Nice little bonus...
Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2014 5:55 pmI won another 4U rack-mount case on Trademe for a song from a scrap metal place. It was advertised as 'case and power supply', but when I picked it up it looked like there was a system installed. The guy said it didn't work (probably so he wouldn't have to warranty it.)
Got it home and it works 100% fine. The PSU was dead but big deal - standard 300W ATX unit just like the three others I had kicking around. Turned out to be a dual P3/1000 on an Asus CUV4X-D mainboard, with Adaptec SCSI card, dual ethernet, and an AGP ATI Rage Pro (w/S-Video and composite out) installed. Not bad! The board is pretty nice - has a ton of options for FSB speed, five PCI slots with PnP IRQs assignable in the BIOS, real serial & parallel ports, great layout, AGP4X, and since it's server-grade it has *no* onboard sound or video, which I consider a 'plus'. If only it had a couple of ISA slots...
It's pristine too. Just a little dust-off and it looks brand new.
Not sure what to do with this thing; I was going to mount my other Advantech SBC+ISA backplane setup in the case (P266MMX) but that one was acting flakey anyway. I think I'll keep it as-is. I threw in a C-Media PCI sound card & HDD and have it working as a (way-)overpowered DOS system right now.
Honestly how much slower would this be than the Centrino Duo @ 1GHz in my laptop? I'm thinking to throw in 4GB of PC133 and the best AGP card I can find and seeing how it does with a modern OS. I wanted an expandable desktop for music editing...
Got it home and it works 100% fine. The PSU was dead but big deal - standard 300W ATX unit just like the three others I had kicking around. Turned out to be a dual P3/1000 on an Asus CUV4X-D mainboard, with Adaptec SCSI card, dual ethernet, and an AGP ATI Rage Pro (w/S-Video and composite out) installed. Not bad! The board is pretty nice - has a ton of options for FSB speed, five PCI slots with PnP IRQs assignable in the BIOS, real serial & parallel ports, great layout, AGP4X, and since it's server-grade it has *no* onboard sound or video, which I consider a 'plus'. If only it had a couple of ISA slots...
It's pristine too. Just a little dust-off and it looks brand new.
Not sure what to do with this thing; I was going to mount my other Advantech SBC+ISA backplane setup in the case (P266MMX) but that one was acting flakey anyway. I think I'll keep it as-is. I threw in a C-Media PCI sound card & HDD and have it working as a (way-)overpowered DOS system right now.
Honestly how much slower would this be than the Centrino Duo @ 1GHz in my laptop? I'm thinking to throw in 4GB of PC133 and the best AGP card I can find and seeing how it does with a modern OS. I wanted an expandable desktop for music editing...
