Live Gaming PC Build! My Wife's New Mini-ITX Computer
The Building Process: A Step-by-Step Guide
Oh this is it guys can see this this this USB 3.0 cable right here is it's killing me it's not awful but it's worse than it should be all right uh yeah I'm not even going to do anything to tie these cables down in the back they are uh they're fairly loose hanging out there but you know they'll just kind of push back there against everything and you know again if I was if this was if I was building this and it was a permanent uh build then I would probably do a little bit more to tie those down but as things are we should be able to fit the side panel back on without too much difficulty and assuming I can do this without looking there we go yeah and that's all that really matters Bravo see it's not even bulging maybe a slight bulge Savvy bulge all right I spent all day looking at people's bulges anyone know anyone know what movie that's from figure it out later okay I think I think I'm ready for the Moment of Truth here to just fire this thing up and see if it works um let's switch back to no wrong one no wrong that one all right uh so there's there's the finished build you guys um again not a whole lot of room room right in here for because this is a longer power supply than is recommended for this case but uh thanks to those slim cables I was still able to fit it in there and I was even able to Route the cables back where they should be um there's not a whole lot like as far as extra loose cables going on up in this area again a big reason why I was putting all this together right now is one to get everything up and running and see what kind of overclocks I can still get on this uh CPU with this motherboard with the um the lack of cooling on the vrms to see if I need to get some of those little mini Heat sinks or something and put them on there um also wanted to make sure that you can fit a hyper 212 in here without the uh you know with with the side panel and it it does look like we're fine we should have enough room for the side panel with that not going to put that on quite yet until I do a test boot uh but then also yeah I got to I got to do measurements in here to figure out where my water cooling stuff is going to go so I'm going to do a reservoir up on top probably do a pump down on the bottom and everything should be good to go all right are you guys ready for a a test boot the train is coming through right now that's telling me it's time for the it's the test boot train here we go Power Power goes in there the switch on switch is on I like when things happen when you push a power button super super nice super convenient all right um it's just a sing single first boot but uh presumably everything is functioning right now uh I would next of course connect this all up um you know to an actual monitor so I can see what's being displayed and all that good stuff but it's not making any terrible noises there were no flashes Sparks or explosions um and that's always good nothing is on fire and there's no smell of um Burning metal burning rubber or anything like that that's one major thing if you work on PCS to to custom to get familiar with is the the smell when there's a short and it and it melts the plastic on something cuz that's when you know something's not right um that's what'll happen with the short but yeah all right no no there's no smoke everything is in perfect shape uh but guys that is going to do all for this video I need to do a little bit more um work on this of course so I'll I'll reset that overclock I'll do a followup and let you guys know uh how how the overclock is working without some active cooling on the VMS and everything thank you guys who join in twitch chat as well as in uh Twitter twitch twitch and Twitter in twitch as well as on YouTube I'm sorry again I'm sorry again that uh the audio is terribly out of sync for this video and I will do my very best to fix that for the next time I do a live stream uh as is hey I'm happy with everything so far uh have a fabulous rest of the weekend everybody hit the thumbs up hit the like button down there if you want to and oh the other thing that's not there right now but I will put up soon is a PC part picker just a list to all the components that I'm currently using in this build and yes I have fresh thermal paste which I'm sure is making everything work much much better but um thanks again for watching everybody have a great have a great rest of the day
"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enexcellent that's why I'm doing my doing my intro with my hand covering my mouth so you guys don't get bothered by the way that the audio is not sinking with the video anyway um apart from that this is a live build I'm I'm building this system for my wife and uh I have all the parts here this is uh going to be a few different things one of course is just show you guys the live build um all the uh all the nastiness and everything and all nastin nastiness and everything included um at but at the same time I'm going to be trying to uh solve a few issues that I need to to to figure out uh this is going to be my wife's build as mentioned it's going to be water cooled eventually but not yet this build is going to be the like air cooled version I need to get everything together and working and uh I need to do some measurements in here I also need to figure out uh something special and unique about this motherboard which is that it doesn't have active cooling I should just cover the mouth all right I'll keep I'll keep the mouth covered this motherboard does not have active cooling uh on the vrms the uh specifically the mosfets a deliver power to the uh CPU I already know that the CPU I'm using which is a 6600k can overclock to about uh 4.7 GHz or at least that that's what the Asus board behind me is able to do and um this is I'm watching myself and this looks very awkward um yeah yeah I'm sorry I'm sorry I've tried I really did spend like that's the reason I'm starting 15 or 20 minutes later than I originally meant to was because the audio was so bad all right so once I get this together I'm going to see if I can still do the same overclock that I did on the Maximus 8 formula on this motherboard despite the lack of cooling on the vrms if I can't do that then I'm going to need to figure out a solution for that and I'll probably do another video that on that in the future and then beyond that you know I like to try the uh I like I I like to try everything in the air cooled version before I go ahead and do everything water cooled and kind of give myself a comparison there I could oh a bandana bandana over the mouth would be nice never mind I'll figure it out later guys okay though let's just uh get started by going over the parts that I have and for this I should maybe have there all right so graphics card is right here this is the gigabyte uh 980 TI GTX 98 980 TI this is a G1 game ging version which means it has a custom made PCB by gigabytes uh it means it's also very good at overclocking and it's also quite long it will be less long once I air cool it and once I water cool it of course but uh for the time being you know we're going with it as is and this is a it's a it's a very nice it's a very nice uh graphics card uh for the CPU we're going with the 6600k and this one has again already been unboxed it's not in there this is just a box box um I'm going to need to actually retrieve this in just a moment the uh video card video card the motherboard is right here this is the z170n Wi-Fi from gigabytes and I chose this because it's a mini ITX first I chose it because it has a uh an actual m.2 slot on the back which apparently people who make mini ITX boards have forgotten how to do this this generation but this one does have one uh and then I also got it because of the color scheme and I'll come back to why the color scheme was kind of messing with me and in just a moment um let's also take a look at the case which is right over here case tada this is the fractal Define s Nano and it's small got a nice big wind on the side pretty excited to actually do a build in there um finally we have some parts that are really just going to be temporary um one thing that I actually had a dilemma with this morning was that this graph or the the power supply here um was really well I couldn't find one I need a short power supply you want ideally 140 150 millim length power supply uh in this case this one's actually 170 no this one's 180 wait I can double check yeah this one's 180 180 mm which is definitely too long however it does still fit in there and this is going to work for me for now but uh the power supply the memory and um also the storage are the three things that I still um kind of kind of messing around with and I need to figure that out but anyway uh that's enough Exposition I'm just going to I'm going to start building now and I will take you guys along for the ride I actually have a an a first thing that I need to do before I can even start building this and uh I decided to include this in this video just cuz which is uh I need to disassemble this little guy right here this is has my CPU on it and uh and everything so we're going to start off with the removal of the heat sink the hyper 212 Evo uh old memory I guess I can just pop that out right away memory I'll just I'll just stick with this memory is Corsair ddr4 what is what speed is this this is 2666 speed memory and now I need to remove this uh this hyper 212 this actually isn't too bad to remove a hyper 212 and here let's give you guys a better look all you really need to do is first off get the fan off of here which just has a couple Clips on the side pop them off like so remove them pull that out good to go next we get trusty screwdriver and we loosen these screws on the four sides I'm going to try to I'm going to try to do shots uh I can't fix the sound I'm gonna I'm going to keep repeating that every every few minutes or so I've attempted at Great Lengths prior to going live here to get my my audio lined up and xlit is not behaving I'm just going to use OBS in the future for this kind of thing problem with OBS is I can't uh I can't dual stream with OBS at least not currently yeah sure there are ways to do to do that but uh I don't have them set up right now xsplit has a nice feature where you can just broadcast to both at the same time YouTube and twitch and uh that's why I was using it but yeah next time I do this I will spend a little bit more time and try to figure out either to how to fix the audio audio problem the synchronization problem or or just use OBS and upload it to YouTube later because that's the other option all right just pulling this CPU out of here pretty simple like so uh know where those all go I go I like keeping these on hand little CPU covers cuz you never want to take a nice motherboard and leave the socket unprotected there we go all right just one other thing to do here I need my mini screwdriver and that's to pull out this uh little m.2 card cuz it has uh windows installed on it and that will allow me to at least really quickly uh get everything up and running so I can run some tests and see what the temperatures are like and actually do some load testing on it and make sure that those uh I can I can do an overclock without messing with the vrms this is a plexor uh M6 wait m6e yeah that guy too all right oh I should put this back too so uh H you know I'm going to be I'm going to be lazy and I'm going to reuse this thermal paste that's that's what I'm going to do next let's get the actual motherboard going here there she is wait wait there you go that's better uh whenever I'm opening a motherboard box I always grab the io Shields and then like I'll I'll try to go without the the user manual if I can but I find that if I ever