[0:00] this video will show you how to build a
[0:01] gaming PC from the very beginning all
[0:03] the way to installing Windows and
[0:04] playing your first ever game taking you
[0:06] step by step along the way in less than
[0:08] 1 hour where I will share my tips and
[0:10] tricks to make your first time building
[0:11] a gaming PC as simple as possible so you
[0:14] don't make any mistakes or damage your
[0:15] components right so before we actually
[0:17] start on building our PC we need to do a
[0:19] bit of a PC part checklist and also
[0:21] tools checklist just so you can get
[0:23] started and build the PC as quickly as
[0:25] possible cuz I've built loads of systems
[0:26] in my time where I forgot certain bits
[0:28] had to wait for stuff to come into per
[0:30] and it's taken like way longer than it
[0:31] should have so first things first let's
[0:33] actually establish what tools you need
[0:35] for building a gaming PC now most
[0:37] conventionally all you literally will
[0:38] need is a Philips screwdriver like this
[0:40] this is the Linus Tech tips one you
[0:42] don't need to buy this one it's like
[0:43] $100 it' be pretty expensive but any
[0:45] basically like Philips screwdriver will
[0:47] do the job that you can tighten most of
[0:49] the the screws up in with the case but
[0:51] sometimes if you have some really
[0:52] specific high-end stuff or you maybe
[0:54] modifying a few things I do highly
[0:56] recommend picking up like an iFix it
[0:57] tool kit these things are unbelievable
[0:59] and inside the actual case you can see
[1:01] that you have a bunch of different
[1:02] attachments for literally any type of
[1:04] fitting you may have for your PC and
[1:06] also any other Tech things that you're
[1:07] working on that you need tools for like
[1:08] your Xbox and PlayStations when you're
[1:09] modding those so recently we had a
[1:10] really fancy case from Amazon and I
[1:12] couldn't access it and luckily there was
[1:14] a fitting within here that was like some
[1:16] weird triangle shape that allowed us to
[1:17] get the doors off the case so this is
[1:19] really useful and gives you that sort of
[1:20] flexibility so you have every fitting
[1:22] that you need but for M majority of
[1:24] things we're probably going to use this
[1:25] if you go for the pro bundle of the
[1:26] iFixit tool kit you do also get some
[1:28] further tools such as this antistatic
[1:30] strap sort of like grounds and Earth you
[1:32] so you don't cause any static on your
[1:33] components if you're concerned about
[1:35] that occurring you can throw this on
[1:36] your wrist and that will resolve that
[1:38] problem and then there's some other Cool
[1:39] Tools as well that are really useful if
[1:40] you drop any screws in the case and you
[1:42] can't get them out you can use these
[1:43] little pliers to sort of easily pick
[1:45] stuff out if you can't get your fingers
[1:46] down a little sort of crevice next let's
[1:49] go through all of the different
[1:50] components that you would need now
[1:51] depending on the type of case that
[1:52] you're building in this is just like the
[1:53] standard sort of mid tower case there's
[1:55] like full Towers then there's ITX cases
[1:57] that are really small and compact this
[1:58] will dictate what size motherboard that
[2:00] you actually purchase now most
[2:01] conventionally pretty much 99% of people
[2:03] watch this video will probably just go
[2:05] for a standard ATX motherboard that fits
[2:07] in a majority of mid Towers but if
[2:08] you're going for something a little bit
[2:10] more specific I.E maybe something larger
[2:12] you may want an eatx motherboard which
[2:14] is just a little bit bigger and gives
[2:15] you more Pro features a bit more storage
[2:17] for your mvme drives and things like
[2:18] that but if you're going for a much
[2:20] smaller build you'll obviously want
[2:21] something like an matx or an ITX
[2:23] motherboard to fit into a more compact
[2:26] case the board we'll be using in today's
[2:27] video is going to be an eatx which will
[2:30] fit into this case no problem and should
[2:31] look really cool giving me those Pro
[2:33] features that I require for this
[2:34] particular build that I am constructing
[2:36] now I don't want to break down the exact
[2:38] components that I'm using in this system
[2:39] because I want this video to be as
[2:41] Evergreen as possible so like you know
[2:42] if someone's watching this in two years
[2:43] time the whole step-by-step of building
[2:46] a PC wouldn't have changed but the the
[2:48] components obviously would have now to
[2:49] obviously go with your motherboard you
[2:51] also need the correct chipset for your
[2:53] CPU now at the time of filming this
[2:55] video the latest generation of AMD CPUs
[2:57] are using the am5 soft socket which is
[3:00] obviously the motherboard that we've got
[3:02] here with these AMD CPUs there's two
[3:04] versions of them this is the 7900 X but
[3:07] there's also the 7900 which is just a
[3:10] standard sort of non overclockable sort
[3:12] of CPU you have you have different Power
[3:13] deliveries on them and like how you can
[3:15] push them the next thing to consider is
[3:17] the RAM sticks that you need for your
[3:19] system so this is a brand new generation
[3:22] system and we have the latest generation
[3:23] of ram that goes with it so depending
[3:25] again on what CPU you have and what
[3:27] motherboard is accompanying with that
[3:29] CPU will dictate the generation of ram
[3:32] that you'll have so you just want to
[3:33] make sure that you've got the correct
[3:34] generation of ram to go with your
[3:35] motherboard then it's going to be dead
[3:37] simple it'll just click into place no
[3:39] stress now let's move on to actually
[3:41] sort of the final few things to check
[3:43] before we start the build obviously you
[3:44] need a power supply you need some
[3:45] storage you know all that type of stuff
[3:47] you probably know that already but more
[3:49] specifically I want to focus on actually
[3:50] what case you're going to choose and the
[3:52] graphics card so more recently with the
[3:54] latest generation of AMD gpus especially
[3:57] Nvidia gpus because they were getting
[3:59] really large all of those graphics cards
[4:01] have had a significant increase in
[4:03] actual size and and how much space they
[4:05] occupy within the case and this is a
[4:06] problem I had a few years ago I had
[4:08] built a PC in sort of like 5 years I was
[4:10] finally upgrading my system and the case
[4:11] that I purchased was a nice compact mid
[4:13] Tower but then the GPU was too long it
[4:15] just wouldn't fit in once the radiators
[4:17] and things were in there so depending on
[4:18] what spec build you are building you
[4:20] want to make sure that your case can
[4:22] accommodate for the graphic card that
[4:24] you are going to be using now you're
[4:25] probably laughing thinking that's such
[4:26] an obvious thing to consider this is a
[4:28] 3080 TI and you can see in this case
[4:30] that it has plenty of clearance here
[4:32] which is great it also has plenty of
[4:34] clearance for the actual width of it too
[4:36] but with this exact same case if you
[4:39] were to use something like the same
[4:40] generation GPU as this a 3090 TI which
[4:42] we have in the past that GPU is so wide
[4:45] you can't close the panel on the case
[4:46] because once the power connectors are in
[4:48] it's all obtruding and it's sticking out
[4:50] next let's move on to actually preparing
[4:51] the case and getting more of the
[4:53] conventional things in and out of the
[4:54] way so I like to do this first before
[4:56] putting any components in or even like
[4:58] throwing my components together and
[4:59] checking they work i' like to make sure
[5:00] I put all my fans in place my radiators
[5:02] and stuff cuz this sort of will dictate
[5:04] the overall layout of what the final
[5:06] case will be and whether you can
[5:07] actually fit the components where you
[5:09] want to so you get this out the way
[5:10] first while you've got easy access
[5:11] without knocking into your really
[5:12] expensive motherboard now I've already
[5:14] put some fans in to the case just to
[5:16] save us some time you know just to
[5:18] prepare it for the sake of this video
[5:19] and the fans that I'm using are these
[5:21] awesome noctua fans back in the day
[5:22] these things used to be hideous like
[5:24] this prown fan but thankfully they've
[5:26] got these really slick ones in dark gray
[5:27] now that look very minimalistic and now
[5:29] these fans are awesome both from their
[5:31] efficiency perspective of how much air
[5:33] flow they can provide but more
[5:34] importantly they're incredibly quiet
[5:36] like some of the quietest fans you can
[5:38] purchase so they can just plow away
[5:40] cooling all your components and it
[5:41] doesn't get on your nerves while you're
[5:42] actually gaming now we've actually got a
[5:44] little bit of a challenge with this case
[5:45] here for how we're going to lay the fans
[5:47] out because of its cubic design and the
[5:49] amount of tempered glass side panels
[5:51] that there are the place where you would
[5:52] put your fans isn't really that
[5:54] conventional first let's understand how
[5:55] a fan actually works so this is just a
[5:57] standard 120 mm fan all fans are pretty
[5:59] much the same that you throw in your PC
[6:01] just different sizes so on the front of
[6:04] the fan here we have got basically the
[6:06] the intake area of the air so as this
[6:08] spins this will be intaking the air into
[6:11] wherever the destination it's going to
[6:13] and then on the back of the fan you can
[6:14] see here we have all of the ugly stuff
[6:16] like the bracket and also where the
[6:18] cables run and that type of stuff this
[6:19] is the back of the fan where the air is
[6:22] blowing out of so you've got the air
[6:23] coming in and the air coming out now you
[6:25] can mount your fans whichever way you
[6:27] want within the case depending on more
[6:29] air flow orientation as you can see
[6:31] you've got mounting holes on the top and
[6:32] also mounting holes on the back so this
[6:34] allows you to basically control the
