How to Build A COMPUTER Step-By-Step

# Step-by-Step Guide to Building a Custom PC: A Comprehensive Walkthrough

## Introduction

Building a custom PC can be an incredibly rewarding experience, offering you the chance to create a machine tailored exactly to your needs. Whether you're upgrading for gaming, productivity, or simply for the joy of creation, this guide will walk you through every step of the process. The following sections provide a detailed account of each stage, from setting up the motherboard to finalizing the build.

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## Motherboard Setup

The motherboard is the backbone of your PC, and its proper installation is crucial for ensuring compatibility and functionality. Begin by removing the motherboard from its anti-static packaging and carefully inspecting it for any visible damage or defects. It’s essential to handle the board with care, avoiding excessive force when connecting components.

Before installing the motherboard, ensure that the case is ready. Remove any unnecessary brackets and align the IO shield with the motherboard's layout. Secure the IO shield firmly into place using the provided screws. Once the IO shield is in position, gently place the motherboard into the case, taking care to align the standoffs correctly. Use a magnetized screwdriver or your fingers to tighten the screws, ensuring they are snug but not overtightened.

Next, locate and install any necessary risers for PCIe cards. These should be placed perpendicular to the motherboard to avoid contact with components like RAM modules. Double-check that all risers are in the correct position and tightened appropriately.

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## CPU Installation

The Central Processing Unit (CPU) is one of the most critical components of your build. Begin by carefully removing it from its packaging, making sure to avoid touching the pins on the bottom of the chip. Inspect the socket on the motherboard to ensure all pins are straight and free from debris.

Align the CPU with the triangle or notch on the board, ensuring that the orientation matches the arrow on the chip. Gently lower the CPU into place and secure it using the retention mechanism provided by Intel or AMD. For Intel systems, this typically involves closing the lever arms; for AMD systems, press down until you hear a satisfying "click."

If you're using a cooling solution separate from your motherboard, apply a thin layer of thermal paste to the top of the CPU before attaching the cooler. Avoid over-applying the paste, as this can lead to uneven contact and reduced efficiency.

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## Cooling System Setup

A high-quality cooling system is essential for maintaining optimal temperatures and ensuring long-term stability. If you're using an air cooler, install it by aligning the mounting brackets with the holes on the motherboard. Tighten the screws gradually, checking that the cooler remains stable and doesn't wobble.

For liquid cooling systems like the NZXT Kraken X61, follow the included instructions to assemble the pump and radiator. Ensure that all connections are secure and that the tubing is routed correctly for optimal airflow. Mount the pump bracket on the motherboard using the provided screws, taking care not to overtighten them. Once the pump is in place, attach the radiator to your case, securing it with tiny screws and ensuring proper alignment.

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## Storage Drive Installation

Solid State Drives (SSDs) and Hard Disk Drives (HDDs) are essential for storing your operating system, applications, and data. To install an SSD or HDD, locate the appropriate bay in the case—typically on the top, bottom, or side panels—and remove any existing brackets.

If using a 2.5-inch drive, place it directly into a caddy or bracket and secure it with screws. For a 3.5-inch drive, insert it into a mounting frame and fasten it to the case. Once secured, connect the drive to the motherboard using an SATA cable and power it with a SATA power connector.

For M.2 NVMe drives, locate the M.2 slot on the motherboard, aligning the notches on the drive with those on the board. Press the drive firmly into place until it clicks, securing it without the need for screws.

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## Graphics Card Installation

The graphics card is a cornerstone of any gaming PC, providing the visual processing power needed to run modern titles at high settings. Begin by removing the necessary PCIe slot covers from the case and locating the appropriate riser or direct mount location.

Gently insert the graphics card into the PCIe slot, ensuring that it aligns perfectly with the edges of the socket. Secure the card using the provided screws or by tightening the riser's thumbscrews. If you're using a large card like an NVIDIA RTX 3080 or AMD RX 7900 XT, ensure that it does not obstruct other components or cause instability.

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## Cable Management

Proper cable management is essential for both aesthetics and functionality. Begin by routing all power cables to the PSU, ensuring they are secure and do not interfere with airflow within the case. Use zip ties or cable sleeves to bundle excess length, creating a neat and organized appearance.

For components like the CPU cooler and graphics card, route their power connectors through the appropriate holes in the case. Take care to avoid sharp bends that could damage the cables. Once all cables are in place, secure them using the provided clips or fasteners to prevent movement during operation.

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## Final Assembly

Once all components are installed and cabled properly, double-check your work to ensure everything is secure and functioning as intended. Reinstall any panels you removed earlier, securing them with screws. Finally, connect your monitor, keyboard, mouse, and power cable, and prepare for the final step—powering on your new PC.

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## Conclusion

Building a custom PC is a process that combines technical skill, attention to detail, and patience. By following this guide and taking your time with each step, you can create a machine that not only performs exceptionally but also looks great. Remember to always handle components with care, double-check connections, and prioritize proper cooling and cable management for optimal performance.

With your PC now complete, you're ready to enjoy hours of gaming, productivity, or whatever your system is designed for. Happy building!

