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the objective with our ultimate compact gaming build guide was to build an

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extremely powerful basically as good as

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it gets gaming rig within the confines of an extremely small chassis we wanted

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to have the option to overclock this beast we wanted to maintain acceptable

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thermals and we wanted to have it not be too loud this truly is a have your cake

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and eat it too machine as usual we're going to start with the rationale behind

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each of the components why we chose that particular part and some of the other

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considerations that you may want to think about if you're going to undergo a

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similar project and then after that we're going to show you guys the actual

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process of building the machine with nice close-ups of what we're doing so

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you can follow along and then finally we

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are going to show off the finished machine including some performance

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numbers which i think you are going to find to be quite impressive

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before we begin though i would like to take a moment to thank our sponsor thank

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you Intel for making this build guide possible we can't do these videos

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without the support of great companies like Intel they're the ones who are

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actually providing us the budget to set aside a week to plan shoot and edit this

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video so there's ah they're awesome guys over there huge thanks again to Intel

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for making this happen now when you cram a lot of components into a very small

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enclosure the biggest considerations are usually the actual physical size

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constraints and keeping thermals at

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acceptable and safe levels for that reason part selection is absolutely

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critical when the individual components in your system run too hot you are left

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with basically two undesirable options so number one is

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you can just leave them to their own devices and their automatic fan control

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algorithms especially graphics cards will just ramp up fan speeds to

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uncomfortable levels which um i personally find quite offensive although

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it might not matter to you if you're a headphone user so your mileage may vary

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on that one and then option number two is that the components will simply run

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too hot which can cause reliability problems in both the short and in the

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long term now we're going to walk you through each of the parts in the system

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one by one to give you an idea of why we chose it and to give you some tips and

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pointers for how to choose your own whether you are using a small case like

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this or if you're just building a regular non-compact gaming machine

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because remember guys it's not always all about size right

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right the Intel core i7 4770k with a be quiet!

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shadow rock 2 cooler was our weapon of choice for this machine now particularly

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before overclocking Intel's 4th gen core series processors offer unbeatable

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performance per watt so that's the heat output which is necessary for what we're

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trying to achieve here now you could make the argument that there's another

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4th gen processor the 4670k that would be very very suitable for this build but

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we opted for the 4770k with hyper threading just because we're kind of

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going for ultimate here and while most games right now are not going to benefit

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from the additional threads that improvement in the coding of games is

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definitely coming and there are many gamers who also do other things with

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their machines such as video editing or other heavily threaded workloads

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when it came to the memory we actually didn't go full on ultimate here more RAM

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and higher memory speed each deliver very limited performance improvements in

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games so um i mean right now it looks like in

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battlefield 4 there's some benefit to faster memory but that's a bit of an

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isolated case so we decided to go with something pretty standard we went with a

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16 gig dual channel kit of 2133 megahertz memory from a data we could

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have gone all out like 20 400 megahertz or 3000 megahertz or whatever else the

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case may be but the reason we went with this option is that when you go 2133

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you're actually not paying much more than a 1600 megahertz kit so really

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that's the reason why just because it wasn't costing us more once you go past that it starts to get more expensive the

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reason we went with 16 gigs is because it gives us more than enough for now

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with the option to upgrade in the future without totally overspending on the

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memory in comparison to the rest of the system 16 gigs also gives us a little

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bit of flexibility for more memory intensive applications like the video

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editing we mentioned before micro atx performance motherboards often

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actually deliver a pretty compelling value compared to their atx counterparts

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even if you were to use them in a full size case and not an matx case but

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anyway we went with the g1 sniper m5 from Gigabyte because its optimal pci

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express slot spacing allows us to actually install

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two dual slot graphics cards running at PCIe 8x gen 3 which is more than enough

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bandwidth even for 780 ti's and have a

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leftover PCIe forex slot for an additional add-in card of our choice

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down the road whatever we want to put in it that's not bad for matx not to

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mention it comes with all the latest bells and whistles including swappable

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op-amps for the on-board audio one swappable op-amp killer networking

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overclocking options galore and all of that at under 200

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the green color scheme will also go very nicely with our green graphics cards and

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green led lighting effects but of course i'm not that shallow so the color had

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nothing to do with it it was all about the technical technological superiority

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i like green for the case we went with the bitfenix

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phenom m it uses the same internals as the prada gm and while it doesn't have

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the same like hardcore water cooling and

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hard drive mounting options as the itx version does it still has room for a

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large air cooling heatsink for the CPU and the added expansion for pci express

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cards is awesome it features five pci slots at the back

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for future expansion which is a huge benefit if you ever wanted to say for

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example add dual graphics cards or something like that it's also small

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enough to easily pack this sli rig around with you to lan parties or

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wherever else you might need to take an immensely powerful well-cooled little

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rig speaking of cooling it can accept plenty of cooling fans which we can run

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at low rpms when we're idling for quiet operation then ramp up as needed we'll

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be using spectre pro green led fans for this machine spectre pros are one of the

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only really good looking fans out there that also have performance and quiet

