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

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Thanks to ASUS for sponsoring this video! ASUS is celebrating 30 years of graphics card innovation with a global campaign honoring the community that made it all possible. To mark the occasion, ASUS is hosting a global charity auction from June 4–13. One lucky winner will take home a limited-edition RTX 5090 Dhahab Edition, signed by NVIDIA's CEO Jensen Huang. Learn more here: 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: Discuss on the forum: Check out the Build: ASUS ROG Astral Dhahab GeForce RTX 5090 OC Edition GPU: AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D Zen 5 8-Core 5.2 GHz CPU: ASUS ROG Strix 1200W Platinum 80 Plus ATX 3.1 PSU: ASUS ROG Crosshair X870E Hero AM5 Motherboard: DarkFlash DY470 ATX PC Case: G.SKILL Trident Z5 Royal Series 64GB DDR5 6000 RAM: T-Force CARDEA Z540 M.2 2280 2TB NVME SSD: ► GET OUR MERCH: ► GET EXCLUSIVE CONTENT ON FLOATPLANE: ► GET A VPN: ► SPONSORS, AFFILIATES, AND PARTNERS: Purchases made through some store links may provide some compensation to Linus Media Group. CHAPTERS --------------------------------------------------- 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