Don’t worry about the RAM, as that’s going next month and will be replaced with 6x identical 128MB SIMMs! I received this RAM with the motherboard, hence I’ve been running it like this for now!
The modem’s already out of the machine to give the Voodoo5 proper ventilation! I’m unfortunately not going to be able to use that slot!!! Hence the card reader! I initially thought about slotting a JAZZ 1GB drive, but it would just end up making the internal cable management a nightmare, as it’s also SCSI, and routing a SCSI cable to that drive position will be messy! Also, the JAZZ isn’t that useful today!!!
I don’t want any blanks in the front panel, and I’m aiming for all of the installed drives to have the same shade of beige as the case!!! This card reader was pretty much the only beige one I could find on eBay!!! So I grabbed it!
The machine will end up with: SCSI DVD-R, IDE CD-RW, Zip drive, card reader with USB port and a floppy drive installed in its front panel.
All of the slots will be populated, except for the one adjacent to the graphics card! As there’ll be basically no clearance between the Voodoo’s fans and the adjacent card!