- Today, we are building a gaming PC by the book.
So as a resident dummy, I feel like this
will be a very useful bit of information.
A quick trip to my local library has given me
all the info I could ever want.
How To Build A PC For Dummies.
Power supply, that seems useful.
Aha!
A Bag of Chips: Adding RAM and a CPU.
So we've got Celeron processors,
Core 2 Duos and Core 2 Quads.
Well, what about Core i7?
So we gotta remember this book is from 2009.
So while some of the general advice
actually I do think will be helpful.
A lot of the specific references to things
that just simply don't exist are not.
I don't think AMD has made a
Phenom processor since 2012?
So I'm gonna go with an i5-11600k.
I know, I'm reading it correctly, okay?
I know it looks a little bit weird.
- [Ken] Jesus Christ, really?
- I am reading this book the way
that a Dummy is meant to be read.
- [Ken] That's not helping the cause.
Never trust a book that's upside down.
- All motherboards have a maximum amount of
random access memory they can handle.
Unless NASA has chosen you to control
the next shuttle launch, a board that supports
three or four gigs of RAM should be sufficient.
Real techno-nerds or ultra-power users
might demand support for up to six gigs of RAM.
- [Ken] Techno-nerd.
- Let's go launch a space shuttle.
Ken,
- [Ken] Wait, what did you get again?
- Can I get a Gundam motherboard?
Wait, look, wait, hang on.
Oh my God, Ken.
It's supports up to 128 gigs.
I can launch like a whole fleet of space shuttles.
Next up I need to choose a graphics card.
I can choose a 3D video card from NVIDIA or ATI.
What's this AMD thing?
AMD makes CPUs, they make GPUs now too?
You can pick one up at a local computer store
for well under $75.
- [Ken] Well, times have really changed.
- Well with great power comes great debt.
With one fewer kidney than I walked in with,
my next task is to avoid the biggest pitfall of all.
So the book does tell me not to listen to sales people.
Avoid the computer sales experience.
Although used car sales people seem to
rank the lowest, computer sales people are not much better.
Thankfully we're at Micro Center,
so that's not really a concern.
Hello, good, sir.
- How are you?
- I'm not supposed to listen to you
'cause you're not helpful apparently to,
according to the book but could I find
a hard drive or a floppy disc by chance?
- You can find a hard drive. - Oh my goodness.
One terabyte.
It will set me back less than $80.
It set me back 49.99.
- [Ken] Wow, you're saving money.
- I'm saving money, this is great.
I need a copy of Windows.
Do you have XP or Vista?
Apparently Vista is what all the cool kids are using.
- Unfortunately, we only have 10 and Windows 11.
Oh, 11, that's a bigger number.
Can I get a Windows 11 DVD?
- Absolutely.
- Wait, are you serious?
- [Ken] That makes sense.
- Well, I okay, perfect.
With my PC components under control.
My next task is to find the cutting edge accessories
to really bring my game to the next level.
I found it.
The track ball.
Now I thought I was looking for a track ball mouse.
However, clearly this says track ball, not track ball mouse.
So I'm gonna game on this.
What could possibly go wrong?
- [Ken] Everything.
- Would you like to know my options for cases?
- [Ken] Yeah.
- Pizza box.
- [Ken] Oh gosh.
- Shoebox, desktop, tower.
- [Ken] Wow. - I hate it, I hate it.
- [Ken] Pizza, I miss the pizza box ones, dude.
- [Austin] These were not names in 2009.
- [Ken] Oh it has a drive bay.
Look at that.
- That's actually pretty good.
- [Ken] Oh, you know what, real talk though?
- Wait, but where am I gonna put my floppy disc.
- [Ken] Put it here.
- That's where my optical drive disc goes, Ken.
With my pizza box case, I only have one component to go.
Oh my God, oh my God.
I didn't...
- [Ken] Yeah?
(Austin sighs)
- It tells me that the power supply's included in the case.
A pre-installed power supply not only
eliminates a step of building your PC,
but also ensures you get a power supply
of the proper rating.
What?
That was bad advice for 2009.
You buy a case that has a power supply
of the correct rating?
How's the case supposed to know when you're...
(Austin makes irritated sound)
All right. So I gotta buy my own power supply
and I gotta do it by myself.
I'm a dummy.
So apparently my case is supposed to come
with a power supply of 300 watts,
which is enough for every build.
I don't believe that.
Do you have power supplies that I
could actually install myself?
Apparently it's a really risky proposition
but I think I might be able to be up for it.
- Absolutely.
- Okay, thanks.
750?
That's twice as much as any real computer can need.
850?
This future is incredible.
A thousand watts, one point 25 gigawatts.
Okay, I gotta calm down.
I gotta calm down.
