Front. Blue and white power switch wire stripped bare and tapped together to boot
Front inside
Side inside view
Soon to be fitted with new PSU
The transplant begins
It’s all in
Just a small upgrade
Yay modern board modern cpu
Garage find absolute budget rescue
I managed to cook something on my laptop which was about 3 years old and wasn’t worth any repairs so was fit for the bin. I have very little money at present due to house renovation so this is absolute budget.We had recently moved house and used my in-laws garage to store stuff during the move, when clearing out the garage I cam across my father-in-law old pc which years ago I promised to wipe the hard drive and forgot all about it. So decided to see if I could restore it to working order. The case is battered and had a puddle of water in it not a promising start. I decided to take it home as I needed a machine for general word and excel docs. The PSU looked very rusty so decided to bin it and buy a cheap 500w to replace it. Before booting the pc I dried off what I could and left the pc in my airing cupboard for 2 weeks. Momtof truth new PSU fitted powers up but no disk recognised with the disk making really bad noises, thankfully I have my 250gb ssd from my laptop with win 10 os. Stuck that in great we are getting bios and a window boot. Unfortunately windows failed to boot due to the licensing being locked to my laptop. Thankfully I had the original win7 disc for the pc, a format and install later I’m up and running all be it at a very slow speed due to the bottleknecking at the cpu I can live with it though. After a bit of hunting around a week later I found for £20 a phenom II x4 b55 to replace the Athlon II x2 250 in my micro atx am2+ Foxconn MB. Fitted and slight OC boot time is 15sec happy days. W few weeks ago I purchased a GT610 1gb gpu not great but affordable and a considerable upgrade to the on board gpu which is shocking at least I can play a basic game on my pc such as sins of a solar empire.
My next stage
See what max ram MB can take and buy it if I can afford. Save for a 800w ish modular PSU
* mother board Foxconn A47-MK am2+
Latest update.
I have a ryzen3 1200 ready to install
And picking up a motherboard asrock A320m pro4 today and it’s coming with 8gb 2400mhz ram (2x4gb).
Midnight tonight when I am home from work I will be rigging it up and hopefully have a modern pc.
Not expecting great performance with it but a good start towards a more reliable and better performance than I currently have
I’m nearly into the future with a really tight budget. Been gaming on low settings on low demanding games since the last update.
I have now purchased a ryzen 3 1200 for £50 of amazon and hopefully picking up a used asrock a320m pro for £50 which will come with 2x4gb 2400mhz ram. Not a bad buy considering money is tight. I would have liked to save for an Asus x470 but £150 is a bit too much to splash out will update when I’m at the install stage.
P.s I will be seeing if mb posts before handing cash over.
New MB new cpu
New motherboard installed ryzen 3 cpu. Just a few updates to get through