Its been a while since a built my own computor as written in the title.
The reason why i decided to build myself a new computor, is cause my laptop I feel are on its last strech in its life.
It has served me well for the last 6-7 years or so. bought it for the mobility it offered, but now smartphones and tablets are so much better at just that. And my old desktop i built is just collecting dust and rarly ever turns on since i bought my laptop, looking at it after taken it a appart it looked very bad, no cable management at all. :wub:
Around 1 mm of dust over nearly everything, built it with reused case from a 17 year old pc so its not that fancy by todays standard as dust filters was not that commonly used in cases back then or when i was building it, it was a budget build and still works (not now when its in pieces) hehe
Side note for everyone its not aimed to be a full gaming PC.
For about two month i been researching for parts for my new build, I wanted it to be as cheap as possible but still have the upgradable option there for the future, so I decided to go with a full tower with dust filters.
I then saw an image of the NZXT Phantom and it was white I fell in love with the looks, as I looked at youtube clips, I saw Linus doing a unboxing of the Phantom 820 watched it like 4 times, after the last time i then said to myself it has to be that case. As I have two dogs that drop a lot of hair 24/7 all around the year its perfect with that many filters and lots of space so cleaning it would be easy. :rolleyes:
I know that this part i think most ppl will dissagree on when regarding my choose of CPU and socket but I dont care :lol:
I am going to go for AMD A10-7870K and as most of you know its an APU
Anyway gonna add the full list of componenets down here otherwise this will turn into a novel when I am finished lol
Case: NZXT Phantom 820 White
APU: A10-7870K Godavari
MoBo: Asus a88x Pro
Ram: DDRAM3 2400MHz Corsair 16GB 2x8GB
Harddrive: SSD Kingston 120GB V300 (for OS and other programs)
CPU cooling: Fractcal Design kelvin s24 (water cooling)
OS: Windows 10 home
PSU: Coolermaster VS650W 80+GOLD, Modular cables
Optical Drive: Samsung SH-224DBRSMS
Parts that will be reused
PS4 original HDD 500GB
Laptop HDD 750GB
HDD very old desktop 1 TB WB 64mb cashe WD10EARS
These will be used as storage drives after they been formated, until i have money to replace then with 2-4TB drives
I have also not added a dedicated GPU in this build as of now as my cheap little plan didnt become that cheap it got a bit more exspensie as most of the parts from the old desktop is out of date and cant be used on my new desktop like the optical drive as they used a lot of IDE cables, so i will be very happy to not have them included in this build, the PSU the old Desktop have is a 500w and its a bit to small if i get a R9 Graphics card in a few month. I know i could cut down the cost alot by choosing a cheaper case but I will still go with that white monster Phantom 820
All the current parts have been ordered and I´m just waiting for them to arrive at my local store.
I choose to go with AMD as I see to much Intel and Nvidia builds, not that they arent great or anything. My laptop is a intel/nvidia one, and its awesome even to its very old. AMD i think needs a bit of love and i kinda like their take on the APU's and with windows 10 they should perform a bit better, it will not be as great as a separate CPU and GPU. but good enough for me, the ram will help a lot on the performance with the APU
Hope you like this little build plan just alittle