# Streamer builds a battery powered PC with over 100 AAs, uses Hannah Montana Linux to benchmark their abomination

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/streamer-builds-a-battery-powered-pc-with-over-100-aas-uses-hannah-montana-linux-to-benchmark-their-abomination/
- Published: 2026-07-20T16:44:42+00:00
- Updated: 2026-07-30T05:16:56+00:00
- Original publisher: PC Gamer
- Original article: https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/streamer-builds-a-battery-powered-pc-with-over-100-aas-uses-hannah-montana-linux-to-benchmark-their-abomination/
- Topics: Gaming

## Key points

- A streamer powered a desktop PC with 192 alkaline AA batteries.
- The PC booted Hannah Montana Linux from a USB drive.
- The improvised system ran for roughly 30 minutes.

## Summary

Streamer Uwos Lab built a desktop PC powered solely by alkaline AA batteries during a five-hour livestream, then ran it from a USB drive using Hannah Montana Linux. The experiment demonstrates that a low-power desktop can temporarily operate from a large battery array, though it is an impractical and highly improvised alternative to conventional power supplies.

The streamer initially estimated needing 400 batteries but connected 192, arranged in three laser-cut wooden boxes containing 64 cells each. Eight batteries were wired in series to provide 12 volts, with 50 such banks intended to run in parallel for higher current through a DC-to-ATX power supply. The AM4-based system had no separate graphics card or internal storage, reached 98% CPU use during a stress test and stream playback, and ran for about 30 minutes.

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