1 00:00:00,060 --> 00:00:06,899 normally I'm the guy who makes the guide for how to build a PC but today 2 00:00:05,100 --> 00:00:12,240 we're shaking things up we're doing something different I will be following 3 00:00:09,360 --> 00:00:18,240 the guide to how to build a PC but not just any guide the most infamous guide 4 00:00:15,540 --> 00:00:24,300 in PC Building history the one created by the verge 5 00:00:22,199 --> 00:00:30,019 I don't know if I'm ready no I'm ready it's dangerous to go alone 6 00:00:26,820 --> 00:00:30,019 take this 7 00:00:37,079 --> 00:00:42,960 PC with custom colored sleeved cables try out their configurator and build 8 00:00:41,219 --> 00:00:48,020 your cables exactly how you want them with their realistic cable preview at 9 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:48,020 the link down below 10 00:00:54,620 --> 00:01:00,980 oh this is hilarious I actually need the 11 00:00:58,260 --> 00:01:06,960 tweezers no now now we're done with them step one 12 00:01:04,280 --> 00:01:10,439 find the guide unfortunately the original upload is no longer there 13 00:01:08,580 --> 00:01:14,520 what's the story behind that there were some lawyers involved someone wanted to 14 00:01:12,360 --> 00:01:18,720 do a takedown notice of it I didn't green light that and apparently that 15 00:01:16,320 --> 00:01:22,979 just made people angry but the original guide you're on the verge that's gone 16 00:01:20,700 --> 00:01:26,759 now um the written portion is still up there yeah is it yeah yeah yeah 17 00:01:24,299 --> 00:01:31,200 essentially that's the script that was supposed to be turned into an hour-long 18 00:01:29,280 --> 00:01:34,680 video maybe around three o'clock they're like you think we can finish up at four 19 00:01:32,580 --> 00:01:39,180 so we can hit out early I did not get to see it until 48 hours before it went 20 00:01:36,780 --> 00:01:42,780 live and that's on the next Friday so I can't tell my editors I can't call nili 21 00:01:41,159 --> 00:01:48,000 I can't tell anybody that this is crap it goes up on Monday at 8 A.M that's it 22 00:01:45,360 --> 00:01:53,100 all right let's do it first you need a tape first you need a table all right 23 00:01:50,820 --> 00:01:57,479 a table we got a table yeah I'm not gonna lie I built my first computer on 24 00:01:55,200 --> 00:02:02,040 the floor yeah I did I did I actually did the first computer I ever upgraded 25 00:01:59,399 --> 00:02:05,100 when I was four was Windows 2000 to XP and that was done on the floor on the 26 00:02:03,299 --> 00:02:08,220 carpet with my Dad yeah okay so you don't need a table 27 00:02:06,420 --> 00:02:13,080 that's fine a thermal paste applicator okay an allen wrench some tweezers to 28 00:02:11,039 --> 00:02:16,620 tight up the wires a Swiss army knife which hopefully has a Phillips head 29 00:02:14,459 --> 00:02:20,819 screwdriver now this is much better unfortunately doesn't have a Phillips 30 00:02:18,480 --> 00:02:24,480 screwdriver on it right so but it cuts things but it'll cut it'll cut things 31 00:02:22,680 --> 00:02:27,900 it'll cut things it'll work you looked really nervous yeah at that point that 32 00:02:26,160 --> 00:02:31,440 was my fourth machine it was my first time doing it on camera but these are 33 00:02:29,520 --> 00:02:36,420 not tweezers they are not tweezers those are cable ties these are cable ties he 34 00:02:33,480 --> 00:02:40,260 does know guys last but not least an anti-static bracelet okay now this seems 35 00:02:38,940 --> 00:02:44,459 like it was just one of those things where you had a misunderstanding at some 36 00:02:42,900 --> 00:02:49,319 point or another yeah but those bracelets have no anti-static 37 00:02:47,099 --> 00:02:53,819 functionality have to be yeah so here give us the demo how do you use an 38 00:02:51,480 --> 00:02:59,940 actual anti-static bracelet this housing is grounded as part of the design of 39 00:02:55,860 --> 00:03:01,800 this table so now we are grounded also 40 00:02:59,940 --> 00:03:06,000 we did a video recently with Electro boom where we demonstrated that actually 41 00:03:04,620 --> 00:03:12,480 it's very difficult to kill your Hardware oh ah bottom line then what tools do you 42 00:03:10,140 --> 00:03:16,500 need to build a PC screwdriver cable ties a knife or a sharp edge some kind 43 00:03:14,640 --> 00:03:20,280 of cutting Implement of some sort you might need an allen key yeah but odds 44 00:03:18,420 --> 00:03:24,300 are if you do it'll be included with whatever part requires it Place items 45 00:03:22,440 --> 00:03:27,780 into the case and make sure that they all fit and then start working okay now 46 00:03:26,280 --> 00:03:32,519 we've jumped ahead a little bit here yeah so they were like can you do all of 47 00:03:30,180 --> 00:03:36,900 this stuff top down and then the portions where we're facing in front of 48 00:03:34,140 --> 00:03:42,480 you like we'll do it normally but we're going to do our best today to follow the 49 00:03:38,760 --> 00:03:45,000 guide cool so oh apparently we need our 50 00:03:42,480 --> 00:03:48,480 case right and our power supply right