chinny22 wrote on 2024-02-19, 22:37:
Case should be beige but this one has a "semi accurate" AMD Athlon sticker... maybe the II stands for second gen?
Not that I can talk nothing I own is period correct.
I like my Slot A, its not as stable as the Slot 1 but it' not as common either.
It was my main case for many years and the sticker is from an actual Athlon II tri-core, which is a 64bit K10 socket AM3 CPU that I had for some years since 2012 before I replaced it with an AMD FX6300 CPU, at the same time that I replaced the case with a Zalman Z9 U3 with low positioned power supply, side access to HDDs, CPU temp display and 4 front USB (2 USB2, 2 USB3). That case has an AMD FX sticker, even if inside is now an Intel i5 7500, Gigabyte Gaming 3 Intel H270 motherboard.
I always customize my computers, last factory/shop built one was a Compaq Prosignia 300 which was meant as a cheap server for small business; CPU (In my case a Pentium 90) and 16 MB soldered RAM were on a separate board, and had 6 72pin FPM/EDO RAM slots on same board, onboard Cirrus Logic 5428 512kb RAM video, onboard SCSI2 controller, 2 PCI and 5 or 6 EISA slots. No onboard IDE, so for my IDE CD-ROM I used the IDE port of my then soundcard, ESS1868. Also used an external jukebox NEC SCSI CD-ROM with a 7 disk capacity.
When I said second generation slot A K7, I meant it; first generation was 250nm, second was 180nm. They shrunk the fabrication. Third generation aka "Thunderbird" was in slot and socket A versions, then followed the Athlon XP, socket A only.
Y2K box: AMD Athlon K75 (second generation slot A)@700, ASUS K7M motherboard, 256 MB SDRAM, ATI Radeon 7500+2xVoodoo2 in SLI, SB Live! 5.1, VIA USB 2.0 PCI card, 40 GB Seagate HDD.
WIP: external midi module based on NEC wavetable (Yamaha clone)