RTX 3080 and Ryzen 5800X Step-by-Step PC Build Guide 2021 (Cooler Master TD500 Mesh)

hello and welcome back to another video so i'm back today with another full step-by-step pc build guide and i'm going to be showing you how to put all the parts i've got in front of me together today and come up with a working pc by the end of the video so you've never built a pc before don't worry you've come to the right place i'm going to be going through everything really slowly from putting all the parts together installing windows any drivers and programs that we're going to need i'm going to show you how to set up and control the rgb in the build overclock your ram and then at the end of the video we'll run some benchmarks to give you an idea of the performance you're going to get from this pc okay so let's start off by having a look at the parts i've chosen for today's build for the case i've gone with cooler masters td500 mesh on 2020 really was the year for mesh frontage airflow focus cases and this is cooler masters offering in this regard the case is available in black and white i've gone with the white version and it comes with three addressable rgb fans included at the front although there is an option to add a further four fans three at the top and one at the rear which i'm going to be doing for the motherboard i've gone with msi's x570 unify and i suppose the defining feature of this motherboard is the absence of rgb um it's a pretty powerful motherboard um perfect for overclocking and it will take up to three m.2 ssds for the cpu i've been fortunate enough to get my hands on one of the new zen 3 cpus from amd i've got the ryzen 5800x which is an 8 core cpu which will be very comfortable for gaming but also perform well in content creation keeping the cpu cool i've gone with the tried and trusted 360 millimeter io it's the deep cool castle 360 yet i think this is a great looking cpu color and it always performs well in terms of both noise and thermals so as we've mentioned this motherboard has three m.2 ssd slots and they will all support gen 4 speed which is one of the advantages of x570 i'm not going to be taking full advantage of that because i've only got one gen 4 ssd it's the new samsung 980 pro and one terabyte in size i'm going to be filling up the other two m.2 ssd slots with one of samson's other drives it's the 970 evo and i've got two of these both in one terabyte of size so you may not need that amount of storage so feel free to leave any of the drives out that you're not going to need or use drives with a lower capacity so although we've got plenty of storage with our three one terabyte m.2 ssds i am going to show you how to install a sata ssd in this build the drive i have chosen is from team group it's 250 gigabytes in size and it's the t-force delta rgb the big reason for including this drive is its looks when the rgb is lit up it looks absolutely brilliant and this case has two spaces in the front and down at the bottom above the power supply stride for saturn ssds now one of those spaces is going to be taken up with the three power supply cables go into our graphics card and that's the reason i'm going to include one of these sata ssds the ram i'm going to be using today's build is also from team grip it's the t4 stark zed and i've got 32 gigabytes in 3200 megahertz speed i think you'll agree the ram looks absolutely great and a big thank you to team grip for sending the night for today's build part in the whole build i've got a fully modular 850 watt power supply from corsair it's the rm850 for the graphics card i've gone with the rog strix rtx 3080 and this is the top of the line overclocked model and i'm really looking forward to seeing how this performs alongside our zen 3 cpu final part of the build is some black and white cable extensions from cable mods i've used these as a number of builds before and i think they really improve the aesthetic of the build particularly in a white case where you're going to use a lot of black and white parts and obviously these are optional you do need to pick them up the power supply will work by itself but this the build will definitely look better with these included okay so that's all the parts let's get on with the build so the first thing i like to do in any build is to repair the case by that i remain removing any panels dust filters or anything that's going to get in our way during the build so let's go ahead and get the panels removed the left side panel is held on with two captive thumb screws at the top so once these are loosened we can simply lift the panel out and away from the case the right side panel again is held on the two thumb screws at the back once these are loosened the palcom is simply slid to the back and lift it away to remove the front panel we just simply need to pull at the bottom and it should lift straight off we've got a magnetic dust filter at the top which can simply be lifted away down at the back of the case we've got two bags containing our case accessories and i'll show you what this includes okay so this is what's contained in those two accessory bags so we've got two different sizes of screws the bigger screws are for securing our motherboard to the case and also securing our power supply to the case we've got eight smaller screws and these are to secure two and a half inch drives into the hard drive cage if we need to move our case standoffs they include a little tool that allows you to do it this end goes over the standoffs and we can use a normal screwdriver then to loosen them up and move them to somewhere else in the case to secure our ssds either in the front or at the rear of the case we need to use these next two items these little rubber grommets will push into holes in the case we're going to screw these little pegs then into the back of our ssds and then they're going to push into the rubber grommets holding our ssds in place and this is definitely one of my favorite methods for mounting ssds in any case and a big fan of killer mastery using these we've got some cable ties to help with cable management putter master also include an addressable argb controller which lets us control the rgb on our front three case fans if our motherboard doesn't have an addressable header or we do want to download the motherboards rgb software package so you can see the two and a half inch ssd mounting locations at the back of the case this is our hard drive cage where we can mount also two and a half inch drives but also two three and a half inch drives i'm not going to actually mount any ssds or hard drives in here so i'm going to go ahead and remove the hard drive cage so we can remove the drive trays by pulling these out at the back and then we can actually go ahead and remove the right side of the hard drive cage the left hand side is fixed and the advantage for doing that is we're going to have more space for our cables at the bottom of the case i actually quite like having this fixed because this is going to act as a little wall controlling all our cables and keeping them out of view another thing to point you down the bottom of the case we've got an additional dust filter here which is going to filter the air coming into your power supply so it's these two screws which we need to remove and then there's another two screws at the top of the bracket in the inside of the case we can see now with those four screws removed this bracket is completely loose and simply removed from the case and we've seen having to increase the amount of space we have for cables at the bottom of the case this is our motherboard and we're going to do as much work with the motherboard as we can before we put it into the case because it's much easier working on a flat table than it is in the cram confines of the case so we're going to go ahead and put our cpu into the socket in the middle of the motherboard our m.2 ssds