**A Comprehensive Guide to Building a PC: A Personal Experience**

As I sat down to write this article, I couldn't help but think about the experience of building my first PC from scratch. It was a journey that taught me a lot about the process, and I'm excited to share it with you. In this article, I'll take you through the steps I took to build my PC, and hopefully, you'll find it informative and helpful.

**The Experience Begins**

I started by making sure all the necessary components were gathered. The Ryzen 5 5600X processor, an RTX 360 Ti graphics card, a DDR4 RAM kit, and an SSD drive were all that I needed to build my PC. I also had a monitor, keyboard, and mouse, which I would need once the system was up and running. As I began to unpack everything, I felt a sense of excitement and nervousness. I knew that this was going to be a fun experience, but I also wasn't sure what to expect.

**The Guidebook**

One thing that caught my attention was the guidebook that came with the NZXT build kit. It was comprehensive, well-written, and included some amazing illustrations and diagrams. The guidebook covered everything from unboxing the components to assembling the PC. It was clear that a lot of thought had gone into creating this resource, and I appreciated the effort. As I flipped through the pages, I noticed that the guidebook took the time to explain complex concepts in an easy-to-understand manner. This made me feel more confident and prepared for the build process.

**Assembling the PC**

With my components in hand, it was time to start building my PC. I began by connecting the power cables to the motherboard, making sure that all the necessary connections were secure. Next, I installed the RAM into the system, followed by the processor. As I worked on each component, I felt a sense of satisfaction and accomplishment. The process was smoother than I expected, thanks in part to the guidebook's clear instructions.

**The Display Port Cable**

One thing that caught my attention was the display port cable that came with the monitor. It seemed like it would be a crucial component in getting the system up and running. As I plugged it into the motherboard, I felt a sense of relief. The cable fit snugly into place, and I knew that everything was going to work out.

**The BIOS**

With all the components connected, it was time to enter the BIOS settings. This is where things got interesting. The BIOS was easy to navigate, thanks to the guidebook's instructions. As I scrolled through the menu options, I realized that my system wasn't booting from the SSD drive as expected. After some troubleshooting, I discovered that the system needed a bit more configuration to get everything working properly.

**The Windows Boot**

After resolving the BIOS issue, it was time to try and boot into Windows. As I clicked the power button, the system sprang to life. The monitor flickered on, displaying a beautiful desktop background. It was a moment of pure joy, knowing that all my hard work had paid off.

**The Final Verdict**

Building a PC from scratch can be intimidating, but with the right resources and guidance, it's definitely possible. My experience with the NZXT build kit guidebook was instrumental in making the process smoother and more enjoyable. I'm excited to share this article with you, and I hope that it will inspire you to take on your own PC-building project.

**The Build Kit and Its Price**

One of the things that struck me about the NZXT build kit was its affordability. For $15, it's an incredible value considering what you're getting. The guidebook, components, and everything else came in a single package, making it easy to get started. As I looked through the contents, I realized that this was something that anyone could use, regardless of their experience level.

**Conclusion**

Building a PC from scratch is an exhilarating experience, but it can also be overwhelming if you're not sure where to start. That's why I think the NZXT build kit guidebook is such a valuable resource. It takes the fear out of building a PC and makes the process enjoyable and rewarding. If you're thinking of taking on your own PC-building project, I highly recommend checking out this guidebook.

**The Future of PC Building**

As I look back on my experience building my first PC, I'm reminded that there's still so much to learn about the process. The guidebook was an invaluable resource, but I also appreciate the complexity and nuance involved in building a PC from scratch. I think it's safe to say that NZXT has created something truly special with this build kit.

**Personal Recommendations**

As someone who recently built their first PC, I'm excited to share my experience with you. If you're new to PC-building, I would highly recommend checking out the NZXT build kit guidebook. It's comprehensive, informative, and easy to follow. I also think that anyone looking for a fun and challenging project should consider building their own PC.

