Cases are Stupid.

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MUSIC CREDIT
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Title: Laszlo - Supernova
Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKfxmFU3lWY
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Outro Screen Music Credit: Approaching Nirvana - Sugar High http://www.youtube.com/approachingnirvana

Intro animation by MBarek Abdelwassaa https://www.instagram.com/mbarek_abdel/
Monitor And Keyboard by vadimmihalkevich / CC BY 4.0 https://geni.us/PgGWp
Mechanical RGB Keyboard by BigBrotherECE / CC BY 4.0 https://geni.us/mj6pHk4
Mouse Gamer free Model By Oscar Creativo / CC BY 4.0 https://geni.us/Ps3XfE

CHAPTERS
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0:00 Intro
1:15 Let's get this out onto a tray: Nice.
2:49 "You can't screw up"
4:03 Floppydoodling power supply
6:35 Sage SFF advice
8:04 Motherboard + CPU selection
9:18 Cooling
10:35 Memory and install
12:02 Testing