Complete Step-By-Step PC Build Guide - How To Build a PC In-Depth Guide 2020 (TonyTechBytes)

hey guys tony here from techbytes and this is a complete guide on how to build a pc in 2020 so i'm going to go over every single step with building a pc going over the installation picking the parts as well as downloading drivers and windows 10. so i'm going to hope that you have at least some basic knowledge of computer parts such as the gpu ram and graphics card i might include some information based on the parts when i install them but i won't go too in depth on each part so if you don't know what each part is already i would suggest watching some youtube videos explaining every part individually so i already made a 45 part series on tick tock on how to build a pc of course on tick tock there's only a one minute limit so there's really not much you can do with that and uh it's inconvenient to just go through every single video so this video is going to be an extensive 4k video on how to build a pc first off let's go straight into the parts that i chose for this build okay let's go over all the parts in this build this is a customer build by the way for my new startup spec fight if you want to check it out i'll link it in the description down below as well as all the parts over here they're going to be affiliate links so i doing a tiny bit of commission from them but it just helps out my channel get new gear to produce better videos okay so for the cpu central processing unit we got the ryzen 7 3700x eight core 16 threads 4.4 gigahertz boost speed it also includes a cooler but the customer chose a kraken x53 240 millimeter all-in-one liquid cooler this is a pretty good cooler i use it in my personal build and i really like the performance as well as the aesthetics though my build is kind of closed off so you can't even see it anyways for the ssd to put windows 10 on we got a 500 gigabyte uh nvme ssd from crucial we also have windows 10 home this is an oem version for the uh operating system of course we have to go with the oem version because uh i'm gonna be building this for someone and i don't want to get sued by microsoft for ram we have two times eight gigabytes 16 gigabytes in total 3600 megahertz uh in the white color this is from corsair the vengeance rgb pro for thermal face i'm going to use arctic mx4 they actually sent me some to review and i use in my own builds it should theoretically be a little bit higher quality than the stock thermal paste with nzxc coolers to hopefully give the customer a little bit more headroom when they're gaming so it doesn't get as hot as with the stock paste okay we also got some 91 isopropyl alcohol this was from i don't remember cvs pharmacy or something but it's out of stock everywhere good luck trying to find any uh i got that like a year ago okay uh i have some paper towels you can go for like microfiber cloths but i'm fine with paper towels i know they leave lint but i really just don't care uh and it has cut it has not caused any problems for me in the past okay for the power supply 80 plus bronze 650 watt power supply from corsair also has a five-year warranty it's similarly modular so uh some of the cables are already attached but that's fine because it's just the motherboard 24 pin and a couple essential cables and also 80 plus bronze rating you want to have something that's reliable especially from corsair as well i love corsair's power supplies and for the motherboard we have the asus rg strix b550f it also has wi-fi built-in so the customer can connect wi-fi if they don't want to use ethernet i suggest using ethernet but i don't know it's up to them for additional storage we have a two terabyte 7200 rpm hard drive from seagate that's the seagate barracuda standard one that almost everyone goes for and then for the graphics card we have a 2070 super from msi and this is the ventus lineup it's not the absolute best performing card but it definitely shouldn't be bad and it was one of the only ones in stock so and oh i forgot the case it's not here yet it's the n68710i i'll show it later in this video and also like putting it together inside the case um but i don't have it yet so obviously i can't showcase it in this video as a side note i like to test everything before putting it inside the case just out on the box because i want to make sure everything works i want to download drivers and download windows 10 before i put it inside the case it's just my thing you can download drivers and windows uh after putting inside the case i just like having all the software and just making sure everything works before you put inside the case and because if you put inside the case and you troubleshoot something something doesn't work it's just going to be really difficult uh because you have to take everything out and figure out what doesn't work or what was what does work this will just take more time but it's more of a sure way to find out what's wrong with your build before just putting it all together so obviously the next part of this build is to unbox everything and then test it outside the case before we put it inside and of course how did i forget the tools i'm just going to use two of these magnetic tipped screwdrivers i just picked up from amazon you don't necessarily have to get magnetic tipped screwdrivers a phillips head screwdriver should work with almost every mid to full-size tower case of course with the go if you go for like a mini itex build you might need a special screwdriver but phillips head should be more than fine uh and i prefer having a magnetic tip because if you drop screws inside the case it's really hard to fish out so this is really easy uh so let's go into it oh and i forgot i keep forgetting things you don't really need anti-static protection uh unless you live in like a really dry and staticky environment i don't have carpet flooring so it's not much of an issue for me but if you are concerned about static electricity you can get an anti-static wrist strap and connected to something that's grounded i'm not going to do that because i really don't care and also most modern components come with esd protection anyways it's not really a big issue that much anymore okay so let's go into unboxing everything and putting it all together outside the case first and then we'll go on from there unboxing motherboard take it out of the box by removing the sticker here i don't have any sharp tools with me actually i do but uh whatever screwdriver works okay take it out of the box so it's inside this anti-static bag and you just want to take it out of the bag carefully there are also going to be some other accessories we're going to put the motherboard to the side first just gently lay it down on the table so the accessories that we need uh the wi-fi antenna that is pretty important if you're gonna be using wi-fi take it out of the box okay let's lift up this motherboard tray and take a look at the rest of the contents zip ties uh sata cables actually we do need we do need uh the sata cables for the hard drive and you got some uh you got the manual which of course is important and uh we need these screws these are gonna be useful for the m.2 ssd installation if you don't have an m.2 ssd then of course that won't be useful and yeah okay i might actually i don't i don't need the manual okay just uh so now that you have the motherboard and the essential cables outside the box i like to close up or put everything back inside the motherboard box then open up the anti-static bag okay should be down here just carefully take it out try not to touch anything on the back it should be kind of spiky too uh so there's the anti-static bag you want to just rest the motherboard on a box don't put it on top of the anti-static bag because this can actually the outside can actually conduct electricity if you're paranoid i mean if you don't care then whatever okay so close up the motherboard box and gently put the motherboard on top of the box try to hold it by the heat sinks as well as the size of the motherboard don't try to touch any of the contacts just flip it around this