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that's right guys I am bringing you a new and improved 2014 version of how to build a computer basic version this is for the beginner the guy who has no idea where to start and hopefully I can answer all of your questions today with this build now before you guys start asking me no this is not my computer this is actually my cameraman dracs ons computer go ahead and say hi believe it or not we're not brothers ok so in this video I'm going to be showing you pretty much from A to Z how to build your first computer now as always if you want to do a good job you have to have the right tools now when I'm doing a basic build I like to use a very basic tool set the main tool that I use is my 5 in one combo screwdriver here actually think it's a foreign one whatever it is got two different size screw heads on each side both Phillips and flathead on each end it's got a nut driver built into each side an eight millimeter an eight millimeter and a ten millimeter and then of course it works as a screwdriver so this is all the tools I need in one and then I like to use a set of wire cutters this is for cutting zip ties and things when I'm doing my cable management and then of course we have those zip ties now these are the only tools I use when I'm doing a custom build clearly things like red mists have a much wider tool set so when you're building your first computer you want to make sure you have those tools readily available if you start the job without the tools you're not going to get very far in the bill okay parts what are we using for parts here well for a case here we are using the fractal design arc mini not the mini the mini mi ni and this is a micro ATX case here now for a motherboard we are actually using the MSI z87 eye it's a mini ITX none of micro ATX it is a mini ITX board we actually took this out of an existing mini-itx built that he had so normally I would use an ATX board or a micro ATX board but there's going to be a lot of excess room in this case with this tiny little board now for the CPU it's already installed but don't worry we will go over this this is an Intel i5 46 70 K which we will be doing a little overclock on for RAM we have an 8 gigabyte kit of Patriot VIPRE extreme this is 2133 mega her tramp it's pretty damn fast in fact it's good ram for an APU build as well our graphics card is a GTX 770 this is a EVGA model I believe I could be wrong I don't know might be an Asus anyway its reference it doesn't really matter it's a blower design and it's nice it is an EVGA it says it right on there it's quite read but it's nice a sturdy build and it is a blower style exhaust we're not going to exhausting the heat inside of the case for the cooler we are using the cooler master side in 120 cooler here it is a 120 millimeter radiator here with a green LED fan on on here kind of sticking with the green theme for NVIDIA all-in-one cooling unit it's actually a very solid unit for the power supply this is actually the only brand-new part we're using in this build and this is the v6 50 semi modular power supply from Coolermaster now when it comes to power supplies this is a very important component you don't want to cheap out on the power supply you may notice this since an 80 plus gold and the reason why you want your power supply to be a nice top quality model the best that you can really afford when it comes to rating in my opinion is because this is what's sending all of the electricity through your system this is also what can single-handedly kill every component in your system the voltage regulators in this take a crap so we are using the B 650 from Coolermaster because of its solid Japanese capacitor design and this has one of the best if not the best warranty on the market right now with very aggressive five-year gold guarantee they're pretty much cover all replacement costs all of the labor all the warranty all the parts and even the shipping to and from Coolermaster to get your unit repaired if something goes wrong in that five year period so five years all costs covered is very very aggressive so that is why we're going to the brand new unit in this rather than reusing our older 80 plus bronze power supply so definitely give that a look if you're building a computer and you need to have a nice quality unit now when it comes to parts that's pretty much it oh you know it actually helped if I told you guys what we were using for our hard drive we are using the Intel 520 series 240 gigabyte SSD we're going to probably have to put a mechanical drive in here later I'll get it pre-wired for that so that jacks on can stick his mechanical drive in here without any you know having to do any of the wiring because 240 gig SSD is just not going to cut it especially when you're dealing with games like titanfall which are over 50 gigabytes now with the expansion so yeah we are going with an SSD in this build alright so without further ado those are the parts let's go ahead and start the basic how to build your first computer here with JSU says okay so the first thing I like to do when I'm doing my basic builds as I like to get the CPU installed so that we have nice protected CPU socket your CPU is going to have a cover on it if it's brand new since we are reusing this motherboard there is no cover so it's important that we get these pins protected now AMD and Intel are a little bit different on the way these work because we are dealing with in Intel CPU there are a couple notches on here you need to make sure to line up with your motherboard if you're using AMD there's a triangle you need to make sure it lines up with the socket either way you need to refer to your manuals for your equipment to make sure that you are installing it