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My madness must have reached a new maximum. For no reason I decided trying to reactivate an old PC. The motherboard, ASUS M2N-SLI Deluxe, once had been the basis for my main PC. Bought about 2006 and upgraded over time it ended up with 8GB DDR2 RAM and 4*2TB HDD with a hardware RAID5 controller.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

When the thing became a little unreliable and dated (no hardware AES, too little RAM) I had the computer shop build a new one in my old case retaining HDDs, optical drive and weak graphics card (which was later replaced by an overpowered1<\/a><\/sup> NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti in the new computer).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since then the motherboard containing an Athlon X2 6000+ CPU and the PSU had been lying in a box for be resurrected at some point. Time surely flies\u2026 I never did anything with it but also took the RAM out for usage in a similar, a little weaker system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Much of my really old electronics has failed over the years. I\u2019m unable to repair them but also not willing to throw away certain things like old IBM-XT, which are a piece of history even in broken state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Old PC Case<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Not of worth anything for the sake of keeping in \u201clittle private museum\u201d is a Pentium II based computer that gave up the ghost a while ago. For personal reasons I do not want to share here, the worthless case has some sentimental value which is why I didn\u2019t throw it away despite it was in remarkable bad condition from the outside. So I grabbed a spray can and sprayed the removable housing parts in gray. Not good, but way better than before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Combing old with even older<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Now we have a good motherboard\/CPU lying around since almost a decade and a braindead computer. I decided to give the mad idea of building up something slightly more modern inside the case a try. Looking at the connectors of the Pentium II motherboard and comparing them to the ASUS left no hope: No chance of fitting this in unless cutting off all the metal at the back to create one giant opening. Looks horrible. But at least I could mount the board.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The old and small tower case was not built for such components. The HDD cage can no longer be inserted due to the huge CPU cooler. In truly idiotic manner I hot glued the cage to the bottom instead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To prevent the newly inserted, way more powerful components from heating themselves to death I had to install case fans. Front made no problem: Big 120mm fan fits. For the backside I would have needed a very small one \u2013 which I don\u2019t have lying around here. Buying stuff for a PC built out of junk parts is out of question. Enter slightly too big fan and single huge Spax screw\u2026 works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Complete current specs<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

General Hardware:<\/p>\n\n\n\n