I use that case for my work computer! It has a ryzen7 and RTX 2080. I had to hack the front USB to connect it with a modern mobo header, but it works...
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Sleeper PCs are an art form
Where’s the radiator?
Right here, next to the fan:
Take the upvote and gtfo ;p
Does your fan not have its front shield or is it just a bad angle? If it doesn't I'd suggest you put it on, from experience those fuckers can break skin.
It doesn't, no. I accidentally put it on crooked when assembling it and bent it when trying to correct my error to the point that just taking it off was the only logical solution.
This one doesn't break skin, though. In fact, my cats have accidentally gotten their tail into it several times and reacted with only slight annoyance.
To put it another way: a toddler could stick their head into it and not cry when it hits them, it's THAT good at stopping gently when it encounters resistance 😁
Damn, I don't know what it is, but your house looks completely Danish.
It's an apartment, but it's not so weird that it looks completely Danish since it IS completely Danish. As am I 😁
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It's upward inside the drive bay, using a single 120mm fan and rad, then I perforated the case's top sheet metal with a new grid of holes for outlet airflow. Definitely not amazing cooling performance but hey. I had to slice the CDROM drive in half to make room for it... the floppy drive actually works but not the giant CDROM lol
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I've always wanted to build a sleeper PC
I tried building a sleeper PC once but kept getting disturbed by trains.
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How's airflow?
Is the floppy drive hooked up? I have a floppy drive in my modern machine.
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Take me back. I don't like it in the future.....
I know a guy who can take you back for $120
They were never obsolete because, as it says on the sticker (that no one on the internet can ever seem to be bothered to read), that you can replace it every 2 years for new, more modern system for only 99 bucks.
and quite frankly, thats a fucking steal, considering what PC prices were like back in the late 90s, and with how fast technology was advancing.
The trick was closing down your PC company before the two years are out.
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For crying out loud, thank you!
Power users didn't flock to these, but they were awesome for a certain demographic. Low skill early tech adopters. Grandma, grampa, mom and dad. Dudes out in rural areas, like my friend's dad, who only needed to use the PC for 30 minutes a day to keep his farm operation running and couldn't give 2 shits.
Yep.
Several family members had these exact 433mhz emachines with the stickers. They were not power users, they were not gamers.. They were people who typed with one finger chicken pecking to check email
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Even when these first came out you had to know it was silly
Correct me if I'm wrong but I think this was a programme where they would upgrade/replace your setup for free every year or so.
That's right. There's an insightful blog article if you want to learn the full story.
You could get your PC upgraded for $99 if you also bought 24 months of dial-up Internet service through them. But you also had to pay shipping both ways, and be out the use of your computer while you did it! That seems so inconvenient I imagine almost nobody bothered. eMachines certainly expected people wouldn't, making the whole thing little more than a carefully calculated marketing tactic. And it worked.
That said, their machines were very competitively priced even without the upgrade deal, and it really disrupted the incumbents, making them good value machines even if you didn't take them up on the dubious "never obsolete" offer.
I used to be a retail PC service tech back when these things were new. I remember scoffing at the “never obsolete” tag. They were obsolete while still new in the box.
I worked in retail sales at the time.
customer: "What's the catch?"
me: "It's pretty slow now, if you keep it a couple years, you get to buy someone else's post upgrade for cheap assuming the company is still around, you don't get the replacement from us"
customer: "So what about those Compaq's?"
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viewsonic made some damn fine CRTs...
Mitsubishi Diamondtron or Sony Trinitron. That’s where the good stuff was.
iirc Silicon Graphics crts were actually trinitrons after 92-3. of course a 21" crt weighed fuck all lol
Weight aside, those took a lot of space too. Almost every CRT from that era was put in a desk corner, swivelled sideways, forcing you to turn sideways too - and many of those were 15-17". Now imagine 21...
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Never say never. The Ship of Theseus is never obsolete as long as regular maintenance occurs
As much as love the clarity of modern high resolution LCD, I still miss the slightly fuzzy effect CRTs had on the displayed graphics. It was almost artificial AA. When I play old games I wonder why they look crappy. It’s because I can see the sharp edges vs the “soft filter” the CRT added.
It was truly amazing how great SD looked on a 25" tv. 525 scan lines. Bright enough to sear your eyeballs. In a vacuum, they didn't even look fuzzy. But you put a 1080p full screen even on my WQHD and it looks like absolute trash :)
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Fuck yes. My first PC. It got me into It when I needed to fix the hdd when Windows 2k crashed.
My dad is still running this exact computer, but he only uses it to print one certain thing a month
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Where is the lie
I be there's a Linux distro that would run on it.
There aren’t many i386 distributions anymore, but you should still have some selection, I think
Yup there's still Debian support.
Good ol’ Debian. The Chuck Testa of distros.
AntiX runs great on my Pentium 3 rig.
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I remember these shit boxes. Fuck these shit boxes. Set that fucking thing on fire and throw it off the overpass.
Of all the machines an Emachine. Those were the cheapest and worst built computers ever. They were often obsolete the moment they were sold.
I guess that makes the irony even more delicious.
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