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from picking parts to putting them together building a PC is too damn hard even in 2016 that is what a website recently said in one of their articles and I take issue with this so we really really don't make it a point to talk about what other publications post but this article was sort of attacking the idea of building pcs and that's what we focus on so when you attack that idea as via mentally as they did I want to make it a point to counter and defend the PC building culture as it should be so here's the thing this article from said website just lifting that up no particular reason the article points out that building a PC is quote too expensive far too expensive they say they say that the sis would cost too much more if you want to go to someone like cyber power and have them build your gaming PC instead and then they go on to recommend Apple and I don't need to point out the irony there further the article says beginning to end the process of building a computer took me almost five hours and I had to make emergency calls to another editor in the process and he says once I couldn't figure out why the fans weren't spinning prior and plugged in and again when the computer didn't recognize the ethernet cable probably no drivers and then also said and this is my favorite part I was literally bleeding from a cut on my hand by the end of it which YouTube guide said was common quote I bled for this in thing those were the words published on the website so that stated you know aside from potentially bleeding out in the process of building a computer I'm going to show you how easy it is to build the system we have a full guide on this it's only 23 minutes long which for the full process is not bad you can go there if you want really the specifics and you're actually first-time builder here we're going to speed build the system I'll show you how quick it is to put something together we're going to pick parts off of our own rack and just pretend it's a micro Center or fries or whatever and put it together quickly put it together properly and and sort of dispel some of this insanity that was published people who build their own PC these aren't like garage woodworkers building their own birdhouses they're not making anything in the same way someone might restore an old hot rod they're just taking different parts from different companies and plugging them together so I'm not not sure exactly what those three different analogies mean but if you're restoring a hot rod you're probably not actually creating an engine in your garage birdhouses is totally nonlinear but let's let's do this thing let's pick out some parts and put together a budget system because this dude was like I picked a gtx 1070 and an i7 and building computers is way too expensive and he also already had a monitor and it probably is a 1080p monitor but we'll worry about all that in the somewhat of a warehouse room let's go over there okay so my objective is pretty simple I want to be able to play games with fairly high settings Bahai to ultra at 1080p or 1440p and we have the hardware for that so first off let's start with a cpu choice I've got a ton of CPUs down here as you'll see in b-roll and we're just going to go with an i3 6300 for the CPU don't need anything too crazy so we've got an i3 that is I believe 150 ish dollar part I'm going to take the radiator off of this so we've got this be 150 a will take the liquid cooler off but something on that's more affordable slightly but I'm still going to put a liquid cooler on there they'll just be a cheaper 120 millimeter and the reason I put in a liquid cooler on there I would recommend going with either a stock cooler or an air cooler for this build but the article specifically calls out liquid coolers as being very difficult to work with so I want to put one of those on there and show you that it's not need a video card let's grab this rx 480 that we've been working with for far too long now that's a 40 that's a $240 for the 8 gigabyte 480 so I'll grab one of those this is a corsair CX 500 that's a pretty cheap part 500 Watts not modular I think it's 50 dollars before debate after rebates and promos it's like 30 or 20 or something we need Ram notice this fury this is fury let's grab two sticks of this even though four stick kit I was like twenty four hundred megahertz or something so we've got eight or sixteen gigabytes but that's another 50 bucks for eight gigabytes of that there's a one terabyte WD blue these are fifty bucks so we'll grab a WD blue for 50 bucks case I'm going to use either an NZXT s340 or a course here for 100 C depending on which one doesn't require me going into the Attic to get it'll be either $75 or $100 so our whole PC build yes the prices are a little bit kind there there okay but you could certainly do better if you had Newegg accessible to you but we're not doing that we're going from what we have so we're in this 600 to $700 range for the build it is not exorbitant ly expensive quite obviously let's put this thing together and see if it takes five hours to do so we're going to try and turn this into a bit of a learning opportunity rather than just beating up the author over the article first of all building a system I'm going to speed build this thing and I need to be attached actually to my anti-static wire so let's just go ahead and do that we've explained all this and how to build a PC video but installing a CPU cooler specifically a radiator the author's sort of states that installing a CPU cooler that uses liquid is a huge pain and that's really the opposite of what I've found to be true so when you're installing one of these things it's best to do it outside of the case and get it all situated first and then once it's done we can drop this whole board preassembled into the case and simply attach the radiator to one of the fan slots let's get this thing attached I'm hoping for a few minutes here alright so the CPU is socketed or well yeah CBO socketed coolers ready to go I think I think that'll give us the best mobility having the tubes in that corner okay this is simple as well I'm going to do opposing corners the thermal paste is already applied to the base the cold plate of this cooler maybe the tubes in that corner really isn't where I want them but this is an ASA tech cheap 120 millimeter liquid cooler it's not branded or anything the tubes are very short I don't if you buy a sort of branded real finalized liquid cooler they