[@anonanumerical367]

I literally cried out

[@Quigomy]

@@Evan-hq5dt - Looks like we found the guy who DOESN'T build his own systems... LOL

[@devinsalud7838]

probably Madison, if so I'd forgive her trolling

[@VELOC1RAPT0R]

My first build took over 5 hours, I was wearing a static band and constantly discharging on the case and checking tutorials between every part. My last build took 30min from old and recycled parts I was eating pizza over it the whole time and chatting with friends on discord

[@dandyND]

my first took 7 hours cause I built in an itx case for my first build lmao 13L case with a non modular atx psu was a painful experience

[@parispc]

@@dandyND My first (only) took 12 hours because my GPU didnt fit in my case and I was just extremely nervous in general with handling.

[@Statchar]

recently built mine for the first time. took like 5 hours as I was drinking and ran into a few problems lol

[@Punkeeeeeee]

Same fr

[@Rubaduck]

haha nice i built my first in about 5 hours 2 extra hours because i hadent connected sata to my HD, Second build 10hrs but fully custom watercooled baller waste of money :D

[@ProfBoggs]

This was actually really educational. She does a good job explaining her thought process and problem-solving combined with your commentary (which wasn't too judgemental) actually provides useful scaffolding for those of us who might want to build a PC in the future. Thanks!

[@ViktorBengtsson]

I very much agree. I think KZbin started recommending this channel to me right after I built my PC (either related to Windows 11, building a PC in general or applying thermal paste, see below). If had seen this before building I would just have assembled everything instead of 1. Assemble everything and be happy. 2. Realise that thermal paste is a thing. 3. Buy thermal paste. 4. Spend a lot of time trying to figure out how you're supposed to apply it. Might be what led me to this channel in the first place. 5. Remove the CPU cooler (which was the hardest part to install in the first place). 6. Finally realise that there was thermal paste in there from the beginning...

[@pikuhana]

"This is the way not to do it" is actually really helpful

[@laughingman2082]

Agreed although... As an experienced PC builder with 7 builds under my belt... Watching this was painful at times. I genuinely flinched when she put the motherboard in the case; thinking about how easy it would be to leave a standoff in the wrong place. I was also relieved when her attention to detail saved her from plugging the PCIE into the CPU power. Never done that myself but- I've seen plenty of horror stories of people learning that lesson the expensive way. What she really needed was somebody to walk her through the process patiently... and explain on the small details like standoff placement, thermal paste application, grounding herself, PSU/CPU/PCIE/MOLEX/ETC power connectors and cable management(Because cable in CPU fan is bad). Also motherboards are surprisingly durable when just pushing things straight down... Excluding the tiny CPU pins- You'd be bending the motherboard under the kind of pressure you need to break a DIMM/PCIE slot... So should any common sense be in that Noggin; chances are that isn't how you'd break the PC.

[@Mullins117]

agreed

[@heromedley]

dunno about the guys from the forums tho lmao

[@bananasandbass]

Wow this was tense to watch. Sarah being gentle with everything: shakes and wiggles each component

[@rahulsandhu5334]

Sarah: "I'll be gentle with everything" Also Sarah: *Wiggle GPU to check if it's place*

[@imeldomarcos4126]

I dunno man if this was intel cpu, she probably would have destroyed the mobo pins somehow.

[@BirdyC]

It got my heart beating much much harder for a few seconds

[@rahulsandhu5334]

Jeff Chen I feel you 😂

[@rahulsandhu5334]

imeldo marcos I would've left the video

[@DonnieDarkmode]

“At LMG we don’t YOLO” Y’all most definitely YOLO

[@keanureeves9201]

What is YOLO

[@shyrokah]

@@keanureeves9201 "you only live once"

[@Yoshi-vq3og]

*makes a golden xbox controller and has an onlyfans account* "We don't YOLO"

[@DonnieDarkmode]

@@keanureeves9201 an acronym for “you only live once”; basically the idea of just doing something without thinking it through

[@adamafseth4675]

Linus is here like a dad trying to teach his kid how to drive. So tense. So stressful. I love this video!

