I have a Ship of PCeus thing going on with mine.
Love that. Commenting to remember. Got 2 of these, except the one is still in a case older than most of my children all of whom are now adults.
I'm stealing this for my next build name.
At this point I replaced my oldest original hard drive. I rebuilt another computer using entirely the parts I replaced. Literal ship of Theseus dilemma right there lol.
Not the case, but I did this since I didn't have the correct monitor stand
Not sure why it rotated my picture 90 degrees. But yes that is a 2x4 and yes those are zip ties
You're my hero.
And the 90 degree image that's not worth fixing because it still works just adds to the overall picture.
My wife gets visibly angry when she sees it. It's fun.
PC builds aren't all so polarized. I am in the middle, spent like $1500 on components and built it myself and it looks great and runs smoothly. Sure, it doesn't run Cyberpunk on Psycho but it's running Starfield very nicely and I didn't even have to tape an AC unit to it.
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...
The desktop gaming PC that I have was a very nice PC like the one from the first panel but I got it as e-waste dirt cheap because the previous owner wanted to throw it away since it was 2 years old and he thought it was outdated. That's absolutely insane and wasteful, I hope most people aren't like this.
I did take it apart and redo it though in a much less flashy case, call me a heretic but I don't really like LEDs and window cases I prefer a much simpler look. So I guess this one would be kind of like the second one, even though all the parts are very nice and new.
Though I did assemble my Pentium 2 and 486 PCs from scratch, kind of like the first one but I guess that doesn't really count because they are almost all old parts (New soundcards though) and they're retro gaming PCs.
Definitely the bottom for me. All I care about is that it runs, can run whatever I want it to, and for games has more of a stable framerate. Looks definitely come second to functionality, if you ask me.
To me the two types are the kind that have really good looking, color coordinated components and then myself who has a random assortment of totally mismatched components because they were the cheapest or best performing option.
Yes. I also occupy a different space than the options given. Meticulous research, putting together the best value (balancing cost and performance), not caring about visual appeal or setting any high benchmarks.
Wait why would she have a boobs mousepad thing?
Why not?
For a wrist cushion
No, they suck for comfort. It's 100% the titties.
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
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
I'll go against the grain in the comments:
I'm the top one.
I hadn't gamed in 20 years and this got me back into it. I wanted it all white. I never buy myself anything nice or new. And it was fun to learn how to build a PC. Don't @ me.
When turning on my computer from cold it doesn't wake the primary monitor from standby. I need to turn it off, unplug the monitor, wake the monitor up from standby manually, start the computer and plug in the cable at the right time...
You tell me which one I am.
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.
There is a 3rd type.
Those with the "dark horse".
It's a smallish black box PC, no RGB, mini-itx sized, sits under the desk, mostly out of sight.
Quiet, well cooled.
Has the latest gen CPU & GPU, oodles of ram and nvme storage.
The poor one.
I like to think I'm the first but actually I'm the second.
I'll be the 1st for about a week while after I've researched parts and stuff, but then turn into the 2nd for the remainder of that PC's lifespan.
I'm the guy who bought one ridiculously expensive component that's now bottlenecked by the rest of the build until I can replace everything else haha
That's how I do my builds, just one rolling bottleneck rather than doing a complete build.
I’m not about to do the thinking and math required… but I’m curious if this is actually a decent way to go about upgrading on a budget. If this actually gets you a comparable average experience to saving money at the same rate, but only upgrading when you’ve got enough for a whole new build.
My partner has one of the boob mousepads.
A mix of both. I have good components and my stuff is set up to be very well organized, but my PC looks old
Tfw when no 150lb server rack
I'm in between, I like/need my beefy components (for work) but I don't worship my machine or feel the need to pimp it out, as long as it's quiet and out of my way and provides the performance I'm happy. That's why I have 0 RGB and use a big ass noctua fan instead of water-cooling.
One of my SSDs just dangles in the case even though the rest of the build is put together just fine
Got a new SSD and didn't think to measure out the distance the wire was going to need and it ended up like an inch short so it now just dangles from a little setup I did to remove tension from the connectors
Looks silly but since SSDs don't have moving parts I see no reason it wont be fine
The case is dented and front USB don't work but I still love it
I was the bottom, but finally going to be the top this week! Just purchased everything to build my first new one since 2016. The 2016 one was me buying decent stuff but mostly mid range. This time I feel like I went mostly top tier outside some things (although some stuff says mid range which I don't get). Although I still don't care how the pc looks, I am one of the few that hates RGB and purchased everything I could without it. I took it so far that I got myself Noctua fans. Yes, I really don't care that my pc will look brown beige inside, at least I know it will be quiet and cool which is all that really should matter!
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.
I'll just buy some Dell Optiplex for $200 from eBay, and then maybe trow in a cheap GPU.
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