i7 PC Build: Part One

[Music] welcome once again to explain in computers calm and to the first of two videos in which I'm going to build an i7 PC specifically I'm going to be rebuilding the computer I used to render my 3d computer graphics although as I'm only going to be keeping the case and the power supply this is an effect an entirely new build right to do this build I bought lots of different PC components and we look inside all of these exciting boxes over the course of this video and the next one but the component I think we should start with is this one this is our processor this is a sixth generation Intel Core processor what's called a skylake processor and specifically as you can see this is an i7 6700k and if you think of yourself where's the fancy box that this processor came in give us a look at the box I can't this is a T based processor and a T processor stands for a tre processor which means it comes in this little plastic wallet you can see here that's all you get you don't get a box with T based processor you don't get a manual you don't get a cooler you don't even get a sticker to stick on the front of your PC saying Intel i7 insight and the reason for that is a trade based process like this one are normally sold in trays say a hundred of these in one tray that must be amazing to see they're sold to large system manufacturers but you can get hold of tea based posters some of the more specialist dealers I got this one for example from quite PC calm now if you're thinking why they got the tea based processor let's have a look at this table of different skylake processors I'm showing you here all three available i7 at the current time plus a few y5s nice three just for good measure and as you can see they all have slightly different specifications this doesn't showing you all the specs but the ones I want to mention here and if we look at the i7s I could have bought it six seven zero zero K that's an overclockable processor I don't want to overclock this processor so I haven't bothered about that I could have bought the standard six seven zero zero over six seven zero zero T and as you can see this is the slowest of the three i7s available and you can see that reflects them both their stock speed the turbo speed and in the passport the performance score but the key column here for me is the TDP column that's the thermal design power column now thermal design power is measured in watts but it's not a direct measure of the power used by a processor rather it's a measure of the heat generated by the processor when it's running at full load so if you think of your microprocessor was a small fire what we're seeing here is the six seven zero zero K would produce up to 91 watts of heat the standard six seven zero zero 65 watts and the six seven zero zero T 35 watts of heat because I'm going to be fitting this processor in a rendering system where it's going to be running a full processor utilization for version all of its life off in 168 hours a week I want to run the processor as cool as possible and also as pair efficiently as possible because although TDP doesn't fully reflect the power use of a processor inevitably the T based processors use a lot less power than the standard i7 processors they are power optimized chips so there we are the process above this build our lovely Intel i7 6700k we just flick it over but really things to play with micro processors but isn't it videos let's have a little look you can see the back of the processor long time since we've had pins on the back of Intel processor it's got contact parts there which will then match up with the pins in the socket on the motherboard and talking of the motherboard it's probably now time to have a look at that right having selected a process of a next you need to choose when you're building your own PC is the motherboard and at here as you can see I've got a gigabyte board I always buy gigabyte boards I just happen to like them and I've got specifically an h1 70m ds3 H now when you're choosing a motherboard was a few things to bear in mind first of all you must get a board with the right socket type which here means an LG a one one five one four the Intel skylake processor and you're then more broadly to choose the chipset and here I've chosen a board which is you can probably see in the title the board isn't H 170 it's also written down here in smaller letters just in case we haven't noticed and the chipset is basically the set of components a set of chips on a motherboard that control the flow of data between the processor and the memory the storage devices the graphic system etc now if we bring up this table I can show you the three most common chipsets you would be using on a consumer-based skylit PC z170 H 170 or 810 as you can see here if you want to overclock your piece that you're going to need a said 170 if you want to have an MDOT 2 socket you're going to have to have at least as I won 7-2 an H 170 I wanted an MDOT 2 port which when I couldn't have an 810 chipset and also I want to make sure I've got four dimm slots for memory stops I'm going to occupy two of them that'll leave the expansion capacity in the future I wouldn't have had that with an H 110 board and there you can also see you get fewer SATA ports and also you also get fewer USB ports so there's nothing wrong with an 810 chipset it's a lot cheaper than using an H 170 which in turn is cheaper than using a Zed 170 right we've taught allowed it a bit but it's important to make sure you know about which chips that you're going to buy let's look inside here I always like motherboards and looking in the Box is motherboards are really cool we've got here some er SATA cables but of course this is the main thing this is the board itself as get it out get that out of my way there we are this is our motherboard this is a micro ATX board which is perfectly big enough for our purposes here cream clear things so often in these videos let's have a look inside think I'll cut this with scissors so I don't damage the bag too much getting in there we are and inside here is our lovely motherboard take it out nice and careful there we are there's our lovely motherboard for this build we check out what we've got here here's the processor socket here are four dimm stocks to put in memory here's our PCIe slots we've put in things like graphics card if we if we wanted to you could put two graphics cards on this if you want to have crossfire graphics if you want you've also got here the slot for the m2 SSD if you want to put all of those in and of course on the back panel we've got a range