2021 $500 Budget Gaming PC Build - Step-by-Step Guide

hey how's it going guys jackie maddie with the toasty rose and today what we have for you is a 2021 step-by-step 500 gaming pc build guide no matter when you're watching this in 2021 this build guide will be useful in teaching you how to build this pc step by step we're gonna be using a gopro to give you some pov point of view to actually build this computer and you'll be able to buy all these parts link in the description down below hopefully when parts come back in stock in the early parts of 2021 and later on the year but before we get into that let's hear a word from today's sponsor today's video is brought to you by gvg mall an online marketplace to gain access to some really awesome discounted game keys and more specifically windows 10 licenses and if you're interested use the link down below and by the windows 10 pro activation using our code tb20 to get 20 off all you have to do to activate windows 10 license is buy the key by using code tb20 and then throw the windows 10 key into your windows 10 activation on the system you wish to install it in and boom you have activated windows 10 and you no longer have to look at that horrible watermark in the bottom right corner so thanks again to gbg mall for sponsoring this video let's get right into the video shall we and so real quick just to talk about what exactly this build is it is all new parts except for the rx 570 which we had some complications and had to buy a new one but normally we recommend going with ebay used pricing because well these cards really don't get used that often and that much so they end up being really good still and you can usually get them from anywhere from like 90 to 120 dollars now with graphics card inflation they might be a little bit more but hopefully by time this video comes out you could get like an rx 580 or a gtx 1060 for the same price that we got this 574 and the best part is the step-by-step guy will pretty much be exactly the same you might have an extra power connector or two but we'll explain that when we get to it have a go and talk about each individual part and then get to build it all right so first up is the processor we have the tension core i3 this is the i3 10 100 f so if you're wondering what does the f mean it basically just means it does not have integrated graphics so it says discrete graphics required that's why we have a graphics card you could buy the regular 10 100 and do the same thing you could still add a graphics card but usually they're just a little bit more this one's actually supposed to be under a hundred dollars right now as a time making this video the 10 100's like 115 bucks so if you get the 10 100 for under 100 definitely go that route now for the motherboard we have a lot of experience with these because we've been using the crap but i mean not a single one has had an issue this is the msi b460m a pro what's awesome about this board is that it's a b460 it's not an h410 or anything so um and this thing comes in under 80 typically which is really good for a b460 now for ram we have 16 gigs because that's what we always recommend now is dual channels so always get two sticks get 16 gigs rgb is not essential but it it kind of adds fps right so this is a t-force delta rgb it's 3200 megahertz which technically this does not go past 3000 megahertz so you don't need to get that high speed of ram you could also opt for non-rgb and save like 20 bucks but for 20 dollars we want to add as much rgb to this really cool case than that i'll talk about in a minute as we can now for storage i also have a lot of experience with these i've never had an issue the crucial p2 which is just like the p1 but they're technically a little bit faster it's nvme so yeah lightning fast 500 gigs and these things are under uh 60 dollars typically usually around 50.99 so really good price for 500 gigs of lightning fast storage and it plops right into the motherboard which you'll get to see we'll probably also show them how to install like an ssd as well because most people are probably going to run a typical sata drive this is not the case with this so you're going to learn two different things today now for the graphics card we have the power color rx 570 now as jackson mentioned at the end of this video we normally recommend that you buy this used because you'll save a ton of money and there's a lot of them out there you can buy them new but you're gonna pay a premium for it but the 570 can still play pretty much any game you want at 1080p high settings sometimes medium low and some newer aaa titles but it is still very capable and if you are going to be following this build guide you most certainly can swap this for another gpu in the future maybe like a 1660 super something like the newer 3000 series cards that may come out that are around this range or even like an rx 580 that's also a good option now for the power supply we have the corsair vs 500 watt power supply which comes with nice black sleeve cables it is 500 watts and it comes from corsair which is a highly reputable company when it comes to power supplies 500 watts is more than enough for this 570 i3 combo and pretty much any other gpu upgrade you want to do in the future as long as you don't do like a 30 70 or 38 or anything crazy like that don't do that but 500 watts is more than enough and we're happy to use it in this pc build now this ladies and gentlemen is an interesting case this is the mx7 from moosetext now moosetext is a company that sells on amazon they sell a lot of their rgb cases on amazon for a really good price this is one of their newer cases that we saw which is more like a cube design it fits microatx motherboards perfectly comes with these two rgb fans in the front with filtering up front and tempered glass and it comes in at a really awesome price point so i mean we're excited to build in it it's definitely a unique case for these builds you can go with a wide range of cases but the fact that this is readily available on amazon makes it a perfect candidate for this pc build guide because you all at home can go ahead and pick these parts out and be sure to uh follow along at home so let's go ahead and start with the motherboard all right guys so we are now at step one of the process we have not done anything yet we're gonna go ahead and open the box for this we suggest a knife a pair of scissors we use x-acto knife because they're very sharp although this one's really dull so opening up this intel i3 they're all the exact same mounting intel has been using the same stock cooler since the intel i-series came out to my knowledge so you might have be able to buy some aftermarket coolers and whatnot if you need them but we don't need it for this we're just going to go with stock cooler so processor sear coolers here all right so the motherboard is always going to come with a couple sata cables um