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operation on their side so there are a couple of other exceptions but for the

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most part you gotta choose performance or looks well we chose both

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once again guys storage is so personal

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but we're gonna go with something pretty standard for this one which should be

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applicable to many different people an Intel 530 series 240 gig SSD will act as

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our os and key application slash games

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drive while a western digital 4 terabyte black will be our storage powerhouse to

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handle a massive steam library media

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collection and all that kind of stuff and still provide excellent performance

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but with huge storage this SSD plus hard

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drive configuration has grown in popularity over the last couple of years

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a lot and i think we're probably going to be sticking with it for quite a while

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for most high performance users i mean

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until something paradigm shifting happens with respect to SSD pricing and

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capacity or maybe some other new technology comes along it makes a ton of

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sense to go with fast small storage and then slower

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massive storage so you get the best of both worlds well guys for us

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there was really only one ultimate gaming graphics card configuration we've

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gone with two gtx 780 ti graphics cards

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from evga i really don't know what to say about these other than that they're

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the fastest gaming cards on the market

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and they're thermal and acoustic performance made them an obvious choice

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over the red team this time around for this specific build because of the

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constraints we have in terms of space we went with rear exhaust cards versus an

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open cooler like evga's acx cooler because we felt we would rather

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compromise GPU temperatures a little bit we'll have the GPU running a little bit

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hotter for the sake of keeping the rest of the inside of the case cooler

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remember that not every component in your system can be read with a

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temperature monitor so for things like your power delivery components on the

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motherboard lower ambient temperatures inside the system can make a big

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difference to long-term reliability so just because you have a couple graphics

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cards in there and your CPU temps look okay and your GPU temps look okay that

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doesn't mean that an open air cooler is necessarily the best choice for you so

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rear exhaust for very small builds is definitely recommended peripheral wise

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for this rig honestly guys i'm not sure how much sense it makes to keep

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including these since everyone's choices will be so different but tell you what

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let me know if you'd like me to keep featuring peripherals that i think makes

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sense for each build and we'll see if we keep doing it in the

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future anyway we just got our hands on the ducky shine three so for our all-out

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machine we are suggesting this all-out keyboard unfortunately ours are blue

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backlight so they won't match the rest of the green theme here but don't worry

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there's a green one available and it's available in all the main cherry mx key

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switch types and in either a 104 key layout or a 10 keyless layout so you can

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get something to match your rig for sure for our mouse we are going with the

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deathadder 2013. again it's green to

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match our build which isn't the main factor here because the main factor here

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is the fact that it features one of the best sensors on the market as well as

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excellent ergonomics this is an extremely well regarded mouse out there

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right now and i have already recommended it in previous build guides but i have

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no problem recommending it again

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finally for our monitor this is kind of big gotta go get it

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we've gone with the benq xl 2420 te if

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you saw my unboxing you'll already know that for a 144 hertz monitor it is far

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and away the best looking one we've ever

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seen in terms of color and viewing angle the one caveat is that it doesn't

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support g-sync so yeah until monitors that support

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g-sync start arriving i don't know that i can recommend investing in a gaming

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monitor right now but if i absolutely had to then that would be the one

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which leads us finally to our operating system we went with Windows 8 because

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that's all you can really get right now for gaming maybe at some point here

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steam os is going to be an option but that is still very much in beta right

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now in fact we have it running upstairs very much in beta not ready yet Windows

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8 for this particular machine when it comes to pre-build safety and

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setup basically what you want is to start with a safe static free

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workstation and anti-static strap i like to keep mine on my ankle to keep it out

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of the way you also want to make sure there's no unnecessary clutter around so

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that you can lose screws or trip on something and knock something over

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because that would be disastrous next up all we really need for assembly these

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days is a multi-bit screwdriver and the last thing is i always recommend

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doing your first build and powering it up outside the case to ensure that

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everything works while it's nice and easy to reach in case something goes

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wrong and you have to take it back to the store or send it back to the manufacturer the motherboard box makes a

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very handy non-conductive test bench for this outside the case installation

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we'll start with CPU installation after carefully removing the CPU from the

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package align the little golden triangle on the corner of the CPU with the

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triangle on the plastic cover then what you're going to do is lift the retention

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ARM by pushing away then up without

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removing the plastic cover that protects the delicate pins inside the socket just

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leave that in place for now then what we're going to do is gently place the

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CPU in the socket the risk of damage to your system is highest at this point in

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the build process so be extremely careful if you're forcing it then there

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is definitely a problem once the CPU is in place pull down the retention cover

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then pull down the retention ARM lift it out away a little bit and then

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lock it under that little clamp right there once you've done that there it goes the

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plastic cover will pop itself right off put that in the motherboard box for safe

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keeping if you ever need to return your motherboard they will require you to

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send it in with this cover because once again those pins inside that socket are

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extremely fragile ddr3 installation is

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simple pull back the tabs on your motherboard

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align the notches on your memory with the notches inside the sockets then

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insert it gently and finally press firmly down on the memory on both sides

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until the latch clicks back into place on its own

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then you're done always install matched memory sticks in

