Opinions on this kind of PC setup

[VirusDumb]

 He starts showing off his setup at 2:38, you can see the PSU hanging in the thumbnail, and later on you see the mobo and the hdd hanging behind too, and the monitor and speakers being suspended off the wires too.

 

Some context: IITs are the Big Ivy league type colleges of engineering in India with acceptance rates lower than 0.1%, (you gotta give an exam called JEE, which is considered one of the hardest in the world, and then you gotta rank like in the top 10k out of 1 million other students, then give another harder maxxed out difficulty level of the same exam called JEE advanced to get selected)(I was preparing for it until I fucked up and now I'll have to try again next year, so that's why yt algorithm blessed my feed with this)

 

 

 

Is this build practical or does it provide any additional benefit?

will having a build like this improve my grades

[WildDagwood]

Usually call messy and intertwined cables a rat nest, but I guess this is a birds nest?

 

Idk...ugly, impractical, and potentially dangerous.

[8tg]

They were absolutely just messing around, it’s ye olde cloud computing meme

There’s no benefit to doing this other than that it’s funny

 

and sometimes it could just be because the build is unique, there’s no reason to do a mineral oil submerged pc that looks like a fish tank, it’s objectively worse than any other build, but it is cool because not many pcs are built like that 

[VirusDumb]

1 hour ago, 8tg said:

They were absolutely just messing around, it’s ye olde cloud computing meme

There’s no benefit to doing this other than that it’s funny

 

and sometimes it could just be because the build is unique, there’s no reason to do a mineral oil submerged pc that looks like a fish tank, it’s objectively worse than any other build, but it is cool because not many pcs are built like that 

That video seems to be the oldest instance of someone doing it I could find, also he's a engineer and the rest of the stuff in his hostel room are just him trying to show off his engineering skills

[Middcore]

9 minutes ago, VirusDumb said:

That video seems to be the oldest instance of someone doing it I could find, also he's a engineer and the rest of the stuff in his hostel room are just him trying to show off his engineering skills

Hostel rooms don't have much... room.

 

I have a tough time believing you seriously think there's some kind of advantage to this (apart from conserving desk space) or that it could improve your grades. 

[VirusDumb]

12 hours ago, Middcore said:

Hostel rooms don't have much... room.

 

I have a tough time believing you seriously think there's some kind of advantage to this (apart from conserving desk space) or that it could improve your grades. 

That was a joke