properly now with Intel we're going to take the little arm we're going to force it down push it underneath the little tab and now your Intel CPU is installed AMD is a little easier because the pins are located on the chip rather than inside the motherboard so you need to be more delicate with the chip on AMD site because the pins are exposed either way we're installed down we're going to go ahead and move on to the next step now step number two for me I like to install the RAM on the motherboard just so I don't have to do it when it's already in the case now because we are dealing with a Mini ITX board we only have two slots for RAM most motherboards are going to have four some even have aides if you're dealing with like an extreme platform for Intel on the x-series now we have two six of ram here for Channel so we're going to go ahead and just install them in both slots but if you had four slots and you're only using two sticks of RAM you're going to have to refer to your motherboard manual or go online if you don't have it and find out which slots you need to use for dual channel configuration if you're using all four slots don't worry about it just stick them all four in there if you put them in the wrong slots you may accidentally activate single channel instead of dual channel which will affect your computer's performance so make sure you check your motherboard manual secondly you need to refer to this little slot right here on the on the actual memory itself you'll notice that there's more pins on one side than the other there is a corresponding slot in your motherboard right here that you're going to want to make sure lines up with the slot on your memory if you force it in there backwards you're going to damage motherboard RAM or both so make sure those are lined up make sure your little retaining tabs on your motherboard or open some may have tabs on both sides this board only has it on one side so make sure that you're referring again to your board to make sure you're doing it properly so go ahead and line it up in there with that groove slide it down there you go once it clicks in move on to the next stick and you have just installed your very first as wellness presumably your very first CPU and RAM in your motherboard okay so the very next thing I like to do once I've got my motherboard set up at the CPU and RAM and safely out of the way on a surface it's not going to damage it I like to get the case ready for installation now what that usually means for me is I'm going to remove the front filters that they're equipped I'm going to remove the top filter of so equipped in this case the fractal case does have a removable top with filter built in so that we can expose the top of the case and we are going to remove both the front and the back panels now once we've done that we're going to go ahead and we're going to move on to the hard drive cages and we're going to move move the box of hardware we're going to meet this for our standoffs and whatnot and I like to remove any hard drive cages that are not going to be used now the front of this case has 120 millimeter intake fan it has room for another fan if you want to install one I don't believe it's really going to be necessary in this case because the fractal cases already have such good airflow removing that excess drive that we don't need it's going to allow us to have perfect open air flow right here for this fan giving us unrestricted air flow for the rest of the case now on this one too you can also install your SSDs on the back so you need to decide if you have multiple drives or you're going to install them both back here you can install them on the drive cages so in this case directs on where would you like your SSDs melted on the back hidden or in the hard drive tray there alright so we're going to put the SSDs on the back here which technically means we could remove the all of the hard drive cages for even maximum airflow if we wanted but since I'm pretty sure he's going to want to put some mechanical drives in here if he doesn't go with another SSD which is probably not likely because gaming on a standard drive is fine for most games we're going to leave this front cage in here take the top cage out for maximum airflow now that we've got the case ready to go the next thing we want to do is get our motherboard ready to go inside the case now the first thing you're going to want to do when getting your motherboard ready for installation is install your motherboard standoffs that's these guys right here these are what your motherboard are going to mount to you'll notice most cases they are not pre mounted because every motherboard is a little different you have ATX micro ATX mini ITX EA TX they all have a little bit different arrangement when it comes to standoffs so since we are going to be using a mini ITX we're going to go ahead and use the screw holes that are marked mini ITX now these aren't actually marked mini ITX I just happen to know which ones they are because they're going to be these four right here these this really kind of look kind of funny in this case but hey you're gonna have lots of extra airflow now the cool thing about the fractal cases is they actually come with this little piece right here that slides over the top of the mini or the stand off which allows us to have a little bit easier way of screwing it in it's got a Philips screw on there so it's a lot easier to get them started without tearing all the skin off of your fingers which I really hate I really hate tearing skin my fingers it's not a really a good time and that's that's what you're going for if that's what you're going for then by all means tear all the skin off your fingers that you want well the mistake that I was about to make