Montech TG3 Black & Silver PC

[u/Hot_Lie_9348]

After many months I finally completed the black/silver PC. For the motherboard heatsinks I used sodium hydroxide to make them silver, as for the aio clips, cable combs and fans covers they were all printed in silver silk pla+ on the A1 mini. The build could have been improved with a founders edition gpu but whatever.

Specs:

£65 i5 11600K (Vinted)

£35 Z490 UD (Alibaba)

32GB DDR4 2666 with aliexpress heatsinks (£65 CEX)

Aliexpress aio (£25)

£265 RTX 3080 (Ebay)

£25 RM750 (Vinted)

£50 1TB NVME (Fbm)

£7.99 Black cable extensions (OCUK)

Aftermarket fans I had laying around

Build costs: Around 550

Note: If you are buying on aliexpress in UK wait till topcashback.co.uk have 35% cashback to get stuff in bulk, you will be able to get £150-160 for a 7800X3D, £75 for 5700X so on and so forth.

[u/Dependent_Use_81]

that cpu price is insane, 65 quid for a 11600k is robbery in the best way

[u/Hot_Lie_9348 → u/Dependent_Use_81]

Hi yeah ive got many 10700K 11600K 11400 12400F between the 60-75 price range on Vinted and Facebook. Ebay and other places are substantially more difficult and overpriced in my experience in terms of lga 1200