Build your next PC like it’s 1999

SilverStone’s caller FLP01 PC lawsuit looks it was created successful a clip erstwhile desktop computers had turbo buttons and bragging authorities were earned by having a Pentium spot inside. In reality, the retro beige container is launching adjacent twelvemonth for each your modern PC-building needs, doubling arsenic a guidelines for a show that’s astir apt not a 30-pound CRT.

The Japanese company SilverStone has been making PC components and cases since it launched successful 2003, and past year, during its 20th anniversary, it shared the first specifications and images of the FLP01 connected X timed to coincide pinch April Fools’ Day.

Over a twelvemonth later, astatine an expo held by the institution successful Japan past week, SilverStone announced that the FLP01 lawsuit was much than conscionable a prank and was really being put into production. Shipping is expected to commencement arsenic early arsenic the first 4th of 2025, according to Impress, pinch pricing targeted astatine ¥19,800, aliases astir $130.

The FLP01’s creation is inspired by the NEC PC-9800 statement of desktop PCs which were celebrated successful Japan from the ‘80s to the early ‘00s. The 5.25-inch floppy drives connected its beforehand destruction are sadly fake, but they flip down to uncover a DVD thrust arsenic good front-facing ports including a headphone jack, USB-A, and USB-C.

The container SilverStone had connected show astatine its expo was configured pinch an Intel Core Ultra 7 265K CPU connected a full-sized ATX motherboard pinch an Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 Ti GPU and 3 cooling fans, according to Tom’s Hardware. All it’s missing is simply a mini brace of matching desktop speakers that commencement to click each clip your cellphone rings.