Moral of the Story: Check for Backplate

[Fasauceome]

We've all probably had a vivid PC dream or two ( @Turtle Rig you know what's up) and last night I had a dream that I got the backplate for this PC in the mail and was able to build it for my client. It was due to arrive while I was out of town so when it turned out to actually have arrived a day early I was immensely pleased. The reason I had to order one was that I did not notice the eBay listing for the motherboard excluded a backplate.

 

Specs:

PCPartPicker Part List

Type	Item	Price
CPU	AMD Ryzen 3 2200G 3.5 GHz Quad-Core Processor	$65.00
Motherboard	MSI B450M GAMING PLUS Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard	$57.43
Memory	Team T-FORCE VULCAN Z 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3000 Memory	$62.05
Video Card	Asus GeForce GTX 760 2 GB Direct CU II Video Card
Case	Cougar MX330 ATX Mid Tower Case	$42.79
Power Supply	Corsair Gaming 700 W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply	$48.15
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total	$275.42
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-11-06 14:27 EST-0500

 

She's got a loaner graphics card for the time being and I slapped an SSD in there later as a bonus. As it turned out I actually managed to clone the windows install over from the old PC and all the files are in operation as expected (thanks to @Electronics Wizardy for the suggestion), a little DDU and it's running smooth. I had a spare wraith spire with the factory paste on it so I courteously upgraded that as well.

 

While I usually do not suggest a used power supply, this was an "every penny saved PC" so I found a refurbishing etailer and grabbed a decent Corsair unit.

[Meganter]

Nice cheap build!

 

By backplate, do you mean I/O shield or something else?

[Fasauceome]

1 minute ago, Plouffe said:

Nice cheap build!

 

By backplate, do you mean I/O shield or something else?

The motherboard backplate, the metal bracket where the screws for the CPU cooler goes. You can see in the first picture that the holes around the CPU are vacant.

[Meganter]

2 minutes ago, Fasauceome said:

The motherboard backplate, the metal bracket where the screws for the CPU cooler goes. You can see in the first picture that the holes around the CPU are vacant.

Oh yes I see, thank you! I didn't know this could be removed.

[Turtle Rig]

5 hours ago, Fasauceome said:

We've all probably had a vivid PC dream or two ( @Turtle Rig you know what's up) and last night I had a dream that I got the backplate for this PC in the mail and was able to build it for my client. It was due to arrive while I was out of town so when it turned out to actually have arrived a day early I was immensely pleased. The reason I had to order one was that I did not notice the eBay listing for the motherboard excluded a backplate.

 

Specs:

PCPartPicker Part List

Type	Item	Price
CPU	AMD Ryzen 3 2200G 3.5 GHz Quad-Core Processor	$65.00
Motherboard	MSI B450M GAMING PLUS Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard	$57.43
Memory	Team T-FORCE VULCAN Z 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3000 Memory	$62.05
Video Card	Asus GeForce GTX 760 2 GB Direct CU II Video Card
Case	Cougar MX330 ATX Mid Tower Case	$42.79
Power Supply	Corsair Gaming 700 W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply	$48.15
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total	$275.42
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-11-06 14:27 EST-0500

 

She's got a loaner graphics card for the time being and I slapped an SSD in there later as a bonus. As it turned out I actually managed to clone the windows install over from the old PC and all the files are in operation as expected (thanks to @Electronics Wizardy for the suggestion), a little DDU and it's running smooth. I had a spare wraith spire with the factory paste on it so I courteously upgraded that as well.

That is a great build for 270 bucks wow.  Nice job Faus.... The 760 gives 60fps but I don't know hwo it will play with the CPU.  But no bottleneck as CPU and video card are not that great.  Still a good system and nice job to throw in the SSD and what not.

[Fasauceome]

4 minutes ago, Turtle Rig said:

That is a great build for 270 bucks wow.  Nice job Faus.... The 760 gives 60fps but I don't know hwo it will play with the CPU.  But no bottleneck as CPU and video card are not that great.  Still a good system and nice job to throw in the SSD and what not.

The 760 holds up for a lot of games at medium and low, it delivers a pretty decent 1080p experience. The goal is to eventually toss a 570 in there, cause what budget gaming system is complete without an RX 570