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Upgrading My Parent's Old PC - Part 1

2016-02-06
excellent look at one there's nori you should all go follow her on Twitter she's nori hardware anyway I'm excited about today's video not just because I'm pandering to you guys with my dog but because I have a bunch of computer parts all right here ready to go so today is going to be a build video now I keep this fairly casual I'm just going to be assembling all this stuff I will also be moving out to the garage and in case you're wondering this is the four hundred dollar bill that I already outlined for my parents new computer and my January builds videos so if you guys are interested in just me telling you all the parts go watch that video if not just keep watching and I'll tell you all the parts again right now now something to keep in mind as I go through these is that you might notice some of these parts are actually different than the ones I recommended a few weeks ago when I did the January builds video so I'm going to real quick go over all these and tell you what's the same what's different and for the purposes of letting you guys check out these builds on PC part picker I will have links to both of them in the description down below both the original $400 version as well as the actual parts I'm using here which is going to be a little bit more expensive because I did get some much appreciated sponsorship from Coolermaster for the build anyway starting out for the case is a coolermaster silencio 352 this is from the review video that I did on this case so I still had it if you guys want to check that out I'll post a link to that as well right now it's a little micro ATX case and I think it's going to do a good job for me here's one of the changes which is just SSD rather than getting that new SSD from a data which is about 60 bucks I'm just going to go with this intel SSD 510 series I've been using this as an external like device with this little USB cable for quite a while it's 250 gigs it's not as fast it's probably a little bit slower than that a day to drive but when it comes to SSD snappiness and everything it's going to be totally fine for my parents needs and it's the same capacity so whenever you use that there and save a little bit of money by not having to buy another new SSD the motherboard remains the same I got this from new egg it's a z97 MDS 3h nice little fairly inexpensive and fairly small micro ATX board and it'll fit nicely here's some of the differences in the parts which is the power supply and the cooler now as I already mentioned I reached out to cooler master and told them I was doing this build and I told them that I already or what I wanted was a hyper 212 and they're 80 plus bronze power supply what they sent over was the Yemen s 5:24 version 2 which is right there which is more of a horizontal than a vertical cooler still a very good performer so I'm you know no complaints from me here but that is one thing that's different the guys are into the hyper 212 it'll still work just fine and it is a little bit cheaper than this one but I like this one because it's pretty quiet and it does have that orientation that fires a lot of downward air towards the motherboard and the V RMS and all that kind of stuff the power supply again is also slightly different here it's a V 550 this is 80 plus gold rated from Coolermaster so this is again a little bit more expensive than the 80 plus bronze model that I originally put in the parts list but again I'm not going to complain because this is an 80 plus gold model so it'll save a little bit on power and it's fully modular and stuff and all all those good things the memory is also a little bit different than planned this is just this was only like 2 or 3 dollars more I think than that kit the Ares G scale areas kit this is a Myshkin kit it's all black and I mainly went with this even though it's a little bit slower speed I think it's 2133 instead of 2400 it's 1.5 volt instead of 1.65 and I don't know I it's you can still use one point six five volts with the G 32:58 but just to be on the safe side I went with that one point five and again it's only a couple dollars difference so there you go and then finally here's the processor of course the G 32:58 will dual-core overclockable Intel Pentium processor and I'm excited to actually get this installed because I have like I played with this a little bit right back when it first launched but I really haven't in quite some time so but being a dual core I think it's going to be perfectly satisfactory for the needs of this build anyway there though guys there are all the parts and I'm just going to go ahead start to assemble on this little guy and I'll come back to you towards the end and let you know how things went oh yeah one last thing that's not shown here is the operating system that is I'm going to be just going for Windows 10 and I'm going to get that from kinguin net and hopefully I think I'm just going to try out they have like a $20 OAM version that you can get there I think I'm just going to go for that and see how it works and all you guys know anyway I'm at the build and just like that the build is complete so as you can see well if you just look at the outside of the case it just looks like the case but no everything is installed as you can see there at the back let me pop off the side panel and just do a little bit of commentary on the build process and some of my thoughts involved so as you can see it's not like too crowded in there but I did definitely have some issues with the cable management there's just not a whole lot of space behind the motherboard tray in this case fortunately though thanks to the v5 50 s all black cables and the fact that they're flat ribbon style cables I was able to use some zip ties along this back edge here to kind of take especially that 24 pin cable and cinch that down so even though there's a fair amount of cable showing here I wouldn't necessarily submit this to fit my PC on awesome hardware if you know what I mean everything's still pretty tucked away so there's still a pretty good amount of airflow speaking of airflow you might have noticed during the course of the build that I actually did initially replace this rear fan the exhaust fan with one of the fans that coolermaster sent over which is the Silencio FP 120 now these are these are more static pressure optimized fans but um they you know they're they're also still a little bit nicer than what comes with the case the reason I didn't go with it is because that the fan splitter I have because there is only one fan head around the motherboard right in here for case fans I got the CPU fan plugged into the CPU fan header the fan header on the motherboard for case fans I have split two ways but I only had that three pin splitter in there and the PWM fans are PWM they're four pin so I couldn't use that so I put those back in and thankfully these fans are still very quiet that just the default ones that come with the case apart from that I got the SSD mounted right here I could have put it up top here as well and gotten rid of this cage but there's no work for me to put the cage anyway I just want to leave it in there in case I drop in we might drop in some larger capacity mechanical drives in here and I do have some SATA power just kind of on reserve sitting down there at the bottom so if I do pop in a three point five here I can just plug that in pretty easily I also did some tricky cable management here with my SATA cable I just had to kind of loop it back and forth across itself and then lastly would be the eight pin eight pin power for the for the piece for the CPU is going up the left side of the motherboard tray right here which again is not the most ideal situation but there's no way to pass it through at the very top of this case behind the motherboard tray so I did that and again thanks to the flat cables from this power supply I'll still be able to push that down flat and install a graphics card right there if I need to so but there it is powered on and I'm just using an in-camera mic right now but I still can't hear anything you get actually my my my streaming system which is over there is probably making a little bit more noise than this but all these fans are super quiet everything's up and running next step is going to be to install windows of course I'm gonna get that OS install going and then I think I will do a follow-up video on this system because I am going to be bringing it over and deliver delivering it to my parents and I want to do a side-by-side comparison of their current PC that I built them I don't know how many years ago and this and just what the difference is as far as speed and usability especially going with an SSD instead of mechanical drives anyway though guys if you enjoyed this video hit the thumbs up button hope you enjoyed it thanks for watching and we'll see you next time on Paul's hardware you
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