Hey how’s it going guys, today I wanted to talk about a few myths I’ve heard when
I was building a PC for the first time that are still around to this day.
Number 1: You need an Anti-Static Wrist Strap.
The one thing I got so worried about when I was building for the first time
was accidentally short circuiting or damaging a part by touching it.
I was told to prevent any issues I would have to “ground” myself and in order to do that,
I would have to get an anti-static wrist strap to prevent from damaging my components
and it was the easiest way.
Sure it’s easy, but you actually don’t need a anti-static wrist strap and to ground
yourself and it’s still easy to do.
So all you really need to do is install your Power Supply, A.K.A.
PSU, onto your case, And then plug it into a good working wall outlet.
Make sure it's turned off.
Now, your case is grounded and you can go ahead and touch the metal part of your PSU
or case.
It’s that simple.
I did make a quick demonstration video on how it’s done, link will be down in the
description if you want to watch it.
Number 2: Poor Cable Management Can Overheat Your PC!
You might hear someone mention about having poor cable management can affect your cooling performance,
like it can cause your CPU, GPU, or another component to overheat.
This might be possible under extreme circumstances, like for instance if you have all the air
inputs blocked off in your case where air can’t flow through, then your case would
start to heat up, but you really won’t have any problem like that for the most part.
Good cable management isn’t completely worthless as it could also help with dust prevention
overtime and it makes your case look organized.
Having poor cable management would just make your rig look messy when you open it and at
most it would probably get in the way when you’re upgrading a part.
I have poor cable management in my rig and I still haven’t had a problem to this day!
I’ll have a link down below on a video by LinusTechTips showing under what excruciating
circumstances would having bad cable management impact the cooling performance.
More RAM = Better Performance Having more RAM in your PC will not always
boost your performance in games.
That is, if you already have 8 gigs or more.
4GB is not enough these days for many games to run smoothly and in that regard, more ram
could increase your performance in games and multitasking.
8 gigabytes has been the standard for a while and many games do still require just 8 gigs
of RAM, but I believe that we’re coming to the point where 16 will become the standard,
maybe in the next 2 years or so.
At the time of this video, the only game I know of that takes advantage of 16 gigs of
RAM is Battlefield 1.
It would be best to monitor how much RAM your computer’s actually using while gaming or
doing something else to figure out whether it’s necessary for an upgrade or not.
More Cores Is Better When I saw the AMD FX-9370 Octa-core processor
was around the same price and had more cores than Intel’s i5 4690k Quad core processor,
I thought to myself this must be too good to be true.
And I was right.
I thought that and Octa-core would run faster than a quad core, but not in this case.
When I saw the benchmarks and a few videos, I was disappointed with AMD so I ended up
going with Intel.
Now I don’t want to get too deep into technicalities and specifications, so think of the AMD processors
8 cores to intel’s 4 cores as quantity over quality.
This is just one example of more cores not equating to better performance.
Higher Clock Speed (GHz) = Better Performance If we look at the previous example where the
intel i5 was clocked at 3.5 GHz while the AMD FX was at 4.4 GHz, the i5 still performed
better at a lower clockspeed.
More gigahertz doesn’t always mean better performance because they’re not all created
equally.
Clock Speeds would be more comparable between chipsets from the same family, like if you’re
looking at the haswell family line of intel i5’s, a 3.4 Ghz would be faster than the
one running at 2.6 GHz by 30%.
It’s Cheaper Than Buying A Console Now I know what you’re thinking, this isn’t
a myth, but I’m going to talk about the misconception of this.
Let’s say it costs $400 for a console and you buy 2 triple A titles, that would come
out to be $550 if we round up and include tax.
Some people believe that you can build a pretty sweet rig and have your cost be around $400
with $150 leftover, but for first time builders there’s a few more costs to keep in mind
in order to make a complete setup.
Besides the cost of your rig, you also have to consider getting a desk, chair, monitor,
and speakers to name a few which will usually end up costing more than what you may have
originally thought, assuming that you’re planning on buying new parts.
When I was building for the first time, I expected to have a budget of $700 for my build
and I ended up paying somewhere around $900.
The thing is that in the beginning it’s going to cost you a lot, but for a long term
value, a PC is much better for various reasons.
For one, you don’t have to pay a monthly or yearly membership for online, the second
thing is steam sales which could bring the price of your favorite game down by a lot
if you’re patient, and finally, if you have to upgrade after four years or so, instead
of just replacing the whole rig like with consoles, you would just have to replace 1
part of it.
Anyways I hope this video was helpful, what video do you want me to do next?
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