Topic: 1 for the CPU Guru's (Read 7372 times)

Gumby · « **Reply #20 on:** April 09, 2003, 01:27:33 am »

Quote:

I have an old Tandy TRS-80 sitting in my garage, and I've got an idea to take EVERYTHING out of it, guts, monitor, powersupply, keyboard, drives, everything... repaint it and make it an up-to-date uber system. I could fit a 17in LCD on it with some cutting, and it's plenty wide enough to stick a standard keyboard in it, so, with all the extra space that case has, it should be pretty kick ass if I fill it up. I'll post pics if I ever start it lol...

Would that be the Model 3 or Model 4? That would be pretty cool....... My brother has built a computer on the wall of his bedroom....... interesting looking.

Maxillius · « **Reply #22 on:** April 09, 2003, 10:01:58 am »

It's a TRS-80 model III... with a blistering 48K RAM

Makes me wonder if they make stuff to last 20 years anymore. I'll put the Monitor on a pivot so you can tip it up or down, since the keyboard is attatched. I think if I could get hold of a laptop keyboard I could have an integral trackpad or trackball, but I hate trackballs... I'm not sure. Guess if I end up making a bunch of them it'll be an option, so if you prefer to use a real mouse you get a full size keyboard with a connector on the side for it. Of course, you can order it in a different color too, since I'm painting the case anyway

Sky's the limit, eh?

A tech forum would be great for questions such as mine:

Ok, I wanted to get my network back up, so I reinstalled XP on my old machine. You know how much of a pain it is to network Win98 with XP? Works fine till it breaks, then it'll never go again. Anyway, after I stuck XP on the old box, nothing worked. No scanner, no DVD (but the drive itself worked fine, the XP upgrade doesn't come with a DVD decoder

). So, instead of sacrifice my network, I tried putting the original CD-ROM drive back in. The drive seems to work, put a disk in, it spins and everything, but the system doesn't recognize a drive even being there, AND I have no audio now, and before I messed with the drive (and after I installed XP) it worked fine. Can anyone tell me what I did? I didn't mess with anything but the drive's connections.

KBF-Dogmatix · « **Reply #23 on:** April 09, 2003, 10:11:39 am »

Oof...you're OS/networking problems go beyond what I can offer any assistance with. Hells, I'm having a tough time getting my XP Pro and XP Home boxes to remain networked. One day all was fine...the next I can get to the Home box from my Pro box, but not visa versa....and no matter what I do, I can't share the printer between the two. Never had a problem with that before. Grrr...

amdmb.com has a pretty nice OS and Networking forum with some helpful people. You might try there.

As for old school 'puters...one of the biggest mistakes I ever made was trading my Atari 800 for a 17 meg hard drive (largest available at the time) back in 1896 or so. Man...how I would love to have that machine with all the games I had. I had hundreds of games for that thing. I'd play with it more than I do my Xbox, I know that much. Hell, I probably woouldn't even own an Xbox if I still had my Atari 800...heheh.

Kroma_BaSyl · « **Reply #25 on:** April 09, 2003, 11:42:52 am »

Checkout this case, got great reviews by TomsHardware.

PC Case

Looks to be very similar to the Lian-Li, not sure but it may be premodded from one.

Rob Cole · « **Reply #31 on:** April 09, 2003, 04:38:36 pm »

That is a Pre- modded Lian-Li case.

Maxillius · « **Reply #32 on:** April 09, 2003, 04:58:24 pm »

Looking at that case, I think I could have my TRS80 case set up Bose Waveform style, quad processors on twin MoBos with 5 or 6 fans blowing out the existing top vent holes... There's a LOT of room in there with that B&W display out of the way. I'm thinking of a system specifically for play testing GAW

I might even develop my idea of a hardware control device to take the place of the bar on the side of the screen. I'd make it look similar as well, so a simple keyboard overlay wouldn't do it at all. I don't think it would be possible without an LCD touchscreen or something...

But I'm getting ahead of myself, I'll just build the machine first

KBF-Dogmatix · « **Reply #36 on:** April 10, 2003, 10:54:21 am »

Yeah...the Xaser is a pretty nice case. Same old Chieftec design that I've come to know and love. My Antex SOHO case from my previous rig was the same design.

A removable motherboard try would have been nice. The motherboard wire clips you're talking about sound cool, too. My front panel USB wires are broken down into single wires (about 8 of them) and it's VERY hard to get them all connected to the motherboard while the mobo is in the case (and that's about the only way to do it). I have some things I'd like to do to my motherboard right now that I don't do because I don't want to go through the hassle of removing all the stuff and taking the motherboard out. As it stands, anything I want to do is going to have to be done with the thing IN the case. That limits your options, of course...heheh. I can stick a heatsink on my Southbridge and pull out my 9700 Pro and slap some heatsinks on its RAM, but that's about it.

I'd love to put a better cooling option on my Northbridge...but unless I can find a fan and a way to attach it to the stock Asus heatsink, that's prolly not going to happen. I don't think my Artic Alumina thermal adhesive will work because I don't think there's enough contact surface area. I've actually been considering tying a fan on there somehow...heheh. I heard that someone actually taped one on there, but I don't trust tape to last long enough.

Things would have been so much simpler if I had just been more patient and gone with my better judgement and ordered a chipset cooling kit right off the bat.

Kroma_BaSyl · « **Reply #38 on:** April 16, 2003, 07:18:55 pm »

bump...Dopler check your email.

Kroma_BaSyl · « **Reply #39 on:** April 26, 2003, 08:11:45 pm »

XXX Rated. Pics of Dopler's unit.

News:

Topic: 1 for the CPU Guru's (Read 7372 times) var addthis_config = {"data_track_clickback":true};

Gumby

Mavolic

Maxillius

KBF-Dogmatix

Maxillius

Kroma_BaSyl

Scipio_66

Dopler

Dopler

Mavolic

Kortez

Rob Cole

Maxillius

Kroma_BaSyl

KBF-Dogmatix

Mavolic

KBF-Dogmatix

Dopler

Kroma_BaSyl

Kroma_BaSyl

Topic: 1 for the CPU Guru's (Read 7372 times)