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Build for My Grandparents

Crystylizd
By Crystylizd
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So, my Grandparents were in the market for a New PC before I let them buy a prebuilt one (For the same price i might add) I offered to custom build them one. And for the money this thing should be faster and more reliable than a prebuilt PC. They don't do anything to heavily to tax the system, but I still wanted them to have as fast as possible experience. So for ~500$ I put together this.

 

CASE: NZXT Source 210

MOBO: MSI A75MA-E35
CPU: AMD A8 5600K APU @ 3.6-3.9 Black Edition
RAM: 8GB Kingston HyperX Blu @ 1600Mhz OC
SSD: Kingston SSD Now300 240GB
PSU: Corsair CX400W 80 PLUS Bronze
Cooler Master Fans x3 Blue LED

Still waiting on the Optical drive, SSD 3.5 Bay converter (as you can see right now its fastened to the left of the 3.5 railing :D) , and a better heatsink for the APU it was around 53C and climbing in the BIOS and that kind of worried me. Also I'm trying to talk them into letting me put Linux on it instead of Windows.. but I'm not too sure about that one.

I've attatched some pictures :).

 

Curious as to what you guys would of done instead? Its funny and quite sad that I don't even have an SSD in my build :(.. and cable management is much better than mine.

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Not bad. What was that super bright blue LED?

 

EDIT: I want some case pics too, and what case it was.

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Not bad. What was that super bright blue LED?

 

EDIT: I want some case pics too, and what case it was.

Looks like a core 1000 by the fans/ looks... but its white O.o

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Its a NZXT Source 210. Not a bad little case for 40$ shipped... surprisingly enough even with free shipping it arrived in two days like the other parts. 

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could have saved money and gone with 2 or 4gb of ram to save money 

Specs

CPU: i5 4670k i won the silicon lottery Cooler: Corsair H100i w/ 2x Corsair SP120 quiet editions Mobo: ASUS Z97 SABERTOOTH MARK 1 Ram: Corsair Platnums 16gb (4x4gb) Storage: Samsun 840 evo 256gb and random hard drives GPU: EVGA acx 2.0 gtx 980 PSU: Corsair RM 850w Case: Fractal Arc Midi R2 windowed 

 

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This looks like a great rig and they should be very happy to use it!

Desk: monitors 3x Asus VE248h(eyefinity), Keyboard Cm Strom Trigger(mx red), Mouse Corsair m65, Headset Audio Technica ATH-M50

Black Friday 2013 Build: i7 4770k, Gigabyte Z87X UD5H, 16gb Corsair, Msi R9 290, Corsair Axi 760, Corsair 750D, 2x intel 530 240gb ssd, 2x Seagate 400gb

Older Machine amd x640, msi 760g mobo, 8gb gskillz, Sapphire 6870, Corsair hx650, Cooler master haf 922, ocz agility 3 120gb ssd || HTPC: i7 3770k, shuttle xpc z77, 16gb gskillz, Asus GTX 650 ti, intel 120gb msata ssd

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could have saved money and gone with 2 or 4gb of ram to save money 

Yeah I originally had 4GB at 1866 but i figured its only 20$ more and you get double the RAM. 

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Not necessarily, chrome is one hell of a RAM hog

my laptop has 4gb (can work out the speed) ram and its fine 

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CPU: i5 4670k i won the silicon lottery Cooler: Corsair H100i w/ 2x Corsair SP120 quiet editions Mobo: ASUS Z97 SABERTOOTH MARK 1 Ram: Corsair Platnums 16gb (4x4gb) Storage: Samsun 840 evo 256gb and random hard drives GPU: EVGA acx 2.0 gtx 980 PSU: Corsair RM 850w Case: Fractal Arc Midi R2 windowed 

 

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Or you could do what my friend did with his SSD in that case, put it on top of the PSU  :P

CPU: i7-4770k CPU Cooler: NH-D14 RAM: Crucial Ballistix Sport 8gb GPU: EVGA Superclocked 780 ti MOBO: ASUS Maximus VI Gene PSU: Corsair RM 850 Case: Bitfenix Prodigy M

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Really? It must be older or something. Mines all black inside and has a window.

You can get it windowed, and in black or white

CPU: i7-4770k CPU Cooler: NH-D14 RAM: Crucial Ballistix Sport 8gb GPU: EVGA Superclocked 780 ti MOBO: ASUS Maximus VI Gene PSU: Corsair RM 850 Case: Bitfenix Prodigy M

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my laptop has 4gb (can work out the speed) ram and its fine 

My tablet has 4gb of RAM and I complain about it..

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