like take the user manual and I'm like I'm not going to need that I'll stick it in the box and pack everything up before the build is complete that almost always means that I'm going to have to dig in there and pull that out whatnot all right uh what are we doing the hell's going on right now uh let's get sure let's do CPU first CPU installation again guys this it's it's not too not too bad really all you got to do is lift this little side side arm right there up and out open up the CPU socket cover and then um this cover here you can either go like this and pop it off or you can leave it on there until you get the CPU installed and when you close the lever it will kind of uh it will kind of fix itself when you do that anyway CPU is going right back in the socket must be very careful that uh it's got a little gold gold arrow on the corner you got to line that up then you just close that push down try not to think about old people having sex and there you go cpu's installed look look at the efficient reuse of my thermal paste too super nice oh you know what I didn't do I need this back I completely blanked on pulling the back plate off for the hyper 212 I should I guess I can also rescure this yes back plate and everyone wants new Pace no no re I did not realize you guys had such strong feelings about reusing thermal paste uh I've also just now realized that I'm going to need pliers for this so give me a second okay normally I would use like the actual hex nut that comes with this but if I went to try to find that right now it would take absolutely forever so I'm just going to grip one side with pliers just enough to get this loosened and that should allow me to pull everything else off got to make sure I'm grabbing the actual metal piece and not like a capacitor or anything that's B okay now we can just oh we should be able to just undo this here let's switch let's Swit Swit cameras camera views uh what do I want that one there now you can see more kind of but now you can also see the the the audio sync offset so I'm going to have to remind people again I'm so I apologize my audio is not in sync for this video I really really wish it was it's not that's all I have to say about that all right taada okay now I take those pieces that I just removed off of the old board and I put them back on this board uh this is a these these little nuts actually have like one flat side on them that you probably cannot see at all and that's the only real Annoying part of this installation is getting you got if you don't have that little flat side lined up it can be a little awkward there we go just got to get that on that side and then in there since I got one of them in there and it's okay I'm just going to put the nut on the back so I can move on everyone everyone wants me to all right I can use new paste I you people have spoken I'm going to use new thermal paste there my my thermal paste kit right here oh and you know what you know what's in there is that nut see if I had gone looking for it I never would have found it but since it was right there of course I did this thermal paste is so new it's still all goopy all right there we go guys nice and clean just like it should be didn't even I'll use the uh didn't need any thermal material remover but I will use the thermal surface purifier on there make sure that's got a nice pure surface for this cooler that I'm going to be installing for like two weeks okay is that better better everyone everybody happy now okay that's better back to the uh installation of the aftermarket CPU Cooler which in my experience building computers is just Far and Away often the worst most inconvenient part I don't know why seems like all of the really good uh CPU coolers it's like the better the CPU Cooler the the more complicated and annoying the installation procedure for the back plate actually is all right does anyone at least so so the last time I did a live build like this which was a few months back I had a lot of complaints cuz I when I would do this three video setup that you can see right now with the three camera angles they were way out of sync so that's what I they're still a little out of syn no they're they're not too bad can watch as my hands move yeah there the cameras are at least in in sync that's what I actually spent a bunch of time on before this before I went live with this video and uh you know unfortunately for all the time I spent on that the audio was still out of sync but but yeah I'll work on it I'll work on it in the future okay there's three I'm also not doing this quite properly you should you should kind of try to get each of them in a little bit and before you go and tighten but I'm cutting Corners God forgive me all right there's the fourth one on there where I yeah this net that's way helpful okay taada mounting solution for the hyper 212 Evo is in place what else do we have to do what else should I do this motherboard really needs to get all set up before I install it uh I've got an m.2 right there on the back can go ahead and install my my plexor m6e thankfully it's already lined up to 2280 which is seems to me to be the most common uh length for a m.2 drive but uh here it goes hops in like that thing I like about these drives is it's just really nice especially if you're doing like a quick build or something like that it's super nice to just not have to worry about Serial ATA power and data cables I was lining this up in the case just to make sure like nothing was going to go terribly wrong as I was doing the live stream and I was like wait I I realized these right angle connectors here which once I get it in the case are a little bit blocked by the angle of the the motherboard tray um but I was like you know what I don't even need those if I do I'll probably need only a couple and there's a couple more on top here that go out that way which would also be usable if I had any issues um but all right drive is installed let's go for memory memory memory should be pretty straightforward assuming I recall which way ddr4 goes no that's not right here we go ddr4 one and two beautiful all right uh I guess I can go ahead and do the CPU Cooler I will I will clean the thermal paste off the bottom cuz otherwise people in chat get really mad uh this is more expensive than your whole PC this is this is a fairly expensive build the uh I mean the motherboard's not like super high end or anything mother this motherboard's like 10 what is it one 130ish I think 140 maybe um all right bottom of that's clean let's just go ahead and install this this will also help verify if the if the hyper T12 Evo will actually fit in the the fins Nano I think it should I'm pretty pretty sure it should but you never know all right that goes in the bottom there like so and yeah everything should be lined up all right so whenever you're doing a CPU cooler installation I like to have everything prepared and ready to go before I drop that thermal paste on there cuz you know you don't want you don't want to take too long after it's on there and you don't want to have to shuffle around or get it like halfway on and realize that you need something else anyway we'll do tiny little tiny bit of thermal paste in the middle my ah ah stop it okay my rule of thumb is like a little bit more than a grain of rice maybe like two grains of rice that's kind of a good good uh stepping off point and then this we just drop straight down over the top like that be able to feel the thermal paste start to get a little squishy and squish it down a little bit it's going to float it's going to feel like it floats a little bit on top of there you know just a touch but uh honestly once you start to get this installed it will it will realize where it's place should be fairly quickly I'm just doing a couple turns on each of these screws to get them all threaded before I actually start to tighten down on any of them like that and now I will start to give each one a few more turns and I try to do the x pattern cross pattern one than the other because you don't want to put pressure on one corner of the socket or of the CPU itself prior to the other Corners being at least partially tightened down all right there we go squish squishing squishing that thermal paste down on the socket uh has anyone had any experience building a loop from a swift Tech allinone like doing a custom Loop um I have not taken in a swifttech all-in-one and expanded it into a custom Loop before but um yeah the last swifttech uh cooler I had actually in use for an extended period was the h220x and unfortunately the pump on mine died which which was sad um but yeah so I decommissioned that one and I haven't I haven't had an opportunity to try much of Swift swift Tech's newer stuff since then but um all right that's installed let's get a fan on here uh there are only two CPU soorry there's only two CPU or two uh fan headers on this board there's the white one and the black one right there the wait which one's which which one is which oh God they they are actually right here here but they're labeled like over here it says CPU fan and Siz fan and just cuz I don't want to have to re all right CPU fan is the white one cool uh and then what I also need up here which is gone now it's gone I've lost it oh this little guy so I'm going to put this on that one so I can plug the CPU fan directly in to the CPU fan header and then I will also be able to connect both system fans thanks to that little splitter this little splitter by the way uh came with the case with the defin s Nano and even though it's a minor Edition I like it I mean those things these things are super cheap you know little little four pin band splitter but it's a nice inclusion I feel like it's thoughtful for uh I feel like that should be a standard for many ITX cases unless you know I mean bare budget Mini ITX cases you can maybe get away with cheaping out but like a fan splitter or a Fan Hub like the NZXT Manta has super super convenient especially if you're thinking about doing you know a crazy water cooling Loop or you know having a couple radiators in there that have four fans on each one or at least even two fans on each one anyway though Tada motherboard set up this is like our this is practically the whole system right here we have CPU Cooler memory storage is on the back it's like almost the whole thing it I mean it's even got video although we're not going to be using the video we're going to use the uh the gigabyte card but yeah I think uh we're good to move on to the next phase here set this aside for now and I made all these camera angles I I damn well better use them that's not a good one Let's do let's do that one for now hi everybody I hope you're enjoying this video with perfectly synchronized audio yeah all right so it is time what the hell it's time to actually get the case going here so let me just pull these side panels off this is the one with the Plexi on it and this one uh it's it's not like really scratched yet but it's going to be it's almost impossible not to have Plexi just turn the crap on you that's a lot of glare back there that's that's better yeah Plexi just it scratches so easy I kind of like basically assume it's going to get scratched early on but yeah I do not have current plans to do a tempered GL last side panel uh on this one like I have on Arctic Panther back there but um the nice thing about their you know the cutouts already there and everything so that could be something that you know you just pull off the side panel and then you mod it and then put it back on so you never know all right uh I'm going to do this this uh power supply in there first and uh oh hey greetings to Dubai from Southern California I I love when people come in who are from like all around the world it makes me think like technolog is amazing um