In this one I took my home server “Prometheus” and did a little oopsie-daisy parts shuffle to turn it into a legit 1080p gaming box. Prometheus was my stable app server (Plex, Blue Iris surveillance, odds and ends) and I didn’t want to yank it offline without a plan, so I moved workloads around, migrated what I needed, and re-homed the hardware into different cases. Along the way I ditched the 10Gb NIC because, honestly, this box is mostly streaming video and it’s not getting hammered. For the gaming rig, I started with a donated EVGA GTX 1060 8GB, but I found out pretty quick it was struggling at 1080p in benchmarks—30-35 FPS territory—so I swapped in a GTX 1650 6GB and things smoothed out a lot. I’m not a “1440p ultra settings” guy (Age of Empires, Civ, builder games… that’s my speed), so the goal was simple: a stable, dedicated 1080p machine built from parts I already had. I ran in-game benchmarks plus synthetic stuff like Time Spy and Fire Strike, and while there were a couple odd stutters/audio drops, the takeaway is you can absolutely build a capable budget 1080p PC out of homelab leftovers.