A sweet dumpster find! How could someone just dump a perfectly good P3 system here?! As you can see, there are Boeing stickers on this. This was at one point used by a Boeing employee and they had a surplus store where they would sell used equipment. Unfortunately, they closed that store in December, 2007.
I noticed right off that this thing was in pretty good shape. I didn't do any dusting. It looks pretty clean. I cracked it open in the parking lot to make sure it was intact. It used all Rubycon on the motherboard. The filtering caps are MCZ. They all look good....but if I use this (which I probably will) I might want to replace them.
The first thing I noticed when I powered it on was that the PSU fan is almost completely seized. It would make about 3 full revolutions and then come to a stop. I haven't opened it yet but by looking at the fan blades, it looks like a Sunon. I can also see tons of Teapo caps in there. Those will be going.... It powered on and fortunately it had the original 20GB WD drive in there. Only 31,390 power on hours on this bad boy. It's just breaking in!
It's maxed out memory wise, with matching Samsung modules to make 512MB 133MHz. Speaking of. What is that card that's in the AGP slot??? Is that just added memory for the integrated graphics?
The stock CPU is a Coppermine 1000/256/133. I noticed while it was running with the top off that the CPU heatsink got warm pretty quickly. Probably because of the original crappy bubble gum "paste" Which brings me to a few questions....Will this support that pictured P3 server CPU I have sitting there? Will I have to remove the IHS to install it? And....is the CPU fan blowing downwards the best course of action for a chassis like this? Seems strange....
I plan on installing PCI Gigabit cards in the expansion bays and installing pfSense to run my home router duties, and run a VPN. If it supports the better P3 that might help a bit with VPN encryption.
I noticed right off that this thing was in pretty good shape. I didn't do any dusting. It looks pretty clean. I cracked it open in the parking lot to make sure it was intact. It used all Rubycon on the motherboard. The filtering caps are MCZ. They all look good....but if I use this (which I probably will) I might want to replace them.
The first thing I noticed when I powered it on was that the PSU fan is almost completely seized. It would make about 3 full revolutions and then come to a stop. I haven't opened it yet but by looking at the fan blades, it looks like a Sunon. I can also see tons of Teapo caps in there. Those will be going.... It powered on and fortunately it had the original 20GB WD drive in there. Only 31,390 power on hours on this bad boy. It's just breaking in!
It's maxed out memory wise, with matching Samsung modules to make 512MB 133MHz. Speaking of. What is that card that's in the AGP slot??? Is that just added memory for the integrated graphics?
The stock CPU is a Coppermine 1000/256/133. I noticed while it was running with the top off that the CPU heatsink got warm pretty quickly. Probably because of the original crappy bubble gum "paste" Which brings me to a few questions....Will this support that pictured P3 server CPU I have sitting there? Will I have to remove the IHS to install it? And....is the CPU fan blowing downwards the best course of action for a chassis like this? Seems strange....
I plan on installing PCI Gigabit cards in the expansion bays and installing pfSense to run my home router duties, and run a VPN. If it supports the better P3 that might help a bit with VPN encryption.
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