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okay I think so think of top of my head's being cut off but that's okay it's too late for that now I'm going to be monitoring here for just a second to make sure that I'm live and assuming everything is going okay which I think it should be welcome everyone to today's video which is a live build I'm going to be assembling a computer today all the parts you see here cost about $700 total and it's an AMD risin system this is suitable for gaming as well as multitasking and for anyone who's interested in building a desktop PC especially if you're going to get into gaming and you've never done it before I'm going to do this live so who knows what might happen but I'm going to be giving my best attempt at walking you guys through the steps one at a time right here as I do it and we'll see how things go all that said it does look like I'm live so that's good again sorry my heads chopped off but that's okay my focus was on the computer parts not on me but let's just get things started here by going over the parts one at a time also a quick word of warning since I am doing this live there might be dogs barking from time to time and I might have some extra noise happening outside since I am just reporting from my garage but all that said parts because you have to choose out the main parts for a computer before you put everything together I usually classify all the parts that are needed for a modern-day computer into seven categories the first category is the processor for that we have a risin 5 1400 processor this is a quad core it's one of AMD's newest series of CPUs quad core with hyper-threading which means you get eight threads for your operating system or programs to work with for physical cores and it's been a very nice performer it only cost you around 160 to 170 dollars and it comes with a cooler in the box and we're going to be using that cooler today second piece that you're going to need is a motherboard this is kind of the central piece that holds everything together with any computer the motherboard we're using is the Asus prime v 350 M - a it's a micro ATX motherboard which means it's a little bit smaller it's a little bit shorter that way then a full sized ATX board and to go with it I have a micro ATX case as well be 350 is a little bit more inexpensive when it comes to the chipsets available for rising processors B 350 will get you the most the the most of the main functionality that you need for instance if you go up to X 370 the main thing you're going to get the support for like to weight graphics cards configurations SLI and crossfire that kind of thing which honestly isn't that big of a deal for most people especially if you're building on a budget third thing is going to be what should i what should I say next I said case so let's talk about the case third thing is a case you need a case whole different everything together other than that they why they have a wide range of prices this is only about $40.00 it is a very inexpensive case by couger the mg 100 micro ATX so everything's going to be a little bit smaller a little bit tinier footprint and then beyond that cases like I said can get really expensive they can get 100 bucks 200 bucks and you do get some nice features for that for our purposes we're going to be showing what it's like to work in a budget case but it's not really the case doesn't really affect performance so there's not too much of a concern there for memory at the Corsair Vengeance lpx this has been a very popular kit to use with Rison because it's very compatible you got to make sure that the memory get is compatible it's risin and risin it's kind of finicky with certain memory especially if you wanna run at higher speeds this kit has proven to be very reliable even when running at higher speeds it's a 3,000 speed kit but you can run into 29:33 with just about all the rise and CP rising processors that I have tried alright that's that's what four things we have three things left the power supply is the EVGA 500 BQ power supply is another thing where you can get away with the cutting some corners and getting a power supply it's a little bit less expensive this is actually a newer one and they have a 500 ba 80 plus bronze weight rated 500 watt power supply it's been very popular for budget builders for quite a while because you can get it for about 35 to 40 dollars this one is a new version 2 BQ which is all of the basic same internals as the 500 B except the cables look a little bit nicer however this one does cost about 10 or 15 bucks more so if you're on a strict budget just go with that 500 B honestly it's exactly the same thing I just wanted to try this one out because I hadn't before and I was ordering all the parts literally today I picked up like half of these parts from new egg this morning and so that's what I'm with there for a graphics card you do need a graphics card at least with this build because the CPU were using doesn't have integrated graphics the graphical reason is the rx 580 if you reference any of the links I've have done any description for this video you might notice I have some of the parts that are slightly different I basically told you to find an rx 588 gig version that's as cheap as possible and you can find that for about $220 this one from Asus is a very nice version of the rx 580 but it does cost more towards 270 to $280 I'm using because the one it's the one I have here also I was really curious what kind of this this case is supposed to be able to handle GPUs up to 13 inches this is about a 12-inch graphics card it should fit if it doesn't I have backup options that are available and then the final thing that we need is going to be storage for storage I have an SSD because whenever I'm building a system now I always go with an SSD this is a sand disk in the description I have the SanDisk Ultra Plus 240 gig this is an ultra 2 honestly it's not that huge of a difference but for our purposes it's going to get the job done I recommend it 240 or 256 gig SSD to start with and then since this isn't going to be able to hold everything that we need I always recommend finding an old hard drive an old one or 2 terabyte hard drive that you have to add to this if you want some additional storage if you don't have that maybe consider dropping another 40 or 50 dollars on a 2 terabyte hard drive just to make sure that you don't run out of space on this SSD but you want the SSD because that's what makes everything fast all right so now that those parts are all listed I do have a couple optional parts for this build and that is specifically because of the motherboard I