Henry Cavill's PC-building skills aren't quite super, man

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In a nutshell: Henry Cavill: The Man of Steel, Geralt of Rivia, and lover of all things PC. In a new Instagram post, the actor puts together a very tasty gaming computer to the sounds of Barry White. But it doesn't go as smoothly as the singer's dulcet tones.

Cavill has never hidden his love of PC gaming in the past. His first experience of The Witcher was to play through The Wild Hunt twice, the second time on the hardest difficulty. He's also completed Total War: Warhammer 2 six times, as six different races. The man is a no casual gamer.

As we all know, building a gaming PC from scratch isn't always without incident. Cavill's first scary moment comes as he attempts to place the Ryzen 9 3900X into the Asus ROG Crosshair VIII Hero (Wi-Fi) motherboard. As he rightly points out, CPU pins are easily breakable, and he has to take the processor out, rotate and reseat it.

We then see Cavill struggling to fit the NZXT Kraken Z73 into the Fractal Design Define 7—one of the 'Best overall' winners in our Best PC cases feature. As The Walrus of Love's 'Never, Never Gonna Give You Up,' plays, day turns to night and the PC nears completion.

Once everything is ready, Cavill experiences the most nerve-wracking moment of any new build: hitting the power button. All seems fine, but he notices the pump's OLED display is upside down. The Superman star then goes through the arduous process of taking everything apart and putting it back together again, but he really didn't need to: there's an option in the NZXT Cam software for flipping the pump's display. You can even rotate it manually by hand while it's mounted.

Although it's not easy to see in the video, it does appear that Cavill has opted for the Ryzen 9 3900X over the newer 3900XT; a wise choice, given the latter's small performance improvements. He might be a rich actor, but we'd expect him to claim his free copy of Assassin's Creed Valhall (when released) with his CPU purchase. He's also sporting an Asus PG279Q ROG Swift monitor and a Razer Huntsman keyboard, both of which are used by this writer.

Here's a full list of Cavill's hardware (courtesy of Techradar):

If you're one of the few people who've never seen it, jump to the 2:30 mark in this video to see Cavill flying the PC flag.

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That parts list is from someone who's clearly spent a bit of time doing some research into a very nice PC.

..Just the fact he got the best DDR4 RAM for Ryzen impresses me, I'd be even more impressed if he posted a follow up video showing that he's tightened up the timings :)

 
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R00sT3R said:
That parts list is from someone who's clearly spent a bit of time doing some research into a very nice PC.

..Just the fact he got the best DDR4 RAM for Ryzen impresses me, I'd be even more impressed if he posted a follow up video showing that he's tightened up the timings :)
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Manually tuned the timings after a month's worth of trail and error...
 
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Interesting Ad.
Also interesting that in the video the logos, codes are blurred, but articles point out the parts.
TechSpot blindly copy-pasted the list, didn't even bother reading Techradar's article through: the product codes mismatch. And with help from a Singaporean site article, the differences:
PSU: Seasonic Prime PX Platinum, case: Fractal Define R6, monitor: ASUS ROG PG27UQ, mouse: Steelseries Rival 650
But only Cavill can tell the truth. If he is allowed that is.
 
As a side note. In my Twitter feed I've seen many likes from female artists (mostly painters), which were focusing on something quite different than Mr Cavill building skills.

*Cough*torso*cough*biceps*cough :)
 
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It was a very entertaining video. Good effort in both building and recording it. My sister showed it to me :joy:. It was fun commenting on it in my Whats gaming group and with other friends. And yeah, the first time I built a PC with an AIO watercooling solution I spent all day.
 
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R00sT3R said:
That parts list is from someone who's clearly spent a bit of time doing some research into a very nice PC.

..Just the fact he got the best DDR4 RAM for Ryzen impresses me, I'd be even more impressed if he posted a follow up video showing that he's tightened up the timings :)
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I agree. I was happy he chose an excellent case to build in. But, as you said, the other parts chosen showed he put real effort into building a nice machine.
 
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I started to really like Henry whenever I first heard him answer "PC!" in that interview when asked if he prefers Playstation or Xbox. He's a true PC enthusiast and the errors he makes building a new PC are to be expected by someone that doesn't build ALL the time and mostly just games on them. He has quite the day job and a very busy life, so the fact that he took the time to make a video building a PC shows his love for the PC in general and I'm all for it. I hope he builds more PC's in the future and lets us all see what he's up to.
 
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Very similar PC to the one I have. Same CPU and comparable other parts other than the GPU and cooler but I love my Noctua cooler. Saving up to get an RTX 2080.
 
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Use a wireless keyboard and mouse. And quit the advertising. It's like a French ***** extolling the virtues of her Valley of mystery in chruch
 
Adhmuz said:
Good for him, he could have bought a pre-built or had someone build it for him but he persevered and got it all together. He even made it somewhat entertaining to watch.
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I honestly wouldn't buy a pre built pc If I where in his situation. If you just go into a store and select the parts you know nobody had the chance to mess with them. If the person that built the pc knows your identity he might just add some Spyware to your pc even a hardware solution.
 
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