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hello everyone I welcome back to Pauls hardware it is a rainy Saturday afternoon in Southern California and I figured what better thing to do right now let the build a computer so I got all my parts here set up this is actually sort of a special build it's for my cousin and he just recently contacted me because his current computer which is I think about four or five years old got a nasty virus and he's like I just don't want to deal with it I'm going to start from scratch so we're gonna do some recovery for his current hard drive over there try to pull his data off of it I'm gonna build him a new machine right now in just a few moments and I kind of wanted to run over the parts for you guys and I'm going to show you a bit of the build process I it's just me filming this whole thing so I'm not going to be able to go through it step-by-step but I'll show you guys the end result once that is all taken care of but um let's start off with the building a computer or choosing the parts for a computer because every time I do that I always try to make each one kind of purpose-built for the whoever it's being built for him whatever they're going to be using it for so what they need is really a home system he worked from home so he kind of has a home office there it's mostly office type jobs he's going to be working with but I wanted to build him a machine that was solid that's going to last a long time I want high quality parts because I don't want anything failing I don't want to have to go over there to be doing fixing on this computer and the feet in the future and then of course I wanted it to be snappy because he's moving up from like a four five year old machine and when he uses this one I want him to be like oh my gosh this is night and day different so uh here's a rundown of the parts let's see I usually start off with a CPU oh one other thing about this build they don't really play many computer games so this is sort of built to be a home computer office computer but I want to give them an upgrade path because they might play video games they have some kids they mostly play consoles but you know I'm going to push them towards PC gaming that's never a bad thing so they'll have the option in the future to add maybe one or two parts to this specifically a video card because you might notice there's no video card right now and that will give them some more Headroom in the future so I base it on the Intel Core i3 3225 processor this is a dual core processor but it does have the intel HD 4000 graphics so kind of the best of the Ivy Bridge IGP you that's available right now and I've used the HD 4000 it works great if you want to do anything from 1080p and 1080p playback videos to even some light gaming on it if they are going to go and play some like more serious gaming on a bike okay at any point drop the video card into this system and you can upgrade but that's kind of the basis for that so I wanted a z77 motherboard of course for the Ivy Bridge processor got the Asus p8z 77m Pro I was actually going to go with the PG 77m which is a bit more of an economical choice I'm trying to keep this with a price budget price range for him but actually the empro had a mail-in rebate that made it the exact same price as the pre 77m so if you are looking to do a build similar to this the piece of PhD 77m by itself totally fun and you can save yourself 20 or 30 bucks by going with that but anyway uh for power supply I got the Rose well hive 550 watt fully modular 80 press 80 plus bronze Rozsival power supplies if you go back aways a little hit and miss from time to time but they've really stepped up their game and power supply area you can look at reviews on a hive series from the actual good review sites like Johnny guru and tech power up they really they either really like them or said yeah this is a really solid power supply especially for the price so 80 plus bronze 550 watt this is actually overkill for this build right now but again if they do want to drop in a video card any video card even if like a 680 in the future this thing will be able to handle apart from that I for the CPU I got a custom or an aftermarket cooler because I hate I absolutely hate the stock coolers check out the Zalman CMP s5x Performa really solid CPU cooler this is not an overclockable processor but this one will keep it cool and it will run much much quieter than the stock one in there especially after you have it running for a while remember I got some basic kingston hyperx 1600 speed 2 by 4 gig kit so it gives it gigs total make use of the dual channel 4 optical drive I have an optical drive optical drives are so boring these days it's like oh go find an optical drive it's less than $20 and that has decent reviews this is oh gosh I didn't even remember what brand this is I think it's I think it's a light on or maybe a Samsung they're not even being very clear with that right here on the it's a Toshiba Toshiba Samsung all right so this is Samsung DVD burner I'll leave it at that we also have a Samsung 840 series SSD this is a hundred and twenty gig love the Samsung SSDs as mentioned I want this to be quick so SSD I wanted to be snappy and I don't want it to ever fail in the future so Samsung SSDs started with the 830 series tons of positive feedback from that really little failure rate continuing that with a 40 this is not the 840 pro 840 Pro uses two bits per cell mlc memory it's a bit faster a 40 by itself actually uses TLC three bits per cell NAND flash memory but still very fast still comparable to the 830 which was super fast but so rounding out the storage Toshiba 2 terabytes mechanical hard drive right there and these prices have come down decently for mechanical hard drives I think this was like 110 for 2 terabytes not quite what was pre-flood but it's getting it's getting there finally since this case oh did I say the case rules will align M micro ATX case is my first time trying this one out so I'm just going to do a separate review video just on that and then also this has a blue LED fan in the front and I didn't want that because it's kind of an office computer so I did grab this is just a leftover silverstone hundred twenty millimeter fan and that's the hardware so i'm going to show you guys as much of this build process as i can comfortably here filming it by myself i'm going to use my Spyderco here to cut things as often as possible and let's go ahead and jump in to the build by travelpod member and I'm back and to be honest I'm not sure at what point I got cut off but basically I was building this system getting it all set up I got the