You sure it's HP? The circle in the front makes me think of Dell
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I am searching for the case of my first PC and can't find it. It's cursed, as if it never existed. The render is a recreation from memory, so it may slightly vary to the real thing, but I am sure I got the basic shapes and proportion right.
What I remember
- hp system
- was bought in a bundle (?) with an hp printer and a dell monitor
- bought in Germany around 2006
- ran windows vista
- mid tower (probably atx or micro-atx)
- one disk drive
- recessed i/o with SD-Card reader
- air intake at the front bottom (at least that's what I think it was in hindsight)
There are many hp cases of the mid 2000s that match the design language, but they are all different to my case. If you recognize it, let alone have any information on it, let me know :)
Edit: Thank you all for your guesses! I'll try to respond to you all, but I feel bad for responding "nope, sadly not it" to most of your suggestions. But you gave me some ideas what to check out next, hopefully it will help me identify the case after all :)
Edit 2: picture time :D -- it's just a different angle
Edit 3: randomblock1 found it. It's a Hyricane PCK01978. I formerly would like to issue an apology for claiming it was hp. xD Thank you all again for your help :3
Definitely giving Dell.
Dell was my first thought as well
90%, but I'll check dells lineup out, thank you :)
Hp Pavilion?
Or this one maybe, the only model I can find is t746.fr but I'm pretty sure this case design was available in other European countries.
Pavillions like these come increadibly close, they have the silver front, the nice swoop up top, but I checked their entire lineup of the time and none matched. I am beginning to think that the case was some weird one off thing.
It sure looks like a Dell XPS to me. Those old XPS cases were nonstandard so it was very hard to upgrade the parts later on.
eMachines had cases that look like that too back in 2006
Found this, looks pretty close
YOU FOUND IT!!! WHERE THE HELL DID YOU FIND IT?!
I reverse image searched the picture you attached and found a review for the system :D It's a Hyricane PCK01978. Thank you so much!
Reverse image search. Some guy posted this on Reddit a year ago
Dell Dimension 2400 or a descendant of that?
https://www.dell.com/support/product-details/en-us/product/dimension-2400/resources/manuals
That was THE computer to have in college when I went.
There are some Dimension models that come quite close, but no, that's not it.
It looks a lot like the eMachine cases you’d find all over cyber cafes and business centers in Europe in that era.
Edit: sample
Lol! I remember owning this keyboard. It was not the one my PC came with, but funny still :D
I love how loudly media-centric those keyboards were, even the silver domed buttons center top the size a hood ornament lol, that 00s media PC era definitely had a vibe.
It was also so handy, although I accidentally sent my PC into hybernation a couple of times xD
Looks a lot like mine which is the oldest remaining part of my PC. There's no branding whatsoever on it.
That's remarkably close, but sadly not it
Do you remember where you bought this PC?
Sadly no
I know it's super low resolution, but the Acer B300 desktop I found on their website in the Wayback Machine looks really close to your render.
https://web.archive.org/web/20030625223227/http://www.global.acer.com/products/desktop/index.htm
I can't seem to find any other images of it though.
Not an answer but another idea for jogging your memory. I don't know what PC magazines were popular in Germany, uhh well ever, but it's not too hard to find archived copies of popular magazines here in the US from that time.
Here is a random copy of PC Magazine from some month in 2006.I didn't see any PCs that matched your rendering, but there was an Acer Aspire that I had completely forgotten about.
https://vintageapple.org/pcworld/pdf/PC_World_0606_June_2006.pdf
That is a dell looks like those 2005ish towers that still had xp standard
Probably an Inspiron
Yeah I remember that case. That's Kevin.
Oh yeah Kevin! What a legend. Do you know what he's up to these days?
All these years later I hear he's alone and quite empty inside. Sad fate for such a champ.
Noooo :(
Just kidding. He's still rippin' DVDs and loading up 256 GB mechanical drives and chugging on Crysis like it's 2007.
Quick question, you said air intake at the front bottom. Is that what the black oval at the bottom of your render is? Or is the black bar USB ports?
yup, it's supposed to be the intake xD
If it's not a Dell it's an HP Compaq. HP bought Compaq and used the name for branding for a while. It would have been one of the last Compaq branded towers.
It reminds me of a Compaq we had around then. HP had bought Compaq at the time and used the brand on some of their low-end PCs. I don’t know if they were sold in Germany under that name, but it might be another angle to pursue.
It looks somewhat similar to my Compaq Presario that I got in like 2000/2001
This is as close as I could get within the data given.
Duckduckgo leaves something to be desired, but figured I'd try
Thanks for trying :) but no, it's not the one