PC Build in the Corsair 4000X - Intel 12-900K/RTX 3070 [Build Guide/Step by Step]

welcome back guys my name is gareth this is tech check and we are back back with a bang that is because we've just come back off holiday you may have noticed that we've had a lack of uploads over the last couple of weeks and that's because i needed a break with work kids youtube everything else guys i needed to get away with the family for a couple of weeks and i will say now we're back it's been absolutely fantastic but without further ado i want to say that we've got another pc build that i want to share with you guys today in the corsair 4000 x in black we've got a 12 900 k and i can't wait to check out the p and e core performance on that particular cpu we're going to be calling it by this h150i elite lcd so we can see what emojis and gifs we can actually on the screen on here for the actual graphics card we've got this 8 gig 3070 rtx card absolutely fantastic great to see that gpu prices are declining availability is more out there for you guys as well so therefore the costs have been reduced so it's absolutely perfect in terms of motherboard we've got the kind of mac daddy of all motherboards guys this is the maximus hero z690 so absolutely brilliant motherboard a little bit ott in all honesty but the reason why we've got this 30 70 is the fact that we couldn't get the 30 90 that we actually wanted so we're going to be putting the 30 70 in this particular build so don't be put off guys 30 70 still absolutely fantastic still do really really well with the 12 900k but what i would say is with the amount of money that was spent on the actual motherboard the cooler the actual cpu then the 3090 is a better pairing and at a price point than the 30-70 so yeah this actual maximus hero can't wait to build with that especially z690 12-gen intel gonna be absolutely insane we've got 32 gigs worth of crucial uh ddr5 memory we've got a 980 pro for our operating system a 2 terabyte 860 pro from samsung ssd we've got some lovely cable extensions from cable mod and then we've got three extra ml 120 rgb fans if we've got room with this particular graphics card we may do a push pull in this 4000 x case with the 360 all in one at the front now with all that being said let's go so we've reached the first step guys in any part of any build and that is clearing all of the stuff that's unwanted away from your desk only having in front of you what you're actually going to need in this instance our cpu our 32 gigs worth the ddr5 are 500 gigs worth of m.2 and then this maximus hero motherboard as well so without further ado go ahead take out your motherboard out of the motherboard box place it on top of the motherboard and i'll see you in a second so there we have it guys motherboard nicely on top of our motherboard box we're not going to damage the table more importantly not going to damage the actual motherboard as well we went inside the motherboard box to retrieve a sata data cable which we'll need for our 860 ssd and then also our m.2 screw and you can get that out of the motherboard box just better to get it out now and then you're not going to actually go back in box at a later stage so the first step that we'll move on to guys is our 12 900k and i'll show you how to install that now so on to the cpu guys and yes this is the world's fastest gaming cpu out right now until at least amd come back in october with their 7000 series cpus but for now this has got the crown for the world's fastest cpu so what we're going to do guys is we're just going to open this one up and there we go it reveals our 12 900k and as i said guys world's fastest gaming cpu at the minute and an absolute monster when it comes to video editing or content creation as well he's got eight performance calls eight economy calls if you like so 16 calls in total and uh yeah it's an absolute beast so let's go ahead and install our cpu into our socket guys as we said previously the socket type has changed from intel to accommodate this new 12 900k so the first thing we want to do is unrelease the retention arm we can open up the socket itself like that like so i'm not sure whether i'm a fan of this because when you're looking at this the socket's actually right in front of you and you've got to kind of work around it so do be mindful of that and when you're taking out your 12 900k just make sure that you're holding it by the sides so that you don't get your fingers all over the bottom or anything like that what we're looking to do here guys is there is a triangle on the actual cpu and what we're looking to do is that match that with the triangle that's on the actual socket itself failing that there is a couple of indents on the actual cpu and on the socket there's a couple of uh little things that you can match up there as well so go ahead and line up that drop it into place nicely there we go then we can return the socket and then pull down the lever and ensure it's firmly in place and then we've got our 12900k all good to go next up guys a little bit out of order is our 980 pro i normally like to do the the ram next but we'll do this 980 pro so this is a 500 gig nvme drive absolutely blazing fast guys so all we've got to do is literally undo our heat shield we're going to put our nvme drive on the top m.2 slot on this particular motherboard all we're going to do is take our nvme and as you can see here we've got these quick release m.2s here as well place your m.2 or nvme at a 20 degree angle slightly push to one side push down and then we can turn this quick lock mechanism and that's our installation of this 980 pro done all we've got to do then guys is make sure that we peel off any tape on the bottom of these heat shields as well and then we can place it back into position and tighten it back into place so on to the ram guys and i'm going to be honest with you it's not the most sexiest ram out there we've got two sticks of 16 gigabytes so 32 gigs in