So folks, has it ever happened to you that you’re turning on your trusty, old self-built gaming PC, you know, the one that sounds like an angry blender on a caffeine rush, only for it to finally croak like a 20-year-old toaster trying to toast a brick?
Here’s me sitting amid cords and dusty fans, plastically smiling at my budget beast that’s finally decided to retire to the great e-waste landfill in the sky. They say ‘you get what you pay for’, and apparently, I paid for a ticking time bomb that lasted just slightly longer than milk left out in the sun.
So here’s my proposal for this brain-trust: What are the best budget Frankenstein contraptions you’ve come up with? Like RAM from the abysmal ’90s to power a semi-modern game, or graphics cards retrieved from the ancient ruins of forgotten office PCs? Share your amusingly cheap and woefully underperformed gaming rigs, along with why you love those junk heaps like a child you know from an alternate chaotic dimension. Come on, spill your partisan love-hate relationship with budget tech!
Also, bonus points if your contraption can double as a heater in winter or sound system for re-enacting hurricanes. Let’s see whose creation is the king (or jester) of budget gaming absurdity!