so let's get that just trying to match the 51 00:03:46,860 --> 00:03:54,000 state of preparation of the case here I've got this panel off I've got yeah I 52 00:03:51,780 --> 00:03:58,980 pulled my accessory boxes removed but the sleds are back in there I couldn't 53 00:03:56,159 --> 00:04:03,000 understand who it was geared towards we had this baby simple explanation of what 54 00:04:00,959 --> 00:04:07,260 a computer is at the beginning and then the guide portion all of a sudden I'm 55 00:04:04,620 --> 00:04:11,220 going whoa whoa hey whoa now hold on complex yeah what we're doing right now 56 00:04:09,480 --> 00:04:16,919 should have been in the original video that's all cut out yeah this is an rm850 57 00:04:14,700 --> 00:04:20,160 rather than an hx-850 but hey close enough close enough close enough yeah 58 00:04:18,299 --> 00:04:24,720 all right and then in terms of fan placement now you did take some Flack 59 00:04:22,860 --> 00:04:30,600 over this I'm not sure if it was entirely fair but I would recommend in a 60 00:04:28,380 --> 00:04:34,680 case like this that the fan be oriented to the outside of the case that way it's 61 00:04:32,460 --> 00:04:38,820 drawing in nice fresh air and then exhausting it out the back as kind of 62 00:04:36,600 --> 00:04:41,960 its own isolated Thermal Zone right oh you know what we might just need that 63 00:04:40,259 --> 00:04:47,220 Swiss army knife here okay you know what nice 64 00:04:45,780 --> 00:04:51,060 okay gorgeous and now we're really going to start 65 00:04:49,860 --> 00:04:55,020 building okay then we got this continuity error the power supplies 66 00:04:52,860 --> 00:04:58,259 around the table Yeah and screw in with confidence but also don't screw in too 67 00:04:56,759 --> 00:05:03,780 hard otherwise you could crack the board now the odds of cracking the board are 68 00:05:01,199 --> 00:05:08,100 pretty slim unless you're really going ham in which case it's actually true 69 00:05:05,940 --> 00:05:11,160 that can happen the most common instances of cracking the motherboard 70 00:05:09,660 --> 00:05:14,940 though are when you've made another mistake say for example you didn't 71 00:05:13,620 --> 00:05:19,919 install one of your motherboard standoffs and I've seen this happen even 72 00:05:17,520 --> 00:05:23,400 with people who have built PCS before if you keep screwing when one of the 73 00:05:21,660 --> 00:05:26,820 standoffs is missing and there's no support a lot of the time that screw 74 00:05:25,380 --> 00:05:30,660 thread is actually the same as the threading on the motherboard tray itself 75 00:05:28,740 --> 00:05:35,520 and you can crank the motherboard down and crack it and also it has support for 76 00:05:33,240 --> 00:05:39,780 NVMe ssds meaning you can get really fast ssds that are really easy to 77 00:05:37,320 --> 00:05:43,259 install now that that part's a little awkward let's get our power supply 78 00:05:41,280 --> 00:05:45,960 screwed in real quick here and then we'll go from there by the way that's 79 00:05:44,639 --> 00:05:51,479 our new screwdriver that we're coming out with oh sweet so it's it's LTT uh it 80 00:05:49,380 --> 00:05:56,280 is this is a magnetic tip also of course nice only the finest for the LTT viewers 81 00:05:54,479 --> 00:06:01,800 it's not actually out yet but it will be on lttstore.com 82 00:05:58,800 --> 00:06:03,960 looks good now Stefan 83 00:06:01,800 --> 00:06:07,139 did you study up at all for the build today yes I watched a couple of years 84 00:06:05,520 --> 00:06:12,960 you did watch you did watch a couple of our videos and do you do you kind of 85 00:06:09,539 --> 00:06:14,520 realize now at this point that like 86 00:06:12,960 --> 00:06:18,840 there were definitely some things you could have done better yeah in the video 87 00:06:16,139 --> 00:06:23,340 okay this is definitely one of them like the back plate for that motherboard is 88 00:06:20,160 --> 00:06:24,900 one yeah when I realized that I didn't 89 00:06:23,340 --> 00:06:28,860 put it on and I'd already screwed in the motherboard not cracking it though thankfully so I took it apart from this 90 00:06:27,600 --> 00:06:34,319 point that's why there's a continuity there right yeah the reason I never did 91 00:06:31,740 --> 00:06:38,220 a react video was because most of the mistakes that you made here were ones 92 00:06:36,360 --> 00:06:41,580 that I have made at some point or another including this one right if 93 00:06:40,080 --> 00:06:45,180 we're being honest with ourselves if you've built more than a dozen or a 94 00:06:43,500 --> 00:06:49,080 couple dozen PCS you might have accidentally put the motherboard into 95 00:06:46,680 --> 00:06:54,600 the case without installing the i o Shield before and truthfully the way 96 00:06:52,020 --> 00:06:58,220 Stefan is correcting his error here you can actually see what he's doing with 97 00:06:56,100 --> 00:07:04,740 his hands he's unscrewed the motherboard slid it back he's installing the i o 98 00:07:01,620 --> 00:07:06,300 shield and then obviously in order for 99 00:07:04,740 --> 00:07:11,580 the finished shots of the build to be