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this is the ratdude747 cardboard-puter!
It is an HP (trigem) lomita pIII tualie board mounted in a box.
why? well, i noiced that the case it was in was porky but you had to use the 1/2 size psu... and i noticed how small the board is. it is a sub-mini atx, as it is only 2 rows of screws deep. it also is the exact depth of the box (so when the box is shut, the board goes nowhere). i thought that i could do better... so why not?
first, specs:
HP lomita mobo (micro-atx, 3 pci, 2 sdram, tualie PIII, built in video, audio, and LAN)
pIII celeron tuali 1.3ghz
512mb pc133 ram
40gb HD
hipro 200w mini PSU
next, some pics:
top:
note the i had to use the gimp airbrush to hide my COA code... the front (now top) I/O and the 2 usb ports were from the old case.
back:
just the taped in I/O shield
guts:
notice the lack of optical and floppy... more on that later. if you look at the intake fan, you will notice how i used the extra p4 connection i had dangling... for some reason, after i got my finger stuck in the old fan, the secondary fan header has been dead... main fan is fine...
the hard drive:
the drive is side mounted using some old shorter standoffs. there are vents behind the drive in the side; they are the only non-psu exhaust vents, so when the box is closed, most of the outward airflow passes the drive. the vents:
about the lack of removable storage- i was going to mount a short liteON drive in there... but there wasn't room no mater how i mounted it. what i am doing is i use the unused molex pigtail and a cable run from the unused mobo port to connect an internal drive externally... so when i am installing xp to it, the box is open and i have a drive sitting outside the case. this method has worked so far.
comments? failblog worthy? ghetto?
after:
this is the ratdude747 cardboard-puter!
It is an HP (trigem) lomita pIII tualie board mounted in a box.
why? well, i noiced that the case it was in was porky but you had to use the 1/2 size psu... and i noticed how small the board is. it is a sub-mini atx, as it is only 2 rows of screws deep. it also is the exact depth of the box (so when the box is shut, the board goes nowhere). i thought that i could do better... so why not?
first, specs:
HP lomita mobo (micro-atx, 3 pci, 2 sdram, tualie PIII, built in video, audio, and LAN)
pIII celeron tuali 1.3ghz
512mb pc133 ram
40gb HD
hipro 200w mini PSU
next, some pics:
top:
note the i had to use the gimp airbrush to hide my COA code... the front (now top) I/O and the 2 usb ports were from the old case.
back:
just the taped in I/O shield
guts:
notice the lack of optical and floppy... more on that later. if you look at the intake fan, you will notice how i used the extra p4 connection i had dangling... for some reason, after i got my finger stuck in the old fan, the secondary fan header has been dead... main fan is fine...
the hard drive:
the drive is side mounted using some old shorter standoffs. there are vents behind the drive in the side; they are the only non-psu exhaust vents, so when the box is closed, most of the outward airflow passes the drive. the vents:
about the lack of removable storage- i was going to mount a short liteON drive in there... but there wasn't room no mater how i mounted it. what i am doing is i use the unused molex pigtail and a cable run from the unused mobo port to connect an internal drive externally... so when i am installing xp to it, the box is open and i have a drive sitting outside the case. this method has worked so far.
comments? failblog worthy? ghetto?
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