and you might remember this guy.

So last year, we tried to rebuild

a super old-school desktop with some proper,

oh, I got that on really tight,

some proper internals,

so with a RTX 2080 TI, Core i7 9th Gen.

It was very exciting.

However, one of the problems we had

was that because I gave myself eight hours

to do the entire build, it technically works,

but, well, with no cooling inside and all this hardware,

it runs toasty.

By toasty, I mean, like, it's obscenely warm.

So today, we're going to try to fix that

and actually rebuild this thing properly.

All right, so some of my parts are in.

I'm actually still waiting for Amazon

to deliver a few more things,

but, first step, I want to take everything out of this case

because, as you can see, it is pretty filthy.

And to be fair, this system does work,

so right now it is fine.

The big issue though is especially with that 2080 TI,

it was incredibly warm.

Like, way, way too warm that I would never

want to run a system that was throttling pretty heavily.

Now I did order a Blu-ray drive,

so at least we'll be able to cover this hole,

but I'll definitely keep the CD drive there

just because it looks cool.

- [Ken] Did we not order a white one?

- [Austin] No, I couldn't find a white one.

Wait, wait, does that look janky enough

that it actually looks okay?

- [Ken] No, that's actually fine.

- Okay, so we've got our WD Black.

We'll put that back in a little bit.

- [Ken] I actually don't remember

building this thing at all,

so, you'd-- - It was, like, December.

It was, like a few months ago.

It was, like, six months ago.

You don't remember the video at all?

- [Ken] And we're overclocking this?

- Yes.

So I think we're gonna actually be able to reuse

almost everything on this board.

So we have 16 gigs of RAM?

Yes, 16 gigs of RAM, so that should be fine.

Wait.

No, I think I lied.

Oh, it's eight gigs of RAM.

Wow, we really got lazy.

I'll find some more RAM.

Oh, look at that, beautiful thermal paste application

by Past Austin.

- [Ken] At least we did one thing right, right?

- Hey!

Dude, I'm so excited for that case speaker.

- [Ken] 'Cause it actually worked.

- It does, I like the beeping when I turn on my system.

All right, I think that is about as clean

as that's going to get.

That's actually way shinier than it used to be.

So, with our i7 9700K out,

we pretty much got this entire thing disassembled,

which means that, I guess let's try to figure out

how we could put fans in here first.

So, if we take this out...

(drive bay rattling)

- [Ken] Yeah?

(drive bay rattling)

Scratches build character.

- [Austin] Wait, we're just gonna have

an exposed fan here?

No, look at it from the front.

Do we have some kind of grill or grate

or something we can put on top of it?

- [Ken] You know what we could do?

- What can we do?

- [Ken] I can go to Target and make one.

- So we finally have, a day later,

our Amazon package with not only the cooler for the system,

which I really, really hope fits, but importantly,

we also have our brand-new Z390 motherboard.

Now this is important for a couple of reasons.

First of all, there's no extra real reason

why we have this ITX.

We have a much larger board now.

But importantly, since this is Z390,

we'll be able to overclock this a little bit better.

So my thought is that we should split this up.

So I'll work on getting the motherboard

and the cooler built

if you want to figure out how to get

the actual 80 mil fans installed in here.

We don't have, oh, we barely have clearance

for the power supply.

Oh man, that's close, all right.

So that's gonna be a little flashier than I like.

This actually does have LEDs on board,

or rather, it has RGB.

I might turn that off

'cause I definitely don't want any RGB coming out.

But, I mean, there's no window or anything,

so we should be okay.

- All right, so I got a bunch of things

that look like they're overkill for that one vent,

but Home Depot doesn't exactly sell, you know,

this big of whatever hardware cloth, wiring,

whatever you want to call it.

It's like very complicated model building.

Hey, look at that!

Cool!

So I added the mesh,

and I glued it in place,

and most of it is all set and the glue's dried and stuff.

In the meantime, while I let that dry,

we can actually add the 80 mil fan to the inside now.

(fan rattling)

Yeah, like that.

- Hey, Ken, we may have overlooked something.

Where's our hard drive gonna go now?

Okay, let's put it here for right now

above the Blu-ray drive?

- Look, it would actually look really nice right here.

- That doesn't look really nice, that looks dumb!

It looks like you forgot your hard drive.

Another day, another chance to work on the Old Boi PC.

So, last night, we got this thing actually set up.

