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what's up guys you're watching Jase two cents and today we're going to learn how to build a computer using all of this okay guys so as I mentioned today we're going to learn how to build a computer using these components here this build had one thing in mind and one thing in mind only besides being as much power as we could put in a small case but that one thing being a small case this buyer has portability as the most important factor to his build so for that I went ahead and chose the silverstone ft 0 3 fortress case as you can see here it is very small it is very light and we are going to talk a little bit more about this later when we start the build but it's quite a bit different than my 900 d which are used to same for graphics we're going with the EVGA GTX 780 superclocked graphics card a lot of people may or may not like team Nvidia doesn't matter this particular buyer wanted to go with something as powerful as they could get for right now - the Titan didn't want to waste any money for that we chose the GTX 780 for a power supply we are using the Silverstone Strider gold evolution it is AP 80 plus gold rated power supply and this power supply unit is a 750 watt with 850 max output capability we're not going to use anywhere near that amount of power and because we're putting it in such a small case we are using the Silverstone Strider gold pp0 5 short cable kit this allows us to take out because this is a fully modular power supply so it allows us to get rid of those long cables and we could have much tidier cable management in this case by using this short cable kit specifically for our power supply to keep everything cool we're going to toss out those Silverstone fans and we're going to toss in some SP 120 Corsair fans these fans are amazing fans I definitely live by these fans I've got 12 of them in my case alone keeping the CPU cool we're going to go ahead and go with the H ATI here from Corsair it is an all-in-one unit there's nothing you have to do maintenance wise it's just completely contained no filling no draining just plug it in and go and it is software controlled so it'll control the fans based on its needs for RAM we are going with the Corsair Vengeance Pro this is a 16 gigabyte kit I do channel kitt 1866 megahertz but we are going to be overclocking this ram a little bit for the cpu we are using the intel 4770k a lot of people are going to wonder why i went with the cpu considering my entire video about why I went 3770k the bottom line is this is what makes sense for this buyer this buyer is not going to be doing an upgrade very often in fact this computer needs to last him many years so for that we went ahead and chose with the 4770k just so that he can have the newer that the newest generation you know to start out his longevity of his computer plus we're not going with a massive overclock just a small very very humble overclock which the 4770k will be more than capable of housing the processor is going to be our asus republic of gamers maximus 6 genie it is a micro ATX board because it's going in such a small case we've got to make sure that it can fit in there and I chose this motherboard because it's got all of the onboard features that you'd come to expect with a high-end motherboard like something from the Republic of gamers line it's got an amazing Ethernet card an amazing sound card it's got fan control overclocking on this is amazing and it's capable of future upgrades for SLI if he wants to put another card in here we'll get more into that later and for our hard drive space we've got two data drives here what we're going to be using when you've got a fast computer like this and you're going to overclock it you've got a really fast graphics card and a really fast processor motherboard really fast RAM you need to have fast hard drive to go along with it and for that we are using the Samsung 840 Evo 750 gigabyte solid state drive and just in case that's not enough doesn't want to fill this up we went ahead and went with a Toshiba 2 terabyte 7200 rpm 64 megabyte cache hard drive for all of his pictures movies maybe some adult pornography who knows whatever he wants to put on here you put on whatever he wants not have to worry about space and last but not least we have got an 8 gigabyte flash drive this is going to serve two purposes you may have noticed we have no optical drive here we're not putting an optical driving there so we're going to be putting the ISO onto here turning this into one an installation drive for the operating system and to this is also going to be his recovery backup disk in case something happens and he has to have a restore point we're going to put an initial rinse restore point on here and then he can do all of his backups to this and have an image of his entire computer and speaking of operating systems I know a lot of you immediately are going to not like this but we are going with Windows 8 in this machine like I mentioned he's not going to be upgrading for a long time he wants to have as much future proofing as he can I'm banking that 8.1 for Windows 8 is going to make a huge difference I've got some inside sources saying that 8.1 it's going to fix a lot of things so I'm going ahead and taking a chance on that I'm putting my reputation with this PC build on the line with 8.1 I have confidence