Zacc: Project Fourty Five Quid

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decided id log this as its something different, and shabby unlike all the other perfect builds going on here.
The clue is in the title
i got a system in the post today that was "untested"
it cost me £45 (£30 + postage)
and i am pretty happy with it.
so before i upload aloada piccys.
were going to play a guessing game :D
take a gues at the baseline spec.
all im asking for is what platform it is and more importantly what cpu its got.
will give clues if someone gets close :p
and will upload pics sometime this evening :)
 
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Your first post must include an outline of your plans, as well as pictures of the hardware or concept sketches of your ideas. Your progress posts should include answers to questions as well as pictures of any progress.
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Better post spec the spec. :p
 
mjones1 said:
Better post spec the spec. :p
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woops? wil i really get in trouble? :) just a bit of fun.
but i guess im going to have to spoil it
asus m4a785td board
so that's am3 :0
under the syth twin tower 92mm faned heatsink i found a phenom...
a phenom x4 965
so first i rewired it all and powered it using the jeantech 575w i found inside
and it posted.
But the power supply was dented, and upon opening it to straighten it out i found 3 blown caps, so will order them in tonight, and in goes the coolermaster 650watt for now :)
now i got everything sorted and installed windows 7 :)
testing to see weahter the chip can do 4ghz atm, windows stable at 1.453v :D
and everyone who read my previous am3 personal rig with my tri core knows i sunk alota money into that, and i think i may have outdone it with £45 and parts i had lying around "facepalm"
 
KiiYzOo said:
How the hell did you manage to find such a good deal?!?! :eek:
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it was kinda a lucky dip to be honest
i was on ebay and it had flown past me a coupole times
i asked my mate weather i should get it and he said yes
i new it was am3 due to the board being nearly exaclty the same as my old am3 board
i saw the dual tower heatsink and thought it has to have been built by a serius gamer or overclocker to need a big heatsink either that or be a x6 or x4 so it almost ruled out it being a dual core
he said he had repaired it twice and thinks he needs a new board and so i got it in the risk it could have been a amd semperon, but hoping it wasnt. and i got lucky :)
going to start prime testing soon but idle's about 39 degrease witch seems healthy :D
 
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okay prime shut down
going to give it a bit more volts and see weather anything changes
Edit: may only do 3.9ghz as i still get bsod at 1.48v
messing round with a few other settings to see weather i can get 4ghz stable :)
 
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Oh so very close to being stable @ 3.98 ghz
Edit: i give up at trying for 4ghz.
well ill upload pics of the build when i found my transfer cable :)
 
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So, first i completely disassembled the system
bare case
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cleaned and re-wired
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But what's this? working hardware? :o
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board and others installed
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Done a bit of wiring so i can turn the system on :D
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and its new home
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since ive rewired it propely, taken the bricked raptor out and have to now find my glue gun to attach a 120mm fan in the drive bays :)
For the price, you cant argue with that? :D
will do the lighting when i wither fix the old psu or change psu again. :L
 
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KiiYzOo said:
definitely a good deal :) what do you usually search on ebay? :p
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on ebay... i usually search for teddy bears :D
jokes :L
hard to explain ussualy i go into components/ for parts not working/ uk only
and leeve the search bar blank, every so often something comes along that i cant resist buying. also can get some good results in desktops/ for parts not working
and even in cases sometimes have other parts included if the cases are preowend.
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i said too much
shouldn't let you know how i get my money! :p
 
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all i can say is im pretty happy :)
may crad out my soldering stuff later and see weahter i have enough caps to fix and change the psu over again :)
 
good morning, another one of my asus boards seems bricked with uncontrolable bsod (tried with a athlon) i will mess about with ram slots.ect but i think the boards gone. after al, this is my 7th broken asus board in the last 12 months
edit: ram slots just made the issue worse
going to try the board on a friends cpu aswell but im pretty sure it may need a reflow :L
 
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