These are the WORST things you could do for your PC...

So a couple of weeks ago we went to the microcenter to pick up pieces and

things

for my daughter's construction. If you haven't seen that video, make sure you watch it because it turned out great and I wish I

could

keep it and no kids. You need a powerful computer like that, so it's amazing, but we realized we were there: there might be more people buying and upgrading computers today than I think I've seen in the last eight years of this channel running. It's been waiting, what's happening? date of the day oh it's the 28th my 8th anniversary was two days ago i missed it today we're going to talk about

things

you should never do to

your

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I've been building computers since I was five years old. I don't know how much that counts. together a computer mouse five when I was about 10 years old I actually started building computers for, like my parents, my dad's company and things like that, um, so I have almost 30 years of experience building computers. Wow, I'm old, okay, anyway, I'm moving. Okay, so I figured with how many people are probably building a PC for the first time getting ready for some big title releases later this year, we know Cyberpunk is going to bring a lot of people to the PC, we know Fall Guys will. has done.

It brought a lot of people to PC because you can run it on a potato, not to mention people look like potatoes and scapegoats, but that's okay, I thought I'd prepare you for some things that maybe you shouldn't do. your computer, so here's one that I'm going to start with that I think is pretty obvious, but I don't think a lot of people really think about this and that is: don't put your computer on the carpet, now I know a lot of people. You might wonder why, what the hell? Most of the time you will find people installing power supplies with the fan upside down so it can get its own supply of cool air and then exhaust it out the back so it doesn't really work.

It depends on the box to supply it with air, but not all boxes have a big enough foot system so to speak, or any kind of lift system built in, some have really decent amounts of lift built into the bottom of the box. , lean lead dynamics. 011 Dynamic is actually one of them, a lot of times you're dealing with maybe half an inch, maybe 12 or 13 millimeters of height and that's not a lot of space if you think about the carpet. I know a lot of Europeans right now are probably watching. this one goes to the carpet, who puts a computer on the carpet, who is right on the carpet because I guess the carpet is more of a North American thing, I don't know if that's true, but a lot of people I've always seen in Europe They wonder why it is there?

There is so much carpet in American homes, well, regardless of that, that's the fact, and if you put a computer on top of the carpet and start covering those holes with that carpet, if you have a plush carpet, especially not like an office carpet , where it is very thin, if not thicker. things, then you will find that it will cover that hole a little bit, you will have much less reduced airflow to your power supply, but most importantly it will be a mat for dust, dirt and pet hair to accumulate. and dander and all that, just dandruff, that's probably where it builds up and if it picks up from the intake fans on the bottom or the power supply then it will circulate through your system so I highly recommend it.

Do this for very little money and I'll put a link to the things that I'm going to recommend in any of these videos in the description because I always find people like where do I buy this stuff? I recommend that you get just a small piece. of wood, you can go to your hardware store and find those pre-made shelves that are already like white-brown wood and they're all like laminate and stuff, and put one of those on the floor and put your computer on there. That's the super basic way to do it and what's going to happen here is you're going to give your computer a nice solid surface to sit on and you're going to create a barrier between a lot of dust and dirt for it to sit on.

It cannot be built into a system and will generally be more airflow friendly and in fact the stability of your system sits on something solid. Now if you want to make it prettier, you can turn it into a pedestal by going to Amazon and purchasing it. some furniture legs, you can put them just a couple of inches up, I think eight inches high furniture legs, like you would find on the bottom, like chairs and stuff, and you can make a little pedestal to reach even further away. The further from the ground and the further from the ground it is, the less likely the intake fans in the front will also pick up dirt from the floor.

Remember that when dust and dirt fall from the sky, they settle low. and that if your computer is low, that's where most of it will accumulate and get sucked into your system and can become kind of a cleaning nightmare, so I definitely wouldn't do that to your system if you worry about it now Something else we have also seen is a very modern design in cases these days are tempered glass side panels. If we go back, probably only five years or so, you would find that there were much more solid side panels or plexiglass panels, but many of them had built-in ventilation, honeycomb perforations or even fan mounts on the side to allow air direct blow directly into your graphics card, that's great for cooling, not great for aesthetics and it looks like this design has been around. trend in recent years in which aesthetics seem to prevail over function and what is happening now is that many companies are being seen integrating vertical supports for their graphics cards into these cases.

