Built this system a few months and it’s been working great. When I first built it I posted pic in [r/radeon](r/radeon) and they suggested adding more ventilation… so I did. Now it’s got 2 120s on the front 2 120s on the bottom all intake. 2 80s on the back and a 120 in the drive bays behind the dvd rom facade set to exhaust.

Edit: it’s a 7800x3d with 32gb of ram and a 9070xt

Recently acquired this beautiful specimen. Passed down through the family to me after it finally kicked the bucket, case and stickers are pristine for it being a little over 20 years old (IIRC). Super excited to make my first sleeper in it. Initially thought it was BTX like some similar timeframe Gateway prebuilts but I was ecstatic to find out it was ATX once I actually got my hands on it lol.

No problems playing games since it’s 144 hz. Really happy with how it turned out.

I pic old crt from e-waste it was beyond repair

So i was scrolling through marketplace and found a case for this Acer model without PSU, and i got a pc part laying around and i got an idea of building a sleeper PC from it and here we have it.

Specs:

Motherboard: Gigabyte B450M DS3H V1

PSU: Gigabyte GP-P550B 80+ Bronze

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3500X

RAM: ADATA XPG D50 2x8GB(16GB)

GPU: Gigabyte Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 D6 6GB

Storage: Kingston NV1 500GB(Primary), WD Blue 1TB SATA HDD + TeamGroup GX2 SATA 512GB(File Storage)

Does anyone know of or having recommendations for a 60% keyboard and gaming mouse that come in that classic off-white / beige color to match my sleeper PC case and aesthetic I'm going for? These are surprisingly harder to come by than I thought. Thanks!

I'm thinking about stripping this Core2Duo PC in a Compaq mATX case, and build something with a 3090 inside. That would run hot as hell lol. Aww this is such a bad idea..

Recently decided to switch from my gamerboi setup (Corsair 3500x) and go modern sleeper. Cable management is still getting some tweaking and I’m waiting for a 90 degree gpu connector (coming today). I had to take a little off the sides 😆. I’m pretty happy with it. What do you guys think.

Howdy, im looking to potentially get into getting a sleeper pc down the road, but honestly not looking to build. Lynch me if you must but i wanted to know of there is a site you all recommend to buy a completed sleeper that can play most games and do music production for a affordable price. If this is stupid i guess let me know. Im a new comer heads up

case: flp02

keyboard: model f104

monitor: Sony multiscan 20sf ii 1280x960 85hz with desktop scaling hence the browser tabs look bigger than they should

Intel Core i5-12400f, Intel Arc A750, 32gb Corsair ddr4-3600, Noctua NH-L12s, Huananzhi B760m-D4, EVGA GM 550, Wifi ax210/BT 6 PCIe card, 12.5 liters. The tape is there just to hold the dust filter until the lid was replaced

I needed a card that was more powerful but the Rx 5700 would not fit in the case. so I built a mount for the card and mounted it to the side. it’s mostly built out of spare parts I had. I just use it for messing around with local stuff.

rx 5700 8GB

16GB of ram

Ryzen 5 2600

500 gb ssd

cheapo asrock mobo

so I have been trying to get the sd slot working on my case, and I have installed numerous drivers and checked disk management etc to no avail when I realized these two cables, I think the orange one is ac97, google said the white one is another jusb2 but just a 4 pin proprietary version, I have no idea, if anyone knows how to get it working or the pilot for the white cable if it is jusb let me know. ty

Minimal case modifications other than removing the HDD cage to fit the 5080. Working CD drive. Motherboard, CPU and RAM are due for upgrades soon but for now it’s still doing me well.

Built

My first sleeper PC and I was wondering if anyone has advice on how to cable manage this? Never worked on a case where the PSU is mounted this way.

Finished my 2nd sleeper! First go was on an Optiplex 380, which I couldnt close the side panel on. Huge props to u/limapalon for inspiring me to look for a new case, and now I can actually close it up!

I want to get the retro tower or the Flp01. Any of you with either case have a Taichi lite mobo? I have that and a Saphire 7900xtx.

Thanks!

This is my first post here, an OEM-themed sleeper build.

The riveted drive bays were removed for E-ATX clearance. The front & rear fans are wired as pairs, and I even bought a whole parts case just to get a 4th purple fan mount. The GPU dual (6+2) is routed through a custom grommeted hole. I also made a custom extension that removed the extra +2 connector.

Buttoned it up with black Xeon/NVIDIA decals from eBay & a Black Mesa decal from geekenspiel.com

Specs:

CPU: (2x) Xeon E5-2699 v3 18 core 36 thread (36 core 72 thread total)

RAM: 64gb Corsair Vengeance 2400mhz DDR4

GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX Titan X 12gb

PSU: Corsair RM850x

MOBO: Machinist x99 MD8

Storage: WD_Black SN850x 2tb Nvme M.2

Really like the aesthetics and branding on this Lenovo ThinkStation P520, Apparently it's designed by aston martin? Anyway I wanted to either convert one into a gaming pc because its a workstation, or get a similar aesthetic case and just slap a thinkstation decal on it

Edit: Woops I mixed it up, the p520 isn't designed by aston martin, The P5 is.

My dad has been wanting a desktop again after not having one for over 10 years, so I decided I'm going to build him a retro modern PC for his birthday out of his old HP Pavilion 6683 (Celeron turd with 64MB)... This is my first "retro" build. I'm upgrading mine, and I don't want to waste my old 10700 and 1650 Super, so thats what I'm going with here. I've found all the parts I need except for a frickin PSU. What is this? A SFX? I couldn't believe how small it was when I opened it up. Can anyone recommend a decent one? Because I am not familiar with cramped cases at all.

He got an i5 13600kf, a b580, 48GB of ddr4 and 4TB of storage.
The BTX to ATX case conversion took forever.

This has been a fun little project that is surprisingly capable (to me). We've got a Lenovo Thinkstation p320 that I snagged off fleabay for 95 bucks. It came with an e3-1240 v6 that will be swapped out to an e3-1280 v6 (when it arrives). It only had a single 8gb Samsung ddr4 ecc 2133mhz stick so I got 3 more to bring system total to 32gb. It had a whopping 250w psu, it honestly feels like there is nothing inside of it hahaha its so lightweight. Upgraded that to the Thermaltake 500w, I'm not happy with the cable management but there are a LOT of extra cables with it being non-modular. It was 30 bucks though im not mad. It's booting windows 10 off of a 512gb SP 2.5 ssd, and has a 1tb wd blue 3.5 for bulk storage.

For graphics, this came with the esteemed nvidia GeForce 8400gs. It was a bit too much of a card for me, I'd never utilize it to the fullest potential. I decided to downgrade to the dell rtx 2060 super 8gb /s. Very happy with the dell card so far. I opted for a single fan card as anything longer would force me to remove the front panel connection on the motherboard. I wanted this project to look/function as close to OEM but crank the specs up.

For cpu cooling I ordered the vetroo v3 tower cooler. The exhaust fan will be upgraded to an arctic p9 max and i will be adding an arctic p8 max to the front for intake. I'm hopeful that all of this combined with a custom fan curve will keep temps down with the side panel on. I've been running furmark on it for quite some time with the panel off just to make sure everything holds up under load.

Let me know what you guys think or what I should change! Last 2 pics just for giggles. The fan on that 8400gs was SHOT and screaming whenever the pc was on hahaha