sometimes more depending on how high in the board is and an i o shield so the i o shield is important we will get to that but just don't forget this don't throw it away don't do anything with it yet um the sata cables we told you we're not using a sata drive so we're going to show you how to install these but you're not going to need them as well so we like to close the box and because the box is technically an anti-static surface to an extent we're going to open up the motherboard and slap it onto the box now i think matt and i can both agree we like to always start with the cpu but you can do this in like any order so intel is different than amd intel essentially their cpus which i'm going to go ahead and open see now i can open it so cooler very similar to amd but they don't use screws intel just pushes into place and it has thermal paste pre-applied that's very common any stock cooler that you buy is very likely going to have thermal paste installed so intelli3 look at this there's no pins on the bottom these are just pads that make contact with the pins under this so i'm going to repeat this step we're going to get this off i know this is removed but don't remove it yet if you do remove it it's not the end of the world but i've learned better just leave that on for now you're going to open this up there's no pins in the cpu so we don't have to worry about bending pins but still you know be a little bit cautious with it grab it by the sides don't grab it by the traces because you might get some goop on there and cause some contact issues so if you see these two little notches those are going to line up with the two little notches here or there is an arrow right here you see that arrow and then there's also an arrow right here which is really small now that i'm looking at them but very small arrow so we are literally just going to drop this into place you see these notches how they're lining up it's one of the most important parts so we know that that's in you're going to take the bracket like this and it's going to be painful and then that is going to pop off any oh my god look at that yeah so now it is holding pressure down it's making sure all the pins are making good contact if you have amd it's going to be the same sort of process except amd does not have that bracket that holds the cpu down amd just has a little bracket that you pull up and the pins are on the processor they're not actually on the motherboard like this but same sort of process if you guys can handle this you can handle amd now intel's coolers are a little bit different amd they don't use screws they actually just use these little push pins i personally like to undo this you don't have to do this step at all which actually this might second no it's going to be it was a little short it's going to hit the fan so we're going to undo this real quick this is not like an essential step you could run this any way you want i personally like to go under this but be cautious you do not want to go across the pad because if that gets on the cpu your cpu is not going to be making contact so kind of hold these off to the side and then you're literally just going to drop the cpu cooler on there and now watch what i do here you should do this with any type of cooler you want to do opposite corners and you hear that nice click and kind of press down just to make sure it's in opposite corners again look at that i should be able to pick the cooler up and shake it and it's not going to move amd is the same way amd uses screws instead but you should be able to pick the actual motherboard up by the cpu cooler and it shouldn't move so you said that's just a little bit cleaner these cables are really ugly there's not much you can do with them but running it under just makes it to where you're not running that ugly cable all the way across the board so next up um you know matt what do you think should we do the m.2 or the ram next let's do ram ram i like the ram the ram is a fun step i think m.2 is probably my least favorite step i don't know why but ram we're gonna go ahead and open the box up we only have two dimms um now what this is is dual channel there's only two slots on the board some boards have four slots some even have eight but you're probably not gonna really ever see any of those so the big difference is four sticks is more expensive than two because it technically runs in quad channel and while it's more manufacturing for them to do so we just usually suggest doing dual channel but hey totally up to you guys look how beautiful that stuff is we got some white ram for this there's a lot of different colors you can get it is rgb so fully controlled by software so this is ddr4 ram and there's a little slot in the middle that's one of the most important parts to line up and i think matt will go to show you guys this so right now this is wrong do you see how that slot is not lining up with the other slot if i try to push this in it's just not going to work it's going to sound painful and you could break it so this is the proper way to do it now some boards you can undo this one too you undo both sides this one's not like that i don't really like the boards that do this but it's fine now watch this bracket as i push down you got to use a lot of force by the way see i popped in it doesn't sound great it doesn't feel great um but it works and it you don't often really mess up installing the ram if you ever have an issue where your computer's just not booting and you just built it there's a good chance that you did not seat the ram and all the way like right now i don't know if you guys can tell this ram is not seated all the way see how this one's slightly up and this bracket is still open so once again very painful you just break the ram in there uh but no we know that the rams installed properly so now the last step on the motherboard is the m.2 now another question that some of you guys might have that i'm going to have mad answer is can you put together a motherboard after you install it into the computer case yes you can if you really want to it's not recommended because it's much easier to work outside the case and if you want to be very careful and make sure all your components work you technically can test it outside the case on the motherboard box if you want to we normally don't do that because most of the time we trust that our pc parts are going to work but the times that we have issues that probably wouldn't matter that we did that but uh regardless it is better to do everything outside of the case because you'll probably get a cleaner experience you will be less likely to mess up pins on the cpu it's easier to get ram installed and uh yeah you overall have a better experience so this normally doesn't happen but the there's supposed to be a little riser right here that sits on the m.2 it came off with the screw it's fine we're just going to use a pair of needle