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the Thermaltake view 71 snow edition shows off your build in style with a frosty white paint job and four tempered glass side panels you also get two pre-installed hundred and forty millimeter ring white LED fans a vertical GPU mount with bracket and 3-way radiator support for water cooling so click the sponsor link in the description to learn more what's up guys welcome back to Pauls hardware today's video is a follow-up to my how to build an $800 gaming PC and today I'm going to show you how to set it up get windows installed and get everything up and running this is also part of my monthly builds series every month at the beginning of the month I part out a cup of pcs then I build one of them and then later in the month I test it now this videos also meant as a refresh of my most popular video ever which is the first 5 things to do with a new PC build which is an instructional tutorial video for anyone who has assembled a new computer and then is like what next how do I install windows how do I set up the UEFI how do I make sure all the hardware is working properly so today I'm going to walk you through all of that step by step in order to get going you're gonna need a few things the new PC that you just built of course all put together and it's glorious put together Dennis you're gonna need a keyboard and a mouse you're gonna need an internet connection which I imagine you have if you're watching this video but that's represented by either this rj45 cable which is coming over from my home network or if you have Wi-Fi and a home router you can connect to that and I have a couple antenna because the motherboard I used has built in 802 dot 11 AC Wi-Fi so you will also need another computer laptop or a desktop in order to download Windows 10 and put it onto a USB in order to make a Windows 10 installer and then you will need a USB Drive in order to win put Windows 10 on that I recommend an 8 gig drive you can't go larger if you want just make sure there's nothing on that drive that you need to save because it's gonna be formatted completely also a quick aside here we are installing Windows 10 today because it's a gaming PC and this is the most viable operating for gaming yes Linux is also a thing and would be awesome to install to in Windows 10 sucks but I'm not gonna get into that for now Windows 10 is what we're going with so I'm just booting the system up for the first time and did I mention you need a monitor too I think that might go without saying but you need a monitor as well to complete your whole setup for your new computer as your computer's booting up you're gonna see a splash screen and often there'll be some instructions delete is almost always the button that you're going to want to tap that'll let you access the UEFI also as BIOS which is the old name for it and this allows you to lease first go in just double check reality check make sure everything is appearing so our processor that I installed is a 1600 X we can see that appearing here we can see our memory two sticks of ddr4 four gigs giving us a total of eight gigs I'm also going to go over to advanced and check our storage configuration and here we can see that both of our drives are also connected our SanDisk 240 gig as well as our Western Digital one terabyte storage drive that's pretty much the basics just to make sure everything is working but if you want to be on the safe side you can go over and load defaults that'll make sure everything is default loaded up for the hardware that's detected and then if you want to get fancy you can go over here to OC Tweaker go to your DRAM and you can set up your XMP settings if the memory that you got is compatible with the motherboard and the Rison processor that you got you should just be able to load up this XMP settings this memory I'm using is actually rated 2666 so the XMP that's showing up is 27 33 that's good enough for me so I'm gonna hit f10 to save and exit and then the system is going to save that and reboot again as it boots up here we're gonna see a quick splash screen and one of the things listed on the splash screen other than delete to enter the ufi is to hit f11 to bring up a boot list and from here we could boot directly from our windows 10 installer but we haven't made that yet so let's do that first so that was step one just making sure all the hardware is recognized and the UEFI is working and of course some quick advice on XMP settings and then we're going to move back to our extra computer that we brought so I'm just gonna use my desktop over here plugging in the USB Drive and here's where we're gonna demo the Windows 10 installer and put it on that USB drive again remember that anything on the drive is going to be deleted so double check to make sure that's nothing on there needs to be saved I'll put a link down in this video's description to the Windows 10 installer but if you just search for Windows 10 downloading the ISO file is one of the first things that pops up we can see create Windows 10 installation media so just click download tool now and that should download once it's downloaded you can launch it and it'll pull up this page that starts getting a few things ready of course we accept all of these licensing terms and it's getting more things ready we want option two here create installation media via a USB flash drive English Windows 10 64 bit are all okay with us USB flash drive is going to be our option and here it has recognized the only USB flash drive that's eligible that's plugged into this system but if you have multiple drives plugged in double check and make sure that you're choosing the right one next again and getting a few more things ready hit next again and it will initiate the download progress for Windows 10 here you can take a short break depending on your internet speed this might take a few minutes so we now have our Windows 10 install our USB so I'm just gonna move this over and plug it in to our new computer I having a power on the system and tap that flf f11 button to bring up the boot menu I also want to point out that not every motherboard has a shortcut to a quick boot menu like this so you might need to go into the UEFI go to your boot settings and change your boot device to this USB Drive and then after Windows installed you need to go and change that back this method is just a little bit easier for a quick boot from our USB also here choose UEFI for this USB disk that you have just created Knots standard USB that'll make sure it loads Windows 10 in UEFI mode after a few moments