WEBVTT 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 00:00:05.100 --> 00:00:12.240 we're shaking things up we're doing something different I will be following 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 00:00:15.540 --> 00:00:24.300 in PC Building history the one created by the verge 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 00:00:26.820 --> 00:00:30.019 take this 00:00:37.079 --> 00:00:42.960 PC with custom colored sleeved cables try out their configurator and build 00:00:41.219 --> 00:00:48.020 your cables exactly how you want them with their realistic cable preview at 00:00:45.000 --> 00:00:48.020 the link down below 00:00:54.620 --> 00:01:00.980 oh this is hilarious I actually need the 00:00:58.260 --> 00:01:06.960 tweezers no now now we're done with them step one 00:01:04.280 --> 00:01:10.439 find the guide unfortunately the original upload is no longer there 00:01:08.580 --> 00:01:14.520 what's the story behind that there were some lawyers involved someone wanted to 00:01:12.360 --> 00:01:18.720 do a takedown notice of it I didn't green light that and apparently that 00:01:16.320 --> 00:01:22.979 just made people angry but the original guide you're on the verge that's gone 00:01:20.700 --> 00:01:26.759 now um the written portion is still up there yeah is it yeah yeah yeah 00:01:24.299 --> 00:01:31.200 essentially that's the script that was supposed to be turned into an hour-long 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 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 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 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 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 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 00:01:55.200 --> 00:02:02.040 the floor yeah I did I did I actually did the first computer I ever upgraded 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 00:02:03.299 --> 00:02:08.220 carpet with my Dad yeah okay so you don't need a table 00:02:06.420 --> 00:02:13.080 that's fine a thermal paste applicator okay an allen wrench some tweezers to 00:02:11.039 --> 00:02:16.620 tight up the wires a Swiss army knife which hopefully has a Phillips head 00:02:14.459 --> 00:02:20.819 screwdriver now this is much better unfortunately doesn't have a Phillips 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 00:02:22.680 --> 00:02:27.900 it'll cut things it'll work you looked really nervous yeah at that point that 00:02:26.160 --> 00:02:31.440 was my fourth machine it was my first time doing it on camera but these are 00:02:29.520 --> 00:02:36.420 not tweezers they are not tweezers those are cable ties these are cable ties he 00:02:33.480 --> 00:02:40.260 does know guys last but not least an anti-static bracelet okay now this seems 00:02:38.940 --> 00:02:44.459 like it was just one of those things where you had a misunderstanding at some 00:02:42.900 --> 00:02:49.319 point or another yeah but those bracelets have no anti-static 00:02:47.099 --> 00:02:53.819 functionality have to be yeah so here give us the demo how do you use an 00:02:51.480 --> 00:02:59.940 actual anti-static bracelet this housing is grounded as part of the design of 00:02:55.860 --> 00:03:01.800 this table so now we are grounded also 00:02:59.940 --> 00:03:06.000 we did a video recently with Electro boom where we demonstrated that actually 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 00:03:10.140 --> 00:03:16.500 need to build a PC screwdriver cable ties a knife or a sharp edge some kind 00:03:14.640 --> 00:03:20.280 of cutting Implement of some sort you might need an allen key yeah but odds 00:03:18.420 --> 00:03:24.300 are if you do it'll be included with whatever part requires it Place items 00:03:22.440 --> 00:03:27.780 into the case and make sure that they all fit and then start working okay now 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 00:03:30.180 --> 00:03:36.900 this stuff top down and then the portions where we're facing in front of 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 00:03:38.760 --> 00:03:45.000 guide cool so oh apparently we need our 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 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 00:03:51.780 --> 00:03:58.980 pulled my accessory boxes removed but the sleds are back in there I couldn't 00:03:56.159 --> 00:04:03.000 understand who it was geared towards we had this baby simple explanation of what 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 00:04:04.620 --> 00:04:11.220 going whoa whoa hey whoa now hold on complex yeah what we're doing right now 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 00:04:14.700 --> 00:04:20.160 rather than an hx-850 but hey close enough close enough close