Now vertical mounting itself is not a problem, in fact there is a lot of data to support that having a GPU mounted vertically can improve its cooling capacity and the reason is that if you have fans pointing downwards that push air towards the graphics card, that air must pass through the fins and create type. one twist it bounces off the side wall and then comes out the top or back of the case and if you mount it vertically the heat increases and not only that you won't have the bottom of the graphics card which also has air coming out which sits against the motherboard and blows heat towards the motherboard so it can move that heat away from the motherboard and use natural heat convection plus the fans that push air through the fins allowing for increased more heat efficient. efficient airflow due to the graphics card, the problem is that many of these manufacturers place the graphics card too close to the glass side panel or the plexi side panel or whatever type of side panel it may be, then what you get is Instead of having a nice giant air cushion under the graphics card that powers it, you will have a very thin air slot between the fans and the glass or side panel that will suffocate it, giving you the opposite effect of causing inadequate or inefficient cooling to your graphics. card now in the past you

could

n't even fit a three slot card which is very common and looks like it will be very common in the next release of graphics cards in front of a riser because they only supported two slots but now it has a lot of cases which support three slots, which will make the problem even worse if it is too close to the glass panel.

Now I would recommend having at least one inch or about 24 millimeters of space between the front of your card and the panel. to make sure you have adequate airflow, if that's the case then you're fine, if that's the case get it if it's fine, whatever, I think it's fine as long as you have that much airflow, but I'm not kidding when I say some of these vertical stands in these cases literally place the face of the card practically touching the glass side panel. Now the easiest way to determine whether or not you would have a problem with airflow is to simply look at your case if not. it requires one of those conversion boards to basically rotate where the gpu would be mounted and has some that are basically already built into the case.

You can see what that space will be from the outermost slot to the side panel and you can just take a measurement there and if it looks like you have enough space at that point, do it now to go to the vertical amount, although there is usually some cost involved in needing to a riser card, so if you already have what you need do a riser mount, just try it if your temps suffer just put it back in, it's not a good idea to go for aesthetics and look at the front of your graphics card and put that first to the actual performance and temperature because we all know high temperatures.

Time is also what can degrade your hardware, causing instability failures and general death. Yeah, just try it, you might die. What's the

worst

that could happen if you died? It was a bad idea, so while we're on the topic of cases, why not? Let's go and talk about how the

worst

thing you can do for your computer is not research the case before you buy it. Unfortunately, there are a lot of things that monkeys do in this industry and as computers become more popular, remember that I literally think we are at the pinnacle of live streaming PC games and all that, it's a massive billion dollar industry right now as there are more people getting famous on Twitch and YouTube, everyone wants to be like everyone else and me.

I want, I want a game, I want to do this, I want a live stream, we have so many people buying and building computers nowadays, it's crazy and like I said, what we saw at Micro Center just a couple of weeks ago really surprised me. because I have been shopping in a micro center for 15 years and I have never seen it like it is seen today. Things are sold out. They are selling hundreds of CPUs per day. It's absolutely crazy what's happening. Then what will happen? You'll get these companies that will make a case that looks like a famous or popular case or one that's just trendy and they won't actually put the same level of engineering into it as the brand they're imitating now, that's true for pretty much every industry, it's I mean, every industry has its imitations, but in some cases it can literally lead to a less desirable or worse performing system than anticipated due to airflow issues.

Now a real common trend right now is to have solid front panels, be it solid steel, solid glass, just the aesthetics don't matter now, that's not a problem, as long as you give good thought to where the front fans collect air, Be it giant openings at the bottom, perforations on the side, proper airflow testing is done to find the right balance between aesthetics and performance because no solid front panel case will work like a mesh case no matter how hard you try. , that won't happen now. I know people like Steve at Gamer's Nexus Hardware Canucks, they've done a lot of things.

