Building a $12,000 PC in a Random Asian Tech Mall

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Linus returns to 'random Asian tech mall’ in Taipei to challenge PC Builders from 3 shops to build him a custom watercooled gaming PC worthy of his new ROG Astral GeForce RTX™ 5090 Dhahab Edition graphics card. The results? Good lord…

Go check out the video where we got the gold GPU: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiGd1wcgk7M

Discuss on the forum: https://linustechtips.com/topic/1613659-challenging-3-pc-builders-in-a-random-asian-tech-mall/

Check out the Build:

ASUS ROG Astral Dhahab GeForce RTX 5090 OC Edition GPU: https://lmg.gg/tNMK7
AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D Zen 5 8-Core 5.2 GHz CPU: https://geni.us/N6AEGke
ASUS ROG Strix 1200W Platinum 80 Plus ATX 3.1 PSU: https://geni.us/hFizW
ASUS ROG Crosshair X870E Hero AM5 Motherboard: https://geni.us/qGAAeo
DarkFlash DY470 ATX PC Case: https://lmg.gg/Lf4pJ
G.SKILL Trident Z5 Royal Series 64GB DDR5 6000 RAM: https://geni.us/QQkHD
T-Force CARDEA Z540 M.2 2280 2TB NVME SSD: https://geni.us/nFfDEwu

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CHAPTERS
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0:00 Intro
1:20 Builder #1 - 1st Floor
2:15 Builder #2 - 6th Floor
2:48 Builder #3 - The OG Returns
3:34 Fried chicken and quotes
5:17 The builder has been chosen
5:27 Pickup day
6:38 The $12,000 PC
13:41 But does it game?
14:18 We gave it away
17:25 Moji Moji time
17:58 Outro