I'm sure a lot of people are stuck at home... Before all of this stuff went down, I built a PC for one of my buddies at work and it kinda tossed me down the rabbit hole. I was trying to save him some money and get rid of some of my spare parts in the process. All he needed was a motherboard from Microcenter to pair it up with my i7 9700K and 32GB of 3600MHz CL18 RAM. We grabbed a brand new Gigabyte Z390 Aorus PRO WIFI board. I got everything all nice and tidy, hooked everything up exactly like it was supposed to be... Fired up the PC and it wouldn't boot. I found out it would only boot with RAM slots 1 and 2 and only run in single channel mode. I got it up and going for a Windows install thinking if I just install the RAM in the right sequence it will eventually work... it didn't. I had an ASUS STRIX X299-E GAMING and found a good deal on a i9 9900X so we switched it up and went that route. I was able to get rid of about 4 case fans, a motherboard, memory kit, and power supply. A few weeks later I was kind of interested in finding a decent motherboard for my i7 9700K and 4266MHz RAM that I have not found my self needing to sell yet... So I found some good deals on few parts to get it all put together to keep myself a little busy on a fun project.
 
Here are pictures of my buddies build:

One stick's LED was not operating at the time of the picture... I didn't snap another one after I fixed it lol






 
Here is the spec list for my build:
Motherboard: MSI MEG Z390 ACE
CPU: i7 9700K
Power Supply: EVGA P2 1000
RAM: G.Skill 4X8GB 4266MHz CL17
Video Card: Not really sure yet...
Hard Drive: Crucial MX100 512GB
Case: Anidees Crystal Cube
Radiators: EKWB 280mm and 240mm
Case Fans: 5 Anidees RGB fans, 2 Noctua Redux 140mm and 1 Noctua Redux 120mm
I'm waiting on the water pump, fittings and tubing to finish up the custom loop.

Here is what I have put together so far:







 

Very nice. You are very nice to your friends. 😉

That is one awesome 'spare parts' build. 

Well... I went off and bought a RTX 2070 to finish it up. I can't get it to boot yet... Hoping it's not a bad motherboard. 

notfordman
They both look nice and neat. You did your buddy well. :) 

Thanks man! I think he likes the new build so far.
 

Grey_Beard
Very nice. You are very nice to your friends. 😉

I have been trying to get this friend to upgrade for quite some time. 
 

Jayrock
Heck of a "spare" build. Good friend!

 
lol - I didn't give him those parts for free... A nice discount though.
 

rjohnson11
That is one awesome 'spare parts' build. 

Yeah, it's turned out pretty well.
 

seth89
Rig names:
Covid-Build, Quarantine2020, Don't kill the family build.

lol pretty much...

Nice one.  

If you have some spare parts still, use it for Folding@Home with Team EVGA.  We could use MOAR powa captain!   ...and of course, it's for a great cause including COVID-19.

A little update, got the new water block and back-plate today. Got that part installed, have not messed with my loop yet. Will do that later...
 
Here are some pictures:
https://imgur.com/gallery/5d03td1
 

CraptacularOne

RainStryke
 

CraptacularOne
Looks like you have a "spare parts" closet filled with almost as much stuff as mine 

haha! Yeah... Not really sure what i'm going to do with it all after I get bored of benchmarking runs, but I love building it all.
 
 

 
Just do what I do.....make another shelf and keep as much of it secret from your wife/GF and hope she never really questions it too much 

 
I need to make some shelves! Getting really hard to keep it under the radar now that she never leaves the house. . Not sure how i'm going to hide my new monitor. 

Glad to know Im not the only one who randomly snags parts simply because it's too good of a deal to pass up.

Great work.  I've built several systems for friends that were in need of a PC mostly from spare parts lying about.  Granted, nothing at the level of a 9700k