**Therapeutic PC Building Experience**

I love my PC Building Simulator experience, it's therapeutic just like playing with PC parts look and feel. I can mix and match components, play around with what they would look like on a real system. The new additions to the simulator are always exciting, I know it sounds like an ad but I'm only saying that because my daughter came to the studio the other day and built a computer. She's been wanting to build one for ages, so I told her, "I'll let you try, but you have to promise me you won't break it." And then she looked at me with this mischievous grin and said, "No, Dad, you're not taking it home from me!" So, I had to sit back and watch as she built a PC. It was her first time building one, and I could see the excitement in her eyes.

**The Ram Problem**

After we finished building the PC, my daughter asked me if I wanted to try using some of the new RAM sticks that came with it. She said they had XMP settings on them, but only worked with the slower stick. I was like, "Okay, let's see what happens!" So, I took out the 5600 RAM sticks and installed the faster ones in their place. But, as soon as I enabled XMP, everything started to malfunction. The PC would throttle at high temperatures, and it couldn't even reach its full potential. It was like the system had given up.

**The Bios Check**

I decided to check the BIOS settings to see if there were any issues with the CPU or the cooling system. As I checked the settings, I noticed that the CPU temperature was higher than expected. The temperature on the 13th gen Intel Core i7-13700K CPU was running at 54 degrees Celsius in the BIOS. That's a bit warm for my liking, so I made a mental note to check the thermal paste and ensure it was applied correctly.

**The Cooler Issue**

As I looked closer at the cooler, I noticed that it had an unusual design. The brackets were upside down, which would cause the cooler to malfunction. I realized that this must be the reason why the CPU temperature was so high. It's not uncommon for used systems to have issues like this, but I'm glad we were able to identify and fix the problem.

**Thermal Paste Application**

To fix the issue with the thermal paste, my daughter helped me reapply some new paste to the CPU. We spread it evenly across the die, making sure to cover all areas of the processor. The process was quite simple, but I'm glad we were able to show our viewers how to do it correctly.

**The Tech Bar**

One thing that really stood out during this experience was the existence of the Microcenter Tech Bar. This service allows customers to get help with installing and maintaining their new components. It's available for purchase at Microcenter stores, which are equipped with knowledgeable staff who can provide assistance with PC-related issues.

**PC Maintenance is Important**

As I sat in the store, watching my daughter work on her PC, I couldn't help but think about how important it is to maintain your system regularly. If you're not comfortable doing it yourself, don't be afraid to use services like the Tech Bar for assistance. It's always better to have someone knowledgeable look at your system and make sure everything is running smoothly.

**Cleaning Up**

Finally, I had to admit that the cleanup process was one of the best parts of coming to Microcenter. Jeremy, our resident tech expert, took charge of cleaning up the mess we made while building the PC. It's not always glamorous work, but someone has to do it!

**Conclusion**

And that's a wrap on today's video! I hope you guys have enjoyed learning about my experience with PC Building Simulator and how I fixed some issues with my daughter's new system. Remember, if you're not comfortable building your own PC or doing maintenance yourself, there are resources available to help you out. Thanks for watching, and we'll see you in the next video!

