I. Introduction
Two days ago, an old friend of mushrooms found me, wanted to upgrade his old computer, to create an "e-sports room", the requirement is that the chassis should be cool, the monitor should use three, the whole triple screen. Two days ago, I saw the circle of friends of the mushroom-haired Tt Apache Mini host, and wanted to get a host with a similarly cool appearance.
This requires the whole mushroom to be caught off guard, and the upgrade I imagined was that upgrading the board U, upgrading the solid state, upgrading the memory, upgrading the graphics card, this kind of upgrade chassis and monitor operation, a bit abrupt. It's like modifying your own vehicle, the conventional sense of modification is to upgrade the engine, upgrade the suspension, upgrade the brakes, install a variety of air power kits, and friends are all kinds of color change, painting, caliper spraying this.
But everyone's needs are different, friends pursue triple screens, they bought three monitors and two monitor stands according to the budget, one one drag one, one one drag two.
The monitor and stand were sent directly to a friend's house, and the console part was handed over to me to help him remove the old console and put it into the new chassis.
Second, the special-shaped host with three monitors of the "e-sports room" construction configuration list
▼ The chassis is Tt's Apache Mini This chassis, special-shaped shape, great materials, the overall texture is very good. The host is the friend's old host, and the hardware is inside. In terms of heat dissipation, upgrade a Josper's angel eye 240 water cooling, this heat dissipation value is very beautiful.
▼ The first step is to remove all the other hardware inside the chassis, some can be used, just clean up and prepare to install, can not be used, thrown aside.
1. Processor
▼ The processor is an Intel i5, i5-8500, this processor has to be a few years old.
▼ The back of the processor is also attached with a warranty label, which looks like it was installed in a computer store at the time, and at the beginning of 19 years, the month is also written with the month of January, which is a bit interesting.
2. Motherboard
▼ The motherboard is also an old motherboard, a motherboard of mATX specifications.
▼ Look close to the model, it should be MSI's B360M Pro-VD, a more entry-level motherboard.
▼ There are only two memory slots on the motherboard, which meets the minimum standard of dual channels in the energy group.
▼ There is actually an M2 interface, this is quite good, haha.
▼ Motherboard here, conveniently install the processor back, the front of the processor silicone grease clean up.
3. Memory
▼ The memory is also an old strip, and the naked strip of Kingston also has a warranty label on the front.
▼ The particles look magnesium-light, and there is a magnesium-light LOGO on it.
▼ It was originally a single channel, and here it is also a single channel. It's just that before it was inserted in the outer slot, the mushroom here gives the whole to the inside.
4. Heat dissipation
▼ Heat dissipation chose Josper's Angel Eye 240 integrated water cooling, this water-cooled appearance is more beautiful, especially the water-cooled head part.
▼ The 240 integrated water cooling can be matched with Tt's Apache Mini chassis, which has a 240 water cooling position on the front.
▼ The cold head of water cooling is very large, the luminous area is also very large, and the entire upper part is all the light effect part.
5. Graphics card
▼ The graphics card is also an old card, which is a GTX1050, dual-fan heat dissipation module.
▼ The graphics card comes with a back panel, but it's plastic.
▼ There is an auxiliary power supply interface, 6Pin, but for this level of graphics card, it is not necessary to feel it.
▼ There are many video output interfaces, three HDMI, one DP, and one DVI, which is still very rare for a GTX1050 graphics card.
6. Hard disk
▼ The hard disk is also his old hard disk, a 2.5-inch solid state, Western digital green disk, 240G capacity.
▼The production date of the SSD is also about the same, November of 2018.
7. Power supply
▼ His old power supply is the Patriot Warcraft 800, which feels very intimidating to see this name.
▼ Look at the power supply label on the side, the rated power is 500W, +12V is a dual output design, and the total power is 360W. From today's point of view, this power supply is still very ordinary.
▼ The label of the power supply shows that it supports 200V~240V 50/60Hz input, and the interface part shows that it supports 165-265V input, I don't know who to listen to, but the 220V input is definitely no problem, after all, he has used it for a long time.
8. Chassis
▼ The chassis is Tt's Apache Mini, this chassis is a special-shaped chassis, people who like it especially like it, people who don't like it can't see it, haha.
▼ The volume of the chassis is very large, the motherboard supports m-ATX, and there are still many motherboards of this specification.
▼The packaging of the chassis is very good, and the front and back are thick foam. For special-shaped chassis, this packaging is still very necessary to effectively protect the chassis.
▼ The appearance of the chassis is very beautiful, almost everywhere you can see is made of metal, and the side is made of glass, which has a great texture.
