April Fools’ joke results in Japanese firm making a beige ’80s throwback PC case

[mechtech]

I want a turbo button, a 56k modem and a 3.5" floppy please!!

 

[Steevo]

Some guy has a floppotron music producer on youtube, you should hear Blue Monday on it

I sometimes miss the slow boot, how easy it was to tweak and tune computers, now its just kicking offending IP's in firewalls for doing stupid shit and leaving mean messages in their SSH logs.

 

[LabRat 891]

They did it! Faith Restored.

IIRC, I roasted SilverStone pretty badly for their retro faux pas. Pleased to see it became real.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Just found out this was a thing.

If you put build in it. Would it still be classed as a 'sleeper' build??

Great job Silverstone though. Silverstone DIDNT NEED to do this. It was an April Fools joke but they still went ahead and gave the people what they wanted. Lets hope its not just a limited run and will be distributed outside Asia.

I like it!

 

[Wirko]

Nah, just use old HDDs.

edit: Or do you mean the memory count etc?

Ah, that nice kilobyte counter which sounds a click for every 64 KB or so... If you extend that to 4 GB, I'm sure it will be slow enough for any purpose.

 

[londiste]

Be sure to set your BIOS post time to 2 minutes for the fully authentic experience.

This one is easy, just use an AM5 platform

 

[y2faulty]

in certain istances 2minutes was too fast already lmao

80s and early 90s cases were probably not ATX but AT. So, the first hurdle is a PSU at a different or fairly random size. Motherboard not in any if the ATX form factors that we know and love. Fans are either for the weak or in small sizes, - CUT-

well yeah obviously you'd have to seriously mod it.

Drill big holes in the panels for the fans for starter. Etc.. etcc..

I was just wandering if even from a purely volume of space modern parts would fit. A 286 I had I remember it being pretty slim ...probably wouldn even be able to house a modern "enthusiast" gpu standing vertical, you'd need to flip it horizontal etc etcc.. lets not even talk about cpu cooler (even though horizontal cpu coolers exists..)

/OT

This one is easy, just use an AM5 platform

honestly I had a B650 mobo for a couple months and it boots pretty much istantly.

Any problems they had it seems to me they corrected them via bios update long time ago.

Audio output still crackles though a bit on the highs, not terrible but annoying, especially considering apart that it sounds pretty good.
/OT

 

[londiste]

I was just wandering if even from a purely volume of space modern parts would fit. A 286 I had I remember it being pretty slim ...probably wouldn even be able to house a modern "enthusiast" gpu standing vertical, you'd need to flip it horizontal etc etcc.. lets not even talk about cpu cooler (even though horizontal cpu coolers exists..)

Sure. I had my previous high-end system in Dan A4-SFX. IBM PC AT or PS/2 should be comfortably fine by volume. Placement of components is a problem either way.

 

[lilhasselhoffer]

So...they just put a new face plate on their Grandia series of media center PC? Is that really an accomplishment?

GD09 at Silverstone's Website


The internal layout is basically the same...they just went full beige and changed the slots a little. What isn't pictured is what is great and terrible about this PC case. Let me elaborate. The standard version has a single 5.25" outward slot, and sandwiches two 2.5" drives around it. The cooler on your CPU had better be low on the size, because that disc drive caddy sticks out surprisingly far. The face plate has zero airflow, so you suck from both sides and push out the back of the thing to generate lower temperatures. Otherwise, the Grandia is Silverstone's usual quality. Everything feels substantial, the edges are all rolled, and things just go together well.
Regarding all of the FDD nonsense....you all do look at your boards, right? In the last 5 years I built a PC that used the old FDD port to act as a card reader combo (SD, and the like) connecting to a spare USB pinout. It's entirely possible to go one step better and hollow out an old floppy and turn the thing into an SD card reader: Hack-a-day Project

If you want to go absurd, then it's probably best to go full clown shoes. It can't hurt, right?

Ah, that nice kilobyte counter which sounds a click for every 64 KB or so... If you extend that to 4 GB, I'm sure it will be slow enough for any purpose.

Daikatana. Let me reintroduce the loading sound for that hit of unwarranted nostalgia. Pain is audio format

 

[londiste]

Ah, that nice kilobyte counter which sounds a click for every 64 KB or so... If you extend that to 4 GB, I'm sure it will be slow enough for any purpose.

That was a memory test. At least a few years ago most motherboards still had an option for full memory test at startup, disabled by default of course.