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welcome to a totally normal and standard pc build guide here on Linus tech tips

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sponsored by Intel and featuring the core i7 9700k today we're going to get

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started by wait wait what are you doing right now huh

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wait what did my camera operator and i merge

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i guess that's okay people enjoy watching all kinds of

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content on the internet from a pov perspective

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oh all right well let's get started then

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as always when building a pc we need a safe clutter free anti-static

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workstation with all the tools that we're going to need so we've got a

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magnetic parts tray a knife a pair of side cutters needle

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nose pliers thermal compound cable ties and of course as always

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a standard multi-bit screwdriver first thing we're going to do is get ourselves

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static safe so we're going to open up our power supply here

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then we're going to flip the switch to the off position and plug it in that way

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the chassis is grounded so whenever we move our feet we're going to go ahead

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and touch that in order to dissipate any static that's built up on our bodies for

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extra points use an anti-static strap like this one from ifixit just put the

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alligator clamp on a metal part of your plugged in power supply and the other

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end either on your wrist or as i prefer to do it on your ankle

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this way is great because then this strap isn't getting in your

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way while you're trying to build the next thing we're going to need is a motherboard so we'll start by clearing

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some space on our esd safe work mat we've gone with the ASUS prime z390 p

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because our goal is to build a high performance gaming system but without

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wasting any money on unnecessary gimmicks so we're going to need our i o

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shield for later we're going to need the motherboard

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itself but not this baggy so we can go ahead and leave that behind

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we're going to need these little screws for installing our SSD and finally we're

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going to need a SATA cable which would be in the box if it was new but we've

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used this motherboard before i always like using the motherboard box

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as an additional test bench because it keeps it up off any debris that might be

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on my work surface and if you don't have an anti-static work surface well it acts

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as one of those for our CPU as i've mentioned before we've gone with the

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core i7 9700k unlike the 9900k it

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doesn't have hyper threading but for gaming given that it already has 8 cores

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we're not really going to need this it boosts up to 4.9 gigahertz and because

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it's a k series chip it's unlocked so we can do a little bit of overclocking

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should we see fit let's go ahead and install it step one

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is to push down the lever pull it out and then

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the retention plate should move out of your way then we're going to see this

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little golden triangle here we're going to line that up with the dot at the

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corner of the socket on some motherboard manufacturers that'll actually also be a

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triangle when we're putting it in it's really important to apply no force at all you

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just kind of dropping it in in exactly the right spot i recommend giving it a

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little wiggle to make sure that it's firmly in place

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next we're going to drop this plate down making sure that it stays clear of this

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little screw right here then we go ahead and lower the ARM

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pull it out and put it under the retention mechanism

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this plate should pop off on its own we're going to hold on to that putting it inside the box for our motherboard

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because in the event that we need to return our motherboard to the manufacturer later we will need to send

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it with this installed for our memory we've gone with a nice

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low latency ddr4 3200 kit from g-skill

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we went with 16 gigs of RAM in an 8 gig by 2 configuration this gives us dual

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channel operation for better performance and gives us plenty of expansion for the

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future so we could go up to 32 gigs with no problems

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when you're lining up the memory make sure you carefully check the position of

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the notch so you can see here that i need to flip this around in order for it

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to fit in the slot correctly pull back the tabs remember this side

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probably won't pull back on modern motherboards line it up

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and then push firmly from both sides until you hear a click

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on each end now it's time to install our m.2 SSD we're using a 512 gig 760p

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series from Intel but the instructions would be the same regardless first

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you're going to want to find the m.2 slot on your motherboard we've actually

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got two here one right here one right here oh okay strictly speaking

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there is a third one but you can see this one is quite short and it's

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actually marked right there it's intended for a wi-fi card next we're

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just gonna hold our SSD up to it and see that yep okay this is an 80 millimeter

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model so that's where we're going to want to install our mounting post

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remember that bag i showed you guys before this has two pieces in it one of

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them is a male and female threaded mounting

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post there we go let's have a look at that

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so you can see it screws into the motherboard there and then has a screw into the top of it

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there and the other is a little tiny screw for

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securing the drive you're unlikely to end up using a lot of force when you

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install your SSD so just hand tight on this is fine

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as for the drive itself it installs just like laptop memory so you go up at an

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angle push it into the slot and then just hold it down in place

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while you're screwing it in something to watch out for here guys is that while most computer screws are size

