r/sleeperbattlestations

Hey everyone! Just wanted to share this sleeper PC I just built (with the assistance of a lot of YouTube videos, Reddit threads, and many assistance forum posts/blogs) out of a Compaq Presario 6000 Case! My first build had to be this case because this is the same model that I grew up using in the 2000's (fond memories of playing Club Penguin and Cartoon Network website games on it) and now it's gonna be capable of doing a whole bunch of fun stuff!

I found a mint condition Cooler Master HAF 912 on Facebook marketplace for $20CAD ($14.50-$15USD)

The plan to is to keep it looking like an old PC on the outside but Radeon 9060XT + Ryzen 5800XT build. Only reason I’m sticking with AM4 is to reuse my 32gb 2x16 3200MHz ram kit that I had on my Intel Skylake era motherboard that just called it quits with the current RAM prices or I’d happily go with an AM5 platform.

I know these cases are old enough to be truly semi retro (not like the new SilverStone retro vibe cases) but I can’t find any information on just how old they are.

I love the black retro design with airflow in mind. I’ve made a render of what the pc would look like when turned on with the front bay BluRay Drive and updated USB panel.

Rate my planned sleeper build.

- Asus ROG Strix B550F with Ryzen 7 5800XT and 32gb DDR4

- Radeon 9060XT 16GB or Radeon 6700XT/6750XT 12gb depending on what I find to my price liking.

- COOLING: CoolerMaster MasterLiquid 240L Core 240mm AIO, 2 120mm front intake fans, 1 120mm rear exhaust fan, 1 140mm side panel intake fan

- Corsair RM850e PSU

- Storage: 2TB Crucial P300 NVME SSD (Demanding game drive, popular for PS5 storage upgrades), 512GB Gen 3x4 NVME SSD for OS, my TeamGroup Vulcan Z 2TB 2.5” SSD I have kicking around for triple A titles that came out after the Xbox 360/PS3 era, my Seagate Barracuda 1TB 2.5” HDD I also have lying around for older games and emulation.

My goal is to build as future proofed of an AM4 platform I can while reusing my 32GB kit as a 1440p gaming monster. I don’t really care for 4k especially not with the price of decent refresh rate 4K monitors.

Currently my favourite games to play on PC: Battlefield 6, Cyberpunk 2077, Resident Evil 9, Spider Man 2, Hogwarts Legacy, Sons of the Forest, Dying Light: Beast, Doom: Dark Ages, Fortnite, Warzone, Oblivion Remastered, Borderlands 3 & 4

This connected goes to the front power button switch and led connected with it. Is there an adapter i can use? I appreciate the help in advance !!

this is a cooler master HAF 932 from 2008 that i got off of facebook marketplace.

inside is:

ryzen 9 5900x
radeon RX 9070 XT
32gb ddr4
2.5 tb of SSDs
B450 motherboard
1300w power supply

I think it looks pretty sick,

couldnt find a crt tho.

i5 12400f,

32gb ddr4 corsair vengeance,

2tb nvme,

evga gtx 1080 ti ftw3 (yeah yeah im cool)

My mod-free Legend since 2000
Current specs: X570, 5800X3D, 32GB@3733, RTX5070TI, 14TB storage, NHD15S 2 * A14x25g2 and 3 * A12x25g2 case. fans. Monitor 43CJ890 3840*1200 (avoiding 4K pixels so I can have a decent framerate without breaking my wallet). Nice setup until AM6 arrives.
Started with a Pentium 3/Voodoo 2 SLI and it has seen everything since (*aside of P4 and FX).
And needless to say a lot of Graphics cards

Slepper in here is this a good idea

I tried to do minimal change to the case but I ended up doing a lot of change to it. It has a intel i5 12600KF, an RTX 3070 aorus edition. NZXT kraken elite. 16gb DDR5. (I have another stick but I'm letting my friend borrow it for now so im not getting the fullest preformance) Overall I like how it turned out

Currently has an Asus H310M-C motherboard, GTX 1050 Ti, i3-9100F, 8GB DDR4 (to be upgraded), and a 256GB NVMe alongside a 1TB HDD. I wish I had an I/O shield.

Ignore the IdeaCentre branding in the fourth image, that SSD had an old OEM Windows install.

Unfortunately the power, USB and AUX pins on the case are nonstandard so I had to improvise as you can see. I am very surprised that power pin connection even works, and it also took me about half an hour to find a position that worked. If you have any tips on this please let me know.

All in all I really love this case, just wish the connectors would be standard. The handle is so cool too.

