ne vous excusez pas de ne pas être bilingue ou que le français soit votre langue maternelle.

This is quite the lovely build. Very fine work you’ve done. Quite spectacular.

Hello theaellie,

Thank you for your response and your thoughts on building the 2003 intel dream machine.
To be completely finished, the following things are missing:

- Find a Geforce FX 5950 Ultra (the prices are absurd).
- Buy two Raptor 36Gb to carry out raid0 for the system.
- Assemble and integrate the complete watercooling (CPU + CHIPSET + GPU).
- Find the cable from the front panel of the sound card that I am missing.
- Sheath and cut to length all power cables
- Install white LEDs to light the inside of the box.
- New painting of the case, there are some dents and traces of corrosion on it.

So there are still a lot of things to do so that this construction is 100% finished and can be exhibited at retro gaming conventions.

At the moment I'm working on the AMD Socket 940 dream machine.

I can't find the button to edit my first message, is this normal due to my new registration? or is this not possible? It's quite annoying.

Hello everyone,

I took out the boxes with the equipment intended for my 2004 dream machine this beginning of the week, I don't have much time to devote because the preparations for the departure of 2 weeks on vacation.

You won't believe me but I can no longer find my Corsair XMS memory kit purchased last March..., a kit that took me years to find.
It has become imperative for me at this stage of the project to tidy up through the "empty" and to sell/donate everything that is useless, that is to say a lot of things.
Well, I bought several DDR400 Registered memory kits on ebay following the premature death of my SK8V motherboard, thinking with great hope that the problem could come from the ram kit sold with the card...

So I reassembled my Asus SK8V to test it again with the new memory kits purchased in the meantime.
Unfortunately nothing has changed, the card starts the fans running but nothing more, the post-card does not display any codes 😢
I wonder if the bios is not corrupted? I will therefore flash the bios chip to test, the card visually is new and I have not determined any hot spots which would indicate a CC.

Luckily I also have an Asus SK8N in stock that I found on ebay also the card is an after-sales service return which is also new.

Everything is going well for her, the FX-51 too.

At the same time I tested my only stick of XMS Platinum in CAS2 purchased untested on ebay, victory it works well!
Given the rarity of these memories it's really a good thing to have in stock.
JEDEC is well recognized.

Now that I have a functional base I can tackle the integration into the case.
There is a lot of energy to put into making really clean wiring given the number of cables present in the Xaser III
Radiator integration test, the goal here is to modify the case as little as possible while having fairly efficient cooling and remaining with equipment available at the end of 2003, it is imperative!

The Swiftech sits on top next to the front panel, it's just perfect!

For the Blak Ice Micro II you just need to modify the mounting holes of the second fan which do not fall perfectly in the right place.

Now it remains to find the right hardware for the 160mm radiator.
The pump will be a Hydro L-20 12V, the CPU waterblock will certainly be the Asetek waterblock from the L-20 Entry kit or a Swiftech MCW5002-64
The pipes will certainly be Tygon in 10/6 to match the 10mm quick tips, different tests will be done to find the most efficient one, I am afraid that the 10mm will be too restrictive.
The GPU water block will certainly be a Maze 3 from Dangerden or an Innovatek if I manage to find one but you really have to look too.

The rest probably after my vacation at the beginning of August.