Avoiding Common PC Building Traps - Episode 3
Techquickie
·Techquickie
·2017-05-06
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it's time for episode three and no I'm
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not going to get all angsty and explain why I think the Jedi are evil it's the
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third episode of common PC Building traps you should be looking out for
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whether you're a Padawan preparing for your first build or you spend weekends
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with your family bragging about all the fully armed and operational Battle
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Stations you've put together let's start
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with something that you should watch out for before you even begin physically
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assembling the computer balancing your
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build this means you want to be sure that you're choosing components that
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will work with each other as a coordinated sensible hole or computer
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for example if you've decided to go with something like a low-end Pentium CPU
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don't pair it with a $600 graphics card
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as your underpowered processor will likely be a bottleneck in games not
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allowing your graphics card to operate at Peak Performance not what you want
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after spending all that money in a similar vein doing things like buying a
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1200 wat power supply for a single video card setup or buying 64 gigs of RAM for
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watching YouTube videos not good ideas
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so think about what you want to do with
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your system and whether the parts you're buying make sense for each other before
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pulling the trigger then after you've picked a logical set set of components
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and you're putting it all together don't forget to manage your cables that's
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right you should do this even if you're using a case that doesn't have a side
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panel window as the benefits aren't purely aesthetic proper cable routing
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can not only save you a lot of headaches whenever you have to open up your system
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to make an upgrade or repair they can prevent your components from being
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choked up with dust as poorly managed cables that cross Every Which Way inside
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your case tend to be dust magnets and
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can eventually restrict air flow and you
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don't have to do some sort of worldclass cable management job to reap the
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benefits just use the routing holes in your case plus a few zip ties for a
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massive Improvement versus having a cable jungle like some kind of
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Barbarian and while we're on the subject of cables when you finish your build and
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are getting ready to plug in your monitor for the Love of All that is good
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don't plug it into your motherboard if you're rocking a discreet graphics card
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although software solutions that allowed you to plug your monitor into either one
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and still reap the performance benefits of your GPU once appeared as though they
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had a bright future these days a connection to your motherboard will
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completely bypass your graphics card leaving you wondering why you're getting
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five frames per second in a game where you were were expecting to get
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500 moving right along with the plugging things in theme don't assume that all
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the RAM slots on your motherboard are the same if you've got multiple sticks
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of RAM but not enough to fill every slot
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maybe you've got two sticks and a four slot board check your motherboard manual
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and follow the manufacturer's recommended configuration typically this
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means using every other slot not
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following the instructions could result in your RAM not running in a faster
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multi-channel mode and while memory speed doesn't have a massive impact on
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performance except in very specific applications these days there also isn't
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a good reason to miss out on a small boost that properly inserted RAM can
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give you so you've got everything plugged in properly and you've been
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using your computer for a short while but something seems a miss you find out
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that a BIOS update from your motherboard manufacturer might be the cure for your
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ills however you need to be very careful
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when flashing your ufi BIOS if something
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goes wrong during the process like a power outage you could end up
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irreversibly bricking your motherboard
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so it's a good idea especially if you
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haven't invested in a motherboard with a dual BIOS or a BIOS flashback feature
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that lets you reflash it even if it is
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somewhat bricked it's a good idea to be plugged into a battery backup or a UPS
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while you are doing it I mean and at the
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very least don't do it during a thunderstorm you don't want to be out
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the 200 bucks you spent on your board just because Mother Nature decided to
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have a little Tempest tantrum so hopefully this Series has
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helped you in your quest to have a mistake-free building experience but
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what are some of your go-to tips for PC assembly let us know in the comments and
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maybe you'll see your ideas in episode 4
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