because I didn't have it ready to go was we need to make sure that we have our i/o shield this guy right here inside before we put the motherboard in now how do you know which way it goes this way or this way well you got to look at your motherboard and determine where it's going to line up so now if we take a look at our motherboard we can see it's going to go in this way which means that we want to have it line up like so so doing it like this we can just go ahead and take our i/o shield and pop it in there now if you have a lower end motherboard these i/o shields tend to be very very sharp it's probably the most common place people get cut when doing their builds installing their IO shields so I would highly recommend you just be careful putting in the edges can be very very very sharp and they can slice the crap out of your finger so you don't want that to be you now that we've got the i/o shield in there we're just going to go ahead and gently slide our motherboard in line up the holes on the i/o shield make sure that the holes line up here for the motherboard then you're going to take the included screws with your motherboard stand off and your screwdriver and then you're going to I like to start on the bottom most screw it's easiest to get to it's going to hold the rest of the motherboard in place and you don't want to force it really hard if you can't get the screw hole to line up something may be in the way you're blocking so check roll the film with computer hardware is if you have to force something really really hard chances are something is off so you want to double check that you don't want to force as you're going to break something so there we go we've got that screw in and we're just going to work our way around if you have ATX motherboard you're gonna have a lot more shoes to deal with fortunately the ITX stuff is very very simple only four screws all right so our motherboard is installed and typically the next thing I do from here depends on the build that I'm doing if it's a standard size computer case I tend to not do the cooler yet I tend to do the power supply but because we are going to be using the all-in-one cooler in this build I'm going to go ahead and install the fan for the 120 millimeter radiator back here in the top but not the rearward most fan position normally if you would put it right here where the rear fan is or even the rear exhaust fan or the top rear or exhaust fan but in this one I'm going to go ahead and stick it a little bit forward that way we have easier way of routing the tubes because the tubes for these tend to be really rigid on some of these all-in-one coolers now one other thing that I want to keep in mind because the next step here is also planning is you need to take a look at where all of your plugs are and if you take a look at this you can see typically your power supply 24 pin and other connectors are going to come in off the side this way but for this build it's on the top so we're going to have some interesting routing to do here with cables but either way it's it'll work out well I'll show you how to do some cable management while we're at it alright so as I mentioned in the previous segment I was going to do the cooler first but upon realizing like I said that all of the plugs for this case are going to be moving in through the top it means that our cooler is going to block some of our work here that we need to do first so what we're going to do next we are going to go ahead and install the brand new power supply here from Coolermaster we are also going to handle all of the front plugs so we're gonna go ahead and start doing our wiring first now what I did on the back here was you can see that they've already done a little bit of wire management here by zip tying these in if I leave those as they are they're not going to reach so this is why I actually have my wire cutters that I use to cut these off so we're going to do next is we're going to cut off these zip ties we're going to get the cable plugs through the top kind of arranged where we want them to go and then we are going to get our power supply plugs ready to go so wiring is the next thing I'm going to do in this build now this was actually a perfect example of what I was talking about earlier where you're going to have to check your manual if things aren't mounted or you know labeled on your motherboard most motherboards are labeled and even color coordinate comes to the front panel connectors this one was not so I had to refer to the internet and I have the manual up in front of me and now I could plug in the front panel connectors based on the manual so again you need to refer to your manuals when it comes to this sort of stuff you you okay so as you can see from little video there I was finagling this a little bit and it was a little bit tougher than I would have liked you guys know me I am a clean wiring fanatic my cable management is a lot of superior to most people's I'm not trying to flow my own boat I am just a clutter I hate clutter inside the case especially so you can see here I've got the cables coming up nicely here the zip tied together and what I was fighting with was running the audio cable underneath this heatsink so that it's nice and clean there at the antenna coming across there the USB 3.0 here you'll notice the USB 2.0 plug is not used because we actually have a warning sticker right on here from fractal it says only use the USB 2.0 plugs if the 3.0 is not available on your motherboard this one is available so here it is right there now we will be able to push that out of the way get our upper radiator fan in there when we're ready but the next step for us now is going to be to go ahead and get the power supply in here because I still have to run