• Lord Wiggle@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    PSU in the top, old round keyboard and mouse plugs… I get it, you shouldn’t touch anything in a museum.

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          My desktop has it at the top, as did the PC I had before it a few years ago. I’ve seen PCs with it at the bottom, but I’ve never owned one, so hearing that they’re always at the bottom is weird to me.

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            Here you see all cases with either the PSU in the bottom, or with some in the back when it’s a wide case. No where in the top of the case.

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              Huh, I guess it is more common than I thought. I wonder how I ended up coincidentally only buying cases with it at the top if they’re so uncommon.

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                It may be different with brand specific cases for prebuilds like Dell and Alienware (which is Dell too by the way), but it’s never recommended to buy those.

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            I have an old case that takes a PSU at the top.
            I bought a PSU made for being at the bottom, and placing it in their meant giving it the CPU heat in its intake. It felt like it would burn up any minute.

            I took some used aluminium cans, cut them up using expensive scissors (~5x the price of normal scissors, in turn, it won’t go bad, cutting plastic boxes and aluminium sheet) and made a frame to mount the PSU on the top, instead of inside the case.

            The wires had to go around, making it a partially open case, but it worked. No feeling of imminent fire hazard and the PSU was exhausting air at a relieving temperature.