hey guys max welcome to our step-by-step build guide where I'm going to show you
exactly how you can build a full gaming PC for only $350 even if you've never
built one before now I'm gonna be upfront with you guys all of the parts
that I chose here we're chosen for one reason they are inexpensive because
trust me it is extremely hard to make a PC for 303 bucks but it can be done as
you guys will see and as always we have all the links to these parts in the
video description along with alternative links because prices do go up and down
things go out of sale so the prices you guys see might be a little bit different
and then we'll also have some alternatives and suggestions if you have
a little bit more money to spend on what you could do to get better performance
at the heart of this build we have two AMD CPUs that are brand spanking new we
have the new 3100 and the 3300 ex now for the 350 our build that you'll see
we're using the 3100 it is only $99 and has four cores a threads brand-new seven
nanometer it's a great CP for the money and if you're gonna have a little bit
more money to spend you're gonna get our recommended graphics card upgrade then
we will say spend the extra $20 on the 3300 X which does have better gaming
performance next I have 8 gigabytes of ddr4 Ram just one stick for this 350 our
build and then I also have a small m2 SSD because it is just super easy to
install now I'm going with just one stick that way later on when you have an
extra 35 bucks you can go ahead and get another stick and then you're gonna get
a little more performance out of it and a little bit more overall ram just so
that we're not locked in a spur that SSD this is definitely not gonna hold a ton
of games but it's gonna give you a quick system fast boot ups and then if you
want to get a regular spinning hard drive you could do that or maybe upgrade
to a larger one the power supply and the motherboard we're both chosen because
they are inexpensive that's the main thing the motherboard still has some
good features so you're not going to be you know too limited and the power
supply the one I have here is slightly different than the one I'm linking to
just because I had this on hand but we're going to the budget option because
we're reaching that really cheap price point and along with that I'm not gonna
you know lie to you guys this is a very cheap case
because we had to get a cheap one for the price point but it does have a side
window so you can see your parts inside it also has a USB 3.0 port it's a
headphone jack a couple other USB ports so you do get some features with it and
lastly the graphics card it's important for gaming this one is an AMD 560 it was
chosen because of the price point and as I mentioned we do have alternatives down
below with some suggestions if you can stretch your budget just a little bit
and I do have actually somewhere down here my recommended graphics card for
about $80 more which is not that much more which is the 580 that will give you
quite a bit better performance let's go ahead and jump into the build the first
thing I want to do if you don't have an anti-static strap is touch a metal
object make sure you don't have any static electricity built up and we're
gonna go ahead and get started by hot placing the motherboard on the mother
bird box is a good surface to work off of and I'm going to be putting almost
everything on the motherboard before we pop it in so here we have our CPU you do
not want to touch these bottom pins they can get bent easily be very careful also
don't touch the top you don't else on there and there's a little lever on the
CPU socket so we're gonna pull out a little bit and then pull up to release
and unlock and on the CPU there's a little triangle in the corner and that
tells you how to place it into the CPU socket there's a little triangle up here
as well so I'm gonna twist this and then very carefully align it and it should
just drop right in and then now I'm gonna grab this lever push it down and
lock it and now we're gonna attach the cooler we're using the one that's
included with the CPU you definitely don't need to spend extra money works
good enough and we do have thermal paste so you don't want to touch that and this
will actually screw into the motherboard and our motherboard already has some
other mounts on here so I'm gonna go ahead and just unscrew these and now I'm
gonna go ahead and align our screws with the little sockets over here you want to
make sure that when you set it down you don't start moving a side to side
because you don't want to smear the thermal paste so what I do is I align
the backs and then slowly lower it down and now I'm going to start by screwing
down one side I'm not going to do it all the way I'm going to do just enough to
get it started then I'm going to go to the opposite side here get that one
going and then after each one has been threaded in then
I'll slowly go and just tighten it all down just we want even pressure on this
and now let's plug in the cpu fan connector it's right up top here labeled
CPU fan one now let's install the m2 SSD you want to get out the little screw
that came in the baggy and the your motherboard box your m2 SSD has a couple
notches cut out but it will only go in one way so don't force it and typically
it's gonna be the label side up so I'm going to attach it plug it in at an
angle then we're gonna push it down and align up with this little spot for the
screw and we'll just screw that down just enough to get the screw to stop now
let's go ahead and install our RAM oftentimes I actually do this inside of
the case but just to make it easier to show you guys I'm going to do outside if
you do outside you could still install the motherboard later just makes a
little bit difficult with a couple of the screws but let's go ahead and get
started as I mentioned at the start we just have one stick of RAM this is 8
gigs that's because it's less expensive than getting 2 4 gig sticks and that
helps us reach our price point and in the future you can add another gig to
get to 16 so you get a little more flexibility but you might get slightly
lower performance with just one stick out of the get-go I'm gonna go ahead
install it in this right-hand slot so I'm going to open this up just on this
end and on the stick there's actually a little cutout a little notch and that's
gonna match up with the little notch inside of the RAM slot we're gonna align