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So now it is time to learn How To Build a PC For Dummies.
So I've got my resident dummy friends here
and we're all gonna watch the DVD together.
(energetic music)
- Wow, he looks exactly what I thought
he was gonna look like.
- Well, so first of all, I like the time capsule
of all of the stuff that is in frame here.
Not even the computer, not even the computers
to the other side of him.
- Yeah.
- I'm looking at the blue Linksys router
- [Austin] Yo, the blue.
Up on the drive, yeah.
- [Jared] Yeah, yeah.
- The parts you need before we get started
are your case with the power supply pre-installed.
- No, Mark.
Stop telling me my case has a power supply installed.
It doesn't, it never did.
- The only tools you need are your bare hands,
an index card, weird science, huh?
And we're gonna add the thermal compound.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, wait, wait, wait.
- Whoa, whoa, whoa, stop.
- Whoa, whoa, whoa.
- Stop, stop.
- No, no.
- [Jared] Why is he doing it
outside of the motherboard?
- [Austin] He's making a [censored]
Picasso over here.
- [Jared] How much is he putting on?
- [Austin] Ah, oh my gosh!
- [Ken] Oh, he went around.
- [Austin] What are you doing?
And so it is time to build ourselves
a gaming PC for dummies.
I have all my components here,
My boy Mark, to guide me through the process.
What could possibly go wrong?
The instructions were clear.
- [Jared] Uh huh.
- There's only one way to apply thermal paste.
- [Jared] And what's that?
- Hold the CPU in your hands and squirt it.
- [Jared] I didn't like that terminology,
but we can go with that.
- How do you open up thermal paste with one hand?
He was clear.
You apply your thermal paste all over the CPU
and then you...
Drop it in the slot.
Oh God, I hate it, I hate it.
- [Jared] It's the way the book told us to do this.
- [Austin] He also said do like a top thing
and then the bottom.
So you can see some beautiful detail.
Now I'm going to smear it like some
peanut butter sandwich.
- [Jared] Oh, that's so bad.
- I'm just getting most of it on my finger.
How are you supposed to do this while holding it?
I mean, it looks like I just sneezed on my CPU.
I am going to gently place it because
I don't wanna spend the next three hours
fixing like 85 bent pins.
So with my fingers covered in thermal paste,
I'm gonna gently drop it into place.
One, two.
Okay.
That was maybe slightly more aggressive
than I should have done it, but.
This cooler being straight out of 2009 is amazing.
Just listen to this.
- [Female Voice] Donda, Donda, Donda,
Donda, Donda, Donda.
- I was about to put this back in the case
but I was way too curious.
So why don't we take off the cooler
and see how that thermal paste actually did?
I'm slightly concerned.
I've taken off the bracket.
There's nothing whole holding this on
besides thermal paste right now.
It's just stuck on.
So are you ready to see what this looks like?
- [Jared] Oh yeah.
Oh my God.
- [Jared] Oh my God.
Look at how much is on there.
- I mean, I'll say that's probably not enough to
actually cause like damage to it.
Like it didn't actually spill over
the edge of the CPU, but it's so thick.
It's honestly probably gonna be a little bit of a problem.
Maybe I get, I think this is okay,
but man, that is like...
- [Jared] We still don't recommend it.
- Do not do this.
It's caked on there.
Also shout it to the Zalman for
like slicing my fingers in multiple ways.
(Jared laughs)
Like I've got blood on my knuckles
and on the inside of my hands.
This thing might look cool,
but every one of these things is sharp
and you have to put so much pressure on it.
I got to put it back on.
(both laugh)
Armed with all the knowledge my PC For Dummies guide
could possibly provide, I have this.
The greatest gaming PC 2009 could have ever hoped for.
Jared.
- Yes sir.
- [Austin] As the office dummies, I think we have
a lot to prove now, but we have successfully
built ourselves a large pizza,
courtesy of our good buddy Mark
Would you like to do the honors
of pressing the power button and seeing
if we followed the step by step tutorial correctly?
- Might as well.
- [Austin] Ooh.
- [Jared] That's power.
- [Austin] That seems promising.
That seems promising.
- Can you hear that?
Did you hear the hard drive clicking?
- [Austin] Oh, I haven't heard that in a while.
- Oh oh, oh.
- [Both] Yay.
- Of course it's Gundam.
- [Austin] Wait, we're not done though.
- We still need to install Windows
- [Austin] The most important part.
So I'm just gonna.
- [Female Voice] Wow.
- [Austin] Oh yeah, baby.
- [Jared] Wow, that's a fancy looking disc.
Yo, actually though, Windows 11 Home
they actually did not skimp at all.
It's very shiny.
Here goes nothing.
[Windows XP login chime]
Wait, what?