These are the WORST things you could do for your PC...
**The Dangers of Inadequate Motherboard Research**
When it comes to building a new computer, many people get caught up in the excitement of buying the latest and greatest components without doing their research. This can lead to some serious issues down the line, including damage to your system and financial losses. One of the most common mistakes that people make is not taking the time to understand what they're getting themselves into.
The first issue is with the power delivery system on the motherboard. A bare bones low-end chipset non-overclocking non-Japanese solid capacitor non-robust VRM delivery system can't handle the features of a high-end CPU, leading to problems that are not worth the risk. This means that you can't take advantage of the features of your new CPU because the motherboard isn't capable of handling them. The motherboard itself is locked down, preventing you from doing anything with it because it's not designed to handle it.
The consequences of this can be severe. Swelling and exploding capacitors are a real risk when overclocking, and VRRM's (Voltage Regulator Modules) literally catching on fire is not unheard of. This is probably the worst thing you could do for your computer, as it can cause irreparable damage and financial losses.
**The Analogy of an Engine**
This problem is similar to putting an undersized fuel system in a race engine. The fuel mixture being off can lead to massive engine destruction because the components are not balanced. Similarly, when building a computer, you need to balance your components to get optimal performance. This means doing research and making informed decisions about what you're buying.
The popularity of PCs has led to a proliferation of motherboard SKUs (Stock Keeping Units). Now, it's common for there to be 17 different motherboards available for launch day, each with its own unique features and options. However, this can make it difficult for people to know what they're getting themselves into. The manufacturer may use color-coding to indicate the type of motherboard, but even that can be confusing.
**The Consequences of Not Doing Your Research**
Not doing your research is one of the worst things you could do for your computer. It's confusing, and it can lead to financial losses and damage to your system. People will often buy excellent RAM, a good motherboard, and a high-end CPU without investigating the proper ram slots to put their RAM sticks in. This can lead to reduced speed or different timings, which can be frustrating.
**Tips for New Builders**
If you're new to building computers, there are several things that you should never do. You shouldn't set your computer on fire (although this is unlikely), drag it behind your car, or drop it from the second story (also unlikely). More realistic tips include reading the manual, looking up the manufacturer's website for instructions, and doing research before making a purchase.
In terms of RAM, it's essential to understand how to properly configure your system. This means knowing where to put your RAM sticks in relation to each other, as this can affect the speed and timings of your system. Unfortunately, many people don't take the time to learn about ram optimization, which can lead to suboptimal performance.
**Conclusion**
Building a computer may seem like a straightforward process, but it requires research and planning to get right. By doing your research and taking the time to understand what you're getting yourself into, you can avoid common mistakes and build a system that meets your needs. Remember to always read the manual, look up manufacturer instructions, and do your due diligence before making a purchase.
"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enso a couple weeks ago we went to micro center to pick up parts and stuff for my daughter's build if you guys haven't seen that video make sure you go check it out because it turned out great and i wish i kept it and no kid needs a powerful computer like that which is why it's awesome but we realized something we were there there might be more people buying and upgrading computers today than i think i've ever seen in the last eight years of running this channel it has been wait what's day's date oh it's the 28th my eight year anniversary was two days ago i missed it today we're going to talk about things you should never do to your computer nzxt's starter pc series now starts at 699 and gives you everything you need to get into the world of pc available in multiple configurations the starter pc can be tailored to meet your budget and needs and are the perfect way to build a work or learn from home setup while still being capable of 1080p 60fps gaming and popular titles like fortnite rainbow six siege and league of legends all of nzxt pcs come back with a two two-year warranty on parts labor and ram overclocking helping to guarantee the best gaming possible for your build to see the full list of specs and pricing on the nzxt starter pc series click the link in the description below so these are not in any sort of particular order they're just things i've kind of accumulated over the my i'm building computers now since i was five i don't know how much that counts i put together a computer mouse five when i was about the age of 10 i truly started building computers for like my parent my dad's company and stuff like that um so i've got nearly 30 years experience of building computers wow i'm old okay anyway moving on um so i just figured with the amount of people that are probably building a computer for the first time getting ready for some major title releases later later this year we know cyberpunk is going to bring a lot of people to pc we know fall guys has brought a lot of people to pc because you can run it on a potato not to mention that people look like potatoes and fall guy but that's fine i figured i'd just kind of prepare you guys for some things that maybe you should not do to your computer so here's one i'm gonna start off with that i think is fairly obvious but i don't think a lot of people really think about this and that is don't set your computer on carpet now i know a lot of people are gonna be like why what the heck okay most of the time you're going to