nose and look at that we're taking off the screw now so we can put the riser back in like it's supposed to all this means is that whoever designed this board now whoever designed it whoever put this board together at the factory just did not screw in this all the way so i'm just using a pair of pliers we're just going to tighten it down a little bit so this doesn't happen again and boom just like that so now the last step of the motherboard and then we are totally done touching the motherboard for now we're going to open up this m.2 and boom now keep in mind if you're doing sata drive you're going to use these guys right here any of these ports you can use for your sata connector and that's how your hard drive or ssd will work but here we have an m.2 nvme ssd so what's cool about these is they're tiny first of all and they do not use any additional cables there's no cables whatsoever for them they literally just slide into place so we have a notch right here you literally can't mess it up because well yeah it wouldn't work so you're going to basically take it kind of push it down a little bit and then push it and then it should sit flush on this bracket some boards you're just going to take the screw and screw it straight on that's it you're done this one though it has a little heat sink on it which guys for an ssd like this it does not do anything they're not really that important but it does cover it and make it look a little cleaner so you're going to just line up exactly how you took the screws off you see how we have that going there we're going to get this screw back in first and then we take our other screw which should just thread right into place don't and by the way guys with the computer stuff don't ever tighten anything down too tight a lot of people they just take these screwdrivers and they're like double fisting them you should you should be able to get it hand tight with just a single two fingers if you're doing any more than two fingers you're likely stripping the screw out you're going way too ham um and yeah you're going crazy so hey we now have a finished motherboard we have the cpu with the cpu cooler installed we have the ram installed and we have the m.2 installed like i said the actual ram and the ssd you really can't do any differently you might have an aftermarket cooler that's that's a whole nother story and they all installed differently they never use stock mounting it's always kind of weird so keep that in mind if you're buying a different cooler okay i'm up next guys we're gonna be looking at today is this power supply from corsair so we're going to be doing is installing the power supply in the case that's going to be the next best step we're going to unbox this thing what color cables it has black cables i think i mentioned at the beginning but you know what i could be wrong here uh power cord hang on to this very important um and then inside here we have the power supply now in this case we are using a non-modular power supply so that just makes our well cable management job a little bit harder semi-modular versus non-modular is uh basically the difference between having all these cables plugged in and some of them not plugged in at the same time for most people a non-modular power supply is perfectly fine but as we mentioned it is requiring most of the time a little bit more cable management so nice cables black cables just as i mentioned we're gonna move all this stuff out of the way and go to our computer case here so inside the computer case we're going to take these thumb screws off you can see right here it's more likely you can see more gopro footage than jackson right now but we're going to unscrew these two screws right here pull this side panel off and normally you could just like set it somewhere we'll just put it like right over here that's probably a good place and then we're going to move these to the side do not lose those screws it's very easy to do we're going to go ahead and insert the good old power supply which actually we're going to go this way so i just yeah we're gonna go ahead and do it this way because it'll make things look a little bit better so we're gonna pull this oh my goodness cable mess out of here so it looks like the hub is not attached by default which is kind of sketch in my opinion i think we're probably gonna do it like i guess it's cool in case you want to put it somewhere specific yeah so we'll uh we'll show you how to do that in a little bit but we're going to go ahead and install the power supply the power supply goes right here in the power supply basement so what we're going to be doing is making sure i do fan side down because it allows it to pull air from the bottom which it has a little bit of an intake spot especially you have it on a desk don't put this pc on carpet because it won't be great for airflow we're gonna go ahead and slide this power supply in like so being sure to line up if i can get it in all the way being sure to line up these screw holes right here and we're going to be using to screw this in is what we like to call power supply screws which is especially included with this beautiful case you do always get a packet of screws it looks like jackson's doing something at the moment i'm just getting an extra light oh extra light here we go yeah it's a little bit hard to see what's going on there we go so we got an extra light going on here so you all can see a little bit better but inside this bag we have screws yay and i'll show you what a power supply screw looks like actually i'll show it to jackson because you can probably get a finer uh look at what we're working with here this right here is a coarse thread screw or a power supply screw can you get that you got it and then you want to compare it to a fine thread this ladies and gentlemen is a fine thread see it's tiny the threading is different i'll try to hold it up like so maybe yes there you go kinda try to throw it into the table tune i can't really on the table so you all can see the difference there real quick so yeah fine thread you'll notice that the threading is much closer together than the coarse thread that's in the back so now we're going to go ahead and screw this power supply in just use a normal phillips what size phillips is this gh2 ph2 normally a good recommended phillips screwdriver for building a pc for most things this is all you're going to really need those m.2 sometimes need a smaller one p1 but everything else is normally this so we're going to go ahead and finish screwing this in there are normally four slots to screw this in or screw holes whatever you want to call them i like to call them slots because that makes absolutely no sense so we're going to keep screwing this in real quick and while we're doing that we're going to talk about wattage because a lot of people overestimate the amount of wattage they need in their pc build this pc i would guess it's