No Dollar Wasted PC Build Guide #Helpful Post

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the circuit let's see so you just do

this very very gently and just put the

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now before we get our hands dirty we

should first make sure that our hands

are clean and Static free we can do the

form with some soap but the latter will

require being grounded now some veteran

builders will tell you that if your

environment is humid ESD isn't a great

danger especially with today's thicker

PCBs and protection circuitry and this

is true to some extent so in a pinch

simply touching something metallic

that's got a path the ground regularly

will do but if you're building a PC

you're going to want to invest in an ESD

solution now they aren't expensive and

we don't recommend continuing without

them when you do use any SD strap or ESD

mat bear in mind that they must be

connected to ground via an outlet or

something metallic with a path to ground

in order to be effective noticing a

pattern it's all about the path to

ground no ground then there's no ESD

safety as for our other tools our

handy-dandy multi bit screwdriver is our

best friend

we'll use this magnetic parts tray for

screw management magnetic project mats

also work great here and you can even

use a pill sword at a pretty good effect

that takes care of the pre-build prep

and tools but for cable management and

you are going to manage your cables

right the most useful tools we have are

velcro tines like these handy-dandy

Linus tech tips brand ones a pair of

side cutters like these and a handful of

tweezers oh sorry

I mean zip ties needle nose pliers can

help when using these in tight spaces

but you know they're not strictly

necessary because as you'll see most of

our zip ties are going to be quite

accessible now as always it's a good

idea to plug in all of your components

for a dry run before you fully assemble

your build now this is a good way to

troubleshoot any issues that may arise

such as an incompatibility or a DOA

component so you use your motherboard

box as a case it's non conductive and

usually sturdy enough to handle the

weight of the board cooler and GPU so if

your machine powers on and transmits to

the display you're ready to move on when

it comes to CPUs we're spoiled for

choice thanks to ambient Intel playing

tit for tat over the last year or so for

us the best value for our money is the

rise in v 2600 9x from AMD which unlike

Intel's price

the core i5 eighty four hundred or

ninety four hundred F can be overclocked

it also has twice the number of threads

which newer games like ApS legends can

take full advantage of so with that in

mind anybody steals the show at this

price compared to their own previous gen

Rison five 1600 X the 2600 is slightly

faster on average thanks to precision

boost - and typically has more

overclocking Headroom for a price

difference of just about six dollars

retail to install the CPU lift up the

retention arm on your motherboard line

up the triangle on the chip which is

right about there with the triangle on

the motherboard and gently yeah there we

go place it into the socket it should

just drop in if the pins are aligned

correctly so just visually make sure

that the CPU is flush with the socket

before pushing the retention arm down to

lock it in place you may also join to

gently press down on the chip while you

do this to ensure it doesn't shift

around but gravity really should do the

job now our CPU comes with its own

cooler and ease own wraith stealth and

we'll be using it here to save money for

more than a mild overclock we'll want to

replace it but for now we can go ahead

and install it by first removing these

two plastic clips on the motherboard

which helpfully just use standard

Phillips head screws

once that's done remove the coolers

plastic shield covering the thermal

compound if necessary this one just kind

of fell off line up with the socket like

so the thinner gauge here should go

towards the top and then we just screw

it into place where those plastic clips

used to be now you don't want to

immediately tighten these screws because

if you do then it'll make screwing the

other ones in more difficult for one and

two you're gonna want to try and use an

X pattern to evenly distribute the

thermal compound here from here all we

need to do is plug its fan cable into

the CPU fan header on our motherboard

like so and our CPU and cooler are now

fully installed onto the memory now fast

memory is something that Rison like me

loves to chew on but because fast memory

gets expensive quickly we're primarily

focused on gaming performance there are

diminishing returns at the time of

writing G skills Agis ddr4 3000 16

gigabyte kit is the sweet spot based on

lots of

available as it's priced in around the

brain you typically find 21 33 or 2,400

kits unfortunately since it was oh boy

okay that's gonna make it in

unfortunately since it was backordered

when we went to buy it and we had to get

the parts in time for this video we had

to settle for this g.skill ripjaws 5 at

a similar price if he wanted to grab a

30 200 megahertz kit though we'd be

paying that rather $25 with a privilege

for not much real world game if you've

never installed ran before then good

news it's super easy but there's one

thing you want to keep in mind if you

want to take advantage of dual channel

and with rising you probably will you'll

need to make sure that you install your

memory in alternating slots so 2 & 4

just pull these tabs back line up the

little notch on the memory with the

notch in the slot and insert now you'll

need to push down a little bit until you

hear a little click and on the other

side as well you'll take a little bit of

force but not a whole lot you don't

really need to worry about breaking

anything but you might feel like you're

putting too much force in so let's do

that with the other stick and just

visually inspect that we can't see the

pins and that everything is flush now

we've been plugging stuff into this

thing but we haven't really gone over

what it is yet we've gone with the

