so building a PC can be pretty fun
actually and it can save you a decent
amount of cash if you're willing to do
the work yourself but for some people
it's a little bit intimidating to get
started into building a PC because it's
always different components involved and
you're not sure how to go together and
you don't want to make a mistake that's
why this video is here for you guys
it's a beginner guide step-by-step being
a guide on how to create a PC I'm not
gonna be showing you guys how to choose
the individual parts for this build but
you can follow this build if you want
the build I have here and all the links
to all the different parts are in the
description of this video if you want to
check that out but otherwise there's all
kinds of different part lists online for
different budgets so if you'd rather
find a different budgeted build you can
do that online and you'll know all the
parts will work together and this video
will still help you to learn how to
assemble the parts so without further
adieu why don't we jump right in and get
started
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okay so we have all my parts assembled
here now as long as you have juicy piece
your graphics card and RAM a power
supply a case a hard drive and a CPU
cooler you have all your parts together
and you're ready to go
also some thermal paste is necessary if
your CPU cooler does not come with some
pre apply thermal paste already and what
you'll need is basically a screwdriver
set I'm using mine from iFixit it has a
number of different bits just an
all-purpose screwdriver set is all you
need to assemble a PC and let us get
started for the case I have the master
box MB 500 from Coolermaster along with
the ML 120 liquid cooler from cooler
master to go along and this will cool
our CPU nicely I'll be powering this
with a 500 watt power supply from entra
max I have 64 gigabytes of ballistic
memory from crucial I have a 500
gigabyte SSD and I'll be running a GTX
1060 graphics card enough talk will
assume you have your parts ready and I'm
going to start assembling our PC
starting with the CPU and the
motherboard so we'll start by opening up
our motherboard and getting this ready
to place the CPU in so before we touch
our motherboard you don't want to make
sure you're not carrying any sort of
static electricity any sort of static
electricity could potentially ruin your
motherboard by short-circuiting it
because there's all that little
circuitry that you don't want to ruin so
touch something metal to make sure that
you're not static and I recommend not
wearing socks on carpeting because those
two things just don't go together well
and you might have a problem alright
then you're gonna want a safe place to
set your motherboard as you're working
on it so I just recommend using the
motherboard box you can pull it out of
the box and just set it on top of it as
you work to assemble your CPU and RAM
alright so with your CPU at hand you're
going to open it up set that aside for
now and you're gonna remove the
protective casing that comes inside the
CPU socket to protect the pins in my
case they have a lever on both sides
that I'm gonna push down on slide over
and then pop out you look for the little
diamond triangle on your CPU and line it
up with a little top in the corner of
your motherboard CPU sockets this is to
assure that the CPU is lined up
correctly with the motherboard socket
and you're going to just very gently set
it on top of it with the right
orientation once it's placed you might
want to just
with a very light wiggle to make sure
that it's touching all the pins and then
you can go ahead and put the socket back
on by moving the protective bracket down
locking the right one first and then
locking the left one and there you go
your CPU is installed into your
motherboard now before you install your
memory you're gonna want to reference
your motherboard manual to check which
slots should be populated with the RAM
if you have more slots than you do Ram
but you don't want to make sure you put
your memory in the right slots if you're
not using all eight slots so it can run
in dual channel memory for example on
this motherboard I want to put the RAM
and slot one three five and seven
to enable quad channel memory when I'm
only using four dams instead of the
eight dims that this motherboard is
capable of using now just like
installing the CPU you don't want to
make sure your Ram is aligned properly
with your motherboard before you try to
press it into the motherboard for risk
of possibly damaging something so as you
can see there's a slot and the center of
your RAM chip that's off-center a bit
you don't want to make sure this slot is
lined up with the slot on your
motherboard so you're putting it in the
right orientation now I'm just giving
some slight pressure to push it down
into the slot it's not putting pressure
in the back and then pressure in the
front until you hear that clip now I
didn't hear too much of a clip on that
one but it is aligned properly so I'm
going to go ahead and put the remaining
three RAM drives in so now that all my
ram is installed and my CPU is installed
I can move my motherboard aside and I
can prepare the case for the motherboard
so in this case no pun intended we have
two thumb screws that we need to remove
