Stone Tech, Coal Township, PA (2026)

08/17/2026

🎄🎮 LET'S BUILD A GAMING PC FOR OUR COMMUNITY! 🎮🎄

We’re doing it again!

Earlier this year, Stone Tech put together and donated an awesome gaming PC for the 5th Annual Community Day Chinese Auction, helping raise a fair amount of money for the Union Fire Company & Tharptown Christmas Display.

But honestly?

The best part wasn't the money.

The PC ended up being won by twin brothers who had been absolutely salivating over the idea of having their own gaming computer so they could play with Dad. 🎮❤️

Seeing that PC go from a pile of parts and a workbench… to something that was going to become a way for two brothers to make memories with their dad?

That's exactly why I want to do this again.

🖥️ SO LET'S BUILD ANOTHER GAMING PC!

I'm looking for gaming PC parts donations to help make another system—or hopefully several systems—happen for the November Chinese Auction.

Have usable hardware sitting around?

🎮 Graphics Cards
🧠 CPUs & Motherboards
💾 RAM
⚡ Power Supplies
🖥️ Cases
❄️ CPU Coolers & Fans
💽 SSD/NVMe Drives
🔧 Other compatible gaming hardware

Good, working used parts are absolutely welcome!

🎁 WHAT I'LL CONTRIBUTE

I'll be putting my own parts into the build as needed, including new SSDs/NVMe drives, Windows 11 Pro keys, additional hardware, and all of the labor.

I'll build it, cable it, install Windows, test it, tune it, and turn a collection of parts into a legitimate gaming PC someone will be excited to win. 🔥

And let's make one thing VERY clear:

🚫 I'M NOT ASKING FOR CASH.
🚫 I MAKE ABSOLUTELY NOTHING OFF THIS.

The completed gaming PC will be donated to the Union Fire Company & Tharptown Christmas Display Chinese Auction in November, helping raise funds for both organizations.

👀 AND IF WE GET ENOUGH PARTS…

I'LL BUILD MORE THAN ONE GAMING PC.

So if you've got an old GPU sitting in a drawer…
A RAM kit you've replaced…
A motherboard from an old build…
A case collecting dust in the basement…

Let's give that hardware a second life.

Because maybe this year's winner isn't just getting a gaming PC.

Maybe they're getting their first gaming PC.

Maybe they're getting something they can enjoy with their kids.

Maybe they're getting the chance to make memories with their family.

That's a pretty damn good use for some old computer parts. ❤️

📩 Have gaming PC parts you'd like to donate?

Contact Stone Tech or John Stone on Facebook.

🎮 OLD PARTS. NEW BUILD. BIGGER IMPACT.
🎄 LET'S BUILD SOMETHING AWESOME FOR OUR COMMUNITY.

PLEASE - LIKE, SHARE, AND TAG PEOPLE IN THIS POST. LETS MAKE IT GO VIRAL

08/16/2026

Big shout out to my newest top fans! 💎 Rocco Sassani

Drop a comment to welcome them to our community,

08/12/2026

Why Stone Tech? 🪨⚡

Because buying a gaming PC shouldn’t mean choosing between “cheap” and “good.”

At Stone Tech, we believe you should get the most PC for your money — whether you're looking for your first gaming rig, upgrading an old system, building something completely custom, or just trying to figure out why the damn thing isn't working. 😂

🛠️ We build with purpose.
No throwing expensive parts at a problem just because they look good on a spec sheet.

💰 We respect your budget.
We'll help you spend your money where it actually matters — and tell you when you don't need to spend it.

🎮 We build for YOU.
Gaming, streaming, school, work, or a little bit of everything — your PC should fit what you actually do.

🔧 We don't just build it and disappear.
From troubleshooting and repairs to upgrades and tuning, we're here for the whole life of the machine.

🤝 And we're gamers, too.
We understand the excitement of building a new rig, the frustration when something doesn't work, and the satisfaction of finally getting that perfect setup dialed in.

Whether it's a brand-new powerhouse or a budget build that has absolutely no business performing as well as it does...

That's Stone Tech.

Build smart. Build right. Build Stone Tech. 🪨🔥

08/11/2026

🔥⚔️ THE BEACONS ARE LIT! ⚔️🔥

GONDOR CALLS FOR AID.

