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what's up guys J is $0.02 here and it's many years since I've done a how to build a computer guide I don't know maybe I've gotten a little bit too complacent and I forget that there are new PC builders every single day so today I'm talking to the beginner he's already chosen their parts and they're sitting there scratching their head going how the heck do I put this all together now also a huge thank you to Asus for sponsoring today's video as well as sending out some really cool stuff for us to include in this how-to guide not going to call it a build guy because I'm not telling you what parts to use this isn't a part lists are always changing so I want to I want something that's going to last for a while will be applicable for a long time with Rison being out this is the perfect time to do it now they sent over there ROG motherboard here this is the crosshair six hero from obviously Asus Republic of gamers motherboard we've got an AMD rise in 1,700 X a pretty decent CPU that doesn't break the bank but still gives you some pretty good overclock ability we've got the ROG Strix gtx 1070 as an nvidia graphics card of course pretty good sweet spot GPU again in my opinion and we've got a couple of peripherals here to take a look at we've got the Gladius tube mouse the successor to their popular Gladius mouse we took a look at a while back and their new ROG Claymore it's an RGB mechanical gaming keyboard so with that said here's what we're going to do we're going to build it I'm going to build this I'm gonna tell you what I'm doing as I do it and hopefully I won't leave out anything really important but I think I think we can do this I think I think I can build this let's see when it comes to building a basic PC I like to have pretty basic toolset I use a multi bit right here which has got different sized Phillips and flathead screwdrivers zip ties to keep our cables nice and tidy and some side cutters for cutting our zip ties now for this build today we're going to also need a USB thumb drive because we are gonna be updating the BIOS on our rise in motherboards something I recommend if you're building a rise in CPU based computer then definitely get the latest BIOS from your motherboard manufacturer and include that as part of your installation so we're going to do now is we are going to go ahead and bench test this we want to make sure all of the components work before we get them inside the computer because that's the worst time to find out something is not working right so to do that obviously we need our motherboard right here we need our power supply we need our CPU graphics card our cooler and in this case I'm using the Celsius s 36 from fractal design just launched and we need a monitor of course to be able to see if we're actually posting now AMD based CPUs have the pins located on the CPU itself whereas Intel based systems have the pins located on the motherboard so you're going to definitely want to handle the CPU with care but you want to take note that on the corner of the CPU is a gold triangle now that gold triangle is going to align with a triangle that's located on the socket itself so open up the retention arm align the gold triangle on the CPU with the triangle on the socket and push down the arm now for our membrane you're going to open up the retention tabs here on the motherboard for your RAM sticks now as you can see we've got four RAM slots but we only have two sticks of RAM so we're going to be using two of the slots on here now if you're using a different motherboard you want to consult your manual to determine which slots are appropriate for how many dims you're using now in this case we're going to use both of the gray slots you're going to align the slot on the DIMM with the slot on the motherboard slide it into place and you're going to push down firmly until you hear a click and you're going to do that for both of your RAM sticks so I decided to do things a little bit difficult sometimes because I'm just such a stickler for water cooling I'm using an all-in-one water cooling loop now if you were using an air cooler at this point you would install your air cooler on the motherboard and you would just leave it you can install it in the case with your cooler already installed but I can't do that with an all one water cooling loop at least not as easy so we're doing a temporary installation of the pump to the motherboard for the sake of just doing a post I don't actually have to install the fans on the radiator there's enough passive cooling on this to allow me to turn on the system and make sure that it's all working without any threat of overheating the system so we're gonna go ahead and start by removing the screws that are on the am brand for bracket right here and this particular cooler we'll be reusing the backplate that is on this so with the amount of different types of coolers there are on the market I can't possibly include all of those in this video so it's very important that you consult the manual for whatever cooler you are using but the nice thing about the Celsius is it does include brackets for risin right out of the box so that's a plus so we're going to start by installing this guy right into place just like so we're going to do that for all four posts these are the standoffs that allow our pump to have something to screw down to but as you can see like I said here's our four posts and they retain the factory backplate so you want to apply about a pea-sized drop of thermal paste right in the middle of the CPU my pea is a little fatter than most and we also need to remove the bracket that comes with the cooler that's pre-installed for Intel we take the AMD bracket pre apply it to the pump and then we are going to take our pump and put it into place once it's in place just take your four thumb screws install them using the alternating corner method very similar to putting a