to take off the glass panel so we can
work on the inside of the case it's
going to set the case down now on its
side so we can arrange the set off
screws to hold the motherboard so just
setting the glass panel aside for now so
using the standoffs screws that came
with the CPU we're going to locate the
different holes on our motherboard here
so you want to look at the holes on your
motherboard for the screws to hold it
down to the case for in this case I have
three up top three across the middle
here and then I have one extra one here
and three across the bottom so I'm going
to want to take all 10 standard screws
and align them in the different holes on
my case here so I can put my motherboard
on top of those standard screws
screw it down so to install these little
standoff screws that came with the case
I'm gonna use the little accessory that
also came with the case that allows you
to use the Philips screwdriver and it
will grab them onto those standoffs and
screw around a lot easier than it would
be trying to do this by hand and like I
said I'm just gonna put all 10 standoffs
in the corners corresponding with the
spots that are on the motherboard just
screw them in down until they're tight
okay now that I've installed these
standoffs screws I'm gonna go ahead and
remove the rear case fan as I'm going to
be using the fan that comes with the
master liquid 120 L from coolermaster as
the exhaust fan in the back so after I'm
moving the four Phillips screws holding
the case fan on the back I'm just gonna
unplug it now by removing the rear panel
here with the two thumb screws here
that's tight I'm just a slide the back
panel off we'll set this aside as when
we'll be leaving it off because we'll be
doing some cable management back here
then I'm just going to unplug the three
pin fan plug right here on the back so I
can remove this case fan completely okay
so with that removed the next step is
going to be installing the power supply
so I'm going to go ahead and remove the
two thumb screws on the back of this
case as you can see right here and here
so this is a semi module power supply
meaning that there are a few chords that
are connected directly to the power
supply and then some also chords that
can be plugged in to power the different
accessories on your PC a fully module of
power supply is one where all of the
cords can be removed from the power
supply in a module power supply is one
where they are all attached a semi
module is some of both where some of the
main cords are attached but you also
have the accessory plugs that can be
unplugged and plugged in this one is a
semi module power supply now I'm just
going use the four screws that came with
the power supply to attach the PSU
bracket on the back of the power supply
so it can be installed and attached to
the case okay so with the bracket
attached to the power supply and the fan
pointing downwards I can go ahead and
just slide this in the back of my case
here lining it up and pulling it through
nice and gently and then I can just take
these thumb screws and
tighten up to secure the power supply to
the case okay and now that the standard
screws and the power supply are is all
attached to our case we can go ahead and
install the motherboard into the case so
this is probably one of the most
exciting parts of the build as the main
motherboard that everything connects to
is going into the case so let's do it
I'm just going to set the case down side
again and now I'm going to take the
motherboard out of its foam protective
padding now before we put the
motherboard into the case it's handy to
put the i/o shield on this is the shield
that connects all the ports nicely to
the case so it's important to put this
on first so you don't want to take it
you want to make sure it's orientated
right with your motherboard and then you
can just pop it on from the inside of
the case you want to line it up and you
just put some pressure on it and it will
pop right into place and a nice
satisfying pop so with that put in we
can go ahead and take our motherboard
and place it on to our case so I'm gonna
take the motherboard and line up the
holes on the motherboard with the
pre-installed
standoffs screws that we already put
inside the case just going to line up
with that nice and gently and then align
the ports up as well with the AO shield
that we just put on so it's a little bit
of fiddling the motherboard is lined
with the standoffs screws and the i/o
shield so we're ready to take our screws
that came with our case and we can go
ahead and screw down the motherboard
everywhere we placed one of those
standoffs screws you're gonna now place
one of these little Phillips screws and
screw down nice and tight not too tight
you don't want to crack the motherboard
but just firm enough that it won't be
moving
so the next step is going to be
installing your CPU cooler so before you
install your CPU cooler like I said in
the beginning this is an all-in-one
liquid cooler first of all you want to
make sure you have it orientated the way
you'll want so I've decided that I'm
going to install this one like a so
where the cords are going to the top
it's exhausting out the back like this
this will make it so the the liquid
cables are nice and out of the way of
the GPU and it should just make
