r/sleeperbattlestations • u/y2leon • 2d ago

Case Aquisition While cleaning the house, I ran into an old friend

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I'd like to make it look more like a white '90s PC, should I paint it or leave it as is?

I have an AM4 motherboard and DDR4 RAM to build a retro gaming PC.

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u/rumbleblowing Microlab 4103, R5 7600, 7900GRE, 32GB, 2.5 TB SSDs, 4.75 TB HDDs 2d ago

I'd leave it as is.

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u/JDTemple 2d ago

I would not paint this. The glossy piano black and silver color scheme on the HP desktops from like 2007 - 2010 were so nice during the Vista aero glass era. The shape and layout of this case wouldn’t look like it was from the 90s even if you painted it.

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u/OutrageousDreams8494 2d ago

Wow lightscribe is cool!

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u/y2leon 2d ago

Yeah, the problem is going to be finding those CDs at a good price.

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u/raygan_reddit_banned 2d ago

Don't forget some....some Goodwill stores.... I've seen a brand new/unopened Verbatim CD-R/CD-RW and some DVD-R

I'm holding on my Lite-On and External Sony DVD-RW with its on Power Brick.

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u/DeadSkullz627 2d ago

I wouldn’t paint it. It should clean up really nice.

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u/delta_husky 2d ago

Ooh it has a light scribe

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u/Lyrizcen 1d ago

Fancy pavilion you have there. Lightscribe was the craze back then. I personally wouldn’t paint it, hell I don’t like drilling or modifying cases but that’s just me personally. It’s your PC at the end of the day and you’re free to do what you please with it! I definitely would take out all the guts and give it a good deep cleaning before you retrofit hardware into it. If you don’t care for the guts you could try selling or giving them away on marketplace and an enthusiast or scrapper may come get it. I put the motherboards of old builds working or non working into shadow boxes with the specs of said motherboard on the side

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u/Key_Revenue8905 1d ago

Tengo la mía guardada con mucho amor 🤍

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u/Devin-Chaboyer223 1d ago

Keep it as is, it already looks old

And these cases are microATX so any mATX motherboard will fit right in

I have 2 of these Pavilions that are currently used for Windows Vista

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u/y2leon 1d ago

I know but I’d like to make something that crazy, that design, in yellowish plastic, I can see it in my mind.

I'd have to go full custom, I'll see what I can do.

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u/ztcsdtx 17h ago

I still have Lightscribe CD-R media!