 All right, what's up internet? So dito sa Hardware Sugar gumagawa kami ng ibad-ibang PC para sa ibad-ibang budget. And so unapansin namin na may mga madalas na errors or mistakes na rene-request ng mga costumer or nakabili na yung costumer sa ibang shop and then dadalhin nila sa amin dito para usin and then napansin namin na mali yung configuration of parts. So based on that experience, here are the top five PC building mistakes based on what we've seen. Number one, Bipili ng overclockable CPU, pero hindi naman pang overclocking yung motherboard. Sinasa ja talaga na mga CPU manufacturers like AMD and Intel na may mga CPU na kayang i-overclock. Ano ba yung overclocking? Kung kochi yun, yung overclocking pinapatakbo mo siya lampas dun sa rated manufacturer speed. So yung isang kochi, let's say, sabi nung manufacturer yung kaya lang na yan hanggang 100 km per hour, kung in-overclock mo siya, abot siya ng 120 km per hour. And it's the same concept with CPUs. Halimbawa yung Ryzen 7 3700X and the Intel i7-9700K, both of those CPUs run at 3.6 GHz yung basic manufacturer speed. Pero kung in-overclock mo yung R7 3700X, kaya mo yung umabot ng mga 4.4 GHz. Yung Intel naman yung i7-9700K, kung in-overclock mo yun, kaya mo siyang paabutin ng mga 5.2 GHz or so. So malayo-malayo talaga yung rated manufacturer speed dun sa kaya mo yung abutin with overclocking. So okay diba? Bilit tayo lahat ng overclockable CPUs. How do we know kung overclockable ba yung CPU? It's just letters after numbers. You just need to look at the letter that comes after the numbers in the CPU designation. Again, in the example, para sa AMD, yung magic letter is X. If it has X in the designation, it is most likely an overclockable CPU. Again, in the example I use, the Ryzen 7 3700X, the X there denotes that yes, you can overclock it. Sa Intel naman, the magic letter is K. Kung may K yung Intel CPU, malamang pwede yung overclock yan. Like in the example I use, the i7-9700K. But we've seen builds where and they come from other PC shops na binentahan ngayong customer ng overclockable CPU. Pero yung mali dun, para ma-overclock mo yung CPU, kailangan compatible yung motherboard. So useless lang yung pagbile mo ng overclockable CPU, hindi mo ma-overclock yung CPU na yan. Nakastak lang yan sa default speed of the manufacturer. If you buy an overclockable CPU, make sure that you get an overclockable motherboard. Paano mo malalaman kung compatible ba yung motherboard sa overclocking? Again, the secret is in the letters, tinan mo yung letter. For Intel motherboards for the current generation of CPUs, malaman kung may letter Z sa pangalalo motherboard, let's say Z370 or Z390, compatible yung for overclocking. Sa AMD, the magic letters are X and B. So if you get an X370, if you get a B350, most likely those motherboards will support overclocking. PC building mistake number two, getting one stick of RAM instead of two. So halimbawa gusto mo kumuhan ang 16GB of RAM para sa rig mo. And you can get one stick of 16, so one stick is 16GB of RAM, or you can get two sticks of eight. Eight gigabytes and eight gigabytes total pa rin 16. And so they're both 16GB and you're wondering what's the difference or what should you get. You should always get at least two sticks of RAM. Kunin mo yung 2X8 or two sticks of eight rather than one X16 or one stick of 16, because computers nowadays use something called dual channel memory. Pano dinesain yung computer systems, mas maganda yung dual channel kasi mas efficient yung pag-allocate ng memory. There's a long technical description. I won't bore you and di ako mag-marunong dito na mayintindiyan ko, but ba talaga mas mabilis yung dual channel. But basically dual channel is better for you. You do see performance increases right away. In gaming where it's only just one application, supposedly the performance increase is not very noticeable. But for other applications such as video editing and things like that, you'll probably get like a 20-30% increase just because you use dual channel or just because you got two sticks of RAM instead of one. And I know, medyo nakakalito ko kasi kung isipin mo lang logically, di po mas maganda yung 1X16 para mas konte yung RAM slots na gamitin ko, para mas may space pa ako para mag-expand. And so this one actually, I understand it's a bit confusing, but basically the bottom line is just get two sticks of RAM instead of one stick. And again, these are the same RAM sizes. We're just talking about here in the example 16GB, but again, you can break that down in so many ways. One stick of 16, two sticks of 8, or four sticks of 4. That's overkill. You don't need that for dual channel. You're just gonna confuse things. But basically the optimum configuration is two sticks. And that's true regardless of RAM size, whether you want 32GB and get two sticks of 16 and so on and so forth. Building mistake number three also deals with RAM. RAM like many PC hardware comes with speeds. So you can get RAM in different speeds such as 2333MHz, 2666MHz, 3,000MHz, 3,200MHz, et cetera. So baka isipin mo na, well, kunin ko na yung pinakamabilis para sa nakaya ng budget ko. But again, the problem here is the motherboard. Kasi yung motherboard may maximum speed yan para sa RAM. Kung bumalik ka ng mabilis na RAM, pero hindi naman supported nung motherboard mo, tatama lang siya dun sa maximum rated speed of the motherboard. For example, the MSI H310M Pro VH+. Popular na budget board yan. Maganda naman yung performance. So isipin mo, yan nabilin ko na motherboard, and then pang RAM ko, kaya pa naman na budget, bibilay ako ng 3,200MHz na RAM. And just there, nag-aksayang ka ng pera. Because yung motherboard na pinili mo, yung MSI H310M, is only rated up to 2666MHz. Kasi saing lang yung 600MHz or so, yung difference between 3,200MHz and 2666MHz, kasi hindi mo magagamit yung extra speed. So very similar to overclocking your CPU, make sure that the RAM you get, the RAM speed you get is compatible with the motherboard that you get. Otherwise, you'll just be wasting money. Building