find people installing power supplies with the fan face down that way it can get its own fresh air supply and then exhaust it out the back so it really doesn't depend on the case to supply air to it but not all cases have a big enough foot system if you will or any sort of a riser system built in some have really decent amounts of rise built into the bottom of the case the lean lead dynamic 011 dynamic is actually one of them a lot of times you're dealing with maybe a half inch maybe 12 13 millimeters of height and that's not a lot of room if you think about carpet now i know a lot of europeans right now are probably watching this going carpet who puts a computer on carpet who has carpet right because i guess carpet is really more of a north america thing i don't know if that's true but a lot of people i've always seen in europe be like why is there so much carpet in american homes well that regardless that's the fact and if you set a computer down on carpet and you start to plug up those holes with that carpet if you have plush carpet especially not like office carpet where it's real thin but like the thicker stuff then you'll find that it'll plug up that hole a little bit you're going to have a lot less reduced airflow to your power supply but more importantly than that it's going to be carpet is where dust and dirt and pet hair and dander and all that stuff just dandruff probably is where that stuff just accumulates and if it's picking it up off of those intake fans on the bottom or your power supply then it's going to be circulating that into your system so what i highly recommend you can do this for really cheap and i will put a link to the the stuff i'm going to recommend in any of these videos in the description because i always get people like where do i buy this stuff um i recommend getting yourself just a small piece of wood you can go down to your hardware store and you can find those pre-made shelves which are already like white brown wood toned and they're all like laminate and stuff and put one of those on the floor and set your computer on that that's the super basic way to do it and what's going to happen here is you're going to give your computer a nice solid surface to sit on you're going to create a barrier between a lot of that dust and dirt so it can't be picked up into a system and it's just going to be overall more friendly to the airflow and actually the stability of your system sitting on something solid now if you want to make it prettier you can make it a pedestal by going onto amazon and buying some furniture feet you can get them in only a couple inches all the way up to like i think eight inch tall furniture feet uh like you'd find on the bottom like chairs and stuff and you can make a little pedestal to get it even farther up off the ground and the farther away from the ground it is the less likely it'll be for the intake fans on the front to also pick up dirt off of the floor remember as dust and dirt falls out of the sky it settles down low and that if your computer is down low that's where most of it is going to accumulate and it's going to be sucked into your system and may just make it a kind of a cleanliness nightmare so that's one i would definitely not do to your system if you care about it now something else we've also seen is a very trendy design in cases these days is tempered glass side panels if we go back geez probably only five years or so you'd find that there were a lot more solid side panels or plexiglass panels but a lot of them had ventilation built into them perforations honeycomb or even fan mounts on the side to allow direct air to blow right onto your graphics card now that's great for cooling not great for aesthetics and it seems like there's been this this design trend over the last few years where aesthetics seems to rain supreme over function and what's happening now is you're seeing a lot of companies now integrating vertical mounts for your graphics cards into these cases now vertical mount itself is not a problem in fact there's a lot of data that supports having a gpu vertically mounted can actually improve its cooling capability and the reason for that is if you have fans pointing down that are pulling air up into the graphics card that air has then got to go through the fins and make kind of a turn bounce off the sidewall and then go out the top of your case or the back your case and if you vertically mount it heat rises and not only that you're not going to be having the bottom of the graphics card which has also got air coming out of it sitting against the motherboard blowing heat down onto the motherboard so you can actually get that heat away from the motherboard and use the natural convection of heat plus the fans pushing air through the fins allowing a more efficient rise of heat more efficient airflow due to graphics card the problem is many of these manufacturers set that graphics card far too close to the glass side panel or the plexi side panel or whatever type of side panel it might be then what you're getting is instead of having a nice giant cushion of air underneath the graphics card feeding it you're going to have a very thin slot of air between the fans and the glass or the side panel choking it off giving you the opposite effect of causing inadequate or inefficient cooling to your graphics card now back in the day you couldn't even put a three slot card which is very common and looks like it's going to be very common in the next launch of graphics cards up against a vertical mount because they were only supporting two slot but now you have a lot of cases supporting three slot which is going to make the problem even worse if it's too close to the glass panel now i would recommend having at least an inch or about 24 millimeters of space between the face of your card and the panel to make sure that you have adequate airflow if that's the case then you're fine if that's the case get it if that's the okay whatever um i find it's fine as long as you have that much airflow but i'm not kidding when i say some of these vertical mounts in these cases do literally put the face of the card practically touching the glass side panel now the easiest way to determine whether or not you would have a problem with airflow is to just look