way uh you also have a lot of stickers you might you also might have a couple stickers on the motherboard so keep that in mind um better let's open up the cpu box uh okay take out the cpu all right the cpu is right here in this container uh we have also we also have the wraith prism included but i'm not going to be using that in this build because i'm going to be using the nzx aio so let's get the cpu out of this container and here is the plastic tray guess we can just put this back inside the box all right the cpu the ryzen 7 3700x this is essentially the brain of the computer uh so what you want to do to install it is to open up this socket arm carefully take out the cpu from the plastic tray that it comes in and what you want to do is grip it by the sides do not touch the pins on the bottom and this really isn't that hard all you have to do is just drop it in with no force required uh so okay let's grip it by the sides and you can see the pins on the bottom try not to touch them oh and you also want to line up the triangle so you can see so you can see a triangle over here in this corner lining up a triangle in the upper left of the motherboard socket you can see the triangle in the upper left of the socket and the cpu also has it uh on the bottom left you can see the triangle more clearly on the back side of the cpu but you basically just have to line up the triangles with the cpu triangle to the socket triangle all right let's go back to it the socket arm is up all you have to do is hold the cpu by the sides trying to touch the bottom like i said before and just gently drop it in it doesn't require any force you can wiggle it a little bit if you want to and just close the socket arm and that's it it's already installed here is a closer look of the cpu as you can see it was really easy to install uh the ryzen logo should be on its side but this is pretty much how it should be installed there's nothing more to it and by the way if you want to install the wraith prism cooler that comes with the 3700x you should leave these clips installed but because we're going to use a different cooler we're going to have to remove them all right since we are using the nzxc cooler we have to remove this this clip at the top as well as the bottom so all you do is just unscrew it with a phillips head screwdriver you want to keep these uh inside your cpu box or just keep it somewhere just because you might need to return the motherboard in the future or you might consider selling it you might upgrade your motherboard as well so you want to just keep these clips handy there's a back plate at the back of the motherboard uh which comes off if the clips are unscrewed so you can see it's right here so uh for the n60 cooler we just have to leave this backplate on because we're going to use it later all right let's get to installing the ssd we have to remove it from the container remove the ssd so here is the crucial ssd that we have to install into an m.2 slot i'm just gonna use the top slot i'm gonna install the m.2 sd to the top slot uh okay let's unscrew this heat spreader as you can see on the back of the heat spreader there is a thermal pad and there's a sticker covering the thermal pad so you want to remove this before installing your m.2 ssd okay here is where the screws that we took from the motherboard box come in handy you need to install a standoff on the 2280 spot for just most regular m.2 ssds so just get your fingers and screw in the standoff it should look like a nut like a larger i can't really describe it it's a standoff okay it should look something like this let me focus should look something like this i have a standoff installed with my fingers take out the ssd from the plastic tray that comes of in it's sliding around because i opened it in correctly okay most people like to rip off the sticker but this usually voids the warranty i know warranty uh stickers are not allowed in the us or so i think but most stickers actually do come with heat spreaders or like tiny uh pieces of metal just under them so it trans it helps the ssd transfer the heat onto the sticker so we're just going to leave it on i don't want to avoid any warranties especially if the customer doesn't want to avoid them either so to install an m.2 sd find the m.2 slot on the motherboard and try to line it up at a 30 degree angle and insert it make sure all the gold contacts are fully in then lower the ssd and uh get the screw as well as a screwdriver ready and just screw it down to the standoff that you installed earlier you might have to hold down the ssd while you're screwing it down uh but just basically just screw it down until it's down all the way you don't have to over tighten it you don't have to there isn't really like a specific torque just turn down till can't really turn anymore try not to strip the screw either because it is pretty small uh so there we go we have the nut usb installed okay i think i flipped the heat spreader around the wrong way so just line it up again and screw it down okay i think this fits a lot better now screw in this end and there we go you don't have to over tighten it just make sure that it's tight and there we go the ssd is installed while we're here let's install the ram so let's open up this package okay take out the ram from the box this is another pretty easy part of building a pc so let's just first we need to find these slots that we have to use uh most motherboards use slots two and four if you have two six for dual channel memory if you have four sticks just use all four sticks or i mean all four slots um if you have a weird motherboard you might want to check the manual that comes inside the box for which slots to use to optimize your memory you want to use dual channel memory because it's just faster okay so or i believe dual channel memory offers more bandwidth whatever you want to call it i don't want to confuse beginners just don't roast me in the comments okay so uh you want to unclip the second and fourth round slots or whatever slots you're using for the motherboard you might have clips at the top and bottom of each slot but for this motherboard it's only at the top so with the second fourth one's unclipped as you can see for these ddr4 ram modules there is a notch on the bottom of them so you want you want to make sure to line this up with the notches on the ram slots let's zoom in a little bit more and you can see that the notches from the slot and the actual ram sticks have to line up so uh let's make sure this is lined up and just you can use two hands and lower down you should hear a click okay so we got the first one in let's get this second stick just line it up make sure the notches line up and install it okay there it shouldn't feel like anything's breaking you should hear clicks if it's not fitting then you might have to flip the ram sticks around because the notches have to line up just make sure that you have it all correct you can also see the notches are back in place so the ram is correctly installed okay now let's get the power supply open this is what powers the entire system draws in power from the wall and converts it into dc power for your components okay important information we don't need this garbage the ac cable we're going to need this some zip ties we're not converge we don't need these okay and here is the power supply let's take it out of the box take out all the styrofoam and packaging i suggest you leave this inside the box and keep the boxes as well in case anything doesn't work uh you can always leave this here uh and if you ever need to return anything you have everything so yeah here we go should also probably save these zip ties for later uh for cable management and i don't need this anymore so we're gonna throw this away get the ac cable untied as well because we're obviously gonna have to plug this into the wall for the power supply save these zip ties okay let's open up the other bag of cables that come with the power supply so the power supply is semi-modular so it already has a 24 pin for the motherboard power as well as cpu power so uh all we need is