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hey guys this is Austin and today I'm here with my 2017 gaming PC build tutorial so if you guys have never built a computer before it is really straightforward but I'm going to walk you through step by step also I sound like some infomercial guy call now for your three quick tips on how to build yourself a gaming PC for tools it's pretty straightforward all he is a Phillips screwdriver now beyond that you need to have a decent size workspace so I'm going to be using this table as long as you have an area that's big enough to set out your parts you're fine beyond that you should if possible do this in an area without carpet as static electricity is not a good thing with PC parts so first step is to grab your case and pull it out of the box now this is by far our biggest component and this is as the case name applies where all of our parts end up going so this is the case now the first step here is just going to be opening it up so around back they're going to be four screws and all it's going to allow us to do is take off the side panel inside here all we do is get all of our cables out so this is what's going to go into the motherboard later we also have a little bit of hardware as well as some cable ties for our cable management the first thing to install is going to be our power supply so this is a literal heart of our build and one of those important things when picking a power supply is to get a high quality unit there are lots of very cheap units that say they have a lot of power but really you should be looking for something within 80 plus rating whether it's 80 plus bronze gold silver whatever that means that you're going to at least get something with decent quality so inside the power supply box nandu we actually have the supply itself we also have the cable as well as we have a few extras little accessories the most important thing here is we have four little screws that we were going to use to actually mount the supplying something else to keep in mind when picking up a power supply is modular versus non modular so this guy is non modular and these are typically cheaper and the only thing that really means is whether the cables are attached or not so over this system we have plenty of room for cable management inside so it really doesn't matter that we have a bunch of extra cables but we aren't going to use especially if you're doing a smaller system where every little bit of space matters anyone spend just a little bit extra to pick up a modular supply and so on the power supply is pretty straightforward one thing you need to watch out for is where the fan is this always needs access to cool air so cases actually will handle this a little bit differently sometimes so some cases will actually put it on the top which means that you should have the fan facing upward but for this guy since we're going to be putting on on the bottom as simple as putting the stand face down lining it up and it should just slide right into place to give this guy in place all we do is use the four screws that comes with and they're going to be corresponding holes on the case plenty to do is just get this in let's do it super tight or anything but once we get these guys in place the power supply is not going to be going anywhere one little tip when it comes to printer screwing anything in is you want to use a cross pattern so I'm going to do this one then this one and this one and this one this just helps that pinch anytime you're mounting hardware to make sure that you're applying even pressure instead of just doing like one side maybe like slightly out of place so that is all we have to do with the power supply for now the next step is to move our case out of the way and grab our motherboard so this might not look like much but it is essentially what everything in the computer connects to this is the motherboard so there are different sizes of motherboards and that's something that you definitely want to pay attention to before you actually pick out all the parts for your build so this is the sort of medium size known as micro ATX now thankfully with this case it actually supports full sized ATX so pretty much any size motherboard will fit but it's definitely something you want to look out for before you actually buy all the parts for your build before we give this install let me quickly run you through all the different sort of slots and ports and things that we're going to be using for the build so start with we have the CPU socket pretty self-explanatory this is where our CPU is going to go beside that we have our memory slots this board has two but some do have four essentially that's where our RAM goes we also do have our PCI slots down here different motherboards will have different amounts of PCI slots but this is generally speaking where you're going to put a graphics card and sometimes you're going to put other adding cards just like a network card or Wi-Fi card beside the memory we have four SATA ports so these are going to be used for things which is installing our SSD maybe a hard drive region an optical drive and over beside that we have our into slot so this is a newer motherboard not all motherboards are going to have this but this is going to be if you want to install a newer faster SSD we're not taking advantage of it for this bill but the motherboard does support it now if you actually want to flip the motherboard around you're going to see that over here we have all of our ports so these are going to be what's going to stick out the back of the case so say you want to plug in something like USB or Ethernet or whatever that's where all these are going to go we're also going to have to get powered to our motherboard so first of all we have our 20 plus 4 pen so this is going to provide most of the power for pretty much everything on the board we also have either a 4 or an 810 CPU power connector this board has an 8 pen there works the exact same way next it's time to install the processor so this is going to be a little different depending on whether you're using intel or AMD but I'll walk you through it on both sides it's basically the same process so inside we're going to have some paperwork which we don't need at all as well as our CPU cooler and processor so you want to be a little bit careful with the cooler that's so much the top but on bottom there's going to be a little bit of pre applied thermal paste do not