chose the case I chose and the fact that you really want to pay some attention to airflow I've added an extra fan to this build and I added a couple links in the description to so you guys can find those this is a fractal 120mm 120 millimeter venturi fan I did this because this case only comes with a single fan I wanted to add another one for an intake in the front and then I also have a fan splitter right here because the motherboard actually has one header on it to plug in a case fan so I want to use a splitter so we can plug this fan and the one that comes with the case both into the motherboard beyond that I do have some equipments of course that I'll be using I have a rubber mat I'm going to be using that to build on just to keep things safe and then I also have screwdriver standard screwdriver small screwdriver this is from a Fixit kit who knows if I'll end up digging into the iFixit kits for more stuff during this video but this is my this is one I got during during scrapyard worse as so it's got many mi and then lastly I have a knife to open things and speaking of which let's start opening things that's like the fun part right it's actually opening things by the way if you're watching live thanks to any of you guys who have happens to join you guys are great people I hope you wait what yeah I should use smoke smoke to check the airflow I'm not going to be focusing on chat too much because my goal is really to show you guys how to build a system and if I answer questions in chat that's going to be distracting but the first thing I want to do of course is get all of your parts unbox now I'm not expecting to crazy good packaging for this cougar case because again it's a $40 case and 40 bucks you know like you don't you're not going to have probably a ton of really advancing stuff going on with this but here's the best way to get a case out of the box open the top flaps flip it upside down watch for handles on the side if they exist this one doesn't have them and slide it up like so prepare yourself for a brief electric shock static electric shock wasn't too bad this time around and then we can remove the rest of the styrofoam gift case out okay sorry about that headphone users getting the case out of the box is probably going to be the main points where I have problems with potentially hitting the the mic because the mic is right here but hopefully I doesn't mean that you guys can hear me okay alright welcome welcome once again anyone who is joining live and chats wow so the nice thing about an inexpensive case is it's also very lightweight this is steel but it's very thin gauge steel so a case typically is going to have your i/o points on the back that's where the motherboard sticks out this is where your power supply amount that's where you plug in actually AC power these are some expansion slots down here for graphics cards you have two side panels this is a main side panel and hey good job cougar these are plastic thumb screws but they are thumb screws and I like thumb screws so we'll set those aside removing those some screws allows you to get the side panel off usually when you're building with the system that is pretty thin this is what you get when you pay $40 for a case not super thick stuff but you know what they've rolled some of the edges over here so it's not too terrible this does have some optional fan mounts here on the side so you could pop fans on there to get extra air being pushed in directly onto your components that might run a little warmer like the CPU and GPU for our purposes we probably do not need that though today this case again does come with a rear exhaust fan which is 120 millimeter that's nice and I'm gonna I'm just going to start off by removing both of those side panels and setting them off to the side we'll come back to those later all right this it really is nice actually having such a lightweight case cases can be so cumbersome sometimes in this one I could just lift it up and toss it around I dress also some different camera angles to show you so look I can give you guys the top down if you want I'll try to remember to switch between those from time to time a bag of case accessories some plastic oh it's got little feet are those feet that's have feet oh yeah hey that's another little thing you get when you get a budget case it does have a little rubber pads for the feet but they come they don't come free pre-attached have to peel them off and stick them on the bottom I kind of want to do that actually bear with me once for one moment while I attach these adhesive foam foam feet pads holy crap I have 1,700 people thanks to all you guys for showing up here again if you're in live chat I'm going to be glancing that at that from time to time but I'm probably not going to be answering too many questions of that kind of thing because I'm trying to teach people how to build a computer on the fly something I've actually wanted to do for a while I intended to do this video several weeks ago and then that was when my one of my GH fours video outs broke so I had to kind of postpone it alright so there's that case we're going to set this aside for now let's go back to this little view and we're going to prepare our motherboard by installing the CPU and memory and cooler on to it let's also set graphics card aside so here is our motherboard basis and we'll just pop this out you got the motherboard the main things we're going to need from here are going to be the motherboard you will need a SATA cable so this should come with your motherboard and we will use this to connect up the SSD and then your motherboard is probably also going to have a manual which you might want to pull out and set aside because you there's a chance you might need a reference a couple things in there and then finally you're going to want your i/o shields which is a little piece of metal again budget case budget motherboards this is very very no-frills IO shield there but again will get the job done and that's our goal for today is to build a computer that has a lot of performance for not like crazy months money builds evident Lee had been around $1000 plus price and it's nice to do stuff that's a little bit more budget because I know not everyone has that much money to spend alright so I'm also going to do it we're going to try to keep things organized as I proceed along here let's see if you guys the old top-down view punch in a little bit mmm all right look I can focus too maybe okay cool so first get your motherboard out of the box out of the protective anti-static bag that it comes in and check it out you know on the motherboard you're going to have your socket