Reply 40 of 47, by ubiq
Never posted about this one, but I've had it on the go for a while.
Case: NZXT H510 Elite
CPUs: Intel Pentium III 1100 MHz SL5QW
Mobo: ASUS P2B-DS Rev 1.05
Memory: 768MB
Graphics: Voodoo 3 3000 AGP 16MB
Sound: Sound Blaster Live!
Storage: Seagate 80GB IDE + Seagate 160GB IDE
Removable Media: USB 2.0
I got the case last year when I was just getting into retro computing. At the time, I didn't care at all about removable media, figuring I would just run everything off a CF/SD card. I've changed my thinking on that a lot since then, but I feel a system like this can get away with it. And as you can see with my P233 system above, I haven't lost my love for putting old things in slick, modern cases.
Up until about a month ago, I was running it with PIII 800MHz SL457 CPUs, but a lucky local score of a Coppermine-supporting slocket which matched one I already had allowed me to upgrade to the 1100MHz ones I have in it now. Something to be said for the look of two SECC2 CPUs in there, but can't beat the noise reduction with this switch-up. 😊
Cable management is.. good enough for retro computing.
I spent a bunch of the weekend switching it over to a new boot manager, BootIt. Primary OS will still be XP, but I also have Win98SE, Win2k (and I was so excited about the possibilities with BootIt, that I also added OS/2 Warp just to see if I could. Not really the system to mess around with that, but still fun).
Haven't decided if I'm going to keep the Voodoo card in there, or swap it out for the GeForce 3 Ti 200 I have. For now though, I'm just getting it sorted OS/software-wise. Need to see if I can get the SMP-enabled version of Q3A going. 😈