I actually did need to take a hacksaw to a Dell case when the PSU died, because they used a proprietary form factor. It was just removing some of the back panel and it worked fine.
Once upon a time I think they also had custom pinouts on the ATX connector, so just replacing your PSU with a standard one would fry your mobo
What a bunch of assholes.
They did, I was about to say the same thing! I had to buy an adapter to make it work right. This was like mid to late 2000’s. I work in IT for a company and didn’t want to spend money on a new PC yet so I snagged one from work that was no longer used. It got the job done, but yeah it was crazy to see what they did to make it so you couldn’t swap or change some things inside.
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Yeeeep. I did this. Very disheartening after spending the time with a Dremel to modify the back panel enough for it to fit.
How did you get a picture of my PC!?
I joke…I at least 3d printed a cover for the card lol
That PLA is melting as we speak.
Pet-G brah, only the good stuff
The Ryzen 7 5700G can get hot.
I call it DeskMiniMax.
Slightly related: You remember back when cases would have little grommets for water cooling lines because the reservoir and/or the tank would be external to the PC case?
Yup, the back plate for my CPU cooler wouldn’t fit because of some weird struts my case has, so I cut open the case, just enough to fit it.
Like a hotrod?
That probably worked way better than having it in a thermally constrained environment.
It’s also way more quiet than those damn pesky 1U fans and I had the space available in my rack
So … you have to remove your CPU cooler to open the case? That does not look very convenient.
Is that some kind of blade server? Doesn’t that make it like not rack with other blades?
No it’s just a 1U server. It does mean that the next 3U over the server can’t be fully used (switches would probably clear). That server pretty much replaced my whole stack except for my NAS so I had space available.
I don’t know why but this has me rolling. Genuinely had to catch my breath.
Happy to know my redneck engineering made you laugh! It was either that or a custom water loop.
If it’s stupid, but it works, it’s not stupid.
i mean there are things that work and that are stupid, and will stay stupid. using toothpaste for example as thermal paste is doable and you can get usable temps with it. but the con is that toothpaste dries up very quickly, requiring you to need to constantly reapply it.
it works, but its still a stupid idea.
PSU popping noises and smoke…
although a joke, usually oem psus are fairly high efficiency, just low wattage. however the image uses a gpu without a 6/8/12 pin connector, so its highly unlikely the up to 75W load would kill the system when the psus are usually rated for 200, and the cpu usually only uses 1/4 of that
I know a guy who spent hundreds of extra dollars on his build to make sure everything was white. I think maybe I prefer this?
If you’re on a budget and it works…
Judge not…
I might judge a little.
The hole in the side is a speed-hole. It makes the computer go faster.
Reminds me of when I made a pc as a media center for my roommates out of old spare pc parts and the box that their xbox360 came in.
Had to turn it on by using a paper clip to short the right two pins, lol.
Legit badass. “Hotwire the PC so we can watch a movie!”
to short the right two pins
That’s the core principle of how switches work. You have done everything right.
You know, you could have run down to the electronics store and bought an actual button for those pins. Still, that sounds like a fun build.
I test-“built” my first gaming pc with all the parts laying on my bed.
The only computer parts store within cycling distance just put returned parts back on the shelf, so there was about an 80% chance at least one part you bought was dead out of the box.Later I remembered that that’s possible, and built a gaming rig with all parts mounted openly on the wall behind my desk.
Why even bother putting the side cover back on? I left mine open for years.
Probably sound mitigation
maybe pet hair? dust? maybe they get laid?
They’re a pc gamer, they sure as shit ain’t getting laid.
Put energy into women, or put energy into Helldivers.
I’ve been through enough trauma to know that Helldivers is way healthier
You’re talking about three different things, right? … right?
I toucha da
fishcat.
hey if you can sexually satisfy dust and cat hair, you should consider starting an onlyfans. while the human brain often confuses sneezing for orgasms, it’s only partial credit.
Fuckin’ eh. My power supply is slung out the side to make room for a video card, with the case panel resting askew on top all perched on a milk crate. Like a slasher flick autopsy.
I did this, except in a cardboard box, plugged into an outlet with no ground, and using it to mine cryptocurrency. Somehow I didn’t burn down my apartment.
“Think outside the box.”
“Dude, you’re getting a DELL.”
gettinggutting (or cutting)
I did this a number of years back with a GTX 750ti… because that was the last good card that ran without a dedicated power supply connection.
Even if you rigged a power connector, it’s be damn hard trying to keep a modern card stable with the 250w-325w power supply in the Optiplix
Noice.
