First Person View POV PC BUILD Guide! (2024)

Building a PC is can be tricky, but now you can see exactly how to do it through the eyes of a professional! This is our 2024 POV PC Build guide!

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MUSIC CREDIT
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Intro: Laszlo - Supernova

Outro: Approaching Nirvana - Sugar High

CHAPTERS
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0:00 Preparing to Build
2:27 Motherboard
4:38 CPU Installation
6:23 RAM Installation
7:25 M.2 SSD Installation
8:57 CPU Air Cooler Installation
10:27 Thermal Paste
11:14 CPU Air Cooler Cont. Fans and RGB Headers
13:36 Test Boot
14:49 PC Case
15:59 DON'T FORGET THE IO SHIELD
16:41 Mounting in the Case
19:28 Case Fans and Front I/O
24:21 Power Supply
27:12 3.5" and 2.5" Drives
29:10 Cable Management
29:25 GPU
33:18 Case Closed, Second Boot

[AaronChmelik]

Right off the bat - I appreciate that while you sell screwdrivers and cable ties, you didn't immediately bombard a potential first time PC builder to product plugs.

[kirmityou]

I've built dozens of PCs and still watched the whole vid, great job!
It's exactly what a lot of first time builders miss from usual guides.

[Captain-Dju]

11:13 Yep, I built my new PC a couple of weeks ago with my kids, and during the theoretical intro, I clearly mentioned that the removal of the peel was one of THE most critical step.
As soon as the cooler was in place, I wanted to start screwing it on the mounting brackets, but my son shyly told me "Dad, didn't you say you had to remove the peel?"
That's how my 10 year old saved my latest build, and every time he games on it he very proudly reminds me of that fact :)

[litojonny]

i literally built my new PC 3 days ago! a tip i would recommend is whenever you open a box, TAKE A PICTURE of all the baggies you have inside

[TasosPapavasiliou]

I love how every time you make one of these, it is supposedly the final one anyone will ever need, yet another one comes out every year.

Many people seem to take it as an offense, but tbh, I said that because I enjoyed watching these every time a new one comes out, hope this clears the air!

[FadeGrayOG]

I wasn't expecting LTT mukbang today

[Shezestriakis]

Instructions unclear. Computer was eaten.

[squeakyknee]

Really glad you all make these. I consume so much tech media, yet I was still super nervous building my first PC. So I did a ton of research on parts and plugs etc. and when it came time to actually build I watched the last FP PC build you all made and it helped so much and made me a lot less nervous!

[Sparkie]

The videos they posted about two years ago is how I got into PC building. And now I am addicted to building PCs.

[mythicul]

I remember the last one of these, watched it many times. Love how this one is also a reasonably priced build we could make as well

[Goddeh]

Legend says that this is the final build guide you'd ever need 👌

[pan]

Just built my first ever pc build with the help of this video. It took me many hours just to be super safe and make sure not a single mistake was made, and I can say this video was the best thing ever for that!

[icyinsomniac]

I can watch those "how to build a PC" videos by Linus forever, no matter how many of them are there. Even though im a ps5 and switch player, im planning to build a PC in near future for myself and those guides are so handy. Also atmosphere in LTT videos are so much fun, you can tell that this is a team of dedicated people that love their craft.

[supernumex]

1:12 CAUTION NOTE! you do NOT need to turn on the power supply for the chassis ground to work. In fact you probably DON"T want to turn it on especially if you're reaching into the power supply with the alligator clip on the ESD strap!!

[DavidRBermudez]

It's amazing how these "how to" videos have evolved. I remember my first ever "how to" was on VHS tape. It was a CD ROM unit for my Packard Bell 486 desktop which did not come with a CD ROM built-int. It only had 5.25 floppy drive and one 3.5 FDD. The VHS tape showed how to install the CD ROM properly. I'm glad now with people like Linus and Jay and so many others we have better explanations and better step-by-steps. Maybe Linuss next "how-to" could be made to look like one of those old VHS tapes (retro nostalgia)

[toonaday]

_Me Founds A Spare Part:_
"*I should save it for later!*"
_This Guy:_
*Looks Delicious!*

[pmlabowicz]

"This takes more force than you expect" This! I spent quite a while looking for video guides because latching down my CPU felt like it required way more force than I expected, and all the videos, that I found at least, showed people making it look effortless. Eventually I said screw it, if it breaks it breaks. Luckily no problems so far. Hopefully at least one new builder will see the clip and ease their concerns.

[Refaelgez]

This is a brilliant idea! I'm a laptop man myself but if I would choose to build my first pc this is definitely the very first guide I would use... Thank you for being awesome!!!

[shockblaster]

I am so lucky I was planning on building with these exact same parts (except ddr4) and now I got a perfect tutorial

[nathanjohnson]

I’ve built several computers and don’t need this. Why am I watching it start to finish?

Excellent production values on this. Love the visual highlights and pacing. Lighting was excellent as well which is really easy to take for granted given how wildly different this is from the normal perspective.