Generally speaking, it is my rule to put electronics in the microwave. I know this is a bit partisan, but this is my house, and in my house, I keep things like metal out of the electromagnetic machine. But I'm sure there are people who choose to build their PCs inside a microwave oven.

Jack Lackey posted a video on Twitter (opens in new tab) showing the construction of such a microwave PC. In his caption, he explains that it was built by a Brazilian man who lost his job due to the pandemic to save money. Lackey also states that the homebrew cost him about $900, but in the video it is a bit difficult to see exactly which parts are powering the machine.

It's also unclear when this build was originally built, but $900 doesn't necessarily sound like a cash-saving effort. Currently, this Asus RTX 3060 gaming PC sells for $740, making it a Black Friday bargain. If you really want dielectric heating style, you can even put the ROG Strix G10 inside and put it in your old microwave oven.

Lucky has some additional photos further down (opens in a new tab) of the Asus A320M-K motherboard and the CPU heatsink, which is awesome. The fan could be mounted on the side of a microwave oven and it would probably live up to its name. Controlling the temperature may not be as easy as it is with something designed specifically for heating.

It turns out that Lucky's friends in Brazil were not the only ones who came up with this idea. Further down the Twitter thread are images of the build by Lucas Cavalcante. This microwave PC is mounted on top of a work station and at first glance looks like an ordinary microwave oven.

However, this soon changes when we find blue and green RGBs glowing from the front of the machine. It's a nice looking ITX setup, but you can still see the heat sink towering towards the back. Still, it's a very cute idea, especially when positioned above the rest of the PC setup, like a real microwave oven.

You can find several microwave builds on the net, like this PC parts picker (opens in new tab) with an Nvidia 2080 Ti by Neosalicious. This has since been replaced by a version 2 Microwave (opens in new tab) machine with an RTX 3090 and Ryzen 9 5900X and water cooling.

The best part of all this, of course, is the creativity: that a PC case can and should be anything is definitely a rule I subscribe to. Whether it's a microwave oven, a giant dino sculpture (opens in new tab), or a chainsaw (opens in new tab), you can put your gaming PC in anything.