Bottom panel all the way. Expensive stuff dies/burns out at the same rate as cheap stuff, so you might as well go with the cheap stuff. The best way to pc game is on a budget custom build.
Definitely the bottom one. I have a totally black PC case and one of the case fans has a power cable that’s extended using 2 taped together GPIO cables from my raspberry pi kit. There’s also a hard drive in there that hasn’t been working for 1 year at least
The one hard drive that doesn’t work just sitting there is a true testamnet to my false hope. I swapped my psu a year ago and accidentally fried my 2tb hard drive. I got a new rig this summer and still transferred it over and plugged it in with the hope that it would resume life, only for it to be truly dead. It is still sitting in the new rig lol, couldn’t be bothered to remove it after testing.
I have a black windowless case to, my hdd is ironicly in the place where the hdd case was put in for shipping purposes (chilling next to the psu). Also I used an anchient 2+4pin pigtail cable together with a 8pin cable to power the gpu.
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I’d say I’m somewhere in the middle too. I also have this tendency to build high mid-tier as my budget allows then ride it for 7 years or so until the games I play start struggling. I just don’t have the money to keep up with the latest and greatest/upgrading every year.
…admittedly since Baldur’s Gate 3 came out I’ve been using my PC as a space heater so take that as you will…
This, but also it’s blacked out and in a plain ass case.
What if I’ve been the second one for over 15 years but I finally got to build myself a whole brand new machine with flagship CPU and GPU?
Fuck RGB and glass panels, tho.
Edge to edge glass is a bit silly but having a window is nice to be able to see at a glance that fans and such are working normally.
I’m not against plexiglas/plastic windows, but real glass, even tempered, for me is a very potential broken panel.
And those who have their PC case on the floor can’t take much advantage of a transpatent panel to see the fans…
I think real is ok so long as it’s got a frame all around it. The single panels of glass seem like madness to me. I do prefer plexiglass personally. I also definitely have my pc on the floor and can see inside it at a glance. (Better than when I was briefly obliged to have it on my desk). It’s not stashed under the desk though TBF.
How well do those panels resist clumsy owners? I’m the kind of guy who always drops shit LTT style.
Afaik they’re not likely to shatter to bumps. It’s contact with something hard and sharp that’s the big issue.
It means you’re one year away from reverting back. But what a year it’ll be!
Reverting? Never.
It’ll happen to YOU
I don’t know anymore what are we exactly talking about…
I’ve self taught myself how to build and repair PCs since I was about 15-16, I got my first IT job at 19 and I still work in IT 15 years later, so this is my thing, it’s vocational, although now I work more in software than hardware.
IDK if you’re talking about running of money for a good build, getting tired of building my own computers or something else…
Just joking because it happened to me. I was finally able to make a current build with all the bells and whistles after years of being the bottom pic. Then it didn’t take long for the new PC to be a little outdated, and I reverted to making less sophisticated solutions to keep it current.
Ah, I see. I’ve always had PCs without top tier components and I’ve still used them for many years as is, by only upgrading to SSDs and installing higher capacity HDDs when the old ones died. For instance, half of my last PC since circa 2014 was half of giveaway parts with an Intel Quad CPU (not even i series), 8GB of RAM and a GTS250.
I hope that this one I built with flagship AMD CPU and GPU and 64GB or RAM remains as my main PC as long as its parts last, with minimal ugrades, if any. Although I have to admit that I chose the AM5 socket with upgradability in mind.
I usualy settle for little regarding computers but maybe now I get hooked up to running videogame at ultra settings, but I don’t even have o want a 4K display, so who knows. Time will tell.
Yes, I’m aware I’m doing a long serious reply to a joke, lol.
Edit: typos
It feels like specs haven’t been increasing lately as rapidly as they used to, so I bet yours will last for a good while.
Long serious replies to jokes are part of why I enjoy Lemmy, friend. Lol
Lately been looking for a case for another build and wow, this tempered glass thing is way out of control.
What’s wrong with it? I like how it makes my PC look, and the screws hold it in securely.
I work on multimedia art installations so the PCs I build get transported and put in various places. Glass adds weight and is always in danger of shattering.
It’s such fucking bullshit, when I built my first from scratch pc and wanted something utilitarian without glass panels my options were cheap Chinese garbage, tiny ITX/microATX case, Fractal Design, or overpriced designer garbage… I’m now all in on Fractal Design, everything I’ve built or recommended since has been Fractal Design.
Haha seriously. I’m also looking at Fractal.
I’m not really a fan of RGB and glass panels either to be honest, too flashy, I prefer simplier designs and cases.
Wait why would she have a boobs mousepad thing?
Why not?
Honestly, I think I may have run into more women who have those then men. Or at least more willing to admit they have them lol
For a wrist cushion
No, they suck for comfort. It’s 100% the titties.
Moob mousepads exist. I use an Arataji Itto one :3
I’ve a female friend who has one just because she thinks its hilarious.
Girls can like boobs, too
both
Bottom PC is truly sexy to my eyes. That’s a PC someone looked into, with their limitations, a PC they wanted and did their best to get what they need and want
What about sffpc?
I’ll be the $5000 guy in the future.
I’m very satisfied with my build but my main issues are cables. The cables of the two CPU fans are way too long so they hang in a pretty non aesthetic way. On the other hand, the cables of the fan headers are too short for me to put them in the back of the case so it has to just stay there below my GPUs. It’s awful.
🙁 ✋ water cooling
🙁 ✋ RGB
🙁 ✋ color-coordinated cable sleeving
🙂 👉 making custom cables just to get the length right
I absolutely love both types. That’s why I’m somewhere in between.
Lol my ssd’s are just hanging out of the case by their sata cables. I’m missing some hardware so its just guts-out until I find that ziplock bag full of screws (i remember seeing it a couple years ago). my wrist is killing me tho, that ergo mouse pad makes a lot of sense.
I’m missing some hardware so its just guts-out until I find that ziplock bag full of screws (i remember seeing it a couple years ago).
Skimming this I read you as saying the whole machine was in a bag and now I’m like, “Yeah, what if one built a PC in bag-like shape?”
My 6900XT doesn’t fit in my 8 year old case and the cover has been off for 2 years now :)
There’s a rattle from one of the case fans I need to fix, but it disappears when under load, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The top one. My PC is awesome
Builds a $5000 PC to play Koikatsu.
gigachad
Like my friend building PC’s with 20 thread CPUs and expensive cooling when he just dicks around in Gmod lmao
All those mods are very resource intensive
There was the guy on reddit a week or so ago that was the fusion of these. Ran a custom cooling loop up his wall into the AC vent and got insanely low temps.
Just a word of warning to people: if temps are too low you get condensation. Circuits don’t like water.
Yeah, worked here because he had an overpowered AC for the room and it kept the room very dry.
