You should own your computer—not rent it, not be surveilled by it, and not replace it in two years because the industry decided it was obsolete. We build machines that work for you. From $449.
One villain wears three masks: an industry whose business model is obsolescence. Pick the mask that’s been coming for your money—we’ll show you exactly how we beat it.
You’ve got more money than time. You want one machine that lasts, replaces the console, and never sends the household a monthly bill.
Your villain: the Phantom Deal. The big-box bait that gets upsold toward $1,500, crashes under real use, and lands back on the holiday list two years running—so you overpaid to not be done.
See how we beat it → 🎓Every dollar counts and you’ll do the work yourself. You need real Office, real RAM, and a machine that survives past graduation or the next PCS.
Your villain: the Look-Alike. The eBay clone and the console-plus-subscription trap—a cheap box that does one thing or nothing, with fees that quietly bleed you every month.
See how we beat it → 💼You know enough to want the real thing: actual cores, actual bandwidth, no asterisks.
Your villain: the False Binary. Apple’s gilded cage on one side, a crippled “value” PC (single-channel memory, a GPU on an x4 lane) on the other. Either door betrays the work.
See how we beat it →Every frustration you’ve had with a computer was a decision someone made. That decision wasn’t made with you in mind.
New PCs ship with software designed for the platform, not for you. Copilot monitors your screen. Recall logs everything you view. Edge opens by default. Teams runs in the background. Telemetry collects behavior data. You bought the machine—the OS is still working a different agenda. We remove all of it at the ISO level. Before the OS ever touches the drive.
Locked firmware. Proprietary connectors. Non-standard PSU form factors. Software that only runs on their hardware. None of it is accidental. It’s designed to ensure you can’t upgrade without buying a new machine. From them. We use standard cases, standard PSUs, and standard components. You own it. You can upgrade it.
Online “experts” are telling you to buy new. Your old hardware is trash. Support is ending. What they don’t mention: many are sponsored by the companies selling new components. An i7-4790K from 2014 runs Windows 11 and Fortnite fine. We’ve tested it. The hardware isn’t broken. The narrative is.
Heat is the enemy of performance. New OEM systems ship with coolers sized to pass a compliance test—not keep your machine fast. Tom’s Hardware called the CyberPowerPC Costco machine’s cooler “loud, even at idle.” When it overheats, the CPU throttles automatically. You’re paying for peak performance and getting sustained mediocrity. Every Revolt build uses Thermalright cooling. We solved the heat problem.
Proprietary RGB controllers. Software that only works on their hardware. Stay inside the ecosystem or lose control of what you paid for. We install Nollie RGB RISC-V ARGB controllers on every build—configured in OpenRGB before it ships. Vendor-neutral. Open-source. No account required. You own it.
Office trial expires in 30 days. Antivirus renews at $50 a year. McAfee starts sending popup threats. By year three, the “affordable” machine has cost you $400 more than the sticker. Every Revolt build ships with everything included. Office 2019 Pro+. No subscriptions. No surprises. The price you see is the price you pay.
The gap we fill: Rebuild the hardware. Strip the software. Restore full control. Hand it back at a price that makes sense.
Below $849, there are zero new gaming desktops with capable GPUs at any major US retailer—Costco, Amazon, Best Buy, or Walmart. As of July 2026.
When an OEM walks away from a machine, we don’t. We recover, revive & redeploy hardware the industry calls obsolete…and prove it has years of real performance left.
Help us prove it. →Three steps. Every machine goes through all of them. No exceptions.
Every donated or surplus machine is wiped to military and federal standards before anything else happens. Your data is gone. Documented. Verified.
Not cleaning and reinstalling Windows. Component-level diagnosis, BIOS locks bypassed, thermal engineering, and a custom OS image built from scratch—tuned to the exact platform it runs on. Our oldest CPU in production: the i7-3960X from 2011.
Near-cost pricing on professionally optimized systems. Every machine ships with Office 2019 Pro Plus—licensed, perpetual, no subscription. Quality technology at a fraction of retail.
Operating system, RAM, cooling, BIOS, bloatware, subscriptions—line by line, here’s what the big-box machine gives you versus what we ship. We put the whole comparison on one page, so you can check every claim yourself.
Click any build to expand full specs. ● Live on eBay. ● In production. ● Coming soon.
Five platforms—Marauder, Ghoul WS, Banshee WS, Ironclad, and Dreadnought—build to order with matched cooling and a power supply sized for exactly what you pick. Choose your RAM, GPU, CPU, and compute options; we build it and reply with your quote and lead time.
Open the configurator →Reports of their death were greatly exaggerated. From the entry Raider up through the i7-5775C Rogue—affordable 1080p gaming at every price point. All builds include Win 11 Pro [RR Turbo] and Office 2019 Pro+.
The Raider Chassis · Rosewill FBM-X2 · Solid Panel
The Raider is our absolute floor for a PC that can be called a gaming PC. Clean exterior. Engineering-first interior. ARGB accents coming soon.

