My build doesn't have a PSU. Instead it has a voltage regulator. I live in an off-grid RV so my PC runs off a battery bank. There is no AC/DC conversion.
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That is indeed unique.
what are the specs of the system?
Oldass i7, 32GB RAM, couple of SSD's, RTX 2060 12GB underclocked to reduce power, no monitor since it's a VR machine/stable diffusion server. Wirelessly connects to a Pico 4.
For older hardware it manages to run everything I throw at it.
Oh that's more than I expected. I thought you would just power something laptop like by the battery. How long can the system stay up?
It'll run indefinitely while idle. I usually put it to sleep when I'm not using it though. I've got a 600ah battery bank so I can pretty much run it as long as I need to under load without fear. My air conditioning is the thing I have to keep in check.
Previous build: It was 4.5L. What makes it unique is the finickiness, because it was shutting off with stock settings and it uses a Dell 330W power brick. I had to down volt both the CPU and GPU, and it worked well for ~6 years.
Current build: It's a 4090 and 7800x3D in a 10L case.
Not unique globally, but unique in my household. I have always built my own PCs, ever since my first 486. Currently, for the first time in my life I have prebuilts from Puget Systems. 3 of them, and I'm never going back.
I paid for it, and no one else does…
Mine is a series of continous upgrades from my first build nearly 20 years ago. It's on its 8th mainboard generation and every part has been replaced at least 4 times, but I've never replaced the whole thing in one go so I consider it the same machine. Very Ship of Theseus situation.
I have a spreadsheet of basically every part and upgrade back to the original build.
Unrelated, I used fuzedrive with a 1tb ssd and a 3tb mechanical for a while as well. Works pretty well.
My build is special because I use a very old server case that I have remodeled the interior of and is so ugly i hide it behind my monitors.
It does the job. No LEDs, no bling. It seems to be the exception.
My build is unique since my mainboard is bent by my AIO cooler. I built my PC in the Ncase M1 but picked the "wrong" AIO cooler (Corsair H100i V2). The tubes are quite stiff and tight bending was necessary fit them inside the case. Now my mainboard is bent so much that I can't use two USB-ports at the back since they don't line up with the holes in the IO shield anymore. However I built it in 2016 and it has survived moving so I won't change it until I build a new PC in a few years.
It's a little big. Fractal Meshify 2XL. 420mm AIO. I was fed up of 'poky' cases!
I opted to use an old Cooler Master CPU fan from a Windows Vista eMachine that I had in my home. Went from cooling a AMD Athlon X2 to a AMD Ryzen 7700X.
Having looked up the model number when building my PC, it's apparently a model that wasn't meant to be sold individually, or at least, I couldn't find any places that sell or sold that specific model previously, beyond a few old eBay listings.
May not be the best practice to re-use old CPU fans like that, but monitoring the temps when running higher-end games, it seems to be doing the job just fine!
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