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minato posted:Friend of mine turned one of these into a fridge. Yeah, that was always my plan. I have a fridge that just about fits, but I'd want to integrate the door properly and mine has a separate freezer so that's no good.
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0toShifty posted:I've been working on my Pentium overdrive PC. This is an AT motherboard with the big DIN keyboard connector, so I used a serial mouse to get going in Windows. My GOD... I can hear the song in my head. Don't forget Daredevil Dan.
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There was also a trivia game you could play on it too.
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New Clickspring video! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uc-hUvbqqh8
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Shai-Hulud posted:What do you mean anachronistic good lord. what are those clips at the bottom of the case even for?  Also lucky you that you got a new card.
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Those are slides for mounting things in the screwless drive bay
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Fallom posted:Those are slides for mounting things in the screwless drive bay it's got a while mag of extra sliders mounted to the bottom...jesus. where's the meat drawer?
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It's kinda rad that ATX has stuck with us for nearly three decades even if the slot design sucks for cooling. I think it would make sense for an updated standard to make it mandatory for the case to provide fan cooling for pci cards and a hardware sensor standard where each card could report temperatures and control the system fans at firmware level so you could do away with the giant separate gpu fan shrouds that end up blocking a bunch of slots or suffocating if you cram too many high power cards in there. Rack servers are much better at cooling in that sense, it's just one big wind tunnel from front to back and server expansion cards typically don't have any fans of their own.
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I'm currently finishing putting together a PC upgrade that is to go in a recording studio's rack, so the existing case is awesome and old school. Was a AMD Phenom based system, excuse the cables, it's not quite finished yet...  Inside now, 10th gen intel CPU, I have used a Republic of Gamers Asus motherboard as they are just bullet proof and this will be in a mobile studio  It's such a sleeper system I love it, boot up into windows takes around 5 seconds  There was so much crap in this thing, I had to vacuum and disinfect the whole inside of it
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peter gabriel posted:
I like the idea of a sleeper PC, so you can pull up on fools and just smoke em at the light. You know, live life a megabyte at a time.
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Don’t get caught granny clockin
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I just don't like the look of modern cases, and I like the idea of reusing old stuff.
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Bargearse posted:I just don't like the look of modern cases, and I like the idea of reusing old stuff. I like old and new, mostly new. On that note, I saw a case last year at PAX, where the glass door was a transparent LCD display that had all these animations, it was loving sick.
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Dec 24, 2020 02:30
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I love my rainbow LEDs in that shine out of my Fractal's glass panel and none of you can take that away from me.
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Back in my day computers were boring beige boxes and that’s the way it should be !!
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I never look at my case, even though it's some MLG looking thing with LEDs on the fans etc. It sits in the next room with cables passing through to this room on account of the big honking 12 Bay SAS HDD Rack sounding like a cyclone.
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I modded my current case long ago, only PC case I've ever modded. I cut a large window into the side and put plexiglass in, put blacklights and some other led's and a toggle switch, and it's pretty rad but I would never bother modding one again cause I almost never turn the lights on. I really wish miniITX was more of a thing, I really want a super compact case that I can put a full sized GPU in.
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My case has a glass side and the interior aesthetic is as black and dark as my heart. The only light is from the thin line of orange LEDs around the back of my Aorus motherboard, and it's otherwise all shadowy in there. I even got a black CPU cooler to go with the rest of the aesthetic.
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LifeSunDeath posted:I really wish miniITX was more of a thing, I really want a super compact case that I can put a full sized GPU in.
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Collateral Damage posted:There are plenty of mini-ITX cases that fit a full size GPU. Come on over to the small form factor thread and marvel at people's computer part tetris. it's expensive though, the mobo's/cases, like add 100 bux more each than they should be. That's why I wish it was more common, so it would drop the price. e, ok these cases are super cramped, guess airflow is an issue at some point. oh well.
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Bargearse posted:Back in my day computers were boring beige boxes and that’s the way it should be !! You forgot the nightmare lack of standards. All the holes and slots are wrong!
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oohhboy posted:You forgot the nightmare lack of standards. All the holes and slots are wrong! I remember extremely sharp stamped metal that would ginsu your hand if you looked at it funny. I remember loving jumpers that I had no clue how to use properly. I remember molex plugs that required brute force to disconnect. I also remember stupid rear end pc speakers that tbh I always hated.
