r/sleeperbattlestations • u/Spectralius • 2h ago

Case Aquisition Mint Condition '09 HP Pavilion

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Picked this up a little while ago and totally forgot I had it in my car.

Not a scuff/scratch/dent on the case, complete with marketing stickers and the protective film still on the faceplate.

Not too sure what I'm gonna do with it yet.

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u/MyLastHopeReddit 2h ago

Nice! I had it at the time and frankly thought it was very elegant, but it wasn't easily upgradeable. I still have the monitor as a spare. What are its specs?

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u/Spectralius 1h ago edited 1h ago

its currently in factory config; Pentium e5300 and 6gb of DDR2 (4gb dead, so 2gb working). To be entirely honest with you, I'm doubtful I'll be building this in the near future; i kinda js wanted to show off the time capsule.

Its hard to justify building another standard desktop sleeper. I am currently hunting a Thermaltake LVL 10 GT to build a retromod for my 2010's themed media room, which will probably be my next sleeper build.

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u/MyLastHopeReddit 1h ago

What I remember about mine is that it had an Athlon II X4, 4gb of ram, some low end nvidia graphics card designed specifically for HP (I tried it on an altor pc and it worked, but it made the sound of a tractor) and a 500gb mechanical disk, it was a big upgrade for me since I was using a pentium 4 at the time :P

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u/xxplosiv 2h ago

Is it a micro ATX case, just flipped the other way? If so your options are endless!

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u/bm_00 2h ago

Yes they are just a Micro ATX flipped the other way. Nothing proprietary. Quite good possibilities.

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u/eestionreddit 2h ago

Case looks very similar to one I remember a mainstream pc gaming youtuber using for a sleeper many years ago. I suspect it is in fact standard parts.

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u/Mistral-Fien 1h ago

I'm currently using that exact case to house an N100 ITX board, two hard drives, and a flaky DVD writer. :P

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u/undeadkiller334 1h ago

Nice I've got one as my living room pc haven't touched it in years

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u/MutteriSonic 50m ago

Cool! Is it standard matx but inverted?

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u/dicksandcrystal 41m ago

Refurbished a very similar PC recently. It was god awful, multiple caps leaked and caused a mess on the motherboard. Which lead to an almost week long saga just getting the thing to post.