Alec M

Yeah, those are getting closer and closer to retro every day
Still plenty usable though 

Not retro at all IMO

Not a computer in the traditional sense, but I picked up this Hewlet Packard vector network analyzer over the holidays. This one specifically is from the early 90s and can perform measurements over a 3 ghz span in it's current setup, or 6ghz with the proper s-parameter test set.

Love that website, its brilliant for almost anything you need but can't be arsed to make yourself as you have more stupid parts to make 

I did check my local Craigslist, there weren't any... right now. I'll keep an eye on it, but a decent PSU isn't hugely expensive. I just have to be patient.  And when I get that sorted, the cards I've been looking at (something around a GTS 250) will not have gotten any newer. ?

That wasn't really a factor. I was talking about 3rd party parts support

@Alec M Thanks for that information. Pretty Much what i was planning to do. 

nice detailing, very well done and clean!

This is what you're looking for.
The company I work for has tried all the alternatives for years, and this has been our best solution.
 
https://www.microsoft.com/accessories/en-us/products/adapters/wireless-display-adapter-2/p3q-00001
 
There is another company called AirTame that has a new AirTame 2, we have not tried that, when we researched them they only had AirTame 1 which didn't work for us.

Awesome!
I'm glad you got it working!

Do you have any way to install windows 10 on it such as a USB drive with the Windows 10 installer on it, or a DVD?
If not, you'll want to run the media creation tool on another computer running windows, and set it to install to a USB flash drive.
 
Link: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10

Awesome!
I'm glad you got it working!

When ur rad dont fit ZIP TIES lol im not joking

GTX 750 ti for $60 used, not bad to save up for

Hey Guys! I'm back!
 
What a 2018! And as usual, I just finished another project sponsored by EVGA, Thermaltake and Zadak511, and I am here to share it with you guys. This project got delayed a bunch of times but in the end  I got it done before the end of 2018. Let's start shall we?
 
This project is called "WhiteNoise", and the theme of the project is based on a NHL team, the Winnipeg Jets! I got inspired to do this project after watching the Winnipeg Jets go against the Nashville Predators last year in the playoffs. Looking at their official uniforms, I thought, why not make a case mod with their theme? Blue, White, Gray and a little bit or Red? Sure! So, I asked EVGA if they would like to throw in their DG-76 computer case to be murdered by me. A week after asking, well, they've sent me these. They were kind enough to send a DG-76, x2 GtX 1080 with Hydro Copper Blocks, 850PQ power supply, some awesome sleeved power supply cables (blue and white), power links and some awesome poster.
 

 

 
And Zadak511 stepped in and threw in a 64GB kit of their Zadak MOAB RGB ram sticks with some swags included! And Apacer global jumped in too and threw in one of their M.2 128GB SSD for the project.
 

 
Now, for the main "star" of the butchery.. 
 
 


 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
Now, originally, my plan was to flip the whole case so the front panel will be the bottom,
 

 
Remove the part of the case that has mounting holes for reservoir and slap x2 360mm radiator, which sadly didn't work.
 

 

 
This would have work, but if I went this route, I would need to either cut some breathing holes on the right side panel or make a replacement for the let tempered glass with holes on it for exhausting air from the radiator fans.

 
So, I ended up with the easier way. One 360mm radiator on front. 
 

 
And before dismantling the DG-76, someone rang the doorbell, and this was in the front door.
 

 
And after that, I decided to dismantle some parts of the DG-76, mainly the power supply shroud and the motherboard tray since I wanted those to remain white, and the rest will be blue.
 

 
Aaaand off to the backyard we go! This was around October, and the temperature around here is getting colder. I was planning on doing some more cutting on the computer case, but if I remembered correctly, I only had 2 more days before the weather goes down to below zero.
 

 
While waiting for the fresh coat of paint to dry up a little bit, I went ahead and did some cutting on the plastic front panel. Now, I wanted to do a push/pull config for the radiator, and I want to have the fans pulling to be outside the case. That is impossible to do unless you trim off this tab with magnet that holds the front dust cover and trim a little bit of the bottom too. after doing those, well, time to give this a blue bath!
 

