Fractal Meshify 2 Step-by-Step PC Build Guide

hello and welcome back to another video so today i've got another full pc build guide for you and i'm going to be showing you how to put all the parts i've got in front of me together today to come up with a fully working pc by the end of the video so if you've not built a pc before you've come to the right place i'm going to be going through everything step by step so let's have a look at the parts i've chosen for today's build so starting off with the case i've gone with fractal designs latest case it's the meshify 2 so this is not only a great looking case but you can fit an awful lot of hardware into it it supports motherboards up to eacx it can support up to nine 140 millimeter fans and three are included with the case and there's lots of support for large radiators with a 360 millimeter radiator supported at the front and up to a 420 millimeter radiator supported at the top we'll have no problems filling large graphics cards as well with graphics cards up to 491 millimeters being supported for the motherboard i've gone with msi's ax 570 unifi this is an all black motherboard without any rgb and i think it's going to fit well with the theme of the build that i've got planned for the cpu i've gone with the ryzen 9 3900x which is a 12 core cpu it's going to be great for productivity but will also work very well for gaming as well so though those m3 ryzen cpus have been released they're not currently available to buy anywhere at the moment they're fully sold out so if you are one of the lucky few who's managed to get your hands on one of them or if you're watching this video later on when they're widely available the steps for building with them will be exactly the same as the 3900x for ram i've got 64 gigabytes of try and z neo in 3600 megahertz speed for storage i'm going with all m.2 ssds for this build and i've got two drives from samsung i've got their latest 980 pro which is a gen 4 drive but i've also got their 970 evo which is a gen 3 drive both in one terabyte of size pouring the whole build i've got an 850 watt fully modular power supply from corsair it's their rm850x for the graphics card i've gone with the rog strix 2080 ti and the reason i've gone for that is a very similar story to the cpu i'm still waiting to get my hands on a rtx 3080 and about a pre-order in from day one very slowly working up the queue to getting it if you are one of the lucky ones who's managed to get your hands on one of the new 3000 series cards the step for building will be exactly the same as with the 28 eti and one of the nice things about this case is you're able to support very long graphics cards up to 491 millimeters so you shouldn't have any problem fitting any of the new graphics cards into this case so i've already mentioned this case comes with three 140 millimeter case fans included we're going to fill up three of the case fan slots with our 360 millimeter aio leaving us three potential spaces we can add extra case fans to i have picked up three extra case fans they're 140 millimeter fans from be quiet they are purewings 2 fans i've used these in a number of builds before and been impressed both with the noise and the cooling performance i'm not sure if i'm going to occupy all the three additional slots i'm just going to see how the build goes today but i've got three fans should i want to do that final part of the build none of my builds would be complete without some cable extensions from cable mod and i'm going to use some black and white cable extensions in this build okay so that's all the parts let's get on with the build okay so the first thing i like to do in any build is to prepare the case and by preparing the case i mean remove any panels dust filters that are going to get in the way during the build this case has quite a few neat features in it so i'm going to spend a little bit longer and show you each of these features in this section as well to remove the side timber glass panel there's a little notch on the back of the case which we just need to pull forward and then we can lift the panel straight out it's exactly the same process on the back there's a little notch at the back of the case which we're going to put forward and lift the panel straight out there's additional cable cover down here at the back which we're going to pull out and lift out the mesh bit of the front panel is on hinges and the opening you just need to grab the fractal logo and it should slide out to the side it doesn't open all the way but this panel can be removed by just pulling it forward now what you'll notice this is actually two different layers at the back we have an optional dust filter which can be removed just by pushing up here and this slides out so what fractal design are doing here is giving you a choice as to what is most important to you if it's airflow and having the best possible temperatures you can leave out this dust filter and just work off the mesh front panel without the dust filter if you're more concerned about just getting into your case and less concerned about temperatures you can have both layers of mesh and dust filter at the front i am going to be testing the effects of removing the dust filter and just working off the mesh or having both them in in my full case review so you might want to check that out before deciding whether you want to leave this out or not at the front of your build to remove the rest of the front panel you simply just pull it forward there is an additional dust filter down the bottom of the case which you simply remove by just pulling it forward to remove the top mesh panel it's just a matter of lifting it up at the front and it simply lifts off similar to the front panel there's also an optional dust filter on the top of the case to remove it all you do is slide it to the back and then it simply lifts off and again you've got the option of going just with a mesh at the top or mesh plus filter another really nice feature of this case is the top panel is fully removable and the reason you may want to do this is if we remove this top panel we can install our radiator on the top panel on the table which is generally much easier than trying to do it in the case month the motherboard has been installed to remove the top panel there's just two screws one here and one here that we need to remove and then it will simply lift off down at the bottom of the case there's a two two-part bracket which can be removed and the reason you may want to do this if you're going to install additional fans down at the bottom of the case which should help with gpu airflow or if you're going to install a radiator at the front of the case and the brackets in two parts so that if you're only installing the fan you need to remove the first bit of it if you're installing a thicker radiator you can remove the whole thing so there's quite a lot of support here to remove this bracket all we need to do is push up from the bottom and it simply slides out and again it's in two parts so we can go ahead and put just one part of it back if we need to and probably this is what we're going to do because i think i'm probably just going to put an extra fan down at the bottom but freeze the building i'm going to take the whole thing off for now and so in the power supply in this case is made easy by removing a little bracket at the back of the case held on with two thumb screws what you do is just loosen these thumb screws to remove the bracket you fix this bracket to the back of your power supply and then you can just install your power supply and at the back and this is definitely much easier in other cases where they don't have this bracket you need to slide your power supply in from the back side and it's a bit more difficult to do sliding it directly in from the back so another nice design feature down at the bottom of the case we've got a hard drive cage to remove the drive brackets all you want to do is loosen the little thumb screws this slides out you can install your drive before putting it back in again so although the hard drive cage is fixed in position at the moment we have two options with it we can loosen the screws at the bottom of the case which are going to let us slide the hard drive cage to a position that we want along the bottom of the case the other option is we can remove the hard drive cage all together and that's going to allow more space for cables at the bottom of the case but also for two 140 millimeter fans at the bottom of the case as in take bringing more cooler to the gpu should we choose to do that i'm not sure how well two 140 millimeter fans are going to fit alongside the power supply but we'll see later on in the build so i'll show you first of all moving the hard drive cage from side to side and then i'll show you as well how to fully remove it from the case okay so we've got four screws here and if we go ahead and loosen them we're now able to slide the hard drive cage at the bottom of the case so we can put it to a place we want it to be and then obviously tighten the screws again to secure it in place so as i've mentioned i'm not going to install any hard drives or ssds in this build so i'm going to go ahead and remove the hard drive cage all together so to do that i just need to fully remove these four screws holding it in place at the bottom of the case and then with the screws removed we can remove the hard drive cage through this cutout so a few more things just to point out at the back of the case we've got lots of little straps and channels which are hopefully going to make cable management that bit easier we've