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I cut a hole in the side of a NUC and wired a graphics card to the nvme port. It's stuck to the back of my monitor with velcro. It works.

The top one. My PC is awesome

There was the guy on reddit a week or so ago that was the fusion of these. Ran a custom cooling loop up his wall into the AC vent and got insanely low temps.

These days, the top. Pretty close to it, too--other than the hardline tubing, that's about what my gaming setup looks like.

I've also ran systems in the past where the "case" is the box the motherboard came in, and you started it by tripping the switch header with whatever piece of metal was handy. Good times.

no glass, no worries

Most people build budget or best bang for their buck builds

I took tin snips to the GeForce 310 from my old family computer because I had a SFF PC and wanted a second monitor, so I guess I'm the latter

The first, but I pay someone to do it for me

I'll be the $5000 guy in the future.

It's perfectly possible to go full-blown overclocking with watercooling whilst not buying top of the range parts (which tend to be "twice the price for an extra 10% performance" deals) and not spending a cent in decorative elements such as turning your PC box into a lightshow.

In fact it absolutelly makes sense to get well selected parts from the high middle end of the consumer segment using knowledge about performance bottlenecks to select the right stuff to get more bang for the buck and pumping up performance further with overclocking using the right self-assembled cooling and tweaks to things like voltage supplied to the CPU.

I like to call it Intelligent Performance Aware PC Builder but calling it Tight-fisted Old Gamer would work too ;)

I'm very satisfied with my build but my main issues are cables. The cables of the two CPU fans are way too long so they hang in a pretty non aesthetic way. On the other hand, the cables of the fan headers are too short for me to put them in the back of the case so it has to just stay there below my GPUs. It's awful.