asrock be 450m pro for an inexpensive

micro ATX AMD motherboard with 4 Ram

slots and crucially the ability to

overclock our CPU now because the B 450

M pro 4 happens to have decent VRMs for

power delivery we should be able to

obtain reasonable results with our risin

5 2600 otherwise it's actually pretty

unremarkable with no official support

for SLI just crossfire and fine array of

i/o that includes a VGA port DVI port

and HDMI port that are only useful for

an APU not for us

now to be clear we could have gotten

away with a $50 board instead of a $70

one if we didn't care about overclocking

support but where's the fun in that we

are going to use this guy we literally

chose the cheapest case available

okay fine I'll talk about it this is the

rose well SRM 0/1 a micro ITX case

that's about what you'd expect for its

common sale price of twenty dollars

difficult to open box for one doesn't

weigh anything what is going on here so

for $20 you get a case that weighs

nothing with very data aesthetics it's

got a single underside dust filter

limited cable management a single front

USB 3.0 port on the side with the rest

be 2.0 this thing is not going to be

easy or fun to build in but that's not

the point of this build is it the point

is to get the best bang for the buck and

if it doesn't improve performance we're

just going to have to live with it

thankfully we do have thumb screws one

thing that it does have is this drive

tray and guess that is what it is so if

we take out these two screws here one on

the bottom and one towards the top like

so

haha it swings out of place so yeah we

can get a GPU in here if you want to

which we'll have to so this gives us all

the room we'll need

although just barely now before we move

on we need to get the case ready to

actually work in first we'll need to use

these thumb screws to take off both side

panels yes the rear one too and yes they

actually gave us thumb screws on the

rear with that done we'll remove the

front panel so we need to grip this

little slot down here and just pull

outward there's no latch it should just

pop right off and from here all we need

to do is just pull these cables through

gently

they aren't held in with anything

they're just rotted right through now

there's not much in the way of cable

management on this front panel there's

nothing particularly special about it

but it does have these screws with wide

rims that hold everything into place so

you're gonna want to take this one off

next to the LEDs and that'll free them

up but we don't want to remove them what

we want to do is take these for the

power and reset sway

and route them down with them and from

here we'll want to take the LED wires

and pull them through here until they're

about the same length and loop slack

like that what we can do from here is

replace that screw and that has all of

our front panel connections at pretty

much the perfect length to reach our

motherboard as for the USB 2.0 front

panel audio and USB 3.0 cables these are

relatively easy to figure out what we

can do is just push them through here

and then out through this cable

management port for the power supply can

be a little bit tricky because these

wires are thick but once we get it three

fills out our front panel back through

and close it back up should just snap on

once you get the posts aligned and there

we go so why did we go through the

effort of doing that so doing it this

way means that our cables have just

enough slack go where they need to go

without having any extraneous length

that we need to deal with later on for

cable management which will be a chore

speaking of the motherboard we can't

celebrate yet because we still need to

install that and this is where we run

into our first real problem with

cheaping out on the case if we look in

this baggie here there are actually only

six brass standoffs included there are

no other stand-ups and our motherboard

has eight mount points that means we're

going to have to choose where we need

the most support so we need to determine

where and this is why people don't like

wearing ESD straps in this case it looks

like we're going to need the most

support in the top left the top right

everything in the middle because that's

where our GPU is gonna go and probably

the bottom middle here where a front

panel connects in and unfortunately that

means the rest of it is going to have

paying loose which means the bottom

right here bottom left

and the top-middle are gonna sag a

little bit if you try to put any

pressure on them

so with that mapped out in the standoffs

go now if you do decide to use a

screwdriver for these be very careful

because these are made of cheap brass

and this is very thin steel it will

strip and you're going to have a bad

time better to just use your fingers to

tighten them no I probably should do

this with a screwdriver once we're done

with that nonsense we won't forget our

IO shield which snaps into place from

the inside but we want to make sure that

it's oriented correctly in this case the

audio ports will be on the bottom now we

can finally get our motherboard

installed for realsies now a pro tip for

anyone building in an older design case

like this install your front panel

connectors now while the motherboard is

still outside the case this little lip

down here is going to cause so many

problems if you try to do it afterwards

now you'll want to check your

motherboards manual just to see where

everything plugs in but typically the

power switch is going to go into the top

right the reset switch will go right

beneath that and then hard drive power

that'll go next to the reset switch to

the left

positive usually is to the left which I

believe that's what the silkscreen says

and we'll do the same for the power

switch your power LED alright so with

our front panel installed let's get our

motherboard in so we'll get it down

under here hold this out of the way so

it doesn't get trapped underneath and

line it up with our i/o shields so if we

align this laterally you'll see the

brass standoffs show through which will

tell you that you have all your

