WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.480 --> 00:00:01.313 In this lesson 2 00:00:01.313 --> 00:00:03.420 we're going to learn how to install expansion cards 3 00:00:03.420 --> 00:00:05.640 into your case and into your motherboard. 4 00:00:05.640 --> 00:00:07.500 Now we're going to be using two different ones here 5 00:00:07.500 --> 00:00:09.270 so I could show you both types, 6 00:00:09.270 --> 00:00:11.340 both a PCIE x16 7 00:00:11.340 --> 00:00:13.620 which is what my graphics card is going to be using, 8 00:00:13.620 --> 00:00:15.630 and a PCIE x1 9 00:00:15.630 --> 00:00:18.360 which is what the video capture card is going to be using. 10 00:00:18.360 --> 00:00:20.580 So let me go ahead and bring out our tower 11 00:00:20.580 --> 00:00:21.413 and we'll go ahead 12 00:00:21.413 --> 00:00:24.630 and get ready to install these two expansion cards. 13 00:00:24.630 --> 00:00:26.610 All right, the first one we're going to do is going to 14 00:00:26.610 --> 00:00:28.500 be our video graphics card. 15 00:00:28.500 --> 00:00:30.000 Now, before I do that though 16 00:00:30.000 --> 00:00:32.320 I want to make sure that I am using safety, 17 00:00:32.320 --> 00:00:33.810 especially around ESD 18 00:00:33.810 --> 00:00:35.850 because these graphics cards aren't cheap 19 00:00:35.850 --> 00:00:37.350 and we don't want to short them out. 20 00:00:37.350 --> 00:00:40.890 So again, I want to make sure I'm using my ESD strap. 21 00:00:40.890 --> 00:00:42.330 So I'm going to ahead and put that on. 22 00:00:42.330 --> 00:00:43.350 And now that I have that on 23 00:00:43.350 --> 00:00:45.660 I'm ready to handle my graphics card. 24 00:00:45.660 --> 00:00:48.600 Now, when you get your graphics card, it's going to come inside 25 00:00:48.600 --> 00:00:51.540 of one of the antistatic bags, just like this. 26 00:00:51.540 --> 00:00:54.510 Now, as I said, this is a pretty powerful graphics card 27 00:00:54.510 --> 00:00:55.530 as you could tell by the fact 28 00:00:55.530 --> 00:00:58.560 that it has three different cooling fans embedded 29 00:00:58.560 --> 00:01:00.030 into this graphics card. 30 00:01:00.030 --> 00:01:01.860 And then on the other side, 31 00:01:01.860 --> 00:01:05.370 you'll see that we have our PCIE x16 slot 32 00:01:05.370 --> 00:01:06.480 right here through the case. 33 00:01:06.480 --> 00:01:09.210 Now, as I take this out, it'll be a lot easier to see. 34 00:01:09.210 --> 00:01:11.760 So now that I have my graphics card 35 00:01:11.760 --> 00:01:13.527 you could see clearly that we have those three fans 36 00:01:13.527 --> 00:01:17.760 and the PCIE x16 slot there at the bottom. 37 00:01:17.760 --> 00:01:20.130 Now, what we want to do is find the x16 slot 38 00:01:20.130 --> 00:01:21.240 on our motherboard, 39 00:01:21.240 --> 00:01:23.880 and in my particular motherboard, I have two of them. 40 00:01:23.880 --> 00:01:24.713 I have one here 41 00:01:24.713 --> 00:01:26.010 that's more of a silver color 42 00:01:26.010 --> 00:01:28.170 and I have one here that's more of a black color. 43 00:01:28.170 --> 00:01:31.020 Now the silver one is actually labeled PCIE, 44 00:01:31.020 --> 00:01:32.340 and it's the number one slot. 45 00:01:32.340 --> 00:01:34.650 So that's where I want to put my graphics card. 46 00:01:34.650 --> 00:01:36.420 Now this particular graphics card also 47 00:01:36.420 --> 00:01:39.180 has some external capabilities here. 48 00:01:39.180 --> 00:01:41.820 And you can see here that we have three display port 49 00:01:41.820 --> 00:01:45.750 and one HTMI outputs for this particular graphics card. 50 00:01:45.750 --> 00:01:47.160 Now, when are you going to put this in, 51 00:01:47.160 --> 00:01:50.130 the first thing you need to do is blank out the spaces 52 00:01:50.130 --> 00:01:52.560 on the back so that those HDMI 53 00:01:52.560 --> 00:01:55.770 and display ports can come out the backside of the case. 54 00:01:55.770 --> 00:01:57.960 So what I'm going to do is make sure I put down this card 55 00:01:57.960 --> 00:01:59.850 on an ESD safe mat, 56 00:01:59.850 --> 00:02:01.530 grab my screwdriver, 57 00:02:01.530 --> 00:02:04.260 and then I'm going to find the blocking pins 58 00:02:04.260 --> 00:02:05.093 that are right there 59 00:02:05.093 --> 00:02:07.560 in front of where this graphics card's going to be. 60 00:02:07.560 --> 00:02:10.830 Now, if you notice my graphics card is pretty large in size 61 00:02:10.830 --> 00:02:13.680 and so it's going to use two different blanking spaces. 