Pretty
Remember those from back in the day
Were expensive IIRC?
Yeah, not cheap but not ridiculous either when you consider the hand crafting ... built tough from oak and steel too, it should outlast Keith Richards.
Not mine but i wish it was, a long time ago i found this same guy who owns this amazing collection on youtube and posted his collection tour vids in the retro section but sadly he deleted his videos so for years i never got to see it again i missed getting to enjoy looking at it all. Tonight i randomly found someones video who went to this guys house and recorded a tour of his collection.
This collection totally resonates with me as it's full of really cool 80's-90's stuff, kinnikuman/bikkuriman items as well as loads of nintendo hardware and a damn disk writer although he made that himself. I just LOVE the layout of it all just a shame the video is so short as his original videos went close up to everything so you could really look at it all.
Some pictures of my humble living room corner. It is a mixture of outdated and modern (as is appropriate for a 41-year-old dad of two in a small inner city apartment).
All my other retro consoles, games and other physical objects are stashed away in sundry drawers, cupboards and shelves, to be excavated and extracted as necessary. It's perhaps not ideal, but it is a livable compromise - and I'm all about compromises as a 41-year-old dad of two in a small inner city apartment.
Some pictures of my humble living room corner. It is a mixture of outdated and modern (as is appropriate for a 41-year-old dad of two in a small inner city apartment).
All my other retro consoles, games and other physical objects are stashed away in sundry drawers, cupboards and shelves, to be excavated and extracted as necessary. It's perhaps not ideal, but it is a livable compromise - and I'm all about compromises as a 41-year-old dad of two in a small inner city apartment.
This looks really tidy. I'm considering having a massive purge after seeing this. 200+ PCBs in corstat boxes is not family friendly.
Looks cosy! I have a similar situation in that I only have one console set up at a time. It isn't ideal but I make do with it.
Like the SFF PC too - any details on that?
Thank you! The SFF PC actually allowed me to have a "console of the month" space, as before I had a HTPC case easily three times the size in that TV stand.
It is a very recent build, a way for me to de-stress while studying for my country's equivalent of the Bar exam while simultaneously working from home and self-isolating with my family of four.
The case is the Dan A4-SFX, which at 7.2 litres is the smallest I could find that would actually fit in the space I had and also be able to accommodate a regular(ish)-size new graphics card. It also is well-built and very pleasing to (my) eyes. The other specs are as follows:
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5600X
CPU cooler: Alpenföhn Black Ridge (with the stock fan replaced with a Noctua NF-A9x14 92mm fan)
PSU: Corsair SF600 80+ Platinum
MB: Asus ROG Strix B550-I Gaming
RAM: two 16GB sticks of Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200MHz
case fans: two Noctua NF-A9x14 92mm fans
two M.2 SSDs: Samsung 980 PRO (1TB) and Adata XPG SX8200 PRO (2TB)
GPU: Gigabyte RTX 3070 Eagle (OC)
and various other bits and pieces.
For fun, I also installed an Asus Aura RGB Strip on the side of the GPU with two-sided tape. I actually don't use it much, but it is nice for impressing the cat every once in a while (or shining a blue light in honor of Sonic 3 & Knuckles ;D).
All that wasn't exactly affordable, but I have been thinking of it as my personal "next-gen" setup for the coming 6-7 years. It is smaller than either of the new "big" consoles and delivers equal performance in the latest AAA games (which mostly end up on PC nowadays anyways). It's also more versatile (considering emulation, among other things) and more future-proof. Of course I'll still have the latest iteration of Switch as its natural companion - goes without saying, that.
Thank you! The SFF PC actually allowed me to have a "console of the month" space, as before I had a HTPC case easily three times the size in that TV stand.
It is a very recent build, a way for me to de-stress while studying for my country's equivalent of the Bar exam while simultaneously working from home and self-isolating with my family of four.
The case is the Dan A4-SFX, which at 7.2 litres is the smallest I could find that would actually fit in the space I had and also be able to accommodate a regular(ish)-size new graphics card. It also is well-built and very pleasing to (my) eyes. The other specs are as follows:
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5600X
CPU cooler: Alpenföhn Black Ridge (with the stock fan replaced with a Noctua NF-A9x14 92mm fan)
PSU: Corsair SF600 80+ Platinum
MB: Asus ROG Strix B550-I Gaming
RAM: two 16GB sticks of Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200MHz
case fans: two Noctua NF-A9x14 92mm fans
two M.2 SSDs: Samsung 980 PRO (1TB) and Adata XPG SX8200 PRO (2TB)
GPU: Gigabyte RTX 3070 Eagle (OC)
and various other bits and pieces.
For fun, I also installed an Asus Aura RGB Strip on the side of the GPU with two-sided tape. I actually don't use it much, but it is nice for impressing the cat every once in a while (or shining a blue light in honor of Sonic 3 & Knuckles ;D).
All that wasn't exactly affordable, but I have been thinking of it as my personal "next-gen" setup for the coming 6-7 years. It is smaller than either of the new "big" consoles and delivers equal performance in the latest AAA games (which mostly end up on PC nowadays anyways). It's also more versatile (considering emulation, among other things) and more future-proof. Of course I'll still have the latest iteration of Switch as its natural companion - goes without saying, that.
Thank you! The SFF PC actually allowed me to have a "console of the month" space, as before I had a HTPC case easily three times the size in that TV stand.
It is a very recent build, a way for me to de-stress while studying for my country's equivalent of the Bar exam while simultaneously working from home and self-isolating with my family of four.
The case is the Dan A4-SFX, which at 7.2 litres is the smallest I could find that would actually fit in the space I had and also be able to accommodate a regular(ish)-size new graphics card. It also is well-built and very pleasing to (my) eyes. The other specs are as follows:
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5600X
CPU cooler: Alpenföhn Black Ridge (with the stock fan replaced with a Noctua NF-A9x14 92mm fan)
PSU: Corsair SF600 80+ Platinum
MB: Asus ROG Strix B550-I Gaming
RAM: two 16GB sticks of Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200MHz
case fans: two Noctua NF-A9x14 92mm fans
two M.2 SSDs: Samsung 980 PRO (1TB) and Adata XPG SX8200 PRO (2TB)
GPU: Gigabyte RTX 3070 Eagle (OC)
and various other bits and pieces.
For fun, I also installed an Asus Aura RGB Strip on the side of the GPU with two-sided tape. I actually don't use it much, but it is nice for impressing the cat every once in a while (or shining a blue light in honor of Sonic 3 & Knuckles ;D).
All that wasn't exactly affordable, but I have been thinking of it as my personal "next-gen" setup for the coming 6-7 years. It is smaller than either of the new "big" consoles and delivers equal performance in the latest AAA games (which mostly end up on PC nowadays anyways). It's also more versatile (considering emulation, among other things) and more future-proof. Of course I'll still have the latest iteration of Switch as its natural companion - goes without saying, that.
Looks like a really nice build, especially considering the form factor. Do you leave the case sides off for temperature reasons?
Looks like a really nice build, especially considering the form factor. Do you leave the case sides off for temperature reasons?
Nah, that was just showing off for the camera! Usually the sides are discreetly on, as seen in last pic. However, it is certainly not the coolest case in the world, so I expect to leave the sides off in the summer - at least when playing a game for an extended time.
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