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graphics that's part of the processor since I've been testing it over the past couple months now part of my MO for this build was that it would have an upgrade path and whenever I recommend parts to people for building a computer I will often tell them do you think it can upgrade this in the future part of the joy and benefit of building your own computer is the ability to upgrade it when you have more money and now that it is I want to say early to mid 2018 maybe your tax return just came in or maybe it was your birthday and you got some money or something like that all that is to say you've got some cash you're ready to upgrade your system how are you gonna go about doing that first you got to choose the parts to upgrade to you got to make sure everything's still compatible and then of course there's a physical process of doing installation now our primary upgrade for today is going to be the CPU central processing unit the 2200 G that's already in there now since that's a CPU and graphics card we're going to need to add a graphics card in as well but the CPU we're going to be upgrading to this this is the Rison 520 600 X it's the new Rison 2 series of processors although it's still backwards compatible with our existing b3 15 motherboard and AM for socket one thing about this processor is it's only a processor does not include graphics so that means that we're going to need to upgrade our graphics at the same time by adding a graphics card we didn't have one before I'm gonna choose the graphics card in just a minute here because GPU prices are still pretty high but there's some that are a little bit more reasonable than others and I should also mention that this CPU being part of the rise in two series is based on Zen plus architecture it's a twelve nanometer process instead of 14 nanometer there's a few other benefits to this processor as well and it can run at a higher frequency than the last generation 1600 X now I can't actually give you guys any performance numbers of the CPU yet because it's not launching until next week but I can do the installation show you physically how to put it in and then in a follow-up video I will show you guys some actual benchmarking numbers to show you what kind of performance you get by jumping up to this six core twelve thread processor from our four core for thread processors that's part of the our APU now before we move into our upgrade options I wanted to quickly also point out that along with the rise in two processors that are launching April 19th there's also a new lineup of motherboards you'll find that they're 400 series in other words so we have X 470 and B 460 that's as compared to last generation which was X 370 and B 350 now you're not going to get a huge amount of extra performance or anything like that by going with the 400 series motherboards rather than the 300 series motherboards but if you're buying a new rise and 2 processor right now it might be worth looking into the 400 series motherboards that are available just to see what's out there and I am told at least with overclocking the higher-end processors it is a good bet to go with the 400 series motherboards but you can get by just fine with the 300 series motherboards the last thing to mention about the motherboards as mentioned in the follow up video on this original build is that you want to make sure that you have compatibility compatibility is there but the motherboard itself might need an update depending on when it was manufactured so let's begin by going over to the support page for our motherboard the a B 350 in gaming Wi-Fi in this case from gigabytes and if we go down to the support area we can find BIOS versions over here and we can actually see that since this motherboard was first manufactured back in June of 2017 they've had five six seven eight different Mouse updates and the BIOS updates all do certain things but usually it's maintaining compatibility for new memory modules sometimes fixing minor issues with overclocking sometimes just stability updating the aji set its the AMD CPU micro micro code and that can actually help improve performance too so so I want to make sure that we have the most up-to-date version of this and the current version is f-22 which was launched on March 16th updating that GC and actually if I jump over to the actual system here and I pull up CPU Z if you're not sure what's version of BIOS your mother mother work currently has just pull up CPU Z go to mainboard and you can see it right here we're on f-22 B which is a variance of the f-22 that they've actually launched this might the bee might mean it's a beta BIOS this was from February 13th so so I'm gonna go ahead and update just to be on the safe side and make sure that we're ready for our newest processor so I'm gonna click download from America and it has downloaded and I'm going to copy that over to a USB Drive so I have my USB Drive plugged in it's just a little four gig drive it helps if it's formatted fat32 and my experience but in here we can see a couple different files we actually don't need those we just need two f-22 file here the actual BIOS itself I'm just gonna copy it over to this drive bada-bing and then we will restart the system and of course it has Windows updates to do all right now the windows updates have finished and it is restarting I'm gonna tap the delete button as it is booting you can see the quick boot menu that pops up down at the bottom and that will allow me to get into the BIOS and the BIOS we mentioned a little bit in the second video in this series so jump back there