I've also forgotten what my shortcut keys are let's do this let's do a top down shot real quick all right so here's here's the case and uh wait no I didn't mean to do that oh well it's too dark that's the problem wait I can make that brighter make it brighter there we go all right so uh power supply is going in again this power supply is uh significantly larger than what is recommended for this case this power supply is 180 mm long and it's recommended for uh 140 to 160 is what it's recommended for this case and even some of the60s uh can be more of a challenge so I don't know how well you guys can see let's switch cameras I how you guys can see this this little angle part here so the the tray here here is flatter and then it kind of bows up a little bit right here so this it has a a grommet right here for routing the cables um but you're pretty much blocking that by putting in a power supply that's this long I'm glad it still fits if this was like a 200 or 210 mm power supply which they do have you know the big old massive ones it would be crazy to put in this case anyway um yeah if you did that it would not fit just physically would not fit in the case but I think for now I'll be all right because I already have all my modular cables and I'm going to try to like kind of fit them through there before I install this all the way see how that goes oh God grm it popped out gret it's an angled grummet grommet doesn't want to go back in aha okay I think that's yeah that grommet that grommet pops out pretty EAS easily so I will try to be careful with that all right so just going to feed through my main my main connectors that I need and think cuz these I do like the cabling um that that the thermal T used on this tough power power supply because it's the thin you know it's all black so it looks nice and it's thin so I think if I get this through here before that power supply goes in I would not be able to feed these through with that in there but I think having them there will allow me to still do what I want to do where did my almost forgot this one this one's important that is for the graphics cards all right so I fed those through and now I'll take the actual power supply and this might take some finesse since I'm trying to show you guys what I'm doing while at the same time do what I'm doing but here we go aha hey that's not bad yeah see that worked and look you guys can even see what the hell's going on fabulous super happy other thing another weird thing about this power supply is that the corners of it are angled like rounded if you guys can see right there and that means that on the back here you actually have to have extra long uh what are these These are no these are these are 632 uh screws which does mean that if you lose the screws and you don't happen to have extra long UNCC 632 screws Lin around then uh might be hard to get this power supply installed but whatever yeah it needs three longer screws and then one short one okay yay power supply uh what else so before I get too far along here well I don't know I should plug these in that's important let's do top down look that this this is the webcam shot by the way guys that's why this this camera looks blurrier than the other ones uh main connector just mostly my head right there yeah click all right that's good CPUs all the way down there this is not a good angle here that's maybe a little bit better oh go in this is one of the parts of computer building that I feel like you get you feel like you get better and better at it over time but it's still it's still just a pain in the ass these block connectors you know for like PCI Express graphics and motherboard and whatever getting them lined up so they actually just go in the damn plug is is yeah yay all right and the red one is my uh for the video card cool all right other nice uh kind of nice thing about this case is it's got this area back here which looks kind of dark to you guys right now but whatever uh and if you're not putting a drive right here you can just you can pretty much just pile all your cables up um I am eventually going to have a a water water cooling in this so on this side I'll be using the the Reser wall or whatever Kyle calls it over there but um we can figure all that out in the future it's the nice thing about already planning to build this twice is I know I'm going to build it now get it going and then rebuild it again greetings everyone who's joined us in chat thank you all for being here all right back to the shot okay what I'm doing now is getting uh the fan fan cables just kind of undone so I can kind of start routing them over to where they should be uh where they should be is they're going to come through the top up here cuz that is where the connector is for the fan splitter that I already installed and getting this stuff tucked back there before you actually get you know a motherboard up there uh can be quite handy I mean look I'm reaching through the io Shield area in order to pass cables through and it's it's so convenient super convenient all right there we go this one will want to go up to the top like so all right those are kind of where they should be and uh next on the back is all this uh extra iio stuff the main cable here that that that's going to bug me is going to be this USB 3.0 the USB 3.0 location on the motherboard is pretty awkward it's in a very awkward position so we'll see how that goes um for now I'm just going to undo all this so I can kind of figure out what's what get it sorted there's that USB 3 there's my fan headers this is front panel and we also have what is this audio front panel audio and hey look front panel audio cable is all black yay super nice okay where's any of this going to go there's a little pass through right here that's a kind of odd I guess that's where yeah that's where these need to go it's through that one cuz that's where they'll plug in I'll just I'll have to keep these pretty low profile because the the graphics card is going to go right on top audio can go there too and then oh man so where did oh it's like where did my computer go that I already built uh all right so this is going to be like that right in there and then what I'm G to have to yes USB 3.0 is right here that is very inconvenient location especially considering how bulky these USB 3.0 actual plugs are oh my god I didn't even consider this but there's a small chance that the plug might interfere with the uh with the hyper 212 oh oh oh that's that is awkward that is very awkward all right it's okay I can still plug it in it's only it's only pushing the hyper 212 over slightly oh my yeah yeah bad location for USB 3.0 header all right so can you guys even see that where's my oh oh God yeah that's where that is it's plugged in it's totally uh right up against the aluminum fins for the hyper 212 not ideal at all I'm really glad this is temporary and that once I get this water cooled I'm going to have a much smaller block on there and there should be plenty of clearance for that in the meantime though uh like where where should I pass this through it's like yeah I guess where it's coming out is probably going to be the best option and just bring it around like that okay cool I think I'm actually ready to start dropping stuff into the case other than the power supply right now so let's do that we will start off with the io Shield ever important right there I had some people in my video about um confusing PC Building facts I had some people bring up the io Shield a lot of people bring up front panel connect conectors and I actually when I started coming up with ideas for that video I specifically did not want to use front panel connectors as one of the options cuz I don't know there's just lots of videos out there about like these are the things that suck about building a computer and like every one of them goes to front panel connectors which isn't necessarily wrong at all front panel connectors are just a pain in the ass but I wanted to I wanted to have other stuff different stuff that I was going to talk about uh yes this is a 980ti it's a gigabyte G1 gaming and uh it should have enough room to fit in here with I don't know hopefully a little topair the the air cooler on this is actually a good inch inch and a half longer than the PCB PCB ends right here so yeah when I when I get the air cooler off of there when I when I do the water cooling it will get smaller as well all right here comes this installation wait wait there we go you guys can't see anything just going to drop it right down in oh I should probably face the io shield in the correct direction oh you know what I should really do is plug in the CPU fan header that would be convenient totally something I want to worry about after the motherboard's installed all right and I'm just going to take the cable for this and I'm just going to kind of tuck it in back behind the motherboard and as long as there's nothing like you know Pokey back there then that should just kind of stay out of the way way oh it's so close oh cables are in the way okay hooray that's essentially where it should be for the most part as far as I can tell uh and now I've realized that I do not have any I do not have any standoff screws ready see if these are the right I didn't even do what I keep telling people to do and and test them first uh let's go back to here so we'll see if this works I'm going to try to use thumb screws I actually don't I don't mind using thumb screws for motherboard standoffs if they're the right you know threading of course if I'm wrong about this threading then have to pull the motherboard out oh good it's all right okay so yeah these are kind of small smaller thumb screws but you know as long as there's no surface mounted components on the motherboard that are it's going to interfere with then uh you can totally just use thumb screws it's fine um but you know what I can't I can't use all four thumb screws because I realized something that I realized earlier which is that the CPU fan the CPU supplemental power is four pin and I have an 8 pin connector which you can still plug in you just plug in half of it but the SEC the other half of that is right on top of a mounting hole and uh if I put a thumb scre on there it won't go in hold up oh God that go okay never mind I've lost track of everything uh so I have a massive bag of screws and it's not where it should be never mind I found it all right this is also on my to-do list or reorganizing all these screws okay need one I need one M2 Threaded Screw which I think this one of these will do uh notorious x55 I am using the uh gigaby GTX 980 TI G1 gaming this is the box for right there um I'm using that because it's a 980 TI for one and also because I'm doing EK cooling on this eventually Custom Custom EK Cooling and uh there we go uh yeah water cooling a water cooling loop from Ek so I had to make sure that I was going to use a graphics card that EK makes the block for granted they make blocks for the reference design 980 TI um but I was already using a gigabyte motherboard and so I talked to gigabyte about the build and uh my contact over there said that they had this uh this is actually a referb 980 TI but you know refurbs still work so they had this available and I was like he that'd be perfect so my only my only hesitation is that is a fairly long card um which shouldn't really cause much of a conflict here but it does mean that I'm probably going to have to separate my reservoir my reservoir is probably going to be smaller and be up higher and then the pump is probably going to be down at the bottom with the graphics C kind of in between them okay time for the damn front panel connectors which are gone oh they're over here wow okay got to redo that it's an easy redo but yeah the front panel connectors are over on this