another tip is: if you run into problems with your own build or upgraded pc, maybe update your bios. It can be risky do that, so generally don‘t do it if you don‘t have problems. My PC was on half speed for over 6 years due to outdated bios software…
@@99jannis43I have a budget dell optiplex 3020 build and I just updated my bios from 2015 to 2019 it unlocked hyperthreading and made my CPU like 3xs better it's insane
yep i made this mistake not long ago building my new pc. forgot to remove that damn sticker off the water block on my aio. spent additional $119 buying a Noctua NH D15 thinking maybe my aio wasn't cutting it because it would run 95c-100c during playing a game. after that noctua showed up i quickly wanted to do the change so i uncscrewed the water block to just see the sticker on there. biggest face slap to the forehead.
I think some of the best advice I can give for building is this ; watch full length videos without cuts to see EXACTLY what people are doing and checking for. Check for compatibility on pc part picker, it’ll tell you what won’t work with what and even if there’s a size issue. If it’s your first time, look up cases that are easy to build in I know that shoebox case looks cool but trust me it’s tough
This tip also goes for ANYTHING other than building PCs itself. I skipped over many parts of a tutorial video and it backfired hard when I kept on dying until I realized I was doing it wrong this whole time
I'm pretty sure pcpartpicker doesn't tell you size incompatibilities (aside from motherboard and case sizes like ATX). You're gonna have to check yourself if your GPU fits in the case you're buying for it. But yeah it does show any other part incompatibilities
@@rainerbehrendt9330on the contrary, you should watch that video cos it'll show you that 1. anyone can build a pc and 2. If you're watching the react video, they give a few good tips and it's a funny vid
Well i bought a Nvme ssd that is M only from aliexpress, but they a gave me a m + b pci nvme ssd and my motherboard only supports M only ssd’s but when i plugged it in it worked and its working and it says i have 1 tb storage but it is not detetcted in the bios
I think you should have told them more about mistakes that do mess your system up such as seating your cpu wrong and bending pins that way, putting the psu to mobo power cable on wrong can short whole mobo, static electricity when touching mobo, pepper tools to not strip screws, magnitized heads so screws dont fall onto boards, etc.
Did my first pc build recently and worked when i booted it up thankfully. Watching full length videos on how to install each component that isnt installed in a universal way
I have built myself and my boyfriend's computers a few weeks. My first two computers. Everything was clean and superb on the first go. When I applied a new Ram stick and had to take off the CPU cooler first, I was also pleasantly surprised that I even put on the thermalpaste just right. Yuuuusss! The only thing that I have to be cautious of is how I can adjust the fans for perfect cooling a little better.
I once forgot to attach the gpu to the PSU ☠️☠️☠️ I only realized after I got 15fps on cod Guys my HDMI is now connected to the GPU for 1/2 years I figured it out after watching a video
That reveals another mistake you made, connecting your Display Port or HDMI cable to your motherboard instead of to your graphics card, do it, and you will see an improvement
Your videos are always so fun to watch and when ever I’m depressed I always check your Channel and it always lightens my mood. Your my favorite RUclipsr
1st PC u put the motherboard in before popping off the pcie "slot cover"? On the case and scraped off a redundant component on the motherboard still works fine no problems
recently i changed my cpu cooler to another liquid cooler and to do that easily i took motherboard out. After I am done I put everything back and my pc wont boot because i forgot to plug cpu into psu 😂
As someone who built their first pc a couple of weeks ago after stressing about it for months before, my advice is to just take it easy and simply follow a good tutorial if needed and you should be fine since its actually a lot more simple then it seems
I did bend my motherboard pins on my first build 5 years ago which caused the 2nd ram slot to stop working but i fixed them myself lol and its still running perfectly to this day
While i saved up to build mine last year, i watched and rewarched endless amounts of videos on pc building and tips. I also took it slow when i finally had everything ready. I was very careful during the process so i wouldn't skip any steps. But my only problem was a connector that was super stiff, and I couldn't watch the pins line up with the holes due to the walls of the female end. I ended up bending pins. So i spent a half hour carefully straightening them out. In the end, i got it hooked up and working. I flashed the bios, installed windows after boot, and it worked perfectly. Im very proud of my build, i didn't know anything a month before. Now im a huge enthusiast and have been learning anything i can that's relevant to computers.
Built my first pc like 2 months ago, and I was stumped for like 3 hours as to why it wouldn’t turn on. Eventually realized that I just forgot to install the motherboard standoffs, and it was shorting because it was in direct contact with the case 😭 After that though, it worked just fine, great for music production and terraria lol What I’m saying is you probably WILL make a mistake in your first build, but that doesn’t mean it’ll be irreversible. There’s only a couple things you could do that will literally destroy your pc, and those are the more obvious ones
Surpised it didn't just fry your whole system. Usually with any short it just fries and cpu, gpu, and especially the mobo. Pc parts are EXTREMELY fragile when it comes to electrity.
Suprisingly my first pc (my current one) had no issues first try (im 13 btw) i did have a very small amount of help like certain cables I couldn’t reach, but for the most part i did it on my own.
yeah bro same I built a PC and spent days figuring out what was wrong when the PC didn't boot up. Apparently the power cable wasn't plugged into the motherboard properly 😂
It's why I almost just opt for a pre built. There's so many "tiny" things that can fuck up a system. Static being one of them. Pc parts are extremely fragile. You can literally just touch your system wrong and it'll break all your parts. It's honestly quite terrifying.
