Curious Cola inspects a shipment of fresh tech.
Today's exercise:
Swap an Intel i7 CPU and Mainboard build for an AMD Ryzen 1700.
Parts to swap:
- Processor - Intel i7 6700 4ghz >>> AMD Ryzen 1700
- Mainboard - MSI Z170A >>> MSI B350 Tomahawk AM4
- Cooler - Shadow Rock 2 SR1 >>> AMD Wraithspire
Parts to keep:
- PSU - Corsair 750 Watt
- GPU - EVGA 980ti 6gb
- RAM - Corsair Vengeance DDR4 2400mhz
- Case
- SSD
- Monitor - Acer Predator X34
Alrighty then...let's see. Time to tinker!
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| The old beast disassembled! It's an Ultrawide build :) | Separating everything as neatly as I could. |
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| Ah...some precious metals to set on fire. A new heart! | Pretty! |
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| Fresh carbon, B350 Tomahawk from MSI | All parts we need freshly arranged. |
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| "Breadboarding", CPU, Cooler and RAM on Mobo | A fresh canvas! PSU, connectors and coolers primed. |
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| A red flash and the machine spins to life. | "Wraithspire" |
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| Red lights are pretty, but problematic! (No GPU yet!) | Closing the box with the GPU added. Time for an OS! |
Video Card beauty shot
Work Complete!
Man I love building computers. This is a gaming/streaming station that can handle 4k and Ultrawide applications. Hope you enjoyed my first "visual build diary". I've got a couple of different models coming up that I'll get to work on so you can look forward to more tinkering :)
The "zero APM" series of articles shall be exploring the more technical side of things. From hardware, to streaming tips over game optimisations I'll be going through some topics that I am somewhat knowledgeable about! Hope to see you there!
I know this ship like the back of my hand..BONK,
ZeroOoC
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