Show me your "Spare" rig's!

[Streetguru]

I'm still waiting for AM4 APUs to build an ITX emulation box

[The_Space_Bear]

my "spare" is specced as such

Xeon E3-1241v3
Asus Z97-A
32GB ram
128GB SSD, 2x1TB, 2TB and 3TB
Evga 750w G2
EVGA GTX 750
Fractal r5
and some noctua heatsink.

all I need to do is plob one of my 390X's in it and I'd have a gaming PC better than most people.... I have money to burn me thinks

[kewldude007]

My spare is a suit case

Kewldude007's Suitcase Gaming PC [BUILD LOG] [56K WARNING]

NOTE: before you go any farther into this thread DO NOT ask why I built this please read the entire OP, I will aim to answer all questions before they are asked TL;DR: none for you, read the whole thread yah lazy bahstard BEGIN So one fine day at work my supervisor came up to me asking me if I wanted this [image] A case originally meant to haul around a projector and all its gear, he came by it because the person it belongs to no longer works where I do. And stuff like this just collects in my lab. SO MY IMMEDIATE FIRST THOUGHT Let's put a PC in it END PROLOGUE Just trying with some parts on how to go about this [image] Obviously I wanted this thing to close so a tower cooler and vertical GPU were NOT HAPPENING ALTERNATIVE BUT EQUALLY FAILED POSITION [image] Finally I settled on where to put the guts [image] hot-knifed hole for the PSU [image] [image] hole for I/O (yes this pic was taken after the PC was built, deal with it) [image] I am currently in the process of making a locking, protective cover for this now to put the GPU somewhere... Since I am so fortunate to work in a prototyping lab, I naturally have access to 3D printers So I used Onshape (free online CAD) to adapt a bitcoin mining test bench I found on thingiverse [image] [image] My printer is capable of embedding fiber some I threw some fiberglass in there (that off white stuff) the rest is proprietary Nylon 6 which is the only "filament" this printer can use THINGIVERSE LINK TO UPDATED MODEL OF BRACKET https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1678381 So naturally the next step was to acquire a GPU because the GTX 780 you saw pictured above had been sold off to a forum moderator because I had no use for it That day also happened to be the launch day of the RX 480 [image] so yeah I went and got a 8GB xfx at microcenter at lunch its starting to like a gaming PC now [image] Before I actually installed the bracket and 480 I had to make sure the card was …

[Evil]

OK, this makes me jealous. Good work! I'd hate to see your main! I think I just saw my spare computer run into a corner and hide from that Beast.

[Evil]

Yeah, man.... that's bad ass. I'm starting to feel like I need to step my game up here.

[Skelterz]

Here is one of my spares

Mothball Build/Mod log [Just Do It] Now 100% more Finished!

So when @Atomic_Charge came up with the "Just Do It" March initiative I new exactly what I wanted to do (sort of), I am going to grab one of my many unfinished/ barely started projects blow off the dust and just do it. There is NO grand plan but finish it this month. This is by the seat of my pants so feel free to throw some ideas out or criticize the hack job I'm doing because this is just for fun. On to the meat and potatoes. I'll be modding a Corsair C70 to hell and back then slapping in a lga775 core 2 duo with custom water cooling. Down to Business, If your are still here thank you. The victim [image] First lets game plan [image] Cuttin time [image] all done, though the saw fence was too narrow so I'll have to fix the edges [image] Stuck the new window to the old and used a cutoff wheel and dremel to straighten everything out [image] Used the putty again to fix it to the side panel and drilled the mounts. It fits and looks great from ten feet away! [image] Look at that nasty edge from my first cut, glad this isn't my day job [image] There is so much more to do but [image]

I have two other core 2 machines in various states of disrepair and a z97/e31231 itx

[FaunCB]

I have a lot of rigs but I use all of them. I don't really have anything "spare" lol.

[The_Space_Bear]

my main is an 5930k, 2x 390X an EVGA 1000w G2, 2x500GB SSDs 750GB SSD and an H440 :P

don't get me started on my headphones.... or my monitors.....

I'm honestly suprised I'm not broke, I'm a university student and my "spares"/backups are better than my friends primaries 0_o

I have a problem me thinks

[Evil]

What's with you guys having these little e3 Xeons? Did all the cool kids go that route and I'm the only dumbass who went i5? lol. Seriously, extreme props on your build log man. That's what PC building is about. Trying new shit out, making it work, and personalizing it. I'd rather have a old janky case (oh wait, I do, the Antec 302 was never all that great if I'm being honest) and mod the hell out of it over a "nicer" newer case. I'm just that kind of strange.

I'm the kind of guy that'd be happier driving a old Super Beetle in "rat-rod" like conditions over driving a brand new car. Older things seem to have more "soul" to me. And your build, man, that exemplifies it. 110%.

[Evil]

Hey mano, enjoy living it up while you can. And I hope you always can. I've actually been out of work almost 4 years so I have been barely saving $50 a month for my next big project. So far, it's not a huge priority. Rent (about $1500/month for a 1 bedroom apartment) eats up a lot of my "income" (basically a handout from my family, I'm a bit ashamed to say.) The rest barely covers insurance and regular bills. Just glad I have a Wife with a decent job. I wish she'd buy me some nice parts, but she DID just get some nice Tamaron (or is it Tamron?) lenses for her camera, and upgraded from a Canon 60D to a 70D (I don't know jack about photography.)

[Skelterz]

lol, went e3 because i don't overclock (heresy, i know) and for a bit more than an i5 you get hyper threading.

modding and painting that was fun as hell, toyed with ubuntu but the monitor i was using was a pain, no mount just flat on a table.

[Evil]

I'm with you. My MB is crap and I could never get my 3570K to hit any decent OC's because of it. Plus the Ivy Bridge Curse, with the crap-tacular TIM under the lid. I don't OC anymore, and if I had a brain in my skull I'd try for a Xeon. But being broke sucks.

Oh well.

[Evil]

Aww come on. I'm sure you have one rig that's at least a third of the parts are hand-me-down's or something. Right??

[Skelterz]

meh i didn't really need the xeon, the itx its in was supposed to be for Lan Syndicate 2 :.(

[FaunCB]

I'll just take pictures of all of my machines :P tomorrow

[Evil]

Well there ya go! It's a LAN rig! And Xeon in a lan rig is kinda overkill to me, but hey that's what makes it cool at the same time. As long as it works for you I say more power to ya, and play on! Now we just gotta get a LAN going for L1T. Somehow.

[Evil]

DO IT!!!!! :) I can't speak for anyone else, but the more pics on a thread the better.

[mythicalcreature]

I've been pretty good about selling hardware that I don't use. Not much for spares at the moment. I treat PC hardware as rental. Use for about a year, sell and replace.

I do have a problem with a few monitors. I don't have packaging to ship them.

[Evil]

Nothing wrong with seeing hardware as rentals. Hell, if I was smart enough to do that I'd have a lot more cash in my bank account. lol. I understand about monitors. I have a few in my closet that I just kind of got landed with. A older Samsung 19" 1440x900 and a no-name I think a 3:4 monitor I inherited from my Father in Law. One day when no one is around I'll have to e-Waste 'em. I don't need a multi-monitor setup. a 21:9 would be good enough for me. Or at least better than my 8 year old Acer 21" jobber. Poor thing still has a "Designed for Windows Vista" sticker on the base.

[recoil44]

or you might be like me and have a lot of older machines that you either inherited or just refuse to get rid of.

Does this qualify?