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey what's going on everyone jense here and we're here at Micro Center in Tustin California you guys know that's our home Microcenter store uh we're here actually featuring The Tech bar today and I got kind of a fun challenge here where uh we're going to see whether or not they can sabotage some PCS and I can figure out what's wrong with them as sort of like a little impromptu Tech Challenge uh but first logo the height y70 dual chamber ATX PC case provides users The Familiar look and feel of the y60 with an increased component compatibility and thermal performance with four unique colorways and a beautifully crafted three-piece panoramic glass the y70 provides a clear window into the heart of your PC it's expanded four- slot vertical GPU support with an included 4.0 pcie Riser cable provides ample room for the largest graphics cards while additional space between the edge of the card and the glass provides improved air flow up to 3 120 mm fans can be mounted below the GPU to provide a direct path of cooling while up to 360 mm aios can be mounted to both the top and side y70 also provides up to 180 mm of clearance for air coolers to learn more about the height y70 visit the sponsored Link in the description below so the cool thing about the tech bar if you guys aren't aware think of it as like um kind of like a service center for your computer it doesn't matter if it's one that you bought here or your own that you built at home if you're having problems with your system you can bring it here to help diagnose it uh get it fixed or repaired make sure everything's running correctly let's say you came into the store and you bought some components and you wanted to have those installed cuz maybe you're not familiar with how to do it you can also do that here as well um you can also get general maintenance done here virus scans virus removal data recovery all sorts of stuff can be done right here at the tech bar um but to kind of put some of what they go through kind of to the test like I said I had them secretly sabotage a couple of their power spec systems uh and then kind of keep track of what they did and see whether or not I can go in there and actually figure out all of the problems um I told them to just do everything from Maybe Might something might be considered what a new Builder might accidentally do when putting together a system all the way to maybe things that are not just they're just intentionally not right that may not even necessarily go looking for because it's so so unorthodox on the kind of problems we'd come across so with that said let's go ahead and head into the tech bar behind the scenes and their like work area and let's see what they've got ready for us okay so here I am in the back area of the tech bar this is where all like the repairs and upgrades and services are performed so I thought it'd be fun like I kind of already alluded to that it'd be fun to have them sabotage some of their open box systems here to see whether or not I could figure out what's wrong with them sort of like what we did with the Linus tech tech challenge with Steve if you will so I kind of gave them free reain do whatever you want to the systems I didn't I think they're above and beyond what a typical system that would come in for services like but I just thought that this would be kind of a fun idea so I don't know anything about what's wrong with them I was told they kind of went ham with them but that all the parts in there work so no part swap should be necessary I'm hoping because there's no parts here to test with but I have no idea what's wrong with these so we're going to kind of go through these one at a time I already see one thing on this system here that's sort of bugging me and that is the fact that the cooler fan is backward WS it's pulling air through so if you look right here you can see this deep cool fan is pulling air through that way and you never want a single fan to be pulling air through a heat sink cuz it could pull in through the sides you want it to be pushing air through so that's one thing I'm going to be changing on there but past that I don't know so let's go ahead and just turn it on and see what we got that's got to be the first thing before I go unplug in and moving things around everything appears to be plugged in so far in terms of power and stuff let's see the eight pin looked like nope we're good power s on oh that's a good start okay well the Fan's not turning so this fan is not turning but the RGB is plugged in this fan is turning but the RGB is not plugged in on that one so we can check that in in a second that's not something that's going to be detrimental to making the system boot though we need to see whether or not we actually get a post we have a red light not sure no still going through posts well it looks like it went through all the posts and succeeded but we don't have an image so let's see we have a hard drive light flashing too if it shut there so it was posted I don't know why we're not getting an image so who knows if this GPU is even plugged in so now we're going to take a look at the back now usually a tech working on a computer would have some information customer States it's like just rolled in right customer states have slight vibration the a arm is Rusted off right kind of a thing but I have no idea what any of the issues are with this system or what the problems could have potentially been so this is all just blind now I'm trying to figure out why that RGB was not on that top