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May 12, 2016

$ 1400 Gaming PC










This machine ,was just a fun little project for the weekend for a client who requested for one to be assembled within 3 hours of which I did it since I've been itching to build one for a while. This thing can run pretty much any game you throw at it at around 60 FPS. I plan to make some changes to it in the future such as better speakers, more RAM, possibly another monitor or two along with another GPU and maybe switch over to liquid cooling as per the client requested but that will come when he gets the money. Haven't had any issues with it yet and have never had major issues while assembling so I assume I did everything right (built this unaided). One minor mistake I did make was using a micro ATX Mobo in an ATX mid tower but this didn't present any issues so I stuck with it. Any comments are welcome!



The Specification Include:
 Intel core i5-6600K 3.5Ghz Quad core
G.Skill Ripjaws V Series 16GB(2X8GB) DDR4-2400
Samsung 850 Evo Series 250GB 2.5" SSD
MSI Radeon R9-380 8GB
Corsair ATX Mid Tower
EVGA 850Watts
Asusb DRW-24B1ST/DVD/CD Writer
Gigabyte GA-B150M-D3H Micro ATX LGA 1151
Seagate Barracuda 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM
Micorsoft Windows 10 Home OEM(64Bit)

The Bright Light

First of all, I bought the Bitfenix Pandora ATX Core, NCIX had it on sale and it came with a LED light strip, and a blue 6-pin gpu extender. This case is nice but, it has some minor issues.
(1) If you want to mount 3 mechanical hard drives in the bottom, make sure your power supply is standard length. The one I bought is bit longer, which made it impossible to turn the thumb screw to tighten the drive cage to the case. So I end up installing 2 drives in the bottom. (2) I reused my Corsair H100 from my previous computer, you have to install the radiator first, before installing the motherboard. (3) The rubber grommets come out of place very easily, but are easy to put back in place.






For decent sound you must connect your front panel to the motherboard. I didn't do that at first, I plugged my headphones to the rear panel and it sounded like ****. It couldn't even power my Sony headphones. Then I watched a Teksyndicate video where the guy from Asus was talking about the Supreme FX chipset. He said Sonic Studio and Sonic something else only works with motherboard header.






The owner mainly uses this computer to run PLEX server, and he occasionally plays Cities Skyline. He also does some light video editing. He currently requested a HD6870 as the GPU, but at the end of the month he's awaiting for  GTX-970 which i will show him how replace it. Other than the few minor issues with the case everything else works fine. 

specification include
Intel core i5-4690k 3.5ghz Quad Core
Asus Z97 Pro Gamer ATX LGA1150
Corsair Dominator Platinum 16GB(2X8GB)

Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 6870 GPU
Samsung 850EVO Series 250GB 2.5" SSD
Bitfenix Pandora ATX Mid Tower
EVGA 750Watts ATX12V/EPS12V