[@ojrmk1]

Watching him going absolutely apoplectic is both amusing and is giving me sympathy chest pains.

[@Sonicgott]

I swear Linus was going to have an aneurysm...

[@dunerat17]

Meanwhile him dropping components and devices has reached meme status.

[@kamipls6790]

At this point there's only one option: release for adoption

[@MrHidemyself]

An opposite world where little Linus gets to do "play" time while bulding a Pc and Sarah watches nervously would also be enganging

[@JohnYoo39]

What a delightfully optimistic personality. Really fun to watch and I wish i had this attitude when I was started building.

[@walkinmn]

Sarah: I feel like at LMG we just YOLO Linus: We don't YOLO! What does that even mean! Narrator: They in fact YOLO'd a lot

[@josephafitch]

I was watching Linus when he was still working with NCIX, and he was definitely yoloing to the max. It was calculated, but absolutely YOLO. I mean he started Linus Media as a YOLO because he wanted to go to his own tune and not NCIX's.

[@marcellkovacs5452]

Says the guy who bought 30K of $GME

[@SunnyZ]

Ha! I read narrator line in Morgan Freeman's voice. Made it a million times funnier

[@NewToTheLyte]

Linus: We don't YOLO! Also Linus: We are making a gold xbox controller!

[@doomerconsumer]

She actually did really well for someone who has no idea what they're doing. I think there's a lot of people that would be much more confused

[@novousuarionaoidentificado]

She did very well, we just have to remember how Liao went...

[@justinedzard]

A lot better than I was expecting, I've seen more people fucks up parts on their first time building

[@quintessenceSL]

Ya, everybody starts somewhere. For a first try, it could have gone catastrophically worse.

[@owenyin3316]

the only things that greatly hurt me were how she kept shaking everything, and how she didn’t read the manuals at all

[@xmlthegreat]

She has several advantages, namely that she say through secret shopper and at least *knows* what parts there are in a computer... My boss wanted me to write up a purchase list to build a new PC on the office to edit 8K video from an Insta360 Pro 2. He was horrified at the list I presented at the end and was convinced I was trying to rip him off. It took 2 hours of explanation just to get him off my back, he was asking why we needed a 'gaming' system and why can't we buy a normal one. We haven't gotten that PC in 2 months.

[@rukitorin1998]

As someone who learned basic PC building in highschool I agree that building a PC is something you should at least experience once. But the school's way of teaching PC building was flawed because we didn't really have specific parts... Instead of naming the parts by their actual names we just use their PC names. Instead of Intel i3 or what not we use CPU from the small box of CPUs, instead of ddr3 ram 1333 MHz we use the ram from a pile. It's nondescript and quite easy to understand. And as newbies we just didn't delve deeper into as we have a full schedule of other subjects. The gist of it is that it's like a Lego building when we handle PC building. From the basics of assembly to the harder parts of installing a os and drivers through the disk drive. Mixing and matching mobos CPU, hdd, and rams. To hell with compatibility if it fits it sits. It was a fun and satisfying subject. And watching the PC you built turn on and connect to a Lan network with other PC the other classmates built is gratifying. This was in my highschool before the internet was easily accessible.

[@jocap3837]

Now I appreciate how gentle Linus was to every Computer part he's ever held.

[@patchworkkid24]

except the parts he has dropped, which are many.

[@JosephNodal]

😂

[@wta1518]

@@patchworkkid24 Dropped and then kicked.

[@bogotstogoskiing]

Its called sarcasm, Vicente ;)

[@petermirtitsch1235]

Even the ones he dropped on the floor.

[@mezcalderon]

"Doesn't she have work to do?" Madison always walking on the thin line with Linus lmaooo

[@c0horst]

Her job is literally memes.

[@DB-mq4so]

She got the job while walking that thin line

[@mezcalderon]

@@c0horst can’t argue with that

[@matasa7463]

@@c0horst For this company, that is everything. We memed Linus into buying Gamestonks, after all.