completed the motherboard has been slid 100 00:07:08,400 --> 00:07:12,900 back into place and screwed in it's not 101 00:07:11,580 --> 00:07:17,639 wrong but it's not helpful to a beginner yeah 102 00:07:14,940 --> 00:07:21,599 is the issue here yeah wait what the oh 103 00:07:18,900 --> 00:07:25,860 don't include that you know what actually 104 00:07:23,400 --> 00:07:29,880 I put this in upside down oh this is even though I have built probably 105 00:07:27,780 --> 00:07:33,780 hundreds of computers on camera so something people don't realize is when 106 00:07:31,440 --> 00:07:37,319 you're doing something for yourself you would turn it around and you would be 107 00:07:35,699 --> 00:07:40,979 looking at it like this while you're working on it so it's a lot easier to 108 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:43,680 line up where the holes are but when you're doing something to present to 109 00:07:42,180 --> 00:07:48,419 camera especially if you're not used to it it can be very easy to make these 110 00:07:45,660 --> 00:07:53,280 sorts of mistakes and it's not worth crucifying people over them although if 111 00:07:51,360 --> 00:07:59,400 I can speak frankly of course I think you probably could have avoided at least 112 00:07:55,020 --> 00:08:01,800 some of the uh backlash by just kind of 113 00:07:59,400 --> 00:08:06,479 going you know what I screwed up in the first place yeah so why didn't I why 114 00:08:05,099 --> 00:08:09,539 didn't you know everyone at The Verge is looking to me to lead that situation and 115 00:08:08,220 --> 00:08:15,840 it's sort of like either you back down and you let all these people steamroll you or you keep it up there and my 116 00:08:13,919 --> 00:08:19,440 original advice was to keep it up there and then now lawyers get involved and 117 00:08:17,759 --> 00:08:24,300 then it gets taken down I can tell you the advice you got was really bad it was 118 00:08:21,780 --> 00:08:28,500 really bad yeah that was bad advice I would not have given that advice I mean 119 00:08:25,740 --> 00:08:34,860 internally when we upload something that is clearly problematic 120 00:08:31,259 --> 00:08:36,899 um rectified we we fix it yeah once and 121 00:08:34,860 --> 00:08:40,440 for all this is your Redemption story Stefan 122 00:08:38,039 --> 00:08:44,700 go for it cool cool cool yeah there we go 123 00:08:41,760 --> 00:08:49,500 there we go okay thank you this corner wants a little bit more I can see you 124 00:08:47,820 --> 00:08:52,980 have been watching some of my guides he's holding the motherboard by the heat 125 00:08:51,120 --> 00:08:58,560 sink yeah you think yeah as someone who's built a lot of computers on camera 126 00:08:54,959 --> 00:09:01,140 I could at least relate to almost not 127 00:08:58,560 --> 00:09:03,959 all of the mistakes yeah um but a lot of the ones that were made in the video 128 00:09:02,459 --> 00:09:07,980 yeah basically everything is twice as hard on camera as it is yeah it takes 129 00:09:06,420 --> 00:09:12,839 three times as long that's it I think we're in you always want to do a sanity 130 00:09:10,500 --> 00:09:16,860 check for where your standoffs are located sometimes the case manufacturer 131 00:09:14,820 --> 00:09:21,600 installs them for you but your motherboard manufacturer had other ideas 132 00:09:18,779 --> 00:09:27,120 so make sure all of them are visible through the holes there's an empty one 133 00:09:23,940 --> 00:09:28,740 Yep this is the kind of thing that I 134 00:09:27,120 --> 00:09:33,300 would catch if I'm taking my time doing it properly Stefan and I have set aside 135 00:09:31,080 --> 00:09:37,320 about three and a half hours to shoot this build for you guys but it's 136 00:09:35,279 --> 00:09:41,339 something that can be easily missed if you're under pressure and you're being 137 00:09:38,820 --> 00:09:46,740 rushed and this can be a killer this right here can short out the traces on 138 00:09:43,980 --> 00:09:49,860 the back of the board and fry it so let's go ahead and get that removed now 139 00:09:48,360 --> 00:09:54,360 you guys see me kind of standing here supervising that's one of the reasons 140 00:09:51,779 --> 00:09:59,040 that again I didn't get personal about what went up in that video and that's 141 00:09:56,700 --> 00:10:03,180 because to me it looked more like a systemic problem someone especially who 142 00:10:01,800 --> 00:10:07,320 has never done something before on camera should have an experienced 143 00:10:04,800 --> 00:10:15,540 supervisor making sure that they don't say or do anything dumb because 144 00:10:10,260 --> 00:10:17,040 it happens right and that's the role 145 00:10:15,540 --> 00:10:23,220 that I'm playing here that was clearly completely absent at The Verge how the 146 00:10:20,640 --> 00:10:25,620 did that video ever get uploaded after after they told me that that would be 147 00:10:24,300 --> 00:10:29,700 their new policy well I 148 00:10:27,779 --> 00:10:32,399 how helpful is that for you right all right let's get this screwed in actually 149 00:10:31,140 --> 00:10:37,019 hold on we should be following the guide yeah