that's right there that's where the CPU goes there's a arm on the side lift the arm to install the CPU drop Darren back down to lock it in place there's also this bracket right here these two pieces and these are actually retention mounts for the heat sink fan that goes on top of here however the heatsink thing that we're using is not going to use these so I'm going to be removing these two little pieces now so these long slots here that's for system memory so we're going to be occupying two of the four usually it's every other slot that you populate but again you can reference a motherboard manual for that so I'm going to be occupying slot number I believe in slot number two and slot number four here there's some other plugs for plugging in power from the power supply the long 24 pin here and the eight pin right over here and then these down here expansion slots so the big long one is where the graphics card is going to go and then down here along the bottom edge you have places to connect other things such as the connectors for the case like the front panel USB is going to plug into these little ports down here you might also have a front panel audio header down there and then these slots here are these plugs and these two plugs here all SATA plugs that's where you plug in storage like an SSD or hard drive or even an optical drive if you're going old school and you have one of those finally there's an MDOT two slot right here this is this narrow narrow little slot right there with these mounting points that's also for newer SSDs we're not going to be using one of those today but that's part of the reason I chose this motherboard is because you can install it with your SATA SSD like we'll be using and then if you wanted to upgrade in the future there's tons of ways to upgrade the system one of them is to add an MDOT to nvme SSD which you can drop in right there not too much to speak of on the back of the motherboard but do bear in mind that there is this back plate right here and we're going to need to keep that although it is going to come loose once we remove those four screws which I'll be doing in just a moment so we can properly mount our heatsink so speaking of the heatsink and the CPU let's get that of the box I put everything back in the boxes a lot of this stuff has been used once or twice before but I wanted to give you guys the full experience so here we go fortunately I have not yet used this CPU cooler so you guys can get that experience too when you install CPU cooler to cool the CPU that's what CPU coolers are for you will need to put some thermal paste on there the thermal paste provides a thermal interface between the CPU which is going to get hot as it does work and the heatsink which absorbs the eat then as a fan on it that pushes air over those fins and disperses the heat so what we're going to need to do is make sure that our CPU is ready to go with thermal paste if I didn't have thermal paste pre apply it on here like this circle of gooey stuff is actually thermal paste on there then I would need to actually add some but when you're doing a first time installation you can use this pre applied stuff just bear in mind if you ever need to uninstall this and reinstall it or anything like that you're going to need to get the proper stuff to clean that off and then reapply some thermal paste it's not all that tough but it is probably a next stage of PC building if you've never done PC building before all right here is our CPU installation let's get started with that CPU is in this little clamshell case we're going to grab it by the sides they put a couple little notches in there to make that a little bit easier on the bottom you'll see a bunch of little pins those are delicate you want to try your very best not to touch those or bend them or anything like that and then you'll want to pay close attention because there's a gold triangle on the bottom here you can see it pretty distinctly on one corner and that triangle is going to line up with a triangle that's on the edge of the CPU sockets it's the triangle the CPU socket is a lot harder to see but it's right there trust me only one corner has a little triangle matched into it so I got to do is lift up little arm line up those triangles is they're both in the same corner set the CPU gently on the socket and if you've lined everything up it should just drop right in there that is called a zero insertion force socket because you don't need to put any pressure on it lower that little arm back down and that is how you install an AMD CPU it's actually very very simple if you're going to have any difficulty with CPU installation when it comes to AMD you're probably gonna have it when you uninstall it but if you do this thing if you do this right you probably won't have to do that unless you may be a bigger your cooler in the future now as mention this cooler uses the existing backplate that's on there but it doesn't use these plastic brackets on the top so that means that we're going to need to pull those off that's really simple there's just four little Phillips head screws so I'm going to unscrew those also thinking I should grab my electric screwdriver at some point because that does tend to make these videos go a little bit faster and we'll remove all four of those okay now we have our heat sink fan and we want to pay attention again to where that thermal paste is going to be and not touching that we have four mounting points one two three four on the four corners those are going to mount up with the four mounting points on here and then you can position this however you want there's actually a some mods on line so we're removing this plastic circle on the outside and rotating it 45 degrees so the Andy low goes on the top but honestly you can do it either way you can have it that way you can have it that way it doesn't matter let's do it this way and we're just going to line up those four screws and start them all reading and the idea is that you don't want to put a bunch of you don't want to do one corner at once basically I am just getting each of these screws started to be screwed in I'm barely threading each one just to get it started so all four points are kind of secure but these are not screwed in yet and then I'm going to go opposite corners and give it two or three turns on each side just to make sure that as it is being as pressure is being applied between the heat sink fan and the CPU that it's done evenly because you don't want to put a bunch of pressure on one corner as opposed to the other that's pretty much it CPUs installed heat sink fan is installed now we have this plug for the fan that's