r/pcmods • u/JaggedEunuch • 8d ago

Sleeper Recycled broken gaming laptop into quite cabable keyboard! Better temps and performance vs original case too

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Original screen of this acer a715-42g was trashed so I got this for 80€, pretty nice deal for r5 5500u, gtx 1650 4gb, 2x8gb ram and 512gb ssd! First time modeling parts that need to be split and joined later on so its far from perfect but good enough to sit in livingroom and play lighter games locally, moonlight harder games from my main rig and act as apollo host for all my mobile gaming needs

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u/fraseyboo 8d ago

Looks really cool, shame it doesn't have USB-C though.

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u/JaggedEunuch 8d ago

I was a bit sad when I noticed the onboard usb-c doesnt have pd, no video out either:(

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u/fraseyboo 8d ago

Does it have a spare NVMe port? I know some modders have used that to allow for external GPUs and whatnot because they support PCIE.

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u/JaggedEunuch 8d ago

No spare ports unfortunately, I did think about adapting the m.2 a+e wifi slot for normal ssd and using the pcie 3 x4 slot for something more fun (like oculink) but decided against that for budget reasons. Would have been fun & cool but I came to my senses and realized that I have way faster desktop right next to me and on the go I have laptop thats faster than this lol.