fan but that's kind of not a problem if we're not posting So Not only was the Super zip tide tight the VGA as you can see was not even plugged in so that's why we weren't getting any VGA signal I'm wondering too if maybe EPS was one of these not plugged in as well well could be looks like neither EPS well I know if EPS wasn't plugged in I don't think we would actually get power at all like power button wouldn't do anything they tried to hide it by having that all bundled Down super tight so they made me have to actually pull the power supply I'll worry about the heat sink fan later cuz it's not that huge of a deal like it's still getting cooling passively through the tower okay now the lights are going through much quicker on their test oh wait I'll push the ram all the way back in now cuz it wasn't there so so far we found unplugged power or GPU cable for the power supply fan is unplugged in backwards RGB is not working on that fan I don't know if that's intentional or unintentional and the ram was not seated all the way there we go got blue light okay so at least we're going to post now I'm not even going to worry about the BIOS and XMP and all that until I figure out what's happening with that fans there like as far as I can tell they that RGB should be working but I hate daisy chain fans cuz it becomes very difficult to trace them like especially when they're all like tangled up like this and then taped together regardless I need to take care of the CPU fan first where do I want to plug that one in then because they have something plugged in the CPU fan right now that's not the CPU fan so I'm going to switch CPU fan to there it's not a lot of headers on this motherboard for fans that's part of the problem okay so I flip this fan around um it's a little crooked I guess I could make it a little straighter it's off a couple but that's an easy fix there was another fan one of the front case fans was plugged into the CPU header so I unplugged that one I'm going to move it back to a chassis header and leave the CPU fan plugged into the CPU header that way it can go up and down with speeds with uh pwm load and I'm going to fix this fan cuz it's not bugging me all right so I figured out why the RGB wasn't working now infinite power you just had it plugged into itself and you taped it even with the tape you didn't give me a knife no no no I got to do this the the worst way possible all right give me the damn knife oh no wa I got it so since I knew the GPU fan Orum me the CPU fan is working I'm going to take this guy off of here plug him into here okay okay you don't get extra points for causing your own problems I would have so many points okay I think we're good let's see no I said that for a reason dude yeah I know what look at the ha nice I would have noticed it so he's adamant that I run stress tests I have a feeling there might be some thermal paste missing from this cooler or one of the coolers or something this is adamit that I run stress test okay here we go so our platform I can finally see it's a 5600 x3d wow this actually is not a slch of a system here uh on a b550 MC motherboard 32 gigs of RAM so both our ra gigs our both our gigs both our sticks of ram are showing they're not at XMP but that's okay everything's probably been reset so that'd be easy enough uh let's go to XMP profile there we go we'll just enable that all right so I'm in the OS it's actually Windows 10 they were like you might want to check your bios again so I don't know I'm going to see what I can see here first committed to slats Ed two four so both dims are are there I was curious like maybe one of these was like a a weird unmatched something or another so but it seems to be all match at 3200 what's our GPU it's an RTX 46 that's a 46 wow that's so tiny I guess I'm just so used to the other ones now I don't know I can't if the seos battery might be under the GPU I have a feeling they removed the seos battery and what would end up happening at that point is when you shut it down it should still stay powered up with settings cuz it's plugged into the power supply if that were the case but I have a feeling there may not be a seos battery in here yeah I have no doubt you guys are probably talking about bios uh Coss battery but you have to turn power supply off if that's going to be the case because it stays persistent the motherboard stays powered through the power supply until you turn off that power switch when you turn off the power switch if there's no battery installed then the seos settings will reset so I could have turned the system off a 100 times until I turn off that power supply it would have stay kept the settings uh stored in there but it's not going to be guaranteed that it's going to immediately reset it settings if you turn the system off let's say you get a power outage or you unplug it or something your dog unplugs it your C batter is bad it sits there overnight all the Caps are going to drain and then the settings will completely uh return to what they were okay so it is a seos battery that's just unplugged okay so I found the seos pattery it's one of those weird ones where they have it like glued in sideways so you can see it right here that's the seos battery glued in there but it's in this little harness but the harness was unplowed so what should have happened and I wouldn't have caught this only because of the fact that once the system's plugged in and it doesn't lose power long enough it would not have reset it settings so that would have been a missed item mostly due to the length of