at your case if it doesn't require one of those conversion plates to basically rotate the where the gpu would mount and it's got some that are already basically built into the case you can see what that gap is going to be from the the most outward slot to the side panel and you can just kind of take a measurement there and if it looks like you have plenty of room at that point then go for it now to go vertical amount though some cost is usually involved with needing a riser card so if you already have the stuff you need to do a vertical mount just try it if your temps suffer just put it back it's not it's not a good idea to choose aesthetics and looking at the face of your graphics card and putting that ahead of actual performance and temperature because we all know high temperatures over time is also what can degrade your hardware leading to instability crashes and just overall death yeah just try it you could die what's the worst i could if you died it was a bad idea so while we're on the subject of cases why don't we go and talk about the worst thing you can do for your computer being not researching the case before you buy it unfortunately there's a lot of monkey c monkey do in this industry and as computers become way more popular remember we are literally i think at the pinnacle of pc gaming live streaming and all of that it is it is it is a massive multi-billion dollar industry right now as you've got more people that are becoming famous on twitch and on youtube everyone wants to be like everyone else and i want to i want a game i want to be do this i want a live stream we have so many people buying and building computers today it's insane and like i said what we saw at micro center just a couple weeks ago really shocked me because i've been shopping micro center for 15 years and i've never seen it look like it does today things are out of stock they're selling hundreds of cpus per day it is absolutely bonkers as to what's going on so what will happen is you'll get these companies that will make a case that looks like a famous case or a popular case or one that's just trendy and they won't actually put the same level of engineering into it as the brand they're knocking off now that's true for pretty much every industry i mean every industry has its knockoffs but with cases it can literally lead to a less than desirable and or worse performing system than you anticipated because of airflow issues now a real common trend right now is to have solid front panels whether it be solid steel solid glass just aesthetic doesn't matter now that's not a problem as long as where the front fans pick up air is well thought out whether it be giant openings on the bottom perforations on the side proper airflow testing is done to find the right balance between aesthetics and performance because no no front solid panel case is going to perform like a mesh case no matter how much you try it's not going to happen now i know people like steve at gamer's nexus hardware canucks they've done a lot of chassis testing they're like they are the kings in that space when it comes to just those types of reviews and to be honest we don't go to that level of degree where we're like this case is 0.2 degrees celsius hotter than this case at normalized fan volume we don't do any of that crap around here we are the we are no i'm serious we are the phil's laughing back there because i said we don't do that crap now it's not crap it's just we are the average consumer type of reviewer we bought this case we put these parts in we played these games this was the temp we got if you're okay with that buy it if not go somewhere else that's literally the way we we approach things it works for me it's the way i shop it's the way i share but what you're gonna find is that sometimes you can have a case that looks the part but will literally thermal throttle your hardware your graphics cards your cpus heck even your ssds if you've got one of these guys the fiery rgbs so do your research before you buy your case don't just buy your case based on that one's pretty because sometimes you're going to find that one's pretty hot that one's pretty bad there's always some sort of a descriptor after the pretty pretty itself is at that point of descriptor is more of a measurement of the word after it which then becomes this was pretty much a waste of money and it's happened and unfortunately it happens all the time now that you've got too many people out there copying each other and not doing the same due diligence and engineering which is why we always support the brand that engineers not the brand that copies now sometimes the worst thing you can do for your computer has nothing to do with the hardware at all it's about your software and windows 10 was designed to be an ultra lightweight os to run on tablets and and back when microsoft is really trying to compete with the ipad with you know lightweight can run on a potato and that's fine it means it's going to make everyone's computer faster but over the years microsoft being microsoft lost its way and has bloated the crap out of it and so now you find a situation where um you can through your os alone really kill your your overall pc experience now we found a great tool to use called windows 10 deep d bloater not deep loader d bloater like just gets rid of all the bloatware on your system now we're not going to do a tutorial on how to use it you can screw some things up by like making windows store not work again but it's worth checking out it's very easy to use it's got you know a gui on there we can select what stuff to uninstall how to reinstall the stuff too if you screw something up but the reason why i'm even bringing this up is windows defender is good for probably 90 to 95 of the stuff out there that you would could potentially get infections from but long gone are the days of free antiviral antiviral antiviruses where they actually did something good for your computer now what they tend to do is simply slow it down they run constant scans trying to slow your computer down making you think you need to buy the premium versions to get your computer you know running right when all it's going to do is basically put it back to where it was virus definitions are constantly updated on windows defender