i7 PC Build: Part Two

[Music] welcome to another video from explaining computers dot-com and to the second and final part of my i 7 pc build last time I dealt with the protesser the motherboard the cooler and the memory and also did a successful test boot this time I'm therefore going to finish things off by fitting the motherboard in the case sorting out some drives and running some comparative performance tests right as you may recall from the last video this build is an upgrade of the PC that I used to run to my 3d animations and it's housed in this really solid Coolermaster a TC 620 CB x one case and no you probably can't buy this anymore my friend it's from 2003 anyway last time aya opened up the case so we could do the test boot can we access the power supply and now it's time to a strip everything out from inside here and some of these comparator are quite old asan 2003 components this is 2011 this is a Core 2 quad system at the moment running Windows XP eq8 300 2.5 gigahertz chip 2 gigabytes of grams so everything's going to be getting a lot higher spec lovely 4 times increasing spec in terms of RAM and hopefully speed-up processor as well so what I need to do is to get on with removing all of the old components and when we've done that we'll have a case which is cleared out just as it would be if you were doing a brand new build so I'll get on with a bit of component removal and there we are the cases cleared out ready for the newer board to go in we seem to have a strange little thing down here I think this is actually this really is a bug I think this is a clearly a fried insect looks like the remains of a of a ladybird a ladybugs actually ended up the computer that you may know that bugs in computers were actually first called that because they were actually insects had got into the works and got all burnt up and caused problems unfortunately this hasn't caused me any trouble but it's it's interesting to find out inside the computer and I think it does give me a thought that I probably should give the thing a jolly good clean before we do anything else so I think I'm going to go and clean this case and then we'll get on with fitting the new components so here we are the cases now lovely and clean I didn't quite eat my lunch of it but probably could've done oh there was a slight bit of wit have guns left there there we are it's now lovely and clean I should point out I've kept the power supply I was using previously this is a 400 watt Zalman power supply if you're building a PC you'll obviously need a power supply to make it work and if you're buying a new case it might come in the case where you might have to buy it separately but a 400 watt should be fine to run an i7 these days unless you're going to fit a large graphics card or a lot of traditional hard drives here I'm using onboard graphing so the thought of what power supply will be absolutely fine and I've also kept the case fan that's all about changing the case but actually it seems to be a pretty good cool master fan it works while I've cleaned it all up so that'll be absolutely fine so we can now think about fitting the motherboard and to do that the first thing we need to do is to fit the i/o shield this thing in the back of the case this came in the motherboard box if you've got a new case you won't have one to remove but in my case I first need to remove the old shield and then to fit this one so let's attempt this most horrible of activities I'm trying all well the old one came out very easily if you've watched my videos building pcs before you know I hate fitting these things because they never go in easily and about if I say it won't it's bound to work isn't it ah you see I thought I've already jinxed it the wrong way get in you dare we did with me oh that was rather straightforward we've now got that in the back of the PC who are we can therefore now take our motherboard and move it into position or was tricky to get it through and this was hopefully going okay as it does it'll stick out the back kinder all the connectors have been the right place that went in remarkably easily and as with all of these things the first thing is getting the first screw in and I wish I'd put it on my magnetic screwdriver before I started ups I didn't but anyway we're just about there and the first screw will start things off fine and get things all in place don't do that too solidly first so I'll now just put all the motherboard screws in and there we are those were all in a few of the screws actually are all under the back II might not be able to see all those but nevermind they're all in them so the motherboard is now another Sheila screwdrivers rocking around going strange screwdriver rocking noise in the background don't do that screwdriver I'm sorry says the screwdriver I won't interfere again anyway we now need to do a bit of connection so we've got things like the fan connects to connect in and we've got the connectors to put in here for the front panel things like connectors for the power switch the power LED I'll connect these by the magic of filmmaking because you'd never see what was going on as my fingers got in the way and then a similar basis are connecting the connector for the system fan which is hiding away all when the back of the board that it didn't want to be filmed but we've seen a system fan connector is connected sneakily while you were watching I've also connected in some front USB connectors I've tried to tidy some of these wires because some of you get very concerned with my white on aren't very neat of eventide that was for the fan I've connected round the back in here behind the famine and