Kaby Lake / Z270 Build - MSI Z270 Gaming Pro Carbon / Intel Core i5-7600K

Hello everyone, I'm Ryan with PCPartPicker and welcome back to another build video. Today we're putting together a special build with one of MSI's new 200 series motherboards, the Z270 Gaming Pro Carbon. Thanks to MSI for providing the motherboard and the Intel i5-7600K for this build. Make sure to check the description below for a link to the full part list. Let's get started. Let's take a look at everything MSI has included with the motherboard. We have our driver disk and quick installation guide, motherboard manual, IO shield that connects to the back of the case, SLI bridge, two SATA cables, one of which we'll plug into our three and a half inch storage drive, an RGB LED extension cable, and the motherboard itself. Open the latch on the CPU socket, remove the i5-7600K from the plastic cover. You'll notice on the corner of the CPU there's a little golden triangle and this lines up with the white circle on the motherboard itself. This is the pin one indicator. Set the CPU into place and close the latch. Remove the M.2 mounting screw and lift up the shield. Our Intel 600p M.2 drive is 80 millimeters long but the standoff is currently at 60 millimeters so we need to move it over. Remove the SSD from the packaging and slide it into the M.2 slot. Close the shield and secure with the screw we just removed. We're using 16 gigabytes of Team Dark DDR4 memory. MSI has printed on the motherboards which slots to use when you're doing dual channel with only two DIMMs so we use our second and fourth slot. Open up the latches on either side of the DIMM slot then take your memory and set it into place. It should click when secure. To cool our overclockable i5-7600K we've selected the Corsair H100i V2 CPU cooler. We've laid out all the included hardware here that you'll need to install it on an Intel motherboard including our backplate, USB power cable, mounting hardware, the two fans, and of course the radiator and CPU block. Lift up the motherboard and line up the backplate with the holes around the socket then set it back down. Secure the backplate with the mounting screws. Our case for this build is the Thermaltake Core P3 SE with the optional riser cable. It comes disassembled and includes the feet, mounting for the power supply, reservoir, graphics card, and the side panel. The Core P3 does not come with standoffs pre-installed but Thermaltake has included a standoff tool to ease in securing them to the case. Follow the labeling for ATX and secure the rest of the standoffs. Align the motherboard with the standoffs and set it on the case. Secure it with the standoff screws. Next prepare the power supply bracket. Connect the spacer for the X16 riser. Secure the power supply bracket using the mounting holes closest to the cable management grommet. Secure the riser cable to its bracket. Mount the expansion slot bracket to the case. Secure the expansion slot to the riser. Connect the front panel IO cables starting with the HD audio. RGB LED extension cable. Power LED cables. Hard drive LED. Reset switch. Power switch. USB 2.0 cable. SATA data cable for a three and a half inch drive and our USB 3.0 cable. Align the X16 riser bracket and secure it with the provided screws. Open the latch on the X16 slot and connect the riser. Our power supply for this build is the Seasonic 80 Plus Gold G550. It's a semi-modular unit which means some of the cables are permanently attached but the rest we need to plug in. For our build we only need three additional cables. One for SATA power and two for PCIe power. Place the mounting bracket on the back of the power supply and secure it using the screws that came with the case. Align the power supply and secure it to the case. Place the fans on top of the H100i V2 and screw them in. Line the radiator up with the case and screw it in. Remove the plastic cover from the H100i V2 CPU block. The thermal paste is already pre-applied so line it up with the posts around the socket and secure it with the thumb screws. Connect the CPU block to the CPU fan header. Plug in the fans from our radiator to the splitter coming off the CPU block. Connect the USB cable to the CPU block and to the header on the motherboard. Connect the 24 pin power cable and the 8 pin power cable. Remove the screw holding in the three and a half inch drive gauge. Remove the clips inside of the three and a half inch drive sled. Set the drive into place and clip it back together. Connect the SATA power cable and the SATA data cable to the hard drive. Secure the hard drive back to the case. Remove the fifth and sixth expansion slot covers. Open the latch on the x16 slot and set the graphics card into place. Close the latch on the x16 slot. Secure the graphics card using the thumb screws we just removed. Plug in the 6 pin PCIe power cable and the 8 pin power cable. Screw in the feet using the included hardware. Take the side panel support bar, screw it into the case. Secure the plexiglass side panel to the support bars. Connect the CableMod's RGB LED strip to the included adapter and then to the extension from our motherboard. The cable is magnetic so we can set it anywhere around the case. With all of our cables and components in place let's give it a quick test boot before we manage the cables. Flip the switch on the power supply and push the power button. And that's the screen we're looking for. All we have to do now is manage the cables and install the operating system. Thanks for joining us for another successful build video and a big thanks to MSI for providing the Z270 Gaming Pro Carbon and the Intel i5-7600K. Make sure to check out their new lineup of 200 series motherboards and check the description below for a link to the completed build and our cable management video. 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