wheel on a car but don't tighten anything down just yet we want all four slides where there's just a little bit of resistance once that's done we can take our screwdriver and just give them one little ogre Doug if you will so it's just slightly snug you don't want to over tighten this the threads won't let it go any farther than it needs to take our pump wire and plug it in to the pump header or the CPU header on the motherboard this one actually has an a IO pump header so we're plugging it into there next we're going to take our super-sexy gtx 1070 strix graphics card we're going to make sure the PCI Express retention clip is open usually they come close to push that open and we are going to also make sure the motherboard is aligned on the edge of the box so that the retaining tabs on the bottom of the card can hang off of the edge align it with the socket and then push down into you hear a satisfying click or in this case I have to push it out there we go so now it's fully in place it's going to be a little bit wobbly so you want to be careful with it because we don't have anything supporting it on this side but we want to make sure that it boots up and that everything is good now depending on which power supply you're using with your build you may or may not have modular cables the g3 which I'm using here from EVGA does indeed have a full modular cable set so I had to locate the 24 pin for the motherboard the EPS power for the CPU one PCI Express power for the GPU this card only has one 8 pin power slot so we only need one cable and then we need the power cable to plug the PSU in to power most modular power supplies are going to have the cables labeled C we see we have an NB here which stands for motherboard and those are going to plug into the ports on the back of the power supply that are labeled the same so we're going to do that for all of our cables including our CPU PCI Express and our well that's it in this case only up those three things we have to power right now I like to hang on to all the twist ties that come off with the cable set because at the end of the day they're very useful for cable management especially if you don't have enough zip ties or any zip ties at all so take your 24 pin cable give it a little bit of a bend that way it's not putting too much stress on the socket and you're going to align this little retention clip with the retention tab on the 24 pin on the motherboard it's only going to fit one way because it is keyed it's got all these different shapes you can see there they're squares and different hexagons or whatever the shape is you're only going to fit one way so once you get it lined up it might take a little bit of force especially when it's new but go into you hear a click and then it's in place next we're going to take our CPU EPS power and some other boards only require a four pin some require an eight pin so that's why this is split just push them together same thing take those retention tabs line them up right here with the notch and push those into place finally take your PCI Express power cable you'll notice it's got a little pigtail here some graphics cards only need a 6 pin some need an 8 pin so it's kind of a universal if you will so in this case we're going to push them together making sure that the little retention tabs on there are firmly in place these guys right here in the back line it up with the tab on our graphics card and just like before push it into place if your power supply on the back has a power toggle make sure it's in the off position plug in your power cable and then plug this into a power source take your HDMI cable that's plugged into your monitor plug it into your graphics card make sure your monitor is turned on we had a light there so we are turned on alright here comes the moment of truth the part where you find out if all your parts work we're gonna start by flipping the power switch on the back of the PSU and we're going to look for any lights on the motherboard now we are getting a green light up here on the motherboard so that's good the motherboards getting power now not all motherboards have a start button like this one does most motherboards do have surface mounted buttons now for reset and power so I could push this start button to start it but if yours doesn't you could actually take a screwdriver and locate on the motherboard or use the manual if it's not properly labeled and find the pins that are labeled power button and you could actually bridge those two together to turn on the system like I just did now normally I would just push the start button but I want to show you that you could indeed do that now the thing with with AMD you want to keep in mind is the first post can sometimes take a while like nerve-wrecking lee finger biting I'm telling it it could take a while sometimes it really makes you wonder if things are working so we're going to wait and we're going to wait oh there we go we've got a blue light there it is now what happened there is it actually went through the post cycle three times what it does is it kind of like checks everything and then every boots and then checks everything again and the way the reason why I know that is over here at least on this particular motherboard we have this cue code readout and that tells us what's happening with the post we also have a series of LEDs right here that will go from green to yellow to white and when it turns white that means we have a good post so that's why I was like oh we're good because it actually turns into a white LED before the monitor ever came on so cool the ends tell us we got a new CPU installed please enter setup to configure your system we don't actually have a keyboard mouse hooked up to this so now that we confirm that everything is working we're going to undo pretty much everything that we just did yeah but that's okay trust me taking it apart now is a lot easier than if we had everything in the