we should be following the guy doesn't screw in the motherboard yet 150 00:10:34,860 --> 00:10:41,279 yeah pay close attention to the brace that goes at the okay you called it a 151 00:10:39,300 --> 00:10:46,200 break it's an i o Shield yeah because there's no screw it really just has to 152 00:10:43,080 --> 00:10:48,300 go outside of the case in class okay 153 00:10:46,200 --> 00:10:53,040 yeah that was done from outside Cuban that was another one should be from the 154 00:10:49,800 --> 00:10:54,240 inside but I can see your hands you 155 00:10:53,040 --> 00:11:00,480 wouldn't have gotten it in if you were putting it in from the outside it's just yeah you know it's the verbal equivalent 156 00:10:57,839 --> 00:11:04,260 of fat fingerings yeah you know yeah and this is very important because otherwise 157 00:11:02,399 --> 00:11:08,880 you can't align the motherboard correctly with the holes the reason it's 158 00:11:06,240 --> 00:11:12,959 important is because it acts as an Emi Shield strictly speaking the computer 159 00:11:10,800 --> 00:11:17,100 will completely function fine without it it's a bit of an outdated 160 00:11:15,480 --> 00:11:22,079 um way of thinking now that we have so many computer cases that have glass or 161 00:11:19,440 --> 00:11:25,440 acrylic side panels like how silly is it to think that these little gaps are 162 00:11:23,579 --> 00:11:31,380 where all the Emi is going to get out but that is their original purpose 163 00:11:28,560 --> 00:11:35,279 ah those aren't the right screws nope so this is the Redemption moment show me 164 00:11:33,899 --> 00:11:38,519 the correct screws for the motherboard another thing that can be tricky for 165 00:11:36,959 --> 00:11:42,839 inexperienced Builders is that you can actually have multiple types of screws 166 00:11:40,920 --> 00:11:47,640 with the same threading included with your parts for example I'm holding an M3 167 00:11:45,839 --> 00:11:52,200 button head that would be intended for something like screwing your motherboard 168 00:11:49,019 --> 00:11:54,600 into your standoffs as well as an M3 169 00:11:52,200 --> 00:11:59,279 countersunk screw that would be intended for installing an SSD onto a tray so 170 00:11:57,600 --> 00:12:04,019 that the button head wouldn't stick out and cause interference as you slide it 171 00:12:01,260 --> 00:12:09,240 in and out and in many cases these could be used interchangeably they're just not 172 00:12:07,440 --> 00:12:13,440 supposed to I noticed you were using a countersunk screw and that's one of the 173 00:12:10,980 --> 00:12:18,959 things people got very mad about it's pretty fast RAM it's 266 megahertz I 174 00:12:17,399 --> 00:12:24,480 believe people were really mad about the speed of the RAM 26 66 megahertz being 175 00:12:21,600 --> 00:12:30,000 not not fast enough I don't entirely disagree though with the choice of the 176 00:12:26,820 --> 00:12:32,160 RAM at that time I I think the Gaming 177 00:12:30,000 --> 00:12:36,660 Community was just coming around again to the idea of fast memory being really 178 00:12:34,560 --> 00:12:40,980 important for gaming performance the main thing is that you were a little 179 00:12:38,100 --> 00:12:43,980 behind the times I see why people were mad I also see how the mistake happened 180 00:12:42,540 --> 00:12:46,860 it also had to do with the budget of the build but yeah I get it where did the 181 00:12:45,720 --> 00:12:50,940 budget come from um the budget was not my idea that was 182 00:12:48,779 --> 00:12:54,060 an editorial idea they were like let's make this approachable for most people 183 00:12:52,200 --> 00:12:57,480 let's set a budget and I was like okay three thousand dollars they're like no 184 00:12:55,860 --> 00:13:01,680 that's too high I was like well then it's gonna have to be two and that's 185 00:12:59,639 --> 00:13:05,339 where that came from got it so it was just kind of arbitrary it's arbitrary it 186 00:13:03,839 --> 00:13:09,839 was it had nothing to do with anything if I wanted to use the best parts I 187 00:13:07,620 --> 00:13:14,459 could have opened the slots first and just aligning the stick with the middle 188 00:13:12,420 --> 00:13:19,320 of the strip not with the end and just lining that up with the logo that is not 189 00:13:17,579 --> 00:13:22,260 the best explanation I've ever heard for how to align memory why don't you take 190 00:13:20,760 --> 00:13:27,240 another crack at this one for me let's do it we found some Vengeance RGB 266 191 00:13:25,040 --> 00:13:31,940 cl-16 okay um why don't we grab those ballistics 192 00:13:29,360 --> 00:13:36,720 so you want to keep these slots open otherwise you can't put the RAM stick in 193 00:13:34,019 --> 00:13:40,680 and you want to align that with the center partition so that once you press 194 00:13:39,420 --> 00:13:45,899 down you'll hear a click turn around yeah 195 00:13:43,139 --> 00:13:49,860 this is the reality of building a computer in front of a camera ever tried 196 00:13:47,639 --> 00:13:52,500 to put in a USB port while you're you know not facing it it's kind of like 197 00:13:51,779 --> 00:13:58,440 that