And Stone Tech shall answer.

From the lands of Kayden came a machine of great promise. Forged by his own hands, this mighty rig was assembled piece by piece and stood ready for battle.

Its weapons were formidable:

⚔️ AMD Ryzen 5 7600X
⚔️ MSI B850 Gaming Pro WiFi6E
⚔️ 16GB T-Force Delta RGB DDR5
⚔️ Gigabyte GeForce RTX 5070 12GB
⚔️ SanDisk Optimus 5100 1TB NVMe
⚔️ Lian Li VI100 Mid Tower
⚔️ Corsair iCUE TITAN 360 AIO

The hardware was strong.

The foundation was sound.

But the finer points… had fallen into darkness.

The drivers were missing.

The Windows key was nowhere to be found.

The wiring had become tangled in the wilderness.

The fans knew not the proper rhythm of battle.

And worst of all…

THE ARGB LIGHTS HAD GONE DARK. 🌑

So Kayden sent forth the call.

The Beacons were lit.

And from across the realm came the answer:

STONE TECH SHALL ANSWER! 🧙‍♂️⚔️

The missing drivers were restored.

The Windows key was returned to its rightful place.

The wiring was brought into order.

The fan curve was tuned for battle.

And the great RGB lights were awakened once more.

🌈 THE BEACONS ARE LIT. 🌈

What stood before us was not a machine in need of rebuilding.

Kayden had already forged the weapon himself.

It simply needed a little guidance through the treacherous lands of drivers, BIOS settings, airflow, wiring, and RGB sorcery.

And so Stone Tech entered the quest…

not to build the PC, but to finish the chapter.

For sometimes, even the bravest adventurer needs a wizard at his side.

And sometimes that wizard is just a guy with a screwdriver, a USB drive, and entirely too much knowledge about ARGB controllers. 😂

⚔️ THE MACHINE STANDS READY.

🔥 THE BEACONS ARE LIT.

🪨 STONE TECH HAS ANSWERED THE CALL.

One more quest completed. One more PC ready for battle.

07/30/2026

🎮 SIDE QUEST UNLOCKED: COMMUNITY DAY 2026 🎮

Mission Briefing

The citizens of Tharptown need YOU.

📍 Objective: Community Day
🗓️ Date: Saturday, August 1
🕚 Time: 11:00 AM – 7:00 PM
📌 Location: Tharptown Community Park

🏆 Mission Rewards:

✅ Epic Live Music
✅ Foam Party Event
✅ Meet Marshall
✅ Meet Bluey
✅ Legendary Food Vendors
✅ Local Merchant Marketplace
✅ Chinese Auction Loot
✅ Fire Apparatus Showcase
✅ XP for Supporting Your Community

Bonus Objective:
Find the Stone Tech guy and talk PCs, gaming, hardware, or just say hello. +100 Community XP. 😎

At Stone Tech, we build gaming PCs, but we also believe in supporting the community that supports us. This Saturday we're trading RGB lights for sunshine (well... hopefully 😅) and spending the day with friends, family, and neighbors.

🎮 Party up.
🎮 Touch grass.
🎮 Complete the Community Day quest.

Achievement Unlocked: Supported Your Local Community 🏅❤️

07/29/2026

🚨🎮 STONE TECH PRESENTS: "THE ROCK" 🎮🚨

Every gamer starts somewhere...

If you're looking to jump into PC gaming without breaking the bank, "The Rock" is exactly that—a solid entry-level gaming system built to get you into today's most popular titles while looking great on your desk.

Built by Stone Tech, this system delivers dependable performance, clean cable management, ARGB lighting, and a sharp black-and-red theme.

🖥️ The Rock Features:
🔥 AMD Ryzen 7 5800X Processor
🔥 Radeon RX 5700 8GB Graphics Card
🔥 32GB Corsair Vengeance ARGB DDR4 Memory
🔥 ASRock B550 Phantom Gaming Motherboard
🔥 512GB Inland NVMe SSD
🔥 650W Thermaltake Semi-Modular Power Supply
🔥 Gamemax "Fishtank" Case
🔥 Thermaltake ARGB Cooling Fans
🔥 AMD Wraith Prism ARGB Cooler
🔥 AsiaHorse Black/Red Cable Extensions

⌨️ Also Included: Gaming Keyboard & Mouse

🎟️ WIN IT AT COMMUNITY DAY!

