How To Build An Intel Gen 11 NUC

all right david harry here and in this video i'm going to be building or putting together an intel nook and in this instance this is the new i7 panther canyon so what i'm going to be doing here is installing some ram installing an m.2 drive and also installing a sata drive so basically i'm going to fill this up to like you know the the most things you can fill it up with so in any event even if you're not looking at putting a saturday or m.2 if it's one or the other i'm going to cover that anyway in what i'm going to do and obviously also the ram as well now the way i'm going to do this is to do it in one take take me time doing it and it may not be the slickest video in the world or anything like that but hopefully what i'm gonna do here is give people the confidence to be able to do it for themselves so if they can see how these things are done in real time as opposed to like all edited up and go bang bang bang there you go that's how you do it if i can do this in such a way that kind of gives people the confidence to do it themselves then that's job done for this video basically because i just want to impress upon people this is not a difficult thing to do just watch this video carefully and i will cover all the bases that you will need covered in order for you to do the same either with one or two drives and also the ram okay so let me get into this okay so the first thing that i'm going to do here then is just go over what i've got on the table and don't forget this is going to be a one take thing a bit kind of laid back as it were and again i just want to kind of do this in the way that like anyone would do it rather than plow through it like a total idiot and stuff anyway so what i'm going to be putting inside the nook is first of all i've got a 250 gigabyte nvme ssd i've also then got two sticks of eight gigabytes of ddr4 3200 ram which is going to be a con well combined is going to be 16 gigabytes i'll get to something about the ram once i start putting the ram in and then here i've got a 4 terabyte ssd now i'm deliberately going for a four terabyte one for this just to make sure that it is all good with like you know high capacity ssds going in on the sata port and stuff like that so that's the basics of what's there so what i'm going to do here first of all is just open up the nook what i'll do i won't be zooming in and out with the camera and what have you it it might mess up even more than what it's likely to mess up if i do that anyway so what i'll do is just maybe in post i might zoom into little bits now the other thing to remember here as well and the camera is likely to want to start focusing on my hand if it's too close to it so there will be the odd little focus thing going wrong here and there however we will for the best part see exactly what's going on so right now what i'm doing is unscrewing each of these screws in the corner of the nook's base here because what it is these screws are what hold the nook it will hold the base into place hey i'm rhyming so yeah they hold the base into place on the nook system and basically keep it all together so i've nearly got this done so like i say all done in one take so all the board and stuff like unscrewing screws is gonna get done this way now the best thing to do here is probably just to tip it upside down and kind of jiggle it a little bit until it pops the base off like that in fact just while i'm doing this let me just move all that stuff out of the way there so let me just get this more into the center of the frame so i'm going to do is pop this open now what's really cool and we will see this immediately with this particular nook what's great is this cable here which allows you to place the base here a little bit further away and not have to start worrying about disconnecting things you know because in the past these wouldn't have had like a long cable like that and it was a little bit fiddly trying to move the base yeah the base plate out the way and stuff okay so what i'm going to do for the first part here is go for the nvme ssd and that goes here so we're going to plug it into that socket there and then it kind of fastens on with this screw at the back here so first thing is i will take the screw out now wherever possible you know maybe use magnetic screwdrivers magnetic screwdrivers are not going to be a problem um as far as like you know the components and the boards concerned but it will help you to stop dropping screws do the thing as well i would strongly recommend you use an anti-static band and stuff like that so you know basically ground yourself when you do this stuff i'm not doing this and that's because i've discharged myself before i do this however what i'm doing is very risky so i would always recommend you wear an anti-static strap and stuff when you do these types of things okay so what would it what it is now we're ready to put the nvme ssd in let me just move this cable to one side here so it doesn't get in the way okay so let me grab this now this will do your nvmes and your saturn on m.2 as well so basically i think anything you're going to throw on here is going to be fine but i think you know most people are going to want to use nvmes just for the speed and stuff now as you can see here that's slotted in fact let me just do that again so if we have a look here in this little let's see let me use the screwdriver as my pointing tool so my finger doesn't get in the way of everything right so basically this little slot here we just pop in the nvme into there and let's see if we can get a close-up here as we can see there's a notch here on the actual drive and that notch lines up with a little notch on the socket there as well so we pop that in and you'll know when it's in because it becomes like springy so let me just show you this see that that's just sitting there like that now and it's got a bit of a spring to it so that's now connected in properly so what i'm gonna do now is just push that down and then we attach the screw or we screw the screw into the back to hold it into place now like i say you know we can use like you know satur or nvme for these as well or you know that's that's sat at m.2 or nvmem.2 oops there we go i see that so my magnetic screwdrivers just come in handy there because i did drop the screw although i'm trying to get it back home but it is i'm actually fumbling about it because i'm trying to look at the screen on the camera as well and to be honest that's not very magnetic or at least that's the excuse that i'm going to use so let me just pop that in this as we well we can't really see that because my hand's in the way but we've seen the before and after like i say me hand