[@Weavermicro]

Sarah: let's be gentle Also Sarah with every component: *Shake It Off plays*

[@PablumMcDump]

Yet she drops less than Linus...

[@halvardlundnorway]

Taylor Swift like: Shake it off...

[@adisachan2641]

Underrated.

[@arnox4554]

I will say though, I think people underestimate just how tough PC components have gotten over the years. I mean, they're definitely not gonna survive everything, but I'd bet that you could drop that motherboard right on the floor and besides MAYBE some bent header pins, it would still work just fine.

[@CJR-wv8kc]

Maybe that's just how she does gentle?

[@Angron11]

This girl is such a damn joy to watch, she is so so so contagious with her laughing and glee. Also, I feel Linus so much with how tense he feels watching the build.

[@dragon-bytes]

I gotta support Sarah's shake tests. I used to work at a company where we shipped PCs to customers, we called that the "UPS test". UPS/FedEx used to routinely do far worse to the systems we shipped out. We wanted to have some confidence that the systems would arrive intact.

[@subwarpspeed]

I was thinking about this too. They have her be agent-Sarah - call technical support with supposedly all DIMMs needing to be reseated. And then Linus complains that she shakes thinks when building it to check things doesn't fall out?

[@nicholaskinkaid]

But there is packing material specifically for that. And you don't want to enable bad method practice from end users, else they could/would be creating problems that they initially wouldn't have had.

[@roadhound101]

Used to work for DHL.....NEVER write "Fragile" on a parcel.....You asking it to be "launched" across the warehouse!.... And yes people are that big an arsehole!

[@thetriode]

Half the time I do that because I dropped a screw into some odd corner.

[@hoefkensj]

if only ups was shaking the parts just as much as in this vid , but experience tells me when the gpu is laying in the case wit the slot still attached to the card and not to the motherboard , they are shaking it much harder (ow not to mention both screws to hold it in place were torn out and the holes they should screw in a little larger and popped inward) , and me a more experienced pc builder , still get screwed over by manuf. bu a motherboard with features listed , thinking ow this has adequate pci-e ports , and enough sata & m.2 onboard , buy it build it half the stuff not working,... mmmm ow they build in a switch you can use all the sata but only in combi with 1 m.2 , if using two m.2 you lose 4 sata ports , ow and if you use pci-e port 4 or 5 yeah the one m.2 is disabled anyway but you can use all the sata , right? nope , you could use pci-e 2 but not really cause its behind the gpu now so no acces, ah my prev mobo had 2x16x slots but this one only if you dont use any other pci-e port the pci-3 is a ... wait 8x port and pci-1 is also 8x when configured like that. (its not even wired for 16x, al the rest is only wired for 4x or 1x ) my 12year old (something like that) msi z77a gd65 had same pci-e gen and 3 fully wired 16x 6xsata +2xsata no m.2 but you could use all pci-e ports so a pcie8xto2x 4x m.2 fixed that nicely, and if the pcie switch used was software controlled so you could hot switch between stata or m.2 would be nice but its activated by wheter something is in the slots or ports or not

[@giantalltheway]

*Scrolls past my exact case* Her: "THAT ONES UGLY"... Me: "Oh, ok...."

[@TheRapsterLOL]

😂

[@nitewing98]

The one she picked is mine in a different color...

[@TheG60528XiJinPing]

Ha

[@TheG60528XiJinPing]

Well at least you didn't spent $250 on your case and then get a 2200g like I did when I bought my first PC

[@clickbaitpro]

Cool one

[@youngfuture8679]

It's actually quite satisfying watching Linus almost have a conniption while watching her mishandle parts not knowing what she's doing, like he carelessly handles parts with full knowledge of the processes.

[@empath69]

Yeah, I feel like the Wheel of Karma has made a full turn and come back for Linus...

[@MsToshi1990]

That is the fucking difference here. Linus KNOWS how to handle things. He does not carelessly handles things. Shaking a Motherboard to check if parts fall out? Come on....that does not make sense even for someone who never built a PC.