probably going to pull anywhere from like 250 to 300 watts on full load which is like way more headroom than you need to do some upgrades in the future and a lot of people who may build a pc like this may say you know what let's put a 750 watt power supply in here and they spend way more money than need to and it does not really use nearly that much for upgradability that's cool but 500 watts is a pretty common amount of wattage that works in a ton of different builds and will be perfectly fine for this pc another thing you can do is look up tdp which is was thermal thermal draw power sure i think the right one anyways tdp though is basically like the max power it should pull at max loads so for example that i3 if i'm not mistaken a mac cranking for wrong 65 65. um now 570 is probably like what like 175 watts maybe yeah give or take um so you can kind of add those together um and then typically for like the motherboard and all the other accessories they say to add anywhere from like i think it's like 50 to 100 more watts and that'll kind of give you an idea on what the max load will be that does not mean it's not always going to run at that we actually have a watt meter right over there under the desk so every time we build a pc we get to see how many watts these builds we got to remember we built like over 500 pcs we know exactly how many watts each one of these pulls and we'd have never exceeded uh what we needed i'm not gonna i have no comment about this choose a gift ladies reporter elijah flashlight not gonna lie i thought she was not wearing a shirt at first there we go that goes on the floor but hey you know what this is something jackson's gonna like yeah look at that i think it's actually how does how does that work oh so that's like a pull so it's like a little pull thing i have to like kind of unnecessary but yeah so there you go there it's a thing it's magnetic so now that we have the power supply installed we're gonna go ahead and install this motherboard now if you want to be extra k extra cave if you want to be extra safe with this case you can pull this glass off really easily and move it to the side i would recommend that so we're going to walk over here real quick and put that down so you can see he's gotten the back panel and the front panel off that's pretty important for building a pc just go ahead and take them both off at the start and you're going to be much happier with how easy it is so here's the motherboard looking really nice one thing you have to do and i almost did it i almost made it i was going to let it install the i o shield i actually did this this morning when i was building a pc over at pcbros.tech check that out but we do come with i o shields i promise what you want to do is install the i o shield now a quick way to just test where it needs to go is well look at the motherboard make sure it lines up but a good rule of thumb is that the audio jacks are normally at the bottom so what you can go ahead and do is i'll try to get a good angle in here you see this slot right here jackson has an angle outside i have one inside you're gonna go ahead and put this right here like they never go in easy keep that in mind it's going to be difficult especially for your first few times like you're going to think that you're doing something so wrong but it trusts me it's hard just make sure you go all the way around make sure it's all popped in is this the one thing that can just pop out on you randomly but it does look like my i o shield is in and ready to go now we can install the motherboard which in this case should be pretty simple it is a micro atx case and a micro atx motherboard so it should fit nice and snug as you can see there are standoffs already ready to go here one for micro atx one for mini itx so we have to make sure that there's no extra ones i'm already thinking i see an extra one right now because it looks a lot like some of the other cases we had we might need to move that so we're gonna go ahead and yep that's definitely an extra one so important thing big brain thing this is something that may be kind of annoying but you may need to remove this little riser right here it does say it's for micro atx but with this motherboard we have noticed it doesn't actually have a hole there it just sits on top of it and has well conductivity issues that could cause a lot of problems so yeah you want to show the back of the board and show why that's bad so if you look at the back of the board there's all these traces here so you guys can see all this and if this metal makes contact with one of these traces it can cause a short or it cause a lot of damage to your motherboard it won't post things like that so it's very important with some of these cases that have pre-installed mounting hardware to make sure that you get rid of all the extra standoffs so you don't damage your board now with this case you definitely need to do it sadly most other cases probably won't have this issue but again this case for some reason you have to do it so we're going to go ahead and do that real quick you can do it with just a pair of little needle nose right here super easy but if you do happen to have a tool that sometimes comes with different builds it's like a little uh cover that goes over top of it this might actually help it basically just uses a socket but it's a really small socket it's like a it's smaller than quarter inch i think david the other day said it was like 9 30 seconds or something like that it's a very small standard size screw or it could even be metric i don't know so we're gonna go ahead and slowly do this if you have that tool you can definitely get this done a lot faster but as long as it gets loosened enough we can pop that out and we can actually move it up to this other slot right here which is simple as you can do with your fingers you can just go ahead and screw it in just keep in mind you probably want to use the needle nose because it's hard to get finger tight the way you need to and if you try to screw the motherboard in sometimes if you try to unscrew the motherboard it comes with it so you want to make sure this is nice and snug which i feel like i'm pretty close to that point that feels nice and snug and now we won't have any issues let's try this again shall we install the motherboard let's go all right now one thing to keep in mind with the i o shield there's these brackets on here i'll be honest with you most of the time i move them out of the way they are designed to just kind of hold the i o shield in place with the motherboard but for one like this ethernet port i'd normally just like pull that up because it just normally gets in the way and causes more problems than good so we're going to do that and we're going to make sure that everything is lined up as you can see right here it does look like everything's lined up you have access to all your usb ports and your ethernet