**Building a PC: A Step-by-Step Guide**

When it comes to building a PC, one of the most daunting tasks can be the physical connections that need to be made. However, with the right tools and patience, anyone can build a powerful machine from scratch. In this article, we will guide you through the process of connecting all the necessary cables and components to create a fully functional computer.

**Applying Pressure**

The first step in building a PC is to apply some pressure. Be aware that cables only go one way, so make sure you're going in the right direction to avoid any damage or inconvenience. When applying pressure, be gentle but firm, as excessive force can cause damage to the cables or components.

**SAT Data Cables**

A key component of building a PC is the SAT data cable, which provides a reassuring click when connected. Take two of these data cables from the Asus motherboard box and plug each one into the end of the SATA data connections on your motherboard. Then, take the other end of the cable and plug it into the corresponding connector on the motherboard.

When running these cables, ensure you're going through the closest grommet hole to the right place. This will make cable management much easier later on. Take two more SATA cables if using multiple drives, which will come in handy when installing Windows next. Run these up now as well if you wish, making cable management a breeze.

**USB 3.0 Cable**

One of the worst things about building a PC is connecting all those fiddly connections easily. The USB 3.0 cable is one of them. This cable looks like this and has pins on the underside, so be careful not to bend these or you'll ruin the connection. Plug it into the corresponding connector on your motherboard, which will enable you to use USB 3.0 ports on the front of the case.

**HD Audio**

Now that we have all the physical connections done, it's time to make those front panel LEDs and F-key buttons work. Take all these small one- and two-pin connectors and this easily labeled block from the motherboard box. Plug all these little connectors onto the block, running them appropriately through the closest grommet hole to the corresponding connection on your motherboard.

This will vary depending on the case you're using, so be sure to refer to the appropriate diagram in your motherboard's manual. Take the completed block assembly and simply slot it onto the front panel pins on your board or other boards from other manufacturers may have slightly different requirements.

**Graphics Card**

Finally, it's time for the graphics card. I opted for NVIDIA's GTX 1070, an 8GB triple-fan model from Asus. Screw the thumb screws on the appropriate PCI cover from the brackets on the rear of your case, which are pretty tight and required a screwdriver to remove. Keep those brackets safe as they may come in handy if you decide to change your PCI connections or add another GPU.

Take the GPU and align it with the PCI slot on your motherboard. Pull back the tab on the PCI 3.0 x16 slot and align the PCI connector on the GPU with the motherboard slot. Push this in, and the carab will slot in nicely. The tab on the end should clip back down, and the GPU display connectors should be accessible out of the back of your PC.

Take those thumb screws that we removed earlier and screw them back in to secure the GPU in place. Make sure they're tightened firmly enough to hold the GPU up a little bit, as an otherwise-screwed-in or saggy GPU is no good for anyone. With this step, you now need to give your GPU power.

**Power Connection**

The GTX 1070 only takes a 6+2 pink connection, so take one of these Silverstone extension cables and plug that into the GPU. Run it through the appropriate grommet on your motherboard and then take that modular du 6+2 Pin cable from your power supply. Plug it into the modular interface on the power supply and finally, into this connector on the GPU. Your GPU now has power.

**LED Strip Connection**

To add a finishing touch to your build, I added an LED strip to my PC, which simply plugs into this connector on the motherboard. It's similar to connecting a standard LED strip connection box. Plug it in, and your case will be illuminated from behind.

**Final Check**

Slide the side panels back on and turn on your PC. With all the cables and components connected properly, you should see a light-up display of lights and hear the whirring of fans. This is just the beginning; now that you know how to build a PC, you're ready to start tinkering with your new machine.

**Conclusion**

Building a PC can seem daunting at first, but with these steps, you'll be well on your way to creating a powerful and functional computer from scratch. Don't forget to subscribe, like, share, and follow my Twitter account @geeka for more content like this. Happy building!