if you want to know a little bit more details but here's what I'm gonna do to prepare the BIOS for these upgrades first thing I'm actually going to do is go into my memory settings if you remember before we did plug in XMP settings or you may have plugged in XMP settings right now you can see they're disabled but if you have those enables because I'm going to be updating the memory go ahead and disable that you want the memory running at the default low speed and you don't want your new memory to automatically boot up with XMP settings before you can at least go in there and set them yourselves I'll just make sure you don't try to boot and get a boot failure or something like that and have to swap everything back in so memory setting back to defaults another thing that you can do here if you don't want to do that is just go to load optimise defaults there and that will load optimize defaults including default memory speeds beyond that though we want to of course update that bios and at least in the gigabyte UEFI you want to use the mouse go down here to the bottom and over to queue flash and then here we can see updates you can also use this to backup your current bios version if you really want to do that now it automatically chose the drive and it automatically selected that BIOS file that I downloaded but you may need to browse to find it directly once we've chosen that we're just going to hit enter and it verified it and then we click the button and it'll go ahead and start updating the BIOS again a BIOS update is not something that you need to do all the time it's something that you should do if you're considering a system upgrade or if you're considering say selling this motherboard let's say you have an old be 350 motherboard that you're trying to sell or something like that you want to make sure it's up to date for the new processors so this is something I'd recommend doing before you sell that that way you make sure that if you sell an old be 350 motherboard or X 370 motherboard from last year to somebody who's going to be updating this year but the Rison to set up because there are going to people be people who get rise into CPUs but still are trying to save money by using a 300 series motherboard it'll make sure that they're able to install and get up and running and they won't be calling you back and asking you why you say why you sold them a motherboard that doesn't work so just take a minute or two and then we will you reboot so after the BIOS update finished we did a restarts and then the windows update finished I'm probably going to get questions in the comment section for this video asking whether it was smart to do the BIOS update in the middle of a Windows Update I've never had an issue with that in the past but if you want to be on the safe side it's probably best to do your Windows updates then do the BIOS update one than the other but it worked just fine for me in case you were wondering so just running cpu-z here and I can see if I go over to the motherboard the BIOS version is updated we're on f-22 rather than f-22 B now with the updated date and then also if I jump over to memory we can see that the memory speed has dropped back to the default which is 20 133 or basically two times this current speed of 1066 so we're good there too so now let's take another look at what our upgrades are actually going to be I already mentioned the upgraded processor of course that's going to give us a lot more processing power very very handy if you were for example been playing games on your system but maybe you want a game and stream it at the same time the six core AMD Rison processors have been great for that the 1600 and 1600 X and of course the 2600 and 2600 falling up with roughly the same specs but they're gonna run at a higher frequency which is pretty cool now because we're switching from a processor that has graphics built in to a processor that doesn't have graphics built in we're gonna need a graphics card but the other big thing that I would definitely upgrade or consider one to be one of the first upgrades of the system is memory memory is the other thing that's really expensive right now prices haven't going to come down to much so we're looking at something that's gonna hit your wallet right now I have a 2 by 4 gig kit installed so that gives 8 gigs total but this is also a mini ITX motherboard it's very small so there's only 2 slots so if we're updating our memory we're gonna actually want to take out our to four gigs sticks and replace them with two 8 gig sticks to give us 16 gigabytes total and also maintains our dual channel compatibility because we want to use the same two exact sticks of memory in order to run them at the exact same speed now the kid I'm gonna be using today is this trident z RGB kit from g.skill i'm using this because it's one of the kits that's just been universally compatible with all the rising processors that i've used it is a 3200 speed kit and 2 8 gig sticks makes 16 gigs so it's also got fancy RGB s on the top so we're gonna light up the case a little bit more and make it fancier that way but if you don't want to spend the money on that kit because it tends to be a bit more expensive than other kits that are of comparable speed but maybe not quite as blingy you want to go back to your motherboards support page and actually go over to the support list now these are PDFs so they're going to download really quickly but we have memory support lists here they're specifically actually saying pinnacle ridge support versus Raven Ridge and 7th gen so pinnacle Ridge is the newest one that's probably the list that