Anything but special

[Liam-McShane]

I was given these parts to build a PC for one of my Dad's co-workers. He wanted to upgrade his current PC, a HP EliteDesk 800 G1, with a GTX 770 for accelerating his art projects. He soon discovered that the PSU in the HP was a pile of propriety dog shit. Actually that pretty much sums up the HP. Nothing on it was standard. The motherboard had proprietary connectors on it, the heatsink mounting holes where none standard and the case had a different size PSU and wouldn't accept standard ATX PSU's. So basically he had to order a new case, a new motherboard and a new PSU all for the GTX 770.

 

Specs:

CPU: Intel 4770

Motherboard: ASUS H81M-A

RAM: Generic 8GB 1600mhz

GPU: ASUS GTX 770 DCUII

Case: No idea, looks alright though

PSU: Corsair CX 600M

 

The horrible generic HP

 

The proprietary power connectors for the motherboard

 

A PCI-E 6 pin has the same pins as this and will fit in the header however the wires are different

 

Yet another power cable for the motherboard. Thank's HP

 

This i found weird. The power supply does not actually have Sata or Molex. Instead this cable plugs into the motherboard to give you them.

 

Here is the heatsink. Note the contact patch with the CPU is not actually centre with the rest of the heatink. The actual mounting holes are close to LGA 2011 and are different to LGA 115X.

 

This is what i ended up with. This is by no means pretty but i did the best i could with this case.

 

Plugging in the power connectors for the video card was extremely difficult

 

Hopefully this is the last time i will be seeing this PC.

 

[austin541]

that sag on the gpu 

 

good build thou.

[MogIsWinning]

Bothers me so much when case size and mobo size dint match >

[Liam-McShane]

Bothers me so much when case size and mobo size dint match >

Me too. There was nothing i could do about it though as i was just given the parts and told to build it.

[Kryptyx]

Those pictures hurt so much....

GJ piecing it together though.

[MogIsWinning]

Me too. There was nothing i could do about it though as i was just given the parts and told to build it.

I would of told them no or buy a new case

[terrytek]

Hey, what does the case look like?

[Liam-McShane]

Hey, what does the case look like?

Sorry, the PC has long gone back to the client. I have no idea who made it or anything sadly.

[LarsReviews]

that sag on the gpu 

 

good build thou.

 

I had the GTX 770 too. Even though it has a backplate it sags like crazy. I had to hang mine with some twist ties.. 

[flibberdipper]

I my grandma's HP uses non-standard mounting holes for the heatsink, which pisses me off, since the stock heatsink is woefully inadequate. Like, 75 watt TDP instead of 100 watt TDP.

[zombyz]

Wouldn't you recommend just tossing in a quadro card since he was going to have to shell out money to basically replace everything but the cpu anyway?