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enI'm welcome back to another geeka video and today I'm taking you over the Ultima Kate gaming PC build for 2017 from the 8 GB GTX 1070 to the top end i77700k make sure to drop a like in And subscribe let's get straight into it now this video will be broken down into three parts first I'm going to run you through the components and why I chose them followed by tutorial and finishing off with benchmarks if you want to skip to any of those chapters the time Stamps will be on your screen now and in the description below but let's get into it with the parts I chose and why now Intel's core i77700k is their highest than kbl Lake CPU need I say anymore out of the box has a stock clock speed of an insanely High 4.2 GHz and can overclock to 5 GHz absolutely no problem it's a quadcore CPU uh that's great for gaming with fast single threaded performance and even video editing uh productivity test streaming that kind of thing this is a superb CPU for that and whilst its performance increase over the i76700k certainly isn't the biggest incremental performance increase we've seen from previous Intel CPU releases it's certainly a good chip and great for productivity tasks if you're looking for a quadcore kbl lake chip you can do some video editing and streaming and of course gaming on this is a great option for you for what uses a great CPU with great potential to overclocking performance if you haven't got a good CPU caller that can facilitate for that caller Master sarden 24v is an all-in-one solution with a 240 mm radiator that covers all the bases it also isn't the most expensive cooler in their lineup so if you do want to spend a little bit more money I'd recommend their Master liquid Pro 240 that I've been using with my personal rig for quite some time either way both coers are fantastic options with great performance respectively now it's time for the motherboard and this was an easy Choice a to sent over their Maximus 9 hero for review for launch of kbl Lake now this z270 board has a whole host of features and I would highly suggest you check out my full review of this board to really see what it has to Showcase which you can see in the card section up here now it's a fantastic motherboard with RGB personalization it's a kind of a black undersight gray kind of stealth design everything really worked with those RGB colors you can really personalize this board it's got USB 2 USB 3 USB 3.1 and Thunderbolt headers on the board as well with a fantastic iio Arrangement support for SLI and Crossfire with an included hard piece PCB SLI bridge and also support for up to 64 GB of RAM it's an incredible motherboard I really would suggest you check it out in that review in the card section now it is a little bit on the pricey side but isn't that highest end board has plenty USB 3 and USB 2 ports on that rear iio and has all the features and functionality we'll need from a whole host of sata 3 6 GB the second port to a range of connectors including a four pin header for 50/50 uh LED 12vt strips which will allow you to plug in just standard cheap LED strips like I've got in the background here without a problem and I'll leave links to those for Amazon in the description below as I will for all the other parts overall an incredibly good motherboard Choice comes in at around £250 under $300 I believe in the US really great choice in terms of ram editing videos on a frequent basis like I do I really do know the requirements for memory as soon as you open after effects and Premier you start doing a bit of video editing soon you start live streaming you putting some overlays on you can soon eat up RAM and most for gaming at 16 gigs is plenty you can even probably scrap down to eight in the system that we've chosen here 32 gigs is absolutely perfect I love 32 gigs of RAM we've gone for four dims as well so you're going to be getting great that extra bandwidth with dual and quad Channel performance really really solid Choice corsair's vengeance lpx is R I've been using in my personal system for around about a year now and I've had no instability issues I use their DDR3 uh predecessor as well for quite some time in my first ever PC I'm going to wholeheartedly recommend this stuff um much like some of the other components in this build it wasn't sent to me as a review sample and some of that I instead bought for my own editing PC you got to stick with what's reliable and this thing comes in a range of colors as well overall a solid choice and you can get it in a range of speeds from 2133 MHz or do up to about 3,000 if you wish for storage this was once again quite an Easy Choice you could have gone for some elaborate raid zero SSD array with like four hard drives and just completely over egged it now storage really justes depend on your needs my editing PC that I keep referring to has 2 4 TB hard drives and that's slowly not becoming enough and a raid raid zero array of ssds for super fast editing and scratch disc performance overall though a Samsung 850 Pro 256 GB SSD paired with a 2 TB segate Barracuda hard drive is the perfect combination 2 terb of hard drive storage gives all the room you're going to need for your steam libraries your movies your music all of that kind of thing your SSD is going to be perfect you're install a Windows and this 256 gig size will give you around about 220 GB spare for important documents and files that you want to back up of on your SSD and your hard drive and also perhaps like GTA if you want super fast loading times on certain games in terms of graphics card that's really what makes a gaming PC a gaming PC and really wear a lot of the performance comes from this high-end i7 is going to give us no bottlenecking so you really possibly could end up if you wanted to with two Titan XPS and have no issues however I'd recommend either the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 or 1080 I went for the 1070 cuz I feel this is more than enough for 1440p and even 4K gaming and it also gives good upgrade pass to add another 1070 in that high band with SLI later on down the line This Asus Republic of Gamers stricks model is superb the LED customization is fantastic and you can actually sync the LEDs on this up with the LED strips plugged into the motherboard and the LEDs on the motherboard heat sinks that kind of thing for a really cohesive system it's an incredibly good card you're going to get some fantastic frame rates you're looking high in ultra settings across the board anti-alias in it supports g-sync it's also got very solid IO with two hdmis and two display ports so support for VR headsets as well which require more than one HDMI connection overall it's a very very around a graphics card with a great calling solution you've got three fans on here which even up to about 60% load depending on case airflow conditions won't kick it I've been using it in my editing system kind of my test rig putting it through its Paces for the past few weeks now after I included it in this build that I benchmarked and I'm showing you today and I since