our 24-pin power as well as our a pin VPS power here on the motherboard and then after that I'm going to get two SATA cables coming off of here because again they're up on the top or they're a little bit difficult to access then we'll move on to installing our cooler now in the back of the case here when it comes to the front panel connector as you can see I've got them routed together together here nice and neat the USB 3.0 I put a pretty strong bend in there so it stays flat and then we've got our rear fans and our front fan here we'll deal with all that later so we'll be mounting our SSDs there and when it comes to the next step we are going to be installing our power supply as I mentioned it's still going to be tight fit up top so I'm going to put the cooler in yet and create any smaller workspace then we already have to work with so power supply installation here we come okay when it comes to power supply installation there are two different ways that you can mount these power supplies and this is going to depend entirely on your case now if you're going to be installing your case on carpet it means it's going onto your desk or something I'm going to recommend that you install the power supply with the fan pulling air in from the case if you're going to be installing it on desk or your mother or your case has adequate spacing for your power supply which means it gets it up off of the bottom floor through some stilts or some feet then you can install it either way that you want now this case has pretty decent about an inch worth of height on here but depending on how thick your carpet is you could still potentially plug the bottom intake which means that your power supply is getting starved of air which means it's going to get hot it's going to lose efficiency and it's also going to ultimately reduce the lifespan depending on how hot this power supply gets so I like to mount the power supplies pulling in air from inside the case regardless of where they're going as you can see my cases are on the desk but I like to have fresh air coming in from the front of the case that then gets exhausted out the back so that's the way that I'm going to be installing it here using the screws that are supplied with my case for installing the power supply so keep that in mind we're gonna be putting the fan face down and you're going to be putting your case on carpet there's a good likelihood that you could be choking your power supply for air if the case itself does not mount it up a little bit higher than the case floor so please please keep that in mind okay so unfortunately I'm gonna have to flip this power supply over so that the fan is on the bottom and that these cables are closer to the back of the motherboard wall or motherboard tray because unfortunately a lot of these lower end or lower price range power supplies I wish the cables were longer I mean this is a micro ATX case and it doesn't really reach so I can get it about five to six inches more length of these cables by flipping it over and getting this portion closer to the back wall so that's what we're going to go ahead and do now as I mentioned earlier guys we are using the Sidon 120 cooler here looks like we actually have some bent fins and should actually do a video on this on how to straighten fins back out they're actually very very thin pieces of aluminum or copper depending on the radiator that you have you can straighten these all back out by just using a little obviously isn't a zip tie that I cut the end off of here and as you can see these straighten out very very easily maybe I figured while I was here and I noticed some of these are bent probably at the time of installation the first time might as well take care of that now because bent Flint fins if you have a lot of them will affect your air flow now at this point some of you guys are probably saying but JD didn't show the installation of the mounting plate er you didn't show the installation of the retaining screws or any of that well the reason why I didn't do that is because all coolers are different even this 120 cooler is different from their Neptune 120 which is different from their glacier 240 which is different from the Corsair 100 I the a JDI they're all different so you need to refer to your manual make sure that you're doing it right that is your responsibility this one's ready to go so we're going to go ahead and mount this down now the first thing we want to do is I like to mount the radiator first so it's not flopping around and then we will do our thermal paste on the CPU and then we will go ahead and do the mounting of the block down and we'll discuss how to do your thermal paste installation at that point as well now this pump does use a four pin pwm header so this is intended to be plugged into your CPU cooler header so make sure that you guys locate that on your motherboard and plug this into the CPU cooler so without further ado is get this installer or this cooler installed all right so crisis averted which I couldn't figure out how is gonna get this all to now I could have just easily taken out the five and a quarter base here which is how you would allow it triple rat up on the top and mounted it up here and had no problem but then I started thinking if I had a 120 rear exhaust a 140 exhaust and then a 120 radiator exhaust with only one intake we'd start having some pretty massive negative pressure issues so as it sits right now I'm going to have this one 120 millimeter intake here we move we move the green LED fan off of the radiator put it up top as the exhaust fan check out the 140 entirely and we put the 120 fractal design fan as the exhaust or pull fan on the radiator so we no longer have a lit fan on the radiator it's now our exhaust fan on