Not the case, but I did this since I didn’t have the correct monitor stand
Not sure why it rotated my picture 90 degrees. But yes that is a 2x4 and yes those are zip ties
You’re my hero.
And the 90 degree image that’s not worth fixing because it still works just adds to the overall picture.
My wife gets visibly angry when she sees it. It’s fun.
Nice. My monitor stand is a cardboard box. It’s sagging already… time to find another box.
When I was single and moved awhile back I had a $500 gift card to walmart given to us by our company to help us out after a hurricane wrecked the area. I went on Sam’s website and ordered a bed, sheets and pillows. The box for the bed became my computer desk and the boxes for the pillows became my night stands. 5 gallon pickle bucket from a nearby restaurant became my computer chair. I used it like that for a year and a half… then someone came along and we upgraded some things. I looked at it as being poor and ♻️, but others don’t always see it thay way haha
What if I’ve been the second one for over 15 years but I finally got to build myself a whole brand new machine with flagship CPU and GPU?
Fuck RGB and glass panels, tho.
Lately been looking for a case for another build and wow, this tempered glass thing is way out of control.
It’s such fucking bullshit, when I built my first from scratch pc and wanted something utilitarian without glass panels my options were cheap Chinese garbage, tiny ITX/microATX case, Fractal Design, or overpriced designer garbage… I’m now all in on Fractal Design, everything I’ve built or recommended since has been Fractal Design.
Haha seriously. I’m also looking at Fractal.
What’s wrong with it? I like how it makes my PC look, and the screws hold it in securely.
I work on multimedia art installations so the PCs I build get transported and put in various places. Glass adds weight and is always in danger of shattering.
It means you’re one year away from reverting back. But what a year it’ll be!
Reverting? Never.
It’ll happen to YOU
I don’t know anymore what are we exactly talking about…
I’ve self taught myself how to build and repair PCs since I was about 15-16, I got my first IT job at 19 and I still work in IT 15 years later, so this is my thing, it’s vocational, although now I work more in software than hardware.
IDK if you’re talking about running of money for a good build, getting tired of building my own computers or something else…
Just joking because it happened to me. I was finally able to make a current build with all the bells and whistles after years of being the bottom pic. Then it didn’t take long for the new PC to be a little outdated, and I reverted to making less sophisticated solutions to keep it current.
Ah, I see. I’ve always had PCs without top tier components and I’ve still used them for many years as is, by only upgrading to SSDs and installing higher capacity HDDs when the old ones died. For instance, half of my last PC since circa 2014 was half of giveaway parts with an Intel Quad CPU (not even i series), 8GB of RAM and a GTS250.
I hope that this one I built with flagship AMD CPU and GPU and 64GB or RAM remains as my main PC as long as its parts last, with minimal ugrades, if any. Although I have to admit that I chose the AM5 socket with upgradability in mind.
I usualy settle for little regarding computers but maybe now I get hooked up to running videogame at ultra settings, but I don’t even have o want a 4K display, so who knows. Time will tell.
Yes, I’m aware I’m doing a long serious reply to a joke, lol.
Edit: typos
It feels like specs haven’t been increasing lately as rapidly as they used to, so I bet yours will last for a good while.
Long serious replies to jokes are part of why I enjoy Lemmy, friend. Lol
Edge to edge glass is a bit silly but having a window is nice to be able to see at a glance that fans and such are working normally.
I’m not against plexiglas/plastic windows, but real glass, even tempered, for me is a very potential broken panel.
And those who have their PC case on the floor can’t take much advantage of a transpatent panel to see the fans…
I think real is ok so long as it’s got a frame all around it. The single panels of glass seem like madness to me. I do prefer plexiglass personally. I also definitely have my pc on the floor and can see inside it at a glance. (Better than when I was briefly obliged to have it on my desk). It’s not stashed under the desk though TBF.
How well do those panels resist clumsy owners? I’m the kind of guy who always drops shit LTT style.
Afaik they’re not likely to shatter to bumps. It’s contact with something hard and sharp that’s the big issue.
I’m not really a fan of RGB and glass panels either to be honest, too flashy, I prefer simplier designs and cases.
PC builds aren’t all so polarized. I am in the middle, spent like $1500 on components and built it myself and it looks great and runs smoothly. Sure, it doesn’t run Cyberpunk on Psycho but it’s running Starfield very nicely and I didn’t even have to tape an AC unit to it.
I’d say I’m somewhere in the middle too. I also have this tendency to build high mid-tier as my budget allows then ride it for 7 years or so until the games I play start struggling. I just don’t have the money to keep up with the latest and greatest/upgrading every year.
…admittedly since Baldur’s Gate 3 came out I’ve been using my PC as a space heater so take that as you will…
This, but also it’s blacked out and in a plain ass case.
The desktop gaming PC that I have was a very nice PC like the one from the first panel but I got it as e-waste dirt cheap because the previous owner wanted to throw it away since it was 2 years old and he thought it was outdated. That’s absolutely insane and wasteful, I hope most people aren’t like this.
