Mussels
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| System Name | Rainbow Sparkles (Power efficient, <350W gaming load) |
|---|---|
| Processor | Ryzen R7 5800x3D (Undervolted, 4.45GHz all core) |
| Motherboard | Asus x570-F (BIOS Modded) |
| Cooling | Alphacool Apex UV - Alphacool Eisblock XPX Aurora + EK Quantum ARGB 3090 w/ active backplate |
| Memory | 2x32GB DDR4 3600 Corsair Vengeance RGB @3866 C18-22-22-22-42 TRFC704 (1.4V Hynix MJR - SoC 1.15V) |
| Video Card(s) | Galax RTX 3090 SG 24GB: Underclocked to 1700Mhz 0.750v (375W down to 250W)) |
| Storage | 2TB WD SN850 NVME + 1TB Sasmsung 970 Pro NVME + 1TB Intel 6000P NVME USB 3.2 |
| Display(s) | Phillips 32 32M1N5800A (4k144), LG 32" (4K60) | Gigabyte G32QC (2k165) | Phillips 328m6fjrmb (2K144) |
| Case | Fractal Design R6 |
| Audio Device(s) | Logitech G560 | Corsair Void pro RGB |Blue Yeti mic |
| Power Supply | Fractal Ion+ 2 860W (Platinum) (This thing is God-tier. Silent and TINY) |
| Mouse | Logitech G Pro wireless + Steelseries Prisma XL |
| Keyboard | Razer Huntsman TE ( Sexy white keycaps) |
| VR HMD | Oculus Rift S + Quest 2 |
| Software | Windows 11 pro x64 (Yes, it's genuinely a good OS) OpenRGB - ditch the branded bloatware! |
| Benchmark Scores | Nyooom. |
So lemme tell you a lil' story, with pictures cause no one can read on the internets.
One day a mussels was on facebook, and saw a girl selling a broken laptop for $20. so he bought it thinking "eh, i'll help this girl out. maybe i can fix it"
Suffice to say, the laptop worked well over HDMI but the screen was on LSD.
Meh, whatevs - lets take out the hard drive and ram, maybe fix it up later.
To save you googling... thats a 750GB sata II 2.5" hard drive. hotdamn. SCORE!
Heres a generic googled image of the ram, i forgot to snap a pic of it:
Not a bad score. Then something came up on facebook. an old guy had a crappy pentium 4 desktop full of viruses, and a brand new laptop that just needed some DDR3 ram. open trade. i decided what the hell, the hard drive was an epic win - i'll help him out. The case would be useful for a spare parts machine i was building at the very worst. Here is the photos of me excitedly opening up this ancient tech.
Look at those onboard options - wowee.
a 300W FSP PSU? You know what, i'll take that as a win. Reliable little things.
Ugghhh... AGP! DDR! and... sata cables to a shiny? the feck is with that bent metal?
.... whut
for realsies?
oh god its for realsies
Post formatting (on a SATA II port, so its speed capped)
And after all those pretty pictures, yes, i managed to get both of these for $20 and 15 minutes of driving
One day a mussels was on facebook, and saw a girl selling a broken laptop for $20. so he bought it thinking "eh, i'll help this girl out. maybe i can fix it"
Suffice to say, the laptop worked well over HDMI but the screen was on LSD.
Meh, whatevs - lets take out the hard drive and ram, maybe fix it up later.
To save you googling... thats a 750GB sata II 2.5" hard drive. hotdamn. SCORE!
Heres a generic googled image of the ram, i forgot to snap a pic of it:
Not a bad score. Then something came up on facebook. an old guy had a crappy pentium 4 desktop full of viruses, and a brand new laptop that just needed some DDR3 ram. open trade. i decided what the hell, the hard drive was an epic win - i'll help him out. The case would be useful for a spare parts machine i was building at the very worst. Here is the photos of me excitedly opening up this ancient tech.
Look at those onboard options - wowee.
a 300W FSP PSU? You know what, i'll take that as a win. Reliable little things.
Ugghhh... AGP! DDR! and... sata cables to a shiny? the feck is with that bent metal?
.... whut
for realsies?
oh god its for realsies
Post formatting (on a SATA II port, so its speed capped)
And after all those pretty pictures, yes, i managed to get both of these for $20 and 15 minutes of driving
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