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so i've got some bad news and some good news today the bad news is that disney

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wouldn't license us the rights to use ewoks in today's episode of Techquickie

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but the good news you guessed it it's time for episode 6 of avoiding common pc

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building traps and i'll bet you thought we were ready to give this series a

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funeral pyre nope let's get right into it the empire

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did not spend enough on protecting the main reactor of either death star but

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that doesn't mean that you should go on a spending spree for your power supply

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either don't get me wrong buying a bargain basement psu from a brand you've

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never heard of is a terrible idea as it can damage your components but i'm

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saying you most likely shouldn't be spending extra on a high wattage power

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supply either you see because components today are a lot more power efficient

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than they were even a decade ago you can easily get away with having a lower

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wattage psu even if you're rocking a higher end CPU and GPU a standard build

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with one of each of these components should be served well with a 500 watt

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power supply with higher wattages really only necessary if you're running

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multiple graphics cards or have some other kind of exotic setup if you really

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want to be sure check out one of the power supply calculators we've linked in

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the video description you might be surprised at how little you really need

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speaking of powerful components don't feel like you need to invest in a fancy

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water cooling setup just because your rig is on the higher end although water

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cooling is indeed significantly more effective than traditional forced air

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cooling it does not give you too much of an advantage unless you're overclocking

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even high-end cpus and gpus are designed to last a very long time with whichever

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cooling option they come with whether that's a reference cooler or an aib

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partner solution like you see included on many graphics cards and if you go

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with an enthusiast class CPU that doesn't come with a stock cooler you can

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still get away with an inexpensive air cooler if you're just running the chip

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at stock speed so feel free to save your money and skip the water cooler unless

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you really just want the aesthetic on the subject of cooling if you're going

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to be installing more than a couple fans in your case pay attention to how many

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fan headers are on your motherboard modern motherboards allow you to control

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fan speeds and curves from the BIOS or the operating system meaning you're

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gonna miss out on this if you have more fans and headers and you end up needing

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to plug some of them directly into your power supply though you can also pick up

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a physical fan controller to adjust speeds from the outside of your case or

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use a case with one built in let's wrap things up by talking about something

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outside of your pc itself your monitor in a previous episode we mentioned

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ensuring that you plug in your display to your graphics card and not your

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motherboard in order to assure you're actually getting the performance you paid so much money for but on a similar

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note monitors with fancy features like high refresh rates and adaptive sync are

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becoming more and more common but these bells and whistles often are not enabled

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by default so if you have body monitor that supports any refresh rate above 60

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hertz or any other premium features check both your display settings and

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your graphics card control panel to see if everything is set properly after all

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your monitor isn't going to come with an astromech droid to do it for you

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speaking of doing it for you pulsewave pulseway is a real-time remote

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monitoring and management software that's compatible with Windows mac Linux

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and more it gives you access to real-time status system resources

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logged-in users network performance Windows updates and more you can fix

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problems on the go by sending commands from any mobile device you can create

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and deploy custom scripts to automate your it tasks and you can scan install

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and update all your systems on the go it also has remote desktop functionality

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and you can try it all out free today at pulseway.com or through our link in the

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video description so thanks for watching guys if you like this video give us a like and a

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subscribe and be sure to hit us up in the comments for your suggestions for

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future episodes