Woody72 wrote on 2021-04-20, 08:07:
How about strip the case bare and spray it a sort dark green, black and brown NATO camo with some fake code numbers stencilled onto it. Make it look like real military computer?
I was thinking of camo quite honestly, discussed it with my roommate and wife yesterday, so some idea's ive got.
Camo outside but leave it gunmetal inside, but clean it for sure
Paint PSU Olive Drab, and get some sort of military looking conduit to cover the power cables or buy a new PSU that has an 8pin+4pin for CPU power (never seen those before outside of a server PSU so I'll have to look)
Replace the side panel window as its cracked and broken with a custom cut glass window, won't be tempered as getting custom tempered is way outside of my price range, but normal glass should be fine
Hang up the forest camo netting inside the side panel window, I'd want it to look right but not complete block the view, but gives it military vibes
I also need to replace the front I/O as its broken on here, but the case uses a 5 1/4 bay for front IO so i can likely get a USB/Sound on a front panel cover, and drill some holes in it for power buttons, i wouldn't mind finding away to make toggles work but they'd have to be momentary switch toggles or go with the classic big red button look
chinny22 wrote on 2021-04-20, 09:06:I wouldn't bother with XP x64. Driver support is pretty average which limits its gaming ability.
If your installing 2003 then x6 […]
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I wouldn't bother with XP x64. Driver support is pretty average which limits its gaming ability.
If your installing 2003 then x64 is definitely an option as your not gaming on it anyway and will give you a feel of the differences in XP x64 (slight Control Panel changes and I think 64bit IE form memory?)
but I wouldn't do either....
That board supports SLI, I would go crazy and have a dual CPU, dual GPU setup, maybe even setup HDD raid with dual HDD's?
And if you wanted to go all out you could go 2 OS's x32 XP and x64 Vista or 7. (as XP wont push this to it's limits)
SLI crossed my mind, but even GTX 570's are expensive right now, ideally though for the insanity of this build, I'd like to see Dual GTX 480's in it, I think they fit a more military/industrial look and just make it more insane to begin with, so that's a great idea, just the cards are running at 40-50ea right now stupid miners and scalpers
As for OS, I'm still not fully decided, XP 32bit seems like a waste on here, and this is a server product, and it has full driver support from SuperMicro for XP 64bit, I checked into that, and Nvidia made drivers for xp 64bit, and I have no intentions of hooking up a printer, its other stuff that's gonna be hard, like a virtual drive