 

 

 

 
Now, a few days after I have torn the DG-76 to pieces, I ordered some White Delrin PC case feet from MNPCTech.com . These looks and feels premium and thought would go nicely for this build. Installing them was a breeze too.
 

 
The DG-76's original feet has 2 mounting holes for each. Conveniently, those holes are almost the exact, same size as the included mounting screws for the White Delrin case feet! just need to file those hole a little bit and the screws just slide in. How convenient is that! 

 

 

 
While waiting for the top, front and back plastic panels to dry up, I spewed some paint on the right metal panel and some of the random accessories for the build. The hydro copper block, the Thermaltake CL360 Radiator and the sli bridge. Aaaaaaand....
 

 

 

 

 

 

 
At this point, there is just no way for me to be able to more paint jobs since the temperature outside is well below 0c, so I opted with using Vinyl stickers for the Winnipeg Jets logos for the build. As much as I wanted to do paint instead of stickers, It just won't work. I tried, but things just got ugly and I ended up sanding the paint down. But in the end, the vinyl sticker worked pretty well.
 

 
This is Thermaltake's W4 pacific water block. Again, vinyl sticker for the Jets logo. But after doing the logo, I realized I screwed up something.
 

 
For the logo to stay upright like this, I need to rotate the whole block, which sadly won't work. The mounting bracket and the holes are just waaaaaay off. LOL! 
 

 
Now if I took the sticker off and rotate it upright, well, the logo won't look good anymore. So in the end, I ended up changing the logo.
 

 
Aaaaaand, after a few days of waiting, everything dried up well.
 

 

 

 

 
As I have mentioned, after the blue paint job, I could not do anymore painting outside, so I ended up with using Vinyl stickers and a little bit of clear coating.
 

 

 
Now, a couple months back before I started this project, I ended up dismantling half of my CNC machine to try to get it leveled as much as I could. Office life got busier than ever, so the cnc was out of commission when I started this project. Now, I am not a huge fan of front panels that doesn't have any breathing holes on it and instead have gaps all around the side for air to be either pulled in or exhaust out. I wanted to make a custom front panel for the project, so I ended up contacting one of my buddies, killRMODZ to do a solid for me and make the custom front panel. After a very short noticed, and a few exchanges of emails about the design, this is what we ended up with. The bottom piece is actually a gpu support in the form of a hockey stick.
 
 


 
Now, all I need to do is to drill some mounting holes for the front panel, and the front will be completed!
 

 

 
Looks awesome in my opinion! And now, if ever, I will be comfortable using the front as the front intake and won't worry about not having enough airflow!
 

 
And I think that was all the stuff that I need to do before putting the thing together. Got all the panels painted up, logos on them, why don't we put the thing together then? Shall we?
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
Sooooo, back when I was making a list for the stuff that I will be using for thermaltake, I screwed up that list. Instead of asking 3 sets of Thermaltake Riing Trio fans, I ended up writing 1 set of 120mm and 3 sets of 140mm fans (stupid I know). In this project, I will need at least 6 fans for the push/pull config. It's a good thing that Thermaltake sent me one of the Floe AiO coolers which has 3 120mm fans. So I ended up using those since the 140mm wont fit either inside the case or outside the front panel.
 

 

 
Time to do the hard line tubing! Although after finishing up one bottle of beer, I fell asleep and ended up doing the hard line loop the next day. I have a very, VEEEERY low alcohol tolerance, so usually, one bottle of beer is enough to knock me off.
 

 
Now, after doing the whole loop, I filled it up and discovered I have a bad leak on the cpu block fitting. And by the looks of it, I didn't tighten the fitting enough. The coolant got on the motherboard just a little bit, probably a drop or two. So I needed to drain the whole loop, and blow dry the board. And in hindsight, it was actually good since I realized, I needed to add one more drain valve on the tube from the GPU's going to the radiator.
 

 
And for the coolant, Thermaltake was kind enough to send these baby for the project.
 

 

 
 

 
Aaaand after doing some leak test, and testing if the board is still alive (which I already knew the board was fine), it's time to wrap this baby up!
 

