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Tom’s Hardware
Tom’s Hardware
Technology
Jowi Morales

Enthusiast builds 'AMD gaming PC' entirely made of cardboard — specs include unreleased AMD 5800GT CPU, DDR8 RAM, PCIe 6.0 SSD, and 2,400W power supply

Cardboard PC.

Reddit user Zestyclose-Salad-290 shared a video on the social media platform of someone, presumably the user, assembling a PC entirely made out of cardboard. In the video, you can see them building a Genshin Impact-themed system, featuring the newly introduced Ineffa character. It opens with what appears to be a micro-ATX motherboard featuring four RAM slots, two PCIe x1 slots, and two PCIe x16 slots. It also has one NVMe SSD slot, as well as what looks to be an AM4 CPU socket.

They unbox a fictitious AMD miHoYo 5800GT CPU, complete with a protective plastic cover, and install it on the cardboard motherboard. They then add a cardboard mounting bracket that uses four real screws to keep it in place. Afterwards, an 8TB ‘PCIe 6.0’ SSD was installed on the system, with a cardboard SSD heatsink cover screwed into place. They also added two ‘DDR8’ 64GB RAM modules with LED strips, for a total of 128GB RAM. With all these ‘components’ in place, they then installed a cardboard heatsink with a single rotating fan and connected it to the cardboard motherboard. We also see a cardboard GPU, which apparently features a dual eight-pin power connector.

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