**A Final Note**

Building a PC from scratch is an experience that I'll never forget. From the excitement of unboxing the components to the satisfaction of getting everything up and running, it's been an incredible journey. I hope that this article has inspired you to take on your own PC-building project, and I wish you all the best in your endeavors.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enso most of you guys are probably familiar with nzxt's build pre-builts or their bld pre-builts which i've actually done some coverage on in the past but now they have their bld i don't know this is a bld or build either i'll just say build their build kits with the build kits you're basically getting all the components you need to build a system but they're not assembled you do it yourself which is the beauty of pc diy and one of my favorite things about pc diy is the diy part so there's a lot of people out there who want to build a system themselves but maybe are struggling with trying to find out which parts go together because it can be a little overwhelming even with sites like pc part picker which does a great job of telling you which components are compatible there's so many options when it comes to pc parts these days that it can still be overwhelming for someone who's not too familiar with them at the time that nzxt is launching these build kits there's currently two options available two different systems that you can purchase the parts for there's their starter pro which is i think 13.99 us msrp and then there's their streaming pc which is 1599 msrp both of them have an rtx 3060 ti not too shabby and then i believe the starter pro has a core i5 11 400 f if i'm not mistaken whereas the higher end streaming pc rocks of ryzen 5 5600 x and i'm actually not sure which one they sent me i'm pretty sure they specified at some point but i just forgot so we're going to explore that together we'll find out and the other thing is that they include a bunch of instructions and detailed i'm going to assess that pretty closely today and pretend like i don't know you can like get on email or chat with them or phone call and basically contact them and get real-time tech support for uh building your system if you hit any snags along the way which is pretty cool and obviously there's endless resources online to help you build a pc start to finish we have a guide as well on our channel um that's still relevant to this day but it is always kind of nice to have that one-on-one direct line of communication with someone who knows what they're doing if you have a very specific question or a specific uh hurdle that you're trying to get over also two year warranty on all these parts so and it all comes in a single box not a bunch of different boxes but i would assume there's more boxes inside why don't we just open it up see what's inside before we continue this video is brought to you by raycon everyday earbuds as someone who listens to music every waking minute of the day the raycons have been a great addition to my daily regimen whether i'm building a computer or doing a morning hike they come with a bunch of different sized gel tips for a comfortable fit and i love their discreet appearance by not sticking out of your ears like some other brands out there the new everyday earbuds offer an improved rubber oil look and feel that's premium all around and there's also a built-in mic that lets you take calls with the press of a button i have yet to have one of them fall out of my ears when moving around and with a 32 hour battery life with 8 hours of play time i only charge these things once or twice a week like a lot of people i would consider my taste and music pretty eclectic and these actually sound really solid with a wide variety of genres i listen to which is admirable considering that they start at half the price of other premium audio brands raycons also come with a 45 day happiness guarantee so there's really nothing to lose by trying them out to learn more click on the link in the description below or go to buyreicon.com bitwit to get 15 off your raycon purchase this is a big boy box i believe regardless of the system you choose you also get an h510 which is a compact mid tower i'm wondering how this is all packaged i feel like the case alone takes up more than half of this box let's see how this goes okay so nice big piece of foam on top that's reassuring packaging material wow look at this this is a hefty booklet are you seeing this right now dude this is actually okay this is pretty legit i mean it looks nice it looks nice just at a glance these are some like full-blown illustrated pictures in color looks very detailed from from first glance but we'll again we'll take a closer look at this is this is thick it's like a uline book or a uline catalog they send me every month and it's just crazy waste paper i need to cancel that all right we've got a part there windows 10 microsoft windows 10 64-bit this is home windows home windows and then we also have artifact pieces interesting this just shows you all the parts that are included with the package very nice what do we got here power supply seasonic s12 3 650 watt that should be plenty to drive our cpu and gpu regardless of which model we got again the gpu is going to be consuming the most amount of power and it's the same regardless of which option you go with we have a kraken m22 120 millimeter liquid io i would assume that this is the starter hold on this is probably the starter piece hold on what is this that contains bcdi okay i gotta look at the the legend here bcdi so there's uh the ram we've got the cpu in here nvme ssd and a wi-fi card that should all be inside of this box if the legend is correct okay we have a wi-fi card that is from oh it's an msi card msi wi-fi card looks like it just slots into one of your uh pci slots on the motherboard it's got a usb 2.0 connection or cable it goes to your motherboard and a couple antennas our amd am4 cpu so we got the we got the streaming pc there's a 5600x yeah yes it is six cores 12 threads all right memory i believe is 16 gigs they gave us two 8 gig sticks of t-force vulcan z ddr4 3200 speed i would have liked to see 3600 considering that this is a ryzen 5000 series chip on zen 3 and it likes fast memory and it can handle 3600 but we can always try our hand at overclocking it once we're in the bios and the system is fully built we also have a gigabyte rtx 3060 ti and this is the oc edition with rgb fusion 2.0 wind force cooler yadda yadda okay honestly this alone is a huge selling point for the bld or the build kits from nzxt just the fact that you're kind of guaranteed to get an rtx 360 ti which is a smoke and fast gpu uh and you don't have to pay an extremely outrageous price for it you don't have to wait in an extremely outrageous line for it it just comes included like you're just buying milk at the store but the online online store don't don't buy milk online we also have a little kit for tools so we have a screwdriver several bits inside wires oh these are probably wire cutters for zip ties and stuff so that's kind of nice they give you all the tools you'll need to build a pc not that you need that many anyway but it is kind of nice they've got some zip ties in here um they do have they do include both phillips head bits uh two different sizes one for the nvme ssd install and the other for your general screws elsewhere so that's cool and what is this a keychain flashlight really do we really need this who's building in the dark let's go but let's go ahead and find out oh no did i forget to pay the electrical edison your bill wait time is over 15 minutes i don't know maybe your power goes out and you need to build a pc immediately and of course our h510 compact mid tower case i think they asked me what oh i got white i got a white one i think i requested that i'm cool with that i like white all right that's everything in the box oh my gosh i just realized i forgot two components uh this is all so overwhelming i wasn't keeping track of which parts i had gone over but we have a motherboard here which i didn't really expect it to be an nzxt board because those are generally more premium uh given the price point of these systems but this is an msi uh b550a pro cec all black motherboard looks like it's got some pretty nice heatsinks on the vrm not exactly sure what the power delivery is but um i'm sure it's more than capable of handling a 5600x we have some nice rear i o couple usb 3 usb c and two m.2 slots plenty of pcie by 16 slots and four dimm slots of course that is an atx form factor as you would expect so that looks nice and then we also have the ssd that i also forgot which is it is a one terabyte wd blue sn550 so i believe this is an nvme pcie gen 3 drive uh one one terabyte is nice storage is also very easy to expand in the future should you need more storage um but this is uh this is a good drive sn550 i have a couple of these that i've bought with my own money because i think they actually offer a pretty good price to performance um and uh and they're quite fast for for what they are so at this point i'm just gonna start building the pc exclusively with the help of their adventures map for pc building as they've called it on the front there's something else in here what is this building checklist okay we're gonna go through all this right now and hopefully hopefully it goes well all right we are underway and i've got the booklet over here i'm gonna be following it step by step we'll be uh taking a look to see exactly how nzxt's lay this all out for for new builders presumably new builders or those with limited experience who don't know how to build themselves so for starters here at the beginning of the guide we have an actual qr code that will link us to a playlist of videos i'd also suggest that you can use factory manuals all the products that we received that normally come with manuals have the manuals included in the package as well so you can always consult those if you get extra stuck we also have online tech chat support with a link there and a call center with a working phone number i would presume in case you get stuck and need to talk to someone so we've got a little intro here journey begins i'm not going to go through every single page this thing's huge installing the memory level one so first step they actually want us to install the memory first what you'll need ram sticks and a motherboard it's also labeled with the legend there parts a and b in case you don't know what individual components are actually called which which is fair some people might not if it's their first time and then down here is a qr code with a video walkthrough on how to install memory should we need it i don't think we'll need the video for that let's just see if we can get if we can scrape by installing the memory with with these lovely illustrated pictures and descriptions so little graph here identifying where the memory gets installed into the dim slots prepare the motherboard say the cables that come with the board won't be used for this build take out your motherboard and place it gently on the box it came in the memory channels will be located in the top right corner of the motherboard it's actually kind of nice that they tell you to elevate the board and put it on uh the box that it came with because not everyone has a fancy schmancy gamer's nexus mod mat like i do so i'm going to go ahead and listen to nzxt for the purpose of this video and grab the box that the board came in so we did that we located the dim slots right here and locate channels two and four and then it has it labeled right there very clearly two and four alternating second and fourth slot lucky ram channels two and four these channels are paired to one another giving you the most efficient use of your ram if labeled differently check your motherboard manual for clarification all right uh that's that's also kind of nice that they fill you in a little bit a very high level explanation of why the ram stick should go in the specified slot locations because it's for optimal performance press down on the lane two and four channel tabs your motherboard may only have tabs on one side to push down that's good that they specify that because that can throw off some people so we've got our two tabs here we only have a single tab on each dimm slot let's go to d orient the memory sticks typically if there is a white sticker on your memory sticks this white sticker will be facing into the board towards where the cpu socket is located kind of an interesting way to describe it or to instruct it do they even mention the notch align the memory gold connectors the top of the gold ram connectors is longer than the bottom okay this makes it so there's only one correct orientation make sure the ram matches the openings on the motherboard lanes otherwise it will not go in okay so they don't specifically mention a notch but they kind of do in a roundabout way so i've identified the notch one side of the slot does have more gold contacts than the other it's pretty obvious and then push the ram firmly upon installation pull the ram twice to make sure it isn't loose make sure that the gold okay hold on it's telling me i was supposed to install the ram on on step e so let me go ahead and do that upon installation pull the ram twice to make sure it isn't loose double double check pull twice on each stick seems firm and make sure that the gold connectors are properly aligned before applying force probably should have checked that before i just pushed them down press down until you hear a click okay be careful but don't be afraid to push firmly it may require some extra force that's that's a good tip that's a good tip because i feel like a lot of first-time builders are pretty nervous or paranoid that uh