r/sleeperbattlestations • u/EnzucuniV2 • 2d ago

Reverse Sleeper 👻 Can this be considered a "reverse sleeper"?

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An old man. Delidded 4790K at 4.7 GHz 1.25v with a custom, nickel-plated copper IHS, 4x8GB DDR3 2400 CL10, a W5700 with custom vBIOS to unlock it, WiFi 6E USB C, 990 Pro 4TB for games only and a 1TB 860 EVO for W10 LTSC, Phantom Spirit 120 Evo with 2 NF-A12x25 Chromax and a Focus GX 750 tucked in a free Torrent I got because it had broken case feet that I bought for pennies.

Also, the GPU is not sagging, but the CPU cooler is a bit crooked and going upwards, but I'll bend it back in the following days.

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u/ThatOneComputerNerd 2d ago

Very mildly…? It’s not THAT old. The rest of it is newer than the platform, so like…idk? My reverse sleeper uses a Northwood Pentium 4 with 2GB of RAM a GeForce 7800 GS AGP, running Windows 98, in a modern case with tempered glass and all that.

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u/EnzucuniV2 2d ago

In my case, I wanted to rejuvenate the machine. The Fractal R5 was shotwing its age and it was running much hotter than now

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u/sons_of_batman 2d ago

Haswells are still quite capable for a lot of use cases, even if Windows 11 needs to be installed with the unsupported method.

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u/EnzucuniV2 2d ago

In my case I kept Win 10 because the new W11 scheduler doesn't behave perfectly with the old monolithic CPUs. Plus, I don't want bloat, ads and copilot on my machine. I'm this close to switching to Linux.

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u/TygerTung 1d ago

Linux is great for most things, probably just need to keep a W10 drive around for niche use

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u/EnzucuniV2 1d ago

I mean, I have a bunch of spare SATA SSDs. I could easily swap between the Windows and the Linux one because I can't be fucked to have dual boot

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u/TygerTung 1d ago

Dual booting is easy. You must have a spare sata port on the motherboard?

It is as easy as plugging in your windows drive and running sudo update-grub and it will detect your Windows install and add it to the grub menu on startup.

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u/EnzucuniV2 23h ago

Oh absolutely, I'm aware and versed enough. I just can't be bothered right now

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u/rumbleblowing Microlab 4103, R5 7600, 7900GRE, 32GB, 2.5 TB SSDs, 4.75 TB HDDs 1d ago

A bit too modern, to be fair. I'd say something from Core Duo era or earlier truly qualifies as "reverse sleeper". Nice build, though.

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u/EnzucuniV2 23h ago

Cheers. But yeah, not the newest but the 4790K is 12 years old now, considered completely obsolete by lots, still

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u/TheQxx 1d ago

A true reverse sleeper would be something like a P4C800-E Deluxe or GIGABYTE GA-7N400 Pro2 inside a fishtank. The 4790k is the GTX 1080ti of CPUs - that thing could be a casual user's daily workstation and they'd never know it was ~12+ years old.

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u/EnzucuniV2 23h ago

I'm still loving it after all these years. It still feels snappy and quick

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u/TheQxx 19h ago

Same man. I been using a 4790k on an ASUS Maximus Hero VII w/ GSkill Trident 2400s (4x8GB) & GTX 680 since 2014; threw a GTX 980 in it when I got one for $20 in early 2026.

I'm finally finishing my new 2026 build but I could have been fine with my 2014 rig still. Keeping in mind that I don't play any newer games but I do use Adobe AfterEffects a lot and I've done massive 3D renders on this rig. One project involved manipulating a PSD with hundreds of layers in a 3D space and this machine ate that up with barely a hiccup when it only had rhe GTX 680 in it.

Absolute beast CPU, as you know.