SilverStone's Retro Beige PC Case Turns April Fools' Joke into Actual Product (techspot.com) 16
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The SilverStone FLP01 made quite the impression when it was shared on X for April Fools' Day 2023. Loosely modeled after popular desktops from yesteryear like the NEC PC-9800 series, the chassis features dual 5.25-inch faux floppy bays that could stand to look a bit more realistic. Notably, the covers flip open to reveal access to a more modern (yet still legacy) optical drive and front I/O ports.
Modern-looking fan grills can be found on either side of the desktop, serving as yet another hint that the chassis is not as old at it appears on first glance. The grills look to be removable, and probably hold washable dust filters. Like early desktops, the system doubles as a stand for your monitor. The use of a green power LED up front helps round out the retro look; a red LED is used as a storage activity indicator.
Modern-looking fan grills can be found on either side of the desktop, serving as yet another hint that the chassis is not as old at it appears on first glance. The grills look to be removable, and probably hold washable dust filters. Like early desktops, the system doubles as a stand for your monitor. The use of a green power LED up front helps round out the retro look; a red LED is used as a storage activity indicator.
Am I the only one who won't click on links to X? (Score:2, Interesting)
Can we refrain from using X for stories?
(For those living under a rock, it's a NAZI site like Truth Social)
Re:Am I the only one who won't click on links to X (Score:4, Informative)
Just visit the site with adblocking on like I do, that way they don't profit from it and you'll be helping to turn Elon's money into waste heat.
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I turn on ad blocking and I get:
"Firefox's Enhanced Tracking Protection (Strict Mode) is known to cause issues on x.com"
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Adblocking is great there. It means you can use up X resources without any ad revenue going to Leon.
We need more horizontal cases (Score:2)
The case looks to be an updated Silverstone GD09 in beige instead of black. I wonder if they'll sell replacement faces.
I got a Silverstone GD09 for two reasons: one, because it takes a full sized ATX motherboard, and two, it's a rare horizontally sitting case. As a bonus, it fits perfectly in a rackmount case on a shelf. The fans mean my old AMD Bulldozer system stays cool, even when running all eight cores at 100%.
Love to see it :)
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As someone that's built several PCs with the GD09 this retro case is based on, it's one of the best airflow cases on the market and has gobs and gobs of room to route the cables all the way up against the front of the case with good places to cable-tie them in place across the front framework, and 100% of the airflow is to the sides by default. It supports either 'positive pressure' case with flow out the top/rear, or cross-flow towards either side which I usually prefer.
It's not a case with glass panels to
Disappointing. (Score:2)
There's no "TURBO" button! What's even the point of living without a turbo button? /s
Realistically speaking, it wouldn't take much to actually make such a button functional as an overclocking mechanism.
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The 'reset' button is recessed on the left, there's nothing stopping you from plugging that into a GPIO or other header on your system instead to do exactly that. :D
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Faux floppy bays (Score:2)
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How will I remotely reboot servers without carefully-aligned cup holder trays...