Stone Tech is proud to donate "The Rock" to be raffled off during the 5th Annual Tharptown Community Day, hosted by Union Fire Company and the Tharptown Christmas Display.

📅 Saturday, August 1
🕚 11:00 AM – 7:00 PM
📍 Tharptown Community Park

It's more than just a raffle! Community Day features:
🎵 Live music all day
🍔 Great food
🛍️ Local vendors
🎈 Family activities
💦 Foam Party
🐾 Marshall from PAW Patrol
💙 Bluey appearances
🎤 DJ & MC entertainment

Every raffle ticket helps support two organizations dedicated to making our community stronger all year long.

📢 Help us spread the word!
👍 Like this post
💬 Tag your gaming buddies
🔄 Share it with your friends and family

Let's make this the biggest Community Day yet—and give one lucky gamer the chance to take home "The Rock!" 💻🎮🔥

05/27/2026

📜 QUEST COMPLETE: THE TRANSMUTATION OF RIVER’S POTATO 📜

Hear ye, hear ye! Gather 'round the tavern table, adventurers, for a tale of dark dungeons, ancient curses, and a legendary, budget-friendly artificer upgrade. You don't need a vault full of dragon gold to get a legendary build!

Our story begins in the mystical realm of the local TCG & Tabletop shop. The shop’s Guildmaster, River, was fighting a losing battle. By day, they forged graphic design masterpieces and ruled the local cardboard economy. By night, they attempted to delve into the deepest, most heavily modded caverns of Minecraft.

But River was cursed. Bound to their desk was a beast of ancient, sluggish malice. Let’s look at the stats of the monster River was dragging into battle:

--- THE "BEFORE" LOADOUT (LEVEL 1 PEASANT) ---
* Processor: Intel i3-6100 (Dual-core energy. A literal potato powered by a single AA battery).
* Cooling: Stock Intel Cooler (Sounded like a dying gryphon; cooled like a lukewarm cup of mead).
* Motherboard: Gigabyte Z170 (Holding on for dear life).
* Memory: 8GB OLOY DDR4 (For when you want to open exactly three Chrome tabs and nothing else).
* Graphics: Nvidia GTX 1050 4GB (Bless its heart, it tried, but it rolled a Nat 1 on rendering).
Every time River tried to boot up a heavy modpack, the PC screamed in agony. Chunk loading? More like chunk lagging. Graphic design renders took long enough to complete a short rest.

Clearly, a party wipe was imminent. River needed an Artificer, but they didn't want to drain their entire gold reserve. Enter Stone Tech. We proved you can achieve mythic-tier performance without a mythic-tier price tag.
We took the ancient rig into our arcane workshop, cast Purge Components, and performed a high-level, maximum-value Transmutation ritual using smart, budget-conscious component choices.

--- THE "AFTER" LOADOUT (LEVEL 20 MYTHIC HERO — BUDGET EDITION) ---
Behold the newly forged, cost-effective war machine:
* Processor: Ryzen 5 5600x – Six cores of pure, unadulterated speed. Absolute peak price-to-performance. Modded Minecraft doesn’t just run now; it cowers in fear.
* Cooling: UpHere RGB Tower Cooler – Enchanted with +10 Frost Resistance, +5 Aesthetic, and a price tag that won't make you weep.
* Motherboard: MSI B450 Tomahawk Max – A legendary, budget-friendly tank of a board ready to anchor the realm.
* Memory: 16GB Corsair Dominator DDR4 – Double the mana pool! River can now multitask, design, and host a server without a hitch.
* Graphics: AMD RX 5700XT 8GB – The absolute king of budget used-market performance. Double the VRAM, infinite glory. Shaders? Maxed. Frame rates? High. Graphic design projects? Rendered in the blink of an eye.

ARTIFICER'S NOTE: River’s PC went from "struggling to render a single block of cobblestone" to "cruising through 300+ modpacks at 144 FPS," all while keeping the gold pouch heavy.

The curse is lifted. The frames are high. River has returned to their shop, not just as a shopkeeper, but as a god of the digital realm—without breaking the bank.

Does your own battle station require a high-value upgrade before the next boss fight? Bring your rig to Stone Tech. We roll Nat 20s on budget optimization, cable management, and component synergy.

