{"video_id":"zkiIW0Twj3U","title":"No Dollar Wasted PC Build Guide","channel":"Linus Tech Tips","show":"Linus Tech Tips","published_at":"2020-05-05T14:53:45Z","duration_s":1846,"segments":[{"start_s":0.16,"end_s":5.839,"text":"hello welcome to dennis tech tips this","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":3.36,"end_s":12.559,"text":"is happening today i'm doing a build guide that i invent a new thermal paste","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":9.2,"end_s":14.639,"text":"that i i can actually use it to apply","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":12.559,"end_s":20.16,"text":"directly to the socket let's see","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":16.48,"end_s":23.119,"text":"so you just do this very very gently","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":20.16,"end_s":25.92,"text":"and just put the CPU on the what's going on","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":25.119,"end_s":29.519,"text":"you doing a build guide yeah i'm doing 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of the camera but you know it has been over a year since our last pc build guide and i know you guys really want them the problem is that we had sponsors before but guess what Linus isn't here today i've got the company credit card and it's high time we fixed that so let's get cracking to build the best bang for buck 1440p 60fps gaming experience we can muster without triggering the fraud alert he won't know what hit him and once he's done freaking out other statement he can think about saving money on his it infrastructure with glasswire with glasswire you can instantly see your current and past network activity detect malware and block badly behaving apps on your pc or Android device use offer code Linus and get 25 off glasswire 2.0 at the link below now before we get our hands dirty we should first make sure that our hands are clean and static free we can do the form with some soap but the latter will require being grounded now some veteran builders will tell you that if your environment is humid esd isn't a great danger especially with today's thicker pcbs and protection circuitry and this is true to some extent so in a pinch simply touching something metallic that's got to pass the ground regularly will do but if you're building a pc you're going to want to invest in an esd solution now they aren't expensive and we don't recommend continuing without them when you do use an esd strap or esd mat bear in mind that they must be connected to ground via an outlet or something metallic with a path to ground in order to be effective noticing a pattern it's all about the path to ground no ground then there's no esd safety as for our other tools our handy-dandy multi-bit screwdriver is our best friend we'll use this magnetic parts tray for screw management magnetic project mats also work great here and you can even use a pill sorted a pretty good effect that takes care of the pre-built prep and tools but for cable management and you are going to manage your cables right the most useful tools we have are velcro ties like these handy dandy Linus tech tips brand ones a pair of side cutters like these and a handful of tweezers oh sorry i mean zip ties needle nose pliers can help when using these in tight spaces but you know they're not strictly necessary because as you'll see most of our zip ties are going to be quite accessible now as always it's a good idea to plug in all of your components for a dry run before you fully assemble your build now this is a good way to troubleshoot any issues that may arise such as an incompatibility or a doa component so you use your motherboard box as a case it's non-conductive and usually sturdy enough to handle the weight of the board cooler and GPU so if your machine powers on and transmits to the display you're ready to move on when it comes to cpus we're spoiled for choice thanks to AMD and Intel playing tit for tat over the last year or so for us the best value for our money is the ryzen 5 2600 non-x from AMD which unlike Intel's price competitors the core i5 8400 or 9400 f can be overclocked it also has twice the number of threads which newer games like apex legends can take full advantage of so with that in mind AMD steals the show at this price compared to their own previous gen ryzen 5 1600x the 2600 is slightly faster on average thanks to precision boost 2 and typically has more overclocking headroom for a price difference of just about 6 retail to install the CPU lift up the retention ARM on your motherboard line up the triangle on the chip which is right about there with the triangle on the motherboard and gently yeah there we go place it into the socket it should just drop in if the pins are aligned correctly so just visually make sure that the CPU is flush with the socket before pushing the retention ARM down to lock it in place you may also want to gently press down on the chip while you do this to ensure it doesn't shift around but gravity really should do the job now our CPU comes with its own cooler AMD's own wraith stealth and we'll be using it here to save money for more than a mild overclock we'll want to replace it but for now we can go ahead and install it by first removing these two plastic clips on the motherboard which helpfully just use standard phillips head screws once that's done remove the cooler's plastic shield covering the thermal compound if necessary this one just kind of fell off line up with the socket like so the thinner gauge here should go towards the top and then we just screw it into place where those plastic clips used to be now you don't want to immediately tighten these screws because if you do then it'll make uh screwing the other ones in more difficult for one and two you're going to want to try and use an x pattern to evenly distribute the uh thermal compound here from here all we need to do is plug its fan cable into the CPU fan header on our motherboard like so and our CPU and cooler are now fully installed onto the memory now fast memory is something that ryzen like me loves to chew on but because fast memory gets expensive quickly we're primarily focused on gaming performance there are diminishing returns