I’ve had a blast lookingf at r/shittyfoodporn on reddit. So, I thought it’d be fun if we had that. I REALLY miss all the build threads, so maybe this’ll spark some meme’s.
Anyways. I got an NZXT ZERO out of the trash the other day with those XBox 360’s. How the fuck did they do cable routing in 2006/7/8?
generall there are cable retainers you can get to harness the cables away from the cpu fan but your fan has a guard on it so they were generally free air.
you can harness them with zip ties but do not pull the ties tight (this can break the wires in the cables)
Kids these days and their cable routing and clean builds. Why back in my day we had ribbon cables and we were happy to have them!
CPU fan? What the hell is that? You set your jumpers, put on a heat sink and be done with it!
There was no “cable routing” back then. You either shortened the cabled to length by tying nubs with zip ties, wrapped them around parts of the case (like shown), or you could have twisted them together (like push+pull fans with 2 headers in the same spot).
The cases didn’t have widened rear panels for routing. Being able to afford all SATA devices costed more and improved inner airflow over ribbon cables. The PSU with sleeves costed more and also wasn’t standard.
I used to tuck most of the excess cabling up into the 5.25" bay either above or below the one I had my Burner in.
Here is a decent example:
Not like that.
I built cleaner cabled PCs than that in 1998
you should have seen the cd library servers i had to work on in the law offices and courthouse.
six machines with 5 cd drives each and i hdd( all scsi ) and linked together with scsi trunking cables to a slave terminals. yards and yards of 68 conductor ribbon cabling!
and what a headache to configure.
these machines were running win 95 and win nt server and the cd library was running dos 6.0
yep Im an old fart 
running peppermint 8 and dual monitors 4 tb in hdd/sdd.
Does this count? Also recently posed this PC in the jerryrig thread.
PS: This cooling “solution” works better than the stock.
got a couple igel thin clients im playing with to see what i can rig up with them.
I like to mess with arduino and plc’s a lot too
What GPU?
I suppose if you’re not running sustained loads, enough thermal mass would keep the GPU cool before it heat soaks.
i know i posted my crate in the cringe but
whatever works to get the job done! I dont judge.
Wow 
Yes definitely. It’s an rx550 4G pulse that has a copper plate 1 mm thick between the die and heatsink. Watching youtube, plex, or steam streaming doesn’t get over 40c. Plus I added thermal pads to the vram.
thats amazing actually
It’s truly shitty computer porn, but it’s redneck engineering at it’s best.
Those insides look VERY familiar…
Oh, yeah. I’ve got an XPS 420 (BLAZE IT), myself. Complete with mismatched shitty ddr2 ram and a half-dead GT430 2gb. Single 300gb hard drive. The newest thing in it is the disc drive since the old one went out halfway through its lifespan.
Had it for 8 years. The design is 10 years old. Luckily, I FINALLY have parts for an all new rig on the way. It’s gonna be the shit. R5 2600/1070/16gb ram/1tb ssd. It’ll probably run so well, I won’t know what to do with myself.
yeah i got a call from a friend whose upgrading his office (does this every 2 years)
possibly get a lot of nice equipment for free (just need to wipe the drives on site)
cant wait to see what they are
probably build a server cluster with them and overload the bandwidth here 
