Corsair 5000D Airflow PC Build Guide - Step by Step

hello and welcome back to another pc build today i'm going to show you how to build a pc in corsair's 5000 d airflow and this is going to be another full step-by-step pc build guide where i'm going to show you how to put all the parts i've got in front of me together and come up with a fully working pc by the end of the video so if you've never built a pc before you've definitely come to the right place so let's take a look at the parts i've chosen for today's build for the motherboard i've gone with azeroth's brand new b550 phantom gaming riptide motherboard i've already done a full unboxing and overview for this motherboard if you want to find out more about it you'll find a link to that video in the description for the cpu i've gone with amd's at ryzen9 5900x which is a 12 core 24 thread cpu which should give us a really powerful pc keeping that cpu cool i've gone with be quiet's latest ai oh it's the silent loop 2 and i've got the 360 millimeter version for storage i'm going with a single gen 4 m.2 ssd for this build it's from sabrin and it's their blistering fast rocket 4 plus drive and i've got the 2 terabyte capacity version for ram i've got 32 gigabytes of kingston's hyperx fury rgb at 3600 megahertz speed for the graphics card i've gone with nvidia's 3060 ti pouring the whole build i've got b quads brand new pure par 11 fully modular power supply and i've got the 650 watt version for case fans i'm going to be using leon lee's latest version of the uni fans the l120s and this case will accommodate up to 10 case fans and that's exactly what i'm going to be putting in it the final part for today's build is some white cable extensions from cable mode and obviously these are optional but it will significantly improve the look of the build okay that's all the parts covered let's get on with the build the first thing i want to do is get the case required and i'll point out the main case features as we go the tempered glass side panel is held on the two captive thumb screws at the back once we have loosened these we can simply pull the panel out to the side and lift it away the front panel can simply be removed by pulling it off and beneath this we've got a dust filter we can pull this down and lift it away the top panel is removed in exactly the same way just by lifting it up from the top beneath it we've got a magnetic dust filter which can simply lift it up and away the other side panel is removed in exactly the same way loosen up the captive thumb screws slide the panel out to the side and then simply lift it away taking a look at the panel we've just removed you can see we've got perforations and a magnetic dust filter taking a closer look at the rear of the case we've got this door which opens up which is great but it's going to hide all our cables taking a look at the back of the case you can see we've got some cable raceways with velcro straps we've got a pwm fan hub which will accommodate up to six fans and you can see our two included case fans are already plugged into it we've got three two and a half inch ssd mounts which can be removed by lifting the thumb screw at the top and lifting away alternatively two of these can be mounted in the main body of the case down at the bottom of the case where our power supply goes we've got an additional panel which allows us to change the layout of the front of the case i'll show you how this works when we move to the front down at the bottom of the case we've got a hard drive cage which will accommodate up to two three and a half inch drives and this is normally where we get our accessory box so this is going to contain all the screws that we're going to need for the build as we've mentioned we're going with a single m.2 ssd so i'm going to go ahead and remove the hard drive cage to make more room for our power supply and cables it's held on the two thumb screws over to the side taking a closer look at the internal layout of the case we can see we've got seven horizontal pci expansion slots and two vertical slots we've got a single 120 millimeter fan at the rear of the case which is plugged into our fan hub and we're also able to mount two of the two and a half inch drives directly in the main body of the case at the front of the case we've got another 120 millimeter fan this is on a removable fan bracket to remove the bracket we just need to loosen two thumb screws one at the top one at the bottom then we can simply pull the bracket away and lift it right and i have already unplugged the fan from the fan hub at the back so as i've mentioned i'm planning on using the leon lee unifan so i'm going to go ahead and remove this fan from the bracket and also the fan at the back of the case taking a look at the cases found mounting locations we can mount three 120 millimeter fans on the removable bracket at the front a further three at the top and one at the rear i've already told you the case will accommodate up to 10 case fans and you probably noted the perforations on this solid side panel to use the side mounting locations where we can mount another three 120 millimeter fan we need to remove this bracket to remove the bracket we've got two screws to remove one here and one here and there's also two thumb screws in here which we need to remove with the two screws removed and the thumb screws loosened we should simply be able to remove this panel again using the side of the case for fans is optional and obviously if you don't want to do this leave the panel on and it's going to make everything look nice and tidy so you might notice this panel here is going to block our fans at the back and it's not going to look so good so this is