that's necessary it needs to plug in so the fan will spin and have power those are usually pretty distinctly labeled this one's a CPU fan right here so I'm just going to plug that in right now and then we'll keep in mind that we have this little wire hanging off here actually an easy way to do this is to just kind of tuck it up under here again there's a million different ways to do cable management but I find taking care of it right off the bat is a good way to do it so yeah all I really did was kind of wedge that in there so it's going to stay in place it's not going to look bad it's not going to come loose I could also wait it until I got this in the case to kind of tuck that away and everything but for now it's getting the job done all right let's make things a little bit brighter maybe if I can do this on the fly okay cool next up we're going to do the memory Mehmedi okay so memory again is fairly simple it's just a couple sticks it's slots into these long slots right here they are notched in the middle so you can only install them one way the notch is not directly in the middle of the memory it's slightly offset so basically you got a look at these slots here look at that notch it's based there in the center of that and make sure that your memory notch is in the right place so that would be wrong and to flip this around there's a couple caches on sometimes they just on one side sometimes they're on both side of this and we just want to open those up and draw our memory down into the slots and I'm going to put firm pressure on both sides of it and it kind of snaps into place you'll hear a very satisfying clicky sound as the latches kind of grab hold of that and we have one more here goes in just the same way and snap there we go alright so memory is installed CPU and CPU heatsink fan is installed we're moving along quite well here and in fact I think all I'm going to do for the next minute or two is try to keep things tidy if I can but I just get a few more things out of the box so let's switch back yeah that's better all right so case is out actually know it before I even do any of that let's get that fan installed on the front of this alright so when it comes to case fans there's an open side of the fan and then there's a closed side that has the supports in the brackets right there usually this is the intake and the part with the bracket is where the air gets pushed out so since I want this to be on the front of the case we have an exhaust back here let's push an air out that way I want this to be on the front of the case right up here pulling air in so I just need to make sure that the exhaust part of that is facing back and this heat sink fan actually has arrows on it that will also show you the rotational direction of the fan blades as well as the direction of the airflow and then we're just going to mount this up in front it is a hundred and twenty millimeter fan so there's a hundred twenty millimeter mount right up here and that's pretty straightforward it just sits right in there I don't have a good way of showing you guys this but I'm going to need to set it in here and then I'm going to need to screw it in from the front okay most cases that have front panels like this will you can remove them you just got to grab from the front right down here then actually this has a handle which makes me feel like this is going to work and you pull and it feels like you're going to break and break something but it pops off just like that this is just a plastic facade that goes across the front but getting that up allows us to access those four mounting points for that for the fan and assuming I have fan screws which I do they came with the fan that I got I'll just screw that in and get that mounted I am going to grab my electric screwdriver they'll be out back okay things are going well so when I first planned out this builds because I actually planned this build out last month and I wanted to build it I've been wanting to build it and it just kind of turned out that today I ended up being a good day to do that but when I planned it out I actually chose a different case again it was a budget cases about a $40 case but it was a Thermaltake case I just completely lost where I set those screws over I originally chose a Thermaltake case for this but I didn't have that case and I needed to get stuff this morning so my cases were limited to something that would fit within the budget about 40 bucks was micro ATX because I don't like doing a full sized ATX case if it's a micro ATX build and then finally it had to be available at Newegg for will call pickup so I did consider some Roseville options I consider the fractal core 1100 I've actually built in the fractal core 1100 so if you're from if you're interested in a build in that case just check my channel and you should be able to find that but since I had built in it before I decided you know let's try something new let's get this cougar one going here used a few cougar product products in the past again inexpensive case so there's lots of things that are just you don't see with more expensive cases like there's a bunch of hot glued stuff and the panel right here and there's like a string of it that went across the USB port which is really just an aesthetic thing but I'm going to pull that out there okay beyond that this should be all I need as far as getting this front panel so I'm going to pop it back on but this would also be what you would need to do if you did want to install a five and a quarter inch drive up here like an optical drive or a fan controller or something like that you can also access these front panels here if you need to get at like the the five and a quarter inch front panels and a 3.5 inch front panel so add-on stuff can be access to a thing you could also pull this up if you wanted to I don't know if modding or anything like that that's fairly simple to get on and off thankfully in this case does have a USB 3.0 and a USB 2.0 on the front headphone and mic jack and then a power reset buttons so all the basic functions you need that's not super pretty good but when you're when you're on a budget that this is this is the lesson of when I'm on a budget this is where I skimp I skip on stuff like the case that doesn't matter as much maybe the CPU cooler this isn't this is the Wraith stealth it's not the best CPU cooler again it's going to get the job done I would probably want to upgrade that in the future if I wanted to so yeah but like I said I wanted to make sure there's plenty of ways to upgrade the system in the future all right I want to get everything else out of the boxes just so I can clear some