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- Mar 28, 2010
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- Location
- Cancun, Mexico
System Name | Compak II |
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Processor | AMD Phenom X3 8450 |
Motherboard | Asus M3A78-EM microAtx |
Cooling | Cooler Master Hyper N620 |
Memory | 4 GB Skill DDR2-800 |
Video Card(s) | ATI HD 4850 1GB |
Storage | 2 X 500 GB SATA3 Seagates |
Display(s) | 2 X 17" Lcds LG/cer |
Case | Modded XQPack I |
Audio Device(s) | Creative Xi-Fi ExtremeMusic |
Power Supply | Cooler Master 600w |
Software | Win7 Ult x64 |
Benchmark Scores | None to brag about. |
Howdy Folks! I'm here posting in English (practicing it before I forget, hehe) by suggestion of a forum mate, Masbuskado, who steered me to this great site! I use GPUz and the other utilities but I had not imagined that there is a thriving mod section here, great! I started working on this case for two reasons: to serve as a home forum tutorial on modding on the cheap (yup, we are in pretty bad shape) and something to enter into an affiliate forum of ours, New Mod City for their 1st Anniversary commemoration. The key here was to keep expenses under $99.00usd. My home forum too is young not having reached our own first anniversary yet. Now, onto the project itself and its worklog. Please bear with my with my wonky writing style but I am still working on it, hehe:
I finally got hold of a case last month, that a computer tech friend of mine (Gino R.) here in Cancun was frankly going to throw into the trash bin. He told me that the owner had gotten fed up with changing the psu which is of the mico-Atx variety and that are really hard to find here in Mexico vs Atxs which you can get anywhere. The hardware was junk by now (Athlon XP) so that too went out. So, as someone said "one guys junk is another guy's treasure". I toted it back home, dusted it and this is it:
I placed my recently arrived mini-Itx mobo inside to see what it looked like and this was the appreciation, either the mini-Itx is really small or the case if really big! The mobo is a Zotac 9300i-e which is a socket 775 and takes DDR2 ram, but the distinguishing factor is that it also includes a pc-express 2.0 16 bit slot for an external video card, good enough to be a capable HTPC-Gaming machine. It has all else buit-in: wi-fi, 7.1 sound, lan, etc.
Of course it was all scratched and dented (the previous owner would hit it with a broomstick when it would lock up, probably from excess heat). It will however be the prime-material for a hot mod, hehe!
Saludos and Cheers
I finally got hold of a case last month, that a computer tech friend of mine (Gino R.) here in Cancun was frankly going to throw into the trash bin. He told me that the owner had gotten fed up with changing the psu which is of the mico-Atx variety and that are really hard to find here in Mexico vs Atxs which you can get anywhere. The hardware was junk by now (Athlon XP) so that too went out. So, as someone said "one guys junk is another guy's treasure". I toted it back home, dusted it and this is it:
I placed my recently arrived mini-Itx mobo inside to see what it looked like and this was the appreciation, either the mini-Itx is really small or the case if really big! The mobo is a Zotac 9300i-e which is a socket 775 and takes DDR2 ram, but the distinguishing factor is that it also includes a pc-express 2.0 16 bit slot for an external video card, good enough to be a capable HTPC-Gaming machine. It has all else buit-in: wi-fi, 7.1 sound, lan, etc.
Of course it was all scratched and dented (the previous owner would hit it with a broomstick when it would lock up, probably from excess heat). It will however be the prime-material for a hot mod, hehe!
Saludos and Cheers
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