the goal for today is to take all these parts put them in this empty case and
build ourselves a PC let's go
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interested in consider subscribing. Now today we're gonna be building a PC from
scratch this is something that I've wanted to do for a really long time but I've never
done it so this is gonna be a bit of an experiment now the reason behind this
here is if you've been a subscriber to the channel for a long time we do a lot
of live streaming for SpaceX launches and for our own weather balloon flights
that live streaming needs a powerful computer. Our computers to date have been
okay at that but we need something better now some of you might know this
about me but I am a software engineer that's what I went to college for that's
what I do day in and day out every single day at my regular job and I feel
like I'm doing the industry a little bit of a disservice by the fact that I've never
built my own computer I mean how could I work in the software industry with
computers for a living and never have built one from scratch that's changing
today so I'm no expert in putting this together but I feel like we can work
through this together so just be gentle in the comments all right come on
alright before we dive in and start taking things apart let's talk about
what we have here and what we're gonna be putting in the machine let's start
here with the case empty case it does have an RGB controller inside of it
because it has RGB fans on the right side but this is a Corsair 465x iCue case
big enough to fit our ATX sized motherboard now the motherboard is this
ASRock phantom gaming 4 with the x570 chipset it fits the AMD AM4 socket for
processors and speaking of processors we're gonna be putting in an AMD
processor obviously it's gonna be the AMD Ryzen 7 3700X this thing is a
beast it's an 8 core 16 thread processor it's got a base speed of 3.6 GHz
and a max boost speed of up to 4.4 GHz. this guy's a beast it'll give us plenty of
power not the best that's out there but it's gonna be pretty good for us now
cooling that CPU is gonna be the master liquid ML240R with RGB lights that's
gonna be our liquid cooling for the processor we're also gonna be putting in
32 GB of memory or RAM that's 3200 MHz speed memory that
we're putting in 32 gigabytes of that we're also gonna put in two hard drives
we've got an SSD from Samsung the 860 QVO that we're gonna put in that's a
one terabyte hard drive that'll have our operating system on it and then our main
overflow storage for all of our files and videos and all that kind of stuff is
a Toshiba X300 performance hard drive it's a 7200 rpm hard drive powering the
whole thing is going to be our power supply unit which is a 750 watt power
supply unit it's an 80 plus gold certified efficiency rating that thing
will be a beast plenty of power for the whole thing and lastly the main
workhorse for this is gonna be our graphics card or GPU this is an MSI
Gaming X Trio which is an NVIDIA GeForce RTX
2080 Super this thing also a beast not the best that's out there you could
still go a step up but this thing is gonna this is gonna give us what we need
so if you're interested in any of this stuff or you want to build a computer
yourself I'll put links in the description below for all these items
that I used in case you want to try it out alright now it's time to dive in as
I mentioned I have never done this before so this is gonna be a bit of an
experiment but the natural place to start is with the motherboard so we're
gonna take off this glass case we're probably gonna have to take off some of
the other panels as well but I want to get the glass case off first so we don't
break anything it's also - it does have this nice protective plastic shield on
it which is kind of nice for scratches but we're gonna set this guy aside
okay let's get this baby out all right so when we put this in its gonna look something
like that now we're gonna get the processor in there
look at that there it is all right in order to get that on here we just have to open
this bar up and then what we're looking for on the processor there's a tiny
little arrow which is down here in the bottom corner we're gonna line that tiny
little arrow up with the tiny arrow that's on the processor block right here
so while it's facing me this is in the bottom-left corner this is also in the
bottom-left corner this guy just sets in there nice and
gentle then we just close the bar and it's done it's in
there okay next up we're gonna get the motherboard in the case
how is it that I can have an entire workshop with tools everywhere but
they're never in the spot that I need them to be when I need them I can't find
any screwdrivers we've got this one which will be pretty good okay motherboard is in
next up I think where you get the cooler out
oh that's not the cooler it's the graphics card we don't need that yet we need the
cooler this is the cooler
all right there's the radiator oh look at this they included thermal paste I
like that
we need screw F
what did you say?
ok this is going to go on the top of the case here nice and gently. okay fans are in now we've
got to connect the actual CPU a little bit of thermal paste and we should be able to
plop it right on all right couple things we learned in that process order matters
we're gonna put the memory in first because I don't know if I'm gonna be able to get
to it once I put that thing in okay thermal paste transfers the heat from
the CPU to the cooler
that's pretty good actually I think let's see if we can get the cooler on
memory is in cooler is in and motherboard is in processor is in next up I think we're
gonna put the power supply in. It'll slide in this way.
next up we're gonna put in the regular four
terabyte hard drive
It would have been much easier to put these in before I put the power supply in there
too late now
now what? let's check out the SSD alright and the SSD is gonna go on the back of
the case here and they've got these plates here that I can screw it into and attach it to the back like this.
I can't get the screws in!
SSD is in there. I'm going to put it in this spot.
alright now we're gonna try to get all these all these wires connected we
gotta clean up this mess and get it somewhat organized and start to get
everything plugged in and then we can finally get the video card in
crap! all right now we're gonna take the cooler off for a fourth time okay so what is
this thing for? taking the cooler off for a fifth time now more wire routing now on to
the big one the GPU graphics processing unit these are the coolest directions
out of any of these for sure it's cartoons how cool is that
oh god this thing's enormous
that's what she said!
all right before I do that I want to power this
thing up and see if it turns on okay everything is connected
we're gonna try to boot it
clearly that doesn't work I'm not sure I'm not sure what the issue is great
Oh
it's alive! it's alive!
we have lights will anything appear on our display no signal
ok well at a minimum the fans work alright that didn't work and there's a
VGA light on the board which tells me the display is not working so I'm gonna
try to install the big video card to see if that resolves it
wow! that thing is HUGE! It's a monster!
alright graphics card is in let's try again power Oh something's happening get out of here
it works yeah how about that now I need a keyboard or something
all right now we got a keyboard and a mouse time to fire it up and see if we
can get to the boot menus and see what we can play with all right
so boots we messed the configuration I think we got it how we want it for now I
gotta go get a copy of Windows 10 will load it on a USB and see if we can boot
it up. There. That way. We did it one custom built PC that was a terrible idea
because now I want to do it again that was awesome I'll put links in the
description below for all the parts that I use for this particular build along
with a website called PC part builder where you can spec out your own parts
and check for compatibility before you go spending any money all right thanks
everybody for watching I'm gonna sign off for now if you think of a name we
got to give her a name I think Betsy or we need something better than that not
Betsy, not Betsy we need something better than that
we need a name!