stuff out here so let's get the graphics card going I also wanted to do this build today because it's still may may may 18th as of doing this build and streaming this video and I'm leaving for Computex next week so I'll be in Taipei for Taipei Taiwan for 9 or 10 days and then I'll be back and then it'll be summer and I'm probably not going to be able to do live builds from my garage during the summer simply because it's too hot so there we go alright so getting getting stuff all over the place right there is our GPU motherboard let's get the power supply out actually probably a good probably good to get the power supply in first here since it's a top mountain power supply so we'll do that where did my life go okay my knife is directly in front of me yeah once it hits you know early-june here it gets really hot so I do have an air conditioner out here in the garage but it's loud so I can't really do that at the same time all right I think it's kind of cool I've been using a lot of EVGA power supplies recently and EVGA just keeps coming out with well-placed power supplies I feel like this is again the newest iteration of the 500 V it's the 500 BQ there's a queue on the end there and whether they give me two sets of screws oh they didn't it's just taped inside the box right the BQ version means it looks good it actually has all black cables so even though this is only partially modular the modular power supply means that the cables come separately entirely so you can unplug them and get rid of them if you're not actually using them partially modular but also all black cables this one right now is about $55 although I feel like given EVGA track record you're probably gonna be able to find it for less than that at some point and yeah it's so not you know not that high ends not that powerful only 500 watts but 500 watts is all most people need for a standard gaming PC and whenever we recommended the 500 B we always say get the 500 B you're going to get you know the most for your money just remember those cables look hideous these do not they're all black so there you go anyone who's looking for a budget power supply maybe consider this one if you're willing to spend an extra 10 bucks or so for making the cables pretty alright so our power supply again is going to go up on the top right up here and it mounts at the back with four screws and you'll notice your power supply has a fan on one side of it in this case in particular you definitely make sure the fan faces down it's going to pull air up out of the case and then push it out the back in some cases where the power supply mounts at the bottom you'd still want have the fan facing down because it's probably a fan filter down there or you can't have it facing up too but honestly that's a debate I don't want to get too much into right now so let's just get this power supply up in there again just four screws and they probably come with your power supply sometimes your case will also come with the screws that will work for this and they taped the screws into the case screws bagging is taped check okay cool how's things going in chat oh my god there's over 2,000 people watching this is crazy you guys crazy it's only Thursday I would expect more viewers in a mid day on like a Saturday or something like that but yeah okay two more of these cool okay and that should be held pretty securely up in the top which you guys can't see yes there we go power supplies up on the top this will allow us to at least see where the power supply is and get kind of a vague idea of where the cables are going to start to go there really is no cable management in this case in a lot of higher-end cases if you're going to spend 60 70 80 bucks per case you'll have room back here to tuck away your cables we don't have that in this case but it doesn't mean the case is smaller so since we also have an optical drive I'm going to probably be pushing most of the extra cables up in here to kind of hide them if I can then everything else just routing down to the bottom to where it might need to get connected now we can at last drop the drop that motherboard in here you and once you have the heat sink fan installed on a motherboard like this you can with some reasonable amount of assurance hold the motherboard by that although you don't go don't want to go swinging it around or anything at that and of course before you install your motherboard you always want to install your i/o shield first Iowa shield should line up with the i/o on the back of the motherboard and that means that the three small holes for the three small holes for the audio outs are at the bottom this is one of those kind of annoying IO shields because it's it's low budgets and it's not sitting in this groove the way I want it to and it's also all metal which means I'm going to cut myself if I push on it too much so I'm going to use the butt end of my screwdriver and I'm going to from the inside push on that to hopefully pop it into place and I have recommended this little technique multiple times before and who knows it might actually even work maybe come on there you go there we go aha and once that's in it should stay should hopefully maybe okay trying to remember to refocus as I move around alright this is the I on the motherboard we're going to kind of angle that into the case dropped oh you know what I can't do that yet what am I telling you guys it's supposed to be a tutorial alright another thing about cases is they have to have standoffs which are small little screws that sort of provide a little bit of gap between this metal plate that we're attaching the motherboard to and the motherboard itself again a lot of cases will come with those pre-installed this case is not one of them though again budget case they make you do a little bit more of the manual labor so the standoffs I'll try to give you guys a slightly better view of this standoffs look kind of like this focus the standoff look like that they're very tiny they're usually made of brass and they're going to have probably there's going to be between five and nine of them depending on the size of your case and everything I always recommends double-checking which screw type these actually work with first which appears to be the Wow that's interesting which appears to be neither neither these none of these types of screws will work with these standoffs it's does it make sense this probably means it's the thin thread because I tried that at first sight so it wants the thin thread there's a thin thread and a rough thread it wants thin stuff so we get the glorious job now of taking the same number of these as our motherboard has standoff