Greetings LTT forum from Denmark
My name is Karl, and I am a dirt poor gaming and tech enthusiast, and I am building a franken-PC.
The premise og the build is "everything must be free, preferably from the dumpster", and so I have been dumpster diving, at school and at home (with permission, otherwise its illegal here).
This has resulted in a selection of mismatched parts in all kinds of quality, and a lot of issues along the way.
After years of using my almost-finished PC (most of the time, outside of a case), I finally have all the parts I need to build it, BUT my PSU is not powerful enough.
So I am going full Austin Evans on this, and using 2 PSU's, and here, my question to you arises.
How should I configure the PSUs, in terms of which powers what? 1PSU for GPUs and 1 for the rest ?
And
I have some molex-->6-pin converters which I am planning to use, but I am fresh out of molexes, also need one for the pump, so thinking of splicing some myself, and using other outputs from PSU1 (see below). i know I should be able to use sata power, but should I rather use some outputs from the 24-pin? which I will not need as I am using PSU2 for the motherboard and CPU (logistics). Which wires to grap?
Case: No clue, some office dell, with proprietary layout, not even screw holes fitted for standard motherboards.
PSU1:HP-D2701C0 max power 270W
PSU2:DELL L305P-00 max power 305W
HDD (mass storage): Samsung HD204UI 2TB
SSD (boot and fav games): Samsung 128GB slate SSD MMDOE28G5MPP 0VAD1 2.5''
CPU: intel i7 2600s
GPU1: https://www.asus.com/Graphics-Cards/EN8800GTGHTDP512M/specifications/
GPU2: https://www.asus.com/Graphics-Cards/EN8800GTSHTDP512M/specifications/
water cooler: XSpc delta (? no clue, says on the bloc, think this was part of a bloc, rad, pump/res package) (Also, attached the water block, Linus-Style, thanks for inspiration!)
Would appreciate any and all inputs, will do some painting, and will add acrylic slabs on the front, back and top, which I am thinking of sanding, and adding white LEDs behind, have done same under motherboard and under SSD.
Please note that I have not had access to any propper tools (besides drill, pits, and a big-ass angle grinder, så the edges are kind of rough.. part of the hobo look I am going for.
Really enjoying collecting bits and pieces (also in general), and enjoying the build, so if it crashes and burns so be it =), so I am willing to experiment with it.
Picture related: build in progress, although quite a bit of ways off from finished =).
Please let me know if any questions should arise =)
kind regards, and looking forward to hearing from you.
I've seen things like Add2Psu. Basically it acts like a power splitter where you plug both psu into it and run that to the motherboard, but that costs money, if it's even effective. Everything I have heard with something like this is actually doing some soldering to combine psu power.