we're going to want to download but of course if you're looking for compatibility with say a 2,200 year 24 then look at this raven ruthless i'm guessing they're only validating kits that they have been specifically able to test with these new rise in 2000 series processors well let's take a look at what they've come up with this is just a big spreadsheet every one of these from different manufacturers is going to look a little bit different but basically they're separated by memory speed here we can see the memory manufacturer we can see the density of the dims we can see whether it's dual rank or single rank as far as where the actual memory chips are on one side of the PCB or both sides of the PCB from the memory and then we can see if they've tested in one or two memory sockets and whether they've validated the XMP settings so what I would do here is look down in the 3200 megahertz range check that list out just look at the kits that are of the capacity that you're looking for make sure that XMP has been verified and then of course highlights these product names search and see if you can find them for sale in your area it does take a little bit of hunting work to get these specific kits working with your motherboard but that's part of the reason why I chose that team kit for this original build was because it was readily available at Newegg works just fine with the XMP settings in this board and this is the same case for the kit we're gonna be using right now so we are almost ready to start upgrading the last thing we need is that graphics card we know our CPU we know our memory graphics card is next and graphics cards are very expensive I'm gonna be looking at desktop desktop graphics cards just over on the Newegg website I like choosing the Newegg radio button so I see only stuff that's being sold directly by them and I browse through this a little bit guys and let me just tell you that the Radeon rx 500 series like a rx 570 or 580 are very good cards they're about $100 more than their MSRP right now about the same goes for the GTX 1060 you can get those in the 300 to 350 dollar range right now still pretty pricey when you consider that they're supposed to be 200 to 250 dollars for my money right now if you really have to buy a graphics card and you can't wait any longer the GTX 1050 Ti is a solid performer especially if you're playing at 1920 by 1080 and if I start by lowest-price here we can see that you can actually get one for 194 dollars 195 might seem like a reasonable deal for this but bear in mind that the MSRP is a hundred and forty for this card so you're still spending about fifty fifty-five dollars more than MSRP but it's a big jump up from the integrated graphics that you get with the 2,200 G or even a 2400 G and it sort of pushes you down the road towards getting a much higher end system and since you have to have a graphics card to go along with the new processor since the new processor doesn't have graphics this is kind of the most viable solution in my book for right now all right guys I've relocated over to my work table I've got a Phillips head screwdriver and a rubber mats to work on and of course my upgrading items the 27 sorry 2600 X I'm gonna use the included Wraith spire cooler that comes with the 2600 X for now I was actually going to potentially do an upgrading to the cooling as well today but there is a hundred and forty millimeter height limitation for coolers on this case and the coolers I had around were a little bit too tall so perhaps we'll follow up with that and a new video of course that g-scale trident z r gb memory kid already mentioned 3200 speed 2 by 8 gig and then an msi geforce gtx 1050 Ti so just pull all the new parts out of the boxes and I wanted to make a quick note about the graphics card since we're using a 1050 Ti there is no extra power needed on this graphics card but that will not always be the case and since you may be he had an extra 100 bucks to spend or something and maybe update it to attend 60 then I wanted to point this out many graphics cards like this Vega 56 have supplemental power required usually this is in the form of either a 6 pin or an 8 pin extra power plug so you can see this one is a 6 and then it breaks off an extra 2 if it needs all eight if you have a graphics card that requires that extra power then you'll want to make sure to grab that extra cable either that's affixed to your power supply if you have a power supply that has all the cables attached or you might need to grab an extra modular cable that should have come with it like this then you can wrap that up and make sure that your power is plugged in should only be able to plug in one way and the only other thing to note about these extra 8 and 6 pin power connectors is that try not to get them confused with the CPU supplemental power that can be an 8 pin plug but that's 2 blocks of 4 rather than 6 and 1 all right so here's our trusty original builds and I was actually going to pull the motherboard out next but what I've realized is that thanks to how this case is designed I think I can actually get away without doing that so I'm gonna remove this top piece because the top piece on this case can be removed just in the same exact way as the side panels let's just get down in at the top which is where we need to be if we're gonna be removing our heat sink fan as well as the CPU now if you're planning to update or upgrade your CPU cooler then this is probably something where you want to pull the motherboard out out as well you need to remove those 4 Phillips head screws to hold it down and then you can unplug all those motherboard