I wasn't originally going to do a build log on the machine but it's turned into something that I think some of you might find quite interesting. The build started with me getting some cheap parts together to build something for the wife but I was confined to my hotel room for a day or so on holiday due to some issues with, well, no easy way to say it, my face. You know what it's like, boredom sets in and before you know it you have gone a bit mental but luckily I spent only a small amount in my quest to build the most powerful yet dirt cheap system money can buy. Along the way I reached out to a friend that has shipped me some Chinese mining goodies before and ended up with some surprisingly cheap kit so lets get to it:
Parts List:
Total Cost so Far: £312
Pics as stuff comes in TBC....
Parts List:
- Case: Corsair 275R Acrylic Version White- £55
- Motherboard: B450M-HDV - Picked up at a steal, I previously had one laying around that I sold on the members market but managed to source another new one at 20% less than I can find them anywhere else - £42
- CPU: 2700x - Picked up at a steal from MM - £105
- Ram: 16GB (2x8) Gloway 3200mhz rbg memory. Yea I know you have never heard of it, me either! If it even works for £35 delivered ill be amazed.
- Cooling - Full HardLine Byski Kit again from same fella in china at £75 delivered - This is a massive long shot and comprises of the following:
- Bykski Block
- 240mm coper rad
- Byski Pav2 pump
- A cylinder res
- 2 rgb Byski fans
- Fan controller with rgb controller inc motherboard sync cable
- 6 Petg hard tubes
- 10 hard tube fittings
- 2x 90 degree fittings
- Water flow meter
- some other fittings and adapters.
- PSU - Either Seasonic Focus Prime 750 Platinum or Kolink Continnum 850 Plat or a ThermalTake 750
- GPU -
I have a selection of Radeon GPU's so might start with something like an rx550 4gb (baffin) flashed to 560ish levels or performance with some extra unlocked shaders, compute units etc, or one of my vega cards either a 56 or 64, or another option., if things work at this current price point.. I might buy a new navi 5600 or 5500, not sure yet but to get things going ill be throwing something in there.
Now I am home I have had a look and have decided on what card I am going to use. This is purely for asthetic reasons tbh as I think the 550's will look out of place and not quite deliver enough performance while a vega is overkill. I am going to modify one of my sapphire RX570/580 Nitro cards from one of my miners, The build is white and can vertical mount so some spraying of the shroud/backplate to match the build is the way forward I think and aesthetically they are one of the best looking cards I have available. They are also a decent enough performance level for the rest of the build and what really the machine is likely to do.
- Drives: Have some 256 NVME's laying about or perhaps a sata SSD. Got quite a lot of drives so we shall see what we end up throwing in.
Total Cost so Far: £312
Pics as stuff comes in TBC....
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I just took a few photos and right now it is looking very black/silver so think the spray paint will need to come out. Case gets here tomorrow but because I was feeling a little bored I thought I would take some pics of the parts as they come. The next posts will be stripping down the GPU and perhaps the power supply and making them suitably white for the build:
