I had no idea Micro Center actually sold these...

Summary

JayzTwoCents visits a Micro Center store to purchase parts for an ITX gaming PC build, including an Intel i7 CPU, Z790 motherboard, and 32GB DDR5 RAM. After selecting components, Jay, Nick, and Phil split up in the store to find the weirdest items they can, coming back with a model warship, musical squeeze toy, and remote control paper airplane. They conclude by testing out the airplane, noting the future has arrived when apps can control paper planes. Their trip highlights the unique inventory and hands-on experience Micro Center provides.

Takeaways

• 😊 The video shows JayzTwoCents going to Micro Center to buy parts for a small form factor PC build.
• 🛠️ He chooses an Intel Core i7-13700K CPU, Z790 ITX motherboard, and Corsair 32GB DDR5 RAM for the build.
• 💻 He compares different graphics cards like the RTX 4070 Ti and RX 6950 XT for performance and value.
• 🤔 Jay debates whether tighter RAM timings or higher speeds are better for gaming performance.
• 😮 The Micro Center has many unexpected items like DIY electronics, 3D printers, board games, and model kits.
• 🪁 Jay, Nick, and Phil each find something weird in the store - Jay chooses a battleship model kit.
• ✈️ They test out a remote control paper airplane that Jay bought at the store.
• 📺 Jay checks out OLED TVs designed as monitors with fast refresh rates for gaming.
• 🛒 He appreciates the ability to see cases and components in person when buying at Micro Center.
• 🙌 Jay thanks Micro Center for sponsoring the video and letting them film at the store.

Q & A

What parts does Jay need to buy for his small form factor PC build?

Jay needs to buy a Z790 ITX motherboard, an Intel Core i7-14700K CPU, 32GB of DDR5 RAM, and a Corsair SF750 power supply.

Why does Jay choose the specific Corsair SF750 power supply?

Jay chooses that specific SF750 power supply because he already has custom cables made that are designed to fit that model, which he will use in his Nano Q build.

What graphics card does Jay recommend people consider over Nvidia cards for pure gaming performance?

Jay recommends people consider AMD Radeon graphics cards like the 6950 XT over Nvidia cards if they just care about high performance gaming and don't need ray tracing.

What unusual item does Jay find to buy at Micro Center?

Jay finds a plastic model kit of the USS Iowa battleship to buy, which he did not expect Micro Center to have in stock.

What musical instrument does Nick decide to buy?

Nick decides to buy something called an 'automatone', which is a squeezebox-type musical note that sings.

What remote control toy does Phil decide to buy?

Phil decides to buy a remote control paper airplane kit that can fly for up to 10 minutes.

What TVs catch Jay's attention?

Jay notices LG's 42 and 48 inch OLED TVs designed as 4K 120Hz gaming monitors with variable refresh rates and integrated speakers.

Why does Jay think the 48 inch LG OLED could replace his soundbar?

Jay doesn't need high-end sound since he uses headphones a lot. The integrated speakers could be good enough to get rid of his soundbar.

How much does the 48 inch LG OLED cost?

The 48 inch LG OLED display costs $1,049.

What does Jay say he wants to redo entirely?

Jay says he wants to entirely redo both his work and home setups.

Outlines

00:00

😄 Arriving at Micro Center Store after delays

The narrator describes arriving at the Micro Center store in Tustin to shop for PC parts after facing delays due to bad weather and traffic. They thank Micro Center for sponsoring the video and outline the plan to pick parts for an SFF PC build while also challenging themselves to find the weirdest items in the store.

05:01

🤔 Choosing RAM and GPU components at Micro Center

The narrator compares different DDR5 RAM options at Micro Center for the ITX build, evaluating price, speeds, timings, and capacity. They decide on 32GB RAM and explain their preference for tighter timings over maximum speeds. They also observe pricing and performance considerations around Nvidia RTX 4070 Ti graphics cards versus AMD Radeon options.

10:03

👀 Browsing Micro Center store sections like 3D printing

The narrator browses different sections of the Micro Center store including cases, retro gaming, 3D printing, DIY electronics, monitors, and more. They showcase the range of products available beyond just PC components while noting that they already have some of the parts needed for their build at home.

15:07

🙃 Everyone finding weird items at Micro Center

The narrator and colleagues split up to find the weirdest items they can at Micro Center as a challenge. They showcase strange finds like a musical squeeze toy, miniature warship model kit, remote control paper airplane kit, and more. There are lighthearted moments as they pick out and sometimes accidentally damage the items.

