i'm ready you guys might want to grab some popcorn it's probably going to be a
little while because i don't know what the i'm doing i have built two
computers in my lifetime and this will be the third so nzxt has sponsored this
ShortCircuit uh by sending over their nzxt build kit and
they are going to prove to us that building a pc for the first time can
actually be easy i guess let's get to unboxing
um i might need a knife or something to help me get in to this
i played softball for eight years that's embarrassing is this supposed to help me
unbox this jono i don't understand
i i can go to the gym
i mean to be fair how do you open a box with this i don't understand
is this what everybody uses on ShortCircuit to open things what the crap is
this what is this so if you are a first-time builder uh i
guess not like me but similarly to me or an experienced builder at that
um this is perfect for you so first things
first it looks like we have
a checklist so this shows us
all of the steps uh based on levels which is actually quite
a fun concept and then we've got our
adventurers map i will give credits to the graphic designers at nzxt the
website and the illustrations on here are absolutely beautiful everything is
also labeled accordingly which is so nice see hey motherboard we've got our
beautiful hard to come by 3060ti graphics card c650 psu the kraken
m22 millimeter
is it millimeter milliliter mm millimeter um i've never actually
installed the liquid cooler before so i'm excited to see how this works we've
got some parts actually we can reference our list here
and see what parts are in here so we got b
which is the eight Gigabyte RAM sticks we've got c which is the CPU
we've got d which is the SSD and then we have i
which is the wi-fi card then we've got this beautiful
kit of all of our tools
i'm really excited all right so let's get started
our checklist oh i need a marker i gotta make sure i'm doing all of this properly
and as intended even these illustrations
inside kind of help tell a story while
you're immersed in the building the computer building experience so one
thing that i find super awesome is not only do they have the instruction manual
accessible online as well but they also have qr codes so that you can access
walkthrough videos if you still don't understand the written note instructions
all right level one let's do this installing the memory
so it looks like i'm gonna need a and b the motherboard and the RAM sticks and
i'm also going to open my tools kit
no but i want to see what's inside
we've got some zip ties phillips zero screw head
no it doesn't it's a it's a twisty thing it is an attachment but i just don't
know what this this type of attachment is called a wrench
i guess i have to be gentle i said this last time
okay oh so we have 16 gigabytes of memory and
they are 3 200 gigahertz no giga
mega transfers oh my gosh okay
all right i got a click from both sides
i leveled up i have here the AMD ryzen 5600x take
care on this step i'm glad that they show the importance of being gentle with
different components locate the CPU socket which we have here
they include photos of both one for AMD
and one for Intel CPU so that no matter which motherboard you have
you can reference the images without fail without any issues
i'm scared i've seen Linus do this many times
look at that it's in and now i close the socket
so if i reference the illustration you can
see they've got this black part here and i'm assuming that's this part of the SSD
that i have which means that it would be inserted
this way up so it doesn't seem like
the screwdriver is magnetic which is a little bit of a downside in
the instruction manual it looks like
it shows that we could potentially have an aio cooler or an air cooler with the
streaming pc you get an aio cooler which is what i have here but with their
regular standard pc you get an air cooler they should probably include like
a small illustration of the screws rather than me having to
go back to the manual that came with the water cooler to figure this out all
right so we are moving the build into the pc case i guess it's time to unbox
this this is the h510 nzxt case it's so pretty i just love how
simple and clean this case is and my instructions
you know it could probably knock somebody out and then you can give them infinite
paper cuts
time to install the motherboard we are on to level level five and we are
moving these components into the computer just like the instructions say
we are on level six and this part is relocating the fans let's see how we do
this no i don't i'm hoping that this
instruction manual will show me it even shows you exactly where you'll
find the zip ties so i'm not like wasting time looking for things
i always just look at the illustrations but
there are there okay there's words there for reassurance
i'm gonna do my best guessing because this
piece right here actually doesn't match the illustration that i'm seeing on here
quite exactly with that being said if this is the correct orientation i can
refer back to this photo or illustration here which shows this part
which means i am to place it this way
i think it does go this way does it
oh i got it right okay and and where's the bananas i need a
banana wow
ltdstar.com should we measure the fans
so it looks like it's about a seven inch
fan hi
i wish you could help me like i wish i had a partner in crime
here but i'm really just doing this on my own
uh okay i'm screwing things now
so i have screwed in the fans to the fan bracket and then reattached that to the
case and we're on to the next step power supply
it's this is like a ton of mini inbox unboxings in one big unboxing the
non-modular looks like it comes with a pre-attached cable the semi-modular also
looks like it comes with a pre-attached cable and then the modular which we have here
does not come with any cables attached and we've got this uh beautiful nzx
teabag that you could also reuse if you wanted it it
could work as like a makeup bag or something yeah this is great can you fit a banana
inside of the bag yes if you have exactly eight inch
bananas you can put them in the bag quit measuring the bananas sarah
plug in the cable labeled either PCIe or
vga PCIe here we go i've plugged in all of
my cables that the instructions have told me to plug in and i will be
now putting it into my computer case so level eight is for cable management now
for the sake of this ShortCircuit actually being short we're gonna skip
this step but for people who are building their first computer uh it does
show quite detailed instructions as to how to do this uh so with the power of
movie magic all the cables have been plugged in the instructions are super
clear and easy and how to do that so we're on to the next step so following
instructions i will now attempt to install a water cooler for the very
first time in my entire life the cables go towards the RAM
so therefore the cables go towards the rim
and then i just have to screw it in so i'll put the washers back and then
screw it all together and then we'll come back to this okay i see this this
part is here right it's supposed to go this way correct
but this okay now this is not my fault this is not my
fault nzxt this is your fault this is your responsibility the logo here right
here facing this way that's how i have attached the fan is with the logo facing
upwards fix it fix it
so now the CPU cooler is in and all of the cables are plugged in
we're ready for the next step the prized possession
the holy grail the GPU
okay wait wait wait wait wait
there we go now we just slide it out
see i've got this
finishing touches all right we're almost there no you should never
close your case before you turn it on oh really
okay but we gotta listen to the instructions david so
it's time to put the side panels back on to the case
yeah so this is my own error it actually does mention to push this little flappy
bit back but i didn't do that so now it's inside you know
i'm confident and then i'm not confident there's always that uncertainty of one
cable not being plugged in properly or even a RAM stick not being seated
properly and it's bound to happen uh but
i'm really hoping that by following all of these instructions
properly that i won't have any issues
from this way
does this mean it works i did it
my third computer build was a success this made the building experience so
easy other than a few little things here and there overall
as a third pc build for it to work right away
i'd say it was a success thanks to nzxt for sponsoring this video if you're
interested in getting one of these for yourself check it out in the link below
if you're interested in seeing me build a computer for the first time go watch
my first build video on the Linus tech tips channel