@@ambientlightofdarknesss4245I guess it heavily depends on your environment and the quality of your parts too. I’ve taken apart a rig on my carpet and done stuff in it many times without issue. Just make sure you properly ground yourself, discharge the computers residual power after turning it off and you should be good to go 👍🏿
@@ambientlightofdarknesss4245 Static killing your system isn't as common or easy to do as you think. As long as you're not head to toe in polyester doing star jumps in between installing components you're going to be fine, I just touch a radiator or a metal tap before I start and that's all good. I only worried about wearing a special wrist strap on my first time building. With prebuilt you're more likely to get shipping damage to your prebuilt than you are to accidentally static shock your PC while building your own.
you can do it if you look up the Cable Compability on the Site of the PSU Manufacturer. I had no Problem as i swapped my 650 Watt Bequiet for a 1000 Watt.
@@duif10Sure, don't mix your PSU Cables and Manufacturers. Check before swapping. Don't think that every modular PSU use the same Cable Layout. If in doubt better use the Cables from the new PSU.
always, mostly ONLY use the cables that came with the PSU. There are custom cables made for specific PSUs if you want it for the aesthetics but don't mix cables, even if it's from the same manufacturer. Sure sometimes they can mix but the general rule of thumb is to not so you can avoid killing your components
@@Sherfiee Only use the older cables after you have verified them by the Mabufactors Site. BEquiet as Example has a Cable Guide for their PSUs and you can see if your Cables are good with the new PSU.
Additional tip: dont mess the power cables for GPU and CPU. CPU is 4+4, when GPU is 6+2, and often in cable named CPU and GPU. I think is usefull tip for secure your system 🔥
God. That motherboard I.O pick brought back flashbacks of literally this Friday 😭 That's a MSI B450 Gaming Plus Max motherboard. It supports a TPM 1.3 even though it's installed with a TPM 2.0(????) and regardless of bios changes or updates it won't change it. I had to bypass windows 11 TPM checking cause every other component in the PC was supported by Windows except the TPM 1.3 😭
Me back then building hundreds of PC as a IT solutions company technical staff, every PC build feels like a new experience... As long as you don't bend or chip anything, you're good. I remembered I was given a task of building a desktop with rare mobo than the ones at the shop, I messed up some headers and bend the pin, if not mistaken it's a USB 3 header, luckily I fixed it using tweezers. And I remembered when swapping prebuilt desktop to custom case, the motherboard don't give header labels, especially on the power, HDD, LED and reset. I once do the swap and end up PC turning on and off by itself, takes minutes to figure out I plugged the wrong pins.
My tip, don't be afraid to go hard. Sometimes inserting the cables can be hard asf and the sound might be unpleasant, but don't worry, you won't break anything, as long as it's still intact of course
I've built my own PCs for 20 years now, and have made all of the mistakes. I just took apart my previous build to salvage some parts for my nephew, probably my 9th or so build, and noticed on the back of it that those pinchy springs on the motherboard shroud on the back were sticking out, and into the onboard HDMI port, even touching pins. I am so lucky that didn't short out.
Story time, so my friend asked me for assistance building his pc, little did he know it was also my first time doing so. But since I had so much research under my belt I had high hopes, long story short everything actually went perfectly! Besides at the beginning the cpu pins were bent a bunch… but in a surprising turn of events that surprised the both of us, I took a tiny flat head screwdriver to the thing and manually bent all the pins back in place, he still uses that pc today and it works flawlessly. I always give myself a little pat on the back and I’m proud to say I’ve done that on my own, not to mention on my first ever build
When I built my first PC in December 2023, I had to make a blood sacrifice (when I went to put in the IO sheild, I cut my finger twice), the hardest part was putting in the SSD, the screw is very small. Hello from Brazil
My first time I built a very expensive pc, writhing seemed to be going well and went to see if it would post. It didn’t. Luckily for me I got a mobo that has three wonderful lights that tell you if a major issue is up. Turns out one of the four sticks of memory was bad. So I ran several boot tests with each stick found the bad one and returned and got a replacement. Now I’m happy
A common sense tip: if you worked with prebuilts before building your own pc it’s always handy to have a secondary gpu for testing or hope your cpu has an iGPU so you can rule out arguably the most expensive component!
I recently built my first PC and it turned on first try which made me super happy, however I couldn't install Windows 11. It was telling me my system isn't compatible but I knew that was not true since I used an AM4 motherboard (x570s) with a 5800x as my cpu. After a bit of confusion I remembered watching a "beginners guide" Video about Win11 needing TPM to be enabled and that you can enable/disable it in the bios, so I went to the bios and yes, for some reason it was disabled. I enabled it, tried to install Windows again and it worked. That roller-coaster of emotions was great. 😅 From the happiness of the PC actually turning on, over the shock and confusion about the windows install, all the way to the feeling of pride and accomplished after figuring out the issue on my own. But the most rewarding part is the knowledge that the over 100 hours I spent doing research on virtually everything about beginner pc building issues were not just wasted and I am ready to deal with essentially anything a newly built pc might throw at me in the future . 😊
Two mistakes I made with my first rig was not putting the ram in the correct channels and mounting my cpu air cooler facing up 😂 best advice for first time builders is to watch a video of someone and reference your part manuals!!!!!! The mother board manual and case manual carried me through the building process along with a RUclips video. Lots of great resources out now so it’s pretty easy if you have patience, patience and patience
First PC build took me a whole day cause I kept thinking I was gonna screw up...but honestly building it and troubleshooting and double checking everything was stressful but was rewarding at the end
The mistakes I've made have been mostly to do with the order in which components are installed. Unfortunately there is no set order that works for every build. Only the judgement that comes with experience solves the issue. But installing the CPU and RAM _before_ you mount the motherboard in the PC case is pretty much always a good idea.
