This is a sleeper build I've been planning on for a while. A few years back I managed to snag several old desktop towers and a few busted laptops from a phone/computer repair person for $25. Over the years since I tried working on them (too far gone), experimenting, and finally, selling them to local repair folks. This is the last one and the oldest of the bunch. I held onto it for the case, of course.

*My current pc Craig is running windows 7 pro with half new/half used hardware ive steadily upgraded. With win 7 support ending next year, I plan on building a fresh win 10 build using this tower, and a few parts from the current build (namely my gtx 1070).


The build is centered around this case, a Gateway LP Mini Tower TB3 Performance 700 from the Pentium 3/Win95 days.

Im still considering which routes I want to go as far as CPU, motherboard and cooling.
AMD AM4 Ryzen: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/LrdrNQ
AMD TR4 Threadripper: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/cZ7sD2
Intel LGA 1151 coffee lake: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/FVrnxG

Edit: I wound up going the coffee lake route: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/7RWCGG

*My old PC Craig had some Ram and the main drive die a while back. I ended up replacing the drive and RAM, and upgrading it to windows 10. Once Billy was completed I donated Craig to my best buddy.