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I have upgraded my PC for €120 on Aliexpress, a success!

There are some occasions when, either because you have a certain specific need, or because of pure “tinkering”, the need to build a second PC arises. Today we are going to tell you about our personal experience, since in this situation we have set up a full pc by very little money buying hardware on Aliexpress. Do you want to know how and what has been the result? Well keep reading.

All computer and hardware enthusiasts would like to have a PC with next generation hardware, but many times that is not possible due to the high prices of the components. However, if you need a PC to perform secondary tasks, or if your needs are more humble, then you should know that you don’t have to spend a lot of money, as long as you know what to expect.

A cheap PC on Aliexpress? Not quite!

First of all, we must make it clear that when we say that we have assembled a PC by buying on Aliexpress, in reality what we have bought have been some of the pieces. The real story is that we had a server relatively old one we used for Minecraft and it decided to pass away a short time ago, so we didn’t really need all the pieces but only the motherboard, processor and RAM. The case (mATX), the power supply, the graphics card, the system SSD and even the heatsink, we were able to reuse them.

For this “upgrading the PC” task, which was really getting rid of a really old motherboard, processor and DDR2 RAM that had given us many years of service and swapping them out for “new” ones, we decided to take a look at Aliexpress, where we came across several very interesting offers in which they offer you server processors in a kit that includes a motherboard and RAM, at knockdown prices.

We opted for a kit that includes a processor Intel Xeon E5 2620V2with an X79 motherboard and two 8 GB memory modules each DDR3 at 1,333 MHz, and it cost us just over €118, although for just over €100 we had the option of choosing the same, but with 4 GB modules of RAM (8GB in total, but we prefer to take the option with 16GB).

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And how does this team work?

As you may have guessed, what we have bought is by no means state-of-the-art hardware, but it is quite powerful hardware. The Intel Xeon E5-2620V2 is a server processor that has 6 cores and 12 processing threads at a maximum speed of 2.6 GHz with a TDP of only 80 W, which allows us to have quite decent performance with a consumption content and, what is more, it has earned us a relatively small and old heatsink that is valid for its LGA2011 socket and maintains good operating temperatures (below 50ºC).

This processor, which cost around 500 Euros at the time, is comparable to the third generation of Intel Core processors (Ivy Bridge) that was launched at the end of 2013, so it obviously has its time. However, since we have assembled it on a computer whose mission is to be a server for Minecraft and multimedia files, it does its job like a charm (in fact, much better than the Celeron we had before for it).Intel Xeon

In addition, we have also substantially improved the speed and amount of memory we had, since we have gone from 8 GB DDR2 to 16 GB DDR3 and from 800 to 1,333 MHz, and the equipment, although it does not stand out for its great connectivity (it does not even have USB 3.0 ), it has SATA 3 connectors, so our 2.5″ SATA 3 256 GB SSD continues to work perfectly for us.

In short, for just 120 Euros we have updated this server with much more powerful hardware that works wonderfully. If you are in a similar case and you are looking for hardware to update a secondary computer or a home server, without a doubt in stores like Aliexpress you can easily get it for very little money.

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