I have now completed my first ever pc! It took a few months due to shipping the parts and building it. My mother board didn’t come with prebuilt WiFi, so it took forever for me to download the files onto a USB and plug them into the motherboard. Still didn’t work, and finally just gave it to my uncle to help fix it. Now it work’s completely fine! Luckily I had a “How To” video the whole way and my uncle’s help. It’s fun but my god is it stressful and irritating.
I've made multiple small mistakes, some I haven't even fixed because they're cosmetic but mistakes happen. It was my first build. My next build is going to be aesthetically pleasing and won't need upgrading for a long time
My number one advice is to take extra care inserting the cpu. Make sure you have the right orientation and do not attempt to force in it under any circumstances. It should fit with virtually no force
Quick tip for people who are wanting to build their first PC. Just go for it. If you’ve seen plenty of videos of builds and are confident, you wont come across any bad problems. When I first built mine, I just said fuck it and started doing things that I was certain on. Turned out great.
I built my first gaming pc 2 years ago,successfully on first attempt, and it's still going strong today, i went through the whole process by watching LTT videos.
When handling an AIO, maintain positive control of the pump block so it doesn’t swing freely and dent your radiator. Those cooling fins are terribly fragile.
The one mistake I made when building my first PC was that I forgot to remove the plastic film covering my heatsink lol. Glad I realised that error before I finished and turned it on
I had one of those hour-long headscratchers while upgrading my PC. It was especially weird considering all the main stuff worked fine separately, but once it was all in one unit, the thing wouldn't boot. Turns out it was an internal USB cable of all things!
After placing the I/O shield, make sure you install the motherboard carefully. Sometimes I discovered that the prong on the I/O shield just covered up the ports (USB/Ethernet/HDMI/etc...), I need to unscrew everything to bend that metal plate to where it should be and take lot of time fixing this problem.
I just finished my first from scratch build, and I would suggest triple checking that dang IO shield! Make sure the grounding connection isn’t in a usb or other io. Also don’t remove or break them, because they ground out all of your io ports!
I'm working on my first PC build and i've spent about 4 hours yesterday and 4 hours today making sure that everything is plugged in correctly. I have a 2 year old who requires a lot of my attention so it takes me forever to do anything lol. I'm constantly having to rewatch, reread, and redo things.
Here's one I suspect a lot of folks mess up - Suppose it's all new parts, or at least the RAM is new. You should run Memtest86 overnight (or at least enough to get at least 3-5 passes or more). While unlikely, it's possible the RAM is bad right from the factory. Bad QC, bad luck, whatever. But instead of boot failures you can get freezes or a BSOD, and you may not notice until days or a couple weeks later. I haven't had many RAM failures after awhile of using the RAM, even if it's 10+ years and you've probably thought of moving on, though this is of course possible too. It's easy to skip because it's boring and you may be in the midst of the excitement, but always do this. The good news is that once started, you don't have to watch it or do anything but check later. So while you sleep or if otherwise busy.
I helped a friend building his PC. He had power, but nothing turned on. He connected the 6+2 pin conector into the CPU socket. Luckily with no consequence. Then, it would not post. The ram stick was not fully inserted. This process took him 1 day to figure out, so, don't despair, there is always a solution.
When he showed that picture of that pc with a broken component (the one where there are horizontal green lines on the monitor) i remembered that happened to me with my pc (which i still have but was able to fix it)
I dis-assembled and re-assembled my pc for cleaning it. I had nothing but one photograph I took before disassembling. I did each and everything correctly you won't believe. It was my first time. But yes somehow I did bend 7 lga pins which I again straightened out with the corner of the processor. PC WORKS FINE. Turns out you are not supposed to touch the processor or heat sink under all circumstances. Repair guy said I can work in PC building centres. He was shocked af. 😂
Not to brag but my first attempt was basically flawless I just did a lot of research before I even started to buy parts…and that’s how I got into computers
Always take the plastic off your heatsink before applying thermal paste. I’ve been around computers for years and built one for myself after a 5-6 year break and in my haste/excitement I still spread it on the plastic cover of the heat plate even though it has in big writing “remove before applying thermal paste” on it. I managed to scrape enough off to carry on with otherwise it’ll be a wait for more to be delivered.
My first ever self built PC was about a month ago. Thrilled to say there was only one issue, which wasn't even my fault in how it was built or put together. It wouldn't boot to bios, but it was because one of the RAM slots are dysfunctional, and if I try to seat ram in there, it'll refuse to boot.. I'm locked to single channel, but I actually didnt make a mistake!
Another tip: don’t buy a motherboard that comes out of a commercial pre built PC. My backplate doesn’t fit in a regular case, and there is no documentation on the pin out needed for the front panel.
I have definitely made the shroud mustake during my first build. Didn't know it went in from the inside and just put the MoBo in while the io shroud just sat there.
