How to Build a Gaming PC (2018) #Helpful Post

hey guys Zhou stain I might be slightly

sick but it's also sick is the PC that

we're about to build yes my friends is

2018 which means it is time for an all

new gaming PC build tutorial so as you

guys will probably be aware building a

gaming PC is not that difficult I like

to compare it to something I do an adult

Legos now I will be giving a full

tutorial on the photon 4.0 today so if

you guys want information about the

actual parts that I'm using as well as

the performance you guys can go check

out that video the idea here is it

pretty much anyone with an afternoon can

build yourself a computer before we get

started let me give you a quick tour of

the parts that we're going to be using

for the bill so any computer is going to

need a processor in this case a Rison

520 400 g now what's cool about this is

that not only does it handle the

processor but this also has integrated

graphics inside so even though I will be

showing you what it's like to install

graphics card with this build you don't

actually need one next we have the

motherboard so the idea here is that you

put the processor in here the memory in

here you connect the SSD pretty much

everything in the build will connect to

this in some way next we have RAM so you

can think of this is the short-term

memory of your computer every time you

open up an application it lives in this

this build is also using an SSD so this

is basically the same thing as a hard

drive it's where you store files and

programs and all that kind of stuff the

difference is is that SSDs while a

little bit more expensive are much much

faster in this one specifically is in

the smaller m2 form factor like I said

earlier this bill doesn't actually need

a graphics card but especially

rebuilding a higher-end gaming PC or

you're doing anything that's really

heavily reliant on 3d applications

how many graphics card is going to be a

big help the literal heart of any

computer is the power supply so this is

what takes the power from the wall and

provides it to all of the different

components inside your system last but

not least we have the case now cases are

actually pretty much dependent on your

style so every computer will need a

certain size of a case depending on how

many hard drives you're putting in what

size motherboard but a lot of this does

come down to your personal preference

and with this one we're going a little

bit stylized now any time you're

building a computer you do need to come

prepared with a wide variety of tools

depending on what situation comes up or

not actually the only thing you really

need is a Phillips screwdriver I'm not

kidding you can build an entire computer

with just a single screwdriver so now

that we've got all that stuff out of the

way the last

to do is find your workspace so

generally speaking I like to find a

decently sized table if you're gonna

have parts and cables and stuff kind of

all strewn out and make sure that you

don't build on carpet if you can avoid

it static electricity is the enemy of a

computer Bart

believe me hey well and then I'm going

to show that those are that can I'm an

expert it's fine just get you at home

don't build on carpet unless you're an

expert or Ken sells you else the first

step is to get the case out of the box

now even though we're actually not going

to be putting everything inside the case

as we go that will happen a little bit

later I still like getting the case out

of the box and ready to go so this is a

little bit of an unusual case it is the

Thermaltake core p1 the idea is that

because it has a giant tempered glass

window we're actually using it to show

off the build I will say that this might

not be the most beginner-friendly case

in the world concerning that we actually

have to put the case together and

usually just comes fully assembled out

of a box but let's see how it actually

is to build one quick case changed later

we have the BitFenix Phenom a case that

thankfully does not require 17 steps to

put it together so I'm going to be using

this for the tutorial even though the

main build I will eventually have to

rebuild into the other case but

especially just because I've got to

actually show you guys how to do it

things are going to be much much more

common in this case versus the other one

where you're going to be doing a lot of

weird mounting and whatnot this is just

going to make everything a lot easier

the first step is to remove the four

thumb screws on the back of the case

which will allow us to remove both the

left as well as the right side panels

now we mostly need to do this to

actually be able to get a little more

access to the case but with that open we

can see that there's actually a fair bit

of room inside this generally speaking

bear cases are easier to work on and as

you get smaller and more sort of custom

it gets a little bit more challenging

but the good thing is pretty much all of

them do have a very similar layouts

usually you'll find a box full of

hardware so we can open this guy up

later but she's had some screws and some

random bits and pieces that will need a

little bit later on if you're coming on

back we will see where the power supply

is installed now cases will put this in

different locations sometimes it's gonna

be up top but with this one it's going

to be in the bottom for all we need to

do here is just remove the four thumb

screws to keep this little bracket in

place so going back to my analogy about

this being the heart of the system it