we've not had any problems on our systems by not running any of those third-party anti-virus software now there are good antivirus software's out there don't don't get me wrong on that i'm not saying that it's not a necessary thing but you know what i've seen in the past and i'm going to use my my late father as an example he would tell me my computer's running slow i don't know what's happening i click on something and it won't load or it's just ridiculously slow and i'll go in there and he'll have like two different registry like cleaning software going he'll have like two different virus softwares running and then he'll have like this other like windows not windows defender but like an online defender program that's like sniffing all the packets as they come and go and just because every time something didn't work he tried another one but never took off the other one so it would stack and then they would conflict and they would fight each other for control of the system and it doesn't take much to saturate your your storage when you're constantly scanning like that so it's one of those things where i think less is more when it comes to your operating system if you're not going to sites that are that are sketchy if you use some common sense about inspecting an element before you click on it and seeing where it's going to take you and it's not a spoofed link or a you know some sort of a redirect you'd find that your system will run a lot better without loading any of that crap on it and then getting rid of all the crap that already comes on it by using windows 10 deep loader now we're going to move back to hardware here because that's what i know and do phil's the software guy you can talk about software um don't mismatch your hardware it's easy to get caught up in bundle deals and you know what a lot of these people will do when it comes to bundle deals and my bundle deals i mean a lot of these online retailers and stuff micro center's actually pretty good about not doing what i'm about to say that is making these combo deals with stuff that doesn't move or sell you'll find them taking high-end overclocking motherboards because they're too expensive sometimes and they don't move like they don't move that often and they'll give you like a stupid amount off and pair it with a locked cpu now this really only applies to intel honestly because every amd cpu is unlocked but intel will have their unlocked skus and their over you know their overclocking excuse and then their non-overclocking skus and you'll find this real bad pairing where you'll have this really overkill motherboard that a really underwhelming cpu put together because they're trying to move products and that's how they come up with a lot of these bundle deals or what they'll do is they'll they'll start to pair it with ram that's just not good for the combo like let's say taking a 10 900k and then pairing it with like a 2400 megahertz stick of ram or two sticks of ram or whatever it is the worst thing you can honestly do is not do due diligence when it comes to preparing for the parts it is easy to accidentally leave some money on the table or put money into the wrong component if you have a thousand dollars to spend on your main components it's easy to be like okay i'm gonna spend 500 on the graphics card i'm going to send spend 300 on the cpu and i'm going to spend 79 on the motherboard giving you the opposite situation where you have an overclocking cpu and a bare bones low-end chipset non-overclocking non-japanese solid capacitor non-robust vrm delivery system meaning that you can't take any advantage of the features of the cpu you just bought because the motherboard doesn't allow it because it's locked the motherboard itself being locked in that you can't do anything with it because of the fact that it's not designed to handle it and heaven forbid the motherboard manufacturer bios does allow it and you physically cause damage we're talking about uh swelling and exploding capacitors we're talking about vrm's literally catching on fire because of the fact that you were allowed to overclock something that this power delivery wasn't capable of handling i think that that's probably the worst thing you could do for your computer it's it's it's i guess an analogy would be something along the lines of putting an undersized fuel system in a race engine kind of a deal right where you're going to start having massive engine destruction because of a fuel mixture being off and you really want to keep that mixture of your components balanced it's easy to get caught up and and overspend here and under spend there and it's confusing for a lot of new people i understand that trust me as someone that still every now and then has to do my own research on wait a minute what exactly am i leaving on the table with this and that there are so many parts and so many skus now do you remember when phil i'm talking to you directly now back when you might have one or two motherboard options per chipset a high end and a mid-range and then maybe a third like a low end entry level and that was it remember how asus used to be like blue is the mainstream and red was the gaming and then like yellow or whatever other color was the overclocking it was literally color-coded so you knew what you were getting again the popularity of pcs being what they are you now have motherboards on launch day that will have like 17 motherboard skus i mean how many times have i been like was this the rog strix 37 maximus formula g3 or whatever and you're like no no it's the g2 oh okay cool or you'll have a wi-fi version and a non-wi-fi version where the only difference is they stripped wi-fi out of one you know and you and you and you needed wi-fi and you like didn't catch it so i think the worst thing you could possibly do is just not do your research it's confusing but trust me nothing sucks more than getting the wrong parts exchanging them and finding out there's a restocking fee on almost everything electronic these days at least here in the united states i don't know about other places but a lot of places if you go to return a motherboard or something they can charge you like 15 percent just to take it back but one other thing we'll talk about here um it's kind of an honorable mention