Case swap with HP Pavillion Gaming

I bought a HP pavillion gaming with GTX 1650 super right when things started to get bad with Graphic cards. I paid a hefty price. It was not worth for GTX 1650 super and definitely not worth for a boring prebuild gaming PC.

However, I wanted to do 2 things with that PC and I did. #1 I Want to see if I can use OEM Ryzen processor with regular motherboards and #2 Want to do a case swap to move parts over to a cheap but better-looking gaming case, probably with a tempered glass side panel.

I got Darkflsh DLM22 black micro ATX case. It was a great choice under $50 cases. I was hoping to use all the parts from prebuild PC except the case. To my surprize, I could only use few parts. The motherboard was custom made, the power supply was no good with its TFX form factor and has no standard 24 pin MOBO power connector.

I ended up using the processor, RAM, NVME ssd and OfCourse, the Graphic card. Those the expensive parts in any build though. I paired those parts with the Darkflash case, EVGA power supply, RGB cooler and added RGB case fans. The RAM and NVMe ssd both look bad with their blue pcbs so had to dress them up in nice RGB heat sinks.

Overall, I finished the case swap for around $200. If only I bought the PC at a great price, this would have made better sense. I now have a GTX 1650 super PC that costs $1100. Costly mistakes but useful knowledge.