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwhat you guys got another video here for you this one is going to be another computer build and it's going to be my own personal computer we are buying and building here now I did say buying cuz none of this stuff has been uh donated from any of these companies it's all been bought out of my own our earn cash and as you can see uh is the new 2011 socket which is uh the ddr4 architecture and the reason why I went down that route is because I think it's more future proof now I could have gone and got the 4790k which is a very good processor but I think with this uh in a year's time it's going to be a lot more better so as you can see here we've got the Samsung Evo 840 now this is just for Windows it's 250 gigs and this is just going to be for my Windows operating system and a few other bits and pieces and all the rest is going to go on uh a 2 TB drive so we got the Kraken x61 now also NZXT have been making some really good components and this is why I went with the NZXT Kraken x61 this is a water cold uh closed loop system got some cable tires here and some sleeved LED kit which is from NZXT wanted to give this a test to see what it looked like and uh we've got the G skill rip Jaws 4 which is the ddr4 uh 2400 gz memory I think it is and there's four sticks in here which makes it quad Channel we've got eight uh Bays on the motherboard which means when the price drops I can buy another 16 GB we've got the Platinum Corsair HX 750i now this is an awesome professional uh power supply which will give me plenty of power and we've gone for the Intel i7 5820k this is a sort of Entry uh level into the new architecture 2011 socket but it's going to be ample for what I need and as you can see it's got six cores there okay which I think is uh really important uh for me for what I need to do and it'll just bring me up to that next level now we've also got the gigabyte G1 gaming gForce GTX 970 now this is an awesome graphics card it really is and uh it's pretty big as well and uh it performs very well so I went for the NZXT h440 it was a toss up between this and the fractural R5 but I decided to go for the h440 I think it just add the edge over the R5 and that's just my opinion of course uh but I also went with the MSI gaming 7 x99s and they've been cranking out some really decent motherboards MSI lately and uh this is a really decent motherboard so that's the parts that I've picked uh there may be a few other bits and pieces that I add in but you'll see those in the build itself now you can choose whatever Parts you like you can spend a lot more money than this and go even more higher up the food chain but this is for me uh ample for what I'm going to be needing uh as of right now now the tossup is between whether you should go with the 4790k or whether you should go for this new uh 5820k uh 2011 socket my opinion uh I would go with the uh 5820k 2011 socket but the reason for is it's more uh future proof uh yes the parts are a little bit expensive at the moment but when they come down you can then always Chuck a bit more memory in as what I'm going to be doing here I've got 16 gigs of memory so when the price drops in about a year's time I can then just Chuck another 16 gigs in so that was my fault process and that's the reason I went for it and also it's got a couple of extra cores on that processor I've seen people saying it's not as good for gaming we're talking about a couple of frames per second here but with that graphics card I'm pretty sure it's going to smash any game that I Chuck at it so that's the reason why I went for this uh Parts okay so you can choose your own Parts anyway let's get on with the build and uh we'll see how it goes and what it turns out like Okay so let's start off with the case as you can see here we've this is the case and all this NZXT all lights up as well um but we can talk about that a little bit later on or you can watch my review on the case itself but what we're going to do is we're going to tackle um the power supply first so once we get the power supply out the box we can then put it into its position here now it's not a standard way of installing a power supply because there is an actual um enclosure which encloses the actual power supply so it's slightly different to a stand standard way of installing a power supply so we're just going to remove this little bracket here and this is not standard either a different way of installing a power supply but it's pretty straightforward stuff so you can see there is a little enclosure here where the power supply goes and we're going to have to feed all the cables through there first but before we do that we're going to just give our power supply a quick test to see if it's spinning okay so let's get our power Supply out of it suede bag here they've no expense SP when it comes to spending your money but there you can see we got the suede bag and uh a plastic one there which is the HX 750i and it's a Platinum version it's a really nice power supply it really is fully modular it's got some good weight to it and uh as you can see here you can have the uh fan facing up or down in this case it's probably best to have the fan facing down and there's always been a bit of a debate point debate in my opinion whether the fans better up or down and uh I see a lot of pointless debates going on when it comes to computer hardware uh but you can see there is a filter system here and uh we'll have the fan facing down okay so once we get this um bracket put on so you can see here we've got the screws that go with the power supply and we'll put our actual bracket onto the power supply now this is an unusual way of putting a power supply in but then not all cases have got this enclosure so you've got to bear that in mind okay but the screw holes will always be in these locations here so we're just going to quickly screw this bracket up uh to the power supply so I'm just going to be using a standard phillips screwdriver here now you can use whatever tools you like uh if you're one of these electronic screwdrivers I know kry Holzman likes to use electronic screwdriver and uh and he was and I said to him that I may give it a go one day just to see how I get on with it but I prefer the hand screwdriver I don't know why just get something that I get used to I like the feel of it and I know how tight I'm screwing the screws down and I'm so frightened of shredding screws uh with those electronic screwdrivers I know they have a clutch on them uh but it's just something you get used to and uh basically you can choose whatever you like there's no right or wrong way in doing stuff now another topic that I see quite a lot of is which way should have the power supply facing up or facing down and a lot of it is just through having a look at the label facing the right direction a lot of people like that um but I don't think there's much difference in benefit having it facing up or down um some people say it puts a lot of strain on the fan and but the fan hardly spins these power supplies nowadays are so um so efficient that you won't even hardly see that fan kick in you know only kicks in now and again and uh for how long it's on for it'll just switch off you know so I'm not sure that's a great debate really to get into but you can face your fan facing up or down depending which way uh you want to do it I heard a lot of things about pressure static pressure and all that sort of stuff I think they're over you know complicating stuff so keep it the way you want to do it okay I don't think there's much difference so we'll just quickly correct this screw cuz it was just slightly off center with that bracket straighten this up and retighten this down and we're pretty much good to uh test this power supply then it does come with a test feature on this power supply so we'll just get that ready and then we can see whether the fan spins so now what we need to do now is plug in all our cables that we're going to be using cuz this is not a standard install of a power supply we're going to need to put in our cables now so we can feed them through that little uh enclosure they've got there and we've got the cables here they're black flat cables as you can see and we're just going to plug in the ones that we're going to need here the ones we're going to need are like 24 pin uh PCI Express uh cables and stuff like that and bit of sadder cable just plug in the ones that you're going to need so you can see here we've got the 24 pin we're going to plug that one in and we've got our pcie and we'll just plug those in ready now these are pretty simple to push in you just click them in until you hear them snap into place now again you only need to use the amount of uh cables that you want to use don't need to use every single cable just clip these into place you should see them click into place there now once you got your cables in you're pretty much good enough to Frid this through the actual enclosure there okay so we're going to test this up first before we do that you can see the test here we're going to use the uh power cable plug that in put some power to it and you should see the fan spin so we'll just quickly plug this uh power cable in and we'll put some power to the unit and if this uh if it's fils then all you need to do is just uh R it back to your uh person you purchased it from or you can uh contact Corsair if it's past the first year if you've got a a longer warranty so you can see here we got the power switch we going to make sure that's off we'll plug it in and then we'll switch it on and put some power to you init now we cut it on and then then we'll switch it on and you should see here the the light here you can push this little test button and uh if it don't light up you should see uh Power going to the fan and it should spin up so we'll just put some power on it now and way we go just push the button and you should see it spin hold your finger on it and the way you go so now we know that the power supply is working well and it's a good to go we can unplug all this and then feed all our cables through so all we got to do here is line this uh power supply up they may be wondering why I've plugged all the cables in first and uh because it's pretty tight down the other end with the uh piece of metal that's there and I've got pretty big ends and I found it difficult to uh plug plug those in so what I've decided to do is pre- plug them in and then feed the cables through and just uh pull them through once I get them pulled through I can then tighten up the uh power supply as you can see my hand is going inside here but there is pretty tight at that end but once you get these all straightened up and pulled through I found this method probably to be easier to do it this way than it would have been the other way if you got small hands you may want to just put the power supply in and plug them straight into the unit it depends on how you want to do stuff there's no right or wrong way here so we'll just straighten these up a little bit and then we can offer this up we should be okay here now good thing about having this enclosure in with this type of case is it hides all the cables um but it hides the power supply as well so what you're going to see is nothing really you're not going to see the power Supply or any of those cables they're all going to be hidden which is a nice feature with this case so if you like a nice clean look then this case could be the one for you so we're just going to straighten this up and then we can uh fingertight these screws these are thumb screws by the way but even though they're thumb screws I do like to give them a little turn with a screwdriver just to make sure they're nice and tight so we'll straighten this up here and then we'll just quickly uh tighten these down a little bit now again this isn't uh the usual way of putting a power supply in we'll just fingertight these up and then we can get our screwdriver and just give them a little quick turn little half a turn like that just to make sure