Building My First PC: A Step-by-Step Guide

As I sat down to start building my first PC, I must admit that I was both excited and nervous about the entire process. I had always been fascinated by the world of computer hardware and software, but never thought I would be brave enough to take on the challenge of building one myself. However, with the help of some fantastic resources and a bit of luck, my dream finally came true.

My journey began when Saf, the host of SuperSaf TV, decided to build his first PC from scratch. He started by taking apart the casing and preparing it for installation. "Okay, so we've put on the connectors onto here," he said, as he carefully connected the cables to the motherboard. This was all going to go down on top, meaning that everything would be mounted on top of the CPU socket. Saf explained that this was a crucial step in ensuring that the components were properly secured and wouldn't come loose during use.

As Saf continued with the build, he emphasized the importance of proper cable management. "Right, good to go," he said, as he tightened the screws enough not to move around but not so tight that it would damage the component. The next step was to close the kilobyte over, which marked the end of the case installation process.

Now that the case was closed, Saf moved on to the final hurdle: fitting the graphics card. "GPU times," he exclaimed, as he carefully inserted the graphics card into its designated slot. This was the moment of truth – would everything fit together seamlessly? After a brief pause, Saf announced that it was finally in, and all that remained was to give some power to the GPU.

To do this, Saf grabbed some PCIe cables from the power supply and plugged them into the motherboard. "Okay, so there's a bunch," he said with a chuckle. As a last step, he connected the rest of the components, including the CPU, RAM, and storage drives. With all the parts in place, Saf was ready to power on his PC and see if everything worked as expected.

The moment of truth arrived when Saf pressed the power button, and the PC sprang to life. "Ah, thank you Safshows for installing the brand new Syn Gala OS," he said with a grin, as he displayed the logo on the screen. However, it was soon revealed that this was not the actual operating system – instead, Saf had installed Windows 10.

Despite encountering a few minor issues during installation, such as cables that needed to be routed over to prevent damage, everything ultimately worked smoothly. The case, which was initially thought to be compact and restrictive, proved to be both functional and aesthetically pleasing. As for performance, Saf reported that video editing and gaming were both excellent experiences.

To complete the build, Saf received some fantastic accessories from ASUS, including a 27-inch ROG XG279Q monitor with a 144Hz refresh rate, an RGB keyboard, a wireless mouse, and a pair of wireless headphones. "I'm not sure I'll be using this in portrait mode," he joked, but was impressed by the monitor's versatility.

Throughout the build process, Saf expressed his gratitude to his friends, Thunder E from Booredatwork and Ryan from Beginners Tech, who had helped him along the way. He also thanked the brands that provided the necessary parts for his build, ensuring that this PC would be both functional and enjoyable.

As the final touches were applied, Saf reflected on the experience of building his first PC. While it wasn't as easy as he thought it would be, he was thrilled with the result – a powerful machine that he could use for everything from gaming to video editing. With the help of some fantastic resources and support, anyone can build their own PC and enjoy the thrill of creating something from scratch.

