Legacy Project: How to make a silk purse from a sow's ear?
Here is the latest example of legacy rebuilds that come my way, obviously budget is always the paramount concern it would seem so reusing as much as possible of the original equipment is a given including the oddly configured case (see...
I'm looking for a s754 mainboard to replace the dead board in a "legacy rebuild" any chipset I have no preferences though VIA would be nice, Paypal would be the method of payment unless you're in Australia then bank transfer would also be available...
Cheers.
I have a penchant for PC thermal management and was curious as to how others (if at all) addressed such requirements in both Business & Personal desktop systems (not Server mission critical systems), do you...
Install specific ancillary HDD coolers,
Modify fan/HDD placement to facilitate...
Yeah I tend to use up all my old drives before purchasing new replacements (eco-friendly and all that), currently my dual (drive) boot system is reporting in Fedora than this drive (with only 1.7 years of uptime) has too many bad sectors and is failing the reallocated sector & current pending...
On my travels around the place, I located a TopView VulcanB (3Dfx Banshee chipset) 16Mb AGP card from the now 'defunct' Britex company IT division, being curious I purchased it & on getting the card home I gave it a thorough going over only to discover to my distaste...
1. No thermal compound...
Well I managed to secure a replacement for my ever aging TnT2pro, namely a nVidia Geforce2 MX400... though the problem is however it has no chipset cooler, other than the TT Blue Orb (pictured below) what else would make a viable replacement?
Thermal Take claim it is suited to the GeForce 2&3...
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