side on this board right between the main 24 pin connector and the oh yeah they're they're can you guys see any of this maybe a little bit it's kind of dark in there I wish I had I wish I had more light coming in through here I have a light overhead but here does that help kind of the other thing so I'm I'm trying like I I like doing these live uh videos live builds cuz you know they're just kind of raw and get to answer some questions here and all that good stuff yeah it's a Define nano s s Nano Define s I think Nano S I can't the box is around here somewhere um but yeah I I like doing these live builds I need to try to get um like I I could really use a second GH4 this is also the proper method for doing front panel connectors in case anyone was wondering and hey I get I get a secondary validation for keeping this manual handy because since it's a miniitx board they do not have room for all of the uh what's what on the on the front panel connector area here it is okay got power switch power LED all those good things so all right the N pin is blank blah blah blah next to that is reset starting with positive and reset positive doesn't matter just LEDs matter hard drive activity led oh posit all right let's do that power LED hard drive LED it's like how they very specifically label the power LED which one's positive but they don't like to do that with the hard drive LED it's annoying all right power led the positive is number two okay and in case anyone's wondering yes this is the most annoying part of building a computer see I'm I'm I missed there it goes one in there okay let's do hard drive no way this could go wrong all right that's good uh Power and reset which one's the power power is the one next to the blank okay groovy lastly reset all right we're all set you know while I'm down here I can also plug in this uh Stam USB plug oh that's awkward so awkward like I can't even really do it right can you guys see anything feel like you can't let's do that here she goes wait wait wait almost there never in my life if I wanted like a lowprofile l bracket usb3 connector header before but somebody should make those that would solve this problem right here nip it in the bud all right oh that's terrible I'm going to have to figure out some solution for this with the Finish builds cuz it's really an invisible spot it's all black cabling so that's not too bad but wow it's just it's kind of in an angle it's pushing on like sharp pushing on the corners of sharp aluminum fins which is never good yeah all right HD Audio HD audio is the connector I always try to plug in but I never never actually use hey Pop Shepard thanks for the donation he's building a Nas with the same motherboard that I used in the node 304 using a noctua nhl9i CPU Cooler will he have the same issue with the USB header oh with this board um you might it's if it's uh I'm so I'm not familiar with the nhl9i right off the top of my head is it one of those like horizontal ones it fits that way instead of vertical like the hyper 212 if that is the case um yeah you you might have some issues with that honestly so yeah there I feel like there has to be some other USB 3 .0 extenders out there somewhere that people can get it seems like some some OEM in in China or Taiwan or something would have made those and you'd be able to buy them some somehow but I haven't looked for it so I I don't know off the top of my head of of any of them but yeah that would I would definitely concern myself with that cuz this it's definitely not something that I saw coming with this build was that I saw the USB 3.0 position earlier and I was like that's kind of awkward but I didn't think it was going to cause a conflict with the with the heat sink the CPU heat sink fan anyway uh all right I am just using the built-in uh velcro straps back here to tie down some of these cables that I've popped in for now just to get them out of the way so that I'm as I'm dealing with the bulk gear uh 24 pin and whatnot that I can maneuver around a little bit probably not permanent but okay also we have these fan headers right so the fan headers I'm going to take that splitter that I already installed up here I'm going to feed those plugs ever so delicately back through the grommets at the top come on come on oh oh I lost I lost it oh it's never it's not behaving just just needs a little push I can't fix the audio guys I'm sorry I've tried I've tried to fix the audio uh for an extended period of time before I started this stream and I was unsuccessful and and it was pretty much like don't do the stream cuz the audio is bad or do the stream with bad audio and I'd rather do the stream so that's where we're at all right yay those fans are connected just going to wrap this cable up and get it out of the way twist ties not wanting to twist okay there we go Tada can you guys see any of this I hope so all right what's left not much uh graphics card of course and I got to plug in these these main power cables okay so 24 pin is higher up up here I'm just going to take this oh wait which side is the latch on that latch latch is going to be there okay there we go this I'd like to show you guys this part but it might be difficult again with the light but um what I'm trying to do is take this 24 pin and just bend it in like a 180° curve and smash it down a little bit so that it comes out wraps around and and plugs straight into the into the plug and I can't do it at that angle so just going to do it here that latch I hate it oh there it goes yeah I hate it when the latch doesn't feel like it it latched okay so there's 24 pin I have a eight pin that goes all the way up to the top this one's going to be the most annoying because actually I can kind of get back there hook that through and oh God I don't velcro stuck to me I don't think there's any way I can show you guys this properly but uh yeah this is this is going to be a pain in the ass or actually not too bad a pain in the ass to try to show but not terrible for just plugging it in oh come on you're right there you're right there I see you all right there we go so that is connected bada bing trying to straighten out this USB 3.0 cord oh I got that's I don't know I don't know what I'm going to do with that it's going to be very visible with the finished builds especially when the cooler is not there anymore so I don't know I'll give it some thought uh all right though moving along I think the only thing that's really left is the graphics card and maybe a tiny little bit of cable management here in the back let's get these fed through to the front grommets are starting to get angry at me for all of the things that are connected to them wait why are this doing that oh that's why okay and here comes the red plugs just right through there like a baby calf me giving birth and all right last will be graphics card this is there's a bundle of cables at the bottom which is making this not really want to sit down sta or anything but that's okay where did my screwdriver go lost my screw oh here it is all right so just got to remove these uh back pieces here PCI or expansion slot covers I guess is what they're called I tend to call them like PCI pcie expansion slot covers they're not really PCI expansion slot covers cuz before PCI I mean there was there was Isa and AGP and those still use these as well they're just expansion slots but for most everything you're going to connect to them now it's going to be PCI or PCI Express all right um that's a decent enough angle for you guys to see graphics card is right here primed and ready to go I don't think there's anything really that I need to do with it yeah just drop it in this last available slot right here oh no I hope okay hold on hold on damn it all right so remember when I was uh using thumb screws for the motherboard standoffs yeah that has come back to bite me I have one more that's causing a conflict un match okay oh God where did my Replacements go here they are yeah that thumb screw down there um right right next to the uh single PCI expansion slot pcie expansion slot is Too Tall and it's blocking the blocking the mother or the graphics card from going down and getting seated all the way a a minor issue to fix assuming the thumb screw will come out God damn it you just how did that happen need a stronger magnet on my screwdriver all right replace screw come on Bravo and that should just about do it hopefully this time to allow me to install the graphics card oh yeah it's much better much better line up there line up PCI PCI Express slot doesn't want to go in What's blocking it not this the front panel audio is right here which again something that if it was really pissing me off I would I would literally just go without I never use front panel audio actual connectors it's it's purely there cuz it's a plug to plug in and when I'm building a computer I'm like I should plug in all the plugs that are available to plug and uh I never I never actually use the front panel audio though I always route through the back just too much chance of interference in that kind of thing all right it is like mostly slotted and I think if I uh I think if I just ratchet it down with the thumb screws it should be all right there we go when and doubt use the thumb screws to force the to force the component into position taada all right beautiful finally just got to connect these power connectors and then I think I should be good for a test boot test boot quick one and number two Bravo all right and if this was a more permanent build I'd probably try to tie these cables down a little bit but you know for what it's worth for what it is I think it's all looking pretty good again that oh this this USB you guys can see this this this USB 3.0 cable right here is it's killing me it's not awful but it's worse than it should be all right uh yeah I'm not even going to do anything to tie these cables down in the back they are uh they're fairly loose hanging out there but you know they'll just kind of push back there against everything and you know again if I was if this was if I was building this and it was a permanent uh build then I would probably do a little bit more to tie those down but as things are we should be able to fit the side panel back on without too much difficulty and assuming I can do this without looking there we go yeah and that's all that really matters Bravo see it's not even bulging maybe a slight bulge Savvy bulge all right I spent all day looking at people's bulges anyone know anyone know what movie that's from figure it out later okay I think I think I'm ready for the Moment of Truth here to just fire this thing up and see if it works um let's switch back to no wrong one no wrong that one all right uh so there's there's the finished build you guys um again not a whole lot of room room right in here for because this is a longer power supply than is recommended for this case but uh thanks to those slim cables I was still able to fit it in there and I was even able to Route the cables back where they should be um there's not a whole lot like as far as extra loose cables going on up in this area again a big reason why I was putting all this together right now is one to get everything up and running and see what kind of overclocks I can still get on this uh CPU with this motherboard with the um the lack of cooling on the vrms to see if I need to get some of those little mini Heat sinks or something and put them on there um also wanted to make sure that you can fit a hyper 212 in here without the uh you know with with the side panel and it it does look like we're fine we should have enough room for the side panel with that not going to put that on quite yet until I do a test boot uh but then also yeah I got to I got to do measurements in here to figure out where my water cooling stuff is