time I'm sitting here with the system and then there's one other thing I want to check for I'm going to do a full shutdown yeah I don't feel like these GPU fans ever turn even a zero RPM fan when you first turn on the power the computer the fan should spin up and usually that's just for dust moves dust and kind of does a full post on the on the GPU as well well but those are not turning I have a feeling on the bottom side those fan plugs might have been accessible and they unplugged them I have a feeling of that told you it was going to be accessible you know the only reason I even thought about this is because of the fact that I just noticed that the fans were not spinning up on initial startup and we just repaired one of these harnesses on E evj GPU that had a bad fan harness so I just was like betu is accessible okay let's see if I can remember all of the issues uh number one was the CPU fan was installed backwards number two the GPU in the order I kind of found them the GPU harness was unplugged the ram was not seated all the way on the right side XMP was not enabled nothing else was really messed with in the uh bios that I could tell the front fan was turning but had no RGB because it was like plugged into itself so I fixed that CPU fan was not plugged in the CPU header it was UN unplugged entirely so I pluged that back in the CPU header and plug the chassis fan back in the chassis header that was one right okay you were looking for that I would have the headers in the right order okay um let's see the GPU fan or actually before that the Coss harness was unplugged for the seos battery and then the GPU fans were unplugged from the bottom of the GPU and I think that's all of them all right now the first one's done is it really 11:00 okay so all right system number two we're probably not going to do number three I think because how long it's taking already for the first one but uh this one I've been warned might take a little more time so let's just see what we got here first of all I like to do an initial kind of a once over all right I don't like how the RAM sticks are next to each other a single Channel that's an easy one what is this platform anyway it's Intel platform well one of the problems I see is it's a Cooler Master AIO cuz no one has enough time to say the whole name I see a couple of CPU or a couple fan headers that are off right here so you see these two right here there two fan headers that are off that's a DC fan that's a pwm fan that's probably the splitter for the AO I don't even know if those are the correct ports but I'm just going to go ahead and break it probably this is why they just unplugged them halfway they knew that my fat fingers were going to fit down in there okay that's visually all I can see so far so I'm not even going to open the back yet typically I like to just see if it'll post which it more than likely won't cuz this is the whole point of this challenge which means I'm doing this for no reason at all and yep that's what I figured uh power switch is plugged into the power LED so that's this guy right here on the bottom see Power s SW that's plugged in all the way to the left that would be power LED and it's kind of hard to see in there yay I was like wait a minute weird fake it happens with Intel systems this is a higher-end platform you can tell by this motherboard I should have switched the ram already but I'm not too concerned with that I just want to see if we at least get an image we do okay done just kidding it's a pump turning yes the pump is turning I can feel the vibration fans are turning yep yep that's turning those are turning the right direction see on the surface right now oh yeah these fans were turning I just saw them slow down so the GPU fans were turning but on the surface it's like this just seems like a fully working computer but we know better than that because I asked him to do stuff okay well the fans are plugged in so that's good what is this card this is a or 4070 okay hang on to that Nick no so the fact that it posted means the ram is at least seated enough satisfying click okay seos battery is installed right there I can see it okay we're in the Bios my CPU is at 53 I find this to be a bit warm what is this a z690 54 13th gen 13700 K idling at 54 de C in the BIOS on an AIO this might end up I have a feeling this if they're going to it's going up now 55 54 this is one I feel like they might have screwed around with the thermal paste on do I need thermal paste you either do or you don't 55 SE it idle in the Bios is not okay just saying all right the cooler immediately was like sideways so that means there's clearly nothing in there yeah look at that that is one clean CPU right there you know what I love about PC Building simulator is it will also let you do that PC Building simulator really is a a therapeutic just and because the parts look so I correct because they really are like image quality scans for the for the models you can mix and match and play around with what components look like on that and they're always adding new stuff I know it sounds like an ad it's not I'm only saying that cuz my daughter came to the studio the other day and built a computer my youngest daughter because she was like I want to build a computer so you're not taking it home she like I don't care I just want to build one I told her I said you know there's a game where you can do this all day she's like what I want it so did you someh break it no did you somehow break it so he has two different speed Rams in here Rams Rams 65600 so when I went