applying excess force to certain computer parts are is to break them and that's not always the case it definitely does apply in some instances but for things like installing your ram or sometimes like tightening down your your liquid cooler or even an air cooler for your cpu you really do need to use maybe a bit more force than initially feels comfortable um if you're not too familiar with with installing those components so it's good that they actually make a note of that uh the halls breathe with life few souls have made it past this point as we head into the halls of machu picchu wait they're trying to make a puck reference uh dumb hidden treasures and lost secrets lie before us beware of the traps and pitfalls that may delay you throughout your journey to the treasure room okay they're making it like story based or something like tomb raider tomb raider the pc build level two installing the processor careful on this step the pins of the cpu or motherboard are easily bent and if they're damaged they may not work properly that's that's important to note video walkthrough right there and take care on this step do not touch the pins the pins of the cpu or motherboard are easily bent and if they get damaged they may not work properly anymore the cpu is the most fragile part of your build make absolutely certain you do not touch or bend the gold pins on either the cpu or the cpu socket situated on the motherboard for amd or intel respectively when handling the cpu be careful and hold it by its sides these are all good points to keep in mind amd cpu 1 intel cpu 2 identifying it says your cpu will either say amd or intel on it this is important as the instructions will differ will be different for both keep an eye out in this guide for these colored boxes labeled amd and intel they will indicate what steps to take for your build that makes it very clear-cut locate the cpu socket the upper middle area of the motherboard will have a rectangular square socket for your cpu with a metal retention arm floss door if you're unsure you can always refer to the motherboard manual for additional help inspect the pins uh we should inspect the pins all right so this is all red amd cpu amd cpu so all these instructions are appropriate for the build at hand open the socket unlatch the cpu socket by pressing on the metal retention arm and bringing it all the way up okay pressing on it and bringing it all the way up so if you just press on the bar nothing happens you kind of have to press the bar down and then swing it out away from the socket before it'll actually lift up doesn't exactly specify that here it does have an arrow though it does have a little arrow but not everyone's going to catch that it would have been good if they said you know push it down and then kind of swing it out outward in order for it to be released upwards so that's something to note identify the corner marker hold the cpu by the sides do not touch the gold pins identify the corner of the cpu that has the arrow yep okay straightforward place the cpu align the marked corner dot or triangle on the cpu with the marked corner of the socket do not force or move place gently all right that's those are good good tips we're gonna go ahead and just slot it in and close the socket pull down and latch the metal retention arm onto the socket easy enough all right level three installing the m.2 nvme ssd the drive itself the motherboard screwdriver handle and the ph zero bit i have my own screwdriver so i'm not going to use their stuff but it's good that they specify pucky found a hidden ssd okay he's found an m.2 nvme ssd marked d with windows 10 already pre-installed on the drive that's cool uh take your m.2 ssd out of its packaging holding onto the edges of the drive a you could do this or this not all motherboards have an m.2 shield sizes of shield may vary near the middle of the motherboard typically just below the cpu you will find a slot for the m.2 drive it is sometimes covered by an m.2 shield two screws and sometimes it is attached by the port itself one screw check your motherboard manual if unsure so we have so we have two m.2 slots on this board one with an m.2 heat sink or shield on top of it and the other one that's just uh pretty much exposed i'm gonna opt for the top slot and it even has a little graph here to show you kind of whereabouts the m.2 slot may be that b remove the screws depending on your board you may have one to three screws some boards have the screws provided separately in the box determine if there is an m.2 shield that needs to be removed if so unscrew it from the board all right let's go ahead and remove these two screws which will allow us to remove the m.2 shield set aside the screws yes of course insert the ssd at an angle matching the notch to the connector if done correctly the gold should not be visible that's that's a good detail to bear in mind so let's see at an angle gold is gold contacts are no longer visible ensure proper seating your ssd will be pointing upwards at an angle if it does not retrace step d and make sure the drive is properly installed looks like it's at an upward angle here so that's good push down the m.2 drive with the shield on top of the m.2 drive if one came with your motherboard push down the m.2 ssd towards the board screw in the ssd you may need to skip this step if you have an m.2 shield and remove exactly two screws on step b ah that's a good that's a good note very good note there nzxt fasten the screw you removed on step b to secure the ssd so uh we do have um one of the screws that was holding our m.2 shield in place is the same screw that that holds the actual drive in place as well uh peel off the m.2 shield plastic missing this step may cause your drive to overheat that is true so we got that screw in the m.2 shield but holding the ssd to the board screw the ssd on the motherboard using the two screws you set aside on step c and boom boom done level four installing the cpu cooler this is just letting you know how to distinguish whether you have an aio or an air cooler level four installing the aio cooler okay so we we need this part because we have an aio that 120 mil so this is amd cpu amd cpu so this is good prepare the motherboard important the m22 aio cooler came pre-configured for an intel cpu skip steps a1 through a4 if you have an intel cpu which we do not remove the stock amd mounting bracket and back plate from the motherboard loosen the intel retention bracket remove the intel retention bracket attach the amd retention bracket okay that's all that's all super straight forward as well let's go ahead and do that i'll uh i'll remove the brackets off the the motherboard after this doing a little bit out of order here but it doesn't really matter so remove the intel retention bracket and it tells you which direction it pulls out there we go attach the amd retention bracket which goes like this easy peasy screw pegs in here this is a universal back plate find which holes match your cpu and fit the motherboard make sure the back plate is properly vertically oriented before doing so install the screws following the illustrations on steps b and c install the m2 screws labeled g and aio manual and standoff screws labeled e and aio manual both came with your cooler onto your backplate matching the holes with your cpu pretty clear diagram here so let's go ahead and do that we've got our backplate and the illustration that they provided here is actually of an amd installation so we can just copy that to real easy looks like there's a screw that kind of slots in kind of keyed so it actually holds in place pretty nicely and then you have a little screw to screw in from the back side and hold that longer screw in place give me a sec while i finish this up all right back plate looks pretty prepped there install the back plate align the holes of the back plate to those in your motherboard and screw the back plate onto your motherboard but first we have to remove those mounting brackets so the guide does explain how to remove these just with these four screws two on either bracket super easy boom and boom and now we can remove let's see now we can go ahead and install our back plate uh we don't need the stock back plate obviously just the one that we prepped earlier slots through install spacers onto the standoff screws okay push them down one two three and four secure the bracket to temporarily secure the cooler bracket to the motherboard screw the washers and thumb nuts with springs onto the standoffs leave the other cooler parts untouched we'll resume installing them at a later stage of the building process okay so they're just telling us to to cinch it down a little bit so that our back plate doesn't fly away while we're moving the motherboard around and stuff so to do that just install a washer and it says screw the washers and thumbnails with springs onto the stain enoughs okay my assumption is that they're going to have us install the motherboard first into the case before we actually mount the pump block to the cpu makes sense for a lot of new builders it's probably going to be a little less cumbersome that way once the board's already planted to the case and uh i'll be interested to see if they have us install the radiator to the case before the pump block i would think not i would think the pump block would go on first but you never know it doesn't really matter too much doesn't matter a whole lot either way you will resume installing this cooler at a later stage in the build keep track and safely store away all provided screws and materials that you you have not yet used nope i'm just going to be risky and not do that level 4b installing an air cooler which we can skip level five moving the build into the pc having difficulty in boxing the a510 case ensure the carry handles are folded outward okay what you'll need h510 motherboard screwdriver discovery of the h510 take it from its packaging and have the motherboard on standby for the next step okay let's get the case out all right we got the case out let's continue unscrew the glass paneling the thumb screw holding the glass panel is captive meaning it won't come completely off the tab turn the screw until it wobbles in place iii unclip the glass panel on the rear of the pc where the panel was unscrewed is a metal pull tab bracing the glass with one hand pull on this tab this may require some force that is also accurate brace it pull oh that was not the most graceful put the panel away gently which we have done unscrew the rear paneling unscrew the captive screws holding the rear panel in place located at the back of the case and remove the rear panel you'll find included a box of parts necessary to continue building your pc in one of the compartments okay and there's our accessory box right there in the hard drive cage place the pc now is a good time to place the pc on its side okay so so for removing the tempered glass panel they don't actually say to keep the system upright but they do have a picture of it standing upright so i guess it would have been nice for them to actually include that though i'm sure maybe in the video maybe in the video it specifies but they do eventually tell you to put the case on its side here in step h so place it down gently with the open interior facing upwards okay identify the i o shield if pre-attached skip to page 68 an italic io shield will be provided with your motherboard in many cases it may be pre-attached to the board already though often it is provided as a separate piece in our case the motherboard does not have a pre-installed io shield we've got to do that separately here if your i o shield is provided separately put the metallic i o shield into the rectangular opening in the back of the pc shiny side facing inwards okay and match the orientation of the i o cutouts to your motherboard good uh press firmly on all four corners of the i o shield until it pops in don't be afraid to bend the metal to better fit the ports okay it's all sound advice i also kind of wish that they had suggested or warned builders to to be careful not to cut themselves because i o shields can be rather sharp so then we got that place the motherboard um place your motherboard into the pc case angled towards the i o shield align the ports on the motherboard with the holes of the rear i o so that they fit together find the screws in the flat baggie instead you'll find many screws with a rounded top secure the motherboard align your board with the middle stand off in the case the screw screw holes of the motherboard should align with those inside the case using the ph2 bit fasten the motherboard to the inside of the case using the round 632 flat screws found in the white box on step g depending on your board some screw holes may not be used okay pretty specific very clearly laid out so let's do that find that center standoff there we go i'm gonna bend one of the one of the little metal tabs sticking out here it's kind of blocking our ethernet port which the guy did say that that was fine if you needed to move some of those out of the way to make the ports fit better and that looks great all right motherboard installed level six relocating fans choose your path we have aio cooler you've arrived at a divergent path if you have an aio cooler marked e continue normally and skip pages 82 to 89. level 6a relocating fans aio build that's us okay remove the plastic twist ties well for starters i want to see where they're having us relocate the fans to probably to the front of the case so that we can make room for the 120 rad at the back but let me just double check uh-huh yeah they're having us move the fans to the front and then oh this is for the air cooler build all right we'll we'll reach that point when we get to it but let's go ahead and relocate these fans first