Work 2 jobs and school financial aid. Get a credit card and pay on time to avoid interest Keep usage below 30% Wait Increase limit Boom. You have yourself a PC..and sleep deprivation. Unless you have kids. Then you just have sleep deprivation. Blagh!
This is kind of what it looks like. Parts list Case: iBuyPower Element Mini Motherboard: ASRock H310CM-HDV CPU: Intel iCore i3-9100F @ 4.1ghz RAM: 2x8 HyperX Fury GPU: MSi AMD Radeon RX 580 ARMOR 8G OC PSU: Corsair CX750M Cooler: Asetek 550LC Storage: ADATA SU650 120gb SSD, Kingston 1tb HDD. Monitor: AOC 2250S LED Keyboard: Corsair K55 Pro RGB Mouse: Mad Catz RAT6+ Sound: MSi DS502
Yeah this mess. Got a new mobo package and decided it was best to assemble and troubleshoot out of chassis. AMD am5 7600x Gigabyte B650m DS3H motherboard. XPG Lancer 2x16 32gb 6400mhz ram. AMD R7-260X 1.2ghz 2gb GPU. TP-Link gen 4 wifi card. In the process of backing up and culling some hard drives. To do a fresh install of windows 10. Crucial m550 128gb 2.5" SSD ( 2013, culling) WD black 2TB HDD (2014 wiping) Hitachi 500gb HDD (2006 wiping, slated for backup) WD SN770 250GB M.2 SSD new drive for OS and drivers. Yeah the GPU is old as fuck, did some measurements during game play. GPU never seen below 99%, CPU 18% maxing out at 21%.
Nerd alert: For CAD and video editing: Dell Precision 7810 dual 14 core Xeons, 128GB RAM, 6GB gpu, Windoze 10. Daily driver: Dell Precision 5600 dual 8 core Xeons, 128GB RAM, 4GB gpu, dual boot Debian 11 & Win10. 4 Dell Optiplex for testers, mix of Linux flavors and Win10. Old Shuttle XPS for Windoze 7. Retired home built: dual 8 core Xeons, 64GB RAM, 4GB gpu, dual liquid coolers, RockyLinux 8.4 6 Raspberry Pi 4B 8GB: AdGuard ad blocker, GPS time server, ADSB feeder, 2 Plex media servers, 14TB OpenMediaVault NAS. In the basement there is 5 old MSI Atom-based 3TB NAS boxes still on duty, FreeNAS. There is also a Pi 3B that runs the cameras over my CNC router. All behind an HP ThinClient router, OpenWRT based. I have no interest in gaming. Pending add-ons include a SpaceMouse for the CAD box, and upgrade the 27 and 32 inch monitors to a 40+.
New chassis came in "In-win A5" in white. Everything is pop assemble no thumb screes About a 16x16x8" small form atx mid tower case, front mounted PSU.