I just learned about this cool PC case a couple days ago (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqyQeCbq4YA&t=221s), and I kinda want it over my boring aluminium and glass box. I like both the idea of an old looking sleeper and the horizontal pizza box form factor (or pizza box adjacent as it’s whole 4U thick).

So I started thinking about possibilities. The FLP01 is just an off-white version of silverstone’s normal HTPC case with a different front panel. So what if I got the case and modded it in a similar manner?

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Oversized playstation, a very rough sketch.

I could 3D print this, and probably post-process the surface finish to look as if it were legit. It will probably go nowhere as I can’t justify buying a new case just for fun, but I wanted to share this thought anyway.

  • wingsfortheirsmiles@feddit.ukEnglish
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    1 day ago

    It’s maybe an old fogie thing to say but whilst the nostalgia is cool, I don’t see the point… Unless you can scrounge up some working 5.25 drives from somewhere and custom them into the case lol. Least then you’d be fully embracing the retro. Silverstone’s standard case looks nice enough if you want that form factor

    • jqubed@lemmy.world
      4·
      21 hours ago

      I haven’t clicked through the links but if this is what I’m remembering being unveiled a couple months ago (I think as a Japan exclusive), I think those covers just looked like floppy drives but you could put an optical drive behind the top and a card reader/USB ports behind the bottom, something like that.

      I suppose if they’re actual 5.25 bays you could put a floppy drive in if you had some way to power them and get data, and you were using an OS that supported them.

  • Vinny_93@lemmy.world
    5·
    1 day ago

    Yeah the idea of having one of those simple 90s cases is cool. I would be kinda worried about airflow though. I think it may get kinda hot. Is your front panel mod also meant to intake more air?

    • jyl@sopuli.xyzOP
      1·
      1 day ago

      In GD09, the front is solid and the sides are intakes. There’s 2 120mm fans directly feeding CPU and one for GPU. I could probably easily cut a hole for a second GPU intake at front left, but it might not be necessessary in my case.