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So i am in the process of building a good friend of mine a compact LAN pc that was in his words SPEEDY!, He wanted liquid cooling in a small mATX form factor, So i have looked around for cases, And have found the Fractal Design Define Mini C!! But before i buy anything i ask on the forums if there are any better options out there! So if anyone has any suggestions on a better case that is around 100 bucks or so feel free to respond. The build CPU: Ryzen 5 1600X GPU: ASUS GeForce GTX 1070 DUAL-GTX1070-8G 8GB 256-Bit AIO: NZXT Kraken X62 MOBO: GIGABYTE GA-AB350M-HD3 AM4 RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB DDR4 2666 (White) Extra special fans: Thermaltake Riing 12 RGB LED 120mm (Triple pack) Storage: WD Blue 1TB | WD Blue 250GB Internal SSD Solid State Drive Case: Fractal Design Define Mini C

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

The LAN PC 5.0 Well here we go again. another LAN PC. I really thought i was done with these but clearly not. Here are some important things to note about these builds: they are ment to cost me as little as possibe i generally dont have much time to put them together often i dont buy stuff for them and just use stuff i have around doing stuff the right way isnt doing them the LAN PC way often *intensly stares at the LAN PC 3.0 in terror* they just need to work for about 48h total, more is always good but thats all they NEED to do often This build does not, in any way what so ever, replace the Toaster Project. Not at all. Its just that i cant use a dead computer(mobo died) and this stuff dosent fit in that case so i had to make something new. Specs: CPU: FX 6300 Black Edition - Got it in my first desktop computer i bought back in 2014 GPU: GTX 1050TI MSI Low Profile - Bought it for the Toaster, which is still going, but the motherboard is dead AF RAM: 2x2GB HyperX Genesis - Got these sticks after i sold off my 1600MHz HyperX something that was orange, because they werent compatible with the motherboard in the 4.0 LAN PC HDD: 1TB 7200RPM HDD - Got it of Sweclockers along with another 1TB drive for a total of €60 + shipping a while back. pretty good HDD, perfect SMART values CPU Cooler: Arctic Alpine 64 GT - Same as the CPU Motherboard: 960GM-VGS3 FX - Same as the CPU and cooler, but i havent realized untill yesterday that its DTX!!! PSU: BeQuiet SFX Power 2 300W - Same as the GPU Case: Shitty desktop thing from the early 2000's or the 90's The plan: this is going to end up a sleeper is my idea, looking like garbage while haveing acceptable specs. the case is half height, and i got a low profile 1050TI so thats no problem and the SFX PSU and CPU cooler also both are fine with that. this build was started this sunday and i have come most of the way already, but i still have quite a few problems. i will be bringing this PC to the NTI LAN this comming weekend, so i have just a few days untill it HAS to work or il have to bring Northern Bee which i really dont want too for sevral, probably pretty obvious reasons. if it dies il have to go home so it needs to work for about 36h of games and random shit. Where im at right NOW: first some pictures so what i say here makes some sense: So far i have found a place for all the parts, wired up the power button and front LEDs(the LEDs i havent checked, might have done them wrong lol) and installed windows. At this point you might be a bit like "well not much of a log here is there if everything is already built!" but thats where you are deeply wrong. the case gets so hot that it burns your hands, it shuts down from overheating because there is barely any airflow, the PSU is just kinda held in place with nothing but the fricton from the case(this isnt actiually a major problem tbh) and a bunch of other shit. just routing the SATA cable and completeing the power button took me about 4.5h to do... this case is clearly never made for this hardware, the DTX motherboard and GPU went in with ease but the SATA cable for the harddrive wouldent fit inside the case, especially not with a right angle connector. so i ended up using a normal connector and then instantly wrapping it over itself, over the harddrive and through some metal and shit to the motherboard. power button is a funny thing as well, its a dual button thing so you cant turn it on with the button before the case is closed. figuring that one out and doing the rest of the front panel was a huge pain in the ass but it got done. As for the overheating im super not sure what to do, il probably just remove the IO plate to increase airflow. i have added in a fan that kind of sits on the RAM but it overheated and shut down even with that so clearly thats not helping enough. oh and PCPP estimates about 265W draw from this system on this low end 300W peak output PSU lol. Next update should be whenever i find a solution to the thermals which isnt just straight up removeing the panel Thanks for reading, hope you enjoy this journy as i work my ass off trying to fix basically everything!

