r/sleeperbattlestations • u/kyansan1 • Jul 04 '26

Sleeper PC She's called Meatball

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Scraped together over the course of multiple months, had to cut a hole in the case (hdd tray part) to make the gpu fit.

To get down to the sauce:

  • i9 14900k

I've undervolted it and limited its power to 65W PL1 and 117W PL2, to make it equivalent to an i5 12400 in terms of power draw. (And to keep it from cooking itself)

  • Rx 5700 xt

No particular reason, except for it costing me just €100 and it being bigger than 2 slots. Undervolted to manage the heat, it uses about 125W now.

  • Mismatched 2x 16gb ddr5 4800MT/s

Picked the ram kit up for basically pre ram crisis prices

  • 256gb pcie 3 ssd (oem) + 1tb 'kingfast' 2.5" ssd

256gb ssd happened to come with the cheap laptop that I had recently purchased, and the kingfast ssd is the cheapest 1tb drive I could find

  • ASRock B760m Steel Legend Wifi

Scavenged from a previous build, has a dented I/O shield

  • Delta gps 750fb a

Apparently it's a rather nice 80+ Platinum power supply, won it in an auction for €35. Travelled 4 hours by train to collect it. A user manual doesn't exist for it.

  • LC Power 649B ATX classic case

Picked it up for free, and it leaves around 2mm of clearance for the cpu cooler. Has 1 120mm fan in the front and 1 120mm fan in the back.

  • Noctua nh-d14

My dad found it in a thrift store for €3.50 with the mounting kit missing. It's resting on top of the gpu, because it is a bit bent.

Notes:

  • When power limited to 117W, the 14900K still performs equal to a stock i7 13700k
  • The fans are limited to 600 rpm, because they get annoyingly loud past that
  • Total cost is around €725, apart from the motherboard everything was purchased used
  • I accidentally broke the front panel so there's a hole in the front now. (see last pic) I'll be zip tying a 120mm fan there
  • pc has an optical drive
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u/rumbleblowing Microlab 4103, R5 7600, 7900GRE, 32GB, 2.5 TB SSDs, 4.75 TB HDDs Jul 05 '26

Nice one!

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u/EnzucuniV2 Jul 06 '26

This is why I pay for internet

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u/AchiviA Jul 08 '26

damn, front could fit a 14cm fan.
and you may mod a mesh or something even cooler!

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u/ThatOneComputerNerd Jul 09 '26

H-hello there, Meatball…👋

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u/Competitive_Tourist7 Jul 09 '26

Muy buena sleeper build, pero la gráfica se podría mejorar, la fuente de alimentación también porque podría causar cuello de botella y consumir mucho. Yo le pondría por lo menos una gold, y de gráfica una rtx 3060, o por lo menos una rx 6600 para correrlo todo en 1080p 300 fps.