had no problems whatsoever overall a superb graphics card from Asus to how this system I reached out to the guys at calling us and I was like I really want to do a highend build with a really nice case what do you recommend so they sent over their Master box at 5T now this is a really nice case it's got an LED under the front as well to illuminate it red it follows a red and black color scheme throughout which really matches with that Asus black and red athetic although those Asus components are very col customizable it's a really nice case with a good iio it's got a glossy back finish at the front and supports a load of radiator and fan mounting options it carries on that modular design from their other master case options you can add more hard drives in if hard drive sleds in if you want more SSD mounting points you can customize and modify a load of features about this case no problem overall a great option and I'll have a review up of this very very soon indeed superb case has all the features we need and even includes a power supply shroud for hiding your nasty power supply wires oh and a red motherboard uh kind of plate which looks incredible really sets this apart from some of the other uh compet ition cases on the market for the power supply coer Master were lovely enough to already send out the cooler in the case so I thought why not we'll just go for the full ship bang they offered to send me over the v750 I wanted something with an 80 plus gold rating which this has I wanted something that was modular or semi modular so you only plug in the cables you need for decreased cable clutter which this is and I wanted something that was cool quiet and efficient this takes all of those boxes it also looks quite nice even if we are hiding it with our shroud and is very efficient as I said with that 80 plus gold rating now many people think oh I'm going for quite a highend graphics card here 1070 1080 territory must need a 1500 W power supply simply not true you don't need anything more than 750 WT especially for a single GPU setup even with a incredibly beefy overclock on the CPU and you could even probably get away with adding another 1070 in here no problem PC Hardware has got a lot more efficient over the past few years with release on release especially when you move down to that 14 and 16 nanometer manufacturing process for the latest Intel CPUs AMD CPUs and Nvidia graphics cards it really is a plenty of wattage plenty of headro it's super efficient which is a really really big deal with the build of this caliber it isn't going to Output a hell of a lot of heat either just a perfect option when it comes to power supplies couple of other things I bought was uh some 50/50 12vt LED strips as I previously mentioned and some sleeved cable extensions from Silverstone off Amazon now these are just going to basically plop onto the end of these Corner mastered cables and I went for red and black ones just to blend in with the case color scheme and also the LEDs they're not going to change to red in the Asus software for maximum personalization uh just a couple of extra things that I think will make the system look even better and I'll put links to those in the description below not necessary for the system to work or turn on any of that kind of stuff but just a really nice thing to have so let's head over to the build tutorial and get this thing assembled and we'll finish up with some benchmarks now that I've covered the parts that I'm going to be using in this video let's hop into tutorial mode so I can show you how it's done first we're going to take the case Corner Masters masterbox 5T they were kind enough to send this over and I'll have a review up of this case on the channel very soon take off both case side panels by un screwing the thumb screws you may need to use a screwdriver here and store these in the case box the last thing you want to do is stand on one it hurts like stepping on damn Lego or Worse break it spare side panels are very very hard to Source trust me we're going to start by installing the power supply remove the shield that hides the PSU area there's a single thumb screw and it just slides toward the front of the case and right out slide in the power supply and screw the four screws that look like this generally the largest you use when boarding the PC in a cross pattern from the rear of the case this case has ventilation on the bottom side which will allow the power supply to intake fresh cool air from the bottom meaning that the unit will be installed faced fans side down into the case the power supply will then exhaust this now hot air out the rear of its case creating its own kind of Thermal Zone which won't affect the heat output of any of the other components don't put the power supply Shield back on yet as we'll need access to these connections later on that's the power supply and case out of the way for now turn to install the io Shield take it from the motherboard box it will label all of the ports and connections snap it into the the square cut out of the case with the audio connections at the bottom make sure all four corners are in correctly and that the text is of course readable from the outside as what is the point now time to install the CPU and RAM remove the motherboard from its box unboxing this acus motherboard is in a bit more of a journey than unboxing you can place the motherboard back on the box or on your building surface my white desk does the job take your chosen kbl chip this one's the quadcore top end i77700k model lift up the arm of the CPU socket and pull the top metal plate up and out of the way align the Golden Triangle on the CPU the triangle on the motherboard and place your CPU in you can give it a bit of a wheel from the sides to install ensure it's properly aligned and then proceed to slap the metal plate back down under the screw on the motherboard and pull the retention arm down this will seed our CPU onto the motherboard socket don't handle the CPU bites Underside and certainly don't touch the pins on the motherboard socket you bend them and it's game over given this is an Intel CPU more pressure will inevitably need to be applied when pulling the arm down but remember pressure and force are two completely different things if in doubt just take it out and start again now that the cpu's in let's install the ramp I've selected 32 GB for this build and a 4x8 gig configuration I trust this RAM to a stupid degree after buying 32 gigs for my personal Rick which I used to edit all of the Channel's videos since the launch of broadw e and today have had no issues this motherboard has four slots meaning uh we're going to be filling them all and you can take advantage of duel and quad Channel performance RAM installation is super easy along the notch on the Ram with a corresponding notch on the board lift up the retention clip or clips and use both hands to push the ram down and in with this being a higher end board it only has a retention clip on one side of the ram dims I've actually seen this make RAM installation harder on my x99 GB board but the