Use the box the components are shipped in as the case.
Steal the computer mouse from the local police station for a bonus thrill.
You could probably get paid to take away a computer with better specs.
Literally any office pc that get sent to ewaste is better
I “built” a “100€” gaming PC. I took home an old business workstation with a 4th Gen i5 that was discarded by one of my employer’s customers and was about to be scrapped, put in 16GB of mismatched, used RAM my boss gave me out of the parts pile, and paid him 100€ for a GTX 1050TI that he had ordered to test something and couldn’t return.
It was enough to run Cyberpunk 2077 on low settings, and replaced my former gaming PC I had duct-taped together out of parts my friends threw away after upgrading.
This was 2014 so those were fairly high end specs at the time
I think you’d have paid about 800-1000USD for those back then
Those specs are pretty close to the gaming PC I built in 2013. 4th Gen i5 (4670K), 16GB DDR3 1600, and a 770 (later upgraded to a 1070 in 2016). Paid $1100 for it and used it for a decade; even in 2023 I could hit 60 FPS at 1080p in most new titles (with medium-low settings). If I didn’t buy a 4K 120Hz OLED, I’d still be gaming on that PC today.
I know, not the same, but I built my kid a cheap “Gaming” laptop from an old corporate PC that was going to be scrapped because it restarted every hour of use.
Cleaned the cooling fins and fan, repasted both cpu and gpu, got a cheap ssd and extra sodimm of ram. Was good for about a year or so until he got my Ryzen rig :)
Here’s how you build a high-spec’s top-tier gaming PC for a hundred dollars:
1 - Go to your non-local consumer electronics store
2 - Find the most miserable looking employee
3 - “Hey bro, I give you 100 bucks if you tell me your guys’ security code”
4 - Come back at night
5 - You get the idea
4 - He gives you a false code, but takes your money.
5 - You come back at night and the cops summarily arrest you.
Diablotek
That’s not a computer. That’s an incendiary device.
You have nothing on the Tri-Fan 1200W https://www.crazysales.com.au/online-ritmo-force-1200-tri-fan-gaming-power-supply-2-3v-8373.html
That’s absolutely terrifying.
And they claim cheap SMRs don’t exist yet xD
Here they are in an MSY (Australia) catalog from 2012:
Ritmo == SHAW == A-Power, all were in-house brands at MSY. I suspect the 1500W and 1200W might have been the same thing with varying amounts of lying, but perhaps they did also size the components slightly differently.
Sweet Jesus. I’ll just buy a small rectangular prism and some firecrackers thx hahaha
time for some !permacomputing@slrpnk.net
I know it’s 2014, but getting a used PC is a good way to get a “gaming” pc for $100. Although the quality jumps significantly with $300.
90€ for a thinkcentre with a quad core i5-6400, 290€ for the best gpu you can get (used, check power consumption), steal a mouse & keyboard at work for free, 20€ for a good soup and you’re good to go.
20€ for a good soup
That must be some killer soup
They must mean one of those country restaurants that’s a converted house where you can buy amazing soup by the gallon.
Wait that’s European. I mean… Kilo… Gallon… Liter. Fuck.
You’re not getting good soup for €20/kilolitre or kilogallon.
Maybe for a kilomicroinch
