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hey guys Zhou stain I might be slightly sick but it's also sick is the PC that we're about to build yes my friends is 2018 which means it is time for an all new gaming PC build tutorial so as you guys will probably be aware building a gaming PC is not that difficult I like to compare it to something I do an adult Legos now I will be giving a full tutorial on the photon 4.0 today so if you guys want information about the actual parts that I'm using as well as the performance you guys can go check out that video the idea here is it pretty much anyone with an afternoon can build yourself a computer before we get started let me give you a quick tour of the parts that we're going to be using for the bill so any computer is going to need a processor in this case a Rison 520 400 g now what's cool about this is that not only does it handle the processor but this also has integrated graphics inside so even though I will be showing you what it's like to install graphics card with this build you don't actually need one next we have the motherboard so the idea here is that you put the processor in here the memory in here you connect the SSD pretty much everything in the build will connect to this in some way next we have RAM so you can think of this is the short-term memory of your computer every time you open up an application it lives in this this build is also using an SSD so this is basically the same thing as a hard drive it's where you store files and programs and all that kind of stuff the difference is is that SSDs while a little bit more expensive are much much faster in this one specifically is in the smaller m2 form factor like I said earlier this bill doesn't actually need a graphics card but especially rebuilding a higher-end gaming PC or you're doing anything that's really heavily reliant on 3d applications how many graphics card is going to be a big help the literal heart of any computer is the power supply so this is what takes the power from the wall and provides it to all of the different components inside your system last but not least we have the case now cases are actually pretty much dependent on your style so every computer will need a certain size of a case depending on how many hard drives you're putting in what size motherboard but a lot of this does come down to your personal preference and with this one we're going a little bit stylized now any time you're building a computer you do need to come prepared with a wide variety of tools depending on what situation comes up or not actually the only thing you really need is a Phillips screwdriver I'm not kidding you can build an entire computer with just a single screwdriver so now that we've got all that stuff out of the way the last to do is find your workspace so generally speaking I like to find a decently sized table if you're gonna have parts and cables and stuff kind of all strewn out and make sure that you don't build on carpet if you can avoid it static electricity is the enemy of a computer Bart believe me hey well and then I'm going to show that those are that can I'm an expert it's fine just get you at home don't build on carpet unless you're an expert or Ken sells you else the first step is to get the case out of the box now even though we're actually not going to be putting everything inside the case as we go that will happen a little bit later I still like getting the case out of the box and ready to go so this is a little bit of an unusual case it is the Thermaltake core p1 the idea is that because it has a giant tempered glass window we're actually using it to show off the build I will say that this might not be the most beginner-friendly case in the world concerning that we actually have to put the case together and usually just comes fully assembled out of a box but let's see how it actually is to build one quick case changed later we have the BitFenix Phenom a case that thankfully does not require 17 steps to put it together so I'm going to be using this for the tutorial even though the main build I will eventually have to rebuild into the other case but especially just because I've got to actually show you guys how to do it things are going to be much much more common in this case versus the other one where you're going to be doing a lot of weird mounting and whatnot this is just going to make everything a lot easier the first step is to remove the four thumb screws on the back of the case which will allow us to remove both the left as well as the right side panels now we mostly need to do this to actually be able to get a little more access to the case but with that open we can see that there's actually a fair bit of room inside this generally speaking bear cases are easier to work on and as you get smaller and more sort of custom it gets a little bit more challenging but the good thing is pretty much all of them do have a very similar layouts usually you'll find a box full of hardware so we can open this guy up later but she's had some screws and some random bits and pieces that will need a little bit later on if you're coming on back we will see where the power supply is installed now cases will put this in different locations sometimes it's gonna be up top but with this one it's going to be in the bottom for all we need to do here is just remove the four thumb screws to keep this little bracket in place so going back to my analogy about this being the heart of the system it really does sort of provide power to basically all of our components now power supplies will come in different sizes they will be more or less powerful than the day they are very simple there are two major types of power supplies modular and non modular so this is a stay tuned on modular supply which means that all of our cables that we're going to need come Priya attached however higher in power supplies typically do come modular which will allow you to actually plug in each cable that you want basically making it a little bit cleaner inside your build so you don't have a bunch of extra cables hanging around before installing this guy take note of where the fan is so depending on your case this will either be facing up or will be facing down so with this guy it's going to be facing down because they have this little mesh here the important thing is always make sure there's some ventilation you can't put this sort of like face down like a table or face down like a flat piece of metal otherwise it will overheat and bad things will happen inside the power supply box you should find four screws and this is how we're going to mount the power supply to the bracket which will then go attached to the chassis and in that all cases will actually do this so sometimes you can completely ignore the bracket in cases will have you mount this directly onto the case one thing to