memes

I have a Ship of PCeus thing going on with mine.

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

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.

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.

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as e-waste dirt cheap because the previous owner wanted to throw it away since it was 2 years old and he thought it was outdated.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.

Wait why would she have a boobs mousepad thing?

I drilled out a bunch of rivets and took out the hard drive cages to fit a long graphics card. My $40 case still gets the job done after 10 years.

Also I fried a USB port by plugging my headset jack into it in the dark. I smelled magic smoke.

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.

Let's just say my current build cost me $100.
It runs Cyberpunk 2077 though, so that's nice.

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.

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 figured out a long time ago that making the PC pretty is useless

Are you asking me if I’m a top or a bottom?

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.

My partner has one of the boob mousepads.

Tfw when no 150lb server rack

A mix of both. I have good components and my stuff is set up to be very well organized, but my PC looks old

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

Builds a $5000 PC to play Koikatsu.

gigachad

I like to think I'm the first but actually I'm the second.

The case is dented and front USB don't work but I still love it

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

I'll just buy some Dell Optiplex for $200 from eBay, and then maybe trow in a cheap GPU.