Category: Fry’s Builds

I think what makes this one unique is that the customer chose an AMD video card. The vast majority of builds I did were Nvidia cards. The card is an RX 5700 (reference card) which is still a decent card. I should know, my card is an RX 5600XT which is the card right below…

This is another of the different type of cases that I built in during my years at Fry’s. I call it the “AmmoBox Case”. Its official name is the Vengeance C70. I didn’t get a picture of the final product here. I am not sure why, but let’s move on with the build. The parts…….

I affectionately call this the “popcorn machine” build. This the largest case I have ever built in. The Quadstellar was quite large, but it had for chambers. This is just one big case. I mean, this sucker is HUGE. Complete set of parts Themrltake TheTower 900 Intel Core i7-7700k Corsair Dominator Platinum RAM 32GB (2×16)…

This build was in a SFF (Small Form Factor) case and was a challenge in a different way that the big gaming case builds. Trying to get these components in the case and make it look good… The parts… Intel Pentium G4620 MSi B250M PRO-VD Motherboard SPI TX 300 SFF power supply PacSun 8GB DDR…

Introduction For part 2, we are going to break down the high-level stats that I went over in part 1 and see what actual products were I built with… Case Any surprises? Look at all of the different Thermaltake models. I was a bit surprised by that. CPU No real surprises here. Intel was still…

So, I have been working on indexing my builds I did while I was at Fry’s and these are some data points that are pretty neat. Keep in mind that for the majority of that time, customers were not allowed to bring in outside parts and get the same labor price, so most opted to…

This is a look back at my favorite build of 2019 from working at Fry’s. None of these parts were purchased at Fry’s and most of them are not carried there, anyway. Look at these parts… the customer who put these parts together did his homework. Not just because these are quality parts but: He…

This was a major rebuild.. only because this is the first one I remember that has a floppy drive connection on the motherboard. Look at this hot mess… we are going to update the components and clean it up. FDD!?! First one of these I have seen in this department except some of the units…

I was able to build a number of custom machines at Fry’s during 2018. I don’t have an exact number, but there were a lot of them. But a few stood, but this one stood out about all of those…