Hey i'm looking to make a small lan pc that can fit in full size/normal gpu's and all the stuff a pc needs but i'm not sure rather I should chose a micro itx or mini itx or whatever? Thanks in advance

I was wondering where exactly the 3, 3.5 inch HDD bays are. There is one that blocks the GPU slot that is in the product pictures, but no other mention of the other 2. Help? https://pcpartpicker.com/list/cVzskd

i have a 6.6KG heavy grey booring steel box case that i have been refusing to use for the LAN PC because its huge and well 6.6KG but then i noticed my dremel also has a death wheel on it and i was thinking, i could just cut out some of that weight and maby make something cool in the process(or cut myself all over the case) basically i want it to be lighter, like a lot lighter so i was thinking about gutting most of it and the making some vents, or posiably just removing large parts of both the(non removable) back plate and the side plate to reduce the weight some, i dont really have any pictures but is this a super idiotic idea and do i need to get some sleep or did i come up with a decent idea? thanks for any feedback

i want to get a new CPU cooler for the LAN PC and i have around $40 to spend on it, what are the best air coolers out there for around that price? i want to overclock my Q6600 to shits basically only thing is it cant be much wider then a stock intel cooler(basically what i have on there) because then it will hit the PSU and then it wont fit on thats my foult and something i didnt think of when building the LAN PC but that cant really be moved now. might consider an AIO because there is almost no space for something big and good but i dont want to have to because they are expensive... anyway if anyone knows of something that will fit that would be awesome. also go take a look at the ASUS P5N-E SLI because thats the motherboard im using, it has a huge heatsink on it and then the PSU is right above the CPU socket... thanks for any replies and any help

Linux may be a good OS but its shit for gaming just like OSX is so i kind of need windows if i want to run most games on the LAN PC but im also basically broke so im not sure what to do now, i dont want to need to crack it so is there a way to run windows for basically free? like running the trial version and messing with the date or something? also mods if this is concidered piracy and all that i will go elsewhere for my answers instead and empty this topic forgot to mention that i WILL buy a key once i have money, i just dont right now and im going to a LAN party in less then a week lol

Ok so i have all the stuff for my LAN PC but it dosent seem to want to boot. it recognizes the USB in the BIOS, i set up the boot priorities and its plugged right and shit so i have no idea whats wrong here, this is what i have done so far: formatted the USB drive burnt the ISO to the drive with ISO to USB(a freeware program i found) as a bootable drive plugged it into the motherboard and booted into BIOS set up the boot priorities saved and exited restarted nothing happened, it went through the BIOS chek and POST but no OS installer or anything came up formatted the USB again just copied the ISO file to the drive plugged it into the motherboard, same USB slot same result formatted the USB burnt the ISO like before but this time didnt check the bootable ISO option plugged it into the motherboard, same slot same result, nothing im trying to use Linux mint with the Cinnamon desktop as my ISO specs: CPU: core 2 quad Q6600 Motherboard: ASUS P5N-E SLI GPU: 8800gt HDD: a WS 250GB SSD RAM: 2x2GB corsair 800MHz hope i can get some help here, im up for any suggestions here. i really want this to work and i have never had any problems with stuff like this before, it has always just worked for me thanks for any help and any replies