[6:35] direction and flow of the air now in a
[6:38] traditional computer case you can
[6:39] usually Mount your fans right on the
[6:41] front here but obviously we have a
[6:43] temperglass side panel so usually you
[6:45] can mount all your fans on the front and
[6:47] intake cool air super easily right from
[6:49] here and then that will exhaust that
[6:51] cool air straight onto your motherboard
[6:53] and your components to keep them cool
[6:54] and the temperatures control you then
[6:56] need to consider how to get that cool
[6:58] air that will eventually become hot
[6:59] because of all the components it becomes
[7:00] cool becomes hot we now need to focus on
[7:02] how we can take that hot air out of the
[7:05] case again traditionally you would then
[7:07] have an exhaust fan mounted at the top
[7:09] here that would then spin away spin away
[7:11] and it would blow and suck all this hot
[7:13] air out of the back of the case now we
[7:16] can't do this in this case because of
[7:18] the different sizes and all type stff
[7:20] the traditional size fans don't fit in
[7:22] here it's more orientated around water
[7:24] cooling mounting rare reses and all that
[7:26] type of stuff so we need to think a
[7:27] little bit different with how going to
[7:29] run these fans in the system now the
[7:32] second location you could put your
[7:33] exhaust fan is on the top of the case
[7:37] right here so you could take this fan
[7:39] this is the front of it and you can have
[7:40] it pointing this way so basically the
[7:42] hot air is sucked up out of the case so
[7:44] it's spinning spinning spinning and
[7:46] blowing up out of the case so you got
[7:48] cool air coming in and then hot air
[7:50] being blown out of the case those are
[7:52] the like standard places where you put a
[7:54] fan but we're going to sort of have to
[7:56] compromise for a best case scenario cuz
[7:58] we also want this to be a very aesthetic
[7:59] PC build that looks great because of all
[8:01] the glass side panels so I've pref
[8:04] fitted some fans here and the way these
[8:06] fans are operating is as follows we've
[8:08] got an intake fan at the bottom you can
[8:11] see the the backs of the fan here so
[8:13] these are going to suck cold air in
[8:15] through the bottom of the case again not
[8:17] the perfect air flow because obviously
[8:18] it's going to be bottom of the case the
[8:20] floor but the plan is this will suck
[8:22] cold air in up onto the GPU which will
[8:26] work pretty nicely and then these fans
[8:28] at the top are going to to act as intake
[8:30] fans rather than exhaust fans you can
[8:32] see we've got them blowing inwards onto
[8:34] the case so this will also bring in cool
[8:36] air onto the motherboard so we've got
[8:38] cold air coming onto the GPU then we've
[8:40] got cold air coming into the top of the
[8:41] motherboard because of how restricted
[8:43] the air flow is going to be down here
[8:45] now the reason why we have to lay the
[8:46] fans out like this is because of where
[8:48] we have to put our all-in-one water
[8:50] cooler so this is the all-in-one water
[8:52] cooler we're going to be using this is
[8:53] our triple rad EK water blocks and you
[8:56] can see we've got the fans mounted on
[8:58] the top of the thing and the these are
[8:59] RGB fans so when these light up they're
[9:01] going to look awesome and look PR cool
[9:03] so we obviously want these to be as
[9:04] clean as possible and we don't want them
[9:05] to be showing the back of the fans like
[9:07] that cuz that would just look rubbish so
[9:09] because we have to compromise like this
[9:10] this means that this whole section of
[9:12] the case is going to act as the exhaust
[9:14] of the hot air so we've got cold air
[9:16] cold air and then exhausting of the hot
[9:18] air whereas really this should be the
[9:20] intake area of the case this should be
[9:22] sucking in the cold air and then boom
[9:24] this should be exhausting all the hot
[9:25] air but because we have to put the fans
[9:26] the wrong way around to accommodate for
[9:28] what we want we got to we just got to
[9:30] work with it you know I hope you're sort
[9:31] of following it but it's going to be
[9:32] okay it's going to be more than enough
[9:34] air flow so let's take a look at
[9:35] actually installing this radiator so
[9:37] we're going to take the back of the case
[9:38] off this case is really cool it just
[9:39] literally slides up like that really
[9:41] easily like no tools needed and we're
[9:43] going to be mounting this radiator from
[9:44] the back because that's how you usually
[9:46] mount a radiator so basically if we just
[9:48] inspect the actual rad itself so I've
[9:50] already installed the fans onto the
[9:52] front of it so when you purchase a
[9:54] radiator they come with two different
[9:55] types of screws you've got some slightly
[9:56] long screws then some slightly shorter
[9:58] ones depending on which side it's being
[10:00] mounted on so we've used the long screws
[10:02] for mounting the fans into the radiator
[10:06] and we've mounted this on the front off
[10:07] of the rad and then on the back we're
[10:09] going to use the small screws to
[10:11] basically install the radiator into the
[10:13] case that would either be at the top of
[10:15] the case here you would just use the
[10:16] little short screws through this thin
[10:18] metal to just hook it onto the back but
[10:20] for us we're actually going to mount it
[10:21] on this back panel here now there are
[10:23] two key types of CPU cooling systems
[10:25] that you can use one's an all-in-one
[10:27] water cooler like I've got here that has
[10:28] a radi and a pump and everything
[10:30] attached to the CPU block but the second
[10:31] option is actually like an air cooler
[10:33] that just goes onto the top of the CPU
[10:34] some of those come included with your
[10:36] actual CPU itself or you buy them
[10:37] additionally for like $50 $100 we're
[10:39] going to go with the all-in-one water
[10:40] cooler but there's one key thing that we
[10:41] have to consider with all water coolers
[10:43] depending on how you sort of orientate
[10:44] it we're a bit restricted with the the
[10:46] length of these hoses to sort of mean
[10:48] this is the only way we can sort them
[10:49] out it but you need to be super careful
[10:51] about any kinks in the actual tubing for
[10:53] all-in-one water cooler just you know so
[10:55] you don't get any air locks and things
[10:56] like that and it actually can flow
[10:58] correctly and it doesn't put over stress
[10:59] and too much strain on the actual pump
[11:01] so using those small screws that I
[11:03] referenced earlier we're going to mount
[11:04] the back of the radiator as follows and
[11:06] then using just a standard screwdriver
[11:08] we can tighten it in now the cool thing
[11:09] about this line is Tech tip screwdriver
[11:10] is is a ratting one so I just can keep
[11:13] it in one position and just sort of
[11:14] rotate my wrist and it'll tighten on up
[11:16] I don't have to like sort of like keep
[11:18] re like going absolutely crazy with the
[11:19] actual motion it's nice and easy just
[11:21] sort of tighten it on into the actual
[11:23] mounting point which makes it super
[11:25] quick and easy to use and once you've
[11:27] got all of the screw roughly in to their
[11:30] actual mounting points H and the the
[11:32] radiat is nice and square we can then go
[11:35] ahead and just sort of make sure it's
[11:36] aligned correctly it's nice and square
[11:38] and not sort of on a on a rough angle
[11:40] then we can just tighten all these up
[11:42] what you'll also notice is once you
[11:43] start getting some of your fans into the
[11:45] case you do start to amas quite a large
[11:47] bundle of cables and especially because
[11:49] these are RGB fans we've got these
[11:51] additional headers on them for obviously
[11:53] operating the various RGB effects and
[11:54] controlling those from our motherboards
[11:56] as well as the standard fan headers that
[11:58] you would find on on traditional fence
[12:00] and that's why I think it's really
[12:01] important to prepare the case first
[12:02] before putting any components in because
[12:03] you can sort of hook things out the way
[12:05] so we can get that CPU Cooler out of the
[12:07] way for now while we kneen these up
[12:10] while we've got space so we can feed
[12:11] these through these little gaps here
[12:14] cool so those are out the way now let's
[12:16] move on to our power supply so the power
[12:19] supply that I've got in this build is a
[12:20] modular power supply so if you got a
[12:22] little bit more budget to spend which
[12:23] basically means You' got these little
[12:25] attachments on the end that means you
[12:26] only plug in the essential cables that
[12:28] you require for the PC build so things
[12:31] like your CPU motherboard power supplies
[12:33] and especially with this build because
[12:34] we're not using any external hard drives
[12:36] it means we don't need any of these sort
[12:37] of SATA connections for powering up the
[12:39] things just using an mvme drive so it
[12:41] means we're going to be able to make it
[12:42] much easier to Cable Management because
[12:43] you don't have all these excess cables
[12:45] that you're not using you just literally
[12:47] plug in the essentials and then that
[12:48] just keeps things much more Compact and
[12:50] way easier to root all the cable l so
[12:53] we're going to be having this power
[12:54] supply down here and it obviously mounts
[12:56] vertically because of the way this case
[12:58] is for me might Mount horizontally for
[13:00] yourself but this is vertical mounting
[13:02] because of the case design now before
[13:04] you actually Mount the power supply into
[13:06] the case with the four screws at the
[13:07] back one thing I do like to do first is
[13:09] to actually just throw it up on on its
[13:11] side like this so you can easily see all
[13:13] of the text and see what connection
[13:15] ports are which and then start matching
[13:17] up the cables that I'm going to actually
[13:19] use like so just by throwing them in
[13:20] here just much easier because when it's