they're nice and tight there we go so now what we're going to do is get the motherboard out and we're going to be putting in our memory and our CPU now because we're using a closed uh water cooled system here closed loop system we don't need to put on the heat sink just yet we're going to do that when the motherboard is in the case so you can see we're going to get this all out and this comes with all your parts and and bits and pieces that you're going to need uh to use in your build you got all your set cables and stuff like that so you got your IO Shield but we'll cover that a little bit later on the first thing I'm going to do is close the box and put the motherboard on top of the box and we'll get it out of this protective anti-static bag that's another thing that's uh another topic that people cover is um static and I see all the top guys that deal with Hardware out there they're all handling components and haven't got any antistatic wristbands or anything like that and uh that's because they're just doing video reviews but that's just the way it is I don't know many people that do wear those antistatic wristbands as you can see we got the uh motherboard here on the box and we're just going to offer up uh the memory now the memory will be put into certain slots now you need to make sure that you're using the right slots for the type of memory now you can see here there is an actual diagram on the board and there's also information inside your user manual which you will get with your motherboard so I'll quickly uh show you the actual user manual with the information you'll see it will tell you which Lanes to put in your memory to get certain speeds and we want quad channel so we're going to I'll quickly zoom in here just to show you the motherboard and you'll see the actual diagram it will tell you and you can see they're they're numbered so you just have to copy the reference in the user manual and put them into those numbers okay so here we have our memory we're just going to get this out of the box and plug it into the right lanes now the memory we're using is a g skill memory uh gskill 4 and this is the rip jws 4 and I like the design of this it really does look nice and uh it's got a good heat sink on top of that um memory and I've had pretty good success with this memory you can see the notch in the uh memory here now this Notch is specifically for this type of memory and you can see there's a little raised part in the copper there at the bottom I don't whe you can see that on the actual part there we're going to plug that into the board in a second then we line that Notch up as you can see there's a little Notch there we're going to line that up into the board and just pull the actual uh lever back on one side now this only has one lever some of them have two and then you just click it down until you hear it crack into place now it does crack a little bit but don't worry about that there's a little bit movement in that box which stops you putting too much force on it but we have got that in there and it looks pretty nice now I can imagine what that's going to look like with 32 gigs of memory it's going to look sweet as and that's what I'll be doing uh in about four or 5 months and we're just going to put in our processor here and this is the i7 5820k and this is going to be ample for what I need now this has two levers on it which is something that's um different to some of the motherboard you may see and it's a and b and we'll pull these levers back you can see the actual CPU here now these are slightly different to AMD uh CPUs the pins are on the chip on the AMD and on the Intel the pins are on the actual board itself now you can see the cover here we just leave that in place and we will CD triangle which is in the corner you can see it on the actual board itself if I lift it up here you should be at a CD actual triangle and that's where you need to line up um the chip to that triangle there okay it'll only go in one way now you got to be careful here that you got to make sure that you don't damage the CPU in any way by putting in the wrong way and pulling them levers down you can see the little triangle again you want to check all the pins on the actual socket as well make sure there's no bent pins or anything like that if there is just return The Bard back to the manufacturer and they will send you a new one okay so we'll just pull these levers back and lift up the little lever let me just quickly flip this around so you can see it there you go now you want to inspect all these pins in here and make sure there's none of them are damaged okay you can get a magnifying glass if your eyes aren't that good but just make sure you check all those again you don't want to be touching this um chip on the top here and there's your little arrow and you can give this a clean viice of propenol if you want we're just going to plug this straight in into its socket and you can see the little notches here and there's a little arrow there and that's what you need to marry up with the other Arrow just drop it into place and I like to drop it into place and then do a little shimmy just to make sure it's sitting in there and then we can shut that lid down and then we can just pull the levers back and lock them into place now you will see some resistance here and a bit of force is needed but that's pretty normal now the AMD ones are a lot easier to close but the Intel ones are a lot more tighter you can now remove the cover sometimes that pops off on its own so now we've got the motherboard risers in the case now this is automatically uh installed in this h440 now we need the io shield and we need to put this into uh the case itself now these are designed specifically for each motherboard so if you're ever taking your motherboard out and selling it you need to keep the io shield for that board okay make sure it's up the right way and then we're going to offer this in and we're pretty much good to go from there you just push this in now sometimes these go in easy and sometimes you just have to bend them a little bit but it's pretty straightforward stuff so you can see me bend it a little bit to make it clip into place and it should snap into place once you get it in there also I'm filming as well which makes it a bit more difficult there one little push there sometimes the back end of a screwdriver normally Clips it into place now again we haven't got to put no um risers here they're already already in and they are in the right location so I don't have to do those but if you did you want to make sure that you put the right motherboard rises in the right position okay you don't want them touching the motherboard at all because if they do and they're on the wrong place they will short out The Bard okay so we're just going to quickly offer this up and put it into its position again that's a pretty straightforward stuff really and then we just need to screw that down now this does come with all the screws and they've actually labeled all the screw bags so you know exactly what screws go where and this comes with the case when you buy it and you can see they're all labeled nicely and we just need to uh screw this down I think there's about six screws that go to this uh motherboard again magnetized screwdrivers is useful here because you can just put the screw on the end of the uh screwdriver and then tighten her up it doesn't need to be super tight just soon as you feel it tighten just a little turn and that's it then we'll do one more of these screws now there's about six screws as I said I'll show you two and we'll move on to the next step okay now once we get that done we can then put the CPU Cooler now you may be using uh an air cooler this is a Clos loop system which is uh from NZXT Kraken x61 and it has a radiator and water in it okay so you just need to put your fans into the location you want them now again be very careful here when you're tightening these up you don't want to overtighten them and bust the threads on the uh radiator make sure the connectors around the right way for the fans and then offer that up to the radiator now you get all your bags here and they're all labeled AMD and Intel and you just need to use the right screws for the right job okay so you should have a bag here with the screws that you need for this now there'll be a washer and there'll also be a long screw and that will screw the um fans down now the instructions here are not very super clear but there is more an instructural video on on their website there you can you use okay now the back plate what you see there you don't need to use the back plate on the 2011 socket you can just discard that uh I'll keep it safe in case you ever sell the unit but you don't need to use that on this build okay and there is the actual uh screw the with the washer we just put that on and we just screw that into the radiator now again don't overtighten these I'm just going to drop all these in and then I'm just going to give them a little turn to tighten them up and I'm going to do it in a diagonal motion here when I tighten these down now again you can do a pushpull configuration you can do a push configuration a pull configuration depends on how you want to do it and it will be the same thing how you want your hoses to uh be located in the fan this is all preference to yourself how you want to do that there's no wrong or right way and don't let anyone tell you any different it's just how you want it to work for you so we're just going to tighten these up again we don't want to overtighten these can't stress that enough they have got anti vibration uh rubbers on them to stop it vibrating and you can change the speeds of these fans as well now we need to get this into the case now I'm going to be putting this up the top here so I've removed the top cover from the case and if you don't know how to do all that stuff you can watch my video on the case here I've done a case review and show you how to do that but it's pretty straightforward we're just going to line these up here okay now just take your time you do not want to damage the fins on this radiator again I can't stress that enough you don't want to go damage in there because if you damage that it's not going to mean much good to you so we'll just take our time and line these holes up make sure everything's okay and then you can line it up and then get your screws and then screw it in the screws we're using are these tiny little screws okay so don't go using big screws here tiny little screws with a washer and then just tighten those up a little bit now I'm just going to try and get one in there to hold get a fixing on to hold it and then I can uh put the rest in and then tighten down afterwards just line this up it's very difficult with the camera in the way and trying to get it in in camera shot you can see it's a bit awkward but when you're doing it it'll be a lot easier again we'll just put one in the other corner so you can see I'm putting on the end of the screwdriver ready it's pretty straightforward and once You' got that on there you can screw it up so I'm going to work alternately from the other screw and now I've got it in position it's going to be really easy from here on in okay just once you get those first two screws in it's pretty easy okay just one more screw here now once we get all these in we can then put the pump onto the CPU now again if you had pushpull configuration you could set that up as you wish if you had uh two more fans to add you can do that but one more thing here was the pump this plastic I taped it to the actual pump itself temporarily because all the compound is on there and if you haven't got no extra compound that could be rubbed off and that could cause your problems a little bit later on and it does get in the way so you can see I've got the cables facing this way um down this side okay now you could have it the other way if you wished uh but I wanted to have it that side I like the look of it myself personally um as long as it isn't hit in the fan you