Chassis testing is kind of king in that space when it comes to those types of reviews and to be honest, we're not at that level where we think this case is 0.2 degrees Celsius hotter than this one. case with normalized fan volume we don't do any of that crap around here it's us no, I'm serious, we're the phil they laugh back there because I said we don't do that crap now it's not shit, it's just us they're the type of reviewer average consumer we bought this case we put these pieces in we played these games this was the temperature we got if you're okay with it buy it if not go somewhere else that's literally the way we approach things it works for me it's the way that I buy, is the way I share, but what you will find is that sometimes you can have a case that looks good but will literally thermally speed up your hardware, your graphics cards, your CPU, even your SSDs if I have one of these types , the Fiery rgbs, so do your research before purchasing your case.

Don't buy your case just based on it being pretty because sometimes you will find that one is quite attractive, the other is quite bad, there is always some type. of a descriptor afterpretty nice itself is at that point the descriptor is more of a measure of the word after it, which then becomes this was practically a waste of money and it has happened and unfortunately it happens all the time now that you have There are too many people who They copy each other and don't do the same diligence and engineering, so we always support the brand that designs, not the brand that copies now, sometimes the worst thing you can do for your computer has nothing to do with the hardware in It's absolutely about your software and Windows 10 was designed to be an ultra-lightweight operating system to run on tablets and when Microsoft is really trying to compete with the iPad, you know that lightweight can run on a potato and that's fine, It means that it's I'm going to make everyone's computers faster, but over the years, Microsoft, being Microsoft, lost its way and has bloated itself to the point that now you find a situation where you can surpass it.

Your operating system alone really kills your overall experience with your PC. Now we found a great tool to use called Windows 10 Deep D Bloater, not Deep Loader D Bloater, which simply removes all the bloatware from your system. Now we are not going to do a tutorial. about how to use it, you can mess up some things by making the windows store not work again, but it's worth checking out, it's very easy to use, you know, it has a gui there, we can select what things to uninstall and how reinstall them too. If you make a mistake on something, but the reason I mention this is that Windows Defender is good for probably 90 to 95 of the things that could potentially infect you, but long gone are the days of free antiviral antiviruses. where they actually did something good for your computer, now what they tend to do is just slow it down, they run constant scans trying to slow down your computer, making you think that you need to buy the premium versions for your computer to run properly when all it's going to do is basically putting it back to where it was - virus definitions are constantly updated in Windows Defender.

We have not had any problems on our systems by not running any of those third party antivirus programs. There are good antivirus programs now. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying it's not necessary, but you know what I've seen in the past and I'm going to use my late father as an example. He was telling me that my computer is running slow. I do not know what is happening. I click on something and it doesn't load or it's just ridiculously slow. I go in there and he'll have like two different logs, like a cleaning software. You'll have like two different virus software running and then you'll have another one like Windows, not Windows Defender, but an online defense program that's like sniffing all the packages as they come and go and just because each time something didn't work.

Tried another one but never removed the other one so it would pile up and then they would conflict and fight each other for control of the system and it doesn't take much to overwhelm your storage when you are constantly scanning. That's one of those things where I think less is more when it comes to your operating system if you don't go to sites that are sketchy, if you use some common sense to inspect an element before you click on it and see where it goes. will take you and it's not a spoofed link or some kind of redirect, you will find that your system will run much better without loading any of that junk and then get rid of all the junk that already comes using Windows 10 deep loader now let's get back to the hardware here because that's what I know and do.

Phil is the kind of software you can talk software about. Don't make your hardware mismatch, it's easy to get caught out. on bundle deals and you know what a lot of these people will do when it comes to bundle deals and my bundle deals, I mean a lot of these online retailers and stuff, Micro Center is pretty good at not doing what I'm going to say. If you're making these deals combined with things that don't move or sell, you'll find them taking high-end overclocking motherboards because sometimes they're too expensive and they don't move like they don't move as often and I'll give you a stupid amount of money. discount and you pair it with a locked CPU.