As Saf sat down to play his first game on his new PC, he couldn't help but feel a sense of accomplishment. "What's up guys?" he exclaimed with a grin, as the upbeat music began to play in the background. Despite some minor setbacks during the build process, this was just the beginning of an incredible gaming experience.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: en- I just touched some paste,which I wasn't supposed to do, right?- Wait, don't touch anymore.- What's up guys?Saf here on SuperSaf TVand believe it or not,I have never built a PC.I've usually just gone forprebuilt PCs but recentlyI've been getting a lot moreinto gaming and I thoughtlet me build something powerfuland custom to my setup.But I had no idea where to start.So I reached out to mybuddies who know a thingor two about building PCs.Thunder E from Booredatworkand Ryan from Beginners Tech.Thunder E is going to talk us throughall of the differentparts that we've gone forand why we've gone for these.And then Ryan is going to try to direct methrough building my first ever PC.This could either go reallywell or terribly wrong.Either way I'm super excited.We've also got a bunch of accessoriesand a monitor from ASUS.So towards the end,we'll set everything upand hope for the best.Let's do this.So we've got Thunder E herewho's helped sourced a lot ofthese parts and is going totalk us through everything.Thunder, dude, I have noidea what's going on here.Can you break everything down for us?- Oh, absolutely man.And thank you for finally joining uswith the PC master race builders.But the very first thing you have herethat I do like is theNZXT H1 mini ITX case.- Yeah.- I love this 'cause Ialso have the same caseand what's really cool aboutit is that it's got a bunchof features that makes iteasier for you to build your PC.- Okay.- So for instance, it's got a140 millimeter loopy cooler,so you don't have to buy that.It's already prebuilt inside.It's also got a 650 watt power supplywhich means you don't have to buy that.It's also installed in the case as well.- Right.- Now the case supportsa mini ITX motherboardand it also has atempered glass front panelwhich means you can see, youknow, the internals and allthis RGB lights when we, youknow, definitely cue them up.So the next thing I see youhave here which is goingto improve your gameplayto the next level,or at least give youthe kind of performancethat you need is the AMD Ryzen 3950X.- You mean it's not going to giveme an excuse for playing bad.(both narrators laughing)I mean look your game play's gotten betterbut it's going to give you16 core CPU which is justa whole lot of power, 32threads, seven nanometer.I mean, this is like the bestgaming processor on the landthat you can definitelypick out and 33.5 gigahertz.You're looking at just liketotal performance all the way.- Sweet.- Solid pickup.And you know, I think you'recopying my PC build here.'Cause this is the same CPU I have.I mean, yeah, I know I pickedthe best but it's okay.- Yeah, you said you picked it also.It looks like you'vejust picked everythingthat you had and pretty much.(Thunder E laughing)So you copied yourself.- Yes definitely.Yeah, pretty much.But I do like the RAMthat you're going with.- Okay.- Which is the XLR8 gaming round from PNY.This is a 32 gigabyte kit.It's RGB.Again, we talked about thetempered glass on your case.So you can see some ofthose RGB colors comeout like DDR4 RAM 3,200 megahertz.You know, the more RAMyou have the better,which means at 32gigabytes you've got enoughto game and also to dosome editing as well.Like so this is a solid pick.- Sweet.- So next up we have our storage.Now you're going withsomething that most peoplejust don't have and theyhaven't experienced yet,which is the FireCuda 520.This is a PCIe Gen4 SSD.What that means is thatyou're getting speedsup to 5,000 megabits persecond for read speedsand about 4,500 megabitsper second for right speeds.- High.- And if that isn't that's insanely fast.That's pretty much as fastas the brand new X-Boxseries X and the PS5.- Nice, sweet.Plus plenty of storage.- Yeah, exactly.And yeah, that's right.Two terabytes of storagewhich means one good thingsince quality war zone iscurrently 240 gigabytes.And by the time we'redone with this video,it will be 300 gigabytes.Still you've got enough space.- So I can always have enoughfor video editing and stuff as well.Enough to worry about havingthat on a separate drive.I can have it all in one.- Yeah, definitely butcall of duty is goingto take more space than you editing .- For sure, that thing takes too much.(Thunder E laughing)- Yeah, so with all those parts in mind,you know, one of the mainthings you need is of coursea really solid motherboard'cause that's whereeverything is connected to.And you're goingwith the ROG STRIX X570-IGAMING motherboard.Now this is an awesomeboard and I'm jealous'cause I actually wantedthis board in my build.I didn't get to, I couldn't get itat the time and you have it.And it's got a ton of features.So of course it's ports, youknow, 4Gen AMD processor.It's got four USB 3.2 genone ports four USB 3.2 gentwo ports, it's got Wi-Fisix antennas as well.So you've got Wi-Fi sixconnectivity which is pretty cool.Some ports up to 64 gigabytes of RAM.You've got two PCIe slots.So if you want to expandyour storage instead of justhaving, you know, twoterabytes, you can go to four.You've got like a plethoraof the things you need.And it also has RGB cores.- Nice, and it's quite compactwhich is suitable for this case.