execution here is really great and it actually seems to make it easier apply even pressure to each side and the clip should naturally clip into the indent on the side of the ram you shouldn't have to push these in manually that's it now for our RAM and CPU next we're going to be installing the motherboard into the case one of the standoffs in this case is actually slightly raised which will hold the board nicely in place you will need to screw more standoffs in there when using this fulls sizee ATX board in order to have a standoff behind each motherboard hole which is really important coer Master include these and a screwdriver tool for installing these which is another great addition they've actually coded the motherboard holdes and all you need to do for Boards of this size is to find the standoffs and screw those into the holes labeled a position the mboard over the standoff s ensuring they're all in place and Slot the motherboard IO through the io Shield we installed a moment ago screw the motherboard in with these screws do this in an even cross pattern uh to ensure that all are screwed in correctly and nice and evenly installed now it's time for the CPU coap cool master were kind enough to send over this siden 240v a solid 240 mm radiator which would install at the front of the case I reviewed their latest 120 mm version of this a little while back and I'll link that in the cards now if you're going for a motherboard as high end as this you really want to give yourself plenty of overclock and Headroom and this Cola will certainly allow this if you did want to Splash flash a little bit more cach and push the boat out so to speak Coler Master's Master liquid Pro 240 mm is another great bet and once again my review in the card section now back to installation then first we'll install the radiator to the front of the case the first step is actually going to be to remove this Front plastic case panel you will need to apply a bit more pressure to get this off but once again don't force it you don't want to snap it in half you then want to use these long screws to screw through the holes in the fan through the mounting holes in that front plate of the motherboard and into the radio Ator you may need to remove existing fans in order to do so and these can be placed elsewhere in the case for improved air flow you may want to refer to the CPU call a manual for closer up diagrams of The Next Step however you want to take the back plate from the box and flip it to the inside side take these very long screws with unscrewable heads and that are only threaded at the end and these plastic Stoppers with the Intel side of the back plate showing push these screws through and Slide the stoer over the screw head align the screw to the middle of the three socket mounting slots in order for it to line up properly with the holes in the motherboard now in some cases this may not line up properly but an easy way to kind of figure out what's gone wrong is to ensure that all four screws on each Corner are in the same position whether that be one of three two of three or three of three and these should line up nicely with the holes in the motherboard this motherboard has a tiny back plate at the back and this will stay on unlike some cases in which a larger back plate would be removed the back plate assembly should look like this Slide the screws through the holes in the middle and these will now poke out the front slot this bracket onto the coer the one with diagonal Screw offshoots As opposed to the straight option for AMD screws this rests on the coer and will become very firm in a moment's time take the tube of coer Master thermal paste from the CPU coer box and squeeze an amount as large as a grain of rice don't overdo it because that will mean the connection between the CPU water block and CPU Cooler will be too thick and will actually be very inefficient however you don't want to not put enough on as this may result in poor heat transfer take the thumb screws which look like this and place the water block over the four screws from the back plate which are now sticking through the motherboard place the thumb screws on top and screw them on like so in a cross pattern at this way they'll all be evenly tight and you won't need to use a screwdriver for these just do these as they imply with your thumbs the motherboard is in but currently has no power I bought these sleeve Silverstone PSU cable extensions which are really nice I'll link them in the description below and they come in a range of colors whil they're not necessary for performance aesthetically they're fantastic take the biggest 24 pin extension and clip this into the motherboard run the other end through and plug this into the modula 24 pin cable from the power supply box plug in the other end of this modular 24pin cable to the power supply and you're all sorted just like plugging in a USB extension cable repeat this process but instead for the 8 Pin CPU power connector on the motherboard with the extension look like this and power supply cable that looks like this now time for drive installation first unscrew the thumb screw that holds in the SSD bracket to the top of the hard drive C screw the Samsung 850 Pro 250 GB SSD which Samsung kindly sent over into this bracket and reverse the first step by res screwing the thumb screw back in that's the SSD done next up is the hard drive take one of these sleds from the cage and remove this then use the rubb and damp and screw notches and position them so that they slight into the side of the hard drive ensuring it stays firmly in the sled you also want to make sure that the SATA ports on the drive are facing back in order to plug the drive in talking of SATA ports let's give these drives power and data first up is SATA power take this SATA power cable and plug it into the power supply the harness has connections for multiple drives simultaneously so plug two of these into the two connections on the drive they don't give an audible reassuring click to just apply some pressure be aware though they will only go in one way and a key next up is the SAT of data cables which thankfully do provide a reassuring click take two of these data cables from the Asus motherboard box which are nice or black design and plug each one in to the end of the two Satur data connections and then the other end into the motherboard that looks like this when running these cables ensure you're going through the Clos this grommet and down to the right place cable Tire these up now as well if you wish and this will make cable management much easier later run also you may want to make not if using multiple drives which Drive is plugged into which SATA port on the motherboard which will come in particularly useful when you come to install Windows next it's time to plug in all the fiddly connections easily one of the worst things about building a PC first is the easiest one of all of them USB 3 the cable looks like this and has pins on the under so be careful not to bend these like other cables it is noted and will only go in one way plug it into