there we go oh I see there was actually another error here you were installing 198 00:13:56,339 --> 00:14:03,899 your sticks in the slots closest to the CPU which almost always are the less 199 00:14:01,980 --> 00:14:07,680 preferred slots so once you hear that solid clasp and 200 00:14:06,120 --> 00:14:11,459 you don't see the gold connectors on the siding now that's interesting here it's 201 00:14:09,540 --> 00:14:15,480 in the correct slot what happened there probably like photos not paying 202 00:14:14,160 --> 00:14:19,920 attention in that moment we're going to install the hard drive or in this case 203 00:14:17,459 --> 00:14:25,380 the NVMe SSD using hard drive colloquially to describe an SSD is about 204 00:14:23,040 --> 00:14:29,880 like calling a tower a CPU it's kind of Boomer terminology and it's only held 205 00:14:27,600 --> 00:14:34,200 down by one screw and the latch so it's really simple and really straightforward 206 00:14:31,860 --> 00:14:37,740 I'm gonna get you to install this SSD the way you did it there yeah okay 207 00:14:36,060 --> 00:14:43,199 where'd our little screw go good question in a better place here it 208 00:14:41,279 --> 00:14:47,699 is okay sweet all right one of the big problems with this portion of the video 209 00:14:44,699 --> 00:14:50,100 is that while Stefan is actually 210 00:14:47,699 --> 00:14:54,959 installing the m.2 drive correctly you can't see a thing that he's doing 211 00:14:51,779 --> 00:14:56,820 because it's often not practical to 212 00:14:54,959 --> 00:15:00,600 lower the table enough that the camera operator can see down into the case so 213 00:14:59,339 --> 00:15:04,440 that's why sometimes they got to get a little bit 214 00:15:02,579 --> 00:15:08,279 High when you're installing an m.2 SSD 215 00:15:06,360 --> 00:15:13,560 usually either on the box or on the drive itself you'll see a little code 216 00:15:09,959 --> 00:15:15,899 says m.22 and then some other number 217 00:15:13,560 --> 00:15:20,339 this one says 22.80 so that tells us where to install the threaded standoff 218 00:15:18,360 --> 00:15:23,760 so that we can correctly install the drive you can actually see it labeled 219 00:15:22,139 --> 00:15:27,000 right on the drive you can see it labeled right on the motherboard see 220 00:15:25,560 --> 00:15:30,720 that verbal slip up I said see it labeled right on the drive it's holding 221 00:15:28,560 --> 00:15:36,540 a drive now something you could point at as an error in today's video is that 222 00:15:33,000 --> 00:15:40,620 we've put a PCI Express gen 3 Drive in a 223 00:15:36,540 --> 00:15:42,300 PCI Express Gen 4 capable slot but if 224 00:15:40,620 --> 00:15:46,199 we're not spending the extra for a Gen 4 Drive I would still recommend doing it 225 00:15:44,339 --> 00:15:50,279 this way and then if you upgrade to a Gen 4 drive down the road you can always 226 00:15:47,880 --> 00:15:54,300 move this down to one of the one of the beta slots nothing prevents you from 227 00:15:52,440 --> 00:15:59,040 doing that step 4 we're going to install the graphics card okay 228 00:15:56,519 --> 00:16:03,480 this is very out of order because so far we've got not a whole lot of actual 229 00:16:01,320 --> 00:16:06,779 computer built yet and we're going to go put the graphics card in it's going to 230 00:16:04,980 --> 00:16:09,839 get in our way yeah it's huge do you want to go for the 1080 again or do you 231 00:16:08,279 --> 00:16:14,160 want to upgrade it um I want to upgrade it because about the time that the 20 232 00:16:12,120 --> 00:16:16,980 series came out I upgraded it and that's how I benchmarked and did the whole 233 00:16:15,480 --> 00:16:22,079 review but no one knew it was built on that computer so you want me to install 234 00:16:19,860 --> 00:16:27,779 it now I mean yeah okay I guess that's what you said to do right now which lane 235 00:16:25,320 --> 00:16:30,480 you choose depends entirely on what other parts you're going to put in the 236 00:16:28,860 --> 00:16:34,740 system I'm just going to pick the top one because the SSD is at the bottom and 237 00:16:33,300 --> 00:16:39,300 I don't want to cover it I just think it looks nice click down take your 238 00:16:36,959 --> 00:16:44,160 remaining brackets and just put them in the spots that you haven't used I think 239 00:16:41,639 --> 00:16:49,040 what probably happened is you pulled off all the brackets at some point during 240 00:16:46,259 --> 00:16:54,000 the preparation for the video and then forgot that they're all included and you 241 00:16:52,620 --> 00:16:59,519 don't have to take them out and put them back in the oven 242 00:16:55,680 --> 00:17:01,620 whoops show us how it's done then 243 00:16:59,519 --> 00:17:06,600 as for which PCI Express slot to install it in Stefan got it right but for the 244 00:17:04,740 --> 00:17:11,160 wrong reason wrong reasons the top one is correct but not because it looks nice 245 00:17:08,220 --> 00:17:16,260 it's because that slot has its full complement of 16 Lanes connected 246 00:17:13,620 --> 00:17:20,640 directly to the CPU so your graphics card being one of the most bandwidth 