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hello welcome to dennis tech tips this

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is happening today i'm doing a build guide that i invent a new thermal paste

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that i i can actually use it to apply

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directly to the socket let's see

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so you just do this very very gently

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and just put the CPU on the what's going on

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you doing a build guide yeah i'm doing yoga

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you know Linus said those were dead right you know atlantis is dead right

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you sure you want to go with that one uh it's

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dennis tick tips okay never mind near my i'll go i'll go

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but please subscribe if you want dennis take tips more

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yeah okay i guess with Linus out of the picture

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everybody wants to get on front of the camera but you know it has been over a

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year since our last pc build guide and i know you guys really want them the

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problem is that we had sponsors before but guess what Linus isn't here today

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i've got the company credit card and it's high time we fixed that so let's

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get cracking to build the best bang for buck 1440p 60fps gaming experience we

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can muster without triggering the fraud alert he won't know what hit him

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and once he's done freaking out other statement he can think about saving money on his it infrastructure with

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below

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now before we get our hands dirty we should first make sure that our hands are clean

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and static free we can do the form with some soap but the latter will require

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being grounded now some veteran builders will tell you that if your environment is humid esd

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isn't a great danger especially with today's thicker pcbs and protection

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circuitry and this is true to some extent so in a pinch simply touching

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something metallic that's got to pass the ground regularly will do

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but if you're building a pc you're going to want to invest in an esd solution now

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they aren't expensive and we don't recommend continuing without them

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when you do use an esd strap or esd mat bear in mind that they must be connected

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to ground via an outlet or something metallic with a path to ground

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in order to be effective noticing a pattern it's all about the path to

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ground no ground then there's no esd safety as for our

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other tools our handy-dandy multi-bit screwdriver

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is our best friend we'll use this magnetic parts tray for screw management

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magnetic project mats also work great here and you can even use a pill sorted a

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pretty good effect that takes care of the pre-built prep and tools but for

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cable management and you are going to manage your cables right

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the most useful tools we have are velcro ties like these handy dandy Linus

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tech tips brand ones a pair of side cutters

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like these and

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a handful of tweezers oh sorry i mean zip ties

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needle nose pliers can help when using these in tight spaces but you know

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they're not strictly necessary because as you'll see most of our zip ties are going to be

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quite accessible now as always it's a good idea to plug in all of your

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components for a dry run before you fully assemble your build now this is a

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good way to troubleshoot any issues that may arise

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such as an incompatibility or a doa component so you use your motherboard

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box as a case it's non-conductive and usually sturdy enough to handle the

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weight of the board cooler and GPU so if your machine powers on and

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transmits to the display you're ready to move on when it comes to cpus we're

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spoiled for choice thanks to AMD and Intel playing tit for tat over the last

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year or so for us the best value for our money is the ryzen 5 2600 non-x from AMD

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which unlike Intel's price competitors the core i5 8400 or 9400 f can be

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overclocked it also has twice the number of threads which newer games like apex

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legends can take full advantage of so with that in mind AMD steals the show at

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this price compared to their own previous gen ryzen 5 1600x the 2600 is

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slightly faster on average thanks to precision boost 2 and typically has more

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overclocking headroom for a price difference of just about 6 retail to

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install the CPU lift up the retention ARM on your motherboard

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line up the triangle on the chip

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which is right about there with the triangle on the motherboard

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and gently yeah there we go place it into the socket it should just

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drop in if the pins are aligned correctly so just visually make sure that the CPU is flush

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with the socket before pushing the retention ARM down to lock it in place you may also want to gently press down

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on the chip while you do this to ensure it doesn't shift around but gravity

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really should do the job now our CPU comes with its own cooler AMD's own

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wraith stealth and we'll be using it here to save money for more than a mild

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overclock we'll want to replace it but for now we can go ahead and install it

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by first removing these two plastic clips on the motherboard which helpfully

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just use standard phillips head screws once that's done remove the cooler's

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plastic shield covering the thermal compound if necessary this one just kind of fell off

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line up with the socket like so the thinner

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gauge here should go towards the top and then we just screw it into place where

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those plastic clips used to be now you don't want to immediately tighten these