- Oh yeah, absolutely.So I mean, it fits quite inand, you know, I mean this buildis going to be one ofthose that will, I mean,I can just imagine this onyour desk but it's goingto be a solid build withall the parts you have here.- Looking forward to it.- Finally, not forgetting wedo have your graphics card.And as you know, yougot to go with an RTX.This is the ASUS RTX 2080 Ti Turbo.Now this is a blower fan which meansit just has a standard blower.It doesn't have like, youknow, multiple fans on there.But, you know, the reasonwhy I wanted you to gowith this is because itfits well into this case.It's easier to put in.And also you're still goingto get great performance here.So you should be gettingsome really solid FPSswhen you're playing warzone or any other game.And also while editing your render timeshould be cut downdrastically with these cards.So, I mean, you'regoing to build a machinethat should cover all your needs.- Yap, I'm super excitedand all of this stuff sounds awesome.Now it's going to be the hard partand hopefully I won't mess this up.But we're going to switch overto Ryan and Ryan's going to tryto talk me through building all of this.Thunder, thank you so much for talking usthrough all of the different parts.And I'll let you knowif when I power this upit actually switches on.- I'm sure it will.Can't wait to try yourwar zone with this so.- Yeah, man, I appreciate the pleasure.Thank you.- And no problem man.- Okay, so we now have my good friend Ryanfrom Beginners Tech who isactually going to talk usthrough the hard part ofgoing through the build.Ryan, how's it going my brother?- Yo, what's up bro?Hope everything is good as super hot.- It is very hot.It is very hot and this PCis going to have to stay coolwhile I'm gaming in this hot weather.I'm excited man.Let's get straight to it.What are we starting with?- Okay, so first thing is first see,you've got everythinglaid out nice and ready.So, grab the CPU and we'llget that fitted first.So all we have to do is makesure you take the gold triangleand match up with thetriangle on the CPU socket.Just drop it into place,close the latch back overand you can move on to the next step.- Alright, so the latch is now released.So it's all open now.It's going to drop itand match the triangles.Alright, that just drop right into place.- That's it, then justclose the latch over.- Okay.Alright, that good?- Looks good to me man.So now in this case.- It's going to be easy.(Ryan laughing)- Oh boy.No, I don't know what I'min PC building school.So I guess now we'll goahead and find the RAM.- Okay.- Grab your RAM sticks.- Alright, so we've gotthe RAM sticks here.So I've got two and then I can seewhat looks like isgoing to fit here, okay?- Yeah, so just match or cut out upwith your notch on themotherboard open them upthen it should just push it into place.We bought a force is neededand you should hear it just click.- Okay, I don't want to apply.Okay, alright.That clicks in place.That looks pretty.That looks pretty easy.So let's do this other one as well.And these are RGB, so theyshould looking very cool.- Can never have too much RGB man.- I'm going to be like a disco.Alright, so a bit of force.Okay, that's kept into place as well.Alright, okay.So I think yeah bothare clipped into place.- Awesome, so I guess thelast step before we gointo putting the motherboardand the case is fittingyour M.2 drive, so your storage drive.So what we'll have to do isremove the heat sink fromthe board because this boardcomes with a cool heat sink.That keeps the M.2 nice and cool.- Nice, so it says M.2 heat sinkso I'll take these screws out from here.- I should just pull up and just matchthe notch up and should notjoin the motherboard again.It should just push straight in.- Okay, and they shouldn'tneed too much force, right?Okay, that's it.- No, it should just pop in.- I see some adhesive on here.Should I take that off?- Yeah, just go ahead and peel that off.And you'll be left witha nice heat sink pad.- Alright, there we go.- Just pop up please.- Okay, and there's alittle connection here.So that goes in, okay.So that's the RAM, the processoras well as the M.2 hard drive all in.- That's pretty much all good.So all we have to do now istake what you've already builtand pretty much pop it into our case.- Alright, so now this wehave some screws in here.I opened up the tower earlierso, you know, we wouldn't haveto faff around figuring outhow to actually open it.Okay, so before we put themotherboard in to the case,we need to put the IO input,output shields into place.- They are all really fiddly.That's the only problem.Nobody likes fitting an IO shield.- That's the hardest part.- That's probably one ofthe most annoying parts I would say.- Okay, I think that's pretty much in.Alright now.- Especially in the case you've chosen.Yep, so I just match theIO and both the IO shieldand then everythingshould just set nicely.- Okay, so if I just kindof push this into herewithout hopefully breaking everything.Yeah, okay.Yeah that's what I like going into.Yeah, okay.- Just have a look, there'sall the ports lined up.- A few moments later.- Motherboard is finally in.There was a bit ofcushioning on the IO segment.So had like really going topush it in but wasn't too hard.Just took a little bit of time, right.What's next, right?- Yeah we go there.So next I think the bestthing to do would beto start attaching all of the cablesthat are coming from thecase and the power supply.So probably just startwith the graphics card onesince it's probably oneof the largest ones.- Alright, so that's the onethat's coming along at the bottom.