enough yeah 00:04:18.299 --> 00:04:24.720 all right and then in terms of fan placement now you did take some Flack 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 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 00:04:32.460 --> 00:04:38.820 drawing in nice fresh air and then exhausting it out the back as kind of 00:04:36.600 --> 00:04:41.960 its own isolated Thermal Zone right oh you know what we might just need that 00:04:40.259 --> 00:04:47.220 Swiss army knife here okay you know what nice 00:04:45.780 --> 00:04:51.060 okay gorgeous and now we're really going to start 00:04:49.860 --> 00:04:55.020 building okay then we got this continuity error the power supplies 00:04:52.860 --> 00:04:58.259 around the table Yeah and screw in with confidence but also don't screw in too 00:04:56.759 --> 00:05:03.780 hard otherwise you could crack the board now the odds of cracking the board are 00:05:01.199 --> 00:05:08.100 pretty slim unless you're really going ham in which case it's actually true 00:05:05.940 --> 00:05:11.160 that can happen the most common instances of cracking the motherboard 00:05:09.660 --> 00:05:14.940 though are when you've made another mistake say for example you didn't 00:05:13.620 --> 00:05:19.919 install one of your motherboard standoffs and I've seen this happen even 00:05:17.520 --> 00:05:23.400 with people who have built PCS before if you keep screwing when one of the 00:05:21.660 --> 00:05:26.820 standoffs is missing and there's no support a lot of the time that screw 00:05:25.380 --> 00:05:30.660 thread is actually the same as the threading on the motherboard tray itself 00:05:28.740 --> 00:05:35.520 and you can crank the motherboard down and crack it and also it has support for 00:05:33.240 --> 00:05:39.780 NVMe ssds meaning you can get really fast ssds that are really easy to 00:05:37.320 --> 00:05:43.259 install now that that part's a little awkward let's get our power supply 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 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 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 00:05:54.479 --> 00:06:01.800 it's not actually out yet but it will be on lttstore.com 00:05:58.800 --> 00:06:03.960 looks good now Stefan 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 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 00:06:09.539 --> 00:06:14.520 realize now at this point that like 00:06:12.960 --> 00:06:18.840 there were definitely some things you could have done better yeah in the video 00:06:16.139 --> 00:06:23.340 okay this is definitely one of them like the back plate for that motherboard is 00:06:20.160 --> 00:06:24.900 one yeah when I realized that I didn't 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 00:06:27.600 --> 00:06:34.319 point that's why there's a continuity there right yeah the reason I never did 00:06:31.740 --> 00:06:38.220 a react video was because most of the mistakes that you made here were ones 00:06:36.360 --> 00:06:41.580 that I have made at some point or another including this one right if 00:06:40.080 --> 00:06:45.180 we're being honest with ourselves if you've built more than a dozen or a 00:06:43.500 --> 00:06:49.080 couple dozen PCS you might have accidentally put the motherboard into 00:06:46.680 --> 00:06:54.600 the case without installing the i o Shield before and truthfully the way 00:06:52.020 --> 00:06:58.220 Stefan is correcting his error here you can actually see what he's doing with 00:06:56.100 --> 00:07:04.740 his hands he's unscrewed the motherboard slid it back he's installing the i o 00:07:01.620 --> 00:07:06.300 shield and then obviously in order for 00:07:04.740 --> 00:07:11.580 the finished shots of the build to be completed the motherboard has been slid 00:07:08.400 --> 00:07:12.900 back into place and screwed in it's not 00:07:11.580 --> 00:07:17.639 wrong but it's not helpful to a beginner yeah 00:07:14.940 --> 00:07:21.599 is the issue here yeah wait what the oh 00:07:18.900 --> 00:07:25.860 don't include that you know what actually 00:07:23.400 --> 00:07:29.880 I put this in upside down oh this is even though I have built probably 00:07:27.780 --> 00:07:33.780 hundreds of computers on camera so something people don't realize is when 00:07:31.440 --> 00:07:37.319 you're doing something for yourself you would turn it around and you would be 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 00:07:39.000 --> 00:07:43.680 line up where the holes are but when you're doing something to present to 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 00:07:45.660 --> 00:07:53.280 sorts of mistakes and it's not worth crucifying people over them although if 00:07:51.360 --> 00:07:59.400 I can speak frankly of course I think you probably could have