I'm going to be building an entirely portable gaming setup in the back of this truck

Okay, let's uh try this one more time, shall we?

So now that we're in the store, let's actually get this build started

Now I'm gonna actually start with the power because that's going to be a key requirement

I want to make sure this setup is fully off the grid and in the back of the truck

You might ask why are we in the truck?

Because it's the last rental car at the airport, so we're making it work. To sum up my plans today

I'm going to be building a fully off the grid gaming PC setup with monitor and everything

I need. It's going to be running on a power generator a little battery power station

And I'm going to have exactly as long as it lasts to win a game of Valorant. If I win, hooray!

I have successfully become an elite gamer. Thanks to our wonderful sponsors at Micro Center. If I lose

I'm giving the entire setup away to someone in the store. So let me start out by actually choosing my power station

So I mean this Geniverse which is $2,300 has 2,200 watts of power

But I don't think I've got that kind of budget today, so let me look at some of the smaller ones

I actually might do the 300. What I like about this one is that actually if you look up here it comes with a solar panel

It comes with a 40 watt solar panel. I think I might do that. Also. This is relatively affordable, right?

No, it doesn't say

How much is it? I don't know. So you're gonna have 300 watts of peak power to push from this but I'm gonna want to pull a lot less like I think I need to be probably in the 100

Watt range to get a couple hours out of use out of this. The solar panel will make a big difference

So thankfully it's sunny today. Okay, I'm gonna go ahead and lock in starting with this Jackery 300 plus

And I'm gonna build the setup from here. The next task is going to be building my gaming PC

So there are a couple of criteria here now

This is gonna be a unique challenge because I've done a lot of PC builds at Micro Center

I've had lots of weird challenges but I've never done one that was really reliant on getting a very high level of power efficiency because I'm running on an external battery my

First thought is I want to build something as low power as possible

So there are a lot of options here. So of course, this is the brand new Charlotte store

Which is fully stocked with all of the AMD CPUs Intel CPUs GPUs everything you could ever hope for

But just because I have choices doesn't mean that they're necessarily going to be right for this application

So we have a couple of options if I'm going to go integrated graphics. I want to go empty

That's gonna give me the most performance now the last time I built a PC

I actually used an 8600 G and that was actually like pretty decent. But here's the thing is I don't care about price

I just care about performance so I could do there's an 8500 G 8600 G 8700 G

So it's gonna be an 8 core processor. It's gonna have pretty decent built-in RDNA graphics. Here's a question though

How well will an 8700 G run Valorant?

I think pretty well, right especially if I don't get like a super high refresh rate and high resolution monitor like 1080p 75 100 Hertz like I think I can win with that and this is only gonna be pulling like maybe 75 watts total for the system if I'm running this guy. I feel like I'm gonna go with this. So my main challenge here is not only winning a game of Valorant, which if you're unfamiliar with my

Past experience, you'll know that's gonna be kind of hard for me to win

So I want to give myself as much time as possible and I'm gonna really sort of focus on the power efficiency to do that so then I have like

Two hours to try to win instead of 45 minutes because I'm not gonna win in 45 minutes

All right. So my next choice is going to be with a case

So this is the height revolt 3 this is going to be an ITX case

So it's gonna be fairly small, but importantly it's got a handle

I've got a lot of challenges here with this build

But the cool thing is the micro center as always has an enormous selection of all the PC parts

I could ever hope for next up. I've got myself a b650 I motherboards this is going to be small enough to actually fit in the case and

It won't break the bank. So a status update Ryzen 7 8700 G

We've got ourselves a 1 terabyte SSD as well as 32 gigs of RAM

I've got myself a height revolt 3 case, which is going to give me a lot of space

I'm gonna have a mouse keyboard motherboard. I think the only thing I'm really missing right now would be a power supply and a monitor so

Why don't we see what we can find? So the spec of this monitor is 250 nits of brightness, which is decent I'll say

But importantly, it's a 1080p 75 Hertz monitor. It's 24 inches

So I'm hopeful this is not gonna pull an enormous amount of power this is like a really unique challenge because I'm not just building a PC and having a good time like I have to really be strategic with a lot of these decisions

Do we park the truck close up to the store where I can borrow the store's Wi-Fi or are we tethering?

So next up

Let me build this whole setup bring it outside and see if we can actually win a game of Valorant for the first time in my life the back of a RAM 1500 and the Charlotte, North Carolina Micro Center parking lot

What else are you doing on your Wednesday afternoon, huh?

Probably not that I don't think anyone's doing that. So it's exactly 10 o'clock in the morning

So let's see how fast I can get this built

And put together and while I do this, we actually already have gotten the Jackery out and thankfully we do have a full charge on that

So I'm gonna have as much time as possible

So that is our case

Might I suggest actually yeah taking a second to look at that instruction manual

Cuz I have a feeling that you might be able to take it apart

In a way that makes it super easy to build. Remove side panels. Yeah, no, it's super simple

Remove side panels. All the side panels come off. Oh, okay. You know, I feel way better about that

Good call Ken. Look at how compact this little guy is everything we need right here

So this looks really straightforward. I think if I just slot it in something like this

Line it up and then that's gonna pretty much be our PC build. It's very simple and straightforward

But I think that's an important thing when you've got very few watts to work with

So I'm gonna screw this in plug it in and we'll kind of be good

Hey, it works

Alrighty, we've got ourselves a Ryzen 7 8700 G 32 gigabytes of DDR5. We're good to go. I'm going to take advantage of the Ethernet here in the store to download