behind these three heatsinks our ram into here and then we're also going to change the mounting brackets for our io all before we put the motherboard into the case to prepare our motherboard to receive the cpu all we need to do is open this little clip all the way over to the right hand side just before we go ahead and put our cpu into the socket i want to point something out on the socket you'll notice this top left hand corner has a little triangle on the socket itself and there's a little white mark on the motherboard and that is to highlight this corner as the corner we need to line up with a gold mark on our cpu which i'll show you in a minute this is our cpu and what you'll notice is i'm holding it by the edges and the reason for that is i don't want to damage these gold pins on the bottom of the cpu the other thing to point out if you look at the corner which is now at the top of the screen it has a little gold triangle on it and this is the corner that we're going to have to line up with the mark on the socket if we turn it over you'll notice there's also a little gold mark on the corner which is now down the bottom left-hand side of the cpu so that's the side of the cpu is going to have to line up with the mark on the socket okay so i've got the cpu round in the right orientation i'm just going to hover it over the socket and let it fall into place i'm not going to go pushing it in because i do that i can damage the pins i'm just going to move it about a little bit and at one point it will just fall into the socket like it has done now there's nothing else that needs to be done all we need to do is close the little lever and we've now installed our cpu next we're going to go ahead and install our m.2 ssds and there's three heatsinks over each of the m.2 ssd sockets we're going to occupy all three of the sockets it is important to check your motherboard manual on the specifications of each of the sockets as this is an x570 motherboard all the sockets will support gen 4 m.2 nvme ssds if you're using the b550 board there is a few of them will support more than one gen 4 ssd but most of them is only the top socket that supports gen 4 speeds if you're using an older motherboard what you might actually find the only socket that supports nvme drives may well be the top socket and other drives may support sata drives it's also important with the other boards if you put an m.2 ssd in some of the sockets some of your sata ports may deactivate or in other instances it'll reduce the speed of your graphics card so it is really important to read your manual find out what each of the sockets does and then you're installing your ssds in the right sockets and you're aware of any sacrifices you're making by occupying that socket okay so we'll go ahead and get the heat sinks off and then we should simply be able just to lift these away so these are the m.2 ssd sockets our drive is going to go into the socket and then we're going to put a screw through it into these standoffs and secure it into place so the first thing we want to do is check that the standoffs are in the right location you can see here we've got two additional holes we can move the stand off from here to one of these sockets if we need to so lining the drive up we can see for the top socket the standoff seems to be in the right place for the next socket doing this is the standoff we're going to screw into now each of these are secure in slightly different ways we're going to have to secure our top drive with a screw from our motherboard box but actually the drives down below the heatsink screw is actually going to go into the standoff and secure the drive but also the heatsink the drive at the bottom again it's the furthest away standoff so it's really important that we remove this metal on used standoff because if we secure our drive with it in place there's a risk of it putting pressure or driving damage in them so i'm just going to go ahead and remove the middle standoff in the bottom sockets and again i'm going to put this into another word box so i don't lose it so as a general rule you tend to want to install your fastest m.2 ssd into the top slot although all three of these support gen 4 speeds and have the same number of pcie lanes the socket at the top goes straight to the cpu well the bottom to go via the chipset so we're going to put our gen4 drive into the top slot so to install all we need to do is start it at a slight angle into the socket and then we can go ahead and secure it into place using this screw that we're going to get in our motherboard box okay we'll go ahead and put our gen 3 drives into the sockets down below just before we go ahead and put our heat sinks back on i've used this motherboard before if you're using it for the first time there will be some plastic protection here which you're going to need to remove before first use this is our ram and what you'll notice there's two gold connectors down the bottom of it importantly they aren't of equal length the one over to the right hand side is slightly longer than the one over to the left hand side and this is going to be important when we're lining it up with the socket our ram is going to go into these four sockets here on the motherboard importantly our kit of ram has come with four sticks of ram so we're not going to have any problems deciding which sockets to put it into if you do only have two sticks of ram it is important that you read the motherboard manual and find out which of the sockets you need to occupy first there's a helpful note on the motherboard here which tells you that first we need to occupy the second slot along from the cpu and the force not along the cpu if we've only got two sticks of ram to prepare the motherboard to receive the ram we need to open the clips a lot of motherboards will only have clips at the top this motherboard also clips at the bottom as well so we'll go ahead and open them on all four slots to install the ram into the sockets all we need to do is line the ram up with the socket once we're happy it's in the right place we just need to apply a little bit of pressure to the top of the ram and it will click and lock into place just the same process with the second stick of ram line things up and then the final stick next we're going to need to go ahead and remove the stock cpu killer brackets because our io is going to use a different mounting system so we just need to remove the screws each of the rack is held on with two screws importantly don't throw these away because if you want to sell your motherboard later or change your cpu killer you may well need these and i'm frequently asked in the comments where do you buy these from they come with your motherboard and best place to keep them is in the motherboard box so you ever need them again you'll know where to find them next thing for us to do is to screw in these mounting brackets for our i o there's a thick end and a thin end it's the thick end that we want to screw into our motherboard back plate and importantly this is the back plate that's come with the motherboard we haven't changed it so all we need to do is hand tighten this we're now ready to go ahead and put our motherboard into the case and we're going to secure it to these standoffs at the back of the case they're in three rows of three importantly the standoffs are in the right place for us because we've got an atx motherboard there's a little code which is just here and if you're going to use a different size of motherboard you can use the little tool that came in the accessory bag to move the standoffs into the correct position i've had a checker ready and the standoffs are ready in the right place for our motherboard the other important thing to point out is the middle standoff looks slightly different to the other standoffs and that's because it's designed to pass through the hole in the middle socket