standoffs in the right positions so

since we can see them we can count them

to make sure we have them all in the

right spots so we have one two three

four five six so with the standoffs

applied to the screw holes we'll take

these fine threaded screws

screw it down starting at the center

keep everything aligned don't mind me

I'm just gonna keep screwing these in

for the rest of time yeah I don't duh

this is such a pain do you remember how

I said you should plug in the front

panel before yeah yeah put the board in

I forgot to put in these front panel

connectors II oh yeah and then I forgot

my own advice about lifting this stupid

cable out of the way now let's get those

screws back in okay that was a lot of

work just to get the motherboard in but

the fun's only just begun because we

haven't gotten to the power supply yet

just rethinking my life decisions right

now anyway you might expect that we

cheaped out on the power supply tube but

it's actually quite important for a

variety of reasons the most important of

which being the longevity and stability

of your computer's components for that

reason we set a stipulation that the

power supply we chose would be 80 plus

bronze or better capable of 500 watts or

higher continuous output and come with a

five-year warranty at minimum the least

expensive power supply that takes all of

these boxes is the corsair CX 550 which

given black of modular connections means

our phase choice is about to take our

proverbial bus because unlike most

modern cases the SRM 0 1 from Rosewell

mounts the power supply up top which

means not only do we have the line it up

manually but even though it does have a

lip for the power supply to rest on

we still need to hold it in place while

we screw it in or it could fall I want

to go home it's probably obvious but we

can't actually get this power supply in

here until we get these cables routed so

let's do that

this little hole in the back here is

quite convenient for routing our power

supply campus oh and by the way because

this power supply mounts up here it acts

as an exhaust that's actually what it's

designed for back in the day so we're

gonna want the pan on the bottom yeah so

yeah I just got off screw it in then

power supplies in so this mess is why we

couldn't install the power supply lying

flat and it's also why we couldn't

install the global VPS connector while

the motherboard was outside of the case

like we normally recommend we could have

maybe install the power supply first but

that wouldn't really have made our lives

much easier so let's go about routing

these things shall we the MM ATX cable

is pretty easy just go into this little

hole here thankfully the 24 pin just has

these extra 4 pins here it's the 20+4

ATX connector which helps in managing

these cables just make sure they're

clipped together and push it down until

it clicks alright so now for the 12-volt

EPS connector and that's gonna go

through this little hole here once it's

through snap it together then line it up

which can be a little bit tricky

thankfully we've got plenty of clearance

so with it in slot push down until you

hear the click now the next thing we're

gonna want to do is pull all of the

slack from inside the case to this side

of the case and that will leave as

little as possible

for us to deal with on the inside we'll

also probably never need these cables

here at least not right now so we can

push those back through if I had been

thinking ahead I would have just not

routed them through but

yeah that's not what we're doing today

so since we'll basically never hang

these we can tie them off and leave them

in this conveniently located five and a

quarter inch Bay that will also never

use because who owns an optical drive

anymore so into this little drive bay

these go and we never have to look at

them again

speaking of storage we chose the WD blue

250 gigabyte m2 module for its low

profile and low cost now I know you can

get cheaper SSDs but this was the

cheapest that included that D Ram cache

which is extremely important for

performance as we've seen in the past

now to install the module we're going

had to find the m2 slot on the

motherboard for our drive the problem is

that the one in the center of the board

here labeled ultra m2 is only for nvme

meaning that our SATA SSD needs to go in

the other slot which is conveniently

located down at the bottom right of the

board so we'll line up the notches on

the end of the module with the key on

the slot and it goes should go right in

we won't see any more pins so we can

then take this retaining screw screw it

down and we're nice and secure you'll

notice that it covers up the bottom

middle motherboard screw which is why we

didn't install it before now 250

gigabytes of solid-state storage isn't

enough for everything we want to run on

this machine

I mean individual games commonly can be

up to 50 gigabytes or larger these days

I've seen some that are like closer to a

hundred and that's why we've got this 2

terabyte Seagate Barracuda

which critically is a 7200 rpm drive

meaning that while it's more

power-hungry than the slower 5400 rpm

options we'll be loading our games more

quickly plus since it's an older model

it's just as cheap now we've got a

couple of options for mounting the drive

and neither are very good the first

option is to just install it into the

bottom of the five and quarter-inch Bay

where the guide rail is provided but

unless you have a long neck screw driver

you're just not going to get a solid

mount with that in mind we'll be

mounting two

this yes I am serious now the manual

says to mount the drives here with their

connectors facing the rear of the case

like this but we'll get much cleaner

cable management if we mount it like

this with the connectors facing the

front we can hide those cables through

the front panel or via the five and a

quarter inch bay in case you're

wondering yes we could mount the drive

or second drive to this bottom half here

but that would interfere with our GPUs

PCI Express connectors when we go to

install them as you'll see speaking of