of sockets including a HDMI DVI and VGA for connecting a monitor we've got USB 2 and USB three sockets we've got Gigabit Ethernet audio jacks and we've even got a legacy port for connecting an old-style ps2 keyboard or Mouse which could be useful we're installing Windows 7 we've also got a good complement of the usual internal connectors including this bank of SATA and SATA Express sockets but now I think it's high time to get on with actually building something and so I'm going to remove the cover on the processor socket there we are we can then open the socket retaining clip like this and open it up I can then take our processor and very carefully drop this into the socket making sure the triangle matches triangle it's pretty difficult to get in the wrong way around these days there we are and then now if I just put this back turning clip goes underneath that goes under there we now have our processor fitted in our PC but of course if we left the processor just like this naked is it where it would burn up very quickly or get far too hot so when next thing we to think about is fitting a cooler right it's a cooler time and I've got a fantastic color for this build they're not tore NH l9x 65 which is actually an enhanced version of a cooler call will not tour NH L 9 which I use in a build a couple of years ago on an ice 3 now this is a low profile cooler and it's slightly bigger than the previous at NHL 9 it's 65 millimeters high as you might guess from the the wording on the box so this is not a cool to use if you want to build a CPC and overclock it that's not going to work but if you want to build a PC in a relatively small case and I'm using a fairly small case for this value though height case anyway this is a great color to use particularly using a low TDP processor remember I've got a processor with a TDP a thermal design power of 35 watts this can go in theory up to 84 watts of heat dissipation so this is great for a lot of situations unless you're going to be overclocking so let's get inside open the thing up I think in fact need to open it the other way because you won't see otherwise and if it's like other Noctua cause it's extremely well packaged and it looks like it is there is a box here of parts for mounting the cooler and then oh yes inside we see the cooler itself there we just look and how does this come out all it's in loads of cardboard there there we are and if we get this thing out I always used to buy cooler sums almond butter I've been converted in recent years to these things from not chewer so let's just put our downs we have a proper look at that and as you can see it's a very nice cooler it is a really nice piece of equipment ideal great quality you can see on the bottom there you can see the very very shiny base paint which virtually fit onto the processor covered by a piece of plastic so really really shiny but we'll leave the plastic on for that we don't touch that or any contamination in there you can see the heat pipes too coming out that side and I presume - coming out the other side and of course the fan on the top so this is a lovely piece of kitchen I think we should get on with mounting it on our processor and to do that we need to take various mounting hardware out to the box so let's go back to the box we took out earlier just think just a flick so put the back there and if it's like other knocked you occurred which is it's very well organized we've got some manuals and things here we've got the Intel mounting hardware which we'll be using in the second this is an Intel processor on using it with there's also an AMD set of mounting hardware which I won't need what you would use if you're using it on an AMD processor and motherboard we've got summer what are labeled common parts this is the Noctua thermal compound which we'll use when we mount the thing on the processor and also what they call that low noise adapter crinkle crinkle low noise adapter that basically means it runs the fan slower which reduces noise but also reduces cooling I probably won't use that and file in here we've got a special not to a screwdriver and a whites that special but there it is nice to have that I'm sure and the bit will need first of all which is this which is a title off this is the base plate this goes under our motherboard and then comes up through and we mount the cooler on top of that so the first thing you need to do is to mount this to our motherboard and so here's the back of the motherboard this is the opposite side we normally see but we'll put this in there like that and then we just flick this over let it comes through there we are we can now see the processor on those things that comes through there which is good we can then just drop on these little plastic cur stand off the things a great confidence in monocular system it really seems to be very nice and we now just take these uh little bars like that those drop on there and then it's good to see was great clearance none of the components of risk of being damaged there and then we just take these little thumbnail things screw them on like that there we are two there and two more I do like the way when you build a PC you're doing both computer things electronic key things but you also doing this physical construction it's a very interesting mix of things go together when you when you're building a PC so that's all now well in place is that nice and tight it is that's how it's really good and so the cooler will go top of here you can see I've taken the fan of the color it makes things a lot easier to mount and we'll just be able to screw it in on the different sites but before we do that the first thing I need to do is to remove from the cooler it's a plastic cap so we've got the actual surface tab to joint with the processor and the next thing we need to do is to apply some circle compound some of it we're not Chua n th one so I'll take off a little cap from the thing here this is a screw and get the thing off there we are it is off there and we can now apply this to the top of the processor you need a little bead about four or five mil bead they say I'm not qu and it was a lot of debate on back this should you use pee should you use spread well not to say you should use pee and I think I would trust them given how well they build their systems so if I now just take the he'd think this is the moment of truth isn't we can put a shiny surface on to the processor and I can just drop this down carefully on top lining things up are the thermal paste will of course spread or I could feel it to them going as I speak sort of there we are