remove the plastic twist ties there should be four twist ties holding the wires in the back of the case remove them by cutting or untwisting them then unscrew the top fan while holding onto the top fan remove the four screws that hold the top fan to the case gently lower the fan and pull the wire through the case opening before setting it aside i'm just gonna read like do these read these in bulk and then we'll do it all at once unscrew the rear fan pretty much the same thing set aside the fans the fans you just removed will be reinstalled to the front of the pc case on step h set them aside but keep them close really i was gonna ship them to africa right after removing them it's a good thing it's good so the guide said to remove or kind of untether the wires of the back here first they could have also specified what the end of the the fan connector looks like right they could have mentioned that to look for the three pin connector on the fan cables just to make it a little bit easier to identify unscrew the fan bracket okay unscrew the two thumb screws holding the fan bracket at the front interior of the pc remove the fan bracket from the pc as pictured above easy fan blades pointed outwards no guard showing fan blades pointed inwards x-shaped guards showing makes it very easy to distinguish the difference place fans onto bracket place the two fans onto the bracket x-shaped guard showing position the fans towards the bottom of the fan bracket with wires pointing to the left oh that's good that they made a note to clean up your cable management where possible by orienting your fan the correct way not just uh with intake or exhaust but which direction the the actual wire is facing as well so we place the fans onto the bracket flip the brackets with the fans over maintaining their position relative to the bracket screw fans into the bracket screw the case fans into the bracket using the provided screws extras can be found on the white box okay from this angle the fans the fan cables will now be on the right side of the bracket all right screw down to chinatown all right slide in the fan bracket running the fan cables through the two large case openings which are right here and they've identified them in the picture as well slide the fans into the pc with x-shaped guard showing x-shaped guard is showing slip the cables in to the openings and reattach the fan bracket attach the bracket back onto the front interior of the pc using the two thumb screws gotta shove these cables through a little bit more otherwise they'll get pinched all right now they're having us install the power supply next okay i i'm guessing that they're gonna save the cpu cooler until the very end like right when we're about ready to install the graphics card that way when we're doing cable management and stuff there's no aio tubes or pump block in the way that's my guess but let's go ahead and follow this here power supply all right and then it says if you have a non-modular versus semi-modular or modular we have a non-modular power supply our seasonic unit is non-modular so skip to page 99 slide in the psu with fan facing down nice little graphic here to show you exactly how that's supposed to go into your case pretty straightforward there secure the psu press the psu against the rear of the pc and screw it into the case using the four 632 hexagon screws that came with the power supply also in the white box from the h510 case okay all right we've got our sea sonic psu here we're just gonna slide it in from the side making sure that the fan is face down of course as noted by the guide and then we gotta just press it up against the back of the case and screw it down all right there we go easy level eight cable management oh interesting okay there's gonna be a lot of little steps in here okay this is actually a pretty useful page cable management these are our recommendations on how to manage your cables more easily they don't need to be strictly followed don't be afraid to experiment with different configurations so that's cool if you want nzxt to hold your hand through the cable management process they've actually outlined exactly where they recommend or suggest specific cables to go so you've got your audio connector usbc front panel usb 3 system fan one for your aio system fan 2 which came with your your pc case for the aio and cooler get your 8 pin eps for the cpu pcie cable for your graphics card and 24 pin for your motherboard and it's all color coordinated so it's really easy to visualize where ndxp suggests your cables should go and the routing path for each of them but again just a suggestion designed to help zip ties and velcro are your friends for better cable management we advise grouping cables together and using the provided velcro or zip ties to fasten them to one another okay sound advice where to plug in the cables bring out the manual that came with your motherboard the port names we provide in the upcoming section are commonly used but they may not be exact the manual will be very helpful uh very in bold that is true uh during the upcoming steps in identifying exactly where each cable port is located on your motherboard model that is fair because the location of various headers on a motherboard vary wildly between models so it's kind of impossible for nzxt to tell you exactly where things should plug in but the fact that they point you to the user manual that came with your motherboard is a good thing i do like how they specify here that your 24 pin and eight pin uh eps cable came included with your power supply i could easily see a first time builder who has no idea what they're doing i'm trying to look for you know the 24 pin cable in in like the accessory box or something and not realizing that it could just be already tethered to their non-modular power supply or something like that here we got fan cables little diagram of you know potential fan headers on the motherboard it does say location of ports may vary by board which is absolutely true it's a good thing they remind you of that and uh more routing suggestions here for your fans i'm going to ignore all their suggestions and just just do it how i want but it's good if they have this jumping off point for people who might not be as confident all right and then it says the greatest threat handled huzzah the cable menace is almost defeated we're almost ready to move to the next room all right blah blah blah blah blah all right i'm going to go ahead and mess around with the cable management really quick and be right back all right a good chunk of our cable management is out of the way so now we can move on to the cooling chambers installing our cpu cooler finally here we go all right this is ao good remove the thumb screws or the the thumb nuts the thumb nuts and washers the thumb nuts that's a funny funny term install the water block example above is of an amd installation that's very convenient all that all these diagrams are of amd and we're doing an amd build try not to touch the thermal paste on the underside of the cooler try not to do or do not there is no try place the pump with the retention bracket onto the cpu make sure the usb port is facing the top and the two pump tubes are on the right side of the pump ensure the standoffs go through the holes on the bracket dually noted so it's not having us install any of the cables on the pump block just yet just having us secure it you in fact have thermal paste pre-applied on the bottom and then screw in the plastic washers and the thumbnails with springs that we removed earlier in step a onto the standoff screws why of course all right now moving on to the radiator fan installation and once again nzxt is showing us which way we should orient the fan and which way it should be mounted to the radiator rather and it looks like okay we don't want the guard showing we don't want this side showing we want the blades fan blades pointed outwards with no guard showing okay and then attach to the radiator using the included screws and it doesn't specify washers in the text but does have a visual picture of them i think that's pretty clear especially because the washers and screws come packaged together most people should be able to figure that out but let's go ahead and install the fan all right sorry you guys aren't going to get the best visual of me installing this this fan because of uh just a little tricky here with the camera but um one thing that nzxt didn't specify this time around is which way to mount the fan in terms of for best cable management aesthetics and stuff so i would of course recommend that the wire come out from the back side of the case pointed towards the motherboard like so if you're gonna be mounting it in this orientation it's interesting how they included that for uh when we relive it's interesting that they included that detail when we were relocating the fans the case fans to the front of the chassis but not for this step for some reason i'm sure a lot of people will be able to figure it out especially since they were already instructed on how to orient the wires uh previously but it still would have been nice for them to include that little bit um now we're going to mount the radiator to the back of the case slide the fan into place on the rear case exhaust with the pump tubes oriented at the top mount the radiator importantly advise orienting the pump tube at the top using the five millimeter case screws that came with the ao mount the fan radiator to the rear exhaust of the case and then connect the power cable set cable will be found attached to the radiator connect the three pin pump power cable to the four pin cpu opt pump or aio pump connectors on the motherboard then here it gives you an approximate location of where that header would be and it also specifies location of ports may vary by board so again they want us to mount it so that the tubes are at the top then we also have the fan cable which i would assume is the next step in this guide yes connect the fan cable to cpu fan so actually i should connect the pump to the pump header pump there is a pump header right next to the cpu fan header and then we'll connect the fan cable to the cpu fan header that makes sense okay we'll worry about tightening these up later connect the micro usb cable from the pump to an available usb 2.0 internal connector to the motherboard commonly labeled as a usb 2 usb 1 2 usb or f usb 2. okidoki and then again location of ports may vary by board all right this goes in here boom oh does it not specify to route the cable behind the motherboard tray it does not and our rash during locate the top pcie lane use the topmost pca lane on the bottom left side of the motherboard you'll find all the pcie lanes locate the top okay right here boom boom got it located slide out the metal panel no do not lose these screws do they really need to note that like why would why should you lose anything that's part of the case anyway if you haven't already on the rear of the pc loosen the thumb screws on the panel that is blocking the expansion slot covers slide the panel out of place keep this panel unscrewed for now okay maybe they say not to lose the screws just because they're one of the few non-captive thumb screws that you'll actually use in this build with this case remove rear expansion slot covers unscrew the expansion slot covers usually covers two and three from the top located at the rear of the pc corresponding to the topmost pcie lane near the processor keep screws for step h alright does that apply here slots two and three from the top yes those would be the correct ones they got that right remove pin cover remove the plastic plugs in the gpu ports and the plastic cover that is protecting the golden pins of the gpu here's our rtx 360 ti we're gonna remove this uh it doesn't actually say to not touch the gold contacts interestingly enough i mean touching them isn't quite as bad nearly as bad as like touching the gold contacts or the gold pins on a cpu or cpu socket for example but i would still think that would that would be mentioned although maybe it's obvious because it comes with a cover on it already but people don't really notice the obvious if i'm being honest the average person kind of done open the pcie slot press down on the wing of the topmost pcie lane insert the gpu into the topmost pcie lane so that the ports align with the openings on the lane the two teeth of the gpu pcie cover will slide in between the case and motherboard ensure proper seating the pci lane will audibly click when the gpu is properly seated in the lane let's test that out shall we okay i mean there was a click but you can't even really hear it beyond the thud the thud noise that the gpu makes when it clashes with the board and we can if we do it slower the click is really not that audible to be honest i feel like i feel like that that might worry people if they're like listening for the click and they don't really hear like a pronounced click they might wonder if it's actually slotted in properly see if i can reproduce this click you definitely get it with dram installation but here it's fortunately it's really easy to tell when the gpu is slotted in there it feels very firm very firm indeed secure the gpu fasten the same screws you removed on step c to firmly hold the gpu in place and bring down the metal panel slide the metal panel back into place and secure it by tightening the thumb screws okay i think i know what the next step is lagging in the gpu locate the 12 pin connector if you have a founder's edition card underneath the gpu you will find a box containing a connector cable and gpu manuals uh take the connector out of the box at this stage uh or plug in the cable for an fe from nvidia okay fe more fe stuff no cable management note to like zip tie the the