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in this episode of the crash course playlist I've decided to tackle let's be honest a rather primitive subject for most of us who have been building pcs for quite a while but for those of you who are watching this channel watching this particular video and who haven't tackled a PC build yet I understand you're likely nervous you're anxious you're not sure if the parts you've picked are even going to work together I have plenty of friends back home who messaged me all the time asking Greg does this part work with this part you know is this the best value of this and that I'm not going to be able to tackle every question you might have in this video but I am going to get through the basics with you just to show you in general that this PC building thing is really not that complicated I remember back when I built my first PC I had watched enough videos I had a pretty good idea of what was compatible with what and what I wanted to build in terms of my price category my performance category and I used a website called PC part picker to just develop my list make sure that I had the price right and that I could find those parts for the lowest prices on any given site so that's what PC part pickers for we're going to using that in this video I'm going to have two different screens side-by-side you're looking at them right now and on the let's say a Left screen I'm going to be doing an AMD build and on the right screen I'll be doing an Intel build the Left screen will be I guess just an FX build maybe an 8383 50 and then the right side will be a skylight Intel build probably an i-5 6500 I think will go with so you're gonna be looking at that screen for a majority of its video I'm just gonna walk you through the steps that I go through when I build a PC and if you're looking to build an AMD PC that's relatively modern then you can follow along with the steps on the left side and if you're interested in an Intel PC particularly a skylight build then you can follow along on the right so both sides of the aisle should be rather satisfied here even though it's going to be a stretch to justify an FX build at this point just because then it's hopefully right around the corner looking around early 2017 people should be getting their Zen chips in the mail it's exciting should be good news for the CPU market in general bring those Intel prices down a bit maybe so what we're going to do is swivel on over to this side here cuz just to scoot up a little bit and right now you're looking at both screens like I said left side here is going to be the AMD build the right side is going to be the Intel build went ahead and turn the studio light off just so you know it's not blinding you and I don't worry I'm not going to be on the screen for very long so the first thing that you want to do when you go to this website here it's linked in the video description by the way they're not sponsoring this video or anything like that this is just a useful website that I think all beginners should should use when you're building a PC you want to well let's see I'm not going to have that here because I'm logged into my account but you're going to click start a new part list and that's what we'll do for both of these here so starting a part list and start a new part list okay now this is your this is your format your template okay and I recommend that you pick your parts in this order so start with the CPU then start with a cooler if you if you choose one I recommend that you do and then your motherboard memory storage a video card a case power supply those are your key components right there okay so the first thing you need to decide when you're looking to build a PC is what kind of CPU you want to use I have a call that you can find in the card right here this should help you kind of figure out what CPU you want given the expectations you have for games and for just raw compute performance so let's do for the AMD PC here cool thing is you can just search for whatever you want let's do FX okay and right on top there FX 8350 so let's go ahead and select that so we have an FX 8350 over here for Giga it's a core processor for about 139 dollars now the cool thing is PC port picker will select the website that has it for the lowest price so if we click on it's right here this little Settings icon if I click if I click that I can choose what vendor I want to purchase the the CPU from to kind of give me like let's say I'm only going to purchase from Amazon a new egg because maybe I have an Amazon Prime membership and a new a premier membership so let's just select Amazon just for kicks so you can see it overrode the price and it showed you the most current up-to-date price on the FX 8350 right now for 147 dollars so that's cool you can select the the you know the merchants the under of the part and it'll it'll be for the most part accurate with the price if it's out of stock too it will tell you that so that's that's nice as well and over here on the intel side let's do an i-5 6500 that seems to be a fairly popular quad-core cpu these days especially for gamers I think it's a great budget CPU so that's it we have both of our processors now let's choose let's choose a cooler I recommend choosing a cooler that's not don't use a stock cooler register I wouldn't use one let's see a hyper 212 Evo is a good choice which wouldn't throw that in there and this one here we don't really need anything beefier let's do the c7 though these are about the same price so you can see on the left here outlet pcs selling it for 2988 but be careful this is after a $10 million rebate so that's why you see that promo right there this is after that so you're really gonna be paying 40 bucks and then like 10 years from now you'll get that money back from the rebate if you even mail the rebate to begin with so let's just do Amazon once more there and okay you whoops what did I just do okay sorry about that I had to open up two separate browsers I'm rockin edge on the left here and chrome on the right for some reason whenever I had two chrome tabs open it was overriding my CPUs with the latest I'd selected so it was assuming I was making the same list on two separate two separate windows but now that I'm using edge on one it doesn't appear to be overriding anything so everything should be independent one side for each now this is the coolants just talking about with PC port picker I can I can select choose motherboard which is the next step in the process and the cool thing is it's only going to show me motherboards that are compatible with the processor okay so I don't have to worry about you