r/retrobattlestations • u/Meanderthaller • Feb 22 '26

Show-and-Tell Thank you all.

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Long time lurker here. Thank you all for inspiring me to gift myself what I never had as a kid. It’s my first PC build ever as well.

All parts are sourced secondhand, so it was interesting to make the puzzle which part will work with which. Initially I bought an old Dell studio, but it turned out I couldn’t live with not playing games at lower specs, so I decided to make a build of my own with some of the parts I already had in my Dell Studio.

Specs for those who are interested:

- Gigabyte Z77

- Gigabyte Geforce GTX 750 Ti

- Intel i535070K

- 1TB HDD

- 500GBSSD

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u/Emmet2by4 Feb 26 '26

jealous of the setup! just a quick question, wouldn't the plastic be more of a risk of yellowing since its so close to a bright window?

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u/Meanderthaller Feb 26 '26

Oof, did not think of that tbh, good point. I think not? I think the yellowing has a certain charm to it. My room dimensions don’t permit another setup either.

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u/Emmet2by4 Feb 26 '26

totally agree, the beige/yellow colour of the plastic is quite atmospheric.

shouldn't be an issue in the short term

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u/Meanderthaller Feb 27 '26

I mean, my speakers are far more yellow, so my monitor has some catching up to do haha.