Saving E-Waste

by Yee Posted on: 7/29/2022

Build Description

A few years back I bought an I5-8400 Nitro 50 and I've always felt the parts needed to be cooler. I saw an old Enermax Chakra box headed to the landfill and snagged it. The old motherboard, Athlon and fan are on my wall. At present I have the ram (Adata DDR4 2666 2X8) motherboard (Acer) and processor (I5-8400) from the Nitro 50 in the Chakra. I had to use aviation snips to cut the solid steel drive cages of the Chakra to make room for the mobo. The 650 GT PSU and RX 6600 Mech are recent additions. All in all it dropped temps on my processor by 10C and when the original GPU was in there it dropped for about 15 C of headroom. I attribute it to the massive space increase and the big 250mm fan on the side of the case.

Favorite Feature

I was able to save a very solid case from the landfill and one that provided enough room to give my pre-built (and future) parts the room needed to breathe.

Parts contained in build

MSI AMD Radeon RX 6600 MECH 2X Dual-Fan 8GB GDDR6 PCIe 4.0 Graphics Card
MSI AMD Radeon RX 6600 MECH 2X Dual-Fan 8GB GDDR6 PCIe 4.0 Graphics Card
Qty: 1 $299.99
EVGA SuperNOVA 650 GT 650 Watt 80 Plus Gold ATX Fully Modular Power Supply
EVGA SuperNOVA 650 GT 650 Watt 80 Plus Gold ATX Fully Modular Power Supply
Qty: 1 $69.99
 2X8GB Premier DDR4 2666 U-DIMM Memory
2X8GB Premier DDR4 2666 U-DIMM Memory
Qty: 1 $31.00
Used Price
 Enermax Chakra Mid-Tower Case
Enermax Chakra Mid-Tower Case
Qty: 1 $0.00
 Intel® Core™ i5-8400 Processor
Intel® Core™ i5-8400 Processor
Qty: 1 $99.00
Used Price
 N50-600 Motherboard
N50-600 Motherboard
Qty: 1 $50.00
From a pull
Sandisk Ultra 2TB SSD
Qty: 1 $150.00
SK hynix Gold P31 1TB
Qty: 1 $75.00

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