$1250 Gaming PC Build - ASUS STRIX B250F Gaming / Intel i5-7500

Hello everyone, I'm Ryan with PC Part Picker and welcome back to another build video. Today we're putting together a machine based on our great gaming guide that we made some slight tweaks to and bumped the budget up to about $1,250. Check the description below for a link to the full part list. And a big thanks to Asus for providing the motherboard and graphics card for this build. Let's get started. Our motherboard is the Asus Strix B250F Gaming. It comes with all the components you see here, including our motherboard manual, stickers, our driver disk, four SATA cables, one that we'll use for our hard drive and one for our SSD, an RGB LED extension cable, the IO shield, screws to secure multiple M.2 drives, mounting hardware for 3D printed mods, and the motherboard itself. Our processor for this build is the Intel Core i5-7500. Remove the CPU from the cardboard package and set the stock fan off to the side. We'll be using an aftermarket cooler for our build. Open the latch on the CPU socket and lift up the cover. Remove the processor from the plastic packaging. You'll notice on the corner of the CPU there's a little golden triangle. This is the pin one indicator and should line up with this black dot on the PCB. Set the CPU into place and close the latch. We've selected 16 gigabytes of Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 memory for this build. After consulting our motherboard manual, we'll use slots A2 and B2 for dual channel memory. Open up the latch, then take the DIMM and set it into place. Our cooler for this build is the Cryorig H7. Included in the box, we have our product registration card, our quick install manual, a clip in case you want to add an extra fan, mounting hardware for both AMD and Intel processors, and the cooler itself. Set the H7 backplate on the back of the motherboard with the Intel label face up, aligning it with the inside holes on the backplate. Then take the and set them into place. Flip the motherboard back over and set the spacers on the screws. Using the thermal paste that came included with our H7, place an amount about the size of a small pea on the processor. Before placing the CPU cooler on the motherboard, remember to remove the protective film. Place the H7 cooler on the mounting screws with the fan pointed over the RAM. Lift up the motherboard and secure the screws. Connect the fan cable from the H7 to the CPU fan header on the motherboard. Before installing the motherboard, place the I-O shield at the back of the DeepCool 2 case. Place the motherboard in the case, aligning it with the rear I-O shield and the standoffs. Secure the motherboard using the standoff screws included with the case. Plug the included RGB LED extension cable into the white header on the motherboard. Our CableMod's wide beam RGB LED strips come with a compatibility adapter for ASUS motherboards. Connect the adapter to the extension from the motherboard and to the LED strip. Route the CableMod strip through the hole in the shroud and into the LED channel. Our power supply for this build is the EVGA650GQ. It's an 80 plus gold semi-modular unit and it comes with all of these cables for a wide variety of builds. Since our 24 pin cable is permanently attached, we only need three additional cables for our system. Connect the cables to the power supply starting with the VGA and the CPU cable and our SATA power. The DeepCool 2 case has a dust filter at the bottom of the case, so we'll place our power supply with the fan pointed down to intake cold air and exhaust it out the back. Line up the power supply with the cutout at the bottom of the case and slide it into place. Secure the power supply to the case using the provided screws. We've routed our cables from the back of the case to the front. Connect them to the motherboard starting with the HD audio. Front panel USB 2.0, hard drive LED, reset switch, power LED, and the power switch. 24 pin USB 3.0, rear case fan to the chassis fan header, and the 8 pin ATX cable. Remove the 2.5 inch drive mount for the SSD. Place the 480 gigabyte SSD from PNY on the mounting bracket, flip it over and secure them together. Connect the SATA power and SATA data cables to the SSD and mount it back to the case. Remove the 3.5 inch drive sled to mount the hard drive. Place the 2 terabyte Seagate hard drive on the sled, flip it over, and secure it with the screws provided with the case. Place the hard drive sled back into the cage and secure it with a thumb screw we just removed. Connect the SATA data and SATA power cables to the hard drive. Connect the SATA cables from the SSD and hard drive to the motherboard. Remove the second and third expansion slot covers for our graphics card. Open the latch on the x16 slot and set the Asus Strix GTX 1070 into place. Secure the graphics card using the screws we just removed. Finally, connect the 8 pin PCIe power to the graphics card. With all of our cables and components now in place, let's flip the switch on the power supply and push the power button to give it a quick test boot before we manage our cables. And that's the screen we're looking for. All we have to do now is clean up those cables and install the operating system. Thanks for joining us for another successful build video, and a big thanks again to Asus for providing the motherboard and graphics card for this build. Be sure to check the description below for a link to our build guide and the completed build on our site. Also, check out the link to our cable management video, and if you enjoyed our content or learned anything new, please give us a like and subscribe.