Signature Engineering Meets Signature Aesthetic
Starting with the Relic — ATX PSU, full ARGB on every fan, clear side panel.
The Relic is where our engineering story begins to show through the glass.


The best gaming silicon we build. Coffee Lake’s single-thread speed buries every older Xeon and HEDT chip in the lineup—de-throttled to hold full rated turbo, paired with dual-channel DDR4 and a discrete 8GB+ GPU. The no-nonsense modern gaming tier. All builds include Win 11 Pro [RR Turbo] and Office 2019 Pro+.


Mac Studio starts at $2,499. Our workstation builds put more RAM, more VRAM, CUDA, and a real upgrade path in front of you for less—on published specs you can verify, not a made-up score.
See the Mac comparison →Vintage 2011–2013 HEDT hardware brought back to life. Six-, eight-, ten-, and twelve-core Xeon and i7 processors. From the entry Phantom at $699 to the Banshee Workstation at $1,499—the Nightmare lineup covers 1080p gaming all the way to ISV-certified creative workstations. All builds include Office 2019 Pro+.








A platform designed to grow with you. The Marauder starts at $849 as the dual-channel DDR4 entry. The Ironclad ($1,699) brings workstation-class quad-channel DDR4 bandwidth as the CUDA creator workstation. The Dreadnought at $1,999 is the AMD-first flagship with a dual-GPU upgrade path and a 1050W PSU that never needs swapping. Fully loaded, the Ultimate Dreadnought ($2,599 BTO) tops the line—16-core Xeon, 128GB, and dual-GPU compute. All three share the same X99 DNA—real upgrade headroom, real HEDT cores, no subscriptions. All builds include Office 2019 Pro+.



The industry moved on from legacy hardware. We stayed—and built capabilities that didn’t exist until we needed them.
Access was never the hard part—freedom is. Add a recovered compute card beside your graphics card and nearly any Revolt workstation hosts its own private AI: on your desk, answering only to you, never sending your data anywhere.
Explore Access + Freedom →The e-waste bins at work fill up every week. I started paying attention to what was in them—and to where it was coming from.
Most of what went into those bins wasn’t broken. It was obsolete by declaration—hardware that hit the end of someone’s support window, or failed a diagnostic that defaulted to replacement instead of repair. Components with years of useful life, headed for shredding.
Most of our processors aren’t on Microsoft’s official Windows 11 supported CPU list. We select components based on one criteria: capability. Does it run Windows 11? Yes. Does it run it well? Better than most machines Microsoft would prefer you buy instead. We verified it ourselves. Every build ships with a fully activated, licensed copy.
We built our own Windows image with NTLite and UUP Dump. Teams, Edge, Copilot, Recall, and all background telemetry removed at the ISO level before the OS ever touches the drive. Your machine isn’t reporting home. It’s running for you.
The same image we ship on every build. Published so refurbishers, nonprofits, and individuals can use, modify, and build on it. 9+ months of production deployment. Stable on legacy platforms back to Haswell.
View on GitHub →Gaming PCs fund operations. Donations build family PCs for veterans, students, and families who need them. Grant funding tackles the hardest problem—consumer devices with negative repair margins that nobody else will touch.
Gaming PCs keep the lights on—our margins are just enough for that, and no more. If gaming PCs were our only mission, this would be a very short story. They’re not. The work we actually care about—family donation PCs, laptops, tablets, phones—doesn’t pay for itself. Nobody else is doing it because the margins are negative. That’s exactly why it needs to be done.
Donations fund the builds, the rework, and the devices that will never turn a profit but will end up in the hands of someone who needs them.
Renewable Revolt, Inc. is an IRS-approved 501(c)(3) nonprofit. All donations are fully tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.
Direct PayPal Link →Whether you’re a business with surplus electronics to donate, a parent looking for affordable and reliable tech, or someone who just wants a machine that isn’t fighting them—we want to hear from you.
We’re always looking for partnership opportunities with organizations aligned with digital equity, sustainable tech, and veteran services.