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the color matched slots on modern motherboards for dual channel operation

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this gives you better performance when it comes to heatsink installation

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everyone is a little bit different and

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be quiet! mounting systems are not always my favorite but they do have solidly

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built products at good prices so that's why we went for it in this particular

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case because it's going to fit quite well with the rest of our hardware but

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still give us maximum cooling on the CPU so don't be intimidated by all the

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little tiny bits and screws and pieces right here we're going to show you how

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exactly it all goes together on the board so we start

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with the back plate you position the back plate so that the screws on the

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back of the little back plate that's already on the motherboard poke through

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the much bigger back plate then you're going to take each of these four longer

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screws and put them through the board so that we can access them on the top

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the next step is to take the little plastic washers

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and clip them from the top so that they stay in place and don't fall back

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through the board so now they're going through the back plate and they are

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stuck in place now that the back plate is securely in

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place we can thread on the nuts that will support the CPU hold down use the

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included wrench to hold them in place from the front of the board while

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tightening them from the back of the board with a phillips head screwdriver

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now we're done with our board for a little bit and it's time to work on the heatsink itself simply use the four

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countersunk screws to attach the hold downs to the bottom of the heatsink

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that's how we're actually going to well hold it down onto the CPU now this next

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step is optional but to maintain the awesome looks of this system we are

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going to swap out the stock fan which is actually a very good fan with a spectre

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pro just remove the metal clips on the stock fan and then put them back onto the new

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fan exactly the same way it's actually quite quite simple and now it's looking

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good oh yeah next up put a line of thermal compound

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which is included with your heatsink onto the CPU and then position the

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heatsink with a sensible fan orientation

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so we're going for kind of a pseudo push pull configuration so once the

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motherboard's in the case the rear exhaust will actually help the fan that

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we installed as a push van pull air through that massive heat sink also

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don't forget to orient the fan when you're installing it so that the power

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lead reaches to the CPU fan header without any extra cable mess you know

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lying around all over the place solid cable management starts at every step

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making sure that you're maintaining it so you can you can actually plug that in

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now we're ready for that i think at this point you'll start to see why we went

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with a low profile memory kit from adata for this build tall memory modules can

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interfere with large CPU heat sinks in some cases

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get it in cases they can interfere because this is a computer and we're

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going to put it in a case and oh man i cracked myself up

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okay no but seriously we're we actually aren't quite done with this yet uh we'll

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use that wrench again from the front and then the screwdriver again from the back

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but this time we are tightening nuts onto the top of the hold down

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again this isn't my favorite CPU mounting mechanism in the world but the

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good news is that once they're all on there it is extremely solid and it's not

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going anywhere now my friends it is time to start

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working on the case so we're going to begin by taking off both side panels by

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removing the four thumb screws at the back what i really recommend doing is

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taking these side panels and putting them back into the case box for now

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because we won't need them until a bit later the phenom m is a little bit

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different from most cases though in that we will need it at some point during the

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assembly process here because you can see that the front i o is actually

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located on one of the side panels where we have our power and reset buttons as

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well as our front audio ports and our usb 3 ports one little trick for this

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case as well that we're going to actually do is we're going to switch

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sides and we're going to put the side panel with the i o on the left hand side

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of the case and we're going to take this side panel move it over to the other side i found that when i was working on

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this case recently that it was a little bit easier to do cable management that

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way and the only drawback is that the logo on your power and reset buttons

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will be upside down in the finished product

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now that the case is open undo the twist tie that's holding the accessory box in

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place that box contains all the screws you need to assemble your system so um

00:18:18.559 --> 00:18:26.320
please don't lose it and for that matter don't lose that twist tie twist ties are

00:18:23.600 --> 00:18:29.440
a handy dandy reusable way of doing cable management later on you can even

00:18:27.919 --> 00:18:33.280
cut them to size according to what you need if you have nice long ones like

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this next you'll need to remove the brace that's across the side panel just

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take out the four countersunk screws and pull that out and put it somewhere safe

00:18:40.160 --> 00:18:46.320
make sure you also put those screws somewhere safe i recommend the accessory

00:18:44.160 --> 00:18:50.160
box that already contains all of your other screws

00:18:47.520 --> 00:18:53.679
now it is time to replace all the fans that came with your case if you want to

00:18:52.320 --> 00:18:58.160
the ones that come with it are decent but we're throwing inspector pro so yeah

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it'll be much more difficult to try and do this later so make sure you do fans pretty much first we'll start at the

00:19:01.440 --> 00:19:07.200
bottom by removing the air shield that comes on the case i don't plan to

00:19:05.919 --> 00:19:11.360
reinstall this because we're going to need that airflow space next we'll

00:19:09.280 --> 00:19:15.039
remove the four screws that are holding in the bottom fan

00:19:13.520 --> 00:19:18.880
take off the stock fan and then we're going to reuse those screws to replace

00:19:16.799 --> 00:19:23.520
it with our spectre pro i also changed the orientation to turn this one into an

