Caporegime
So my H100 AIO watercooler in my main PC started leaking, so I looked for a replacement locally. Ended up buying a friends old computer which I built for him some years ago, which included a H60 V2 watercooler, which I robbed to put in my PC... Apparently the PC has some "issue" but he couldn't remember what, and it seemed fine when I tested it so...
I paid £70 for it and a GTX1060... Yeah I know.
He wanted to give it to me so I just PayPalled him a token thankyou. He has too much money lol.
I was then left with an i5 3570K, GA-Z77X-D3H, 8GB Kingston HyperX, a GTX660, XFX 650W PSU, a horrid cheap Xigmatek case (its what he wanted!), 60GB SSD, 1TB HDD, and some other bits...
Decided now would be a good time to upgrade my ancient socket 771 Dell workstation (2x quad core Xeon and 20GB of ECC DDR2, plus another GTX660 I put in, and a couple of SSD's and a 2TB HDD.
I didn't want to re-use the cheapo case, so I dug out a nice old Lian Li which someone on this very forum gave me years and years ago, and it has lived under my desk ever since...
At this point I noticed that the fans on one of the GTX660's weren't working, I didn't feel like spending £20 on new fans for a now quite old GPU, so I took the dremel to it, hacked away at the shroud and fan mounts and stuff to remove restrictions...
Then strapped a Scythe slimline case fan with an adjustable speed knob to it...
Started moving the bits into the 'new' case...
This is where we are for now, while I wait for my CPU cooler to arrive from OcUK. Nothing special, just the best value for money little 92MM tower cooler they had, about £15.
Specs now...
i5 3570K
Gigabyte GA-Z77X-D3H
8GB Kingston HyperX Genesis Gray (DDR3 1600)
2x GTX660 Twin Frozr III OC in SLI
XFX Pro 650W
Asus Xonar DGX
1TB HDD
2TB HDD
2x 120GB SSD
1X 60GB SSD
Lian Li PC-7FN
Don't think I've used all the SATA connectors on a motherboard before...
Anywhoo, I'll stick a couple of final pics in here once its all buttoned up.
I tried to make it as neat and tidy as possible!
Sold the 1060 to a friend for £100. So my total spend is... -£15.
I paid £70 for it and a GTX1060... Yeah I know.
He wanted to give it to me so I just PayPalled him a token thankyou. He has too much money lol. I was then left with an i5 3570K, GA-Z77X-D3H, 8GB Kingston HyperX, a GTX660, XFX 650W PSU, a horrid cheap Xigmatek case (its what he wanted!), 60GB SSD, 1TB HDD, and some other bits...
Decided now would be a good time to upgrade my ancient socket 771 Dell workstation (2x quad core Xeon and 20GB of ECC DDR2, plus another GTX660 I put in, and a couple of SSD's and a 2TB HDD.
I didn't want to re-use the cheapo case, so I dug out a nice old Lian Li which someone on this very forum gave me years and years ago, and it has lived under my desk ever since...
At this point I noticed that the fans on one of the GTX660's weren't working, I didn't feel like spending £20 on new fans for a now quite old GPU, so I took the dremel to it, hacked away at the shroud and fan mounts and stuff to remove restrictions...
Then strapped a Scythe slimline case fan with an adjustable speed knob to it...
Started moving the bits into the 'new' case...
This is where we are for now, while I wait for my CPU cooler to arrive from OcUK. Nothing special, just the best value for money little 92MM tower cooler they had, about £15.
Specs now...
i5 3570K
Gigabyte GA-Z77X-D3H
8GB Kingston HyperX Genesis Gray (DDR3 1600)
2x GTX660 Twin Frozr III OC in SLI
XFX Pro 650W
Asus Xonar DGX
1TB HDD
2TB HDD
2x 120GB SSD
1X 60GB SSD
Lian Li PC-7FN
Don't think I've used all the SATA connectors on a motherboard before...
Anywhoo, I'll stick a couple of final pics in here once its all buttoned up.
I tried to make it as neat and tidy as possible!
Sold the 1060 to a friend for £100. So my total spend is... -£15.
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