the corresponding connector on the motherboard and this will enable you to use USB 3 ports on the front of the case now time for HD audio this will allow you to use the headphone and microphone ports on the front of the case which is a really really essential thing it's very similar to USB 2 but has a different pin hole blocked out plug that into its corresponding connector on the board and now that's all the physical front panel connections done now time to make all of those front panel LEDs and F Le buttons work take all of these small one and two pin connectors and this easily labeled block from the motherboard box plug all these little connectors onto the block running them appropriately through the closest grommet hole to the corresponding connection on the motherboard this will vary on a case- toase basis and for this step you may have to refer to the appropriate diagram in your motherboard's manual take the completed block assembly and simply slot this onto the front panel pins on the board on other boards from other manufacturers you may have to do this straight onto the motherboard as just help make it super easy for you another great addition to this Maximus 9 hero board finally it's time for the graphics card I opted as I previously mentioned for nvidia's GTX 1070 an 8 GB triple fam model from Asus and screw the thumb screws on the appropriate PCI cover from the brackets on the rear iio I had to use a screwdriver here as these were pretty tight keep the brackets safe as these may come in handy and as you may need them if you decide to change your PCI connections and installation cards or add another GPU that kind of thing they're overall just really useful to have and pretty much work in any other case take the GPU and align it with the PCI slot on the motherboard pull back the tab on the PCI 3.0 x16 slot and align the PCI connector on the GPU with the motherboard slot push this in and the carab will slot in nicely the tab on the end should clip back down and the GPU display connectors should be accessible out the back of the PC slots now take the thumb screws that we removed literally 10 seconds ago and screw these back in to secure the GPU in place when screwing these in instant short to hold the GPU up a little bit otherwise you're going to be screwing it in or wonky and saggy from the outset and nobody wants that we do of course need to give our GPU power this 1070 only takes a 6 plus 2 pink connection so once again take one of these Silverstone extension cables plug that into the GPU run it through the appropriate grommet on the motherboard and then take that modular du 6+ 2 Pin cable from the power supply plug it into the modular interface on the power supply and then into that cable extension and our GPU now has power and that is it well well almost I added an LED strip to my build which simply plugs into this connector on the motherboard much like you would do with a standard LED strip connection box my review of this board certainly is worth a look in the card section now Slide the side panels back on and turn this baby on that's it for the build tutorial but of course you want to see how it performs right so let's find out the the I'm so I'm so I'm so take but that is it if you did enjoy this video please do drop a like right share it on Facebook and Twitter Instagram Pinterest and even on Tumblr if that's kind of the way you go oh you poor person subscribe to see more content like this as I said drop a like rting follow my Twitter @ geeka but as always we'll see you in the next geeka video I'm the boun theI'm welcome back to another geeka video and today I'm taking you over the Ultima Kate gaming PC build for 2017 from the 8 GB GTX 1070 to the top end i77700k make sure to drop a like in And subscribe let's get straight into it now this video will be broken down into three parts first I'm going to run you through the components and why I chose them followed by tutorial and finishing off with benchmarks if you want to skip to any of those chapters the time Stamps will be on your screen now and in the description below but let's get into it with the parts I chose and why now Intel's core i77700k is their highest than kbl Lake CPU need I say anymore out of the box has a stock clock speed of an insanely High 4.2 GHz and can overclock to 5 GHz absolutely no problem it's a quadcore CPU uh that's great for gaming with fast single threaded performance and even video editing uh productivity test streaming that kind of thing this is a superb CPU for that and whilst its performance increase over the i76700k certainly isn't the biggest incremental performance increase we've seen from previous Intel CPU releases it's certainly a good chip and great for productivity tasks if you're looking for a quadcore kbl lake chip you can do some video editing and streaming and of course gaming on this is a great option for you for what uses a great CPU with great potential to overclocking performance if you haven't got a good CPU caller that can facilitate for that caller Master sarden 24v is an all-in-one solution with a 240 mm radiator that covers all the bases it also isn't the most expensive cooler in their lineup so if you do want to spend a little bit more money I'd recommend their Master liquid Pro 240 that I've been using with my personal rig for quite some time either way both coers are fantastic options with great performance respectively now it's time for the motherboard and this was an easy Choice a to sent over their Maximus 9 hero for review for launch of kbl Lake now this z270 board has a whole host of features and I would highly suggest you check out my full review of this board to really see what it has to Showcase which you can see in the card section up here now it's a fantastic motherboard with RGB personalization it's a kind of a black undersight gray kind of stealth design everything really worked with those RGB colors you can really personalize this board it's got USB 2 USB 3 USB 3.1 and Thunderbolt headers on the board as well with a fantastic iio Arrangement support for SLI and Crossfire with an included hard piece PCB SLI bridge and also support for up to 64 GB of RAM it's an incredible motherboard I really would suggest you check it out in that review in the card section now it is a little bit on the pricey side but isn't that highest end board has plenty USB 3 and USB 2 ports on that rear iio and has all the features and functionality we'll need from a whole host of sata 3 6 GB the second port to a range of connectors including a four pin header for 50/50 uh LED 12vt strips which will allow you to plug in just standard cheap LED strips like I've got in the background here without a problem and I'll leave links to those for Amazon in the description below as I will for all the other parts overall an incredibly good motherboard Choice comes in at around £250 under $300 I believe in the US really great choice in terms of ram editing videos on a frequent basis like I do I really do know the requirements for memory as soon as you open after effects and Premier you start doing a bit