total it's ddr5 it's 48 mega transfers per second uh it's cl 40. um it's by crucial and it reminds me a little bit like ddr2 ddr3 without the heat shields on so what we've actually done is we've gone out and bought this kit from easy diy effectively it's just a cover that slides over the run module and allows you to be able to connect it via five volt addressable header to your motherboard and basically adds a little bit more of an appealing aesthetic to the actual module itself here's one that i've just done essentially all these things these two screws here the top slides off you slide in the ram module you've got a couple of uh should we say i think it's like um one or two mil thick pieces of foam that you can slide in either side you then put the run module back together tighten the two screws and this is kind of what you're actually uh looking for here so it's got a i've got a wire off at the top but i'm sure um if we we can add that somewhere or another it's not going to be the end of the world all that's going to happen then is that's going to daisy chain to the second one that we're going to do and then essentially it's going to go in a2 and b2 and we're just going to attach it to a 5 volt addressable header but i'm going to be interested to see what the actual end result is like um once these are actually turned on hopefully everything works fine and there we have it guys really really straightforward i'm quite surprised how easy that actually is and it's really nice aesthetic and touch for should we say ram modules that don't have heat shields or spreaders that are on them and don't have any rgb support so yes we've got to contend with that little wire at the top but we can hide that daisy chain them together attach them to the five volt addressable header and then we can control this from the motherboard software as well so hopefully let's get these installed then we can get the motherboard installed into the case so what we're wanting to do guys is a2 and b2 all we've got to do is line our ram modules up until we get them into position like so and then we want firm pressure on either side till we hear a click and again firm pressure there we go so that's our ram nicely installed now let's have a bit of a tidy up we'll get the case up have a quick look at that and then we'll get the motherboard installed into the case so there we have it guys 4000x i'm a huge fan of this 4000x we've probably built 25 times in this particular case white and black ones over the course of the last 12 16 months something like that i'm full glass side panel which is here three sp 120 rgb fans at the front it does come in an airflow version and the d version as well as the x version i prefer the x version uh just because you get these rgb fans at the front and it's blacked out and it looks really really nice if you deck it out in the rgb fans full glass side panel full psu shroud you've got filters which are magnetic all the way around and in all honesty guys i personally think that this is one of the easiest cases because to be quite honest with you corsair make it so damn easy for first-time builders and shall we say the expert builders because all the grommets are in the right places the cutouts are all in the right places they've thought about where you can place the commander core or the should we say the commander pros and yeah i'm sure you can tell i really really like this case so this is going to turn out really really nice so without further ado let's get the side panels off let's remove the filters get it down to the bare bones and then we'll install the motherboard inside so as you can see now guys we've got our sp rgb fans out of the actual case all we've done is disconnect them from our rgb hub as well we can utilize this if we wish to do so um personally i think i'm going to remove it um just because we've got the h150i elite lcd that actually utilizes a usb 2 header as well as the commander core will use a usb 2 header as well so we're not going to actually utilize this at all so i think what i'm going to do is remove it out of the back of here and it will just remove a few extra cables also so just give you a quick rundown on the cables from the front of this particular case guys as well so we've got our standard hd audio which is that one there we've got our usb uh seat which is there we've got our usb 3.0 which is there and then we've got our standard reset button power switch hd lights etc etc so the great thing about this case also guys is all the standoffs are already pre-installed on our motherboard our i o shield is already installed because if it wasn't already installed this is the point where you go ahead and install your i o shield right now so we can lower in our motherboard into position just taking care and making sure it sits on the standoffs really nicely so now our motherboard's on top of its standoffs guys not going anywhere what we want to do now is go ahead and secure it into place using the correct screws which are these ones here they've got a slight head on them makes really good contact with the ground in pins and holds the motherboard firmly in place an electric screwdriver does come in really handy for these smaller screws i'm sure you saw me earlier it did struggle when we're trying to take out the the fan screws not really built for that to be quite honest with you but it does come in really handy in spots like this so next up guys we're going to install this 360 mil cooler at the front as an intake calling this 12 900 k it is the h100i elite lcd absolute stunning cooler guys performs fantastically well and looks even better i have the h150 elite capital x without the screen i'm a little bit uh shall we say jealous of this particular cooler and i have installed a number of these 240 and 280 versions as well so going to be absolutely fantastic performance in terms of calling this uh 12 900k but also it's going to add that extra aesthetic and that little