00:19:20.880 --> 00:19:28.640
intake to bring fresh air to both my CPU heatsink and also up to my graphics

00:19:26.320 --> 00:19:33.520
cards we then repeat that same procedure for the rear fan replacing it this time

00:19:30.880 --> 00:19:37.120
with a 140 millimeter spectre pro just to get a little bit more airflow just a

00:19:35.440 --> 00:19:41.679
reminder here guys make sure you're checking your fan orientations as you're

00:19:39.600 --> 00:19:46.080
installing each of them it's nice to have logos the right side up in the

00:19:43.840 --> 00:19:50.080
finished build but it's even nicer to have short easy to manage runs to the

00:19:48.480 --> 00:19:55.200
fan headers on your motherboard once everything's installed now we would have

00:19:52.640 --> 00:19:59.679
liked to install more fans in the top of this case two 120 millimeter fans up

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there would have been absolutely perfect for fresh air for those graphics cards

00:20:01.760 --> 00:20:10.080
but unfortunately the fans don't quite fit between the metal of our chassis and

00:20:07.360 --> 00:20:15.360
the plastic outer layer and when given the choice between a board with tight

00:20:12.720 --> 00:20:19.760
spacing between the graphics cards which would cause one of the cards to be

00:20:17.840 --> 00:20:24.080
starved for airflow but it allow top fans to be installed for even better

00:20:21.679 --> 00:20:28.240
airflow to the other card and then going with this board which offers much better

00:20:26.400 --> 00:20:32.880
graphics card spacing but doesn't allow for those top fans to be installed on

00:20:30.400 --> 00:20:37.039
the other side um i think we that was a sacrifice we were

00:20:35.039 --> 00:20:40.960
willing to make not to mention of course having the graphics card spaced out like

00:20:38.799 --> 00:20:44.000
that gives us a future expansion and the ability to install another pci express

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card here power supply installation starts by taking out the thumb screw that holds in

00:20:48.159 --> 00:20:54.400
the power supply bracket here at the front of the case

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the holes on this bracket do allow for the fan on the power supply to face

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inward towards the components or outwards towards the front of the case

00:21:01.600 --> 00:21:08.720
where it can take in air from these little vents on the side at the front

00:21:05.280 --> 00:21:11.440
here but the design of the case favors

00:21:08.720 --> 00:21:15.360
inward facing for my build however i don't have much air intake because i

00:21:13.200 --> 00:21:20.720
wasn't able to install those top fans so in order to keep my intake and exhaust

00:21:18.159 --> 00:21:25.120
as balanced as i can which is optimal for cooling i wanted to install the

00:21:22.880 --> 00:21:29.440
power supply with the fan facing towards the front of the case so it could pull

00:21:27.039 --> 00:21:33.679
in its own fresh air then exhausted out the bottom of the chassis without

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affecting the pressure of the inside of the case the air pressure

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so i had to do a quick double check to make sure that all of my cables would

00:21:39.679 --> 00:21:45.600
reach with acceptable cable management to the places that they needed to go and

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then i was ready to commit and screw the bracket into the power supply in my

00:21:47.360 --> 00:21:53.440
chosen orientation now i'd like to take this opportunity to point out that the

00:21:51.280 --> 00:21:58.480
pure power 700 watt power supply we're using is by no means the only option for

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this build in fact it's not even really that high end for something that's like

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an ultimate build i was just trying to make a point that modular power supplies

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like this Corsair ax860i aren't always

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the best option especially when you're planning to use all of the connected

00:22:14.480 --> 00:22:21.520
cables anyway because modular power supplies tend to be larger to

00:22:19.200 --> 00:22:25.280
accommodate that modular interface so as long as we can manage the cables or use

00:22:23.679 --> 00:22:28.880
them all we're not really getting any benefit out of the modular interface the

00:22:27.360 --> 00:22:32.559
other point i was trying to make is about the power efficiency of the

00:22:30.400 --> 00:22:36.159
components we're using this 700 watt power supply will handle it i'll show

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you guys that at the end of the video but with all that said it's only an 80

00:22:38.480 --> 00:22:45.840
plus bronze power supply and all that so an ax860i or something similar would

00:22:43.120 --> 00:22:49.440
also be a great choice for this particular build i guess the other thing

00:22:47.360 --> 00:22:53.760
is whoops excuse me we always use modular power supplies so i'm shaking

00:22:51.760 --> 00:22:57.520
things up a little bit anyway to finish up the power supply installation we

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align the little notches on the bracket slide the power supply now connected to

00:22:59.440 --> 00:23:06.000
the bracket back in put the thumb screw back in place and then flip the case

00:23:04.480 --> 00:23:10.320
over so that we can plug in the pass-through

00:23:08.400 --> 00:23:13.520
cable that allows the power supply to be installed in the front of the case it's

00:23:12.240 --> 00:23:18.480
a little bit tricky it's a little bit of a tight fit but uh we managed to get it

00:23:15.840 --> 00:23:22.720
in there now is also a good time to flip that power supply switch to the on

00:23:20.640 --> 00:23:26.159
position if it has one to save yourself some headache later when you finish the