got a little fan hub at the top of the case which i'll show you how that works when we come on to look at the case fans and as well we've got two additional brackets down here for 2.5 inch ssds or hard drives so another option you have with this case is to convert it from its current mode which is open mode into storage mode and to do that what you want to do is move this panel at the back to the front of the case and that then allows you to install a whole lot of hard drive brackets to the back of this panel really increasing the storage capacity of the case as i've already mentioned i'm not going to install any hard drives in this build i'm going all the m.2 ssds but i will show you how to do this for completeness so there's five screws we're gonna need to remove three at the front one at the top and there's also one at the back which i'll show you in a minute so we'll start off with the ones at the front so i should just be able to lift this panel out okay so this is the bracket that we have removed from the case on the back of it you've got this little multi bracket which you can install an ssd or a pump reservoir might we're going to need to remove it because we're going to install our hard drive brackets onto the back of here it's held on with four screws so to get to them we're going to need to remove this metal panel at the front so just a matter of pushing it up and out and then we can remove these four screws to get the multi-racket off okay so this is our little multi bracket and as i said you can install a pump burn reservoir combination onto it or you can also use it for an ssd mount so we'll go ahead and get our bracket back into the case okay so we need to put this panel back in place and then we're going to secure it on again with the same five screws that we removed earlier on obviously we can't screw the one at the top into anything at the moment but whenever we put our top panel back on there's a little hole at the top now that is going to let us screw into it here next thing to do is install the drive trays on the brackets at the back two of these come in the hard drive cage and there's additional four in the accessory box you can obviously buy more from fractal design to fully fill this up and you can install a total of nine of them here in this bracket and a further two in the hard drive cage down below so all we need to do is slide this in at the back and then there's a little thumb screw here to secure the drive in place and as we've already mentioned you can of course keep the hard drive cage in below as well with a further two drive trays in it and then just a quick look at what that looks like from the front okay so a really nice option you have with this case not something i'm going to use in today's build guide so i'm going to go ahead and put this case back into open mode and then we're going to go on to the next stage of the build which is having a look at the motherboard okay so this is our motherboard and we want to do as much work with the motherboard as we can on the flat table because installation is much easier on a flat table than it is in the cramped confines of a case so we're going to go ahead and insert our cpu into the socket in the middle of the motherboard our m.2 ssds into these sockets here and our ram into here before we put the motherboard into the case so the first thing to do is to prepare the socket to receive the cpu so to do that all we need to do is lift this little lever here all the way over to the right hand side so a really important feature of the socket is you'll notice this top left hand corner has a little triangle on the corner of the socket and there's also a little white dot on the motherboard itself so this little mark is going to be important because this is going to help us orientate our cpu in the socket in the correct orientation okay so this is our cpu what you'll notice is i'm holding my the edges and the reason for that is i don't want to damage these gold pins over on the bottom of the cpu if i was to damage these i could actually render our cpu absolutely useless the other thing i want to point out to you if you look at the corner at the top of the cpu it has a little gold mark and we're going to line this up with the mark i've already pointed out to you on the socket and if we turn the cpu over you'll notice there's a little gold triangle on the same corner so we're going to line this up with the mark on the socket okay so i've got our cpu here you can see in the bottom we've got the little gold triangle so i'm going to line that up with the mark on the socket i'm just going to hover the cpu over the socket and let it fall into place it's really important i don't push it down where i can damage those gold pins so i'm just going to hover it around and hear how it's just fallen into the socket just there now so all i'm going to have to do to secure the cpu in the socket is close this little lever and we've now installed our cpu so the next thing for us to do is to install our m.2 ssds and this motherboard has three sockets we've got one here one here and one here and it's really important you look at your motherboard manual to find out the specification of each of the sockets so you're installing your drives in the most appropriate socket all three of the drives in this motherboard have four gen four pcie lanes associated to them the one at the top goes straight to the cpu while the bottom two go to the chipset so the top one is going to be very slightly faster not that we'll notice it but we're going to install our faster gen 4 drive into here and we're going to put our gen 3 drive into the next one down in other motherboards there can be quite a significant difference between the socket so it is really important that you check the site and for example most b550 motherboards only have one gen 4 m.2 socket and in general the top one tends to be the fastest one but it is worth checking your motherboard manual to make sure so the first thing we're going to have to do is to remove the heat sinks from the two sockets we're going to install our m.2 drives in so each of them is held on with two screws so we'll get these removed okay we should now just be able to lift the heatsinks off okay so this is our m.2 ssd you notice the little gold connectors over the right hand side which are going to go into the socket the little gold semi circle over to the left hand side of the drive is we're going to secure it in place using a screw so our top m.2 ssd socket is here what you'll notice we've got standoffs over to the left hand side of it and this is where we're going to secure the drive with a screw so we're just going to line our drive up with a socket and what we can see is the standoff is in the right location there's little extra holes here so you can move the standoffs if you have a shorter drive to install the drive all we need to do is insert it at a slight angle into the socket and apply a little bit of pressure we're then going to go ahead and secure the drive in place using one of the screws that comes in the motherboard box so it's exactly the same process with the drive blue just inserted into the socket at a slight angle the only difference with this one is whenever we screw our heat sink back on the screw from the heatsink is actually going to go through here and secure this drive in place important to mention if you are using the motherboard for the first time on the back of the heat sinks you are going to have some plastic protection so it's important that you remove it before first use so our ram is going to go into these four sockets here so to prepare the sockets to receive the ram we just need to open the clips on each side of the socket now i am going to be installing four sticks around if you're only installing two it's important you check your motherboard manual as to which of the sockets you should install into first it's normally the second and fourth socket along from the cpu that you should use and if we have a look at our motherboard here and there's a little diagram that tells us that it is indeed the second and fourth socket along that we should use if we only got two sticks around so this is our ram and what you'll notice is there's two little gold connectors on the bottom of it importantly they're not of equal length the one over the right hand side is slightly longer than the one at the left hand side so it's really important we install the ram in the right orientation of the socket to avoid causing any damage so what we want to do is line the ram up with the socket on each side making sure it's the correct way around once we're happy it's in the right place all we need to do is apply some firm pressure to the top of the ramp and it will click and lock into place and that's just the same process with each of the other sticks around okay so that's the ram install next thing to do is get the motherboard into the case okay so our motherboard is going to go here and what you'll notice there's three rows of three standoffs so nine stand loss in total and this is where we're going to secure our motherboard there's a little code on the case which tells you where the standoffs are so a is for atx m is for micro atx and i is for mini itx we've got an atx motherboard and if we notice that all the standoffs are currently in the correct location they're all currently in the a location so if you had a different size of motherboard you may have to remove the standoffs and change them to one of the different socket locations the other important thing to point out about the metal standoff is there's nowhere to screw in to