purse in there powered it on and I realized it was way too loud just far too loud for my taste and I decided there must be something wrong so deduce that it was actually the power supply fan that was spinning up so loud did a little test with the power supply fan off and I realized that system is very silent in fact let me turn it on right now for you guys system is very quiet so it was I don't know something wrong with the power supply fan just spinning up too loud actually have a little bit of video comparison which I might show you guys right now so you can probably tell a fan was just much louder than the replacement one and it's got the replacement one in there right now in order to replace the power supply however and here's a bit of poetic justice so I have a separate video on that power supply just an unboxing that I did and then the unboxing I say it's partially modular but it doesn't really matter right that there's a couple hardwired cables because those cables everybody needs so it's not a big deal well as it turns out if it had been fully modular I would have been able to unplug those those cables from the power supply swap out the unit and put it back in however since I had wired that especially the big 24 pin cable very carefully back through here and I'll show you guys that in just a second in order to remove the power supply actually the pull motherboard out basically almost rebuild the system so it was more work than I would have liked but just sort of weird confluence of things that led to that but anyway systems set up now it's good to go very quick I did a test boot of it at Boots in about 15 seconds and that's mainly thanks to the SSD and the ACC 77 motherboard with the newest bios which uses the cat format which is very fast running Windows 7 so even with Windows 7 50 15 second boot superfast not really happy with that but let me give you guys a quick walkthrough of the completed build and the cable management so here is the completed ability guys and I'm going to try to give you guys as good a look at it edit as I can given that I can't go back over there to do any adjustments on the camera at least if I do I mean I need to take a quick break but uh here we go let's start with them foot outputs input outputs on the back you can see your the exhaust 120 millimeter right there power supply white IO shield for the inputs and outputs I have removed two of these some screws so I can remove the side panel didn't add any extra fence or just roll them with the stock fans these stock fans right now at least the stock fan in the back that replacement silverstone when i did in the front fan for the the cooler horizontally cool right there and then of course the fan on the power supply the good fan on the good power supply and you guys can kind of see how I laid out the drives here so optical drive up top I went with the SSD on a 3 on a 3.5 inch to 2.5 inch tray right here and I went with the the two terabyte Toshiba down there at the bottom as you can see did that because I wanted to use the rubber mounts for the Toshiba I also wanted to kind of space out the weight a little bit since this is a pretty decent power supply it's fairly heavy that being up top made it pretty top-heavy so if I had put this up top it would have been really top heavy as it is it's balanced out a little bit more now so that kind of helps also I wanted to configure it so that I can only I would only need to use one of these serial ata leads a serial ata power leads from the power supply so I have one goes up to the optical drive down here to the SSD and then feeds down here to the the two terabyte mechanical Drive down at the bottom so there's a kind of a quick look at the interior I turn it this way hopefully you guys can see the cable management yeah maybe a little bit about this there we go it's because if this case does have a drawback it's definitely the cable management because really there's no room behind the motherboard tray you've got a wedge pretty much everything back here as far towards the back of the case as you can so that's something to consider and I kind of managed to get most of them back there as far as I could use the fair amount of cable ties and whatnot to get those all sort of sorted out there's another look up at the top the power supply so I was also able to do just the the single power cable coming off the power supply routed the four pin up around the top there as you can see comes up here a little bit of a tricky cable management with these these guys here to get a zip tie in there so I could secure it up there secure it again to the back there so that could get around to the four pin connector which is right up there here's a cable management coming from the back and I think one of the biggest things I was able to do here to reduce the clutter and cable management was the power supply which is right here has a big fat 24-pin power cable and basically I was i routed that by removing this motherboard standoff which is really tight in this corner that's one thing to pay attention to that is why I had to remove the motherboard in order to replace the power supply but by removing this thumb screw you can actually feed the cables up behind there and get them between the hard drive and five and a quarter inch bay and the motherboard tray and doing that it will allow me to route the 24 pin up around here and just tuck it back into the corner got a huge amount of that bulk out of the way and tucked away and then just fed it out there to go back to the front I also tried to do my own little cable management thing here by adding these these zip ties which I don't know I did it first and that was really kind of excited that it worked and then when I actually came time to use it I really only used it to kind of put this front panel a cable on so there's that then the rest of the cables again just kind of tucked away wrapped around zip tie it up as best I could that way I'm so there's a look at the cable management and that is going to do it for this video guys once again this has been my little budget build featuring the Rosewell line in case asus pz 77m pro motherboard Intel Core i3 3225 processor and all the other components that you saw in there if you'd like to see more build videos like this please let me know in the comments because I would like to do more of them it's just a matter of if it's worth it if you guys want to see that and gathering parts together to actually do full complete builds I would also love it of course if you would subscribe give me a thumbs up if you like the video thanks a lot for watching you guys see you next time on pulse hardware