should be okay just make sure that that's the case so again what we're going to do is get our pump ready and you can see the CPU here we need to we don't need this back plate remember but you may need that if you're using a different setup or a different motherboard these are the screws that we're going to be using uh for our motherboard and I'm going to screw these in and it's the th small side that goes into the hole and we'll just screw this up okay it's very difficult to do this with the camera in the way in my big hand but we'll screw it in down now again if you're using an AMD setup or something like that they come with all new different fittings for each uh setup that you're going to be using you can see the little thread here this is the bit that goes into the board here so if you're using a different socket um it's caters for all the sockets that are listed there you can always watch a video of mine uh which I'll do a review on this pump so you can see what it offers okay so we'll just screw these in and once we get these all screwed up we can offer the bracket up okay so here we have our bracket for our pump and then we need to align this up now you want to make sure you get your label for your pump round the right way and put your bracket on in a position so that is facing the right way you can see these little lugs here you need to line these up and then use the lockin device to lock it into place now the instructions weren't that clear but if you go to their website they have got a video that shows you how to do this part and it's pretty straightforward once you watch that video and you can see here it is the Locking device we can just put push this into position and lock the uh bracket into place and uh you can see I've got that around the wrong way just going to flip that around and then push it into place and it should look like this and now once we uh line it up you should see the logo is in the right position and then you need to screw it down now these big Thum screws they're like thumb screws um you want to tighten these up fingertight first and once you get these fingertight you want to just do a little turn with a screwdriver not too much okay you don't want to overtighten this because you're going to bust something so just take it nice and easy now again we can try this with the pump this way with the cables going up the the pipes going up near the fan if it's a problem I can always rotate the uh radiator there's no right or wrong way people always pick holes in people's videos to say they've done that wrong or they've done this right it's how you want to do it yourself and you can always make something work and custom builds are always about you know getting around little problems that you're going to face okay and uh this is a much cleaner look for me on this side but I may want to change it and put it on the other side um and that's totally doable so we'll give it a go this way first a little tighten of the screws here you can see I'm not putting much pressure on those you don't need to be super duper tight here and just do them alterate as I'm doing here and then finish off and that's that again all these cables for the power for the pump we can rout these through up the top you can see the hole there there a nice little hole this case has got loads of little holes where you can poke cables through which will make your build look really nice and tidy and NZXT has done a great job on that and who knows in the future maybe they can send me some products I can do some reviews on some of their hardware and I'd love to have the opportunity to do that at some point um but as you can see here once we get these uh cables through here we can tie these down with a couple of clips you can see here we run these through and uh there's the pump we're running it through there and you can see where I've got the fan cables here and I will put a bit of tape on those cables they look a bit gnarly there but we'll soon sort that a little later on you can see it running through here the cables now the fan uh connectors are at the back as you can see which makes it easier to root through gives a cleaner look cable tie them back like that and you're pretty much good to go there and you can see I've got the cable going right the way through now we've pulled the USB cable around the back and brought it up the bottom here and I will put a bit of tape around this um cuz it does catch your eye a little bit and uh we plug in our 24 pin now we've pushed this through the back area here and uh we'll just plug this into the board and once we've done this we can move on to the next next phase now you can do these in any order you like again I'm waiting for red cables to be delivered so I can uh make a video on that and I'll show you how to swap all your cables out but now we're going to put in our solid state drive here and they've got a unique design here on this case s of like a thumb screw and a little uh plate here and it's a bit tight because it's brand new it's just been painted I suppose and it was a bit tight once we release this we can screw this to the actual uh cage here and then we can slide it back in now we're going to have the cables at the back so we need to make sure we got this round the right way and we can now screw in our screws and it's not really going anywhere here I've put two screws in to hold this but I will put the four four screws in and we can slot this into place now you need to line that hole up and uh just need to get this into position so you can put the Thum screw in and you'll see it won't go in now so I need to pull this back a little bit and get this lined up it was a bit fiddly getting that line lined up cuz it was pretty tight but once you get it lined up you can put the thumb screw in as you can see that drive is not going anywhere I think the Thum screw is more just for looks and now we can uh push some of these cables around the back and we're going to push the hard drive in here as well the 2 terb drive going to just stick this on the bottom run here so we'll just release these Thum screws now again all the Thum screws are very tight when you first get the case uh but once you loosen them up they should be okay I suppose it's just for shipping reasons so they don't come loose but we'll release this now and we can then offer up the drive now these do have anti vibration rubbers on them and we can see them here and we can put the drive in and this is a metal cage here as well so no expense spared so we're going to put this hard drive in again this is just held in with four screws and once you've got that cage in lined up like so you can see the screw holes you just need to put your four screws in and that will be pretty much that pretty straightforward stuff now we can line this up I'm just going to pull this cable out the way cuz I don't want it getting pinched there and I canide these cables up a little bit later on did a cable management near the end and once you got that sitting on the back rest there you can then put the screws back in so you won't see any of these cables they'll all be hidden by a panel on this C case and there we have that all nicely snug in there again you can see there is room for more hard drives here and there is good air flow uh from the front here which allows to cool inside the case now I've removed the drive temporarily on the SSD here just to pull the cables through the SAT cable and also the power cable here we need to pull those through and I'm going to plug these in first and then put the SSD back should have probably done this in the first place sometimes you have to learn as you go and then we'll just push this back in and feed these cables back down through that little hole at the back and that'll be a nice clean finish as you can see here and I've now put the tape back on that cable there and it should be a nice clean look trouble this thumb screw that line is not not aligned up again little screw job done you can see the other roll next to that hard drive there that's for your power cables for your um Graphics car but you can see a nice clean look here now OD any CA shown looks nice now again once we've pushed these cables through we can just tie these back I'm just going to put a little tie around these and push them back inside the hole there where the uh power unit is power supply unit is we just gather these up and put a little cable Tire around these can sort these out later on this will just keep keep it out the way so I can see what's happening as I said we can keep these cable tires I prefer these cable tires than the other ones cuz you can just tighten these up and then loosen them again if you uh need to loosen them off later on have to cut everything with a pair of scissors it's only a temporary measure we'll just tuck these in okay just makes it a little bit easier to see what cables we're working with now we'll run this uh set a cable through and plug this into the board so just feed this through here and we can come now through and plug this into the motherboard as you can see here now your manual will tell you which ports are what or you can look on the board and it will tell you on the board also and you can see there it's a nice clean look now I forgot to plug in the uh CPU power cable that goes to the board here in the PSU so we can run this through now so I'm just going to plug this into the motherboard here and uh we'll run this down the back and then just plug this into the uh power supply now it's important to have this uh Cable in because without it it won't fire up I just forgot to put that in and now we'll rout this through up the top here as you can see there's a little hole here and we'll just feed that through there you go just put that through there and then run this down the back so you can't see the cable the cable management has become a really big thing when building computers nowadays in the earlier days no one really cared and uh they used to just grab them all together and put a big cable Tire around them and it looked pretty nasty but nowadays looks is everything and uh people take a bit more care in Cable Management so we're just going to fold that cable back and run it down a back now we need to just plug that into the uh power supply as you can see there it says CPU so we're just going to put it in that area there so next up we're going to be uh putting the graphics card in so we're going to need to remove a couple of these expansion slots here so we'll remove two of these cuz it takes two slots just use your screwdriver to loosen these off I always keep these parts just in case you're going to get rid of the case or you change something and you want to put them back and then we're going to be using the gigabyte graphics card here which is a pretty big card as I say you got three fans on this and you can see it's a pretty hefty card and it all lights up and and everything it looks nice just remove all the covers here the protective covers for the connections you can leave uh the SLI ones on if you wish but if you want to remove them you can I'll just remove everything I just don't like them on there just looks nasty so just remove all those and this is a really decent card um I do like my game so going to plug this in just make sure you got an ample PSU for the power you can see this is taking an eight and a six and it's also got the back plate which I liked because it just gives that nice finished look to the build so I'm just going to offer this up you can see there's not much room here so I'm just going to try and get this in and uh push this in it's getting a bit dark here and you can see the light on the camera camera keeps going on and off should have just made it stay on all the time but um plug this in now there was a a tiny little adjustment I had to make on the connector at the end there the bracket but made it okay and now we can screw this in now again you don't have to have a big card like this it just depends on what you want to do I like to play a lot of games and I like to have