00:23:24.480 --> 00:23:29.440
build press the power button on the front of the system and it doesn't turn

00:23:27.840 --> 00:23:32.640
on and you're like oh what's wrong with that it's just the power button on the bottom

00:23:31.600 --> 00:23:38.240
of the power supply but you didn't think of it because it's on the bottom of this case

00:23:36.640 --> 00:23:44.640
so before putting in the motherboard there are a few things that we're going to need from the motherboard box grab

00:23:42.000 --> 00:23:48.080
your i o shield your sli bridge and your SATA cables we'll need the i o shield

00:23:46.320 --> 00:23:52.480
now but the other two you can put aside for later installing the i o shield is a

00:23:50.400 --> 00:23:58.000
little bit tricky in this case remember that the motherboard is 180 degrees off

00:23:55.440 --> 00:24:01.440
the normal upright orientation so your io shield will go in upside down

00:24:00.080 --> 00:24:05.360
compared to normal make sure you get that right at this stage

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next find the motherboard standoffs in your box of case screws they look a

00:24:07.280 --> 00:24:13.679
little something like this then grab the little included tool that

00:24:11.360 --> 00:24:18.080
adapts your phillips head screwdriver to a standoff socket there are four

00:24:15.840 --> 00:24:23.120
standoffs already installed but you'll need to use that little tool to install

00:24:20.159 --> 00:24:25.679
four additional ones here here here and here

00:24:23.919 --> 00:24:29.440
now guys you can see that our power supply is actually already in from our

00:24:28.000 --> 00:24:32.799
test fit but don't worry we're going to show you the whole installation process

00:24:31.360 --> 00:24:37.120
in just a moment in really small cases like this it can

00:24:34.720 --> 00:24:40.799
be handy to pre-connect some of the cables to your motherboard before

00:24:39.120 --> 00:24:45.279
actually lowering the motherboard into the case particularly the 8-pin CPU

00:24:43.440 --> 00:24:50.400
connector is going to be hard to reach with that large CPU heatsink nearby so

00:24:47.760 --> 00:24:55.279
we pre-connected the 8-pin and the 24-pin atx connector it's important here

00:24:53.440 --> 00:24:59.200
though to note that we aren't able to fully install the power supply until

00:24:57.600 --> 00:25:03.279
after the motherboard is screwed in place due to space constraints

00:25:01.200 --> 00:25:07.200
particularly with that large heat sink screwing in the motherboard is pretty

00:25:05.200 --> 00:25:11.840
easy but make sure guys that you're using a long enough screwdriver and i

00:25:08.960 --> 00:25:15.200
would highly recommend using a magnetic one so just put the eight screws into

00:25:13.440 --> 00:25:18.960
the eight different places where they go and again please use a magnetic

00:25:17.200 --> 00:25:22.080
screwdriver because otherwise screws can fall into little nooks and crannies in

00:25:20.559 --> 00:25:25.360
the case where they're extremely difficult to retrieve a magnetic

00:25:23.840 --> 00:25:28.480
screwdriver will not damage your components the magnets are not nearly

00:25:27.039 --> 00:25:32.480
strong enough we'll take this chance now to put our

00:25:30.400 --> 00:25:36.640
power supply back in but don't worry guys the details for that are coming in

00:25:34.640 --> 00:25:40.480
in a second so just sorry don't don't mind the power supply don't mind the man

00:25:37.919 --> 00:25:44.720
behind the curtain um and now is also a good time to connect our fans to the

00:25:42.320 --> 00:25:48.799
appropriate headers we could plug them directly into the power supply but i

00:25:47.039 --> 00:25:53.360
prefer using the onboard connectors on the motherboard to enable BIOS and

00:25:51.120 --> 00:25:58.320
software level fan control once the system is up and running

00:25:55.760 --> 00:26:03.279
now normally we do cable management as a finishing touch but the way we're doing

00:26:00.640 --> 00:26:08.240
this build forces us to do it now while we can actually still get it anything

00:26:05.679 --> 00:26:12.159
the first step is to figure out exactly which connectors we're going to need

00:26:09.919 --> 00:26:16.320
from the power supply and jam all the extra ones behind the power supply where

00:26:14.720 --> 00:26:20.480
it can be completely out of sight and out of the way of our airflow we'll use

00:26:18.080 --> 00:26:23.840
some zip ties to keep them in place because they're so tight that i don't

00:26:22.320 --> 00:26:29.120
think twist ties will do the trick in this case next we'll position the side panel with

00:26:27.279 --> 00:26:33.279
the front connectors next to the case on the left hand side

00:26:31.279 --> 00:26:37.440
remember not the side it came on then we'll pass all those cables through to

00:26:35.279 --> 00:26:42.400
the front first we'll plug in the front panel hd audio then the front usb 3

00:26:40.240 --> 00:26:46.080
these connectors are both keyed and or missing pins so they'll only go in one

00:26:44.080 --> 00:26:50.960
way just be gentle with them and then finally the front power and reset

