Hey guys welcome back to ThisBytesForYou. In this video i'm going to be showing you
how to build a budget pc. Not only a budget PC
but a budget pc that's actually going to be able to play
the latest and the greatest games at 1920 by 1080
some even at 1440p. I have a full list in the description below of all the
parts in the system in case you guys want to check it out, but anyway
let's stop wasting time and let's get to the build. All right so the motherboard
we're using in this build is the Asus ROG Strix B550-F
Gaming Wi-Fi edition. Now this board costs
a little bit more than the other boards but the reason I chose this board aside
from it being a great boardis because it gives you the opportunity
the ability to update the AMD's latest and greatest (board was provided before the bug news about compatibility was released) maybe when you have a
little more cash on you. Now the CPU I chose is the AMD Ryzen 5
3600. This is a great processor as it is right now
a six core 12 thread processor, So chances are you're not going to need to
upgrade if anytime soon at all, but just in case you wanted to
you have the ability to. So we're going to be installing the CPU first.
First thing you're going to want to do is raise this little arm
up there just releasing the socket so you can actually install the CPU.
Okay so you'll notice right over here on the processor
there is a little gold pin it's kind of hard to see
that gold pin is going to match up with this little pin down here you might
be able to see it let me zoom in a little bit more
This right there that way you know that that is where
that is going to line up. So you can just literally drop it into place, there is
no force you need to use whatsoever to get that in place.
If you're pushing down really hard it's either in the wrong location
or you have a bent pin make sure you check it first.
So that you have a better view of things, I'm just zooming in a little bit closer.
Again we're going to line up that gold pin right along here
match up the pin holes.
Might take a few tries to get it perfect
and when it's good it literally just falls into place you don't need to
push down and then lower the arm
and that locks the CPU in place. So now we need to install
the heatsink or the liquid cooling unit but in this case
we're installing the heatsink that the CPU brings.
Okay so one thing to note is if you notice right along there it
already has its own thermal paste pre-applied. Some people think it's not
good and wipe it off and use their own thermal paste but
if i use thermal paste i need to add a few more bucks to the build
and i want to keep it as affordable as possible. Okay so
you'll notice that you have to screw these in but there is no hole to do that.
We're going to need to remove these two right over here. The purpose for these
two is for those heatsinks that'll go on and
then just kind of clamp right over here but that's not the
way this one works. So let's just go ahead and unscrew that.
Just lift that off then you'll notice now you have the screw holes.
Okay and just take this off. Okay I do recommend keeping all the screws
and these in a separate bag keep it in the motherboard box
that way you don't lose them, you may need them later and you don't want to
have to find some way of buying these again. Okay
and because I want to keep everything looking nice
notice how the ROG Strix is written that way, I want to keep the AMD
text facing that way as well. Unfortunately I can't
install it that way and so now you'll notice the screws line up
right over here so we're just gonna kind of drop it
in place for right now now that we know everything's in place just wiggle it
around just to make sure no screws fall out. And just
screw one over here this one down about fifty percent each and then we'll
come over here screw this one down fifty percent
and then this one down fifty percent.
Okay now when all of them are screwed down fifty percent,
Just go ahead and screw them all down.
Okay now that that one's screwed down all the way we'll go ahead and screw the
rest down nice and tight the same way just
in reverse
All right now with that screwed in, we'll go ahead and plug in
the fan to the motherboard we'll do that right down over here. Okay and it silk
screened over here but it pertains to these over
here this is CPU fan and this is CPU fan
optional, so we'll go ahead and plug it in to CPU fan.
Okay now just make sure when you plug it in, that you see
these two little ridges along the side that they go over
this plastic piece over here that's the way you know you have it installed
correctly and we'll rearrange the cables later on
during the cabling portion. All right now that we have the cpu in
We're going to be installing the RAM. So when you have two sticks of ram
you're going to be installing it in Dimm B2 and Dimm A2
Make sure to check with the manual always when you're installing RAM
but you can find out exactly where that is
you can see what the Dimms are designated with a little silk screening
Right over here, let me zoom you in. Okay and this silk screening tells you first
one is B1, second one is B2, third is A1
and fourth is A2. So bring you down to the RAM
as we know this is B2 and this is A2 in order to get RAM in here first we need
to push these open that just releases
the Dimm slot so that you can put RAM in there now you'll notice
there's a little notch right over here on the board and that's going to go
ahead and align with the notch right here on
the RAM so putting it this way
you notice it won't work the memory of just kind of see-saw there
So we just take it out flip it around and then because you'll notice there's
nothing here to unlock the memory the memory is going to go in
first on this side in the little slot and then it'll go in here so that the
memory locks in place you notice when I push
down that clamped the memory in place locking
the memory so again turn it around
slide it down here and then just push down lightly
all right so we've just installed the CPU
and installed RAM awesome, so let's move on to the M.2
SSD's. The m.2 sockets are hidden right now. There's a heatsink
right here and a heatsink right here. The M.2 is going to go underneath of
that so in order to release that we'll just
go ahead and unscrew that M.2 heatsink
all right there is also film under here that we will need to release in a second
but i'll show you how to do that in one sec.
All right both of these M.2 SSD's are 2280 form factor and the box will
tell you but right over here you'll notice
there's silk screening for 22110, 2280,
2260 and 22.42 but again we need to worry about
22.80, so what we're going to do these little screws come in the
motherboard box. So first off we're going to be screwing
in the standoff right into the 2280
standoff location here.