going to go so I'm going to do a reservoir up on top probably do a pump down on the bottom and everything should be good to go all right are you guys ready for a a test boot the train is coming through right now that's telling me it's time for the it's the test boot train here we go Power Power goes in there the switch on switch is on I like when things happen when you push a power button super super nice super convenient all right um it's just a sing single first boot but uh presumably everything is functioning right now uh I would next of course connect this all up um you know to an actual monitor so I can see what's being displayed and all that good stuff but it's not making any terrible noises there were no flashes Sparks or explosions um and that's always good nothing is on fire and there's no smell of um Burning metal burning rubber or anything like that that's one major thing if you work on PCS to to custom to get familiar with is the the smell when there's a short and it and it melts the plastic on something cuz that's when you know something's not right um that's what'll happen with the short but yeah all right no no there's no smoke everything is in perfect shape uh but guys that is going to do all for this video I need to do a little bit more um work on this of course so I'll I'll do I'll reset that overclock I'll do a followup and let you guys know uh how how the overclock is working without some active cooling on the VMS and everything thank you guys who join in twitch chat as well as in uh Twitter twitch twitch and Twitter in twitch as well as on YouTube I'm sorry again I'm sorry again that uh the audio is terribly out of sync for this video and I will do my very best to fix that for the next time I do a live stream uh as is hey I'm happy with everything so far uh have a fabulous rest of the weekend everybody hit the thumbs up hit the like button down there if you want to and uh oh the other thing that's not there right now but I will put up soon is a PC part picker just a list to all the components that I'm currently using in this build and yes I have fresh thermal paste which I'm sure is making everything work much much better but um thanks again for watching everybody have a great have a great rest of the rest of the dayexcellent that's why I'm doing my doing my intro with my hand covering my mouth so you guys don't get bothered by the way that the audio is not sinking with the video anyway um apart from that this is a live build I'm I'm building this system for my wife and uh I have all the parts here this is uh going to be a few different things one of course is just show you guys the live build um all the uh all the nastiness and everything and all nastin nastiness and everything included um at but at the same time I'm going to be trying to uh solve a few issues that I need to to to figure out uh this is going to be my wife's build as mentioned it's going to be water cooled eventually but not yet this build is going to be the like air cooled version I need to get everything together and working and uh I need to do some measurements in here I also need to figure out uh something special and unique about this motherboard which is that it doesn't have active cooling I should just cover the mouth all right I'll keep I'll keep the mouth covered this motherboard does not have active cooling uh on the vrms the uh specifically the mosfets a deliver power to the uh CPU I already know that the CPU I'm using which is a 6600k can overclock to about uh 4.7 GHz or at least that that's what the Asus board behind me is able to do and um this is I'm watching myself and this looks very awkward um yeah yeah I'm sorry I'm sorry I've tried I really did spend like that's the reason I'm starting 15 or 20 minutes later than I originally meant to was because the audio was so bad all right so once I get this together I'm going to see if I can still do the same overclock that I did on the Maximus 8 formula on this motherboard despite the lack of cooling on the vrms if I can't do that then I'm going to need to figure out a solution for that and I'll probably do another video that on that in the future and then beyond that you know I like to try the uh I like I I like to try everything in the air cooled version before I go ahead and do everything water cooled and kind of give myself a comparison there I could oh a bandana bandana over the mouth would be nice never mind I'll figure it out later guys okay though let's just uh get started by going over the parts that I have and for this I should maybe have there all right so graphics card is right here this is the gigabyte uh 980 TI GTX 98 980 TI this is a G1 game ging version which means it has a custom made PCB by gigabytes uh it means it's also very good at overclocking and it's also quite long it will be less long once I air cool it and once I water cool it of course but uh for the time being you know we're going with it as is and this is a it's a it's a very nice it's a very nice uh graphics card uh for the CPU we're going with the 6600k and this one has again already been unboxed it's not in there this is just a box box um I'm going to need to actually retrieve this in just a moment the uh video card video card the motherboard is right here this is the z170n Wi-Fi from gigabytes and I chose this because it's a mini ITX first I chose it because it has a uh an actual m.2 slot on the back which apparently people who make mini ITX boards have forgotten how to do this this generation but this one does have one uh and then I also got it because of the color scheme and I'll come back to why the color scheme was kind of messing with me and in just a moment um let's also take a look at the case which is right over here case tada this is the fractal Define s Nano and it's small got a nice big wind on the side pretty excited to actually do a build in there um finally we have some parts that are really just going to be temporary um one thing that I actually had a dilemma with this morning was that this graph or the the power supply here um was really well I couldn't find one I need a short power supply you want ideally 140 150 millim length power supply uh in this case this one's actually 170 no this one's 180 wait I can double check yeah this one's 180 180 mm which is definitely too long however it does still fit in there and this is going to work for me for now but uh the power supply the memory and um also the storage are the three things that I still um kind of kind of messing around with and I need to figure that out but anyway uh that's enough Exposition I'm just going to I'm going to start building now and I will take you guys along for the ride I actually have a an a first thing that I need to do before I can even start building this and uh I decided to include this in this video just cuz which is uh I need to disassemble this little guy right here this is has my CPU on it and uh and everything so we're going to start off with the removal of the heat sink the hyper 212 Evo uh old memory I guess I can just pop that out right away memory I'll just I'll just stick with this memory is Corsair ddr4 what is what speed is this this is 2666 speed memory and now I need to remove this uh this hyper 212 this actually isn't too bad to remove a hyper 212 and here let's give you guys a better look all you really need to do is first off get the fan off of here which just has a couple Clips on the side pop them off like so remove them pull that out good to go next we get trusty screwdriver and we loosen these screws on the four sides I'm going to try to I'm going to try to do shots uh I can't fix the sound I'm gonna I'm going to keep repeating that every every few minutes or so I've attempted at Great Lengths prior to going live here to get my my audio lined up and xlit is not behaving I'm just going to use OBS in the future for this kind of thing problem with OBS is I can't uh I can't dual stream with OBS at least not currently yeah sure there are ways to do to do that but uh I don't have them set up right now xsplit has a nice feature where you can just broadcast to both at the same time YouTube and twitch and uh that's why I was using it but yeah next time I do this I will spend a little bit more time and try to figure out either to how to fix the audio audio problem the synchronization problem or or just use OBS and upload it to YouTube later because that's the other option all right just pulling this CPU out of here pretty simple like so uh know where those all go I go I like keeping these on hand little CPU covers cuz you never want to take a nice motherboard and leave the socket unprotected there we go all right just one other thing to do here I need my mini screwdriver and that's to pull out this uh little m.2 card cuz it has uh windows installed on it and that will allow me to at least really quickly uh get everything up and running so I can run some tests and see what the temperatures are like and actually do some load testing on it and make sure that those uh I can I can do an overclock without messing with the vrms this is a plexor uh M6 wait m6e yeah that guy too all right oh I should put this back too so uh H you know I'm going to be I'm going to be lazy and I'm going to reuse this thermal paste that's that's what I'm going to do next let's get the actual motherboard going here there she is wait wait there you go that's better uh whenever I'm opening a motherboard box I always grab the io Shields and then like I'll I'll try to go without the the user manual if I can but I find that if I ever like take the user manual and I'm like I'm not going to need that I'll stick it in the box and pack everything up before the build is complete that almost always means that I'm going to have to dig in there and pull that out whatnot all right uh what are we doing the hell's going on right now uh let's get sure let's do CPU first CPU installation again guys this it's it's not too not too bad really all you got to do is lift this little side side arm right there up and out open up the CPU socket cover and then um this cover here you can either go like this and pop it off or you can leave it on there until you get the CPU installed and when you close the lever it will kind of uh it will kind of fix itself when you do that anyway CPU is going right back in the socket must be very careful that uh it's got a little gold gold arrow on the corner you got to line that up then you just close that push down try not to think about old people having sex and there you go cpu's installed look look at the efficient reuse of my thermal paste too super nice oh you know what I didn't do I need this back I completely blanked on pulling the back plate off for the hyper 212 I should I guess I can also rescure this yes back plate and everyone wants new Pace no no re I did not realize you guys had such strong feelings about reusing thermal paste uh I've also just now realized that I'm going to need pliers for this so give me a second okay normally I would use like the actual hex nut that comes with this but if I went to try to find that right now it would take absolutely forever so I'm just going to grip one side with pliers just enough to get this loosened and that should allow me to pull everything else off got to make sure I'm grabbing the actual metal piece and not like a capacitor or anything that's B okay now we can just oh we should be able to just undo this here let's switch let's Swit Swit cameras camera views uh what do I want that one there now you can see more kind of but now you can also see the the the audio sync offset so I'm going to have to remind people again I'm so I apologize my audio is not in sync for this video I really really wish it was it's not that's all I have to say about that all right taada okay now I take those pieces that I just