avoided at least 00:07:55.020 --> 00:08:01.800 some of the uh backlash by just kind of 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 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 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 00:08:13.919 --> 00:08:19.440 original advice was to keep it up there and then now lawyers get involved and 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 00:08:21.780 --> 00:08:28.500 really bad yeah that was bad advice I would not have given that advice I mean 00:08:25.740 --> 00:08:34.860 internally when we upload something that is clearly problematic 00:08:31.259 --> 00:08:36.899 um rectified we we fix it yeah once and 00:08:34.860 --> 00:08:40.440 for all this is your Redemption story Stefan 00:08:38.039 --> 00:08:44.700 go for it cool cool cool yeah there we go 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 00:08:47.820 --> 00:08:52.980 have been watching some of my guides he's holding the motherboard by the heat 00:08:51.120 --> 00:08:58.560 sink yeah you think yeah as someone who's built a lot of computers on camera 00:08:54.959 --> 00:09:01.140 I could at least relate to almost not 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 00:09:02.459 --> 00:09:07.980 yeah basically everything is twice as hard on camera as it is yeah it takes 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 00:09:10.500 --> 00:09:16.860 check for where your standoffs are located sometimes the case manufacturer 00:09:14.820 --> 00:09:21.600 installs them for you but your motherboard manufacturer had other ideas 00:09:18.779 --> 00:09:27.120 so make sure all of them are visible through the holes there's an empty one 00:09:23.940 --> 00:09:28.740 Yep this is the kind of thing that I 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 00:09:31.080 --> 00:09:37.320 about three and a half hours to shoot this build for you guys but it's 00:09:35.279 --> 00:09:41.339 something that can be easily missed if you're under pressure and you're being 00:09:38.820 --> 00:09:46.740 rushed and this can be a killer this right here can short out the traces on 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 00:09:48.360 --> 00:09:54.360 you guys see me kind of standing here supervising that's one of the reasons 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 00:09:56.700 --> 00:10:03.180 because to me it looked more like a systemic problem someone especially who 00:10:01.800 --> 00:10:07.320 has never done something before on camera should have an experienced 00:10:04.800 --> 00:10:15.540 supervisor making sure that they don't say or do anything dumb because 00:10:10.260 --> 00:10:17.040 it happens right and that's the role 00:10:15.540 --> 00:10:23.220 that I'm playing here that was clearly completely absent at The Verge how the 00:10:20.640 --> 00:10:25.620 did that video ever get uploaded after after they told me that that would be 00:10:24.300 --> 00:10:29.700 their new policy well I 00:10:27.779 --> 00:10:32.399 how helpful is that for you right all right let's get this screwed in actually 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 00:10:34.860 --> 00:10:41.279 yeah pay close attention to the brace that goes at the okay you called it a 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 00:10:43.080 --> 00:10:48.300 go outside of the case in class okay 00:10:46.200 --> 00:10:53.040 yeah that was done from outside Cuban that was another one should be from the 00:10:49.800 --> 00:10:54.240 inside but I can see your hands you 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 00:10:57.839 --> 00:11:04.260 of fat fingerings yeah you know yeah and this is very important because otherwise 00:11:02.399 --> 00:11:08.880 you can't align the motherboard correctly with the holes the reason it's 00:11:06.240 --> 00:11:12.959 important is because it acts as an Emi Shield strictly speaking the computer 00:11:10.800 --> 00:11:17.100 will completely function fine without it it's a bit of an outdated 00:11:15.480 --> 00:11:22.079 um way of thinking now that we have so many computer cases that have glass or 00:11:19.440 --> 00:11:25.440 acrylic side panels like how silly is it to think that these little gaps are 00:11:23.579 --> 00:11:31.380 where all the Emi is going to get out but that is their original purpose 00:11:28.560 --> 00:11:35.279 ah those aren't the right screws nope so this is the Redemption moment show me 00:11:33.899 --> 00:11:38.519 the correct screws for the motherboard another thing that can be tricky for 00:11:36.959 --> 00:11:42.839 inexperienced Builders is that you can actually have multiple types of screws 00:11:40.920 --> 00:11:47.640 with the same threading included with your parts for example I'm holding an M3 00:11:45.839 --> 