know figuring out in the fact that the 8350 is an am3+ motherboard I don't even need to know that in order to build a PC on PC part picker it's going to do all that work for me so any of these motherboards here will work out of the box with an FX 8350 let's just choose a the 970 gaming I've owned a motherboard very similar to that one so 95 bucks a low PC and I'm good to go and on the right side here same thing so we can choose anything from a z170 to an h1 70 to an h1 10 to a be 150 all of these are going to work just fine we're not going to be let's assume we're not going to basically overclock the i5 so we're just going to tell you what we'll do something different let's choose an ITX motherboard I want to show you how PC part picker does this so asrock h1 10 473 dollars right there Mini ITX okay so there we go plus we have a mini ITX cooler so that kind of works out now memory this is the same same way so you don't have to worry about whether you need ddr3 or ddr4 it's going to tell you based on your motherboard choice what Ram you can use with with your platform and you see anything ddr3 basically here let's just choose whatever is on top the Kingston HyperX fury blue.you that's gonna look a little weird because it's blue I'm picky alright let's find something red and it'll it's cool it'll it'll tell you that too so black black will be fine let's just do right there HyperX black a little more expensive but whatever and over here you're gonna see that will need ddr4 so ddr4 let's just choose a fixture core lots of one eight gig dim whatever we can do it alright so there we go ddr4 25 megahertz for 42 bucks outlet PC in the new egg over here on the right for 56 dollars more expensive just whatever I wouldn't recommend that for that price but for the purposes of demonstrations here that's perfectly acceptable now let's move on to storage not in the case of storage is not really gonna matter if you have a really old platform you might need IDE which is parallel ata it's not SATA that those are long ribbon cables for data transfer if you're doing a really old PC on even recommend using PC port picker I wouldn't suggest doing that for your first PC build anyway but it would tell you nonetheless if you had any compatibility there so let's say your motherboard doesn't support SATA for whatever reason then you won't be able to select a drive that works only with SATA so in this case let's just choose a Western Digital one terabyte blue actually no we're going to choose four of them let's just do let's just do four so two it's probably a quicker way to do this than the way I'm doing it but whatever okay so we're gonna choose four of these now that's a lot of hard drives okay that's that's four terabytes but it's not one 4 terabyte drive it's four individual one terabyte drives so PC part Pickers going to warn you if you have an incompatibility right remember that it doesn't matter what it is by the way it could just be it can just be a case it could be a power supply you know concern something like that so if I go here to choosing cases let's say I want the s3 40 great choice right 67 dollars okay now you see this warning right here these parts have potential issues and compatibilities slide down here to the bottom you'll see the warning message one additional internal three and a half inch drive bay is needed so that means that just natively that that case is not going to support for hard disk drives that's good to know so I can go up back up here and say okay well I'll take one of those off and then boom that compatibility goes away don't worry about the BIOS update that's something totally different most of the time you'll be you'll be good to go there so that's something else to keep in mind you know you don't have to worry about you know is this going to work is this not if it doesn't work more than likely PC Pro pick is going to tell you it's a good indicator that you have some kind of compatibility issue and it's suggested that you follow those guidelines just in case especially if you're not familiar with building pcs and this is your first time over here let's just choose we're going to go with solid state here because we are building a rather compact PC I suppose and what do we have here 525 crucial 125 bucks okay all right so that's our storage drive for that one and okay we skipped the video card here we have any amount of the case on this side but let's do the video card next okay so this is where you can go wild I don't recommend for your first build you just SLI or crossfire 2 cards especially if you aren't familiar with PCIe lanes and how those work and how those might potentially bottleneck your system especially you have other PCI cards in your system so let's just let's just do one video card for this particular build here something like an A 1060 or 480 would be a decent choice 480 and what's a good price for a 480 this one's not bad gigabyte g1 gaming for 190 bucks alright so there we go that's it that's all we need we can find a cheapest price on new egg over here let's do something a bit different now we're going to want a small form-factor graphics card mini okay so you can see this series here ZOTAC 1050 that's a little under kill we could go for something like a 1070 let's do a 1070 but do a small form-factor 1070 so you can see the series here there kind of give you an idea of of what size you're going after and we see the zotac one go ahead and mark that one up okay not necessarily a small card you can actually click on this too and see not a high resolution photo I've give an idea of what it looks like and you can always follow the links to so new eggs is right here if we click on that it'll take us straight to that exact card that we selected earlier there's otech 1074 a little different slightly different price but we get the point so there we go and next for the case here we're going to on an ITX case so here's another cool thing about the website you can kind of sort through these based on all these different categories up top you can choose whether or not you want a power supply included it'll only show those cases up top that have power supplies you can select types so right now I have it sorted to where the largest cases are on top and if you select it again the smallest cases are on top so the Thermaltake core x1 for example the finnex prodigy you know we see a lot of cases that are that are fairly small let's see here the in 60 Manta that'll be that'll be a cool one let's go ahead and throw that in there all right and then lastly power supply if you're concerned about power supply choice I have a card right here a video that should help