A ZZAC Thread: Project untested/ eightyfivequid

ZZZAC · 3 Mar 2012 at 17:41

Lets give a poor intro as always.
lots of you know im into repairing stuff and like buying faulty and untested parts. some of you may have seen my projec:fourtyfivequid after the flop of the board failing i decided to sell the chip, and ebay gave me a sweet £80 for it. so this left me with a base for another system, casually 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...

ZZZAC · 3 Mar 2012 at 17:42

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

ZZZAC · 3 Mar 2012 at 17:53

so, a couple weeks later i got some mail, new Panasonic capacitors to fix the 575watt jeantech i got in project fourtyfivequid , 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
First post:

and now i have crammed a 80gb drive in there and installed windows, runs like a dream, and im now waiting for some replacement ram, and going to go tri channel 6gb or tri channel 12gb
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!

Martini1991 · 3 Mar 2012 at 17:53

You're annoying in how you get these bargains and then completely mess it up, if people had the chances you'd have... >.<
EDIT : Although, this doesn't seem to be a mess up, because it's not a project log, it's an after project log

ZZZAC · 3 Mar 2012 at 17:56

pfft... mess it uP?
u Brad MRo?
im not messing this one up, trust me, ive already built the system , im just having a busy day, so there will be more shortly, but in all seriusness you will see how this goes, and how the project fourtyfivequid went, and realise i dont mess things up most of the time, its just my own rig where my luck runs out :cool:

d_brennen · 3 Mar 2012 at 17:59

Buying individual bits of junk and making them into piles of junk, then splitting the remaining working bits... How about buying some quality gear that will last for a while? It may involve some saving but it's well worth it. ZZZAC you seem to have spent a fortune on rubbish

ZZZAC · 3 Mar 2012 at 18:09

d_brennen said:
Buying individual bits of junk and making them into piles of junk, then splitting the remaining working bits... How about buying some quality gear that will last for a while? It may involve some saving but it's well worth it. ZZZAC you seem to have spent a fortune on rubbish

spent a fortune? ehhh?
so, project fourtyfivequid earnt me money
and so will this as i plan on selling the rig.
but this was build on a stupid budget...
and last time i checked i7 systems wernt junk :eek:

d_brennen · 3 Mar 2012 at 18:12

It will be when you're done

ZZZAC · 3 Mar 2012 at 18:25

d_brennen said:
It will be when you're done

have a re-read

shadow_boxer · 7 Mar 2012 at 01:33

We'll done mate. Good effort. Hope your kicks finally turned a corner.

ZZZAC · 29 Jun 2012 at 19:06

just to let you guys know the system is working to this very day perfectly fine, was sold for about £400 iirc, and i spoke to the buyer after 6 months he said all that is fualty is a fan rattle

PGdude · 29 Jun 2012 at 19:26

Fair enough, good on you. Looked a bit tatty but as long as it worked I suppose.

T345 · 29 Jun 2012 at 19:44

Wow, thats good

G-Dubs · 2 Jul 2012 at 21:09

Good work ZZZAC. Others might not appreciate the joy of taking something cheap and discarded and making something decent out of it but I think you deserve a round of applause. I remember the satisfaction when I did project car boot a few years back. Creating a working and modded PC for just under £100 quid from parts picked up at car boot sales and off the bay.

People need to realise this isn't all about just bolting together off the shelf parts and saysing "look at my shiny new thing".

ZZZAC · 3 Jul 2012 at 14:50

G-Dubs said:
Good work ZZZAC. Others might not appreciate the joy of taking something cheap and discarded and making something decent out of it but I think you deserve a round of applause. I remember the satisfaction when I did project car boot a few years back. Creating a working and modded PC for just under £100 quid from parts picked up at car boot sales and off the bay.

People need to realise this isn't all about just bolting together off the shelf parts and saysing "look at my shiny new thing".

Means allot from you dubs, Yeah i saw that, i had i think the same server case as that at one point, that i was going to mod but that was before i was into pc's.
Yeah, i am very budget orientated considering i earn my money of bargains on ebay.ect, and considering ive spent postibley about o£700-£899 and more on my main rig in the last year and have had to reaplce sevrall parts and stillg et bsod's every so often, where as for £100 i had a system with a higher cpu performence and less problems, Rather dissapointed myself to be honest. Even my friends pc, witch was made out of my old parts and some scrapings on ebay (1045t for £40 like a boss

) is about as stable as my system and since overclocking the 1045t to 4ghz stable out benches my sandbridge i5 by a couple points on cinibench. i just dont understand why when i commit to something for myself it fails but when im patient and not really bothered it goes so unbelievably well

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anyway, i have a motherboard tray i need to finish cutting, but im moving and have allot of other stuff on at the moment, so probably wont get much spare time to mod.
Good look in the project you have on at the moment, ill be keeping an eye, and awaiting to see you pick modzart back up. if i had money, and a big room id offer you money for modzart