Hello everyone.
Short intro: My name is Sauce, Asian roots living in Belgium. Born in 1988 and working as an IT consultant in the financial sector.
I've long been wanting to build an secondary PC, to bring with me to LAN parties.
Although I only visit 1 LAN party per year, the appeal of having a very compact PC is something that I've always wanted to have.
Because the nature of LAN parties, I don't like the idea to bring my high end gaming rig with me.
Therefore, I've decided to build a cheap gaming LAN PC.
My parts:
20 EUR - Coolermaster Elite 130 + free 4 USB 2.0 5"25 Hub Sharkoon
40 EUR - I5-2400 (non K) with stock cooler
50 EUR - Intel DQ67P (m-ITX) + I/O shield
35 EUR - Corsair 4GB x2 1600 (total of 8GB)
100 EUR - Sapphire R9 280x
40 EUR - OCZ 600w Powersupply
10 EUR - 128 GB SSD Micron
5 EUR - 500GB 7200 Hitachi HDD
Total money spend: 300EUR
Click on spoiler to see picture part list.
Honestly, I've never thought that I would be able to make a decent gaming PC rig for this price.
The CPU will become a bottleneck at some point, but I've always been playing games on LAN parties that do not require any high end components.
Again, this system was build to be just bring around at LAN parties.
The games I would most likely play on LAN parties are:
Hearthstone
World of Warcraft
Heroes of the Storm
Overwatch
Counter Strike Global Offensive
FIFA series
Rocket League
Orc Must Die series
Any other game like GTA 5 for example, I would be rather playing on my main system (i7 6700k, GTX 980ti).
Unlike in the theme of Scrapyard Wars, I did not had any additional peripherals laying around for my secondary machine.
Therefore, I had to buy them as well.
I ended up with:
15 EUR - Logitech G15v2
5 EUR - Logitech MX310 + free mouse mat
100 EUR - 25" UltraWide LG25U65 (2560x1080)
20 EUR - 7.1 Corsair 2100 Headset with broken mic
10 EUR - Plantronic Desk Mic (new)
Overall, I'm very happy with the parts I was able to get for the price I've spend on the used parts.
I don't have any benchmark numbers or anything for new, but they will be available once I've spend my weekend at the LAN party (Sugarlan in Belgium).
Click here to view pictures of the finished build.
Thank you for reading my small build log.
If any questions, please do not hesitate to ask them.
Kind Regards,
Sauze