First post, by xjas
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Edit: current specs of the system will be kept updated here. Build thread below...
CPU: P3/412.5 (@ 5.5x75) (1998)
Mobo: Asus P2L97-S / Intel i440LX (1997)
Case: Antec Sonata III (2009)
Video: Guillemot Maxi Gamer Phoenix (16MB Voodoo Banshee PCI)
System memory: 384MB PC133
Network: SMC 10/100 PCI
Sound: SB AWE64 Value
SCSI: Adaptec AHA7880 UW (onboard)
Storage: Maxtor 20GB IDE (2002)
Maxtor 80GB IDE (2004)
1.2MB, 5 1/4" floppy (1989)
1.44MB 3 1/2" floppy
iomega ATAPI Zip 100 (1997)
LG ATAPI DVD+/-RW (2006)
So a while ago I picked up this PII system in a horrible case that I hated. I decided the case needed to leave my sight ASAP but its internals were quite nice & fully deserving of a new home. It’s a PII/233 on a sweet Asus P2L97-S board with a 440LX chipset, 2 ISA slots, AGP 4x, onboard Adaptec SCSI, and 192MB SDRAM (3x64). I can bump it up to a 333MHz (max) CPU and 384MB, or overclock it up to 83MHz FSB, but I’ll see if it fits my needs as-is before I start upgrading.
EDIT: this thread was originally full of Photos that were hosted on a certain site which likened itself to a Bucket. Unfortunately, as said site made the monumentally, colossally stupid decision to disallow hotlinking of hosted photos after at least a decade of specifically encouraging such, thus destroying years of valuable information & historical threads across thousands of forums and blogs in one fell swoop, I've had to remove all of them.
Fortunately I was able to reconstruct the original post with images intact; click the attachment below for the photos & captions that were once here. I've left the original text below for quoting purposes, etc. I'd apologise for this but it's the decision makers at Photob*cket who need to be blamed.
No one can say I don't put any effort into my build threads...
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The donor in question with its running gear exposed.
Here’s what I came up with:
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A derelict Antec Sonata III from 2009? Yes, that will do. Fun fact: my “modern” gaming PC at home is older than this case.
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Literally nothing good came out of the Antec. I don’t think this is what it was originally equipped with, but that’s what was in there. No heat sink, drives, or RAM present.
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Stripped & ready for action. Wait, that sounds dirty.
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QC OK! I’m glad they checked.
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Here’s what came out of the junky knockoff(?)-Enlight. This is the good stuff.
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…of course I had to add a bit to it before it went back in. 😉
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The heart of the beast.
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The motherboard has this date tag of December 1997. And no one even voided the warranty!
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Magnetic spinny media. You better believe we’re going SCSI. Salvaged these from a Motorola 88k-based server.
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