Very important is also, that you often tuch for example a heating so you don´t have any charges in your body. this is so you don´t accidentally destory components like the motherboard
First of all sorry for the long message but this is detailing the problems i had with my first build and the solution i used which hopefully will help someone out there! I recently built my first pc, probably overkill but i was always interested in PC building and had done probably a year of research before hand. I built it, double checked and triple checked everything and when i first booted it actually worked. However for the next 4 months my PC would always crash when playing any game but would be fine when just using it for school work or smth. I spent so long trying to figure out the problem, trying tips from professionals online, but really didn't want to bring it into the repair shop because i just wasn't willing to spend that amount of money Anyways I was quite sad when i spent so much tome building a rig that i thought worked but never did. Even though i did triple check all the hardware when i built it i seriously considered things like reseeding or replacing the cmos battery, swapping gpus and reseeding cpu. In the end however i decided to check my bios, now as a disclaimer DO NOT mess around with any advanced features in the bios unless you are 100% sure it wont mess up your PC But anyways as a final resort I went into my bios and checked all the hardware settings, now i had enabled EXPO on the bios but i decided to turn it off and essentially i manually changed the RAM speed to the max it can go (6000MHz) For reference i have an ASUS B650+wifi and i disabled EXPO and manually changed the RAM speed under AI tweaker tab in advanced mode. And turns out, thats all it took, it been about 2 weeks now and i haven't had any crashes in any games. Im telling you all this because incase you are building your first PC, not to put you off or anything but smth will probably go wrong, or there is smth that it just seems like you cant get to the bottom of. Just remember to do all the software troubleshooting first and if your having a similar problem to mine go ahead and give my method a try, it wont hurt the PC at all just be aware that your bios is probably going to be different from mine so just look around and dont mess around toooo much. Anyways hoped this helped for any new PC builders, and hopefully doesn't put you off, the process may seem scary and super annoying at times when you just cant seem to find the problem but trust me eventually you'll find it. And ofc if you have the money 100% go visit a trusted professional and try not to trust some random stranger (aka: me) on the internet. Goodluck new biulders and trust me its 100% worth it to build your own rig in my opinion ofc.
I built my first gaming PC a week ago, honestly it was a fun experience and didn’t really find any difficulties at all (Aside from trying to fit in my GPU at first but I eventually got it in with a little bit of finesse), the only mistake I really made was forgetting to insert the IO shield to the case before screwing the motherboard inside of it😅
One of the worst mistakes I've ever made was using a screwdriver to push down the PCI-E clip to get a GPU out, it slipped and hammered the motherboard and broke 2 or 3 microscopic components next to the slot, so not only cost a motherboard, but a copy of windows as well. It was an ITX build so not even that one guys "tiny raccoon fingers" were going to fit down there to free the GPU
Another pro tip : don't mess with the bios unless you are SURE that what you're doing is ok.
Hehehe. HAMMER.
Especially overclocking options
another tip is: if you run into problems with your own build or upgraded pc, maybe update your bios.
It can be risky do that, so generally don‘t do it if you don‘t have problems.
My PC was on half speed for over 6 years due to outdated bios software…
@@99jannis43I have a budget dell optiplex 3020 build and I just updated my bios from 2015 to 2019 it unlocked hyperthreading and made my CPU like 3xs better it's insane
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Another tip: Check under your CPU cooler if there is any sticker there before fixing it to the motherboard
yep i made this mistake not long ago building my new pc. forgot to remove that damn sticker off the water block on my aio. spent additional $119 buying a Noctua NH D15 thinking maybe my aio wasn't cutting it because it would run 95c-100c during playing a game. after that noctua showed up i quickly wanted to do the change so i uncscrewed the water block to just see the sticker on there. biggest face slap to the forehead.
@@mr.toxic1473 I'm assuming you sent that noctua back
@@DaddyM7MD not yet but im working on returning it.
Using intel thermal solution so it isn’t much of an issue.
You might just need tiny raccoon like fingers to remove it-
A small tiny thing everyone should watch while building a pc is that the IO sheild isn't sticking into the usb or display or other IO ports.
YES, not only will it block ports and be REALLY annoying but it can short the ports too!!
I had the same problem, didn't wanna take it apart so I straight up cut is off.
@@PellyPlay Same
and for that i like MBs with integrated IO Shield
I didn’t even have an IO shield to begin with, jfc, I feel like I keep finding out more shit I’m missing lmao
I think some of the best advice I can give for building is this ; watch full length videos without cuts to see EXACTLY what people are doing and checking for. Check for compatibility on pc part picker, it’ll tell you what won’t work with what and even if there’s a size issue. If it’s your first time, look up cases that are easy to build in I know that shoebox case looks cool but trust me it’s tough
This tip also goes for ANYTHING other than building PCs itself. I skipped over many parts of a tutorial video and it backfired hard when I kept on dying until I realized I was doing it wrong this whole time
Don't watch the Verge PC Build
I'm pretty sure pcpartpicker doesn't tell you size incompatibilities (aside from motherboard and case sizes like ATX). You're gonna have to check yourself if your GPU fits in the case you're buying for it. But yeah it does show any other part incompatibilities
@@rainerbehrendt9330on the contrary, you should watch that video cos it'll show you that 1. anyone can build a pc and 2. If you're watching the react video, they give a few good tips and it's a funny vid
Well i bought a Nvme ssd that is M only from aliexpress, but they a gave me a m + b pci nvme ssd and my motherboard only supports M only ssd’s but when i plugged it in it worked and its working and it says i have 1 tb storage but it is not detetcted in the bios
One thing we've likely ALL done: not switching on the PSU, panicking when the power button does nothing, then facepalming and switching it on.
I'm ashamed to admit I still do it too often
i did the opposite where i switched on the PSU and was panicking that nothing happened. forgot i needed to actually turn the pc on 🙃
Did it several times when switching off durins storms just in case and then forgetting about it afterwards.
I made that first mistake with the motherboard cover, took me 2 hours to sort out 😂
Same
Damn, this is scared me out to build my first PC 😬
Help meee 🥲
@@HansSimorangkirAsian656 don’t worry, I’m a bit stupid 🤦♂️
should i just buy the parts and have someone else build it for me?