graphics power as well as sata but uh say that we don't need to say the cable now because we're not gonna plug in the hard drive just yet so where is the graphics card power this should be it so the graphics are power should look something like this it should say pcie or something along the lines of like gpu vga pcie something like this so this is what you have to plug into the power supply and then plug into the graphics drive for power uh pcie as well as cpu so let's plug it into any slot make sure to line up the notches as well you should hear a click there we go it's like a slight click so if it's fully inserted and if it was fairly easy to install then you probably did it right okay we want to power the motherboard so let's plug in this 24 pin cable into the 24 pin header on the motherboard uh make sure to line up the clips as well so this cable is always super annoying uh actually this one went in really smoothly surprisingly okay this cpu power cable uh it also has notches at the top so we'll have to check out the top of the motherboard it should be on the top left uh all we have to do is plug in the eight pin header uh the ac the additional four pin header isn't oh i flipped it the wrong way i'm so dumb okay the additional four pin header isn't absolutely necessary unless you plan on overclocking the hell out of the cpu but i don't so all you need for uh ryzen 3000 is this a power eight pin uh power connector okay so we plug that in now let's get the graphics card ready just to get a display signal and uh plug this in there okay let's open up the box take out the graphics card from the anti-sight bag it should have a piece of tape on the back side uh just take out the graphics card and put it on the table make sure you want to save the anti-site bag in case you ever have to return anything or if you ever want to sell the graphics card you have something in the box to protect it okay let's put the box away and then uh get to our testing okay yet again we are testing out everything out of the box out of the case first to make sure it all works and of course this cpu does not include graphics so we need something to make sure that the graphics works so pcie clip just make sure to unlatch that and then line up the pcie slot uh for the graphics card to the motherboard just line it up and you should hear a click there we go and it is successfully installed shut the pug plug in the power connector make sure to remove any covers like these plastic rubber whatever covers for the graphics card pcie connector if there are any because you don't want to have these uh in while you try to plug them in they're just not gonna fit so you can see an eight pin header as well as a six pin one wanna plug in the uh eight pin one first actually it doesn't really matter which uh order you do it in but just make sure to line up the clips again and just install it should fit in and sort of click in and for the six pin just uh there we go plug it in and here we go we got this excess like two pin cable we don't need this by the way nzx includes an awesome manual inside the box if you ever get confused by anything i'm doing just check the manual it'll definitely explain in a better way than i possibly can let's take out the cooler from the box and i already have experience with the kraken x53 since i use in my personal system this is going to be a piece of cake i got the fans and the bracket mounting stuff cables and the cooler with the radiator all right the ncc cracking cooler has an intel bracket already pre-installed let's just leave this plastic container uh cover on the cold plate uh because we just don't want to mess up the drum paste we're actually gonna use the stock thermal paste on the cpu just to test it out make sure it all works then i'm going to wipe it off of course i'm going to show you in the video then i'm going to apply some arctic mx4 so hopefully this wouldn't show you how to install thermal paste or apply thermal face as well and uh so yeah let's get the m4 black bracket because uh we are using an amd system in four brackets so we have to use these am4 standoffs as well as this m4 uh brackets for the cooler and you also need some uh screws and the like these nuts i don't know what would you even what do you call these things like um thumbnuts yeah i think they're thumbnails these nuts okay just to install the cooler onto the cpu as well as the fans onto the radiator we're just gonna need eight of these washers eight of these super long screws four of these nuts as well as the am4 standoffs and the am4 uh bracket okay so let's uh open up this am4 standoff kit oh don't do that don't open bags like how i did okay so let's get the motherboard closer to us okay like i said earlier in the video you're gonna have to leave the included back plate on so all you have to do is get your thumbs screw in these standoffs you can do them in the opposite corner like the upper right bottom left and then upper left bottom right it doesn't really matter since these are just standoffs uh so yeah we just have to install these onto the back plate it just it should just screw in really easily like this okay you're gonna have to remove this plastic cover remove the intel bracket who the hell even uses intel these days why don't they just put the am4 bracket like okay just put it in just you just have to like rotate it the opposite way uh to instead of removing it obviously you're gonna have to install it and uh i'm gonna leave the plastic on just i guess i can let the customer remove it and uh kind of gonna kind of like let this plastic hang here and install the fans actually you know what i should have done i should have just installed the fans first and then uh taking out this plastic because the thermal paste might get on the table whatever let's just install the fans okay we just have to test out this uh configuration outside the case first so i'm gonna have the fans in the push configuration pushing air uh through the radiator over there and you just have to screw them onto the radiator like so try it just line them up with the radiator line up the fans and uh just put a washer in between these long screws like this and then line them up and screw them in you should do opposite corners first and then screw in all eight screws now just screw in these screws it's that simple opposite corners if you want to i mean it's not really necessary these are just fans uh and also don't over tighten them because you could potentially damage the radiator and potentially cause a leak you don't want to do that uh so yeah let's just install these screws it's pretty simple just screwing down fans okay so now we have to line up the cooler onto the motherboard and of course it's not fitting here because the tubing is not long enough just make sure to line up and thermal paste is already pretty pre-applied we're just using this to uh make sure that it turns on we can use the stock paste get these nuts or these like thumbnails and line them up with the standoffs that we applied uh that we installed earlier onto the motherboard and just screw down the four corners you want to screw the opposite corners uh and keep the cooler onto the cpu to cool it obviously you need proper mounting pressure to cool it so screw down these like thumb nuts i guess whatever you want to call them onto the opposite corners and yeah you should be able to uh screw them down successfully with just your fingers you don't really need a screwdriver and of course i dropped one in there so we're gonna have to pick it up and i'm blocking the camera okay yeah so just screw them down like this and we are not overclocking we're not doing anything crazy we just need this to not overheat while we are checking bios and everything to make sure this thing turns on and we're going to connect all the cables too all right so let's plug in this cable it comes inside the box with the kraken x53 uh make sure you line it up correctly as well just at this awkward angle i can't really see it this powers the pump um as well and uh we need this usb cable to obviously change the colors and everything