the top which will be nice it'll give us some accent lighting here inside this case so that's how we went ahead and did it there might still be a slight amount of negative pressure but because of the amount of resistance the radiator is going to be adding to this it's not going to be really adding too much in terms of negative pressure to the case so we have balanced 120 intake 120 exhaust plus the radiator so I think we're going to be okay on pressure in fact we might be pretty neutral on pressure here which is good for dust so now we're going to do is we're going to go ahead and install the cooler show you how I like to install my thermal paste and then we'll start wrapping this bad boy up okay so when it comes to thermal compound we are using the enttec formula seven I've never used this my the owner of this PC bought it and so we're going to go ahead and use it now when it comes to applying thermal paste there's two different methods you need to consider and it depends on what kind of CPU you're using if you are using an Intel CPU the processor core is actually running up and down in a rectangle right in the middle of the heat spreader now if you're using AMD they are in core clusters that are on the peripheral of the actual heat spreader so they're on the outside so if you're using AMD I tend to like to use an X pattern where you draw a line from corner to corner and then you go to the opposite corner to corner that's how I do AMD installation on Intel I tend to either just do the P method or do the line in this case I'm going to go ahead and do the line method it's how I like to do it here with Intel and we are going to be using as I mentioned the antic antic formula 7 it is a diamond compound alright so there's our line right there right down the center of the CPU as we tighten down our cooler that is going to spread out and give us a nice uniform cooling when it comes to tightening down your cooler as I mentioned before you need to consult your coolers manual for the proper way of tightening it down every cooler is different now for me I like to do things in a cross pattern so that's the way I'm going to do it now because we're dealing with water cooling this tends to have a spring-loaded screw on there which will not allow the screw to go down tighter than what is specified from our manufacturer recommendations so I'll just kind of get each screw started and then I will tighten down each screw until it won't go down any farther till hits the end of the threads but please the love of God check your coolers manufacturer specs that way you don't destroy your CPU because it over tightened most coolers these days won't allow that to happen but of course I don't want you guys sending me hate mail saying you crushed your brand-new CPU because Jay said tighten it all the way down because that's not what I said I said check your manufacturer retail manual yes you must read manuals and I'm not above reading a manual I already had to do it earlier to figure out where the headers go on this mother work so if you think you to manually manly for a manual I bet you're also too manly to ask for directions aren't you alright so now we're installed just kind of give it a little push on there everything seems to be nice and tight that's not going anywhere go ahead and take your plug whether it be for fan or pump and then plug that into your CPU header in our case here we are going to plug that into CPU one all right so now start look like an easy little computer in a bit loose okay so the next thing we're gonna do is we're gonna take up what looks like a massively huge graphics card for need a big new motor board and we're going to go ahead and get this bad boy installed now what you're going to want to do when it comes to removing the rear panels here are the rear little plate covers is you pretty much are going to remove the one that is perfectly adjacent to the PCI Express port and then the one below it if it's a dual slot card if you have a triple slot card you'll remove three and if you have anything more than that well I've never seen a quadruple slot card so you're probably on crack cocaine now let's go ahead and make sure that the tab here for the PCI Express port is not in position you want make sure it's in the down position one thing you also need to make sure is that the little nipple tab things here on the back of the input shield for the graphics card goes into the little slot there's actually little grooves in most of these cases that those will slide into and then make sure that your socket here is perfectly lined up with the graphics card and then when this tab is down and you push it in it'll click into place and then you go ahead and put in your retaining screws and there we go world's easiest installation of any computer part in my opinion is plugging in your graphics card now just take your thumb screws and what I like to do to make sure we're not getting any sag is I like to take the rear of the card and support it with my hand as high as it will go as I tighten down the first thumb screw that way we get a little less sag in there as we're installing it once you install both these screws and your graphics card he's done now we've got the card installed we need to give this thing some power so you're going to go ahead and pull through your plugs here in this graphics cards case we have a four pen and eight pin PCI Express power need so we are going to take our this is what we call a six pin an eight pin dovetail type of plug you can see here it's a six pin but it also has a another little piece that you can install or just kind of slap on there that turns it into an eight pin in this case we're only going to be using one of them and so we'll just get that in place plug it