To add some more math that infid to help my own brain

Those rounded Freedom Units equal identical Cubic Inches... They're the same volume.

Using the Socialism Units, the PS2 is ~ 300 cubic centimeters larger (roughly the volume of a 6.7cm cube)

(I think the number of iterations of rounding that we've collectively performed here has somewhat skewed the results, but it's pretty close at any rate)

Edit imndoing math in DDG search and it might be 186 cubic centimeters so 5.7cm tall cube, but that seems like a huge variation and now I'm questioning my ability to calculate volume. But it's late on a Fri and my brain is fried.

I stuffed a Ryzen 5700X3D and a Radeon 9070XT in an 11L Lian Li x Dan A4-H2O. It wasn't easy to get all the cables and such routed correctly, but it fit. (Well, except that I did have to give up on having a 3.5" hard drive, but aside from that.)

Ironically, I had originally intended to keep using my old Antec ISK-600 (which was also a mini-ITX case, but larger -- not sure how large, as it came out before they started measuring cases in liters). Unfortunately, as I had little time to research which particular 9070XT variant to get while standing in line on launch day, I accidentally picked the wrong one and it was >2 slots, so I had to change my case. Then because I found an open-box A4-H2O, that snowballed into swapping my ATX PSU for an SFX one, and my 120mm AIO for a 240mm AIO with slightly more flexible tubes because that's how tightly packed it had to be.

I think Sony wasn't sure for a long time whether they wanted their consoles to stand out as consoles or blend in with other electronics like sound systems and VCRs. PSX looks like a console, PS2, PS3, and PS4 looked like electronics, PS5 looks like a console again.

I think they were trying to differentiate themselves from Nintendo, whose systems looked very much like toys (other than the Wii and Wii U (the system, not the controller)... And NES, actually, that one didn't stand out as much as SNES, N64, or especially the GCN).

Yes

He only has two slots. The rad doesn't go in the slots.

Interesting. I'm a PC gamer myself, last PlayStation I had was the OG PS3. I suppose part of it is I like RTS games and keyboard and mouse when I'm playing shooters or just being able to tinker with my shit.

The older consoles are cool, before they just became computers.