of the motherboard and help hold the motherboard in place to allow you to get the other screws in another important thing to mention if your motherboard doesn't have the i o shield attached go ahead and install it now before you insert the motherboard okay so all we need to do is align the motherboard with the slot at the back of the case and then we need to just get one of the screws in and that'll make the rest of it a little bit easier now importantly our ninth standoff the one in the middle is hidden behind the heatsink here and i could leave it out but for completeness i'll remove the heatsink and secure the middle stand off next thing for us to do is to go ahead and plug in our case cables which are these cables coming from the front io but also the case fans and the reason we want to do that at this stage is at the moment we've got pretty good access to all ground the motherboard once we start putting a radiator fans other items into the case access to these ports is going to get much more difficult and that's why i like to do it at this stage so what are the case cables so at the top we've got two usb type a ports and we're going to need to plug this usb 3.0 cable into our motherboard to allow those ports to work at the top we've also got a headphone and microphone jack and we're going to need to plug our hd audio cable in to allow that to work we've also got these tricky front panel connector cables the reason i say they're tricky is they all go into one header and they all go into pacific pins on that header so they are going to power our power switch our reset switch our par led on our hard drive led as well in this case killer master have made it really easy for us to connect up our front fans each of these fans has two connectors coming from it there's a three pin connector for par and we've also got a three pin addressable argb cable now our motherboard only has two addressable argb cables but that's not a problem because cooler master includes a triple splitter cable it has two different connectors coming on the end of it one is for gigabyte motherboard one is for azus asrock and msi so we're gonna need to plug this end into one of the addressable headers in our motherboard to allow our motherboard to control all the fans the other cable coming from our three fans is cooler master i've combined them into a triple fan splitter cable so we've got one three pin connector to plug into one of our case fan headers on our motherboard rather than needing to plug all three of the fans in separately okay so it's important when installing the cables we want to bring the cable through the cutout in the case which is closest to the header we're going to plug it into our hd audio cable is going to go into this header down the bottom left hand side of the motherboard importantly we're going to want to install it with the hd audio text facing upwards so we just line things up with the header and push it in next to this cable we've got a three pin five volt addressable argb header on the motherboard and this is where we're going to plug the triple splitter cable coming from our three fans at the front of the case we do have another option and that is to use the controller that came with the case and because i've got other things that are going to need a rgb i'm going to use our motherboard to control them so i'm going to go ahead and plug the cable into here i'm just going to bring it through the cutout now importantly if we look at this cable there's two pins there's a space and then there's another pin and our header is exactly the same way so it's important we line things up the right way around the other important thing to mention is this is a 5 volt 3 pin addressable rgb header our motherboard also has a 4 pin 12 volt non-addressable rgb header and we can't mix and match between these headers if you do you can damage your hardware so it's really important you plug it in to the right header so i'm going to line our cable up the right way around with the pins and just push it into place okay next cable to plug in is the power cable for the three fans on the front of the case the color master very conveniently combined into a triple fan splitter cable now the fans on the case are three pin connectors and we've got a three pin connector here importantly our motherboard all the fan headers have four pins on them that's not a problem to us because there's little notches on the cable so it's only going to plug into the right three pins on the four pin header so it's just a matter of lining the notches up and pushing into place now importantly because the included ks fans only have three pin connectors on them we're going to have to run them in dc mode if we try to run them in pwm mode they'll run at 100 of the speed all the time i'll show you how to do this later on in the bias but what we need to remember for now is that system fan header number one is where we have plugged our case fans into we're going to occupy the other case fan headers with our corsair fans so it's important system fan one we're going to run in dc mode our corsair fans have four pin connectors on them so we're going to be able to run them in pwm mode okay next lot of cables to plug in are these tricky front panel connectors i say they're tricky because they all need to go into this header here into certain pens now it's really important you look at the diagram and the motherboard manual to work out which of these go in which place okay so starting in the top row as i i'm looking at the header on the side top row from left to right we have par led positive and par led negative okay so par led positive and then par led negative next to that we've got power switch positive and power switch negative if we look at the power switch cable there's no positive or negative marked on it on the back of the cable there is a little arrow marking the positive pin so we're going to line that up with the positive pin on the header and for the power switch and reset switch it doesn't really matter which way you put it in but i do like to do things correctly and plug the positive pin into the positive header okay so par switch positive and par switch negative okay on to the next row at the bottom so we have got hard drive led positive and then negative and then we have got the reset switch which is negative and then positive in the next two pins along okay next cable for us to plug in is this usb 3.0 cable coming from the usb ports on the front i o and we're going to plug it into this header here now this motherboard has two of these headers there's one here but also one down the bottom of the motherboard the one down the bottom of the motherboard is quite close to a cutout we're going to use for our graphics card cables and our graphics card is going to take three power cables so i want to see if that come out for that particular cable and that's the reason i'm going for this one here now a word of caution when plugging this in this is one of the headers you're most likely to damage the pins on in your motherboard and if you do damage the pins your front i o ports aren't going to work and i have done this in the past there's a little notch on the cable and a little notch on the header so it's important we line things up the right way and if there's any resistance we're not going to apply pressure and push it in we're going to stop and line things up again because we don't want to damage these pins on the motherboard so making sure things are lined up the right way and then just a little bit of gentle pressure and it's locked and clicked into place and then i'm just going to bring the excess cable out the back of the case so that's all our case cables plugged in the next thing i like to do is to plug in our power supply cables because particularly the additional power supply for the cpu up the top left hand side of the motherboard is really