247 00:17:18,299 --> 00:17:25,380 hungry components in your system wants as many lanes as it can get this bracket 248 00:17:23,880 --> 00:17:29,340 has been bent a little bit yeah just yeah just gonna reform it yeah yeah in 249 00:17:27,600 --> 00:17:33,179 there yeah this is an old PC Builder trick what's up if you've only got a 250 00:17:30,960 --> 00:17:36,360 fraction of a hole exposed what you do is you get the screw on there as long as 251 00:17:34,980 --> 00:17:40,620 you have a nice magnetic screwdriver to work you just kind of you just kind of 252 00:17:38,760 --> 00:17:44,039 lever it over right and then you can screw it in screw it in gotcha I'm 253 00:17:42,299 --> 00:17:47,580 geeking out more about this and the PC yeah it's good because it's just really 254 00:17:45,600 --> 00:17:51,900 really useful what not a Swiss army knife nope I would once ask for food 255 00:17:50,640 --> 00:17:57,720 recommendations and then I would lead with I already tried the thermal paste it does not taste good by the way don't 256 00:17:54,840 --> 00:18:02,660 don't eat dirt it's in the same category as Tide Pods don't do do it now that 257 00:18:00,720 --> 00:18:08,940 we've challenged them you no no no no no no no no no 258 00:18:05,900 --> 00:18:10,380 always be sure to try to place it in the 259 00:18:08,940 --> 00:18:14,700 system first before you install it because you can see it takes up a lot of 260 00:18:12,419 --> 00:18:19,799 space that's a fair point but in this case no pun intended it fits in 261 00:18:17,160 --> 00:18:23,640 perfectly and we're gonna start screwing it in and there's nothing special about 262 00:18:21,660 --> 00:18:28,700 this screening process they're just really long screws because they go 263 00:18:25,140 --> 00:18:32,160 through the entire frame of the cooler 264 00:18:28,700 --> 00:18:34,500 so what happens if you do that well you 265 00:18:32,160 --> 00:18:38,520 could possibly puncture the lines and that would be pretty bad yeah the cause 266 00:18:36,600 --> 00:18:43,200 of leak especially in a case where the radiator is above the motherboard and 267 00:18:40,500 --> 00:18:46,679 above the GPU most modern radiators are actually designed so that the tubes 268 00:18:45,000 --> 00:18:51,179 these flattened tubes that's where the water actually passes through it our 269 00:18:48,840 --> 00:18:54,720 offset from the screw holes so many people have made this mistake over the 270 00:18:52,799 --> 00:18:59,460 years that they've changed the way they design radiators to account for in fact 271 00:18:56,600 --> 00:19:05,460 confession time I have an old therm chill PA 120.3 that has a punctured tube 272 00:19:03,780 --> 00:19:10,500 although I fixed it still works to this day oh or a little wide actually I'm 273 00:19:08,880 --> 00:19:14,820 gonna try to squeeze it in from an angle maybe oh did we misconfigure the system 274 00:19:13,440 --> 00:19:19,380 hmm this is the kind of thing we'd normally 275 00:19:16,559 --> 00:19:24,120 like to gloss over in the edit now in the old days cases used to come apart 276 00:19:21,539 --> 00:19:28,500 and it made it a lot easier to do stuff like you know what you might be able to 277 00:19:26,460 --> 00:19:33,600 take that top apart oh I think the top panel actually comes off this case The 278 00:19:31,020 --> 00:19:38,580 Verge guide has not yet told us to plug in the eight pin CPU power connector but 279 00:19:36,600 --> 00:19:42,059 I'm gonna do that now because that thing is going to be darn near impossible to 280 00:19:40,679 --> 00:19:47,820 get at once we have this radiator installed we made another significant 281 00:19:44,820 --> 00:19:51,059 mistake oh boy we didn't put our CPU 282 00:19:47,820 --> 00:19:52,919 mounting plate uh back plate yeah yeah 283 00:19:51,059 --> 00:19:58,500 we didn't put the back plate on this is the perfect merging of the verge's PC 284 00:19:55,919 --> 00:20:02,400 Building skills and Linus Tech tips PC Building skills where I'm going to show 285 00:20:00,539 --> 00:20:06,600 you guys how to jakely undo the mistakes you made because you use the verge's 286 00:20:04,559 --> 00:20:10,679 guides you can see that once you've undone three of the screws 287 00:20:09,059 --> 00:20:17,760 actually a fair bit of play in the motherboard here um fits the thing in my Uber there and 288 00:20:15,480 --> 00:20:21,660 I'm just gonna bend the motherboard a little bit Yeah you got it threaded in 289 00:20:19,440 --> 00:20:25,559 yep okay great I'll try to line up the rest of them see I told him we were 290 00:20:23,640 --> 00:20:30,360 gonna do like you know a totally right one I let the team down the difference 291 00:20:28,020 --> 00:20:36,000 is I'm out here sharing the bullet you know what I need what's up 292 00:20:32,660 --> 00:20:38,940 tweezers get some tweezers in there oh 293 00:20:36,000 --> 00:20:43,500 yeah Stefan is that lined up yes it is yeah it is oh my gosh 294 00:20:41,700 --> 00:20:48,059 what are the odds that following The Verge PC build guide would result in and 295 00:20:45,660 --> 00:20:52,100 result in errors and errors and go down