jack and your headphone jack all that sort of fun stuff so that is good to go and there we go all the holes line up for the motherboard we have one right here one right here here here here and here i don't so now i don't know for sure if this uses coarse or fine thread i'm gonna make a bet that it is fine thread that's normally the types of screws they use if you saw the beginning of the video what a fine thread looks like there it is uh magnetic screwdrivers by the way very useful very useful so we're going to go ahead and screw one of these bad boys in to make sure and it does feel like it's going to be a fine thread once again do not tighten it too much you don't want to do any damage to the board but just just tighten it up using two fingers super easy that's that's important so uh there we go there's one screw in um in this build i think yeah i don't really like how far away this is right here this right here i don't know if we're gonna do a behind the board kind of deal so yeah normally guys matt and i are perfectionists they they include holes yes to run everything through however we may we may run some stuff behind the motherboard and onto the board it's going to look weird but you guys will see why and what we do yeah so i think we're going to go ahead and transition to that um one screw one screw screw in so the board doesn't fall out we'll leave one screw in um we're going to see that but again as jackson mentioned when he's showing you the cable management section you're going to be going through and running the power supply not power supply the 24 pin behind the motherboard but you could just run it through here if you want to just keep it safe i mean you don't have to do it the other way but just one thing to keep in mind um yeah i think it's on the transition jackson again you're back on deck so we're back to the jackson cam once again and cable management i'm gonna be honest with you guys is probably one of the hardest parts of the build and you can make it really easy a lot of people do make it a little bit too easy that we see in our discord when we do the pc um you know judging and all that but right now though this build looks really clean we want to keep it that way so we could go ahead and install the graphics card which matt usually does but we're not going to because we only put one screw in the board we do not want to screw in the board if you put in the graphics card it gets screwed down we won't better move the motherboard we're leaving the motherboard loose because we're going to be running a few things behind the motherboard which like matt said it's a little bit unconventional you're not going to see a lot of pre-built companies do that because well if anybody ever wants to upgrade this or anything or change out the power supply because it dies it does suck you have to take out a lot of things i'm going to simply loosen the motherboard here i might even have to kind of take it out i don't know yet that should be loose enough just be careful with the step guys because your motherboard could like fall out of the build so 24 pin i'm pushing the board slightly to get this through but look at that we got it through and do you see how much cleaner this is going to be than running it all the way through here because look we just have to turn it around and then plug it in which is the wrong way right now but let's go ahead and get this plugged in this is a hard not fun step so we got her turned around and it you guys probably couldn't hear it but it did click into place but look how clean that looks i mean come on come on all right so now usually um you're only probably gonna be one person building but hey sometimes people build with friends now i like to ask matt where certain things are i already know the cpu is up top and he'll probably would have showed that you're going to see my angle from the back that's going to go right through here almost all cases have that i often just kind of like to run things through but i'm going to actually plug them in one at a time normally we run everything through and then plug it in um this one's going to be a little bit difficult isn't it i think so all those fans not too difficult i didn't realize this thing came with all these rgb fans it's pretty cool but also uh also a little bit in the way all right we got it beautiful look at that that's very clean oh god very clean as well um next up we have all of the all of this stuff so this is all the things that are on top of your board you have the power button reset switch led changing button usb 3 and audio jack so i'm just going to give you guys a quick rundown of what all this is not you can usually just tell by looking we have hd audio it says on there usb 3 this does not have usb 2 on it so a usb 2 port by the way looks just like hd audio but they don't plug into each other and then we have all the front panel stuff so reset switch power switch just everything you can think of now one thing i do want to check this motherboard does actually you're sorry this case does have the led switch plugged into here some cases use the reset switch to go to the hub to change but this one has a separate switch for that so that's good good on them all right so now let's go ahead and run where's usb 3 at usb 3 is probably best underneath the 24 pin all right that's easy access because we still have the board loose i'm going to go ahead and run the hd audio underneath and we're going to come around and unplug this all at once did i get that through okay um and then last the last thing we need to run through and then that's really it besides pci which we will go ahead and do that as well um but the last thing aside from the pci connector is the front panel stuff and well once again i don't love do you see how far away front panel is right here jfp one i don't really want to run it through here because well it's just kind of ugly it's a little bit too far for me so watch what i do and watch when the cables come out from matt's angle i'm going behind the motherboard and matt are we out yep i see them all right and so we have all those cables here and then we can just do this look how much cleaner that's going to be running behind the board so once again i'm going to where's the hd audio go on oh it fell out all right let's go ahead and plug this stuff in because it's going to keep falling out so hd audio there's one pin missing from the top that you cannot plug in that is the way it's going to go the top one where it's missing this one also could probably be a little bit cleaner running behind the board but honestly i'm over it so this part's kind of hard guys it's not hard but it's a little bit hard to see let me show them the diagram do you see how tiny that diagram is maybe we can get a way to pop it up on the screen all right so to plug all that stuff in there's a bird outside going crazy by the way guys it's going crazy crazy for