[./bA] Simplest Gaming Build Ever

bANONYMOUS · March 28, 2018

I was picking up some stuff for work at BestBuy this weekend and saw this open box deal marked down from $999 to $949, out of curiosity I quickly looked up the specs on PC Parts Picker and the total was $901.46 for just the Motherboard, CPU, RAM, and GPU. So tried some swindling, got them to mark it down to $900 so I kind of had to buy it at that point..

So naturally I threw money at them and had a passenger on my way to work

As soon as I got to work I looked in our inventory for "gamer" aesthetic parts and quickly came up with this Cougar Archon case, Cougar VTE 500W PSU, and two Cougar LED 120mm fans

I didn't even get it all into the shop, built the entire thing on the front counter out of excitement

Popped the side panel off and it's a pretty basic looking machine, a sleeper gaming pc.

First I pulled all of the power cables off, and removed the GPU which is an Asus GTX 1050 2GB

Next I pulled the Asus M32CD4-K LGA1151 motherboard with Intel i7-7700 and 12GB (1x4gb/1x8gb) Kingston DDR4 RAM still installled.

Once that was done, I pulled the 1TB hard drive and put it in one of the toolless brackets that comes with the new case and started setting that up

Installed the motherboard into it's new home

Asus GTX 1050 2GB installed

Pulled the front bezel to install the dual 120mm LED intake fans

The Cougar VTE 500W PSU was installed with the intake fan pointed down to avoid pulling hot air off the GPU

I attempted to cable manage the best I could with the cables everything had provided for me as nothing was modular or sleeved

And with the side panel back on, started up and everything working, much more appealing than that off the shelf build for around the same price, I also have the orignial case, dvd drive, some cables, power supply, and fans I can either part out or build a lower end home-usage PC with a Pentium or i3 to make my money back on what I don't use.

If anyone can find this deal, I highly recommed going to best buy right now because you literally can NOT price this out for how cheap that is, even at $1000 it's stilll cheaper because my price list didn't include the stuff I wasn't going to use, so the Original Asus case, PSU, DVD drive, SATA Cable, and Fans were not accounted for, so even at $1000 you can't touch this deal. And if you want to try and jazz it up a bit, buy an aftermarket case, psu, and LED fans to make it more pleasing to the eye for only a few hundred more.