62 00:02:13.680 --> 00:02:15.380 So let me go ahead and undo those. 63 00:02:19.800 --> 00:02:20.633 There's the first one. 64 00:02:20.633 --> 00:02:21.466 We just pull that piece 65 00:02:21.466 --> 00:02:24.120 of metal right out of there, which was a blanking space. 66 00:02:24.120 --> 00:02:26.790 And then we are going to have the second one 67 00:02:26.790 --> 00:02:30.843 which is going to be right here to the left of it. 68 00:02:36.450 --> 00:02:37.380 And there we go. 69 00:02:37.380 --> 00:02:40.020 We pulled both of those blanking spaces out. 70 00:02:40.020 --> 00:02:42.330 Now you'll notice this power supply cable is kind of 71 00:02:42.330 --> 00:02:45.690 in the way, and that's actually for my CPU processor power. 72 00:02:45.690 --> 00:02:47.730 You can either try to slide the card underneath it 73 00:02:47.730 --> 00:02:49.320 but because this card is so large, 74 00:02:49.320 --> 00:02:51.330 I'm going to end up actually taking that out, 75 00:02:51.330 --> 00:02:52.163 putting the card in, 76 00:02:52.163 --> 00:02:53.880 and then putting that cable back in. 77 00:03:00.510 --> 00:03:02.550 Now that that's out of the way we can get our card 78 00:03:02.550 --> 00:03:03.870 in much easier. 79 00:03:03.870 --> 00:03:06.630 So I'm just going to go ahead and grab the card, 80 00:03:06.630 --> 00:03:09.333 going to line it up for that slot. 81 00:03:11.160 --> 00:03:14.370 And all you need to do is line it up with the slot. 82 00:03:14.370 --> 00:03:15.510 Once you have it lined up 83 00:03:15.510 --> 00:03:18.030 you'll simply push it down into the slot. 84 00:03:18.030 --> 00:03:20.190 And it'll just be kind of a click that you'll hear. 85 00:03:20.190 --> 00:03:21.900 And now it's in position. 86 00:03:21.900 --> 00:03:24.120 And then I want to screw both of those screws 87 00:03:24.120 --> 00:03:27.000 that I took out before and put them right back in 88 00:03:27.000 --> 00:03:29.010 so that that card doesn't move. 89 00:03:29.010 --> 00:03:30.710 So I'm going to go ahead and do that. 90 00:03:34.560 --> 00:03:35.733 And number two, 91 00:03:38.430 --> 00:03:39.540 and now that I've done that, 92 00:03:39.540 --> 00:03:41.220 we can see on the backside 93 00:03:41.220 --> 00:03:43.290 where we pulled out those two blanking plates 94 00:03:43.290 --> 00:03:45.330 we have our display port and HDMI ports 95 00:03:45.330 --> 00:03:47.220 and then this is just some additional cooling, 96 00:03:47.220 --> 00:03:48.480 so those fans can push some 97 00:03:48.480 --> 00:03:51.423 of that excess heat off of this particular graphics card. 98 00:03:51.423 --> 00:03:54.090 Now, as you look down from above, you can see 99 00:03:54.090 --> 00:03:55.890 we actually have a heat sink 100 00:03:55.890 --> 00:03:58.500 with some radiator cooling inside of here 101 00:03:58.500 --> 00:04:01.620 between the graphics board and the fans. 102 00:04:01.620 --> 00:04:03.600 And that helps again dissipate that heat 103 00:04:03.600 --> 00:04:05.220 just like we did with our processor. 104 00:04:05.220 --> 00:04:08.520 It goes from our graphics processing unit on this board 105 00:04:08.520 --> 00:04:10.230 into that heat sink, 106 00:04:10.230 --> 00:04:11.160 from the heat sink 107 00:04:11.160 --> 00:04:13.950 through the fans with active cooling and out of the case. 108 00:04:13.950 --> 00:04:18.360 And again, now we have six case fans, two CPU fans, 109 00:04:18.360 --> 00:04:20.940 and three video graphics card fans. 110 00:04:20.940 --> 00:04:25.500 And so we have a total now of 11 different fans in this PC. 111 00:04:25.500 --> 00:04:28.800 Plus one more for the power supply, which gives us 12. 