what the replacement panel was for at the back so we go ahead and remove this there's two thumb screws there's one at the side and then one at the back here and once we've removed these we can simply lift this panel up and away we can then go ahead and take our replacement panel slot it into place and then use a single thumb screw at the back to secure it into place and you see this is going to look a whole lot tighter at the side and we're going to be able to see all our fans and the airflow isn't going to be obstructed but importantly this lower panel here is going to keep all our power supply cables from spilling into the front of the case we're now ready to start working the motherboard and we're going to do as much work with the motherboard while we have it on the table as we can so we're going to go ahead and install our cpu the brackets for our cpu color our m.2 ssd and our ram all before we put the motherboard into the case to prepare the motherboard to receive the cpu we just need to open this lever all the way to the right hand side importantly before we install our cpu you'll notice this top corner here has a little triangle on it and there's also a little mark on the motherboard and we need to line up a marker on the cpu with this corner this is our cpu you'll notice i'm holding it by the sides and the reason for that is i don't want to damage these gold pins on the underside of the cpu if you look at the corner of the cpu at the top of the screen you'll notice it has a gold triangle on it and i turn it round and you have a look now the same corner is now down the bottom left-hand side and there's also a little gold triangle on that corner as well so that's the corner we're going to need to line up with the mark on the socket okay so i've got the cpu lined up the right way i'm going to hover it over to the socket and just let it fall into place if it doesn't fall in immediately i'm going to move it about and then at one point like it has done now it'll just fall into the socket i'm not going to go pushing down on it where i can damage the pins to secure our cpu all i'm going to do is close the lever next we can go ahead and install the brackets for our cpu killer to do this we're going to need to remove the standard brackets each is held on with two screws importantly don't throw these away put them in your motherboard box because you want to change your cpu color or sell your motherboard you'll need these in the future next we need to go ahead and put a spacer on each of the corners then we've got two of these little brackets to go on there's two holes on each side one is labeled m4 so i'm going to go ahead and put the screws so the ones labeled m4 and then i'm going to lower this down on top of the spacers and what i find if you give the screws a little turn by hand first of all it just helps hold things in place and then we can go ahead and tighten things up with the screwdriver we're now ready to install our m.2 ssd and you'll notice there's three places in this motherboard you can install an m.2 drive there's one behind this heatsink there's one here and there's one here now this is only a short m.2 ssd if you want to add wi-fi into the motherboard so there's only two that are actually going to be able to accommodate our drive as this is a b550 motherboard it's only the top slot that will support the gen4 speed so we're going to want to install our drive behind this heatsink it will work in this bottom socket but it will be limited to gen 3 speeds the heatsink is held on the two screws we'll go ahead and remove them so to install our drive all we need to do is line it up with the socket inserted in it at a slight angle and then when we lower it down and put our heatsink back on this screw is also going to secure the drive as well as securing the heatsink just before we put the heatsink back on there's some plastic protection we need to remove and then we can go ahead and lower our heatsink down into place and then we'll go ahead and secure things into place with the two screws we removed earlier on we're now ready to go ahead and install our ram and we just need to open the clips on all four of the slots then we go ahead and line the ram up with a slot once we're happy everything is in place we just need to apply some firm pressure to the top the ram is going to lock into place and the clip close next we need to go ahead and install the motherboard's io shield into the case so go ahead and line things up once we're happy everything's in place just apply some firm pressure obviously taking care not to cut your fingers if we look carefully at the back of the case the middle standoff doesn't have a screw and there's a long betraying bit it's going to go through the center hole in the motherboard and help hold it in place allowing us to get the other screws into place so we go ahead and align the motherboard up with the i o shield at the back of the case and try and get that middle stand off through the motherboard and then that is going to hold the motherboard in place we can then secure the motherboard in place with the screws from the accessory box next we can go ahead and get our case cables plugged in so i'm going to start off with our hd audio cable which is going to go into this header on the bottom left hand side of the motherboard and we're going to need to install it with the hd audio text facing up the way then moving over to the header in the bottom right hand side of the motherboard and these are for our front panel connectors our power switch our reset switch and our par led so starting off with the bottom row independent three and four from the left hand side i'm going to go ahead and plug in our reset