bit of genesee quar to this particular build as well so let's go ahead i'll show you how to install it so included with this 360 cooler guys we actually do already have um three of these ml 120 fans as well really really good rgb really really good performance in terms of the actual static pressure that they create as well so what we're doing here is we're just going to go ahead and we're going to remove all of the components that we're going to require and one of the main reasons why a lot of people are going with these elite capillaxes and especially the lcd is because you get the commander core that comes with the actual and all-in-one cooler itself that alone is around about 40 pounds so you can imagine it's very very good value for money one of the other things that corsair have thought about really cleverly is the fact that most usb 2 headers on motherboards it only comes with two now when you're actually installing a commander core and you're installing should we say this elite lcd screen that takes up two usb 2 headers now if you do have any usb 2 ports on the front of your case as well that's going to require one as well so what they've done is they've come up with a splitter cable which allows you to put the commander core and nearly lcd screen into one and only take one of those usb 2 headers on your motherboard which is again really good forward thinking so as we're using the intel 1700 guys we want to get rid of the am4 we want to get rid of the tr4 as well because we don't need any of that what we need is the intel 1700 and our intel mounting bracket which is there everything else we should be able to just get rid of get it out the way give yourself a little bit more room to move so the first thing we're going to do then guys now that we've got everything unpacked just to make sure that we've got everything we've got a 3ml 120 fans we've got our lga 1700 mounting bracket we've got all our hardware we've got our commander core we've got our pump and we've got our radiator okay now the plan is because this is a 360 mil all in one cooler this case only supports 280 or 240 at the top and 360 at the front so the plan is to have our radiator at the front along with our three ml 120 fans in a push configuration yes it will push a little bit warm air into the case but due to the fact that we've got three more of these mo 120 at the top and at the rear exhausting that warm air should be absolutely fine it creates really good static pressure and to be quite honest with you drawing in fresh cool air cooling this cpu is the better option in this now if we were talking perfect scenarios i would have personally gone with a 240 or 280 mil cooler had it at the top of the case and had it as an exhaust but that would have dealt with higher temperatures for the cpu so i think personally it's a good compromise having this 360 ml cooler especially at the front means that we're going to get adequate calling for our 12 900 and it doesn't compromise in terms of the aesthetics either hello mister hello hello are you going to build a computer with me yeah yeah are going to build computers with daddy yes say hi hi are you on camera oh oh mama here quick quick go get her say say bye bye daddy okay don't so the first step we're going to do guys in order to install this we're going to take our radiator we want to ensure that we've still got our cover over our thermal paste so we don't get that all over the place we want to take our radiator and we want to place it inside of our case just taking care not to scratch anything so now that we've pushed all our cables through to one side guys we've got our radiator on the inside of the actual case we put our fans on top of the radiator and then pushed it towards the front of this grille here what we've done is we've put one screw in just at the top just to make sure the radiator doesn't come away what we want to ensure is we've got our long screws with a little washer on and then what we can do is we can just line up our fan like so and we should be able to just push another one of these through and it should line up for our other screw hole there we go fantastic now i don't want to tighten these up until i've got all screws all 12 screws actually aligned therefore meaning that i'm not gonna have any alignment issues or anything like that but what we'll do is we'll move on to fan number two fan number three get a couple of screws in and once they're in we should have no problems whatsoever so there we have it guys three ml 120 fans in a push configuration on this all in one elite lcd 360 cooler and there we have it inside absolutely fine no problems whatsoever and what you could do if you really really wanted to is you could place another couple of 120 fans at the top here and you could have a push pull if you really wanted to now you couldn't do it for the bottom because you haven't got enough room with the cutout from the psu shroud but um if you really really wanted to you could do a couple of uh fans there we may do that dependent on um how much time we've got right then guys let's just talk about our pump uh here and the cables that come off of our pump as well so we've got a usb 2 which needs to go down to our header on our motherboard we've got our three pin which needs to go onto our cpu fan header at the top of the motherboard and then we've got this 24 pin which needs to go into the top of our commander core just up here signified by this little gray mark there and then a little gray mark at the top of this commander core but we'll hook all that up a little bit later the next priority for me is getting our intel 1700 bracket at the back getting our standoffs installed and then we can get attached our cooler as well so bear with me we'll go ahead and do that now so first thing we're going to do guys lga 1700 backplate all we've got to do is take it push it at the back of our motherboard and push it through the holes and then what we need to do then