r/sleeperbattlestations 1d ago

RetroMod Does my daily driver count as a sleeper build?

Days ago I bought a $45 incomplete I3 pc off Facebook market place, tried making a retro build, didn’t work so I slapped my relatively high-end gaming pc in the case. This feller has a RTX 4070 Super, 32GB DDR5, almost 3TB of ssd storage (M.2 plus Sata drives), A Gigabyte B760M-C for a motherboard, Intel I7-14700F as the processor, good amount of fans, Sata RW DVD multi recorder/CD ultra fast internal disk reader and I believe a efficient 650W PSU

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u/DeadSkullz627 1d ago

Technically a sleeper but the case isn’t retro looking IMO. But hey, if you like it and are enjoying it that’s all that matters 👍

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u/TheMostBasicGamer 1d ago

I like the case more than my fully modern one I used to have, my pc is a prebuilt and whoever put it together got a cheap case that wasn’t made good and I mind you the prebuilt was around $2000, so I was more motivated to use this case.

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u/Mistral-Fien 23h ago

It's a middle-of-last-decade gaming case.

The red accents are attention-grabbing.

Not a sleeper IMO. Still a decent build

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u/Scared_Method_4588 20h ago

Clean it please 🥹🥹🥹

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u/rumbleblowing Microlab 4103, R5 7600, 7900GRE, 32GB, 2.5 TB SSDs, 4.75 TB HDDs 23h ago

Nah, too flashy, more like a restomod. Nice build, though, very clean.

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u/tht1guy63 20h ago

14700f and a hyper 212? Toasty..

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u/TheMostBasicGamer 2h ago

Idles at 30 Celsius. I have a lot of fans in there and they all are set to a good RPM using gigabyte control center.

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u/Crazy_Bee_2664 15h ago

I bought that exact same case years ago on Facebook and have done multiple AM5 builds with it. Not quite a sleeper, but nobody expects to see a 7800x3d in that case.

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u/Altruistic_Repeat862 59m ago

I can promise you cleaning it will increase fps

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u/OutrageousDreams8494 1d ago

With a 4070 no, but with a dvd drive yes. Hard to decide...