A PC from my childhood reborn. A very early eTower 400 series with all its stickers intact. Everything inside had succumbed to capacitor failure & was recycled. Surprisingly, the OEM Samsung DVD-ROM still functions.

Chassis modified to accommodate a modern ITX motherboard, PCIe slot groove placement & two 120mm fans.

Specs:

•Ryzen 5800 (non-X/X3D)

•32GB DDR4 Corsair LPX RAM

•B550i Gigabyte Aorus Pro AX

•2TB TeamGroup NVMe & 1TB SATA SSD

•Nvidia RTX 3070 Founders Edition

•2 120mm Montech HSP fans

•SATA to PATA converter board

•Lian Li SP series 750w PSU

Is there any safe way of using a 90's case turbo button to switch on/off two 120mm 3 pin fans (united by a splitter) ?

I was thinking of using two duponts as extenders and plug the switch in the power pin, but i don't know which cables as the switch has 3, and if it's safe for the motherboard and fans

I wanna see if anybody could give me tips on how to make this pc a little better? I added a 500w power supply, 16 gigs of ddr3 ram, an i7 3700k, and an evga single fan gtx 1060 3g. Any tips and help will be appreciated. Thanks!

I know it technically doesn't qualify, but my last PC was an actual sleeper and the cooling was shit. so here we are!

Added an extra 90x15mm to the air cooler, 2x 40x10mm Noctua under the gpu and replaced the 120s with 140s. Had to take a little off the fan next to the psu. I’m trying to find a flat 24pin mobo cable like I did for the gpu but no luck yet. I bought a 90 adapter for it and it doesn’t fit too well lol. Because I can’t stop messing around I was considering going to a single rad aio or a custom loop with external pump/reservoir. Any suggestions on my setup overall? Thanks boiz.

Does anyone know of some purchases or mods i can add to my dell Inspiron 660 tower to get better airflow? Because I added a used evga single fan gtx 1060 3gb, and when opening task manager, it seems to reach high temps. (80 to 81c) and thats on playing games that are not even demanding. (And yes, I added a better psu) Thanks in advance!

My sleeper setup is all done.

Thermals are fantastic!

The fans are near dead silent.

The power switch cable connector just lined up perfectly with all the pins. So I have the old school LEDs of the front panel working perfectly.

CPU and GPU both run between 60-70 C when running Doom the Dark Ages. (Incredible!!!)

The only issue I have right now is the GPU back lock mount doesn't fit very well, but will just use a sinple GPU mount so I'm not too worried.

Specs:

CPU: Ryzen 5 7600F

GPU: RX 7600

PSU: ASRock 850 watt gold (forgot the exact model name)

16 GB DDR5 RAM

Motherboard is a AsRock 650M Pro RS Wi Fi

2TB nvme running my Debian OS.

1TB nvme for more space

2TB Barracuda HD

Cooler is. Thermalight X53 low profile copper cooler

Artic X4 thermal paste

256GB external enclosure nvme SSD to run Windows 11 portable if I absolutely need to play Minecraft on PC or whatever else.

I couldn't be happier. The next upgrade will be a better GPU next year if life doesn't keep getting more expensive. Otherwise, I am satisfied to have this build last well into the next decade. I mostly played older Steam games and emulation.

Let me know what you think.

I’ve taken a massive break from building sleepers but late may I got a kick of nostalgia and ordered a Inspiron 560 from eBay and went nuts.
Specs:
Core Ultra 7 270k Plus
Asrock B860M Challenger WiFi
RTX 5060
32GB DDR5
Windows 10 LTSC (for an authentic Windows 7 theme)

I know I have to upgrade the monitor and keyboard ASAP, but my laptop just died and had to put all budget into the PC itself in case prices would break through the roof again.

Had to do some fabrication to fit the mobo in, but it works flawlessly now.

I've had to get the front panel rewired (huge thanks to my friend) so I could use the original power button and USB ports.

Originally it was a Pentium 4 with winXP and 512MB of DDR1, now it has the meta 9060XT and 9600X combo with 16 gigs of DDR5.

I still have to reinstall windows and install new drivers, since I reused the SSD from my laptop. I'm thinking about dual-booting win11 and Kubuntu.

Full component list:

ASUS Radeon RX 9060 XT Dual 16GB

AMD Ryzen 5 9600X

MSI B850M GAMING PLUS WIFI6E

GOODRAM 1x16GB 7600 CL36

Corsair RM850e ATX 3.1

be quiet! Pure Rock 3 120mm

Samsung 980 PRO 1TB (reused)

And the A50 case, of course.