connectors and pretty much just leave them where they are and that way you'll be able to just kind of plug them back in but again since we're trying to kind of work around our existing Hardware here I am just going to remove the memory by removing those two little catches on the one side and not one at a time that was easy enough and then of course next is the CPU which has its original CPU cooler on it simply held down by four corners four screws on the four corners I'm going to start by going to opposite corners and unscrewing each screw just a couple turns a couple of rotations again in the similar way to mounting the CPU cooler on to the CPU originally we just don't want to get one corner cinch down too tight while the other other corners are not so we want to loosen it in a uniform fashion around each corner once you get and got it backed off a little bit you can just go ahead and unscrew the rest now you get to experience a quirky unique traits of these AMD CPU coolers which is that when they ship you the AMD CPU cooler in the box very handy to get this in the box and this is a pretty solid cooler as well it has thermal paste pre applied and that's what I used when I first installed this the thermal paste has a bit of a reputation for having a glue-like quality to it when you're removing the CPU or the cooler so I got lucky there see I was able to kind of wiggle it and slide it a little bit off to the side it also helps that this system was up and running five or ten minutes ago that means that the thermal paste is going to be a little warm if you happen to have thermal paste that just doesn't want to give it doesn't want to budge you might have a situation where you actually yank the CPU out of the socket along with the cooler when you're pulling it out don't worry when that happens you should flip it over and double-check your pins on the bottom if you're pulling it straight up out of the socket it should it should allow it to pull it up even if that little arm is closed but you do want to double check here and make sure that all the pins are still straight and everything and then of course since you're going to want to probably sell this old CPU you got this 2200 G just recently for $99 right you could probably sell it for 80 bucks still give or take you're gonna want to do that you're also gonna want to do the same thing with your memory right now your original little two by four gig kit of memory throw those up on eBay or Craigslist or wherever you can safely sell them to a friend or a neighbor get some cash back from that original hardware and you can apply that to towards your new upgrades so amazing to clean the CPU here is a product from Arctic clean which is called thermal surface thermal material remover and surface purifier this is actually a two-step process one fluid to remove most of the stuff and then one more to go on there and make everything pretty and clean absolutely not necessary to use this stuff but I will post a link to it in the description if you guys don't have this just go ahead and use some isopropyl rubbing alcohol I've gone ahead and cleaned off both the CPU and the CPU cooler and again this is just because I'm assuming you guys are gonna want to make the most out of your old hardware and resell it and if I was selling an old 2200 G I would probably want to sell it along with the cooler so anyone got it could go ahead and get set up and running and not need to worry about getting a cooler as well so there we go nice and clean and also just want to double check those and then of course if you kept the original packaging for this box it back up or on Craigslist so before I go ahead and drop the 2600 X in I wanted to quickly compare the coolers here's the Wraith stealth that came with 2200 G and here's the rates fire you'll notice it is substantially taller so you got more just mass here in the aluminum hint thin array around the outside there's also a copper slug at the center and coppers a better conductor of heat than aluminum is so having a copper contact is very often the things done with coolers if you want it to be a more effective cooler so don't try to use your stealth with your 2600 ex and just wanted to also point out if you get the 2700 X the highest end actually comes with the Wraith prism cooler which is similar to this but they say it's even better at cooling and it also has RGB LEDs so that's something you can do now thankfully with everything removed here is this actually gonna be a really simple upgrade from this point forward so if the gold triangle is lined up properly it will drop right in just just like I just did that's a zero insertion force sake and I have zero insertion force team shirts on my store check out the store in the link in the description alright CPUs installed with the lever arm dropped and now I can go ahead and take our cooler stick that in right on top again thermal paste is pre applied here if it wasn't if I had no thermal material I want to get some thermal paste and put a blob right dead center on that CPU but we're not doing that for right now so I'm just going to attach this okay guys file this under problems I wouldn't have if I wasn't trying to do this with the motherboard in place there is a backplate you guys remember behinds the am4 socket and that's basically falling down it's just it's just dropping down a little bit so the threading that I need to get this little screw into is dropping so all I've done is taken a plastic just a knife here and I'm kind of sliding it under there just to prop it up enough just to prop it up enough that I can get that threaded on and again this