Now you don't need to put those in very hard you can use the force from your
fingertips and then you'll notice there is also a thermal pad
right over here and i'll go ahead and do that up here under the
2280
since i've already shown you close up okay
and then we're going to use the other little screw to screw in
the M.2 so i'm going to show you real quick how to install it here
and then i'll show you in more detail down here.
All right that one's installed and I'm going to go ahead and install the
heatsink as well. So with your fingernail just go ahead
and take off that film
okay now you're going to leave this piece there,
that's going to help cool the M.2 down.
And then when you have it just push down on the heatsink a little tiny bit
just to make sure that makes contact and go ahead
and screw that heatsink in
All right, let me show you a little bit closer down here so
this is an NVME drive and we're going to be plugging it in
right over here so literally all you do is slide it right into that little slot
push it in a little tiny bit and that's it if it hovers like that
it's installed or at least plugged. In so now all we do
is grab that screw
and screw it in it's incredibly easy but i know it can be overwhelming so
we'll just take off this film again,
and go ahead and line those up
pushing down a little bit on here
All right so now we've just installed the second
M.2 SSD. Now the reason i have two in here
is this one is going to be for windows and then this one is going to be for
games or whatever other applications, they're both 500 gigs you can use of
course whatever size you want if you had a regular SATA drive
one that wasn't an M.2 drive you would plug those in
right over here, this board has six SATA 6 Gigabit per second
ports. All right so at this point we're ready to install the motherboard into
the case. All right so now we're going to go ahead
and install the motherboard into the case.
There's one very important thing you need to remember when doing this
on the motherboard there is a screw hole here, screw hole here, here, here,
here, here, here, here and here, Nine screw holes.
So inside of the case you'll notice there's
a standoff here, here, there's one missing here we need to fill
that one in. Then there's one here, one here,
there's another one missing right over here
then there's one down here, one here, and another one missing down here. We're
going to go ahead and need to install standoffs
the case brings a few additional standoffs
and they also bring this great little tool that helps a ton.
That way you don't need needle nose pliers. So what you do
is you grab your screwdriver and you'll notice
there's a phillips head right there, we'll just lay that right here and we'll
go ahead and put a standoff right into there,
and then we'll just screw that into place.
Now you don't want to screw it in too hard but you want to screw it in hard
enough that it's not going to go anywhere. You
don't want to screw it in too hard because
then you'll thread it and then it'll be loose and then
if you go to take off the motherboard at some point later on
you'll just have that screw spinning there forever.
So just putting one in the center over here
and last but not least
right down here. Now normally you would have to install
an I/O shield here that would come separately in the
motherboard box but as you can see this motherboard
already has it plugged in which is pretty awesome definitely a time
saver. I'm going to go ahead and just rest the
motherboard here for now. Now normally
you would install this with the case laying down it's a lot easier but since
I'm recording i like to do it standing up that way you
can see everything i'm doing. Alright so the case brings 21 of these
screws. These little screws here and those are
going to be the screws that we use to put the motherboard in place
Okay so i'm going to start over here just move these fan cables out of the
way
Now before you start screwing in anything make sure all
nine of the screw holes line up with the standoffs
and just go ahead and screw one in not a hundred percent maybe eighty
percent. Okay and now that you know that one's in
place and now we'll go ahead and install one
down here on the far left hand corner that way we know that everything is
lined up correctly
and with this screw since now you know everything's lined up correctly
you can screw that one in a hundred percent
and then come back and screw this one in a hundred percent.
So now i'm going to screw in the rest of the screws real quick.
Skay so now we're going to install the video card chances are though i'm going
to need to remove it later on to install some of the cabling but
that's okay i just want to show you how to do that real quick. For
the video card we're going to go ahead and remove
this slot cover and this slot cover, the second and the third. So we'll just
grab our screwdriver again take that out and take care of the third
one real quick.
Now for these i always recommend keep them in the motherboard box,
that way in case you're going to get a different video card
or something along those lines you always have it for later on,
don't throw them away. Okay now to install the video card we're going to be
installing it onto the first PCIE x16 slot and we're going to be
matching up these fingers right over here
with this right over here this slot and then
of course coming through here. Okay now with the card in place
you'll notice this little guy is going to go
pop out that just locks the card in place.
Okay it moved a little tiny bit, not a whole lot but that locks the card in
place that way you can't just pull it out. And then now
we'll go ahead and screw these back in over here.
That took a lot less time than it normally does so that's pretty awesome.
We've gotten through the hardware portion of the build, the next step
the next video is the wiring portion of the build arguably one of the
most time consuming parts about building a PC.
I've shown you how to install the motherboard, the RAM, the CPU,
the Heatsink and the Video card all pretty simple right.
Inside of the Montech case which so far looks like an awesome case. The fact that
Asus has that I/O shield integrated to the back of the board
already so there's no way you can forget it
it's pretty genius of them. So you can see
it just slid right in there was no snapping or anything
I needed to do. The video card already installed.
Now we just need to worry about the power supply
and the cabling so let me know down in the comments below, Was it easy for you?
Was it difficult? Was there a step i missed that i should
have taken aside from laying the case down on its
side which makes it easy to build, just hard for me to record but as always (actually, reversed)
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