20:09

🏠 Wrapping up the Micro Center expedition

The narrator recaps the parts they picked out for their SFF PC build and sums up the weird item selections and mishaps. They express appreciation to Micro Center for sponsoring the video excursion and signing off to head back to the studio.

Keywords

💡PC building

PC building refers to assembling a personal computer from individual components. It is a major theme in the video, as the host goes to Micro Center to purchase parts like the CPU, RAM, motherboard, and power supply to build a small form factor PC. He discusses choosing each component and their compatibility.

💡Micro Center

Micro Center is an American computer parts and electronics retailer that the host visits in the video. It has a wide selection of PC components that customers can see and touch in person, unlike ordering online. The host challenges his team to find odd items there.

💡small form factor

A small form factor (SFF) PC has a compact case and components. The host is building an SFF PC at home using the parts from Micro Center. SFF cases were shown in the store, discussing their limited space.

💡ITX

ITX refers to Mini-ITX, a small motherboard form factor used in SFF builds. The host purchased an ITX Z790 motherboard for his SFF build to fit the limited space.

💡DDR5

DDR5 is a type of RAM memory. Since the host bought an ITX Z790 motherboard that requires DDR5, he also had to buy DDR5 RAM sticks with speed and latency considerations.

💡Nvidia RTX 40-series

The host discusses pricing and comparisons between new Nvidia RTX 40-series GPUs, like the 4070 Ti and 4070 Ti Super, and older AMD Radeon cards. This shows the current GPU market.

💡OLED monitor

The host examines OLED monitors with fast refresh rates and response times that are designed like TVs. He considers replacing his setup with these high-end displays.

💡DIY

DIY (do-it-yourself) is the ethos of building your own PC rather than buying a pre-built system. The host chooses his own components at Micro Center to DIY his SFF PC.

💡Gaming PC

While not the main focus, the host mentions gaming a few times regarding the PC he is building (choosing parts optimal for gaming, GPU comparisons). Gaming is a major use case for custom PCs.

💡Enthusiast PC

The specialized parts the host chooses, like SFF cases and top-tier GPUs, go beyond an average pre-built PC. His DIY build reflects being a PC enthusiast pursuing the highest performance.

Highlights

Micro Center sponsored the video and provided parts for an ITX build

Choosing an Intel Z790 ITX motherboard and i7-14700K CPU for the build

Picking 32GB of DDR5-6000 RAM with tight timings for gaming performance

Getting an SF750 power supply for upcoming Nano-Q ITX build

Challenge to find the weirdest items at Micro Center beyond just PC parts

Micro Center has a large selection of cases out on display to see in person

Fractal Design Terra ITX cases have nice aluminum construction

Found a USS Iowa battleship plastic model kit

Automatone musical squeeze toy that sings notes

Remote controlled electric paper airplane

Micro Center now has a large 3D printer section

New LG OLED TVs designed as 4K 120Hz gaming monitors

48-inch OLED only $1049, much cheaper than gaming OLEDs

TVs have front-facing speakers to replace soundbars

Flew the remote control paper airplane in the studio

Transcripts

we're trying to go to Micro

Center but someone decided it was a good

idea to try and drive on their roof but

we're in an express lane so we're stuck

in this we can't get to the

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below okay so after finally made it here