[@CrunchyJoints]

@@MsToshi1990 there's literally a clip of him flinging RAM out of a prebuilt machine onto the floor in the beginning lmao

[@M3L0DY_dll]

See the difference is that she's ignorant, Linux is *willfully* ignorant.

[@anirobrien7004]

I've learnt a new word this day; Conniption, thanks man.

[@EspyMelly]

Just figuring out the parts you want to buy for your custom PC, especially on a budget, is a nightmare. There are so many conflicting opinions and information online, and popular websites that straight up lie according to many enthusiasts that it can cause a real case of decision paralysis, even if you know how to get parts that actually even work with eachother in the first place. That's not even going into the stress of assembling and testing the thing after the fact. Always lovely when you figure out you'll have to get something extra or something replaced right when you thought you could finally test some games on it.

[@EposVox]

This was fun. Other than the GPU wiggling.

[@onejrc4]

Fun? No! Stressful yes! Watch again with Sarah? No thanks. Her fault? No.

[@relaxxxrrr]

What? That was by far the funnest part to watch. Had to replay it several times.

[@jonb0i]

@@relaxxxrrr At first, I wanted to strangle myself, but after like 2 or 3 times re-watching, I'm still in the verge of tears lol.

[@reed-young]

What? The wiggling was the best part.

[@zozengaming9347]

it hurt to watch it XD i was soo worried for the gpu

[@Yuriel1981]

Sarah:"I did it! I built a computer!" As she slumps to the floor in anxiety ridden exhaustion. Also Sarah: "10 out of 10 would build again!" Lol

[@amirpourghoureiyan1637]

I think most of us keep with it because of the Stockholm syndrome effect that happens when it works properly

[@petrolhead0387]

Your first build is always the most stressful, but it stays stuck in your head and you learn from your mistakes. Building after the first is a better experience.

[@cloodstroof7786]

@@petrolhead0387 yeah once youve run through all the steps once itll become super easy to do in the future. Upgrading my rig and helping a friend gave me zero anxiety.

[@RBgamesbr]

The exhaustion is what makes it that much more rewarding when it works...

[@matasa7463]

I've closer to techie level knowledge in building skills and knowledge, but I still had the same experience. Trying to move my giant ass rig with everything in it ended up giving me back pains for the first time in my life, so having a super PC for the first time, but playing top end games with back pain, made me feel simultaneously like a kid, and ancient fossil, at the same time.

[@csr2537]

If Anthony was just standing there Sarah wouldn't even need a lifeline. Anthony's magic is far stronger than Linus'.

[@CCISolitude]

I'd like to see an episode of the tech support face off that was Linus vs. Anthony :)

[@hyzenthlay7151]

Anthony is like the embodiment of The Force for tech... He oozes midichlorians wherever he goes!!

[@MunifTheGreat]

Though he would've forced her to download some kind of Linux distro

[@WesitoxD]

Anthony could just look at the parts and they would auto build

[@markhouston3404]

As long as social distancing is in place, not for covid, get within 6 foot of him and your carrying his child

[@embersandashes]

Watching this makes me realize I was so lucky to have someone to watch and guide me while I built my first pc

[@keyserxx]

"I feel at LMG we just yolo" give her a raise, she knows the company moto. alolso I love her victory drop to the floor

[@MrultiPaul]

Her first reflex was duct tape, she's basically as ressourceful as Linus

[@monketok141]

This Sarah story arc is so wholesome. It's like watching Car Throttle slowly turn their non car guy mate into a car guy and making him service his own car by himself.

[@joelstmartin]

This^^^ I'd love to see Ethan on LTT

[@ergosteur]

Haha so true, when is Sarah learning to drift? Lol

[@maldar]

We need more Sarah.

[@equilibriaify]

whats the drifting equivalent? overclocking? is there a stig of the PC world? Der Bauer teaches Sarah to overclock. i'd watch the hell out of that

[@anonimous608]

@@equilibriaify trying to imagine PC Stig, lol)))

[@MontroseChloe]

Sarah's random guessing is a better build guide than the Verge.