everything else work out well and should
look nice you also want to check the
manual for the bracket that you're going
to need for your CPU in this case like I
said I'm using Intel so you don't want
to take the Intel bracket from your
liquid cooler but I just fed the
radiator fan through the case just like
you did when you took out the the case
fan originally and you're going to take
your radiator and just line it up on the
inside with the screws that are there
and then I'm going to be using these
long screws that came with the cooler
master 120 L and it will just feed
through the fan on the back and then
directly into the radiator now the
reason that I've set this up as a pull
configuration as you can see here is
when the fan pulls the air through the
radiator and out of the back of the case
the dust will collect right here on the
surface of the radiator can be easy to
clean off when you have a blow
configuration the dust gets stuck
between the fan and CPU cooler and will
gather there and be difficult to remove
unless you take off the radiator and
actually remove that layer of dust so
this way it works just as well and it
makes it easier to clean the dust off
the back that's what I have set up in
the pole configuration and I just have
one more screw here to put on and then
we'll be ready to work on mounting the
pump to the CPU all right now we're
gonna have to install the brackets for
our Intel socket to mount our pump to
the CPU so I'm just going to start the
screws first both of these and now I'm
just going to mount on to the the bottom
of our plate here by lining them up with
two D holes and the little mounting
bracket there on the pump I stole a pump
now I need to first install the four
standoffs screws that go on to my LG 11
Intel sockets to be able to connect the
pump
hmm nice to be able to connect the pump
to the motherboards so I'm gonna go
ahead and install these standoff
brackets first in all four corners of
our CPU socket on the motherboard
alright so we have the bracket installed
on the pump and the stand-off screws on
my motherboard I'm ready to put some
thermal compound on and tighten down the
pump onto the motherboard now you don't
want to put too much thermal compound on
you only looking for about a grain of
rice right and the center of your CPU
I'm gonna take my thermal compound I'm
just gonna put like I said about a grain
of rice right on the center pressing and
lightly pushing just to put a nice
little dot right on the center but make
sure that all the plastic is removed
from the bottom of your pump and then
you can go ahead put it on those screws
and then you know what tighten it down
across first gonna set this in place
here now I want to tighten from left to
right so I'm going to tighten the top
right and then the left bottom if you
get in yet and with these four screws
tighten like I said top left bottom
right so it's kind of putting pressure
across it so you're gonna spread that
thermal paste nice and evenly you just
tighten them all down as much as you can
by hand you don't really need to use a
screw driver as long as your thumb
tightens as much as you can it's gonna
be about the right amount of pressure on
the CPU and now you've installed your
pump not the only one liquid cooler is
installed the next step is to install a
hard drive before we can connect all the
cables we need to put the hard drive in
and you'll wanna check your manual but
every modern case nowadays comes with
two slots where you can mount an SSD on
the case and in this one we have two
plates right here I just pop this one
off as you can see and I'm just going to
now screw the the bracket to my SSD and
then I can just thumb screw it right on
here again you're gonna want to check
your manual on where the different
locations your case allows SSDs to be
mounted it's usually different depending
on the case but if you're using this
case it's going to be right up here
right up here and you keep in mountain
above the PSU right here
I think over here looks cool so I'm just
going to screw down the bracket onto the
SSD and then we'll use the thumb screw
to attach it right back onto the case
alright and with our bracket mounted to
our SSD all I need to do now is stick it
back over where it came from right here
and tighten the thumb screw and you can
see what will look pretty cool right
there so just line it up where it was
with the thumb screw tightened our SSD
is nice and secure and placed and we're
ready to start connecting some cables so
leaving the GPU for the last step is
kind of the best idea because all the
cables go behind it so it's a little
easy to you keep in management before
mounting your GPU so that's what I'm
going to do right now I'm going to mount
the cables to connect the motherboard up
to our power supply we're going to pull
out the cables that came with the PSU
back here so the first plug you don't
want to connect is the 24 pin coming
from the power supply and plugging into
the motherboard so I'm going to take
this cord and we'll run it along the
side here as the plug is right along the
side here for this motherboard turn it
around like so line it up and just put
some firm pressure on it until you hear
it click so put the pressure and then
there it goes and we'll tie this cable
down later but for now I'm just going to