in that if you don't like it adapt this build to go with Windows 7 everything will work perfectly fine now just like your grandfather always told you doing the job what is what did grandpa used to say oh that's right okay all right cut now just like your grandpa used to tell you any job worth doing is worth doing right and in order to do it right you've got to have the right tool I've got a couple of tools here that you may need at any point and putting together your computer some of these are optional really the only tool you need is going to be a multi-tool screwdriver here mine just pulls out it's got big and a lot or big and small Phillips and flathead screws on there as well as a nut driver on each end it's got pretty much your most common sizes that you would need for a computer you pick this up at any hardware store usually less than ten bucks you probably won't need any tools besides that for keeping your wires nice and tidy we've got ourselves some zip ties I've got a razor blade just in case I find myself needing to cut something very rarely do I need it but I never have a blade when I need one so I always keep one in the tool bag I've got a pair of cutters here this is really nothing more than cutting your zip ties the excess and getting it nice and clean and you've got a pair of pliers here chances are you aren't going to need these but what tool bag wouldn't be complete without a pair of pliers and then we've got a small Phillips screwdriver here which can be used for popping out pins or tucking wires behind things really it's just handy to have a nice small screwdriver in case you need to get into a really tight place don't really ever need to use this as I mentioned this is pretty much the only tool you will really ever need for putting together your computer and then last but not least you have your hardware here this is going to be specific to your case each case comes with its own set of hardware needed for its components and in this case it's in this plastic bag usually it comes in a little cardboard box but this is what we're going to be using to put together this case today now one of the first things you want to do when getting your computer ready to be built is you want to get the motherboard situated everything you need to build your computer for the motherboard is included inside the box in this case here we don't have an anti-static bag rog basis never sends anything in an anti-static bag but we do get a tray in there and then you've got your i/o plate sli bridge you've got an easy your i/o or your front panel connectors there and you get a whole bunch of cables here alright so for now what we're going to do is we're going to go ahead and just set up a ghetto test bench here I don't have a test bench personally I've never owned one I probably should get one I've always just used the ghetto box method so we're going to get our motherboard ready here by simply setting our motherboard on the box it's ghetto and it works and it's glorious now normally in getting your PC ready you would want to set up everything all the basics onto your motherboard and do a test bench boot we're not going to do that today because I have high hopes for these components here but you may for your first time build want to set everything up CPU Ram graphics card and make sure that you at least get a basic post with your components one of the first things you want to do is get your CPU installed inside of your motherboard get the pins nice and secure get everything safe so go ahead and take out your trusty razor blade here try not to cut your fingers off like I have a big habit of doing and go ahead and get your CPU placed inside of your motherboard okay when installing your CPU chip you'll notice that you have a gold triangle on one of the corners if you lift up the socket tab right here be very gentle this is going to expose the pins you definitely don't want anything to get in there as that will ruin your day but you're going to notice that there's also not only a gold triangle but there's also two notches on the side of the CPU and there are two notches also inside of the socket so you're just going to simply line those up drop the CPU in there very gently and we can leave the plastic cover on because when you reposition the socket cover on there and you push this down it pops that cover right off so you never have to get involved and get too close with your socket pins because the cover never leaves the socket cover until it's ready and now our CPU is installed and ready for action ok so now we're using the silverstone ft0 3 and we are going with a micro ATX board this is going to be a little bit unconventional when it comes to installation on the order that we're about to do things so if you're using a standard mid tower full tower or even of just a super tower case like the 900 II behind me you pretty much would just mount your motherboard in and then you would mount your cooler to it if you're going with a standalone water cooling like the H 80 that I have but because we have no motherboard cut out there's no hole in the back of this case for the motherboard we're going to have to do things in a very interesting order as you can see by looking inside here we have no motherboard cut out so that's going to cause a little bit of a problem when it comes to the standard way of installing the