keep in mind is that when you're tightening things down start on one corner and then move to the opposite corner to make sure that you're applying even pressure so I'll do this screw then I do the one on this corner and then I'll do the final two so with the power supply installs the next step is to set this guy off to the side and grab our motherboard like it was saying earlier the motherboard is pretty much what everything in the computer connects to so there are a few things that you need to keep in mind obviously pick a motherboard that is going to be compatible with your processor but the size is also important so as you guys can see here this guy is pretty small this is what's known as a mini ITX board now this is happens to be a mini ITX case which all works out you can go with a smaller motherboard in a bigger case but obviously not the reverse so something like a micro ATX or a full sized ATX motherboard would not fit in your case so you're going to go pick one of these guys out make sure it supports the correct processor and make sure that your case will actually be able to fit it now anytime you see an exposed circuit board like this you want to be a little bit careful especially a stack electricity so it comes in this anti-static bag and when you grab it trying to grab onto the actual board so something like one of the metal pieces should be fine and once you pull it out I like to actually set it on top of the motherboard box so even a small motherboard like this is going to have a ton of different sockets and cables and connectors all over the place but you only need to pay attention to a few of them that you're actually going to use in the system some of the most important things is where you install your processor so Intel and AMD do this slightly differently it's pretty much always going to be a gray socket in the middle the next thing you'll find are your den slots so every motherboard is going to be a little bit different here this board has two however some have four or even eight this is where you're going to install your memory and the only thing to really watch out for here is to make sure that you do have the correct Ram so this like most modern motherboards are going to support ddr4 however older systems will use something called ddr3 or even all the way back to ddr2 all very similar to install just make sure you get the right kind below the processor is going to be your PCI Express slot so since this is such a small motherboard well you only have the one however a lot of motherboards will have four or even seven now this is going to be where you're going to install various different adding cards typically speaking it's going to be a graphics card but sometimes you might install an SSD here maybe like a video card maybe a Ethernet adapter depends on what you're doing but that is going to be where you're going to install a lot of different adding cards move down to these small rectangular connectors and this is what is called a SATA port now SATA ports can be used for a couple different things typically speaking it's going to be either for an SSD or for a hard drive but if you're still old-school and rocking an optical drive that will also plug into the SATA port right beside that is our 20+4 pin power connector now this is what supplies the main power to the motherboard as well as a lot of it to the processor to the graphics all that kind of stuff this is going to be the biggest cable that you're going to plug in from the power supply and usually it's going to be mounted on one of the sides of the board for easy access now in the top corner here you're going to find our four plus four pens CPU power now motherboards can be a little bit different here some only have four pens whereas this one does have eight it's basically the same thing because pretty much all power supply is you're going to have a lead that will either do four eight but this is what supplies power to your processor something a little bit unusual on this board is where the m2 slot is so this is where you're going to install higher-end SSDs like we're using for this build and typically you're going to find it somewhere on the actual board itself over on this guy it's actually going to be here on the back spend the whole thing around and this is where the rear i/o lives now these are all going to be all the ports they're going to be sticking out the back of your case so once you install your i/o shield you're gonna pretty much be able to see it's something a little bit like this speaking of now is as good a time as any to actually install this guy so it's just a little piece of metal and the only thing you need to do is make sure that you're going to be doing it in the correct orientation so for this guy we're going to be putting it and this guy's pretty easy to install so what I need to do is line it up and press it pretty firmly until it clicks into place now you want to make sure that this is all the way into place as if it's slightly not quite correct what's gonna happen is your motherboard is not going to line up correctly and that's just going to be a huge hassle so if you ever have any problems with that just make sure that this guy is fully in also as we'll talk about in a minute you'll see all these little metal pins that are all over the place make sure that these are pulled back when you install the board the next step is to install our processor so in this case we're going with u Rison v 2400 g but generally speaking it's going to be very similar regardless of whether you're using AMD or Intel so like I was saying with the motherboard you want to be very careful when you're handling stuff like this and especially so when you're talking about our processor so in the back here if I open it up you'll be able to see it there are lots of little tiny gold pins do not touch these if any of them get bent you're gonna be in serious trouble the best way to handle this guy is just to grab it from the sides and hold it by the edges actually installing the CPU is pretty straightforward so if you come down to the socket what you're going to see is there's a little metal arm here that's going to be their attention arm so we pull that back and all the way forward we're good to install the processor and there's going to be a little metal notch it's going to be on every single processor which will tell you which side to line it up with so once you do just say gently down into the socket pull the arm all the way down and that is all ready to go the next step is to install our CPU cooler now this is an area where pretty much every single one is going to mount in a different way so unfortunately you will probably have to dive into your instruction manual to see exactly how to mount yours thankfully though if you're using a stock Intel or an D cooler they're not too difficult to install the main