Very nice build! Looking to put together something like it, albeit a little less advanced in the sound department, at some point.

While I do agree the yellowing gives the case a certain character, you state yourself that the whole idea is that you want period correctness. It wasn't yellow back then 😀 I'd definitely go over it with Retr0bright if I were you.

You might want to look into recapping that PSU by the way. Had the 360W variant of it that came Chieftec branded with a Chieftec Dragon case. Some caps went bad, it probably killed the socket 478 mobo I had in my main rig back then.

Out of curiosity, how much did you pay for the mobo/CPU combo, and where did you find it? Must have been a very good deal, if you find AWE64:s generally too expensive, but not the SS7 stuff you bought. I only seem to find P5A's at ridiculous prices, but then again, I probably look in the wrong places 😀

kaputnik wrote:

Very nice build! Looking to put together something like it, albeit a little less advanced in the sound department, at some point […]
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Very nice build! Looking to put together something like it, albeit a little less advanced in the sound department, at some point.

While I do agree the yellowing gives the case a certain character, you state yourself that the whole idea is that you want period correctness. It wasn't yellow back then 😀 I'd definitely go over it with Retr0bright if I were you.

You might want to look into recapping that PSU by the way. Had the 360W variant of it that came Chieftec branded with a Chieftec Dragon case. Some caps went bad, it probably killed the socket 478 mobo I had in my main rig back then.

Out of curiosity, how much did you pay for the mobo/CPU combo, and where did you find it? Must have been a very good deal, if you find AWE64:s generally too expensive, but not the SS7 stuff you bought. I only seem to find P5A's at ridiculous prices, but then again, I probably look in the wrong places 😀

Yeah i will get round to Retr0bright when the sun comes back hahaha. Thanks for the advice regarding the PSU. I will open it up an take a look. I have a Inwin 300watt PSU which i just looked over and looks to be fine so might swap that in.

Regarding the motherboard/cpu combo, i paid £12 shipped for both. Now it was originally listed as an acer motherboard which was probably the reason i got it so cheap, but that's how i go about buying my retro gear 🤣.

Great looking system, well-spec'd. Just keep in mind, if you retr0bright it, you won't be able to call it "The Cheese Block" anymore.

Very nice build! Looks very clean, seems balanced (no memory left uncached I presume), well done!

If you intent to remove the front panel sound thingy and don't have any matching front bezel thingies (these aren't usually very standard, so the plastic front bezel thingies from other cases will usually not be a very good fit), I could give you the tip to add a white bezeled DVD drive (not a burner! 😁) to fill up the slot.

Having a CDROM burner and a separate DVD drive was a common thing in times that were slightly newer then your build, but I think it will look nicely still (especially if your DVD drive is white!).

Like Kaputnik mentioned, the PSU might be a weak spot of your build, mostly due to the caps that might start leaking, if they haven't already.

I can't make out the voltage rails, but ss7 usually won't strain your PSU very much anyway.

Very good no frills system, very nicely done!

Tetrium wrote:

If you intent to remove the front panel sound thingy and don't have any matching front bezel thingies (these aren't usually very standard, so the plastic front bezel thingies from other cases will usually not be a very good fit), I could give you the tip to add a white bezeled DVD drive (not a burner! 😁) to fill up the slot.

Having a CDROM burner and a separate DVD d

Yep did that! or CD-Rom and separate burner, as they were expensive so you wanted to save wear and tear on them.
Didn't know you could get the 2 ZS drive bay in white though, really want one! (funny enough to fill a missing front bezel) card is already in there as its my all time favourite Win9x Audio card.

and yeh, I'm not sold on the benefits of the gold over the regular Awe64 anyway.

I hate that enlight case SO VERY MUCH. 🙁

luckybob wrote:

I hate that enlight case SO VERY MUCH. 🙁

It is that cutting edge?