is once that's in place we take the four standoffs and we screw them into the front of that particular uh back plate as well so now you push your back plate through guys you put your standoffs onto the actual back plate again we've got one last one to do it's the same both side guys it makes no difference so just ensure that when you're putting it on you just turn it round you don't cross thread it or anything like that and you just screw it on all the way until you've got a firm connection again the same for all of those four and once you've got that in place we're good to go so like most all-in-one coolers guys we can take away the cover and we can see that there is some pre-applied thermal paste as well our intentions here are to put these four holes around these four brackets and then secure it in place utilizing the thumb screws but essentially what we want to do now is we want to clip back on our top of our cooler which just clips on like that and then what we can do is we can push all of the cables to the back of the actual case itself with the exception of this one which needs to be plugged on to the cpu header just up here once you've shoved all your cables through to the back don't worry don't get too hung up about all of these cables the major thing is what it looks like at the front now before we actually move on and start connecting our commander core and all of our other cables it's important that we get the rest of our fans installed into our case therefore we can configure how we're going to route the cables and how it's actually going to be hooked up and what is going to be fan number one two three etc because that's important when it comes down to iq later on when we get into windows so the first thing i'm going to do is install the top two fans and then the rear exhaust fan as well so therefore we've got all of our case fans all installed and again same thing as what we mentioned previously we're utilizing the ml 120 rgb fans fantastic uh for case fans going to be brilliant at exhausting uh this warm air as well and not only that it's going to be in keeping with the other fans that's on the all-in-one at the front as well so really really straightforward guys just four screws ensuring that we've got our cables to the back side of the actual case so we can easily cable manage apart from that it's really straightforward i'll be back very shortly and we'll hook everything up to this commander core and ensure that everything is connected to the motherboard before we move on to the power supply so there we have it guys we've got our 360 all in one nicely installed at the front of this case we've got our ram there and our motherboard nicely secured in place as well not turning around to have a look at all the cables just yet but we've got our nice two ml 120s at the top and at the rear all in place now as well so the next logical step guys is to go ahead and install our commander core and start wiring up all of the cables at the back then we'll move on to the power supply so first thing we're going to do guys is we're going to remove this hard drive bay here we're then going to go ahead and install our commander core just around about here making sure that it's facing downwards and that we can get our fan connections in this side as well so somewhere around here we're going to utilize the 3m tape piece at the top piece at the bottom just to secure it into place so one bit up here and one bit up here so once you've got your 3m tape on the back guys all we need to do is then center it making sure that you've got sufficient room that looks about right there perfect press down a few seconds and we are good to go absolutely fine so the first connection we're going to make guys is from our all-in-one cooler and it's from our pump so as you can see there we've got our grade little box and at the top we've got another grey little box up here so now that we've got all our cables sorted guys we need to understand what way and what orientation we want our fans to actually react in iq so personally i really like number one being the front fan at the bottom so that's one two three four five ending with number six which is the rear exhaust fan at the back okay so that's the way we're gonna do it one two three at the front four five at the top six at the rear so it's very straightforward guys all i've done is identified which one is the pwm cable and which one is the rgb cable and what we're going to go ahead and do now is we're going to go ahead and connect all of our rgb connections to our commander core starting with fan number one in the bottom left so very straightforward we're going to go ahead fan number one interconnection number one then fan number two into connection number two fan number three interconnection number three there we go and then up top to number four which is number four there we go and then number five which is number five and then finally to the rear which is this one here which is number six so there we go we've got all of our fans rgb all hooked up and yes it doesn't look perfect at this moment in time but we can work on the cable routing at a later stage now the next thing to understand here guys is pwm is totally different it's not the same as rgb it doesn't need to be synced up in order as long as it's got power there's no issues whatsoever so what we tend to do though i like to make sure this is the same way is i'll hook up the back one to number six and then we'll work from the front so this one's number five at least i know then that the rgb is the same as the pwms and everything should be working absolutely fine so number four goes in and then we go to the front so it's number three and then number two and then number one now a lot of people ask me do you actually need a commander core or a commander pro in order to make this work and the answer is no you do not okay when you come with a 4000x case you get an rgb hub at the back so all your six fans can