Found this on the street, competes with the cheesegrater mac pro in weight, it's packed with expansion (?) cards, has a 1992 sticker on the psu and it's definitely dead as it was under heavy rain (really sad as there were two perfect looking crts next to it, but soaked)

How moddable is this? It has that little key thing and that turbo button, plus an on/off switch.

(late 2015) Acer aspire e5 573g 52g3, 940m 2gb vram in a 2003 compaq presario s3100nx with a matching mint crt compaq 7500 monitor next to my new ddr5 prebuilt.

Laptop to retro sleeper desktop conversion build.

Runs windows 10, has 16gb ddr3 ram and Nividia GeForce 940m 2gb vram, and a dual core, four threads intel i5 5200u 2.2ghz to 2.7ghz boost, 1tb sata 3 2.5" ssd 500mb/s

Decided to try one of these out, wanted a ~$1,000 build, combination of new and used parts.

Floppy drive is functional, and I use it for a Sony Mavica camera (neat camera, it saves to floppies).

Next up is a firewire PCIe card for the mini dv camcorder footage, and making the cd drive and front usb ports functional.

Specs:

Powercolor 9070xt (used $600)

Ryzen 5 7500x3d ram/mobo/cpu combo (new $300)

16gb ram

Asrock b850m

750w PSU (used $40)

Presario case (used $60)

Tower cooler and two case fans (new ~$75 total)

DM me if you want the old internals (everything except the cd and floppy drive), it turned on when it got delivered, but I didn't have a vga cable to really see if it was working. Seller said it was working with Windows XP.

Also, let me know if you have a SAT dvd or cd writer you want to get rid of.

Found an oddball to finally do a sleeper build.

So... I turned my old family PC into a nice little sleeper PC!

I wanted a good PC since im a early IT student and began to learn hardware and thought "Heck I wanna upgrade my old family computer! And nothing could prepare me for the FIRE HAZARD this thing was in... I began to work on this Dell Inspiron 660 since February! I made short upgrades like upgrading the CPU from I5 to I7-3700K and making the ram from 8gb to 16gb.. then eventually upgrading PSU, adding a SSD. And modding a front intake fan and taking out the defunct DVD player. The GPU isn't what I call sleeper beast but my brother put it there back in 2016 and I dont do any modern gaming on it so for now I'll upgrade to something better later.

Why did i not just go modern case? I have a lot of emotional ties to this computer and the case is just couldnt get rid of!

This was quite the journey! Got all my parts off Amazon and got to work. This journey has made me well prepared for working on computers and I enjoyed every minute! I haven't made the jump to Win 11 yet but one day I will.

This is used for my IT college work, daily use and retro gaming and the difference in peformance is amazing!

Old Dell Inspiron 660 Specs. (Thermalright Cooler)

CPU: Intel Core i7-2700K (2nd Gen Sandy Bridge) *eventually did I7-3700k*

Motherboard: Original Dell Inspiron 660 OEM board

RAM: 16GB DDR3 1333MHz

GPU: GTX 1050 Ti

Storage: Crucial BX500 SATA SSD + HDD storage

PSU: Older Dell/OEM PSU originally

Case: Dell Inspiron 660 case (still using)

Modern upgrade

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 7600X

Motherboard: MSI PRO B650M-A WiFi

RAM: 32GB DDR5

GPU: GTX 1050 Ti (currently reused)

Storage: Same SSD + HDD carried over

PSU: Corsair RM650x 650W

Case: Same Dell Inspiron 660 sleeper case

Specs:

Dell Vostro - originally had a Core i5-3450

AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D

B650M Aorus Elite AX

96GB (2x48GB) G.Skill Flare X5 DDR5-5600

Nvidia RTX 5090 Founders Edition

1TB Seagate Firecuda X1070 M.2

4TB Crucial T705 M.2

Thermaltake Toughpower GF3 1000W

Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 Mini Black

Phanteks T30 (x3) - 2x Bottom intake, 1x Side exhaust

Arctic P9 Max - 1x Rear intake

Graugear 3.5" Front I/0 Panel

Undervolted the CPU & GPU with no performance hit. Actually tested slightly higher than stock!

Average temps after 20min Cyberpunk at 4K, RT Ultra:

CPU: 75°C

GPU: 74°C

Here's the full 5+ hour stream in case you're interested: https://www.youtube.com/live/9zh-QnGh3NU?si=QE5Rj4ItFXv3zJay

I wanted to build a pc for the first time and decided it would be fun to do it with my current case(Lenovo thincentre m900), but i have one concern. Im going to be putting in a powercolor rx6700xt on an msi b550m pro-vdh and i think the card will sit right at the bottom. I think that will be a problem for it's airflow. Only solution i can think of is cutting holes at the bottom and raising the case with feet. Is that going to work and if you have other ideas let me know!