The oddest PC build.

[NTDaws]

The oddest PC build anyone? Post your results below.

 

 

PCPartPicker part list: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/xqrDTH
Price breakdown by merchant: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/xqrDTH/by_merchant/

Memory: Corsair Vengeance Pro 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1866 Memory  ($49.99 @ Corsair) 
Storage: ADATA Ultimate SU800 256GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($74.99 @ Newegg) 
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($49.33 @ OutletPC) 
Video Card: XFX Radeon RX 480 8GB GTR Video Card  ($244.98 @ Newegg) 
Case: Fractal Design Define Mini C with Window MicroATX Mid Tower Case  ($79.99 @ NCIX US) 
Power Supply: Corsair CXM 550W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($65.98 @ Newegg) 
Other: 2017 Motherboard Intel HM55 PGA 988 with i3 i5 i7 Laptop CPU on board (Probably Fake) ($184.00)
Other: Intel Core i7 3520M ($143.00)
Other: Dynatron i2 PGA988 Cooler ($19.75)
Total: $912.01
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-03-13 16:33 EDT-0400

[Mira Yurizaki]

I don't see how you can get a video card connected to a laptop board. Unless maybe it has MXM.

[Guest]

2 minutes ago, Being Delirious said:

The oddest PC build anyone? Post your results below.

 

 

PCPartPicker part list: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/xqrDTH
Price breakdown by merchant: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/xqrDTH/by_merchant/

Memory: Corsair Vengeance Pro 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1866 Memory  ($49.99 @ Corsair) 
Storage: ADATA Ultimate SU800 256GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($74.99 @ Newegg) 
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($49.33 @ OutletPC) 
Video Card: XFX Radeon RX 480 8GB GTR Video Card  ($244.98 @ Newegg) 
Case: Fractal Design Define Mini C with Window MicroATX Mid Tower Case  ($79.99 @ NCIX US) 
Power Supply: Corsair CXM 550W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($65.98 @ Newegg) 
Other: 2017 Motherboard Intel HM55 PGA 988 with i3 i5 i7 Laptop CPU on board (Probably Fake) ($184.00)
Other: Intel Core i7 3520M ($143.00)
Other: Dynatron i2 PGA988 Cooler ($19.75)
Total: $912.01
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-03-13 16:33 EDT-0400

pretty weird, why you doing it

[NTDaws]

6 hours ago, M.Yurizaki said:

I don't see how you can get a video card connected to a laptop board. Unless maybe it has MXM.

Its a desktop board with a pga988 socket.

6 hours ago, Ethan Meskin said:

pretty weird, why you doing it

Thought I would see results. Pretty cheap too.

[Droidbot]

hm55 is only for 1st gen arrandale procs unless updated

 

3520M is dualcore with 4threads, better off getting 3630QM or 3820QM

[NTDaws]

Just now, Droidbot said:

hm55 is only for 1st gen arrandale procs unless updated

 

3520M is dualcore with 4threads, better off getting 3630QM or 3820QM

hmm its a dual core, thx gurl.

[Guest]

12 minutes ago, Being Delirious said:

Thought I would see results. Pretty cheap too.

$912 not cheap?

[mariushm]

If you go with that, you'd probably need DDR3L memory or DDR3 memory running at maximum 1.35v as most recent intel processors are designed with DDR4 1.2v in mind.

 

However, you could simply spend 400$ on a Ryzen 1700 (with decent stock cooler)  which would be 4x as powerful as your  choice and 100$ on a motherboard for a total of 500$

 

Drop the 184$ motherboard, drop the crap $143 cpu , drop the $20 cooler and you're now just 150$ short of same price (these cost about $350 in total)

So you can drop the 75$ case and use a 10$ crap case until you find money for a decent case, and you can probably kill the SSD until you find money for it. The OS will boot just fine from a 1 TB HDD (just make a 100 GB partition and be done with it)

You can probably save a bit of cash (maybe about 10-15$) by going with a cheaper power supply , for example Seasonic S12II 620w bronze for 50$ : https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817151096

 

DDR4 may also be cheaper by about 5-10$ compared to recent DDR3 prices, and you could just buy 1 x 8 GB stick and you'll have room for extra ram in the future.

 

And even cheaper if you go with the plain 1700 version which is about 5-10% slower than 1700x and not overclockable, but still about 3x faster than your Intel cpus.

 

330$ : CPU : AMD RYZEN 7 1700 8-Core 3.0 GHz (3.7 GHz Turbo) Socket AM4 65W YD1700BBAEBOX Desktop Processor

100$ : MB : GIGABYTE GA-AB350-Gaming (rev. 1.0) AM4 AMD B350 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.1 HDMI ATX Motherboards

45$ : PSU : SeaSonic S12II 520 Bronze 520W ATX12V V2.3 / EPS 12V V2.91 80 PLUS BRONZE Certified Active PFC Power Supply

60$ : RAM : CORSAIR Vengeance LPX 8GB 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 2666 (PC4 21300) Desktop Memory Model CMK8GX4M1A2666C16

50$ : HDD : WD Blue 1TB Desktop Hard Disk Drive - 5400 RPM SATA 6 Gb/s 64MB Cache 3.5 Inch - WD10EZRZ

25$ : CASE : Rosewill FBM-02 - Dual-Fan Micro ATX Mini Tower Computer Case

220$ : VGA : XFX Radeon RS RX 480 DirectX 12 RX-480P836BM 8GB 256-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 CrossFireX Support Video Card

 

Total : $830

 

Spend saved cash on case and SSD if you want to, or OS .. etc   May be worth spending 20-25$ extra to go with a 2 TB HDD, once you install Steam and some games it fills up quickly.

 

Rebates (not included in prices above):

 

5$ on psu  (instant?)

30$ mail in rebate card on video card

 

[NTDaws]

6 hours ago, mariushm said:

If you go with that, you'd probably need DDR3L memory or DDR3 memory running at maximum 1.35v as most recent intel processors are designed with DDR4 1.2v in mind.

 

However, you could simply spend 400$ on a Ryzen 1700 (with decent stock cooler)  which would be 4x as powerful as your  choice and 100$ on a motherboard for a total of 500$

 

Drop the 184$ motherboard, drop the crap $143 cpu , drop the $20 cooler and you're now just 150$ short of same price (these cost about $350 in total)

So you can drop the 75$ case and use a 10$ crap case until you find money for a decent case, and you can probably kill the SSD until you find money for it. The OS will boot just fine from a 1 TB HDD (just make a 100 GB partition and be done with it)

You can probably save a bit of cash (maybe about 10-15$) by going with a cheaper power supply , for example Seasonic S12II 620w bronze for 50$ : https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817151096

 

DDR4 may also be cheaper by about 5-10$ compared to recent DDR3 prices, and you could just buy 1 x 8 GB stick and you'll have room for extra ram in the future.

This is just a fun project.

 

And it's regular DDR3

 

 2 x 1.5V DDR3 DIMM Sockets Supporting up to 8GB of System Memory, 

   Support for DDR3 1600/1333/1066 MHz Memory Modules.