loose pcie cable or the potentially unused pcie cable but uh that is something i would definitely suggest doing if you want to tidy things up a bit let's do that i'm just going to use the twist tie rather than a zip tie i would ordinarily use a zip tie because it just looks cleaner but all right and what could be left finishing touches finishing touches hook the rear panel okay with the exhaust holes nearest the front of the pc you will find two latches on the rear panel that will correspond to two holes on the pc hook them on swing closed the panel why not say swing the panel closed or close the what okay whatever with the panel secure in the front swing the panel uh the back of the panel towards the pc make sure that no wires get in the way when closing the pc panel secure the rear panel use the thumb screws and then close the glass panel uh did it not specify to remove the sticker the plastic peel on the aio that i'm going to take off right now all right right side panel and there's a final look at the cable management it all came together pretty nicely without too much effort that psu shroud definitely helps of course so latch the hooks on the holes and then swing it closed and screw down all right i'm actually going to not put the tempered glass panel on just yet because i want to boot the system make sure it's working all fine and dandy and that way we can see it easily without any uh any glare or reflections and actually by the way here's a quick look at some of the final pages of the instruction guide secure the glass panel attach the wi-fi antennas plug in the power cable plug in display cables this is actually pretty huge to have this is very important a lot of people a lot of first-time builders will plug their display port or their hdmi cable into the motherboard if it does have a display output or two rather than the graphics card itself so good thing they specified that and there's even a tiny url uh link here that probably gives you more information on that that are done ethernet peripherals turn on the power supply turn on the pc oh update drivers we advise checking for and downloading driver updates on the official websites of your hardware for optimal performance this qr code and the link will take you to a list of websites that have drivers that is very handy very nice of them to include and quest complete you've made it to the treasure room the treasure room i wasn't really aware we were headed towards but uh okay common problems and fixes sure make sure it was powered correctly check display cables uh-huh uh-huh okay so some some basic troubleshooting steps in case your pc isn't functioning properly when you first try to boot it that's all good and dandy maybe uh can save you an extra call or an extra email to their customer support team and finally this this is just a picture of me oh this is this is pucky and as you can see he's under quite a heavy load right there all right end of the book let's turn this computer on all right we got this bad boy all plugged in powered up ready to go i don't see any leds turning on but i don't think there are any leds that that would be active right now anyway even if the system was working and plugged in but let's just give it a shot yeah there we go there we go there's our rgb boom yes just this thing is just oozing with with rgb lighting but it looks like it's working i do have the display port cable connected to the monitor here so if all goes well we should see a post is this thing on is this thing on boom boom boom okay f1 to run setup my keyboard should probably be plugged in before i try to use it oh my god kyle okay keyboard's plugged in now uh one thing i noticed here it does say dram frequency for ddr4 2400 megahertz dual channel uh so it's recognizing the ram properly but it's worth noting that right now our dram is running at 2400 megahertz or mega transfers per second it would have been cool for nzxt to also include uh just a little tidbit on maybe how to to get your your system memory working at its rated speed which in this case would be 3200 mega transfers per second but i also kind of understand the complexity of that because that can vary from board to board and also once users start configuring bio settings things can go south pretty quickly if they don't know what they're doing but it would have been cool just to have like maybe make a note like hey your memory is not running at its optimal speed we suggest that you do some research online to figure out how to properly configure those settings just just a thought side note there okay f1 let's uh and we are in the bios in the bios okay it looks like it was already set up so let's go ahead and hopefully it'll boot from the ssd into windows because windows is again pre-installed pre-loaded onto the drive for your convenience there we go windows boot yeah yeah buddy alright alright alright this thing is ready to rock and honestly this was a pretty smooth experience i'm fairly impressed with the with the guidebook you know honestly there were a couple things that they missed that i would have liked to see included i had what maybe a half a dozen critiques or so of things that i'd like to see in here but none of those were they were all pretty minor things kind of just like nothing that was left out was super detrimental or what i would consider a deal breaker you can still easily build a pc from start to finish using just this guide and we didn't even take a look at any of the videos of any of the video walkthroughs that are provided as well didn't have to contact customer support all those options are available to you though should you run into any issues again and this is just a really nice book to have i wonder if nzxt would ever consider just selling this like i bet a lot of people would buy this thing just all a cart even if they didn't purchase one of these build kits because it's just it's a nice it's a nice book and honestly they did a really good job they took their time with it it is you know to their credit it is pretty illustrative and kind of artsy and fun for whatever that's worth this would be like a good like i put this on my coffee table this is going on my coffee table nzxt you should sell this people buy it but that is the nzxt build kit in a nutshell y'all i i like this i like this concept and i think it's it's i don't think it's like an incredibly unique idea i think it's probably done been done in the past but i don't think i've ever seen it done this well like the execution here i think is pretty top notch um the guidebook is really kind of the the focal point of this whole thing like if the guidebook sucked then i think the whole experience would just be crappy but fortunately that's not the case i think it also offers a pretty good value for what you're getting 15 what is it 15.99 for this particular system ryzen 5 5600x rtx 360 ti not too shabby at all in my opinion but you guys let me know you think down in the comments below tell us a like on this video if you enjoyed it and get subscribed for more tech content coming at you really soon i will see you guys in the next video youso most of you guys are probably familiar with nzxt's build pre-builts or their bld pre-builts which i've actually done some coverage on in the past but now they have their bld i don't know this is a bld or build either i'll just say build their build kits with the build kits you're basically getting all the components you need to build a system but they're not assembled you do it yourself which is the beauty of pc diy and one of my favorite things about pc diy is the diy part so there's a lot of people out there who want to build a system themselves but maybe are struggling with trying to find out which parts go together because it can be a little overwhelming even with sites like pc part picker which does a great job of telling you which components are compatible there's so many options when it comes to pc parts these days that it can still be overwhelming for someone who's not too familiar with them at the time that nzxt is launching these build kits there's currently two options available two different systems that you can purchase the parts for there's their starter pro which is i think 13.99 us msrp and then there's their streaming pc which is 1599 msrp both of them have an rtx 3060 ti not too shabby and then i believe the starter pro has a core i5 11 400 f if i'm not mistaken whereas the higher end streaming pc rocks of ryzen 5 5600 x and i'm actually not sure which one they sent me i'm pretty sure they specified at some point but i just forgot so we're going to explore that together we'll find out and the other thing is that they include a bunch of instructions and detailed i'm going to assess that pretty closely today and pretend like i don't know you can like get on email or chat with them or phone call and basically contact them and get real-time tech support for uh building your system if you hit any snags along the way which is pretty cool and obviously there's endless resources online to help you build a pc start to finish we have a guide as well on our channel um that's still relevant to this day but it is always kind of nice to have that one-on-one direct line of communication with someone who knows what they're doing if you have a very specific question or a specific uh hurdle that you're trying to get over also two year warranty on all these parts so and it all comes in a single box not a bunch of different boxes but i would assume there's more boxes inside why don't we just open it up see what's inside before we continue this video is brought to you by raycon everyday earbuds as someone who listens to music every waking minute of the day the raycons have been a great addition to my daily regimen whether i'm building a computer or doing a morning hike they come with a bunch of different sized gel tips for a comfortable fit and i love their discreet appearance by not sticking out of your ears like some other brands out there the new everyday earbuds offer an improved rubber oil look and feel that's premium all around and there's also a built-in mic that lets you take calls with the press of a button i have yet to have one of them fall out of my ears when moving around and with a 32 hour battery life with 8 hours of play time i only charge these things once or twice a week like a lot of people i would consider my taste and music pretty eclectic and these actually sound really solid with a wide variety of genres i listen to which is admirable considering that they start at half the price of other premium audio brands raycons also come with a 45 day happiness guarantee so there's really nothing to lose by trying them out to learn more click on the link in the description below or go to buyreicon.com bitwit to get 15 off your raycon purchase this is a big boy box i believe regardless of the system you choose you also get an h510 which is a compact mid tower i'm wondering how this is all packaged i feel like the case alone takes up more than half of this box let's see how this goes okay so nice big piece of foam on top that's reassuring packaging material wow look at this this is a hefty booklet are you seeing this right now dude this is actually okay this is pretty legit i mean it looks nice it looks nice just at a glance these are some like full-blown illustrated pictures in color looks very detailed from from first glance but we'll again we'll take a closer look at this is this is thick it's like a uline book or a uline catalog they send me every month and it's just crazy waste paper i need to cancel that all right we've got a part there windows 10 microsoft windows 10 64-bit this is home windows home windows and then we also have artifact pieces interesting this just shows you all the parts that are included with the package very nice what do we got here power supply seasonic s12 3 650 watt that should be plenty to drive our cpu and gpu regardless of which model we got again the gpu is going to be consuming the most amount of power and it's the same regardless of which option you go with we have a kraken m22 120 millimeter liquid io i would assume that this is the starter hold on this is probably the starter piece hold on what is this that contains bcdi okay i gotta look at the the legend here bcdi so there's uh the ram we've got the cpu in here nvme ssd and a wi-fi card that should all be inside of this box if the legend is correct okay we have a wi-fi card that is from oh it's an msi card msi wi-fi card looks like it just slots into one of your uh pci slots on the motherboard it's got a usb 2.0 connection or cable it goes to your motherboard and a couple antennas our amd am4 cpu so we got the we got the streaming pc there's a 5600x yeah yes it is six cores 12 threads all right memory i believe is 16 gigs they gave us two 8 gig sticks of t-force vulcan z ddr4 3200 speed i would have liked to see 3600 considering that this is a ryzen 5000 series chip on zen 3 and it likes fast memory and it can handle 3600 but we can always try our hand at overclocking it once we're in the bios and the system is fully built we also have a gigabyte rtx 3060 ti and this is the oc edition with rgb fusion 2.0 wind force cooler yadda yadda okay honestly this alone is a huge selling point for the bld or the build kits from nzxt just the fact that you're kind of guaranteed to get an rtx 360 ti which is a smoke and fast gpu uh and you don't have to pay an extremely outrageous price for it you don't have to wait in an extremely outrageous line for it it just comes included like you're just buying milk at the store but the online online store don't don't buy milk online we also have a little kit for tools so we have a screwdriver several bits inside wires oh these are probably wire cutters for zip ties and stuff so that's kind of nice they