Get Tom's Hardware's best news and in-depth reviews, straight to your inbox. You are now subscribed Your newsletter sign-up was successful Gaming laptops come with power-dense Lithium-based batteries to give you on-battery gaming for a few hours — but what would happen if you ditched these specialized power cells and instead chose garden-variety AA batteries to run your desktop gaming PC? This is exactly what YouTube creator ScuffedBits decided to find out when he pulled out the old 450-watt CX430 power supply and replaced it with an ATX power supply plug from AliExpress that lets you connect its 12V cables to practically anywhere you like. Unfortunately, the creator did not share the specifications of their PC, but it seemed to have an entry-level Intel CPU chip, two RAM sticks, and a 2.5-inch SATA SSD running on Windows 10. They also said that they’ll try running a GPU on the system later. Now, AA batteries are just 1.5 volts, so you need to connect 8 cells in series to hit the required 12 volts.…