the middle standoff and some motherboards do it this way and the middle standoff is designed to pass through the hole in the motherboard and hold the motherboard in place making that little bit easier for you to secure the other screws and again people will try and screw into this middle one and realize that it won't actually go in and can't understand why that's happening and again that's a fairly frequent question i get asked in the comments the other question i get asked in the comments is why do i install my motherboard with the case standing up would it not be much easier to put the case on his back and install the motherboard that way round the answer is yes it would um but the problem is you guys wouldn't get a good view of me doing it so that's the reason i installed the motherboards with the case the right way up if you're doing this at home i would recommend turn the case on the back and you'll find the installation a little bit easier final thing to mention all the screws we're going to use to secure the motherboard come in the case accessory box so we need to do is slide the motherboard into its right place and then try and line up that middle socket with the middle hole another feature with this motherboard is actually the middle hole is in behind this m.2 ssd heatsink so if it was one of the motherboards where you had to actually screw it in you would need to keep this heatsink off until you'd secured the metal screw in and also another thing to mention is this motherboard comes with the i o shield pre-installed if you have a separate i o shield make sure you put it into place in the case first before you install the motherboard so you can actually see our motherboard's actually holding there pretty well with that metal stand off so we're just going to get the rest of the screws in place okay so that's the motherboard installed the next thing i like to do at this stage is to install the case cables so the case cables are the cables coming from the front i o so up the top we have got two usb type a connectors and we need to install this usb 3.0 cable in the motherboard for them to work there's type c connector and this is our type c cable which we need to plug in to the motherboard there's a headphone and microphone jack and we need to plug in the hd audio cable for those to work also our front panel has a power switch a reset switch and an led which lights up when there's power so we need to plug these tricky front panel connectors in as well for all that to work the reason i like to do it at this stage is when you start adding more things into the build and it gets much more difficult to access the ports on the motherboard so it's a good time to get things plugged in now while there's less in the case okay so the first cable i'm going to plug in is our hd audio cable and on most motherboards you find it's the port down the bottom left hand side of the motherboard where that goes and that's exactly where it is in this particular motherboard as well so the best thing to do is to bring the cable down through the nearest cutout to the port that you're going to plug it into so we can see we have a little connect down here so i'm just going to feed the cable through here so it's important we install this cable the right way around if you look at the header here you'll notice in the top row there's a pin missing so it's only going to plug in one round now we bring our cable through what you'll notice it's the text up is the way we're going to need to install it so we just line things up with the socket and once everything's lined up it's just a little bit of pressure shouldn't be very much and it's just going to clip into place and then we're going to push the excess cables right the back of the case okay so the next lot of cables to install are our power switch reset switch and par led and it's going to go into this header just here so i'm going to bring the cables through here now these are the most tricky cables to plug in in any build because all the individual cables need to go into certain pins on this header so you're going to need to look in your motherboard for the diagram so it's important we pay attention to which of the sockets on the cables are positive and which are negative so the par led it tells you on it there's a positive and there's a negative if we look at the power and reset switches there's no positive and negative on the side with the text but if we turn the cable over and you look closely at the back of the cables you'll notice there's a little arrow so the arrow marks the positive pin okay so starting off with the bottom left hand pin it is for par led positive so we'll go ahead and plug it in and the one directly above it is for par led negative directly above that is the power switch and it goes positive and negative from bottom to top so we've got the power switch cable with the text facing towards the right hand side and we'll plug it in the reset switch goes to the pins directly beside that but it's the opposite way around with negative at the bottom and then positive at the top so i'm going to have the text facing to the left hand side this time and then we'll plug it in okay and then all we need to do is pull any excess cable out the back so our two usb headers are down the bottom of the motherboard so our usb type-c is here and our usb 3.2 header is here so we'll make it start up plugging these in and starting off with the type c header so i'm just going to bring it up through the closest cutout line things up with the socket and then just push into place and tuck any excess cable out the back okay so bringing our usb 3.0 cable through be really careful plugging this one in out of all the pins in the motherboard and these are probably the easiest to damage and you damage these the front ports on your case aren't obviously going to work and there's a little notch in the top of the cable just here and there's a little notch in the top of the header so just make sure things are lined up the right way right and again if there's any difficulty pushing it in stop don't apply excessive pressure so that's things lined up it's a little bit of gentle pressure and it locks and clicks into place and then i'm going to tuck any excess cable out the back so that's all the case cables coming from the front i o panel plugs in but this case does technically have one more case cable and it comes from the included fan hub so at the top of the case here there's a fan hub we've got two wires coming from it one is a sata port which we're going to need to plug into our power supply to power the hub if we don't plug this in the fan hub won't work the other cable is a pwm connector cable which we're going to need to plug into one of our system fan headers on the motherboard to allow the fan hub to connect with our motherboard so we'll go ahead and plug that into one of the system fan headers now so our motherboard has five system fan headers so we could technically plug in to any of them i'm just gonna go for system fan header one because it's gonna be easier to remember when i go into the bios to set up the fans and you'll notice the plug coming from the fan hub has four pins there's little notches on the back of it so it's only possible to plug it into the socket in one particular way and that's important because each of the pins needs to go into the right connector on the header so these little notches make sure you only plug it in the right way around so we're going to line things up and then just push the connector into the header and that's the fan hub now i connect it up okay so the next thing i'm going to do is install the power supply the reason i like to get the power cables plugged in at this stage as well is exactly the same reason as the case cables as you can imagine we've got connectors up here if we were to install our i o at the top and it could be quite difficult to plug these additional power supply cables or the cpu into place in general the 24-pin cable is not going to get obstructed there's also going to be cables coming to the graphics card as well when we go ahead and install it so let's go ahead and get the power supply installed okay so this is our power supply as i mentioned in the introduction this is a fully modular power supply which means none of the cables are plugged in the big advantage to this is we only need to plug in the cables that we're going to use for this build there's none modular power supplies come with all the cables already included so if you're not going to use them they're still stuck to the power supply taking up space in the bottom of the case and certainly make cable management much more difficult downside to this is the fully modular power supplies tend to be a little bit more expensive and then we've got semi-modular power supplies in the middle where some of the cables are plugged in and some of them are optional so we're going to need to go ahead and plug in the cables that we're going to need okay so we'll start off with a 24-pin connector and it's going to go into these two sockets here so we'll just line things up next we're going to need to plug in a pci cable for our graphics card so this one cable has two 8 pin connectors on the end which is what our graphics card is going to take so we're only going to need one cable for the graphics card so i'm going to plug it in down here so we're going to need two cables for additional parts of the cpu so that's the two 8 pin sockets at the top left hand side of the motherboard you'll notice these cables are marked cpu on one side and type 4 on the other so the type 4 end is going to plug