In this one I finally got tired of my old “AI powerhouse” case, so I swapped my Hal-9000 dual-purpose Gaming/AI rig into a new Nova Mesh SE 2.0 case I grabbed for about $60. You get to watch me do the full transplant—board in, cable wrangling, fan/LED controller hookups, drive mounting, and then the big moment: hit the power button and pray for no explosions. It boots, it lives, and yeah… it’s got bling. I still don’t really give a rat’s ass about LEDs, but if it’s going to be a powerhouse, why not make it look pretty? Then I walk through what’s actually inside this thing: an i5-10400, 64GB DDR4, a 4TB WD game drive, a 1–2TB NVMe, and the stars of the show—two RTX 3060s. I’m running Ollama on Windows and using Open WebUI as the front end from a Proxmox LXC container (Proxmox all the things), pointing it back to the Windows box for models and inferencing. Out of the box it split the load across both GPUs and I’m seeing solid token speeds, even while I’m also generating images in Invoke. Finally, I talk about the DGX Spark hype and why, for my needs, a sub-$1000 DIY dual-GPU rig makes way more sense right now than dropping around $4K on something that looks slower in the reviews I watched.