the best looking uh Graphics you can see that just barely fitted in there with the cage in it's a beast of a card it really is uh but I do like it there may be a problem there if he's going to have a hard drive there I'm not too sure um from that angle but we can always check that out on a later date but as you can see it looks sweet as a nut in there and that's the look of it from the outside and now what we need to do is feed our uh cables through to put power to the card and again I'm just going to tie a little cable tie on here just to make sure cuz I don't need I want to use two cables here rather than use that back bit I don't need to use that so I can cable tie that off and then snip it try and keep it clean looking and then I can feed that through the hole we just poke this through and this is the beauty of this type of case it's uh cable management for inside the case is so good it was a bit tight around the back area where all them cables are but we'll cover that a little bit later on in the video as you can see here I'm just going to feed this through and plug this in so we've got our eight pin here I'm just going to plug this in trying to clip these together there we go got the tripod in a way which makes it always difficult makes it look like your fiddly fumbling around but it's just the camera in the way so we'll just plug that in and then we'll get the other cable up and then I'm going to plug that in as well that's a eight and a six pin okay just a quick cable Tire around the other one and then we can feed this up again I see people buying 1200 wat power supplies and they got a graph little tiny graphics card in there and hardly anything in the case you don't need to go mad with power supplies and need to start spending silly amounts of money on a 1200 watt 1500 watt and 1300 watt power supplies you don't need it just rout this up and push this in I probably could have done a a little wipe with the uh camera there just to make this a bit shorter but there we go got that in now an old uh EVGA cable Tire line around so I'm going to stick one of those around them cables just to make it look a little bit nicer a little bit later on just hide that little cable there and again these cables will be replaced with red cables that I've got coming so we'll just uh feed that through and now around the back here you can see it's starting to get really messy now all the cables ly about uh so we need to put some power to the the hard drive and also uh we need to the SAT cable plugged in so we've got the sat in we just put a bit of power to it now there we go and then we can tie these cables back and just poke them out the way for now until we do the cable management just leave them there for now and the next thing up we need to start putting some power to the board and and the USB 3.0 connector and do all that stuff next so you can see here we got the USB 3.0 I've poke that through and I'm just going to plug this in trying to keep it as tidy as possible where you can see stuff it doesn't really matter around the back is you're not going to see it I just try and get and sorry about the camera shaking about but there you go that's in and you can see I've put some black tape along these other ones cuz all the cables was sh it looked it was really catching my eye and uh it was annoying me but it don't look too bad it looks better than what it did and there's the mess of cables now that we're going to be Tiding up and as you can see it looks pretty nasty and uh the thing to remember is get this as flat as possible and this case in particular there's not much room around this back area and it will be tough to get the uh panel on so I'm just going to put this connection on for the hard drive power and stuff we're going to we got a little connector here which will make this easier now normally I'd put this in earlier if I didn't have this connector but because I got this connector I left it till last and uh we can just plug these in and then just slot it straight in which is going to be nice and simple now you can see it it's now all plugged into that little connector which makes life a lot easier just poke that cable back down and plug her in and we're pretty much good to go there and there you can see uh the finished uh project it looks okay don't look too bad looks nice and clean there's not much uh cable showing in there I'll give you a bit of a closeup there a pretty clean looking effect there now I can always move that fan around uh for the radiator to to the other side so the cables aren't in the way but it seems to be working okay I also put in some LEDs here just to see what they' look like with some LEDs and uh they have got a power button on the back so you can turn them on or off I don't really use the LEDs much to be honest but I just wanted to give it a bit of a review really to see what they look like and I've rooted it all around the cable uh around the outside of the case here as you can see and we've rooted them and stick them on and it all come with a kit the little stickers and the little uh feet there and as you can see that's what it looks like when it's finished and it don't look too bad you really can't see the cable really when you sit back a little bit it's just cuz I'm looking down on top of that but when you st sit back you can't see the uh cable at all B old not a bad finish that's the inside with the window on pretty nice red and black pretty nice finish I'm pretty happy with that as you can see so I hope you enjoyed this build as much as I enjoyed making it and I'm using the computer now and it's an awesome computer I'll maybe give you some specs on it a little bit later on but my name is Brian from brch computers. co.uk if you enjoy these videos guys then hit the like button and also hit the Subscribe button if you want to keep up to date when I upload new videos so thanks again for all your continued support guys if you got any problems you can always head over to the forums and post on there and I can help you out over there so thanks again bye for nowwhat you guys got another video here for you this one is going to be another computer build and it's going to be my own personal computer we are buying and building here now I did say buying cuz none of this stuff has been uh donated from any of these companies it's all been bought out of my own our earn cash and as you can see uh is the new 2011 socket which is uh the ddr4 architecture and the reason why I went down that route is because I think it's more future proof now I could have gone and got the 4790k which is a very good processor but I think with this uh in a year's time it's going to be a lot more better so as you can see here we've got the Samsung Evo 840 now this is just for Windows it's 250 gigs and this is just going to be for my Windows operating system and a few other bits and pieces and all the rest is going to go on uh a 2 TB drive so we got the Kraken x61 now also NZXT have been making some really good components and this is why I went with the NZXT Kraken x61 this is a water cold uh closed loop system got some cable tires here and some sleeved LED kit which is from NZXT wanted to give this a test to see what it looked like and uh we've got the G skill rip Jaws 4 which is the ddr4 uh 2400 gz memory I think it is and there's four sticks in here which makes it quad Channel we've got eight uh Bays on the motherboard which means when the price drops I can buy another 16 GB we've got the Platinum Corsair HX 750i now this is an awesome professional uh power supply which will give me plenty of power and we've gone for the Intel i7 5820k this is a sort of Entry uh level into the new architecture 2011 socket but it's going to be ample for what I need and as you can see it's got six cores there okay which I think is uh really important uh for me for what I need to do and it'll just bring me up to that next level now we've also got the gigabyte G1 gaming gForce GTX 970 now this is an awesome graphics card it really is and uh it's pretty big as well and uh it performs very well so I went for the NZXT h440 it was a toss up between this and the fractural R5 but I decided to go for the h440 I think it just add the edge over the R5 and that's just my opinion of course uh but I also went with the MSI gaming 7 x99s and they've been cranking out some really decent motherboards MSI lately and uh this is a really decent motherboard so that's the parts that I've picked uh there may be a few other bits and pieces that I add in but you'll see those in the build itself now you can choose whatever Parts you like you can spend a lot more money than this and go even more higher up the food chain but this is for me uh ample for what I'm going to be needing uh as of right now now the tossup is between whether you should go with the 4790k or whether you should go for this new uh 5820k uh 2011 socket my opinion uh I would go with the uh 5820k 2011 socket but the reason for is it's more uh future proof uh yes the parts are a little bit expensive at the moment but when they come down you can then always Chuck a bit more memory in as what I'm going to be doing here I've got 16 gigs of memory so when the price drops in about a year's time I can then just Chuck another 16 gigs in so that was my fault process and that's the reason I went for it and also it's got a couple of extra cores on that processor I've seen people saying it's not as good for gaming we're talking about a couple of frames per second here but with that graphics card I'm pretty sure it's going to smash any game that I Chuck at it so that's the reason why I went for this uh Parts okay so you can choose your own Parts anyway let's get on with the build and uh we'll see how it goes and what it turns out like Okay so let's start off with the case as you can see here we've this is the case and all this NZXT all lights up as well um but we can talk about that a little bit later on or you can watch my review on the case itself but what we're going to do is we're going to tackle um the power supply first so once we get the power supply out the box we can then put it into its position here now it's not a standard way of installing a power supply because there is an actual um enclosure which encloses the actual power supply so it's slightly different to a stand standard way of installing a power supply so we're just going to remove this little bracket here and this is not standard either a different way of installing a power supply but it's pretty straightforward stuff so you can see there is a little enclosure here where the power supply goes and we're going to have to feed all the cables through there first but before we do that we're going to just give our power supply a quick test to see if it's spinning okay so let's get our power Supply out of it suede bag here they've no expense SP when it comes to spending your money but there you can see we got the suede bag and uh a plastic one there which is the HX 750i and it's a Platinum version it's a really nice power supply it really is fully modular it's got some good weight to it and uh as you can see here you can have the uh fan facing up or down in this case it's probably best to have the fan facing down and there's always been a bit of a debate point debate in my opinion whether the fans better up or down and uh I see a lot of pointless debates going on when it comes to computer hardware uh but you can see there is a filter system here and uh we'll have the fan facing down okay so once we get this um bracket put on so you can see here we've got the screws that go with the power supply and we'll put our actual bracket onto the power supply now this is an unusual way of putting a power supply in but then not all cases have got this enclosure so you've got to bear that in mind okay but the screw holes will always be in these locations here so we're just going to quickly screw this bracket up uh to the power supply so I'm just going to be using a standard phillips screwdriver here now you can use whatever tools you like uh if you're one of