Zacc: Project Fourty Five Quid

[ZZZAC]

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
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
and will upload pics sometime this evening

 

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less of the intell, and the system didnt come with ram and grpahics, but...
still £45 is very good

 

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Better post spec the spec.

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
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"

 

[ZZZAC]

Very nice little find indeed for £45!

also in a taty thermaltake tsunami with uv lights (need wiring but will do when i fix the jantech)

 

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How the hell did you manage to find such a good deal?!?!

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

 

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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

cleaned and re-wired

But what's this? working hardware?

board and others installed

Done a bit of wiring so i can turn the system on

and its new home

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?
will do the lighting when i wither fix the old psu or change psu again. :L

 

[ZZZAC]

definitely a good deal what do you usually search on ebay?

on ebay... i usually search for teddy bears
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.

i said too much
shouldn't let you know how i get my money!

 

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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

 

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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

 

[ZZZAC]

Chances are it's broken because you keep getting them second hand. That isn't meant in a harsh way or anything, however, it's not like you hear hundreds complaining about their Asus Mobo's dying...

You tried resetting the CMOS? Might be that your overclock wasn't liked...

kd

yupp done allot to try and stablise the system, i have a grudge against asus, not everything i buy is second hand but from what ive seen that on the lower end boards (£100-ish range) that there are a lot of design faults and they always end up breaking. weather there second hand or not shouldn't really make much of a difference, other than the asus boards there was a 15 year old dell working perfectly, a intel 775 board and a asrock 775 that have died on me, it just shows something about there build quality and lifetime, if most other things ive had in the same joblots.ect have worked.
actually i praise some of asus higher end boards, i had a am2 board some mn32 sli or sumink along those lines that had been hugely mistreated the wifi card in it had a rusty heat spreader/cover on it to give you an idea, and that seemed okay, for about maybe 3 hours before exploding on me due to age, witch was only about 3 years.

honestly it wouldn't really bother me zzzac, as the chip alone is worth more than you bought the pc for

yeah, im not really that bothered, bit annoying but im advertising the chip on the bay for £80 witch is the going price on ebay, so, and i got a case, a cooler and a board that will probably go to a mate in an atpemted repair, not sure anything will work although, im actually quite tempted to switch cases from my stacker to the thermltake but im not sure i can be bothered

 

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I have a p8p67-le, it's the lowest end p67 asus board iirc and it's actually quite good, the only thing that annoys me is the lack of right angled sata slots

acidently snapped a sata port on my old am3 board due to it not being right angle and flexing a lot, i instantly reinforced teh rest with superglue.
infact i recall specificly not buying a new asus board for my sandybridge just because of past experience.

 

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they have efi now iirc

haha i have a gigabyte z68 ud5 now
great board

 

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trolol, well this was a fun project, i sold the phenom for £83 posted one aby, and that was the price of a new 955 when ocuk were stocking them