Awesome build! Those cases are SO cool, I never end up having audio hooked up due to the hassle of setting up speakers. Having actual speakers built in seems REALLY convenient. As far as a replacement white floppy drive goes I would suggest keeping an eye out for something pulled out of a early 2000's Pentium 3 or p4. By that time the cases seemed to be actually white and not eggshell. Mine came out of Gateways 😀 you can never have to many Pentiums! Build a couple more and you can do some really neat Windows 95 LAN partys, Outlaws comes to mind as a fun game to do that with.

PHEW! Since the last computer I thought you were skimping out on your dark elf case badges for a sec.

that mitsumi cdrom though

ODwilly wrote:

Awesome build! Those cases are SO cool, I never end up having audio hooked up due to the hassle of setting up speakers. Having actual speakers built in seems REALLY convenient. As far as a replacement white floppy drive goes I would suggest keeping an eye out for something pulled out of a early 2000's Pentium 3 or p4. By that time the cases seemed to be actually white and not eggshell. Mine came out of Gateways 😀 you can never have to many Pentiums! Build a couple more and you can do some really neat Windows 95 LAN partys, Outlaws comes to mind as a fun game to do that with.

This would be the second case I have with built in speakers. Sure, they may not be anything special compared to higher end external speakers, but this will always have a cool factor to me, and like you said... there are hassles involved in setting up speakers.

Hmm yeah I need to keep an eye out then!

Hahaha, well I've already accomplished the possibility of LAN with DOS games like Descent. So why not take it a step further? 😎

leileilol wrote:

PHEW! Since the last computer I thought you were skimping out on your dark elf case badges for a sec.

🤣

Well, he's technically a wolf hybrid but the badge thing I didn't get around to printing and cutting a label. I did that on the other cases since they did have actual badge spots. 😎

I may end up going with the same drawing of my character I use on my twitter page though. https://twitter.com/ReeseRiverson/

Really cool build. I love that case! Built in speakers would really save on space and those don't look dinky. Did it come with the expansion slot pass-through for the speaker lines?

nekurahoka wrote:

Really cool build. I love that case! Built in speakers would really save on space and those don't look dinky. Did it come with the expansion slot pass-through for the speaker lines?

They do seem pretty decent for what it is. They have a bass, treble, and balance control as well. Yeah, it did come with the pass-through bracket. 😀

That is a nice looking AT desktop case.
Not sure I'd want speakers like that inside a computer case, tho.
I'd knock out those serial\parallel back-plates, and move take them off the slot brackets and put them there to free up a slot for a, slot case fan or even just a slot vent bracket. You got enough room it looks like to put all four on those I/O cutouts, the 2 serial ports - PS\2 and the parallel.
That would give you 2 slots back.

The speakers are magnetically shielded, if that was your concern?

Yeah, I may do that if I need another expansion card. 😀

Nah, I'd just never use case speakers, they'd be super redundant for me.
I usually route the beeper speaker output into the soundcard too if given the chance 🤣.

I really would move those slots and just use those slots for ventilation with some perforated covers.
If nothing else, as AT cases can get warm.

Even with the whole side already being ventilated on the cover?

Yea you have no real airflow in that case, and it looks like a voodoo card too.
I'd have a vent bracket next to that, if not a PCI slot fan of some-type preferably a quiet one.
Just my opinion. I like keeping my systems cool if at all possible.

Yeah there is a Voodoo card.

Oh that's very well understandable. I never was too sure how warm it would get in there, I'll take a look around and see if I can find any PCI slot fans. 😀

I'm actually surprised your case has vents on the sides of the cover being AT.
That is a good thing for a desktop case.
Good luck with it!

AlphaWing wrote:

I'm actually surprised your case has vents on the sides of the cover being AT.
That is a good thing for a desktop case.
Good luck with it!

Yeah, if you look at this picture closely, to the right, you will see the cover on the floor. The side that is where the motherboard is, is fully vented:

Though either case, I will see about taking the opportunity in adding a fan to help. 😀

And thanks!

Great build! Very cool case. I agree with AlphaWing about knocking out those serial\parallel back-plates, and moving the ports from the slot brackets.

I would also maybe go with a 5.25 floppy drive on the bottom since you already have a 3.5" FDD on the top.

retrofanatic wrote:

Great build! Very cool case. I agree with AlphaWing about knocking out those serial\parallel back-plates, and moving the ports from the slot brackets.

I would also maybe go with a 5.25 floppy drive on the bottom since you already have a 3.5" FDD on the top.

I did consider a 5.25" floppy drive, but I'm kinda out of those. 😢

Cool! Very convenient to have the speaker built in. 😀

Very cool case. I've never seen them in Poland in the 90s.

ReeseRiverson wrote:

retrofanatic wrote:

Great build! Very cool case. I agree with AlphaWing about knocking out those serial\parallel back-plates, and moving the ports from the slot brackets.

I would also maybe go with a 5.25 floppy drive on the bottom since you already have a 3.5" FDD on the top.

I did consider a 5.25" floppy drive, but I'm kinda out of those. 😢

Ya, I know what you mean. I have only a couple left...they are getting much harder to find.

I think I missed the boat with 5.25" floppy drives. At one point they were everywhere and everyone was just throwing them away and I never thought to just buy them when they were cheaper and more plentiful.

AlphaWing wrote:

Nah, I'd just never use case speakers, they'd be super redundant for me. I usually route the beeper speaker output into the soun […]
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Nah, I'd just never use case speakers, they'd be super redundant for me.
I usually route the beeper speaker output into the soundcard too if given the chance 🤣.

I really would move those slots and just use those slots for ventilation with some perforated covers.
If nothing else, as AT cases can get warm.

are there any old 8 bit cards like the old sound blasters where you can route the speaker to them? that would be a heck of a lot more useful for older pc's then newer retro pc's. Id throw a sound card into a PC class machine just for speaker routing if that was an option since most of the games being played on it are pc speaker only and this can be an issue when you want to play in the dead of night and people are sleeping. funny how random loud beeps and boops can anger sleeping girlfriend/spouses.