switch doesn't matter which way it goes i'm just going to plug it in with the text facing down the way moving up to the top row pins one and two from the left hand side are for par led positive and par led negative pins three and four in the top row from the left hand side are for the par switch again it doesn't matter which way this one goes so i'm going to plug it in with the text facing down the way and then i'm just going to go ahead and pull all the excess cable through to the back next i'm going to plug in our usb 3.0 cable which lets the two type a ports on the top of the case work there's two places we can plug it but you plug it into this right angle connector or the forward facing connector here i'm just gonna look tighter into the right angle connector so line things up push into place and then pull all the excess cable through to the back next we've got our type c connector i'm going to bring it through this cutout here it goes into this header here line it up and push into place at the back of the case there's two case cables i haven't plugged in one is a sata connector for par and the other is a four pin pwm connector and both these cables go to our fan hub at the back of the case now i'm not planning on using this fan hub so there's no reason for me to plug these into our motherboard or the sata cable into our power supply if you are planning on using the hub then obviously plug this into one of the pwm connectors of your motherboard and this one into your power supply okay so this is our power supply as i mentioned it's fully modular which means it comes without any of the cables plugged in and the big advantage of this is you only need to plug the cables in that you're going to need to use i've gone ahead and done this because i don't think you want to watch me doing this so we've got a 24 pin connector we've got a neat pin and a 4 pin eps connector to provide additional part of our cpu i've got a single pcie cable which has got two six plus two pins and i've also plugged in a sata cable as well although we're not going to install any solid drives we are going to need this to power our hub which we're going to use for our liang lee fans now i did mention i was going to use some white cable extensions so i'm going to go ahead and plug one of these into our 24 pin connector there we go i've also got this custom cable for the graphics card it contains a 12 pin connector to two eight pin connectors and this doesn't come as part of the cable kit you need to get this separately from cable mods so i'm going to go ahead and plug it into our pcie cable we'll line the six and the two pin connectors up and plug things into place there we go now i'm not going to add white cable extensions into these cables providing additional parts of the cpu and the reason for that is once we put our radar at the top you're not going to see these cables anyway and cable management is much easier without the cable extensions okay we're now ready to go ahead and get the power supply installed in the case importantly we're going to want to install it with a power supplies intake fan facing down the way if we take a closer look at the bottom of the case you'll notice we've got a perforated panel down here and beneath it there is a removable dust filter so this is where our power supply is going to get its fresh air from if you installed the wrong way round it's going to be up against the inside of the case where it's going to get hotter from inside the case rather than cooler from outside the case okay so if we lift these cables up out of the way and slide our power supply in at the bottom all the way to the back of the case then we go ahead and get our power supply secured into place using the screws that came with the power supply then we can go ahead and plug in the cable so i'm going to bring our 24 pin connector through this cutout line it up with the motherboard and push into place and then we can use these cable combs to tidy up the cable up at the top of the case i'm going to bring our 8 pin eps cable through line it up with the header and push into place same thing with our four pin cable bring it through line it up and push into place we are now ready to start working the i o and the first thing for us to do is to go ahead and get our fans installed on the radiator so we've got these long radiator screws which i'm going to go ahead and line up and then we go ahead and just tighten the screws up with the screwdriver coming from each of the fans we've got a single 4-pin pwm connector and these all need to go into your cpu fan header so be quiet include a three to one pwm splitter cable so we're gonna need to go ahead and plug these into the splitter cable so that now leaves us a single four pin pwm fan connector to go into your cpu fan header take a look at the cables coming from our pump and we've got two cables coming from the pump one is a three pin fan connector which is going to go into our pump fan header on the motherboard the other is a three pin five volt addressable rgb connector which we're going to plug into one of the rgb headers on our motherboard one of the nice things that be quite do is they include a splitter cable which is going to allow you to daisy chain another device onto it if you're going to need it we're not going to need this for this build next we go ahead and line our io up at the top of the case and then get things secured into place using some of the short radiator screws then we can go ahead and reapply the dust filter to the top of the case and also the top panel [Music] next i'm going to go ahead and pull all the cables coming from the fans through to the back of the case i'm then going to go ahead