Rebuilding My Brothers PC

Uploaded to Youtube on January 18, 2021

In this video, my dad and I rebuild my brothers PC…kind of. We had a lot of problems with this build, and it resulted in the final build being very different from the one that you see in this video. I explain at the end, but here’s everything that happened.

After we got everything set up and we ran the bench marks, we stopped recording and spent the next two hours trying to figure out how to build the raid array with this particular board. We eventually found a video about it. The video mentioned that the software was glitchy. This video was from 2018, which means it has been glitchy for 2 years, and Asrock still has not fixed it.

Anyway, we started following the video step by step, and it got the software to finally work. The raid started building. It took 5 days, and I mean that literally. It took literally five 24 hours periods to build this raid. While the RAID was building, I took all the footage that we had and edited it all together. I wanted to record a little more footage to add at the end. That is absurd, but it did eventually finish. Then my dad updated Windows…and it broke the RAID. It just disappeared, and I have no fucking clue why.

At this point, he decided…fuck this. He bought an MSI X470 Gaming Plus Max motherboard (the same one in my build). While we were waiting for that to arrive, he decided that he wanted to rebuild his file server. He bought a Ryzen 5 3600 and 64 GB or RAM. He bought 2 liquid coolers for CPUs, and he bought a 500 gig NMVE SSD for my PC.

Before we rebuilt my brothers PC yet again, we put the drive in my PC. WE tried to transfer my Windows install from my 512 gig SSD to the NMVE. That did not work…at all. It corrupted Windows, and I had to reinstall. Stuff on my RAID got corrupted, as well. Keep this in mind. I will come back to it.

My dad decided to give the better processor to my brother, so he got the Ryzen 5 3600 and the liquid cooler when we rebuilt. Rebuilding went smoothly, and everything went just fine. I set it up, and I used to to record some gameplay of Metro: Last Light Redux at 4k. My dad and I recorded about 10 more minutes of audio explaining things, After that, I flashed the 5700xt bios onto his video card to give him a performance boost. Here is the final build

MSI X470 Gaming Plus Max motherboard
Ryzen 5 3600
32 gig of DDR4 RAM @ 3200
AMD Radeon RX 5700 (with the XT bios)
512 gig SSD
6 terabyte SATA3 RAID drive (in four 3 terabyte drives)
Cooler Master ML120 RGB CPU cooler