Now this really only applies to Intel, honestly, because all AMD CPUs are unlocked, but Intel will have their unlocked skus and their overclocked, you know their overclocking excuse and then their non-overclocked skus. and you'll find this really bad combo where you'll have a really over the top motherboard with a really disappointing CPU because they're trying to move products and that's how they come up with a lot of these bundle deals or what they'll do is start pairing it with a RAM that just isn't good for the combo, like taking a 10 900k and then pairing it with a 2400 megahertz stick of RAM or two sticks of RAM or whatever.

Honestly, the worst thing you can do is not do your due diligence when preparing your parts. It's easy to accidentally leave some money on the table or invest money in the wrong component if you have a thousand dollars to spend on the major components. It's easy to say, okay, I'm going to spend 500 on the graphics card, I'm going to ship, I'm going to spend 300 on the CPU and I'm going to spend 79 on the motherboard, which gives you the opposite situation where you have an overclocked CPU and a basic low-end chipset without overclocking non-japanese solid capacitor non-robust vrm delivery system which means that you cannot take advantage of the features of the CPU you just bought because the motherboard does not allow it because it is locked the motherboard is locked and you can't do anything with it due to the fact that it is not designed to handle it and god forbid the motherboard manufacturer's BIOS allows it and you cause physical damage, we are talking about swelling and explosion.

The capacitors we are talking about vrm literally catch fire due to the fact that it was allowed to overclock something that this power delivery was not capable of handling. I think that's probably the worst thing you could do for your computer. I guess an analogy would be something like putting an undersized fuel system in a racing engine, kind of a fair deal where you're going to start having massive destruction of the engine because the fuel mixture is off and you really want to. keep that mix. Because of its balanced components, it's easy to get caught up in overspending here and underspending there, and it's confusing for many new people.

I understand that you trust me as someone who occasionally has to do my own research, wait a minute. What exactly am I leaving on the table with this and that there are so many parts and so many skus now? Remember when Phil I'm talking to you directly now when you could have one or two motherboard options per high-end chipset? and a mid range and then maybe a third as a low end entry level and that was it remember how Asus used to be like blue was mainstream and red was game and then like yellow or any other color, it was overclocking, it was literally color coded so you knew what you were getting again, the popularity of PCs are what they are, now you have motherboards on launch day that will have like 17 motherboard skus, I want I mean, how many times have I thought that this is the rog strix 37 maximus formula? g3 or whatever and you say no, no, it's the g2, oh, okay, or you'll have a version with wifi and a version without wifi where the only difference is that they took the wifi away from one, you know, and you and you needed wi-fi and they didn't catch it, so I think the worst thing they could do is just not investigate, it's confusing, but trust me, nothing sucks more than getting the wrong parts, swapping them around, and finding them.

There is a restocking fee on almost everything electronic these days, at least here in the United States. I don't know about other places, but a lot of places, if you're going to return a motherboard or something, they might charge you like 15 percent just to bring it in. I returned it, but another thing we'll talk about here. It's kind of an honorable mention: the RAM slots. Now we are talking about hardware and optimizations. Many times people buy excellent RAM, a good motherboard, a good CPU and then don't. Research the right RAM slots to put your RAM devices in now.

This only applies if you are not filling all the RAM slots, if you are filling them all it doesn't matter, it will automatically default to dual channel or quad channel or whatever. It may be platform based, but a lot of times I see pictures people share with me of their system and the RAM slots are on the wrong ramp. Uh, there is a specific order that the RAM should be in depending on the channels and Sometimes the default can revert to a dual channel if you put it in the wrong two slots, but you will find that it will run at reduced speed or potentially times different and it's really strange.

Ram is a man, that's a whole video. The issue alone is just optimizing it to be rtfm or reading the damn manual and looking at where it says your RAM should be based on your configuration, how many devices you're running, so obviously we could sit here for a whole week telling you. things you should and shouldn't do as a new builder my homework for you your homework since we went back to school now school is in session comment below what is your number one thing you should never do to your computer no, let's be real right, yeah, you shouldn't set it on fire, you shouldn't drag it behind your car, you shouldn't drop it from the second story, real stuff that people can actually learn from and then don't bother putting anything over the aio. locations because Steve's video covered all of that, most people didn't bother to watch the whole thing and it's nothing more than a misinformation alley.

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