points which is one two three four five six and from there know if you guys were able to see that one two three four five and six and we'll need to install standoffs into the appropriate locations that match up with that on the motherboard so this might take just a moment or two another nice thing that he sometimes gets is a standoff nut but again the case did not come with that do i I might have one of those over here right would be nice but I do not have that alright there's two four more one two three four cool first for the go in are the same standoffs that every motherboard uses the top left the one just below the i/o shield this one and this one and those are the same mounting points that a mini ITX motherboard would use there you go and usually every single motherboard has at least those four then we want the two just to the south there is that one here's this one if this was something that I actually realized I might have done this before I started filming because this is the part screwing in the screws that is not quite as entertaining but there you go alright it's also interesting they tied it tied the cable for the fan the exhaust fan in a nut I'm just going to loosen it up so Stan we're going to plug into the header on the motherboard but we'll worry about that later for now let's just get that motherboard installed okay so I usually put the i/o in first just try to push that up against that IO shield and line it up so everything kind of picks out I'm not sure how well you guys can see but probably better if I switch cameras so there's the IO right there and it just pokes through and then I get I get I give it a nice push up against that IO to hold it in place and that will theoretically align at least one of those standoff points that I just set up and then we take our screwdriver theoretically again okay there's one once you get one in it'll hold it in place I usually do that one a little bit loose so the other stuff doesn't is you know I can mine can jiggle it a little bit and line it up in case they are off-center but again five more screws and let's see how fast I can do this okay trying to use my iFixit screwdriver because yeah there we go I fix it screwdriver has a little put you put your palm on the end of it then you can twist it let's get a nice okay here is three no that's for now that's three I can't count that's four and five one more okay if you guys wonder why I don't do these types of videos more often as far as the live builds it's because they can be tedious from time to time or at least a little bit slower moving if you haven't already noticed and yeah whenever I make a build and edit it I almost always you know don't dwell too long on the screwing in the motherboard part all right I am now going to plug in metal fan splitter here into the single fan header which is kind of back towards the back here and this is going to allow me to get the fans plugged in and actually I might have a little bit of an issue because that fan points the the plug is right here which is kind of an awkward point spot it's fairly close for me to plug in this rear fan but the front fan I need to write that cable over for it and the cable is only so long I mean not not terribly short or anything so I'm actually thinking I might just run this along the bottom bottom edge like underneath and tuck it back up behind the graphics curtain so I'm going to plug that in now and then the idea will be that I can sort of push that out to the side and get a cable managed properly once I actually get the graphics card in there okay I'm also going to try my best to kind of wrap up this other fan plug for the exhaust and get that sucked up out of the way cable management is one of those things that's just you got to do it a bunch of times to sort of figure out little tricks here and there to get better or worse at it or that kind of thing and you know just don't give yourself a hard time over it or about it like the first time you're getting it done because nobody's system is going to have perfect cable management the first time around that's just it's just not going to happen I'm also going to use that as an excuse to not do the grayscale management here cuz I don't want to you know I set the bar too high or anything check that tuck that in there and hold on I need a clip ok I'm using some wire Clippers that's my other tool I did use a twist tie down there a metal twist tie which you can use in your system for kill management but I recommend using them sparingly because they do have metal in them only use them if they're properly covered up and everything like you know you've got there there don't use them if they have exposed metal I guess is what I'm trying to say ok ah motherboards install whoo happy about that power supplies installed let's get some some stuff plugged into the motherboard because if you hadn't noticed from our case we have a grip of cables coming off right there there are these little guys which are front panel connectors for power reset LED activity lights there's a USB there is a audio and there is a USB 3 we need to plug all these in if we want all this stuff on the front panel to actually work properly so again just going to kind of bring these up in here plug them in one at a time and then figure out where in the case I can sort of move stuff around to tuck the cables back away however I can and real let's try to focus that's better maybe if one day I'll get a camera person who can adjust the camera for me so I don't have to stop talking to do it alright it's also getting warmer by the minute here with all the lights on don't worry though I can I can muddle through alright power cables we have 2 extra modular cables we're going to plug in one of these is going to be what is known as pci express graphics cable power cables they're usually six pin plug blocks or six plus two pin plug blocks one side goes into the power supply itself usually where it says vga if you're plugging in VGA cables and then we have one more modular power supply cable to add this one is the SATA plug so this is really solely going to be to plug in power to our serial ata drive although this does have multiple plugs that come off the end of it here which means that if I added more drives I could still use a single cable to plug in up to three of those and again modular plug this time the one that's labeled SATA alright hang those out there now a good question here is going to be how the heck am I going to mount minus SD because I don't know if there's even a 2.5 inch drive mounts in this in this case I might have to figure something out for that I have to mount it I might have to