motherboard and some people might be saying well why is there no motherboard cutout well in this particular case right behind the motherboard is where you're going to find your hot-swap hard drive installation right here so it wouldn't do any good to have a motherboard cut out on this case but if you're doing a basic installation this is a little bit more advanced which you'd be dealing with normally you wouldn't have this problem to worry about okay so now that we've got our CPU installed on a motherboard and before we put the cooler on the CPU there's some things I want to do to get this Silverstone case ready to go as I mentioned earlier I don't like the fans that come with this case especially since they aren't sleeved and sure we could sleeve them but we want to add a bit of style to this build so we're going to put the SP 120 fans in this case so we're going to go ahead and remove these fans and add a little bit of style okay we're back and I've decided to do a little bit of a tech tip here for you I had to do this on my computer as well on one of my computer builds that I did actually in the past this is the bracket that we're going to be using right here this is set to fit 1150 socket you can see you have the holes here in the motherboard you can kind of see them right they're a little bit dark what we're going to do is we are going to flip this upside down here we're going to take the retaining bracket where you are going to stick them through the hole like so and we are going to take a small piece of electrical tape to simply hold that on the back as we put it inside of the case now some people may look at this and say oh that's a ghetto mod you know what a lot of custom pcs live because of ghetto mods well that's going to do is it's going to it may look a little bit tacky but you know what you're never going to see it and it holds the backplate on the whole time that you're setting this inside the case so what this allows us to do now is get the motherboard inside the case before we installed the pump because it is threaded on here and you're able to take the retaining bracket on the top and tighten it down without the bracket moving around it allows us to get the board safely inside of the case without having to worry about mounting this pump outside of it which then increases our chances of actually causing damage most cases don't have the standoffs already installed those are those brass little they look like little screws another screw screws into normally you have to install those inside of your case based on the type of motherboard you're installing whether it be micro ATX ATX XL ATX ITX whatever type of case motherboard you're installing the standoffs are built into this one they're already there lay the case down so you can kind of see they're already built in so we don't have to worry about doing that we can just put the motherboard right into the case and as I mentioned earlier the hardware that we're going to need to install them to the motherboard is included with the hardware that came with the case the first thing you want to do when installing your motherboard in your case is you want to take your i/o plate and get that installed into your case normally this would be in the back in this case it's on the top but in order to know which way to orient it whether this way or this way you're going to have to take a look at your motherboard and see exactly how it's going to be oriented in this case the motherboard installs this direction so take a look at the audio import inputs here you can see that this is the orientation that we are going to install the i/o plate okay so we've got the motherboard installed in the case now I've installed a red LED light right here that you can kind of sort of see because you want to give some cool little blinky aspects to this case to kind of accent the red that's in here what we're going to do now is we're going to go ahead before we put the cooler in here and the RAM in here we're going to do the front panel installation the front plant panel plugs the motherboard in this case is oriented sideways so normally what would be at the bottom is now on the side and I'm usually not a fan of using the little IO connectors that come in this particular Asus is really good about giving you these these adapters here that you can use for plugging in your reset switch your power switch and you all of that stuff but because we're dealing in such a small case I'm going to go ahead and use these just to keep things as simple as possible we also have one here for a additional USB if we need it okay so we've gone ahead and installed the front panel connectors and because this is such a tight case and tight fit I went ahead and made sure they're h80 fits and as you can see the way it installs here is you have a push-pull fan configuration so we have the radiator and the fan and the screws sandwiching it together on the top of the case now just to make sure that there was no fitment issues I went ahead and installed that and as you can see here we can get our CPU block curves around and it will fit just like this it's definitely a tight fit but it's definitely worth it and then we're going to have our second fan installed on the bottom of the radiator just like this so we have nice push-pull configuration for high static pressure and maximum cooling especially for such a