How to build a PC, the last guide you'll ever need!

This could not have come at a better time!! I'm literally building my first PC THIS WEEK!

Heard this teased on the WAN show some time ago, it'll be SO helpful to finally have something on hand for when I build my first PC in a few months :D

Who is also here in 2024 to build their first pc?

Watching this as someone who's planning on building his own PC for the first time is more terrifying than watching a horror movie.

This is the literal ultimate crash course on PC building. Easy to learn for most tech savvy people and extremely thorough for the PC building enthusiast or just the average tech interested person. Love it

Almost a 2 hour video, but I'll still watch the entire thing. Been building for a decade now, but always helps to get some amazing tech knowledge.

I am a complete tech noob, but my 12 year old wanted to build his own gaming pc. So we bought the parts and with this tutorial, he managed to do it, with me as his assistant. Thank you for the clear instructions. The boost of confidence that my son got from accomplishing this is great. And now I also know how to build a pc.

My twins just turned 12, and had been saving money to build their own gaming pcs for a couple of years. This tutorial was essential. It was especially reassuring when you noted how installing a part should feel in your hands, and that offsetting a cooler fan is okay if your RAM is too tall. Thank you! Now my kids have invaluable experience with planning, installing, troubleshooting, and most importantly, reading TFM.

This might be the most well thought out and educational video I have ever seen. 20 years in the industry and this is the single best video I have ever seen in every way. Production value, clarity, amount of detail, casting.. it's literally perfect.

I've literally been scouring the internet for your PC building videos as I'm going to buy my parts in 4 days. This could not have come at a better time. Thank you so much! Edit; built it using this video. Wow that was fun

After a few long hours, I've done it. I've built my first PC. I don't think I could have ever done it without this video. Props to the LTT team and this incredibly helpful video. 👏

Nearly 3 years ago I lost a really good friend at Christmas time. He always helped me when I built my computers, today I was flying blind and used this tutorial. I was left with my favourite PC yet and I think he'd be proud. Thank you so much for this.

Letting it out: Step 1 got me stuck in a deep existential crisis

This is peak LTT. I can imagine how proud the team is putting this together!

I just spent the last 12 hours building and setting up my pc. This video has been critical to the success of that. Thank you guys so much!

Thought I'd come back to say I built my first non prebuilt pc using this guide (I'd picked my parts beforehand, but the part picking section helped me verify my choices) and It's honestly as close to perfect as it can be. I had 4 main problems the entire time and most were simple - thought I'd list them to help others in the future, the last one in particular I don't think was mentioned in the video and took the longest to fix, so if you're having an issue with your bootdrive not being detected, try reading through that. Also, I think it's mentioned in the video at some point but I'll say this because it was a problem for me as my graphics card needed 3 pci-e cables but only 2 came with the psu. Seriously do not mix power supply cables for modular power supplies. Get it direct from the psu manufacturer just to be sure, even if it takes 2 weeks (which it did for me) while you're just sat there looking at your parts (tbf, only had the gpu and case at the time, and then I decided to budget to do a full upgrade when I was only supposed to be doing the gpu so worked out in the end.) I had a friend had their components due to mixing cables so I simply do not do it and strongly recommend for peace of mind and safety that no one else does it either - there's a gamer's nexus article and video about this called " PSA: Mixing Modular PSU Cables Can Kill Components " If you want to learn more. 1st was that I needed to flash my am5 motherboard for the 7600x (not sure why), i think most am5 motherboards have bios flashback but I'd recommend making sure your board does regardless of the platform - it might save you a lot of trouble for not much extra, especially on older boards. 2nd was that I couldn't seat my ram properly for some reason, might be that ddr5 requires more force?? because I've never had that problem with ddr4 (the few times I've had to reseat it, usually after moving or to troubleshoot) so my build wouldn't POST, but like the video says, if you look at the LED indicator on your motherboard you can figure out why - though I have an asus board and the colors were different, so look online or check the manual (i think it's also printed directly on the board.) For me it clearly was showing it was a ram issue, so i decided well I either have a dead kit which seemed unlikely, or I need to apply more force, so I did and that fixed the issue. 3rd issue was that a couple of my connectors had come loose during cable management i assume, simply checked all my connectors and push them a little further in, making use clips were engaged and it finally worked. The last issue is that for whatever reason my boot drive which i was reusing from my original prebuilt (or any drive at all) wasn't detected by the boot manager. I'm not sure the exact reason because its been a while but I will say it had something to do with me having a system partion on 2 drives (because I'd copied my OS installation from my hard drive to my ssd when I added it to my old pc which was a prebuilt) and having an mbr formatted drive and it wanted gpt. There were so many little problems around this, at one point after changing many things in the bios (i know one of them was changing somethings related to boot from uefi to legacy) I could boot but only through the bios then I found that there was supposed to be a simple way to convert from mbr callled mbr2gpt but that wouldn't work. In the end I know I followed some guide that used a tool called Macrium reflect and got mbr2gpt working eventually. If you have this or a similar issue an easier way to fix it would be to simply reinstall windows but I didn't want to do that. Also, if you have the exact issue I did with having 2 system reserved partitions, be warned, if you delete one (eg: the one on the disk that doesn't have windows on it anymore) you will not be able to get back into windows. I used the macrium reflect rescue media (basically a bootable iso on a usb) to fix it again, make sure you have that if you plan to try and fix that. Also be warned in general, it is very easy to accidentally format your entire drive and wipe everything using the windows disk management tool, I consider myself quite technical and find it confusing. Honestly if there's like 500mb of space just sat unassigned once you've fixed your drive issue and you have data on that drive you don't want to lose, just leave it unless you know exactly what you're doing or at least back it up first. After deleting the system reserve there was some extra space on my hdd unassigned so I tried to add it all back into one volume, but somehow this created a seperate volume that was also somehow linked to the first one (so one that was 930gb and one that was 500mb) so when I tried to delete it, my entire drive was wiped. still not sure why but wasn't too bothered as my hdd mostly had nothing important on it, mostly games i don't play too much or ones where the loading times don't matter to me.

I've wanted to build a PC all my life but been too scared of breaking something to try. this week that ended with my first successful build, big thanks to this video!

I've built computers for 25 years, and even I picked up a useful hint or two. This is well worth a watch for any level of pc builders or enthusiasts, they clearly put in a lot of work on this one.

Ah, perfect! I really wanted a guide that was NOT specific to a particular few components. WELL DONE.

It's surprising to see that building a PC hasn't changed too much since I build my first. OK, there are more fans and you no longer have to install any drive (optical or 3.5") in the front. Plus in those days cable management was just hoping that you could bundle them up anywhere possible because those fancy backplates weren't there yet. I'm talking mid to late '90s here... 😅 (yes, I truly am 40 right now and was just a 14 year old girl who liked PC's and programming 😏. Ow and I haven't build one in about 20 years due to disability issues.😢) But all that aside, this is absolutely the most elaborate and helpful guide to build a PC. For any future novice and beyond build your own people, just follow along and enjoy your new and personalized PC! 😄🥳🥳🥳🥳