112 00:04:28.800 --> 00:04:31.830 Lots and lots of fans here on this particular PC 113 00:04:31.830 --> 00:04:33.510 because we're using active cooling instead 114 00:04:33.510 --> 00:04:35.700 of liquid cooling for this build. 115 00:04:35.700 --> 00:04:38.100 Now, once we have our graphics card here on the top 116 00:04:38.100 --> 00:04:41.730 you'll also notice that there are two eight pin connectors. 117 00:04:41.730 --> 00:04:43.050 Now this graphics card again 118 00:04:43.050 --> 00:04:45.870 uses a lot of power and a lot of wattage. 119 00:04:45.870 --> 00:04:50.870 So we are going to use our PCIE six plus two connectors, 120 00:04:51.150 --> 00:04:54.450 put them together to create that eight pin connector. 121 00:04:54.450 --> 00:04:57.213 And we're just going to plug that in to the graphics card. 122 00:04:59.430 --> 00:05:00.540 And then we're going to do the same thing 123 00:05:00.540 --> 00:05:01.710 with the other side of that. 124 00:05:01.710 --> 00:05:04.620 We have two eight pin connectors on this particular cable 125 00:05:04.620 --> 00:05:06.330 going to the power supply. 126 00:05:06.330 --> 00:05:08.070 Put those together again. 127 00:05:08.070 --> 00:05:12.033 And then we will go right here into the top of that card. 128 00:05:14.400 --> 00:05:15.233 There we go. 129 00:05:15.233 --> 00:05:17.580 So we now have power for the card 130 00:05:17.580 --> 00:05:19.320 and we have cooling for the card. 131 00:05:19.320 --> 00:05:20.730 And the next thing we're going to do is 132 00:05:20.730 --> 00:05:22.470 install our video capture card, 133 00:05:22.470 --> 00:05:25.710 which is a PCIE x1 card. 134 00:05:25.710 --> 00:05:29.280 Okay, for our PCIE x1 card you could see here 135 00:05:29.280 --> 00:05:31.980 it's only an x1 'cause it's a very small form factor. 136 00:05:31.980 --> 00:05:34.680 I'm going to be using this video capture card. 137 00:05:34.680 --> 00:05:37.680 This is the HD 60 Pro, which comes from Elgato. 138 00:05:37.680 --> 00:05:39.930 It has an input and output in HDMI, 139 00:05:39.930 --> 00:05:41.850 so whatever you put in, it's going to convert it 140 00:05:41.850 --> 00:05:44.460 to digital pixels that can then be used by the processor 141 00:05:44.460 --> 00:05:46.410 for video streams and things like that. 142 00:05:46.410 --> 00:05:49.590 And then it can go out the other side with that output 143 00:05:49.590 --> 00:05:51.750 so you can see it on your monitor as well. 144 00:05:51.750 --> 00:05:54.540 So to put this in, we simply need to line up one 145 00:05:54.540 --> 00:05:56.190 of the blanking plates and take them out 146 00:05:56.190 --> 00:05:58.410 for the PCIE x1. 147 00:05:58.410 --> 00:06:01.170 Now I noticed there are actually two on my case. 148 00:06:01.170 --> 00:06:02.520 One is actually being blocked 149 00:06:02.520 --> 00:06:04.710 by this big graphics card we already have. 150 00:06:04.710 --> 00:06:06.270 And the other one is all the way over here 151 00:06:06.270 --> 00:06:07.440 by the power supply. 152 00:06:07.440 --> 00:06:09.960 So that's the one we're going to end up using. 153 00:06:09.960 --> 00:06:13.470 Let me go ahead and put this card down on my antistatic mat. 154 00:06:13.470 --> 00:06:18.360 And I'm going to unscrew this particular card blanking plate 155 00:06:18.360 --> 00:06:20.583 which is the last one on my case. 156 00:06:23.970 --> 00:06:26.670 Put that to the side and then to install this card 157 00:06:26.670 --> 00:06:29.160 we're going to do the exact same thing that we just did 158 00:06:29.160 --> 00:06:30.450 with the graphics card. 159 00:06:30.450 --> 00:06:32.730 We're going to line up the x1 connector. 160 00:06:32.730 --> 00:06:35.403 We're going to go ahead and put it into place. 161 00:06:36.360 --> 00:06:40.800 And once it's lined up, all you have to do is push down 162 00:06:40.800 --> 00:06:42.810 and it will go right into place. 