Today I got 2 old computer cases, both partially complete systems.
One case is a silver one exactly like the one used for my Slot 1 rambus rig and the other one a beige case with some blue in it (bit yellowed, but that's alright).
Bought both of them "untested" for 12,50 euro each and I knew the beige one had a good brand PSU as I recognized it as an AOpen brand with a LED 12cm fan (I knew because I bought the exact same PSU new years ago) and my suspicion turned out to be correct 😀
The beige case was very dusty though, including the PSU. Luckily the dust was very powdery so it was easy to brush off outside (lots of dustclouds so I had to use a piece of cloth to cover my nose and mouth). It's an AO300=12APNF and inside all is looking alright.
The motherboard turned out to be an ASUS A7V8X-X and underneath the large copper-slugged Spire cooler (8cm) was an Athlon XP 2700+. Nice as it's the second fastest Athlon XP I have now 😀 Some generic 512MB double sided DDR333 modules were also included.
The previous owner obviously used this as somekind of workstation as it had only an FX5200 64bit graphics card in it and no less then 2 USB PCI cards along with a USB front thingy with 4 more USB ports (who the hell needs over 10 USB ports anyway? 🤣! ). Except for the dust, everything looks to be in working condition.
The other silvery case was nearly empty. Crappy powmax PSU which will go in the trash as soon as I remove it from it's case.
The only other thing of value in it is another ASUS board: P4P800 without a CPU but theres still a very large s478 HSF left (obviously someone else in the thrift store had stolen all the other goods)
Not bad for 25 euro in total, if the ASUS P4P800 board works, I already have all my money's worth back and all the extra stuff is exactly that, extra 😁
I don't know why, but for me taking apart an old unknown system is like christmas or something 😁
I still need to test all this stuff though 😜
And I'm sorry for the lack of pics, for some reason my camera can't take any sharp pictures anymore.