First post, by Parts man
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I have a few early water cooling cases from the late 90s and early 00s. I also have a lot of blocks for everytign from socket 7 to 478. Even socket 8 and slot 1. On top of that I have pumps, radiators, tubing, fittings, GPU blocks, chip set blocks and HDD blocks. It took me a year to track all these parts down. Now it's time to build a system in the one of the cases.
The case I'm going to use is a koolance PC2-C
Out of all the cases I have its in the best shape. Its just missing the cover for the USB and front audio panel.
But there is a snag. I can't make up my mind on what to put inside the case.
I broke it down to 3 builds.
875p 478 system with a P4 extreme and 9800xt or 5950 ultra. This would lack good dos support do to the lack of ISA. But it would make a good back up gaming system if my main system when down.
High end 440bx system with a pin modded 1.4ghz Pentium 3-S. This seems like the best idea. But could be a little buggy with the overclocked chip set, AGP port and pin modded CPU. But I'm willing to deal with that.
Early 462 systems with something like a ABIT kt7a. If I can find a good early 462 board with ISA and Barton support it could make the 440bx look rather slow. But finding one for a good price would be hard.
Whats your thoughts?
EDIT: By the way. I would not be able to fit a longer ISA sound card in the koolacne PC2-C case. The pumps would get in the way. So Id would have to use a card like the AWE64 or SB16. Both are good cards. But I like having a 32mb sound font.
