How NOT to Build a PC with The Verge 

I’m getting 275,000 frames per second playing solitaire.

Bad thermal paste application. Blocked the PSU fan. No fans in the CPU cooler. Terrible cable management that restricts air flow. This guy built a bomb.

"Your old PC won't play Battlefield V" *Plays League of Legends*

-have an 1080 overclocked -run a game at 70 fps -nope nothing wrong here

All these Verge reaction videos are more educational than the actual Verge video. Plus they're a hoot to watch.

When you lie on your resume for work.

Ok so he literally destroyed a $2000 comp, BUT HE DESTROYED IT WITH CONFIDENCE!

A brick is what the PSU will be in two months with that lack of air.

They wanted to make a tutorial but they screwed up with confidence

"First you need a table" Nah im going to build mine in the bathtub while im taking a bath with a plugged in toaster. I should be fine since i have my "Bluetooth" Anti-static bracelet

"It's definitely not going to hold up for Battlefield V" **tests it on League of Legends** "Pretty good framerate"

You need the allen key to build the table to build the PC on, duh...

And they test it on LEAGUE OF LEGENDS... It's like you buy yourself a Ferrari and drive it on a 30 KmH zone...

Fans do magically appear eventually. Probably after replacing the entire cooler due to a punctured radiator.

"He not fightin' static, he fightin' cancer." - Lyle :))

The irony is that the verge video is actually very helpful when you want to learn how to build a PC. Seeing what you should NOT do is half the process of learning anything.

He screwed with confidence... Right through the radiator. Ouch.

I fear no man... But that thing... It scares me...

"We got to the POST screen." I call such bullshit on this. No way it POSTed on the first try. Given that they didn't show it, I bet anything that they had to troubleshoot something.

I think I did it wrong guys. When am I suppose to use that allen wrench? How many tubes of thermal paste should I use? Can I just use a brick from my house?

He's grounding himself to air!

3:29 Dont be fooled... this IS a real anti-static bracelet. It works via wifi through the bluetooth signal and hopefully protects your pc from static electricity with confidence!

What happened to the “tweezers” he was gonna use to cable manage?

The allen wrench is for the table that you need to build first.

When you act smart but you are actually -200 iq

I built my first PC... by my desk, on the carpeted floor with no anti static protection. That was a long time ago...I was such a noob but I still built my PC better than the Verge. I did screw with confidence. :P

Installing the RAM, CPU and cooler before putting the motherboard inside the case is just way too easy. PRO builders like in this video enjoy the challenge of putting the CPU in LAST, with all the components already inside and cables dangling in the way. Bonus points if you cut up your hands on all the sharp edges and solder points in there. Allows you to show off the scars from your first PC build later.

"You probably shouldnt have included your twitter handle here cuz I imagine...." He still gets bullied even to this date.

He didn't even use the thermal paste applicator. He just messily applied thermal paste and made it look like bird poop.

"You should ditch Allen and get with Philip" Lyle 2018

They shoulda titled it “How to build a ticking time bomb with the Verge”

the verge tutorial was so unclear my pc has a 5 second timer which will go off at any sec-

I REALLY hope someone didn't buy $2000 worth of PC components and clicked this video first for a tutorial.

- Buys a motherboard for nvme m.2 ssd - Proceeds to install SATA m.2 ssd

DDR = Dance Dance Revolution

"Screw in with confidence" more like he screw up with confidence.

Hi. Just to give you kuddos about this video reaction. Half the community is laughing at that video right now, but you took the time to actually explain in detail why things are wrong, and what you should be doing to install the component correctly. Great work.

Obviously the Allen wrench is in case your Swiss Army knife DOESN'T include a Phillips screwdriver.

Viagra: "Screw with Confidence"

Stephan: *does anything* Wiltshire: HOLD ON!

this is the most helpful reaction video to ever be posted on the internet tbh

He not fightin static, he fightin cancer!

thank you for being the only one to watch this in dark mode lol

After Verge or Vox broke the internet, I have to watch every reaction videos, since I didn't watch the original one at that time .... 😂

In 45 years of building PC's for a job i have never ever used an anti static strap my wrist as this is total BS

He's missing a screw on the CPU water block lol

We learned a lot. We learned about AsuZ, The Brace, Tweezers, screwing with confidence for a really long time, doing it because it looks nice, hammering it in, those little insulating pads, and perhaps most importantly what a solid clasp sounds like.

Dude spent 2k to build a glorified toaster all so he can lose to bots in League.

How to apply Thermal paste Step 1: but thermal paste on socket. Step 2: Put cpu on socket then apply thermal paste again

Why would they deactivate the comments instead of taking down the damn video?

Pretty confident that the Verge made one of the most useful PC build guides ever. I've learned so much about building PC's by watching other builders react to the video and explain what not to do.

*27 seconds in* "Hold on time out" Me: "I can see a dark future in this video"

That was just bizarre. The Swiss army knife in particular blew my mind.

It's a friendship bracelet.

I suspend my pc in midair with a system of strings to build a pc.