of video editing soon you start live streaming you putting some overlays on you can soon eat up RAM and most for gaming at 16 gigs is plenty you can even probably scrap down to eight in the system that we've chosen here 32 gigs is absolutely perfect I love 32 gigs of RAM we've gone for four dims as well so you're going to be getting great that extra bandwidth with dual and quad Channel performance really really solid Choice corsair's vengeance lpx is R I've been using in my personal system for around about a year now and I've had no instability issues I use their DDR3 uh predecessor as well for quite some time in my first ever PC I'm going to wholeheartedly recommend this stuff um much like some of the other components in this build it wasn't sent to me as a review sample and some of that I instead bought for my own editing PC you got to stick with what's reliable and this thing comes in a range of colors as well overall a solid choice and you can get it in a range of speeds from 2133 MHz or do up to about 3,000 if you wish for storage this was once again quite an Easy Choice you could have gone for some elaborate raid zero SSD array with like four hard drives and just completely over egged it now storage really justes depend on your needs my editing PC that I keep referring to has 2 4 TB hard drives and that's slowly not becoming enough and a raid raid zero array of ssds for super fast editing and scratch disc performance overall though a Samsung 850 Pro 256 GB SSD paired with a 2 TB segate Barracuda hard drive is the perfect combination 2 terb of hard drive storage gives all the room you're going to need for your steam libraries your movies your music all of that kind of thing your SSD is going to be perfect you're install a Windows and this 256 gig size will give you around about 220 GB spare for important documents and files that you want to back up of on your SSD and your hard drive and also perhaps like GTA if you want super fast loading times on certain games in terms of graphics card that's really what makes a gaming PC a gaming PC and really wear a lot of the performance comes from this high-end i7 is going to give us no bottlenecking so you really possibly could end up if you wanted to with two Titan XPS and have no issues however I'd recommend either the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 or 1080 I went for the 1070 cuz I feel this is more than enough for 1440p and even 4K gaming and it also gives good upgrade pass to add another 1070 in that high band with SLI later on down the line This Asus Republic of Gamers stricks model is superb the LED customization is fantastic and you can actually sync the LEDs on this up with the LED strips plugged into the motherboard and the LEDs on the motherboard heat sinks that kind of thing for a really cohesive system it's an incredibly good card you're going to get some fantastic frame rates you're looking high in ultra settings across the board anti-alias in it supports g-sync it's also got very solid IO with two hdmis and two display ports so support for VR headsets as well which require more than one HDMI connection overall it's a very very around a graphics card with a great calling solution you've got three fans on here which even up to about 60% load depending on case airflow conditions won't kick it I've been using it in my editing system kind of my test rig putting it through its Paces for the past few weeks now after I included it in this build that I benchmarked and I'm showing you today and I since had no problems whatsoever overall a superb graphics card from Asus to how this system I reached out to the guys at calling us and I was like I really want to do a highend build with a really nice case what do you recommend so they sent over their Master box at 5T now this is a really nice case it's got an LED under the front as well to illuminate it red it follows a red and black color scheme throughout which really matches with that Asus black and red athetic although those Asus components are very col customizable it's a really nice case with a good iio it's got a glossy back finish at the front and supports a load of radiator and fan mounting options it carries on that modular design from their other master case options you can add more hard drives in if hard drive sleds in if you want more SSD mounting points you can customize and modify a load of features about this case no problem overall a great option and I'll have a review up of this very very soon indeed superb case has all the features we need and even includes a power supply shroud for hiding your nasty power supply wires oh and a red motherboard uh kind of plate which looks incredible really sets this apart from some of the other uh compet ition cases on the market for the power supply coer Master were lovely enough to already send out the cooler in the case so I thought why not we'll just go for the full ship bang they offered to send me over the v750 I wanted something with an 80 plus gold rating which this has I wanted something that was modular or semi modular so you only plug in the cables you need for decreased cable clutter which this is and I wanted something that was cool quiet and efficient this takes all of those boxes it also looks quite nice even if we are hiding it with our shroud and is very efficient as I said with that 80 plus gold rating now many people think oh I'm going for quite a highend graphics card here 1070 1080 territory must need a 1500 W power supply simply not true you don't need anything more than 750 WT especially for a single GPU setup even with a incredibly beefy overclock on the CPU and you could even probably get away with adding another 1070 in here no problem PC Hardware has got a lot more efficient over the past few years with release on release especially when you move down to that 14 and 16 nanometer manufacturing process for the latest Intel CPUs AMD CPUs and Nvidia graphics cards it really is a plenty of wattage plenty of headro it's super efficient which is a really really big deal with the build of this caliber it isn't going to Output a hell of a lot of heat either just a perfect option when it comes to power supplies couple of other things I bought was uh some 50/50 12vt LED strips as I previously mentioned and some sleeved cable extensions from Silverstone off Amazon now these are just going to basically plop onto the end of these Corner mastered cables and I went for red and black ones just to blend in with the case color scheme and also the LEDs they're not going to change to red in the Asus software for maximum personalization uh just a couple of extra things that I think will make the system look even better and I'll put links to those in the description below not necessary for the system to work or turn on any of that kind of stuff but just a really nice thing to have so let's head over to the build tutorial and get this thing assembled and we'll finish up with some benchmarks now that I've covered the parts that I'm going to be using in this video let's hop into tutorial mode so I can show you how it's done first