SW-SSG wrote:^Is it just me, or is 80% of the PSU fan inlet blocked by that metal thing??
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Silverstone power supplies are well-regarded indeed, but I'd feel nervous about re-using any PSU that was likely running at artificially-elevated temperatures for long periods of time.
The bottom panel is swiss cheesed, so there was no issue with airflow. My guess is the case design predates power supplies with bottom mount cooling fans, so when they came along they just updated the PSU holder with holes for airlflow
In April of 2007, I put a system together for my then boss based on one of these boards, upgrading from his Socket A system. Just over a thousand dollars worth of stuff right there.
In 2011 or so, it was time for him to update again, and I advised him to just buy a whole new system since it was also time to move to Windows 7. I ended up with his old system after doing some work for him, and I used the board to replace the dead motherboard in my cousin's boyfriend's computer. He was supposed to pay me $100.00 for the parts and labor, but he never did. I gifted the Q9505 that was in it to another cousin.
One good thing about this board is that it works with the inexpensive high density DDR2 that will not work with Intel chipsets. Sadly, it's chipset limited to eight gigs of memory.
Added four gigs of DDR2, a 500 gigabyte hard drive, and two SATA cables and installed Windows 8 with no issues.
After watching many YouTube videos about older computer hardware, YouTube began recommending videos about trains - are they trying to tell me something?
"It's science. I ain't gotta explain sh*t" 