give you all the tools you'll need to build a pc not that you need that many anyway but it is kind of nice they've got some zip ties in here um they do have they do include both phillips head bits uh two different sizes one for the nvme ssd install and the other for your general screws elsewhere so that's cool and what is this a keychain flashlight really do we really need this who's building in the dark let's go but let's go ahead and find out oh no did i forget to pay the electrical edison your bill wait time is over 15 minutes i don't know maybe your power goes out and you need to build a pc immediately and of course our h510 compact mid tower case i think they asked me what oh i got white i got a white one i think i requested that i'm cool with that i like white all right that's everything in the box oh my gosh i just realized i forgot two components uh this is all so overwhelming i wasn't keeping track of which parts i had gone over but we have a motherboard here which i didn't really expect it to be an nzxt board because those are generally more premium uh given the price point of these systems but this is an msi uh b550a pro cec all black motherboard looks like it's got some pretty nice heatsinks on the vrm not exactly sure what the power delivery is but um i'm sure it's more than capable of handling a 5600x we have some nice rear i o couple usb 3 usb c and two m.2 slots plenty of pcie by 16 slots and four dimm slots of course that is an atx form factor as you would expect so that looks nice and then we also have the ssd that i also forgot which is it is a one terabyte wd blue sn550 so i believe this is an nvme pcie gen 3 drive uh one one terabyte is nice storage is also very easy to expand in the future should you need more storage um but this is uh this is a good drive sn550 i have a couple of these that i've bought with my own money because i think they actually offer a pretty good price to performance um and uh and they're quite fast for for what they are so at this point i'm just gonna start building the pc exclusively with the help of their adventures map for pc building as they've called it on the front there's something else in here what is this building checklist okay we're gonna go through all this right now and hopefully hopefully it goes well all right we are underway and i've got the booklet over here i'm gonna be following it step by step we'll be uh taking a look to see exactly how nzxt's lay this all out for for new builders presumably new builders or those with limited experience who don't know how to build themselves so for starters here at the beginning of the guide we have an actual qr code that will link us to a playlist of videos i'd also suggest that you can use factory manuals all the products that we received that normally come with manuals have the manuals included in the package as well so you can always consult those if you get extra stuck we also have online tech chat support with a link there and a call center with a working phone number i would presume in case you get stuck and need to talk to someone so we've got a little intro here journey begins i'm not going to go through every single page this thing's huge installing the memory level one so first step they actually want us to install the memory first what you'll need ram sticks and a motherboard it's also labeled with the legend there parts a and b in case you don't know what individual components are actually called which which is fair some people might not if it's their first time and then down here is a qr code with a video walkthrough on how to install memory should we need it i don't think we'll need the video for that let's just see if we can get if we can scrape by installing the memory with with these lovely illustrated pictures and descriptions so little graph here identifying where the memory gets installed into the dim slots prepare the motherboard say the cables that come with the board won't be used for this build take out your motherboard and place it gently on the box it came in the memory channels will be located in the top right corner of the motherboard it's actually kind of nice that they tell you to elevate the board and put it on uh the box that it came with because not everyone has a fancy schmancy gamer's nexus mod mat like i do so i'm going to go ahead and listen to nzxt for the purpose of this video and grab the box that the board came in so we did that we located the dim slots right here and locate channels two and four and then it has it labeled right there very clearly two and four alternating second and fourth slot lucky ram channels two and four these channels are paired to one another giving you the most efficient use of your ram if labeled differently check your motherboard manual for clarification all right uh that's that's also kind of nice that they fill you in a little bit a very high level explanation of why the ram stick should go in the specified slot locations because it's for optimal performance press down on the lane two and four channel tabs your motherboard may only have tabs on one side to push down that's good that they specify that because that can throw off some people so we've got our two tabs here we only have a single tab on each dimm slot let's go to d orient the memory sticks typically if there is a white sticker on your memory sticks this white sticker will be facing into the board towards where the cpu socket is located kind of an interesting way to describe it or to instruct it do they even mention the notch align the memory gold connectors the top of the gold ram connectors is longer than the bottom okay this makes it so there's only one correct orientation make sure the ram matches the openings on the motherboard lanes otherwise it will not go in okay so they don't specifically mention a notch but they kind of do in a roundabout way so i've identified the notch one side of the slot does have more gold contacts than the other it's pretty obvious and then push the ram firmly upon installation pull the ram twice to make sure it isn't loose make sure that the gold okay hold on it's telling me i was supposed to install the ram on on step e so let me go ahead and do that upon installation pull the ram twice to make sure it isn't loose double double check pull twice on each stick seems firm and make sure that the gold connectors are properly aligned before applying force probably should have checked that before i just pushed them down press down until you hear a click okay be careful but don't be afraid to push firmly it may require some extra force that's that's a good tip that's a good tip because i feel like a lot of first-time builders are pretty nervous or paranoid that uh applying excess force to certain computer parts are is to break them and that's not always the case it definitely does apply in some instances but for things like installing your ram or sometimes like tightening down your your liquid cooler or even an air cooler for your cpu you really do need to use maybe a bit more force than initially feels comfortable um if you're not too familiar with with installing those components so it's good that they actually make a note of that uh the halls breathe with life few souls have made it past this point as we head into the halls of machu picchu wait they're trying to make a puck reference uh dumb hidden treasures and lost secrets lie before us beware of the traps and pitfalls that may delay you throughout your journey to the treasure room okay they're making it like story based or something like tomb raider tomb raider the pc build level two installing the processor careful on this step the pins of the cpu or motherboard are easily bent and if they're damaged they may not work properly that's that's important to note video walkthrough right there and take care on this step do not touch the pins the pins of the cpu or motherboard are easily bent and if they get damaged they may not work properly anymore the cpu is the most fragile part of your build make absolutely certain you do not touch or bend the gold pins on either the cpu or the cpu socket situated on the motherboard for amd or intel respectively when handling the cpu be careful and hold it by its sides these are all good points to keep in mind amd cpu 1 intel cpu 2 identifying it says your cpu will either say amd or intel on it this is important as the instructions will differ will be different for both keep an eye out in this guide for these colored boxes labeled amd and intel they will indicate what steps to take for your build that makes it very clear-cut locate the cpu socket the upper middle area of the motherboard will have a rectangular square socket for your cpu with a metal retention arm floss door if you're unsure you can always refer to the motherboard manual for additional help inspect the pins uh we should inspect the pins all right so this is all red amd cpu amd cpu so all these instructions are appropriate for the build at hand open the socket unlatch the cpu socket by pressing on the metal retention arm and bringing it all the way up okay pressing on it and bringing it all the way up so if you just press on the bar nothing happens you kind of have to press the bar down and then swing it out away from the socket before it'll actually lift up doesn't exactly specify that here it does have an arrow though it does have a little arrow but not everyone's going to catch that it would have been good if they said you know push it down and then kind of swing it out outward in order for it to be released upwards so that's something to note identify the corner marker hold the cpu by the sides do not touch the gold pins identify the corner of the cpu that has the arrow yep okay straightforward place the cpu align the marked corner dot or triangle on the cpu with the marked corner of the socket do not force or move place gently all right that's those are good good tips we're gonna go ahead and just slot it in and close the socket pull down and latch the metal retention arm onto the socket easy enough all right level three installing the m.2 nvme ssd the drive itself the motherboard screwdriver handle and the ph zero bit i have my own screwdriver so i'm not going to use their stuff but it's good that they specify pucky found a hidden ssd okay he's found an m.2 nvme ssd marked d with windows 10 already pre-installed on the drive that's cool uh take your m.2 ssd out of its packaging holding onto the edges of the drive a you could do this or this not all motherboards have an m.2 shield sizes of shield may vary near the middle of the motherboard typically just below the cpu you will find a slot for the m.2 drive it is sometimes covered by an m.2 shield two screws and sometimes it is attached by the port itself one screw check your motherboard manual if unsure so we have so we have two m.2 slots on this board one with an m.2 heat sink or shield on top of it and the other one that's just uh pretty much exposed i'm gonna opt for the top slot and it even has a little graph here to show you kind of whereabouts the m.2 slot may be that b remove the screws depending on your board you may have one to three screws some boards have the screws provided separately in the box determine if there is an m.2 shield that needs to be removed if so unscrew it from the board all right let's go ahead and remove these two screws which will allow us to remove the m.2 shield set aside the screws yes of course insert the ssd at an angle matching the notch to the connector if done correctly the gold should not be visible that's that's a good detail to bear in mind so let's see at an angle gold is gold contacts are no longer visible ensure proper seating your ssd will be pointing upwards at an angle if it does not retrace step d and make sure the drive is properly installed looks like it's at an upward angle here so that's good push down the m.2 drive with the shield on top of the m.2 drive if one came with your motherboard push down the m.2 ssd towards the board screw in the ssd you may need to skip this step if you have an m.2 shield and remove exactly two screws on step b ah that's a good that's a good note very good note there nzxt fasten the screw you removed on step b to secure the ssd so uh we do have um one of the screws that was holding our m.2 shield in place is the same screw that that holds the actual drive in place as well uh peel off the m.2 shield plastic missing this step may cause your drive to overheat that is true so we got that screw in the m.2 shield but holding the ssd to the board screw the ssd on the motherboard using the two screws you set aside on step c and boom boom done level four installing the cpu cooler this is just letting you know how to distinguish whether you have an aio or an air cooler level four installing the aio cooler okay so we we need this part because we have an aio that 120 mil so this is amd cpu amd cpu so this is good prepare the motherboard important the m22 aio cooler came pre-configured for an intel cpu skip steps a1 through a4 if you have an intel cpu which we do not remove the stock amd mounting bracket and back plate from the motherboard loosen the intel retention bracket remove the intel retention bracket attach the amd retention bracket okay that's all that's all super straight forward as well let's go ahead and do that i'll uh i'll remove the brackets off the the motherboard after this doing a little bit out of order here but it doesn't really matter so remove the intel retention bracket and it tells you which direction it pulls out there we go attach the amd retention bracket which goes like this easy peasy screw pegs in here this is a universal back plate find which holes match your cpu and fit the motherboard make sure the back plate is properly vertically oriented before doing so install the screws following