00:11:52.200 button head that would be intended for something like screwing your motherboard 00:11:49.019 --> 00:11:54.600 into your standoffs as well as an M3 00:11:52.200 --> 00:11:59.279 countersunk screw that would be intended for installing an SSD onto a tray so 00:11:57.600 --> 00:12:04.019 that the button head wouldn't stick out and cause interference as you slide it 00:12:01.260 --> 00:12:09.240 in and out and in many cases these could be used interchangeably they're just not 00:12:07.440 --> 00:12:13.440 supposed to I noticed you were using a countersunk screw and that's one of the 00:12:10.980 --> 00:12:18.959 things people got very mad about it's pretty fast RAM it's 266 megahertz I 00:12:17.399 --> 00:12:24.480 believe people were really mad about the speed of the RAM 26 66 megahertz being 00:12:21.600 --> 00:12:30.000 not not fast enough I don't entirely disagree though with the choice of the 00:12:26.820 --> 00:12:32.160 RAM at that time I I think the Gaming 00:12:30.000 --> 00:12:36.660 Community was just coming around again to the idea of fast memory being really 00:12:34.560 --> 00:12:40.980 important for gaming performance the main thing is that you were a little 00:12:38.100 --> 00:12:43.980 behind the times I see why people were mad I also see how the mistake happened 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 00:12:45.720 --> 00:12:50.940 budget come from um the budget was not my idea that was 00:12:48.779 --> 00:12:54.060 an editorial idea they were like let's make this approachable for most people 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 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 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 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 00:13:07.620 --> 00:13:14.459 could have opened the slots first and just aligning the stick with the middle 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 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 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 00:13:25.040 --> 00:13:31.940 cl-16 okay um why don't we grab those ballistics 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 00:13:34.019 --> 00:13:40.680 and you want to align that with the center partition so that once you press 00:13:39.420 --> 00:13:45.899 down you'll hear a click turn around yeah 00:13:43.139 --> 00:13:49.860 this is the reality of building a computer in front of a camera ever tried 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 00:13:51.779 --> 00:13:58.440 that there we go oh I see there was actually another error here you were installing 00:13:56.339 --> 00:14:03.899 your sticks in the slots closest to the CPU which almost always are the less 00:14:01.980 --> 00:14:07.680 preferred slots so once you hear that solid clasp and 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 00:14:09.540 --> 00:14:15.480 in the correct slot what happened there probably like photos not paying 00:14:14.160 --> 00:14:19.920 attention in that moment we're going to install the hard drive or in this case 00:14:17.459 --> 00:14:25.380 the NVMe SSD using hard drive colloquially to describe an SSD is about 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 00:14:27.600 --> 00:14:34.200 down by one screw and the latch so it's really simple and really straightforward 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 00:14:36.060 --> 00:14:43.199 where'd our little screw go good question in a better place here it 00:14:41.279 --> 00:14:47.699 is okay sweet all right one of the big problems with this portion of the video 00:14:44.699 --> 00:14:50.100 is that while Stefan is actually 00:14:47.699 --> 00:14:54.959 installing the m.2 drive correctly you can't see a thing that he's doing 00:14:51.779 --> 00:14:56.820 because it's often not practical to 00:14:54.959 --> 00:15:00.600 lower the table enough that the camera operator can see down into the case so 00:14:59.339 --> 00:15:04.440 that's why sometimes they got to get a little bit 00:15:02.579 --> 00:15:08.279 High when you're installing an m.2 SSD 00:15:06.360 --> 00:15:13.560 usually either on the box or on the drive itself you'll see a little code 00:15:09.959 --> 00:15:15.899 says m.22 and then some other number 00:15:13.560 --> 00:15:20.339 this one says 22.80 so that tells us where to install the threaded standoff 00:15:18.360 --> 00:15:23.760 so that we can correctly install the drive you can actually see it labeled 00:15:22.139 --> 00:15:27.000 right on the drive you can see it labeled right on the motherboard see 00:15:25.560 --> 00:15:30.720 that verbal slip up I said see it labeled right on the drive it's holding 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 00:15:33.000 --> 00:15:40.620 we've put a PCI