so plug in this end make sure all the cables line up and they're fully inserted then this end of the usb cable goes into a usb 2.0 header on the motherboard should look something like this with a uh should look something like this also make sure the pins line up with the sort of block let me focus there's like a missing pin here so just make sure it lines up otherwise it won't fit in the uh header okay we just have to flip it around plug it in okay it's gonna look really messy right now obviously we're just testing out that outside the box make sure this thing works and this cable plugs into the pump header should be somewhere here okay aio pump it should say aio pump on the motherboard uh let me just zoom in a little bit later once i plug this in you know it would be a lot easier if i had two cameras or if i had the money for two cameras uh so yeah we have to just use what we have okay and i forgot we also have sata power so i'm gonna have to plug in the sata cable to the power supply okay i grabbed this from the power supply box this is a sata cable you can see that it looks kind of flat like this just untie it and plug it into the power supply make sure that you plug it into the correct spot in the power supply over here you can see peripheral and sata you just plug in this end and also line up the notches as well it should plug in fairly easy and let's get the sata part from the pump cable and uh line it up there's also a notch on this cable so you want to make sure to line it up properly and i'm out of out of focus and out of the shot okay where is it like this should plug in fairly easily and uh we're just trying to make sure this thing turns on first so yeah okay here's where the pump header pump uh plugs into so you can see that there's like a notch on the bottom if it's a three pin one then just plug it into uh the three pin part and make sure the uh notch lines up so just plug it in it should fit in fairly easily if you have trouble finding it then i mean if you have trouble plugging it in then you might wanna uh make sure you line up the notches okay now we know now we want to plug in the fans from the radiator uh just make sure to find a chassis fan header it should say chaff fan or cis fan something along the lines of that and yet again you just have to line up the notches with the fan cables just make sure to line it up with the fan headers on the motherboard if you don't know where the fan headers are make sure to check your motherboard manual it should be different for every motherboard and it should fit in fairly easily like that and i think we just had to plug in the ac cable turn this thing on as well as uh hdmi displayport whatever uh turn this thing on make sure that it boots and then install windows and drivers i just like installing everything outside the box first it's just simpler then you can slap everything inside the box i mean the case and then it'll all work when you have everything in there okay now we have to plug in the power supply to obviously turn this on so grab the ac cable it comes inside the power supply box and line up the cable with the back of the power supply and plug the other end into the wall it should look different depending on which country you're in this is what it looks like in the us all right i'm gonna plug in an hdmi cable because i'm using a portable monitor and it only has hdmi connection so plug it into the back of the graphics card just to turn this on and uh make sure to line it up correctly not like what i'm doing and plug the other end into your monitor all right now that we have the power supply fan up uh it's gonna intake fresh air so it isn't like choking itself off we're just we just have to test this out inside the case first and also with the power supply there should be a switch at the back switch it to the line uh it just indicates that it's on that it can draw power from the wall and as you can see from the motherboard there is an led there so hopefully that's a good sign hdmi connected all the power uh connectors connected um also got some usb keyboard and mouse connected just because i want to go into bios and also a portable monitor on this side can't really see it so you have the front panel connectors uh or the front panel header over here this is basically where you plug in your power button to uh so if you don't have a power button and you want to test it outside the case you can actually get a screwdriver or anything metal and just short the uh headers over here so guys get ready we're gonna i'm live on tick tock by the way follow me ticktock.com tony tech bites uh so yeah i'm gonna turn this thing on let's see this boot it's the very first boot uh i haven't turned it on oh and by the way when i powered this thing on it might uh restart a couple times that's normal and so just have to short these pins over here which pins were i i keep forgetting that it has to be one of these pins okay there okay it turned on that is good news it's probably gonna restart a couple times uh so yeah let's yo let's wait and of course let's move the camera to the monitor so we can see what's going on okay so basically we started a couple times yes we see an asus rg logo right here okay if you look at the specs uh you can read it over here on this portable monitor ryzen 73700x eight course uh 3600 megahertz ram 16 gigs of it uh but it says 21 30 oh no never mind 3 600 megahertz is the base speed for the cpu 213 megahertz will just set the xmp profile later uh let's see an m.2 ssd that is great because we have an endnote to sd new cpu installed press f1 to run setup so let's just run setup so over here we want to go to ai tweaker uh i would suggest going to ai overclock tuner and enabling dlcp which is the xmp profile it'll run the ram at its advertised speeds and i also like to [Music] enable precision boost overdrive as well make this enabled instead of auto go back and then uh same changes restart but we have to plug in the windows usb drive to install windows onto our ssd okay i click save changes and reset and i also plugged in the usb drive with a copy of windows so we can install windows onto the ssd alright now that we are in the screen it successfully recognized the usb drive so we can install windows from the usb drive onto the ssd by the way if you don't know how to install windows onto a usb drive check out joey delgado's video on youtube he made a really good one so english english us because we're in the us and i speak english click install now and this might take a little bit uh so just be patient get something to do while you're waiting for this okay activate windows i actually do have a windows key with me and it's in this container this oem license container you don't have to get a windows 10 key you can just okay i got a windows key over here and i'm going to cover it i'm just going to ins i'm just going to type it in then click next if you don't have a product key you can click i don't have a product key joey delgado on youtube has a great tutorial on installing windows not stuff if you want to go more in depth okay i should say a screen just accept the license terms click next uh install wait no install windows only and uh we only have one drive installed so this is why i didn't plug in the hard drive yet i wanted to kind of force it to install into the ssd so uh click on this one next and that's where we want to install windows and so we just have to wait for it to install windows and it could take a couple minutes i don't remember how long it takes i think at most like an hour but based on the progress i hope not that long but we'll just have to wait all right now that it is installing windows so that's just a moment okay so yes we are in the us keyboard layout yes us wanna add a second keyboard keyboard no connect you to network later uh let's just do limited setup for now and i'll let the customer connect their uh account i think we just click next no can we not just click next i don't want an account oh okay good okay i just click next okay that works uh let's see do you want no i don't want this no they can just change it