the illustrations on steps b and c install the m2 screws labeled g and aio manual and standoff screws labeled e and aio manual both came with your cooler onto your backplate matching the holes with your cpu pretty clear diagram here so let's go ahead and do that we've got our backplate and the illustration that they provided here is actually of an amd installation so we can just copy that to real easy looks like there's a screw that kind of slots in kind of keyed so it actually holds in place pretty nicely and then you have a little screw to screw in from the back side and hold that longer screw in place give me a sec while i finish this up all right back plate looks pretty prepped there install the back plate align the holes of the back plate to those in your motherboard and screw the back plate onto your motherboard but first we have to remove those mounting brackets so the guide does explain how to remove these just with these four screws two on either bracket super easy boom and boom and now we can remove let's see now we can go ahead and install our back plate uh we don't need the stock back plate obviously just the one that we prepped earlier slots through install spacers onto the standoff screws okay push them down one two three and four secure the bracket to temporarily secure the cooler bracket to the motherboard screw the washers and thumb nuts with springs onto the standoffs leave the other cooler parts untouched we'll resume installing them at a later stage of the building process okay so they're just telling us to to cinch it down a little bit so that our back plate doesn't fly away while we're moving the motherboard around and stuff so to do that just install a washer and it says screw the washers and thumbnails with springs onto the stain enoughs okay my assumption is that they're going to have us install the motherboard first into the case before we actually mount the pump block to the cpu makes sense for a lot of new builders it's probably going to be a little less cumbersome that way once the board's already planted to the case and uh i'll be interested to see if they have us install the radiator to the case before the pump block i would think not i would think the pump block would go on first but you never know it doesn't really matter too much doesn't matter a whole lot either way you will resume installing this cooler at a later stage in the build keep track and safely store away all provided screws and materials that you you have not yet used nope i'm just going to be risky and not do that level 4b installing an air cooler which we can skip level five moving the build into the pc having difficulty in boxing the a510 case ensure the carry handles are folded outward okay what you'll need h510 motherboard screwdriver discovery of the h510 take it from its packaging and have the motherboard on standby for the next step okay let's get the case out all right we got the case out let's continue unscrew the glass paneling the thumb screw holding the glass panel is captive meaning it won't come completely off the tab turn the screw until it wobbles in place iii unclip the glass panel on the rear of the pc where the panel was unscrewed is a metal pull tab bracing the glass with one hand pull on this tab this may require some force that is also accurate brace it pull oh that was not the most graceful put the panel away gently which we have done unscrew the rear paneling unscrew the captive screws holding the rear panel in place located at the back of the case and remove the rear panel you'll find included a box of parts necessary to continue building your pc in one of the compartments okay and there's our accessory box right there in the hard drive cage place the pc now is a good time to place the pc on its side okay so so for removing the tempered glass panel they don't actually say to keep the system upright but they do have a picture of it standing upright so i guess it would have been nice for them to actually include that though i'm sure maybe in the video maybe in the video it specifies but they do eventually tell you to put the case on its side here in step h so place it down gently with the open interior facing upwards okay identify the i o shield if pre-attached skip to page 68 an italic io shield will be provided with your motherboard in many cases it may be pre-attached to the board already though often it is provided as a separate piece in our case the motherboard does not have a pre-installed io shield we've got to do that separately here if your i o shield is provided separately put the metallic i o shield into the rectangular opening in the back of the pc shiny side facing inwards okay and match the orientation of the i o cutouts to your motherboard good uh press firmly on all four corners of the i o shield until it pops in don't be afraid to bend the metal to better fit the ports okay it's all sound advice i also kind of wish that they had suggested or warned builders to to be careful not to cut themselves because i o shields can be rather sharp so then we got that place the motherboard um place your motherboard into the pc case angled towards the i o shield align the ports on the motherboard with the holes of the rear i o so that they fit together find the screws in the flat baggie instead you'll find many screws with a rounded top secure the motherboard align your board with the middle stand off in the case the screw screw holes of the motherboard should align with those inside the case using the ph2 bit fasten the motherboard to the inside of the case using the round 632 flat screws found in the white box on step g depending on your board some screw holes may not be used okay pretty specific very clearly laid out so let's do that find that center standoff there we go i'm gonna bend one of the one of the little metal tabs sticking out here it's kind of blocking our ethernet port which the guy did say that that was fine if you needed to move some of those out of the way to make the ports fit better and that looks great all right motherboard installed level six relocating fans choose your path we have aio cooler you've arrived at a divergent path if you have an aio cooler marked e continue normally and skip pages 82 to 89. level 6a relocating fans aio build that's us okay remove the plastic twist ties well for starters i want to see where they're having us relocate the fans to probably to the front of the case so that we can make room for the 120 rad at the back but let me just double check uh-huh yeah they're having us move the fans to the front and then oh this is for the air cooler build all right we'll we'll reach that point when we get to it but let's go ahead and relocate these fans first remove the plastic twist ties there should be four twist ties holding the wires in the back of the case remove them by cutting or untwisting them then unscrew the top fan while holding onto the top fan remove the four screws that hold the top fan to the case gently lower the fan and pull the wire through the case opening before setting it aside i'm just gonna read like do these read these in bulk and then we'll do it all at once unscrew the rear fan pretty much the same thing set aside the fans the fans you just removed will be reinstalled to the front of the pc case on step h set them aside but keep them close really i was gonna ship them to africa right after removing them it's a good thing it's good so the guide said to remove or kind of untether the wires of the back here first they could have also specified what the end of the the fan connector looks like right they could have mentioned that to look for the three pin connector on the fan cables just to make it a little bit easier to identify unscrew the fan bracket okay unscrew the two thumb screws holding the fan bracket at the front interior of the pc remove the fan bracket from the pc as pictured above easy fan blades pointed outwards no guard showing fan blades pointed inwards x-shaped guards showing makes it very easy to distinguish the difference place fans onto bracket place the two fans onto the bracket x-shaped guard showing position the fans towards the bottom of the fan bracket with wires pointing to the left oh that's good that they made a note to clean up your cable management where possible by orienting your fan the correct way not just uh with intake or exhaust but which direction the the actual wire is facing as well so we place the fans onto the bracket flip the brackets with the fans over maintaining their position relative to the bracket screw fans into the bracket screw the case fans into the bracket using the provided screws extras can be found on the white box okay from this angle the fans the fan cables will now be on the right side of the bracket all right screw down to chinatown all right slide in the fan bracket running the fan cables through the two large case openings which are right here and they've identified them in the picture as well slide the fans into the pc with x-shaped guard showing x-shaped guard is showing slip the cables in to the openings and reattach the fan bracket attach the bracket back onto the front interior of the pc using the two thumb screws gotta shove these cables through a little bit more otherwise they'll get pinched all right now they're having us install the power supply next okay i i'm guessing that they're gonna save the cpu cooler until the very end like right when we're about ready to install the graphics card that way when we're doing cable management and stuff there's no aio tubes or pump block in the way that's my guess but let's go ahead and follow this here power supply all right and then it says if you have a non-modular versus semi-modular or modular we have a non-modular power supply our seasonic unit is non-modular so skip to page 99 slide in the psu with fan facing down nice little graphic here to show you exactly how that's supposed to go into your case pretty straightforward there secure the psu press the psu against the rear of the pc and screw it into the case using the four 632 hexagon screws that came with the power supply also in the white box from the h510 case okay all right we've got our sea sonic psu here we're just gonna slide it in from the side making sure that the fan is face down of course as noted by the guide and then we gotta just press it up against the back of the case and screw it down all right there we go easy level eight cable management oh interesting okay there's gonna be a lot of little steps in here okay this is actually a pretty useful page cable management these are our recommendations on how to manage your cables more easily they don't need to be strictly followed don't be afraid to experiment with different configurations so that's cool if you want nzxt to hold your hand through the cable management process they've actually outlined exactly where they recommend or suggest specific cables to go so you've got your audio connector usbc front panel usb 3 system fan one for your aio system fan 2 which came with your your pc case for the aio and cooler get your 8 pin eps for the cpu pcie cable for your graphics card and 24 pin for your motherboard and it's all color coordinated so it's really easy to visualize where ndxp suggests your cables should go and the routing path for each of them but again just a suggestion designed to help zip ties and velcro are your friends for better cable management we advise grouping cables together and using the provided velcro or zip ties to fasten them to one another okay sound advice where to plug in the cables bring out the manual that came with your motherboard the port names we provide in the upcoming section are commonly used but they may not be exact the manual will be very helpful uh very in bold that is true uh during the upcoming steps in identifying exactly where each cable port is located on your motherboard model that is fair because the location of various headers on a motherboard vary wildly between models so it's kind of impossible for nzxt to tell you exactly where things should plug in but the fact that they point you to the user manual that came with your motherboard is a good thing i do like how they specify here that your 24 pin and eight pin uh eps cable came included with your power supply i could easily see a first time builder who has no idea what they're doing i'm trying to look for you know the 24 pin cable in in like the accessory box or something and not realizing that it could just be already tethered to their non-modular power supply or something like that here we got fan cables little diagram of you know potential fan headers on the motherboard it does say location of ports may vary by board which is absolutely true it's a good thing they remind you of that and uh more routing suggestions here for your fans i'm going to ignore all their suggestions and just just do it how i want but it's good if they have this jumping off point for people who might not be as confident all right and then it says the greatest threat handled huzzah the cable menace is almost defeated we're almost ready to move to the next room all right blah blah blah blah blah all right i'm going to go ahead and mess around with the cable management really quick and be right back all right a good chunk of our cable management is out of the way so now we can move on to the cooling chambers installing our cpu cooler finally here we go all right this is ao good remove the thumb screws or the the thumb nuts the thumb nuts and washers the thumb nuts that's a funny funny term install the water block example above is of an amd installation that's very convenient all that all these diagrams are of amd and we're doing an amd build try not to touch the thermal paste on the underside of the cooler try not to do or do not there is no try place the pump with