163 00:06:42.810 --> 00:06:44.910 So I am aligned. 164 00:06:44.910 --> 00:06:45.990 I'm going to push down. 165 00:06:45.990 --> 00:06:47.580 You just heard that click. 166 00:06:47.580 --> 00:06:50.360 We're going to take our screw and screw it in place 167 00:06:50.360 --> 00:06:53.103 so it doesn't move around or become unhinged. 168 00:06:55.110 --> 00:06:57.960 And once we've done that, that card is now 169 00:06:57.960 --> 00:07:00.855 in place and it doesn't need an extra power supply 170 00:07:00.855 --> 00:07:02.700 like our graphics card did. 171 00:07:02.700 --> 00:07:05.610 Because it's an x1 connector, it's a low power card. 172 00:07:05.610 --> 00:07:06.720 It's just going to get its power 173 00:07:06.720 --> 00:07:09.120 through that PCIE x1 slot, 174 00:07:09.120 --> 00:07:11.280 instead of having a dedicated power cable 175 00:07:11.280 --> 00:07:13.530 like we had with that graphics card. 176 00:07:13.530 --> 00:07:14.850 Now, if you look here on the backside 177 00:07:14.850 --> 00:07:16.800 you can now see it's properly blanked in. 178 00:07:16.800 --> 00:07:20.340 We have the input and output of HDMI for that Elgato card. 179 00:07:20.340 --> 00:07:21.630 And we're ready to go. 180 00:07:21.630 --> 00:07:23.340 Now that we got both of our cards in 181 00:07:23.340 --> 00:07:25.620 we want to go ahead and put that CPU power back in 182 00:07:25.620 --> 00:07:27.420 because remember it was blocking the way 183 00:07:27.420 --> 00:07:28.890 to this graphics card. 184 00:07:28.890 --> 00:07:32.070 So all I'm going to do is take that eight pin CPU connector 185 00:07:32.070 --> 00:07:33.240 and I'm going to go ahead and plug it 186 00:07:33.240 --> 00:07:36.210 into the bottom right corner, which is where it goes. 187 00:07:36.210 --> 00:07:38.553 And then we will be all done. 188 00:07:40.710 --> 00:07:42.810 All right, now we've gotten that back in place, 189 00:07:42.810 --> 00:07:45.540 we are all done installing both our graphics card 190 00:07:45.540 --> 00:07:47.310 and our video capture card. 191 00:07:47.310 --> 00:07:51.408 So in this short lesson, you learned how to install x1 192 00:07:51.408 --> 00:07:54.780 and x16 cards into your computer. 193 00:07:54.780 --> 00:07:56.700 What other kind of expansion card you're using, 194 00:07:56.700 --> 00:08:00.240 whether it's an old school, AGP or PCI card 195 00:08:00.240 --> 00:08:02.820 or a PCIE x1 or x16 196 00:08:02.820 --> 00:08:05.250 which are very common these days, they all install 197 00:08:05.250 --> 00:08:06.690 in roughly the same way. 198 00:08:06.690 --> 00:08:07.620 You line up the card. 199 00:08:07.620 --> 00:08:09.270 You push it into the slot, and you screw it 200 00:08:09.270 --> 00:08:11.340 into the place where the blanking plate used to be 201 00:08:11.340 --> 00:08:13.260 to hold it into the right position. 202 00:08:13.260 --> 00:08:15.810 Remember, we used two different form factors here. 203 00:08:15.810 --> 00:08:17.280 One was the x16 204 00:08:17.280 --> 00:08:19.470 which was for our very powerful graphics card 205 00:08:19.470 --> 00:08:21.030 and it actually needed separate power 206 00:08:21.030 --> 00:08:22.980 because it was so powerful. 207 00:08:22.980 --> 00:08:25.173 Now the other one is actually our video capture card 208 00:08:25.173 --> 00:08:27.390 that we installed from Elgato. 209 00:08:27.390 --> 00:08:29.010 And this is a low power card 210 00:08:29.010 --> 00:08:29.970 that's going to get its power 211 00:08:29.970 --> 00:08:32.550 from the motherboard through that x1 socket 212 00:08:32.550 --> 00:08:34.530 instead of using a dedicated power cable 213 00:08:34.530 --> 00:08:37.470 the way our x16 video graphics card did. 214 00:08:37.470 --> 00:08:38.730 I hope you enjoyed this lesson 215 00:08:38.730 --> 00:08:40.170 as we installed our graphics card 216 00:08:40.170 --> 00:08:41.520 and our video capture card 217 00:08:41.520 --> 00:08:43.320 and I'll see you in the next lesson.