One quirky detail of my build: it has a tiered storage system through FuzeDrive. What that means is I have an 8 TB shucked hard drive and a 128 GB SSD “fuzed” together through some old software by Enmotus that is no longer available for purchase iirc. This means the SSD acts as a cache for my huge 8 TB drive. As a result, I can just install basically any game I want to my massive 8 TB drive without worrying about space, and if I play that game more than once or twice, it’ll automatically move to the SSD portion for faster access.
Some ideas:
- Is this using used hardware that has a story?
- Got an unusual configuration that isn’t normally seen (Dual RTX 3070 for example)
- Did you paint it or add special lighting?
My build doesn’t have a PSU. Instead it has a voltage regulator. I live in an off-grid RV so my PC runs off a battery bank. There is no AC/DC conversion.
That is indeed unique.
what are the specs of the system?
Oldass i7, 32GB RAM, couple of SSD’s, RTX 2060 12GB underclocked to reduce power, no monitor since it’s a VR machine/stable diffusion server. Wirelessly connects to a Pico 4.
For older hardware it manages to run everything I throw at it.
Oh that’s more than I expected. I thought you would just power something laptop like by the battery. How long can the system stay up?
It’ll run indefinitely while idle. I usually put it to sleep when I’m not using it though. I’ve got a 600ah battery bank so I can pretty much run it as long as I need to under load without fear. My air conditioning is the thing I have to keep in check.
It’ll run indefinitely while idle. I usually put it to sleep when I’m not using it though. I’ve got a 600ah battery bank so I can pretty much run it as long as I need to under load without fear. My air conditioning is the thing I have to keep in check.
Mine is a series of continous upgrades from my first build nearly 20 years ago. It’s on its 8th mainboard generation and every part has been replaced at least 4 times, but I’ve never replaced the whole thing in one go so I consider it the same machine. Very Ship of Theseus situation.
I have a spreadsheet of basically every part and upgrade back to the original build.
Unrelated, I used fuzedrive with a 1tb ssd and a 3tb mechanical for a while as well. Works pretty well.
I paid for it, and no one else does…
Mine has a drive A. This is… atypical for Socket AM5 builds. It’s an IDE LS-120 on a SATA adapter.
It also has a small OLED screen designed as a modern riff on the MHz LED panel of 90s cases. It’s fully programmable over USB so it can track as the clocks go up and down, or display a bunch of other crud.
My other machine is 8088-class and has major kit-built and home-built parts.
Previous build: It was 4.5L. What makes it unique is the finickiness, because it was shutting off with stock settings and it uses a Dell 330W power brick. I had to down volt both the CPU and GPU, and it worked well for ~6 years.
Current build: It’s a 4090 and 7800x3D in a 10L case.
My build is special because I use a very old server case that I have remodeled the interior of and is so ugly i hide it behind my monitors.
It does the job. No LEDs, no bling. It seems to be the exception.
I want to see. Old cases seem to dance on the kine between awesome and frustratingly unusable.
I spent today composing some spares in a ~2006 Lian Li PC-V1000 and it’s a surprisingly irksome experience when you have no 2.5" bays or adaptors or the weird hard disc mount screws it used…
Not unique globally, but unique in my household. I have always built my own PCs, ever since my first 486. Currently, for the first time in my life I have prebuilts from Puget Systems. 3 of them, and I’m never going back.
It’s a little big. Fractal Meshify 2XL. 420mm AIO. I was fed up of ‘poky’ cases!
My build is unique since my mainboard is bent by my AIO cooler. I built my PC in the Ncase M1 but picked the “wrong” AIO cooler (Corsair H100i V2). The tubes are quite stiff and tight bending was necessary fit them inside the case. Now my mainboard is bent so much that I can’t use two USB-ports at the back since they don’t line up with the holes in the IO shield anymore. However I built it in 2016 and it has survived moving so I won’t change it until I build a new PC in a few years.
Nothing special really. It’s currently as follows:
- Crosshair X570 Dark Hero (a little overkill, but it was one of the very few fanless X570 boards when I was buying 2 years ago)
- Ryzen 9 5900X
- Noctua NH-U14S
- Noctua RTX 3070
- MP600 1 TB (OS + games + code)
- WD Black 4 TB HDD (I need bulk storage because I’m working with many photos; probably going to replace it with a cheap 4 TB SSD soon)
- A bunch of smaller 2.5" SATA SSDs
- Seasonic SS860XP2
- Fractal Design Define R5
- Dell U2722DE + Dell U2719D both on Dell MSA20 stands (QHD is for me still a good middle ground of enough pixels for work and not too many pixels such that games would require a ridiculous GPU); probably adding a high refresh rate 34" 1440p ultrawide in the near future (I even tried an LG a few months back, but it had dead pixels, I returned it and didn’t bother getting another one); the U2722DE I got mainly for work because it’s easy to hook up to a laptop and have video + data + power all from one cable (I have a powered USB hub hooked to the monitor hosting most of my peripherals), daisy chaining works well (I have only one DP cable going to the GPU)
- Boardsource Lulu, MX Master 2S
- Thaulab Varna IV DAC, Objective 2 amp, AKG K7XX, Audio-technica ATH-M40X
The case, the PSU and the CPU cooler are “leftovers” from the first somewhat serious build I did in 2015; they’re still good, although I’m probably going to replace the PSU just because it’s getting a bit old. I was thinking of getting a Fractal Torrent case too, but it’s not too urgent.
It takes a single brush swing to clean the whole thing.
…I love my Raspberry pi 4.
Apparently my use of a QuadStellar is quite jarring to most. They aren’t expecting the size, nor the shape. Lmao
I opted to use an old Cooler Master CPU fan from a Windows Vista eMachine that I had in my home. Went from cooling a AMD Athlon X2 to a AMD Ryzen 7700X.
Having looked up the model number when building my PC, it’s apparently a model that wasn’t meant to be sold individually, or at least, I couldn’t find any places that sell or sold that specific model previously, beyond a few old eBay listings.
May not be the best practice to re-use old CPU fans like that, but monitoring the temps when running higher-end games, it seems to be doing the job just fine!