When he showed the CPU he looked like a little proud kid showing off. YEAH WE GOT ONE

The table thing is a lie. I build most of my PCs on the ground.

The original video is off the Verge channel, thank god!

Or... just get a Philip head screwdriver?

1 year later, and i still love this masterpiece of a reaction to a man creating a literal C4.

Screw that pc builder with confidence.

Most likely the consequence of placing an intern to represent the company.

This is old, but I just want to say. .a table is good advice. Definitely don't want to build it on a carpet

" *Definitely not gonna hold up for Battlefield 5* " Too bad it doesn't even need to hold up a dead game kek

20:25 "If PC building fans showed the same concern about excess thermal paste as they did toxic gaming communities..." - Stefan Etienne via twitter

#NEVERFORGET THE VERGE PC BUILD 2018

RIP 2000$ PC! He can now put it in a trash!

I always go back to this video from time to time to see how far ive come. When the og verge video was released i was getting into pc building and wiltshires helped me helped me dive deeper. I have currently built 17 different gaming pc’s since then and Seeing the allen wrench scene from the verge vid always makes me chuckle now

When you find a random guy on the street tell him he can make a quick buck and give him a script.

The floor can work as building space.

0:40 Two years later, he still does. On every tweet. By several people. And he blocks them all, yet they keep coming. He has blocked literally thousands, maybe tens of thousands, of people on twitter just for that by now.

Wow, that was 10x worse than my 1st build, when I was 13yo

If it interests anyone, I have a video of my Threadripper build on my channel. Feel free to leave some criticism on the video! I screw with confidence in that one, I swear! :p ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-6ZoyCDP8_pk.html

Here at The Verge, we believe cables should run free! That's some quality cringe Ken

My cable management may not be award worthy, but atleast I haven't manufactured a bomb

he smeared on the thermal paste like you smear cream cheese on a bagel bruh. L.

Hotspot connected anti static bracelet

Painful to watch the original, thank you for suffering with is while correcting the improv sketch of a guy trying to impress a girl by building a pc for her

I’ll be honest, I’ve never built a pc but I am glad the verge did this because now I never have to worry about what NOT to do, I just watch their video. Also, it’s really the gift that keeps on giving.