and all the California drivers that

don't know how to keep their cars rubber

side down in the rain uh we are finally

here at Micro Center in Tustin so a huge

thank you to Micro Center for sponsoring

today's video now here's what we're

going to do today um I need to get some

parts for that sff build that I showed

you I wanted to do uh actually I got a

couple sfff builds I want to do but

we're going to get some small form

factor Parts motherboard CPU Ram uh and

the power supply specifically that I

need for that build so we'll kind of

walk through that and why we're going to

choose those parts but I want to really

show how unique the store is by

challenging Nick Phil and myself to see

what the weirdest thing is we can find

in the store that maybe would never

expect to have been at Micro Center but

first we're got to go over there and

pick our CS okay so I don't actually

need an it ex and closure I already have

them but I just kind of wanted to take a

quick look at the I mean this is their

case aisle look at this the the cool

thing about buying in person here at the

store is cases when you see them on the

screen you can't really interact with

them get an idea of their size how much

space they're going to take up so

basically every case they sale is out on

display so here are the um fractal

design Terra ITX these are pretty neat

chassis they're all aluminum and stuff

sorry for the noise again they're

stocking it is before the store opens

I've kind of not taken a look at fractal

design in a while but this this is this

is kind of neat for like a small form

factor like maybe htpc or even a you

know something you could have on like a

entertainment center and not look out of

place like this is fabric it's starting

to sound like a fractal ad but it's not

I mean I just haven't looked at these in

person in Forever um the north Series

this has always been real popular mesh

all around with the wood fronts and

stuff dude check this one out gold

buttons with black and wood that is

super classy look really good this feels

like it belongs in like a whiskey bar

it's a whiskey build whiskey PC there we

go I got to do that all right so for

platform we're going to go Intel on this

one um we have kind of limited options

right now for ITX boards but fortunately

they have in stock a azrock z790 PG ITX

tb4 so it's a ddr5 board Phil has this

exact board uh he likes it he' been

using it for close to a year now right

more than a year cuz you Christmas of

202 is when you got it when we did the

Christmas surprise yeah so you've been

running it for a year solid okay if it

sucks then we're going to blame it on

Phil

okay so these are all the uh 13 14700 K

right here the 349 is actually for the

one below I think one thing you want to

make a lot of people send tend to think

this is for the Shelf it's on but as you

can see that's 13700 K and these are

14700 K it's $20 more for the 14700 K

I'm going to go ahead and go with that

because I know it has a little bit

better memory support uh versus the

13700 however we have a lot of Lottery

to choose from here so I have to pick

actually they're all right there but I

have to pick wisely actually no it's all

of them

the steppings and everything going to be

on here but they're probably all going

to be identical so whatever we're going

with this

one someone died all right so ddr5 board

um prices on ddr5 aren't terrible right

now actually so we've got 32 GB 2 16 gig

so remember I only have two slots I'm

not going to be running four slots um so

if I'm going to run 32 gigs I need 16 GB

sticks so they're not terrible in price

right now but they're all over the place

depending on it it's CL uh speeds as

well as its overall speeds I probably

wouldn't go for anything over like 6,000

honestly like here's 7200 MHz G skill at

$139 for 32 gigs like given the speed

that's not terrible but I I personally

wouldn't go over like 6,000 maybe 6,400

at the most because even on ITX board

I'll never be pushing the ram that far

um so we

got this is 6,000 right here at

114 so I mean the difference of 115 to

139 like I might go through the speed

but if the price is that

close um this is 64 gigs 2 * 32 but I

don't think we need that it's just a

gaming PC 32 gigs will be way more than

enough so I'm going to go with the Z5

Neo RGB um I should says AMD Expo that

just means it's AMD Expo like certified

it doesn't mean it only works with AMD

Expo but it's uh cl30 at 6,000 MHz for

119 I'd rather have the tighter timings

honestly for gaming than the ultimate

faster um transfer rate at 6,000 because

I find that tighter timings tend to be

better so if I go up to 6400 CL 32 so I

was kind of torn between these two

that's $10 more so it's a little bit

looser timing but it's 400 MHz faster on

the transfer rate but I honestly think

I'd rather just save the 10 bucks and go

with cl30 I know 6,000 is plenty it

really is plenty I tend to not push my

Ram even at home at 6,400 MHz Ram I'm

running at 6,000 so I'm just going to go

with that actually trying to see if I

can find the equivalent that says it's

just Intel but that's CL 6432 at 124

that says Intel and that splits the

difference you know what we'll do that

I've never had AMD Expo Ram not work

well or run its uh advertise speeds or

anything on Intel I just don't feel like

coming back well I do feel like coming

back but not to exchange something well

one of the things that I was worried

about in my review for the 4070 TI

versus TI super has come true so as you

can see right here the 470 TI super is

$7.99 for the tough but the tough 470 TI

nons super is $859 and the reason for

that is remember these retailers had to

buy the C the cards wholesale you know

and the cost at the time when they

bought them was more expensive than the

4070 TI super wholesale is so the only

way they could sell those below the

price of a 4070 TI super is to literally

lose money on it I would just have a

hard time being a buyer going why

wouldn't I get the super it's cheaper

over the 4070 TI non super and this is