[@Chronologo]

10 years from now we're still gonna be shitting on that verge video... And I'm all for it lol

[@ungefeiert]

Yeah they messed up ngl

[@beesemurger2267]

Even Flex Tape can’t fix that!

[@flatraul]

LMAO

[@creatip123]

I'm guessing it's partly because she's surrounded by tech heads, while the verge guy was surrounded by knuckle heads who were as clueless as he was.....

[@tehweh8202]

18:45 Wow, I'm impressed. Those front panel pins absolutely terrify me, even after building about a dozen or more computers.

[@MusicMovies1990]

"I have a friend who searches for badminton racquets by color" actually helped me empathize with Sarah because I know zero about badminton, and would definitely just buy the coolest looking racquet I could afford.

[@stevemcintosh9381]

EXACTLY THIS. I feel like as a new pc builder, I would very easily fall into the mindset of “following the RGB” because everyone talks about RGB in PCs, so that must mean the parts are good.

[@DerekLaza]

I felt that. Every "NO!" "STOP!" I felt each one.

[@HazewinDog]

I didn't. Linus really exaggerated.

[@karlsonchee2701]

@@HazewinDog Incorrect

[@Yomom12388]

@@HazewinDog He absolutely did not. I was one of the many gasping loudly and yelling “NO”.

[@marcosmedia7463]

I feel like the camera-crew was absolutely internally suffering from Sarah just shaking around the parts

[@CJR-wv8kc]

I know I was just watching her wiggle the graphics card or kept touching the thermal paste.

[@TheHammerGuy94]

im sure this is how the entire production crew feels whenever linus manhandles stuff.

[@Lionheart1188]

Fuck em

[@Ultrajamz]

*ltt crew dies from aneurysm trying to avoid “sexist” comment*

[@ls200076]

@@Ultrajamz And then you have Linus man handling components. Same you can't see dislikes on comments/replies.

[@zach99999]

I built my first computer about a month ago (after watching tech videos for years and helping my dad build his computer last year) and the only thing that really supprised me was how hard it was to get the ram in. They required more precise alignment than anything else and more force than anything else.

[@SaHaRaSquad]

"I'll just be gentle with everything" **intensely wiggles around everything to check if the most expensive parts are mounted correctly**

[@E-L337]

I never knew GPUs could wiggle like that. I'll have nightmares for a week now thanks to that.

[@TitaniumTronic]

@@E-L337 lol

[@isodoubIet]

Doing a little bit of the oooooold shaka shaka

[@odisclemons9700]

🤣🤣

[@Cr1ptlord]

Legendary Orange you should see my gpu, just being held by pcie slot bent af, sometimes i wonder how its still working

[@eddbro82]

Sarah is a gem. I love seeing videos with her trying to navigate the tech world, it gives me a lot of insight into how I could help newbies. Make a whole series of "Bringing Sarah Up To Speed" and you'll have a multi-part series on How To Build Your Own type thing. Guaranteed.

[@alberte6109]

"Bringing Sarah Up To Speed | Custom Water Cooling"

[@nicholasespinoza9610]

Now linus knows how we feel every time he drops something expensive.

[@lancheloth]

Spot on...

[@reginadea2821]

I relate to this video so much. This was exactly how I felt when trying to build my first ever PC! And all the jargon for the parts and the model numbers did not help things at all! Not to mention all the videos that are supposed to help you step by step through the building process, but then don't show you closeups of where things should be plugged in at all, if they didn't just skip right by them with a "just plug this in", assuming you already know where everything goes!

[@christiannoland5432]

“I don’t know how careful to be with things so I’ll just be careful with everything” *proceeds to flip things upside down and shake them to test if they’re in*

[@cinlung]

I literally screamed "NOOOOOOOO!!!" when she turn the case over with the mobo inside thinking she has not screw the mobo securely.

[@SentinelBorg]

That happens when you only watch Linus Drop Tipps videos. ^^

[@boffyboydj]

@@SentinelBorg Brother ?

[@ALEXANDER1318]

It was fiiiiiiiine. She had a table and probably a swiss pocketknife that hopefully has a screwdriver bit.