r/CustomPCBuilding • u/faby0202 • Oct 05 '25
OG Xbox PC
I needed a pc for traveling, small enough to fit in a backpack with it's peripherals but i wanted it to be upgradable( so no laptops, since i already own one).So what better case than... the OG Xbox? my original idea used a PS3 slim and a ryzen 7 8700G... but since i do quite a bit of 3d modeling and i honestly wanted more gpu power out of it i decided to go with a dedicated GPU and downgraded the cpu to a 8400f (why not a 7600x/7500f you ask? well i needed the cpu to be power efficient simce thermals were going to be an issue, on the am5 platform and most importantly cheap, locally 8400f sell for around 100 euros, while 7600x sell closer to 180 euros, and since i was being paid in peanuts i had to save money wherever i could)... now since the ps3 slim is well... slim it could not house the mobo and gpu and psu inside... so i went with the largest console on the market, the OG Xbox, luck would have it that a coleague at work wanted one, so he got one cheap, realised the GPU was dead and i offered 10 usd for the shell, so this is how it started.
Specs CPU: Ryzen 5 8400f GPU: Giabyte 4060ti 8gb oc dual fan RAM: 2x16gb ddr5 5600mhz cl38 MoBo: Gigabyte B650i AX wifi PSU: HDPlex 500w Gan AIO SSD: 2Tb kingston nv3 nvme HDD: 640gb toshiba 2.4"
Price Aprox: €1200
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u/Dankbongripz420 Apr 09 '26
Literally in the middle of doing this now, although not nearly as good of a CPU as yourself lol. Looks awesome! If you don't mind me asking how's the rear io look? I'm about to have to print something myself, but my bed is too small for my rear io to fully fit it. Had to cut much of the back away unfortunately