It is posting and I've got Windows and everything installed.

I did some very minor cable management,

but the main thing is that we're still waiting

on the bracket to actually put our normal one terabyte

hard drive in so we can pair this with Optane.

I will say this thing does look pretty sleepery.

So besides the black power supply

which is a little bit of a giveaway,

everything else back here looks pretty standard.

I mean, if you look at the motherboard,

obviously, DisplayPort wasn't around in 2001,

but with our PCI covers onboard,

it looks fairly low-key,

but especially if you come around front.

I'm pretty happy with just how old-school this system looks.

I will say, this looks a little bit more jank

(laughing) than I think I had hoped it would be.

I don't really know what else we can do with it.

We can overclock the 2070, but I'm--

(record scratching) Wait, what?

Where did the 2070 come from?

Well, originally, I had something different in mind.

The main thing I'm going to do here

is swap out that 2080 with this RTX 2070.

This should give me a much more reasonable TDP

inside this case.

So I was noticing this was running

a little bit slower than I expected,

and I open it up to find that the fan's not spinning.

It's like, oh, that's weird.

Well, the fan is oversized.

It's literally stuck on the battery on the motherboard.

So this is a passively-cooled RTX 2070 right now.

Through a weird coincidence,

we may have to put the 2080 TI back in here

because that's probably our best option.

Okay, so the 2080 TI is up and running.

I'm currently running through my first run of Time Spy.

It's toasty, like, it's no doubt that

there's a lot of heat coming out of the back

not only because of the power supply,

but also because of the rear exhaust fan,

both of which are dumping heat this way.

So we're throttling somewhat,

although, actually, it's not too bad.

So I think now what I'm going to do

is I'm going to manually spin up the fans a little bit more

and then we can start overclocking.

I'm not gonna touch that 2080 TI.

It's already throttling as is,

but what I do think is we do have some headroom

on the processor.

So normally I would overclock manually

or sometimes I'll give the motherboard auto-tool a try,

but Intel now has a performance maximizer tool.

So this is not something you can use on all Intel CPUs,

so you need a Z390 and you need a 9th Gen processor.

So that actually took about an hour.

The screen went black for almost that entire time,

so I wasn't sure if it was working,

but it looks like it did.

Let's see what our results are.

So we got 200 megahertz more.

A'ight, I mean, that's not exactly

the largest overclock in the world,

but it's better than it telling us

that we don't have enough cooling

to run it at stock speeds, right?

- [Ken] You know, I actually have a mod

that I think can help us.

- Okay.

- [Ken] You want to hold the camera

for a second? - I will hold the camera.

(panel rattling)

(Austin laughing)

- Problem solved. - I mean,

that actually does solve the problem,

but it kinda ruins the aesthetic!

Now you can tell it's clearly not

a stock-looking system.

- We can turn off the LEDs or tape over them,

and we have beige in it.

(tense music)

- Powered everything.

- [Ken] So, what is happening?

- Okay, so it's been a couple days

since we've finished Old Boi.

We're trying to shoot the conclusion,

and for some reason it's no longer posting

or booting whatsoever.

So this is the point in the video

where I was going to give you an update,

and like, "Hey, look, Old Boi is done!

"We installed our hard drive and a new enclosure!

"It's all up and running and perfect!"

- [Ken] Wait, you installed the hard drive.

Were you wearing your anti-static ankle bracelet?

"Let's revisit Old Boi," you said.

- No, no, it's fine, it's fine.

- [Ken] "Let's reshoot the ending," you--

- It's fine, it's fine!

- [Ken] You know, this video was done.

(PC beeping)

- Come on, Old Boi.

You don't have to be so smug about it, you know.

- [Ken] I'm not smug, I'm just...

- Right?

So I'm gonna reseat the memory.

But I just don't understand what changed.

It's literally been two days.

I hear friendly beeps,

whirring and wishing and whooping and--

(PC beeping)

VGA?

It's a VGA problem, wow.

Okay, so let me reseat the graphics card.

I think the cable was just tension

'cause I'm, like-- (metal rattling)

- Oh, god. - What was that?

- [Ken] (laughing) What did you do?

- It was like a thump!

(PC beeping)

All right, so let me put a different graphics card in now.

- [Ken] All right, so we have the new card in.

- I just put a 1650 in just to see

if it's a 2080 TI issue or it's a motherboard issue or what.