Express gen 3 Drive in a 00:15:36.540 --> 00:15:42.300 PCI Express Gen 4 capable slot but if 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 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 00:15:47.880 --> 00:15:54.300 move this down to one of the one of the beta slots nothing prevents you from 00:15:52.440 --> 00:15:59.040 doing that step 4 we're going to install the graphics card okay 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 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 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 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 00:16:12.120 --> 00:16:16.980 series came out I upgraded it and that's how I benchmarked and did the whole 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 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 00:16:25.320 --> 00:16:30.480 you choose depends entirely on what other parts you're going to put in the 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 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 00:16:36.959 --> 00:16:44.160 remaining brackets and just put them in the spots that you haven't used I think 00:16:41.639 --> 00:16:49.040 what probably happened is you pulled off all the brackets at some point during 00:16:46.259 --> 00:16:54.000 the preparation for the video and then forgot that they're all included and you 00:16:52.620 --> 00:16:59.519 don't have to take them out and put them back in the oven 00:16:55.680 --> 00:17:01.620 whoops show us how it's done then 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 00:17:04.740 --> 00:17:11.160 wrong reason wrong reasons the top one is correct but not because it looks nice 00:17:08.220 --> 00:17:16.260 it's because that slot has its full complement of 16 Lanes connected 00:17:13.620 --> 00:17:20.640 directly to the CPU so your graphics card being one of the most bandwidth 00:17:18.299 --> 00:17:25.380 hungry components in your system wants as many lanes as it can get this bracket 00:17:23.880 --> 00:17:29.340 has been bent a little bit yeah just yeah just gonna reform it yeah yeah in 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 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 00:17:34.980 --> 00:17:40.620 you have a nice magnetic screwdriver to work you just kind of you just kind of 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 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 00:17:45.600 --> 00:17:51.900 really useful what not a Swiss army knife nope I would once ask for food 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 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 00:18:00.720 --> 00:18:08.940 we've challenged them you no no no no no no no no no 00:18:05.900 --> 00:18:10.380 always be sure to try to place it in the 00:18:08.940 --> 00:18:14.700 system first before you install it because you can see it takes up a lot of 00:18:12.419 --> 00:18:19.799 space that's a fair point but in this case no pun intended it fits in 00:18:17.160 --> 00:18:23.640 perfectly and we're gonna start screwing it in and there's nothing special about 00:18:21.660 --> 00:18:28.700 this screening process they're just really long screws because they go 00:18:25.140 --> 00:18:32.160 through the entire frame of the cooler 00:18:28.700 --> 00:18:34.500 so what happens if you do that well you 00:18:32.160 --> 00:18:38.520 could possibly puncture the lines and that would be pretty bad yeah the cause 00:18:36.600 --> 00:18:43.200 of leak especially in a case where the radiator is above the motherboard and 00:18:40.500 --> 00:18:46.679 above the GPU most modern radiators are actually designed so that the tubes 00:18:45.000 --> 00:18:51.179 these flattened tubes that's where the water actually passes through it our 00:18:48.840 --> 00:18:54.720 offset from the screw holes so many people have made this mistake over the 00:18:52.799 --> 00:18:59.460 years that they've changed the way they design radiators to account for in fact 00:18:56.600 --> 00:19:05.460 confession time I have an old therm chill PA 120.3 that has a punctured tube 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 00:19:08.880 --> 00:19:14.820 gonna try to squeeze it in from an angle maybe oh did we misconfigure the system 00:19:13.440 --> 00:19:19.380 hmm this is the kind of thing we'd normally 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 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 00:19:26.460 --> 00:19:33.600 take that top apart oh I think the top panel actually comes off this case The 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 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 00:19:40.679 --> 00:19:47.820 get at once we have this radiator installed we made another significant 00:19:44.820 --> 