you'll see this screen we're in the u.s. so we'll choose English us for everything and hit next you can use this USB Drive to repair your computer in the future if you ever have any issues with your Windows installation so hang on to it don't throw it away but for now we're gonna hit Install Now and then in just a moment it's gonna give us two options it's gonna give us an upgrade option or a custom option and we're gonna want to choose custom but before that it wants a product key we don't have one right now so just click I don't have a product key and then in the future you can use my windows 10 for $20 video to buy windows 10 product key and then apply it to your Windows installation in order to have a full legit installed copy alternatively you can not activate your windows and then you'll always have a watermark down on the bottom that says your copy of Windows 10 is not legitimate and it won't let you do all the personalization things that you want to for now though you probably want to stick with either Windows 10 home or Windows 10 Pro depending on which license you're planning to buy in the future I'm gonna go with Windows 10 Pro for this one more license terms that we definitely have read completely and agreed to and then here's our choice of upgrade or custom I usually don't use upgrade you can upgrade but customs just always the best way to go this will allow you to do a clean installation clean installation means everything that was potentially on that drive before is wiped and you have a fresh clean good spelling installation of Windows 10 and it's just always the best way to go get used to a clean installation of Windows 10 and setting it up for the first time because it doesn't take that much work and this is like your ultimate failsafe or if you get a virus or something like that in the future as long as you have your important documents saved and stored on an external drive or something like that you can wipe everything start over and you're fresh and good to go I have two drives installed both of them have nothing on them but if you are using a drive that's been used before you might see partitions listed here if that is the case you should go to each one and hit delete on them if you're having trouble getting windows to install on your drive go back to my first first five things to do with a new pc build video and there i talked about loading up disk parts in this and doing it clean on the drive to make sure that everything is good to go for now though we've got disk drive zero unallocated space this is our 240 ish gig SSD 223 gigs formatted so just double click on that or hit next and it should start installing so after the files are copied and the little swirly ball swirls around the bits and does a few other things it's gonna pop you up with this screen here let's start with the region we're in the US so choose whatever region you're in and click Next there's a few other questions that's gonna ask you like your keyboard layout we're gonna stick with us you can add an additional layout here a lot of these are accessibility things if if you have a disability or need a special human interface device you can help set it up there from there we'll go to connect you to a network though we have already set up our Wi-Fi antenna back here and the Windows 10 installer that we just made has automatically recognized our Wi-Fi card so it's picking up our Internet's I'm gonna skip for now though we'll wait to connect to the internet after we go through this initial Windows setup next we get to choose a name you can put your name or you can make up a name for your computer like 800 0 11 $800 0 11 build sure next it'll prompt you for a password you should definitely definitely create a password I'm not gonna you do one for right now but make a password because you want to keep your computer secure next it'll ask you if you want to use Cortana no no we do not next it will ask you to choose privacy settings and here I pretty much turn everything off this is simply to try to minimize the amount of tracking information that Microsoft sends back to its servers about you you and keep this on if you want to try it out but I just like airing on the side of more privacy and yes there is other stuff that Windows 10 will send back to limit read data even if you turn all that stuff off but it's at least an initial way to tell Microsoft that you want them to track you as little as possible now we get to wait a few more minutes and there we go our basic Windows 10 installation is complete and I have just plugged in the ethernet cable so I don't have to bother with a Wi-Fi password and it'll ask you what you want to do with the network if you're on a private home network you can click yes to allow your PC to be discoverable if you want to network between computers that's definitely something you might have turned on the first thing I always do with a fresh windows install though is check for updates so if you just go and type in update in the search bar you should be able to see Windows Update hit check for updates and this will make sure windows is as up-to-date as possible it'll probably have some antivirus definitions as well as maybe a look accumulative update as well and depending on how new your windows 10 installer USB is you may have more or less things here to download so here again we're just gonna give it some time let it download and install these if your prompts us to restart we're gonna restart if we restart we're gonna go back to Windows Update again and have it check again keep checking for Windows updates until you have all the updates and it says no more updates are available so Windows updates are updated here's a few small things that I just like to do I don't like the people bar things I remove that I like having this PC on the desktop for that I got to go to themes and then you can find desktop icon settings over here and click computer that will give us computer they're our default browser is Microsoft edge and that has a single use which is to go to google.com and download Chrome Chrome will then prompt you to make it the default browser which you can do if you want so cool now we got Chrome installed go ahead and make that a link then once Chrome's installed I like to make that a link on the taskbar and then I like to remove edge so it's not there irritating me there we go pretty clean oh and one other thing if you pull up File Explorer go over here to view click on options Open File Explorer to this PC I find to be much easier and then go over to view and I like to show hidden files