Judge not…
I might judge a little.
Winning. So much wow!
This is the dude I’d turn down any 1v1 Starcraft matches against at the lan party.
Reminds me of when I made a pc as a media center for my roommates out of old spare pc parts and the box that their xbox360 came in.
Had to turn it on by using a paper clip to short the right two pins, lol.
I test-“built” my first gaming pc with all the parts laying on my bed.
The only computer parts store within cycling distance just put returned parts back on the shelf, so there was about an 80% chance at least one part you bought was dead out of the box.Later I remembered that that’s possible, and built a gaming rig with all parts mounted openly on the wall behind my desk.
to short the right two pins
That’s the core principle of how switches work. You have done everything right.
Legit badass. “Hotwire the PC so we can watch a movie!”
You know, you could have run down to the electronics store and bought an actual button for those pins. Still, that sounds like a fun build.
Literally thinking outside the box.
Why even bother putting the side cover back on? I left mine open for years.
Fuckin’ eh. My power supply is slung out the side to make room for a video card, with the case panel resting askew on top all perched on a milk crate. Like a slasher flick autopsy.
I did this, except in a cardboard box, plugged into an outlet with no ground, and using it to mine cryptocurrency. Somehow I didn’t burn down my apartment.
maybe pet hair? dust? maybe they get laid?
You’re talking about three different things, right? … right?
I toucha da
fishcat.
hey if you can sexually satisfy dust and cat hair, you should consider starting an onlyfans. while the human brain often confuses sneezing for orgasms, it’s only partial credit.
They’re a pc gamer, they sure as shit ain’t getting laid.
Put energy into women, or put energy into Helldivers.
I’ve been through enough trauma to know that Helldivers is way healthier
Probably sound mitigation
PSU popping noises and smoke…
although a joke, usually oem psus are fairly high efficiency, just low wattage. however the image uses a gpu without a 6/8/12 pin connector, so its highly unlikely the up to 75W load would kill the system when the psus are usually rated for 200, and the cpu usually only uses 1/4 of that
I actually did need to take a hacksaw to a Dell case when the PSU died, because they used a proprietary form factor. It was just removing some of the back panel and it worked fine.
Once upon a time I think they also had custom pinouts on the ATX connector, so just replacing your PSU with a standard one would fry your mobo
What a bunch of assholes.
Yeeeep. I did this. Very disheartening after spending the time with a Dremel to modify the back panel enough for it to fit.
They did, I was about to say the same thing! I had to buy an adapter to make it work right. This was like mid to late 2000’s. I work in IT for a company and didn’t want to spend money on a new PC yet so I snagged one from work that was no longer used. It got the job done, but yeah it was crazy to see what they did to make it so you couldn’t swap or change some things inside.
Fuckin pricks turning the goddamn cpus 45° so no cooler would ever fit… grrr
“Think outside the box.”
How did you get a picture of my PC!?
I joke…I at least 3d printed a cover for the card lol
That PLA is melting as we speak.
Pet-G brah, only the good stuff
The hole in the side is a speed-hole. It makes the computer go faster.
I kind of think more designs should be like that. Let the GPU breathe cold air from outside the case.
There were a lot of experiments with wind tunnels and such back in the day. In the end, the difference wasn’t significant enough to justify the R&D.
??? You don’t wind tunnel test for thermals. That’s for aerodynamics. It’s well known that a GPU outside of a case runs cooler than inside.
It’s why cases are tested by putting a GPU inside and reporting the thermals at idle and load. It is significant.
I mean physical tunnels from the front or side of the case directed at the cooler heatsink to direct outside air directly onto the heatsink. There were tons of different designs for that concept back in the day, but you don’t really see it very often now.
Maybe they didn’t mean wind tunnel, but that they lit a cigarette and checked the airflow 🤷
This looks like a Basic Bitch® office workstation. Surely you could put the same graphics card in a price-comparable gaming rig without having to resort to this…
A basic bitch office workstation is like $20 at a garage sale to $150 from a refurb shop with a Windows license. Cutting the case is twenty minutes for template and cut.
Nothing fiscally competes with these.
The Ryzen 7 5700G can get hot.
I call it DeskMiniMax.
Slightly related: You remember back when cases would have little grommets for water cooling lines because the reservoir and/or the tank would be external to the PC case?
Noice.