really does sort of provide power to

basically all of our components now

power supplies will come in different

sizes they will be more or less powerful

than

the day they are very simple there are

two major types of power supplies

modular and non modular so this is a

stay tuned on modular supply which means

that all of our cables that we're going

to need come Priya attached however

higher in power supplies typically do

come modular which will allow you to

actually plug in each cable that you

want basically making it a little bit

cleaner inside your build so you don't

have a bunch of extra cables hanging

around before installing this guy take

note of where the fan is so depending on

your case this will either be facing up

or will be facing down so with this guy

it's going to be facing down because

they have this little mesh here the

important thing is always make sure

there's some ventilation you can't put

this sort of like face down like a table

or face down like a flat piece of metal

otherwise it will overheat and bad

things will happen inside the power

supply box you should find four screws

and this is how we're going to mount the

power supply to the bracket which will

then go attached to the chassis and in

that all cases will actually do this so

sometimes you can completely ignore the

bracket in cases will have you mount

this directly onto the case one thing to

keep in mind is that when you're

tightening things down start on one

corner and then move to the opposite

corner to make sure that you're applying

even pressure so I'll do this screw then

I do the one on this corner and then

I'll do the final two so with the power

supply installs the next step is to set

this guy off to the side and grab our

motherboard like it was saying earlier

the motherboard is pretty much what

everything in the computer connects to

so there are a few things that you need

to keep in mind obviously pick a

motherboard that is going to be

compatible with your processor but the

size is also important so as you guys

can see here this guy is pretty small

this is what's known as a mini ITX board

now this is happens to be a mini ITX

case which all works out you can go with

a smaller motherboard in a bigger case

but obviously not the reverse so

something like a micro ATX or a full

sized ATX motherboard would not fit in

your case so you're going to go pick one

of these guys out make sure it supports

the correct processor and make sure that

your case will actually be able to fit

it now anytime you see an exposed

circuit board like this you want to be a

little bit careful especially a stack

electricity so it comes in this

anti-static bag and when you grab it

trying to grab onto the actual board so

something like one of the metal pieces

should be fine and once you pull it out

I like to actually set it on top of the

motherboard box so even a small

motherboard like this is going to have a

ton of different sockets and cables and

connectors all over the place but you

only need to pay attention to a few of

them that you're actually going to use

in the system some of the most important

things is where you install your

processor

so Intel and AMD do this slightly

differently it's pretty much always

going to be a gray socket in the middle

the next thing you'll find are your den

slots so every motherboard is going to

be a little bit different here this

board has two however some have four or

even eight this is where you're going to

install your memory and the only thing

to really watch out for here is to make

sure that you do have the correct Ram so

this like most modern motherboards are

going to support ddr4 however older

systems will use something called ddr3

or even all the way back to ddr2 all

very similar to install just make sure

you get the right kind below the

processor is going to be your PCI

Express slot so since this is such a

small motherboard well you only have the

one however a lot of motherboards will

have four or even seven now this is

going to be where you're going to

install various different adding cards

typically speaking it's going to be a

graphics card but sometimes you might

install an SSD here maybe like a video

card maybe a Ethernet adapter depends on

what you're doing but that is going to

be where you're going to install a lot

of different adding cards move down to

these small rectangular connectors and

this is what is called a SATA port now

SATA ports can be used for a couple

different things typically speaking it's

going to be either for an SSD or for a

hard drive but if you're still

old-school and rocking an optical drive

that will also plug into the SATA port

right beside that is our 20+4 pin power

connector now this is what supplies the

main power to the motherboard as well as

a lot of it to the processor to the

graphics all that kind of stuff this is

going to be the biggest cable that

you're going to plug in from the power

supply and usually it's going to be

mounted on one of the sides of the board

for easy access now in the top corner

here you're going to find our four plus

four pens CPU power now motherboards can

be a little bit different here some only

have four pens whereas this one does

have eight it's basically the same thing

because pretty much all power supply is

you're going to have a lead that will

either do four eight but this is what

supplies power to your processor

something a little bit unusual on this

board is where the m2 slot is so this is

where you're going to install higher-end

SSDs like we're using for this build and

