asually searching ebay i decided to bid on a x58 board with a broken pci slot, much to my amusement i won it @ £19 posted. and that's how it started...
So the board arrived, and i got going
this is what it looked like before i replaced the pci slot
and after three or four hours of painfully careful soldering i had done it, but also ruined some traces on the back of the board, so had to repair them as well, after i had fixed the traces i held the new lines in place with resin meaning this by no means was not an invisible fix, but you could only see it on the back of the board.
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And then i built it into the thermaltake, where it just sat for a good amount of time, due to a lack of i7 cpu, and money
also got round to fitting some mesh to the front as i didn't have any drive bay covers
so, a couple weeks later i got some mail, new Panasonic capacitors to fix the 575watt jeantech i got in the cheep phenom (had bad capacitors) , and after this i decided to dig out my spare led's and do a couple of led strip for the bottom in pruple
again there it sat for another week, pretty much just a paperwieght.
and here is where it starts to get interesting.
i got lucky on ebay and brought a spahire vapourx 4850 with a dodgy fan for £10 including postage, and when it arrived, isimpley ran a wire from 12v to the 12v fan header that wasn't receiving power, so now, its just like new, but with a yellow wire glued to the back of the pcb.
on the bay again, and i looked over a lapped i7 920, untested, the seller was sure it was broken as he spilt a drink inside his pc and frazzled it, so coupled with my great skills of creating expensive papewieghts and a stupid amount of impulse i bought it for £41 + p&p
luckily i knew it is pretty difficult to kill a cpu unless you go stupid on the volts. so with this in the post i also orderd a heatsink, this was the stock heatsink for the 990x and 980x, i didn't plan on over clocking and it cost me only £10, + the standard i7 920 stock cooler doesn't fit on this board due to the giant chipset heatsinks.
and when it arrived i was so excited i forgot to take pictures
but after allot of f-ing and jeffing i got a post, it took hours to diagnose what was wrong due to some brand new corsiar value select failing on me, and when i tried my ram there i was with a huge grin on my face
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and now i have crammed a 80gb drive in there and installed windows, runs like a dream,
but the best bit is after the profit i got from the cpu in the other project is before the ram and a new hdd that will go in, the total cost is £85.
and here it stands
thanks for reading
I dont think its junk tbh!
after all of this i already have a gaming rig, so i sold it for £400
so what's your thoughts on this?