nvidia's Fault Nvidia has put all the

retailers in this ugly position we've

also reached the point where cards are

so big that the MSI gaming X slim 470 is

a dual slot card so now a true two slot

card is considered slim an AMD Radeon

6950 XT reference for

5.49 we're really going to have to go

back and retest some of that stuff

because that's the thing like for 549 on

the other side you're in 4060 ti/ 470

territory and I have a feeling a 6950

XT I think it would have to beat would

have to beat a 4070 I'm going to check

my chart real quick I I just showed you

how the 470s were 550 and up right so on

the same price point as this although

it's not a reference it is a red devil

remember our Red Devil as we has shown

does not like it's only a couple FPS

higher than the reference because

there's only so much they could pull out

of the AMD architecture that's already

pushed pretty far so the

470 Fe got a 129 in Horizon ultra

settings uh 1440p 129 versus 6950

XTS

142

so we people need to start considering

AMD more I say as I'm probably going to

put an Nvidia in this build another

little rant here too is like we're

noticing that 7800 XTS have kind of been

moved so and by moved I mean purchase

this card the 7800 XT from Sapphire is

$20 more than the 69 950 XT reference

Edition and this card was 20 FPS faster

in Forza than that card on our testing

so even AMD buyers are sleeping on the

performance they could get now Che your

benchmarks but it depends if you're

playing RT that is second gen RT versus

first gen RT so you've really got to ask

yourself if you care about turning on

rate tracing if you care about turning

on rate tracing and getting the most

performance out of it then the later

generations are going to probably do

better however if you just want high

performance rization gaming don't sleep

on AMD okay so I need specifically the

sf750 I'm grabbing this one just cuz the

stickers not it's messed up um because

the cables for that build I'm going to

be using this eventually for the um the

Nan Q the Nano Q build and as soon as I

get the revised Parts in the cables that

were made are specific for this power

supply that were sent to me so I'm just

using this that's why I'm grabbing this

okay I think that's all the parts I need

cuz I have storage at home cooling don't

know yet if I'm going to do custom water

cooling or if I'm going to do an AO in

there I prob probably will end up doing

an AI to be honest just to keep it

simple although it would fit water

cooling in there um but uh yeah so I

have the main components that I need I

have CPU Ram motherboard and power

supply plenty of storage at home like

I've already said and we already have

the chassis so you guys can go ahead and

comment down below how I made all the

wrong choices and that's great because

that is a reason why there are all of

these parts so that you can put together

your best choice you name it they got it

okay so now that the parts are done

which is the business end we are going

to individually take the camera I see

why you still following me since we have

the store to ourselves right now I I

said let's find the weirdest thing we

can find in the store because here's the

thing it's not just Electronics they

have all kinds of stuff so let's take a

little walk and see if we can find

anything just okay like this right here

I mean like this is just like a little

little turtle little turtle chalkboard

thingy tablet something or another

for a kid's backpack whatever that's for

photo paper cables

Galore wow they even have

cdrs for those that are still stuck in

the past so this is like an actual like

life-size Shack like height um we have

to get Phil to stand next to it but here

is my height next to

sha and for those that are wondering I'm

6'4 why don't we just come here to get

the power supply I needed they have

oscilloscopes if you want to do like

some soldering projects they've got

microchips and stuff look at

this LEDs diodes like you could you

could do like Arduino stuff but honestly

though that's not weird like that's the

kind of stuff you would totally expect

to be at a Micro

Center

okay I know I guess maybe all this stuff

to me just seems to hey check it

out Loop decks and steam decks and all

that it's stream deck microphones

Galore well here we go now we're lit

properly because ring lights this is

nice for those that are looking to do

like their multi- panel setups got all

these different monitor arms and stuff

you don't have to just order on Amazon

unless you live really far away from a

Micro Center but there's this stuff I

was hoping to find like a dialup modem

and all this stuff but I don't think

they have

hey Phil come here I already stood next

to sha you go stand next to sha oh yeah

so you guys can f see I'll

T that's a tall dude right there I know

you guys have seen our ads where we

talked about their uh 3D printing stuff

but their 3D printing section like

continues to grow it's pretty cool like

they've got their they got resin

printers they've obviously got

Extrusion got all kinds of different

stuff lots of enders lots of crali so

there's like the the resin stuff right

here this isn't like an ad or anything I

just want to show like their their 3D

printer section just continues to get

like bigger and bigger okay then there's

this aisle here which has like

Legos and like little puzzle

pieces what is this AOE damage marker

for

tabletop okay

interesting oh

man need a hot glue

gun Gorilla Tape

okay

um yes so you got like your oh you your

for dummies

books

man retro gaming systems nice I got the

S the NES or SNES retro gaming system

it's it's super Retron HD whatever that

is but I imagine it's just an emulated

SNES you got board games the ego m i

remember the ego what the heck

we actually have plastic

models no way I can't reach that

one it's a

warship can't reach it okay I'm totally

breaking the rules here sorry guys but

uh

okay got it okay who the heck would come

to Micro Center and expect to find a USS

Iowa warship model heck yeah all right

