What's going on guys? And yes, we are continuing our mining build and today is all about connecting
all the cables to the motherboard, the CPU to get it up and running. And we could finally install
Windows 10 on it and start mining cryptocurrency right. So right now I kind of twisted my power
supply so you guys can see all the ports I have all the cables and screws ready to install.
Alright, so we're going to start with the CPU first. We're going to connect the power and we're
going to connect this guy right here and this port awesome done. We have another connector here.
We also have to connect the coolant as well as the fan to this little controller right here.
Again, this particular heat sink is just extremely complicated. So I'm going to take
this cable right here and we're going to start plugging everything in. Alright, so we're going
to take this connector right here, this little pin and we're going to put it inside here.
Make sure you don't put too much force because you don't want to bend it.
It's pretty hard to get in there, awesome. And then we're going to take this controller,
right, you're gonna take this controller right here and we're just going to insert it
like so awesome, cool. Now with the three ends right here, we have three of them.
I'm gonna take this one right here. So this connector right here,
I'm going to plug it into the connection that's, you know, connected to the CPU unit.
And you actually have arrows just make sure you follow them. Let's plug that in,
cool so that's done. We're going to take another cable from this controller and one of the cables
we are going to plug in the fan. So you got arrows just make sure the arrows lined up.
And you're done. Awesome. Now the controllers are
extremely important because the controller has this little guy,
which you're going to plug in to power it on. So I'm going to plug this guy in here.
Like so. How easy was that? Then we have molex connectors which we are going to take
power cables to plug it in here to power it on. Then last but not least,
we have the CPU fan has a connector so we actually got to connect it to the motherboard.
So we are going to connect with right here. Which is a system fan port
awesome.. cool cool
cool. Now, a lot of cabling, you're going to have one loose cable which is okay.
Don't freak out about that. But we need to give this guy this unit the CPU unit because again,
it's RGB so you want it to like glow when it's turned on. So we got to connect a molex connector.
And the power supply does have one which is this guy right here.
And this connector goes right here. So we're going to connect it
and then behind the scenes, I am going to fix the cabling, tie it up but for now I want to
show you guys where I'm connecting everything at so let me move the power supply a little
bit there so you guys can take a closer look. And then you can take any any molex connector
and just connect it like this. Which this is what I'm going to do and
awesome so technically, the CPU has power. Now the next thing that we need to do is give the
rest of the parts of our mining build power. So I am going to start with the following.
I'm going to get the power supply and the motherboard cable. The motherboard
connectors located right here is 24 pin. So I'm going to connect that guy right now.
Awesome, don't put too much pressure when you're connecting it.
As long as you hear that clip you're good to go. The other end is going to say PSU Power
Supply Unit and just connect it to the power supply unit. And that's where we're going to do
awesome. Bingo done, right. Again, don't freak out the cabling is going to be a rearrange
behind the scenes. And next thing that we need to do is power our VGA our graphics card. So this is
the cable right here. You could do VGA one or VGA two, I'm going to insert it inside VGA one
and the other end you're going to connect it on your power supply to power your graphics card.
Boom, awesome. Now we need to power the CPU so make sure you locate your CPU connector.
And on the power supply, super self explanatory you've got a CPU port so we
are going to plug that guy in. Now the other end you need to locate the power port on the
motherboard and it's located right there. So let's insert that guy to power our CPU
okay, so the last thing that I need to do is insert a hard drive. And I'm actually using a
SATA hard drive from Western Digital it's a one terabyte keeping it super simple again, when
you're mining you don't really need like the best hard drive and I'm concerned is the graphics card
and might purchase another additional graphics card pretty soon. Stay tuned for that video.
So I'm going to take one of these guys here. And I'm going to just insert this hard drive.
Super simple. Look at that. Bam!. I'm going to put it back inside the cradle.
So I already have the cables for the hard drive. And SATA, right we're going to power it on
we have a port that says SATA one, SATA two it's up to you. I'm going to insert into SATA one.
Excellent. And then from here, you're going to insert your SATA so let's insert this guy.
Bingo. Now there's another cable that I need to get to actually insert it into the motherboard.
And once I insert that we actually have a connection with the hard drive to the motherboard.
And the last thing that I have is the memory. Right so I'm going to open this guy up. I'm
going to insert it in one of the slots and then we should be good to go. We're going to
push out all the drivers for the heat sink and for the motherboard and for the graphics card.
And then we're going to install our mining software so we can start mining cryptocurrency.
And before you guys head out, I'm going to insert this eight gig stick into our motherboard.
So let's line this up again. I have to I have to fix all this cable and this cabling right now the
way it is it's just driving me nuts. It's probably driving you guys nuts as well. But I just want to
show you guys where everything is going to be inserted on the, you know the power supply because
if the power supply was rearranged correctly, you won't see you know where I'm inserting everything
so I'm going to realign make sure you got that notch. realigning to the DIMM on the motherboard.
And then firmly on the left and right hand side just pushed down to you here the clip. Excellent.
two clips left and right and we got the eight gig stick already inserted which is awesome.
Cool. All right. So hopefully guys enjoy and I'll catch you guys on the next one. Peace out.