thing to keep in mind is that there's going to be pre applied thermal paste here you do not want to touch this as this is what's going to make a solid contact between the heatsink and your processor when it comes to the am4 socket which is what Rison uses you're going to want to remove these two brackets that hold the little plastic pieces into place once we undo that we're free to install the heatsink so they're going to be four little screws here that you're going to want to line up and when you do this make sure that you actually set it down smoothly so you basically want all that thermal paste to make solid contact with the processor don't try to like you know put it off to one side or the other try to get it down as smoothly and evenly as possible making sure that all of your screws are lined up then you just want to tighten them down and the main thing here is just like I was saying earlier you want to do it in a cross pattern so tighten that one a little bit then come to the opposite corner tighten that one down just a little bit come over here and do this process until you get this guy all the way locked down all right so with that we should be able to pick up the entire motherboard by the cooler and it looks like everything went in pretty well now the next step is to actually plug in the fan so this is going to be using a four pin fan header so you see there going to be two little tiny notches there basically that just means that you can't plug it in the wrong way so in this board we have our fan header right here and simple is lining it up and plugging it all the way in next up it's time to install our memory so ram is actually very straightforward to install so the only thing you need to do is like I was saying earlier make sure that if you're using a ddr4 system use ddr4 you're using ddr3 make sure that you're using ddr3 the easiest way to make sure that you're using the correct memory is that there's a little notch it's going to be about two-thirds of the way down so in ddr4 that's going to line up with the correct slot on the motherboard it doesn't line up you're probably using the wrong kind of memory all you need to do is line it up slide in and then with equal pressure on both sides just press it down until you get the click then we just repeat that with the other dim and we're gonna be good to go and so with that our motherboard is actually pretty much good to go so the next step is going to be installing this entire contraption inside of our case depending on your case the motherboard is going to be installed in a couple different ways so most of the time it's going to live in this sort of vertical section here however with this guy we're going to place it right down here so if we dig through the little box of hardware that comes with our case we should see a bag of screws now we're going to need four of these to mount the motherboard inside now sometimes the case will actually require you to install the standoffs so you can see that these are already going to be here if so make sure that you just screw them all the way into place well with this guy we just need to drop the motherboard into place screw it in and we're going to be good to go because this case is so small it's actually not that hard to get the motherboard lined up so we just need to get it sort of roughly in the right position right here and then if we move it around to this side we're going to make sure that all these ports are actually going to come through the i/o shield so this is going to require a little bit of wiggling to make sure that it's gonna line up correctly but as long as it's on all four of the standoffs which it pretty much is we're good to screw it into place it's a little hard to see on camera but there are four screw holes on each corner of the motherboard to use to tighten it into place and something you should definitely keep in mind is that before you tighten everything down make sure that everything is lined up correctly remember that whole thing about make sure that you line up the motherboard correctly so you don't have to accidentally undo everything you should also make sure that if there's any weird parts on the bottom of the motherboard that you have those installed before everything is screwed into place so normally the next step will be to install a standard SATA SSD however this time we're going to go with an m2 Drive now especially with this specific WD blu drive there's really no major difference in performance the main difference is that this is a much much smaller drive which makes it easier to install especially because it takes up less room in your case stalling the drive is pretty straightforward just need to line it up with the connectors here making sure that it rests all the way in there and then we take that little screw that we pulled out of it and that is going to be either a tension mechanism to make sure that this SSD doesn't go flying out of your system if you're installing a standard hard drive SSD or optical drive in your system that's also pretty simple to install so we look over here they're going to be two connectors the smaller one is going to be for data and the bigger one is going to be for power so every case will do this a little bit differently so you can see they have these little drive rails that you can install not only a big three and a half inch desktop hard drive in but also something smaller like this laptop hard drive so you're gonna want to mount it to there and then for actual cabling is very straightforward so you dig through the massive power supply cables you're going to find this long flat guy there's a little notch on went in so it's only going to go in one way all we need to do is just connect this to our hard drive once that's into place it doesn't really click or anything it just slides right in I'm going to want to find one of these SATA data cables that come with your motherboard again this guy's not just it's only going to go in one way and if we line that notch up it will click into place and then you just plug this end into your motherboard and you have your fully up and running hard drive or SSD for this video though no more this we're going with our upside-down and to drive that I totally remember to install now something else that most gaming builds do although we actually don't need it for this system is installing a graphics card so this is going to be pretty straightforward what we're going to be doing is using the PCI Express slot that's going to be on the bottom of the board this one's metal most of them are plastic but it doesn't really make a difference and then what you want to do is look around to the back of the case and this is where we're going to get our video outs so essentially just like the she'll protects all those little ports on the motherboard this is going to be where you're going