into the eight pin grab the back of the graphics card like this when you go to plug it in that way you're not putting any undue strain on the socket on the motherboard so that way you're not pushing and giving leverage against your socket so support the back of the card with your hand and push it till it clicks you're going to repeat the same thing on the other plug we'll kind of push this out of the way a little bit push it down otherwise it might actually hit against the window and there you go your graphics card is now installed baby let it go buddy all right so really all we have left to do now is install the hard drive which this guy wants to put in the back and we will then be pretty much ready to fire her up oh we also have to plug in the fans that'll be important too okay so since Jack's on would like to put the SSDs on the rear here we're going to do is really is this one over here actually the way all these cables aren't in the way on the fractal case you have to unscrew the little plate but to make it a lot easier to install the SSD on it and then you install the plate back on after you put the screws in but again this is a part in your build where you are going to have to refer to how things are installed in your case because everything is a little bit different the SSD is now mounted on the back of the motherboard tray so all it's left to do now is run our SATA power from our power supply back here our SATA plug to the motherboard and then like I mentioned I want to make it easy for him to be able to install another motherboard or another hard drive in the future so I'm going to run power and SATA port to the hard drive cage over here as well I'm also going to tidy things up a little bit back here we for instance I'm going to put a little zip tie right here to keep these cables together because you guys know I'm a wiring freak I cannot stand untidy wires so the gift and a curse if you will because it's a gift when it comes to my pcs and it's a curse may have to look at those that just don't care all right so since we are dealing with the semi modular power supply here at the Vee 650 I'm only going to take one of these SATA ports because I think it will work well enough to where one of these will be able to supply power to both the hard drive over here as well as coming off of the power supply which will allow us to be able to use as little wiring as possible so you just simply plug that in and this is the part where you guys have to use a little common sense when it comes to wire management obviously the least amount of wires showing is going to be the cleanest look so pull it all the way through to the back and once you get to the back here like I mentioned one cable is going to be more than enough because as you can see power supplies from Coolermaster tend to have just a while this one here is actually a 4-game so we've got for power or SATA power on here and you can see it's plenty long to reach this hard drive as well as one over here so it's going to allow us to be even neater on the amount of cabling that we need which is going to be very very nice in terms of cable management now when it comes to plug in your SATA power here kind of get a close-up on this you can see that there's a little notch that comes off make sure you line up those notches and another pro tip for you is you don't want to make sure that you don't actually force it in there or put too much lateral pressure on it the plastic tabs that hold on these power plugs are going to break off really really easy so there's our SATA power we'll just kind of tuck this in the bottom right here I like to kind of take these and sort of bend that one like that and that like that see it's a little flatter that and then we can just force it right down here into the bottom and now he's got a plug right here ready to go for his hard drive when he's ready to add a storage drive into this which I highly recommend when possible because 240 gigs is just not gonna cut ok we have got our SATA power ran from the power supply here all the way to both well the SSD and hypothetically where the HDD is going to go you know with plenty is there's actually three more modular plugs on this and aren't going to be needed because actually I think I might have to digress a little bit yep we do need to install one more of them because as you can see fractals still using standard for pin molex for their little and fan controller here because they haven't moved this one up to the 21st century no there's nobody is using those anymore so what I'm going to do next is I'm going to go ahead and run the SATA cable from the SSD on the rear to the motherboard and then we're going to go ahead and run the other ones so that he has that for the future so without further ado let's go ahead and get these cables ready to go I'd say without further ado a lot no one ever says without further adult is you're never gonna be like let's don't do that unless you're just really bad in English then you might use a double negatives like never not denna stuff like that perfectly acceptable English as far as I'm concerned well unfortunately standard length SATA cables not going to reach a motherboard or the other hard drive hypothetically so we have power ran for him unfortunately you're going to have to get a longer cable if you want to do another hard drive but at least it's not too hard to get you as you saw it's because of the non that's because of the really weird placement of the the cables here on this motherboard shame on you MSI well then again it's a mini ITX a very limited room to work with I don't think it it's too bad never run into these problems problems on Mini ITX cases because they are super small cases so standard link cable sometimes are too long