[In progress] Small Gaming Htpc rig

Nfams

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Hi Eveyone.
This is a small project of mine that I've had going on since mid last year when I got the Gigabyte GA-Z97MX-Gaming 5 in hopes of fixing 4 bent CPU pins and having a beast motherboard for $45 (current ratail price is $250). So yeah that plan failed when all but 1 pin was back in place and the head snapped. So I decided to man up and sent it to where the previous owner had brought it from to see if it could be fixed via Gigabyte in Australia. Yes it could and after a few weeks it was back to me for a reasonable fee. I almost wished I hadn't done it as I could've got a decent motherboard for that but ah well.
[Off topic slightly] Some of you may have read of a Asus B85 problem of mine and the Pentium G3258 I had for that. Those were in line for the same idea of a cheap fix up and sell the working system kind of thing. But as booting in a broken motherboard showed that the CPU had been killed and then after a working 4770 booted on the asus and then not again after that... I gave up.
Anyway back on topic I managed to find an I3 4160 for pretty cheap and so grabbed that and I'd had a Vengance pro 8GB stick from another idea so I chose to make something of it. Some wicked deals on components later and I had a GTX 480, Silverstone Strider Plus 600W a few Noctua coolers (just because) and an ideal Silverstone FT03 Silver that matches a Apple Cinema display I got.
Here is the system so far
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I plan on getting a Samsung 950 Pro and a Asus Hyper M.2 X4 mini card as I will likely switch to this as my main rig at some time in the future.
It is a bit squishy at the moment but it's still to be finished.
Any thoughts let me know.
Peace
 
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Nice build man, Silverstone cases go really well with Apple products, I'm currently working on a rig in a FT05 for a mate. Once it's done we plan to install Windows 10 and OSX on it.
 
Almost all set up.

Okay so it's been a while and not much happened. I decide to just get a SSD for this as a 480GB OCZ Trion 150 was a pretty awesome deal. I'm just struggling to try and setup plex for remote access to watch my stuff at another place. I'm also looking to get a Radeon 7850 to swap instead of the 480. Will let you know if it happens. May have killed the monitor so that's not too great.
Bye
 
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