the toast the reset switch is going to be this guy here because the very last pin stays open as the diagram shows hard drive led is going to go here there is a positive and negative for that power switch and reset switch do not have polarities but the hard drive led and power led do so let's see we have negative that's going to go here all right and then positive goes here all right and then last is the power switch which is probably the most important to make sure you get plugged into the right spot they're usually always in the same spot by the way guys this stuff doesn't change too often but yeah look at that so to recap once again you can look at this diagram we'll show you because i know that's kind of hard to see you have the power led on the left positive negative you have the hard drive led right below it then right next to that is the power switch and below that is the reset switch you can pause right here look at this diagram that is the simplest way to copy that all right um and then the last thing i'm going to go and run behind the board and then i'll let matt do the next step with the graphics card is the pci because this graphics card is either it's going to likely this is a 570 so it's probably just going to use um a single eight pin or six pin which see how it just breaks off so sometimes they have a spot like right here that's cut out because the gravity is going to go here and you can run up there but they don't so i'm either thinking here or running it behind the board which i'm kind of liking what do you think about that yeah sure you like that okay so you could run at either spots once again this a lot of this stuff is very up to you guys like whatever you you know are feeling like doing but i'm going to go behind the board for this one and after that we can finally screw the board in which i guess that's something that matt can also handle that smile now one downside by running it behind the board as you might see is there is a slight bulge that does occur sometimes but it is not an issue um it definitely can be pushed down and these cables are definitely very sturdy to the point where it's not really going to be anything that's going to damage them the good news is this one's actually going to have no bulge we did pretty good at running everything we didn't run any cables on top each other so i just want to show you guys with the main camera what the back looks like so if we did run this these cables over top of each other yes there would be a really bad bulge you might go screwed in but you see how we ran them aside each other so it's okay um and now oh yeah i'm going to go ahead and unplug this too because i'm going to show you guys why this is if you want to run rgb on the motherboard we're not doing that this thing has a very convenient led button to change so why would we want that we don't just get rid of it goodbye all right up to matt okay guys i'm back so what we're gonna be doing is screwing in the rest of the motherboard now you can do this laying down or standing up we're gonna do it standing up because well that's what we do here take with that as you wish um we'll go ahead and screw this in we got the topmost uh slot up there we only have two up here we have the one we already screwed in we have blah blah blah blah uh yeah we're gonna go ahead and screw these in and now while we're doing this we're gonna talk about some cable management that we're gonna be doing here in a little bit after we get the graphics card in cable management is the one thing that takes a lot of time you could put zero effort into it or you could just go crazy and do a ton of cable management which we're going to go ahead and do a ton of cable management but just because that's going to take almost like a while to do and it's really hard to explain every little step of the way we're going to probably time lapse that method and just show you some general tips here and there that we recommend for kale management but cable management is something that you can just commonly just kind of do yourself i mean you just got to see where cables are on make sure that they're tied up nicely use a lot of zip ties and you can make a really nice toasty bros approved pc now one thing i do want to show you guys just because we do have a one extra step in this that we didn't have before we do have this rgb hub here this is not going to come with every build i don't want you guys thinking this is always in here this is just because we bought this kind of cool mustache case that has a total of five rgb fans installed that's why these guys here are each fan so yeah normally this is not going to be here if you don't buy a case with rgb but keep in mind if you do be prepared to have a lot of crazy stuff looking like this so now that we have finished screwing in the motherboard no missing screws yeah if you really wanted to you could just not screw all them in but you know you don't have to do that we're gonna be doing here which now that i see this i am in pain right now is another one of these cases that you have to remove the vertical bracket to install a gpu normally so it looks like all we have to do is remove this screw here and i i assume probably the other ones but this whole piece might just come out actually this whole piece might just come out oh one screw oh look at that let's see there we go if you're going to include the vertical mount at least make it easy to remove so there that's gone if you do want to saw it vertically you will need like a riser cable and all that sort of stuff we need into that here at the toasty bros so we're going to go ahead and just install it normally not with a 570 yeah so we're going to go ahead and get the 570 out of its box and then see exactly what we need to do here uh there's an x-acto knife still so i'm going to man i told you those are important people forget this stuff very very important um and then here we go the power color bearing 570. yes that's how much was this thing in that so we paid a lot of money for this new i think we ended up paying like 180 which is very expensive for a 570 right now you can get a new 1650 super for that same price which performs a lot better though look at that eight pin remember what jackson said eight or six pin that's what we're working with right now it doesn't have a back plate which is kind of meant but whatever so we're gonna go ahead and do is see where this uh graphics card slots in so what you gotta do is well you're gonna slot it in here obviously let me show you guys the other angle so he's saying we need to see which pci brackets we need to remove so yes once you line it up here you can tell it's just the top two yep top two is what you gotta do uh what i like about this case is none of these are break off ones all of these are screwed in which is really nice sometimes they have ones where you have to like bend them back and forth to get them to