the stick with the slots and I'm just gonna have you know push down with EB
pressure on both ends and you guys heard and that clicking I saw it actually get
locked in place and now I'm gonna set the motherboard and everything else
aside I'm gonna grab our case and we're gonna get this prepped up for the
motherboard so we're gonna start out by taking off these thumb screws with a
side panel both the front one and the rear one the first thing I'm gonna do is
I'm going to carefully lower down this motherboard and I'm gonna see if the
standoffs basically little points and we're going to be screwing the
motherboard down to line up with these holes so as you guys might see we have
couple up here and then we have four more over here so let's go ahead and
drop it in carefully it looks like almost everything matches up the top to
match up these three match up and then just
this one right here you guys might see the standoff is slightly lower so now I
know I only have to adjust one of them yep I can just unscrew with my hand if
it's too tight most cases will have a little a tool to remove it or you can
use some pliers and I'm just gonna screw it in to the one right above that and
now we're gonna pop in our IO shield you do want to be careful because the edges
are sharp and the little three holes for your audio inputs and outputs they're
gonna be at the bottom so you can go ahead and just press it against the back
panel and then apply pressure on one side than the other to get it to block
in let's go ahead and drop this back down and now we can go ahead and install
our motherboard just like before I'm going to carefully lower it down but now
we have the i/o shield so that we want to make sure that we don't push anything
in make sure everything's aligned properly and then you have to apply a
light pressure to get it to pop in we're gonna set it down you'll want to grab
six of the smaller screws that are included with your little baggie and
then we're gonna screw down this motherboard at the six points we have
four here at the bottom and then two at the top and magnetic screwdriver really
helps with this and now we're gonna connect our case to the motherboard we
have these three separate cables this one the biggest one is USB 3.0 it's easy
these other two are easy as well but I'm gonna do it after I get these done these
little ones are the toughest you have a bunch of small ones they are all labeled
and if you bought the same motherboard that we did on page 16 you're gonna have
a guide that shows you exactly where they need to be plugged in the
motherboard also does have some markings but they are quite small and this part
is just really hard to show on camera so I'm just gonna plug these in as they are
label check out your motherboard and your owner's manual and you'll see
exactly where to pop them in that's that plugged right over here next I'm going
to do our USB 3.0 cable there's a little notch over here so you can't insert it
the wrong way that's aligning right there I'm gonna
line that and then push in and then the last one is USB and audio our audio is
right over here in the bottom left hand side and then if you take a look at the
panes there is one missing and that shows you how to plug it in
just all the pins match up I'm gonna go ahead and split the cable because our
USB port is on the other side and that will plug in and our USB plugs in right
down here next to the USB 3.0 if you want to do a little bit of a cleaner job
on the inside instead of plugging them in as they come from the case you can
run the cables and wires through the back and then through one of these
little cutouts just to make it a little bit cleaner but we have a lot of extra
space and I'm just gonna do some cable management later and now we are gonna
install our power supply so I'm gonna lift up our case here grab our power
supply and I'm gonna insert this from the inside over here just slide it in
and then line up the holes I'll go ahead and insert it and I want to tuck it
underneath this little metal bracket that stands out and you want to line up
the holes here where we're gonna put our little bolts into I'll grab four of the
larger ones from our baggie and then we can go ahead and align them and tighten
down our power supply and now we have a mess of cables sticking out over here
and this case is not designed for good cable management as you saw earlier all
the cables from the case come out the top which makes it harder to manage but
we're gonna do what we can I split up these cables into two sections so the
first one is our 24 pin and then we have the one that's labeled CPU so that's
going to be important and then we have one more for the graphics card labeled
PCI Express and then all these other ones I'm gonna go ahead and just tuck
these into this hard drive tray if you install both hard drives you won't be
able to but if you do just one you could just put it in the lower slot now we are
going to need one of these molex connectors for the fans and then if
you're going to do a standard hard drive you will need one of these SATA power
cables so I'm going to pull one of these all the way through because we're going
to use that and the rest I'll just tuck in I'm gonna keep our graphics card
cable labelled PCI Express here on the outside and these two I'm actually going
to go ahead and route them through this little cutout that is right next to the
power supply on the right hand side just to keep this a little bit cleaner
you guys can see that right over here and I'll grab our 24
I'm gonna round it back in through this table cut out closer to where we're
gonna plug it in and then the one that's labeled CPU I normally would route it up
through here it is really tight on this particular case if you have a different
case you upgraded it you'll have some extra room so because I'm gonna route it
through the same slot and then we're gonna just pull it up where we're gonna
plug it in and now I'll grab my rear fan power cable and I wanted to feed it
through here but like I said before it's just way too tight on this case usually
you do have room so I'm gonna just unscrew the top two screws just so I
have a little bit of play here to route it through and then I'll go ahead and
just pull that 4-pin molex connector and cable to the back make sure you don't
forget to tighten those back up and now I can go ahead and connect our PC case
fans to these four pin molex connectors and then if you choose to spend a little
