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Dual XP-M rig - it is done!

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First post, by Automat

Posted on 2014-06-08, 06:18

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Hi folks,

perhaps a year ago i incidentally got a mainboard in my hands, which is truly one-of-a-kind i always wanted to build a system with: A dual S462 mainboard.
Finding the missing parts and building up this rig took approximately 11 months, but now i finished this project.
I catched two Athlon XP-M 2800+ for a few bucks at ebay, the memory was waiting for that in my cellar, the FX5900 was coworkers donation,... and so on.
This PC meets a system of the year 2003, so it runs Windows XP SP2 with 200 GB HDD and 2 GB RAM. It's really fast and responds each action really quickly.

Here are the pics:

The FX5900 is clocked like ultra, TombRaider Angel of Darkness is runnig smooth with full settings, even with 4x AA by driver.
All fans are adapted be 12V>7V adapters, so this PC is really quiet, although there are 5 fans working.

Reply 1 of 8, by PcBytes

Posted on 2014-06-08, 13:50

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Cool build,just the Pentium 4 case badge looks a bit off in there,seeing that the PC itself is a AMD.

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Reply 2 of 8, by F2bnp

Posted on 2014-06-08, 13:55

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Awesome build!

Reply 3 of 8, by foey

Posted on 2014-06-08, 19:57

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Great build. I bet Windows XP flys. I remember it running very well when I had a single 2800 Barton.

Nice work on such a shallow case. I've worked on a couple of these cases before and they are very tight! Esp on the kit you have in there.

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Reply 4 of 8, by RacoonRider

Posted on 2014-06-09, 02:10

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Great build, very tidy. Cables look well managed. I'm slowly collecting everything I need for a single-CPU Barton build and I'm looking forward to use a 5.25" fan controller panel instead of the internal adapters.

Reply 5 of 8, by chinny22

Posted on 2014-06-09, 14:37

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Duel CPU's are always cool!
And you have managed to keep the setup simple and clean (something I fail at)

Reply 6 of 8, by KT7AGuy

Posted on 2014-06-11, 05:51

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That is one seriously clean, well-designed, professional-looking, XP system!
I am quite jealous!

What sound card is that?

You may be inspiring me to clean up my own legacy XP box.

Reply 7 of 8, by retrofanatic

Posted on 2014-06-11, 06:07

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Very nice!...and yes, very tidy...one recommendation I would make though is to cut out the extra metal (maybe with a hole saw) obstructing the air flow of the front and rear fan...it would reduce noise considerably as well.

...Oh...and maybe fill up that remaining 3.5" external drive bay with a second 1.44mb floppy drive or a zip drive.

Those are just small things though...it looks awesome!

Reply 8 of 8, by Liqu1d82

Posted on 2014-06-11, 15:39

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Congratulations, great build - I'm currently working on ASUS CUV4X-D Dual Socket 370 to experiment even on BeOS / Haiku, along with Win2k and my Debian Linux: I was thinking of using 3 removable HDs and change them depending on usage.

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