removed off of the old board and I put them back on this board uh this is a these these little nuts actually have like one flat side on them that you probably cannot see at all and that's the only real Annoying part of this installation is getting you got if you don't have that little flat side lined up it can be a little awkward there we go just got to get that on that side and then in there since I got one of them in there and it's okay I'm just going to put the nut on the back so I can move on everyone everyone wants me to all right I can use new paste I you people have spoken I'm going to use new thermal paste there my my thermal paste kit right here oh and you know what you know what's in there is that nut see if I had gone looking for it I never would have found it but since it was right there of course I did this thermal paste is so new it's still all goopy all right there we go guys nice and clean just like it should be didn't even I'll use the uh didn't need any thermal material remover but I will use the thermal surface purifier on there make sure that's got a nice pure surface for this cooler that I'm going to be installing for like two weeks okay is that better better everyone everybody happy now okay that's better back to the uh installation of the aftermarket CPU Cooler which in my experience building computers is just Far and Away often the worst most inconvenient part I don't know why seems like all of the really good uh CPU coolers it's like the better the CPU Cooler the the more complicated and annoying the installation procedure for the back plate actually is all right does anyone at least so so the last time I did a live build like this which was a few months back I had a lot of complaints cuz I when I would do this three video setup that you can see right now with the three camera angles they were way out of sync so that's what I they're still a little out of syn no they're they're not too bad can watch as my hands move yeah there the cameras are at least in in sync that's what I actually spent a bunch of time on before this before I went live with this video and uh you know unfortunately for all the time I spent on that the audio was still out of sync but but yeah I'll work on it I'll work on it in the future okay there's three I'm also not doing this quite properly you should you should kind of try to get each of them in a little bit and before you go and tighten but I'm cutting Corners God forgive me all right there's the fourth one on there where I yeah this net that's way helpful okay taada mounting solution for the hyper 212 Evo is in place what else do we have to do what else should I do this motherboard really needs to get all set up before I install it uh I've got an m.2 right there on the back can go ahead and install my my plexor m6e thankfully it's already lined up to 2280 which is seems to me to be the most common uh length for a m.2 drive but uh here it goes hops in like that thing I like about these drives is it's just really nice especially if you're doing like a quick build or something like that it's super nice to just not have to worry about Serial ATA power and data cables I was lining this up in the case just to make sure like nothing was going to go terribly wrong as I was doing the live stream and I was like wait I I realized these right angle connectors here which once I get it in the case are a little bit blocked by the angle of the the motherboard tray um but I was like you know what I don't even need those if I do I'll probably need only a couple and there's a couple more on top here that go out that way which would also be usable if I had any issues um but all right drive is installed let's go for memory memory memory should be pretty straightforward assuming I recall which way ddr4 goes no that's not right here we go ddr4 one and two beautiful all right uh I guess I can go ahead and do the CPU Cooler I will I will clean the thermal paste off the bottom cuz otherwise people in chat get really mad uh this is more expensive than your whole PC this is this is a fairly expensive build the uh I mean the motherboard's not like super high end or anything mother this motherboard's like 10 what is it one 130ish I think 140 maybe um all right bottom of that's clean let's just go ahead and install this this will also help verify if the if the hyper T12 Evo will actually fit in the the fins Nano I think it should I'm pretty pretty sure it should but you never know all right that goes in the bottom there like so and yeah everything should be lined up all right so whenever you're doing a CPU cooler installation I like to have everything prepared and ready to go before I drop that thermal paste on there cuz you know you don't want you don't want to take too long after it's on there and you don't want to have to shuffle around or get it like halfway on and realize that you need something else anyway we'll do tiny little tiny bit of thermal paste in the middle my ah ah stop it okay my rule of thumb is like a little bit more than a grain of rice maybe like two grains of rice that's kind of a good good uh stepping off point and then this we just drop straight down over the top like that be able to feel the thermal paste start to get a little squishy and squish it down a little bit it's going to float it's going to feel like it floats a little bit on top of there you know just a touch but uh honestly once you start to get this installed it will it will realize where it's place should be fairly quickly I'm just doing a couple turns on each of these screws to get them all threaded before I actually start to tighten down on any of them like that and now I will start to give each one a few more turns and I try to do the x pattern cross pattern one than the other because you don't want to put pressure on one corner of the socket or of the CPU itself prior to the other Corners being at least partially tightened down all right there we go squish squishing squishing that thermal paste down on the socket uh has anyone had any experience building a loop from a swift Tech allinone like doing a custom Loop um I have not taken in a swifttech all-in-one and expanded it into a custom Loop before but um yeah the last swifttech uh cooler I had actually in use for an extended period was the h220x and unfortunately the pump on mine died which which was sad um but yeah so I decommissioned that one and I haven't I haven't had an opportunity to try much of Swift swift Tech's newer stuff since then but um all right that's installed let's get a fan on here uh there are only two CPU soorry there's only two CPU or two uh fan headers on this board there's the white one and the black one right there the wait which one's which which one is which oh God they they are actually right here here but they're labeled like over here it says CPU fan and Siz fan and just cuz I don't want to have to re all right CPU fan is the white one cool uh and then what I also need up here which is gone now it's gone I've lost it oh this little guy so I'm going to put this on that one so I can plug the CPU fan directly in to the CPU fan header and then I will also be able to connect both system fans thanks to that little splitter this little splitter by the way uh came with the case with the defin s Nano and even though it's a minor Edition I like it I mean those things these things are super cheap you know little little four pin band splitter but it's a nice inclusion I feel like it's thoughtful for uh I feel like that should be a standard for many ITX cases unless you know I mean bare budget Mini ITX cases you can maybe get away with cheaping out but like a fan splitter or a Fan Hub like the NZXT Manta has super super convenient especially if you're thinking about doing you know a crazy water cooling Loop or you know having a couple radiators in there that have four fans on each one or at least even two fans on each one anyway though Tada motherboard set up this is like our this is practically the whole system right here we have CPU Cooler memory storage is on the back it's like almost the whole thing it I mean it's even got video although we're not going to be using the video we're going to use the uh the gigabyte card but yeah I think uh we're good to move on to the next phase here set this aside for now and I made all these camera angles I I damn well better use them that's not a good one Let's do let's do that one for now hi everybody I hope you're enjoying this video with perfectly synchronized audio yeah all right so it is time what the hell it's time to actually get the case going here so let me just pull these side panels off this is the one with the Plexi on it and this one uh it's it's not like really scratched yet but it's going to be it's almost impossible not to have Plexi just turn the crap on you that's a lot of glare back there that's that's better yeah Plexi just it scratches so easy I kind of like basically assume it's going to get scratched early on but yeah I do not have current plans to do a tempered GL last side panel uh on this one like I have on Arctic Panther back there but um the nice thing about their you know the cutouts already there and everything so that could be something that you know you just pull off the side panel and then you mod it and then put it back on so you never know all right uh I'm going to do this this uh power supply in there first and uh oh hey greetings to Dubai from Southern California I I love when people come in who are from like all around the world it makes me think like technolog is amazing um I've also forgotten what my shortcut keys are let's do this let's do a top down shot real quick all right so here's here's the case and uh wait no I didn't mean to do that oh well it's too dark that's the problem wait I can make that brighter make it brighter there we go all right so uh power supply is going in again this power supply is uh significantly larger than what is recommended for this case this power supply is 180 mm long and it's recommended for uh 140 to 160 is what it's recommended for this case and even some of the60s uh can be more of a challenge so I don't know how well you guys can see let's switch cameras I how you guys can see this this little angle part here so the the tray here here is flatter and then it kind of bows up a little bit right here so this it has a a grommet right here for routing the cables um but you're pretty much blocking that by putting in a power supply that's this long I'm glad it still fits if this was like a 200 or 210 mm power supply which they do have you know the big old massive ones it would be crazy to put in this case anyway um yeah if you did that it would not fit just physically would not fit in the case but I think for now I'll be all right because I already have all my modular cables and I'm going to try to like kind of fit them through there before I install this all the way see how that goes oh God grm it popped out gret it's an angled grummet grommet doesn't want to go back in aha okay I think that's yeah that grommet that grommet pops out pretty EAS easily so I will try to be careful with that all right so just going to feed through my main my main connectors that I need and think cuz these I do like the cabling um that that the thermal T used on this tough power power supply because it's the thin you know it's all black so it looks nice and it's thin so I think if I get this through here before that power supply goes in I would not be able to feed these through with that in there but I think having them there will allow me to still do what I want to do where did my almost forgot this one this one's important that is for the graphics cards all right so I fed those through and now I'll take the actual power supply and this might take some finesse since I'm trying to show you guys what I'm