later if no no location no diagnostic no i don't like advertising uh fireman i don't want speech okay click accept okay now it's gonna obviously load into windows hi we're getting everything ready for you thank you so much bill gates i appreciate it by the way let's install the wi-fi antennae now and sorry if the cpu fan sounds a little bit loud i might have to go into bios later and set the fan curve so you just take out uh this wi-fi antenna styrofoam and you just have to sort of twist these ends into the end for the motherboard and you can connect to wi-fi all right we have this shark fin wi-fi antenna uh you just have to of course twist these ends into the ends on the motherboard you should do it when it's turned off uh just to so you don't accidentally electrocute yourself the chances that are probably really slim anyways though just whatever okay so i went back into bios and i went to fan control f6 in the bios so let's change this to pwm and set a fan curve we can just make it standard uh so it's a little bit quieter now chassis fan uh let's just check these make sure that they're all fine and okay aio pump i guess we'll just leave it and exit save changes and reset uh click okay okay i use the laptop to download the wi-fi driver as well as the lan driver because wi-fi wasn't working so i just downloaded the drivers from asus's website onto a usb drive and then i just extracted them uh so if you don't know how to extract you just click extract all and then it'll extract it uh no i don't want to do this into a file there's the usb drive let's install the lan driver so all you have to do is go to asus setup uh click yes and then it's gonna download onto the motherboard okay now that we are on google chrome search up the motherboard in this case it's asus b550f wi-fi uh drivers then go to the website motherboard manufacturer website it should be under support uh for your motherboard it might look a little bit different obviously windows 10 64-bit and just download audio okay audio uh i already installed the lan we don't need uh utilities for winrar i already did wireless we need the chipset drivers uh we need the sata drivers bluetooth and uh do we need armory crate sure whatever okay let's just download this and so we just have to wait for them all to download we also want to download drivers from nvidia so we can make sure the graphics card works and everything uh geforce this one's a 20 series uh 2070 super guaranteed driver and let's go just download this and it's going to download then we have to extract all like the other drivers and make sure to run the program okay now we are installing the nvidia drivers i just double click to run the program so let's just wait for it to install okay we just want the nvidia driver you can download geforce experience if you want to let's just do express download and it is downloading okay the nvidia driver has installed let's click close and extract all the other drivers as well uh no do individually run this application do the same for all the other drivers extract all open up the application asus setup in this case run it and uh it will download and by the way after downloading some of the drivers they might tell you to restart i would suggest just restarting but once you're done with all the drivers you would restart anyways just to make sure that all the drivers are successfully downloaded i also suggest making a new folder called drivers and just dragging all your drivers into this folder just so you can keep everything organized let me just do that right now uh where was it local disk drivers there we go also remember to download your chipset drivers this is uh the amd chipset drivers now we're installing the real tech audio driver click next uh uninstall car driver click next to whatever install after reboot will automatically install driver okay now it's installing and yes i want to restart now okay it's going to restart okay let's also go into settings update and security check for updates and they're probably going to be a ton of updates so we'll just update them restart the computer if needed and uh yeah just make sure to update windows yup as i as i suspected there are a ton i am back on asus's website let's go to bios and firmware uh since this is such a new motherboard i kind of want to update the bios and also i want to make it as new as possible for the customer and obviously um updating the bios will help with stability since this is a new chipset so let's update i mean let's download the newest one and uh you want to also make sure you have a usb drive so you want to download this file extract all and then copy it into the usb drive and i'll show you how to update the bios later once the windows updates are done okay it turns out i downloaded the wrong bios this was the b550f bios but this is the wi-fi one that we need to download so it should be this file okay let's download this and hurry up okay drag this into the usb drive then we can delete it go to the usb drive extract all extract okay here's the cap file now we can restart and go back into bios okay we're back to easy flash utility go to this uh find the cap file should be this one and here we go yes we want to update the bios and don't touch anything just make sure that it's updating also i highly suggest not doing this while uh you are in a thunderstorm um or or while you're uh i mean just under any weird circumstances because you don't want the power to shut down and if it does shut down you're gonna break the bio so uh we can just wait for it and once it's done downloading and updating the bios it might restart a couple times just don't touch anything and it should be back to normal okay i went back to here and we have a 3700 x 16 gigs of ram uh let's just plus press f1 to go back into setup okay we don't need general help i need to go back to ai overclock tuner dlcp profile uh let's see i also want to enable precision boost overdrive because we're using an aio so you might as well get the best performance save changes and reset and we're gonna go back into windows okay what we have to do now is install everything in the case since i pretty much installed all the software drivers and stuff so just unplug all the cables make sure to unclip each cable first before pulling them out and uh they should go up pretty easily for the graphics card make sure to unclip this pci clip down here and it should be really easy to take out let's also remove some of the plastic uh just in case the customer doesn't do it themselves and i'll leave the plastic on for the uh cracking cooler because i want them to take it out since we're installing inside the case we can leave the uh ssd as well as ram and cpu on we just have to disconnect the cpu cooler so just unscrew these thumb nuts opposite corners it should be fairly easy to take out okay got that out and also keep in mind for ryzen cpus you want to twist to break the seal with the thermal paste before actually lifting so make sure to twist to break up the seal between the thermal paste and then lift off and there we go so we just have to wipe this off with isopropyl i'll show you how to do it right now get some isopropyl alcohol and preferably a microfiber cloth but i use a paper towel because it doesn't really matter get the cooler the cold plate uh let me focus really quickly first okay and just wipe it off it should come off fairly easily and look at how easy that was with 91 isopropyl alcohol there you go it works like a charm then just get another piece of paper towel or clean off the microfiber cloth and wipe off the cpu's integrated heat spreader finally got the n68710i case okay we have the h710i case let's quickly open up the back panel just uh pops out like that and i'm gonna put the rear oh actually that's the back panel it's the side panel and uh let's take out all the cables the front panel cables from under here as well as the box of screws that nzx includes and by the way if you're ever confused about which screws to use uh the manual includes everything here uh about the case so it shows everything about which screws to use how to build