Castaway.tf

Asmo wrote: Thu Feb 12, 2026 1:56 am I'm currently using a Dell Optiplex 9020 SFF that I upgraded.

Intel i7-4790 @ 3.6GHz (4.0GHz boost)
AMD Radeon Embedded E9260 4GB GDDR5
16GB Dual Channel DDR3-1600 CL11
500GB Patriot P220 Sata SSD

I like fucking around with old hardware, so I switch PC's often. I enjoy the current setup. Doesn't take up much room on my desk and is still a beast despite being over a decade old.

huutti wrote: Thu Feb 12, 2026 5:13 amCan't be bothered to upgrade as I am a hardware hoarder (can't be bothered to get rid of old hardware) and don't want to shell the cash for a new spangled PC

Just acquired two new (to me) PC's for$FREE.⁹⁹curtosy of the side of the road. The first PC is a faintly cigarette scented PowerSpec mystery model with some pretty decent hardware.

Specs:

• i5-4590 4C/4T @ 3.3GHz (3.7GHz boost)

• 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3-1600 CL11

• Unbranded OEM H81 LGA1150 Motherboard

• 2TB 7200 RPM? Toshiba HDD

• 300W Allied Exploder PSU

• 1SICK80mm Molex LED Fan (i hope it's blue)

I thought about taking a few pictures, but that was after I disassembled everything. After dismantling it, I brought the case down to the car wash to hose off all the cigarette grime. That did not work. So I took it back home, drew a hot bath, and attacked it with a magic eraser for an hour and a half. The chassis cleaned up nicely, at least the metal parts did. I'm going to have to scrub the plastic front and top panel again. After I was done my bathtub looked like a big cup of coffee and I luckily managed to only slice 2 of my fingers on all the sharp bits of aluminum

I might scrub the motherboard with some isopropyl and a toothbrush later, but it's probably not necessary. The components on the inside of the case were shielded from the majority of the grime thanks to PowerSpec blocking any and all airflow with thick sheets of foam covering the mesh front panel. They proved that sometimes bad ideas are actually great ideas!

I haven't tested any of the core components yet, but I'm holding out hope that everything will work just fine. For a couple weeks now I've been searching for a cheap secondhand system with a plenty of expansion bays to use as a NAS. What amazing luck that I managed to stumble upon this bad boy. It even came with a 2TB drive that has a manufacture date of 2015, wasn't secured with any screws, and I'm sure will definitely pass SMART with 0 bad sectors. Maybe I'll even find the rest of the Epstein files on there.

The second PC is far less impressive and I'm not sure why I even bothered picking it up. It's some old Gateway with a Pentium 4. It was lying on top of the first PC with no side panel and was full of snow. It shielded the other PC from the elements, but I don't think there's going to be anything useful I can salvage from it. Considering the era it's from, it's more than likely the caps are bad anyway. It's probably going back in the garbage.

i like playing with trash

my GAMING setup whichexudesgaming power:

• Ryzen 7 7700X

• RX 7800 XT [16gb]

• 32GB 2x16 DDR5-6000

I built this computer sometime in January of last year because I wanted to play Helldivers 2 at an acceptable framerate.
My old computer was something like this:
GPU: RTX 1660
CPU: i7 7700k
RAM: 16 gbs of ddr4
definitely needed an upgrade and I'm very glad I did at the time I did!
now I can play helldivers 2 at 70 fps instead of 30 on lowest (optimized game)

I have upgraded from my Optiplex... sorta.

Last year I assembled a brand new computer for a little over $500, which I intended to daily drive for years to come. About a month later I happened upon an old Dell Optiplex in a scrap pile and started using that instead. What can I say? It was much smaller, way quieter, and did everything I needed it to. To put it simply, it "just werked". It worked so well that had I planned to sell my new computer and downgrade to the decade old shitbox. At least, that was the plan until the RAMpocalypse happened. I then realized that I may not get another opportunity to buy a brand new computer anytime soon and opted to downsize instead.

Le Olde Puter

The Specs:

• Ryzen 5 5600X

• SOYO Radeon RX 5700 XT 8GB

• G.SKILL Ripjaws V 32GB DDR4-3600 CL16

• SOYO B550M Monarch Dragon AM4 Motherboard

• Crucial P3 Plus 1TB PCIe Gen 4 NVMe SSD

• Thermaltake Versa H18 Micro ATX Case

• Thermaltake Smart 600W 80+ White Label Power Supply

• AMD Wraith Stealth CPU Cooler

• Thermalright TL-C12C 120mm 1550RPM Fans (2 intake, 1 exhaust)

ebin new putler :--DD

What Changed:

• Ryzen 5 5600X (now w/ 45-75mV undervolt)

• SOYO Radeon RX 5700 XT 8GB Gigabyte Low Profile Radeon RX 6400 4GB

• Thermaltake Versa H18 Micro ATX Case T.F.SKYWINDINTL A10 7.3L Mini Tower

• Thermaltake Smart 600W 80+ White Label Power Supply Apevia ITX-PFC 500W Flex ATX Power Supply

• AMD Wraith Stealth CPU Cooler Thermalright AXP120-X67 CPU Cooler

• 3 Thermalright TL-C12C 120mm 1550 RPM Fans ARCTIC P9 Max 92mm 4300 RPM Fan (intake)

Next week I'll either post about my plans for an entire computer lab that I purchased from a local community college for a buck fiddy or about what I'm doing with the old case from this build.

i need dd5 ram

i got a fairly cheap laptop with an RTX 3050 in it but it was made by some off brand chinese company so it broke after about a year and a half. in mid 2024 i bought a $1000 prebuilt from the local PC shop that's been around longer than i have.

CPU: Intel i7-8700k @ 3.70GHz
GPU: NVIDIA Geforce GTX 1080
Memory: 64gb DDR4 ram
Storage: 1TB (i also have a 256gb thumb drive + 64gb thumb drive plugged in)

extremely mid-tier specs, i know that, but for only 1k and getting a boatload of ram right before the prices started artificially inflating, i'm happy with it.
the next pc won't be a prebuilt, and will last a good long while. (+ i'll hopefully be able to afford it within the next 2 years or so if sam altman gets what's coming to him)

mjaded wrote: Wed Jul 08, 2026 11:31 am

in mid 2024 i bought a $1000 prebuilt from the local PC shop that's been around longer than i have.

CPU: Intel i7-8700k @ 3.70GHz
GPU: NVIDIA Geforce GTX 1080
Memory: 64gb DDR4 ram
Storage: 1TB (i also have a 256gb thumb drive + 64gb thumb drive plugged in)

Yikes dude, you got hosed. I'm sorry.

i'm content with it for the time being, i don't really play graphically demanding games

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5600G (3.9 GHz base speed, 12 threads)
GPU: ^ embedded, but decent
RAM: 16GBs DDR4 overclocked to 4200
Storage: Primary: 120GB SSD disk server with a 240GB HDD external disk for an automatic WORM backup (planning to upgrade and have a spare 500GB HDD and a spare 120GB SSD)
Secondary: 240GB NVME SSD Windows disk

The computer has a very inconvenient form factor, but thankfully computers never get slower - you only get a new computer when you have a new task

I mostly play old videogames, so I run on max graphics just fine
Although for Slime Rancher, I sadly had to decrease them