00:26:48.320 --> 00:26:56.880
switches as well as the front power and drive activity leds now bitfenix doesn't

00:26:54.720 --> 00:27:00.080
color their positive wires which gives it a very clean look but also makes it a

00:26:58.640 --> 00:27:05.120
little bit difficult to figure out which one's the positive wires so you will

00:27:02.400 --> 00:27:10.240
need to match up the wire indicated in your manual where it needs the positive

00:27:06.799 --> 00:27:13.760
one with the tiny little arrow on the

00:27:10.240 --> 00:27:15.520
corresponding front header so guys look

00:27:13.760 --> 00:27:19.679
really carefully at it and make sure you get these right in fact at

00:27:18.480 --> 00:27:25.360
this stage even though there's no graphics card in here you can do a quick power on test and make sure that the

00:27:23.120 --> 00:27:29.200
leds illuminate because if you get this wrong now you'll be tearing out your

00:27:26.960 --> 00:27:33.760
graphics cards if you need to fix it in order to get at that little spot

00:27:31.440 --> 00:27:38.080
speaking of graphics cards next we can tuck our pci express cables out of the

00:27:36.080 --> 00:27:42.640
way we will need those soon though when we install the video card so just a

00:27:40.159 --> 00:27:45.279
twist tile do the trick to to make sure that you know they're just out of our

00:27:44.080 --> 00:27:50.880
way so we can figure out what we're doing and then the next bit is just

00:27:48.400 --> 00:27:56.080
one way of doing this okay so if we were using the included cross brace with the

00:27:53.840 --> 00:28:00.559
case we could simply install our three and a half inch drive and our two and a

00:27:57.840 --> 00:28:04.320
half inch SSD on here throw that into the case and that would work just fine

00:28:02.480 --> 00:28:08.000
that's the way it's intended to be used we came up with a bit of a different

00:28:06.000 --> 00:28:13.360
idea though i wanted a cleaner look to the internals so i had to grab a couple

00:28:10.480 --> 00:28:16.240
of longer SATA cables and i'm going to be running them down to the bottom of

00:28:14.880 --> 00:28:21.360
the case where i'll be kind of ghetto mounting the SSD on top of the hard drive i'll show you all that in a minute

00:28:19.120 --> 00:28:24.960
but it's up to you which way you want to do it one other thing i like about this

00:28:23.039 --> 00:28:29.360
approach with not having the cross brace in there is that it gives me the option

00:28:26.640 --> 00:28:34.080
to add a side panel window as like a diy mod later on in the future so it's

00:28:32.080 --> 00:28:37.679
totally up to you anyway i grabbed those data cables plugged them into the

00:28:35.760 --> 00:28:41.679
motherboard one little trick that i use is because i can never remember for

00:28:39.679 --> 00:28:46.960
stacked SATA cables for stacked right angle SATA cable connectors which one is

00:28:45.200 --> 00:28:51.840
zero and which one's one like which is the first port is i'll usually plug them

00:28:49.520 --> 00:28:55.919
into completely different stacks so that it's easy to

00:28:53.760 --> 00:28:59.760
figure out which one is the first one in the boot order by default in the BIOS

00:28:57.679 --> 00:29:03.520
and i'll plug my SSD into that one so that if i ever reset my BIOS i don't

00:29:01.520 --> 00:29:06.960
have to remember to go and manually reset my SSD as the boot device it's

00:29:05.279 --> 00:29:11.440
just a nice little building trick for you anyway once that's done you've got

00:29:09.840 --> 00:29:15.840
pretty much everything plugged into the board and it's time to tuck everything

00:29:13.279 --> 00:29:20.159
nicely behind that left side panel and close it up don't force this if it's not

00:29:18.799 --> 00:29:25.200
closing check what it's stuck on readjust and

00:29:22.399 --> 00:29:29.919
try again clean cable management is not worth damaging something so just take

00:29:27.039 --> 00:29:34.399
your time and go slow once you do get great cable management going on though

00:29:31.600 --> 00:29:38.640
it's very satisfying and having the pci express slot area nice and tidy is great

00:29:36.880 --> 00:29:42.480
for airflow for your graphics cards and will help them run cooler and last

00:29:41.120 --> 00:29:47.039
longer all right so here it is guys the

00:29:45.200 --> 00:29:52.159
not really recommended way that i'm installing my drives into the machine i

00:29:49.200 --> 00:29:55.440
am going to put both of them rather than here

00:29:54.159 --> 00:30:00.000
right down there under the CPU heatsink there's

00:29:58.240 --> 00:30:04.960
lots of airflow from the fans around there but obviously there is a problem

00:30:02.399 --> 00:30:09.039
there aren't enough mounting points for two drives more on that later anyway

00:30:07.679 --> 00:30:13.279
first we're going to mount our hard drive these rubber grommets and screws

00:30:11.279 --> 00:30:17.679
will do nicely for that so just put the grommets in from the bottom of the case

00:30:15.520 --> 00:30:22.480
then position the drive in place with the SATA connectors towards the side

00:30:20.080 --> 00:30:25.919
panel then screw it in from the bottom alright so there wasn't really any