touch that and inside this little plastic piece here we have the processor itself you actually do want to be careful with this guy so when you're handling a processor you always want to grab it from the side do not touch any of these little pads it's especially important with a and D processors instead of having pads that have pens and if any of those get bent you were in serious trouble one thing to look for on the bottom of the processor is this tiny little gold arrow that's going to match up with a corresponding arrow on the processor socket and making sure that you're not going to put this in sideways or upside down it's pretty straightforward to install so we just need to pull the arm back and open up the socket line our CPU up being very careful not to drop it too hard and then once it's in place we just need to push this arm back into place and our CPU is installed pretty easy the next step is putting on the heatsink again it's going to be pretty straightforward so they're going to be four pins which will line up to the corresponding notches on the motherboard so all these do is line it up make sure that we don't actually let that thermal paste touch yet and then once it's a place only to do is just press it in until it clicks then we just have to plug in the fan so we just need to unwind a fan header from around our CPU cooler so for this motherboard we're going to be plugging it in right here however it's because of the cable just a little bit long what I like to do is actually just tie a little bit of a knot to get rid of some of the slack now the actual fan header itself will only go in one way because these two little notches so if we line it up and press it in tuck our cable away and we're pretty much good to go the next tip is installing our memory so that was going to be pretty straightforward so there are different types of randant you need to look out for so most newer systems this one included are going to be ddr4 memory if you're doing a slightly older system that will be using ddr3 but basically the same thing as far as installing it might sound obvious but if you have a ddr4 motherboard you have to use ddr4 Ram and vice versa with ddr3 now it can be a little tricky because these do look very similar but ddr4 does have a different pen layout what is pretty much the same between the two there's going to be a little notch about two thirds of the way down the memory that's going to correspond to a matching notch on the motherboard so this is only going to go in one way so let me do is line it up and just press down firmly until you get the click and your memory is installed before ready to actually install our motherboards though we want to get the i/o shield ready so this is what's going to essentially go over the ports right here but instead of putting on the motherboard we're actually going to put it on the case you do want to make sure the shield is facing the correct orientation once you get it all you do is just line up with the back of your case and once you do just pop it right and that sounded a lot more violent than it actually was now used to go into the bag of hardware that comes with your case inside we're going to find these standoffs so these are going to be what we actually use to mount the motherboard so on one side we're going to screw them into the case and on the other we're going to mount the motherboard so as I shall now demonstrate with my wonderful assistant Wes all you need to do is first take the motherboard and just kind of test fit in here don't let it all the way down what you can do is you can see that we have six holes on the motherboard and that's going to line up with these six holes that are going to be in the case now because this is a bigger casement for ATX motherboards you'll see that we have a bunch of extra holes what we do is put these standoffs in the correct locations so if the standoffs all you do is just get them in finger tight they don't have to be super super hard in there but again just make sure that you get all the stand ups and the right locations the next step is removing our PCI covers so this case actually does it a little differently than most so essentially right back here is where our graphics card is going to go and typically you would just unscrew it and take it out or with this case we actually have to just push them out of place there go the way harder than it should be so once you get the first one out it's not so bad but if you get case that actually just a little ow you to unscrew it that makes things a lot simpler otherwise you have to wiggle it back and forth until it pops out all we have to do now is just take our motherboard line it up with our standoffs and take careful attention to the i/o shield you wanna make sure that all the ports are going to be fully visible through the back which they are once you have it lined up then you have to screw it in place so we have a little bag of screws here most of the time cases will actually have lots of different very similar-looking screws so it might take a little bit of trial and error but just get a few these screws out and we should get this guy into place this is definitely time where you want to use cross threading on your screws so say if you want to do one side and then the other what can happen is the boardwax is slightly shift so just do one corner then go to the opposite corner opposite corner opposite corner until we make sure the board is all the way in place so for this bill we are using an SSD instead of a hard drive but the process of installing and especially cabling it is basically the exact same thing the biggest difference is an SSD is just going to be a physically smaller drive which means that use a slightly different mounting point with this case we're going to be using the full three and a half inch drive bay which is typically used for bigger hard drives however we do have the mounting points for an SSD so only thing you have to watch out for here is to make sure that the connectors for the SSD are going to be facing backward towards the back of the case otherwise your cable management is going to be challenged once you launch a SSD up it's as simple as just using a few screws to hold it into place and this guy isn't going anywhere and we just slide our SSD into the case and that's pretty much it we are almost done with putting Hardware in the case the next step is to start with our wiring so this can look a little intimidating