CmdrAdrian

Yep, and it only cost you time not money (not too many people actually bother fixing things anymore, which is why I score so many easily fixed rigs from the local recycle depot).

Well there you go.
 
Try that and see if it works.

man roadkill is the best, wish i had the time (and money) to do some of the thing they do...... cars even old ones are expensive where i live 

A show on motortrend with david freiburger and mike finnegan

CPU : AMD Fx 8320 @4.2Ghz
GPU : R9 290 @ core 1050 memory 1450
Average Fps : 58.1
Score: 2432
Setting:  Extreme HD
 
old cpu gave me a score of  ~2000
 

 

He is probably under NDA....

You're welcome

will try again after getting a new cpu.
 
cpu : amd athlon II 245 x2 @3.6 ghz ( cant overclock any more )
gpu: r9 290, core :1050, memory:1450
fps: 48.4
score: 2026
setting : extreme hd
 

 
*edit* you can delete my last score if you want

im pretty sure its the cpu too, i have plans to change it but i spent all my cash  also im still on a ddr2 board i have an asus m5a99 sitting on my shelf waiting 

Cpu: AMD 245 @ 3.48
Gpu: r9 290  
         core -977
         memory - 1250
 
average: 42.1
score :1761

80mm fan from an old psu on stock amd heatsink is held on by thread

 
120mm fan hot snotted to gpu

 
 
i drilled out the rivets for the 3.5 and 5.25 cages and removed them to fit gpu.....

I got 60fps out of my r9 290 - was clocked a little higher but I suspect that CPU is a bottleneck

I would refresh the paint and leave the outside as close to original as possible. I vote for keeping the reset button even if it's just for aesthetics. You could always wire it up for another function as well. You could probably also make the plugs for the controller a couple of USB 3.0 ports as well.

Hello people of LTT!
 
I just thought i'd share my build with you. This build started about a year ago when I finished my first build. After about a month I realised that this was a very bad looking build (IMO) so it didn't take long before I started torturing the Shinobi. I started by removing the 5,25'' and 3,5'' bays since in wasn't using an optical drive and was only using one HDD. the second change I made to the case was a large sidepanel window. The window itself is made from a 4mm glass sheet which caused a problem with the hyper 212 evo I tried to install. The cooler was to tall to fit with the window installed so I replaced it for the smaller TX3. With the 3,5'' drive bays removed I had to find a new place for the hdd. I made a small hdd holder out of the original hdd bays. Soon after that I got an external hdd enclosure because the wd black makes an aweful noice when it busy (wd says it's all fine but the noise is really weird). The games libary got transferred to the 840 EVO and the pc is much quieter now because the hdd doesn't have to work as often as before. When I got the Z87 Mpower and the yellow parts were blacked out (this needs to be done again, I know ) I was happy enough to finally post it on the LTT forum.
 
The original build:

 

 
Temporary ''test bench''
 

 
The drive bays have to go!
 

 
The empty case
 

 
without the psu shroud
 

 
The ghetto hdd holder
 

 
The Dark BirdCage is finally completed!
 

 

 
With the heatsink blacked out
 

 
 
 
Specs:
CPU: Intel I5 4670K
Motherboard: Msi Z87 Mpower (blacked out)
GPU: Msi GTX 760 HAWK 
RAM: 2 x 4gb Corsair Vengeance 
Storage
- 120gb samsung 840 ssd (windows)
- 500gb samsung 840 EVO ssd (Games & Programs)
- 1tb wd black external (data)
CPU Cooler: Coolermaster Hyper TX3 evo
PSU: Corsair CX750m
Case: Bitfenix Shinobi (slightly modded)
 
Plans for the near future:
- an ssd mounting plate that will look something like this:

 
Plans for the (not so near) future: 
- an anrduino powered fan controller that can also control rgb leds
- RGB led strips
- watercooling (something like an fractal design s36 and a universal gpu block)
 
I hope you enjoyed my first build log!
 
 

Idk if its 2014 but the Xcom: EU, and EW are outstanding games i played the crap out of them

80mm fan from an old psu on stock amd heatsink is held on by thread

 
120mm fan hot snotted to gpu

 
 
i drilled out the rivets for the 3.5 and 5.25 cages and removed them to fit gpu.....

80mm fan from an old psu on stock amd heatsink is held on by thread

 
120mm fan hot snotted to gpu

 
 
i drilled out the rivets for the 3.5 and 5.25 cages and removed them to fit gpu.....

80mm fan from an old psu on stock amd heatsink is held on by thread

 
120mm fan hot snotted to gpu

 
 
i drilled out the rivets for the 3.5 and 5.25 cages and removed them to fit gpu.....

Are you talking nasties about our glorious leader Kim Jong-Un?

Ah, those Athlons...
You know, I really just want to go back and build an Athlon machine at some point. those things were tanks. absolutely awesome CPUs for the price (unlike the Pentium 4... )
My 2400+ machine is still going strong, as far as I know. Did everything I asked it to and more without even missing a step. That is until my dad put Windows 7 Ultimate onto it. Only afterwards did he realize that adding a 5450 would make it NOT die. the 5450 is a piece of shit, but all my brother wanted to do was play Portal, so you know... Fair enough.
If I had some athlon X2 machines I would just shove Linux on them and have them do things. excellent stuff.

this may be strange but did you plug the 4 pin in while the system was on ....... 
because i think that may be "unhealthy" for your motherboard

Had to highlight the text to read it...

this is probarbly going to sound strange but we only have old crt's cus they just wont die.....
 
yea im going to a am3+ board next upgrade , then getting a 8350 . kinda broke so improvements are going to happen slowly but surely