computer and then figured out that something wasn't working right now left some parts that you can actually leave plugged in here so we're going to go ahead and leave the memory plugged in if you had an air cooler you could leave that on here but because I'm using an all-in-one cooler and I don't feel like trying to install this and finagle this all around - you know where it's not in my way I'm going to go ahead and remove the all-in-one water cooling loop as well and we don't actually have to undo all of it actually we just need to undo the retaining tabs and remove the pump and the wire itself we're going to also have to clean off this thermal compound so I'm just using a paper towel here most people use coffee filters something that's non fibrous and some isopropyl alcohol and we are going to go ahead and just sort of let that eat away at the thermal paste we're going to get as much of that off as possible we want to do the same thing to the pump surface we don't want any thermal compound on there whatsoever so okay case prep this is the part where we need to get our case ready to receive our parts now there's no way I can tell you how to get your case ready because I don't know what parts you're using I don't know what case we're using but I'm using the cooler master master case maker sick it's one of their newer cases from the maker line and it is a full ATX supported case that means it can support a full sized ATX motherboard which is what we have right here but this will also fit ITX and micro ATX so as long as you know that your motherboard will fit in your case then you're good to go now I also know I'm using a three hundred and sixty millimeter radiator in this that's not going to fit in the top of this case so I'm going to have to mount it to the front which means I'm actually going to have to remove this little cover here take off the side panel and show you the insides where we are going to get this case ready to receive the parts that I've obviously chosen I'm going to be using one hard drive here for demonstration purposes is actually a Western Digital red it's an AZ drive not necessarily a desktop drive but it will work for today and I'm using a patriot ignite 960 gigabyte SSD so I know that this can actually mount right here if I want it to on the qualta floorboard of the case or I can actually move these brackets to the back of the motherboard tray if I want to I also know that I only need to support one hard drive so I don't need three here two there so I'm going to use the manual to determine how I can outfit this to fit my hard drive my SSD as well as my 300 the millimeter radiator so I've been looking at the manual and looking at the parts that I have the need to install this is what I came up with and we'll start at the bottom here I move the hard drive cage back one slot now it can go back to slots if we want it to but I had to make some room here for the 360 reg which I will be front mounting now that's not going to cause us a problem with overheating components inside the system in fact I did a video on that you guys can go and check out on how much the front mounted radiator actually affects the rest of the system we've got so much air flow in this case it's not going to be a problem the reason why I didn't mount it to the top is as you can see here we only can fit either to 140 s or to 120 s we couldn't fit at 360 so what I did was it took the fans from the front of the case and move them to the top since this case didn't come with any exhaust fans on the top it only had one on the back so we put those up here as an exhaust we also have a 140 exhaust right here in the back so now we can fit our 360 in the front also by installing the bracket that comes with this so that we could actually you know mount a 360 up front also to instead of putting the SSD right here on the on show it shows right there which would be kind of neat but it would split up our wiring so I just installed it right here above our hard drive that way our state of power and our SATA cables go the same route to keep things nice and tidy it could have also mounted it on the back of the motherboard tray but at least having it right there puts it in the path of airflow so if you're doing a lot of read rights to your SSD it keeps the temperature and same thing with your hard drive fairly low the other thing I did was I installed our motherboard standoffs based on an ATX layout because again it is an ATX motherboard so the next thing we need to do here is we need to get our motherboard installed but before we go just throwing it in there you need to take out your i/o shield that's the piece of metal that goes in the back of the case that sort of acts as a shroud for all of our USB plugs and other things that go on to some motherboards so here it is right here get this guy out of the way and usually these get installed with the circles at the bottom this is all of your audio you can see right here by looking at the back of the motherboard it's going to go just like this so you're going to snap this guy right into the back your case right here next you want to lay your case flat on its back you want to make sure that any cables are out of the way just like this fan cable here was kind of move that guy up in either because we don't want to pinch that between the floor of the case and the motherboard that can cause a short not to mention we need that cable so we need some slack so everything is out of the way we're just going to take our motherboard we're going to line up the audio jacks with the holes in this i/o shield in the back and we are going to gently push it into place two of the standoffs in this case have nubs on them which will hold the motherboard in place so that we can get them all screwed down so you're going to screw in one two three four five six seven eight nine screws in this motherboard what I like to do once I have the motherboard in is connect the front panel