is ram slots now we're talking about hardware and optimizations a lot of times people will buy excellent ram good motherboard good cpu and then they don't investigate the proper ram slots to put your ram sticks in now this only applies if you're not filling all of the ram slots if you're refilling all of them doesn't matter it will automatically default to dual channel or quad channel or whatever it may be based on the platform but i see too many times pictures that people will share with me of their system and the ram slots are in the incorrect ramp uh slots you there's a specific order to where the ram should be based on the channels and sometimes it might default back to a dual a dual channel if you put it in the wrong two slots but you'll find that it will run in a reduced speed or potentially different timings and it's it's really weird ram is a man that's a whole video subject matter on its own on just optimizing it so rtfm or read the freaking manual and look at where it says your ram should be based on your configuration how many sticks that you're running so obviously we could sit here for a solid week telling you things you should and shouldn't do as a new builder my assignment to you your homework since we're back at school now school's in session comment down below with what your number one thing you should never do to your computer no let's keep it realistic right yeah you shouldn't set it on fire you shouldn't drag it behind your car you shouldn't drop it from the second story real things that people can actually learn from and then don't bother putting on there anything about the aio locations because steve's video covered all that most people didn't bother to watch the whole thing and it's nothing but misinformation alley now just put your tubes where they go all right guys thanks for watching but youtube subscribe i'll show you where i'm gonna put my tubeso a couple weeks ago we went to micro center to pick up parts and stuff for my daughter's build if you guys haven't seen that video make sure you go check it out because it turned out great and i wish i kept it and no kid needs a powerful computer like that which is why it's awesome but we realized something we were there there might be more people buying and upgrading computers today than i think i've ever seen in the last eight years of running this channel it has been wait what's day's date oh it's the 28th my eight year anniversary was two days ago i missed it today we're going to talk about things you should never do to your computer nzxt's starter pc series now starts at 699 and gives you everything you need to get into the world of pc available in multiple configurations the starter pc can be tailored to meet your budget and needs and are the perfect way to build a work or learn from home setup while still being capable of 1080p 60fps gaming and popular titles like fortnite rainbow six siege and league of legends all of nzxt pcs come back with a two two-year warranty on parts labor and ram overclocking helping to guarantee the best gaming possible for your build to see the full list of specs and pricing on the nzxt starter pc series click the link in the description below so these are not in any sort of particular order they're just things i've kind of accumulated over the my i'm building computers now since i was five i don't know how much that counts i put together a computer mouse five when i was about the age of 10 i truly started building computers for like my parent my dad's company and stuff like that um so i've got nearly 30 years experience of building computers wow i'm old okay anyway moving on um so i just figured with the amount of people that are probably building a computer for the first time getting ready for some major title releases later later this year we know cyberpunk is going to bring a lot of people to pc we know fall guys has brought a lot of people to pc because you can run it on a potato not to mention that people look like potatoes and fall guy but that's fine i figured i'd just kind of prepare you guys for some things that maybe you should not do to your computer so here's one i'm gonna start off with that i think is fairly obvious but i don't think a lot of people really think about this and that is don't set your computer on carpet now i know a lot of people are gonna be like why what the heck okay most of the time you're going to find people installing power supplies with the fan face down that way it can get its own fresh air supply and then exhaust it out the back so it really doesn't depend on the case to supply air to it but not all cases have a big enough foot system if you will or any sort of a riser system built in some have really decent amounts of rise built into the bottom of the case the lean lead dynamic 011 dynamic is actually one of them a lot of times you're dealing with maybe a half inch maybe 12 13 millimeters of height and that's not a lot of room if you think about carpet now i know a lot of europeans right now are probably watching this going carpet who puts a computer on carpet who has carpet right because i guess carpet is really more of a north america thing i don't know if that's true but a lot of people i've always seen in europe be like why is there so much carpet in american homes well that regardless that's the fact and if you set a computer down on carpet and you start to plug up those holes with that carpet if you have plush carpet especially not like office carpet where it's real thin but like the thicker stuff then you'll find that it'll plug up that hole a little bit you're going to have a lot less reduced airflow to your power supply but more importantly than that it's going to be carpet is where dust and dirt and pet hair and dander and all that stuff just dandruff probably is where that stuff just accumulates and if it's picking it up off of those intake fans on the bottom or your power supply then it's going to be circulating that into your system so what i highly recommend you can do this for really cheap and i will put a link to the the stuff i'm going to recommend in any of these videos in the description because i always get people like where do i buy this stuff um i recommend getting yourself just a small piece of wood you can go down to your hardware store