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2 phillips these are usually size 1 so you're

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probably going to need to change your bit before you finish installing

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so that's done but i do have a couple more notes about m.2 installation on our

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board both of the slots were easily accessible but that's not always the

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case some motherboards will have m.2 slots actually on the back of them this

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is a space saving feature and in some cases even if they are on

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the front they're going to be covered by a heat spreader or a shroud so you may

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actually need to remove screws in order to find them those heat spreaders are

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actually optional they don't tend to help the drive dissipate a ton more heat

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than if they're just exposed and maybe have some incidental

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airflow from the case but what they do do is they'll act as an absorber of heat

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like a heat buffer if your drive only sees intensive use from time to time now

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let's turn our attention to cooling we've gone with the Noctua nhu 12s for

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its great balance of reliability performance cost

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and of course silence but if you're not planning on

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doing any overclocking you can of course save a buck by going with something a

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little bit less expensive actually if you want to save a buck and

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still get the same performance you could just get the non-black one but this is

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the LTT edition so there was no way that we weren't going to go with that every

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cooler's installation is going to vary slightly in the details but with this

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video and of course the included documentation you shouldn't have any

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trouble with it first up we're going to need our

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backplate the orientation of this is pretty easy

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to figure out once you know the guiding principles

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just check for where the centered hole is

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and align it like so

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flip this back around whenever you handle your motherboard be careful to

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handle it by the edges or metal components or plastic connectors that

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way you're never actually touching the pcb and putting your greasy skin oils on

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it next because every CPU socket has a

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slightly different profile we're going to need these four spacers this ensures

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that we don't have either too much or too little mounting pressure once our

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cooler is installed the orientation we use to install our mounting bars is

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going to determine which way our cooler ends up facing

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so we can either install it with the fan blowing upward making use of the exhaust

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at the top of our case or we can install it with the fan

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blowing towards the back of our system where the i o is and make use of the

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pre-installed fan at the rear of our case we're going for a front to back

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airflow configuration so i'm going to prefer to put it this way

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that means our mounting bars are going to go like this

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please note the curved side goes out

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regardless of which spacers or back plates you're using these four thumbnuts

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are going to hold the mounting bars in place

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we won't need most of the rest of these accessories but there are a couple of

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things in the common parts bag that might come in handy

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these little wire clips allow you to install a second fan on your cooler if

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you'd like the low noise adapter caps the maximum rpn of the included fan if

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you want an extremely quiet experience case patch and of course the thing we

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were actually after thermal compound it's actually harder than you'd think to

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apply too much thermal compound at least from a performance perspective you can

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definitely make a mess so on a mainstream CPU like this one that has a

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relatively small integrated heat spreader i'd recommend about yay much

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and remember if you're not sure you can always install your cooler give it a

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little smooshy smooshy and then take it off

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that way you'll know if you have the right amount

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as you can see we pretty much nailed that the entire ihs is covered

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and there's no gooped out part along the edge of the CPU i guess we got ahead of

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ourselves a little bit there though so to install the cooler you're gonna need to take the fan off because otherwise

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there's no way to screw this in here so you just go ahead and pull these

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clips back

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and the fan should come off a little something like that

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i recommend lining up one of the screws in exactly the right spot maybe give it

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like a half turn three quarter turn so that

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it's locked in place and then go ahead and line the other one up on the post

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there you go once they're both caught don't crank one all the way down

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and then start on the other one i usually like to go until i feel kind

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of a bit of resistance

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then go kind of past that point on the other side

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and a little more over here

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that's topped and all the way down over here

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there we go once they both hit their stoppers you're gonna know that the

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mounting pressure is correct nice little smooshy smooshy

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then we can go ahead and install our fan so when you're putting on the fan

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watch where the cable for the fan is coming off because you're going to want it to be somewhat close to wherever the

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CPU fan connector is on your motherboard in our case it's this one right here and

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this one's for an aio pump so we're going to go ahead and install it right a

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little something like that we're going to try and install it evenly

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there you go lining up the fan with the top of the

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heatsink there and we just pull these back

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onto the retention sort of notches on the cooler just like that

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yep that looks even now we take our fan

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you can tie it in a little knot so that it'll take up any extra slack that we

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have run that under there

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and see if we can see if we can hit that yep there it is

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okay now we'll just tuck that away

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so we don't have to look at it get in there

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get in there yeah dirty thing

