So I have pulled together a bunch of parts that are laying around and I am throwing together a PC on a sheet of wood.
This is really just a proof of concept for something I have wanted to do for a while now. Once I finish with this, my plan is to build a computer on a piece of acrylic.
The P.O.C System:
- Just a little AMD Athlon II X2 on an old Gigabyte Motherboard I found lying around.
- An old 80 gig Segate HDD
- Asus Radeon HD 4850 (I'd use my old GTX 470 if my PSU could handle it)
- PSU 430 Watt Thermaltake
The Reason i am using an External GPU instead of the onboard for that Motherboard is because the System I eventually build will have an external graphics card.
(Guitar for scale)
I am currently between whether i should use s PCIE extender cable to have the graphics card placed elsewhere. though I don't think that is viable becuase It would have to be attached heatsink down.
My plan for the PSU and a HDD is a bracket/cradle that lets me screw in where the normal holes on the two parts are.
Right now I'd like to find any suggestions for where or how I could place things, What methods would work better, How would cable management go down. So on so forth.
Also, what would other people use a secondary pc like this for? I think it would be neat to use as either a server type PC for lan games, A Torrenting pc. If you had a set of things the PC would do, like with hosting lan servers, you could write up a little program to control it remotely.
Anyway, Thank's in advance!