[13:22] mounted into the case you then are like
[13:25] reading on an angle like this and you're
[13:26] trying to like plug it in it's just
[13:28] really annoying so this where you make
[13:29] sure you get everything right and you're
[13:30] not going to accidentally be powering
[13:31] the wrong things with the wrong cables
[13:33] now if you do have a modular power
[13:34] supply inside of the Box basically
[13:36] there'll be a huge bag that will have
[13:37] all of the cables that this power supply
[13:39] is compatible with and basically each of
[13:41] them are labeled up so you can go inside
[13:43] the box and you can see here that on the
[13:45] sides of them this one says CPU so if
[13:48] you join this up like so it'll say CPU
[13:51] so this is telling me that this is the
[13:53] cable that is used for powering the CPU
[13:56] because in some power supplies the CPU
[13:59] header is slightly different to like the
[14:01] graphics card PCI SL slots and things
[14:03] like that and then as well the great
[14:04] thing about this cic power supply as
[14:06] well it also tells you which end is for
[14:08] the power supply so it's super clear
[14:09] this ends for the CPU and this ends for
[14:11] the power supply so you don't actually
[14:12] end up pluging these in the wrong place
[14:13] so this is going to go here so these
[14:15] support pcie and CPU Lanes so we're
[14:17] going to throw that in there and then
[14:19] this will go into our CPU motherboard to
[14:22] power the motherboard in a moment now
[14:23] this one right here we've got for our
[14:25] motherboard section so we're going to
[14:27] throw that in there and then that will
[14:28] go right there super simple now before
[14:30] we move on to the other cables that we
[14:31] need for our power supply such as the
[14:33] graphics card one thing you want to
[14:34] check with your motherboard is how many
[14:36] cables you need for the CPU so if we
[14:38] look on my motherboard here at the top
[14:39] left of it this is where you'll find how
[14:40] many power leads you'll need for
[14:42] powering your CPU block and depending on
[14:43] what type of CPU you have depending on
[14:45] how intense it is Will dictate the
[14:47] amount of power obviously it requires
[14:49] and for this uh 7900x this AMD CPU that
[14:52] I've got I will need two of these CPU
[14:54] cables basically plugged in to my PSU so
[14:56] I just want to make sure that I go ahead
[14:58] and and locate some other cables that
[15:00] have got CPU on them and just make sure
[15:02] that both of those are fed through to
[15:04] the correct destination for powering up
[15:06] the CPU area on the motherboard now
[15:08] let's move on to the cables you need for
[15:10] your graphics card and these will be
[15:11] labeled up with a modular power supply
[15:13] as pcie they look exactly the same as
[15:15] the CPU ones but they are they're
[15:17] different the way they're wired UPS it's
[15:18] very important that you get them
[15:19] correctly and we will need two of these
[15:21] to power my a graphics card cuz it's one
[15:23] of the newer Nvidia graphics cards that
[15:25] needs quite a lot of powering so we'll
[15:27] go ahead and make sure that we've got
[15:28] two of these in place for what we need
[15:30] some other power cables you may need
[15:31] especially if you're going to have any
[15:32] older like hard drives inside of here
[15:34] like a spinning disc hard drive some
[15:35] mass storage are these SATA cables these
[15:37] will power up anything like an SSD those
[15:40] like traditional ssds and any hard dis
[15:42] these will slot straight in but in my
[15:43] build I'm not going to be having any of
[15:45] these as I said we're going to be using
[15:47] MVM ssds which are directly in the
[15:49] motherboard so we don't need to worry
[15:50] about that and we can just proceed and
[15:52] actually Mount the power supply into our
[15:54] case now and then we can root the cables
[15:56] in a moment
[16:01] right so we've got our PCI cables here
[16:04] then we got our CPU cables here I've
[16:06] sort of tried to keep them on the same
[16:08] row as each other when I was plugging
[16:09] those into the power supply I kept the
[16:11] CPU ones together so they're easily
[16:13] located and then the graphics card one
[16:15] separate as well so we will run these uh
[16:17] CPU cables up to the top right corner
[16:19] here every single case will have a
[16:21] little pass through up in this center of
[16:23] the case that will basically allow you
[16:24] to plug it straight into to your
[16:26] motherboard I'm actually going to throw
[16:27] it through here just for EAS easier
[16:28] access because of where those ports are
[16:30] located on my motherboard and we'll get
[16:32] these nice and neat onto the actual
[16:34] cable straps cuz again depending on the
[16:36] quality of case you've purchased they'll
[16:37] have some zip ties and velcro straps
[16:40] like this already inserted for you if
[16:42] not you can just throw some in yourself
[16:44] and you'll have these little tabs for
[16:45] doing so pretty much every single case
[16:47] has some form of cable management with
[16:49] this design this one especially is
[16:51] really good because it all came Velcro
[16:53] so we'll run that in there and then
[16:54] we'll grab our our motherboard one and
[16:56] just sort of get that neat and in there
[16:58] as well in a channel looking good
[17:00] looking good and for now we will just
[17:02] velcro that down so it's all out the way
[17:04] and you can go back later on in your
[17:06] actual build and uh go crazy on your
[17:08] kill management if you want or you can
[17:09] just slap the back panel on and forget
[17:11] that it's even there which I think
[17:13] probably most people do after they've
[17:15] done their build I just get it to a
[17:16] decent state where you can sort of track
[17:18] things don't obsess about it too much
[17:20] I'm more obsessed about the front of it
[17:21] really and just proceed with the build
[17:23] and then again we're going to run these
[17:24] through the side panel here just so we
[17:27] can get these around the front for when
[17:28] we plug in our graphics card later on so
[17:30] we'll just feed those through but before
[17:32] we actually build out the motherboard a
[17:33] pro tip is to actually place it onto its
[17:35] product box the carbo box that is
[17:37] provided this means basically the back
[17:39] of the motherboard won't be like exposed
[17:41] and scratched and marking on the table
[17:43] and you any of the solder joints to get
[17:44] damag but also that the carbo box isn't
[17:46] conductive so it acts as you obviously a
[17:48] neutralizer for when you put your
[17:50] components on for any form of static
[17:51] making it a nice safe working
[17:53] environment if you don't have one of
[17:54] those fancy static pads to work off it
[17:56] now that the case has been prepared we
[17:58] can we can now move on to actually
[17:59] building the main bulk of our PC now
[18:01] what you want to do is you want to
[18:02] actually build the motherboard and
[18:04] everything outside of the case so you
[18:05] can get the CPU in and everything lined
[18:07] up perfectly and then insert it into the
[18:09] case almost as like one whole unit it'll
[18:10] be much easier that way you don't damage
[18:12] anything as well sort of like scragg
[18:13] around inside of the case itself so
[18:16] right here we've got our ATX motherboard
[18:18] the slightly bigger version and you can
[18:20] see in the top Corner those additional
[18:21] power supply areas that I was talking
[18:23] about earlier why we needed two cables
[18:25] to power this motherboard in particular
[18:26] now with these newer generation boards
[18:28] there's a lot of additional things
[18:30] hidden underneath these little covers
[18:32] that you can unlock for further storage
[18:34] and various things like that such as
[18:35] mvme drive so for example if we were to
[18:37] just open this baby up before we put
[18:39] anything else into the motherboard and
[18:40] we just took this little cover off this
[18:42] is quite a big cover to be fair a lot of
[18:44] screws usually it's maybe one or two
[18:45] screws on like slightly tuber
[18:47] motherboards but this is like the top
[18:49] end of what you can sort of get in the
[18:51] price range it's quite expensive one and
[18:53] if you remove this cover this will
[18:54] reveal the area where you can put your
[18:56] nvme ssds so this is a really modern
[18:59] motherboard that has Gen 5 mvme ssds
[19:01] which are insanely quick but they're
[19:02] really expensive at the moment so I've
[19:03] just got a Gen 4 one that will slot
[19:05] straight into here and you can see
[19:07] because as I said earlier this is an at
[19:08] txe motherboard it's got way more space
[19:11] for things like this so you can have a
[19:12] crazy amount of storage usually a
[19:13] motherboard only has like one to two
[19:16] areas for an mvme SSD but this one has
[19:18] like three right here there's another
[19:19] one underneath here absolutely crazy the
[19:21] amount of storage you can have so this
[19:23] right here I've got in my hand is just a
[19:25] 2 tbte mvme SSD traditionally what I
[19:28] like do my build is I usually have like
[19:29] a one TB mvme SSD that I use exclusively
[19:32] for my boot drive like Windows 11 and a
[19:34] few apps installed on there and then I
[19:36] have some separate ones for my game
[19:38] installations but in this build in
[19:40] particular I'm just going to go ahead
[19:41] and throw a 2 TB mvme SSD drive in here
[19:44] that I'll use for my Windows boot and
[19:46] some games just to keep things nice and
[19:47] simple and you know not get too crazy on
[19:49] the price from so the way you insert
[19:51] your MV SSD is you just want to align
[19:53] sort of the pins with this area here
[19:55] then it'll just click into place then
[19:57] it'll sit there and and then you'll then
[19:58] just basically prop it down and then
[20:00] from here you can sort of throw the lock
[20:02] on it now what you also need to bear in
[20:04] mind when you are doing this is you want
[20:06] to take off the actual thermal pads so