00:19:51.059 mistake oh boy we didn't put our CPU 00:19:47.820 --> 00:19:52.919 mounting plate uh back plate yeah yeah 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 00:19:55.919 --> 00:20:02.400 Building skills and Linus Tech tips PC Building skills where I'm going to show 00:20:00.539 --> 00:20:06.600 you guys how to jakely undo the mistakes you made because you use the verge's 00:20:04.559 --> 00:20:10.679 guides you can see that once you've undone three of the screws 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 00:20:15.480 --> 00:20:21.660 I'm just gonna bend the motherboard a little bit Yeah you got it threaded in 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 00:20:23.640 --> 00:20:30.360 gonna do like you know a totally right one I let the team down the difference 00:20:28.020 --> 00:20:36.000 is I'm out here sharing the bullet you know what I need what's up 00:20:32.660 --> 00:20:38.940 tweezers get some tweezers in there oh 00:20:36.000 --> 00:20:43.500 yeah Stefan is that lined up yes it is yeah it is oh my gosh 00:20:41.700 --> 00:20:48.059 what are the odds that following The Verge PC build guide would result in and 00:20:45.660 --> 00:20:52.100 result in errors and errors and go down this way that might actually 00:20:49.500 --> 00:20:57.900 be how they intended for you to do uh tight squeeze that's really tight gosh 00:20:55.620 --> 00:21:03.299 every power supply is gonna come with a big bag of velcro cables more like 00:21:00.120 --> 00:21:04.919 braided yeah braided sleeving yeah and 00:21:03.299 --> 00:21:08.340 only modular power supplies come with a bag of cables next step is we're 00:21:06.720 --> 00:21:13.500 connecting the power supply to the motherboard with the 24-pin cable all 00:21:10.500 --> 00:21:16.740 right wanna get us a 24 pin here see 00:21:13.500 --> 00:21:19.020 where oh there you go so our 24 pin end 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 00:21:20.640 --> 00:21:26.760 right the next few additions will be for the GPU for any specific ports that the 00:21:24.960 --> 00:21:32.880 case has for any lighting that the case has the CPU Cooler we already did our 00:21:29.400 --> 00:21:35.100 eight pin for the CPU that's up here 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 00:21:38.220 --> 00:21:43.320 connected this is made a little bit more difficult by the fact that we have 00:21:41.700 --> 00:21:46.200 already installed our GPU and we're going to start with our USB 3. so can 00:21:45.059 --> 00:21:49.679 you pull this through for me on the other end the flat one you gotta watch 00:21:48.299 --> 00:21:55.620 out for this guy very fragile but it only goes in one way 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 00:21:57.840 --> 00:22:05.039 all right usb2 right there boom uh front 00:22:01.500 --> 00:22:07.020 audio I'm not even gonna try to doing 00:22:05.039 --> 00:22:10.919 much better than that you know I gotta say I'm actually pretty surprised that 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 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 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 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 00:22:25.799 --> 00:22:32.700 power switch goes you know what let's do the power switch last 00:22:30.000 --> 00:22:36.240 power LED this one positive negative does matter because your LED won't work 00:22:34.740 --> 00:22:39.780 if you do it wrong but you won't actually damage anything by putting it 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 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 00:22:46.200 --> 00:22:51.780 first time builders so it's at the top left corner here with 00:22:49.860 --> 00:22:56.400 the positive one at the very top left then we're going to take our reset 00:22:53.760 --> 00:23:01.020 switch we're going to put it in the next two pins over on the bottom 00:22:59.340 --> 00:23:04.980 and then we're going to do our power switch right above the reset switch and 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 00:23:06.720 --> 00:23:13.919 the other side Roger that perfect sweet that looks great now we can use a single 00:23:11.700 --> 00:23:18.120 cable for this one with two eight pin connectors with a little kind of daisy 00:23:15.780 --> 00:23:22.620 chain loop but some Builders are preferring these days especially with 00:23:19.620 --> 00:23:24.659 higher powered gpus to put two separate 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 00:23:26.580 --> 00:23:32.640 these in but particularly if you have a power supply that is a multi-rail design 00:23:30.720 --> 00:23:36.179 you can overwhelm the over current protection on a single port especially 00:23:35.039 --> 00:23:40.679 if you have a super power hungry