It’ll have been ten years for me too, bur I’ll pass not gonna lie. I still love my case despite it not being up to the same “standard” that modern PC builders hold aesthetic up to. I’ve got a corsair c70 for both my personal and workstation builds, it may be tacky but I love them!
My friend. I’m using a think center tower case from lenovo that I bough out of an office’s closure sale. The hard drives are zip tied to the frame because it only has one drive bay.
No don’t! Sleeper retro PCs are back in style, I wish I was joking but I’m serious. Pack that ten year old case with as much power your poor little wall outlet can provide!
I didn’t mean to say that products manufacturers produce will stop having RGB, yeah it’s here to stay. I meant people’s unique builds, stuff people post to /r/rate_my_pc, or builds.gg. Custom built and pre-built PCs are going to be slammed with more and more RGB until that case is brighter than the sun. PC parts are never going to get as cheap as they were 15 years ago I’m afraid.
I’m in between, I like/need my beefy components (for work) but I don’t worship my machine or feel the need to pimp it out, as long as it’s quiet and out of my way and provides the performance I’m happy. That’s why I have 0 RGB and use a big ass noctua fan instead of water-cooling.
If you look around you might be able to find a low spec one for cheap or even for free, and if you get really lucky you might find some rich gamer willing to throw away his high spec PC because he/she considers it outdated.
That last one is what happened with me, the guy wanted to throw away the PC because according to him it was 2 years old and thus “outdated”.
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 did that but the slim case didn’t fit a GPU so I just have the door off and a PCI-E extender with the GPU precariously resting on top of the hard drive.
I did this way back in like 2008. I was working in IT and snagged an optiplex and had the bright idea to throw a gpu in it and see how it did. Realized a few things, at this particular time the psu did not have the extra connector for the gpu, I should have known that. So I buy one to swap it out, realize Dell had a proprietary mobo connector and was apparently something they did but not all the time. So I had to buy an adapter to make it work. Also had the same issue with getting it to fit as well! It worked great once I took care of all that! Lasted like 4 years.
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
One of my SSDs just dangles in the case even though the rest of the build is put together just fine
Got a new SSD and didn’t think to measure out the distance the wire was going to need and it ended up like an inch short so it now just dangles from a little setup I did to remove tension from the connectors
Looks silly but since SSDs don’t have moving parts I see no reason it wont be fine
I’ve had a dangling SSD in my machine for years now, no issues. It’s one of those things you do when on a budget and things don’t work out fully as expected.
I also still habe optical drives in my machine, one of which is only in there because I no longer have the cover for the drive slot. The drive itself is disconnected and dead.
After my last build I had to rewire the case for some reason, which was a pain in the ass. Somehow, after the rewire, the "reset" button became the "on" button, and the "on" button does nothing but light up when the computer is on. I've been saying, "Meh, good enough" for seven years now.
I’ve had a dangling SSD in my machine for years now, no issues. It’s one of those things you do when on a budget and things don’t work out fully as expected.
Bottom PC is truly sexy to my eyes. That’s a PC someone looked into, with their limitations, a PC they wanted and did their best to get what they need and want
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