into the power supply so again just going to work along the bottom here and plug these in final cable for us to plug in is a sata power cable although we're not installing any set of drives in this build the fan hub in our case and also our io is going to need a sata connector so we're going to need to go ahead and install this this single cable has three different connectors for sata power so each of those is going to provide an equal amount of power and should be sufficient for our build just plugging the one cable in so i'm going to plug it into the first sata cable which is just down here okay so that's all the cables installed into the power supply that we're going to need i did mention at the start that i'm going to use some custom cable extensions now these are purely aesthetic and they don't offer any functional benefit but i think they do make the build look much better the downside is that they're going to be more expensive and as well you're going to have longer cables that could be that way a bit more difficult to manage at the end of the build so we'll go ahead and plug these in but again if you don't want to install these your power supply is ready to install and anywhere i plug one of these extensions in you would just plug the same cable straight into the motherboard so starting off with our 24 pin cable which is here so all i'm going to do is line the notches up with a notch on the extension and plug it in okay next thing it's the pcie cables for the graphics card so you'll find the graphics card cable split into a six and a two quite often to make an eight pin because um some graphics cards will require a six pin cable as well as an 8 pin and ours takes two yet so we're going to plug all them in to the extension okay and same thing again with the other cable finally we've got our two cpu cables so align the notches up okay so you can see our cable extensions are going to add a significant amount of extra cable to the back of the case so if you have a small case they can make cable management much more difficult final thing for us to do is install the little brackets onto the back of the power supply allowing us to install this in our case okay so all we need to do is line the little bracket up with the holes on the back of the power supply there we go there and the screws to secure it are going to come in the ks accessory box okay so now i can put the power supply into the case i'm just pulling all the cables through and before we insert the power supply it's important we insert it with the fan facing down the way so fan facing down i'm just going to slide this into the case and then all we need to do to secure it is screw up the little thumb screws on the back of the bracket there we go and that's the power supply in place next thing to do is to plug the power cables in so i'm going to start off with the additional par for the cpu so i'm going to bring it through this cutout and then importantly line the notch up and the cable with the notch on the socket and just push it in place just a quick correction here once you actually put the radiator at the top you can't see the cable extensions for the cpu so rather than do what i'm showing you in the video i would recommend you leave the custom cable extensions out for the additional power connectors to the cpu and just use the cables coming from the power supply itself the other cable extensions to the 24 pin connector and the graphics card are fine but you'll just have more difficulty with cable management using these extensions and getting no benefit from them next i'm going to bring our 24-pin cable through this little cutout here i'm going to line the notches up with the socket and then push and it locks and clicks into place this again has cable combs three of them this time so we're just going to tidy the cable up with the little cable comes there we go and then i'm just going to bring the two cables for the graphics card through this bottom cutout so they're going to be ready and waiting for us when we come to install the graphics card okay so the next thing for us to install is the case fans and as you'll notice this yes comes with three 140 millimeter case fans pre-installed so we've got two on the front and one at the back i want to spend a couple of minutes talking about fans and explain a few important points about them so fans tend to have a front and a back you can tell this is the front that's got the logo on it there's nothing obstructing the fan blades on the back you tend to have these little plastic bits obstructing the fan blades so importantly air moves from the front of the fan out the back so it's really important you install the fans the right way brian so they move air through the case in a direction that you wanted to go so in general we want air to come in through the front of our case at the bottom of the case and out the back and out the top and that's just a general way that most cases will tend to work so you'll notice the fans at the front of the case are installed with the front of the fans facing the front this is the back of a fan so air is going to come in the front this fan at the back has the front of it inside the case and the back facing the rear so it's going to blow hotter out of the case so the fans at the front we would call intake fans the fans at the rear we would call exhaust the fans at the front are intaking killer the fans the back are exhausting harder so because we're going to put a 360 millimeter raider at the top of this case we have three additional case fan locations that we can occupy there's one at the front just below the other two pre-installed fans and there's two down at the bottom of the case so if we're going to put one at the front it would make sense that it's an intake and the two at the bottom would also be intakes as well now it is important that you look at the number of intakes and exhausts that you have and people have all sorts of different arguments as to whether positive or negative pressure in a case is better in general i prefer the ks fans to either be balanced or have positive pressure and by positive pressure what i mean is more intake than exhaust the reason i don't want more exhaust than intake is that would create negative pressure in the case and that would result in error being drawn through non-vented surfaces such as these brackets at the back and that is going to bring dust so we want all our air to come in through the filtered places off the case so in general i prefer positive pressure or balance fans the other important thing you need to factor in when you're doing these calculations is that just because you have the same fan and intake and exhaust does not mean that it's necessarily going to be balanced intake fans generally have a filter and that's going to create a better resistance and limit their airflow exhaust fans as we have in the back here don't have a filter that doesn't make sense to filter an exhaust all that's going to do is limit its function so if we had the same fan on the front going up against a filter and a fan on the back that's all unobstructed you're going to actually have negative pressure in that case because the front fan is going to be limited the back fan isn't so that's something we're going to need to factor in having a radiator between the fans will actually limit airflow even further okay so looking at what we're currently going with to help us decide about whether we should or shouldn't put any more case fans into this case so at the moment we've got two 140 millimeter fans as intake one 140 millimeter as exhaust and then three 120 millimeter fans on the top as exhaust so factoring all that in um the three 120 millimeter fans are probably going to shift more well they almost certainly are going to shift more air than one of the fans at the front so at the moment i would say our case would have negative pressure if we left it without adding any extra fans so i think it makes sense to add one extra fan at the front as an intake below the other two fans that we have installed the other place that we can install fans is down at the bottom of the case so if we take one of the fans and put it down here and i think you'll already see what the problem is with this we can have two of these 140 millimeter fans down here as intake but the problem is we're going to have a lot of cables down the bottom of the case and the problem is it'd be very easy for these cables to go into these intake fans what we could do is have the fan very far over to this side but the problem with that is it's actually a solid panel all the way over to here so the only where the only place where an intake fan is going to provide any benefit is where all these cables are going to be so again it doesn't make sense for me to have these two intake fans down here when i come on to do the thermal testing i will add them in to the build to test their effect um but for now i'm just going to add one additional 140 millimeter fan to the front as an intake so because the fans i have bought are different to the ones that come with the case i'm going to move the back fan to the front and then install my additional fan in at the back and i think that's just to keep everything looking symmetrical so to remove the back fan all we need to do is loosen the four screws at the back and we should just be able to pull it out and then going to go ahead and install the b-class fan which i got just going to slide the cable first of all out the back slide the fan into place then i'm just going to secure it at the back with the four screws which came with the fan okay so at the