but it's really not that bad so to start with we can find the little three pin connector from our fan and all you do is you plug that into the system fan header on the top left of the board there's a lot of extra slack here so we're going to tuck that around because you know totally now I'm going to notice that right now we have to find the 20+4 pin connector from our power supply so it's going to be probably the biggest one out of all your power supply cables so just note that there's going to get a little clip on the side all you do is just line up with the larger connector on the motherboard and just press it until it clicks into place working our way down the right side of the motherboard we now need to go and pull all these cables that are connected to the case so for here in this build we have a USB 3 header so there's one USB 3.0 port on the front of the case now this is a little bit of a tricky connector mostly because if you get it kind of stuck I've actually seen that the whole front of this will actually pull off so you definitely want to make sure that you kind of line up correctly but just like the other one there's going to be a little notch so it's only going to go in one way so we plug into a USB 3.0 header right here and just press it into place and we should be good well we're here let's plug in the front panel connectors so these are the tiny little connectors that are going to be running from the front of the case so essentially this is going to allow things like the power button to work and the LEDs that kind of stuff now these are all going to be labeled so there's going to be a positive and negative so that's going to correspond to whatever it says either on the actual connectors on the bottom right of the board or if you just check the owner's manual that will also give you the exact diagram so for here we actually only have four of these so if we line it up should just go right into place this case also has a couple of USB 2.0 ports which is what this cable is for so this is a pretty straightforward connector so it actually has one pin knocked out so you can only put it in one way and for this case we're just going to plug it into the white header here so just line it up and press it all the way em simple acts last but not least we have the audio connector so as the name implies is going to allow the headphone and microphone jack on the front of the case to work and just like the USB port there's going to be one little pen it's knocked out so you can't put it in the wrong way so just line it up but then and we're done with the little fiddly stuff we're almost ready to install the graphics card but before we do that we just need to plug in the CPU power connector so it's basically two four pins that can go together as an eight pen so with this board we need to use both but a lot of motherboards you only have to plug one end now is the fun part this is our graphics card so with a gaming PC when it comes to picking parts that really kind of impact gaming performance the graphics card really is pretty much the most important part now the graphics card isn't especially fragile so you don't have to be super careful with it but generally speaking you should touch it by the plastic bit or the metal as opposed to the board on the back this is about as small as a graphics card gets but it works the exact same way even if you have a much larger more expensive card plenty do is flip it around so that you have the board on the top and once you have your PCI slot and your cover is open just line it up and all you do is press it until it clicks into place all we have to do is just make sure the graphics card is lined up with the holes on the side of the case and just screw it into place so we're gonna use two screws to do this and that's pretty much it so because there's a little bit of a lower part of graphics card you actually don't need to do anything else but for most graphics cards you're also going to want to run a 6-pin connector from your power supply it's gonna look a little something like this and plug it in but again with this card we plug it in it's good to go we are almost there next step is to pull out these SATA cables that came with the motherboard and all you do is grab one end and plug it into the board right here these are not so they're definitely not going to go in the wrong way and then if we wrap the cable around back so it doesn't get in our way then we just plug the data cable into the back of the SSD so it's going to be the smaller port and this guy's going to click in place and that's pretty much it now we have to run power we're going back to the power supply we have these SATA leads so it looks very similar to the data so it's a long flat cable with a little notch and just like before all you do is line that up with the back of the SSD plug it in and our SSD is a Harmsen ready to go well we're back here we need to plug in the front fan so we actually have two options of doing that so typically we're going to want to use the little three pin header to plug it straight into the motherboard however this board actually doesn't have another slot so we can actually just use the molex so this is another cable you're going to get off the power supply well it looks a little crooked and weird all we do here is just plug it into place so quicks and our fan is going to be good to go now the system is basically done so this is always the most exciting part does the computer work so once you get a mouse keyboard monitor and plug everything in hopefully everything works so it's the best feeling ever when it's actually boots on the first try so the next thing we have to do is give it about thirty seconds or so and we should get video up on the monitor or less than 30 seconds that actually is really quick so if you've gone to this point congratulations you have a fully working computer now is the point to turn the PC off unplug it and start doing some cable management this may be not quite the clearest thing in the world but once you get all that ready you're good to install windows and have a fully working gaming computer if you want more information on the actual parts ideas for the system you can check out the photon 3.0 build guide and if you enjoy this video definitely be sure to subscribe to the channel to see more gaming pc and lots of other cool tech videos like this anyway guys thank you so much for watching and I will catch you in the next one