and bring the 4-pin pwm connector back through again and go ahead and plug this into our cpu fan header which is just at the top of the motherboard and then again pull the excess cable through to the back next we need to add a pea-sized amount of thermal paste to the center of the cpu if you're using the i o for the first time you're going to have some plastic protection to remove from the cool plate i've used this before so i can skip this step and then i just want to go ahead and line this up with the bracket we secured on the motherboard once i'm happy everything's lined up we can go ahead and tighten things up with the screwdriver as i've mentioned we've got two cables coming from the pump the first is a three pin fan connector which is going to go into our pump header which is just here then what i'm going to do is i'm going to bring the excess cable up and out of the way and tuck it in next we've got a three pin five volt addressable rgb connector we've got a header in the top right hand corner of the motherboard so i'm going to go ahead and plug it into here and then what i'm going to do is just pull all the excess cable through to the back of the case this brings us on to our liang the uni fans and we're going to have three fans the front three fans at the side and one fan at the rear so we can go ahead and join the fans together really easy just line them up and push in together then we need to add one of these connectors to each group of leon lee uni fans so we'll go ahead and clip this one onto the side and push into place making our single fan three fans go ahead and line things up and push into place now coming from each group of fans one of the nice things is we've only got two cables we've got a standard four pin fan connector and we've got an argb connector let's go ahead and get these installed so we can go ahead and secure the fans at the front of the case to the removable bracket that we removed earlier on so after you've seen me secure these to the bracket i've just turned the fans round so the wires are now coming from the top of the bracket because i think this is going to work better at the back of the case so we go ahead and slide the bracket into place there we go and secure it into place with the two thumb screws we can then go ahead and take our next grip of lean the unifans slide them into place and then we'll go ahead and get these secured at the back of the case one of the things i forgot to mention earlier this door is removable it's probably better to take this off at the start of the build and then we go ahead and add the rear fan then we can go ahead and resecure the dust filter and front panel this is our lian lee fan hub and it's got four channels one two three and four and we've got two connectors in each channel and they're the two connectors coming from each group of leanly uni fans a four pin fan connector and an argb connector so i'm going to go ahead and get these plugged in so the two connectors coming from our rear fans we're going to go ahead and plug in the 4-pin pwm fan connector and also the rgb connector coming from the other end of our hub we've got three connectors one of which is already plugged in got a usb cable plugged in which we're gonna need to plug into one of the usb 2.0 headers on our motherboard into the larger connection we can go ahead and plug the included cable which is a saturn power connector to power our hub so we need to plug this other end into one of the sata cables coming from our power supply then we'll go ahead and plug the final connector in it's got two cables coming from it and one is a three pin five volt a rgb connector and the other is a four pin pwm connector so we need to plug these in to allow our motherboard to control the speed of the fans and also the rgb effects if we wish so i'm gonna go ahead and get all these cables plugged in okay so while we're at the back of the case just going to go ahead and plug the sata cable in down at the bottom of the motherboard we've got three usb 2.0 connectors i'm just going to go ahead and plug into this one here and then pull the excess cable through to the back bringing our pwm connector here we've got two fan headers so i'm going to go ahead and plug into here and then right next to that fan header we've got our argb connector so i'm going to go ahead and plug into here as well and then again pull any excess cable through to the back last thing for us to do is install our graphics cards we need to remove the second and third horizontal bracket then we just need to open the clip on the top pcie slot next we just need to go ahead and align our graphics card up with a slot once we're happy everything's lined up just some firm pressure to the graphics card and it will clip into place and the clip will close then we can go ahead and secure our graphics card into place with the two thumb screws we removed earlier on if you are going with a much bigger graphics card azure concluded gpu support bracket with the motherboard which is a really nice feature to have obviously this graphics card is too small we don't need a support bracket then we can go ahead and bring our power cable for our graphics card through this cutter bottom go ahead and get things plugged into the graphics card and then we can use the cable combs to tidy up the cables coming from the graphics card final thing to do is some cable management so i'm going to use some double-sided adhesive to secure our leanne lee hub to this plate here in the back of the case we've got some raceways and of course here includes some velcro straps to make cable management easier so we'll go ahead and get the cables tidied up [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] uh [Music] [Music] okay so that's the build complete we've now reached the important stage we need to flip the power switch and see does it work importantly i have loaded a windows 10 buildable usb drive into the back of the pc if you don't know how to make one of those i've made a video on it and you'll find a link to that in the description okay here it goes so that's a good sign we've got lights and fans spinning next thing we're just going to need to watch the monitor and see what happens so there's a good sign we've got the windows logo appearing which means it's find the buildable drive in the back of the pc and loaded off that and we're up on the windows installer screen what i'm going to do now i'm going to show you how to install windows 10 but to make things a little bit easier i'm going to flip over to the screen mode okay i'm not going to show you how to install windows 10 over the next lot of screens i'm going to pick the options that are relevant to me obviously if you have different options pick the ones that are relevant to you as well between all the steps i'm going to go ahead and speed everything up i'm from the united kingdom so i'm going to click next i'm going to click install now if you've got a windows 10 product key you can go ahead and enter in the box if you don't have one i'll show you what you do you click i don't have a product key select the version of windows you're going to get a product key for in the future i'm going to select windows 10 pro and click next we're going to accept the license terms and we're going to go for a custom install so as we've only got one drive installed only one drive is showing up so i'm going to click on it and click next and this step will take a little bit of time so i'll go ahead and speed things up okay so i'm from the united kingdom i'm going to click yes yes again i'm going to skip a secondary keyboard so it's asking us to connect to your network i do have an ethernet cable plugged into the pc but it doesn't seem to be recognizing it sometimes it will sometimes it won't in staging with the drivers not being installed and we'll have to install the drivers later to get things to work so we're gonna have to click i don't to internet we're gonna click on continue with limited setup and then i'm gonna type my name in i'm gonna have to create a password and then create three security questions i'm gonna click don't use online to recognition um no to that app she uses my location notifying my device just the required data no taking no again no again i'm going to click on not my okay that's windows installed the first thing for us to do is to get connected to the internet and we hover down here you can see there's no connections available so we're going to need to install our drivers before the ethernet cable is going to be picked up okay so we're going to get our ethernet drivers from azrock's page and i'll show you this later on i've done this in a separate computer put it on a usb drive and i'm going to go ahead and plug the usb drive in now so we'll go ahead and click on our usb drive click on the driver click yes next install and click finish so we've got this pop-up we're going to click on yes and we click down here we're now connected to the internet so first thing i like to do is get windows fully up to date before i do anything else we're going to click on the windows icon click on the settings click on updates and security and click on check for updates so what's going to happen is windows is going to find a whole load of updates we're going to let these install some of them will require a restart but we're going to come back into here and keep checking for updates and only move on when there's no more updates available okay so that's windows fully up to date whenever i click on check for updates there's no more updates available next thing i want to do is get our drivers installed so we're going to head over to our motherboards page over on asrock's website and you can see the drivers that are available for download now i've already installed the lan driver this is where i came to and clicked on download and put it onto the usb drive so i don't tend to install all of these so i'll show you which ones i would install so i'm going to install the audio drivers the chipset drivers like i said we've already done the lan drivers i don't tend to install the sata or rear drivers or the vga drivers and the only other driver there's not really a driver it's a program is asrock polychrome to help us control the rgb on our motherboard so we'll click on it as well we can then go ahead and close the web page down head over to our downloads folder and you'll see the three files we have downloaded we're going to right click and go extract all and extract and then we're going to repeat that process for each of the three files and then the compressed files we can go ahead and delete okay so let's start off by installing the chipset drivers click on yes and we're going to click on install okay we're going to restart so we'll do that now okay we'll go ahead and install the audio drivers and click on setup click yes and click on next and again we're gonna have to restart our computer so i'm gonna go ahead and do that now and then we go ahead and install polychrome [Music] click yes next next install okay that's it installed i'm going to show you this later on with the leon lee rgb software but there's one more driver i want to install okay so we're going to get the drivers for our graphics card from nvidia's website i put all the relevant details into the boxes i'm going to click on search to find the drivers i'm going to click download and download okay if we head