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Building the kids their own rig from spare benching hardware. (Painted, greased, dented, cut, soldered, frozen, massively overvolted, and otherwise stressed hardware )

Want it to blend in a bit, so I'm converting an old desk into a case. (Previously was home to the sewing machine).

I'm no wordworker, but I like drilling and sawing as much as the next guy. Figured I'd post sort of a build log.

Kind of on cloud 9 tonight cause one 'o my rugrats finally showed more than a passive interest in one of my projects. Spent a few hours getting our hands dirty and he actually had some killer suggestions that we incorporated. He's 6.

[Splave]

neat! kids comp has a classy p55?!$? awesome

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I love it when a good build comes together...

[Neuromancer]

Try and keep the IO panel easily accessible. For a general PC there is not a whole lot of need for adjusting memslots etc. But cards and USB and whatnot still tends to get played with a lot.

I have done a few deskmods in my time, and finally just got lazy and built a desk that holds server cases lol.

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Bleeding.

Originally Posted by Neuromancer

Try and keep the IO panel easily accessible. For a general PC there is not a whole lot of need for adjusting memslots etc. But cards and USB and whatnot still tends to get played with a lot.

That's why this will be on the desk. (It has it's own A/C power supply)

[rickss69]

Nice to have the kids throwing in as well! Whats up with that water block...looks out of kilter or something?

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P55 Classy also has 775 holes that are offset from the 1156 ones.

[rickss69]

Ahh...I'm used to the slotted blocks (spoiled).

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Fan spin/die cycling.

24 hours later. 2 CPU's (i5 670 and 655K), 3 sets of RAM, 2 PSU's, different hard drives, several GPU's, lots o jumper fiddling, in case or on top. Same thing.

Dead P55 Classy. Now I'm wondering if this thing has been the source of all my i5 670 failures over the last 3 months.

Now to find a replacement........someone's selling a Foxconn Katana Inferno for $95 shipped. Should prolly nab that for the kid's rig while I ponder whether I'm brave enough to try to RMA this thing. It's been to to the icy depths of Hades and back - and very much looks like it.

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I'm sure she can be scrubbed clean enough to pass inspection.... Soap and water + brush FTW