at the time of writing g skills ages ddr4 3000 16 Gigabyte kit is the sweet spot based on what's available as it's priced in around the range you typically find 2133 or 2400 kits unfortunately since it was oh boy okay that's going to make it in unfortunately since it was backordered when we went to buy it and we had to get the parts in time for this video we had to settle for this g-skill rip shots 5 at a similar price if we wanted to grab a 3200 megahertz kit though we'd be paying around 25 for the privilege for not much real world gain if you've never installed RAM before then good news it's super easy but there's one thing you want to keep in mind if you want to take advantage of dual channel and with ryzen you probably will you'll need to make sure that you install your memory in alternating slots so two and four just pull these tabs back line up the little notch on the memory with the notch in the slot and insert now you'll need to push down a little bit until you hear a little click and on the other side as well it'll take a little bit of force but not a whole lot um you don't really need to worry about breaking anything but you might feel like you're putting too much force in so let's do that with the other stick and just visually inspect that we can't see the pins and that everything is flush now we've been plugging stuff into this thing but we haven't really gone over what it is yet we've gone with the asrock b450m pro4 an inexpensive micro atx AMD motherboard with four RAM slots and crucially the ability to overclock our CPU now because the b450m pro 4 happens to have decent vrms for power delivery we should be able to obtain reasonable results with our ryzen 5 2600 otherwise it's actually pretty unremarkable with no official support for sli just crossfire and a fine array of i o that includes a vga port dvi port and HDMI port that are only useful for an apu not for us now to be clear we could have gotten away with a 50 board instead of a 70 one if we didn't care about overclocking support but where's the fun in that we are gonna use this guy we literally chose the cheapest case available okay fine i'll talk about it this is the rosewill srm-01 a micro atx case that's about what you'd expect for its common sale price of 20 difficult to open box for one it doesn't weigh anything uh what is going on here so for twenty dollars you get a case that weighs nothing with very data aesthetics it's got a single underside dust filter limited cable management a single front usb 3.0 port on the side with the rest being 2.0 this thing is not going to be easy or fun to build in but that's not the point of this build is it the point is to get the best bang for the buck and if it doesn't improve performance we're just going to have to live with it thankfully we do have thumb screws one thing that it does have is this drive tray and yes that is what it is so if we take out these two screws here one on the bottom and one towards the top like so haha it swings out of place so yeah we can get a GPU in here if you want to which we'll have too so this gives us all the room we'll need although just barely now before we move on we need to get the case ready to actually work in first we'll need to use these thumb screws to take up both side panels yes the rare one too and yes they actually gave us some screws on the rear with that done we'll remove the front panel so we need to grip this little slot down here and just pull outward there's no latch it should just pop right off and from here all we need to do is just pull these cables through gently they aren't held in with anything they're just routed right through now there's not much in the way of cable management on this front panel there's nothing particularly special about it but it does have these screws with wide rims that hold everything into place so we're going to want to take this one off next to the leds and that'll free them up but we don't want to remove them what we want to do is take these for the power and reset switch and route them down with them and from here we'll want to take the led wires and pull them through here until they're about the same length and loop the slack like that what we can do from here is replace that screw and that has all of our front panel connections at pretty much the perfect length to reach our motherboard as for the usb 2.0 front panel audio and usb 3.0 cables these are relatively easy to figure out what we can do is just push them through here and then out through this cable management port for the power supply can be a little bit tricky because these wires are thick but once we get it through we'll route our front panel back through close it back up should just snap on once you get the posts aligned and there we go so why did we go through the effort of doing that so doing it this way means that our cables have just enough slack to go where they need to go without having any extraneous length that we need to deal with later on for cable management which will be a chore speaking of the motherboard we can't celebrate yet because we still need to install that this is where we run into our first real problem with cheaping out on the case if we look in this baggie here there are actually only six brass standoffs included there are no other standoffs and our motherboard has eight mount points that means we're going to have to choose where we need the most support so we need to determine where and this is why people don't like wearing esd straps in this case it looks like we're going to need the most support in the top left the top right everything in the middle because that's where our GPU is going to go and probably the bottom middle here where our front panel connects in and unfortunately that means the rest of it is going to have to hang loose which means the bottom right here bottom left and the top middle are going to sag a little bit if you try to put any pressure on them so with that mapped out in the standoffs go now if you do decide to use a screwdriver for these um be very careful because these are made of cheap brass and this is very thin steel it will strip and you're going to have a bad time better to just use your fingers to tighten them you know what i probably should