I did take it apart and redo it though in a much less flashy case, call me a heretic but I don’t really like LEDs and window cases I prefer a much simpler look. So I guess this one would be kind of like the second one, even though all the parts are very nice and new.
Though I did assemble my Pentium 2 and 486 PCs from scratch, kind of like the first one but I guess that doesn’t really count because they are almost all old parts (New soundcards though) and they’re retro gaming PCs.
To me the two types are the kind that have really good looking, color coordinated components and then myself who has a random assortment of totally mismatched components because they were the cheapest or best performing option.
Yes. I also occupy a different space than the options given. Meticulous research, putting together the best value (balancing cost and performance), not caring about visual appeal or setting any high benchmarks.
Definitely the bottom for me. All I care about is that it runs, can run whatever I want it to, and for games has more of a stable framerate. Looks definitely come second to functionality, if you ask me.
This is me as well. I grew up when PCs were just a beige box, utterly boring and uninspiring. The cool thing happened on the screen! My GPU has some LEDs and stuff but I only got it because it was cheaper than one without, and I still have a case without a window so whatever
Do you have the mouse mat with tits though? You gotta have that to qualify.
Wait, y’all use a mousepad? /s
I don’t since I don’t even have a mousepad at the moment.
I’ll go against the grain in the comments:
I’m the top one.
I hadn’t gamed in 20 years and this got me back into it. I wanted it all white. I never buy myself anything nice or new. And it was fun to learn how to build a PC. Don’t @ me.
No shame in that. It’s a fun experience to get really into building.
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I figured out a long time ago that making the PC pretty is useless
I’ve been building PCs since the beige era. Mine have never been pretty.
There is a 3rd type.
Those with the “dark horse”.
It’s a smallish black box PC, no RGB, mini-itx sized, sits under the desk, mostly out of sight.
Quiet, well cooled.
Has the latest gen CPU & GPU, oodles of ram and nvme storage.In the same vein, the ancient Beige Box with the same specs as the Dark Horse. It might not have as good of cooling and might be significantly louder, but it’ll keep up just as well. I had to use two 13,000RPM 80mm server fans for intake and exhaust in mine to cool an i9-12900k
This will be my next build.
It’s what I have.
Case choice for mini-itx is pretty limited, but it’s getting better. There are group buyins for small run manufacturing, like mechanical keyboards - but I’ve never been involved in one of those.
Not sure if there are any that would fit a 4090, tho!But I love em!
I have a clean desk, nothing flashing, no risk of a glass side panel exploding.
The builds are a little more challenging and more expensive, but I quite enjoy it. Have to make sure parts fit, cable management has to be spot on, you need decent fans because there are less of them
Are you asking me if I’m a top or a bottom?
Yes
fukin lmao
Lol my ssd’s are just hanging out of the case by their sata cables. I’m missing some hardware so its just guts-out until I find that ziplock bag full of screws (i remember seeing it a couple years ago). my wrist is killing me tho, that ergo mouse pad makes a lot of sense.
I’m missing some hardware so its just guts-out until I find that ziplock bag full of screws (i remember seeing it a couple years ago).
Skimming this I read you as saying the whole machine was in a bag and now I’m like, “Yeah, what if one built a PC in bag-like shape?”
My 6900XT doesn’t fit in my 8 year old case and the cover has been off for 2 years now :)
There’s a rattle from one of the case fans I need to fix, but it disappears when under load, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I’m the guy who bought one ridiculously expensive component that’s now bottlenecked by the rest of the build until I can replace everything else haha
That’s how I do my builds, just one rolling bottleneck rather than doing a complete build.
I’m not about to do the thinking and math required… but I’m curious if this is actually a decent way to go about upgrading on a budget. If this actually gets you a comparable average experience to saving money at the same rate, but only upgrading when you’ve got enough for a whole new build.
Not sure how people do that. It’s not like you can upgrade the processor without the motherboard (at least these days. Socket always seems to change every time I need a new one. And memory type is almost as often.
That’s your fault for buying Intel. AMD boards get several generations. They’ve just switched to AM5. Build a system around that and you could probably throw in a great brand new CPU in about 5 years time and get ten years out of it.
A few months ago I spent 2800€ on a new build with a flagship AMD CPU and GPU.
I lost my shit when I realized I had installed a mobo that supported PCIe 5.0 for storage but only PCIe 4.0 for the card slots, until I checked the specs of my RT7900 XTX and saw that it was also PCIe 4.0, so I was even.
I also ignored the RAM OC compatibility sheet of the mobo, as the manufacturer can never test every possible RAM module, and I got other modules that were still within the supported OC ranges. When I tried to overclock the RAM the system became completely unstable, so I cannot use them to their full potential.
I’m still happy of my non-rgb and non-glass panels build, tho.
Hey, are you me making my pandemic build?
I still haven’t upgraded the component that I need to, and it’s been 2 years.
I like to think I’m the first but actually I’m the second.
I’ll be the 1st for about a week while after I’ve researched parts and stuff, but then turn into the 2nd for the remainder of that PC’s lifespan.
The poor one.