it and if you ever get confused if i don't go too in depth definitely follow this manual that comes with the box now let's get the power supply installed uh just unscrew these screws in the back that hold down this power supply bracket and we just have to screw this bracket onto the other side of the power supply there is a dust filter down here so we want the fan facing down and facing down means that it intakes fresh air from the bottom and exhausts out the back so it doesn't interfere with the other components over here so we basically just have to get the screws that are come that come with the bag inside the case and then just line up the power supply like this and just screw it in and we've already connected all the cables uh before so we don't really need to do this anymore so let's get the correct screws it should be the hexagonal screws uh whatever n60 calls it like the 632 hexagonal or something so that's for like front panel audio uh yeah these screws the 632 screw hexagon so it's only four screws just take these out really quick and let's speed run this just line up the bracket and uh screw it in how hard can this be screw down this side of the power supply so i've already done the upper right corner bottom left let's do the top left and then the bottom right as a refresher here are all the cables that we've already plugged in the 24 pin the cpu power cable uh the gpu power cable should say vga or pcie or something and then the peripheral sata cable this is the power your hard drive as well as the uh pump for the cooler okay fan facing down uh let's move all the cables inside this basement down here just through here uh wrap them inside stuff them in somewhere for now and then we're just gonna push this in and i believe the power supply should fit in like this and there we go and then you just have to use the thumb screws and screw them back in you shouldn't really use your uh screwdriver because you might make it too tight just use your thumbs it should be more than fine okay and then screw in these corners and remember when you turn on the pc to flick the power supply switch to on which is the line but we'll do that later let's also remove the side glass panel as well just so if we flip it around we don't damage anything put it somewhere safe put it somewhere where it won't crack because this is tempered glass it could potentially get damaged uh okay there just pops out like that and i'll put it somewhere safe like on styrofoam okay now we need to flip the case onto the side and uh at the bottom here is a hard drive cage we have to get our screwdriver and remove these four screws down here for the hard drive cage so we can mount the hard drive the hard drive cage should look something like this then you have to get your hard drive put it into uh either the top or bottom sled and screw it down uh over here with either four or six screws it's kind of up to you follow the manual for which screws to use if you are confused anytime during this video remove the hard drive from the anti-static bag uh this would have to open it like this try not to touch the gold contacts on the bottom and uh yeah here's the hard drive so we just have to find the cage line it up like this and you also want to make sure that uh the hard drive is uh facing like this so it has the contacts on this side because if you wanna if you put it the opposite way like this then obviously you can't you can't plug in anything so then you can't even use your hard drive so make sure it's like this and it goes into the cage like this and you screw it from the bottom as well as from the sides to make sure that it doesn't flop around everywhere because if this hard drive does move around everywhere it could potentially get corrupted i believe the manual says to use these 6 32 screw flats so let's go ahead and use this for the hard drive okay so let's take out uh four because we don't really need that many screws we just have to hold it down on both sides one two three four screws okay and then make sure you keep all your screws tidy and together so just line up the hard drive with the cage like this and screw in the holes so you can do one in this end one in this end and then uh one on this side one on this side so i'll just go ahead and do that right now okay you can see with this hard drive is screwed in over here over here and over here and here so here's the back side of the cage this part goes into deep into the case and over here is accessible you can see the sata and power connection so we just put this back into the case like here and screw it from the bottom with the screws that already came with it this part is gonna be kind of annoying to get back the four screws and uh hold up the hard drive cage also line it up with the screws the uh screw indentations that were there before so there we go we got two screws in so far quickly go on to the next screw there we go the hard drive and the cage is installed okay now we get to the interesting part to install the motherboard you have to use these 632 flat screws that we use prior to this so when you're picking up the motherboard try to lift it up by the ram sticks the size of the motherboard or the vrm heatsinks don't try to i try not to touch like uh any of the contracts contacts or any of the traces on the motherboard so kind of gently have to line up the motherboard it's kind of awkward sometimes like you don't know where to grip but also the i o shield is pre-installed for this motherboard let me remove this usb uh keyboard for now but yeah the io shield is already pre-installed so we don't have to install one if you do if you did have to install an io shield uh just line it up with the back of the case and uh so yeah just put it down and make sure to line it up with the standoffs that are already pre-installed on the case so just make sure that the motherboard lines up with the aisle shield in the back in this case is really spacious you should also probably hear a click because there is a sort of standoff thing in the middle over here that lines up with this uh screw hole on the motherboard so it should kind of plop right in and if you have trouble lining it up just try taking out and slowly put it back in again there should be eight screws with this motherboard since it's an atx motherboard in an atx case uh nzxt already pre-installed the standoffs thank goodness so we didn't have to worry about like uh hand screwing in standoffs then putting on the motherboard on top of the standoffs and you also want to have standoffs because if the motherboard touches the back metal of the case then it could potentially short out so we got one screw hole up here next to the cpu power one over here next to all the fan headers and um one on the very top right one on the right sort of middle side one on the bottom right down here another one on the bottom sort of middle-ish down here uh one on the bottom left and another one down here on sort of the left middle side and this center-ish kind of one is already filled in by this standoff so just get all these screws and screw them down make sure not to over tighten it because you can potentially strip a screw and your motherboard could be stuck in there forever okay like i said this is where the magnetic screwdrivers come in handy so you can see i have a screw so just sort of line it up make sure you have good lighting as well line it up screw it down it's pretty much that simple screw it down until it starts to feel a little bit tighter then uh just make sure to screw down with confidence like what the verge would tell me so let's screw in these screws just make sure that they screw into the standoffs and make sure that they're not too tight then i'll just finish off the rest of them and show you in the next part of this video what they all look like all right so if you take a look at the motherboard you can see that there is a screw right here this is to screw on the on the motherboard to the case um and you can see there are more screws like over here and you'll basically just find eight of them and you can easily identify them because there's