these electronic screwdrivers I know kry Holzman likes to use electronic screwdriver and uh and he was and I said to him that I may give it a go one day just to see how I get on with it but I prefer the hand screwdriver I don't know why just get something that I get used to I like the feel of it and I know how tight I'm screwing the screws down and I'm so frightened of shredding screws uh with those electronic screwdrivers I know they have a clutch on them uh but it's just something you get used to and uh basically you can choose whatever you like there's no right or wrong way in doing stuff now another topic that I see quite a lot of is which way should have the power supply facing up or facing down and a lot of it is just through having a look at the label facing the right direction a lot of people like that um but I don't think there's much difference in benefit having it facing up or down um some people say it puts a lot of strain on the fan and but the fan hardly spins these power supplies nowadays are so um so efficient that you won't even hardly see that fan kick in you know only kicks in now and again and uh for how long it's on for it'll just switch off you know so I'm not sure that's a great debate really to get into but you can face your fan facing up or down depending which way uh you want to do it I heard a lot of things about pressure static pressure and all that sort of stuff I think they're over you know complicating stuff so keep it the way you want to do it okay I don't think there's much difference so we'll just quickly correct this screw cuz it was just slightly off center with that bracket straighten this up and retighten this down and we're pretty much good to uh test this power supply then it does come with a test feature on this power supply so we'll just get that ready and then we can see whether the fan spins so now what we need to do now is plug in all our cables that we're going to be using cuz this is not a standard install of a power supply we're going to need to put in our cables now so we can feed them through that little uh enclosure they've got there and we've got the cables here they're black flat cables as you can see and we're just going to plug in the ones that we're going to need here the ones we're going to need are like 24 pin uh PCI Express uh cables and stuff like that and bit of sadder cable just plug in the ones that you're going to need so you can see here we've got the 24 pin we're going to plug that one in and we've got our pcie and we'll just plug those in ready now these are pretty simple to push in you just click them in until you hear them snap into place now again you only need to use the amount of uh cables that you want to use don't need to use every single cable just clip these into place you should see them click into place there now once you got your cables in you're pretty much good enough to Frid this through the actual enclosure there okay so we're going to test this up first before we do that you can see the test here we're going to use the uh power cable plug that in put some power to it and you should see the fan spin so we'll just quickly plug this uh power cable in and we'll put some power to the unit and if this uh if it's fils then all you need to do is just uh R it back to your uh person you purchased it from or you can uh contact Corsair if it's past the first year if you've got a a longer warranty so you can see here we got the power switch we going to make sure that's off we'll plug it in and then we'll switch it on and put some power to you init now we cut it on and then then we'll switch it on and you should see here the the light here you can push this little test button and uh if it don't light up you should see uh Power going to the fan and it should spin up so we'll just put some power on it now and way we go just push the button and you should see it spin hold your finger on it and the way you go so now we know that the power supply is working well and it's a good to go we can unplug all this and then feed all our cables through so all we got to do here is line this uh power supply up they may be wondering why I've plugged all the cables in first and uh because it's pretty tight down the other end with the uh piece of metal that's there and I've got pretty big ends and I found it difficult to uh plug plug those in so what I've decided to do is pre- plug them in and then feed the cables through and just uh pull them through once I get them pulled through I can then tighten up the uh power supply as you can see my hand is going inside here but there is pretty tight at that end but once you get these all straightened up and pulled through I found this method probably to be easier to do it this way than it would have been the other way if you got small hands you may want to just put the power supply in and plug them straight into the unit it depends on how you want to do stuff there's no right or wrong way here so we'll just straighten these up a little bit and then we can offer this up we should be okay here now good thing about having this enclosure in with this type of case is it hides all the cables um but it hides the power supply as well so what you're going to see is nothing really you're not going to see the power Supply or any of those cables they're all going to be hidden which is a nice feature with this case so if you like a nice clean look then this case could be the one for you so we're just going to straighten this up and then we can uh fingertight these screws these are thumb screws by the way but even though they're thumb screws I do like to give them a little turn with a screwdriver just to make sure they're nice and tight so we'll straighten this up here and then we'll just quickly uh tighten these down a little bit now again this isn't uh the usual way of putting a power supply in we'll just fingertight these up and then we can get our screwdriver and just give them a little quick turn little half a turn like that just to make sure they're nice and tight there we go so now what we're going to do is get the motherboard out and we're going to be putting in our memory and our CPU now because we're using a closed uh water cooled system here closed loop system we don't need to put on the heat sink just yet we're going to do that when the motherboard is in the case so you can see we're going to get this all out and this comes with all your parts and and bits and pieces that you're going to need uh to use in your build you got all your set cables and stuff like that so you got your IO Shield but we'll cover that a little bit later on the first thing I'm going to do is close the box and put the motherboard on top of the box and we'll get it out of this protective anti-static bag that's another thing that's uh another topic that people cover is um static and I see all the top guys that deal with Hardware out there they're all handling components and haven't got any antistatic wristbands or anything like that and uh that's because they're just doing video reviews but that's just the way it is I don't know many people that do wear those antistatic wristbands as you can see we got the uh motherboard here on the box and we're just going to offer up uh the memory now the memory will be put into certain slots now you need to make sure that you're using the right slots for the type of memory now you can see here there is an actual diagram on the board and there's also information inside your user manual which you will get with your motherboard so I'll quickly uh show you the actual user manual with the information you'll see it will tell you which Lanes to put in your memory to get certain speeds and we want quad channel so we're going to I'll quickly zoom in here just to show you the motherboard and you'll see the actual diagram it will tell you and you can see they're they're numbered so you just have to copy the reference in the user manual and put them into those numbers okay so here we have our memory we're just going to get this out of the box and plug it into the right lanes now the memory we're using is a g skill memory uh gskill 4 and this is the rip jws 4 and I like the design of this it really does look nice and uh it's got a good heat sink on top of that um memory and I've had pretty good success with this memory you can see the notch in the uh memory here now this Notch is specifically for this type of memory and you can see there's a little raised part in the copper there at the bottom I don't whe you can see that on the actual part there we're going to plug that into the board in a second then we line that Notch up as you can see there's a little Notch there we're going to line that up into the board and just pull the actual uh lever back on one side now this only has one lever some of them have two and then you just click it down until you hear it crack into place now it does crack a little bit but don't worry about that there's a little bit movement in that box which stops you putting too much force on it but we have got that in there and it looks pretty nice now I can imagine what that's going to look like with 32 gigs of memory it's going to look sweet as and that's what I'll be doing uh in about four or 5 months and we're just going to put in our processor here and this is the i7 5820k and this is going to be ample for what I need now this has two levers on it which is something that's um different to some of the motherboard you may see and it's a and b and we'll pull these levers back you can see the actual CPU here now these are slightly different to AMD uh CPUs the pins are on the chip on the AMD and on the Intel the pins are on the actual board itself now you can see the cover here we just leave that in place and we will CD triangle which is in the corner you can see it on the actual board itself if I lift it up here you should be at a CD actual triangle and that's where you need to line up um the chip to that triangle there okay it'll only go in one way now you got to be careful here that you got to make sure that you don't damage the CPU in any way by putting in the wrong way and pulling them levers down you can see the little triangle again you want to check all the pins on the actual socket as well make sure there's no bent pins or anything like that if there is just return The Bard back to the manufacturer and they will send you a new one okay so we'll just pull these levers back and lift up the little lever let me just quickly flip this around so you can see it there you go now you want to inspect all these pins in here and make sure there's none of them are damaged okay you can get a magnifying glass if your eyes aren't that good but just make sure you check all those again you don't want to be touching this um chip on the top here and there's your little arrow and you can give this a clean viice of propenol if you want we're just going to plug this straight in into its socket and you can see the little notches here and there's a little arrow there and that's what you need to marry up with the other Arrow just drop it into place and I like to drop it into place and then do a little shimmy just to make sure it's sitting in there and then we can shut that lid down and then we can just pull the levers back and lock them into place now you will see some resistance here and a bit of force is needed but that's pretty normal now the AMD ones are a lot easier to close but the Intel ones are a lot more tighter you can now remove the cover sometimes that pops off on its own so now we've got the motherboard risers in the case now this is automatically uh installed in this h440 now we need the io shield and we need to put this into uh the case itself now these are designed specifically for each motherboard so if you're ever taking your motherboard out and selling it you need to keep the io shield for that board okay make sure it's up the right way and then we're going to offer this in and we're pretty much good to go from there you just push this in now sometimes these go in easy and sometimes you just have