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What do you think "belongs" in a full tower AT case?

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First post, by BitWrangler

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Hi Vogons,

So I have a case just sitting, hefty full height full tower, 6 cdrom sized bays, 6 3.5" 2 open, I think. Not pulling the sucker out until I've got something in mind, it's just too "there" and in the way. But I have been pondering it's fate.

One pain in the ass is that it needs a PSU with particularly long cables to reach everything. That makes me think AT board with ATX power. So P5A-B maybe with watercooled K6-2+ modded to 3. But I think the fan hole is only 100mm, so small rad. But era of the thing is 386/486, I guess for netware server or some such. Which makes me think 486 dx2-66 with a lot of drives, SCSI card.... hmmm.... maybe an "every floppy" build with 4 floppy card and a tape and zip.

Not sure I am fitting it in very well with the kind of configs I want to keep. Suggestions?

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Reply 1 of 7, by keenmaster486

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Dual Pentium Pro server?

World's foremost 486 enjoyer.

Reply 3 of 7, by Ozzuneoj

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How about one drive from each of the competing early CD-ROM standards? IDE, SCSI, LMSI, Sony, Panasonic and Mitsumi.

Bonus points for also covering several somewhat distinctive types of drives... 1x, 2x, caddy-loading, slot loading, "mid" speed (probably SCSI), very high speed (probably IDE), etc... maybe those last two could be an early CD burner, and a DVD drive just for completeness.

Man... now I want to do this build. I think I probably have most of these aside from a slot loading CDROM. Whether they work or not is another issue entirely.

Now for some blitting from the back buffer.

Reply 4 of 7, by maxtherabbit

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Full AT footprint 486 motherboard with the "chipset" implemented in discrete logic.

A pair of full height 5.25" SCSI HDD with the blinky light faceplates.

2+ zip drives.

Multiple NE2000 cards in a LACP bond.

Just go bananas

Reply 5 of 7, by BitWrangler

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keenmaster486 wrote on Yesterday, 22:54:

Dual Pentium Pro server?

Hmmm that seems like a rabbithole, what 12 AT boards and supermicro made half of them?

Just trying to figure the odds with some eBay poking, and their searches seem to be artificial stupidity dehanced now, with "pentium pro socket 8 motherboard" fetching anything with any of the terms in. But there's a heck of a lot of ATX and weird dell/compaq formfactors in ppro.

Anyway, that's feeling like a $1000 project. I won't likely spend that much. Next to nothing on hand to reduce the blow, except maybe some ECC RAM and a random heatsink.

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Reply 6 of 7, by BitWrangler

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cyclone3d wrote on Yesterday, 23:01:

Mod the top of the case to fit a real radiator.... A 240 at minimum with 360 being better.

I bet it isn't wide enough to house 140mm fans is it?

Pics of the case?

It's the one piece over the top cover type so hard to mod into the top. Might get away with using the PSU hole and putting PSU dangling from fan vent hole lower down.

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BitWrangler wrote on Today, 01:14:
cyclone3d wrote on Yesterday, 23:01:

Mod the top of the case to fit a real radiator.... A 240 at minimum with 360 being better.

I bet it isn't wide enough to house 140mm fans is it?

Pics of the case?

It's the one piece over the top cover type so hard to mod into the top. Might get away with using the PSU hole and putting PSU dangling from fan vent hole lower down.

Ahhh, you would need to make a bracket that mounts the radiator to the case and then have the holes in the top of the cover with fan grills bolted on to make the top of the case not super bendy.

There is also the option to use the 5.25" bays to mount a radiator.

Still need enough airflow to be able to flow through the case though.

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