[Image thread] Post Battlestation's (yours or just ones you've found)

White Devil said:
I would give my right arm to go back to the years when all that shit was popular.
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it still is you just need to go the right places
this reddit is a good place to start https://www.reddit.com/r/sleeperbattlestations/top/?t=all
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Battlecruiser3000ad said:
I can never relate to all these pictures because they seem obsessed with cable management and being all neat 'n shit. I did that once but the first time I needed to change something I went back to my rat nest of cables.
Feels like I'm both too autistic to keep it neat, and not autistic enough to keep it neat. Like some special place on the spectrum.
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I'm right there with you. I desperately want to get my cables managed, but I tend to move things around a lot, and being into retro gear (Audio, video, PC) I cycle through equipment frequently.
I'm sure there are ways to efficiently get it under control, but I don't even know where to start.

It doesn't help that my desk is an All-Steel tanker desk that practically weighs as much as my car, and I'm forced to place it all the way against the wall in my office. It's hopeless
 
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My desk with a lamp. Yes I wash my feet.
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My actual case complete with one of those vintage car dvd players with the slideout screen.
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The degenerate stickers on my case.
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The method through which I actually get internet in my room. Bonus points if you can guess exactly what the black & white boxes are.
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I figured I would include why my desktop actually is. Manjaro xfce for anybody asking. If you want the actually wallpaper I can post it but a reverse google search will also net you the result.
 
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Mr. Boogedy said:
I'm in awe of SA goon Bungmonkey's flooded crawlspace setup:
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Despite rumors, he didn't die from blackmold. He eventually moved into a proper basement and became a Twitch streamer: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/136826215
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Aggh. Every time I see these the part that really makes me feel physical revolt is the one with the fucking bed. Holy shit. Very few people deserve to live in a space like that.
 
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I like sleeper builds and battlestations.
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That Hot Wheels computer has a Barbie themed counterpart and I always thought it’d be funny to build a sleeper PC in one. I feel like people would be more willing to underestimate the specs of a ~computer for girls~ and it’d make the contrast between the outside and the inside cooler. Plus it kinda gives me Y2K vibes, like something the teenage girl in a 90s/early 2000s Disney channel sitcom would use.
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This Borg cube PC case is also cool as fuck (although unfortunately its really expensive and too big for me to be able to put it anywhere, RIP)
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If I ever manage to save up enough money to turn my Dell prebuilt into an actual gaming rig without any proprietary bullshit I’ll probably end up using the Fractal Design Define Nano S as my case since I have a tiny desk where the case has to fit on a shelf underneath with a gap that’s pretty much bang on 14 inches (35.5cm) in height and most PC cases are 40-55cm tall. Even the mini versions of the other micro ATX fractal design cases like the Meshify C are just ever so slightly too tall. The Define Nano S is pretty much the only decently priced case I can find that makes minimal sacrifices to achieve its small size (I’d have to get a mini ITX motherboard but that’s about it). All the other ones I saw within my criteria did stupid things with the layout and/or power supply to try and get it to be maximum smol but really it doesn’t matter how wide or deep the case is for me as long as it’s slightly shorter than average in height.
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I also liked the Cooler Master HAF XB Evo but apparently it’s been discontinued so its really hard to find nowadays.
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I like your style @Elysian. There are built in desk pcs, and there's also flat lay builds if you're into any of that. There are really a ton of possibilities as long as you can work out airflow. I built a sleeper PC recently using an old macintosh tower for the late 90s/early 00s vibes. It does sacrifice conveniences like front USB/audio jacks that are easy to access, but it looks extremely cool and I don't mind not having those or drive bays. I'm also a fan of the borg cube.

Kind of weird that it's hard to find cases under 14". Mine is a little over that but it's mainly plastic on the outside that's not necessary. Without it, it would be just a hair over 14" and it's micro ATX. I think some of the sleeper PC people use old horizontal cases, I also don't think there is a problem with just laying any case on it's side except not many have aesthetic bottoms.

I recently went down the rabbit hole of mineral oil pcs, unfortunately most of them are going for the pet store aesthetic, but occasionally somebody has a good one.

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Lookin' a little Serial Experiments Lain with that awful cable management. I've re-groomed the cables underneath since this was taken, but it could actually use a bit more attention, down there. The cardboard in the window is just for a truly ghetto floor-standing AC setup that serves double-duty as my beer chiller.

The desk is homemade, from angle iron from an old bed frame that we cut up on a bandsaw and welded together into this monstrosity, which is 8 feet across. The keyboard tray is also custom and uses a salvaged Workrite Pinnacle 2 arm that allows it to be raised to standing desk height if desired. The triangulated frames underneath are made of steel rod and sit on a couple of Craftsman tool chests that act as the legs of the desk and its drawers. The tops of the chests are also usable space, seen here playing host to a Schiit Asgard and Bifrost AMP/DAC combo feeding into my Beyerdynamic cans. My speaker system is a Logitech Z-5500 set that I've had so long that the power button on the volume control pod has literally broken off. The desk mic is a Zoom H6 portable recorder on a tripod. The monitor is a Samsung Odyssey G9 ultrawide, the keyboard is a Topre Realforce R2 PFU Limited Edition and the mouse is a Razer Basilisk V2.

The PC itself is my most recent build, and consists of an AMD Ryzen 9 5900X, 128 gigs of RAM, and an RTX 3090 FE, with all-SSD storage, all stuffed inside a Fractal Design Define 7 Compact. This little rig is an animal. It tackles everything I throw at it.
 
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I just have a beat to fuck old laptop. I haven't had real desktop in over a decade. I don't game.

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