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so I've got some bad news and some good news today the bad news is that Disney wouldn't licence us the rights to use a walks in today's episode of tech quickie but the good news you guessed it it's time for episode 6 of avoiding common PC building traps and I'll bet you thought we were ready to give this series a funeral pyre nope let's get right into it the Empire did not spend enough on protecting the main reactor of either Death Star but that doesn't mean that you should go on a spending spree for your power supply either don't get me wrong buying a bargain-basement psu from a brand you've never heard of is a terrible idea as it can damage your components but I'm saying you most likely shouldn't be spending extra on a high wattage power supply either you see because components today are a lot more power efficient than they were even a decade ago you can easily get away with having a lower wattage PSU even if you're rocking a higher-end CPU and GPU a standard build with one of each of these components should be served well with a 500 watt power supply with higher wattages really only necessary if you're running multiple graphics cards or have some other kind of exotic setup if you really want to be sure check out one of the power supply calculators we've linked in the video description you might be surprised how little you really need speaking of powerful components don't feel like you need to invest in a fancy water cooling setup just because your rig is on the higher end although water cooling is indeed significantly more effective than traditional forced air cooling it does not give you too much of an advantage unless you're overclocking even high-end CPUs and GPUs are designed to last a very long time with whichever cooling option they come with whether that's a reference cooler or an AIB partner solution like you see included on many graphics cards and if you go with an enthusiast class CPU that doesn't come with a stock cooler you can still get away with an inexpensive air cooler if you're just running the chip at stock speed so feel free to save your money and skip the water cooler unless you really just want the aesthetic on the subject of cooling if you're gonna be installing more than a couple fans in your case pay attention to how many fan headers are on your motherboard modern motherboards allow you to control fan speeds and curves from the BIOS or the operating system meaning you're gonna miss out on this if you have more fans headers and you end up needing to plug some of them directly into your power supply though you can also pick up a physical fan controller to adjust speeds from the outside of your case or use a case with one built in let's wrap things up by talking about something outside of your PC itself your monitor in a previous episode we mentioned ensuring that you plug in your display to your graphics card and not your motherboard in order to assure you're actually getting the performance you paid so much money for but on a similar note monitors with fancy features like high refresh rates and adaptive sync are becoming more and more common but these bells and whistles often are not enabled by default so if you have body monitor that supports any refresh rate above 60 Hertz or any other premium features check both your display settings and your graphics card control panel to see if everything is set properly after all your monitor isn't gonna come with an astromech droid to do it for you speaking of doing it for you pulse wave pulse weight is a real-time remote monitoring and management software that's compatible with Windows Mac Linux and more it gives you access to real-time status system resources logged in users network performance windows updates and more you can fix problems on the go by sending commands from any mobile device you can create and deploy custom scripts to automate your IT tasks and you can scan install and update all your systems on the go it also has a remote desktop functionality and you can try it all out free today at pulse Wacom or through our link in the video description so thanks for watching guys if you like this video give us a like and subscribe and be sure to hit us up in the comments for your suggestions for future episodes