connectors you know that's for your front side USB your power button power switch or hard drive blinking light all that stuff and I like to do it now because if we just get it out of the way now we don't have a graphics card in here and all kinds of stuff in our way it's a lot easier so I'm going to start by pushing the USB three right through the bottom grommet right here because we have more clearance this way fortunately this case gives us a lot of options for routing things much neater options so there's our front side USB 3.0 and right here these pins on the very bottom right corner that's where you would plug in all of these little guys right there now this can get pretty annoying trying to wrangle up all these little wires and try and you know if you got fat fingers like I do to try and get them all in there and so fortunately asus includes this guy right here and it's black and not white like some of them are which really will stand out and in a black theme this is perfect this is nothing more than a header that you plug all those pieces into here it's a lot easier to work on outside of the case and then you plug that in on the motherboard you can see we have one header right there which is blocked off which means it's only can go in one way and that's going to line up on the top right corner right there so plug that in and there we go unfortunately most of that won't be seen once we have everything in there our graphics card and PCI Express cables and stuff so it's a lot easier to work on like that than trying to get it all on the motherboard alright so next up I'm going to install my although a water cooling loop here in the front of the case like I said earlier I'm not concerned about hot air heating up this case got way more than enough airflow for this but once this is in the front I'm then going to have the fans on this side pushing air through the radiator just kind of doing a little test fit here to make sure everything lines up good and it definitely appears to be so yeah I guess all we got to do is the fans on the red install one thing to keep in mind though when you're using a IO coolers especially when I'm out into the front is you don't want the tubes to accidentally push up into the fans that are going to be exhausting air so if I install this this way you can see that we get the tubes that push up towards the top so I would always give the fans a little bit of a spin just to see if they're going to interfere now they're not so that's the way that I'm going to go ahead and mount it down just like that because I also don't want them going the opposite direction and making contact with the graphics card so there we are plugged into our a i/o pump header and the pump is now installed now the last fan wait to plug in is the rear exhaust fan fortunately the crosshair six hero has a chassis fan header right here on the motherboard nearest to that fan so we're going to do is plug this in and then we can just kind of get this cable sort of up and out of the way I like to just sort of tuck them between the fan and the little cover right there there it just sort of out of the way it looks a lot neater and there you go now it's time for everyone's favorite part the installation of the graphics card let's face it we love our computers but it's the graphics card that really gets us excited now to prepare for the graphics card installation make sure the little tab on the PCI Express slot you're gonna be using is pushed down and you remove the two IO covers on the back that line up with the PCI Express slot you're going to be using take your graphics card remove the covers for the display ports and make sure the cover is taken off we're here where the pins are go in at a slight angle and you're going to be inserting these two tabs into the metal slot right there just like this and line it up with the socket and push it until you get a click now we have to take our two retaining screws that we took off for the covers tighten those up on the graphics card and then that bad boy is in place all we have left to do now is install our power supply and do some cable management now this particular case has a bracket on the back that you remove to attach your power supply to makes it a lot easier that way and a little bit more space to be able to push the power supply in now we still have all of our cables installed earlier from when we did our test the only additional power cable we have to plug in because our fans are getting power through the pump so we're good there our other fans on our chassis are getting power from the motherboard we just need the power the two hard drives we have the S has SSD and the hard drive LS and as well as some integrated case lighting that exists in this case which is one SATA plug right here so all I did was take one additional modular cable out of the set which is perfect because we've got three SATA plugs there two of them are going right on top of each other and the third one is in the same region so that's one of the reasons why I don't separate out hard drives and SSDs if I don't have to because having one cable installed definitely makes things a lot tidier we've also got all the built-in cable management right here on the back of this case that's taking care of all of the front panel connectors so you can see cable management on this it's going to look pretty darn good so what we need to do right now though if we're going to orient in this particular case to fan down we've got a lot of space right here we've got some dust filter so we're not going to be too worried about do we got a dust filter right there so I'm not too worried about dust in this particular case even if it was on carpet now if your case doesn't have one of these brackets what I'm doing here you would just do with the power supply already installed on your case a lot of cases are actually moving to this type of mechanism now so there's our bracket nice and