bit extra money on an LED strip or two these things are very inexpensive we
have a link down below you can also route that cable through and then we'll
also plug that in and then if you choose to buy one of these very inexpensive LED
strips or two you can route that power cable through the bottom slot over here
as well and then connect it to our 4-pin molex right there and the last thing I
want to point out is we have this SATA power connector as we push all these
cables in so if you're gonna have a regular spinning hard drive you're gonna
use that to connect it thankfully our back panel does have this little space
here for cables so that's nice one good thing about this case now go ahead and
touch all these cables in and that should be all for our cables on the back
and now let's get these cables connected the first time I do is grab my LED strip
and just gonna tuck it in over here and of course that's not in the 350 but I
think these turn out to be about five bucks a pop or something like that so
we're gonna get that in and then we're gonna connect our CPU power cable to the
motherboard so this action has eight pins on this power supply it's already
together but the motherboard only needs four so I'm going to separate these and
then that's gonna get connected right up there at the top left and it only goes
in one way and this will actually lock in to a
little piece that sticks there so don't force it in line it up
and it should go in fairly easily I'm gonna tuck this cable out of the way and
then our 24 pin also has a little lock in it so this will curve will Bend it
like that and then push it does take a little bit of force but you'll hear that
little click once it's locked in and now finally let's install our graphics card
which is pretty much the most important part for gaming Nevadan flip this case
over and we first need to remove this little cover for our PCI slots and then
for our motherboard we're actually going to be popping out this second a little
piece of metal and I'm actually gonna pop the bottom one as well
I'm gonna go ahead and set this back down and then on our PCI slot we have
this little lock so I'm going to push it down to open it up and then you want to
insert this carefully these two sections right here need to go between and the
case and the motherboard so line it up don't force it down make sure it's lined
up to the slot all those pins and then just apply a little bit of pressure and
then that lock will actually click up once that's in place I'm gonna put this
little cover back on and u s-- line up those pins if you have a larger and
heavier graphics card then you'll want to screw it down first and then the
touch this cover but with these smaller graphics cards you don't really need to
because this cover is gonna hold it really well if you bought the exact
graphics card that we use there actually isn't a place to plug in your power it
draws enough from the motherboard and through the PCI Express slot but if you
take our advice and spend about $80 more to get a lot more performance with one
of these five ATS you see we do have connectors and so when that is installed
you'll go ahead and plug this in since we don't need that I'm just gonna go
ahead and just tuck this in for later use and lastly I'm gonna go ahead and
put the side panel back on a lot of times I won't put it on I'll go ahead
and test it first beforehand just in case something isn't popped in all the
way or screwed in all the way so I'll just go ahead and take my chances this
time and put the cover on and now for the moment of truth I'm going to plug in
our power cable and let us see BAM they rehab it the fans are spinning
we have our LED light the CPU is spinning as well excellent now let's go
ahead and connect our monitor our keyboard and our mouse and now we can
restart our PC we're gonna watch for the logo that pops up and then most
motherboards delete will work to get you into the BIOS so I'm going to keep
hitting delete over here and BAM but we are in and right here we see we have
eight gigs of RAM installed and then we have our CPU installed
Rison three 3100 excellent let's go ahead and look at our hardware monitor
here I'm gonna go ahead and shut the system down I'm gonna grab my Windows 10
USB Drive I created this myself just by going to Microsoft's website you can
actually legally download Windows 10 and I'll even let you install it without
having a serial key you just have to activate it later you can still use it
for a long time that way or you can buy a license online or use the old one go
ahead and plug it in to our USB 3.0 slots and turn on the PC I'm gonna hit
f11 and that gets us to our boot menu for this motherboard and actually
actually noticed Windows right away so it's gonna be loading us into here and
from this point on you just follow these step by step little sections to install
windows it's fairly easy if you don't have a product here you just hit I don't
have a product key I'm gonna select Windows 10 home since this is a new PC
build I'm gonna hit custom install and here we'll see our SSD I'm gonna click
on it and hit next and right away it's gonna start getting ready and installing
windows since we have an SSD and we have a USB 3 thumb drive with the USB 3 ports
gonna solve fairly quickly as soon as it's done you're just gonna hit your
normal Windows setup just like you bought a PC from the store so that
part's fairly easy the next step you want to do is plug in your PC to the
internet with an Ethernet cable or you can buy a Wi-Fi card or even a Wi-Fi USB
adapter if you don't have a long cable or you want to place it somewhere else
this one right here I'll link in the video description it is very very cheap
if you're on the budget but it still supports Wi-Fi 5 so you're gonna get
good speeds and then you just let windows update
update and download all of the drivers and from there you can start installing
your games thank you guys for watching once again we have all the links in the
video description along with alternatives just in case something is
sold out or the price went up and we'll have some upgrades if you guys have a
little bit more money to spend make sure you guys click that circle
above if you guys want to see us actually gaming on this system we're
gonna have that video coming up soon that's been maxed and we'll see you in
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