The Microwave PC Project

[Azalea]

To begin, some backstory. I often play games with some real life friends, and one of them has an awful laptop that cant even run CS:GO at minimum settings. We would make fun of this laptop and call it a microwave. After one of us got a random handed down motherboard and CPU, we decided to build a new computer for him that was extremely bad as well but free. I then had the excellent idea of putting said computer inside of a microwave. Thus began the months long journey of finding all the parts and putting them together.

 

As of 8pm GMT on the 10th of November 2019, this project is now complete. We met up and finally ran the final tests to ensure all the hardware worked, and assembled it inside of the microwave.

 

Specs:
CPU: i3-3220 @ 3.30GHz
CPU Cooler: Intel Stock Cooler
Graphics Card: GT 610
MB: Asus P8H61-1 R2.0
PSU: 400W Dell (from a broken pre-built)
OS Storage: 256GB SATA SSD
Secondary Storage: 320GB 5400RPM HDD
RAM: 12GB DDR3 (unknown frequency)

 

Photos of the finished build

Overall, all the parts inside of the computer were 100% free. A small amount of money (around £10-£20) was spent on hardware that ended up not going inside of the build.

We only had time to test it with 2 games, but it was able to achieve a solid 60 FPS on max settings on Murder Miners, as well as 60 FPS solid on medium settings on CS:GO.

Credit to @Sexyboobies for providing a lot of the parts, as well as helping spread the pain, tears and blood put into this over the past who knows how many months.

[Fasauceome]

Idk if that GT 610 is better than the iGPU, did you do some tests?

[Azalea]

7 minutes ago, Fasauceome said:

Idk if that GT 610 is better than the iGPU, did you do some tests?

Yeah, we tested it and it was at least a bit better. Don't think we're gonna upgrade it unless we get something decent for free/cheap.

[Sexyboobies]

It was really bad without the gt 610

[Founders]

Have you benchmarked the microwave yet using the standard pizza pocket mark test? At load that thing should sustain at least 8-12 PPPM (pizza pockets per minute). 

[Sexyboobies]

2 hours ago, Ehmc130 said:

Have you benchmarked the microwave yet using the standard pizza pocket mark test? At load that thing should sustain at least 8-12 PPPM (pizza pockets per minute). 

Sorry dude we used nps (noodles per second) and we got around 50 we will have to test out pppm later 

[Founders]

33 minutes ago, Sexyboobies said:

Sorry dude we used nps (noodles per second) and we got around 50 we will have to test out pppm later 

[D.U.F.F.]

Computer in the microwave. Very handy if even the police (FBI) are going to raid

[GenericFanboy]

I lowkey wanna see what happens if you turn the microwave on.

[DildorTheDecent]

@TVwazhere

[TVwazhere]

My god....

 

It's glorious! my friends make the same joke although we say Toaster.....

 

This is giving me FAR too many ideas....

[Leot1995]

This is Genius ! Why waste your time trying to build a pc in a fridge to cool it down . With this the microwave can prevent anything bad from happening when it overheats

[vogelspinnen]

But does it run Overcooked 2?

[iLLaGeViDioT]

Haha thats rad! Also you can have the rage quit to end all rage quits by nuking your system.

 

Dual purpose builds are awesome as hell.