00:30:23.919 --> 00:30:28.960
trouble there well no this is where the magic starts guys i'm going to put my

00:30:27.840 --> 00:30:33.200
SSD right here on top of the hard drive how

00:30:30.960 --> 00:30:37.120
you might ask well with a very famous canadian invention

00:30:34.840 --> 00:30:42.240
velcro just put this stuff on the back of the SSD stick it to the top of the

00:30:39.279 --> 00:30:47.120
hard drive and you are ready to rock next install the SATA power cables and

00:30:44.960 --> 00:30:51.760
say the data cables onto both drives and then run them along the bottom of the

00:30:49.039 --> 00:30:56.799
case for better cable management now that we've done so much work to

00:30:54.080 --> 00:31:01.279
prepare ourselves for GPU installation it's actually pretty straightforward all

00:30:58.720 --> 00:31:06.559
we do is turn the case around and we find oh this has a tool-less pci slot

00:31:04.640 --> 00:31:11.520
mounting mechanism so just undo the screw there lift it up you're going to

00:31:08.559 --> 00:31:15.039
have to remove the pci slot covers that are already in there because they're in

00:31:13.120 --> 00:31:18.480
the way for us to install our graphics cards then

00:31:16.720 --> 00:31:22.720
grab one graphics card i'd probably recommend doing the top one first and

00:31:20.640 --> 00:31:26.320
then carefully maneuver it into the case what you'll probably have to do is put

00:31:24.080 --> 00:31:29.840
it kind of butt end in first into the five and a quarter inch bay that of

00:31:27.840 --> 00:31:33.200
course we can't use because our system is so full of other gear in spite of the

00:31:31.440 --> 00:31:36.399
fact that it's in there and in spite of the fact that the front of the case

00:31:34.480 --> 00:31:42.000
actually doesn't even have a spot for it you know that's the that's the phenomenon for you anyway uh so you go

00:31:39.679 --> 00:31:46.799
ahead and put that in and then press it down firmly then follow up with the

00:31:44.240 --> 00:31:51.360
second card pressing it down firmly then go around to the back put that last pci

00:31:49.840 --> 00:31:55.039
cover in unless you have another expansion card such as a sound card or

00:31:53.440 --> 00:31:58.000
raid card or you know i don't know like a red rocket

00:31:56.799 --> 00:32:01.600
card or whatever you want to do with this awesome little machine that is

00:31:59.919 --> 00:32:05.200
aside from putting in additional slot covers put the screw back in place and

00:32:04.159 --> 00:32:10.480
then just plug those bad boys in since you

00:32:07.440 --> 00:32:11.919
put the pci express power cables exactly

00:32:10.480 --> 00:32:18.240
where you were going to need them earlier on in the build they're right there so one eight pin and one six pin

00:32:15.679 --> 00:32:24.320
connector for each of the graphics cards and we are pretty much done here folks

00:32:22.480 --> 00:32:28.880
okay well we're not quite done we're finished the hardware which brings us to

00:32:26.320 --> 00:32:32.960
software number one is in a system with two drives i've seen Windows do this

00:32:31.519 --> 00:32:36.960
stupid thing enough times that i recommend physically unplugging the

00:32:34.880 --> 00:32:42.320
drive you don't want any of your Windows files on so go ahead and unplug the hard

00:32:39.840 --> 00:32:46.080
drive from time to time it stores the boot manager on one drive and then the

00:32:44.640 --> 00:32:50.480
actual os on the other drive so the system can't boot without both of them

00:32:48.320 --> 00:32:53.840
in which is ridiculous so that's just one little tip for you guys then when we

00:32:52.320 --> 00:32:57.840
get into the BIOS there's a couple little configuration tips that are just

00:32:56.240 --> 00:33:03.360
even just basic stuff like not overclocking or anything like that so just make sure that hci mode is enabled

00:33:01.200 --> 00:33:07.279
for all of your SATA ports and ensure that all of the components are detected

00:33:05.279 --> 00:33:12.640
correctly your memory is running at the correct speed and all of that good stuff

00:33:10.159 --> 00:33:16.880
next up Windows installation is a snap if you know how don't worry about the

00:33:14.559 --> 00:33:21.679
lack of a disk drive in this machine you can just grab all the files off of a

00:33:18.799 --> 00:33:26.240
disk copy them to a blank usb drive and boot from that it's faster and more

00:33:24.000 --> 00:33:31.279
convenient in fact most of the techies i know just have a dedicated usb drive for

00:33:28.640 --> 00:33:34.640
doing os installations just like that drivers are the next thing and there's

00:33:32.799 --> 00:33:37.440
something that many people struggle with but it's not too overwhelming if you

00:33:36.240 --> 00:33:41.760
break it down even devices that already have drivers

00:33:39.919 --> 00:33:45.279
installed so Windows update will grab drivers automatically for a lot of this

00:33:43.279 --> 00:33:48.399
stuff i would recommend grabbing the latest ones directly from the

00:33:46.480 --> 00:33:52.640
manufacturer website so you can start with Gigabyte they make your motherboard

