-: In this video, we're going to install our motherboard
and CPU into a gaming computer that we're going to build
as we go throughout this course.
Now in this video, we're going to be covering
the motherboard and the CPU.
And I want to be able to first show you
all the different connections on the motherboard,
its form factor, its port cluster
and how we're going to install it
into the case using the spacers.
Then I'm going to show you the CPU
and how we're going to put that CPU into the motherboard.
We're going to save the active and passing cooling components
for our section on power and cooling.
So for now, we're not going to be using the thermal paste
or putting the fan or heat sink onto the CPU.
All right, to do this we are going to install
our motherboard using the seven step process.
First, we need to review the motherboard documentation
and familiarize ourself
with the specific installation procedures
for that motherboard.
This includes checking if any jumpers need to be set
on the motherboard by installing the jumper
over the header pins on that particular motherboard.
Second, we need to position the motherboard
so that the port cluster will be aligned
with the rear of the case.
If the case has a blanking plate,
we're going to need to punch that out or remove it
so that our port cluster can be accessed
from the rear of the case.
Third, we need to insert the standoffs into the case
to match up the hole locations for our motherboard.
These standoffs can be used either as an older style
that requires you to push down a peg into the motherboard,
or a newer threaded screw style.
Now we're going to check our motherboard to see which one it is
before we go and install it.
Now remember, you should only install a standoff
with the case in the locations
where there's matching holes in your motherboard.
Otherwise those can be made out of metal
and they can cause shorts to your motherboard.
Now, when you go and put your standoffs on your motherboard,
you always want to make sure to support your corners,
the longer edges of the board, and the center of the board,
but again, only if there's matching holes
on your motherboard and your case.
Fourth, before you install the motherboard into the case,
you can install the CPU or the processor
and your memory modules into the motherboard,
and then install it into the case.
Now, because we haven't covered memory yet,
we're going to skip installing our RAM
and for now, we're just going to be focused
on installing the CPU in this video.
Fifth, we're going to recheck our alignment
and standoff locations one more time
to ensure that everything is properly aligned and secure.
If everything is correct, we're going to then place
the motherboard into the standoffs and into the case.
Sixth, we're going to secure each of those standoffs
using the appropriate screw type.
Now, when you're doing this, you need to be very careful
not to over tighten your screws,
or you can actually crack your motherboard
and that's a really expensive mistake to make.
To prevent any over tightening,
I like to only grip my screwdriver using two fingers
and then twisting them until the screw feels secure
while I'm going in there without actually grabbing
the whole screwdriver using my entire hand,
or using my entire fist, because then you can over twerk it
and really crack that motherboard.
Seventh, now that the motherboard is installed,
we're going to finish our computer assembly
by installing the power supply, disk drives,
add-on cards and other things that we need
to finish our build.
Now, in our case, we're not going to do that just yet,
because we're going to install each of these components
as we go through that specific section of the course.
So for now, we're just going to install our motherboard
and the processor and put it into our case.
All right, so now we're going to get started,
the first thing I want to do is make sure
that I'm grounding myself, so I'm going to use my ESD strap.
Now here I have my blue ESD strap
and it's actually grounded to my metal desk underneath me.
Now on top of the desk, I also have an ESD safe mat,
which is what my motherboard is sitting on right now
as you can see here.
Now what we're going to do is start unwrapping
the different components, so I'm going to start
with the motherboard.
Okay, now that we've got all of our motherboard components
here on the table, I'm going to walk through
and show you what comes in the package.
First, we have the motherboard itself,
which is inside of the static safe bag.
Then we have our pile of documentation
and then we have a couple of cables, and in my case,
this motherboard has a wifi card built into it.
So I actually have these, which are my wifi antennas,
which we're going to use later.
All right, now what we want to do is take out
the motherboard from the static electric bag
and always make sure you're grounded first,
using your ESD strap.
Now, whenever you're holding your motherboard,
you always want to grab it from the edge
and try to avoid touching any of the components.
Now, in this case, I'm going to go ahead
and put it right down here on my ESD safe mat.
Now, before we get started actually working
with the motherboard, I wanted to point out
some of the components to you.
First, you could see here on the front,
closest to the camera, we have our rear port cluster.
On the rear port cluster we have a lot of different ports,
including our PS2 port, which is an old style mouse
and keyboard port.
We have some USB ports here on the bottom,
we have HDMI in display port in the next column,
we have a 2.5 gigabits per second network card embedded,
we have some more USB ports, if we move over,
you can see we have again, some more USB ports,
and on the bottom, we have a super speed USB,
which is actually going to be a USBC port there at the bottom.
Then we have the antenna connectors
for that embedded wifi card, and then over on the right,
we have our audio port cluster
with a bunch of one eighth mini jacks,
and then at the bottom, we have an optical SPDIF output
on the bottom for the audio jacks.
All right, now if we look at it from the top down,
we can see some other components here.
