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Anyone know of a youtube video or guide that would help my non tech buddy build a pc

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My best friend recently moved away and to continue our friendship we decided to start gaming together, he hates consoles and really wants to build a PC, does anyone know of any good guides that might help him? he's ordered the components already, he says he has the biggest difficulty knowing which wire or connector  to plug into what part of the motherboard, and what wires to plug from out of the psu etc. i'd love to help him but i'm terrible at teaching and my webcam is terrible so skype is out of the option. So if anyone knows of any uber descriptive guides could you link them below?

thanks! B)

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Neweggs 3part guide is pretty good , it helped me build mine

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Looking at the motherboard manuel may help him

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As much as I like Linus' videos, I think Newegg's tutorial is better for raw beginners.  I got started by watching them.  Here are the links:

 

Part 1:

Part 2:

Part 3:

 

The videos are a bit long, but definitely worth it.  Very detailed.

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I liked the Newegg series when I built mine last month as well.  I also liked Cary Holzman's videos:

 

http://youtu.be/gCohS0guaDE

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As much as I like Linus' videos, I think Newegg's tutorial is better for raw beginners.  I got started by watching them.  Here are the links:

 

Part 1:

Part 2:

Part 3:

 

The videos are a bit long, but definitely worth it.  Very detailed.

Thanks! i'll send it to him!

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Excellent video by Linus....but did he lift on the GPU @31:40 to help lift the case? That's a no-no!!!

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Linus- 30 mins

Newegg- 2 hours

Carey holzman- 3 1/2 hours

 

depends whether he wants to know how to put the machine together or find out how everything works at the same time.

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this one is good

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