is inevitably going to have to get in the way with a bunch of this stuff but as we can now see there that screw is in place so we've fastened in the nvme there so the next thing to do is to pop in these the ramp into the two slots here now you're best off using two sticks around with these things now another thing as well quickly just before we get into this um these two sticks around that i've got a rate of that 3 200 megahertz and the actual nook will do 3 200 megahertz as well although i don't think the nook is xmp like compatible so if you've got xmp profile memory which is how it gets its clock um i don't think you're going to be able to do that so do have a little look around for the memory for these nooks unfortunately i'm not entirely sure whether this memory does actually clock as high as it should do i think it goes in at like 2667 or something like that it's like you say if you want the full speed out of the ram i would strongly recommend that you go and check out on the uh the intel site what you know what memory they recommend and in fact i'll have a link in the description for that i've basically grabbed these because they said they were 3200 but i think these require some xmp facility and the bios in order for them to be clocked properly so like i say that's just a little thing to think about as far as the actual clock speed to the ram is concerned now once again here as we'll see with this ram stick there's like a little notch here as we can see and then on the actual little container the retainers here the slots for the ram there's also these notches on them as well so you can only put the ram in one way so you can't mess this up in any way whatsoever and then also as well what we can probably see here hopefully i can get zoomed in on each side of these little like you know slots here for the ram we've got like these little levers almost at the side now these are just little grip systems so these little bits of metal on the side one there there's one there there's also one there and there's one there they'll catch the ramp once it's in place and it'll just kind of like you know hold it in and stuff so with that said let me put it in you're best off doing the bottom one face so you don't cover the access to the bottom one by putting the top one in first and once again the same thing you when you put it in it'll just hold itself in place and be a bit springy like that then all you literally do is just kind of push it down gently then at some point you're going to hear clicks so that there is going to click in and that's going to click in and hold it in place there we go so two quick clicks just always give it a little bit of a push just to make sure it's all in also as well you will see if it hasn't connected properly because it won't line up here and those little catches won't catch the little slots properly either so what i'm going to do now is go for the second one exactly the same thing in fact let me try putting this in the wrong way around right so as we'll see oh it won't fit and it won't fit because the little notch there doesn't line up with anything so let me turn it around the right way around let me just push it into the slot a bit give it a little gentle push down let's we'll add a couple of clicks or two fast clicks there we go two quick clicks boom there we go and that one's in as well so that's now the ram sorted and the nvme now at this point this may be all that you need to do because you may not be wanting to put a sata drive in or conversely you may want to be using a sata drive and not an nvme because don't forget with this you can boot or just have one or either or in this configuration you don't have to have an nvme or you don't have to have an m.2 in and you don't have to have a saturn and you can go either or as a boot drive and either or for storage obviously in this instance i'm going to be using one obviously what i'm going to be doing is using nvme to boot with for os and programs and then the 4 terabyte in here is going to be used for data storage and stuff video files and whatnot so let me just move this across a little bit here now what we're going to have to do first on here is to remove these four little rubber plugs so let me just get under here see if i can try and cover me little serial thing up there so what we can see here we've got a little rubber plug there we've got a little rubber plug there we've got one there and then we've got one there as well so what we need to do is just pull these out i think you can pull them off from the bottom like that as you can see so just get your fingernail underneath them and then just pop them out they're only there just to put to protect those holes when they're not in use for screws with the drives so let me just pop that again so there we go so that's all four of them i don't know i'm going to turn this back around here what we're going to see is there is the power and saturn at the back so there's the connector that we need to connect into and if you have a look down here there's a hole there so literally what you do line up your drive so that your drive is pointing the right way that way so that your saturn and power line up with the saturn power at the back there and then just this hole here just basically pop your drive in there and then push it in gently so it all locks into that slot or that socket at the back there hold on and then there we go you'll feel it click in it'll go in nice and gently there now what it is you get a bag of screws and stuff and i still haven't worked out what's what here so i might take a few seconds to work this out but there should be four screws in here for screwing the um the 2.5 inch drive into the plate from the other side which is where we've just took those rubber plugs out of the other thing here as well to remember is this could be a hard drive does not it could be a mechanical drive doesn't have to be an ssd although it does say i believe that the gap there or the space is seven millimeters so just make sure that your drive is no thicker than seven millimeters okay so i'm gonna just have a little dig through these screws here i reckon that one that one let's see that one and that's one of the ones for the drives okay so now what i'm going to do is just turn this back over and then these little four screws here i'm going to use them to hold that drive into place so let me just put the screws down there once again i just want to try and cover this cereal thing here the thing is i normally blank these out with some kind of tracking thing in posts and but because i'm going to be moving it around the thing doesn't track that well on the edit system i'm sit there and i have to do manual