00:33:50.399 --> 00:33:57.840
so they should have the latest Intel chipset drivers lan or network drivers

00:33:55.519 --> 00:34:01.120
and sound drivers but then when you're finished with that you can just do a

00:33:59.200 --> 00:34:05.279
double check and you know head over to Intel's site bigfoot site real tech site

00:34:03.840 --> 00:34:10.240
or whoever else manufacture might manufacture the actual chips on the

00:34:07.360 --> 00:34:13.119
board itself but as a catch-all the Gigabyte website should be fine and then

00:34:11.760 --> 00:34:17.839
you'll also need to go to NVIDIA's website to get the latest drivers for your graphics cards you can pick up

00:34:15.839 --> 00:34:21.760
GeForce experience and it'll continue to keep them up to date on its own now if

00:34:20.320 --> 00:34:25.679
there's something that you're having trouble finding a driver for here's a

00:34:23.679 --> 00:34:30.399
little trick that i use go to the device manager right click the component in

00:34:27.839 --> 00:34:37.040
question then just go to details and use the drop down box to go to hardware id

00:34:33.919 --> 00:34:39.200
then google the then underscore number

00:34:37.040 --> 00:34:42.800
number number and device underscore number number number string and it will

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usually tell you exactly what that device is so then you can google that

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and you can find a driver for it so now it's conclusion time guys i'd

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like to talk about a couple things so one is some performance numbers and some

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temperature numbers for our system small systems no longer need to perform

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any differently from big systems this right here has a core i7 4770k perfectly

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capable of overclocking it also has two gtx 780 ti's it will perform as well as

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a much larger system that has that same hardware and in terms of temperatures

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honestly considering the size of this little beast i think you guys will be

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pre quite impressed by the numbers that we're showing you right now this is

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under a gaming load so a real world load

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scenario so let's talk about an overall trend as

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well aside from this is a great performing reasonably quiet actually

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that kind of impressed me i'm quite impressed by that you want to go into the BIOS and configure fan control if

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you want to make it this quiet but you know even running at full speed i

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think it probably won't bother most people anyway very very quiet so aside

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from the performance and the quiet and the compactness let's talk about the

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trend towards comportability and smaller

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size in the industry in general i think the mac pro is a very interesting

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comparison here now this isn't as powerful as a mac pro particularly one

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with a 12 core CPU in it i mean the mac pro is more um

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workstation oriented it supports quad channel memory it's got dual workstation

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grade graphics cards in it as opposed to consumer grade graphics cards although

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we could put workstation grade graphics cards in here but it's also

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very very very small on the other hand this system is a

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little bit bigger it's a very heavy hitter for its intended use which is

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heavy gaming and light video editing or other content creation and in my mind

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it's much more flexible it's much more

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upgradable especially right now this is this is another trend that may

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or may not take off but apple's certainly banking on it

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less internal expansion and more external expansion i talked a lot while

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we were doing this build guide about why i liked this particular board for its

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ability to allow us to expand and put dual graphics cards in it and then even

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expand further and add an additional pci express slot in it

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apple has not given the option at all to expand either

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via pci express or even the internal

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drives of the device you can just get a bigger single pci express SSD and that's

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pretty much all you can do they want you to use Thunderbolt an external expansion

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option in order to get things like high throughput storage uh professional grade

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expansion cards like capture cards or red rocket cards or other devices um and

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they want you to do all that outside the the case so you can actually get like

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Thunderbolt to pci express enclosures and things like that and i just have to

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wonder a little bit if this isn't a better middle ground because we're

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getting that compactness although so it's small enough to sit next to your

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monitor without being so small that it's you know really really tiny and

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impressively small but we actually get some internal expansion i gotta wonder

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if the person who wants a tiny little mac pro

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wants an octopus of Thunderbolt cables coming out of it connected to their

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monitor and then you know external storage box one and two and three and

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four as they end up needing more things i mean we could still put a couple more

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drives in this thing without even resorting to anything external

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whatsoever just by putting this bracket back into the machine so

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there you go guys this to me is a fantastic option it's a pc of course you

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could probably find a way to hack and tosh it if you really wanted to run os 10 and i'll be interested to see where

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we go from here now we focused a lot throughout this build

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guide as well on the high end potential of this system how it's got 4770k and

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like dual 780 ti's and it ended up being very expensive but i want to also talk

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about some recommended ways to scale back and get better bang for the buck

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out of it by going with a 4670k

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a single gtx 770 or 780 and a smaller

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SSD and hard drive you could actually build a system quite like this but push

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the price point down to the point where it really doesn't cost any more than a

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regular desktop machine and still offers great expandability for the future so

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maybe it's not the kind of thing where you're going to chuck your current pc in the garbage and go buy one of these but

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next time you're shopping for a pc whether you move it around a lot and

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attend lan events or you don't it just sits in one place you may want to

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consider a small machine do you need all that expansion or is this the

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interesting middle ground between something like the mac pro and something

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like a full-fledged atx desktop tower anyway guys until next time thank you

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