difficult to plug in once you either put fans or radiator at the top and we're going to be putting our io at the top and once it's on it's going to be almost impossible to plug these cables in so we'll go ahead and get our power supply installed next this is our power supply and this is what you call a fully modular power supply because none of the cables are plugged in and the big advantage of this is you only need to plug the cables in that you're going to use any that you're not going to use you can leave out and that way you're going to have an easier time managing the cables in your case downside to this it tends to be a little bit more expensive than a non-modular or a semi-modular power supply semi-modular means most of the essential cables are plugged in and the optional cables aren't so the first thing for us to do is to go ahead and plug in the cables that we're going to use so i'm just going to turn this up the right way so you can read the text so our 24 pin cable has two different connectors so we'll go ahead and plug it into here next to that we have got 8 pin connectors on the power supply and this is where we're going to plug the pcie cables going to our graphics card are the 8 pin cables going to our additional power for the cpu i'm going to start off with the cpu one end of the cable has cpu on it the other end of the cable doesn't have any markings so we're going to leave the cpu end to plug into our motherboard and plug the other end of the cable into here our motherboard is going to require two of these cables and these slots continue on the bottom row so i'm going to go ahead and plug the second cable into the bottom row making sure to leave the end that says cpu free so that's the end that's going to go into the motherboard next we need to go ahead and plug in the pcie cable that is going to power our graphics card so one cable actually has two six plus two pin connectors on it so this is going to power two eight pin connectors or an 8 pin connector on a 6-pin connector now for higher power and graphics cards it is recommended that you don't use the one cable for two connectors on your graphics card and as we've got an rtx 38 i'm going to use three separate cables for the graphics card so i'm going to go ahead and plug the three cables continue on in the bottom row the next cable to plug in is a sata power cable so our sata ssd is going to need power it's going to get it from this any of the controllers that we're going to use both with our i o and with our case fans are going to need to sell a par and this one cable has four sata power connectors which is probably the number we're going to need but to future proof it a little bit because it can be a bit more difficult to plug these in once it's installed in the case i'm going to plug two sata cables in so that i want to add any additional ssds in the future to the build or i've miscalculated the number of sata ports i'm going to need it's not going to be that big of an issue so we've got four we've actually got five sata ports left on the power supply so i'm going to plug two of them in just to the top row so if you don't want to use the cable extensions the power supply is now ready to go and i think the cable extensions will look better so i'm going to go ahead and plug these into the end of the power supply so if i take our 24 pin cable there'll be a little notch on the cable and a little notch on the extension cable so i'm going to go ahead and plug that in next i'm going to go ahead and plug in the extension cables for our graphics card now it is important to mention this graphics card is going to take three of these cable extensions cable extension kits that come with cable mod only include two of the cables so you are going to have to pick up a separate cable if you buy the kit now i do also have two black and white cable extensions for the additional part of the cpu cables of which we've got two the thing is we're not going to be able to see these cables once they're plugged in the iaio is going to go at the top and completely block them so it doesn't make any sense to use cable extensions for there because it's going to make managing the cables in the back of the case a little bit more difficult and actually looking at this case there doesn't look to be a lot of room at the back for managing cables so i'm going to leave these two out okay we're now ready to go ahead and put our power supply into the case importantly our power supply has an intake fan where it's going to get cooler from so we're going to want to install it with this intake fan facing down the way remember earlier on we pointed out the little dust filter at the bottom of the case this is where our power supply is going to get fresh air if we install the power supply placing up the way it's going to have a solid panel up above it and it's going to struggle to get air and may well overheat okay so we'll go ahead and slide the power supply in and work it all the way to the back and you can see now why i removed the hard drive cage we're going to have a lot of cables down at the bottom of the case and then we go ahead and secure the power supply into place using the screws from the accessory bag next we can go ahead and plug the power cables in so i'm going to bring the ones for the additional part of the cpu in through this cutout at the top left hand side of the case now the sockets will have a notch on it and the cables have a notch so it's important we line them up the right way and then we can go ahead and plug them in and again there's a notch on the header and a notch on the cable so we just need to line things up and then push now this cable does have little cable combs on it which we can use to tidy up the cable and then pull the excess out the back of the case next thing for us to install is our sata ssd so i'm just going to go ahead and turn it over and as we've mentioned we're going to secure these little pegs in instead of screws okay so just before we go ahead and mount the drive into the case i want to point out the connectors that we've got so we've got two gold l-shaped connectors and sata drives will have these this particular drive has an extra port for the rgb the longer l-ship connector is for sata par so one of the power cables coming from our power supply is going to plug into here and par the drive the shutter l-ship connector is for sala data and we're going to get a set of data cable in our motherboard box and it's going to connect into the motherboard allowing data transfer between the drive and the motherboard so this is a solid data cable i'm going to go ahead and plug it in now so all we need to do is line the l's up on the drive and push this particular sata cable has a little lock on it so if we're gonna before we can pull it out we'll have to press the silver connector in and that will then let us pull the drive right it'll go ahead and connect that up again the additional port on the drive is for our rgb we get a cable for it in the drive box we'll go ahead and plug it in so on the other end of the drive we have a three pin 5 volt addressable argb connector just the same as we've already plugged into our motherboard our motherboard has two of these so i'm going to go ahead and plug this into the other header on our motherboard whenever we install the drive so as we've mentioned there's space to mount two drives one here and one here now the cables for our graphics card are going to come out here and over here so if we were to put a drive here we wouldn't see very much of it so i'm going to miter drive over to the left hand side of the case to allow us to do this we just need to push these little rubber grommets through the holes on the case and then going to feed the cables coming from the drive into the back of the case and then i'm going to bring one of the sata power cables coming from our power supply through