The ULTIMATE Quarantine Gaming PC

It’s Alive

Powered up, the whole thing sparks to life, the LED lights are an immediate attraction that invite you to play. Plus, the Elgato Stream Deck looks bloody amazing!

I can do a million things with this, it’s great. Game launchers, volume controls, system power/on scripts, it’s all in there for me. Plus, I hid a few soundboards in there for the kids to find.

The AOC display looks fantastic in there, really clear colours and the 1080p resolution is perfect for a display this size. I threw in some LED strips from eBay to light the marquee. However, the printers was shut, the acrylic place is shut, so I printed our second mock-up marquee on two bits of A4 paper. As you’ll see in a moment though, we got the real marquee done in the end! The timeline is wobbly I know, but we’re about 8 weeks into the project at this point.

Re-Cap Then Reveal

From the first trials.

To the woes of cardboard chaos.

To a weeks later PC-less setup with no marquee.

To a PC hiding under the table, a wooden bezel added around the monitor, and a comical paper, sharpie and Sellotape RGB lit marquee.

To a gaming PC build inside the arcade, running kick-ass games, but upgraded to a printed marquee… but still not quite right.