@@bruh-it1ori hope you built it it’s fun asf i built my first pc a few weeks ago
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Always watch out for blood sacrifices when installing the I/O back pannel shield
I think you should have told them more about mistakes that do mess your system up such as seating your cpu wrong and bending pins that way, putting the psu to mobo power cable on wrong can short whole mobo, static electricity when touching mobo, pepper tools to not strip screws, magnitized heads so screws dont fall onto boards, etc.
I assume you mean proper tools because I never heard of putting pepper on a tool for anything.
I had two scews falling on my motherboard. I am so lucky
only so much you can fit in 60 seconds
Did my first pc build recently and worked when i booted it up thankfully. Watching full length videos on how to install each component that isnt installed in a universal way
Quick tip: keep the tiny screw that comes with your motherboard. If your mobo has an m.2 slot it's for the m.2 SSD to holding that in
I have built myself and my boyfriend's computers a few weeks. My first two computers. Everything was clean and superb on the first go. When I applied a new Ram stick and had to take off the CPU cooler first, I was also pleasantly surprised that I even put on the thermalpaste just right. Yuuuusss!
The only thing that I have to be cautious of is how I can adjust the fans for perfect cooling a little better.
I once forgot to attach the gpu to the PSU ☠️☠️☠️
I only realized after I got 15fps on cod
Guys my HDMI is now connected to the GPU for 1/2 years I figured it out after watching a video
Wait... So you plug your monitor to the board too.
🤣🤣@@Miguel211216
LOL
That reveals another mistake you made, connecting your Display Port or HDMI cable to your motherboard instead of to your graphics card, do it, and you will see an improvement
@leonardog.2491 This may sound stupid, but what if the cable WAS connected to the gpu and the gpu to the board, making it act like a dongle
Your videos are always so fun to watch and when ever I’m depressed I always check your Channel and it always lightens my mood. Your my favorite RUclipsr
Can confirm. My first pc I ever built, I forgot to plug the cpu into the psu 😅
Cpu power*
1st PC u put the motherboard in before popping off the pcie "slot cover"? On the case and scraped off a redundant component on the motherboard still works fine no problems
recently i changed my cpu cooler to another liquid cooler and to do that easily i took motherboard out. After I am done I put everything back and my pc wont boot because i forgot to plug cpu into psu 😂
MAKE SURE YOUR 4090 CORD IS FULLY IN so at 4am you don’t have the firefighters taking you out of your burning house
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kaboom
Pro tip: don't buy a 4090. 99.99% of people are doing this and Nvidia hates this one simple trick
It can catch on fire with the pc turned off? Who would be sleeping and letting the pc on at 4 am
@@mysteriumxarxes3990oh you sweet kid thinking no one games at 4am. Or you're just a responsible adult
As someone who built their first pc a couple of weeks ago after stressing about it for months before, my advice is to just take it easy and simply follow a good tutorial if needed and you should be fine since its actually a lot more simple then it seems
its like when biting your tongue, you still mess up even with decades of experience
Tip: make sure your fans are in the correct orientation before installing them. I sometimes forget about that lol
Another Tip: Make sure to not swap the GPU and CPU cables, that can cause your CPU/GPU to be completely fried
Everything worked perfectly fine with my first pc build cause I watched so much LTT
I did bend my motherboard pins on my first build 5 years ago which caused the 2nd ram slot to stop working but i fixed them myself lol and its still running perfectly to this day
It's okay if you make mistakes. Just try not to make something that can damage the motherboard or CPU or somehow GPU
While i saved up to build mine last year, i watched and rewarched endless amounts of videos on pc building and tips. I also took it slow when i finally had everything ready. I was very careful during the process so i wouldn't skip any steps. But my only problem was a connector that was super stiff, and I couldn't watch the pins line up with the holes due to the walls of the female end. I ended up bending pins. So i spent a half hour carefully straightening them out. In the end, i got it hooked up and working. I flashed the bios, installed windows after boot, and it worked perfectly. Im very proud of my build, i didn't know anything a month before. Now im a huge enthusiast and have been learning anything i can that's relevant to computers.
Built my first pc like 2 months ago, and I was stumped for like 3 hours as to why it wouldn’t turn on.
Eventually realized that I just forgot to install the motherboard standoffs, and it was shorting because it was in direct contact with the case 😭
After that though, it worked just fine, great for music production and terraria lol
What I’m saying is you probably WILL make a mistake in your first build, but that doesn’t mean it’ll be irreversible. There’s only a couple things you could do that will literally destroy your pc, and those are the more obvious ones
Surpised it didn't just fry your whole system. Usually with any short it just fries and cpu, gpu, and especially the mobo. Pc parts are EXTREMELY fragile when it comes to electrity.
@@ambientlightofdarknesss4245 damn, I got really lucky then 😭
I like how Zach subtly just edges us to the end of the video where he actually gives us the answer
Suprisingly my first pc (my current one) had no issues first try (im 13 btw) i did have a very small amount of help like certain cables I couldn’t reach, but for the most part i did it on my own.
That’s cause your brains still fresh kid, don’t do drugs and stay in school bud
@@FactsForLife_901 real
@@FactsForLife_901🌚🤣
yeah bro same I built a PC and spent days figuring out what was wrong when the PC didn't boot up. Apparently the power cable wasn't plugged into the motherboard properly 😂
I felt like a god when my first build booted first try.
Static eletricity is one scariest "little" accident that can happen
While during a bios update
I remembered i shocked by the io panel when i finished building my pc, not sure it does any damage...