▼ There is also a styling design on the side of the chassis, simulating the things hanging on both sides of the Apache helicopter.
▼ The side transparency design of the side of the chassis, the side reflection glass adopts the side opening design, and if you unscrew a screw, you can easily open the side of the chassis through glass.
▼The upper side cover, side glass, and front cover of the chassis can be easily removed.
▼After taking it off, the effect looks ok, and the inside is all metal frame, and it looks very strong.
Third, the special-shaped host with three monitors of the "e-sports room" to build and install the machine
▼ The first step of installation, first install the motherboard into the chassis, the processor and memory on the motherboard are installed first.
▼ The motherboard is fixed to the inside of the chassis, and then all kinds of cables are plugged in, SUCH as USB, audio, chassis jumpers, etc.
▼ Then install the power supply, Patriot Warcraft 800.
▼ The power compartment of Tt's Apache Mini chassis is open and fixed directly to the bottom of the chassis.
▼ Then plug in the power supply interface of each part of the motherboard, and reserve the power supply line of the graphics card part.
▼ Install water cooling, Tt Apache Mini chassis water cooling drain installation position in front, need to adjust the direction of water cooling head according to the fixed position and distance of the cold row.
▼ Here the water cooling head is directly installed as the right inlet and outlet pipe, the length of the water pipe is just right, which is convenient for installing a water cooling drain in the front of the chassis.
▼ Then install the graphics card, the installation of the graphics card is still very simple.
▼The graphics card is directly installed horizontally, and the auxiliary power supply line on the side of the graphics card is also plugged in.
▼ Finally install the SSD, a 2.5-inch SSD.
▼ The hard disk of the Tt Apache Mini chassis is fixed on the back of the chassis, has a separate metal piece, on which there are many hard disk fixing holes, and can be installed with two 3.5-inch hard disks and three 2.5-inch hard disks.
▼After installing the SSD, simply straighten out the cable. Tt's Apache Mini back space performance is OK, there are many cable management holes, but the wire of this power supply is non-module, the wire is more, if it is matched with the power supply of the full module, the wire will be better.
▼The whole machine is basically installed, and it feels good.
▼ Finally cover the top cover of the chassis and the side glass cover, the whole machine installation is completed, the glass film I will not tear, leave it to friends to tear it.
▼ Josper's angel eye 240 water-cooled cold exhaust fan lighting effect is also OK, the outer ring has an ARGB light ring, which can be seen from the side-through glass part of the front of the chassis.
▼ The appearance inside the chassis is also OK, all supported by the water cooling head, haha.
▼ Memory, graphics card is indeed ordinary, but according to the needs of friends, these hardware is completely unnecessary to replace, enough. And these hardware is very simple to replace, simple plug and unplug on the line, and can be replaced separately if needed later.
Fourth, the special-shaped host with three monitors of the "e-sports room" construction test
▼ Friends' host is to upgrade a chassis, heat dissipation, and did not upgrade other key hardware aspects, and its hardware is old hardware, performance testing is simpler. A brief look at the configuration, the processor is i5-8500, the motherboard is MSI's B360M PRO-VD, the memory is 8GB of DDR4 2400MHz, and the graphics card is GTX1050.
▼ Simple run a computer housekeeper hardware test, performance index 35000, haha, or very scare.
▼ Daily standby situation, i5-8500 with 240 integrated water cooling, its temperature performance is very good, room temperature is about 26 ° C, the daily standby processor temperature is only about 29, 30 ° C.
▼ Simple to run a CPU-Z pressure test, the temperature of the processor is only about 46 ° C, very low. The processor can easily full core Turbo frequency 3.9GHz, no problem.
5. Summary
The host is installed, the friend quickly took away, the rest of the monitor and monitor bracket installation work will be left to himself, what is the problem to say, but the mushroom this friend's hands-on ability is OK, their own installation should not be a problem.
A very magical installation, the hardware configuration is all the old host, only upgraded the chassis and water cooling, bought three monitors, two monitor brackets, went back to the group triple screen, do not know whether to go back to see the drawings, or look at the red, green and green curves, but this is not what mushrooms need to worry about.
Tt The overall installation experience of this Apache Mini chassis is still quite good, and the interior space design is OK. The only thing that made the mushroom a little less satisfied was the upper part of the chassis, which was not too much to fix a water cooler in the upper part.
After the installation, my friend sent me a photo and asked me to teach him how to display it on a triptych.
Remote guidance, easy to achieve triple screen, this effect is still very good.
Thank you!
The End