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.
Do you have the mouse mat with tits though? You gotta have that to qualify.
Wait, y’all use a mousepad? /s
I don’t since I don’t even have a mousepad at the moment.
This is me as well. I grew up when PCs were just a beige box, utterly boring and uninspiring. The cool thing happened on the screen! My GPU has some LEDs and stuff but I only got it because it was cheaper than one without, and I still have a case without a window so whatever
The top one. My PC is awesome
The first, but I pay someone to do it for me
It’s perfectly possible to go full-blown overclocking with watercooling whilst not buying top of the range parts (which tend to be “twice the price for an extra 10% performance” deals) and not spending a cent in decorative elements such as turning your PC box into a lightshow.
In fact it absolutelly makes sense to get well selected parts from the high middle end of the consumer segment using knowledge about performance bottlenecks to select the right stuff to get more bang for the buck and pumping up performance further with overclocking using the right self-assembled cooling and tweaks to things like voltage supplied to the CPU.
I like to call it Intelligent Performance Aware PC Builder but calling it Tight-fisted Old Gamer would work too ;)
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.
A mix of both. I have good components and my stuff is set up to be very well organized, but my PC looks old
After ten years, I might actually buy a new case this year.
No don’t! Sleeper retro PCs are back in style, I wish I was joking but I’m serious. Pack that ten year old case with as much power your poor little wall outlet can provide!
Oh, I’m not throwing it away. I’m just building a new PC. The old case will become a self-hosting server with somewhat low tier but newer parts.
I hope this is right. I hate the rgb craze. Everything is $100 more expensive because it has $0.30 of LEDs attached to it.
I didn’t mean to say that products manufacturers produce will stop having RGB, yeah it’s here to stay. I meant people’s unique builds, stuff people post to /r/rate_my_pc, or builds.gg. Custom built and pre-built PCs are going to be slammed with more and more RGB until that case is brighter than the sun. PC parts are never going to get as cheap as they were 15 years ago I’m afraid.
I picked up a new case a couple of years ago, after a similar length of time, and they’ve gotten so much better!
It’ll have been ten years for me too, bur I’ll pass not gonna lie. I still love my case despite it not being up to the same “standard” that modern PC builders hold aesthetic up to. I’ve got a corsair c70 for both my personal and workstation builds, it may be tacky but I love them!
They are also practically indestructible.
My friend. I’m using a think center tower case from lenovo that I bough out of an office’s closure sale. The hard drives are zip tied to the frame because it only has one drive bay.
Just as the lord intended!
My rig is on the higher end of mid tier but it’s in a matte black box (Cooler Master N400) on the floor.
My partner has one of the boob mousepads.
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.
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.
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.
The poor one.
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.
What about sffpc?
I took tin snips to the GeForce 310 from my old family computer because I had a SFF PC and wanted a second monitor, so I guess I’m the latter
Most people build budget or best bang for their buck builds