the retention bracket onto the cpu make sure the usb port is facing the top and the two pump tubes are on the right side of the pump ensure the standoffs go through the holes on the bracket dually noted so it's not having us install any of the cables on the pump block just yet just having us secure it you in fact have thermal paste pre-applied on the bottom and then screw in the plastic washers and the thumbnails with springs that we removed earlier in step a onto the standoff screws why of course all right now moving on to the radiator fan installation and once again nzxt is showing us which way we should orient the fan and which way it should be mounted to the radiator rather and it looks like okay we don't want the guard showing we don't want this side showing we want the blades fan blades pointed outwards with no guard showing okay and then attach to the radiator using the included screws and it doesn't specify washers in the text but does have a visual picture of them i think that's pretty clear especially because the washers and screws come packaged together most people should be able to figure that out but let's go ahead and install the fan all right sorry you guys aren't going to get the best visual of me installing this this fan because of uh just a little tricky here with the camera but um one thing that nzxt didn't specify this time around is which way to mount the fan in terms of for best cable management aesthetics and stuff so i would of course recommend that the wire come out from the back side of the case pointed towards the motherboard like so if you're gonna be mounting it in this orientation it's interesting how they included that for uh when we relive it's interesting that they included that detail when we were relocating the fans the case fans to the front of the chassis but not for this step for some reason i'm sure a lot of people will be able to figure it out especially since they were already instructed on how to orient the wires uh previously but it still would have been nice for them to include that little bit um now we're going to mount the radiator to the back of the case slide the fan into place on the rear case exhaust with the pump tubes oriented at the top mount the radiator importantly advise orienting the pump tube at the top using the five millimeter case screws that came with the ao mount the fan radiator to the rear exhaust of the case and then connect the power cable set cable will be found attached to the radiator connect the three pin pump power cable to the four pin cpu opt pump or aio pump connectors on the motherboard then here it gives you an approximate location of where that header would be and it also specifies location of ports may vary by board so again they want us to mount it so that the tubes are at the top then we also have the fan cable which i would assume is the next step in this guide yes connect the fan cable to cpu fan so actually i should connect the pump to the pump header pump there is a pump header right next to the cpu fan header and then we'll connect the fan cable to the cpu fan header that makes sense okay we'll worry about tightening these up later connect the micro usb cable from the pump to an available usb 2.0 internal connector to the motherboard commonly labeled as a usb 2 usb 1 2 usb or f usb 2. okidoki and then again location of ports may vary by board all right this goes in here boom oh does it not specify to route the cable behind the motherboard tray it does not and our rash during locate the top pcie lane use the topmost pca lane on the bottom left side of the motherboard you'll find all the pcie lanes locate the top okay right here boom boom got it located slide out the metal panel no do not lose these screws do they really need to note that like why would why should you lose anything that's part of the case anyway if you haven't already on the rear of the pc loosen the thumb screws on the panel that is blocking the expansion slot covers slide the panel out of place keep this panel unscrewed for now okay maybe they say not to lose the screws just because they're one of the few non-captive thumb screws that you'll actually use in this build with this case remove rear expansion slot covers unscrew the expansion slot covers usually covers two and three from the top located at the rear of the pc corresponding to the topmost pcie lane near the processor keep screws for step h alright does that apply here slots two and three from the top yes those would be the correct ones they got that right remove pin cover remove the plastic plugs in the gpu ports and the plastic cover that is protecting the golden pins of the gpu here's our rtx 360 ti we're gonna remove this uh it doesn't actually say to not touch the gold contacts interestingly enough i mean touching them isn't quite as bad nearly as bad as like touching the gold contacts or the gold pins on a cpu or cpu socket for example but i would still think that would that would be mentioned although maybe it's obvious because it comes with a cover on it already but people don't really notice the obvious if i'm being honest the average person kind of done open the pcie slot press down on the wing of the topmost pcie lane insert the gpu into the topmost pcie lane so that the ports align with the openings on the lane the two teeth of the gpu pcie cover will slide in between the case and motherboard ensure proper seating the pci lane will audibly click when the gpu is properly seated in the lane let's test that out shall we okay i mean there was a click but you can't even really hear it beyond the thud the thud noise that the gpu makes when it clashes with the board and we can if we do it slower the click is really not that audible to be honest i feel like i feel like that that might worry people if they're like listening for the click and they don't really hear like a pronounced click they might wonder if it's actually slotted in properly see if i can reproduce this click you definitely get it with dram installation but here it's fortunately it's really easy to tell when the gpu is slotted in there it feels very firm very firm indeed secure the gpu fasten the same screws you removed on step c to firmly hold the gpu in place and bring down the metal panel slide the metal panel back into place and secure it by tightening the thumb screws okay i think i know what the next step is lagging in the gpu locate the 12 pin connector if you have a founder's edition card underneath the gpu you will find a box containing a connector cable and gpu manuals uh take the connector out of the box at this stage uh or plug in the cable for an fe from nvidia okay fe more fe stuff no cable management note to like zip tie the the loose pcie cable or the potentially unused pcie cable but uh that is something i would definitely suggest doing if you want to tidy things up a bit let's do that i'm just going to use the twist tie rather than a zip tie i would ordinarily use a zip tie because it just looks cleaner but all right and what could be left finishing touches finishing touches hook the rear panel okay with the exhaust holes nearest the front of the pc you will find two latches on the rear panel that will correspond to two holes on the pc hook them on swing closed the panel why not say swing the panel closed or close the what okay whatever with the panel secure in the front swing the panel uh the back of the panel towards the pc make sure that no wires get in the way when closing the pc panel secure the rear panel use the thumb screws and then close the glass panel uh did it not specify to remove the sticker the plastic peel on the aio that i'm going to take off right now all right right side panel and there's a final look at the cable management it all came together pretty nicely without too much effort that psu shroud definitely helps of course so latch the hooks on the holes and then swing it closed and screw down all right i'm actually going to not put the tempered glass panel on just yet because i want to boot the system make sure it's working all fine and dandy and that way we can see it easily without any uh any glare or reflections and actually by the way here's a quick look at some of the final pages of the instruction guide secure the glass panel attach the wi-fi antennas plug in the power cable plug in display cables this is actually pretty huge to have this is very important a lot of people a lot of first-time builders will plug their display port or their hdmi cable into the motherboard if it does have a display output or two rather than the graphics card itself so good thing they specified that and there's even a tiny url uh link here that probably gives you more information on that that are done ethernet peripherals turn on the power supply turn on the pc oh update drivers we advise checking for and downloading driver updates on the official websites of your hardware for optimal performance this qr code and the link will take you to a list of websites that have drivers that is very handy very nice of them to include and quest complete you've made it to the treasure room the treasure room i wasn't really aware we were headed towards but uh okay common problems and fixes sure make sure it was powered correctly check display cables uh-huh uh-huh okay so some some basic troubleshooting steps in case your pc isn't functioning properly when you first try to boot it that's all good and dandy maybe uh can save you an extra call or an extra email to their customer support team and finally this this is just a picture of me oh this is this is pucky and as you can see he's under quite a heavy load right there all right end of the book let's turn this computer on all right we got this bad boy all plugged in powered up ready to go i don't see any leds turning on but i don't think there are any leds that that would be active right now anyway even if the system was working and plugged in but let's just give it a shot yeah there we go there we go there's our rgb boom yes just this thing is just oozing with with rgb lighting but it looks like it's working i do have the display port cable connected to the monitor here so if all goes well we should see a post is this thing on is this thing on boom boom boom okay f1 to run setup my keyboard should probably be plugged in before i try to use it oh my god kyle okay keyboard's plugged in now uh one thing i noticed here it does say dram frequency for ddr4 2400 megahertz dual channel uh so it's recognizing the ram properly but it's worth noting that right now our dram is running at 2400 megahertz or mega transfers per second it would have been cool for nzxt to also include uh just a little tidbit on maybe how to to get your your system memory working at its rated speed which in this case would be 3200 mega transfers per second but i also kind of understand the complexity of that because that can vary from board to board and also once users start configuring bio settings things can go south pretty quickly if they don't know what they're doing but it would have been cool just to have like maybe make a note like hey your memory is not running at its optimal speed we suggest that you do some research online to figure out how to properly configure those settings just just a thought side note there okay f1 let's uh and we are in the bios in the bios okay it looks like it was already set up so let's go ahead and hopefully it'll boot from the ssd into windows because windows is again pre-installed pre-loaded onto the drive for your convenience there we go windows boot yeah yeah buddy alright alright alright this thing is ready to rock and honestly this was a pretty smooth experience i'm fairly impressed with the with the guidebook you know honestly there were a couple things that they missed that i would have liked to see included i had what maybe a half a dozen critiques or so of things that i'd like to see in here but none of those were they were all pretty minor things kind of just like nothing that was left out was super detrimental or what i would consider a deal breaker you can still easily build a pc from start to finish using just this guide and we didn't even take a look at any of the videos of any of the video walkthroughs that are provided as well didn't have to contact customer support all those options are available to you though should you run into any issues again and this is just a really nice book to have i wonder if nzxt would ever consider just selling this like i bet a lot of people would buy this thing just all a cart even if they didn't purchase one of these build kits because it's just it's a nice it's a nice book and honestly they did a really good job they took their time with it it is you know to their credit it is pretty illustrative and kind of artsy and fun for whatever that's worth this would be like a good like i put this on my coffee table this is going on my coffee table nzxt you should sell this people buy it but that is the nzxt build kit in a nutshell y'all i i like this i like this concept and i think it's it's i don't think it's like an incredibly unique idea i think it's probably done been done in the past but i don't think i've ever seen it done this well like the execution here i think is pretty top notch um the guidebook is really kind of the the focal point of this whole thing like if the guidebook sucked then i think the whole experience would just be crappy but fortunately that's not the case i think it also offers a pretty good value for what you're getting 15 what is it 15.99 for this particular system ryzen 5 5600x rtx 360 ti not too shabby at all in my opinion but you guys let me know you think down in the comments below tell us a like on this video if you enjoyed it and get subscribed for more tech content coming at you really soon i will see you guys in the next video you\n"