the cutout and plug it into the drive again it's just a matter of lining the two l's up and pushing and the cable clips into place then all we need to do is line the little standoffs up with the rubber grommets and once we're happy things are in place just push the drag down next we just need to plug the other end of the sata data cable into our motherboard so i'm going to bring it through this cutout here we've got four sata sockets here so it doesn't matter which of them we plug into i'm just going to line the l's up actually the bottom sockets are going to fit in better and then push it into place okay last thing for us to do to install our saddle drive is to plug the other end off the addressable argb cable coming from the drive into our motherboard and our secondary rgb header on the motherboard is down the bottom right hand side so i'm just going to make sure things are lined up the right way and then push into place and then we'll tuck the s6 cable into the back so this cable has an additional connector on it so all i'm going to do is use one of the cable ties from our accessory bag to tie this cable to the main bit of the cable so it's going to hopefully make things a little bit tighter and then when the graphics card cables are installed hopefully we won't see this at all then we'll pull the excess cable out the back yeah that definitely looks a bit tighter so this is our aio the first job for us to do is to put the brackets onto the pump head so we'll turn the pump head over we're going to put one little bracket here the screws through and go ahead and secure it into place and then same again on the other side next thing for us to do is to go ahead and put the fans on the radiator now this aio does come with three fans it's a 360 millimeter radiator the problem with the fans is they don't have any rgb on them i think the build's gonna look better if i use some fans that have rgb on them so i'm going to use the corsair ll 120 fans on the radiator um and i am sacrificing performance for looks because certainly this fan will give us better cooling it's optimized for static pressure whereas this fan is more optimized for our flow but i think this fan is going to look better in this particular build so for putting the fans on the radiator the first thing is we have to decide on the orientation our radiator is going to be at the top of the case and it's going to be an exhaust at the top of the case so we want the front of the fans facing into the case and so this way round is right this is the front of the fan this is the back of the fan the next thing we need to decide is we want the wires facing the back of the case i do want the tubes over to the right hand side of the case because i think that's going to look better so we're going to need to install our fans on the radiator this way around so the wires are going to be facing over to the back so in the i o box we're going to get some long radiator screws i'm just going to pass them through the fans and into the radiator and i'm just going to tighten them up gently first of all okay so now i'm going to talk you through how i'm going to connect everything up it's easier probably to do this on the flat table than once we put things into the case coming from our pump head we've got two different connectors the first is a three pin fan connector which is going to go into the pump header on our motherboard this is going to power the pump and our motherboard is then going to be able to control the speed of the pump importantly as this is a three pin connector rather than a four pin connector we're gonna have to run the pump in dc mode rather than pwm mode so again just something we need to remember when we go into the motherboard because if it's set up to pwm mode the pump is going to run at 100 all of the time the second cable we've got coming from our pump head is for the pump rgb and with this we've got two options including our aio we have a little adapter so all we would need to do is plug the adapter in and then it has an addressable a rgb header on the end similar to the two that we've already plugged into our motherboard now we have occupied both of the addressable argb headers on our motherboard so we're going to struggle to plug this additional cable in without buying an additional hub or splitter cable now the io does give us an alternative option rather than plugging this cable in we can go ahead and plug in this little controller all we would then need to do is plug the other end into our setup power supply the part of the controller and then we'll be able to control the lights on the pump head using these buttons and that's the option i'm going to go for i'm just planning on setting the pump head to white and i know from previous experience this controller offers that as an option so this brings us on to fans and i have made a separate guide to installing the ll120 fans although i'm probably going to cover everything here as well so coming from each of the fans we've got two different connectors we've got a standard four pin fan connector which is going to power our fan and allow our motherboard to control the speed of it now because these are four pin connectors it's going to work in pwm mode the other connector coming from the fan is for rgb and corsair use proprietary rgb connectors so i'm going to talk you through how we connect it up after we've dealt with the power so coming from the fans there's going to be three fan power cables but our motherboard only has one cpu fan header so fortunately with the i o you get a three to one fan splitter cable so all we need to do is plug each of the power cables coming from the fans into the splitter cable so i'll go ahead and do that now okay so that's all of our fans now controlled by the single four pin connector which we're going to plug into the cpu fan header on our motherboard so as we've mentioned corsair used their own proprietary connectors if you buy the triple fan pack you will get one of these rgb hubs and also the lighting node pro which you're going to need to connect up to your motherboard and if you buy the single fan pack you won't get this so be careful if you're buying fans you're going to want to make the triple pack because you're going to need this rgb hub and possibly the lightning node pro depending on the connections your motherboard offers so the first thing for us to do is to go ahead and plug in the fans into ports number one two and three it's really important with these corsair fan hubs that you occupy the fans in order if you leave a gap it's going to break the chain and any fans plugged in after the gap won't work so we're going to plug into fan number one two and three and it's important you have the fans in order if you're going to want effects moving from one fan to the other it would make sense to have the fans one two and three so the effect moved along them in order now the other cable coming from the hub is a sata par connector it's going to power the rgb hub so we're going to need to plug this into our power supply next we need to go ahead and plug the other end of cable which comes with the triple fan pack into this end of the rgb hub our motherboard is a pretty high end motherboard and it actually has a coarser fan connector so all we actually need to do to control the rgb is plug this into the coarser fan header on our motherboard not all motherboards have the fan header so i will show you what you need to do if your motherboard doesn't have one also included in the triple fan kit you get a lighting node pro the lighting node pro can control a maximum of two fan hubs there's two channels and each of them able to take six fans so you can power 12 fans in total using the light new pro so all we need to do rather than plug it into the corsair fan connector in our motherboard we can plug into channel one of the lighting note pro the lighting