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there that is nice and clean

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looking good now you might not have noticed but as we've been going i've been putting away

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all the extra accessories and packaging for the parts that we've finished up

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with that's for a very good reason a it means that you don't have to clean up

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all that stuff at the end and b it keeps our workspace nice and

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tidy so we're less likely to knock something onto the floor and lose

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it or make a mistake

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we chose Corsair's 460x RGB because a it

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looks kind of nice which is always great when you're making a video about

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something and b it's got a pretty standard layout

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compared to most modern cases side panels regardless of whether they're

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tempered glass always go back in the box until we're

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ready for them later that way you can avoid scratching them

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so if we look in here we've got a bottom mounted power supply in this case with a

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shroud standard atx layout

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front intake here with filter and then we're exhausting out the top or the back

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i think this case has been used before i'm not sure if these fans are normally

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pre-installed up there but don't worry about it minor details we'll get it all

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sorted out as i'm removing pre-installed screws

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hold on i'm just going to throw this back in here

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i always like to use the case foam in between the case panels so they don't

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rub up against each other there we go you'll note that i'm taking all the

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screws i'm removing from the case and putting them into my magnetic parts tray

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if you don't trust yourself to remember where everything came from here's a nice

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little pro tip right

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panel see and they'll stay exactly where i put

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them i tend to try to do some basic organization before i even start putting

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anything into the case so here i'm just taking off the wire management clip that

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was pre-installed on my front panel connections i can also scout the layout

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of my board and make sure that anything that i can is already pre-run to where

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it needs to go so usb 3 is either down here on the bottom edge or over here on

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the right when i can get away with it i actually do prefer to use this one i find it not as ugly looking all right

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for those who aren't familiar this is what the usb 3 connection looks like you

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can see it's actually keyed on one side and then there's one blank pin that

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corresponds to the key on the slot and of course the blank pin on the slot

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right there now there are just two more things that

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we can pre-run before we install the motherboard any integrated RGB so in

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this case we've got a lighting controller that actually does

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not just RGB but also speed control for our included fans as well as a hub for

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it including a SATA power connector that's already close enough to our power

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supply that's a perfectly good spot for it and of course our fans

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now i did say before that we were going to reposition those so why don't we go

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ahead and do that now strictly speaking there was nothing

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wrong with our all exhaust configuration at the top in the back with a filtered

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intake but we're going to be using a pretty power hungry graphics card here so being

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able to put some fresh air across it is definitely going to be an advantage

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especially when you consider that modern graphics cards do get better performance

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when they have better cooling so i'm going to take one of my two fans run the

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cables through the bottom here and i'm going to install it as an intake

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fan here along the bottom that'll cool my hard drive as well as throw some

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fresh air over to the power supply area as for my second one

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i'm gonna go ahead and put that one right here and i'm gonna run my cables

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through this hole right about here now we need to pop off the front panel

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on a lot of cases this involves just grabbing the bottom of it and giving it

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a sharp yank but on this one you've actually got to unscrew these

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now we take off the magnetic filter

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get our screws back we've got these slots rather than just holes so if we

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wanted to make slight adjustments to their location we'd be able to do that

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you might notice that your fan screws are a little harder to put in than other ones that's normal these are

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self-tapping screws and what they're actually doing is they're kind of

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shredding the plastic as they go through it let's throw our filter back on what i'm

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doing right now with the fans is i'm kind of untangling the wires i'm making

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it so that my RGB wires and my power wires aren't crossing each

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other because the RGB ones are both going to go to the same place

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down over here in the bottom right and power is actually going to come up

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across here and over here

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this is really important before you install your motherboard you're going to

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want to scout out where the fan power connectors are on the board now i like

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to see them along the bottom edge here or the right bottom edge here that makes

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it particularly easy to install bottom or front fans unfortunately this board

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being more of a value option has the fan connections right here

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and then uh yeah there was one more it's labeled a i o pump but that's fine we

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can still put a fan there so our rear fan we're actually going to plug into

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this one and then our two front fans we're going to plug into these two unfortunately

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that means our cable management's a little bit trickier because we don't want to just drag them all the way

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across the board so we're going to go under the motherboard and then up over

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here for a nice short little run that's why i'm running these guys right

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over here while i'm trying anyway

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get in there now it's time to install the motherboard to do that we're going

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to need the i o shield first i always recommend checking these before