connect into that now the only difference would be with the commander pro or the commander core is the fact that it can power six fans at the same time so it's one hub that can control all of your fans all in one nice neat place but if you only had the rgb hub then you would need should we say six headers or pwm headers on your motherboard in order for each one of these cables to connect into or if you didn't have six pwm headers you could just get some pwm splitter cables and then just plug those into the motherboard therefore negating the needs for commander core or a commander pro but still having the ability to command the rgb and the actual pwm fans in iq at a later step so no you don't need these guys but it does make it a damn sight easier and a lot more should we say pleasing to look at because all of it is connected into one central place what we're gonna do now is we're gonna go ahead and install the ssd at the back down here now that ssd is a two terabyte um 860 pro which is from samsung so we'll go ahead and install that onto the back of this little ssd caddy here so one thing to note then guys is you will require a sata data cable from your actual um motherboard box so make sure that you go ahead and get one of those this 860 is a really nice drive guys especially being two terabytes um primarily we've got our operating system which is on a 980 pro which is absolutely rapid but this is going to be really really nice for sizable games storage and library kind of items as well so not bad two terabytes worth of really fast storage as well around 600 megabytes as well so not too bad at all we want to make sure this is going up here like this and this is on the back here we want to make sure that our connections are coming out the bottom so that we're not going to have any issues when we're putting in the thumb screw or anything like that so therefore dead straight forward we can just screw this in and then we can connect our data onto the bottom and power onto the bottom also so four dead straight forward screws guys again best way to do it is just by putting the opposite corner in again this little screwdriver comes in really really handy saves the old wrists there we go all sorted so as we said previously just ensuring that the orientation of the ssd is correct so that we can get our sata power and data cable on there no problems whatsoever secured by four screws on the inside and secured into place with the thumb screw so what we can do now is we can go ahead lie this back down and we can nicely just put that back into position and secure it utilizing the thumb screw just up there like that so the power supply of choice this week guys is none other than the core says rm 850 x absolutely fantastic power supply 80 plus gold rated guys 10 year warranty fully modular and a really nice design so couldn't be happier with that really really straightforward all we're going to do is going to take it out we're going to shove it into the back we're going to secure it in place with four screws and i'm going to walk you through how to connect everything on the front of the motherboard and make sure that everything's connected correctly so i'm just plugging in our 24 pin there guys what we also also got here is we've got um our cpu which is one of them is there now i'm going to connect two of these eight pins uh essentially the eps power cables for our cpu so i'm going to plug in two of these due to the fact that we have got two on this maximus hero board and it would be a shame to starve it of any power especially with it uh having this 12 900k in as well what we're also going to do is we've got two of these gpu cables so we want to make sure that we've got them in there as well and then the last cable that we've got is our sata power cable which we're going to utilize for our commander call and our ssd as well so that's all of our connections all done guys as we said previously all we've got to do is ensure that our fan is facing downwards and then we can slide this in moving any cables just slightly out the way and then just lining it up at the back and securing it in place utilizing the four screws that came with the actual psu itself so what we're going to do now guys because we've got a whole plethora of cables here from the front i o of our case to all of the power supply cables that we've just put into the actual case is we're going to start routing these and i'm going to show you how to do it first thing we're going to do is we're going to take our two psu cables and we're going to run them all the way up and push them through to the top of our case up here so what we'll do now guys while we're here say to power cable we can connect onto our samsung ssd that's that one and then whilst we're also here we can connect our commander core as well and then we know that that's also got power and then the excess of these cables can be pushed into the basement of this particular case as well we've got our 24 pin which will push through to the front of the case as well we've got all our front i o which is just here and we need this to go through to the front of the case also so hd audio can go all the way under all of these and can go through to that one up there that's fine then we've got usbs usbs usbs all of those can go through to the front of this case right that just leaves us our two graphics card pcie power cables and our ssd data cable so now that we've reached this point guys we're going to go ahead and connect everything to the front of our motherboard it's at this point that we want to make sure that we take a time we ensure that we're connecting all the cables correctly so we don't face any disappointment when we press that power button later on so the first one i'm going to actually connect is our usb 3 that's at the side just over here again this is a little bit finicky guys so i would take your time especially with this little uh cable at the side here as well but just line