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excellent wait tech reviewers like to make out like building a PC is easy it is for the most part but sometimes instead of being easy it is hard that usually means that you've encountered one of the following PC building paradoxes but hopefully this video will put some of your fears to rest screw struggles if you've ever had to bust out the pliers to separate a screw from a motherboard standoff then you've already learned this hard lesson about our phillips headed friends you see the fact is that the pc building gods and their infinite wisdom chose to use two separate standards from opposite ends of the globe when choosing which types of screws should commonly hold our computers together there is UTS 6-30 to and then there is m3 based on the metric system i usually call UTS 632 the coarse thread screw it's used for power supplies 3.5 inch drives PCIe expansion slots to hold on your cases side panels and most of the time for motherboard standoffs m3 I like to call fine thread it's usually used for smaller 2.5 inch drives whether they're hard drives or SSDs for securing optical drives and sometimes from other board standoffs as well which is why it's always a good idea to check what types of standoffs and screws your case is using before installing your motherboard is it a UEFI or a BIOS the BIOS or basic input/output system is what your PC churns through as it boots up and it has long been a place of fear and uncertainty for new PC builders now we must also deal with the fact that newer motherboards don't have a BIOS anymore it's become the UEFI for a new motherboard since about 2014 which stands for unified extensible firmware interface which really just rolls off the tongue and is not confusing at all at least when I tell people what bio stands for it would kind of click a little bit and they'd be like oh yeah that kind of makes sense to be fair the BIOS has been around since about 1975 and the new UEFI standard was needed to allow booting from larger hard drives for low level operating system tie-ins that allow UEFI based computers with Windows 8 and Windows 10 and SSD to boot in like 15 seconds or less just remember that for you it still works functionally the same as a BIOS you can still access the UEFI by tapping delete during startup can still revert to default settings using your motherboards clear CMOS function if you happen to screw anything up and we've even been getting away with calling it the UEFI BIOS even though that's not technically correct busting static myths I've given my fair share of warnings about electrostatic discharge or sapping something to use the scientific term but the fact is that I have never in my life actually damaged a piece of computer hardware with a quick shock from ESD that's not to say that you should ignore an ESD completely but using practical methods to neutralize your static buildup like touching your power supplies housing every so often while that's plugged in and grounded is almost always enough to prevent any issues also make sure that you're working on a non conductive surface like wood so no metal table tops and if you live somewhere that's very dry you should take extra care as less humidity means ESD will be more common CPU socket lever pressure and you CPU installation can be a nail biting experience even if you built a system before build guides like mine are always careful to point out just how delicate you should be during the step but for the newer Intel LGA sockets the fact is that after you ever so daintily place the CPU in the socket with the notches and the triangle lined up you'll often have to wrench down on that locking lever with some significant force you might even hear some creaking and groaning from down there but like an elderly couple making sweet sweet love the cringe inducing sounds will quickly subside once the payload is deployed I should mention that if you're using a newer Intel skylake processor you should be a little bit more careful with this since their PCBs are thinner and also apologies to any of my regular viewers who can now never install CPU again without making that elderly couple Association what about this SSD is 2.5 inches don't you hate it when your computer parts are deceptive take a look at this 2.5 inch SSD for example I think most of you would agree that this is a 2.5 inch drive it you know what let's check ah so that's ah this is actually more like 2 and 3/4 inches wide maybe they're referring to something else all right so I have discovered that no part of this drive actually measures 2.5 inches you're some fish large okay so be honest this fact probably hasn't caused problems for you guys directly unless you've blindly attempted to scratch-build your own case but there it is neither 2.5 inch drives nor 3.5 inch drives not even the five and a quarter inch drives that we hear about from legends of PC buildings pasts are actually the size that they say they are the measurements comes from spinning mechanical hard disk drives whose internal spinning platters do measure up properly 3.5 inches or 2.5 inches whatever the case may be the only defense that I can think of for their deception is I don't know maybe it's just really cold outside and that is all five confusing PC building facts I had fun making this video I hope you guys enjoyed watching it if you did don't forget to hit that like button down below I could totally do some more videos in this series so let me know if you have any ideas in the comments section also you can use my amazon link which is down in the description click on that before you shop for stuff at Amazon and that helps me immensely feel free to visit my store at store dot paul's hardware net where you can support me by picking up shirts or mugs or pint glasses and lastly consider subscribing to my channel if you're not already for the latest to tech videos and as always thank you for watching screw strip screw struggles screw struggles this kind of a 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