front we used to slide the fan we removed from the rear in below the other two fans and then we can secure it in place with the four screws that we removed with the fan at the back now it's important when you're tightening fans up you don't want to over tighten them that's one of the commonest causes of fan noise so it really only just needs to be tight enough to hold it in place without overdoing it okay so we're now ready to go ahead and plug our fans into the fan hub but before we do that i want to explain a little bit about three pin and four pin fans so three pin fans don't have a pwm connector that's the pin that's missing so you need to run them via voltage dc mode in the motherboard bios four pin fans have the additional wire and they can work via pwm so this fan hub has two different connectors it has six three pin connectors for three pin fans and three four pin connectors for four pin pwm fans now what's important is we can plug a four pin fan into here there's little notches on the connectors and the notches on the headers so you can only plug them in one way round what's important is you would need to go into the motherboard bias and even though the fan is designed that it can be run in pwm mode as long as you run it in dc mode and set the voltages to control the fan speeds it will work just the same as a three pin fan likewise you can go ahead and plug a three pin fan into one of the four pin connectors and again because there's little notches on the cables coming from the fans it's only possible to plug them into three of these pins the right three pins you can't plug them in the wrong way round there is one very important additional step you will need to take with this fan you will need to go into the motherboard bias and make sure that the header is set to run in dc mode if you plug a three pin fan into your four pin header and it's currently running in pwm mode the fan will run at a hundred percent all the time okay so how does this apply to this particular case so the fans that come with the case are three pin fans so it makes sense for us to plug it in to this site the additional purewings fan that i got is a pwm fan so i'm going to plug it in to this site and again we'll set the fans up later at the end of the video okay so i've got the three cables coming from the three included case fans at the front so i'm just going to line them up with the header here and push them in to place okay so i've got the the cable coming in from the b quad fan it's got four pins on it i can still plug it in over this side if i wanted to and run it in dc mode so i'll show you how that works and because the little notches on the connector it can only go in one way but to keep things right i'm just going to plug it in over this side into one of the four pin connectors okay final thing for us to plug in coming from our fan hub we've got a sata par connector so i'm just going to plug it into one of the sata connectors coming from our power supply so it's important we just line the l's up on the connector so they're around the right way and just push it into place so that's all our case fans connected up okay so now we're finished with the fans at the bottom of the case i'm going to go and put this little bracket back on again just a matter of lining things up and pushing it down into place as you can see because we've installed an additional fan down here this bracket will no longer fit and it's a nice thing fractal have done with this case some other ones they have a large cutout and you either have to have it on or off so having it split into sections is a nice idea okay so the next thing for us to install is our io really what we have is a pump some tubes and a radiator the pump has cold plate on it and this is up against the cpu with some thermal paste between the two of them so as the cpu makes heat the water coming past it helps cool the cpu the hot water then goes back to the radiator we're going to have fans on the radiator blowing cooler through the radiator hopefully cooling the water and then we've got cooler water coming back to the cpu and that cycle continues so the first thing for us to do is to put our fans onto the radiator and it's important we put the fans at the right orientation so i've already had a look at the case and i think the tubes over to the right hand side are going to look better than the tubes to the left hand side we're going to want to put our radiator up at the top of the case and the fans on the inside you can do it either way but if we put the fans at the top we're not going to see the rgb from the fans and all we're going to see is the radiator so it's going to look much better having some light coming into the case so it's important we have radiator and then fans it's also important we put the fans on the radiator the right way and we've already talked about the orientation of the fans on the case fan installation section so this is the front of the fans it's going to bring her in from the front and out the back and we want to set our radiator as an exhaust at the top so we're going to install our fans in this orientation so that they are exhausting our through the radiator i tend to have the radiators at the top as exhausts and the radiators at the front as intake and that just fits with the natural process of air moving through the case in general an intake is going to give you better cpu temperatures the reason i've stayed away from intake in this particular case is i think it's going to look slightly better at the top we probably would get better cpu temperatures with the radar as an intake and that's something i'm going to test in my thermal testing video with the case review so it might be worth checking i like to see the benefits that you're going to get from that before deciding where you're going to install your radiator well if you want to copy this guide exactly this is going to be on the top as an exhaust the other important thing with the fans is we want the cables coming from them at the back of the case so that's going to mean the cables are going to have to be here so we'll go ahead and secure the fans to the radiator using the long screws that come with the aisle next because our case has the detachable top bracket we can go ahead and fit the radiator to the bracket outside the case so i'm just going to line it up with the middle of this bracket and then we can secure it in place using the shorter screws that come with the io so just a quick correction here i would actually recommend installing the radiator closer to the front of the bracket so you'll see where i'm screwing it in here on the video there's a slot at the front of each of the rows and i would actually move the radiator slightly further forward and use the forward slots both at the front and the back the reason for this is you will struggle to install the radiator past the motherboard if you don't install it in the front location on this bracket so i've just screwed this in very lightly so there's still a lot of movement on the bracket so what i'm going to do is i'm going to put this into the case position the radiator where i think it looks best probably in the center but i've left it loose just to be sure and then once i'm happy with it i'll tighten each of these up to secure it in place okay so before i put the io on i'm just going to feed the cables for each of the fans out the back because obviously once it's on it's going to be much more difficult to feed them so you can see there's very little room at the top and with the io installed it's actually blocking the top fan headers on the motherboard so we are going to need to plug a couple of things into there so i'm going to go ahead and plug them in now so i'm just going to lift this backwards so the first thing to plug in is there's going to be a triple fan splitter cable which each of the fans on the radiator at the back is going to plug into and this is going to need to go into the cpu fan header so the cpu fan header is the header at the top of the motherboard on the left hand side the one to the right of it is for the pump header so go ahead and plug the fan header in i'm going to bring it in from the back okay so that's plugged in to place okay so coming from our pump we've got two connectors one is for rgb the other is a three pin fan connector and that's got the par our pump so although the header on the motherboard has got four pins we've already mentioned there's no problem plugging a three pin header into it and making sure we run it in dc mode i'm just going to get that plugged in and again it's only going to go on one way on the right three pins because the little notches on the cable and i'm just going to push this one for the rgb through the back and start to pull the excess cable coming from the pump header at the back as well okay so we can now go ahead and secure the top bracket back onto the case okay so running on the first problem the radiator doesn't fit here because of the motherboard so i'm going to need to move the red air further to the right hand side so one thing i forgot to mention earlier i have used this cpu killer before whenever you first get out of the box instead of this amt bracket that's all up there's an intel one already on it it's easy enough to replace all you do is apply a little bit of pressure here and the bracket will slide out you can then take this one which is the amd one slide it back into place and you're ready then to go ahead and install the color so we can go ahead and add a little bit of thermal paste to the cpu normally just about a pea-sized amount in the center of the cpu is