be get creative down here towards the bottom or something like that the nice thing about us is these this is a 2.5 inch drive which means it needs a 2.5 inch drive mount and what I'm looking at in here is mainly these five and a quarter inch mounts up here or 3.5 inch mounts down here I need something smaller SSDs have no moving parts though or anything like that so they're pretty durable which means I like I've mounted an SSD into a case just like velcro and it stays where it's where it's where it should and all that kind of stuff not a big deal but I think what I'm actually going to do just to get some improv up improvisation going is just mount it to this bottom piece here because there are potentially some screw holes right there that would work just fine in fact I think I'm going to do that right now where did my yeah ah you can't already tell I'm very good at losing screws and screwdrivers and stuff I was in building all part of the game all right by the way it is entirely possible that this case does have a 2.5 inch mount that I'm just completely unaware of Bob we'll save that for later okay sorry okay I'm back sorry I was I had to make sure wasn't a pizza or something like that it was just a delivery but they dropped it off okay let's move on to plugging in the cables since I have everything lined up SSDs in there mostly shouldn't move all right front panel connectors are the worst connectors they suck everyone hates them and they're terrible but you should have four typically in here power switch reset switch power LED hard drive LED LEDs will say plus and minus on them and those do matter what is plus and what is minus the hard drive ones the the side of the power and reset switch not so much sometimes you can see labeled on the motherboard itself where to plug them in and if you can't make that out or if you just want to double check here's where you will definitely want to double check the mother motherboard manual find F panel front panel system panel connector or something like that and that will point to you where each of those little plugs are and we hates them oh he hates them all right we have power switch power switch oh that's LED what's going on why don't they do that it's confusing okay let's do power LED plus it's on that side okay oh come on this is another one of those things that I don't typically show the full process of when I'm doing standard video all right I have two of the four connected and now adding lights or that reset switch and the hard drive LED positive should go on the same side all right I don't play with right it's teasing me okay that's just how they're connected thank God that's the most hateful part of any computer builds let's move on all right front panel audio and USB plugs are pretty much the same little 10 pin blocks they have one pin blanked out it's in a different spot don't try to get these confused and plug one in where the other is supposed to go usually it's pretty easy to tell the difference again because that difference safety key pin but that's not to say no one has ever tried to plug these in the wrong way before now we get USB go and lastly that's big old USB 3.0 right there and I'm realizing that I could have done better top-down lighting today but too late for that now okay we will crank the ISO cool alright so those are plugged in at the bottom and I'm not sure how I guess and you guys can see that but that's that's pretty bad down that is just all these cables coming off but we'll worry about that later basically I'm going to try to take all this excess I'm going to try to push it all towards the front as much as possible and then bundle it all up up there somewhere but we'll worry about that later and main time let's get those power plugs connected again we've got two of those which I pointed out earlier in the video one is the big one that's one two four pin and the eight pin which is up at the top I'm really glad I made that brighter that's way better okay 24 pin will do first there's a catch on one side of the plug I'm sorry you guys can't see the plug very well because it's being blocked by the drive cage but uh goes like this ooh here's a situation where the edge of the motherboard because it's kind of sticking out here doesn't have a very good support so definitely want to kind of wrapping my fingers underneath the bottom of the motherboard as I plug the power plug in just to make sure I don't flex it too much motherboards are fairly durable I don't say they're like super durable but um you definitely want to avoid cracking or breaking the PCB because that is something that can't happen if you put too much force on them all right kind of wrap that around a little bit so some of the excess can be tucked away now we have that eight pin which is right up here at the top there you go over here by the Bing yeah that's in it so only two more plugs coming off the power supply and stuff that need to be plugged in again this double one for the graphics card and this triple one that Sita which is for the SSD actually I forgot this is these already there so look that's a to wanted okay SATA plugs are kind of l-shaped both on the data cable itself as well as the power cable so you can only plug them in one way but again they are fairly delicate so don't try to force it one way or another this is the data cable so this is just a connection between the SSD and the motherboard so one end goes this is the other end down here into the motherboard like so cool and then we just get the graphics card so all right graphics card again goes in this long slot and there are two expansion slots here at the back now this is a type of case that the expansion slots are just little little metal pieces that you pop off so um you got to figure out how to do that I guess which I want to flat-head screwdriver for it and fine okay I am just using a screwdriver to kind of get these started and you just kind of bend them and they they pop up they're not replaceable so try to make sure that you're removing the right ones for this particular case I'm removing the two middle just forward down here and I mean I'm removing the two of them that are in the middle again and then graphics cards just going to drop in right thing so here we go GPU make sure that you remove anything from the graphics card before you install it it's a might be packaging a lot of them if they have a nice black plate will have one of those on there you can pull that off and save it for for the future they might have little covers on the plugs like your PCI Express connector there sometimes also plugs covering up the eye on the back I already move those from this one