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screws because if you do then it'll make uh screwing the other ones in more

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difficult for one and two you're going to want to try and

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use an x pattern to evenly distribute the uh

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thermal compound here from here all we need to do is plug its

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fan cable into the CPU fan header on our motherboard

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like so and our CPU and cooler are now fully installed onto the memory now fast

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memory is something that ryzen like me loves to chew on

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but because fast memory gets expensive quickly we're primarily focused on

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gaming performance there are diminishing returns at the time of writing g skills ages

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ddr4 3000 16 Gigabyte kit is the sweet

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spot based on what's available as it's priced in around the range you typically

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find 2133 or 2400 kits unfortunately

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since it was oh boy

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okay that's going to make it in unfortunately since it was backordered

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when we went to buy it and we had to get the parts in time for this video we had

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to settle for this g-skill rip shots 5 at a similar price

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if we wanted to grab a 3200 megahertz kit though we'd be paying around 25 for

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the privilege for not much real world gain if you've never installed RAM

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before then good news it's super easy but there's one thing you want to keep

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in mind if you want to take advantage of dual channel and with ryzen you probably will

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you'll need to make sure that you install your memory in alternating slots so two and four

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just pull these tabs back line up the little notch

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on the memory with the notch in the slot

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and insert now you'll need to push down a little bit

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until you hear a little click and on the other side as well

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it'll take a little bit of force but not a whole lot um you don't really need to

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worry about breaking anything but you might feel like you're putting too much

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force in so let's do that with the other stick

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and just visually inspect that we can't see the pins

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and that everything is flush now we've been plugging stuff into this

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thing but we haven't really gone over what it is yet we've gone with the

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asrock b450m pro4 an inexpensive micro

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atx AMD motherboard with four RAM slots and crucially the ability to overclock

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our CPU now because the b450m pro 4 happens to

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have decent vrms for power delivery we should be able to obtain reasonable

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results with our ryzen 5 2600 otherwise it's actually pretty

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unremarkable with no official support for sli just crossfire

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and a fine array of i o that includes a vga port

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dvi port and HDMI port that are only useful for an apu

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not for us now to be clear we could have gotten away with a 50 board instead of a 70 one

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if we didn't care about overclocking support but where's the fun in that

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we are gonna use this guy

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we literally chose the cheapest case available

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okay fine i'll talk about it this is the rosewill srm-01 a micro atx

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case that's about what you'd expect for its common sale price of 20

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difficult to open box for one

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it doesn't weigh anything uh what is going on here so for twenty

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dollars you get a case that weighs nothing with very data aesthetics it's

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got a single underside dust filter limited cable management a single

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front usb 3.0 port on the side with the rest

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being 2.0 this thing is not going to be easy or

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fun to build in but that's not the point of this build is it the point is to get the best bang

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for the buck and if it doesn't improve performance we're just going to have to

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live with it thankfully we do have thumb screws one thing that it does have is

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this drive tray and yes that is what it is so if we take out these two screws here

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one on the bottom and one towards the top

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like so

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haha it swings out of place so yeah we can get a GPU in here if you

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want to which we'll have too so this gives us all the room we'll need

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although just barely now before we move on we need to get the case ready to

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actually work in first we'll need to use these thumb

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screws to take up both side panels yes the rare one too and yes they actually

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gave us some screws on the rear with that done we'll remove the front

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panel so we need to grip this little slot down here and just pull outward

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there's no latch it should just pop right off

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and from here all we need to do is just pull these cables through gently

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they aren't held in with anything they're just routed right through

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now there's not much in the way of cable management on this front panel there's

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nothing particularly special about it but it does have these screws with wide rims

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that hold everything into place so

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we're going to want to take this one off next to the leds

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and that'll free them up but we don't want to remove them what we want to do

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is take these for the power and reset switch and route them down with them and

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from here we'll want to take the led wires and pull them through here until

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they're about the same length and loop the slack like that what we can do from

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here is replace that screw and that has all of our front panel connections at

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pretty much the perfect length to reach our motherboard

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as for the usb 2.0 front panel audio and

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usb 3.0 cables these are relatively easy to figure out

