Kryspy Posted May 1, 2014 Share Posted May 1, 2014 Well after deciding that a memory upgrade for DDR2 was too costly I convinced myself (and my wife) that it was time for a new server Newly Purchased Case: Lian-Li PC Q-25 $99.98 Motherboard: ASUS 87I-PLUS mini-itx $107.99 CPU: Intel Core i5-4670 3.4 Ghz Quad core $239.00 RAM: 16 GB (2x8GB) Kingston Hyper-X Red DDR3 1600 Mhz CL10 $150.88 Power Supply: Silverstone SS-ST45SF SFF power supply $74.99 Total= $760.19 (All prices are Canadian) Existing Parts from old build: Parity: Western Digital 2TB RED WDC_WD20EFRX Data Drive 1: 500 GB Western Digital Green WDC_WD5000AADS Data Drive 2: 1TB Western Digital Green WDC_WD10EARS Data Drive 3: 1TB Western Digital Green WDC_WD10EARX Cache Drive/VM: 64 GB OCZ Vertex 4 OCZ-VERTEX4_OCZ Flash Drive: 8GB SanDisk Cruzer USB I would attach photos but it looks like every other Lian-Li PC Q-25 build Kryspy Quote Link to comment
garycase Posted May 1, 2014 Share Posted May 1, 2014 Well after deciding that a memory upgrade for DDR2 was too costly I convinced myself (and my wife) that it was time for a new server Newly Purchased Case: Lian-Li PC Q-25 $99.98 Motherboard: ASUS 87I-PLUS mini-itx $107.99 CPU: Intel Core i5-4670 3.4 Ghz Quad core $239.00 RAM: 16 GB (2x8GB) Kingston Hyper-X Red DDR3 1600 Mhz CL10 $150.88 Power Supply: Silverstone SS-ST45SF SFF power supply $74.99 Total= $760.19 (All prices are Canadian) Existing Parts from old build: Parity: Western Digital 2TB RED WDC_WD20EFRX Data Drive 1: 500 GB Western Digital Green WDC_WD5000AADS Data Drive 2: 1TB Western Digital Green WDC_WD10EARS Data Drive 3: 1TB Western Digital Green WDC_WD10EARX Cache Drive/VM: 64 GB OCZ Vertex 4 OCZ-VERTEX4_OCZ Flash Drive: 8GB SanDisk Cruzer USB I would attach photos but it looks like every other Lian-Li PC Q-25 build Kryspy Nice setup. Somehow I think you snookered your wife if you convinced her you were doing this just because DDR2 is more costly than DDR3 [it's certainly true, but $700 instead of $200 ?? ] ... However, I'm sure this is a MUCH nicer system. Quote Link to comment
Kryspy Posted May 1, 2014 Author Share Posted May 1, 2014 Well it was more of throwing $200 at a legacy platform. I sold my old motherboard RAM and CPU and an additional CPU I had to bring the cost down to about $500. Sent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment
garycase Posted May 1, 2014 Share Posted May 1, 2014 That's pretty reasonable -- your net cost is really $300 for the upgrade, since you're also saving the $200 it would have cost for DDR2. Quote Link to comment
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