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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I'll just buy some Dell Optiplex for $200 from eBay, and then maybe trow in a cheap GPU.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

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.

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[–] lath 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm the kind that used their PC as a heat provider during winter.

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[–] GrammatonCleric 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm the one that can't afford to build any PC 😭

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Scrounge for parts and build a low spec junker PC. It honestly sounds fun.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I recognize that game on the top panel's monitor...

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I bought a replacement cover for my case. No window. Cable management can suck my dick.

[–] frickineh 3 points 1 year ago

I specifically required a case with no windows on my last build. I don't need to see it, I just need it to work. Plus, I was too cheap to pay for for the same fan in black when the brown works just fine, so it was gonna be kind of ugly in the guts no matter what.

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[–] PeterPoopshit 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Bottom panel all the way. Expensive stuff dies/burns out at the same rate as cheap stuff, so you might as well go with the cheap stuff. The best way to pc game is on a budget custom build.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I once put a huge room fan on my computer when the CPU fan died. It worked! I'm much more extreme than that second panel.

[–] hypertown 5 points 1 year ago

I absolutely love both types. That's why I'm somewhere in between.

[–] Fedizen 5 points 1 year ago
[–] systemglitch 5 points 1 year ago

I am perfectly in the middle.

[–] FilthyShrooms 5 points 1 year ago

My pc looks like the first one (clear panel, same LED colors) but I most certainly feel like the second one with my rattling case fan that I never bothered to fix

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I do not deserve the one on the top. I brick my software on a monthly basis

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Depends, if it's all new stuff I'm the first one. If I'm swapping things out or cobbling something together from scraps it's the second one.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

What about sffpc?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I'm about to build my first PC, and I'm planning to be in the middle.

I don't need all the fancy shit I just want to build something (without RGB bullshit) that will last me a long time and run linux flawlessly (so AMD everything?).

I know there are sites that will help with parts/linux compatability but I lost all my bookmarks last week, and I haven't been able to find it again yet.

If anyone has advice for me or knows that site, I'm all eyes! (Would be "all ears" but this is text lol).

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[–] Quindius 4 points 1 year ago

I want to say the first, but it's the second

[–] chk232 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I drilled a hole in the wall and my PC is the nightlight of the kitchen. No noise.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Definitely the bottom one. I have a totally black PC case and one of the case fans has a power cable that's extended using 2 taped together GPIO cables from my raspberry pi kit. There's also a hard drive in there that hasn't been working for 1 year at least

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I took tin snips to the GeForce 310 from my old family computer because I had a SFF PC and wanted a second monitor, so I guess I'm the latter

[–] AEsheron 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There was the guy on reddit a week or so ago that was the fusion of these. Ran a custom cooling loop up his wall into the AC vent and got insanely low temps.

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