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you put them in the case and making sure that the tabs on the back here are bent

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up enough to allow the port through otherwise they can actually stick into

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the port short them out and even fry them so we're gonna do a quick sanity

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check make sure we've got it oriented correctly

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yeah that all looks fine now we install it into the back of the

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case by lining it up then pressing on each corner in turn

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once it's in they shouldn't move around anymore at all the last thing we need to

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check is whether the correct standoffs are installed in our case this one is

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pretty good it's actually got the nine standard atx ones pre-installed

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including one of these handy little nubbin ones that will hold the board in place for you while you're screwing in

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the rest of them but that's not always the case sometimes you'll have just

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these six other times it'll have matx standoffs pre-installed and that's the

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most dangerous one because if you've got an extra standoff scratching along the

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back of your board it can actually cut these traces destroying your motherboard

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and you will not get warranty coverage for that to double check this we just pick up the

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board handle it by the edges plastic connectors

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back plates whatever else you can get a firm grip on i really like holding on to

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the CPU cooler because assuming you've got one with a decent mounting mechanism

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that's a really really secure handhold for it

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as you lower in the board i like to have it at about a 10 to 15 degree angle as

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i'm sliding it towards the back of the case that helps me avoid those tabs that

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i mentioned before and also prevents us from scraping the back of the board

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along any standoffs that might or might not be in the right spots

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now we're going to use that little nubbin to hold it in place and look through every hole and make sure that we

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can see exactly the number of standoffs that we're expecting to see

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you can actually see here that our board doesn't need these three it's a little

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bit slimmer than standard atx for bonus points we could remove these from the

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case but because they're not actually touching the back of the board there's

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no safety reason to do it so i'm just going to leave them now that we know that's all good i'm actually just going

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to pop it out again and then i'm going to pre-wire up my top fans here that way

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i can ensure that my runs are nice and tight and clean

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there we go not bad right

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let's go ahead and screw the board in motherboard screws and any additional

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standoffs you might need are always included in the hardware that comes with your case we're going to be using these

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632 thread button heads right here

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and if you're not sure if you've got the right thing you can always just hand thread one in

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and as long as it goes easily you'll know that you're not going to cross thread it

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don't wrench too tight on these guys once you start to mute resistance

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give it maybe another 16th of a turn

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maybe an eighth of a turn that's it

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and look at that it's in now i know what you guys are thinking

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great now the motherboard's in we can put the graphics card

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no no now actually on this motherboard uh the

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graphics card would interfere with surprisingly few other things that we

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need to plug in but still it does make our lives easier if we go

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ahead and plug all the things that we can into our motherboard first so let's

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do our usb 3 connector now these have very fragile pins so you want

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to get it positioned just right

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before applying pressure you should hear a small click

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and we can go ahead and run the rest of that cable around behind whew nice don't try and bend this too

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tight guys if you bend this off your board then it's dead you can go ahead

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and run that rear fan power connector here you can

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see i'm putting a three pin fan connector on a four pin header that's

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fine just kind of aim to the right front panel audio looks just like a usb

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connector except that instead of having a blanked out pin at the very end it's

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uh second to the end so we're going to go ahead and you know find somewhere to

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route that along here seems pretty good and then we want to bring that through

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there we go right at the very

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bottom right from the back

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and then that's bottom left from the front because on most motherboards these days

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that's where the header is for it so we just find the blanked out pin there

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line it up and

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bippity boppity there it is we actually don't have front usb 2 on

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this case but if we did it would plug in in the same fashion right there one of

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the pickiest parts of building a modern computer is of course the front panel

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lights and switches now in a perfect world

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i'd love to bring these up right underneath where the front panel header

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is but unfortunately i'm stuck with either bringing it up through here

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or bringing it through over here so i guess i'm gonna go this route

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if you're stuck with exposed wires one of my favorite old tricks is to put them

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in a little braid so i'm just gonna treat two of them as one

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with that other way we can have a look at where everything goes lots of modern motherboards actually have them labeled

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but there are a few general rules you can follow the positive pin tends to be

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towards the left so here we can do our hard drive led which you can see is the

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bottom left one first positive pin

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the left next up is our power led on many cases

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these will be separated into individual pins because some motherboards have them

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right next to each other others have a gap this board actually has both options

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you can either put them right next to each other here or have a gap there i

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tend to just put them right above my hard drive led

