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it's time for episode three and no I'm not going to get all angsty and explain why I think the Jedi are evil it's the third episode of common PC building traps you should be looking out for whether you're a Padawan preparing for your first build or you spend weekends with your family bragging about all these fully armed and operational battle stations you've put together let's start with something that you should watch out for before you even begin physically assembling the computer balancing your build this means you want to be sure that you're choosing components that will work with each other as a coordinated sensible whole or computer for example if you've decided to go with something like a low-end pentium cpu don't pair it with a $600 graphics card as your underpowered processor will likely be a bottleneck in games not allowing your graphics card to operate at peak performance not what you want after spending all that money in a similar vein doing things like buying a 1200 watt power supply for a single video card set up for buying 64 gigs of ram for watching youtube videos not good ideas so think about what you want to do with your system and whether the parts you're buying makes sense for each other before pulling the trigger then after you've picked a logical set of components and you're putting it all together don't forget to manage your cables that's right you should do this even if you're using a case that doesn't have a side panel window as the benefits aren't purely aesthetic proper cable routing cannot only save you a lot of headaches whenever you have to open up your system to make an upgrade or repair they can prevent your components from being choked up with dust as poorly managed cables that cross every which way inside your case tend to be dust magnets and can eventually restrict air flow and you don't have to do some sort of world-class cable management job to reap the benefits just use the routing holes in your case plus a few zip ties for a massive improvement versus having a cable jungle like some kind of barbarian and while we're on the subject of cables when you finish your build and are getting ready to plug in your monitor for the love of all that is good don't plug it into your motherboard if you're rocking a discreet graphics card although software solutions that allows you to plug your monitor into either one and still reap the performance benefits all of your GPU once appeared as though they had a bright future these days a connection to your motherboard will completely bypass your graphics card leaving you wondering why you're getting five frames per second in a game where you were expecting to get 500 moving right along with the plugging things in theme don't assume that all the RAM slots on your motherboard are the same if you've got multiple six of RAM but not enough to fill every slot maybe you've got two sticks and a four slot board check your motherboard manual and follow the manufacturers recommended configuration typically this means using every other slot not following the instructions could result in your RAM not running in a faster multi-channel mode and while memory speed doesn't have a massive impact on performance except in very specific applications these days there also isn't a good reason to miss out on a small boost that properly inserted RAM can give you so you've got everything plugged in properly and you've been using your computer for a short while but something seems amiss you find out that a BIOS update from your motherboard manufacturer might be the cure for your ills however you need to be very careful when flashing your UEFI BIOS if something goes wrong during the process like a power outage you could end up irreversibly bricking your motherboard so it's a good idea especially if you haven't invested in a motherboard with a dual BIOS or a BIOS flashback feature that lets you reflash it even if it is somewhat bricked it's a good idea to be plugged into a battery backup or a UPS while you are doing it I mean and at the very least don't do it during a thunderstorm you don't want to be out the two hundred bucks you spent on your board just because mother nature decided to have a little tempest tantrum so hopefully this series has helped you in your quest to have a mistake-free building experience but what are some of your go-to tips for PC assembly let us know in the comments and maybe you'll see your ideas in episode 4 will give you frustrated Builders out there some new hope tired of companies tracking what you're doing on the Internet tunnel bear VPN is the simple to use VPN that does the same things as VPNs that are more difficult to use so how could you go wrong basically Tunnel bear is a quick download it's available for iOS Android PC and Mac they even have a Chrome extension that lets you just press a button boom I want to tunnel through this country and there you go your connection gets encrypted with AES 256-bit encryption and your 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