it up nicely and then push it together that's all nice and connected we've then got our usb type-c connection which is here again this is really really straightforward it goes into our connection which is just on the side just here it does only go in one way guys so make sure that you don't force it or anything like that slot it nicely into position and that's our usb c and usb 3 nicely connected the next one we want to do guys is our 24 pin it's the most beefy one that we have so we want to ensure that it's actually orientated in a way that we can actually connect it once we've got it down push it down and you should hear a nice click there we go and then what we can do is we can push the excess through to the back of the case what we have got is our sata data cable for our ssd so we want to ensure that we've connected that onto our ssd connections which are here there we go that's nicely connected we've then got our hd audio cable which always goes down here in the bottom left-hand corner so as we said previously guys we've got a couple of usb 2 cables that we need to plug in now on this motherboard we have actually got two usb 2 headers but the h150i elite lcd comes with a splitter cable so what we're going to actually do is utilize this splitter cable free up one of those usb 2 headers because i believe we're going to actually need it for the rgb hub at the back because we want to actually connect two more fans on the back of this 360 all in one just to do a little bit of push pull and to add a little bit more rgb or at least look what it looks like so what we'll do is we'll go ahead and connect these up there's one and then our other one there we go and then all we've got to do is look at the pin out here which is a blank in the top left hand corner and essentially that can go straight on to a usb 2 header down here just like that so push that into position and then we can push the excess through to the bottom of the case and then what we'll do is we'll walk you through the hdd the leds the power switch and the reset switch and that goes just on the end up here so the last ones left guys are our reset switch power switch power led positive and negative really really straightforward and i would always advise pull out your actual motherboard manual and look out uh the actual pin layout for these actual connections because these are the ones which could be an absolute nightmare when you press that button and nothing happens whatsoever now the easiest way for me to explain it to you is that it's the power switch which is at the top then the reset switch which is just underneath it and then you've got the power led buttons to the left of the actual power switch itself now i will get a close-up as much as i can for you just to show you but i would advise again please consult your motherboard manual just to ensure you get this correct so we've got a diagram which is here it shows us that our hard drive light and led light reset button is on the bottom so we've got our power switch which is at the top which is up here and then we've got our reset switch which is just below it if i can do it there we go and then we've got our power led buttons to the left of our power switch it's normally the negative first and then the positive so our negative one first which is there and then our positive one which is just next to it there we go all connected again we can then push that excess through to the back of the case and we can make sure that we can cable manage that what we're going to do now guys is we're going to turn the case over i'm not going to bore you with this part i'm going to cable tidy all the back of it i'm going to make sure all the actual cables are tied down using zip ties and cable tires if you like and ensure that the customer is going to be really really happy with the state of not only the front but the back as well so we made a couple of changes guys what we wanted to do was add a couple more rgb fans onto the back of this radiator acting as a push-pull configuration as well now we can't get the third one due to the uh shroud the psu shroud at the bottom down here but it will highlight some of this darker area and seeing as we've got the rgb hub i've installed it back uh into the back of this particular case so we've put the rgb hub back in place connected it to usb2 and especially having that should we say that extension cable which managed to get the commander core and their elite screen all daisy chained together means that we have the extra usb 2 connection as well so we've put this back in and all we're going to do is we're going to add two more fans in a pool configuration on the back of that 360 rad we're going to hook both of the rgb uh to number one and number two up here and then we're gonna use a um pwm splitter cable so that i've got only one cable running all the way up to the top of the motherboard so bear with me i'll be back in a second so last but not least guys the icing on the cake it's the rtx 3070 absolutely fantastic bang for bot guys this particular card great performance 1080p loads and loads of fps 1440p loads and loads of fps and still very very capable at around 60 to 80 fps and 4k as well so what we're going to do is we're going to unbox this we're going to get our graphics card installed and then we'll give you the final reveal so bear with me and then we have our 30 70 which is just here it doesn't want to come out there we go so as we said guys absolutely brand spanky new really really nice lovely card guys this really nice card as we can see here for power it's got two eight pins really nice back plate on this um i'm a big fan of these x trios there we go guys we've just removed our two panels at the back let's just do a quick check to ensure that everything's going to line up remove our pcie cover oh we'll go ahead and install the extension i'll tell you if it's not one thing it's another i've managed to sort it guys so we've managed to put