First you need a table preferably not metal if it's gonna be metal have an anti-static working surface layered on top of it a thermal paste applicator an allen wrench some tweezers to tight up the wires a Swiss Army knife which hopefully has a Phillips head screwdriver in it and last but not least an anti-static bracelet which is to protect you and the parts these are the parts you're gonna need but more importantly before we get there we need to understand what these parts are doing and how they interact with one another to better understand the parts that make up a desktop let's try to understand them individually the processor is like the computer's brain a base of calculations that control everything the computer does the motherboard is like the foundation serving is a main structure for all of the parts to be added to it also allows the other parts and communicate with one another which also makes it kind of like a nervous system graphics cards are responsible for rendering and processing visuals into what you see on screen our pcs power supply is of course channeling electricity in that it adjusts and provides the right amount of energy to keep it running last but not least RAM or random access memory and your hard drive are good examples of short-term and long-term memory respectively if you want to better understand what kind of computer to build then first figure out what you want to use it for a gamer might care more about a graphics card than say a video editor who might want extra RAM to assist with editing large files if you're building a budget build for video streaming say under $1000 you want to focus on parts like a Core i5 or Core i3 processor that require less energy they'll be less powerful but then you'll be able to scale back the cost of several other parts and if you need help choosing the right parts for your build there are sites like PC part picker comm that helps you'll preset for which parts fit together which sort of part conflicts you might have and where to find deals on new we have a lot of boxes and a lot of PC parts so it's best you unbox them isolate the parts that you really need place items into the case and make sure that they all fit and then start working and now we're really gonna start building by adding them of the board in some notes about installing motherboards they're really delicate you should be really careful with them and screw in with confidence but also don't screw in too hard otherwise you could crack the board I chose ASIS with z3 7-0 motherboard for two main reasons one it has built-in Wi-Fi and Bluetooth and also it has support for nvme SSDs meaning you can get really fast as these that are really easy to install pay close attention to the brace that goes at the back of the computer you always have to make sure that you really hammer it in because there's no screw it really just has to go outside of the case and clasp onto the frame and this is very important because otherwise you can't align the motherboard correctly with the holes we're just gonna start installing all eight screws so next we're going to solve the RAM on the motherboard I chose Corsairs 16 gigabyte vengeance LED Ram for two main reasons one it has LEDs and we do like lights and we're gaming desktops secondly it's pretty fast Ram it's two thousand six hundred and sixty six megahertz I believe so it's pretty fast and this motherboard supports that speed which is most important open the slots first and just aligning the stick with the middle of the strip not with the end and just lining that up with the logo so once you hear that solvent clasp and you don't see the gold connectors on the side anymore that's when you know the RAM is in step three we're going to install the hard drive or in this case the nvme SSD I chose this format of solid-state drive so that I could input it into the motherboard without having to worry about extra wires or putting it in a separate part of the case and just getting really messy this is from Kingston and it's 480 gigabytes so it's not a lot but you can always upgrade this and swap it out and it's only held down by one screw and the latch so it's really simple and really straightforward speed for gaming is important when it comes to a hard drive you want files to write quickly and you want games to load quickly so that's why it's best if you use an SSD okay so step 4 we're going to install the graphics card I chose P and wives GTX 1080 which is overclocked and so it's a pretty easy installation you're just going to find the gold connectors and you're gonna line this bracket with the back and bracket or your PC case now Wieck Lane uqs depends entirely on what other parts are gonna put in the system I'm just gonna pick the top one because the SSD is at the bottom and I don't want to cover it I just think it looks nice click down take your remaining brackets and just put them in the spots that you having to use you don't have to screw these in they get bolted down by the back end bracket and your GPUs installed power supply time I chose Corsairs 850 watt power supply because I need enough Headroom for ray-tracing GPUs when they come out and I don't want to have to upgrade it again so all you have to do is take the brick and make sure that you align it with these little insulating pads so the power supply doesn't short-circuit and come into contact with the rest of the system so just take it in slide it in nice and easy until you have a snug fit and then checked it to the back and make sure it's right up against the frame now you just take the required screws and you tighten and screw in so next step we're going to install the CPU core in this case it's gonna go on the top end of the case and we're just gonna have the hose hang out for a little while until we install the processor which is gonna come a little later always be sure to try to place it in the system first before you install it because you can see it takes up a lot of space but in this case no pun intended it fits in perfectly and we're gonna start screwing it in and there's nothing special about this string in process they're just really long screws because they go through the entire frame of the cooler and they take forever so next up cables every power supply is gonna come with a big bag of velcro cables it's kind of daunting at first so you always have to find the ones that are gonna fit in this case you need to match those cables with the correct descriptions on the power supply next step is we're connecting the power supply to the mug for with the 24 pin cable we're just matching that cable from the motherboard threading it through the back and attaching the 24 pin header to the power supply so that we can have one of the connections complete the next few additions will be for the GPU for any specific ports that the case has for any lighting that the case has the CPU cooler the anything else really we're installing the CPU the heart of the computer or the brain depending on how you look at it so to do this we're just going to remove the plastic covering that they put on the motherboard we're just gonna take this little plastic part out we'll just toss that out of here and now we have an exposed CPU holder or rather slot on the motherboard and we're gonna use the CPU applicator this is a special little part that not everyone may get but this motherboard that we got from Asus definitely does have its called a CPU installation tool it makes it really useful if you want to install a core i7 hexa core CPU yeah we've got one and it's an eighth generation chip and it's ready to go and it supports overclocking so what having this little installer does for you is it's basically a brace that you can apply right to the CPU and light it up with the triangles that you'll see on the bottom left corners and this will make it easier for us to apply it to the motherboard and then apply thermal paste and then apply a CPU cooler on top and 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