05/04/2026

💻🔥 **STONE TECH WEEKEND STORY: ROCCO VS. THE “WEIRD” COMPUTER** 🔥💻

Friday night, we get a message from Rocco at Clear Water Pools: “Hey… my work computer’s acting weird.” Which, as always, is IT code for *“something has been wrong for a while and has now chosen violence.”* This isn’t a casual-use machine either—this one runs sales, water testing, CRM, customer files… basically everything Rocco needs to not have a terrible Monday. Deadline? Pick it up Friday night, back before Monday morning. No big deal.

We get it on the bench, power it up, and for a brief, hopeful moment everything looks fine. Then—black screen. No error, no explanation, just a clean, confident refusal to continue. Meanwhile, the bottom fan lighting is out like it quit mid-shift, and the cable extensions look like they were installed by someone racing the clock. At this point, it’s clear this isn’t one issue—it’s a group effort.

We let it run, watch the board, and sure enough the VGA debug light lights up like it’s trying to help. Out comes the multimeter, because we prefer facts over guessing. The RTX 4060? Not delivering stable power. There’s your main character. But of course it didn’t come alone. The fan lighting issue turned out to be an overloaded 3-pin RGB chain—too many fans, not enough planning. And the BIOS battery? Hanging on by pure optimism. The system wasn’t so much failing as it was quietly giving up.

So we got to work. TPM and Secure Boot enabled to satisfy Windows 11’s list of demands, then a clean install. The unstable 4060 was swapped out for a tested unit that actually does its job. CPU and GPU both got repasted because we like our hardware cool and cooperative. Full dust cleanout—front and back—because airflow is not optional. BIOS updated, and the cabling finally brought under control with combs so it no longer looks like a wiring experiment gone wrong. Fan lighting will get a proper hub next round—because apparently we hit the RGB limit.

End result? Picked up Friday night, back in Rocco’s hands before Monday morning. No lost data, no missed work, and no more random black screen. Just a system that behaves like it remembers it has responsibilities.

Moral of the story: when a computer is “acting weird,” it’s usually been trying to warn you for a while… you just ignored it until it made things interesting.

💻 **Stone Tech**
We fix weird. Fast.

03/17/2026

The rain wasn't falling in Coal Township that afternoon, but inside the shop, it felt like a storm was brewing. Case File #130 hit my counter with the hollow thud of a coffin. No dying confession, no frantic plea for mercy—just a scrap of paper that read like an epitaph: “It won’t turn on anymore.”

I looked at the mark. A Dell Dimension 4600. It was an old soldier—Pentium 4, a meager 512MB of RAM, and a heart full of Windows XP secrets. It had survived long enough to see the world change, but its luck had finally run dry. I gave the power button a press, looking for a sign of life, a flicker of an LED, a hum of a fan. Nothing. Not even a rattle. The power supply had gone out in a blaze of glory, and it had taken the motherboard down to the grave with it.

Most guys would’ve closed the book right there. But in this business, the chassis is just the suit; the soul is in the platters.
I performed the extraction, pulling the 250GB drive and hooking it up to my bench rig like a witness in an interrogation room. For a minute, it sang. The folders opened. The files started to spill. Then, the sound that haunts every tech’s dreams: click. A pause. Then click… click… That wasn't a malfunction; that was a countdown. The drive was checking its watch, and time was running out.

The job changed then. It wasn't about the hardware anymore; it was about the heist. I had to get the story out before the drive went cold forever. Every file was a piece of a life, every second a gamble. No sudden moves. Just a slow, steady pull, hoping the mechanical ghost would hold on for one last job.

We got it. Every bit, every byte.

The client didn't want the latest bells and whistles; he wanted the world he knew. He wanted his programs, his rhythm, even a little taste of the old WinMX days. So, I built him a new vessel—a Lenovo ThinkCentre, fueled by an i3-4130 and 16GB of RAM, with an SSD that didn't know the meaning of the word "wait."
When I threw the switch, there were no clicks. No hesitation. Just the steady, blue glow of a clean boot. I dropped the recovered data back into its rightful place, and it fit like a key in a lock. The old machine might be heading for the scrap heap, but it didn't get the final say.

Case closed. Stone Tech 1, Hard Drive 0.

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