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now our reset switch goes on the bottom right next to our hard drive led this

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one doesn't have a positive wire indicated that's because it doesn't

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matter it's just going to short those two wires same with the power switch

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which goes right above that now it's time to no i'm just kidding put

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in the hard drive now there's about as many hard drive

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mounting mechanisms as there are stars in the sky so

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there's going to be some variation here but i can give you guys a few general

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rules Corsair is using a sled based design here you can actually see there's

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holes right here if you had a two and a half inch drive like a SATA SSD and then

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they use a tool-less mechanism to screw into well not screw into just poke into

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the holes on the side of the hard drive so you're either going to have some kind

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of sled based system that screws into the bottom or the sides or

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it toollessly does the aforementioned

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now we go ahead and slide this in until it clicks

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next we grab a SATA data cable so this

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will be in your motherboard box you can see there's a locking mechanism on one

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side and it's in like a little kind of l shape

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that little point goes down on the drive

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you can just check the keying and make sure it's correct on there

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put it until it clicks we can go ahead and run this up here

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and then over to the corresponding connector on our motherboard

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another thing that varies wildly from one casemaker to another is the

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installation method of these bottom shrouds

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you can see here that i'm not going to be able to install my power supply

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without removing it first so in this particular Corsair case

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we're going to need to take out this here thumb screw that holds it in place

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actually that one might need to go to give me a second here oh nope just the

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one and this one can

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slot out there we go

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that gives us a good look at the filtered intake for our power supply as

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well as the mounting holes here at the back since

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we're done handling most of the esd sensitive components of our build

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we can go ahead and just put that somewhere it doesn't really

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matter and install our power supply now i'm going to go fan side down because

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this case has lots of space on the underside to draw in fresh air

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and you know i'm going to be a smart responsible computer owner and not put

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it down on a carpet for some reason there are screws in the back of this

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power supply that is not normal you will find the mounting screws in the power

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supply box now as we're putting it in we can just

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place it down push towards the motherboard

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and then slide into the back of the case

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you might notice at the back that there are going to be some extra mounting holes here that you're not using that's

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normal that's in case you want to mount your power supply in the other

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orientation personally i can't think of too many

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reasons to do it that way in a case like this unless maybe you wanted to use your

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power supply fan as an exhaust fan if you had a heat generating component down

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like right here or something but generally speaking this is the way you

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want to go your power supply cables are usually found inside a little baggie in the

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power supply box here are the modular cables we're going to need for our build

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starting with the 24 pin so called for its 24 pins at least on this side so the

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split connector that's for the power supply end and this is going to go into

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our motherboard see this little clip right here

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that corresponds to that little clip on the side there

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this does require a little bit of force so if you can i would recommend putting

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a little bit of backwards pressure on the back of the motherboard

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we're going to go ahead and run this through our cable management grommets

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next up we've got our 8-pin eps connector you can tell the difference

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between this one and an 8-pin pci express connector in a couple of ways

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one is that if it splits apart it'll split into four and four instead of six

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and two and the second way is that many pci

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express connectors actually have the

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gap between two of the pins bridged uh i think it's these ones here you can

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tell there's still a little gap because it's a six plus two but

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hey whatever there you go also sometimes they helpfully label it

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CPU so this one goes

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right about here again clips to hooks

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until it clips into place i find the best way to cable manage this

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one is

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over above the motherboard or it'll then go down the back

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until it reaches the power supply

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for pci express the type of cables you want to use is going to depend on your

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graphics card we're using an rtx 2080 that has an 8 pin and a 6 pin power

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connector so unfortunately on our modular power

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supply all of them are six plus twos so we're going to end up with an extra

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couple of pins that we're going to have to tuck away somewhere but the good news

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is that we can use a single cable to run up to it

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so our graphics card is going to go in our top pci express slot that's the one

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that is electrically 16x which means

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we're going to go ahead and run this bad boy let's say

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right around there that'll give us a nice straight shot

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over to it now you can run it up through the basement we can have a look at that

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later but i personally prefer this cable management so that way finally we're

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going to need SATA power for both our hard drive as well as our integrated RGB

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controller this one plugs into the drive with the little teardrop down just like

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the data connector did once again though guys please do be

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careful this is a fragile connector push it straight in there we go

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and then the second one is actually going to plug into

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right here our RGB hub

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just like that with all of our cables installed we can

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turn our attention to routing them optimally so what i've done here is i've

