Soldato
Howdy!
Right where to begin, My missus likes to play games on her laptop, and the past year we played Wow together and her laptop handled it fine, but now we have moved to ESO, and basically it chugs along at 9-16fps on her laptop.
So, today I realised, we have a downstairs computer made up of my old core2duo rig which i put in this case as the home internet browsing system when I upgraded my mobo/cpu/ram to sandy bridge few years ago, it is never used downstairs and was sat collecting dust, so I decided to rip it apart, see what I can salvage.
To begin with I cut some fan holes With tin snippers, don't have a dremmel so its not very neat. the old case only supported 80mm fans, and then I spray painted it, added some fan controllers, some fan grills, and put in my old x2900xt which was sat in the cupboard, and a new power supply, drilled some holes for the front intake fans to draw in air. Covered the intake fans with tights as dust filters. added some ram and my old corsair A50 cpu cooler.
The cable tidying was hard, there is NO room behind the motherboard tray at all as you will see!
Ill let the pictures tell the story! but im quite happy with how its turned out, iv never painted a case or anything like that before, its turned out alright.
I wish there was something more I could do with the front of it, but ya know its alright for a few hour job.
Oh also, theres two different paints, the black paint for the interior was just some heat resistant stove paint that I use to keep the fireplace looking tidy, and the exterior paint was some shiney car bumper paint that I used to give its standard black paint job a bit of a shine, also I cut the X shape from the window panel that isn't featured in the pictures..
It plays elder scrolls online pretty good for a old 2900xt, 30-60fps @ 1680x1050 on low but high subsampling.
And my missus is pleased with it, her first ever gaming computer.
The Sims & Facebook will absolutely fly now!
Also, this build cost nothing but a few hours to do, didn't spend a penny on it, its just made up of stuff out of my cupboard of old bits.
I have a 4870X2 in the cupboard that's dead, ill try bake it back to life, although when it was dying, I oven baked it about 10 times to use it for around 6 months longer before I got my first HD7950, so I think its properly dead, but ill give it a try as a little project when I get time!
Specs are as follows:
E6600 @ 4ghz 1.55v
4gb OCZ DDR2 PC6400
Asus P5W DH Deluxe
Tagan Piperock 700W
HD 2900 XT
X-FI Fatality FPS (added after I took pictures)
Hope you enjoyed this project!
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I didn't think id remember how to do it, but that e6600 from what I remembered was a good clocker, its better than I thought now with a better cpu cooler than it had 8 years ago!