this way that might actually 296 00:20:49,500 --> 00:20:57,900 be how they intended for you to do uh tight squeeze that's really tight gosh 297 00:20:55,620 --> 00:21:03,299 every power supply is gonna come with a big bag of velcro cables more like 298 00:21:00,120 --> 00:21:04,919 braided yeah braided sleeving yeah and 299 00:21:03,299 --> 00:21:08,340 only modular power supplies come with a bag of cables next step is we're 300 00:21:06,720 --> 00:21:13,500 connecting the power supply to the motherboard with the 24-pin cable all 301 00:21:10,500 --> 00:21:16,740 right wanna get us a 24 pin here see 302 00:21:13,500 --> 00:21:19,020 where oh there you go so our 24 pin end 303 00:21:16,740 --> 00:21:22,620 goes here and then I'll get Stefan to show you the other end on the other side 304 00:21:20,640 --> 00:21:26,760 right the next few additions will be for the GPU for any specific ports that the 305 00:21:24,960 --> 00:21:32,880 case has for any lighting that the case has the CPU Cooler we already did our 306 00:21:29,400 --> 00:21:35,100 eight pin for the CPU that's up here 307 00:21:32,880 --> 00:21:40,140 so next what we're going to do is let's get our case front panel headers 308 00:21:38,220 --> 00:21:43,320 connected this is made a little bit more difficult by the fact that we have 309 00:21:41,700 --> 00:21:46,200 already installed our GPU and we're going to start with our USB 3. so can 310 00:21:45,059 --> 00:21:49,679 you pull this through for me on the other end the flat one you gotta watch 311 00:21:48,299 --> 00:21:55,620 out for this guy very fragile but it only goes in one way 312 00:21:52,919 --> 00:22:01,500 so as long as you're gentle shouldn't be a problem there we go all right sweet 313 00:21:57,840 --> 00:22:05,039 all right usb2 right there boom uh front 314 00:22:01,500 --> 00:22:07,020 audio I'm not even gonna try to doing 315 00:22:05,039 --> 00:22:10,919 much better than that you know I gotta say I'm actually pretty surprised that 316 00:22:09,240 --> 00:22:14,400 not only did you agree to come and do this with me but that you reached out to 317 00:22:12,780 --> 00:22:17,640 me the reason why I didn't get to talk to you at all was contract stuff so I 318 00:22:16,260 --> 00:22:22,320 was like if it's not going to be done right the first time it's got to be done 319 00:22:19,440 --> 00:22:27,840 right at some point now we're gonna do our front panel switches and LEDs so the 320 00:22:25,799 --> 00:22:32,700 power switch goes you know what let's do the power switch last 321 00:22:30,000 --> 00:22:36,240 power LED this one positive negative does matter because your LED won't work 322 00:22:34,740 --> 00:22:39,780 if you do it wrong but you won't actually damage anything by putting it 323 00:22:37,919 --> 00:22:44,340 on the wrong way so we're going to go ahead and plug it in oh wow this case 324 00:22:42,120 --> 00:22:47,580 has two different spots to put the Power LED on that's a little bit confusing for 325 00:22:46,200 --> 00:22:51,780 first time builders so it's at the top left corner here with 326 00:22:49,860 --> 00:22:56,400 the positive one at the very top left then we're going to take our reset 327 00:22:53,760 --> 00:23:01,020 switch we're going to put it in the next two pins over on the bottom 328 00:22:59,340 --> 00:23:04,980 and then we're going to do our power switch right above the reset switch and 329 00:23:03,539 --> 00:23:09,240 then I'm going to get you to pull the extra slack for all of these through to 330 00:23:06,720 --> 00:23:13,919 the other side Roger that perfect sweet that looks great now we can use a single 331 00:23:11,700 --> 00:23:18,120 cable for this one with two eight pin connectors with a little kind of daisy 332 00:23:15,780 --> 00:23:22,620 chain loop but some Builders are preferring these days especially with 333 00:23:19,620 --> 00:23:24,659 higher powered gpus to put two separate 334 00:23:22,620 --> 00:23:28,860 eight pins in it's not likely to cause any sort of problem to plug both of 335 00:23:26,580 --> 00:23:32,640 these in but particularly if you have a power supply that is a multi-rail design 336 00:23:30,720 --> 00:23:36,179 you can overwhelm the over current protection on a single port especially 337 00:23:35,039 --> 00:23:40,679 if you have a super power hungry graphics card and the efficiency of 338 00:23:38,520 --> 00:23:45,000 using separate cables because they won't heat up as much is marginally higher so 339 00:23:43,740 --> 00:23:49,860 here you go I'm passing these through to you Roger that I want them under the 24 340 00:23:46,860 --> 00:23:52,320 pin the amount of backlash and the 341 00:23:49,860 --> 00:23:57,780 number of memes that were generated from that original video probably actually 342 00:23:54,720 --> 00:24:00,000 taught more people from your mistakes 343 00:23:57,780 --> 00:24:03,900 yeah than if the video had just gone up and been correct the last thing our 344 00:24:02,159 --> 00:24:11,520 wonderful guide asked us to plug in all at once uh is here we go the RGB and 345 00:24:08,580 --> 00:24:15,799 power connectors for our fans and we're gonna