Guy at the recycling center nearly had a heart attack when I dropped off my old Dell case

I was unloading some boxes at the county dump last Saturday and this older fella sees me carrying out this beat up Optiplex tower. He starts yelling "Wait wait wait that case has good aluminum in it!" I just smiled and told him it's actually hiding a Ryzen 7600 and a 4070 inside. He didn't believe me so I popped the side panel off and his jaw just dropped. We ended up talking for like 20 minutes about old business PC cases being the best sleeper candidates. Anyone else run into people who think you're crazy for keeping old e-waste looking boxes?

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verab281d ago

A buddy of mine built one last year and I thought he was nuts till I saw the final look.

taylor9291d ago

Right? I was pretty skeptical too until I actually saw how clean they look on a finished wall. It really changed my mind once I got to see the end result in person. Now I'm actually planning to try one myself next month.