I am searching for the case of my first PC and can’t find it. It’s cursed, as if it never existed. The render is a recreation from memory, so it may slightly vary to the real thing, but I am sure I got the basic shapes and proportion right.
What I remember
- hp system
- was bought in a bundle (?) with an hp printer and a dell monitor
- bought in Germany around 2006
- ran windows vista
- mid tower (probably atx or micro-atx)
- one disk drive
- recessed i/o with SD-Card reader
- air intake at the front bottom (at least that’s what I think it was in hindsight)
There are many hp cases of the mid 2000s that match the design language, but they are all different to my case. If you recognize it, let alone have any information on it, let me know :)
Edit: Thank you all for your guesses! I’ll try to respond to you all, but I feel bad for responding “nope, sadly not it” to most of your suggestions. But you gave me some ideas what to check out next, hopefully it will help me identify the case after all :)
Edit 2: picture time :D – it’s just a different angle
Edit 3: randomblock1 found it. It’s a Hyricane PCK01978. I formerly would like to issue an apology for claiming it was hp. xD Thank you all again for your help :3
You sure it’s HP? The circle in the front makes me think of Dell
Definitely giving Dell.
90%, but I’ll check dells lineup out, thank you :)
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Hp Pavilion?
It sure looks like a Dell XPS to me. Those old XPS cases were nonstandard so it was very hard to upgrade the parts later on.
eMachines had cases that look like that too back on 2006
Some look similar, but they’re not it
You sure it’s not this?
Dell Dimension 2400 or a descendant of that?
https://www.dell.com/support/product-details/en-us/product/dimension-2400/resources/manuals
That was THE computer to have in college when I went.
There are some Dimension models that come quite close, but no, that’s not it.
Looks a lot like mine which is the oldest remaining part of my PC. There’s no branding whatsoever on it.
Do you remember where you bought this PC?
Sadly no
Found this, looks pretty close
YOU FOUND IT!!! WHERE THE HELL DID YOU FIND IT?!
I reverse image searched the picture you attached and found a review for the system :D It’s a Hyricane PCK01978. Thank you so much!
That is a dell looks like those 2005ish towers that still had xp standard
Probably an Inspiron
HP Pavilion a1023c?
If it’s not a Dell it’s an HP Compaq. HP bought Compaq and used the name for branding for a while. It would have been one of the last Compaq branded towers.
Yeah I remember that case. That’s Kevin.
Oh yeah Kevin! What a legend. Do you know what he’s up to these days?
All these years later I hear he’s alone and quite empty inside. Sad fate for such a champ.
Noooo :(
Just kidding. He’s still rippin’ DVDs and loading up 256 GB mechanical drives and chugging on Crysis like it’s 2007.
This is as close as I could get within the data given.
Duckduckgo leaves something to be desired, but figured I’d try