this move it around very slightly to spread a thing out no air bubbles coming in just keep the pressure on there and then all I need to do now is to get onto the screwdriver and start to screw down do a bit on one side to stall it off bit on the next side start it off I get that's taking once you started off you're fine auntie you've anchors keep going nice and gently a little bit more on that side these are beautifully sprung things this really is going to work very nicely I think this is going to be a a great color install sometimes you just have a feeling well don't you I can't see how that stuff is spreading on top of the processor but I can sort of imagine it quite nicely I think that's probably about enough now we don't need to be absolutely to the ends of the earth that's now that's nice and good and solid others I'm very very pleased with that so all let's do now is to put the fan on the fan Jeremy has some clips on it so you can obviously clip it on that's the reason you have clips isn't it and I've lost both the clips what's going to happen it's going to end up about there in terms of the wire for the motherboard so and the clips drop in I think like this it's far we used to do this if you take the fan Clips off and put them back on again although it's not as easy if you keep dropping them like I do I have to try and do 12 things at once it that's not the best piece of advice for how you should run things in your life but there we are put those clips on there and then if I can hold them in place keep them down they will drop on either side of here like like that goes under there oops be very careful when you're putting these on about why you don't want to damage that little wire day you know and on the other side let's do that one first at once now in that one's now in wires perfectly happy we've got our fan mounted on top of our cooler that's that's lovely so all I've got to do now is to tie this wire up somehow and then that will that'll be a tricky thing to tidy up a tree that's not going to go in easily it's under there like that it will end up somehow going into the top like that that's what plugs in but I need to get the wiring nice and neat not easy I don't know why nice neat your modem Lee but there we are we've now got our fan our coolant mounted on our motherboard you right having spent some time sorting out the cooling let's turn to something a bit more straightforward which is the memory and here I've got two ddr4 dims four gigabytes each so this gives me a total of eight gigabyte of memory and these are from the Kingston net HyperX fury brand I just get into these I think the adjuster cuts down the edge down here shouldn't be too difficult to get into here open this thing up like this it doesn't want to let me in does it no we are we are we're going to get in we don't care they want to let us in always been very very careful handling memory because of court it is static sensitive and also it doesn't wanna let me in anyway there we are not to take it apart the most effective way that but that's just quietly put this on the surface for you there there's our first dim and there's our second beneath it don't it look lovely together like that but of course they really want to be in the motherboard so we'll fit them in there we'll take the first one which we'll be fitting into DDR slot 2 you have to fit in slots in pairs and 2 is in the back you're wondering why I did two first it's simply because I won't you go to see what's going on so I now fit into dim slot one at the front and then we'll have both our memory modules fitty we have now got 8 gigabytes of memory on our motherboard if I cut to a different angle you can hopefully also see that the CPU fan which I fitted in the last segment which you didn't really see is now plugged in there and I tied it up the wire a bit I've actually rotated the fan around so it's all looking nice and neat so there we are we've now finished constructing the first part of the computer the motherboard fitted with the processor the cooler and the memory right just to test that things are working okay at this stage I taught how to do a test boot so what I've done is to drug out the PC the render box in which we're going to put this motherboard opened it up and I've connected in the the power lead so we've got power to this board and I've also just connected a couple of jumpers to what will be the power switch on the on the PC so if I just try and convince it to turn itself on by doing this oh that was successful it's come to life the plan has come to life and there's also some very interesting glowing LED channels down here this is an audio channel you can see down here but obviously you probably can't see that in the in the movie lights but at least we can see the PC has come to life and if we just look at the monitor unfortunately I can't record it my normal fashion I'm just pointing a camera at him you can see the PC is running and it's clearly gone into it's a BIOS or whatever we're supposed to call it these days that a gigabyte still call it a BIOS and if we just hit the keyboard to get to the status we can say that like all of our CPU cores are working perfectly well that seems rather good and we could flick through here and everything seems to be in order it's obviously a slightly confused computer because it has absolutely no storage connected at the moment which clearly will slow it down a little bit on the other let it do absolutely nothing but we have proof now we've built a working computer and somewhat we can add things too including storage and a case in the next video an Intel i7 processor really is an amazing piece of technology not least a skylake i7 contains about 1.75 billion individual transistors and it's made using an anode ethnographic process with a resolution of 14 narrow meters which means that the minimum feature size of a component on the chip is down to about 42 nanometers across which is only about three hundred atoms across and for me at least reflecting on that fact brings yet another dimension to doing your own PC build but now that's it for another video if you enjoy what you've seen here press that like button if you haven't subscribed please subscribe and I hope to talk to you again with a second part of this build very soon [Music]

Channel: ExplainingComputers

Views: 195,257

Keywords: i7, PC, computer, build, upgrade, intel, Skylake, motherboard, chipset, H170, Noctua, NH-L9x65, cooler, Gigabyte, DDR4, RAM, HyperX, test, boot, desktop, CPU, processor

Id: l22t-XrGKEY

Length: 21min 25sec (1285 seconds)

Published: Sun Dec 11 2016