leave those right there and we'll move
on to the next plug so next you want to
take the eight pin that goes to the CPU
on the motherboard I'm just feeding it
through the back here and looping it
around as the plug on this motherboard
for the CPU is in the top left corner I
can just pull this around over there
look for with the latches so I know
which way to orientate the CPU plug and
then just go ahead and plug it in just
like the other one it's actually two
eight pin plugs but you can split the
the CPU cable into two four plugs and
plug it into the left side of both of
them if you're confused by that just
reference to manual but that's how you
use a four pin in a pin scenario like
this so at this point you can take the
rest of the boards now out of your power
supply box because we're going to be
needing them so to connect the SSD up we
can look through your power supply
cables and you get a grab one that
allows you to have the the 12 volt plug
on it to power the SSD and then you can
also need
a little SATA cable to connect it but
we're gonna start by doing this you're
just going to plug the one end into the
power supply run it around and then plug
with the 12 volt and power into your SSD
with that cable plugged in you're gonna
right around to where SSD is when we
have some extra cable here we'll
probably want to touch back in here and
you're gonna pull it around to wait SSDs
mine is mounted right up here plug it
right in the bottom
you get a few SATA cables included with
your motherboard so just grab one of
those we're just going to connect it
into one of our SATA ports we'll plug it
into the set of one port over here
because that's most likely to be six
gigabytes and then plug it right in the
bottom of your SSD next to your 12-volt
power cable there you go nice satisfying
click we can tuck the excess cable
behind our motherboard there and we're
ready to move on next you want to
connect the different cables that come
on the case to connect the onboard power
switch USB etc so to do this the first
tipper case over let's take a look at
the different cables we have here that
need to be connected so let me just
quickly Ziploc these off so these are
the plugs that are most important right
here it's a little hard to see maybe the
the power switch the hard drive LED and
the power lights for the case so these
are gonna be plugged in to the
motherboard so you don't want to take
them through one of the spots here feed
them into the front then you gonna want
to flip the case over and then on your
motherboard usually at the bottom you
have the different pins that go to the
power the HD lights the hard drive
lights the LED lights on it and you're
gonna want to take a look at your
motherboard manual and you'll want to
find out which pins go to the power
switch which pins go to this the hard
drive lights and then you're just going
to reference the manual reference a
little number on the pins and then just
pull them into the different pins on the
motherboard
according to what the manual says which
one is which okay with the power and
reset switch setup you want to just make
sure that you line up the positives with
the negatives on that switch the little
arrow that's kind of hard to see but
it's a little
they're the the one with the air around
it though that means that it's the
positive wire if you having troubles
lining up the the switches little arrow
means as the positive one so now the
next step is going to be connecting the
fan headers there's the master pan
switch here that all three fans can plug
into and then you just need to power it
with the simple power plug so grabbing a
plug from our inner max power supply I'm
just going to plug it into the power
supply over here actually over here so
plug it into the power supply and then
it'll give you the power you need to
power your fan hub little bit tight
around here then just connect the power
cable to your fan club here I'm just
gonna go ahead and plug that in there
little plates then I'm gonna have some
extra cable here we're just gonna feed
through into the front here tuck that
all down if you want to want this cable
for this is for the RGB this case and
CPU cool actually have some amazing RGB
effects that can all be connected up
using the RGB lighting here and plugging
it into the RGB ports on your
motherboard right now I'm not going to
be worrying about this because I'm just
plugging in the essentials but that is
what you do for the RGB to get some of
those cool flashing RGB effects and cool
master does a really great job of
integrating the RGB with the case but um
that would be for another day because
I'm not going to touch that right now
I'm gonna take the fan header that we
connected with our radiator on the back
end here I'm going to plug this in to a
fan header that's on the motherboard
usually this one in the top left corner
and I'm just going to plug it in to that
so just take the four pin fan header and
plug it in to the four pin fan header on
the top left corner of your motherboard
now you'll also want to plug in the plug
coming from the pump obviously on your
water cooler and that's this will open
the top here there is a plug for the
pump on your motherboard if you're not
sure where it is reference the manual
but it's just a three pin point that you