pop out and then you can't put them back in you have to get actual ones like this that use a screw and can be put in so this is a sign of high quality or at least another thing i really like is there's not a huge lip yes on the case some of these cases after you get your graphs are installed if you're wondering why you're not getting hdmi or display port out it's because these right here often have a really big bump on them so when you try to plug it in it's not going in all the way now gravity card install is almost as simple as installing ram you want to go ahead and line up this little slot right here with this one right here and you're going to go ahead and do that like so push in and you should hear a click a lot of stuff in pc building is about here in the click once you hear the click you're good to go now i don't know what jackson's angle is looking like as far as lip goes is it look pretty clean to where i can just screw it in as is yeah no that's actually really good they they designed this case really well and it's it's flat before it hits the lip some of these so yeah i just want to really show you guys because like this is awesome you see how this is flat right here but then you get a little bit of a bump some of these cases that go straight into a freaking mountain and it is god-awful so we're going to go ahead and put those same two screws that we removed for those covers back onto the graphics card and as of right now the graphics card is installed all we have to do next is plug in the power connector now normally with these kind of power supplies that have the 2a pins one trailing off i normally like to use this connector because you can easily tie this one over here and make it look super clean and what we can do here it doesn't look like i have a spot to actually tie it off onto the grass card that's a little cheeky little thing that we've done before but what you're going to do is just go ahead and take this 1 eight pin make sure that these little plus two on the six pin is actually connected there you go and what you're gonna do is line up this slot with this notch or whatever yeah great terminology this is my favorite minecraft and then you're gonna go ahead and click boom good to go and then when we get to cable management i'm going to go ahead and get a zip tie tie that right there and then we can pull that there and boom where's the cable can't see it well you can now but it'll look a lot better when we get to the cable management portion which i guess i'll go ahead and start by doing that so zip ties very important we're on this we already had this bag open but as you can tell we use a lot of zip ties they're getting ready to see the meanest time lapse for the rear of the pc so here we go this right here and then also let's not forget to reinstall this because that is that is oh yeah good point you know what sometimes we forget these things where did i put that did i just throw that thing no okay you didn't just throw it okay i didn't throw it it didn't actually be that bad so make sure you don't lose the screw i think this is the screw hopefully we'll find out we're gonna go ahead and reinstall this thing real quick by just putting these little things right here and then lining that up maybe is that right yeah yeah line that up like like so taking this screw which i think is the right screw about to find out real quick no maybe it's not core steel i mean it went in pretty nicely okay there we go it's in woo did it now now let's see what i was actually going to do and cable manage this so zip ties are your friend ladies and gentlemen so what we're going to do here is hide this little extra connector because while the cable's not long enough to actually pull that all the way back through so we're going to do is take this little beautiful zip tie wrap it around here zip it off maybe i can actually get this to feed through okay and then you're going to tighten it like a sew okay normally i like to do two of them one right here and then one up here just to like make this look a little cleaner and then you go back with some little snippy snips right here and just go snip snip we'll try to leave a link to some recommended tools in the description down below that are pretty cheap there's like some pc building tools you can get i don't know if they'll come with like these little snips but they'll come with most of the stuff that you need to build your first pc and honestly this stuff is kind of extra at this point if you're building a lot of computers it could be worth investing into but honestly you could use scissors if you wanted to to cut this if you don't invest in these nice little snip snips and like i so it's good to go now jackson's going to probably pull this cable back through a little bit on his end when he does some cable management but this looks pretty nice it definitely could be nicer if there was a little cutoff point we've actually done something where we used to zip tie it to the actual graphics card if there's a opening on the plastic shroud but it appears there is not we might be able to actually do one through here oh yeah wait we actually have pcb mounting right here oh boy pcb mounting so again extra stuff we like to do this sometimes is through here we can lift this bad boy up pull this back through this is like a double magnet like matt said this is not an essential step and it for some people could even seem risky so don't feel the need to do it if you don't want to but just what we like to do yeah we've never had problems doing it also for shipping purposes and moving around it does actually help having the pci connector like the usb 3 came on it does help having the pci connector actually attach the graphics card because it acts as an extra support almost like a like a spring or bungee this isn't as like tight as i want it to be but it does look a little bit nicer so go ahead and do that usb3 got undone for some reason make sure usb 3 actually goes in and probably just didn't push it in hard enough when i was trying to do it while holding the camera so there we go and uh yeah we'll go ahead and snip that real quick like and oh yeah just looks a little bit better it's like hidden up on that graphics card looks pretty decent now what we're going to go ahead and do i'll let i'll go ahead and just go over the basics of cable management jackson is the cable management expert here at the toasty bros but the basics that we're going to be doing here is honestly just trying to bundle some of these up uh make sure we have some clean runs normally like to pull like the cpu off to the side right here we like to keep everything somewhat together that comes down from the front i o we want to attach it to the 24 pin most of time and if there's any like tie off points these little points right here great for zip ties be able to hold it to the back of the board and the main thing is to try to organize