[20:08] you can see here there's this like
[20:09] sticky tape on here you want to make
[20:10] sure you take that off so you're not
[20:12] putting the MV M SD on some plastic it's
[20:13] going actually onto a thermal pad that
[20:15] way it's obviously getting heated it
[20:17] cooled down rather when it gets hot and
[20:19] it's it's working properly so you want
[20:20] to make sure you take that off on the
[20:21] actual motherboard and then also take
[20:23] that off on the back of the heat shield
[20:25] so you can see here we need to sort of
[20:26] take it off these ones so that they're
[20:28] not sort of in the way so it keeps this
[20:30] nice and cool and it's thermal pad on
[20:32] the actual ending the SSD then you can
[20:33] go ahead you can put your cover back on
[20:35] next let's move on to actually putting
[20:36] the CPU into the motherboard now so this
[20:38] is going to obviously go in the CPU
[20:39] socket here now if you've got a brand
[20:41] new motherboard it'll have a little
[20:42] cover on and you can even like remove
[20:43] the cover if you want or whatever but
[20:45] usually the cover will just pop off
[20:46] you're just going to basically go down
[20:47] to where the little latch thing is you
[20:49] want to push down and just sort of pull
[20:50] it out it'll just naturally all move you
[20:51] don't need to force anything it'll just
[20:53] naturally move with sort of the tension
[20:54] you remove that then just literally lift
[20:56] up the CPU cover then from here you can
[20:58] go ahead and actually grab your CPU now
[21:00] again depending on the brand of CPU that
[21:02] you're using uh AMD or Intel will
[21:04] dictate where the pins are so for
[21:07] example on these latest ryzen CPUs the
[21:09] pins are on the CPU chipset on the
[21:12] motherboard and there's no pins on the
[21:13] actual CPU itself so when we actually
[21:15] take this out of its packaging you'll
[21:17] see that this is just nothing it's just
[21:19] absolute blank it's like a blank
[21:20] motherboard with just some connection
[21:21] points there's no pins at all whereas
[21:23] back in the day like all the Intel CPUs
[21:25] those have the pins on the CPU body
[21:28] itself and then the motherboard is the
[21:30] place where it sits into you then want
[21:31] to make sure that you check where this
[21:33] triangle is you see this little triangle
[21:35] that we've got on our SS SSD on our zbu
[21:39] H and you want to make sure you align
[21:40] that triangle with where the triangle is
[21:42] on the motherboard so so right here you
[21:45] can see the text for AMD ryzen is the
[21:47] right way around but on some other
[21:48] motherboards the triangle might be
[21:49] somewhere else so it means your CPU
[21:51] looks like it's on its side or upside
[21:53] down so you just want to make sure that
[21:54] you align that triangle in the corner of
[21:56] the CPU with where the triangle is on
[21:59] the actual motherboard so wherever that
[22:00] triangle is you align it with this one
[22:03] on your CPU and then you just want to
[22:04] sort of drop it into place give it a
[22:05] little wiggle make sure it's sating
[22:07] right and then from here you can then
[22:09] lower the door and then you'll go ahead
[22:12] and latch onto it and click it into
[22:14] place and then the thing will just pop
[22:15] off you see how that just pops off
[22:17] sometimes it might ping off really
[22:18] aggressively Don't Panic if it's
[22:19] especially if it's brand new it be like
[22:21] and you're all fine so then that is your
[22:22] CPU now in place now we're not going to
[22:24] put the thermal past on until later on
[22:26] and we'll now move on to putting our Ram
[22:28] in place so before you put your RAM into
[22:30] the motherboard you want to make sure
[22:31] that you unlock all of these latches you
[22:33] just want to click these open and make
[22:35] sure that basically they're ready to
[22:37] accept the ram now what I've got here is
[22:39] a a box of 64 GB of RAM which is very
[22:41] extreme most people are probably
[22:42] building a PC are going to go for 16 GB
[22:45] 32 GB at a push and I also have four
[22:48] channels of ram I've got four sticks
[22:50] which means we're going to occupy all of
[22:52] these regions on the motherboard now
[22:54] traditionally most people will have two
[22:56] sticks of ram that's the standard pretty
[22:59] much every single PC I've built has had
[23:00] that until this one right now we're now
[23:03] drying up for for these latest builds
[23:05] that I've been doing but basically what
[23:06] you'd happen is if you had two dual
[23:07] channels of ram you wouldn't stick them
[23:09] next to each other like that so if
[23:11] you're going down the path of just
[23:13] running two jeel channel sticks you'll
[23:15] want to put them into Channel 2 and also
[23:17] Channel 4 and that's because usually on
[23:20] most modern motherboards those are the
[23:21] two fastest Channel lanes for sort of
[23:23] like the timing that type stuff it's
[23:24] really complicated Stu but basically to
[23:26] get the Optimal Performance out of the
[23:27] ram you put it into channel two and
[23:29] channel four so for example with our RAM
[23:31] sticks we would go ahead and place this
[23:33] into channel
[23:43] four and then we leave a space here and
[23:46] place the other one into channel two we
[23:49] have four RAM sticks so we're going to
[23:50] occupy all four spaces so we'll go ahead
[23:52] and actually put ours in this second
[23:54] region here click it into place see how
[23:56] it clicks that tells you that it's in
[23:58] you don't need to force it beyond that
[23:59] any point you just basically align it
[24:01] make sure the latches are open press
[24:03] down and it'll click it'll click on both
[24:06] sides click click on the top and the
[24:07] bottom then same again we'll grab our
[24:09] final Ram stick for this motherboard and
[24:12] just press down nothing too
[24:14] crazy there we go so they're all in
[24:16] place CPU is in place nvme SSD is in
[24:19] place and everything's looking good we
[24:21] can now take our PC case and actually
[24:23] start putting the components into here
[24:25] so because we've prepared our
[24:26] motherboard it'll literally be super
[24:27] simp Le we just present it up to the
[24:29] case screw it in and most of the
[24:31] stressful stuff's been done but first we
[24:33] need to just take these last covers off
[24:35] our brand new motherboards you see here
[24:36] we've got these two plastic covers
[24:38] they're basically there for the CPU
[24:40] bracket at the back so if we flip this
[24:42] over you'll see there's a there's like a
[24:43] stock CPU bracket here but we don't need
[24:45] this CPU bracket because our all-in-one
[24:47] water cooler has its own for the sockets
[24:50] so we basically just want to unscrew
[24:51] that and basically take take the stock
[24:53] packaging out the way and go ahead and
[24:54] mount our own and then basically this
[24:56] will just fall away
[24:58] at the back be able to just pop it out
[25:01] we can then take these little uh
[25:03] mounting legs for my only one water
[25:05] cooler you see these little things here
[25:06] they've got like a little screw on the
[25:08] bottom and these are just screwed
[25:09] straight into these little fittings that
[25:10] have been revealed from us taking that
[25:12] cover off so we can just throw these in
[25:14] here tighten them up just nice
[25:16] fingertight nothing too crazy don't want
[25:18] to over thread them just tighten them on
[25:20] up like so we can now go ahead and we'll
[25:23] put our case on its side just like so
[25:26] and we can throw the motherboard in and
[25:27] actually start mounting it with the
[25:29] different screws with these newer
[25:31] motherboards back in the day uh you
[25:33] would used to have to put an IO shield
[25:35] into the case so on the side you'd have
[25:37] a little metal bracket that would pop
[25:39] into the side of the case here whereas
[25:41] now these newer motherboards actually
[25:43] have the io Shield built into the back
[25:45] of it so you see here how you've got all
[25:47] the USB ports and then the plastic cover
[25:48] over the top back in the day that used
[25:50] to be like a metal cover you'd have to
[25:51] fit yourself which is a bit finicky so
[25:52] these are now on the motherboard
[25:54] themselves that you just literally
[25:55] present them into the case and the job's
[25:57] done for you make makes it really easy
[25:58] so we can go ahead and just throw it
[26:01] straight into the case if we just make
[26:03] sure we have it all aligned then it
[26:05] should present in really easily we just
[26:07] make sure we get these cables out the
[26:08] way and you just want to it
[26:10] around and make sure it aligns correctly
[26:12] see these little holes these are where
[26:14] we're going to mount the motherboard
[26:15] around here so they're all aligned
[26:17] roughly so then once we start screwing
[26:18] them up they'll sort of tighten in and
[26:20] align perfectly so we can roll with that
[26:22] so the screws that you use for mounting
[26:23] the motherboard will usually come with
[26:25] your case so inside of your case uh when
[26:28] you buy that new inside of the Box
[26:29] there'll be a bunch of different
[26:30] accessories like an accessories pack and
[26:32] that'll have all of the screws for Ming
[26:33] the power supplies and various things
[26:35] but also the screws for mounting the
[26:36] motherboard into its position once
[26:39] you've completely secured the
[26:40] motherboard into the case the next steps
[26:41] that I like to do is actually plug in
[26:44] the cables at this point while we still
[26:46] have a relatively decent amount of
[26:48] access so every single PC case that you
[26:50] purchase will come with like a clump of
[26:51] cables that include things such as like
[26:53] USB headers and various like audio like
[26:56] HD audio and things for the inputs and
[26:58] outputs on the front of your PC case
[27:00] like your USB ports your headphone ports
[27:02] your microphone jacks power buttons
[27:04] reset buttons and so on so all of these