go number four 346 00:24:13,980 --> 00:24:21,600 all right and number oop hello number four right 347 00:24:19,860 --> 00:24:27,659 we gotta do these two SATA power connectors for our Fan Hub as well as 348 00:24:25,020 --> 00:24:30,179 our RGB Hub this just goes anywhere it fits 349 00:24:28,620 --> 00:24:34,320 just like the rest of the power supply connectors these you just gotta watch 350 00:24:32,220 --> 00:24:38,580 out they got the little L shape on the end there make sure they go in such as 351 00:24:36,419 --> 00:24:44,580 they go in let's continue shall we oh core i7 hexa core CPU yeah we've got one 352 00:24:42,059 --> 00:24:47,159 we've got one too okay you won't have seen one of these before these are 353 00:24:45,780 --> 00:24:50,340 little 3D printed holders that we make for rcps okay 354 00:24:50,340 --> 00:24:56,640 whoa and this just flies right off just comes 355 00:24:55,080 --> 00:25:02,760 right off and this will make it easier for us to apply it to the motherboard yeah and then apply a CPU and they're on 356 00:25:01,200 --> 00:25:06,179 top yeah not really and we're just going to carefully lean it down into the 357 00:25:04,799 --> 00:25:09,950 system and make sure that everything lines up and we're going to clasp down 358 00:25:08,460 --> 00:25:12,059 on it and we'll be good to go 359 00:25:12,059 --> 00:25:17,280 all right so we're about to put in our thermal paste to the CPU every CPU 360 00:25:15,900 --> 00:25:22,799 Cooler actually comes with a bit of thermal paste already neatly applied 361 00:25:19,080 --> 00:25:24,840 okay not everyone but many do and if you 362 00:25:22,799 --> 00:25:29,400 have it pre-applied it's enough that's enough practice to 363 00:25:27,120 --> 00:25:33,419 have a little bit extra and layer it on top of it that's way too much with that 364 00:25:31,080 --> 00:25:38,279 said Stephen Gamer's Nexus actually did a video proving that you cannot put too 365 00:25:35,640 --> 00:25:41,220 much thermal paste on a CPU the worst you can do is make a mess so you're 366 00:25:40,020 --> 00:25:45,900 going to see that there are four brackets or rather like screws and I can 367 00:25:43,740 --> 00:25:48,720 tell this is attempt number two by the fact that the paste is already kind of 368 00:25:47,340 --> 00:25:53,520 spread out now our cooler because it's been used before does not have any 369 00:25:50,460 --> 00:25:55,740 pre-applied thermal compound so Stefan 370 00:25:53,520 --> 00:25:58,140 yes we do need to apply thermal paste on you show us how it's done I'm just 371 00:25:56,820 --> 00:26:02,760 trying to make sure it doesn't all come out at once there we go there they go 372 00:26:00,299 --> 00:26:09,000 that's all we need so now we take our cooler and oh no I didn't 373 00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:10,740 think of this beforehand well that's 374 00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:14,220 probably appropriate that the Corsair logo is upside upside down this is the 375 00:26:12,480 --> 00:26:17,940 distressed PC all right now 376 00:26:16,320 --> 00:26:24,000 this is another order of operations thing it might have been a little bit nicer to do this 377 00:26:21,120 --> 00:26:26,880 earlier in the process that's not the end of the world though you know what 378 00:26:25,020 --> 00:26:31,260 I've got an idea this is one of my favorite little tips undo one screw on 379 00:26:29,159 --> 00:26:37,799 the motherboard to cram something under it they can just kind of tuck in there 380 00:26:33,539 --> 00:26:38,580 okay I'm a talking expert nice there we 381 00:26:37,799 --> 00:26:43,860 go whoa not my finest cable management work 382 00:26:41,520 --> 00:26:49,039 but no one will ever see it now ever see it it is bad GBS to close up the side 383 00:26:46,260 --> 00:26:52,919 panel of a computer yeah they're good we're ready to go yeah 384 00:26:51,299 --> 00:27:00,059 let's freaking do it let's try to post where's PC build 2.0 test 1.0 385 00:26:58,140 --> 00:27:05,600 oh crap you need to turn on the power supply a very build 2.0 test 2.0 386 00:27:06,539 --> 00:27:13,380 got lights we got lights but do we have we have camera we have action come on 387 00:27:11,760 --> 00:27:20,640 action it wouldn't be funny if they sabotaged us gave us some broken Hardware right now we're good core i7 11 388 00:27:17,640 --> 00:27:23,039 700k we've got 16 gigs memory two 389 00:27:20,640 --> 00:27:28,279 keyboards two minus two hubs ladies and gentlemen 390 00:27:24,299 --> 00:27:28,279 that's right we've got it 391 00:27:29,940 --> 00:27:36,720 thanks a lot man no thank you this was this was an 392 00:27:34,320 --> 00:27:42,000 absolute blast thank you for coming and putting up with my with my jokes thank 393 00:27:39,480 --> 00:27:46,500 you for coming out and just owning it no problem I mean yeah I love it that's uh 394 00:27:44,820 --> 00:27:50,220 that's a Redemption story if I have ever seen one so where can they find you if 395 00:27:48,840 --> 00:27:53,400 they want to get tips on maybe not building PCS but 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