we're going to take the case Corner Masters masterbox 5T they were kind enough to send this over and I'll have a review up of this case on the channel very soon take off both case side panels by un screwing the thumb screws you may need to use a screwdriver here and store these in the case box the last thing you want to do is stand on one it hurts like stepping on damn Lego or Worse break it spare side panels are very very hard to Source trust me we're going to start by installing the power supply remove the shield that hides the PSU area there's a single thumb screw and it just slides toward the front of the case and right out slide in the power supply and screw the four screws that look like this generally the largest you use when boarding the PC in a cross pattern from the rear of the case this case has ventilation on the bottom side which will allow the power supply to intake fresh cool air from the bottom meaning that the unit will be installed faced fans side down into the case the power supply will then exhaust this now hot air out the rear of its case creating its own kind of Thermal Zone which won't affect the heat output of any of the other components don't put the power supply Shield back on yet as we'll need access to these connections later on that's the power supply and case out of the way for now turn to install the io Shield take it from the motherboard box it will label all of the ports and connections snap it into the the square cut out of the case with the audio connections at the bottom make sure all four corners are in correctly and that the text is of course readable from the outside as what is the point now time to install the CPU and RAM remove the motherboard from its box unboxing this acus motherboard is in a bit more of a journey than unboxing you can place the motherboard back on the box or on your building surface my white desk does the job take your chosen kbl chip this one's the quadcore top end i77700k model lift up the arm of the CPU socket and pull the top metal plate up and out of the way align the Golden Triangle on the CPU the triangle on the motherboard and place your CPU in you can give it a bit of a wheel from the sides to install ensure it's properly aligned and then proceed to slap the metal plate back down under the screw on the motherboard and pull the retention arm down this will seed our CPU onto the motherboard socket don't handle the CPU bites Underside and certainly don't touch the pins on the motherboard socket you bend them and it's game over given this is an Intel CPU more pressure will inevitably need to be applied when pulling the arm down but remember pressure and force are two completely different things if in doubt just take it out and start again now that the cpu's in let's install the ramp I've selected 32 GB for this build and a 4x8 gig configuration I trust this RAM to a stupid degree after buying 32 gigs for my personal Rick which I used to edit all of the Channel's videos since the launch of broadw e and today have had no issues this motherboard has four slots meaning uh we're going to be filling them all and you can take advantage of duel and quad Channel performance RAM installation is super easy along the notch on the Ram with a corresponding notch on the board lift up the retention clip or clips and use both hands to push the ram down and in with this being a higher end board it only has a retention clip on one side of the ram dims I've actually seen this make RAM installation harder on my x99 GB board but the execution here is really great and it actually seems to make it easier apply even pressure to each side and the clip should naturally clip into the indent on the side of the ram you shouldn't have to push these in manually that's it now for our RAM and CPU next we're going to be installing the motherboard into the case one of the standoffs in this case is actually slightly raised which will hold the board nicely in place you will need to screw more standoffs in there when using this fulls sizee ATX board in order to have a standoff behind each motherboard hole which is really important coer Master include these and a screwdriver tool for installing these which is another great addition they've actually coded the motherboard holdes and all you need to do for Boards of this size is to find the standoffs and screw those into the holes labeled a position the mboard over the standoff s ensuring they're all in place and Slot the motherboard IO through the io Shield we installed a moment ago screw the motherboard in with these screws do this in an even cross pattern uh to ensure that all are screwed in correctly and nice and evenly installed now it's time for the CPU coap cool master were kind enough to send over this siden 240v a solid 240 mm radiator which would install at the front of the case I reviewed their latest 120 mm version of this a little while back and I'll link that in the cards now if you're going for a motherboard as high end as this you really want to give yourself plenty of overclock and Headroom and this Cola will certainly allow this if you did want to Splash flash a little bit more cach and push the boat out so to speak Coler Master's Master liquid Pro 240 mm is another great bet and once again my review in the card section now back to installation then first we'll install the radiator to the front of the case the first step is actually going to be to remove this Front plastic case panel you will need to apply a bit more pressure to get this off but once again don't force it you don't want to snap it in half you then want to use these long screws to screw through the holes in the fan through the mounting holes in that front plate of the motherboard and into the radio Ator you may need to remove existing fans in order to do so and these can be placed elsewhere in the case for improved air flow you may want to refer to the CPU call a manual for closer up diagrams of The Next Step however you want to take the back plate from the box and flip it to the inside side take these very long screws with unscrewable heads and that are only threaded at the end and these plastic Stoppers with the Intel side of the back plate showing push these screws through and Slide the stoer over the screw head align the screw to the middle of the three socket mounting slots in order for it to line up properly with the holes in the motherboard now in some cases this may not line up properly but an easy way to kind of figure out what's gone wrong is to ensure that all four screws on each Corner are in the same position whether that be one of three two of three or three of three and these should line up nicely with the holes in the motherboard this motherboard has a tiny back plate at the back and this will stay on unlike some cases in which a larger back plate would be removed the back plate assembly should look like this Slide the screws through the holes in the middle and these will now poke out the front slot this bracket onto the coer the one with diagonal Screw offshoots As opposed to the straight option for AMD screws this rests on the