On this part of the motherboard,
you can see we have a PCIE X1 or PCI Express X1 slot,
moving over, we have a PCIE or PCI Express X16 slot.
Next, we have a PCIE X1 slot again,
and then again, another PCIE X16 slot.
Now why do we have two X16 slots?
Well, a lot of gamers like to have dual graphics cards
and you need to have X16 slots for that,
and that's what this motherboard is made for.
Next, you'll see, as we move over to the right,
we have our processor slot.
In this case, we're using an AMD Ryzen processor,
a 5,000 series processor that's going to go into that slot
and you'll see here that it is a socket type of AM4,
so we need to have a matching processor
to go into that slot.
If I tried to put an Intel in there,
it's not going to work.
This one has to have an AM4 slot with an AMD processor.
And then if we come forward,
you'll see I have four slots here,
which are made for your memory.
In this particular motherboard,
you can operate in different modes,
whether they're single channel,
dual channel or quad channel.
If you come all the way to the edge of the board over here,
you could see some fan power connections.
And then over here,
we have the main connection for the power.
And then over here, we have a USB internal slot
that can then connect to other things like headers
for the front of your case.
On this part of the board,
which you can't see from that angle,
there's actually six SATA connections.
Moving on from there, we have another fan connector.
And then over on this side of the board,
we have a bunch of different jumpers.
And then in addition to that,
we have another USB connection.
And again, this is something that you can connect
over to your different headers
using this particular pin out for this motherboard.
And the last thing that we have on our motherboard here,
you'll see, it looks like a big watch battery,
this is actually your CMOS battery, and it's located here.
If I wanted to reset my UEFI or BIOS on the motherboard,
I can actually pull out that battery,
wait about 30 to 60 seconds, and then replace it,
and in most motherboards, that will actually reset
most of your configurations.
In addition to all of that in the package,
we also have a couple of interior packages,
including our wifi antennas, we have both
a L-shape SATA and a straight on SATA connector,
which we can use for our storage devices,
and then finally we have what's called a JRainbow cable,
and this is a three to four pin cable,
and what this is used for is actually
to connect the motherboard to the case,
to make different lights and colors happen
because again, this is a gaming motherboard.
And you can see here, this particular motherboard
is the B550 Gaming Edge WiFi model, which is made by MSI.
The next thing we need to do is pull out our processor
so I'm going to go ahead and unbox that now,
to get ourself ready.
All right, inside that big box is one small piece,
which is our processor.
And this processor is actually an AMD Ryzen 7 5700 X,
and we're going to be installing that into this motherboard.
But before we do that, we want to check where our spacers are
on the motherboard and then match them up to our case.
So looking at our motherboard, you can see that we have
a couple of spacer holes around the edge.
You have one on the top corner, the center of the top,
just a little bit below the top right corner here
in my direction, down here closer to the bottom towards me,
another one on this corner, another here on this middle,
and then another one down here in the center.
Notice we can't put it on the middle
because we have all these different components here
and we don't want to drill a hole through those.
Now, in addition to that, we do have a center piece
right here where we can put another spacer.
So what I'm going to do now is clear off my table
and I'm going to bring up the case so we can see
where this motherboard is going to go and make sure
that we're lining up our spacers properly.
Now that I have the case up here,
we're going to take a quick look at this.
And you can see that this is a tempered glass outside
on the case, so you can see the interior components.
This is black, so it is a little hard to see through it
right now, but I'm going to take this off
and show you what it looks like on the inside.
On the top you'll see that we have this grating
and on top of this, this actually has a magnetic casing
that goes on, and we can take that off for more airflow
or cover it up to keep dust and dirt from getting in there.
And again, this is designed as a gamer PC,
so they try to make it look pretty cool.
Now on the front side, we have some additional grating,
and then on the bottom, there is just a small grate
on the back corner here, which again is going to be
at the bottom to just kind of suck some air out
and notice that we have these feet that keep it
about an inch off the ground.
On the backside you'll see there's a bunch of holes
right now, up here at the top
is where we're going to be putting our power supply.
Each of these can hold an expansion card.
Now, remember our motherboard only has four slots,
two X1's and two X16's.
So there's actually covers for each of these
and you'd pop out the ones that align
with your particular motherboard so you can use them.
Up here at the top we have two additional slots,
and then down here, we have a internal fan on this case.
And at the bottom we have where the port cluster
is going to go and you can see it's already been blanked out
for us when I bought this case.
If it wasn't, we'd actually punch that out,
using a screwdriver, normally a flat head,
and that would allow us just to push it out
and then be able to put our port cluster in here.
Now this particular case is actually what's called
an Easy Open Case, that just uses thumb screws.
So I'm just going to go ahead and unscrew these here,
on my left and my right.
And then you're just going to lift it up
with a little bit of pressure,
and I'm just putting my fingers right underneath here
and lifting up and it comes straight off on this one.
And then I'm going to put that to the side.
All right, looking down into the case, you can see
there are a couple of screws and spacers already here.
