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First post, by CrazyCatman

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For a long time the parts for this was simply laying in a box just waiting to be installed! I just didn't have a case. Luckily my cousin gave me an Arctic Cooling Silentium T4 case for the purpose, although it is a bit new. However it looks just great and I can live with that.

Inside is put an ASUS CUSL2-C motherboard with an Intel i815EP (Solano-3) chipset and the socket 370 is fitted with a 633 MHz Intel Celeron Pentium 3 (Coppermine-128) under a Glacial Tech cooler. The only SDRAM I had laying around were installed and they were three various 64 MB sticks giving my AC-98 192 MB of RAM in total, which is less than the MSI GeForce 4 TI 4200 (G4TI4200-TD) graphics card which has 128 MB.
For sound I installed an AvanceLogic ALS4000 and it's included software and it also received a serial port, an Nvidia Eline NE-320X-S LAN card and a Belkin F5D6001 – 802.11b Wireless desktop network card - which unfortunately (or fortunately?) is incompatible with my network security and thus can't accept my passwords (different setting) - on top of this I no longer had the original antenna, so instead it got an ASUS antenna - quite fitting for the motherboard.

Windows 98 SE is installed on it's 40 GB Maxtor 4D040H2 through the Sony MPF920 floppy drive and NEC ND-3540A DVD-RW.

The case did have one little issue: The power socket is in the bottom and were hardwired to a proprietary PSU which had died: I can't really fix PSUs, so instead I took another one, and an old power cable: cut up the cable and kept the square end and soldered the loose wires to the power plug. The newly installed Antec True 330P now can power up the board, but is only fitted with some double sided tape as there is no fittings for a standard PSU.

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That Xerox screen looks absolutely amazing! (the sound is a bit crap though)

So many computers, so little time...