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what we can do is just push them through here

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and then out through this cable management port

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for the power supply can be a little bit tricky because these

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wires are thick but once we get it through

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we'll route our front panel back through

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close it back up should just snap on once you get the

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posts aligned

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and there we go so why did we go through the effort of doing that so doing it this way means

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that our cables have just enough slack to go where they need to go

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without having any extraneous length that we need to deal with later on for

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cable management which will be a chore

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speaking of the motherboard we can't celebrate yet because we still need to

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install that this is where we run into our first real

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problem with cheaping out on the case if we look in this baggie here there are

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actually only six brass standoffs included there are no other standoffs

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and our motherboard has eight mount points that means we're going to have to choose

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where we need the most support so

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we need to determine where

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and this is why people don't like wearing esd straps

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in this case it looks like we're going to need the most support in the top left

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the top right everything in the middle because that's

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where our GPU is going to go and probably the bottom middle here

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where our front panel connects in and unfortunately that means the rest of

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it is going to have to hang loose which means

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the bottom right here bottom left

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and the top middle are going to sag a little bit if you try

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to put any pressure on them so with that mapped out

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in the standoffs go now if you do decide to use a screwdriver for these um

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be very careful because these are made of cheap brass

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and this is very thin steel it will strip and you're going to have a bad

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time better to just use your fingers to tighten them

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you know what i probably should do this with a screwdriver

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once we're done with that nonsense we won't forget our i o shield

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which snaps into place from the inside but we want to make sure that it's

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oriented correctly in this case the audio ports will be on the bottom

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now we can finally get our motherboard installed for realsies now a pro tip for

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anyone building in an older design case like this install your front panel

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connectors now while the motherboard is still outside

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the case this little lip down here is going to cause so many problems if you

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try to do it afterwards now you'll want to check your motherboard's manual just

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to see where everything plugs in but typically

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the power switch is going to go into the top right

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the reset switch will go right beneath that

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and then hard drive power that'll go

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next to the reset switch to the left uh positive usually is to the left which

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i believe yep that's what the silk screen says

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and we'll do the same for the power switch or power led all right so with

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our front panel installed let's get our motherboard in

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so we'll get it down under here hold this out of the way so it doesn't get

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trapped underneath and line it up with our i o shields so if we align this

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laterally you'll see the brass standoff show through which

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will tell you that you have all of your standoffs in the right positions so

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since we can see them we can count them to make sure we have them all in the

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right spots so we have one two three

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four five six so with the standoffs aligned to the

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screw holes we'll take these fine threaded screws

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and screw it down starting with the center to keep

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everything aligned don't mind me i'm just gonna keep

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screwing these in for the rest of time

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yeah i done up

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this is such a pain do you remember how i said you should

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plug in the front panel before you you

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put the board in did you forget to i forgot to put in these front panel

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connectors oh yeah

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and then i forgot my own advice about lifting this stupid cable

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out of the way there we go now let's get

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those screws back in okay

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that was a lot of work just to get the motherboard in

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but the phone's only just begun because we haven't gotten to the power supply

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yet

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just rethinking my life decisions right now

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anyway you might expect that we cheaped out on the power supply too

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but it's actually quite important for a variety of reasons the most important of

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which being the longevity and stability of your computer's components for that

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reason we set a stipulation that the power supply we chose would be 80 plus

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bronze or better capable of 500 watts or higher continuous output and come with a

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five-year warranty at minimum the least expensive power supply that

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takes all of these boxes is the Corsair cx-550 which given the lack of modular

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connections means our case choice is about to kick our proverbial butts

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because unlike most modern cases the srm-01 from roswell mounts the power

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supply up top which means not only do we have to line it up manually but uh even

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though it does have a lip for the power supply to rest on

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we still need to hold it in place while we screw it in or it could fall i want

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to go home it's probably obvious but we can't

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actually get this power supply in here until

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we get these cables routed so let's do that

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this little hole in the back here is quite convenient

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for routing our power supply cables

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oh and uh by the way because this power supply uh mounts up

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here it acts as an exhaust that's actually what it's designed for back in

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the day so we're gonna want the fan on the bottom