[27:06] will be conveniently labeled up by your
[27:08] case manufacturer so you can see here
[27:10] we've got one that says power switch and
[27:12] then what you want to do is you then
[27:13] want to address either your manual for
[27:15] your motherboard or if you've got a
[27:17] really high quality motherboard these
[27:18] ports are often labeled for you on the
[27:21] board itself so if we take a look right
[27:22] down here in this bottom right corner
[27:25] you can see we've got these little uh
[27:27] switch areas so you can plug in the
[27:29] power switch the LED lights the hard
[27:31] drive lights the reset switch and these
[27:33] obviously correspond with what's labeled
[27:36] on the actual case cables themselves so
[27:38] as you can see right at the bottom it's
[27:40] really difficult to tell but if you zoom
[27:41] right in we'll be able to see that these
[27:43] are labeled up with both a negative and
[27:45] positive which is going to make it way
[27:46] easier to actually plug these in because
[27:49] on some cheaper motherboards these aren
[27:51] labeled up they're just like there so
[27:53] you have to then check the manual and
[27:54] reference things a bit of a nightmare so
[27:56] thankfully that's done for us and we can
[27:58] obviously proceed with doing so so we'll
[28:00] make sure we get all of our cables sort
[28:02] of situated together so we don't miss
[28:04] any so we've got our hard drive LED
[28:06] switch our reset switch this is just an
[28:09] rbgb cable that's different that's a HD
[28:11] audio one for our audio things is there
[28:15] anything else oh and of course this big
[28:17] bag boy here which is our USB stuff
[28:19] right so we'll start with these little
[28:21] finicky ones so we've got our power
[28:23] switch HD LED and also our reset switch
[28:27] so let's first start with the power
[28:28] switch now to understand with which
[28:29] sides actually negative or positive
[28:32] thankfully they're labeled up for you so
[28:34] if you have a look right there there's a
[28:36] little tiny arrow and that Arrow
[28:38] signifies the positive for the cable so
[28:40] sometimes it might be a red cable
[28:42] sometimes you might have like colored
[28:43] cables here that way you don't plug them
[28:44] in the wrong way around if you do plug
[28:46] them in the wrong way around you just
[28:47] obviously switch it and your button
[28:48] won't work so you'll just have to switch
[28:49] it around to get it working correctly so
[28:51] we will obviously align that with
[28:52] whatever the motherboard says so for
[28:53] this the power switch positive is on the
[28:56] left and plug plug in like so that's
[28:58] simple these are probably the hardest
[29:00] cables you'll have to plug in not
[29:01] because it's difficult or anything just
[29:03] more the fact that they're so small and
[29:04] they're really hard to read so we got
[29:06] the reset switch now so we'll have a
[29:08] check on here the reset switch is just
[29:10] underneath the power switch and this
[29:13] time the positive is on the right so
[29:15] we're going to get our swi reset switch
[29:17] you can see we've got our positive Arrow
[29:19] there so we'll plug it in this way this
[29:21] time gorgeous that's plugged in really
[29:23] nicely so our final one's obviously the
[29:26] power LED and and so on and hard drive
[29:28] LED so this will basically just be the
[29:30] LED that flashes on the front of the
[29:31] case depending on what's actually
[29:32] happening with your disc drive and stuff
[29:34] and and the power lights and things so
[29:35] this is a HD Plus okay so we'll throw
[29:39] that in positive on the left this time
[29:42] that I'll just plug into the HD area
[29:44] that's labeled on the motherboard
[29:46] gorgeous so next up we've got our HD
[29:48] audio now these will usually be on the
[29:51] other side of the case around here there
[29:53] it is right there HD audio so this is
[29:56] just located to the other side these are
[29:57] quite easy to plug in you can sometimes
[29:59] get these confused with some USB headers
[30:01] but thankfully obviously they're labeled
[30:02] up dead clearly but also you can see how
[30:04] areas of this are blocked off with a
[30:05] little cap on there so you can't plug it
[30:07] in incorrectly so you don't end up
[30:09] getting it modled up with some of these
[30:10] stuff down here you just basically make
[30:12] sure you're align this super correctly
[30:15] and it just goes in one way you can't
[30:16] really get this one wrong okay so now
[30:18] let's move on to plugging in our power
[30:20] supply cables such as our motherboard
[30:22] and obviously we've got these GPU ones
[30:23] that we don't need right now cuz we
[30:24] don't have a GPU currently so we
[30:26] basically just throw these in you can
[30:27] see here that there's basically a little
[30:29] clip on the actual power cord so this
[30:32] clip basically releases it from when it
[30:34] clicks in so you hold press and hold
[30:36] that to pull it out if you're ever
[30:37] dismantling the PC now as you can
[30:39] obviously see on the back these have a
[30:40] particular shape that aligns with these
[30:42] but also there's a lip on the side of
[30:44] your motherboard power area which is
[30:46] basically where that clip will click
[30:48] into place so we'll just basically align
[30:50] this with that and then just basically
[30:52] push it down and it will do its job and
[30:55] that's it in so pretty simple then as I
[30:56] said if you wanted to remove this you
[30:58] just press that clip in give it a wiggle
[31:00] and it'll come out make sure you press
[31:01] the Clips in otherwise you'll like yank
[31:03] your whole motherboard and snap it into
[31:04] or something it won't come out as easily
[31:06] and then we'll feed the excess cable
[31:08] back through into the back of the case
[31:10] cuz you want as minimal amount of
[31:12] cablage in the front of the case as
[31:14] possible for a few reasons firstly
[31:15] obviously Aesthetics you want it to be
[31:17] as clean and cool as possible but also
[31:19] it helps with air flow and sort of dust
[31:21] so the less cables you have obviously
[31:23] the less things for the the airflow to
[31:25] get caught up on but also there's less
[31:26] things for dust to get climatized onto
[31:29] you and accumulate in one area so that
[31:31] way it just keep your PC a little bit
[31:32] cleaner um as you use it for hours and
[31:35] hours and you know if you have it on
[31:36] your floor and it gets super Dusty next
[31:39] let's take a look at our CPU power cord
[31:41] so again like we established earlier in
[31:43] the video we're using two of these
[31:45] because of how much power is required
[31:47] for this chipset and motherboard that
[31:48] I've got but depending on what chipset
[31:50] you're using and your what brand things
[31:51] you have you may you may have less power
[31:54] cables required it depends obviously
[31:56] what the intensity is of of what you're
[31:57] building so we've got two right here we
[31:59] want to keep them separate and keep them
[32:01] together for both an organization
[32:02] perspective we don't want to like mix
[32:03] and match them we want to keep them as
[32:05] like enties now sometimes when you have
[32:07] these uh Molex connectors that uh split
[32:10] like this they often can sort of Click
[32:11] into place so if you make sure you sort
[32:13] of checked it the right way around
[32:15] you'll basically be able to just like
[32:17] click them into place there sometimes
[32:19] often little clips and it makes them one
[32:20] whole cables especially on the pciu ones
[32:22] that just usually makes it a little bit
[32:24] easier to plug them in unfortunately on
[32:25] these ones it doesn't look like it those
[32:27] but on our GPU ones it will we have a
[32:29] look here on our GPU see how we got that
[32:30] little tiny clip there that little clip
[32:32] just basically clicks into place to
[32:34] basically make one whole cable it like
[32:36] click in like so and then you've got one
[32:38] whole cable that's what they usually do
[32:39] on on on these things but here we just
[32:41] got to struggle on and sort of H get
[32:44] these in correctly so we'll start with
[32:45] the one on the right first I think got
[32:47] the cameras and everything I can't quite
[32:49] see it for myself so I might have to
[32:50] move this round yeah it's a little bit
[32:51] better got better access bit more
[32:53] leverage and just click it on in perfect
[32:56] that's the min then just give them a bit
[32:57] of a push just to make sure then we'll
[32:59] feed the excess into the back of the
[33:01] case so it's out the way then do the
[33:02] same for the second one so we've got our
[33:03] second cable here make sure they're the
[33:05] right way around wound um right right
[33:08] way around and then we'll plug it in so
[33:11] start the first one start with the
[33:13] second one come on there we go perfect
[33:15] that's them in place then we'll feed
[33:17] that into the back of the case it's
[33:18] starting to take shape now as you can
[33:19] see things are getting a little bit
[33:20] cleaner now let's go back to some of
[33:22] these other connection ports that we had
[33:23] here so this is another one from the
[33:25] front of our case and this is for our us
[33:27] B 3.0 connections and and also there
[33:29] there'll be some for some our type-c
[33:31] connections on the front as well so
[33:32] these basically plug into these things
[33:34] here you see how we got USB 3.2 3.2
[33:37] basically just the generation of USB
[33:38] your motherboard supports they'll just
[33:40] plug in straight here dead easy you can
[33:41] see how you've got them all the three
[33:43] dots and then one blocked off so you
[33:45] basically just match that up with
[33:46] whatever is labeled on your motherboard
[33:47] now we might have to actually improvise
[33:49] a little bit here and feed this cable
[33:52] elsewhere into the case because it's not
[33:55] the longest so so we might have to feed
[33:57] this through the bottom of the case
[34:00] there we go that' be better and then we
[34:01] can plug it sort of straight into this
