What are these parts?

Mikeybb · Jul 28, 2014

I've labeled some parts inside my case to see if I'm identifying everything correctly. If you can help me with your expertise, that would be much appreciated. Just trying to learn my way around and know what I have to work with so I can maximize my money when I go to build it up. Also, I apologize if this is in the wrong section.

Thank you,
Mike

bgunner · Jul 28, 2014

your top pic is correct. the bottom pic where you are asking is a hard drive cage that hold your hard drives. Also known a "HDD" Hard disk drive. The motherboard is the big green board everything else connects to. The CPU fan is the fan under what you wrote a motherboard, the heat sink is what the fan connects to and the CPU is what the heat sink touches before the motherboard.

fooball · Jul 28, 2014

I'm pretty sure the "what's this" part in the bottom right corner of the 2nd picture is the hard drive. That should be salvageable. I'm guessing that your pc is a prebuilt from hp or some other company. From what I know, I believe that your motherboard got fried. [strike]You probably don't want to keep the power supply, as if the case is indeed that your motherboard got fried, it means that your power supply wasn't good/ powerful enough (need confirmation for that).[/strike] You can keep the dvd drive, but it isn't worth much. You can buy a new one for $15, and a used one for even less. You can keep the case and case fans. I think you should be able to take off and keep your processor. The motherboards probably gone. You can keep your ram. You can also keep the network/wifi card/
[strike]All this is assuming that your motherboard is fried, but I may be wrong. [/strike]I'm not fully sure if my info is 100% correct, so I'll need some confirmation from someone more experienced

fooball · Jul 28, 2014

Mikeybb :

Tell us the specifications and/or model number of the pc, and we'll tell you whats worth keeping.

bgunner · Jul 28, 2014

fooball :

Why say the motherboard is/could be fried when there was no info given to that effect?

EDIT: FYI : also there are other reasons for the motherboard to die other than a PSU frying the board.

Mikeybb · Jul 28, 2014

Alright, that was awful quick. I don't believe the motherboard is fried. That sounds like something I'd notice and I posted my first post from that pc. It is a Dell and I'll post another post with system specs and other things in just a moment when I switch over to it.

Fooball, a couple questions for you. Where is the wifi card? And the RAM are the cards that are sticking in perpendicular into the motherboard?

Also, with the PCI-E x16 slot...I've heard that there are some that really only run x4 (and I really don't know what much of that really means except that x16 is better for graphics card). How can you tell the difference?

Thanks guys for the amazingly speedy responses,
Mike

fooball · Jul 28, 2014

bgunner :

fooball :

Why say the motherboard is/could be fried when there was no info given to that effect?

EDIT: FYI : also there are other reasons for the motherboard to die other than a PSU frying the board.

Oops. I thought I saw something about "fried" and that parts were gonna be reused. I'll cross that part out.
Maybe it was the "identifying" part which became "frying". Lol XD

Mikeybb · Jul 29, 2014

I don't know what all numbers to post. I saw this tutorial while browsing and I'll post all those numbers.

OS Name Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium
Version 6.1.7601 Service Pack 1 Build 7601
Other OS Description Not Available
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name MIKE-PC
System Manufacturer Dell Inc.
System Model Inspiron 660
System Type x64-based PC
Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3340 CPU @ 3.10GHz, 3101 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 4 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date Dell Inc. A10, 5/13/2013
SMBIOS Version 2.7
Windows Directory C:\Windows
System Directory C:\Windows\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume2
Locale United States
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "6.1.7601.17514"
User Name Mike-PC\Mike
Time Zone Central Daylight Time
Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 8.00 GB
Total Physical Memory 7.87 GB
Available Physical Memory 5.88 GB
Total Virtual Memory 15.7 GB
Available Virtual Memory 13.6 GB
Page File Space 7.87 GB
Page File C:\pagefile.sys

Other numbers and specs found in dxdiag:
Inspiron 660
i5-3340 CPU @ 3.1 GHz (4 CPUs)
Running Windows 7 (for my sanity) in 64-bit

If any other numbers are needed, please let me know and I'll try to find them.

Thanks again,
Mike

bgunner · Jul 29, 2014

The ram is the 2 cards "ram modules or ram sticks" that go vertically next to the CPU heat sink. As for the PCI-e X16 slot running X4 speeds. this usually only applies when there are more than 1 PCI-e x16 slot size slots. The x16 means that there are 16 lanes for the information to travel on to the north bridge or it's equivalent now in Intel systems. The x4 means that slot only have 4 lanes for the information to travel on.

The wifi card is under the ram slots. it is a square looking piece that has 2 wires going to it. those wires are for the antenna's.

bgunner · Jul 29, 2014

Mikeybb :

If you can please find out what PSU "Power supply unit" you have and what wattage It is. For upgrades a GPU and an SSD would be teh best places to spend the money. IF you do get a GPU then the PSU most likely will have to be replaced due to the low wattage PSU's OEM's like to use in there builds.

Mikeybb · Jul 29, 2014

bgunner :

Thanks bgunner. So, does that mean that it is an x16 running at x16 for sure? And I'm sorry to everyone for my inexperience with these things.

Mike

bgunner · Jul 29, 2014

Yes it is running the 16 lanes for sure.

Mikeybb · Jul 29, 2014

These are the numbers off the PSU: Model #: B300NM-00 Reference #: FH-XD301MYR-6. I believe it is a 300-watt unit.

Mike

Edit: Thanks again, bgunner.

bgunner · Jul 29, 2014

OK this is your PSU: http://www.circotech.com/dell-model-b300nm-00-p-n-0k43jv-300w-power-supply---.html

If you so choose to upgrade the GPU you will need to get a new PSU along with it.

EDIT: By new I am referring to a higher wattage PSU.

Mikeybb · Jul 29, 2014

bgunner :

Alright, I was aware of that. Is there a way to calculate how much power should be good for your build. I understand that adding a GPU, it should have a wattage printed on it. Would I add 300 to that number and call it good? Is that a decent approach?

Mike

bgunner · Jul 29, 2014

It depends on what GPU you are going to get. Each GPU has a recommended PSU wattage. I like to add 100 watts over that for my customers so the PSU will never hit the max output even if they add other components.

As an example my AMD Radeon HD 7970's recommended PSU is 550W psu. I would get a 650w to put into a customers machine. This will be enough power to power the machine even if overclocked and if more were added to the PSU like fans, Drives and peripherals at a later time.

Mikeybb · Jul 29, 2014

I see. That's good to know. Thank you for your help bgunner. I understand much more about what's in my case and what I need to do.

Mike

fooball · Jul 29, 2014

Mikeybb :

I think this calculator is accurate enough. Your processor (cpu), and memory(ram) look good, and I don't think you would need upgrade them for a while. As bgunner said, spending money on an ssd (solid state drive) and gpu(graphics/video card) is the best upgrade.
Look at this website for the best prices on parts if you are going to buy anything.
PS: am I off topic? I'm getting confused about the topic now. xD

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