to get your video out such as DisplayPort and HDMI so if we remove the stun screws we should get this little bracket out of the way we're gonna hold onto that for right now but what we don't need are these two little metal pieces right here so this is just a cover to keep your PCI covers from getting dirty or anything getting inside your system if you're installing graphics card can get those out of the way and now we install the actual graphics card so ordinarily when you're installing a graphics card you measure to see that it will actually fit in your case or not with this particular case it doesn't quite fit which is fine because we're not using a graphics card in this system but if we were it would go in right about here what this really means is I just need to remove these drives so it doesn't matter because we're not using them anyway but that's gonna free up the space to install a graphics card which if we just line it up with the slot it's going to go in a little bit something like this now all you do is press it down until it slams into place that was a little bit more violent than I expected however that is premature always do to get it plugged in now we actually need to use the power cables to make sure that it has plenty of juice to run all the crispy crispy 4k games that we were going to throw at it if I wasn't gonna take it out immediately after I show you guys how to do this some graphics cards especially lower end ones don't require any additional power so can pull everything it needs from the motherboard but most higher end ones this Radeon Vega 56 included need a couple of these six plus two pink connectors so all you do is just line up the connectors and plug them in and then we're gonna be good to get this guy up and running it might look pretty bare-bones that's because it is very very simple and clean inside however this is all the components that we need to make our system work the next step is the fun one connecting all these wonderful cables and wires all over the place to get this guy actually operational so we actually only need two sets of cables from our system so we need the four plus four CPU power connector which will go straight into the motherboard we're also going to need our 20 plus 4 pin connector which also will go into the motherboard now this is going to be a big fat guy and usually I like to start with it because it's sort of the most unwieldy cable to actually connect all I need to do is line it up and make sure that it clicks all the way into place and that's gonna be it for these 20+4 pin now the next step is the CPU power cable which is also going to be pretty easy so I can find where it went this one's going to be hard to see but all you need to do is line it up with the little four plus four pin connector on the motherboard corner plug it all the way in and you're gonna be good now it's time to install the fan so this guy has a fan right back here and it uses a three pin fan header very similar to what we used for the CPU cooler again this guy has notches so it's going to plug into the fan header on the motherboard only one way now for most cases you're going to find a ton of different front panel connectors dangling somewhere from the front however on the BitFenix case we actually have all of them attached to the side panel now this makes things a little bit cleaner because you can have the buttons on the side but it makes a little bit more annoying when you're building the computer because that way you have to kind of hold this high panel in place while you run all of your cables so this might look like a lot but it's actually not too crazy so the big guy is going to be our USB 3.0 header so only thing you have to watch out for is that there's a little notch on this guy when you plug it in make sure it's all the way in I definitely pulled these guys out and had this entire plastic beads come with it now beside that we're going to get all of our front panel connectors I'll explain how to do these in a second but essentially that's what we need this manual for a lot of little fiddly stuff and then we have our audio so these are going to be our audio connectors to make sure that the headphone and the microphone jack work upfront this guy's we really straight forward we're going to plug it in here when the only things that this case doesn't have is a USB 2.0 header so that's going to look very similar to something like this you can tell that how the audio and USB headers are installed because out of all 10 pins they're each gonna have one knocked out so again you can't install it the wrong way last but not least you want to grab all these little tiny front panel connectors so this is where it's going to be very important to take a look at that manual to figure out the diagram of where each thing gets plugged in as every motherboard does it a little bit differently so something important to note is if you look on the bottom here there's a little tiny arrows that denote the positive versus the negative that is very important as when you go to say I don't know plug your power button in and you put it backwards you're gonna hit it and nothing's gonna happen just make sure that all these connectors are put in the correct way now this might not look like a completed system but before we start doing cable management and close the case up and make sure that everything is ready to go first we need to do a test boot to make sure that we didn't make a horrible horrible mistake along the way so once you have your monitor mouse and keyboard ready all you do is hit the power button and hope that everything works hey we have fans spinning the rear fan is spinning now when we actually get it to post USB is up and yes alright so that means that we've pretty much done everything correctly the next step that's actually getting the BIOS and make sure that all of our memory SSD all that kind of stuff is showing up correctly alright and it looks like everything is showing up so it shows AMD Rison 520 400 G shows our 16 gigabytes of memory we also do see that our 500 gigabyte SSD is showing up so from this point what's left to do is to turn off the computer unplug everything and then we just need to do a little bit more cable management to you know make sure that the side panel will go on the case but once we've done that we have a fully operational computer throw a copy of Windows on the sky install your drivers and you're gonna have a fully operational gaming PC if you guys want to see how the photon 4.0 performs and what the original case was supposed to look like feel free to go check out the video over here if you enjoyed definitely be sure to subscribe to the channel anyway guys thank you so much for watching and I'm gonna go get some sleep because I've been working on this computer for a very long time and my voice is pretty much gone so yeah