to enable XMP you can put Mis mismatch sticks in it's only going to XMP to the slowest Ram stick yay okay so now we can Rebox these to the correct so I'm going to take out the 5600 cuz nobody wants to play with you anymore you look at the capacity huh 5,800 uh okay so let me install Prime 95 cuz they gave me that so I'm assuming I need to use that for some reason 85c 99c 100 C instantly 100 C it's throttling so hard it can't even stop the I suspect these brackets are upside down so it's not making proper tension I'll be able to tell right now when I take it off and check the thermal paste oh there's plastic on there yay y so I never even checked the bottom of the cooler it actually got got by this was a used system did you just find one from a different one okay well look how nice and spread our thermal paste is now that's it we did that on purpose to show you guys the right way to spread thermal past you would think I would have learned my lesson of taking stuff in green like what's going on down in there and then putting it back without looking at the thing considering I did that with the GPU today I even told Jeremy about the time I did that with the cover for the SSD it was stuck to the cover I have a feeling we're going to be fine now hey 82 I hope you guys have learned something today always check the stupid plastic on your cooler although this was not this was not a new build I would not have expected that plastic to be there like a new pc that somebody put together like they put it I put it together and it's running hot what's the matter if it was all new parts I might have suspected that but with all the like old human skin inside of this I would have never considered that to be the issue so they literally went and found one and stuck on there um the other thing you should really take away from this is that you guys don't have to rely on people like me because Microcenter does have the tech bar which is full of text that are here to help with installing your new components you may have bought at the store maybe fixing or upgrading A system that has a problem or just general you know maintenance on a PC if you're not comfortable doing it yourself my channel is all about helping you be able to do it on your own but some people are just not comfortable with that so obviously the tech bar exists anyway I hope you guys have enjoyed today's video um I have no problems making myself look like a missing simple stuff um for the sake of your guys' learning potential but uh with that I'm going to go ahead and get on out of here Jeremy can clean up the mess that's the best part about coming to Micro Center is I don't have to clean it he does so or whoever he makes do it but whatever time to get out of here guys thanks for watching as always we'll see you in the next onehey what's going on everyone jense here and we're here at Micro Center in Tustin California you guys know that's our home Microcenter store uh we're here actually featuring The Tech bar today and I got kind of a fun challenge here where uh we're going to see whether or not they can sabotage some PCS and I can figure out what's wrong with them as sort of like a little impromptu Tech Challenge uh but first logo the height y70 dual chamber ATX PC case provides users The Familiar look and feel of the y60 with an increased component compatibility and thermal performance with four unique colorways and a beautifully crafted three-piece panoramic glass the y70 provides a clear window into the heart of your PC it's expanded four- slot vertical GPU support with an included 4.0 pcie Riser cable provides ample room for the largest graphics cards while additional space between the edge of the card and the glass provides improved air flow up to 3 120 mm fans can be mounted below the GPU to provide a direct path of cooling while up to 360 mm aios can be mounted to both the top and side y70 also provides up to 180 mm of clearance for air coolers to learn more about the height y70 visit the sponsored Link in the description below so the cool thing about the tech bar if you guys aren't aware think of it as like um kind of like a service center for your computer it doesn't matter if it's one that you bought here or your own that you built at home if you're having problems with your system you can bring it here to help diagnose it uh get it fixed or repaired make sure everything's running correctly let's say you came into the store and you bought some components and you wanted to have those installed cuz maybe you're not familiar with how to do it you can also do that here as well um you can also get general maintenance done here virus scans virus removal data recovery all sorts of stuff can be done right here at the tech bar um but to kind of put some of what they go through kind of to the test like I said I had them secretly sabotage a couple of their power spec systems uh and then kind of keep track of what they did and see whether or not I can go in there and actually figure out all of the problems um I told them to just do everything from Maybe Might something might be considered what a new Builder might accidentally do when putting together a system all the way to maybe things that are not just they're just intentionally not right that may not even necessarily go looking for because it's so so unorthodox on the kind of problems we'd come across so with that said let's go ahead and head into the tech bar behind the scenes and their like work area and let's see what they've got ready for us okay so here I am in the back area of the tech