and then other than the PCI Express plug that's going to go in that slot IO force which you're going to go towards the back and then there's one power plug on here PCI Express graphics power or peg and you're going to want to pay attention to where that is as well so just aligning this with the slot dropping it straight down in and sometimes it kind of snaps in other times it just kind of sits and rests in the slot this one's just kind of sitting in rest in there that's fine and then you'll have a weight it's not that's not all the way down in a what am I talking about yeah that's big and then of course we need some screws to screw in the back which I believe these should fit this entire big old graphics card will be held in with two screws makes perfect sense to me I made it is usually the most expensive part of the computer and this computer it is this graphics card costs about well 220 to 280 dollars depending on what version you get whereas the CPU in here costs about a hundred and sixty 165 right now so there you go again links to all the parts I'm using today are down in the video's description as well as a PC part picker list if you guys want to check them all out I tried my best to update them all so that they're accurate with what I'm building today and since this graphics card only have a single plug that gives us a little bit more flexibility with our cables here but just lining that up look that in that again has a little catch that will hold and kind of snap into place and then from there it's just a matter of trying to tuck the cables away all right so give you guys a look after the build because you know what I'm almost done not too bad it's only been about an hour alright so again cables is it's it's like there's not a lot of places to put them in here but here's what you want to focus on when it comes to the cable management with this build remember you got a fan right here it's going to be pulling an air from the front that's going to be supplying some area down here to the graphics to the GPU which is has its fans on the bottom as well as some air up here into the main area so that the CPU can keep cool so the power supply has some air to pull through it and then exhausted by this fan in the back so it's just kind of a matter of reality checking where stuff is and then doing your best to take the extra cables wherever that might be and tying them back as best you can again there's no exact science or exact specific way you should do this every time some cases have very specific ways that they have been built so you can very clearly see oh yes here's where the cables are supposed to go other times it's just a matter of like hey where can I find some space and some room to shove those cables and make it work my main issue actually as far as looks goes right now is at the top up here that's uh there we go alright obviously this isn't going to win any awards on pin my PC but for the most part it is it is complete so let's I'm just trying to do like the most simple push it to the side cable management that I can since I don't really have a lot of zip ties and twist ties lying around here all right this one I might like secure down there a little bit more let's let's spend like a couple seconds on this this 8 pin is bothering me this can be better if you can tuck stuff behind a motherboard tray that is a perfectly viable option so that helps all right I don't know how much that did but there you go yay cables sort of managed again this case is just so small and easy to move around and transport and stuff alright let's do the final bit here which is turning everything on I'm going to put this side panel back on yes yes that side panel is on I'm not going to put this side panel on though because that is a PC building superstition if you put that panel on then the system will boot properly all right I do have a power cable down here power goes in which way the switches yeah switch should be on power button which is power right loop aha all right so ah so see here's here's one of the issues of GPU sag the GPU sag is sagging into the cables at the bottom so alright there's my build now what I would do at this point is obviously those where there are some fan conflicts down here at the bottom again that is purely down to the cable management which I could pull back a little bit more depending on the situation with this graphics card I might even have to do something like pull the graphics cried out and get those secured down to the bottom a little bit more just because there's quite a few of them all plugging in along the bottom there and one of them at least was conflicting with the GPU fans you can't hear it anymore because this graphics card when there's no load on it the fans don't spin at all so that's why it stops but it works we got some LEDs going in there we have yeah everything else is spinning front fan is spinning rear fan rear exhaust fan is spinning as well so I would call that a successful build I wouldn't say it's completely finished of course but that wasn't really my goal today my goal today was to get it all put together after this is when you get on to the finishing touches and the polishing phase where you maybe go back in there and we do the kiln management pull stuff back a little bit more but everything is functional now so I would of course plug this into a monitor get into the BIOS perhaps do a BIOS update make sure the memory is being recognized make sure everything is in there if you guys are actually building this computer which who knows maybe some of you are then I would definitely recommend going to my next video which would be the first five things to do after you've built a new computer that goes over stuff like checking the BIOS and seeing that the settings are the way that they should be making sure the boss is updated make sure making sure your drivers are updated and just the basic steps to getting like Steam installed and all that kind of stuff and getting up and running because often when you get to this point people don't know where to go next so I'll post a link to that video if I remember down in the description of this video and thanks a lot you guys who are watching who tuned in live I hope this hasn't been too chaotic and I'm going to go I'm going to go maybe maybe see if I can get Windows installed on this system this has been my $700 rise in bill thanks you guys again so much for watching hit thumbs up button if you enjoyed the video huge thanks Lyle you guys who tuned in live and I'm already taking too long to end this video so I have to go over again and click a thing now don't mind me just clicking this thing okay