If you want updates that go further then this thread follow me here on the forums, sometimes my status updats contain some info. I have decided to discontinue this thread quite a while ago and even the latest specs in this thread are quite outdated, im on revision 6 or something now while this thread goes to 4.5 or something like that. The specs of the machine and how it looks ect have changed a lot in the latest update, go further in the thread to see that now or go through the evolution of the build as it was made Ok so i have been trying to track down some cheap hardware for a while now for this build and i finally closed the deal on the final parts. Its been on a very extreme budget and i have been looking for the right deal and the right seller(one that actually responds) and now i have all the parts on there way to me, so without further ado lets get to the hardware and price breakdown! CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 GPU: NVIDIA Geforce 8800GT(custom passive cooler(now with 140mm fan)) RAM: 2x2GB Corsair DDR2 800MHz Motherboard: ASUS P5N-E SLI PSU: Dell 300W Case: Cardboard box HDD: WD2500YS 250GB 7200rpm Price(all prices converted from SEK to USD): CPU + Mobo + RAM = $96.4 GPU = $24.1 HDD + PSU + Case = Free Total: $120.5 or 1000SEK(exactly) The budget for this PC was extremely tight and it took a lot of effort to track down the best deals, and when i found something awesome i was either deal sniped by someone with a bigger budget or the seller just didn't respond. Sweden is a generally hard country to track down hardware in, we have a couple of good places like Blocket and the Sweclockers forum buy/sell section but even with both of those its hard to score a good deal if you dont live in the south. I scored the deal on the CPU, Motherboard and RAM just yesterday and confirmed it just before writing this and its being sent tomorrow and its a superb deal seeing as a Q6600 is usually around $43(450sek) and for a decent motherboard Ebay is your best bet and those go for around $45 + shipping, and thats very expensive to Sweden usually so without this deal there was no way this was happening. The PSU was a score from a load of old office PCs i had a chance to gut last year and the HDD was a gift from a friend who also scored some old PCs around that time. The graphics card was a misbuy by me some time early spring and it was going to be used for an old server i have but it was so old it didnt even use PCI-E for graphics so its just been in my room waiting to be used and it was the part that inspired me to starting the search for the best deals in Sweden, knowing i had an insane budget. This PC got some more tasks a week ago when i started using bots on my Discord server and seeing as i like to have 100% control of what goes on there i am hosting them myself so this PC is going to be more then just a LAN PC. I will be using this PC for a couple of things here they are: 1: LAN PC 2:Discord Bot server 3: A platform to play with Linux on. 4: Some fun before the summer. The only game i will be playing on it is CS:GO because its the only game i really LAN with my friends and seeing as thats not a very demanding game, i already had a GPU and HDD i thought this would be a fun project for the start of the summer. Build will start as soon as i get the CPU, Motherboard and RAM and i will post plenty of pictures, and possibly a time laps of the build if i remember to set that up. Upgrades for the future: LED strips Paint for the "case" Better GPU / SLI Thanks for reading and i hope you will enjoy this extreme budget build! Bonus pics of the hardware i have on hand right now: Look at that massive passive cooler!!! Incredibly sexy HDD, just look at it! Sorry for the picture quality but my One Plus 2 isnt too great in medium light

found an awesome deal for a PC with an I7 860, can it run CS:GO? probably can just making sure, i need answers quick if i want it because its a freaking steal right now

Ok so i have 2 options here, one is to get this computer that i found that i can get for around $70: CPU: AMD Phenom 4x 9759 GPU: XFX HD 4870 1GB Motherboard: GIGABYTE GA-MA790X-DS4 RAM: Corsair 2x2GB of 800Mhz DDR2 PSU: Corsair VX 550W Price: about $70 shipped to me and i have a 250GB HDD Or i could try to get parts, and in that case this is basically what i can afford: 1: CPU: I5 2500 GPU: 8800GT(this will stay the same over all the builds because i have it) Motherboard: GIGABYTE GA-H61M-S2PV Intel H6 RAM: Samsung 2x2GB of DDR3 PSU: 260W Dell PSU i have around HDD: 250GB 7200RPM WD (i have this too) Price: about $105 2: CPU: I5 760 GPU: 8800GT Motherboard: Generic H55 motherboard off ebay RAM: Corsair 2x2GB of DDR2, unknons speed PSU: 260W Dell PSU i have around HDD: 250GB 7200RPM WD Price: about $115 Ok this is what i could come up with right now and im pretty sure build 2 is pretty crappy value compared to build 1 tbh, but thats the pricing. shipping is brutal to Sweden so this is what i could find. This PC will be running Linux and will only have 2 purposes, 1: experimenting with Linux 2: a LAN pc to play CS:GO on at either 720 or 1080p so what should i get? the main problem is that none of the people selling CPUs have replied to be so i dont know if i can still buy them or not. thanks for any replies and any help

ok 3 main questions here 1: which processor preforms best? 2: what is needed to overclock them? 3: what is better value here? motherboards seem to be about the same but there seems to be a wider selection for the I5 then the I7 thanks for any replies and any help here, still trying to get together that freaking LAN pc but sellers of the processors never seem to contact me back