but anyway yeah you're just gonna have to get yourself a longer cable dude but at least you have power ran down there alright so the next thing we're going to go ahead and do now we have the SSD plugged in as you can see right here power and SATA so next thing to do is clean up these wires a little bit get our fans plugged in and then this bad boy is ready to game all right so because the power cable that they used on their built-in fan controller is a 4-pin molex I have added our 4-pin molex here to our power supply of course it's modular so I just grabbed it and plugged it in and all we got to do now is plug those two together now we have power for this cable now we've got two fan headers that are exposed in the back and one is too short to make it out it's actually up here in the drive bay so what I'm going to do to keep it nice and clean up front is I'm actually going to take this three pin header and I'm going to kind of shove it through that hole right there pull it up through like that that way it doesn't get seen there's no reason to run it across the back here because that header won't make it out of the five and a quarter bay anyway so if I turn that around see now I'm just got the header right there and take the fan make it as easy to see you guys can because it literally does not make it out of there the length is not the same all around just line up the grooves and there we now have our front fan is getting power I just kind of shove that out of the way but you can see you don't see any of those wires right here so a little bit of cable management tip there for you you got holes and things you can shove things through and you're not planning on bringing any five-and-a-quarter Bay's in there do it shove things in the hole all right so now we'll just take the two on the back we've got our two rear fans on the back here we're just going to plug those in same and there we go now we've got a little bit of a wiring mess here we've got to deal with because I mean as you can see here we've got a little excess slack to deal with and because all these links are a little bit different what we're going to go ahead and do here is I like to grab them like this fold them over on themselves and grab a what a zip tie zip ties are like ring men it's the next best thing to slice bread and I don't even like brick I really like zip ties so zip tie it up and you can kind of shove it up under the little like a gap in some cases anyway this one does really have that gap on the bottom is a gap you can see I use that for the bottom cables so we'll do the same thing here we'll just kind of actually because this is a flat cable I'm just going to kind of shove it underneath the power cables I have right there it'll be out of the way saves me a zip tie they won't get seen and with that there you go the entire computer is now wired up all the mess is contained behind the motherboard tray I push that up you won't see that through the little opening on the front there you can see that one but again that can't really be helped me I guess if I cut that zip tie and brought it across but that's not going to really bother anybody if you turn around look in the front as you can see our computer is complete everything is wired up we've got nice unobstructed airflow from the front fan feeding in the back of the graphics card and into the motherboard area nice unrestricted airflow for the radiator pulling air out and unobstructed airflow for the top exhaust fan to exhaust heat out of the top so there we go all it's left to do now is put the panels back on fire it up hope it turns on now all of the techniques that I've shown you today are just my techniques you're going to find people are going to say I like to do this differently or you should be doing that by all means come up with your own way that works for you this is how I build computers a computer like this if I wasn't building a video would take me about an hour to build at from the time I start by the time I'm done and you know when you guys are first starting it may take you five hours it may take you seven hours but as you keep building and you keep tinkering things will get more streamlined and more efficient for you and this is just a lot of fun I love building computers I'm sure you will too there you go guys the how to build a computer for beginners video I tried to cover as much as I could but yet keep it as short as possible while not really leaving out any information that was really important to putting this computer together now I didn't cut anything out the computer is built entirely running behind me as you can see by doing the exact steps at which we recorded there was nothing that I did in between that was in fact I even left in some of the problems that we encountered because if all the builds went perfectly then you guys would never know what to do if you encountered some sort of a hiccup along the way so I shared those with you as well if you have any questions about how to build a computer definitely come and get a message on Twitter or check out some of the other awesome tech channels out there like Austin Evans or Linus tech tips text into kit I mean these guys do great videos as well on how to build pcs and how to do you know what it is that we do here when it comes to being a PC geek and if this is your first time building a PC I want to firstly welcome you to the master race and I hope that you'll throw your consoles in the trash and remember the Titan Z is nothing but one big fat ass ripoff in the part of Nvidia so this whole point of this video was Titan Z sucks alright guys I'm gonna get on out of here hopefully this video has helped you share it with someone you think it will help and as always I will see you in my next video