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Building my childhood dream PC

Building my childhood dream PC

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·September 8, 2025
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incomplete

oh man, what a trip down memory lane. i started building PCs in college with 386/486s and last year rebuilt my silly custom loop watercooled workstation. :)

and yes: the supplied pc docs back then >>>>>>>> supplied pc docs today

vunderba

I love the attention to detail in this post. I've thought about picking up one of those Vortex86 based ITX boards like the ITX-Llama [1] since you get the joy of running on real hardware but don't have to worry about tracking down a soundblaster card, network cards, etc. Assuming that they ever come back in stock that is.

[1] https://retrodreams.ca/products/itx-llama-mainboard

markus_zhang

Ah, this is the perfect machine to replicate John Carmack’s work. It’s not a NEXT but is pretty strong to do development on.

urda

The rise of retro computing and gaming is wonderful thing.

gsibble

I just finished building a water cooled Threadripper 9980X machine today (you can go see it on reddit in r/watercooling or r/threadripper.

My first ever build was a 386 though.

What fond memories.