do this with a screwdriver once we're done with that nonsense we won't forget our i o shield which snaps into place from the inside but we want to make sure that it's oriented correctly in this case the audio ports will be on the bottom now we can finally get our motherboard installed for realsies now a pro tip for anyone building in an older design case like this install your front panel connectors now while the motherboard is still outside the case this little lip down here is going to cause so many problems if you try to do it afterwards now you'll want to check your motherboard's manual just to see where everything plugs in but typically the power switch is going to go into the top right the reset switch will go right beneath that and then hard drive power that'll go next to the reset switch to the left uh positive usually is to the left which i believe yep that's what the silk screen says and we'll do the same for the power switch or power led all right so with our front panel installed let's get our motherboard in so we'll get it down under here hold this out of the way so it doesn't get trapped underneath and line it up with our i o shields so if we align this laterally you'll see the brass standoff show through which will tell you that you have all of your standoffs in the right positions so since we can see them we can count them to make sure we have them all in the right spots so we have one two three four five six so with the standoffs aligned to the screw holes we'll take these fine threaded screws and screw it down starting with the center to keep everything aligned don't mind me i'm just gonna keep screwing these in for the rest of time yeah i done up this is such a pain do you remember how i said you should plug in the front panel before you you put the board in did you forget to i forgot to put in these front panel connectors oh yeah and then i forgot my own advice about lifting this stupid cable out of the way there we go now let's get those screws back in okay that was a lot of work just to get the motherboard in but the phone's only just begun because we haven't gotten to the power supply yet just rethinking my life decisions right now anyway you might expect that we cheaped out on the power supply too but it's actually quite important for a variety of reasons the most important of which being the longevity and stability of your computer's components for that reason we set a stipulation that the power supply we chose would be 80 plus bronze or better capable of 500 watts or higher continuous output and come with a five-year warranty at minimum the least expensive power supply that takes all of these boxes is the Corsair cx-550 which given the lack of modular connections means our case choice is about to kick our proverbial butts because unlike most modern cases the srm-01 from roswell mounts the power supply up top which means not only do we have to line it up manually but uh even though it does have a lip for the power supply to rest on we still need to hold it in place while we screw it in or it could fall i want to go home it's probably obvious but we can't actually get this power supply in here until we get these cables routed so let's do that this little hole in the back here is quite convenient for routing our power supply cables oh and uh by the way because this power supply uh mounts up here it acts as an exhaust that's actually what it's designed for back in the day so we're gonna want the fan on the bottom there we go yeah so you just gotta screw it in then power supplies in so this mess is why we couldn't install the power supply lying flat and it's also why we couldn't install the 12 volt dps connector while the motherboard was outside of the case like we normally recommend we could have maybe installed the power supply first but that wouldn't really have made our lives much easier so let's go about routing these things shall we the uh atx cable it's pretty easy just go into this little hole here thankfully the 24 pin just uh has these extra four pins here it's the 20 plus four atx connector which helps in managing these cables just make sure to clip together and push it down until it clicks all right so now for the 12 volt eps connector and that's going to go through this little hole here once it's through snap it together then line it up which can be a little bit tricky but thankfully we've got plenty of clearance so with it in the slot just push down until you hear the click now the next thing we're going to want to do is pull all of the slack from inside the case to this side of the case and that will leave as little as possible for us to deal with on the inside uh we'll also probably never need these uh cables here at least not right now so we can push those back through if i had been thinking ahead i would have just not routed them through but uh yeah that's not what we're doing today so since we'll basically never need these we can tie them off and leave them in this conveniently located five and a quarter inch bay that we'll also never use because who owns an optical drive anymore so into this little drive bay these go and we never had to look at them again speaking of storage we chose the wd blue 250 Gigabyte m.2 module for its low profile and low cost now i know you can get cheaper ssds but this was the cheapest that included a dram cache which is extremely important for performance as we've seen in the past now to install the module we're going to have to find the m.2 slot on the motherboard for our drive the problem is that the one in the center of the board here labeled ultra m.2 is only for NVMe meaning that our SATA SSD needs to go in the other slot which is conveniently located down at the bottom right of the board so we'll line up the notches on the end of the module with the key on the slot and it should go right in we won't see any more pins so we can then take this retaining screw screw it down and we're nice and secure you'll notice that it covers up the bottom middle motherboard screw which is why we didn't install it before now 250 gigabytes of solid state storage isn't enough for everything we want to run on this machine i mean individual games commonly can be up to 50 gigabytes or larger these days i've seen