new lan pc [waiting on CPU]

[Ghosthud1]

so today i got down and dirty with a few bits of new hardware to make my new lan/media gaming thing...pc, only took me 30 mins for cable management and 20 mins to actually put the bits in

price of this system?

mobo £62

ram £40

CPU £45

PSU £45

DVD free

Hard drives free

case free

graphics card? waiting on fermi release

so thats £156 without GPU and im wanting something in the region of gtx 360? so i'll be looking at something in the region of £356? pritty cheap for a system what will probs play every game out there :yumyum:

PICSSSS!

this project still has a while to go...

list

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cable sleeving

adding 2 140mm fans on each side panel

replacing plexi with mesh

adding another 92mm fan at front

add a corsair H50

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[Rastalovich]

Great little build.

Loving little cases myself. Ur biggest challenge will be temp management.

With a nice rear exhausting gfxcard, u will have 1 heck of a unit there.

Would be clever if u could get the cpu cooler to suck through the ram grills and exhaust out the back in some way. Fashion one of those Dell looking hoods or something.

Thnkx for the pics.

 

[WelshD1K]

what cpu / hdds ? caviar blue?

 

[stockholm1984]

Liking it, what CPU you thinking of? Looking forward to seeing the final product, especially where the Corsair H5O rad is going to go.

 

[Ghosthud1]

im putting a phenom II 550 in, which i managed to get for £45

i was also thinking of changing the HDD's for an ssd + storage and the drives in dont perform well under RAID 0

and the Corsair H50 will be mounted on the top, but first i have to find an efficent way of mounting it it and installing .

 

[loudonm]

Thats a nice little build mate. Thats got me thinking about a LAN rig myself. What case is that?

 

[Hunt3r]

already think it is up inside the bag will only get heavy to carry

 

[cl0ck_ed]

This is a wicked little pc, imo don't get a nvidia gfx, they will be over priced when they are first released. Get a hd5850! and get it to 1000 core

 

[Ghosthud1]

got a 4670 and a athlon 250 sitting in it atm!

waiting for the fermi release so i can compare and have a much better choice of gcards, and the prices will hopefully drop

 

[cl0ck_ed]

got a 4670 and a athlon 250 sitting in it atm!

waiting for the fermi release so i can compare and have a much better choice of gcards, and the prices will hopefully drop

Yep your in a great position, but you'll have to wait a month or so after the fermi release to see any price reductions. If the fermi release is faster then nvidia will price accordingly, and ati may not need to change their pricing.

 

[noobieocer]

when u say "free", some one gave you the parts or you already had em?

 

[Ghosthud1]

a friends gave me them and he should becaus eive given him sooooo much lol!

 

[killablade]

Very nice, except the fermi cards will probably turn out very expensive compared to the ATI's

 

[Ghosthud1]

finished!!

still waiting on the new nvidia cards and also still holding on to my athlon 250 until the new nvidia cards get released , so i can make up my mind on an intel/nvidia switchover but at the moment its a fantastic little rig and i dont think ill be going above mATX for awhile unless £2000 drops in my pocket.

edit: im redoing one of the sata connectors due to some heatshrink not shrinking? more like expanding lmao!

 

[Msm2]

Very neat sleeving,may have to buy some now.

 

[Ghosthud1]

sleeving actually makes you show most of your cables instead of stashing them away.

i think its a really nice way to improve the look of your pc and one the cheapest ways aswell.

if you have the patience get some sleeving done! its awesome!

 

[Msm2]

I agree with you on showing the cables off.

 

[m0o0oeh]

Loving this so far man! Nice little system - shame my LAN rig is going to be so bloody big!