usually like metal protecting and like a clearly labeled circle this is where you screw down the motherboard onto the case okay this is where the fun begins make sure to find your 24 pin cable that is already plugged into the motherboard and don't worry about cable management yet just try to route it behind this cable management bar into here and make sure to line up the notches like we already did before like this it might be a little bit tight uh it looks a lot cleaner like this versus wrapping it around the cable management bar just kind of have to line it up and push it down it might be a little bit difficult like this so i'm gonna flip it over okay the motherboard 24 pin is secure i could see that there are no gaps so it looks secure and i lined it up correctly get the 24 i mean get the 8-pin cpu power cable and uh route it on top here and just try to plug it into the 8-pin header you can plug in the 4-pin one two just make sure to push it in all the way and the notches uh sort of clip in and you can pull the cpu cable back a little bit uh just to conceal it a little better so yeah it's pretty clean just tucked in way over there as well as this cable uh rather than like routing it over this bar just looks kind of ugly unless you have custom cable extensions so the next part we have to get the front panel connectors and we're going to plug it in down here so you remember this bundle of cables in the back it's in this like plastic bag you're gonna have to unravel it and open it up to find a whole bunch of cables okay this first cable should say f panel it's for the front panel just for the power button uh you also have this cable it looks kind of rainbowish it says hd auto that it's the audio that is for the front panel audio uh for up here on top of the case if you want to use your headphones top the case versus the back of the motherboard you also got this usb i think this is for the uh lighting controller the smart device that nzxt has as well as this blue tipped cable it's a really thick one this is for the front panel usb type a so if you want to plug in some usb devices in the front you have to plug that in and uh i think we also have a usbc cable yeah this right here plugs into the usbc header on your motherboard an internal header but unfortunately this motherboard i believe does not have usbc uh so this header that is in the case let me quickly focus focus on it okay it looks like this there's like a cap on it we do not need to use this because we don't have usbc on the motherboard and if you don't plug this in it's fine it just means that in the front or the top of the case you will not be able to plug in that and it will just not work also generally with all these bundle this whole bundle of front panel cables you want to try to route it underneath over here underneath this motherboard tray so it looks a lot cleaner you plug it in under here and route it there versus like just jumbling it all over here going across the cable management bar it looks ugly all right let's go for one of the first cables uh this blue tipped usb type a 3.0 like type a cable i kind of have to route it over here underneath this cable management bar there's a notch on this keep in mind there is a notch as well as a notch over here it should say usb 3.0 uh also check with your motherboard if you're not sure line up the notch and uh you kind of have to like flip it around so it doesn't look as messy okay like this and here we go just kind of flip it around and plug it in and it shouldn't be too hard to plug in just make sure that you completely plug it in and try to tuck in the cable as much as you can but uh there we go okay this usb 2.0 cable it should say usb 2.0 clearly on it make sure to line it up with the missing pin uh otherwise it won't fit and line it up with the usb 2.0 header you should have at least one on your motherboard so i'll just plug it in over there and let's do front panel header now or front panel connection so just route it underneath here it just looks a lot cleaner than running it elsewhere so yeah this also has a missing pin over here on this whole block and it it's really convenient with sdxt because they put all your front panel connections just in one single block make sure to line it up and i'm just checking the pins should be on this sort of block okay and if it doesn't work then you might have installed it wrong uh just if the power button doesn't work then you probably installed it wrong uh unless the power button is broken you need to send that into nxt so we got this sort of rainbowy cable it says hd audio it should go over here to where it says aafp or just something like fp or front panel uh audio or something along with that something along the lines of that uh just try to route it underneath over here there's clearly holes over here just to route your cables you want to use them okay there's also this missing pin over here on this block for audio let me move the case a little bit more over here hopefully you can see it there's a missing pin over here so make sure to line it up correctly and if it doesn't fit then you're probably installing it wrong okay uh i think i'm installing tomorrow let me see uh no okay no i was right okay okay and there we go just tucking the cable down here you don't want to see any of the cable try to tuck in as much of the cables as possible okay we got all the front panel stuff plugged in the n60 crack and cooler also had this usb 2.0 cable so uh we'll just put this in the back of the case and route it underneath for the second usb 2.0 header here and make sure to line it up with the missing pin over here and if it doesn't fit then try to flip it around or upside down okay and there it fits perfectly just sort of tuck in the cable and keep it in the back we're going to use it later okay we want to get this sata cable this one that we already plugged in before uh it's already plugged into the n60 pump cable that requires a sata power uh so we'll plug in one end of this sata power into the hard drive make sure to line up the notch again it should fit in perfectly if it does not fit in then you probably are installing it incorrectly so just make sure to line it up with the large half of the hard drive this is to power it to make sure that it actually can turn on so i think i'm doing it wrong just flip it around like this and it should line up with the notch and it should just plug in like that and you can just tuck in this excess cable later now you need to get these sata data cables it should come with your motherboard and we grabbed this earlier before we close up the motherboard box uh so take out all these sata cables so we can just use a right angle one uh since it is sort of a right angle and there's like a clip over here make sure to line it up with the other sort of portion or a third of the hard drive line it up and it should just click in you should hear a click too and then route it behind this cable management bar into the other side of the case and then we can just plug it into the case right now so let's flip around the case to this side you can see the sata data cable this part plugs into the motherboard uh so that you can actually use the hard drive so you can access it if we zoom in on the sata ports you can see this has a clip uh so yeah you to take it out you just unflip it and then just reinsert it like this and then it should just fit in like that okay now we need to install the radiator at the top of the case so when you pop this side panel off it might require a little bit of force and it might sound kind of harsh uh but yeah we need to take this out and you can see this dust filter at the front pop the top panel okay it's kind of difficult to pop off but there you go at the top you can see four thumb screws one here one here one here and one here just unscrew them so we could take off this radiator bracket uh they might be a little bit tight so you might have to use a screwdriver unscrew this and then unscrew the last screw now we take off the radiator bracket try to clear your desk a little bit and we're going to install the radiator