DON'T Make THESE Mistakes Building A PC (pt. 5)

Techquickie is striking back with a fifth episode of our series on pitfalls to avoid when building your PC...

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Intro Theme: Showdown by F.O.O.L from Monstercat - Best of 2016

[SugarFreeTargets]

Pro tip: if your newly built PC doesn't turn on, check and see if the power supply is turned on first.

[thatguywithemail]

"He not fighting Static, He fighting Cancer."
- Lyle.

[SehxualPanda]

#1 Tip: Never, ever forget your Swiss Army Knife that may or may not possibly contain a Phillips head screw driver.

[daze]

Friend: "What's all this white stuff on your motherboard?"
Me: "Toothpaste"

[sweet.but.savage]

1.Tip: If nothing appears on your screen when booting make sure you actually have a monitor.

[jGRite]

Build your PC naked to help avoid static discharge.

[shadovvwolfie]

1: Double check your standoff screw count in your case to make sure it's the exact amount needed for the motherboard. I had one extra and my mobo sparked up months later.

2: When mounting a CPU fan always screw it in diagonally bit by bit. Fully screwing in 1 side might result in the other side being lifted far too high to screw in. I always do top left, bottom right, bottom left, top right. This is a common mistake me and my friends have made. Never screw them in all the way until all screws are screwed into the socket alittle.

3: Double check all plugs to assure they are fully in before booting the PC up. It's common for people to overlook a fan or harddrive plug not being fully in resulting in some heartbreaking damage or heating issues.

Check for:
-CPU fan
-Case fan(s)
-Harddrive(from sata and power supply if needed)
-GPU if required
-Headers

4: This isn't building but important for after it's built. Do NOT put the back of your PC directly up against a wall. Give it atleast a foot of space or the heat will fireback into it.

Last: Do not place your Power Supply upside down if your PC case isn't open below and you don't have a floor where air can flow like a crate or bars.

Often I had people tell me they was told it's optimal and almost everytime it backfired on them because of this. You can't blow hot air into a table and expect cooling.

Goodluck builders. Most of this is common sense so you'll be fine if you be patient and don't rush.

[lolihunter]

I have a tip for buy them mac as a gaming pc....

[anonymousannoyed]

I asked my friend what CPU he had, he siad he didn't have one

His PC works perfectly

He called me an idiot when I told him a computer needs a CPU

[hackysmack]

4:47 I had a friend bring in his mother's computer (that I had built) with pins like that on the AMD CPU. A CPU that was still attached to the heatsink.

How, you ask?

Well, I had told him to remove the heatsink fan so that he could clean it (and blow air through the heatsink fins). He instead removed the heatsink, but he somehow managed to pull the CPU as well...still attached by the baked thermal compound.

Which, if he knew what he was doing, might have been fine. But he didn't. So after he was finished washing the heatsink (yes, he did), he tried to put it back in.This went...poorly.

Luckily, sanity prevailed and he brought the hot mess to me. So after getting a good laugh out of it, I fixed everything up and that computer is still chugging along.

[QuickSqueeze]

When you're shopping for a new build, don't check out your cart in the middle of the night. Sleep on it, you will want to make some changes next morning.

[theblinkstykrab]

Dont buy a 16 gig stick of ram, buy two 8 gig sticks and put them in dual channel

[AsdEagle]

Be sure to use wrong screws and put PSU upside down

[Arek_R.]

Don't use incompatible cables for your modular PSU, it's not standarized and altrough it may fit into the connector, wiring will be very likely swapped, it can result in a death of your PSU or even other components, Greg from Science Studio made this mistake.
When choosing some big ass air cooler, check height and RAM clearences for you case, very often you may run into issues with some tall RAM sticks.
When installing two sticks of RAM in a 4-slot motherboard, make sure you choose correct slots, usually 2nd and 4th from the left, but check the manual anyway.
If your case has a lot of perforations, holes meshes etc. you should have a possitive air pressure fan configuration, so eg. 2x120 on intake and 1x120 on exhaust or 2x240 on intake and 2x120 on exhaust, it will stop the dust coming inside the case through unfiltered holes and reduce the cleaning intervals.
Don't use swiss army knife as a screwdriver!

[madness]

Just two things. When unplugging a graphics card, remember to unlock the PCIE port. Also the pins on the USB 3 motherboard jack are very easy to break, be careful when inserting that annoying cable.

[Muscleduck]

About the touching metal: touch BARE metal. Linus could have specified that. Painted metal like in the animation WON'T be enough.

[esrefpivcic]

I accidentally dropped my brand new cpu on its socket one year ago. It bent few pins (lga 1151 socket) and I fixed it with some help from your video.
What a horror..

[BouXIII]

"Building a PC is easy, my 5yo can do it" - Linus
"Don'T make these mistakes while building your PC, otherwise it is ruined" - Linus .... 5 Parts!

[dan_loup]

Don't forget to connect the PC Speaker.
A PC is not a PC until it gives a 750hz beep when you turn it on.

[rggaming]

3:45 ask a friend. bruh all of my friends doesn't even know what is a cpu