node pro is also going to take a sata connector so that would need plugged into your power supply we're then going to need to connect the lighting node pro to our motherboard using usb so we would go ahead and plug the usb cable into the lighting node pro and then the other end of this usb cable into one of the usb 2.0 ports down the bottom of our motherboard we would then use the corsair iq software to control the fans but like i mentioned because our motherboard has a corsair connector i'm going to remove the lighting node pro and just plug this end into the motherboard and we're going to use our motherboard software to control all the rgb in our build again you're probably going to get more effects with the corsair iq software but for me i'm just going to set the fans to white and i'm going to be happy enough using the motherboard software okay so we're now ready to get the i o into the case okay first stage is to plug all the cables coming from the fans through the back of the case i have unplugged the fan hub to allow me to get them through the back of the case but once they're through i'll go ahead and plug this back in again next we can go ahead and line the radiator up with the top of the case just filling the excess cables through as we go it's going to require a little tilt to get it fitted in and then i'm just going to pull the case cables at the front over to the side out of the way next we just need to secure the radar to the top of the case using the screws that come with the i o next thing for us to do is to apply some thermal paste to the cpu so i like to apply a piece to mic to the middle of the cpu okay that should do next we can go ahead and put the pump head onto the little brackets we applied earlier it is important to mention if you're using the air for the first time over the cold plate you're going to have some plastic protection which should be removed i've used this before so it doesn't have any on it so all we want to do is line this up with the little standoffs we put it in earlier on to the motherboard and once we have it in place we're just going to apply a little bit of pressure to the top of it keeping it in the same area we're then just going to secure it in place you get these in the old box i'm only trying to get these on loosely first of all and then we'll tighten them up once we've got each corner on what i'm going to do is tighten each a few turns is going from corner to corner so to this stage i've realized i should really have plugged in the cables to the top of the motherboard before installing the radiator i didn't mention it earlier in the video but i need to plug in the triple fan splitter cable coming from our fans at the top of the radiator into the cpu fan heater we need to plug the cable coming from the pump into the pump header on the top of the motherboard and we need to plug in our corsair connector and which is going to go up the top i think we probably get the corsair one in without any problem but the two pump and cpu fan header we're going to struggle so what i'm going to do is i'm going to loosen the radiator bring it down plug the cables in and then put the radiator back on so important lesson plug these cables in first before putting the radiator on okay so i'm going to go ahead and plug the triple splitter cable coming from our three fans in the radiator into the cpu fan header and it is the header at the top here at the front furthest over to the left hand side so just lining things up and then that's that plugged in so i'm going to take the two cables coming from the pump i'm going to take the pump power supply connector and plug it into the next header along again it's a three pin connector but because the little notches on the header and on the cable it can only go into the right three pins okay so that's that one plugged in and then i'm going to feed the rgb cable out the back with the other wires last cable to bring through is the cable coming from our cursor fan hub and it's going to go to this header in the top right hand side of the motherboard okay so that's that one plugged in now we can go ahead and put the radiator back on at the top okay so i've replugged in the fan hub and the fan controller for the i o pump the only additional thing to do is to power both of them by connecting them up to the sata power connector so we'll go ahead and do that just line the elves up and then the one on the other okay so that's our aio installed next we can go ahead and add in our last kiss fan and i'm just gonna have to feed these cables up and out the back and likewise this would have been another useful cable to have had plugged in before i went ahead and installed the aio although i've managed to feed the cables out the back without too much trouble okay this fan is just secured with four screws which come with the fan itself what i'm going to do is i'm going to bring the fan cable down and through this cutout and then i'm going to plug it into one of the fan headers up at the top of the motherboard over the right hand side okay so that's the fan part the only additional step to install the case fan is to plug the rgb cable in so we've got our rgb controller here and i'm going to plug this fan into slot number four on the rgb hub and that's our case fan installed next thing for us to do is to install our graphics card and our graphics card is going to go in this top pcie slot in general you want to use the top slot on your motherboard to get the fastest speeds so we're going to need to remove the second and third brackets cover over here to prepare the motherboard to receive the gpu we just need to open the clip here okay so we just need to line the graphics card up with the slot once we're happy things are lined up it's just a little bit of firm pressure and it will lock and clip into place and then we just need to secure the graphics card using the two screws that we removed earlier on next we just need to feed the graphics card power supply cables through the cutout at the bottom of the case and then we can go ahead and plug these into the graphics card then we can go ahead and tidy up the three cables using the cable combs so this brings me on to my least favorite job of any build we have to tighten this mesa cables up so we can get our back panel on and there's not a lot of room in the back importantly we've got some cable tie points so included cable ties which is going to make things a little bit easier and there's a lot of space down the bottom particularly for the power supply cables so we'll go ahead and get these cables managed okay so we go ahead and see if we can get the back panel on and then we go ahead and secure it with the thumb screws at the back okay so that's the pc built i think it looks absolutely great but doesn't run so we're gonna need to go ahead and flip the power switch and see what happens importantly i have loaded a windows 10 buildable usb drive into the back of the pc if you don't know how to make one of those i've made a video on it and i'll put a link to that in the description okay here it goes so that's a good sign we've got lights we've got fans spinning and we just need to look at the screen and see what happens what we're looking for is the pc to find the windows 10 buildable usb drive and bit off that because obviously our ssds don't do any operating system on them so it's just the we need to wait patiently and watch the screen okay so let's have a look at the screen we can see it's find our processor and our ram and our storage devices so it's asking us to press f1 to run setup or f2 to load volumes so we'll go ahead and press f2 so hopefully now it's going to go ahead and find the windows drive which it has done and then we'll just wait and hopefully it'll build off the drive okay so that's us through to the windows installer screen i'm going to show you how to install windows 10 but to make