I love how he had to emphasize that it posted

Thank you for making his video and helping the pc community. I sent a video time stamped breakdown of the issues on Friday to Stefan Etienne, which of course was ignored, but looks like I was not the only one who picked of the 40+ errors: 0.36 Those are cable ties, not tweezers 0.40 Swiss Army knife, really? Not a philips screw driver in sight. 0.43 Anti static plastic bracelet which is not connected to anything- How are you grounded to protect parts and yourself? 1.49 For video streaming you recommending a i3 or i5? Please try to stream with least than 4 cores and see the result. 2.20 Opening all the boxes get people confused. Open the box which you need at the time of the build. 2.26 Adding motherboard in the pc case. No, you add cpu and ram to board as it easier to do so while motherboard is in open space. And mount the AIO backplate before installing the motherboard. 2.36 Reasons for choosing board. Most top tier Z370 chipset motherboards have NVM support these days and bluetooth/Wifi, so why Asus was chosen? 2.50 The brace is called a IO shield. 3.00 After you said be careful with motherboard earlier, you then rest motherboard back solder back of motherboard on the motherboard rinsers and scrap it across towards IO shield. 3.12 You did not screw all the motherboard screws as when you installed the gpu, you can clearly see some missing. 3.24 Ram, lights and its fast 2666Mhz. The Asus Z370 supports ram up to 4500Mhz - 2666Mhz is almost half speed. Most Z370 chipset motherboard are best running DDR4 ram at 3200Mhz. 3.43 - Ram installed incorrectly, Dual channel mode uses alternative dimm slots, not next to each other. In this case it would be recommended dimm B2 and dimm A2. 4.00 SSD chosen because dont want to deal with wires (check end of build and tel me how the cable management). 4.10 No meantion of additional mechanical drive storage. 4.31 Installation of gpu hinders install of cpu and other components. 4.41- PCi Express Slot are not called lanes. 4.46 Pick the top pcie express slot because does not want to cover ssd because it looks nice. Not checked manual to find out which has the full x16 pci express lanes which is best for gpu. 4.58 Those are not brackets their are expansion slot covers. 5.15 PSU 850watts for a system that has a gpu that draws 180 watts. RTX2080ti will top 300 watts so you would not have to upgrade it even if you had a quality 650 watts psu. 5.18 Power supply is not a brick. 5.22 Thoses are not insulating pads, there are there to minimize vibrations when psu is operating. 5.26 Power supply will not short circuit if it comes in contact with metal case. That's why is has a case build around the psu components. 5.31 PSU installed backwards. The case actually has vent holes on the back so its designed for psu to face out so fan can suck in cold fair. You got it sucking warm air from the pc case. 6.11 Used wrong screws. The screws you used are to install fans to radiator. There a separate set of screws to screw the radiator. Can i ask did you bend the radiator fins as you tried to screw through with a 30mm screw to a 5mm space blocked space? 6.21 Lie and incorrect, not all psu comes with big bag of velcro cables. 6.28 Not daunting if you check the manual you find that you need just 3/4 cables for your build. 6.46 Matching the cable to the motherboard and psu. Wrong. Each end of the cable needs to be checked as only one side will connect properly to psu while the other to the motherboard. 6.53 You missed the EPS power cable for the cpu which is 8 pin, sata power cables for you AIO and pci express power cable for gpu. 7.19 Exposed cpu socket not holder or slot. 7.37 If you checked the cpu and motherboard you would find a triangle on one of the edges which is what is used to align the correct orientation of cpu installation. 8.11 You installed the motherboard without installing the AIO backplate which magically appears with mounting screws already on it at 8.38 8.17 Incorrect. Not every cpu cooler comes with pre appplied thermal paste. 8.22 Pre-applied thermal on the cooler is more than enough hence its been pre-applied by manufacturer. 8.23 Incorrect. Its not good pc building practice to add more thermal paste to existing pre-applied thermal paste. Good pc building practice to to clean off the pre-applied thermal paste with some TIM cleaner and use a better quality one. 8.28 You put a pea size amount on cpu on the centre so when you install AIO cpu waterblock it spreads. 8.38 Its mounting screws which magically installed themselves on to the AIO back motherboard mount which you did not installed to begin with. 8.47 Incorrect. Those 4 mounting screws are what is going to keep the waterblock on the AIO at full contact with cpu IHS. 8.54 Each nut should be tighten on opposite side to avoid uneven pressure stress on the motherboard. Top left, bottom right, top righ and bottom left with 2 turn each time. You missed one of the screws as only 3 is actually on at the end. 8.56 AIO fan headers not plugged in, no sata power power plugged to AIO. 9.00 Panel connectors not installed, usb, sound and case fans not installed. 9.09 Any pc built, first thing is to go into the bios by pressing F2 or Del and check that the components you installed are present and that all temperature are in order. 9.15. Incorrect. You dont need a usb flash drive. Windows come in other formats including DVD format for people who have a optical drive which you chose not to include hence you have no choice but to use a usb flash drive with windows on it. 9.25 After installing windows. Priority is update the motherboard bios to latest version and enable XMP profile for the ram. Then install Anti virus program then display driver, OC software etc. 9.31 You used a GTX1080 for 1080p while a GTX1070 actuall is more suited for that resolution. Also you got a k series cpu and installed a AIO but you not bothered to overclock the cpu??? 9. Arma 3 is cpu bound game and you running stock cpu frequency. 10.02 Averaging 120fps on League of Legends. What is the 1080p monitor resolution refresh rate? 10.12 300fps on what refresh rate monitor? 10.26 Battlefield V and Cyberpunk pc requirements not been finalized so how can you know that you going to be able to game at max settings on those games? 10.33 When RTX gpu comes out, you going to spend 50% of what it cost to build the pc to upgrade to a gpu that is 25% faster than the current 1080ti. Does think makes any sense? 10.44 You RMA a computer part when it fails. You would only have to send you whole computer if you bought a pre built system and there was a fault with it. 10.49 Benchmark and test games. You did not even do a stock or OC setting benchmark on 3DMark, Valley or Heaven or even got MSI afterburner to check your gpu temps and frequencies. How do you expect for people to take any games benchmarking that the Verge do seriously.

a $2000 pc with no 1080 ti and only 2666mhz ram...

Here before Vox and Verge strike this video.

I come back to these reactions every so often to get a nice laugh. 😂

how does your IQ feel after watching it?

It is one of those bracelets that give you confindence.

See when you get static, the anti static bracelet prevents the energy from flowing further so you sacrifice your hand instead of getting shocked

I showed this in my PC repair class, my teacher told me "that was satire right?..." I said "oh no no this guy's being for real..." He just laugh at me, we ended up talking about the video and every mistake he made for almost half of the class...

The Verge has to be drunk or know next to nothing a computers.

Wonder if the CPU thermal throttled.

Honestly I would call an IO shield a brace But I'm also 11 years old soooooooooo

I love the fact that this tutorial manages to do almost everything wrong, it's like watching a masterclass in how to destroy your PC before you've even run it.

Imagine if this was your first pc build tutorial. You would be F'd.

21:40 theres a thumb nut missing on the cpu block

1:33 me,who literally built my pc on the floor of my living room: "Haha,yes, why even say that? haha"

I'm going to call intel's tech support and call physical abuse for that cpu it doesn't deserve that to happen to it 🤬🤬😭🖥️💀

“Screw in with confidence” What could that also mean?

Need a table? I guess that leaves me out, I don't own a table big enough so I have built all of my PCs on the floor, I guess that shows what I know.

They're gonna screw their computer up... with CONFIDENCE!

"A Swiss army knife that hopefully......"HOPEFULLY" has a phillips head screwdriver in it" That part still cracks me up til this day