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there we go yeah so you just gotta screw

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it in then power supplies in so this mess is why we

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couldn't install the power supply lying flat and it's also why we couldn't

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install the 12 volt dps connector while the motherboard was outside of the case

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like we normally recommend

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we could have maybe installed the power supply first but that wouldn't really

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have made our lives much easier so

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let's go about routing these things shall we the uh

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atx cable it's pretty easy just go into this little hole here

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thankfully the 24 pin just uh has these extra four pins here

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it's the 20 plus four atx connector which helps in managing

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these cables just make sure to clip together

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and push it down until it clicks all right so now for the 12 volt eps

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connector and that's going to go through this little hole here

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once it's through snap it together

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then line it up

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which can be a little bit tricky but thankfully we've got plenty of clearance

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so with it in the slot just push down until you

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hear the click now the next thing we're going to want to do is pull all of the

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slack from inside the case to this side of the case

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and that will leave as little as possible for us to deal

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with on the inside uh we'll also

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probably never need these uh cables here at least not right now

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so we can push those back through if i had been thinking ahead i would

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have just not routed them through but uh yeah that's not what we're doing

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today so since we'll basically never need these

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we can tie them off and leave them in this conveniently

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located five and a quarter inch bay that we'll also never use because

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who owns an optical drive anymore so into this little drive bay these go

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and we never had to look at them again speaking of storage we chose the wd blue

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250 Gigabyte m.2 module for its low

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profile and low cost now i know you can get cheaper ssds but

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this was the cheapest that included a dram cache which is extremely important

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for performance as we've seen in the past now to install the module we're going to

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have to find the m.2 slot on the motherboard for our drive the problem is

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that the one in the center of the board here labeled ultra m.2 is only for NVMe

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meaning that our SATA SSD needs to go in the other slot

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which is conveniently located down at the bottom right of the board so we'll

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line up the notches on the end of the module with the

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key on the slot

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and it should go right in we won't see any more pins

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so we can then take this retaining screw

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screw it down and we're nice and secure

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you'll notice that it covers up the bottom middle motherboard screw which is

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why we didn't install it before now 250 gigabytes of solid state storage isn't

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enough for everything we want to run on this machine i mean individual games

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commonly can be up to 50 gigabytes or larger these days i've seen some that

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are like closer to 100 and that's why we've got this two terabyte seagate barracuda which uh

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critically is a 7200 RPM drive meaning that while

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it's more power hungry than the slower 5400 RPM options we'll be loading our

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games more quickly plus since it's an older model it's just as cheap

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now we've got a couple of options for mounting the drive and neither are very

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good the first option is to just install it in the bottom of the five and a quarter

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inch bay where the guide rail is provided but unless you have a long neck

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screwdriver you're just not going to get a solid mount with that in mind we'll be

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mounting to

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this yes i am serious now the manual says to

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mount the drives here with their connectors facing the rear of the case

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like this but

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we'll get much cleaner cable management if we mount it like this with the

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connectors facing the front we can hide those cables through the front panel or

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via the five and a quarter inch bay in case you're wondering yes we could mount

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the drive or second drive to this bottom half here but that would interfere with

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our GPU's pci express connectors when we go to install them as you'll see

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speaking of connectors now it's time to cable manage this thing

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we've been kind of doing that the whole time but uh now that the drive is securely

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mounted it's time to tidy up the cabling in preparation for the GPU which will be

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the last thing that we install here and of course we need to get the drive

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wired up and uh yeah

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you know if i were thinking more clearly i probably would have done the cable

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management before the drive the drive but uh you know what

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since our velcro ties are actually too

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big for the loops that are provided here on the case

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i'll go ahead and run these now and then cable management afterwards

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just to tidy things up thankfully we only have the one that we

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need to run i don't need this to be hanging out here

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either i'm not very good at this

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remember that uh SATA cable chain that we left out

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at this point this is where we need it

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i'm going to cross it over like this with one of my handy dandy tweezers

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clip this off or not there we go and now

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we've got just enough length

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that hurt to feed it down through

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this hole here it's a little difficult to see

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there we go as a bonus we can fish this

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up through that same hole and we can send it out through here