it easier i'm going to switch over to the screen mode now importantly with this build i was able to go straight to installing windows 10 and the reason for that is i've used this motherboard before and i have a fairly recent version of the bias which allows it to work with zen three cpus if you're buying this motherboard new and out of the box it will need a bias update before it's likely to work with zen 3 cpus i have made a video on how to flash the bias and you'll put a link to that in the description as well and in that video i did show it at the start with the motherboard on the table and no cpu or ram or anything else plugged into it just the power supply and you can of course do the same process at the end where everything is installed so it's a good long angle to select certain options if you've obviously different options select the options that apply to you so i'm from the united kingdom i'm going to click next i'm going to click install now if you've got a windows 10 product key go ahead and enter it in the box if you don't have one click item type of product key then you need to select which version of windows you're going to get a product key for in the future i'll select windows 10 pro and click next we need to accept the license terms and click next and then we're going to go for a custom install okay so look at the drives we have available we've got drive zero drive one on drive two and we have actually four drives installed these are all one terabyte drives that are showing up so there are m.2 ssd drives so the one that isn't showing up is our sata drive i'm just going to have a quick look at it and what i can see is the sata power cable has become dislodged from the drive um obviously when i was tightening up the cables i've pushed them into the bottom and the cable has come loose so i'll fix that in a minute once we've got windows installed but in general what i find is your sata drives tend to come up first then what will happen is the m.2 ssds will come up and i find that the the first m.2 ssd tends to be the one in the first slot so the chances are drive 0 is rgn4 m.2 ssd which is where we want to install windows 10 onto so i'm going to go ahead and select drive 0 and click next okay i'm from the united kingdom so i'm going to select united kingdom and the keyboard layout is united kingdom as well i do want to add a secondary keyboard so i'm going to click skip i'm going to set this up for personal use click next if you've got a microsoft account you can go ahead and put it in here now if you don't you can create an online account or use an offline account for the purpose of this demonstration i'll show you how it works with an offline account i'm going to select limited experience and type my name in it's going to ask me to create a password and then go to have to create security questions and then again i'm going to select don't use online speech recognition yes to location yes to find my device only the required diagnostic data no no no i'm not now okay so that's windows 10 installed but before we go ahead and install any drivers we want to update windows to the latest version so we click on the windows icon go to settings updates and security and check for updates we're going to let windows fully update before we go ahead and install any drivers it's probably going to want to restart itself a number of times during these updates but we'll let it do that and only when there's no further updates available will we move on to installing the drivers next thing for us to do is to get all our ssds to show up because despite the fact that we have the four ssds in this build the chances are only one of them will be showing up so we'll go down and click here and click on this pc you can see we've only got one drive which is local disk c so to get the rest of our drags to show up we need to go into the bottom and type in disk management and then click on the creates and formats hard disk partitions so what we can see with this zero which is our satellite which is now appeared we've also got disk 2 and disk 3 which are showing up as on allocated spaces okay so we'll start off with the um samsung 970 evo drives we'll right click on it click new symbol volume next next it's going to sign the letter d i'm happy with that if i'm not like changing the pull-down menu click next and we'll call it [Music] okay same thing for disc three new simple volume next next it's assigned the letter e next [Applause] and click next same thing for disk 0 right click new simple volume next next next i'm going to call this next finish okay so we can go ahead and close this down and if we go back to this pc we can now see that we've got all four of our ssds showing up the only problem i've labeled this one wrong i can click on rename and change the d to an s okay there we go next thing for us to do is to go ahead and get some drivers i'm going to install these from a variety of different sources don't worry about trying to note down the links as you go along i'm going to put all the links in the description okay so we're over on our motherboards page over in msi's website it starts up in the bios page if you need to update your bias this is where you're going to get your bias from i've got this version here which is the last version which is in the beta already installed this was the reason my pc worked i had a version of the bias which was compatible with the cpu if you're buying this motherboard from new and the bias version has been updated you may well have one of the older versions of the bias which doesn't support the new zen 3 cpus and that's why your computer won't boot so you need to go and have a look at my video and flash the bias so let's head over to the drivers and see what drivers we need to install so we're going to select our operating system and then i'm just going to expand all these to see what's on offer okay so working our way through we're not going to use raids we don't need the drivers the chipset drivers we do want but i'm going to get them from amd's website because they tend to be more up to date on board vga drivers we've got a dedicated nvidia graphics card we're not going to use a cpu with integrated graphics so we don't need this we're going to install the lan driver so i'll go ahead and download these click on open file click on the intel bluetooth next i agree next just go for typical install install yes and click finish okay next we'll go ahead and get the intel wi-fi driver click open file click on the installer and click on the wireless setup click extract all extract and click on wireless setup click next okay i agree install yes click finish we'll go ahead and download the ethernet drivers click open file click the setup yes next install click finish and then the last driver we're going to get from msi is the onboard audio driver so we'll go ahead and click download click open file click the setup yes next and we'll go ahead and restart the computer okay next we're over an amd's page we're going to click on chipsets we've got an m4 socket and an x570 motherboard and click submit we're going to expand here and then go ahead and download the chipset drivers okay we can go ahead and click on open file click yes click install and then click restart okay we have an nvidia graphics card we need to get our drivers from nvidia we can either install the drivers themselves or download the geforce experience i'm going to show you how to download the geforce experience so click download now we can go ahead and click open file yes click agree and install okay if you've got a nvidia account you need to log in if you don't you need to create one okay so we can skip the tour so what we want to do is click on the driver tab what we can see is it's find a game ready driver for us so we can go ahead and click download okay we can go ahead and click express installation click yes and