doing while at the same time do what I'm doing but here we go aha hey that's not bad yeah see that worked and look you guys can even see what the hell's going on fabulous super happy other thing another weird thing about this power supply is that the corners of it are angled like rounded if you guys can see right there and that means that on the back here you actually have to have extra long uh what are these These are no these are these are 632 uh screws which does mean that if you lose the screws and you don't happen to have extra long UNCC 632 screws Lin around then uh might be hard to get this power supply installed but whatever yeah it needs three longer screws and then one short one okay yay power supply uh what else so before I get too far along here well I don't know I should plug these in that's important let's do top down look that this this is the webcam shot by the way guys that's why this this camera looks blurrier than the other ones uh main connector just mostly my head right there yeah click all right that's good CPUs all the way down there this is not a good angle here that's maybe a little bit better oh go in this is one of the parts of computer building that I feel like you get you feel like you get better and better at it over time but it's still it's still just a pain in the ass these block connectors you know for like PCI Express graphics and motherboard and whatever getting them lined up so they actually just go in the damn plug is is yeah yay all right and the red one is my uh for the video card cool all right other nice uh kind of nice thing about this case is it's got this area back here which looks kind of dark to you guys right now but whatever uh and if you're not putting a drive right here you can just you can pretty much just pile all your cables up um I am eventually going to have a a water water cooling in this so on this side I'll be using the the Reser wall or whatever Kyle calls it over there but um we can figure all that out in the future it's the nice thing about already planning to build this twice is I know I'm going to build it now get it going and then rebuild it again greetings everyone who's joined us in chat thank you all for being here all right back to the shot okay what I'm doing now is getting uh the fan fan cables just kind of undone so I can kind of start routing them over to where they should be uh where they should be is they're going to come through the top up here cuz that is where the connector is for the fan splitter that I already installed and getting this stuff tucked back there before you actually get you know a motherboard up there uh can be quite handy I mean look I'm reaching through the io Shield area in order to pass cables through and it's it's so convenient super convenient all right there we go this one will want to go up to the top like so all right those are kind of where they should be and uh next on the back is all this uh extra iio stuff the main cable here that that that's going to bug me is going to be this USB 3.0 the USB 3.0 location on the motherboard is pretty awkward it's in a very awkward position so we'll see how that goes um for now I'm just going to undo all this so I can kind of figure out what's what get it sorted there's that USB 3 there's my fan headers this is front panel and we also have what is this audio front panel audio and hey look front panel audio cable is all black yay super nice okay where's any of this going to go there's a little pass through right here that's a kind of odd I guess that's where yeah that's where these need to go it's through that one cuz that's where they'll plug in I'll just I'll have to keep these pretty low profile because the the graphics card is going to go right on top audio can go there too and then oh man so where did oh it's like where did my computer go that I already built uh all right so this is going to be like that right in there and then what I'm G to have to yes USB 3.0 is right here that is very inconvenient location especially considering how bulky these USB 3.0 actual plugs are oh my god I didn't even consider this but there's a small chance that the plug might interfere with the uh with the hyper 212 oh oh oh that's that is awkward that is very awkward all right it's okay I can still plug it in it's only it's only pushing the hyper 212 over slightly oh my yeah yeah bad location for USB 3.0 header all right so can you guys even see that where's my oh oh God yeah that's where that is it's plugged in it's totally uh right up against the aluminum fins for the hyper 212 not ideal at all I'm really glad this is temporary and that once I get this water cooled I'm going to have a much smaller block on there and there should be plenty of clearance for that in the meantime though uh like where where should I pass this through it's like yeah I guess where it's coming out is probably going to be the best option and just bring it around like that okay cool I think I'm actually ready to start dropping stuff into the case other than the power supply right now so let's do that we will start off with the io Shield ever important right there I had some people in my video about um confusing PC Building facts I had some people bring up the io Shield a lot of people bring up front panel connect conectors and I actually when I started coming up with ideas for that video I specifically did not want to use front panel connectors as one of the options cuz I don't know there's just lots of videos out there about like these are the things that suck about building a computer and like every one of them goes to front panel connectors which isn't necessarily wrong at all front panel connectors are just a pain in the ass but I wanted to I wanted to have other stuff different stuff that I was going to talk about uh yes this is a 980ti it's a gigabyte G1 gaming and uh it should have enough room to fit in here with I don't know hopefully a little topair the the air cooler on this is actually a good inch inch and a half longer than the PCB PCB ends right here so yeah when I when I get the air cooler off of there when I when I do the water cooling it will get smaller as well all right here comes this installation wait wait there we go you guys can't see anything just going to drop it right down in oh I should probably face the io shield in the correct direction oh you know what I should really do is plug in the CPU fan header that would be convenient totally something I want to worry about after the motherboard's installed all right and I'm just going to take the cable for this and I'm just going to kind of tuck it in back behind the motherboard and as long as there's nothing like you know Pokey back there then that should just kind of stay out of the way way oh it's so close oh cables are in the way okay hooray that's essentially where it should be for the most part as far as I can tell uh and now I've realized that I do not have any I do not have any standoff screws ready see if these are the right I didn't even do what I keep telling people to do and and test them first uh let's go back to here so we'll see if this works I'm going to try to use thumb screws I actually don't I don't mind using thumb screws for motherboard standoffs if they're the right you know threading of course if I'm wrong about this threading then have to pull the motherboard out oh good it's all right okay so yeah these are kind of small smaller thumb screws but you know as long as there's no surface mounted components on the motherboard that are it's going to interfere with then uh you can totally just use thumb screws it's fine um but you know what I can't I can't use all four thumb screws because I realized something that I realized earlier which is that the CPU fan the CPU supplemental power is four pin and I have an 8 pin connector which you can still plug in you just plug in half of it but the SEC the other half of that is right on top of a mounting hole and uh if I put a thumb scre on there it won't go in hold up oh God that go okay never mind I've lost track of everything uh so I have a massive bag of screws and it's not where it should be never mind I found it all right this is also on my to-do list or reorganizing all these screws okay need one I need one M2 Threaded Screw which I think this one of these will do uh notorious x55 I am using the uh gigaby GTX 980 TI G1 gaming this is the box for right there um I'm using that because it's a 980 TI for one and also because I'm doing EK cooling on this eventually Custom Custom EK Cooling and uh there we go uh yeah water cooling a water cooling loop from Ek so I had to make sure that I was going to use a graphics card that EK makes the block for granted they make blocks for the reference design 980 TI um but I was already using a gigabyte motherboard and so I talked to gigabyte about the build and uh my contact over there said that they had this uh this is actually a referb 980 TI but you know refurbs still work so they had this available and I was like he that'd be perfect so my only my only hesitation is that is a fairly long card um which shouldn't really cause much of a conflict here but it does mean that I'm probably going to have to separate my reservoir my reservoir is probably going to be smaller and be up higher and then the pump is probably going to be down at the bottom with the graphics C kind of in between them okay time for the damn front panel connectors which are gone oh they're over here wow okay got to redo that it's an easy redo but yeah the front panel connectors are over on this side on this board right between the main 24 pin connector and the oh yeah they're they're can you guys see any of this maybe a little bit it's kind of dark in there I wish I had I wish I had more light coming in through here I have a light overhead but here does that help kind of the other thing so I'm I'm trying like I I like doing these live uh videos live builds cuz you know they're just kind of raw and get to answer some questions here and all that good stuff yeah it's a Define nano s s Nano Define s I think Nano S I can't the box is around here somewhere um but yeah I I like doing these live builds I need to try to get um like I I could really use a second GH4 this is also the proper method for doing front panel connectors in case anyone was wondering and hey I get I get a secondary validation for keeping this manual handy because since it's a miniitx board they do not have room for all of the uh what's what on the on the front panel connector area here it is okay got power switch power LED all those good things so all right the N pin is blank blah blah blah next to that is reset starting with positive and reset positive doesn't matter just LEDs matter hard drive activity led oh posit all right let's do that power LED hard drive LED it's like how they very specifically label the power LED which one's positive but they don't like to do that with the hard drive LED it's annoying all right power led the positive is number two okay and in case anyone's wondering yes this is the most annoying part of building a computer see I'm I'm I missed there it goes one in there okay let's do hard drive no way this could go wrong all right that's good uh Power and reset which one's the power power is the one next to the blank okay groovy lastly reset all right we're all set you know while I'm down here I can also plug in this uh Stam USB plug oh that's awkward so awkward like I can't even really do it right can you guys see anything feel like you can't let's do that here she goes wait wait wait almost there never in my life if I wanted like a lowprofile l bracket usb3 connector header before but somebody should make those that would solve this problem right here nip it in the bud all right oh that's terrible I'm going to have to figure out some solution