can go ahead and plug a room right in
and you'll be good to go
with your water cooler next up you'll
want to plug in the USB three and the
front audio port to your motherboard so
you can have audio and USB three on the
top of your motherboard case we have a
USB 3 cable and the audio port cable
coming off of
and again you get a check your manual
for the placement of these but you're
just going to feed them through the side
here and then plug the USB 3 cable into
the USB 3 header on your motherboard
same thing with the audio again if
you're not sharing the placement check
your motherboard real quick and it will
tell you exactly where to plug it man
just go ahead and do that and you'll be
ok and with the audio and USB 3 plugged
in we have all the motherboard
connections done on the motherboard and
now all that's left is to install our
GPU so to install your GPU gonna first
have to remove two of the bracket cages
this is done with the Philips
screwdriver you don't want to pick out
the two that have wind up to the top PCI
you port there so these two pretty much
in the middle for me I'm just gonna take
those right out alright and I just
remove the two piece set covers here and
then I'm gonna take my GPU and I can
take the covering off of the piece that
you slot here just going to install it
right and to the plan that we opened up
there so making sure to line it up with
the pizza a slot pushing semi firmly but
not pushing if it's not going in the
right direction of course and you'll
hear a satisfying click and you'll know
it's in so once you do that you know
want to take the two screws that you
used to pull out the P PCIe brackets I
can't talk right now and you don't want
to screw right back in those screws up a
little bit because the GPU tends to sag
a little bit otherwise lift it up a
little bit tighten those screws down the
GPU is in place the important things to
know when you're building a PC is to
never get frustrated there's always
going to be time to come back make fixes
make changes getting frustrated or doing
something irrational because you're
freaked out or song never the best
option always better to just take your
time work it out maybe come back the
next day even if you if you didn't get
done the first day but uh yeah so let's
go ahead and plug this into our power
supply plug this into our GPU and be
ready to roll so I just plugged the one
end of our GPU cable into the power
supply now I'm gonna
but over feed it through the left side
right here and you can see we have the
one six pin on our gtx 960 i'm just
gonna take our power cable here line it
up just go in and then like you're in
there's the power we should be ready to
roll and now that that's plugged in we
should have power running to everything
on our pc so with that said we could do
a test food right now it would be smart
to do a little bit of cable management
just to make sure things are out of the
way make sure all your fans are plugged
double-check everything it's always
smart to double-check everything but um
make sure you got everything plugged in
the way it was and if you follow this
video to a tee you should be ready to
fire up your PC obviously we're not
gonna boot because we don't have our
system installed yet but I'm going to
see if the power comes on fans come on
and we can check that everything is
working properly put in the front and
class back on and we'll do a test power
to make sure everything is powered and
we'll call it a video and write the
power supply plugged in we flip the
switch in the back and fingers crossed
we hit the power button on the front and
we have power you see the cool LED
effects going you can hear the water
pump running everything is working the
way it's supposed to be if you want to
be extra careful you want to monitor
your all-in-one cooler 99.9 percent of
the time is to be perfectly fine just
make sure that it's not leaking anything
anywhere as that would be obviously bad
but chansons already gonna be fine and
you ready to go
so install an OS and start gaming or
work you know whatever you need to do
with your PC so as you guys can tell
like I said earlier it's already like
night time out here because this video
is ran a while so if this video helped
you out at all or if you enjoyed it
please leave a like
I'd also like to thank the different
manufacturers that supplied hardware for
making this video possible links to all
the hardware use in this video is in the
description and I'd like to thank Intel
for sending me the i7 1720 X for this
build I like to thank asrock for sending
the X $2.99 extreme for motherboard
which is the heart of this machine makes
everything run I like to thank
coolermaster for sending me the M Beach
500 case along with 120-millimeter
liquid cooler which both were very easy
work with and seem to be working very
well and I'd like to thank enter max for
sending me the 500 watt power supply to
power this whole machine to make it all
possible I'd also like to thank
ballistic for sending the 64 gigabytes
of RAM for this video and won't be
possible without these different
manufacturers supplying the hardware for
this video but that's gonna do it guys
leave a like if you enjoyed this video
leave a comment if you want to say hi or
have a question and I'll see you guys
all in another future video so bye