and folders do not hide empty drives and do not hide extensions for known file types a I hate that I hate that windows I wish they would make that default but there we go now when does this mostly configure the way I want it to but we have a brand new motherboard installed and that motherboard has some default drivers that Windows Update installed for it so if you go up and right-click on this PC and go to manage we can actually see our device manager and device manager here will show us if there's any devices that don't currently have drivers and actually Windows 10 has done a great job here of installing drivers for all of our hardware if you have hardware that's not recognized it'll be a little exclamation point with the triangle icon over it and that means you might need a driver for it but just because we have default Windows 10 drivers doesn't necessarily mean they're the best drivers so we're gonna double check for our motherboard and the graphics card to see if there's anything more up-to-date so we're just gonna jump over to the asrock website for our motherboard the X 370 killer SLI AC and you should go to the website of the manufacturer and model of whatever motherboard you are using if you didn't use a specific one go to support and then go to download you'll notice there might be updated UEFI our BIOS versions here that we can get but down here we can see AMD all-in-one drivers and now Windows automatically installed some AMD drivers here so if we right-click on the desktop we can go to AMD Radeon settings we can click on the settings over here we can actually see what's installed so the Radeon software version we currently have a 17 dot one dot one 17.4 is what's currently available so we'll go ahead and download that and then beyond your chipset which AMD lists as the all-in-one driver you're probably gonna want to check for audio drivers potentially Bluetooth on land drivers as well but the chipset is really the main one by default your web browser should download to the Downloads folder so from here we can go in these are file so we'll just need to extract each one and then we can just run the Installer executable and each one of these to update the drivers for whatever we downloaded the drivers for and there's also an attitude that 11ac in cell driver but again the default windows 10 drivers will mostly work just fine it's just a matter of getting updated ones if that's something that you feel is needed remember when you install an drivers if you're ever prompted to restart restart don't install other drivers do the restart first you don't want anything to be done out of order and it's better to be safe than sorry now the last driver we'll need is something for our graphics card and graphics card drivers are often updated pretty frequently so we want to make sure we have what's most up-to-date if you have an Nvidia graphics card like a GTX 1060 1070 or 1080 you want to go to the Nvidia website and video drivers tell them what you have and then go ahead and download we have an rx 580 in here so pretty much the same procedure look up AMD drivers go to the download page you can have an auto detector you can tell it specifically we have desktop graphics we have a 5 note not 500 series rx series rx 500 series and Windows 10 64 bit and here we can see the latest driver I was actually released on the 18th just almost two weeks ago go ahead and hit download and we're gonna decline that survey opportunity and when this downloads in just a second we will install it and with most drivers it's pretty much the same procedure you download the package maybe you have to unzip it run the installation executable and then wait a few minutes while it unpacked some things and does the installation pretty straightforward all right guys this computer is almost good to go like setup so I love the initial setup for a new build because like it just it feels so fresh everything is clean and fresh and there's nothing on here that doesn't need to be on here but one last thing you might notice is missing here is that extra drives the one terabyte hard drive that is also installed in the system how do you access that drive if it is a brand new clean drive that's just been installed for that we're gonna go back over here to manage on my computer we're gonna go down to disk management under storage click on that and here we can see our disk one so it is there it's just there's no partition on it it needs to have a drive partition with a drive number or Drive letter assigned to it in order for it to be recognized and show up in Windows 10 now depending on the status of your storage drive and what it's previously been used for if you click on Disk Management it might give you an immediate pop-up that says initialize disk and that is if the disk is completely clean and fresh it's totally fine if this pops up I recommend choosing GPT / m vr GPT is a little bit newer and it's especially required if you're going with a drive that's larger than two terabytes but once it's initialized you'll see this unallocated space just right click on that and go to new simple volume and it will take you through this wizard I probably want to use the maximum amount of space available yes you want a drive letter format it using NTFS I recommend a quick format but if the drive has been used heavily before maybe uncheck that into a full format just bear in mind a full formats probably gonna take an hour to two or three depending on the size of the drive and i usually like to label the drive something i will recognize like one terabyte for each now we know that's our one terabyte storage drive hit finish and if you chose quick format it should pop up in just a second just as it did here and now again we have a fresh clean open completely empty one terabyte storage drive so we can load our games on there maybe create a steam library if you guys want a little bit more follow up on this such as setting up steam check out my three more things to do with a new pc build it was actually made a couple years ago but it's still very relevant for some of that content especially taking games from steam that you may have downloaded on another drive and bring them onto your new system but guys that's all for this video I really hope you've enjoyed it hope you've learned something if you did definitely at the thumbs up button share this video if you know any new or first-time PC builders who want to get their system set up and they're not quite sure their proper steps and procedures to do that rate thanks again for watching guys and we'll see you next time