onto this bracket you should have eight small screws and just screw the radiator onto the bracket make sure to line it up with the holes uh let's do this one over here okay now we need to unscrew the fans and flip them around so that the cable uh so the cables over here are on this side instead so just have to unscrew these screws long screws just flip the fans around like that okay now that i have flipped the fans around let's get these fan cables and route it under here there's a cut out here for a reason so just drop in the liquid cooler and radiator now that the radiator is in we just have to screw back in the thumb screws let's apply a piece size amount of thermal paste in the middle of the cpu we're going to use arctic mx4 just put a pea sized amount in the middle and that looks great okay now we just have to lower this down like we did before and then use these thumbnails to screw it down with the opposite corners uh so let's just line up the holes and once you touch the thermal paste make sure not to lift it back up i actually did lift it all up a little bit but it didn't touch the thermal paste so that was fine and uh just hold it down use the thumb screws to screw it down screw down the cooler make sure they're tight you don't really need a screwdriver to ensure that they're tight and then you can adjust the tubing all you want okay now we need to unscrew the uh second and third pcie slot covers there should be thumb screws inside the case uh and then you just unscrew one take off this pcie slot cover and keep it because you might need it in the future if you ever sell the case or give it to a friend okay and here are the slot covers and if you look on the inside of the case over here you can see thumbscrews over here so also make sure to unclip this pcie slot we're using the top one because it's an x16 speed i don't know about uh this one this could be x8 but it doesn't matter we're gonna use this top slot to put in the graphics card okay now that we have this unclipped just line it up with the slot so just make sure that this lines up and you should also hear a just click to move it in a little bit more and then uh almost there okay okay there we heard a clip and you could see the pcie clip is back up so uh we can use the thumb screws and screw this back on just screw down the graphics card make sure that it doesn't move around during transit uh even if you're not moving this around you do need to screw this down just so it doesn't sag as much either gonna double check make sure they're tight okay here we go and you can see the gpu isn't sagging uh and then we have to plug in the gpu pcie power connectors to power it okay you see the pcie slots again are the pcie connector uh we need to plug this in to the graphics card uh so we want to route it under this hole over here under here and yeah okay so plug this end in it should just clip in like that and then the six pin part we can leave the two pin part out and should plug in just make sure it's tight and there we go and then you can pull down the excess cable so uh we just want to show as little cable as possible there we go okay cable management time and we also need to plug in some of the fan headers as well uh so cpu power cable it should route somewhat like this motherboard 24 pin should route something like this through this raceway here and then the gpu power cables and everything else we can kind of stuff down here if you want to uh so let's route the cpu power cable you also might want to use some twist ties as well let me grab one but actually i think we might use the fan headers on the motherboard because uh you need a cpu fan header or you need something on the cpu fan header or else the motherboard is not going to boot so we can also route the 24 pin motherboard power cable like so this and use the velcro ties so like we already did before plug in the usb cable and it should go right here okay and then plug in this pump header uh it's kind of stuck here and the aio pump cable can go right here you can kind of route it under it's not long enough i think i'll have to actually i can ride it like this around here okay yeah this looks good yeah i don't pump just plug it in like this and then uh you can kind of conceal it under there and try to route these cables under if you can as well as around the vrm heatsinks like this because you don't want to you want to have them like covering the vrm heatsinks just looks kind of ugly so you can route them around and the two kraken fans uh we can plug them into the cpu and cpu optional fan headers that are kind of being blocked by the radiator they're just sort of under there you might have to reach in there and then we can tuck in the cables a little bit later okay i lifted up the radiator we can plug in this cpu fan cable right here and then plug in the other one right next to it to the cpu optional fan header plate here and then uh we can just tuck in these this excess cabling into the back of the case like this so we don't have to see it then just lower the radiator down again and we can screw it back in with the thumb screws okay now we can tuck in the fan cables over here and get a zip tie or a twist tie or something so let me just tuck this in then tuck this one in like this right under here get twist ties tie up these cables and then hide it like there get some more twist ties uh let's tie these together up here then just conceal it like that okay then we have to worry about the mess down here the n60 smart hub also needs a state of power uh so uh got that plugged in okay for cable management this doesn't look that bad time to close up the side panels all right first boot let's turn on the pc uh it's inside the case and i already download drivers and everything but first boot while it's inside the case let's go what okay i think i just set the front panel headers on in correctly so okay there yeah it's okay it's turning on uh pretty sure it was just incorrect front panel headers let's also go to uh format create format hard disk partitions and initialize the hard drive new simple volume next next sure we'll just make a d finish okay there and so we've initialized the hard drive so now we have the ssd for windows and the hard drive is ready uh to be used so you can see right now pc recognizes the hard drive and uh as the some people manufacturers actually forget to do this which is kind of common because they don't actually uh care about their builds so yeah all right so thank you so much for watching this video building this pc for a customer uh so i had a ton of fun building this it's that i spent a couple hours because i had to film everything and i wanted to troubleshoot everything uh outside the case before putting it inside uh because if you if you do encounter any problems and you already installed everything in the case it's going to be a pain just trying to remove everything after you've already cable managed you already screwed everything so it is just a safer bet to test it out before you put it inside the case it does take a lot more time though so as a reminder if you'd like to pick up any of the parts below i'll link them in the description uh they are going to be affiliate links so i do not so i do earn a tiny bit of commission from them but it does not come at an additional cost to you and also if you do want to purchase a custom pre-built pc or a preset one uh then just check out specify.tech i'll leave a website link in the description down below for your convenience and uh i'll try to take as many orders as i humanly can and i'll just be really busy throughout the next couple weeks or months or whatever so thank you all so much for watching please leave a like and subscribe if you enjoyed this video as well i hope to create more build videos in the future as well as more in-depth tutorials so if you enjoyed this one please let me know in the comments what you thought about it as well and i'll definitely try to improve as time goes on and i build more pcs

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Length: 71min 29sec (4289 seconds)

Published: Wed Jul 29 2020