between that and the power supply that the cooler fan I've connected in the 12-volt ATX power simply can't find an angle to show you that very easily and finally I'll connected in terms of board connectors this main power connector the one with all the big cables and colors exactly the snap-in I haven't heard the snap yet but it has gone in it's gone in oh yeah there's a tiny snap there that's gone in so the board is now powered so I think it's high time we start thinking about some drives right the system drive on this PC is going to be a this a SanDisk SSD yes I forsaken Samsung for once I don't quite know why thought I'd just try a SanDisk SSD they're owned by a Western Digital now so it must be okay if we just get in here you'll see this is what are there X 400 drives so called a decent quality drive with them some interesting colors on it that let's just get it out of his little bag anti-static bag of course butter oh very well sealed anti-static bag you're not going to get out by accident and there we are here's aiyla SanDisk X 400 this is a one to eight gigabyte SSD it'll be absolutely fine for what this machine needs needs although I'm starting with one drive there will be a second drive going at some point in the future you'll see that in a future video now to fit that in the case I've got I need a means of mounting a 2.5 inch drive I could just blue tack it in the case I've done that before that's not no I'll do things properly so I bought myself at one other these this is a mounting kit in fact it's two mounting kits in the same case it was 1 pound more to have two in the case no one seems to be admitting to actually manufacturing this but if we look inside and get the thing opened up or you can hear the metal already one and two two mounting kits they're only one of them this one seems to have the screws doesn't it so what we need to do is to take this and we put the SSD onto that goes on the that way up it seems that's a bit sad isn't it the Sun this peak disappears so that go and now I'll just screw that together and there we are even in the a fast playback you but I see that way to writer pigs breakfast to that I like the waist and disk appears in the in the metal else rather nice so we can now take this and fit it in a three and a half inch Bay in the PC and that Bay's actually a under here's a nice internal Bay in there this is not a case it's very easy to show you everything unfortunately but this is the thing it's going to slot in under here like that not actually in that one the top one those are going into the fit in like that there we are that's how it will fit in so I just need to connect some power to it quick metallic clangs there is a static power connector it's a slight shortage of SATA power connectors on this power supplies loom so I put an adapter on that one just to make my life easy with the wiring later on I obviously need this type of data cable it won't work at all so put that in to push that under there and then get that out the way stop being a naughty wire and this will hopefully go in the top of there sliding in like that that's fine and it'll just slide into place and I can now just take a screw I'm still with you I've just disappeared to find this goo driver and the screwdriver comes in you made just to be able to see it I'm doing something that doesn't screw in and that is nice and secure I think actually just the one thing will secure that we were don't need that much more support on that it's a in a internal bay it's an SSD it something anywhere the screw drivers making noisy to get its rocking around I've told you once before screw drivers stop doing them anyway we now need to take the shattered data cable and connect it in to the SATA port on the motherboard there were six SATA ports down here we need to put this into Saturday oh really if it's going to be our our system drives will do that I think I can just about get in on the workout which way this cables to be going in the future I think it'll go in to settle on such as zero rather like this there we are and now we have that drive fitted we also of course want to have an optical drive and the optical drive we're going to use is this one it's a Sony DVD RW it's actually the driver took out of my main video editing PC a little while ago to fit and M disc drive so it's a perfectly good drive how long is a few years I guess it'll work perfectly well in this PC so we will take this drive here we are and it slots in the front of the machine like this we're going to this slot here goes in like this and there we are like that lines up with the front of the case and again we need to make sure it has got access to Peter would choose be a connector here fit that one on there that will go into Sutter connector I think number one just above thee or the one this is now we can we start to have arguments between the wires but I'm sure it'll go in okay go on get in there thank you that's now in it of course needs something how are we can come from that such a thing there I'll have fun tidying these cables in a second but for now let's just get it all in and working that goes in there I also cost must put some screws into let's put a screw into the side of that DVD and so with the addition of a screw in here this case only has provision for screws in one sided up dries it has sort of Clips around the wrestlers there's one screw in there with a second screw in a bit lower down in here let's get that in there and put that in there we are the drives not going to go anywhere now and as you can hopefully see we've now got our DVD drive optical drive mounted under here even if it is a bit soaking in