- Yeah, so if you justopen up your PCIe slot,just pushes down on the v-tab.- Okay.- And then just push it deep.- Yep, that's it.- So you'll see those lotsof other cables just hanging around there.So I guess grab theblue one USB free maybe.- Yep.Okay, let's do that.So that's the USB threeclipped in perfect.That's good.So the next one is theF panel cable, right?'Cause that's the one thatmatches in, that is in.Okay, so alright.Now the next one.So we've got the F panel inand then there's one which is HD audio.- It's hiding behind theheat sink for the M.2 drive.- So the HD audio portneeds an adapter to getinto this case which we didn'tinitially realize, did we?That is now done.What are we doing next?Which part are we connecting next?Which cable?- I think you should grabthe power cable for the motherboard.That's should be, that'sthe eight pin cable.- Yep, that is.- So power that we're going to needas the power for the CPUwhich is an eight pin.- Okay, I see that.Yep, okay.And it says CPU andthere's two parts to it.- Is it two separate fours?- Yeah, it's two separate fours.Those are in.Okay, cool.- Nice, maybe just plug thefans on from the cooler man.- Those are in.- I guess what we'redoing now as we set upour pump head to fit the AMD socket.So you're going to takethe pre-applied intel bracketoff and pop the AMD one on.- Yeah, that was goingto be the right way.I just touched some pastewhich I wasn't supposed to do, right?- Right, don't touch anymore.- The bracket is on.I have ruined a little bitat the paste but it's okay.And now we've put on theconnectors onto here.Now this is all going to go down on top.- On top of the CPU socket.So basically that's goingto take your little squaresand make sure they go over the brackets.- Okay, so I've not liketightened it too much.I've just tightened it enough.So it doesn't move around.So enough.- Right, good to go.- Yeah.- So I guess now you canclose the kilobyte over.- Okay, so now the case is closed.- Good, so we're onto the last hurdle.And that is the fit the graphics card.- GPU times.- GPU time.- This is the bad boy that isgoing to power everything up.- Right, so just line up with the slotsand it should just push into place.- GPU is finally in, what's left?- Yeah boy, all we have to dois give some power to the GPU.So grab some PCIe cablesfrom the power supply.- Okay, so there's a bunch.- As a last step.- Those are in.GPU is connected, anything else?- Ooh nope, that should bepretty much built the PC man.So all we have to do now is putall the panels back on case.Fire it up, make sureeverything powers on.It should put into the bios from there.Just go ahead, install windows,install your drivers and games.Then we can play some call of duty.- Let's do this man.Ryan, thank you so much.Really appreciate all of yourhelp putting this together.PC building isn't easyas I thought it was.- It will be easier next time.- Yeah.Alright, thanks man.I'm going to, I want to put this together.- Alright man.- Right guys, it's all set up now.Let's go and power it onand see if it's all worked.- Ah, thank you Safwanshows for installingthe brand new Syn Gala OS.As you know this OS has tonsof new features, like allowingyou to transfer your bankdetails to call us Syn Gala.So you can use it for hiswives, I mean one wife.But anyway, when you'vefinished watching this video.Sorry there's no video this is OS.So look at this.- Yeah, let me just switch this off.Anyway, so obviouslythis is not Syn Gala OS.We've got windows 10 installed.Everything worked pretty fine.There were few cables that I had tokind of just go over becausethis is my first time.But I'm super, superhappy with this built.The case is so compact and Ireally liked the look of it.And for performance,this is absolutely finefor what I need it for.Video editing is great.Gaming on here isabsolutely great as well.I will leave some benchmarks on the screenfor those of you interested in that.And ASUS also hooked us upwith this 27 inch ROGSTRIX HDR I-GAMING monitor.The model number is the XG 279Q.And it's got a 144 Hertz refresh ratewhich can be overclocked to 170 Hertz,one millisecond response time.Perfect for gaming.And what I also really like about this isthat you can have it inportrait mode as wellas landscape for anybody that's into that.I'm not sure I'll be usingthis in portrait mode but it's so awesome.As well as that, we dohave the ROG STRIX SCOPE,PLX deluxe mechanical gaming keyboard,the ROG Chakram wireless gamingmouse with cheap charging,as well as ROG STRIX GO 2.4wireless gaming headset.And that is my first ever PCbuilt, was a little bit harderthan I thought it's going to bebut I'm sure the more Ibuild the better I will get.Big thanks to my friendsfor making this possible.Thunder E from Booredatwork,Ryan from Beginners Tech.I'm going to leave both of their channels,link down below do check them out.They make much better PCbuilt videos than I do.And also a big thanks to all of the brandsfor sending all the partsto make this build possible.If you're interested inpicking up any of the partsor building somethingsimilar, I'll be leavingall of the links down inthe description below.I hope you enjoyed thisvideo and found it useful.If you did, then do hit thatthumbs up button for me.What do you think of my first PC build?Do let me know in the comments below,if you want to see more contentlike this, then do subscribeand hit that bell iconso you don't miss it.Thanks for watching.This is Saf on SuperSaf TVand I'm going to go and game.What's up guys?That didn't work out too well.(upbeat music)\n"