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What is a heaviest 'desktop' you ever own or work(-ing) on?

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olkipukki:
subj?

I recently moved around an updated case with new components inside and thought it really heavy...

wait a minute, I thought, nothing can beat IBM IntelliStation Power 285 that used to be over 40 kg (!!!!!) and loud as

 

server stacks don't count  >:D


Updated:

Everything that fall in the following classification:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desktop_computer


--- Code: ---"A desktop computer is a personal computer designed for regular use at a single location on or near a desk or table due to its size and power requirements. "
--- End code ---

with amendments "personal computer designed" => "personal computer (re-)designed"

NiHaoMike:
Haven't seen one in real life, but the multi CPU workstations with phase change cooling must weigh a lot.

Nominal Animal:
Funnily enough, I prefer large heavy wooden cases, as it is easier to keep them silent, even when turning a couple of hundred to a few hundred watts into waste heat.

It is particularly relevant with spinning disk drives, if you have any locally.  (Use a large drive chassis with extra mass for dampening, and suspend that on foam and/or rubber, to isolate the noise they generate.)  Typical DVD-RW drives are harder to quieten.

Black Phoenix:
Well some years ago, way back on 2008 my desktop was heavy as hell too:

Coolermaster Stacker 832;
Drive Caddy with 4x 146GB 10000RPM WD1500HLFS in Raid 10;
DVD Reader and DVD Writer Drives;
AMD Athlon FX-60 Skt 939 with a Zalman 9700 LED cooler;
Asus A8N32-SLI with 2x Nvidia GeForce 9800 GX2, so basically 4 GPUs in 2 Slot PCI-e in SLI;
Corsair HX1000 Power Supply;

That thing would weight a ton, to be sincere, just the case was around 15kg, the CPU cooler close to 800g, the PSU 2kg, etc... More that 25Kg all the stuff on the tower.

I still kept the Tower for all this years, for some day a new build, with custom inside panels to modernise the tower itself for the current market trends.

mengfei:
I have a Gigabyte Poseidon case which is fully loaded, with bays filled with drives & is around 20KG+!
had this for like 10yrs now & my last cpu update was a Phenom which i should probably change to ryzen now

case alone is already 9KG! Lan Party anyone?lol

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