Building with Brad: The PC

Doh. I was looking forward to learning a little bit about building a computer.

lol  Thanks brad 

" If we're really so disdainful toward PC games, why did we build a PC to cover games on? In fact, why am I installing RE5 PC and Champions Online on it right now? It is a mystery! "

It used to be so simple. Get the most megahertz or gigahertz you could afford (or at the price break point). Same with the hard drive. Throw in some fast ram and the best of the three available video cards. Spend about 45 minutes screwing everything inside the chassis. Bam. New rig.   

There's a green screen in the video? Isn't that just the office background?

" @Metal_Mills: You meant Toolmaster :) "

If only it was this easy...

haha, i just burnt through that same mother board the other day. Obviously, i installed the wrong way. ; )

No step-by-step instructions? Damn.

nice background music

At all the people wondering about them *only* using a GTX 260, they record their footage at 720p and 30fps. There's really no need for them to get anything better as they are CPU bound at such a low resolution anyway. It will be two or three years (or when next-gen engines arrive) before 720p will need a higher end card to make any difference on that rig for their purposes. Hope that clears it up.

Hahah "here we have a dvd burner." *Throws it at the case*

O brad, you so witty xD

that was good!

This didn't work for me :(

I never knew it was so easy! Thanks Brad!

While I groan quietly at the GTX260 that is a pretty nice rig.  Was hoping for a step by step it would have been interesting to see you guys attempt it.  Still hilarious though XD

Man for a while there I thought he really was just casually tossing expensive fragile pc components into a case.  You guys are freaking evil. 

LMAO yeah thanks a lot 
killer rig though

That's pretty goddamn funny!

This video is always good for a giggle.

How did I miss this gem?

Tested should have used this

they need a better gpu by now
 
*cough*5870*cough*

How did I miss this when I first started bombing?

this is totally awesome, ive found 3 months of giant bomb videos i missed due to an MMO addiciton!

Having gone the longest time between new builds I figured I should make sure I don't forget anything and I'm soooo glad that this is here as a permanent reference... I suppose I could have gone to that other Whiskey site, but with the detailed video here I don't have to! Thanks guys!

haha what the hell is this

I don't remember this at all.

I don't remember this at all.

I don't remember this at all.

It's a little funny hearing Brad fawning over the GeForce 260 and it's awesome 896mb VRAM. Now we're 6 years later and the most used card in the steam hardware survey has 4092mb (3580+512mb if you want to be picky about it) and you can get the 8184mb R9 390 for $20 less than that.

Of course, I also remember spending about $130 on a 256mb card 10 years ago and documenting the stark difference in texture quality in Battle for Middle-Earth my new card could pull off on a forum.

Edited for inaccuracies.

Thanks, @forteexe21, for fishing up this gem from the Giant Bomb vault.

@cooljammer00: You seem to have a short term memory problem too!

This video is a god damn public service. Bravo!

Holy shit, I don't think I ever watched this back in the day. The camera shakes really sell it. Hope it'll get added to the https://www.giantbomb.com/shows/building-with-brad page soon.

Now obviously I had to come back and watch this again given the "new episode" in this long-running series.