install but before we go pushing it inside the case we're going to go ahead and plug in our static cable that goes right here where it says SATA you've got SATA and peripheral on this particular power supply because the peripheral is different for the the molex plugs so we're just plug that into SATA one and this is all the power cables we're going to need now there's one other cable in here that we haven't installed yet moving forward and that is our front panel HD audio port that's what's going to allow you to be able to use the front side headphone jacks on your case those are always located on the bottom left of the motherboard and this is something I you know admittedly should have done earlier when the power supply wasn't in there but I forgot it and you can see now do as I say not as I do because now you're getting to see firsthand why I like to do this so that's the plug we're trying to get into right there it's dark dreary it's all by itself I don't even personally recommend using frontside audio if you can avoid it but you might as well if you have the option all right there we go that's installed and there was a good example as to why I like to do all that before the graphics card is in there so we're going to do now is with the fan orienting down we're going to force all of our cables through the hole we're going to kind of pull it out through the backside just like that we've got our captive screws that are on the bracket and that's what we're going to use right there to tighten down our power supply there's no reason to do that yet we can kind of leave that loose because next we have to plug everything in and manage our cables now most case companies now are including these built-in cable management channels and velcro straps I'm telling you that's a huge lifesaver compared to what we used to have to deal with back in the day especially when they were just flat panels so undo all of these and just kind of start taking a look at where things are so I'm going to go up that's the grommet I'm going to use where my 24 pin is so we're just going to push that guy through there so I'm not going to connect it yet I'm just kind of putting everything in place on where it needs to go this is my VGA or my PCI Express power we'll talk about that one in a second this is my CPU power and we're going to push this one up through this hole back there because we know that's where the power plug is for the CPU and then we have here our SATA and I'll go ahead and plug in our state of power now because it's easy to access it's right here when you plug in the SATA power you're going to see there's a little notch on one side this line line up with the notch on the power supply side and click it in be careful any sort of lateral movement on that will snap that right off I'm telling you every anyone who's ever built a system long enough or built enough systems has probably dealt with that being snapped off I'm going to now plug in this guy onto my hard drive right there and then I'm going to plug this little guy to a pigtail end into my SSB then we can just kind of take that push that sort of out of the way look at that nice and neat now power for our graphics card here fortunately we've got these pass-through grommets built in right here for our mid plate so we can run the cables directly up through that so it's a lot nicer and neater looking to come up through the mid plate if we have the opportunity to then to come in through the backside here or around this gap because it just gets a little bit more difficult the more turns you have in the cable the less tidy things are going to look plug that in give a little bend right there and there as you can see now it just goes right through the floor and that looks a whole lot better so while we're here we might as well go ahead and plug in our power for our motherboard our 24 pin there we go that's nice and neat and out of the way and I think that's all the cables we have that need to come through that side so now we can go ahead and move around to the back and we can tidy up these cables here for cable management so we'll push that guy out of the way that's the PCI Express and then we can go ahead and this kind of push all this back there now we've got to plug in the SATA cables for our storage drives and we get four of these included with the crosshair six but if you look at these two of them have a 90 Bend and a 180 Bend or technically a straight piece and two of them have straight Sada's like that so we're not going to use one with the bends because we don't need them we only have two drives so we're going to go ahead and click these in place again just like the power cable you're going to line up the little tab normally the little metal push part will go on top so we're just going to click that in and then we're going to go ahead and do the same thing on the bottom you know that will satisfying click and we're going to just route them through right here because that's the grommet we need to plug them into our motherboard now using your users manual determine which data ports are appropriate to plug into for your particular type of hard drive so we need to plug that in like that stack those two on top of each other so they're nice and neat we're going to go ahead and plug in our CPU power pins once again right here on the motherboard push the slack up through and now we can push our power supply all the way forward and tighten down the captive thumb screws now we're going to do here is we're just going to take a small zip tie we're going to kind of zip all these guys together to make them best friends for life to besties they go to each other's houses on Thanksgiving it's not weird take our sides nipson cut those back and then we don't really need to zip tie this guy down right here I mean we could have we have these loops here if you really cared that you could have tightened it down like that and just made it look all super