typically you're going to find it

somewhere on the actual board itself

over on this guy it's actually going to

be here on the back spend the whole

thing around and this is where the rear

i/o lives now these are all going to be

all the ports they're going to be

sticking out the back of your case so

once you install your i/o shield you're

gonna pretty much be able to see it's

something a little bit like this

speaking of now is as good a time as any

to actually install this guy so it's

just a little piece of metal and the

only thing you need to do is make sure

that you're going to be doing it in the

correct orientation so for this guy

we're going to be putting it

and this guy's pretty easy to install so

what I need to do is line it up and

press it pretty firmly until it clicks

into place now you want to make sure

that this is all the way into place as

if it's slightly not quite correct

what's gonna happen is your motherboard

is not going to line up correctly and

that's just going to be a huge hassle so

if you ever have any problems with that

just make sure that this guy is fully in

also as we'll talk about in a minute

you'll see all these little metal pins

that are all over the place

make sure that these are pulled back

when you install the board the next step

is to install our processor so in this

case we're going with u Rison v 2400 g

but generally speaking it's going to be

very similar regardless of whether

you're using AMD or Intel so like I was

saying with the motherboard you want to

be very careful when you're handling

stuff like this and especially so when

you're talking about our processor so in

the back here if I open it up you'll be

able to see it there are lots of little

tiny gold pins do not touch these if any

of them get bent you're gonna be in

serious trouble the best way to handle

this guy is just to grab it from the

sides and hold it by the edges actually

installing the CPU is pretty

straightforward so if you come down to

the socket what you're going to see is

there's a little metal arm here that's

going to be their attention arm so we

pull that back and all the way forward

we're good to install the processor and

there's going to be a little metal notch

it's going to be on every single

processor which will tell you which side

to line it up with so once you do just

say gently down into the socket pull the

arm all the way down and that is all

ready to go the next step is to install

our CPU cooler now this is an area where

pretty much every single one is going to

mount in a different way so

unfortunately you will probably have to

dive into your instruction manual to see

exactly how to mount yours thankfully

though if you're using a stock Intel or

an D cooler they're not too difficult to

install the main thing to keep in mind

is that there's going to be pre applied

thermal paste here you do not want to

touch this as this is what's going to

make a solid contact between the

heatsink and your processor when it

comes to the am4 socket which is what

Rison uses you're going to want to

remove these two brackets that hold the

little plastic pieces into place once we

undo that we're free to install the

heatsink so they're going to be four

little screws here that you're going to

want to line up and when you do this

make sure that you actually set it down

smoothly so you basically want all that

thermal paste to make solid contact with

the processor don't try to like you know

put it off to one side or the other try

to get it down as smoothly and evenly as

possible making sure that all of your

screws are lined up then you just want

to tighten them down and the main thing

here is just like I was saying earlier

you want to do it in a cross pattern so

tighten that one a little bit then come

to the opposite corner tighten that one

down just a little bit come over here

and do this process until you get this

guy all the way locked down all right so

with that we should be able to pick up

the entire motherboard by the cooler and

it looks like everything went in pretty

well now the next step is to actually

plug in the fan so this is going to be

using a four pin fan header so you see

there going to be two little tiny

notches there basically that just means

that you can't plug it in the wrong way

so in this board we have our fan header

right here and simple is lining it up

and plugging it all the way in next up

it's time to install our memory so ram

is actually very straightforward to

install so the only thing you need to do

is like I was saying earlier make sure

that if you're using a ddr4 system use

ddr4 you're using ddr3 make sure that

you're using ddr3 the easiest way to

make sure that you're using the correct

memory is that there's a little notch

it's going to be about two-thirds of the

way down so in ddr4 that's going to line

up with the correct slot on the

motherboard it doesn't line up you're

probably using the wrong kind of memory

all you need to do is line it up slide

in and then with equal pressure on both

sides just press it down until you get

the click then we just repeat that with

the other dim and we're gonna be good to

go and so with that our motherboard is

actually pretty much good to go

so the next step is going to be

installing this entire contraption

inside of our case depending on your

case the motherboard is going to be

installed in a couple different ways so

most of the time it's going to live in

this sort of vertical section here

however with this guy we're going to

place it right down here so if we dig

