Nostalgia Meets Performance: A High-End Gaming PC Inside a 386 Case

Where does an one-time 386 DOS PC example vest in today'due south world? The garbage bin, one might presume. But what if I told you that at that place is someone who thinks otherwise?

Reddittor Tylinol recently shared his gaming PC setup, that he build inside an onetime 386 reckoner cabinet. The self-proclaimed "biscuit-aholic", he wanted to try something unlike with his latest PC build, and so he put a relatively modernistic gaming PC inside the yellowing old case.

Serendipity PC

He explains how he got the case from an old human a few years back. "Someone who wants this old computer walks by just equally I'm throwing it out?", he remembers the man saying. "That's serendipity for you!". Tylinol has since then kept the erstwhile 386 around, playing sometime DOS games on it until the 2010 Nashville floods destroyed the components.

Tylinol, nevertheless, couldn't part with his beloved device and decided to install some new gaming hardware into the organisation. Obviously, the cabinet has rusted a lot, so the first stride involved cleaning the entire example with Naval Jelly and sandpaper. He as well put some piece of work into removing the sometime, artificial processing speed LED, which he then replaced it with an authentic CPU temp readout.

For those of you lot interested in the specs, the "Serendipity PC" sports an i5-6500, GTX 970, 8GB DDR4 RAM and an SSD. Just to give you an thought of the massive upgrade, Tylinol states that "the LED on the forepart of the case now has more than processing power inside it than the original 386 PC itself."

We at Beebom found information technology a pretty interesting project for all those nostalgia lovers. In fact, I'chiliad actually because something along similar lines for our side by side DIY video. But what practise you remember of it? Share with us your thoughts nearly the project in the comments below.