graphics card and the efficiency of 00:23:38.520 --> 00:23:45.000 using separate cables because they won't heat up as much is marginally higher so 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 00:23:46.860 --> 00:23:52.320 pin the amount of backlash and the 00:23:49.860 --> 00:23:57.780 number of memes that were generated from that original video probably actually 00:23:54.720 --> 00:24:00.000 taught more people from your mistakes 00:23:57.780 --> 00:24:03.900 yeah than if the video had just gone up and been correct the last thing our 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 00:24:08.580 --> 00:24:15.799 power connectors for our fans and we're gonna go number four 00:24:13.980 --> 00:24:21.600 all right and number oop hello number four right 00:24:19.860 --> 00:24:27.659 we gotta do these two SATA power connectors for our Fan Hub as well as 00:24:25.020 --> 00:24:30.179 our RGB Hub this just goes anywhere it fits 00:24:28.620 --> 00:24:34.320 just like the rest of the power supply connectors these you just gotta watch 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 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 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 00:24:45.780 --> 00:24:50.340 little 3D printed holders that we make for rcps okay 00:24:50.340 --> 00:24:56.640 whoa and this just flies right off just comes 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 00:25:01.200 --> 00:25:06.179 top yeah not really and we're just going to carefully lean it down into the 00:25:04.799 --> 00:25:09.950 system and make sure that everything lines up and we're going to clasp down 00:25:08.460 --> 00:25:12.059 on it and we'll be good to go 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 00:25:15.900 --> 00:25:22.799 Cooler actually comes with a bit of thermal paste already neatly applied 00:25:19.080 --> 00:25:24.840 okay not everyone but many do and if you 00:25:22.799 --> 00:25:29.400 have it pre-applied it's enough that's enough practice to 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 00:25:31.080 --> 00:25:38.279 said Stephen Gamer's Nexus actually did a video proving that you cannot put too 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 00:25:40.020 --> 00:25:45.900 going to see that there are four brackets or rather like screws and I can 00:25:43.740 --> 00:25:48.720 tell this is attempt number two by the fact that the paste is already kind of 00:25:47.340 --> 00:25:53.520 spread out now our cooler because it's been used before does not have any 00:25:50.460 --> 00:25:55.740 pre-applied thermal compound so Stefan 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 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 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 00:26:06.000 --> 00:26:10.740 think of this beforehand well that's 00:26:09.000 --> 00:26:14.220 probably appropriate that the Corsair logo is upside upside down this is the 00:26:12.480 --> 00:26:17.940 distressed PC all right now 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 00:26:21.120 --> 00:26:26.880 earlier in the process that's not the end of the world though you know what 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 00:26:29.159 --> 00:26:37.799 the motherboard to cram something under it they can just kind of tuck in there 00:26:33.539 --> 00:26:38.580 okay I'm a talking expert nice there we 00:26:37.799 --> 00:26:43.860 go whoa not my finest cable management work 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 00:26:46.260 --> 00:26:52.919 panel of a computer yeah they're good we're ready to go yeah 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 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 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 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 00:27:17.640 --> 00:27:23.039 700k we've got 16 gigs memory two 00:27:20.640 --> 00:27:28.279 keyboards two minus two hubs ladies and gentlemen 00:27:24.299 --> 00:27:28.279 that's right we've got it 00:27:29.940 --> 00:27:36.720 thanks a lot man no thank you this was this was an 00:27:34.320 --> 00:27:42.000 absolute blast thank you for coming and putting up with my with my jokes thank 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 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 00:27:48.840 --> 00:27:53.400 they want to get tips on maybe not building PCS but if you want to keep up 00:27:52.200 --> 00:27:57.059 with anything I'm writing on anything I'm working on as Stefan etn on Twitter 00:27:55.679 --> 00:28:01.980 which I'm sure a lot of you already know where to find me and laptopmimo.com the 00:28:00.059 --> 00:28:05.640 tech blog I ran since I was like 12. 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