Project Zero PC

UrbanFreestyle · January 24, 2019

GOOOODDD Morning,

So i thought i would start a build log to track my progress of Project Zero, the zero cost PC*!

I have been involved in IT for a long time now and used some truly amazing kit but never had the fortune to build myself the latest and greatest. Due to that i thought i would try to look at things a little differently in 2019 and try to build something for as close to free as possible. I have (as i think many of us do) a lot of spare older IT kit ranging from DDR3 ram, 4th gen processors, hard drives etc and i thought, Why not put these to use and see if i can trade up.

I have come a long way and amassed most of the parts needed for a decent gaming / photo editing rig.

I have setup a facebook page so i can easily document the build as well as here and interact with people. I would appreciate some love, likes and sharing if you have the time.

At the moment i dont have any sponsors on board and whilst i wouldnt turn down the help it isnt the aim of the project. This is currently totally unsponsored so unbiased.

I hope you enjoy

Fasauceome · January 24, 2019

Does a net 0 count as well? Like trading a recycled PC for a graphics card or selling a recycled PC and using that money to buy a component? Getting a fun scrapyard wars vibe here.

UrbanFreestyle · January 24, 2019

Funily enough i traded out 5x HDD and some ram for a power supply and have sold some old processors to get a NAS (for cheap drives)

Still have a lot of old kit left so hopefully i can finish getting the parts soon!

UrbanFreestyle · January 25, 2019

So i thought i would fill people in on the specs of the kit i have ready for the build. currently most of it is in my OEM case in one way or another.

Motherboard - MSI B150M Night Elf - Donated

Processor - Intel i5 7400 - Swapped for 4x i3 4130

Cooler - Noctua NH-L9i - Sold scrap tech + bought

RAM - 2x 8gb 2100 DDR4, 1x 2400 DDR4 - collected from scrap PCs

Graphics Card - Asus R9 290x DCU II 4gb

Power Supply - Corsair CX750 - Swapped for 5x500gb HDD + 10sticks of 4gb DDR3

Boot Drive - 256gb Samsung NVME (connected to pci-e x4 slot) - Donated / swapped for 128gb m.2

Scratch: 256gb SSD - Kept from old Machine

Storage - 1x 2tb Seagate Barracuda - Taken from NAS that i swapped for a Xeon prebuild

WiFi card - Startech PEX867WAC22 - Donated

Case - Corsair Carbide 88R - Sold scrap tech + bought

Monitors - Viewsonic 24inch, Asus 24 inch - Free from office clearout.

Still needed:

FANS!!!

LEDs

1x DDR4 RAM

Carbon Vinyl

Sheet Aluminium

BootyDustBandit · January 25, 2019

On 1/24/2019 at 4:04 AM, UrbanFreestyle said:

GOOOODDD Morning,

So i thought i would start a build log to track my progress of Project Zero, the zero cost PC*!

I have been involved in IT for a long time now and used some truly amazing kit but never had the fortune to build myself the latest and greatest. Due to that i thought i would try to look at things a little differently in 2019 and try to build something for as close to free as possible. I have (as i think many of us do) a lot of spare older IT kit ranging from DDR3 ram, 4th gen processors, hard drives etc and i thought, Why not put these to use and see if i can trade up.

I have come a long way and amassed most of the parts needed for a decent gaming / photo editing rig.

I have setup a facebook page so i can easily document the build as well as here and interact with people. I would appreciate some love, likes and sharing if you have the time.

At the moment i dont have any sponsors on board and whilst i wouldnt turn down the help it isnt the aim of the project. This is currently totally unsponsored so unbiased.

I hope you enjoy

I have lots of old parts as well, I think i'll try doing this too. Though my state is not very tech savvy, I cant even find a radeon 200 series around here, even radeon HD cards are hard to find.