Nice build!

I like the black paintjob inside the case, really slick. Would look pretty nice with a lexan/plexiglass sheet in place of the side panel.

It is black from the factory. Otherwise nice case but I don't like the PSU placement (directly near CPU instead of above it like on normal ATX cases). But I scored two IBM eServer cases, very sturdy and nice, will probably swap the machine over.

A friend of mine had a case with the same black interior, around 1999+-, a VIA MVP3, S3 Trio 3D 4MB, K6-2 333MHz with the 66MHz bus, (crappy chip 😁, back then I had a Celeron 366A+440BX MSI, and a Vanta 8MB AGP 😁). Later on he bought a 30GB WD300BB 😁. He gave me the case in 2002 or so. Now I'm pissed I tossed it into the garbage bin. It was really sturdy. I stood on it and it barely bent....again I was young and foolish 😁

Some more retro I have: Asus P/I-55TP4XE with 233 MMX (officially not supported, but works), 128 MB EDO, 30 GB HDD, DVD-ROM, Creative DXR2 DVD decoder card, SoundBlaster AWE64 ISA, 3Com 515 10/100 Etherlink ISA and Voodoo3 2000 PCI flashed to 3000. Cleaned it up a bit and my 9year old son was caugut by Need For Speed II SE 😀 I have had this computer since 1999 though with changes of course, only system board and case are original. Sadly the numberic display does not show above 166 MHz, tried every jumper configuration there is. I also have Pentium 266 MHz MMX (Tillamook) but due to not having 4x multiplier available it only works at 233 MHz so no piint keeping it there (multis were unlocked to lower side, 🤣). Case is like AT version of BTX having everything upside down but I really like the case, very sturdy and kind of cool.

Planning to replace the V3 with Banshee PCI since V3 is overkill here and I cannot utilise its full potential. Will put it onto my Intel STL2 dual PIII 1 GHz build.

Here's some more. A quite rare Asus P2B-n (NLX format) with original case. Has IR, front USB, front volume control etc. Slim optical drive (I put laptop DVD-RW drive there). Runs 650 MHz PIII right now (had to tape pins to give 1.8v, VRM is old style), but had 1.4 GHz Celeron with Powerleap adapter once there. 512 MB RAM (only 2 slots present) and onboard 8MB Ati Rage Pro Turbo AGP with TV board connector. Since I had Ati TV ISA card, I put it there. Analog TV tuner is pretty useless nowadays (we don't have any analog terrestrial TV anymore) but ~10 years ago I used it as a TV for a month or so when old TV broke down and new hasn't arrived yet.
Notu sure whether to repaint it black or sodablast the black off and get the original beige back.

I decided to put my Pentium III-S 1.4 GHz Asus P3B-F board with Voodoo 5 5500 AGP to IBM eServer case I got, it surely deserves it 😀

And last but not least, my latest build: Intel SAI2 dual Tualatin 1.4 GHz PIII-S build with 4*512 MB SDRAM, Creative Voodoo2 SLI 24MB, Creative Soundblaster Audigy (with Audigy Drive) and 160 GB HDD. Case is lately aquired AOpen HX08. I am looking for some PCI graphics card for it, in the like of FX5200-6200 to give it some hardware T&L capability. I have Radeon HD2400 PRO PCI but that uses the PSIe-PCI bridge and while it booted up fine computer seemed to stop responding. That may have cause by another issue too since I ran old XP install for first boot but will investigate it further.
V2 SLI works quite well with XP and Koolsmoky drivers (all others gave me MapMem error) but performance seems not too fast... Will make some benchmarks later.

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Here's some more. A quite rare Asus P2B-n (NLX format) with original case. Has IR, front USB, front volume control etc. Slim opt […]
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Here's some more. A quite rare Asus P2B-n (NLX format) with original case. Has IR, front USB, front volume control etc. Slim optical drive (I put laptop DVD-RW drive there). Runs 650 MHz PIII right now (had to tape pins to give 1.8v, VRM is old style), but had 1.4 GHz Celeron with Powerleap adapter once there. 512 MB RAM (only 2 slots present) and onboard 8MB Ati Rage Pro Turbo AGP with TV board connector. Since I had Ati TV ISA card, I put it there. Analog TV tuner is pretty useless nowadays (we don't have any analog terrestrial TV anymore) but ~10 years ago I used it as a TV for a month or so when old TV broke down and new hasn't arrived yet.
Notu sure whether to repaint it black or sodablast the black off and get the original beige back.

I decided to put my Pentium III-S 1.4 GHz Asus P3B-F board with Voodoo 5 5500 AGP to IBM eServer case I got, it surely deserves it 😀

And last but not least, my latest build: Intel SAI2 dual Tualatin 1.4 GHz PIII-S build with 4*512 MB SDRAM, Creative Voodoo2 SLI 24MB, Creative Soundblaster Audigy (with Audigy Drive) and 160 GB HDD. Case is lately aquired AOpen HX08. I am looking for some PCI graphics card for it, in the like of FX5200-6200 to give it some hardware T&L capability. I have Radeon HD2400 PRO PCI but that uses the PSIe-PCI bridge and while it booted up fine computer seemed to stop responding. That may have cause by another issue too since I ran old XP install for first boot but will investigate it further.
V2 SLI works quite well with XP and Koolsmoky drivers (all others gave me MapMem error) but performance seems not too fast... Will make some benchmarks later.

I have an IBM sServer Xseries 220 which uses the same case, but it a dual Tualatin server (still with the original hardware), also it has a black Pentium III sticker instead of the Pentium 4 sticker on yours

Yeah, I didn't get to choose from, there were only two P4 cases with PSU's so I took them both. I already scraped the decals off, maybe someday I will put Pentium III sticker on them 😀 I gotboth of them for 10 euros total so I did not bargain too much 😀