my preferred method of doing this that looks about right and then we can go ahead and just put the little clips from the bracket over the eclipse and the motherboard at the top and then at the bottom okay so that's the little clips on each side all we need to do is tighten the two screws to secure the car and again we want to make sure we don't over tighten it so generally i tighten one side then the other side a few turns and just repeat that process and that way you don't put too much pressure on one side at once okay so now we come on to the tricky part and that is connecting everything up what's important to remember each of the fans on the radiator has two wires coming from it one is a four pin wire which needs power and the other is an rgb connector the pump header has already been powered it's plugged into the pump header on the motherboard so to get power to the fans we've already plugged in a triple splitter cable to the cpu fan header so all we need to do is plug each of the four pin connectors from the fans into that splitter cable so we'll go ahead and do that now okay so that should be the power side of things taken care of the fans are going to get their power via the cpu fan header by that triple splitter and the pump is going to get its power by the pump header the alternative option if your motherboard didn't have a pump header there's a sata connector which that can plug into and then go to your power supply but because we have a pump header it makes sense to plug into that so now we come on to the rgb so at the moment at the back of the case we've got four rgb connectors one coming from each of the fans and then one coming from the pump itself so the first thing we need to do is connect a triple rgb connector up to each of the ones coming from the fans so we'll go ahead and plug that in nine okay so that now leaves us two rgb connectors there's a three pin connector coming from the pump and a four pin connector which is coming from that triple splitter cable from each of the fans we've now got two options of how we can control the rgb in this case we can use the controller that liandi supplies or we can connect these into a cable and run it into the argb header on our motherboard so because our motherboard doesn't actually have any rgb on it i'm going to go ahead and use the controller it's going to save us having to install the motherboard rgb software and make things a little bit simpler okay so this is our controller it has two connectors one for a three pin one for a four pin so it makes sense that we go ahead and plug these into the corresponding pins so the three pin one is going to go to the pump head and then the four pin one is going to go to that triple rgb scanner cable we're going to have buttons on this controller which is going to let us adjust the rgb so the only additional thing for us to do is to power this controller and that's a sata connector so we're going to plug it into the sata cable that we used earlier on just line up the ls and there we go that's our i o installed okay so next thing for us to do is install our graphics card and it's going to go into the top pcie slot on our motherboard although the other slots could accommodate a graphics card the reason we do only install it here is the top one is going to give us the fastest speeds the other thing to look at in this case is there is an option to install the graphics card in a vertical orientation main reason for doing this is aesthetics it tends to look better depending on the graphics card in a vertical orientation and in certain cases the cooling can also be better in that orientation as well my main concern about doing that using these brackets at the front of the case is the graphics card fans are going to be right up against the tempered glass panel i have tested this previously and having the graphics cards in one of these front mounted sockets resulted in it overheating and in fact when i moved it to one of these sockets at the back the graphics card temperature under those reduced by 19 degrees and then based on this i don't recommend using these graphics card vertical mounts which are right up near the front tempered glass panel so if you were going to want to install it vertically i would recommend using the kit and it's converting the standard horizontal pcie slots into your vertical slot and installment further back in the case we're just going to install the graphics card in a horizontal orientation today so to do that we're going to need to remove the second and third bracket from the top next we just need to open the clip by pushing it backwards and then it's just a matter of lining the graphics card up with the slot and then push it into place and you should hear a click as it locks into place there we go that's the click and then we just need to secure it in place using the little thumb screws that we removed earlier on then we just need to go ahead and plug in the cable extensions that we pushed through the case earlier on okay so we just need to line the notches up and the same again for this one and then it's just a matter of tidying up the cables with the little cable combs and then putting the excess cable out the back okay so before we move on to the cable management i just wanted to let you know about two small changes i've made during the build i've removed the black and white cable extensions going to the additional part of the cpu over to the top left hand side of the motherboard and the reason for that is you can't actually see them past the radiator so there's no point having them there they're going to make more difficulty with cable management at the back of the case the other change i've made is where i've secured the radiator to to this top mounted bracket so previously i had the screws going in here and here further back and i couldn't actually get the radiator fitted where i wanted because of the motherboard so i've actually moved it forward a roux and then i have no difficulty at all centering the radiator where i wanted in the case i had preferred a slightly to the left and i was having actually installed all the way to the right because it wouldn't fit past the motherboard so when you're installing it make sure you install it in the front of this bracket so now this brings us on to my least favorite part of any build and that is cable management so we have to sort out this massive wire so we're able to get the rear panel on so hopefully this case will be a bit easier than usual because we've got lots of velcro straps for our cable management here there's also other little points where we can use the cable ties which came in the accessory box to help tidy things up and again because we've removed the hard drive cage and not installed any bottom fans there's plenty of space at the bottom of the case for access cables as well so we'll get on with that my okay so it's time to put the rest of the panels on important to mention because the front is going to be an intake i am going to leave the dust filter on for now um up top it's going to be an exhaust so there's no reason to have a dust filter plus a mesh so i'm going to remove the dust filter from there i am planning to do a lot of thermal testing that's going to be included in the case review so you might want to look at that before deciding about the dust filters in the case so that's the build complete i think it looks great but does it work so we've now come to the moment of truth where we need to flip the power switch and see what happens importantly i do have a windows 10 available usb drive in the back of the pc if you don't know how to make one i've made a video on it so i'll put a link to that video in the description so the moment of truth let's see what happens okay so a good signs we've got lights we've got fans spinning so we just need to have a look at the screen and see what happens the first thing we're looking for is the msi logo to appear which is great we've got that first bit next thing we're looking for is the pc to find the usb bootable drive and try and build off that so be looking for the windows logo to start to appear to show that it's find the bootable usb drive it can just take a minute or two for this to happen so we'll just wait patiently so that's a good sign we've got that spinning wheel so it looks like it's finding it and there we go we've got the windows installer screen so i'm going to now run you through how to install windows to make it a little bit easier i'm going to switch over to the screen mode okay so we're in the united kingdom so i'm just going to go ahead and click next and i'm going to click on install now so if you've got a windows 10 product key you can go ahead and enter in the box i'm often asked the question if you don't have one what should you do so today i'm not going to enter my product key i'm going to click i don't have a product key and show this to you so what you need to do is select which version of windows you're going to get a product key for in the future so i'm going to click on windows 10 pro and click on next so we just need to accept the license terms click next and then we're going to want to do a custom install so here you can see we've installed two m.2 ssds and we've got two drives showing up drive zero and drive one so a question i often get asked if you have two one terabyte drives like we do and we want to install windows on a particular drive say we want to installed in the gen 4 ssd how do i know which is which and i don't have a great way of doing this maybe people watching will actually have a better way of doing this and you can if you do share