over to our downloads folder click yes click ok so i'm just going to go ahead and install the driver if you want to install the geforce experience you can as well click agree and continue we're just going to go for express installation click next and then we can click on close okay so that's all the drivers we're going to need installed just before we go into the rgb software i want to head back to your motherboards page and take a look at the bios tab so i have got this motherboard pre-release so the chances are it's got version 1.1 of the bios there is a version 1.2 available so i'm going to go ahead and download this and put it on a usb drive so that when we go into the bias later if we have only got 1.1 installed i can go ahead and update it to 1.2 and show you how to do that so i'm going to go ahead and click on download so we can head over to our downloads folder i'm going to extract the bias and it's this file here that's actually our bias file so i'm going to copy it over to our usb drive paste okay so that's ready to go for later on okay so let's take a look at the rgb software so we're going to go ahead and open up polychrome click yes okay so that's us into the program so we can either adjust the onboard leds or the components and then under the components we've got our ram so i'm going to go ahead and select the ram and at the moment it's set to running i'm going to go with a static color so we'll go to static and then i would like white so i'm going to go ahead i can either drag these wheels or if we can go into here and drag this all the way over to the top corner and you'll notice the ram now has turned to white so we go ahead back into the onboard leds so i can go ahead and change the individual components or we can select all the channels so i'm going to go ahead and select all the channels at the moment they are currently set to rainbow so i can go ahead and click on this and go to static and again if i want things to change to white i'm just going to go ahead and drag this again all the way over to the top corner and what you will notice is the pump head has changed to white and the lighting on the chipset has also changed to white our liaisons haven't changed because they're going to be controlled by leanne lee's l connect software so i'll go ahead and show you how to control them now okay so that is over on lian lee's webpage and we're going to go ahead and download lconnect 2. okay we head over to the downloads folder i'm going to right click and go for extract all extract okay we can click on the lconnect to setup okay so windows is warning us about the program we need to click on more info and then run anyway click yes select english and go for ok next next install okay so this is leon lee's lconnect software where we can control the lighting on the fans but also the fan speed at the moment the fans are currently set to pwm mode taking their speed off the motherboard so i'm going to leave it on this if you did want to adjust it you can do it from this pull down menu so we need to adjust our rgb group 1 is actually the fans on the side of the case at the moment they're set to rainbow and only two fans are connected and if you look in the case only two of the fans are lighting up we've got three fans in this group so i'm going to go ahead and select three and click apply so we can see now that the bottom fan has led up again and is currently set to rainbow we'll just go ahead and adjust all the fans um into group number two like in this one we've only actually got one fan it's the one at the back click apply and then group three is the fans at the front of the case it's currently set to two but we've actually got three so we'll click on apply and you can actually see this on the screen but actually the front bottom fan is now lighting up so if we want to actually change the lighting we can do it in a number of ways if you look at the uni fans there's light in the middle and there's also the four bars around the outside and we can adjust both with this symbol selected it means the whole fan is set to rainbow if we want to just adjust the center we can go into here if we want to just adjust the bit around the outside we can go to here and pick whatever we want and we can have completely different effects on the outside and the center i'm going to be quite boring and do what i normally do and set everything just to static white because i think it's going to look really good in this white case so i'm going to select the whole of the fan i'm going to go for static color click on ok and what we can do you can see the fans are currently blue red green and yellow so we want all three of the fans in the group to go to white we need to select the white and paint them in i'm just going to paint all four and if i want to apply it just to this grip of fans i would click apply if i want to apply it to all our fans i'm just going to click on apply to all and what you can notice is all the fans in the case have now turned to white for some reason it's gone back to just two fans again and you can see the bottom fan isn't lit up at the moment i'm gonna go ahead and click on three and apply to all and then the two bottom fans at the front are now lighting up again okay so we can close the l connect software down next thing to do is head over to the bias to do that we're going to restart our computer click restart and then whenever the screen goes black we're going to start pressing delete and this will take us into the bias okay the screen's gone black i'm going to start pressing delete and that's us into the bias okay so that's us into the bias and the first thing i'm noticing we only have version 1.1 installed and 1.2 is