to bend them a little bit but it's pretty straightforward stuff so you can see me bend it a little bit to make it clip into place and it should snap into place once you get it in there also I'm filming as well which makes it a bit more difficult there one little push there sometimes the back end of a screwdriver normally Clips it into place now again we haven't got to put no um risers here they're already already in and they are in the right location so I don't have to do those but if you did you want to make sure that you put the right motherboard rises in the right position okay you don't want them touching the motherboard at all because if they do and they're on the wrong place they will short out The Bard okay so we're just going to quickly offer this up and put it into its position again that's a pretty straightforward stuff really and then we just need to screw that down now this does come with all the screws and they've actually labeled all the screw bags so you know exactly what screws go where and this comes with the case when you buy it and you can see they're all labeled nicely and we just need to uh screw this down I think there's about six screws that go to this uh motherboard again magnetized screwdrivers is useful here because you can just put the screw on the end of the uh screwdriver and then tighten her up it doesn't need to be super tight just soon as you feel it tighten just a little turn and that's it then we'll do one more of these screws now there's about six screws as I said I'll show you two and we'll move on to the next step okay now once we get that done we can then put the CPU Cooler now you may be using uh an air cooler this is a Clos loop system which is uh from NZXT Kraken x61 and it has a radiator and water in it okay so you just need to put your fans into the location you want them now again be very careful here when you're tightening these up you don't want to overtighten them and bust the threads on the uh radiator make sure the connectors around the right way for the fans and then offer that up to the radiator now you get all your bags here and they're all labeled AMD and Intel and you just need to use the right screws for the right job okay so you should have a bag here with the screws that you need for this now there'll be a washer and there'll also be a long screw and that will screw the um fans down now the instructions here are not very super clear but there is more an instructural video on on their website there you can you use okay now the back plate what you see there you don't need to use the back plate on the 2011 socket you can just discard that uh I'll keep it safe in case you ever sell the unit but you don't need to use that on this build okay and there is the actual uh screw the with the washer we just put that on and we just screw that into the radiator now again don't overtighten these I'm just going to drop all these in and then I'm just going to give them a little turn to tighten them up and I'm going to do it in a diagonal motion here when I tighten these down now again you can do a pushpull configuration you can do a push configuration a pull configuration depends on how you want to do it and it will be the same thing how you want your hoses to uh be located in the fan this is all preference to yourself how you want to do that there's no wrong or right way and don't let anyone tell you any different it's just how you want it to work for you so we're just going to tighten these up again we don't want to overtighten these can't stress that enough they have got anti vibration uh rubbers on them to stop it vibrating and you can change the speeds of these fans as well now we need to get this into the case now I'm going to be putting this up the top here so I've removed the top cover from the case and if you don't know how to do all that stuff you can watch my video on the case here I've done a case review and show you how to do that but it's pretty straightforward we're just going to line these up here okay now just take your time you do not want to damage the fins on this radiator again I can't stress that enough you don't want to go damage in there because if you damage that it's not going to mean much good to you so we'll just take our time and line these holes up make sure everything's okay and then you can line it up and then get your screws and then screw it in the screws we're using are these tiny little screws okay so don't go using big screws here tiny little screws with a washer and then just tighten those up a little bit now I'm just going to try and get one in there to hold get a fixing on to hold it and then I can uh put the rest in and then tighten down afterwards just line this up it's very difficult with the camera in the way and trying to get it in in camera shot you can see it's a bit awkward but when you're doing it it'll be a lot easier again we'll just put one in the other corner so you can see I'm putting on the end of the screwdriver ready it's pretty straightforward and once You' got that on there you can screw it up so I'm going to work alternately from the other screw and now I've got it in position it's going to be really easy from here on in okay just once you get those first two screws in it's pretty easy okay just one more screw here now once we get all these in we can then put the pump onto the CPU now again if you had pushpull configuration you could set that up as you wish if you had uh two more fans to add you can do that but one more thing here was the pump this plastic I taped it to the actual pump itself temporarily because all the compound is on there and if you haven't got no extra compound that could be rubbed off and that could cause your problems a little bit later on and it does get in the way so you can see I've got the cables facing this way um down this side okay now you could have it the other way if you wished uh but I wanted to have it that side I like the look of it myself personally um as long as it isn't hit in the fan you should be okay just make sure that that's the case so again what we're going to do is get our pump ready and you can see the CPU here we need to we don't need this back plate remember but you may need that if you're using a different setup or a different motherboard these are the screws that we're going to be using uh for our motherboard and I'm going to screw these in and it's the th small side that goes into the hole and we'll just screw this up okay it's very difficult to do this with the camera in the way in my big hand but we'll screw it in down now again if you're using an AMD setup or something like that they come with all new different fittings for each uh setup that you're going to be using you can see the little thread here this is the bit that goes into the board here so if you're using a different socket um it's caters for all the sockets that are listed there you can always watch a video of mine uh which I'll do a review on this pump so you can see what it offers okay so we'll just screw these in and once we get these all screwed up we can offer the bracket up okay so here we have our bracket for our pump and then we need to align this up now you want to make sure you get your label for your pump round the right way and put your bracket on in a position so that is facing the right way you can see these little lugs here you need to line these up and then use the lockin device to lock it into place now the instructions weren't that clear but if you go to their website they have got a video that shows you how to do this part and it's pretty straightforward once you watch that video and you can see here it is the Locking device we can just put push this into position and lock the uh bracket into place and uh you can see I've got that around the wrong way just going to flip that around and then push it into place and it should look like this and now once we uh line it up you should see the logo is in the right position and then you need to screw it down now these big Thum screws they're like thumb screws um you want to tighten these up fingertight first and once you get these fingertight you want to just do a little turn with a screwdriver not too much okay you don't want to overtighten this because you're going to bust something so just take it nice and easy now again we can try this with the pump this way with the cables going up the the pipes going up near the fan if it's a problem I can always rotate the uh radiator there's no right or wrong way people always pick holes in people's videos to say they've done that wrong or they've done this right it's how you want to do it yourself and you can always make something work and custom builds are always about you know getting around little problems that you're going to face okay and uh this is a much cleaner look for me on this side but I may want to change it and put it on the other side um and that's totally doable so we'll give it a go this way first a little tighten of the screws here you can see I'm not putting much pressure on those you don't need to be super duper tight here and just do them alterate as I'm doing here and then finish off and that's that again all these cables for the power for the pump we can rout these through up the top you can see the hole there there a nice little hole this case has got loads of little holes where you can poke cables through which will make your build look really nice and tidy and NZXT has done a great job on that and who knows in the future maybe they can send me some products I can do some reviews on some of their hardware and I'd love to have the opportunity to do that at some point um but as you can see here once we get these uh cables through here we can tie these down with a couple of clips you can see here we run these through and uh there's the pump we're running it through there and you can see where I've got the fan cables here and I will put a bit of tape on those cables they look a bit gnarly there but we'll soon sort that a little later on you can see it running through here the cables now the fan uh connectors are at the back as you can see which makes it easier to root through gives a cleaner look cable tie them back like that and you're pretty much good to go there and you can see I've got the cable going right the way through now we've pulled the USB cable around the back and brought it up the bottom here and I will put a bit of tape around this um cuz it does catch your eye a little bit and uh we plug in our 24 pin now we've pushed this through the back area here and uh we'll just plug this into the board and once we've done this we can move on to the next next phase now you can do these in any order you like again I'm waiting for red cables to be delivered so I can uh make a video on that and I'll show you how to swap all your cables out but now we're going to put in our solid state drive here and they've got a unique design here on this case s of like a thumb screw and a little uh plate here and it's a bit tight because it's brand new it's just been painted I suppose and it was a bit tight once we release this we can screw this to the actual uh cage here and then we can slide it back in now we're going to have the cables at the back so we need to make sure we got this round the right way and we can now screw in our screws and it's not really going anywhere here I've put two screws in to hold this but I will put the four four screws in and we can slot this into place now you need to line that hole up and uh just need to get this into position so you can put the Thum screw in and you'll see it won't go in now so I need to pull this back a little bit and get this lined up it was a bit fiddly getting that line lined up cuz it was pretty tight but once you get it lined up you can put the thumb screw in as you can see that drive is not going anywhere I think the Thum screw is more just for looks and now we can uh push some of these cables around the back and we're going to push the hard drive in here as well the 2 terb drive going to just stick this on the bottom run here