Guru3D Rig of the Month - May 2021

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 06/02/2021 08:11 AM | source: | 35 comment(s)

Meet a familiar face here at Guru3D, Bozo is back with another build. This time he took some older components and decided to make a retro build, themed towards Chernobyl and called Chernobuild ... you're looking at 50 to 100 USD on parts, yet it still remains to be a unique build. Ad that proves that an ROTM does not need to be expensive :)

Check out the ROTM here.

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vestibule
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#5916747 Posted on: 06/01/2021 09:40 AM

He, he. What a nice beat up looking reto machine and a good fun exercise in winning a prize from the Guru3D.
There is a lesson in there. Im off down to the tip to rescue a W95 machine. I have some paint in the garage.

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#5916748 Posted on: 06/01/2021 09:42 AM

I love the Cherno- "DUST" - cloud in/on the case

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#5916753 Posted on: 06/01/2021 09:51 AM

This is excellent

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#5916754 Posted on: 06/01/2021 09:54 AM

Great looking build. Cool to see some retro love

Lost opportunity to run 3dmark01 and post those scores though :p

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#5916773 Posted on: 06/01/2021 10:39 AM

I really like and appreciate retro builds, but this one, IN MY OPINION, is really one of the worst ever made (it looks REALLY great, but the "heart" of it is really terrible).
Socket A had really bad support, but at least he could have went with Barton (Athlon) 3000+, offering slighly better performance. Windows 2000? Why not XP, since it was widely more accepted and supported.
Using FX 5300 for GPU, one of the most failure GPU-s is just a big no-no, he could have find the ATI RADEON 9800 XT with the same price.

The problem is not that this PC is old (i gave my friend an Athlon X2 6000+ with HD6670, he uses it as main PC, playing BF3 now at 24+ FPS at "ultra"), but that the components are nowhere near honorable or usable. It's like buying in 2040 a Ryzen 1500 with a GT 1030 on Windows 8 for retro build... what's the point of it, when neither of them had been honorable/used/praised/gamechanger. Availability? Hell nah.

just my 2 cents

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