the shudders now we've still got a bigger hole left here I'll come back to that in a second also down here just to point out on this box there is a a floppy drive under here a traditional three and a half inch floppy drive I've actually left that in for now it's not connected to anything it can't be kicked or anything there's no floppy connector on on a modern bullet board but I have a cunning plan for the future what I'm going to be replacing this with something which is a bit like the modern version of a floppy disk I'll leave you to think about what that might be but you'll be seeing that in a future video but for now the thing I do want to address before we finish off this build is what's going in here what I'm going to fill in that hole so as you've just seen what I'm going to do finally on this build is to fit some front USB ports I bought this bracket from CSL which is very like the anchor bracket I fitted to the front of my other PC recently couldn't get one of those who can fight get this which is very similar I think we get it out so let's not lose the screws there this is a metal bracket very very nice product is absolutely solid and so that's going to go on the front of the PC and this will connect to the motherboard but you might be thinking this is smaller than the hold on the front of your PC Kristen it is and so I've also got with clear those hands away I also got one of these back to start aq always have to use some star tech in the build I think it's kind of the law and this is a adapter from a five and a quarter to a three and a half inch bay so if we open this thing up try web missing up it doesn't work there we are up we go and you'll see in here I've got exactly as I just said this bracket and a couple of mounting screws as well and I must admit for a star tech product I'm not terribly impressed with this it has the problem that you're fine with a great many bay adapters these days it's made fully out of plastic and the screws are self tapping into that plastic for fit it which really is not the eye not ideal but anyway it'll work for us so I need to do it to take that and we can take our CSL thing and it'll fit in I think like that and that will work quite nicely on the front of the machine so I'll get in and put some screws into that and I think that's about as good as it's going to get I mentioned a plastic things it's already snapped in one place here just putting this thing in it is I think good and solid because of the way the forces work on it but really if I could get a metal bracket for this I would but unfortunately I can't anyway it's now time to fit this into the PC so we take this to the PC and go in front here cable goes all the way through there we are at the way there and this will push in hopefully and line up with the front you'll then lose I'm sure I will put in the horrible self-tapping screws and there we are and with the cable connected to a USB 3 header on the motherboard we now have 2 USB 3 ports on the front of this PC and so the wiring is that tied it I think it's reasonably going to get there isn't a wiring system in this case but I've got all the wiring nicely secured now at least so that looks pretty good I think our build is effectively at an end I just need to take the case and put the case on and this is a slide of a case to get on it's absolutely the most difficult case I've ever put together but ER so I'll do that's quietly off-camera I'll get the case on here I'll finish this off and there we are we have finished building or at least rebuilding this PC to be an i7 with my render box rebuild complete I've now successfully installed Windows 7 and have run a test rendering a piece of animation specifically I've rendered this shot rotating around the custard pie single board computer featured in my opening titles and which took exactly nine hours or five hundred and forty minutes to render on my previous 2.5 gigahertz core 2 quad q8 300 but rendered on my new i7 6700k it output in two hundred and sixty five minutes or about 49 percent of the time so at the end of this rebuild I've ended up with a system that's almost exactly twice as fast join the test I have of course been monitoring power usage and the temperature of the processor and here I can report that the entire i7 system is idling at about 45 watts and is consuming around 70 watts while rendering or in other words at full load these figures compared to an idle of about 65 watts and a load of about 100 watts for the previous Core 2 quad q8 300 and so as we can see with a notable energy saving indeed taking into account increased render speed my watts consumed animation frame rendered has been cut by about two-thirds when it comes to CPU temperatures both systems idled at around 24 degrees and registered a maximum full load CPU core temperature of 54 and 53 degrees this means that my new system is not running any hotter than the old one although I might try and improve it to cooling in the future and get its low temperature below 50 but for now that's it that's the end of the build and I hope you've enjoyed watching me taking my rendering PC and making it twice as fast if you have enjoyed it of course please press that like button if you haven't subscribed please subscribe and I hope to talk to you again very soon [Music]

Channel: ExplainingComputers

Views: 103,290

Keywords: i7, PC, build, Skylake, case, power, supply, PSU, Zalman, Windows 7, optical, drive, ssd, drives, samsung, x400, usb 3.0, bay, LightWave, Intel, 6700T, temperature, load, CPU, watts

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Length: 18min 18sec (1098 seconds)

Published: Sun Dec 18 2016