[34:02] port here then there we go perfect it
[34:04] should click in now and that's it seated
[34:07] in not too bad we made it work we've
[34:09] made it work right so everything's now
[34:11] starting to take shape and looking
[34:12] pretty clean at this stage you would
[34:14] also want to take this opportunity to
[34:16] plug in all of your different fans into
[34:18] the different fan headers on your
[34:19] motherboard but I'm actually going to
[34:20] save that for a minute and we're
[34:22] actually going to put the CPU caller on
[34:24] next and we'll come back to the fans
[34:26] main reason because these fans are RGB
[34:29] so we need to do something a little bit
[34:30] more fancy with daisy chaining them all
[34:32] together to actually get them to power
[34:34] up and illuminate with the same patterns
[34:36] as each other we just get the CPU Cooler
[34:37] about the way so it's not dangling about
[34:39] and it doesn't get damaged so if you're
[34:40] using a brand new CPU Cooler it will
[34:43] come pre sort of assembled and prepared
[34:46] rather with the correct amount of
[34:48] thermal paste it'll have like a square
[34:50] of thermal paste on it or a circle of
[34:51] thermal past so you can just use that
[34:53] and throw the CPU Cooler straight on and
[34:55] it should probably work fine if if
[34:56] you've got like some huge like £4,000
[34:59] processor obviously you might want to
[35:00] put some custom thermal pce on for those
[35:02] because of how huge they are for just a
[35:04] regular consumer CPU uh the the CPU
[35:07] block should be prepared and perfectly
[35:09] fine but obviously I'm reusing an old
[35:11] one from the last build that I had in
[35:12] here so we're going to actually have to
[35:13] put our own pattern on so my Preferred
[35:15] Choice for the actual thermal page I
[35:17] think this is some of the best that you
[35:18] can buy is the thermal Grizzly stuff
[35:19] this stuff is amazing it's really good
[35:21] quality not too bad price either it
[35:23] performs really well it's also really
[35:24] good if you you're running quite hot
[35:25] CPUs and you're over in them too this
[35:27] brings up the big debate though of what
[35:30] pattern do you do with your thermal past
[35:32] do you go for a cross do you go for a
[35:33] DOT or you know do you do a smiley face
[35:36] I personally like to do a cross I'm just
[35:39] used to doing that for like my since I
[35:41] was a kid building PCS I've always done
[35:42] a cross so I would just go ahead and put
[35:44] a little cross in but to be honest it
[35:45] doesn't really matter we've done tests
[35:47] here on the channel before where we've
[35:48] done a cross and also a DOT to compare
[35:50] the coverage and it's pretty much
[35:52] marginal it's exactly the same coverage
[35:54] you get on the most important part of
[35:55] the CPU at that sort of Center to point
[35:57] now with this current CPU because of its
[35:59] funny little design with the new ryzen
[36:01] one I would probably I'm going to go for
[36:03] a DOT on this because if you do do a
[36:05] cross and you put a little bit too much
[36:07] on with a cross it can overspill a
[36:09] little bit when the pressure of the CPU
[36:10] Cooler is applied and I don't really
[36:12] want it overspill into any of these
[36:14] regions where the sort of chipset stuff
[36:16] so just to be safe I'm actually going to
[36:17] just do a little dot in the center on
[36:20] this uh CPU that I have right here just
[36:21] sort of thinking ahead of what could
[36:23] arise if I accidentally put a little bit
[36:25] too much on with my traditional method
[36:26] so we'll go ahead I always get panicky
[36:28] even like I've built like a th PCS I
[36:31] always get panicky with the thermal P
[36:32] like whether when I start to press it so
[36:34] we'll just literally like little syringe
[36:36] and it should just start coming out see
[36:37] that like that and we can just pop a
[36:38] little bit on and just leave it like
[36:40] that and then when we apply the the CPU
[36:42] Cooler it will flatten down that's maybe
[36:44] just a little bit little bit too much
[36:46] but it should still be fine that it's
[36:49] probably just about right there be some
[36:51] people coming you put away too much
[36:52] thermal p on this is like one of the
[36:54] biggest debates of like PC thing ever no
[36:56] one's never happy right so now what
[36:58] we'll do is we'll go ahead and place our
[37:01] CPU block make sure it's the right way
[37:02] around and we're going to place it onto
[37:05] our little stanions that we've put into
[37:06] place oh we're getting a bit of clashing
[37:08] there with the RAM sticks that's not
[37:10] good is it okay so we got it in okay
[37:12] we're not clashing with the sticks too
[37:13] much it's just that back pipe I once it
[37:15] in and tighten down I'll go ahead and uh
[37:18] rejig those a little bit so it's not
[37:19] bending our RAM sticks too bad it should
[37:21] be okay though and what we want to do is
[37:23] I've got all the parts in this Xbox mug
[37:25] mug it's kind of ironic this we're
[37:26] building a gaming PC PC Master race but
[37:29] then we have an Xbox console mug without
[37:31] part in I I apologize also as well just
[37:33] to sort of show you the how the thermal
[37:35] paste spreads obviously we put it on and
[37:37] I didn't really need to do this but just
[37:38] to show you how it does spread you can
[37:39] see from that dot this is the coverage
[37:41] that we've gotten so we've got that nice
[37:42] little square and then we've got that
[37:43] nice uh Square as well on the CPU it's
[37:46] done exactly what I predicted that
[37:47] little dotch just spread just enough so
[37:49] it doesn't get on this the CPU stuff you
[37:51] can see that that'll give you confidence
[37:52] that a Dot's fine or whatever right cool
[37:54] so we can now go ahead put the CPU
[37:55] Cooler back on and throw basically the
[37:57] screws in place now you can use a
[37:59] screwdriver for these if you wanted to
[38:01] but sometimes just doing them hand tight
[38:03] is perfectly fine depending on what your
[38:04] access is like within your case h you
[38:06] you can't easily overtighten these uh
[38:08] like unnecessarily so you want to apply
[38:10] the top Corner one and then the bottom
[38:12] left corner one uh like the adjacent
[38:14] Corners so you get that even pressure
[38:16] applied and then you can go ahead and
[38:18] sort of add the other two corners and
[38:20] start tightening it up then just to be
[38:22] safe we'll give it a little squeeze with
[38:24] the screwdriver just it's got a nice
[38:25] little bit of resistance on the go now
[38:27] let's proceed onto plugging in our fans
[38:29] and also our various sort of RGB
[38:31] features that we have in this case and
[38:33] also within our fans so this cable right
[38:35] here is basically one of those RGB
[38:37] cables that I mentioned earlier they
[38:39] sort of got these little uh three dots
[38:41] here these plug directly into your
[38:43] motherboard to obviously control the RGB
[38:45] effects like the lighting effects and
[38:47] the various things you can do in
[38:48] different software you'll find we've got
[38:49] some right down here just a little uh
[38:52] three pins that you can just plug this
[38:53] straight into and you can go ahead and
[38:55] just plug boom it straight into the
[38:57] actual motherboard and then that will be
[38:59] that RGB setup for whatever that is so I
[39:01] believe that is from the front of our
[39:03] case cuz this has an RGB strip on the
[39:05] front of the case now sometimes if
[39:06] you've got tons of RGB stuff your
[39:08] motherboard will only have like maybe
[39:10] two or three of these uh headers for the
[39:12] RGB features so this means that you do
[39:15] need to daisy chain things together in
[39:17] order to get them uh working correctly
[39:19] otherwise you're not going to have
[39:20] enough headers and it's going to be a
[39:22] little bit disappointing I recommend
[39:23] Daisy training all of your fans together
[39:25] so all of the bands run off like a
[39:27] single RGB header and then you have like
[39:29] a second chain of maybe things like your
[39:31] RGB light strips that you might put into
[39:33] the case to illuminate it those are all
[39:34] daty chain together and they use a
[39:36] separate area on the motherboard like
[39:38] this CPU Cooler also supports RGB so
[39:40] that might plug in to its own header as
[39:42] well and at that point we've sort of
[39:43] occupied all of the headers on your
[39:45] motherboard and things are separate so
[39:46] that way you can create different groups
[39:48] that gives you a little bit more
[39:48] flexibility when you're actually uh
[39:50] setting up your custom lighting profiles
[39:52] but also it makes Cable Management a
[39:53] little bit easier so you don't have to
[39:55] daisy chain everything together together
[39:56] into one single header so for example I
[39:59] have these RGB light strips picked these
[40:01] up on Amazon like $20 or something
[40:03] nothing too crazy and these actually
[40:04] have their very own splitter of their
[40:06] own you see how they go into two
[40:07] different plugging in points in fact it
[40:09] goes into three I correct myself it goes
[40:11] into three s split offs and then you've
[40:13] just got your this that would plug into
[40:14] your motherboard like boom so we have
[40:16] two of these light strips they're really
[40:18] cool these they just light up the case
[40:20] do RGB effects or just a simple white
[40:22] effect if that's what you want to just
[40:23] like show off your parts and they are
[40:25] magnetic these ones so you can use the
[40:27] sticky back tape on the back if you have
[40:29] like a cheap plasticky case isn't
[40:31] magnetized but if you've got an awesome
[40:33] case like this one they'll just
[40:34] literally stick on like that no stress
[40:36] at all stick straight in and then you
[40:38] can just go ahead and actually root them
[40:40] wherever you like so we're going to go
[40:41] ahead and probably Place one on either
[40:44] side I would say that sounds wise oh
