The month of June ended with a treasure trove of computer parts from a chap called Joseph, who advertised on the local marketplace, buy and sell, he was moving to Ottawa and I bought a large amount of stuff from him. In addition, I bought a small lot of parts from a chap in Langford, part of which included a Dell Studio XPS motherboard.
The motherboard tested very dead, but the CPU, an Intel i7-860 was alive and kicking, so I transferred it and it's cooler to another motherboard, an MSI H55M-E33. This time, tracking the price of the build may be a little more difficult, but I'll give it a go.
On Friday we travelled to "Gordon Head" and picked up a PC, it had a GPU worth $85 and the whole deal cost, yes you guessed it, the same. It was an Antec case with an Earthwatts 380W PS, and for the sake of the project, let us call the case, PSU and SATA drives a bargain at $25. I would not be surprised if I sell the old Motherboard, Ram and CPU for $60 so the price is a bit wishy washy, but let's call it a donkey, or whatever the kids call a pony nowadays.
Here is the exciting bit, motherboard, cpu, ram, case and power supply for a hundred bucks. All quality parts as well. The i7-860 was an impressive CPU at the time (although some do not like it) and it does not have inbuilt graphics, so we will have to add that GPU or something else. That is something for me to ponder in the next day or so, and as usual, I am taking my time, after all, I am building another potato.
They are happy times, I am spending more time on my feet, in the garage, at the bench, not sitting on my fat arse playing video games. I joked in the last blog entry that I had a lot of hard drives, and perhaps an issue, but the reality is, I feel as though I have quite a few projects to keep me busy for the rest of the year.
Ok, next blog to be the conclusion of this build.
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