Re: best cheap/free scores 1.1
This is the Sencore MAP 1853 "I don't know what the hell it'll be" build....
This was a cheap ebay score that turned up in one of my weird searches.... I've never seen one like it...and it was cheap. I was more intrigued by the case.....you know a company is badass when they take on the expense of engineering their own ATX cases rather than buy something pre-made and slap their name on it....but Sencore is known for this. Case-wise, there's nothing proprietary about it that any ATX case couldn't be made to do..... Full aluminum body and a steel door.....but unlike everything else ATX, you can tell it's hand crafted.
...but before I got it, Fedex had their way with it, ultimately destroying the door.... Seller refunded it...so yea... Got nothing in it. It got slammed on the upper right corner. It must have taken a hell of a lick, it was actually packed very nicely.
With the assistance of hammers ranging from a small ball peen all the way to a 5lb sledge along with blocks of wood and drifts, I got it pretty straight. The hinge got the worst of it. It looks worse than it is, paint came off from opening it. I had no choice, had to be open and shut a few times while damaged to remove it from the case body....but it came out fair....but door is completely functional and straight....but there are some scars. The black 'scuffs' on the left top of the door is sticker goop I haven't cleaned off.
I can live with this!
Inside of the case.
Case side that comes off the inner frame.
Rails that hold PCI cards in place along with the usual screws.
I didn't know what was inside this at all when I bought it. The seller just described it as a pentium3 with 512mb ram, no drives. Motherboard was an Intel SAI2 serverworks that has native support for Tualatin CPU's. There's a pair of 1.26GHz S-versions in it. I'm guessing it was taken out of service because the CMOS battery died. When these boards do this, of course all defaults return and they belch out tons of weird CPU incompatibility errors and refuse to boot. One of these used to host BCN for a short time back around the turn of the century (~2003-ish IIRC).
There was another casualty of the shipping trauma....One of the socket clip on SKT1 for the heatsink was ripped off the socket. This usually spells the end for the motherboard (atleast the damaged socket)....but as if by some miracle, the broken piece was sitting on the case floor. I reattached it with some quick set JB weld. It holds fine. Replaced the CMOS battery and reset everything, board is fine.
That said, not much of a board...having no AGP, in spite of Tualatin support, it's not much of a retro gamer....so that leaves this case a blank slate for some kind of weird build. When I figure it out, I'll create a thread for it.
This is the Sencore MAP 1853 "I don't know what the hell it'll be" build....
This was a cheap ebay score that turned up in one of my weird searches.... I've never seen one like it...and it was cheap. I was more intrigued by the case.....you know a company is badass when they take on the expense of engineering their own ATX cases rather than buy something pre-made and slap their name on it....but Sencore is known for this. Case-wise, there's nothing proprietary about it that any ATX case couldn't be made to do..... Full aluminum body and a steel door.....but unlike everything else ATX, you can tell it's hand crafted.
...but before I got it, Fedex had their way with it, ultimately destroying the door.... Seller refunded it...so yea... Got nothing in it. It got slammed on the upper right corner. It must have taken a hell of a lick, it was actually packed very nicely.
With the assistance of hammers ranging from a small ball peen all the way to a 5lb sledge along with blocks of wood and drifts, I got it pretty straight. The hinge got the worst of it. It looks worse than it is, paint came off from opening it. I had no choice, had to be open and shut a few times while damaged to remove it from the case body....but it came out fair....but door is completely functional and straight....but there are some scars. The black 'scuffs' on the left top of the door is sticker goop I haven't cleaned off.
I can live with this!
Inside of the case.
Case side that comes off the inner frame.
Rails that hold PCI cards in place along with the usual screws.
I didn't know what was inside this at all when I bought it. The seller just described it as a pentium3 with 512mb ram, no drives. Motherboard was an Intel SAI2 serverworks that has native support for Tualatin CPU's. There's a pair of 1.26GHz S-versions in it. I'm guessing it was taken out of service because the CMOS battery died. When these boards do this, of course all defaults return and they belch out tons of weird CPU incompatibility errors and refuse to boot. One of these used to host BCN for a short time back around the turn of the century (~2003-ish IIRC).
There was another casualty of the shipping trauma....One of the socket clip on SKT1 for the heatsink was ripped off the socket. This usually spells the end for the motherboard (atleast the damaged socket)....but as if by some miracle, the broken piece was sitting on the case floor. I reattached it with some quick set JB weld. It holds fine. Replaced the CMOS battery and reset everything, board is fine.
That said, not much of a board...having no AGP, in spite of Tualatin support, it's not much of a retro gamer....so that leaves this case a blank slate for some kind of weird build. When I figure it out, I'll create a thread for it.
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It's also got an aux input so I can plug the TV, PC or phone into it.
Since it appears to be functioning as it should, I may just flip it; since a working one brings a pretty nice amount.....but I want to tinker with it before I do....
IIRC it's empty weight is 62lbs. Solid metal, zero plastic anywhere. It's ATX, but does have an IO shield so a AT board can be fitted. I still have all the accessories that came with it.
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