First post, by aberration
My first post here! So, finally finished up this build in a monster of a beige box. Running a Millenium and XP dual boot on the 775i65G board with 2GB of ram (rloew patch) and a core 2 duo E7300. By my figuring half a core 2 beats a pentium 4 with architecture improvements and smaller transistors, this being a 45nm I think, (Windows 98 saw it as a pentium 3 before the ME upgrade) plus the 2 cores work well for the XP boot. Amazingly ME is running much more stable on here than 98 would and I must confess I prefer it to 98. Cut a hole for the 120mm fan in the back of this case and had to hack up the IO panel to make it fit around some of the case's proprietary tabs. May have gone overboard with the power supply and between it and the IDE ribbons I'm at a loss as to the cable management here (advice?).
I'm actually curious as to whether I could install a linux distro or windows 10 on it as well as I have a free windows 10 key from my university but afraid of mucking up the bootloader.
-775i65G board
-Core 2 Duo E7300
-2GB ram
-God knows what case...
-Windows ME and XP
-2 Optical
-Zip 250
-Floppy
-Card readers (XP only)
-Do not have a graphics card installed yet, its in the mail
-40GB and 70GB IDE drives from my parts heap