coer and will become very firm in a moment's time take the tube of coer Master thermal paste from the CPU coer box and squeeze an amount as large as a grain of rice don't overdo it because that will mean the connection between the CPU water block and CPU Cooler will be too thick and will actually be very inefficient however you don't want to not put enough on as this may result in poor heat transfer take the thumb screws which look like this and place the water block over the four screws from the back plate which are now sticking through the motherboard place the thumb screws on top and screw them on like so in a cross pattern at this way they'll all be evenly tight and you won't need to use a screwdriver for these just do these as they imply with your thumbs the motherboard is in but currently has no power I bought these sleeve Silverstone PSU cable extensions which are really nice I'll link them in the description below and they come in a range of colors whil they're not necessary for performance aesthetically they're fantastic take the biggest 24 pin extension and clip this into the motherboard run the other end through and plug this into the modula 24 pin cable from the power supply box plug in the other end of this modular 24pin cable to the power supply and you're all sorted just like plugging in a USB extension cable repeat this process but instead for the 8 Pin CPU power connector on the motherboard with the extension look like this and power supply cable that looks like this now time for drive installation first unscrew the thumb screw that holds in the SSD bracket to the top of the hard drive C screw the Samsung 850 Pro 250 GB SSD which Samsung kindly sent over into this bracket and reverse the first step by res screwing the thumb screw back in that's the SSD done next up is the hard drive take one of these sleds from the cage and remove this then use the rubb and damp and screw notches and position them so that they slight into the side of the hard drive ensuring it stays firmly in the sled you also want to make sure that the SATA ports on the drive are facing back in order to plug the drive in talking of SATA ports let's give these drives power and data first up is SATA power take this SATA power cable and plug it into the power supply the harness has connections for multiple drives simultaneously so plug two of these into the two connections on the drive they don't give an audible reassuring click to just apply some pressure be aware though they will only go in one way and a key next up is the SAT of data cables which thankfully do provide a reassuring click take two of these data cables from the Asus motherboard box which are nice or black design and plug each one in to the end of the two Satur data connections and then the other end into the motherboard that looks like this when running these cables ensure you're going through the Clos this grommet and down to the right place cable Tire these up now as well if you wish and this will make cable management much easier later run also you may want to make not if using multiple drives which Drive is plugged into which SATA port on the motherboard which will come in particularly useful when you come to install Windows next it's time to plug in all the fiddly connections easily one of the worst things about building a PC first is the easiest one of all of them USB 3 the cable looks like this and has pins on the under so be careful not to bend these like other cables it is noted and will only go in one way plug it into the corresponding connector on the motherboard and this will enable you to use USB 3 ports on the front of the case now time for HD audio this will allow you to use the headphone and microphone ports on the front of the case which is a really really essential thing it's very similar to USB 2 but has a different pin hole blocked out plug that into its corresponding connector on the board and now that's all the physical front panel connections done now time to make all of those front panel LEDs and F Le buttons work take all of these small one and two pin connectors and this easily labeled block from the motherboard box plug all these little connectors onto the block running them appropriately through the closest grommet hole to the corresponding connection on the motherboard this will vary on a case- toase basis and for this step you may have to refer to the appropriate diagram in your motherboard's manual take the completed block assembly and simply slot this onto the front panel pins on the board on other boards from other manufacturers you may have to do this straight onto the motherboard as just help make it super easy for you another great addition to this Maximus 9 hero board finally it's time for the graphics card I opted as I previously mentioned for nvidia's GTX 1070 an 8 GB triple fam model from Asus and screw the thumb screws on the appropriate PCI cover from the brackets on the rear iio I had to use a screwdriver here as these were pretty tight keep the brackets safe as these may come in handy and as you may need them if you decide to change your PCI connections and installation cards or add another GPU that kind of thing they're overall just really useful to have and pretty much work in any other case take the GPU and align it with the PCI slot on the motherboard pull back the tab on the PCI 3.0 x16 slot and align the PCI connector on the GPU with the motherboard slot push this in and the carab will slot in nicely the tab on the end should clip back down and the GPU display connectors should be accessible out the back of the PC slots now take the thumb screws that we removed literally 10 seconds ago and screw these back in to secure the GPU in place when screwing these in instant short to hold the GPU up a little bit otherwise you're going to be screwing it in or wonky and saggy from the outset and nobody wants that we do of course need to give our GPU power this 1070 only takes a 6 plus 2 pink connection so once again take one of these Silverstone extension cables plug that into the GPU run it through the appropriate grommet on the motherboard and then take that modular du 6+ 2 Pin cable from the power supply plug it into the modular interface on the power supply and then into that cable extension and our GPU now has power and that is it well well almost I added an LED strip to my build which simply plugs into this connector on the motherboard much like you would do with a standard LED strip connection box my review of this board certainly is worth a look in the card section now Slide the side panels back on and turn this baby on that's it for the build tutorial but of course you want to see how it performs right so let's find out the the I'm so I'm so I'm so take but that is it if you did enjoy this video please do drop a like right share it on Facebook and Twitter Instagram Pinterest and even on Tumblr if that's kind of the way you go oh you poor person subscribe to see more content like this as I said drop a like rting follow my Twitter @ geeka but as always we'll see you in the next geeka video I'm the boun the\n"