it in the comments what i tend to do is if i have two drives of the same amount i will disconnect one of them briefly while i install windows and the one i want to install on and then i'll add the extra drive in at a later stage now if it's a satellite ssd that's an easy process you just unplug the sata cable briefly while you're doing the installation and m.2 ssd i just won't install it until a later stage i'm not planning on keeping this build after i install it and i don't particularly mind which is which so i'm just going to go ahead and select drive 0 for the purposes of this today and click next and then this is just going to take a little while while the window starts installing so i'll speed this up for you okay so we're in the united kingdom i'm just going to click on yes united kingdom layout for the keyboard as well and i'm going to click skip to a secondary keyboard so i'm going to set this up for personal use click next so here you can create windows with your microsoft account if you don't have one you can create an online account the alternative is to do this offline and again people ask me do you need to be connected to the internet to install windows and no you don't so i'll show you this option as well because i haven't done this before and click offline account i'm going to click on limited experience and then it's asking me to use my name so i'll type my name in click on next make a password click on next and then it's going to ask me some security questions and it's asking about online speech recognition we'll go ahead and click yes for this yes to find my device we'll send basic diagnostic data node again we're going to click new to this new again and then we're going to click new to device activity history i'm going to click on not now again obviously if you guys have different options as you prefer go ahead and click them okay so that's windows fully installed and i know it's really tempting to go and start looking for drivers and other programs that we're going to need but what i think you're best doing is getting windows fully up to date before we do anything else so let's go ahead and update windows to do that we click on the windows icon down the bottom left hand corner click on the settings tab and then what we want to do is go to updates and secure them we're going to click on the check for updates button windows is going to go ahead and find a number of updates it may need to restart a number of times during this process and then when we restart it will find more updates we're going to keep doing this until there's no more updates available okay so that's windows fully up to date there's no more updates available so the next thing i like to do is to get all the ssds to show up because although we've got two under two ssds i'll put money only one of them is showing up when we go and look at it in my computer okay so we go ahead and click on the file explorer icon down the bottom click over here and click on this pc what we can see is there's only one drive local disk c appearing and we do have two m.t ssds but we're going to need to get the second one to show up so what we do down the bottom here if we type disk management [Applause] and this shortcut's going to come up create and format hard disk partitions so we'll go ahead and click on that so we're going to get a little pop-up asking us to initialize the second disk so we're going to go ahead and do that clicking okay so we have a look dist 0 and has got our operating system on it and it's been allocated drive c we've now also got disk one which is on allocated space so we right click on disk one and click new simple volume click on next we can assign the letter it's currently d if we want to change it we can do that from the pull down menu i'm going to leave it as d and click next and if we want to give it a name we can type it in here so i'm just going to call it second m.2 ssd click next and finish okay so we can close this down and if we go back to here you'll notice we've got two drives showing up and ready for use next thing for us to do is install any drivers that we're going to need to get the pc running effectively so we're going to get these for a variety of sources and don't worry about collecting the links as i go along i'm going to include all these links in the description okay so over on our motherboards page on msi's website so we go ahead and click on the drivers select our operating system which is windows 10 64-bit and then we've got a whole collection of drivers that we can install here so we'll expand them so you can see what we've got on offer okay so we've got onboard um sava drivers so we've got a m4 raid driver i'm not going to use raid in this um pc so i don't need to install that we've got the amd chipset driver this is something that i will install but i'm going to get it from amd's website because they tend to have a more later version over there than what we're going to get from msi uh onboard vga drivers we've got a dedicated nvidia graphics card so we're not going to need this so i'm not going to go ahead and install it okay so we've got some lan drivers we've got a bluetooth driver so let's go ahead and download this we're going to click an open file click on the bluetooth driver i'm going to click on wireless setup click extract all click extract and then we're going to click on wireless setup click yes next next accept the terms click on next we're just going to go for a typical install and click install and then click finish okay next one along we'll install the intel wi-fi driver again windows will have found a lot of these drivers or equivalent drivers already so these ones are optional click on open file and we've got the wireless setup application we'll click on that again click extract all click extract i'm going to click on next click agree and click install yes click finish and then we'll click over here and download click open click on the setup click yes next install and click finish okay so that's all the lan drivers installed and we can go ahead and install the onboard audio drivers so we're going to go ahead and click download click open file there's the setup click on it click yes next and we'll go ahead and restart our computer now and click finish okay so that's all the drivers installed that we're going to get from msi we are going to need the chipset driver which we're going to get from amd's website and we're also going to need drivers for our graphics card which we'll get over from nvidia's website before we leave msi there's a few other bits here that are worth taking a look at over in the utilities section so if your motherboard did have rgb on it or you had plugged something into the rgb headers on your motherboard you're going to need to install the dragon center to let you control that rgb as we've used the controller for io we don't actually need to install the software at all the bios is the other thing that is worth updating and certainly with new cpus coming in general i don't recommend updating the bios unless there's new functions that you want to use or else you're having trouble with your computer so this is the latest version of the bios it was only updated three days ago so i'm going to go ahead and update this when we head over to the bias i'm going to go ahead and download the file now i plugged an external drive into the computer so i'm going to copy that file from the downloads to the external drive and we'll use this later when we go to the bias okay so we're now over on amd's website we're going to go ahead and click on chipsets we've got um socket am4 click on that and we have got x570 so we're going to click on submit we're going to expand here and there is the chipset drivers we're going to go ahead and click download and click on open file click yes and then we're going to click install and then we're going to have to click restart okay so we need to install the drivers now for our graphics card so we're over nvidia's website and we can either install the drivers separately or go ahead and get the geforce experience and i prefer to get the geforce experience so that's what i'm going to show you how to do so i'm going to click download now i'm going to click on open file click yes we're going to agree and install so we're going to need to log in if we don't have a login we can go ahead and create one okay so i'm going to skip the tour and we click on drivers so up the top here if we click on these three little dots you can choose your preference for drivers you can pick game ready drivers or studio drivers and again a question i'm often asked is can't you install both the answer is no the studio drivers aren't going to work for gaming but they'll be more optimized for content creation and the gaming drivers will also work for content creation but they'll work better for gaming so you just have to pick your preference of the two i use my computer mostly for content creation so i'm going to type on the studio drivers and click download okay i'm going to click on express installation click yes okay i'm going to click close so although that's all the drivers that we're going to need to install and we may want to control some of the rgb elements in our build so we can control the ram with this software here so i'm going to click on the download and again the link to this is going to be in the description we're going to open the file click yes click next next install and we're going to have to restart our computer so we'll click finish okay so we're going to use this software to adjust the color of our ram and with a whole variety of effects here