this pcie extension cable on guys we had i had to have a little bit of belt because nothing was lining up really um so i needed someone to push that way someone to push that way and me to screw the cables all the screws in so we've managed to sort it now so we've managed to get dun dun dun into this stage here and i will say guys it looks bloody brilliant now my only one concern is having this orientated this way it is fairly close to this well not fairly close it is very very close to this uh glass side panels so we do need to keep an eye on the temperatures here so even though it looks really good i do think there will be some give or take here with regards to um the temperatures but with that being said we could if we really wanted to remove these two fans here and we could place it back in the original orientation and we wouldn't have any issues but i do think that this adds an extra aesthetic to it now what we need to do last thing is we need to add our two 8-pin pcie cables which is at the back up here we'll get that done and then i'll be back with you very very shortly we'll be ready to press the power button pray to the pc gods that everything turns on back in a second there we go perfect we've had a few changes guys there's been a few things that didn't go quite to plan that was some things which are out of our control that we didn't actually anticipate so i just want to walk you through it because in all honesty here we are so i normally like um actually walking you through these things and letting you guys understand where the issues are and where we encountered the problems as well so this is where we currently are quite different to where you've just seen a couple of magic moments away where we were vertically mounted and everything was absolutely fine so the problem was we were using um a gen 3 riser cable with a gen 4 graphics card on this 12th gen platform and it just did not like it at all and i mean 12 different error codes rebooted 20 different times and every single time there was a different error code um i thought it was the ram it wasn't ram i played the cmos it went cmos we tried the graphics card and finally i changed the riser cable just to obviously default here and well we know it it actually worked perfect no problems whatsoever so i did go into the bios i did try and change the pcie lane to gen 3 but it still didn't have anything to do with it it wanted to automate back to auto and as soon as it did that it just come up with an error error error and loads more errors so if you are looking at a gen 4 graphics card utilizing that on a gen 3 riser cable especially on this 12th gen intel system prepared for issues because it was a bloody nightmare so we've chucked the old rulebook out and we got rid of the fan that was on uh this 360 cooler here at the front because unfortunately we can't fit it with the graphics card in this orientation we've gone back to obviously our traditional um mounting of the graphics card rather than the other way that we had it previously but i'm not disappointed guys in all honesty from my perspective i think it looks truly fantastic would it have been nice to have a couple of more fans on the front there and push pull absolutely but what i've done in the background um because we had so many issues i've managed to load windows onto this we've gone with windows 10 not windows 11 just for the stability even though this is ddr5 i don't think it's worth going up to uh windows 11 at this moment in time it is windows 10 pro and what the customer can actually do is upgrade to windows 11 as and when he wishes to do so as well so with that in mind guys this 12 900k on this maximus hero z690 motherboard 32 gigs worth of ddr5 at 4800 at cl 40 rtx 3070 and this elite 150i lcd cooler in none other than the 4000 x case i'm hoping that you guys have learned something from this um it never seems to go as smooth as what i anticipate and the customers drove all the way up from london to be with me today and it's still 11 o'clock at night so we've managed to get it done windows updates drivers you name it fortnight downloaded free sun everything is just plug play and no problems whatsoever so just an fyi we're going to turn it on just to make sure everything works and to give everyone peace of mind that it is still working so power on and some power thank god hey there we go we've got some rgb on the go there we go a bit of a front view and i'll turn it around in a second as well there we go so no keyboard detected but essentially everything should be absolutely fine 12 900k 980 pro it detected everything in there guys which is absolutely fantastic and there we go we're directly straight into windows so that's absolutely fantastic for me as you can see these old ugly kind of style uh ram sticks we're from them easy diy kit we've managed to put on really really cool attached it to this hero motherboard via the five volt addressable header and that's being controlled by the motherboard as well so that's all good no problem there all the rgb is now working it needed an update through iq and as soon as that did that everything started working airflow seems to be really really good this 12 900k has not exceeded 32 33 degrees either so all in all it's been a really really nice build and i couldn't be happier that i'm handing it off to a customer and his little lad's going to thoroughly enjoy it whether that's for a bit of content creation but mainly gaming so david i hope you enjoy the system my friends very nice to meet you today and danny thank you very much for your time your persistence and also your patience as well and i wish you all the very best guys links for everything down in the description below if you've not done already smash that subscribe button don't forget to leave a like and i'll see you in the next one thank you take care

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Length: 47min 56sec (2876 seconds)

Published: Sun Jun 05 2022