Valorant and all the kind of bits and bobs

I will quickly make sure that my RAM is set to full speed and then we're gonna be good to bring this all outside and begin the next phase getting it to work and

Trying to be good at Valorant

And so it is time my friends to get this setup running. So

It looks like a lot because it is a lot but I have confidence. This is my new setup

So what I'm gonna do is I'm going to load up the monitor the computer and

Basically, I'm gonna build everything I need

So my main challenges here are going to be figuring out how to use my boxes as a desk

It is incredibly bright outside so I'm gonna need to use my monitor box to build some kind of like sunshade to hide in and

Then make sure that everything can be powered with the Jackery

If I plug everything in and it can't run it for some reason I'm gonna be in big trouble, but I think you'll be fine

This is a questionable idea

It's really hot

So one of the nice things about the Jackery is it comes with a 40 watt solar panel

So if I set this up on the roof of the truck, it should actually give me some decent power. Yeah, boy. Oh

Yes, we've got a light on the system

We're pulling 35 watts. Okay PC is PCing right now

Okay, oh yeah, we're up we're up we are up right now for the record I cannot see that screen at all

No, I can't either. So here's here's my main problem

Monitors are not meant to be used outside

So this is a I would say average brightness display and if I'm staring at right now, it is massively dim

So that's where my box is gonna come in so if I do one of these guys

Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute

This is what optimal gaming performance looks like so my first question is gonna be how long do I have

So the system right now. Oh, dude

Yo

Wait, it's only all together pulling 40 watts right now and we're getting 31 watts in from the Sun

This is almost a full solar-powered system right now if I keep this up I have 117 hours of gaming bro

This is a fully portable setup. Do I need 117 hours to win a match of Valorant? Our flight leaves in three hours

I have three hours of battery life on my Jackery

So

As you might be able to guess there are some complications with my setup

One of which is we're tethering which is probably not gonna be great for latency the other of which is the QAZ keys on my keyboard are all in the Sun aka very very hot and

Other than that, I think we're fine. I can't imagine anything else going on

What could possibly go wrong

So we're getting 26 watts in from the solar panel and we're pushing your between 40 and 70 watts output still 9 hours

Yeah, we'd absolutely work with that 100%

I'm gonna just quickly just do a practice match just to make sure everything's working

About to get in we're also gonna see the performance here

I have no idea what kind of performance we're gonna get with this system

But I think we're at 1080p and we have a 75 Hertz display

So if we can get anywhere close to that, I think should be fine. We're getting about a hundred and seventy FPS in the game

It's really quite smooth. The monitor looks nice. Obviously, it's only 75 Hertz, but it looks really good

And I'll be honest with you. I'm actually not running into any real issues with the setup at the moment

The issues are entirely around my skill

This is probably the point in the video where I should mention

That I'm not good at Valorant and part of the reason I want to do this challenge was to make myself be better

And I'm not sure what part of this is going to make me better

But I think it will I have faith

What should I put what's the easiest match in Valorant that I can play that'll actually give me some big hope of winning?

Spike rush? Spike rush. Let's do it. I do only have three red bars of signal so that's maybe not encouraging but uh

Valorant has encountered a connection error. Please relaunch to reconnect. That actually happens even if they have a good connection. Yeah

Oh, I need to relog in

Okay

This version of Vanguard needs secure boot. I was literally in the game

Yeah, well, it's Vanguard. So what we found is

If Valorant doesn't want to play on my PC now, you can see it's fully functional, right?

So I'm gonna walk around in the range. We're getting 270 FPS outside and you know, we get like in the high 100s on the inside fully functional absolutely works

My issues are entirely down to Valorant randomly need being secure boot like that

You know, it should tell something when I have built this entire ridiculous janky setup and my biggest problem, it's not the internet

It's not the lack of solar energy. It's not my

Wonderful desk. Oh, no, it's

Valorant

Now I've double-checked secure boot is on in the BIOS and

I will point out that Ken and I have a flight and two hours and

I don't think we have time to wait to download another game

So I'm gonna spend this positively

Our setup works the solar panel. We've got our Jackery

We've got a fully custom PC monitor the whole thing we have a complete gaming setup in the back of a truck and I think that's something to be celebrated but a

Bet to bet I said that I was going to build this setup and I was going to win a match of Valorant

Not only did I not win a match of Valorant. I couldn't even play a full match of Valorant

Which means that this PC is not coming home with me so instead

Mm-hmm PC

Getting a PC is

Not what I intended to get. I just came here to get a mouse, but I think it's awesome

People like him, you know going around just doing their thing and actually making it to where

They're actually giving back to the community

It's a totally awesome thing and I really think you should go check out his channel subscribe to him

Most definitely I think it's really good to see people doing wacky stuff, especially with a cardboard and

And a game that did not work it mostly worked for the record it booted up

That's the most important thing and of course huge

Thank you to our wonderful sponsors at Micro Center for enabling all of this madness

You can definitely come down to the Charlotte store and check it out and stay tuned

There's some other Micro Center locations that may or may not be coming soon

The Micro Center have a bunch of exclusive deals to celebrate the brand new Charlotte store

I'll have them linked in the description

But one of the big ones is if you're a new customer, you can get yourself $25 off of all processors

And well, let me help you load all this stuff. So I never have to look at it ever again

Thanks, man, awesome. All right, let's cut

Just see it right in the middle unfortunately a

Little bit higher than we can reach. So Jeff who's the manager of Micro Center is giving us a little assist to try to free the drone