It has been a truly mad couple of weeks on the computer bench since my last blog post, I suppose I should go through some photos and explain what has been happening. The first thing should be an account of that white Fractal Design Pop Air case I bought in January and what happened to it along with a few other components, how they ended up in it and how it was freed from captivity.
The twenty dollar case had arrived with supposed issues relating to the start switch and the case audio jacks not working, they turned out to be not a problem, some contact cleaner and actually plugging the audio header into the motherboard fixed them. The case was bought with five internal fans, all like new, two of them black Actic 140mm PWM 4 pin fans that sell for around $20 each, so for my original case cost of $20 I ended up with a couple of quality fans that would go in my "free" trove.
I had not built a white computer before, sure back in 1993 I would have built beige computers as that was the only colour they were back then, but this one was to be the first true white machine, so at the start of February I took one of my bargain Biostar TB360-BTC PRO motherboards, installed an Intel i3-9100F and stock cooler, the ASUS GTX 1060 and 16GB of DDR4. Storage was a 256GB SSD boot drive with Windows 11 and a 1TB HDD for data.
I don't think I mentioned the Biostar motherboards, perhaps in the next blog.
That was it and I listed on marketplace for $350 and it sold five days later for $300 cash for a nice little profit of $75, however, that profit was on paper, or spreadsheet and in fact, I was approaching a point when everything I had was technically free, because of other trades, I decided to be a little more serious about tracking money and another spreadsheet was created.
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