So far nothing goes wrong
It's why I almost just opt for a pre built. There's so many "tiny" things that can fuck up a system. Static being one of them. Pc parts are extremely fragile.
You can literally just touch your system wrong and it'll break all your parts. It's honestly quite terrifying.
@@ambientlightofdarknesss4245I guess it heavily depends on your environment and the quality of your parts too. I’ve taken apart a rig on my carpet and done stuff in it many times without issue. Just make sure you properly ground yourself, discharge the computers residual power after turning it off and you should be good to go 👍🏿
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Static killing your system isn't as common or easy to do as you think.
As long as you're not head to toe in polyester doing star jumps in between installing components you're going to be fine, I just touch a radiator or a metal tap before I start and that's all good. I only worried about wearing a special wrist strap on my first time building.
With prebuilt you're more likely to get shipping damage to your prebuilt than you are to accidentally static shock your PC while building your own.
The worse bad component I experienced was learning my pcie slot was fried 😂
Well you also forgot to say not to use psu cables from one psu on another psu
you can do it if you look up the Cable Compability on the Site of the PSU Manufacturer. I had no Problem as i swapped my 650 Watt Bequiet for a 1000 Watt.
@@rainerbehrendt9330 I know but it still will mostly not work
@@duif10Sure, don't mix your PSU Cables and Manufacturers. Check before swapping. Don't think that every modular PSU use the same Cable Layout. If in doubt better use the Cables from the new PSU.
always, mostly ONLY use the cables that came with the PSU. There are custom cables made for specific PSUs if you want it for the aesthetics but don't mix cables, even if it's from the same manufacturer. Sure sometimes they can mix but the general rule of thumb is to not so you can avoid killing your components
@@Sherfiee Only use the older cables after you have verified them by the Mabufactors Site. BEquiet as Example has a Cable Guide for their PSUs and you can see if your Cables are good with the new PSU.
Another tip, when connecting cables to your motherboard, ALWAYS refer to the motherboard manual
You should do a speedrun for a 600 dollar gaming pc
Another tip: If you don't know how to apply thermal paste then use thermal pads.
Dude my first rookie pc build was customizing and upgrading a pc from 2002
Additional tip: dont mess the power cables for GPU and CPU. CPU is 4+4, when GPU is 6+2, and often in cable named CPU and GPU.
I think is usefull tip for secure your system 🔥
My first mistake while building my first pc was taking off the cpu fan AFTER applying thermal paste so that I applyed the paste on my shirt.
This guy reminds me a lot of MatPat
Love the shout out to Jay. My 2 favorite PC channels! ❤
God. That motherboard I.O pick brought back flashbacks of literally this Friday 😭 That's a MSI B450 Gaming Plus Max motherboard. It supports a TPM 1.3 even though it's installed with a TPM 2.0(????) and regardless of bios changes or updates it won't change it. I had to bypass windows 11 TPM checking cause every other component in the PC was supported by Windows except the TPM 1.3 😭
Me back then building hundreds of PC as a IT solutions company technical staff, every PC build feels like a new experience...
As long as you don't bend or chip anything, you're good.
I remembered I was given a task of building a desktop with rare mobo than the ones at the shop, I messed up some headers and bend the pin, if not mistaken it's a USB 3 header, luckily I fixed it using tweezers.
And I remembered when swapping prebuilt desktop to custom case, the motherboard don't give header labels, especially on the power, HDD, LED and reset. I once do the swap and end up PC turning on and off by itself, takes minutes to figure out I plugged the wrong pins.
My tip, don't be afraid to go hard. Sometimes inserting the cables can be hard asf and the sound might be unpleasant, but don't worry, you won't break anything, as long as it's still intact of course
I've built my own PCs for 20 years now, and have made all of the mistakes. I just took apart my previous build to salvage some parts for my nephew, probably my 9th or so build, and noticed on the back of it that those pinchy springs on the motherboard shroud on the back were sticking out, and into the onboard HDMI port, even touching pins. I am so lucky that didn't short out.
Story time, so my friend asked me for assistance building his pc, little did he know it was also my first time doing so. But since I had so much research under my belt I had high hopes, long story short everything actually went perfectly! Besides at the beginning the cpu pins were bent a bunch… but in a surprising turn of events that surprised the both of us, I took a tiny flat head screwdriver to the thing and manually bent all the pins back in place, he still uses that pc today and it works flawlessly. I always give myself a little pat on the back and I’m proud to say I’ve done that on my own, not to mention on my first ever build
When I built my first PC in December 2023, I had to make a blood sacrifice (when I went to put in the IO sheild, I cut my finger twice), the hardest part was putting in the SSD, the screw is very small.
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My first PC build had me trouble shooting until I went to bed. Woke up the next day and finally figured out the issue
case swapping my pre-built helped me a lot
My first time I built a very expensive pc, writhing seemed to be going well and went to see if it would post. It didn’t. Luckily for me I got a mobo that has three wonderful lights that tell you if a major issue is up. Turns out one of the four sticks of memory was bad. So I ran several boot tests with each stick found the bad one and returned and got a replacement. Now I’m happy
Me: "Building PCs since the '90s"
IO backplate: "Oh, we meet again"
For my first time it was that I’d didn’t click in one of my ram sticks all the way. I fixed it and my pc works like a dream now
A common sense tip: if you worked with prebuilts before building your own pc it’s always handy to have a secondary gpu for testing or hope your cpu has an iGPU so you can rule out arguably the most expensive component!
I recently built my first PC and it turned on first try which made me super happy, however I couldn't install Windows 11.