through the little box of hardware that

comes with our case we should see a bag

of screws now we're going to need four

of these to mount the motherboard inside

now sometimes the case will actually

require you to install the standoffs so

you can see that these are already going

to be here if so make sure that you just

screw them all the way into place well

with this guy we just need to drop the

motherboard into place screw it in and

we're going to be good to go because

this case is so small it's actually not

that hard to get the motherboard lined

up so we just need to get it sort of

roughly in the right position right here

and then if we move it around to this

side we're going to make sure that all

these ports are actually going to come

through the i/o shield so this is going

to require a little bit of wiggling to

make sure that it's gonna line up

correctly but as long as it's on all

four of the standoffs which it pretty

much is we're good to screw it into

place it's a little hard to see on

camera but there are four screw holes on

each corner of the motherboard

to use to tighten it into place and

something you should definitely keep in

mind is that before you tighten

everything down make sure that

everything is lined up correctly

remember that whole thing about make

sure that you line up the motherboard

correctly so you don't have to

accidentally undo everything you should

also make sure that if there's any weird

parts on the bottom of the motherboard

that you have those installed before

everything is screwed into place so

normally the next step will be to

install a standard SATA SSD however this

time we're going to go with an m2 Drive

now especially with this specific WD blu

drive there's really no major difference

in performance the main difference is

that this is a much much smaller drive

which makes it easier to install

especially because it takes up less room

in your case stalling the drive is

pretty straightforward just need to line

it up with the connectors here making

sure that it rests all the way in there

and then we take that little screw that

we pulled out of it and that is going to

be either a tension mechanism to make

sure that this SSD doesn't go flying out

of your system if you're installing a

standard hard drive SSD or optical drive

in your system that's also pretty simple

to install so we look over here they're

going to be two connectors the smaller

one is going to be for data and the

bigger one is going to be for power so

every case will do this a little bit

differently so you can see they have

these little drive rails that you can

install not only a big three and a half

inch desktop hard drive in but also

something smaller like this laptop hard

drive so you're gonna want to mount it

to there and then for actual cabling is

very straightforward so you dig through

the massive power supply cables you're

going to find this long flat guy there's

a little notch on went in so it's only

going to go in one way all we need to do

is just connect this to our hard drive

once that's into place it doesn't really

click or anything it just slides right

in I'm going to want to find one of

these SATA data cables that come with

your motherboard again this guy's not

just it's only going to go in one way

and if we line that notch up it will

click into place and then you just plug

this end into your motherboard and you

have your fully up and running hard

drive or SSD for this video though no

more this we're going with our

upside-down and to drive that I totally

remember to install now something else

that most gaming builds do although we

actually don't need it for this system

is installing a graphics card so this is

going to be pretty straightforward what

we're going to be doing is using the PCI

Express slot that's going to be on the

bottom of the board

this one's metal most of them are

plastic but it doesn't really make a

difference and then what you want to do

is look around to the back of the case

and this is where we're going to get our

video outs so essentially just like the

she'll protects all those little ports

on the motherboard this is going to be

where you're going to get your video out

such as DisplayPort and HDMI so if we

remove the stun screws we should get

this little bracket out of the way we're

gonna hold onto that for right now but

what we don't need are these two little

metal pieces right here so this is just

a cover to keep your PCI covers from

getting dirty or anything getting inside

your system if you're installing

graphics card can get those out of the

way and now we install the actual

graphics card so ordinarily when you're

installing a graphics card you measure

to see that it will actually fit in your

case or not with this particular case it

doesn't quite fit which is fine because

we're not using a graphics card in this

system but if we were it would go in

right about here what this really means

is I just need to remove these drives so

it doesn't matter because we're not

using them anyway but that's gonna free

up the space to install a graphics card

which if we just line it up with the

slot it's going to go in a little bit

something like this now all you do is

press it down until it slams into place

that was a little bit more violent than

I expected however that is premature

always do to get it plugged in now we

actually need to use the power cables to

make sure that it has plenty of juice to

run all the crispy crispy 4k games that

we were going to throw at it if I wasn't

gonna take it out immediately after I

