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To: goldworldnet who wrote (708)	1/27/2018 10:49:27 AM
From: goldworldnet	2 Recommendations Recommended By nicewatch SI Ron (Crazy Music Man) Respond to of 1321

This was the smallest case I've done a build in, but it fits in his small desk. The only drawbacks are that to replace the power supply would require removing the hard drives because they cover up the power connector to the motherboard and to remove the hard drives would require removing the CPU fan and heatsink. This is also why I put the extra drive in. If the WD drive went out, I would just move the cables to the spare drive. For computer cases though, bigger is better and easier to work on if you have the space for a larger box. Josh * * *

To: goldworldnet who wrote (708)	1/28/2018 12:17:21 AM
From: nicewatch	3 Recommendations Recommended By FJB goldworldnet shadowman Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1321

Nicely done for a budget box, Josh, and I'm a fan of Noctua fans! ;-) A relative recently built a new desktop with the help of his friend, and it's to be used for drone video editing and to get into pc gaming, most likely on the steam platform. Here are the main parts... OS: Windows10 Pro Motherboard: MSI B350 TOMAHAWK AM4 ATX - this mobo has built in M.2 pcie slot but not using now. CPU: AMD RYZEN 1700X 95W RAM: 1x 16GB DDR4 2666MHz Corsair Vengeance LPX CD/DVD/Bluray: None that I know of. Main Hard Drive: SAMSUNG E 250GB 850 EVO SSD Second Hard Drive: TOSHIBA 2TB 7200 P300 3.5 OEM GPU: EVGA GTX1080FTW 8GB PCIE HD3DP Cooling: COOLMASTER HYPER 212 EVO UNIV HSF + COOLMASTER MASTERBOX LITE 5 TG RED Power Supply: THERMALTAKE 650W 80+B ATX PSU Case: This was donated to him by his building buddy who upgraded his own case. Due to inflated market prices for several components, this wasn't a budget deal by any means but for performance per dollar looks ok and also think he wanted the experience of building his first computer even if 80% of it was watching his computer science buddy do it! ;-) Will get the price list but not in front of me now.