some that are like closer to 100 and that's why we've got this two terabyte seagate barracuda which uh critically is a 7200 RPM drive meaning that while it's more power hungry than the slower 5400 RPM options we'll be loading our games more quickly plus since it's an older model it's just as cheap now we've got a couple of options for mounting the drive and neither are very good the first option is to just install it in the bottom of the five and a quarter inch bay where the guide rail is provided but unless you have a long neck screwdriver you're just not going to get a solid mount with that in mind we'll be mounting to this yes i am serious now the manual says to mount the drives here with their connectors facing the rear of the case like this but we'll get much cleaner cable management if we mount it like this with the connectors facing the front we can hide those cables through the front panel or via the five and a quarter inch bay in case you're wondering yes we could mount the drive or second drive to this bottom half here but that would interfere with our GPU's pci express connectors when we go to install them as you'll see speaking of connectors now it's time to cable manage this thing we've been kind of doing that the whole time but uh now that the drive is securely mounted it's time to tidy up the cabling in preparation for the GPU which will be the last thing that we install here and of course we need to get the drive wired up and uh yeah you know if i were thinking more clearly i probably would have done the cable management before the drive the drive but uh you know what since our velcro ties are actually too big for the loops that are provided here on the case i'll go ahead and run these now and then cable management afterwards just to tidy things up thankfully we only have the one that we need to run i don't need this to be hanging out here either i'm not very good at this remember that uh SATA cable chain that we left out at this point this is where we need it i'm going to cross it over like this with one of my handy dandy tweezers clip this off or not there we go and now we've got just enough length that hurt to feed it down through this hole here it's a little difficult to see there we go as a bonus we can fish this up through that same hole and we can send it out through here but then we can go back down here with the rest of the front panel cables and plug directly into the motherboard then we can close it back up now we have a fully connected drive with basically no mess so taking care not to cross over any cables we'll slide our usb 3.0 header into here and plug it directly into the board like so i kind of hate those connectors but we will have to pull the slack back out but gently because these connectors have a tendency to either break or pull loose with very little force so with that done now we can start tying these up now this step isn't terribly important but it's important to me flatten out a little bit all right so we need both of these but we only need one of them to have all of their connectors so we can tie one of these back just for the sake of neatness so we can fish both of these through here then i can tie this down like so now i need to figure out what to do with this guy that'll at least keep it in place more or less although i would really like another cable management point now one thing you might notice is that it actually isn't flush with the sides of the case but that's not actually a bad thing because our panel has this nice big bump on it which lets us just slide it on okay and the front looks pretty clean too which is a good thing because now we need to install our graphics card our goal for this build is a 1440p 60 capable machine so for that we're turning to the GeForce rtx 2070 gaming oc card from Gigabyte it's about twelve dollars or three percent more than the uh standard gaming card but it's clocked a good seven percent higher which means it's a trade-off worth making in the pursuit of absolute best price to performance at this budget anyway and uh yeah let's get this in to install our GPU we're first going to need to break off these tabs that cover the pci express slots now this is a hallmark of cheaper cases and nothing to be concerned about you can just gently stick a screwdriver in here like so to kind of get it out of position and then you can just kind of bend it up and down a few times like this and they just break right off now we already have most of ours free because i did do a test fit in this but for you guys you're going to have to pry these free so once the slots are free it's time for the main event now the first thing we should do is make sure that the tab on the back of the slot is in the down position it was already there but if it's up just push it down that will unlock the retention clip for our GPU which can go in like so now one more thing to note this case has basically no room back here install your pci express power connectors first before you do anything else now angling this in is a little bit tricky in a case like this but once you have it aligned all you need to do is give it a little press until you hear the click now we need to do is screw in our retention screws now once you've tidied up the pci express cables and gotten everything nice and organized it's time to take a step back and admire your work it's been rough but we're almost done it's time to go ahead and slide the side panels back on and secure them into place with the thumb screws like so so now we'll plug everything in and wait the longest few seconds of our lives it's powered on will it post oh keyboard lit up hey asrock helpfully asrock shows you exactly which key to match so we just match delete or you can hit f2 now most of this stuff in the BIOS we'll probably want to leave at defaults for now but primarily what we want to do here is enable xmp which can be done by going over to the oc tweaker then going down to xmp setting and choosing xmp 2.0 profile one and we should see that uh our RAM is now running at the proper speed which is great so we will go ahead and do save changes and exit all right looks like Windows is installed i won't go into the step by step 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