[40:47] we've even got one here from my old
[40:48] build so actually we got three I forgot
[40:50] about that so we got one up here as well
[40:51] so we can daisy chain all of those
[40:53] together so we' got one two three
[40:55] lighten up the whole case
[40:56] brilliant light show on the works so
[40:58] down here you can see these RGB strips
[41:00] are like a four-way connector slightly
[41:02] different to the three-way connectors
[41:04] that we've connected elsewhere now we
[41:05] have two of these headers on our
[41:06] motherboard we got one up here and also
[41:08] one down there that I have located so
[41:10] what we're going to do is we're going to
[41:11] use this splitter cable that came with
[41:13] the actual RGB light strips themselves
[41:15] we're going to take that four-way
[41:17] splitter cable and we're going to plug
[41:18] it in down at this bottom left on the
[41:21] little four pins you see we got them
[41:22] four pins there they're always a little
[41:24] bit difficult to line up these four ones
[41:26] not too sure why they just never go in
[41:27] easily I think that's in it just never
[41:30] they never feel like they're in it's
[41:31] really weird and then we'll go ahead and
[41:33] we'll take the one on the left and daisy
[41:35] chain that into our strip lights now
[41:38] you'll see here we've got these arrows
[41:40] you see those arrows on the cabling so
[41:41] we want to make sure that that Arrow
[41:43] aligns with that Arrow so then they
[41:45] basically you know synergize together
[41:46] the same flow of current and energy so
[41:50] we're going to do the same on this other
[41:51] side so we'll take the long cable here
[41:54] and we'll take our RGB strip that we've
[41:55] got on this side side and do the same
[41:57] align them arrows up boom nice and easy
[41:59] and then we'll worry about Cable
[42:00] Management in a second it's looking bad
[42:02] but we'll worry about it in a second so
[42:03] that's the RGB strip light set up we've
[42:05] got our CPU Cooler we're going to plug
[42:07] that into this top right corner here
[42:08] this has got three pin connector so
[42:10] we'll plug that into the three Pinner
[42:11] there that's on its own separate little
[42:13] thing nicely plugged in that's all
[42:15] sorted then as well we've also got our
[42:17] fan coolers and things that we'll plug
[42:18] in in just a moment now we need to
[42:20] tackle the issue of plugging in all of
[42:22] our fans into the motherboard so they
[42:24] all power up now we've got quite a lot
[42:26] of fans in this system we got two at the
[42:27] top two at the bottom and three on sort
[42:29] of the front here so we're not going to
[42:31] have enough individual fan headers on
[42:33] the motherboard itself especially if
[42:34] you've got quite a big full tower case
[42:36] so we're going to need a Fan Hub in
[42:39] order to basically power all of our fans
[42:41] off of like a single fan header on the
[42:44] motherboard now you can go ahead and
[42:45] have multiple different fan hubs and
[42:47] different groups of fans on the
[42:48] motherboard and get quite Fancy with it
[42:49] but the Simplicity I've just literally
[42:51] picked up it's was like £10 or something
[42:53] it was hardly anything this little fan
[42:55] header here like a herb and we can throw
[42:56] all of our fans into here and just
[42:57] literally power it off of one Outlet on
[42:59] the motherboard so basically we're just
[43:00] going to go ahead and these are labeled
[43:02] like fan one fan 2 and so on you even
[43:04] have one for the CPU fan so obviously CU
[43:06] you want that might be maybe to be
[43:07] separate for when it kicks up depending
[43:09] on the temperature in the actual system
[43:10] and we're just going to go ahead and
[43:11] just literally throw all of our fans in
[43:13] here so they're now all connected and we
[43:15] just need to basically power it with
[43:16] like a Molex cable so we'll just plug
[43:18] this into our power supply so we got
[43:20] Molex down there can throw that straight
[43:22] in that will power it also this is a
[43:23] cool Molex cable that also has some SATA
[43:25] power connection so if you had some hard
[43:27] drives as well you can power them off of
[43:28] those or ssds uh this system doesn't
[43:30] have any of those we're running MV mvme
[43:33] ssds so we don't need those and then
[43:34] there's our Master header that will run
[43:36] over into the motherboard now this did
[43:38] originally have some sticky tape so you
[43:39] could stick it onto something I used to
[43:41] have it stuck to the power supply but
[43:42] obviously the power supply got a little
[43:43] bit hotter it sort of wasn't the best
[43:45] place to put it so I I will sort that
[43:48] out in a later on after this video but
[43:50] you'll be able to stick it somewhere
[43:51] safe so it doesn't come into contact
[43:52] with the back of the motherboard and
[43:53] short anything out you sort want to be
[43:55] quite careful that it doesn't doesn't
[43:56] touch any of this type of stuff uh when
[43:58] you actually do your final build you
[43:59] know mount it up here or something so
[44:01] it's out the way safe but we can go
[44:02] ahead now and plug our final piece in we
[44:05] can then plug this U um Fan Hub into our
[44:09] motherboard so this is the cable right
[44:11] here and we can go ahead and just locate
[44:12] one of the fan places where we want to
[44:14] plug this in uh and same as well we need
[44:16] to plug in our all-in-one water cooler
[44:18] so that's getting some form of power
[44:20] from the motherboard as well to sort of
[44:21] run the pump and so on so we'll go ahead
[44:23] and find the appropriate place where we
[44:25] should throw that in so we've got fan
[44:28] pump can put that in there and then
[44:31] we'll go ahead and throw this into one
[44:33] of our fan headers then we'll grab the
[44:34] excess cables and we'll just sort of try
[44:36] our best to root them out the way back
[44:38] up into the top here so you can do a a
[44:41] much neater job in this you can sort of
[44:42] I like to sort of grab these cables and
[44:44] run them around the motherboard if that
[44:46] makes sense to sort of use up the excess
[44:48] length and then from there we can feed
[44:50] them up back into the back of the case
[44:52] with that complete we can now put the
[44:54] final piece of the puzzle in which which
[44:56] is our graphics card so we've got our
[44:58] main graphics card here that's going to
[45:00] go into this top pcie slot right here so
[45:02] you want to basically make sure that the
[45:04] clamp is released on the pcie slot so
[45:06] you see how I've got this little clamp
[45:07] you're going to go ahead and press just
[45:09] to open that up and it'll it'll
[45:11] basically open up the latch and then
[45:12] you'll go ahead and you'll align the
[45:14] pcie slot with the area on the
[45:16] motherboard so you want to go ahead and
[45:18] also take out the appropriate areas on
[45:20] the case so you take out these little
[45:22] covers so that's looking good and then
[45:23] basically it should just click as need
[45:26] you push it
[45:27] down there you go that's it in in place
[45:31] that's really solid that's really good
[45:32] motherboard how that holds the GPU I
[45:34] really like that that's is in place
[45:35] absolutely Perfection then we can go
[45:37] ahead and grab these screws that you
[45:38] just removed from the CPU cover and we
[45:40] can throw them back in and tighten the
[45:42] GPU in place so it doesn't sag and stuff
[45:44] like that but before I do that let me
[45:45] just grab our power cables and we're
[45:47] going to root them underneath the back
[45:48] of the GPU and we'll plug them into the
[45:50] front of the graphics card so make sure
[45:52] we got them nice and organized so we've
[45:54] got this one so again like I said
[45:55] they'll clip into place make one whole
[45:57] cable power that side that's nice in and
[46:00] then we'll do the same here perfect and
[46:01] then we can rot these cables back into
[46:03] the rear of the case to keep them out
[46:05] the way and you know keep the air flow
[46:06] nice and clean and obviously the
[46:08] Aesthetics looking good and now we can
[46:10] go ahead and put the screws into our
[46:12] graphics card uh just on the little slot
[46:14] Point here so it basically pegs it in
[46:16] place and it doesn't really go anywhere
[46:19] just just nibbing it in and then as you
[46:21] can see there it just pulls the graphics
[46:22] card up a little bit so it doesn't sag
[46:25] and we'll put both in just so we do a
[46:27] proper
[46:29] job we can now do some final cable
[46:32] management but we're pretty much ready
[46:34] to boot this thing up see if it works
[46:36] and install Windows but before I
[46:38] actually go ahead and install Windows
[46:40] I'm going to put my side panels back on
[46:42] cuz I'm pretty confident that it's going
[46:43] to work cuz you know I know the
[46:44] components I've used them before usually
[46:46] when I would build a gaming PC
[46:47] especially if it's your first time you
[46:49] do have the option to always build all
[46:51] of the components outside of the case so
[46:53] you would throw them on top of the
[46:54] cardboard box and you would throw
[46:55] everything in there and just sort of
[46:56] test boot them to make sure like you
[46:57] haven't got a dead motherboard or
[46:59] anything my first ever PC the
[47:00] motherboard was faulty there's like a
[47:02] bad batch of these motherboards they
[47:04] were like MSI motherboards uh and I had
[47:06] um had the dodgy fault with it it was
[47:08] really cool motherboard as well and and
[47:09] end up having to switch out to like a
[47:10] gigabyte one or something like that so
[47:12] uh and I thought I'd done something
[47:13] wrong it my first ever time building a
[47:14] PC I I spent hours trying to problem
[47:17] solve it thought I had a problem and it
[47:18] was actually a dodgy motherboard from a
[47:21] from a bad batch and then another time
[47:22] when I was building like my second ever
[47:24] PC I had a dead GPU which was really
[47:26] unlucky it was like a dodgy GPU that was