connectors now it's time to cable manage

this thing we've been kind of doing that

the whole time but now that the drive is

securely mounted it's time to tidy up

the cabling in preparation for the GPU

which will be the last thing that we

install here and of course we need to

get the drive wired up and yeah you know

if I were thinking more clearly I

probably would have done the cable

management before the drive but since

our velcro ties are actually too big for

the loops that are provided here on the

case oh go ahead and run these now and

then cable management then afterwards

just to tidy things up thankfully we

only have the one that we need to run

all I need this to be hanging out here

either I'm not very good at this

remember that SATA cable chain that we

left out at this point this is where we

need it going to cross it over like this

with one of my handy-dandy tweezers clip

this off or not there we go and now

you've got just enough length here OOP

that hurt to feed it down through this

hole here it's a little difficult to see

there we go as a bonus we can fish this

up through that seen hole and we can

send it out through here but that we can

go back down here with the rest of the

front panel cables

and plug directly into the motherboard

then we can close it back up

now we have a fully connected drive with

basically no mess so taking care not to

cross over any cables we'll slide our

USB 3.0 header into here and plug it

directly into the board like so I kind

of hate those connectors but we will

have to pull the slack back out but

gently because these connectors have a

tendency to either break or pull loose

with very little force so with that done

now we can start tying these up now this

step isn't terribly important but it's

important to me

flatten out a little bit all right so we

need both of these but we only need one

of them to have all of their connectors

so we can tie one of these back just for

the sake of neatness so we can fish both

of these through here then I can tie

this down like so now I need to figure

out what to do with this guy that'll at

least keep it in place more or less

although I would really like another

cable management point now one thing you

might notice is that it actually isn't

flush with the sides of the case but

that's not actually a bad thing because

our panel has this nice big bump on it

which lets us just slide it on okay and

the front looks pretty clean too which

is a good thing because now we need to

install our graphics card now our goal

for this build is a 1440p 60 capable

machine so for that we're turning to the

geforce r-tx 20 70 gaming OC card from

gigabyte it's about $12 or 3% more than

the standard gaming card but it's cloth

tick with 7% higher which means it's a

trade-off worth making in the pursuit of

absolute best price to performance at

this budget anyway and yeah let's get

this in to install our GPU we're first

going to need to break off these tabs

that come

the PCI Express slots now this is a

hallmark of Cheaper cases and nothing to

be concerned about you can just gently

stick a screwdriver in here like so to

kind of get it out of position and then

you can just kind of bend it up and down

a few times like this and then just

break right off now we already have most

of ours free because I did do a test fit

in this but for you guys you're going to

have to pry these free

so once the slots are free it's time for

the main event now the first thing we

should do is make sure that the tab on

the back of the slot is in the down

position it was already there but if

it's up just push it down that will

unlock the retention clip for our GPU

which can go in like so now one more

thing to note this case has basically no

room back here install your PCI Express

power connectors first before you do

anything else

now angling this in is a little bit

tricky in a case like this but once you

have it aligned all you need to do is

give it a little press until you hear

the click now what we need to do is

screw in our retention screws now once

you've tidied up the PCI Express cables

and gotten everything nice and organized

it's time to take a step back and admire

your work it's been rough but we're

almost done it's time to go ahead and

slide the side panels back on and secure

them into place with the thumb screws

like so so now we'll plug everything in

and wait the longest few seconds of our

lives

it's powered on

bullet post Oh keyboard lit up okay as

Rock helpfully as Rock shows you exactly

which key to mash so we just mash delete

or you can hit f2 now most of this stuff

in the BIOS will probably want to leave

it defaults for now but primarily what

we want to do here is enable XMP which

can be done by going over to the OC

Tweaker then going down to XMP setting

and choosing X and P 2.0 profile 1 and

we should see that our Ram is now

running at the proper speed which is

great so we will go ahead and do Save

Changes and exits all right looks like

Windows is installed I won't go into the

step-by-step on how to do that but for

those of you who are stuck and do want

to install Windows grab an 8 gigabyte or

larger USB key and put it into another

computer that's already running Windows

from here you can download the media

creation tool from Microsoft which can

automatically set up a Windows installer

on your USB key once that's done just

plug it in reboot it should

automatically start the Windows setup

process and once that's done you should

already have all of your drivers

installed out-of-the-box but you'll want

the latest Nvidia driver along with the

AMD chipset driver which you can grab

from their respective websites now as

for how this thing performs well I've

already loaded up the drive with a bunch

of tools and games to test drive so

let's give it from spinning jelly I

guess ok yeah that's about what I'd

expect Linus likes doom let's use a

shadow the Tomb Raider and run the

benchmark yeah that's pretty good high

60s 1440p highest up above 70 now it

probably dropped down to like the low

60s at minimum yeah Wow ok that's

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