Phil you want to see what I found

that is pretty random though for mic to

have like who would expect to find pre-

crash it

already don't ask okay so I'm getting

the model who's going next nice I'll go

next I already have an idea okay so I

have to go

find something weird and I saw this one

thing that I've been wanting to get for

freaking forever but I've never really

been able to find never really bothered

looking it up anyway but it is the

coolest musical instrument

so it's called the automatone it's

literally just a music note that you

squeeze the mouth and then it sings but

yeah I'm going to look around right now

and see if I can't

find anything else that's super weird

and random cuz Jay found a

boat got to say I did not expect to

see what appears to be a turbo prop

engine

model and the telescope all right I got

to find a weird something something

something but I'm going to start in like

the Retro aisle or like the odds and

ends aisles I'm told they got Legos

though that's kind of cool got to go

fast yo they have a fight stick this

might be tougher than I thought all

right so I found something that stuck

out to me check it

out electric paper airplane imagine

weaponizing paper

airplanes but

uh

shoot this is kind of fun actually

with the reusable

motor or I use this machine or maybe the

remote controlled hold up hold

up all right maybe I can get away with

this this might be pretty cool actually

10 minutes of flight okay so I thought

weaponizing a paper airplane was bad but

then I realized the all boosters for

model

rockets so it could be fun you want to

see what I found though

remote control paper

airplane that's actually cool what the

heck dude that's twice the cost of three

almost three times the cost of my model

okay I could go just get the motorized

paper airplane one instead but the

remote control looked kind of cool oh

I'm curious as to what the lag is going

to be I know that's going to be funny

you know we have to fly that so we're

going to be doing a video every month

with Micro Center I think I want to I

kind of want to come in here and check

this out so these are

TVs that are designed as monitors

because you know the OLED technology has

gotten so fast and its refresh rate and

its response time is really really good

they've made 42in and 48 in TVs that are

more or less monitors so this one's a

curve it's a flex it's very similar to

like the Corsair Flex or the LG

motorized Flex however it's not 1440p

it's 4K so the pixels aren't giant like

what's on my panel at work um I'm

disappointed that this it's kind of like

the paper T the paper or wallpaper TV

where if you look here all the guts are

in here so there's no vase amount I

can't detach this it is adjustable curve

as you can see with this mechanism here

there's like a slide it's kind of locked

right now I don't know how to unlock it

but um all the find no I don't want to

find out all the guts are in here and

it's got front-facing speakers which

might be good enough for me to get rid

of my soundbar at home cuz I tend to use

headphones all the time anyway and I

just have a sound bar when I'm watching

videos and stuff I don't consume like

prograde content so I don't care about

having like a high-end sound system on

it so that would get rid of that it's

got USB input right here on the side

headphone jack and everything on the

side although I use a mixer this I just

think it's cool it's expensive though

it's

$2,300 but I'm looking to redo my setup

at work and at home entirely but I'm

also considering these These are 1,049

so not cheap but they're cheap for say a

48 in OLED display for like gaming right

cuz the gaming oleds are more expensive

than that it's 120 HZ refresh rate both

of these are 4K 120 it's a flat panel

but I could do multiples of these like I

could do two of these for less than the

C price of one of these gsync and prync

yeah both of them both of them GC free

sync variable refresh rate they have A9

this is Dolby Atmos where's the up

facing speakers whatever I think I'm

going to come do this next month but

anyway we're done here we need to check

out and we got to go back to the studio

now and play with our toys J stole my my

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toy

wait

wait

[Laughter]

[Laughter]

uh I got to make the plane it's only 25

bucks so it can't be a great model kit

but I imagine it's something like if I

want to play around with like the resin

diaramas or

something oh yeah I can build this in

like oh it's already all built what the

hell is crap no it's like look these are

all the pieces it's it's on easy mode

okay well

done I like boats like I don't get to

build the super structure only a couple

pieces of it you done yet almost are you

done yet almost a Done Yet

almost I just love that this is the

future that we live in that you have an

app for a paper airplane right go for it

I think you have too much

flat oh

no what's going to go the trash don't go

the roof

Nick oh oh

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sh oh y the does work though that's un

easy oh yeah cuz it's doing differential

thrust

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huh he almost went into there

Jay always has to hand lunch his own

aircraft because

of Jesus got lightly

thought oh jeez I lost

it I think you got

it

sorry three stars dang he was like

really that's funny does it not detect

trashes or

[Music]

what all right well it's time to get on

out of here huge thanks to micro cener

for funding our little uh Excursion um I

feel like the uh obviously the singing

note thing and the paper airplanes would

be fun Nick found a 3D print so that we

can 3D print the body for it which will

probably last one crash actually might

fly more stable though so but when

explod it's going to explode pretty nice

and then I can build this model in about

16 minutes uh and then paint it and

stuff but anyway all right guys I'm

going to get on out of here and as

always we'll see you in the next

one I was like why did you pick up the

empty

one