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Computer Collection: DIY March 2019 (Voidworks?)

About

My first fully self assembled PC was put together in March 2019 using cheap and used parts, with few bought new. Some were brought over from the xw4600.

It was temperamental in the last few months of its life because of CPU pad contamination.

Specs

Case: AeroCool CS-1101 mATX

Motherboard: Gigabyte H61M-S2PV mATX

CPU: Intel Core i5-2400 (4C/4T, 3.1GHz/3.4GHz, 95W TDP, 6MB L3 cache, LGA1155)

RAM: 4GB DDR3 1333MHz (1x4GB)

iGPU: Intel HD Graphics 2000

dGPU: AMD Radeon RX 550 2GB (originally MSI NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 1.2GB TwinFrozr II, xw)

SSD: Crucial BX500 120GB SATA 2.5" (xw)

HDD: WD Re4 Recertified 500GB SATA 3.5" (WD5003ABYX-01WERA2) (xw)

PSU: Fractal Design Integra M 550W ATX, 80 Plus Bronze (xw)

Trivia

The CPU was purchased from CeX, and had damaged contact pads that most likely caused a memory channel to stop working and also in the end prevented it from passing its power-on self test.
I was stuck with 4GB because of the dead RAM channel and couldn't add an extra 4GB stick.
Despite the RX 550 not being meant for gaming, it actually did quite well with Minecraft, which was what I mainly played at the time.
The AeroCool case was absolutely fucking horrendous and drew quite a bit of blood, and proved quite the issue when trying to upgrade the GPU.