"Nibby" (nibby68)
01/25/2020 at 14:43 • Filed to: None
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"Nibby" (nibby68)
01/25/2020 at 14:43 • Filed to: None | 6
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Acquire one of these on eBay... replace the power supply with a beefier one and snag the proper adapter for it... add in your own drives and GPU... you get a pretty spiffy prebuilt in an elegant workstation
tower!
Intel Core i7 6700 3.4GHz quad core processor
32GB DDR4 RAM (4x8GB)
SeaSonic SSR-550RM 550W 80 Plus Gold rated power supply
Lenovo 10 pin to 24-pin ATX adapter
GIGABYTE WINDFORCE NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 8GB PCIe video card
DVDRW drive
VANTEC UGT-M2PC200 M.2 to PCIe x4 adapter
HP EX950 512GB NVMe SSD
2TB Seagate 7200RPM hard drive
Windows 10 Pro 1909
Powered on... the blue LED is from the Vantec M.2 adapter
Rear
Side
Side panel removed
More guts
BIOS system summary
System properties + specs
Windows 10 desktop
Not bad for a daily driver.
bob and john
> Nibby
01/25/2020 at 15:11 |
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you uhh...you wanna sell me this? :D
qbeezy
> Nibby
01/25/2020 at 15:11 |
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That is a very good setup. Would last most people 4-5 years without needing upgrades. And if they really wanted to get extra, they could just move it to another decent case for around $50.
If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent
> qbeezy
01/25/2020 at 15:20 |
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It might even be overkill. I have an i3-8100 with half the RAM and I never even come close to stressing those.
Jason Spears
> Nibby
01/25/2020 at 15:42 |
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Nice work! The i7 6700 non-SFF ones seem pretty dear, all I see are $800+. Seems like you’d have to score a pretty nice deal to beat scratch-built.
Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap
> Nibby
01/25/2020 at 16:14 |
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Seems like a solid setup
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Nibby
> qbeezy
01/25/2020 at 17:00 |
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Moving the case is pointless since in here it's pretty much maxed out
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Nibby
> bob and john
01/25/2020 at 17:03 |
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I have an SFF i5 4590 8GB 500GB hd ThinkStation if you're interested https://m.imgur.com/a/5jIa97k
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Nibby
> Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap
01/25/2020 at 17:03 |
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It is quite nice
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Nibby
> Jason Spears
01/25/2020 at 17:05 |
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It actually was $200 shipped for i7 6700 8GB in an SFF case... And I bought a borked P300 tower for 80.. Swapped the internals and got them to both work great
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Jason Spears
> Nibby
01/25/2020 at 17:37 |
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Nice. TIL the SFF and tower motherboards interchange. /me trawls ebay some more.
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Nibby
> Jason Spears
01/25/2020 at 17:40 |
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yea too bad these are the last gens of prebuilts where you can do stuff like this before they went all small cases that aren’t long enough or deep enough to fit bigger GPUs
TheD0k_2many toys 2little time
> Nibby
01/25/2020 at 18:28 |
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Do you build basic rigs for people? I dont game and my HP laptop from 2012 screen is falling off. Need a newer basic one
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Nibby
> TheD0k_2many toys 2little time
01/25/2020 at 19:10 |
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I have an SFF i5 4590 8GB 500GB hd ThinkStation if you’re interested https://m.imgur.com/a/5jIa97k
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qbeezy
> Nibby
01/25/2020 at 20:47 |
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But where do you put the plastic glass to show off your RGB?
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Nibby
> qbeezy
01/25/2020 at 21:10 |
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Lol
Boxer_4
> Nibby
01/26/2020 at 11:16 |
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That’s a ni ce setup !
On another note, t he Supermicro is still running great. I upgraded from 12GB to 24GB of RAM, but everything else is basically the same. I need to make the jump to Windows 10 yet, and I’m planning on picking up a new 500GB Samsung 860 EVO for a main drive and starting fresh. I also should give the internals a good cleaning. Maybe redo the thermal paste on the cpu heatsink... and while I have the heatsink off, maybe try and score a cheap cpu upgrade...
I can’t seem to leave well enough alone on this system ...
random001
> Nibby
01/27/2020 at 20:28 |
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That’s what she said....
SiennaMan
> If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent
01/27/2020 at 21:50 |
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For 99% of folks it is overkill. It’s also sweet and given the sourcing likely cheaper to build than one might think.. (my current PC I think is an early i5 with less ram and an old case.. basically functional dumpster salvage)