and you can find those pre-made shelves which are already like white brown wood toned and they're all like laminate and stuff and put one of those on the floor and set your computer on that that's the super basic way to do it and what's going to happen here is you're going to give your computer a nice solid surface to sit on you're going to create a barrier between a lot of that dust and dirt so it can't be picked up into a system and it's just going to be overall more friendly to the airflow and actually the stability of your system sitting on something solid now if you want to make it prettier you can make it a pedestal by going onto amazon and buying some furniture feet you can get them in only a couple inches all the way up to like i think eight inch tall furniture feet uh like you'd find on the bottom like chairs and stuff and you can make a little pedestal to get it even farther up off the ground and the farther away from the ground it is the less likely it'll be for the intake fans on the front to also pick up dirt off of the floor remember as dust and dirt falls out of the sky it settles down low and that if your computer is down low that's where most of it is going to accumulate and it's going to be sucked into your system and may just make it a kind of a cleanliness nightmare so that's one i would definitely not do to your system if you care about it now something else we've also seen is a very trendy design in cases these days is tempered glass side panels if we go back geez probably only five years or so you'd find that there were a lot more solid side panels or plexiglass panels but a lot of them had ventilation built into them perforations honeycomb or even fan mounts on the side to allow direct air to blow right onto your graphics card now that's great for cooling not great for aesthetics and it seems like there's been this this design trend over the last few years where aesthetics seems to rain supreme over function and what's happening now is you're seeing a lot of companies now integrating vertical mounts for your graphics cards into these cases now vertical mount itself is not a problem in fact there's a lot of data that supports having a gpu vertically mounted can actually improve its cooling capability and the reason for that is if you have fans pointing down that are pulling air up into the graphics card that air has then got to go through the fins and make kind of a turn bounce off the sidewall and then go out the top of your case or the back your case and if you vertically mount it heat rises and not only that you're not going to be having the bottom of the graphics card which has also got air coming out of it sitting against the motherboard blowing heat down onto the motherboard so you can actually get that heat away from the motherboard and use the natural convection of heat plus the fans pushing air through the fins allowing a more efficient rise of heat more efficient airflow due to graphics card the problem is many of these manufacturers set that graphics card far too close to the glass side panel or the plexi side panel or whatever type of side panel it might be then what you're getting is instead of having a nice giant cushion of air underneath the graphics card feeding it you're going to have a very thin slot of air between the fans and the glass or the side panel choking it off giving you the opposite effect of causing inadequate or inefficient cooling to your graphics card now back in the day you couldn't even put a three slot card which is very common and looks like it's going to be very common in the next launch of graphics cards up against a vertical mount because they were only supporting two slot but now you have a lot of cases supporting three slot which is going to make the problem even worse if it's too close to the glass panel now i would recommend having at least an inch or about 24 millimeters of space between the face of your card and the panel to make sure that you have adequate airflow if that's the case then you're fine if that's the case get it if that's the okay whatever um i find it's fine as long as you have that much airflow but i'm not kidding when i say some of these vertical mounts in these cases do literally put the face of the card practically touching the glass side panel now the easiest way to determine whether or not you would have a problem with airflow is to just look at your case if it doesn't require one of those conversion plates to basically rotate the where the gpu would mount and it's got some that are already basically built into the case you can see what that gap is going to be from the the most outward slot to the side panel and you can just kind of take a measurement there and if it looks like you have plenty of room at that point then go for it now to go vertical amount though some cost is usually involved with needing a riser card so if you already have the stuff you need to do a vertical mount just try it if your temps suffer just put it back it's not it's not a good idea to choose aesthetics and looking at the face of your graphics card and putting that ahead of actual performance and temperature because we all know high temperatures over time is also what can degrade your hardware leading to instability crashes and just overall death yeah just try it you could die what's the worst i could if you died it was a bad idea so while we're on the subject of cases why don't we go and talk about the worst thing you can do for your computer being not researching the case before you buy it unfortunately there's a lot of monkey c monkey do in this industry and as computers become way more popular remember we are literally i think at the pinnacle of pc gaming live streaming and all of that it is it is it is a massive multi-billion dollar industry right now as you've got more people that are becoming famous on twitch and on youtube everyone wants to be like everyone else and i want to i want a game i want to be do this i want a live stream we have so many people buying and building computers today it's insane and like i said what we saw at micro center just a couple weeks ago really shocked me because i've been shopping micro center for 15 years and i've never seen it look like it does today things are out of stock they're selling hundreds