for this with the Finish builds cuz it's really an invisible spot it's all black cabling so that's not too bad but wow it's just it's kind of in an angle it's pushing on like sharp pushing on the corners of sharp aluminum fins which is never good yeah all right HD Audio HD audio is the connector I always try to plug in but I never never actually use hey Pop Shepard thanks for the donation he's building a Nas with the same motherboard that I used in the node 304 using a noctua nhl9i CPU Cooler will he have the same issue with the USB header oh with this board um you might it's if it's uh I'm so I'm not familiar with the nhl9i right off the top of my head is it one of those like horizontal ones it fits that way instead of vertical like the hyper 212 if that is the case um yeah you you might have some issues with that honestly so yeah there I feel like there has to be some other USB 3 .0 extenders out there somewhere that people can get it seems like some some OEM in in China or Taiwan or something would have made those and you'd be able to buy them some somehow but I haven't looked for it so I I don't know off the top of my head of of any of them but yeah that would I would definitely concern myself with that cuz this it's definitely not something that I saw coming with this build was that I saw the USB 3.0 position earlier and I was like that's kind of awkward but I didn't think it was going to cause a conflict with the with the heat sink the CPU heat sink fan anyway uh all right I am just using the built-in uh velcro straps back here to tie down some of these cables that I've popped in for now just to get them out of the way so that I'm as I'm dealing with the bulk gear uh 24 pin and whatnot that I can maneuver around a little bit probably not permanent but okay also we have these fan headers right so the fan headers I'm going to take that splitter that I already installed up here I'm going to feed those plugs ever so delicately back through the grommets at the top come on come on oh oh I lost I lost it oh it's never it's not behaving just just needs a little push I can't fix the audio guys I'm sorry I've tried I've tried to fix the audio uh for an extended period of time before I started this stream and I was unsuccessful and and it was pretty much like don't do the stream cuz the audio is bad or do the stream with bad audio and I'd rather do the stream so that's where we're at all right yay those fans are connected just going to wrap this cable up and get it out of the way twist ties not wanting to twist okay there we go Tada can you guys see any of this I hope so all right what's left not much uh graphics card of course and I got to plug in these these main power cables okay so 24 pin is higher up up here I'm just going to take this oh wait which side is the latch on that latch latch is going to be there okay there we go this I'd like to show you guys this part but it might be difficult again with the light but um what I'm trying to do is take this 24 pin and just bend it in like a 180° curve and smash it down a little bit so that it comes out wraps around and and plugs straight into the into the plug and I can't do it at that angle so just going to do it here that latch I hate it oh there it goes yeah I hate it when the latch doesn't feel like it it latched okay so there's 24 pin I have a eight pin that goes all the way up to the top this one's going to be the most annoying because actually I can kind of get back there hook that through and oh God I don't velcro stuck to me I don't think there's any way I can show you guys this properly but uh yeah this is this is going to be a pain in the ass or actually not too bad a pain in the ass to try to show but not terrible for just plugging it in oh come on you're right there you're right there I see you all right there we go so that is connected bada bing trying to straighten out this USB 3.0 cord oh I got that's I don't know I don't know what I'm going to do with that it's going to be very visible with the finished builds especially when the cooler is not there anymore so I don't know I'll give it some thought uh all right though moving along I think the only thing that's really left is the graphics card and maybe a tiny little bit of cable management here in the back let's get these fed through to the front grommets are starting to get angry at me for all of the things that are connected to them wait why are this doing that oh that's why okay and here comes the red plugs just right through there like a baby calf me giving birth and all right last will be graphics card this is there's a bundle of cables at the bottom which is making this not really want to sit down sta or anything but that's okay where did my screwdriver go lost my screw oh here it is all right so just got to remove these uh back pieces here PCI or expansion slot covers I guess is what they're called I tend to call them like PCI pcie expansion slot covers they're not really PCI expansion slot covers cuz before PCI I mean there was there was Isa and AGP and those still use these as well they're just expansion slots but for most everything you're going to connect to them now it's going to be PCI or PCI Express all right um that's a decent enough angle for you guys to see graphics card is right here primed and ready to go I don't think there's anything really that I need to do with it yeah just drop it in this last available slot right here oh no I hope okay hold on hold on damn it all right so remember when I was uh using thumb screws for the motherboard standoffs yeah that has come back to bite me I have one more that's causing a conflict un match okay oh God where did my Replacements go here they are yeah that thumb screw down there um right right next to the uh single PCI expansion slot pcie expansion slot is Too Tall and it's blocking the blocking the mother or the graphics card from going down and getting seated all the way a a minor issue to fix assuming the thumb screw will come out God damn it you just how did that happen need a stronger magnet on my screwdriver all right replace screw come on Bravo and that should just about do it hopefully this time to allow me to install the graphics card oh yeah it's much better much better line up there line up PCI PCI Express slot doesn't want to go in What's blocking it not this the front panel audio is right here which again something that if it was really pissing me off I would I would literally just go without I never use front panel audio actual connectors it's it's purely there cuz it's a plug to plug in and when I'm building a computer I'm like I should plug in all the plugs that are available to plug and uh I never I never actually use the front panel audio though I always route through the back just too much chance of interference in that kind of thing all right it is like mostly slotted and I think if I uh I think if I just ratchet it down with the thumb screws it should be all right there we go when and doubt use the thumb screws to force the to force the component into position taada all right beautiful finally just got to connect these power connectors and then I think I should be good for a test boot test boot quick one and number two Bravo all right and if this was a more permanent build I'd probably try to tie these cables down a little bit but you know for what it's worth for what it is I think it's all looking pretty good again that oh this this USB you guys can see this this this USB 3.0 cable right here is it's killing me it's not awful but it's worse than it should be all right uh yeah I'm not even going to do anything to tie these cables down in the back they are uh they're fairly loose hanging out there but you know they'll just kind of push back there against everything and you know again if I was if this was if I was building this and it was a permanent uh build then I would probably do a little bit more to tie those down but as things are we should be able to fit the side panel back on without too much difficulty and assuming I can do this without looking there we go yeah and that's all that really matters Bravo see it's not even bulging maybe a slight bulge Savvy bulge all right I spent all day looking at people's bulges anyone know anyone know what movie that's from figure it out later okay I think I think I'm ready for the Moment of Truth here to just fire this thing up and see if it works um let's switch back to no wrong one no wrong that one all right uh so there's there's the finished build you guys um again not a whole lot of room room right in here for because this is a longer power supply than is recommended for this case but uh thanks to those slim cables I was still able to fit it in there and I was even able to Route the cables back where they should be um there's not a whole lot like as far as extra loose cables going on up in this area again a big reason why I was putting all this together right now is one to get everything up and running and see what kind of overclocks I can still get on this uh CPU with this motherboard with the um the lack of cooling on the vrms to see if I need to get some of those little mini Heat sinks or something and put them on there um also wanted to make sure that you can fit a hyper 212 in here without the uh you know with with the side panel and it it does look like we're fine we should have enough room for the side panel with that not going to put that on quite yet until I do a test boot uh but then also yeah I got to I got to do measurements in here to figure out where my water cooling stuff is going to go so I'm going to do a reservoir up on top probably do a pump down on the bottom and everything should be good to go all right are you guys ready for a a test boot the train is coming through right now that's telling me it's time for the it's the test boot train here we go Power Power goes in there the switch on switch is on I like when things happen when you push a power button super super nice super convenient all right um it's just a sing single first boot but uh presumably everything is functioning right now uh I would next of course connect this all up um you know to an actual monitor so I can see what's being displayed and all that good stuff but it's not making any terrible noises there were no flashes Sparks or explosions um and that's always good nothing is on fire and there's no smell of um Burning metal burning rubber or anything like that that's one major thing if you work on PCS to to custom to get familiar with is the the smell when there's a short and it and it melts the plastic on something cuz that's when you know something's not right um that's what'll happen with the short but yeah all right no no there's no smoke everything is in perfect shape uh but guys that is going to do all for this video I need to do a little bit more um work on this of course so I'll I'll do I'll reset that overclock I'll do a followup and let you guys know uh how how the overclock is working without some active cooling on the VMS and everything thank you guys who join in twitch chat as well as in uh Twitter twitch twitch and Twitter in twitch as well as on YouTube I'm sorry again I'm sorry again that uh the audio is terribly out of sync for this video and I will do my very best to fix that for the next time I do a live stream uh as is hey I'm happy with everything so far uh have a fabulous rest of the weekend everybody hit the thumbs up hit the like button down there if you want to and uh oh the other thing that's not there right now but I will put up soon is a PC part picker just a list to all the components that I'm currently using in this build and yes I have fresh thermal paste which I'm sure is making everything work much much better but um thanks again for watching everybody have a great have a great rest of the rest of the day\n"