Early 2000s — checking out the PC lineup at your local shop, reading every spec sheet and dreaming....

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teknosophy_com@reddit

So glorious. All of them were repairable, and none had desperate AI diamonds crawling all over them.

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Something is off here. I was building PC's a LOT during this time, and I never saw those panels/screens in the front. These are modern sleepers, right? Please tell me that I didn't miss those parts back then. Also, please tell me what they are and where I can get them.

(I did, however, have custom case badges printed for my computers, like the Doom one, though I did them with the logo of the Linux distro I was into at the time. The RedHat and SuSE logos made for some cool badges.)

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Firewire_1394@reddit

I was thinking the EXACT same thing lol. Then I started looking for AI generated tells and it has to be 100% AI.

Most of those cases look like prosumer model cases from vendors like HP or IBM but also not really either. Actual blank cases you bought back then for normal builds don't look like that and generally didn't have molded floppy drive fronts.

Case badging is way off on the majority of cases, ya the 3dfx and doom badges are cool, that's just not where they go location wise.

ADATA LEGEND 900 Pro ? On a computer with a fan going at 8.8K rpm? wtlivingf

I like how the middle left PC has DVD RW listed twice right next to each other.

The middle LCD has to be fake, it could be made up of 2 LCD panels with like a pico powering it, but the 6 LED indicator lights on the left side just serve no purpose. It's just AI weirdness.

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MWink64@reddit

I think some of these have simple explanations.

ADATA LEGEND 900 Pro ?

Somebody stuck an NVMe HS to a 3.5" bay cover.

On a computer with a fan going at 8.8K rpm? wtlivingf

It looks to me like every segment on the display is lit up. It wouldn't surprise me if the last two digits of the fan RPM value can't be a non-zero value.

I like how the middle left PC has DVD RW listed twice right next to each other.

This actually was common on IDE DVD burners. One indicates the drive supports DVD+RW discs, and the other is for DVD+RW DL. Back in the day, not every drive supported dual-layer discs, or even + and -.

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difluoroethane@reddit

The screen in the middle I'm not sure about since I never saw one like that back then, but it does look like it could have been from back then. The screen on the right is an Aero Cool V12XT (https://www.quietpc.com/ae-v12xt?product=2421) screen that I used to have. Late 2000's if I remember correctly when it came out. So newer vintage, not really from the late 90's early 2000's. That said, there were plenty of gauge/screens similar to the shown screens from the late 90's forward.

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