It was telling me my system isn't compatible but I knew that was not true since I used an AM4 motherboard (x570s) with a 5800x as my cpu.
After a bit of confusion I remembered watching a "beginners guide" Video about Win11 needing TPM to be enabled and that you can enable/disable it in the bios, so I went to the bios and yes, for some reason it was disabled. I enabled it, tried to install Windows again and it worked.
That roller-coaster of emotions was great. 😅
From the happiness of the PC actually turning on, over the shock and confusion about the windows install, all the way to the feeling of pride and accomplished after figuring out the issue on my own.
But the most rewarding part is the knowledge that the over 100 hours I spent doing research on virtually everything about beginner pc building issues were not just wasted and I am ready to deal with essentially anything a newly built pc might throw at me in the future . 😊
Thaks! I was about to bend my CPU pins on purpose! 🥰
Two mistakes I made with my first rig was not putting the ram in the correct channels and mounting my cpu air cooler facing up 😂 best advice for first time builders is to watch a video of someone and reference your part manuals!!!!!! The mother board manual and case manual carried me through the building process along with a RUclips video. Lots of great resources out now so it’s pretty easy if you have patience, patience and patience
First PC build took me a whole day cause I kept thinking I was gonna screw up...but honestly building it and troubleshooting and double checking everything was stressful but was rewarding at the end
I just built my first pc today. wish i watched this before hand.
What did you mess up?
Nothing
The mistakes I've made have been mostly to do with the order in which components are installed. Unfortunately there is no set order that works for every build. Only the judgement that comes with experience solves the issue. But installing the CPU and RAM _before_ you mount the motherboard in the PC case is pretty much always a good idea.
I have now completed my first ever pc! It took a few months due to shipping the parts and building it. My mother board didn’t come with prebuilt WiFi, so it took forever for me to download the files onto a USB and plug them into the motherboard. Still didn’t work, and finally just gave it to my uncle to help fix it. Now it work’s completely fine! Luckily I had a “How To” video the whole way and my uncle’s help. It’s fun but my god is it stressful and irritating.
the most annoying part is when you dont have spare parts and theres a bad one
I've made multiple small mistakes, some I haven't even fixed because they're cosmetic but mistakes happen. It was my first build. My next build is going to be aesthetically pleasing and won't need upgrading for a long time
I just built my first PC and I surprisingly managed to get it right on the first go! But I did watch a ton of videos for a couple of months beforehand
My number one advice is to take extra care inserting the cpu. Make sure you have the right orientation and do not attempt to force in it under any circumstances. It should fit with virtually no force
Quick tip for people who are wanting to build their first PC. Just go for it. If you’ve seen plenty of videos of builds and are confident, you wont come across any bad problems. When I first built mine, I just said fuck it and started doing things that I was certain on. Turned out great.
Another tip: Ensure you install the riser for the NVME Riser so it's not being flexed downward. I've came across this on someone's build.
I built my first gaming pc 2 years ago,successfully on first attempt, and it's still going strong today, i went through the whole process by watching LTT videos.
When handling an AIO, maintain positive control of the pump block so it doesn’t swing freely and dent your radiator. Those cooling fins are terribly fragile.
My third PC I've built, a perfect first boot is a nice feeling
The one mistake I made when building my first PC was that I forgot to remove the plastic film covering my heatsink lol. Glad I realised that error before I finished and turned it on
I had one of those hour-long headscratchers while upgrading my PC. It was especially weird considering all the main stuff worked fine separately, but once it was all in one unit, the thing wouldn't boot. Turns out it was an internal USB cable of all things!
The first time I built a PC I put the ram in the wrong spot 😂
After placing the I/O shield, make sure you install the motherboard carefully.
Sometimes I discovered that the prong on the I/O shield just covered up the ports (USB/Ethernet/HDMI/etc...), I need to unscrew everything to bend that metal plate to where it should be and take lot of time fixing this problem.
Honestly integrated io shields shouldn't even be a premium option anymore, every motherboard going forward should just have them
I built my first computer a few weeks ago, built it all from scratch, in the case, closed it up, updated the bios with a usb and it booted no problem
I just finished my first from scratch build, and I would suggest triple checking that dang IO shield! Make sure the grounding connection isn’t in a usb or other io. Also don’t remove or break them, because they ground out all of your io ports!
The imagine on the CPU pins area brings immense pain and suffering to my soul
I'm working on my first PC build and i've spent about 4 hours yesterday and 4 hours today making sure that everything is plugged in correctly. I have a 2 year old who requires a lot of my attention so it takes me forever to do anything lol. I'm constantly having to rewatch, reread, and redo things.
Here's one I suspect a lot of folks mess up - Suppose it's all new parts, or at least the RAM is new. You should run Memtest86 overnight (or at least enough to get at least 3-5 passes or more).
While unlikely, it's possible the RAM is bad right from the factory. Bad QC, bad luck, whatever. But instead of boot failures you can get freezes or a BSOD, and you may not notice until days or a couple weeks later.
I haven't had many RAM failures after awhile of using the RAM, even if it's 10+ years and you've probably thought of moving on, though this is of course possible too.
It's easy to skip because it's boring and you may be in the midst of the excitement, but always do this. The good news is that once started, you don't have to watch it or do anything but check later. So while you sleep or if otherwise busy.
I helped a friend building his PC. He had power, but nothing turned on.
He connected the 6+2 pin conector into the CPU socket. Luckily with no consequence.
Then, it would not post. The ram stick was not fully inserted.
This process took him 1 day to figure out, so, don't despair, there is always a solution.
