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title: 'How To Build Your First Gaming PC (Step By Step)'
source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=beW8pCezrdI'
video_id: 'beW8pCezrdI'
date: 2026-06-28
duration_sec: 3272
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# How To Build Your First Gaming PC (Step By Step)

> Source: [How To Build Your First Gaming PC (Step By Step)](https://youtube.com/watch?v=beW8pCezrdI)

## Summary

This video provides a comprehensive, step-by-step guide for beginners to build their first gaming PC, from selecting tools and components to installing Windows and playing a game. The creator shares personal tips and tricks to avoid common mistakes and ensure a smooth build process.

### Key Points

- **Tools needed** [00:37] — Only a Philips screwdriver is essential, but an iFixit kit with various bits and an anti-static strap is recommended for flexibility and safety.
- **Component compatibility** [01:51] — Choose a case that fits your motherboard size (ATX, mATX, ITX) and ensure it can accommodate the length and width of your graphics card.
- **Prepare case first** [04:50] — Install fans and radiators first to plan airflow and avoid damaging the motherboard later.
- **Fan airflow direction** [06:01] — The front of a fan is intake, the back is exhaust. Plan airflow to bring cool air in and exhaust hot air out.
- **Power supply setup** [12:19] — Use a modular PSU to only plug in necessary cables, reducing clutter. Label cables (CPU, PCIe) to avoid mixing them up.
- **Motherboard assembly** [17:33] — Build the motherboard outside the case on its box to prevent scratches and static damage. Install CPU, RAM, and NVMe SSD first.
- **CPU installation** [21:31] — Align the triangle marker on the CPU with the one on the motherboard socket. For AMD Ryzen, pins are on the motherboard, not the CPU.
- **RAM installation** [23:15] — For two RAM sticks, use slots 2 and 4 (counting from CPU) for optimal dual-channel performance.
- **Thermal paste application** [36:03] — Apply a small dot of thermal paste in the center of the CPU to avoid overspill onto surrounding components.
- **Fan and RGB management** [42:26] — Use a fan hub if you have more fans than motherboard headers. Daisy-chain RGB components to control them from one header.
- **Graphics card installation** [44:56] — Install the graphics card in the top PCIe slot, secure it with screws, and connect power cables. Ensure the latch clicks.
- **Windows installation preparation** [47:33] — Create a bootable USB drive using the Windows Media Creation Tool. Enter BIOS by spamming Delete key during boot.
- **BIOS settings for Windows 11** [49:49] — Enable XMP after Windows installation to run RAM at full speed. For Windows 11, enable CMS and disable Secure Boot in BIOS.

## Transcript

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