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found the RGB connector for my top fan

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so that's going to go into RGB controller slot number two

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just like that then my bottom fan

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i'm going to use slot 1. that way if i want to apply any effects in iq or

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whatever the case may be i'll be able to go from one to two to

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three that's my three RGB fans that i've got installed

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i'm going to take my power connector for this i'm just going to tuck it back here making sure that i've still got enough

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space there we go that my side panel is going

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to fit on make sure i don't put any pressure on that SATA data connector it's always

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important to watch out where you wrote your 24 pin connector this is the

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biggest python of a cable in a typical computer so if you just run it here you

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can see you're not going to be able to close the side panel

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so what we want to do is run it kind of down and across spots where we have a

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quite enough gap we can store any excess down in the

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basement since conveniently our case has a nice covered basement we can run our

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graphics cable down there as well let's try not to cross our cables here

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that way they'll lay down flatter

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and then now put that back there we can go ahead and

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tie some of these down it's fairly typical to find disposable cable ties

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like these in the packaging for your power supply or your case or both but if

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you want to bind together a bigger bundle i would recommend getting some of

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these velcro ties we actually have our own available lttstore.com i always love

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it when cases include these nice little loops for wire management

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costs basically nothing to implement and is a huge

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extra convenience when you're trying to build on them

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the key to a decent but not too time consuming cable management job is just

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making sure that none of your wires are crossing over each other

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all right well that looks serviceable to me so now we're going to go ahead and

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finish up with the connections on the other end of our power supply i find it

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easiest in these cases to work from the back towards the front so that's our

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six plus two pin for the graphics card here's our

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eight pin for the CPU one nice thing about a modular power

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supply guys is that you can pre-install these on the power supply if you find it

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difficult to get at them after the fact we can go ahead and do our 24 pin now

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remove that SATA connector out of the way

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finally we've got our little six pin for SATA that goes here or really any of

451
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these spots on this end of things pretty much if it fits then it sits

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we'll start by taking out the two pci slot covers that are just below the 16x

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slot that we're going to use to install our graphics card

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so you can see what i mean by below here right so not this one these two

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most modern graphics cards have a double wide back plate this

456
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accommodates additional i o and also just the thicker coolers that they

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generally need now it's not strictly speaking necessary

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but we can prepare the slot by moving that tab back and then we're going to

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hold our card on both ends because we're going to want to apply even pressure as

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we're pushing it down into the case i find it easiest to line up the i o

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00:32:21,919 --> 00:32:26,640
first and you can always double check that by looking down this side you know

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you want to make sure a couple little things like these tabs aren't sticking

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00:32:28,480 --> 00:32:35,039
through here because then they won't go in little things like that and if all

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00:32:32,399 --> 00:32:39,039
that looks reasonably well aligned and you flip back around to this side

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look through these gaps if you can see the holes it's probably in the right

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00:32:40,320 --> 00:32:46,880
spot and then finally check to make sure that that back tab on the card there is

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00:32:45,440 --> 00:32:49,760
seated correctly all looks good to me

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and that's it if this locks back into place which it

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00:32:53,440 --> 00:32:59,600
seems that it has then your card is installed let's go

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ahead and put the screws in

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00:33:00,640 --> 00:33:06,559
something to watch out for here guys is some cases

472
00:33:04,640 --> 00:33:10,320
don't accommodate screwdrivers very well you can see mine doesn't fit here do

473
00:33:08,480 --> 00:33:13,279
yourself a favor start it with your thumbs and then finish it off with the

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00:33:12,159 --> 00:33:19,360
screwdriver that way you can make sure that you don't accidentally cross thread it

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00:33:17,840 --> 00:33:22,640
now we'll go ahead and throw in our pci express connectors you can see these six

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plus twos can be a little bit tricky they've got a little kind of

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00:33:25,039 --> 00:33:30,399
block there that makes it so that if you put that

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00:33:28,559 --> 00:33:33,279
under right there you can push the whole thing in and the two pins won't

479
00:33:31,679 --> 00:33:39,519
accidentally slip out so we'll go ahead and these are not super flexible some power

480
00:33:36,559 --> 00:33:41,919
supplies improve their efficiency in sort of a

481
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i don't know you could call it a bit of a hacky way by putting capacitors in the

482
00:33:44,399 --> 00:33:48,720
cables you can see this is one that does that

483
00:33:48,960 --> 00:33:55,519
that tends to make the cables a little bit less flexible get a nice little