 

 

 

 

 

 
Thermaltake's Pacific C-Pro fittings is one of the easiest fittings that I have used so far. And they went really well with the project. They actually sent over some blue fittings too but after asking the wife which color to go, I ended up with the one fitting.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
Aaaaaand, time to turn this baby on!
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 
 
And that's it for this project! After some delays, small problems here and there, this was still a fun project for me! Now I can officially say, I am a HUGE Winnipeg Jets fan now! To the sponsors, thank you very much for the support! I hope you guys had fun going through this work log and hopefully, learn a little bit too. Have a happy new year and see on the next project!
 

Nope, That's the point of the preapplied stuff :)

Do you have any way to install windows 10 on it such as a USB drive with the Windows 10 installer on it, or a DVD?
If not, you'll want to run the media creation tool on another computer running windows, and set it to install to a USB flash drive.
 
Link: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10

FINALLY managed to get most of the issues sorted out after 3 whole days of tinkering (still have an odd IRQ conflict with the sound card on reboot though) only to find out that the Radeon 9600 Pro in this likes to artifact in 3D (looks like USPS handled the box it was in pretty rough, thank god the board was fine)... And naturally the entire mid to high-end 9000 series seems to have absolutely BALLOONED in price since I looked last. Either way, specs are as follows:

Supermicro P3TDDE
Dual 1266MHz Tualatin P3's
512MB PC100 ECC RAM (second stick died unfortunately, so I'm keeping my eyes peeled for 1 or 2GB ECC kits)
Radeon 9600 Pro 128MB
Riptide PC80079
30GB DiamondMax Plus 8 (onboard IDE controller, used for OS and a few programs)
40GB DiamondMax Plus 8 (onboard FastTrak100 since normal IDE is limited to 32GB for some reason, used for games)

So I have finally finished my retro (early to mid 2000's for me) gaming PC. I use the term finished loosely as i am still looking to swap in a better motherboard that will allow me to chance FSB and multiplier settings (current one is bios locked and i can't find a compatible bios to flash it with). 
 
This started out as me buying a shitty Compaq on eBay for about $20 with the goal just to muck around with it and i ended up going deep down the Rabbit hole and spending a whole lot more money (and a huge amount of time) on different components and learning some basic early 2000's modding (Like sleeving my own IDE cables). 
 
This turned into a pretty cool little project for me and it was great to build the computer i always dreamed of when i was a teenager
 
Specs are as follows:
 
* AMD Athlon XP 2600+ (thoroughbred Core)
* 1GB DDR 3200
* ATi Radeon 9600XT
* Creative Labs Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatal1ty Eddition (with Live Drive)
* 2x 160BGB 7200RPM HDD
* Wireless LAN
* DVDRW / 3.5" FDD
*Custom Sleeved IDE cables / Sleeved ATX Power extension
* Cooler Master Xdream III CPU Cooler
* Swanky Blue Lights
 
pic below for you to peruse
 

 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Repurposed 1970's 10,000rpm HDD motors are now being used by the eSk8 community.
This particular long board, 76Kph.

I just liked this picture of these old Opterons so I thought I'd throw them here in hopes to allow them to achieve some form of glory in their aging ways.

Those are normal PSU connectors.
It needs two eight pin connectors though, which mans if you go dual CPU you need to get a server PSU or get some kind of splitter.
Either way you'll need a decent PSU.
 
Also FYI you'll also need windows 10 pro to use both CPUs, windows 10 home only supports a single CPU.

statistically speaking, just use one more HDD to clone everything you have right now is gonna do the job for you.
you now have a HDD , grab another one, like a 4TB one,, then backup everything you have right now
 
the chances that both of these drives fail at the same time is realllllllllllllly small. 
there is a mathematic / statistic model behind it, I think I read it somewhere before 
 
so if you have a back up plan, chances are you are good to go.

ahhhh I see. google photo for me still is a god send though, 

It's available to anyone who has Gmail and uses google drive.
The definition of resizing means that you are somehow reducing the resolution of the image, and according to google's policies, they downsize all photos to 16MP and all videos to 1080P.
Given that @fried-bacon has 800GB of photos, that means they must either take tons of photos, or have a decent, higher resolution camera. Plus, depending on their internet connection, it could take ages to upload those photos.
Also, if you shoot in RAW, it won't accept that as a file format eligible for the unlimited storage option.