is really just because I'm being lazy and not removing the motherboard but if you guys are doing this exact build then you might be you might need to do something like this but improvisation it's always fun our memory also goes in the same way as before just lining up the notch and pressure straight down and finally we are going to install the graphics card so for that we got a couple expansion slots here in the back there's a protective little plastic piece and then beneath that just a couple more Phillips head screws that are holding on our two PCI Express expansion slot covers we do need to remove both of these and then from here we'll just take our graphics card in PCI Express slot is along the bottom and that of course lines up with the PCI Express slot on the motherboard it's one notch on one end of it so pretty tough to get this in backwards or anything we do need to push some of our cables to the side here from where we ratted them when the original build was was done there is a little notch here along the bottom of the graphics card which is just kind of there incidentally but I find it's a convenient place to route through cables like the HD audio cable we have right here and once it's slotted into the motherboard we can secure it on top with those two screws moved back over here to the desk where I have monitors and stuff I have plugged the system back in but it's not powered back on yet I do want to point out that the video outs on the motherboard which were previously usable with our 2200 G now are no longer usable because there is no graphics no I GPU that's part of our new 2600 X CPU about 2200 G and our memory we are setting aside for selling to apply towards the cost of the system I'm gonna flip the power switch in the back on the power supply and then I'm gonna hit the power button and the system spins up and that's always a good thing we have initial power so we did boot up but it actually booted all the way into Windows which is good it means things are working new graphics device so it did reset to default resolution of all 1280 by 720 is the best we can do right now we are going to need to install a driver for a new graphics card so we would get that from Nvidia can download the latest one I'm not going to go through that but I do want to double check that everything else is running at the right speed so you're probably pretty familiar with the BIOS by now but I've done the same thing to get into it before by tapping the delete button as a system was booting up it's letting me know that it's done an automatic BIOS reset so we did that kind of preemptively beforehand but often times the best will do that when it recognizes new hardware but here we can go in and for instance over on the right we can see our CPU we're not at 3.6 gigahertz and then if we go up here to motherboard intelligent stuff I always forget how how gigabyte labels things but here we can get back into the same stuff that we got back into before such as what's CPU is running at and that's CPU for settings you know it would be nice if gigabyte did it would is just tell us right from the get-go what's installed so even though even though I'm not being told directly what CPU is installed that's just part of gigabytes choice for their UI here I can't at least go to my advanced memory settings and I'm just going to switch to profile 1 for X and P mode so they'll get my memory running at its rated speed of 30 200 megahertz that's pretty much all I'm going to do here as mentioned everything else it was probably going to be within the operating system so let's save and exit and the last thing I'm going to do hopefully is run cpu-z the updated version of cpu-z so it actually recognizes my processor we got the risin 5 2600 X right there properly listed TDP I'm not going to go into the speeds right now because I'm not supposed to show you guys that yet but we can also see over here with our updated BIOS everything's recognized properly and we can even look at our memory and see that the memory speed has taken we're at about 1600 megahertz which equals 32 mega 3200 megahertz double data rate and that means we're good to go the installed updated software is pretty much ready the final thing of course would be to download and installed that Nvidia driver for the graphics card and then we could get back to gaming or maybe try setting up like OBS or xsplit to do gaming and streaming at the same time there's so many things you can do now that this system has gone from being a pretty entry-level quad core with integrated graphics to a 6 quartz well thread CPU a discreet graphics card with a pretty decent amount of horsepower and overall a much more powerful system with 16 gigs of system memory alright guys that is all for this video the upgrade of the originally $500 build now it's more of like a 750 or $800 booth I've actually have not added up all the cost of the parts in here because you know you sold some parts you bought some new parts it's hard to keep track of but I will get a list of all the parts in here and I'll put it down in the video's description as well some other helpful links to my original how to build video as well as my first 5 things to do with a new PC build video which if you have not gotten a new PC set up before should be very helpful with getting Windows 10 installed driver updates and all that good stuff but guys thank you so much for watching this video hit the thumbs up button on your way out if it helps you out at all and share it with your friends if you know anyone who's interested in building a gaming PC anytime soon thanks again and we'll see you next time