show you guys how to do this some

graphics cards especially lower end ones

don't require any additional power so

can pull everything it needs from the

motherboard but most higher end ones

this Radeon Vega 56 included need a

couple of these six plus two pink

connectors so all you do is just line up

the connectors and plug them in and then

we're gonna be good to get this guy up

and running it might look pretty

bare-bones that's because it is very

very simple and clean inside however

this is all the components that we need

to make our system work the next step is

the fun one connecting all these

wonderful cables and wires all over the

place to get this guy actually

operational so we actually only need two

sets of cables from our system so we

need the four plus four CPU power

connector which will go straight into

the motherboard we're also going to need

our 20 plus 4 pin connector which also

will go into the motherboard now this is

going to be a big fat guy and usually I

like to start with it because it's sort

of the most unwieldy cable to actually

connect all I need to do is line it up

and make sure that it clicks all the way

into place and that's gonna be it for

these 20+4 pin

now the next step is the CPU power cable

which is also going to be pretty easy so

I can find where it went this one's

going to be hard to see but all you need

to do is line it up with the little four

plus four pin connector on the

motherboard corner plug it all the way

in and you're gonna be good now it's

time to install the fan so this guy has

a fan right back here and it uses a

three pin fan header very similar to

what we used for the CPU cooler again

this guy has notches so it's going to

plug into the fan header on the

motherboard only one way now for most

cases you're going to find a ton of

different front panel connectors

dangling somewhere from the front

however on the BitFenix case we actually

have all of them attached to the side

panel now this makes things a little bit

cleaner because you can have the buttons

on the side but it makes a little bit

more annoying when you're building the

computer because that way you have to

kind of hold this high panel in place

while you run all of your cables so this

might look like a lot but it's actually

not too crazy so the big guy is going to

be our USB 3.0 header so only thing you

have to watch out for is that there's a

little notch on this guy when you plug

it in make sure it's all the way in I

definitely pulled these guys out and had

this entire plastic beads come with it

now beside that we're going to get all

of our front panel connectors I'll

explain how to do these in a second but

essentially that's what we need this

manual for a lot of little fiddly stuff

and then we have our audio so these are

going to be our audio connectors to make

sure that the headphone and the

microphone jack work upfront this guy's

we really straight forward we're going

to plug it in here when the only things

that this case doesn't have is a USB 2.0

header so that's going to look very

similar to something like this you can

tell that how the audio and USB headers

are installed because out of all 10 pins

they're each gonna have one knocked out

so again you can't install it the wrong

way last but not least you want to grab

all these little tiny front panel

connectors so this is where it's going

to be very important to take a look at

that manual to figure out the diagram of

where each thing gets plugged in as

every motherboard does it a little bit

differently so something important to

note is if you look on the bottom here

there's a little tiny arrows that denote

the positive versus the negative that is

very important as when you go to say I

don't know plug your power button in and

you put it backwards you're gonna hit it

and nothing's gonna happen just make

sure that all these connectors are put

in the correct way now this might not

look like a completed system but before

we start doing cable management and

close the case up and make sure that

everything is ready to go first we need

to do a test boot to make sure that we

didn't make a horrible horrible mistake

along the way so once you have your

monitor mouse and keyboard ready all you

do is hit the power button and hope that

everything works

hey we have fans spinning the rear fan

is spinning now when we actually get it

to post USB is up and yes alright so

that means that we've pretty much done

everything correctly the next step

that's actually getting the BIOS and

make sure that all of our memory SSD all

that kind of stuff is showing up

correctly alright and it looks like

everything is showing up so it shows AMD

Rison 520 400 G shows our 16 gigabytes

of memory we also do see that our 500

gigabyte SSD is showing up so from this

point what's left to do is to turn off

the computer unplug everything and then

we just need to do a little bit more

cable management to you know make sure

that the side panel will go on the case

but once we've done that we have a fully

operational computer throw a copy of

Windows on the sky install your drivers

and you're gonna have a fully

operational gaming PC if you guys want

to see how the photon 4.0 performs and

what the original case was supposed to

look like feel free to go check out the

video over here if you enjoyed

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channel anyway guys thank you so much

for watching and I'm gonna go get some

sleep because I've been working on this

computer for a very long time and my

voice is pretty much gone so yeah