Notice there's a screw here, here, here, here,
here, here, here, and here.
And if you were paying attention before,
that lines up directly with our motherboard.
Now we have a choice here, we can either put the motherboard
in first and then put the processor in,
or we can put the processor in the motherboard
and then put it into the case.
I'm going to choose to do that,
because it's going to be a lot easier for you to see.
So for now, I'm going to put the case to the side
and bring the motherboard back up here,
put the processor in it,
and then we'll put the motherboard into this case.
All right, so now that we have our motherboard out
on our antistatic mat, I have my grounding strap on me,
we're going to go ahead and open up the processor.
And what we're going to do is just a plain shell case,
we just pull it off the side and then you'll notice
on the bottom, you have lots of little pins.
You do not want to touch the pins.
Always handle it from the side of the processor.
Now your processor, when you look at it,
it has a little lever on the processor socket.
So go ahead and lift that lever up.
And then you're just going to go ahead
and put your processor in.
Now, if you look at your processor socket,
you will always see there's usually a little notch
or a little notation.
On this one, I actually have a gold dot on the corner
that tells me where to install it,
and that tells me which direction is up.
You can also look at the way that the label lays,
on this case I have it written, "AMD Ryzen",
facing towards you, and I have the words, "Socket AMD4",
again, facing towards you.
So you're just going to place that right there,
and it just goes right in.
You don't even have to press on it or anything,
those pins are very delicate,
so you just want to kind of lay it in there.
And once you've done that,
you can take this and you just push it forward.
And when you do that, it will lock into place
underneath that little latch, and now that processor
is in there and it is locked.
If I try to pick up the processor,
it's not coming up anymore, it's in there, it's good.
So that's it, to install a processor on your motherboard,
you simply line up the dots, you go ahead
and push that little lever down and it goes into place.
So, what I'm going to do is take that
and push that over to the side,
and now I'm going to move this motherboard off to the side
and bring up my case so we can install the motherboard
into the case.
Okay, we have the case back up,
and now what we want to do is line up that motherboard
into this case, lining up the standoffs
onto the motherboard and into the case.
So again, always pulling your motherboard up by the sides,
you want to line up that rear port cluster
into the hole that you have in the back.
So I'm going to go ahead and put that in here.
And if there's any cables on your case,
just kind of push them out of the way.
And that's exactly what I'm doing here
with these fan cables.
And then you just want to kind of line it up
and get those holes for those standoffs
into all of those different holes that you have.
And that's exactly what I'm doing as I'm trying
to line this up into the back of the case,
to make sure that port cluster is there.
And once you do that, it'll kind of feel like it
just kind of slides into place
and that's exactly what I did,
but right now it's just sitting there,
it's not screwed down.
Once you get your motherboard in there,
you want to take the little washers and the little screws
that you get inside of your case,
and you're going to use those to be able
to attach the motherboard to those spacers that we have.
So I'm just going to go ahead and put the washer on the screw.
And then I'm going to put that on my screwdriver
and hold it with my finger, as I go on there to the top,
and then I'm just going to use two fingers
as I gently go ahead and screw that in.
Next, I'm going to do that again
for all of the remaining spacers that I have.
So again, I'm going to go over here to my back right corner.
And again, with just two fingers and light pressure,
and then I'm going to do that on the other opposite side,
so my left far top corner, which is all the way
towards the back of my case,
making almost an X pattern as I go.
Just go ahead and put that in there,
and then we're going to do that again.
Going to do it on the bottom left corner, closest to me.
And again, I'm just using two fingers there,
very light pressure.
Grab the next one, going to go ahead and do it
on the right center.
Now we're going to do the left center,
which is actually a little bit closer to me
than center because of all of those components
on the left side.
And you can see why it's important to have your ESD strap,
because you are going to be touching components
on that motherboard as you go.
And then we have one on the top center
closest to the port cluster.
I'll go ahead and put that in there.
Sometimes you got to use your left hand or your right hand,
depending on where it's located on the board.
And then finally I have one on the top right corner,
closest to that port cluster, on the backside of the case.
And so I'm just going to go ahead and put that in there.
This one's kind of hard to get to on this motherboard.
And so now we have all of our screws.
So what I want to do is go back and just tighten them
a little bit, because as you're screwing things in,
when you're doing it across corner,
or even going around in a circle,
you're going to have different tensions on those.
So I just want to go ahead and give a little bit,
again, not a full on pressure, just two fingers,
just making sure nothing came loose.
And I'm just going around each of the screws
on the side of the board, 'cause again,
if I do it too hard, we're going to end up cracking
that motherboard, and that would be
a really expensive mistake that we don't want to make.
All right, that's it.
So at this point we have our motherboard
on top of our spacers, they're in there,
we have the processor inside of the motherboard
and we'd be ready for the next step,
which is going to be cooling,
which will be some thermal paste,
a heat sink and an active cooling fan
on top of that processor.
But we're going to save that
for the next section of the course.