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-Define R5 white closed panel with 140mm front intake 140mm side intake, 140mm back outtake.
-Asus A7V333 v2.00
-1x Corsair 1024mb 3200 cl2
-Voodoo 3000 AGP with gigabyte motherboard heatsink, original heatsink on back (both with thermal pads in between) and copper ramsinks
Since the picture I have added a Noctua 40mm fan with cable ties, because this card gets really hot without it.
-Soundblaster Audigy 2 ZS with front panel and cd/dvd audio cable for EAX effects
-AMD Athlon XP 3000+ with Zalman CNPS 7000 ALCU
-Antec "overkill" psu, because of high +5v (socket A board... with missing P4 connector) rail
-IDE to SATA adapter with OCZ Vertex 90 gb SSD and Windows XP
-2x 80GB IDE hard drive with Windows 98SE + backup

Dell PS/2 AT101 W Beige keyboard
Compaq PS/2 "ball" mouse
Xbox 360 wireless white controller with "joytokey" program for Windows XP couch gaming

Iiyama Vision Master Pro 451 A902MT 19" CRT

Also a picture of this system in a previous case, the Bitfenix Comrade (which has poor airflow) with the keyboard and the mouse.

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Reply 2 of 9, by HugoBoss1985

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😁

Unfortunately, one of those V2 cards was artifacting already when I bought it!

It is fascinating, you have to be really lucky to find a motherboard chipset heatsink that fits.
I had to file down the mounting points just a little bit.

In the Bitfenix case the card did not have the heatsinks mod and i had a 40mm fan on it.
After the Define R5 case switch, i had a slow turning 140mm fan in the side panel.
But the card still got very very hot, so now it also has a Noctua 40mm fan on the Gigabyte Heatsink.
Both the heatsinks work really well now (the backside of this card will also get pretty hot, so a heatsink (the original V3 3000 heatsink) on the back will help.

I had a Zalman passive heatsink on it once, required some modding (filing also).

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Reply 3 of 9, by Salient

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I only have two retro PC's, and only one of them is kind of show worthy I guess 😀

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Reply 5 of 9, by Salient

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HugoBoss1985 wrote on 2021-01-07, 19:48:

Tulip, a true Dutch classic 😀

That looks really nice and clean!
And that's a true period correct system 😜

Yes, I am happy with this system.. It's very stable and all components are in nice shape and belong together..
Inside is an SB16 (CT-1750) with a Roland SCB-55 right now.

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Reply 6 of 9, by HugoBoss1985

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Salient wrote on 2021-01-07, 20:06:
HugoBoss1985 wrote on 2021-01-07, 19:48:

Tulip, a true Dutch classic 😀

That looks really nice and clean!
And that's a true period correct system 😜

Yes, I am happy with this system.. It's very stable and all components are in nice shape and belong together..
Inside is an SB16 (CT-1750) with a Roland SCB-55 right now.

Are you using the original PSU in that Tulip system?

Reply 7 of 9, by Salient

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HugoBoss1985 wrote on 2021-01-07, 20:07:

Are you using the original PSU in that Tulip system?

Yes, all is original except for the battery compartment which I had to replace due to heavy leakage.

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Reply 8 of 9, by HugoBoss1985

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Salient wrote on 2021-01-07, 20:18:
HugoBoss1985 wrote on 2021-01-07, 20:07:

Are you using the original PSU in that Tulip system?

Yes, all is original except for the battery compartment which I had to replace due to heavy leakage.

What is that battery compartement for?
Did you replace that whole metal part / that unit with the batteries in it and where did you find that?

With old psu's I am always affraid they might die and take other components with them...

Reply 9 of 9, by Salient

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HugoBoss1985 wrote on 2021-01-07, 20:45:

What is that battery compartement for?
Did you replace that whole metal part / that unit with the batteries in it and where did you find that?

The metal is original, I just replaced the pastic holder within. If you look at the picture from the inside of the computer, you can still see the damage to the case inside that the leakage caused. I am glad the mainboard is not full size because then the PC would've been dead.

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