available and that's what we have copied onto our usb drive so the first thing i'm going to do is show you how to update the bias the reason i start with this is when you update the bias any changes you've made are quite often reset so we make changes but have to do them again a word of caution in updating the bias you should really only do it if you need to ie if you're having problems with your computer or the new version offers features that you're going to need because if something goes wrong during the bias update you can actually break your motherboard and it's really important you don't lose power during the update okay so i'm going to go ahead and click on tool and then going to click on instant flash let's find the version of the bios on our usb drive i'm going to click on update it's going to ask do we want to do it i'm going to click yes okay that's the bias updated i'm going to press enter to rebuild the system okay that's us back into the bias and you can see we're now running version 1.2 of the bios first thing i'm noticing is that our ram is only running at 2400 megahertz although it can run at 3600 megahertz so we need to head into oc tweaker and if we head down here to load xmp setting it's currently on auto so i'm going to click on it and then we've got two profile options we can choose from i'm going to select the first one and this will then get our ram running at 3 600 megahertz next thing i want to do is head over to the advanced tab and then we're going to click on amd overclocking we're going to click on accept and then we're going to click on precision boost overdrive by default this is set to auto so you're going to want to go in and click enabled so this isn't always something i will come and enable and it was only when i was doing the thermal testing the cpu reached a maximum temperature of 55 during a 964 stability test and it should be up in the 80s or the 90s when i looked at the clock speed they were incredibly low i went in and enabled this and actually went back and re-ran the tests and the clock speeds were what i would expect them to be and the temperature back up around about 86 degrees so i think if you are following this build you are going to want to enable this and rather than overclocking it's really getting the cpu running as i would expect it to i also want to have a check of our fans while we're in here so we'll click on the hardware monitor and it's going to give us some information on our fans so heading down here we can see our cpu fan one which is the three fans on our radiator is running in standard mode we can click on here and make any adjustments to it if we want to to adjust the rest of our fans we can go into the fan configuration and control all the other fans in the system okay so cpu fan 2 is where we've actually plugged the pump of our io so i'm going to click on it and change it to water pump it's currently running in auto it is only a three pin connector so it's going to need to run in dc mode and at the moment it's running full speed if i want to change that i can go into here and adjust it i'm happy with the pump running at full speed that would be what i normally would do if you find it noisy you can go in here and adjust it the only other place we've plugged fans into is into chassis fan one and that's the pwm connector coming from our lian lee hub so it's currently running in auto it can run in pwm mode so i'm going to go ahead and select that and it's on silent mode i'm just going to go with standard mode for that and it's currently monitoring the motherboard temperature and adjusting the fan speeds based on that i'm going to select cpu temperature so it's going to run off that okay that's all the fans set up just the way i would want them so i'm going to click on exit and then we'll click on save changes and exit and click yes and then the pc will boot back into windows first thing i want to do is check our ram is running at the correct speed so we right click on the windows icon and go to task manager we're going to click on more details and click on the performance tab click on the memory and we can see it's now running at 3600 megahertz okay so that's the pc looking good and running well i've also done some thermal testing and as you'd expect with the pc with six intake fans at the front and the 360 millimeter i o the temperatures were pretty good our cpu idled at 35 degrees while under a 20 minute i to 64 stability test it reached a maximum temperature of 86 degrees our gpu idle to 29 reaching a maximum of 61 degrees during the 20 minute is 64 stability test and again as you'd expect with a pc with 10 fans noise levels were in the moderate to high range at idle the average noise levels were 37 decibels while under the 20 minute is force 64 stability test the average noise level was 50 decibels so definitely one of the things you could do to save yourself some money and bring the noise levels down a little bit is leave the side fans out although i think this is going to adversely affect the look of the building i think the particularly unique fans look great on the side but this should give you some ideas in terms of temperature and noise levels to help you adjust things i find this a particularly easy case to build in and in fact it was one of the easiest cases for cable management at the back so hopefully you find the video useful if you have please remember to give it a thumbs up and if you're not currently subscribed to the channel please hit the subscribe button as well thanks for watching you

Channel: Christopher Flannigan

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Id: HBlzHWBd2vI

Length: 42min 50sec (2570 seconds)

Published: Thu Jul 15 2021