of cpus per day it is absolutely bonkers as to what's going on so what will happen is you'll get these companies that will make a case that looks like a famous case or a popular case or one that's just trendy and they won't actually put the same level of engineering into it as the brand they're knocking off now that's true for pretty much every industry i mean every industry has its knockoffs but with cases it can literally lead to a less than desirable and or worse performing system than you anticipated because of airflow issues now a real common trend right now is to have solid front panels whether it be solid steel solid glass just aesthetic doesn't matter now that's not a problem as long as where the front fans pick up air is well thought out whether it be giant openings on the bottom perforations on the side proper airflow testing is done to find the right balance between aesthetics and performance because no no front solid panel case is going to perform like a mesh case no matter how much you try it's not going to happen now i know people like steve at gamer's nexus hardware canucks they've done a lot of chassis testing they're like they are the kings in that space when it comes to just those types of reviews and to be honest we don't go to that level of degree where we're like this case is 0.2 degrees celsius hotter than this case at normalized fan volume we don't do any of that crap around here we are the we are no i'm serious we are the phil's laughing back there because i said we don't do that crap now it's not crap it's just we are the average consumer type of reviewer we bought this case we put these parts in we played these games this was the temp we got if you're okay with that buy it if not go somewhere else that's literally the way we we approach things it works for me it's the way i shop it's the way i share but what you're gonna find is that sometimes you can have a case that looks the part but will literally thermal throttle your hardware your graphics cards your cpus heck even your ssds if you've got one of these guys the fiery rgbs so do your research before you buy your case don't just buy your case based on that one's pretty because sometimes you're going to find that one's pretty hot that one's pretty bad there's always some sort of a descriptor after the pretty pretty itself is at that point of descriptor is more of a measurement of the word after it which then becomes this was pretty much a waste of money and it's happened and unfortunately it happens all the time now that you've got too many people out there copying each other and not doing the same due diligence and engineering which is why we always support the brand that engineers not the brand that copies now sometimes the worst thing you can do for your computer has nothing to do with the hardware at all it's about your software and windows 10 was designed to be an ultra lightweight os to run on tablets and and back when microsoft is really trying to compete with the ipad with you know lightweight can run on a potato and that's fine it means it's going to make everyone's computer faster but over the years microsoft being microsoft lost its way and has bloated the crap out of it and so now you find a situation where um you can through your os alone really kill your your overall pc experience now we found a great tool to use called windows 10 deep d bloater not deep loader d bloater like just gets rid of all the bloatware on your system now we're not going to do a tutorial on how to use it you can screw some things up by like making windows store not work again but it's worth checking out it's very easy to use it's got you know a gui on there we can select what stuff to uninstall how to reinstall the stuff too if you screw something up but the reason why i'm even bringing this up is windows defender is good for probably 90 to 95 of the stuff out there that you would could potentially get infections from but long gone are the days of free antiviral antiviral antiviruses where they actually did something good for your computer now what they tend to do is simply slow it down they run constant scans trying to slow your computer down making you think you need to buy the premium versions to get your computer you know running right when all it's going to do is basically put it back to where it was virus definitions are constantly updated on windows defender we've not had any problems on our systems by not running any of those third-party anti-virus software now there are good antivirus software's out there don't don't get me wrong on that i'm not saying that it's not a necessary thing but you know what i've seen in the past and i'm going to use my my late father as an example he would tell me my computer's running slow i don't know what's happening i click on something and it won't load or it's just ridiculously slow and i'll go in there and he'll have like two different registry like cleaning software going he'll have like two different virus softwares running and then he'll have like this other like windows not windows defender but like an online defender program that's like sniffing all the packets as they come and go and just because every time something didn't work he tried another one but never took off the other one so it would stack and then they would conflict and they would fight each other for control of the system and it doesn't take much to saturate your your storage when you're constantly scanning like that so it's one of those things where i think less is more when it comes to your operating system if you're not going to sites that are that are sketchy if you use some common sense about inspecting an element before you click on it and seeing where it's going to take you and it's not a spoofed link or a you know some sort of a redirect you'd find that your system will run a lot better without loading any of that crap on it and then getting rid of all the crap that already comes on it by using windows 10 deep loader now we're going to move back to hardware here because that's what i know and do phil's the software guy you can talk about software um don't mismatch your hardware it's easy to get caught up in bundle deals and you know what a lot of these people will do when it comes to bundle deals and my bundle deals