I was looking for something more powerful than my Predator laptop (i5 7300HQ GTX 1050Ti) for gaming and video editing. Got extremely lucky and found a PC on Facebook Marketplace with the legendary i7 4790K, Asus Maximus VII Gene, 32gb of Corsair Vengeance, TWO TERABYTES of SSD, 750w Gold PSU and Corsair Air 240….. for £100 😍
Immediately bought it and tested to confirm it works with the integrated graphics, took everything apart, cleaned every single spec of dust and replaced the thermal paste with Arctic MX-7
Discovered this PC was built by 3XS Systems (Scan.co.uk system builder) and cost over £2,000 back in 2015, it probably had a GTX 980 or 980Ti
Unfortunately it was missing the GPU so I found an MSI GTX 1080 Sea Hawk on eBay for £80… also cleaned the dust and replaced the thermal paste
£180 ($250) for a watercooled 4790K, watercooled 1080, Maximus VII motherboard, 32gb Ram, 2TB of SSDs, case and power supply is insane!
Full build photos coming soon!!!