mistake number 4 is getting generic or cheap PSUs. Don't get me wrong, I have advised in the past na okay naman yung generic PSUs para sa mga computer na hindi naman talaga performance. Yung mga pang office, yung ginagamit walang pang surf ng internet or Word or Excel or things like that, wala nang problema yung generic power supplies dun. But if you are doing an expensive build yung pang gaming, pang video editing, pang rendering, hindi talaga kaya ng generic power supply. Medyo nakakatemp kasi na ang mahal na ng gastos mo sa graphics card, mahal na na CPU, mahal na sa RAM, baka naman kaya ang itipid na lang yung power supply unit. Don't, don't, wag mo tipiren yung PSU. Especially for higher-end rigs, all of your nice components like the GPU and things like that, they need a steady power supply to be able to meet their performance speeds. And if you don't get a good power supply from a good manufacturer, then you're just wasting your parts. And in the most extreme cases, we've seen generic power supplies basically blow up and you know, maswerte ka na lang kung okay pa yung ibang components yung PSU lang yung nasira. So never, never scrimp, never, never cheap out on getting a good power supply. And kung kaya ng budget, we always recommend fully modular PSUs. Fully modular just means that you can remove the cables that you don't need to use. And so this improves airflow in the case because you don't have unnecessary wires fluttering the build. And also it looks better aesthetically for cable management because again, you have less wires to worry about. So definitely get a good PSU from a reputable brand such as Corsair, C-Sonic, Cooler Master and if the budget allows, get one that is fully modular. Last building mistake, not including an SSD. I understand mahal talagay yung SSD. Kung para natin kung magkano, let's say a 1TB hard drive usually kaya mo bilin mga 2400. Yung SSD kung same price, 2400, makukuham mo lang 500GB, roughly mga double the price yung SSD sa hard drive. Why am I recommending it? Why am I saying that all builds, regardless kung pang office yan, pang gaming, pang video editing, lahat ng builds dapat may SSD. It's really a quality of life issue sobrang bilis ng SSD, kumpara sa hard drive. Pag nakatry ka na yung SSD, hindi ka na talagabalik sa hard drive. Ayaw mo nang bumalik sa hard drive. Things are so, so, so much faster on an SSD. Dependim na sa budget mo, you can just get a small SSD para sa OS, para pagbootak mo ng OS sobrang bilis and then you get a hard drive, 1TB or so, for your files. And it's not true. Paminsan may narinig ka na yung SSDs mas namabilis mas sira kumpara dun sa hard drive. And that's not true at all. Actually, failure rates on SSDs are less compared to hard drives. For one, because SSDs have no moving parts. Para gumana yung SSD, walang gumagalaw sa loob niya. Kumpara sa hard drive, where there's actually literally a spinning disk that goes round and round so that the computer can access your data. So there are more failure points within a hard drive compared to an SSD. So an SSD will last as long, if not longer than a hard drive. And actually, you're already used to SSDs because your phone uses an SSD. And that's why it boots up so much faster compared to your other devices. I cannot emphasize this enough. Make room in your budget for an SSD. Bonus mistake on RGB. And usaw-usaw yung RGB ngayon. Maraming na may willy sa lights, kasi kaya may breathing, kaya may bat-ibang kulay, et cetera. Tuto, magadang ating nan. Bangisting nan ng computer mo kung nakawall red or whatever. Pero may masamang biro kasi yung mga techies na parang linilito nila yung mga non-techie friends nila and I've heard it before na sinasabi nila na, oh, de, pang yung RGB kung ilagay mo yung hulay sa red, masang belis computer mo. Kung ulagay mo sa blue, mas malaming. And therefore, better kasi yung components mo, lower yung temperature, mas-mabilis yung takbo nila. And yuno... It seems kind of silly to even talk about it, but color is just color. Yung RGB, walang kinalamad yun sa performance. Kaya anong kulay linagay mo dun sa RGB set up mo, it will have... It has zero impact on your performance. Rainbow flashing does not mean better multi-threading setup. I mean, damhing kalakohan na rumors or... You know, and the techie people know better, but it's sort of like that old joke na... gusto mo bumilis computer mo, press control, alt-delete. I mean, it's super simple to people who are used to computers, but people who are just starting out with computers, you know, not too familiar with the software or the hardware, they really will press control, alt-delete, or they really will set their RGB to red in the mistaken impression that this will make it faster. So, kung nyubilang ko kayo, wag kayo mauto sa mga kaibigan yung mga Jo Si Raulo, color does not impact performance at all. So, top five building mistakes that we've seen, building computers here in the Philippines with a bonus explainer on RGB. Here at Hardware Sugar, we do builds of any budget from 30,000 onwards to 120, 150K. And you can come to us, we'll design the rig based on what you need. Is it for gaming? Is it for video editing? Do you want super bling-bling RGB or do you not want RGB puke at all? We will guide you through the process, we will ask you for the parts. It's always a back and forth with us, we will ask the customer, like, do you want this and what do you think of this? And you can check out the playlist here on YouTube for some of the rigs that we've done. And if you're not in the market yet, if you just wanna talk about hardware and things like that, we also do that as well, pass by the shop or message us on Facebook or comment here on YouTube. Thanks for watching. So I hope that these basic tips help you. If you found this video helpful, please drop a like and hit the subscribe button. For your PC needs, consider buying from us, Hardware Sugar at Lazada or on our website. You can find links in the description below. And thank you for watching. See you next video.