it's normal for the screen to flicker as the drivers have been installed okay so that's that installed okay we're back over on our motherboards page in msi's website we've installed all the drivers we need to install but to control our rgb software we're going to need to download a utility from the utilities page and it's msi dragon center that we're going to need um we need to install dragon center to get the mystic light led control it doesn't come separately anymore and the only way to get it is three dragon center and others have reported some problems with dragon center affecting their performance of their pc adversely if you want to use the rgb control software there's no way around it the only alternative would be to use the controller that came with the case and use controllers to control all your rgb i'm going to show you how to install it in case this is the way you want to go i've never had any problems myself with it okay we can go ahead and click on open file click on the dragon center and click extract all extract then click on the dragon center again click yes okay install find the shortcut right click more and we're going to run as administrator click yes to scan down to the bottom click next we're going to scan down to the bottom again click i have red and click ok ok so we can go ahead and click skip and then it's the mystic light that we want to open so at the moment all rgb is set to rainbow everything on the motherboard is selected if we want to control individual components we can pick them from here i'm going to leave everything selected as all i'm going to go over to here and click on a steady color and then i want to drag this all the way up to the top to give myself white and then click apply and what we can now see is everything is turned to white so the fans at the front of the case our ssd and our corsair fans like i said if you want to change the individual components we could go into here and change each of them okay so we're over on our graphics cards page on azusa's website and we want to scan down and what we're looking for is the armory crit be careful the first version is the uninstall tool and it's the actual armory create software that we're looking for so click download click open file and we'll double click on the installer click yes click start so we can go ahead and click on launch let me click on i agree and accept so we can see our graphics card is showing up so we can go to the effects what we're going to want to set it to is static to match the rest of our rgb and then if we click on the color tab that should give us white and then click ok so you can see now everything is set to white um the only little annoying thing is the red writing down in the bottom of the motherboard i think it distracts from the look of the build but we're going to turn it off now when we head over into the bias so there's a few things we need to do in the bios one of the things we want to disable the red led lighting we want to get our memory running at the correct speed and we want to have a look at the fan curves to check things are running the way we want them to so we'll head over into the bias now okay to enter the bias what we're going to need to do is restart our computer so we go and click on the power options and click restart while the computer is restarting we're going to want to press the delete key and that's going to take us into the bias so i normally wait to the pcs to goes black and then start hitting the delete key so i'll go ahead and start pressing it and that's us into the bias so you can see i have a fairly recent updated version of the bias from the 14th of november and there is one version that's a beta version which is more up to date than this and i could go ahead and update it but i don't really see the need to because everything is running as it should if you want to know how to update the bios i've done it in a few of my previous build guides so you go and have a look at those and it should be time stamped in the video okay so first thing first to do is to get our memory running at the correct speed so we go ahead and click on our memory what we can see our memory is currently running at 2400 megahertz and we can see that we've got two xmp profiles in it to what we can enable here so i'm just going to go ahead and turn it on we've enabled profile one it doesn't matter which of the two because they're both the same next thing to do is to go ahead and turn off the indicator led control so i'll go ahead and do that now and that should get rid of the red light for us on the motherboard next thing if we click on the fan info and click on the settings we can check the fans are running as they should so having a look and we've got our cpu fan header which is the three fans on the i o they're taking their temperature off the cpu they're running in pwm mode they're four pin connectors and they're using smart fan mode so that's the way i would normally set them up looking at our pump um our pump is currently running in pwm mode it's only got three pins so it needs to run in dc mode i don't normally run the smart fan mode on the pump i normally just run it at 100 so i'm going to leave it as it is and it's taking this temperature of the cpu okay so system fan one is where we have the three case fans at the front of the case now they've only got a three pin connector so they're running in dc mode if we had selected pwm mode if you look and see what happens the speed of the fans will ramp up and they've become quite noisy so you can hear them in the background they're running up at 100 so dc mode was the right setting i just wanted to turn it this way because some of you may well have problems and wonder why and i do normally run the smart fan mode which is going to give us a little curve over here where it's going to adjust the speed of the fans depending on the cpu temperature because we have selected cpu temperature we could select the other temperature sources and it would then adjust depending on these so we turned smartphone mode on it's going to follow this curve now the only other place we've got a fan plugged in is over at system fan four the system fan four is our corsair file at the back of the case it's got four pin connector on it so we can run it in pwm mode and also enable smart fan mode and again it's taking its temperature off the cpu which is fine okay so to save our settings all we need to do is press the x icon press it again and click yes and that's the computer is going to boot back into windows and what we can see is the red lighting at the bottom of the motherboard has now disappeared next we're going to want to check our ram is running at the correct speed so we right click on the start menu and click on task manager we can click more details click on the performance tab and then click on the memory so we can see our ram is now running at the full 3200 megahertz okay so that's the pc build complete i think it looks great and it's also running really well hopefully you find this video useful if you have please give it a thumbs up and if you're not currently subscribed to the channel please go ahead and click that subscribe button channel's growing really well but your subscription can make a real difference likewise if you're new to the channel i've got plenty of other pc builds and related content on the channel so if you've liked this video chances are you like my other pc build videos so please go ahead and check those out okay so that's everything for now i'm going to run some benchmarks and i'll see you in the next video thanks for watching [Music] i am on top of my life and it is [Music] i am [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] so [Music] [Applause] [Music] you

Channel: Christopher Flannigan

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Length: 74min 1sec (4441 seconds)

Published: Thu Jan 07 2021