you out and kind of choosing what kind of power supply you might need fewer system most of the time now if you're just buying a single GPU and a single CPU for your particular rig and it's a fairly modern rig especially if it's an Intel rig anything around 500 or 600 Watts should be perfectly fine if you're using a very old graphics card might be power-hungry maybe something like six or seven hundred watts especially if you're going for like a nine Fury or something like that I recommend at least a 600 watt for that remember TDP does not mean total power draw that just means the amount of power that's dissipate in the form of so your card or whatever you're looking at will actually consume more power than that TDP rating it's just the laws of nature the second law of thermodynamics in particular but for a power supply choice with part picker it's really nice because all you have to do once you have everything I've selected is click on to the power supply and it'll only show you power supplies that have enough wattage just to say it's a sustain to sustain your system you can see the bare minimum that is recommending right now is four hundred and thirty watts and that would be cutting it pretty close will be just on the edge of our efficiency curve there so let's go down here to let's just use a 500 watt now some of these won't have prices it's I early because they're not currently available maybe they're out of stock or they can't find these particular units on any of the sites in their database you see they have quite a quite a few merchants available the quickest list here you can scroll you know all of these they're pretty much looking at non-stop but if you have that part somewhere let's say you find out a new egg for 180 bucks but it's not ringing up for that then you can manually enter your price here and that'll be included in your total down below let's see here let's choose the Rose well glacier 500m it's a semi modular power supply for 45 bucks not a bad deal there okay and they were going to go now over here I expect that we'll be able to choose something a bit lower in wattage yet there we go so 300 watts is the pair minimum that PC part pick is recommending for this build and that's because the 1070 is a very efficient graphics card when it comes to power consumption and the i5 6500 practically sips on power so 300 watts that's cutting it super close anyway I mean I wouldn't go for that low but you would be safe with around 400 430 watts so just for kicks we're going to choose the corsair CX 430 m and there we go okay so what we've just done is put together two separate pcs there lists on two separate screens that will work right out of the box if you assemble all of them together into a case as long as you install an operating system there you go that's it these are the parts that you'll need the optical drive bays optional operating system that's a separate thing that's software not hardware monitor you know all this extra stuff is is extra it's not the computer itself it's either peripheral or something supplementary to the hardware whoo I didn't realize that I had a hyper 212 Kibo there that's a little weird okay there we go but this is the gist of PC building in my opinion if especially if you're newbie it should start right here on PC part picker it's where I started and it really got the ball rolling for me it gave me an idea of what parts would work with with what parts and you know just the the price performance ratios of different things we're gonna buy components is another big incentive to use PC part picker I just I really like the the design I love the list I love the way that they've set all this up and it's something that I definitely 100% recommend to anybody looking to go the PC for at least the first time another cool thing here you can see the price changes over time you can see that it hasn't really been much of a fluctuation in those parts but okay if you want to see right here they gigabyte are X 480 you can see right there November 17th it actually got a bit cheaper and then it started creeping back up so around right here would have been the best time to buy and that actually is Cyber Monday so that that's actually really cool well Cyber Monday Thanksgiving weekend that kind of area now this is a total price so it says a hundred bucks up here but that's only because it's adding each of these up to the total and you see right now it's 772 which is just below 800 bucks on the chart but this is cool gives you an idea of how part prices change over time as well there's a lot of stuff packed into this website you can also just go back to the home page here and see build guides from from other people who have contributed to the website you can see their list online and see how their prices kind of match up to yours lots of cool pictures you know lots of Giveaways things like that are all on this site all on PC part picker it's linked in the video's description I suggest checking out if you're looking to build your first PC ever use this website it is a GameChanger now i'm aware that i didn't go through every single thing there is to consider when building a pc that video would be hours long this is a crash course video by the way but at least this gets you started so the pc part picker website is the most powerful tool you have at your disposal especially if you're new to building pcs i still use pc part baker from time to time just because it's nice to see the price breakdown and where the best place is to buy that particular part i've also linked videos in this video description that should give you an idea of what to expect when it comes to raw cpu performance as well as the kinds of frame rates you should expect from any given platform from any given graphics card it's all in the description check those out all of those videos plus this one here should give you just a well-rounded scope just a well-rounded view of what to expect with any particular parts list that you decide to put together a pc part picker that's the one thing that the website doesn't do is tell you how powerful that system is relatively speaking but that's what videos like the ones in the description are for check those out check out other videos other benchmarks on youtube you'll get an idea for what to expect how much you should pay for a system that you're looking to build and for a resolution that you're looking to game in with any particular set of settings i just realized my glasses are super dirty there we go be sure to give this video a thumbs up if you thought it was cool give it a dislike if you feel like a 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