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orange accent on there ltdstar.com

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00:34:01,679 --> 00:34:07,519
oh one more thing guys a GPU sag is an

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00:34:05,039 --> 00:34:11,359
issue where the kind of back end of the graphics card can tend to

487
00:34:09,599 --> 00:34:14,720
sag down because it's only really anchored at this side and then through

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00:34:12,879 --> 00:34:18,879
the slot and that's one of the reasons that i like putting my pci express

489
00:34:16,399 --> 00:34:22,000
cables over here up through the top because the stiffness of these cables

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00:34:20,399 --> 00:34:26,960
and if you cable manage them nice and tight they can give it a little bit of support and keep it from kind of

491
00:34:24,879 --> 00:34:30,000
you know looking like it's falling out let's go ahead and throw our basement

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00:34:28,320 --> 00:34:33,280
shroud back in place this one's just held in place by clips so we're just

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00:34:31,359 --> 00:34:37,440
going to line those up and slide towards the back

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00:34:34,800 --> 00:34:41,839
looking good and then the second one

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00:34:39,119 --> 00:34:44,240
is a combination of clips and then that screw

496
00:34:46,079 --> 00:34:51,359
and now we are shockingly close to being ready for testing we can go ahead and

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00:34:49,760 --> 00:34:55,040
put our filter back on the top of the case

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00:34:53,119 --> 00:34:58,079
we can grab our front panel and reinstall that

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00:34:59,520 --> 00:35:05,119
and we are pretty much ready to test it out so we'll go ahead and plug in a

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00:35:03,920 --> 00:35:10,320
network cable keyboard and mouse

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00:35:07,920 --> 00:35:14,160
displayport to our monitor there we go any one of these is fine

502
00:35:11,920 --> 00:35:18,320
then finally your power supply power cable goes in don't forget to flip this

503
00:35:15,839 --> 00:35:23,359
to the on position guys otherwise you might go to press the button for the

504
00:35:21,200 --> 00:35:26,880
moment of truth and uh

505
00:35:24,560 --> 00:35:31,440
nothing will happen it's not a bad looking little system

506
00:35:29,760 --> 00:35:35,119
to do it over again i'd probably move that rear fan to the front it's a little

507
00:35:33,520 --> 00:35:38,400
unbalanced looking but from a cooling perspective this

508
00:35:36,880 --> 00:35:45,160
configuration is perfectly fine so i'm just mashing

509
00:35:40,560 --> 00:35:45,160
delete here to get into the UEFI BIOS

510
00:35:47,839 --> 00:35:53,680
and look at that everything looks normal 9700k all 16

511
00:35:51,760 --> 00:35:57,040
gigs of RAM are showing it's not running at full speed though so

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00:35:55,200 --> 00:36:01,280
we're going to press f7 to go into advanced mode go into ai tweaker and

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00:35:59,920 --> 00:36:06,000
what the hey let's see if our xmp profile manages to

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00:36:04,240 --> 00:36:08,960
do a thing here oh that's interesting i don't think

515
00:36:07,359 --> 00:36:13,280
that's the kit of memory i had intended to use i thought it was a

516
00:36:10,880 --> 00:36:20,160
3200 cl-14 kit

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00:36:16,480 --> 00:36:20,160
do i have two mismatched sticks in here

518
00:36:20,880 --> 00:36:27,520
oops these are not matching sticks one moment please

519
00:36:26,079 --> 00:36:29,920
no all right

520
00:36:39,520 --> 00:36:42,320
that's better

521
00:36:45,440 --> 00:36:52,400
throw our Windows install usb in here so then now that everything looks correct

522
00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:56,560
in here we're just going to go over to boot

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00:36:53,440 --> 00:36:58,320
use boot override to boot to our usb

524
00:36:56,560 --> 00:37:01,599
stick that we've preloaded with Windows 10

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00:36:59,839 --> 00:37:04,800
and press enter then we basically just follow the

526
00:37:02,960 --> 00:37:08,960
prompts now that Windows is all installed we're going to get ASUS's q

527
00:37:06,880 --> 00:37:12,400
installer thing that shows up we don't want any of these utilities

528
00:37:11,200 --> 00:37:16,960
probably and we're going to go ahead and install the

529
00:37:15,040 --> 00:37:22,160
drivers while we wait for that we can head over to NVIDIA.com

