TheAbandonwareGuy wrote:I recognize that board. in fact I have one in my main retro PC. It's from a Deskpro EN series machine. Mine is currently running […]
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I recognize that board. in fact I have one in my main retro PC. It's from a Deskpro EN series machine. Mine is currently running a 900MHZ Coppermine, a TNT2 Ultra, 256MB of RAM, and a Sound blaster LIVE Value. Runs well for OEM quality stuff. All on the stock 250 watt. Those power supplys are actually decent all factored.
If you need information on the board refer to the documentation for Deskpro EN series machines. I'll add a link to the PDF when I'm on my desktop.
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Also it's possibly of note that (According to Scott Mueller's Upgrading and Repairing PCs 11th edition) PC Power and Cooling made power supply's up to 450 watt for those proprietary compaq machines. I can try to upload a picture of the exact text if needed. I have had no success in finding one however, then again i didn't look hard.
I actually have a spare 250 watt compaq PSU that I pulled from an Evo 300 series. Message me if youre interested, maybe we can work out a trade for something stupid and worthless 🤣.
Yes, Compaq Deskpro "EN", this one came with a Geforce 256, Sb Live and P3 1ghz, thanks for the offer but I can also have the PSU if I want to, but I decided not to for space saving purposes, although the cables on those PSUs are routed in a way that prevents them to be mounted on retail cases, you need the original Compaq case, also the cables are way too short, this stuff came out of a horizontal baby ATX model, there's also a vertical desktop tower version, which one do you have?
m1919 wrote:
Those Chieftec cases look pretty snazzy. Got some pics of the interiors on those?
I still could not figure out how to mount the HDD on these things, its main features are: a 12x12mm fan mounting hole on the rear, a chassis intrussion switch on the side and screwless detachable extension drive bays, they are very sturdy and even empty weigh a ton.