dipzy
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Hey guys, been a while since I've been putting this together. I used my main rig for folding but that meant that i could do very little gaming. So i decided to start getting parts and build one.
My dad's an expert when it comes to finding bargains on gumtree and found me a fully working Asus P5K SE motherboard and 2GB of ram. It's not the best but is a good starting point, i could always upgrade later on. It cost me nothing, not even travel costs since my dad has a freedom pass
The case i'm using was from the AMD competition i won back in February so that came into use nicely. The CPU was donated by riotcity76, a big thank you to him
and the cpu cooler, a Arctic Freezer Xtreme was donated by Pickster, a big thank you to him as well
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With out these to guys, this folding rig would not be complete, not function and not be put to good use.
Other bits n bobs i had lying around in my cupboards and garage.
The AX850 PSU i puchased, i wanted something that i can use when upgrading to better cpu and possibly multiple graphics cards.
So here are the specs in full and the pics of the rig (sorry for the bad pictures):
* Antec P280 case
* Asus P5K SE motherboard
* Intel Q6600 2.4Ghz
^ Arctic Freezer Xtreme CPU cooler
^ 2GB of DDR2 ram
* Corsair AX850 PSU
* 160GB hard drive
The front panel connections wern't long enough to route from the bottom grommet so i put them going across, same goes with the internal USB cable. This is due to the size of the case, the motherboard is of ATX size and there's so much room left. Even the 4pin CPU power, had to go across the ram.
I've done my best to do cable management, apart from those two cables and the blue SATA one, i'm happy the way it turned out. May look into getting some extension cables but for now its ok.
I'm currently still installing windows 7 so tomorrow i should have GPU tracker installed and folding. I'll report back here with some PPD numbers
Well, this is my first dedicated F@H rig, let me know what you guys think )
My dad's an expert when it comes to finding bargains on gumtree and found me a fully working Asus P5K SE motherboard and 2GB of ram. It's not the best but is a good starting point, i could always upgrade later on. It cost me nothing, not even travel costs since my dad has a freedom pass
The case i'm using was from the AMD competition i won back in February so that came into use nicely. The CPU was donated by riotcity76, a big thank you to him
With out these to guys, this folding rig would not be complete, not function and not be put to good use.
Other bits n bobs i had lying around in my cupboards and garage.
The AX850 PSU i puchased, i wanted something that i can use when upgrading to better cpu and possibly multiple graphics cards.
So here are the specs in full and the pics of the rig (sorry for the bad pictures):
* Antec P280 case
* Asus P5K SE motherboard
* Intel Q6600 2.4Ghz
^ Arctic Freezer Xtreme CPU cooler
^ 2GB of DDR2 ram
* Corsair AX850 PSU
* 160GB hard drive
The front panel connections wern't long enough to route from the bottom grommet so i put them going across, same goes with the internal USB cable. This is due to the size of the case, the motherboard is of ATX size and there's so much room left. Even the 4pin CPU power, had to go across the ram.
I've done my best to do cable management, apart from those two cables and the blue SATA one, i'm happy the way it turned out. May look into getting some extension cables but for now its ok.
I'm currently still installing windows 7 so tomorrow i should have GPU tracker installed and folding. I'll report back here with some PPD numbers
Well, this is my first dedicated F@H rig, let me know what you guys think )
