My DIY RGB iTX Test Bench

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Phuong Tran
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My DIY RGB iTX Test Bench

STORY ABOUT THE BUILD:
- As I wanted to save my money for a case, I reused a laptop table to make a DIY test bench. I first started with an Intel Pentium G4600, Gigabyte GTX 1050 Ti single fan, 2x 8GB DDR3 (yes, you can use DDR3 with Kaby Lake), m-ATX Asus H110M-C D3 motherboard, and an unknown-brand PSU. It was great but it was laggy for Assassin's Creed: Unity, so I upgraded to i7-7700k. Feeling that using a non-OC board with 7700k is not right, I bought Asus Strix Z270-iTX, Corsair H100i V2, 2x8GB Trident Z RGB, and then got a Strix 1080 Ti OC in October 2017 for $700, right before the mining craze hit high-end cards. Thanks to the open-air bench, switching out hardware was very easy for me as I had continuously sold and bought used hardware on r/hardwareswap (Trident Z RGB made me tons of profit during 2018 summer, before RAM price dropped).
- Now I finally ended up with this: From Intel 7700k to AMD Ryzen 7 2700x, 2x 16GB of Trident Z RGB at 3333MHz, 2x 8GB of Corsair Dominator Platinum Contrast Special Edition (I have two RAM kits), Asus Strix X470-iTX board, an extra Gigabyte GTX 1070 Mini (I plan to put this into a Cougar QBX soon). Only my Strix 1080 Ti and the CPU AIO cooler are still staying with me, but I don't know much about the future. The iRGB PSU from Thermaltake and Antec Sleeved Cable, which I recently bought, really made my build look more eye-catching. Thanks for reading.
Color(s): Black
RGB Lighting? No
Theme: none
Cooling: AIO Cooling
Size: Mini-ITX
Type: General Build

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Hardware

CPU
$ 180.00
AMD - Ryzen 7 (2700X)
Socket: AM4
Cores: 8
Motherboard
$ 256.45
ASUS - ROG Strix Gaming (X470-I)
Chipset: X470
CPU Socket: AM4
Size: Mini-ITX
Memory
$ 338.68
G.Skill - Trident Z (3200MHz) (Black/RGB)
Type: DDR4
Capacity: 32 GB
Graphics
$ 749.00
ASUS - ROG Strix Gaming
Chip Manufacturer: NVIDIA
Chip: GTX 1080 Ti
Interface: PCIe x16
Graphics
$ 459.00
Gigabyte - Mini
Chip Manufacturer: NVIDIA
Chip: GTX 1070
Storage
$ 80.00
HGST (Hitachi) - Travelstar (0J22423)
Form Factor: 2.5 Inch
Interface: SATA 6 Gb/s
Capacity: 1 TB
Storage
$ 97.99
Samsung - SM961
Form Factor: M.2
Interface: M.2 (M)
Capacity: 256 GB
Storage
$ 198.68
Western Digital - WD Black (Old Version)
Form Factor: M.2
Interface: M.2 (M)
Capacity: 512 GB
PSU
Thermaltake - Toughpower iRGB Plus (discontinued)
Wattage: 850
Form Factor: ATX
Efficiency: 80+ Platinum
Case
Custom - Custom (custom)
Case Fan
$ 78.00
Cooling
$ 299.99
Corsair - Hydro H100i v2
Type: AIO
CableMod
CableMod - Memory Modding Kit
Color: White
Monitor
$ 355.00
ASUS - VG248QE
Size: 24 Inch
Panel: TN
Refresh Rate: 144 Hz
Mouse
$ 129.99
SteelSeries - Rival 600
Interface: Wired
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