The Coppaq - UK built retro passive

[mrgigedy]

 

 

CONTEXT:

So, moving out of my mums - she still needs a PC, these were the beginnings of the Coppaq. I'd made a few PCs before. But I'd never got the chance to go mad and do all the dumb stuff I've always wanted, namely:

- passive cooling

- retro (CRT oc, etc.)
- SSHDs in RAID (yeah bad idea lol)

 

 

Right (love you Trout), so, here goes it. As for rules, eBay only, no budget, and it has to run CSGO at 800x600. I spent like £600 on this garbage.

 

SPECS:

- first i3 4160T, second i5 4570T, lastly Pentium G3258 delided at 4.2ghz under a NoFan cr80-eh
- 8gb of low profile black ram with copper heatsinks added
- RX460 4GB on Phanteks vertical gpu mount liquid metal-ed (because why not) under a Zalman zf100 with the fan ripped off

- Firstly a MSI H81M-E33 but messed up my bios (by not resetting b4 flashing) so won't OC anymore, so secondly I upgraded to Gigabyte GA-H97M-D3H (ooh more orange) 3D printed backplate coming from Spain.

- Yesico (Yes, that's a brand) 420w fully passive non-modular partially sleeved PSU (FL-420ATX), 20 to 24 pin mobo adapter and 4pin cpu in an 8pin works fine
- Coolermaster Wavemaster (I dremelled the PCIs off uwotm8)
- NZXT Hue set to CPU temp in case and marquee behind the front panel
- Currently 4x SSHDs in Win10 parity + 1 for disk (all short stroked) soon to be 6x Seagate 500/8gb SSHDs, 5x in hardware raid because when it fills up it's balls speed

- AKASA Ultraquiet clear/amber-clear fans (off) soon to be on aircraft switches on a front panel for summer

 

PERIPHERALS:

- Compaq 7500 CRT (OC'd to a whopping 88hz, will do 120 for a few minutes eh? EH?)
- Compaq keyboard & mouse (gonna try to install roccat internals)

- Time speakers are actually fantastic
- Logitech ball webcam

- Philips SHP2500s w/ modmic

 

GALLERY:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[RollinLower]

what a beaut! i especially like the oldschool windows theme, definitely fits this build very well.

[mrgigedy]

A Xeon e3 1265L popped up on eBay so I shall sorely commit the last-last transplant. It desperately needed some help CPU-wise and the 8threads at 3.7ghz turbo should do it, 45W should cool better too? Might have a play around with setting 3 cores to 2.5 and OCing 1 if it's possible. Backplate in. Drives mounted waiting on cables will share benchmarks after.