i mean a lot of these online retailers and stuff micro center's actually pretty good about not doing what i'm about to say that is making these combo deals with stuff that doesn't move or sell you'll find them taking high-end overclocking motherboards because they're too expensive sometimes and they don't move like they don't move that often and they'll give you like a stupid amount off and pair it with a locked cpu now this really only applies to intel honestly because every amd cpu is unlocked but intel will have their unlocked skus and their over you know their overclocking excuse and then their non-overclocking skus and you'll find this real bad pairing where you'll have this really overkill motherboard that a really underwhelming cpu put together because they're trying to move products and that's how they come up with a lot of these bundle deals or what they'll do is they'll they'll start to pair it with ram that's just not good for the combo like let's say taking a 10 900k and then pairing it with like a 2400 megahertz stick of ram or two sticks of ram or whatever it is the worst thing you can honestly do is not do due diligence when it comes to preparing for the parts it is easy to accidentally leave some money on the table or put money into the wrong component if you have a thousand dollars to spend on your main components it's easy to be like okay i'm gonna spend 500 on the graphics card i'm going to send spend 300 on the cpu and i'm going to spend 79 on the motherboard giving you the opposite situation where you have an overclocking cpu and a bare bones low-end chipset non-overclocking non-japanese solid capacitor non-robust vrm delivery system meaning that you can't take any advantage of the features of the cpu you just bought because the motherboard doesn't allow it because it's locked the motherboard itself being locked in that you can't do anything with it because of the fact that it's not designed to handle it and heaven forbid the motherboard manufacturer bios does allow it and you physically cause damage we're talking about uh swelling and exploding capacitors we're talking about vrm's literally catching on fire because of the fact that you were allowed to overclock something that this power delivery wasn't capable of handling i think that that's probably the worst thing you could do for your computer it's it's it's i guess an analogy would be something along the lines of putting an undersized fuel system in a race engine kind of a deal right where you're going to start having massive engine destruction because of a fuel mixture being off and you really want to keep that mixture of your components balanced it's easy to get caught up and and overspend here and under spend there and it's confusing for a lot of new people i understand that trust me as someone that still every now and then has to do my own research on wait a minute what exactly am i leaving on the table with this and that there are so many parts and so many skus now do you remember when phil i'm talking to you directly now back when you might have one or two motherboard options per chipset a high end and a mid-range and then maybe a third like a low end entry level and that was it remember how asus used to be like blue is the mainstream and red was the gaming and then like yellow or whatever other color was the overclocking it was literally color-coded so you knew what you were getting again the popularity of pcs being what they are you now have motherboards on launch day that will have like 17 motherboard skus i mean how many times have i been like was this the rog strix 37 maximus formula g3 or whatever and you're like no no it's the g2 oh okay cool or you'll have a wi-fi version and a non-wi-fi version where the only difference is they stripped wi-fi out of one you know and you and you and you needed wi-fi and you like didn't catch it so i think the worst thing you could possibly do is just not do your research it's confusing but trust me nothing sucks more than getting the wrong parts exchanging them and finding out there's a restocking fee on almost everything electronic these days at least here in the united states i don't know about other places but a lot of places if you go to return a motherboard or something they can charge you like 15 percent just to take it back but one other thing we'll talk about here um it's kind of an honorable mention is ram slots now we're talking about hardware and optimizations a lot of times people will buy excellent ram good motherboard good cpu and then they don't investigate the proper ram slots to put your ram sticks in now this only applies if you're not filling all of the ram slots if you're refilling all of them doesn't matter it will automatically default to dual channel or quad channel or whatever it may be based on the platform but i see too many times pictures that people will share with me of their system and the ram slots are in the incorrect ramp uh slots you there's a specific order to where the ram should be based on the channels and sometimes it might default back to a dual a dual channel if you put it in the wrong two slots but you'll find that it will run in a reduced speed or potentially different timings and it's it's really weird ram is a man that's a whole video subject matter on its own on just optimizing it so rtfm or read the freaking manual and look at where it says your ram should be based on your configuration how many sticks that you're running so obviously we could sit here for a solid week telling you things you should and shouldn't do as a new builder my assignment to you your homework since we're back at school now school's in session comment down below with what your number one thing you should never do to your computer no let's keep it realistic right yeah you shouldn't set it on fire you shouldn't drag it behind your car you shouldn't drop it from the second story real things that people can actually learn from and then don't bother putting on there anything about the aio locations because steve's video covered all that most people didn't bother to watch the whole thing and it's nothing but misinformation alley now just put your tubes where they go all right guys thanks for watching but youtube subscribe i'll show you where i'm gonna put my tube\n"