so we'll just release these Thum screws now again all the Thum screws are very tight when you first get the case uh but once you loosen them up they should be okay I suppose it's just for shipping reasons so they don't come loose but we'll release this now and we can then offer up the drive now these do have anti vibration rubbers on them and we can see them here and we can put the drive in and this is a metal cage here as well so no expense spared so we're going to put this hard drive in again this is just held in with four screws and once you've got that cage in lined up like so you can see the screw holes you just need to put your four screws in and that will be pretty much that pretty straightforward stuff now we can line this up I'm just going to pull this cable out the way cuz I don't want it getting pinched there and I canide these cables up a little bit later on did a cable management near the end and once you got that sitting on the back rest there you can then put the screws back in so you won't see any of these cables they'll all be hidden by a panel on this C case and there we have that all nicely snug in there again you can see there is room for more hard drives here and there is good air flow uh from the front here which allows to cool inside the case now I've removed the drive temporarily on the SSD here just to pull the cables through the SAT cable and also the power cable here we need to pull those through and I'm going to plug these in first and then put the SSD back should have probably done this in the first place sometimes you have to learn as you go and then we'll just push this back in and feed these cables back down through that little hole at the back and that'll be a nice clean finish as you can see here and I've now put the tape back on that cable there and it should be a nice clean look trouble this thumb screw that line is not not aligned up again little screw job done you can see the other roll next to that hard drive there that's for your power cables for your um Graphics car but you can see a nice clean look here now OD any CA shown looks nice now again once we've pushed these cables through we can just tie these back I'm just going to put a little tie around these and push them back inside the hole there where the uh power unit is power supply unit is we just gather these up and put a little cable Tire around these can sort these out later on this will just keep keep it out the way so I can see what's happening as I said we can keep these cable tires I prefer these cable tires than the other ones cuz you can just tighten these up and then loosen them again if you uh need to loosen them off later on have to cut everything with a pair of scissors it's only a temporary measure we'll just tuck these in okay just makes it a little bit easier to see what cables we're working with now we'll run this uh set a cable through and plug this into the board so just feed this through here and we can come now through and plug this into the motherboard as you can see here now your manual will tell you which ports are what or you can look on the board and it will tell you on the board also and you can see there it's a nice clean look now I forgot to plug in the uh CPU power cable that goes to the board here in the PSU so we can run this through now so I'm just going to plug this into the motherboard here and uh we'll run this down the back and then just plug this into the uh power supply now it's important to have this uh Cable in because without it it won't fire up I just forgot to put that in and now we'll rout this through up the top here as you can see there's a little hole here and we'll just feed that through there you go just put that through there and then run this down the back so you can't see the cable the cable management has become a really big thing when building computers nowadays in the earlier days no one really cared and uh they used to just grab them all together and put a big cable Tire around them and it looked pretty nasty but nowadays looks is everything and uh people take a bit more care in Cable Management so we're just going to fold that cable back and run it down a back now we need to just plug that into the uh power supply as you can see there it says CPU so we're just going to put it in that area there so next up we're going to be uh putting the graphics card in so we're going to need to remove a couple of these expansion slots here so we'll remove two of these cuz it takes two slots just use your screwdriver to loosen these off I always keep these parts just in case you're going to get rid of the case or you change something and you want to put them back and then we're going to be using the gigabyte graphics card here which is a pretty big card as I say you got three fans on this and you can see it's a pretty hefty card and it all lights up and and everything it looks nice just remove all the covers here the protective covers for the connections you can leave uh the SLI ones on if you wish but if you want to remove them you can I'll just remove everything I just don't like them on there just looks nasty so just remove all those and this is a really decent card um I do like my game so going to plug this in just make sure you got an ample PSU for the power you can see this is taking an eight and a six and it's also got the back plate which I liked because it just gives that nice finished look to the build so I'm just going to offer this up you can see there's not much room here so I'm just going to try and get this in and uh push this in it's getting a bit dark here and you can see the light on the camera camera keeps going on and off should have just made it stay on all the time but um plug this in now there was a a tiny little adjustment I had to make on the connector at the end there the bracket but made it okay and now we can screw this in now again you don't have to have a big card like this it just depends on what you want to do I like to play a lot of games and I like to have the best looking uh Graphics you can see that just barely fitted in there with the cage in it's a beast of a card it really is uh but I do like it there may be a problem there if he's going to have a hard drive there I'm not too sure um from that angle but we can always check that out on a later date but as you can see it looks sweet as a nut in there and that's the look of it from the outside and now what we need to do is feed our uh cables through to put power to the card and again I'm just going to tie a little cable tie on here just to make sure cuz I don't need I want to use two cables here rather than use that back bit I don't need to use that so I can cable tie that off and then snip it try and keep it clean looking and then I can feed that through the hole we just poke this through and this is the beauty of this type of case it's uh cable management for inside the case is so good it was a bit tight around the back area where all them cables are but we'll cover that a little bit later on in the video as you can see here I'm just going to feed this through and plug this in so we've got our eight pin here I'm just going to plug this in trying to clip these together there we go got the tripod in a way which makes it always difficult makes it look like your fiddly fumbling around but it's just the camera in the way so we'll just plug that in and then we'll get the other cable up and then I'm going to plug that in as well that's a eight and a six pin okay just a quick cable Tire around the other one and then we can feed this up again I see people buying 1200 wat power supplies and they got a graph little tiny graphics card in there and hardly anything in the case you don't need to go mad with power supplies and need to start spending silly amounts of money on a 1200 watt 1500 watt and 1300 watt power supplies you don't need it just rout this up and push this in I probably could have done a a little wipe with the uh camera there just to make this a bit shorter but there we go got that in now an old uh EVGA cable Tire line around so I'm going to stick one of those around them cables just to make it look a little bit nicer a little bit later on just hide that little cable there and again these cables will be replaced with red cables that I've got coming so we'll just uh feed that through and now around the back here you can see it's starting to get really messy now all the cables ly about uh so we need to put some power to the the hard drive and also uh we need to the SAT cable plugged in so we've got the sat in we just put a bit of power to it now there we go and then we can tie these cables back and just poke them out the way for now until we do the cable management just leave them there for now and the next thing up we need to start putting some power to the board and and the USB 3.0 connector and do all that stuff next so you can see here we got the USB 3.0 I've poke that through and I'm just going to plug this in trying to keep it as tidy as possible where you can see stuff it doesn't really matter around the back is you're not going to see it I just try and get and sorry about the camera shaking about but there you go that's in and you can see I've put some black tape along these other ones cuz all the cables was sh it looked it was really catching my eye and uh it was annoying me but it don't look too bad it looks better than what it did and there's the mess of cables now that we're going to be Tiding up and as you can see it looks pretty nasty and uh the thing to remember is get this as flat as possible and this case in particular there's not much room around this back area and it will be tough to get the uh panel on so I'm just going to put this connection on for the hard drive power and stuff we're going to we got a little connector here which will make this easier now normally I'd put this in earlier if I didn't have this connector but because I got this connector I left it till last and uh we can just plug these in and then just slot it straight in which is going to be nice and simple now you can see it it's now all plugged into that little connector which makes life a lot easier just poke that cable back down and plug her in and we're pretty much good to go there and there you can see uh the finished uh project it looks okay don't look too bad looks nice and clean there's not much uh cable showing in there I'll give you a bit of a closeup there a pretty clean looking effect there now I can always move that fan around uh for the radiator to to the other side so the cables aren't in the way but it seems to be working okay I also put in some LEDs here just to see what they' look like with some LEDs and uh they have got a power button on the back so you can turn them on or off I don't really use the LEDs much to be honest but I just wanted to give it a bit of a review really to see what they look like and I've rooted it all around the cable uh around the outside of the case here as you can see and we've rooted them and stick them on and it all come with a kit the little stickers and the little uh feet there and as you can see that's what it looks like when it's finished and it don't look too bad you really can't see the cable really when you sit back a little bit it's just cuz I'm looking down on top of that but when you st sit back you can't see the uh cable at all B old not a bad finish that's the inside with the window on pretty nice red and black pretty nice finish I'm pretty happy with that as you can see so I hope you enjoyed this build as much as I enjoyed making it and I'm using the computer now and it's an awesome computer I'll maybe give you some specs on it a little bit later on but my name is Brian from brch computers. co.uk if you enjoy these videos guys then hit the like button and also hit the Subscribe button if you want to keep up to date when I upload new videos so thanks again for all your continued support guys if you got any problems you can always head over to the forums and post on there and I can help you out over there so thanks again bye for now\n"