What computer is this going into?

I know, you were inspired by the 1060 Bitwrangler Edition but decided to build it with 25mm deep solid aluminum pabst muffin fans so need a 3rd slot outrigger to stabilise it 🤣

Nahh...it is a what-ya-call-it, for his thing-a-ma-jig because his doo-hickey no longer works. He will be bringing in a left handed wrench to tighten the thermal-throckle next to to make sure 😀

ElectroSoldier wrote on 2024-01-04, 02:54:

What computer is this going into?

...goodgrief, a valid question ~ obviously you've played this game before =)

The computer it's going into, is my 'last' retro PC build, which I plan to sell once it's done ...it's based on an Aptiva V66M mainboard

Now I see that you have not removed the electronic components from the PCB (i.e the card was already in this state before you started your mod interventions), but you have removed all the PCI-slot contact fingers. And once the PCB is cut, it can hardly be used for anything more than some kind of mechanical support/base.

P.S. The model is Aptiva (something) and the mobo is Acer V66M.

I'm thinking you're just going to use it to route cables.

Maybe a fan's vertical stand to cool a video card ?

Nice .... and we have a winner....

Zerthimon wrote on 2024-01-04, 09:42:

Maybe a fan's vertical stand to cool a video card ?

Yep, spot on... to cool a Matrox MGA-G200 video card. I have one of these to cool the Voodoo2 in PCI slot3...

...but that's overkill to keep the G200 cool... you just need a small fan to blow on the GPU heatsink and adjacent ramfield. You can't really mount a fan to the G200, because that obstructs PCI slot1 .... and it not as though I use that slot, but it's the slot the 3com NIC works in... if ever one wanted to do that (a sblive! lives in PCI slot2). As I had some new 45mm 'slim' fans on hand, all I needed was some bracket/mount to hold the fan (@analog_programmer ...so, so close =), that was easy/quick to remove (like a normal I/O card), if whoever the new owner is wanted ethernet working. I saw the dead realtek card in a box, and said "that'll do" .... and here we are =)

Were the PCI contacts flaking or corroding then? I just didn't see the point of taking them off vs slicing across the top and breaking their connections.