bar this is where all like the repairs and upgrades and services are performed so I thought it'd be fun like I kind of already alluded to that it'd be fun to have them sabotage some of their open box systems here to see whether or not I could figure out what's wrong with them sort of like what we did with the Linus tech tech challenge with Steve if you will so I kind of gave them free reain do whatever you want to the systems I didn't I think they're above and beyond what a typical system that would come in for services like but I just thought that this would be kind of a fun idea so I don't know anything about what's wrong with them I was told they kind of went ham with them but that all the parts in there work so no part swap should be necessary I'm hoping because there's no parts here to test with but I have no idea what's wrong with these so we're going to kind of go through these one at a time I already see one thing on this system here that's sort of bugging me and that is the fact that the cooler fan is backward WS it's pulling air through so if you look right here you can see this deep cool fan is pulling air through that way and you never want a single fan to be pulling air through a heat sink cuz it could pull in through the sides you want it to be pushing air through so that's one thing I'm going to be changing on there but past that I don't know so let's go ahead and just turn it on and see what we got that's got to be the first thing before I go unplug in and moving things around everything appears to be plugged in so far in terms of power and stuff let's see the eight pin looked like nope we're good power s on oh that's a good start okay well the Fan's not turning so this fan is not turning but the RGB is plugged in this fan is turning but the RGB is not plugged in on that one so we can check that in in a second that's not something that's going to be detrimental to making the system boot though we need to see whether or not we actually get a post we have a red light not sure no still going through posts well it looks like it went through all the posts and succeeded but we don't have an image so let's see we have a hard drive light flashing too if it shut there so it was posted I don't know why we're not getting an image so who knows if this GPU is even plugged in so now we're going to take a look at the back now usually a tech working on a computer would have some information customer States it's like just rolled in right customer states have slight vibration the a arm is Rusted off right kind of a thing but I have no idea what any of the issues are with this system or what the problems could have potentially been so this is all just blind now I'm trying to figure out why that RGB was not on that top fan but that's kind of not a problem if we're not posting So Not only was the Super zip tide tight the VGA as you can see was not even plugged in so that's why we weren't getting any VGA signal I'm wondering too if maybe EPS was one of these not plugged in as well well could be looks like neither EPS well I know if EPS wasn't plugged in I don't think we would actually get power at all like power button wouldn't do anything they tried to hide it by having that all bundled Down super tight so they made me have to actually pull the power supply I'll worry about the heat sink fan later cuz it's not that huge of a deal like it's still getting cooling passively through the tower okay now the lights are going through much quicker on their test oh wait I'll push the ram all the way back in now cuz it wasn't there so so far we found unplugged power or GPU cable for the power supply fan is unplugged in backwards RGB is not working on that fan I don't know if that's intentional or unintentional and the ram was not seated all the way there we go got blue light okay so at least we're going to post now I'm not even going to worry about the BIOS and XMP and all that until I figure out what's happening with that fans there like as far as I can tell they that RGB should be working but I hate daisy chain fans cuz it becomes very difficult to trace them like especially when they're all like tangled up like this and then taped together regardless I need to take care of the CPU fan first where do I want to plug that one in then because they have something plugged in the CPU fan right now that's not the CPU fan so I'm going to switch CPU fan to there it's not a lot of headers on this motherboard for fans that's part of the problem okay so I flip this fan around um it's a little crooked I guess I could make it a little straighter it's off a couple but that's an easy fix there was another fan one of the front case fans was plugged into the CPU header so I unplugged that one I'm going to move it back to a chassis header and leave the CPU fan plugged into the CPU header that way it can go up and down with speeds with uh pwm load and I'm going to fix this fan cuz it's not bugging me all right so I figured out why the RGB wasn't working now infinite power you just had it plugged into itself and you taped it even with the tape you didn't give me a knife no no no I got to do this the the worst way possible all right give me the damn knife oh no wa I got it so since I knew the GPU fan Orum me the CPU fan is working I'm going to take this guy off of here plug him into here okay okay you don't get extra points for causing your own problems I would have so many points okay I think we're good let's see no I said that for a reason dude yeah I know what look at the ha nice I would have noticed it so he's