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but then we can go back down here with the rest of the front panel cables

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and plug directly into the motherboard

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then we can close it back up

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now we have a fully connected drive with basically no mess

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so taking care not to cross over any cables we'll slide our usb 3.0

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header into here

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and plug it directly into the board

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like so i kind of hate those connectors but

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we will have to pull the slack back out

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but gently because these connectors have a tendency to either break or pull loose

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with very little force so with that done now we can start tying these up now this

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step isn't terribly important but it's important to me flatten out a little bit

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all right so we need both of these but we only need one of them to have all of

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their connectors so we can tie one of these back just for the sake of neatness

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so we can fish both of these through here

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then i can tie this down like so now i

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need to figure out what to do with this guy that'll at least keep it in place

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more or less

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although i would really like another cable management point now one thing you might notice is that

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it actually isn't flush with the sides of the case but that's not actually a

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bad thing because our panel

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has this nice big bump on it

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which lets us just slide it on

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okay and the front looks pretty clean too which is a good thing because now

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we need to install our graphics card our goal for this build is a 1440p 60

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capable machine so for that we're turning to the GeForce rtx 2070 gaming

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oc card from Gigabyte it's about twelve dollars or three

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percent more than the uh standard gaming card but it's clocked a

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good seven percent higher which means it's a trade-off worth making in the

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pursuit of absolute best price to performance at this budget anyway

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and uh yeah let's get this in to install

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our GPU we're first going to need to break off these tabs that cover the pci

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express slots now this is a hallmark of cheaper cases

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and nothing to be concerned about you can just gently stick a screwdriver in

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here like so to kind of get it out of

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position and then you can just kind of

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bend it up and down a few times like this

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and they just break right off now we already have most of ours free

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because i did do a test fit in this but for you guys you're going to have to pry

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these free so once the slots are free it's time for the main event now the

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first thing we should do is make sure that the tab on the back of the slot is in the

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down position it was already there but

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if it's up just push it down that will unlock the retention clip

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for our GPU which can go in

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like so now one more thing to note

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this case has basically no

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room back here install your pci express power

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connectors first before you do anything else now angling this in is a little bit

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tricky in a case like this but

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once you have it aligned all you need to do is give it a little

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press until you hear the click now we need to do is screw in our retention

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screws now

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once you've tidied up the pci express cables and gotten everything

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nice and organized

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it's time to take a step back and admire your work

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it's been rough but we're almost done

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it's time to go ahead and slide the side panels back on

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and secure them into place with the thumb screws

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like so so now we'll plug everything in

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and wait the longest few seconds of our lives

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it's powered on

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will it post

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oh keyboard lit up hey asrock

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helpfully asrock shows you exactly which key to match so we just match delete or

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you can hit f2 now most of this stuff in the BIOS

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we'll probably want to leave at defaults for now but primarily what we want to do

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here is enable xmp which can be done by going over to the oc tweaker

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then going down to xmp setting

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and choosing xmp 2.0 profile one and we should see that uh our RAM is now

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running at the proper speed which is great so we will go ahead

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and do save changes and exit

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all right looks like Windows is installed i won't go into the step by

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step on how to do that but for those of you who are stuck and do

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want to install Windows grab an 8 Gigabyte or larger usb key and put it

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into another computer that's already running Windows from here you can download the media creation tool from

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microsoft which can automatically set up a Windows installer on your usb key once

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that's done just plug it in reboot it should automagically start the Windows

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setup process and once that's done you should already have all of your drivers

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installed out of the box but you'll want the latest NVIDIA driver along with the

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AMD chipset driver which you can grab from their respective websites now as

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for how this thing performs well i've already loaded up the drive with a bunch

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of tools and games to test drive so let's give it from spin shall we

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let's do cinebench i guess

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okay yeah that's about what i'd expect Linus likes doom let's do a shadow of the tomb

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raider and run the benchmark yeah that's pretty good

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high 60s 1440p highest

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up above 70 now probably dropped down to like the low 60s at minimum

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yeah wow okay that's actually more impressive

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than i thought it would be so there you have it an unassuming box well wired

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Linus is retiring forcibly