small form-factor so what I'm going to do now before I install the second fan I'm going to go ahead and get the CPU block mounted Corsair does come with high quality thermal paste already installed so don't feel the need to clean that off go ahead and use that and you just saw that I cut a zip tie on that I like to put a zip tie around these plastic covers when I'm moving them around to make sure that I don't accidentally scrape that so I just put a zip tie around that to keep this cover from falling off but now that we're ready to go ahead and move forward with the installation just cut it off and off you go you okay so now that we've got our motherboard installed we've got our LED light installed and we've got our front panel connectors installed the next thing we want to do is we want to get the power supply ready to go I didn't plug in the USB front are technically top USB ports on here yet because I want to get the power supply in here in the bottom and I'm going to kind of run the cables all together so cable management is definitely going to be a challenge inside this case so we're go ahead and put in the motherboard or the power supply on the bottom and we're going to get our short cables ready to go and then we will see when that's done okay guys we've only been at this a few hours because Jay is OCD and here's what we've got done so far we've got the motherboard installed the CPU installed we've got the H ATI installed we have got the power supply installed all the front side of inputs from the reset switched power switch LED power LED we've got the USB 3.0 installed and we've got all of the corsair link fans wired up all of the USB stuff in there we've got our 8 pin power plug installed right here on the side and then on the back as you can see we've already started some OCD cable management back here I mean I'm what we have left to do now is we need to install our RAM and then we need to install our graphics cards and our hard drives and power for the hard drive so we're getting near the end here to the points where we're going to do our test boot and let's go ahead and install some RAM ok this is one time when you don't have to be embarrassed to pull out the motherboard manual in fact there's two times I recommend that you pull out the motherboard manual one is when you're hooking up the front panel connectors on your case some other boards have it printed on there some dope no problem in looking at the motherboard manual to figure out where those pins go the other time I always always recommend looking at the motherboard manual even when you're dealing with the same manufacturer not all Asus boards are the same not all MSI boards are the same and that's looking at your memory configuration naturally you want to say red is a channel and black is a channel when you're looking at the colors of the DIMM slots however in this case the red is channel 1 and channel 2 or channel a and B so we're going to install our RAM in both red channels if we had done red and black we would have put ourself in single channel mode which would have cut our memory bandwidth in half so we're going to go ahead and take our vengeance program 16 gigabytes to 8 gigabytes tix and we're going to install those in our motherboard and as you can see we've got kind of a color combination going on here a nice little rog red black in this really kick-ass small form-factor case and there we go we've got our RAM installed and I don't say so myself this is turning out to be quite a badass-looking little system right here this is this color scheme this ROG red and black may be done a lot but I think this looks really damn sexy I like the way that Ram looks that is awesome okay so before we go ahead and start buttoning this up and putting in our graphics card I want to go ahead and install the main fan cage right here that goes in the middle of the case this one those in the bottom and this one goes right here like so I just want to get this in there so I can plug this into the motherboard and get that out of the way and as you can see here it's definitely a tight fit the h80 is going to push slightly on the center of the fan but fortunately that's not going to cause any problems in fact we can kind of push that up out of the way as we get this ready to go all right we're getting down to the nitty-gritty we're almost done with this build we really only have a couple of things left to do we have to install our data storage or SSD and our hard drive and for that we're going to be using the included SATA cables that came with the motherboard this particular motherboard comes with two types of SATA cables one has a 90 degree plug and a straight plug on one end and then the other cable has two straight plugs for this case we're going to be using the two straight plugs for both of our drives so we need to run power for our SATA and we also need to run our SATA cables and then we have our hard drives installed and the last thing after that is installing our PCI Express power cables and our gtx 780 so let's go ahead and get this thing finished up okay we've got our hard drives installed here inside of the case got the SSD installed here and it's a little bracket and we went ahead and opted to put the hard drive inside of the hot swap Bay as you can see right here I did that because I felt that the easiest way to install the SSD was with