adamant that I run stress tests I have a feeling there might be some thermal paste missing from this cooler or one of the coolers or something this is adamit that I run stress test okay here we go so our platform I can finally see it's a 5600 x3d wow this actually is not a slch of a system here uh on a b550 MC motherboard 32 gigs of RAM so both our ra gigs our both our gigs both our sticks of ram are showing they're not at XMP but that's okay everything's probably been reset so that'd be easy enough uh let's go to XMP profile there we go we'll just enable that all right so I'm in the OS it's actually Windows 10 they were like you might want to check your bios again so I don't know I'm going to see what I can see here first committed to slats Ed two four so both dims are are there I was curious like maybe one of these was like a a weird unmatched something or another so but it seems to be all match at 3200 what's our GPU it's an RTX 46 that's a 46 wow that's so tiny I guess I'm just so used to the other ones now I don't know I can't if the seos battery might be under the GPU I have a feeling they removed the seos battery and what would end up happening at that point is when you shut it down it should still stay powered up with settings cuz it's plugged into the power supply if that were the case but I have a feeling there may not be a seos battery in here yeah I have no doubt you guys are probably talking about bios uh Coss battery but you have to turn power supply off if that's going to be the case because it stays persistent the motherboard stays powered through the power supply until you turn off that power switch when you turn off the power switch if there's no battery installed then the seos settings will reset so I could have turned the system off a 100 times until I turn off that power supply it would have stay kept the settings uh stored in there but it's not going to be guaranteed that it's going to immediately reset it settings if you turn the system off let's say you get a power outage or you unplug it or something your dog unplugs it your C batter is bad it sits there overnight all the Caps are going to drain and then the settings will completely uh return to what they were okay so it is a seos battery that's just unplugged okay so I found the seos pattery it's one of those weird ones where they have it like glued in sideways so you can see it right here that's the seos battery glued in there but it's in this little harness but the harness was unplowed so what should have happened and I wouldn't have caught this only because of the fact that once the system's plugged in and it doesn't lose power long enough it would not have reset it settings so that would have been a missed item mostly due to the length of time I'm sitting here with the system and then there's one other thing I want to check for I'm going to do a full shutdown yeah I don't feel like these GPU fans ever turn even a zero RPM fan when you first turn on the power the computer the fan should spin up and usually that's just for dust moves dust and kind of does a full post on the on the GPU as well well but those are not turning I have a feeling on the bottom side those fan plugs might have been accessible and they unplugged them I have a feeling of that told you it was going to be accessible you know the only reason I even thought about this is because of the fact that I just noticed that the fans were not spinning up on initial startup and we just repaired one of these harnesses on E evj GPU that had a bad fan harness so I just was like betu is accessible okay let's see if I can remember all of the issues uh number one was the CPU fan was installed backwards number two the GPU in the order I kind of found them the GPU harness was unplugged the ram was not seated all the way on the right side XMP was not enabled nothing else was really messed with in the uh bios that I could tell the front fan was turning but had no RGB because it was like plugged into itself so I fixed that CPU fan was not plugged in the CPU header it was UN unplugged entirely so I pluged that back in the CPU header and plug the chassis fan back in the chassis header that was one right okay you were looking for that I would have the headers in the right order okay um let's see the GPU fan or actually before that the Coss harness was unplugged for the seos battery and then the GPU fans were unplugged from the bottom of the GPU and I think that's all of them all right now the first one's done is it really 11:00 okay so all right system number two we're probably not going to do number three I think because how long it's taking already for the first one but uh this one I've been warned might take a little more time so let's just see what we got here first of all I like to do an initial kind of a once over all right I don't like how the RAM sticks are next to each other a single Channel that's an easy one what is this platform anyway it's Intel platform well one of the problems I see is it's a Cooler Master AIO cuz no one has enough time to say the whole name I see a couple of CPU or a couple fan headers that are off right here so you see these two right here there two fan headers that are off that's a DC fan that's a pwm fan that's probably the splitter for the AO I don't even know if those are the correct ports but I'm just going to go ahead and break it probably this is why they just unplugged them halfway they knew that my fat fingers were going to fit down in there okay that's visually all I can see so far so I'm not even going to open the back yet