-: In this lesson
we're going to learn how to install expansion cards
into your case and into your motherboard.
Now we're going to be using two different ones here
so I could show you both types,
both a PCIE x16
which is what my graphics card is going to be using,
and a PCIE x1
which is what the video capture card is going to be using.
So let me go ahead and bring out our tower
and we'll go ahead
and get ready to install these two expansion cards.
All right, the first one we're going to do is going to
be our video graphics card.
Now, before I do that though
I want to make sure that I am using safety,
especially around ESD
because these graphics cards aren't cheap
and we don't want to short them out.
So again, I want to make sure I'm using my ESD strap.
So I'm going to ahead and put that on.
And now that I have that on
I'm ready to handle my graphics card.
Now, when you get your graphics card, it's going to come inside
of one of the antistatic bags, just like this.
Now, as I said, this is a pretty powerful graphics card
as you could tell by the fact
that it has three different cooling fans embedded
into this graphics card.
And then on the other side,
you'll see that we have our PCIE x16 slot
right here through the case.
Now, as I take this out, it'll be a lot easier to see.
So now that I have my graphics card
you could see clearly that we have those three fans
and the PCIE x16 slot there at the bottom.
Now, what we want to do is find the x16 slot
on our motherboard,
and in my particular motherboard, I have two of them.
I have one here
that's more of a silver color
and I have one here that's more of a black color.
Now the silver one is actually labeled PCIE,
and it's the number one slot.
So that's where I want to put my graphics card.
Now this particular graphics card also
has some external capabilities here.
And you can see here that we have three display port
and one HTMI outputs for this particular graphics card.
Now, when are you going to put this in,
the first thing you need to do is blank out the spaces
on the back so that those HDMI
and display ports can come out the backside of the case.
So what I'm going to do is make sure I put down this card
on an ESD safe mat,
grab my screwdriver,
and then I'm going to find the blocking pins
that are right there
in front of where this graphics card's going to be.
Now, if you notice my graphics card is pretty large in size
and so it's going to use two different blanking spaces.
So let me go ahead and undo those.
There's the first one.
We just pull that piece
of metal right out of there, which was a blanking space.
And then we are going to have the second one
which is going to be right here to the left of it.
And there we go.
We pulled both of those blanking spaces out.
Now you'll notice this power supply cable is kind of
in the way, and that's actually for my CPU processor power.
You can either try to slide the card underneath it
but because this card is so large,
I'm going to end up actually taking that out,
putting the card in,
and then putting that cable back in.
Now that that's out of the way we can get our card
in much easier.
So I'm just going to go ahead and grab the card,
going to line it up for that slot.
And all you need to do is line it up with the slot.
Once you have it lined up
you'll simply push it down into the slot.
And it'll just be kind of a click that you'll hear.
And now it's in position.
And then I want to screw both of those screws
that I took out before and put them right back in
so that that card doesn't move.
So I'm going to go ahead and do that.
And number two,
and now that I've done that,
we can see on the backside
where we pulled out those two blanking plates
we have our display port and HDMI ports
and then this is just some additional cooling,
so those fans can push some
of that excess heat off of this particular graphics card.
Now, as you look down from above, you can see
we actually have a heat sink
with some radiator cooling inside of here
between the graphics board and the fans.
And that helps again dissipate that heat
just like we did with our processor.
It goes from our graphics processing unit on this board
into that heat sink,
from the heat sink
through the fans with active cooling and out of the case.
And again, now we have six case fans, two CPU fans,
and three video graphics card fans.
And so we have a total now of 11 different fans in this PC.
Plus one more for the power supply, which gives us 12.
Lots and lots of fans here on this particular PC
because we're using active cooling instead
of liquid cooling for this build.
Now, once we have our graphics card here on the top
you'll also notice that there are two eight pin connectors.
Now this graphics card again
uses a lot of power and a lot of wattage.
So we are going to use our PCIE six plus two connectors,
put them together to create that eight pin connector.
And we're just going to plug that in to the graphics card.
And then we're going to do the same thing
with the other side of that.
We have two eight pin connectors on this particular cable
going to the power supply.
Put those together again.
And then we will go right here into the top of that card.
There we go.
So we now have power for the card
and we have cooling for the card.
And the next thing we're going to do is
install our video capture card,
which is a PCIE x1 card.
Okay, for our PCIE x1 card you could see here
it's only an x1 'cause it's a very small form factor.
I'm going to be using this video capture card.
This is the HD 60 Pro, which comes from Elgato.
It has an input and output in HDMI,
so whatever you put in, it's going to convert it
to digital pixels that can then be used by the processor
for video streams and things like that.
And then it can go out the other side with that output
so you can see it on your monitor as well.
So to put this in, we simply need to line up one
of the blanking plates and take them out
for the PCIE x1.
Now I noticed there are actually two on my case.
One is actually being blocked
by this big graphics card we already have.
And the other one is all the way over here
by the power supply.
So that's the one we're going to end up using.
Let me go ahead and put this card down on my antistatic mat.
And I'm going to unscrew this particular card blanking plate
which is the last one on my case.
Put that to the side and then to install this card
we're going to do the exact same thing that we just did
with the graphics card.
We're going to line up the x1 connector.
We're going to go ahead and put it into place.
And once it's lined up, all you have to do is push down
and it will go right into place.
So I am aligned.
I'm going to push down.
You just heard that click.
We're going to take our screw and screw it in place
so it doesn't move around or become unhinged.
And once we've done that, that card is now
in place and it doesn't need an extra power supply
like our graphics card did.
Because it's an x1 connector, it's a low power card.
It's just going to get its power
through that PCIE x1 slot,
instead of having a dedicated power cable
like we had with that graphics card.
Now, if you look here on the backside
you can now see it's properly blanked in.
We have the input and output of HDMI for that Elgato card.
And we're ready to go.
Now that we got both of our cards in
we want to go ahead and put that CPU power back in
because remember it was blocking the way
to this graphics card.
So all I'm going to do is take that eight pin CPU connector
and I'm going to go ahead and plug it
into the bottom right corner, which is where it goes.
And then we will be all done.
All right, now we've gotten that back in place,
we are all done installing both our graphics card
and our video capture card.
So in this short lesson, you learned how to install x1
and x16 cards into your computer.
What other kind of expansion card you're using,
whether it's an old school, AGP or PCI card
or a PCIE x1 or x16
which are very common these days, they all install
in roughly the same way.
You line up the card.
You push it into the slot, and you screw it
into the place where the blanking plate used to be
to hold it into the right position.
Remember, we used two different form factors here.
One was the x16
which was for our very powerful graphics card
and it actually needed separate power
because it was so powerful.
Now the other one is actually our video capture card
that we installed from Elgato.
And this is a low power card
that's going to get its power
from the motherboard through that x1 socket
instead of using a dedicated power cable
the way our x16 video graphics card did.
I hope you enjoyed this lesson
as we installed our graphics card
and our video capture card
and I'll see you in the next lesson.