What's up, everybody, welcome to GeForce Garage. Today, we are going to be building a sleeper PC featuring the GeForce RTX 4090. So it's a new year, so I thought why not a new personal build, and we're going for a little bit of nostalgia here. I've never built my own sleeper rig before, but I've always enjoyed seeing other people take classic PCs and upgrade them with modern hardware. Initially, I wanted the Compaq Presario, the one with the pop-out CD holder on the front because that's the one I had when I became a PC gamer. However, while researching I remembered that eMachines used to have a deal where every two years you could pay $99 to upgrade to the latest and greatest. And they always had the sticker on the front that said "Never Obsolete." And I thought it would be great to make that true once again. That's when I came across this guy, the eMonster, their gaming edition. As soon as I saw it, I bought it and started this project. So what are the parts that are going to be going inside of it? We started off with an i7-13700K. I would have gone with the i9, but I didn't think that I'd be able to get rid of all the heat inside of this case. That's going to be going on to an ASUS B660-I ITX motherboard. I like this one because it has a ton of features, and it still has a slim design. We're going to put in 32 gigs of RAM, which is significantly more than these 64 megabytes that this computer originally came with. We have a two-terabyte M.2 drive from Western Digital, going to be plenty of space to install the games I want. And of course, we'll be using our flagship GPU, the GeForce RTX 4090 powered by a 1000 Watt PSU. We're stuffing the case full of Noctua Industrial fans to move a lot of air because we're going to be water-cooling the CPU using parts from EKWB. And lastly, all of this is going to be going inside of the eMonster 500A from 1999. So let's get to building. Okay, so it's finally all together and some of you may have noticed that there was a couple of modifications made to the case beforehand. I did have to cut a couple of extra holes to allow more airflow, so there's a 120 mil hole off to the side and one in the back and two additional 140 mil holes on the bottom which did destroy the bottom of the case. So I couldn't use the original feet anymore, but I designed and 3D printed a new base to make it flat and epoxied new feet onto it. I also 3D printed a 120 millimeter offset spacer to actually lower the rear radiator down 10 millimeters because the power supply sits on top of it flush, so it needed to be moved down. Outside of those things though, a modern ITX and the 4090 fit in perfectly. When it comes to cable management, we had custom-length cables made for it and for the aesthetic of the whole PC, I wanted kind of a royalty theme, so I chose gold fittings and purple liquid. I still need to work on my hard line tubing skills, but I like the way that it came out. Anyways, let's install a couple of games on this and see how well it performs. I loaded Portal with RTX but ShadowPlay couldn't capture my FPS counter, however, I was seeing around 110 FPS at 4K with max settings. Over in Warhammer 40K Darktide at 4K with ultra-settings and ray tracing, I was seeing about 140 frames per second. And lastly, over on Witcher 3 with the recent 4.0 patch that brought in ray tracing at 4K and everything set to ultra, we're capping the game at 120 FPS. And thanks to our water cooling and industrial fans from Noctua, our internal temps during the entire time testing was around 70 degrees Celsius. Well, there you have it. This whole project turned out much better than expected. My only regret is that I couldn't keep the floppy drive working, so I could play DuckTales again. Thanks to our friends over at Intel and EKWB for providing parts for this build. And if you guys would like to see me work on another super build, let me know in the comments down below, and I'll see you for the next one.