the cables facing up and unfortunately that moves into the other installation area for this hard drive and so I don't believe this buyer is going to be changing out his hard drive any time very often but if he wants to upgrade his hard drive now he doesn't have to have any installation skills to do it and take anything apart he can just drop it right in here push it down and the new hard drive is now installed so now we only have one thing left to do and that is to flip this thing around get our PCI Express cables installed and put that bad boy that beast of a monster card that's 780 inside here and then we're going to do our first test boot some people would argue that we should have put an AMD card in here some people will say we should have put a 690 or we should even put a Titan in here the bottom line is this is the card that we chose to go with and it is massively long I've not personally held one of these before I forgot just how big the card used to be this is about the length of the 580 and the 680 was a little bit shorter they'd shortened up the card a little bit with the 680 this thing is massive and initially my first thoughts are uh-oh this may not fit inside this build but I already know it's possible because I've seen it done before I just want to show you how tight of a fit we really have with this card in this case unfortunately the GeForce green kind of ruins a little bit of the aesthetics but it's ok because it is just such a massively powerful beast so let's go ahead and get this thing in here and then once we hook it up to power this build hardware-wise is complete all right well there it is a lot of you guys questioned on Twitter and Facebook on whether or not all these parts would actually fit whether or not we can get all those products into this tiny little case and guess what it's also very light and it's still pretty portable I mean I could pick up my 900 d like this if I wanted to even if it wasn't water-cooled the case management are the wire management on the back as you can see is very acceptable I mean it's kind of bunched up a little bit right here but this is where the wiring is intended to go it's very deep on the back I've got nothing but great things to say about this case I mean you have a couple of gripes but I'm not going to get into that in this video gtx 780 fits in there in fact we've got about another inch and a half worth of space before we hit this fan so we could have easily fitted 690 in here or a 79 90 if we wanted so there's plenty of room for graphics cards now a lot of you guys have wondered how airflow is going to work in this case the way it works is the 120 millimeter fan on the bottom here pulls in from the dual 80 millimeter holes as you can see right here on the bottom you could also put two 80 millimeter fans here for more directional airflow if you wanted to do that or if you're going to water cool you could do a dual 80 millimeter radiator there but that fan on the bottom right here blows air to the graphics card now some of you may have wondered why I didn't go with a custom cooling graphics card something with like the two fans like the EVGA or the asus direct CU or even the gigabyte wheel with the three fans or the twin fros or any of those options because they're known to be a bit quieter the problem with a case like this and the fact that it's got stacked airflow design is that you have to have directional airflow and those graphics cards just swirl the air around inside of your case because they're expecting a bigger case with more fans to exhaust that air so we have to go with a blower style fan that way we can exhaust it out the top we sacrifice a little bit in terms of noise but this particular buyer was made well aware that it's going to be some noise involved with this fan compared to one of those other custom cooling solutions he's ok with that in fact there have been reports of people putting in those multiple fan graphics cards that are not directional and they are the blower turbine type of fan and have actually reported overheating problems in their case when using those types of graphics cards so this card was chosen for a specific reason now there's only one thing left to do that is to button it back up hook it up see if we get a good boot and then install our operating system and then we start our benchmarking okay so the operating has been installed everything is updated all of our drivers are fresh freshly updated I try to do a little bit of overclocking on this computer unfortunately this 4770k had absolutely no interest in doing any sort of overclocking beyond 4.2 gigahertz this chip was just unfortunately a bad luck of the lottery draw and it has no interest in doing anything about 4.2 but that's okay because this buyer had only one thing in mind and that was to get as much power as he could in a small package but he wasn't interested in going in high overclocks and for the sake of stability I think it's a good idea we were able to cram a lot of very good components inside this tiny little case and battlefield 3 runs at over 100 frames per second in all situations and on some cases it's running in the 150s and 160 s and staying up there the entire time this gtx 780 is a massive beast it's an amazing card so with that there's only one thing left to do let's go ahead and turn around and start pulling in some noobs you