Building My 1st PC- Step 3 Building It

Finally, I ordered everything and got it and was able to build the final machine. It took about a total of 3 days to get everything from when the first part was ordered(though, everything got here within 2 days of ordering them, I just stagnated the ordering by 1 day).

My final specs:

Cudy WE3000 Wifi + Bluetooth Card
WD_Black SN750 1TB NVMe
Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 3600
NZXT H510
Thermaltake Smart 500W 80+ White
MSI B550 GAMING PLUS
AMD - Ryzen 5 3600X
MSI - AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT 8GB

I did skimp out on a few of the parts, especially the power supply, but it was really cheap(I paid $32 for it) and I didn't want to get something a little bit better that I probably was going to have to upgrade when I upgraded my GPU anyways.

Building wasn't too hard of a process. It took me a total of about 2 hours but I did some pretty stupid things and so next time I can easily get it under an hour and a half knowing what I do now(and someone else I know does one to build a PC soon too so I will get a next time on building).

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The first step was to install the CPU and and the heatsink onto the motherboard. That wasn't too hard. I was scared when inserting the CPU into the MB just because I had the possibility of breaking it if I did something stupid like facing it the wrong way, but I simply matched the triangles and that was easy. I did mess up and not check to see if there was any plastic on the thermal past that was pre applied and so I had to later open it and check then, but the answer is no, there wasn't any plastic so I wasted time on nothing there. But better safe than sorry.

Then was installing the SSD. My screwdriver didn't work and so I had to use a weird one there. But hey, whatever works right? Installing that was pretty easy. Just insert it in at an angle and screw in the other screw. At that point I hadn't received the RAM yet and I was hoping it would come early the next day so I just built it that night(and it did) ramless.

Then I prepped my case.

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The standoff were pre included so that made my life a lot easier. I inserted the power supply to the bottom, and then put the motherboard on. Now here's my first really stupid thing. I was using the wrong screws for about 10 minutes. After wondering why they wouldn't fit, I consulted the manual and realized that I was a dummy and moved over to using the right ones. That made it a lot easier. Then I realized why all the videos recommended a long magnetic screwdriver(I had a medium sized magnetic but not too strong screwdriver). There was one screw that I just couldn't get in no matter what I tried. Finally I realized I had to remove the fan on top to make it easier to get that screw in and so I did.

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Once that was all good, I inserted the GPU in and connected all the cables needed. That was actually one of the hardest part. I didn't realize that I had a fan header at the bottom of my motherboard and I rerouted a cable to the side making me do a lot of unnecessary work. My cable management work wasn't the greatest but because I plan on changing the power supply I didn't care too much.

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At this point, I had a wifi card that isn't the one I have listed in the specs. Thats because I exchanged it because this one didn't have bluetooth support. Then came the hard part, waiting for the RAM to come in.

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The next morning, a miracle happened and the RAM arrived shortly after I got up. I inserted it in(though at first only one stick was all the way in, the one on the right hasn't clicked on the bottom so it wasn't being read). I powered it up praying for the best and boom, it turned on. She worked and that was great. Next step was setting it up(and boy was that fun), but thats for the next post.

I'd like to thank @foxon @deathwing and @cadawg for helping me when I got stuck building, especially @foxon. Without his help it would have been a much more painful build.

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