[47:27] dead from like evj or something like
[47:29] that so I didn't have much luck on my
[47:30] first two builds but since then they've
[47:32] been pretty plain sailing okay so now
[47:33] let's move on to the actual installation
[47:35] process of Windows this isn't too
[47:37] difficult and I'll make it as easy as
[47:38] possible for you to follow but you will
[47:40] require a USB stick so right here I've
[47:43] got two different USB sticks one with
[47:44] Windows 11 on and also one with Windows
[47:47] 10 now these are media installation
[47:49] tools basically they're just like
[47:51] bootable drives where we can install
[47:53] Windows off of them onto our mvme SSD
[47:56] now the way that you create a bootle
[47:58] drive is by going over to Google and
[48:00] typing in Windows 10 or Windows 11 media
[48:03] creation tool depending on which
[48:05] operating system you obviously want to
[48:07] use then once you head to the official
[48:08] website you'll be able to find these
[48:11] various options here there'll be a few
[48:12] different types that you can actually
[48:13] download now which option you choose
[48:15] depends on the state of your computer
[48:17] now because we have nothing on this PC
[48:19] I.E all we have is access to the BIOS
[48:21] and nothing else we obviously want to go
[48:23] ahead and create a beaule drive so as
[48:26] you can see on the second option create
[48:28] Windows 11 installation media here we
[48:30] can create a bootable USB stick or DVD
[48:33] drive so if your PC for some reason had
[48:35] has a disc drive you could put it onto a
[48:37] CD disc but no one has CDs in in modern
[48:39] times you can then go ahead and plug
[48:42] this USB stick into your computer and
[48:44] then go into your bios now the way you
[48:46] access your bios will be slightly
[48:48] different depending on your computer it
[48:49] may automatically boot into the BIOS
[48:51] screen like mine has here but if it
[48:53] hasn't the most common button that you
[48:55] need to spam is delete on your keyboard
[48:57] you go ahead and spam that and it'll
[48:59] take you straight into your bios now the
[49:01] BIOS it looks really overwhelming but
[49:03] trust me it's super simple so inside of
[49:05] the BIOS before we actually move on to
[49:06] the windows process you'll be able to
[49:08] see an overview of everything that's
[49:10] actually happening on your system so you
[49:11] can see here we can uh see what
[49:13] temperatures our CPU is running at we
[49:15] can see the current voltage usage on our
[49:17] CPU and if you wanted to do any
[49:19] overclocking you could obviously tweak
[49:21] these voltage parameters to sort get
[49:22] that a little bit of extra gigahertz out
[49:24] of your graphics card out of your your
[49:25] CPU or whatever and then as well we've
[49:28] got the CPU frequency so you can see
[49:30] like I just said the gigahertz it's
[49:31] running out or if it's got turbo mode on
[49:33] whether it's running in those faster
[49:34] regions then also the frequency of your
[49:37] RAM and you can see right now our Ram is
[49:38] running at 3600 MHz now this is actually
[49:42] the incorrect speed of our RAM sticks
[49:44] now every single PC by default will have
[49:47] a feature called XMP disabled you can
[49:49] see it right here XMP now XMP basically
[49:52] almost like I'm probably the wrong word
[49:54] for this but it like overclocks your RAM
[49:56] it essentially just allows you to use
[49:58] the full speed that's capable of those
[50:00] sticks so the sticks that we have are
[50:02] way faster than 3600 MHz so in order to
[50:06] access those higher speeds that's
[50:08] actually portrayed on the box we would
[50:10] have to enable XMP now I'm not going to
[50:13] enable XMP right now because it can
[50:16] actually cause some instability on your
[50:18] system especially when you're going
[50:20] through the process of installing
[50:21] Windows for the very first time so we're
[50:23] actually going to go through that first
[50:25] and then we'll come back to the BIOS
[50:27] where we'll enable and disable a few
[50:28] different things to get the most out of
[50:30] the advanced features on your
[50:31] motherboard what you can also see with
[50:33] in your motherboard are if all of the
[50:34] parts are correctly being detected so
[50:36] you can see our CPU is being detected
[50:38] correctly and also the amount of RAM
[50:39] sticks that we currently have are the
[50:41] entire 64 so inside of here you'd be
[50:43] able to see if you've got all if your 16
[50:44] GB or 32 GB of RAM so if there was any
[50:47] dodgy sticks inside of there this would
[50:48] have the incorrect stats there so that
[50:50] allows you just to check all of this now
[50:51] for whatever reason you can't see all of
[50:54] the correct stuff with in your bios
[50:56] usually if you click F2 you can see here
[50:58] it will unlock Advan mode for this
[50:59] motherboard this will take you into
[51:01] Advan mode now every single person's
[51:03] bios will look slightly different
[51:04] depending on what brand of motherboard
[51:06] they're using and also what generation
[51:08] of like CH CPU and chipset but the
[51:11] premise and all of the settings usually
[51:13] remain the same it just might require
[51:14] you to dive into different menus now
[51:16] inside of here this will unlock those
[51:17] more advanced things I was talking about
[51:18] where you can overclock various aspects
[51:21] of your components and also enable and
[51:23] disable further settings so when it
[51:24] comes to Windows 11 in particular in
[51:26] installing this onto your PC there's a
[51:28] few security parameters that you have to
[51:30] enable on the motherboard to make sure
[51:31] that it's compatible things such as like
[51:33] TSM like secure boot needs to be like
[51:36] enabled and so on and depending on the
[51:37] manufacturers some of these things may
[51:39] be on by default you may have to turn on
[51:41] a couple things on then other ones may
[51:42] require a little bit of tinkering in
[51:44] order to find exactly what you need so
[51:46] first you want to enable CMS so this
[51:50] most likely be disabled now the cool
[51:51] thing about the gigabyte motherboards is
[51:53] you can see there there's a little star
[51:55] that stars showing you this is the
[51:57] really important setting that you need
[51:58] to turn on for Windows 11 so you want to
[52:00] enable CMS now the problem is by default
[52:04] if you enable CMS and C secure boots or
[52:08] also enabled it won't it won't work it
[52:10] will keep disabling the CMS every time
[52:12] you reboot the system it'll it it'll
[52:14] keep disabling it and then that will say
[52:16] windows 11 isn't compatible anyways once
[52:19] you've disabled secure boot you'll then
[52:21] reboot your system and your motherboard
[52:23] will now be in 2.0 mode so if go into
[52:25] miscellaneous you'll see we've got this
[52:26] trusted Computing 2.0 that's now being
[52:28] unlocked but there's Now new settings
[52:30] which is what's going to make it
[52:32] compatible with Windows 11 that's all
[52:34] you need to do enable CMS and disable
[52:36] secure boots so now we can go ahead and
[52:38] install Windows 11 click install it then
[52:40] ask us for a product key that I don't
[52:41] currently have I'm going to install
[52:43] Windows 11 Pro cuz this gives us further
[52:45] more advanced features in around the
[52:46] studio so we can sort of like file share
[52:48] a little bit better and now we can just
[52:49] literally go ahead and install Windows
[52:51] it's that simple select our 2 TB drive
[52:54] you could do some fancy partitioner
[52:55] whatever if you want it but we're just
[52:56] going to install it straight on here cuz
[52:58] that's all we want so now that that
[52:59] process has now completed we can go
[53:01] ahead and actually sign into windows so
[53:02] I'm going to choose my country United
[53:04] Kingdom cuz I'm from Britain uh and then
[53:07] we'll go ahead and click United Kingdom
[53:09] again for the keyboard layout see in
[53:11] America go ahead and choose USA next we
[53:13] have the option to connect to a network
[53:15] now sometimes on a rare occasion there
[53:17] can be a glitch inside of Windows 11
[53:19] that won't let you s select any form of
[53:21] a network connection even if you plug in
[53:23] an ethernet cable into the PC just
[53:25] completely glitched out cuz it didn't
[53:26] install any drivers on the motherboard
[53:28] luckily there's a solution for this if
[53:29] you click shift F10 this will open up
[53:31] the command script where you can go
[53:33] ahead and type in some custom prompts if
[53:35] you if nothing happens but usually what
[53:36] will happen is in the bottom right
[53:38] corner it will then pop up a little like
[53:40] do you want to install driver box yes or
[53:42] no then you can obviously click yes it
[53:43] will install the driver and your problem
[53:44] is fixed you can then go ahead and click
[53:46] next and it will now download the latest
[53:48] version of Windows 11 V the internet and
[53:49] we're good to go now we can go ahead and
[53:51] name our device just going to call it
[53:52] Ben's gaming PC this is going to be on
[53:54] my new gaming set top next then the
[53:56] final stage is adding your Microsoft
[53:58] account now if you already have a
[53:59] Windows key associated with this
[54:01] Microsoft ID you won't need to purchase
[54:03] a new Windows key it's all linked to
[54:04] that so you won't need to activate
[54:05] Windows it'll literally just do that
[54:06] automatically for you which is pretty
[54:08] cool and that is the process of
[54:09] installing Windows now complete from
[54:11] here you can now go ahead and install
[54:13] the appropriate Graphics drivers for
[54:14] your GPU you know AMD or obviously
[54:17] Nvidia and then you can install Steam
[54:19] and play your game so those are the
[54:20] steps that you take when building a
[54:22] gaming PC but if you want to take it to
[54:23] the next level and Custom water cool it
[54:25] and do some crazy stuff you should check
[54:27] out this video next where I build the
[54:29] world's largest PC and I do exactly that