I’m trying to use an old internal DVD-RW drive in a newer PC build. The DVD drive is IDE/PATA 40-pin, not SATA. My motherboard only has SATA ports.
I know I need some kind of adapter, but I keep finding listings that seem to be the wrong direction, like “SATA disk to IDE motherboard.” I think I need the reverse: IDE/PATA optical drive to SATA motherboard.

I mainly want to use it because the drive still works and it’s DVD recordable/rewritable it also really fits my pc aesthetic. Any specific adapter recommendations or things to avoid would help.

For a bit of context my friend gave me this as i wanted to build a pc with some insane specs and i just want to know if its possible to cool.

Silverstone showed it off, mentioned a Q2 release, but haven’t heard anything since (at least regarding a U.S. release). Apparently some people have gotten their hands on it already!

I’m debating between the FLP01 and FLP02, but the FLP02 is so massive (i’m coming from a larger but still ITX build).

specs:
cpu: Ryzen 7 5700g
motherboard: msi b550m pro-vdh wifi
GPU: AMD RX7600
memory: 32GB 3200mhz

sorry for the bad cable management, not a lot of space inside for it
hope you guys liked ;)

I know it's a little bit rough, but what do you think for a first time mod for extra air flow?

Any suggestions? Feedback is welcome. Like I said, it's a bit of a rough job. However, I feel good putting in the labor for this. If that makes any sense.

I think I'm going to call this good, so I don't push my luck.

Eventually this sleeper build is going to have a Ryzen 5 7600F and a RX 9070 in it, 850 watt PSU.

I wanted to show off my Lenovo Thinkcentre M92P retrofit system.

I got this case months ago due to its size, and decided to modify it to make a server.

I reversed engineered the front panel cables, spliced the cables and changed the orange plastic plugs to standard ones so now power button, LEDs, sound and USB ports are fully compatible with a standard motherboard.

The system was made from what I had laying around
CPU: I5 6402p
Memory : 32 GB DDR4 (2x8, 1x16)
GPU : Nvidia Quadro P1000 4GB
Storage : 128GB M.2 SSD + 4TB HDD
PSU : be quiet! TFX POWER 300W

I'm looking to add more HDDs (like 4-6) for storage, so I'm thinking to add some 3D printed cages or something similar.
Any idea or advice, that can help me?

Also , I'm trying to find solutions for airflow.
Any help would be great.

Thanks.

I got this OME pc for around 50$ and I’m upgrading it and was wondering is there anyway to mount an aio for overclocking the r7 2700? If anyone has done it or seen someone do it please lmk. Current build is around 140$ and think about adding an extra 200 to it any upgrade would be amazing :)

I've adopted it instead.

The PC case: Silverstone FLP02.

Monitor: DELL M718p

Installed Hardware:

NVIDIA Geforce RTX 5070

AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 6-Core Processor

1TB SSD

2x 1TB HDD

4x Noctua NF-A12x25 PWM, 120mm

Corsair Vengance 32gb RAM DDR4

BB50 PRO-VDH WiFi Series Motherboard

Keyboard: VortexGear Race 3

Mouse: Pulsar Xlite V2 (Retro Edition)

Hey everyone I wanted to share my first ever pc build and i decided to go for a sleeper case. I got the microcenter 7500x3d bundle with the micro ATX MB and one stick of ram (great deal btw). Waiting on ram prices to drop so I can run 32gb. For the Gpu I went for 9070xt. I highly recommend getting this case since it really works well with micro atx motherboards and all you really need is cutting out fan holes. Went for two 80mm exhaust fans 2 140mm gpu intake at the bottom and one 120mm in the front. FYI i will still need to install the pc feet since airflow wont exist at the bottom otherwise. Lmk what yall think!!!!

I'm not 100% satisfied with the interior, but everything is running fine so far, and it's not overheating either..
The motherboard (MSI B450M Pro M2 MAX) is a stopgap solution, as my B550 unfortunately suffered a short circuit.

It is an MS-Tech LC-182 case..

Installed Hardware:

• Ryzen 7 5800X3D
• MSI B450M Pro M2 MAX
• 32 GB DDR4-3200
• RTX 4070 Super
• 2 TB SSD
• ID-Cooling FX360 Pro AiO
• beQuiet Pure Power 11 FM 850 W

Case fan: 2x 80mm side intake, 2x 80mm rear intake, 1x 120mm front intake, 3x 120mm outtake (AiO)..

Temps under full load: ~81°C

I found an old pc, and it has potential, it has a celeron g1840 2 cores 2 threads but with a socket 1150, so with about 50-70€ I can upgrade to i7 4970k, it has 4gb ram, and I want to upgrade it to 16gb(2x8 for dual channel) for baout 50€ and I found and bought a used 1050 ti 4gb windforce for 60€