keyframing when i start blaring stuff anyway so one screw goes there let me just pop this one on like i said i'm also just do all this all in real time just give you a really good idea as to the kind of time it's going to take that one's all screwed in don't over tighten them you don't need to go mad with this you don't have to you know act like the whole course something you know just like you know smashing things up or you know forcing things into weird places and stuff and there we go hold on but it is also the lighted i'm just trying to get the light right so we can see what's going on here and then there we go that one goes into there so obviously what's happened here when i've stuck the sata drive in there are four holes under the sata drive which line up with these holes and as you should be able to see with that last hole there that's looking straight through to the actual hole in the satellite of the screw hole in the sata drive there so there's me final one there let me just pop that in let me try and get that in there okay so that's now the sata driving so saturday drives all firmly in let me just move these bits out of the way here as well okay now what i'm going to do is just flip this over now what you have to remember here this little light pad thing it might look like a sticker of weird gum or some kind of weird like blotchy phone thing or whatever what that is that's like a heat pad and that basically helps to transfer the heat from your nvme or and basically an m.2 drive there helps to transfer the heat from there onto that plate as well so that's part of your like heat dissipation system for the m.2 so what you need to do is make sure that when you put this back over the alignment should be like the way i've got it where that pad is lined up to go over onto that there so i'm gonna do is just flip this over and get it all back in again let me just see if i can cover that serial number for now until it's down and when it's down i can mask it properly okay so as you can see there that's all gone in nice so what you'll find as well there are like little notches around the sides here as well so you can't actually put that base plate in the wrong way around either so then what what we do now we just go back and tighten up these four screws again let me just get that one in once again you know don't over tighten them it's not a competition and you know you don't know when you might need to get back into these things at some point so you'd only be running the risk of like you know damaging the screw beds and stuff like that also for the best part these things don't move around so it's not like you've got to tighten them right down like a loonie because they're moving all the time and you know they might they might start vibrating and fall out and stuff so let's see okay so that one's in there now what i'm gonna do let me just flip this around okay so as you can see there that is one nook which is now being expanded to its maximum so that being two memory sticks an m.2 drive and a sata drive as well okay so with this all done now what i'm going to do is just install windows on it boot it up have a look at me drive system and stuff because that four terabyte drive has actually got stuff on it so i can immediately test it out on the system so i'm going to cut away to do that now quickly i'm not going to be doing any kind of anything here to do with installation of software this is just so that we can see that the thing is working but maybe more importantly for me just make sure there isn't any issues with that 4 terabyte drive going into that sata port now obviously at this point you really do need to be working out what operating system you're going to put on and so far you know this is going to be good for the likes of say linux and various versions and linux and windows and stuff i've tried putting android on i can't get it to go on also as well i've tried chrome os as well chrome os goes on but won't work because it doesn't understand the igpu that's on this computer if these things change in the future i'll most certainly do videos about that as well but anyway for now i'm just going to now cut away to after i've put all my software on let's have a quick look at that okay so what we're looking at here then is the desktop after i've installed windows and stuff onto this nook so this is now windows on the nvme drive and if i go here and i'll go to computer as we can see second drive there is my four terabyte one it's actually chock of fully because this is something that i use on one of my edit systems so there's usually tons of video data and stuff being backed up on this i'm a complete mess with my archiving and my data and stuff like that however what's really good here is this nook has had no problems seeing both of these drives so once again c drive there that was the nvme drive that i'd installed and the d drive here is the four terabyte that i installed into the sata port okay so this is just a quick look so that we could see that everything was working after i installed windows installed a few things and then also put a drive in that's had tons of data on it okay so there we have it then how to put together one of these intel i7 panther canyon nooks and also that was a little bit at the end there as well where i was just showing what it looked like once windows was on i'm making sure that i could definitely access the data on the four terabytes as the secondary drive in the sata compartment okay so if you've liked this video anyway keep an eye out for more videos like this to do with this nook i'm going to be trying it out with a video capture device on thunderbolt and also using it for obs some video editing and stuff like that so if you're into that kind of thing definitely keep an eye on me channel i'll try the odd gamey thing with it as well probably now that it's all together but it's ram and i'm able to do things like that hopefully also as well to be links in the description to this video take you to where you can buy this nook i'll also have links building up as to some of the peripherals that i'll be using and hopefully some of these capture devices as well once i work out which stuff works and all the rest of it anyways if you've liked the video please give it a massive thumbs up also if you've really really liked the video please consider subscribing to my channel getting all over the bell notification icon so you can be notified of future videos and all the rest of it anyway i'm david harry thank you very much for watching this video take care and goodbye now you

Channel: David Harry

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Length: 20min 49sec (1249 seconds)

Published: Fri Mar 05 2021