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LifeSunDeath posted:I remember extremely sharp stamped metal that would ginsu your hand if you looked at it funny. I remember loving jumpers that I had no clue how to use properly. I remember molex plugs that required brute force to disconnect. I also remember stupid rear end pc speakers that tbh I always hated. Heat sinks you attached by using a screwdriver for leverage that always seemed like they were going to slip and you'd drive it through the motherboard
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LifeSunDeath posted:it's expensive though, the mobo's/cases, like add 100 bux more each than they should be. That's why I wish it was more common, so it would drop the price. just leave the side panel off duh
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Fil5000 posted:Heat sinks you attached by using a screwdriver for leverage that always seemed like they were going to slip and you'd drive it through the motherboard seemed like = did
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Bargearse posted:Back in my day computers were boring beige boxes and that’s the way it should be !! German spotted!
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Fil5000 posted:Heat sinks you attached by using a screwdriver for leverage that always seemed like they were going to slip and you'd drive it through the motherboard I'm getting flashbacks like I was in the 'Nam, please use trigger warnings for posts like these
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LifeSunDeath posted:I remember extremely sharp stamped metal that would ginsu your hand if you looked at it funny. I remember loving jumpers that I had no clue how to use properly. I remember molex plugs that required brute force to disconnect. I also remember stupid rear end pc speakers that tbh I always hated. These fuckers were thirsty for my blood: 
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oohhboy posted:You forgot the nightmare lack of standards. All the holes and slots are wrong! And always the cutout for the AT keyboard port was in the wrong place.
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LifeSunDeath posted:I remember extremely sharp stamped metal that would ginsu your hand if you looked at it funny. I remember loving jumpers that I had no clue how to use properly. I remember molex plugs that required brute force to disconnect. I also remember stupid rear end pc speakers that tbh I always hated. I have one visible scar on my hands - a small, but distinct line on a knuckle on my left hand. It's from pulling a molex power connector out of a drive and banging my hand into some razor sharp edge when it finally, suddenly, gave way. SATA power connectors are one of my favourite quality of life upgrade over the years.
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gently caress IDE and its stiff ribbons, shallow connections that’ll come lose or straight up fall out if you gently nudge the ribbon wrong, molex power for aforementioned reasons, and of course JUMPER SETTINGS forever.
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r u ready to WALK posted:It's kinda rad that ATX has stuck with us for nearly three decades even if the slot design sucks for cooling. Get that BTX bullshit out of the thread. God loving drat it I hated that poo poo. I replaced bespoke Dell motherboard after bespoke Dell motherboard in my mom's computer until I got sick of it and bought her something else with standard ATX components so I wouldn't have to hunt through any more shady Ebay auctions for motherboards I could only hope actually followed BTX standards. e. Just realized you were talking about case cooling for GPUs not CPUs, my bad.  There's a solution - how many things do we actually insert into expansion slots these days? Just eliminate four out of the eight slots from the midtower ATX spec, two x4 PCIe slots at the top for expansion cards and two more x16 with a two card space between them as dedicated GPU slots. Maybe not even that many, SLI looks to be dead in the water again.
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modern molex is a lot less awful than the old white connectors, they have this handy extra bit of plastic that forces the connector out when you squeeze the sides AT power plugs and bare pin headers can gently caress off forever though, anything where you can insert the plug upside down or accidentally shift it from side to side and end up blowing up the computer
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Shai-Hulud posted:What do you mean anachronistic I might have posted my PC in this thread before. However the innards are also starting to get on in age.  
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Interesting setup in the old PS/1 case. Nice 
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Nicely done. I'm hoping when I get around to doing my next build I'll be able to integrate a Kryoflux into the case.
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High Protein posted:I might have posted my PC in this thread before. However the innards are also starting to get on in age. Nice job! I have an old IBM PS/2 tower - it looks like yours except it’s much taller and has a big beefy flip-down handle on the top. I think it worked when I mothballed it - MCA cards and all.  I was planning on converting it to ATX one day, but after spending a month properly converting a Dell XPS from BTX to ATX, I think I’m going to try to get it running again as a DOS machine.
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High Protein posted:I might have posted my PC in this thread before. However the innards are also starting to get on in age. ok this case is rad, I was always so jelly of people with a digital display on their case.
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LifeSunDeath posted:ok this case is rad, I was always so jelly of people with a digital display on their case. It took quite a bit of effort to get that to work, but I was able to find out how to send commands to the display. It's now driven over USB by an Arduino that receives the text from a CoreTemp plugin.
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