Bladerunner maybe?

Roy Batty:

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time... like tears in rain... Time to die.

This is super dope, what a fantastic idea and good execution. Well done!

House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski fits that model really well.

I think this is at least tangentially relayed to what you're asking:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liaison_(French)

Edit: Actually this might be the exact opposite of what you're asking...

Oh wow, thanks! I'll take a look at all that. I prefer a smaller case, but if I'm going to do incremental upgrades in the future this makes sense. Also clearly better components, and I didn't consider fans at all when putting mine together. Thanks again!

That's exactly the kind of advice I was looking for, thanks! I've built machines before, I just get lost in the compatibility of MBs and components so I'm grateful for the pointers. Also worried about room in the box, but I think I have it right. Just need to triple check the dimensions of the GPU and that the case has space for two 2.5" SSDs.

Great point! I'm not doing anything super-intensive in terms of development, but current build does get close to the limit when I'm writing music. Easy enough to add more like you said.

Thanks! That's a great suggestion

Are you ok @pipedlinkbot?

This is awesome, thanks for sharing!

I really miss small phones. Used to be a time when manufacturers were competing to make them as small as possible and Dell's 5" phone was universally mocked as too big.

I just realized what community this was in, my suggestion would defeat the purpose. Nevermind.