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Lenovo ThinkCentre M92p guts in an IBM NetVista M41 case
280W Lenovo 80+ power supply
Lenovo M92p motherboard
Intel Core i7 3770 3.4GHz quad core processor
16GB DDR3 PC3-12800U RAM (4x4GB)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 1GB PCIe video card
DVDRW drive
640GB Western Digital 7200RPM hard drive
180GB Intel 520 SSD
Windows XP + Windows 7 64 dual boot
Floppy drive installed, not connected
HDMI
DVI
VGA
Audio in/out jacks
Serial port
Ethernet
2xUSB 2.0 ports rear
2xUSB 2.0 ports front
4xUSB 3.0 ports rear

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Metal part of case has been spraypainted with black Rustoleum appliance epoxy

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Side of the case

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Other side with original XP sticker

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Original IBM model + serial # sticker

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The rear, jerryrigged the rear fan and power supply in there... spare PCI brackets, zipties, some old motherboard standoffs and VGA fasteners did the job.

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Front

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The original guts, all filthy and disgusting. 2.0 GHz Pentium 4 with 1GB RAM

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Overview of all the guts

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I used some male to female Arduino pins to reroute the original NetVista power switch and LEDs to the motherboard.

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Another shot... the SSD is chilling in a spare bay underneath the optical drive.

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BIOS screen

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System summary

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Windows 7 desktop

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Specs

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Windows XP desktop

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Access IBM + specs

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Programs galore

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All fired up and running! Temperatures are fine, idles in the low-mid 30s and under Prime95 stress test, high 60s/low 70s. These cases are built very well and are TANKS! Also pretty easy to work with.

Last edited by oeuvre on 2019-02-05, 04:30. Edited 1 time in total.

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Reply 1 of 9, by keropi

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I like it. classy build !
I wish I kept my p4 netvista - I would do the same thing 😁

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Reply 3 of 9, by oeuvre

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Added a 128GB SSD to it and put macOS High Sierra 10.13.6... runs perfectly!

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Desktop

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Specs

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Reply 7 of 9, by GordonFreeman

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This system is fairly similar internally to my current system, except that mine has a GTX 980 Ti, and some other differences. Also, mine is the 3770K, not the 3770. I have macOS Sierra and Windows 10 Pro installed on it.

Reply 8 of 9, by buckeye

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What range of XP games are you able to play with the GTX 750? I've thinking about getting one for my XP SP2 build to replace my Geforce 7950 but don't want to break the older "2003" ish titles.

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Reply 9 of 9, by oeuvre

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Stuff like NHL06, Sims 2, GTA VC... nothing terribly intensive. But it also works fine for GC/Wii games through Dolphin.

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