will be much longer tubes and give you better flexibility so you can mount you can position them wherever you want relative to the CPU but this is a good cheap liquid cooler just to prove a point that they are not in fact a monster to install you don't want to over-tighten these so I'm just going to once over these are all exactly where they should be so that is done let's get this Ram socketed this goes into slot two and four if we only have two sticks which we do so this is a simple push the pins aside drop the stick in use thumbs pop it and we're good so this is done now it's time to let's get the power supply in the case next all right so we're good to go there that goes into the case there's only one way it can go in I'm just going to stuff all these cables in not really stuff that you need to see on camera but we'll show it all at the end anyway I guess that slides into the s340 okay good good nah okay so the original complaint was that it's very difficult to mount to a radiator because he was trying to screw in everything all at once here's my trick I put the case on the side this is about eight of these screws don't get lazy with these just screw them all in you'll notice I've got the radiator just hanging over the side of the case this is the way I recommend doing it we're going to install it as rear-mounted the author kind of said it takes a day of research just to make sure everything is compatible maybe your very first time try to do it alone but really isn't an issue so I would recommend either our forums our comment sections reddit's build a pc section will take care of you if you have questions so between all those different resources there's plenty of things available where people can personally help you compatibility check stuff so here's the the quote that made me choose a radio liquid cooler even though I'd normally do air the quote was but getting there was a nightmare it is by far the most difficult project I've ever bought and put together obviously has never bought anything from Ikea really there is no good way to do this pretty good way to do it but the one part that stood out to me well has when I'm pushing a water cooler down on the CPU while twisting its radiator into place and screwing it into place at the same time big grown-up reverence it becomes clear that pcs that don't just work quoting I suppose Apple's marketing campaign so we've mounted this first that goes first that reduces the workload substantially once that's there take the radiator tubes down you want them oriented down the pump will work better with gravity gravity that way oh I do tubes down that will work the best with the cooler that we have and really most of them on the market that's just because of gravity pretty basic stuff and the radiator no twisting and turning involved okay there's one too but that is the last screw all that's left is installing the hard drive connecting the cables for the most part this is about as straightforward as it gets GPU installation very simple there we go GP is installed not the hardest thing I've ever done I'll say that much okay so cables that's all it's left need one of those is there cut out in the power supply shred yes there is one of these this is this one now we need to say to cable that'll stay behind this thing let me need a CPU header 24 pin it goes in the 24 pin slot that's right there ignore the flexing of the motherboard I know someone will comment on it and I don't care I'm going to plug in the PCIe cable into the RX 4 80 hide the rest of it down back in the hole where it came from and now we've got to connect the 8 pin which really I should have done before the radiator honestly so I can see that actually done how oh look at that oh nice now it can be exactly like the guy from the article look guys I got a cut just from building a computer ah so now we we have properly followed the motherboard guide and I've cut myself by jamming my fingernail over hey over a pin but that's it that's the computer we built so at this point I'll just do as you all know all I do is connect the hard drive via SATA cable hard drive goes in the bottom of this box right here and we install Windows hundred bucks with a little less maybe and call it a day so how's that for free system Billy that was what was that maybe I don't know not too long less than 20 minutes certainly not 5 hours I'll make a quick note about standards there was a cry for standards in the article saying that pcs are too hard to assemble because there's no standardization everything is just a wild-west of components type of thing here's the thing a molex cable standardized PCIe slots standardized if you really want to kind of make bigger points this is an ATX form factor motherboard that is a fixed standard a fixed size and spec that it must fit within to be called an ATX motherboard the power supply ATX form factor power supply the case ATX form factor supporting case ddr4 memory 288 pins I don't know how much more standardized you could get because that's it's all standards 80 plus that's another one power sits well that's that's a certification let's be fair but it's kind of in the same tune where it's all it's got good definitions in the industry you can research it all so here's the thing this article was a little silly it was blown way out of proportion how hard it is to both computers I felt personally inspired to just show how we could speed build a system yes I do I have done this I know what I'm doing even a first time builder though you could watch this video for the most part be like oh yeah that makes sense I'll just do that so I don't know he says accessibility isn't a priority for most enthusiast users so there's no reason to make the experience of getting to PC games easier yeah this is pretty easy but if you wanted to make it easier you could buy a pre-built system from any number of sis and they don't cost three hundred to five hundred dollars more to build as as the article said we've talked about this a lot of them are one hundred two hundred dollars which sure you could pick out better components yourself but it's not unreasonable and then turn around and recommend Apple just really obviously shows that there's no foundation here for an article so there's a speed build check out the patreon like the post roll video to help us out directly more content on the channel as always thanks for watching I guess hopefully we debunked that hysteria and I'll see you 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