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00:37:19,599 --> 00:37:26,960
go to the GeForce driver section select rtx 20 series

531
00:37:24,800 --> 00:37:31,680
this doesn't really matter but whatever there you go and then we're going to

532
00:37:28,720 --> 00:37:35,040
select the dch drivers now that all of our ASUS drivers are

533
00:37:33,119 --> 00:37:38,240
done and we've rebooted we can go ahead and install the NVIDIA drivers that we

534
00:37:36,560 --> 00:37:41,119
downloaded earlier while you're installing drivers is

535
00:37:39,599 --> 00:37:44,480
actually a great time to pop into the task manager and see if your CPU is

536
00:37:42,880 --> 00:37:51,760
turboing correctly because it tends to be a one or two threaded application

537
00:37:48,240 --> 00:37:53,359
so we were turboing up to around 4.6 4.7

538
00:37:51,760 --> 00:37:56,480
4.8 gigahertz that's about what we'd expect

539
00:37:55,359 --> 00:38:01,920
now that we've got all our drivers installed though we can make sure that the system is

540
00:37:59,760 --> 00:38:04,480
performing as we would expect so i'm going to go ahead and fire up cinebench

541
00:38:03,200 --> 00:38:10,480
r20 this isn't the be-all and end-all of benchmarks but what it will do is tell

542
00:38:08,240 --> 00:38:14,960
us what our CPU is turboing to and if our performance is within the range that

543
00:38:12,160 --> 00:38:19,119
we'd expect for the CPU model we have all eight threads are clearly running

544
00:38:16,480 --> 00:38:24,320
CPU usage is at 100 and we are turboing to a nice healthy 4.57 gigahertz

545
00:38:22,400 --> 00:38:27,680
our fans did kick up a little bit but everything's well within reason if they

546
00:38:26,079 --> 00:38:32,000
were louder than we'd like what we could do is install ASUS fan control software

547
00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:37,839
and set a custom curve on it though you can see we exceeded our short term boost

548
00:38:35,280 --> 00:38:41,280
limit so we're sitting at around 4.25 gigahertz

549
00:38:39,359 --> 00:38:46,640
still pretty healthy i also want to know if my graphics card is behaving normally

550
00:38:43,520 --> 00:38:48,400
so let's just do some fur mark

551
00:38:46,640 --> 00:38:53,680
okay so obviously that wasn't a full computer

552
00:38:51,040 --> 00:38:58,480
burn-in suite or anything but what we know now is at least

553
00:38:56,079 --> 00:39:03,040
no artifacts or anything yep it's probably good enough that we can at

554
00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:04,110
least close up the side panels

555
00:39:03,040 --> 00:39:08,800
all right

556
00:39:08,800 --> 00:39:14,960
now all that's left is years and years of gaming and check this out guys we are

557
00:39:14,079 --> 00:39:19,280
getting in excess of 250

558
00:39:17,359 --> 00:39:23,440
frames per second in cs go with everything basically cranked

559
00:39:21,200 --> 00:39:28,320
man that is some good realism right there

560
00:39:24,640 --> 00:39:30,079
it's so realistic i can't look

561
00:39:28,320 --> 00:39:34,720
oh ow

562
00:39:32,079 --> 00:39:38,560
that was weird wait was that whole thing just a dream

563
00:39:38,720 --> 00:39:45,200
it couldn't have been because here's the computer we built

564
00:39:45,920 --> 00:39:52,560
thanks for watching guys hope you enjoyed our pov pc build guide massive

565
00:39:50,400 --> 00:39:55,839
shout out to Intel for sponsoring this video and of course our other hardware

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00:39:54,400 --> 00:40:00,880
partners for providing all their parts so you got Corsair g-skill ASUS and i

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guess we had a seagate hard drive in there as well guys make sure you are

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subscribed and if you haven't already

569
00:40:06,000 --> 00:40:11,520
maybe check out one of our previous build guides where maybe you don't get

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00:40:09,520 --> 00:40:15,359
the pov experience but you definitely get a bit of a more macro look at some

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of the finer details we're gonna have one of those linked below for you thanks

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00:40:17,359 --> 00:40:22,720
to Intel once again for sponsoring this video Intel actually has an excellent

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step-by-step guide with pre-built checklists and tips on how to build your

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first gaming pc and we're going to have that linked in the video description