Garage PC total system upgrade 

Which I did, in addition to the CPU (because windows 8+ requirement for wifi card) and GPU for general improvements

Sweet man thanks! You should absolutely build a garage pc! They are very worth it for the quick things and is way more convenient than dragging a laptop around and worrying about breaking it.

@@DesertNinja650 Yea we have a Few local Scrap Yards, I happen to know one of the Owners, I'm gonna Present him with a GameBox and work something out where I can dig thru the busted laptops that can still run Headless, then bring back the Cases/Cages after I get the MoBos out of them

So originally I was just going to swap out for the 1TB platter drive I had laying around - I wasn't trying to throw money at this computer. And then I saw how terribly it ran windows 8 and fired the parts cannon. lol

Wasn't much to troubleshoot, but I learned a long time ago, if I have the time to do one thing at a time it's the best way in case something does go wrong lol

Major improvement, it is useable now. Before it had a hard time just opening chrome. Now it can run my video editing software for quick edits, play youtube videos, and browse the net.

I have toyed with the idea of removing the ODD as I don't see myself using it, and the laser will end up getting contaminated with paint overspray, dust, metal grindings, etc. I was looking into swapping over a acer external HDD caddy into it, however I think pulling some cat6 into the garage or adding a type C port would be more worthwhile for large file transfers. This PC's purpose will be to play music, run a 3D printer and probably a CNC plasma table. I appreciate the feedback, something to consider for my office pc!

Thanks!

It's mostly brakleen, oil, dust, wood shavings and chicken feathers. I've got a few new keyboards that I could replace it with, but I hardly type on that one - just to google search. My primary PC has a cherry G910, but after all this is my garage pc lol

This pc isn't being overclocked or anything so the effort to delid and find a higher performance heatsink (or conversion to liquid) is out of the scope of what this PC will be used for. Thanks for the feedback on the static, I know it wouldn't hurt anything, especially considering this PC was about to head into the trash - I've got some 3M anti static wrist straps but it felt like a waste to use one since they are 'single use'. Oddly enough I have liquid metal on my laptop and it has a copper sink to pipe interface, and I had 0 corrosion on that after 1 year of heavy, consistent use (thrown around, airports, in and out of a backpack, constant heat cycling - it gets used daily and goes with me everywhere)

@DesertNinja650 I'm only going from what other people tell me about liquid metal, besides conductanaught is a premium brand version made by an extreme overclocker professional named Roman Der8auer on his Thermal Grizzly lined products, so I daresay he's made it so it's superior and stops corrosion as much as possible versus unbranded versions of liquid metal.

@@danthompsett2894 He just said he's not overclocking were you not listening

@zhayward3190 yes but conductnaught was mentioned hence the thread of comments

You are not wrong 🤣 but for under $100 it does exactly what it needs to do. I just don't like dragging my gaming laptop out into the garage, that's the main reason why I resurrected this old computer.