Assembling Your Computer!

 Hello and welcome to the final entry of building your own pc. So you have reached the final stretch, but it is the hardest one to the finish line. You have all your components bought, sitting in their boxes as you read this eager to put your computer together. Well you have come to the right place. I will give you a brief overview about how you should go about putting your computer together, and I will also be linking videos along the way which I found helpful in this process. So lets Begin!

First off, CPU and motherboard is what you need. You should have everything unboxed and ready to go. I recommend putting your motherboard onto of it's box to protect the backside from being scratched or damaged. Also make sure you ground yourself from any static charge you may have built up, you can do this in many ways but the easiest by far is just touching a radiator in your house.

Now, you have your motherboard and CPU ready to go. There is a small lever at the side of the CPU socket, you want to lift that up so you can put your CPU in. There is a small dot/triangle on one of the corners of your CPU, you want to make 1000% certain that you match this up with the same symbol on the CPU socket on your motherboard, there is only one symbol on each so make sure you line it up or else its going to damage the connector pins. After you have placed the CPU down you want to make sure it doesn't wobble in the slot and then close down the lever to clamp down the CPU.

Next up is the RAM. Your RAM should be DDR4 which means that there is only one way it can slot in. Open up the slots on your motherboard, there is usually one at the top and one at the bottom of each slot but not on all motherboards, some only have one at the top. This is fine and doesn't impact anything. There a small gap on the bottom of your RAM stick, you want to line that up with the slot on the motherboard and press down firmly. This is going to require more force that you are probably anticipating, so just apply equal downward force on the RAM stick until you hear it click into place and the clamp closed, if you hear a click and the clamp is still open, then unfortunately you're probably going to need to buy new RAM.

Now for the CPU cooler. There is 2 ways the install of the cooler can go and it depends which CPU you have, whether its Intel or AMD as they each have a different mounting solution. I recommend following the instructions that came with your cooler for this. It doesn't matter if you decided to go with the cooler or with the AIO for this, they are mounted onto the motherboard in the same way depending on your CPU. Now, it will be more of a hassle with the AIO so I recommend you secure your motherboard in the case before you decide to install that.

Lastly, before placing your motherboard into the case, I recommend you install your NVMe m.2 SSD if that is the storage solution you decided to go with. I hope you bought a motherboard with a slot for it! Its a simple install. Find the slot for the M.2, it is usually covered by a Heatsink which helps maintain temperature. You can take this off, slot in the M.2 while making sure its in the correct orientation, push down slightly, screw down the far end of it and replace the Heatsink. 

This is as much as I can help without any visual aid as the rest starts becoming more complicated and involves screws and cabling. So I hope this blog has been helpful you to in your journey of building your own computer. I want to officially welcome you to the club of people who built their own computers and I hope you have had a good time with all of this.

I will link some videos that I found helpful throughout my own journey of building my computer, I have hope that you will find them helpful also. Thank you for reading!

How to Build a PC step by step: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhX0fOUYd8Q&list=PL3DSIpvVf9LVLb3Q4lZT30Z-MFTlBIeXE&index=5

PC building in First Person: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7MYOpFONCU