typically I like to just see if it'll post which it more than likely won't cuz this is the whole point of this challenge which means I'm doing this for no reason at all and yep that's what I figured uh power switch is plugged into the power LED so that's this guy right here on the bottom see Power s SW that's plugged in all the way to the left that would be power LED and it's kind of hard to see in there yay I was like wait a minute weird fake it happens with Intel systems this is a higher-end platform you can tell by this motherboard I should have switched the ram already but I'm not too concerned with that I just want to see if we at least get an image we do okay done just kidding it's a pump turning yes the pump is turning I can feel the vibration fans are turning yep yep that's turning those are turning the right direction see on the surface right now oh yeah these fans were turning I just saw them slow down so the GPU fans were turning but on the surface it's like this just seems like a fully working computer but we know better than that because I asked him to do stuff okay well the fans are plugged in so that's good what is this card this is a or 4070 okay hang on to that Nick no so the fact that it posted means the ram is at least seated enough satisfying click okay seos battery is installed right there I can see it okay we're in the Bios my CPU is at 53 I find this to be a bit warm what is this a z690 54 13th gen 13700 K idling at 54 de C in the BIOS on an AIO this might end up I have a feeling this if they're going to it's going up now 55 54 this is one I feel like they might have screwed around with the thermal paste on do I need thermal paste you either do or you don't 55 SE it idle in the Bios is not okay just saying all right the cooler immediately was like sideways so that means there's clearly nothing in there yeah look at that that is one clean CPU right there you know what I love about PC Building simulator is it will also let you do that PC Building simulator really is a a therapeutic just and because the parts look so I correct because they really are like image quality scans for the for the models you can mix and match and play around with what components look like on that and they're always adding new stuff I know it sounds like an ad it's not I'm only saying that cuz my daughter came to the studio the other day and built a computer my youngest daughter because she was like I want to build a computer so you're not taking it home she like I don't care I just want to build one I told her I said you know there's a game where you can do this all day she's like what I want it so did you someh break it no did you somehow break it so he has two different speed Rams in here Rams Rams 65600 so when I went to enable XMP you can put Mis mismatch sticks in it's only going to XMP to the slowest Ram stick yay okay so now we can Rebox these to the correct so I'm going to take out the 5600 cuz nobody wants to play with you anymore you look at the capacity huh 5,800 uh okay so let me install Prime 95 cuz they gave me that so I'm assuming I need to use that for some reason 85c 99c 100 C instantly 100 C it's throttling so hard it can't even stop the I suspect these brackets are upside down so it's not making proper tension I'll be able to tell right now when I take it off and check the thermal paste oh there's plastic on there yay y so I never even checked the bottom of the cooler it actually got got by this was a used system did you just find one from a different one okay well look how nice and spread our thermal paste is now that's it we did that on purpose to show you guys the right way to spread thermal past you would think I would have learned my lesson of taking stuff in green like what's going on down in there and then putting it back without looking at the thing considering I did that with the GPU today I even told Jeremy about the time I did that with the cover for the SSD it was stuck to the cover I have a feeling we're going to be fine now hey 82 I hope you guys have learned something today always check the stupid plastic on your cooler although this was not this was not a new build I would not have expected that plastic to be there like a new pc that somebody put together like they put it I put it together and it's running hot what's the matter if it was all new parts I might have suspected that but with all the like old human skin inside of this I would have never considered that to be the issue so they literally went and found one and stuck on there um the other thing you should really take away from this is that you guys don't have to rely on people like me because Microcenter does have the tech bar which is full of text that are here to help with installing your new components you may have bought at the store maybe fixing or upgrading A system that has a problem or just general you know maintenance on a PC if you're not comfortable doing it yourself my channel is all about helping you be able to do it on your own but some people are just not comfortable with that so obviously the tech bar exists anyway I hope you guys have enjoyed today's video um I have no problems making myself look like a missing simple stuff um for the sake of your guys' learning potential but uh with that I'm going to go ahead and get on out of here Jeremy can clean up the mess that's the best part about coming to Micro Center is I don't have to clean it he does so or whoever he makes do it but whatever time to get out of here guys thanks for watching as always we'll see you in the next one\n"