That RAM one is so important, I thought my pc was completely destroyed when I put it wrong
I swapped to an am5 motherboard and new cpu for the first time and didnt have any issues! blessed
My favourite problem is the IO shield... Get those little tabs wrong and a sliver of metal can get into one of the sockets
When he showed that picture of that pc with a broken component (the one where there are horizontal green lines on the monitor) i remembered that happened to me with my pc (which i still have but was able to fix it)
I'm so happy, today I build my first pc, and it worked the first time :3 I was afraid I would do something wrong and be hours looking for solutions
What I need to watch out for is placing the power cords in the right solder area when adding new power cables to the inside of my (cheap) power supply
I bent the pins on my first build because I installed the cpu wrong lol
I dis-assembled and re-assembled my pc for cleaning it. I had nothing but one photograph I took before disassembling. I did each and everything correctly you won't believe. It was my first time.
But yes somehow I did bend 7 lga pins which I again straightened out with the corner of the processor. PC WORKS FINE.
Turns out you are not supposed to touch the processor or heat sink under all circumstances.
Repair guy said I can work in PC building centres. He was shocked af. 😂
Not to brag but my first attempt was basically flawless I just did a lot of research before I even started to buy parts…and that’s how I got into computers
Always take the plastic off your heatsink before applying thermal paste. I’ve been around computers for years and built one for myself after a 5-6 year break and in my haste/excitement I still spread it on the plastic cover of the heat plate even though it has in big writing “remove before applying thermal paste” on it. I managed to scrape enough off to carry on with otherwise it’ll be a wait for more to be delivered.
another tip: get a protection plan for cpu and mb if you really think you’re gonna mess it up
My first ever self built PC was about a month ago. Thrilled to say there was only one issue, which wasn't even my fault in how it was built or put together. It wouldn't boot to bios, but it was because one of the RAM slots are dysfunctional, and if I try to seat ram in there, it'll refuse to boot.. I'm locked to single channel, but I actually didnt make a mistake!
when i first started pc building i started with no experience i watched ztt for tips, so i took my old pc and experimented on that
Important lesson that I learned the hard way, the io shield goes on FIRST INSIDE THE CASE. Not last from the outside of the case 😂
Another tip: don’t buy a motherboard that comes out of a commercial pre built PC.
My backplate doesn’t fit in a regular case, and there is no documentation on the pin out needed for the front panel.
I have definitely made the shroud mustake during my first build. Didn't know it went in from the inside and just put the MoBo in while the io shroud just sat there.
Very important is also, that you often tuch for example a heating so you don´t have any charges in your body. this is so you don´t accidentally destory components like the motherboard
My first build went INCREDIBLY well. The only thing that happened was we couldn't find the case's power button
First of all sorry for the long message but this is detailing the problems i had with my first build and the solution i used which hopefully will help someone out there!
I recently built my first pc, probably overkill but i was always interested in PC building and had done probably a year of research before hand. I built it, double checked and triple checked everything and when i first booted it actually worked.
However for the next 4 months my PC would always crash when playing any game but would be fine when just using it for school work or smth.
I spent so long trying to figure out the problem, trying tips from professionals online, but really didn't want to bring it into the repair shop because i just wasn't willing to spend that amount of money
Anyways I was quite sad when i spent so much tome building a rig that i thought worked but never did. Even though i did triple check all the hardware when i built it i seriously considered things like reseeding or replacing the cmos battery, swapping gpus and reseeding cpu.
In the end however i decided to check my bios, now as a disclaimer DO NOT mess around with any advanced features in the bios unless you are 100% sure it wont mess up your PC
But anyways as a final resort I went into my bios and checked all the hardware settings, now i had enabled EXPO on the bios but i decided to turn it off and essentially i manually changed the RAM speed to the max it can go (6000MHz)
For reference i have an ASUS B650+wifi and i disabled EXPO and manually changed the RAM speed under AI tweaker tab in advanced mode.
And turns out, thats all it took, it been about 2 weeks now and i haven't had any crashes in any games.
Im telling you all this because incase you are building your first PC, not to put you off or anything but smth will probably go wrong, or there is smth that it just seems like you cant get to the bottom of. Just remember to do all the software troubleshooting first and if your having a similar problem to mine go ahead and give my method a try, it wont hurt the PC at all just be aware that your bios is probably going to be different from mine so just look around and dont mess around toooo much.
Anyways hoped this helped for any new PC builders, and hopefully doesn't put you off, the process may seem scary and super annoying at times when you just cant seem to find the problem but trust me eventually you'll find it. And ofc if you have the money 100% go visit a trusted professional and try not to trust some random stranger (aka: me) on the internet.
Goodluck new biulders and trust me its 100% worth it to build your own rig in my opinion ofc.
I built my first gaming PC a week ago, honestly it was a fun experience and didn’t really find any difficulties at all (Aside from trying to fit in my GPU at first but I eventually got it in with a little bit of finesse), the only mistake I really made was forgetting to insert the IO shield to the case before screwing the motherboard inside of it😅
One of the worst mistakes I've ever made was using a screwdriver to push down the PCI-E clip to get a GPU out, it slipped and hammered the motherboard and broke 2 or 3 microscopic components next to the slot, so not only cost a motherboard, but a copy of windows as well. It was an ITX build so not even that one guys "tiny raccoon fingers" were going to fit down there to free the GPU
Oof
Ngl I built my first pc with no mishaps
Two Main Things To Avoid
1.) Not Enough Space
2.) Too much Force
I'll guarantee, you'll have a much better experience if you avoid these two.