that we can turn on so i click on rainbow click apply but i much prefer to keep the ram just a static white so i'm going to click on static click on led1 i'm going to drag all the colors up to the top and click apply so that's just changed the first led but what we can do is sync all the leds to led1 and then click apply and we've now turned the ram white our graphics card also has rgb on it so we need to get the software to control us from azusa's website so again you'll find this link in the description this one's quite hard to find so we're going to click on software utility and see all downloads and work our way down the list and this is what we're looking for or rgb lighting control for graphics card so we're going to go ahead and click download we're going to click on open file click extract all click extract click yes next install and we're gonna have to restart our computer so we'll do that now and click finish click yes okay so this is the software to control the lighting on the graphics card so we can pick whatever color or effect we want so let's click on color cycle to see what that looks like and click apply and again i just prefer to leave the graphics card a static white so i'm going to click apply again and leave it on white it's actually a slightly white but we don't see able to get a full white color on the graphics card okay so that's all the drivers and rgb software that we need to control our build and i think it looks much better set to white so the next thing that i want to do is head over to the bios firstly we're going to update the bias and then we're going to adjust a few settings in the bias again i don't recommend you routinely update the bias because if you do it incorrectly you can brick your motherboard it's really important that you don't shut your computer down or lose power during the update again there is new features available certainly when the new cpus are coming so i am going to go ahead and update the bias and show you how to do that so the first thing we need to do is enter the bias so to do that we need to restart our computer and as the computer is restarting just as the msi logo appears we need to press the delete key there's no harm in pressing the delete key early so i normally keep pressing delete and then when the logo appears you're not going to miss it so we'll go ahead and restart now okay so i'm going to start pressing the delete k9 okay so that's us into the bias okay so the first thing i want to do is go ahead and update the bias so to do that we're going to need to use the m flash utility so we'll click on it and we're going to click on yes so i'm just going to plug in the usb drive and click retry so on the drive we can see the file here so i'm going to go ahead and click on it and it's asking are we sure we want to select this file i'm going to click yes and then the bias is going to update as i mentioned really important to the computer it does not lose power or shut down during this process or there's a good chat you'll brick your motherboard okay so loading back into windows i'm just going to go ahead and restart the computer to enter the bios again okay so we can see from the bios build version that has been updated to the latest version from the 14th of november so there's a few things i like to adjust in the bios of any new build and the first is the memory so we've got memory that can run at 3 600 megahertz but at the moment it's currently running at 21.33 megahertz you can see there's two xmp profiles they're actually both the same and it'll run at 3600 megahertz so i'm going to go ahead and select xmp profile by turning it on here so we're currently running profile one which will push our ram up to 3600 megahertz next thing i like to do is turn off the indicator led control i don't like the little red light and postcode at the bottom of the motherboard and i think this is distracting and takes away from the look of the build of course i'm having any problems with it buddy and i can always turn this back on again so i'm going to go ahead and turn this off as well next thing i want to do is have a look at the fans i'm just going to click on the settings okay so first of all looking at our cpu fan so this is the cpu it's currently running on pwm on smart fan mode so this is the way i would tend to leave it we have got four pin fans so i would tend to run them in pwm mode and i do use normally the smart fan mode here as well so our pump is currently running in pwm although our pump only has a three pin connector so it's important we turn it over to dc mode and if we want as well we can turn on the smart fan mode so i'm going to go ahead and do that as well okay so going on to look at system fan one and this is the only system fan that is anything plugged into it and this is where we have plugged the cable coming from our fan hub which comes with the case it's currently running in dc mode and smart fan mode isn't enabled so i'm going to turn on smart fan mode is the first thing i'm going to do i'm just looking at the fans and they are all running at 930 revs per minute which is basically full speed despite the fact that our system temperature is only 35 degrees cpu is only 33 degrees the other thing to look at is taking the temperature source off the cpu which is fine so our fans only run around about a thousand revs per minute so it actually looks at the moment if our fans are running currently at full speed so i haven't used this particular fan hub before although it comes with a 4-pin connector so i'm assuming it's a pwm fan hub i'm just going to switch this over to pwm and see what happens with the fan speeds so you can see the fan speed is falling after doing that to round about 600 revs from minutes and that's resulted in significantly less noise coming from the build so this fan hub must run in pwm mode and it seems whenever you select dc mode it runs at full speed so this is a really important step if you're going to use this fan hub otherwise all your fans are going to run at full speed final thing to have a look at is our chipset fan it's currently running in pwm mode running off the chipset temperature and it's working in balance mode at the moment okay so i'm happy with the way all the fans are now set up so i'm going to click the x button to close so to see if all our changes all we need to do is press the x button in the top right hand corner it's going to give us a summary of what we have done so pump fan one has changed to smart fan mode and it's been enabled pump fan one has changed from pwn to dc mode and system fan one has been uh enable smart fan mode and switch to pwm mode we've also disabled the led lights and initiated xmp profile a so i'm going to click yes to save these i'm going to boot into windows to check that our ram is currently running at the crack speed so to check our ram speed all we need to do is right click on the windows icon and click on task manager we're going to click on more details we're going to go to the performance tab and click on the memory so we can now see the speed of our ram is 3600 megahertz so that is exactly what it should be okay so that's the pc up and running just the way i would want it to be no i don't normally run a lot of benchmarks when i build these pcs i do a lot of thermal testing and tend to do that in a separate video but because i have installed the new samsung gen 4 ssd i'm going to go and benchmark the speed of it compared to the previous version of the samsung's gen 3 ssd so let's go and do that now so i'm going to go ahead and download crystal disk mark from windows okay so let's have a look at crystal disk mark so we can test two of our drives we've got drive c and drive d i'm gonna click on drive c and i'm gonna click on all so we'll let the benchmark run okay so some very impressive results so i think we can very safely say the drive c must be the gen 4 ssd let's just compare that to drive d which must be our gen 3 ssd and we'll rerun the tes okay so that's some really impressive results particularly with the gen 4 drive and the first set of results were actually over double as fast as the gen 3 drive so i haven't really used a lot of gen 4 drives because there hasn't been such a significant improvement and this new one from samsung seems to be head and shoulders above the rest of them so i can thoroughly recommend it and certainly if you are buying a new ssd now it makes sense to buy the samson drive if you can get your hands on it okay so that's the build complete i think it's looking great and also seems to be running great as well so hopefully you find this guide useful if you have i'm going to ask you to do me a favor hit that thumbs up button because that really helps others find the video the other thing that would be helpful as well if you're not currently subscribed to the channel please hit the subscribe button the channel has grown really well but your subscription can really help it grow further and help my content to reach more viewers if you've enjoyed this i've made plenty of other pc build guides and pc related content on the channel so go ahead and check that out as i've mentioned i'm planning to do some thermal testing and give off my review of this case after i've used it for a little while so that video will follow on shortly keep an eye out for that so i think that's everything for now i'll see you in the next video and thanks for watching [Music] [Music] um [Music] me [Music] me bye

Channel: Christopher Flannigan

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Id: QE4ML91PZLE

Length: 95min 44sec (5744 seconds)

Published: Sat Nov 21 2020