Oops, missed the PSU - which should be sufficient with this setup...

- Systium ST450-SFX FSP450-60GHS, 450W, 80 Plus Bronze

Oh yeah... If you guys have any suggestions in regard to this build please do enlighten me!

Nope, not that case.

elod wrote:

Nope, not that case.

Huh?

JeffBai wrote:

elod wrote:

Nope, not that case.

Huh?

These Netvista cases have very low airflow. Appropriate for a P3 with no or low power video cards. Your SFX PSU will fit exactly one mounting hole as far as I remember. You'll need a piece of metal to fix it properly.

elod wrote:

JeffBai wrote:

elod wrote:

Nope, not that case.

Huh?

These Netvista cases have very low airflow. Appropriate for a P3 with no or low power video cards. Your SFX PSU will fit exactly one mounting hole as far as I remember. You'll need a piece of metal to fix it properly.

It does suffer from that before an exhaust fan was added then everything works at ~65C (I currently have a XP 3200+ and an AIW X800XT in it.

As to the PSU that's exactly what happened to me... Plus the IO Shield...

elod wrote:

JeffBai wrote:

elod wrote:

Nope, not that case.

Huh?

These Netvista cases have very low airflow. Appropriate for a P3 with no or low power video cards. Your SFX PSU will fit exactly one mounting hole as far as I remember. You'll need a piece of metal to fix it properly.

Speaking of the PSU... What form factor is it actually? Considering the shape it does fit with a SFX12V, but the bottom two screw holes, if the PSU was mounted with the top one screw, is some 5mm short...

JeffBai wrote:

Speaking of the PSU... What form factor is it actually? Considering the shape it does fit with a SFX12V, but the bottom two screw holes, if the PSU was mounted with the top one screw, is some 5mm short...

It's nonstandard for sure. I think they wanted a larger fan than what SFX allows for to pull out the heat. We had a lab with Pentium 4 Netvistas with esentially the same case, they only put a 60mm fan behind! the PSU.

elod wrote:

It's nonstandard for sure. I think they wanted a larger fan than what SFX allows for to pull out the heat. We had a lab with Pentium 4 Netvistas with esentially the same case, they only put a 60mm fan behind! the PSU.

Interesting... I guess some mounting tape between the gaps should stabilise it well enough, won't look very good though unfortunately. Same goes for the exhaust fan above the IO area, where I had to employ the same method, but it does well enough.

JeffBai wrote:

Interesting... I guess some mounting tape between the gaps should stabilise it well enough, won't look very good though unfortunately. Same goes for the exhaust fan above the IO area, where I had to employ the same method, but it does well enough.

You only need a piece of sheet metal (an IO shield will do nicely), cut it to length, drill 2 holes in the case and use rivets to fix it on the outside of the case. Then drill a hole for the screw that will fix the PSU.
I'm still worried about airflow, but at least you get a standard SFX in there 😀. The original PSUs were ok but kids decided to switch some to 110VAC instead of 230.

elod wrote:

You only need a piece of sheet metal (an IO shield will do nicely), cut it to length, drill 2 holes in the case and use rivets to fix it on the outside of the case. Then drill a hole for the screw that will fix the PSU.
I'm still worried about airflow, but at least you get a standard SFX in there 😀. The original PSUs were ok but kids decided to switch some to 110VAC instead of 230.

Yep, when I get my hands on some power tools I'll try that...

As for airflow, we'll see. But in light of the graphics card, I've decided to go for a 8800 GTX/Ultra instead just to save some trouble - and I would be able to play around PCSX2 more easily anyways... I'll change my title and update this thread into a "in-progress" and "advice needed" thread.

What I have so far...

- SoundBlaster Audigy 2ZS (OEM? Installation CD from Vogons download says it didn't detect any Audigy 2 ZS last I tried in Windows 2000...).

- "Sausage Link", front panel/LED/fan assembly, with an "adapter" from the proprietary 8-pin IBM connector to PC compatible cables (just a simple split).

- And of course the machine itself, along with a NEC LCD1700V (1280*1024).