the cables the best you can and utilize that power supply basement if there's any cables you're not using trust me it's super easy just to like you know just do this just to shove just shove super easy any other points that you want to talk about so this pc is actually ready to turn on ready to go one thing i will say is your rgb will not work matt you want to show them how to plug that in this is a sata connector say it a power connector so rgb sata power connector this powers the hub right here which we're going to cable manage weld yeah cable management is now the next step and for some reason this fell off the bottom they seem to fall off a lot let's do it [Music] all right guys now that we have the pc all put together look at that beautiful rgb now as you mentioned you can change the rgb by just hitting the led button that is included super easy as long as this works it's perfectly fine if for some reason you do turn computer on your rgb is not working make sure you have it powered on make sure that sata power cable is plugged into the hub and just make sure everything's working right but look at that this case looks really nice honestly i'm very impressed with this case how about we just go ahead and test it in a couple of games and see how she performs all right ladies and gentlemen now that we have this 500 gaming pc all put together let's talk about some benchmarks real quick now we decided to test this pc in a handful of titles those being call duty cold war fortnite valorant and doom eternal first up in cod cold war we got an average of over 60 fps on medium high settings which is to be expected the rx 570 is most certainly the bottleneck in this pc and that's not a bad thing considering you can easily upgrade the graphics card to something higher end in the future with this i3 and have no problems we've done a lot of i3 builds on the channel with things like the 5600 xt which is definitely a way more powerful card than the rx 570 and the i3 does not hold that gpu back whatsoever so with this pc the main concept is you get decent performance now with a card that you can actually buy on the used market and if you really want to fork over a lot of money the new market and easily be able to upgrade this with a better gpu in the future or if you're watching this right now in cards like the 5600 xt the 1660 super or whatever new card from nvidia that comes out in 2021 that is on that sort of level or a little bit better and you can actually buy it swap that card out with that card and boom you'll have even more performance and this pc will work really well throughout 2021 because the i3 10 100 f is going to be a really viable option throughout the rest of the year next up in fortnite this goes to show that you can easily play esports titles with this pc right now getting over 144 fps on pro settings games like fortnight in the game we're going to be talking about in a minute valorent and rainbow six siege and cs go and rocket league all those games are going to have no problems playing at over 100 fps on optimized settings or even max settings in a game like valorent where we actually end up getting over 144 fps and this pc is great for that scenario for 500 you really cannot complain having a pc that can play those kind of games out of the box on high settings or pro settings and be able to upgrade this thing years down the line to make this a multiple year long pc that will work for you and have a platform that's very upgradeable valorent ran perfectly smooth sometimes even over 200 fps on high settings if you lower the settings you can get over that if you want to but this shows that you could get like a high refresh rate monitor and it wouldn't be a bad idea being able to play at over 144 fps in these esports titles will it be great for cold war no probably not until you upgrade that graphics card but you can still enjoy cold war in games like cold war like warzone without any issues whatsoever and the last game we decided to test for our aaa benchmark of choice is doom eternal and on high settings we got 70 plus fps this pc could handle some newer aaa titles with optimized settings so do keep that in mind you're probably looking at 1080p low medium for games like cyberpunk if you really want to play to get 60fps it will be kind of pushing it with this rx 570 but the rx570 can still play pretty much any game you want if you temper your expectations really well and are willing to dive into the settings and do a little bit of optimizations but for 1080p gaming 500 this is a really awesome pc given everything going on in the world and honestly i can really not complain about it i really do enjoy it and i'm really happy we had the chance to put the species together for 2021 and hopefully things get a lot better later in the year so now that we finish the benchmarking section of today's video how we're going to bring jackson back in here to wrap this video up real quick all right guys so as you probably could have guessed the 10 100 can honestly handle a little bit of a better gpu however for 500 give or take depending on how you get this 570 this is a really good build right now i'm actually very happy with this case from mustex i mean this mesh front with the rgb fans all pre-installed loaded up it's actually pretty quiet considering how many fans are installed and that magnetic side panel that you can actually open up with tempered glass at the price that it's at and it's available on amazon it's really an awesome uh case that i don't think a lot of people are talking about so if you're interested in building this pc or just using this case in general links in the description down below there are affiliate links we high suggest this case and lastly we're actually doing a setup with this pc the total will be eight hundred dollars so basically about three hundred dollars for peripherals so make sure you subscribe to our channel to see that video soon so overall very happy with this pc build once again links description down below if you pick up any of these pc parts and let us know down below if you have any pc recommendations for 2021 we're always going to be doing pc builds and right now it's kind of a weird time to do pc build videos but if you guys have any particular builds that we might be able to do let us know in the comment section down below so if you guys haven't already don't forget to check out our other two youtube channels and also our twitch.tv sauce toasty bros and do not forget to like comment and subscribe and we'll see you guys the next one goodbye go poppy you

Channel: Toasty Bros

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Keywords: Toastybros, $500 gaming pc, pc build, budget gaming pc, how to build a pc, gaming pc, pc gaming, 500 gaming pc, how to build a gaming pc, gaming pc build, $500 pc, budget pc build

Id: oU7dXEaapJ8

Length: 46min 10sec (2770 seconds)

Published: Wed Dec 30 2020