anal-retentive but I'm actually ok with this so we have to do next I just see if it works you think it's gonna work yep you do what was we first tested yeah it's true see he's learning we know it's going to work because we do the post test as long as we didn't pinch any wires so for the crosshair board we're going to navigate to the Asus website I went to the product page for the crosshair six hero I'm going to go to the support driver and tools I need to tell what OS I have although it doesn't really matter because we're going to be doing this at the BIOS level anyway or the UEFI anyway click on BIOS and then find whatever the newest one is look at the date so this one's only about a week old so we're going to use this one right here this is BIOS one one zero seven if you're watching this in the future that might have been updated by then it might even be updated by the time this video makes it live anyway you're going to download it and you're going to export it on to some sort of a flash drive so you're going to download the archive to the flash drive and you're going to extract it to the root of the fresh flash drive what that means is it's not going to be in any folder system it's just you want the cat file right here to be on the main root of the drive now it's time to turn it on I took the USB Drive plugged it into the front USB right there because we are going to flash the BIOS make sure the power is turned on on your power supply and then push your power button on your case to make sure that it actually works there we go this is pretty pretty lights there now again just like before it's not going to take nearly as long to boot up okay you're going to hit delete multiple times once the monitor starts to turn on so we can get into our BIOS and once we're in our BIOS we're going to navigate over to the tool tab and we're going go down to the easy flash utility again if you're not using this motherboard you can have to look at the manual to figure out how to do it for yours if we were connected to the internet we could grab it from the internet but it's safer to do it from a local storage if you can so we're going to do this now using storage utility or navigate over to the file this is the one we downloaded right here the 11:07 and we're going to read that file yes this is the really important part when this is happening do not cut power to your system under any circumstances that will lead to a very bad situation potentially a bricked motherboard now the fusion we take about a minute or two at the most it will do a series of restarts let it do it staying until it's completely done and once it is you'll be running on the latest bios so here we are in the BIOS and you can see it took effect it's at 1 1 0 7 X 64 so our new BIOS has taken place so we've done so far effectively as we tested our parts we built it and now we updated our BIOS we have the latest compatibility with Rison but now we need an operating system without an operating system it's completely useless so that's up to you to decide what you're going to use but for the sake of today's video we're going to actually be using Windows 10 mostly because it's installable off of a USB Drive and obviously we didn't install any sort of optical in here so we're going to do now is we're going to remove our USB Drive that we had the BIOS on and we're going to take the Windows 10 key or drive and we're going to plug that in to one of our USB 3 ports on the back of the system and that we are going to just start it once again it should automatically recognize that is a Buddhist bootable ISO or image of a Windows installation CD so all they basically done is taken the CD put it on a USB Drive and we're going to boot from that now and do our installation now there's really no reason to do a 32-bit installation so always 264 where applicable and from here forward basically it's nothing more than just answering the questions on the screen once you're done you'll land at the desktop where you then are going to want to go ahead and install all of your drivers that come with your software you can install those again if you don't have an optical drive by just going to the manufacturers website on another computer like we did for the BIOS downloading the drivers in installing them that way anyway guys I hope this build guys has helped anyway guys I hope that you hear that setre I said it a lot I got stung by a DM I did now most of the time windows is able to install basic drivers like LAN drivers wireless drivers or whatever may be present on your motherboard but in case it doesn't you can actually install the drivers via USB the same way we did by setting up the drive with our BIOS just go over to the manufacturers website take a USB Drive on another computer install things like your LAN drivers and your chipset drivers onto the USB Drive and then just install them that way using their own installers instead of software but that's it it's really easy it's not hard to build your own computer especially Rison actually find Rison systems or AMD based systems as general to be easier than intel has are a lot less fragile when it comes to the pins on the motherboard but by now you guys are ready to start playing your games and enjoying your new computer and looking at it and going you know what I built that and I'm proud of it thanks for watching guys again a huge thank you to Asus for sponsoring this video without them this would not have been possible so make sure you guys go to the links in the description of this video and you guys will find links to the new Claymore keyboard the Gladius 2 mouse the 1070 and their whole lineup of graphics cards as well as their motherboards available for Rison and Intel based systems so they've got you covered on any type of computer you're trying to build but that guys it's time to go thanks for watching hopefully I helped you build your first computer and as always I will see you in the next